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s , r 'j n1 i 'f ; aim' i ; f. V Vi Al tmitx; By P. If. HALE, ADVEBTISUTO RATESL - Advertisement will be inserted for One DoUar per square (one inch) for the first and Jlfty Cent orvieft ravettevtlle St., Second floor Fisher Building. WWW for each subsequent publication. '. RATES OF 8UB8CUFTIOB: 41 Contracts for advertising for any space or time may be made at the office of th ; One copy one year, mailed post-paid ...$3.00 One copy six months, mailed post-paid.... 1 00 , rg No name entered without payment, and I , RALEIGH REGISTER, ' ,, II. RALEIGH, 7S 0., WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1885. NO. 63. Second Floor of Fisher Building, fayettevUl no paper sent after expiration m ume paia lor. Street, aext to Market House. C V iJ .1 i. v s , - FADED FLOWERS. res. A little while ago she held ' These flowers in her hand i A sweeter bunch-there never grew In all the summer land. She, laughing, lightly to her lips Tbeir dewy splendor pressed The music of her voice is gone, Its melody at rest. ' A little while ago her eyes, Soft-shining, sought my own: ' -' , Ah, such a little while 1 yet now ' ! ' Their happy light Is flown, j ' ' 1 The world may still be green and fair, Or white with winter's snow Yet, in her absence, I forget f. All but that summer glow., . f ; The flowers are faded, yet they speak ' Of more than summer fled: They speak of gentle grace that crowned The dear one that is dead. Her memory is a living rose, My days its perfumes fill Its fragrant leaves no storm can blow, J Nor winter wind can chill. SCPB&HE COtTBT. Decision Filed February Term, From Advance Sheets of Davidson's Reports. DKPBIBST V. PATTKt801f. 1. Quare, Whether,' the Supreme Court can review the findings of fact made by the iudge below, in an action against an executor for an account and settlement of the estate of his testator. ' 2. Where an executor sold "property of his testator in July 1863 on nine months' credit, he is liable for the scaled value of the money for which it sold at the time of the sale, and not at the expiration 'of the time of credit. DEPRIEST V. PATTERSON. 1. An executor jduring.the war took certain notes belonging to the estate of his testator, and substituted, for them Con federate money of his own. The notes proved to be worthless; Held, that he is chareeable with the scale, value of the Confederate money at the date of the at tempted substitution. ' 2. Where an executor swears that cer tain Confederate monev was the property of the estate, but is unable to explain by whom it was paid, or how he is able to re member the character of the fund as be ins a part of the trust estate; Held, not sufficient to relieve him from liability. WTNNB V. HECK. The plaintiff having transferred the claim upon which this action was sub sequently brought to an attorney at law for collection, and with directions to him tn apply the proceeds to demands which he held for collection against the plaintiff due other parties ; Held, . The plaintiff cannot maintain an ac tion in his name to recover the sum al leged to be due upon the claims. i. That the effect of the transfer was to vest the ownership of the claim in the attorney as a " trustee of an express trust," and the action should have been brought in his name alone, or in conjunc tion with those of the cestui one trust. The Ctxle, sections 177 and 179. t Wilhv v. Galling. 70 N. C, 410, cited and approved ; Abramt V. Cureton, 74 N. ('.. 523, cited and distinguished). WHARTON V. WILKERSON. 1. In special proceedings before the clerk, when issues of fact are joined, they niu.-t be certified to the court in term for trial. As soon as such issues are tried, it. is the province of the Clerk, and not of the. judge, to make orders in the cause. 2. v here, in such proceedings, the re cord does not disclose that issues of fact have been transferred to the court in term, any orders made by the judge are extra judicial. 3. A claim for contribution cannot be set up by one defendant against another in a proceeding to sell land for assets. When the amount exceeds two hundred dollars the court in term alone has jurisdiction of such cause of actioB, except in cases of contribution between persons claiming as devisees under a will, or as heirs at law of a testator to whom undevised land has de scended, which exception is caused by section 1534 of The Code. (Brittain v. Mull. 91 N. C, 498, and Buttle v. Duncan, 90 N. C, 546, cited and approved). HOWELL V. POOL. 1. A stipulation in a mortgage that the mortgagee should retain from the proceeds of the sale f the property, " costs and charges including a commission of five per cent, for making such sale," in addi tion to the principal and interest then due on the secured debt, is not usurious in the absence of proof of an usurious intent. It is a provision for the compensation for services performed in the execution of the trust, and not a part of the consideration ior me loan. 2. Such Stipulations are not approved, and will never be enforced when the mort gagee makes the sale and becomes the pur chaser. 3. A sale to a mortgagee by himself, un- uer a power of sale in the mortgage aeea is ineffectual to. divest the equity ot re demption from the mortgagor, and the re lation of the parties is not changed by that act. (Kornegav v. Spieer, 76 N. C, 95, and1 Whitehead v. HeUen, Ibid. 99,. cited and approved ; Me Corlde v. Brem. 76 N. C. , 407 ; Caixhart v. Biggs, 77 N. C, 261; FurneU v. Vaughan. 77 N. C. 268; Pritchard v. Sanderson, 84 N. C, 299, cited and dis- Qistinguished). TORRENCE V. DAVIDSON. , 1. All that is required of an adminis trator in the management of his intestate's estate is diligence and fidelity. If coercive measures vigorously pushed against a debtor are likely to result in a loss to the ' "ate,, he is not required to adopt them. t. An administrator is never held re sponsible because the exercise of a reason able discretion has turned out unfavorably ior the estate. 3. A debtor to an estate being in fail ing circumstances, the administrator made a further advance of money to him, and took a mortgage to secure the entire' amount. It was possible, but not proba ble, that the debt might have been collect ed by suit, and the debtor refused to give the mortgage unless the further advance of money was made. The debtor became ut terly insolvent and the mortgaged property was insufficient to pay the entire debt; Beld, that the administrator was not liable to the estate for the loss. . v 4. The fact that an administrator, has a common interest in the estate with the dis tributees, is a circumstance tending to show the exercise of fidelity in the man agement of the estate. - , . Patterson v, Wadswori 89 N. C, 407, cited and approved). OBJUfTT V; KDWAXM. v ' 1. The court wilt hot set aside a wiiort and order a re-reference on the ground that the referee has' failed to pass on cer tain matters involved in the account, when ure repn jurnisnes; uan irom wnicn the account can be stated.' 1 " ' 3. An administrator cannot be charred with interest at1 eight per cent, because he is indebted o. the estate, and has realized that rate on money his own. ' 8. Where an executor attcmnta tn mv ma individual ' debts' out of the awt nf . - L I J bis testator, be commits a devastavit, and his creditor who knowingly accepts such payment is liable to account to the estate therefor ; but in Such account he is entitled to credit for the amount of the executor's interest in the estate. - 4. Under the circumstances of this case an allowance of ij percent, commissions to nuniinistracor is not excessive. 5. Where a testator devised two-thirds of his entire estate to a party for life, it means two-thirds of his net estate, and it takes effect, In the absence of any express jiiimuug w uic contrary in me win, im- mediately arter the time when the law re quires the executor to distribute the estate, unless the estate should be sooner settled. ( Guttey v. Maty, 8ft N: C. , 343 ; Grant v. BelL R7 Jf. C 34. cited and annrovedV , . F - r r f HARPER V. DAIL. 1. When a receipt is evidence of a con tract between the parties, it stands on the Barae footing as other contracts in writing, and cannot be contradicted or varied by parol; but when it is merely the acknowl edgment of the payment &f money or the delivery of goods, it may be contradicted by parol. 2. A husband may be the agent of ms wife. ' . The declarations of1 a party, made at the time that she handed a deed to her husband to deliver as her agent to the grantee, are admissible in evidence as a part of the re genta. 4. Declarations to become a part of the ret gettm must be made at the time of the act done, and must be consistent with the obvious character of the act. 5. Where it appears in the record that the plaintiff took a non-suit, and appealed before the issues arising on a counter claim pleaded by the defendant had been dis posed of, bat no objection was made by the defendant at the time ; Held, not to be such an exception as can be taken for the first time in this court. Uleid v. Seid, 2 Dev., 247; Wilton v. Zferr. 69 N. C, 137; State v. Jbnet, 69 N. C, 16; Jfeekins v. Totem, 79 N. C, 546, cited and approved). WKITK V, JOSK8. 1. A petition to rehear should point out the ruling which is alleged to be errone ous, but should not by a course of reason ing undertake to-show that it is erroneous. The argument should be made at the hear ing, and not in the petition to reh'ear. 2. The doctrine of the vendor's lien for unpaid purchase money' has long been re pudiated in this state. 3. A court of equity will not decree the specific performance of, a contract to con vey land until the full price has been paid ; but this does not rest on the doctrine of lien, but upon the rule that a court of eouitv will refuse relief to one who will not do what, in equity, he ought to do. 4. The rule announced in the lormer de cision of this case affirmed that, where A purchased land, and, after paying a part of the purcnasc money, assigneu uis interest, to B, taking from him a promise to pay the balance due to the vendor and his bond for the part A had paid, and B afterwards assigns his interest to the plaintiff; the nlaiDliff, upon paying the balance due the estate, will be entitled to a deed for the land, unencumbered with any lien in favor ofB. (WomNe v. Battle, 3 Ired Eq.. 182; Cameron v. Maton, 7 I red. Eq., 180; Ble- vins v. Barter, 7 JN. u., 4o; &mun v. Brittain, 3 Ired.Eq.,347 ; Lewur. Bowtree, 81 N. C, 20, cited and approved). BARBER V. GREEN. 1. A referee is not required to refer to the evidence in his findings of fact. All that is required is that he should transmit to the court the evidence upon which his findings are based. 2. Where the Supreme t'onn cannoT pass unon the facts, it cannot look into .the evi dence upon which the referee bases his findings of fact, unless tne exception is that he has found facts with no evidence to suDDort them. 3. Where on exceptions to a reieree s . . . , reDort. the judge does not find any facts, but over-rales all the exceptions to the re port, he is presumed to have adopted the findings of the referee. 4. No wish or direction given by a per son as to what should be done after death, unless made in a will, can be legally carried out. So. where a person of small means expressed a wish to be buried in an expen sive coffin, and the defendant, who was indebted to her, furnished one at her death, the cost of which he pleaded as a set off in an action against him by the ad ministrator: Held, that he was only en ti tied to such sum as would have purchased a coffin suitable to the intestate's pecuniary condition. (Green . Casilebury, 70 N. C, 20, cited and approved). 8TAKCILL V. OAT. 1. In motions to set aside judgments for irregularity, and other motions of kindred nature, the rules or evidence are not so strictlv adhered to as in the trial of an issue by a jury. In such cases the court can hear any evidence which is reasonably calculated to aid it in arriving at a just conclusion. 2. Bv accepting service of the summons, the parties are brought into court and made parties to the action, and must take notice of the proceedings and are bound by the iudcrment of the court. 3. Litigants are presumed to take notice 01 ail inai is aone in uvuunt tu wuitu iucj are parties. 4. A judgment rendered without any comolaint having been filed is not neces- sarilv void." Such judgment is valid if rendered by consent, or if ratified by sub- seauent assent to it. ' 5. An irregular judgment will not be set aside as of course. The moving party must show that the alleged irregularities affect them adversely in a material respect, and that they have exercised due diligence in seeking relief. - 8, The t former Courts of Probate had exclusive' jurisdiction of proceedings to settle the estates of deceased persons. , Mayo v. Whitson, 2 Jones, 231 ; Johnson t. FutreU, ' 86 N. CL, 122; Unitertity v. Lattiter, 83 N," C, 88; Vick v. Pope, 81 N. C,; 22; Hunt v. Sneed, 64 N. C, 176 Hei lig r, Foard, Ibid.'7I0; Hendridct.r, May jfo&i'tl N,;C., 626, cited and approved). We hear that the small grain crop will be good, BOtwithstandingi the recent cold spell. Anson Timet. BANMn AND VANCE Stand ay President and Policy. f Washington Post. Senator Eustis, of Louisiana, has become suddenly prominent as the first Democrat of prominence to openly and bitterly at tack, the Administration. " In my judg ment," he said to a reporter in New Or leans, " Mr. Cleveland thus far, from a Democratic standpoint, has been a con spicuous and humiliating failure, the naif-hearted manner in which the Presi dent has been pursuing the important work of placing in the hands of trusted, capable and efficient representatives of the party, through whose influence and almost super human exertion he was placed at the head of affairs, those various charges and duties for the safe conduct of which the Demo cratic party is alone to be held responsible to the people is little less than disgusting. Untrue to the confidence reposed in mm, and unworthy of the great compliment be stowed on him by his constituents, his Ad ministration has commenced with a series of blunders, and his friends and support ers in Louisiana and throughout the Union have just cause for complaint." Senator Eustis said that the Democrats would not be held responsible for this kind of a Gov ernment, and concluded with the remark that "It is now no longer a matter of dis tribution of offices and Government pat ronage, but a question of party principle, and the Democratic element will sec to it that thib Administration is Democratic in the full significance of the term, or that Mr. Cleveland and .his Cabinet shall fall and be buried in the ruins they have made." WHAT SENATOR RANSOM SATS. " Nothing has occurred since the inaug uration of the President," said Senator Ransom, an intimate friend of Senator Eustis, " to disappoint the expectation with which I looked forward to a Demo cratic Administration or shake my confi dence in the desire or power of the Ad ministration to fulfil its promises. I be lieve the President and his Cabinet are conscientiously striving with their whole heart to give the entire country an effic ient and a pure Government. The results of this effort will be very apparent in a short time. That some mistakes have been made must, perhaps, be granted the nom ination of Morgan, perhaps, and the Kei- ley eontre tempt but what mortal man could have the immense machinery of this Government suddenly placed upon his shoulders and not commit a single error ? Yes, the Administration is doing well; its caution is commendable, and it will event ually receive the hearty and unhesitating indorsement even of those Democrats who are now the worst disgruntled. The Pres ident has not recognized sectional distinc tions, except to obliterate them, and in his treatment of the South he has been just and generous." AJTD WHAT SENATOR VASCE THIKK8. "Of course not," said Senator Vance, in his hearty and positive manner; " of course I do not share in any degree the sentiments imputed to Senator Eustis. The President is proceeding in his work of renovation and reform with all the speed that it behooves a prudent man to make. The President is making known to the country that he is not a bitter and thought less partisan, but that he keeps in view the duty which in his exalted position he owes the whole country. He could, if he chose, let down the bars and drive the officehold ers out like a flock of sheep, but who will say that such summary measures would not be followed by disaster to the public weal ? There is no occasion for ' kicking ' now. But whenever an officeholder pros titutes his position for partisan ends his removal is justified upon the strictest prin ciples of civil service reform, for I take it to be the very essence of that reform to dissociate completely Federal office from Complicity in politics. Whenever the Pres ident absolutely refuses to remove such men then I too shall join the ranks of the kickers and kick pretty high and hard. We are a little impatient in the South. Our, offices have long been filled from the Republican element there, which is by no means so reputable as the same element in the North ; but we know that the better time will come in its season." THE PRESIDENT HCL.K8. Some Interesting Reminiscences. (New York Sun. Mr. Hendricks has been persevering and faithful in endeavors to genre his Demo cratic friends in Indiana, but without any degree ol success thus tar. Vice-fresi aents, as a ruie, nave not ior many years exercised much power at Washington. The President for the time being does not look with more favor on his possible suc cessor man a King does on the heir appar ent, who is waiting to occupy the throne, When Gen. Taylor was elected Presi dent, the original plan was to treat Mr. Fillmore on the same footing of a member of the Cabinet. Mr. Seward entered the Senate contemporaneously with the advent of the Taylor Administration, and although he had much prejudice to confront, and little sympathy to receive, it did not take him long to keep Mr. Fillmore within the limits of the Vice-Presidential nonentity, Gen. Taylor in his plain and honest way, never claimed much influence with his own Administration. An amusing in stance of his ingenuous frankness may be mentioned to show the pure simplicity of ms character. There was a spirited con test for the Naval Agency at Washington between Mr. Linthicum and Mr. Lathrop. On the day when the appointment' was to be decided Mr. Linthicum called at the White House, and was cordially congrat ulated by the President as the successful candidate. He then went to the Navy Department to inquire about his commission, and was astounded to learn there that Mr. Lathrop had been appointed. Returning quickly to the White House, he told the President of his surprise. Qen. Taylor was as much embarrassed as his disappointed friend. He rubbed his forehead and repeated, "Linthicum, Lathrop Lathrop, Linthi cum." Finally he said :. " Mr. Linthicum, I must have been mistaken about your ap pointment, but I know I voted for you." Ibis incident occurred five and thirty years ago. Things are done differently in these days. The whole tendency is to concentrate power in the hands of the President, especially when he is a man of strong wilL Gen. Grant went to the ex treme in this respect. The successor whom he placed in the White House, by backing a monstrous fraud with force, was the weak instrument of a foul conspiracy, and was in the hands of John Sherman, Stan Icy Matthews, and others who had acquired control by its consummation. Hays was more concerned about the' salary of the office than about the Presidency. ' r ;; Garfield was another, example of feeble and fickle purpose, who,1 -with a long ex perience in public affairs and with superi or talents of a certain order, was wholly unequal to Executive responsibility. Blaine dominated in the Administration while the late President lived, and it was not his 1 fault that he did not continue to rule un der Arthur.' Long before the death of Garfield Blaine sought to install Arthur in the Presidency under the-"disability" clause of the Constitution; That overture was firmly repulsed, and its rejection led to the bitter feeling between Blaine and Arthur which no generosity on the part of I the latter has ever mollified in the former. There is little probability that any mem ber of the Cabinet, or all the Cabinet com bined, will direct the action of Mr. Cleve land He stands sternly for the Executive authority, after being satisfied that It may be rightfully exercised. " Any attempt to j restrain it would signally fail. TECHNICAL EDUCATION. How to Sake Handicraftsmen. Charleston News and Courier. J Prof. Huxley, in an address to. the Workingmen's j Club, London, presents some clear and forcible thoughts in con nection with what he calls " technical ed ucation," or " that sort of education which is specially adapted to the needs of men whose business in life is to pursue some kind of handicraft." He shows, as a sort of introduction, that he is a handicrafts man; that for forty years he has been a man who works with bis hands; his sphere has been the - workshop, and he thinks that, if a watchmaker comes to his shop and Bets him to put a watch together, and he sets the watchmaker to dissect a black beetle's nerves, he will get along a good deal better with the watch than the watch maker will with the beetle. For a youth intended to follow a trade, to be a handi craftsman, he thinks the workshop is the place for his training, and that he should go there early, before his habits or his tastes have acquired any bias contrary to his projected course of life. He gives a sketch of the preparatory education that would be best for a boy whom one wanted to make a professional anatomist, in which he leaves out anatomy entirely, for he " would rather be let that alone until he took it up seriously in my laboratory." In the same manner, he recommends that the preparatory education of handicrafts men should have nothing " technical " about it. " The workshop is the only real school for handicraft. The education which precedes that of the workshop should be entirely devoted to the: strength ening of the body, the elevation of the moral faculties, and the cultivation of the ntelligence, and especially to imbuing tne mind with a broad and clear view of the laws of that natural world with the com ponents of which the handicraftsman will have to deal." Boys intended for the me chanical occupations should not be kept at school beyond the age of thirteen or four teen. It is not desirable that such boys should be specially tinged with bookish- hess, and the danger of over-educating them is really becoming a matter requir ing senous attention. The views of Prof. Huxley are always worthy of consideration, and, on the pres ent subject, have peculiar interest, because they bear upon a matter of even more im portance here than in England. Our sys tern of public schools puts the means ot education at the very doors of the labor ing classes. Their children do not always leave school at the point Prof. Huxley suggests; they very often maintain their attendance as far as the system will permit, and by the time they are withdrawn they have acquired tastes utterly at variance with the pursuits for which they were in tended. Of course this feature of our ed ucational system is unavoidable. All classes are alike entitled to use our public schools, but we agree with the St. Louis Republican in the opinion that the course of instruction in such schools should not be pushed beyond the limits of a sound English education. The native good sense of the parents of children intended for mechanical vocations must be the judge as to the preparatory education. The regu lar trades are always necessary, and, with proper prudence and economy, always yield a good living. To learn them well it is necessary to enter the workshops, where alone the requisite skill can be ac quired, having sufficient education and not too much, and with a contented and deter mined spirit. Thus commencing the bus iness of life, reasonable success is more sure in this direction than perhaps in any other. It is not contended that children intended to be craftsmen should be de prived of educational advantages, but that the teaching of the workshop should begin as earlv as nossible : that all the nrehmi nary education necessary is that which the public schools will give between the ages of six and fourteen, and that future pro gress should be earned on simultaneously with the teaching of the workshop. OUR PROSPERING TOWNS. Fayette vllle. Seeing a number of strangers in town last Thursday, we stepped into the hotels to see their registers, and were surprised to see that our visitors .were from Tennes see, Kansas, Iowa, Alabama, Michigan, California, Minnesota, Ohio, Georgia, Vir ginia, Vermont, West Virginia, Massachu setts, South Carolina, Texas, Florida and all parts of our State. We found that many were contractors, and were here in specting the line of the Wilson and Fay- ettcville Railroad. Among the number was Gen. Rosser, the celebrated Confeder ate cavalry officer, who we understand wishes to take the contract of bridge build ing across the Cape Fear, FayetteviUe Ob- server. Liberty. We are triad to hear that this village on the Cape Fear and Tadkm Valley Railroad is flourishing. There are three stores, and nine houses have just gone up, but have not yet been roofed in. And better still a very good Academy building is nearly completed, and Mr. J. D. Gunter will open school there early in May. Good, go on 1 Pitttboro Home. Blore Trouble for Poland. fXew York Herald Cable. J From Galicia daily reports are received of the appearance there of English agents, who are said to be organizing committees in order to prepare an insurrection should Russia become entangled in a war. The' Poles are always ready for an insurrection, because they expect of every com plication the restoration of their ancient kingdom. Besides, there exists at present an exceed ingly bitter feeling against Russia in Po lish society. Two-thirds of the Asiatic army of Russia are Poles. The Russian government has sent the Polish Regiments to Asia in order to weaken the hostile ele ment in Poland.v It may easily come to pass that while the Poles in Asia are shed ting their blood for Russia, the Poles in Europe will be found fighting for England in a war of insurrection. HOW TO TEACH. Botioi Facta- Fad tn Fiction. : fBnlwerin"TheCaxtons." "Of course, air. you will begin1 soon to educate your . son yourself P said Mr. Squills. ,: Of course, sir," said my lather, "you have read Martinus ScriblerusT" "I don't understand you, Mr. Caxton." 4,Tten you have not read Martinus ScribleruS, Mr. Squills 1 ' "Consider that I have read it, and what then?" v; "Why then; Squills," said my father. familiarly, "you would know, that though a scholar is often a fool, he is never a fool so supreme,; so superlative, as when he is defacing the first unsullied page of the human history. by entering into it the common-places of his own pedantry. A scholar, sir at least one like me is of all persons the most unfit, to teach young children. A mother, sir a simple, natu ral, lovfng mother is the infant's true guide to knowledge." , " Egad, ; Mr. Caxton, in spite of Helve tius, whom you quoted the night the boy was born egad, I believe you are right." l am sure of it,"' said my lather; "at least as sure as a poor mortal can be of anything. I agree with Helvctius. the child should be educated from its birth; but howt there is the rub; send him to school forthwith I Certainly, be is at school already with the two great teach ers. Nature and Love. Observe, that childhood and genius nave the same master-organ" in common inquisitiveness. Let childhood have its way, and as it be gan where genius begins, it may find what genius finds. A certain Greek writer tells us of some man. who, in order to save his bees a troublesome flight to Hymettus, cut their wings, and put before them the finest llowers he could select. The poor bees made no honey. , Now, sir, if I were to teach my boy, I should be cutting his wings, and giving him the flowers he should find himself. Let us leave Nature alone for the present, and Nature's loving Therewith my father pointed to his heir sprawling on the grass, and plucking daisies on the lawn ; while the young mother's voice rose merrily, laughing at the child's glee. "1 shall make but a poor bill out of your nursery, I see," said Mr. SquiIJs. Agreeably to these doctrines, strange in so learned a father, I thrived and flourished and learned to spell, and make pot-hooks, under the joint care of my mother and Dame Primmins. This last was one of an old race fast dying away the race of old faithf al servants the race of old tale-tell ing nurses. 8he had reared my mother before me, but her affection put out new flowers for the new generation. She was a Devonshire woman and Devonshire women, especially those who have passed their youth -near the sea-coast, are gene rally superstitious. I She had a wonderful budget of fables. Before t was six years old, I was erudite in that primitive litera ture, jn which, the legends of all nations are traced to a common fountainstat tn Boots, Tom Thumb, Foriunatxu, Jack the Gumt Kuler tales like proverbs, equally familiar, under different versions, to the infant worshippers of Budh and the -har dier children of Tbor. I may say, with out vanity, that in an examination in those venerable classics, I could have ta ken. honors! -My dear mother had some little misgiv ings as to the solid benefit to be derived from such fantastic erudition, and timidly consulted nay father thereon " My love," answered my father, in that tone of voice which always puzzled even my mother, to be sure whether he was in jest or earnest "in all these fables, cer tain philosophers could easily discover symbolical significations of the highest morality, J have myself written a treat ise to prove- that Puss in Boots is an alle gory upon the progress of. the human un derstanding, having its origin in the mys tical schools of the Egyptian priests, and evidently an illustration of the worshin rendered at Thebes and Memphis to those feline .quadrupeds, of which they make both religious symbols and elaborate mummies." "My dear Austin," said my mother, opening her blue eyes, "you don't think that bisty will discover all those fine things in Puss in Boots? -1 "My dear Kitty," answered my father, " vou dont think, when vou were crood enough to tut up with me, that you ! . ... ' ... found in me all the fine things I have learned from books,: You knew me only as a harmless creature, who was happy enough to please your fancy. , By-and-by you discovered that 1 was no worse for all the quartos that nave transmigrated into ideas within me ideas that are mysteries even to myself. , If Sisty, as you call the child (plague .on that unlucky anachron ism I which yon do well to abbreviate into a dissyllable if Sisty can't discover all the wisdom of Jurypt .ln Putt tn Hoots, what then? Puss in Boots is harmless, and it pleases his fancy. All that wakes curi osity is wisdom, if innocent all that pleases the fancy now turns hereafter to love or to knowledge. And so, my dear, go back to the nursery, But I should wrong thee, O best of fathers! if I suite red the reader to sup pose that because thou didst seem so indifferent to my birth, and so careless as to my early teaching, therefore thou wert. at, heart, indifferent to thy troublesome Neogilos. As I grew older, I became more sensibly aware that a father's eye was upon me. I distinctly remember one incident, that seems to me, in looking back, a crisis in my infant life, as the first tangible link between my own heart and that calm great soul. My father waa seated on the lawn before the house, his straw hat over his eyes, (it was summer), and his book on his lap. Suddenly a beautiful delf blue-and-white flower pot which had been set on the win dow-sill of an upper story, fell to the ground with a crash, and the fragments spluttered up round my fathers legs. Sublime In his studies as Archimedes in the siege, he continued to read ; Impamdnm fertent ruxnai 11 Dear, dearf" cried my mother, who was at work in the porch, "poor flower pot that I prized so much ! What could have done this? Primmins, Primmins! Mrs. Primmins popped her head out of the fatal window' nodded to the summons, and came down in a trice, pale and breath less. ' - f " OV said my mother, mournfully, " I would rather have lost ll the plants in the freenhouse in the great blight last May would rather the . best tea set were broken! The poor geranium I reared my self, and the dear; dear flower-pot which Mr. Caxton bought' for 'me my last birth day I That naughty child must have done this!" Mrs. Pnmmins was dreadfully afraid of my father why I know not, except that very talkative social persons are usually afraid of very silent shy one.' She cast a hasty glance at her master, -who was be ginning to evince signs of attention, and cried promptly, " No, ma'am, it was pot the dear toy, biess his flesh, it was 1 1 ? Your bow could you be so careless? and you knew how I prized them both. O Primmins!" Primmins began to sob. " Don't tell fibs, nursey," said a small shrill voice ; and Master Bisty (coming out of the house as bold as brass) continued rapidly "Dont scold Primmins, mamma; it was I who pushed out the flower-pot." "Hush!" said nurse, more frightened than ever, and looking aghast towards my father, who had very deliberately taken off his hat, and was regarding the scene with serious eyes wide awake.' ' " Hush I And if he did break it, ma'am, it was quite an accident; he was standing so, and he never meant it. Did you Mas ter Sisty? Speak ! (this in a whisper) or Pa will be so angry." " Well," said my mother, "I suppose it was an accident ; take care in future, my child. You are sorry, I see, to have grieved me. There's a kiss; don't fret." No, mamma, you must not kiss me; I don't deserve it. I pushed out the flower pot on purpose." " Ha! and why?" said my father, wak ing up. . . ' " i Mrs. Primmins trembled like a leaf. " For fun I " said L hanging my head " just to see how you'd look, papa; and that's the truth of it. Now beat me, do beat me 1 " My father threw his book fifty yards off, stooped down, and caught me to his breast. "Boy," he said, you have done wrong; you shall repair it by remember ing all your life that your father blessed God for gfeiag him a son who spoke truth in spite of feart Oh! Mrs. Primmins, the next fable of this kind you try to teach him, and we part forever ! " Jrrom that time 1 first date the hour when I felt that I loved my father, and knew that he loved me ; from that time, too, he began to converse with me. He would no longer, if he met me in the gar den, pass by with a smile and nod ; he would stop, put his book in his pocket, and though his talk was often above my comprehension, still somehow I felt hap pier and better, and less of an infant, when I thought over it, and tried to puzzle but the meaning; for he had a way of sug gesting, not teaching putting things into my neaa, ana men leaving them to work out their own problems. I remember a special instance with respect to that same flower pot and geranium. Mr. Squills, who was a bachelor, and well to do in the world, often made me little presents. Not long after the event I have narrated, he gave me one far exceeding in value those usually bestowed on children; it was a beautiful large domino-box in cut ivory, painted and gilt. This domino-box was my delight, l was never weary of playing at dominoes with Mrs. Primmins. and I slept with the box under my pillow. Ah l " said my father one day, when he found me ranging the ivory parallelo grams in the parlor, "ah! you like that better than all your playthings, eh! " "O yea, papa." " lou would be very sorry if your mamma were to throw that box out of the window and break it for fun?" I looked beseechingly at my father and made no an swer. But perhaps you would be very glad, he resumed, "if suddenly one of those good fairies you read of could change the domino-box into a beautiful geranium in a beautiful blue and-white flower-pot, and you could have the pleasure of putting it on your mamma's wmdow-sillT" "Indeed I would! " said I, half crying, " My dear boy, I believe you ; but good wishes don't mend bad actions good ac tions mend bad actions." So saying, he shut the door and went out. I cannot tell you how puzzled I waa to make out what my father meant by his SDhonsm. But 1 know that 1 nlaved at dominoes no more that day. The next morning my father found me seated by myself under a tree in the garden; he paused and looked at me with his grave bright eyes very steadily. "My boy," said he, "I am going to walk to (a town about about two miles off), will you come? and, by the bye, fetch your domino-box ; I should like to show it to a person there." I ran in for the box, and, not a little proud ol walking with mv father upon the high road, we set out. Papa," said I by the way, "there are no fairies now." " What then, my child? " "Why how then can my domino-box be changed into a geranium and a blue- and white flower-pot? " "Mv dear." said mv father, leaning his hand on my shoulder, " everybody who is in earnest to be good, carries two fairies about with him one here," and he touched my heart, "and one here," and he touched my forehead. " I dont understand, papa. " I can wait till you do, Pisistratus. What a name!" Mv father stonned at a nursery earden er's, and, after looking over the flowers, paused before a large double geranium. " Ah, this is nner than that wnicn your mamma was so fond of. What is the cost, sir ?" " Only 7s. 6d" said the gardener. My father buttoned up his pocket. " I can't afford it to-day," said he gently, and we walked on. On entering the town again, we stopped at a china warehouse. "Have you a 1:1 ,L.t t K..i,4. .fc. ago? Ah, here is one, jnarkea oa. d. Yes. that is the mice. Well, when vour mamma's birthday comes again, we must buy her another. , That is some months to wait. And we can wait. Master Sisty. For truth, that blooms all the year round, is better than a poor geranium ; and a word uiu is never oruaea uciier uuu a picvc of delf." My head, which had drooped before. rose again ; but the rush of joy at my heart almost stifled me. " I have called to oav vour little bill." said my father, entering the shop of one of those fancy stationers common in country towns, and who sell all kinds of pretty toys and nicknacks. "And by the way," he added, as the smiling shopman looked over his books for the entry, " I think my little boy here can show you a much hand somer specimen of French workmanship than ihat work-box which you enticed Mrs. Caxton into raffling for last winter. Show your domino-box, my dear." I produced my treasure, and the shop man waa liberal in ma commendations. It is always well, my boy, to know what a thing is worth, in case one wishes to part with it. If my young gentleman gets tired ot bis plaything, .what will you give him tor it?" ; s j 1 . "rr" r Why, sir," said the shopman, " I fear we could not aoord to give more tnan eighteen shillings for it unlesa.the young gentleman took some of these pretty things In irfmnont'-A"-:tV:": -f . "Eighteen shillings 1" said my father; vnn wnnlfl (rf-a that amnl Well.-mv boy, whenever you do grow tired of your oox, you nave my leave to sell it." I my lamer paid nis Din and went out. I lingered behind a few moments,- and joined him at the end of the street. . . . f ' Papa, papa!" I cried, clapping mjy bands, "we can buy the geranium we can buy the flower-pot." And I pulled a handful of silver from my pockets. " Did I not say right ? " said my father. passing his handkerchief over bis eyes you have found the two fairies 1" Oh ! how nrood. how ovefioved' I was. when, after placing vase and) flower on the window-sul, I plucked my mother by the , gown, and made her follow me to the spot. " it is his doing, and his money ! " said my father; "good actions have mended the bad." "What!" cried mv mother, when she bad -learned all; " and your poor dommo box that you were so fond of ! We will go back to-morrow and buy it back if it costs us double 1 " Shall we buy it back, Pisistratus?" asked my father. Oh no no no! It would spoil all," I cried, burying my face on my father's breast. " My wife," said my father, solemnly. i this is my first lesson to our child the sanctity and the hanmness of self-sacrifice undo not what it should teach to his dy ing day. . THE mOTHER-IIV-LAW As Grandmother Ctots a Ctood DVord. Harper's Bazar. What house is there complete without a grandmother in it, especially if there is a baby in it already? And if 'there is not a baby, then all the more is the grand mother, so-called, indispensable ; for if we have no future, we all of us must have a past, and the grandmother is, of couise, its embodiment. Beyond this, to every house there is essential a nucleus, a centre,. and neither the husband nor wife likes to assume that part altogether, lest it should seem too much of a selfishness, and one that is not quite excusable even to one's self. For although a wife may take ex quisite pleasure in feeling that she is the centre of home to her husband, who but for her might not be keeping up an estab lishment all for himself putting children out of the case for the time being and the husband feels as much in happening to be the one object towards whose health and welfare everything in the household bends; yet there is fuller pleasure for both of them in having an object of mu tual care, which, where it cannot be the young, must be the old. So strong is this necessity for an object of mutual interest that we have more than once seen a family, consisting of husband and wife only, where the dog or cat or bird was made to answer the end in view as well as it could, and we have even known the head of the house, on the disappearance of the par ticular pet, on going out to put the case into the hands of the police, to turn to the partner of his cares and say, in a Bnaaiug voice, break down." Not that we would imply, even in jest, that the grandmother is only to answer the purpose where the pet does not or where the child does not. She occupies her own place, sits on her own throne ; it is on one side of the hearth physically ; it is in the heart of the household both phy sically and psychically. There seems to be a certain stability about that house where the old lady sits enshrined that the house full of younger people only does not possess; one feels as if the latter house might break up at any moment, since young people marry, emigrate, travel, go away on any errand. But the old person is done with all that, is fixed and fast, is to be there, doubtless, until the end comes, and, for all the later gene ration knows, has been there from the be ginning in any event, from the beginning of whatever memory or experience is pos sessed by them. As she adds a dignity to the house insensibly and inevitably, she also adds a sweetness; nor that altogether in her own person, for she may not be necessarily in herself entirely lovely in or der to do that; but the duty of reverence and service to the old evokes in those about her all sorts of graceful acts of kindness and submission that give an at mosphere of gentleness to the whole inte rior. They are simple and easy duties, too, as a general thing, that are rendered to this silver-crowned queen, nothing re quiring especial sacrifice in the ordinary line ol life, and are tnus not oniy very seldom neglected in any house, but al. wavs cheerfully performed, and are fol lowed by a gratified feeling of having done all that one'a conscience could de mand; or what is even beyond that, the more exacting conscience of other people in such regard, for it is .true that your friends and neighbors often 'have a higher sense of your duties' and obligations than you nave yourself. The sense ol duty done, however, irrespective of the neighbors, adds to the sweet temner. nlacid nerves. and general comfort of the house and all that there are in it in a wonderful way. And in quite another way, a compara tively trivial way, a sort of satisfaction, that you are sometimes a little ashamed of. comes with the Dossession of a grand mother who is a gracious and refined wo man, as it teus everybody that, u you are poor and abased now, once your family was such as this kind ox gracious ana re I nnea person tuaue uw ui buu u tuu re a S it ."'.';-h?-" " "w -v- . . r we were always gracious and -refined peo ple, you see ; seventy or eighty years of it, at any rate, are oeiore you in ns person. But all of these considerations are m fling and somewhat sentimental beside the plain fact of the immense and uniainng comfort a grandmother is in the house where the children are. The children, to begin with, are her own; without trans lating the idea to herself fully, she sees nosterity in them; they tell the universe what she has lived for, and, as a general thing, they answer the problem of life very satisfactorily to her, for in her eyes. whatever they may be in the eyes oi ail the rest of their little, world, they are per fection. he has about as much love for them as she had for the children she bore herself; if they are her own daugh ter's children, perhaps quits as much; if they are her son's, and she has daughters of her own. not perhaps as much to the last jot and tittle, because they are then another woman's children; but if she have no daughters of her own, then her son's wife is often her own daughter in affec tion, and the children are doubly dear. She has all the contentment that it is pos sible to have in children, without any of the responsibility; she certainly is; not di rectly responsible for bringing them into the world; the duties of aU that sort of responsibility are covered Dy the parents. of course, in a manner that leaves , no room, for their exercise by her ; to her are left only the pleasures. To her do the little people come with all their woes and troubles; to her do they come with. all their confidences of another sort how can they go quite so freely to the person' who is responsible for them, and in duty must needs correct them . if this it wrong i and that is unworthy, and cannot in so far sympathize with them to the full? But. the grandmother, if not herself a child with them, has perhaps learned that too much tinkering is as bad as too little, and that something in her-view nowadays almost everything, indeed can be left to , the instincts f race, and none of her race, that have? already turned out bo well; 1 are going astray now, or going t sural out anything but well jn the future; and : thus she can know of .scrapes, and vexa- tions and grievances and intentions, and in-some measure lead them safety through,' ' while other ears never hear of them, un less she, in her turn, gets confiding, , And the owners of the other ears do not get , jealous of this; they regard it as some thing in the course of nature; if they are ever grandparents, they too will come jto the same fate;; and; they know too soon the old ears beneath the dull clod will .be closed to all confidences, whether of joys or sorrows, and grudge them nothing, if, ' indeed, it is net a part of their own pleas-' . ure to see the occupation and mystery .and happiness and mutual understanding of . those who, on the one hand, have so little before them, and, on the other, so much less behind them. If all the old ' grand-' mothers in the world took to themselves reflection of this value, of theirs, and of their value, moreover, in softening .influ ence on the jfeeling8 of the little folk about them in rendering them comfort and being of some actual service to them, they would never think of wearying of life, or of calling themselves a burden to any, ' .. And with ail the rest, while the grand mother sits in; the house, to the children 1 belongs a sensation that the house and the home are indestructible, rock-ribbed, and' ancient as this sun always was, and al- . ways will be; and with her departure on her long lastMourney comes usually the first breaking-down of the wall between ' them and the unknown gulfs of the eter nities, and tie great chill -of the dark mysteries flows over them, and; takes away something in its ebbing that never returns to them. . -4 the Norfolk bank. Tne Receive tali Responsible Poonl. Norfolk Vlrjrinian.J The bill of !Receiver Peters, of the Ex change National Bank, filed in the United States Circuit Court, contains a terrible arraignment of the officers and directory of the closed bank, and places upon their 1 U it. ' .,.. .1 . . Bnouiaers mcr responsiDiuiy oi me mis deeds that caused the suspension of that institution. It is an official utterance, containing specific charges, which impli cate Mr. John B. Whitehead, the late president, and Mr. George M. Bain, the late cashier, ith his brothers, Robert T. K. Bain and James G. Bain, in a series of transactions and for which they should be held to a strict accountability. The bill also charges ithe directory of the bank (aside from tjbe president and cashier) of negligently and faithlessly, and in viola tion of their duty as such, permitting tbs sole care and management of the said bank's affairs to be exercised by the said president and cashier." It charges' the Bain brother of wilful, fraudulent and unlawful conspiracy "to obtain the moneys of the Exchange Bank, as a loan to them without any security, "and that the cashier of the Exchaige National Bank aided the conspiracy to defraud by permitting the loans without security, "from all of which grossly negligent, reckless and fraudulent mismanagement of the affairs of the bank have resulted its present insolvency, suspension and ruin," and that after thus securing the- moneys ol the .Exchange Bank, and . after its suspension, the Bain brothers fraudulently made a deed of trust, when they knew they were insolvent, and with "the intent to delay, swindle and defraud the Exchange National Bank." . FIDDLE; FLUTE, PIANO, CHESS , I , No Longer the Cnlef Diplomatic Duties. rjew York Herald. One of thje clauses in the instructions now issued to dislomatic and consular of. fleers reminds them that it is their duty to communicate all important information that they secure to the State Department. ' They are reniinded that it is not of much value to thisf country to have representa tives abroad if they do not keep wis coun try thoroughly informed. One would not suppose that such a reminder is necessary, but it is. There have been many repre sentatives of this country abroad who have not, on an average, sent the State Depart ment three letters or reports in -a, year. Some of those who are abroad to-day have been very " delinquent in this particular. ' The State Department needs something else from its agents abroad than that they shall simply live in a house over which oc- . i , ' casionaiiy an American nag is aispiayea. The theory is and it has been but a the ory heretofore in many instances that thev shall keen the State Department thor- , oughly advised and shall gather and col late important statistics relating to com merce in its Various phases as well as mat ters of other general interest, political and commercial. It is said that Secretary , Bayard intends that this theory shall be ; practically carried out m the future. - I Conananlonanle Father nnd Son. Detroit (Mich.) Free Press. . I know almost estimable father who is on first-rate iterms with his own son. That shouldn't be; a remarkable thing, Yet I fear " it is not just as common as it ought txTbe. They are, as1 it were, boys together. . He ' has never whipped that boy. He admit ted to me that he would have felt badly if ' the boy, haying the power, had thrashed him, so he isaw no reason why he should not respect ithe boy's feelings Jn this mat ter and not take advantage of the advan tage a father has over a young son if It comes to physical encounter. This is certainly a magnanimous view to take, and f the son has, grown to be a fine young fel low, whose; conduct quite refutes the say ing of Solomrn. They occasionally relax into conundrums for amusement,- and here is the Utest. t They were talking of co coons. "Why are cocoons uk knot-holesT" ; was . the question. The younger., had to give it upland, after the fashion of the ' end man, repeated : ' " Why ; are cocoons r like knot-holes t " ; . Because they are not llee,:wa.thaieply TltrorTaU -.y.vir.i. Boston Courier. iifi': The girls of Minneapolis have a club .'with tho.ia)ottOf ..stt: j:-.'tfe-S ?. . tTh Htm that touch wttwt . . V will never touch mine.". And thef young men have formed an op- positioa club with the motto ' ' ' i r or lips red with dye " We never will sigh." :r.A' J...
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