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THE CL l-UBUSi'F.D fcVKRY Will N il 'AY jrr jon?f n. weddiko.- jidrerthiMf 'Xatts . It JX : MRnirTio.- ritw: JEfc-.abll.-IiM fi-:ruary IT;!.. lii'i-J 1 lui-h. . . . a lucked., a cc.umfi 1 OMMpT f-'. i.t m-aUt .; , 1 Ml S W 1 ini! 5 3 CW 7t 1 IV 15 0 IS tt'l fc Co MM It X IS VOL. :j. CLAYTOX, X. C., AV ESI) AY, OCTOBER 21, 1SS5, KO. 27. so r ! SOW,' 33 OC I TS 1 ; ' - 3 AlflTQN J.JJ? -m -J.-Xli.Oia . f IFor.THi Hi. II Y CA HI N it Why linger, darling How sadly Twiii, "Lonrfcg lobeer thy light Up at tvepl; Ilat to the heart hich U UaUnswitL fear Leet 111 Utiie the cherUhM so der. "NYby linger, darlln;:? How t ow creep the boure ! Coldly lv.e moon g!ilnr. down on the fiowere ; JlrUbtiy croi the dep ehedea of the nltfLt. I BJrer tar mic?;to tbeir radiant l:ght. "VYfcy !ti:pT, darling ? I hit bere alcne, "LiatecicgV"' to b&t thy inJ tone ; OviOi wbit joy would I greet thee, my lore. HpT7 M "P"1" -cc f,ooa Te 1 Vhy licger, darting ? JheLliae wbich I prli. Beast from the depthe of your Ia- troat dA'k eje ; Hmvas tome t within ycnr deir rtr.i, TLwo I forget etrthly crei md Uxu. "Wfcyl-Dgjr.duliaft? Im tired ad mould In Uu "f blier of tby Irin2 brewt ; If UxiM poor head could recliao there one tar, Qcklly all eorrow &cJ pain womld hi or. J "Why linRer, dwlin,:? iij heart yearns for tbe, Fdl of loTe which U deep m the,see. liih ae the bcaven'e nant iaflcite beJghw, CociUnt as Kight with WrtouAi.d de &bta. "Way linger, darlicg? I want thee alone, No other prewnce can charm as thine "own; Onco more ! aear the fond words tbt yoo jak. And feel your kira ao wiracnmy cheek. Gaylon. N, C, October 15th, '85. Ilor tu Kill lite itlues. -" . Ocncrallj apeakinj, if yoaare troubled with Hhe biacs," and cannot toil why, you may be enre it epringa from physical wcak De5. Instead of lying on the sofa and cortinc pAinfal ideas if joua-ea despairing lover, a h) pochondriac or a valetndina ri4nf you should be up and etirs iiop yoari-clf. The Mood of a nicUncboly man is thick and h!ow, creeping hlupglsuly through the veins, like rnuedy waters in a canal ; the blood of your chirp ing philosopher, is clear and qoick, brisk as a cowly broached champagne. Try, therefore, to iet your blood in motion. Try, rather, what a amart walk will do for yoo, tct your pegs iu mo tion on toogh rocky ground, or hurry up a tteep, cringed hill ; build stone walls; sing an axe over a pile of hickory or rock maple; turn a grindstone; dig ditche; practice ground and lofting tumbling; pour water in toaseivewith the Danaides,or with fc?iyphc5 up the hill heave a huge round none, in short, do anything that will Urt tbo per eparaticn. and ypu will eoon co we to have your brains lined with black, as Burton expresses it, or to rie in the morning, a Cowper did like an infernal irog out of Acberoa crowneU with the coze and mud ot melauchol-. The Conccrd Time ays a boy about twelve years old got drunk in that town one day last week, fell down and wallowed in the mud, wnt home to his parents in this pllgbt, and of course al most broke their beairts. It is iinother pica for prohibition. A fresh evidence of the fact that the Woman's Chiistian Temper ance Union has in cur midst a lieldfor doing good. A fearful commentary oa oar civiliration and osr laws! Washington Letter. irrs our T.c;y.a.r Corrcff jiei.t Wasihsgton, Oct. 10, 18S.i. As the touch of froat clothes the streets and parks of Wash ington iu Autumnal hues, the city begins to assume a livelier and gayer appearance. Styliah equipages, with their liveried coachmen and footmen, a sitiht not often Feen daring the eum iner months, now pa frequent lv up and down the avenue.. The eto;e" windows are bright with the display of Fall goods, and the crowd on the pavements of PennevlvaL-ia avenue dally increases. The hotel and board iug house keepers, and restau renterB, aa well as those who hare reception costumes and swallow. tail suits to hire, are luafcing elaborate preparations for the season ; and Members of Congress throughout tha coan ry with (heir female entourage bfgin to pack their grip' oacks and Saratoga trunks for their winter's sojourn at the Capital. Frw people realize what a worthless specimen o! the gaius homo the average Congreesinan is. ot every Member of Con gre&a U as truly good a man as that paragon of eloquence and benevolence who represeuts the reader's district. The other kind isono who, having, by dint ot fl-ntciinir poeche3, delusive promises, and readily spent money, been elected to fill a p!aco in the Legislature, hi slippery and" accommodating memory easily forgets .all the promises on'which he has'ctimb ed to his post, honrable in ittelf, but dishonored while in hi9 pce seesion. 2iarcidsus-like, he is lost in admiration of his own image, and perhaps forgets the purpcee for which he was elected, which may have been to vote against an increased tariir on wool, or to urge an appropriation for im proving the Soith Fork of Little Muddy Kan. JSj, during the winter season, he ependa the creater potion of his time iu the parlors and dining saloons of hotels and at various places of amusement and interest. During thn, tVtr honrs dally that he 18 tr V. - - v expected tc be in the House or the Menace, he-loungea iu an easy chair or on a sofa,smoking, read- iug the newspaper, gessipping nJrh female lobbyists in the waiting rooms, and riiiting with gallery goddesses. He pays lit tle attention to the debates tna ar about matters outside the area of his narrow district; and ran alwavs be relied upon to vote for an adjournment. When two years have almost elapsed, and h8 realizes that his term of oflicc is about to expire, he rouses himself from his leth argv, and disliking to relinquish his role in the grea! drama of history, he gets one of the many literary fellowb" who are always hancinz around to write him a c c speech, wbich he reads to empty chairs in Corress, and sends several hundrei conies of the Concrc3ional Hecord in which it is prict-d to his conatitueats! And when the endof his term comes, his exit from public life reminds cno notof a filling star, but rather resembles a drooping Kttck. This is not an exaggera ted fype of statesmanship in Washington. There are so many liko him that he is cot conspicu ous for indolence or iupiuuy. The idea that the mission ot leadership is past is a mistake. There are a few prosricent men cn both sides who direct legisla tion, and the rest are followers. Although the vote cf the dullest member counts as much as that of a Daniel Webster, he gets his cue from his chief and is able to vote withont disgrace to himself or disaster to his country. Bat it is not strange that legis lation lag and that bills are sent forth half made up, wbea so many cf the jK'ople's agents are un qualified by mind, education, or aipiration for the work of legis lation. Much bus been said and written recently aoout the reform of the Civil Seryice. A radical rerorm in the legislative service is most urgent. If Mr. Leather- lungs and Mr. Set-em-Up were compelled to pass a competitive examination they would never attain tbeir places in the Senate or House. Fnt You n ir Jlen. Fast young men are as plenty in a large city as thorns on a rose bush. Do you ucow any ? A fast joung mau drinks, smokes and gambles. lie will not smoke cheap tobacco ; oh, no ! thit is not stylish enough. He uses the best perfumed cigars. As for drink, beer is too cheap. He will take a glass of wine, and by and by, as the appetite for it grows on him, he will call for whiskey or brandy. Now for the, gam bling. If you should tell a young mftrtjwhe"be ynVw bir?fm gar, or drinks his "first glao of wine, that he will Foon gamble, he would laugh at you. Do you think he would bo fool enough to throw away Ms money in that way! ilothe. Ho will go out iu tho evening with some of bis friends, and take a glass of wine, and smoke, and perhaps play a game of billiards, but not gam ble. "Oh!' no. Let me tell you, young men, it is the easiest thing in the world to go from playing for fun to playing for money. Don't play at all.; Don't' drink at all. Don't smoke at all. Per haps you don't see harm in either of these things, but there is. Even if they did you no harm, what good do they do you T I am sure if you think thia matter over feriously, you will seo the folly of it. Try to bo sober, in dustrious and honest, rather than "fast." Selected. Hard to Beat. Thefollowinginstanceof thrifjt in the person of a man ot.color, wbich we find in the Kerners ville Vctr, is hard to beat : G.W.Taylor, a colored man lUingnear Colfax, has given us a stctement of the amount of fruit he has shipped this year. He sold fruit to the grossamount ofl.521.95, and after taking off all the expense of express, pack ing, &c, he had a net profit of 732 10 He has still plenty of dried and canned fruit for family ne and also fifty bushels of ap-. pies yet to sell. He is an ener getic, bard-working man and is a worthy example to his race. If rich, it is easy to conceal our wealth: put irvoor.it is not quite so easy to cental poverty. We shall find that it is less dim- cult to hide a thousand guineas than one hole in our coat.- Sundry Items. Tobacco grows wild in various parts of levada. j The crop prospects in the South are excellent. . A Jersey farmer has three acres in snowflowers. Cultivation without manure is stimulant without food. Grain is lesa injured by dry weather than is often supposed. Sugar has been made from maples fourteea years old from 4 the seed. j Frost has damage in done considerable the uortbwe3tern States. j .' ! j Iowa farmers have found dairy ing more profitable than grain growiug. Areola, Illinois, is the largest broomcoru centre in the United gjtates. v j The Colorado bug has almost caused a potato famine in the ijrovicce o Quebec The great cause ot epoiled canned fruit is putting up that which is not entirely fresh. The safe rule in firming ia not to put all the eggs in one basket, as the saying is. J Four hundred sailing; vessels are emp oyod in tho wheat trade oV the Pacific coast. ! Prospects are that there will be less than an average crop of onions this season. I There is a general belief among farmers that good wheat cannot i be grown alter, osaas. Wheat, barley and hay are the only satisfactory arops in Great Britian this seasou. Honey should be kept in the dark or it will granulate; the tees wore in dark hives. Most old orchards need manure and tho time to apply it is late in the summer or in the fall. Young grasshoppers have made their appearance in the far west again by the million. ! Toe fences of this country have coat million of dollars, and many of these fences are unnec essary. At a recent sale of Jerseys in Isew York, the piicss obtained show that this breed is still in high lavor. Many horses have a habit of Jl ' .1 ! n i - in t a oOd one, and horses snould be Token of it if possible. A New Jersey doctor thinks that the use of the lawn mower will give young ladies that sort of excercise they most need. Trees on the outside of .an or chard are usually more prolific, there is more sunlight and air and'the roots have a fr&er range. i; One of the principal ad van -jag'es of fall transplanting of lit! . ...... ' i rees is that it is a season oi ireJvter leisure to the farmer than heapring. Jii Many English farmers practice shearing their early" lambs in midsummer, and claim that a greater growth of carcass is ch ained thereby. in jloro attention should be pa'.d o teaching young horses to walk k'dSt thafiis done. A fast-walking horse is a desideratum not often meirwithy 1 r,et Us TSiink About It. An experienced citizen of the cood old county of Sampson as aert that a good one-hcrse farm will not support a .man and his fimily ia' the, style cf our aver a3 'good citizen of thetownF and villages, that is.-with our present tyattm of crops. Be clams that a ten thousand farm with fire good mules or horses, will b3 requited whera thero is a large family to feed, dress and school, and give them abi-enn:al trip to a fair or a rare trip t3 tb mountains or seashore, j This ut terance was not a growl, for the mau who said it is well' to do. He says the people are too ex travagunt,aad that we will never be a well-off people until we have undergone a complete revolution. Tbafc is powerful . true, hut when they begin to save let them think, and when they wcrk let them think. Wearo behind in think ing, and that's half oar draw back. An exchange says the Agri cultural Department propose to send Mr. Peter M. Wilson to Lon don to spend $15,000 to adver tise North Carolina. If they will take that amount of money and start an industrial school they will act wisely. They had as well spend that money in measu ring, the height of ihe mountains in the moon. The fact is, says the Greens boro Worlcman, the influence cf a good exampble ia one of the most wholesome things knpwn, and we venture the remark that if. eiUuLiwo-third? of thd young men of North Carolina who are acting the "natural born fool" on the credit of their ancestors, the moat of whom have changed their address to the cemetery, and go ia work trying to become self-sustaining, a better influence would go out in favor of North Carolina than any London ad vertising could produce at any price. The very idea of import ing labor from abroad when we have so much of it 4,lyingaround lnoaA ' Yes : loose that's the ' v - very word I' Good Advice to Slangy Olrls If young ladies who, through associations with y6nng men limited education, and poverty ot ideas compel tho use of ilang in lieu of correct ex pressions, comprehended the meaning of many of the terms thosput in tbeir innocent moaths they would be shocked at the vul garity of their companions. Al most withont exception words and phrases popularly denomina ted "slang" are drawn from the slams; they are the invention o! the most depraved elements of human society, and should be avoided by all persons with any pretensions to refinement and gentility. , Sam Jones: "I don't go much on a religion that strikes in spots. Religion ia liko. the measles ; if you get it broke out good, it is all right; but if it goes in, it kills you. I want a man's pocket book .broke out, too." Your daughter may be beauti fhl and lovely, but first thing you know the devil may pack off a drunken eoa-in-law on ypu. There are women here who have not struck a lick of work in years. They do nothing, but shop, shop, shop. Hell is full o such women. A LADY'S STOCKING. Peculiar an,101"1" Willi a lady W'how Hosiery vit Damp. "Yes." said a Kochester, N. Y. ahoe clerk to an inquisitive cus tomer, ,;we see all sorts of fiocka in our business, from silk toaotfe' atalL" "None at all V Well, I don't mean that many people come in here withont any stockings ; but it sometimes happens that naked feet are ex ported to pur gaze and women's fe.'t at that." , 'How does that happen ?" "111 tell you an' instance. One rainy Friday a very stodt lady came iu here and wanted to get a pair of shoes. After looking at several pairs she selected one to try on. I unbuttoned her shoe for her and tried to put on the one she bad picked cut, but, al "q though evidently ot the size she woie, I found it impossible to put it on. Tko difficulty was' e8ilyseen- Her stockings were' damp; and I told her that it would be impossible to fit her foot while she had on those' stockings. " Oh, I thought of that,' she said, kand provided myself with' an extra pair,' at the same tiuMi displaying a small parcel she held in her hand. "I told her she bad better pot them on and I retired to the back of the store to give her a" chance. Hearing nothing front her,, after a few minutes had: elapsed, I ventured, to glance' around arid saw that phe Wfti in an awkard predicament.' The fact was she was too fat and too tightly laced to put on her ow stockings. Well, air it was V comical sight to see her ineffect ual plunges in her endeavors to reach her feet, and the ludicrous sidelong glances she cast around to see If any one was watching her. I couldn't help standing and looking at her for a minute or two, although my duty m the case was clear enough. Tod see 1 was there to sell this lady a4 pair of shoes, and if be bought them she must have on dry stockings, and it was plain that if she wore dry stock logs some one would be obliged to put them , on for her. So like a horse I marched op to where she was sitting. What with tne exer- iona and the mortification si 6 felt, her face was the color or a weel-boiled lobster, and I have- no doubt my own beautiful phbS' was no faint reflex of , that kind.: " 'Can I assist yon madam,' said I. in the politest tone I cOnld muster. . . ... "Ye8, you can assist me. roll off these stockings and. put on. bis pair and be quick about it, she ordered, speaking quite sav age like. t "Well I got her stockings off, and managed to get her feet in the dry pair; then I left her again. When I camo babk I got on tbe'same shoe we had tried! before without any troubled Well, she took the shoes they were a $C .pair paid for them, and flounced put of the store as' though we were to blame for the display she bad made. uYes,T' concluded the narrator,' reflectively, "shoe clerks hare queer experiences sometimes! and see more of human nature in its varied aspects than many' people wot of." v i T4 - f
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