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T -What "-hall it intita man, it" he Hinll li-.k- world, and li,e his ivn soul." I .nil accustomed, Sabbath by Sab- lath, to stand before an audience of bargain makers. There may be men in all occupations sitting before me, vi t tht- vast majority of them, I am verv well aware, are engaged from Monday morning to Saturday night m the store. In many 01 the iamilies of 111 v congregation, across the break-!;i.-t tali'' and the tea table, are dis , -, iiju-Htions of loss and gain. Von arc ".every. day asking yourself; -What is the value of this? What is. the' value of that?"! You would not think of giving something of greater value for that! which is of lesser value. Xou would not think of selling .that which "cost you. 810 for ". If 'ou bad a property that was worth $ 1 ", K X , you would not -ill it for $ . -You are intelligent in all matters' of bargain making. An: you as wise in the things that pt rtaiii to the matters of the soul? Christ adapted -his instructions to tin; circumstances oftho.se to whom be spoke. When he talked to fisher men' he -spoke of the (ibspel iiet. When lie talked to the farmers, he sard-: '"A sower went forth to sow." When he talked to the shepherds, he toll the parable of the lost sheep. -And am 1 not right when speaking this month: to an audience made hp of bargain makers that I address tiiem in the words of mv text, ask ing: "What shall it profit a man, if he shall train .the whole world, and .'lost: his own sour-?" . I I propose, as -far as possible, to estimate and compare the value of two properties. First, 1 have to say that the worl is a very grand property. ..The Jlowers are (iod's thoughts in bloom Its rocks are (Iod's thoughts in stone Its dewdrops are Clod's thoughts in pearl. This world is ("Iod's child a wayward child indeed; it has wan Meivd oil' through the heavens. IJut about 1,SSS years ago, one Christmas night, Cod SKNT OCT A SISTKK -WOULD .'to call that wanderer back, and it hung over P.ethleheir. only long enough to get the promise of the wanderer's return, anil now that lost world, with soft feet of light, comes treading back through the heavens The hills, how beautiful they billow up, the cdgivof the wave white with tin- foam of crocuses ! , How beauti ful the rainbow, the arched bridge on which, iiea veil and earth come and talk to each other in tears, after the storm is over ! I Low-nimble the 1. . 1 . teet ot the -lamp linters lliat 111 a lew" minutes set all ome of the night ablaze with brackets of fire ! "How bright the oar of the sail'ron cloud that rows across the deep' sea of heavm ! How beautiful the spring, with bridal blossoms in her hair! 1 wonder who it is that beats time on a .1 mlie morning for the bird orchestra. How gently the harebell tolls its fra L'lance on the air! There may be KiMiuler worlds, swarthier worlds, 'larger worlds than this; but 1 think that this is a most exquisite world -it mignonette on the bosom of im mensity ! "Oh," "you say,'" take mv smil! give -me. that .world ! I ant willing to take it in exchange. I anl ready now for the bargain. It is s beautiful a world, so sweet a worldl so gramla world !" j hut let us look more minutely hv to the value of this w orld. You will not buy property unless you can get a good title to it. After you have looked at the property and found out that it suits, you, you send an attorney to the pTiblic office, and he examines the book of deeds, and the book of mortgages, a nib the book of judgments, ami the book of liens, and he decides whether the title is good before you will have anything to do with it. There might sbe a splendid propert, and in every way exactly suited to your want; but if you cannot get a good title you will not take it. Now, I am here this morning to say that it is impossible to get 'a good title to this world. If 1 settle down upon it, in the very year I so settle down upon it as a permanent possession : I may be driven away from it- Ay, in . five Hunutes after I gire up my soul for the world I may have to part with the world ; and what kind of a title do 3 ou call that? There is only one way in which I can hold an taruuv possession, and tiiat is through the senses. All beautiful sights through the eye, but the eye may he blotted out ; all captivating 'sounds through the ear, but my ear may be deafened; all lusciousness of iruits and vians through my taste, out my taste may be destroyed : all appreciation of culture and of art . through my mind, but I may lose my' mind. What a frail hold, then, I have upon any earthly possessions ! In the courts of law, if you want toget a man off a property, you must serve upon him a writ of ejectment, - giving him a certain time to vacate the premises : but when Death comes to uslirid serves a writ of ejectment, he does not give us one second of lorewarning. He says : " "OFF OF THIS PLACE ! . You have no right any longer in the possession." v e might cry out : - gave you 1Q0,' X) for that property?' the plea would be of no avail. We might say : "We have a warranty deed lor that property ; the plea wouia be ot no avail. We migh say : "We have a lien on that store house :" that would do us no frood Death is blind, and he cannot see a seal, and cannot read an indenture bo that, first and last, I want to tel you th'at when you projrosf that L give up my you cannot soul for the world, you ;ive me the first item of Having xamined the title of a roperty, y otar next question is about insurance. 1 1 ou would not he silly enough to buy a largo warehouse that could riot possibly be insured. You would hot have anything to do with such property. .Now, 1 ask surance can you give world is not going to be Absolutely none. (Ic- you wnat ai me that thiH itirned up'ri ologists tell us Ihat it is already on fire : that tl e heart 01 the world is one great li ing coal : that it is just like a ship pn fire at sea,- the flames are not bursting out because the arej kept down. And yet you propose to palm oil on me, in return tor I my soul, a world for which, in tac first place, you give no title, and in the second place, for which yo.u jean give no insurance. Oh, you say, the waters of the oceans will wash over all the land and put ou ; the fire." Oh, no. There are inflammable elements in the wa ter, hydrogin and oxygen. Call off tlie hydrogen, and then the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans would blaze like heaps of shavings. You want me to take this world, for which you can give no possible insurance. Astronomers have swept their tel- escopes thr mgh the sky, and have iound out 1 lat there have been thir , in the last two eentu- teen world ries, that have disappeared. At first they looked just like other worlds. then they got deeply red ; r THKN THEY WERE ON El! Then they bot ashen, showing they were burnt d down. Then they dis appeared, showing that 'even the ashes were scattered. And if the geologist be right in his prophecy then our wTorld is to go 111 the sam way. And yet you want me to ex change my soul for it. Ah, no; it is a world that is burning now Suppose Hou brought an insurance agent to lOok at your property for the purpose ot giving you .1 policy upon it, and while he stood in trout of the hoii.j e he should say: J hat house is on fire now in the base- nient,' you could not get any insur- a nee upon this world lt. Yet you talk about uis tnougn it were a sale investment . as though you could get some insurance upon it, when down in the basement it is on fire. I remark, also, that this world is a property, with which everybody who lias taken t as a possession has had trouble. Now I know a large reach of land that is not built on. I ask what is the matter, and they reply that everybody who lias had any thing to d with that property got into troub e about it. It is just so with this world ; everybody that has had anything to do with it, as a pos session, h is been in perplexity How was if with Lord I'.yron? UIO HE XO'I SELL HIS IMMolITAL MH I. r..4l.. ...... ...r. r.C il ...I,-.. 1-1, H lOI LIU- Jiui;j"ic yj I m-iimi; iiu iivnv. Was he satisfied with the possession? Mas! alad! the poem graphically lescribes liis case when it says: Drank everv I lean! everv Irump of fame !"r:ink oarlv. lliviilv ilrank. liank ilrausrlits vliicii ennuium miliums might have iiciic1iim1, riien iliii! of (hirst lHiinis-thi'tVvas H" mol'$ to drii k. Oh, ves, he had trouble with it, ind so did Napoleon. After cou ntering nations by the force of the sword, Jie lies down to die, his entire wssession the military boots that he insisted upon having upon his leet while he wa as dying. o n nas oeen -i . -1 i i with men who had better ambition. Thackeray, one of the most genial and lovable souls, after he had won the applause of all intelligent lands through hisl wondenui genius, sns doyvn to a r staurant in l'aris, looks to the otheil end of the room, and .1 . r i 1 wonders w wretched fa lose mat lonorn ana e is ; rising up after a while, he liiids that it is Thackeray in the mirror. Oh, yes, this worm is a cheat. -Talk about a man gaining the world ! Who ever owned a henus- here ? Wlio ever gained a conti- nent ? Who ever owned Asia? Who ever gainei a city? Who ever owned Bro lyn ? Talk about gai n ins the wor 1 ! No man ever gained it, or the hkindrcd-thousandth part oi it. 1 ou are demanding that 1 sell my sou , not for the world, but for a fnurmcint of it. Here is i man who has had a large estate for mrty or fifty vearfe. He lies down to die. You say: "That man is worm mil lions and millions of dollars. Is he? Von call ml a surveyor, with his comnass and chains, and you say roperty extending inree miles in one direction,' and three miles in another direction." Is that the way to measure that man's prop erty? No! You do not want any surveyor, with his compass and chains. That is not the way you want to meature that man's property now. It is an UNDERTAKER THAT YOU NEED, who will come and put his finger in his vest pocket and take out a tape line, and he will measure live leet nine inches one way and two feet and a half the other way. That is the man's ptoperty. Oh, no, I for got ; not so fluueh as that, for he docs not own even the place in whicn he lies in the cemetery. The deed to that belongs! to the executors and the heirs." Oh, what a property you propose to give me for my soul!-. If you sell a bjll of goods, you go into the counting-room and say to your partner : "Do you think that man is good lor tjiis bill r Can he give proper security ? Will he meet this payment r . iow, w neu you are unereu xnis i i i .i . world as a possession, 1 want you to test the in atter. I do not want you to go in to this bargain blindly I want you to ask about the title. about the insurance, about whether men have eyer had any trouble with it, about whether you can keep it, aroui wneiner you can get all or the 10,X)th, or l)O,0M)th part of it. There is the world now. 1 shall snv no more about it. Make up' your mind for yourself, as. I shall,! before ( Jod, have to make up mindj tor mvselt, about the value of thi world. I cannot afford to make aj mistake for my soul, and you can not afibrd to make a mistake for your soul. Now, let us look at the other prop erty the soul. We cannot make a bargain without seeing the compar ative value. The soul ! HOW SHALL I ESTIMATE the value of it? U ell, by its ex quisite organization. It is the most wonderful piece of mechanism ever put together. Machinery i3 of value in proportion as it is mighty and si lent at the same time. You look at the engine and the machinery inj the Philadelphia mint, and, as you; see it performing its wonderful work you will be surprised to find howj silently it goes.; Machinery tha' roars and tears soon destroys itself but silent machinery is often most ellective. Now, so it is with the sou of man, with all its tremendous fac ulties it moves in silence. Jud ment, without any racket, lifthig it3 scales; memory, without any noise bringing down all its treasures ; con science taking its judgment sea without any excitement ; the under standing and the will all doing thei work. Velocity, majesty, might hut silence silence, iou listen a1 the door ol your heart, lou can hear no sound. The soul is all quiet. It is so delicate an instrument that no human hand can touch it. Yotji break a bone, and with splinters and bandages the surgeon sets it; th eye-becomes inflamed, the apothe cary's wash cools it ; but a soul ofT the track, unbalanced, no luuoaii power can' readjust it. Willi onb sweep of its wing it circles the uni verse andjjovervaults the throne of Clod. Why, in the hour of death the soul is so mighty, IT THROWS ASIDE THE liODY as though it were a toy. . It drives back medical skill as impotent. It breaks through the circle of loved ones who stand around the dyin? couch. v ith one leap, it spnn beyond star and moon and sun, and chasms ot immensity. Oh, it is soul superior to all material things No fire can consume it ; no floods can drown it ; no rocks can crush i no walls can impede it ; no time ca exhaust it. It wants no bridge o which to cross a chasm. It want. no plummet with w hicb to sound depth. A soul, so mighty, so swill, so silent, must be a priceless soul. -I calculate the value ol the sou ilso, by its capacity for happiness. low much loy it can get in this world out ol irienusni s, oui df books, out of clouds, put of the se; out of flowers, out of ten thousand things ; and yet all the joy it has lere does not test its capacity. Yoii irp in a concert beioie too curiam ioists, and you hear the instruments ireparing the sharp snap f the broken string, the scraping ol tne ow across the violin. "Thews is . i . 1 fi ' . no music in thai, you say. ii is only getting ready for the music. And all the enjoyment of the soul in this world, the enjoy mint we think is real enjoyment, is only preparaj- tive; it is onlyr anticipative ; it is only the first stages of the thing ; it is owly the en trance,-the beginning ol that which shall be the orchestra. harmonies and splendors ol the re-r deemed. You cannot test the full power o the soul for happiness in this world How much power the soul has herd to find enioyment m friendships but, oh, the grander friendships .for the soul in the skies! How swecfJ the flowers here ! but how much SWEETER THEY WILL UK THERE ! I do not think that when flowers die. on earth they die forever. I think that the fragrance ot the liowers is the spirit being wafted away intoglo ry. Clod says there are palm trees in heaven and fruits in heaven. If so, why not the spirits of the dead now ers ? In the sunny valleys of heaven, shall not the marigold creep? On the hills of heaven, will not the am-i aranth bloom ? On the amethystine walls of heaven, will not the jasmine climb ? ""My beloved is come down in his garden to gather lilies." Noj flowers in heaven I V here, then,) do they get their garlands for the! brows of the righteous ? I Christ is glorious to our souls now,! but how much grander our appre ciation after a while ! A conqueror ; comes back after the battle. He has been fighting for us. He comes upon the platform. He has one arm in a sling, and the other arm holds ai crutch. As he mounts the platform, j oh, the enthusiasm of the audience ! They say : "That man fought for us, and imperiled his life for us," and how wild the huzza that follows huzza ! When the Lord Jesus Christ shall at last stand out before the mul titudes of the redeemed of heaven, and we meet him face to face, and feel that lie was wounded in the head, and wounded in the hands, and wounded in . the feet, and wounded in the side for us, methinks we will be overwhelmpd. We will sit some time gazing in silence, until some leader amidst the white robed choir shall lift the baton of light, and give the signal that it is time to WAKE THE SONG OF JUBILEE; and all heaven will then break forth into : "Hosanna ! Hosanna ! Ho sanna ! Worthy is the Lamb that is slain." ,1 calculate further the value of the soul by the price that has been paid for it In St Petersburg there is a diamond that the government paid $200,000 for. "Well " you say, "it must have been very valuable, or the erovernment would not have paid $200,000 for it." I want to see what my soul is worth, and what your soul is ivorth, by seeing what has been pa d for it. For that immortal soul, the richest blood that was ever shed, the deepest groan that was ever utt .red, all the griefs of earth compressed into one tear, all the sufferings of earth gathered into one rapier o;' pain and struck through his holy heart. Does it not imply tremeni ous value ? I argue also the value of the soul from tht -home that has been fitted up foritin the future. One would have thought: a street of adamant would have do tie. No ; it is a street of gold. One would have thought that a wall of granite would have done. No ; it is the 1 ame of sardonyx mingling with the green of emerald. One would 1 ave thought that an occa sional ( 'loxology would have done. No; it is a perpetual song. Jf the ages of beaven marched in a straight line, so ne . day the last regiment, perhaps, might pass out of sight ; but no, the iges of heaven do not march in a straight line, but in a circle around about the throne of (Jod; forever, forever, tramp, tramp ! A soul so jonght, so equipped, so pro vided for, must be a priceless soul, a majestic soul, a tremendous soul. Now, you have seen the -two pro pertiesthe world, the soul. One perishable, the other immortal. )ne 'unsatisfying, the other capable of ever increasing felicity. Will you trade? Will you trade even? Ile member, it is the only investment you can make. If a man sell a bill of goods worth j5o,HH, and he is cheateilf out of it, he may get $-"),( )! somewliere else; but a man who in vests hfs soul invests all. Losing that, hef loses all. Saving that, he saves aljl. in the light ot my text, it seems t me as if you were this morn ing offering your soul to the highest bidder md 1 hear you say : "What "i .11 .- is bid What i or it, in v deathless spirit.' bid for it?" Satan says: the world." You say : "le- "I'll bkl gone tOint is no eouivalent. Sell my sou for the world? No! le liut there is some one else gone t" in the He say mortal idience not so wise as that. : "What is bid for my im ul?" Satan says: "I'll bid 1." '-Tin: world? doing at the wor that, gojing ;it that ( lone forever ! going ! done li'i 1 W I the tliir ot reiiti st in n-e, llit v In ilc cieat i' n nuni'l; I'liat vhi.-li was lot in l'a aradisi'. Tliit which in ( t is f(iinnl. Thi'ii Jet us gather riiuin! the ei-;, Tiuit. know U-ilie to uhtain ; Not 14- the soul's eternal ls I .utt e'.vrlast m; nam. Well, there aro a great many peo ple ill till.- ho'.iso who say: "1 will not sell any soul for the world. 1 find the world is an unsatisfying portion.'j What, then, will you do with yousoul ? Some one whispers, here : "ijwill give my soul to Christ." Will you? That is the wisest reso lution vim ever made. Will you give it tok'hrist ? When? To-morrow? Nil ; now. I congratulate you if you have come to iueii :i decision. Oh, if this morning the eternal Spirit of (Jod wfould come down upon this audience! md show vou the vanity of this w porta nee brld, and the Immense i:n- of Christ's religion, and the infinite fcilue of your own immortal sotlis. wish a nouse inis wouiu oe i it. i . ii : ill.. what an moment lour this would be! what this would be! Do you know that CHRIST Do you ' mas not ;irr vm u sou.. now that he has paid an infinite ijrice for it? Do you know "Will you that he H worthy ot if. give it to 1 1 mi now I was Heading of a sailor w ho had just got ashore, and was telling about his last experience at sea. 1 le said : "The lastitime 1 crossed the ocean we had i terrific time. After we lout three or four days the machinery got disarranged and the steam bean to escape, and the cap tain, gathering the people and the crew on lleek, said : Tnless some one shall Lo down and shut off that steam, anil arrange that machinery at the peijil of his life, we must all be destroyed.' He was not willing to go dowii himself. No one seemed willing tojgo. The passengers gath ered at oife end of the steamer wait ing for thfir fate. The captain said : 'I give yoi.1 a last warning. If there is no one here willing to imperil his Hie and gp now n ana chinery, ve must a plain sailpr said : T he wrapped himself ii life and gp down and fix that ma- au he lost. A 11 go, sir and in a course puice of canvas and went down, and was gone but i few moments when the escaping steam stopped, and the machinery, was corrected. The cap tain criedfout to the passengers: 'AH saved ! fet us go down below and see w hat ias become of the poor fel low.' TlueyT went down. There he lay. .deait" Vicarious - suffering! Died for jail ! ( h, do you suppose that thosd people on the ship ever forgot, evr can forget that poor fel low? "Xo!" they say; "it was through his sacrifice that I got ashore." The time came when our whole racj must die unless some one should er dure torture . and sorrow and shame. Who shall come to the rescue ? Shall it be one of the sera phim? Not one. Shall it be one of the cherubim? Not one. Shall It be an inhabitant of some pure and unfallen world? Not one. Then Christ sail : "Lo ! 1 come to do thyr will, O 'God and he went down through tiie dark stairs of our sin, and wret ;hedness, and misery, and woe, and te stopped the peril, and he died, that you and I might be free. Oh, the lc ve ! oh, the endurance ! oh, the horrors of the sacrifice! Shall notour fouls this morning go out toward 1 im, saying: "Lord Jesus Christ, t; .ke my soul. Thou art worthy to have it. Thou hast died to save it, God he! p you this morning rightly to cipher out this sum in Gospel arithmetic : " hat shall it profit a man, if Bie shall gain the whole world, acid lose his own soul ?"' PHEASANTS' AND FISH. fieom wooiki hill windy siiojii:, TO All Sorts of News Items, Some Iiong and Some Short, Some New and Some Old, lSut News Items Just the Same. The Democratic convention of Macon county .adopted resolutions endorsing Stedman and Avery. Mr. Pearsons meetings in Ashe ville are drawing large crowds. Four hundred went into the inquiry room at one meeting last week. Since the first of December, More head City and Beaufort have shipped nearly five thousand barrels of oys ters, clams and escallops. The Lexington )Liul'h says W. H-wflJargrave went to JJaleigh Sun day night, and surrendered himself to the penitentiary authorities Mon day morning. Elizabeth City E-,in,nit : The fisheries have cut ell', and ;the mer chants are now reaping ai" harvest from the employes, who always spend their money received in wages, very liberally. , Tarboro Smilhi'mcr : Died, yester day, Joseph J. Potter, at his resulenee in this town, in the '.'oth vii-ir of his age. Thus, one by one thojeonneet ing links between the past .imd pres ent generations are obliterated. ll-Ur'-s W'lhj: Ourbnklierand co-laborer, ('. F. Lewis, of the Iteids ville Time, who was bunji d out a few weeks ago; left ia.-t hight for New York city, where, he vvill pur chase an entirely new outfit for the Tim:. i Newton Thornbur" ;, vv-rse : Mrs. Poilie of Startown,. is ;:', vcars old, and can card 1-S'i rolls iof cotton a day. During last winter she has carded and spun on an old fashion spinning wheel thread for fisn van Is ofeloth. j ' .-i Scull i'i : lie- reviVMI -which has Peeii in progress at the church ! for four 1 last I Sunday Centenary M. K. Weeks past, cloS'' night. rorty-s.ix conversions was the- result of the meeting for ty-four of whom were received into the church. 1 Messrs. C'nas. . llashelt .V Co. have taken charge of the Ox fori! 7'"v hi 'i'i,! '. The paper has a spright liness that argues high spirits. Tin: editor says: "The TriJiljitt ac knowledges with pleasure the many flattering words of praise tendered during the past week and the gen uine reception tenden d this writer upon his casting his lot amongst this people hi? lin es iavi fallen in pleasant places. ; Tarboro S iillfrner : T lie I spirit of grace would s-em ! be bih.itifully poured out upon East Carolina dur Jng the recent, protracted meetings and revivals. This is the third week during which protracted lne'tings have been held, in the Methodist church here and the ith Pev. Mr. Kendall, pastor. not yet. linns that the meetings will eontiuuq o long as conversions occur at then), or their good effect is notice The State Medi. ,b!e. . j al Society, held last week at Favettevilh w;is largely attended. Favetteviile cut tained the visiting M. D's. rovafly. Th following physicians passed the ex amination : Dis. (Miss) Elmira Travis, of Itaieigh, .1. W. .Mc ice, .Jr., Kaleigh, II. A. Ueynold, (cil'dj Kal eigh, F. T. Merriwether, Asheville, Shcrill, Salisbury, M E. Led befter, (! nil ford. J. O. Walker, Ran dolph, Isaac M. Lynn, Johnston, Preston II. Loft in,' Hookcrtdn, ( lin. L. Hughes, Snow Hill, Aaron M. Moore, (col'd ) Columbus, j Favetteviile '. rnv : The pm traded meeting commenced in the liaptist church two weeks .ago lias continued up to this date with a daily increasing interest. The Uev. It. f. Cray, assisted by the Lev. Mr. Pope, of Lumberton, have; labored daily jand w it h wonderful success. On Sunday last twenty-nine we're added to the church, and fully one hun dred or more have been converted. Surely, the Sjnrit is abroad; working to save the souls of men.; At the Methodist church on Sunday., last there were nine who went forward to join, the church, and a like number at the Presbyterian. llendersonville Times: Mr. IV W. Pieklcsimer, of Transylvania county, who was injured some three years ago by falling from a railroad bridge, near Danville, a., brought suit ag;qnst the lb iV: I), railroad company, in the Danville municipal court, for the recovery of '2i,000 damages. He obtained a verdict giving him $10, 00. The defendants appealed to the Virginia Supreme court, and the appeal bad been in court for about three years before it was reached. The good news now conies toirform Mr. V. S. Pickens, the plaintiff's at torney for this State, that the judg ment of the lower court has been affirmed, and Mr. Picklesimer will soon be in possesion of his money Tlie Verdict Unanimous. W. I. Suit, ilrugist, Ilipjms, Inil., testi fies: ''1 cm recimimenil Electric Bitter as the very K-st remedy. Every ImltlesoM has given relief in every ease. hie mnn twksix bottles, anil was cured of Kheiirn.-isni often years' standing." Abraham Hare, druggist, "lielleville, Ohio, aflirms : "The jest selling medicine I have ever handled in my twenty years' exjierience, is Electric Ititter." Thou sands of others have added their testimony, so that the verdict is unanimous that Electric Uitters do cure all diseases of the Liver, Kid neys or Blood. Only a half dollar a bottle at K. Blai knall A Son's drug store. ' Mother And do you really feel so very bad, Lobbie? liobbie Yes, ma, I ain't quite sick enough to need any medicine, but I'm a little bit too sick to go to school. Teacher In what battle was Gen eral Pdank killed? Lright Boj His last one. Social Narrowness. A physician's first question con cerning a patient regards the nature and antecedents of his disease. The social disease for which we are called upon to prescribe, is narrowness of view and sympathy. The patients are women who have had in some sorts the widest opportunity. Whence comes their narrowness? How is it shown ? How can it be remedied? Narrowness in human character appears in an uninstructed mind, and in a heart alllicted with a pov erty of feeling. The mind of which we speak may be acquainted with all received rules of conduct, and with the facts of history and of science. The deeper spirit which un derlies these rules and these facts are unknown to it. Such minds will constantly set. up the tradition and letter of law "against the spirit of right and justice, out of which all law primarily springs. They are right in their memory, wrong in (heir application ; and !y the oppo sition which they endeavor to main tain and justify between the letter and the spirit, they become the occa sion of endless confusion and mis understanding in human affairs, dreat social tragedies have sprung out oftlwse misappehnsions. Classes that, refuse to learn the logic of events .ire swept away. The world yet sees that frighl ful specter of a French revolution, with its bloody guillo tine, its lierv torch, and its irresisti- 'hi4' nryumeiit. inakimr.wild havoc of the niedheval formulas which re sisted the sweeping tide of progress We see in Russia of to-dav a form of the same murderous protest. Is it then worth while for US to bestow some study upon the social narrow ness which resists progress, since this resistance, if prolonged and exagger ated, will surely bring upon society evils whose extent cannot be meas- ured How wide, in the first ace, is an v one of us ? Each of us is born with the limitations of our own char acter,and our own interest s. The sel fish 'principle is the' most intense element in us, at the stait. It is the source of much of our power. It is inseparable from our individual ex istence. 1 have it for my business, first of all. to be myself. With the sense of self conies that of person; advantage, to 1x3 sought in wealtl distinction, amusement ; in a word, in the furtherance ot our natural in clinations and desires. Emm "c In K.rlfiul lln' StitiHtJiu's t Wniite.il In JJin Ward lining in "Wmittni jfti;, PSSN. How-Are the Mighty "Drapped. (Sliil. - illc I.atitliMiok. After the adjournment Of tl-H Democratic convention at Taylors ville, Alexander county, the Repub licans assembled without delegates and organized a convention by call ing T. A. Kerley to the chair. A short horse is soon curried and their work was soon accomplished. R. . Linney and W. G. Logic were ap pointed delegates to the State con vention, and Jere Mnitii and . Logic delegates to the congressional convention. Then the circus was L opened by R. . Linney .who was loth ringmaster and clown, and lo-day niade a complete somersault into the Republican ring. He sat upon the table, stood upon the roundsof chairs, flourished his Republican literature, cursed, swore, ripped and tore at the infamous internal revenue. Hesaid when a young lawyer he paid five dollars license tax to a revenue offi cial, but did not tell the people what party was in power when he did this. Hesaid the Democrats had been insincere for ten years (one of whom he was which). He said the Democrats bad passed it law ap pointing a sanitary committee which had more power than Queen Victoria and could force the humblest citizen to move his slop tub- a strike at the 1 1111 l i IVI medical mil oi l oui a iaisr rep resentation. He said the State paid the militia g UK) per day and furn ished them guns and uniforms. Ly this I presume he wants to return to the ante-bellum general musters and have whites and blacks to muster together. He wound up by saying the Democratic party was now the nigger party, and when he struck this part of his speech that good old honest 1 )emoc rat, Daniel Sipe, picked up his hat and walked out, saying amen ! As a political speech Mr. Linney 's was a failure and his demeanor showed it to every one present. He created no enthusiasm, but made the Democracy one hundred more workers. Many became disgusted and left. A Spring Shower. MiKS Perrault, May Wide Awake. I on the drijs come, tinkle, tinkle, Willi a sudden dash and sprinkle, Though as blue as eriwiiiklc Was the sky. "Some mysterious liokus-jMikus, . Knot-Veil above us and awoke us," fries a little yellow crocus, With a sigh. There's a roaring ! there's a clatter ! ThereV a smoky dash and spatter )f the dust, as come the patter Of the drojis. Such a drencher, such a jx-lter, Is it! yet when, helter-skelter, Everything has found a shelter, Then it stops ! Good, lint Not Quite Good ICnoiiirh. Aslicviile Sun. The drunken party who disturbed the religious services at the Taler nacle Wednesday night was taken before Mayor I lark ins yesterday morning and fined $27.75. Another man who was considerably nnder the influence of "John Barley Corn," and lay down on a bench at the Tabernacle, was fined $10b50. JENNY L1ND. Keitu'nisceiiee of the (Jreat Songstress. i 1 1' 1 1 Lc ( in lianl, "-Woman' Work." The only person I have ever met who knew .Jenny Lind in her clfild hood, was Max Lronzden, an old musician. 1 asked him to tell me of her, and the old man s furrowed face became radiant with a smile. "Remember her,"' said he ; "she has been the angel of my life, the mem ory of her voice was my salvation. Mie and 1 were alike once poor. e were young and happy. Hand in hand we used to wander in the fields and on the hills of old Sweden. She was a little bare-foot thing in a stuff lress, and I the blacksmith's son. yet I had music in my soul, and 1 worshipped her. Olten she would sing, as we wandered inrougn me sweet, cool woods, and the birds would come to listen to her song. She would trill and sing, and as I would pelt her with wild roses and butter-cups, she would laugh and ask, "Max, which was it trilledy the birds or J ?" In my infatuation I would cry, "Jenny, the birds have come to learn of you !"' The old. man bowed his head-ami was silent. At my request he con tinued his recital, but his face be came sad; and he looked old and weary. "Years passed," said he, "and she drifted from mv life, she became the idol of princes and kings, and from afar I worshipped her, as I would worship a star in yonder heaven. 1 tried to keep pace with her, but failed. I became a victim to strong drink, and with that vile passion, ambition was buried. ln IM.) was passing "Her Majesty's Theatre in Condon. I was sober enough to recognize the clear, ringing trill that had thrilled mem my boyhood days. I was oennilcss. but I swore to enter and bear that voice once more. I watched mv chance. A crowd of the ermine-clad men and women of fashion were passing in. J rushed in the throng, evaded the ticket agent and gained entrance. In a shadowed recess I crouched and lis tened. Lucia Delammore was the opera, anil she was Lucia. 1 saw her appear in the first scene joyous and happy. Every part of the char acter she portrayed with heart searching truth. Then came the climax of; her powers, her ultimate madness the crushing of the heart and mind "which produced the death scene in the last act. For a moment there was a thrilling silence, then a tempest of applause that made the house tremble. It was then 1 for got all forgot that I was a debased vagabond forgot the throng and the lights and all save that I saw the little barefoot girl ol my boy hoods idolatry a queen among men. 1 rushed forward and cried, ".h-imy, my little -Jenny, 1 told you so. 1 said that you would rule the world with that voice. Speak to me and tell me that you it-member." ."Put him out ! put him out!" shouted the multitude. . "lb- is mad, away with him.'' A.trong arm seized me, and I would have been hurled out into the d;ii'kness, but a sweet voice cried, "Spafe him and let me hear him. What is it, poor man?" 1 looked up and like a spirit of light, she stood on the stage above me. "Forgive me, madam," 1 cried. "1 was passing and heard your voice. I stole my way in. It seemed 1 had alight to listen. Once the -birds and 1 were your only auditors, and yet when 1 told you one day you would be great, you seemed glad at my praise, though 1 was only Max, the blacksmith's son." Rending over me she cried, "Max Lronzden, my first and truest friend, stand, and let this vast throng look upon you. It was he," said she, addressing the audience, who first created ambition in my heart to become great. M y stage was a litchen-covered forest log, and he showered upon me wild flowers that I prized more than 1 now prize the. jewels and rare gifts that are emblems of my triumph this night. Rise, my friend," said she to me, "and be worthy of the trust and confidence I will ever give you in all the future years. I have struggled and conquered all difficul ties. It is not too late, lie no longer a vagabond, as you say you are, but be a man worthy of my friendship." "I could scarcely speak," said the old man, but hoarsely 1 uttered, "With (Iod's help 1 will." The house had been silent as death, when it suddenly burst into tumultuous applause, and the curtain fell. I I left that place a new man, with new inspirations and courage, and in all the years since that night, nearly half a century ago, I have been-a hero and a. conqueror over sin. I have lived true to my word !" "Distance I'ipls liicliantmciit . (.Mary Iiell, May Wiile Awake Said a frowsy little blowsy little drowsy little Ikiv : "I'm too young to wor, and playing' little jy; i So I'll sit me down and wait, with what for titude: I can, Till I grow to lie a nierrv little cheerv little Man." Said a drowsy little hlowsv liule frowsv little Man: "I'm too old for play, and to work is not my plan ;1 So I'll sit me dow n and jxinder on the joys without alloy That were mine when a cheerv little merry little Iioy." Oh Hut; Free Trade Will IJiiin Any Country. Lincoln (Neb ) Democrat. In free-trade-ruined England there are $3,()00,tX0,0X) of bank deposits idjy awaiting investment, while 1U0.0U0.()U0 a year sire sent over to America to buy the securites that. the capitalist of this highly protected country can't afford fo carry. pkoima: talked about. The Loston franseritt refers to Senator Voorhee: as the tall sick-em-o'er of the War-bosh. Mr. Randall is said to be in doubt ful physical health. His political health has beenTVaiLfbr some time. Wiimiinjloii Star. Daniel Dough rtvjate of Phila- delphia, has just gate to the New been elected a dele- York Democratic by Tammany Hall, is in the grocery tate Convention! Mark Antony business ifi All inta, Ga.; Julius Ca-sar does whitewashing in Rich mond, and Cicero is a hotel runner in Memphis. Can any readi. f of the Liable trust papers douht th: t the scheme of the line is to run the Republican mac campaign of lSSK on the lines of the defeat of 1 SS 1 ? N. )'. ,Sfr. The Gresham oom seems to move along with The only di l i cii u ra gi n g stead mess. ufag'mgincident thus far is the fact that the New York Sun has made fast hh.I'hi!aIethia He ard. We do not know mat .Air. Maine ' i .i 1 . . to desires me nomination, nui wemiiiK 1 ' .1 ?L j?. l . .1".! he will get it ; nit by meddling with the chances of Other candidates, but by keening out of the scramble. Washimjtoii 7 '((.-'. Possibly Miss aVillard's idea is that . aich a temple wiill have a great moral el leet; out we dozen bronze wo would not trade a nen on top of a tem ple for one energetic and spunky live one at the head f the stairs. Omaha World. "Christiana, Queet Kegent of Spain, is soon tip niakia tour other dominion." Tl seem to be rathi r restless just at pres- int. Perhaps oil' their spring Patriot. thev want to show clothes. (ireeiislxirn In 1S72, the New York Trihnne, edited iy me very same lellow Keid, said of the Mahje demagogue:' "Mr. Llaine's record in railway matters grows darker a it is examined. That record is Inn Sltir. aek now. Wilming- Mr. Gladstone received n bonor- arum of I'M) guineas for the manu- script of his American mfig I la warden has pist essay from an azme. l lie rige ot ,rot higher pay from American perioij Heals than any other writer. A'. )'. Star, ".b osepii v 1 1 an i ocrla i ii lout v as- - - j serts that he is i-n gaged to Miss En dieott." Put the question is, is Miss Kndicott engagt d to .Joseph -Cham berlain? rhesk: matrimonial bar gains require at least two assenting parties. (ireen.-t, mm I a'riol. An esteemed that Mrs. Clev k'ontemporary states land s collection of diamonds and d ther precious stones is worth SoilKH it is neVerthi le still the brightc House hi rself- 1 hat may be, but s a fact that she is t jewel at the White Si-ranlnii Truth. It IS ill( Tesll ig to learn just at 'resident Cleveland alls are related. Mr. 'Iniother' was a Me who was the. first this time that and Senator Utd ( leveland s grai hitable Ingalls, cousin t Ilul'us Ingalls, the lather of the Senator. (! leeitxlioro I'alriol. And New .It rsey ! iew Jersey leelares for ( 'lev land and the ( 'leve- and bnu Ailministriition and tariff re- The steam fast old Democratic commonwealth still keeps her place. ller politicians sometimes waver and phlogisticate, but her people stand linn. I liaiefiiiu tieeord. .. ... .L ... . Edward V. V lentine. the Hie-b moiul sculptor, ias been invited to "er with the execu the. Jackson Monu- iCxlngton to eon tive committee ol ment Association in regard to the erection of a colossal statue toStone- wall Jackson. Tl i e cost will be about $12 UN), of which $7,XX) is in and. This will be the eighth re-election of a Pn idcnt. Mr. Cleveland will be the first, lowever, to gam that rare glory by tin works of peace, dent who has f came out of war. on horseback. plain and single Every other Presi id a second term They were all men lere'n to the man afoot ! Ouroyo deal Boston GUAie. Senator Cullom does not look for ward to any picnic for the Republi cans in the comii g Presidential cam paign, and war is them that the Solid South will e solid still. If is not often thai Cullom saysanything we can cordially commend, but when he made that remark he was shouting the gospel. Na.-Hiv.Ule. Di m xral. The Senators who voted against the confirmation ( I an ex-Confederate soldier as a Justice of the United States Supreme c urtare not if they know it going to throw doubts upon the virulence of tjieir loyjdly by ap proving the selection of a "copper head." The confirmation of Mr. Fuller willj therefore, stand over until his war record ehall have been overhauled. J'hii. Record, Dem. lilaine's friend Carnegie, and the typical -American manufacturer who is painted by prolection parasites as starving biniHelf for the benefit of American ' labor, has summoned Pinkerton's shotguns to protect him in installing Hungarian workmen in the place of those Americans who kwere fools enough to believe in Car negie s professions of disinterested love for the American tariff. Warren (Ar. J.) Journal. (ieneral Joe Johnston's election as ' a contributing member of the Grand Army may technically violate some of the rules of tha ; organization, but the spirit in which the election was for and made is - certainly most ad mirable, and we 1 relieve that it ani mates the great mass of the survi vors of the North Lrn and Southern armies. There ui little virtue in a rule which prever ts such a manifes tation of good feeling. lloxton Ad- ' Vertixer. ,
The Tobacco Plant [1872-1889] (Durham, N.C.)
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