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WALTER! X BGYM^, Publisher. The Conroe Enquirer and Conroe Express Consolidated, August, 1882. . PRICE, $2.00 A YEAR, In Advance. NEW SERIES-VOL. IV MONROE, N. C., FRIDAY, JULY 10 1886. WHOLE IBER, 980 D. A. Covington. POVINGTON & H. B. Adams. | ^\ : w * ta Sa JOHN PLOUGHMAN’S TALK, Attorneys-at-T/aw, MONROE, N. C. Will practice in the Supreme and Superior Courts of the State, and *“ die Circun jre Dis trict Courts of the Uiut '1 States re^n- larly attend Mecklenburg, ^uson, bianly, r- ooi;- sromerv, Richmond and Moors C'/ur. -. Management of estates and collections a spe cialty. Satisfactory arrangements made with executors, administrators and guardians. O“ Office first door south of McLarty 81 ur- bought cheap as it is clearing out sale in New SOO Yards Summer Silks, uice quality, lovely shades, at 25 cts. per yard. ..ALL ARE NOT UUNTEI BLOW THE HORI Middletown, (Del.) Transcript. Once upon a time a village editor sat i bis quiet sanctum industriously perusin .that a spirit of levity in ti he solemn realities of life and niture Store. J. F. Payne, J. J. Vann. 2000 Yards Nice Satteens, at 5 cents per yard. Attonieys-at-Law, 300 Pairs Ladles Lisle Gioves, Hogarth and Hogarth, the celel Tho Jed painter, was School of Manual Training in Ohio. Man of the 12th of May institution. rior and Supreme he Circuit and Dis- Rates. Will regu- Courts of Union, n and Richmond to the collection of .rates. .veil’s residence, slates. A HANDSOME 341 Inob. India Linoa, at 10 cents per yard. NS, 's-at-Law, OE, N. C. the Courts of this State, given to business. dalty. .>or south of T. D. Winches- row. Lovely White Goods at 15 cts. and 20 cts., worth 20 cts. and 25 cts. 500 Yds Drieskl ta and iimei^, from 8 gf cts. to $2.00 per yard. 8. T. Beckwith. RN & BECKWITH, ,orney s-at-Law, MONROE, N. C. ice in the State and Federal Courts, r attention given to the manage- tates. mesa will be faithfully and speedily di' ice over Peoples _ W. C. RAMSAY 1 retains his Office, Ono Door below Cov- & Adams’ Law Office, and will con- 9 practice of Medicine in all its differ- ffies. (. FITZGERALD, -e Insurance Agent. e Leading English and American co Companies, with-Beventy Million esented. GINS AND MILLS insured in good 1 American Creo panics. A NICE 40 Inch Oriental Flouncing at 85 cents and $1.00 per yard. We do a large business through the mails and will be glad to have your order for goods or samples. sis w® is sum sasss goods. Truly, Hargraves & Alexander, Smith Building, Charlotte, N. C. H. C. BOYLIN L. MONTGOMERY. second door south of T. D. Winchos- . on Kaine Street. Residen ce near ‘-. Calls answered in day at 01- Residence. nglish & Ashcraft's Drug Store, inchester, M. D., 1 PROFESSIONAL SERVICES ■"'office in Houston’,s^rick Building, up-stairs; Resid-Lice second dow south of-the Postoines. Cals! in the nay answered f»pm office; at night from residence. A Bachelor’s Wife is Always W ell Man aged, and Old Maids Always Bring up Their Children in Prime Style. He does not look much like a hunter ! Nimrod would never own him. But how ho blows! Goodness, gracious, what a row! as the linnet said when he heard a donkey singing his evening hymn.— There’s more goes to make ploughing than knowing how to whistle, and hunt ing is not ail tally-ho and horn-blowing. Appearances are deceitful. Outward show is not everything. All arc not butchers that carry a steel, and all are not bishops that wear aprons. You must not bay goods by the label; for I have heard that the finer the trade mark the worse the article. Blow away, my hearty, till your toes look out of your boots; there’s no fear of your killing either fox or stag 1 Now, the more people blow, the more they may, b*ut he is a fool who bo lieves all they say. As a rule, the small est boy carries the biggest fiddle, and he who makes most boast has least roast. He who has least wisdom has most vani ty. John Lackland is wonderfully fond of being called Esquire, and there's none so pleased at being dubbed a doctor as the man who least deserves it. Many a D. D. is fiddle-dee dee. I have heard say, “always talk big and somebody will think you great.” But my old friend, Will Shepherd says, “Save your wind for running up a hill, and don’t give us big words off a weak stomach. “Look” said he once to me, “There’s Solomon Bragg holding up his head like a hen drinking water, but there’s nothing in it. With him it’s much din and and little done.” “Of all speculation the market holds forth, The best that I know for a lover of pelf Were to buy up this Bragg at the price he is worth, And sell him—at that which he sets on him self.” Before honor is humility, but a prat ing fool shaii fall, and when he falls very few will be iu a hurry to pick him up. A long tongue generally goes with a short haxY “' - -"a most of us better at saying than doing. We can all tattle away from the battle, but many fly when the fight is nigh. Some are all. sound and fury, and when they have Dragged their bag all is over, and amen. The fa Dutchman was the wisest pilot in. Flush ing, only he never went to sen; and the Irishman was the finest rider in Con naught, only he would never trust him self on a horse, because, as he said, “he generally fell off before ho got on.” A bachelor’s wife is always well managed and old maids always bring up their children in prime style. Wo think we can do what we are not called to, and if by chance the thing falls to our lot we do worse than those we blamed. He”' 00 h is wise to be slow in fore-telling what we will do, for, political editorials iges. At length that which he read ^ L^ 1 ' proximity of oeatn in in have its legitimate effect: the you deulmeu bo print my a: or nodded once, twice, thrice; his I Reflections on the Grave, ; ell from bisiyou did not have room for it, and then uffs lit upon I gave up nearly a column of your paper I all swiff ^'to frivolous iokes. I do not intend-to corners, crossed over and promenaded all around to the music of the rythmical edi torial snore—the village editor was asleep; and sleeping the village editor dreamed: He sat at his desk with weary fingers and aching head; the last local item had gone into type, the last inside reading notice had been set up and the youngest apprentice stood firmly by with lines of impatience upon his brow and a daub of ink under his left eye waiting for more copy. Suddenly there was a step with out, the door opened and a man entered, and taking a vacant chair in front of the editor’s desk, to which the editor has po litely called his attention, he said: “My dear sir, my name is John W. Smith; I am a subscriber to your paper as you very well know, and being in town to-day I thought I would take the oppor tunity to call and tell you that I like your paper all but one thing: You don’t print enough matter on the tariff question. Poetry, stories, funny paragraphs and local items may do well enough to fill up a paper with in ordinary times, but now the country is awake to the tariff question and if you want to keep your paper alive you’ve got to give your subscribers light ou the tariff; you should not have less than three columns of editorials and five columns of extracts on the tariff every issue. That’s ail I’ve got to say, and I hope you will bear it in mind. By the way, I owe you for two year’s subsorip- tio ', and one of these days I’ll call in and pay it. Don’t forget to let yourself loose on the tariff question; good-by.” As the man who wanted more light on the tariff passed out a little nervous look ing person camo in and took a vacant chair. “Ab,” he said, with a smile that didn’t look strong enough to be out, “ah, my dear man. I see you are absorbed in thought, as an editor always should be; and that reminds me that you are neg lecting—totally neglecting science. Too much of politics, too much of politics', iny dear man; your paper will never grow in circulation while you neglect science for politics; you should devote not less than four columns a week to science. .That’s all I came in to say; be ?n some day and pay you my subscription. Good day; but don’t forgot to give us plenty oi goionce.” Tile footsteps of the man who wanted science had not gone b tyond the editor’s hearing, when a third "isitor entered and took the vacant n^“- as if he were accus tomed to ait iu it. “I am sorry to notice) that you are neg lecting politics just Lj; this important eyes closed, the eit j to frivolous jokes. read anything light this year that is all that I have to say; good afternoon.” The door closed behind the solemn man and then softly opened again to admit a dreamy-eyed man vith a poetic brow and a general expressio n that seemed to indicate that he wanted something he had never expected to have. “I merely came in to rem^k, he began as he took the vacant chair, “that you are sadly neglecting the literary depart ment of your paper; I not only have noticed it myself but several J my friends have called my attention to J. You should by all means run - continued story and have from two to three good short stories hi each issue. Good stories is the thing that is wanted to make a village paper popular. Everybody you ask will tell you that. A little news and some local matter and the mi: rriages and deaths should be printed of course, but you shouldn’t let anything crowd out the stories. I don’t take your puper but my brother-in-law does and I borrow it of him. I have intended for some time to mention this matter to you but could never think of it when I was in town before. If you think there suggestions are of any value to you you may send me your paper grat uitously for a year; allow me to bid you good day si-. The dreamy-eyed man went out as softly as a sixty days’ note falls due, and a moment Inter another style of person dropped into the vacant chair and spoke thus in tones that were sharp and quick. “I don’t think I shall take your paper another year; you are not making as good a paper as you should with your oppor tunities; you are not giving your readers enough local matter; local matter should be the chief feature of the village paper. Everything else should be made to give way to local matter; a story now and then when you Lave plenty of room and a bit of poetry to please the young folks who are in love and a little newsmatter are all well enough, but if you want to make a village paper a success you’ve got to let yourself out on local matter; give the news of yo r own community And let the big dailies take care of the rest of the world. Ard by-the-way, if you are a Aker short of local matter this week you might say taat 1 have invented Suu pat ented the most common sense churn that has ever b on introduced to the people of this illite. I’ll be in again in the course of , few weeks and will then pay you my s ascription for last year; good ‘You should strive to keep the vital prin- his friend’s decease, was inconsolable be cause ha had not painted his portrait. Oue morning, when the artist was work ing alone in his studio, he thought he heard a voice resembling that of bis de ceased friend, saying, in a sepulchral Toledo Repulican. . The recent opening of the Toledo man ual training school is of much more im portance to the public school system of Ohio than the mere formal exorcises would indicate.- It is net'alone the Inrg- A correspondent, asks us to give the exact fact of the occurrence of the 12th of May, and asked if General Lee ever indorsed the account of that heroic action. espondent states that the Bacon men in his neighborhood say that General Lee denied that any such thing ever took M-Io ai Jew. First door North of Welsh’s Drug Store, in rs. Covington's Building. All work warranted and satisfaction guaran- full cd reason as a pod is full of peas, ie day, Z. Ed Trawick. J- U. Newell. rVRAWICK & NEWELS Seltzer Aperient ftisT Off co over Marsh & Lee’s Store, First Door at head of stairs. ©URIE FO^ COHS™^, HEAL and Dys- those WILLIAMSON Cotton Buyer. - at J. D. Futch’s Store. Sic^-Mao^ ^ AND 'pre M^E^II. . iff the Me in . ^S THIS WAY Everybody that wants to trade HORSES AND MULES. UmIdrcu. Economical, should be found in ever druggists everywhere. TARRANT & CO^ leliuble, Elegant, household. Sold It Manufactured only by New York. One Uniform Price fault. The Moller Organ! J will buy, sell or swap and try to .do right. © — have enlarged my Stables eo that I can shelter ! ^ .two hundred head of stock. Special attention i O S3; has been given to building stables for grovel* ■ ^ H © and I can accommodate them on fair terms. -i o 3 ® I will keep on hand at all times a good sup- ; ply of Work Stock, to trade or sell. ply of Work Stock, to trade or sell. ^ Farmers will be furnished with stalls at 10 * S cents a day or night, and feed and stall at 25 ; S -n © Fewest words are soonest mended.” Of course, every potter praises his own pot, and we can ail toot a little on our own trumpet, but some blow as if nobody ever had a horn but themselves. “After me the flood,” says the mighty big man, subscribe for it; I see it now every week at Brown’s office. If you would write about five columns of fresh political edit orials every week you’d seo your paper going right up in circulation; that’s wha' I mean flood'' of I told Brown yesterday with me. A. story and a occasionally, a little local and he agreed scientific article words, words, enough to drown all your senses. 0 that the man had a mouth big enough io. say all he lias to say at one go, need get to the other end of the world till his.talk find run itself dry. O for a quiet hay-loft, or a saw-pit, or a dungeon, where the sound of the jawbone would no more be heard. They say a brain is worth little if you have not a tongue; but what is a tongue worth without- a brain ? jwing is ail ve but the cow for me is that which fills the pail. A braying ass eats little hay, and that’s a catches no game, and that s a loss to the owner. Noise is no profit, and talk hin ders work. When a man’s song is in his praise, let the hymn be short meter, and let the tune be in the .minor key. He who talks for- cents n. fee^. I will keep a good stock of Forage on hand for sale at all limes. I have on hand agood lot of “OLD HICKO RY" and “WEBSTER" One and Two Horse Wagons for sale. Also juggles and Harness. ' N. S/OGBURN. -. - HI © © £ J. T. HART, Builder & Contractor, And Manufacturer of and Dealer in Doors, Sash, Blinds, Brackets, Scroll and Turned Balus ters, Newel Posts and Stair Railing-, &c, & * unities for all kinds of buildings furnished on application. Doors, Sash, Blinds. Moulding, Ac., made to order oil shor^ndtiee. Also Plaining and Match ing to order at reasonable pubes. ’ All kinds of Moulding kept on hand. “Fair Dealing and Honest Work” is my mot to. All I ask is a' fan- showing. Shop at crossing of Railroad and Charlotte dirt road, near Shute’s gin. THE MOLLER ORGAN Comes before the public this year with New and Valuable I’jvboyrjients, making ft Let ter, Finer and More Valuable than ever be fore. An examination of its merits will con vince you that it is the Finest Organ of to day. They are incomparable i® Workmanship and matchless in tone. The prices are the very nowes'r at which instruments of the high est standard can be sold. To prove the above, facts, we will send an Organ to any reliable person on inspection. It will be to your inter est to aid us in the sale of the Moller Organ. We retail and wholesale direct from the facto ry. Organs $25' and upwards; Pianos $50 and upwards. Catalogues free. Address, M. P. MOLLER, Manufacturer Pipe and Reed Organs, Hagerstown, Md. IVERSITY OF VIRGINIA. LAW DEPARTMENT, Respectfully. •T. T. HART. VAST IMPROVEMENT 111 Full course of instruction in Medicine. The session begins OCTOBER 1st and continues nine months. For catalogue apply to the Sec retary of the Faculty. P. 0, University of Virginia, Va. Tw* Bibles in one volume FAF&P^ n ’ s CAUSES AND CURE, by one who was deaf twenty-eight years. Treated by most priee of one. 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IERALD, Cashio “Hogarth, coins and paint me!” The painter started up; but thinking it was the effect of hie imagination, resum ed his seat, and went on with his work. Some moments after he heard distinctly the same voice, repeating the same words. Imagining somebody was playing him a trick, he rose quickly from his chair and opened the door of his room; then recoil ed with horror on recognizing Fielding, who, advancing towards him, said, in a kind voice: “Fear nothing, my friend; your cC~ plaints have reached my ears. Make haste to catch my features, as I have only a quarter of an hour to remain.” Hogarth, much moved by this strange sight, had hardly time to seize his pencil and sketch the phantom, when it vanish ed from his sight. On recovering from the agitation into which he had been thrown by this ad venture, ho called his servants and asked them if any person had entered the house; but as they all declared that they bad seen no one, he was obliged to wait for time to clear up the mystery; taking care, nevertheless, to hang the picture up against the wall of the room, in order to see what effect it would have upon his visitors, nearly all of whom had known Fielding. It is impossible to express the joy of the artist when he saw the sensation pro duced by the portrait upon the best am ateurs of London; but in spite of this, he still felt uneasy concerning the cu rious manner iu which he had become possessed of it. He related his adventure to Garrick, the well-known tragedian, from whom he con cealed nothing; and greatly was his sur prise increased, on subsequently receiv ing the following answer from him: “For a long time I shared your regrets at not having taken a likenesss of Field ing, and finally I resolved to personate your friend, in order to give you an op portunity of doing so.” Although Hogarth was oneof Garrick’s most ardent admirers, he could only be convinced of the truth of this statement by the repetition of the same scene the following day, by which the actor com pletely convinced him of his wonderful powers of pantnuj^ fj^iDuk uuueu, in conclusion: “I confess I owed my secret entrance to an old servant of yours, whose death not long since freed me from the prom ise I made him. to keep it secret.” in the direction of practical instruction and should be patterned after by the lead ing cities of the country. The public school system of the Union is producing one of two results upon the children of the masses of the people: They either abandon their studies at an early age and seek work in unskilled channels or they go through the pre scribed course and become bookkeep clerks, lawyers or doctors a P'’ to tin al sot be 2 For wan .ase yen ' can see is directly related probable future in life, a Urge The Other Side. day.” ; The vill. -ge editor was just slidin o the table a crushed and mentally demor-1 Innes. The following extract is amusing as majority abandon at an early age the op portunities of education, while the small minority who remain, seek occupations already full to repletion. Here is not only a great individual loss, but a se rious loss to the community in the mis direction of st? much valuable energy, which rightly directed would be the source of so much prosperity and gen eral welfare. The foremost educators of the country have long consitlered how to adapt edu cation so that it will exalt and dignify labor and fit one’ to earn an honorable livelihood. Under this growing pre^ ^ many have established scientific courses of study, and several Lave opened spe cial studies in various departments of modern science. But until put in ope ration in tins new manual training-school of Toledo the masses of the people, for whom the public school system is main tained, have received but little benefit in this direction. T educational interests of the State of Ghio, and especially a number of the leading citizens of Toledo, have felt for some years that the emer gencies of society wore not fully met by the public school system, and much of the criticism touching the common schools of the State arose from a consciousness that the best interests of the youths were not fully conserved by the method of in struction. When nearly fifty per cent, of the entire enrollment of school children are found in the primary grades, and but two per cent, of the whole enrollment are found in the high school, it is evident that something is wanting in our sytem of education; and when it is further seen that onr high school iustauction has a constant tendency to lift boys out of the ranks oi dignified labor into the over- crowded ranks oi .mercantile, clerical and professional life, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the present methods do not fully meet th: demands of mod ern society. The Toledo philanthropists therefore Linder I The Chersonese, with the C ling off—En alized man to hide hie head in despair, in the waste t, or both, when a loud showing how,.to customs seem best its own resolved to prove that the jreat prizes of life no longer lie in the liberal profes sions, but in the mechanic, and through the bequest which wili We present the fui ice as taken from of “How are you old- fellow ■ cried a cheery vbi x', and the Old bi useriber from up the creek took the village editor by the hand with a hearty grasp and shook a pain in the editor’s shoulder blade; and then the old subscriber from up the creek seated himself in the vacant- chair and merrily spoke thus: kitchens, will admit that there is “some thing in it,” when it comes to a compari son of cleanliness: The Malay said, “Such a dirty practice! We say to ourselves,— “ ‘What do I know of the history of this fork ? me the very best he story every v poetry to plea is been in a hundred and, mouths; perhap: women are all well enough, but I can tell' the women fol re. a column or two c you that a country paper to amount to! fresh num u? to make us laugh and kee anvthing and have any Afiileuce has got our livers running on regular ecbedul to be full of political matters; that’s all 11 ^e, just about enough of politics, id the news that is worth a busy man’s tin■ candidate for the legislature; good The next visitor who took the vacant of tho stores gains. Yes “I poke illage editor’s enough fo Go not want your paper any some respects it is a good pa do not' print enough news off that 11 subscription for cer 11 i f our dollars more matter; you i should have a full page of news at least; I don’t care anything about your protect ive tariff and tariff for revenue only or anything of that sort; I want the news when I take a paper; I want a full account e ™ r ^ h™^ ^ S foolish subject 0( the mutd6 ^ l u ii deS( railroad 001!is . and « likely to worry ami weary an i ion8 aad divoroe eases, around him. Good wine needs no blush, 1, and a man who nan do well seldom boasts about if. The emptiest tub makes the loudiest noise. Those who give them selves out to be fine shots kill very few birds, and many a crack ploughman does a shorter day’s work than plain John, though he is nothing off the common; and so on the whole it is pretty clear that the best huntsmen are not those who are for everlastingly blowing the bo#). Queer Superstitions About Clocks. Some people are superstitious about clocks. Nor is it any wonder. An old clock comes nearer talking than anything else on earth that is made of wood and metal. How often as boys, or even as Liable style and ad- your paper 13 goo vorth twice what yoi WHICH yen may r down south, for they both and you give them more in one issue of your paper than I could write in twenty letters. That’s all I’ve got to say to-day. Come out and see me when I make cider and bring a jug along if you’ve got one, and if you haven’t I’ve got one to lend Don’t send me 1 n the paper any longer; I’ll come in and; y ou l good bye. P a y you what I owe you when I sell my ; And the old subscriber from up the corn; good day.” And then there was a light step at the door, and a person wearing a severe countenance and a shawl came in and took the vacant chair. “I am very sorry, he said, in measured creek went out with a smile upon his face that began just below his left ear and spread leisurely about over his face and then quietly meandered back to the beginning. The village editor was about to pinch himself to assure himself that ho was tones, and with a fixed and critical stare I .at the end of the editor’s nose—“I am | reall T wide awake, when the cry of— very sorry that you are giving in your i Q O PY • ^ame to his ears, and then he columns so little attention to the cause of - ^dn’t think it necessary to pinch him- prohibition—the noble cause of prohibi-! Re ^ ^ e . outy folded up three crisp two tion; you must rouse yourself upon this great question and give your readers a page of it weekly. 1 am not a subscriber to your paper* but ! borrow it every week of my neighbor and I loan him the Ban ner of Light in exchange; so you will. men, have we lain awake at flight to hear the old clock tick away the minutes and 1 1 « • tRo 1mm.? : observe that I have been one of your strike the hours. When every one else . - r , > ■ T i - • । was asleep we could bear the old clock £Mt hfal roadors, and I know just where untiringly going on with itsdutv, nud we 1 y ou fal1 B T hor , ? f ma , kl « ^ ^ imagmed th.it it wue saying something to j W * "V' fr T Y.. .1 x>. .„ ^ _ -.: ... x P I which you should make liberal extracts us, and then that it was going to stop, and then—well, then we were asleep. But speaking of superstitions, I remem ber, pays F. B. G., in the Cincinnati from time to time. You will notice that this one entitled Dash the Cup Away 1 is dollar bills and put them in his pocket with the beautiful thought that this world in which we live is not half so bad a world as folks sometimes dream is is. The Confederate Preacher. St. Louis Republican. It is remembered that in 1862 a coun try preacher somewhere in Central Mis souri was notified by the local militia that he must cease his treasonable ut terances in the pulpit or be arrested. The preacher demanded a bill of particulars. written by myself; you are at liberty to, Ho to , d iu „ n lbm j thu ^ print it in full; and when I come across ; mu gt pray for the President, and to the the columns - astonishment of the militia he promptly of the Banner of Light 111 cut it out aim ■ declared his willingness to comply with send it around to you. You have a grand 1 tho orde , 0n tho fo ii owi „„ S, ndav ...... opportunity to make your paper grow in morning his BttIe ohllroll wa!3 cr „ vda 5 a sudden crash onoulatiou and influence, and I hope you ; witk mi | itlameu „ nd Confederate sy wp a- - I will coma boldly to the front on the rigut : timers, each filled with half-concealed | course and no longer continue to devote i anliet y for the day’s results. It was a and I looked at my watch. Exactly 3 a. l?.°” ™ lnabl , e 8 P ace to ‘g™ 1 ““‘re. hot day in June . Out8ide the charoh tn. And yet wo did not hear the clock 1 By-‘ 1 «>- w ‘y. bave you a few exchanges । the horaea neighed and whinnied. Over ret you “0 d °o® wl l« Ah, that will do the s „ uar „ ( wooden pulpit the hot br , ez0 thanks; good day. ; toyed with tho leaves of a hymn-book In the door the men passed a person j w i dc h bad bean opened at the ancient wit ha merry twinkle in his eyes, .tune of Mear. In the amen corner set ■ I like your paper-it is first-rate, no | the ofilcera of the mililia . j Q tho op said, ns he dropped into the vacantchnir, , Dosite 00rnar WMe tba daaaons of the “except that it does not contain humor i congregation. Tho white-haired presch- my friend receivedatelegram from home, I ?:’ ou S“- w h y bon t you fill her full of ■ 01 . wa8 bidden from view behind, the nul- saying that a brother hud died at 3 o’clock ) 1° I b ' l g “ things by the funny tel- j plt longer than usual that morning, but that morning. At best it was only a co- ° W 1 S and mate y , 0 ? r T del8 la . u g hf ^o- j at last service began and a breathless incidence, and yet who would not feel a F outloal «h; bush fell Spoil the assembly us it sole.nn- a trifle superstitious over it - I 6iaen " flo ly knelt for the prayer on which the I knew a woman who was surprised one 1 stu 4 a , 1 thc J arllf Jo® that Puts i fata of the oong^gati-n was hanging. 1 re„ te .,u»„ r.™,,-> .. O LiiH]i .. a:lultheiircaeherJ ^ the painful silence which had followed Times-Star, one night when, with a friend, I was sleeping in an old Pennsyl vania town. There was an nl^ clock, such as I have described above, which stood in the hallway. During the night we were awakened by a sudden crash. Then all was still. Nothing was thought i of it, but we wondered what time it was, strike. In the morning we went down and the old timepiece wassijent. One of the cords which held the weights had snapped during the night, and that was the crash we heard. The accident had i happened at 3 o’clock, as the hands in.-' dicated. Nothing was thought of it until! day to have her clock stop at a certain 11 , ’, 1 i : hA^hb^gbit had wound ths: os £f« a night before. She noticed the hour, and Tariff take cam of itself that sell. Be m j big uitrahelMy of thank winding up the clock, thought no more l? W® 11 a « ain wh8n 1 tere more ta “ o ;. of it. That night she learned from her | a ’ r -- ... 'shall addrea waiting cc “bless this rogation. Thy servant who unhappy husband that he had mortgaged: ,.,, , x. , - « ° chair haa a countenance the house that afternoon, oiyiag to fir cial trouble. She inquired and ho named the very hour • , , , , , 'shall address them this day Ihe next person who took the vacant [ big wov us be fruitful to Th- - 1 as solemn as a n T.nvd in id may of inherited Tried everything 1 for purifying the blood without until I used Parker’s Tonic, s enefit ruthfully say that it has cured me still use it for it general health. nlcndid effect Lynd, Chicago. mi led ■ t look as if he . q^y richest ble ini forty years, jideut!” - I while greet dro can - village editor, “I am grieved to notice the 1 If tone of levity that has recently pervaded my | the columns of your paper, and I am I pfay said the kneeling militia ing each other violently, of the deacons. There ‘Lord, ’ shouted the preachers famil- This thought is very repulsive to us.” “But,” said I, “the fork is thoroughly cleaned, or ought to be, every time it is used. ” “Ought to be; quite so. But how do you know that your servant does not shirk bis work ? If you have a lazy ser vant, you arc liable to eat with a fork chanical education in the country, and when this system is adopted, as it must bo by Springfield, Pittsfield and other cities of Massachusetts, the State will maintain her front-rank in the education of the world. The course of instruction covers three years. The pupils must be atleast fourteen years of age. The school is about equally divided between mental and manual exorcises. One hour per day is given to drawing, two hours to shop- work, and three hours to study and reci tation. A Strange Story. There is lying on the President’s table, writes the Washington correspondent of Geu. Lee by Bev. J. Wm. Jones, D. D.: Ou the 12th of May, 1864, The Confed erate lines were broken near Spottsyi- yania Courthouse; the Federal troops poured into the opening, and a terrible diaster seemed imminent. As Early’s old division, now commanded by Gen. John B. Gordon, was being rapidly form ecapture the works, Gen. Lee rode front and took his position just in aa. " of. ths. coions of the Forty-ninth Virginia regiment. He uttered not a word—he was not the man for theatrical display—but as he quietly took off his hat, and sat his war-horse the very per sonification of the genius of battle, it was evident to all that ne meant to lead the charge, and a murmur of disapprobation ran down the line. Just then the gallant Gordon spurred to his side, seized the reins of his horse, and exclaimed with deep anxiety: “Gen. Lee, this is no place for you. Doge to therear. These are Virginians and Georgians, sir—men who have never failed, and they will not fail now—Will you boys ? Is it necessary for Gen. Lee to lead this charge ?” Loud cries of “No I no! Gen. Lee to the rear!” “We always try to do what Gen. Gordon tells us, and we will drive them back if Gen. Lee will go to tho rear!” burst from the ranks. While two soldiers led Gen. Lee’s horse to the rear, Gordon put himself iu front of his division, and his clear voice rang out above the roar of the battle: “Forward ! charge! and remember your promise to Gen. Lee 1” Not Napoleon’s magic words to his Old Guard, “The eyes of your emperor are upon you !” produced a happier effect; and these brave fellows swept grandly forward, drove back five times their own numbers, retook the works and converted a threatened disaster into a brilliant vic tory. How “Stonewall” Emptied a Jug of Corn Whiskey. Lynchburg Advance. After our return from Romney we were quartered at Fort Collins, two miles out on the Martinsburg pike, Jackson’s head quarters being on the roadside, mid way between the fort and Winchester. A member of our company was detailed at his headquarters—a cousin of mine. 1 went to Winchester to attend to some company business, and whilst in the town 1 found an old woman who had whiskey. I soon filled up, and bought a quart jug which i filled also, and started to cainp. W hen in sight of Jackson’s headquarters (or tent.) I thought of my relative, and Knew he would like a^rink, ...A, regard- lees of the General, I made a bee-line for the tent at two-forty speed. I rode up, culled for Jim, and as his head came out iff va^Ka', out sb^ir-i ihe cre^era! '1---' another. He took in the situation at a glance, and promptly stepped up and re lieved me of the jug. Deliberately tak ing out the corn-cob stopper and empty ing the contents on the ground, he hand ed back the jug, and without a word pointed to the fort. I was sobered iu a moment, and lost no time in getting to quarters. The story soon got out, and to this day when I meet my scarred and battered comrades I am reminded of the circumstance as a good joke. Corporal Canary, Company A, Fourth Regiment Virginia volunteers, Stonewall brigade. icreas, I know that my firn san, for I wash them myself be They arc quits as clean as the cle fork, and they have two great adv. been in any one’s mouth but ray own, and another, that they have been washed by myself.” Stoop Shouldered People. Hall’s Journal of Health. A stooping figure in only a familiar expression of weakness or old age, but it is, when caused by careless habit, a di rect cause of contracted chest and defect ive breathing. Unless you rid yourself of this crook while at school, you will probably go bent to your grave. There is one good way to cure it. Shoulder- braces will not help. One needs not an artificial substitute, but some means to develop the muscles whose duty it is to hold the head and shoulders erect. I know of but one bull’s-eye shot. It is to carry a weighton the head. Asheepskin or other strong bag filled with twenty or thirty pounds of sand is a good weight. When engaged in your morning studies either before or after breakfast, put the bag of sand on your head, hold your neck erect, draw your chin close to your neck and walk slowly about the room, coming back, if you please, every minute or two to your book, or carrying the book as you walks. The muscles whose duty it is to hold the head and shoulders erect are hit, not with a scattering shot, but with a rifle ball. The bones of thespine and the in tervertebral substance will soon accom modate themselves to the new attitude. One year of daily practice with the bag, half an hour morning and evening, will give you a noble carriage, without inter fering a moment with your studies. Who Stole the Bees. Augusta (Me.) Journal. Not long ago Mr. Sanborn, a keeper of bees, missed several hives from his place at the Katahadin Iron Works, Piscataquis county, and many were the inquiries made and schemes laid to catch the thief. One day about noon, hearing the shouts of some schoolboys, he went to the top of a hill and was surprised to see a bear making off with a hive well stocked with honey. The animal was laboring along In an upright positon, holding his prize between his forepaws. Although closely pursued, be clung to it until he reached a strong fence. Being unable to get the box through or over, he dropped it escaped into a logging road. and Store Pointed than Polite. Ben. Perley Poore, in Boston Budget. Mr. Webster used to tell a story at the expense of Peter Little, who had in early had for some years represented a Ain had the te: olution by in the House. One day ho nd drawin; iv watch, but not my del-stand tietics, sir, pardon of Charles Doughty, a United States prisoner at the Chester (Ill.) pent teutiary. The story of Doughty’s arrest and imprisonment embody the elements of a first class romance. Several years A Momentous Question. Exchange. Recent events furnish grounds for a new and very plausible theory in regard to the world, >ry that attributes the con- ago a regiment of r Texas to repel the J the Border, .oougnty, an aaventurons youth of twenty, enlisted. At the expi ration of several minths the regiment was disbanded. Some of the men, notably Doughty, were 300 miles from home. They were penniless and desperate. One night Doughty and two of his friends rode out of town and stopped a stage coach filled with passengers. They made off with their booty unharmed, but were captured within twenty-four hours and lodged in jail. Pending the trial a letter reached Doughty from his home in another section of the State. It contained the intelligence that his mother was dying and desired to see her baby, he being the youngest child, before she died. Dough ty made frantic efforts to obey the moth er’s summons, but without avail, until a kind-hearted saloon keeper in the town, to quote the language of the affidavits, said he would “go ^500 on the boy, any way.” He accordingly offered that amount for Doughty’s bail. It was ac cepted and the boy reached home in time to receive his mother’s blessing. The funeral over, he prepared to return to his prison again. His relatives urged him to fly the country, but he refused. Ho said he had committed a robbery in a moment of desperation and while under the influence of liquor, but he would not betray a friend no matter what the sacri fice might be. And so he went back to prison, pleaded guilty to the charge of highway robbery, and was sentenced to servo eight years at hard labor in the penitentiary. He has served half his term, and the entire Texas delegation, as well as other prominent citizens of the State, are using their influence to have the remaining four years remitted on the agnation to well known natural agencies -agencies which at present threaten to et beyond human control, and by which ne world, and possible the universe, may be destroyed but in t months. of in our time, Tars, or even It will be remembered that within the past year what is known as “natural gas” has come into very general use in parts of Pennsylvania. This gas is obtained by boring through the sur face of the earth unto cavities where the gas has been stored by the process of na ture, and whence it escapes into the up per air as soon as an outlet is offered. Gas wells have been discovered in Ohio, New Mexico and California, and will, no doubt, like oil wells, be discovered in many localities, perhaps in Europe and Asia :1s well as in this country. When we have a circle of gas wells extending from Pennsylvania through the Ohio Val ley to the Missouri Valley, then to the Pacific via Alaska and Behring Straits to Siberia, and on through Russia in Europo to Germany and even England, who knows what may happen ? Even with the few wells now running, what would occur if the fire by some chance should be con veyed to the bowels of the earth? Might not the sea be dried up and the mount ains hurled from their foundation:' In deed, might not the earth be blown to fragments—converted, so to speak, into decillians of incendiary rockets for ex tending the conflagration to the rest of the universe? Who knows? ground that he has already been ciently punished. BUffi- An Illinois Snake Story. Geneseo (Ill.) News. Captain P. H. Sniff was cleaning fish for supper at a fishing camp on the shores of Penny’s slough a few evenings ago, when he became conscious of a hard tug at the tail of the fish he was cleaning. Looking up, he saw a garter snake hold ing to the fish’s tail and pulling hard. The Captain, who is not bothered with the customary unreasonable prejudice against harmless serpents, hit the snake a sharp rap on the nose and said: “Shoo!” The snake was as tame as a kitten. He let go, but at once came back and renew ed his efforts to steal the fish. The Cap tain then gave him the entrails of the fish, which the snake devoured eagerly. Al together, the soaks ate the entrails of six fish. After that lie hung round the camp till it broke up, and he was a great pet. The Devil After Senator Vance. Washington Critic. Senator Zab Vance is a thorough Dem ocrat iu every sense. He converses with his fellow-citizens in the humblest walks of life with as much liveliness as he ex hibits at Presidential reception. His abounding humor is elicited by the slight est occasion. The other afternoon he was riding in a herdic down from the Capitol in company with four or five oth er Senators. A newsboy jumped ou the vehicle and offered the afternoon papers. Senator Vance, with a merry twinkle of his eye when the papers were handed to him, said: “No, sonny, I can’t read.” The boy looked at him hard and of fered his papers to the Senators. Just as he was ready to step out of the herdic he shook his finger at Senator Vance, and said: “The devil will get you for lying yet.” There was a general laugh, iu which the North Carolina Senator hearti ly joined. He called the boy back and reached in his pocket for his change, but * the litte rascal had darted away to find a frosh victim. Invited. The V Chilbl and p quire 1 BuekIcn’s Arnica Salve. t Rheum' is riles, or Iji anteed to giv satisfaction, or money refunded Somerville Journal. First Belle—There, dear, I want yob: to look over this list of people I’m going to invite to tho party, and I wish you’d suggest another young man. I’ve got seven girls and only six young gentle men so far. There’s Harry Westerly, lushing)—Well, dear in sure; but you re-*
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