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1 One Year, $1.50, NORTH-WESTERN NORTH CAROLINAWE LiABOR FOR ITS INTERESTS. Six Months, $1.00. NUMBER 21. V.OLTJME III. WINSTON, FORSYTH COUNTY, N. C., TUESDAY, MAY 24, 1881, . I i ' . ? : -' i " ' "- : t i. - U . - ' ; '' ' ILEBER. i lit- : i i.J - is pubLisHRu mur TUESDAY y JAMES A. ROEINSON, Owner and JZdiior. Subscription Terms in advance: Or.e ct-ty, one yexr" p :ae paid) 50 Oiie copy, six niontk . .............. X 00 One copy, three iHuntUs ....... ....... 50 A croii m.rk on ur p&pxr inilicutes that your utwcf-rption h.s expi--'-d, or is due. and you are re spectfully sol:, ited 10 r. new or r-tnit. Cootmunicaitoiis iiii.t.ii!iiag itcut. of local news are respectfully soiiciii. . , . i he ctlitor will not be held responsible lor views en tertained and exprrrd '' dri espondent. Advertising rxtcS m..t!e known upon application. Winston Cards. EUGENE E. GRAY, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, "WINSTON, X. C ' ' Ofpicb : Over Wachovia National Bank. , iprao-iy W. .T. VOGLER. 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Straton, IHPOITIIS OV AND DEALERS IN THE POTTERY GLASS Ol all Countries, from Original sources. ' ALSO. LAMP GOODS. CHANDELIERS. TABLE CUTLERY, ETC. 51 to 69 Federal & 120 Franklin Sta., tOSTON, MASS. JACOB T1SK. C. H. THE. f. H. MASTRN. Jacob Tise& Co., East Side Court House Square, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL MERCHANTS. We desire to return our thanks to our many custom en for their liberal support in the past, and hope ' e will have their trade in the future. Our Stock is complete, consisting of DRY GOODS, BOOTS AND SHOES, HATS Hardware, Queensware, -AN! - o 'n p4 - Mil ft 1 i-iss 17 O - a -55- rC "2 2 ia " s a f 1 tfi o GOGEEIIES of all kinds, all of which we sell at the very lowest price. FURNITURE ! FURNITURE! We have been receiving a very Urge stock of FURNITURE of all grades, all of which we seil at the very bottom price as we do not intend to be undersold.. , Oive us a trial before buying elsewhere. Sonot Forget we axe os Conur. .Apl lyth-iy. . . What the Birdi Teach Us. Oh! little blrda, God taught you songs . In many a changeful note to raiae ; We bear you In the buab and cUtr, The meadow and the dusty way a. He taught us, too, and We can alng A sweeter, noblefpsal m of praise. ObMlttlebiftds, Ood shaped your wings To cleave at will the bunny air. And soaring up o'er field and wood, To glide in freedom v ery where. . And He haa abaped The winging waft for us our wings ofzalth and prayer. Oh ! little birds. God gkve you hearts Of quiet Joy o'erflowlng pain; You live contented through the daya rain. . Of summer sun or winter And He can give ua g&dll neea r greatest train. t Mixed with oontentou Oh ! little birds, Ood showed you how To choose the tree that suits you best : To weave the twig, ana straw, and grass. To bind the clay Into your nest. And He has shown ua how to build A house in heaven, where we may rest. Oh! little birds, God gfahta you gifts Exhaustlesa through! the changing year And In the field you fled your food Sometimes afar and sometimes near. And He will give ua all we want Hie children never need to tear..' Woman's Faith. ; j 'I Old Nannie .Nettleahjp's sou had been st nt to prison tw years for a rob bery with which? he ia4 been uiixed up. Dan's wife, poor iroman, lay dn.a of sickness, sinking slowly out ot her misery, and-Dan's three little chil dren must be fed and ; eared somehow. When the sentence ' vas pronounced, Nanny was in court t It broke her heart that her' Dan 1 hould come to shame, for the Nett eships came ot honest stock. Dan's fi ither had fought his country's battles, e nd left his arms and legs and eyes aboi t the globe, and in his old age a gratefi 1 country allow ed him a trifle to keep all that was left' of him from starving, j I : But when the remains of, the old pensioner's body went to look for its scattered fragments, s portion of his pension was continue 1 to his widow ; and having in her sev entieth year put her little income into '. )an's pocket she went to live with hirx J , Dan was her youngest child, but th only one left to her. He was five and thirty, but she still called him her boj . ! He was mar ried; and so old Nan came back from the pensioner's graveside to Dan's place and set to work to make herself as lit tle a burden as possibl '. . ! It was well enough it first, till Dan got mixed up with bat company. He was deceived, fooled, a id. made a dupe of. Old Nan will go .0 her grave be lieving that. But appearances were against him, ' The crut 1 gentleman in the white wig: made it Jok so black that the jury, who didi 't know Dan as his mother did, said he was guilty, and the jury gave him two rears. -I He wan such a nice good-tempered judge, and smiled so sw eetly to show a set of white teeth, that Nan could hard ly believe he was hurt ng her boy till it was all over. But wh n' her son look ed toward her with his ashen face, and cried, "Mother take ca e of Louie and the little ones,'' her heart nearly stop ped still, and she stood up in the back of the court and called icross to him to. be of good heart; for w,hile her old hands could work his dear ones should - not starve. j I Then he went down he well from the dock out of sight, tod Nanny tot- tered home to be husband and father and mother to a sick and helpless wv man and three little children. She had roughed it years ago as a sol dier's wife, and had accompanied her husband's rf-giment many a time. She had grown hardy in thi old days, and now her early ttrainin j stood her in good stead. Louie, Dan s wife, was too ill to work. She was ft eble and ailing before the' great trouble came. After the trial she was prostrate. She lay like a tired child hose heart is wrung with grief, and made no effort. She had clung to her husband, .who had put his strong arms aboi it her. and kept her alive with love and gentle care. Now that he was t&kt n from her she dropped swiftly as the fl ower languish es when no sun comes. ; Then ; it was that old Naany Nettle ship came and took h :ij place at the head of the little famil r. She nursed and cheered the sickly ivife, she loved and tended the children. She eked out her little pension amc ng them, and went forth to earn their bread. Bhe went early mornings to the markets, and bought and sold agjdn. By sheer hard work she 'built up'a little connec tion in outlying suburbs, where she could sell fruit and flowers and vege tables, and when her load grew heavier than she could bear in ronsequence of the increase of custom, 1 he managed to get a meek little brow i donkey who drew her barrow. j Winter and Summer she was up in the early mornings to b uy at the mar ket, and all winds anc weathers she was in (he streets thrauj ;h the long day' to sell her goods and Barn food and shelter for Dan's wife ai id children, it was no . easy task then! ends meet, for the wllej to make both wanted many things that cost money, rod Nan never let the ehildien go ragj;ed or scantily clad. f r ' So the two years dri ted slowly by. The children grew apace, but wife drooped and drooped n spite of all Nan's care, till at last he old woman feared her son would be a free man on ly to find his children n lotherlees. - But as the time drc w near for her husband's releas, Mrs Nettleship re vived a little. The hops of seeing hia beloved face seemed to gi ve her strength to live on. ! I ' "Ishallseehim befort I go, mother," he would say to the Id lady, "and then I shall die happy." j The day of Dan NetUeship's release has come at last. The sick wife, her thin hands clasped together, thefleroe light of consumption in her eyes, lies listening with eager ears for the first sound of his footsteps. The younger children are awed into quietness, for granny has told them that daddy is coming home to-day They were such mites when the trou bie came, that .they could understand I nothing of it, and now they half dread the advent of this stranger who is their "daddy." Outside the prison gate stand the old woman and little Louie, and presently he for whom they are waiting so eager ly comes through the door. The sun is shining brightly and people are passing by, but as the eyes of the man and the old woman meet ev erything fades from their sight. 'My boy, my boy !" she cries, and presently her old arms are about his neck, and tears of joy S are coursing down her wrinkled cheeKs. But Louie slips her little hand in his and looks up to him with her lips pouted for a kiss. He picks her up in his arms and gives her, not one, but. a dozen. i He puts her dowu, and presently she pulls him by the coat as they walk along. s "Daddy!" "Yes?" "Mammy's waiting for you at home. Mammy's glad you're coming home to day." "God bless my poor Loo!" said Dan. "How is she mother?" Nanny Nettleship told her son quiet ly all she had to tell. It wm no use de ceiving him. Lou was sick unto death. "She's only lived to see you, Dan my poor boy," she said. Dan questioned his mother eagerly. Little by little he won from her the whole story of the two years. His face was very white as he learnt all, and thought of the torture hisj dear ones had gone through, and all his brave old mother had done when he was pay ing the penalty of his crime. Tnere and then, in justification, half to himself, half to his mother, he went ever the whole ground, showing, that, though technically he was guilty, mor ally, he was innocent. "It was that barrister that prosecuted who settled me," he said. He put it so straight, I should have found myself guilty if I'd been on the jury." I They had quickened their pace aa they talked, and m they went along, the old woman holding her son's arm and little Louie his hand. They had quickened their pace be cause Dan was teiribiy anxious to see his wife. In his prison night after night through the weary months, In. fancy he had pi.iured this day, and now it had conit . ' tHe was very hopeful, was Dau, and when they passed a square with some weak, sooty trees in it, and heard a bird chanting a cockney carol to as much sun as could see above the chimney pots, the man, excited with his new ft eedom, and without thinking, let go of his mother and child, and began to run as if he were in a hurry to g4 home.' '"'' i : i It was an old habit of his, this break ing into a run when he was excited or thinking. But just as he began to run a crowd turned rrmnd the corner in hot pursuit of someone, and the cry ot "Stop thief!" rang from a score of lips. A minute before a man had brushed past him, running too. Before he could think, the crowd was rushing by. There was a policeman among them joining in the chase. He stopped for a moment and looked at Dan. Whether it was the knowledge that he had just come out of prison, or a sudden revul sion of feeling at the sight of the uni form he had such cause to remember, Dan didn't know, but he began to tremble. ' . ; v The policeman took hold of his . arm, Nanny and little Louie had come to Dan's side and both wondered what the policeman was doing. He showed them In a moment. Twisting Dan's arm with a professional jerk, he thrust his hand into the side pocket of the pilot-coat he wore, and drew forth a purse. The crowd had stopped, and gather ed round. Among them was a young lady, very hot and flushed and out of breath. ; ' i "Is that your purse, miss?" said the policeman, holding Dan firmly. 1 "Yes." said the young lady, "that's it; but he's not the man who took it." No, miss, but he'll do as well. It's been passed to him by his pal. , That's what they does mostly always. ; You'd better come to the police station now." With that he seized Dan roughly and forced him along, White as a ghost, dumbfounded and trembling, Dan attempted to ex plain that he was innocent that the purse must hav been put in his pocket. Moaning and wringing her hands old Nanny Nettleship stood at the edge of the crowd with the trembling Louie clutching at her gown and asking what daddy had done now. And at home, waiting with a yearn ing heart, and counting the minutes as they went by lay Dan NetUeship's dy ing wife. He thought of her -ind of the agony she would endure when the time wen by and he did not come, and the thought maddened him. He would not be taken away now almost at the threshold of his home now, when after two weary years he was about to his poor darling once more. He tore himself from the policeman's grasp with a desperate effort. Then the man seised him by the throat, and they fought; Dan .was a poweaful fel low, and he was mad. He raised blows upon his assailant till the man's face was disfigured and bloody. Still he held on. Then . the , crowd closed In fought too. Help came, and Dan, was overpowered. Foaming at the mouth, and mad with rage and despair, he was dragged along by brute force, the ; knuckles of the stalwart constable, be ing forced into his throat and making him black in the face. And home to the dying woman went the eld woman and the little child to tell their pitiful tale, and dash the enp of joy from her lips just as it touched them. ' Dan Nettleship was taken before a magistrate, and committed for trial be ing concerned in the theft of a lady's purse, and for assaulting the constable. The old lady- saw her son in prison, and comforted him with brave, hopeful words. She promised him she would move heaven and earth to clear him and set him free, aud he had the same solemn faith in her that all had who came to know old Nanny. The famous barrister who had secur ed his former conviction was to her mind a tower of strength. If she could get him to defend her boy she felt he was saved. She would get him cost what It might. V She saw the solicitor, and told him she wanted the famous counsel to de fend her sou. He told her it would cost too much. "How much?" asked Nanny. The solicitor told her. It was a great deal of money for a poor old woman to raise, but Nan went away and rai-ed it. She brought the gold and gave it to the solicitor, who promised to retain the great man. Nanny raised tha money by parting with all she treasured now in the world by parting with her donkey and draw ing her heavy barrow herself; and when that was not sufficient she pawned the medals which her husband had won at the cost of his limbs, and which his dying hand had pressed Into hers, bid ding her treasure them and his memory as long as she lived. The day of trial came, and Nanny took her place in court and waited con fident in the result now the barrister had Dan's cane in hand. Dan in due course, came up, pale and ill, and took his place in the dock, and the counsel for the prosecution opened the case Nanny glanced eagerly at the coun sel's box ; the great man was not there Dan had noticed it too. "I beg your pardon, your lordahlp,' he wiid, "but Mr. is going to defend me, and he is not here." Up started a blushing youth in a wig. "Beg pardon, my lud ; I defend pris oner. JXlr, is engagea eisewnere." The great counsel had iiauded over his brief to a junior. Old Nanny would have got up there and then and made a speech, but D-wi looked at her and motioned her to bf quiet. It was his luck. Everything was j agaiDsthim. The prosecution told its tale, aud piled up the chain of facts. The youug counsel blushed, made small jokes and damaged his client unintentionally at about every second question he asked. Here was a man who hd just come out of prison a goal bird, the prosecu tion called him found running away with a purse in his pocket, and when arrested he fights the policeman. Such facto going to a Jury what can the ver dict be? Dan writes a little note, and it is given to his counsel. The counsel reads it before he calls witnesses for the defense. "Call Mrs. Nettleship," he says, put ting the note down, and old Nanny gets into the box. The young counsel asks her one or two questions, and then says, "Tell us what happened," and leaves her to it. It was the best thing he could have done. The old woman with her white hair , and weeping eyes, tells all the story of the long struggle while Dan was in prison, and how, just as he came out, and was nearing home to ase his dying wife he was made the victim of a mis take, and how, in his despair at being dragged away when his wife's life de pended on his presence, he struggled and fought to get free. Old Nanny tells her story with such pathetic force that she is not interrupt ed, She interests the judge and the jury too, and looks of pity are post to the dock, where Dan has broken down at the mention of his wife's name, and stands tbe tears trickling down his cheeks. The judge sums up in pan's favor. He suggest. that the man first pursued put the purse in Dan's open pocket in stead of flinging it away, as less likely to be noticed. The jury clutch at the straw and find him innocent of the theft. Of the assault they find him guilty, but strongly reccommend him to mercy. 'Prisoner," says the judge, "we have heard the story of your misfor tunes from your mother, and we believe it. We are bound to protect the police in the execution of their duty, but in this instance it is possible you were an innocent man made desperate by your peculiar position. You are discharged on your own recognizances to come up when called upon. Home as fast as their feet could carry them went mother and con, and that evening the dying woman lifted her eyes to her long absent husband's face, and whispered that she could die hap py now. That night she slept her last sleep in his arms. The morning sun found her lying with her head pillowed upon his breat, her lips parted in a sweet smile, her arm about his neck and her heart still forever. Old Nanny-Nettleship sits In her easy chair now and does no work, for Dan has taken his old place. There were those who heard bis story at the court-house who held out a helping hand to him, and to-day he is an hon est tradesman, aud prospers. The war . medals are in granny's keeping once more, and they will pass to Dan and his children when the old soldier's widow lays down the burden of her years. They are hallowed now not only with the valor of him who won them, but with the tender 'ove and brave endurance of her who pawn ed them once to pay a counsel who took her fee ana left her to do his work. - - . Has the Dyspepsia. ( ) Reads this Column and is Cured. . fl ( ) Ke-Iaaae. ! : Fun and faot, with aclsaoni caught : Have many a pleasant rubral taught. "Judges." said a lawyer, "have al ways a great advantage .over us poor fellows, for. they guess last." Men love chances so well that they I would rather win fifty cents than earn two dollars regularly. An Englishman upon hearing the cackling in a poultry-yard exclaimed, "Oh. this is really henchantiug.', Model wives formerly took "a stitch in time;" now, with the ajd of a sew ing machine, they take one in no time. . Somebody is quoted as saying that an apt quotation is as good as an origi nal remark. In many cases it is bet ter. The man who has half an hour to spare, generally drops in and occupies a half hour that belongs to some other man. ' I A little girl rldiuS past a pond only partly covered with ' ice, exclaimed, "Oh, I know now what water in; it's the juice f ice!" t ! Very nearly every young man un derstands how to sow his wild oats,1 and yet has not the remotest idea of the proper way to plant turnips. A passenger on an ocean steamer seeing a fellow-voyager looking rather crest-fallen, asked him, "what was up." 'My dinner," was the laconic reply. A prominent lumber-man has had his coat of-arms painted on the panels of his carriage, with the Latin motto, "Vidi." Which by interpretation is, "I saw." : It would be quite easy to pay the national debt by imposing a tax on b auty. There is not a woman living in the country who would not demand to be assessed. All the men who get up early are poor and unknown'. No man gets up with the lark unless his necessities compel him to do go. The great, the rich, and the good lie abed in the morning. J . A man should enter and graduate from college early in life, if at all. He then has ample time to look around 111 d find out what he ought to learn to enable him to make a respectable liv ing; ' ' : : .What was It ? I went out in the woods and got it. After I got it I look ed for it. The more I looked for it the less I liked it. I brought it home in my hand, because I couldn't find it. A sliver. An American millionaire not long since visited Europe. A traveled friend asked him what he had seen, mention ing all the noted sights ; among other places he inquired If he had Been the Dardanelles. "Oh, yes," replied -old money-bags; "they dined with us the last night we were in Paris!" ' In her latest poem Ella Wheeler Is moved to remark ; iet the dream go. Are there no (ft her dreams In vaatnesses of clouds hid from thy sight, -That yet shall gild wjth beautiful gold gleams And shoot the shadows through and through with light? ' ' 1 - What matters one lost vision of the night? Let the dream go ! - You are right, Ella; but In the cane of a spectacular dream caused by too much mince pie or cider one that you are so anxious to have go that you would hustle around and get it a pass if necessary your scheme won't work. A good old-fashioned pie-dream can tire out any poet, It's as hard to let go as a galvanic battery in full exer cise, 1 . .. - General Jackson and the Sab 5 bath Day. ; During the latter part of General Jackson's life he was in the habit of coming down to New Orleans to see his old friends and comrades In arms and participate in the celebration of the glorious eighth ; of January. It happened on one of these visits that the eighth occurred on Sunday. Gen eral Plauche called upon the old hero and requested him to accompany the military to the battle ground on the anniversary of the great day. "I am going to chuieh to-morrow;" mildly observed the General. Tne military preparations for the celebration went on, and Sunday morning dawned bright and beautiful. At 10 o'clock General Plauche called at the St. Charles and informed General Jackson that the military and civic processions were ready to' accompany him to the scene of his glory. "General Plauche," tesponded old Hickory, turning upon him the glance of his kindling eye, "I told you I was going to church to day." General Plauche withdrew, muttering to himself, "I might have known better." Ihe celebration was postponed till the next day, and Gen eral Jackson listened on that day to one of the most eloquent discourses in the church on Lafayette square from Dr. Scott ever pronounoed in the Humorous Reading. The Forged letter. J ust before the election an Irish voter in San Francisco told his master. an Englishman, that he was going to vot aoiir nrfi K.,o.,Q vote against Garfield "Chinese" letter. "Don't you know," said the master, "that letter is a forg ery? Every intelligent man, is satisfied that it is." "Begorra " replied Patrick, " that's the very raisou I can't vote for .v. ' him. I can't conscientiously vote for j ony mon who would write-a forged letter!" V ' ' She read all the books of scleuce, ! Her lingers were covered with Ink; She booted at marriage alliance;- j- Bhe talked of the missing link, She quoted aavana and preachers Of greater or lews renown-- .. jj ' Platonic In all her features, " - She got a mash on a clown. i - ' -S' - - A Conundrum Answered, There is a certain Gal veetbn -family that does not attend church as regularly as they should, bnt they send the old est boy every Sunday to keep up ap pearance. Last Sunday the head of the family said: "Go dress yourself boy ; it's time for you to go to church.' "f would like to know," responded the boy, sulkily, "why I am the only one In this famiiy who has got to' be religious?"1 "Because you need it most, you scoundrel that's why!" thundered the stern parent, feeling for the young martyr,s hair. -There was a young man of Mendota, Who fondly exclaimed, "I'll devote a Few lines to my girl 1" With his head in a whirl This kind of a letter he wrote her: . "Oh, silver-trimmed pearl of Mendota, I am not very much of a wroter; But what I have writ. You're the subject of It And she bounced the unlettered youug voter. "Jennie Dare," whoever she is, has come out with a new song, "Love Me a Little While the Roses Bloom." Well, it Isn't exactly the thing, so long as we are out of the market, but we'll do it. And then, when the roses peg out, we'll love you a considerable through the verbena season ; then we'll keep it up while the how do ypu spell those flowers that sound iike Xeuia, OhioJ Ziuna? (hank you while the zinnias flame out; and then we'll hire a conservatory and keep the cldthing going till along about Christmas. Bless you, there's? nothing mean about us, and if the young men of this country have got solow you have to make ap peals of that nature to the public we'll discount all the roses between here aud the vale of Cashmere. A tjlAMR f 'HlCKJCX. A chicken lived a chicken died; His drumsticks and his wings were fried ; His feathers by a dealer dried, i1 And, very sh-ri y after dyed. Soul he lift it .e , adiultilug thai. How mmw it 1 Sierc-, upou her hat. His iiluim m k mortal chicken's rtae A gl rlous bird of paradise ! About Women. 1 - Something; ttat will Interest, Instruct and Amuse. i - - , - An old bachelor, who died re?eiit!y, left a will dividing all his property, equally among! the surviving women who had refused him, "because," said he, "to them I owe all my earthly happiness." . The poor must be fed, the naked clothed, and the sick must be visited, and who can so acceptably perform these labors as educated women?. The sick ask for sympathy who so well fitted as women to give what is asked? The naked want to be clothed and who knows so well as woman how to prepare the clothing required. The missionary work performed by woman far excels that done by man. She seems never to tire; while lords of cre ation grow weary in well doing, and seek repose and rest. Threk Nick Wives. Three men of wealth meeting not long since in New York the conversation turned upon lueil wives, iiiaicau ui uuuiuk iuuu ... . , j ... I with women in . general, and then i wives in particular, each one obeyed ! the wise man's advice, and "gave hoo- ! "I tell you what It is," , said one of the men, ''they may say what" they please about the uselessneas of modern women, but my wife has done her share in securing our success in life. Everybody knows that her family was aristocratic and exclusive and all that, and when I married her she had never. done a day's work In her life; but when W. & Co., failed, and I had to commence at the foot of the hill again, she discharged servants and chose but a neat little cottage, and.didher own housekeeping until I was better off.'' "And my wife," said a second, ''was an only daughter, caressed and petted to death ; and everybody said, "Well," if he will marry a doll like that, he'll make the grvatest mistake of his life,' but when I came home the first year of marriage,1 sick with the fever, she nursed me back to health, and I never k new her to murmur because I thought we couldn't aflord any better style or more luxuries." .'Well, gentlemen," chimed In a third, "I married a smart, healthy," pretty girl, but she was a regular blue stocking. She adored Tennyson, do ted on Byron, read Emerson, and named tbe ! first baby Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the second Maud, but I tell you what 'tis,' and the sneaker' eyes grew suspiciously moist,, "when we laid little Maud in her last bed at Auburn my poor wife had no remem brance of neglect or stinted motherl care, and the little dresses that still lie In the locked drawer were all made by her own hands." New York -Horn Journal. i The largest bells in the world in ac tual use are: The second Moscow, which weighs 128 tons ; the Kaiterg locke Cologne Cathedral, 25 tons, tne preat bell of Pekin, 63 tons, tbe bell of Notre Dame, 17 tons; Big Ben of Westminister,: 14 tons ; Tern, of Lin coln, 6 ton. Sentiment Tha stoia-Koi and Laurel. Many suitors bad the Moaa-roae, All declared their vows were true: Swe Bh' blushed when they besought her " "No, I cannot wed with you." . tho lla Ik. -l.k. .. . ... X have riches, be say bride!" For his courtesy she tbaok'd htm. "But I wed uot gold," she cried. fYttne the Fur-hula, he the poet; Drooping, sighed, I die for thee I" Hoothlngly the Moss-rose xuurniur'd, "Thine! ah no, I cannot be." Quoth the Wasp, "My coat is golden. Beauty should with splendor mate!" Haughtily the Moss-rose answer'd. Til not share a vagrant's state!" Came the Seaweed from tbe Ocean,, -- Came the Ivy from the wall, - From the meadow came the Cricket, But ahe answer'd "No !" to all. " Came the Laurel home from battle, Bluahlagly the Rose looked down, Smiled him greeting, took his kisses. Beauty's ever valor's crown. .- J. BKAUroT LAN. A Cruel Promise. Heihiich von KM est 'a drama, "Das Katcbeu von Heilbronn," will be prt duced at Drury Lane, London, In May by the Meiuingeu Comjjany. . Theau thorns fate was a tragic one. In 1811 Kleist met a lady named Heuriette Vogel, to whom he became attached. She believed herself to be "suffering from an incurable disease, and one day she asked Kleist to promise to do her a favor. Kleist promised as required, upon which she said: "Well, then, kill me! My sufferings are too great, 1 cannot endure my life. I know it is not probable that you will do it, 1 foi there are no men left upon earth ; but " "But I will do- it," replied Kleist ; "I am a man, and I keep rrjy word. This took place in Ber'in, and on the 20th of November, 1811, the pair started for Potsdam. There, .ou the shore of the Wansee, Kleist shot Henriette, and then shot himself. They left directions that they should be buried where they fell, which was accordingly done. A Sleeping Beauty. Behold a snow-white lily stranded Upon the shore of sleep ! The god Ot tresses streaming over creamy lsrt Fair dinipled hands that eridorly , ,. , The Ivory Image of a grand dark fa; Lips yielding sweets the pictured fu-e dc inanded. The crescent lids on checks r rosea prrwt; A , thoughtful brow like pearly shtdl uu- borne;, . The undulation of her gentle brensl Like snow the kisses of the wind hath wot u To lines of beauty that a Ood ooiunaudml ; -Hwlft smiles (the signals or her tii):y dreams) Drift o'er her mouth like soniy-dlpplug s .11 . That stir the quiet of bright India's realms; ' Her breath the air of those enchanted vnles Where spiced fruits and seemed wood are landed; One tiny foot like baby rsibhltsllpa From snowy covert, and the curved arm. Veined like a violet the wild bee sips, . Takes captive sense with a resistless charm; i Nay. all the loves and graces arodtsbauded. 1 - - - .' j Nightingale and Cuckoo. ! O nlghUugale and cuckoo! it was meet That you should corue together; for ye twain i Are emblems of tbe rapture and the p.tln That In the April of our life compete Until we know not which Is the m-ire s 1 . Nor yet have learned that both of them 11 j vain! Yet why, O nightingale! break oft thy strain j While yet the cuckoo doth his call repeat? Not so with me. To sweet woe did I cling Long after echoing happiness was dead. And so found solace. Now, alas! tbe stlug! Cuckoo and nlgbingale alike have' fled; Neither for Joy nor sorrow do I alng. And. autumn alienee gathers In their . The Church Temporal. A movement in St. Louis to close the places of amusement on Sunday is increasing in strength. There were 1382 ordinations in tbe Established Church in England in 1880 : 679 to the priesthood and 703 to the diaconate. . Joseph Cook has been speaking of late to crowded audiences in Dublin t.mt- n a i .1 it i ' on "The Certainties of Religion" and , . . i other topics The General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church will meet In the 1 Iriwif fhnrnh fT s lliurhanv An Wed nesday evening, May 25. Sixteen missionary, Bible and tract societies have been invited to partici pate in the Missionary Conference to de held in Constantinople June 3. Rev. George Fetzer is in this coun try endeavoring to obtain , funds for the establishment of a Baptist Theolog cal School at Hambnrg, in Germany An English gentleman has Offered to give $50,000 to endow a bishopric In .uiiuciu uuiua iuu rir nun t. tue bishop be vested In the Archbishop of Canterbury. - An order has been granted by Justice Barret changing the name of the Mad ison Avenue Presbyterian to the Cen tral Congregational Church of the city of New York. The contributions to the Board of Missions of the Reformed Dutfh Church between the 1st of last Decem ber and the 1st of the present month will amount to nearly f-S8,000.- Dr. McCosh makes the statement that of over 1000 students who have graduated under his care from Prince ton college, only? four were' sceptics, and three of these are now preachers. The Ninety-seventh Annual Con vention of the "Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Pennsylvania will be held in the Church of the Epiphany Phila. on Tuesday, May 10, at 4 o'clock P. M. Bishop Warren, of the M. E. Church In Georgia has organized a College of Carpentery in the Atlanta (Colored) University, The students have taken to the new department enthusiastically- : Mr. D. L. Moody has raised, during his stay in San Francisco, $85,000 for the Young Men's Christian Associa tion of that city, thus relieving if from debt. Part of the money was raissd laths East. The Moravian Church reports in the United States 9Trtl (HunmunlcuuU, u gain of 70 over lat year: U-kUs ; non-communicnuts over 13 year of are and 5237 children; the grand total being 16,-tyi an increase of 21 1. j The Burmete Bible Is so bulky that 1 it cannot conveniently ! i:irtid i about. The type utred in printing it ix extremely large. It is projiost-d to re duce tbe size of tyjie anJ produce m ;' portable. Bible like those cf manv ot" the Inbiau tongues. According to tbe Harvard o, of the 1009 students now at that Univer sity, 28.8 per cent, are Epi.-copulians, 22.5 per ceut, Unitarians, and 17.f. cent. Orthodox CongregationalNtH. Ag nostics, Atheists and nou-sectariaus together make only 13 per cent., vhik of Trinitarians there ure over !) er cent. Bishop Hare,' of Niobrara, who h ft the East for his diocese in southeastern Dakota on the 7th instant writes from Mason City, Iowa, that, owing to tl e extensive floods on the Missouri ami other streams, he ha been unable as yet to reach his dt stinatiou, and that he hardly hopes to reach it for sever al weeks. . The troubles in the Washington Av enue1 Baptist Church, in Brooklyn, N. Y., the Rev. Emory J. Ilaynes, pastor, have been happily settled, the uiiuor ty, numbering ah ut two hundred persons, having withdrawn and formed a new church. Rev. Dr. J. Whtatoti Smith, of Phila. will assume charge of the new orgaiiiz.ttion for te pr sent . The National Temperance' Society has issued a call for a National Tern--lerance Convention to meet at Sara toga Springs on June 21. It is expec ted that all the national HOeieties, in. eluding the Women's National Christ ian Temperance 'Union,' the. various State societies aud grand bodies, and a number of church bodies will be rep resented. The Romance, of ai Centennial Tiamp. Washington correspondent of the Hartford Time write : During the Centennial year, among the thousands who went through the Capitol Iiuild ing one day in July wax -a tramp named George As he whm pnswiii down the fctepH, after a t inspection f the buildwig, be tdumbled fell and broke his arm. A Capitol jxilitomaii picked him up, and after preparing h cot sent for a surgeon, who wet the arm. This over, the tramp asked the privil ege of sitting around in the Capitol Park until he got strong enough to gi about again, haying he had no money , and knew that habitual loungers were liable to arrest on a charge of vag rancy. The desired privilege Was granted; and, in addition, an arrange ment was made by which he was given a- comfortable sleeping place in the building. The officer also managed to bring enough food from Ids boarding house to supply him. In ubout two weeks the tramp gave notice that he would start West. He "was . exceed ingly thankful for the kindnows idiown him by the officer, and naid if he ever got half a chance lie would endeavor to repay it. The tramp met a Centen nial tourist from Halt Lake City who happened to know bis father. After talking; the tourist offered to take him West if he wanted to go. The offer was accepted, aud the Capitol. iIi- mau, Arthur Thomas went to th depot with them and bade them g.od by. Now let four years pass and t he re-t of the story comes in. Arthur Thomas, who was a Capithrpoliceman in 1S7U. is now, and has been for more tha u a year, Kearetarp of Utah Territory, having been apjoin ted by Presidtnt Hays on the reeco;nmenduliii of a number of leading men, Republican's and Democrats. Some week since a man, named George .entered Mr. Thomas' office to ascertain something about the Itoundaries and survey of certain sections of mineral lands. They recognized each other and had a long talk. The tramp had prospered. Jle aides having a wife, he can draw and have honored his check for I'hi,on). Everything he has tot'ehed since he has been in the Territory has turned Into money one way or another. The ex-policeman and the ex-tramp can l seen strolling or driving about Sail Lake any afternoon, and the wivea of each are equully insuperable. President Jackson and his Door keeper. When Jacknoii was President Ji;ji my ONeill, tbe Irish doorkeejer of the White House, was a marked char acter, He" had his foibles, - which of fended the fastidiousness of the Presi dent nephew and Secretary, M;ij DoneUou, who caused bis dismissal on an average of abeut oneen weeK. But on appeal to higher courts the verdict ws always reversed by the good na ture of the old Geueral. Once, how ever, Jimmy was guilty of some fla grant offence, and being summoned before the President himself, was thus addressed: "Jimmy, I have borne with you for years in spit of all com plaints; but this goes I eyond my powers of endurance." "And do you believe the story?" asked Jimmy. "Certainly," answered tbe General "I have just heard it from two Sena tors. ' "Faith," retorted Jimmy, "if I believed all that twtnty Shiator say about you, it's little I'd think you wan fit to be President." "Pshaw ! Jim my," conoludsd the General "clear out, and go back to your duty, but be more careful hreafl?r." Jimmy not only retained his place t' the close of Jack son's Presidential term, but ac-c imj a nied him back to the Hermitage, and was with him to the day of his deatl , J -
The Western Sentinel (Winston-Salem, N.C.)
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