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By T. M. HALE. tnfi ADVERTISIlfG BATES. r Advertisements will be Inserted for One Dollar per square (one inch) for the first and Fifty Cents for each subsequent publication. Contracts for advertising for any space or tune may be made at to office of ths RALEIGH REGISTER, Second Floor of i Fisher Building, Fayettevllle Street, next to Market House. office: FlV1.ti(.villo St., Second Floor Fisher Building. KATKS OF SUBSCRIPTION: t)ue i-opv one year, mailed poet-paid . .... .$3 00 One copy six months, mailed post-paid 1 00 . t- name entered without payment, and Bl," paper sent after expiration of time paid for. VOL. II. RALEIGH, N. C, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1885. NO. 81. THE VILLAGE ORACLE, Texas Sittings. Beneath the weather-beaten porch That shades the village store He sits at ease, an aged man Of three-score years or more. That ample seat for him is placed Beside the open door. His face is very keen and shrewd, ' And piercing are his eyes, with an air of prophecy s He K-aos the cloudy skies ; ud children look with awe on bun, For he is weatherwise. Ami jolly farmers riding by ( u fragrant loads of hay, Call out, '"Good morniug, Uncle Dan," And " Will it rain to-day " Wbile boys, who would a-fishiug go, Await what he will say. Wal, ef the wind should change about," iThey listen eagerly. Bui be is very 6low and calm. For thus should prophets be) Meiihe them clouds will bring us rain ; But I dunno," says he. Anil kver as the seasons come, AuiNw the seasons go, The Oracle is asked the signs Of wind, or rain, or snow ; But s-till he never hesitates . To answer : " 1 dunno." AJIOXG THE MORMONS. A North Carolinian Take the Notes. ,CAPT. M. V. MOORE. Barring some little defects, this is a model city. It has a most lovely and striking situation. It lies at the western base of the Great Wasatch range of moun tains which rise round the city as high as nver nine thousand feet ahove sea level. The city itself is over four thousand feet aliove the sea higher than our Blowing Hock country. The Great Salt Lake is from ten to fifteen miles away at its near est points. SALT LAKE CITY. The city is embowered in beautiful trees trees that grow by waters." The streets run regularly at right angles, and nearly every one has a swift stream of cool sparkling water running on cither side which keeps debris, filth, &,c, moved promptly away. Water for these and irri u'atiuii purposes is brought from the river Jordan in a Jargc caaal, some twenty miles (the Jordan flows out of the Great Utah Lake, which is fresh water). Drink ing and cooking water is brought down out of the adjacent mountains. A pecu liarity of this water is that while it is cool ami sparkling and pare, it does not slake thirst, from the fact that it is often only melted snow. Beautiful fountains play in many yards, and in nearly all yards and U'ardcris there arc ready facilities for wa tering the grass and other vegetables. The city has street railways, electric lights, theatres and opera houses, and there are numerous manufacturing indus tries here; many run and controlled by the church. In all the Mormon towns and cities of this valley you see large fine bus iness houses with the sign "Z. C. M. I." This means Zion's Co-operative Mercantile Institution. These are the stores of the church. The principal one here in Salt Lake City, is one of the largest retail b tores of the world, where every variety of merchandise is sold. It is over three hundred feet in length, is ninety-eight feet front, and has four stories. There are but two establishments in America that can compare with it. These are Wannamaker's in Philadelphia, and Gre net's, or the Old Alamo, in San Antonio, Texas. I have been in all three of these. The Mormon store here has, if not a greater variety, certainly as good stocks and as much neatness, order and propriety as the others, though it does not have the ' cash system " that Wannamaker has. A mer cantile genius of the very (highest order of art and business is behind it, but I don't know who he is, whether Mormon or not. These big stores are familiarly called "co ops" here, and are intended to supply everything in the way of merchan dise, goods or machinery, that the Mormon people can possibly want. These business Louses are run under the auspices of the church. This regular IMOX OF CHUBCH ASD STATE and business is one of the crying evils of Mormonism, in the eyes of Jew and Gen tile. This very city of Salt Lake repre sents in force more forms of religion than any other city in Christendom. Here are the Heathens, in the Chinamen, Sandwich Islanders and Indians. The Jews are here in great numbers. Here is the Rome of Mormonism, the chief city and centre of the Latter Dav Saints, for Salt Lake City . is to the Mormons what the Italian City on the Tiber is to the Catholics. But the American Gentile lords it over them all : The bristling guns of Fort Douglass, just out on yonder hill that commands the citv, with the stalwart regiment of mus keteers behind, keep them all in the bonds of unity," if not in the spirit of peace and good will ! The Gentiles say if it were not for the United States Army that is stationed here, the Mormons would soon wipe out everything else save their own. But you may say what you please in the East, the Mormon is never going to attempt to defy the general Government with the ttcord. They will never bring on anv war of their own accord. There are certainly too many men of sense among them to allow themselves to be found re peating the experiment of the Secession eole iii the South. If the Southern Mates, with all their men and means were unable to cope with Uncle Sam, the little handful in this Territory see far enough ahead to cjuietly acquiesce and give up their chief sin polygamy. This is all the '",w rmnent demands; and as little as our people jn the east know about it, the (Jot i inei i i,ow at work enforcing it de Hill. The courts arc now in session, tho jKdygamists, as fast aa they can be found and convicted, are being sent out '"the lienitentiarv. a mile away under the guns f Kort Douglass. This is what 1 au-tU ail the trouble here on the last 4tn "I July. The leaders were sorrowing on " count of the conviction and sentence of oine of their men to the penitentiary.and hence they wished the flag to be at half mast. I he prudent men of the Mormon among the leaders are "seems the evil and ire hiding themselves." Some are afar off in Mexico. It is rumored that they are here negotiating for territory over which political government shall ever again oin,. .ntiwttn tlietn and their religion. ('Od "Taut tlmt this dav will mui onmo rr when this curse of polygamy is done away with here, then I want to come 11I live and die in this vallcv A word more about thisvallev. and then shall close. I never knew, until I came ""e, that this whole country perhaps front the Sierras to the western divide of the Rockies WAS ONCE A VAST INLAND SEA. But the fact is plain to the naked eye when you enter the valley on the far south, ands run along the eastern range of mountains. You can see the ancient water line all along the sides of these mountains. It is as well defined as the nose on a man's face. Our geologists have surveyed this line from the extreme southern limit up to the northward until you strike the mountain range that divides the waters of this valley from those of the Great Snake River, which runs af terwards as "the Columbia," through Or egon, into the Pocific Ocean. That line shows that the waters of this inland sea were about four hundred and fifty feet higher than Salt Lake is to-day. The trend of the valley is to the northward, and the outlet of the sea, as I have said, was into the Snake River. You can see very distinctly the line of the ancient sea beach, clear across the Salt Lake, on the mountain sides along the western shore, opposite Ogden City. At some places near here the line is marked by the extinct beach, so broad and smooth, that it looks like a great wagon road cut in the sides of the mountains. At one place to which I climbed, and on the South aide of the Tjk eighteen miles from the city, there is, on me ruggea lace of the Oquarrah mountains, an ancient sea-beach that is. nnitfl a hun dred yards broad. This pre historic shore is more distinctly defined and extended all along the south side of the Lake than else where, for the rush of the waters at the subsidence being chiefly northward, tnere was not that erasion or destruction and ob- lteration of the tide marks that character zed the mountain-sides facing east and west, where the action of the waters was. of course, greater than in their rear. Here, on the south side of the Lake, on the mountain walls facing north, it is seen un questionably that there were four eras in the subsidence of the waters in the inde terminate past for here are four broad shore lines that stretch in regular parallels well defined terraces on the mountain side, more than a thousand feet above the present water level. I picked up sea-shells far up on the mountain side, where the waves once rolled in force. They are found even two thousand feet above the present level. This present level is not what it was thirty years ago : the waters are several feet higher now than theu At the mouth of each canyon that opens into this valley arc found mighty evidences of the awful force of the currents that swept over the valley in the pre historic ages. There arc moraines here hundreds of feet deep, and boulders of hundreds of tons in weight. At some great cataclysm -of nature there was a sudden recedure of the waters, and, in their rush downward, they carried away vast amounts of the soil and rock of the mountain sides and dumped these out into the plain beyond. These are what are now called "benches" tiers of upland that rise iriegularly above the lower valley. I took a drive one day, while here, out to the famous "Cottonwood Canyon," and had good views of the great masses of silt and gravel that were torn from the moun tain sides and spread over the valleys. On these deposits are fields of great fertility. There is scarcely a foot of the ground now but what is teeming with rich harvests of vegetation. On my drive out, I passed the splendid country seats of several of the Mormon Bishops. These men live in ease and comfort, if net in magnificent luxury. The most productive . crops now grown away from the city are the grasses. Such holds of alfalfa 1 never saw or dreamed of. Of this they get several tons to the acre, and it sells for from $3.00 to $7.50 per ton. Prairie, or wild, grass is worth, along the railroad, from $2.50 to $4.00 per ton, while Timothy brings readily $7.50 to-$10.00 per ton. Here grows the biggest Timothy I ever saw. Wheat grows, also, magnifi cently; but corn crops are always poor. In fact, corn is about the only thing that won't grow well here and in California. No kind of grass grows either here or in the Sacramento Valley, without irrigation, only in rare spots. The mountains here present a very'desolate and forbidding as pect to an eastern man, accustomed to see ing them well-clad in verdure, and espe cially in a heavy-wooded growth. No trees are seen here, except rarely only those artificially cultivated. The mountains here are, as a general thing, entirely bare of all vegetation. Bleak and desolate, they rear their grim walls of stone and gray son pit ifully into the heavens. They have been drenched and drenched for untold ages, until nearly every vestige of productive earth has been swept from their faces and poured into the valleys below. It is only occasionally that you see a clump of low, scrubby trees, or a tall, spear-like pine that has withstood the iconoclast of time. And over them all, in many places, sending down its cooling influences, making this the most delicious summer resort of Amer ica, sleeps, in white and placid splendor, the snow of countless centuries. THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS And the Public's Daty to Them. Franklinton Weekly.J Often we hear the complaint that a poor svstemof free schools is worse than none That they interfere with private schools and destroy the good that would be done by them. We will not stop here to remark that these grumblers never attempt to make our schools better. There are but few facts to be stated ; their conclusions naturally follow: 1. If the masses of our people are ever educated it must be done in free schools. 2. If we are to be a pros perous State we must educate our people The first proposition is true, because with all the schools we have had, both private and public, we see that nearly half of our popula tion over ten rears old can't write. The nrivatc schools will not educate them. If done at all it must be done by free schools The second proposition is axiomatic. Now what8hall we do? The last Legis lature made some very important changes in the school law, it inaugurated some plans that will greatly benefit the system. But this is not enough. Everybody must consider that he has an interest in these schools and go to work to help make them what they ought to be. We need more in terest aroused on this subject. We need more money for school purposes; Tbli Blaua Knows What's What. Washington Star. No matter how weak a man's power of reasoning may be, there is always one per- sou be can convince, and that is himself, and when he sets out to. do so he can gen erally persuade himself that he is a pretty decent sort of a man, and that it is society and not himself that is to blame in any collisions which may take place between them. Mr. R. Frank Peterson proposes to print a dailv newspaper. The Evening Newt, in Favcttevilie. It is to be issued four times a week on Monday, Tuesday, Friday and Saturday. SWAIN HIEnOBIAL HALL. How its Bulldlug was Achieved. Paul C. Cameron.l At the Annual Commencement of June, 1883, a resolution was submitted to an unusually full Board, requesting the appointment of a committee from the Alumni to solicit contributions to a fund to provide a monument similar to that erected to Dr. Caldwell, and to be placed near it. to commemorate the services of the late President David L. Swain, who, for thirty-three years, had directed the inter ests and affairs of this institution with such conspicuous and marked ability. No mon ument had been erected here to his memo ry. This was to be charged to no want of gratitude or of full recognition of his serv ices, but to the embarrassed condition of the Alumui and the more pressing de mands on the Association, and, above all, to the transfer of the property for ten years to unknown men. We earnestly wished to place one on the campus, near to Cald well's, the two to stand as watchful and equal sentinels of the fame and fortunes of the University of North Carolina. . This resolution was adopted with great unanim ity, and the committee appointed by the then President of the Board, Governor Jarvis. At the same Commencement, June, 1883, onthe rostrum in the college chapel, in the presence of a large audience, more than the chapel could seat, Governor Jarvis, in the most emphatic manner, declared for larger accommodations in fact, a new hall to be erected during his term of office. At a meeting of the Trustees, held in the city of Raleigh, in July, Governor Jarvis pro posed that the Board of Trustees and the Alumni Association should unite their ef forts in the building of a hall equal to our present, and in anticipation of the wants of the future; to substitute a hall for an obelisk. This proposition was so charac terized by good sense, so entirely in accord with our needs, that no issue was made as to the propriety of the proposition, with nly this reservation: that the Alumni should bo pledged to no specific sum. This was promptly accepted by Governor Jarvis. In his words: "Get what you can from the Alumni, pay it over to the Treasurer of the University, and we will try and pull through." He was in earnest, he was excited by the high-born purpose to succeed. It was his tongue that Jirti declared for Swain Memorial Hall; it was his hand that drew the ordinance ordering its erection. As Governor of the State, he promptly tendered "the Building Commit tee convict labor for the making of brick at Chapel Hill, or to deliver to us brick at the gate of the State prison, we paying the freight. A visit to the penitentiary, an in spection of the brick uniform in color, smooth, and of very hard material soon settled the question that it was alike to the interest of the State and of the University to take the brick and pay the freight to the seat of the building. At once, Gov ernor Jarvis gave the order for the delivery of the brick on the cars, and the corner stone was laid on the 25th of September, 1883. So that this Hall has been erected in part by the State, the Board of Trustees, the Alumni, and the contribntious of the liberal sons and daughters of North Caro lina by a uniform subscription for tablets. And it is believed that all debts for labor and material have been paid, save that to the State for brick. And now, without disparagement to any of his distinguished predecessors, I but express the opinion of his associates in the Board, that no man was more in earnest or patriotic in his purposes for the improve ment and equipment of this institution. He held that we had nottung in North Car olina from which we should expect so much as from this institution, if intelli gent, useful and active men constitute a State." During the six years that 1 sat with him in the Board of Trustees, he was ever at his post, and never hesitated a moment in his duty. Knowing the wants of the institution, he was ever ready with good sense to give the best direction to all affairs. When he took position he was re liable as guide, and to be trusted when he assumed a leadership. Commencing life as a plow-boy, with limited advantages of early education, he advanced himself to the Chief Executive office of State, re ceived nearly a unanimous endorsement of the Legislature for a seat in the new Cab inet, and now represents this great Repub lic with the imperor of Brazil. It is a fortunate selection for both Governments. Jarvis will soon be a favorite at that Court. He is a man of the Emperor's own style. During the Centennial in Philadelphia, Dom Pedro, in the course of a month, of ten came under my observation. He is a pleasant, genial, progressive, thinking man. He means work, t or hi ty years he has ruled with wisdom ; he attends to hia own affairs ; he looks after little matter. He sent home ship roads of railroad and fire engines, models, tools, and every labor saving machine, equal to two millions of dollars, the product of our shops. If we can meet his conceptions, he will open wide the gates of trade and offer us un told riches. It is said that our sprightly politicians at Chapel Hill, who are to be our future leaders, diplomats and envoys, express the opinion that in less than two months after the arrival of our ex-Governor at the court to which he is accredited, we will have a " swapping of knives " with Dom Pedro, to the mutual advantage of both parties, resulting in a proposition of mutual exchange, in which the Brazil cof fee will be offered for the North Carolina, roe and cut herring, on the basis of a nom inal taxation. With successful negotia tions and treaties of reciprocity with the leading South American States, will cease the wail at our teeming abundance and over-production in the field, the mills and workshops and forges. A market will be made that can hardly be estimated by any line of figures. The best wishes of the people of North Carolina go with our ex-Govcrnor, in grate ful recognition of his successful adminis tration of our State affairs and his watch ful care of this institution ! During the winter of 1883-'84 the work on the building was suspended. The sup ply of funds from the Board of Trustees and the Alumni ceasing to come in, question arose as to the prosecution of the work on the building in the spring of is4 A suggestion was made that an appeal be made to the representatives of those who had been associated with the institution in the past, and who,' by honorable lives, either civil or military, were deemed worthy of commemoration within these walls by placing neat and well ex ecu ted white marble tablets to the mem ory of such distinguished citizens on the walls of this hall in the order of their period of death. The thought prom ised well, and in the results exceeded our expectations, considering the work , of death, the loss of property and the chang ed condition of our people. Much of that success is due to the selection of President Battle and Prof. Winston, as well known representative men of the University, to canvass the State and collect subscriptions to tablets. That canvass was conducted with equal zeal and propriety, either in per son or by letter, and to the entire tat itact ion of all concerned, ninety-eight in number. To these arc added tablets to Presidents Caldwell and Swain, Professors Mitchell and Phillips, at the cost of the Board of Trustees, as a testimonial of their respect and veneration for these valuable and aged officers. To these are added four tablets, ten feet long and two and a-half feet wide, on which are inscribed the names of "the University Confederate dead," a roll of 260 names. These tablets are erected in loving remembrance of their heroic pur poses and devotion to State and section. At the head of the list stands the name of Leonidas Po!kt the oldest Alumnus of the University of North Carolina lost in the war between the States a Lieutenant Gen eral of theConfederate States Army, and late. Bishop of Louisiana. Thus this Hall will not only be equal to the needs of the public, but ftirnish a concise and reliable history of the State, perpetuating the names and memory of its most useful sons and distinguished citizens and inspiring the youth of the State with new-born de sires for letters and learning and to make a mark and a name among men. POVERTY AND RICHES. Rich Poor Man and Poor Rich Man. New York Journal of Commerce. The desire to possess a particular object or class of objects, to pursue a certain course of life, to live in the enjoyment of specific luxuries or utilities, this is some thing different from the vague desire to be rich. Ambition to possess money without any definite purpose as to the use of the money, is a lower ambition by far than that of the child to collect postage stamps. Money is worth only what it will pur chase. In the possession of a man who does not wish to purchase anything with it, gold is of no more value than lead. A man is rich only when he has the means to gratify his desires, but is poor if he has no uses for his money, however great may be his accumulations. The man who has few desires, with only sufficient means to gratify them, is as rich as the man with millions more than he wants to use. The man is poor, however abundant his money, if his desires exceed his purchasing ability. We do not mean to give in these phrases a dictionary definition of the words poor and rich. But it comes to much the same thing in the human mind, whether the man lives on potatoes and salt because he cannot af ford better food, or lives on them because, having plenty of money, he has no pleasure in purchasing more luxurious fare. In each case he is deprived of the enjoyment of beef and mutton, oil and wine in the one by lack of purchasing power, in the other because he has locked his purchasing pow ers in a safe and lost the key. The principles involved in these truths are full of instruction. It is the duty of the man who has money to spend it. He should live according to his means. That which some people call extravagance is not extravagance if the holder of money values the object more than his money. This has nothing to do with questions of duty in charity and general benevolence. The man of means must settle those with his own conscience. But he has no obli gation imposed on him to sell his wife's alabaster box of perfume and give the pro ceeds to the poor. By all means let him purchase perfumes in golden and jeweled boxes, buy rich dresses, adorn his house and his surroundings with rich works of nature and art. In general, men who live luxuriously, within their means, are be nevolent men. A miserly disposition never begets a charitable disposition. Close- saving men are very apt to become lovers of money for money's sake, and, ceasing to appreciate that its value is only in its pur chasing power, cling to it and do not like to give it away. Giving is sometimes pur chasing. It is buying a secret sense of personal pleasure, which is shared with no ope else. A man who has bought a ruby or a painting has no more satisfaction to himself than some men have in bnying food for the starving, shelter for the homeless. Neither is this gratification wrong. There is no self-righteousness in it. It comes of the high duty of humanity, love for fellow men, and comfort in their comfort. There is an exquisite pleasure in seeing happi ness conferred by our own hands. Every parent appreciates it in his gifts to his children. Husbands and wives and lovers understand it. And as one's circle of charity, love, widens and includes more and more of the human race, his enjoy ments in conferring happiness are more ex tended and abundant. Young men who are anxious to make money, to become rich, should thoroughly appreciate the truth that the accumulation of money is not true riches, and is in truth not what they want. Some are foolish enough to desire in an undefined way " the ability to do and to buy whatever I desire." This is folly, but its folly is never learned except by experience. Every young man who is oppressed with the ambition to be come a rich man should place before him steadfastly a purpose as to the use of the money he means to acquire, a something for which money may be used to his good and his gratification. Ambition to be rich is laudable if the intent be to accomplish a reasonable purpose with the acquired wealth. . The future lies before young men, full of opportunities of happiness and use fulness. Those who make sensible plans for the acquisition and use of money, who look forward to definite sources of enjoy ment of wealth, are likely to be happy and to do good. Those who seek only the in definite comfort of being rich, "having money always in my purte, so that I can do what I please," rarely succeed honora bly, and are never happy men. The Long and Short of It. New York Journal of Commerce. J The longest verse in the Bible is in the book of Esther, chap, viii., v. 0, containing 91 words. Another long verse is in itera, chap, iii , 8th verse, containing 75 words. The shortest verse in the Bible is in John, chap, xi., v. 35, which contains but two words. Not at all Sarp rising;. Augusta Chronicle. Cheeves, who killed Pickett in Dawson last year, and who was adjudged insane soon after, is now in possession of all his faculties. If every colored person in this vicinity had the energy of old Aunt Rachel T red dle, there would be more thrift and pros perity among them. Although over 70 years "of age, she has supported herself by picking up old rags and paper from the streets, and in this way has, in five years, bought and paid for a comfortable home, and now has a crop of corn and cotton worth about $100, which she planted and cultivated without the assistance of any one. Elisabeth City Falcon. , - 3! MURDER WILL OCT! Strange Sequel to an Artist's Dream, New York Timet, 7th Inst A New York artist, whom I count among my friends, is just back from a month of rambling along the St. Lawrence from Montreal to Quebec. He comes home re freshed and with many a story to tell. One is a strange tale, tinged with a dash of the supernatural. His incidents of travel were mostly derived from stops by night and by day in the happy villages of the Canadian habitans. The simple man nersof the people, their quaint little homes, and the legends handed down ever since the heads of the families had landed at Quebec with bluff Jacques Carticr, all were fascinating. It was away down the river at a little spot that my friend calls St. Martin that he had the strange experience of which he told me most, and which, though wonderful in its features, he ear nestly insists is literally true. "I stopped three days," he said, "at the dear little place. My host's name was Victor Charbonneau. He made me wel come to his home with a cordiality unaf fected and earnest enough to win my heart at once, and wholly. He was past the middle age in life, and his wife, a pleasant faced woman, who was placidly growing old with him, entered with zest into his plans of entertainment. I had heard some thing of the Charbonneaus in New York, nothing, though, that in any way or to any degree prepared me for the strange expe rience that was finally unfolded. They had been at the earliest of dates depend ents of the de Lorimier families, ana had lived and thrived under the seigneurie sys tem. The bonds were the old feudal ties between lord and peasant. Far up in the woods, back of St. Martin, the walls of the old seignory were still standing, but the home of the de Lorimiers had been for nigh a century a ruin. I spent many hours among the old stones of this manor, with my host's 12-year-old grandchild Babette prattling beside me as I sketched. "I wandered off alone late one after noon, and before I was aware of how far I had strayed, I found that my feet had led me willy-nilly up the quaint old slippery stone steps ascending from what must have been the garden pleasaunce at the rear of the ancient French home. The blue capped hills strung in the distance, the ruin close about me, led to day dreams. Sweet perfumes filled the air, and, before I knew it, I was fast asleep. I was alive as a figure in the old times, when this great house was animate with gayety and fashion. I saw pretty Frenchwomen of that long ago, with peruked attendants filling the old manor as if on a fete night. Horses stood champing their bits in the courtyard as adieus were made. Two fig ures in my vision impressed me more than I can say. One was a stalwart young chev alier, black-eyed, and as hsndSome as a prince of darkness. Beside "him was the fair young mistress of the house, old de Lorimier's wife. Half hidden in the cur tains of a deep window I saw the young soldier clasp the beautiful woman to his breast and kiss her with the passion of a lover, saying a last good-bye. And there behind the two, his wrinkled face lit up with a sinister smile, stood, in diabolical watchfulness, the white-haired husband, Alphonse de Lorimier, the seigneur of St. Martin. Then out went the lights, and the scene shifted. Dame Blanche de Beaudrie had sought her room, there to weep over the lover she might not cherish and the husband whom she hated, while she feared him. Old Alphonse creeps stealthily n behind. A murderous knife glistens in his hand. A moment of horror indescribable a fiend by jealousy excited a woman's dying shrieks. I saw it all. It was cruelly real. And I cannot hope ever to obliterate the terrible picture. Suddenly de Lori mier straightens himself to his full height, seems, for the instant, cold and careless and brave; but it is for the instant only. Then the wicked weapon is thrown venge fully down. I hear it ring on the oaken floor. The old man is in a frenzy. Stoop ing, he catches up the youthful figure, limp and lifeless, lying at his feet, and, raising it high, he hurls it down, down, down to the stone walls of the pavement, gaping and yawning fifty feet below. With a start, I awoke. My sketching ma terials lay in my lap, but I gave no heed to them, for I heard a young voice scream ing out as I flew down the stairs and out into the weed-grown garden. It was poor little Babette, who had been looking for me and had got frightened among the shadows of the weird old place. Great beads of perspiration stood on my brow. I was strangely nervous, and scarce could comprehend where I was or what I was. "But the curious thing I have not told you yet. When, in my agitated way, I climbed up to my late seat to recover my portfolio, what think you I found f Two pictures, rough, but ghastly in their nat uralness, were on my paper the good-bye and the murder. It was hard to believe that I was not still a-dreaming. " In the evening I sat and smoked with Victor, and I told him this story as I tell it to you. A long time he was silent. When he did speak, it was to say this: ' A secret has been revealed that no man save myself has known, handed down to me by my father, who is gone. I prom ised to guard it loyally so long as I lived. This very hour, while you were away, the story was filling my mind strangely and vividly. There is the secret of the revela tion. Mind has spoken to mind without the need of any physical interpretation. You wilt give me your pictures? I must destroy them. My pledge to my father must be kept.' " I could but yield to the earnest man. Will you believe that when Victor Char bonneau left me abruptly, he seemed utter ly prostrated ? Can you imagine such loyalty where a secret almost ages old was only at stake ? He is dead now ; a fever carried him away quickly; that is all I know, and that I learned but casually from an acquaintance, on my way home a week ago." LOVE AND MURDER. Three Live pay for a Lady's Leap. A terrible encounter, in which three men were mortally wounded, occurred at Atlanta last week. The parties were John and Matthew Maxwell, father and son, and John R. Shelton, who had eloped with and married Miss Ida Maxwell. Mr. John Maxwell is a highly respectable citizen living at No. 1 Ellicott street. His son, Matthew, is a well known carriage manu facturer. Mr. Maxwell has three comely daughters, aged fifteen, sixteen and nine teen. The second, aged sixteen, Miss Ida, has been quite a belle, having a host of ad mirers. Among them waa John R. Shel ton, a young man of good family, but care less habits, whose visits were forbidden by the girl's father. Nevertheless, they contrived to meet secretly, and pledged their love. At 2 o clock Wednesday after noon a gentleman told Mr. Matthew Max well that his sister and Shelton had plan ned an elopement, and the appoiuted time was 2 :30 o'clock. Hurrying home, young Maxwell rushed up to the second story room, which his sister occupied, and demanded admittance, which was refused. With a kick he burst it open and found there Miss Ida, already dressed for her es capade. "My God! sister," he exclaimed, "you will not disgrace the family by such "a proceeding as this?" "I will marry John," she replied, "if I have to die in .the attempt. It is useless for you to try to prevent it." In vain the brother expostulated. The girl remained obdurate. He then went out, locked the door and left her a prisoner and went to his room. Returning in ten minutes he opened the door and found the room empty. It soon developed that the girl, finding herself imprisoned, opened the window, jumped to the roof, fifteen feet below, and thence to the ground, an other fifteen feet. Thence her tracks were followed to the side alley, where newly made carriage tracks told that she had reached her lover and was away. By this time the elder Maxwell was upon the scene. The two men were fearfully agitated. They went into the house and at 6 o'clock, armed to the teeth, emerged and proceed ed to Davis street, whither Shelton had taken his bride after being, married by Rev. Virgil Norcross. Several clergymen had previously refused to perform the cere mony. The two furious men went up to Shelton's door. Shelton was standing on the threshold with a hatchet. "D n you!" exclaimed the elder Maxwell, "I will shoot you to death un less you give up my daughter." "Do not come near me," shouted Shel ton, raising the hatchet and advancing. Just then the younger Maxwell, seeing his father's danger, stepped in between and received the cleave from the tomahawk. Dropping the bloody instrument, Shelton drew his pistol and fired at the elder Max well. Simultaneously Maxwel also fired, and all three men fell across each other wound ed and bleeding. The girl, who had been the cause of all this bloody work, rushed out upon the scene, and, embracing her dying husband, called him by endear ing names, while her father and brother were neglected. In five minutes hundreds of people had collected. Officers came and had the men removed. Shelton and young Maxwell will die, while the death of the old man is highly probable. Just a month, ago Matthew Maxwell was him self the hero of an elopement scrape. A young lady engaged to another eloped with him the night before she was to marry. BIG AND LITTLE FARMING. Kansas Wars and Vermont's Ways. Lewiston Journal. J Parties lately returned to Kansas Citv from Maine and the seacoast, who at tended the Grand Army reunion, tell to folks there a good one of Major Wiseman, of Lawrence, whom every one in the State knows to be a good Kansas man. When his party was passing through Vermont on their way to Portland, Major VV lseman was struck by the bare, meagre look of the farms, their smallness, and the outward appearance of poverty. He remarked many times upon the stunted appearance of every thing, and regarded the little hillsdale or valley homes as the abodes of hard living, for which pure air would hardly compensate. His comparisons were always with Kansas farms, . Kansas views and Kansas wealth. When the twin slow ed up at a little station for the engine to take water, Major Wiseman got up to stretch his cramped legs, and walking down ithe platform he met a "native," a man whose looks did not betoken starva tion, but whose general appearance indi cated close economy. Our major inter rogated him with unusually patronizing bland ness: "My friend, do you live here?" "I do." "Do vou own a farm here?" "Yes"" "Do you raise enough to eat? " persist ed the Major. "Oh, yes, we manage to get enough." "Don't some of your people starve?" said our Kansas friend ; "I shouldn't think you raise enough to keep body and soul together. You should move to Kansas where we raise eighty bushels of corn to the acre and sixty bushels of wheat! That is the place to live! " The "native" did not seem struck with wonder, but quietly remarked, "We man age to get along." "Do you make anything? " then asked Kansas. "Yes, I have made enough in twenty years to get mortgages on two large farms in Kansas," replied the Vermonter. For a moment Major Wiseman was stag gered, but standing by the Grasshopper State, he returned to the charge. Why, we waste more wheat and corn in Kansas than you can raise on your farms here. Our farmers throw away more than your entire crops amount to." I believe you do," said the Vermonter, If you didnt waste so much perhaps the interest on my mortgages would be paid more promptly." RETTING CONTRACTS. A Decision from the Court of Appeals. New York Herald. The English " Law Reports " of Monday gives the case of Bridger vs. Savage, in the High Court of Appeals. The result is to make only an actual wager between two commission agents, or between a commis sion agent and another principal, voidable at the opticn of the loser. Lord Justice Bowen remarks : "The original contract in betting is not an illegal one, but merely one which is void. If the person who has betted pays his bet, he waives the benefit which the statute has given him, and con fers a good title to the money in the person to whom he pays it. Therefore, when the bet is paid, the transaction is completed, and when paid to the agent it is a good payment to his principal."' The result of the case is to establish the position of bet ting agents, to give principals and agents legal rights and liabilities toward each other, and to make it clear that the result of the statutory law is to discourage the practice and pursuit of betting. Tobacco Smoking. New York Journal of Commerce. Tobacco was unknown to Europe, Asia or Africa until the latter part of the fit teenth century, when America waa discov ered, and tobacco waa found in use by the aborigines of this continent as far north as Virginia. How long they had used it can not be told, as they had no written lan guage, and hence no records. It was not introduced into Europe to any extent until about 1650. and no "ancients "of whom we have any earlier knowledge used to bacco for any purpose before that date Tobacco smoking'among people who have ub. anv history is not 250 vears old. THE PROGRESS TO PEACE. The Hopeful Soath. New York Journal of Commerce. There is one part of the country from which we receive no reports of prognosti cations of business that are not hopeful and encouraging. It is the South. Almost every day there comes to hand a Southern paper or circular presenting trade statistics that show on their face a decided improve ment down there. Another space in the same sheet, or document, is devoted to a list of new buildings planned or in course of erection. Whether these are factories or shops or residences, they are all the subject of self-congratulation. There is an epidemic of enthusiasm among our edito rial friends of the South. They have only to look at a new chimney stack, mill wheel, or brick or stone front, and off they go into a panegyric on local enterprise. This is a most excellent sign. A people who are ready to make the most of what they have, and be dnly thankful for every gleam of sunshine, are half-way on the road to that recovery for which men of the North and West are waiting with but little of that patience and cheerfulness so notice able at the South. So earnest are the Southerners in their convictions that better times are close at hand in fact, have already come, many of them say that they feel very much "hurt when their statements of improved business are discredited at the North. Woe be to the Northern journal which throws cold water on their hopes 1 And, as for any Southern editor, it is almost as much as his life is worth to refrain from joining in the chorus of felicitations. Skeptics and pessimists may say what they please, but there is something in the hearty and confident tone of the Southern people that ought to command a large amount of respect and faith. If it is true that a want of confidence is one of the causes of pro tracted business depressions, then the re turn of confidence should be hailed as a good sign wherever it appears. We ought to feel well-disposed toward the South when she innocently boasts of her improv ing condition and tells us what great things she is going to do. In all other sections of the Union, public opinion upon the re vival of business is in an intermittent state. It is hot and cold by turns. The sanguine feeling of one day is succeeded the next day by a chill down the back. Not so at the South. Things no longer look blue but always rose-colored to the people of that section. May that feeling continue, and the sooner it leavens the rest of the country, the better for all of us. In all this there is a meaning deeper than the superficial appearance. The present hopefulness of the South means the com plete restoration of fraternity with the North. It means that from the minds of the Southern people with few exceptions only is effaced the last trace of resent ment and chagrin resulting from their fail ure in the civil war. It was necessary that the lingering grudges should disappear be fore the South could look to the future with abounding courage and hope. The transformation so fully experienced at the bouth has not yet been answered by so complete a change of public sentiment at the North. There are still some men among us who try to keep alive the bitter memories of the war. Years may still elapse before these men will cease this ex ecrable policy. But we may assure the South that it is condemned by increasing numbers even among the ranks Of those who have been most irreconcilable ia their sectionalism. The "bloody shirt" will never again be a party flag: and if any faction raises it as the emblem of an issue, the public condemnation of that folly will be swift and snre. More and more at the North we feel that we need the South, and she may be sure that every evidence of prosperity she can show will give pleasure to patriotic Americans everywhere ! DAVID L. SWAIN. How he Surprised the Roys. Gov. Scales at Chapel Hill.1 In his start in life he had neither money, position nor influence, nor was he one of those on whom all the gods had set their seals, and yet there was that in him which gave assurance to all that he was a man . There was a tradition in Col lege when I was here that when he first come to Chapel Hill he was a green, awkward mountain boy, and was early se lected as a fit subject for the sport and rid icule of his associates. On one occasion, as the tradition has it, he was surrounded by a crowd of idlers who insisted that he should take a text and give them a sermon. He demurred and begged that he might be pared such profanity, but their importu nities increased, until yielding to the de mand, he asked their serious consideration of the text to be found in Matthew xx 8 verse : "Why stand ye here all the day idle! " and as he reasoned with them in all the earnestness of his soul, of duty neg lected, opportunities wasted, of temptations that lie in wait for the idle, of hopes dis appointed and parental hearts crushed, one by one they stole away until the young preacher discovered that he was left alone, and then raising his voice and pointing his finger in the direction of the retreating audience, he shouted, "Go! gol in the name of our common Creator, I bid you go work in His vineyard. He promises a penny a day each, and to my certain knowledge not one of you is worth half the money!" Such a sermon at such a time is relieved by its truth and earnest ness of all features of prof anity, and I am assured that few sermons were ever preach ed at Chapel Hill, bo noted for preaching ability, that accomplished more good ; but as good as it was, there is no intimation that he was ever asked for another. He at once became a leader among the boys, as he was afterwards among men, and now could I have my will, I would have this text in scribed high upon this Hall, so that it would be read from every direction, and by all: "Why stand ye here all the day idle?" "Go work in my vineyard;" and thus I would perpetuato the sermon and make the tradition written history. THE PRESIDENT'S EXAMPLE Of Faithfulness to Official Duty. I Herald Washington Letter. J It is noticed that the President timed his absence from the city so that he waa gone but thirty days. The law on the sub ject allows officials not . more than thirty days leave of absence in any one year. The President holds that this applies to him as well as it does to the lowest employe of the government. In past times some of the Presidents have not construed the law so rigidly, and used to extend their leaves of absence for several months. Cabinet officers who felt that they were as impor tant as the President were somewhat loose in regard to the time that they were absent. Heads of bureaus, many of whom imagine themselves even more important a - - than heads of- departments, having a bad 1 example set them frequently took two months and in many instances three months' leave of absence. It was not sur prising, therefore, that clerks, especially the higher grades of clerks, asked for and received ah extension of their vaca tions. The example set was bad and very expensive. It' delayed public business. President Cleveland believes in setting a food example. A subordinate clerk will ardly ask for an extension over his thirty days if the President does not himself take it. In fact, the business principle is already applied so strictly that clerks who absent themselves beyond the time allowed under the law have their pay stopped. ECONOMY OF TISfK AND MONEY ENFORCED. It is curious to note how economical the public servants are when it costs them money to stay away from their desks. As long as Uncle Sam was generous and easy sick head headaches and malarial symp toms were very! prevalent. When the gov ernment had its distinct series of postage tamps the saving of postage was an item among department employes. Of course paper and envelopes are never considered of value. Witness the wisdom of Congress in abolishing the distinct postage stamp and substituting the penalty envelope, while the law imposes a fine of $300 for any one-using these envelopes except on government business. As they are only accessible to those in the government em ploy the reason for this penalty needs no further explanation. But when it comes to wasting time a twelve-hundred-dollar clerk's minute ia worth one cent. How prompt they would be if there was a Con gressional act inflicting a penalty of $300 if a first class clerk were idle two minutes ! President Cleveland has set an example which shows this value of hours. His visit to Gettysburg, which was but a single day, was an official act. So, also, was his visit to New York oh Memorial Day. Except his month's absence, he has been away but a single day in six months, when he went to Woodmont.;, Besides, the President labors more hours every day than clerks generally do. AN EMPLOYS WHO NEEDS WATCHING. Speaking of faithful public servants with a keen sense of what belongs to the government, it is said that Colonel Julius P. Garresche, who wa? chief of General Rosecrans' staff and was killed at the bat tle of Stone River, was the most scrupu lous army officer the service ever knew. When he was Assistant Adjutant General he never wrote a personal letter even with government ink. BIBLE HISTORY NOTES As Gathered by a Caretul Reader. New York Journal of Commerce. New York, jsept. 3, 1885. Regardless of the subject under discussion you seem to be an acknowledged authority ; permit me to propound the following theolog ical questions : 1. How many brothers and sisters, if any, had our Saviour, and what were their names! ' 2. How many years after our Lord's cru cifixion did Joseph live? How long did our Lord's mother Mary? During this time where, and with whom, did Mary live? If Joseph was (married twice, who was his first wife? B. Reply. 1. tl "our Saviour" had any brothers and sisters there were seven of them, James, Joses, Judas and Simon, and 1.1 ! . I ' ' 1 i. ' m uiree suuers wp nuiues. no, given. ; tine supposition fhiit these' were of the same family is founded on Matthew xiii,, 65. "Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? And his brethren James and Joses, and Judas and Simon? And his sisters, are they not all with us?" Some have inferred that these were child ren of Joseph by a former wife : Some that they were actually the children of Jo seph and Mart the mother of Jesus : And a few that Joseph and Clopas were brothers, and that the latter being dead the former had carried out the Jewish custom of rais ing up seed to his dead brother. By com paring Matt, xxvii. 56, and Mark xv. 40, with John xixj 25. we find that the Virein Mary had a sister named like herself, such duplicates being not uncommon in that day, and that this Mary was the wife of Clopas who had two sons, James the Little and Joses. Wc find that four young men, two certainly corresponding with these, and three young women, were living with the Virgin Mary at Nazareth. The fair in ference ia that Mary the mother of Jany and Joses, was the mother of James, Joses, Judas and Simon, and the three sisters, and that they were all living with their aunt, the Virgin Mary, and constituted one family. The traditions all claim that the Virgin Mary had no child but Jesus, and this is our, opinion, although we do not give the same importance to this view of the subject that the Catholics do in their creed. i 2. JoseDh. the husband of the Virein Mary, undoubtedly died before the cruci fixion. He was alive when Jesus was 12 years old, and is supposed to have died at some period not long before the Master be gan his public! ministry. There is nothing even of tradition (excluding the bogus gospels) about; his having more than one wile. I here is no record or the later life of the Virgin Mary. John (xix. 27) says that "from that hour" that Jesus died he -took her to his own home. He doubtless left with her at the moment of death, and came back to bssist Joseph, Nicodemus, Mary Magdalepe and Mary the sister of the mother, jm the rites of burial. The conclusion fairly to be drawn from the narrative is that she lived with John until her own death, which we have reason to infer from the silence of Scrip ture concerning her was not long delayed. The fabulous stories of her subsequent history are legends but wholly unworthy of belief. : RELIGIOUS REVIVALS. In the, Baptist Churches. Revivals reported in the Biblical Recor der: A. C. Davis reports 21 baptisms at Chancy Hill; I J. L. Britt reports 31 ad ditions at Poplar Grove, Sampson ; W. J. F. reports 47 professions, 35 baptisms; C. A w -w i . m i in. juurcuiBou reports w proieasiona anu 27 baptisms, and J. C. Hocut, 7 profess ions. In the Sfethodlst Churches. " Revivals reported in Raleigh Advocate : Guilford circuit, 10 converts; Hickory Grove camp meeting, ' 38 ' professions, 44 additions ; Salisbury circuit, 85 profession; Wadesboro circuit, 11 additions; Cherry Mountain circuit, 8 additions; Macedonia, 19 additions; camp meeting at Sharon,1 20 additions; Goldsboro circuit, 47 additions; circuit, 6 converts; Manly mission, 27 pro fessions and 11 additions. According to the Boston Pott the pro Ertion of postmasters in the six' New ngland States to-day is still twelve Re publicans to oae Democrat. -
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