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Bread. Where?' How:? ( ; ILK N.DMOTH ER'H IJIJKAKFAST. For the Patron and Gleaner. S illv. Oran1mttlier,gr:iiiJmothf r.wliaf Khali I dn. To make a breakfast, thi morning for . .you? ; r ; " : ' Gratulmothpr. I'm faint, my Sally, and go you may Took u.r thing for me, without delay. I'm himery, my, child ; now hurry and make Your poor old granny a johnnycake. Sally. Miller, give me eotne -ornineal, quick ; for dear old granny 1? hungry and siek. Miller.- You mut gouto the farmer and bring me pome grairr; And it you will make hate back again. My windmill the yellow meal ehall make. And granny di:ill have h-r johnhvcake. Sdlr. Farmer, - give me some com, if you vill, '' for miller to grind in his wliirring mill. F.rrnr. fin to the plowman, and hid him plow And harrow the ground, a Jim., knows how. The goldeM kernel to plant, I II take, And gamiy li;tll hv -r joliuri veake. Sviilv. II - , good plowman, harrow ml plow, The farmer for you wailing now. Plowman. 0 to tin wiuil, and rain, and miii, Ami tell them "li- time fheir tack was done. 'The M.il, for rne, they must ready make. .That grainy may have her job- nycake. It, citation. So wind, rain, su shine. mellowed the soil ; The ph.wman hasted to do his .toil ; The (aru er planted the shining grain All over the brown and furrowed plain; The' windmill-. wings went whirring i arcund ; .' The miller the golden kernels ground ; And dear little Sally made haste to make The .veet meal into johnnycake. And grandmother said, "Tin faint, my dear ! As soon as you could, you brought it here. : " Hut oh ! dear me ! how many it takes, To feed poor granny with I johnny-cakes M. II. Rice. Meshoppen, Pa. . r Lucifer Match Inventor. Ithas boot generally believed, and we gve the statement some years ago. in the Leisure Hour, says the editor, that the invention of lucifer matches was due to Mr., now Sir Isaac Holden, M. P., who still survives as one of the oldest members of Parliament. This was in as we then said. In bovh(KKl, before that time, a little Vxittle of phosphorus' in accuse was the ne plus ultra of invention, and was used instead ofpie ruder Hint and steel with tinder, either ... . tor domestic purges or lor uie surreptitious midnight feasts of M'hcK)llH)VS. It turns outthat the real inven tor was Jo)m Walker, an apothe cary of Stockton, two years earli- V'. er, in 1B27. In a lecture in the lio rough Hall of Stockton on 'Methcxis of obtaining light. and tire in all ags and among all na tions." Mr. Par rot t, the lecturer, exhibited the old shop book of Mr. Walker for that y oar. It was shown that a box of lucifer mutches, getting light by f riction, was sold in April, 1827, 'to Mr. lliekson. a solicitor, for Is. 3d. So important is the discovery; deemed that an influential com mittee is formed to erect a statue to John Walker. Sir Isaac Holden is an honorary, member of this Stock Um committee, r stating, when nominated, that he was not aware of the priority of inven tion. Other claims have been made in -Prance and Germany, but the honor or good fortune ee rtai nly belongs to John Walker, who died in May. lbou. aged il It was the beginning of a most wonderful movement in history, art, and commerce. Think of the suj)erstitious awe with which, not in Jerusalem alone, but through out the nations who are ignorent of the invention, is hailed the "miraculous" light obtained from 1 ucif e r matches ! How vast the weal tli derived among civilized races from the manufacture of -safety matches" of all kinds ! A memorial plate has 1 meanwhile been fixed on the site of Mr. Walker s old shop in the High Street of Stockton Scientific American. Test of Character. The principal of a school in which boys were prepared for college, one day received a mes sage from a lawyer living in the same town, requesting him to call at his office, as he wished to have a talk with him. Arriving at the office, the law yer stated that he had in his gift a scholarship entitling a boy to a four years course in a certain college, and tur: he wished to be stow it where it would be best used. "Therefore," he continued, 'I have concluded to let you. decide which boy of your school most deserves it" 4 -That is a hard question to de cide," replied the teacher thought fully. "Two of 1 my pupils Charles Hart and Henry Strong will complete the course of study in my school this year. Both de si re a collegiate education, and neither is able to attain it without assistance. They are so nearly equal that I cannot tell which is the better scholar." "How is it as to deportment?" asked the lawyer. "One boy does not more scru pulously observe all the rules of the school than the other, " was the answer. "Well," said the lawyer, "if, at the end of the year one boy has not gone ahead of the other, send them to me, and I will decide be tween them.". As before, at the closing exam inations, the boys stood equal in attainments. They were directed to call at the lawryer's office, no information being given as to the object of the visit Two i ntelligent, well-bred boyrs they seemed, and the lawyer was beginning to wonder greatly how he should make a decision be tween them. Just then the door opened, and an elderly lady of pe culiar appearance entered. She was well known as being of unset tled mind and possessed of the idea that she had been deprived of a large fortune which was justly hers. As a consequence, she was in the habit of visiting lawyers' offices, carrying in her. hands a ixickage of papers, which she wished examined. She was a very familiar visitor to this office, where she was always re ceived with respect and dis missed with kindly promises of help. This morning, seeing that the lawyer was already occupied with others, she seated herself to await his leisure. Unfortunately, tha chair she selected was broken, and had been set aside as use less. The result was, that she fell in a rather awkward manner, scat tering her jiapers about the floor. The lawyer looked with a quick eye at the: boys, before moving himself, to see what they would do. Charles Hart after an amused survey of the fall, turned aside to hide the laugh he could not con trol. Henry Strong "sprang to the woman's side, and lifted her to her feet Then carefully gather ing up her paiers. he politely handed them to her. . Her pro fuse and rambling thanks served only to increase Charlie's amuse ment After the lady had told her ac customed story, to which the law yer listened with every appear ance of attention, he escorted her to the door, and she departed. Then he returned to the boys, and after expressing pleasure at havingformedtheiracquainuince, he dismissed thein. The next day the teacher was informed of the occurrence, and told that the scholarship would be given to Henry Strong, with the remark, "No one so well deserves to be fitted for a position of honor and influence as he who feels it his duty to helpjhe humblest and the lowliest Christian Union. How to Obtain Happiness. The supremeaim of life is hap piness, but when it is sought as it nearly always is, for mere per sonal gratification it becomes sor row. Though the all-absorbing passion of every heart beats for this complete and perfect condi tion, yet ignorance and sin have led humanity a false race in the supposed belief that happinessl can be obtained as the direct re sult of its own pursuit The ani mating motive of every such race has been selfi; ness. Wherever the desire for gratification of self reigns in the heat as the nearest road to happiness, the coveted prize forever eludes the grasp. Selfishness is ie king of passion. It exalts the lower nature and de mands a conquest of the higher. It hurls the thunderbolt of war in its behalf and preys upon the weak and helpless. It sacrifices the nearest and dearest relations of life and attempts to grasp the treasure of perfect joy from weary hearts and-blasted lives. It is the garland of sin, the glittering bauble of temptation and the car rier of despair arid death to its deluded devotees. .The bitter ex perience of the past teaches us that selfishness can never lead to happiness. When Eve sought to gratify her appetite with the for bidden fruit she wrapped a shroud about the cradle of the race and attired her offspring in sorrow Selfishness guided the ambitions of Alexander Hannibal and Na poleon, and fed them with the blood of the nation's slain, that the sceptre of the despot might be supreme. When the gratifica tion of our own appetites and pro pensities is the impelling force that directs our conduct, misery and sorrow are not far off, and the cup of bitterness will soon be pressed to our lips. Merited Reproof; There is perhaps no better test of a man's real strength of char acier than the way he bears him self ; under just reproof. Every man makes mistakes; every man commits faults; but not every man has the honesty and meek ness to acknowledge his errors and to welcome the criticism which points them out to him. It is rarely difficult for us to find an excise for ours, if it's an excuse weare looking for. It is, in fact, always easier to spring to an an gry defense of ourselves than to calmlyT acknowledge the justice of another's righteous condemna tion of some wrong action of ours; but to refuse to adot this latter course, when we know we are in the wrong, is to reveal to our own better consciousness and often to the consciousness of others, an essential defect in our character.. He is strong who dares to confess that he is weak; he is already tot tering to a fall who needs to bol ster up the weakness of his per sonality by all sorts of transpar ent shams. It islnot in vain that Scripture says: "Reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge;" for one of the best evidences of the possession of -that discreet self judgment which stands at the basis of moral strength, and one of the best means of pining it when it is lacking, is just this willingness to accept merited re proof, and to profit by it when ac cepted. Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmi- a. ties of age not yet begun; as we see thai the shadows which are at morning and evening so large, al most entirely disappear at mid day. Dr. T. Arnold. Happiness is no other than soundness and perfectionof mind. Antoninus. Cotton Manufacturing in .'North Carolina. Cotton milling lias paid well in North Carolina. If not why the great increase in the number of mills, (and why the building of new nf ills? There were 167 cot ton mills in the State on 1st Jan uary 169 a marked increase and more than in any other Southern State There were also nine woolen mills operating. These mills are scattered among twen ty-nine counties, other mills are to be built and enlargements of those operating now are going on about all the time. While some may ndt have made money inl 1894, the greater part did, and those judiciously managed made good profits. . It is known that I operators are- well treated and but one exception has been found, j New mills will be built at Wib mington, Salisbury and, other points. Mills are doubling capac ity and many have declared good dividends, for 1894--some as high as 12 per cent or more, Does it pay to build mills? That is an interesting question. Mr. W. J. Armfield writing to the Bal timore Manufacturer's Record, from High Point, said this : 'Tie e fleet of the e?tbliJimoul of cotton mills in our section upon biisiue?? interests has been very beneficial ami the vame may be saH of our furniture, tobacco, ppoke and handle, door and sash, blind, chany mattress and othr fac torie?. They... have caused much Im provement in the financial condition of the farmers adjacent to the mills and fictories by furnishing a home market for cotton, tobacco, farm produce and other materials! Almost the entire cap ital invested in mills and factories in om vicinity is local money. The cotton mills in our section,, of which theie are ten, some of them es tablished forty-five to fifty years ago, and quite large for the South, as a gen eral thing have been profitable, and the industry compaws v ry favorable with other manufacturing interests in regard to profitableness." There are six or seven cotton rniUs in or around Concord. They all made money last year as hard a year as it was. There is also a successful, profitable bag manu factory and it . made good divi dends in 1894. The Charlotte mills prospered, and we suppose those near Rockingham did also. ' The North Carolina Labor Re port gives much information as to our mills. In the State the ........ number of spindles operated by the cotton and woolenTm ills, 703, 997; total number of looms, 15, 059. Only CO per cent of the mills reported the number of wo men and children operatives em ployed by them; in this 60 per cent, there are employed 6,329 women and 2,339 children under the ages of 14 years. Of the lat ter 1,000 are girls and 1339 are boys. The number-of days dur ing the year 1894 in which they were operated varied from 100 to. 310. The average of 200 days work in . twelve counties was eleven hours, in eleven counties it was ten hours, in four counties twelve hours, in one county eleven and one-half hours, in one county eleven and two-thi rds hours. In nineteen counties a ten hour system is favored, while in the other ten it is opposed. In twelve counties the mill people, owners and operatives think that the matter should be regulated by law. The daily wages of skilled men operatives vary from 21, paid by the Buncombe county woolen mills and the Craven county cot ton mills, to 70 cents, paid by the Person county cotton mills; the averagers $1.36. The wages of unskilled men vary from $1 to 60 cents; the average is 75 'cents. The wages of skilled women oper atives range from 90 to 40 cents; the average is GO 'cents. The wages of unskilled women range from GO cents to 30 cents; the average is 45 cents. Children un der 14 years of age receive 40 to 15 cents per day; the average be ing SO centf The wages of oper atives are all paid in cash in all of the 167 mills save nineteen; two pay only 5 per cent in cash, and one pays entirely in checks' that is, orders on stores, general ly owned by mill owners. There is ample room for many more mills. They will come. Northern millers ought to keep their eyes on North Carolina. It offers peculiar advantages. Vis it Wilmington and behold the out look. -Wilmington Messenger. The Bright Side. Look on the bright side of things! If you have not already formed that habit, try hard to form it withont delay. Then you will be the owner of something which money can not buy, and which no thief can rob you of. See the silvery lining to every dark cloud, and the streaks of light which show the morn is coming. What is the use of always f re t- ting? Of course, there are in life things hard to bear, but does fretting make the burden easier to-be borne? A rainy day may spoil a pleasure, excursion, but will complaining make one drop of rain - fall - the less? The rain whic 1 1 spoils you r plans makes the dry earth laugh and gives to the farmer a bright vision of an abundant harvest The August sun, which makes yourjiead ache, softens the hard fruit upon the trees ad turns ithe acid into sweetness. ; So try hard not to be selfish. That which may not suit you may suit the rest of the world, fee generous and take an interest in the welfare of others; in this way you will find happy thoughts nest ling in-your own soul, like a flock of cheerful singing-birds. Then you will have a smile on your face and music in your voice; your path in life will be bright with heaven's own light But the self ish man must walk in the shad ow; if nothing without makes him unhappy there will be something within. He who soeks his own happiness only will surely miss it; but he who seeks the good of others will have his reward here and hereafter.- Selected. Contractor and Builder, JACKSON. N. C. FUmates, t1an9 and specification furnished on application. Personal attention given in all work Satisfaction jiuaranteed. GHOCEHIES! I. C. BRINKLEY, ( Successor to KUenor & IJrinkley), 610CL1VFSEISL rofilSMOlTH. Vi, Can b5 found at the old stand where a full and complete lineof Gro ceries are kept whicji are offered at " ' LOW DOWN PRICES at Wholesale and Retail. Spectacles and Eye Glasses. Do you vant a pair of passes that will make you see better and do better wo rk,that will preserve your eye siht ' if it is defective, that will not tire 3our eves, then coue to W. P. MOORE & CO. Jackson, N. C who ire making a specialty of fitting Glasses and can replace broken parts at small cost NOTICE, v Hating qualified a AdrainUtrarnr upon the rtate of the late John O. K.l wards notice i hereby girer to all prr on holding cUimt lr.t tmte to present thecu to me for payment on or befnn th 1 tt rise nff VK 1 CV .1.1. Mtice will be plead in bar of their re covery. Debtor will pleas par nroroptlr." ThUJati'r Tlb ISD5. J.D. Bottoms, AJmr. S. J. Cai.veut, Au'jr. A CARD. i c bare Just reccircd a shipment of John ton s Cbill and Fever Tonic. ft was bought with a distinct under standing between the Manufacturer and ourselves that each and every loUle is guaranteed to cure any if the following diseases: 1st. thills md Fever. 2nd. ClIUocs Fever.' 3rd. Uenorrhisic Ferer. 4th. Sturalgia. " 5 id. Jle&sles r 6tb. UGrippe. Now, we are willing to sell you on the Raroe 'conditions we buy U on. We tll uuaranwe ONE single 50 cent bottle to cure any of the dis eases above enumerated. Fading tn to so we will cheer fully return vour money. Yours truly, , v JoriN Hai giiajx, Rich Square., 0. -Conner & Vavoiian, Lasker. N. C. 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