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fnpqrfrirnrT r jj j.ojwiMvjfij ium 1 wit: r . .: , , ' "' ' ' " PUBLISHED! BY THE ALBEMARLE PUBLISHING CO. 'Srfa-'- Iii'hh -T" i y ' A WEEKLY PAPER, DEVOTED TOTTHE GOOD OF THE COMMUNITY IN OENEIIAL, AND THE SPECIAL BENEFIT OF ITS PATRONS TERMS: $2 iN ADVANCE. -4 ' VOL. I. ELIZABETH ; CITY. N. C, TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1874. T7T;. NO. 10. r - - ' X Poetry. FLORIDA. BY MATT IE A.- BBIDOS. 'Tia an Eden-like land rises now in my dreams, Bight-entrancing, and fatr, gilded o'er with sniibeams; -And her groat tropic heart, to the North Open , wide, armj says : "Here is life where my blue rivers glide. Bee them winding and flowing into soft gleam- , ing lines. bounding sweet grores of orange and whisper- ingpines; -;u Throngh our dreamy thin azure, your'home . breezes blow. Beating vigor and strength from your regions of snow; And the winds of the East, from their gay wanton wings, Drop the bright silver dew that the great ocean flings. !" forest of creervnatTW lo-vnnalw -"; " I ixiixig ,iou wiw ncn, sxroos; are ner nowery domains; , v' Here the bird's wing melodiously breaks the soft air; , In low murmuring sound wind the gay streams ' so fair; '" & And the honey-bee sings a sweet song in the rose, , Which in wildest profusion And richness here grows; f While the step of the deer as it rustles near by, Startling pheasants and quails from their. coverts anigh; With the swoop of the eagle, the sojig of the .' . dove, ' Each and all make a melody uwcet as first love; ' And old, deep-hearted silence, with listening ear, Seemed breathless with rapture this chorus to hear. . On our future's no nhade; promise lies in our soil; Near its heart'sloep the germs of wiue, bread, cloth, and oil; The magnolia, date, olive, and lemon entwine; To the live-oak and cypress clings clqso the fond -vine, While the palmetto jungles, historic in name, Offer pathways by labor to riehos and fame. There is life in the air, there is youth in the stream . ' Ia .the sky's tender blue, iu the suus golden beam; And far better than wine, the rich perfumes so : near, For the bloom of a summer unfading is hre. K . Wavste of Health and Strength In the Yonns. Let me ask you, ladies, with all cour tesy, but with all earnestness are you aware that more human beings "are killed in England every year by un necessary -and preventable diseases than were killed at Waterloo or at Sadowa? Are you aware that the great majority of those victims are children ! Are you aware that the di seases tthich carryjbeni off are tor the inoRt part such as ought to be specially junder.control of the women who love them, pet them, educate thenar ami would in many cases, if need be, lay down their lives for them 1 Are you aware, again, of the vast amount of disease which, so both wise mothers and wise doctors assures me, is engen dered in the sleeping room from simple ignorance of the laws of ventilation, and in the school room likewiset from smi pie ignorance of the laws of physi ology T irom an ignorance of which I shall mention no other case save one that too often from ignorance of signs of approaching disease, a child is pun ished for what is called idleness, list lessnesa, willfulness, sulkiness; and punished, too, in the un wisest way by "an increase of tasks and confinement . to the house, thus overtasking still more a brain already overtasked, and depressing still more, by robbing it of oxygen and of exercise, a system al ready depressed f ,Are you" aware, I ask again,of all this? I speak earnestly upon this point, because I speak with experience. As a single instance, a medical man, a friend of mine, passing t by his own school room,1 heard .one of - his own little girl sscreaming and cry ' ing, and went in. The governess, an excellent-woman, but wholly ignorant ofthelawsbf physiology,' complained that the child had of late become obsti nate, and Would not learn; and that therefore she must punish her by keep , " ing her indoors over the unlearned les sons. The father, who knew that the child was usually a very, good one, looked at her carefully for , a little while; sent her out of the school room; and then said, "That child must not . open a bdok for a month." "If I had not acted so," he said to me, "I should .. have had that child dead of brain disease within a year." Now,in the face of such facts as these is it too much to ask of mothers, sis ters, aunts, nurses, governesses-all I who may be occupied in the" care of children, especially of girls that they should study thrift ot human health and human life, by studying somewhat the laws of life and health T There are books I may say a whole library of books written by scientific doctors on these matters, which are. in my mind, far more important to the school room than half the trashy accomplishments, so called, which are expected to be known by governesses. But are they bought 7 Are they even to be bought from booksellers 1 Ah.tor a little know ledge of the laws to the neglect of. which is owing so much fearful diseases. which, if it does not produce immedi- ate aeatu, too often leaves the condi tion impaired for years to come ! Ah, the waste of health and strength inithe young, the waste, too, of anxiety and misery-in those who love and tend : them ! How much of ,it migh.t be saved by a little rational education in those laws of nature which are the will of God about the welfare of our bodies, and which, therefore, we are as much bound ticnow and to obey the spiritual laws whereon depend the welfare of our souls ? Health and Education. I'aris Green. Paris Green, which has been creating more or less of a 6ensation in suicidal and potato-bug circles, of late, is what chemists term arsenite of copper. It is a precipitate resulting from the mixture 'of tha solution of arsenic and sulphate of copper (bluestorie), with a little solution of amouia to help the 'matter along. It is a fine, dense, com paratively heavy powder, of a bright emerald-green color, whose proper place is in the paint shop. Agreeably to the authority of an eminent chemist of this city .the pure article should con sist of one equivalent of copper and one of arsenic. When taken into the stomach the gastric juice of that organ dissolves the arsenious element of the Paris green, which is then taken up by the absorbents'and introduced into the circulation. -In Europe it is 'known as Sichelee green, from the name of the celebrated chemist) who discovered it. When pure, ten grains is sufficient to destroy life. The article in use among the cheap American nation, t- however, is vastly adulterated, and it , would probably require - double the' above dose for a man to pi-ove that he bore the undertaker no malice. THE HEADLESS no Its EM AX. BY H. "Wj T. "God RDeed to you, Charley," ejaculated the master . e i. i i:ni i , , . ui nine sneDeen nonse at Bally hooley, after his old friend and good uuoiuiuer, vuaney jamane, WHO at length ' had turned hin fo with the prospect of as dreary a ride. nun ao uaia mgub as ever 1611 Upon tH6 Blackwater. alone whose bants h wa about to journey., ' j Charley Colnane.knew the country well, and moreover; was as bold and as daring a rider as any Mallow boy that ever rattled a four yeat old upon' Drumrue race course. He had gone to Fermony.in the morning, as well for the purpose of . purchasing some in gredients required for the Christmas dinner by his wife, as to gratify his own vanity by haying new reins fitted to his snaffle in which he intended showing off the oldt mare at the approaching St. Stephen's Day hunt. ; ;j "... ; Charley did riot get out of Fermoy until late ; for although he was not one of your very particular sort in anything relating to the common occurrences of life, yet in all the appointments con nected with hunting, riding, leaping ,in short, in whatever was connected with the old snare, Charley, the saddler said, "was the devil to plase." An illustra tion of this fastidiousness was afforded by his going such a distance for a snaffle bridle. Mallow was full twelve miles nearer Charley's farm (which lay -just three-quarters of a mile below Carrick) than Fermoy, but Charley had quarreled "with all the Mallow saddlers, and no one would content him in all particulars but honest Mick Twomey of Fermoy, who used to assert, and who will doubt it ? that he could stitch a saddle better than the lord lieutenant, although they matie mm all as onaas king over Ireland. The delay in the arrangement of the sualHa bridle did not allow Charley Culnane to so long a visit as he had at first intended to his old friend and gossip. . C 5n. Buckley of the Harp of JJrin. Con, howeven, knew the value fef time, and insisted upon Charley makibg good use of what he had to spare. "I won't bother you waiting for water, Charley, because I think you'll have enough of that same before you get home ; so drink off your liquor, man.it's as good parliament as ever a gentleman tasted." Charley, it must be confessed, nothing loth, drank success to Con, and success to the jolly "Harp of Erin," with its head of beauty and its strings of the hair, of gold, and to their better ac quaintance, and so on, from the bottom of his soul, until the bottom of the bottle reminded him that Carrick was at the bottom of the hill on the other side of Castletown Roche, and that he had got no further on his road than his gossips at Ballyhooley, close to the big gate of Connamore. Catching hold of his oilskin hat, 'therefore," while Con Buckley went to the cupboard for another bottle of the "real st,nff "hA regularly, as he termed it, bolted from his friend's hospitality, darted to the stable, iWivod ixia girth a. and pat thft oia mare into a canter toward Home. Charley cantered gayly, regardless of the rain, which, as his frieqd Con had anticipated, fell in torrents ; the good old woman's currants and raisins were carefully packed between the folds of his yeomanry cloak, which Charley, who was proud of showing that he belonged to the v"Riyal Mallow Light Horse Volunteers," always strapped before him, and took care to never destroy the military effect by putting it on. ; Notwithstanding that the visit to the jolly "Harp of Erin" had a little in creased the natural complacency of his mind the drenching, of the new snaffle reins began to disturb him, and then fol lowed a train of more anxious thoughts than even were occasioned by the dreaded defeat of the pride of his long anticipated turn-out on St. Stephen's day. In an hour of good-fellowship, when his heart was warm, and his head not over cool. Charley had baked the old mare against Mr. jepson s- bad filly Desdemona, for a neat hundred, and he felt sore misgivings as to the prudence of the match. He dow arrived at the bottom of -Kilcummer Hill, and his eye fell on the old walls that belonged, in former times, to the Knights Templar' ; but the silent gloom of the ruin was broken only by the heavy rain which splashed and pattered on the gravestones. He then looked up at the sky to see if there was. among the clouds, any hopes for mercy on his.new snaffle reins ; and no sooner were his eyes lowered than his atten tion was arrested by an object so ex traordinary as. almost led him doubt the .evidence of his senses. The head apparently of a white horse, with short, cropped ears, large open nostrils, and immense eyes, seemed rapidly to follow him. No connection with body, legs, or rider could possible be traced. The head advanced Charley's old mare, too, was moved by this unnatural sight, and snorting violently, increased her trot up the hill. ' The; head moved forward and passed on Charley pursuing it with astonished gaze, and. wondering by what means, and for what purpose this detached headrthus proceeded through, the air, did not perceive the corresponding body until he was suddenly startled by finding it close by his side. Charley turned to Examine what was thus so sociably jogging on with him, when a meslMinexampled apparition presented itself to his view. , A figure, whose hight he computed to be at least eight feet, was seated on the body and legs of a white horse, full eighteen hands and a half high. In this measurement, Charley could not be mistaken, for his own mare was exactly fifteen hands high, and the body that thus jogged alongside he could at once determine, was at least three hands and a half higher. - ' i. After the first fpplinor nf ngni'ot.mt I O tJWjUlJ.UJl AAA il ll was over, he exclaimed, "I'm sold now ror ever I but still he directed his at tention to this extraordinary body, and having examined it with the eye of . a COnnnisSfilir. ho nrruuuul - . Z ' j-.iuv.i.um n, iruuu- hQOitre the fijnrfl sr nrnionoiu I who had hitherto remained perfectlv uiuic. Tiuiug 10 see wuetner his com panion's silence arose from bad temper, wantof conversational powers, or from a distaste to water; and the ear that the opening hia mouth might subject him to having it filled with . rain, he en deavored to catch a sight of his com panion's faca in order to form an opinion on that point.( . But his vision failed in carrying him further than the top of the collar of the figure's coat, which was a scarlet single breasted hunting frock, having a waist of a very old fashioned cut, reaching to the saddle, with two huge shining buttons' at about a vard distannn hAhind T oncht to AAA farther than thia tnn " tJ " - WVf thought Charley, "although he is mounted on his horse, like my cousin Darby, who was made barony constable last week unless it is Con's whiskey that has blinded me entirely," However, see farther,, he could not. and after straining his eyes for a considerable time to no purpose, he explained with Sure vexation. "By the big bridge of allow, it is no head at all he has !" "Look again, "Charley Culnane, said a hoarse voice that seemed to pro ceed from under the right arm of the figure. tJharley did look again, and now in the proper place for he clearly saw, under the aforesaid right arm, the head from which the voice had proceeded, and such a head ho mortal ever saw before. It looked like a large cream cheese hung around with black pudding. No speck or color, enlivened the ashy paleness of the depressed features ; the skin lay stretched over the unearthly surface, almost like the parchment head of a dram. Two fiery eyes of prodigious circumference, with a strange and ir regular motion, flashed like meteors upon Charley. and a month, that reached, from either extremity of two ears, whichf peeped forth from tinder a profusion of matted locks of lusterless blackness. This head, which the figure had evidently hitherto concealed from Charley s eyes, now burst upon his view in all its hideonsness. Charley,although a lad of proverbial courage in the county of Cork, yet could not but feel his nerves a little shaken by this unex pected visit from the headless horse man, whom he considered this fgure doubtless must be. The crop-eared head of the gigantic horse moved steadily forward, always keeping from six to eight yards in advance. The horseman, unaided by whip or spur, and disdaining the use of stirrups, which darigled useless from the saddle, followed at a trot by Charley's side, his hideous head now lost behind the lappet of h'isLcoat, now starting forth in all its horror as the motion of the horse caused his arm to move to and fro. The ground shook under the weight of its supernatural burden, and the water in the pools was agitated into waves as he trotted by them. On they went heads without bodies and bodies without heads. The deadly silence of night was broken only by the fearful clatter of hoofs, and the distant sound of thunder, which rumbled above the mystic hill , of Cecauno a Mona Finnea. Charley who was naturally a merry-hearted, and rather a talkative fellow, had hitherto felt tongue-tied by apprehension, but finding his companion showed no evil disposition toward him, and having become somewhat more re conciled to the Patagonian dimensions of the horseman and his headless steed, plucked up all his courage, and thus ad dressed the stranger : "Why, then, your honor rides mighty well without stirrups." "Humph t" growled the head from under that horseman's right arm "This is not an over civil answer," thought Charley ; but no matter, he was taught in one of them riding houses may be and thinks nothing at all about bumping his leather breeches at the rate of ten miles an hour. I'll try him on the other tack. "Ahem !" said Oh atLoy ejflari na. his. thrnnjL-and Wlinc at the same time rather daunted at this seoond attempt to establish a conversa tion. "Ahem! that's a mighty neat coat of your honor's, although 'tis a little too long in the waist for the present cut." "Humph !" growled again the head. This second hump was a terrible thump in the face to poor Charley, who.was fairly bothered . to know what subject he could start that would prove more acrreeable. "'Tis a RAnsi hle hem! " thought he, "although an ugly one ; for 'tis plain enough the man doesn't like flattery," A third attempt, how ever, Charley was determined to make, and having failed in his observations as to the riding and the coat of his fellow traveler, thought he would just drop a trifling allusion to the wonderful head less horse that was jogging oh so sociably by the side of his old mare ; and as Charley ' was considered about Carrick to be very knowing in horses, besides being a private in the Royal Mallow Light Horse Volunteers, which were every one of them mounted like real Hessians, he felt rather sanguine as to the result of his third attempt. "To be sure that's a brave horse your honor rides," recommenced the per severing Charley : "You may say that, with your own ugly mouth," growled the head. Charley, though not much flattered by the compliment, nevertheless chuckled at his success 'in obtaining an answer, and thus continued : "May be your honor wouldn't be after riding him across the country ?" "Will you try me, Charley?'' said the head, ; with an inexpressible look of ghastly delight. "Faith, and that's what I'll do," re sponded Charley, "only I'm afraid, the night being so dark, of laming the old mare, and I've every halfpenny of a hundred pounds on her heels." This was true enough.' Charley's courage was nothing dashed at the head less horseman's proposition ; and there never was a steeple-chase, riding or leaping in the' country that Charley Culnane was not at it,- and foremost in it "Will you take my word ?" said the man who carried his head so snngly under his right arm, "for the safety of your mare ?" "Done." said Chariev. an d tviv . t.Tt n started, helter skelter, over everything, uituu aua waii, pop ; tne old mare never went in such style, even in broad daylight, and Charley had just the start of his companion, when the hoarse voice called out ; "Charley Culnane, Charley, man, stop for your life; stop !" Charley pulled up hard. "Ay," said he' "you may beat me by the head, be cause it alwavs coea bo mnnh hafnr j on ; but if the bet was neck and neck, and tnat s tne go between the old mare and Desdemona, I'd win it hollow I" It appeared as if the stranger w&s well aware of what was Ttaaaino- in Charlev's mind, for he snddenlv hmk out quite loquacious, "Charley Culnane," says he, "you have a Stout SOul in VOtl. and are atait inch of you a good rider. I've tried you and x ougnt to Know ; and that s the sort of man for my money. A hundred j vears it is since mv horaa and T hirV our necks at the bottom of Kilcummer mil, and ever since I ve been trying to get a man that dared to ride with me, and Tl PTpr frm n r rT ViafswA aa you have always done, at the tail of the i i ..... uounas, qever DauiK an men, nor turn awav from a stone wall, and the TTaiu3. less Horseman will never desert you nor tne old mare." Charley in amazement looked toward his right arm for the purpose of seeing in his face whether or not he was in earnest ; buf behold, the head was snugly lodge 9 in the huge pocket of the horseman's Icarlet hunting-cloak. The horse's heaA had ascended perpendicu larly abovi fthem, and his extraordinary n companion rising quickly after his avant-oourier, vanished from the as tonished gaze of Charley Culnane. Charley, as may be supposed, was lost in wonder, delight and perplexity ; the pelting rain, the wife's pudding, the new snaffl even the match against Squire JeDhson all were fnrcrottAn nothing he could think of, nothing ouuia ue mix or, dus tne Headless horse man. He told it directly he got home to Judv. he told it the follnwinir rnnrn. ing to all the neighbors, and he told it w tne Jinn on Bt. Stephen's Day ; but what D revoked him. after all tha he took in describing the head, the uorae, ana tne man, was, that one and all attributed the creation of the Head less Horseman to his friend, fion Rno.V. ley's "X water parliament." Tbia. how- ever, snouid De told that Charley's old mare beat Mr. Jephson's big filly Desdemona bv Diamond, and flharlAv pocketed his cool hundred ; and if he didn't win by means of the Headless TT v v . ixun?mni am sure 1 aon fnow. any other reason for Sua doing' so, , Galileo's Daashter. The pure ane gemerous spirit of Sister Maria Celeste, Galileo's eldest daugh ter, so touched by a rational piety, so full of love for her famous and- erring father, an intellect so clear and calm, a disposition so wholly unselfish, gleams out from the Franciscan convent, the usual abode of envy, remorse, and dis content, like an angelio apparition; and with tender self-denial the faithful nun, in the midst of constant illness, end less toil as a nurse and attendant, la boring often nearly all night with her needle, regular in her devotions, shiv ering with cold in the thin garb of her order in April, or sinking beneath the heat of the Florentine summer, became each year more than ever the sole sap port of Galileo's fading age, his only guide, comforter, and friend. Her mind resembled her father's' in its clearness of perception, surpassed it in the conception of moral purity. A cor respondnce grew up between Galileo and his child, ofwhich all his letters have been lost or purposely destroyed; but those of his daughter, recently published, indicate the tender affection that linked them together. When prinoes were faithless or the Inquisi tion frowned.Sister Maria Celeste wrote to Galileo such consolation as only a spotless intellect could give, watched over the family of her untrustworthy brother, mended with nimble fingers her father's or Vincenzio's linen; or when the plague raged over Florence, and the lonely convent trembled at the scene of death around it, was always cheerful, and concealed her terrors that she might soothe those of others. "I look upon you as my patron saint,' she wrote to Galileo, "(to speak ac cording to our custom here), to whom I tell all my joys and sorrows." She begs Galileo to send her a new counter pane, as she had given away her own, or prepares for him two pots of electu ary as a preservative from the plague. But it was the daughter who was now the guardian saint, and the great phil osopher had no one to watch over him in his later years but the faithful spirit The Latest Plague of Egypt. The great miracle in Egypt,, writes a correspondent of the London Timet, is how a Government whioh is obliged to pay so much for its money, and which is the common prey of adventurers, peculators and speculators, foreign and domestic, exposed to plunder, spolia tion an extortion, contrives to keep afloat. There is not an article sold to the Khedive or his people, from a pin to a steam-engine, which does not yield tribute. We read a good deal of the word "backsheesh" in all books and writings about Egypt, but we do not know how often it is the echo of the ut terance from Europe. In no other country in the world does a traveler of rank expect to be lodged, boarded and carried about gratis by the ruler. Here it is the rule. If the Governor of an Indian Province, with which Egypt has got no more to do than with Kam schatka, arrives at Suez, on his way to Cairo or Alexandria, he has a special train put at his disposal when asked for; if he wishes to stay in Cairo he has a house assigned to him, carriages and horses, a staff of servants, and his table spread with every luxury. Does he want to go up the Nile, he gets one of the Viceroy's steamers to tow his diabeah. Many people come here who expect their Consuls to ask such favors as rightjnever reflecting on the whole some example set in other countries, and more especially in our own, J where even greatness allied to Royalty is oc cosionally obliged to take care of itself in private apartments and pay for its own broughams. The extent to whioh such a system can be pushed must be witnessed to be credited. Fortunately, some Consuls General resist unreasonable demands and draw proper distinctions, other wise there would be but little exagger ation in the sketch on the stage of a Viceroy's guest who refers his washer woman for the payment of her bill to the Minister of Finance, and pays for a boi of pills by an order on the Minis ter of the Interior. Rales for Sailors. The Boston Commercial "Bulletin offers the following excellent sugges tions for youg men about going to sea : The ship will teach you a lesson of politeness you will notice she never enters a foreign or home port except with bows first. Don't inquire the whereabouts of the horses for the captain's gig, lest yon be met with rowers of laughter. The ship's cook is the modern galley slave. No matter how fine the ship may be called by others the captain will decide the ship's course. Do not expect anything extraordinary in the hatchway because all the sails have been set. Do not consider the captain a man of contracted views because you find the chief compass of his observations to be inside a small box. A good ship, like good wine, should be kept well caulked. When this is neglected both ship and wine are very likely to suffer. Sailors are not very observing men, although they are continually going to sea. Do not confound a see saw with a revenue cutter. If the captain ask von 'for a bight of a rope, it mav offend him if you should offer a quid of tobacco instead. He would not consider it a quid pro quo. Although you can distinctly see the hands of both the larboard and star board watchers, yet they do not point the time as well as the captain's chro nometer. If any of the old sailors insist on your finding them a state room, tell them the room for sailors is a-loft. Summer widowers. A magazine writer thus discourses : At this season of the year a great many married; men, as everybody knows, lead for several weeks the life of bachelors or widowers. Their wives and children go to the springs, or coun ty boarding houses, or the seashore. 1 hey themselves stay in town. If the place to which their families have gone is near enough, they generally betake themselves to it on Saturday evening and return on Monday morning. The rest of the week is, except in business hours, spent either at a city boarding bouse or in an Alexander Selkirk mode of existence 'in their, own domiciles. When eneof .of these individuals is asked low he iite8 thia kind o life he replies that it is a miserable way of gettmgalong, but it cannot be helped It is a Matter of necessity, he says, and there if! no use an grumbling; he must make tie best ef it. Thripn be no doubt that the ne ces8ityjtnus spoken of has, in many Sk(jTexi8nc- The health of Mnnolies. Especially where there are young children.of ten renders it exceed ingly desirable that they should be out of the city in hot weather. How much mtters are improved by taking the children, as is often done, to a crowded watering-place -hotel, is a question which unfashionably disposed persons sometimes ask, but which we must con fess ourselves unable to answer. It is not our purpose, at present, to say how far watering-place life is, or is not, beaefacial either to children or grown people. What we wish to speak of nov is, the undoubted fact that, what ever may be said about the need of utility of such a state of things in cer tain cases, there are every summer, in this and other cities, thousands of men who are for two or three months almost completely exiled from their families. Dismal shadows of their former selves, they flit joylessly from their, stores to then houses and from their homes to their stores, glad even of that tempo rary relief from their melancholy which is afforded by their counting-rooms and a profuse perspiration. Even the noonday feed at a restaurant an irre pre8iible tear intercepts the communi cation between each of our eyes and the paper before us as we write is felt to. be an agreeable variety as compared with the solitary morning and evening meal at home. When the summer is about half gone, the miserable man generallv becomes desperata.aud starts oft, determined to remain with his family till their return to the city. After he has been away a week or ten clays, his partners, who do not fancy having hia work to do iu addition to their own when the mercury is in the nineties, contrive to find out that the business is threatened with a total smash-up unless he returns on the first train. So, back the poor man comes, hnds the affairs of the firm as secure as the i ortrtss of Gibraltar.but concludes that as the experiment of leaving was so unsuccessful, he may as well stay where he is the remainder of the season. It is so delightful to think that all discomfort is not without its reward. As the man's family usually come back after their summer sojourn with rather poorer health than when they started from home, he naturally pictures to himself how much worse they would have been if they had stayed in the hot and unhealthv atmosnhern nf th it-r libatjpiit ia.eertainly betteiv ho. weeks than to see half his children die and go into a decline. He therefore goes to work at money making with re newed energy, one of his principal ob jects being to send his family away the next summer, in order, that the same beneficial effects may be again experienced. Of the class of men of whera we have spoken, many are now, we fear, con siderably troubled because the dull ness of business during the past year will prevent their sending their fami lies away for so long a time as usual this summer. This is very sad. But there is one very curious circumstance which we have- ofteu observed, the statement of which, we hope, will af ford some comfort for the privation we have mentioned. Strange as it may appear, families that are thus com pelled to forego their accustomed sum mer absence from the city, generally find, at the end of the season that their health is, from some unaccountable cause, quite as good as in years when they went out of town. The reason for this singular physiological phen omenon must be left to medical men. All we can pretend to do is simply to state the fact and to present it as an agreeable subject of reflection to those who, after having hitherto been accus tomed to lead the life of childless wid owers for a couple of months or more every year, propose to enjoy through out the summer the luxury of living under the same roof with their wives and children. all the.timo. It ia certainlv better, hn The Old Amerleau Aristocracy. The most marked feature of colonial society was its aristocratic char acter. Our ancestors brought with them the notions of rank and prece cedence which prevailed at home, and eyen in those colonies which, like the New England, ware established on a democratic basis, the aristocratic feel ing of the superiors was almost as strong as in the feudal South and New York. Custom gave privileges which the laws did not recognize, and a com paratively few families monopolized ofhcial dignities. John Adams, for in stance, mentions that the Chandler family "engrossed almost all the pub lic oflices and employment in the town and county" of Worcester, Massachus etts. it is well-known how the Hutch inson kin filled the chief places of pub lic trust in that province. In New York the Delanceys and Livingstons wers said to be "the two great families upon whose motions all their politics t""1-. . The aristocratic spirit of the Virginian magnates is proverbial to this day. In bouth Carolina the gen try, we are, told, were more numerous than in any other colony iu North America. , It was common to see several offices in the hands of a single person, who perhaps was colonel of militia, judge of probate, iustice of the peace, member of the legislative body, etc. The colonial families, however, were com pelled to share such distinctions with the favorites of couriers. A dignitary of New York, writing- in 1746 of the low rate of judicial saltries.which were not enough to tempt an able lawyer to leave his practice, fears that if they should be raised "some sorry fellow would be crammed upon the colony because his patron did not allow wuat eiseto ur with him "-. The vxtuuxy.j TheVery VeryFirst Families. Workmen on a lew Virginia railroad. about a mile fsfm Weldon. toward Garrysburgh, have dug from the river's bank a vast heap of skeletons, packed close together, tier on tier, and inter mingled with tje human bones, a lot of sharp stone arWws, rude mortars, and pipe-bowls. The skulls were nearly n inch in thickllftus. tha teeth vera an large as the of a horse, And filed sharp like those of .nnibals, and the leg- bones indicat members of "lost and forgotten race" must have been as great as eight or nine ieet. Dreams. The most contradictory theories exist in the minds of different persons in re gard to their dreams; yet science and observation have reduced the phenom ena to a fair standard and rule. Sud denly awakened out of a sound sleep a person is generally impressed with the vividness of an important dream. A brief period,thereaf ter, and it is dif ficult to relate what the dream was. This arises from the fact that oreams flash through the mind in the waking moments, after the awakening cause has transpired. Kent says that we can dream more in a minute than we can relate in a day, and the rapidity of thought in sleep is the reason why we so imperfectly remember dreams. Dr. Abercrombie relates the story of a man who dreamed that he had en listed as a soldier, deserted from his regiment, was arrested, condemned to be shot, and marched out to execution. The gun was fired which was to take his life, when he awoke, to learn that the cause of his ahum was the falling of a book.' from a shelf. De Quincey says that a sleeper who Is awakened by a sudden rap, experiences a long train of events between the rap and his thorough consciousness, which would require days for their enactment. It is impossible for the mind to appreciate this unnatural transmission of thought, and not one in a thousand but will be lieve they have been laboring iu the dream for hours. He recites an exper iment tried by sprinkling drops of water upon the face of a sleeper who was frequently alarming his household by the revelations of his remarkable and alarming dreams. When he came down to breakfast, he said that a new life had been pictured to him one full of vicissitude, of pleasure and sorrow that he was finally drowned upon the borders of a lake, bv the treachery of a friend, who plunged him into the waters when he awoke. The inci dents of this life, of friendships and treachery, of death and water, had all passed through his mind iu the few second between the sprinkling and his full awakened conciousness. Dreams are naturally the result of recent events, and particularly if uu aer excitemrnt. Coleridge composed his poem of "Kubla Khan" in a dream. He fell asleep in his chair while read ing of a palace built by Kubla Khan, lie woke, sat down, and wrote three hundred lines of the poem as they were composed, or, rather, lived, by him in his sleep. At that point he was culled out to attend some business. When, after an hour's absence, he returned to his library, the incidents had passed from his mind to such an extent that he was unable to finish them in the style first commenced, Condorcet says that he had been baffled for days in a mathematical cal culation, which came clearly and dis tinctly in a dream after a day of intense labor. We know of an instance where an accountant had spent fifteen days examining his ledger for an error in his balance-sheet of 16 cents. Leaving his oflice after midnight.in the sleep which followed,, it came to him that au 8 cent entry in a long debterand creditor ac count had leen placed in the wrong column. The amount, changed to the other side, balanced the books. A lady known to us insists that she was visited in the night time by the physical form of a deceased relative, with whom she held absolute con versa- iSrVUSTJli"!? np. thd words 1 v - v.uua niv via a ai I .1 A. K 1 tt however, slie did not call any other member of the family, or follow the ghost into the street. Of course it is quite aa easy for people to dream that they are awake as it is to dream of any other incident. Persons who have sucn dreams can never be . convinced that they have dreamed at all. It will be quite sensible of them not to relate their dreams. The senses and reasoning faculties are lost in sleep. Nothing but the im agination remains. Hence, incongrui ties of dates changing the past to the future making the long buried friend a natural companion, &c, are opposed by no external objects to either check or balance the mind. When awake, if told that the apple in our hand is a gold chronometer, our eye contradicts the assertion; but if in sleep we dream that a tree is loaded with diamonds, or that a distant friend is by our side, rea son does not come to our rescue to sug gest impossibilities, or the laws of na ture interfere with the wildest riot of imagination. The laws of gravitv, of time, and of space, being suspended, there exists no obstacle in the moment of dreams to our seeing cannon balls dancinj? in, the atniospliere, of our par ticipation with Moses in his pilgrimage in tne' wilderness, or of our dining with distant or even dead friends. The fact of dreams, and that the mind never rests, -4 e know. Why the mind never rests, and why it is more active when asleep than awake, we do not know. Xovels. A Writer in Temple Bar sa'vs: "There ars as many novels published as there are suns in the course of the twelve month, and something to spare. Gentlemen read them, and gentlemen's gentlepien read them. My lady per uses them, and my lady's maid de vours them. They rule the court, the camp, the grove. Royalty intrigues to get a novelist to dine at his table. They fill the' club library; and the hall-porter and the small-buttons in the lavatorv while away the time between handling our letters or emptying basins, in turn ing over the bewitching pages of the novel. ; Novels divide with the news paper and the rapidly passing landscape the discomforts of a railway carriage; they mitigate the horrors of a long Bea passage: they swarm in the barracks and in the boudoir alike. Dramatists steal their plots; young ladies imitate their conversations; young gentlemen parodji their heroes. Statesmen read them; nay, statesmen write them and our Prime Minister is a fashionable novelist. Wre are indebted to them in no small degree for our ill-cooked din ners, for our imperfectly-dusted grates, for the node discontent of our 'maids,' and the elegant indolence of their 'mistresses.' They come out in bits, in parts, in chapters, in serials, in one volume, two volumes, three volumes. They are thrown at our heads, they are stumbling-blocks at our feet; we fall over them, we quarrel over them, we weep over them. They are law, church and physic to us;for do they not preach sermons, anticipate causes celebres, and obligingly show us how to poison our enemies without being found out, at least for a yery long time T They are the parents of Tichborne trials and warm the aged bosoms of solemn Chief Justices into glowing panegyrics. They are the soul and supiort of many a magazine; they even sustain the exist ence of those interesting publications, illustrated papers, and they are the messengers who carry good words into many a home. Their name is legion ; but so are their functions. They tell us both of the lunatic and the lover, and they illumine with a lurid light the negative atmosphere of blue-books. They ?make the industrious idle and the idle industrious. They abolish thought, and even compete with slum ber. They are the manna of the latter half of the nineteenth century, the rntaneously-sent food of a literary ert." Wao is the laxiest man ? The furni ture . dealer ; he keeps ohairs , and lounges about all the time. - YovitliK Column. The Castle-Bnllder. A pntle boy, with ofi and tilkrn lock ; A drt,my buy. with brown nd Undtr tjt ; A -Mtl-buildrr with hta wooctan bkrks, a J Urn en tbM touch Imaginary ikl. . A foarlea ridr on hia father's kn ; An ear-r lwtnr unto atortoa, told At th Hound Table of the nrery. Of bcTota and adventure aianliold. Thre wtl be othrr tower for thee tonlld 1 here will be othrr uteede ter thee U ride ; There will be other lecenda, and all ttllej W ith irreawr marreis, and more glorlfled. I Build on, and make .'he raatlee high and fair. hMtag and reecblnttotheakfc-e; Listen to mice in uif -r air, , Hot loee thy tmi.le "aith 14 Boysteriea. . Mioora's Faclt. I have a little girl whose great fault is forgetting, bhe forgets to hang up her dresses ; she forgets to put buttons on her shoes she forgets where she left her mittens, qt hammer, or her thimble ; she forgets to do her errands ; she forgets to come home when she is told to. ' Yet she always seems sorry when I talk to her, and means, lthlnk, to) Improve ; but she does not. Every week, if it finds her no worse, does not find her better. I often wonder how it happens. In other respects Maggie is a good child. She is au industrions little girl, and speaks the truth. But all these fine qualities are almost spoiled by forget fulness. It leads to much disorder, as you may suppose. I should not like you to see her room ; and I cannot depend, of course, that what I tell her will be done. 1 could not for a . long time think how she could forget so. I have found out now ; the Bible told me. God says in it, "My son, forget not my law ; but let thine heart: keep my com mandments." Whatever is done from the heart is done quickly, and done well. Poor Maggie, alas ! has no heart in it, therefore she forgets and dis obeys. And many a mother is grieving over this same fault in her dear child ; and perhaps many a poor child is' grieving for it too. "How shall I re member what mother says "How came I to forget ?" feeling ashamed, and sorry, and mortified' as can be. My dear child, I can only tell you to fall down on your knees before Gad, and beg him to.ive you that "new heart" which the Bible tells of, filled with the spirit of humble, faithful love. That will remember ; that will try hard, and will assuredly succeed, von mav i1onnl upon it. Thi Lights ix the Tunn-ki.. I was traveling uoon a road whinh T ha.l n passed over before. There was a long train crowded with passengers. In the afternoon while thr VPl romaino1 on hour of daylight, I noticed the lamps were being lighted. We journeyed on. and 1 Watched their faint olimmannn flames ; scarcelv could thev b diaMn. guished in the bright light of day. I wondered why they were trttA n early. Suddenly we passed into dark ness. Then the light shone with a strong, steady rav. All thrnntrh tha tunnel they burned brilliantlv TTnw dependent we were upon them. Could it be possible they were the flames whioh a few i minutes j before burned so dimly? Tea, they! were the Very same, only brought Uto view by the watit A9mm mIavww ! When the sun of prosperity shines upon us, we may greatly undervalue them. But when adversity and afflictions en close us with the thick shades of night, our faith bursts into a strong and steady name, and chases away the dark- ueoa aim loom 01 apnnair. wa - feel now weaic ana leeoie wa are. We can not take one 6tep without the light which comes from above to cm id a nnr wandering feet Our sbuls rest upon Uod s promises as our only hope.7 Without them we shonld Va in dAPnost night. Let us have true and living faith, and we may rest secure that when we need its eh an trine raw it will n - ( J D - J USW desert us, but become a burning and shining light to guide us on our journey to the promised haven o'f rest. Happtxess. The composition of a little girl nine yearn old. The world is a very wide world. In anmA nrt the people are happy, and in other parts some of the oeoDle are wrpthArl nrl unhappy. The cause of many unhappy children is that their fathers are bum mers ; and how unhappy the child is when he hears his footsteps, while other children, when they hear their fathers' footsteps in the hall, are happy. It is not always that the rich are happy, for the poor man may feel very happy as he approaches his ; cottage ; how happy he will feel as he sees his little children coming to meet him, some with sunny curls and glossy ringlets. How happy the lady is when she thinks that she is the belle of the ball-room, but that does not last long. How proud the young lady is because she lives in the city ; how scornful she looks if any one should speak of her as a country lady. The country is a very beautiful place in summer, and in the winter is very nice to hear sleigh bells over the ice. How peaceful it is in the cottage in winter. So it is not" always the rich in cities who are happy. Always look happy, and. you will make others happy also. Jacob's Mbiiap. Jacob and Mary were playing near a tub of water in the kitchen, when Jacob tripped, and fell into the tub. But, instead of helping him, Mary began to wring her hands, and scream. "Oh 1 Come here ! Come here ! Jacob will be drowned in the tub 1" cried Mary. But Jacob had no intention of being drowned in the tub. 'He raised his head, and, hearing Mary's screams, said, "Why don't you help a fellow, instead of standing there screaming?" Finding that he did! npt cry, Mary stopped screaming, and helped him out ; and then Jacob said, "Look here, Mary : the next ti help me first, and scream afterwards." LrxTLa words are the sweetest to hear; little charities fly farthest and stay longest on the wing ; little lakes are the stillest: littl hart ik fnllof and little farms the best tilled. Little books are the most read, and little songs the dearest loved. And vhin natr;r would make anything especially rare and beautiful, she makes it little little pearls, little diamonds. Child' World. A mah once saved a verv poor boy from drowninc. After ? hia restoration he said to him, i "What can I do for ybu, my boy ?" "Speak a kind word to. me some times," replied the boy. the tears gush- uug irom nis eyes. - l eiu l got mother like some of them." M A. A T . . a ! A lecturer on ontins: in ptnlainin? the mechanism of the organ of vision, remarked : "Let any man ease closely into his wife's eye, and he will see himself looking so exceedingly , smair: here the leturer's voice was drowned by shouts and laughter and applause wnich greeted his scientific remark. tir,ietios. Lord Derby says. "Cleverness is not the the first qualification for a suc cessful career." , People often fail ia patience under small trials, because they look only to secondary motives for support. A Cuban dollar is now worth "only thirteen cents, but they keep on calling it a dollar just for the fun of the thing. After forming a friendship, you should render implicit belief ; before that period you may exercise your judg ment. Seneca, c Man is like the eye, , which cannot suffer the least impurity without damage; like the precious stone whose least de fect diminishes the price. Bosiuet. There are two forms of tyranny ; one real, which arises from oppression ; the other is seated in opinion, and is sure to be felt whenever those who govern establish things shocking to the present ideas of a nation. Montctqu icu. It may not be generally known, says Chicago paper, that -the enonruas arches which support the Chicago and St. Louis bridge were modelled from a cast taken from the instep of a promi nent St. Louis belle. Somebody writes all the way from Paris to say that the real ladies there" don't wear those long laoe ecirfu about the neck when promenadingjjts ladies do here. This is intelligence worthy fashionablo consideration. Nothing teaches patience like a garden. You may go. roand and watch tne opening kud from day to dsy, but it takes its own time, and you can not nrge it on faster than it will If forced, it is only torn to pieces' All the best results of a garden, like those of life, are slow, but regularly progressive. v It is stated that the fibre of the ramie is in great demand for England, and that if proper macMinery could be procured to strip it from the plant it would soon rival in importance the trade in cotton. The Direct Trade Company of England will purchase mil lions of pounds of the fibre at much higher prices than would be paid for cotton. The literary careor of Goorge Eliot has reached its present renown by steady perseverance. Her first novel brought her only $500. She sold the "Mill on the TToai" for $8,000 ami "Romola" brought 315,000. It is not vet known what is the definite sum she has realized from her latest novel, "Middle-march," but it is estimated to be larger than any that have preceded it. I should rejoice to hear any one of mv congregation saying : "I forgot who preached, I felt so much the influ ence of the truths he preached. Blessed be God, I was enabled to repent, and the silent tears t ri rkl a. 1 wm - cheeks. My heart was affected ; it be gan to relent, and now it relents again wh( n I consider by whose mercy it was that I was blessed with these feelings." Rowland 1IUI. Notwithstanding the great flood in sligar ana rice crops will be abundant, the latter yielding 30,000 barrels mdre than in 1873. In sugar, the losses by a 7 -it i . - . . . - noous win do aDont lu.uuu hocahad. and the total yield from 90,000 to 100,000 hogsheads. The acreage devoted to rice cnltnrn hTioo-h nn innmaaa rt ennn j " .uv.vaov UW ml CO i over last year, and the rice crop is ex iu u3 iiu,uw oarreis. Plato almost prophesied when he de scribed the righteous man as "one, who, without doing any injustice, yet has the appearance of the greatest in justice, and proves his ewn justice by ' persevering against all calumny unto death." Again, he predicted that ij such a righteous man should ever ap pear on the earth, "ha would be scourged, tortured, bound, deprived of his sight, and, after having suffered all possible injuries, nailed to a post." Explorations have recently been made into the mounds of Ottumwa, Iowa. In one, a mass of charcoal, a bed of ashes, and some calcined human bones were found, showing that cremation was practised bv the people who erectei them. As Indians never burn their dead, this adds another proof to the theory that they were not the original mound builderB. The similarity of the mounds of Mexico and of Iowa point to the fact that tney were constructed by the same race, of ancient Mexicans. The romantic young son of a wealthy Chicago hotel proprietor, who married an actress and ran off with hsr to San Francisco, is in trouble. Some scoun drel had opened the trunks of the errant pair, extracted the; gorgeous wedding apparel with which hej ex pected to make a shine in the Golden City, and left nothing in their place but the smutted overalls and blackened shirt of some railway engineer or brake man, a pile of old miner's clothes, cow hide boots out at the toes, and a hat without a rim. The growth of cities is dua to the number and varieties of their in dustries, and it is 'to this cause that' Northern and Western cities owe their great populations. It would be well that Southern cities should profit by this fact and become centres of manu factures. Philadelphia, for instance, has 11,000 manufactories which turn out 8100,000,000 manufactured goods per annum, and a population of three quarters of a million, living in 126,000 houses of which 40,000 , are the resi dences of working people!. There is a wholesome tonic for all of us in the certainty, which is forced upon us, now and then, of the unknown, . unmeasured resources of courage and heroism and unflinching integrity to duty which we find among what we choose to call the mass of the people. It is, after all, only when a man reaches the certainties of middle age that he is not surprised every new day by the knowledge of how admirable a crew has been put into the world for its long voyage ; how many of the women are gracious and finely natured ; how many men respond promptly to the call of honesty or duty or even self-sacrifice, because it is the simple and natural thing for them to do so. A resident of Indianapolis has a moss agate stone, which he picked up two hundred miles northwest of FortBoford, in Dacotah Territory. It is set in gold and worn as a breast-pin, is nearly an inch long and more than half an inch wide. The disposition of the moss re sembles very clearly a castle with three' aisunci towers ana a long, low wail ex tending back in the rear, while beyond is the 6ea line very distinctly defined. The castle seems to be sitting on the brow of the bold promontory and the view down the side in the foreground is very much broken, and there are two distinct lines of road leading up to the gates. The combination of colors is as serted to be very striking and beauti--fuh
The Albemarle Register (Elizabeth City, N.C.)
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