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LOVE AND LIGHTNING. rWatf.l lady, who her love had sold, if a reason could be told Vhv wedding rings were made of gold. 1 ventured thus to instruct her : Love, ma'am, and lightning are the same On earth they glance, from heaven they came ; Love is the 'soul's electric flame, . nd gold its best conductor. ) ' ' :, 8UPRETOLB COURT. DeeUtAB FUod Febraary Term. From Advance Sheets of Davidson's Beyorts. ' CKrVKRfllTT V. THE,' BAKE. Where part of , the issues in. .an action are decided by a trial, and, others material to the final disposition .of .the cause are left open for further adjustment, an ap peal is premature,, and t will no be enter tained. . vh-;f , . ',n (Hines v. Bines, 84 CM 122 ; Commis turner v. SatcbuDtU, 88 N. C, 1 ; Jones v. Call, 89 N. C., 188; Grant v. Reese, 90 N. C, 3; Arrington v. Arrington, 91 N. C, 301, cited and approved),, . f WI5STEAD AND PASS, EX-FARTE. 1. Where a sale, for partition is made among tenants-in-common, oue of whom is entitled to a life interest only, the tenant for life must have the interest on the value of the share to which he is entitled paid to him for his life, and he is not entitled to have the value of his life estate ascertained, and a sum in gross paid to him therefor. 3. By seetion 1909 of The Code, in a sale for partition of land subject to dower, where the widow is a party, her life estate may be valued in money, and the money paid to her in lieu of the interest for life on one-third of the proceeds of sale. WILLIAUa T. JOHN8TOK. 1. Authority delegated by a creditor to an B"-ent to collect and settle a debt leaves the 'medium of payment largely at the agent's discretion, but it does not extend to a settlement which the debtor knows will enure entirely to the benefit of the agent. 2. So, where the debtor contracted with an agent who was authorized to collect a debt, that he would deliver timber at the agent's mill for the agent's individual use, which was to be applied in payment of the debt ; Held, that the delivery of the timber under this contract does not discharge the debt due the principal. SUMNER V. CASDLM. 1. Assignment of error for the exclusion of proposed evidence must distinctly point out its relevancy and materiality. 2. A party to an action is not permitted to testify in his own behalf against the executor, administrator, etc., of a deceased person, unless the executor, administra tor, etc., is examined, or the testimony of the deceased person is given in evidence, when the door is opened to the opposing party to testify for himself, but only as to those particular transactions and commu niratinns to which the testimony of the deceased person or his representative was-t pertinent, ineiwie, jou. Knight v. KUlefrrew. 86 N. C, 400; Bland v. CHagan, 64 N. C, 471, cited and approved). i TURREKTT5E V. THE BAILBOAD COMPANY. 1. Where issues are framed in such a manner that the material facts of the case as found by the jury, are confused and un batisfactory, the verdict should be set aside and a new trial ordered. 2. In an action against a railroad com pany for an injury to the plaintiff, result ing from its negligence, although the plaintiff shows negligence on the part of the defendant, he cannot recover, if by reasonable care and attention on'his part, he could have avoided the injury. 3 Mere negligence of want of ordinary care will not, however bar the, plaintiff's recovery, unless it is' such' that but for that negligence the misfortune wouhi. not have happened ; nor if the defendant might by the exercise of care on his part have avoided the consequence of the plaintiff's negligence. ( Hunter v. Wicker, 85 N. C, 310 ;, Owen v. The Railroad, 88 N. C, 502; Farmer v. Tl Railroad. Ibid, 564 ; Ayepck v. The Bail road, 89 X. C, 321; Bank v. Alexander, S4 X. C, 30; Mitchell v. Brown, 88 N. C, 156, cited and approved). LOGAN V. FITZGERALD. 1. If the true owner enters on land the possession at once follows the title, and both title and possession are then in him. A possession thus acquired by the true owner, although he enters under a mis taken and erroneous claim, nevertheless is supplied by the legal estate, and the owner, in law, holds by his real and not by his pretended title. 2. When the true owner enters, as an assertion of bis right it is not necessary to expel the occupant in possession at the time of such entry. o. Where the defendant was in actual possession of a part of the locus in quo, and had constructive possession of the rest, !'nd the true owner, the plaintiff,' enters upon the part of which the possession was constructive; Held, such entry at once vests the possession in him, and seven years must elapxe from such entTy before the defendant can acquire title by lapse of time. JStatonv. MuUis, Ante; Howell v. Me- racicen, 87 N. C, 3s9, cited and ap proved;. THE BAKK V. BI.088OM. 1. It nee-nut, that the affidavit to obtain &a order tor the publication of a summons a) oe made after the order, provided the order remains in abeyance until the affida vit is filed. 2- Where notice of an attachment and summons were published iu one notice for bve weeks; It wa held a sufficient publi cation of the notice of the attachment, but not of the summons. 3- Where a publication of a summons was only made for five weeks, the court "as power to retain the action and order a sufficient publication. 4- Where notice pf.the attachment is omitted, from the ordej.pf publication, but "i the published notice the defendant is informed that an attachment has been issued against his property, to, what court jl ' returnable, &e., the court, has power to amend the order of publication, so as to 'nsert a requirement that notice be given 0 the attachment. .. , u,. : 5- tyuarre, whether such amendment is necessary. . 1. Under the act of Wtosw, chapter 18j I '"T10181 the Norfollt.'Bdnthern RaHl wad Company ho appeal liei from UL W riocutory order in a proceeding in ac ' heeler v. Cobb, 75 J, C, 21; pice v. , 83 N. C, 261; Bom.f, Henderson, -77 ru i 110; AUen v- Oriuom, 90.JL p., 80, c"d and approved). , itli. . fi .. I ' ' ! 'if t , , I It cordance with the provisions of said act ucuin ianc ior tne use of the rail Vt f.n PPeal P only b taken from KflA final 2. The constitutional prorigions tklit the Supreme Court hall hare review uoon innal nv Aiai courta below upon. any matter of law or iurenee, is not impaired by an act of the Legislature appeal until the final determination of the eaUSe. r&iwl ,ttt r.n. 1 1 .11 ! 1 . peau from interlocutory judgments, must yield to the provisions of a special act. w uuuor me provisions of the act of 188970, suvra. the r.lerk haa to appoint.' commissioners to assess the .uiKct, uui must, issue an. order to the -!JX a auCTutw summon proper persona, h i (Ttteyraph Co. w Railroad Co., 83 N. 420, and N. C. Jiatiroad Co. v C. C. Rail road Co., Ibid, 489, cited and approved). BYMK V. BADGER. 1. Where an nMntnr nmm t nii he Cannot elect to take against the will. Bo where a testator was indebted to the person he appoints his executor and leaves property to me executor in pay ment of the debt, which proved to be of less in value than the amount of th Hht the executor, after proving the will, an- uui, cieut to assert nis ngnis bs a creditor and retain his debt out of other ausAtJi of the estate. 2. It 18 immafprijll that tlia sruiitnF acted under a mistaken idea of the legal consequences of proving the will. 3. An executor is only required to act in good faith and with reasonable care in the management of the estate. 4. Where an exocutnr did not rnlWt debt, under the impression -that it be- T i 1 - . . . ... .. iuDgu to nim personally, tie will only be held accountable to the estate for the narfc of such debt as he actually collects. o. Where an executor takes a security in his own name for a debt due the estate, it is not. in the absent of fraud and im proper purpose, a devastavit. yuenaennau v. jnenaennau, a Jones, 27; Jones V. Otrock. B Jonea En l&O- ITivr- rington v. McLean, Phil. Eq., 258; Ixler v. Tiler, 88 N. a, 581; Deterry v. Ivey,, 2 Jones Eq., 370; NeUon v." Hall, 5 Jones 407; Torrenee v. Davidmm, ante, cited and approved;. : WliXJU.lt S, BLACK CO. V. WHITING. 1. When it was agreed between the ven dor and vendee of land that the cotton raised on the land during each of the five yean . for which credit was given, should be forwarded to the plaintiff and sold and the proceeds applied to the payment of the purchase money, the cotton is in advance appropriated to the debt, and as soon as the money is received the debt is pre tanto satisfied, and can only be revived by the consent of the debtor. 2. This consent may be express, or re sult from implication, and, ii the latter, must rest on clear and unequivocal evi dence of intent. 3. -A power to act for another, however general its terms or wide its scope, cannot be enlarged into a power to pervert funds coming into the agent's hands without clear approval or ratification by the prin cipal. 4. When the referee fails to report the evidence, the proper course is to move to recommit or to require the referee to pro duce the evidence. 5. It is the duty of the party excepting to show the error excepted to and to state such of the evidence as is necessary to en able this court to comprehend and decide the point. When the record does not con tain such. evidence, this court cannot re view the decision of the Superior Court, but will affirm it. (William v. Johnston, ante, cited and approved). COBB V. HALYBURTON. 1. The act declaring that the statute of limitations shall not run against any debt owing by the holder of a homestead which is affected by the act forbidding the sale of the reversion BaU Rev., chapter 55, section 25) has been repealed. 3. The Btatute begins to run against such debts from Nov. 1, 1888, when the repealing act went into effect. ' 8. The allotment of homestead is not ipso facto void even against debts con tracted prior to the adoption of the Con stitution. It becomes so only when the debtor has no other property which can be subjected to the payment of such debts. 4. In 1869, the plaintiffs intestate ob tained judgments against the ancestor of the defendant, on debts contracted in 1866, and a homestead was allotted to the de fendant, which at his death was re-allotted to his infant children, the present defend ants. A petition was filed by the debtor's administrator to sell the homestead to make assets to pay the judgments ; Held, 1st. That by assenting for so long a time to the homestead allotment, and by avail ing themselves of the provisions of the statute which prevented their judgments from being barred, the creditors were pre cluded from denying the right of the in fants to the homestead ; 2d. That the cred itors were entitled to have the reversion after the determination of the homestead, not the absolute estate in the land, sold to pay their debts. (McDonald v. Hickton, 85 N. C, 248 ; Albright v. Albright, 88 N. C, 238; Mark ham v. Hicks, 90 N. C, 204, cited and approved).-'' OOOCH V. VATTGHAN. 1 . While courts permit the use of pow ers of sale in mortgages, they regard them with much suspicion and watchfulness, and will enjoin their execution when an attempt is made to use them for the purpose of oppressing or obtaining an un fair advantage over the mortgagor. 2. Where it appears in an application to enjoin a mortgagee from selling the mort gaged property under the power of sale, that there are many and complicated ac counts between the mortgagor and mort- G-aaree. and the balance due is uncertain, the court will restrain the execution of the power of sale until an account can be stated and the amount due ascertained. 8. In such case, the. rule which requires a. mortgagee, i in certain cases, to pay, the amount admitted to be due before the in -function will be eranted, does not apply, because no definite sum is known to be due. 4. A mortgagee with power of sale, is a trustee; 1st, To control the property, and apply the proceeds t the debt;. 2d, To account tor any surplus tome mortgagor, and he i held to a strict account. 15 Wherv a statement of ecount is Ten dered to a debtor who keeps it for a long time without objection, it becomes an ac count stated, and cannot be opened except for substantial errorj mistake, omission or fraud." '-.". ' '-' . In opening the account foe any of those causes um Duraen oi prooi w on the debtor..1' ! ! Mosby r. Hodge, Ibid, 887; mteAara v. Sanderson, 84 N. C, 299; Bridgers v. Morris, 90 N. C, 32, cited and approved). MERRILL V. MERRILL. 1. An appeal can be taken from an or der of the Superior Court either making Or refusing to make additional parties, when such order affects a substantial right of the appellant ; and it seems that the ap peal may either be taken at once, or ifcan be assigned as error on an appeal from the final judgment. ,, 2. An appeal lies at once from an inter locutory order that may in effect put an end to the action, or that may prejudice a substantial right of the party complain ing. 3. The Court has no power to convert a pending action, that cannot be maintained, into a new oae by admitting a new party plaintiff, who is solely interested, and al lowing hhn to assign a new cause pf ac tion.' 4. When an administrator dies, no one but an administrator de bonis non of his intestate can call his estate to account for the assets, of his intestate. 5. So, where a suit was pending by the next of kin against an administrator for the distribution of the estate in his hands, and the defendant died ; It teas held, that the action abated, and the Court had no power to allow an administrator de bonis non to be made a party plaintiff in the pending action,. (Rollins v. Rollins, 76 N. C, 264 ; Col grove v. Koonce, 76 N. C, 363; Phoebe y. Black, Id. 379; Stephenson v. Peebles, 77 N. C, 364; Goodman v. Goodman, 72 N. C, 508; Lansddl v. Winstead,!1 N. C, 366; Ham v. Kornegay, 85 N. C, 119; University v. Hughes, 90 N. C, 537; Wade v. Sanders, 70 N. C, 277 -, McDonald Morris, 89 N. C, 99; Asheville Division v. Aston, ante, cited and approved. Hardy v. Miles, 91 N. C., 131, cited and distin guished. Cases cited in the dissenting opinion : Goodman v. Goodman, 72 N. C, 508; Hardy v. Miles, 91 N. C, 131; Crav ley v. Woodjin, 78 N. C, 4 ; Allison v. Rob inson, 78 N. C, 222; Baker v. The Rail road, 91 N. C, 308; University v. Hughes, 90 N. C, 537). TAYLOR V. BATMAN. 1. The duty of maintenance which a husband owes to his wife is a sufficient consideration for a voluntary deed of land made by him to her, and a court of equity will sustain such a conveyance, although it is void at law. 2. Where a husband makes a gift of land to his wife, without any valuable consideration, but it is admitted that he had no fraudulent intent, and he retaining property sufficient to pay all of his debts in existence at the time of the gift, it is not fraudulent as to creditors. 3. To make a deed fraudulent as to subsequent purchasers, such purchaser must have paid fuUvalue for the land, and must also have purchased without notice oi the prior voluntary conveyance. 4. I he registration of the prior volun tary deed is notice to the subsequent pur chaser. 5. A feme covert, who is the donee of a power of appointment, either collateral, appurtenant or in gross, may execute the power without the consent of her hus band, and she may even execute it m his favor. 6. Although it is generally necessary in deeds or wills which are intended to execute powers of appointment, to refer to and recite the power, yet this is not necessary when the act itself shows that the donee had in view the subject of the power at the time, or when such deed or will would be a nullity, unless allowed to operate at the execution of the power. i. A power simply collateral cannot be conferred upon one who is a stranger to the consideration, except by a deed which operates by transmutation of possession. o. 1 he rule that in conferring a power it is necessary to create a seizin in some one commensurate with the estate which shall be ready to serve the use when ere ated by the appointment, only applies when the donee of the power has no inter est in the land. 9. The owner of an equitable estate may bring an action in the nature of ejectment, under the uode system of procedure. yLUes v. Fleming, 1 Dev. Eq., 185; fiUiott v. Elliott, 1 Dev. & Bat. Eq., 57; Arnett v. Wanett, 6 Ired., 41: H'uttt v. Wade, 8 Ired., 340; Smith v. Smith, 1 Jones, 135; Hogan v. Strayhorn, 65 N. C, 279; Stroud v. Morrow, 7 Jones, 463; Uondryv. Cheshire, 88 N. C, 375; Murray v. Blaeldedge, 71 N. C, 492, cited and ap proved). v WILSON V. BTNTJM. 1. Before the act of 1846 the land of a decedent could not be sold to pay a debt upon which a judgment quando had been rendered against the administrator ; but since the passage of this act, which makes the proceeds of land when sold assets in the hands of the personal representative for the payment of debts, a judgment quando may be satisfied from the proceeds of the sale of the decedent's land. 2. Land is not assets until it is sold, and the" proceeds received by the personal rep resentative. 3. Quwre, whether an administrator can be sued on his bond when he has been negligent in not obtaining an order to sell his intestate's land for assets. 4. Where it is necessary, and the ad ministrator fails to take the proper steps to sell his intestate's real estate for assets, he may be compelled by the clerk to do so, or a creditor may file a creditor's bill in the Superior Court against the administra tor or executor and the heirs at law or devisees for the sale of the land. 5. The Code has not taken away from the Superior Court any jurisdiction here tofore exercised by courts of equity, ex cept, perhaps, in cases exclusively within the jurisdiction of a justice of the peace. 6. Where the complaint alleged that the plaintiff had a judgment against the estate of a decedent; that the assets of the estate were exhausted ; that certain lands devised by the decedent were in the possession of his devisees, and that the personal repre sentative had refused to apply for an order directing the sale of said land to make as sets ; It was held, that the complaint set out a cause of action. 7. Where issues of fact are raised by the pleadings, it is error for the judge to decide the action without submitting these issues to a jury, unless both sides consent that he shall decide the whole case, both on the law and the facts, Walton v, Pearson, 85 N, C., j Martin v. Hardmg, 3 Ired. i-q., 603; vaugnan v. Deloach, 65 N. C 378; Hawkins v. Car penter, B8 N. C:;, 403 Fike v. Green, 64 N, C, 665; Wddsworth v. Davit 63 N. C, 251 ; Allison v. Davidson, 1 D. & B. Eq., 46 ; Simmons' Whitaker, B lred. Bq., IZ9 ; Fintfbr r. Finger, 64 N. C. 183, 'cited and approveaji. - ' : Mr. Hendricks, in aa ;interriew in-Chi cago yesterday, aftid b aooked luponijine Vice-Presidency as 4 position ,oX dignified laziness. Chicago TwneK THE OLD BIBLE AND THE If BUT. Revisers' Version People's Aversion. Nym Crinkle In New York World. It is now known that the revised New Testament owed its enormous sale when it was given to the public almost entirely to the curiosity of that public' So soon as the curiosity was gratified those who made any use of the book went back to the old version. That this will be the ease with the revised Old Testament, which is now On the booksellers' shelves, is not unlikely. As the revision has in the main been car ried on with conservative prudence and has received the approval of ' many emin ent scholars, we may safely conclude that this preference of the public is owing to an attachment for the old version that springs from association and use. This is perhaps the sentimental aide of the question. - At all events, we touch a factor in it which has not been sufficiently recognized in any scheme of revision. Aside from any doctrinal Or sectarian view of the Bible as we know the. King James version, it is without doubt the most wonderful book familiar to man, and all the abuse of it by a certain notorious public blasphemer never fixed his status of stupidity with half the enduring clearness as his one assertion that he could write a better book himself. Its poetry, its parables, its wisdom, its phraseology even, with all . its Gothic quaintness and Saxon boldness, has gone into the common language of millious of people. Its sentences are wrought into the ordin ary forms of expressioo. Its very He braisms and metaphors and Oriental exag gerations are woven into the literature and the dialect of common life. It is almost impossible to write or speak on topics that appeal to the feelings or treat of the destinies of the race without borrowing unwittingly its utterances. Nor is this all. The sentences of the old Bible are asso ciated not only in the minds but in the ex perieuces of myriads of people with the tenderest, the saddest and the most solemn events of life. It makes little difference, in estimating this memorial influence where the man through his doubts may arrive. . He may outgrow his early beliefs, but he cannot escape from the early associations, and he cannot outgrow the poetry and humanity of the book. It is of. little account into what puddle of doctrine or rut of selfishness he may get fixed, if the anthem tones of these grand old sentences sweep back to him from lips that prayed over him in his cra dle or surge up on the tide of memory from the cathedral, the synagogue or the con venticle. It is idle to talk to him of an improved text so long as the old text sets back from, the christening, the wedding and the fun eral. Its phraseology has caught a new diapa son from the events it helped to assuage. You cannot paraphrase an emotion nor revise a heart-beat, and most of these old periods were set by sorrow and suffering to a music of their own. They vibrate for myriads of people with the significance of events. Their liturgical cadences have come down through the ages wet with tears and winged with the triumphs of fervor and of faith. They belong to the rhythm of the soul no less than the reason of the race, and, heavy with the passion of life and the mystery of death, they are like eternal hills in which lie hidden the, echoes of our youth. It must be a question, therefore, always, ' whether we ought to disturb the cosmic dust on the pages of this book. There are sacred pictures that will not bear restor ing, and whose archaic beauty would be insulted in a spic-span frame. Let us fancy, if we can, the philological hand of another age more critical and even less creative than this, reaching out to re adjust the 23d Psalm, whose pastoral sim plicity and splendid antistrophe have de fied with elementary beauty the storm's of ages. Let us improve upon the great deep suspiration that was. also an aspiration, "I i , , . t. 3 . i w rwn Know mat my xeueemer uvetn. luereia no knowledge, no skill of lansrua&re. no wisdom of research that can touch the fact that the old words have swept Christendom with all the wings that music and elo quence could lend to their original efficacy. They have issued from the mouth of gen ius and rolled down the chancels of a and poetry, swaying the multitudes lik the tread ot a celestial nost. Why, I have heard Isaiah recited in the backwoods, and the forests grew into tem ples of immensity for the everlasting wor ship without words. 1 remember once, somewhere m the wil derness, when I was a boy just from school, and had a boy's callow contempt for the past and the old, hearing one of those gifted iconoclasts demolish this book. He heaped the contempt of science and litera ture upon it. He banished it with ridi cule, and with it all the possibilities that it included, and as usual he ended in a vacuum of materialism, and wound up with Hamlet's pessimistic fist in the face of Heaven. "Indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promonotory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look: you, this brave, o'er-hanging firmament, this majestical roof, Iretted with golden fire why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilential congregation of vapors." ' After this peroration there came a' sim ple, seedy apostle from somewhere, who threw his saddlebags over a stump and stood up and addressed that rough assem blage. ..... 4 How well I remember bis'efear blue eye uplifted when became to his peroration! How well I remember his words I ; "As for me," he said, "standing here on this far frontier of discovery, I prefer the old archaic prayer of Moses, breathed be fore Homer sang, and I am mystically stir red, after all these centuries of doubt and struggle, by its still elemental tones, bring ing to the orphaned breast of man the awful, simple, occult sense of the father hood of God back of the Cosmos, " 'Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. Before the moun tains were brought iorth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from Olam to Olam, from everlasting to everlasting, thou art Goal'" J . Since that day 'I have listened to a thou sand eloquent men and analyzed a thou sand human efforts of genius, but I do not recall anything which had' sdstrange an influence as the., deep primitive surge of that old scrap of poetry coming back in its own mode and, measure from the morning of historic existence when .man seemed to lean up close against the breast of his unr seen Father. - In speaking of, the disturbed, Bible,'! am only trying to aay that the tet Jias ac-, quired a significance from time-.and use which has become part oi .it& character, Its very blemishes and mysteries and errora have gone into the sum total of individual- ity with the Bible-reading world. Its occult side reaches out into archaeology of the race, and its mystic side is rich with the literature of timet. Every page is me morially sacred with the incidents of po lemic strife and rich with the recollections of cloistered learning and ecclesiastical "war.,' . . . -. It ja, .therefore, merely as a historic monument that has. accreted the associa tion of two centuries of thought and deeds, inviolate to sentiment. That the revisers have shown commendT able and conservative caution in approach ing the most familiar And poetic sentences is true, enough, but they have done enough to disturb the accepted integrity of form in the work, and to open the way for further disturbance,, , ; j . H ia not "my province nor my desire to go"6vervthytexj, But it is my delight to see in the aversion of the public to an altered book a deep, unspoken reverence that one hardly looks for in an age of critical meddlesomeness. ' Hands off! is the verdict of disuse. Some things are to lie let alone. You cannot, for example, make Jeremy Taylor's widow, whose idea of heaven is that it is a place to sit in a clean white apron and sing psalms, change; the well-known sentence, 'Unstable as water thou shalt not excel,'' into "Boiling over as water thou shalt not have the excellency." And perhaps, after all, it is the class of poor widows like her who out of their simple faith make Bibles sell. ' MAKING BISTORT. Friendly Fife about Abram Lincoln. Charleston News and Courier. J "Well, he wat at this time not grown, only six feet two inches high said Dennis F. Hanks, cousin of Abraham Lincoln. He .was. six feet four and one-half inches when grown tall, lathy and gangling not much appearance, not handsome, not ugly, but peculiar. This kind of a fellow; If a man rode up horseback, Abe would be the first. one out, up on the fence, and asking questions, till his father would give him a knock side o the head ; then he'd go and throw at snowbirds or suthin', but ponder in' all -the- while." "Was, he active and strong?" " He was that. I was ten years older, buti couldn't rassle bim dowu. His legs was too long fcr ne to throw him. He would fling one foot upon my shoulder and make ite Bwing corners swift, and his arms so long and strong I my, how we would chop His axe would flash and bite into a sugar tree or sycamore, and down iwould come. If you heard him fall in' trees in a clearin' you would say there were three men at work by the way trees fell. But he never .was sassy or quarrelsome. I've seen him walk into a crowd of sawin' rowdies, and tell some xlroll yarn an bust them all up. It was the same when he was, a lawyer ; all eyes whenever he riz were on hnn ; there was a suthin1 peculiarsome about him." "What did you teach him to. write with!" "Sometimes he would write with a piece of charcoal, or the p'int of a burnt stick, on the fence or floor. We got a little paper at the country town, and I made ink out of the blackberry briar-root and put a little copperas in it. , It was black, but the copperas would eat the paper af ter awhile. I made his first pen out of a turkey buzzard's feather; them's good for pens. . We had no geese them days. Af ter he learned to write he was scrawhn' his name everywhere; sometimes he would write it on the white sand down by the creek bank, and leave it till the fresh wold blot it. out." "Ah, Dennis, that name is written now, not in saud ; high on the heroic roll in Liber ty's proud temple, above the names of all save one. Jxt to the name of the immortal Washington blazes the signature of the blameless ruiar and matchless man, Abra ham. Lincoln. That plain name is now a kinglicr title than is worp on earth. Yes, thaPs so, " and rightly, too. Not for his greatness he was not the greatest man that ejrer lived, but he was the honestest. I reckon henever did a mean act. I could see he .didn't know how and he never learned." "Did you have any idea of his future greatness? " "No; it was a new country and he was a raw boy ; rather a bright and likely lad. but the Big world seemed far, ahead of him. We were all slow-goin' folks, but e had it in him, though we never sus pected it." " Did he take to books eagerly! " "No; we had to hire him first. . But when, he got a taste it was the old story we had to pull the sow's ears to get her to the trough and , pull her tail to get her away. He read a a great deal and had a wonderful memory wonderful, , Never forgot anything." " What church did Abe attend? " " The Baptist, I'll tell you a circum stance about him. He would come home from church, and put a box in the middle of the cabin floor, and repeat the sermint from text to doxology, I've heard him do it often.') , EXCITEMENT ABOUT OFFIC ES. Wh Get Excited and Who Get Office. i.f New York Sun. J A good story comes from Washington concerning a visit which the genial iron founder and ex-President of the Board of Aldermen, Mr. Jordan L. Mott, paid a few days -ago to the national capital. A par ty of prominent Democrats met him there, and, : the conversation falling upon the subject of the Collectorsbip of. the Port of New York, asked him if he would accept that post. ... !'Not much," was Mott 's answer. ",I have been in office once, and that is quite enough for me."." It was then remarked that the Collector -ship seems to be so far a stumbling block. and he was asked whether he could not point out a man whose appointment would give general satisfaction. " I see only one way to give general sat isfaction," answered : Mott. " Take the three- organizations, Tammany, Irving Hall, and County Democracy ; ascertain the number of members of the General Committee of each organization ; increase the number of. offices in the Custom House bq as to tally with the. aggregate member ship of ail the organizations, and equalize all the salaries. If you, .do that, you can put in a prize monkey for .Collector, and he . Villi give general satisfaction." s i n if Octtlng Tfcrtnfca mTlxed. -j : Ik 1 , Jiw York 8an l , Her head was pillowed on his breast and looking up in a shy way she said-:; ToV van know, dear Geosee. that--" ' YfAi nieansdear James, ;'I think1' he in tertuDted.!smilihg fondly a her mistake. WhTV'Tes' W be' sure.' How stupid 1 am t I 'wai thinking' thhi ' is ' Wednesday PRESIDENT AND SENATE. The Way the Old Thing Works; IN'ew York Sun Washington Letter. It is regarded here as rather a good joke that Democrats should be bor rowing trouble over the threats of Repub lican officials that they will vote the Sen ate against the confirmation of Democratic successors. Since Grant went out, Re publican Presidents have found no diffi culty in borrowing Democratic Senators on test votes for the confirmation of Re publicans, because Democratic Senators found that they had no difficulty in bor rowing a Republican President when they wanted to provide for brothers, cousins and uncles. Surely if Democratic Sena tors could be thus captured by Hayes, Garfield and Arthur, there will be found Senators of no less easy Virtue on the Re publican side of the Chamber to surrender themselves to the new Democratic Presi dent. Hayes and Garfield made alliances with Democratic Senators for the confirmation of men nominated solely to spite -and in sult Conkling, and Arthur was always able to sit down on Hoar and Miller by the aid of certain ex-Confederate cronies of his in the Senate; and so it will be with Cleveland if he shall so elect. Indeed, the atmosphere here is laden with rumors that he has already enlisted two Republi can Senators for all necessary purposes, one from the far West and one from the far East. From Hoar, the fiery champion of Blaine, back again to Hoar the Mug wump, is but a step, fofrthat good man is, us all know, a pervert from the Mugwump church. Hale is never bigoted except in election times; and he can, on occasions, "rise above principle." The offensive Re publican partisans are not pursuing a course toward Senator Edmunds which is calculated to draw his shining cimeter to their side. Hawley must do something for Cleveland to show how much better he is than his own party, for that way he thinks reflection lies. But, outside of the better class, "the boys" of the Senate, like Philetus Saw yer, Don Cameron, Preston B. Plumb, and the like, are not so hard to deal with. They never quarrel with their bread and butter. They will do the fair thing if the President will. Patronage, and not cau cus, is king. There must, of course, be a noiseless attachment to the mill where the small offic- s are ground "out, and all political marble-playing on Sundays must be done in the back yard. Very few Re publican Senators will be found "making factious opposition" to any President, when asylum is offered to each for a reason able number of lame ducks. Until schoolboys are found sticking to an agreement not to invade watermelon patches, Republican Senators will not shut themselves out from the great na tional soup bowl. President Cleveland's nominations will all be confirmed. THE PRESIDENT'S VISITORS. More Colored Biblical Astronomy. fNew York Herald Letter. ' Soon after she passed out a middle-aged colored man, who carried an immense map, or chart, under his arm, paid his respects to the President. He gave his name as S. B. Myler, and his present residence Elizabeth, N. J., where he is the pastor of the Shiloh Colored Baptist Church. Mr. Myler's specialty is biblical astronomy, which he wanted to demonstrate with his charts, but the President was so pressed that he could not listen to Mr. Myler's demonstration. Mr. Myler explained to your correspondent, however, that he con tended and believed that the sun is a planet, moving in its orbit like the other placets. He said that he had biblical and scientific authority for his belief ; that he had demonstrated it to the professors of Princeton College as well as to all the more prominent scientific institutions in New York. Jerry, one of the colored messengers at the White House, told Mr. Myler that he had always been a believer in Brother Jasper's theory that the sun do move. " You should say," said Mr. Myler, "that the sun does move not do move." Mr. Myler explained that his theory con tradicted the Jasperian theory very con siderably, the particular portions of which he went on to explain. "My theory, which I call the Biblical, sun-moving so lar system," explained Mr. Myler, "will be recognized some time by the entire re ligious and scientific world." He said he bad called to ask the resident's permis sion to place his picture on his astronomi cal chart before he had it engraved, but he was so hurried that he did not have time. Jerry advised him to call again. Jerry said he was sorry to hear any one deny brother Jasper's theory even in part, for he was satisfied brotner Jasper was right. "If the sun don't move," said Jerry, "why did Joshua command it to stand still ? No one was able to explain the seeming inconsistency. Jerry also said that even if Brother Jas- Eer was not correct on the "sun do move" usiness, it could not be denied that he had the best record of any Baptist minis ter in the world, having baptized 116 per sons in sixty-four minutes, it beating all previous records by forty-nine. Another colored Jasperian believer who stood near by and listened to the discussion said Brother Jasper could have even beaten this record if he had tried very hard ; that the day he made this wonderful record he was not feeling very well, and did not work as ' hard as he could. He said that up -to the time that Jasper had made this wonderful performance as a baptizer John Brooks, of this city, now dead, had the best record of any preacher in this section, having baptized on a cold day in the fall ninety-three people in forty minutes, win ning thereby from a fellow minister $15 and a Bible which had been put up as a wager. Mr. Myler took no interest in the latter part of - this discussion. - He said he was exceedingly anxious to see Miss Cleveland to thank: her for her letter on temperance, and, if possible, to get her to write a let ter to the colored people on the temper ance question. Mr. Myler said he had mfide many addresses on temperance at odd times when not engaged in working out his Biblical sun-moving solar system. He did not see Miss Cleveland to-day. TALES ABOUT RATS. A Cat's Ghost Blakea Them TnmTalL , , Nw. York Times. The success of Mr. Woodruff's efforts to rid bis house of rata by means of & ghost ly cat is alone- sufficient to prove that if we really want to frighten animals we must appeal to. iaeir jear oi tne supernal i It is well known that i rats and mice rnnnnt he. ftuccessfullv resisted with traDS. Young rats may occasionally wander into a trap, but every experienced rat knows a trap when he sees it and simply laughs at it. In every house there are sure to be two or three leading and influential rats who are perfectly familiar with traps, and who warn their young associates to beware of them. The old-fashioned spring trap is decidedly popular among rats, for the rea son that they can readily spring it and afterward carry off the cheese at their leisure. As for those ingenious traps de signed to catch mice alive, they are entire ly worthless. A rat who sees a small box with a seductive piece of cheese displayed behind the iron bars of an attractive looking compartment knows perfectly well that it is a trap, and he will refuse to en ter the door of the box even when it is decorated with the legend in large plain letters, " Rats will please enter and turn to the left. The best of free cheese always on hand." Mr. Woodruff having spent much money on traps, and having found that poison was in vain and that real cats were lazy, decided to try the experiment of fright ening rats by convincing them that the house was haunted. He prepared a large stuffed cat with green glass eyes and a ferocious and sarcastic smile, and placed in her interior an electric light. There was a large closet in his bedroom which contained half a dozen rat holes from which rats came forth every night on for aging expeditions. In the middle of this closet he placed the cat and connected her internal light with wires running to a bat tery near his bedside. Having thus pre pared his feline ghost Mr. Woodruff went to bed and waited for the rats. As soon as the house was quiet- the rats came out, and when, judging from the noise, there were at least a dozen in the room, he turned on his electric light. Wild squeaks of horror greeted the awful appearance of the ghostly cat, with her glowing eyes and shining teeth, and there was the rush of many feet as the frightened rats fled to their holes. Mr. Woodruff, chuckling over the success of his experiment, arose and examined the closet. Two rats, who had tried to enter the same hole at the same time and had become securely jammed, were kicking fiercely, while three female rats lay on the floor in a dead swoon. These were soon seized and com mitted to the vasty bathtub, and the ghostly cat was left to stand guard over the rat holes till daylight, " What is still more remarkable, the rats left the house without an hour's delay. There had previously been, at a low esti mate, fully 7000 rats in that house, not to speak of swarms of subsidiary mice. From the hour when the stuffed cat's elec tric light began to glow not a rat or a mouse has been seen in Mr. Woodruffs house. The animals that had laughed at traps, mocked at real cats, and grown fat on poison, were frightened off the prem ises by a single apparition of an apparent ly supernatural cat, and their stories have given the house such an uncanny reputa tion that it is safe to prophesy that rats and mice will avoid it for years to come. The farmers should take a hint from Mr. Woodruff's success. Ir they could in vent a scarecrow representing a tramp at work the crows would be vanquished. They would, of course, assume the work ing tramp to be a supernatural being, and the terror with which the sight would fill them would rid the whole region of crows for at least during the present season. THE INS AND OUTS. Birds and Beaata Fight for Place. Herald Washington Letter. There was a regular pitched battle on the walks leading from the White House, in which one of the participants was killed. The battle was witnessed by a number of persons, but for good and suf ficient reasons no efforts were made to pre vent the murder. Indeed, the lookers-on seemed to sympathize with the murderer. The seventeen years locusts appeared in the public parks here by the thousands yesterday and to-day. One of these lo custs started for the White House door on a kind of tour of inspection, probably to see the changes that have occurred there in the past seventeen years. A sparrow assaulted him. It appears that the spar row supposed he might get the worst of it, so he called several other sparrows. Then a half dozen sparrows went for the locust en masse, but the locust moved away from them, though the sparrows managed to pick one of his wings oif . and nearly took off the other. All of a sudden one of the sparrows flew away. The other sparrows surrounded the locust and kept him from moving very far. In a short while the sparrow messenger returned, and with him one of the robins that make such pretty music on the White House lawns these spring mornings. The robin stabbed the locust once, and all was over. The sparrows then divided him up and took the remains away in pieces. That partic ular locust will hardly appear again in seventeen years. There are enough lo custs in the Smithsonian, agricultural and botanical garden grounds to supply the world when they are needed to appear again in seventeen years. Cheap Sng-ar Prospects. fNew York Times. " Sugar at a cent a pound " is the motto of some of the men who are enthusiastic in .... their assertions that sorghum sugar will yet be produced at that rate. Much en couragement is found by advocates of sorghum culture in the report of Clinton iiozartn, an low a larmer, to me Agricul tural Department. Mr. Bozarth rented 85 acres at Cedar Falls, Black Hawk county, at $2.50 an acre. For plowing, planting. cultivating, cutting, hauling, and other expenses incidental to producing syrup af ter the cane was cut, be reports the ex pense to have been $1,289. The yield of syrup' from the 85 acres was 9,860 gallons, which he sold for oo cents a gallon, or $4,930. For 15 barrrels of vinegar he got $90. The total value of the crop was $5,020 and the net value was f 3, 731. Hav ing made no allowance for interest on ma chinery, nor for the seed-heads and fod der, he explained that although not ripe enough to save for seed he had 50 head of cattle and horses running in the cane neia for 50 days, that they had done well with no other feed, and that there was feed left for some time yet. It was his opinion that the value of the fodder was equal to the interest on the machinery. Mr. Bozarth commends sorghum as a good crop for Western farmers, for the reason that it yields not only cane, but seed, which is good for horses, cattle, and fowls; "bag asse," which can be used for bedding for stock or for making paper ; sugar that is infinitely better than glucose sugar, and vinegar of excellent quality. He found that the syrup granulated well, but he did not make sugar because the syrup sold so readily. , A man is always wanting some one to tell him how handsonielie loots. A woman will just stand before the glass and see for herself. Ogdentburg Journal.' FRENCH FUNERAIi FANCIES. Incidents of Ancoi Burial. New York Herald Cable. J They entered the enclosure of the Arc de Triomphe at ten o'clock as Chopin's famous funeral march was executed bv five military bands. The sky was overcast. ana tne green names oi the large bronze candelabra were wet and flaunted in the breeze. lEvery window, balcony, roof and projection overlooking the place was fringed with human heads. In a few moments M. Le Royer. the ven erable President of the Senate, mounted a small black and silver pulpit. He faced the chief mourners and drew from his pocket a dozen sheets of closely written iooiscapj and in a voice "scarcely above a whisper ; read a very long speech. MM. Floquet, Goblet, Emile Augier. Michelin ana jueievre loiiowed. M. Michelin, in the course of his speech, spoke of Paris as a "Commune," which caused several re actionary interruptions. Several voices exclaimed, "Non, non; assez, assezl" The radicals retorted by cries of "Shame, shame; keep quiet, keep quiet!" M. itocneiort shook his busy white hair and frowned. j Things BEGAN TO LOOK SQUALLY, but at this point M. Michelin happened to misplace one of the sheets of his speech, and skipping about two hundred words, ended with a well rounded period, ' Hon neur et gloire & Victor Hugo, le genie de l'humanitiS." At forty-five minutes Dast eleven the band of tjhe Garde Republicaine struck up the "Marseillaise." The troops presented arms, rne coma was removed from the catafalque and placed, according to the wisnes expressed by victor Hugo in his will, on a,;,'corbillard des pauvres." The simple black hearse had no ornament whatever t except two small wreaths of white roses. At noon we got fairly under weigh, yjoung Georges Hugo walking alone as chief mourner. Immediately be hind the hearse came the family, and some dozen invited guests following at an in terval of a few paces. From my position, some ten yards behind the hearse, it was a- sight most impressive and hot to be for gotten iu a lifetime. As far as the eye could reach I could see a perfect mosaic of .uncovered heads. On roofs and on chimneys were artists and photographers, often in the most dangerous positions. Every tree was full of young men and wo men. On one chestnut tree I counted twenty-three human beings. All the rail ings and lamp-posts were occupied by climbers tn various attitudes of torture. The windows of residences in the -Champs ' Elysees and the Boulevard Saint-Germain were filled with unemotional men and wo men of ike world, but the serried, un broken masses that covered every square of standing room from the Place de l'Etoile to the Pantheon, forming, together with those of the procession, itself almost a na- -tion, were thoroughly impressed with the solemnity of to-day s ceremony, which has now become a historic event. As we reached the Pont de la Concorde several hundred WHITE DOVES WEB.K LET LOOSE. Since the; siege of Paris Hugo had held a sort of, veneration for pigeons, and would never allow them to be served at his table. They fluttered lazily over the " hearse, and in a few moments disappeared at the corner of the Rue de Bellechasse and the Boulevard Saint-Germain. , A remarkable incident occurred at this point. I 'heard the shriek of a woman, then a crash, then wild shouting; Red objects were seen moving on a tree. A gentleman near exclaimed, "Now for it! Here come the anarchists with red flags 1 " Two officers of the Garde Republicaine galloped forward with swords drawn. The, soldiers grasped tightly their rifles, set their teeth and had that peculiar, deter mined, wide awake look that any one who has ever Been troops in action can never forget. A 'kind of shudder passed through the crowd, and a formidable demonstra tion seemed about to break out To the. ! great relief of every one it soon turned out that t!he commotion was caused by a large branch of a tree, which, OVESWEIGHTED BT SIX BOYS, ', had fallen upon a ladder upon which a mother and three daughters had been perched, j The objects mistaken for rqd flags were the turbans of two Turcos, also perched in a neighboring tree. The cortege then advanced to the Pan theon, where we arrived at two o'clock. Here the troops presented arms, the drums beat and the coffin was placed upon the catafalque ion the top steps of the Panthe on. At the corners of the coffin four enor mous bronze candelabra, filled with near ly two gallons of alcohol, were burning with green flames. The mourners gath ered in fcont of the coffin and. speeches were made! till five o'clock. One of the orators was a full blooded negro, who, in full evening dress and with a single eye glass firmly fixed on his left eye, made a very startling and successful speech in be half of the Republic of Hayti. Soon af terward . Le Mat, an ex-officer of the Confederate army, who served under Beau regard at Charleston, made a short speech and, in th name of the National Institute of Washington, expressed the grief felt by all Americans from one end of the land to ;' the other at the loss sustained by the civ ilized world in the death of Victor Hugo. At this point an incident occurred that ' might havf caused a most extraordinary catastrophe. The alcohol in one of the candelabrae began to run over and was -seen by no one until the corner of the cloth of the catafalque was on fife. Two undertaker's employes and two pompiers managed, with great presence of mind, to extinguish Sthe flames with handkerchiefs and with caps snatched suddenly from the heads of same workmen. Until seven o'clock a perfect forest of wreaths, borne by swaying masses of men, continued to arrive. Deputation denied with uncovered heads past the coffin, each, individual removing the immortelles from his buttonhole and casting them to the ground, until the Place de St. Genevieve was literally strewn wrtn nowers. A wreath offered by the French resident! in California was loudly cheered as it passed up the Ruei Soufflot. It was about three metres in diameter and represented French and American flags ill red, white and blue flowers, side by side. . . , , In the evening the body was removed to a vault next to that in which lie the re mains of Soufflot, the architect of the Pan theon. The only ornament at present on Victor Hugo's last resting place is a plain black panel, upon which i embroidered in dead silver lyre and two crossed pens . but over the portals of the Pantheon his ' epitaph is rritten plainly : ' '' "Awx Grands Homme La PatrU Reoon ! namante. h-& . ;.;? Notwithstanding the heavy Tains of last week, the crops are not damaged and cot ton continues as promising as was ever seen. Wadesbofo InteBigeneer.' ' ' ' ""
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