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Founders' Say Ossar .Browning, mnity 1; nape I Cambridge, EngL Dec. 6th, 1881 One of the most dist nguished claes ical Pro feasors in thel University, an earnest preacher, and every good work, is a a man active in egetarian. He gave a lunch, some weeks ago, to a eonventkn of temper; knee reformers at which the; menu quettes of macaron comprised cro- " vegetarian goose," bean salad, apple dumplings and cubtardf, ; rogrod baked apples damson cheese, oat-nieal and coffee beverage, still hop drink, grapes melons, apples, pears peanuts, bis- cuita, arrowroot, eic. has many advocates Dietetic reform in the higher ranks of society in England. It is connected even with political science, An interesting papbr was read at the meeting of the British Association ai x orK, entiuea " Uorn or Cattle: a .comparison of the economic results of agiiculture and cattle-raieiog, in rela- tion to national foodi supply." The author says, that the people of Great .Britain, at present, are very largely dependent, for their daily bread, upon supplies from foreign sources, and that the proportion of Imported, over home grown, foods is steadily increasing ; so that many think the really incapable of feeding their habitants. j He proceeds to shew Jhowever, that if the lands devoted to It he pasture of cattle, were tilled and used for grain- grewiDg, there would be an annual re turn of cereal crops " sufficient, at two pounds a day, to feed 92,702,896 per sons." The real remedy for over-pop ulation, he says, is food reform. By discontinuing catl le-raising, he hopes that England will be pendent upon foreign no longer de- nations, for her food supply, but ablej in her green orchards and yellow corn fields, to find an ample and heal thy support for her children, and her dren." I ; hildren's chil- The college pulpit of St. John's takes up the strain. One of her learn- ed clergy last year : said, in a Lenten sermon, 'The sword slays its thous ands; gluttony, its ten thousands. But when we consult saints and sages, we hear a' clear and harmonious, voice. Let ua who are of tha day be sober. Wise men of the East and of the West, stoia and Epicurean reformers, Fisher and fathers and IiUther, Wm. Law and John Wesley, Thomas Ar nold and John Keble, are all at one in the doctrine and the practice of strict temperance, soberness, and chas tity, as binding on all, possible to all. Be ye holy, for I am Holy, is no cruel irony, but a promise grace. Ilia strength is ana means of iade perfect in our weakness. Christ's law is our birthright, written in pur hearts ; we list obey or defy cannot escape it; we m it. Look upward, and you a discipline and , there is before service, open- ing day by day iito boundless St. Paul or freedom, the freedom ai of Luther." Mr. Wilson, the head master of Clif j the superior ton College, ascribes health and vigor of the lad and young men at the Public Schools (i. e. the great, high-priced boarding-schools) tnd the Universities of England, to the simple diet,' which, on the whole, meat i eaten prevails at both. Thus but once a day,! and the morning and. evening meals are Heat." He attrib utes to the same cause the superior morality youths. of the highly educated 'Immorality, V he says, "has been of late, increasing among the upper classes in Engjiand. But at Oxford and Cambridge this is not the case. There is, I think , an entire con census of well-qualifiec opinion, that the Universities are better than they were, and have a standard of purity and morals, higher than that of any t-imilar aggregate of men. Further, the morality of j public school men is better than that of smaller schools.' the private and It is of the first importance that discipline good the fare be pifnple, industry essential ; exercise abundant, ca ried on up to the point of fatigue, two or three times a week ; and time fully occupied." Founders' Day at T; rinity is called ' Scarlet tiunday, " because the doc tors all appear j in their scarlet robes, as well as in their hoods, which they wear every Sunday. All Saints' Day wasanctber scarlet day, The foreign bishops were " Old Oat holies " wlio have broken with Borne. We attend ed a reception meeting! at which they were welcomed. Dr. Dollinger sent a letter; the Bishop of. Ely, and one other speaker, . pronounced him " the most learned man in the Western Church." The Bishod of Winchester said: " I believe him to be the great in Europe." said : " I am est church historian Beresford Hope, M. P verv elad that, in tW s days of the not go off to re formation , ' we did Rome, but I don't know but that I am equally glad that we dad not go off to Geneva." It was quile imposing to see so many of the English bishops to- gether. Dr. LightfooB sent a letter of regret, saying that he eit in the movement. felt great inter- This new re- formation boasts that ii already repre sents a population of half a milll so. Among the interesting people here, to whom we had letters, were Sedley Taylor, who is devoted to Social Sci ence, and is working up the subject of the participation of workingmen In the profits of manufacture, agriculture and trade, and Oscar Browning, who is giving an interesting course of lec tures, at King's, on Political Science. Again, at Trinity Chapel, we saw an o ean of white gowns, and heard glo rious music. The Lord phief Justice of England was there, In his wig and der his chain. A day or two before, we had visited the Master's Lodge of Trinity, where the Queen has twice stayed. We were told of the approach Ing visit of the Lord Chief Justice, who always makes his home at the Master's Lodge, when holding : court in Cambridge. L. C. Our Young Folks. Stretch it a Little A little t irl and her brother were on their way to a ragged school on a cold winter morn ing. The roofs of the houses and the grass on the common were white with frost, the wind very sharp. They were both poorly dressed, but the little girl had a sort of a coat over her, which she seemed to have outgrown. As they walked briskly along, she drew her little companion up to her, saying: " Come under my coat, Johnny." " It isn't big enough for both," he replied. I "Oh, but I can stretch it a little," she said ; and thJy were soon as close together and as warm as two birds, in the same nest. How many shivering bodies and heavy hearts and weeping eyes there are in the world, just be cause people do not stretch their com forts a little beyond themselves, i True and Faithful. " Charlie, Charlie ! " Clear and sweet as a note struck from a silver bell the voice rippled over the common. "That's mother," cried one of the boyB, and he instantlv threw down his bat and picked up his jacket and cap. I j " Don't go yet ! Have it out ! " " Finish this game. Try it again," cried the players in a noisy chorus. . " I must go right off this minute. I told her I'd come whenever she called." "Make believe you didn't hear," they exclaimed. "But I did J oar." " She won't 1. now you did." " But I know it, and" " Let him go," said a bystander, 'you can't do anything with him; he's tied to his mother's apron strings.". "That's so," said Charles, "and It's to what every boy ought to be tied, and in a hard knot, too." I wouldn't be such a baby as to run the minute she called." " I don't call it babyish to keep one's word to his mother," answered the obedient boy, a beautiful light glowing in his blue eyes ; " I call that manly ; and the boy who don't keep his word to her, will never keep it to any one else you see if he does ; " and he hur ried away to his cottage home. Thirty years have passed since those boys played on the common. Charlie Gray is a prosperous business man in a great city, and his mercantile friends say of him that " his word is a bond." We asked him how he acquir ed such a reputation. " I never broke my word when a boy, no matter how great a temptation, and the habits thus formed then, have clung to me through life." The Pig and the Hollow Loo. My story is about a potato field in " Old Virginia." It had around it " a stake and rider fence." The potatoes grew and grew, in sunshine, dew and rain. The owner of the field saw that there was something wrong with his potato patch. The vines Were torn up and the potatoes were gone. But who was the thief? By watching, may be, the robber may be found. The farmer hid himself among some bushes. But he saw nothing, except one of his own little pigs. Piggy was comicg slowly, slowly along the big road. He was rooting all the way, and grunting at every step. Did the pig know m here he was going ? One corner of the rail fence rested on a large hollow log. That log was just like the elbow of a Btove-pipe. One of its ends was outside and one was in side of the potato field. The sly pig went straight to the log ! With a grunt, he crawled in at one end of it, and with another grunt, he crawled out at the other end into tl e field. There he begnn at once to root up the nice potatoes and eat them. The farmer jumped over the fence. In a trice the bars were put down. There was a loud call : " Here Rover, Dta' coaV Vtlrvi f Caftotr him air f " JAnd the dog chased the thieving ras cal squealing fiom the field. The farmer said to himself: "I'll fix things all right." Then he turned the log so that the elbow was in the field, and both of its ends were on the outside. Then the farmer hid and watched again. Mr. Pig came along a second time. He thought everything was right. He crawled into the log once more. He crawled through it but he was still on the outside of the fence. The pig grunted. He lifted up his head. He looked all around in great surprise. He wondered what was wrong. Then he grunted louder, and tried once more. Again he failed. And he failed as often as he grunted and tried. The merry farmer laughed loudly at the wicked and astonished pig. Thieves are sometimes caught in their slyest tricks! Our Little One. How the Weather Indications are Determined. At the Signal Service Bureau in Washington, the weather indications are recorded at five a. m., eleven a. m. four p. m.t and eleven p. m., daily. A reporter undertakes to tell how the work is done, and this is what he sees Take a seat in the indication room with me, and we will see how the weather ia gotten up. It is dow four o'clock, Washington time, and tele- giams are pouring in from all parts of the United States, Canada, British America, West Indies, Nova Scotia, and falling into the lap of the sergeant in charge. The territory covered is from Olympia, in Victoria, on the northwest eoast of British America,' across to Sydney, above Newfound land, thence down to Havana, across to San Diego, California, and thence back again. TUere's a girdle for Puck At a certain hour of the day three o'clock Washington time obeerva tions are taken at all stations, and then they begin to come in, chasing each other over the wires pell niell, like crowd of unruly school boys. These dispatches are called off to six gentle men, each of whom sits before a map one noting the thermometer, another the barometer, a third the condition of the weather, and so on. These are transferred to one large map, and then Old Probabilities makes his appear ance. He glances over all ; sees where a Rtorm was at 1 a. m.. and notes where it was at three o'clock. He takes into consideration the wind currents, the humidity, and all the minor details which his experience and learning have taught him. Not a word is spoken in the room Old Probs i in deep study. In a moment he will speak to fifty millions of people, and a few more over in Canada. His stenogrnpher appears, and the indications are dictated for New England, then the M iddle-States, the South, West, Mississippi Valley, then perhaps, a storm bulletin twenty four hours in advance, to warn some special section. Among the innovations made, is the furoinhing to sections of the country sptcial repoi of floods, the conditions of rivers and their probable rise and fall, within twenty-four hours follow ing, at given point. Then reports are made for Southern States, on the weather during cotton picking time, s'gnals being displayed from the tele graph stations, denoting clear or bad weather coming. Lady Godiva. Have you ever heard of Coventry, an old town not very far from London, where some of the streets are so nar row that no wagons t an pass through them, snd where the second stories of the quaint old mansions jut over so far into the street that they almost touch each other? It was a lovely morning in Septem ber. We had come from busy London, that immense city where one million people, every year, ride in the many railroads that are made under' the houses, saying nothing of the millions who throng the streets above ground. All the people know Americans at eight, and they looked at us as care fully as we at them." First we went to a tall church that Sir Christopher Wren, the architect, said . was a mas terpiece. Its tower and spire alone are three hundred and three feet high : that is about three times a high as the state house In Boston. The church was built nearly four hundred years before Co lumbus discovered America; and wag given by a great earl to the monks it is Protestant now for "the repose of his soul." I suppose that means that he might get safely to Heaven. But the thing which most interested us about Coventry, was that here once lfved a sweet and beautiful lady.about whom the people never tire of telling you. She was the wife of an earl who gov erned Coventry. He was immensely rich, but taxed his subjects so, that petitions came in every day to have them lowered. Finally, as all their beseeching did no good, the poor peo ple came to his wife, Lady Godiva, to beg her to intercede for them. Her heart was touched .and she went to her husband, but he was angry, and bade her never to speak of '.t ag&in. Several months entby. He had been awav " soaie wars in the north- ernpart of EigUai, nd earning home was eo delighted ;to meet his wife and darling li'.tle boy that he clasped them both to his heart, asking her if she needed anything to complete her hap. piness. She had money, an e'egant home, and lived like a queen, but she could not be happy. She said, While our people groan under oppression, the most luxurious entertainment can af ford me no real enjoyment." Leofric, her husband, again be came violently sngry, but said, since he had promised to do what she wished, he would keep his word ; but she must ride on horseback, at noon day, fiom one end ef the city to the other, wfth no clothing upon her. He supposed, of course, that she would never consent to this. For a moment her noble, womanly heart sank with in her, and then she said, " I will go." Seeing that her mind was made up, he ordered all the people to darken the fronts of their houses, and retire to the back parts of them, while the de voted lady took her lonely ride. Wrhen the appointed day came, the whole city was as still as death. Lady Godi va's beautiful white horse was brought to the palace. With a face as blanch ed as her charger, drawing her long hair Jike a scarf about her body, she j mounted, and rode in solemn silence through all ihe principal streets. No soand was heard save that of the horde's hoofs, as the grate! ul people waited for their burdens to be lifted. : And when the ride was over, and the people opened their doors and un barred their windows, a great cry of rejoicing went up from thousands, for Coventry was free. Lady Godiva, after founding several churches, died about the year 1059. Every three or four years, in Coven try, a quaint procession still takes place, in honor of this noble act of de votion to her people. The city guard and high constable lead the column Then follows a beautiful woman cloth ed in white linen dress, fitted c'ose to her body, with long hair floating about her, and a large bunch of flow ers in her hand, riding on a cream colored horse. On either tide of her are two city officials, dressed in green and scarlet. Two men. come next bearing the sword and mace, emblems of the high authority of the mayor, followed by the mayor himself in hi scarlet robes, trimmed with fur, wear ing a cocked hat, and carrying a white wand in his hand. Then come the sheriffs In their black gowns, all the different trades of the city, the Odd Fellows, Foresters, and other benevo lent societies. The principal characters of the show are attended by beautiful children in costly habits, riding on horseback These children are so small that they are obliged to sit in basket-work seats, which are fastened to the horses back. The men who lead the horses walk without their coats, and are dec orated with a profusion of ribbons. Odds and Ends. The man who had so elastic a step wore rubbers. iipltaph for a . successful para- grapher : He never pointed his jokes with italics. The term Mormon means : the mor mon-y you have the more wives you can be sealed to. A bird that lives on the finny tribe is a fish-hawk : and the man who sells the finny tribe is a fish-hawker. Think their feathers pretty : A sa tirical slave says that tenors usually put on more airs than they sing. It has got so now that the daily paper is gradually usurping the place of the sewing circle, as a disseminator of news. The rubber slings used by the little boys are getting to be as dangerous as the gin sling handled by their daddies, Soapmakers may give each other the lye with impunity. In other lines of business it is safer to be a little cau tious in this respect. Baldwin left the Newark Bank building, because it was the only thing which, if stolen, the directors would have missed. The man who stood in front of his glass for two hours, getting the right color on his mustache, said he was just " dyeing to see his girl." It is said that the laws of New York very closely resemble sausages. You have great respect for them, until you know how they are made. Jay Charlton wants to know if it is because so many improvements have been made In spring beds and mat tresses that people lie so easily. ' I never argy agin a success," said Artemus Ward. "When I see a rat tlesnaix's head sticking out ov a hole, I bear off to the left and say to myself, that hole belongs to that snaix.' " When Adam was in his bachelor hood, he found his nights lonely, and always welcomed the morn with glad ness. Still, for all that, he was hap- ier when Eve came. A motherly-looking woman, yester day, carefully handed the stamp-clerk at the post-office a letter, marked "in haste," and inquired if there was any. extra chare for writing that on. " Oh, none at all." " How soon will the letter go out ?" " In about forty min utes." "No sooner than that?" " Well, we might hire a special train, and get It off In twenty minutes." " Would it be too much trouble?" Oh, none at all." She thought for a moment, turned the letter over three or four times and finally said : " I guess I won't ask you to hire a special train, but if you will be kind enough to telegraph my sister that I have written her a letter, to tell her I can't come till Monday, and to be at the depot to meet me, and that mother didn't go to Toledo after all, I shall be ever so much obliged. Good morn ing." A Frisky Quadruped Creates a Panic. A highly amusing scene was wit nessed at the Academy of Muic at a recent matinee. About the middle of the lat act, while the "Jolly Bach elors " and "Jolly Maids " were about to make a grand climax, a femii ine shriek was heard in the dress circle. and half a second later, a young la-'y was observed to jump up into her chair, gather her diess about her and stare at the floor. This was instantly followed by a chorus of squeals, and all the ladies in that part of the house, moved by some common impulse, climbed into their seats, gathered up their skirts and craned their necks to look underneath. Presently a little scream arose from the other tide of the aisle, and another young woman jumped into her chair. Everybody looked to see what the panic was. Some of the performers laughed, others were amazed, and all stumbled through their parts though that made no difference, as nobody in the house was paying the slightest attention to the play. It was a mouse. Under Water Lamps. A new method of illuminating the tanks at the Royal Aquarium, West minster, was lately shown by means of the "Faure" electric battery, and which, so far as it went, was of a sue cessful character. The lights shown were, to the number of six, submerged in the tank at the foot of the west staircase with excelleriteffect, show ing up every fish and 'plant with great distinctness, a result impossible to attain under the old system of gas illumination. One of the great advan tages of the electric oef the gas light- iog system, is that the fish do not seem to mind in the least the elr se proximity of the incandescent lamps while at the same time they do not suffer from the noxious emanations evolved during the combustion of gas Under Mr. Faure'a system, a steady light of almost any intensity can be attained, while th engines, which can be run without cessation during the whole of the twenty-four hours of the day, effect a great many savings, by their power of storing the electric en ergy, while at the same time they ob viate tbedanger of a sudden accidental extinction of the other lisrht emDloved The electjricity used for the lighting oi me tans: was generated in wooiwicn and carried down to the aquarium where it arrived but a t-hort time be fore it was used. Men and Women as Workers. Leaving laziness and mere lym phatic Indifference out of tbe ques tion, men and women differ much in natural tendency to work. A man may be very far from idle, and yet have none of that agreeable instinct of activity which ia born with some people. We must also distinguish be tween activity in a favorite study or purpose, ana mere labor. Absolute toil we may put on one side. But we must draw a line everywhere between labor in which the whole of the force and suggestion has to come from within, and to which the inducements and solicitations lie outside. Inclination being supposed equal, it is more easy to get through any course of business in which one thing turns up after another to excite the attention and quicken brain and hands, than to carry through a task in which the immedi ate goals of exertion are not near, and the internal spring of effort has to be wound up from time to time without the help of a tangible, outward Hoc age. There is an old rhyme which was probably unknown to Mr. Mill, for in his " Subjection to Women" treats the point as a new one which says, " That from rise of morn to set of sun, woman's work is never done." That is quite true ; but if it is a hardship. the hardship is mitigated by the fact that woman's household duties have a "concatenation accordingly,"ln which the solicitation or impulse is "supplied from without, with the advantage (which also applies to much of men's ordinary business) that the social feel ings count for a good deal in the con catenation and the impulse. It may be noted, meanwhile, that women get through all their duties and, no doubt, through their highest studies with less waste of power than men, and with less apparent concern about either pain or uneasiness. This we do not mention as a discovery, for it is commonplace, but as a thing to be borne In mind. London Spectator. Hard Work Not Genius. Young people are inclined to believe that if a person has genius he need not work to win success. But the truth is that genius shows itself in the labor to which it urges its possesser. The au thors and artists, the actors and orators who have made their mark, have, whatever else they possessed, had the power to labor long and hard in their chosen calling. : Thackeray says of Lord Macaulay that " he reads twenty books to write a sentence ; he travels a hundred miles to make a line of description." Tbe flowing periods and the exact pen pic tures of the great historian were the result of constant painstaking and un wearied labor. Michael Angelo was, up to the last years or his long lire, an Industrious sculptor and painter. Turner, the finest English landscape painter of this generation, worked constantly at his art. The power of the actor and orator demands training to be of use. " Act ing," said the elder Kean, ' does not, like Dogberry's reading and writing, come by nature.' " The same might be said of the oratory of Wendell Phil lips, on the platform, or of the elo quence of Bishop Simpson and Doctor R. S Storrs, in the pulpit. Genius without labor usually proves curse to him who has it. Genius with labor may perform wonders. Or dinary ability, supported by willing ness to work constantly and persist ently, will achieve success in any pro fession or business. As Ralph Waldo Emerson says : The world's no longer clay, but ra'her iron in the hands of its workers. and men have got to hammer out a place for themselves by steady and rugged blows." The followers of Buddha outnum ber those of all other religions com bined. Buddhism being the religion of two-fifths of the human race. At the present time, it is the religion of the n altitude in China, while the learned men of that most conservative nation cling to the more modern teachings of Confucius, which date back only some o&l years B. C. The Bird That Has No Nest. The cuckoo and her mate have no home of their own ; but that does not seem to troublethem. They peep here and there among the leaves, until they find the nest of some other bird, a sark Irhaps, or a thrush, or a yellow ham mer; and" if the owner of the nest is away, Mrs. Cuckoo leaves withiu it a small egg. There are some birds tba.t can take care of themselves aloiott as soon as they are born ; but Mrs Cuckoo never leaves her eges in their nests. Oh no ! she chooses a nest in which tbe young birds are wtll cartd for by thir mothers, and fed with food on which the young cuckoos thrive best. Why she Is too idle to build her own nest, no one knows. Some peoj lesay it is because she stays so short a time in the same country that her young ones would not not strong enough to fly away with her, if the waited to build her nest. Others think it is because she is cuch a great eater tb at she cannot spnd time to fiud food for her children. But the kind footer mothers, the larks and the thrushes, care tor the egg that the cuckoo leaves in their houses, although. If any other bird leaves one, they will take no care of it at all, , but root it out upon the ground. The Scotch word for cuckoo, gowk, means also a foolish person. But I think they ought rather to bave named it a wicked person : for the young cuckoo is so ungrateful and self ish, that he often gets one of the otber little birds on his back, and then, climbing to the top of the nest, throws it over the edge. These are tbe Erig- glish cuckoos of which I have been telling you. . I am glad to say that their American cousins take rare of their own children. NothingExtraordinary. Col. Stuart, when a subaltern at Gibraltar, was one day on guard with another officer, who unfortunately fell down a precipice four hundred feet high and was killed. In the guard reports there is: "N. B. Nothing extraor Jinary since guard mouuting; " ihe meaning of which is, that in case anything particular should ocour, the officer commanding the guard is bound to m;ntin it. Our friend, how ever, said nothing about the accident that had occurred to his brother ( ni cer, ana some nours alter, tne brigade major came to his quarters, on the part of the officer commanding, -.with the report in his hand, to demand an explanation. The brigade major, ad dressing him, said : - " You say, sir, in your report, 'N. B. Nothing extraor dinary since guard mounting. ' when your brother guard, on duty with you, has fallen down a precipice, four hun dred feet high, and been killed." 'Well, sir, " replied B- 'I dinna think there's anything extraordinary in it ; if he faun down a precipice four hundred feet hijh andnot been killed. I should ha'e thought it very extraor dinary Indeed, and wad ha'e put it down in my report.'.' . Texas Jack Tramp Typo. He is here. We knew It was only a question of time when we should see him again. The last time we saw him, some ten years arro, he was passing through the "Zenith City of tbe Un. salted Seas," and since then he has been a " citizen of the world, " visit ing every climate that the printer's art has helped out of barbarism. "But," you say, "who is he?" He is known in America. Europe. Asia. Africa, and Oceanica, and we believe also in New Jersey, as " Texas Jack, " or the Wandering Printer. Withal, he is a gentleman, though he has led a restless, wandering life. He is only at home when on the road, only hap py when moving. He has asi8'ed in getting up this issue of tbe Xews, and may, for aught we know, hstve "struck" this identical " take. " Some foolish people tell a story about a follow called the " Wandering Jew." Well It is all bosh. When Faust was working his diabolism with wooden types, among h's "devils" wse an irrepressible Irishman, who would get on an occasional spree. During one of these he unfortunately gave old Faust's secret away, aud the boss "measured him up" and sent him adrift, with the parting curse that he should roam through " spice, " lookv ing for " cases " and finding them not, till the last trump should sound. This was Jack McGinty. He's here to-day; he may be in Honolulu to-morrow. Goo! speed him wherev r he goes. Party Names. In the matter of partisan designa tions the English have been more sparing tnan most other nations which enjoy political freedom. Till lately they have had only two parties, and in successive centuries they have changed their names from Cavalier and Roundhead to Tory and Wbig, and then to Conservative and Liberal. Radical, snd tttill more, Home Ruler are modern outgrowths. It Is, however, when we come to France, a country whoee people are equally prone to resolutions and to systematic classifications, that we find party distinctions far more numerous. In the Chamber, for example, we have the Centre and the Left Centre, aud the Pure Left and the.Extreme Left ; and so, of course, with the Right. Or, if we divide parties in another way. we have three distinct kinds of Mon archists and some hsJf a dozen kinds of Republicans, for there Is a kind of Republican who thinks Citizen Clem- noeaa rather a alow coach, and would prfr to tee Cilizeness Loui?e Miciiol at the head of afrMr. But at first sight who would ima . inetbat Germany, which some fi - twenty years ago we regarded a delightful dreamy cloudland, of U. i and tobacco, music and philosophy who would Imagine that this once slow-moving Germany even be. s impulsive Gaul in the number oft - political nicknames? At tbe rtve.it election ycu n.Uht range- vour.-t under at least ten dUtimt baitie, . You might be at your plaure a N . tioual Literal, a Set-en.-. ion ist, a l'r -grefsist, a Conservative, & CI? ricat, Pole, a South German, a Protester, i uueirn. or a Soeial.. Demo -rat. l course this niultip'ncRy of ntmes cansed,-partly, by the still unrep.iu breach between tPrmee II enmr, t and the 'Vatican, but still mre ,1 tbe fact that Germwn unity is, ev . now, a very new thing. Tbecemti has not yet had time to " set." Housekeeper's Help. Cabbage with Cream. Ro i, drain and cut up a inoderate t-izeti cab bage. Put in a -auce pan with a c i ple of tablei ooufalsof butter, a (fill . t cream, a tAblespoonful of fl ur, s. t and peper. Add the cablngo; b. 1 slowly tts.i minutes, stirring well. CaBBAOK FKIKD WITH BACON - Boil a cadbage in calt water, drain an t chop. Fry some slices of bacon, ta. e from the pan and keep hot. Put tt-. chopped cabbageJn the same pan an i fry with the bacon fat, adding ippe . La3r in a hot dish with tbe bacon up. it it, aud serve. s- Stkwed Veai,. Cut your meat i t pieces, wah them olen, put then into the diunev l, add titree pints of water, put in one onion, some pepper and salt; let it sttw one hour; then add iotatoes sliced, and then niaku crust of Hour milk or cream tartar, au.i put it in and ntew till the iotatoes air dont? about half an hour. Crumbs any kind of freh meat may be used i j making a stew. Indian-Meal Muffins Twocuj of Indian meal, one cujf of Hour, tim e eggs, two and a half cujw of milk, three tablespoonfuls of butter, two tablespoon fuls of sugar, thred tablespoonfuls of baking owder, onw teapoonful of Halt. Beat the eg-t thoroughly and melt the butter; silt the baking powder into the meal and flmir while dry, then stir it into, Ujo butter and ergs and beat all togethe : put in well-buttered molds or riny ., and bake quickly. Selected. Husk Mat. Take the hueks ne . to the ear, for they are the best. Ko -'.. in warm water until very soft, an . then begin braiding them. Eve time you lap one over put a new on, in, leaving the ends t-tand up on t upjer side'of the braid, while tb -underside must be smooth. Wh t done, trim the busk ol!"one s'ze on thi . top, and pull them in strings with v husking-peg, hut you must firat . it around In a large wheel with whl.a cord. This can be washed. Horse Lore. Thehorse has the smallest stoma" in proportion to his nize of any anim i . Fi ft een or sixteen quarts is It utrno t cspaeity. This space is co.npb-ti 1 v filled by four quart of osts ami t t saliva that goes Into the stomach w; ' them. Horses are generally overft snd not fed often enough. Fi a horse with moderate work, tlx r eight quarts of bruised oats and t i pounds of .fine bay is sufficient. Tl should be fed in at lead three mel and is better if fed In four. A horn digestion is very rapi i, an 1 thereto-e he gets hungry sooner thin a ma i. When be is bunrry be in ineftVctiv , and(wears out very rabidly.. Wat ( fills the stomach, loweis the temper.. ture, -anti dilutes the gastric Juice; therefore a horse should not drink iru mediate'y before eating. NrliL i should he be watered - immediab 1 after eating, bei-uu-e b rili drink t ; much, and for ;e-o.i.e of the content-" of the stoaiah into the lrge inb - tines, which will cnse scourin.. enuring ii tho caimul by ! rapi 1 eating, which can he prevented hr putting half a dozen pebble, half tb rdr.e of the fi-t, into the manger wi the oats! .Give or ly a moderate drin ofwatertoa borne. A drink of coi i water, before bt ing driven, will bs.o a quieting t ffV-t on a nervous bor -. A race-horse always runs on an ernj . . stomach. Digesting progrtwe mod erately during exerr-i-e, if the exercUe is not so violent as to exhaust ths powers of the borne. How Far Wrongis this " Old Maid ?" She had been called an eld ma! .. and rather reeu ted it. She said: " l am past thirty. I have a gorxl ho ha-. I think you know I have had abu t dant opjxrtunities t' marry. I ba. been bridesmaid a sore of times. J ask myself with which one of tl beautiful girls that I have ec-en U the marriage vow would I exchan to-day? Not one. Some are living apart from their husbands ; some ara divorced; some are hanging on tt e ragged edge of society, endeavoring keep up aprrf-arance ; some are toill'i to support and educate their c hildre . and these are tbe ItaM miserable some tread the narrow linj beyoc the boundarj of which lis tbe m- terious land, and soms have goue out in the darkness and unknown borrc.n. and some are dead. A few there a. e who are loved aud honored wives, mothers with happy homes ; but, ai.; only a very few." .
The Western Sentinel (Winston-Salem, N.C.)
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Jan. 31, 1882, edition 1
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