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En ERPRL u u L JLJLJJJ VOLUME VII. NEWTON, CATAWBA COUNTY, N. C, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1885. NUMBER 48. Newton Xi iVE. "WILL, I VMS, RDITOE AND PUBLISHER. One co y, one vcar 1 50 One copy, mx Monti: I 00 C2No naino entered witholupav.Wiltor the ubsci-ipn.v, ir. advance. This is an invariable ruic ot our Ui-iinesi and must bo adhered to in ill cases. (taf A Ivertiniiig. ona square of ton lines or leas, first ms rtion, on i iloUar. Each subse quent ins nittn, fifty C-Mits. Business Carde E. J. Shipp. t. jl Cobb. SHIPP & CCXBB, Attorneys A.t Law, Practice iu all the Courts. Office on Tablio eqnare. L. L. WITHEBSPOON, ATTORNEY A.T LAW NEWTON, N. C. L. McCORKLE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, NEWTON, N. C. J". IB. LITTLE, Surgeon Dentist, Has located in New mi, N. O., anil offers hi professional terviAcs people of town an county. Office is Vouxt & Surusi Bcixjmso. J.E THORNTON, Newton, N. C, Keep constantly on hand all sizJS of Wood Coffins, and different qualities, as flue as can be bontfht anywhere for the sam3 money. B?ason bie uuio allowed to reliable partioa. Shop one inilo north of the court house. H. P. REINHARDT, BREEDER OF Short Hjra Catils M Cotswoll Sheep. I have now for Bale some very fine bucks and twes. B. P. BERNHARDT, Nswton, N. C. -LENOIR, N. G- WILL H. RAMSAUR, Proprietor. STOP AT THE Yount House. The subscriber having taken the Youn House, Newton, N. C, wishes to inform the public that he is prepared to accommodate travelers in a first-class style. Prices reason able. Beard by the day or week at reduced prices. "Formerly proprietor of the Delaware House, Delhi, N. Y. JB S. HALL. Mel & CoQBning's LIVERY, SALE AND FEED hTABLES, Newton, N. C. Will be foun 1 the b?st stock and neatest ve hicles in town. Pers ms can be accommodated by us with any;hing in the livery line, and prices a e guaranteed, to give satisfaction. We only a.ik a trial. Transportation to all the surrounding C untry. Wj solicit the patronage of the public. Respectfully, HENKEL A CORPENING. ORGANS THE ' I 1 :-M I II I W-ll II r- 1 -y I o, ' vj T w IN ADDITION TO THE LARGEST AND CHEAPEST STOCK OF FURNITURE in Western North Caro'ina, we are handling i 've.al makes of Parlor, School and Church ORGANS, and offer them in Hickory at factory prices. Our Undertaking: Department (s complete in all its branches. Burial Robes, Wood and Meta'io Casrs and Caskets, and Un dertaker's Supplies generally. JVEoofe & do., Hickory, ft. C. riept 16, 1885. A River Dream The blue, blue sky above, The blue, blue water under, Two eyes more blue, and a heart that's trai And a beat to bear mo with my lore, To lands of light, apd wpndcr, The sunny fields around, Tile river rippling by v,a, A smile more bright than noonday light. Our brows with meadow garlands crowned. And never a care to try uj. A drifting with the tldo, A wind that whisper greeting, An isle of rest in the faded west, With only the waves on the shore besidfc- Aa I tiv hearts f adly baitin,?. U. E. Boulton, in Cussell't Magazine. The Princess Philippine. BY MRS. ANNIE A. PRESTON. The Princess Philippine dwelt in an ancient, gray, stone castle standing on the banks of a small river that divided a beautiful green valley in northern Germany. Broad, fertile fields and green pastures, dotted by herds of the famous black cattle and by flocks of snowy sheep, with here and there a peasant's or a herdsman's cot, lay each side the stream. On either hand deep forests stretched up the sides of the high mountains that sheltered this fine estate, of Which the Princess Philip pine Was sole heir, from the rough blasts of winter. The Princess Phil ippine had neither father, mother, brother nor sister, but she had an in dulgent guardian and when a mere child had been betrothed by her pa rents to bis sou, the brave, young Prince Basil who lived just on the other side the high sheltering moun tains. With such charming surroundings it would seem as if the young princess ought to have been a very happy little maiden, but I am very sorry to relate that she allowed her life to be made miserable by her uncontrollable and unreasonable fear of spiders. Spiders love the dust-tilled crannies of a vast old castle like that of Castle Philippi, and why should the spiders that had held possession for more than 700 years be put to rout on account of the w him of a chit of a girl? The Prince Basil a3ked the princess something of the kind on the occasion of one of the frequent calls he made at the castle, accompanied by his lady mother. The Princess Philippine was exceeuiDgly rangrV. at "this - question, saying that he had no regard whatever for her fine sensibilities, and she was surprised to see that his mother sat by and smiled at him instead of chiding him for. his rudeness. So, sad to say, the young couple had their first quar rel, and the young prince rode home in high dudgeon, declaring there was no reason in a spirited young fellow being tied to a girl who would not walk in the park, sail on the river or ride in the forest on account of her silly dread of spiders, who even would not walk about the saloons and galleries of her own fine castle unless she was envel oped from head to foot in a sheet-like wrap of glazed white linen. I have danced attendance upon a ghost as long as I can endure it," he said, "and now I am going away tj see the world." And so he went. The parents of the young Prince Ba sil were greatly chagrined at this es trangement, for in Germany betrothal has always been held almost as sacred as a marriage, and they said: "We will lea e her entirely to herself for a season and see. Perhaps she will come to her senses enough to realize how foolish it is for her to set herself up as being different from all the rest of the world." So with one accord all her neighbors and friends declared, "We wili leave her alone with her morbid fears." Philippine now shut herself up with her attendants in her own apart- tnents, that were all hung with pale "blue satin, and passed her time in mak ing sure no spider of any kind inva ded her premises. Naturally enough, now that there was no supervision by her friends and guardians, everything went at loose ends about the castio and the estate, and the news therof went abroad, no one can tell how, into the world. One morning there came riding up to the castle drawbridge a knight in armor mounted upon a milk-white charger and followed by an attendant whose steed was as black as coal. The knight demanded to see the Princess Philippine, and when after much de lay he was shown to her presence he informed her he was her cousin, six times removed, and proposed paying her a long visit. "Very well," she said, "I never have heard of you, but that may not be strange. Pray make yourself comfort able and give orders that the rooms you may choose for your own may be thoroughly swept and dusted and made free from spiders, for I suppose there is not in the world such another spider-invaded place as this same old Castle Philippi." Day by day the knight made him self at home about the premises, giv ing orders to the servants and mana ging as if the estate wa3 his own, but when he began to make free with all the secret drawers and papers in the great library, sitting over the:n until far Into the night, the old servants shook their heads and said, one to an other, "Ah, his presence hire bodes no good." After some weeks he demanded an other audience with the princess, who by this time had almost forgotten his existence, so taken up was she in watching to ascertain if indeed a spi der bad taken a tenement under the embrasure outside her bedroom win dow. When shown into her presence the knight informed her in a state ly way that he had found papers that established his claim as rightful heir to the estate, that he had already tak en possession and Would like her to deliver the keys immediately. The princess's manner was as formal as his own, and her tone as haughty, when, after a little pause, she replied: "Sir Knight, doubtless thou art not aware that in the possession of the crown prince are papers showing that With this estate goes a signet ring. The ring i3 always in possession of the rightful heir and that ring I have." The knight wa3 exceedingly angry, but he brought all his arts of fascina tion to bear upon the princess, think ing to induce her to show him the ring, but all in vain. Quite out of pa tience, at length he told her if she did not give up the ring immediately he would set every person on the estate to gathering spiders from field, forest, river, and castle and would fill her apartments, her clothing, nay even her couch with them. The princess quaked with fear at even the thought of this, and enveloping herself in her linen wrap preceded the knight to the arsenal that was high up in one of the western towers. Here behind a coat of mail that was hanging upon the wall she touched a spring that opened a secret drawer within which was a small golden key. With this key closely clenched in her han 1, and the wily knight close at her side, she pro ceeded ta the great picture gallery. There behind the life-size portrait of her own beautiful mother she found another secret drawer, and taking therefrom an ivory casket she unlock ed it with the golden key, disclosing the coveted prize. "Let me examine it, please," entreat ed the knight. "Never," cried the princess, now that the ring was in her hand, impress ed by the instructions regarding it she had received from her parents,, and dismayed at her own weakness nr be ing frightened in her own castle, amid her own people by a stranger. The knight, quite forgetting all his assumed courtly way3, sprang to tak; it from her, when, quick as thought, she threw it out of one of the deep harrow windows that the knight h:id opened on account of the closeness of the air, in the long disused gallery. It flashed like a coal of fire in the sun light and was gone. "Mad gisll" shouted the knight, an grily. "It has fallen into the moat !" and leaving the princess he rushed down the staris. With her heart beating wildly, and her eyes sparkling with excitement, the young girl leaned out the narrow window and looked far below to where the gray walls of the strong square tower were reflected in the still black waters of the moat. "Ah! what is that?" she cried, for just below her, even within reach of her hand the signet ring hung secure ly caught in the meshes of an ancient, closely woven spider's web. Although the spider was close by. curiously re garding this singular prey, the prin cess did not mind, but reached down and secured the ring without fear. As she did so, standing there in front of the portraits of her parents, she seemed to hear their voices, explaning once more the significance of the ring, and setting forth her duty to all the de pendent people living on her estate. "To whom much is given much shall be required," she said half aloud. "Dear me ! how selfish I have been," and securing the ring to a chain fastened about her neck, she, too, ran down the winding stairs, quite regard less of her linen wrap that lay forgot ten on the dusty oaken floor of the gallery, and astonished her servants ')y dispatching a courier with a letter to the crown prince. The knight meanwhile had set all the laborers about the estate to draw the water off from the moat and search the muddy bottom for the ring. While they were thus engaged, with the knight in the greatest excitement and followed by his servant, pacing back and forth across the drawbridge, a company of horsemen arrived who had been sent from court. The Prin cess Philippine met them in the gar ments, laces and jewels of her beauti ful mother and on one dimpled finger sparkled the signet ring. The grand old courtier who bowed over her proffered hand, said: "Your face and your bearing establish your identity for I knew your parents and grandparents, but this signet ring sub stantiates your rightful ownership to the estates beyond a doubt." The designing knight and his ser vant were banished from the country. Young Prince Basil was sent for and most gladly returned home. The crown prince and princess and a great retinue from court came to the wed ding and the feast surpassed anything that had been ia the castle for hna of yearj At the wedding dinner the Princes Philippine found an almond with tw kernels. "These stands for you and me," sht said to her husband; "you shall hav one kernel and I will have the other." "Thanks, my love," said the prince. "Let me have the kernel that reprc sents yourself and I will wear it, that you may never again be lost .away from me." "Here is your Philippine," said the princess, "and with it I give my sig net ring, that stands for all my posses sions, for since I threw it away and it was saved for me by a spider, against all whose kind I have all my life waged war. it humiliates me every tima bay eyes faus upon it, and J think I ought to pay some penalty for my foolishness and for my ill-treatment of yourself." "But did I not cry 'Philippine, mj dearest one! the moment my eye fell upon you on my return," said tha prince, "to show you that I never held anger against you in my heart." At this all the young people who found double almonds began to eat them with some chosen friend, and since they all had not signet rings to bestow, it came to be a custom that the one who should ficst cry "Philip pine" after an absence, should receive a gift, and the custom continues among young people in all countries to thi3 day. Springfield Republican. How Cocoa is Grown. United States Consul Bird, in a re port from La Guayra, Venezuela, thus describes the cultivation of cocoa in that country: "Cocca, or cacao, as it is termed in Spanish, from which the chocolate of commerce is made, is the fruit of a tree indigenous to the soil of Venezuela, and within this country is compre hended a large part of the choicest Ct.coa zone. The tree grows to the average height of thirteen feet and from five to eight inches in diametef-, 33 of spreading habit and healthy growth. "A fvu-na nlantaf inn not in emit a the same manner as an apple orchard, ! except that the young stocks may be transplanted from the nursery after two months growth. No prepara- tion of tho soil is deemed necessary, j and no manures areplie4. . Tne young trees are planted about 15 feet equidistant, which will accommodate 200 trees to the acre. Between the rows and at like spaces are planted rows of the Bucare, a tree of rapid growth, that serves to shade the soil as well as to shield the young trees from the torrid sun. Small permanent trenches must be maintained from tree to tree throughout the entire length of the rows, so that, at least once in each week, the stream decend ing from the mountains may be turned into these little channels and bear needful moisture to trees and soil. At the age of five years the plantation begins to bear fruit and an nually yield two crops, that ripening in June being termed the crop of San Juan and that maturing at Christmas being known as the crop of La ATa vidad. The average age to which the tree attains under proper care may be estimated at forty years, during which period it will give fair to full crops of fruit; but of course, it must be under stood that, as In our fruit orchards, a new tree must be set from time to time to replace one that may be de cayed or blighted. After c reful in quiry it may be safely stated that the average crop of the cocoa plantation at ten years of age, and under a proper state of cultivation, will amount to 500 or 600 pounds per acre. "ChEming' for Clams-. Two-thirds of the clams are got by "churning." The clam gang wades out over the bed and shovels up mud and clams and everything that comes along into big wire baskets, which, when about full, are lifted out of the water, and a rinsing and shaking washes out the mud and leaves the clams. Two men and a boy attend to each basket, one man shoveling in the mud, the second getting out the clams, and the boy "culling" them. Churn ing can only be done at about half i ide, when the water is two or three feet deep, as. by the time the workman has to put his head under water, when he bends over at shoveling, he soon lias to give up the job. The suction on the shovels is tremendous, and ihey are made exceptionally strong. When there are good tides, on the foil and change of the moon, the clams may be raked out after the manner of the non-professional digger; a shovel ful of mud is turned up at a time, and the clams it contains are raked out with a clam-hoe. Consideration of either of the above methods is suffici ent for a true understanding of the happiness of the clam at high water. The clam ordinarily lies in the mud from two to eighteen inches; a clam that would bury itself much deeper than eighteen inches is not to be look ed upon with favor. Providence Journal. Dude "Yon love me, then, Miss Lydia?" Lydia "Love is perhaps somewhat too much to say. At least 1 have sympathy for you, because your face resembles so much that of my pOu-tt'(1 Fido." DiL IMAGE'S SERMON. 5IEDICINE FOR ALL ILLS. Text: "The disciples went out and told Jcsns." St Matthew, xiv.li An outrageous assassination had taken place to appease the wrath of a revengeful woman. Herod had ordered the death of that noble, self-a fificing Christian man, Ji.'hn" the Baptist. They were in consterna-tS-n and great troubla There was no one to whom thoy coull appeal. But sorrow if-it find no human sympathy, will cry aloud to the winds, and the woods and the waters. Yet l hare was an ear that cou'd hear. What beauty of pathos. What simplicity of power in the words of my text: "They went and told Jusus!" There He stands. His face shadowed with His own sorrows, sur rounded by a group of peop'o in consternation and with violent gesticulations and outcries of woe. Here was one ready to help them, ready to com fort them, ready to sympathize with them. Raphael, the master painter, never put on rail of palace picture of Bible story so tsriiling and so graphic as this picture, made by the p'ain hand of the evangeiist, when he tys: "They went and told Jesus!" The Gothes and the Vandals came down from the north of Europe, and they upset the gardens and they broke down the altars, and they swept tha country with the be hiu of destruc tion. And so in every man's life there are times when trouble comes as a despoiler, as a crusader, and blasts and plucks up.and plun ders and destroys. If I should ask all those people in this audience who have never had trial, or misfortune, or bereavement, or dis order, to give signal, there would bo no sig nal If I should ask those who are sitting to rise np, cr those who are standing to lift the hand as a signal of the fact that they Cave never had any misfortune, any heart break, any trouble, not one would rise an 1 not one hand would be lilted. There is not any cavern so cle t iu the mountains that it cen hide one from worldly misfortune. Swiftest cca -ser has not fleet foot enough to Take us out of the swift pursuit. Those arrows brought to the string fly with unerring dart, and we fall pierced ami stunned. So that while I speak cn oi;e subject I feel it is only appropriate for one class, and speak on another subject it is appropriate for anoth er class. This m rnin 1 speak upon a sub ject tLat addresses itseif tc i-verv ramau and -M'd ii Vr2z assciiibi, and I a n going to give a catholicon for all ills, for all mis fortunes and for ail trials. I am going to "take all your troubles 1 do not care what they have been and put them in one bundle, and with a spark from God's altar set them ablaze, and tfcey shall be destroyed under the power of Christ's consolation. Tde same soothing power that came to the disciples in the text will come this morning to all your hearis, God helping ns. In the firs; place, I commend the behavior of th.se disciples in the text to all the? who realize they are sinful and unpardoned. There comes a titna in the life of every sensi hhf man, every thoughtful man 1 do not r. f or now to imbeciles :bere comes a time in the life of every honest, thoughtful, sensible man, a time when he realizes he is a sinner and he ought to have pardon. That thought may not have heft eno :ga to fell him, but to get rid of it one man will fly to prayer, another will stimulate himself with ardent sp.rib), another will plunge into greater secu larities, and you cannot wonder that when a man finds out that his eternal detinvis swing ing on the pivot of an uncertainty, you cannot woiider that that man doessomthinr nnh.i W something imm-diate tn get rid of the im Jression. It caauot te. for instance, that a tu:u 11,3 muvra uujq, BUsui-a VltO pOWeTOI the Ho Jf Ghost realize that he has a cancer otis sin in his soul, and that Christ, the di vine surgeon stands right by him ready to take the cancer out and it shall never return, and he shall oe cured for time and cured for eternity it cannct bo possible that a man shall realize that and not take some action' So that hoar prohbiy has come to a great many I ere, and the ,u-stion is what to do. Go and tell Jew. "Why," you say, 'then to ma you propose to cure one" sorrow by making ano;h r; you proposd to cure the wound of si i bv the wound of con viction." You are ri-hf. In all style of medicine that is the prjeess. The physician comes. He finds your ranking wound. It has betn there formouths, perhapi for yearr. "What does he do He cauterires it. By caustic he turns it out, and there comes health a;nin to thc-si ra ts O- the brdr. AM here is the old sore of -.in. We all Lave it. It may have bn there tir tea years, for twer.ty years, for forty years, ror sixty years. God c- tnes by Ki3 Almighty grace and He burns it out by the p-jwer of conviction, and the flesh coma again as the flesh of a little child. " Wt 11," says every man in this an ii ence. "that is rigi.t, that is reasonable, that is according toali schools of medicini. I mean to have my S3ul cured of sin some day." When' "Oh," you say, "it is onTy a matter of tima" Bst, my brother, when "Well," yon sav "some time I wiil attend to it" That is not sa'isfactory to your own soul; it is not satis factory to me. Let me fix some time. Alfred, tho king, before time-pieces were invented, o-el to measure tho day by thre; wax can lies, and each wax candle burned eight hcuti. When one wax candle was bum -d do.vn eight hmrs had passed, when two wn can.'.ies sixteen hours, when the three ws candies had burned down h j who'e day w departe I twenty four hours. Oh. i fro:.d, I wish you an 1 I, i'nsU '.'f measuring our !avs and nights a y vu-3 by er. b!y tinie-pie-. es. would measu t cm by the inert ie; and the oppor.urid tJiterj burning slovn and turnip- i never apain to le lelig'ntel, le,t at lW v aweke to t;:e discomfiture of the foa'ish v i gins, saying: "Our lamps have go ie v. .' Again: I commend the behavior of the dis ciples in the text to ail the tempted. I have heard people say, " I am never tempted. I ?o ri jfat on and" attend to my work in life, don't feel these temptations you talk about" When a man says that to me I know he has never tried to got free from the power of sin and tem itstion and the devil. If a man be bo-:nd band and foot, lying down in a prison and he have handcuffs on and hoDPies on and ho makes no struggle, ha is not aware of the power of the chaiu, but ju3t let hira try to get up and get loose, then he feels the power of the iron, then he feels tha strength of the n anacle, end if, my brother, you have ceer fslt temptation it is beear.se you have nt struggled to break from these tempta tions, to be free in the iiberty of the sons ani daughters of the Lord Go 1 Almighty. It is easy enough to float down stream. W"e just lij upon the oars and just as fast as the river g11 s just so fast we sail on, float on down. Ho trouble ahent that But suppess we want to go the oih t way and we bad np stream? Tnen we have to use the oars and pull and pull, an I perhaps make no headway. Well, ju t as long as we go down with tU3 current of evil inclinations; just as long as we go along with the temp: ations of sin and the devil, wa get on qui'e fast quite rapiidly; but suppose we turn to go the other way, and head n.) toward God and Christ and heaven. Ch, what a struggle it is, awful struggle, om nipotent struggle, beiauseGod comes in on oursida And if you do nit know, my brjther; if you do not kmw the p wer of temptation, it is becane yon have not tried to resist it, and yon have not tried to be frep from it, free in the giorious emancipation of the gospel. WelL now, when the tempta tions of life come upon you, what are you going to di? How are yon going to receive th?m? When the wave dashes clear over tb.3 sonl, th? wave of tem-jta'ioi. have we nothing to hold on to? S'xfcus was a car lnal and he wanted to sit in the pontifical chair, and he pretended to be very lame, and he came on crutc'ics. and ha said: "You appoint me tothe ponfcifir-al chair. I will not live long anyhow, and then s tm one else will follow m?; it is on'y for a little while: yon see I can't live long." He came on crutches and took the chair. Then he threw away the crnt-h-s and said: "When I was looking for th keys of St Pet r I had to stop, and now that I have found the kes of St. Peter I dn't have to stop'' And he threw away his crutches; he was well. Oh, "now suggestive this is of temptation. It seoms wan and wea'i and crippled, but let it on as pe r:w. an1 ob. how it grind? the body and grinds the soul this aw .ail ma tr. this awful tyrant Is there no help for thJ who are in temptation? Mtrst wa go into tbw battle with the world, the flesh ani the devil all alone? No. I have the prescrip tion of the text ts announce to my own soul an i to your soul: gr and toll Jesu. In the eyes that w pt for the Bethany sisters I see liop In that voice that broke th9 silence of death s-a that tha widow of Nain pot back her lost boy, stuoendous grief waking up in the arms of rapture in that voice I hear the command and tha promise: "Cast thy bur den upon the Ird, He will sustain 'thee." Tempted in all points like as we are. Go and tell Jestlfl. , Again I comiriend the behavior of the dis ci pits in the text to all who ftra persecuted. They knew that Hero had taken the" head of Jhn the Baptist; tbey did not know when their turn would come. Every John has his Herod. There are peinle who do not think overmuch of you. Your misfortunes are honeycomb to thm. They hiss at you through their teeth. The misinterpret your actions. They would like to see you upset They would be the most cheerfully submissive mourners at your funeral. No one eseap3s. Some slander after nwbi'.e, horned and hoofed and tusked, trill corns after you to gora you and t; amp'e yo i into the dost. If you say. "I haven't an enemy ia the world," you are testifying to tU3 fa t, y.,u are demon strating the fact that yoa have not done all your duty. Any n- ant hat gee; on and does his whole duty challen -es wrath and hell, and persecution ani scorn and misfortune will come just as certain as you sit there and I stand hcra. No escape Soaietim -s it comes in ear y life, sometimes it comas iumillife. some'.im?s it corned Id oid age. Oaa would think that if any man would ever escape it would be George White fi 11, he who brought fouls ta God by the th usind, and yet the lenrae l Dr. John s -n wrote of White iel 5, he is only a mounte bank." Robert Hali, they.ay, crolt-rta h about heaven until the giori's of tha better country she wa iu his fore, and ytt good John Foster wrote of Ro! ert Hall, "he is only an actor, and the smile you see on his face wben be speaks of heaven; is only tue reflec tion of his own vanity !" John Wfcley, who did so much to reform the chnr.b and save the world, was pictria'ly on the board fen es of Ixmion, and he wis the target for all the wits and punsters of his day. a-d there were s me who howle 1 at hiai as he went through the streets, yet he was the founder of Metholism, and his nama with ma ;y is the mightiest name sava o"e, the nun; which is above every name, fie name of Jests. One would have thought that thosa men would have escaped misrepresentation and pjrsecntion and trial, and if they could not e ape neither can yon, neither can you, neither can you. But" what are vou tdq when you are slandered or abused? Go oui and hunt down the lies? While yon ar mak'n- ar,esplanati n in regard to oaafals?-; h d. there wi!l be tifty people that have just! heard of that particular falsehood. While; you oagnt to use a 1 lawful means for the purpose of setting youi self righ', I want to' tell you men and women who are slandered and abused and persecuted. I want to tel you of one who had many insulting things said about Him, whose sobriety was disputed, whosi mission was scoffed at, whose compan ionship was denounced, and who was pursue as a bate and spit uponas a mau, and bowled! at after He was dead. Just go to Him. Loott up iu His faeeaud say: "Oh, Lord Jesus, I s?e the wounds on thy Lrow, the wounds on thy hands, tb.3 wounds on thy feet, the wounds in thy side, and by ail those wounds I beg Thee to pity me, ana help me, and res cue ma" Lib, abused soul, go and tell Jesn. Again, I commend the behavior ot the dis ciples in the text to all the bereft A; I look off upon tho eti lienee to-day, how many si.ns of mourning! Goi has bis own way of tut ma: a; art the families of the ear lit The .fact is that the emigration of the human race, from this world to the next is such a vast enterprise fiat God only can con iuet it But that emigration from time to eternity ke?ps three-fourths of the families of the earth in desola ion. The chill, the babo that lay so near the mother's heart, is laid away in the cold and the darkness. The laughter 'rjezes to the girl's lip, and the rose s-.-att?rs. The boy cornea ia from the harvest fields of Shu narn and says, "my head, my head'" and dies in the lap' of his mother. Widowhood has srrucs ir.to the- raliid cheek hc trsody of woe aad orphanage cries ia vain for father and mother. OH, the grave iscjrw-il! Is there no help, no consolation, no Siiicnotlon. no rescue? There is: aye, there is. When ire art in misfortune onr friends come in and try to he'p cs and they do help us to a certain ex tent, but they caanot disentangle our finances, they cannot cure onr sick, they cannot raise, oar dead. Tbey do ' he bet they ran and we are; glad to hare them. But Christ can do a'l thej w-rk. He counts all the tears. He counts al the groans. He saw the tears as they started ani He saw the hiding p'aie of cur sorrow. Bone of onr bone, flesh of our fiesb, anguish of; oar anguish. As long as He remembers Lazi a: us' tomb He wi.l stand with ns in tha cem- etery. As Ion? as He remembers Kis oi hift-reak He "will ba with us in the lacera, lions of our affection. When He forget the foo'sre, and the weary mind, and th exhausted body, and the awful cross, and His solemn grave, then He will forget yon, but not until then. Whe a we havj trouble wo sen 1 letters to our friends teliing them to come right away, or we sedd telegrams say in z. "take the first train; come iramedi ate'.y;" but it may ba hours, it may be days b fore our friends get to us. But Christ is aiwavs present He is before yoa. He " is on the right hand Ke is on the left hand. He is na ler you. Ha is over yon, He is within you. Nearer than thj s'.a'f ou which yoa 1 ia a. Nearer th in tie cup which you press to yeur iips. Nearer than the handkerchief wiih which yoa wipe away the tears. I preach Hi;n his morning, an eVer present Christ. Blessed be God the Savior to whom the; e d'sriplcs went bis all paw.-r in h?avja an i o a earth, and the last sword will leap from tb3 scabbard of om nipotent, and the la -t resource of tha infinite Goi be exhausted before Hf will a' low one of Hiichi.dren to cry for help and not get it A child w-jnt with her father, a sia captain out n tha ooan, and whan the fi.-st storm earn, in tha midnight, the child awakeaei in great ftijl.t She -said: "Where's father? whers father?" "Oh," they said, 'your father is watering tae storm; he is on deck; he is guiding t ie ship." " Wei!," said the child, "if father s on d v.-'t and ha's guid ing the ship, its ail right S 1'il go to sleep again." an I she s'ept ami 1 the howling of the tiinpast Oh, men a id women, tossed in the stores of '.his life, cy clone ait t cyclone, eu rocly.'.on after enroclydon; let ni) tell yoa that the Lord is guiding the ship, your Father is on d-k, and He will take yon safely throu;h into the harbor. A l is well. " All is welL Go and tellJesns. This moment, in one earnsst prayer, tell Him all about it You wera never so willing to receive your chdd when h got woundei in the street as your Goi is ready this moment to receive you. Oh, wounded soil. Go and tell Jes-is. What .:n iw h Wifcrv of this science? How many or vou will surrender yourselves to the Lord who rodwma 1 you? If you will not take your own pardon and extirpate tha conse quences, of your own sin. I tell you, my brother, plainly, your life will be a failure, and your death disaster, and your eternity a calamity. But if vou just start for Ciirist this moment, your feet will strike th u ward path and the shinin; merssngers xvho report ab jve what is don 3 here will make the arches of God resound with the tidinsrs that you went an! told Je ut Soon ail this scene will be gone. Where will we te a taousand years from now? Where will we ba a midion years from now? Where wiil we be a quad rillion years from now? We wi 1 b3 living somewhere. Where will we be a quintriliion years fram now- Xerxes had an amy of 2,XiO,000 men it was probably the larvet armv ever uws-au-a-B"" ouj day he rode line and " reviewed the woe a r.l fr tinT7lh HQ h.A alng tae trov-s. Thre went along the lins. Then he took his position on a hill and looke 1 off unon the host aud burst in'o tears, and one of his staff offi cers sa J: hv do yo a we p in this time of tri.tmpu an 1 exalta tion when vou ought to he full of j--?" "An. said Xerxes, "I weep be-ause I ica -. e taat soon all this host wi 1 1 e gon i" A i-t i reanze it, and you realize it that soon all this asim- blaewillbe gon vi!I -n w :rm tha church, and will to g mi fr-m tnj h aaa wiil be g.wie from ths;r et , a-idw:llhe gone from the earth, an 1 wi.l le g-:i: for ever." and whither? whither. I saw averse or two of very weird r.iyta:u. I do not know who was the auth r, but it n very beautiful, as wall as strange a i unique: Tis not for man to triHe, Life is brief and sin is iro: Our age is bat falling Kf, A dropping tear. Hot many liv?s but oily ona Have we on?, r-nlv o:n; Hew sacred should that one h.o be That narrow s;a!i. Braid is still used in diagonal rows and in points on the vest, collar anc sleeves, a&d as a border on the lowc edge. Alaska sable, Persian lambskin and the light natural beaver will be tht popular furs for trimming cloth wraps. tOPICS OP THE DAT. A New York physician "who is taken by everbody to be ten or fifteen years younger" than he is, attributes this favorable condition to the use of lem onade taken regularly four times a day. lie has used 8000 lemons a year for ten years. One of the English railway compa nies has supplied all its employes with red neckcloths, the wearing of which is to be compulsory. The object of this regulation is to furnish porters, guards or switchmen with red flags that are always at hand, and can Le employed in the event of any sudden accident or the derangement of the regular signals. The safety of mountain travel in this country is proved by the small number of accidents reported each year. Compared with the results of an Alpine season, or even of a sum mer among mountains in Wales, the gum of the season among our moun tain resorts is most satisfactory. Per haps Americans are more careful in their ventures in moun tain-cli nabinrj. Martin Ewing. a colored man at Keyterville, Ma, was born in 1765, and is the oldest man in this country. His memory is good and his mind clear. But few wrinkles furrow his cheek. If he would dye his hair, his general appearance would indicate a man about seventy. lie has lost but a few teeth, his eyesight is good, except a cataract in one eye from a blow forty-five years ago. The total annual product of fish is about 1,500,000 tons for Europe and America; a ton of fish being equal to about twenty-eight sheep, a year's fish supply is, therefore, for the United States, Canada, and the ten European countries included in this estimate, equal to 42,000,000 head of sheep. Of this amount, 1,000,000 tons, or the equivalent to 28,000,000 head of sheep, are consumed in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Russia. The richest single woman in the country is Catherine "Wolfe. She has an income estimated at half a million a year, and she owns real estate all over Xew York. Her father, Peter tVblfe, married Peter Lorillard's sister, and with her got a dowry of $1,000,000. His wife died soon after and he mar ried another of the Lorillard sisters, and with her got another million. In a short time she died also, and Wolfe j after speculating awhile with his two million and more, died himself, and his property came to his daughter Catherine. Of the 2,647,000 women in occupa tions in the United States 595,000 are engaged in agriculture, most of them colored women in the Southern States; 632,000 are in manufactories, of whom about one-half are in Xew York, Mas sachusetts and Pennsylvania; 282,000 are milliners, etc.; 50,000 are tailors. Of the 44 occupations recorded as personal service," 40 find women in them. The 525 female surgeons of 1870 have increased to 2,743; the 7 lawyers to 75; the 65 clergymen to 165. The number of laundries have increased from 61,000 in 1870 to 122,- 000, and of the latter 103.C00 are kept by women. This large increase shows a great lightening of the housewife's labor. According to the last United States census there are 563 establishments in this country devoted to the proprie tary medicine business, employing 4, 015 operatives, with an aggregate in vestment of capital amounting to $10, 620,000, and the annual product is valued at $14,632,000. Xew York State leads all others with an invested capital of $3,512,430, which is about one-third of the entire country's in vestment. Pennsylvania comes next and Missouri ranks third in invested capital, followed respectively by Ohio and Massachusetts. In the amount of annual product Xew York again stands first, followed in order by Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, the other States standing about even. A fair calculation is that about twenty five American proprietary medicines have at present a very large sale in England. The American Exhibition in Lon don next summer promises to be a success. The site is already engaged, and occupies twenty acres near the West Brompton station. The exhibits will have for their aim the "showing to the Old World what the resources, products, manufactures, and arts of the United States are at the present time." Perhaps one of the most in- j teresting parts of the Exhibition will be the "American Garden " in which will be seen a3 complete a flora of the United States as can be collected. The trees, shrubs, and plants are to be ar ranged according to longitude and lati tude. In this way the student may study local diversities in systematic progression, and many flowers and flowering shrubs will appear for the first time away from their native habi tat. A special newspaper, published monthly, called tbe American Eagle, is issued to promote and explain the ob- I r - iTZ v. : l . : : i v : i- ecus ul luo ciuiuinua, nuivu u c- pected to form a leading attraction of the next season. The Food of the I'ersian Masses. The food of the Persians is very varied. As a rule, the very poor do not get meat more than once a wee'i; while villagers and the numerous nomadic tribes see it very rarely, and only on great occasions, as at marriage feasts. The ordinary diet of a labor ing man is bread and cheese in winter, bread and fruit in summer. But even the laborers manage to obtain an oc casional bowl of strong soup; and they vary their diet with conserves, dried fruits, basins of enrds, and hard-boiled eggs. The actual weight of bread that a muleteer or laborer can consume, and does consume, daily, is very great, sev en pounds not being an extraordinary allowance ! In the South of Persia dates are the staple food; they are very cheap and satisfying. During the summer, lettuces, grapes, apricots, onions, and cucumbers form the dain ties of the villager, and these, with bread, cheese, and curds are their only food. In every large town cookshops abound. But in Persia, as in the rest of the East, bread, rice, or dates are the real food the meat merely the sauce or bonus Louche. Persians of all ages are very fond of confectionery, and are constantly devouring sweets. These are generally pure and good, but there is little variety in color, most of them being white, and nearly all are flavored with iemon-juice. The lower-class Persian wiil eat several pounds of grapes, encumbers, or apri cots for a meal. They eat onions as we eat apples. Pomegranates and melons are in a great demand as food; and the melons, which run to 141b. in weight, are very nutritious. Cucum bers are looked on as fruit, and are eaten in large quantities by rich and poor. They are not indigestible. Sev en pounds' weight may be often had for a halfpenny. Grapes in infinite variety and of the most delicous kinds, from the huge long grape, which meas ures 2in., to the tiny sultana, sweet as honey to the taste. The curds, or mast, is simply made by adding a a small portion of rennet or else old curds to warmed milk; in a few hoars it sets into a mass, the cream on top. If eaten the first aay, it is like a junk et; if allowed to remain it becomes sour, and will Keep gooa any time. In this sour state it is preferred, and is either eaten with honev. sugar, r grape sugar. Eggs boiled hard and dyed a gay color are much eaten; from forty to fifty can be had for 9 J. These things, then, form the cheap and va ried diet of the working classes. Beef, too, is eaten by the lower classes; nev er by the well-to-do. St. James Ga zette. Hurricanes at Honolulu. "Talk about tornadoes and cyclones," said Reserve Officer Stark. -People living in this section of the country don't know what they are. In the neighborhood of th? Sandwich islands, and particularly off Honolulu, which is at the head of the landlocked harbor, is the place for hurricanes. The moun tains back of Honolulu are saw shaped and they have a queer effect on the atmospheric currents. There is no anchorage outside the harbor and vessels that don't care to tonch at Honolulu usually 'lay off and on,' as the sailora have it, while they send a boat ashor?- I have seen a half a doz en ships lying off Honolulu within hailing distance of e;ch other one in a shower of rain, another in a dead calm, with a bright sun shining over head; a third in a smooth breeze, and a fourth in such a gale that everything had to be close-reefed. "Different air currents are no close together and so sharply defined that I have been standing on the deck of a vessel with the sun shining "rightly overhead and not air enough moving to fill the sails, white within ten feet of me on one side it was raining big guns, and not twenty feet the other way blowing a regular hurricane. I never shall forget one incident. It was about noon and I was leaning over the port rail am'dships. There wasn't air enough blowing to lift a feather. Suddenly I heard a roar and knew that a tornado was passing by the ship. It was so close that when ! stretched out mv hand the wind struck it with such a force that I wa3 whirled com pletely around. Our port anchor, which weighed about a ton and a half, was hanging on the rail forward, and the same gust struck one of the flukes. It tore loose the fastening, whirled that anchor through the air like a bit of thistle down, and left it hanging on the main yard-arm. It put us to a heap of trouble to get it down again." Philadelphia Ti.-nes. A Toe'.ie Tail. A thoughtless boy with a shining pail went singing gaily down the dale, to where a sad-eyc.l cow with a bun dle tail on clov-. r sweet did herself regale. A bumble bee did gaily sail over the soft and shadowed vale, to where the boy with the shining pail was milking the cow with the brindle taiL The bee lit down on the cow's right ear, her htels fliw up through the atmosphere and through the leaves of a big oak tiee the boy sailed into eternity. Oregon Reporter.
The Catawba County News (Newton, N.C.)
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