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OBLIVION.
BY C. SUSSSL CHRISTIAN.
Upon a high o'erhanpinfr rock I Blood
And cast * stone into the floods below me;
And as it fell, remembered that the sword
Of Death could in an instant overthrow ui»!
K'en as into the billows sunk the atona,
80 sink mankind into Oblivion I
Before a widely-burning (ire 1 stood
And cast a leaf into the flames before me ;
And as it burned. rema>uber»d that the sword
Of death could triumph in an instant o'er ma I
K'en is the Imtlet scorched amid the flames
So In Oblivion perish human name* I
Far /rom lha iftfm'i t*volvtoz whee 1 T stood
And viewad its mad cireer with fmir and sor
row ;
And as it raved, remembered that the 9word
Of Death could mark for men strange >o-raor
row I
K'en us revolve* the whirlwind through the
skies,
So dark Oblivion rolls when Nature dies 1
A Pretty Qerman Custom.
There is x beautiful custom among the
Germans of having chorals played from
thp church towers at regular hours of the
day It is said they first derived the idea
from the Arabs, who at certain hours of
the day and night are called to prayers
by the long wailing cry of the muezzins
from the minarets of the mo w qaes When
I firet heard this music in Stuttgart, com
ing us it appeared to me from the heav
ens, 1 was puzzled to know its objeot,
and th« s urcea whence it cauie. I gazed
abrve and around me, but I failed to
detect its source. The beautiful melody,
softened by distance, was floating in the
air. It was like the invisible heavenly
choir that enraptured St. Cecelia. A
few days afterward, happening to be in
the sauie neighborhood, and at the same
hour of the day, I was m >re fortunate
in my discoveries I again heard the
musio from above, its pealing notes com
ing to me from some far distance like
the strains of a church organ. Near me
was the Stifts Kirehe.an old ohurch, built
in 1308, wi.ich has attached to it an im
mense octagon tower, rising to a height
of nearly two hundred leet. Encircliu'g
this tower, near the top, is a balcony, on
which I at last espied the au'hors of the
strange musio. Several men with brass
instruments were perehed on that giddy
height claying sacred uiusio. When they
had finished one piece they moved to an
other position on the balcony and played
a different tune. Four selections n all
' were played, one toward each* point of
the compass On making inquiries after
ward, I found that this playing from the
ohurch tower had been practiced for
uiore than a hundred years A German
ludy "once upon a time" belonging to one
of the noble families, bequeathed a sum
of money, the income of whioh was ever
after to be devoted to paying tbo expen
sea of this religious observance. The
olause in her will stated that chorals or
selections of sacred musio were to be
played from this church tower twice a
day, punctually every morning at the
rising of the sun, and also from half-past
II to 12 st noon. The musicians for
their services are paid two marks (fifty
cents) a day eaoh—a mark for the morn
ing and a mark for the noon service—
which, for walking ap and down that
long flight of steps, in addition to play
ing several pieces of church music, is a
small enough remuneration. Chorals
are also plsyed from another of the
church towers ia Stuttgart by a brass
band, and also from ohurch towers in
Ludwigsburg Rossenstein, Friedrich
shafen, near Stuttgart, and in others of
the very old German oities and towns
Letttr to Springfield Republican.
Death From Tight Lacing.
The evil of tight Iseing was shown at
an inqueit whioh was held by Dr. Dan
ford Thomas, coroner for Central Mid
dlesex, England, upon ths body of Mrs
Amelia Jury, of 19 Bolton road, Kil
burn. Dr Frederiok A Hill, in his ev
idence as to the cause of death, stated
that upon tmkmg a post mortem exami
nation he found that the stomaoh was
oontraeted in the middle by a firm band,
narrowing it to one-eigbih of ita usual
site, so there were virtually two stomaohs
and this contraction was on a level witb
a deep indentation on the liver, corres
ponding to where the stays were tightly
1 bound around. The liver itself was
flattened out, sod was driven down very
deep into the pelvis also, and there waa
DO doubt that this was also produced by
tight lacing. The coroner said that be
some time ago bold an inquest where it
was shown that the liver had been very
seriously injured through tight laciog,
sod perhaps these osses would act ss a
caution against the practice adopted.
DANBURY, N. C., THURSDAY. JULY 28, 1881.
The Care of the Matohes.
In nothing about, tho household does
the injunction to have "a place for
everything" require more strict enforce
ment 11.an in the care of matches What
ure known as "parlor oistchcs" light
the most readily, and are us much more
danuerous than the common matches
as they ore more convenient. The
general siook should be kept in s tin
►hox, which is not 10 bo opened or Jjkcn
fro» accept bj ■nfie timber or mistress
of the bouse. For each roooi where
ui itches ate und thore should he a
metal match.safie of som« kind, and the
uiaiohes are to be kept in that and no
wh.-re else It should be regarded as a
serious > ffeocc for a mate!) to be anywhere
or tor over so short a time found "lying
around loose." In the kitchen and the
bedroom, or wherever else matohes are
iu frequent use. it is better t> have the
match-sale fixed aud always in the same
place, ao that it can bo found, if need be,
inthedaik. In taking matches from
the larger box to replenish the safes,
let that always be done by one person,
audit will pay for that person to look
over the matches at the time, throwing
away all broki n ones ; aud where, as is
often the case, two or more are stuck
together by the explosive mixture, these
should be carofuily broken apart, and
unless two good mutches are the result,
rather than to put into the safe one with
too little and the other with a tagged
excess ol the mixture, throw both away.
Alst throw into the fire those matches
that have two or three times as much of
the mixture on the ends as thoy should
have. These, iu lighting, uf'en explode
aud scatter burning partieleß in a dan
gerous manner. If, in lighting a mutch,
day or night, it break", or the explosive
eud comes off without lighting, do noth
ing else until that end is found, and put
into the fire, or where it can do no harm
In fact, treat laatobe?,' drery match, as
it were, us it really is, a firearm, oapable
of dangerous mincheif to person and
property. Teach the ohidren to careful
ly observe the same caution. — American
Agriculturist.
The German Cookery School.
I was sixteen yours of age, and, accord
ing to a common custom of Uermao
families, I bud 10 go for twelve month)
10 what is culled a cookery school, in
order to learu there everything that is
expected from a German house wife
ThisSustom is not uuiversal in Germany,
but it prevails in many districts, espe
cially in the northwestern provinces. A
girl may be a Countess or a Baroness, a
clergyman's or a general's daughter, or
else the child of a butcher or a shoemaker.
It does not signify how or whero shs has
been born, or what her rank is. Tho
manners of her country require that,
whoever she is, she should kuow how to
cook, wash, iron, to clean the rooms,
mend the lenon, and plant the garden.
Of oourse 1 do not mean to say that
all girls, even io those parts of Germany
where the custom is most general, are
forced to undeigo this training Verv
many, as may be imagined, shirk it, aud
some parents do not feel the necessity
of imposing this useful education on
their daughters* Yet the good sense of
the majority makes them ulivc to its
advantages For it must be remember
ed that, whether a woman's future life
obliges her to do these thiugs herself or
not, aud even if ber positiou io (he world
allows her to keep as many servants as
she ohooscs, these V£ry servants, being
German servants, expect her to know
how to do all the work whiub she requires
of them. There is only 000 difference
between a Bironess and the ohild ot a
tradesman. The latter learns the sever
a! duties 1 have meutioncd in her father's
house and from her mother; while the
former leaves her home to learn tb« same
details of domest 10 service in* strange
bouse.— Cornhilt Magazine
HONORED AND BLSST —Wheo a board
of eminent physicians and ohemists an
nounced the discovery that by combin
ing some well known valuable remedies,
the most wonderful medicine was pro
duced, whioh would oure suoh a wide
range of diseases that most all other re
medies could be dispensed witb, mauv
were skeptical; but proof of its merits
by actual trial has dispelled all doubt,
and to-day the diso*verera ef that great
medicine, Hop Bitters, are honored and
blessed by alias benefactors — Democrat
•'Here's a fiy in my soup, waiter "
"Yes, very sorry, sir, but you oan throw
away the fly and eat the soup, can't
you T" "Of oourse I oan , you didn't
expect me to throw away the soup and
eat the fly, did you t"— Austin Sift
ing*.
-! 1 KAUT DISSASK Wheo an individu
al is reported to haye died of disease of
the heart, we are in tho habit of regard
ing it as an iujvitable event, as some
thing whioh c.uld not have been fore
seen or prevented, and it is too muoh
the habit, when persons suddenly fall
down dead, to report the heart as tho
esuss ; this si'encee all inquiry and in
vestigation, and saves the rouble and
nirnoe of post mortem. A truur
would have a tendency to save
many lives. It is through a report of
disease of the heart that ninny an opium
eater ia let off iuto the grave, whiih
covers at osce his folly and his crime;
the brandy diinker, 100, quietly slides
around the corner thus, and is heard ot
00 more ; io short, this report of disease
of the heart is the mr.ntlc of charity
which the folite coroner ar.d sympathe
tic physician throw around the graveß
of generous people. At a scientific con
gress at Strasburg it was reported that
of sixty-six persons who had suddenly
died, an immediate and luithful post
mortem showed that only two pe tons
had any heart aflVction whatever—one
sudden death otjly in thirty-three, from
diseases of the heart. Nine out of sixty
die of apop'ejy—one out of every sevnn j
while forty-si*—moro than two out of
three—died of lung affection, half of
them congestion of the lungs, that is,
the were so full of blood they
could not work ; there was not room
eoough for air to «et in to support life.
It is then of considerable practical in
tercut to know some of the common
every day causes of this congestion of
the luugs, a disease which, the figures
above being true, kills three times as
many persons at short warning as apo
plexy and heart disease together. Cold
feet, tight shoes, light clothing, costiyo
bowels sitting still until chilled through
alter having been warmed up by labor
kor a long* t»o mddenly
from a cls!|S, heated room, as a lounger
or listener, or speaker, while the body
is weakened by continual application, or
abstincuoe, or heated by a long uddtets;
these are tho frightful causes of sudden
death in the form of congestion of the
lnngs; but which, betog falsely reported
as disease of the heait, and regarded as
an inevitablo event, throw people off
their guard instead of pointing them to
their true cause, all of which are avoid
able; and very easily so, as a general
rule, wheo the uiiod has once been in
telligently drawn to the subject — Hall's
Journal of Health
The Human Manufactory.
A man may eat and drink heartily all
day, and sit and lounge about, doing
nothicg, m one sense of the word ; but
hia body must keep hard at work all the
time, or it will die. Supposo the stom
ach refused to work within ten minutes
after a hearty dinner, the man would
die in convulsions ia ufew hours; or
cholera or oramp colic would rack and
wreck him. Supposing the pores of the
skin—meaning thereby ths glaudutar
apparatus with which they are oonncct
ed—should go on a "strike," he would
in an hour be burning up with fo"er,
oppression would weigh down tho sys
tem, and soon beoome insupportable
Suppose tho liver becomes mulish, ap
petite would be annihilated, food would
be loathed, torturing pains would invade
the small of the baok, and the head
wout4 acho to bursting. Suppose the
kidneys shut up shop, aud danfeers more
imminent, sufferings more unbearable,
and death more certain, would be the
speedy and inevitable result. If the
little work-sbops of the eye should close
in an hour ho could not shut nor open
them without physical ftroe, and in an
other hour be would be blind; or if
thoee of tbo tongue should olose, it
would beoome dry as a bone and stiff as
steel. To keep such a complication of
machinery in working ordsr for a life
time is a miracle of wisdom; but to
work them by the pleasures of eating
and driuking is a aiiraole of beneficence.
Mr. Davis' demonstration of the
right of the South to secede is OODOIU
sive. His proofs that the Southern
people were more fondly devoted to the
maintenance of the rights, honors, im
munities and dignity of American eiti
tensbip than were those who forced
them to lake the step they did, are unsn
awsrable. That the right to Uke that
etep was not aegatived by tbe war, is, in
obr view, a postulate, and needed not
the labor with whioh Mr. Davis has
enunciated it. But io this connection
■'loyal" reader* will God a flood of light
shed on the peculiar teoeta of men whom
they have long ago canooited among
the Patriots of the Republic.—Sdtxin
wo/i AVirs, Dcm.
Will 1 be Like You, Papa P
A gentleman who for years has been
niore or less under tho influence of
liquor, and whose red nose and bloated
figure stamped him as an inchriate, had
gone home to his wife and children in
this condition lie was not unkind in
acts or words. It was his delight to
pluy at games with his little ones, as be
wns Bb'e, and to 1 uttrUifl them u.U\.
wo'riJcrfuTsii.ms On this occasion the
family were all together in the sitting
room, and the usual gamos having been
played, little Freddie, a lad about six
years of age, had climed upon his fath
er's knee, and was askiug all sorts of
boyish questions He talked as a child
will talk—of what he would do when he
was a "big man !" asked if he would be
like papa then ; and finally, after a long
und serious look into his father's face,
with every shade of cl ildinh curiosity j
in his voice and glance, put to him this ,
bewildering query :
'•l'apa, when I grow up to be a man,
will my nose be red like yours, and my
face all swelled ?"
Ah, why should that poor swollen
face grow redder than it was wout to
be? Why should his arms so quickly
draw the boy to his breast? And why
should tears flow and voice tremble as
he replied io word* and tones that mado
his mother's heart glad :
"No, Freddie, plsase God you wont
bo like me when you get to be a man,
and neither will your father, my boy,
for from this hour he will lead a sober
life."
"Ho like him !" he had never thought
of that before, and th 3 hare possibility
staggered him All the love of his
father's heart cried out against him.
That boy, his pride, going about with a
bloated fac: aud poisoned breith! No,
no ! he was not prepared for that!
Never before had he own looks
s(f clearly; tßey were reflected iV tffc
boy's—the boy grown to manbood , and
honor, affection, and resson came to the
rescue The child had preached a
sermon no orator oould deliver; and
innocence and ignorance had accom
plished what learning and logio had aim
ed at in vain.
Those words went home. — Baltimore
Herald.
Does Wealth Bring Happiness.
On one of the last days of his earthly
existence Mr. John ll»pkins called his
devoted gardener to him and said: "I
am beginning to hate this placo, beoause
it does Dot briug in money. I bate eve
rything that does not briog in money.
Did you ever feed hogs ? Have you not
observed that the strong animals bear
away the ears of coru and that the weak
cr ones pursue them squealingly, in
hopes that all or some cl lt\f treasure
will be lost or dropped ?" The gardener
replied that the sketch was a true one.
"Well, then," said Mr. Hopkins, "I am
that strong hog I have that big ear of
corn, and every pigish rascal in Balti
more is intent upon stealing it or wrest
ing it from me !" "Sir," he said, turn
ing brusquoly to the gardener, "do you
tl.ink a very rich man is happy ?" The
gardener answered : "The extreme of
poverty is a sad thing. The extreme of
wealth, no doubt, bears with it many tri
bulations." Mr Hopkins rejoined:
"You are right, my friend ; next to the
hell of being utterly bereft of money is
the purgatory ot possessing a vas'.
amount of it. I have a mission, and
under its shadow I have accumulated
wealth, but not happiness."
Eternity.
Eternity hag 00 gray hairs The
flowers fade, the heart withers, man
grows old and dies; the world lies down
in a sepuloher of ages, but time writes
no wrinkle on the brow of eternity.
Eternity 1 Stupendous thought! The
ever-present, unborn, undccayiog, undy
ing—the endless chain, composing the
lile of God—tho golden thread, entwin
lug the uestiniea of the universe Eatth
has its beauties, but time shrouds rhern
for the grave, its honors, they aro but
the sunshin of an hour; its palaces, they
aro but the gilded sepuloher; its posses
sions, they are but toys of obanging
iortune: its pleasures they are but as
burdening bubbles. Not so in tho
untried bourn. In the dwelling of the
Almighty oao come no lootstepa of deeay
—its days will know no darkening—
eternal splendor forbids tho approach
of night. Its glory will never wane, for
there is the everpreseot God. Its har
mony will never cease, exhaustless love
supplies the song.— Signs of the Times'
The lienoir Topic says : The recent
spell of weather is oausiog eastern peo
ple to swarm to the mountains even ss
the locust swsrmed upon tho land of
Egypt.
NUMBERS
A Beautiful Sentiment.
Clasp the hands meek!; over the still
breast—they've no uiora work to do,
close the weary eyes—they've no more
tears to shed ; part the damp looks—
there's no more pain to bear. Closed
alike to love's kind voice and oalumny's
stinging whisper.
O, if in that stilted heart you have
1 —ij it vrmrn j IT from tbtl
pleading eye you have carelessly turned
awav ; if your loving glance, and kindly
word, and clasping hand, have come—
nil too late —then God lorgive you 1 No
frown gathers on that marble brow as
you gaze—no scorn curls the chiseled
lip—no flush otwounded feelings mounts
to the blue veined temples
God forgive you! lor your feet too
must shrink appalled from death's eold
river—your faltering tongue asks : "Cau
this be death 1" Yoor fadicg eye lin
gers lovingly on the sunny earth, your
clam my hands I'eel its last feeble flutter.
O, rapacious grave ! yet another vio
tim for thy voiceless keeping. What I
no words ol greeting from the household
sleepers ? No warm welcome from a
sister's loving lip-1 No throb of pleas
ure from the dear maternal bosom '(
Silent all !
O, if these broken limbs were neycr
gathered up ! If beyond death's swell
ing flood there were no etcrnai shore.
If fur the struggling bark there were no
port of peace! If athwart that lower
ing cloud sprang no bright bow of prom
ise !
Alas for lore, if this lis all,
And naught beyond.
Last week there were 91 failurci in
the Uuiied States. Of these 15 were
in the South.
Some people marry on the principle
that what is not enough tor one is quite
suffioient tor two.
He who is most slow in makiooA
the rtosf-Tntrhfittt in the' pcrfottffc
' anoo of it— lioutseau
lie who never relaxes into sfurtiveness
| is a wearisome companion But beware
of bitu who jests at every tiling.
There are not less than eleven rail
roads now bciug constructed in North
Carolina, And many more being pro
jected.
The average of cotton to the acre in
North Carolina is greater than in any of
th# Southern States. She produces the
finest tobacco in the world.
A woman in Eastern Pennsylvania
became crazy on seeing her husband
kiss another woman. The husband was
a rascal. No true husband would ever
kiss another woman when his wife waa
looking
Self-reliance and self denial will teach
a man to drink out of his own cistern,
and eat his own sweetbread, and to
learn to labor truly to get his OWD
living, and carefully to save and expead
the good things committed to bis trust
Lord Bacon.
A fashontble yonng lady was seen
blacking her brother's boots the other
morning and the nest day she helped
to do the family washing It is thought
she is fitting herself to become the wife
of an Italian count — l'tick. ®
Greensboro Battle Ground: Two
men have carried the mail between Mt.
Airy, in this State, and Hillsville, Ve,
for ten years. They walk and always
blow a horn in regular stage-coach fash
ion when approaching a postoffice. Tbe
distance, we are told, is 25 miles.
Oxford Torchiii/ht : We havo seen
tobacco upon the' white floury lands of
Northern Granville grown and cured so
sweet as to render licorice, whits sugar
and all flavoring absolutely superfluous
aud unncci asarv. That the wrappers of
southern Granville surpass those of ail
other seotioos (ha numberless premiums
and medal* seen in tbe farmers houses
amply attest tbe fact.
One perfect daimond is more valua
ble thin many defeotive ones. One
truth well fixed in the mind and com
prehended is better than many but halt
understood. A small opportunity fully
realized is butter thau a great one
miaimproved The wealth of affection
ate sympathy aud aid is better thao
gold, and fills 'he soul with most perfeet
peace Faithfulness lays up treasure
in the heavens which nothisg can injure
and no one remove — J. M. Ltiyhton. ,
In commuting the death sentence of
Hessy Helfmann, who was implicated ita
the nmrfier of Alexander il. the Rus
sian government did only what a decent
regard to humanity required. The exe
cution of MiS. Surratt, as an alleged ac
complice of the assassin of Abraham
Lioeola, was oua of the horrors of mod
ern history, and it if an inefiaoeabla
siaia upon A«ierioan honor. That Rus
sia shrinks from tbe perpetration of a
like barbsrity is one of the most hopo
, lul of recent signs.