Newspapers / The Catawba County News … / Nov. 13, 1885, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The Catawba County News (Newton, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
Newton Entj 8E0 jjjJLJL XVL VOLUME. VII. NEWTON, CATAWBA COUNTY, N. G, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1885. NUMBER 42. f. ? it- y! I. 31. A ILtIiMS, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER, 0;i3 co y, one year 81 50 Unocop, six mouths 1 00 (S3" No namo cnteiv! without payment of the ulwcriptio:i in advance This is :in invariable rule of our bu-iiues .v.a must bo adhered to in ill cases. A Ivcrtisiiii;. ouo square of ten lines or tens, iirst insertion, oiu dollar. Each mbse quciit im nion. titty c miN. BusiiiOM s Cards. U. J. Suirp. T. II. Cobb. SHIPP & COBB, Attorntv A.t Ijiiw, Practice in all tho Court:?. Offioa on Public Square. 1. L WITHERSPOON, A TTO RN K Y A.T L V W NEWTON, N. U. M. L. McCORKLE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, NEW ION, N. C. J". IB. LITTLE, Swrgtion Dentist, - Has located in New mi, N. O., anil offers hi professional services ' prop! of town an county. Offick is Youxt A Surum Building. J. E THORNTON, Newton, N. C, Keeps constantly on hand all siz is of Wood Coftins, and different qualities, ad tiae as can be bought anywhere for tho same money. Reason :blo time allowed to reliable parties Shop one mile north or the court house. R. P. REINHARDT, BEEEDEB OF Short H jrn CatUo aui Cotswold Sheep. I have now for sale some very fine bucks and ewes. B. P. BEINHAKDT, Newton, N. C. STOP AT THE ttLenoir, n. a WILL II. RAMSAUR-&oprietor. STOP ' AT THE Yount House. The subscriber having taken the Youn House, N&wton, N. C, wishes to inform tha public that he is prepared to acci nini xlate travelers in a first-class style. Prices re ion ablo. Board by the day or week at reduced prices. tfi Formerly proprietor of tha Dela.arc House, Delhi, N. Y. P S.HALL. jt s LIVERY, SALE AND FEED bTABLBS, ....Newton, N. C. Will be fount Iho b-.st stock and neatest ve hicles in town. Pen ns can D3 accommodate ! by us with any hing in the livery line, and prices are gnaraateed to give satisfaction. YV only ask a tiial Transpertatio.i to all the surrounding country; We solicit the patronag3 of tha public. Bespectfuliy, HENKEL & CORPENINO. Mb Coroen IN ADDITION TO THE LARGEST AND CHEAPEST STO'.K OF FURNITURE in Western North Caro'ina, we are handling nve-al makes of Parlor, School and Church" ORGANS, and offer them in Hickory at factory prices. Our Undertaking Department is complete in all its branches. Burial Robes, Wood and MetaUc Cases and Caskets, and Un dertaker's Supplies generally. Toote & do., Hickory, fJ. C. Sept 16, 1885. A Horning Call. TVhen she spied him coming She wore a kerchief round her head, Her papered curls to hido. The flounces on her skirts were torn Her 6lippers were untied, Her jacket wanted buttons, and Twos not exactly clean, And through her worn-out sleeves quite plain Her elbows could be seen. When she received him Upon her brow ter fluffy h:iir Like tangled sunshine lay, Her pretty Mother Hubbard gown Was rich in ribbons guy, Her little shoes were decked witii bows, Some meadow flowers clung Near her fair throat, nnd from her side A nnall seen I -bottle hung. .1ml ti's a sure thing That never yet for conjurer Did quicker chr.ngo beftill, Thau ihut young man evoked who came To make a morning coll. Philadelphia JVews. An Uncommon Proceeding. "How colli it is growing," aid Miss "Wait, the teacher of the common school in the then brisk little manu facturing village of Shattuckvilie, as she tied on her soft blue hood, button ed her warm flannel cloak, looked at the window-fastenings of the not over commodious or attractive but snug schoolroom, locked her desk, and care fully shut the damper of the air-tight wood stove, preparatory to quitting her domain of labor for the night. As she picked up her rubber over shoes aad stooped to draw them over her shapely kid boot, she cogitated: "Oh, dear! Tommy Howe's red toes sticking so pathetically through those old gaping shoes fairly haunt me. I wonder if, in all this prosper ous, busy village, there is no way of getting that poor child decently clad. I must think it over and see what I cau do about it." Twenty-four hours later the leading man of the village, and the owner of the little factory there, who, years be fore, when a poor boy, had stranded down from Vermont to this little hamlet, eccentric and brusque, but kind-hearted, keen-eyed, and observ ant of all that was going on within his domain, was v alking along the street and met a bright-eyed and sprightly lad of 10 speeding ahead with that amusing, unconscious, con sequential air that a boy carries with his first Drana-new parr otDoots." "Old Sam" Whittier, as this gentle man was familiarly called, not by reason of advanced age by any means, but because of his supremacy as the mill-owner and employer of all the help In the hamlet, took in the situa tion at a glance, and called out to the absorbed child, "Hullo, youngster! where d'ye get them fellers?" "Teacher gave them to me, sir," and the lad's tattered cap came quickly off, and he stood with it in his hand. "Does she buy boots for all the boys In the school?" he growled out "Guess not; but she bought Joe Eriggs a speller and Jane Cass an arithmetic, and she gives away stacks cf slate-pencils and paper and ink, and such things." "What made her go and buy them nice boots for you ?" "She said she wanted to, sir; and when I said I had no money to pay her for them, she said she'd rather be paid in perfect lessons; and I will try my best to pay for them in that way, you may be sure, sir." "Pretty good sort of a teacher, is she, bub?" "Oh, yes, indeed! I guess she must be the best teacher that ever lived, sir she tells U3 about so many things that we never knew before; and she wants us to be good and honest and not tell lies, and she says we shall be men and women by and by, and she wants us boys to know something so we can own factories our own selves some time. The other teachers we've had only heard our lessons and let us go, but she's so different!" "Well, well, bub. I shall have to think this business over a little. Now run along, and go to scratchin' over them 'perfect lesson?.' I don't sup pose you'll find a person m Shattuck vilie a better judge of perfect lessons, or how much they are worth, both to the teacher and to the scholar, than Old Sam' "Whittier. So, bub, look after your ways, and I shall look after you." The next morning a little note writ ten in a coarse business hand was dispatched to the teacher by the hand of one of the children. It ran as fol lows: "Miss "Wait: I have heard of-some rather uncommon proceedings on your part as a teacher toward your; scholars. I would like to inquire of you person ally as to particulars. Will you do me the favor to run over to my house directly after the close of your school this afternoon. "Samuel Whittier." "What can I have done?" thought that little teacher, in such a peturbed state of mind that she corrected John ny Snow's mistake in his multiplica tion by telling him seven times nine was fifty-four. Indeed, she let the mistake go so long that every little hand belonging to the second primary class was stretched up in a frenzy of excitement. "Let me see; what is it I have done the past week? I switch ed Bobbie Baker pretty smartly, to be sure and I kept Sam Woodruff after school and I kept Marion Fisk in from recess for whispering; but I must keep order. Well, dear me, I have tried to do my duty, and I won't wor ry;" and Miss Wait resolutely went back to "seven times nine,' and so proceeded in the usual routine. But she ate no dinner that noon, and had a decided headache as she crossed the big bridge over the hill to the mill-owner's residence. "I shall not back down in anything where my clear duty and self-respect are involved' thought she. "I have set up a certain ideal as to what a teacher of these little common schools ought to be, and I will, God and my mind, good courage and health not forsaking me, bring myself as near to it as possible. Moreover, I will not consider, in the premises, wheiher the scholars are children of the rich or learned, or of the poor or ignorant. For the time being God has placed in my care ragged, dirty little wretches of a factory village, as well as clean, well-dressed, attractive children." "Good evening, good evening, ma'am," said "Old Sam" Whittier, in his gruff way, meeting the teacher at the door. "As I said in my noto to you, I heard to-day of some rather un common proceedings on your part I saw, ma'am, little Tommy Howe in a new pair of boots this morning. Do you know how he came by them?" "I bought them for him, Mr. Whit tier," wondering whether the local magnate suspected the poor child of stealing. "Oh, you did! Are you in the habit of furnishing your scholars with such articles ? Was the providing of boots a part of your business contract with the committee? If it was, 1 can put you in the way of buying boots at wholesale in Boston, where I get my supply for my store." "It will not be necessary, sir," re plied the teacher, with dignity. "I thank you for your kind offer, how ever." "Why did you furnish boots in this particular case, if I may inquire?" "The lad is very poor. His mother has her hands full with the smaller children. Tommy is learning rapidly; I see marks of rare intelligence in him. It would be a pity to have him " taken out of school at this time when he is so much engaged. , Should he contin ue coming clad as be was in such weather as this he would be ill soon. I could not take the risk in either case." "Are you able to let your heart get the better of you in this way?" "I have my wages only," replied the young womar, with dignity. "Then you probably will have to retrench not a little in your own ex penses." "If I do it will harm no one's purse or pride but my own. In this instance it may be the matter of a pair of gloves or an ostrich tip with me. With him the little act may make a difference that shall be lasting through time and eternity." "You have been attending that school over to South Iladley, I hear ?'' "Yes, sir." "Have you been through it, or grad uated, as they call it ?" "Oh, no; I have attended but two terms. But I am fully determined to complete the course." "Hum all right. Miss Wait, you seem to be doing some good work among the children over the river there. I am going to think it all over; but look here if any more of those little rascals need boots, let me know. I shall consider it a privilege to provide thern. You know I can obtain them at wholesale ha! lia!" and the now greatly relieved teacher's interview with the mill-owner ended. "If she goes on teaching on and off, and then taking a term on and off at Mount -Holyoke, she can't graduate for years," ruminated Old Sam Whit tier, as he watched her tripping on over the hill; "it's ridiculous." And so it came to pass, when Miss Wait was paid her small salary at the end of the term, she found in the en velope containing the order on the town treasurer a check with a slip of paper pinned to it, reading thus: "This may be an uncommon pro ceeding, but I thought it over and have concluded that you had better go right along in your studies at South nadley until you graduate. Alter that, with your pluck and principle, you will be able to invest in boots or books, or in any way you see fit. Very truly yours, "Samuel Whittier." I leave this true little sketch with out comment. It carries its own les son, both to struggling young teachers with hearts and brains, and to pros perous men of affairs, who may lend n helping hand to deserving ones. A Mexican Policeman. The police system of the city of Mexico beats anything in America. A Mexican policeman is a strong, fine looking young man, wearing a military uniform and openly displaying a six shooter. He does not spend his time walking the sidewalk, lost to sight in a crowd of people. His beat is the middle of the street, where he can see and be seen. He does not dodge ve hicles, but makes them dodge him. No nonsense is tolerated, and the po lice rather enjoy a row. They keep splendid order Wheeling Register. Dairy Cows In Switserla '' An American, who has sp " me time in France, writes: Now .iiai co operative cheese and butter "f aruieries ' are the order of the day, 1 wish to draw attention to the special breed of cattle in the Canton of Appenzell. The cows are good milkers, small hut well built, admirably adapted for mountainous regions, and easily cared for. They are small feeders, and their milk is as rich as a Jersey, and abun dant as a Kerry or West Highland cow. They yield from fourteen to twenty quarts of milk a day, but the average daily yield for the year is about eight quarts. The cows are hired for the summer pasturage on the slopes of the Alps, for 16 or 20 francs, and descend in the autumn, comparatively fat. The proprietor himself, or a member of his family acts as herd, and superintends the sale of the milk at the central de pot, or more generally converts it him self into cheese. He may have from twenty to sixty cows. The latter never exceed six hundred-weight. They receive the bull when 18 months old, and when they have had six calves are fattened for the butcher. Young bulls of 2 to 3 years old are selected to serve. Cows intended for the summer highland pasture are pre ferred "if they have calved in Febru ary, and for lowland grazing if in November. Calves destined for the butcher are only allowed to suckle their mother three or four times. They are then fed from the pail twice a day, milk and water at first, then pure milk mixed with the refuse of the cheese factory; but they are finished off on goat's milk. The cows are milked twice a day, and receive salt every second day. They are daily curried, and occasionally washed. When wet, after a storm or rain, they are rubbed with a wisp of straw this keeps away, it is considered, rheumatism. The Swiss loves his cow as an Arab loves his horse; he employs neither whip, stick, nor dog. Government is all by the voice. He addresses them as his dear beast das lithe Vich ! . New Theories Atnut Eating. Dr.-R. M. Hodges, once read a paper before the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, in which he touched on this question upon which doctors disa-; grcc, huq BHiu; -; n is a cuiuiuuB i-JT - - - i i . . ' V pression that to take food immediately before going to bed and to sleep is un wise. Such a suggestion is answered by a reminder that the instinct of anl- mals prompts them to sleep as soon as they have eaten; and in summer aa after-dinner nap. especially when that meal is taken at mid-day, is a luxury indulged in by many. If the ordinary hour of the evening meal i3 six or seven "o'clock, and of the first mo.ning meal 7 or 8 o'clock, an interval of elve hours, or more, elapses with out food, and for persons whose nutri tion is at fault this is altogether too long a period of fasting. That such an interval without food is permitted explains many a restless dght, and much of the head and backache, and the languid, half-rested condition on rising, which 13 accompanied by no appetite for breakfast. This meal it self often dissipates these sensations. It is, therfore, desirable, if not essen tial, when nutriment is to be crowded, that the last thing before going to bed should be the taking of food. Sleep lessness is often caused by starvation, and a tumbler cf milk, if drunk in the middle of the night, will often put people to sleep when hypnotics would fail of their purpose. Food before ris ing is equally important and expedient. It supplies strength for bathing and dressing, laborious and wearisome tasks for the underfed, and is a better morning 'pick-me-up' than anv 'tonic " A Laundry Koniance. Five years ago a remarkably bright and pretty girl of 17 worked in a San Francisco laundry. The son of wealthy parents fell in love with her. She returned his passion, but said she would not marry him, as he wished, because she was uneducated and coarse. Then he offered to send her away to school. She accepted this offer. During the ensuing four years she was in a Montreal convent, very apt and studious. The training wrought all the change that was desir able, and the wedding took place, with a long tour in Europe afterwards. The couple returned to S:m Francisco late ly. To show that she had neither for gotten nor was ashamed of her former employment, the bride gave a grand supper to tho3e of her old companions who could be brought together. What He Noticed. There had been some trouble at Mr. Bilkin's about the butter for break fast, and at dinner Mrs. B. had made a change. When Mr. B. had every thing ready about him to commence operations, he picked up the butter dish. His wife watched him, and af ter a minute inquired: "Do you f-notice any difference in that butter, ray dear?" "Not yet, Maria," he replied cau tiously, "though I may later. So far, I don't notice anything in it, except a hair and " He never finished the sentence. Married men with impetuous wives will understand why. Merchant Tri-zeller. Hope. Storm overhanging Darkens the plain! Silence most dismal Burdens the brain. The wind that passes Over the marsh Sounds in the grasses Sullen and harsh. " Down thro" the darkness ' Cutting its way, Gleams from the heavens One single ray. There in the tempest. Threatened with blight, One Pimple flower Sparkles with light! f-Jiiehard L. Dawson in ihi Current. I1UMOBOCS. Wanted. A sheet from an oyster bed. "Hooking and lying are the fisher man's crying sins. A cyclone is like a waiter. It car ries everything before it The bird family must have a jolly time they have so many larks. Wealth screens depravity, but it isn't worth shucks as a preventive of coras. jX. iost ten pounds of flesh on your account," sighed the butcher, as a dog ran off with a steak. "He never had but one genuine Case in his life," said a lawyer of a ri vaVand that was when he prosecut ed his studies." "Never mind me." said Mrs. Jones before she was married, and that is exactly what her husband did after the honeymoon was over. "O where does beauty linger?" de manded a Quaker City poetess. As a usual thing, she lingers in the parlor until her mother has cleaned up the kitchen. Of the seven successful candidates for the Presidency during the past twenty-eight years five are dead, while of the seven unsuccessful aspirants five ere alive. Thare's a farmer boy in Ohio, who has t?e making of a "funny man" in him. i lie recently wrote an ode to the dead inother of his pet lamb, and callevSt a "Ewe loary." ." A "-$tty paragraphed has relieved his bo1m by saying that "Miss Liber ty w 11 not be lonesome way down on Beih ;'s island; f he will 'be - out jSnoys," you know. . -V okv a unt or iiiralainsf cat ft nuii was , ti4d rching a hair. Lightning rible risks sometimes: but tn most foolhardy thiug the mluid ever did. Next time it may 't get . '7 so easily. A irisian v tor prescribed for a lady wio bad objections against grow ing stc, it: "Take exercise, my dear lady. X"onsit.er the trees of the field; they ntver take exercise, and, as a consequence, they go on growing big ger ant' bigger every year." An article in an agricultural jour nal is entitled "Profits in Small Fruits Near large Cities." There is not much profit in raising fruit near large cities, -fSfless the premises are well supplied with a crop of cross dogs. The farther from a large city small fruits or large ones either are rais ed, the more prout there is in the bus iness. Grant's Type. "Gath" says in an article on General Grant in the Cincinnati Enquirer:' In the great men of the past we find none of' the type of General Grant Cromwell and Wellington suggest no resemblance to him either in origin or temperament Among modest luroes like Admiral Dc Ruyter he mijjht be classified but for the supmrie honors he has attained. It was told of He Ruyter that on the morning after a battle of four days a visitor found him sweeping his . cabin -and -feeding his chickens; and "when decorated with honorgLBnd-titlcs by every Prince of Europe he never . in the slightest de gree overcame his innate modesty." Both De Ruyter, who was taken out of a rope-yard, and Grant out of a tannery, ; were sincere republic ins, graduate by a sense of duty that sup pressed all restless, vulgar ambition. Grant is the earliest fruit of that per fected and simplified republicanism which was seeded and ripened beyond the Ohio river. He is not only Amer ican, but'North-western. People wht are seeking in him traces of the old Colonial gentry, like Washington, are ignorant of their country and it ex pansion. What Washington but dim ly conceined-thV-age and locality of GTfint have fully realized a powerful democracy and its home heroes. He was born on the public land, went to land-endowed Public Schoris, and was the son on both sides of pioneers. The whole machinery of the Federal Con stitution and the statutes of the gov ernment of the North-western Terri tory had gone into operation when he came upon the 3tage. No other Presi dent except Lincoln had been exclu sively Western grown, and Lincoln was born in Kentucky, though of Pennsylvania descent - Grant's gtxfs i Puritan and Pcna svlvanl;in. lia is of 'Enirltsh Puritan six-k, wh'.ii f-;i!i! ti ihi.s rountry in iCoi, ten yt-ar. mi t the Pilgrim Tathtrs. ; ! with witl ko taki DR. IMAGE'S SERMON. POSTHUMOUS OPPORTUNITY. The text was from Ecclesiastes xi, 3: "If the tree fall toward the south or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth there it shall be." "There is a hovering hope." said the preacher, "in the minds of a vast mnltituia that there will be an opportunity in the next world to correct the mistakes of this; that if we do make complete shipwreck of our earth ly life it will be on a shore up which we may walk to a palace; that, as a defendant may lose his case in the Circuit Court and carry it np to the Supreme Court or Court of Chan cery and get a reversal of judgment in his behalf, all the costs being thrown over on the other party, so if we fail in the earthly trial, we may in the higher jurisdiction of eternity have the judgment of the lower court set aside, all the costs remitted, and we be victorious defendants forever. My object in this sermon is to show that common sense, as well as my text, declares that such an expectation is chimerical. You say that the impenitent man having got into the next world and seeing the disaster, will, as a re sult of that ditaster, turn, the pain the cause of his reformation. But you can find ten thousand instances in this world of men who have done wrong and distress overtook them suddenly. Did the distress heal them! Ho, they went right on. " 'You must stop drinking,' said the doe tor, 'and quit 'the fast life you are leading, or it will destroy yon.' The patient suffers paroxysm after paroxysm, but under skilful medical treatment he begins to Bet up, be gins to walk about the room, begins to go to business. And, lo! h? goes back to the same grog shops for his morning dram and his evening dram and the drams between. Flat down again. Same doctor. Same physical anguish. Same medical warning. Sow the illness is more protracted, the liver is more stubborn, the stomach more irritable and tha digestive organs are more rebellious. But after awhile he is out again, goes back to the same dram-shops, and goes the same round of sacrilege against his physical health. He sees that his downward course is ruining his house hold; that h s life is a perpetual perjury againit his marriage vow; that that broken hearted woman is so unlike the roeeate young wife that he married, that her old school mates do not recognize her; that his sons are to be taunted for a lifetime by tha father's drunkenness, that the daughters are to pass into li e under the sacrification of a disreput able ancestor. He is drinking up their hap piness, their prospects for this life and per haps for the life to come. Sometimes an ap preciation of what he is doing comes upon him. His nervous system is all in a jangle. From crown of head to sole of foot be is one aching, rasping, crucifying, damning torture. Where is he? In hell on earth. Does it reform himf A:ter a while he has delirium tremens when a whole jungle of hissing reptiles let out on his pillow, and his screams horrify the neighbors as he dashes out of his bed, cry ing: 'Take these things off of me! As be sits, pale and convalescent the doctor saysr 'Sow I want to have a plain talk with you, my dear fellow. The next attack of this kind yon will have, you will be beyond all medical skill and you will die.' He gets better and goes forth into the same round again. This time medicine .takes no effect. Consultation of physicians' agree in saying there is no hope. Death ends the scene. That process of ine briation, warning and dissolution is going on in -all the neighborhoods of Christendom. Paii). does not correct. Suffering does not reform? What is true in one sense is true in all senses and will forever be so, and yet men are expecting in the next world purgatorial rejuvenation. Take up tb.9 printed reports of the prisons 01 the L nitea btates ami you will find that the vast maioritv of the incar cerate have lw :vrrJiv- tfeut--fonr tfve. . Viiin. 'Wita a million IllnsLra- tiois-Jtll worlf aS other way in this world Ppie anrTO-fecting that 'listress in the next state will be solvable. Yon cannot imagine, any worse torture in any other world thadown to the dosks fifteen minutes after it has that which some men hare suffered here and Ir shoved off into tne stream and say. Conia witluwit inrhcAlnturv mncnnna!im ''Furthermore, the prospect of a reforma tion in the next world is more improbable then a reformation here. In this world the life started with innocence of infancy. In the case suptcJ the other life will open with all the accumulated bad habit of many years upon him. Surely, it is easier to build a strong ship out of new timber than out of an old hulk that has been ground np in the breakers. If, with innocence to start with in this life a man does not become godly, what prospect is there that in the next world, starting with a sin, a seraph should be evoluted? Surely the sculptor has more pros pect of making a fine statue out of a block of pure white Parian marble than out of an old black rock seamed and cracked with the storms of a half century. Surely upon a clean white sheet of paper it is easier to write a deed or a will than upon a sheet of paper all scribble! and blotted and torn from Iod to bottom. Yet men seem to think that though the life tnat began here comparatively perfect turned out badly, t ae next life will succeed though it starts with a dead failure. 'But,' says some one, 'I think we ought to have a chance in the next lite, because this life is so short it allows only small opportunity. We hardly have time to turn around between cradl9 and tomb, the wood of the one almost touching the marble of the other.' But do you know what made i he ancient deluge a necessity! It was the longevity of the antadiluviars. They were worse m the second century 01 weir meume than in the first bundrod years, and still worse in the third century, and still worse all the way on to seven, ei;;ht and nine hund red years, and tha earth had to be washed and scrubbed and soaked and anchored clear oas of sight for mire than a month before it cou'd be made fit for decent people to live in. longevity never cures impenitency. All the pictures of Tima represent him with a scythe to cut, but I never saw any picture of Time with a case of medicines to heal Seneca says that Nero for the first five years of his public life was set up for an example of clemency and kindness, but his path all the way de st ended, until at sixty-eight he became a Sui cide. If 800 years did not make antedilu vians any better, but only made them worse, the ages of eternity could have no effect except prolongation of depravity. -But,' says Some one, 'in the future state evil surrounding 1 will be withdrawn and elevated influences substituted, and hence expurgation and sublimation and glorification.' But the righteous, all their sins forgiven, have passed on into a beatific state, and consequently the unsaved will be left alone. It cannot be ex pected that Dr. Duff, who exhausted himself in teaching Hindoos the way to Heaven, and Dr. Abeelw ho gava his life in the evangeli sation of China, and Adouirani Judson, who toiled for the redemption of Borneo, should be sent down" by som t ce'estial missionary society to educate those who wasted all their earthly existence. Evangelistic and mission ary efforts are ended. -The entire kingdom of the morally bankrupt by themselves, where are the savab'e influences to come from ? Can one speckled and la l apple in a barrel of diseased apples turn the other apples good? Can those who are themselves down help oth ers np t Can thoea who have themselves failed in the business of the soul pay the debts of their spiritual insolvents Can a million wrongs make one right I " Poneropolis was a city where King Philip of Thracia put all the bad people of his king dom. If any man had opened a primary school at Poneropolis I do not think the par ents from other cities would have sent their children there, instead of amendment in the other world all the associations, now that the good are evolved, will be degenerating and down. You wouid not want to send a man to a cholera or yellow-fever hospital for his health, and the great lazaretto of the next world, containing the diseased and plague struck, will be a poor place for moral recov ery. If the surroundings in this world were crowded of temptation, the surroundings in the next world after the righteous have passed up and on will be a thousand per cent, more crowded of temptation. The Count of Chateaubriand made his little son sleep at night at the top of a castle turret, where the winds howled and where spectres were said to haunt the place, and while the mother and sisters almost died with fright the son tells us that the process gave him nerves that could not tremble and a courage that never fal tered. But I don't think that the towers of darkness and the spectral world swept by Sirocco and Euroclydon will ever fit one for the land of eternal sunshine. I wonder what is the curriculum of that college of In ferno, where, after proper preparation by tha sins of this life, the candidate enters, passing oa front tha freshman class of depravity to sophomore of abandonment, and from sopho- iuutv u junior, ana irom junior to senior, and day of graduation comes, and with diploma, signed by Satan, the president, and other professorial demoniacs, attest ing that the candidate has been kn enough under their drill, be passes np to enter heaven. Pandemonium a pre. parative course for heavenly admission ! Ah. my friends, Satan and his cohorts have fitted nncountad multitudes for ruin, but never fitted one soul for happiness. Furthermore: It would not be safe for thi3 world if men had another chance in the next. If it had been announced that however wickedly a man might act in this world he could fix it np aU riht in ths next, society would be ter ribly demoralized and the human race de molished in a few years. The fear that if we are bad and nnforgiven here it will not be well for U3 in the next existence, is the chief influence that keeps civilization from rush ing back to semi-barbarism, and semi-barbarism from rushing into midnight savagery, and midnight savagery to extinction; for it is the astringent impression of all nations, Christian and heathen, that there is no future chance for those who have wasted this. Mul titnlesof men wnj are kept within bounds would say: 'Go to, now; let ma get all out of this life there is in it. Come gluttony and inebriation, and nncleanliness, and revenge, and all sensualities, and wait upon me. My life may be somewhat shortened' in this world by dissoluteness, but that will only make heavenly indulgence on a larger scale the sooner possible. I will overtake the saints at last, and will ester the heavenly temple only a little later than those who behaved them selves here. I will on my way to heaven take a little wider excursion than those who were on earth pious, an I I shall go to heaven via Gehenna and via SheoL' "Another chance in the next world means free license and wild abandonment in this. Suppose you were a party in an important cas at law, and you knew from consultation with judges and attorneys that it would be tried twicf and the first trial would be of lit tle importance, but that the second would de cide everythinz. for which trial you would make the most preparation, for which retain the ablest attorneys, for which be most anx ious about the attendance of witnesses? Yoa would put all the stress upon the second trial, all the anxiety, the expenditure, saying, 'The first is nothing, the last is everythiag.' Give the race assurance of a second and more important trial in the subsequent life, and all the preparation for eternity wouM be post mortem, post-funeral, post-sepulchral, and the world with one jerk be pitched off into impiety and godlessnsss. Furthermore: Let me ask why a chance in the next world, if we have refused innumerable chances in this? Suppose you give a banquet and invite a vast number of friends, but one man declines to come or treats your invitation with indiffer ence. Ton, in the course of twenty years, give twenty banquets, and the same man is invited to them all and treats them all hi the same obnoxious way. After a while you re move to another house, larger md better,and you again invite your friends, but send no in vitation to the man who declined or neglected the other invitations Are you to blame? Has he a right to expsct to be invited after all the indignities he has done you? God in this world has invited us all to the banquet of His grace. He in vited us by His Providence and His Spirit 365 days of every year since we knew our right hand from our left. If we declined it every time, or treated the invitation with indifference, and gave twenty or forty or fifty years of indignity on our part toward the banqueter, and at last be spreads the ban quet in a more luxuriant and kingly place, amid the heavenly gardens, have we a right to expect him to invite us again, and have we a right to blame him if he does not invite us? "If twelve gates of salvation stood open twenty years or fifty years for our admission, and at the end of that time they are closed, can we complain of it and say: These gates I If the steam' " " ' T'-r wim- 3Uit Qf ges so oeruiuiy uy we read' in every evening and every m jr rrng rrew-aaper mat h wui sau on a certain day, ior o o weera we nave ine au vertisementJ)efore our eyes, and then we go jback. Give tub another chance. It ... t in tkia wv. KsrinC is not up to th dwk no-nin anl throw out the planks and let ma come on b jard,' such behavior would invite arrest as a midtnan. And if, after the Gospel ship has lain at anchor "before oar eyes for years and years and years, and all the benign voices of earth and heaven have urged us to get on board, as she might sail away at any momant, and after a while she sails without us, is it common sense to expect her to coma back ? Yoa might as well go out on tha highlands at Navesink and hail the Aurania after she had been three days out, and expact her to ret ira, as to call bask aa opportunity for heaven when it once has sped away. All heaven offerei us as a gratuity, and for a lifetime we.refuse to take it, aad thn rush on thajlxtsses of Jeho vah's buckler demanding anoth -r chance. There ought to ba, there can ba, there will ba m such thin; as posthumous opportunity. Thus our common sense agrees with my taxf t If the tree falls toward tha rath or to.virU tne north, in the place where the tree falleth there it shall be.' You see that this trea lifts this world np from an "unimportant way sta tion to a platform of stupendous issues, and makes all eternity whirl around this hour. But one trial for which all the preparation must ba made in this world, or never, never madeatalL That piles up all the emphasis and all the climaxes and all tha destinies into life here Xo other chance! Oh, how that augments the value and the importance of this chancel Alexander with his army uwd to surround a city and then would lift a great li"ht in token to the people that, if they sur rendered before that light went out, all would be well, but if once the light went out thn the battering rams wouia swing against, m wall, and demolition" and disaster would fol low. Well, all we need to da for our present and everlasting safety, is to make surrender to Christ, the king and conqueror, surrender of our hearts, surrender of our lives, surren der of everything. And he keeps a great light burning light of Gospel invitation, light kindled with the wood of the cross and flaming up against the dark night of our sin and sorrow. Surrender while that great light continues to burn, for after it goes out there will be no other opportunity of miking peace with Goi through our Lord Jesus Christ. Talk of another chance! In the time of Edward the VL. at tha battle of Mussel burgh, a private soldier, seeing that the earl of Huntley had lost his helmet, took off his own helmet and put it upon the hsad of the earl; and the head of the private uncovered, he was saon s'ain. while the commander rode safely out of the battle. But in the our case, instead of a jrivate soldier offer ing helmet to an earl, it is a king putting his crown upon an unworthy subject, the king dying that we might live. Tell it to all points of the compass. Teli it to night and day. Tell it to all earth and heaven. Tell it to all centuries, all ages, all millenniums, that we have such a majuifi ent chance in this world that we need no other chance in the next. "A dream: I am in the burnished judgment hall of the last day. A great white throne is lifted, but the judge has not yet taken it. While we are waiting for his arrival I bear immortal spirits in conversation. 'What are you waiting here for?" says a soul that went up from Madagascar to a soul that ascended from America. The latter says: 'I came from America, where for fortv years I beard the gospel preached and the Bible read and from the prayer I learned in infancy at my mother's knee' until my last hour I had gos pel advantages; but for s mi" reason I dtf not make the Christian choice, and I am ben waiting for the Judge to give ma a new trial and another chance.' 'Strange,' says the other, 'I had but one gospel call n Madagas car, and I accepted it. and ' I do not need another chance.' .'Why are you heref says one who on earth had feeblest intellect to one who had great brain and silvery tongue and sceptres of influence. The latter responds; 'Oh, I knew mere than my fellows. 1 mas tered -libraries and had learned titles from colleges, and my namevras a synonym for e'oquence and power. And yet I neglected my soul, and I am here waiting for a new trial. ' 'Strange,' says the one of the feeble earthly capacity, 'I knew but little of worldly knowledge, but I knew Christ and male him my partner, an I have no need of a no -her hance.' Now W3 gforr.nl trembles with the approaching chariot. The great folding door of the hall swing open. 'Stand back!' cry the celestial ushers. 'Stand back anl let tbe Judge of quick and dead pass through.' He takes the throne, and, looking over the throng of nations, he says: 'Come to the judgment, the last judgment, the only judg - mmt!' By one flash of the throne all the history of each one flames forth to tbe vision of himself and all others. 'Divide? says the I chance. T Judge to the assembly. 'Divide? echo the walls. 'Divide!' cry the guards angelic. And now the immortals separate, rushing this way and that, and after a while there is a great aisle between them and a great vac uum widening and widening, and the Judge, turning to tha throng on one ads, says: 'He that is righteous let him be righteous still, and he that is holy let him be holy still;' and then turning toward the throng on the oppo site side, he says: 'He that is unjust let him be unjust still,' and then lifting one hand toward each group he declares, 'If the trea fall toward the south or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth there it sha.ll be. And I bear somstning jar witn a great sound. It is the closing of the book of judgment The Judge ascends the stairs be hini the throne. The hall of tha last assire is clear ad and shut. The high court of eter nity adjourned forever." HUMOR OF THE DAI. A sliver in the bush is worth two in the hand. One who takes lots of interest in his business the pawnbroker. The waterme'on is admitted without question into our best families, although it is always very seedy. Philadelphia Call. The militia of the di tie rent States, while they may be good so'diera, are generally down as N. G. Texas Sift ings. "Who don't you turn over a new leaf I" "I will, pa, in the spring. Can't do i this time of year, you know.'" Boston Budget. There was nothing the matter with B.'s feet till he was kicked out of a club, and then he was club-footed. Hcrchant Traceler. What this country ceeds most is a practical scientist who can invent an at tachable steering apparatus for cyclones. Bston Post. Some one says "guns are only human after all. They will k'ck when he load becomes to 3 heavy." They also often go off half-cocked. Grauhii. If the gods ever interpose in bchilf of snffering humanity, it seems a little re markable that a baldheit'led man should be overlooked in fly time. He saw her once, and Cupid's shaft Straight to his heart found passige; But, ah! what pain was his whan she At breakfast ordered "sausage." Bos' on. Gazette. "Your father is entirely bald, isn't hef said a man to a son of a million aire. "Yes," replied the youth sadly: "I'm the onlv heir he has left." Oticego Gazette. To clean teeth use a mixture of emery and sweet oiL Follow it with plenty of kerosene. P. S. We mean the teeth of circular saws, of course; make no mis take. Chicago Sun. It is fun to stand on a street corner a fine afternoon and watch the men all rushing around trying to make money, and the women floating around trying to spend it. Sai Franeisco ILir-tltL Professor, looking at his watch "Aa we have a few more minutes, I shall be glad to answer any question that any one may wish to ask." Student "What tim9 jt please?" Baton JuurniL -"t! secbet fr seccess. - - Now coines the toothsome oyster stew To cheer the youth and maid, And, bet". there is coming, too, A. boom to trade. Xbenie who'd rake the shekels in W fcten trade bsgins to rise, Whfn soon it will, must now begin To advertise. Boston Courier. "A man went into the country last Sunday for a walk. He carried his over coat on his arm, but finding it burden some, hung it on a fence. Taking a card from his pocket he wrote; 'Do not touch this coat; infected with smallpox. He came back two hours later nnd found the card, upon which was written, under neath the warning: "Thanks for the coat; I've had the saialipox.' " 2ieto Haven Palladium. THE QCXERKST TBTJfG. "How queer it is" said Jim to Jack, -That it should be man's wont To think things said behind his back Are meant as an affront f Jack's answer was quick, sharp and blunt; "It's more strange," he replied, "That men shou'd take as an aifront What's said as an aside" "Yet you'll concede," said Jim, at once, "Much stranger it appears, That one should ever get affronts From debtors in arrears." "You're vight; bnt, after all, I don't Think that's so queer," said Jack, "As this that ever an affront Should take a man abai k '." Somerci'le. Journal. The Effects of Lights lag Stroke. At a recent meeting of Berlin "Verein fur Innere Medicin," Dr. Liman described the changes present in the bodies of two men who had been killed by lhtning when taking shelter nnder the trees of the Theirgarten. la the one subject the hair over the left temple was singed, and the skin from the left ear to the shoul der-blade was discolored abrowcish-red, the chest and abdomen being covered with red and white streaks. Reference was made to the dendritic figures de scribed in many cases, and attr.buted often to impiCiiions of twigs, leaves, etc., and in "this body tLere was a figure which could be compared to a palm leaf, but which was undoubtedly due to the contact of the folds of the shirt. The parts thus pressed upon remained white, the surrounding skin being reddened. The apex of the heart was the set of an irree-ular cavity, which comroun cated with both ventricles; evidently the light ning stroke had caused a rupture of the oran. In the other cise the ski a and hair were similarly excoriaicd and singed, and numerous ecchymo-es occurred re neath the serous layer. of the ericar diumand pleura; the lungs were much congested. Here death was evidently due to asphyxi-t. Dr. Liman mentioned, and Professor Leyden con.liirjed the fact, that death by lightning is oc a-ionnlly accompanied by rupture of internal or gans, as the brain anl liver. A Marine Monster. A monster devil fish has been caught in the Gulf of Mexico, off Galveston, Texas. These creaiures are rarely seen in the neighborhood, but lately a shoal came in shore, and after much trouble one was caught in a seine. It had to be dragged ashore by horses, as it weighed fully two tons. The catch proved to be a true specimen of the "Cephaloptra Valapyrus," the vampire of the ocean, and as it iay dead on the beach it exa t lv resembled an enormous bat or vam pire. The fish was sixteen feet wuie from the extreme edge of the pectoral fins and fourteen feet lnsr, while the taouth was four feet widf. and was pro tected on each side by curious append ages like horns, i ith w hich it seized its prey. Why does a whaie weigh less Hi in a aiackere.? A whale weighs nothing ! -auso he has no scales.
The Catawba County News (Newton, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Nov. 13, 1885, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75