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EKY TEAR.
(BY ALBERT TIKE.)
Life is a count of losses,
Every year;
r the weak are heavier crosses,
Every year;
Lost Spring1 with sobs replying,
Unto weary Autumn's f-ighius,
While those we love are dying,
Every year.
The days have less of gladness,
Every j'eai ;
The nights more weight of sadness,
Every year;
Fair Springs no longer cheer us,
The wiuds and weather harm us,
The threats of Death alarm us,
Every year.
There couie new cares and soriows,
Every year;
Dark days and darker morrows,
Every year;
The ghosts of dead loves haunt us
The shosts of changed niends taunt
us,
And disappointments daunt us,
Every year.
To the past go more dead faces,
Every year;
As the loved leave vacant places,
Every year;
Everywhere the sa 1 eyes meet us,
Iti the evening's dusk they greet us,
And to come to them entreat us,
Every year.
"You are growing old," they toll us,
"Every jear;
' You are more alone,'" they tell us,
"Every jear;
"You can win no new affection,
"You have only recollection,
" Deeper sorrow and dejection,
"Every year."
Too tiUt ! Life's shores are shifting
Every year;
Ami we are seaward drifting,
Every yeas
Old places, changing, fret of,
The living more forget us,
Thei e are fewer to regret us,
Every year.
Bit ihe truer life draws nigher,
Every year;
And its Morning star c'imbs blighter
Every year;
E 11 th's hold ou us grows s.'ighter,
And the heavy burthen lighter,
An i the Dawn Immortal brighter,
Every year-
ROM A SOCIAL STANDPOINT.
A Southern I. mly Ijsci :ie the
t racism of Mr. l':ible.
Oh-
LIN( OLX, IS EI)., Dec. 2o. lo tue
Kditor of The Bee: In the Sunday
lv I notice an editorial headed
Southern Prejudice," in which the
v. ri;tr criticises the Atlanta Consti.
t ition for predicting the social ostra
( m f Mr. Cable on account of his
iiitim.ite association with the negro
and characterises the people of tLe
f-.'iiith en massce, a3 "ignorant, narrow-minded
and intolerant." Being
a native, and until recently a resi
'1 tit of that benighted region, and
h iving had. therefore, better oppor
tunities to gain a personal, practical
knowledge of its systems and intel
1 tr,;il status than one who has prob
u;i!y novel lived in the South and
has formed his opinions only from
the hearsay evidence of those inim
ical lo its interests, I desire to pre
Sfiit a few propositions and call h;s
attention to a few of his inconsisten-
:i".-.
In the first place, the writer 'n
The Bee appears in the new role of
1 -ioographor, and treats us to a re
freshing definition of the word
'prejudice." lie says that "preju
dice i: an index of a narrow, unedu
c ited mind, incapable of t looking at
a question except from one stand
point, generally an intensely per
sonal one," while Mr. Webster as
sures us that prejudice is "an opin
ion or decision of mind formed with
out due examination; pre-judgment,
etc." From which we see
that the fact of a n ind's being
prejudiced is no evidence of a lack
"f ability to judge correctly. The
most learned and gifted are often
the most intolerantly prejudiced, so
Tii" Bee's propo-ition that a preju
diced mind is necessarily an ignorant
o is a ia.se hypotnesis. An argu-
1;.'
tio
it lia-eu upon such an assump
i is like attempting to prove that
:: .-tivani is shal'ow because it flows
in a narrow channel.
That the peop'e of the South are
pposed to the social equality of the
whites and blacks and will never
recognize the claims of the latter to
b: admitted to private circles on
such footing, no one will or wishes
to deny. Disposition and prejudice,
however, are two eutirely different
word.;, and it is possible to oppose a
thing on reasonab'e grounds and
general principles as well a3 through
self-interest, narrow-mindedness and
ignorance. It is notably the bright
est minds of the South, those who
have studied the question in all its
i--p ccts, who realize the true magni
tude of the impending evil aud are
founding the needed warning. It is
presumable that those who have
lived in the South and are thor
u 'lily acquainted with the habits,
lastes, disposition and car abilities of
VOL. II. NO. 51.
the race, are in a better position to
observe, investigate and arrive at a
proper understanding of the sub
ject, than the speculative theorist of
the North, who has aa little practical
knowledge of the negro, as be really
exists, a3 a child has of the hippo
potamus after looking at one through
the cage bars of a traveling menag-
V.V 1 ill
ene. it tnere is prejudice at an on
either s'de, facts and reason would
go to prove that it h on the side of
the enlightened North rather than of
the ignorant South.
The Bee says: "God made and
can tolerate the colored race, but the
editors of the Constitution cannot
tolerate a white person who takes
dinner with a negro." Yes, God
made the negro and can tolerate him.
He made the chimpanzee and gorilla
also, and he cau tolerate them. Not
that I would insult our ebon brother
by a comparison so offensive. I
simply follow The Bee's example
and go a long way for an illustra
tion. God made the colored race,
but lie made it as it is, separate and
distinct and altogether different
from the white, just as he made one
star to differ from another in glory,
gems to differ in luster, flowers, in
beauty, animals in form and intelli
gence, and so on ad infiuitum. He
has made different orders and grades
of creation, m every kingdom, fam
ily and species ; and in this instance.
to guard agains1". any possible mis
take, in preparing the original clay,
he took the precaution to give it a
different hue so that there could be
no possible danger of getting the
parcels mixed. The Bee acts upon
the presumption "that this process
was accidental and is trying to cir
cumvent the designs of the Al
mighty. The fact is, there is no
quest:on of toleration in it. Every
thing is right and proper in its
place. The African is as much a
distinct branch of the human race,
as much a part of the great whole in
the sum of created things, as the
American, Arctic, Australian, Mon
golian or Caucasian. He is doubt
less a link in the chain of progress
ive evolution ; is happy, useful and
acceptable in his particular sphere.
But natu'-e has drawn a line of de
markation between the African and
Caucasian races, and the social gulf
that separates the two can never be
spanned until science proves, that,
as a race, the former is in every re
spect the equal of the latter. When
the North demonstra es this fact the
South will lay aside us "ignorance,
narrow-mindedness and prejudice,"
aud fall a willing convert to the new
faith.
The Bee refers to the Cors'itu-
tion s criticism of Mr. Uable as '-a
tyrannous social prejudice," and
claims that every individual is en
titled to his likes and dislikes and to
. . . , ii
exercse ins own pleasure in tne
choice of hi3 associates. This i3 ex
actly what the people of the South
think, but The Bee is evidently not
willing to allow them this privilege,
since it would compel them to open
their doors to an alien race, with
whom they have nothing in common,
and which threatens the very founda
tion stones of their social fabric. I
fail to see how it is any more tyran
nous for the Constitution to dictate
the social relations of Mr. Cable, a
public man and a representative
Southerner, than for the people of
the North to dictate to the South in
matters of a similar private and per
sonal nature. If it is madness to
exclude a man because he mingles in
other circles than those befitting h's
birth and station, theu the entire
wo--ld in all lands and at all times,
ha3 been and is still in the straight
jaokefc of social lunacy, since it has
been the custom and practice of all
civilized people from time immemo
rial. And if it is madness, ihere is
method in it. In the business world
Ave see the world, and meet the world
on a worldly footing; but in our so
cial intercourse we want congeniali
ty, intimacy and friendship. While
the man who leaves a beaten path of
recognized respectability for the
Ivehwavs and byways of
doubtful associations, may be
in himself every way accept
rble. hi3 former friends who
do not share his erratic predilections,
and to whom such society would be
neither profitable nor agreeable, nat
urally avoid his presence for fear of
biing drawn into uncongenial com
pany. This is the right of every in
dividual as well as of every commu
nity. "So we of the north," continues
our generou3 and self constituted
guardian, "should not blame the
present generation so much as we
should help to enlighten it" This
is cheerful, indeed. In the north
! the colored portion of the population
I is only a drop in the ocean as com-
pared with the south. In a town of
3,000 or 4,000 inhabitants here there
are rarely over fifty persons who
have in their veins the taint of negro
blood and the majority of these hav
ing more of the Caucaslon than "the
AfricaD, and having enjoyed superi
or advantages of education and asso
ciation with the white?, cannot be
taken a3 a fair specimen of the ne
gro proper, as he revels today in his
originial stupidity and uncleanness.
In any southern hamlet of the same
size they would constitute at least
fifteen hundred or two thousand of
the population. Yet The Bee, man
would call upon the North, without
even a possible acquaintance with,
the negro, to enlighten the south in
regard to its treatment of a people
born and reared in its bosomTand
which constitutes more than half of
its population. As well import a
Hindoo to America to interpret the
Christian religion.
While the North may not be aware
of it, it nevertheless remains a fact,
that its zealous championship of this
mongrel and much magnified race is
due, not so much to an advanced
civilization and disinterested human
ity, us to their erstwhile bondage,
which was thro wn around them the
charm of romantic heroism and
placed them before the world in the
light of martyrs. Supposing, for
example, that a political war had
lifted from a condition of slavery
aud servitude the Chinese, Hindoos
or North American Ind'ans, all of
whom are superior intellectually to
the Africau. Would the fact of
their having been ouce used
and oppressed by a set of people with
no longer any right o power over
them be any reason why they should
be raised to the plane of socia! equal
ity with those who had been cast in a
finer mould, with loftier sentiments
aud higher faculties, and capable of
following broader paths?
Of the negro as a slave I know
nothing, aud being a child of the
resiored union rather than of the
lost confederacy, am not prejudiced
in favor of antebellum systems. On
the contrary, I think the principle
of slavery was wrong and that the
South is now suuering from the con
sequences of her groat and grievous
error. I do know, however, that the
negro, until by amalgamation the
African blood in him becomes en
tirely extinct, can never rise to the
social level of the Caucasian. As he
e:;i;ts in the South today, he is un
cleanly, shiftless and improvident.
Virtue is to him a myth and honor
an unknown quantity. His social
standing is measured alone by the
cut and quality of his clothes, aud
no crime or disgrace,however flagrant
lowers. his standing with his dusky
brethren, so long as the sounding
eloquence of clothes attests his pros
perity and respectability. That the
race is fast being merged into the
white is a sad admission, yet true.
Aud with such an evil threatening
their gates the people of the South
cannot afford to admit a wooden
horse into their social Troy in the
form of such a precedent as Mr. Ca
ble would establish.
Civilly, the negro has been grant
ed' and enjoys unmolested all the
rights of free born American citi
zens. He shares the undisputed
liberty of the sleeping car and the
passenger coach. He may attend
the public theater and stop at public
hotels. But it is noticeable that in
select circles, alike in the North,
South, East aud West, the African
is rigorously excluded. As a casein
point, I see that a banquet was giv
en last week in Chicago in honor of
Mr. Rosewater, and that the occasion
was graced by the presence of no
less a personage than his friend
Mme. Patti Nicolini. Among other
conspicuous features of the enter
tainment was the absence of any
colored guests among that distin
guished company.
Is this prejud'ee? No. An Af
ricau is as much out of place in the
select circles of the Carcasian as a
jack daw in a flock of. peacocks.
No one questious the right of the
negro to mingle in society provided
he is wanted there, but what a stir
there would be in northern social
circles were there issued a royal
edict proclaiming that negroes
should attend private gatherings
and participate in their pleasures.
I picture a brilliant assemblage,
where the beauty and wealth and
talent of the city are gathered for
amusement and recreation. I see
The bee man, who criticises the
Constitution, entering at a late hour
bearing on his arm the voluptuous
weight of a dusky maiden, "some
of whose ancestors were torn in Af-.
rica." No one would question his
right to choose his own companion
hut I venture to believe that the rest
of the company would question the
propriety of inviting him into that
circle agrin.
Mes. Al Fairbiiother.
CONCORD, N. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 10. 1890.
Ktate Prtde.
State Chronicle.!
At the recent banquet given in
Raleigh in honor of Col. L. L. Polk
the toast, "State Pride," was res
ponded to by W. N, Jones, Esq., an
honored member of the Raleigh bar.
He spoke wordi of wisdom, and won
the applause of all present. We
present his speech to the readers of
the Chronicle because it inculcates
a spirit of State Pride which ought
to be diffused among our people.
Mr. Jones said :
Wheeler's History of North Caro
lina is the first history of this State
written by a native of North Caro
lina. On the first page of that book
the author laments the indifference
of North Carolinians for the noble
achievements made and the valor and
patriotism displayed by the people
of the State in their history. He
says that while Virginia on the
North and South Carolina on the
South had been alive to their
interests in this respect, North Car
olina had been strangely remiss as
to her interest. The consequence
was natnral. The old State was put
down in the geographies only as the
tar, pitch and turpentine State, and
the prases of Macon and Gaston
and Iredell and Badger and other il
lustrious North Carolina names have
not been sung as they should have
been by our own people or any other.
The same fault which character
ised our people a half century ago,
when Wheeler wrote his history, in
a measure still abides with us.
State pride is a commodity very
much needed now as heretofore. The
State has lost much by reason of the
fact Macaulay says that "a people
which takes no pride in the noble
achivements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be
remembered with pride by remote
descendants." There is a solemn
warning and much truth in this
striking observation if we are to
judge by the history of the past A
people gain much by looking at
mode's. Sallust says of Scipio and
Maximns that when they stood be
fore the statues of the illustrious
dead of their country they were agi
tated and moved, not because of the
dead marble that was before them,
but because they remembered the
virtues of the illustrious dead, and
desired to imitate them. So it has
ever been. If we would nerve and
stir the young to high resolves and
noble achievements there is no bet
ter way to do so than with object
lessons taken from the historv of our
people.
It is a gratifying fact that in late
years a growing State pride has been
seen in North Carolina, so far at
least as the past is concerned. The
monuments at Kinston and Greens
boro, the Colonial history which has
been published, the Fayetteville Cen
tennial, the effort to correctly repre
sent and perpetuate the valor of the
North Carolina soldiers at Guilford
Court House and Gettysburg attest
this fact. Much remains to be done.
It is to be hoped that what has al
ready been accomplished is but an
earnest of what is to be done. There
is much practical good to the pres
ent to be gathered from the past his
tory of North Carolina.
Let us not, however, confine our
efforts in this matter of State pride
to the past or to the noble dead
We owe a duty to the liing as well
as to the dead which ought to be
met. A hearse ought not to be our
only triumphal chariot. When the
sons of North Carolina go out and
gather honors in whatever depart
ment of life let them feel that the
people of the old State are looking
at them, and let them know that
there is a roval welcome for them at
home, and a chief place in our do
mestic temple. Let those who re
main at home aud labor also feel
that they too will get merited praise
whenever and wherever they deserve
it.
There has been too great a disposi
tion among us when an ambitiou
brother ha8 been seen to be forging
ahead to catch him by the coat tail
and pull him back, and the man
pulled and the puller go back to
gether. Some folks have called thi3
Characteristic, conservatism, but too
often, I am afraid, it has been mere
ly mediocre meanness. This dispo
sition has borne its fruits. We have
furnished three Presidents to the
country, but it has been through the
medium of other States. Through
the same medium we have furnished
innumerable bishops, great preach
ers, iudges. statesmen, that we
might have furnished ourselves bad
we been true to one another.
I am glad, therefore, to partici
pate in this occasion. Few North
Carolinians have been banqueted by
North Caroliuians. For people of
other States to banquet their fellow
citizens is a matter of course with
us it is an anomaly. I believe -there
is much practical good in the cele
bration of this occasion. Col. Polk
is worthy of the cheer aud encour
agement of his fellow-citizens.
Starting life in -the county of An
son without patrimony, and even, I
believe, as an orphan, he has made
his way into the front rank not on
ly of the public men of this State,
but of the whole country. There is
poetry in such a life a3 that au
epic in every line!
It was but a few weeks ago in one
of our Southern cities, on a notable
occasion, surrounded by the first or
ators and statesmen of the South,
be became the observed of observers
by his splendid bearing and match
less oratory. A few North Caroli
nians were present on that occasion.
They were made glad by the manner
n which Col. Polk represented the
State gaining honor for himself
and his people. That was but a few
weeks ago and in the South. Now
he comes home from a distant wes
tern State crowned as the chief offi
cer of the largest aud most powerful
organization known among men,
having for its object the promotion
of the highest and best interests of
all the people of this country. Col.
Polk is their leader. They have
with them the ark of the covenant
and the liberties of the people of
this country. The principles they
contend for are as sacred as those
that the revolutionary fathers
fought for when the foundations of
this government were laid in tears
and b'.ood. Col. Polk has obtained
this most distinguished honor
such as rarely comes to men, and
having obtained such distinction
he deserves the highest praise and
honor from his fellow citizeus, and
in honoring him we honor ourselves
on this occasion.
How to Tell a Good Horse.
Unless a horse has brains you
can't teach him. See the tall bay
there, a fine looking animal, fifteen
hands high. You can't teach that
horse anything. Why? Well, I'll
show you a difference iu heads, but
have a care of his heels. Look
at the brute's head, that rounding
nose, that tapering forehead, that
broad, full place below his eyes. You
can't trust him. That's an awful
good mare, as true as the sun. Yoi1
can see breadth and fullness be
tween ears aud eyes. You cao't
hire that mare to act mean or hurt
anybody. The eye should be full,
and hazel is a good color. 1 like a
small, thin ear, and want a horse to
throw its ears well forward. Look
out for the brute that wants to lis
ten to all the conversation going on
behind him. The horse that turns
back his ears till they almost meet
at the "points, take my word for it,
is sure to do something wron
See that straight, elegant face. A
horse with a jdishing face is cow.
ardly, and a cowardly brute is usu
ally vicious, lhen L like a square
muzzle, with large nostrils, to let in
plenty of air to the lungs. For the
under side of the head, a good horse
should be well ct't under the jowl,
with jawbones broad and wide apai't
under the throttle. The nest thitij
to consider is the build of the ani
mal. Never buy a long legged,
stilted horse. Let nim have a short
straight back and a straight rump,
and you've got a gentleman's horse
The withers should be high and the
shoulders well set back and broad,
but don't get them too deep in the
chest. The foreleg should be short.
with the hock low down, short pas
tern joints and a round mulish foot.
There are all kinds of horses, but
the auimal that has these points is
almost sure to be slightly graceful
good natured and serviceable.
Medical Classics.
Nome ol Franklin's Maxim.
Work today for you kuow not how
much you may be hindered tomor
row.
Diligence is the mother of
good
luck; and God gives all things to in
dustry.
Fly pleasure and it'll follow you
The diligent spiner has alarge shift,
Earlv to bed. early to rise, makes
a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
Now I have a sheep and a cow, ev
erybody bids me good morrow.
Experience keeps a dear school
but fools will learn iu no other.
By diligence and perseverance the
mouse eats the cable in two.
If you would know the value cf
money tiy to borrow some of it.
Want of care does more damage
than want of knowledge.
Not to oversee workmen, is to
leave them yonr purse open.
Mr. Mavis at Fortress Monroe.
The scene is thus described by
Dr. J. J. Craven, the Federal sur
geon of the post, in his "Prison Life
of Jefferson Davis," published at the
time. The account is probably true
in its chief outline.
"On the morning of the 23d of
May a yet bitterer trial was in .store
for the proud spirit a trial severer,
probably, than has ever in modern
times been inflicted upon any one
who ha3 enjoyed such eminence.
This morning Jefferson Davis was
tackled.
"it was while all the swarming
camps of the army of the Potomac,
the Tennessee and Georgia over
200,600 bronzed and laureled veter
ans were preparing for the grand
review or the next morning, in
which, passing in endless succession
before the mansion of the President,
the conquering military power was
to lay down its arms at the feet of
the civil authority, that the follow-
ng scene was enacted at Fort Mon
roe:
"Captain James E. Titlow of the
Third Pennsylvania artillery, entered
the prisoners cell, followed by
the blacksmith of the fort and his
assistant, the latter carrying in his
hands some heavy and harshly-rat
tling shackles. As they entered,
Mr. Davis reclining on his bed,
feverish and weary after a sleepless
night, the food placed near lo him
the preceding day still lying un
touched on its tin plate near his
bedside.
"'Well,' said Mr. Davis, as thev
entered, slightly raising his head.
"I have an unpleasant dutv to
perform, sir," said Captain Titlow
and as he spoke the senior black
smith took the shackles from his
assistant.
Davis leaped instantly from his
recumbent attitude, a uush passing
over his face for a moment, and
then his countenance growing livid
and rigid as death.
lie gasped for breath, clutching
his throat with the thin fingers of
his fight hand, and then recovering
himself slowly, while his wasted
figure towered up to its full height
now appearing to swell with indig
nat'ou and then to shrink with ter
ror as he glanced from the captain's
face to the shackles he said slowly
with a laboring chest:
"My God ! you cannot have been
sent to iron me ?"
"Such ave my orders, sir," replied
the officer, beckoning the blacksmith
to approach, who stepped forward,
unlocking the padlock and preparing
the fetters to do their office. These
fetters were of heavy iron, probably
five-eights of an inch in thickness,
and connected together by a chain
of like weight. I believe they are
now in the possession of Major-Gen
eral Miles, and will form an inter
esting relic.
"This is too monstrous," groaned
the prisoner, glancing hurriedly
round the room, as if for some weap
on or means of self-destruction.
demand, captain, that you let me see
the commanding officer- Can he
pretend that such shackles are re
t
quired to secure the safe custody of a
weak old man, so guarded and in such
a fort as this?'
"'It could serve no purpose, re
plied Captain Titlow; 'his orders are
from Washington, as mine are from
0 ,
him.'
" 'But he can telegraph,' interpos
ed Mr. Davis, eagerly : 'there must be
some mistake. No such outrage as
you threaten me with is on record
in the historv of nations. Beg him
to teleranh. and delay till he an
swers.'
" 'My orders are peremptory,' said
the officer, 'and admit of no delay,
For your own sake, let me advise you
to submit with patience. As a sol
dier, Mr. Davis, you know I must
obey orders.'
" 'These are not orders for a sol
dier,' shouted the prisoner, losing all
control of himself. 'They are or
ders for a jailer for a hangman,
which no soldier wearing a sword
should accept ! I tell you the world
will riag with this disgrace. The
war is over; the South is conquered.
I have no longer. any country but
America, and it is tor the honor of
America, as for my own honor and
life, that 1 plead against this degra
dation. Kill me ! kill me !' he cried
passionately, throwing his arms wide
open and exposing his breast, 'rather
than inflict ou me, aud on my peo
ple through me, this insult worse
than death.'
'"Do your duty, blacksmith,' said
the officer, walking toward the em
brasure as if not earing to witness
the performance. 'It only gives in
creased pain to all of us to protract
this interview.'
"At these words the blacksmith
advanced with the shackles, and see
"WHOLE NO. 103.
iug that .the prisoner had one foot
pon the chair near his bedside, his
ighthand resting on the back of it,
the brawny mechanic made an effort
to slip one of the shackles over the
ankle so raised, but as if with ve
hemence and strength which frenzy
can impart even to the weakest in
valid, Mr. Davis suddenly seized his
assailant and hurled him half way
across the room.
'On this Captain Titlow turned
and seeing that Davis had backed
gainst the wall for further resist
ance, began to remonstrate, pointing
out in brief, clear larguare. that
this course was madness, and orders
must be enforced at any cost. 'Why
compel me he said, to add the, fur
ther indiguity of personal violence
to the necessity of vour beino-
j o
ironed?'
'I am a prisoner of war,' fiercely
etorted Davis ; I have been a sol
dier in the armies of America, and
know how to die. Only kill me,
and my latest breath shall be a bless
ing on your head. But while I have
life and strength to resist, for my
self and for my people, this thing
shall not be done.'
"Hereupon Captain Titlow called
n a sergeant and tile ot soldiers
from the next room, and the ser
geant advanced to seize the prisoner.
Immediately Mr. Davis flew on him,
seized his musket and attempted to
wrench it from his grasp.
"Of course such a scene could
nave but one issue, mere was a
short, passionate scuffle. In a mo
ment Mr. Davis was flung npon his
bed, and before his foil, powerful
assailants removed their hands from
him, the blacksmith and his assist
ant had done their work one se
curing the rivet on the right ankle,
while the other turned the key in
the lock ou the left.
"This done, Mr. Davis lay for a
moment a3 if in a stupor. Then
slowly raising himself and turning
around, he dropped his shackled feet
to the floor. The harsh clank of
the striking chain seemed first to
have recalled him to his situation,
and he muttered at brief in
tervals: 'Oh, the shame, the
shame!'"
The Lost Found.
The following tine story comes
from Asheville, Ala.: Five years ago,
while visiting frieuds in Calera,
Ala., James G. Arnold, of Asheville,
had a little six-year-old daughter
stolen from him. He learned she
had been abducted by one Sarah
Colbert, a woman of bad repute, but
could not learn in what direction
the woman had gone. A close search
was made, aud detectives were em
ployed to ass;st in it, but nothing
could be heard of the woman or
child. Ever since the father has
kept up the search, aud until last
week, he found little to encourage
him. Last week Arnold went into
St. Clair county. Following the
Coosa Bluff, he proceeded until he
reached the center of Cherokee
county. Here he learned tnat a
little waif girl was at the house of
one McAlva, about fifteen miles dis
tant He found the child playing
in the front yard of Mc Alva's place
and readily recognized her.
McAlva gave the girl up with re
luctance after Arnold proved he was
her father. McAlva says the Col
bert woman left the girl at his house
five years before and called- for her a
few days later; but he refused to
give her up. McAlva is a bachelor,
and had formed a warm attachment
for the child, who will probably in
herit his estate. The child is now
about eleven years old, and is a girl
of remarkably prepossessing appear
ance.
Medicinal Properties of Vesetables,
The following information may
be useful to some at this season of
the year, if not new to mauy.
Spinach has a direct effect upon
the kidneys.
The common dandelion used as
greens, is excellent for the same
trouble.
Asparagus purges the blood. Cel
ery acts admirably upon the nervous
system, and is a cure for rheuma
tism and neuralgia.
Tomatoes act upon the liver.
Beets and turnips are excellent
appetizers.
Lettuce and cucumbers are cool
ing in their effects upon the system.
Onions, garlic, leeks, olives and
shalots, all of which are similar,
possess medicinal virtues of a
marked character, stimulating the
circulatory system and the conse
quent increase of the saliva and the
gastric juice promoting digestion.
Red onion3 are an excellent diu
retic, and the white ones are recom
mended to be eaen raw as a remedy
for insomsnia. They are a tonic and
nutritious.
A soup made from onions is re
garded by the French a3 an excel
lent restorative in debility of the di
gestive organs.
WE DO-ALL KINDS OF
JOB "WOEK
IN THE
NEATEST MANNER
AND AT
THE LOWEST RATES
Industries or the States.
Alabama ranks fourth in cotton.
Arizona ranks second in silver.
California ranks first in barley,
grape culture, sheep, gold and quick
silver. Colorado ranks first in silver.
Connecticut ranks first in clocks.
Delaware is way up in peaches.
Dakota is the finest wheat grow
ing State.
Florida ranks third in sugar and
molasses.
Georgia ranks second in rice and
sweet potatoes.
Indiana ranks second in wheat.
Illinois ranks first in oats, meat
packing, lumber traffic, malt and
distilled liquors and miles of rail
way. Iewa ranks first in average intel
ligence of population, first in pro
duction of corn and first in number
of swine.
Idaho ranks sixth in gold and sil
ver. Kansas ranks fifth in cattle, corn
and rye.
Kentucky ranks first in tobacco,
and has a world wide reputation for
thoroughbred horses and cattle.
Louisiana ranks first in sugar and
molasses.
Maine ranks first in ship building,
slate and granite quarries, lumber
and fishing.
Maryland ranks fourth in coal.
Massachusetts ranks first in cot
ton, woolen and worsted goods and in
cod and mackeral fisheries.
Michigan ranks first in copper,
lumber and salt
Minnesota ranks fourth in wheat
and barley.
Mississippi ranks second in cotton.
Missouri ranks first in mules.
Montana ranks fifth in silver and
gold.
New Mexico's grazing facilities
can' t be beat.
Nebraska has abundant crops of
rye, buckwheat, barley, flax and
hemp.
Nevada ranks second in gold.
New Hampshire ranks third in
the manufacture of cotton goods.
New Jersey ranks first in fertiliz
ing marl, zinc and silk goods.
New York ranks first in the value
of manufactures, soap, printing and
publishing, hops, hay, potatoes,
buckwheat and milch cows.
North Carolina ranks first in tar
and turpentine.
Ohio ranks first in agricultural
implements and wool.
Oregon takes the palm in cattle
raising
Pennsylvania ranks first iu rye,
iron and steel, petroleum and coal.
Rhode Island, in proportion to its
size, outranks an otner estates m
value of manufactures.
South Caroliua ranks first in
phosphates.
Teunessee ranks second in Pea
nuts. Texas ranks first in cattle and
cotton.
Utah ranks third in silver.
Vermont ranks fourth in copper.
Virginia ranks first in peanuts.
West Virginia ranks first in salt
and coal.
Wisconsin ranks second in hops.
BrcNsInK the Boy.
"Elijah, dear, will you dress Wil
lie this morning? I'm in such a
hurrv, and it won't take but a min
hte or two."
"Ceriainly," replied Mr, Bixby,
cheerfully; "I'd just a3 soon dress the
little chap as not Here, my little
man, come and let papa dres3 you.
I'll have you as neat as a pin in a
jiffy."
Willie, aged four, comes reluc
tantly from his-playthings, and Bix
by begins:
"Now, let's off with your nighty
gown and keep still, dear, or I can't
unbutton it There, now, we'll
sit still, child What makes you
squirm around like an eel? Where's
your little shirty? Ah, here it is,
and sit still! Put your arm no
the other one and can't you keep
still half a second? Put up your
other arm ami stop hauling and
pulling so! Now, let's come here,
boy! What under heaven do you
mean by racking off like that with
nothing on but your shirt? Now
you come here and let me put the
rest of your duds on. Stand still, I
saj! Put your leg in here! Not
that leg! There you go, squirming
around like an angle-worm. Now,
if you don't keep still, young man,
I'll stop pulling at that chain, and
here, Mary Ellen, you'll have to
dress this wriggling animal yourself.
I could n't do it in ten years. Go to
your mother, sir!"
The anxiety of some parents to get
their daughters married is painful.
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