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A hi a By P.-M;ittA.I.E. ... . . - OS ADVERTISING BATES. ; i . 1 tville St.' Second Floor tosher BuUdmg, . Fvei rates or v38cairnoHi 1 One copy one year mailed post-paid ...... .2 00 One i t . ; rt.-; . copy six months, mafled post-paid. t 00 , ,it i v, .r, , so name entered without payment, and " -' " 1 'paper sent after exptattou of e paid ; for,1 .(Jjj '.JV' , f ; J I. IS ii -ii7 Ji-i J 7i-.( 1 J:i AdvertiserotiXilA wiQ le inserted lor Onq Dollar mk 1 ;l ih rt' I tor wdiwakuent publication .vH 71 :m.ee Office of tlit , y 1 1 .!! U A LEIGH, N. C, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1885. -i:- -(:: K'l '-'I it J ! 1f RALEIGH REGISTER, -vr" kq I Second Floor 01 Fisher Building, Fayetteville K''"" nl iLNU." ' Street, nextlto Market Houae. , I l THE OlVD RULI.. ; '.j.. . Thomas 'Dunn Engliih.J -'! Here from the brow of the hill I look, , " Thnmgh a lattice of houghs and leaves, ' ' ' On the old gray mill with its (cambrel roof , J And the moss on Its rotUng eaves. (' . I betr the clatter that jars 1U wallfl,' , A(, And the rushing water's sound, : . , Ami I iee the black floats rise and fall , j fj As the wheel goes slowly round,; , . t I ' I . ,i . : ,' I rode there often when I was young, ' With my gristi the horse before, , . , , And talked with Felly, the mfller's girl, , , ' As I waited my turn a the, 'door. ; , . ; nd while she tossed her ringlets brown, . ;,. And flirted and chatted so free, 4.;. ., s , The wheel might stop or the' wheel might go, It was all the same to me.; i ; -: -Tis tweuty years since last I stood, . . . , . , t On the spot where I stand to-day, . And Nelly is wed, and the aoiller is dead, , And (he mill and I are gray. ; ,., f But both, till we fall into ruin and wreck, 1 To our fortune of tofl are bound : , -; And the man goes and the stream flows, And the wheel moves slowly round. THEBKIAL BELTS. The Great FrwUXoaeofNortajiOarollu. American Meteorological Journal.!' ' . More than twenty years ago (1861)' ap peared in the agricultural volume of the. Patent Office Report aa article on this, sub ject from the pen of Mr, Silas ' McDowell, of Franklin, Macon county, N. .C. , He was a man of much intelligence, and had lieen in youth a companion of John Lyon, the English botanist, exploring with him the Black, Yellow, Roan, Grandfather and Linville Ranges, and caring for him until his death in 1814. '. Mr. McDowell was also a companion of Curtis, Buckley, Reanhardt and Dow, the hitter of whom" perished among the moun tains, and his remains were never discov ered. Dr. Gray was in communication with him more than forty years ago. He wrote me, in 1879, being thea in his glth year, saying : "When I commenced businessit was as a farmer ip jrestern North Carolina, in a wild valley and amid lofty mountains, and for nearly fifty years my house was an open free home to the scien tist, particularly the geologist and botanist (my own specialties). But now the light begins to burn dim in the binnacle, and is nearly out." He died in 1882, at the ripe old age of 87. Honor to. his memory ! 1 cannot do better than to give de scription of the phenomena observed by him in his own words: "Amongst the valleys of the southern Alleghanies some times winter is .succeeded by. wrm weather, which, continuing through the months of March and April, brings out vegetation rapidly , and clothes the forest in an early verdure. "This pleasant spring weather is termi nated by a few days' rain,' and the clear ing up is followed by cold raking winds from the northwest, leaving the atmos phere of a pure indigo tmt,ttarough which wink bright stars; but, if the wind sub sides at -night, ' the ' siijWeeding ' toorning shows a heavy hoarfrost; vegetation is ut terly killed, including all manner of fruit jerms, and the landscape clothed in ver dure the day before now looks dark and dreary. It is under precisely this condition of things that the beautiful phenomenon of the 'Verdant Zone" or "Thermal Belt" exhibits itself upon our mountain sides, commencing at about three hundred feet vertical height above the valleys, and tra versing them in a perfectly horizontal line throughout their entire length, like a vast green ribbon upon a black ground. "Its breadth is four hundred feet verti cal height, and from that wider, according to the degree of the angle of the moun tain with the plane of the horizon. Veg etation of all kinds, within the limits of this zone is untouched by frost; and such is its protective influence that the Isabella, the most tender of all our native grapes, has not failed to produce abundant crops in twenty-six consecutive years; nor has fruit of any kind ever been known, within these limits to be frost-killed, though there have been instances .where it haa bkeo so from a severe freeze. The lines are sometimes so sharply drawn that one-half of a shrub may be frost-killed while the other half is unaffected. "This belt varies in the height of its range above different valleys. I will name a case in point. I made my observations in relation to this belt in Macon ' county, N. C, which is traversed by the beautiful vallev of the Little Tennessee river lying 2.000 feet above tide water. Here, when the thermometer is down to 26, the frost reaches 300 feet vertical height. A small river, having its- source in s high plateau 1,900 feet above this, runs down Into this valley, breaking through three mountain barriers, and consequently making three short valleys, including the plateau, rising one above the other, each of which has its own vernal zone, traversing the hillsides that enclose them, the first of which takes a much lower range than that of the lower valley, and each taking a lower as the val leys mount&igher in the atmosphere, and in the highest one the range or tne oeu is not more than 100 feet above the common level of the plateau, a beautiful level height containing 6,000 acres of land and lying ,00 feet above tide water. The country on the Atlantic side oJ Blue Ridze sinks rapidly by a succeS- n of long, sunny slopes reaching down tne piam or tevei errantry. Aiong se slopes the air, is pure, and dryf ,a jef-, the consumptive, as diseases t tne have never yet been knows to origi- ong the ' inhabitants ol theee dry, ountains, and here also docs tne d a most . salubrious climate and home." . " v .: - -i similar belt is found along the of the Tryon Mountain range nty, N. C. R. McAboy, of Linn, in this e belt along Tryon Moun- ight miles long and extends et above tide water to 2,200 about 1,000 feet ia width. the very - base of the tnoun- a up till you have attained f the Blue Ridge, say or be county; with n He belt is most perfect, of II V II 1 Mor s V 1 f "3 id 1 wy str I mer and Iwith sT i SL7 r facts of temperature are The mercury falls in sum- rises in winter, when compared either the top or the base of the I mountain. SO much r that tnvolloni oh the highway through. the belt perceive the -meieuce wiinout the am of fi. thermome This difference is greater at night than during the daytime, being -10 on the summer nights, and 15-209 ob winter nignts. There is verv little dew apnor. Hy none perceptible, which accounts for "ie or no irosf. - .;'..!$ t-,)timw . " The flora in grand. The Azalea titer, instead of being a shrub four feet high, at tains a height of 10-20 feet, and' exhibits t-very shade of pink And orange. - ; i. ! 'l Wesawfn latitude 35, but are for all' practical" purposes 3" south of our geo graphical position. " The leaves of plants, shrubs and flowers remain untouched by frost' Until the' latter part of December; and Sometimes till the middle of January; when' they are killed by snow or sleet The early spring in the belt admits of planting any vegetables the first of Pebru;. ary ' -without tisk , from frost. ' ' Tomatoes,1 tobacCb and ' other 5 tender plants remain freen until after the middle of December, ig trees lire through the winter hnpro tected;; knd' bear' full crops, -while in the valley they are killed to the ground' every winter. 1 Granes never mildew nOr rot. and are of large size and delicious flavor.: This belt is confined Within distinct and ( well defined limits,1 which remain the 'same from year to year, v and in the middle stratum of air r land on the mountain aide;:!,''1!i - ' " ' '' Another ! Writer 1 says i 1 After a snowi storm not a particle of snow will exist in the belt (it melts as it falls), "while the tops and sides ef the mountains above, and the valleys betbw,' will be covered. " ;' ! " Prof. John Le Conte (Science, vol.' 1,' p. 278) BAys'T 1 wish to put oh record the' results 01 observations made ty me many years ago, on the frostless zones" of the flanks of the mountafn spurs adjacent to the valleys in the Blue Ridge. My obser vations were made at Flat Rock, near Hen derson vitle, Henderson county, NV C.f a well Watered, fertile, mountaih-platea'u-like valley, which is about 2,200 feet above the sea-level. 41 My own observations, and the infor mation elicited from residents, seem to in dicate the following facts: The zones in question are not exempt from frost during the -whole of the cold season ; in fact, dur ing the winter, the ground in these belts is frequently frozen to a considerable depth, but during the spring months they are con spicuously and uniformly frostless." ' . It seems, then, to be an established fact that, at these three points, in three differ ent counties, there are 'some noteworthy meteorological .conditions- prevailing along this belt of 400 to 1,000 feet of perpendic ular height, and it seems probable that a similar state of things exists in kind, if not. in degree, on all the southern and eastern slopes of parallel mountain ranges in that latitude where protected against wind. . As to Mr. McDowell's assertion, that " The thermal belt must exist in all coun tries traversed by high mountains and deep valleys," it is, and "will be a matter of in terest for observers in such situations to corroborate or disprove, and this is our object of the presentation of this paper at this time. Respecting the explanation of these phenomena, Mr. McDowell theorizes as follows: "Heat is ever radiating from the earth, and in cold, clear, still nights it mounts upward through the cold, damp air, taking from it its ealoric, while the latter rushes down in a cold, frost-producing current and hence the lowest ground in a vallev is ever subject to the hardest frosts. , " The warm, dry, light current keeps mounting upward like cork in the water, until: it reaches a stratum of atmosphere too thin and light to support it, when it consequently falls back and pours its warm, dry, genial stratum upon the top of the lower or frost stratum ; and hence, on cold, frosty nights, is produced the phe nomenon of the ' Vernal zone.' " Of course such a phenomenon must be explained in. general upon the theory of the nocturnal stratification of layers of the atmosphere, having different amounts of moisture and caloric, of which we so often see examples when the mist settles in the Valleys at a given level, which, if the tem perature be sufficiently low, would also be the frost line, or when often, on a sum mer's day, from a mountain top the white cumuli may be seen stretching away in long lines at a well-defined altitude. But in these cases we have no such visible and exact demarcation of the warmer stratum on its upper side. Prof.. Le Conte, in an article already quoted from, says : "The 'frostless zones' eoineuU with th nocturnal and morning fog-belts ' of the spring months. , The uniform pressure of these white circum scribed belts of fog on the flanks of th mountain spurs, during the early morning hours, imparts a striking feature to the scenery of these valleys. When illumina ted by the bright morning1 sun, they ap pear like girdles of cotton-wool of moder ate width, encircling the peaks at the height of 200 or ' 300 feet above the adja cent valleys ; and their cumulus-like white- neas, ' contrasted wnn tne 'veraure aoove and below them, is no less striking' than it is beautiful. " ! The latter circumstance seems to furnish an explanation of the physical cause of the so-called "Thermal Belt;" for 4he con stant fogs at night and in the morning not only prevent refrigeration by obstructing terrestrial radiation, ' but,' during the con densation of vapor in the process of fog foraation, there mast be developed an enormous amount of heat just at this zone. Why this condensation -of aqueouw vapor should be so persistently restricted to a belt of only a few hundred feet in vertical thickness, is a question much more diffi cult to answer. The observations of intel ligent residents' Wth'nibdktaln" valleys in the southern divisions of the Appalachian chain will doubtless verify or disprove the general coincidence of the " frostless zone " with the foe-belt, w:' ' ' This Piedmont' region, not merely that section, technibally so-called "but the zone alone 1 and around 'the southern Appala chians having an elevation of from 1,000 to 2. 500 feet above sea-level, possesses at tractions as regards ' beauty and grandeur of scenery,. ferCj a .yajjety, gf, soiL. equability and salubrity of climate, not to be surpassed in toe union. If, in addition, these thermal belts exist, and extend generally among those ranges, offering exemption from certain forms of disease, with exceptionally favorable facil ities for fruik culture, a knowledge of the facts should be more generally diffused. . To tbc meteorologist, the physiciahj the botanist, the fruit, grower, and the friend of humanity, in. general, these alleged facts are full of interest,, And are certainly worth v of more. accurata and reliable ob servation and' investigation, and, if veri fied, of scientific explanation, H is to be hoped that we may, at sorpe future time, have, a series of simultaneous and continuous .thermometrical , nd ,hy-. erometrical observations at different points within and without these belts throughout the year, to show, the actual difference in temperature,, and moisture and the limits 01 the beiv ; , , 4 t v uaicKWNu, V ; National Deaf-MuU College, Washington, d. a ..in M'H)I ')! lit AootMer "Fwnwy," Hellfloma Paper. r 1 FBBEKIEN ANO SLAVES, Natlftnal Gaiety not National Ilappl- .rw . ; ne"-,- tl-i i ftir.-Mtvfrhi Chrlsttsa at Work. a An experienced party thinks that whis ky snouid 1 oe taken straight, or, " you must' drink it with ' something, drink' it with alacrity. '' Sir Edward LyttoB Bulwer.j ' ' ' T rirtsspf! irinn- linorprinrlv . - . c ; e e J through France than I did through the ot,her portions of mytoutc. " "I had dwelt long enough' In the capital to be anxious to survey the country. It 'was then that the last scale which the magic of Louis Qua torze, and the . memory of his gorgeous court had left upon the moral eve, fell off. ana 1 saw me real essence 01. mat mon arch's greatness' and the true relics of his reign. I saw the poor, and the degraded, and the racked, and the priest-ridden til lers and peoplers of 1!thje soil, which made the substance beneath1 the glittering and false surface the body of the vast empire, of which I had hitherto beheld only the .face, and that darkly, and for the most part covered by a mask t NO man can look upon France beauti ful France-ber nch soil, her temperate, .4 1 . '. it 1 -I 2 , 13 yec maturing came, tue gaiiant ana poia spirits which she produces, her boundaries so indicated and protected by nature itself, her advantages of ocean and land, of com merce and agriculture,' and not wonder that her prosperity should be so bloated, and her real'1 state so wretched and dis eased. ' ' Let England draw the moral, and be ware not only of wars which exhaust, but of governments which impoverish. A waste of the public wealth is the most lasting of fmblic afflictions ; and " the treasury which s drained by extravagance must be refilled by crime.'' I "remember one' beautiful evening an accident to my carriage occasioned my so journ for a whole afternoon in a small vil lage. The xxvii honored me with a visit, and we strolled, after a slight repast, into the hamlet. The priest was complaisant, quiet in manner, and not ill-informed for his obscure station and scanty opportunities of knowledge ; he did not seem, however, to possess the vivacity of his countrymen, but ' was " rather melancholy and pensive, not only in his expression of countenance, but his cast of thought. You have a charming scene here ; I almost feel as if it were a sin to leave it so soon." ' We were, indeed, in a pleasant and alluring spot at the time I addressed this observation to the good cvrS. A little rivulet emerged from a copse to the left, and ran sparkling and dimpling beneath our feet, to deck with a more living ver dure the village green, which it intersected with a winding nor unmelodious stream. We had paused, and I was leaning against an old and solitary chestnut tree, which commanded the whole scene. The village was a little in the rear, and the -smoke from its few chimneys rose slowly and beaute ously to the silent and deep skies, not wholly unlike the human wishes, which, though they spring from the grossness of the fumes of earth, purify themselves as they ascend to heaven. And from the vil lage, (when other sounds, which I shall note presently, were for an instant still), came the whoop of children, mellowed by distance into a confused, yet thrilling sound, which fell upon the heart like the voice of our gone childhood itself. Before, in the far expanse, stretched a chain of hills, on which the autumn sun sunk slow ly, pouring its yellow beams over groups of peasantry, which, on the opposite sid of the rivulet and at some interval from us, were scattered, partly over the green and partly fathered "beneath the shade of a little grove. The former were of the young, and those to whom youth's sports are dear, and were.,.dancing to the merry music, which (ever jind anon blended w ith the laugh and the lone of a louder jest) floated joyously on our ears. The fathers and matrons of the hamlet were inhaling a more quiet joy beneath the trees, and I involuntarily gave a tender interest to their converse, by supposing them to sanction to each other the rustic loves which they might survey among their children. " Will not monsieur draw nearer to the dancers ?" said the euri; "there is a plank thrown over the rivulet a little lower down." "No I" said I ; "perhaps they are seen to better advantage where we are; what mirth will bear too close an inspection ?" True, sir," remarked the priest, and he sighed. Yet," 1 resumed,' musingly, and 1 spoke rather to myself than to my com panion ; " yet, how happy do they seem t what a revival of our Arcadian dreams, are-the flute ana the dance, the glossy trees all glowing in the autumn sunset, the green sod, and the murmuring rill, and the buoyant laugh startling the satyr in his leafy haunts; and the rural loves which will grow sweeter stilK YleP .the sun has set, and" fee twilight has made the sigh more .tender, and the blush of a mellower hue ! Ah, why is it only the revival of a dream ? why must it be only an interval of labor And woe the brief saturnalia of slaves the green resting-spot in a dreary and long road of travail and toil ?" "You are the first stranger I have met," said the euri, "who ' seems to pierce be neath the thin veil of our Gallic gay ety ; the first to whom the scene weyiow survey is fraught , with other feelings than a be lief in the happiness of our peasantry, and an envy at its imagined exuberance. But Us it is not the happiest individuals, so I iear 11 is noi tne nappiesc nations mat are the gayest." I looked at the cure with some surprise. " Your remark is deeper than the ordi nary wisdom ; of your tribe, my father," said L - V I have traveled Over three parts of the globe," answered the ewi; " I was not al ways intended for what I am;" and the priest's mild eyes flashed with a sudden light, that as suddenly died away. " Yes, 1 have traveled ovet to greater part 01 tne known world," he repeated, in a more quiet tone, "and I have noted, that where a man has (many comforts to guard, and many rights to defend, . he necessarily shares the ., , . t .i e ii 1 tnougnt ana me seriousness 01 iuobb wuu feel the value of a treasure which they possess, .and whose most earnest medita-. tiohs are -intent) upon proviaing against its loss. I have noted, too, that the joy produced by a momentary suspense of la bor, is naturally great, in proportion to the toil ; hence it is, that no European mirth is so wild as-that of the Indian slave, when a brief holiday releases him from his task. Alas 1 that very mirth is the strongest evi dence of the weight of the previous chains, even ma in ourselves ' are find the happiest moment we enjoy is that immediately sue-, coeding the cessation of deep sorrow to the mind, or violent torture to the body."t I was struck by this observation of the priest. " " I see now? said I lSthat.asain Eng- fThis reflection, it true, . may console us for the loss of those village dances and pleasant holydaya for which ? merry England " was once celebrated:1' The loss of them has been ascribed to the gloomy influence of the Puritans ; but it has never occurred to the good poets who have so mourned over that, loss, that is also to be ascribed to the liberty which those Puritans gen eralised, if they did not Introduce. ' lishman, I have no reason to repine at the proverbial gravity of my countrymen, or to envy the lighter spirit of the sons of Italy and France." "No," said the cure, "the happiest na tions are those in whose people you witness j the least sensible reverses from gayety to 1 dejection ; and that thought, which is the noblest characteristic of the isolated man, is also that of a people. Freemen are se rious, they have objects at their hearts I worthy to engross attention. It is reserved for slaves to indulge in groans at one mo ment and laugh at another." "At that rate," said 1, "the best sign for France will be, when the gayety of her I sons is no longer a just proverb, and the laughing lip is succeeded by the thought ful brow." " That day will be the Hegira of our I political happiness," said the curt. THE FAITH OF THE POOR. Special Providence and Sunday Dinner. HHmiGRATION. How tne Board of Agriculture 8eefcs It. Commissioner MeGehee's Report. The number of persons from the North prospecting for homes here increases every month. The books in the Commissioner's office enable us to speak upon this point with certainty. Under an arrangement made between the railroads of the State, a ticket at less than half fare can be pro cured for bona fide prospectors and settlers on an order countersigned by the Commis sioner. The number of applicants for these tickets during December of the last year will average from two to three a day. How many come without these cheap tick ets. we have no means of knowing. It is certain that the number is considerable. The machinery for immigration is sim ple and effective. There is an agent for immigration, whose office is in the De partment building. Sub-agents are estab ished by him in several 01 the .Northern States, and at many points in each of these States. The business of these sub- agents is to disseminate information about the State by distributing the publications of the' Department, and pamphlets and circulars specially prepared for the pur pose. In addition, condensed statements, giving the most important facts in regard to the soil and climate ana productions statements occupying a column or more are published weekly in 15Jo newspapers in .Northern states an 01 wnicn nave a good, and many of them a large circula tion. .Moreover, wnen large lairs are neiu in some of these States, the various pro ductions of North Carolina, comprising mains, fruits, vegetables, cotton, tobacco -indeed, everything that is grown here are displayed in handsome cases, divided off into compartments, which cases are made to combine as many as possible of our different woods used for building, fur niture and the like. Thus arranged, the disnlav. in all except the minerals, forms 1 - ' ... a miniature exhibit of the state. TWO LATE DISCOVERIES TTi well inijj ixiio ! ..!. i OtTR 8TANI.T FRIENDS ''' '!' " f :'"'? PCBLIC ROAD COMMISSION. TOILET MYSTERIES. How Women Make Themselves Up. IXew York World. There is a number of tumble-down houses in Two Hundred and Fifty-second street, placed at varying elevations .above and be low the 6treej. line,, which are occupied al most entirely by negro families. . Some of these people depend for their living upon wnite-w asning, carpe-umg miu iuu dry work, and of the men not a few are the elegant waiters who are met with dur ing the summer at the favorite watering- places and wha gently incline their ears downwards and their palms upwards. The greater part of these people, however, live from hand to mouth and consider themselves fortunate if they make a "hit" in policy once, a week and if they are able to pay their rent 01 $4 or so , at the end 01 the month. To this latter class belonged the Spelman family, and last night "Mammy" Spelman sat disconsolate in her bare room in front of the cold stove, shivering and wondering what was going to become of her, with such a; lazy, good-for-nothing husband as she had and such a happy-go lucky boy as Samuel was. Mammy's hus band, George Washington, was away somewhere. goodness only knew where, and Samuel was no company for her in her lone state of mind, for he was overflowing . 1 . , V 1 il witu merriment, anu sue kiibw mere wa nothing to eat in the house. Samuel was actually dancing, and more than that, he was singing in full, clear voice the favorite camp-meeting nymn : Ef yo' frit dar befo' I do, Good-by. eood-by, I,ook out iov I am comin' too, Good-by, I'm goin' home ; Far' yo' well, oh, far' yo' well, Kar' yo' well, Good-by, I'm goin' home. There were no full stops in this song, and as the length of time it would con tinue depended only on the ingenuity of the singer, "Mammy' bpelman at last aroused herself.; Sam'el," she exclaimed sharply, "ef yo' wanter sing on a 'casion like dis, better yo' go out where it 'taint so cole and sing on de coal-box on de co'ner." Samuel tittered and slid out of the room sideways with a double-shuffle, singing as he went. A few. moments afterwards a tall and very black man softly entered the room and after gazing intently at "'mam my," for a short time stealthily seated himself on a stool near the door and kept his eyes on the door knob as if he were afraid it would disappear like the door knobs in pantomimes. "Mammy," however, had heard him come in. "Who dat?" she asked, without chang ing her position. 'Me, Laza,' answered tne man nervous- iy- . . "Wot yo giti" continued the old wo man. "Nuffin, 'Liza." "Gawge Spelman, yo' don' mean tell me dat dose number diden come out?" "I don' mean tell you' nuffin," said George, "kase yo' diden ask me nuffin." 'De las quarter gone, exclaimed mam my, bursting into tears, "ana termorrer s Sunday." Then she began to rock herself to and fro in her rickety wooden chair, and finally she murmured in a sing-song fashion : Don' git weary, chillun, the Lord will purvide." George made no answer to nis wue s lamentatians, but he did not attempt, by virtue of her piety, to leave the neighbor hood of the dpor. For about ten minutes there was silence, excepting for "mam my's" spasmodic bursts of grief, when sud denly there was a quick step on the stairs, the door was thrown open endangering George's shins, and Samuel entered as he had gone out with a double-shuffle. He danced up to his mother, who was ruoDing her cold hands together, and with a dex trous, movement drew from beneath his New York Times. ' I have a friend who is one of those un comfortable fellows, finding greatest de- liffht in destroving other people's ideals, and never hnppier than when he has suc ceeded in picking a flaw in something his acquaintances have long considered per feet. He is a sort of an O'Donovan Rossa in his way, and sooner or later I fully ex iect to see him made a target by some poor individual whose day dreams he has brought to an abruptly unpleasant conclu sion. I only hope he will escape as easily as did the arch enemy of Britain. I met this genial fellow the other evening at a small dancing party where I was doing missionary work, and as soon as I caught his glance I felt myself doomed. He drew me one side, for he seldom dances, and with the demon in his eve. proceeded to the innuisitorial torture. I made an un fortunate step at the very outset. I said ragged but voluminous coat a large turkey, something or other about there being "How dat, mammy, f'' a hen turkey?" manv urettv ems oeiore us. it was enough. I was mildly but firmly forced to come from generalization to particulars. It wasn't a fresh experience for me. I had been throueh it all before and I knew ;C3 what was coming. Just as I had done dozen times before I then gave up point after point. Hairl oh, yes. artificial, cer tainly; complexion I merely the result of rouge and powder; eyebrows! nothing more or less than skillful manipulation of a pencil: eves! oh, nothing more than the skillful use 01 belladonna; teetni tnumpns of the dentist art; figure! I am not-a mar ried man, and I take my friend's word for the mysteries of the dressmaker. bo tar I had given up regularly. Then I thought I could score a point and I made a stand. A beautiful eirl went whirling by us and I pointed her out. "Look at those lips," I said. "Full j cherry lips. What more can you ask, my 1 scoffer?" The wretched fellow laughed. " My child," he said, " you are an inno cent. Her lips 1 Both her mother and her father are thin-lipped, noticeably so. How does it happen that hers are well nroDortioned ? Why. it's a simple matter. All the guileless young things understand the trick. They bite their lips : make it a regular practice. What's the result ? This is the result: At first, their lips grow rosy and a trifle fuller. That's all very well, but it's only the first stage. The practice grows into a fixed habit, and then your beauty is forced to anoint her poor sore mouth with camphor ice nightly. Next day the biting is resumed, and the next night the camphor ice is brought into use again. That's how your angel evades the law of hereditv. Just now she isn't very far gfene, but a year from to-day you'll notice a difference. If something doesn't happen to break her of the habit before she dies her swollen lips will disfigure her whole face. You need not look incredu lous. The doctors will tell you that it has become Quite an ordinary thing. 1 know what I am talking about, and l know that modern beauty is a question of cosmetics and strange devices.' " If that is the resnlt of vour learning," I gasped, " let me remain in ignorance and darkness. I prefer my delusions to your critical analysis. Old boy, I wouldn't know as much as you do, not for all the monev Jim Eeene has sunk in Wall street. Knowledge has its drawbacks." My friend merely laughed. "Never fear," he insinuated cynically, "you've no . reason to worry." How Motner and Son Manage. he exclaimed, holding the fowl up by its legs. . .. .. "I golly," exclaimed the old woman, starting from her seat, "where yo' git dat turkey, chile?" j "Mammy," answered the boy as he seated himself on the floor and stretched the turkey across his knees as if he were trying to make it larger, "yo' know dat every Sat'd'y night an' every Christmas an' every New Year eve dere's a market on Eighth avenue, and dere's ever so many wagons all piled up wid good tings in" "Yes, yes," exclaimed the old woman, "but whar yo? git dat turkey?" MAb', an' yo' kin hey all yer want wid outde askin'," continued the boy as he punched the breast-bone of the fowl. "Sam'eL" said . Mr. George Spelman, 'wy don' yo' answer yo' mudder? Whar yo' git dis hyar hen-turkey? Yo' steal him!" The boy sprang to his feet, and if he had been white he would probably have blushed with anger, but he only pointed' his long, black forefinger at his father and exclaimed: "Yo" see me steal dat turkey?" "No, chile," answered his father. The forefinger was then pointed at his mother. "Yo' see me steal dat turkey, mammy?'' he asked. "No, chile," she replied. "Anybody see me steal dat turkey?" continued Samuel, looking at the door. "No. no. chile." said his father. "1 reckon yo's a heap too smart to let nobody see you steal numn. uut now yo- aone gwine git dat ar turkey- I wanter know." "Spose I done tell yo' how earn yo' liv in'," answered the boy saucily. - "I don't done gwine raffle fo' him, nor ouy a gig an' make a hit and buy him. I got dis hyar turkey nones'iy, 1 aid. " "George ; ' Spelman," ' said mammy, straightening herself and addressing her husband, 'what I done tole you?" I dnnno what yo done tole me,' an swered George, "only dere wasn't nuf fin to eat in de house." "I tole yo' de Lord would purvide," an swered the old woman solemnly. "An' now, yo fool nigger,; yo' take dat bucket an' go git some Miss Johnson s coal. - an don' yo let nobody hear yo', nuther. Dat ar hen-turkey's goin' to begin cookin' dis hyar blessed night." . ine 01a man picaeu up me uuc&n buu shambled towards the door. ! As he turned the knob he paused. Then he said: '"All well enuff, mammy, fo yo' to Bay. 'de Lord will purvide;' but I tell yo1 dat bo' takes arteritis daddy." OfWhleb a Doctor Wishes Laymen 10 Know. It would lie well if everybody knew something about, medicine, and indeed everybody ought to know something about it; at least, understand sometmng 01 aui- omy. physiology and hygiene. it is not expected that people generally should keep up with all the advancements in medicine and surgery, but, when any great advance is made, they should know something about it. There have been of late two discoveries in the field of medicine, and so important are they, that to know nothing about them is to subject one to the accusation of be ing "behind the times." Since Jenner's great discovery of vaccination for the pre vention of small-pox, it has been the ob ject of scientists to discover means for the prevention of other diseases in the same manner. By means of the microscope va rious germs of minute organisms have been found to be the causes of many dis eases, as diphtheria, consumption, cholera &c, and the question has been as to how far diseases could be prevented, by inocu lation of the system with the' dilute or modified poison, which causes the disease. A celebrated t renchman, iiouis r-asteur, has many wonderful discoveries in this new field of investigation and has lately found, that, just as small-pox in the hu man can be prevented by vaccination, so hydrophobia in the dog can be prevented by vaccination with the dilute poison of rabies. To prove it he vaccinated twenty dogs with the attenuated virus of hydro phobia and then subjected them to the ravages of a rabid animal. Not one of them showed any signs of rabies, while of others unprotected by inoculation, ail pe came mad. The discovery has been in vestigated, and its truth accepted by a committee of scientists appointed by the French government. It in itself will hardly prove of much practical value, yet it remains an interesting and important discovery, its importance consisting in the fact that it may lead to other discoveries in the same line that may be a means of relief to suffering humanity. But the other discovery of which we will speak is of very great practical use, and has already proven itself a priceless boon. We refer to the new remedy, Hy drochlorate ol Cocaine. We call it new, but it has been in use a long time ; but its properties which render it so useful have only recently been discovered Dy a uer man physician, Dr. Kohler. The alkaloid Cocaine is derived from Coca, which grows in profusion in Mexico and South America. The natives use it as a tonic and invigorator, but its use now, which brings it into such prominence, is that of an anaesthetic, or agent that suspends sensi bility and consciousness, such as chloro form, sether.&c. It differs from other agents ofits class, however, in many particulars. They are taken into the system by inhala tion. while it is applied locally or topical ly. They suspend consciousness, as well as sensibility, while under its use the pa tient is in full possession of all his senses. The use of chloroform and sether is fol lowed by unpleasant symptoms, such as nausea, vomiting, &c, and sometimes by death, while Cocaine entails no disagreea ble or dangerous consequences. It can be used with some success upon all mucous membranes and even upon the skin, but its use is almost entirely restricted to the surgery of the eye. By instilling into the eye three or four drops of a 4 per cent, so lution three times at intervals of five min utes, maoy operation upon the eye for enucleation, cataract, squint, &c, can be performed", and the patient suffer no pain at all. It marks a new era in eye-surgery, and physicians all over the world are daily ex perimenting with it, and are loud in its praises. Owing to , the great demand for it and the incompleteness of its manufact ure, it commands a very high price, which has been as high as a dollar a gram. So great and universal has been the en thusiasm concerning it, that the loneliest doctor in the world is the one who has not written an article about it for the the med ical or secular press. "I." Prosper and Renal tne Rnlelcn Register. Correspondence' of the Kits 10 h Register. ' Norwood, N. C, Feb. 14, '188S.i-Mr. Robert LeeJr.f while driving a team the other day, got his leg caught, between the axle of the wagon and a stump which was in the, road.. Both bones of his "leg were broken just' above th6 ankle. '! .; Mr. David Carpenter,' an old and highly respected citizen: of i - Cedar Hill, A nson county, died last Monday. . He was almost 81 years old. . , , v 'The' electibiroh the stock law in this county on Tuesdy", resulted in a majority of 112 for the stock law. The law goes into effect Jflarch. lt4 'The tobacco craze, is becoming conta gious. Every day, almost, one hears of new additions to the number who are pre paring, to engage 'in .'the cultivation, of the weed. Stanly )has been rapidly improving si nee the war, and when her people be come extensively engaged in growing to ;bacco still greater progress will be made. For severab days we have been having genuine, old. fashioned winter weather. Thursday night it snowed,, yesterday it sleeted, to-day we have been treated to a liberal supply of show, hail and sleet com bined, and: to-night the' worthy citizens Of Norwood are seated around their .respec tive fire-sides, smoking the pipe of peace and reading the last kaleigh register. The Rsjqisteb's mends in this section (and they are numerous) are highly pleased with the action of the Legislature in elect ing the Register s editor public printer. There are more copies of the Register taken at this office than of all other Ral eigh, Wilmington and Charlotte secular papers combined. '. Mr. R. M. Lanier, one of our old and re s pec ted citizens, has been quite sick sev eral weeks but is now improving. ' A negro stole some articles from ex Sheriff W. H. Hearne, of Albemarle, re cently.. Mr., Hearae pursued the thief, caught him and gave him his choice be tween being lodged in jail and taking a a good whipping.' The negro chose the latter, which Mr. Hearne delivered in good order. , Bill Introduced by Mr. oomne. Jones of Ban- WOMKN IN POLITICS. How They Taksln Congressmen's Votes JUST DISSATISFACTION With tne Colored Wash-Feet Church. ArkaiiRsw Traveller. 1 Firm mother to boy" Didn't I tell you that I'd whip you if you played in that water again, say ?" Boy "Ye8sum." . Firm , mother ,", Then, why did. you do it ?" Bov " Because I didn't believe you. Firm mother ' Nevermind, youshant an down town with me when I go: see if YOU do.'!' ;:.!'-,..- ' ;.r Shortly afterwards the firm mother and the boy go down town together. Arkansaw Traveller. J "You have withdrawn from the Baptist Church, have you, Isom ?" was asked of an old negro. " Yes, eah, oh yes. Couldn'- Btan' dem folks no longer. Too much water 'mong dem folks, boss. Didn't mine de baptizin' so much, but it wuz de foot-washin' 4at got away wid me. Yer see, 'longin' ter our church is a monstrous buck nigger, Brudder Eph Bly. I doan know;whuder it wuz er put-up job ur not, but, I alius had ter wash oat scoundrel's hoofs. I couldn' 'fuse when I wuz called pn,-o my only plan wuz ter git outen de church, I ain't gwine ter 'spute de fack dat de Lawd is wid dem folks, but it do 'peer to me dat wid a mighty little lookin' roun' He could fine citizens dat's er heap more kereful 'bout dar pussonal habits, sah. Ez I tells yer, I ain't gwine ter say dat it wuz ur put-up job, but tuther day, on er public 'casion. when I wuz er washin' dat trifln nigger's feet, I seed him look at de wim men folks an' wink wid dat dam watery eye o' hizen. Dis weakened me a good 'eal, but it 'peered ter roe like de weaker I got. de stronger his blamed feet become.' Naw, sah, ain' gwine ter fling no sinnywa tions on de house o' de Lawd, but I heerd dat de scoun'rel tnade er bet dat arter he got me broke in er little better, dat he would not arnly make me wash dem awfol hoofs o' hizen, but dat he Would 'pel tne ter wash his cloze. I'se always been er mighty 'commerdatin' man, but ef I has ter do de scrubbiri' fur de church jetf fur de puppose o' enjoyin' er little 'ligibn er 'casionally, w'y, sah, I'll drap de 'ligion an' do less work. I; ain' lazy, un'erstan', but dar's suthin' mighty tiresome 'bout washin' er big niggeKs feet." Shama. ' New York World Washington Xetter. i f was talking the other day with an old member about women lobbyists in' Wash ington and their influenccupon legislation "I'll tell you," hesaid "about theexperi enceof a Congressional friend of mine. He was very much opposed to a certain meas ure m which the lobby was interested, There was not money enough in the country to have purchased his support of the bill, The lobby went at him in a rather ingeni ous way. They caused him to be intro dtieed to a very handsome and interesting married lady,-the wife of a retired army officer who happened to be interested in the bill. This lady began a moid hirta tion with mv Congressional friend and soon had him completely captivated; Whenever she was in the gallery of the House he would fly up as fast as he could to visit her. There was nothing in all this but the most innocent of flirtations. I will not Swear that my friend's intentions were of the most honorable character. At any rate he steeped himself for several days in the warmth of the luxurious idea jtbat mis lady was slowly but surelv sue combing to a fatal passion for him. . One morning, the verv day the bill my friend wasopppssd to was to come up, he received a note from this lady asking him to call at her house at 1 o'clock that afternoon. This, was the same hour set for the considera tion of the bill. The member, however, did not remember this. - He was bo de lighted with the note that he forgot all about the bill. . He hastened to the lady's hbuse, which Was in the extreme north western part of the city. When he arrived there, full of hope and expectation, he found this lady with one or two interest ing nieces with her, whom she presented. She said that she had taken the liberty of sendinsr -for him without explanation be cause she desired him to take lunch with her. nieces. They were to.be in Washing ton only a, day and were very anxious to see so prominent a man. The Congress man was then led out to a handsome lunch table and kept occupied for an hour or so or more ia; the politest fashion. . When h returned to, the House he fouud that the bill to which he was savagely opposed had already passed. Ihen he understood tne matter. ' He never called up6n this lady again. But Bhe always bows to him very good-naturedly whenever she passes him by." The member, added - "This is the only1 way that I know of that women af fect legislation.' ' They have a perfect gen lus for conspiracies-of that Bort to draw away members from their, posts at a tune when their presence in the House might be fatal to a measure. , . , A Bill to be entitled an Act to Create a Public Road Commission: ' . 1; Whbrkas, Good public roads are neces sary to the material welfare and develop ment of the country : And whereas, the ex isting road law is -defective, unequal and inadequate ; therefore, The General AtnenMy jf North Carolina do Enact: i Sec. 1. That there shall be for this State a board of; Public Road Commis sioners, consisting of three -competent per- ii, ; ! sons, one 01 wnons snail oe a civu engin eer, who shall be appointed by the Gov ernor, and shall continue in office until the meeting of the next General Assembly. Sec. 2. One of the members of said board, to be designated by the Governor, shall be President thereof: and shall be speccially charged with' the business and duties of the boaid, including the collec tion of information and statistics, atten tion to correspondence, investigations, and other like matters. Sec. 3. Said board shall have a clerk to; be appointed by tfieniselves, who shall keep a faithful record of the proceedings of said board, and perform such other of ficial duties as mqy be required of him by the board. i Sec. 4. Sessions of said board shall be had, from time to time, as may be neces sary, on call of te President or any two members, at such! place as may be desig nated in the call, and said sessions shall not occupy moretthan thirty days in one year. f Sec. 5. In the prosecution 01 tneir wont and collection aid printing of statistics and information, said board may expend such sum or sumsj as may be necessary, not to exceed the sum of five hundred dollars in any one yeaT. Sec 6. It shftll be the duty 01 saia board to prepare! and report to the next General Assembly, First. A statement showing the condi tion of the public roads and highways in this State, as far; as such information may be obtained by correspondence with the commissioners of; the several counties, or other persons. j ' Secoiul. A collection or compilation oi the various road laws in force in this State at the date of theiadjournment of this Gen eral Assembly, i , . Third. A description or compilation 01 the road laws and road systems in vogue in the several States of the Union and in foreign countries, so far as it may be prac ticable to obtain such information under the provisions of this act. Fourth. A biU to establish a unnorm system for laying out, constructing, work- ing ana maintainuug tue puunu lutmo, mgu ways and bridges, with easy grades, per fect drainage and proper shape, under one general law applicable to the whole State ; ana inciuuing a jpiau 01 iuahciuu iui mui purpose, so as to equalize between prop erty and the polL and between capital and labor, the duty apd burden 01 mailing auu keeping in repair tne saia roaas, mguways and bridges. Fiftli. A bill io devise a system of pub lic highways and turnpike roads, radiating from trade centres in this State, to be laid out and constructed by the State, with the aid of convict labiorand such local and coun ty aid as maybe Available; the locations of said roads to he made and the work of construction to be done under the superin tendence and direction of of a Road Com mission to be hereafter established. Sixth. A planlfor the establishment of a permanent Rdad Commission :to have charge of the work -indicated in the pre ceding sub-section. , .... Sec T; Said Board shall, in such report, recommend such legislation as they may deem expedient 8n reference to any of the matters 8pecifie4 m this set- Sec. 8. Allow s per diem of 4 to the Board, and $100 per annum for a clerk, ' WARSAW. -' NEWSPAPER WAIFS. "Are you lost, my little fellow ?" asked a gentleman 01 a iour-year-oia one uj. "No," he sobbed in reply; "but my mother is." , ,-, ,r "And how does, Charlie .like going to school ?" kindlv inquired a. good man of a juvenile, who was waiting, with a tin can in his hand; the advent of a companion. "I like goin' well enough,'-1. he replied; " but I don't like staying after I get there. New People, Schools and Chnrehea. fWilijaingtonBeview.J , ; , , One of the most thriving among the, many prosperous towns and villages along the line of the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad is Warsaw, in Duplin 'county; fifty-six miles from this city. - For many A years alter the jdoae ol. the war business in that town seemed to be at a stanasuu, but within a few years past a new energy "seems to have tiken possession of the peo- pIof"new enterprises have Deen-inaugu rated; nd the town is now in a fair way for permanent I prosperity, influence and wealth. New streets have been laid out and adorned with fair shade trees, new dwellings and 'stores have been erected and are now in course of construction, and , on every hand .there is an appearance of wholesome and substantial tan it wmcu is truly gratifying. The High School 4here, under the charge ot iter. w. si. jvenneay and has son.Mr. -D. . Kenasay? is in a flourishing condition, and a new church building is beicg erected lor the rresoyte- rian Society of j the town and its immedi ate vicinity. ,,,..,, ,,' .' -;:t. , THE HIGHLAND SCOT Has Not Forgotten Hla Ancestry. , . NSw York Times. The famous "iForty-second Highlanders" ffamiliarly known in the British. Army as For calm presence of mindin theway ;the Black Watih) have added one more to of answer, the following! deserves; a fore most olacen , m Dw 1 voo. - dmrk r asked a temperance reformer of a beggar,- who had implored alms of himi ,kl Yesi thank you, sir..? returned- the candid pauper ' where shall we got?', mi '-i i.-ii- t v; Dr. Btorrs tells' the story ofVmii' who remarked to a perjurious companion that the kingdom' f Satan wtfy tDe 'destroyed,' and asked if he wasnt gUd' of it. "Yes," he replied, "111 suppose so; but it seems a pity to have anything wasted. ' , Master "Well, Susan," did you mail my letter's I told you Faithful' servant- Washington's Hatchet Needed In Utah. San Francisco Call. Apostle Teardell,; is an address to the Mormons at Nephi,, Utah, counseled the children as follows : "I want to caution the children. There's men around asking the children how many wives their fathers have. ' If they ask you, tell them you don't know. I'd rather you- tell a lie to defend your : friends - and parents : than tell the truth that will bring trouble npon them. From the Troy Tiroes. J Said Jones: "I hardly ever ride, For crowded cars I cant abide, . And carriages I do despise I am so fond of exercise." "I bring my lunch," said Smith elate, , "For noisy restaurants I hate ; Besides, I'd spoil my appetite For dinner when I'm borne at night,': . Said Brown : 'Tm tough ; I never wear An overcoat. I do declare '','"'. I do not feel the cold like those ' '''' - Half-frozen chaps weighed down with clothes.' "1 never touch cigars," Green spoke. They're made of staff unfit to smoke ; For heslthfulness or comfort ripe . . . ty - -Give me my fragrant briar pipe?.' . . And so we all apologise And make excuses mostly lies- .-?.-.;. Because we dare not say with sense : : ! We go without to save expense., t, their countless iexploits by the storming of the Arab intrenchments at Birti;. where poor Gen. Earle was killed. Among the many .deeds oftdaring performed by them in recent wars three stand out pre-eminent. " :They were ou6tof ' the' three Highland reg- lments witn wmcu oir viia vwujuu fafterward: Lord Clyde) broke the Russian centre at the Alma, on . the 20th Septem- ber, loo. 1 pey lormea part 01 tne im mortal ' thin tjed line topped with steel" against' whichi an overwhelming; Russian force Shattered itsell in tne memoraDie at tack, upon Balsklava five weeks later. - In the advance upon Coomassee during Gen. Ashantee campaign, in Jan li the "Black Watch bore the brant of the great fight at . Amoaful, suf- other stamp, .so, as 1 to save rpom." Mamma, (.qUnmg;,oirt)THtv.isn poute Bobby, to , smack,- your , lips when eating,. You . never . do ..that, ' at . .home. . Bobby -. 'Causewe, never;, have ..anything ,wor,th smacking; ;cfrer.i,u-.45 , fu, () sharp - mriat admit that the v have fully 'dbeVed the ia junction with which their chief led ;them up the Alma hillside: , ."Now, my, men, make me proud of the Highland Brigade." . -I The Coailfcrat Yonth of Texaa . . V -M? exaslifttogs.i '3 : Got ' Willia Pope, a wealthy resident 1 Politeneaa . Goats Nothing. j hi. !-. 'yijJj'.ji.i .Courier. 1 ' As MeSEssonier; the 'lixwnjMlA oMGarveatod, Ihired a professor to teach ' ' 1 3 t I V!. t, k, I w.hn won van' aw inloo1 a street in ram. an Old .peggar 1 niBiuee w! . j nassinir gravely 1)0 wed to. him,, by ay of .soliciting aims. . 1 nave no cnange. : saiu. awaovu- ier, feeling in his pocket, and about to pass on ."Then, at least, return me my how " renlied the old man.... Which was no sooner said than done. '-' Now that I have shown you how to do that sum, Tlf prove it to you, to show you that it is correfctl" said the professor, who Was teaching Sim arithmetic.' ".No need of proof, professor: I will take1 your word for it. I know you wouian 1 teu me a ue.
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