Blue ' .; A WEEKLY JOURNAL FOR HOME AND FARM GIVING RELIABLE INFORMATION OF THIS NEW COUNTRY VOL. II. HIGHLANDS, MACON COUNTY, N. C, SEPT. 11, 18841 NO. 34. V il l -44 Blue esstian. I shall never he a child, With its dancing footsteps wild, Nor a free-footed maiden any more ; Yet tny heart leaps np to see The new leaf upon the trpe, And to hear the light winds pass O'er the flows in the grass, And for every joy brims o'er, As I kneel and pluck this store Of bine gentian. 1 shall never -climb thy peak, Great white Alp?, that cannot speak Of the centuries that float over thee like dreans. Dumb of all God's secret things Sealed to beggars aid lo kings Tet I sit in a world of sight, Color, beauty, -sound and light. While at every step, meseems, Small, sweet joys spring np, like gleams Of bine gentian. I shall not live o'er again This strange Tile, half bliss, half p in ; I shall sleep till Thou call'st me to arise Body and soul with new-born powers, If thou wakenest these poor flowers, Wilt Thou not awaken ine, Who am thirsting after Thee f Ah ! when faith grows dim and dks, Let me thiak of Alpine skies And blue gentian. The Galleries at the Main Building Few people who have not actually seen it can realize the vast, the enormous size ot the main building of the Exposition at Kbw Orleans. Those who have entered the famous drill room of the Seventh Reg iment Armory, in New York have been invariably fi ruck bv the suggestion of CTJoruioua spare. It is a colossal apart ment. 51 en seen from the far corners look like pigmiep. The great clock over the rear door 5s d-if'-d until it resembles the toy in a doll house. Wonderful and weird echoo3 resound, au.l give impressions of gigautio distatces. Y-t i-v-n to one who has seen aud appreciated this prodigious' spc-ctfM-l, what, must he the aspect, of the miaiu building of the Exposition, which is eight or ten tirres larger than the room iu qncsuon, which covers with one roof and iucl-'ses withiu a single stt of walls the amassing area of thirty-three acres ! It is s, thing impossible t- realize. It is au immensity which bailies description. Even this tremendous capacity, h wev- r, has been increased by a series of scieL- liticaliy constructed and awanged galler ies. These galleries extend around the entire enclosure and add enormous-ly to iis capacity. They are intended for the better -display of certain classes of exhib its, such as furnitu e, crockery, articles of in'erior decoration, etc., and wi!l answer that purpose far better than the ground &tor possibly could. They are not ren dered inaccessible and inconvenient, as exposition galleries usually are, bat have been provided with a set of elevators, twenty in numl er, vihich will be kep1 -constantly running, at easy distances from -each other, so as to afljrd the visiting public the most attractive and comfortable means of enjoying the display. The cal culation is that the galleries, arranged as they are, in terraces, if desired, and brought within constant and convenient commauicatiou, wiil afford to certain classes of exhibitors a better and more suitable opportunity than conld possibly be offered them on the ground floor. Fine furniture, handsome and rare articles of interior decoration, elegant crockery and glassware, specimens of fresco and wsll designs, panel ornamentation, fine carpets, rugs, bed-room appliances, and all the in numerable articles of household luxury and beauty these things would be far better in a space especially provided for them, and especially obstructed and ar ranged with a view to their advantageous exhibition. They will not be mixed np Math bulky machinery, etc-, but displayed by themselves in a department exclusive ly devoted to articles of the lighter and more elegant variety. Displayed in wanner that will attract attention from below and call into requisition the fullest capacity of the twenty elevators provided to meet the public demand for access to the galleries. There can be no doabt that these gal leries are. for the classes of exhibits ai ded to above, by far the most desirable locations ill" ikntire. building, and we confidently expect-ea them erowded with a brilliant and enperb display, and with, countless throngs of delighted and admiring people. Times-Bemocrat. The Romance of Printing:. They were energetic men, those burgh crs of Holland men with a zeal and earnestness in them from which much was in future times to spring ; men, to many of them, with greater thoughts than those of mere money-making re Joking, indeed, as they had a right to do, fa their prosperity and their wealth, bat rejoicing still more in that common en ergy of progress which found its ex presaktn in civic monuments no less than civic discords. Though but a Blight in dication of this zeal of labor, which hes itated at no sacrifice that might lead to success? the unstable, almost roving, life of many of the early printers is worth no tice. Almost all the most successful of them made at least one move. Gerard Leeu starts at Gouda, nv-ves to Bruges, and moves on to Antwerp. Veldener comes from Germany at the invitation of the University of Lonvain ; he stays bat a short time, and then apparently disa greeing with his partner moves on to Utrecht, moves again to Kuilenbnrg, aad finally returns to Louvain ; and yet, if a manuscript note in one of his books is to be believed he must hare been at least sixty years of age when he left that town the first time. William Carton, afler learning his trade, it is said, in Germany, came to Bruges and set np in partnership with Colard Mansion, he soon crossed the sea to London, and became onr first printer. Gavaert Van Ghemen a con temporary of Gerard Leeu's printed at Gouda ; then he removed to Leydcn ; then he suddenly took flight and introduced the. new art into Denmark, settling down at Copenhagen. And so it was with many more of them, wherever an opening occurred, they were eager to ruBh in. W. M. Conway, Magazine of Art. Robbing an Baffle's Nest. A farmer named Peter Gow, in Dan wich, Ontario, is in possession of several young eagles, whroe eyrie is in a tall tree on ins farm, several Doys m uuuon have had a hanke ing for these eagles for some time, but Mr. Gow said he would not part with them at any price. The boys were determined that he should, and one night recently they appeared at the foot of the tree with pikes attached to their legs, after the mode of the telegraph erectors, and a stout strap to buckle aronnd the tree to assist in climbing. The boldest boy in the crowd climbed the tree and when abont sixty feet from ine ground, jnst under the eagle's nest, bis strap dropped and lodged where it could .ot he got. He could not get down with out assistance, which the other boys could not give. So toward morning, when the boy in the tree got tired of hanging od and was about ready to drop, they went to Mr. Gow's house and besought him to come out quickly with a-rope and help save the life of the youngster iu the tree. The old gentleman forgot the iniquity of the act and ran to the barn, took the rope out of his hay fork and went to the tree at a 2:40 gait. The question was, how to get the rope up to the boy I After considerable cogitation, the bid up in the tree was seen tearing his shirt, and the problem was solved. The shirt not being sufficient, his trousers were next made in strips aad tied together. They reached the grouud ; the rope was attached to it and drawn np, and down came the bid from his precarious position. Mr. Gow provided the youngster with a pair of trouee'8 and a horse blanket to keep the mosquitoes from eating him on the way home through the swamp. These bojB thiuk stealing eagles is a poor spec. Keep Your Best for Home. There is no place where good manners and punctilious etiquette is of more value than in the home. It is the moral agent of good breeding ; it is the law that gov erns the manifestations of kindness and good feeling, and also the law that re strains unkind and ignoble traits of hu man nature from expression. Keep your best temper for nome. In society, on the streets, in business, every where, it is easier to control that attribute, if we guard the hasty word, the peevish tone, the irritating action in the home circle, and study to wound none of its inmates. Keep your best spirits for home. No where do gloomy and depressed spirits tell so disastrously as at home. The parents may have just cause for anxiety and care, but it is wrong and unjust to shadow the young life of childien with anxieties they can not appreciate, and cares they can not understand. The ten dency to brood over trouble or misfortune increases with its indulgence. So, also, the disposition to be cheerful and happy at all times increases with cultivation. This is by far the most admirable trait Those who are sunshiny and cheerful in character always have the most friends, and where are friends so true and loyal, and so desirable to perpetuate as those of home and family f The old comparison of the bent twig is as true in this case as any other, and children who grow np in an atmosphere of foreboding for the fu ture, anxieties about the present, and cyn ical reflections on the motives and actions of people about them, are training a ten dency to be miserable and sad, and in their turn cast shadows, instead of sun shine, on the path of all about them. At the close of the sermon the minister became impressive. Raising his voice he said: "Judgment!" and a small boy near the vestibule shouted : "Out on the first 1" Eggs vs. Bleat. It would be wise to aubstitute more eggs in onr daily diet, than we do, ia place of meat, for they would be not only more palatable, but cheaper than beef. For instance, in the Summer when eggs are worth eight or ten cents a dozen and beef is worth from ten to twelve cents per pound, one dozes, of ordinary hen eggs will weigh one-and-a-half pounds which at ten cents per dozen would be six and two-third cents per pound against ten to twelve For beef. Not only this, bat there is more solid nutriment in the egg, there being no bones or tough pieces -to go to waste. An egg is made up of one part shell, six parts white or albumen, and three parts yolk. The white of the egg contains 66 per eent. of water, and the yolk contains 52 per cent. The egg is purely animal food, and yet there is none of the disagreeable work of the batcher necessary to obain it. Most peo ple prefer eggs fried moderately bard. This is, however, one of the poorest ways to cook them so far as the health is con cerned ; for, so cooked, they are hard to digest. The most healthy way to cook them is to boil them about four minutes, which takes away the animal taste which is so offensive to some, bat does not hard en the yolk, making it hard to digest. To be sore, eggs are very valual le and handy for the farmer to take to town and sell for cash or trade for provisions, and sometimes he stints himself too much in order to have a large supply for market. It would be found much better, however, to nse all he wants at home instead of paying a higher price for less nutritious meat. H.S.Waldo. The Political Phrase Bat- ins Crow." An old farmer who lived somewhere on the Hudson, below Albany, was in the habit of taking a few summer boarders to eke ont the earning of the farm. Like most farmers who take summer boarders and have at the same time a convenient market for their produce, this thrifty successor of the Knickerbockers was ac customed to send all the beat products of his farm and garden and the choicest but ter from his dairy to market, often re turning from town with inferior articles wlnh h had onrchaat d at a. f?re&tlv duced price, safely hidden away in his wa vav in his wa I gon box, to be smuggled into the kitchen and palmed off upon the confiding board ers as home-grown produce. Finally Borne of the boarders began to grumble. They had boarded in the country before and knew well what freeh vegetables and berries, new-laid eggs and "grass" butter were, and were conscious of the fact that they were not getting what they were en titled to. To all their complaints the far mer returned an answer, they were entire ly "too particular ;" that it was foolish and simple to pamper one's appctito ; that ordinary food was best in the long run, and winding np invariably with the re mark : "I kin eat anything, I kin eat a crow." This last remark was repeated so often that it made an impression on one of the boarders, who, being out shooting one day, and having popped over a crow, de termined to pat the gastronomic abilities of his host to the tes He carried the bird home, and had the cook dress it and gave her in tractions to cook it for dinner. Then, fearful that the farmer might have a stomach for even such a dish and so make good his boast, be slipped into the kitched where the bird was cooking and seasoned it with Scotch snuff. In time the dish was sent to the table and the boarder placed it before the host with the remark : "Now you have steadily pro churned your ability to eat a crow. Here is one cooked to a turn. Try it." The farmer was somewhat taken back, but had too much pluck to acknowledge him self beaten without a trial. He accord ingly attacked the dish with the remark "I kin do it." At the second bite he re peated : "I kin eat crow," and as he sud denly suspended the operation of cutting the third mouthful and began to retreat toward the door he added, "but dang me if Ihankerarteritl" A Cry for Help Answered. We call attention of onr readers to the advertisement of Golden Specific Co., which appears in another column. The a importance of this wonderful discovery becomes apparent when yon are assured that the Specific is the only known posi tive remedy for the cure as well as pre vention of the liquor habit. It never fails. So certain as administered all de7 Bire for stimulants is gone. Its action-ouJ the system is thorough, while no injurious effect can follow its administration. It possesses the merits of being harmless, yet efficacious. The Cincinnati Evening Post of May 7th, says : "The Golden Specific Co. is doing more to promote temperance than all the prohibitory laws on our stat ute books." To promote digestion, and for use after the mid-day meal, Ayer's Cathartic Pills have no equal. Value of Manners. We have heard it said that yon ean do everything, however unpleasant it may be to those around you, if yon only do it in the right way ; and the instance given to prove this assertion is taken from bumble life. A cat walks daintily into a room on a cold winter's day, and with a benign glance at the company and a melodious purring sound she walks leasurly around, selects for herself the warmest place in the room, perhaps the only warm place, right in front of the grate, carls herself np and goes serenely to sleep, secure that no one will be so unreasonable as to question her right to sleep wherever inclination prompts her to sleep. No one calls it selfish, no one Is annoyed, because she has done it so prettily, so gracefully. Indeed, every one experiences an excess of warmth and comfort in themselves from beholding pussy's blissful repose. Now imagine the same thing done in a different way and by a less self-possessed individual if it were done hurriedly or noisily, or diffident ly even, or in any way obtrusively, what a storm of indignation it would excite in the bosom of all beholders ! How thought- ess, how inconsiderate, how selfish ! No, it mast be done as the eat does it, without a sound or ' gesture to provoke criticism, or it must not be dene at all. Southern Universities. CHARLESTON NEWS AND COURIER A comparison of the South Carolina College, as regards organization, attend ance of students, charges, &c, with oth er institutions of learning of similar rank in the-South will be of interest to all onr people at this particular time. The comparison is based npon the work of the academic departments of the several Uni versities for the session of 1883-84, for the following reasons : In the first place, onr State College is only a branch of the university of South Carolina a fact which seems to have es caped the attention of many and has heretofore had no professional depart ments. In the second place, the connec tion between the academic departments cf many of these institutions and their affili ated professional schools, branch colleges and preparatory schools is a merely nomi n ontv ' The medical ortuoolog ologksal ' or legal department is often situated in one town and the academic department, the one to which the name of University is, in these States, usually applied, iu another Each has i's own separate faculty, board of trustees and income, and is no wise sub ject to the control or responsible for the indebtedness of the other. To all intents and purposes, they are as dittinct institu tions as is the South Carolina College and the Medical College of Charleston. Again the work done by he academic or non professional department of an institution of higher learning is the only correct meas ure of its success or failure. Tt will Via iMn t Vi at. in tha nnir.har nf it. I students the South Carolina College stands third in a list which includes the names of the leading Universities of the south. Three institutions, the Universi ties of Texas, Mississippi and Arkansas, are open to women as well as men, and in the number of students given for the first the names of 58 females are included, in the second 23 and in the third 25. The last named has, also, ladies in its faculty. The foregoing figures are all the more remarkable when it is remembered that South Carolina, according to the census of 1880, is inferior in population and ma terial resources to the - majority of the States represented in this list by then: leading Universities. Texas, for exam ple, has a population of 1,591,749, Ten nessee 1,542,359, Georgia 1,542,180, Vir ginia 1,512,565, North Carolina 1,399,750, Alabama 1,262,505, Mississippi 1,131,597, South Carolina 995,577, and Arkansas 802,525. The comparison, however, should be based on their white pop'ulation. Texas has 1,197,237 whites, Tennessee 1,138,831, Virginia 880,858, North Car olina 867,242, Georgia 816 906, Alabama 662,185, Arkaneas 591,531, Mississippi 479,398, South Carolina 391,105. In Texas the assessed valuation of property is $320,364,515, in Virginia $308,455, 135, in Georgia $239,472, 509, in Ten nessee $211,778,538, in North Carolina $156,100,202, in South Carolina $133, 560,135, in Alabama 1122,867,228, in Mississippi $110,628,126, and in Arkan sas $86,409,364. It should also be added that the session, of 1883-84 was only the second of the South Carolina College, which was reorganized as late as the fall of 1882, after a suspension of several years. . Such facts speak well for the in terest taken by the people of this State in the work of higher education and for the success which has thus far , attended the College. "Papa" said the little daughter of a clergyman recently, "if God tells you what to write hi your sermon, why do you so often scratch it out again f" The cler gyman changed the subject by asking her how she liked her new dolL New York Tribune. A L,ucky Inventor. The Milling World says that George Westinghonse, before he invented and perfected his well known air brake was regarded by a number of his acquaintances with something approaching pity, because of his alleged lack of "gumption." His air brake was a success, and his friends began to think there was something in him after all. His automatic engine ad ded to his fame and bank balance, and he mounted higher in the esteem of his for mer friends. A few weeks ago a valuable well of natural gas was struck on his premises at Homewood near Pittsburg. The well is 1,580 feet deep, and the flow of gas is tremendous, the roar being al most deafening and scarcely endurable to the citizens of the neighborhood. Two other wells are being put down by Mr. Westinghonse, and he estimates that his profits therefrom will soon amount to $1,000 We don't know what he wants of those wells, as he is not in straitened circumstances, but if some of those former friends, adds the World, don't just about bow down and worship him ere long, we'll miss our guess. The Texas Cattle Drive. KANSAS CITY JOUBKAL. The Texas cattle driven and otherwise brought to the ranges of Western Kansas, Colorada and farther north, are variously estimated at from 250,000 to 500,000. Putting the total at 350,000, it is a larger number than has been driven out of Tex as to the northern states for several years The ereat maiority, or 75 per cent., of these cattle have come over the usual drives, but it is believed by many of the prominent cattlemen that this year will be the hist in which cattle will traverse the drive in great numbers. Railroads have run into the cattle country of Texas, and it is being found that transportation by rail to the northern ranges is not more expeditious than driving, but is cheaper Twenty five per cent, of the cattle sent north this year were transported by rail Cattle rounded up in Texas on Monday were shipped and fed by Saturday on Col orado and West Kansas ranges. The drive, too, is becoming restricted by set tlement, and the blackmailing process by the Indians of Indian Territory, taxing the owners of herds, has become such a burden of expense that transporting cattle by rail is regarded as the only relief. It is pretty generally affirmed that next year will see all of 65 per cent, of the Texas cattle shipped by rail, and that in a few years the drive from Texas north will on ly be a camp-fire story related by old cow boys while on the western ranges. A Shepherd Dog's Iong Journey. CINCINNATI ENQUIRER. A good story is told of a dog's ability to find its way from a strange place to its former home comes from Flat Rock, Ohio. A young farmer named McCauley emigrated from that place to Kansas. He put his goods on the cars at Bellvue, and with them pat a shepherd dog. At his destination he drove from the rail road station to his brother's house, the dog following. The team was cared for and the young man went into the house, leaving the dog outside. The next morn ing the animal could not be found. He wrote back, to Ohio to his friends, and mentioned the disappearance of the dog. Three weeks afterward he received a let ter announcing the arrival of the dog at its old home. The animal refused, how ever, to make up with any one, and in a short time died. The proposed American Exhibition in London will illustrate many novel fea tures. Thsre will be an artisans' ball, in which, in addition to white workmen of many crafts, there will be live Indians, Chinese and negroes plying the vocations to which they are accustomed in America. There will be an exhibition of character istic American amusements and sports, in cluding theatres, concerts and balls. Emi nent American dramatic artists will attend and there will be displays of American painting, sculpture, drawing and engrav ing. Many novel phases of American life will be shown by tableaux and interiors. These will include a broker's office in Wall street, a camp fire in Nevada, a San Fran cisco wineshop, a Florida fruit store, In dian canoe makers, arriving and dispatch ing office for cablegrams, and reproduc tions of elevated and electrical railways. These attractions may be unique in Lon don, but the great World's Exposition that U to be opened in New ' Orleans in December will have thousands of features far more attractive and illustrate the man ners and customs of all nations. "Well, well !" said old Mrs. Gumbo, as he bud down her morning paper. "So they've rescued poor old Greely alive I I do hope that Horacell take hold of the Tribune again and edit it sensibly, like he used ter." For Revenue Only FROM THE CHICAGO HERALD. In Missouri hogging societies have been introduced to swell the church treasuries, and a paper gives the following score of prices: Girls under 16, 25 cents for each hug of two minutes ; from 16 to 25 years of age, 50 cents ; from 20 to 25, 75 cents ; schoolma'ams, 40 cents ; widows, according to looks, from 10 cents to $2 ; old maids, 3 cents apiece, or two for a nickel, and not any limit of time. Minis ters are not charged. Editors pay in ad vertisements, but are not allowed to par ticipate until everybody else is through. The Music Hall of the World's Expo sition at New Orleans will accommodate 11,000 persons, not to speak of the stage that will hold 600 musicians besides the great organ. Two military bands of the Mexican Republic have been augmented, are now in training, and will be present when the Exposition opens in December. Persons who have heard these, bands say the musicians are of a high order of ex cellence, and it is doubtful if their saperi-7 ors can be found even in Europe. Kentucky Education. "Well, Colonel B.," said a friend of education in Kentucky to a member of the Legislature, "I suppose we can have your support this winter." "What fart" "In our educational interests, of course. We are agitating the question, all over the state." "Dog on your educational inrerest. I don't want no more of it in my tea.' "My dear Colonel, you suiprise me. What makes you talk that way ? Are you not in favor of education f " "No, siree, I hain't." "Why not?" "Well, because I hain't. It makes more work for me. You see, before I was eddicated all I had to do was to make my cross-mark fur my name, but now I've got to wrassel with a pen-pint half an hour, and run my tongue out like a slice of liver, jest because I am eddicated and can sign my name. Go and try some of them ignorant members. am too well eddicated myself to be fooled any furder." Bone dust is a costly fertilizer, though perhaps it may be the cheapest in the end. One fruit-grower says he offered the boys a half-cent a pound for all the bones they conld find. These he put in barrels, sunk half their depth in the ground with plenty of wood ashes between ; they were kept moist most of the time. In two months the bones were so soft they could be crushed with the hands. In this way a ton oi bones may be prepared for use for about ten dollars, whereas ready made it costs forty or fifty. A young lawyer talked four hours to an Indiana jury, who felt like lynching him. Hia opponent, a grizzled old pro fessional, arose, looked sweetly at the judge, and said : "Tour honor, I will fol low the example of my young friend who has just finished, and submit the case without argument." Then he sat down, and the silence was large and op pressive. An enterprising Vermont man has his house and store connected by telephone. The other day, during a storm, the light ning entered the store by the wire while the proprietor was talking to his wife about when he would be home to dinner. As he recovered his consciousness the first words he spoke were, "All right, Maria, don't hit me again, m do just as you say. Dr. Adam Clark, who had a strong aver- sion to pork, was called upon to say grace at dinner, where the principal dish was a roast pig. He was reported to have jaid : "0 Lord, if thou canst bless under the gospel what thou didst curse under the law, bless this pig." The Ohio Experimental Farm which is conducted in connection with the Ohio State University, will send to the World's Exposition a large exhibit of the results of its work, a single item of which embraces 160 varieties of wheat to be shown in grain and in the straw. - Immense quantities of plates made from the common gam tree ground up into wood palp, pressed, are manufactured in Newbern, N. C, and are daily shipped from Norfolk to points all over the coun try. ' Young lady (aspirant for intellectual ac complishments). "Pope t O yes ; he is a great favorite of mine. His 'Deserted Vil -lage' is too lovely, so sweetly rural, where he says, 'The swine responsive, while the milkmaid sung.' Isn't it fine t" - 3 -4 TV 4 , , t J

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