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rrn rrn FREE AND INDEPENDENT GEO. M. MATHES, Editor. $2.00 per Year in Advance. WINSTON, N. C. TllURSDAY JULY 18, 1878. VOL. XXII NO, 33. 2.-;n f - WINSTON SENTINEL. G. M. MATHES, Editor and Proprietor. TERMS: Cash, in Advance; "One copy, one year, - - - $2.00 six months, t - - 1-00 " " three months, - - .75 " " j 1 Martin Grogan, "WHOLESALE ANO nfeTAfL DEALkli IX GENERAL MERCHANDISE Winston, N. Ci Dr. Geo. W. Graham, Raleigh, N. C. PRACTICE LIMITED tO THK EYE, EAR AND THROAT-. May 31, 1877. Dr. Rofeah I. Gray, Physician arid Surgeon, Offers his professional services to the Citizens ot Winston and Surrounding "country.. 6gp Office opospite Merchant's Hotel. Winston, N. (J., March 21, 1878. 16 tf; Dr. Preston Roan Oi'FERS liis PROFESSIONAL SERVICES To the citizens of Winston and surround ing: country. 13?"" Office at his residence. Any mes fcajre left at either Drttjj Store will receive prompt attention. Dr. Richard H. lewis, l Lata Professor of Diseases of the Eye and Ear in the Savannah Medical College) FRACTICB LIMIT I io THE EYE VsTID !KAIR, Raleigh, N. C. -Jitefors to thetate Medical Society arid of thS Oeorgia Medical Society: Not 19 ly. NEW MILLINERY STOfiE ! MBS J. S. WHITE T KES PLEASURE in , informing the ladies of Winston, Salem and Surrounding country tSat she has opened a FasHoaable Milllneiy Stare, Sm Main street north-east of the Court Hor.Be quart, where she ?s receiving the latest stvien of t-KINCi MIKLINE?'i...ANli TRIMMINGS which flhe is selecting at prices to unit the times; au respectfully invites the ladies to wtU aiid examine fcer stock. Winston, April 10ih( 187S. 9 JAR1ES D. PATf ON, olssals Grocer 8 Conmssion Merchntj TOBACCO MAiraPACTrKEfi3 supplies A Specialty. fcjorire. S.igars, Myrup, Grape Sugar, Glncostr, Oils of every description, Gum, Ac, NO. 1330 UABX STKEET, krry thing sold in my line war .anted to pleased Apdl 25th, 1878 3m. . MILLINERY DRESS-EVaAKIMlC! 1.72, mm a u mmm ANSOUNCSTO 1 HE LADIES THAT THEY have opeted a ' establishment next door to SMITH'S lrue Store. where they will keep the latest novelties of the sea- aen at prices to suit the times. April 18th, 1878; 20 tf I. W. DURHAM, PRACTICAL MARBLE f 0RKERf jend' fjEAiKft itf "WiTLSi-oix, 1ST, O. . t"" Write for Price List atrd Designs May 9th, 1878. , 1 J. 3, Wagoner5 WITH r - 3 i lUiXt A SPECtALTf OF fOBAGCOKISTS' SUPPLIES, Are agents for Ml ! Ssl Hass licorice1. Jeep Powdered1 iicurte'e Root, Sesan and Ofire Oils,' Bum, ogsr mi Syrups1 of all grades, Spices,' l!lvea,' Tonqa Beans Glucoe, 46 Corner 6T Cary anf 1-fth Streets, . Jftareh 7, 1878. RICHMOND, Va.' Eobert Ij. Jobnston, ME&Otidlf T TAIL Oil, "WINSTON, N. Cf... irEEPS CONSXANTLi ON HAND A LfNE of line iarpcifted Ooila vesting? m rr-- 0 V a fcnf CApcrwUW flM a,uv v - u v T1NO,- itfNew York andii this State, justifies net aaaerti n that I earn give a perfect fit, and I guar antee that aft gboda made pp fn' my establishment vo give satisi action. - : All work done on reasonable fems. My eataWiahment ia next door to B.' F. Cbos' AkVsj vrareB. f t t JT f VEGETINE FOR DROPSY. I never shall . Forget tli first Dwe. tlloVIDENCK. MB.H.K ST-vvmts': , , , Dear Sir I have been a great sufferer from dropsy. I was contiued to my bouse more than a year Si mouths of the time 1 was entirely help less." 1 Tiaa'tiU'iRed to have t;.vo men help me in and out of bed 1 was sw ollen 19 inches larger than mv natural size around my waict. I suffered all a man could and live. 1 tried all remedies for lropsy I had three different doctors Bly friends all expece-J I would die: many nights I was expected to die before morning. At last Vege tiiie was s nt me by a friend. 1 never shad forget the firs done, I could realize its good e fleet from dayto-dav; I was getting better. After I taken souib 5 or" 6 bottles 1 couid sleep quite well nights I began to.eio now, quit? jSI,,apatHaS good; the dropsy had at this time disappeared. I kept takin" the Vegetiue until 1 leg .iued my usual health 1 iit-ard of a great many cures by usin Veetine after 1 got out and was able to attend to "nCwork. I am a carpenter and builder. I will also say it U 'S cured an auut ot my wile's of Neu ralgia, who had suffered for more than 20 years. She savs she has not had any neuralgia for eight months. I have given it to one of my children for ani'er Humor. I have i;o doubt in my mind it will cure any humor ; it is a great cleanser of the blood; it iv safe to give a child. I will commend it to the' world. My father is 8 1 years old, and he bays there is nothing like it to give strength and life to an aged person. I cannot be too thankful for the use of it I ain, Very gratefully yours; JCH N S. KOTTAOE. AtL Diseases ct thh BLCor! tf Tczetine will relief paiu ; cleanse, purity; and cure such diseases restoring the patient to perfect health after trying diilereut remedies anil suffering for years, is it not conclusive proof; if you are a sufferer you can be cured ? Why is this medicine performing such great cures? It works in the blood, in tfe circu ' ding fluid It can truly be called the Great lilood Purifier. The great source of disease originates in the blood and no medicine that does not directly a't upon it to purify and renovate; has any just laim upon public attention. VEGETINE i owi; mi in: a i, tit TO YOUR VAIXMBLE VEGETINE. , . .. Newport, Ky , Apr , 29th, 1877. Tun. H. R. Stfvenh ; Dear Sir, Iariip sfTere'l from a breaking out oi 'ankcrous Sore for Inure than five yea s, caus ed by an ccideut of a fractured bone, which ffrac hire ran into a running wore, and having used eve ry thing I cou'd think of and nothing helped me, until 1 had taken si;; tottk-s tf your valuable med icine which vir. Millar the apoth'iVai-y recommend e very highly. The sith bottle cired mei and all I c u say, jp that owe my health to yoxtr valuable Veg tine. Your most obedient servant, ALHfcKX VOiN KOEDER; "It ir unncceepary for me to enumeiatethe dis asea for -vhih the Veftiue should le used. I know of no disease wbich riH not admit of itH jsej with good results. Almost innumerable compluintd are cused by poisouous secretions in the blood, which can be entirely expelled from the system by the use of the Vegetine W en the blood is perfectly cleaiiHe-J the disease rapidly yields ; all pain? ce:ie ; healthy action is promptly restored, autt the pa tient ib eured." VEGETif Cured mt; uiicit I lie doctoicn r.ufj:i incisnati, O., April 10, 1877. Tiii H; R; Rtevsss:- lear Sir, i was seriously troubled with Kidney omplaiut for a long time I have co; suited the best doctors in this city I have used Vegetiu for this disease, and it ban cured when the doctorB fai. ed to do so. Tours trMlv, EUNEsr bl'UKiA N, Kesidrnce P21 RticeSfc , i'lace of busi eas, o'i6 Uent. Ave. - VEGETINE Prepared by II. R. STEVKSS, Rostoii, 7I:ss. l egetine tk Sold by till II rng-jrims. THE AMERICAN CLOTHING -ASl) Dry fioods House IN FULL BLAST ! i i iii & co. rlave jufiVPenol L EC TED stock of LARGE, and WELL. SE: h'd Mads Glotling, GENTS' FURNISHIKG GOODS, Liadics' Or ess Goods, BOOTS Aim SHOES, HATS iND CAPS, .. F1MILY GROCEKIES, mix UKI OF baas aail Uaeenn YViar, Also the DIXIE PLOW, with Pointa and Slides to Jit. Remember. the placp The Mammoth Ptore Weat Side. ourt House Square, next door to Hodg in n'livan. Jan. 3, 1878, '' " . ... tf. H. EDWELL & SON II4.VE OPENED S. - tfATTRES ASD UPHOLSTERlfG ES'f A B Ij ISlf M E jf T jtt the Mck'e. House,' 6i Main1 Street where thy are prepared to manufac ture Mattresses and do' Upholstering of all kinds. We make a curled Shtfck Mattress which a al most eqi.al to our chair, and we refer you to Mr. Crutchneia ana w.A 1 em ly who have used them Hepairing done in good style. Onr work is superior and cheaper than Northern work. Special terms given to parties wishing a number oi Mattresses. Our Mattresses are kent in store alid for sale rV The Winston Furniture and "oflin Company, op- poaite the fiedmont w areiiouwc and joining liiii snaw & ;o Winston, N: C, June toh,18T8. 27 tf Sat! Tolacco" t9 gmUtOm and uxeOena ami lotting dkor- of ooKfe-rfn? and Jlmoring. Iho best tobacco fZlt.sh A,?"r b,ue trade-mark h closely 5r!Sfi ? Inferior Roods, see that u-Jon, &cH is tSJ luf-,Sold V U dealer Send for sample, free, to C. A. Jaoksok A Co.. Mfra.. Peteribura. Va? Awarded hi ,tlt . . ...l-l VMttiMi tnm 3 an. 91st. tf. the Water miix. Listen to the water-mill ', AH the livelo igf day, How the clicking ot the wheel Wears the hours away ; Languidly the autumn wind . Stirs the greenwood 'eaves; From the field the reapers sing; Binding up the sheaves And a memory o'er my mind As a ppell is cast, . , The mill will never grind With the water that is past. Summer winds revive no more l-eave3 strewn over earth and main, And the sickle never can reap The gathered grain again ; And the rippliilg stream flov3 6ri. Tra-quil, deep, aiwliitllli -Never "Tiding back again To the water-mill. Truly speaks the proverb old ., With a meaning vast : The mill will never grind With the water that is past Take this lesson to yourself, Loving heart and true; Golden years are llet ting by; Youth is passing too. Strive to make the most of life, Losfe no happy day; Time will never bring you back Chances swept away. Leave no tender word unsaid ; Love while love shall last The niill will rlever grind With the water that is past. Work while yet the daylight shines; Man of thought and will ; Never does the streamlet glide Useless by the mill ; Wait not till to-rnbrrow's suit . Beams upon yotir way ; All that yo;i can call jour own Lies in this to-dav. Power, intellect, and health; May not always last ; The mill will never grind With the water that is past. -bV- fcriUSIX SIDNEY. "1 have cotne to tell yon good bye. I hope you'Jl pardon my leav ing so abruptly, but I mast make np my mind and go at once, or I Shan't be able to tear myself away. There are so rhany attractions here for a uian ; I never knew there tas such enjoyment in life till I came here, indeed, I won't know how to consent myself within the walls of the pent up city alter this, Every day I will remember the hunting, fishing, yonr excellent din ners, and last but not least, your, shall 1 say it?" "Yon know best," I answered. I tried to speak carelessly but Sid ney Ilundiill's laughing blue eyes were, upon me, and 1 could not. "Then I will remember last, but not least, your own sweet sell." The blocd that had turned to ice in rtiy veins when ho told me that lie was going away flowed in a ereat hot wave to my face fib'w: Was lie in earnest t Jlis voice was sincere enough, but he was smiling down on me, his c7es dancing pto- vokingly. foidnev ttandall was an old col lege friend of my brother, who brought hint to our house to enjoy a week's sport. He was a stranger to me when he came, but hid one week stretched into six, and dur ing that time I learned to love hiiri. tight against this love as I would; I could not conquer it; I doubt whether any girl domiciled rinder the same roof with Sidney Randall for six weeks, could help loving him. Tall, handsome, fair; with laughing blue eyes; and always in a very merry tfiood the sort of triari that always walks right into & wo man's heart whether she likes it or not; He was going now, and tak ing rhy heart with hiiri. Jt he left an equivalent; I'd have rib feagori to complain, but whether' hQ cared anything for me Icotildn't tell. One never knew when Sidney Randall was Ferious or jesting. Wheji he took my hand ii his arid lariglied down in my fate as he told me be would remember me every day," 1 thought I onght to be angry; He was reading" thy fery i horights," p'er- haps, and making light ot them.' "1 have a favor to ask, he con tinued, 6till holding my hand. "What is it ?" I asked,' arid look ing up into his face again saw that the srailo had vanished, and for once his eyes shone with a steady light. "It is that yon think of tne Bonio timpfi." My heart rose exn'ltingly. 1 felf him press my baud more closely.- I thought now that he returned rnv love. I beck tne sriddenly indepen dent, as all women do .wberi they know they have a friah's heart in the hollow of the hand," to squeeze tbe Ttfe cart Of h at their pleasure, and 1 answered : "irerhaps 1 will,' anil then per- Haps I won t. "Favor nuniber one not being granted, I suppose I onght not to asK favor number two." I looked up at him all smiles now. I could aflord tcr be, for he Seetncd to be awfully irf darneet; "'What ia the . other favor t' 1 quickly asked . "Grahf number one, I'll eurtely tell vou." "Well, consider it granted," I said, after a little hesitation. "For mere curiosity 6ake ?" klNo," I answered, "I meant it." lI would like to come back to See yon soon again; may I ?" My eyes sought tlib jsjrohhdi but 1 answered, "Yes." Sidney Randall -said he wdiiid come back soon. Of course t could not time his "soon" to the hour or day, blit after a weekjl looked for his coining daily. Eij tli'e Second or the third week did not bring him, and when a month passed away and he came not my feelings tan be better imagined than described. Was it all a mistake on my part to believe that Sidney ttandall cared anything for me ? I could hot think that he was not sincere the day he went awa3. 1 Wandered around the house like some restless spirit. My spirits were up to a dreadful pitch: 1 was too proud to ask my brother question's about Sidney llandall, but I knew I would nev er know another day's peace if 1 did not see him again. It was the hope of seeing him again that prompted tne to"vioit ray aunt in New York. The first even ing of my stay in the tiity I went to tlio theatre. How very fortunate my going there : I was scarcely seated, when in a bo opposite I noticed two gentlemen, and of them Sidne3T Randall; For a moment my heart stood stilly then began beating furiously. I could scarce ly realize that it was he. 1 leaned back in nly seat. He wa3 greatly changed since I last aw hiiri, rhubli paler and thinner; and hise3'es were not dancing with merriment. II is featured were in perfect repose ; but it was lie. My libart filled with pityfc Surely he must have been sick or some trouble had caused those altered looks; and that was the reaSori why he had not "come back saon." What a relief those thoughts brought me, and turning to my aunt 1 said : "Do you know that fair gentle man opposite ? "Yes," said my aunt, "it is Mr. Sidney Randall. Wby do you ask ? Are you acquainted with him ?" "Yes he spent a few weeks at our house," I answered carelessly. "But he looks greatly changed since I saw htm. I think he has grown thin, and his expression is grave and sad." I said this thinking" irly dtlnt could give me sotiie information. And she did give me information information that stunned me, that made audience aud performers and gas jet and foot-ligbts dance around me till my brain was in a whirl; and T thought 1 should go mad. How I sat out that evening how I reached home, I can never tell: I hare a taguS idea of making my way to my own room, and falliug upon the bed, aud knowing no more until I awoke next mcruing with a dtHl; heavy pain at my heart; and rememberiug tny aunt's information; I knew what it was to be uttetly wretched for the first time in the nineteen tears bf my life. My Sunt told me that she did not notice any chuage in" Sidney Randall and that a man ought to be anything else but sad on the eve of bis marriage: He was to be married on the following Wednes day Sidney Randall had cotrie for sport, and he had it at my expense, 1 thought; very bitterly. But even now 1 couldn't rid myself of the idea that he lovea me. Me was abotJt to rriarry an heiress of greal wealth. Perhaps it was not a. iove match, and it was thoughts of me that caused ench a change in his appearance. But I put thi9 though' from me, and tried to gcotn tnysei for gtievtng for this man, who was so unworthy of my pure love. Everything I had taken out of mv trunk liat v esterdav, was now under lock and key. I was all ready tu 6 home but to put on mj out side' wraps,' when a servant ot ought me a card. Sidney Randall's name was npon it. He was waiting to see me. Down stairs I went: would let Mr. Sidney Randall see I cafed nothing for him. Had my eyes deceived me last night; or was it the gas-light lhe same smil mg face, the name dancing blue eyes; What - deceit, I thought lurked beneath that beaming coun tenance: "1 saw you1 Coming ottt of tfc' theatre with your aunt, and 2 had to come the first thing this m'orri- ing. I would have been at yocfi h'otfse more than a ntfoc'th ago, but b6sfne$ of iiiipdrta'nce called me away. ' - "Down at home! ;Wbat for., pray?'. I said icily, at the same tiuL'e moving away from his piroF fered hands: "Why; you told me I might come," he said, surprise creeping into his face. "It is a strange freak of Mr. Randall's to wish to come to see me on the eve of liis marriage. Shall I effer, ihj congratulations now; br will they be more accepta ble at church best Wednesday ?" " Congratulations 1 W h a t " He suddenly paused, and burst out laugbiDg: ''There is some mistake lieie," he said, when he could con trol himself. "It is my cousi Sid ney, not I, that is to be married next Wednesday." "Your couaiu Sidney ! Were you not sitting on one of those boxes last night ?" I inquired. "Upon honor I was not: I passed the theatre last night with a friend as your party was coming out. It was only half an hour before" that that I arrived in the city. But Sid was there: Confound him ! It is not the first time he has been taken for me. But," and he laugh ed again: "I can't see how you could have made such a mistake, for I'm so much the better looking of the two: Haven't lost any of my conceit ; you see." I knew he was talking lightly to me to make me forget my position; lut I could not. An nrlit stole round my shoulder, and a voice said gently, kindly : "Think no more about it it's al! a mistake." Ou the following Wednesday I offered my Congratulations to cou sin Sid: Well, he is my cousin now. 'Alisoiiitc loney." From the N. Y. Times. The National Greenback Labor party; as it is called in the East, or the National Labor-Greenback par ty, as the wegtei'n variety is begin ning td Call itself, has hit upon a new phrase, with which it seems to be mightily pleased. The thing it wants now is "absolute money." Who it was that first had the hap piness of striking that taking term we cannot say, but wo do remem ber that the conference of Green backers held at Albany a few weeks ago declared that the greenback dollar "must be a full ie;jiil tender for the tayiiifht of all debts, pub ic and private, and by the Govern ment issued, protected, and receiv ed as absolute money." This impera tive and imperious "must is rather ihpressive and calculated to make the most daring person hesitate be fore presuming to question the pow er and authority of the Albany conference to declare what shall be received in payment of debtg. As to the rhetorical irtvefsioh of phrases n "by the (Government lo&nedj pro tected, and received as" absolute money; that simpiy settles it and places the greenback dollar in an mpregnable, if not an unassailable position. It it must be "by the Government issued, protected; and received as absolute money; there is no more to be said. bull, we are just to that degree reckless that we question the ability of the Al bany conference, and the ability ot any moral power; to mal'e "abso lute money out of greenbacks. The National Labor-Greenback party of Missouri has made an im provement On tho Albany phrase It demands the issue of "absolute money in greenbacks equal to gold and silver;" Neither can they or any government under heaven' mako greenbacks permanently arid stsadi ly equal to either of these precious metals in purchasing po'vfef ly any process but conversion' with ?t. What do these people mean by "absolute money 2" Perhaps they have no clear idea themselves; but one thing they seetn to be cer tain about it is not to be coverti- ble with coin. It is not to consist of notes, regarded as evidences of debt to be paid. It is not to4be redeemed or redeeinable. it is merely to be paper dollars,' which th6 Govern m'eht has declared shall be money, and shall be received as such tor all payment?," not only to itself," but between man arid man. This seerts to be their idea of "absohlte mon ey." The St. Louis Labor-Greenback platform demanded that "all bonds now subject to redemption be immediately redeenied in abso lute money equivalent fo coin." From' thifi it is plain that absolute riioriey "s not a thing to be redeem ed," but h'as itself the power of re demption,' and final payment, and as it can be eslly niade; and at a fri &n cost; it. ftirnrshs a" Tery eisy a'nd eipensivo method for wiping out Government obligations. But the Government ought not to enjoy the monopoly of the power to pay debts without its costing anything. If it can obtsiirj valuable consider ation in solid supplies of one kind or another and run in debt for pay ment, and then discharge the debt without returning any Vahie, by merely printing a lot of neatly-engraved bits of paper with backs of verdant hue, and passing them over to its creditors, why may we not all trade in the same way ? - If it is the duty of the Government to hirh!sh the bits of paper, with proper de vices signHtiiresvnd imitations of seals, it should supply 'theni to all comers for nothing, or at iriost tile cost of paper and printing, inas much as it obtains them for its own purposes at that rate. When this pape"r-money delusion is reduced to its simplest terms it seeihs too silly and absurd for se rious discussion; and yet there is underneath it a fundamental fallacy that takes such strong hold on the minds of snpeificial thinkers that it is almost impossible to eradicate it. It is hot confined to the Gteeu back party; but appears in Demo cratic aud Republican platforms. and in the discussions of people with high claims to intelligence. That fallacy is that the authority of law or the power of Government can give value to anything that does not possess it. Few people fully realize that the only "abso lute money" is and must be a mon ty of value, containing in its own substance etery iota of the value for which it is to exchange. It must be worth as much as a com nudity among cbinsaodities; to be put to any use of which its mate rial is capable; as it represents as money. The stamp which tho gov ernment puts upon it is ho further value or import than to certify that it contains so much metal of a cer tain fineness, and it is tho value of that metal that constitutes the pur chasing power of the coin. There is no othtr means under heaven and among men whereby value can be measured but by value ; there i.s and can be no "absolute money" except money of full intrinsic val ue, auu the mgenuify of nif.ii, tho power of g verumeutj the authoii ty of law, aud even the declarations or cocTeuiions. are as impotent to C i v 1 - ... impart value to that which is not valuable as to give weight to that which is not ponderable. All sub stuutes tor monev, all so-called "representatives of value," serve merely to effect exchauges by transferring Value and defeniog fi nal payment. They serve that purpose completely and perfectly only so long as it is knotfc that they will at any time and at all times command the money for which they are substituted, the value which they represent, iu the definite and specific form of the coin that com merce has adopted as its universal equivalent; The SiJrcr Dollar. IT REMAINS 1 THE HANDS OF THE GOVERNMENT ALMOST ENTIRELY. Washington ?-pec:;i.l to New York World. The mints have now coined in the neighborhood of $,000,000 sil ver dollars, and will continue to coin them after the 1st of July ut the rate of about 8,000,000 a month. There will, therefore, be about $20, 000,000 of this coin in existence on the 1st of January next. A:liiost the whole amount of dollars thus lur coined is still in the possession of the govern i-ieiit. People do not want them, and it is utterly impos sible to get them into circulation." The issrio of silver certificates has reached an aggregate of $1,4C2,000, but these cirtilicates, like the dol lars themselves, como directly back to the government as soon as they are issued. The treasury now has in its various offices Si,l53S,170 of them. The present operation of the silver law is as follows: The government was com'pellcd at the start to use gold coin to purchase silver bttllion, but as soon as the first million of silver dollars were coined, the bullion was paid for in these dollars. The seller of bullion immediately passed the silver dol lar to brokers, who paid thcin back! to the government for custom du ties, ills soon as the issue ot silver certificates was begun by the gov ernment these took the place of the 6iKcr dollars in payment of silver bullion; The bullion broker now receives silver certificates for his bullion and the silver dollars do not go out of the possession ot the gov ernment at all. Tho silver certifi cates are passed to brokers and used !n the payriierit ot duties. They stro riot legal teridef, arid are not sought for any other purpose. As the government will only purchase bullion at the rate of $2000,000 a month, not more than $2,000,000 worth of certificates are brought in to use, and this amount will be sufc ficient to ccver the silver bullion business for the rcrhairider bf the year. It is calculated at the treasi ury department that by the 1st of January next the government will have been deprived of at least tt) millions of gold, which it would have received if silver and silver certificates were not used for the payment of duties. Should the. treasury department increase tho amount of coinage, the iise of silver certificates for the payment bf du ties would be correspondingly in creased, biit the government would be wholly deprived ot its supply df ; gold coin. tords of Wisdoni. f . Gov. Colquitt, of Georgia,. in bl3 address before the students of Trinity College, N. C, spoke id part as follows : "My yoiing fi'iends, there is such a thing as truth unmixed, absolute, su perlative. To-day, at the outset of . life, I tell -oii emphatically anil . without qualification, that to hirri who means well, who with his light es chews wrong and vice, who .ets lli for his guidance and inexorably ad heres to the golden rule, there is not; Will hot be, cannot by anj' such thing tis failure and disappointment! M,a- terial tilings may fail, ah! will fall J the pride of iutellcct will surely meet humiliation, honors and acclamations may become of all things tlie. iriost . vapid, and miscalculations rHid mis jutlgtiiciits will bestrew the melan choly pilgrimage of our lives ; but of one thing tLe entire universe of God may rest assured, and that is that "Virtue is its own exceeding great reward," and Omnipotence is pledged to justify the practice of it. In no other department of life; !ri rib' other Held of endeavor could I dare to proi ' mise safety and happiness; After thb very best that many of you riiay do, your plans of life may be defeated.- Strive as you may; honor and relies may elude your rasp. With the purest intentions and loftiest desires to be of service, at hist you may Have to say, "I ' have failed, ami ray name is written in the water:" Thousands heforis you have been overlooked; been rnis judged, and passed by ; but never yet since human probation began, never since conscience commenced its reign, has there been one instance in which a pure conscience ha3 suf fered shipwreck and been forced to exclaim, "All is Vanity." Lit t us apply the correlated truth: It is this : Material good, a triumph over outside opposition and obsta cles jin short, what is called world, ly success cainnot in aiiy large de gree constitute the happiness of men or uatloua. II! -gotten power or wealth must at last pass through' the toll -gate of rettibution, and how often is the exaction the bit ; teruess of death. True it is that we are "of tho eiirth, earthy," but Heaven demauda that the immortal aud spiritual element shall never we subordinated to the sensual; which seeks its fruition iu the things that perish. All systcraa of education, then; all arms of polity, all religions, all domestic training that does not place the moral hie above the ma terial or intellectual must end in disaster. , The man who wishes well either to Ins people or his race would far prefer to see risen good rather than learned, or behold the prevalence of virtuous habits than any amount of power or wealth. These are trite, if not threadbare reflections,' and yet how true is it that the re fractory pride cf man's Jritelleci makes eternal repetitiou bf them! necessary. At all limes and every where presumptuous man has felt himself able to criticise and reforni the conditions of human existence" as God has decreed them. But maukiud retires from every such collision with Providence worsted and sorrowful. No, we ttidsl ac cept the rule as God has declared it for the Government of the world f:rt the Kingdom of Heaven, and! then all else that is good. Without virtue the individual fails, the nation is wreked: Lfet education naako a note of this, and let tl;6 statesman: who persists in doubts, calculate closely how much of treasure and glorious opportuni ty may still be wasted in the futile attempt to prove that text books may tuccessfally substitute the Bible. The possession of Cyprus will give England absolute control over the Euphrates Valley, and a lin'o of railway having that object iii view is to be constructed. No fur ther Russian erieroaenmfenta inj Asia will be possible, as England, and Turkey will be practically one power. n . j
The Western Sentinel (Winston-Salem, N.C.)
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July 18, 1878, edition 1
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