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THE ST&HDARJD. LA KG EST PAPER ITBLISHED IN CONCORD. ( 1 1. TA! N S M 0 UK R FAD INC, MATTER THAN ANY OTIIKU I'APKR IN THIS SECTION. COXMIMTIOX. I. vking from my chamber window, In lie distant western sky - r.v :i star of beaming brightness Am angel's lamp in heaven high. i 4 thou work at wasting sorrow, Post thou laugh at one forelorn? (h -can I learn from thee a lesson T heal a heart with sorrow torn? A 1 pondered in my sadness, Vs I thought of days gone by, Thought of loved ones once so dear That now in cold and darkness lie, My aching heart of life grew weary, And I turned from earth to drear i. tiud relief Irom weighty sorrow, Hut could find no solace near. 1 1 en came beams of light so joyous, t'x ams of light so pure and true, I rom that star in lovely grandeur In the sky so dark and blue, That my soul r.o longer weary, No longer dreaming o'er the past, Was lifted from the earth aud sorrow Into Christian faith at last For Mircly He who decked the skies, Who tilled the wide expaoee of heaven With jewels of transcendent beauty, The Southern Cross, and Pleiads seven, Who could change the dreary dark ness That envelopes sombre night I:. to a robe of peerkss beauty, Decked with jewels pure and bright, Sui tly He to mortals weary. Who5e poor hearts are sad aud broken, Could hi love and wendrcus mercy dive some precious healiug token. lit could life's dark sorrows lightei With the jewels of his Grace, A::1. life's weary journey over, Maka us to see his glorious face. I I. u come evil and disaster. Tl.ei. come anguish, sorro.v, pain, (): . fortune's smiles Le o'er us, It we follow in her train. Ti y bright beams, O star, shall light us, An ha needed lesson Uach: W't.ate'er good or ill betide us, Title's a home we all may reach- HlVM ni llATK CHIKFTAfN IF.AI. M:v K -Pieileiit Ilel al w Or leiiM Friday Morning. Niav Orleans, IK'C. 0. Jeffer-j .-m Davis doted his eyes in death at i minutes before one o'clock this l.i.'.i.ii i:, surrounded by his friends ami lvkitius who were within call. The handsome residence of Air. .1. II. Pavne at the corner of ciist a;. d Can. p streets is at present the! e! j ct of interest to every friend of Mr. .htferson Davis, because it is in th- pleasant guest chamber of this j el- -ant home, that the beloved old t 'unfedevate Chieftain passed away. WIIKitt HE DIED. The residence, built by Payne, is i. '.f of the most comfortable and artistic in all the city ; it is of brown -j ne, stucco, two stories high, with l:o;.d verandas and set iu lovely titids, where camel ia bushes are i , bloom, and oranges hang in el i-'e'.s o.i trees. The house has a u hall running through the centre with drawing rooms on one side, a library on the other; and in the r-ar onicr of the house is a lovely ai! cheery apartment, into which ti e southern sun streams nearly all i .v. where lay the patient and dis ti L'uished invalid. It is a woude; f illv pretty room with rich-toned l'-v.-ian-hued carpet on the floor, .-.a-; and delicate lace curtains at f .ii r windows, two fronting the East ami two to the South. Pictures are i. a t lu. walls, and there are lounges, ey Turkish chairs, pretty carved tables, and a huge carved oak Vic toria bedstead, on which the ex l'; s'dent of the Confederacy lies in the embrace of death. His constant attendant has been Mr-. Davis, who has never left his i. ' suice h's illness began. In ;. e..:i:fortahle home wrapper of gray a ; black, this gentle minister was : av. at the invalid's side; and if - i. left him for a moment, he asked i her, and was fretted or uneas.v i:util she returned. Friends con '.itlv sent btautiful flowers of v. ii Mr. Davis was very fond, but ' , e were not allowed to remain in :. sick man's room for any length f time. At the outset jellies, fruits, '1 all manner of invalid's del'ca (V -. were profered until Mrs. Davis v.;; - compelled to decline thorn. The .-k man's food was only milk, ice, I ' f ;-.!, and rarely, a broiled chop. Mr. D.,vis rema;ned in bed all the ' in. , mid was never left alone, be ii'tr guarded lovingly by bis wife and 'i.-capable quadroon hired nurse hy.lia, and Mrs. Davis's own little I'i-ov. u eyed hand maiden Metric, who all times had entree to the sick ia. ill's room. But little talking "was alloueo. and newspapers, letters, and b 1'grams were tabooed. MRS. DAVIS "WAS HOI'KFIL. On Wednesday afternoon a report 'i had a few moments conversation with Mrs. Davis. She was worn and denied with service at the sick bed, hut which she would not allow to miy ot her, and her steps were lag VOL. II. NO. 47. ging as she came into the dining room. She was very hopeful, how ever, of her husband's ultimate re covery. "Mr. Davis has always been an ex ceedingly temperate man," said Mrs. Davis. "He has never abvsed his physical powers, and no one could have lived more moderately than he. Of course, all this is in his favor. I do not mean to say that there would be no danger if a door were left open or the fire in his room allowed to go out; he is as frail as a lily, and requires the most attentive care; that he has. I believe he would not be alive today had this ill come up on him at Beau voir, where he could not possibly have had the constant care of such physicians as Dr. Bick ham and Dr. Chaille, and the intel ligent, love, tenderness, and luxury that surrounds him in this home." HE RALLIED IX THE MORNING. V r. Davis seemed much better during the early part of yesterday, and his improved condition was remarked by the doctors and his family, lie had pain in the bowels during the day hut the serious fail ure appeared just a few minutes be fore six o'clock. Then the illustri ous patie.it was stricken with a se vere congestive chill. The doctors were not present at the time, but Judge Fenner') family and Mrs. Davis did everything to soothe the pains. lt'was 7 o'clock before Dr. Bick ham and Dr. Chaille, two of the most famous practitioners in the South, arrived, and consulted over the condition of the patient. His change was a surprise to all, and un expected to those in constant at tendance They continued with the patient until his death, however, and made every possible effort to avoid the inevitable. Mr. Davis remained in a com atose condition and the attendants could see no signs of consciousness. Mrs. Davis said she occasionally felt the return of the pressure of the hand she held, although he could neither speak nor make any sign. THE HOUR OF DEATH. This was the scene in the sick chamber as the hours passed. The only variation was the arrival of Edwii: II. Farrar, the husband of Mr. Davis's neice, and of Judge and Mrs. Charles E. Fenner who had been sent for at the opera. The lamp of life waned lo as the hour of midnight arrived, nor did it flicker into the brightness of consciousness at any time. Eagerly, yet tenderly, the watchers gazed at the face of the dying Chieftain, his face always calm and pale, gained additional pallor, and at a quarter of one o'clock in the morning of the Cth day of December, death came to the venerable leader. There was nothing remarkable about the deathbed scene. The departure of the spirit was gentle and utterly painless. There were no dry eyes in the little assembly about the bed, and every heart bled with anguish, which found vent in Mrs. Davis's sobs and cries. MRS. DAVIS PROSTRATED. Immediately after death, Mrs. Davis was led upstairs to (he bed room of Mrs. Fenner, where the la dies tried to assuage her grief. She bore the awful blow bravely, but her breathing was labored, and her condition so weak that two doctors were called in. They pronounced her weakness to be that only conse quent on strain and grief, and said that nothing was to be feared. I.exnl Don'ls About Will. Don't have anything uncertain iu a will. Don't mention people by their nicknames. Don't let a person interested be a witness. Don't make a will without two w i t nesses bet ter t h ree. Don't neglect to declare it to be your last will aud testament. Don't make a new will unless you revoke or destroy the old one. Don't make a will that does not provide for children that may be born. Don't try to force a wife to accept certain property instead of a dowe-. Don't neglect to make your wit nesses write their full names and addresses. Don't fail to specify which one is meant when two bear the same nan.e. Don't add a codicil unless you execute it in the same way as the original will. Don't forget that, if a woman, your marriage will invalidate a will already made. Don't allow a minor to will away personal property unless 18 if male aud 16 if female. Minneapolis Tribune. r The University of Kortb Carolina. Ashcville Citizen. To the exclusion of editorial mat ter, in part, we give place to the following interesting letter from President Battle. He refers to a statement made in our editorial of some weeks since in which reference was made to the taint of infidelity which at an early period and for a short time was attached to some one or more members of the faculty. That we explained as due to the influence of the French opinions of the day, fostered largely by a politi cal sentiment which favored every thing Erench and hated everything English ; for it was at the period when grateful feeling for the aid given by France in our distress was still fresh and warm, and, when the memory of the long cruel war for our subjugation by England Was still lively and bitter. But this cloud of infidelity was a small and passing one, leaving the University to emerge again in all its shiuiug steadfastness to christian truths. And with this exception the University has been continuously under the control of men eminent for their piety as well as the'.r learning, aud also the nursery of learned divines as well as f statesmen. The fol lowing list embracing clergymen of all denominations will prove how true the University has been to its Chris tian trusts and what noble gifts she has made to religion as well as to temporal service. Surely animosity of prejudice will be disarmed, when to the University is due the equip ment which fitted ministers of the gospel of so many different denomi nation to be reverned for their piety, loved for their goodness, admired for their learning, and rewarded for their usefulness. Among its professors, the Univer sity has been adorned with such able divines as Wm. Bingham, the elder Dr. William Hooper, Dr. Elisha Mitchell, Drs. James and Charles Phillips, Bishop Green, Dr. Deems, Dr. Wheat, Dr. J. J. Rob erts, Dr. Hubbard, Dr. Shipp, and in the present faculty, Dr. Mangum and Dr. Hume. Among the graduates, the f..meof some of whom is national, such able divines appear as Dr. Andrew Flinn, Dr. A. W. C.'opton John Ban dolph's favorite preacher Dr. Wm. Hooper, Dr. John Witherspoon, Dr. Robert Hall, Dr. James Morrison, Dr. Francis L. Hawks, Bev. Charles Applewhite Hill, Bishop W. M. Green, Bev. Robert Hall Morrison, Bishop James II. Otey, Rev. Thomas B. Slade, Rev. Joseph II. Saunders, Thomas F. Davis, Rev. Elias M. Andrews, Dr. Samuel J. Johnston, Dr. Wm. Norwood, Rev. Phillip B. Alsioi), the poet, Bishop Cicero S. Hawks, Rev. Thomas R. Owen, Dr. W. W. Spear, Dr. John Haywood Parker, Rev. W. X. Mebane", Dr. J. J. Roberts, Dr. Jarvis Buxton, Rev. A. M. Shipp, Rev. W. W. Pharr, Rev. SamT B. McPheeters, Dr. J. C. Huske, Dr. S. A. Stan'ield, Dr. S. M. Frost; and this is only a partial list. Could enumeration more splen didly illustrate Christian training than an array of names, embracing all the leading denominations, trained without sectarian bias, going forth each and all of them armed with the same armor of piety aud character, equipped with the same weapons cf tra;oing and learning, going out on their several ways to work on their own chosen fields, but all alike bearing the ineffaceable and unmistakeable impress of the same Alma Mater? To the Uni versity of North Carolina they all owe' their learning, their character, their success and their fame. Here is President Battle's letter: Chapel Hill, N. C, Nov. 25. Editor Citizen: In an interesting and instructive editorial lately pub lished in your paper, you mention the fact that certain professors of this University of the olden time were imbued with infidel principles As this is the only taint on the re ligious character of the institution I wish to show its extremely limited extent. The professors, concerning whom the allegation is -made, are Rev. Dr. David Ker, (lie so spelt his nan.e), Mr. Charles W. Harris and Mr. Sam uel A. Holmes. The doors were opened for the reception of students in January, 1795. Dr. Ker served only one year. When elected, he wa3 a Presbyterian minister in good standing. I find no charge that his religious views were changed while at Chapel Hill. After leaving, in 1796, he studied law, and was appointed by President JeiTerson, district judge of the Mis sissippi Territory. He had a high character as a man and as an officer While it is probably true that he T CONCORD, N. C, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, partook of the free thinking then so prevalent, it is altogether unlikely that he ventilated such views in the year when he was a Presbyterian preacher at Chapel Hill. Mr. Charles W. Harris was pro fessor only two years, 1795 to 1797. He was a worthy member of the ex cellent Cabarrus couuty Harris fam ily. He was an intimate friend of Dr. Joseph Caldwell, and it was through his influence that the latter was induced to accept the professor ship of mathematics in the infant University. In Caldwell's eyes in fidelity was a crime, aud this inti macy is proof that Harris' aberra tions came after they parted. I have read many of Harris' letters written from Chapel Hill. They show him to have been an able- and well-read man, a high-toned gentle man, a faithful and inspiring in structor, but extremely desirous of escaping from the drudgery of teach ing and the anxieties of dicipline. But they do not contain expressions implying that" he held infidel opin ions. If he had them I am quite sure that he lid not attempt to win others to his way of thinking. There is no charge or suggestion that he did. It is impossible to imagine the uncle of the late noble Christian gentleman, Shakespeare Harris, per verting the youth placed under his charge. If he had not been cut off by consumption, he would have been a conspicuous figure in our legal history. The tradition is that he became a faithful Christian before his death. Samuel Allen Holmes is charged by Dr. Caldwell with holding aud endeavoring to propagate principles incompatible with Christianity and good citizenship. From the high character of the accuser we must conclude that Holmes' head was turned by the French Revolutionary ideas, but he was not allowed long to poison young minds. He ceased to he professor iu 1798. We can only conjecture that his resignation was hastened by Dr. Caldwell's charges. He was quite young at the time, obtaining his degree of A. B. in the following ear. I do not know his subsequent history, except that he became a minister of the gospel. I think it clear that neither Ker nor Harris' influence on the students was against Christianity, and that Holmes' evil counsels only continued a few months. All bad influences ended in the last century at the close of the third year after the opening of the institution. Since 1798 the faculty of the University has been always strongly on the side of Christianity. At present alls its members are members of a religious denomination, and I challenge the world to show a set of students with higher moral tone and more correct habits than ours. Yours truly, Kemp P. Battle. "Bonble-L" Polk, of 9f. C. From St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Dec. 2d. Mr. u L. Tolk, State Secretary of the North Carolina Farmers' and Laborers' Union, arrived in town last night, and was heartily greeted a3 "Donble-L" Polk by his fellow- brothers of toil. Mr. Polk makes the gray matter sizz as editor of a paper called the Progressive Farmer. In speaking of the mauy advantages results obtained in his State by the Farmers' Union he said : " The benefits are couspicuousty seen in the matter of education. The farm ers in my State have been slumber ing along, aimlessly, yon might say, and have not been thinking for themselves. They have heretofore been hiring or allowing other people to think for them.' Now they have been awakened, and they read and think for themselves. They are studying their conditions aud sur roundings, and especially everything that embraces the economic pro blems. This will have a telling ef fect on their ballots, for it will give a clearer idea of the best way to vote. The Farmers' Union has fur nished the spittle to remove the cat aract from their eyes, and there are many things that they will no longer go at blindly. Yet our organization can remain non-partisan and still exert a powerfal influence in politics. Our farmers have been improved morally, socially and intellectually by the union. We now have 82,000 members in the State. The Western idea that the North Caoliua farmer raises sweet potatoes and yams and ekes out an ignorant existence will soon be dispelled." Mrs. Logan did not open a pri vate school for young ladies, as was reported but has assumed the management of the Home Magazine of Washington. She returned from Europe last week. AND ARB. A Womnn Willi Pluck. Washington, D. C, Dec. 7. There is at least one woman in thi3 city who worships the memory of ihe late Jefferson Davis, and who has courage of her convictions. She lives at 235 Second street, southeast, and her name is Mrs. Frederick Fairfax. The shutters are closed and the bell pull was obscured by crape. It would be easy for an ob servant passer to imagine that" death had visited some one whose residence had been within. Draped from three windows of the upper story the wide strip of black stuff was evidence of mourning of a high order. In the centre of each of the window sills, just where the black is fastened, is a rosette. If the ; ro settes were also black they would have excited less comment but they are not black. Two of them, one at each end, are red, the one in the mid dle is white. The hues and manner of their arrange combine to form colors of the dead Confederacy and their display at this time made it evident that some one was sorry Mr. Davis was no more. To a Star re porter who called upon the lady, she described herself as Washington born, and said she put mournii.g on her house because cf the death of Jefferson Davis, whom she admiredj and loved. The Star says : Mrs. Fairfax is the wife of Frederick Fairfax, and to be a gentleman of wealth. Mrs. Fairfax is the daugh ter of the late Lieutenant Cooke, of the United States army, who died a great many years ago, leaving to his daughter the house in which she and her husbaud reside. Fairfax was not actively engaged in the Confed eracy, but .Mrs. Fairfax's relatives were all Confederates, so she said this morning. It was suggested to her by one of the newspaper men who called on her this morning that some one might try to tear the mourning emblems dowu. If any one entertains any such idea he only needs first to see Mrs. Fairfax as she appeared when that suggestion was made. He will at once abandon his project. A number of colored peo ple gathered on the sidewalk oppo site the house this morning and loudly criticized the action of the inmates, but they went no further, aud at a late hour this afternoon the dismal drapery and red, white and red rosettes were still in their place, fluttering in the cool breezes and reflecting their colors in the windows of the Lincoln school building. which happens curiously enough to be precisely opposite 2o. 2'.io. The Ilninnu Family. St. Louis Bepublic.l Did you ever make a calculation of the number of people that have inhabited this globe since the begin ning of time? No doubt you will say that calculations involve loss of time and are, after all, barren of results; but, as we are engaged in giving curious readings and odd calculations, let us take a few min utes' time and approximate, with a certain degree of accuracy, at least, the number of souls that have been ushered into aud out of this sinful world since the time when it was not good for Adam to be alone. At the present time it is believed that there are 1,400,000,000 human be ings on our globe; but let us sup pose there has been but an average of 900,000,000 living at one time since the creation. To give room for any possible doubt as to the average length of life, we will put it down at fifty years. (It may have been longer than that during Bible times ; it has been much shorter, since.) With the average length of life, reckoned as above, we have had two generations of 900,000,000 each every century for the past 6,000 years. Taking this for granted, we have had about 55,627,813,257, 075, 266 inhabitants on this globe since the beginning of time. Admitting that there is a great deal of guess-work about this spec ulation, and that it has been hastily and perhaps inaccurately done, it will be perceived, nevertheless, that our earth is a vast cemetery. On each rood of it 1,283 human beings have found a burial-place. A rood being scarcely sufficient for 10 graves, each grave must contain the remains of 129 persons. The whole surface the globe, if all people bury within the earth as we do, has beeu dug over 120 times to get room for burial places. Oritlus of Tboait bt. Every vice fights nature. Might is not always right. Reckless youth makes rueful age. Life is but the vestibule of being. It is hai'der to listen than to talk. A man is only as old as he feels. Try to forget as well as forgive. Humor is the solid enjoyment. 1889. Old Jones' Philosophy. When I was a boy we had a big yallcr dog that hadn't as much sense as a sheep or as much pluck as a chipmunk. That dog wouldn't have fought a canary bird. We knew it and he knew it, but he kept up an awful sight of bluster an' blow just the same as if we didn't all know just what it was worth. Every day a big black cur, as cowardly as ourn, used to go by with a butcher's cart and them two dogs would run up an' down on different sides o' the fence barkin' fit ter kill an' just as if they would tear each other up if it wasn't fer the fense. One day the two got after each other an' it happened some one had left the gate open so all of asuddent they came opposite each other, with nothing between. Well, sir, those two dogs just stopped an' looked at each other for a minute, then they put their tails between their legs an' cut sticks in different directions, as if the Old Nick was after 'em. There's piles an' piles o' men that's a heap more anxious for a fight w'en there's a fence between 'em than when they're on clear ground. How She Took Ihe Onlh. Many, indeed, and various are the anecdotes told in cennection with oath-taking. A very pious and painfully guiltless old lady was once called as a witness before Mr. Ten-nyson-D'Eyncourt, the Bow street police magistrate. "Is it a fact, your honor," asked the lady, "that I must take an oath." "Certainly, madam," replied Mr D'Evucourt. "But I don't like to do sol" ex claimed the ladv. "You must do so or go to prison," said Mr. D'Eyncourt. "Every wit hess has got to swear. The lady was hard to be persuad ed. For i long time she held out against what she termed a cruel in justice, but finally consented to comply with the magistrate's orders. She then took the book, and to the surprise and amusement of the whole court rapped out a tremendous oath, after which she covered her face and cried in pitiful tones: "Heaven for give me, but I had to do it." Pitts burg Dispatch. Josh Biiniix' Philosophy. New York Weekly. Human bappines iz like the Hot tentot language; enuybody kan talk it well euuff, but thare ain't but phew cau understand it. Gravity is more evidence of wis dom than a paper collar is ov a shirt. Whatever Providence has given us the faknlty tew do, he has given us the power tew do. There iz a grate menny folk in this world who are like little flies, great bores, without meaning or knowing it. Grate iniquity seems to baptize themselves. If the devil had only been guilty of petty larceny, he wouldn't have bin heard ov agin. The hardest thing that etiny man kan do iz tew fall dowu on the ice whet it iz wet, and get up and praze the Lord. All the good in j tins die young. How menny men tbare are who argy, just az a bull diu, chained tew a post; they heller and paw, but they kant get away from the post. I hev herd a grate deal ced about "broken hartes," and thare may be a fu ov them; but my experience iz that next tew the gizzard, the heart iz the tuffest peace ov meat iu the whole critter. I have fiuaUy kum to the kouklu sion that a good reliable set ov bow. els iz wurth more tu a man than any cpuautity ov brains. A man with one idee alwus puts me iu m;ud ov an old goose a try in' to hatch out a paving stun. Thare is just about az much real humor in the best ov genuses as thare is juse in a lemmon ; one good squeeze takes it out, and thare iz no thing but seeds and skin left. Az in a game of cards, so in the game ov life, we must play what iz dealt tew us, and the glory consists, not so much in w;uning,-as in play ing a poor hand well. I hev koowu folks whose calibre was very small, but whose bore was very big. If a man begius life bi being fust lieutenaut in his familee, he never need to look for promoshnn. A pet lam alwus makes a kross ram. No man is so high that the law is not above him. Broken promises do more harm than fulfilled threats. Vanity hurts more people than poverty. "WHOLE NO. 99. To tho People or North Carolinn. Unsolicited and unexpected on my part, I have been elected by the Ex ecutive Committee of the Confeder ate Veterans' Associaton" of North Carolina an agent to make a canvass of the State in behalf of a Soldiers' Home. Now, I am aware that I have untaken a big job. I wane your endorsement; I want your sympathy; I want a small amount of your means. I hope no one will say "it is not convenient for me to give now." If we are not vvil liug to make some sacrifice, if not willing to sacrifice some luxury for this cause, but must wait until it is convenient to give the aid, then let the cry at once be made in all North Carolina. "To your tents, oh, Israel." This call is a broad one, it is not bound by religious or political lines, but appeals to the humane of every sect or political party. "We do not despise the day of small things." Small sums will be appreciated. "There is that scattereth and yet increaseth; and there is that with holdeth more than is meet, but tend- eth to poverty." Let the home have one-half of what you intended for your Christmas. It has been reported to the com mittee that there are at least 28 ex Confederate soldiers now in the poor houses in North Carolina, and they have not received repSrts from all the counties. These things ought not to be. Might not these 28 and others say "we are here in obedience to the call of North Carolina made in 1861-5?" May it not be true that these 28 were iu the charge on many battle fields iu those days that tried men's souls? May it not be true that some at least of the 28 were seen by us in those dreadful charges made at Get tysburg in July, 1863? Will North Carolina let them suf fer for scant necessary comforts as their sun is going down the western hill of life? I think not. Now, I appeal to every man of soul in North Carolina to help us in some way. Especially do I appeal to the ladies of North Carolina for help. If you can't give mo.iey, give kind words and show iu other ways your interest for the cause. In order to make the canvass with as little expense as possible, all re duction in fare at hotels, boarding houses, or in transportation from one town to another, will be greatly appreciated. The plan is broader than for the mere establishment of a Soldiers' Home, when circumstances admit of its being fully carried out The agent will make a full explanation when he comes. If the measures proposed differ from what any wish, let us agree to work the plan that is now adopted, and after we get the money and bona fide subscriptions, then all the nec essary improvements can be added thereto. The soldiers' Home is un der the charge of the Executive Committee of the Confederate Vet erans' Association, incorporated by act of Assembly, etc. I hope all papeis in the State fa vorable to the cause will publish this appeal at least ouce in their papers Address, M. O. Sherrill, Agent, etc., Newton, N. C. To Pay III 1'ebtN. Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 22. Col. D. P. Porter, Assistant Secreta ry of the state of Mississippi, and Secretary of the Davis land Compa ny, a joint stock company formed by State officers aud other leading citi zens of Mississippi, is iu the city, The object of the company is to pur chase 5,700 acres of wild laud in Arkansas, owned by Hon. Jefferson Davis, as an investment and enable Mr. Davis to pay a debt of more than 40,000. It is purely an enterprise directed toward relieving Mr. Davis of the burden of debt which is pressing him down in his old age Wealthy men who followed the lost cause have importuned him to ac cept of their means, but he declined any and all gifts from every source His need of money at length became so great that Gov. Lowery, of Missis sinni. and other leading citizens, de termined to take the matter in their own hands. They found out that he owns the land in Arkansas refer red to above and decided to organize a stock company for its purchase, the proceeds to be applied to the payment of his debts. The stock, it is said, w ill have some value, but the projectors of the movement are frank in the appeal to ex-Confederates that thev subscribe, not in the hope of financial reward, but as a matter ot sentimenr, anu to ieuec the last days of their old leader. A well-attended meeting was held at the Commercial Club room here to night, aud steps taken to interest old Confederates in the work. THE STANDARD. WE DO ALL KINDS OF TOE "WOEEI IN the WE A TES T MA NNEM -ANDAT-T1TE LOWEST RATES!. V In Ilcr Line. There are more than tws newspa per men living in Woodsburgh, L. I., and of one of them the boys told the Rambler a good story. It seems the newspaper man in question had been annoyed by a persistent book canvasser. She was young, pretty and talkative and had for sale a gaudily covered book entitled "How to be Good." The newspaper man was busy when she first called on him and he told her to drop in when he had more time. She did not suc ceed in selling the book on the first attempt nor on the secoud. Her visits, however, became so frequent that the newspaper man told his wife of the matter. She was struck with the title of the book and told her husband that he ought to buy it, as he needed instruction on the subject treated. The book agent called the next day as usual and the newspaper man said: "Well, I'll take your book, but I would not buy it only my wife has taken a facy to the title." The lady canvasser had not closed her purse on the $2 which she receiv ed for the book before she learned where the newspaper man lived, and that afternoon found her in Woods burgh, where she sold a second copy of the book to the newspaper man's wife. He reached home earlier than us ual that evening and with lighted pipe was enjoying the comfort de rived from roomy slippers which adds to the prospect of dinner when his wife said: "I forgot to tell you I bought that book, 'How To Be Good.'" "The compositor, yon did," said he. "Now we've got two copies. I bought one of the book agent today." "Well," said his wife, "we can." "No we can't. That's selling books on false pretenses and I'll have that woman arrested. The train is just getting in, but I have my slippers on. There's Lyng go ing to the train now. Say, Lyng, stop that book agent at the station until I see her." "What do you want to see her about?" asked Lyng. "Never mind now. She'll be off if you don't hurry. You just keep her talking until I get there." Lyng reached the station as the fair book agent was hoarding the outgoing train. "Excuse me," he said, "but Mr. Dash wants to see you." "Mr. Dash wnts to see me?" said the book agent, demurely standing on the car platform. "Oh, yes, he wants to buy one of my books. I must have cash for it, though. The price is $2." Mr. Lyng, happy to oblige his friend Dash, paid the money, took the book "How to be Good," and the train started as Dash, out of breath, reached the station. "Don't hurry, old fellow," said Lyng. "I've got the book for you, How to be good'" "By thunder," said Dash, as ho sat on the baggage truck and shook his fist at the train. ranl, Lee and tbeir Annies. It is quite true that by the end of the campaign Gant's doggedness had produced a certain effect upon the Confederate soldiery. All acknowl edge it. But what was the effect? Undoubtedly they had begun to rea lize that, if the North would allow its soldiers to be exposed to such frightful butchery, the North might at that price triumph. But not for one moment did it modify the con fidence of the Southern soldiery in their own great leader; and not even at the fatal moment of the surren der at Appomattox did a Southern soldier doubt that everything that any general could do for his army had been done by Iec I fancy that if at Cold Harbor the proposal of the Irishman after the battle of the Boyne, "to swap leaders and fight it over again," could have been put to the two armies, there wotdd not been one hand on the Southern side held up to accept the offer. Would there have been one on the Northern? I fancy few of the Northern general who knew all the circumstances would like much to put the question of the greatness of the two leader to any such test Of course the opinion of the armies is uot always a fair one as to the capacity of gen erals. It is, however, a very impor tant element in the actual power and effectiveness of a general in com mand. Iu this instance the opinion of the hour has been confirmed by the careful and critical examination of many able soldiers. No sweet withoutf some sweat; no pains without some gains. m Humility is that low sweet root from which all virtues shoot. A n