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! THE MORGANTON STAE, FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1888. s - k - REV DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOLLYN DIVINE'S SUNDAY SERMON. Text: "Jealousy is the Rage of a Man." Proverbs, vi., Si. ' - Some subjects a religious teacher touches one thousand times, now- coming on them from one direction, now from another. But here is a Bible theme that for some reason is left teetotally alone. This morning, asking your prayers and in the strength of God, I want to grapple it. There is an old sin, haggard, furious, mon strous and diabolical, that has for ages walked and crawled the earth. It combines all that is obnoxious in the races, human quadrupedal, ornithological, reptilian and insectile, horned, tusked, hoofed, fanged stinged; the eye of basilisk, the tooth of an adder, the jaws of a crocodile, the crushing folds of an anaconda, the slyness of a scor pion, the tongue of a cobra, and the coil of the worm that never dies. It is in very community, in every church, in every legis lative hall, in every monetary institution, in every drawing room levee, in every literary and professional circle. It whispers, it hisses, it lies, it debauches, it blasphemes it damns. My text names it when it says: "Jealousy is the rage of a man." It is grief at the superiority of others; their superiority in talent or wealth or beauty or elegance or virtue or social or professional or political recognition. It is the shadow of ct Jer peo ple's success. It is the shiver in our pocket book because it is not as fat as some one else's pocket book. It is the twinge in our tongue because it is not as eloquent as some cue else's tongue. It is the flutter in our robes because they are not as lustrous as some one else's robes. It is the earthquake under our house because it is not as many feet front and deep as our neighbor's house It is the thunder of other people's popularity souring the milk of our kindness, it is th" father and mother both of one-half of the discontent and outrages and detractions and bankruptcies and crimes and woes of the hutiian race. It was antediluvian as mueh as it is post diluvian. It put a rough stick in the hands ot the nrst boy that was ever born, and said to him: "Now, Cain, when Abel is looking the other way crush in his skull,for his sacri fice has been accepted and yours rejected " And Cain picked up the stick as though just to talk with it, and while Abel was watch ing some bird in the tree top, or gazing at Borne wateifill, down came the blow of the first assassination, which has had its echo in all the fratricides, matricides, uxoricides homicides, infanticides and regicides of all ages nnd all nations. This passion of "ealousy so disturbed Caligula at the prominence 0f some of the men of his time that he cut a much admired curl from the brow of Cincin natus, and took the embroidered collar from the neck of Torquatus, and had Ptolomaeus killed because of his purple robe, which at tracted too much attention. After Columbus had placed America as a gem in the Spanish crown, jealousy set on the Spanish cour tiers to depreciate his achievement, and aroused animosities till the great discoverer had his heart broken. Urged on by this bad passion, Dionysius flayed Plato because he was wiser than himself, and Philoxenius be cause his music was too popular. Jealousy made Koran lie about Moses, and Succoth depreciate Gideon. Jealousy made the trouble between Jacob and Esau. That hurled Joseph into the pit That struck the twenty-three fatal wounds into Julius Cesar. That banished Aristides That tired Antony against Cicero. Tiberius exiled an architect because of the fame he got for a beautiful porch, and slew a poet for his fine tragedy. That set Saul in a rae against David. How graphically the Bible puts it when it says: "Saul eyed David." It seems to take possession of both eyes and makes them flash and burn like two port holes of helL "Saul eyed David." That is he looked at him as much as to say: "You little upstart.how dare you attempt anything great? I will grind you under my heel. I 4 win exterminate you, I will, you miserable 1 uuumiiciuus. roucn, crawl, slink into that rat hole. I will teach those women to sing some other song, instead of "Saul has slain his thousands but David his tens of thou sands." When Voltaire heard that Frederick the Great was forgetting him and putting his literary admiration on Bacaulard d'Arnaud i Jnfilel leaPei out of his bed and danced the floor in a maniacal rae and ordered his swiftest horses hooked up to carrv him to the Prussian palace. That despicable passion of jealousy led JSapoleon the First to leave ha his will a be q? if. 5000 rrancs to the ruflian who shot at ellinscton when the victor at Waterloo was passing through Paris. That stationed the grouty elder brother at the back door of the homestead when the prodigal son re turned, and threw a chill on the family re union while that elder brother complained, saying: " vVho ever heard of giving roast veal to such a profligate:"' Ay, that p ;ssion rose up and under the darkest cloud thit ever shadowed the earth and amid the loud est thunder that ever shook the mountain and anyd the wildest flash of lightning that ever blinded or stunned the nations, hung up on two pieces of rough lumber back of Jeru salem the kindest, purest, lovingest nature that heaven could delegate, and stopped not until there was no power left in hammer or bramble or javelin to hurt the dead Son of tvod. That passion of jealousy, livid, hungry, un balked, rages on. and now pierces the earth like a fiery diameter and encircles it like a fiery circumference. It wants both hemispheres. It wants the heavens It would, if it could, capture the palace of God and dethrone Jehovah, and chain the Al mighty in eternal exile, and after the demo lition of the universe would cry: "Satisfied at last, here I ami Alone, the undisputed and everlasting I Me, Mine, Myself." That passion keep all Europe perturbed. Nations jealous of Germany, of England, of Russia, and those jealous of each other, and all of them jealous of America. In our land this pas.-ion of jealousy keeps all the political world aboil. There are at toast 500 people who are jealous of Governor ilill, and would like, to be his successor; about 5000 who are jealous of Grover Cleve land, and would like to relieve him of the cares of office, and after the nomina tions of next summer have been mede a whole pandemonium of defamation scurrility, hatred, revenge, falsehood, pro ranity and misrepresentation will be turned upon this land. The tariff, about the raising ;2weriQg or reformation of which many of them care nothing except as to its effect on yotes, will be discussed from a thousand Pftforms, and .the peqple of Louisiana will oe told that the tariff will be arranged to suit American sugar, the people of Virginia will oe told that the tariff will be arranged to suit American tobacco, and the people of Penn sylvania will be told that the tariff will be arranged to suit?-American iron, and the People of Ohio that the tariff will be arranged to suit American wool, ii I Massachusetts and Connecticut will te promised protection for manufact ures, and all the monetary interests, north, south, east and west, will be told in each neighborhood that the taxes and tariff will pe fixed to suit them, irrespective of any body else; and, the Presidential election over, all will settle down as it was before, it you think that all this discussion in public places is from any desire of the welfare of the dear people and not for political effect, you are grievously mistaken. I0Jnto a11 occupations and professions, ana if yOU want to know how much jeal ousy ia yet to be extirpated, ask master Guilders what they think of each other's nouses, and merchants what their opinion is ot merchants in the same line of business in ine same street, and ask doctors what they 'fiinkof doctors, and lawyers what they th-i r lawyrs, and ministers what they imnk of ministers, and artists what they wM -f arfcists. As long as men and women in any depertment keep down and T-e f hard struggle they will be faintly vlT' and tno remark will be: "Oh, S.f.: nf 13 a good, clever sort of a fellow." one is rather, yes; somewhat quite well, may say, tolerable nice kind of a woman." But let him or her get a little too high, and OTT irriAc tint oo;..;nn l i i . . - Wi mS ucau uy social or com mercial decapitation. cRnm5mb th envy dwells more on small deficits of character than on great forces, makes more of the fact that Domi tian amused himself by transfixing flies with thll0, Sreat conquests; of the fact that Handel was a glutton than of the fact that he erected imperishable orato rios: more of Coleridge's opium habit than of his writing "ChristabeF and "The Ancient Mariner;" more of the fact that Addison drank too much than of the fact that he was the author of the "Spectator;" more of a man s peccadilloes than of his mightv ener gies; more of his defeats than of his victories. .Look at the sacred and heaven descended science of healing, and then see Dr. Macken zie, the Enjlish surgeon, who prolonged the life of the Crown Prince of Germanv until he became Emperor, and. I hooe. mav yet cure mm, so that he may for many years govern that magnificent German nation, than which there is no grander. Yet so great are the medical jealousies that Dr. Mackenzie dare not walk the streets of Berlin. He is under military guard. The medical students of Germany can hardly keeo their hands off of him. The old doctors of Germany are writh ing with indignation. The fact is that in saving Fredericks life Dr. Mackenzie saved the peace of Europe. Tbere was not an in telligent man n either side the ocean that did not fear for the result if the throne passed from wise and good old Emperor Wil iam to his inexperienced grandson. But when, un der the medical treatment of Dr. Mackenzie, the Crown Prince Frederick took the throne, a wave of satisfaction and confidence rolled aver Christendom. What shall the. world do with the doctor who saved his life? "Oh," fried out the medical jealousies of Europe, -uy lm' of course. destroy him." W hat a brutal sc?ne of jealousv we had in . this country when President Garfield lay dy mg" !ere wer0i faitbful physicians that sacTibced their other practice and sacrificed their health for all time in fidelity to that deathbed. Drs. Bliss and Hamilton and A new went through anxieties and toils and fatigues such as none but God could appre ciate. Nothing pleased many of the medical profession. The doctors in charge did noth ing right. We who did not see the case knew better than those who agonized over it in the sick room for many weeks. I, who never had anything worse than a run-round on my thumb, which seemed to me at the time was worthy all the attention of the entire medical fraternity, had my own ideas as to how the President ought to be treated. And in pro. portion as physicians and laymen were ignor ant of the case they were sure the treatment practiced was a mistake &ni rkan mortem the bullet dropped out of a different part of the bodv fmm that. i"n tV,.-v. - supposed to have been lodged, about 20 000 people shouted : "I told vou so." "There, I knew it all the time." There are some doc tors in ail cities who would rather have the patient die under the treatment of their own schools than have them get well under some other pathy. Yea; look at the clerical profession. I am sorry to say that in matters of jealousy it is no better than other professions. There are now in all denominations a great many vounf clergymen who have a faculty for superior usefulness. But thcv are kept down and kept back and crippled by old ministers who looi askance at these rising evangelists They are snubbed. They are jostled. They are patronizingly advised. It is suggested to them that they had better know their place. If here and there one with more nerve and brain and consecration and divine force go past the seniors who want to keep the chief places, the young are advised in the words of Scripture: "Tarry at Jericho till their beards are grown." They are charged with sensa tionalism. They are comrared to rockets that go up in a b'aze and come down sticks, and the brevity of their career is jubi'antly pi ooh esied. If it be a denomination with bishops, a bishop is implored to sit down heavily on the man who will not be molded; or if a denomination without bishops, some of the older men with nothing more than their own natural heaviness and theological avoirdu pois are advised to flatten out the innovator. In conferences and presbyteries and associa tions and conventions there is often seen the most damnable jealousies. Such ecclesias tical tyrants would not admit that jealousy had any possession of them, and they take on a heavenly air, and talk sweet oil and sugar plums and balm of a thousand flowers, and roll up their eyes with an air of unctuous sanctity when they simply mean the destruc tion of those over whom they pray and snuffle. There are cases where ministers of religion are derelict and criminal, and they must be put out. But in the majority of cases that I have witnessed in ecclesiastical trials there is a jealous attempt to keep men from surpassing their theological fellows, and as at the pres dental elections in country places the people have a barbecue which is a roasted ox, round which the people dance with knives, cutting off a slice here, and pulling out a rib there, and sawing a beefsteak yonder, and having a high time so most of the denomi nations of Christians keep on band a barbe cue in which some minister is roasted, while the church courts dance around with their sharp knives of attack, and one takes a finger, another a hand, another a foot, and it is hard to tell whether the ecclesiastical plain tiffs of this world or the demons of the nether world most enjoy it. Albert Barnes, than whom no man has accomplished mere good in the last 1000 years, was decreed to sit silent for a year in the pew of his own Dhurch while some one else occupied his pul pit, the pretended offense that he did not believe in a limited atonement, but the real offense the fact that all the men who tried him put together would not equal one Albert Barnes. Yes, amid all professions and business and occupations and trades, and amid all circles, needs to be heard what God says in regard to envy and jealousy, which, though not exactly the same, are twins: "Envy is the rottenness of the bone." "Where envy and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work." "Jealousy is the rage of a man." My hearers, if this evil passion is in any of your souls, cry mightily unto God for its expulsion. That which has downed kings and emperors and apostles and re formers and ministers of religion and thou sands of good men and women, is too mighty for you to contend against unaided. The evil has so many roots, of such infinite convolu tion, that nothing but the enginery of omnipo tence can pull it out Tradition says that when Moses lifted up bis hand to pray it was all encrusted with manna, and no sooner do you pray than you are helped. Away with the accursed, stenchful, blackening, damning crime of jealousy. Allow it to stay and it will eat np and carry off all the religion you can pack into your soul for the next half century, it will do you more harm than it does any one it leads yon to assail. It will delude you with the idea that j-ou can buili yourself up by pulling somebody else down. You will make more out of the success ol others than out of their misfortunes. Speak we'll of everybody. Stab no man in the bacft Be a honey bee rather than a spider; bi dove rather than a buzzard. Surely this world is large enough for you and all your rivals. God has given you a work to do. Go ahead and do it. Mind your own business. In all circles, in all busi nesses, in all professions there is room for straightforward successes. Jealousy enter tained will not only bedwarf your soul but it will flatten your skull, bemean your eye, put pinchedness of look about your nostril, give a bad curl to the lip, and expel from your face the divine image in which you were created. When you hear a man or wo man abused, drive in on the defendant's s!de. Watch for excellences in others rather than than for defects, morning glories instead of nightshade. If some one is more beautiful than you, thank God that you have not so many perils of vanity to contend with. If some one has more wealth than you, thank God that you have not so great stewardship to answer for. If some one is higher tip in social position, thank God that those who are down need not fear a fall. , If some one gets higher office in Church or State than you, thank God there are not so many to wish for the hastening on of your obsequies. The Duke of Dantzig, in luxurious apart ments, was visited by a plain friend, aud to keep his friends from jealousy the Duke said: "You can have all I have if you will stand twenty paces off and let me shoot' at yon a hundred times." "No, no," said his friend "Well." sni'rl tha TWr : ti honors I faced on the battle field more than a thousand gunshots fired notxmore than ten paces off." A minister of a small congregation com plained to a minister of a large congregation about the sparseness of his attendants. "Ah," said the one of large audience, "my son, you will find in the day of judgment that you had quite enough people for whom to be held accountable." Substitute for jealousy an elevating emula tion. Seeing others good, Vjt us try to lie better. Seeing others ind&strious," let us work more hours. Seeing others benevolent, let us resolve on giving larger percentage of our means for charity. May God put con gratulations for others in our right hand and cheers on our lips for those who do brave and useful things. Life is short at the longest; let it all be filled up with helpfulness for others, work and sympathy for each other's misfort unes, and our arms ba f uil of white mantles to cover up the mistakes and failures of others. If an evil report about some one come to us. let us put on it most favorable construction, as the Rhone enters Lake Leman foul and comes out crystalline. Do not build so much on the transitory differences of tins world, for sooa it will make no differences to us whether we had 10,000,000 or ten cents, and the - ashes into which the tongue of Demosthenes dissolved are just like the ashes into which the tongue of the veriest stam merer went. If you are assailed by jealousy make no answer. Take it as a compliment, for people are never jealous of a failure. Until your work is done you are invulnerable. Remem ber how our Lord behaved under such exas perations. Did they not try to catch him in his word? Did they not call him the victim of intoxicants? Did they not misinterpret him from the winter of the year lo the spring of the year 83; that is, from his first infantile cry to the last groan of his assassination i et he answered not a word ! But so far from demolishing either his mission or his good name, after near nineteen centuries he outranks everything under the skies, aud is second to none above them and the archangel makes salaam at his footstool. Christ's bloody antagonists thought they had finished him when they wrote over the cross his ac cusation in three languages, Hebrew and Greek and Latin, not realizing that they were by that act introducing him to all nations, since Hebrew is the holiest language, and Grr ek the wissst of tongues, and Latin the widest spoken. You are not the first man who had his faults looked at through a microscope and his virtues through the wrong end of a tele -scope. Pharaoh had the chief butler and baker endungeoned, and tradition says that all the butler had done was to allow a fly in the king's cup, and all the baker had done was to leave a gravel in the king's bread. The world has the habit of making a great ado about what you do wrong and forgetting to say anything about what you do right ; but the same God will take care of you who pro vided for Merlin, the Christian martyr, when hidden from his pursuers in a hay mow in Paris, and a hen came and laid an egg close by him every morning, thus keep ing him from starvation. Blessei are they that are persecuted, although persecution is a severe cataplasm. Ointment may smart the wound before healing it. What a soft pillow to die on if when we leave the world we can feel that, though 1000 people may have wronged us, we have wronged no ons; or, having made envious and jealous attack on others, we have repented of the sin and as far as possible made reparation. The good resolution of Timothy Poland in his quaint but exquisite hymn, entitled "Most Any Day," we might well unanimously adopt. We'll keep all right and good within, Our work will then be free from Bin; Upright we'll walk through thick and thin Straight on our way. Deal just with all; the prize well win Most any day. When lie who made all things jnst right Shall call us hence to reMme of light, Beit morn or noon or e'en or night, We will obey; We'll be prepared to take our flight Most any day. Onr lamps we'll fill brim fall of oil That's good and pare, that would not spoil. And keep them burning all the while To light our way; Onr work all done, we'll quit the soil Most and day. Limburger Cheese In America. The New York Board of Health re cently destoryed a long ton of bad lim burger cheese, and the Sun declares that the occurrence shows the expertness of the officers of the Health Department. Any man who can distinguish between good and bad limburger cheese deserves commendation. It will interest lovers of the fragrant cheese to know that it is growing in public favor, and that America is taking the lead in its produc tion. Indeed, little or none of it is now made in Limburg, the city where it was first manufactured. Limburg is a town of Belgium, once the capital of the Territory of Limburg, which was after 1830 divided between Holland and Belgium. It is a ruined town, with a population of only 3000, although it was formerly a strongly fortified and gay place. Limburg cheese, once of its principal articles of manufac ture, is now made in the neijrhborinsr town of Herve. This, However, is prin cipally used for European consumption. America is to-day making as good limburger cheese as can be found in the world. Much of it is manufactured in Wisconsin, but Oneida and other coun ties in New York State produce limbur ger that is not to be sneezed at. Of course the people of the metropolis use more of it than the residents of any other city, but Philadelphia crowds us pretty close. The proprietor of one of the great cheese stores on Chambers street led the way down into the aromatic cellar of his big establishment and showed the re porter several hundred cubes of lim burger cheese which a workman was wrapping up in brown paper. Each cheese weighed two pounds. "The tales they tell about how lim burger cheese is made are matters of fiction," said he. "It is prepared like any other cheese, but the whey is not pressed out and its manufacture is after what we call the cold process. It is the whey in an advanced and aggressive state that gives limburger cheese its flavor. You will, perhaps be surprised to learn that about 70,000 cases of lim burger cheese are made in this country every year. Every case contains on the average 125 pounds, and thus America's annual product amounts to 8,750,000 pounds. M There is a new pamphlet out entitled "The National Bank Act." The National Bank act of the present day consists largely of skipping off to English tern ary with all the funds. Life, WITH THE COAYBOYS. INCIDENTS OP L.IFE AMONG THE RANCHMEN. A Cowboy's Bedding A Mosquito Pest Racing Days Amuse ment Bystanders Afforded bs B ickiu;? Broncos. Theodore Roosevelt gives in the Cen tury an account of a "Round Up' in the Cattle Country. We make the fol lowing two extracts. "For bedding, each man has two or three pairs of blankets cud a tarpaulin or small wagon sheet Usually, two or three sleep together. Even in June the nights are generally cool and pleasant, and it is chilly iD the early mornings; although this is not always so, and wnen the weather stays hot and mosquitoes are plenty, the hours of darkness, even in midsummer, seem painfully long. In the Bad Lands proper we are not often bothered very seriously by these wiuged pests; but in the low bottoms of the Big Missouri, and beside many of the reedy ponds and great sloughs out on the prairie, they are a perfect scourge. During the very hot nights, when they are especially active, the bed-clothes make a man feel absolutely smothered, and yet his only chance for sleep is to wrap himself tightly up, head and all; and even then some of the pests force their way in. At sunset I have seen the mosquitoes rise up like a dense cloud, to make the hot, stifling night one lon tor ture; the horses would neither lie dowa hot graze, traveling restlessly to nnd fro till day-break, their bodies streaked and bloody, and the insects settling on thm so as to make them all one color, a uni form gray; while the men, after a few hours' tossing about in the vain attempt to sleep, rose, built a fire of damp sage brush, and thus endured the misery as best they could until it was light enough to work. "But if the weather is fine, a man will never sleep letter nor more pleasantly than in the open air after a hard day's work on the round-up; nor will an or dinary shower or gust of wind disturb him in the least, for he simply draws the tarpaulin over his head and goes on sleeping. But now and then we have a windstorm that might better be called a whirlwind and has to be met very dif ferently; and two or three days or nights of rain insure the wetting of the blan kets, and, therefore, shivering discom fort of the would-be sleeper. For two or three hours all goes well; and it is rather soothing to listen to the steady patter of the great rain-drops on the canvas. But then it will be found that a corner has been left open through which the water can get in, or else the tarpaulin will begin to leak somewhere ; or perhaps the water will have collected in a hollow underneath and have begun to soak through. Soon a little stream trickles in, and every effort to remedy matters merely results in a change for the worse. To move out of the way in sures getting wet in afresh spot; and the besi course is to lie still and accept the evils that have come with what for titude one can. Even thus, the first night a man can sleep pretty well; but if the rain continues, a second night, when the blankets are already damp, and when the water comes through mere easily, is apt to be most unpleasant." "While the Lead men are gathered in a little knot, planning out the work, the ! others are dispersed over the plain in every direction, racing, breaking rough horses, or larking with one another. If a man has an especially bad horse, he usually takes such an opportunity, when he has plenty of time, to ride him; and while saddling he is surrounded by a crowd of most unsvmDatheticTassociates. who greet with uproarious mirth any misadventure. A man on a backing horse is always considered fair game, every squeal and jump of the bronco being hailed with cheers of delighted irony for the rider and shouts to 'stay with him. The antics of a vicious bronco show infinite variety of detail, but are all modeled on one general plan. When the rope settles round his neck the fight begins, and it is only after much plunging and snorting that a twist is taken over his nose, or else a hacka more a species of severe halter, usually made of plaited hair slipped on his head. While being bridled he strikes viciously with his fore feet, and perhaps has to be blindfolded or thrown down; and to get the saddle on him is quite as difficult. When saddled, he may get rid of his exuberant spirits by bucking under the saddle, or may reserve all his energies for the rider. In the last case, the man, keeping tight hold with his left hand of the check-strap, so as to prevent the horse from getting his head down until he is fairly seaied,swings himself qnickly into the saddle. Up rises the bronco's back, into an arch; his head, the ears laid straight back, goes down between his fore feet, and, squealing savagely, he makes a succession of rapid, stiff-legged, jarring bounds. Sometimes he is a 'plunging' bucker, who runs forward all the time while bucking; or he may buck steadily in one place, or 'sunfish' that is, bring first one shoulder down almost to the ground and then the other or else he may change ends while in the air. A first-class rider will sit throughout it all without moving from the saddle, quiet.'ng his horse all the time, though his hat may be jarred off his head and his revolver out of its sheath. After a few jumps, however, the average ma tests hold of the horn of the saddle the delighted onlookers meanwhile ear nestly advising him not to 'go to leather and is contented to get through the ffair in any shape provided he can es cape without being thrown off. An ac cident is of necessity borne with a broad gnn,as any attempt to resent the raillery of the bystanders which is perfectly good-humored would be apt to result disastrously." AJvlc3t3Younj Men. Not the richest mea are the most in fluential men to-day in New York or in the United States. A man may be happy and yet not be rich. I think that as the world gees there is more happiness with out wealth than with it. I do not believe iV i I. v 7 T1Ca man looks back to with more satisfaction thaji to the periods of struggle through which he has passed. I do not believe any man was ever happier than when, having mar ried early, (and early marriages are usually virtuous marriages') and married for love, he and his companion went down into life together, and every day was a day of engineering to fit their means to their necessities, in their single, slenderly furnished room, where they coaferred together Low to put scrap with scrap and eke out pit tance with pittance, and everything was ca.culatcd with pennies. How often, in later life, when people become rich, do the husbaud and wife look at each other and say: "After all, my dear, we shall never be happier than when we first started out together." Thank God, a man does not need to be very rich to be aPP7 0Dly so that he has a treasure in himself. A loving heart, a genuine sym pathy, a pure, unadulterated taste, a life that is not scorched by dissipation or wasted by untimely hours, a good, sound body and a clear conscience these things ought to make a man happy. Where a man is without offense before God and men it ought not to be possible for the world to make him unhappy. But I cannot dwell on that. To all those who through these written words I may reach, I would say in end ing: If God calls you toawav of mak- ing wealth, make it; but remember, do not love money. If God calls you to make money, do not make haste to be rich; be willing to wa!. If God calls you into the way of making wealth, do not undertake to make jourself rich by gambling, whether it be lawful gam bling, customary gambling or other kinds of gambling. Gambling with cards or dice or stocks, is all one thing it is getting money without an equiva lent for it. Do not try to get rich quickly. There i? no need of it. It is full of peril and disaster here, and is a damnation hereafter. Henry Ward lecher. The Australian Aborijjnes. The character of the Australian abo riginal, when studied, shows traits that hi3 white oppressors might be proud to possess, nis faithfulness is remarkably and he ha3 been known to stay with his sick master on the desert plains of inte rior Australia till death had taken them both, though his own safety might have been secured with case. Their power of endurance is such that they have been known to travel over 123 miles in twenty four hours, and be ready to move on if required. Their keen power of scent and ol servation is now appreciated by the police, and woe be to the criminal whose track they are upon! Not a dis turbed leaf nor an overturned stone will escape their keen eyes. Last November three desperate bush rangers escaped from the jail at Terth, Western Australia. They were familiar with the bush, and had hours' start, yet with the assistance of the "black track ers'" the escapers were in the hands of the police within twenty-four hours. But the "black fellow" will not work; if any duty is required of him, and the idea is impressed upon him that it is only play, he is ready and willing to do it, no matter how arduous the task may Le. He will ride horseback all day after cat tle and stay awake all night to watch them, if he thinks it is fun, but let him find it is his work he Jis doing and he will take to the bush at short notice, nor will he return to the same master. He asks no pay ; clothes he does not need ; a bite to cat and his satisfaction is complete. It is the fashion of the Queensland ladies to have a little black boy for a pet. Tricked out in gaudy clothes the little fellows take the place of the pet poodle of European society. These boys are usually taken from the "Gins" by force, but as it is nobody's business the crime is never noticed. San Francico Alia. At Dover, 3Ie., a jury of twelve men were recently on duty, not one of whom used tobacco. At a convention of bee keepers at Waterville, in the same State, not one of the fifty men who attended was addicted to the use of the weed. A Bangor paper says it is doubtful if any other part of the country uses so little tobacco as Maine. The French law prohibits the use in that country of the name "champagne" for sparkling wines unless actually grown in the Champagne District. FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. '' Best Time to Sow Bo an a. In answer to a question a to the best mode and time of plantinzor sow:n' bean, the Country Gentleman s.iys: "The soil should be well dra-ncd.'or not liable to be water-soaked; mouer ately manure on a previous crop, or w.th f.ce manure el worked in; if made too rich, the gTOwth may be too rank at the expense of the seeds. As the plants are easily injured by frost, the planting should be done after corn p'anting. They may be planted in hills or ur'.Us about twice or three times as thick as corn, the drills being two and a hilf or three feet apart. If in hills, a foot or a foot and a half, with four to six plant in the hill. Small kinds will requ:r half a bushel to the acre; large sorts, with fewer seeds may nee 1 a buhe!. Keep the crop clean and mellow by frequent fiat cultivation. No crop is TTl OTP r111i 1 v in 5irr1 Vitt t g-rr art rr mr.vr 'benefited by clean anJ fin'shed culture, I Rapberry Farming. One of the aids to farm profits, acl a pleasant as well as practical one, i the culture of small f ruiti, among which the raspberry takes first rank, says W. J. Green, of the Ohio Experiment Station. Farmers near market can cultivate thsra as readily as corn, and they (eldom bring unprofitable price. On light so;l, whfro there is but little heaving from fiot, they may be planted in the falL Tho best method is to open a furrow six to eight inches deep, putting the plants in the bottom. The red kinds may have the furrow entirely filled at once, and if set in the fall the soil should be heaped above the plant several inches. Blackberries thould not be covered deeply, two or three inches being sufficient, and then the .oil should be drawn around the plant as they grow. Mulching where fall plant ing is followed is good to prevent heav ing. Six feet between rows for the reds and seven for the blacks is about right, and eighteen inches and two feet betweea the plants respectively in the rows is practiced. Upon heavy soil early spring" is the best time for planting. Care should be taken when removing plsnts I at this time that the young sprouts da not get broken. When the shocts Lave grown eighteen or twenty inches they should be nipped back. This summer pruning causes the plants to thicken up' ana become self-supporting without stakes. Numerous side branches will grow out, forming a plant at once bushy and productive. Tlie-e remarks apply particularly to blackcap. After fruiting the old wood should le cut away, and canes of last year's grow th and all wood of the main stalks above three feet, and the lateral trimmed bick to within one and a half or two fet from the main stalk. These pruning shoud invariably be burned to destroy the insect enemies of the plant, which havel taken refuge oa them. When a field begins to fail, which it will do after four or five crops, it is better to plant a new one and entirely destroy the ol L Hill planting is often practiced with red raspberries, and in this cae the lii'.la should be five feet apart c.vh way, uing two or three j.lict for each. But two or three sprouts shouM be allowed to tho plants, and if grown in this way sum mer pruning as for blacks may be prac tised. ,Yr:c York Herald, Farm aud Garden Note. Gentleness cannot be kicked into a cow. Be sure to give the wheat a firm, solid! seed bed. The wheat likes it; drouth, and chinch Lugs hate i. Trim all broken branches of ornamen tal trees, and prune shrubs too. Thin ' them as needed, but avoid formality. A farmer with quantities of experience says: "Of all the kinds of cattlo fool I ever grew sweet fodder corn is tha best." The best authorities claim that creaia should be kept at a temperature of about fifty degrees, or between this and sixty degrees. It is raid that a tablespoonful of burned or powdered bone placed in a. calf's mouth back of the grinders will cure scours. The following is recommended for lice on cattle: Mix one teaspoonful of ground copperas with the feed of each animal, once in each week or ten days, until tha pests disappear. , The chief use of commercial fertilizers, guano, phosphates, bone, potash, salts and special fertilizers prepared by for mulae for different crops is to supply nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash. Skim-milk of a dairy is worth more to be fed to calves in winter than in sum mer, but it should be fed warm anJ sweet, and with a little oatTcal. Never destroy a calf's digestion with cold milk. If Emperor William did really die oa the 'Thursday before the event was made public, the delay in announcing h: demise was quite in accordance with the policy often followed (at German courts. The king, Frederick William, whose death was made public on January 2, 1861, really died two days earlier, and in many cases such events have been kept secret for a much longer period. There is no cake but there is the lik of the same make, . J
The News-Herald (Morganton, N.C.)
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