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VOL. V. NO. 3.
1828
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EVERY YEAR.
I feel 'tis growinz colder
Every year,
And my heart, alas! ets older
Every year.
I can win no naw affection ;
I have only recollection.
Deeper sorrow and dejection,
Every year.
Of the loves and sorrows blended
Every year;
Of the joys of friendship ended
Ever year;
Of the ties that still might bind mr
Until Time to Death resigned me,
My infirmities remind ma
Every year.
Ah ! how sad to look before U3
Every year.
When tho cloud grows darker o'er U3
Every year;
When we see the blossoms faded
That to bloom wo might have aided,,
And immortal garlands braided.
Every year.
To the past go more dead faces
Every year.
As tho lored leave vacant places
Every year.
Everywhere tha sad eyes meet us;
In the evening's duskthay greet m,
And to coaie to them entreat us,
Every year.
Yes, the shores of life aro shifting
Every year;
And we are seaward drifting
Every year,
Old pleasures, changing, fret us;
The living more forget us;
There ara fewer to regret us.
Every year.
But the truer life draws uigher.
Every year;
And its morning star climbs highel
Every year.
Earth's hold on us grows slighter,
And the heavy burden lighter,
And tho Dawn immortal brighter.
Every year.
William Coivan, in Chambers's Journal,
tin
CROOKED JOE."
EY MAUY A. P. STANSBURY.
A great railway depot may not bo the
best school for a boy, yet poor little Joe
Bryan had scarcely kuown any other.
He could not remember when the long
waiting-room, with their tiled floors and
dreary rows of stationary settees, and
crowds of hurrying people, were not
quite as familiar to him and more heme
like than his mother's small, bare house,
which he knew as little more than a place
for eating and sleeping. ,
At an age when any ordinary baby
might have been frightened into convul
sions by the shriek of a locomotive, Joe-,
securely fastened in his cab, woud stare
for hours through the great window, un
disturbed by the incessant rush and roar
of arriving and departing trains.
lie had been only six months old
when the dreadful accident happened
which, at one fell stroke, made him
fatherless aud transformed him from a
strong, well-developed infant, to a piti
ful creature, which even death refused
to take.
The older yard men told the story even
yet how young Michael Bryan, as
straight and manly a fellow as ever left
his green, old, native island for the bet
ter chances of the ne;v world this side
the sea, came whist liug out of the round
house that morniug and stepped hastily
from before an incoming locomotive,
neither seeing nor hearing another rush
ing up the parallel track. His mates
cried out to him too late! Nobody
who saw it would ever forget the look
of agony which distorted his handsome
face in that one horrible instant, when
he recognized his doom, or the perpen
dicular leap into the air, from which he
fell back beneath the crunching wheels.
In the excitement and consternation of
the time no messenger had been sent in
advance to prepare the poor young wife
for her trouble, and she stood in the
doorway with her baby crowing in her
arms, when the stout bearers paused at
her gate with their mangled burden. She
uttered a terrible cry and fell fainting
the child's tender b.ick striking the sharp
edge of the door stone.
'What a pity that it was not killed
outright !"said everybody but the mother.
She herself always iusisted that only her
constant watching over the little, flick
ering life kept her from going in the
first dreadful mouths of her bereave
ment. The officers of the railway company
were kind to poor Mary Bryan. They
paid the expenses of the burial, and after
little Joe had slowly mended, employed
her about the depot to scrub the floors
and ktep the glass and woodword bright
and neat.
When Joe was seven years old his
mother sent him to school. He went pa
tiently, day after day, making no com
GOLDSBORO, N. C, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1891.
plaint, but she awoke suddenly one night
to find him sobbing his heart out on the
pillow beside her. Only by dint of
long coaxing was she able to find out the
cause of his grief. Some of the rougher
boya more thoughtless than cruel, let
us hope had called him "Humpy," and
asked if he carried a bag of meal on his
back.
Mary flamed with the fierce anger ol
motherhood.
"You shan't go another day!" she de
clared. "The rullians! I won't have
my darlia' put upon by tho like? of
them!"
So Joe's schooling had come to an un
timely end. Yet, meagre as was bis stock
of book learning, the development ol
his mind far outstripped the growth of
his stunted and deformed body. Every
body liked the patient little fellow, tug
ging manfully at his mother's hear1;
water buckets and running willingly at
every call of the station men. At twelve
ycara old he had picked up no small
imount of information, especially oa
railroad topics. lie knew every locomo
tive oa the road, understood the intri-
acies of sidetracks and switches,
and could tell the. precise mo
ment when any particular train might be
expected with the accuracy of a time
table.
Yet the very quickness and ardor of
his nature deepened his sense of his in
firmity. The glances cast upon him by
stranger-eyes, some pitiful, some curious,
others, alas! expressive only of annoy
ances or disgust, rankled like so many
arrows in his heart; not one missed its
mark. How wistfully his eyes followed
boys of his own age straight, hand
some, happy who sprang lightly up and
down the steps of the coaches, or
threaded their way along the crowded
platforms. For one day of such perfect,
untrammelled life he would have bar
tered all the possible years before him.
Yet he never put his yearning into
words, even to his mother.
"Crooked Joe's a rum ?uu," said one
of his rough acquaintances. "Ho senses
his trouble well enough, but he don't let
on to nobody."
Mr. Crump, the telegraph operator,
was Joe's constant friend. It was he
who, at odd moments had taught the
boy to road, and had initiated him into
some of the mysteries of the clicking in
strument which to Joe's imaginative
mind seemed some strange creature with
a hidden life of its own.
It was growing toward dark one No
vember afternoon. Joe never tut un
welcome visitor sat curled in a corner
of Mr. Crump's office, waiting for his
mother to finish her work, lie was la
boriously spelling out, by the fading
light, the words upon a page of an illus
tiated newspaper, quite oblivious of the
ticking, like that of a very jerky and
rheumatic clock, which sounded in the
room.
Mr. Crump, too, had a paper before
him, but his cars were alive. Suddenly
he sprang to his feet, repeating aloud the
message which that moment flashed
alone: the wire.
" 'Engine No. 110 running wild.
Clear track.' "
He rushed to the door, shouting the
news.
"Not a second to spare! She'll be
down in seven miuutes?"
The words passed like lightning. In
a moment the yard was in a Wild com
motion. Meu flew hither and thither,
yard engines steamed wildly away, the
switches closing behind them.
The main track was barely cleared
when 110 came in sight,, swaying from
side to side, her wheels threatening to
leave the track at each revolution. She
passed the depot like a meteor, her bell
clanging with every leap of the piston,
the steam escaping from her whistle with
the continuous shriek of a demon, and
the occupants of the cab wrapped from
view in a cloud of smoke.
Some hundred rods beyond the depot
the track took a sharp upward grade,
from which it descended again to strike
the bridge across a narrow but deep and
rocky gorge.
Men looked after the living locomo
tive, aud then at each other with
blanched faces.
"They're gone! A miracle can't save
'em," said one, voicing the wordless ter
ror of the rest. "If they don't fly the
track on the up-grade they'll go down us
soon as they strike the trestle."
The crowd began to ruu along the
track, some with a vain instinct of help
fulness, some moved by that morbid
curiosity which seeks O bi "in at she
death." '
But look! Mid-way the long rise the
speed of the runaway engine suddenly
slackens.
"What does it mean? She never
could V died out in that time!" shouted
an old yardman.
Excitement winged their feet. When
the foremost runner3 reached the place
the smoking engine stood still on her
track, quivering in every steel-clad
nerve, her great wheels still whizzing
round and round amid a flight of red
sparks from beneath.
"What did it? What stopped her?"
The engineer, staggering from the cab
with the pallid face of the fireman behind
him, pointed, without speaking, to where
a Iittlo pale-l ced, crooked-backed boy
had sunk down, panting with exertion,
beside the track. At his feet a huge oil
can lay overturned and empty.
The crowd, stared, one at another,open
mouthed. Then the truth flashed upon
them.
"He oiled the track!"
"Buliy for Crooked Joe!"
They caught up the exhausted child,
flinging him from shoulder to shoulder,
striving with each other for the honor
of bearing him, and so, in irregular,
tumultuous, triumphal procession they
brought him back to the depot and set
him down among them.
"Pass the hat, pards!" cried one.
It had been pay-day, and the saved
engineer and fireman dropped in each
their month's wages. Not a hand in all
the throng that did not delve into a
pocket. There was the crisp rustle of
bills, the chink of gold aud silver coin.
"Out with your handkerchief, Joe'
your hands won't hold it all! Why,
young one What? what's the mat
ter r
For the boy with scarlet cheeks aud
burning eyes, had clenched both small
hands behind his back the poor twisted
back laden with its burden of deformity
and pain.
"No! no!" he cried in a shrill, high
voice. "Don't pay me! Can't you set
what it's worth to me, once just once
in my life to be a little use- liku ot her
folks?"
The superintendent had come from his
office. lie laid his hand on the boy's
head.
"Joe," he said, "we couldn't pay
you if we wished. Money doesn't pay
for lives! But you have saved us t
great many dollars beside?. Won't you
kt us do something for you.'"
"You can't! You can't! Nobody can
The child's voice was almost a shriek.
It seemed to read the air with the pent
up agony of years. "There's only one
thing in the world I want, and nobody
can give me that. Nobody can ever
make me anything but 'Crooked Joe!' "
The superintendent lifted him an i
held him against his own breast.
"My boy,'' he said in his firm, gentle
tones, "you are right. None of us cas
do that for you. Hut you can do it
yourself. Listen to. me! Where is th-.-uuick
brain God gave you and tha bravj
heart Not in that bent back of youri?
that has nothing to do with them! Let
us help you to a chance only a chance to
work and to learn and it will rest with
you, yourself, to say whether in twenty
years from now, if you are alive, if you
are 'Crooked Joe' or Mr. Joseph
Bryan !' "
Visiting in C not long ago a friend
said to me :
"Coutt is in session. You must go
with me aud hear Bryau."
The court-room was already crowded
at our entrance with an expectant au
dience. When the brilliant young at
torney rose to make his plea I noticed,
with a shock of surprise, that his noble
head surmounted an under-sized and
misshapen body. He had spoken but
rive minutes, however, when I had ut
terly forgotten the physical defect; in
ten, I was eagerly interested, and there
after, during the two hours' speech, held
spell-bound by the marvelous eloquence
which is fast raising him to the leader
ship of his profession in hi native city.
"A wonderful man!" said my friend,
as we walked slowly homewarj. Then
he told me the story of "Crooked Jo.'.''
St. Louis HepubHc
Artificial Almonds.
The manufacture of artificial almonds
has for some time been carried on at
Utrecht in Holland. They are made of
glucose and perfumed with nitrobenzule,
which smells remarkably like almonds.
They are perfectly innocuous in them
selves, but it is said that they are now
largely sold mixed with real almonds,
from which it is not easy to distinguish
them. Commcrci d A Jcertiier.
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
MANIA FOP. non-TAir. nORSES
The mania for bob-tail horses is a
silly on?, and illustrates most forcibly
the power of example on weak minds
when it comes from the rich and titled.
The clipped tail is a ( rue! deformity, aud
yet is adopted by its devotees m the
same spirit that Swi3 Alpiue peasants
regard the horrid goitre that adorns so
many necks. And yet these American
families that follow this horrid fashion
consider themselves as possessing superb
tastes. Massachusetts Ploicman.
tillADrXtf EGOS KOK MARKET.
Extras, firsts, seconds, thirds and
known marks comprise the classification
f eo'i decided upon by the Boston
Chamber of Commerce. Extras comprise
the best qualities, fresh-laid clean eggs
in season, put up in the best manner.
Firsts comprise fine marks of eggs, such
as come in carload lots, or smaller lots,
and are packed in fine order, fre3h in
season and reasonably clean, such stock
as gives satisfaction to most consumers.
Seconds comprise all stock that is mer
cantable and inferior to firsts. Thirds
comprise all poor stock in bad order,
rotten, etc.; stock not considered really
merchantable. Known marks comprise
such sorts that are well known to the
trade under some particular designation
or mark, of such quality as those familiar
with the mark generally understand it
to be in the season in which it is offered.
Extra to pass at tho mark must not lose
to exceed one dozen per 100 dozen. aud
firsts not more than two dozen per 100
dozen, or one and tt half dozen per bar
rel, if sold in barrels.
liEES HIVING THEMSELVES.
Whoever has kept bees has counted a?
chief among the difficulties in the busi
ness that of making them take to their
new homes naturally. After most per
sistent efforts and often pain from bee
stings the swarm will often fly away to
some hollow tree aud be I03I. A New
York man is said to have invented a
self-hiver. When the swarm leaves the
hive it is arranged so that it must pass
through perforated zinc cages with holes
large enough to pass the workers but
not the queen or drones. The cage is
connected with apassago to an empty
hive near the one from which the swarm
issues, and into which the queen bee
soon makes her way, accompanied by a
few workers who never leave her. When
the swarm finds it has no queen it re
turns and makes its way readily into the
new hive, and the job is done, while the
first knowledge the bee keeper has of
the swarm is seeing it at work in its new
home. The self-hiver can be easily at
tached to different hives in succession,
as they are found to be on the eve of
s wa r mi u g. Bj;.tfi Cu H tea (or.
GUOWINO CA1IKAGM.
Cabbage is so easily raised, avers a
New Jersey farmer, that' no vegetable
garden should be without at least enough
for the family use. As a cooked veg
etable it is very generally used, and in
winter and spring a heal of crisp, raw
cabbage is to many persons as good as
celery. Cabbage make3 its growth so
late in the fall that it can often be
planted after early potatoes have been
harvested. I have also raised it between
the potato rows without any injury to
potatoes or cabbage so far as I can dis
cover. By making the potato rows
slightly wider apart than usual I can see
no objection to setting a row of cabbage
plants between them where one has not
hr ground to spare elsewhere. The
potatoes will bj harvested ;.nd out of
the way by the time the cabbage is halt
crown, if the late varieties are the one
transplanted. E?ery farmer should raise
his own cabbage plants, and there is no
good reason why any person who has a
garden should depend on buying thm.
A little seed sown on a few square feet
of good soil will not only give all the
plants wanted, but they will be on hand at
the exact time when they are wanted, and
can bo transplanted at one; with but lit
tle check to their gowth if done imme
diately after a rain. In the neighbor
hood of towns cabbage can b2 sold in
considerable amounts, so that it may be
made profitable to give more attention to
its cultivation thin it commonly receives.
Then persons who rke fowk in runs of
limited spacj should raise enough of this
vegetable to be given them for green
food when they cannot obtain a supply
from glass by running at large. Ne e
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FAUM AND GAKD&N NOTES.
Apple blight is u fungus disease; rapid
Subscription, 81.00 per Year.
growth and wet weather good develop
ers. The Ohio grapo v.d'l stand more rough
usuage and give the most fruit.
Save for seed the best developed ears
of corn on stalks bearing two or more.
If Parker Earlo ha? foliage enough it
will be the best berry for genetal plant
ing. If your stock in the "back lot" are
dependent upon a small stream or the
"sleuth" for water, keep a look out that
their dependence d:es not fail.
It is better to cut the black knots out
of cherry tree? and burn them rather
than t ) apply kerosene, as some recom
mend. Bidly infested trcs should bo
cut down bo 'ily and the knot? burned.
Pansy see l .r spring flowering in tho
open border nvy now be sown. Young
plant? can be kept through winter in a
cold frame, and old ones will winter
with a ught protection of evergreen
boughs in the north.
nign-t. To colts a smaller quantity must I
b given. -
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.
A young lady of Georgetown ha? dis
covered a way to make use of the old
white straw hats after they have been
cast aside. Take a bottle of pretty
bright gilt paint, give the hat two or
thr-e coats; let it get perfectly dry and
trim in black rose pleating or any color
to -;uit wearei.
The following will be found a wcl
While young pig? may not derive much
benefit from pastures except through the
exercise and contact with the soil, when
the weather is suitable it is the safest
place to ket -; them, a- old pens with
tm-ir unhealthy surroundings and bad
atmosphere are particularly injurious.
CoppciMS and gentian together form
;ui eve;!''!it twiiir for horses. Mix four
ounces of cie'i thoroughly in the pow
deied state; keep the mixture, tightly
shut up in a box or bottle and give a
tahiespooufu! cf it in the horses' feed at
come change from meat soup3: Three
pints of milk, twelve large potatoes, a
tablespoonful of butter, two onions, salt
and pepper to taste. Let all simmer, not
boil, for two hours; then rub through a
fine hair sieve. Serve with nicely
browned toast rut in bits the size of
lice.
When meat is to be boiled be sure and
put it into boiling water to start with,
as that closes the pores instantly and
keeps the goodness in the meat. When
boiling it for soup or bouillion put it in
to cold water ami brins it to a boilintr
heat a? slowly a? possible, lor in this
case the object is to extract the strength
and goodness from the meat instead of
keeping it in.
In the cue of the hair it is important
to brush it thoroughly on the "wrong
side." For instance, when the hair is
worn rolled back from the face it should
be parted and brushed, and if the coif
fure is low the hair should be combed up
aud also well brushed. Atteution to this
seemingly trifling detail, and to having
the scalp massage daily, will insur'
young, blight hair to elderly people.
Tho magnitude of the Chautauqua
movement i? illustrated, remarks th;
New York Commercial AJctriit'r, by the
fact that the entering class, which 'k to
pursue a three years' course, contnus tlis
name3 cf 1.1,000 student?.
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