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PUBLISHED BY THE ALBEMARLE PUBLISHING CO. A WEEKLY PAPER, DEVOTED TO THE GOOD OF THE COMMUNITY IN GENERAL, AND THE SPECIAL BENEFIT OF ITS PATRONS. TERMS: $2 H ADVANCE. voir 1: ELIZABETH CITY. N. C, TUESDAY; SEPTEMBER 1 1S74. . NO. 11. Poetry. THE UIIABOE OF THE BBIVADE. COURT Balf a yard half a yard " Half a yard onward, , Through the first crush-room, Pressed the Four Hundred. Forward the Fair Brigade ! On to the Throne, they said : On to the Presence Room, . . ' Crushed the Four Hundred ! IL Forward, the Fair Brigade ! Was (there a girl dismayed ? ' - E'en though the chaperons knew Some one had blundered. Theirs not to make complaint, : Theirs not to sink or faint, Theirsbut words cannot paint, ' t,Balf the discomfiture Of the Four Hundred. IIL Crowds on the right of them, ;Crowatm tholeft it flito.'VK f Crowds all in front of them, . , Stumbled and blundered ; On through the courtier-lined Booms most tremendous grind ! . , ' :Into the Froaenoe-room, - Leaving their friends behind, ' ' Passed the Four Hundred. ; - - ; iv. Flushed all their faces fair, Flashed all their Jewels rare, Scratched all their shoulders bare, Thrusting each other while Outsiders wondered : ' J Into the Presence-room, Taking their turn, ithey come Some' looking very glum O'er trains sore-sundered , Kiss hand, and outwards back. Fagged, the Four Hundred ! V, Crowds to the right of them. Crowds on the left 6f them, Crowds all in front of them. Stumbled and blundered Back through more courtier-lined Rooms O, tremendous grind! Debutantes thirsty pined , Far ice or cup o' tea; No sofaj hj-hair lined, Not &j&trf,c setter, j )Sr'ieaKj'our Hundred ! Mothe'ta .kS rage gave vent, " Husbands for Broughams sent, ' - t While at mismanagement Both sorely wondered. Not tillihe sun had set, ' Not till the lamps were lit, , Home from the Drawing-room Got the Four Hundred. Punch. IVIiscellany. An East Indian paper Cotter. There is an Easterii air about the f ol lowing story, but tois not at all an im probable tale.: ' . Many years ago an Indian Rajah,who ' was a- great admirer of"hi Kndii . risited the Viceroy, of Calcutta. On one occasion he noticed a copy of the Edinburg Review on the Viceroy's table, and borrowed it. - ' . borne time after he returned it; and, npon the Viceroy's inquiry whether he ' t.mnd anything interesting in it he re- -plied: "Oh! yes, many beautiful things; but also many disconnected ar ticles." "How so ?" said the Viceaoy. '"See here," said the Rajah- "This be gins with 'Hunting the Orang-outang,' does it ncfE ? And now turn over the page, and here you have the 'History of Mary Stuart. " The Vicery laughed. The book was uncut, and his vassal had read it through without discover ing it. He therefore took from his table an ivory paper-cutter, with a : beautifully carved handle, and ex plained its use to the Rajah, who was much pleased, but could not help won dering how.they contrived to print the inside of the leaves before they were --put open. This also was explained, and . ' the Rajah departed, carrying with him jthe paper-cutter which the Viceroy had t ""given him. - About a year after, when the matter was almost forgotten, the Viceroy saw from his window a gallant tropp enter ing the court, in the center of which was tne itajan, mounted on a. young. elephant. Assoon as the latter per ceived the Viceroy, he cried ; "DQyou happen to have an uncut number of the dinburg Review t If so, please toss it to me. " The Viceroy threw out the bftok, which was caught by1 the elephant nand placed between his tusks, which, to his surprise,' the Viceroy saw had had been turned into paper-cutters, even to the carved handles. In a mo ment the intelligent beast cut open the leaves and then handed the boo: to the Viceroy. The Rajah dismounted, and, pointing to the elephant, said to the' Viceroy : "He is yours. I return to you your paper-cutter alive." Relations of Animals Plants. and ' The animal takes from the air ox ygen, and turns it into carbonic acid; the plant takes that carbonic acid, and turns it back into oxygen, which has thus discharged the great office of car' rying carbon from the bodies of ani mals, and transferring it to the systems oi plants, in what an interesting re lation ao tne two Kingdoms, tne ani mal and the' vegetable, thus stand to one another, not alone as respects the air in maintaining its constitution uni- form by a mutual antagonization, but also as respects their own structures ! The elements of which plants are formed have all been derived ' from the pre-existing parts of animals; and th6 elements of which animals consist, from . the pre-existing parts of plants. To tha classical scholar, what a beautiful commentary on the fictitious stories of antiquity are these modern disco veriest He calls to mind the metamorphoses that Ovid describes; the bore, perhaps, of his school-boy life,: the elegant amusement of his latter years. He re members how Daphne was turned into a laurel, and Adonis into a flower; the -musical stanzas are no longer an empty . sound, they are descriptive histories. The thing he has read of is actually so. These transformations.instead of being imaginary exceptions, are the common Jot of life in this world. There grows not now a leaf that is not formed from the parts of animals that are dead; there lives not a solitary animal being which has not derived its constituent elements' from plants Popular Sci ence Monthly. t A new way of killing alligators, has been discovered in Louisiana. A4 two ounce can of nitro-glycerine, with lighted fuse, is put inside of a chicken, the latter tossed to the alligator, and in a few minutes an explosion ensues and the carcass of the reptile floats -;, gently on the waters. MATCH MAKERS. in nis "Social Photographs" in the last number of Appleton't Journal thus writes Junius Henri Browne of a very numerous class in the society of the day : , Marriage, as at present managed, is so "much of an experiment that the person undertaking to bring it about necessarily assumes great responsibility. Sentimentalists like to talk of the matches made in heaven. Many of these confronting us on earth are so ill made as to reflect little credit on the place of their . 'supposititious origin. Heaven, it is to be suspected, is a false ascription for what, in most cases, is merely human and very fallible agency. Men and women, even when left to themselves, have little difficulty in per petrating serious conjugal blunders. For these they 'should have themselves alone to blame. If they fail of discreet election, the cause of failure should be sought within ; and to be honestly so RQTht.jhejv; muat,:Jiiiectllieirr,: own destiny. : ; - ' How few there are who do, however ! One would think, since marriage chiefly, if not exclusively, concerns the persons entering into it, that they . would be permitted to1 ejftfse their own judg ment in such refcWtL -.But they are not. As. a rule, all their relatives, friends and ordinary acquaintances, are more active, more outwardly interested, than the contracting parties. This activity and interest, though often commendable,-, are of tener impertinent and prag matic. Relatives and friends cannot well be indifierent to so momentous a matter as the nuptials of those they esteem and cherish ; but ordinary ac quaintances have no call for the solici tude they affect wherefore, perhaps, they affect so much. Certain minds, especially feminine ones, seem to have a constitutional be lief that the majority of men and women are unable to marry properly without their aid. They are constantly acting on this belief, appointing themselves emissaries of Juno, ministers of Hymen. Benevolence may prompt them to this at first, though by indulgence a habit is fixed, and 4he habit ultimately be comes a passion. These are profes sional match makers. Tkey never see a bachelor or maiden, a widower or widow, without feeling an urgent desire to change his or her celibate condition. nenner ne nor snn. in thait" ntmunn tDngm to oe consulted about the change. -t J? ew mortals tnus they reason knowf what is best for them ; such knowledge is generally reserved for outsiders, whose discernment should be ' clear be cause disconnected with the sympathies or affections. They have a vague apprehension, in opposition to Malthua, and the demonstrated facts, that the planet will cease to be peopled, unless they lend themselves indirectly to the cause-of propagation. The first duty of both sexes is, as they conceive, to marry and be married not once only, but as often as is legally possible. You cannot make them see that they are liable to error ; that many things are needful to matrimony ; that the wisest course is to let the delicate Question The masculine match maker is rare : yet he exists. He never has the tact, energy, perseverance and ingenuity of his feminine fellow. He confines him self mostly to the practical and his own sex ; deals largely in his counsels with facts and figures, and adroitly, per chance unconsciously, misrepresents them. He is invariably a husband and he never tires of making this statement as if there were nothing else than his word to show for it. Any objections which' may be offered he is ready to overcome. If a bachelor put forward poverty, he is told, in the face of the plainest arithmetic, that two can live as cheaply as One ; no reference being made to the corollary that one and one in conjugal circumstances commonly make three, four; five or six. Having been'for some time a spouse, he is pre sumed to know of what he speaks ; nevertheless, he speaks untruth. Only in certain conditions, rather exceptional than otherwise, can one person subsist for the same price as two. In these days matrimony is likely to' more than double expenses. Howbeit, when the exact contrary is affirmed by those who have had experience, it is not strange if the falehood is credited. If the bache lor should say that he is unacquainted with anybody whom he wants to wed, the matchmaker immediately proposes to introduce him to a score of girls, so full of physical, mental, and social per fections that they might be thought to have had their birth in a contempora neous romance. There is Clara, for example. She is a charming creature, abounding in sweetness and beauty as a rose itself. She has no money, to be sure ; but she is better than a fortune to any man. Jane is not so lovely in person as she might be, albeit she is a pattern for her sex, modest, discreet, generous, high minded. Entirely domestic, she would render the humblest home happy; would consecrate herself to wifely du ties. Kate Is simply magnificent, a .trifle forward, mayhap, because she has been so much flattered and petted, but loyal and loving at heart, replete with superb possibilities. She is the kind of woman whose affection, once fixed, knows no shadow of turning, who loves once and forever. In this sort of recommendation, how ever, the masculine match maker is not an adept. He bestows on it little in sistence, being conscious that it is an intrenchment on the feminine domain. As has been said, facts and. figures, or a misrepresentation of them, are his spe ciality, and he never feels quiet secure while dealing with sentiment. He is skilled in spreading a mist over the in evitable, and in disposing of unwelcome particulars by pleasant generalization. What he is ignorant of he asserts with dogmatism ; what he cannot even guess at he predicts with complacent rash-, ness, as befits the foolhardy mortal who advises marriage on abstract principles.' The true and temperamental match maker is feminine.. She seldom bun gles, seldom gets put into quandaries from which she is unable to extricate herself. She instinctively avoids facts, or their semblance, for she feels shej is not quite at home with them. Sensi bility and idealization are her forte. Like an expert captain, she frequently succeeds by masking her designs ; brings that to pass which she appears to oppose. Secretly she selects the twain she intends for one another ; brings them together as if by accident ; leaves them alone with deep deep pre meditation ; comes and goes out. at the right moment ; introduces favorable circumstances ; prepares surprises ; arranged emotional denouments. ' So permeated' is she ' with the desire of joining them in wedlock that she takes no time to consider whether they are mutually adapted or not. Once united, she imagines they will adjust themselves by some unknown law that .creates iurmony irom disharmony, converts ansipathy into sympathy. But the question of their agreement, of their uappiness, is remote, altogether sec ondary, in ner opinion. She fancies she is responsible for nothing except their marriage. Having achieved that, her task is discharged ; Fate must pro vide the rest. The addition of another pair to tne bead roll of matrimony is a gionous triumph, always to be counted to ner advantage. Why it should be, what merit there i a A.l ' 1 ii m.o iu ujuieuw meaoiesomeness, prece dent or logic would be pazzled to show. Still, such is her belief, and the belief is ineradicable. She fancies she has a vocation to slip the matrimonial noose about the necks of her acquaintances, and she is not content unless she can do so periodically. When she hears that anybody hag been married without her manipulation or manoeuvring, Bhe feels hurt, wronged in some mysterious way, and resolves to make amends for her loss by never permitting the slight est opportunity to slip thereafter; - The feminne match maker has no regular method ; she varies her process according to the emergency. To keep h"er connubial motive concealed, often requires more delicacy and ingenuity than she can master. Moreover, it is prone to imperil the prosperity of her issues ; she must have recourse, there fore, to direct management. After put ting two persons into nuptial nomina tion, and arranging their convention, she confesses with them apart ; sounds them for their thoughts, feelings and opinions, respecting one another. She mentions to Mr. Jones, as if casually, that Miss Brown is very amiable and engaging ; so simple and unobtrusive, too, in mind and manner, that one must know her intimately to appreciate her. She cannot avoid no ticing that the young lady has been much impressed by him ; that she evinces a decided partiality for his company, which he should deem com plimentary, for her taste and discrimi nation have always been subjects of remark. In the society of Miss Brown she does not hesitate to praise Mr. Jones; to intimate that he has talked of the lady incessantly since last they met, and that he is manifestly smitten. Thus are the first seeds sown and they rapidly germinate under the fos tering care of a few weeks, or months at farthest, she has brought the couple to believe, by cunningly administering to the vanity of each, that they are cenuinelv in lrivo with nno onntv.o. She ought to be aware that, soon after tney are united, they will be likely to discover their mistake, and jar and clash until divorce or death relieves them. But what of that ? Is is not one more marriage ? f Is it not another chaplet laid upon the brow of the social intriguer ? Hardly had she observed Mr. Mark well and Miss Showmuch in conversa tion, than she determined to wed them, if possible. Her natural insight may tell her they are antipodes ; that they can no more mingle than oil and water. But, then, if she should have the good luck to hide this fact from both nntil they1 have taken the desperate step, what a victory for her 1 The very diffi culty of the enterprise whets her ardor. ' uiscnarging tne thought of what thev must suffer, she remembers only what satisfaction she shall enjoy. While they are waging domestic wars, she is intent on new triumphs new slaughters of individual peace, new creations of the bitterest disappointments, new blastings of sacred expectations. The match maker would seem to be malignant, at least criminally heedless of the happiness of her neighbors. She is not necessarily either one or the other ; she is, generally, but unmindful of the danger and difficulty of her self appointed work. She fails to compre hend human nature ; has no suspicion of the requirements of the individual. Because marriage often brings comfort, mutual contentment, the best that life has to offer, she thinks, without think ing, that it always does so, irrespective of the conditions under which it is con tracted. Experience teaches her noth ing. If her own nuptial experiment has been unfortunate, she imagines another will be fortunate. If she has drawn a prize in her connubial lottery, she fondly believes there are scarcely any blanks. She is conscientiously wrong -minded. By trying to do good, she does incalculable harm. By seek ing to sow the wheat of happiness, she sows the tares of misery, and she re mains in ignorance in that she gathers not the harvest. Let her bear this in memory : If a man and woman cannot discover in one another sufficient rea sons for marriage, it is not probable that a third person can make the dis covery they should make fpr themselves. Let those who fail to detect sufficient cause for: conjunction remain apartf or tarry for a later oyportunity ! If professional match makers could see half of the wretchedness they have engendered by misdirected zeal, they would be overwhelmed with regret, suffused with repentance. They would take no further risks in the peace of others they would be humbly thank ful if they had themselves escaped the biting woe of a bad selection. Every man should do his own marrying, as he must do. his own dying. The difference between the two often is, that in death his troubles end ; in marriage they have only begun. . Facts. Some men who pride themselves on their common sense and whenever a man boasts mnch about that, it may be assumed that he has very little sense, either common or uncommon will maintain that all knowledge consists of facts, that everything else is mere talk and theory, and that nothing has anv value except facts. Those who speak so much of the value of facts may un derstand the meaning of facts;but they evidently do not understand the mean ing of value. For, the value of a thing is not a property residing in that thing, nor is it a component; but it is simply its relation to some other thing. We say, for instance, that a gold dollar has a certain value; but the value does not reside in the coin. If it does, where is it ? Our sense cannot grasp value. We cannot see value, nor heav it, nor feel it, nor taste it, nor smell it. The value consists solely in the relation which the dollar price bears to something else, just so in regard to facts. Facts, as facts, have no sort of value, but are simplya mass of idle lumber The value of a fact is not an element or a constituent of that fact, but is its rela tion to the total stock of our know led e:e, either Rrpsent or prospective. Facts, therefore, have merely a poten tial and, as it were, subsequent value, aim ine oniy advantage or possessing iuem is tne possibility or drawing con clusions from them; m other words, of rising to the idea, the principle, the law which governs them. Our know ledge is composed not of facts, but of the relations which facts and ideas bear to themselves and to each other; and real knowledge consists not in an an acquaintance with facts, which only makes a pedant,but in the use of facts, wmien in axes a pmiosopner. are Dried In At a meeting of the Fruit Growers' Association of the Gulf States, Mr. lieo. A. j aunce gave a description of tne mode of preparing figs at Smyrna, Turkey, which may be the means of en lightening many persons why they have ianea in m&cing a mercnan table article of our native fig. j Mr. Faunoe describes the soil irj the neighborhood of Smyrna as being of volcanic origin, the climate much cold er than ours, and surrounded by high mountains covered with snow. I Of the fig there are three varieties generally grown there; one a large pur ple fig, much like those seen in! the neighborhood of New Orleans; a large yellow, and a smaller kind which is not much thought of and is never shipped. The trees average the size generally seen in our gardens. The fruit is very dry and rather insipid, and when fresh is not used by the natives. ' I The crop ripens about tha 2fid August, and TnfijZLAxn.KhaoJr- tree8"and thrown on the irrotind in the! qiui wnere-uiey are auowea to 1 remain a few hours; they are then packed in hampers and brought on the backs, of mules to the baiaar or market and thrown into piles twelve or fifteen feet high. The fruit is selected into three classes by women and children, fand packed without further preparation in to boxes or cartoons. Figs are generally shipped on sailing vessels, the hold of which is kept wefl ventilated by wind sails and the hatches kept open. There is also a small white worm or maggot whioh bores a hole in the bottom end of every flg; these worms are in such abundance that they crawl over the vessel and drop j into everything-. Our informant has often seen the skippers trvincr to clean! the stem of his pipe which was full of! the vermin. I When the fruit arrives at its destina tion, if it is dry and covered with grape sugar, it is considered in good order; if dark and of a shining appearance, it is in process of heat and decay. , Benefit of Laughter. It is said by arood authoritvth.it thorn is not the remotest corner or little inlet of the minute blood vessels of the j hu man body that does not5 feel some wavelet from the convulsions occa sioned by good hearty laughter, and also that the "central man." or j life principle, is shaken to its innermost depths, sending new tides of life and strength to the surface, and thus ma terially tending to insure good health to the persons who indulge therein. The blood moves more rapidly prob ably caused by some chemical or elec tric modification occasioned by the con vulsionand conveys a different ! im pression to all the organs of the body as it visits them on that particular niystic journey, when the man islau'gh lug, from what it does at other times. For this reason pvpw cnntl limrtv laugh in which a person indulges tends to lengthen his life, conveying, as it does, new and distinct stimulus to the vital forces. . We doubt not that i the time will come when physicians con ceding more irnnortance than thpv tnw do to the influence of the mind upon i?rces ? the body will rre SCTibe o tne torpitf and melancholy pa tient a certain number of heart v timIs of laughter, to be undergone at stated periods, and believe that they wilt, in so doing, find the be6t and most effec tive method bf producing the required effect upon the Datient. Our advito tn all is, indulge in good, hearty, soulful laughter, when the opportunity offers, and.if you do not derive material bene- nt tlieretroni, charge uft with utteriusr raise principles of materia niediea.: Drinking in the Iast Century. Our ancestors could without anv diffi culty find a place to wet their whistles. The grand jury of Philadelphia declared in 1744 that of all the houses in the city nearly one in every ten sold drink. John Adams, referring to Pownall's remark about every other house being a tavern, says that country towns within ms ODservation nad at least a dozen taverns and retailers of intoxicatinc liquors. The keepers of these places had a great influence at elections, a fact he regrets. One of the Bland letters, written from Virginia in 1765, tells us that a Mr. Bannister "has been very much engaged, ever Bince the dissolu tion of the assembly, in swilling the planters' with bumbo (rum), and I dare say from the present prospect will be elected a burgess." About the middle of the century complaint was made that Harvard undergraduates were in the increasing habit of "frequenting taverns and I, ale-houses" this was before the college was "pleasantly and conveni ently situated in Parker's bar-room" and also of .using wine, beer, and I dis tilled liquors in their- rooms. They shared, too, in another prevalent fault of the time, that is, "profane cursing and swearing. The Galaxy for August. Origin of Great Men. St. Andrew, apostle, was the son of a fisherman: St. John was also the! had of a fisherman; Pone Sixtus V.. ! was the son of a swine-herder he was also one; Aristotle, of a doctor; Boccacio.of a merchant; Columbus.of a wool-comber; John Basth, of a fisherman; Dide rot, of a cutler; Cook, of a servant; Hanrpden.'of a carpenter; Talma, of a dentist; Gesner, of a bookseller; ! Sal vator Kosa, of a surveyor; Euripides,of a fruit-woman;Virgil, of a baker; Hor ace, of a denizen; Voltaire, of a tax collector; Lamothe, of a hatter; Fletch er, of a chandler; Masillon, of a turner; Tamerlane, of a shepherd; Quinault, of a baker; Rollin, of a cutler; Moliere, of an upholsterer; Rosseau, of a watch maker; Sir, Samuel Bowditch, of a sil versmith; Ben Johnson, of a mason; Shakspeare, of a butcher; Sir Thomas Lawrence, of a custom-house officer; Collins, of a hatter; Gray, of a notary; Beattie, of a laborer; Sir Edward Sug den, of a barber; Thomas Moore, of a swordmaker; Rembrandt, of a milier; Benjamin Franklin, of a chandler; Car dinal Woolsey, of a butcher; Napoleon, or a iarmer; Lincoln, or a backwoods man, Negative Kindness. Do the doctors know that half the wives in the world die of this com plaint t "He never spoke an unkind word to his wife." Yes, but did he re member, now and then to speak a kind one t Did he have any sympathy for her bodily and mental ills T Or was he blind and deaf to both,- treating them with that cutting indifference which" in time chills the most loving heartland silences its throbs forever T Men are very guilty in this regard. Take a young girl from the warm atmosphere ef a loving, cheerful home, and after a few weeks of devotion leave her to battle single-handed with nexr cares and new duties, and to " bear sickness wim wuat courage bu may, ana go their ways into the tangled paths of life, without a thought of the responsi bilities they are shirking or the solemn vows they have really broken. No wonder so many happy "brides ripen in ZlL 1 A. 1 -a to irritable dissatisfied matrons, i who seem to have lost all real delight in living. i : - ; The Straggle for Wealth. No ne can settle down in a European city o- village for a month, aod observe the aVring classes, without noticing - r. j vmicircAii Between tneir aspi ratioci, ambitions and , habits, and those of corresponding classes in this wuw7- -U0 may see great poverty in a continental town, and men and wo- uunng severely and faring mean ly, an a hopeless gap existing between classes; hermay see the poor virtually the aUyes of the rich; but he will wit ness a measure of contentment and a daU4 participation in humble pleasure to wiich his eyes have been strangers at hi me. .There is a sad side to this plea ant picture. Much of the appar ent contentment and enjoyment un dem' tedly come from the hoplessness of tl o struggle for anything better. An imp ssable gulf exists between them aad the educated and aristocratic ciase8--a gulf which they have recog nizarl from their birth? nd hTinn thSSf 3 lur.Ut.0n3,- antL'adaDted - to Oiem. Seeing inst-what UitycTf Co nu cannot do, .they very ration ' -r .Tertake to Wet out of life just C i"i r:r condition1', renders at- tainabi I-ere is no far-off, crowning good ii theu to aim at, so they 3try to get whi t tey can on the way. -They make;jud!i of fete-days, and social gathenTi "nd music, and do what they carl sweeten their daily toil, whioUtli. Lnow most be continued whilethi ', )wer to labor lasts.. In Ari l ici As'yexj different. . A humlIetc woodsman sits in the pres idential r, or did sit there but re cently; & lor takes the highest hon ors 0 ti i nation; a "canal-driver be comel j j .verf ol millionaire ;a humble cleik jrpiVintd merchant prince, absfh ing the labor and supplying the waati oftena: of thousands,' In city, State national politics, hundreds and t ousaads piay' te counted of those who, by Enterpriser and self -culture, and s slf-assertion, have- raised them selyeslromth humblest: positions to influeheejrrod placel?. There is ' no im passible jjnlf between the low and the highVymari holds the ballot, and, thereforejeyery tnaa is a person of po litical p JerVandiimportanee. The ways bf bhainess enterprise are many, and tie rewards of success are munifi cent. ':&ip a year.hor; Indeed, a jnonth, passes b'4iftt does- not illustrate the comparAiive ease with which poor men win vajxfiuor acquire power. Thenseauenoe is that all but the wholly brutal are after some great good that Uestliieyond;their years of toil. The European expects always to be a ten anl tiie' American intends be for a Via oVr the houses he .lives in. If s forbid this, he iroea to the s .for Ms home- ! The Euronean that life and labor are cha&n.flnri thathp cannot hope to win by them the weajjl which will realize for him the drejnq of future ease;' the American finds lis labor dear, and its rewards comparatively bonntifnl. nn that fcia dream? of wealth is a rational one. He; therefore, denies himself, works early and lata, and bends his energies, and direct! trjse of his family into profit- - 4 ai2Uiot,MaWootl - Tthat ckons him on from tho fai-.nflr golden future The typical American never lives in the present. If he inijulgas in a recre ation, it is purely for health's sake, and at long intervals, or in great emergen cies. He does not waste money on pleasure, and does not approve of those who do so. ' He lives in a constant fe ver of hope and expectation, or grows sour with hope deferred or blank dis appointment. Out of it all grows the worship of wealth and that demoraliza tion which results in unscrupulousness concerning .the methods of its acquire ment. So America presents the anom aly of a laboring class with unprece dented prosperity and privileges, and unexampled discontent and discom fort. There is surely something better than this. There is something better than a life-long sacrifice of content and en jopment for a passible wealth, which, however, may never be acquired, and which has not the power, when won, to yield its holder the boon which he ex pects to purchase. To withhold from the frugal wife the gown she desires, to deny her the journey which would do so much to break up the monotony of her home-life, to rear children in mean ways, to shut away from the family life a thousand social pleasures, to relin quish all amusements that have a cost attached to them, for wealth which may or may not come when the family life is broken up forever surely this is neither sound enterprise nor wise economy. .We would not have the American laborer, farmer and me chanic become improvident, but we would very much like to see them hap pier than they are, by resort to the daily social enjoyments which are al ways ready to their hand. Nature is strong in the young, and they will have society and play of some sort. It should remain strong in the old, and does re remain strong in them, until it is ex pelled by the absorbing and subordi- nating passion for gain. Something of the Old World fondness for play, and, daily or weekly indulgence in it should become habitual among our workers. Toil would be sweeter in there were a reward at the end of it; work would be gentler when used as a means for securing a pleasure which stands closer than an old age of ease; character would be softer and richer and more childlike, when acquired among genial, everyday delights. The all-subordinating strife for wealth, car ried on with fearful struggles and con stant self-denials, makes us petty, irri table and hard. When the whole American people learn that a dollar's worth of pure pleasure is worth more than a dollar's worth of anything else under the sun ; that working is not liv ing, but only the means by which we win a living; the money is good for nothing except for what it brings o comfort and culture; and, that we live not in the future, but the present, they will be a happy people happier and better than they , have been. "The morrow shall take thought for the things of itself," may not be an ac cepted maxim in political economy.but it was uttered by the wisest being that ever lived in the world, whose mission it was to make men" both coorl an A happy. Scribner: Ola Paper Money Items. Prof. Sumner's book is encouraging, as showing that we are not much worse than our ancestors, and discouraging as showing how litttle we have learned by experience, or how ignorant we are of r accounts of the continual issues of pa per monpy in the North American Colo nies should be read by those who be lieve in inconvertible paper. Those who think it any advantage to buy at low prices may be glad to learn, that when the British Parliament paid to Massachusetts its share of Iiouisburg, which it ransomed from the Colonies (amounting to 138,649, and this amount was sent out in coin, used to cancel tne outstanding paper, then worth about nine per cent), while, of course, a "panic" and "shock" were ex pected, the only "shock" fell on "Rhode Island and New Hampshire, who-found their trade transferred to the'silver colony, and their paper suddenly and heartily depreciated. The West India trade of Massachusetts had been largely done through Newport. It was now transferred to Salem and Bos ton. In 192. in Connecticnt "then were four prices pay, "pay as money.' 'money and 'trnstino. v an enhanced price, according to time. Pj was barter at government rates. Money was Spanish or New Knrlnl coin, also wampum for chwiM. p as money' was barter currency at one tbird less than government rates. A six-penny knife cost twelvnArv in P?7eigntpenoe in pay as money, and "acein coin.r Jt U A, as understood about 1700, "a batch of paper money issued either by me government or a corporation. The bills for ome of these "banks" in Pennsylvania were printed by Frank lin, who says, "It was a very profitable job.and a great help to me;" but though issued at five per cent on mortgage of land in each county,- according to tax able assessment, the result of the schem shows that Franklin was the only one who fairly profited by the wretched device. The issue of bills to "make business brisk," and attempts to "grow up" to excessive issues, will be found not to be hew in our times. With the Revolutionary War, paper money flowed afresh, and in 1780 was worth two cents en the dollar; and some who had faith in paper promises left;basketsfull of it to their children. OoL Pickering insisted that Congress should authorize contracts to be made by him as quartermaster-general, pay able in specie, and was thus enabled to obtain supplies for the army. "It ought to be noticed," says Prof. Sum ner; "that this continental paper was vaunted as 'the safest possible rency,' which nobody could away (1. e., export.) "In 1814 all the banks, save the New England bnks suspended. Specie wen,t to New England because, there was a sound currency and low prices there, and went away from the Middle and Southern States because displaced by redundant paper and consequent high prices" Some contended that silver had risen, and that the paper dollar was an ideal unit. Interesting and instructive accounts follow, of the banks, and the currency up to the present time. The second part of the book contains an account of the English Bank Restriction; and the Appendix contains the justly celebrated "Bullion Report," made by the Select Committee to the House of Commons in 1810. Old and New. r Camp Cure Tor Dyspepsia. . Qnite as sure is the relief from ; dvs- 'otcfunps would-be at .honaefor the the 'steady, but not too severe, exer cise and the constant exposure rarely leave a man after a few days much fault to find with the most evil dis posed stomach. -Among our lakes and streams the bill of fare of the camp is by no means a bad one, but it would be a shocking one at home. There is always lish fried, or broiled if you are wise, or perhaps, if you have a taste for delicacies and want the trout at its best, you will cook it in paper, when it is a thing to remember. Birds, es pecially ducks, are rarely lacking, and in tlio Adirondacks venison is abuud ant enoush. Then it is easy to carry canned and dried vegetables, beans. potatoes, biscuits for bread, condensed milk and the inevitable pork. If I wanted a comparative test for the aW sence of dyspepsia, I should .say that when a man cau relish a bit of well dried, crisp pork on the top of a stew of ducks, and can wind up with a big onion eaten raw with salt, he might be! regarded as tolerably competent .to j compete with the proverbial ostrich. I think it was that srood fisherman, the late Dr. Bethune, who said iJiat a good part of the value of wood life was in the fact tliat you crave onions and can eat them. In fact, there is always a row in camp when the onions give out, and the new men often won der at starting why(an old woodsman is so very particular about having plenty of onions; but in the wilderness and in armies onions are at a premium. I remember once, in paddling along the shores of a lake in Maine, we espied a log cabin in a rough clearing, and, pulling the canoes up.set off to sec who was about, with that odd craving for new faces which haunts men after a lew days of lonely wood life. We found lour children with measles, the mother recovering from pneumonia, the father down with a lively chill im ported from Illinois, and tne grand father with a dislocated finger. We soon put the last right, and tien.draw ing water cool from the spring, with a fewJemons and white sugar, we made them a drink which called down upon 114 unnnmlered blessings. Next my little medicine case came into use for the first time in several summers; and so bv and by, leaving them our remain ing lemons may I never do a deed of greater self-denial ! we went away. As we were shoving oft the old maui came down the hill and stopped us freessed, as we were doctors we ought to be paid. "Wcll,'Mie said, "you done us a heap of good, and we was kind of niournsomo before you come." I felt that the new word ( niournsomo was worth many fees, and so guessed in re ply that we wouldn't take anything. "But maybe you'd have this," he urged,with an air of triumph. "Them's what no hian will refuse;" and so say ing he threw into the canoe a rope of somewhat ancient onions. I accepted the honorarium, and we paddled away djwn the lake. Dr. Wier Mitchell. Animals and Fire-arms. That crows and many other species of t!11 . . Dirus nave nttie iear pi man wnen ne is unarmed is a familiar fact, and sug gests that they fear him chiefly because of the weapons he carries. In Scotland. where shooting was prohibited, on Sun day, crows and rooks iwere gentle, and fed around buildings without concern. Singularly enough the same thing was observed of animals by Dr. Tristram when traveling in the wilderness of Moab, where the sound of a gun is quite rare. He says: "We were struck with the sagacity which all the wild animals showed in the matter of fire arms, little familiar as they can be with them here. As it was Sunday, we stroll ed or Bat down among the ruins without onr fowling-pieces, and were conse quently objects of indifference. A fine fox sat and looked at ns a dozen times among the stone-heaps, and just walked away, keeping . almost within gunshot all the afternoon. The Sakkr falcon sat calmly on his favorite perch and allow ed us to reconnoitre him on Sunday, wnile the eagle, owls, sand-grouse, and partridge, showed a similar contempt for unarmed Europeans." Popular Science Monthly for August. Youths' Column, neasnrlng the Babj. We nwamrvd noCnna Ul r Ayut the eou A lily (rrew at Vhe threnu.aj. And lb boy ww jast m t.n A royal Li or -lUy, Wl Jj 4ta of pnrflff and of gol j. And a heart of JewoUrt chain. Without the blackbird whiatlfsl. UifTh op in tie old roof tryt, And to and fro at the window The red roa rocked ber beex ; And the wee pink flats of baby Were never a mora eat atiU. Snatctiiuff at shine and sltvltm That danced at the UtUce-ai L At! in a darkened chamber. With tke aanahine shut a war. Throagh tears that feB like bAler riu. W measured tbe baby to- day. Anal the .rule bare feet that wvre dimrlrd w And swrot aa a buddin roeo. Lie side by aide toeether in tbehuah 1 o a io nf repoee. p from tbe dainty pfhaw. White aa the rieea dawn, . inPtlfitSS!:?'' ' 'i iTbTSttSU th : f " : We roeawnred tbe aleeptiR baby v iin nonona wnue aa snow, Fr the shining rosewood caaket Tha waited kiwi aeluw. And oat of tbe darkened chambor We went with a childless hioati ; For to tha heicht of tha sinleaa angela Our dear. litUs one had grown. Qtjbxr Fhtesds. Toby was a big ox. He had grown too old to work : so he used to stay all the time in the barn yard, and had a stall , under a shed in the warm corner. - j Peep was a poor! little motherless chicken, with' not eriough feathers on to keep the cold off. He had to hunt up his own victuals ; for nobody thought of feeding him : so he used to peck meal in Toby's feed-box, and Toby never refused to let him. Sometimes Peep sat on Toby's horn ; and, when it grew colder, he rooetcd on Toby's broad, warm back. When Toby got sleepy in the daytime, .he would low for Peep to come and sit on his horn while he took a nap. By and by a little brown pig, seeing how happy Toby ahd Peep were to gether, left all his kinsfolk, and - went to live in the 6hed with them. Piggy slept in the Btraw close by Toby's side ; and the good old ox .would low, when ever he was. fed, till Peep and Piggy came to eat with him. At last the butcher came and took Toby away ; and poo Peep and Piggy were left to mourn for their dear old friend. Bat they loved each other all the better, and slept side by side in the straw. : 'Whenever you 8yw one, you were sure to see the othe. If Peep found any thing to eat, he was sure to divide it with Piggy ; and, though both were homely fellows, it was a pretty sight to see them together. ; Manners. Manners are more im portant than money. A boy who is polite and pleasant in his manners will always have friends, 'and will not make enemies. Good behavior is essential to prosperity. A boy feels well when he does well. If you wish to make every body pleasant about you. and cram 4 friends .wherever" yoxi o, cultivate good manners in company and ugly manners for homo. : We visited a small railroad town not long since, and were: met at the depot by a little boy of ab$ut eleven or twelve years, who entertained and cared for us, in the absence of; his father, with as much polite attention and thoughtful care as the most cultivated gentleman could have done. We said to his mother before we left her home : "You are greatly blessed in your son; he is so attentive and obliging.". "Yes," she said, "I can always de- pcuu on vjuariey wnen nis lather is absent. He is a crreat helo and com fort to me." ! ' She said this as if: it did her heart good to acknowledge the cleverness of her son. j The best manners cost so little, and are worth so much, that everv bov can have them. The Stsetles. When we look at the steeples of a city piercing the blue sky we should ever regard them as so many friendly beacons calmly and gently di recting us to look up above mere mate rial tilings to the calm, peaceful serenity of heaven, of which -the bright firma ment is a symbol.- When the dark clouds of adversity hang around us like a funeral pall and their thunders, would seem to rend our very souls, let us look up to the friendly steeple which points to God's bright sun and heaven's smiles beyond the clouds, remembering : "Troubles will nnt lint forevrr ; Tlie darkest day wiJ pass away." Have friends been torn from us whose bright smiles no longer cheer us as we ?ass on the rugged pathway of life ? hen let us look at the friendly steeple spanned by the bright bow of promise, and promoting ns to the Eden of rest the pilgrim's home. Let us learn a lesson from the friendly steeple "True greatness consists in-moral grandeur." That our thoughts should be elevated and pure. That the tendency of our aspirations be heavenward, and that we are to rise above all that is low and grovelling and aspire to that purity whose birthplace is God'B throne. The BcsT-BoDY.--An old red cow came in at the gate to 'eat the fresh young grass. "How do you do, old cow ? Have you a calf ? Why do you eome into our yard? Where is your home ? You may eat the grass, but do not touch the trees." The cow ate and I ate. Then Tom's kid an came to the gate, looked and at last ran in- al.4o. in; "How do you do, Nan ? You, too, may eat the grass, and no one must say Go out !' " Then the cow spied the kid, ran up to her, and tried to hook her, and drive her out in the street.! "What a selfish fusy body, you old red cow ! Who. gave you leave, pray, to come into the yard ? Suppose Mary had run at you, aqd said, Go out !' You should have let Nan eat, as jfou were doing, in peace, selfish old red cow I You are like some girls and boys, that are never: willing to share !" Thx "Gbkat Ciock OP E TURN IT X." A Washington lecturer says that the earth's orbit has been widening out for 0,000 years past, and will continue to- do so for 20,000 years to come. It will then begin to contract, and will con tinue to do so for 50,000 years. Tbe eccentricity of Mercury has been steadily increasing for the last 100,000 years, but has nearly-attained its limit. In about 5,000 years it will begin to diminish and will -continue to do so for more than 100,000 years. The orbits of the planets must go on oscillating in this manner as long as the laws of nature remain unchanged, forming what a French writer has called "great clocks of eternity, which beat ages as ours beat seconds." The rifleman's creed Creed moor. Milwauk- is now known as Chicago's left boot. , U the BlaVi Hills expedition a dirk business ? Another triumph of the female sex. A man has made his escape from a Ueorgia jail by the aid of a hair-nin- Lawrence, Mass., is one of the few cities that can boast of never having had a murder within its limits since its incorporation. s A marriage was broken up in Daluth by the young man making an unexpec ted eall and finding the poodle dog playing with his true lovea glass eye. . When anything is forbidden to be nflUfl WHfi"nw rrfirln nv 1a1 m an 1 1 m at the same timjpaasiim it, u forbidden -"ll'iVrTnl ItAtin lai Maxim: rnrtlr; woT mulh that wer swallow- colored by its n aali ties, and ihnwi it food in every fibre. , . Smart woman "Doctor, what do you think of .women for doctoYa?" Doctor "They ate invaluable, madam, to onr Drofeaftinn. Wa ilpriwA twrv-thira et our income from them." A A strong mind is sometimes more easily impressed than a weak one. .For example, you cannot so easily convince a fool that yon are a philosopher as con vince a philosopher that you are a fool. . The son of Emir had red hair, of which he was ashamed, and wished to ' dye it. But his father said; "Nay, my ' son, rather behave in such a manner that all fathers should wish their sons had red hair." To our mind babies resemble wheat in many respects. Neither are good for much till they arrive at maturity. Both are bred in the house, "and Jlower in the family. Both have to be cradled, and are generally well thrathed before they are done with. - Deaths take place, the world over, at the rate of one every three secondhand births at the rate oi one every two sec onds. There is a sense of profound relief in the thought that every time a . man goes out of the world, a baby and a half are coming into it. Cicero, who was born 106 year b? . fore Christ, wrote: "I consider tjbii- world as a place which nature never intended for my permanent abode; and I look on my- departure from, it not as being driven from my habitation, but simply as leaving an inn." A pet-canary having escaped into the yard was caught by a favorite cat, bat instead of devouring poor Dickey, puss gently brought the bird indoors and, placed it in the hands of her mistress, ' who was both astonished and delighted vd una scarcely a leather injured. - : A papyrus manuscript, found in an Egyptian tomb, has lately been trans lated by a scholar of Heidelberg, who pronounces it to be the address of Ram ses IIL to all the nations of the earth, detailing minutely all the causes which led to Ihe-oHAlus or the Jews from VhV" land of Pnaraohs. The mechanical arts appear to be rising into new relations with poetry and letters in England. One of the most beautiful works of recent1. Eng lish design is a massive vase in gohl and silver in honor of Alfred Tennyson, adorned with illustrations from his Crincipal poems. It is said to have een'made by Emanuel of London. The Burmese Ambassadors are called in Paris those unpleasant looking bun dles of faded silk and foul linen. They make night hideous at open air con certs and theatres, and make day still more so in the Bois, at races, reviews everywhere-; They should be women, and yet their beards forbid one to in terpret that they are such. They are' the most ill-favored and apparently ec centric exotics that ever came from the tropics. An instance of rare honesty, and showing how a dog may desire to pay his board bill, is said to have recently occurred in Fitchburg. A lady saw a dog frequently about her house picking up odd bits which had been thrown out, and one day she called him in ' and fed him. The next day he came back, and as she opened the door, he walked in and placed an egg on the floor, when he was again fed. The fol lowing day he brought another egg to pay for his dinner, and on the fourth day he brought the old hen herself, who, it seems, had failed to furnish the required egg. The miserable selfishness of. some fellows is enough to make a man ashamed of his sort. So much .as they do expect when they are selecting a wife 1 Fool down in Florida, for in stance 1 He advertises for a wife, and he lets the public know that she must be none of your "common doin's." Im primis, she must have a cow. Also a good feather bed with comfortable linens. Likewise $500 in good, genuU. ine greenbacks. She must comprehend tke whole art and mystery of tending children. Small-pox she must have had, and also measles. Sincerely we hope that this Florida donkey will be swindled. V The late Edward Everett condensed into a single brief paragraph his esti mation of what constituted a good edu cation. Here it is: "To read the Eng. , lish language well, to write with dis-. patch a neat, legible hand and be mas ter of the first four rales of Arithmeti. so as to dispose of at once, with accu racy, every question of figures which comes up in practice I call this a good., education. And if you add the ability to write pure grammatical English, I regard it as an excellent education. These are the tools. You can do much . with them, but you are hopeless with out them. They are the foundation, and unless you begin with these, all your flashy attainments,a little geology, and all other ologies and osophies, are ostentatious rubbish." What would a great portion of the nations of the earth do without partic- : ular plants and fruits ? Take away the potato from the Irish cabin, and star vation comes. Famine already has its hold on Bengal on account of the rice crop. The bread fruit is to the West Indian both food and clothing. Heaven sends it and causes it to grow, and the lazy natives ask nothing further. And vet all these yield to the despised bamboo. We go fishing with these poles; the Chinese eat them. The uses to which it is put render it a national benefactioB. Houses, boats, screens and water wheels are made of it, to gether with fences, ropes, furniture, hats, umbrellas, all varieties of weap ons, lampwicks, pencils, brushes, pens, aqueducts, telescopes and a thousand other things of daily use. We might almost say that were the bamboo to perish suddenly from off the earth, the whole Chinese Empire would collapse.
The Albemarle Register (Elizabeth City, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Sept. 1, 1874, edition 1
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