Vol. I.
SALISBURY, N. C, FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 27, 1888.
No . 34
Q II A S. D. CU A W F 6 It D, '
ATTORNEY-AT LAW,
SALISBURY, N. C. -
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From the Sunny South. '
cmhis mm.
15 Y 13. 13.
Here upon the silent summit of this soft
ly sun lit hill . .
Let us rest, to wait the coming' of the
evening calm and still.
While around our fever foreheads plays
I the playful, wanton breeze.
Watch the red sun slowly sinking down
K behind the distant trees.
Watch the purple clouds, flame-bordered,
crossed with shinning.golden bars,
Shouldering up behind the mountains
, '; watch the blossoming, of stars
As the night, -with stately feotsteps,
drives the laughing light away,V
Draws the glowing, crimson curtains
'round the couch of dying day.
Gleaming like a silver serpent, seaward
watch you river glide,
Where the slanting sunlight slumbers,
quivering on its'burnished tide.
Far away in - deepening purple, clear
against the azure skiea.
Dark-browed, solem, circling round us,
- sombre hills like sentries rise. T
S.;cst thou not the magic circle God's
- . own hand hath 'round us drawn
Where the lips of Heaven, stooping, rc&t
the lips of earth upon? -
So within a like circumference, circum
scribed by its own hand,
Every soul itself the centre of the world
it sees must stand;
Every part, itself the centre of the whole
it comprehends,
And the circles widen only as the climb
ing soul ascends.
Lo! all things are full of beauty unto
him whose lifted eyes ;
Nightly turn with loye and longing up
ward to the starry skies.
There is nothing vile or evil in this per
fect world jbelow,
But man's thought or r touch, . uaholy,
marring it, hath made it so. j
Beauty's but the bright reflection of that
first proud smile of God,
When, well pleased, he saw the creature
man perfected from the clod.
And the daises in the valleys and the
asters on the hill,
And the lilies of the river's do but whis
per of him still.
Though no more by priest or prophet is
His wondrous will made known,
Though vd more His dread eommand-
men tagr lesHg ont hefl i nty storie.
fn the deep secluded
tar.! s loriily -crest, ,
In the winding of iho iivcr,on the robin's
p uatcu brca&t,
la the kin-cups, in the ineadows, in the
rosv bars of niorn . i ':
In the rustle of the breezes through the
fields of sumaiW corn, t
In the silence of the forest Gods still
writes v:th beauty's pen !
What the poets. His tr-itislators, still in
terpret unto meu, -'!
Laying bare the hiddeareal that behind
each image glows, '
As they voice the thought that blushes
in the petals of the ro.-.e. j
Teach thee, then, life's higher lesson?
' manhood's duties grand and stern?
Ah! I fear thcu wouldst but find them
lessons dull and hard to learn. I
Wisdom! wisdom! What is wisdom? And
why tarries it so long?
Wisdom, grandly sings the poet, is to
sutler and be strong.
Nayl 'Tis but a gray beard demon dwell
ing in the dismal tombs, f
Where from out the mould of knowledge,.
pride, the poison fungus, blooms!
Yet 'twere good to know, of knowledge
flashed along the path before, ;
If it shown out o'er the breakers from
the. headlands on the shtre, ' j
But what's worth the richest sunshine ot
a yesterday, that's lost?
Who would care to burn the bridges
when the foe'd already crossed
Swiftly speeds each passing moment ; on
its unreturning wing;
Life's day hath but one sweet morning,
life's year but one blooming spring
Onlv once is fouht the battle on whose
issue hangs our fate;
Only once the hand of fortune knocks at
every closed gate! . h
Only once to every mortal: opens Heav-
en's golden door . i
Opens once, then swiftly closes, andj to
him, forevermore!
Once we enter, and forever; or, if madly
we refuse, .
Only nee we catch the glimpses of the
glory that we lose.
O, 'tis not in gold and silver, is this life's
true riches round!
Blessed are the souls that sorrow hath
with tender memories crowned.
Blessed are those lips forever that have
kissed the brow of pain; jf
Holy is the hand that girdeth, hoping
Dot to take again. T . .
Sweet the voice of beloved,swect is mu
sic's witching tone-
Sweeter far the lingering whispers of a
joy remembered, flown. ,
There's a picture shall I paint it? Tis
a morning sou and lair,
Golden sunlight sifting gently down
o er shining amber hair,"
Bine eyes bending o'er the pages of her
book I saw her go,
Back and forth from, sun to shadow,
slowlv. walking to and fro..
Often have I paused to watch her through
the quivering leafy aisles,
And the sunniest mora rew brighter
i with the sunlight ot her smiles
O, by night a flaming beacon, aad a rosy
cloud by day,
Shall the memory of that summer go
before me all the way!
Ever more the worfd is holy; for the ra
diance that it flings
Still baptizes with its glory all earth's
; grosser, meaner things.
And a river of pure water,fresh and cool
and crystal clear,
Flowing through the aridvalleys of life's
desert bleak and drear, -J
Shall that holy fount of feeling that, re
sponsive to the stroke
Of her little lily fingers-, in niy flinty
heart awoke,
Ever more my earthly journey still by
day and night attend,
And in all my weary wandring3 follow
. after o the end.
He hath neveFliyed wboeTer,tangling
all his heart within, . '
Tied a dainty blue sun-bonnet under
neath a dimpled chin.
! He who wants some one to crown him,
loses, inougn ne win ine sinie
He who lacks the love of woman, lives
the" lesser half of life. . ' -
Ah the old songs are the sweetest, let
the world say what it will
Old friends are the best and truest, old
love is the tenderest still.
Still in vain we seek to banish from the
heart the first sweet face
That within its love-lit temple held a
consecrated place, j '
Who hath not when sonietime resting
from its busy stir and strife
Woven thus some threads of fancy inihe
sober woof cf life?
What is life for? But to gather heap on
heap the shining gold,
While the shriveled heart grows harder
and the starving soul grows old.
CONCLUDED NEXT WEEK. .
WILLFUL LORETTA.
BY MRS. E. H. HOUGH.
"Jack, don't you think this is get
ting to bo something of an old
story?'' . J
She is the prettiest little j creature
in the world, with a bright, piquant
face all smiles and dimples, eyes like
twin bluesbells, and a rippling, wills
ful mass of g lden hair encircling
the lovely, sparkling face w ith a
perfect aureole' of imprisoned suns
shine.
M kitten in
the roomy dopt rro
the witching ...face lifted just far
u ' I
enough to enable bar to sen I a half,
deprecating glance from beneath the
long, curling eyelashes, up at Jack
Aver faHufuli biir-hearted Jaci
who has been her friend, ehamoion
and lover ever ! since she wan a tod
aling little lairy of six wiUful, lm-
perious summers.
He is leaning against the back of
her cnair, looKing down npon her
with a world oi devoted admiration
in his honest, brown eyes a look
undero-oos a swift chanp-e one of
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painful solicitude and even alarm
while his firm lips tremble slitrhtlv
ko or.Da u.
ao "u
'What is it that is becoming an
'd9m
wm ' akttai
ror just a moment ljoretta fane
hesitates with a visible embarrass-
ment in her manner, and her eyes
droop away from the earnest gaze
cKn ,!, nr.-.k- wuot Ka .k
lips cur! in a pout half coquettish,
half resentful, but wholly capricious
and Derverse. f
Why you see it has been just
you and I all these years and of
course I like you ever so much, Jack
but but it's got to be suoh an
old story, that I am . afraid if we
were to go on and get married, 1
should be tired of it before a great
while wouldn't vou. Jack?''
Dead silence for a moment. Jack
stands looking down at her with a
ace out of which every trace of
brightness has vanished bis dark
eyes full of bitter, passionate pain,
bis firm lips drawn tightly togeth-
er;
Little fiokle, butterfly that she is,
she has held tho dearest place in his
very heart of hearts for 5Tears, and
to give bcr up is like facing the bit-
terucss of death itself. But strong
as the love he holds for her is bis
Jionor and bis pride, and they will
not suner mm to Keep ner oouna ior
an instant to an unwilliner pledsre.
"It would never have beeu an old
story to me, Loretta," he answers
presently. "Or rathers ari old Btory
far sweeter and dearer than any
new one could ever be. But if it has
become so to you, letitena nere ana
now; you are freeV
She has been twirling around on
her pretty, plump finger, in a half-
nervous way, the dainty torquois
ring ho had placed there with such
fond pride six months before, and
just as the last words passed his lipsjor painfut considerations-. t
it slips from her careless hold, and
rolls-to his feet. - '
Without a Tvord.or sign 6ave deep
epingof the pallor .on his cheek
Jack stoops aud picks it up and pots
it in his pocket.
"Good by o, Loretta" he says,
holding out his hand. -".
She looks quickly up with a faint
little gasp. - : v
' There is somothing .t iu his tone
that warns her that ho is drifLinr
frather oat of her Jif' than she can
consent to let him goT y" sA-T
'Not good-bye, Jack," she falters.
u We'll be good ftiends of coarse, and
you will come to see me 'just the
same as as u
' Never the same, Loretta!" ho an
swers, almost sternly, "There can
be no halfway compromise in this
matter. If you send ma way from
that place I have occupied in your
heart and life, the seperation mast
be final absolute. If being what
you call 'good friends' means that I
wish you every happiness in life, I
will bo so. But it would be worse
than madness in me to continue to
court your society, to risk tho intox
ication that pervades your smiles,
your words, your every action,when
the goal to which they would point
is forever beyond my reach it is
worse than oruel in yo'u to ask it.
From this hour I must look upon
you and regard you as the prospec
tive wife of some other man and
to his rights I must offer no invsion,
Good-bye!"
Half frightened, half ashamed,
yet carried along by her willful
capiice, Loretta suffers her hand to
lie in his for a brief instant, with no
lingering pressure on either side.
Then he turns and is gone, while
she burries her face in her handlers
chief in a burst of hupetuous tears
The paroxTsm passes quickly,
however, and drying her tears she
sits nprigh t tnnx-vaorrvrar
;iLet him go off an-gr) if ho wants
tol" bhe exclaims, stifling a sob. 'I
don't believe ho cared for mo after
a'!; and at any rale I am freo now."
ohe draws a letter trom her pock
et a'letter two davsoid. now, but
in this movement on her part and
opening it through for the twentieth
time.
"Dear Loretta, I had no idea that
you had giown to be such a charming
little orflHt.iirti -ah vriir t'. inlnrrrnnti rp-
cently sent me indicates; and I must
have you aown here in the city fora few
muD b- a t r turn rro Komla s f aiii CAiatu
beaus, and make our belles wild with
envy, 1 hope there is no rustic entan
glementto interfere with the prospects
I can insure to you, with that captivat
ing face of yours. If I do not send you
home with a diamond of the first water
on your tinker, I shall not be as good a
prophet as I have proved mvself in
Pher cafes- Jftime kn0 !w sooa
will not last more than six weeks long- i
er- I
n is me nrsi nonce iier iasmonas
De' woriui -minaed aunt nas tauen
01 nei Ior wn. yeare, ana u nas
thrown; her foolish little heart into a
i . .
flutter of gratified vanity and ex
pectation
Toor Jack! bis torquois ring iooks
very cheap and plain in contrast
with the splendor ot that prospec-
live diamond; and after reading the
letter over half a dozen times, Lo
retta comes to the conclusion that
she will exchange this "old story
the perusal of th3 new and dazzling
romance of which her aaut s letter
holds the promise
Despite the bustle of. preparation,
the next few days are horribly lone-
I ly to Loretta. Never untiTnow hs
she realized how largely: she had
beea dependent forthat ' happiness
has snea a consiani sireamoi sun-
shinejaround her tb phe; kindly
sphere, tne loving, tenaer'-Jaunroi-
I ne88.tnat-a-8 ' perva(!ey45:rery-
WQrandaction f toward; ttbat
nas anticipaeu er. wiaupsj.iuinneu
her desires ralmost beforcihe ,was
j conscious of .them, and shielded her
Lfront every breath of care - or sor-
rovvA
But although she begins -torealize
a!t this, she has not yet . learned . to
appreciate. tt-ai, its irue .wouc; so
she dashess,away the tears that will
J arise now and 4thenr, and - forpes a
smile to bcr lips; and when vat,; last
she is ready to start, the excitement
of the prospect before her-bas qiite
driven away for a.time - any serious
Her aunt meets her with open
arms, load9 her with kisses and com
pliroents, and later on with costly
presents, and for three weeku life
opens before her in one long, glit
tering holiday.;
llor fresb lovely face and u naffect
ed waysscreate, as her aunt predict
ed, a perfect sensation, and ere Lo-
retta has been a week in tho glitters
iftg whirl, her j conquests have at
tained a magnitude that the most
inveterate coqueto might well en-
Bat althought pleased,""dazz!ed,:
and flattered by the novel exper
ience,! in the girFs heart is a void
jthat nothing can appease, that is
daily becoming larger and deeper.
Among all the faultlessly attired
admirers who f throng around- her
with their pretty compliments and
languid, blase attentions, where is
one like Jack Ayer, with his clear,
straightforward iook, bis earnest,
sincere voice,, his manly upright?
bearing? Never in his life has he
flatt'ered- her nay, he ,has chided
her gently, many time but . she
kno vs no w that his lightest word of
approval hasrsounded dearer and
been more deeply treasured than all
the fawning adulation and vipad
compliments of which she is becom
ing so weary.
She lies down to rest one night, or
- j
ratberj in lha early morning, heart
and head alike thiobbing in a weary
refrain of pain and loneliness.
One of her most eligible admirers
has been more than usually pointed
- !
in his attentions that night, and her ;
auift haswbispered: "L see the ful
fillmcnt of my prophecy, Loretta!
the diamond is yoursP'b.ut the words
nave no power to move her.
Her; whole soul is going forth in
one cry ra cry that must be forever
utlerod in vain for her own act has
htilledithe answer. -
she is standing on the verge or a
steep precipice.? Far below her on a
nuiTovv-dedgo a man is lying with a
t'acoMof ghastly pallor and closed
yyes a lace that is Jack's own.
Presently he opens his oyes and
rtaches one hand imploringly tos
ward her; but she makes no re
sponse, and the next moment she
soes him falling down to the bottom
of the precipice..
At the moment she is siezed by
some one behind her; it is the man
whose; attentions she had been res
ceiving that evening. With a wild
shriek she breaks from him,and goes
jown to where that dead face is ly
ing upturned to her, and then Bhe
awakes.
'Awakes with bnt one thought
nnfl nntnosfl. Rhn has read her own
heart at last and oh, to return to
Jack! to seohim once more, and it
sho cannot creep back, a repentant
child, to his arms,'to die at his feet.
How hollow and empty seems the
life she has led the past few weeks,
in comparison with that she has re
nounced. Her whole soul goes out
in one famished longing to see him
once-agait. to hcar him speak, to
toachi his hand.
. The years of that faithful love and
devotion are no old stOry:now, but
one that has become imbued with
tho perennial newness of apprecia
tion, Of knowlepge, of understand
ing that nothing can ever disturb or
depreciate again. " 7 '
In vain her au nt endeavors by en
treaty, and even icproach, to shake
her purpose. ,
The afternoon train - bears her
back io what?--.her-irrking heart
refuses, to answeV "what itlafe not
promise what it will not resign.
Is is dusk when she reaches the-
station. - -' V
She. has obfaprised her fafei of
her return, and there is no vpne to
meethei-, so.: she gets- Off tgL walk
tho distance to her hom.e, not-acar"ng:
to hire a cohvevahcjB." - r
Shewill go along 6ome0ftho
roads hero she JbasaTlfed so: of
ten with Jack although it . seems
now to her like walking throughia
city of the dead2 : .' :.
She; has gone half thidisiance,anci
is walkirg with her head"bent",wheu,-
glancing up just a'sfhe turnsj a cord
tier, sb o' sees some ot approaching
her.
"It is Jack, and a'tjtke sjght oj 5is
face,t pale land careworn, her heart
seems to stand still within her, while
a half guilty feeling; inspires her to
flee from the spot.
But another stronger feeling; con
quers it and give her itrengtb, and
she goes straight forward to meet
him. - - -
. lie is close upon her, now. , Her
eyes arejixed upon him with a look
of piteous appeal, her lip3 are parted
readyjfor a rush of penitent self-ac-casation.'
;-- 1 , -
::His . clears steadfast eye meet Iters
ening. expression.
His; hat is lifted, and with a court
eous but ccld "goodsevening" he has
passed by.
Gono, and like this? Oh, forbid
it, pitying Heaven! A noise as of
rushin'g waterB sounds in her ears;
she struggles for a moment like one
drowning: then she turns-ahe never
t i i
knows how stretches out her hands
with a low, inarticulate cfy, and falls
like a stone upon the grouhd.
When she opens her eyos again
Jack'j arms are arounti. her, and
Jack's impassioned kisses are bring
ing her back to life.
But! the instant her consciousness
returns his hold rolaxes: he assists
her to regain her feet, then with
draws a few paces from her.
She makes no movement she'
cannot; all senses seem frozen inj a
horrid; spell the terrible, overpow
ering fear that she has indeed lost
him forever. So for a moment ho
stands' and regards her swaying form
in silence; then, he speaks:
"You are weak and tremblinc.
Shall Iseejj-ou home, M.iss Dane?''
Then her lips &ro loosoned, and
she turns toward him with out
stretched, imploring hands.
' "Ohj, Jack!" the word come in
one tumultuous torrent of love, grief,
sbamd, repentance "take mo home,
. . . . . . . , .
ena24ia4efid- buckJa jrojirjbeart and love
z9?Jgave me he1 and let me die!'
ruoh o
color, but he looks incredu
lous stilt
'Do
you
want to take up that
old stdry' again, Lorettaf Are you
not still tired of it?" he says graves
ly, butj she gathers courage, never-
theiess.
I have been away, Jack so far
awav she says, sobbing like a child,
"Is there no welcome, no return for
me? Slay not comeback again?'.
She reads, her answer in his beam-
ing eyjes, and creeps to his arms
those arms that open to receive her
thad fold around her close.
.tout TT0M,r. CK rr,Q if
f. i . , . . . .
youoniy wont, oe ureuoi me, iu -J
all the happiness I ask." -
."Como, then, and see how my love I
endures!" he exclaims with fervent
feelini "And so we will read this
'old story"
shall last'
tosrether as lone as life
He holds her there in silence for a
moment, then bis lips meet hers in a
lono-.k'iss of reconciliation; and then,
drawing the little hand tenderlv
through his arm, he leads her on to
1 1
her home.
Coirect Speaking.
"My Bon,yoa should be more care
ful in your speeh. It is juut as eafj
to be right as to be wrong. And you
should be more studious., While you
were running about, town last night
I was burning the midnight oil"
5Tc , you wasn't."
"What Jo you mean?" ' .
"1 mean; that you should be more
-correct in your speech, father. You
were burning gas, not oil. It 13 just
as easy to be right.
Salt for Swine.
Practical and successful Western
Trienjilaim that a constant supply of which you hay 'gazed at with a rest
nalt for swine is a sale preventive of lejwsitfri to the neglect ot the
.diseasjes, one that can bo counted
Vrith adegre ut certainty;. tqt. oy
the constant uso the-B'yAtehi Is made
Arong to ard, off disease; that
not start in herds re-
cvlyini; this care, ana mat tuese
herds'often escape when ; all others
arootthem are destoyed.
t
'-Hi
rolfOFwin the . Doctor's AdYicc.
"TakeTCst; the- trouble is youVe
tired! '
"TJiV one addressed was wise;
Hetraightway with a merchant
J .hired I
Who did not advertise.
HUMORO CJfeJ.
Brown says that a married man
sometimes finds - himself to bo an
April iGWion after the wedding;
march. ': '" ". -
; The dead letter -band's-coat-pocket.
jffie the hus-
Tho maiden's baa j of hope ahas.
band.
Will any one through tho Farmers
Department iuforai a paor man the
best way to start a nurs-sry? Cer- '
tainly get married. - 1
Miss Dewdrop: ponlyou tbinfc
Mr. Itosebushaara-T OTj-wiiTanTT
mouth? Miss Payne, blushing vio
lenty: "ilow should I know?'?
Old man (calling down the stairs
to daughter): "Clara!" Daughter.'
"Fes, papa-' Old man: Ask "that--
young man in' the panor which i.
prefers for breaktasi T?az ro.U oi
Vienna bread-
"Sec here, said a fault-finding hus
band, "wo mm, have things arraiu
ed'in this Ijouso so that wo shall
know where everything is. kept."
"With all mry 'heart.,, sweetly ' an
swered his wife; "and let us begin
with your lale hjurs, toy love."
; "1 Don't see why you should sneer
at my engagement ring, v said a fail
girl, with ix tidrth of indignation on
her cheek as she faced a rival belie;
"It's a good deal prettier than the
one you wore three years ago, and
haveu't worn since!', 'Oso, dear," 'J.
replied her friend, with & cool, far
away look "not prettier, but qulio
as pretty. It is Ihesanio ring."
' Saxo, the American joker- and
poet, was once taking a trip oh 'a
steamer, when he fell in with a livo-
ly young lady, to whom homade
himself very agreeable. Of course
he made ao impression upon' the
damsal, who said at parting: ' Gaod
bye, Mr. Suxel I fear j'ou will soon "-,
be forgetting me." "Ah, my dear
young lady,'' said the inveterato
punster, "if 1 was not a married man
already, you may be sure I'd It for
getting you!" y
The father of a family came down
to breakfast one morning, waer tio -
wife and three, daughters were a
too long; I wish one of you domes
tic angels would roaka tbern right .
for me before Sunday." A chorus
of assent showed that patcrfamilett
had an industrious and wiiliug
household. On the present occasion .
it proved to be a doubtful gooJ; for
each member, separately and-on--known
to tho other, cut ao inch off
"dear papa's" trusers, and hemmed
tnem ueauy at i-uc uuiium aivei
ward. The result on Sunday was
not satisfactory: either to temp ir or
trousers. 1
HE MUST FIAVE BEEN DRUNK. . .
Uusband What's the matter with
Y darling this morning?
Wife You know well
enough
what's the matter. You came homo
dunk again lasi night
"Me drtink last night never!''
"Bat you owned up that you hal
bee" "n
"I did, eh? Well, you cant belief
half a man says when bVs full." ,
WHY IIE DlDN T STRIKE. j
"Dennis, why dou't you strike?".
"An' what should I do that for?" .
"The work's too hard for the pay
vou get. The i lea of going up
lauaer au cuy long:
"How can yo i make that appear'
"Because sir I spends the oiher
half of it in com in' down "
Look Him in tho Eye.
Look your minister in tho eyev
when he is preaching, lie h talking
o 3'ou,' and has right to your strict
attention. Ilis discourse has rela
tion to ytrur spiritual welfare, and
sh6uld arouse your deepest interest.
Before you allow youweif to grums
bib at the dullneso of a s'ermon, con
sider if the dullness is riot in our
own brain, Whon inclined to corns
plafn of the preacher's monotony see
if the real monotony is notwi tho or
ran, thepalpit funitu tho rows
0f pews, ihVsvall decoiations all of
on4roacher's which reailyr is aglow
with enthusiasm and aptjy express-
ive of the sentiments his lips-are ut
tering.- Further, rsmember that the
minister is delivering a message
lrom your Lord and Master, xou
are pound by every holy obligation
to reciove the message with reverent
regard, and to give the messenger a
respectful hearing.
Smoklcss gunpowder is the latest-
addition to the science of war No.v
let somebody invent a moeli-st? ci
r . . . ;
garotte; and peace v;i; iiiivo ner v.e-
tones tto less renew nou ltau war.
Boston '1 ranseripi.