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DANBURY, N. C.; THURSDAY, JULY 25. 1878.
GOING INTO PARTNERSHIP.
Mrs. Nottingham, being unable to get
the means from ber husband to supply
het necessities, at tot informed him fbst
she ibould resume ber profession of
teaching, so as to be as independent as
sbe was before sbe wm married,
i "You're not in earnest, my dear V
1 said Mr. Nottingham.
"Of oouree I'm in earnest. Why
i not ? Do you suppose I intend to go
this way, beggiDg and praying for every
i farthing I spend? I have been inde
pendent once, and I ean be so again "
"No; but look here!" Mr. Notting
ham had risen, and was pacing up and
down rather uneasily. "My wife oan't
go to teaohing. What is it that you
want V
"What I can earn !" proudly retorted
Mrs. Nottingham.
"But put it into words."
"Well, then, look here," said Mrs.
Nottingham ; "I have always done my
own work and sewing. Considered as a
cook, I demand three pounds a month ;
as a seamstress, one pound ; as your wife
and the mother of your children, at least
ten pounds more. And then I shall not
consider myself properly compensated "
"Whew w-w ! Let me see—it's nearly
fifteen pounds, a month !"
"I consider my services worth that, at
least," said Mrs. Nottingham, wita dig
nity ; "but if you would rather hiie a
housekeeper, I will prosecute my original
idea of opening a select school."
Mr. Nottingham walked up and down
the room once more, rumpling his hair
into porcupine fashion, with his fingers.
"I'll oonsult Uncle Wetherbee," be
said.
"Very well," said Mrs. Nottingham,
"I am quite willing to abide by bis de
cision."
Uncle Wetherbee, a bronze-visaged
ex-sailor, who was comfortably smoking
bis meerschaum upstairs, was summoned
at onco lie came dowu—rather slowly
on account of a wooden leg—and lis
• teiK-d to the pleading on tilher side wiltJ
the utmost gravity.
"D'yo want to know my opinion?"
Uncle .Wetherbee asked, when they both
had finished.
"Certainly," said Mr. Nottingham.
"Of course," said his wife.
"Then look here," said Unole Weth
erbee. "Matrimony is a 00-partncrßbip
of joys and sorrows, and it ought to bo of
money ad well. My advice is, Nephew
Nicholas, that you divide even with your
wife."
"Divide —even !" blankly repeated
Mr Nottingham.
"Or, better still," went on Uncle
Wetherbee, "take one-third of the money
yourself, lay aside one-third for house
hold purposes, and give the other third
to Pboßbe."
 "Yes, but Uncle—"
■"You asked my advice," said Uncle
Wetherbee. "There it is ; and I have
. nothing more to say." And off he went
upstairs again.
Mr. Nottingham looked at his wife.
She looked back again at him.
"Well," said Phoebe.
"I will try it," said Mr. Nottingham.
"It seems a wild idea, but Uncle Weth
erbee is a remarkably sensible man.
Yes, I'll try it."
And for the next three years Mr. Not
l tingham remained in partnership with
. his wife on these unusual financial con
ditions.
"Though for the life of me, I can't
h see what you do with all your money,"
said he, one day, to his wife.
•*Tbe very idea that has often sug
gested itself to me in regard to your
money," retorted Mrs Nottingham,
i laughingly.
"1 bad intended to buy a house for
you, if it hadn't been for this unexpected
appropriation of my funds," said Mr. N.
"I ean wait, my dear," «aii his wife,
serenely. "All in good time."
But one afternoon Mr. Nottingham
t oatne home early from business and
raahed up to Uncle Wetherbee b room.
"My dinar Unole," said he, "that house
' of Falkirk's is in the market at foroed
sale. Bnch a bargain 1 Only 13,000!"
•'Why don't yon buy it then ?" said
Mr. Wetherbee, scooping fresh tobaeoo
oat of bis jsr.
"Because I've only been able to lay
1 op $2,000 oat of that detmedly small
. allowance of mine," said Mr. Nottiog
| ham. "Eversinoe I divided with Phoebe
M according to your suggestion—"
f "Yes," nodded Unole Wetherbee, Vtfl
oording to my suggestion—"
m .a
"I've been a comparatively poo* man,"
sighed Mr. Nottingham. "Ooe ean't
lay op aoyehlog on MMA •» pittance u
that." > • '■»
"Perbaj* yoOt WM» thinks se, teo "
chuckled Unole Welfearbse.
"Oh, that's altogether « different mat
ter," said Mr. Nottiwfcllam. "I've bem
thinking I ought to reconsider that af
fair."
Unole Wetherbee stared intently at
his wooden leg, and said nothing.
"But," added Mr Nottingham, "about
the Falkirk place ? It's a little gem oF
a house, and I've always wasted a house,
of my own. This rent-paying bnsinesl]
don't altogether suit me. And I could
give a mortgage for the if you
woald allow me to use your name as
security."
"Ob, certainly, certainly !" said Unole
Wetherbee; "use it as much as you
like." And Mr. Nottingham went off
rejoicing.
But Wiggs & Sangster, the agents in
oharge of the Falkirk place, were exult
ant when he arrived.
"Two thousand dollars and|a mortgage
for the balance, is very well," said Mr.
Sangster, "but they had had another offer
that morning—ot cash down ! And
they considered it their duty to Mr. Fal
kirk to close with it. Very sorry—but
perhaps they might suit Mr. Nottingham
with some other piece of property." Mr.
Nottingham went home sadly dispirited.
"What's the use of trying to save
money ?" said he. "I'm going to give
it up after this !"
"I don't agree with you there, dear,"
said his wife. ' I've been saving money
for the last three years, and found that
it pays."
"You have?" said her husband.
"Of course I have. Do you suppose
I spent all my monay ? Not a bit of it.
I put the best part of it out at interest,
always following Uncle Wetherbee's ad
vice iu uiy investments, and I've bought
a bouse with it l"t "V *•
'•What house r" Mr. Nottingham's
eyes opened wider and wider.
"The Falkirk bouse," said Mrs. Not
tingham, her lips and cheeks dimpling
all over with satisfaction. "I completed
the bargain to-day. My dear," she
added, stealing one arm around her hus
band's neck, "how do you think I have
held up my end of the business partner
ship ?"
"Better than I could have done my
self, Phoebe," said Mr. Nottingham, with
a curious moisture coming into his eyes
"My plucky little wife, I am proud of
you!"
"It was your money, Nicholas/' said
bis wife, in a faltering voioe.
"But it was your prudence and eoon
omy that stored it up, Phoobe."
"Then you don't regret the terms and
articles of our partnership?"
So the young couple moved into the
Falkirk house when the first of May
came around, and the coziest room in the
house, with a south window and an open
fireplace for a wood fire, was reserved for
Unole Wetherbee.
And Mr. Nottingham is never tired of
telling his friends that his wife bought
the place with her share of the partner
ship profits.
"The most charming woman iu the
world," says Mr. Nottin :baa.
The Kind of Beligion We Want.
We want a religion that softens the
step and tunes the voice to meludy, and
fills the eye with sunshine, and obecks
the impatient exclamation and harsh re
buke; a religion that is polite, deferen
tial to superiors, courteous to inferiors,
and oonsiderate to friends; a religion
that goes into the family and keeps the
husband from being cross when dinner
is late, and keeps the wife from fretting
when the husband tracks the newly
washed floor with his muddy boots, and
makes him the scraper and
the door-mat; keeps the mother patient
when the baby is cross, and amuses the
ohildren as well as instructs them ; cares
for the servants besides paying then all
their wages promptly; projects the
honeymoon into the harvest moon, and
makes the home hsppy like the eastern
fig tree, bearing in its bosom at one* the
beauty of its tender blossoms and the
fall glory of the ripened fruit; ■ relig
ion thst shall interpOke between the rats
and gallies and rocks of the highway of
lile, and the sensitive souls tbat are trav
eling over them.
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Gambling for Human Life.
Perhaps the most trsgio, soul harrow
ing scene that ever took place at a gaming
table, says the Cincinnati Commercial,
transpired at a public house in Port au
Prince some years ago. Beveral parties
were waiting about the room for the
game to commence. Among the crowd
of loiterers was a Captain St. Every, a
noted gamester, deadly duelist and well
known man of pluck.
Bome one spoke up, "Who'll play V
; "I will," Baid the captain of a Frenoh
frigate, which had just arrived in the
||barbor, and seising a dice box threw to
'■ifborlose the amount of a small sum
of money tbat then lay upon the table-
He was ignorant of the stake to be played.
"Monsieur commandant, you have
woo," Baid Captain St. Every, pushing
toward him several piles of gold.
Astounded at the sight of 90 much
wealth, the captain drew back, raying.:
' Gentlemen, I should be wanting not j
only in common honesty, but even in :
good manners, were I to appropriate this '
sum, the winning of which I never ex
pected in the least degree, for I thought
I was playing for the trifling stake lying
on the table I cannot, therefore, take
the enormous sum as my own by right."
"Sir," said Captain St. Every, "you
must take it, for if you had lost you
would have beon obliged to pay the same
sum."
"You are mistaken, sir, if you think
so. Ido not conoeive my honor endan
gered in reference to paying • debt ol
bonor which I never contracted, nor in
refusing to accept of so large a sum
which I never expected to win."
"Monsieur le commandant," shrieked
Captain St. Every, raising his voice to
the highest pitch, "if you had lost you
should have paid. I would bave made
you do so."
This was fire to the gunpowder, in
tended to provoke a challenge, and it
accomplished its purpose.
> \ *sir," o»pui» . St. y, "J
1 don't wish to take any advantage of yon,
which my acknowledged ability in the
use of the sword and pistol gives me, BO
I offer you terms of equality. Bring a
pistol here at onoe, load it, and the ohance
of the dice shall determine whioh shall
blow the other's brains out."
"Agreed," said the nothing daunted
frigate commandant.
A shock of horror ran through the
Veins of the assembled crowd at the bar
barity of the blood-chilling affair. Some
shrank from the room; others, more
hardened to sights of horror, crowded
near the gaming table ; perfectly oogoiz
ant of the desperate character of St.
Every, and inwardly lauding the bravery
of the unknown.
Eaob party examined the pistol The
naval captain first threw the fatal dice.
He threw eleven.
"A good throw," said St. Every, hold
ing for a moment his own ; "the chances
are now in your favor, but listen, if it
turns out aB it appears to me it will, that
fortune favo'rs you and not me, I wish
neither mercy nor pity, as I would think
either a coward who would spare the
other."
"Sir, I need your hnpertinent remon
strances to back me neither now nor at
any other time," said the oommandant.
St. Every took the box and threw fif-'
The company were paralysed with
ijMior.
' Monsieur le CossmandaDt arose.
"Your life belongs to me, sir," said St.
Every, throwiug down the dice on the
table.
"Fire, sir," said the commandant,
"placing his hand over his heart, "ao
honest man is never afraid to "
St. Every's ball scattered the brains
and blood of the unluoky oommandant
over the eiothes and persons of the by
standers, while his lifeless body fell to
the saloon floor.'
St Every deserted to the English,'
and soon aftter fell mortally wounded at
the battle of Irois as the English were
oarrying the day.
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The great art of oonversation oonsists
in not humiliating any one,
in speaking only of things that we know,
in conversing with others only on sab
jeots which may interest them.
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No grandeur oan there be io life, no
•oble prospect oan stretch oat before as,
anlees we pitch the teat high, or unless
We keep the lefty plaees of our spirited
estate u peaks of vision far frequent
visits. *
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Habits of Untruth.
Some men seem to have a constitu
tional inability to tell the simple troth.
They may not mean to lie, or to tell an
untruth. But they are careless—care
less in hearing, careless in understand
ing, creless in repeating what is said to
them. These well-meaning but reckless
people do more mischief than those who
intentionally foment strife by deliberste
falsehosd. There is no firebrand like
your well meaning busy-body, who is
continually in search of scandal, and by
sheer habit misquotes everybody's state
ments. This carelessness is a sin of no
small magnitude. A man's duty to God
und his fellows tequires him to be care
ful—for what else were brains and com
mon sense given hiui ? Of course, that
other class, tho malignant scandal-mon
gers, who take a fiendish pleasure in
promoting strife, who deliberately gar
ble men's words and twist their scnti
j merits—is in the minority, and people
! have a pretty decided opinion regarding
! them Most men misrepresent because
they don't seem to think that care in
speaking the truth is a pre eminent duty.
The effects of this careless misrepre
senting of others are seen everywhere.
Its effect on the individual is to confirm
him in a habit of loose, distorted and
exaggerated statement, until telling the
trnth becomos a moral impossibility. No
other thing causes so many long-standing
friendships to bo broken, BO grave dis
sensions in churches, 90 much bitterness
in communities, and so much evil every
where. It is an abuse that calls for the
reburke of every honorable man—a re
buke that shall be given not only in
words whenever occasion demands, but
by example. The Persians were said to
teach their youth three things—to ride,
to draw the bow, and to speak the truth.
A little more instruction on this latter
head would do no harm to our "ad
vanced civilization."
The Wisconsin Tornado.
.The tornado which visited Wisoonsin,
doing so serious damage, first struck the
ground at Belmont, LaFayette county,
at 4 o'clock, p. M , and passed over Lake
Michigan north of Milwaukee at 7
o'clock, p. M , making 150 miles almost
directly eastward in three hours. The
day had been oppressively still and
warm, and during the passage of the
t rnado across the State there was no
wind blowing except that whirling
around the storm centre. The tornado
had, besides forward motion of fifty
miles ao hour (ao uuusually rapid for
ward movement for a tornado) and its
circling motion of unknown velocity, s
cycloidal motion, making an undulating
path. The actual width of the track of
the tornado was small, being from a few
yards to two or three hundred, but its
cycloidal motion from north to south was
nearly six miles, and the cycles were
completed in about every six miles of
forward motion. From this it will be
seen that the tornado must have moved
over the country at a rate of speed of
more than one hundred miles an hour in
addition to its revolving motion, which
was doubtless far grcator. The tornado
was io the form of an inverted cope of
gigantic size, with its point resting on
the ground, although this wasnotalways
true; fortunately for those in the course
of the monster, very much of the time
the oone point was raised above the earth
from one hundred to one thousand feet.
In this manner it passed over several
miles at a time, and thus were many
farmers spared from ruin. In these in
stances the country over whioh the tor
nado passed was treated to a frightful
shower of wood splinters, branches of
trees and dead animals. Whether 00
the earth or suspended hundreds of feet
above, this whirling cone held in itsem
braco countless millions of fragmenH of
buildings, trees, straw, bay, oattle, sheep
. and swine, thus affording its observer a
view terribly grand. Numerous stumps
of trees are left in the track of the tor
nado with all the bark peeled off. Two
oek posts eight feet long, sank six feet
in the ground to support tho uprights
of a windmill over • well, and upen
which posts the wind ooold have ao
grasp exoept upon the two feet above
the earth, were lifted out and oarried
away without disturbing the surrounding
earth. Trees were lifted up and oarried
a mile with tons of earth adhering to the
mass of roots. Horses, oettle, sheep and
swine seemed to floet as lightly io the
air as the leaves of the forest. The less
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of human life, BO far M known, ia about - 1
fifty. More than two hundred persons
are more or less injured. The loss of
property is very great, but DO estimate
can be given with My degree of aoou
racy at present, yet it is sure to bo
nearly $2,000,000
A Touching Innhtit *
Not many years sinoe, certain miners,
working far underground, came span the
body of a poor fellow who had perished
in the suffocating pit forty years before.
Some chemical agent to whioh the body
had been subjected—an agenC prepared
in the laboratovy of nature—had effect
ually arrested the progress of decry, J
They brought it up to the surface, and,
for awhilo, till thoroughly exposed to the
atmosphere, it lay—the image of a fine,
sturdy young man. No oonvulsioos bad
passed over his face in death—the fea
tures were tranquil; the hair black as
jet. No one recognized the face; a gen
eration had grown up since the miner
went down into the pit for the last time.
But a tottering old woman, who hurried
from her oottage on hearing the news,
came up, and she knew again the face jd
which through all these long years she t J
had not forgotten. The miner was to
have been her husband on the day after
that on which he had died. There were Jg
no dry eyes when the gray-beaded old f
pilgrim caßt herself upon the youthful
corpse and poured into the deaf ears
many words of endearment unused for
forty years. It wa6 a touching contrast
—the one so old, this other so young.
They bad both been young those long
years ago, but time had gone on with the
lining and stood still with the dead.
The Sawdust Swindlers.
Eight or ten years ago what was known
as the -'Sawdust Business" was flourish
ing in New York oity. A class of swin
dlers obtained the names oi thousands of
persons throughout the country, and sent
them their circulars offering to sell them ■
| at a%w rsfe, counterft it money that
| would pass anywhere. In somo cases
they sent a good one dollar bill as a
sample. The victim had no difficulty in
passing it. He beoamc satisfied that
he had a fortune within his grasp. lie
scraped together all the money posftble
and sent it to the swindlerß for a
of the counterfeits. In return fie re.
ceivtd a carefully sealed package by ex
press. On opening it there was nothing
found but sawdust or slips of paper cut
the size of greenbacks. On writing the
swindlers he was informed that probftiily
some of the "express agents had stolen
the counterfeits under the impression
that tbey were good money. They sym
pathized deeply with him, and would
forward as much more at a greatly re
duced rate if he would send the money.
Of course the victim never got tag
counterfeits, although in some cases he
sent money half a dozen times. News
papers exposed the fraud, and the police
raided the scamps until the businetß was i
totally broken up.
The rascals sought a new occupation.
Some of them went into Wall Street, and
flooded the country with circulars offer
ing great inducements, to farmers and
mechanics to enter into stock specula
tions on a small basis. Tbey are still
flourishing, and a few of tbem have -, ~m
amassed much wealth. Other of the
sawdust swindlers started spurious pe
troleum companies, and during the old 'i
fever scattered their oircnlars far and
wide over the country selling shares to
their dupes at a dollar apiece, and coin- m
ing money—lost in gambling dens as
soon as received.
"For tbis Occasion Only." t
Torture by thumb-screw was revived
in Leipzic the other day, "for thiseeoa- •
sion only." I»a museum there a speci
men of the old instrument of tor taut is
preserved. A friend of on* of the offi
cials was looking at it, and obsowed,
jesting, that the men of old sMt bale *■ 1
been but feeble to have given w^SO
readily under torture, adding, boasting- * , /i
ly, that he ooald beat k welt cpMffe. Jj
His frieod icuMediately proposed a .
on the trial, the boaster agreed, the
thumb serews were brought out, JUted *
on, and twisted two or three turn* it
is said that the humiliation of Basest,
or of Nark Twain's bully, "Arkaaaee,"
was a joke compared with the result
Word, break m {ojm jgj J
knows how many heirti they bLioteu. 3