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MOORE, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Pitch Landing, K. C Pract'ces In the Superior, Supremo, eral Courts. t Prompt attention to Collections. I and Fed- g B. WIN BORNE, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, : Winton, N. OL t i i ctl5.e3 ln Hrord and adjolnlhif counties. . Collections made la any part of North Caro lina, i i. , TB. C. F. CAMPBEUL, 0 H K P aw. a vmrssBSDait CONQUERED. I sing of a night, of a wintry night. When the wintry winds were sighing. When the sir was cold and the frost was bold. And the snowflakee wild were flying. 'Twae a dismal night O a dreadful night! Not a star in the he avens seemed shining, : For the air was cold and the frost was bold. And the watchdog sadly whining. And I thought of the days that bad passed way, Of the nights that were yet before me; And I turned mine ejes to the f-r-off skies. And I knew that my God was o'er me; And I wept as I ne'er had wept before O what a night for weeping ! For he air was cold, and the Storm-King bold On his fiery steed went sweeping. 5 And he laughed, and he said, a he onward BpeJ, "O mine is a voice of thunder, With a tongue of fire do I strike my lyre. Do I eing mrfeong of wonder. I ride on the wave, and I dance on the grave, Widh a might all things defying!" When a voice 1 hear, now far, now near; list, list to the Storm-King dyi g." And I turned mine eyes with a glad surpr se O what a face shone o'er me ! On snowy wings now it sweetly sings The song of a hope before me. And I turned mine eyes with a glad surprise Twas an angel's voice had spoken; And the Storm-Kiog bowed his mighty head. For his mighty heart was broken. In a Fog. Two and twenty, and yet Maude Hey wood never had lpved before. "Before," I say she scarcely yet knew the reason which caused her pulses to quicken at Wirt Douglas's step or the glad light to sparkle in her eyes at his approach. She had only known him six months. Until she had met him, she had some times wondered why her heart failed to respond to the many hands which sought to touch the master chords. They had lain dull and cold and life less, until a pair of eyes, darkly gray looked into hers, a voice with a subtle magnetism spoke her name, and sud denly the mystery no longer was a mystery, and she only wondered how she could have lived her life heretofore with no sense of its emptiness. It was pleasure sufficient, drifting down the current. She almost dreaded the moment she felt inevitable when he should ask her to become his wife. ' He had not yet uttered the words which should seal the bond between them, but she felt as sured the love he had caused to spring up into such power scarcely equaled that which spoke in his every glance. and showed in every act, but ihe pre sent, with its fullness of content, al lowed her little time to think of the future. Her dream was so sweet she cared not to make it reality. Very lovely she looked the night of Mrs. Raymond's ball. It was as though her.happiness had lent her an added brilliance. Every glance turned on her as she entered the rooms, but of them all she noted only one. "You are looking regally lovely this evening, Miss Maude," he said, draw ing her arm through his with already an air of possession. "Yet, your mirror, doubtless, has told you the story, and you do not need that my lips indorse it. Have you remembered your promise for my waltz?" An answer trembled on her lips, the color still flushed her cheek, caused by his words, when a gay voice called his name. ".Surely, Mr. Douglas, you have not deserted our standard ! You promised to arrange the stage for the tableaux we are to have later in the evening, and indeed we cannot get along with out your valuable assistance" The speaker was a Miss Florence, who, as she spoke, allured him with a glance and smile. A shade of annoyance passed over his face, as, turning to his companion, he begged for a few moments to be excused. "Then, Miss Maude, I will return for our dance." This last, as Miss Florence, with tri umphant assurance, had clasped her hand within his arm and carried him off as a bird its prey . Itwas no new trick for her, since, ln her very limited society experience, she had learned to angle with consid erable skill, although, unfortunately for herself, the bait had become recog nized, and did not attract many to her line; at least they always discovered the hook, and nibbled at a very safe distance. Maud, restored to her mother's pro tection, watched them with an amused smile, for she well knew how unwill ingly this last victim bad been en trapped. . "What luck, Miss Maude?" broke in a voice upon her reverie, and glancing up, she saw Mr. Rochester standing before her a very handsome, distiii-guished-looking man, spite of his gray hairs jand his fifty summers. "How, happens it that the fairest flower in our basket is wasting its sweetness? Suppose you allow me the triumph of the evening the envy of the card-room -by acting as my partner in a single rubber of whist? It is very selfish, I know, but they will appreciate you all the more on your return." - "Indeed, Mr. Rochester, I doubt if I am missed, and, as I did not propose dancing until after supper; Ifwill give me only too much pleasure;" A half hour later, seated at the card table, her attention was suddenly at tracted by the sound of voices. One she recognized as that of Wil Somers, whom she cordially liked, as one of Mr. Douglas's best friends. "Confess, Wirt," it said, "that you are really smitten. No girl is going to look like that, or show herself so com pletely entranced without the assur ance that it is welcome. I must ac knowledge that I am somewhat sur prised at so open a display, or so speedy a transfer of affection." The tone was half laughing, half serious, and as in a dream the girl sat waiting the rply. It came too quickly. "Are you bereft of your senses, Will, or am I? I should imagine both. You know perfectly well that smiles from that quarter are toopioliflctobechoice. Pour passer le temps, and a very short time at that, one perhaps can bear their dazzling light. Their brilliancy, how ever, never will destroy my reason, nor cause my common-sense to desert me it "A wrong play, Miss Maude. You trumped my trick," interrupted Mr. Rochester, shaking his head across the table. And Maude realizes that the speak ers, still unconscious of her presence, have passed out of the room, away from the quiet window seat where they had thought themselves unobserved, and she is sitting with a handful of painted pictures, which she is supposed to dis pose of with unerring skill. Mechanically she places them upon the table, unheeding: her partner's glances of surprise, which she inter prets finally in the discovery that, through her play, they have lost the two odd tricks. Two ? FaUl blunder ! They little know she has ju t learned that the odd trick which was-to bring her her life's happi ness has been lost. She rises from the table, stunned and bewildered. The words she has heard have struck her like so many blows, each one sharp and incisive. Has she, then, so worn her heart upon her sleeve that not he alone but others have seen it? Cruet! dishonor able ! Had he not taught her to believe that her smile was the sunshine of his life, her frown a shadow to dim the sunniest day ? "Don't look so sad, Miss Maude," in terrupted Mr. Rochester. " What can we expect from the belle of the ball room, when we carry her away from its glitter and glare to the quiet retreat of a sober card-room, with her grand father for a partner ? Come, I am too old to accept a challenge, and I must restore you to the place from which I stole you, or certainly I shall receive one. A laughing reply is on her lips, the color flumes in her cheek like a N crim son rose, her eyes grow almost black with a luminous light, and it is as her companion had predicted. The threshold of the ball room is hardly crossed ere a dozen eager aspi rants rush forward, to whom she smil ingly hands her card, which is re turned without one vacant space oppo site the list of dances. Thenhe sees him, flushed and smil ing, crossing the room toward her, and reads in his face the triumphant assur ance that those moths may flutter as they will around the candle, he knows its light must shine for one alone, and that one oh, happy thought! is him. "Truant," he says bending down to speak into her ears, "I have looked for you everywhere, is not the next waltz ours?" "I really do not know whether your name is down upon the list. You may look for yourself," handing him the card with an easy grace, a matchless indifference. The color flushes his brow as he re turns it. "I thought" a promise given by word of mouth equal to a written bond. Par don my error and my assurance, Miss Hey wood." Then he turned away, and her part ners claimed her, and the band, in per fect tune and harmony, clashed their instruments in unison, and the flowers shed their perfume, - and the lights their brilliance, and no one dreamed that a girfs heart was full to bursting and she the fairest of them all, or that a few idle, careless words had raised a barrier between two lives which never, never might be broken. " "So far, and no farther-so long, and no longer. A flirt, a heartless coquette, like all the rest of her sex." So reasoned -Wirt Douglass, suddenly grown cynical, as the days merge into weeks, and the wall, built by pride, rose higher and higher between them. Once he would have begged an ex planation, but she froze the words upon ms lips, and sent , back the warm tor rent to its fountain-head. There he held it firmly, giving thereafter no outward sign, though he sometimes marveled if its inward force would not destroy him.' It was accident, not design, which tnrew Wirt j Douglass in Miss Hey wood's path the ensuing summer. He had; not known she was at the hotel where he had gone until he had been met and welcomed by scores of friends, when it was too late to immediately re trace his steps, although he determined his stay should be a short one. He had learned the fact, not of his strength, but of his weakness, and knew he dared not trust himself, for the wound seemed to grow only more painful with age, and he wondered with passive consciousness of suffering, it it would ever heal. The fishermen shook their heads somewhat gravely the next day when a gay party set sail in a yacht for a few hours' pleasuring, but the sun shone so brightly in a cloudless sky that their prognostications were set down as dis mal prophecies, and were forgotteni with the unfurling of the sails, only t be afterward sadly, sorely remembere remembered when, suddenly having risen, no one knew how nor whencea dense fog settled around them, the sdn andjlight had vanished, and with the approaching shadows of evening the .mist around thickened and deepened. Th6re were still, however, some hotirsrleft of day, although the sun had completely hidden himself, and there could.be seen naught of sea or sky naught but the pale faces of the women as they, sat shivering, and wishing themselves once more upon dry land. "o one apprehended danger until, in the; distance, was heard more and more distinctly the noise of breakers, when, like a whisper, ran from mouth to " 1 t Wry V -W -m m , m mourn, jne Dar iv snouia tney mis take their course, and be driven upon that,' ruin would be inevitable. Maude sat upon the deck. She would not-go into the cabin, and she wanted to be alone, when the voice which once had been music to her ear sounded close beside her. l-oiauae, ior uoci'St sake, while we arei on- the open sea, with danger around us. but God above jus, tell me what pitiful, pitiless thing has come between us ? Throw off the mask of coquetry you have assumed, and let me believe once more a true woman's heart beats beneath it ! ! Do not let me feel I haye loved so well only the pretense of something good and pure and noble!" fYou forget, Mr. Douglas, that 'pro lific smiles are rarely choice, and that your common sense has not yet de serted you.' I sincerely trust it never may, although I would advise some better place for such discussion than a crowded card-room." While she spoke, the man's brain, with lightning rapidity had reviewed the past, and, at his repeated words, the! night, the scene arose again before him. and, like a flash, he saw it all the mistake which might have been so fatal to them both. 'pMaude little jMaude," he said, low and tenderly, 'did you think, my Jittle darling, 'twas of j you I spoke. It is tnie I did wrong In ' such a place, to discuss the subject, but my care in not mentioning j aloud, Bell Florence's name, as she of whom I thought, has caused me all this misery. Ah, if you but knew how I had missed your smile, you. would realize that never could it shed its light too much upon my path ! With its sunshine, darling, I could know no shadow. Maude, my own, look at mc, and let me see if this horrible mistake is ended!" But, in answer! with two great tears in her bright eyes, she pointed to the skfes above themj where, through mist and fog, the sun'i rays at lastrhad pene trated, and the clear azure of the heavens shone once more, mingled with crimson and yellow,- as the day- god sunk to rest, and both knew that even so had all the mist of misunder standing vanished from out their lives. A Forgetful Bridegroom An absent-minded gentleman in St Paul, Minn., recently applied to the county clerk for a marriage license. "What's the bride's name?" asked the official. The bridegroom paused, cough ed stuttered, sneezed, blew his nose, scratched his head, and finally stam mered: "I can't recall It, but I'll go andask her." Having obtained the desir ed Information, he returned and paid the fees for the license. A few days after ward he took his bride to a minister's house, and proclaimed his anxiety to be married on the snot. Tne mimstei said that he would marry them if they had procured a license. The bridegroom rum aged in his pockets and found it not. He had forgotten to bring it with him. VI must have the warrant," said tne minister solemnly. The bride handed her prospective lord the keys of his trunk, and he set out for his house to fetch the document. 1 Tne marriage cer- mony was finally performed, but the lady was ill at ease. "What comfort can I have," she mused "if he can't remember anything." bne rorsooK mm that very afternoon, and hastened home to hex mother. . -r- : - U. V WW MM.WJ w vu UU f I i following correspondence took place between the superintendent of a n asylum for the feeble-minded in Illinois and a well known railroad superinten dent, Wm. B. Strong: , Dear, Sir- You sent me a few days since a half fare permit, which please fully permit me to thank you for. Half fare permits are usually sent to preach ers, and perhaps you have mistaken my calling. At all events as you , have classified me with the preachers (though I am Bot one), I will take the liberty of quoting Scripture to you, and of draw ing .such conclusions 'from said Scrip tures as seem applicable to our relations to each other. If my authorities are inapplicable and my conclusions unsound, please remember that the principal of an asylum for feeble-minded children Is trying to preach, because an indivinual labeled Strong, very early in life, by his paternal or maternal ancestor, has inr islnuated that he is a preacher. I respectfully call your attention to tue following passages of Scripture. Exodus vi., 10 With a strong hand shall let them go." Judges xvi 14 "Out of the strong came forth sweetness." II. Chronicles xvi., 9 "Strong in be half of them." (Half in this case means, not the half I now have, but the other half of a per mit; so thatl shall have a full free pass for the year.) Psalm xxi., 21 He hath showed me his kindness In a strong " I. Kingsii,, 2 "Be strong and show thy self a man." I. Corinthians iv., 10 "We are weak, but ye are strong." Jeremiah xv., 14 "I will make thee to pass." Ezeklal xx., 37 "I will cause thee to pass Ezeklal xxxvii., 1 "And cause me to pass Joshua xx., 19 "They pass over.' Special comment is unnecessary. If the above passages , do not find or reacn some respective cnora in your bosom, other language will of course, utterly fall.to impress you. A few practical applications and I am done. First What I want, and think you might send me, is an annual pass over the Michigan Central railroad and Great Western (if in your power), be- ' n V mm wW mm -m cause samuei, jerernian, ilizekial, Joshua, arid Judges, plainly instruct you to do so (as I construe them). Secondly The aforesaid roads will not loose anything by it, but probably gain, for If I have this pass It is more than likely I shall go east once or twice this year, and take parties with me who will otherwise goby the Toledo, Wabash and Western, and the Lake Shore, If they are deviated from that course to accompany me. , Thirdly and lastly, (in order that I may, as Mr. Moody recommended to the preachers of Philadelphia, not to exceed 30 minutes In my discourse, and lose something of its power by excessive length), I would suggest that I desire to operate upon Michigan, to see if I cannot stimulate tnera to build an asylum for idiots. I have succeeeded In getting the legislature of Illinois to giye $165,000 for a , new building for Its asylum ; and as this Is in process of con struction, I, would like to visit the charitable institutions in Michigan, Canada, and the East, to see what should be done to make ours what it ought to be. I cannot go unless I get passes. You probably can, if you will, get me the aforesaid; but If you do not, in the hereafter, when you are seeking a free pass to the better world, look out that somebody don't send you a half way permit, and land you considerably short of your desire. (Pardon me.) THE ANSWER. Dear Sir My absence from the city last week prevented a prompt answer to yours of the 4th Inst. It is an old experience that the Scripture can be made to sustain any doctrine or dogma If it be ingeniously applied, but I con fess that r was astonished at such an m t J. 1 array oi texts upon wuicu w uase a claim for travel over our road, and the more so, because in sending you the half-fare permit, I thought I was com plying strictly with the most liberal offers of transportation to be found In the Bible. Early in the history of the Jews, we find the account of their emigration from Egypt, and certainly, going in such numbers, they would be entitled to as low a rate of 'fair as could be con sistently asked by, or granted by any . . ... 1 4. ' l one; yet in tne tnirteenm cuapier oi Exoduj, I find the following: "This! they 8hallgive, every one that passes j a half," If this does not cover the case j I know not where to look for author- j itles. In one of your citations you refer to whatyou are pleased to call the "other hair' of the permit which I sent you. I fear that it would be of little service. since our conductors, being better versed in mathematics than theology, would be sure to collect full fare from any jono travell ng on two half-fare permits. But to convince you that I looked to Holt Writ as an authority for declining free passes, permit me to quota a few precepts otx the subject of passenger transportation, which I find In its pages beginning jwlth such as seem especially addressed to the passenger : 1 Iflngs xx., 39 "Thou shalt pay," 2 ICifags! iv.. 7. 8:1 Samuel v. 7 "Go ahday.;.;. ),,,- . - , : : Ecclesiastes v., 4 "Defer not to pay." Exodus xxl., 13 "He shall pay." us jxxl., 36 "He shall surely xx , 18 Thou shalt not With the following from the third verse: or i the first chapter of Jonah, that nasses were no easier to lowing rarocure tjin than now: "But he paid the fare, and went," setting an example ill worthy of Imitation. Inj addition to these precepts to tho passenger I find the following Injunc- ons to tie railroad manager: Judge VllL, 28 -"Suffer not a man pass.1 IN ahum I., i "The wicked no more pass. i Isaiah x txlv., 10 "None shall ever pass.'' :-4J j j iMjittheW; xxlv., 34; Mark xlll., 30; luke xxi., 82 "This generation shall mot pass Mi. H "land the following from the prophet Jeremiah, vil. 42 "Though tl ley j roar, Perhaps aithority yet shall they not pass." after .this array of Scripture I shall not be justified in sending the annual pass desired, yet I . Jt find my sympathies stronger than my theology,! and so, having overwhelmed faith my citations and convinced that concordance is an article as. I known in C hicago as in J ackson- ! !T A-ill- 1 t It a. uc pleasure m suuuiug yuu the pass requested. Domestic Furs. "Where -do you get most of the domes- ic fur?" From Chicago and St. Louis. Wo buy (principally from wholesale dealers, though trappers sometimes bring ln theiir own stock. Texas Jack previous to marry iti g Morlacchi, used to sell large: quantities of fur to down-town houses. Great care Is required In pre paring arid packing, the least moisture inducing putrefaction, which entirely unnts tne n III i. L ' . I I for our use. A strange rule In fur is, that native fur is seldom much valued in any country, and high pirices are paid for articles sometimes positively inferior from other coon- ttM f ill, . -. , . "Is! the fur of ' domestic animals r cat lurj is the backbone or the trade. Large quantities of black cats are raised in Holland purposely for the fur. Es quimaux, Newfoundland and other shaggy dogs furnish skins for robes and rugs." " What furs come from South Amer- ca?" "From Brazil comes the the South Nutrla, America Idh is balled iver; frdm Buenos Ayres large quan- tea or the skins or wild animals. w hich we make Into robes and also deer and eiK snins. u rom x'eru we gee the finest chlrichllla." nei ff ! Lirs what! are the principal domestic II ! I ' it rs I" i ; -1 LKaccoom fox, otter, beaver, mink, mbskrat,. olverlne, buflalo, wolf, and WnV others. i The Grebe duck feather rr. ifkir. from! which muffs and boas are pade, comes from San Francisco, as wel las from Switzerland. Skunk fur Ij mostly i sent abroad, and obtains a good IprlceL The black and silver, and salver, and red fox is in great demand ybrjad,j b4ing bought up by Polish J4ws and divided, when the backs are siedd to . the Russians and Greeks, tho fronts to Turkey, and the feet and heads China. The finest raccoon furs are isoj produced by North America, and re largeij L 1 used in Russia and through- Ut (tferma 4. L. r jay as alining for gentlemen's cloaks. -4 i allantrjr Not a Tradition of the Tast. -r Gallantry Is not a tradition of the ii it t i ir past, oir Walter Kalelgh has two dis- Sir ciples In Wilmington, Del.; one is an Irishman, and the other a small boy. One day during the month of February a young lady naited at a street crossing HIT i ' . . where the mud and slush were very tfgep, and jseemed to be at a loss whether q turn D3CJC or waue mrougn. an rlsp i laborer, not having a cloak to birow down, did what he could to acllitate the passage. He plunged his foot into the slough, and extending his nanid; cried out: "Step on my foot. iss, ancl I'll help you over." It was large foot encased in an enormous asS of leather, and it was a Arm foun- latlon on whlch the lady fair could with dry stockings. Tho over i boy's method was simpler, but purpose was equally cnivairous. saw j a little girl of his own slza nklngf back from a big pool, and umping his long sled in the gutter. uafcled hir to bridge the stream. you Well vllle i ; !
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