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It a-.-ts uiivetlv on the Liver, Kidn.-ys and l.vl.- and L'ives n;'.- life to th.j whoh; .sv.--t.-iri. This is tL" iin-dieine v.-u want. HoM hv :.!1 J n!iri.-tV in Liquid, or in I'owd.-r to 1-.: taken dry or ma le into a t o li-F.VKRY PS.CKV;!': i Ifaa tl, 'A Minor.. ii r"f! on t : i, ;,-n r. J. n. .kii.i : . '..-.,..:. i'i THIS IS OUR SIDE of it we claim to have the best Ftoek of seasonal ile goods in town, ami at prices that will please you and your poeketbook. And we are confident that investigation wiH cause your view to coincide with curs. Will you look? We carry a complete stock of every thing in STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES. Canned (loods", Confectioneries, J-'oreign and Domestic Fruits, Cheese, Crackers, Cakes, 1 'utter, Kggs, Green Groceries, c. Particular attention to family trade. Lowest prices. flr Large lot ..f ROYSTKk'S CAM)Y left over from Christinas. Will sell at cents a pound just what it cost at wholesale, ('all early. Next to W. S. l'aiker iV Co. W. H. WESTER & BRO. HUMPHREYS' Ir. lliinilir-)' riee iUfa arv si icntifli ally and run-fully jirtpaivd Kemt-illis, nscil for jtnrs In private praotii-" and for over thirty years ly the IH-oplf witli entire sueeess. Every sini;!" Sj.ecillc a sH-eial eure for Uie .liseae named. They eure without illumine, purring or reilin-iiit? the system and are in lart and deed the Hoterriaii llriiu-tlit-tr. f t lift? orltl. ikm. ru:.K. 1 Fevers, Congestions, Inflammations. . .'ir, ti-WnrniN) Worm Fever. Worm Coiie 'i5 3 Teelhiiitf ; Colie, Crying, Watt-fulness ,5 4- liiirrlien, of children or Adults ti5 7-CoueIis Colds, liroiithitis Vl.5 JS -Neuralgia, Toothache, Faeeaehe i5 ) lleiilurhf, .Sick Headache, Vertigo.. .'25 O Oypepia. Piliousnesa. Constlpatiou. ,'J5 1 1 Supurt'Mfcfil orl'ninful I'rrioda... .5 J'J -W hitc. Too 1'iofuse 1'eriods ,'!i I J -('roup, l.nry ileitis. Hoarseness !i5 11 Salt Kheum, ErysiK'las, Eruptions. . .25 13 Kheniiiiiii-oii. Kheumatic Cains 5 tti-.Malariu. Chills, Fever and Ague 25 19-l'alarrh. Influenza, Cold In the Head. .25 20 Whooping Cough 25 27 Kidney IH-.en-.es 25 2-Nrvous Debility 1.00 30 Iriuary W euknex .25 3 I -Sore Til ron I, Vuiney. Ulcerated Throat .25 lll'MPII KEYS' WITCH HAZEL OIL, " The I'ile ttinlment. "-Trial Sir, 25 C'ts. t-y li t:i;:t!', or 8i-ni pre-mid on receipt f price. PR. l.rVFKHK.W MaNI'AI. 14, .;tS. MAlI.Et. RKS. Ill ni'lli;iaS'31KD.lO., Ill IlinUUam St., MiW vokk. SPECIFICS. KeiiKMiiber ynu c;ui zc.t :s gtxnl work, at as reastmaMo ji ices, Crow & Marston's Carriage f Wagon Works HKXDKltsUX. X. C, As sitiy whi le. No matter whether you want a vehicle nui.te out ami out. or want repairiiii; tloue, we are prepared toaccom moelate you on shot t notice ami in the most workmanlike ami satisfactory manner. Having thoroughly fitted up our shops with all necessary tools ami implements, and employing orlv the bet workmen, we are better prepared than ever to supply Car riages, ISuuixies, Wagons, Carts, A:c., at lowest prices. We make a specialty of manufacturing the celebrated Alliance Wagon, one of the best wagons sold. It cannot be excelled. We are prepared to do all kinds ji hoik wiiii neatness ami uispaicn, ana B.ake a specialty of carriage painting, REPAIRING AND HORSESHOEING, Thankful for past patronage, we hope by j.o.m oik ami strict attention to business to merit a continuance of the same. Verv Respectful lv. CROW & MARSTON, Jan. 24-1 c. Henderson, C. THIS PA PPT? marl found on file at Gett t ,'i ? ag But3aii 10 Spruce ijcl where ad vertisina Ml Parara Hoi Memnes! PLVSANDPOTATOES. MONEY IN RAISING THESE CROPS FOR SEED. J1 wo Promising Lines of Effort for Southern FarmersNorth Caro lina Grown Potatoes Shipped to Michigan for Planting Wide spread Interest Among North ern Agriculturists in the Field or Cow-pea for a Green Manure --Their Great Value as an Im prover of the Soil, &c. Prof. W. F. Massey in Progressive South. J Repeated experiments have demon strated the fact that late crop Irish potatoes, as rown in South, not only furnish the best seed for planting for the early crop at home, but Northern market gardeners are realizing that they are superior for early crops in the North. Many gardeners near the Northern cities now buy Southern grown potatoes regularly for planting, and find them better for this purpose than those from the far North. Dur ing the winter potatoes have been shipped from North Carolina as far North as Michigan for planting this spring. This is a complete reversal of the old practice, when Southern growers thought it essential to get Northern grown seed for planting, and in recent years all the dealers in Northern seed potatoes report an im mense falling off in their trade South ward. The success attending the use of our late crop of potatoes for seed opens up a new line of effort for our South ern farmers, which they should not be slow to take advantage of, as the de mand for these potatoes is beginning and will extend as their superiority becomes known in other sections. This late potato crop is also advanta geous in another respect, because ihe best preparation for them is a crop of cow-peas mown for hay in August, and the stubble at once prepared for the potato crop. Thus we get a valuable forage crop and at the same time im prove the land for the potatoes, and leave the soil in the best condition for cotton the following year. Another crop which is becoming of increased importance is the Southern field or cow-pea. There is a wide spread interest in this plant at the North for a green manure crop. Far mers away up on the great lakes have tried them, and report favorably. Only this week we had a letter from a large farmer in Northern Illinois ask ing at what price he could buy here 100 or more bushels of seed peas. He stated that he had tried them there for two years and finds them very valuable for cow hay and for pasture, and as a soil improver equal to clover. Hut in that latitude, farmers must de pend upon the South for seed since the crop fails to ripen seed there. In experiments made last year at Cornell (N. Y.) Experiment Station two or three varieties of these peas from North Carolina ripened seed, while those from Louisiana failed to ripen. The New York farmers are therefore advised to get seed from the Northern belt of the South. Few if any of these peas will ripen upon the shores of Lake Erie and westward, yet in this region dairymen are finding them of great value for feed and as a means of manuring their hard, clayey soil and adding needed fertility. Our own farmers are appreciating their value for improvement more and more every year. A leading farmer in one of our Piedmont counties of North Carolina told me some time ago that formerly several car loads of peas were shipped to Louisiana every spring, but now, while many more are being grown there, not so many are shipped, because the home demand is such that it pays better to sell at home. The sugar planters of Louisiana are large buyers of peas for geen manuring on their sugar lands. At the prices these peas sell for seed it ought fo pay well to grow and cultivate them in rows especially for seed. With our efficient machines for growing the crop and more rapid methods of threshing arid cleaning, this crop ought to pay well. One of our wide awake farmers in Eastern North Carolina advertised the seed for sale in the Northern papers last spring, and will be on hand again this season with a big crop. Those who grow lor .Northern planting should plant only the black and the clay peas, since these have been shown to be best for the North. Hundreds of bushels of these peas were shipped North from Raleigh last spring, and from all over the North we get reports testifying to their value. The demand for the seed is sure to increase there and at home. There is not a tenth, no not a hundreth part of peas sown in the South that should be sown. But our farmers are fast waking up to their value. It is one great advantage that just in those sections where clover will not thrive the field pea is most at home. No farmer in the coast plain of the South has any reason to regret that clover does hot thrive in his soil and climate, for the Southern pea will do for him more than clover does for the Northern farmer and do it in halt the time. Aside from their great value as a soil improver, and aside from the profit that may be made by growing these peas for seed, they have another and special value as the cheap est and best of hog pastures, and they furnish material for hay and ensilage that has no superior as forage for milch cows. Edgecombe county, N. C, once devoted exclusively to cotton, and buying all supplies North, now produces as fine butter as is made ' in the best dairy districts, solely be- cause of th: enterprise of Governor Carr in advocating ensilage feeding there. Edgecombe now makes most, if not all, of its butter supply, and of a gut edge standard. Northern farmers are rapidly calling for our seed potatoes and cow peas, and it behooves our growers to bestir themselves to meet the demand and at the same time improve their land in doing it. fARISE MY SOUL. Arise, my soul ! nor dream the hours Of life away ; Arise ! and do thy being's work While yet His day. The doer, not the dreamer, breaks The baleful spell. Which binds with iron hand the earth On which we dwell. Up, soul ! or war, with fiery feet, Will tread down men ; Up ! or his bloody hands will reap The earth again. Oh, dreamer, wake !your brother man is still a slave ; And thousands go heart-crushed this morn Unto the grave. The brow of wrong is laurel-crowned, Not girt with shame ; And love and truth and right as yet Are but a name. BUSINESS IN FARMING, Richmond Progressive South. Those who would achieve something beyond a mere existence through agriculture must systematize the work. They must know the cost of production of their several crops, and when the selling price does not afford a satis factory margin, such products should be dropped and others substituted that would pay. Farming is a peculiar avocation. It is generally charged with being unprofitable as a business, yet thousands manage to make a living without incurring debts beyond their ability to pay. One man will cultivate a field of corn and claim to realize a good profit, while another says he can buy corn cheaper than he can produce it. We have known men who thought twenty-five bushels of corn to the acre raised at a loss ; others who believed that a yield of only fifteen bushels could be made with profit. Each class being sincere in the belief, shows that something is wrong. The same is true with other crops. Now the probability is that these statements are mere surmises, because very few farmers have even an approximately correct idea of the cost of production. In 1880 we raised a crop of corn that averaged eight and one-half barrels (42 r bushels) to the acre. The cost delivered in the barn, including pull ing blade fodder, was less than one dollar a barrel, exclusive of rent. No fertilizer was used on the corn, but a light dressing of bone (200 pounds to the acre) had been applied to the pre ceding crop of wheat. As the corn sold brought an average of four dollars per barrel, the profit is apparent. Thorough cultivation with improved appliances would probably reduce the cost for the same yield. By reducing the average it is possible to increase the yield per acre of any crop. By keeping a rough account the farmer is enabled to know just what he can raise and whether or not it pays. Another important matter is that of capital. Too many are imbued with the idea that a team, plow and muscle are the only requisites to commence farming outside of the land. But this is a serious mistake. To farm success fully in competition with present day methods ihe man must work with his head as well as his hands, and must invest his means judiciously. The man who attempts to farm extensively on limited capital is almost certain to arrive at unsatisfactory results. There is a fascination in cultivating large areas that it is hard to tear loose from, but it is the salvation of the Southern farmers to throw off the shackles ; it is comparatively easy for the young man to do so. It is not how many acres are cultivated, but how much profit is realized that make; the successful farmer. By studious application and judicious management of labor and money it is possible to obtain a good living from a small farm and increases its productiveness and value from year to year. It is the neglect of this prin ciple that has lurnished the South with so many worn out and abandoned farms, which in return have placed their owners in the unenviable position of being land poor. Ereekiuridgfe Should be Retired. Warrenton Record. Whatever may be the finding of the court in the Pollard-Breckinridgecase, one thing is pretty sure to follow, and that is the relegation of the Congress man to private life. We think the time has come when the purity of a man's life should be considered, in determining his fitness to occupy positions of honor and trust, as well asj mental brilliancy. We have, as a people, been too careless about this matter and have sent too many men to Congress, who have left their wives and children at home and contributed the bulk of their salaries to supporting the brothels and gambling saloons of Washington. It is time for reform in this matter. Such men are unfit to represent a virtuous and Christian constituency, and. more than that, such men-men untrue to their own wives can not be trusted with look ing after the welfare of the people they represent, or maintaining the honor of the country. Tried and true is the verdict of people who take Hood's Sarsaparilla. The good effects ot this medicine are soon felt in nerve strength restored, appetite created and health given. , ' Hood's pills do not weaken, but aid 1 digestion and tone the stomaeh. Try them. DISMAL SWAMP. BRIEF HISTORY OF ITS EARLY DAYS. Lake Drummond and the Locality Made Famous by Tom Moore's Beautiful Poem An Interest ing Description of This Weird, and. Picturesque Region of Which Little is Known to the Outside World. The President's recent hunting ex pedition along the coast of North Carolina has awakened new interest in that region, the most notable feature of which is the great Dismal Swamp. This vast morass is called a paradise for huntsmen. In the Library of Congress is a copy of a unique report of a partial survey made of this swamp in 1725, by Col. William Byrd of Westover, Virginia. The original of this repoit was sent to George III with a petition signed by a number of Vir ginia planters, asking the King to give them permission to drain the swamp and to give them the reclaimed land which was to be free from taxes for ten years. Col. Byrd gives a terrible descrip tion of the place to the King. He wrote that all sorts of wild beasts roamed at will through it and that members of his exploring party often sank to their waists and necks in the boggy soil. He said " the unwhole some damps made it necessary to take along plenty of that " best con soler in life, rum," which they did. He wrote that when he got to the North Carolina line he found the "laziest lot of men" he ever saw, " that they made their wives get up and make the fire for them every morning And they snored in the bed until the sun was one third of the way across the Heavens," etc., all of which prompts me to write that I hope he had too much of his "best consoler" abroad. Later, the eminent geologist, Sir Charles Lyell of England, came over and gave a very different ac count. He measured the swamp. He found it to be forty-five miles in extent. He visited Lake Drummond which he found was seven by five miles in extent and one of the most beautiful lakes he had ever seen. He describes the tall forests of cypresses and juniper with their fairy like draperies of silver grey moss, most charmingly. Lord Lyell also found out the most peculiar thing about the Great Dismal, viz : it is twelve feet higher than the firm outlying country. The altitude is most at the centre. There are manv romantic Indian legends connected within this swamp. When the poet, Thomas Moore, was in this country he visited this mysterious and beautiful marsh, heard the story ol the Indian girl and her crazy lover, and wrote the popular poem which embodied the legend. Many people who live near believe Lake Drummond is a rendezvous for the ghosts which are supposed to haunt the swamp. This superstition arose from the number of ignes fatuvs which are really seen every night in almost every part of the Dismal Swamp. The negroes are especially afraid of this extensive bog, and partly for this reason, the place abounds with opossums, coons, rabbits, squirrels, and all sorts of small game, with an occasional deer or bear. It is useless to tell them the flitting mysterious lights .1 .. u. 1 u.cy xc ai nigni are uurning gases which rise from the tens and ... . . marshes. They would not believe it. I have tried to convince them of this and the result pitying reproof;. for my scepticism. They have my scepticism. They have all heard the story of the Indian hunter and his lady love who are supposed to cross Lake Drummond at midnight in a " white canoe" and the myriads of the will o' the wisps who escort them. The "white canoe" they claim to have seen at midnight on the bosom of the dark lake was perhaps a flock of white swan, birds which with wild ducks and turkeys and marsh hens are r - . . i - . 1 1 . .Ulmui,.5u1.iiu,u.1,mu,u,u,a,uj. manufacturing, or as a place ol resi I recall a picture, of the Dismal dence or of its educational facilities. Swamp I once enjoyed. It was in ; Whatever it has good tell the world August and I was riding through part about it . and not onl tell it through of it skirting Lake Drummond. A ' the newspapers, but tell it in private glowing sunset was fading into a hot ; conversation, tell it in your business moonless twilight j no breeze stirred ieUerSj teU u in condensed circulars the gossamer tendrils of the graceful that can send out m every leUer moss or dark glistening leaves of the hat u tQ outside people tell cypress trees. tne DiacK water was as suent ana motionless as if a magician's spell resteu where tne crestea ripples should have been. Its surface reflected a few stars which shone out of the murky ( liquid with as sinister ana uncertain a ! gleam as if every one was a baneful As to Senator Ransom, if it be the and ill omened Algol. And air was duty of the Democratic press to keep heavy with the odors of the yellow j silent when the party's will has been jessamine, the mimosa, the magnolia ' defied by one of its servants, as it has and aroma of countless shrubs which been by him, then we have misinter grow in profusion in the dark rich J preted the obligation which a party soil. It seemed like a vast cathedral i newspaper owes to the party. That ... . . . r .... ij .1 r 1 . in which restless spirits ot evil might wnrxshin Th incense from " censers l'he incense from swuns by unseen hands bore per fumes too heavy for the nostrils cf healthy mortals. The twilight deepened. Through the aisles ot the lorest and massive trunks of the cypress and juniper trees looked like columns of duncolored marble, arched with a dome of dark foliage, frescoed with a delicate tracery of pale grey moss through which not a star or fleck of blue sky shone. Adown these dusky aisles balls of fire would flash and fade as if the will o' the wisp had employed a band of impish acolytes to light hundreds of uncertain tapers on countless movable alters. Decaying trees covered with gleaming phosphorus, either stood erect or bent prostrate along and adown these mysterious vistas like goblin priests or spirits of white robed Carmelite nuns celebrating a vesper service in this weired minster of exquisite workmanship. The lake with its starry reflections was like a teselated floor of black marble ; the grained arches bore the fairy like tracery of the silver moss over a thick canopy of dark green leaves. No sound came from the marshes, no whisper from the motionless trees, no song from the drowsy birds, no ripple from the waveless water. Silence was supreme for moments, until the ear caught a far off monotone one like the note of a bass pedal of a mighty organ at a great distance, and rec ognized the roar ot the ocean's surt breaking on the first of a chain of rocky reefs which culminate in the thunders and terrors of storm-tossed and wreck-strewn Hatteras. It was fitting music for this unique temple of nature. The softer disapason of singing birds and whispering leaves, ot noisy brooks and rustling reeds would have been out of place in this vast shadowed amphitheatre where some Circe or kind of the Gnomes might have assembled their followers and celebrated their sinister orgies. Or, where the spirits of the usepulchered dead who have been wrecked off the treacherous coast since earth's seismic throes gave birth to the hidden sand dunes and monster boulders,- might hold a mightly carnival. I suddenly realized that I did not blame the negroes so much to be as willing as I was at that hour of the evening to run away from the Lake of the Dismal Swamp. "TALK UP YOUR TOWN." Manufacturers Eecord. In a recent public meeting at Cin cinnati Mr. Thorns P. Egan made a speech that might well be studied by the business people of every city and town of the South. He pointed out the injury that had resulted to Cin cinnati from the lack ot that kind of public spirit which makes every citizen interested in speaking a good word for his town and for the business con cerns of the town. What he said of Cincinnati applies with equal force to all other places, but especially to many in the South. Probably the best illus tration that this country affords, better even than Chicago, are the remark able results of" talking up your town," as seen in the history of Atlanta. Every man, woman and child in Atlanta considers it almost a religious duty to speak well of the city. Meet an At lanta man wherever you may, and he will tell you that Atlanta is the best place in the world : that it has the best climate, the most enterprising citizens, the best and biggest factories, and everything else that is good. You never hear him criticise other Atlanta concerns. Everybody unites in prais ing the city. The result is that At lanta moves steadily and progressively ahead and accomplishes things that no other city in the South seems best to do. The Cincinnati speaker pointed out the good work that could be done in any city by such a spirit of loyality to its best interests. He gave several illustrations of how outside people had been influenced by talk against local interests. Many cities in the South need to learn the lesson which has been so well learned in Atlanta, and that is the heartv co-oneration of everv- " J r hnrlv in evervthin? that tends to ad- - ar w n twh,;n intrKte r,f th, vance the ousiness interests 01 tne place. " In unity there is strength" was never better illustrated than in he nrOErress that. is made wherever ; th hllsiness men of anv community I unjte in a steady, persistent work in hehalf of their cit The rcsuUs are always satisfactory, and any town or city that will cultivate such a spirit, and with it adopt every means of mak ing known to the world the attractions of the place, will be sure to reap satis factory results. " Talk up your town," teli of its good climate, if it has a good one, or of its advantages foi , it d in and day outj year after and : as sure M the sun shines you vvill tne resuits see " Talk up your town." is Newspaper and Party. , wouiu oe me course 01 a personal, not i a oartv. orean. And it it be "war- fare upon Senator Ransom or any other prominent Democrat" entrusted by the Democratic party of Jorth Carolina with the carrying out of it's wishes in Congress, to condemn those who, like that Senator, have slapped the North Carolina part of the party in the face by voting to repeal the purchase clause of the Sherman law and to confirm the nondescript Van Allen, the mugwump Hornblower and the bolter Peckham if that be " war fare," then the " enemy" will have to make the most of it. Fayetteville Ob server. Art is. the education and refinement of all the five material senses. BATTLE OF ANTIEFM A THRILLING ACCOUNT BY UNION SOLDIER. The Fight Which McClellan Meant to be the Battle of His Life "Fighting Joe" Hooker and "Little Mack" Lee and Jackson The Shock of a Bul let as Described by One Who Was Hit. Hooker opened the fight on Lee's left at Antietam. McClellan meant that to be the battle of his life. His scouts had brought him information that Lee's army was strung out from Shajpsburg to Harper's Ferry, and that the force in gray on the line of hills above him numbered only a few thousand hungry and foot-sore men, most of whom had marched all night. Lee had to halt at Sharpsburg. He had to fight there. When he looked down on those moving masses of blue his heart must have grown faint. He had sent word to Jackson the day before to close up. He had sent him word at dark that haste was urgent. Another courier had departed at midnight with the message: "If you do not reach me before noon this army will be prisoners or exterminated!" Jackson was coming and praying that the federals would delay. Every horse was carrying double every vehicle filled with his infantry every thirsting, hungry, halting man was entreated to hurry. While Hooker was opening the fight on McClellan's right, Jackson's men were coming up. There could be no halt for rest or food. Lee's left was being held by three or four skeleton brigades, and the musketry had hardly begun to volley before they were forced to give ground. Jackson rode on ahead his men followed in twos and threes and groups. At last as they came up they formed a battle-line. Some were killed before they knew the position of the federals dashing at them. It was hardly daylight when we, under Hooker, pushed forward. Every private in the ranks realized the object to smash Lee's left, and take his center in flank ; that would roll him away from the ford, and the center and left would wipe him off the face of the earth. Hooker was a fighter and a rusher. Half an hour more and we should have doubled that flank back. It was falling back falling back, but fighting for life when Jackson came up. We heard the cheering and suspected the cause. The advance had disarranged our lines. The order came to cease firing and dress for another forward movement. That cornfield made famous by the historians was on our brigade front as we moved. Every man who was there that day will remember how the corn stalks waved and rustled as we pushed through them how the silken tassels became detached and floated into our faces like spider webs on a dewy summer's morning. They were wait ing for us the men who had come up from Harper's Ferry without a halt, ready to die to save Lee's left wing. At first a scattering fire a man falling out here and there. The pop! pop! pop ! increases in rapidity now it becomes a continued roar here comes the command to charge! There is a cheer a rush, and we are checked. Men cannot dodge bullets, but we dodge nevertheless, as they zip and spit and whistle by our ears. A storm of bullets can not be breasted like a gale of wind laden with snowflakes, but we bend our heads and advance. What had happened? I am down among the cornstalks? Did I stumble and fall as the line swept forward ? It is like waking out ot a deep sleep like coming back to earth after a physician has administered chloroform. Ah ! Now I get a twinge of pain I have been hit ! A bullet has crashed into my shoulder, spun me around like a top and then dashed me to earth in a heap. Men struck that way lose consciousness for minutes or hours. The roar swells out again. I hear men cursing and cheering, and I finally understand that our lines have been driven back. I lift my head for a hasty look around, and I find that I have lots of company. The dead and wounded are as numerous as the corn hills. A bullet in the snoulder is nothing. A gill or two of blood lost from the body is of. no account.. I turn over, seize a dead man by the arm and pull myself up, but everything dances before my eyes and I sink down in a heap. It isn't the wound itself but j the shock to the nervous system. I've seen a six-footer drop in a heap and cry like a woman because a bullet had made one of his fingers an inch shorter, and he was never charged with being i a coward," either. 1 There is no such thing as time on j a battlefield. A general may watch j its flight, but i private soldier has no thought of it. The sun may have j been at meridian when the battle ; opened. All of a sudden he is amazed ! that the orb has gone from sight. He j has fought on and given no heed to ; time. ! Only half conscious only half: realizing that I was hit, I by and by ! 1 felt the cool breezes of evening, and : lost the glare of the sun, Some one ; gave water, but I felt too dreamy to open my eyes.' Some one pulled a dead man off my legs a wounded comrade who had crept over to me in search ot water, and died. But I did not open my eyes. I could not. It seemed as if great weights had been placed on my eyelids to keep them shut. There was a babel of sounds around me, but I heard only one voice. That sounded miles away, as it said : " Here is an F company man who was hit this morning, and he inut have got it hard, or he would have crawled back to us !" WOMAN'S AMBITION. A Lesson From the Life of Made line Pollard. Richmond State. I Madeline Pollard, at this time the most conspicuous woman in America, is " living warning to girls. From her childhood she was filled with an inordinate ambition to cut a dash" in the world and that was the rock upon which her life was wrecked. To execute her purpose, she made a dis gusting bargain with the man who loved her pledging her troth for a money consideration ! And the shame of it was that her own mother was a party to the vicious agreement! She never intended to marry this man, but she was, willing to profit by his affection and to trifle with the most sacred of all human ties for a selfish and worldly purpose. She took this man's money, a thing of itself abhorrent to any pure minded woman, and used it to fit her for her "career" and then when the time of settlement came, she was false to the bargain she had made and chose a life of shame and deception instead living as a harlot and palming herself off on decent and trusting people as a pure woman. We do not mean, of course, to pal liate the offence of Mr. Breckinridge, but we shall not consent to the effort that is being made to pose Miss Pollard as a slaughtered innocent and a martyr. She began life with bad principles and with the wrong aim in view. She chose her own path and the end thereof is disgrace. Her life, we say, is a warning to young women. The noblest ambition of woman is to be pure and chaste and to adorn the social circle as an ex emplar of modesty and virtue. Any ambition which fails to compass this purpose is sure to lead to infamy. A Chance for the Poets. What a theme for the poets in the wreck of the old Kearsarge ! How it calls up memories the great past ! How it apea!s to the national pride! The the reff the gallant old shin straini' aer timbers parting her hold tilling she careens a shiver a mighty plunge a mad swirl of rush ing waters, and naught is left of the old Kearsarge but the splendid record of her mighty deeds! The poets will think of more than this, of course, and something very much better, but here is a suggestion that may help them : aghast ashore, at last no more the mast of yore, avast ! the reef of Roncador. The way being made so easy, it will not be hard to do. It is astonishing how smoothly these things go when you have a good start. Wheeling Intelligencer. The Story of the Thorns. Ouce, on a darkened night, upon a hill called Calvary there stood a cross; and on that cross white hands were nailed, and a brow with a crown of thorns drooped o'er a wounded breast. Sharp were those thorns and cruel; aud from the brow they circled crim son drops fell down on the King's white raiment at the foot of the cross. Cruel thorns ! But cruel hands had placed them there; had wreathed them in that circle as the mocking coronet of a dying king. But ere the life had left his moaning lips, the thorus, relentiug, whispered : " Master, we pray Thee to forgive us ! Forgive us for this bleeding brow, and for this wounded breast. We would not wound the Master ; but the soldiers sought us iu the wilderness and placed us on Thy brow !"' Poor, pitiful thorus ! But when the King was dead, and they were takiug that strange crown from His brow, a wonder wan re vealed ! Over the sad, sharp thorns there was a canopy of flowers roses, whiter than whitest snow, that spread their shelterina; petals over the weeping thorus. And the Thorns feaid : "Hide us, oh, Roses! hide us from the light; for we have wounded the Kiug, and we are red with the drops that trickled from His forehead ; hide us, oh, Roses ! beneath the shadow of your leaves, where no eye may behold us, no gen tle hand be hurt by us!" And the Thorns said again : "But whence came these beautiful flowers, and by what name shall we know them?" And the Roses, weeping, answered : "We blossomed on this hill tonight, aud our name is Love; Love that was wounded by you, whose brow crowned and pierced !" Then said the Thorns : "Since Kinz hath so foriveu us, let us you the not perish, but let us dwell near the roses forever !" And still they live, remembering that uight, under the shadow of the Rose whose name is Love, the love that is wounded and "forgives, that kisses the hand that smites, and makes earth and heaven beautiful ! Franl, L. Stantox. A Plain Statement. New Market Miss. 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April 12, 1894, edition 1
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