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CJj) 3 One Year, $1.50. i NORTH-WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA "WE LABOR FOR ITS INTERESTS. Six Months, $1.00. VOLUME III. WINSTON, FORSYTH COUNTY, N, a, TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1881; NUMBER H). I PinuSHED EVMT TUESDAY BT . JAMES A. ROEINSON, Owner and Editor. Stibecrlpt'.oa Terms in advance i. One copy, one yMr .' postage paid) ... J, One copy, three month"".!! I oo A cr-,s mark on your papr indicates that youi SB.wipnon has expired, or is due, and you are re spectful. y solicited t.. renew or remit 50 Comrn.inicatior.s contninics items of local news are respectfully soti. i'ed. The e.iitor wiil not be held responsible for views en tertained and expressed by correspondents! Advertising r..ies made kuown upon application. W inston Cards. I.O. O.F- V.'-tK--it I A.. -M -- - . iWf"6 1 : y me ,,V.thei' Hall,, in the - -.'w- J "'"-vi new Dunning, at 7 o clock. , Visiting brethren cordially invited to attend. . .... J R. ,TVRca. NTG. ' w.I. Crtbr, Secretary. ' marytyj Knights of Honor Meet every .d and th Tuesday nighty in eac month, at 7 o clock, in Johnston's new buildiu, V i:tuig brethren are cordially invited to attend. . ". .. t . T B UrHit, D - 1 mi. ! ri.-so-., r.. mara-iy EUGENE E. GRAY, ATTORNEY-AT-LfiY, WIXSTON, K. c. Officb: Over Wachovia National Bank. l-p'-y W. T. VOGLErT" Practical Watchmaker and Jeweler Main Sr., Of.positk Merchants' Hotel, . WINSTON, N. C. Keep constantly on hand Cocks. Watches, Jew elry, and Silver-plated ware of ail kind. SPECTACLES A SPECIALTY. Repairing of every dekcriptioit done promptly, and ah work warrlnttd. i.i 14. iv. H. S. FOV. J. W. FOY. LIVERY STABLE. FOY & BRO., Proprietors. Main Street, WINSTON, N. C. We have a large number of fine Horses, Phaetons, Buggies, &c, and are prepared to furnish mST-CLASS ACCOMODATIONS . TO ALL. Prompt attention Riven and charges moderate. vWe have ample room and horse drovers can be readily accommodated Patronage of all solicited. J. H. 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CHANDELIERS, TABLE CUTLERY. ETC. 51 to 69 Federal & 120 Franklin Sts., BOSTON, MASS. LOOK HERE I If you want Law Blanks. If you want Ball Tickets. . , If you want Programmes, If you' want Letter Heads. y If you want Bottle Labels. ' If you want Auction Bills, If you want Calling Cards, I f you want Address Cards, , If you want Check Books, If you want Shipping Tags, - ' - 1 you want Business Cards, If you want Caution Notices, If you want Wedding Cards, If you want Invitation Cards, If you want Business Circulars, jklf you want Job Printingof any description, done in a most satisfactory manner, you can satisfy your'wants br calling at-of addressing the Lxadeb. office, Winston, N. C. The Graces When the faith of the " doubt. (world were -without a And the loves of the world were true ; W ben the fires of the gods were not yet sttunp- ed out. And the troubles ol to en were few, Three god esse walked 'Neath the glowing by a shady stream. skies of Greece, Who were sprung from the father of gods u- i i !- preme, And were Majesty Joi and Peace. And the men of those eucefelt, ' days, who their pres- Mad named them the O races three; And worshipped tuelr knelt, bmlles, at their alters And sought for them steadfastly. 1 I ! Ah, those were the days when a clear blue sky Smiled down on a Joyful earth. Whose daughters and sons raised to heaven their cry Of unfettered unfeigned mirth. But though the sun baa as warm a ray, - And the rivers as calmly flow ; Though the sea of to day- sings as sweet a lay, And the flowers as brightly blow, The faiths of to-day are ho longer warm. And the thoughts off to-day not calm The hymns of to-day can no longer charm, find no balm. And our troubles In these days of sorrow and hopeless graves, - When the wlnde of Time have called On the ocean of Life fierce angry waves, Man bows his bead ppalled. Where now can we look for the form of peace Which our lathers Must the hopes which worshipped of oldT tu ey held forever cease f Are the loves of the kvorld all cold f No; surely these maids bf the past are here, They are walking the world again; Their eyes as of yore s $1 ne kindly and clear And they bate as of yore our pain. Majestic Ethel, and Gertrude 's mirth. And the peace of Hilda' ,'s smile. Have recalled to a doubting sorrowing earth The pleasures It lost for awhile. And although our song Imust unworthy be ' Of these graces who haunt us to-day. Yet the poets of Greece And we worship as sang less truthfully. fondly as they. My DOS SOCIKTY Coming Back. p in a city garrett, on a hot June day, a weary womiii leaned back in her chair and pressed her fingers against the eyes that refused longer to see the stitches in t le shop-work over which she had toil d from day-break till now, 4 o'clock i 1 the afternoon. From the street far below her, a voice had only that mom ;nt soared upward, calling "Strawberr-res! ritrawberr-ees! Ripe, red strawberr ees I" And as if by magic, her thoughts turning backward lad carried her to Deepdene, the homt of her youth, and a certain lovely Jui e in 'her sixteenth year, when she had Btood in thetraw berry pasture on tae Ble sing farm, with the red berries perfuniing all the air, and said the wo rds which severed her fate from that o: Maurice Blessing, and made her life what it was on this day, almost hopeless, and, a ceaseless struggle for bread, won athe needle's point. I I r How it all rose up before her ! The green pasture sloping upward to the darker greenwoods, whose tops seemed to touch the deep blue sky, stoping downward to the gn iy stone wall, with the cold spring leap ng out through a wooden trough amoi lg its lower stones. 1 And below the wi ill the "thirty-acre mowing" spread out like an immense emerald velvet carpet, with the two story cream-coloied house lifting its piazzad front at th i extreme end, just where the shaded lane began that led from the Blessing arm out Into .the village road.5 ; ' j j -' ' She, the poor orp lan girl, had been offered this comfort ble home; and she had refused it for rhat? For a dream of fame, which had left her toiling in this hot garret, wl die in the black trunk yonder the b xk which was to have made her forti ne, refused by one publisher after another, was lying, till she could find conra ge to thrust it into life.' . ; V I "Scarceryj.two years !" she sighed, rocking herself to an d fro. "And Mau rice has sold the old farm and gone to Colorado; and I am here, lonely and disappointed, old be 'ore my time. Oh, if I could only live that day over again and be as wise as I im now !" For I know that I love him now, when It is forever too late!" ' Sickening with a , sort of calenture among "those hot cl ty streets, for one glimpse of her early jjome, Hester May rose and wenl to the desk where her worldly wealth was stored. -By the closest einomy, she had managed to lay asidtj a few dollars, for the gloomy purpose bf her own siqkneas and death, when th time should come for her to die anion strangers. - From this sacred out asufflcient sum lorde she counted take her to Deep- dene. j ' "I will stay on y one aay,v sue thought, "and wotk all the harder after I return, to make up this sum again, But see JJeetHlene, now tnac n isfairlvinmv mind. I must. And I will take one more look at the dear old farm before it is in the hands of stran gers, and so alterec that I shall not know it." ! : I The next day saw her on her way. The five years ojf her absence had been years of change in the little coun try village. J! . A railway wiskedj her across the hill road from Torringt 11. Once she would have made the Journey in a yellow "stage," drawn by four horses, with John Colney, crossest and most disa greeable of earthly f tage-drlvers on the box. !'-.';.' The village, too, vas smartened and freshened up new houses new faces a new Iron fence, an und the small oval park that graced th i centre of the town; new names above t le gilded fronts of the shops; a new sc t of gigling misses, on their way to th new brown stone academy, which stxxi where she had once thought it an aonor to attend the district school in a plain one-story structure of faded brick. No doubt all these alterations were for the best; but they made her heart ache with a sense of loss unspeakable. And she turned into the shaded lane that led only to the Blessing Farm, dreading to see the old home desecra ted by the stranger's hand. No ; there it stood, as she had always known it the vry picture of home comfort, the'eentre of all those modest luxuries that a well-to-do farmer, of all other men, may most easily command. But although the dear old house was unchanged, its inmates were new and strange to her. A stout, middle-aged man, in a white summer suit, with a broad-brimmed hat and a cigar, sat. on the steps of the piazza, reading a news paper. A fashionably-dressed lady, some years his Junior, swung in a hammock upon the lawn, lost in a novel.- : ; ; i ." Several children, in broad-brimmed hats and brown Holland blouses, were making the lives of two nurses a bur den to them, further down the lawn among the elm trees, where a swing had swung from time immemorial. "City" was stamped on every face and figure she saw. Had Maurica sold the place to some retired merchant, who would over-or-n anient and disfigured it inthe mod ern villa style. ; "If one could but live their lives ov- j er after they grow old and are taught j by experience what is beet for them!" j thought Hester in her Badness, once more. j She would have gone up to the house and asked leave to rest and look around if it had remained in the care of old Farmer William and his wife, the ten ants of the upper farm. But she could not face these prosper- 1 ous, nappy city people' who would look at her with their coldly-curious eyes, and wonder, . almost audibly, "what she could want," even if they did not absolutely take her for a "tramp." . ' , " "I wish that I could . have gone 'through the strawberry-pasture once more," she thought, as she turned back toward the. railroad station, tired, hun gry, and unrefresb'ed. At 'the foot of the lane, a gentleman, in a summer suit of silver gray, stood leaning against the bars with his straw hat drawn down over his eyes so far that he had failed to see the stranger's silent approach. M - ' "Will you let me pass, if you please?" said Hester, at last, after waiting some moments. He wheeled round, as if she had struck him, and stared doubtfully in her face. She uttered a great cry. r . "Maurice ! Maurice ! I heard that you had sold the farm, and gone, to Colorado. V . "Hester! Can this be you?" he an swered. , ' His eyes seemed to devour her. Words rose to his lips, and were forced back again. At last he asked. "Is your husband here with you Hester?" "My husband ?" "Why, yes! I heard that you were married soon after you went to the city." ' "You " heard . wrong, Maurice ! I have not been married. , I have never thought of such a thing." "But why did you go, then, Hester? Why did you leave Deepdene ? Why did you refuse to marry rrk if if there was no one else in the way ?"' Poor Hester! . I She thought of the hot garret, of the dream of fame that never had been re alized, of the unlucky book that was lying in the black trunk, of the little burial hoard so hardly earned and saved. - The tears came quickly to her eyes obscuring the honest handsome face on which she gazed. j "Don't cry, Hester," said Maurice Blessing, taking her hand. ', "And tell, me why you would not marry me dear?" "Because I was a fool!" sobbed -r-ter. .- "Is the folly ended ?" aked Mau . ice hiding a smile as he bent over hvr. Cannot you give me a different answer now, Hester? If you can, we will be just the happiest pair on thi earth, here on the dear old farm." "But you sold it and went to Colora do," said Hester, wonderingly; "at least I heard so." "I was a fool too, Hester; for I went to Colorado, and was quite ready to sell. But my brptuer-in-iaw, from the city, persuaded me to rent it to him lor one year, tiil I had time to think the matter over. When I came to my senses although I had not forgotten you, darling I was very glad that the poor old place wa mine still, and I came back some six weeks ago to see it. My sister and her husband and family go back to the city next week, stopping at the mountains on their way. I shall be left alone, with good Mrs. Williams for my housekeeper, and her husband as head hired man just as I was before. ; Hester, won't you take pity Jon me, and come and share my home? I have never cared for anyone but you." ' I do not know in what words Hester answered him. But I see her daily in the cream-colored farm-house; the very model of an active, bustling, good-tempered armer'a wife. As for the book, she has utterly for gotten it. -' She needs its recompense no longer and she is far too happy to care or wish for fame. The latest arrival of Indian students at General Armstsong's Hampton School brings sixteen fourteen boys and two girls from Arizona, repre senting five affiliated tribes of South ern Indians Mohaves, Yumas, Pimas and Papagos peaceful and agricultu ral in their habits, sun-worshippers, descendants of the Aztecs, and living at home in conical adobe houses. In the new company are also three Apach es of wilder and more savage order, two of whom, though young, have been famous scout. Tit Bits of Humor. "The Stranger' Apology. He was an entire stranger to, the girls present, and the boys were mean and would not introduce him. He fi nally plucked up courage, and, step ping up to a lady, asked the pleasure of her company for the next dance. She looked at him in some surprise, and informed, him . that she had not the pleasure jof his acquaintance. " Wall" remarked he, "you don't take any more chances than I do," As They Sailed. Anonymous. It was their first night aboard the steamer. "At last," he said tenderly, "we are all alone out upon the deep waters of the dark blue sea, and your heart will always bf ut for me as it has beat in 'the past!" "My heart's all right" she answered languidly, "but my stomach feels awful," The Lover's Quandary. . "A little pair of gloves that yet Retain the smell of clover, , Audjusta tinge of mignonette. I turn them vaguely over, . ". And marvel how the girl ( kissed -That night she promised to be true' Could Jam a number seven fist Into a paltry number two." Bed aa a Rose is She. Several gentlemen were standing on the corner of Galvestpn avenue when one of the most fashionable ladies of Galveston passed on tne sidewalk "AL!" exclaimed one of the gentlemen "what a complexion ! There is noth ing to beat it in Galveston. I am proud of that wonan, I am." "Are you her husband?" asked a stranger, "No, sir." "Her father, then?" ''No, sir, I am no relation. 10 her, but I am proud of her complexion. I am the druggist that sold it to her. I made it myself." The Hammock. In the purple-jtinted twilight Dreamily shf swang, my love, my queen; In the West some streak of high light M ; Jlghted up the scene. 1 Oh, the hammock held her closely In Us stupid, senseless cord embrace, And I wished I might Jocosely Take the hammock's place. One small foot the meshes show it Slender, graceful, arched, i ntw It well; She, poor darling, didu't know It, And I didn't tell. And a fountain unassuming Rippled near at baud its life away, Flowers were blooming and perfuming In its gentle spray. So I swung her la the twilight, While we watched the coming of the stars; In the dusk, no light but my light Rather my cigar's, All Is past now. In the attic Hangs the hammock, damaged a good deal By a hole, large and erratic, Made by her French heel. Dead Is each flower which ouce no lightly ' Held toward the fpray Its cup. And the fountain once so sprightly, Now is frozen up, And the girl, the lovely vision, . Whom to think of yet myp;r heart melt s Early came to the decision . To wed some one else. Men of Genius. Tasso's conversation was neither gay nor brilliant. Dante was either taci turn or satirical. Butler was either sullen or. biting. Gray seldom talked or smiled." Hogarth and Swift were absent-minded In company. Milton was very unsociable, and; irritable when pressed into conversation." Kir wan, though copious and eloquent in public at Iresses, was meagre and dull in colloquial discourses. Virgil was heavy in conversation. La Fontaine appeared heavy, coarse and stupid ; he he could not speak and describe what he had just seen ; but then he was the model of -, poetry. Chauier's silence was more agreeable than his conversa tion. Dry den's conversation was slow and dull, his humor saturnine and re served. Corn ei lie in conversation was ho insipid that he never failed in wea rying; he did not even speak correctly that language of which he was silch a matter. Ben Johnson used to sit silent in company and suck his wine and their humors. Southey was stiff, se date and wrapped up in asceticisms. Addison was good company with his intimate friends, but in mixed com pany he preserved his dignity by a stifF and reserved silence. Fox in con. vereation never flagged ; his animation and vivacity were inexhaustible. Dr. Bentley was loquacious, as was also Grotius. Goldsmith "wrote like an angel and talked like poor poll." Burke was entertaining, enthusiastic and interesting in conversation. . Cur ran was a convivial deity. Leigh Hunt was a pleasant stieam in conversation Carlylejdoubis, objects and constantly demurs. , Anecdotes of Painters. Vernet, the grandfather of the late famous French painter of the same name relates that he was once employ ed to paint a landscape with a cave and St. Jerome at the entrance of the cave. When he delivered the picture, the customer, who understood nothing of perspective said. , J MThe landscape and the cave are well made, but the Saint is not in the cave." "I so understood you, air," -replied Verntt: "I will alter it." He therefore took the painting, and made the shade darker, so that the Stint seemed to sit further In. The purchaser took the painting but it still appeared to him that the ' figure was not In the cave. Vernet then oblitera ted the figure, and gave the picture to the purchaser, whonow at length seems satisfied. Whenever he showed the picture to strangers, he said : "Here you have a picture by Vernet, with St. Jerome in the cave." "But we cannot see the Sjint,' the visitors would reply. J - : "Excuse me, gentleman," the pos sessor would answer, j "he is there, for I have..., seen him standing at the entrance, and afterwards further back; and I am therefore quite sure that he is in it!" Of Gainsborough we are told that both himself and his neighbors were ignorant of his genius, until one day he was then .residing at Sudbury seeing a country fellow looking wist fully over the garden wall at some pears, he caught up a bit of board and painted him so inimitably .well, that the board being placed upon the wall, several of the neighboring gentry far- ;. iners immediately recognized the fig ure of the thief who had paid them many unwelcome visits to their gar dens, and being, by means of this im promptu portrait, charged by one of them with robbery of his orchard, the thief acknowledged his guilt, and agreed, in order to avoid a worse fate, to enlist in the army. The Dispensary. , Dry Cupping in Typhoid Fkver. Dry cupping was reccommended in 1857, in cases of typhoid fever where the thoracic complications were pre dominant, in a recent article in the Journal de Med. et Chir Prat., M Huchard has shown, by numerous ob servations, that dry cup9 may be em ployed with benefit in very many cases of doth ien enteritis. He uses them in all, except very benign caes ; typhoid fever is essentially a congestive disease; lungs, kidneys," intestines and even the brain are loabed with blood, and this state must be energetically com bated. Dry cups act by derivation, rendering the capilliary circulation more active ; substituting cutaneous congestion for active visceral hyper emia ; under their influence, the gen eral condition improves, there is less stupor; in certain cases, even, there is a iall of temperature. M Huchard has followed this course of treatment for two years, and cases at present in his service demonstrate the good result of the treatment." The cups must be freely applied twice a day, morning and evening; twenty or thirty must be app'ied at the lower porterior of the che3t and on the abdomen ; they must-) be left in place a quarter of an hour. The application is often painful in regions where there is little cellular ti.sueainder the dermis, but the ad van tages drawn from the treatment more than counterbalance this drawdack. Is Cold Favorable to Health? In this last report as registrar of Providence, R. I., Dr." Snow writes : "There is a popular error, which we often hear spoken of in the winter sea son, that clear, cold weather is favor able to the public health. The truth is, that in this climate severe cold weather, if continued more than two or three days, increases the number of deaths as certainly as continued hot weather, though in a different manner. Severe cold depresses the vital forces, and exposure to it produces fatal results among those. persons, or class of per sons, whose vital force is weakened by anyk cause. Such persons are the aged and the very young, and also all who are sick or debilitated from any other cause, Besides this, severe cold is no preventative of, but on the contrary is favorable to the spread of some of our most fatal diseases, as smallpox, dyphtheria, and scarlatina. This is shown at the present time in Brook lyn, New York, Philadelphia, Chi cago and other places." A Wonderful Feat of Memory. The history of the celebrated Robert Houdin furnishes a remarkable exam-' pie of the power of memory acquired by practice. He and his brother, while yet boys, invi nted a game which they played in tl is wise : They would pass a shop window and glance into it as they went by without stopping, and then at the next corner compare notes and see which could remember the greatest number of things in the win dow, including their relative positions. Having tested the accuracy of their ob servations, they would go and repeat the experiment elsewhere. By this means, they acquired incredible pow ers of obs arvatiori and memory ; so that, after running by a shop window once, and glancing as they passed, they would enumerate every articlcin it. When Robert became a professional conjurer, his habits enabled him to achieve feats apparently miraculous. It is told of him, that visiting a friend's house where he had been before, he caught a glimpse of the half-open li brary door. In the course of the even ing, when some of the company ex pressed their anxiety to witness a speci ,men of his power, he said to' his host "Wed, sir, I shall tell you, without stirring from this place, what books you have in your library." "Come, come," said heincredulously "that's is too good." "We shall see," replied Houdin. "Let some of the company go into the library and look, and -1 shall call the names from this room." They did so and Houdin began "Top shelf, left hand, twe volumes in red morocco, Gibbon's Decline and Fall ; next to these, four volumes in half calf, BoswelTs Johnson ; Rasae las, in cloth ; Hume's History of Eng land, in calf, two volumes, but the second one wanting," and so on, shelf after shelf, to the wonder of the whole company. ' More than once a gentleman stole into the drawing-room, certain he would catch Houdin reading a cata logue, but there sat, the conjurer, with his hands In bis pockets and looking Into the fire. : . m Mesmerism in Society. " It is a curious fact, and one that well illustrates the popular passion for the mysterious and extraordinary c that the hypnoetic lectures and seances of Dr. George M. Beard, Dr. Carpenter, and Prof. Hammond before the Acade my of Science, at the Masonic Temple and the University Medical School, have caused a revival of mesmeric cir cles and of the vague theories of ani mal magnetism that figured in popu lar literature some 40 years ago. Poe, with his morbid craving for psycholo gical mysteries, founded a number of his imaginative tales upon facts ac quired from rummaging among pam phlets on mesmerism. His most nota ble performance wm his wonderful "Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar," terrible and exciting story, .which was quoted and commented ujon as an authentic narrative by London Hiewspapers. At that date many writers aabbieu-in tne phenomena of mesmerr ism and clairvoyance, while others pre tended to be able to read an unopened letter by placing it in contact with his forehead. ; ,' The present craze has not attained I he ,i magnitude or intensity of the former one although mesmeric 5 experiments have been introduced on numerous occasions within the last fewweek at receptions and parlor entertainments It is a singular fact that though the researches of science in this field have resulted in showing that no such energy as animal magnetism is concerned in these extraordinary phouomena--niany intellectual people still fondly nourish the old illusion, and implicitly be lieved that some mysterious influence is generated in the person of the opera tor, and discharged upon the nervous system of the entranced subject. The delusion' is encouraged by a few regu Jar physicians, but by only a fev,"the most of its advocates being quack scien tists and self-styled Professor -j, having in view profitable itineraries from vil lage to' village in the country and evening discourses to wonder-stricken audiences, f'ln reality, according to the ablest modem experimental neuro logists, there is nothing mysterious about these phenomena, nor any such thing as animal magnetism. Czermak, of the University of Leipslc, in 1S73, disabused mesmeric practices of all romantic, significance, by showing that the magnetic passes, so called, are unnecessary to the induction, aud only tricks of quaekery ; that the state could be self-induced by persons possessing the predisposition to trance, and that in the inferior .animals the nervous shock of sndden and overwhelming terror is sufficient to bring it on. The agency of shock in producing this extraordinary condition of the nervous system is, according to Dr. Beard, as frequent in' man as it is in the inferior animals, and he attributes the blunders often committed by ex perienced officials under circumstances of sudden peril to the supervention of trance. This is his explanation of the Mohawk disaster several years ago, and he would similarly explain the Stonington Jaad other terrible colli sions. He asserts that the statements of passengers and officers in such cases must always be received with great caution, owing to the fact that the lia bility to the "terror-trance under' cir cumstances bf fatal accident raises a presumption' against the accuracy of the senses. It is not that the witnesses mean to falsify the facts or to perjure themselves, put that they were not at the moment in a condition to observe with accuracy. Many eminent physi cians aver that the nervous energy is rapidly impaired by hypnotism, and the habit of trance established as a source of. permanent inconvenience. The victims usually complain of pains in the head when the seance is over, particularly if at all piotracted. The eyes in time acquire a settled expres sion akin tofthat of epileptic patients, and there are dark . rings beneath them; the skin is abnormal in its palor; the movement languid and the! cast of countenance dazed and listless. Some years ngo. ether was employed to produce these .states of the iei v-u system, andietlier frolics were fashion able in good society, particularly among you ug gentlemen and ladies with a dash of the morbid in their composition. Many broken constitu tions and clouded intellects were the consequence of this brief madness, and one young hidy distinguished in New York society became so sensitive to the drug that a single whiff" was sufficient to indiice profound and protracted trance. ! Her physician was, unfortu nately, indiscreet, and published a pamphlet report of the case, to the bit ter mortification of her relatives she being dead.j' ' There; have been some six or seven mesmeric entertainments in iew York within the last week or two, the j most cf them in the parlors of physi cians or literary men. The experi- ments. !of course, are not exactly like i those exhibited by Hammond at the 1 a?crirdancewith the genius of the Ian University Medical School, and by guage and their own. Beard, before the Academy of Sciences, j In this manner we see the S-ense-but merely adapted to entertalri-and rian stanza grow out of the ot'nva ri amuse an unscientific audience Grave ma of Ai iosto, and the Sbakeiearean and gray-haired gentlemen and ladies j soi'net out of that of Dante aud of Pe pbiy leapfrog, or pelt each other with trarch. For that origin it do not imaginary snow-balls in a parlor snow- i belie, although it must be owned that storm. The other evening, at the res- i Shakespeare, in his remodeling pro idence of a physician of eminence, a cess, has used th- utmost liberty, one handsome mesmeric Professor had a j might say license, class of dignified gentlemen and ladies ' - r playing marbles. They were) seated) The Prince of Wales' sons are no uDon the caruet like school-children, and aubeared to take a vivid interest ir. Xtlr.n3of imao-inarvsDheres. uarreline accusing each other of de-1 tofgion all fours; fJ . fStiiwiii- over atrain in trance Jptori of vouthl tne oper! the memories of youth, unUl the oper ator observed, with a snap of the finger, that it was school-time. Then they all crambled hurriedly to their seat and began to study with all their might, while the spectators laughed until the tears came. Blind maris bluff", hunt the thimble, and other cuildish games are played in trance by millionaires and bankers. Men to whom tears would be an indignity in their proper senses, are made to weep like toddling four-year old boys over an imaginary sore finger.aud grave and aged women to skip the rope like girls. But there is no firing of pistols in the ear to test the sense of hearing, or pasting of sur gical needles through the flesh of the fort arm to prove reality, personal lib erties being discountenanced by gener al consent. It is not , easy, however, even with these guarantees, to induce gentlemen and ladies to submit them selves to experiment, and the official iing Professor has sometimes to arm himself beforehand with two or three well-trained subjects, who receive a trifling compensation for their set vices, besides the satisfaction of appearing in full evening diess in the circles of society ordinarily closed to them. These advance to the seats assigned af ter a little deceptive hesitation, and. their example induces others to partier ipate in the entertainment. Some times a dozen objects are ranged about the operator, all locked in hypnotic slumber, and wi;h this number scenes of lively and dramatic interest are enacted, one reciting Maebeth's ad dress to the air drawn dagger, another Hamlet's soliloquoy, and a third the uursery. rhyme of Mary and her lamb. Troubadours. The good old-fashioned ida of the trouba lour as the minstrel of love go ing from land to land singing his song and twanging his . guitar with no ob ject in view but the praise of beauty, and no rule to en trammel his passion ate effusion has by this. time been pretty generally abandoned. It is or should be krio'wn to all students of lit erature, that Provencal poets, so far from being wholly wrapt up in their love-thoughts' took, oil the contrary, a keen and act i ye interest in the affairs of their day ; that, indeed, their liter ary, as well as their social importance depends quite as much on their slash ing and bitter satire as on theiralways swset but frequently monotonous and conventional love-songs. But still more mistaken is, the notion that the trou badour as the singer of pure passion was unfettered by any ru es and can ons of art. . ; It may, Indeed, be said that he was the representative of art, or, if the reader prefers it, artificiality, in its strictest and most highly developed sense. The meters Invented and used with consummate skill by the poets of med iaeval Provence, remain a wonder of symmetry and technical perfection in the history of literature, unequaled by the poets of other nations who succes sively tried to imitate them. For it may truly be said that in matters met rical the troubadours became the schoolmasters of Europe. In that ca pacity, they were acknowledged and revered by the great poets of Italy, by Dante and Petrarch, the trouveres, al though submitting more or less con sciously to the same influence, observed a discreet silence on the point. Through the medium of French, and, in a more limited degree, of Ital ian literature, the metrical lore of Pro vence was transmitted to those singers of our ownYime and country whom in the heading of this essay I have ven tured to designate as modern trouba dours. ' Among the latest school of. English poetry the adoption of complicated for eign meters has become a passion and a creed. Rondaaus and rondels, vil'anell, aud triolets have been naturalized, and in a certain sense acclimatized by our younger bards, and conservative cr'tics have lamented over the degenerai-y of modern days, ruefully iKiintiug to the 1 gojni old times when English Kets would have scorned to borrow their meters from the foreigner. ; There, however, the Critics were wrong historically wrong at least. - There bad been a previous invasion of the same foreign element infinitely more important than the one which we are witnessing at present, and in an age, too, which patriotic lovers of literature regard as the acme of Eng- ,, . t & - , n llsh poetry I mean, of course, the reign of Elizabeth. That great time .rx null m mm i i m : m r. 1 1 r irlr) .u,:U . .. .".:, us to the sonnet and many other Ital ian verse-forms, and through the same sources, too. Spenser aud Shakespeare, the two representative names of the time, also stand at the head of the revival of form inaugurated by the foreign movement flbove mentioned. It is true that neith er of them adopted the strange Lmpoi tation with slavish accuracy. They recast the beauty of Italian rhyme in longer little poys; iney are oeginuiug to receive addresses and make speech- Tea. i They landed at Cape Town the j other day in their midshipmen's uni- - forms and were formally received by 1 the authorities and a deputation from the Malay Community-long-robed venerable-featured representative, of the Mahometan faith. Albert Tie- tor. the elder prince, made two pretty little speeches. i Poison Rings. 'Poison rings still exist In many an tiquarian collections. They are gen erally of two kinds one intended as an engine of destruction to its wearer, and the other simply as a convenient receptible or hiding place for poison. Some years ago a ring of ttie former description was purchased at a sale of curiosities. Its device was two sharp pointed claws holding a stone. The purchaser, slipping it on his finger, re ceived a slight scratch from the claw.-, the points of which bent inward. Hi hand and arm very shortly oeeanie swelled and painful ; a doctor was sent for, who pronounced the slight scratch poisoned. Examination of the ring showed that the claws were hollow, and that a poisonous matter hud been contained in them ;'doubtles, when- first made, the ring would have caused death, instead of merely inconveni ence, to its wearer. JUngs intending to contain poison are frequently men tioned in ancient hutory; it was com mon to carry one" as a convenient means of suicide. By such a, ring Demosthenes probably destroyed him self, and some historians say llannil al likewise. M. C'rassus, the overseer of the temple of the C'apitoline Jupiter, j" being arrested on a charge of purloin ing some of the gold deposited-there, broke a hollow reeepticle of his ring with hi teeth, and fell dead on Lit spot. The Emperor. Heliogubalus is said to have had a collection of these poison rings among his jewels- The Destuction of Trichinae. It is commonly believed that ordina ry cooking will destroy trichina and render infested meat innoxious. With out doubt, as has been stated in the daily press, "the encapsuled parasites cannot survive a certain elevation of teni eroture, and dsath renders them harmless." Is it, however, correct to .ay .hat a "complete means of protec tion is furnished by the heat inciden tal to cookery?" Considerable doubt is thrown on the statement by M. Va cher; of Paris, whose authority is of considerable weight. He affirms that the protection givei by cooking is quite illusory, aud that in the thorough cooking of an ordinary joint of meat lie temperature in thtt centre is not sufficient to insure the destruction of the parasite. He took a leg of pork of moderate size and boiled it thoroughly. A thermometer placed within it at a depth of two inches and a half register ed after half an hour's boiling 8G de grees Fahrenheit, afrer boiling for an hour 118 degrees, after an hour and a half 149 degrees, and after two hours and a half when the joint was thor oughly cooked, 165 degrees. This teni ptrature M. Vacher maintains is insuf ficient, and we must remember that at the centre, which is still further from the surface than the bulb of the ther mometvr was plated, the temperature would not "be so high. "Trichlnw would escape almost entirely the action of boiling water" in cooking. M. Vacher's note was communicated to the Chamber of Deputies, and no doubt has influenced the decision of the French Government to prohibit en tirely the importation of American pork. Varieties. Secretary Lincoln and family will pass the summer at Hye lieach. The Rev. W. II. H. Murray's estate at Guilford, Conu., will soon be sold to pay the taxes. Ex-President Hayes is said to ! em ploying his leisure in writing a history of his administration. The Rev. 'Phillips Brooks, it is thought in Boston, will aeceptthe post of Harvard's chaplain after Easter. Sir Frederick Lelghton intends to exhibit in the Grosvenor Gallery ibis spring his portraitof Mrs. Ellen Sraiit Sartorls. Judge Mamby, of Lagrange, Ken tucky, has just sold to a Louisville un dertaker a wjfllu which h bought dur ing the war in order to le'repared for a Hidden taking off" by the guerilla. The Judge lias outgrown hisfoJlln and has no fen of a violent death. The German Emteror was greatly pleaded by ,the popular attachment &.)irkt.vti fk liim mi lila 1.5 t i ' If.. . . . . , . , ,. , .... declared, in a note of thanks, that In giving "-xpression to the joy these dem onstrations gave him, tie only satiMled the craving of his heart. At a time,' j he added, "when I felt deeply aggriev- I ed at the sudden death of my mont ' faithful iriend and relative, my sorrow has been alleviated by seeing my birth 1 day marked in this affectionate inan ! ner." ,l The House of Assembly of the Prlncv i Edward Island Legislature, on the ' last day of the session, adopted a reso j iution affirming the right of the I'ro i vince to receive a proportionate share of the Halifix Fisheries Commission ! award, and recommending that, fail- ing to. procure the same from the ! j" minion Government by any other i means, the Government of the Prov- nice take steps to obtain a judicial ue-cision-of the question. When the Emperor William was tC.. of the Czar's death, he said resign- ' "Our lives are in the hands of the Al mighty." At the funeral service next day In the chapel of the Russian Em bassy, the Emperor was overcome with emotion, breaking down completely. Bendine and coveriujr his face with his hanus, he sobbed like a child, and waa utterly unable to repress hi- tear. In America, where book, are review ed while yet damp from the pre, t Grange to read the Engliah peri- odical thAt think nothing of reviewing Ihn months after it ha. b-u lume six montns an on tns market.
The Western Sentinel (Winston-Salem, N.C.)
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May 10, 1881, edition 1
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