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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.
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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
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