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V ' ?s I'M-. i iift f HALL 3c SLEDGE, pkopkiktous. A iTEWSFAFEK, FOE THE PEOPLE. J tLi JrG- -Sioo I'KK ANN I'M IN ADYANTR. VOL. XIII. WELDON, N. C TlUUvSDAY, JULY 10. 1SS1. NO. 17. in z3 ,77s r7k J Ifi '&) f7 Pn f no 1 1 PROFESSIONAL CARDS. V. H. WITl 111, Vt . .. Ill V (IH'NTV ATTOI1KE V, j II f II I X 0 1 N S , .1 TTORSEYS A T LA w, SCOTLAND NKC'K, X. C. mar l.ltf K, II. Ill MIKE. HAUIMI, N, 1 It. II. SMITH Jr. nrilMi KKI K, S. C. ISIIE E & SMITH. Mr K II Hm.Ik i' iiimI Mr. II. II Smith. Jr., i nun n Ion h Imvi . Iiuw Inrim-d a llniilt-tl irt 11 l t m)m ..r tin irn-ln-e el law hi lliillliix i-nuiilt Mr. Uiiihi'i will mo-ml iln-conns of llulifux. ri-KiiUrly, and m ill nl" t t-ol till' U'HNty H III lift IT hi M-rvli-i-a ii rt rvtuln-il. net 111 ly ' I It . 1 . . A It l A II V M A S .tltnriM V al'I.BH, IIAI.1KAX. S I'. oili. i' in Mii-t inirt II sulci iiueutinn kivimi hi nil i.rim Ins hi lilt- lok-H'-liili. Jnii IJ ly rj HUM AS N II I 1. 1.. Attorney at Law, HALIFAX, N I'. I'ntiiif.-s In llitlifix hm.I mlj.iln i nj.; 'fi)iiti ami r.iliriil 'lint Minn-mi- i-oitrts. nun II T MASON, Atltinu-y at Law, (i.UlYslil lUi, S C. I'riH'lin in (lie rmirlH nf Nnilhiimplon hihI nil Jiiiiitiiij rtiuutii. iiImi in tliv FMc4..l Hint Mi.ivmi t ..llltf. jlllll' U. I E K K l A N I K I,. i Attorn) Ht I,w. NVKIJHiN, N. C. I'rwlirf. in lliilifiix hhiI iiiliuliiliiff rdimtu M. t'CHl HHflllliill RIVt'll ht I nlliTlMIIH III llll pHlIh (it lilt- UlU- HII'l lillll n tmip 1.1. I" ly. IHW It' w w II A 1. At(tniM') at l.tuv W Kl.lNiN. N '. SrH'ial HtlflllhHI Iflvi'lltO t' l:tin r I 1 1 t 1 liliflr. liom it m I mull nuty I tl. M L'LLKN ik MO OK K, AttoritoyH at Inn. HALIFAX, N. r. I'niiiiri' in I lie mmith1 t Hulilitx, NurllimiinMi. I (I'unilH1. 1'ill it ml Martin -In tlu- siii.rvnir rmirt i.t ih- mmI.1 tui'l iii (lie Kfl'TJil r.niritt uf iln' Ki-li'in lii-trt. i l ill.Tti.iii- iiiikIi- in tin Mirl nl'lli- a jiiti I ly IV J. K S II 1 K I. im. Hin-t'iiii l)iill-t. II. n iir- I rinitiicnllv in Wcldoll. fiili U I'-Mtl.) ,ii hi- ..ihiv in --niitti lUlM fMfl-t lt.ll Ill'Tllt ' Itrn k Ituil'liiiii ut all iiinh-.-'iunitl bunnies i -irvhi til l.'til in) t I'll It' tit I I'Jiilirlif I tin- pn- lu ll dc t I'lnlii i-itt.l hi tlu-ii Ihiiiii- Jul. l'J ly I) " k. i.. a r n t k it, Hiiicoii Ih'iitUt ('till Itc ft .ii 1 11 ut xlVur in KiiiK'l'l, I'iiri' Nilii'ti- ixitU' i.h- tln I'lilnU'Sh Kxtruc- llll? (i 'It .'tit IllUHr till llllllll. nni' '2 tl I) mptowtrtur,MlDiif, ilcaia,orwtt Ighl; it in'uriut WMcnwlii kbaul tbrMtv;ibpri?timftruAft tffcu4. Aft Jilviwnl, wuihiniirat b1 fMitiv riirt, MwiVUB't HktaiNi it nwHir t tttf riit it In lb Mrkat a..ltl l.f tlrufliu, ur sntl Mi ru la t-d tfumpt I ttuftafl lit.AaOiMi.ltft Kw4lllAtlgll1'L.m.,kfc Jnu IB ly TO PRIC!ifr:HVIr.lHK II K ALT II I'm Hit Magneton Appli4me I'o 'i MAGNETIC LUKG PROTECTOR ! riUCKOXLV .'. Th j art prlrrlna to Udlei. t.rinli'incii and i'hll Urto will) tk Imigi; nu ru if inniimnila ur vruup tl tTcr knowu ohi'nr llicac fariarnli are worn, They alw rf cut anil mrr litrl l I nu-nU Culda, KhcumalUiu, Ncuraltla, Thnuil tmulilin Diphtheria, Catarrh, and all kindred illnra.ii. Will wear an wrvlv fur threa yean. Are wuru over tin uiiilrr-i'luthllii. I'M Ml . I fill Mmm " ForaiiSkin I Remedy iucmu Diuascs) 1 Tim. ITCH. SOKI. riMPlIS. XERYSPElAt hJIINCWORM mm THEGREAfCUREFOR iicim PILES i ft a rlX a 1ITT II U nrsdleaa to 1, Kj A 1 AlVlVIl. wrllw Ui. .ymptum...f i UiltaauaaouidlttaMUiat U tappliMi the life and I ttreuftB ofotily loo many of the falrwt and heal of i butkMiea. Ubur, itudy and rt'M'an'h In Amrrlia, 1 liuruue and Ka.leni land.. haa mulud In the mk 2 uutlc l.uua Protector, aflordiuicrnre for Catarrh, a i retaedy whli k conlahMNo liriidlnt of the xy.tvin, 'i aud with theixiullnuotit utrraiuof SlaiiiirtUni it Jaeallni throti(h thealHU trdoixalni, luiut rmtore a latm to a healthy action. We plai-e our btUd for tthte Apultaace at lean than one-twrnilrtn of the rlL a.lad bTOthera for rrunxilnl Ilia ,1 ollli'h you i lake all the cbancea. and eftally Intlte the pat- I rvuafe uf tbe uiauy peraoii. wnn nave inru unia alui their itoaiailn without fil'ei-t. llIOW TO OliTAJN Thla Appli- u aara. Ooto your drurcl.t and uk for them. If tkav have mil a.it lhani. write tolheDropnetoni.ru- eJealat the price, la Inter at our rt.k, and they will eieuttoyou atoocabr atall, poet paid. 1 aaiid iubd fur the "New Ik-uarture in Mnllcal Treat laent without Hedlcine," with thotuauda of laatluivnlati, : TB MAON'FTOH APPLIANCE CO.. 511 Hlate Street, t hlrairo. III. HaTavXrnd on dollar In pMtam lm or ror- Vacy (la letter at our nxai wnn aiiroi .hoe uniany eary, ut try a pair of our Magnetic Inaolea, a ha maelared of th power realditii In our Mac- tit Apa'.laacea. rooliWaly no. oelA lr whart jTMn.KIVIrf MBUO. Zllf Till; HI It I A li OF 3IOSICS. BY 1 . V . ALKUMiKl. ("An-I hp l.nriitl him in h valley In tin laml nf MiMii., (ivi-ritpiitifti Ilct Ii jmh r but no to mi kimwfth -( hlt-)M-(.ul(brL'Uiil-, thin day. Umt xX IV 6. J By Ni Iki lonply mouiiUln. (Jii tlii nl(lt' Jonlnn'ii wavr, In h Mile in tiie iHiiil.tf Moali, 'I lu-n- k lonrly grave ; Hut no iimn ilug thnt wpulchn And no man mw itccr For the aiifct'U of (mm) uurncl the hkI And lnll the (U at man I tier That M'ait tlu t;rilct fnniTttl That ever wttd wii earth ; But no man he tint the trumping. Or uiw the trrtin git f.irth. Ni.K'lewly a the daylight ("oniin w lieu the niirht It l"iie, And the rrlinwHi Htreak on oeean cheek (.rtwn Into the irn nt nun ; Noiwlinitly tin tho spring tinm Her rroH nt o verdure weavin, And all the tree on nil the hilh open their thniiNHiid leave. t withuiit witind uf nm-ic, Ut v.ilee of lhm thai uept , Kltetitly down fnun the mountain (mwn The Kreat pneeloii tmept. .o! when tho wwrriur dleth, HI etmirailea in the war, With arum reverted and miiltleU drum, Kullow the funeral ear. They hhow the lniitm taken. They tell his Wattle won, And alter him h ad hi niftsterle steed, While )H?aU tho tniinite (fun. Amid the nohlet of the hind Men lay the wige to reM, And K've the Imrd un hoiiorod plaee. With eiwlly iinirliledrefwed ; In the ureal mlmter trininept, Where lii(hts like glories fall, Ami the i-hoir sitmn and tlic nrj;iui riilifn Along tho omhlAzmifd wall. Thin uiib the hraveft warrKr That over buckled sword ; Thl the nnt tcifu-d Mtet That ever breathed a word ; And never eartli'H philt)pher Traced w ith his golden pen, (hi the deathlesM pao trutlm half ho sug Aw he wrote down for men. Ami had ho not hn;h lim.r? The htlUidof..rhlMiall: To He in Mate while au.'U u nil. With hUi foi taiKTh tall ; And the dark nek pines, like tossing plmuett, over hi bier to wave ; And find', own hand in that lonely laud. To lay 111 in in the grave, In that deep grave withouta name. Whence his unco flhied clay, bhall break again uh ! wondrous thought ' Before tho Judgment day , And stand with glory wrapped around. On the hills he never trod, And sn'iik of the strife that won our life Willi th' incarnate Sou uf liod. oh, lniiely tomb in MoahV land ' ' Oh, dark Bt th peur'- hill! pcak to these curious hearts of ours. And I. -Hell them tolH-still. (i.Ml hath his iiiystfties l grace, Wnps that we caniiol tell : He hidon them deep likethe secret sleep Of him he loM il mi uell. LITTLE EMILY. It was nil ovit. The dulcful oxcitp mi nt nl tlto past Imir nr live ilay.i ut an cnil. 1 Hi' niutU lii'l'H nail all unlio liulili tin' lilliilal liakril tin its hail liccn t'att'll. ami nlil .'lis.- Mi i'iis slrjil lilt' nlivi ol llic nit aMinii1 tin- alirs a tl her nlirexlolN III (lie un .il white liulili on t In- IiiIImiIc. Fur llirv liail iii'cii ti in' IV ) Us in their lay, those Slcvenscs. itml the nlil-iuaiil hi ter. .Miss Ann. tho last tit tier line, had tlieil in lirr seventy fil'th year, leavinj; lianl un tu Mall a nullum to whom r Well, her wile cxisliii" relative was licr lieiihew, ltalpli (Iiiswold, her only sister' sun. a fellow who lnul never Wnn Miss Ann's favor. She was petuliarly keen nt leailina characters, and Hum the lut she hinl prophesied that yimng GrLswold would turn oul tu lie a neuuip and a ui-i.ice to his family and lie had. Miss Ann's prophifV had eoiue Irue; ltalph (Jriswuld was a Dcrftft rake. If course she would not leave uer property to linn: vet it sli tlirrt intestate every eciil woiiui bi ny law ..... . ii ii to her only existino relative ; hut folks said she would make her will, cut her seapr'Tiiee nrpDow on witn n siuuin;. ami leave alt tu uisnl, laitlilul little r.iiulv Harris, the fuiinilliiig alio had aduptud twenty years no lhat is what Hliu ou-lit to have amie Hiple were r'lit in huyiii; that; but then what docs tho idle pinsip ol a eotiutry vil law uiuuiint tu? Miss Ann was a strouo iniudrd woman iml ipiile nlile to attend to her own ulluns without assistatiee; there fort! all that was said outside ahoiit her in t ttiit ions was purely irratnitoiis. Aud here she had been dead lour tlays. and iiour, uuhaiiiiY In lie r.uuly had not enee tuuuiiit ot wheilior alto was an lieir- rss or nut. Tu be sure; th lawyers .had ransacked every m ink and corner in the house fur iiapcni almost belure her kind mend was cold, but then Kmily had not heeded them, he was siitinu in the death chamlier be aide her dead. Wouderiui; how ever she should uet oil without one III wlnilll, its tar back as she could rretilleet, she had found mother, father all that is dearest and most eiierisiicd un rann. Well, the liou.ni had heaii overrun with mourning Twilunt, people who had cropped up in every uinvtion, claiming to Ue eon uectotl cither tiy bluuti or miirriao wnn the deivavted. Hut thoiiah they waiU'd patiently after the funeral, nu will was lurtheoiuing, and tor a very goud reason no will had been found. Then Mim Steveim' lawyer broke the unwelcome tidings to little Kmily. mid she was rnven to understand that she was ls n tiihwt and dependent ujmiii the generosity of the heir, Mr. llalph tiriswnld. Tearfully the bereaved girl begged to be allowed to remain in the dear old home until Mr. Griiwold'i arriyal tttu town, he not having put In an appear.uice at the fuieral. to the surprise and icandal of every- body. And it is doubtful if he would ever have act foot in the "old sliautv," ns he was accustomed to rail the grand old homestead on the hill, had not the lawyers written him to come down and take poss ession of his unrxiicctei! windfall So the fifth day since Mias Ann' death came round, and twilight found little Kmily in the old woman's chamber, where alio loved to linger, aeeming to feel the gentle influence of her kind benefactress more in that room than anywhere else in the house. The silver bow of a young motm hung just before tho wide window, and flung faint, ghostly beams across the faded ranuii Little Emily flung herself into ber so - customed sett bj tbe window, isa ptn Nib rent her tender Imisuiii as fur the first time she cuntcmplatcd what the future had in store for her. Thmitjh dear, blessed aunt has left me nothing but the memory of her love," she murmured to herself, ''1 kuuw she meant to leave me eomfurtable. Indeed, she said time and again to me that when Harry and I married, we shuuld have a substantial wedding-present from her, a present that would keep the wulf from uur door su lonp :ts we lived. Dear, good aunt ! Ah, well, we can t be married now. liarry lias ins invalid mother and his twu little sisters to stippurt on his slim salary, and I will never add nil additiunal Wci'dit tu bis burden. No. 1 will make my uwu way, and " ' Hist, hmily ! It was Mrs. Tciiney, the housekeeper, who suddenly entered the dim chamber with an air of mysturiuUH excitement. The girl started out of her reverie with a t m hi ml . What is it, Mrs. Tenny?" she de manded. Ilaliih (iriswuld has just driven over from the station," the woman replied; and he asked first thing fur you." I don't wish tusee him, Mrs. Tenny," cried the rirl with a sob. What, crying, Kmily! I'un't be a guose. lio and Inn lie your eyes and run duwn tu Mr. llalph. lie's a right hand some fellow, and not one-half ns black as he's painted, I believe." Then she smiled knowingly as she added, "you're a Well educated girl, and pretty into the bargain. I don t see why 31 r. KulpuKhoiild nut Hush, bush, .Mrs. Jenny, I know what yuu wiuiltl say, panted r.miiy. "iiui I in engaged tu liarry liarton, and 1 11 he true to him." "Hut he can't support you, and Ralph Oriswuld can." Hut Kmily did not wait tu listen tu the treacherous uounsel. She fled out uf the room and ten minutes later entered Mr. (Jriswold's presence in the light parlor. ell, hmilv, said that young gentle man, when the lirst greetings were over, I suppose you have heard that 1 inherit fhy aunt's property ?'' Kmily I ii i wed her head. "And that yuu arc left as penniless as you came here ?" i es. Well," leaning back in his chair, and ci illy striking a match on the heel of his boot, preparatory to igniting the cigar be tween his lips, "as we are no strangers, and as I have always liked you, I'm going tu In the lair and square thing oy you. He paused, somewhat astouishet by the piercing glance the girl ((.:llt him. -1 do not think you can do anything or me, .Mr. iiriswoid, she said, steadily. "Hut I flatter myself I can." "I do not sec how." "Then 1 will be plain. I'm going to make you my wife." ".Never ! . Kmily rose to her feet, iiiivering with mger. "1 thank you fur the huiior you seek to iiil'iT upon me," she continued, "but I must inform yuu that I am already en gaged tu he married. (iriswuld s dark lace clouded with pas sion. , Oh," he sneered, 'engaged to that poor devil. Harton, I suppose," "es. I am engaged to Harry Haftuti. As she spoke she started to leave the room. In an in-tant Ralph (iiiswold was upon his feet and had tossed his cigar into the open lire. One moment, he said hoarsely; "you understand, that unless you marry me you are homeless, a pauper." ' 1 understand. "And tlv you expect to tro nut into the world to try to make a living alone?" "Id..!- "Is that your final Word ?" "It is," "Then, Miss Harris, all I have tosty is. that I shall rciUue you to leave this Louse tomorrow." Shi! bowed her head in silcuee and left the Iiioiii. I'p to Miss Ann's chamber she (lew. and tluiiir herself weeping upon t In vacant bed. So it was all loo true she must leave the shelter uf the only hume she had ever known ! The tears did her gond, and when she arose she was rami and resuived. tilan- ciuo about the chamber she murmured: Thoimh dear aunt left me nothing, I tin sure she would not object tu my tak ing some little thing away with me to re mind me of her." There was jewelry in the burenil, bnt he did not touch it. On the contrary, she went to the uhi wardrobe and oiu'iiin its massive doors took down a flannel wrapper, the la-t gar mriit Miss Ann had worn while in health She reverently pn-sscil her lips upon the suit lilue and while cheeks, and was ibuul lu tliruw the gown over her arms when something still rattled in the pocket. Kiuily h heart stisul stui. In a trice, she was at the toilet-table and had lighted one of the caidles. With trembling bauds she put aside the warm folds and drew from the putket long, lcual-looking document. One minute later she was upon the wide oaken stair-case. The lawyer, warned of the arrival of the heir, was just entering the door, while in his wake came hamfruiue liarry Karton It was Kmily a voice which rang through the hnuse. suniiiionin" Vounir iriswuld from the parlor, as ihu rried : "Mr. Iunn. what is thia paH-r?' Ainummciit and delight sat usiu the old lawyer's countenance as lie uiifolde (he parchment and exclaimed : Why, this is Miss Stevens' last will and testament, duly signed and witneasoil in which she beiueaths hrr entire fortune to her beloved adopted daughter r.miiy Harris with the execution, of her family Kible. which she leaves, with best wishes for his welfare, to her nephew, Ralph Griswold " We will not chronicle Mr. Griswold'sre marks on that occasion, especially ai little Kmily did not hear them, having fallen faintinrr with iov in her lover'i anna. A month later there waa a quiet but joyous wedding up the old homestead on the hill, and Mr. lalph Grisworld did not take tho trouble L come down from 1 tows U congratulate 'Harry Barton sod I tu tuppy bnae, utue iwj i fr'i f 'A v J . WIS- Kf 1 '' HWfififfl ft SCALES &c THE LUCK OF ELECTIONS. HOW TUILKS MAY Tt'HN KVKNTS. T1IK TIHE OF A recent issue of the Baltimore S'mi contains the followiu'' valuable informa tion : In the Republican circles throughout the country there is an evident apprehen sion that the "independent" dissatisfac tion, concentrated as it is m the doubtful States of the country, will be founda very difficult matter to deal with, llicre lias seldom been a presidential election iu the history of the country in which a change it a very few thousand votes would not h ave altered the result; and at this time parties arc so nicely balanced that it does not refill re that any Jieinocnit shall vote the Republican ticket or any Republican the l'emocnttic ticket to giye victory to one side or the other. The balance of power is in the hands of that small nmu- icr of persons who do not consider them selves members of cither of the great na tional organizations. When the momen tous coiiseiuences which have resulted from a particular outcome of some of the presidential elections arc re-called, it is al most startling tu realize that the decision really rested with a small handful of votes. In 188(1 if 1(1,510 votes in New York which were passed for Garfield had been giveu to Hancock, the former would have been in all probability a member of the Bcnate, and a great national tragedy would never have been enacted. In 1870, even taking the decision of the returning boartis as just and true, 48 votes in in Florida transferred from one electoral ticket to the other would have spared tho country the danger and disgrace, of a hspulod election. In 1S2 Greelys de feat was overwhelming, Of the !l(iG mem bers of the elcctorial college but ti(i were lioseii in his interest, he was iu a minor ity of three-quarters of a million in the popular vote. And yet if in Alabama. Arkansas. ( onneeticiit, Pelawarc. Indiana, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Vir ginia anil West irguuu, only voters had cast their ballots for the editor instead of the soldier the former would invc been the victor. In 18GS the iiues- tion whether the I'nion should be recon structed ill-accordance with the views ol the radical majority in Congress turned on the decision of some 27.-1 17 voters in tho States of Alabama, Arkansas, Cali fornia,. Connecticut, Indiana, Nebraska, and Pennsylvania. If in IStH IJ.'.CIS electors in Connecticut, Indiana, Maryland. New Hampshire, New lurk, Oregon and rennsylvania bad looked at the puhtieal euntest in a dilterent way. the country would have "swopped horses while crossing the stream." It is hard to realise how altered would have been our whole history if Lincoln had nut been elected I 'resilient iu 18(10, and yet if only 48,103 citizens iu California, Illinois, Indiana and Oregou had voted differently he would have been beaten. In 1850' Maryland was the ouly State which gave its electoral vute toFili- more. and yet a chauge ut V.'JIj votes in Kentucky, Louisiana mid Tennessee would nave thrown the election into tho House of Representatives, where, as it was then coniiosed, the chances of the American candidate would have been oy no means the worst. The famous old whig party was overwhelmed in 18iC when ( ion Scott received but 42 electoral votes, ami t if in the States uf Connecticut, Dela ware, Morula. Iowa, louisiann, .Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Caielina, Ohio, and Rhude Island 31,829 people who voted lor l icrce nail cast their liallou lor "the hero of Luuily's Lane," he would have hail a majority of th electoral col lege. Iu spite uf the "hunker" and "barn burner" split in New York in 1848, Gen. Cass needed but the transfer of ",1G1I Votes in IVuusyivatiia (o hate Hindu hiui president, while the ambition of the Great Henry Hay and the ardent hopes of his huidrcds of thousands of devoted friends would not have been dashed to the ground had in 1884 2,504 New York votes polled fur him instead of for Polk. "lx: cabins, hard cider, TippecauuiM; and Tyler too" swept the country in 1840; but they wuuld have been swept aside themselves had only 8.188 votes in .Waine, New Jer sey, New York and l'eiinsylvauia, which were given to them, been cast against them. Iu eleven presidential elections, in some of which the triumph of one side or the other was scarcely doubtful from the first, the average change of votes which would have been needed to reverse the re suit was only 20,905. The independent voter, the bolter and the scratcher is. therefore, power in tho land, and that party U the surest of victory in a presi dential campaign which can, by good man agement aud good nominations, attract the most of them to its standard. "My son," said an old negro, "now dat you's outcn de penitentiary, try ter keep out, an' arter dis doan steal leastwise dean do lack yer did befo' steal pair of beots w'at was to big fur yerself and too '.ittle fur yer- old daddy. Ef yer kaint pick up authiu dat 11 do yer some good ! ' v. t, ii au ire uuuca , A flash of lightning ha some striking ohirsoterjtici. .-'.dtov STEDMAN. THE MOON INHABITED. At the astronomical observatory uf lierlin, says, a translation from Nay 'ressen Helsingtor, a discovery has lately en made which without doubt , will cause t tic greatest sensation, not only among the adepts iu science, but even among the most learned, l'rof. Hlcd- mann, iu that city' has found, beyond doubt, that our old friend, the moon, is not a mere lantern which kindly furnishes ;ht for the loving youth aud gas com panii's of our planet, but the abode of living, intelligent beings, for which he is prepared to furnish proofs most convinc ing. This question has agitated humanity from tune immemorial, and has been the object of the greatest interest. Hut tbe opinions have mwnys dillered very widely, and no two minds held one and the same lready in ancient times the belief pre vailed that the moon was inhabited with some higher organized, intelligent beings, somewhat resembling man, and in order to communicate with them the earthly en thusiasts planted rows of trc.i several miles Hi length so as to form the figure of the Pythagorean theorem. The cclebnated as tronomer Schroder, in the beginning of tin present century, fancied that he could de teet places on the surlaeo. ot the moon which periodically grew lighter aud darker, nnd from tins I act he derived the conclu sion of the phenomena of existing Vegeta tion. 1 luring the last few decades, how ever, the idea of life on the moon has been held np to ridicule and totally scorned by men of learning. Rut nevertheless, it has now been proved to be correct. By accident Dr. Hleudinan found that the observation ot the moon gave but very little satisfactory results, owing to the intensity of the light power of the moon s atmosphere, which is so strong that it affects the correct ness uf the ubserva tioiw m a very high degree, lie then con ived the idea to make the object glass ol the retractor less sensitive to the rays ol' light, and for that purpose he darkened it with the smoke ot camphor. It took moiiins ot experimenting Dniore he suc ceeded in lidding his right degree of ob scurity ol'the glass, and when finally found, he then, with the retractor, took a very urate photo of the moon's surface. This he placed in a sun microscope which gave the picture a diameter of iifty live and a hall led. The revelation was most startling. It perfectly overturned all hitherto en tertained I'll ;is af the moon s surlace. Those level plains which formerily were held to be oceans of water proved to be verdent fields, and what formerly were considered mountains turned out as deserts of sand and oceans of water. Towns and habitation of all kinds were plainly discernible, us well as signs nf in dustry and traffic. The learned professor's study and observations of old Luna will ir repeated every lull moon when the sky is clear, and we venture to predict that the tune is nut far off when we shall know mure about the man in the moon than as being an agent in Knglish polities. MARK TWAIN ON BEECHER. The great preacher licVel' sleeps with his lollies on. Once when rcmoiisl rated with u ion the singularity ol Ins conduct in this respect, and the pernicious effects the exam ple might possibly have upon his congrega tion, ho replied with the frank and open candor that always characterized him, that he would give worlds to be able to rid him self of the custom and added that the an guish he had suffered in trying to break hmisclfofthe habit had made himoldbefwre lie was ninety. Mr. Heirher never wears his hat at dinner. He does nut eousidcr it healthy. It docs nut immediately break l,.wu ones constitution but is How :ind sure, lie knows one case where the man persisted in tho habit, iu spite of the tears and entreaties of his fricmls,unlil'it was too late, ami he rcaiicd the due reward of his rashness for it carried him off at the age of Dili. Had the man listened to reason he might have lived to be a cemfort to his parents and a solace to their declining years. .Mr. Jfeecher never swears. In all Ins lifo a profane expression has never passed his lips. Hut il he were to take it into Ins hearl to try it once he would make even that disgust ins habit seem beautiful he would handle it as it was never handled lie fore, and if there was a wholosome moral lesson hid Ion away in it anywhere he would ferret it out ami use it with tremendous ef fect. Panoplied with his grand endow menu his judgment, bis discriminating taste, felicity of expression, his graceful fancy if Mr. Heothcr had a mind to swear ho could throw into it any amount of poetry and pathos, and splendid image ry and moving earnestness and resistless energy, topped off and climaxed with gor geous pyrotechnic and conflagration and filagree and fancy sweariug that would as tonish and'dclight the hearer and forever after quiver through his bewildered mem ory an exquitiU) confusion of rainbows and niusio and thunder and lightning. A man of high order of intellect and appreciation could sit and listen to Mr. Beocher swear for week without getting tired. DRAGGED D0WN BY RUM- Till: KTOin (IK A TH AMP WHO OM K Ni l I I.I A SOMIVt TIOM I 'OH lOM.Kl;sl. SOLDIER, UH VER A XI) i'OUTlCUX. THK III. Ass OF WINK THAT WltKI'KKD A I'ltoMlsINd AKKKK AMI IIKOKK IT A IIACl'Y IIOMK. N V. II, ml.l "Git out here, yuu blank blanked tramp, or I'll pitch you out of the window, blank blank you, said the barkeeper ot a I hat- ham square saloon te a puur specimen of humanity who was stealthily trying to ease his appetite with some musty cheese aud crackers on the free lunch counter. I he wrathlul barkeeper s lace wore a villaiiious yet sleek expression. The poor, hungry tramp meekly limped toward the dnor, with his head bowed duwn, and said nothing. He wore a seedy suit of black, a well worn slouch hat covered his head, and the heel of his left foot protruded from an excuse for a shoo. There was something in the man's uppuarauce which betrayed tbe thought to the reporter's mind that the tramp had seen better days, lie was certainly a hungry man, and the reporter followed him from the saloon and ventured to address him. "Would you like a drink ?" said the reporter to the man whom he saw a min ute Infer looking the very picture of mis ery iu Oliver street. "That I would, sir,'-' lit? replied. 'This was furnished him at a neighbor ing saloon. The poor devil swallowed threo fingers of whiskey at a gulp almost ami turned like a famished creature, ns he was, to a bowl of pigs' feet, which con stitutcd the solid portion of a free lunch provided iu most the downtown run shops. THK Ct'KSK (if ItCM. 'Oh, yes," he said, iu reply to the re porter's remark, "I've seen better days, sir, aud rum has brought me down. It is a disease with me, I fear, which cannot be cured this side of eternity. I am now iu my fortieth year, yet one foot is in the grave." "Hut what's tho use," he said, after a pause, "to tell yuu who I am or what I've been. You wouldn't believe me. I've been able to get rum when I couldn't get bread. You see this sear on my jaw, don't you ? A bullet from a confederate sharpshooter made that ut Gettysburg, and came so near cutting my windpipe that 1 couldn't consider it a joke by any means. 'This war on my right hand was made by a sabre. I carried a sword (hen and Wore epaulettes un my shoulder. I set up my shingle in a law olhcc in Denver, Col., after the war, graduating undei old Professor Wedcwnod at the Columbia night Law School at Wash ington, paying for law lectures while a $1,400 clerk in the War Department. I was a nail follow well mot in those tin ays, ami had $20,000 or so. ALMOST A I'ONlillKSSMAN. 'Well." with a sigh, "I was ambitious, and asked for a foreign consulate, not being satisfied with law, though I had a good practice lor a young man. 1 re fused, while chairman of a Kcpitblican convention, to accept a nuiiiiualiou for Congress, as 1 felt a warm frieiuMiip fur Colonel, who had been a delegate in the House from Colorado when a Territory, and he promised to get ne-a foreign post to Tainico, Stettin and other places were too small for uie, so 1 struck for the post of Secretary of Legation tu Constantinople. I had been u very temperate Icllow until I was twenty-three years uf age in fad, during the carnage of war had not ever tasted anything in the way of nun stron ger than cider. I remained about Wash ington a year and a half, and iu the mean time was dazzled with the gaydy of the capital. My associates and friends were as numerous as butterflies in a flower gar den, and I began to like champagne. I spent iu fifteen months in Washington every dollar I had, and yet received no Comtyissiun. One day a Senator in formed me candidly that the Constanti nople place had been promised to a Mary laud chap, whose father had made a for tune running tho blockade and sympathiz ing with the rebels during the war. The Secretary of State would not appoint you. because on two ur three occasion when you called to see him he smelt whiskey on your breath,' I was told. A HI INKI) HUM K. "I vtas ton p. ouil and ambitious tu ac cept a government clerkship again, so 1 went West and fell back on the law. Hut I neglected some of my clients, and rum got the masier for a year or so. 1 strug gled in the mines of Nevada, doing the law work of some of the claimant there. I fell iu love with the daughter of an Kn glish miner and unhappily for her married her. The father idolised the girl, and set us up in life in San Francisco. Fur four years I lived as happily as a prince, but for the life of me i couldn't give up drink. A beautiful child was niyrn 11". sod one nielit in a drunken. maudlin condition, I woke up to find my wifo ami child gone fled from me fur ever. I fled to England, but could find no trace of wife, child or father-in-law iu the great city of Loudon. Great God, what a hell on earth I've endured since I I worked for a time as common laborer iu Chicago. I tried to reform, time and time again, but I saw most of tho pro fessed Christians were only arraut hypoc rites. All my friends of former days turned their backs upon me, and most of them would not recognize me. Some of them wuuld pass by on the other side when they espied me. I couldn't vvcu get a messenger's place in any department at Washington. I resorted to every de vice to obtain drink, except to steal. A thousand times have I thought of suicide, vet 1 never had the courage to attempt it. I've slept in hallways and the parks and iu cheap lodging houses for twu years past; have been scorched iu the sun aud all but frozen to death in the sloct aud snow storms, yet I live. Sometimes I've put in a ton of coal for a quarter, or swept out the sawdust of a liquor saloon for bite to eat and a drink. I am beyond re demption, as you see. There are thous ands just like me. Hut for the accursed rheumatism, which has laid ni up iu the hospital for the past few months, I'd en list as a private in the army or marine corps and 1 once commanded a thousand brave fellows. Tbe neiae and oonfuaion of a battle-field would he music to my ears now. Would 1 had left my bones on Gettysburg's heights! "Oh, yes, I've tried often to get some :hing to do in this city of late, hut in nine cases nut of leu I've been rebuffed. I asked for copying or anything t' t arn a living, Only yesterday I was turned nut uf half a doxen places where I was looking for work by the janitors. A MuriiKii's I'xiikldku Warximi. "You see ine as I am. Yet I haVcu't lust all sell-respect. I haven't any chum, and uuver yd went on the tomato can racket, as they call il. I shun the main sir el.-, an l am a-diaiuct to inert the gaze of a grnllciiiaii. The memory of my wife haunts me like adreain, and the a tied ion she once bore for me keeps ine from the lowest haunts of vice. Ah! the curse of rum. The lirst glass of wine 1 ever took was ban led me bv the daughter ot a jus tice of th i I'niteil States Supreme Court who w.i- a Presidential candidate. The lady's husband was a Governor and after ward a I'lutcil Stales Seuator. That one glass of wine has been my ruin. A sainted mother warned me when 1 was a child never to touch it. She died of a broken heart, for she had felt the curse of nun. I have a brother, a thousand miles from here, who tills the pulpit of a leading church, and they tell me he is one of the most elo quent of men. 1 have sisters who are wed off. and who are doubtless now thikiug of my necureu-fatc. Hut 1 inn eon proud to let them know the truth. I have asked bread ot some wose neon is akin to mine, and they liuvti given uin a stone. ThJ dark river may yet be my refuge, and if the fishes dod't eat iny flesh possibly from the Morgue I'll bo taken tu Potter's field. "Ah! hut I'm a coward. I've talked too much. I deserve no sympathy. I ask for none. GimmI by." The reporter forced the man to accept a III t le change. "I thank you, sir, but 1 would not have asked it," said the tramp. "I feel there is no hope for me in this world or the next; but. as you bid mo hone, I will try," and ha turned aside to brush away a tear. The miserable druukurb went ono way tho reporter another. Did he start directly for a beer saloon? No. The reporter saw the poor fellow cuter a ten-cent lodging house, lie had slept on the docks the night belore. THE MARRIAGE CURE An editorial in the Philadelphia Wy limit ol the ISth reads as follows: "1 here is mine thing very pretty, old fashioned, horuie and suggestive about the story of tho wedding of young Mr. and Mrs. Grey, who have been spending the first day or two ol (heir honeymoon in lialtimorc Like a gallant bridegroom, Mr. Grey start ed from his home in South Carolina lo seek his betrothed in Poughkocpsie, where they worn to be married. Iteacbinjr l!al- tiinore, he was taken with rheumatism and had lo telegraph a postponement. Hut the bride was made of material not to be put oil by au attack of ibeuuiati.-in, and so hastened to Hnltiinorc, in charge of her To 1 1 ii r, bad the bridegroom propped up in bed and married him for belter, for worse ui course uie man was wen next day am thinks helms a jewel of a wife. hvory now and then young men appear to hud help bv this sort ol cure. II other day a young man at Mauayuiik was near dying ol typhoid fever, hut his alh anccd arrived in the nick of lime, niarriud what she supposed was a dying man, bu from that hour (he fever left him. These are only a couple of recent instances ont. of many known and unknown wherein the ministry ofwomaa become divine and all healing the moment it takes oiue true anil noble relationship to unfortunate and lone ly men. It seems to verily s pretty uh saving. Certainly ii is not gis.il for man to be alone, ospiviallv if he is a sick man. Poo pie are now "saving if President Arthur had hail a wife he uiiuhl have got th Chicago nomination. Of course he never grew sick enough. If Tililru had been a married man no Klrcnrul Commission would have da red lo count him nut. Selfish old bachelors will say the marriage cure does not last and so frame some excuse for the depredations of their lliibilldcUHil existenc es. Rut the fact, and the ladies arc a gaiust such cranks, and with either arrayed iu opposition to him a bachelor had better get married nr die, esiocial!y if he is sick. It spienrs to be a eeitain cure. JO-II III I.I.I m; ON I Kl lll'I.ITV. Impudence, ingratitude, ignorance and cowardice makes the kreed ov infidelity. Did you ever hear ov a man's renounc ing ( 'In istianity on his death bed and turning infidel? Gamblers and rreo-thiiikcrluvon't faith cnsiigh in their profession to teach it to their children. No atheist, with all his boasted bravery has ever daiisl to iuIm-I'IIsu his unbalicf on his lumeslun. it is a statistikal I'.iU that the wicked work harder to reach hull than the right eous do to roach heaven. I not is one thing: when a man gits into a tite sHit ho don't never send for his friend, the Devil, to help him out, I'd rather be an idiot than an infidel. I have made myself one; if an idiot I was made one. I never saw a free-thinker yet who didn't believe u hundred times more non sense than he can find in the Hihle enny where. It is alwus safe to follow the religious belief that our mother taught us; there never wnz a mother yet who taught her child to ho au infidel. To prevent honey bet-s from stinging pull out their tail feathers. Many women got angry because they are uot called "Indies," Iml uo lady gets angry when she is culled "woman, a saL-u ... j The richest man in Philadelphia has never lteeu married. The dry goods stores are "awfully down on hitu. 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