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"NOTHING SUCCEEDS
BANBURY* N. C., THUKBDA
11IIHUS THAT NEVER HIE.
The pure, the bright, the Ijcautiful,
That stirred our hearts in youth ;
The impulse to a worthless prayr,
The dream* of love ami truth ;
The longing after something lost,
The spirit's yearning cry,
The striving aftei lietter hopes—
These things ean never til''.
The timid hand stretched forth to aid
A brother Iu his ncd ;
The kindly word ill griefs dark hour,
That proves a friend indeed—
The (ilea for mercy, softly bieatlied,
Wiirn justice threatened high,
i if a eoulflte heart—
The memory of a clasping hand,
The pressure of a kiss,
And all tlie tritles sweet and frail
That make up life's liliss;
If W illi a Arm. uiii iiaiiging faith,
Ami holy trust ami high,
Those hands clasped and lips have met. j
These things shall never die.
The cruel and the hitter word
That wounded as it tell,
The chilling wants of sympathy
We feel but never tell—
Tho hard repulse that chills the heart
Whose lioi>es were hounding h gh,
In an unfailing record kept—
These things shall never die.
Lei nothing pass, for erery hand
Must find some work to tlo ;
Lose not a chance to waken love—
lie linn ami just and true.
So shall a light that cannot fade
Deem i>u thee from on high,
And angel's voices say to thee.
These tilings shall never die.
—All tiio Yearltouud.
My Little Boy
1 was a widow.
A young widow, I suppose—for no
one would regard three-and-twenty us a
very venerable age. And a pretty wid- \
ow, people said. Whether they were
right or wroug, 1 cannot taKc upon my- ;
so If to say. Of course I knew, when
ever I looked iu the glass, that 1 was
not an absolute flight—and so, when my i
cousin, Mrs. General Foxley, invited j
me to spend a summer with her at the
Ujieutal hotel, where there were balls
and soirees, lawn tenuis and archeiy
breakfasts going on all the while, 1 j
wasn't at all sorry that Mile Chale- j
lage had sent hyiue my lovely uew .
[ hulf-iuourning dress, all trimmed with i
pearl aud lavender, sparkling jet aud I
prismatic clair du luucs, aud that Auut j
Laviua, our family "ctiquettc-book" j
had decided that it was quite proper
to wear my tliauiouds il 1 pleased. For ;
1 was a decided bruuette, aud dark wo- ;
men always look well iu diamonds.
Nut that it had occurred to me that !
1 should ever marry again. My old |
commodore had. beeu very good and i
kiud to mc, but he wai feeble aud ail
ing, aud required a great deal of care ,
aud my general impression of mafriuio-
ny was that it involved tiouble aud sol
icitude, and a constant burden of res
ponsibility.
Aud now, I was free, and I intended (
to remain so ! 1 left like a caged bird
that had managed to give its goldeu
wires the slip-a butterfly iu the bluo
June air ! I meant to go to the Oricutal
hotel and have a royal time, waltzing,
dreaming—even coquetting a little in a
harmless sort of way. if it seemed good
to me—but as to marrying again—no,
uotl! Even l'riscilla Rent, my com
panion, who was the most logical of
creatures, declared that I would bo the
greatest fool alive to do that'
But wo never know just what is go
ing to happen to us. The very night
before wo were to start for the Oiicut, I
j came into tho room where Priscilla
was packing the Uce things, which were
j too nice and delicate to be intrusted to
j Fiiine, the maid.
"Prissy," said I, "look here ! a tele
gram from San Domingo 1 My cousin,
Fanny Black, is doa3 !"
j "Dear mo, how said !" said Prissy,
putting on tho regulation look of afHic
t tion, although she bad never in her life
I seen Mrs. Captain Basil Black, of H.
M. 114 th Fusillsers, stationed in the
West Indies. "But 1 suppose that
won't interfero with our trip to the sea
side, will it ?"
"Bui that isn't all," said 1. "She
has left a son. And with her dying
breath she charged it on her attendants
that I should take him to this country
and make a home for him."
. I "llow old is be I' said Pricilla Bent
looking agast. And —"
"Let uie soe," said 1, counting upon
uiy Angers. "Basil Black—that's his
name, fur 1 remember cousin Fanny
writing about him to mamma wheu I
was a uiite of a thing—must be ono and
twenty at least by this time."
"liless me ! ' ejaculated Pnscilt, "aud
I you are only just turning twenty-three
yourself!"
I "Prissy," cried I, with misebi
glee, "You'ro as good as a bot +
| dates
"Hut it won't bo propper/'sali Pris
| cilia.
! 'Not proper!" echoed I. 'Why won't
it bo proper ! Isn't that dear old com
modore's IIOUHO big enough tor oil oT us'
And ain't you hero to matronixe us* 1
think myself it will bo rather fine to lit
up a suite of bachelor apartments—
smoking rooui; di o*sing-roow "
"Elsie," cried Miss Bent, in despair,
"I believe you would make fun i f any
thing ' Don't you see how •' J)
LUIO (II'LU ' ,ultrr." "L.Ti'iOat OUR?" HT
these San Domingo people, and tell them
it is out of the question "
"It's too lato now, I'risjy," said I.
"Tliey are on tho way here, don't \»u
sec ! 1 shouldn't wonder if the steamer
were in port now. And you know,
Prissy, I've always wanted to adopt a
little boy, only the dear commodore
wouldn't lot me."
"Klsio."
"Well, Prissy t"
"1 think you must Lc crazj',' groan
ed Miss Bout. '•Alittle bo/, indeed!
A dashing, flirting, driukmg West India
fellow, six feet high, I'll go bail, and
broad to correspond ! 1 shall leave the
house!"
"No, you won't Prissy," said 1, coax
rngly. "You'll just make the best of
it, as lam going So do. I dare say he
is very nice,--and poor Fanny never
would have left liiiu in my charge if ho
wasu't all that is delightful. And per
haps he'll want to go to college, or study
law or something, so he won't be very
much in the house, after all —and you
know, Prissy, one can't neglect a dying
woman's request."
"It was very thoughtless of her, u'.al!
events,'gi uiuhled my faithful old chape
ron. "A young thing like you
I laughed. "I dure say she heard 1
was a widow," said I, "and probably
imagined me a uiiddle-ngrd horror with
ey o-glasses and » double chin. Leave
these things, Prissy—we shall not go
to tiiu uow uxiti) cuuslt. 1V..V.1
is safely installed with his gun case, his
hookahs and chibouks, his book* and
papers, in my rooms! Come with me
and we'll have up the house keeper, aud
turn them into a bachelor suit at
once."
I was very happy for the next three
days, studying the imaginary tastes of
my unknown cousin, culling out choice
editions of the poets, hanging rare en
gravings on the walls, and matching car
pets and curtains. Miss Bent, poor old
soul, said it was nonsense, —that no
young man of any spirit could conde
scend to "fit down" (that was iier ex
pression) "in a bouse where liewun to bo
a dependent,"
"But he is my cousin," said I. "110
has a claim on me."
"Nonesense," said Priseilla, "that
doesn't alter the case in the lease."
In the meantime 1 was watching the
papers—and when I saw in the shipping
columns tho arrival of tho "Bonnie
Kate" from San Domingo, I put on my
hat and veil, ordered the earrige, and
called I'iissy to go and accompany me
to welcome my new guest.
' If 1 must, I must," said Prissy.
But she was not ut all enthusiastic about
it.
1 was just pinning the crape bow
under my chin, when Allice, the parlor
maid, came courtcsying in.
"A young gentleman in the parlor
wants to see you uia'unt," she said in a
smiling flurry. y \ tD
mingo steamer. And "
"I'll go down at once, Alice," I
cried, tearing off uiy hat and veil and
flinging the lieavy crape stiearner on ouc
side.
'Klsio, Klsio, wait," Priscilla's shrill
voice entreated tuc, but my mind was
full of poor cousin Fanny nud her or
phan child—and hurrying down stairs,
I found myself face to face with a tall,
slender young man, very pale and
fair, with dark blue eyes, a soft, silky
mustache, and a plain mourning dress.
luvoluntarily I threw my uruis around
bis ncok aud kissed him.
"You are welcome, Cousin Basil,"
said 1, "welcome a thousand times."
110 drew back, colored a little. "I
beg your pardon, Mrs. Chatteris," ho
said, "but there is somo mistake here.
XliisT is your cousin and a pale child
of four or five years old, whose long
golden cuils hung over his black suit,
crept out from the shadow of tho cur
tains, slowly and shyly.
"I am Frank," he said. "And Mr.
Lesley i> my dear, desr friend. He
lived on the next place, in San Domin
go. 110 has come to the Unit4 States
with me!"
This page is mutilated
I
tth
1 pt'
safety
1 looks.,
dear little got
very existence
norant.
'•Sweet little Fr—
I 11 1 1-..1 U -*«ooeforv.
and 1 clasped the oaby foiui to uiy
breast.
"And Mr. Lesley, too ?" ."aid the j
little lad, solemnly reaching out his !
hand to his friend. "Cousin KUie likes !
Mr. Lesley, or siie wouldn't have kissed
hiui."
1 could feel myself color to the very
roots of my hair, but Mr. Lesley's feat
ures never stirred.
"Sho thought I was you. Frankic,
don't you seo said he. "She didn't
expect to see such a nnte of a c'.iap as
you. Good-bye, now, lam going to the
hotel, and I shall see you very often, if
Mrs. Ohnrtcris is—"
Hut at this I'rankle burst into an in
fant cry of dismay and desolation, and I
recovering uiy presence of mind, spoke
up at ouce :
"Kraokie, don't cry," »aid I, "Mr. j
Lesley will not leave you—just nt j
present, at least. You were my dead ]
cousin's trusted friend, Mr, Lesley," 1 j
added bidding out uiy band. "May 1 ■
not hope that you will be my guest,
also."
And Mr. Lesley seeing that I was
thoroughly in earnest, consented.
"It I shall not be a bore !' he said,
when little Fraukie jumped and danced
around liiui for very joy.
"Now 1 shall bvo you cousiu Elsie, i
all njy life ' said be. "And so will Mr.
Lesley !"
"Mr. Lesley occupied the suite of
apartments which I bad so unconscious- j
ly fitted up for the poor young cousin '
who was sleeping thy while in the West
India couietary. Little Frankic who
had refused to be parted from his
fr:eud. slept iu a crib close to his bed
side.
"Well I'rissy," I said merrily to my
mother chaperon, "so we've got two
guests instead of ono '"
••It's dreadful," growled poor I'ris
sy.
"I)o you think so *" said I. "Now
it soeins to inc that it is very good fun!"
Well, of course anyone oan conjecture
for themselves bow it ended. Mr. Lcs
ler was young and handsome, —more-
over he had a snug little property of his
own. 11c liked the United States, and
incidentally remarked that if lie had
any object he would prefel to remain
here permanently.
"Hut," he added, mournfully, "it is
sad to be so entirely without tics, that
no one cares wlictber you stay iu one
place or another."
''l care,"' piped up Frank, who sat as
usual by bis side, holding bis hand.
"And so does cousin Klsic."
"Yes," said 1, laughing, though not
without some confusion. "Fraukie is
right. "tVe both care."
"Then" said Mr Lesley, 1' will stay."
We wero engaged within the month
And as soon as I laid off my half mourn
ing we were married, so that Frankic
never yet lias been compelled to separ
ate tiom bis friend
Aud Miss Bent lives with us still,
and we are very happy ! Thcro is the
end of my love story. Ought not all
love stories to end so ? Miss lieut says
that all real romances end sadly,—but
my experience, you see, has been alto
gether different. And perhaps lam
a better judge than (be is.—Shirley
Browne.
•Tlif lloj Is Father Iu the
.Hull.'
The lad who speaks with affectation,
and minces foreign tongues that be does
not understand at school, will bo a weak
cbromo iu oharaoter all bis life; the
boy who cheats his teacher into thinking
hiui devout at chapel will be the man
who will make religion a trade ; aud
briug Christianity into oontcmpt ; the
boy wlij wius tbo highest average by
stealiug Ins examination papers will Bg
ure some day as a triekey politician.
The boy who, whether neb or poor, dull
or clever, looks you straight m the eyes
and keeps his answer inside of truth, al
ways counts hie friends who will last bis
lifc-tiuie, and bolds a capital which will
biing hiui in a surer interest than mon
ey."
; clucking to In. Tlftfrny broou and Indus- |
I trinusly scratching fur their matutinal
meal when there appealed in the sky
overhead u huge hawk whirling in con
i centric circles. A sharp note of warn
ing from the patriarchal cock hurried
the feeding fowls to places of conceal
ment, aud followed by the sharp cluck
of the old hen, sent the infant spring
scurry beneath the prote:ting wing of
their mother. And none too soon came
the alarm. The next instant there was
a whirring sound iu the air, and, with
wings close to bis body, coming head
foremost like shot out of a cannou, the
hawk landed among the panic stricken
brood. Tho old hca had sand in her
gizzard and was true blue. With her
wings extended and the feathers on her
! neck standing apart like quills upon the
1 fretful porcupine, she met the onslaught
| iif the bird of f rcy. No sooner had he
| touched the ground than she was upon
■ him. The conflict, which was witness
| ed by several reliable parties, was as |
: brief as it was brilliant, and before sue- j
or could reach the plucky little hen she \
had stretched the feathered pirate life- j
lers at her feet. The hawk measured j
just four feet from tip to tip, and was |
earned to Aiken and exhibited. A |
lucky blow from the spur or beak of
the hen entered his eye and penetrated
i his brain.—Augusta, Ga., Chronicle.
A Hop Exploded
i "Talk about dynamite, I can tell you
j a true story of what nitroglycerine once
| did in our State. It was out near
l'raire du Chien, where they were blas
i ling on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St.
l'aul road. The conttact'ir had several
kegs of the stuff in an underground
place. One day a workman left the
place opcu ; by and by souie hogs came
along, found a keg open, and as gly
cerine is as sweet almost as honey, the
animal filled himself. He came out by
and by and soon wandered into a stable
which contained about forty horses be
-1 longing to the contractor. The bog got
fooling around among the horses' liiud
legs, when one of them drew off and
i gave Mr Hog a good one. Tho con
cussion started the business, and not a
, vestage was ever distovcred of tho hog
or of a single hot se or the stable. And
where the stable once stood there was a
i hole 50 feet deep and 200 feet in cir
cumference. Fact, gentleman !"—Mad
t isou (til.) Democrat.
An liil.mt Smoker.
llattie Ketchum, the five-year old
daughter of a farmer and tobacco grow
-1 er near Wecdsport, N V. is said to bo
hopelessly addicted to the use of tobac
co, and has been since she was two years
» ,
old
When between one and two years of
" age the girl was nfllicled with colic, and
! at the suggestion of a friend tobacco
' I smoke was blown into milk and given
' her. This remedy proved uffuctivu, but
' j created an uncortrollable desire for to
-3 baeco, and by various subterfuges tho
' child has ever since found means to Bat
-4 isfy her craving for the weod.
A Settler.
A party of newspaper correspondents
' recently met in Loudon and were giv
ing their experience of the drinks to bo
got in the various parts of tho world,
One told of a famous concoction prepar
ed in Italy ; another spoke of the drinks
, of California; auolher of Messpotauiia,
s j Arstralia, eto. The last man to speak
s said that at suppct in Hussia he once
e ' got a drink oousiatiug of a pint of cliaui
- pagne and a pint of brandy hot, which
a | was drunk with a toast to the guest of
1 the evening' "Well'" said a listeacr.
e ; "Oh, after that you wore put to bed ;
y there was nothing else to lo that even
- i ing," was the rcjoiudor.
Mr. A. W. Swiuk in Davidson oounty
one year ag« placed thirteen carp in bin
pond and last fall addod forty more; he
drew the pond off last week and found
U two hundred and forty-six carp.
The printer wants two linos to 611 thii
column aud her* they are.
I .../mined no belt praise it would cease
to exist. .
I.icentiousncss never seeing to realize
what a mean infriugemnet it is upon
decency.
We have cases of tlio pride of learn
ing, but a multitude of the pride of ig
norance.
Truth flourishes only with proper
carc, hut villaiuy will survive under all
circumstances.
No matter how gray and venerable
vice may get, it will always he pretty
active for its age.
Knowing when and how to take ad
vantage of rare occasions is really the
brains of busiuess.
In the education of children love is
first to be instilled, and out of lovo
obedience is to be educated.
In this commonplace world everyone
is said be romantic who cither aduiires
| a tine thing or does oue.
I "The season is gradually unfolding
! its horrors." Yes, but gradually. So
fai spriug poety has bloomed in but•
! very few places.
| "Signal-Service Ifazen wants to be
i restored to duty." By all means let
him fcc restored to duty, and seut to
the North Pole.
l'ride, like the magnet, constantly
points to one object—eelf; but uoliko
i the magnet it has no attractive pold,
but at all points .Opels.
An exchange asks : "How shall wo
prevent mice from gnawing the bark off
fruit trees ?" Kill the mice, of course.
A dead mouse never gnaws hark.
Keep your sorrows and trials from
the little ones as far as possible. Life
should be all sunshine for them ; they
will fiud out its shadows soon enough.
Some men make a great flourish absut
always doing what they believe to bo
right; but always manage to believe
t that is right which is for their onu in
-1 terest.
' It is confidently cxpectccted that Ko
" maroff's next explanation will be to the
1 effect that he did not fight until his
■ whole force had been massacred by the
' bloody Afghans.
"Patting Disuiarck" is the title of a
cablegram in an esteemed contempora
ry. When wc pat liismarck we shall
insist upon his bciug either muzzled or
■ somewhere else.
I In Ohio they they have a one-legged
| skating rink expert, it ought Dot to
i be very hard for a one-legged man to
bo a good skater. lie only has one
I skate to keep track of.
Those pleasures which depend on
( f! ourselves are the only ones a wise man
J | will count; for nothing is ours which
o another may deprive us of; hence the
u inestimable value of intellectual pleas
t ures.
" To commit the execution of a pur
-0 i pose to one who disapproves of the plan
ot it, is tu employ but oue-third of the
uian ; his heart and his head arc against
you ; you have commanded only his
hands.
Keenness in a man is not always to
bo taken as a sign of capacity, for it is
1 generally observed most in those who
' are selfish and overreaching; and his
keenness generally ends in that kind of
8 penetration into other people's interest
'' which will tend to benefit his own.
If
e A shrewd old lady cautioned her
married daughter against quarreling
I, with her husband too much, and oon
,f eluded by saying : "My obild, * man
r _ is like au egg. Kept in hot water a
little while, lie uiay boil soft, but keep
him there too long 1 and he hardens."—
[Boston Post.
y llev. Sam Jones, the Methodist revi
le valist, bos had several hundred conver
| sions at Knoxvillc, Tenn. On the 4th
j at oue service 150 were convorted. Five
services are held eaoh day and the larg
est churches are crowded. Some of
18 Kev. Sam's talks aro very peculiar, not
t o put il fine.