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GREENSBORO, N. C:
Entered at the Post-Office at Greensboro, N. C. as
' second class mail matter.
By J. S. Hampton.
SATURDAY,..; APRIL, 9, 1887,
"The result of wars generally
depends quite as much upon di
plomacy as arms upon the proper
use of the pen as of the sword.
There is a time for each. So says
Alexander H. Stephens, in his
History of the United States.
It is said that Ex-Senator Ben
Harrison, of Indiana, has settled
down quietly, to the practice of
law in Indianapolis. He is said to
be one of the best lawyers in the
Western country, and has already
accepted retainers enough to
keep him employed until the au
tumn. Mr. Harrison's friends say
he is not out of politics, notwith
standing his recent defeat for the
senatorship. He will be a candi
date for the presidency in 1888,
and the Indiana delegation will
enter the next convention solidly
in his favor.
The Appalachian Philosopher
says that four counties of three
States corner at a tree on Pond
Mountain, at the northwestern
corner o'f Ashe county, namely
this county ; Johnson county,
Tenn. ; Grayson county, Va., and
Washington "county, Va. Three
counties corner on Virginia, Ken
tucky and Tennesse, at Cumber
land Gap, and our correspondent,
"Old Man," says that a stone
monument 2 and a half feet high
is erected right there, over wjiich
he once stopped, rested his breast
upon it, and while he stood in
Tennessee he placed his right
hand on Virginia and his left on
Kentucky soil.
"MY LADS, BE HONEST."
Dr. Livingstone, the famous ex
plorer, Was descended from the
Highlanders, and he said that one
of his ancestors one day called
his family around him. He was
dying and had all his children
around his death-bed. He said :
"Now, lads, I have' looked all
through our history as' far back as
I can find it, and I have, never
found a dishonest man In all the
line, and I want you to under
stand that you inherit good blood.
You have no excuse for doing
wrong. Be honest"
Horace Greeley once said : The
r darkest hour in the history of any
young man is when he sits down
, to study how to get money With
out honestly earning it.
What an heritage honesty is.
There are people who believe in
blood. Their theory is that low
lived parents transmit their qual
ties to their descendants, and
high-toned, well-bred people do
the same. Of course there are ex
ceptions to all general rules, but
the rule holds good, as a whole.
And this we call heredity. We
inherit our progenitors' property,
but a good name is more valua
ble than gold, or silver, or cattle
upon a thousand hills. Oh ! young
man, be honest ! young, woman,
be honest and just to yourself, and
yu will be honest and just to
wards your neighbor, and above
all to your Creator.
Texas is building a State House
to cost $5,000,000. Its furniture is
to cost $100,000. It is imitating
the extravagance of New York
State. Exchange.
The Charlotte Home-Democrat
remarks : -" ...
While the State of Texas is
spending so much money foolish
ly, many of .her citizens are starv
ing to death for bread. Read the
following telegaam from Austin,
Texas: . . ..
State Senator Woodward, of
Calhoun cpunty, - has received a
statement from Atascasa county,
sworn to by four respectable citi
22ns and endorsed by the (Jour--ty
Juc3ge, Sheriff and County
Clerk, giving the names oi nine
teen families of that county, whom
.the affiants declare are in a con
dition of starvation occasioned bv
It is lamentable that the nrr.
pie of a , portion of Western Tex
as are starving. ;, They arc, and
4. t- 7 . - .
cy. cea neip. in 1548. when
the people of Ireland were expe
riencing a. terrible famine they
were fed and clothed by volunta
ry Contributions made by the peo
ple of the United Sta.tes, Ships
loaded with grain, clothing, gro
ceries and other comforts of life,
left our shores from Charleston to
Bangor, Maine, laden with goods
solely for the starving people of
Ireland. We wish our people,
again from Bangor to Charleston,
Tallahassee New Orleans, and
all the inland country, could be
aroused to relieve the wants of
these few thousands of people in
Western Texas.
The extravagant appropriation
for a State House was made when
there was plenty in all the Em
pire of Texas, and when no such
a calamity was foreseen. If such a
calamity should overtake any oth
er portion of our country there
are . railroads and water courses
quickly - to convey the sufferers
food and money for their relief.
And, in the future, it does seem
to us that such calamities mav be
avoided in great measure.
How ''Curfew' "Was Written.
Of the hundreds of residents of
the city of San Antonio, Texas,
says the Brooklyn Magazine, on
ly a few who meet a tall, slender
lady, with raven brown eyes and
hair, with a singular attractive
ness in her face know that she is
Mrs. v Rose Hart wick Thorpe,
whose famous poem, "Curfew
Must not Ring To-Night," has
given her a reputation in both
hemispheres. How, at the early
age of sixteen years, the young
country girl was led to write this
poem, now so widely known, is
thus narrated as furnished by her
personally for this publication.
The poem was suggested to me
by the reading of a story, Love
and Loyalty, in April, 1867. I
was then a plain, country-school
girl,'not yet 17, residing with my
parents at Litchfield, Mich., and
under the pretext of working out
mathematical problems, with my
arithmetic before me, I wrote the
poem roughly on the slate. I was
forced to carry out my literary
work under these difficulties be
cause of the opinion of my pa
rents, that my time could be bet
ter employed than in idle Yearns
and useless rhymes. I wrote the
first copy on my slate between
four and six o'clock in the after
noon, but 'much time has since
been spent in revising and cor
recting it. I had no thought that
I would ever be able to write any
thing w;orthy of public notice.
The poem was firsf published in
the Detroit Commercial Advertis
er in the fall of 1870. The editor,
upon receipt of my manuscript, at
once wrote me a lengthy letter of
praise and congratulation, in
which he predicted the populari
ty for the verses which they have
since received. I had Ho literary
mends, not even a literary ac
quaintance at that time, and did
not know the. simplest require
ments for preparing my manu
script for publication. The poem
at orice attracted popular atten
tion and bestowed upon its young
author a reputation which 'each
succeeding year enlarged. Al
though it has been published in
innumerable forms and different
books and collections, and has
been translated into the French,
German and other languages, the
poem has never brought its au
thor any financial remuneration,
as is often the case.
It raised me, writes Mrs.
Thorpe, from a shy, obscure coun
try girl into public notice, and it
brings to my side yearly, hosts of
new. and delightful friends. Wher
ever I go my friends : are there
before me, and the poem, which
I gave to the public with no right
reserved, '-while it has made for
tunes for others, and dropped
golden coins in other pockets, has
reserved for its author admiring
friends. ' .
Mrs. Thorpe spends her.sum
mers in her' native clime' of Mich
igan, .where .'., she yearly recuper
ates from the effects of a Texan
winter. The authoress is now 36
years .old, frappjjy married, and is
enabled to quietly &nly the love
and resbect of her neighbors and
friends, , while her literary admi
rers are legion.
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