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BECALMED.
Adrift in my little boat,
Becalmed on a cold gray sea ;
And chill mists lazily float
All over my boat and me.
The breezes lie d. ad asleep
Not a breath in the idle sails ;
And I wearily watch and weep, 5
And listen for distant gales.
Shall I still drop useless tears,
And sit here and jrait and wait,
Till my head grows gray with years,
For the wind that may come too late ?
To be idle is shame to the strong !
I will lay my hand to the oar ;
And the bark that has waited long.
Shall wait for the wind no more. ,
Reward Of Jealousy.
Feeling in a lively mood, this even
ing, I have concluded to write, for the
edification of whoever may chance to
read it, my experience in love. As you
must know, I, like all others, was once
young, and likewise had my love-dream
and also my share of trial and tribula
tions relative to that distressing evil,
jealousy, j
Well, shortly after my return ,from
college, I met and formed an attachment
for Ethel j Graves, a charming little
brunette with large brown eyes fringed
all around with jet lashes, the daughter
of one of our neighbors, a wealthy
Southern planter. Being neighbors,
and our families being on good terms,
we were constantly thrown together,
and in due season my affections were
made known, and, 1 am happy to an
nounce, were fully appreciated; so we
were betrothed after he usual fashion.
One evening, having called on my
lady-love there arose a question of
which she had been teasing me to tell
her, and having it in my power to tanta
ize her, I made use of the opportunity'
'Woman's curiosity," said I with a
shrug of my shoulders, "and feminine
jealousy "
"Nonsense!" retorted Ethel, coloring.
"I suppose men are never curious or
jealous either?"
"Never," quoth I, with a smile of calm
superiority,
"Then you must tell me, Herbert?"
"I think, my dear, that your curiosity
and the other emotion need a little dis
cipline." Now why on earth I wanted to be so
provoking, I can't tell ; the natural per
versity of man, most probably ; for there
was no other reason ; I wanted to tease
Ethel, so I withdrew into a veil of in
penetrable mystery.
She did not say one word more, but
turned quietly and left the room, and
as she disappeared through the entrance
J saw the downward flutter of a little
slip of white paper from her dress; now
whether it was dropped unintentionally
or on purpose we will leave for the
readers to guess. Instinctively I stop
ped to pick it up, and' as I stooped, I
could not avoid reading the characters
inscribei thereon in a clear, masculine
chirography.
H3 Clark and Newton. No
disappointment this time. R. C."
I felt the crimson flush mounting to
my temples as I read and reread the
mysterious words, "R. C." Didn't I
remember that Robert Clark was Ethel's
second cousin and a provokingly hand
some fellow at that? Had 1 forgotten
that people used to think what a "hand
some couple" they would make, before
I stepped into the ring? R. C, indeed!
And I clinched my fist involuntarily as
I crumpled the paper inside its grasp.
"What are you looking for, Ethel?"
She stood with one hand resting light
ly on the door-knob, glancing uneasily
round the room, while there was a
guilty flush on her cheek.
" that is have you seen a little
slip of paper lying about ?"
"No." :
I uttered the falsehood with deliberate
calmness, even while the tell-tale billet
lay in my, hands. So she was anxious
about it, f She didn't like the idea that
I should have an insight into her little
arrangements with R. C. Ah! false
and fair all women are alike.
"It must have been something very
important," I remarked, as she hurried
ly turned over the books on the table,
still searching; for the missing treasure.
"I suppose I have left it up stairs,"
she said, artfully evading a direct
answer. You are not going, Herbert?"
"I am going. Good-night."
Not until I was in my own room did
I open and re-examine the odious little
bit of paper. 11,3 of course the whole
thing was as plain as daylight. To-day
was the tenth of the month ; it was sim
ply an appointment for the morrow at
three o'clock. I ground my teeth as
the truth flashed across my brain. "No
disappointment this time." I would
have liked to challenge Robert Clark to
mortal combat on the instant, were it
not that duels were entirely out of fash
ion. What business had he to lay down
law to my Ethel? But there was one
consolation. Willie, Newton was my
old friend ; he would not see me wronged
if he could help it,' and I promptly re
solved to appeal to Willie for aid and
justice. 1 glanced at my watch; nine
o'clock; to seek out Mr. Newton, who
probably was at his country seat long
before this. So I lighted the gas, and
sat down to chew the cud of my own'
bitter meditations. The more I medi
tated on my injuries, the more furious I
became, until, as the clock chimed mid
night, I took my final resolve:
Hi will not he made a fool of. I will
easjt her off as unworthy of my love, but
will first possess myself of a clew to this
myjstery and accuse her boldly to her
face."
So 1 went to bed,todream fitfully all
night of monster sheets of phosphores
cent paper, with "R. C." dancing in
scarlet lire all over their expanse.
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"Is Mr. Newton in?"
Yes, Mr. Newton was in, and one of
the clerks ushered me into the private
office, where my friend Willie sat look
ingjover a huge pile of letters.
"Herbert .Anderson ! Sit down, old
fellow ; what good wind blows youhere ?"
He drew out a large arm chair, but I
declined it.
"Newton, I want you to do me a
favor; will you ?"
"(Certainly, if I can."
I 'looked up at the clock; it wanted
just fifteen minutes to three, and I hur
riedly confided the whole story of my
wrongs to Willie's honest breast.
'My dear fellow, 1 really think you
are jattaching to much importance to a
mere trifle."
'k trifle!" I bit my lips until the
blood came. "I think differently, and
it's very easy to see you are not stand
ing in my peculiar position, Newton."
"Shall I send for Clark? He is in
the store, no doubt."
"You will do nothing of the sort."
"Well, then, what is it you require of
me?"
"Listen; she will be here, probably
at 0iree, to to see Clark."
"Well?" v
"Where will he be likely to receive
her?"
"Jn this room, I suppose."
"Is there no place where I can be an
unseen listener to their conversation ?"
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"Why, there is the wardrobe, but"
"The very place," I exclaimed, exult
antly. " Yes but, Herbert, would aJt it be a
mean thing to listen to what is hot in
tended for your ears?" faltered Willie
with some embarrassment.
"J don't care a flg whether its mean
or riot," I retorted, "I'm in no state of
mirid, just now, to split hairs. If you
are going to oblige' me, say so.; if not, I
may as well go."
"(Of course the room is at your service,
Herbert, I am going out, but that makes
no difference. I hope you will discover
that you are in error."
I smiled bitterly. I entertained no
suc i hope. The clock struck three as
Mrj Newton took his leave, and I hur
ried'iyensconcedmyself in thewardro.be,
with my head against Willie's business
coat, and my other extremities in a per
fect grave of linen dusters and obsolete
pantaloons. Altogether it was not an
agreeable position; a wardrobe where
onej can just stand erect, with closed
door, on a hot evening in August, is not
a very enviable place. But I would
have endured anything then.
"Jlow warm it is ! In fact it is getting
decidedly tropical," I reflected, as 1
wiped the dew from my glowing fore
heajd. "Why don't Ethel come, if she
i3 coming?" And then I began to reflect
on St, Bartholomew and his bed of hot
coils, as I pushed the door a quarter of
an inch open.
Hush a footstep ! I jerked the door
to again, with an emphasis that made
my prison-house sway in a sadly ner
vous condition, but it was only a clerk,
senit for something, and I breathed free
ly pnee more that is, as freely as it was
possible to do under the circumstances.
Good gracious, how hot it was! A
thermometer woiild certainly have
stood at a hundred in this close atmos-,
pheire. I was streaming with perspira
tiori ; my hair was as wet- as if I had
stood in a summer shower ; but I would
have cheerfully remained there all day,
to detect the monstrous conspiracy be
tween my Ethel and "R. C." -
Four o'clock ; Ethel must have been
detained. I could hear "R. C's." voice
occasionally in the store, proof positive
he was on hand.
FWe o'clock. Decidedly, this was
getting rather monotonous ; I was in
clined to be very sleepy; but it wouldn't
do j to yield to the blandishments of
Morpheus. But my patience was not
destined to go entirely unrewarded;
jusi as I was about to give up in utter
despair, there was a flutter of garments
on pay ear, the sound of Ethel's sweet,
familiar voice.
' jl'm so sorry I lost that memorandum
Robert!"
Hit Isn't of any consequence, Ethel;
1 will make it all right. Let me see,"
said Robert reflectively, "you want it
lined with crimson silk, with crimson j
When do you want it
"By Thursday, its Herbert's birth
day. "I think I can promise it to you by
that time; I was sorry to.disappoint you
before, but we really hadn't a bit of
anything in the store that was at all
appropriate. This material is elegant."
"Beautiful !" ejaculated Ethel. "How
pleased Herbert will be!"
If there had been a crack in the bot
tom of that wardrobe, I most assuredly
would have fallen through it, so ex
ceedingly small did I feel.
"By the way, Ethel, in which direc-
-onareyou going -
"Home," she replied.
"Then I'll escort yGu ; just wait half
a second until I get my hat."
The blood in my veins seemed turned
for a second to ice, and then again to
fire. What a blockhead I was not to
foresee this emergency ! I held my
breath and cluug desperately to the
inner handle of the wardrobe, as I felt
Robert Clark's touch upon the outer. -
"Why," soliloquized that young
gentleman, "what on earth ails the door
handle ? It won't turn ;" and he gave
it an energetic wrench, that defied all
my efforts to impede its revolution.
The door stood open, and there I
stood revealed among the coats and
dusters.
"Hallo!" ejaculated Clark, staring at
me in blank astonishment. "I should
like to know how you came here !"
My feelings at that moment can be
better imagined than described. I
knew there was no alternative but to
step bravely forward and face the music,
which 1 did accordingly. But I wasn't
going to tavorClark with an explanation
so I turned somewhat sheepishly to
Ethel, and, drawing the slip of paper
from my pocket, plaeed it in her hand.
"I found that, on the parlor floor last
night, Ethel : it excited my curiosity,
and I fancied all sorts of ridiculous
things, and came down here to "
"To hide in a wardrobe, mischievous
ly added Ethel. "Man's curiosity and
man's jealousy. I didn't know that two
such emotions existed in the masculine
mind."
"Now, Ethel," I appealed, most piti
fully, at which that wretch, Clark,
broke out in a laugh which grated
harshly upon my every nerve.
Ethel, seeing my dismay promised no
to mention the incident again; and(
though she has long been my own Ethel
I have never heard her allude in any
way to my jealousy.
Tlie Grand Duke Nicholas.
Nicholas has a face which in repose is
proud, imperious, and shows a wonder
ful capacity for passion. A lightning
like temper might at a moment's notice
be betrayed by those keen eyes, ordi
narily rilled with pleasant smiles.
Quick in all his motions he likes quick
ness in others; he rides a horse, which
it wears others out to follow, and was
fond of dashing away to some distant
village, and then sending for the others
to come up with iiim, while he was on
the road to Tirmova. He told me with
great glee that he left the palace of Cot
roceni, in Bucharest, by stealth, went
down to the Danube, and had half his
plans perfected before -anybody outside
his immediate personal circle knew of
it. He speaks English as perfectly
as a foreigner can; it was the first
language that he learned, and he
had a Scotch nurse. His dress is al
ways simple in the extreme, and While
to accept the deference paid him by the
officers who surround him seems second
nature to one bred to it, he will not re
ceive it from strangers, and even dis-j
likes to be called by his title. On the;
whole, he has the strength of character
and fine sense of honor which are the
"family traits, with a winsome, fascinate
1ng manner added to therti. Of hiSj
abilities as a military commander the
world has been able to judge. Although!
he has been surrounded by competent
advisers, he is nevertheless entitled to
much credit for the successes which
the Russians, in the face of tremendous
obstacles, have finallv achieved.
The Value of a Compliment j
An old apple woman offered her fruit
to a vessel captain who was sighing over
the good times of 1864. She wanted
three cents apiece for her apples. He
gave her a pleasant look and said : j
"Well, well. Why, you look as young
as you did ten years ago. Same bright
eyes and redcheeks same white teeth. "
"Take an apple for two cents, cap
tain,! she replied.
"I presume you are fifty years old,
he continued, "but who'd know it?
Lots of ladies at thirty look as old as you
do." I
' Take an apple for two cents, cap
tain," she answered, smilinglikea rose.
"Some j rich old fellow will come
along some day searching for a buxom
wife," said the captain, "and you won't
have to peddle apples any more." j
"Here, captain, two for a cent; take
two, the largest !'' she exclaimed, and
then ran after him and dropped two more
into his overcoat pocket.
cord and tassels,
finished?"
Helping a Convict.
Many a convict, after getting out of
prison, would lead a respectable life if
he could only begin well. But people
are afraid of him, and won't trust him
or give him employment, and so he
falls into roguery again to make a liv
ing. The late Henry Raymond, of the
New York Times, made a convict hon
est by lending him $10.
One day, while busy In his room,
there appeared to him a man saying,
"Is this Mr. Raymond?" Being as
sured of this he continued
"Can I speak to you a few moments,
sir?" The MSS. was shoved aside.
1 have just come from Sing Sing,"
hesitated the man.
"Not from the prison, I hope," said
the editor, by way of putting the caller
at ease with a joke.
"Yes, sir," said the visitor. "I got
my discharge a few days ago."
"Well, my man, I hope you were in
nocent." "No, sir," replied the convict, "I
was guilty, you see. sir, I am an en
gineer and machinist by trade. I want
to lead an honest life, and when I got a
place to work' all went yery well, until
some kind friend came along and told
my boss that I was a prison-bird, and I
had to be out of that. Then I got an
other place and got well to work, and
the same thing happened. Now I am
looking for another job, and I am go
ing to begin by telling what I am, and
when I get anything to do I shan't lose
it in the same way."
"How much is it, my man ?" said Mr.
Raymond.
"Well, sir," replied the man, "I
haven't got the price of a dinner with
me now, and I don't know where I am
to sleep to-night. I think if I had ten
dollars I could get along until I found
somebody to take me for what I am
worth, and give me some honest work
to do. I don't want to go down hill,
sir."
The ten dollars closed the conversa
tion on the instant. Perhaps a year
afterwards, Mr. Raymond was at a lair
of the American Institute, and while
looking at some machinery on exhibi
bition, a decent looking man in charge
of it approached him and said, Is this
Mr. Raymond?" - ,
"Yes," he replied. "I don't remem
ber you."
"Don't you remember the man from
Sing Sing ?"
"No," said Mr Raymond, "I don't
remember any man from Sing Sing."
"Why," said the man from Sing
Sing, "don't you recollect?" and then1
he rehearsed the story recorded here.
He had subsisted on Mr. Raymond's
loan until he found employment in his
own line with a good man who knew
his story and was well pleased with
him. giving him good wages and steady
work in a place of honorable trust and
responsibility.
Taking a bank-note from his pocket,
the engineer repaid the borrowed
money, saying he had carried it for
some months without finding an oppor
tunity to leave his work and come to
town for the purpose.
"It's a good ten dollars, Mr. Ray
mond, for its just the cost of saving m&
from ruin." When he told the story
afterwards, Mr. Raymond said it was
cheap, and said he had charged all his
other loans to the account of the engi
neer and balanced it. ,
Oysters.
The oyster spawns in July, filling the
surrounding water with a vast.quantity
of blackish dust, each particlebf which
is an embryo. These attach themselves
to whaiever object comes in their way
stems and leaves of aquatic plants,
stones, sunken logs, other oysters, etc.,
etc., and begin to grow. If you should
take up an old shell from the' bottom at
this time you would find it peppered
all over with this spawn. The baymen
say that each oyster spawns successfully
only once in three or four years, and
then in such profusion that a few weeks
asterward the minute oysters cover the
old bed to the depth of several inches,
killing off of course, all the parent
molluska. This host of young oysters
having been born in J uly, are by the
next spring eight or nine months old,
and in size about as large as the finger
nail. They are now taken up and dis
tributed over the ground which is in
tended to be planted. It is calculated
that they wil- not spawn in their new
home when they reach the proper age,
being discouarged by the different tem
perature or qualities of the water Into
which they have been transferred. To
have them spawn is disastrous, since
the new little oysters attaching them
selves to the old render both unfit for
market. The planting is done from
April till the end of June. One can
put on a fonr-acre lot just as little, of
course, as his inclination or money di
rects, but a fair quantity is from 1,500
to 2,000 bushels, costing, at constantly
varying prices, perhaps 20 cents a
bushel. If it is the original seeding,
oysters two years old may be used, and
these will cost more. , The , oysters
having been dumped upon the ground
wilj stay there.! They are not given to
wandeH ig, but it does not therefore
follow that thy will be brought up
alive w leri tliey are sought in , the
autumn. -If two-years-old oysters are
planted n the pring they can be taken
up jthe next autjumn and during all the
winter jrheii tlie weather and ice will
allow.1 There, fs more safety In this,
but! far less prop. The more risky hut
moe renumerajtive way Is to plant year
lings arid let them lie over. If they
live, five tlme the original outlay U
not! too great a return to expect at the
end of two yearns. "Ihe chances of . sel
ling at a good figure are increased by a
"trick o ' the trade," which consists in
taking tlie oysters from the bed where
they hae been growing, and laying
them in shallow water on a gravelly
bottom, preferable at the mouth of a
fresh-wj.ter stream, where they yvill be
covered alternately by fresh and salt
water n!verjstagnant. ' In two or three
days even they will "fatten" handsome
ly and S(ll fpr a higher price than they
wojildoljherwisje obtain. Oysters, how
ever, have mariy enemies. If the win
ter lis su ;h thai the bay is not steadily
frozen over, the constant turmoil of the
drifting ice anil the fierce lashings of
the storijns will keep the bottom torn up
ana the water
bo roiled that the sand
euner units
thej animal ca
;o the shells faster than
force it out, and so kills
it, or tfle currents bury the bed alto
gether beneatlif a new bottom. Three
years ago a large part of the crop was
losi in this wakf. There are also various
sea-animals that prey on the oysters.
The red drumfish crushes the shell in
its formidable jmouth and devours the
luscious! morse within, and, it is said,
caused the titter failure a few years ago
of oyster culture in Newark Bay. Two
little univalve mollusks, the "borer"
(Buccini m) 'knd the "winkle" (Xerital)
creep over the beds and with their file
like ton, ;ues be re a smooth round hole
through the sh 3ll (in just such a spot a
wil paralyze the adductor muscle by
which tie oyster holds its shell shut),
and the 1 suck out tlie life of the poor
prisoner. Lastly the star-fishes insinu
ate themselves between the valves and
eat the defenceless mollusk on his own
"half-shell." All these perils past, he
is reserved only for death at the hands
of his owner, j Erom June 15 to Septem
ber 15 tic lawlprohibits the taking of
oysters. TheM are then spawning, or
at 1 least. grOvvTipg. In the autumn the
dredging begins. This is done by means
of double-handled "tongs, "which scoop
up! the oysters rapidly. Most of them
are broaght ashore and sold to shippers
who have pre
ously contracted for the
Many, however, are dis
whole catch.
posed of at a bargain. Owners of sloops
ancl schjooners Iwill go to the bay, hoist
a baske ; to th e masthead as a signal that
they wi.ht to b uy, and get a shipload ou
the best term si j they can, which they
then carry to market and endeavor to
sell at s profi J Immense quantities are
shipped in barrels from the shore towns
how many q. is extremely difficult to
estimate. Lately a trade hasjjrown up
with jEiiropej knd Sayville alone is re
ported 1-0 have! forwarded five thousand
barrels to England. Only the smallest
oysters are sent abroad. Accustomed to
their own diminutive bivalves, Euro
peans are afraid of big "Blue-Points"
and "Saddle-Rocks."
The Weather on Mount Washington.
if
f- r
A party of tourists, while on the top
of
Mount Washington, had an unusual
opportunity j for observing1 sudden
changes in thef weather, and underwent
aii exp ;riehce that was not altogether
pleasant. They passed the night at the
summi ;, and in the morning awoke to
find j t tie wind blowing eighty-four
miles an hour) which is equal to a pres
sure of! 450! pounds per square inch! It
soon began to -snow heavily but two or
three gentlemen started to walk down.
When they had gone about two miles
they reached a warmer strata of air
where jno anow had fallen, but the at
mosphere wasstill very cold. Proceed
inc downward thev finallv came to
where
taking
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the
climate was favorable to
a rest without getting chilled,
and
one of the partv discovered that
both; eiars Wee frozen, "while another
naci two nngers in an uncertain conui
tibni As they went on towards the
Glen the air grew warmer, until at last,
a mile before (they reached the foot, it
was found uncomfortable to walk with
coats on. At the foot the sun was
scorching, and the weather was alto-
gether hotter than it had yet peen mis
summer.
Reading.
Spend, if possible, one hour each day
in reading some good and great book.
The ntimberjqfj such books is not too
many jtb ovejrfvh elm you. Every one
who reflects Ion' the former years of his
education cajijlay his finger on half a
dbzenj perhaps even fewer, which have
made ja lasting impression upon hla
mind.
Treasure up these. It Is not
ohlv the benefits which yon yourself
derive) from them it is the impression
Which they leave upon you of the last
ing power of that .which is spiritual
and immaterial,