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Um lrilit, U-autiful nioniing, in Uw plcwuul month u( My, lnn til nature wax in Imr gmmleol elc Mat, i I i I (.lu br)iie, nained the Faithful, bfinj; amliuitd at port Steadfast, n-t tail wild a lavontbN tide and propitious cale, to make a joaruey arniiiitl tliu wurlil. Her r eonnitlecl of a fuw truHty and T Niriencvd sailors and navigators, lml Ik. maiii .:.rl win .f I !... -...j.., r,.u,. , .,,.., raw recrnits, wholly uiiccintiiiied to the trials, danguni nuia viciiisi tudes shii li itu'vilalily accoiiipany Uiom who roam, for nuy Il-ii ttli i.f tinje "o'er the drop lilt'ie st:i.'' Quite a uumlipr if pleaiure-Rfekuni tooV paiwajrc, ax tlicy hoped to ex plore many of the famed cities and regions if antiquity, and exhume therefrom rich pabulum fir future pleasures and the benefit .f pouter ty. Many were attracted by idle cariosity those peojile whocontin aally pry into other people's busi- ew because they have none of their own. Some thought they would fmbark because quite a number ol Eve's fair daughters were going. To bravo the terrors of tho deep, o overcome obstacles, to battle ith the elements, to bear up tin in misfortune, to sustain hope, to magnifyjaith, in a word, to under talis luch a hazardous and perilous jonrney, this, indeed, was a feeble crew.- The captain was alright, Hitelligenl, compete and faithful "imari, and, at first was innch be loved by the entire crew; in truth, nincli so that they showered praises upon him, and presented him wifti valuable gilts and costly mementoes. But things change as father Time marches along; and gratitude; often flies ,; to brutish "Vis. This reminds me that De oathenes, the great lover of liber ty and his people, the - man above H others, devoted tu the welfare of hi countrymen, was once banished '"m his native land, the bind lie loved so well, by a mighty rabble; Out he was quickly recalled again, 'n his State was about to be ovwfiin by Phillip, the great East rn eonqucrer. While the vigilant Captain guid the affairs ol the ship, everything conducted in a polite but l.usi-""-like manner, and satisfaction time was given to all. )iy energy, skill and labor, he was IjOOT) Vol. V. the happy instrument of educating the e rear, (tbe working portion oC th pasavogrra,) to such a pit h of drill that tba ship's fame spread far abd wide. ' She was ealled the pride nl th isna, the bright alar of perfec tion. The other officer, with few rxrepttona, acquitted themselves LamUomely.' The pwuge for aevrtal months a peaceful and qniiH; th mild breeae from the bosom of the blue ocean, gently 6 1 led tho sails, which made the light vcatal skip rapidly over thefkparkling water: Many point of interest and historical ce lebrity were vwHled, and th pas mi (Ms maaiaed at each preriug and colleeting food for future r virr, recruiting, etc. tiorgeous summer soon passed away; and drooping lull stepped in apace, then winter with hi snowy flake aptwared, directly winter would be replaced by approaching spring; and during all this lime, the ship, thoagh experiencing some bad weather and turbid sea, only lt a few yard and spar in the way of rigging; had the misfortune to 'prtng one or lao bad leaks; lost one passenger by death, and disposed of three or four more, for unruly conduct. lU-sides these tri fling accidents, nothing occurred to mar th pleasure and happines of the royagpr. Owing t the fre quent delay at the different points, taking in supplies of fuel, water and Um necessaries ot life, letilling, overhauling, rtp., sesn hine; for val ttables, fihing, shooting, and mak ing exoUTnions the interior, the hip, a yet, had completed only one fourth of lier journey. Hie passenger were buoyant and hope ful. Jtalray Spring a rapidly coming on, and the sign of the time betokened a happy issue. -Itut ith March the wind began to freshen, the hi commenced rolling high and the large mounlaiiiou waves would now and then break ayd foam with awful .effect. Tho clouds in the heaven were black ening and toweling, and as they passed to and fro with tho swiftness of th J wind, preseuled to the eye a terrible aspect. The storm was coming with it might and power. The passengers began to grow un easy ami alarmed. As the wiud. ommeliced blowing, harder and harder, and, the sea began running higher, aud bieaking over the deck ol the vessel, the artillery ol heaven became deafening and in cessaut, the vivid flashes, of light ning looked ' wild, unnatural and awful beyond description. The rain poured down in torrents. The children were seen crouching near their mothers; wives were clinging to their husbands, aud tears of agony and despair flowed like rain drops from a summer cloud The buoy ant were made sad, the happ'y Ror rowful; the weary grew faint, and the strong trembled. The Captain, though he endeavored to maintain the laws and keep ftp tTie discipline was rendered powerless by tho fran tic orowd, who speedily devised mean lo .displace him. Discipline was ignored, harmony hooted at, brotherly feeling vanished, faith was upset, and Hope was hopeless; drinking becaino prevalent Some of the crew were tossed overboard, others ttuigue-lashed, and the whoie In a deplorable state. Every mo ment threatened disaster. The ship, being without guide or helm, was at the mercy of the waves and the mutinous crew. Every minute brought destruction nearer to iew. Who knew at what moment the ship, with its vast freight of human, souls, would be dashed to pieces on some unknown coral rock i Grim Death, indeed, stared llieni in the face; but the angel of Teace and Love descciided, and with mighty influence, nothing less than divine, calmed the troubled waters, pacified the angry heavens, quieted the ter rified, nomlorted the. weak and weary, strengthened the infirm, and soothed the bleeding hearts. Such, my brothers and sisters, is a faint picture of the trials and hardships through which our Lodge has recently passed. May the like never visit her again, buuinayshe take her old stand in the galaxy of honor and distinction, and rank ' in ferior to none in the State. I wish her longevity "d if blessed future. RALEIGH, N. rlrct Sttisrrllani,. THE BIBLE AID THE WHE Ul ES THIS. IIV ItKV. WW. M. TIIAVKK. About twenty ; texts of Script ure approve of wine, while one 1-undred and thirty warn against its use. An example ol the former i "As the wine- w fonnd in the cluster, and one saith, iK-stroy it not, lor Messing i in it. Is. 85 : 8. "So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses burst out with new wine.". I'rnv. 3 : 10, "Drink no longer water, but use a little wiue for thy stomach's sake, and thine often infirmities. I Tun ft : 2.1. An example of the latter ia : "Look not thou uKn the wine when lt-4 ted, etc. I rov. iis : 31. "Wine i a mocker," etc. - - I'ror. 20 : I. ''Ite not among wine bib bers," etc. I'rov. 2.1 : 20. "Their wine is the poison of "dragons and the cruel veunm of asps." Deut. 32 : 3.1. "It is good neither to eit flesh nor to drink wine," etc. Itoin. 14 : 21. The same kind of wine cannot be a "blessing" and a "mocker." It is not cousioteul lor the Hi Me to evtiinnntl and rmnU niu I he same sort of wine. The texts that ap prove wine must refer to the - J'ermeuttil juice of the gre, in which there is no alcohol. llie texts that condemn it must refer to ftrtMntttl wine, in which there is alcohol that intoxicates. Inere is nothing in the wine but ulivhol to make it a "mocker." I'rof. Moses Stuart said : "My fiuaj conclusion is this, namely, that where ever the Scriptures siieak of wine a a comfort, a bles sing, or a: libation to iod, and rank it with such article a corn aud oil, they mean ran mean only such wine as contained no alcohol, that could have a mischievous tenden cy ; that wheirwr they denounce it, prohibit, and oni'iecr it with drunkenness aud revelling they can mean only alcohol, or intoxica ting wine. i can not re fuse to take this position without virtually impeaching the Scripture of contradiction or inconsistency." J resilient now ! . "vu ti same thing in the same slate be good and bad ; a symbol ot wrath, a symbol of mercy ; a thing to be ought after and a thing to be avoided ? Certainly not. That wines of different qualities, and presented III sue 1 1. different as pects, and even in sui-h painful contrast, were one' and the same ar tide Hi one and the same slate, would seem, even , though history sacred and 'prolune had been silent, quite credible." . . forty years ago, Key. Wm. I'nl ton, 1). D. Sr., submitted his proof ot two kinds of wine in the Bible (intoxicating and' unintoxicaling) to l'rol. Seixas, the eminent He brew teacher ; and after careful ex amination, l'rof. S. replied : "Your discriminations are just ; they de note that there were two kinds ol wine, and the Hebrew Scriptures justily tho review." I'rof. liush called by some tho ripest liiuncai scholar of his time," said to Mr. Delavni, who acoepted Presilent Nott's view of two kinds of wine : "You have the whole ground, and in time, the whole Christian world will be obliged to adopt your views. l'rol. layior iwis says : "The wine that did not intoxicate, and was not used to intoxicate, or ought to intoxicate, was good ; a blessing was in it. The wine that did intoxicate, and was sought lor that purpose, was bad ; it was pro nounced a woe ana a etirse. There in no uleonol in the unter- mented wine, as analysis snosrs ; but, there is yluten that makes blood, and sugar that contributes nourishment. How appropriate to say of it : "Asthe wine mat is tound in the cluster, nun one saim, destroy 'it not for a blessing is in it" ;Jt is equnlly appropriate to say of the fermented wine : "Wine is a mocker," etc. The presence of alcohol alone makes wine a mock er." Thus both releyation and science declare for two kinds ol.' wine in the Bible intoxicating and unititoxicating. Our opponents oinim inai tne Scripture warnings against wine refer only to Us excessive use. Dr. Dexter, editor of the Congregation alut, says : "All suggested prohi bition in regard to wine in the New Testament is against its excessive use, and not against its mere use." So others say. That this is a flimsy plea is evident from the following considerations : 1. To claim that such texts as "look not thou upon the wine when it is red," etc., aud "Wine is a mocker," etc., warn against, the erceMjee.- use only, is very unreasonable.' "Look not" is a step beyond "Touch not, 'taste not, handle not." It is the most radical abstinence. "Wine is a mocker," etcif not the excessive use of wine, but the alcoholic wine 'tr telf. "It is good neither to eat flesh nor to drink wiue," etc . How absurd to say, that the Apostle meant to warn against the exces sive use of wine only as causing a I H C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1876. brother to stumble. A Utile wine fends example to drinking customs as really as much. As reasonably maintain that the Bible denuncia tions of priile wars only agarnst ex cess. A little "pride goeth before destruction" as really as mircA. 2 Bible temperance, ia the proper or moderate use of good things, and abstinence from bad or injurioiu things. There i no Scripture per mission to use. otia inings tnvtitraic ly. Abstinence from the "mocker" only i consistent. .fclnMuMje. , UEREIHTAKV APPFTITES. IIV KKV, J. T. lit AN K, n." I. Wat often hear of the love of al cohol said to be inherited by the children or inebriate. A medical writer not long since put himself on reoord as holding the doctrine that where there is no morbid ten dency to drunkenness there is no danger in the "moderate" use of intoxicating drinks; and that drunk' enness, consequently, is not to be regarded as a am but a disease, and treated as such. This is a fallacy in both physio! ogy and morals. There may be constitutional peculiarities by vir tue of which a man may he more or less susceptible of the influence ol alootol, opium, uuinine, or al most any drug .used in medical prautice. IN evertheless, there are natural, normal effects which we alwsvs expect to see, and do see, save in exceptional ease which no one can explain, ine normal enect of all narcotics, such as alcohol, opium, the hemp extract, and to bacco, is to intoxicate. 1 he nar colic influence begin with the first impression of th drug, and yet, for a time, is combined with a feeling ot exhilaration which ha been mis interpreted as stimulation. That it is not true stimulation is proved by the fact that when chloroform is administered, the patient gener ally becomes happy, and even hila rious, while he is rapidly approach ing complete insensibility. The whole process is simply that of in toxication. Indeed, chloroform ia only alcohol distilled over again in connection with chloride of lime, M4 lk.A 4tr6d mm In le effects. The inebriated man, whether succumbing to chloroform or alco hol, is paralyzed by the drug, and yet feels stioug, happy, and joyous, till he ceases to leel at all. This two fold effect ia the normal result of the use of alcohol the effeot of which every man must ration ally expect to experience. There may be exceptions to this rule, but they are few, and are to be deemed peculiar, not normal. There is another effect which every man has reason to anticipate as a part of his own experience if he tnUes with narcotics, lie musi expect the habit to fasten upon him'with moio or less force. By reneated drugging the brain and the whole nervous system are thrown into a morbid state, so that if the customary dose is withheld a enseof uneasiness is kit, which, in extreme cases, becomes positive distress, or even agony, according to the degice of enslavement.. No man need count on exemption from the operation of this law. Nor will the design with which the drug is employed modify tho effeot, either to increase or dimin ish it. The invalid who takes alco hol or opium by the advice of a physician will feel the fatal coil lightening about him as certainly as if he employed the drug simply for the purpose of creating the joy ous exhilaration; and if the habit be continued for a sufficient time, the result may be as disastrous. In cases of reform the morbid condition often remains for years, and soinelimesA.sutldenly asserts its power, and drags down to the dust those who fancied that they were wholly beyond the reach ot the en emy. This peouliar oondition'"of the system may be in some degree hereditary. The transmitted state may be one of unusual sensibility to alcoliolio influence one whioh makes the habit take quick and strong hold, one which renders all tampering with intoxicants exceed ingly dangerous and yet I do not believe that a specific desire for alcohol, opium, or any other irar-i cotio is ever iuherited. .. As we liAve already stated) ' true inebriation consists of two elements, exhilaration and paralysis, which begin at the- same moment, ' and proceed, jnri passu, until animal loyousness is lost in 'insensibility. These two elements, however, are not always, mingled in the same proportion. Some receive more of animal happiness from the drug, others fall sooner under the para lytic influence. The mau who gets most animal joy from indulgence will be entrapped the soonest He whose brain responds more slowly to the exhilarating power is in less danger. Consequently, he who is in most danger will have the hard est fight in trying to relorru. This unusual susoeptibility of the joyous element, bringing with it peculiar peril to all who indulge in any degree, may be inherited; but MPLAR. it will be no detriment if men will avoid the bane. Gunpowder is ex plosive, no doubt, but it never ex plode by spontaneous combustion. llie same constitutional peculi arilieson which some try to lay so much stress in the case of alcohol. show themselves in regard to an other narcotic tobacoo. Some men will form the habit of using it in the space of a week, and are completely enslaved in a month, finding great enjoyment in it, (libera conquer nature's repugnance only by liersistent effort and pro longed agonies; and for a compara tively long period they find little pleasure in the use. Nevertheless, no one dreams of a hereditary lasts ger for tobacco, however rapidly it eii.':ives some who indulge in It. Tli. ro is in regard to this drug also a natural, normal enect wuich ev ery man may rationally expect to experience. The rule is first nausea and loathing, then a degree of en joyment, then a gradual tightening ol the chains, till the bondage is oomplete and the penalty comes, . THE BRIDAL W1XE-CCP. "Pledge with wine pledge with wine," cried the young and thought less Harvey Wood, "I ledge with wine" ran though the bridal party1. The beautiful bride grew palo the decisive hour had come. She pressed her whito hands together, and the leaves of the bridal wreath trembled on her brow ; her breath came quicker, and her heart beat wilder. "Yes, Marian, lay aside your scru pies for this once, said the Judge, in a low tone, going toward his daughter ; "the company expect it. Do not so seriously infringe upon the rules of etiquette ; in-yotir owu home do as you please, but iu mine, for this once, please me." Every eye was turned toward the bridal pair. Marian's principles were well known. Harvey had been a oonvivialist, but ol late his friends bid notioed the change in bis mannners, the difference iu his habit and to-night they watched him to see, as they sneeringly said, if he was tied down to a woman's opinion sobood. Pouring a brimming cud, they held ji wirh tpmjiiinw smile vowaro nianan. one was very pale, though more composed ; and her hand shook not, as smiling back, she gracefully accepted the crystal tempter, and raised it to tier" lips, liut scarcely naa sue aone so, when every hand was arrested by her piercing exclamation of "0 ! how terrible !" "What is it ?" cried oue and nil, thronged together, for she had slowly carried the glass at arm's length, ami was n.wedly regarding it as though it were some hideous ob ject. - ' -- : - . "Y ait, , sha answered,, wniio a light which seemed inspired, 'shone from her dark eyes, "wait and I will tell yon. I see," she added slowly, pointing one jeweled finger, at the sparkling ruby liquid, "a sight that-beggars all description ; and yet listen I will paint it for you it I can. It is a lovely spot : tall mountains crowned with; ver dure rise in awful sublimity around; a river runs through and bright flowers grow to the water's edge. There is a thick warm mist, that the aun seeks vainly to pierce. Trees, lofty aud beautiful, wave to the airy motion of the birds ; but there a groan of Indians gather ; they flit to and fro, with something like sorrow upon their -dark brows. And iu their midst lies a manly I form but bis cheek, how deathly ; his eye, wild with the fitful fire of fever. One friend stands behind him nay, I should say kneels, for see, he is pillowing that poor head upon his breask "Genius in ruins. Oh ! the hiijli, holy-looking brow ! why should denlh mark it, and he so young ! Look how he throws back tbe damp curls 1 see-'hiln clasp his bauds! hear his thrilling shrieks lor hie! mark bow he clutches at the lorm of his oompanion, imploring to he saved. Oh ! bear him call piteously hiit father s name see hint twine hfs fingers together as he shrieks lor his aister his only sister the twine of his soul weeping for him in his distant Tiative land. 'See 1" she exclaimed, while the bridal party shrank back, the nit tasted wine trembling in their fal tering grasp, and the Judge fell 4 overpowered. upon nis seal see his arms are Milted to heaven he prays, how wildy, for mercy ! hot lever rushes through his veins. The friend beside him is weeping ! awe- stricken, the dark men move silent ly away, and leave the living ana the dying together." ' There was a hush lit that prince ly parlor, broken- only by what seemed a smothered sob from some manly bosom. The bride stood up right, with quivering lips, and tears stealing to the outward edge ot her lashes. Her beautiful arm had lost its tension, and the glass, with its little troubled red waves, came lowly toward the lange of her vis ion. She spoko again ; every lip was mule. Her voice was low, faint, yet awfully distinct ; she still fixed 4. her sorrowful glance upon the wine cup: 'It is oxcnijig now ; llie great white moon is coming up, and her beams lie gently on his forehead. He moves uol ; his eyes' arc set in their sockets ; dim are their piercing glances ; in vain his friends whisper the name of father and sister de:iih is there, Deailr and no soft haml, no gentle voice to bless and soothe him, His head sinks back ! one convulsive shudder he is dead !" A groan ran through the assem bly. So vivid was her description, so unearthly her look, so inspired her manner that what she described seemed actually to have taken place then and there. They noticed, also, that the bride groom bid his face in his hands and was weeping. "Dead 1" she repeated again, her lips quivering faster and faster, and her voice more and more broken ; "aud there they scoop him a grave, and there without a shroud, they they lay him down in that damp reeking earth ; the only son of a proud father, the only idolised brother of a fond sister. And he sleeps to-day in that distant coun try, with no stone to mai K the spot. There belies my father's son 'my own twin brother ! a victim to this deadly poison. Father," she exclaim ed, turning suddenly, while the tears rained down her beautiful cheeks, "Father, shall I drink it now V Ihe lorm ol the old Judge was convulsed with agony. He raised not hie head, but in a smothered voico he faltered, "No, no. my child No I She lifled the glillering goblet, mid letting it Midileiily fall to the floor, it was itahed In a thousand pieces. ' " Many a learlul eye watched Her movement, and instantaneously every wine glass was transferred to tbe marble table on which it ha.1 been prepared. Then, as she looked at the fragment 'of crystal, she turned to the company, saying, "Let no friend herealter, who loves me, tempt me to peril my soul for wine. Not tinner are Ihn everlast ing hills than my resolve, God helping. me -never to touch or taste il... n;.,n cuir Ana lie 10 wnom I irive my hand, who waicnea over my brother's lorm, in the last solemn hour, and buried the dear wanderer there by the river, in the the that land of aold, will I trust, su-t.ii me in that resolve. Will you not my husband r Ilia glittering eyes, his sad, sweet smile, was her an swer. The Judge lelt the room, and when, an hour after, he return ed.and with a more subdued manner look part in the entertainment of the bridal guests, no one could tail to read that he, loo, had determined ,o banish the enemy at once and forever from his princely home. Those who were present at that 'wedding can never forget the im pression so solemnly nude. Many irom that hour renounced foi ever the social glass. Tie Morning. JETHKO SI.RHJh"aD HIS NEW CLOTH ES. There's a woman over on the other side of the city who thinks she can do most anything. You may paint a picture or write a poem or do anything from either of the above clear down to frying some pork or cleaning a spittoon, and she win express ,t as op.n.o. juaani she had done the job ,t would hiv4 will express it as her opinion that if and that lo its improvement, too. uer apieaiauce uoes not express what sort of a woman she is nearly much as that of her husband does. He lias n meek way of walk ing around softly, and his left foot turns inward towards his right in an Indescribably humble way, which has a tendency to run his slide heel over, very aggravating to his wile, and very trying to the soul of the shoemaker who has to re heel it (Several tiinos before the original shoe is worn out. He is n little sloop shouldered aud carries his head a little one' side with an alert look, and stands nrotind in the cor ners of illu room or near the door, and never seems , so much out of place aud so ill at ease any where us n hi. own house, which ins wile, Mis'. Serins, can't account for, beH cause she is always trying to keep the house clean and make it pleas ant for him; ill that she nlwayt has him take off his boots in the wood shed and has a chair right in one corner of the sitting room for him brushes the carpet and dusts Che chair just as soon as he leaves it. She has also scrubbed thu barn floor and nut a. rush-bottomed ulfuir there and he reads and keep's his news papers out there. Ho has never (laid anything against the arrange ment since one daywhen he ven tured grimly lo remark that the chair she had put out there was too much of a rush-bottom chair.'tlie' bottom was pietly much rushed out of it. It might have been noticed that for, several days thereafter, Jethro; that's his name, turned his left foot towards his right more than usual and Ktood apologetically in the corners and near the door in a manner whose meekness would ring the heart of a gimlet and brfng tears AUVeRTISINU RATES. Adver-tist-iuuittii iniMirti-tl si tli. following low ratm: 1 Midi, oua lime - - - $0 75 1 itieli, one month. - - y 50 t inch, three month. 5 00 I invh, one year, - - lo 00 1 inches, one time, - ... 9 i 1 inchoa, threejnouth. - - - 10 00 I inches, one year. - - - - -Jo 00 Longer sdvertiaemouts will be inserted at lisonable rates. Obituaries twenty word, lone, are inserted Tree of charge. When they eieeed this length, ae oent for eaoh word must be paid in ad anoa. Speoia.1 Notices oli.arfed 10 cnts per line.. .. . ... -- from the eyes of a brass button, but only elicited, from Mrs. Serins the unfeeling remaik that she wished he'd clear out, he luiiile her think of a sick Haling. So he went down si n et and, as fal would have it, soon after he went away one of the neighbors came in aud brought a new coat, and vest to show Sirs. Serins, that she had been making. After looking them over in a lofty manner, Mrs. Serius conceived the idea of making Jethro a whole suit. of elothes, and she told the neighbor, .and aha also suggested several improvements which the neighbor could not but tee, being a prolessional tailoress, and Mrs. Se rins knowing nothing about it. So, to make a lone story shorter, she went to work, alter getting the oloth, and cut out the clothe and made them, and Jethro put them on and got jawed because he bad about as much style and shape about him as a bay rake, and she added that that suit cf clothes would fit any other man in Chris tendom but him, and he said he' thought so too. But he had to ivitnr thorn Th A alisriA nf t ba nant. indicates that she must have cut ihe legs just half their length, And then the seat commences and goes the other half of the way till it ends in the waist-band. If Jethro draws them np to their proper-place .they lunch his shoulder blade and make an undue exposnre of bis leg, and if he lets them down to their proper place, it takes the whole length of bis suspenders, and the back of '' them where the legs begin comes down just opposite hit knees and necessitates bis going up sideways if he goes at all. The vest is very short because Mrs. Serius says that she made the pant long enough to make up for that, and the coat is vcijr uairuw iu tne tuuuiuers, uv- cause she says she wanted to see if she could't make him stand up straighter and look like somebody. And now Jethro keeps the fatness of the barn mostly and reads the newspapers and meditates darkly. She's bung away all the rest of his clothes, and he don't like to go io the street because persons iat behind hind seem to t-lted with ' Aunrxst spirtv horn of the fact of the enormousdijuanon between the scruff of his neck an the seat of. his pants, the last of which hang lose and empty 'below his coat-tails. Hut poor Jethro don't know just what it is they are laughing at, he knows it is himself, and so, as has before been said, he stays secluded, and the extent of the laceration ot bis spirit is only equaled by Mrs. Serius' admiration of her handiwork which she says can't be beat, into the ground some day. ' But he ssys this is the soli tude of the barn, . and Mrs, Serius will never know bow internally mad -he is. P. S. Since writing the nbovu Jethro hat fallen down the ladder in the barn. , He got tangled np in his pants and had a tussle with them and they threw him. r. S. lie s chopped them up. P. S. And burnt them. ' lilZARHK. . A Confused Photographer. He is a young photographer, just starling in business and love. The oilier evening his girl's mother call ed for a sitting. He desired to favorable impression lh8t portion of her mind which could appreciate photography, and- so he became a trine nervous in the work. Bus be got her fixed finally, with her eyea fixed glassily ' on a certain object, as is the cus tom. Then he drew the cloth, took ont his watch, counted off thirty seconds, restored the cloth, and drew out the case. , . , " Gracious 1" be unintentionally ejaculated, " I forgot to put in the plate. , -. f The old ladyOiad to sit again, and she prepared for the ordeal, but with confidence in the operator con siderably abated. JIe was more nervous now tbau before, -anu it was some ten minutes before he had her arranged to suit the focus. Then the cloth jsas again removed, the w atoh again pulled put. lie counted off the thirty seconds, re placed the cloth, and drew out the case. .''-; .. "Great Heavens 1" he groaned, in a frightful voioe, "1 forgot to pull ont (he slide.!' , - The- piospecled mother-in-law sprang to her feet, snatched up her hat aud shawl, and pausing long enough to inquire if he was drunk, shot out of the door leaving the pallid raced artist grasping a ohair for support. The commissioner of agriculture is preparing to distribute a quantity of watermelon seed received from China. These are the first of that variety raised in this country, and lhe(riiit is pronounced the best ever tribwn in the United States. A characteristic of this melon is its re markably sweet flavor. ' "Though woman'a handa are weak to fight, Her heart ia strong; to pray, And with nugen of fiaith afie will open tha gate, To a brighter wi better day." '
Spirit of the Age [1873-1???] (Raleigh, NC)
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Sept. 7, 1876, edition 1
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