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-Having recently; purchased a fir&t. '; " . t -If .A - ".'. - class outnt, we .are preparea to do ;?. . ' OYER EVEEETT,; WALL- & X)MPANY'S. all kmds;of ;i";";;; i&ZfH . gljBSORIPTIOS EATBS ' : i Six months, .......- ' Three months, All subscription accounts bust be paid In advance. -';, ' .' ' flAdvertismg fates furnished on application,') B. ii '. - V" ' 'nften for the Rocket, DBOWKING CHEEK AD LUMBEK K1V . EK, FROM TOBY HOLE TO KUS. '.' : - BELL'S BRIDGE." ? ' ;;.'"": ; A Summer Idyl. '. - 1 BY ERCYLDOUN.I '.- Old Dick, the robber "runaway,' : Unco rouncL mis onuge oem uomu :. . sway; - " -;;;,. ;'H": -. A house where dwelt? a lovely bride "Was burned upon this riyer's side--The fair one barely did escape " y From burning house" and fearful shape; jty: .' "; ; .. . Hogs, chickens, .turkeys ; were " de . . voured,' . , ; ,WV -:: Aud all ' the' country ; round was scoured; . .." -;"-- With guns and dogs they sought in . vain . - -. V;V- j" -v;;. ; Too well he knew the swampy plain. So dreaded was the name, Old Dick, 'Twas almost synonym for Nick. Here, too, a ftimily did drown . . Who had from Anson been brought " down; ::v ' ; v";;' The fiver'high, the Wagon full - The mules had all that they could ' pull J;. :"v.V;-r"-:::-V-Of darkies, pots and household goods. The bridge broker-all were in the floods ! -1 , .'. - ' 'Twas night ; a horrid din below, " 'Mid waters swelling in their flow Were screams and wails and neigrA ing dread ; -';'- Some swam, some ank among the ' - dead. ; ' , .-j v -, One woman clung to pendant bough And cried for .help ; oh, who could go? v :-. ' ?f. On mule Bob Livingston plunged through ' J ' . ; - : .And did ail "in his power to do ;: To save her, but his hold gave way And she and children sank in spray ! The moon ia up," the waters surge, The winds combine to sing her dirge. JBut yonder stand our dog and deer, .Now for our homes, by moonlight . " ' clear.. , . .. ..' ' iv;.-.. The first stage -"past, we close our ; sail V:5 ;'--""' :. JVnd wait late autumn's cooler gale, When down this stream, through ScufHeton, j . . ';. p: , We'll go, by laiwl, to Lumberton. TheLowry dens and crimes and lore May give us gossip 'down the shore ; And then tha bink3 of Lumbeiton Will open stores of grief and fun; "Oh, do' the la Is and lassies 'say', u ,n : I. . J 'And well sin on" oar homeward way.5- tHjE END. "CATO'S" APOXOGY' ACCENTED. And "H." Indulgorf in Some Iutcrestiag KeminisceAcea of ClieraAV Correspondence of the Eockct. ; Ai , To "CaTO," GflEEXDiG: V 1 f r "An' here's my h m'; my trusty friend, " An'.gie 93 a ho i' o' thine ;; f , -v, Ve'll take a right! gude willie waught, For daya of AuBi' Lang Syne..", 4 " Or words to that effect." ' Yoti have made the amehd honorable so . hand' somely, and1 retreated so gracefully behind a cloud of "embeUishments, poetic license, speculations and rhet orical flourishes"n regard to Un'cle Perrie" that "HLhas too much mag nanimity tp ask you to "fall another snake," and fight' freely does he Bwallow the "old 'grandmother" and also the "buzzard" that figure in your "Sentimental Journey." "H." truly regrets that he had oc casion to correct Cato," but, for the "truth of history "and you know the rest, and -tfc inking perhapg it would interest the' readers of the Rocket to' know he, facts about the "epitaph, he wro e: his; article and now he promises "Cato'' if. he 'will take another, "sen imental journey" that he will not correct any., state rnent he may make, but will enjoy it, as he cHd the first one. 'H." would indeed be clad to see his let- j ters in the Fayetteyille Observer, es- famj me one abbut his "gal" who had a'rich dad :" but alas! he has wrgotten whether or not she had trown ringlets.: , Ah,"Cato; when you cross the meridian of life, like your mend has, your memory will then be. brighter and her picture will be ftesher in your heart' than -now, and the color of her hair and eyes ' will J11 come back to ; you a. they ,were before "she became another's." v Thanks for your compliment you Pay me in bringing out the truth boat the illustrious dead. In think. g over the glorioui past of that old town of Cheraw, there comes trpop !ng before icy mind; a long list of it lustrous names who left their im Pess upon Statoancl church.'- - )r and . III. 'C Co temporary with the great Thorn well, whose brief career I sketched in my last, was one of the foremost men of the age, and afterwards won renown in. his church that will gild its history for ages to come.7" 7 r About the time that young Thorn well first made his appearance iri the Academy of Cheraw! there livkd in that town a mechanic, who was. the sole Roman Catholic resident there. His eldest boy was alsd a.. student in the Academp', which was then fa mous throughout the State as a seat of learning. These young boys soon became .rivals ' in their- classes and debating society. : ; i - r . When, nearly grown - their lives were parted Th orn well to go to the South Carolina College to complete his education ; the mechanic's son to Rome "to T drink from the very fountain-head the pure waters from her classic streams. . - Years rolled by. Thornwell ret turned wearing the brightest laurelJ his Alma Mater could bestow. The mechanic's son also returned, crown ed with the brightest garlands ' that could be gathered from the Eternal City, having graduated in the Propo; ganda in a class of fifteen hundred students, from all parts of the world, with the highest honor. The one with license from" his church to preach the stern and austere decrees of Calvin; the other invested by the Holy Father, the Pope of Rome, with the cassock and staff to pro claim to mankind papal infallibility. Once again their lives crossed. The school-boy rivalry was not forgotten; and they unsheathed their glittering ecclesiastic blades an d attack ed th e tenets of - each others' churches. It was a war of giants, . "Eternal de crees" and "Papal infallibility ;" an4 then , their lives" diverged never, to cross again. ".' ; ;" - - You know the rest of Thornwell's history. But let me follow . the as cetic warrior, He was called to a church" in Charleston and soon stood in the very front rank of pulpit ora tors. He frequently came to his old home, where your correspondent heard him preach. , He was over six feet tall, a perfect athlete in form, with the most massive head "I ever saw; eye3 so black and piercing as to almost make you shudder when he stood On the rostrum and. fulmi nated his anathemas on Protestant heads. But a few years passed away ere his fame, his learning,- his zeal was rewarded, and h was invited to Rome and appointed Bishop of a Diocese. ; Soon after the civil war broke out, and true to his instincts as a Carolinian, he "threw all; his mighty influence with his "" native State, and finally, through .his influ ence, opposed as he wa3 -by the JN orthern $ lioman Catholics, headed by Cardinal McCloskey, who recent ly died in New York, he' extorted from the Pope of Rome a recognition of the Southern Confederacy the only potentate in Europe who recog nized the government of the ."lost cause." And then his end came, and he passed away honored by all our great leaders Protestant as well as Catholic." , A true history of the struggle will show that Bishop Pat rick Lynch did'as much' , for our Southland as any citizen in it." , ; I have condensed this sketch , so much that it is very imperfect, but it may interesCato, as well as some of your other readers. ' . , . There were others 1 raised in ;th at little town whose names will never die one especially, to quote a line in. the, "epitaplv,""- "who" far excelled all other menV". that I-may-tell you about," some .time. But enough-for the present. " " - . i; ' t ". T ' Yours, ' . H. 1 n- Robeson county. ' s ... ' : ? Gout, a . painful : disease affecting pfincipally the fibrous tissues" about the smaller joints, has various names, according to the parts affected, as podasso when in the feet; ehivassa, wheh in the hands, &c.;b);t wheth er the attack" first felt in the feet, the hands, or some" other part, rub with Salvation Oil at once.VIt anni hilate3 pain. - Price j25 cents a bottle. ,.;Thc irielahch oly, days have cornel Proprietor. .' K i 5 ' Written for the Rocket. '- THE PHANTOM OF THE SHOHEU 7 '.l-l 3 '': JOSEPH L. MAY. :'VJ Last night my Spirit left its Jiome : ; It harried through its midnight door ; And, swetping o'er the white sea-foam, '. " Bought refuge on its native shore;, '. Sought one whose face Was saintly fair , : And pore, irhoee eye was richly dark 5 -Sought her whose love was my despair,... "Whose; voice had called my missing ' 1 Sought one whose life was heavenly,' . Refreshing as the morning dew j . i Bought hei whose heart was true to me ; . From welcome to the sad adieu f T.-,'- ; " In lonliness it pondered there, v'-: : v .' '. Upon the white and ghastly shell ; 4i " ; Then up the foystio hills of Veir,. v . It sought my gentle Zula Bell. :; , : - Midway , its path,-perchance it met : A pale eidolon, and it asked : ? ' 'Whence, Spirit; is thy way ? and let Thy fairy person h unmasked." , '. "They tell of one both young and true t .That from this haven took her flight, And sought her lover o'er the blue' . " . Her bark is drifting through the night.' ! -It thusly spake in pensive tone, ' . Yet ne'er unmasked its spectral form, But vanished, with a sigh and moan, Amid the shadows of the storm. ' 2 This morning,, from the hills of Veir, " lly Spirit came ; the world was glad . , And full of joy, but it was heir ; Of grief h I now, is pale and sad. r In vain J.asked it o'er and o'er : "When shall thy shndow cease its sighs ? To seek the phantom of the shore ?" 1 A voice within me thus replies : "'Twill never cease to leavo its home, ' "Nof hurry through its midnight door, Till Zula with her bark shall come - ' : It vanishes forevermore." Laurinburg, N". C. ; OUH SKETCHING CL.VH. We v;ere off to the woods,' on a kind of sesthetic picnic, or what Jule called a "sketching jamboree.". Our party was a large one, but, though there was always' more or less of a scattering out' of -doors, Milicent Leigh was the only one who had a trick of slipping off by herself in quest of -beauties which no' one else could discover. - - . On this particular afternoon she wa3 seated alone on a rUstie bridge, making a sketch of a prostrate tree that lay just at the water's edge. . - "There I" she murmured, laying down her book. "That's the pretti est thing IV donejihis season.", d! The words had scarcely left her lips, ere she gave a low cry, and started to her feet in alarm. : . A cold nose had just : been impu dently thrust into her facej and the same moment she confronted a big brown dog, whose mate was dashing through the underbrush not fifty yards away. . ' ' -:: v : . Milicent stood for a moment in the most abject1 terror, and her ap prehensions ere hardly lessened when she saw the owner of the dogs emerge from the brush with a gun over his shoulder. I He had a big, bushy brown beard, And, with" his gray slouch hat pulled over his eyes, he might easily have passed for a villain. - ' - : As he caught sight of the dogs, he put a silver whistle to his lips .and called them. " , :- - Still the advanced toward Milicent, and she took a "backward step, with half a mind to. run away. , VI am Very sorry; the dogs fright ened ' you' he said,'- lifting. his: hat politely P - "They don't understand the courtesies." , ' .' , -f:: At this moment, Jule came. dash ing through the brush, crying:"'- "Miss Milicent I - Miss Milicent! I've been hunting for you every-, where. Come I It's going' to rain, and 5 they have all gone off to -.the farmhouse." ' . - 'Then he stopped in astonishment at the sight of the broad-shouldered stranger and his two dogs.;' ''. f, "I. was just about ; ad vising the ybnng lady to' go there," the gertth mansaia. ' . . .x. ' "I guess we had ,better go," Mili cent observed, turning to J ule, brus qUcly. . : . . " ','1 am going to walk over to the farmhouse myself, ', said the- gtran- gen' So they started, all three- tdgether. iMrs. Poindexter and the' rest of us were already seated on the broad bid-fashioned ' piazza " when, " they came hurrying up out of the Tain. - S .Kot being a prey to alarni,;we could Judge dispassionately of the gentleman's appearance, anji all of us ; thought jhim gdecidely qo-, l6okingirr short, " quite- "sketcha- . "Ask him if he'd "mind posing, Mrs. . Poindexter," . Mabel .Waring said in French; vwbTeri the' 'stranger bad'scated himself, like the rest of BSjto'; wait' for the passage of the storm. "Dear-knows howlongwe may have to stay here ; and I'm. sure he'd make a fine sketch' he and his dogs." : - 'uiUJ&h :Y ' The moment she .had spoken she regretted it, for she saw : the stranger understood French. He turned with perfect ease of manner, and said : .. "I shall be happy to do so: Shall I stand or sit ?" :r ; - ' ' r: Mabel was so confused 'that she could not answer. . - " j : s "Sit," Jule replied good-naturedly I "if it is.not too much of a bore." "Not at all," he said, glancing to ward our chaperon, UI could move mountains in the name of Poindex ter."' ' " . ';v-:-'. -y'iv1'! "You know the name, then ?" que-! ried Jule, as he set us "the example of getting out our pencils and books. -."It is the name, of'my best friend, Anthon Poindexter, of Boston."' ' "Mother !" Jule exclaimed, turn ing to Mrs. Poindexter. ''This gen tleman is a friend of AntlionW Are you from Boston sir ?" " J The stranger drew out. a card and handed it to Jule, and. while he" was reading the name,-" iNeil liaileek," and passing t to -hJfe mother, the stranger drew forth a. letter address ed to himself in a fine, scholarly hand. ; ; "I had a- letter from Anthon this very morning," he" said, handing it to Jule, who read it with much pleasure. . yrj- , ' It" proved to bo in th 0 . warmest terms of familiar friendship, and was so strong an "'evidence' of the stranger' good v character, that he was at '"once received with open arms. ' , . y- 1.. The posing was forgotten in the cosy chat vhich ensued: ' .: ... (' "Are you going to stay at Scalp Level all the summer ?" Mrs." Poin dexter asked ; and when Mr. Kalleck asseutedjshe added : jl"Then 1 ;of course, you must join oar sketching club, Perhaps you c object to dab bling in art?" r r " if "But you must draw a little, or we won't admit you." "But what if I can't?" Mr. Hal- leck 'queried. ; . ' "Miss Ieigh will teach you," Jule hastened to say ; "she sketches much better than any of the rest of us. In deed, she is not . altogether an ama teur. She has had two pictures at the Academy.". -,:: :0J' Mr. Halleck glanced half quizzi cally at Mihcent's fair ' face, ?which .was covered ""with blushes atthis praise. It seemed to liira. that he would rather like to bo' the pupil of such a preceptress. - . l ' , "If Miss Leigh would undertake my tuition,'t he aid, humbly ,"I suppose a man can be hunter and artist, too ?" . ' - - - y - -; ' ; "You don.'t look1 as though you had a very aesthetic temperament,V she- said lookirig up with a laugh, and tli en downgain, aCsKe remem bered how. ' he had , frightened her at first;- "but, perhaps I can give ybu some idea gf, perertivffe ' After that day .Milicent was not so free to wander off "by herself. ; She had a pupil Avho seemed bent on-exacting her full, time and atten tion. . 's-' ' ' r'." ' "fm ' afraid you :will never be a Raphael or a ' Titian, Mr: Haileck," Milicent said bne afUrjpn thr oT fouf weeks later, as- she sat poking over gefme ot his recent distortions in the way of landscape.',. . v' -He was lying; full lengtli on the grass, - appaTcn tly indifferent to Ms future except as .itwasv connected with the fate of the girl .before hiriv Obviously,' if he' were not learning ,v- .. - ? - .' ' I y,.- .-.- y . todraw he", was learmngoraet$ihg elsei -- J ''1: '' V::;:k "IV- Milicent fluttered the leaves of the book glancing ixiefully at- its con tents. As she did so, a piece of pa per fell out on th grass. . Mr. Hal leck reached out his hand for., it ; but Milicent had picked it Up' and was looking at it in astonishment." It was a leaf off a water-;olor rtahle and contained an exquisite "little sketch of herselfJ ; . I - " "Did you do it ?" she- asked - m surprise; . - -.y, .'-r, V;v;r "Yes no !". he answered hastily. "Let me see it?'' . ' : 4: 4 . "Nofypu can't have it !" she cried holding it high above her head: fIt doesn't belong to you, I ; am sure. YoU never could have dome it. fit is. perfect in its way, but is entirely too flattering. Who painted it Mr; Halleck . , , L-v . . "I did' he said snatching ." the hand that held it. . "I painted it un der an inspiration.. You know" such things happen oc.casionally. Give it to me Milicent ; J want both the sketch, and the original." f . "You can t have it," she said, sau cily, but looking away to hide what shone in her eyes., . , i: ; "I must' he said in a low tone. "I " cannot; live without- you. Dar- - T U T..l 1. J hear, calling : . ; t "Miss Milicent ! Miss Milicent ! Here ! Mother said you were to read this right away" ' . He came up with a letter in his hand, but, like a sensible fellow he grasped' the; situation, and leftva5 soon ; as he had executed his com mission. Mr. 'Halleck v,Jas natural ly provoked at. the interruption to his wooing. . He-looked away with a vexed expression, while Milicent glanced over the letter Mrs. romdex? ter had sent her. : . It was signed, "Your son, An thon," and began : I .; , "My Dear Mother :-I have just I returned to j Boston after a three weeks' .absence- at Mount Desert. Hence,: iny delay in answering yqurs from'Scalp Level, I am delighted to learn that you have met Halleck. He 11 is one : of the best fellows I know,' and is'cohsiclered by the Bos; ton critics and th'e Society of Artists one of the rising stare of this cbuh try. He has exhibited in Pariand London, and carried' off a medal in the -latter place: "The Athenaeum says he is' destined . , to' found a dis tirf ci school of art iir America," and so ori6ver Several pages of eulogy. The letter dropped from Milicents' hand.' ' y:H '--R' " "You you 'deceived us !' she cried in a choking tvoice." You al lowed - me to to attempt to; teach you.7 , Oh, what a fool . I'.ve made of myself."" : rZ SHft K She burst into tears of vexation, and.covered her face with her hands. p: "Don't be angry, - darling," he whispered, gathering her in his nrma' KT- rliiT rxrA. rrAn.n : v "Let 1 me" go !" she cried, jpassion ately; "I cannot endure the sight of Hi3 face: paled for an instant", and lie;w6uld;h cnangea 111s mma, ana arawing ner 10 nun ne saia : f "Doh't-be fopUsh;'-'. MilJeent.; ;I had nor thought of. deceiving you at fifst. Itwas only whe it was sug gestesthat ypushpuldv teachine that Isnatched at arL excuse for be- j ing alwaysXnear you. Surely you can lorgyo -sucaa i-sunieriuge . 4 yyPui-9?ntiltme that you are. not angrywith me. - l can-no-bear yotirisaef3l')i For a fewmomepte gled feebly in his arm's,'; but "hiselo quence quieted her at lst,t Ifewas more self-shae toan any other eehng. that pverwercthjiC the; temperament 01 an ... he never- could learn to draw, well ;iway. Forone thing. the wasp is like that he had;na eye; br colortd. j?;Neveiohceha head that he was the , young Bostc- : ;.;. 1 ";i:iJ t ?'- ' ' Vs"-; :- ' : man -apoui.wnom; ine-artrfroria. was in ecstasies.; ."Forgive me,darlin ce. ; ."What xa silly thmg .ou ' must think me !" shsoteotv "I think you 7are an angel P'hean? swered warmly. "And as for talent, dearest, you have quite as ; much as L haver 'It; 'only, needs -cultivation." Perhaps this mollified herf for she and smiled,:as she said;; ; ; ; "To think you f were making 'all those"atmily crooked trees on pur pose. It's too ridiculous I" 1 ; ; I He laughed." , ;'; ; ' " ': V : i 2 ; fBut?- you haven V,told":rne,''' M said.; "Will you -..CmatiYni'.TVIUi--cent?? U -Zl T::;--0Z -AVhat. she said i3 'riot khdwh but he must finally have won lier con sent, for in the Boston; papers there appeared. the following winter the annotincementjof- their iedding; ' i A far more, diverging, personage, is'your "boy," the irrepressible, Uni- versai.Doy, l oiten come upon turn grazing m a most promiscuous. man-: ner uponthe heath. I do not know wnat tne piras uimic out, nis wnoie sale consumption of their hips, and haws .and : blackberries. '.'vrHe'gbes about with . a stick whacking the bushes and carrying his juice- smudged face infront of him as if he was within his rights. His brown hands; are all cobwebt)erl with fine scratches, and down his' cheek rims a centipede scrawl, r showing where the ;bramble; had sprung back. . Not that he cares much for; such; acci dents : they.afre aU;ih ,! the ; day's work, and he strides along marauds ing with a' fine, assertion of natural. ngnts .wn.icn .is:yer3'-,ai verting. - lie is human, j of - course ; but ? all the; sam ei he moves I in ra .t queer little wofld of his bwnV n tjrown-up.folk in general he, regards aa a- dicipline; and not friendly on the whole to nis personal nierescs. . his parents are necessary f; so m uch is obvious' to - mm. xux, tney nave exiraoramary ideas, of right "and wrong ;' theorize preposterously on :wet feet and holes in trousers, and hold unaccountable. . . ' . . . opinions aoout scnooi aname wasn ing of facGS'and hands. - He submits to all this as far as he m ust, a nd con- - some day hef will,be old enough tp do witliout plrqhts, and then he will not :wasK'hii face f: Pfteher than he chooses, norg&jto schoolr In, the rneantime; hi 'plays truant as fre quently afe he can, and 'especially when autumn, with ' her mellowing fihgqtSjV has 'been ; tiusy ainong the wild fruit, is he found afield. " Vrhat a happy little wretch it is I " Every thing about him excites him tp ac tivity ; everything affords him pleas ure,; 4 rWhistlingf throwing r. stones, chasing butterflies,- eating blackber ries, bo wanders abouty a thoroughly careless, irresponsible, gladsome, ur chin. - Nothing hurts him. He. tr umphs.over the' miscellaneous' food he crams himself .with ;conies'f up smiling after every 'accident. His body, is all .elastic iand "hinges, and it does not inatter mucn how he tum bles. ;: I " saw some time ago an ac count of a boy who sat. on the blow-, '-v. -.f-i - 1) ', . - . - r 1 - . . -' -. -- - ' A" hole 01 a; stranded wnaie, ana was 'suddenly snorted . off by . .the indig- nant ijenemotnxnity ieetjup m the air and as; mahy: yards" out to sea4. I ap not, say- me siorjf is. srue out, A boy going .along in , a field in Corn wall ivas suddenly snatched up by a whirlwind'and J whisked; pv? the hetle. But iti ' each'case-N heoame back quite unhurt. There" is one ca tastrophe,; however, to 4rhicliv. he seems particularly ' liable and that isl the lwa,spyi many ' it 23 difficult; to sayJ hutHhQ ci:rans!;tnaC'has a" postive . diusfbr ? gettihgstUn mprazhmttogetheran has? beeWkhown" to run prodigious Iisfences i oTrerxrt 'tE&-calitylcJ the' dmesc circlet 'roaring all the for another, it i very fond of black- hemes Moreover, it is;tven 4pjo cing itselfseciayy ashe urchin, with sweet trustful- s .' y " "jness"ih things ' ng P he begged think 'it-.a"refleeiidn upfejavi . dence that He should; dxamne'r", he is goingvtoeai before Ke -puts'lt 'tI";-; in his inoUth,:he does not as a rule f .. '' ;: ' detect.the insect upon a berry oriri;t4l ?;s; sidelthe. plum till it ' is too' late, and v.r - th6; wasp;has; Thade"its 'prxl1iiA?; boy's confidence in nature is. so com ' ; t v piete bo" generous, thai he disdains t -h V-1 anything that has the" appearance bfc '"-:,",' .';";' caution and when ; oho sees him in l tiy the middle of ramble-bushpick ing with, both hands, and popping; ' in the berries without ' the least ex-.;- ' -Z amihation it is perfectly; 'awful 'toiW'S- -tfvfTiV ftf fh'A V ntniYihlrxrinaT odd? arid Vi4 Kii - - endS&at ' he must consume in; course I Of , a day's . 'jdebauch", temporary xwjview. :x: l!5 ; v.tT "Wliy Some 3B"aruaei- Fail. ; :ey 'iRnp rhake The breed to, and from scrubs." .zy i Mrhey'do not. curry their horses; '-'';- They have no. shelter for stoelr-vi" : I Theyv'put off greasixig the wagon; '::W?: t v xney. are weaeea.to . pia mepnpas; -vr ff v : -j They gve no tlention tq details. ' , - - ! ; iuey nayeu no metnoa or system.;,a-4; X They see np good '.uia.;new . thingJlj;" - J They, let their fowls Toosf in trees-; :; - ; x '-. -;lT jl tea v. o buw jjivwi ui.yucuuu. f- --'"v ' " TIiav' linnr - fTiPir VinmAcH in t.h "iv'-'i';-; dust. - They , take no . pleasure Hin - their worK. v: ;;;- ;-: i They never use paint on the faring"- ""; . They prop the barn; door; with;7i rail. r-:-', J: : "---Jl' v :i;vv-i:.v';vv-:; '.. " They milk the cows: late in the.-;;':- V; They starve thacalf and nink:thjer:v : . ' They think small things not . jn v gbrtard;;Jg- v They let f their gates sag dnd till-- ' s dowh;'?:3-f rney. qo not Keep,: up -wiin im-- ."j-.v ;.'. ,' : provementi. ."; ';Z : ZCf0fd ' .They; don't know the" best is'the-- . . I -cheapest. r;iV;':; v Zr -??Qf: tC ;-t?- Wjffii ' V : . . V They do not read the best books 'v " : ; ,; " and: newspapers, ZjyX'ZC They think the buyer of a success- 3 , ful neighbor's stock-at good prices is-;-"' fool, and the seller yery'Juckj;; ; I- iney sen nayj gram ana scraw.ou; ., ; AVniti'ivi "-5 j-i f An i-l limn n i n '.' - siir-. -J "-v t i " tA vfnVm ririsfinrl nf tn"rninor into" meat,, cheese, "and.;tutter!; increasing their gtocfcof manure. '7z:', Rural Eecord. : ;. ; Too Professional, f 'In a Yestcrn city. lives iin ujiderf taker, by name, Brown,; a great, wag,'; v r : - andw'aysreaiytolayag : also' a doctor who .is .a jokerand i-if -Siilif ' : always ready fo teUjn himself, and & "monument maker .Who-is :of the"2 "; isame kidney;;-;v:;.;:;;::;;i One day the 4octor,wdrivm full' speed ; down a " business Btreet :5 -; -S;Zk r when Brown spied him.' Brown in" hiswagon fwitt the; f Bign : of i'his -MS&ii -bofession ;ph ; the side.; Whipping, ' ,' -' up his horse he cam doctor; as possible, .and-, glancing '.'; rpundj he spied the : mohument-tna; .V." -, -: ker. : Calling tp the monumitma- - Go pir doctor, go on; -we're com - v The doctor looked round, tnay ; was pictured prV hjs , cpunten;-25Si Z: .ae.f"He;whippeup' bpt all to nO purjiose,,; the uhdV'y- kli"and..thV'rnonum IbwihycloseAt, -last;th& ridicu-H--':.;' louspafttqfthe. tfim and leaning back in" his buggy-, he : f "' ' fraVe vent hi his Vn.nrrf.or. iri fsm'tn'nf - " t the thought,: "What a sign -for. a.-:'i. , ; romment physician this .isJHari :-Z-per'siragazihe. , r .'- ' . ' '- ;r : A 'Hard Case.' Several years agolhcre ; hvedtlh;- 3 c - ittle Kpck a fcrightpuhg mabi but " ; w whoikfeinahy;;brighybun nis pay, was Baaiyapaiciea io ine exciye use 'Whiskey. ; One day . ' " ; ; his brother'went to him and said : - X':. "Brother; J ohn, I see that you-aro t ; determined to kfli yourself drihling V' ; , 6Ii)ropose ;to rentra; jrmtut ;.a7r. :,-J harraljbf whiskey;? anda harreiiof.- :: - water into it and shut you tip iix it- - until Pli;ypu 'i0'rri. Bwher Vjlli replied, nevei mind the; water; :p"ut- -.-if- -3; T'infi. v
Rockingham Post-Dispatch (Rockingham, N.C.)
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Nov. 5, 1885, edition 1
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