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IJANIiUKY,iy( C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1881.
BABY HAS GONE TO SOUOOL.
The baby has gone to school: sh, me I
hat will the mother do,
With never » call to button or pin,
Or tie a litlh shoe?
How can !he keep herself busy all day,
With the little "hindering thing" away ?
•
Another basket to fill with lunch.
Another "nood-b\e" to say,
And the mother stands at the door to see
9 Her baby march away ;
> And turns with a ni-ih that U half relief
And ball a something ukiu to grief.
1 She thinks of a possible future morn,
> When toe children, one by one,
i Will go from their home out into the world
To battle with Itfif alone,
j And not even 111* baby be left to cheer
p The desolate home ol that future year.
. She picks up garments here and there,
Thrown d iwn in carcletnj haute;
And tries to think how It would eeera
II nothing were displaced ;
If the ho'j«e were always as mill as this
How could the bear the loneliness 7
AFTET LONG YEARS.
"v\ hat is this,'Buri ?"
"Tiiat IH llie mortgage of an estate
Oalied the Derby Fi-.ee, Mr. Faxon,
foreclosed more than a year, I beln-ve."
"Well, it'a what I I.avc been looking
lor. I will take charge ol the papers
and attend to the mailer soon Down
K iSt. iso'i it
•• Yos. Mr "
Mr Faxou put the papers into the
breast pocket ol his coat, cauie down
ihc i ffica suits, and stepped into the
tfittterii ,g, purple li'ied phaeton, beside
bis wife
Ihe delicate Arabian, Mis Faxon's
horse, sped »w a y out of the city confines
and Soon tossed his jetty mane along the
open rouus, lined with gaideus, ornate
Cut lags snd vnlas
"Going sway again to morrow, dear ?"
asked Mis Faxon, liking her
lair oouutsnancs. as she interrupted her
I husband "Y u u seem to be away all the
time lately. Take me wttn you 1"'
••Nut this time, Violet."
Aud Violet Faxon's husband fell into
a fit ol abstraotion, from which her
smartest chatier tailed to arouse hitu.
They came at last ut the Fsxon
mansion, grand and siutplo, and fulfilling
its promise of a beautiful interior.
Amid the whita lac* aud crimson silk
ol ber chamber, Violet was brushing out
b«r long, fair hair, wbeu ber busbaua
paused IU the d or way, aud looked at ber
sharply Then be came slowly across the
room aud Imiug tba oval face in bis
baud, looked otosely at the roseate cbesk,
peariy ear aud curved lashea.
"What is ii?" asked Violet; ''a
Iteckit
"No," he answered, smiling taiutlv,
and atroiliug across tbe chamber. "You
looked like my sister then—.hat was ait."
"Your sister, dear 7 You never tolu
uie about her," aaid Violet.
*'No,' be answered, aud said no more.
Mr Faxon bore no resemblance to bis
delicate patrtctau wile. A little less
than thirty, dark, strongly built, active
aud vigorous, be impressed one a* a
strong character. If, with a remarkable
rich ooujuliue'S of countenance, tbsre
were some lines ot dissipation, there was
also a certain tvidcuoa of strong good
suuse and a look ot deep experience
He was up aud away Dy daybreak
next moruiug An early tram bore him
eastward, and utne o'clock found him
lauded at a little station called Suabtouk
The dismal little buildiug was set in
a fiel iot clover, around which a road
wouud away among the mounds of
verdure.
Alter a glauoe around, Mr Faxon look
this road aud walked slowly along, fbe
robbtus hopped aorossi it, tbe bobolinks
sang in the tree* over it. The
unassumiug white olover among tbe
grass pertuuied the cool moruiug air.
H* passed only a lew bouses, but he
observed thsm attentively. They were
all old aud humble farmhuuses.
Apparently this property whicb had by
the torcolosure of a mortgage, fallen to
Mr. Faxob, was not situated in a very
noh or euterprisiug neighborhood.
When he had walked nearly a miio,
he came to a green door yard amoug i
wide-spread apple trees, with a well sweep
I among tbem, and • residence, though
plain, more pretentious and oomfortable
than the other
There was a narrow well-worn path,
amoug the short grsss and buttercups to
the porch, where a bitter sweet twined
r iu strong arm. In a oorner uuder the
verandah was an armchair, with a
book on tbe seat, and lying aoross it—a
gnarled, twisted O»DS of hiokorjr, that
Mr Farfn linked twice at. The book
be saw was a B>blr.
There was an old lady with a sweet
faded taee, grid snowy cup strings, tied
under ber double chin, knitting at tb
window near by, but his quick hsd
not disturbed her
Hi- had put his hand to the knocker;
he took it down again as he caught night
of th.i* placid face IJ« stood there
quit* still for several ininotes. A gray
cat nam-* and rubbed against bis leg
Some apple blossoms floated down and
touched hi* cheek
At length tl e gentle lips moved
"Father," said the uiild old lady
"you bad best lie down mid lakv a
ri/sr" '
"Sueli old people ! Aud I
to take tin-it houi« away," said Mr
Faxon
There as s strong pain in his dark
tsce now as tic stood looking down at
the purcb floor
Alter a moment he stepped off the
porch on the further sid'.*>, uad walked
away under the apple trees
Wlim Mr ' axon came back Irom his
briel stroll, bis presence, as be crossed
the ymd w*s observed.
A *h te-haired old man, who had
com« to tie open do r and :ak,.-n up the
hickory »:ick, turned buck hastily, with
a lew hurried words, and ihe aged womau
dtopped her kuitting aud rose up, with
a paleness dropping over her laue
but, While Mr FaxJU hu.-ituied on the
poruh again, both came to the duor.
Sad, startled tiCcs they bulb had, but
they were civil. Their gruclitig was
ktuuly as to a triend.
"My uauie Is I'aXou," raid the visitor,
'l—
know who you be, sir," said the
oid man—'we kuow who you be, tbougli
we uever seed ye bulors. \V ill you come
iu I"
Mr. Faxon stepped aoross tbe white
hall floor tuto tbe quatut, cool aud
ouuifoitable stttiug room
Tbe tough blue paper, like uhiutz, on
tba wail, some "bouesty" aud uutu
glasses iu opaque white vases upon the
high, narrow mautlspiece, unconsciously
struck bis eye, while he took a seal, bis
uiiud ooeupisd witb other thoughts
"We've been ioug expeutiu' you, si:',"
said the old lady
tier bauds, crossed on a spotless
gingbam apron upon her lap, trembled
a little, but tbe ueieuity of ber mauuer
was not changed.
But the oid man's eyes swam in tears.
He rested both bauds ou the hickory
slick between his kuees, as he sat iu a
corner, aud bendiug bis forehead upou
tbem, paitially bid his lacu.
"Yes, yes ! out n comes sort o' sudden
now," said the old man.
Mr. Faxon sal iu speechless sympathy
Alter a little pau>e, old Mr Dot by
looked up, aud met hi* eyes
"Ol course, it's all right, sir. We
don't question your right to tbe placc ;
but we've been sort of uuiotiuuate, L
think so—dou't you, mother V
Tbe old lady lay back atuong tbe
oushtous of the dimity covered chair.
She had a look ot physical weakness Mr
i axon bad not observed buiore. She
did not speak.
Her husband looked at ber atteutively.
A sudden flush went over his ibiu taoe ;
"It's uol tor mysell 1 care—it'a her !" j
be cried, striking Ins cans vtoisutiy upou
the floor "Sue helped eatu this place, ]
wheu shs was young. The was no kiud
ot work but tbuui hands you see lyiu' so '
weary iu her lap, sir, was put io. Shs
was up early aud late, a,ways a-doiu',
a-doiu' tor me aud the übudreo. God
| never made a better wile au' mother
An' uow, sir, Ye bard, it's bard that she
should be turued out ol ber booie in her
old age 1"
"Hush, hush, Daniei!" said ihs old
Isdy, sotOy. "The Lord will provide;
aud it's not long we have tor this world,
you know."
"Will you t«ll me the history of me
i place, Mr. Derby t" asked Mr Faxou. j
"How did you cume to los« it f"
"jt was mortgaged, sir," said the old
man at last, "to pay tne boys' ooll«ge
bills. You see we bad three children—
Selwya Uosooeand little Auuie. Mother
aud I didn't have an eddication, but we
said all aloog that our ohtldren should ■
have ; au' they went to the distriot school
an' then tbe aoadeuty—sn' bye and bye
we fitted ibem off for college. Bright,
swart boys they—overybody said my
boys bid parts, though Rose >o was alway 8
| a litilu wild I think mother, there,
| loved hiui a little better lor that fie
| wa*» qx-re trouble, an' she clung to liioi
olosor because others bl .uied hiai at '
i tiines Annie, bis mater, was always '
! a pleadiu', too, for Rue. He played :
truant, and be w'lipptd little bo>s who j
| told on hiui ; he w:s alwaya put tin' his ,
! bones in peril, an' twice he was hull j
i drowned—yet in spite ol all, he was r*ady
tor c ilege wheu Selwyn was, though
i Seiwjn ft as steady as a clook. Mother |
j «ll' I had beeu surapiu' together tor I
j yeaTs, an' at lust we fuied them ott
"We Went uu deuyn' ouiselves, for It |
; wy. just the one hope ot our lives to have !
! , T ', 1 i • i
i-'i.tiL.yi. graduate , |lr s.. ail lUu honors j !
an lime went on tut uiany of the cro a ;
tailed, and there cauie disappointment i
hete and dlsappointni t>t therif, an'failing I
to get together the money the b ys sent j
f>t—especially Itoc—mm imaged the ;
farm lui five hu idua dollar*
"f hey were nearly through, you see. |
an' mother an' Annie thought thai j
Selwyn might bepriueipalol the academy '
or couietniug wheu tie cauie bouie, auu j
i U-iu would be a lawyer, 'cause > e oouki |
j argil ly an' speak so smart in public arm
ihe money. would be paid hack easy.
••Bui Irom time to time there Same j
I lUll, i.in I di-Ju'i like, as to tiow iwscje. 1
1 Mas up to his old wild ways, and ,it lust it !
I caO'O like a thuuderbill—ltoo «a. |
| suspended aud hud tun away to loreign I
j parts Weil, I passed over that, sir, I
j tried uol to be too haid on the toy
! lhen Selwyn came home. He haii I
graduated well, but he hau a cough. lie !
| didu'l complain, but he was thtu an' pule, \
' #u' suou mother aad I saw that the so ■
we had muanl to rely ou was an invalid
upoo our bands. The thought struck
|me duuio Uol mother wag all energy
We traveled here with him, we traveled
> there We saw all the uoted doctors
: liiasl and West. We borrowed more ■
| money on the t)ld place, aud we never '
: paid any back, i had mado one or two ;
! payments ut first, but tbey were but a
■ ifrop tu the bucket Ai last we brought j
1 Selwyn home to die "
| "Don't, Dauiul!" said the mother, I
softly
"He wants (o hear the rest. There is !
only a little oiore, but it's no better
Annie was like Selwyn—pood and patient;
delicate-like too We didn't mind it at
first, but her cheeks grew thin an' too ;
red ; a cough she had from a child grew j
harder, aud though the best doctor we
could get cauie early aud late, ii was only
a year alter S;lwyu died before we laid
Anme down among the snows. Thank
ye, sir, for your pity ! Mother au' 1
have shed most of our tears "
Mr. Faxon put his cambric
handkerchief baok into his pocket.
"Your other son, Hoscoe, Mr. Derby
—did he never come home 1"'
"Never 1 It's nigh eight years since
we have seen 800. lie knew he
disappointed us; but that was uothtn'—
was it, mother ?"
"I uever think ol it," said Mrs Derby,
shakiug her head. "Perhaps—l dou't j
know—we took the wrong eouise wuh j
ltoo. lie was restless an' active lie '
Was wild, but he was loviu—"
iier voice broke.
"Mrs Derby," said Mr Faxon, "I find i
I know something of your story already.
. Your son, Koscoe Derby, who ran away
at uineteeu years old, is probab y living,
aud tt may oome lu my way to ob,a.n
some inlormatiou ot him for him."
The old people had riseu eag> rly from
their seats ; but he went on quiukly :
"Meanwhile, be at no luouuveuieuce
regarding your stay here iu your old
home. Your right to occupy it is
Uuquestioued iu my mind, aud let me
| assure you mat you will sever, during
{ your lifetime, be required to go beuce.
i There ia tho mortgage —" i.e placed
some papers on lite table—"ibe Derby
j plaje is your own."
He rose, putuug them gently back as
tbey pressed toward him, trying to
; express their gratitude
"No—no thanks! Believe me, you (
| owe me nothing—uotbing 1"
He toik his hat. The old man who j
| was roicelees, wrung bis baud; Mr.
Faxou turned to Mrs Derby, and taking j
! her suit, wrinkled fingers in his stroug
palm, beat low and kissed them. Then
! be turned toward the dour, but in a
moment he qauie baok
"M. ■ther—tattler 1" be said, "I cannot 1
' go, for I kojw you hare forgiven uie!" 1
And the next instant the strung man
was kneeling with bis head on bis
mother's knee.
'•Alter long years, mother," he said,
as she stroked his temples with food
fingers. "I ntn but twenty eight years
old, but sorrow for uiy early faults has
brought s >me gray hair about my
j temples "
"And you are not Mr. Faxou, after
all, Hoc ?" said the father, with a
j puzzled smile.
I "Yes, I am, dear father Five >ears
| ago I had the good fortuoe to gain the
j good will ol one of the wealthiest
I American shipping merchants then in
li uidon He gave me a good position,
j and 1 decided io return ho with him,
j and ser"ed faitbluHy lu his employ, until
I just beiore liis death,wheu,having formed
i an engagement with his only daughter,
j he gave his consent to our marriage,
*iili the provision that I would tuke his
j Uiuie aud cairy on his interests exactly
|as tLey n..d ticeu To this I consented,
j lor in spite d settled hatuls aud ideas, I
I lelt au alien ard alone j but mother, i
I i.uve a g.iod wife aud the b-.st el sons—
| u little tellow two years old, Derby.
. Dots that please you !"'
All, indeed ! V/hat loving old woman
1 is not pleased with her grandchild '(
\ Soon the house was graced by the
| preseoce of Violet Faxon and the lovely
1 boy, whom gratdlather could not prais*
| enough and grandmuther u»uid not
' loudle enough ; yet it was sweeter.
| perhaps, to Boscoe Faxou io hear his
mother's voice whisper :
"1 like your wife; and, do you know,
! dear, I thiuk she is very like Annie''
Our Mineral Wealth.
INTERESTING LECTURE BV PROP. W. C.
KERK—NORTH CAROLINA'S MINERALS.
THEIR VARIETY AND VALUE
j Slate Geologist W. CK rr last even
; ing delivered an address in Commons
| Mall, tiuder the auspices of the Slate
B>>ard of Agi icult ure, on the 'M neral
• Wealth of North Carolina " A u'lui
j b«r ol geut.emsu of prominence, among
them a rn-'j >rity of the members of the
\ Assembly were present, and special in
terest wus manifested iu the leciute.
Prof. Kerr, at the beginning of his
' retnai ke, stated that the subject Wus s
I great one, since, for variety, extent and
; value, the minerals of the State are alike
, remarkable Heiu; au agricultural com
I muuily, we a e upi to nuglect these re
' sources of our State, giving the supreme
p ace to cotton and suuh products Bui
it has always been the case, iu all sges ot
the world, that, those nations t>cst in
formed as Io minerals and ibeir uses have
taken the lead The g.'urca of Eoi;
lanu's power is based upon her C 0. ,1 and
iron, for ure in truth lis founda
tions. W r e iu North Carolina have ig
nored our Wealth io this regard, aud
there is positively more ignorance of
this portlou ot our wealth among the
people ol our own State ihati amonit
those of other S'ates We find thai
there are uearly as many minerals ktiowu
and lecorded iu Norih Carolina as have
been recoidcd iu all these Umieil Slates
In our report is noted the occurrence ot
178 species, many new to seieuce, and
| many but receu ly discovered.
Prof. Kerr then took up specimens of
I the most valuable aud usetui ut the uiiu
erols and expUtued theui iu succession
j aud detail Of marl the deposits are
! u uiero -s aud extensive, reaching from
| the cnsl to within seven miles of Bal
i eigli Gold exists principally iu the
i centre and west. but. thus far, as con
j ducted, gold mining has advantaged the
j Stale but little, the yield having been
! protmbly 015.0U0 000, while ai preseut
I only some lurty unties are iu operation,
i Tlis a:lver mines am neither exteusive
nor valuable For copper tbe State is
noted, the largest mine, aud in fact the
only real one, being thut at Ore Knob,
in Ashe county, from wnich last year
1 GUO.OOO pounds of copper was taken,
the mine beiui; o te of the m ist valuable
in the eouutry Mica mining is a new
indu"try in this State, having been be
gun only a duien years stuce, while al
ready the nnues lu Mitchell county, a
hundred or un.re iu number, now con
trol the markets of the world.
Baryies exists io great quantities snd
is widely difiused, and is being largely
rxp 'rled. S upstone, or talc, whieh is
valuable, and exists in the fiuest quality
! known la shipped North in large quuu
I lines Kaohu, which is used largely in
| paper and chinaware making, is tuuud
j iu the uiica (Lines, which in most cases
are also kaolin mines, Macou oounty
I producing tho choicest. The earliest
mineral export from North Carolina was
: kaolin, which the Indiana took out of
1 the mines and sold to the first Europeans
I who landed on the coast
Manganese is another object of inter
i est, being used etiieiy in «lie manufac
ture of bieaubing powders, aud IS in
great ikqneai Cuivltfaie uf ifOU is aO
IS UMBER 37,
; other valuable mineral, being used iu the
, manufacture of paint*, god a doten va
; rietles of paint made from it were shown.
It is found largely in connection with
j corundum. Corundum is proving a
: soutceol wealth, und there is au eager
search fur it, it existing in greater quan-
I titles than anywhere tire in the United
State*. Frmu one u.toe tu Macon county
1-0 tons were taken last year Asbestos,
much used in the urts, is lound iu gtcat
quantities throughout the State Phos
phate ot lime, the basis of superphos
phates so much used 10 agriculture, is
also found, hut not to a great cxteut as
yet. Marble exists in every v iriety of
color and fineness, and will be in demand
u3 soon ad the railways open up tho
country to the world
Coal and liuie were next taken up at
subjects, und their abundance in North
Carolina described. A specimen of the
! Counollsviile, Pennsylvania, coke was
i shown, being the famous cose so much
j used iu the uianuiacture of iton uud eil
• ver, and which is driving antbracite
I trow the markets Vast beds of .bltu
miuous coal just over in Tennessee will
furnish a coke whioh is purer thau that
of Connellevtlle The discoveiy and
adoption of the Bessemer piocess of
: making steel op as up a fresh work and
I future for us, and leads us to hope for
| a grand future for our iron industry.
; lli.h grade ores are needed iu the uiao-
I uf.ieiure of this Bessemer steel.
These ores sre now brought from Ire
j laud, Scam and Alrioa, but, ss shown
and proved, North t aroliua oau furnish
i better The fact uow is that the situa
! lion bus changed, and that Pittsburg
! uniS' bring her furnaces here, and we
| need not take our iron over there (Jjko
must be brought here Iroui the I ennes
! *ee mines to our iron, and a vast saving
j is at ouce effected in the transportation.
A seventy five too Bessemer turuace is
f now being built near Cranberry, by Geo.
I Winder, and will iu a tew months bs in
| op-ration Pittsburg men will (bis year
I bdgio the erection of furnaces on Cratl
j bsrry For thirty miles ar« these depo
si s of ore, some of them being thirty
; feet in thickness and of wonderful purity.
; Just so sure as the railways are built and
{ i his western trea«ure house of ours ia
J ihrowa opeu to the world, furnaces will
| rise all ah>ng it North Carolina can
. ' supply the world, aod so sure as she oao
, i do it, she will do it
Prof K:rr illustrated his remarks
I the large map ot the Sure exhibited at
Vienua, aod which show* the location of
| all our imneial wealth. Ritlciyh Xews-
Obtervrr.
A Wife's Faith.
In one of the towns ot England there
I ia a beau ilui little chapel, and a very
| touohi g story is told in connection with
|it It was built by an infidel He bad
> a praing wife, but be woold not listen
I to het, Wouid not allow her pastor even
! to tase dinner with them w uld not look
|at the Bible, would not all >w religion
| even to talked ot She made up ner
| mind, seeing she cou d not influence hiui
j tiy her voice, tliat every day she would
j pray to God at twelve o'clock tor bis
j salvation Stic said nothing to hits,
i but every day at that hour she told the
Lord about tier husband. At the end of
; twelve months there was no change la
him. But she did not give it up, six
| months more went past Her faith
> began te waver, and she said, "Will I
i huvtt to give him up at last 1 Perhaps
when I am dead, he will answer my
| players." Wheo she nad 'jot to that
point, it seemed just as it God had goc
j her where he wanted her The man
catse home to dinner one day. Hie
wile was iu the diuing rooui waiting lor
biui, but he didn't come in She waited
aou>e time, and finally looked tor him all
through the house. At last she thought
of looking into the little room when sue
hud prayed so often. There be waa
praying at the same bed with agony,
where she had prayed tor him so many
months, asking forgiveness tor his sios.
And this is a lesson for you, wives, who
have iufidel husbands The Lord saw
| tbat woman's taith, and answered her
( ; prayers — Moody i Child Stories.
What is 0 luoose P
I When we receive a large number of
' | inquiries on au unusual subject.; as ot
1 ! iste concerning Grape Sus*r, we feel
sure that soma article ot "newspaper
: science'' is going the rouuds We hate
I not seeu the article, but as one iuqutrei
' asks, "What articles ot food are
I adulterated with it F Is it wholesome or
: otherwise F" it is n > doubt something
alarming. The term l)txtr»*e is now
: preferred by scientific rneu to Glucose,
| , nut we will use the old uauie—Grape
Sugar It is a form ot sugar that exists
iu various Iruits, being ofteu touud upou
| old raiaius, and is made artilioially. It
1 | may be made ttoui sawdust, couon, or
other form ol vegetable sweeteuiug
puwer It is said to be u>ed iu tiurope
to adulterate the oouiuiou sugars, but iu
' this country, where suoli sugars ate little
used, it is more likely to be mixed with
' •J ru l' 1' '* easily detected Uy the
chemist, (tut tor outers, us lack of
sweetness is the readny applied teat.
i When day break*, wuat becomes of
' the pieces ' i'Uat's toe question.