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WIISON, NORTH CAROLINA, MARCH 29, 1888.
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NUMBER-9
the OX,I FELLOW OX AN
OTHER J AUNT.
The new life that is allowing it
mI fin the old towns. A strange
case. of a lunatic tluit he met.
If you want to see a good old
town that is renewing her youth
go to Elberton. , Thirty years
ago these old Georgia towns
were considered finished and
they made no progress in popu
lation or" in bueinets. The
young men as they came to ma
turity emigrated and none came
to take their places. No new
buildings were put up and the
old ones were suffered to go to
decay. But within the last few
years most of these old towns
have put on a new life. Look
at Washington and Eatonton
aud Milledgeville and Xewnan
and Gainesville and Elberton
and many others that need to be
called finished. One can hardly
solve the mystery of their .te
progress, but one thing is to be
observed. ine weaitnier class
es from the country are making
aujexodus to the towns all over
the South. If this exodus con
tinues there will soon be no
body left in the country but ne
groes and the. poorer class of
white people. The social at
tractions of towns and cities
and the privileges of schools
and churches are very inviting,
but we fear this exodus will
have a bad effect upon intelli
gent farming. A town firmer
soon loses bis interest, his en
. thusiasm. He goes out once in
a while to see how his tenants
are getting along. He gives a
few directions and makes a few
suggestions, but that is all. His
ambition becomes centered
upon the time when the rent
wheat and the rent cotton will
come in, and that ends it. The
tenant is not going to fill up a
gully or stop a wash, nor cover
the galled spots with straw.
The orchard will not be pruned,
nor cow peas sowed, nor the
gates kept in repair. This town
farmer soon becomes a town
trader or speculator, for he .can
mak more money at anything
else than at farming. It does
look like farming is a poor
business. Here and there you
find a thrifty farmer, but their
name is not legion. They are
about one in a hundred, and
mechanics, manufacturers, and
let us encourage our young men
to go to the technological
school and learn trades instead
of professions. We havel long
talked and written about the
pleasures and profits and I inde
pendence of farming, but it is of
no use. Our young men are not
going to try it in the face bf the
hard experiences of their ' fath
ers. When there are more
people to feed and fewer to
plow they will go at it, and not
until then. I - - j
At Llberton, I heard the busy
hum of machinery and the
sound of the hammer and the
saw all about. New houses or
nament the suburbs and many
more are going up. The people
are looking for the early advent
of the great railroad that is to
come from Monroe, in North
Carolina, to Athens and Atlan
ta. ' This has stimulated their
energy and increased the values
of their proporty. It has arous
ed their young men and they
have formed a military com
pany, ana are proud of their
new uniforms and their own
good looks besides, and have a
right to be. Colonel Jones, the
school teacher, is their file lead
er, and is the colonel of the
Ninth Georgia battalion. He
showed me the photograph of
noble Leslie De "Votie, the first
soldier who died in the Con
federate service. ; He ,was the
son of Dr. J. H. De Votie, one of
the most eminent Baptist min
lster of the South,' and was a
member of the1 Governor's
Guard? from Tuscaloosa. - That
company was ordered to Fort
Morgan, in Alabama, and on the
12th night of February, 1861,
he, by some sad mistake, stepp
ed off the wharf in the darkness
and was swept out to sea by the
receding tide and drowned. It
is said and believed that he
was the fiist soldier who lost
his life in the Confederate ser
vice, and I have no doubt ot its
truth. j
WDTTTP IT ATATITT T?Tfl.T? met
-LXJ.1 V VV JJ1UAS VJ All. a toTIo KftcanBft I An love von.
and yon bring me only wretohed
hesa. I have never been happy
since the miserable day I first saw
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DIFFICULTIES THAT SOME-
TIME ATTEND ITSFURSUIT
The Charming Story of Sweet Ivy
Geer a , Treads the Flowery
Pathway of Learning.
This story was commenced Fob- 16th.
Mrs. Sinam had not a
particle of
that knowledge in which Yoang
America is so greatly a proficient,
namely, the 'knowing howl to get
out of a Bcrape.' She was, besides,
alarmed at the effect of her words
on Ivy, supposing nothing leas than hopes for the future
you."
. "Then Iry, I have utterly failed
in what it has been my constant
endeavor to do."
"No, air, yon have succeeded in
what yon eudeavored to do. Yon
have taught me.- You have given
me knowledge and thought, and
and showed me the source of
knowledge. Bat 1 had better have
been the ignorant girl yon found
me. Yoa . . have taken from me
what I can never find again. I
have made a bitter exchange. I
was ignorant and stupid, I know,
but 1 was happy and contented ;
and now I am wretched and miser
able and wicked. Yoa have come
between me and my heme and my
iatner ana mother, between me
and all bliss of my past and all
piercing though it was.
Now I am happy,' she said, slow
ly and distinctly. 'Now I am bless
ed. I can never ask ant thing
more.' t
'Bat I ask something more,' be
replied, bending . forward eagerly.
'I ask much more. 1 want your
love. Brail I hare it t And I want
yoa.'
'My love T She blashed slightly
bat spoke without hesitation.
'Have I net given it, long, lone
before yon asked it, before .yoa
even oared for my friendship f Not
l?ve only, but life, my very whole
being, centred in yon, does now,
and will always. Is it right to say
this f But I am not ashamed. I
shall always be proud to have loved
yoa, though only to lose yoa, and
to be loved by you is glory enough
ror ail my rat are.'
One moment Ivy rested in the
arms that clasped her; but as he
Diapered, Thus yoa answer tie
Yoar friends are my friend, your
honor my honor, voar happiness my
happiness henceforth; and what
God joins together let not man or
woman put asunder.' I
Ah f whispered Iry, faintly x for
she was yielding, and Jast begin
ingtoreoeive the sense of great
and unexpected bias 'bat if yoa
should be . wrong, if yoa sboald
ever repent of this, it is not voar
happiness alone, bat mine, too, that
will be destroyed.' $ '
Iry, am I a mere school-boy to
swear eternal fidelity for weekt
nave i not been tubsing hither and
thither on the world's tide ever
since yoa lay In voar cradle, and
do I not know my position and tnv
power and my habits and my lovel
And knowing all this, do I not know
that tbis dear head' tUu etc, etc,
etc.. j
' Bat I said I . was not going : to
marry my man and woman, did I
not i nor nave i. To be sure.
EDITORIAL TALK NEWb OF A WEEK
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VERS ON FASS1XQ EFENIsA
Our UommtetUs, Mingled WUh
TK mf OiXf Etiiitrm, on Foti-1
ties, Tarmimg, and, Other
Things.
As I was going to Elberton I
had a curious experience. I was
sitting quietly in the Kimball
house and ruminating upon the
scores of men who were all the
time coming and going. I
thought I was alone and un
known and had retired from
under the glare of the gas light,
when suddenly a gentleman ap
proached me and said in a very
pleasant voice : "How do you
do, major ; I am glad to see
you." He was a tall, black
eyed gentleman of about thirty
years, and 1 remembered trav
when you investigate the sue- Uling with him last year, over
cesslul one yon will nod mm a
Bhrevd trader who knows how
to buy, cheap and sell dear, j He
will pick up a mule for seventy
five dollars cash and sell him
to his tenant for a hundred and
ten on time. He will buy . his
cotton seed at ten cents a bushel
and sell them for fifteen. He
will make him advances of
meat and meal at the sauie
profits, and 6o he gets in the
papers as a successful farmer,
and all others are condemned
for not following his example.
W ell, they can't do it, for they
can't get a start, a fair start,
and that is the whole of it.
Farming lands in Georgia are
in no demand. The owner can
not get as much for them to
day as he could ten years ago
they are returned for taxes,
lower and lower every year.
But everything else seems to
thrive. Merchandise, mannfac
tures and mining are all doing
well. Even teaching school, or
preaching, beats farming, and
hence the towns are prospering
and the country is languishing.
Blacksmiths, carpenters and
brick masons make a fair bud
' port, and the chair factories and
broom makers are getting rich.
A brick mason will not ork
for less than two dollars a day,
but a farm hand has to take
seventy-five cents. -One
of our most intelli
farmers told me that he made
more money off. of his fruits
than from all his corn and
wheat and cotton. Well, I
reckon these things will regu
late themselves after awhile,
but they look very discouraging
now. AjKome merchant told
me yesterday that this depress
ion of farming was all owing to
the protection that th3 tariff
gave to mamifacturesjaud that
the farmer would never prosper
uh til he had the Bame amount
of protection, and that he ought
to have a bounty of at least ten
dollars a bale on his cotton.
Well, that would help him of
course, but to my opinion the
trouble is we have too many
farmers in proportion to the
other occupations. In Pennsyl
vania there are twenty-five per
Bong engaged in farm work to
seventy-five engaged, in other
pursuits, and so every farm
worker has three other mouths
who are also hungry and wait
ing for the products of his la
bor, lie can sell everything he
makes for a good price and there
"always a good demand. In
yeorgia there are seventy-five
farm workers and only twenty
five consumers outside to buy
their products. The whole
"iing is reversed, and
'arm lands average
uouars per
land in a !buggy out west, I
said : . 'Well, what are you do
ing here and he replied : 'I
am a lunatic, and I am on my
way to the asylum at Milledge
ville. There is my guard right
there he said I might speak
to you? ' jj .
I never was more astounded
in my life, for I knew him to
be a man of no ordinary culture.
Indeed he was a gifted man,
and was a minister of the gos
pel, and I greatly enjoyed his
company in my travels so I
said, 'My friend, I can hardly
believe this. iAre you really
crazy?' 'I am,' said he, 'and I
am entirely conscious of it. Do
you know Doctor Pewell ?' ;I
do,' eaid I. Will he treat me
kindly?' 'He certainly will,'
said I. His black eyes bright
ened as he said, 'Well, 1 want
you to write him a letter and
tell him that I am a gentleman
and want kind treatment. I
have ; been, handcuffed and
knocked about like: I was a dog,
and it makes me worse.' I saw
some fresh scars on his fore
head, and asked him how they
came, and he said,! 'They fret
me, and I fight, and they fight
back, and I get the worst of it.
When my fits come: upon me I
will fight anybody friend or
foe.' 'You wouldn't fight me ?'
said I. 'No, not unless you
cross me, and then I am help
less.' '1 will not do that;' said
I. 'I hope not ; I j know you
will not. I love you and re
spect you, but if you were to
differ with me in an argument
I would get mad and strike
you.' 'I will not idiff er with
you,' said I. 'I am truly sorry
for you and I hope Dr. Powell
can give you such treatment as
will restore you.' 1 He looked
very sad and said: 'If my
malady was not inherited I
should have some hope, but my
wife and my children will be
near me thank God.? ,
His timt had come to go and
I was glad and I was grieved.
What a mystery is the human
mind. This man was crazy and
he knew it. He knew the lights
and the shadows, j He knew
when he was sane and when lu
nacy was coming. ; He 'knew
that I was his friend and he
loved roe, but he forewarned me
not to fret him. Some philos
ophers say that ev6ry man is
crazy in some respects and that
we are all cranks about some
thing, and Shakespeare says
there is but a line between rea
son and lunacy, but I do not be
lieve it. Most men are well
balanced and I believe that
so while Providence made us to under-forty-one
1 stand everything that Is neces-
acre in Pannsvl I aan tnr nni p.nm fort and harini-
vania they average only five nessl When we fall of that it is
pilars and sixty cents in Geor- our fault or the fault of our an
jpa. Now, while we are inviv- cestors. ' ,
ing our northern brethren to Bill Arp.
that the girl was in the last stages
ot a swift consumption ; so she sat
down, and, rubbing her starchy
bands together, with' many a de
precatory "you know, ( and apolo
getic "I am sure I thought I was
acting for the bestgave, consider
ing her agitation, a tolerably ac
curate account of the whole inter
view. Her interlocutor saw plain
ly that Bhe had acted from a sin
cere conscientiousness, and not
from a meddlesome, 1 mischievous
interference; so he only thanked
her for her kind interest, and sug
gested that he had now arrived at
an age when it would j perhaps, be
well for him to conduct matters,
particularly of so delicate a nature,
solely according to his Own judg
ment. He was sorry to have given
her any trouble. ,
'Scissors cuts only what comes
between 'em,' soliloquized Mrs.
Simm, when the door closed behind
him. 'If ever I meddle with a
courting-bnsiness agiu, my name
ain't Martha Simra. No, they may
go tfi Halifax, whoever they be,
before-I'll lift a finger'
It is a great pity that the world
generally has not been brought to
make the same wise resolution.
One, two, three, four days pass
ed away, and still Ivy pondered
the question so often wrung from
man in hia bewildered gropings,
What shall I dot' Every day
brought her teacher and friend to
comfort, amuse, and strengthen.
Every morning she resolved to be
on her guard, to remember the im
passable gulf. Every evening she
felt, the silken cords drawing tight -er
and tighter around her soul, and
binding: her closer and closer to
him. he thought she might die,
and the thought gave her a sudden
joy. Death would solve the prob
lem at once. If only a few weeks
or months lay before her, she could
quietly rest on him, and give her
self up to him and wait in heaven
for all rough places to j be made
plain. But lyy did not die. Youth
and nursing and herb-tea were too
strong for her, and the eolor came
back to her cheek and the languor
went from her blue eyes. She saw
nothing to be done bat to resume
her old routine. It would be difficult
to say whether she was more glad
or sorry at seeming to see this nee
essity. She knew her danger, and
it was very fascinating. She did
not look into the far off fatnre; she
only prayed to be kept from day to
day. Perhaps her coarse was wise;
perhaps not. But she had to rely
on her own judgment ' alone- and
her judgment was founded on inex
perience, which" is not a trust
worthy basis.
A new difficulty arose. Ivy
found that she could not resume
her old habits. To be sure, she
learned her lessons just as perfect
ly at home as Bhe had ever done.
Just as punctual to the appointed
hour, she went to recite them; bat
no sooner had her foot crossed Mr.
Clerron's threshold than her spirit
seemed to die within her. She re
membered neither words nor ideas.
Day after day, she attempted to go
through her recitation as nsnal,
aud day after day, she hesitated,
stammered, and utterly failed. Hit
gentle assistance omy increased
her . embarrassment. This she was
too proud to endure ; and, one day,
after an unsuccessful effort, she
closed the book with a quick, im
patient gesture, and exclaimed,
Mr. Clerron, I shall not recite
any more!' -V
The agitated flash which had
snffused her face gave way to pale
ness. He saw that she was under
strong excitement, and quietly re
, V ery well, you need not, if you
are tired. You are not quite well
yet, aud must not try to do too
mncb. We will commence here to
morrow.' r
'No, sir, I shall not recite any
more at all.' "
'Till to-morrow.' '
'Never any more I'
There was a moment's pause.
You must not lose patience, my
dear. In a few days you will recite
as well as ever. A fine ' notion,
forsooth, because yoa have been ill
and forgotten a little, to give up
studying ! And what is to become
of my laurels, pray, all the glory
I am to get by voar proficiency.
'I shall study at home just the
the same, but 1 shall not recite.'
'Why not!' ;
Ilia look became serious. '
'Because I cannot. I do not
think it best, and and I will
not.'
. Another pause. '
'Ivy, do you not like yoar teach
er!'.. . -'No,
sir. I hate you V -'-The
words seemed to flash from
her lips. She sprang up and stood
erect before him, her eyes on fire,
and every nerve quivering with
intense excitement. He was
shocked and startled. It was a
new phase of her character, a new
revelation to her also. Bat she
was too Lighly excited to notice
anything. lie came back to her
and spoke in a low voice, .
"Ivy this is too much. This I
did not expect." .
He laid his hand upon her head
as he had often done before. 4 She
shook it off passionately. 1
"lea 1 bate yon I bate yon
because " . .
"Because I wanted yoa to lore
The Republican Congression
al Convention of the Third dis
trict will be held at Goldaboro
May 16.
says
The New Eerne Daily Jocrx.il
says the fair was a grand snooese.
The Bsidartne Times U-1U of a
white man nearly six fet taJl
whose beard toacLes his ankles.
The people of Sampson oocaty
are inconaoabU. The CI m ton Cauca
sian cays: As old veteran of Ut
woods tells as that the buckle berry
crop was naiBjared by the reotst
eoid opelL
The farmers of Wake oocaty.
were addressed in lUlelgh on the
list by CoL O. B. I'ickett, tlie
State organizer of Farmers AI2
ances. lie reports that thers yr 'l
is to hare electric I soon be COO nub-Alliances In the
Sute.
The local editor of the Darh&zi
Daily Recorder, Mr. E. Wtitskcr,
has resigned bis portion on that
paper and aooepld m paction
The mftrrhnt. f rfl.Vt - I wim ow wow, Mr. V. w. vi
hVrliB?fHJH". on the rrmh Vahoue
WHAT 13 UAPFEJflSO IS
I HE WORLD AR O VXD US.
A comdsnsed rjeC CJU
tfathmred frtrm tk
ur eontemporarim. Stats
Nation L
Greensboro
light.
Concord expects soon to hare
National Bank.
North Carolina baa 2356 miles of
railroad In operation.
Ana inus ivy, nave yoa come
between me and my past aud my
rature ; yet not thus. Yoa shot
out from heart all the sorrow and
vexation and strife that have
clouded my life, and fill it with
your own dear presence. Yoa
come between me and my future,
because in looking? forward, I see
only yon. I should have known
better. There Is a gnlf between us
but if I could only make yoa
happy 77
: I don't want, yoa to make me
happy. I know there Is a gulf
between us. I saw it while yoa
were gone. I measured it and
fathomed it. I shall not leap
across. Stay you on your side
qaietlv,l shall stay as quietly on
mine."
It is too late for that. Ivy, too
late now. Bat yoa are not to
blame, my child, little son beam
that yon are, I will not cloud yoa.
Go shine upon o: her lives as yoa
have shone npou mine! light op
Other .hearths as yoa have mine I
and I will bless yoa forever though
mine '
; He turned away with an expres
sion on his face that Ivy could not
read. Her passion was gone. She
hesitated a moment, Uen went to
his side and laid her band koftly on
his arm. There was a strange
moistened gleam in bis eyes as he
turned them upon her.
j "Mr. Clerron,. I do not under
stand you." . .
j "My dear, yoa never can under
stand me."
I "I know it", Said Ivy, wtth ber
old humility; "but at least, might
understand whether I h are -Vexed
yoa." ---.
MYoa have not vexed me.n
1 MI spoke proudly and rudely to
Job. I was angry, and my Qnbappy.
shall always be so; I sbtttifever
be happy again, but 1 ' want yon to
be, and yoa do not look as if you
were.." .
j If Ivy had not leen a little fool,
the would not bare spoken so; bat
she was, so she did.
- "I beg your pardon, little tendril.
I was so occupied with my own
preconceived ideas that I forget to
sympathize with yon. Tell me
why or ' bow I have made yoa un
happy. ' Bat I know, yoa need not.
I assure you, hewever, that yoa
are entirely wrong, it was a pru
dish ard whimsical notion of my
good old housekeeper's. Yoa are
never to think of it again. I never
attributed such a thought of feel
ing to yoa."
Did yoa suppose that was all
that made me unhappy!"
; "Can there be anything else!
; "I j am glad that yoa think so.
Perhaps 1 sboald not have been
unhappy but for that, at least not
so soon; but that alone could never
have! made me so."
r Little fool again 1 She was like
a chicken thrusting its head into a
corner and thinking itself out of
danger because it cannot see the
danger. She had no notion that
she was giving him the slightest
clew to the ta nth, bat considered
herself speaking . ith more than
Delphic prudence. She rather
liked to coast along the shores of
her trouble aud see how u ar she
could approach without ronnlng
aground; but she btrack before she
knew it.
i Mr. Clerron'rt face suddenly
changed. He took both her hands
and drew her towards him.
j. "Ivy, perhaps I have misunder
stood you. I will .at least find
oat the truth. Ivy do yoa know
that I love you, that I have loved
you almost from the first, that I
would gladly here nnd now take
you to my heart and keep you here
forever!
"I do not know it," faltered Ivy,
half beside herself.
'Know it now, then I I am older
than you, and I seem to ask . my
self so far removed from you that 1
I have feared to ask yoa to trust
yoar keeping, lest I should lose
yon entirely; but sometimes yoa
say or do something which gives
iLe hope. My experience has been
very different from yours. 1 am
not worthy to clasp yonr purity
and loveliness. Still I would do.it.
ir leu, -me, ivy, noes it give yoa
pain or pleasure!"
: Ivy took his hands, as he had
before held hers, gazed steadily
into his eyes, and said, -.
: "Mr. Clerron, are yoa in earnest!
Do you love mel"
"I am Ivy. I do love yon."
: "How do yoa love mel" . . ,
"I love yoa with all the strength
and power that God has given
me.Jf
I Yoa do not pity me! You have
not, because yoa heard from Mrs.
Simm, or suspected, yoarself, that
I was weak enough to . mistake
your kindness and nobleness, yoa
have not in pity resolved to sacri
fice yoar happiness to mine!"
"No, Ivy. nothing of the kind.
i pity only myself, i reverence
you. I think I - think I have
nopea mac yon loved me as a
teacher and a friend. I dared not
beleive you could ever do more;
now something within tells me that
yon can, Can-yon, IvytIf the
love and tenderness and devotion
ot my whole life can make yoa
happy, happiness shall not fail to
be yours. ,
Ivy's gaze never for a moment
drooped .under his, ; earnest .and
TV T v m t
second question! Yoa give me yoa may nave detected premonfto- It la reDorted u. Nrwril v h I ''PP 75Q0 dozen eggs this year. I glt!i tfn
yourself too!' she hastily freed her- ry symptom v but I saPdnng ilevV?St The N. C Dental AasocaUon Hf 1
self.
Never 1'
IvyP .
Never V more firmly than be
fore. What does this mean V be said,
sternly. 'Are yoa trifling!'
There was sack a frown on his
brow as Ivy had never seen. She
quailed before it.
Do uot be angry ! Alas ! I "am
net trifling. Life itself is not worth
so much aa yoar love. Bat the im
passable gulf is between us just the
AH ID 6'
What is it ! Who pot it there V
God put it there. Mrs. Simm
showed it to me.'
'Mrs. Simm be I A prating
gossip I Ivy, I told yoa yoa were
never to mention that again, nev
er to think of it; and yoa mast
obey me.'
'I will try to obey yoa in that,'
And very soon yoa shall promise
to obey, me in all things. Bat I
will not be hard with yoa. The
yoke shall rest very lightly, so
lightly yoa ball not feel it; Yoa
will not do as mncb, I dare say.
Yoa will make me acknowledge
yoar power every day, dear little
vixen I Ivy, why do yoa draw back!
Why do yoa not come to me V
I cannot come to yoa Mr. Cler
ron, any more. I mast go home
now, and stay at home.'
When yoar home is here, Ivy,
stav at home. For the present
don't go. Wait a little.
loa do not understand me. Yoa
will not understand me,' said Iry,
bursting into tears. 'I mnst leave
yoa. Don't make the way so dif
ficult.' I will make it so difficult that
yoa cannot walk in it. Why do
yoa wish to leave me ! Have yoa
not said that yoa loved me V
'It is because I love yon that 1
go, 1 am not fit for yoa. I was
not made for yoa. I can never
make yoa happy. Yoa woald be
ashamed of me, and then yoa woald
not love me ; yoa could not ; and
I should lose the thing I most val
ue. I cannot go among yoar
mends, yoar sisters. 1 am ignor
ant. No, Mr. Clerron, I would
rather keep your love in my own
heart and my own home.
Ivy, can yoa be happy without
mel
'I shall not be without yoa. My
heart is full of lifelong joylal mem
ories. Yoa need not regret me.
Yen, I shall be happy. I shall work
with mind and hands. I shall not
pine away in a mean and feeble
life. I shall be strong, and cheer
ful, and active, and helpful; and I
tbiuk I shall not cease to love yoa
in heaven,'
'Bat there is, maybe a lone road
for us to travel before we reach
heaven, and I want yoa to help me
along. Ivy, I am not so spiritual
as you. I cannot live on memory,
I want you before me all ' the time,
I want to see yoa and talk with
yoa every day. Why do yoa speak
of such thiugs ! Is it the soul or
its surroundings that yoa value!
Do yoa respect or care for wealth
and station ! Do yoa consider a
woman your superior because she
wears, a finer dress than you.
Ilj No, sir I No, indeed I you
very i well know. Hut the world
does, and you move in the world;
and I do not want the world to pity
yoa because yoa have aa uncouth,
ignorant wife. 1 don't want to be
despised by those who are above
me only in station.'
'Little aristocrat, yoa are proud-,
er than I. Will yoa sacrifice your
happiness and mine to your pride Y
'Proud perhaps 1 am, but its not
all pride. I think yoa are noble.
but I think also yoa could not help
losing patience when yoa found
that I could not accommodate my
self to the station to which yon had
raised me. Then yoa woald uot
respect me. I am, 'indeed, too
proud to wisn to lose that ; and
losing your respect, as said be
fore, I should not long keep yoar
love.
'Bat yoa will accommodate yoar
self to any station. My dear, you
are young, and know so little about
this world, which is such a bugbear
to you. Why, there Is very little
that will be greatly unlike this. At
first yoa might be a little bewilder
ed, but I shall be by yoa a1 the
time, and yoa shall feel and lear
nothing, and gradually .you will
learn what little yoa need to know;
and most of all, yoa will be yoarself
the best and the loveliest of women.
Dear Ivy, I would not part with
your sweet, nnconscions simplicity
for all the accomplishments and ac
quired elegancies of the floes lady
in' the w,rld.' (What men always
say.) 'You are not Ignorant of any
thing yoa ought to know, and yoar
ignorance of the world is an addi
tional charm to one who knows so
much of its wickedness as L But
we will not talk of it. There is no
need. This shall be our home, and
here the world will not trouble us.'
And 1 cannot give up my dear
father and mother. Yoa and yoar
friends.'
They are my friends, valued and
dear to me, and dearer still tbey
shall be as the parents of my dear
little wife'
, was goine to say
Bat yoa shall not say it. I utter
ly forbid you ever to mention it
again. Yoa are mine, all my own.
aDouttnat. 1 only promised not
to marry them, and I have not
married them. , )
And this is the end of my story.
TIIK KHD.J
will be Republican
for Congress In the
district.
candidate
mountain
meets at
13th.
Raleigh Jane 12th and
SS COLS EIXS2L7.
A TOiite Kaa Draws p a Contract
aai Sells Himself to Another!
A strange contract was made in
the city yesterday afternoon.
John S. Hagheo, a well known
white man, made out a bill ' of sale
of himself to Gas Kaglemacher; a
German, who owns a farm three
and one ball miles from Atlanta on
the Flat Shoals road. j
For the past three or four years
Huges has borrowed various earns
of money from Kaglemacber and
never did anything in the way ;of
paving the money back. YesUrday
tM German met Hughes and la.
sisted on having bis money. Hngh
es hadn't a cent in the world, and
hrlf in fan made a proposition jto
deed himself to Kaglemacber In
liquidation of all the debts. j
Til take joa," wi the German's
answer, and the to n.-u proceed
ed to the law office of Chas. F. B
ker, on Marietta street, and then
and there had the attorney to draw
np a bill of sale in which Hughes
sold "himself and bis body after
death to Gas Kaclemscher, the
said Kaglemacber to have control
of the said Hughes as long as e
might live, and to barter, sell or
convey him to others if be chose to
do so.
The contract or sale was duly
signed and witnessed and a copy
given to each party.
Lter In the day H aches beg
to think more seriously of what bo
bad done and called on a lawyer
and anked if snch a contract were
legal. He was told that it was and
then went off and got drunk. j
Last night Hughes was arrested
and locked op in police headquar
ter, s nd this morning his owner
came down, gave him a lecture and
accompanied him into the recorder'
court. Uoghes entered a plea of
guilty and was fined 15.75. Kagle
macber pulled out his pocket book
and paid the fine, pat Haghes in
his wagon and drove off with him
to his farm, j
ungues stated that be was
drnnk when be made the contract
that it was all made in fan, sod he
was going to the German's farm to
sober op. j
Kaglemacber says he owns
Unghes till the devil dies, and that
he will make bim woik as long as
be Uvea. If there is any joke in it
the German does not appear to ae
it.
The name of Her. George W.
Sanderlla as a candidate for
j 8tate Auditor, is receiving con-
eiaerable favorable comment
There la no Letter man in the
State.
Chairman T. B. Eldrldgehae
called a meeting of the Demo
cratic Executive Committee of
the 7th District at Lexington,
Much 23th at 9:30 P.M. to name
time and place for holding the
convention.
. lne North Carolina T!ukrt
Assembly numbers &00 mem
a company has been formed to
work the coal fields of Chatham
county.
There are 38 orphans reristered
at the Baptist orphanage at Tbom-
ssviue.
The contract lor fornlablnr Char-
lotte with water works has been
signed.
Bishop Galloway is to pteseh the
commencement sermon st Trisit
College In Jane.
A fruit canning fctvy is to be
erected at Asbeville Junction, we
see irom me boo.
A Frinter'i Dream.
A printer sat in bis office chair,
his boots were patched and his coat
threadbare, and his face was weary
and worn with care. While sadly
thinking of business debt, old Mor
pheus slowly around him crept, and
then he suddenly slept; and while
sleeping he dreamed that be was
dead, from trouble and toil his spir.
it had '' fled, aud not even a cow.
bell tolled for the peaceful rest of
bis cowbide sole. As he wandered
among the shades that smoke and
scorch in lower hades, he shortly
observed an iron door that creak
inclz swune on hlnees ajar, but the
entrance was closed with a red boi
bar, and Satan himself stood peep
ing out, and watching for travelers
thereabout, and thus to the passing
printer spoke: .
"Come in my dear, it shall coat
yoa nothing and never fear, this is
the place where I cook the ones
who never pay their subscription
snms, for though in life they may
escape, they will find when dead
that it is too late. I will show yoa
the place where I melt them thin,
with red hot chains and scraps of
tin, and also where I comb their
heads witb broken glass and melt
ed led; and if of refreshments they
only think, t hero's boiling water
for them to drink; there's the red
hot grindstone to grind down their
toes, and if they mention they dont
like fire, I'll sew op their mouths
with red bor wire. And then dear
sir, yoa should see them squirm,
when I turn them over to cook to a
tarn-"
With the last words the printer
awoke, and thought it all a practi
cal Joko; but still at times, so real
did it seem, that he cannot believe
it was a dream, and often be
th-nks with a chuckle and grin, of
the fate of those who save their tin
and never pay the printer.
The FranUintoQ Dirpateh la
out in a strong editorial one
column in length, for Judge
Walter Clark for Governor. It
says he meets the requirements
mors than any other man' who
has been mentioned.
The Ashevllle Sun con
tained several strong editorials
advocating MaJ. Chas. M. Sted
man as the Democratic candi
date tor Governor. The San
says ha is an able, Intellectual
man, gifted with fine executive
talents, thoroughly conversant
with our laws and the princi
ples of onr government, both
state and national
A correspondent of the Kins-
ton tree rrees nia inis to say
of the growing popularity of
MaJ. 6 ted man In that county:
It may not be amhu to eay that
after questioning several of onr
citizens, the name of Sted man
is found to be as popular as
that of Clark. Some of our peo
ple think Stedman would be
more like Vance and Jarvls, In
advancing the material growth
of onr State.
Mr. John S. Henderson, mem
ber of Congress from the Salis
bury district, is an honest, true
man and a falthf nl worker. He
has succeeded lu getting a bill
passed through the House great
ly modifying the harsh meas
ures in the internal revenue
law. He proposes to abolish
storekeepers at the small distil
leries, and let them pay tax
according to capacity. It is said
that this would save the gov
ernment at least $300,000 per
annum. Pllteboro Home.
The Shelby New Era comes
out equarely and unreservedly
for MaJ. Chas. M. Stedman as
the man to nominate for Gov
ernor. The New Era says he is
as progressive and skillful as
Jaivis, he is as business like
and honest as Alexander, and
as thorough going and as able
as Clark, while he has quali
ties or there are conditions
that make him a more expe
dient candidate than any one
of these. In worth folly equal
to the office and to any com
peer, he Is the most available
man In the State, and in p re
preparing for the coming cam
paign, we must consider avail
ability scarcely less than
worth.
The famous Piedmont Spriags, ia
Stokescoonty, have been porch as
cd by a stock company.
The Fjye'tetllle Indrpendent
Company nve sabenbed 123 to
the Suotwelt monument fand. .
The Granville Go ard win join
tba Governors Gauds in the 10th
of May cclebraliwn st Balelgh.
The Metbndiats ofMt. Otire pro.
poee rebuilding ibHr parsonage
that was recent y deauoyed by
II rr.
TUe annual address at the dose
ofSAletn High School, Sampmn
ononty, will be delivered by Jodge
Fowle.
4
The Sect cury of the Treasury
has sppointrd John II. Boriter to
be store keeper and f soger at Ox
ford, N. C.
The Clintion Cancsalin says that
there are more bogs la ttaapson
county this season than for several
years past.
The colored rraded reboot at
Kinatoa was banted last week. It
was supposed to be the work or aa
incendiary. -
Two negroes were sent op to the
femtentisry for tea years each for
igbwsy robbery, by the Gotdsbhro
Superior Court.
A new cotton factory has been
incorporated, ssys the Chat lotte
Chronicle. It will be located at
Davidson College
President Gray of tie Cape Fear
and Yadkin Valley Kii'mad, ssys
tbst be will hsve trais 'inning to
Mt. Airy by the first of May,
F. H. Basbee, Esq, U lo deliver
the adiireas at the laying ot the
corner stone of the Teacher's As
sembly Hall at Morehesd City.
The monthly salaries of the con
ductors on the Carolina Central
Railroad have been raised fire dol
lars without a petition therefor.
Greensboro Female College wilt
torn loose apon a defenceless peo
ple twenty two sweet girl gradu
ates" next Jane, saj s the Patriot.
Governor Scales baa com mated
the death sentence of James Thom
as of Uedersonville to imprison
ment for life. His crime was murder.
At the Ute Ftnh and Orater Fair
at Newbern, the Journal says that a
farmer o Onslow county eihibltM
two ham's weighing forty pounds
each. Think of that, ye people who
preteod that yoa cannot raie your
own meat!
The town of Dona, nut two years
old, has grown Into a pUoe of con
siderable importance. There are
twenty -six stores open for business,
Urge school, three chnrches and
two newspapers, hew buildings
are going op rspidly.
The Headlight aays the Golda
boro Itrootn Factory has been pur
chased by Dr. B. F. Diion, sc:er-
inteade&aent of the Oitord Orphan
Asylum, who will remove it to Ox
ford, where it will be operated as
an Industrial feature of the acjlca
The Cleveland ew Era says that
the next campaign Is not go! eg to
be a walk over for the Democratic
party. VTo succeed, we most nomi
nate tbe man who will male tbe
stroogeet and Bbok telling f gtt
before the people. Tbst man is
Chas. M. Stedman.
The contract lor tae new fa ml.
tare of tbe Atlantic Hotel tu been
awarded to tbe GoWboro Tuni
tare Factory. We write this with
pleaare. Tbere Is nothing that we
desire more than to see masalse
tarisg enterpriaes fioanah at.il
grow la Sort a Carolina. Let our
borne people patrotiitc borne indss-trie.
Aa exchange says: NrarVah
ington, h'. C-, s large somber of
negroes were returning from a
funeral. Some women got into a
fight, the crowd formed a Urre
ring, and there was a tertlUe
battle between the angry women.
Gradually the crowd took sides
and the dugracetul fight became
genera.
N'ilUata IUy, well known
you eg white man in Chatham conn
ty was mTaterlooaly shot Utt week
and has sines died, lie went sway
with a gun and retorted wltbont
It cor t red with blood. A load of
shot had entered Lis side, and it is
thought that he cummittbd suiclJe.
Ills gun' was found near tome sand
with tbe word "Dead"' ntten ia
tbe ssnd.
Bow an county bas rvea the
State of Kentucky m - iron tie
than any other county I- . lie state.
Tbe satboriUes are ton icspUe
orcotnpttodotbrrdut, jnditls
now proposed to sWu-U the coun
ty and distribute its territory to
tbe adjoining counties. A targe
number of people bare been killed
In that county nd yet the murder
era go scott free.
A Darham county farmer comes
to tbe front witb a remarkable lo
stance of bog cholera. A pet shots
was in tbe last stages of the dis
ease and tbe farmer gave It a Us
dose of calomel. Tbe sbole began
Improving and got well but abed
both ears and tail. It is bow tbriv.
ing, fattening, and will find its way
to tbe smoke boase Beit tsIL
Durham Recorder.
A lsdy from ritt county wss
taken to tbe Insane Atyinm, we
see from the Kinston Free Press,1
made insane by religious excite
ment.
His Business Sacmlng
Probably no one thing bas cans
ed such a generous revival of trade
at Rowland's drag store ss their
giving away to their customer of
so many free trial bottles of Dr.
King's New uiscovery ror Con
sumption. Their trade is simply
enormous in tbis very vslaable ar
ticle from the fact tbst It always
cures ' and never disappoints.
Coughs, colds, asthma, bronchitis,
crorp and all throat and long dis
eases Quickly cured. Yoa can test
it before baying by getting trial
bottle free, livery bottle warranted.
While not claiming perfec
tion for our party, we do claim
undoubted superiority over the
opposition In all respects that
promise good government. The
Radical party composed main
ly of negroes who, we grant,
are ignorant of the evil designs
in wishing to control the af
fairs of the country, bat who,
nevertheless, are just as Igao
rant of the qualifications for
governing and ruling the white
race. We are glad to see that
the Raleigh Christian Advo
cate, although not discussing
politics. Is following the lead
of the Wilmington Star and the
Progressive Farmer two other
distinctively representative papers--In
urging the selection
of pure men only for the va
rious offices to be filled in
North Carolina at the next
election. The demand is for mor
al men, honest and sober, for
candidacy before the people
men upon whose records the
electrio light may be turned
with impunity. Let the Demo
cratic party in convention be
earefu J and Judicious in its se
lection of candidates for the
various offices and, our word
for it, the white voters of the
religions denominations in the
SUte will stand solidly on the
right side at the polls. Rock
ingham Rocket.
The Charlotte Chronicle tells or
a woman whs came to tbst place
to draw her pension as tbe widow
of a Revolutionary sold tor. Bhe Is
86 years old.
The engineers, Messrs. II. L.
Fry, Robert Strange and D. O.
II an low have commenced work on
the line between Psjettevile and
Wilmington.
Tbe New Berne Journal compli
ments State Commissioner of Im
migration Patrick upon tbe good
work be did in connection with tbe
fsir at that place.
We see from tbe Goldsboro Ar
gus that Mr. Jno. W. Thompson,
for a long number of years treasur
er of the W. & W. B It. Ox, has lo
cated in Goldfeboro.
Tit Atbeville Son Is decidedly
tbe prettiest sheet published to the
Stste. It Is well edited too, and
leaks oat boldly and forcibly for
the Democratic part v.
Tbe Jones bo ro Leader ssys a
little girl, aged about aerea years,
daughter of D. Uoster, who lives
near Osgood, wss choked to death
by a ring Ust Thursday.
Tbe Commissioner of Agriculture
is organizing Fsmers Institute
ia tbe counties of Be so fort, Curri
tuck, Edgecombe, Martin, Vasfct
Northampton and Halifax.
Ex-Governor Brogdea bas been
mentioned by a correspondent ol
tbe Raleigh Signal as a proper man
lo receive tbe nomination for Gov
ernor by tbe Re publican party.
Tbe Charlotte Chronicle ssys
three people were isiany txxraed is
Rutherford county, severs! dajs
ago. Two were burned ia tbe
house and the other la tbe field,
Tbe Commissioner of Agriculture
reports that since tbe first of last
1) cember seventy two fertilizer
licenses have been iasced, against
seventy four for the wnole of Wt
year.
In view of tbe fact tbst tbe law
only grants an approptisUos to
twenty-fire companies and the
State Guard Is to be composed of
only that number, tbe Governor
has decided not to accept any more
Companies. His purpose is to devote
sll bis energies and fundi la this
department towards making the
twenty-fire companies perfectly ef
ficient and equipping them thor
oughly. Some time ago the News Obserr.
er spoke of a French company that
proposed to engage in tbe manu
factors of fine chmaware in this
EUte. Many samples of the best
kaolins, from various cousUes, were
sent from tbe Stats mnsenm, sod
tbe quality was so promising that
representatives of the manufactur
ers visited the Stale for tbe pur
pose of looking over the ground
and examining its p-openi. They
bare lately applied for and rwceir.
ed samples of other materials om4
in the man a fact ore of trcla:na
which are found abundantly in or
State.
cwX2U.
If e knew ail tbe methods os
sproerb adopted by an enemy
r the better ensued to ward off
tbe danger and postpone the mo
ment when surrender becomes in
evitable. Ia many inatanees the
inherent strength of the body scS.
res to enable it to oppose tbe ten
dency toward deals. Masy bow
erer have ot Ibexe forces to soch
as extent that there Is lilUs or o
belp. In oUer csaes a ItttU aid to
the weakened Longs iU maks lbs
difference between sadden death
and many j ears of ofuI Lfe. Up
on tbe first symptoms of a eoach,
cold or.sny troabir of lb tbrost or
tongs, give tbst old and wtU
known remedy Boocbee s German
Syrup, careful trial It wt'J prove
what thousands ssy of it to be, the
'benefactor of any borne. "
The Shelby New Fja
Jas. L. Webb, of that
nominated for
or.
wants
place,
Llut. Govern-