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Practices in Hertford and adjoining counties.' collections made In any part of North Caro lina. : I D H. C. V. CAHPBELL,; 0: Hi H 3D H b P MURFREESBORO. N. a i "THE DEARER DEAD." 1 You mourn for the dead; yon go, Clad in your robes of woe, To the spot where they sleep "And yon weep, finch bitter tears, and there Yon strew flowers, fresh and fair f : Yon place a white stone at the head. Where, graven with sculptor's art, We read your sorrow of heart,. . : And the dear name of your dead. But there are dearer dead, yon know ; Not the bitterest woo ' ; TUX yon close the eager eyes I i Of sweet young Hope, and monrnf oi-w ise does the pallid Lands of Love, ; ' ' V ' r And sorrowing bend above The ashes and dust, Of honor, love and trust, For these are the dearer dead. I - Ah ! those other dead ; who dare Robes of mourning for dead hopes wear ? Who bide a stone arise To tell where dead love lies ? When did ever a mourner say Help me bury these dead away ? i i , : ; The funeral trains men do not see; They, move silently Down to the heart where the grave is made, Where the dead is laid. No flowers are strewn there, No moan is heard there, No ritual is said Over their bed, Hidden away from sight The grave lies low, But the solemn silent night That doth know, And it seeth ever the white Face of our woe. . You are happy who mourn for your dead, By the side of graves kept green By the tears you shed, Who can lean Lovingly where they sleep Pray for those who in secret weep The dearer dead. MY REVENGE. " You acknowledge, then, Mansfield, that you are guilty of this forgery?" "I do not deny it, Mr. Holland," I replied, quietly. "I have put suffi cient proof into your hands to convict myself of it; now act your pleasure with me." " From my soul I am sorry for you," he said, with some appearance of emo tion. 'And yet I thank, heaven that you, .and not-my nephew, Haworth, are the criminal." "For your daughter's sake?" I asked, turning my face away. For my daughter's sake," he an swered. After a moment of silence he went to his desk, and writing a few words j upon a slip of paper, called a servant and sent him away with it. 4It was a request for a constable," he exclaimed, regarding me with a look of pity. " It is hard, but it must be done, Mansfield." " Yes," I muttered, it must be done. Well, I am prepared." And: this was my revenge! That night, as I paced the stone floor of the cell allotted to me in the jail, the events of the past six months arose before my mental vision as the scenes of one's life are said to haunt the deathbed. I have made a faithful record of them. Hawortb was a nephew of Mr. Hol land, and the superintendent of War wick Mill, where I was employed as a bookkeeper. I hated the man from the very day he entered the mill, and not without reason. He was young, hand some, wealthy in a word, all that I was not. He' was the master, insolently conscious of his power ; I, the poor drudge. He despised me and took no pains to hide it, well knowing that I dare not resent his contempt. But the real cause of my hatred lay deeper. He had blasted a hope that had taken firm root in my foolish heart. He had come between me and my love. Therefore I hated him. It was tjhe old story. I, the poor, underpaid bookkeeper, loved the daughter of the wealthy mill owner J It seemed that I might have had a better chance of success with an angel in heaven than with Virginia Holland. Yet, in spite of my better sense, I loved her, humbly and silently, as became my position. Of late, something in her manner had taught me that she had discovered my secret, and the wild hope thrilled me that it might, perhaps, have in spired her with a little tenderness for me. With the advent of Haworth, how ever, that hope died within my breast. When, the rumor came, as it shortly did, that Virginia and her cousin were engaged, I was prepared for it as a man is prepared for his death blow. Out of the depths of my despair grew a great hatred. . for the man who had gamed the woman whose love I would have died for, and a consuming desire for revenge. i ....... Then my j whole life narrowed down into the one wicked, ambition of inflict ing upon him some portion of the agony he had caused me ; nor was the oppor tunity long in coming. One Imorning lie called me into his office, and handing me a check, re- SSBJSBSMSlBBBMiBBSBMBBJBJBBMBJBBBaSMBBBBBBBMBMBWBMBIBSBMBlBBMBMBBMBM n - .!;-. . . . ; . , - - . i ! 5 1 i quested me W cash It for him at the bank.- j ; ' . 'V,. " '.w . ! As I entered the room, I observed that he appeared to be excessively agi tated; and I noticed, too, that he rose and hastily threw several small scraps of paper Into a drawer of his desk ; not, however, before I had" seen that the signature of Mr. Holland' was traced, more .'or' less1 perfectly, 'upon all of theml1 ; '.".. : : . .;:. I th'ough, t nothing Jf the : matter, at that moment ; but wheb, a week later, news was ' received that Mr. 4 Holland had ' been robbed of many thousand dollars by means of a cleverly counter feited check, I saw what it all meant. Haworth was the forgrer! There could be no doubt of it. The scraps of paper which he had flung into the drawer contained his first attempts at imitating the signature of his uncle My good fortune so in my fancy I deemed it seemed almost incredible at first. The man who had supplanted me was a common thief, punishable by law ! Here, then, was my revenge ready to my hand. I would ferret out the proof. I would accuse and convict him by my own unaided efforts. would degrade the man who had scorned me, and drag him in the mud before the eves of his intended wife. How I exulted in the! prospect ! But the proof? f ' I knew that if I could secure the scraps of paper upon' which he had im itated the name of Mr. Holland, I need go no further. Had he cunningly destroyed them, or had he, like most criminals, heed lessly left open the pit that was des tined to engulf him? Since the date of the forgery he had remained away from the mill ill at home, they said. Had he visited the place at night and made away with the testimony of his guilt ? I would soon decide that point. crept stealthily into his room, and with one of my keys unlocked the drawer of his desk. The father of lies had deserted his disciple to aid me. There lay the scraps just as he had tossed them to gether the mute but incontestable evidence of his guilt. , I gathered them up with trembling fingers, secreted them about me, and stole back to my room filled with sinful joy. His fate was in my hands. My; first impulse was to carry my proof before a magistrate and cause his immediate arrest. Then I hesitated. How much keener the stroke if I fore- bore until his present fear had passed, and he deemed himself safe again! I resolved to wait. For many days the officers of the law were utterly baffled in their search for the criminal. One night, however, it was whispered in the mill that suspi cion had begun to point towards Ha worth. He had involved himself, it was said, in secret speculations far be yond the remotest chance of recovery. Hence it was hinted that he might have forged his relative's name to clear him self. But as yet the suspicion remained unconfirmed. The rumor alarmed me. I feared that the truth might be told and my ven geance forestalled. I could withhold he blow no longer, or other and gent er hands would deal it for me. But ere I accused him at the bar of public justice I would blast his image in the heart of Virginia Holland. I would stab her to the soul, and look on exulting in her agony. I would say to her: "For this low wretch, this common thief, you have slighted my love!" That very hour, with the scraps of paper buttoned safely in my pocket, I made my way to her dwelling. With all my guilty anger I was a coward. I dared not face the woman whose death-blow I was about to deal. I turned and sat down in a garden chair in the deep shadow waiting to conquer my weakness. As I sat there I heard a low, deep sigh proceeding from the shrubbery near at hand. Peeping cautiously through the bushes, I saw Virginia Holland kneel ing upon the sod, with her hand clasped before her face. From her at titude I believed she was weeping. "She has heard of his danger," I muttered, bitterly, "and weeps for him." Well, I saw her agony. Did I exult in it as I had promised myself to do? No, mad with despair and jealousy as I was, my better nature conquered. An instantaneous revulsion of feeling came over me a feeling of shame for my premeditated revenge and pity for her sorrow. I felt that she was suffer ing as I had suffered. As I had loved her, so doubtless did she love ; Haworth. - Whatever wrong he had done me, I could not wound him through' her breast. A calm, glo rious thought stole into my troubled soul a thought of pardon and sacrifice. It brought a sense of melancholy pleas ure to me that seemed in some measure 'HUES to prepare me ior tne Durden l was about to take upon myself. Arising from my seat, I stole noise lessly to her side, and bending above her, pressed my lips upon her upraised browhad 1 not the right to, then? and whispering : " Do not weep, Vir ginia, I will save him," I jturned hastily away. The next instant the scraps of paper I had so carefully tifeasuredy torn into a thousand pieces, were scattered far and wide. :- ji naa resoivea rornrreirgaJce to save HaVorth, cost whatit might. I feared that if his affairs were to be submitted to any closer scrutiny, his guilt would become apparent. Therefore the sus picion resting on him must be averted. Another criminal must be found ready to confess his guilt and meet his fate without resistance. Who so fit for the sacrifice as myself? For her sake 11 ? I t -a -m m -m wouiu nave sunerea a nunureaioia as much. I did not pause to reflect, but making my way to Mr. Holland, bohily accused myself of forgery, and invoked justice upon myself. The rest has been told. I had paced the ctll for several hours, recalling these events to my mind vith a species of bitter satisfaction, when suddenly the dead silence of the night was broken by a tremendous tumult outside. A heavy tramping of feet and an uproar of voices as of a vast crowd, penetrated the thick walls of my prison. Peering out of the barred window, beheld the two hundred operatives of the mill clustering around the door. The light of the torches they carried fell upon my face, and 1 heard my name snouted witn tnunuers oi ap plause. What did it mean ? I feared that it had been discovered that I was inno cent, and mv sacrifice had been i for nothing. Presently the key grated in the lock, the door was flung open, and there en tered not the jailor, as I expected, but Virginia Holland, with hair dis heveled and eyes aflame, followed at a little distance by her father. "Come," she said, impetuously, seiz ing my hand. " Come away from this dreadful place." " What is this ?" I asked, drawing back in amazement. "Why are j you here, Virginia ? Know you not that am a felon, self-accused, and willing to prove my guilt?" l Know," sue exclaimed, raising her tear-wet eyes to mine, ' that you are no felon, but the noblest man that ever lived. I know all, Mansfield more than any one but you can tell me Come with us, then." j While I stood gazing at her in stupid wonder, Mr. Holland stepped forward and explained all that had passed. Alarmed by the turn which the ln- vestigations were taking, Haworth had fled from town that night, leaving as a claim upon his uncle's clemency an ab ject confession of his guilt. Though he could not understand j my design in criminating myself, Mr. Hoi land had taken immediate steps to pro cure my release. "Now, what does it mean?"! he asked. "Why did you accuse your, self, Mansfield?" " Do not ask him now !" interrupted Virginia, blushing. "I know why." "Then," I cried passionately, "you know that I love you that I have loved you these many weary months, not daring to confess it. You know hat I would sacrifice my life for you as well as I have tried to sacrifice my honor, 'that one you loved might es cape." "I did not love him," she answered tremulously. "My father desired me to marry him, but 1 could not, for I loved- " ' "Whom?" I cried, breathlessly ap proaching her. i " You !" sne replied, hiding her face upon my shoulder. " You only you my darling, I saw it all, my poor love. 1 saw your pride, your honor, your humility. I loved you because you were poor and proud and silent. But how could I tell you of it?" " Thank heaven for this forgeryi" I murmured, pressing her to 'my heart, for it has proved my salvation." "Humph!" grumbled Mr. Holland, good naturedly; "thank heaven that I have lost my ten thousand dollars ? Un grateful young dog!" The financial wrecks of our times, the miseries endured by so-called "suc cessful men," the ups and downs of commercial life and the general unhap- pinessof the very rich, ought to teach the philosophy of contentment to those who enjoy a respectable and modest in come, without cares or harassments. Many of us have to lament, not so much a want of opportuities in life! as our uneasiness for them when they come, "it mlgnt nave Deen," is tne language of our hearts oftener than words of complaint and murmuring. God sends us flax, but our spindle and distaff are out of repair or mislain, so that we are hot ready to use them. Important Use of Natural Gas. The petroleum product of Pennsylva nia now reaches the fabulous sum of eighty millions: f dollars per year, while the exportation runs to about sixty millions." Until recently, or at least within a few years, but little use has been made of the natural gas which has discharged Into either the open air or been burned in huge torch lights through the oil regions. In Beaver Falls, a manufacturing town of con siderable note, located about thirty miles west of Pittsburg on the Fort Wayne and Chicago- Railroad, one well was put down about sixteen years ago for oil, and struck gas at about 1,100 feet in depth, whence it poured continuously until about two years ago, when it was leased, cased up, and brought into use. This induced the Harmony Society to put down morei wells in different locali ties, all of which give out liberal sup plies, some as high as one hundred thousand feet every twenty-four hours, which is now being used in nearly eve ry manufacturing establishment in the town. About one-half of the gas used for lighting the town comes from these wells; it is also used under the gas re torts for heating (five in number). The large cutlery works use it in 49 heating furnaces ; the large heating hinge works, in three furnaces; the pottery works, in two large kilns and two very large furnaces for drying ware; the shovel works, in one large heating fur nace ; the file works, in seven large an nealing furnaces: the saw works, in one very large heating furnace, 14 feet long by 11 feet wide, which is run to a very high heat. It is also used in one forging furnace. Two drying kilns for seasoning lumber use it. Audit is also introduced into dwelling houses, heat ing furnaces, and stoves and cooking stoves, and is exclusively used direct from the wells for lighting one large dwelling. Other wells are now going down, and everything indicates the ex clusive use of the gas for all heating, illuminating, and manufacturing pur poses, its value is really incalulable in working steel. It is said to be fully equal to charcoal, if not superior, there being no base substance like sulphur or other matters so damaging to its quality. A remarkable feature about it is, that men work right along in a room filled with it, take it freely into their lungs in short, breathe it as they do air ; and it apptars rather healthful than other wise, while manufactured gas is actu ally dangerous to inhale. The flame is clear white and gives an intense heat with very little smoke. There seems no dimunition in the supply, but the gas is in all probability being constantly produced down deep in the earth. The True Cinderella.1 In true Cinderella history there are no fairy god-mothers, no mice and no pumpkins. A1 wise old eagle takes ali the management of the slipper, and we can in fancy see him carrying it over the silver sands and dark pyramids of Egypt, without greatly taxing our be lief, i Rodolphe a pretty name, to begin with was the fairest lady in all Egypt. She had a dainty foot, and wore jeweled slippers, and all the people gazed upon her with delight when she walked as though she were a goddes? or a fairy. She went out to bathe one day among the white lilies of the Nile. While she and her maids were sporting in the water, a great shadow passed over them, and they saw an eagle alight on the bank where their clothes had been left. Presently it arose with something in its talons, and wheeling through the golden hazes, became a speck in the clear sky. When Rodolphe came up the bank, she found that one of her jewelled slip pers had been carried away, and she said to her maids, " The eagle has taken it." And the maids said, " Then it will bring you luck. The eagle is a bird of good omen." , . too Rodolphe hobbled home with a light heart, one of her slipperless feet crushing the lous blossoms. Her maids laughed at her, but she said, "It is good luck, for an eagle has taken It." Far away up the Nile lay Memphis, with her bright-winged temples and palaces ; a city seventeen miles in cir cuit, the seat of the Pharoahs for nearly a thousand years, at this.timethe capi tal of Egypt. Here were the splendid temples of Isls, Serapis, and of the Sun, and the throne was then filled with a Pharaoh who had overthrown eleven other Egyptian kings. . His name was Psammeticus. His son. the Pharaoh Necho, slew- Josiah, king of Judah, B. C. 610. , He was sitting in a cool portico of his palace toward evening. The crimson sun was blazing low on the hot sands of the desert, but cool winds tripped with light feet along the dimping waves of the Nile, and fanned the , king as they passed. He arose, .walked into an open- court, when a great shadow passed above him. I .:.r..r,'- :':? He looked, up, and beheld with de light and awe an eagle descending, and wheeling above his head, with some thing sparkling in his talons. He looked upon the bird as a messenger from the sun. He lifted his arms for joy Jut then NO. 52. the eagle began to ascend, dropping the glittering treasure from his talons into his bosom. It was Rodolphe's jewelled sliDDer. ThftJrieixt day Psammeticus -Issued a proclamation which caused fill Mem phis to winder. Whoever wjould find the mate to pe jewelled slipper, which the eagle bad brought fo the palace, should bej loaded with riches, and taken into the service of the king. Roolpbeiheard the great news. She believe j that the eagle was indeed a meenger-pf the" gods to point out her destiny! - So she came to magnifi cent Memphis to answer the proclama tion of the king. With one slipperiest foot she ascjended the grand porticoes of the thaaoh8, and stood before the king With owncast eyes, lifting her dress rj use al i ove her dainty feet a per feet vision o beauty. Of course Psam- meticus Immediately fell in her, and married her, and love with made her queeil of all! Egypt. I There was great joy in all the dazzling tempes of Memphfs when the marriage was oilsjitrimated there was dancing and music, and strewing of flowers. AH .fcgypt was happy. Ison "Life In France. Threi are twenty-one central prisons J In France fdr prisoners with sentences of fivjj years and over. The cell system is adapted in prisons for the detention of prisoners) not sent up for more than a year i day, but in the central ailV as 100 sleen in nno prisons ward certain of their number being re sponsible for the preservation of order. The dormitc ries are lighted, and there are opening - from the galleries through which the guards may inspect them. By day the men work in ateliers, fifty or a tiundrod in each. Shoes, chairs. woven ferules, fatjric8, buttons, umbrella fchjinese lanterns, etc., are manufacturfed, and such light work as glossing paier, sewing copy books and making hair ornaments is done. The workis let t contractors hy a tariff fix-d by the local Chamber of Commerce, to preventj! any undue competition with free" labor, naif of the profits of the prisoner's v ork goes to the State ; he is allowjed to spend a quarter in procuring special jirtu les of diet, etc., and the re maining jqtiartcr is paid to him on leaving so that a discharged convict often finds himself with from $100 to 1300 cashi c ipital. A large proportion of the pri; oners use this in setting themselves ip in trade or in procuring passage to o her lands, These rewards of Indus trii I labor, together with the Industrial raining itself, constitute together the main and tolerable effectual counterbala ice to the otherwise grave evils of association. The element of always prominent in French and It is the sheet-anchor of hope is pnsong their administration. A visitor to La toante, at iaris, observed in the flm cell he inspected a table on which lay a pipe of tobacco, a half bottle of, win and a1 novel.! Accidental Jokes. i s It has often been said that the be jokes pre those which are made by ac cident, arid this is certainly the case with' proper names. Few intentional bulla"jh&ys ever been more complete than he grave official entry in a list o. Scottish- lacided proprietors: "John Elder; tie younger in right of Mrs, Margaret j Husband, his wife." The worthy pout try gentleman who, eighty years; ago, aunted the leader of the English opposition with looking like "a fox that had fallen into a pit," was as mucbj astounded as any one at the roar of laughter vhlch greeted this uncon scious pun qpon the names or Mr Pitt and Mr J Fox. The three la3t governors of the Don Cossacks have chanced to bear the m.mes , respectively signify Fire,Flood ind Fiend. In the list of the English Navy for the last century the reader's eye is still startled by the 8ightof the irrigate "Vengeance," com manded by Oaptain Death, with a first officer called William Devil, and a sur geon bearing the pleasantly suggestive namej of Jot n Ghost. But of all the authentic caes of this kind, the most singular is one which occurred at a wayside Inn In the West of England not many y ars ago. Three rositering commercial: travelers met there one winter ever ing and had a hearty ca rousel together, as a matter of course. Supper overt the three found some diffi culty in aHotting their respective shares of the the bi 1 ; but one of them at length cut short thi! dispute by proposing that whoeyer hac the "oldest name" among; them should go scot free, the expenses being halved by the other two. This amendment being promptly accepted No 1 produced a card. Inecribed "Richard Eve,',' which No. 2 trumped; with AdanijBron." The No. 3, a portljr veteran with a humorous gray eye, laid down! his card with thequiet confidence of a great general making a. decisive movement arid remarked with' a thick chuckle, ! don't much-think you'll beat right ning. this 'un, gents. And 'Mr. he was B. Gin- for the uair.e was
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