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BLUE RIDGE i BLADE 1 II 1 VOL. IV -NO. 30. MORGANTON. N. C, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1879. WHOLE NUMBER 186. - THE MIRROR OF LIFE. Let ns look in the glass for a moment, Let m brash off the mist fm the face The mirror of life tbat is broken , When Dea'h in our ear knells the token To crumble in space.' We must fall whether praying or pining, Whether fearing or mocking the blow, Brush the mist from the mirror, then trem bling ; The grate is no place for dissembling There vaunting lies low. The eyes, as they gaze to earth's glory, Peer into that mirror of pin Where the slain of oar years lies all gory, Bent over by grim shadows hoary Eooording each stain., Not a blot nor a. blemish escapes them, The siDB of the lone, and the crowd. The crime where we pandered or paltered, The dark things that lips never faltered lherejjry out ajeuo. They -are there, and no tempests can mae ""them; They glow Wltfi accusing and shame, Tho? the years be' all dead, they are living, 'Mid the iilence they cr for forgi:ng Willi direful acclaim. On the wreck-plank of life is there pardon When joy is worn hollow in sin ? When the heart sees no 1 ght in the sparkle, Nor gloom where the drowsy waves darkle O'er foeman and kin? Then brush the world's mist from the mirror While life injrar bosom id sweet. And turn, with a love of the purest, O'er pathways the fairest and sure&t, The trace of our feet Aunt Maggie's Story. Yes ; what your grandfather' came to tell ' me, lassie, was that Paul Cardell was dead. Be was just 85. He d lost sight and hear iue both, they say, and was glad to go. It's not so bad with me ; but I wouldn't mind going too. It stirred my fhemory to hear of Paul's death. I've loved a many in my life, but never any one as I did him. Ah ! I'm not ashamed of it, lassie, if 1 am an old maid. He was lust lovely. We met often, and for a while I thought he liked me pretty well. But soon I began to think I was mistaken. It makes a girl tremble to think that she may show a man who does not love her that she likes him over well. All that she can do is to wait. Ah ! lassie, many a time the waiting is a weary thing, and the right one doesn't come, and the wrong one does, and even the wrong one seems better than none at all. I don't blame women for things that seem wrong often ; they haven't much chance to do right. It seems to me that , Paul was my right one ; but he didn't court me, and I could not court him. And James Keeder. being a man,' could do as he chose, " and did. He loved me, and I loved Paul Cardell. , God help-us all. I think if we women had no hearts the world "would be a merrier place, lassie. I put James lieeder off a while, and just kept my eye on Paul. I did not love him, and I did love Paul. Why couldn't I love the man that loved me ? 1 Then said I to myself, "Be a sensible woman. It's better to marry a man who is fond of you, if he doesn't seem perfection, than to waste your youth and your strength and, your hope pining for one you are noth ing to. " It's prettier in a poem to do the last, but I wasn't so very young or so very beau tiful that the ' whole world wanted me. I guessed what life wouU be when I was a lonely old maid, handed about like a bad penny from Cousin Jack's to Uncle Ben's, and from Sister Hannah's to Sister Jane's. Not much wanted anywhere. Better try to make a man who loved me happy, . and so learn to - love him. They say "love comes with the children" some who have tried it. I thought it all over before I went to bed one night, and I made up my mind that James Reeder should have a "yes'r when he asked for it. Then I cried oh ! how I cried, lassie. "Oh, must I give you up, Paul ?" said I ; "and oh, must I give you up ?" and I knew I'd never had him to give up or to keep. The girls envied me my handsome, dash ing beau. But often, walking with him, or riding with him, I'd pass Paul Cardell in his shabby coat, and say to myself, "Oh, to be a man iusttobea man. and go a courting whom I chsose, instead of taking what comes, as though matrimony were like the 'grab bag' a -a church fair." I ' -didn't want money, nor such beauty as James Reeder had so much of. I wanted well, lassie, I wanted Paul, and no one else ; though why he was perfection to me, heaven only knows, I do not, and never will. What seemi'd a great deal to me isn't much to tell. 1 There were picnic parties where I met Paul, but where he let James carry me off when he pleased, and never tried to step" between us. At last Kitty Walsingham married, and they gave her a great wedding party. They were rich, and Tui it in fine style. They had a fine housg and tine furniture, and silver and chmasuch as no one else had thereabout. Arid it was an all-day party. The wedding first, then breakfast and din ner, and a dance and supper, of course. 1 was a bridesmaid, and Paul stood up with me. After that,j you know, 'l was uis place to be my beau all day. I thought of that and more. L word from him and I'd give James Reeder the mitten. A word a look even. vj i When 1 walked iuto churqh on his arm I . kept thinking how 4t would seem to be the bride. I looked prettier thai she I know- Nay, was it to cry? No need of that either. Cry for the voune that have it all to live through. I am eighty. Sometimes he looked at me that morniner as if he liked me. He told me how my dress became me. Any man may do that, but it made me happy. I had not been so happy for months. After we came kome from, church there was the breakfastand he beside me all the while and then we all went into the garden. We sat under a great tree apart from the rest, and all of a sudden he looked me straight in the! eyes. "Miss Maggie," he said, "do you think ?" But before 1 knew what he wanted to know if I thought, some one came all in a hurry np the path and stopped beside me. It was James Reeder. "Here you at".." said he, "Paul Cardell, Mrs. Walsingham wants you to drive Grandma Thompson over home. She isn't over well, and wants to go. I'll take care of Miss Maggie meanwhile." Paul got up. He gave me a look I couldn't understand, and after he had gone a dozen steps he came back and offered me his hand. "Good-bye, Miss Maggie," he said, and I heard his breath come short and fast; ''Good-bye,1' and away he went. And I and Janes Reeder were left alone. It happened exactly as I knew it would. He asked me to be his wife before we had been together half an hour, and I said "Yes." Oh ; now don t. lassie. It's all against the women in this world. It always will be. Let the strong-minded bodies do what they may. You can't alter the hearts we are born with, We are bought and sold a good deal as I urkish girls are, after all. There is a kind of cold, pretty doll that is happy enough, but women Who have hearts suffer suffer at eighteen and eighty. Don't I know. I've been both. And now I said to myself : "I will be content. I've made my own choice." knew 1 hadn't all the while. "I am to marry the richest man I know, and one they nil call handsome. Madly in love with me too. What more do I want ? It wouldn't do. I hid the fox breath, and the tone of his voice by heart. He was very happy with Lucy Swallow, they say. I haven't been. But it was bet ter than marrying any one else, after all. A wasted life and a wasted heart, but noth ng worse. Good night, lassie. Hanging at Hammock. Taane Ostriches. I did. I was dark, and whit became me. I had roses in my hair and Tpfcarls in my tars. I did look pretty, lassie You're not so pretty, vain as you are. Ics all gone at eighty all gone all gone I What do we live to be eighty for ? Lord forgive me and Paul. i- Do you love any manj lassie ? Just think, then, how that man looks to you. Vou can't see his faults, or they grow to be beauties. Don't they say Love is blind ? I think he has sharper eyes than any one else, . and finds out charms no other can. . Oh. my beautiful Paul. And brother Dick told me last night how very plain he was ; and there I sat with my blood boiling yes, boiling, lassie. My beautiful Paul plain 1 my exquisite, graceful, sweet-faced Paul plain t And I rocked and fidgeted. ' And says Dick, "You are nervous to-night, Maggie. I hope you ain't a getting the rheumatism And was I not old fool enough to tell him I was angry; and why ? You didn't look away to laugh, lassie ? in my bosom, but it gnawed me all the while. "The sooner it is over the better," I said ; and as if that was the way to have it over, I let James cpax me to set the day very soon six weeks from that of our engage ment. There was a busy time af our house, you mav guess. All my things to make in a hurry. I couldn't sit down to sew. I was like one wild. In a sort of fever all the time. They teased me. "In love," they said. So I was, lassie, but not with James Reeder. So one day mother said to me "You are the only idle one, Maggie, run over to Mrs Walsingham's and borrow the pattern of Kitty's traveling basque. It will just fit you, and I vant yours to be like it." I went, of course, and got the pattern of Mrs. Walsingham. She was a merry soul, and she would tease me. No one knew why I blushed so. It wasn't for -the reason they thought. We stood talking, and she a teasing, until all of a sudden she said : "And James isn't jealous any more, I hope?" "Jealous !'' said I. "Oh, he was wild the day our Kitty was married," said she, "wild with jealousy of Paul Cardell. He told me all about it, 'They are paired off together,' said he, 'and with a girl it is the first who asks her. Paul is as much in love as I, and you have lost her to me.' So Granny and 1 set our wits to work to help him. And we sent for Paul, as you know, and gave Jem his chance. Now say thank you,' Maggie, as he did." But I couldn't. I took the pattern, and ran away. I ran until I came to the bridge, and then I stopped, looking down into the water. "No, no," 1 kept saying to my self, "no, no; he never cared anything about me. I gave him chance enough to speak, and he did not. " And while I said it I heard a step upon the bridge. I looked around it was Paul Cardell. I couldn't move. I stood still and he came ud to me. I had not seen him before since Kitty's wedding party, when he came to say "good-bve." He held out his hand. "How do you do, Miss Maggie ?" said he. I didn't SDeak I only bowed. "Vmi are to lw married very soon, I hear," he said. "Thev say so," I answered. "T hone vou mav be very happy," he said. "James Reeder is a splendid fellow, anH 99 rirh ns he is handsome." And he caught his breath in a little sigh. "God bless you, Maggie." He had never called me Maggie before. He had never looked as he did then. I tried to thank him, but I didn't know wlint. I said." Suddenly he took . both my hands. ' "I'd like you to know it. I was very fond of you, Maggie. I I loved you, my dear. If James hadn't called me when he did that day, I should have told you so, and had my 'No,' from you. I always felt afraid you liked James best. No wonder. It's better for you altogether better. Only, quite as a past thing, I'm glad you know how I loved you. Better than my life, Maggie. I'm not going to pine to death, or make an idiot of myself. I shall marry. Lucy Swallow has promised to be my wife. She would not care for such love as I have not now to give : and she's very good, and pretty, and she shall be happy. God bless vou. and good-bye." He took my hand and put it to his lips and went. Only for what he had said to Lucy Swal low, I'd have called him back. But if they were to be married, better let matters stand as they were. I held myself up by the bridge rail until he was out of sight ; then I dropped, like one dead. These strange birds stalked at the head of the procession of domestic ani mals and appeared to be ou most ex cellent terms with all of them. Occas ionally one would deviate to the right or left of the track to peck a mouthful of grass, but as ' soon as the drover would leave the road and shout at it, It would immediately fall into its j)roper place and march forward with the ut most demure gravity, as if to be guilty of an infringement of rules was the last thing it would think of. Ostriches al ways have an intensely stupid look, but they are not nearly such fools as the uninitiated would take them for; and although the most timid creacures on the earth when in a state of nature, in captivity or when domesticated, they are bold and dangerous, more especially the males. Horse or rider indiscrimi nately they will attack, walking up to the object of their indignation witb a quiet, measured stride, never, evincing tor a moment the slightest evidence of hostility In fact, looking such fools that no one would imagine them capa ble of inimical ideas when, with i quick movement, done with great strength and velocity, they raise their foot and strike forward, the edges of the toes being so sharp that they will cut your clothes the whole length of the stroke. As they are too valuable to be knocked on the head, perhaps you turn 10 run irom tnem, out their speed is such that an attempt thus to elude them is useless. The only plan then to be pursued is to throw your self r'own and lie still on your face or back. They cannot kick you in these positions, but they will jump on you and trample all over you. While this operation is going on you may give vent to your feelings and satisfy your self-esteem by bestow ing upon them a few reminders that two can play the same game. Flowers as Food. The number of flowers that are used as food Is small; among the3e we may mention the artichoke, the undeveloped flower heads of which furnish a much prized dish. A thistle similar to the artichoke, occurs abundantly in Pales tine, and its undeveloped flower heads are brought to the markets of Jerusalem under the name of cardi, aud are much sougnt after a3 a vegetable, in many parts of India the flower3 of a sapota- eeoustree form a really important arti cle of food. The blossoms are very numerous and succulent, and are eaten raw. iney are also sun dried and sold in the bazars. A single tree affords from 200 ts 400 pounds of the flowers The flowers of another species are em ployed in a similar manner Dy the na tives of Mysore and Malabar ; they are either dried and roasted and then eaten or bruised and boiled to a jelly an made into small balls to be traded for other food. "The unopened flower buds of the caper bush, a creeping plant of Southern Europe, when pickled in vinegary constitute the condiment known (as capers. It was known to the ancient Greeks, and tae renowned Phryne, at the first period of her resi dence in Athens, was a dealer in capers. Long pepper, which in chemical com positions and qualities resembles black pepper, and i3 used for the same pur poses, consists of the immature spikes of flowers gathered and dried in the sun. Swinging in hammock U the very luxury of repose. It Is restful, just to think of It; and to pass by a clump of shade trees, or a vine curtained veran da, and watch the laxy swing of one of these aerial couches without envy is an example of virtue that is not often vouchsafed to one with generous capac ity for resting. The general idea is that hammocks are only for the wealthy, the "stylish," or professional tiine kiliers. It is a great mistake. Every well-to-do-fanner every "owner of a cozy village home y' member of stay -jU-1k n club wist eotnraartds ft pot big enough to swing 'one shonld have a hammock. A very good one may be bought for $1.50 to $4, or as much higher as you choose to go. It should be hung where there is a good afternoon shade, and, if Intended in part for children's use, so low that mall children can get into it by the aid of a box or low stool, and over soft ground, so that the numerous tum bles that are probable will be harmless. If no other place is available, it may be hung between the pillars of a shady veranda, a place well enough for the older people who use it, but undesira ble for children, on account of the lack of a soft turt, as well as for the noise which accompanies its use by the youngsters. When children only are to use the hammock the manner of hanging is not important, but if pro vided for the use of grown persons it should then be so suspended that the head will always be considerably higher than the feet, and much of the comfort of one who uses it depends upon a proper observance of the fact. If you have no more suitable place, su?psnd it from tiie columns or a veranaa. The hook which supports the head end should be six and a quarter feet from the floor, and that for the foot end three and three quarters feet, and these pro portions should be observed wherever it may be hung, to secure the most de sirable curve for the ease of the occu pant. Another point to be observed; the head end should be fastened to the hook by a rope less than a foot long- just enough to properly attach it, while at the foot is a rope four and one-half feet long. This gives the greatest free dom for swinging the lower part of the body, while the head moves but little. This is a point which cannot be ob served in a hammock for children, who think mora of it a Strr-; place for comfort (ble repose. When trees serve for supports, ample provis ion should be made to prevent injury to the bark, by means of stout canvas or heavy bagging between the ropes to which it is suspended and the bark. If the hanging be so arranged that the hammock can be taken in during long storms it will last much longer. back. The flesh was actually cooked to a depth of two inches, and for over two years the dogs used to scent cooked meat when 1 walked out, and follome by dozens. Five surgeous feinted away in a heap at the sight of my left shoul der, and the! only man I could get to dress my back, was a butcher under sentence of death." "It must have been terrible. How did you come out of the calm ?" "Well, while 'I was squirming in the water a white squall struck the schoon er and dowd she went. It was all over in a minute and air 'and water were hotter than ever. I struck out for the Canada shore, over a hundred miles away, knowing that it was sink or swim, but in half an hour I was safe." "Picked up?" "Well, no," replied the captain, as he scratched his leg, "I struck an ice berg and climbed up into a cave near the top! I tell you it was a gratetul change to me, and that's one reason 1 cannot see a hunk of iee and a lemon without feeling grateful to the mau who invented both with a very little gin in mine,; if you please." She' All Right. BRIEFS. M. C. Shakespeare, a farmer, resld- -Nashville boasts of $300,000 worth log in the northwestern part of Texas, of improvements In six niontbs. and possiblv a distant relative ot the The dividend p'd in Boston in renowned bard of that name, called, on August aggregated $2,533,06:1. the Rev. J. H. Riohey, at two o'clock, aud said : "Parson, do "OU know all the ladles in Waco?" 1 , "No," replied Mr. Richey, "I don't know half of them." "Po you know f widow lady named Mrs. Ward, who -Is employed in the family of Vtt McGregor t" The soil on which timber is grown Increases or deteriorates Its value. In Cambria ceunty, Pa., butter sells at eight cents per pound. . Senator Wade Hampton's leg still gives him a great deal ot trouble. London has a police force of 10,474 men. coating $0450,000 to mat main It. Anew dlrecctory f Minneapolis, Minnesota,! ndieates that the population I have not," said Mr. Bictaey. "the of the city is about 53,000. honor of ber acquaintauvtr tui-wliy do I The pensions 'granted last year. vou auk9" ' rrom me ,ngusn urn Last, amounted "Well," said Mr. Shakespea.e, ."ir- K don't know her either; never saw her V" - in my life, but thinking as maybe you traIlan IlUern!ltionai Exhibitions knew all about her I thought I'd come The cotton m,,,g 0f Columbus, Ga., and ask you. I'm thinking about consume annually 18.256 bales of the First Guard Duty. "Gin in Mine." A Miraculous Escape at Niagara Fails. I did not marrv on the day set for me. for I was ill of a" fever then and not ex Dected to live : and afterward 1 knew my heart too well. I could not forgive James for cutting short the words that would have made Paul and me happy for life, and i told him plainly that I never coul,d love him. But Paul and Lucy Swallow married, and she lived thirty years with him thirty long years ' What a happy woman to live thirty years with Paul Cardell ! I never married never, as you know. And James lieeder never did, either. When he was sixty he told brother Dick there never had been but one woman in the world for him, and that was Maggie. Poor Jem ! He cried when 1 told him he must go. And he was very handsome, so they said a very fine man, but I can't remem ber much about his looks. And, vou see, I never forgot Paul. I could draw his picture now. I know A gentleman and his wife arrived at Niagara Falls, on the 16th of July. They were on their way from New London, Conn., to "their home in Minnesota, aud de viated a little from their direct route in or der to visit the great falls. Arriving so late they concluded thai they would not go to a hotel, and waited in the Erie depot until after 4 o'clock, when they started down town to see the sights. They strayed first down to the bank of the river just below Witmer's mill. Here the gentleman at tempted to bathe his face, when he sudden ly became dizzy and fell helplessly into the boiling rapids. Trte screams of his wife attracted the attention of William Dinan, who was watering his horses near by. Dinan tied his horses to a tree and rushed after the woman, .who was running toward the Cata ract House. Dinan says that he could just distinguish the form of the man in the rapids, and he told the terrified woman that it was of no use to attempt the rescue, mat he would certainlv so over the falls. The woman ran through the gate leading to- the little park between the Cataract House and the old River Hotel, and hurried down the bank to the raceway below. Dinan fol lowed a moment later, and his astonish ment can hardly be imagined when he saw the dripping stranger sitting on the steps in the embrace of his weeping wife. Alter falling into the water the gentleman said that he hardly realized where he was for a moment. He could not swim, but he struggled as best he could to reach the shore. As good luck would have it the drowning man was hurled against the bulk head of the pier enc'osing the raceway back of the Cataract House, and was carried in to the quiet water, where he managed to secure a hold on the masonry, and climbed out upon terra firma. The man's escape from death was little less than miraculous. He hardly realized at first' the magnitude of the danger he had escaped. He had not seen the falls, and he asked Mr. Dinan whether he would haje been killed to a certainty if he had been carried over the cataract. "Well, it's purty hot" answered a lake captain in one of the ferry dock saloons, "but it isn't nothing to the summer of 1836. We had it at least twenty degrees hotter than this right along for six weeks. I was running the Mary Jane between Chicago and Buffalo then, and I've seen the ther mometer sfand at 130 degrees in the middle of Lake Huron." "That was awful,'' sighed one of the sitters. "Well, it was fairish, but we didn't call it hot till we got into the St. Clair river, and the mercury ran up to 150 degrees when hanging against the water-butt. The boys used up 728 palm leaf fans on one trip that year. On one of our trips down we were becalm ed for three days on Lake Huron. We got it there and no mistake." "Purty hot, eh?" "Well, I'm an old man. and I don't care to go to lying at this day, bnt I'll tell you a few solemn facts. Eveiy sail on that schooner smoked and smouldered till they fell to pieces on deck and left us under bare poles ! Yes, sir, we hadn't a rag aloft as big as your hand. That was just at sunrise in the morning, and within an hour we had to wet down decks to pre vent them from burning. I went down stairs to consult the thermometer and it lay on the floor, all melted into a chunk of glass and tin ! Then I be gan to realize how hot it was, and I got frightened." "What could you do?" "Well, not much. We had begun to rig lines over the lee side, so that all could take to the water, when the top sail yard came down and kills 1 the cook. The links in the chain had melt ed right out! I never knew a case like The first tbur of guard duty at West Point was perfoamed by the late Major General T. W. Sherman, on one of the most terrible nights 1 ever witnessed. A storm of wind and rain arose soon af ter nightfall and raged during the greater part of the night with unabated fury, while frequent flashes of light ning disclosed the old forts and other picturesque surrouudings of the point only to render it more appalling. Add to this frequent peals of thunder echo ing among the surrounding peaks as if the world was coming to an end, and you can form some idea of the scene that comes up so vividly to my mem ory after the lapse of nearly half a cen tury. In the midst of this terrible war of the elements it occurred to three of our cadets one of them, perhaps, the corporal of the guard that this would be a favorable time to test the metal ef the young "pleb" from Newport. I I shall never forget Sherman's appear ance as he entered our tenf the next morning, his gun cut and scarred m various places, his ctothes wet and dripping and covered with mud. Whithorn (also from Newport) and myself eagerly inquired for the cause of his plight, and were informed that tbw were tliree men or levlls He did not know nor care which had ap proached his post in the -midst of the storm, covered with "white sheets," and endeavored to pass without giving the countersign. One of them, armed with a musket and a fixed bayonet, at tempted to force his way ; "but," said he, I stood my ground, and would have run him through, but for his superior skill in using the weapon." As soon as the young trio found that young Sher man meant business, they disappeared under ;he cover of the darkness, leav ing him master of the situation, and I doifbt not, have kept their deteat to this day a profound secret. The inci dent, however, is too good to be lost, and I now put it on record because I am -probably the only living man, Whit horn having died early, that knows anything about it; and also because it gave unmistakable promise of the brilliant career now a part of our na tional history. marrying her." "I should think," remarked Mr Richey, "that you would refer the mat ter to the young lady herself." "I will, so I will," said Mr. Shake speare, "but not until I have first seen Dr. McGregor." and. so saving, he turned and walked away. ' About three-quarter3 of an hour later in the day Mr. Shakespeare again stood iu the presence of Mr. Richey. "I've seen Dr." McGregor," said he, "and lie says he has known the lady for sixteen years, and she's all right Then exacting from Mr. Richey a prom ise that he would wait in the office "a little while," Mr. S. walked off, saying he would "call ou the lady." And he did. "It's all right.parson,'' said he, on walking into Mr. Richey's office, less than an hour afterward "I've seen the lady, and she says it's all right. Quick as 1 can get a pair of licenses I want vou to go up and tie the knot." At twenty minutes past four o'clock M. C. Shakespeare was married to Mrs Nancy Ward, Rev. J. H. Richey offlci ating, and the newly wedded pair left at once for their rural home. Mr Shakespeare has a good farm aud is weU'able to make his wife comtortable. Mrs. Shakespeare is a good houskeeper and is otherwise well qualified to make a good wife. Two Lours and twenty minutes, dating from the moment the would-be bridegroom's first inquiries were made, is the precise time occupied in the accomplishment of this alliance A rrvtaUUirtO KwrttOcatlon. There remains to this day the of an ancient fortification about teen miles from Tyrone, near Moshan non Creek, Ceu're County, Pa. The en tire site covers about two acres of ground, a portion of the outer walls however, beiug entirely demolished. What seems now to have been the lnte rior of the vast masonry consists of a series of parapets, and face3 of the em brasures running at various angles The front of the parapets, and faces of the. embrasures, are still covered with some kind of durable plaster or cement This cement facing is of a red color, about half an inch thick, and hard, al most, as flint. Where it is broken the rock has crumbled away to the depth of several Inches, and the Up of the rocks is also worn away by time and staple. In a Bombay cotton factory a mau receives $8 a month, a woman $4, and a child $2.50. Since the Crimean war England has reduced her national debt from 900,000,001) to 712,000,000. Nearly 300 miles of railroad have been built in California so far this year. Split timber is more durable and stronger than that which is hewn, from t'.e continuity ot the nores. Red ink is a solution of alum, col ored with Brazil wood, or an ammoiil cal solution of cochineal. The Pullman palaeefcars have been introduced on the Italian routes run ning from Briudlsi and Bologna. The crop of pineapples this season is estimated at double that of former years. Ground lias been broken for the monument to General Wayne, to be erected at Erie, Pa. The Rigged School Union ef Lon don expends about $ 1 3 ) ,000 a year in efforts to elevate the lowest and poor est classes. Meissonier will soon finish a por trait of the late Louis Napoleon, begun in 1870, but delayed by the war and the exile. Mrs, Mary Howitt has received from the English Government a pen sion of $500, In consideration of her lit erary services. The Pennsylvania Railroad Comp any have ordered the building of eight hundred freight cars and twenty pas senger cars at the Altooiia shops. The President begins work shortly after 9 o'clock in the morning. His son, Webb, sits on his left hand and his stenographer behind bis chair. In a LliurMJernLornv In ADDenzil. Switzerland, a lew davsmiro. a farmer ruins and ten of his cows, one of whlcu he four- was milking, were killed by lightning. The $500 won by Courtney the oth er day at silver Lake has been presen ted by him to the widow of a man who lost his life while In the sculler's employ. Chief Justice Chase's grave at Oak Hid, near Washington, Is marked sim ply by a block of gray granite, bearing only thV record of his birth and death following his name. The apple croD in Knt county, Md., promises to be much larger than usual, and it Is expected that fifteen dis tilleries, producing 8.000 gallons of ap ple brandy, will be put In operation. At a general Conference of the Af rican Methodist churches of New Eng land, recently held at New Bedford, re ports showed a membership of 1,317. l'ne denomination has twelve Sunday schools, containing S55 scholars. -Fo th six months ending June A Rule of UospitaUty. True hospitality is a thing that touches the heart and never goes pe vond the circle of generous impulses. Entertainment with the truly ; hospita ble man means more than the feeding ef the body; it means an interchange of souV gifts; Still It should have its laws, as all things good must have laws to govern them. The obligation to be hospitable is a sacred one, emphasized by every moral code known to the world and a prac tical outcome of the second great com mandment. There should never be a guest in the house whose presence requires any con siderable change in the domestic econo my. f However much the circumstances of business or mutuil Interests may de mand in entertaining a stranger, he should never be taken into the family circle unless; he is known to be wholly worthy a place in tbat sanctum sane- torum of social life; but when once a man U admitted to the home fireside he should be treated as il the place had been his always. The fact of an invitation gives neith er host or guest right to be master of it since, but then the weather has cool- the other's time, and does not require ed off greatly siuce 1836." even a temporary sacrifice of one's en- ' And about the cook?" tire individuality or pursuits. "Nothing about him. When we A man should never b$ so much him- picked the body up to heave it over- self as when he entertains a friend board it had spread out into a mass about four feet square, and we haC to use shovels before we got through. He was a good young man and a perfect gentleman, and his mother never blamed me In the lea.t lor scoop-sliov-pllinir his remains over the rail. We the action of the elements, leaving the edges of the cement project like flanges 3 th. 1879, there were thirty failures In IZ.0!H,UUU, year inee wpre 175 (allures, with liabilities of $6,- 536.523. CUgCB VI. liUlj VV . w -vj-w q u 'ill, 1U V, liiv.iv t 1 via vj ' set perpendicular to the plane of the Boston, with liabilities of $; rock. The age of this old fortress is -i'.'rt.lnif: beyond all possibility of computation. The composition of the cement is not known, bnt the building material be longs to that class of rocks known among geologists as Mahoning sand stone. This formation, when found in placj, caps the Clearfield and Centre County region. At the time of its de posit no human being existed on the face of the earth, nor until long periods thereafter. Large trees now stand on the old masonry, and these are but the successors of other generations of trees that decayed many centuries ago. A Ble Alligator Story. t - To sUv at i a friend's house beyond the period for which one is invited is to perpetrate a social robbery. Toabide uninvited in a friend's home is as much i drsfneanor as borrowing! his coat without hi3 permission. It is debasing the coin of friendship to mere finally rigged our Hues and got over- I dross when i man attempts to make it ' touch of his hand, and the perfume of his I fewer than 614 The failures of farmers are becom ing alarmingly frequent In England. In 1S70 they nnmberjd 22a; in 1875, 254: in 1876. 480; iu 1877, 577; in 1S78, the I 815; and in the first half of 1879, no board," "And it was much cooler?" ' "Ah ! young man, how little you re porters know of the great lakes spread nnt before vou on the maps! Cooler! Why, the minute we struck the water we began squirming like so many eels. The lake was red hot. The water would have cooked an egg in four min utes. I was blistered from head to heel in no time. Some day I will take off my coat and vest and show you my parh',8 hotel bills Jltiect of two men having the same occupation ntid interests in life gives to neither a sotjiai right to the other's bed and board. A traveling minister has no more right to go uninvited to a fellow- preacher's house than a traveling shop keeper or shoemaker has to go uninvit ed to the house of his fellow craftsman. Men are ordained t the ministry as preachers, teachers .vid pastors, and i.ot as private hotel keepers. Mr. W. W. Ocaln, living In the neighborhood of Huntsville, six miles northeast of Lake City, Fla., has been troubled for vears by the depre dations ot a large alligator. Uis track as he made his way through the fields has been often seen, and the frequent disappearar.ee of hogT occasioned this gentleman to make offers for h,s teeth. WTith the hope of destroying this pest, he put out bait and poison several weeks ago. The bait wag taken but still the alligator took In additional shotes. A large book was obtained and 1 baited, but bait and hook were taken, the latter by gnawing the rope which held It. Things were becoming des perate, and the recent dry weather fa vored Mr. Ocain Recently the alligator was trailed to his bole, and finding it muddy, it was concluded that be had just sought retreat. A ne gro was sent in, but was immediately seized by the leg, and with difficulty was rescued badly bitten. However, the party succeeded in killing the alli gator, which measured ten aud a half feet. He was skinned and opened.and in him was found the hook, a large p g and several other things. Having been fed so. well it was thought a good time to try alligator steak, but this was pre vented by the suggestion that the meat might be poisoned. A dog, however. was permitted to eat his fill,and,strange to relate, in a short time was dead, There are 6,503,600 Jews In the world, according to theJetcith Mtcngtr computation. The famous solid silver vae, two- and-a-half feet high, and elaborately fabricated, presented by the Whigs to Henry Clay, In 1841, is offered for sale , at Boston, by the great man's grand son. During the first six months of 1879, 52,394 cases of champagne were Impor ted, an increase of 11,105 caes as com pared with the same months of 1878; 736,020 gallons and 45,708 cases of French still wines were Imported, an increase of 204,500 gallons. Dean Stanley has granted a site for a memorial of the late Prince Louis Napoleon in Westminnter Abbey. Itis in a recess in H'-nry Vll'sChapei, near the spot where Cromwell's remains lay rill they were disturbed at the Restor ation. X woman working for a farmer near Detroit was fatally poisoned, re cently, by washing a pair of overalls, which he had worn while putting rans green on his potatoes. The woman had a cut or two on her hands, into which the poison penetrated. The English Wesleyan Association of Local Preachers, organized in 1849, has paid to the "sick, th's aged, and for death," among its own member, over $275,000. There is a proposal to estab lish fraternal intercourse, witn tne Me thodist Local Preachers' Association in this country. It has be n determined by theSebool Board of Richmond, Va., that all lady teachers in the public school of tbat city who shall marry during their t rmi of service shall thereafter be in eligible to the position of teacher, and their places shall be suppnea oy me Superintendent of Schools. New England has over 230 farmers clubs, with 72,000 active memlers. ana library books to the number 01 zi.wu. In the United States there are nearly 2.000 agricultural societies, with 58.000 volumes In their libraries, ana wuo ac cess to 360 different agricultural publi cations, all exerting a direct Influence on the intelligence and future prospects of the tillers of the soil. The Employes of the Penniylvan H Railroad Ferry Company, in Jersey City, have organized a lire department. The department is divided into twelve stations, connected by signals with the managers room In the depot. The or ganization Is composed of twenty-fonr men, who are divided into two watches, one watch being in the daytime and the other at night.
The Blue Ridge Blade (Morganton, N.C.)
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