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All casamnaieatiofis for the paper, anil business letters, should be addressed t THE BANNER, ' Rutherford ton, W . C PUBLISHED AT RUTHERFORDTON, Mi C,; EVERY FRIDAY MORNING. -; :! . - . . 5 : 7 . . f -'.. -It .... . s - ' f DO 1 M if '''!; : 11 i 3 II I II IAAV x 'V . ; 1 TE rBJKS pass o.v. " When I'm a woman, youH see whaf lH dot I'll be great and'gobd, and noble and true; I'll vlait the aick and relieve the poor No one shall ever be turned from my door; ' But I'm only a. little girl now." -I And so the years paea on. , " When I'm older I'll have more time To think of heaven and tilings sublime ; My time now full ef studies and "play But I really mean to begin some day I aw only a little girl now.?' ' t And sothe years pass 6n. "When l'ni'a. woman," a gay midden said, I H try to do right, and not be afraid ; I'll 1 a Christian, and give np the joys Of tlw worhl with all ita dazzling toys ; , ' lint I'm only a'young girl now.? i And ho the years paBS on. Ah me sighed a woman gray with years, Jier heart full of cares and doub'ts snd fcara, " I've kept putting off the time to be good, ' .lufctod of lwgiuning to do as I.sh'oUld; ; '- Biit I'm an old woman now." ' And so the years pass on. Now is the time to begin to do right To-day, whether skiea be dark or Bright ; Make other's happy by good deeds of love, Looking to Jesus fo help from above; ' ; And ther. you'll 'bo happy now, . , ! And as the years paBS on. Jbnriy laughed, and,; happening just then to catch a glance from Dr Chester4 who stood near, blushed witu pleasure, while the gentle heart in her bosom throbbed tumultuously. Jenny had a very busy day of it. T?here was much buying and selling, and Jenny's table as very popular. But, as the new church was large aud not yet finished, it was not very warm. The girls at the table were chilly all day, and by the time evening came Jenny's feet were so numb and cold that she could, hardly stand. A hot supper, however, had been pre pared at the hotel just across the street. Dr. Chester waited on Jenny at the XS DYItTG PAX2TFUZT -. Our own observation fully ; accords with the opinionTexpressed by a physi cian, that in all ordinary cases there i3" little physical 'pain in dying. A previ ous correspondent ha;! said that, ." as a physical faqt in ninety-nine case out of 100, the act of 'death is suffering and agony which only those familiar with it can understand!," To which the physi cian replies: "I beg leave as a physician to object Very decidedly jto this statement. Since 1 began my novitiate on the bat tie fields of ihe. South, I have been a frequent ob server of the passing out of my felloe beings, in the fumy and navy, in large 'table. Glad enough jwas she to get hospitals civil and military, and in iri- TI1 E lit, UK SA TIN JtOOTS. There was a church fair and festival on hand ! at Waynes ville, and all the young ladies were in a state of feDunine flutter.- - . Pretty brown-eyed Jenny Carson had on of the fancy tables. She had also a new dress for. the Occasion. The sef t, shininK folds of dark bine silk "were draped over the bed, and Jenny was. kreeling upon the floor, arranging the loops "of satin rib'bon to her taste, when Miss Bell Dorsey, who was Jenny's most intimate friend, burst into the room. ,"Oh, what a'' pretty dress, Jenny! You'll look; ravishing in- it. You only need a pair of blue satin boots to match it, and then you'll be the best -dressed girl at the festival." ' But satin boots are very expensive." . said Jenny, hesitatingly. , ' ." Oh, well, yea, somewhat. " But there's nothing sets off a lady's appear ance like nice shoes and gltoves. I heard Dr. "Chester say he never Iconsidered a lady well dressed if she wore ill-fitting boots or gloves." And Miss Bell com placently crossed her owii pretty French -kids, while Jenny nervoiifly put away the pretty silk. - What Dri Chester said was beginning . to be a mat jter of some moment to J ehny Carson. She was conscious of a longinpr for. the blue boots ; but alas ! they were too expensive for her. . Miss Bell presently took her leave, and Jfenny, with half her -pleasure spoiled, went on with her preparations. ' "Well, daughter," said her father at the dinner-table, " do vou need any fal lals for your frolic to-morrow?" . , ' Yes, I do need some new shoes, and some gloves," said Jenny.-, "You do, eh? Well, what must. I . jgive you to buy, them with?" ; " Whatever you can spare, , papa. " V Well, here's a $10 bill. I guess that will be enoneh. Get a , good, sensible pair now, semething to fieep you warm this cold weather, and no flimsy things." " Yes, sir. - Thank you, papa. I'll do -the best I can," aid Jenny ; but she '."'.-blushed, for in her heart she felt very Ruilty. : However, she did mean to buy a pair " '.-of -warm kid boots for -everyday wear. ' She hoped to get the blue ones for about S4, which would leave her enough , for the others, and for the gloves. . But when she stood in Turner's store and asked the; price of he dainty, shiny things offered her, theclerk promptly - answered $7, Miss Carson. '',". Oh, dear! I was in hopes they were . cheap," frankly confessed Jenny laying . down the boots. "Indeed, they are cheap," said the cierkj "I assure you, Miss Carson, we have sold these right along at $S. This ' ;is the last pair, so we offer them for less. : They're very fine : . " Yes," admitted Jenny. " Nothing sets off a dainty foot like a "pair of these dainty boots," pursued the wily clerk, with an eye for his trade. " Very few young ladies could wear so Bmall a. shoe-just your size, you gee, Miss Carson." " -. , Poor Jenny sighed, thought of the thick, warm boots she ought to have, cast a longing look at the blue beauties, recalled what Dr. Chester said, and, silly little puss, for once let her vanity run away with her reason. " I'll take them," she said. After the boots were paid for, there wasl arely Annno-h left to bnv her cloves ana a w"TO ' ribbon or . two. The next day, the great one, was clear; and cold, with a sharpf wincL Overshoes would ruin the dainty satin boots, but, luckily for Jenny, the ground was dry. -But it was frozen hard and when she reached the gayly-decoated room of ' the new church her feet were like ice. Jenny presided at one of 'the fancy taMes. She made a lovely picture iu , the beautiful blue silk : her throat and wrists shaded with the softest lace, and the dainty blue boots fluttering in and out below the plaiting of her skirt Bell Dorsey was already at her poet, and as Jenny came up she opened her eyes ,wida and exclaimed : "Ob, my, you blue angel-1 Did you drop from the clouds J" " something warm and be near a fire, But Dr. Chester, though kind and polite, was not what he had been. ' He seemed strangely cold and distant, and Jenny felt as if her bright day was j spoiled. But cirls know how to hide I these things, and Jenny was the gayest . I of the gay. She had to return to her stall again, immediately after supper ; and oh ! hpw sharply the' cold struck her as she Stepped out into the night. Dr. Chester left her at the door of a Bmall room designed for a vestry, but now used by the ladies as a dressing; i room. Jerfny ran , in : to put off her wraps, but, while doing this, heard her name spoKen in the narrow passage without. : "It's all settled. I suppose. Doctor. . between you and Miss Carson," was what she heard. ." No, Fred. Tve seen tEe folly of that, to-day. The tones, which an swered, were the well-known ones of Dr. Chester. 1 ; . " You astonish me 1" replied Fred. . "I don't mind giving you the reason, Fred," said the doctor. "Just look at that young lady's feet, and you will have it. In spite of this cold day she wears nothing but a flimsy pair of blue-silk shoes. I have more than fancied Miss Carson ; I don't deny it. But yon will see at once that a girl who can so utter ly sacrifice her reason to her vanity is not the wife for a poor, struggling doc tor, "with his fortune yet to make. But enough of this. Let'sgo in. It's chilly here." Poor Jenny I Fprttinately, there was no one- in the" dressing-room but herself. She flew to the furthest end and hid" her burning face on a pile of cloaks. But, after a brief struggle, she rftllipd. It would never do .to erv. It would never do to go tq her table with red eyes. It was a very erect, flrm4 mouthed little lady who .walked to her table presently, and the heels of the pretty blue boots came down npon the floor with a sharp, resolute little click ; for Miss Jenny had made up h.?r nimd to do something very odd. V . ' "lama little fool," she aid to her self, "but fl don't quite deserve to lose a good man's good opimpn; and I won't either if I can help it." It was late before she was ready to go home. Just as she was about to start, Dr. ' Chester, who was h.3r escort. handed her a pair of overshoes, saying, quietly, as if it were a matter of course : " Miss Jenny, please put these on ; it is too cold a night for such thin shoes as I see you wear." Poor Jenny ! Her face was scarlet with mortification. She made put to utter a confused "ThankTyou," "and put on the offending overshoes - without another word. Then she took the doctor's arm, and they went out together. Jenny's heart was beating so fast that it almost choked her, but she was as de termined, as ever. Before ten steps had been taken, she said : "Dr. Chester, 'do you think it right to condemn a person for a surjle fault? " "Certainly not," said the doctor, promptly. Then, why do you condemn me ? I don't understand you." said he.; I heard every word you said to vate life, and hence cannot help feeling that what I have seen must be a fair sample of the methods of dying peculiar to our race. ; ' ' The result of these sad observations, covering eighteen years, is that the vast majority of persons do not find death ' suffering and agony. Many ; suffer more from the various illnesses from which they recover than most do in the article of death. A very large propor tion become unconscious and hence pass away without; distress to themselves . while, as regards those who retain a good measure of intelligence till life is extinct, I have been greatly surprised, eonsidering my early religious teaching, to discern in them almost general indif ference to their fate. " I have always supposed that, in spite of apparent mental lucidity, dis ease clouds the intellect so that apathy becomes the otdinary state of the dying. Of the few deaths I have witnessed the mere onlookers might call horrible, there was good reason to believe the pa tient unconscious." New York Ob- TUB LITTJjfe MAlf lit TELZOJT COAT. , , Two hundred years ago almost at the very moment when his. soldiers were en tering Strasbourg, the liQf &olcijl started T out from FontainebleauJu tak posses sion in person of. liiS v new -conquest. The day before that is to say; on the 29th of September, lP-SlLouia XTV. had announced to his court, inhe pres ence of the German Ambassador, that he had made up his mind to go-to Stras bourg in order to receive-the-oath of fealty which the treaty o tNimgue, gave him the right to exact from thfjity. It was a coup dc theatre And nq, mistake. But how happened it that the Jiing was bo well informed as to the -actual condi tion of affairs at so distant ja point? Well, the story runs as follows : One evening the Minister; Louvois sent for a young nian Who had been recommended to his good graces, and said: "Sir, you wiir'get into a post carriage which you will find at my door. My servants have exact 1 instructions what to do. You will 'proceed to Bale without stopping, andfeu will reach there about 2 o'clock .tie-morrow. You- will proceed immediately to the bridge which crosses the KhinjYoii will re main there until 4 o'clopk. ' You will carefully notice all that "you; may see there. You will then iam get into the; carriage and, without losing a mmute, will return and report tome what you may have seen." &fj The young man bowejdnd started at once. The day aftet, atj2 o'clock, he reached Bale and afc ohce hastened to Fred Somers to-night, rejoined Jenny, quietly. - "Miss Jenny!" He stopped, startled. " I did. I don't blame you, Doctor ; I gave youjeason to think me only a vain, silly girl. But please hear my defence and how sorry and ashamed I am, won't you?" And then Jenny made her penitent, little ' confession, ending with, "I don't know what you think of me now; out, maeeu , "I think you the dearest, bravest little girl in the world, and 'tis I who am the fool," cried the doctor, ardently. And then but "then. I don't know that outsiders like you and I, reader, haves any business to listen. . When Jenny got home she took off the blue boots which had so narrowly cost her a lover, and flung them under her wardrobe, saying : "Lie there, you blue wretches! But you've taught me a good lesson. I've done with you. , I'll buy my wed ding boots before long, and they'll not be blue ones, either." terver. A MACHINE THAT WOULDN'T SELL. A Nevada man invented a lying-ma chine and went round trying to sell 'em. The machine was- warranted to trot out a first-dass lie on any subject at a mo ment's notice. But it didn't sell well. He took it toj a horse-trader. Said the trader : " Come, you, get out of this, I tell the truth1 in my business." The in ventor presented it to a lawyer, and he also looked horror rstricken and offended. A fishing party looked hankeringly at it but their language was to the effect that they abhorred untruth. jA young man, who was engaged to three different girls, also felt indignant at the offer. At last the disheartened inventor tried an editor. The writer flew 'mad in a minute. "You scoundrel," he cried, "do you mean to insult me ? " i No," tremblingly an swered the poor man. " Then what the blazes do you mean by offering me that thiug?" .Wliy; I I thought you might occasionally want to use it in your business." "You wretch,' what do you take me for ? " Oh, sir, I didn't mean to insinuate that you were a liar ! I don't for a minute think, sir, you could tell a lie ! " '" That's it ! " cried the ed itor. , " that's what I'm mad about ! You conceited ass, you think you're able to invent a machine that I can't ' lie all around, and; that without an effort. I never was so! insulted in my lif el Get! ! ! " Editors are not hypocrites, any way. Boston Post THE MIGRATION OF BIRDS. "Ducks are! reported to be able to fly 1,500 miles at one time, and the pace of the swallow and martin is put down at 900 miles in twenty-four hours. Lin nets and other seed-eating birds have been known to settle on the mast and rigging of ships far away from land out at sea. They will take their night's rest on the rigging, and when leaving the ship know exactly in what direction to continue their flight. It is said that the migration of birds will foretell severe weather, arid it is well known by the bird-catchers, when the larjks and other northern bifds appear, that snow and hard weather will follow the flight. These warnings, of migratory birds, though apparently insignificant, may be of vast political and even national im ,portance. if the Emperor Napoleon, when onthje road to Moscow with his army in 1811, had condescended to ob serve the flights of storks and cranes passing ovet his fated battalions, subse quent events of the politics of Europe might have j been very different. These storks and jcranes knew of the coming on of a great-and terrible winter ; the birds hasiened toward the. south, Napoleon &nd his army toward the north. ; - take up his station Ott' the bridge. Nothing extraordinary atractel his at tention. It was market$ayj and some peasants were passing $nd Repassing, bringing, vegetables and'takjing back their empty carta A,rsjuad Jof militia passed. Townsfolk crowed the bridge, talking of the news of ;tie ' dy, and a little man, wearing a'yfjlow coat, leaned over the railing and amused himself by dropping stones into tbe-water as if to create, circling eddies, wlUch life watched with a satisfied look. "Fouir o'clock " , '. i struck, and the Minister fiessenger started on his returnVtoPalis. Very late, in the evening tlia -tyoing man, greatly disappointed ajf tE'evresjult of his mission, arrived at the house of Ijouvois. The Minister was still awake and rushed to see his protege. feTv j . " What did you see ?" he asfed. "I saw peasants goin't and oming ; a squad of militia pawed over tfio bridge ; citizens who walked along diselissing the day's news, and a little man wearing a yellow coat, who wa .BTonsing bknself bv dropping stones inio jbe witer." The Minister had heard enjjugh, and he hurried to the Riirg.; The kittle man in yellow was. a secret! agenl, and the stones dropped into "the water was a signal that all difficulties had )een over come and that Strasbourg belonged to France. i f HOW TO MARK Hard water makes the most delicious, tea, as it dissolves less of the tannin and gives the cup a more delicate . flavor. And even with hard water there is a wide difference between wells located near together. But given the same;, quality of water, and a difference in the manipulation will make to a sensitive- taste a total change in the character of; the beverage. There is not one city tea-kettle out o 100 that in its present condition is fit to boil water for a cup of tea. Let our reader go home to-night and inspect his own outfit, and he will verify our state ment. He will find the interior of his kettle incrusted with the mineral de posits extracted from the water boiled in it from morning until night of each succeeding day. As the water is " clean," the cook but empties and fills rthe kettle, never thinking of the grow ing crust that must now be scraped off if the kettle is to be cleaned. Water that has stood after boiling- will not make a good cup of tea, and yet how often the tired laborer, mechanic, mer chant, doctor or lawyer has tried to so lace himself with a beverage made from water containing the debris of that which has stood all day on the range being only filled as often as any addition was needed. Take a clean kettle never used for anything else, fill it with fresh water, the harder the better, boil quick ly over a very hot fire, and pour as soon as it boils upon the tea leaves fresh from the canister. Let it stand four or five minutes, and then, drink. How to spoil tea : If the first experi ment does not make an infusion strong enough, or if the pot is partly empty and more is needed, do not put any fresh tea into the teapot, for it will sure ly be wasted. Tea water will not dis solve the theine from the dry leaves of fresh tea: only pure, fresh water will do that. The addition of tea to the nearly empty teapot will increase the color, but it will not make tea perceptibly stronger in its exhilarating quality; Any one may try the ' experiment. Piit a table-spoonful of tea into a quart of water and let it stand five minutes, or boil it if desired. Then add two more spoonfuls of tea leaves to the same de coction. The color will 'be increased, but the tea will be little stronger in the active principle so much desired. When more liquid or a stronger infusion is de sired, put the additional tea in a cup and pour fresh water on it ; after it has stood a few minutes, it may then be put 1 in the pot to good, advantage. Chris- ; iian at Work. ADTICE TO THOSE VSINO GLASSES. Men engaged in literary pursuits should rea'l most by day and write most bv night. It is worthy of note that reading causes more strain to the eye than writing, and that copying work in writing makes a greater demand upon the organ of vision than off-hand compo sition. Twilight and a mixture of twi- Iighttand artificial illuminatiori should be avoided for any kind of work. The pale cobalt-blue tint is the best that can be employed when protection for the eye from intense glare is sought, as in the case of traveling upon snow-fields in the bright sunshine. The green glass that is so often adopted for this purpose is not by any means so worthy of conn dence. Reading in railway traveling ia objectionable in the highest degree for a very obvious reason. The oscillation of the carriage continually alters the distance of the page from the eye, and so calls for unceasing strain in the effort to keep the organ in duo accommoda tion for the ever-varying distance of the dancing image. The exact fitting of the famewprk of spectacles to the face and eyes is of more importance than is gen erally conceived. If the centers of the enses of the spectacles do not exactly coincide with the centers of the pupils cf the eyes, the consequence is that the images in the separate eyes are a little displaced from the positions which they oue;ht to hold, and that a somewhat painful and injurious effort has to be made by the eye to bring those images back into due correspondence for accu rate vision. An incipient squint is apt to be in this way produced. Mr. Carter recommends that people should look to the centeriner of their spectacles for themselves. This may be easily done by standing before a looking-glass with the spectacles in their place. If the fit js a good one the center of Jthe pupil should then appear in the center of the ri m. Fully-formed spectacles are always to be preferred to folding frames, be cause they permit of more satisfactory adjustment in this particular, and be. cause they are more easily kept in the right position with regard to the eyes. The only advantage which the pebble enjoy over glass for the construction of spectacles is the immunity which it pos sesses against scratching and fracture on account of its greater hardness. Edinburgh Kev lew. PLEASANTRIES. " These is a remarkable family of seven brothers and two sisters residing within short distances of one another in Oswego M county, N. Y,, remarkable in point oi f longevity, their united ages being 672 years, and their circle never having been invaded bjydefttb. SOME PROGRESS, ANTHOW. "Shekel I understand that you are going to get marnea ; is it so t asueci Gabbleblock of his friend, as they i sauntered slowly np the street. -"Well, that depends," answered Shekel. "Jam trying to get a woman that's an heiress and the owner of a bad cough." "And what progress have yon made i was the next query, in an incredulous tone. ; wv.tr "i Bflid FL. with the air of a man who had made a great achieve- ! luart' 01 ment7""rVe found one with a bad sough. " . j . ; Gabble was so sympathetic that he fo liated on paving for the beer. AN ARKANSAS JURY. Down in an extremely ruraljdistrict o! Arkansas an old man - was arrested for stealing a hog. The proof wis positive, and court was sui-prised ' wher the plea of not guilty was introdficfed. j The law yer for the defense, a'niaa wll known for his trickery rather than "bW ability, seemed particularly desirous cf selecting a j ury that would not show partiality in decision. The prosecuting 'attorney, a young and inexperienced man agreed to every juryman selected t by fljier defense, aud the Judge, although he rfiight havo thought the defense ' steppe4 over tho bounds of judicial courtesy, jsaid noth ing. The arguments "were feoncluded, leaving in the minds' of the jjpeople no doubt as to the verdict for one of the witnesses, a man Whose ' wprd no one could dispute, swore that he slaw the de fendant when he stole the animal. The jury retired, and, after a fe moments, returned a verdict of not feuilty, in exact opposition to the charge of the court. j . . When the court adjourned Jthe Judge approached the lawyer ' for tfie defense and remarked " w 1 I " Look here, my friend, I ntever heard of such a verdict, cannot, jas an im partial disseminatorofjnstic, allow, so flagrant an outrage to be per.etrated on this community. That man 3 as guilty as Judas, but, if you will tel me the se cret of the acquittal, I'll' all$w the ver dict to pais.", R JL "You see, Judge, ome of the jury men was rather young and' ijjome rather older." r,'. .1 " Yes, but what does'that pgnify ?" "It signifies thaWI run tin the old man's twelve sons dn'tltfJ iup." Little Jlock Gazette. V ' " ; I - DICKENS' DREHltt. Apropos cf dreams, is it not a strange thing if writers of fiction never dream of their own? creations, recollecting, I sup pose, even in their dreains, that they, have no real existence? I never dreamtd of any of my own characters, and I feel it so impossible that I would wager Scott never did of. his, real as they are. I had a good piece of absurdity in my head a night or two ago. I dreamed that somebody was dead, I don't know who, but it's not to the purpose. ; It was a private gentleman and a particular ; friend, and I was greatly overcome when EFFECT Cl'ON EUROPE OF THE JHSCOVERY OF AMERICA. The voyage of Columbus in 1492 was in many respects' the greatest event which had occurred in the world since tho birth of Christ. Politically and so cially it was the beginning of an entirely liew chapter in human history, and it wrought effects upon, men's speculative thinking which, though perhaps , :ess conspicuous, were not less real or re markable. In much more than the t IV neira WAS broken to me ("very deli- t V "w " " " ' cately) by a gentleman in a cocked hat. and a sheet, Nothing else. "is he dead?" top boots " Good God !" I said, " He is dead, sir," rejoined .the gentle man, "as a door-nail. But we mus'tall die, Mr. Dickens, sooner or later, my dear sir." "Ah," I said. "Yes, to be I cnro Very true. But what did he"die' piuv of ?" The gentleman burst into a ftoocl : of tears, and said, in a voice broken by ! emotion : "He christened his youngest child, sir, with a toasting-fork. l never in my life was so affected as at his haying fallen a victim to this complaint.; It carried a conviction to my mind that he never could have recovered. I knew that it was the most interesting .and fatal malady in the world, and I wrung the gentleman's hand in a convulsion of respectful admiration, for I felt that jthat explanation did equal honor to his head ard heart. Letters of Charles Dickem, Vol, III: . ': ; ARITHMETIC. different i things to te acher. PRACTICAL -VT Ti . J J ion can 6 vuu vtmoj. trMh pt " Raid an Austin schciol e" d-1 ' i " If you add a sheep nd a cow together it does not make two sheep otwo cows." A little boy, the son.o'f an Aujstin avenue milkman, held up hi hand and said : " That may do with sheep and cows, but if vou "add a quart of milk and a water it makes twf quarts ot milk. ; ings. tried.' -iTexas Sift- I - .-. Do what must berdeme a gracefully as possible. j m ' f THE SlTVr SIDE OF DEATH. Take the sunny side of death. Sooner or later it must come to all, and at the latest it is only a few swiftly-passing days distant Kings aad potentates have no refuge from the summons of the dread messenger Death is the great leveler of man, and dust to dust the heritage of all. Why, then, should we shrink from its contemplation? Why banish it from our thoughts with a sbud- der ? It is not rational to permit death to shadow our Uvea J nor is it rational to turn in terror from what must as surely come as to-morrow's sun. Those who are suddenly chilled day after, day by the thoughts of death either shadow their lives by misdeeds, or reject the philosophy'that should make every.well life wait serenely for its end. The rational apprehension of the tip right man is, not that he may faU too Eoon in the race, but that he may linger too long, and outlive everything but hoye.-T-Baptifst Weekly. J ; A raoo. weighing fifty pounds vraa killed near New Orleans. f v mere geographical sense was this the dis covery of a new world. It was the first in a fnrvmliV.fitp.d Keries of events which four centuries have not yet fully round ed into a period; the foundation of new Europe in America, in Africa, in Australia and in the islands of the Pa cific ; the rise of the .Unglisji race xo political and commercial supremacy, and the advance of the .English language toward what may become universal do minion ; the reorganization of govern ment upon , a higher, plane than the middle ages had even been able to fore shadow ; the renovation of society in the old Europe through countless subtle , influences ; the permanent triumph of the industrial over the predatory spirit ; the successfxd assertion of individual freedom against the paralyzing absolut ism' inherited from the Roman empire ; the overthrow of sacerdotalism, and the Christianization cf the world. It would nrobablv be too much to assert that some of these desirable results might not have been attained, so far as the old Europe is concerned,, even if the lands beyond the sea had never been explored and colonized. It is unquestionable, , lmwovpr tnat, the procrress would have . i.vv .. v. . - , A ' been much slower and much more sub ject to interruption. The part per formed by England, for example, in tne work of European civilization since th age of Elizabeth has been so immense and so complicated that no elaborateness of analytic description can do it justice. Yet England in Elizabeth's time was hardly a first-class powerand but for the colonization of America in the seventeenths-century it is difficult to see in what way she would so surely or so soon have sained the commercial supremacy which gave her in the eighteenth the dominion of thB ocean, and thus secured her the foremost position in the world. To those and there are many such in America who are m the habit ot re garding American history as a dry and uninteresting study, it may be a profita ble matter of reflection that since the beeinning of the seventeenth century it is impossible to follow intelligently the -v;M f tVio nlH F.nTone throuch a sin- fM I ' " vy.a uv - -- .t . de generation without constant refer ence to the New Worid.b Fizte in Harper's Magazine. Proksb furniture for a docter'sffico Bone settee. It is the clean table-doth that catches the early grease-spot. Avtkb all, the books of Euclid are rather problematical. A cmcKXx's neck is like a bell when it is rung for dinner. It looks suspicious to see a man al- ways take a clove before answering the telephone. " Laving down the law." The Judge ' on the point of resigning. " Know thyself" may be an excellent sort of proverb, but eome people wouldn't know very much if they obeyed 7 it implicitly. ". Ws are told that the evening " wore A A 1 3 1 X X 1 on, but we are not toia wnai. uie ing wore on that particular oocasion. ' Was it the close of a summer's day 7 . " I take my tex dis morning," said a colored preacher, "from dat portion ob tho scriptur' whar the Postle Piiul pints his pistol at de Fesians." It was wrong in Peg, the shoemaker, to say to the doctor who complained that he had made "a poor job of that last pair of boots, " Physician, heel thyself." ' " What is the best . attitude for self defense?" said a pupil (putting on the gloves) to a well-known pugilist. "Keep a civil tongue in your head, was the significant reply. " I neveb argy agin a success-," said ArtemusWard. "When I see a rattle snaix's head sticking out ov a hole, I bear off to the left and say to myself, hat hole belongs to that snaix.' " It is announced that baldness can be cured by skin-grafting, but by married men the assertion is regarded as mere balderdash. They say the only sure cure lies in the amputation of the arms of the female. A French writer remarks, "If a lady says to you, x can never uvo juu, wait a httle longer ; all hope is not lost. But if ?e says, No one has more sin cere wishes for your happiness than 1 take your hat." , A German witness in a San Francisco court indignantly rejected the services of an interpreter. He was testifying in the case of a man accused of cutting an other with a handsaw, and said r "T seen -myself run dot saw against and cuts hees hand." A cobbespondent fof an agricultural monthly asks : " Why does Timothy run out 7" We haven't time to read the editor's reply, but if Timothy is at a theatrical performance, the answer, may be very readily surmised. Noi-rUtown (Pa.) Herald. "Fiogebs vont lie,' vill they?" mut tered a cockney arithmetician, who had jnst reeled out of an anti-temperance re sort and was holding on to a lamp post "Veil, perhaps they vont," remarked an observer, "but I see a figger as vont 'stand any how ! v Bah I" he exclaimed with an ex pression of great disgust, after kissing his wife, "I do believe you haveJjecn "smoking cigarettes- cheap and nasty ones, at that" i"It's only too true, she replied, nonchalantly. . " I took them out of the bundle you brought home last night." The Philadelphia; 2?eU)9 believes thai Aa-h Wkn in boiled;: cabbage. Bake ' em if yon want to be safe, ESQUIMAUX MORALS AND BEAUTT. Speaking of amusements suggests the latest acquired civilized vice among the Esquimaux card-playing which knowledge they have acquired along with other questionable things from contact with the whale-men. At the stopping places most frequented by whaling ships we have been asked for playing-cards, and the women showed no nicety in their morals. As a rulefthey are any- Tn fact. I have seen but one a woman wno came anoara at Cape Prince of Wales who might perhaps have been good-looking altet taking a warm bath. She was votedthe Esquimaux belle, , and by way oi rmuu- festing this fact, sue receiveu uui ciative blue jackets numerous enucju. under the chin with the same air of grat ified vanity that a popular beauty does the attention of half a dozen young fel ine at irerman. To add to their re- pulsiveness, the females tattoo their chins ; their dress is of the most unbe coming style, and the smoky, cetacean, fishy perfume diffused tnrouga u atmosphere in their immeoiate vicuuvj is anything but agreeable to refined nostrils. Cor. New Yotk jieraiu. WHAT BISMARCK E ATM AND DRINKS. Prince Bismarck has a truly princely . - mm. appetite. Here is his bill oi lare ror one dinner : Onion soup with port wine, a saddle of wild boar together with beer; upon thiFjlrish stew, turkey, chestnuts, all washed down with red wine at dis cretion ; finally dessert, in .which pears are conspicuous. The Prince is exceed ingly fond of trout and hard-boiled eggs. His favorite drink is said to De poner with champagne, though he has a strong mixedliking for a compound invented by Vou Moltke, consisting of hot . tea, bherryand champagne. . . One must sot-to work betimes takeep one's sell free from pftssion. j -' i i- t
The Rutherford Banner (Rutherfordton, N.C.)
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Jan. 27, 1882, edition 1
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