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Is tho otaclal organ of Hertford ana Northampton counties, and has a larger circulation In Bei tie, Northampton, Hertford and Gates counties than any paper published, it also circulates in thirty-seven other counties, and as an AD- ss.oKt mi2.uiv& jg Beqona 10 no paper m J I XA cross mark on ytar paper r' indicates that yr.ur, subscription has v. exy.red, or is due. We demand prompt, pto-i ments,-as we need what is due us to enable us to carry on- our -business more successfully.; rYomlses are worthless unlesi fulfilled. 1A sub scription Is a small amount tof a subscriber, but: put togetner. iney are consiqeraDie 10 us. 50 please remit. JOB PRINTING of all kinds done In tne best styles, and jat :ig- ures to suit the times. STATIONERY, CARDS, ENVELOPES, I BILL HEADS, LETTER HEADS, fu.nts'ied at the shortest notice Address a'l or Jers to the ENQUIRER, Murfreesboro, N. C j j 1 Profeasional Cards. W. C BOWKS, I I ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, N. C. Practices in Northampton and adjoining coun t es. Prompt attention to collection in ail parta 1 . 1 E, C. WARD, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, i j ASurfreesbom N. C Tractlces In Hertford and adjoining counties, ana in tne supreme ana irearai courts. prompt attention to collections. J J. YEATES, j j ! ATTORNEY-A'I'-LAW, Hurfreesboro, N. a Practices In the Superior, era! courts. Supreme and Fed- y A. BARNES, ATTORNEY-ATf-LAMv, AlurlreesborO, N. O. - l- 1 i - j Practices In Hertford and ! adjoining iountle mi in me supreme ana Federal courts. x-rompt attenuon to couecfclon. T. B JERNIUAN ATTORNEY-AT-LAW. fiarrellsvllle, , n. a collections made In any part of the State, 1 jonir w. noons, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Pitch Landlngj N.a Pract'ces in the Superior, Supreme, and Fed- 1 "oi vuuria, 1 - f Prompt attention to Collections. J B. WIN BORNE, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, WlntonJ N. a i 1 . Practices In Hertford andiadJofnlne counties. t oliections maJe in any pkrt of Norlh Caro- -i C F. CAMPCELL, I ! ,4. . h H H K P 1 2 m: A N. O. MURRILBESBOROj SLEEP. I. Away, unlovely dreams! M - 1 I De his, as heaven seems. !; ' ; i . ! Clear, and bright, and deep ! Soft as love, and ca!m as death. i f ' f y Sweet a) a summer n'ght without a breath, Sneep, sleep ! our song fs laden ! W.t'i the soul of slumber ; It was sung by a Samian maiden Who e lover was of the number WLo now keep l ...That ea m sleeo . -( ''J. ; Whncernoiue -in'aTairefwSence none s' .all weep., II touch thy temples pale ! I breathe my soul on tht e! And could my prayers avail, All my joy should be Dead, and I would live to weep, So thou might'st win one hour of quiet tleep. Renfrew. "Shure, and you had betther be in ahur- lor the red divils are near," cried Pat Malloy to the Renfrew sisters as he hurried past the little cottage in which the girls uvea. 1 The alarm had already been given of the presence 01 the Indians in the neighbor r. 1 3 a. 1 -r- f . . iiwu auu me ienirew giris naa each a horse nearly ready for the purpose of es capmgjon horseback when the Irishman passed.! Ihe sisters lived alone in a small log house" on the banks of the Antietam. They were very pretty girls, young and much courted by the rustic beaux of the settle meht. ! They were very industrious, with al; could cook to perfection and their cot tage was a model of neatness and cleanli ness. Just previous to the time when the Irishman passed, calling upon them to make haste in effecting their escape, they had been engaged in washing clothes and hang ing them upon a line to dry. As the I Antietam flowed by, reflecting their lithe forms and pretty faces and flow ing hair im the crystal waters, and holding itself up to them as a mirror in which to see their beauty and loveliness, they little dreamed that in the bushes on the other side of the stream were concealed two sav ages intently watching the shadows with which the bubbling brook was toying. "If Robby and Argyle could see us now," said one of the sisters, laughing and draw ing her wet garments round her well shaped ankles,1 4they might not think we are such pretty girls as they always say we are." Thtfy woillia-r to Icjuk l'HiM sti-CUOI," theother answered contemplating herself . a mi a . mirrored in me water, "ine Antietam is a looking-glass that always flatters me in my own eyes and I think our beaux would like to see the picture. " "Humph!" muttered one of the savages as if preparing for a spring'. Just then a fleeing family came down the road past the mill and seeing the girls at work gave them notice of the danger. In alarm the sisters began at once to' saddle their horses, but they were as brave as they were pretty, and their neighbors were out of sight before the horses were ready. The Iudians, still crouching in the bushes, nar rowly watched their intended victims and were taking deliberate aim to slay the de fenceless girls when the Irishman appeared. "Shure, and you had betther be in a hur ry, the red divils are near," the Irishman cried, and then passed on, little dreaming that he was leaving the two girls to their fate. ; Passing over the brow of the hill he soon disappeared and a mile away he met Robby and Argyle descending from a spur of the mountain where they had been all the morning hunting. Quickly communi cating the danger of the Renfrew girls to their lovers, he continued his retreat, while they, well armed and skilled in Indian war fare, hurriedly moved towards the cottage to save their sweethearts from a foe they knew to be relentless. Unfortunately it was then already too late. As soon as the Irishman disappeared over the hill the savages again took deliberate aim, each of his allotted victim for there were only two of the monsters and as the girls were about mounting their horses they both fell dead, pierced, by a bullet. The Jovers heard the shots and increased their speed,' but before they reached the ..scene' of the tragedy the Indians had made their es cape , j The sight that met the gaze of the two men brought anguish to their hearts and tears to their eyes. x j .' On the ground near the door of their cot tage lay; the sisters dead and scalped. "Revenge! revenge!" cried Robby, sob bing with grief, j "We'll pursue the red brutes andj punish them for this crime," Argyle answered, re pressing; the sorrow at his heart. j The hunters lifted the lifeless forms of the ;murdered girls from the ground jand car ried their dead bodies, still warm fith the life-blood, which had only ceased to flow, into the cottage. Placing them on ja couch side by side, the men smoothed the few locks that remained over the scalp wounds which the savages had made, and then stood for awhile in silent grief over the inanimate remains they loved so well. ! "Revenge! revenge!" Robby again mut tered,' sadly moving toward the door. 'We must find the trail," Argyle said, and closing the door softly behind him, the hunters started in search of the murderers. It was not long until the trail was struck. It led away to the westward. Pursuing it steadily, the hunters were far in the monntins before nightfall, but the darkness of the night compelled them to de lay their pursuit until the next day. With the dawn they were again on the trail and by noon they had reached Sideling Hill, a bold spur of the of the blue mounta ns, far to the westward of the Kittochtrnny ranges. Above them frowned the overhanging rocks which give a threatening aspect to the wild mountain scenery of the . Upper Juniata, while below them were the deep gorges aud valleys of a singularly picturesque locality. The hot sun of noon poured its blistering rays even upon the mountain side, and the men, who bAd eaten nothing and slept lint little, began to feel overcome with the lieni, with fasting and with exertion. Still they did not relax their efforts and as keenly as at the start they looked about them for fhe trail. ;' " - (: "We must be more and more carefii," Argyle said. The trail is getting fresher and I think we are now 'Very close to the brutes for whom we are looking. " "There is a small opening in the trees ahead, " Robby answered iaia whisper ; j "I should not be surprised if the Indians W,f in there, resting fromrthe5 BSbn heat." - The hunters cautiously drew near to the spot indicated by Robby and peered through the copse with anxious eyes. ' It was a small open glade, end several wild plum trees fringed its sides. The murderers there they are," ex claimed Argyle, in a suppressel whisper, and at the same moment Robly saw the two savages standing under a plum tree, cautiously plucking the fruit and slowly eating it. Each would carefuiy reach up for a plum, pull it off and thin, glancing round the open area, eat it in alistening at titude. . They were so quiet, that the only sound that could be heard was the whisper ing breezes. The hearts of the hunters letped with joy when they saw the monsters, ihe slayers of their sweethearts, in their po rer. "I will take the man under the low hang ing branch to the left, and leave the other to you," Robby whispered to his 'com panion. Again the Indians raised a plum to their mouths, looking cautiously round them. "We are not near enough," Argyle ; an swered, in the same suppressed whisper ; "we must not fire until we are near enough to see the plum seed drop from the mouth of each savage. "Very good," Robby said; "now let us move upon the enemy. " Stealthily the two men crept toward the savages. The Indians were unconscious of the approach of their pursuers, but still on the alert, they reached up for another plum. The time agreed upon by the white men had come 4hey had seen the plum seeds drop from the mouths of the savages. Ex changing a look, each understood that the other was ready to fire when the next seed f elL Slowly the plum was pulled and eaten the seeds dropping simultaneously. Simul taneously the hunters fired, and, springing up, they rushed forward to complete their work, if need be, with their knives. It needed no completion. The bullets had sped with deadly aim and already the savages were still in death. " brute! Cried Arry la, tvpig up on the heart of the savage and tearing the scalp from the skull. The monster," Robby exclaimed at the same time showing a similar attention to the other Indian. In the possession of the savages, the lovers found the scalps of their sweethearts, and, securing these, they started, hungry and footsore as they were, to retrace their steps. ! . The funeral train bearing the bodies of the Renfrew sisters was about to start for the place of burial. Many sympathizing friends and neigh bors stood round the double bier, and among them was Pat Malloy, the Irishman who had advised the two girls to hasten their escape. "If they had done as I bid them," Pat said, "they might be here now, livin' and well, and a takin' part in their own funeral and their two lovers with them. By the by, L wonder what has become of Robby and Argyle? Gone after the murderin sav ages I should say. I tould them that the red bastes were down here near the mill and the Renfrew girls a-saddlin' their horses to get away, and at the word, over the hills they went like mad. Nobody has seen aitlier of thim since." i As Pat spoke the hunters were seen ap proaching the house, ! and the Irishmau's speech was scarcely finished when they en tered the doorway and quietly made their way to the coffin in which the two mur dered girls had been placed. By each of the bodies they laid down two scalps, one taken from the head of one of the savages and the other from that of his victim. Neither spoke a word, but their eyes were filled with tears and their brawny athletic bodies were shaken with an emotion they could not suppress. "Let us pray," said the demure Presby terian minister who had been summoned from the neighboring village to say the last sad rites for the dead. All knelt around the bier. All? No not all. ; The hunters stood insensible to every thing around them, gazing intently at the faces of the dead. When the parson's prayer was finished the scalps of the murdered girls and of their murderers were placed in the coffin with the remains, the lids of the caskets were closed and they were borne to a sequestered grave on a quiet hillside in view of the his toric stream, the Antietam. The grave may still be seen marked as it is by a flat stone, set edgewise. It might have been forgotten, long ere this had not the two hunters, their lovers and their avengers, thus marked the spot and with their own hands carved upon the rude stone in still ruder letters the simple inscription: Renfrew. Advertising Cheats. It has become so common to write the beginning of an elegant, interesting article and then run it into some adver tisement that we avoid all such cheats and 8im ply call attention to the merits of Hop Bitters in as plain honest terms as possible, to induce people to give them one trial, as no one who knows their value will ever use anything else. Evil is like a nightmare ; the instant you begin to strive with it, to bestir yourself, it Is already ended. Love sought is good, but given tin- sought is better, Bunting Another Dyer. The woman who was ready to die in de fence of her rights, was escorted out by Bi jah in his most gallant manner, and her tongue got right to work, without any loss of time. Said she : : ' - "You see, I was ripping up my gray skirt, calculating to have it dyed over plum black,. and when I got it ripped, I went down to the dyer's, and, said I, jhow much f to ; dye ; this 1 beautiful goods? Says he, 1 cant -dye itplum black becauseof vt'Ki be ' stains. Says I, where 's beer stains, and says he, right here, and here, and here. Says I, how dare you, sir! And says he, I'm only telling the truth. Says I "Mrs. Bebee, what does all this mean?" interrupted the Court. . "Why, sir, haven't you been paying at tention to my legal speech?" 1 'Haven't heard a word not a word, ou are charged with disturbing the peace. " "What peace?" t The public peace, madm." "I never did, sir! All J did was to f tell that dyer that he lied, sir, and to go out on the walk, and give him my opinion of him ario his shop! There were only two niggers there at all, and they didn t seem dis turbed." Were there any beer stains on 1 the dress?" he asked. JNever a one, sir. inose stains were where I had spilled tea and coffee and I can prove it my seven children and tliree sisters." V "Cleopatra didn't go around among , thej dye-houses and raise rows," suggested I His Honor. "I can't help it if she didn't. I know my rights and I'll have 'em or perish !" "I shall have to fine you $5, Mrs. Bebee." "uorrect, sir here is the cash, it iwas worth the money to tell that man just what I thought of liim. I'll go back and - "And get fined $10 for it," he put in. She concluded not to, and taking! her ffray dress under her arm she left for1 liome and another dyer's. , Autographic Telegraphy. Autographic telegraphy, or the process of transmitting messages in the actual handwriting of the sender, has occasional ly, during the past 3Q years, constituted the special study of scientific minds. So long ago as 1850 Mr. F. C. Bakewell invented a copying telegraph, by means of which autographic telegraphy was effected, i and this was probably the first time it was effect- nally accomplished. In this instance the massage waa written, by JhP ,fifrtvler -jriilx a. "fe-unr.ny ink or varnish tin metallic paper or tin-iou, and.this writing was, by the aid of mechanism, used to actuate electric j cur rents in such a way as to procure a record at the distant station by .the chemical de composition of a solution with which the receiving paper, was damped. Both the written massage and the paper were fixed around cylinders of similar form and dimen sions, one being placed inihe7transmitting and the other in the recorefffig instrument, and the cylinders were caused to revolve with corresponding velocities. Each time the gummy and, consequently, raised lines of the writing were erossed by a pointer under which the metallic paper was tra versed in the transmitter, a mark corre sponding in position was made on the pre pared paper at the receiving end. It there fore followed that the sum of all the marks reproduced the writting itself. Mr. Bake well successfully reproduced the writing in white on a blue ground, but the process failed to become one of public utility; ow ing to the extreme slowness with which the apparatus worked and the difficulty that was experienced in maintaining uniform and synchronous motion in the instruments. In 1856, the Abbe Caselli, In Rally, endea vored to solve the problem of autographic telcgrapy in a similar manner. His appa ratus was exhibited in England, and ! was used practically between Paris and "Mar seilles and Paris and Lyons. Plans, draw ings, and autograph sketches were faithful ly reproduced at different places, but it was found that the apparatus had not only the defects of Bakewell's, but it was very costly and complicated The other subsequent workers in this direction were M. Meyer and M. Lenoir, who tried to accomplish the same results with ordinary ink. They, however, persued their, investigations quite independently-, of and unknown to each other. We have recently been afforded the opportunity of examining the latest example of this class of apparatus at the General Post Office, where it has been submitted to the authorities for trial, v This is the inven tion of M. D'Arlincourt, 6f Paris, and its general principles are similar to those which govern Bakewell's system. The distingu ishing feature in D'Arlincourts's apparatus, however, is the introduction of an extreme ly ingenious synchronous movement, by means of which the speed of travel of the cylinders is rendered uniform, both in the transmitting and the recording machine. The message to be sent, which may be either in the ordinary or shorthand, is writ ten with a thick, gummy ink upon a strip of metallic-faced paper about 1 2 inches long and 2J inches deep, which is wrapped around the cylinder of the transmitting in strument. A strip of white paper, chemi cally prepared any of siniilarjdimensions, is placed on the cylinder of the recording ap paratus, and the instruments are placd in electrical connection and started, j The raised 'writting actuating the electric cur rent, causes a reproduction of the original message facsimile on the paper in the re cording instrument, which may be hundreds. of miles away from the othc. Upon the occasion of our visit to the two instruments, although in the same room, were partically placed 200 miles apart. The writing can be produced in either blue, brown, red, or black, according to the chemical prepara tion of the paper, but always on a white ground, and a number of copies can be taken from one original. In the same way, sketches, plans, or drawings may be, faith fully transmitted; some sketches were, in fact, accurately reproduced on the occasion of our visit. - Although the apparatus is perfect in its action, it still has one draw fcackj which was common to its predecessors - that of slowness of reproduction. The time occupied in revolting the cylinder a sufficient number of time? to allow the pointer to traverse the whole surface of the paper m seven minutes, and thi3 rate of speed is far below that required and at tained in practice for commercial purposes. ine jrost umce authorities, to whom we are indebted for. our inspection, do not, therefore, see their way to utilize M. DAr lincourt'8 ingenious invention at present- It is, howevei being worked In FraapeTin es, for use m which, and in some special cases, it is exceedingly well adapjed. The Wrong Man. When Thomas Mann Randolph was Gov ernor of Virginia, he was once arrested within a few hundred yards of his home and carried a prisoner to his own house. The Governor was on a visit to his home, and finding that the fencing on his plantation was pulled down and burned by wagoners passing along from the valley to Richmond, he determined to detect and punish them. One evening he observed a party-go, into camp on the roadside, and after dark he strolled down to a point where he could conveniently watch them. He staid out all night but the wagoners made no depreda tions on his fences. In the early morning, 1 . 1 m - -mm mm uowever, wnen tney were about to Kindle a fire to prepare breakfast, they started out to gather up what fuel they might find for that purpose, when they spied a man sitting on a fence a short distance ahead. Now, it appears that a short time before Governor Randolph had issued his proclamation, of fering a reward for the capture of n es caped horse thief, and the wagoners, who had seen a description of the convict. thought they discovered a close resemblance between the man on the fence and the es caped felon. So thoroughly satisfied were they that they wrould receive the reward for his arrest that they approached and an nounced that he was their prisoner. One of them proposed, as he cracked his wagon whip, to give him a thrashing and then let him go, but his companion protested that it was proper to ascertain whether he was the guilty party before inflicting the punish ment, and proposed to take him to the resi J - -W- 1 m J -m m uence 01 irov. nanaoipM, which was near by, and get his advice." Accordingly they marched their prisoner up to the house, and knocking at the front door, a servant made his appearance, of whom they in f -quirec' : "Is your master at home ?" The man opened his eyes in astonishment' Governor, "That s master." It is said that the Governor then promptly confirmed the statement of the servant, and joined heartily m the laugh that followed. He then told the man who had proposed to whip him without the opportunity of de fense to remain outside and he would send him a morning dram, at the same time un buttoning his coat and exposing a pair of horse pistols, and remarking that he should certainly have used them had an attempt been made to carry the threat of castigatpn into execution. The other wagoner he inr vited to join him in a hot breakfast. Mother Carey' Chickens. The owner of the imposing title "Thalas sidroma Pelagica" is only six inches long, and is the smallest of webfooted birds. Above, its feathers are black, sleek and glossy, with glints of -blue; but under neath they are dark brown. Its wings are long, and it flies very swiftly, seldom flap ping. Sometimes it seems to hang in jthe air witn wings outspread, while it runs along the surface of the waves; and from this habit it was named "Petrel" (which means "Little Peter") after St. Peter, who walked on the water. When a storm is brewing, although no other sign can be seen by man, the petrels flock together and give loud shrill cries, as if to warn ship men of coming danger. For this reason sailors call them "stormy petrels." But men of science say that the reason why pe trels gather before a storm is that then they catch very easily the sea animals on which they feed. Some observers add that when rain falls the petrels catch the drops, and that is how tney quench their thirst. These birds are named also "sea-swallows," be cause their flying is like that of the com mon swallow. They are called "Mother Carey's Chickens" by sailors; but I never have learned why they got that name, nor who Mother ! Carey was. I have heard though in the Faroe islands these birds be come very fat, and men string them on wicks for use as lamps ! Although the stormy petrel passes most of its life on the wing, it comes ashore to lay its eggs; and these it hides two feet deep, buried in the beech, or in burrows near, the tops of cliffs. The Antiquity of Weaving The earliest records of the art of weaving are to be found in the Old Testament. Pharaoh arrayed Joseph in 'vestures of fine linen," and Job lamented that his days were swifter than the weavers shuttle; the use of the simile proving that the shuttle was a common and well-known object at the time. Portions of woven cloth and a weaver's shuttle have been I found among the remains of the Lake dwellings, and as the latter are believed to belong to the stone age, the origin of the art may possibly have been nearly coincident with the existence of man. Few if any savage races liave been discovered altogether ignorant of the art, and many of them have brought it to a con siderable degree of perfection; while the relics of the ancient Peruvians and Egyp tians show that they were skilled weavers. Same fragments of Egyptian cloth were found, on examination, to be woven with threads 01 about 100 hank to the pound. with 140 threads to the inch in the warp, and 64 in the woof. Although the art was practiced extensively, and with no mean skill, in very ancient times, it progressed slowly and gradually by small steps, at long intervals. The great advances in th art of weaving have been made during the past 300 years, mainly, during the past cen tury. i ie Times and Othertlmes. . . BY D. W. CTJETI3. - The antiquity of signs which were form erly mostly pictorial, is very great. They can be traced back as far as Egypt, and in the excavations at Poinpeii there have been found pictures of winged cupids with shoes in their hands, which are now so often seen on store! cards; the "Bush," and porters bearing a. wine cask, dlgured in front of a rwTh"6ltore, while a cow gave notice that milk was sold on the premises. A full description of these necessary ad juncts to) trade, their history and influence on the public, would filLa large book and should bjj illustrated. I will however, make mention bf a few odd ones, as well as other facts, j Before education was so widely dif fused ?ind newspaper ad veil ising, and home numbering made signs a mere guide board, they; were of much greater importance than now. The general public easily understood the rude' pictures, although they would have been unable to read lettered ones. In 16051 the British House of Commons proposed to raise over half a million pounds by a tax on 'signs, which they averred could be done jwith "great ease." Pictures of a dead dog and the words ''Trust is dead" &c, figures of Turks, In dians, ! &jc., for tobacconists, plows for agri cultural stores, and many other similar ones have been in use for centuries. Sign bainters are responsible for many droll looking signs by their improper use, or neglect Of the rules of punctuation as well as of bad j spelling. Unlike printers, they cannot readily correct their proofs. Here are a few comical mistakes : A "Vood Smith, Lamb Butcher ; Fre Sheggs, Moon Gilder.. There! is a colored artist in lime in Wash ington by the appropriate name of Black, whose sign reads "A Black white and colored jWhite washer." , Here are some more odd ones : Freshj Sea water sold here. Sage & Gos ling, jand- Rumfit and Cutwell tailors. Wood & Carpenter Read & Wright. The largest sign-board in this country is in Florida. It may bi plainly read at a dis tance of six miles and is a sign worth paying- for. j lit shows tourists on the St. John's river the location of "Orange Park," and measures 200 feet in length and each of the tenj letters are twelve feet high and fifteen feet wide, Signs are more numerous and ornamon taljj it is Said, in America than in English cities, though we . do not use the 'emblems of trade tcj any jrreat jRXtent and-have , nearly done away with the old custom of naming houses UkL vessels. ' JVindow and other in-door signs are a new and distinct variety. Suchjodd signs as Jane Smith and Brother are sometimes met with. The study of sign boards from an'English point o view is much more interesting than it can ever be on this side of the water ,; the names of the public houses alone giving ample employment. An interesting book called the "History of Sign Boards" treats fully on the matter. The comical names of tome of the public houses in England is attributable to corruption of spelling and is true to the pronunciation of the word itself thus : j 'Bacchanals," became Bag o' Nails, "Catort Fidele," the Cat and Fiddle. jSigni in the' old countries wrere often taken like trade marks in the utilitarian age, from the coats of arms of families. The names of streets were in turn often de rived from a public house bearing a well known sign. Target Practice. regiment was ordered out for target practice, and co the unspeakable dingus bf the Instructor the soldiers made bull's-eyes on barns and centres on the' planet Uranus. "Gimme that rifle, you cross-eyed son of an old smooth-bore Tower musket," yelledthe instructor "and watch me." lie fires and misses the target, the bullet: striking . about two hundred yards short and a quarter of a mile to the right. "Thai's the way you gawks do," says the j Instructor calmly, putting in another . cartridge; f'never make any aloivahce for windage pay no atten tion to your elevation nothing." He fires again and sends the bullet over the target. I' And thafs the way some more of you do get a good aim on the mark, but when you pull the trigger, up goes your'muzzleand the ball goes up among the little stars and all around the moon, fair: regent of the heavens." iFirea again and makes a bull's-eye. 1 i do!" 1. Diamonds Unearthed. As love without esteem is volatile and capricious, esteem without love is languid and cold. - He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it may be a saint ; that boasteth of it is; a devil. A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones. 1 Short, isolated sentences was the mode in which ancient wisdom .delighted to convey its precepts for the regulation of human con duct, i Yea! this is life. Make this forenoon sublime, this afternoon a psalm, this night a prayer, and time is conquered and thy- crown; is won. Children's singing breathes of Paradise : clear, jliquid tones that flow from lips and innocent hearts like the sweetness of a flute, or the felling of water from a fountain. There are moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter ;' when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happi est moments.' Signs
The Albemarle Enquirer (Murfreesboro, N.C.)
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June 5, 1879, edition 1
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