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SOLITUDE.
BY ELLA WHEEI.Elt.
Lauirh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, nnd you weep alone.
For the sad old ertH must borrow its mirth,
Hut has trouble enough of Its own.
81117, and the hills will answer ;
Mfc-li, It Is lo.st on Die air.
The echoes bound to a joyful sound,
But shrink from voicing care.
ltcjolco, ami men will seek you ;
(irlcve. and they turn and go.
Tln-y waul full lueamire of all your pleasure,
But they do not need your woe.
He itlad and your f. lends are nmny ;
Be sad, and you lose them all.
There tire none to d -cllne your uoctared wine.
But alone you inul drink iilit'i gall.
Feast, and your halls aru crowded I
Flint, and the B ui ld goes by
SiKvcd and give, and It helps you live,
Bui no man ran help you die.
There Is room In the hulls nf pleasure
ftira In run ami Ini'dly train.
But one by uiin we niii-'t all li!e oil
Th rou xli the nitrrow aisles of pain.
WHAT THE ODD JOBS DID-
"It in the LortVct will, wife, anil we
can but aubniit," naiil Nathan Hollo-
wav, sailly "I have prayed loncj t,nI
oariR'stly that ho would providu somo
way for im out of tins groat trnubh' ;
but he knows) Lest, and lie will bo wiili
tin evon when we have to leave the
old home. I hope they won't come to
ttolify us to-day, the drat (lay of the
New Year, and yet I wippo.so we might
an well look this in the face, first as
last."
"Oh Nathan!" said his wife, as fell
on her knees by the side of the chair
to winch for months he had been con
fined. "If you were well and strong.
I should not iniod leaving the dear
old place fo much; but I know how
hard it will be for you, as you are, to
make another place kccui like home.
Wife,' said her companion, laying
lis hand fondly on her head, 'with
you by my nide any place will Keetn
like home. Do 1 not know how you
have struggled and toiled so that we
might slay here even until to-day ?
Where should we have been now. had
you not so bravely taken thing into
your hands ? I feel badly about Wal
ter, for 1 had hoped to give him a
good education; but God has seen fit
to render mc so helpless, it cannot bo
tnd we must try and find something
for the boy to do. ; But, wife, we will
not tell him of it to day. Let us make
it a happy day for him, so that when
we are gone he may remember with
pleasure the last New Year's Day he
ver spent here.
Yes Nathan, I've'
'There, wife, I see lawyer Turner
coining up the lane. You had better
go now. I did hope they would let us
i'eel that the old place still belonged
to us to day, but God knows best.'
'Nathan, 1 wish you would let me
stay anil see the lawyer with you '
No, no, wile: 1 can stand this better
alone.' '
II is companion arose, pressed her
lips to his brow ami left the room
without a word. 'Happy New Yeat!'
said the lawyer, as she met him at the
loor, 'Happy iNew i earl he repeated
as he entered tho room where the in
valid was awaiting him.
Awkward, he muttered, as though
to himself, 'It don't suiitid right to
wish a man that, when you've come to
turn him out of doors, as you might
During this speech he had been
fumbling over a bag of papers ho bad
brought with him.
'I suppose yoti know what brings
tne here, Mr. Holloway ?' lie added,
helping hiinsell to a seat.
Yes, was the reply; 'you have
come to notily me that the mortgage
is to be loreelosed at once.
'I see you've kept track of dates,
and so forth. I don't often attend to
such matters on holidays, but laid
aside my rule for on:o and made a
special eae of this. I understand you
are not prepared to pay
'No, I am not piepared to pay."
'Pity you havu not some friend to
liorrow the money from. Five hun
dred is a small sum to give up such a
fine place for.'
'I could not ask any one to lend ine
money when there would bo no pros
pect of my ever being able to pay
back the loan.'
'Wise, very wise; but your grand
son might be able stiuC day to pay it
for you.' .
'Walter is but rt lad,' wai the reply,
'and it would bu long ere he could d 1
it, no: would I be willing to burden
his young life with a heavy debt.
No, the old place must go.'
And yet,' said the lawyer, writing
mi 0110 of the papeis htj hail with him.
I am told it win for his father to pay
(iff some of his debts that the place
was first mortgage'!, I don't see why,
when Ins conduct almost ruined you,
you took upon yourself the support id
his child
'Tuai's all a thing of the past now.
You know that my son isdead
True, the original rrtbi'igago was
two thousand, and you have paid up
all but live huii'livd.' Again lie
busied luniselt Willi ins pen. 'Mip-
poso you would have paid it all if you
had not been disabled V
'I lmpd to be able to do so, but God
in his all-wise providenco has seen, tit
to order things otherwise. When d
you propose to offer this place for
sale ?' The old man's voice was very
Bid.
'It will not bo necessary to offer it
publicly, was the lawyer s low reply,
'ior I have privately found a future
owuer for the placo, and it is that
which has brought me here now.'
'When does ho wish to como into
possession?' asked the old man, think
ing morn of that than of tho price
that had been offered.
'I think he would like to come into
possession to day," said the lawyer,
writing busily again. 'I have brought
all the papers with me.'
'To-day, to day!' said tho old man
starling.
'Yes, many people, yon know, like
to start things wilh' tho beginning' of
tin- New Year. Will yon look over
that paper?'
'Nathan Holloway took the paper
handed hint with trembling fingers,
for it was a shock to him to think of
passing over, t'tat very day, the old
place to a stranger; but, though his
eyes grew dim at first, he bravely
steadied himself till lie could read the
words that would pierce his heart like
knives. A frightened look passed over
his lace. A moment later ho handed
the paper back, saying sadly : '
'You have made a niistake,and given
me the wrong paper.'
The lawyer looked at. it a moment,
and then returning it said .
'No; if you examine it, you will find
it properly made out and signed.'
'But it is a release of the mortgage,
and is of no use when I have no mi n y
to pay it.'
'Hut suppose some one else has paid
it for you!'
'There is 110 one to do that.'
'On the contrary, there is; for it has
been paid, and the release was made
out yesterday.'
'What does this mean V asked the
old man, excitedly.
'It means,' was the reply, 'that your
grandson, who is but a l id indeed, has
paid oil" tho mortgage, ami he now
sands his grand-parents the release as
a New Year's offering !'
'Waller! Walter! How'
'Listen, Nathan Holloway ! Two
days ago your grandson ho tells me
he is hut thirteen came into my ofiiue.
He's a blight-looking lad, and I have
once or twice sent him on errands, and
given him a trille for it. Il seems now
that for tho last year, he has spent
his holidays and all of his spare time
in running errands and doing odd jol's,
for which he has received small sums
of money, all of which he has carefully
saved, so that when I opened the bag
he brought me, I found these sma'l
sums had mounted up until they undo
one hundred anil t wenty five dollars
and filly cents. lie had heard, ho
said, that his grandfather mutt sell
the farm unless ho could pay sonv'
money he owed by the first of the
year, lie asked if what he had given
me was enough to pay it, and I told
him yes. that the f irm would not be
sold, and that. I would come down my
self and tell you all about it to-day.
But, began the old man in a faint
voice, and beginning to tremble again.
Wait a moment, 1 have more to say.
Never mind where lie rest of the
money CHine from. It has been paid.
What I have to say is this: I am gen
erally considered a hard and crm ty
old bachelor. Perhaps I am; circum
stances m-iy have conspired to make
tne seem so, but I have a vivid recol
lection of my younger days. I know
what it is to begin lile with a clog and
a weight drugging me down; I know
what it is to light and struggle against
adverse ciicuuisiatices I have seen
life in some of its lifti-shest phases, and
since I have been what the world calls
wealthy, I have been called sling v
and mean because I have refused to
endow colleges and universities, to
found hospitals and pay off church
lelils. lint 1 have my own ideas about
the disposition of il, or at least, I have
wished to use a poriion of it in saving
others from the struggles that beset so
many in early life. Your grandson
strikes me as one to whom I could
lend a helping hand, feeling confident
I would not regret it 111 the ful ure.
With your consent I will undertake to
soc that he is well educated; will send
him to college and give him a start
in life. As lor you and your wile, vou
may live here as long as yon need a
home on earth, and you shall want for
nothing. It was to tell you this that
1 have set aside my ordinary custom,
and have attended to Iius'incss on New
Year's Day. There, I am afraid I
have told you too suddenly, after all,
and he went over to the side of tin
old man, who was trembling in a man
hit that alarmed hitn.
No, no, was the reply; call my wife,
till my wile 1 Oh 1 I ' could bear
iroiihle without her, but not this, n l
this.
Oh, Nathan, Nathan! cried the
wife, whi'n she hud been summoned,
"what is it? and once more, she leli on
her knees by his side.
It is joy, wife, joy ! Tell bet, please,
turning to the lawyer. .1 can't, it
chokes tne.
Once again the story was told of
what a grand-on's love hud done, nnd
rs lie finished, the law yer saw the
tearful lace of tho wife raised to thai
ol her husband Then, as boih heads
were bowed, he stood reverently by,
lor he knpw that pray us ol thanks
giving were ascending 10 the throne
of grace. Even whe i . he clasped
their hands in token of tare we I, then
was 110 woid spoken. Their -heart
were too full for utte anec. It re
maineci lor tne grands m, who cam
shyly in not long afterwards, tp brim
them to a lull realisation of th
change 111 their prospjcts. Sunday
School Timei.
I i
Written for the Roanoke Niws.J ,
CIVILIZATION.
BT Al'NT Jl'DT.
Civilization ! now It has keen landed; how
proudly we haro boasted of Its possession,
and yet, It exts's but in nsme. My dear
renders do not Interrupt tne just yet, wait and
let me prove what I say. Let mo slc yon a
few questions. Do you rail this a lilshly civil
ized age while in mi's pisslons aio as violent
and uncontrolled as whirlwinds ! While rold
nil caleulstlnir sellWuiess nboanilg? While
mean nd sordid avarice overwhelms us, and
amhltlon Is destitute of every ennobllnr attri
bute." What is civilization f Is It the Increase of ex
ports snd Imports, of means and wants, ofsel
flslintss and r flneinenl, and of wealth to the
few, at the expense of the many! Then, In
deed, Is Ainerlc a highly civilized country,
ami her boast Is not an empty one Hut Just
reflect, how tVw of man's highest ami noblest
faculties are required lo adfunee this civiliza
tion. In butter ami commerce few of our lu
t'lleelual fatuities are necessary. In our labor
forexlslenco not many o( our moral faeulil'S
a e cull'-d into play. It seems that our
highest mhlevemeiit is to nuke money, our
greatest grief to lose It. This Is what our
vaunted civilization Is, but surely not what it
should, or could be. Is man uot capable of
something nobler, and greater than tie woihlp
of gold? I know, as society now stands, there
is but little iiidileeineut to one to cultlvato and
exercise all those nobler attributes that a ben
cllcent Creator has given man, Were a man
to follow the golden rule, and "do unto otheis
as lie would have others do unto him,' lie
would f ill a tletlai to every class. The strong
and weak, ri h and poor sll would attack
hitn ; would impose on liis good nature, tres
pass on Ills kindness, and when they had taken
all, leave him, without one thought, to starve
Some person hug said, that "the true tct of
civilization Is, not the census, nor the size of
cities, nor the crops. No, the kind of niiin
that the country turns out." America, look ut
most of your leading men, the highest mid
strongi-st, and seeing what they nru, hide your
fitcc In shame. No mote inaku tho proud boast
that 'Amerce is the s-al of ctvllizulon and
freedom' until murder and other (ll.ibolleal
crimes arc relics of the past until war is for
gotten, and mean and sellish acts are hear I of
o more until man's moral and intellectual
u.ilure reigns mprcine, and pure benevolence
and enlightened pleasures are his ( hi f delight
until liars, ex. ortioueis, and drunkards, are
no longer tolerated in decent society - Until all
purty strife Is discontinued, and every 111.1 u
works for the universal good -until laws are
ntl 111 til si ei el with justice, and above all nutil
brotherly love, and goo I feeling is displayed
by all inrti to their fellows.
When society arrives at this happy state,
then Indeed may Ameiiea congratulate her
self on having readied a high degree of civilization
HIS PA'S TEETH.
"What alls your pa s teeth." asked the gro
crey uinti of the bid boy. "The hired girl was
Over here lo get soiuu comment for gruel, huh
she raid your i was guiniinn II since he lost
Ins lee'li."
''Oh, about the teeth. That was too, bad.
You -ee my rhuui has tfot a dog that is old,
and his teeth have all come out in front, and
this morning I hon ied pa's teeth before he got
tip, to see If wo couldn't lix them In the dog'a
mouth, so he could ca heller. Pa says it is an
Htidence of a kin I heart for a boy to be good
to duuib minimis, but It's a mean dog that will
go Lack 011 arfriend. We tied the teeth Inthe
dog's mouth with a string that went around
his upper J iv, and another around his under
jaw, and you'd 11 ilide to see le,w funny he
looked when lie hid. d lie looked jut like pa
when tie tiles lo smile so as In get me to come
up to hitn so he can lick me. iThe dogpine.l
his mouth a spell to get the teeth out, and
then we gave til in a bone with some meat ou,
ami lie h gin to gnaw the hone, and the teeth
('.Hue i ff the plate and lie thoti'lit II was a
piece of the bone anil he swallowed the teeth
My chum noticed it flrst, and he said we had
got to g t In our work pretty quick to ssre the
I ites, and I think we were In luck to save
them. I held the do.', and inv chum, who was
better acquainted with bi n, untied the strlni 8
and g t tlie (j.ild plates out, tint there were only
two teeth li ft, and the dog was happy. He
wa.'gled his lull Jfrnore teeth, but we hadn't
any more. I am going to give tit 111 ma's teeth
tne day. Mr cleiui says when a dog gels an
appetite for anything you have got 10 keep
giving it lo h'lii, or he goes hack on you. Hat
I think my ilium played dirt on me. We sold
the gold plates to a jeweltyinan, and my chum
pi Hie money. I think, as long as I fur-
nlsliid the goods, he ought to have given me
somelhi ig b 'slde the experience, don't you !
Alter this 1 don't have no mora partners, you
bet." AH this time llu: b y was marking on a
piece of paper, and soon after he went cut the
grocery man noticed a croud outside, niifl on
going nut he found a sign hanging np which
r-iid, "Wormy Figs for l'artles." Prrk'i
Hun.
To Cm Lamp Bi'itNnns. K-rosnc oil is
generlly used for lighis in the country, mid the
cleaning of lamp chimneys is quite tiresome,
but must bo attended to evrv day. The bur
ners often gel out ut lix, and il is very vexa
tious lo keep lii.-in in running order. Wle-n
they gel clogged and will not turn up or down,
ami are all covered w ill soot Slid glltn, do not
throw them away, but takes lllllo Iron kettle
and put In It a plot of wood ashes and a quart
of water; put in the burners and put lliein on
the stove, and lei them boll live or ten minutes;
ke iheui out, and with a Soft rag wash them
clean and dry them well. They are then as
good as new, and will do nnmln r six months.
It is Very liule tumble to do It, and sates much
V-xatititi. After one has I led it once she will
uot be apt lo forget it, Nice looking, clruu
lamps are quite ornamental, while a stm ky
ciniiiney and bad smelling burners are uol
agreeable.
Ms. Si ki'Ubns ami His Moiiihk. t'pnn a
stone near Ihe spring of Ihe old homrstead In
tjiawfordvlile, Ga., the late Alexander 11. Step
hens carved his name when n boy. 7'he spring
was his favorite resort at that tige. "Here,"
he says, "I Imvu nficn lain upon my hack nnd
looked up through the lop of the trees toward
Husky and wutclnd Hie flying clouds. My
mother I ha I only heard at fr m others, and
when I was V ry yming I used to come here
and think where she then was. I fancied she
tn irhl list In one uf those Dasslmr clouds, and
I ualiht'kuuw liw uijr heart' luugcil for her,"
A VIVID PICTURE OF THE RATTLE
SNAKE'S POWER.
The following is tnken f-ora the farmer anil
Mechanic. It was written by a gentleman who
lived In the Western portion of the 8tate and
who thus related his experience.
"A rattlesnake, on King's Mountain, in 1S30,
was laying across tho road as I rode with the
mall from Ruthetfordtoi to Torkvllle. I
hitched my horse, nnd gathered a large flit
rock shout a foot square to throw It edgewise
scros his back and break it, As I advanced
toward the snake I rememhered I had heard
say they were blind In "Dogdays" and then I
lh"Ught I would m 'be some experiments, and
to know If they were blind in dogdays. I ad
vanced softly op to about 5 or 0 yards of him
and with my left hand waved my cloak about.
I discovered he could see Ho raised himself
up In the middle and Hook 011 his head and
tall like a half hoop, I waved my cloak to see
what he would do next. He let himself down
and quirlcd himself, cocked his head high and
looked at me as I thought very harmless. I
looked at his eves which Were all over the
same color. I hud never noticed that a snake
had a spot In their eyes like all other eyes I had
ever seen, I was noticing the singularity of
his eyes. As I stood in the rna I 5 or 0 yards
from hlai, with Hie rock In my right hand uinl
my left hand holt of the skirts of my cloak, the
lirst thing I saw was peaks of lire come down
from above my eyes an t draw up and down
again (our or tlvo times like IMIe red hot pins
anil all at the same time and siz', from 5 to 8
of them over both eyes. Singular, 1 thought
I would see what it is. While noticing it, be
hold, I saw greater sights than that I 1 saw
fliu streaming and whirling a small distance
from me. 1 thought 1 would see what It
would terminate In, uinl It was far more plain
a the light of day began lo dlsuppcar-ihe sun
disappeared and I was still looking at the lire.
Presently I saw both of my eyes about one
yard lefuiu me about the size of a 11 fly gallon
cask. I stood lin.kliig t my l.lg g'cal eyes 11 ml
the lire whirling uboiit In iheui. Notlnug eUe
could I ,c-o but my eyes with the tire streaming
and whirling round. I was now In eternal
darkness. I tlioiulu it all very miraculous In
deed, I still desired to see wh.it, ll would tei
initiate in, and I did q ilekly Se8 that it wns
the (Hake's mouth off ilium 5 orU yards from
me. I knew It was the snake's moiiih-hii-pretty
month his nice mouth to kiss Ills
mouth wilh my mouth was my whole desire,
inv whole aim, and In put thai Intention in'o
execution I started towards him. I knew It
was not far and as I had gone a'mitt tw yards,
some person seem-d to siizu and hold me 11 ml
said ".stop, sir you've no buslucBs there." I
said I had bu-lness tin-re and to let me go. lie
said he 11 id hold of me mid would not let mu t o
It. 1 1. -Id him 1 could out do tony such folks t
him. I 1. oar got very sick and thought 1
would die. I recollected seeing a log mil fur
off and 1 thought I would sit down, but could
see nothing of the log, the ground or utiytlntig
else bu' th t snake's m mill. The person hold
limine let me loose, taking the rock out of tin
lia'd. The next thing I (aw the r c . ba'atic d
on tliu snakes back and daylight appeared
agiin The make screwed round under the
ii'Cii, li'S-ed II. 1 ver and star e l off 1 looked
round to see who had held me, bat could see
1111 one, lie had mysterious y dis ppe red. Hy
lb s time the snake had got twenty y.u Is oil. 1
went after liiul and killed hi n, brought him
and laid hi in down hy the same rock and cut
olf his rattles.
How long I was In the ntmie situation I
know nut, bat the sun seemed to be a'.oiit the
S one place when I saw it lust. This writing is
lo inform anyone who reads It that a snake
ehiii ins I y the contact of the ryes looking on
each other. John Luum.
July,'", IS-iU.
S B My eyesight was badly damaged. I
-iiiild not n-ud print nf the largest size for
many nioii hs after. I could not even read
with specks 11 11 d never recovered my eyesight
for two years, after which It gradually re
turned, tho igh the Hasina of fire appear in
my cyrS whenever I get Into dark places.
A MOTHUTS VOICE.
First In Hie tneniory of more than half the
human race Is that Under sound, the tone of a
mother's voice. Many of us can only listen to
It with the heart, and remember that Its mel
ody once soothed pain from oar pillow, or
hushed Into stillness the itnpilient surprise and
anguish of life's first grh f. 7'he reader sighs
Il is the uiiuitcred thought of the heart which
can he translated thus: "My mother's voice I
silent all these years, and never to be heard
again this side the intervening river!" Obi
the comfort to bo unrealized all life's J mrney
through. What would II not lie to the orphan
hood of earth, if that long silent voles could
be withdrawn awhile from the melodies of the
life unseen, to soothe the disquietudes of this
present, so full of paining and pining hear s,
On that day on which the village churchyard
received Into its bosom the coffined rlay that
hud cushion, d my own mother s gentle spirit,
I "slept for sorrow," as so many have done
since Ihe three dis Iples slumbered when they
should hate watched. And I dreamed she had
not gone away at al ," but that I heard lie
speaking In the m-xt room hush-d acinic J ir
rlngnol-c, and saying, "she sleeps, do nol
wake my child." Oh! miserable waking 1 It
was she who slept to Wake uo more, while
awoke lo he numbered with tho-e whom (i d
has written motherless. And sleep thalf held,
and half released me, while there surged orer
my soul lis ivnlir.itlon of orphanhood, epi
tomised ut that moment In that one anguished
tlmiijriil "never to hear her voice again, neier
while I live! " And still, as years go on,
htivo consciously niUsed out of the harmonies
of life the lender signillcance of my mother's
lOlte. M. I.. llikim, in (lirixtion al Work,
Ctrs axi Woi Mis. If the blood coinr
from a woutid in j -la and spurts be spiy, or the
man may die in u few lutnuirs, because the ar
tery Isseveu-il; tie a hauilkercliief close around
near Ihe pail between the handkerchief and
skin, and twist it iiroun I until the blood censes
to llnw, keep II there until the doctor comes;
II in a position where thu handkerchief cannot
he tiled, press the thumb on a spot near the
woand between the wound and the heart; In
crease the pressure until the bleeding ceases,
but do not le sen the pressure for an Instant be
fore the physician arrives, so as to glue up Ihe
woutid hy coagulation, or cooling of the hard
cuing bluod.
Thyt.'lof a tvomtn who simply looks at
food, an I her hunger is appeased. She Would
mket splendid' wife (ore poor msa la lbte
dji of bigb price. '
THE HYPOCRITE.
No man is born a hypocrite. If he were
born wilh this faculty to dissemble and de
celve he would not be a hypocrite. It would
tie his nature, and a hypocrite is one who live
what be Is not. His religion Is a fraud; hlr
badness is a deception; he makes love to s
woman for seltlih purposes, and solcmnl)
promises lo love her, comfort her, honor and
keep her, in sickness and In health, when at
the same time, he simply means to use her as s
stepping atone for bit own social or business
advancement.
Look about you and tee how many tucb
there ire.
The world is foil of them I
The man who begins hy wronging his wife,
If he Is uot consummate hypocrite, always
enlarges Ills Held and practices durep iou
upon the world. After all his line vows to 111
woman who gave up sll else for him, and rluiut
V hitn with arms of faith, he neglected her for
"the bovs." For the halm of her breath he
gives her the fumes of whisky, snd, to sum up
a long and bitter story, she sinks, quietly into
the grate wilh a broken heart The pitiless
clods that fall upon her coffin -lid are no colder
than his heart had been for her.
Now that his wife has lulu down to that
dreamless slumber, your nice man begins to
reform. He Is seen at church, and wears a
pious air. lie takes a great interest In the
oause of religion, and, being a business man,
sees "money In it." lie goes to chefrli with
great regularity, snd every d y's experience
convinces hitn that religion is a good thing.
He gives a nickel to the poor, announces in the
paper that he gave a dollar, and thus he
letidelh to the Lord. He Is opposed to tip
p ing, makes and occasional ape- cl) against Hie
accursed cup, and. going home, mixes a three
ply toddy foi his larnyx strained In the cause
of teinp' rance.
IsDIClTIONS Of Sl'KINU.
Mark, 1 hear a bluebird sing,
And that's a sign nf coming spring,
i'lie hull. frog bellers in the ditches,
lie's throwed uwav Ilia winter hritehet.
the robin is bobbin' around so merry,
t reckon he's drunk on a China berry,
fne hawk for Infant chickens wilchelh,
And 'fore ou know it one he coichetli.
''he I z. nd la sunning himself on a rail ;
The 'am ti Is sh aking his ns b rn tall.
The darkey Is plowing wilh his stubborn mute,
tnd gayly liolhrsj "Gee, win fo il!''
King cotton his unfurled his b inner,
And scents the air with sweet giianncr.
T lie day grows long the night's declining.
The Indian summer's sun Is shining,
file smoking hills are now on lire.
And every night it's climbing higher,
The water w inn, the weather Dn ,
t he time has come for book and Hue;
A town the creek, around the pondl,
Are gentlemen nii,l viig ilioutU,
And all our Utile dirty sinners
Are digging bait and catching mlnneri.
The dogwood buds are now a swelling,
i ml ya ler jouquius sweel ure smelling ;
Tne lit' It t'tl-y lieesare humming.
And everything ssys spring Is coming.
Never he cast down ny tritles. If a spider
breaks his thread twenty times, twenty time
will be mend It again. Make up your tniud lo
do a thing and you will do it.
Men who think for iheins -Ives t'o not believe
quite so much us those do who lake what they
uava from h"ars.iy; but It is viSry apt to be a
belter quality of faith.
When a woman wants to get rid of her hus-
le.uul for an hour she sends him up stairs to gel
something from Hie packet of one of her dresi-
An old toper, In a dlscssalon with a temper
ance lecturer, triumphantly ked, "If water
roi s your hoots, what etfout must il have ou the
oats or your stomach"
Farmers and others desiring a genteel, lucra
tive agency business, by which to 20 a day
an be earned, send address at once, on postal
toll. C Wilkinson 4 Co.,k5 and 197 Fulton St.,
New York. dec 210ai
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Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
NORFOLK, VA.
Booms 2 and 3 Virginian Building.
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JJ RANCH k BELL.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
ENFIELD, N. C.
Practices In the counties of Halifax, Nash
EtUecombe and Wllaou. Collections made In all
parts of the State. Jau It tf.
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U. SMITH, JR.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Scotland Nkcic. iTaukax Coontt N. O
Practices In the county of Halifax and adloln.
inn counties, and lu the Supreme court of the
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