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t J i I 1 VOL. I. NO. 24. WARRENTON, N. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION PBICE $2.00 per Miim 1 Casablanca 1879. Hw boy lay in his little bed, , Though oft hat mother called : " Got op eome down to breakfast, Fred!" "Get up!" his father bawled. Yet qnet and serene he lay, Ah though he heard them not Oppoflsura did the youngster play, Though things were getting hot. The time passed on he did not start ! Bui took another nap ; Hie father op the stain did dart, And gave his door a rap. Be cried aloud, " Say, Freddie, say! Why don't you leave your bed V Bat silently young Freddie lay, As though he were quite, dead. Tor I moat soon be gone ; 'I And " but a" tasty snore replied Pa's patience nearly gone. .. Up to his face quick ran the blood, He tore his auburn hair, A moment at the doorway stood In still, yet deep despair, And shouted 'gain, with thunderous knock, M Young scoundrel, do you hear ? While in the ball loud ticked the clock. That grated on his ear. With angry push he opened the door, And sfkmaied it to again ; With noisy strides across the floor. To the bed he walked amain. Then eame a sound like threshing wheat, Or butcher tendering steak ; Hear screams! hear moans! hear scampering feet! Ah, Freddie is awake. A ringing bell, a mother's anil, May sometimes rouse a lad; But the only sure thing, after all, Is a father when he's mad. GERTY CARNEGIE'S SONG. M Ton minutes to ten if I hurry I shall catch the ten-fifteen train, and may man age to he hack to dinner at two, mamma." So saying, Gerty Carnegie, with deft fingers, rolls up a piece of manuscript music, and then runs up stairs to equip herself for the expedition to town. Gerty is in deep mourning. Only five months ago she lost her brave, noble sailoFfather, a captain of an ocean steam er, that was lost, with ail souls on hoard, among the icebergs. lie has left his widow and only child wholly unprovided for, and they have to depend upon their own exertions for the means of subsistence. So Gerty, who is a brave girl as well as a pretty one, has thrown herself with her whole youthful energy, into the task of teaching music, and the other day has even attempted a composition; it is a song set to 'Tennyson's "Flow down, cold rjvulot, to the sea," (a very ambitious undertaking; but wjhat is there too high for the ambition of houth? This precious work of art, neatfy cop ied, she is now on the point of taking up to one of the music publishers in London she is living with her mother a Wim bledon and her heart beats high! as she gives herself up to the architecture of airy edifices, furnished with fame, suc cess and prosperity. She hurries to the Putney station, and jumps into an empty-looking second class, carriage, and takes her Heat with her back to the locomotive. There's no one with her in the carriage, so Gerty begins to 'sing her song, partly out of tlie fulness of her glad young heart, partly with the purpose of exercising her voice a little, for she hopes to be per mitted to sing it to Mr. Doosy ; she has a clear and sympathetic mezzo-soprano, and, pleased with her own performance, repeats hT SOng over and over again. Suddenlyahe is startled by a cough be- num her a manlv cmiirh and oh tr-. uckly turns round, she be- lent a mraw v"'""ife Dreadful ! Has! she been giving an un solicited concert to this abominable stranger, who dares to sit there, and, with admiring impertinence, take off his to ner? She feels inclined with shame and mortification. to cry Luckily die train slackens speed at this moment, and, in her hurry to get rid ot the man, Gerty la even willing to risk her fife in an attempt at jumping out while the train is still in motion, but the refrac tory window saves her, for, wrestle as she may, it refuses to slide down and permit her to open the door. "Thank heaven!" she ejaculates, as she rapidly passes through the crowd of passengers, and hastens down toward the omnibus she descries at the entrance to the station. As. Gerty aears her destination, she flftds, to her dismay, that her roll of music, which she had fancied safe in her muff, has vanished. Tears rise to her eyes, and she desires the conductor to stop, for she must go back to the station and see an infinitesi mal chance if she has lost it on the way from the platform to the omnibus. Of course she finds nothing-not a trace of the precious document, and, with dismay, she remembers that she has com mitted an imprudence to throw the rough copy into the fire. Paor Gerty! She asks one or two porters i whether ihey have found any. thing, but they only reply with a stare of indifference and a half-contemptuous . mi ana pass on; so there re mains nothmc for hx. v., o '- uui to return tome. "Oh, mamma, I am tha rmWn iri in this hateful world," and she sobs in iitir pjuiui taie. Well, my poor dear child, don't cry " uupiner says, soothingly ; e it is very provoking, hut IL it only entails a second convinir lat I will do for von if u k heart for it. Where vour rniiorh -T w va iin n .., - a "Burned, mamma." "But, Gerty, how silly. How could you destroy it so thoughtlessly?" "Oh, don't scold, mamma. Never mind, it's gone and I'll I'll never -write another," poor Gerty sobs, in great woe. "Nonsense, you'll remember every note of it, and just write it out again, that's all." "Never, mamma. It is a bad omen; it tells me that I am not to succeed as a composer, so there's an end to that dream And now let us have some dinner, and then I must go up to the terrace; and give my lessons at Mrs. Harmon's. And Gerty dries her tears, and tries to put on a cheerful face, and to do justice to the frugal repast that is presently set before her. In the afternoon she departs rather heavy-hearted, and with lagging steps on her daily duty of teaching. At the Har mons she finds her two pupils, the twins, Winny and Ethel, in a state of glowing excitement. " Oh, Miss Carnegie, papa has consent ed to our giving such a jolly party on the fifteenth.our birthday, you know. There's to be a dinner party first, and then we are to have music and singing, and wind up with a dance, And you must eome. It would be so kind if you would just sing a song or two, and Winny and I are to sing our duet, and then you must stay and join in the dancing with the rest of us do!" "I don't dance at present, you know, EtheJ, but I will come with pleasure, and help you all I can to amuse your guests, and I'll play for the dancing; then you need not trouble to engage any one. The fifteenth, you say ? That's to-morrow week. Very well it will suit me per fectly." And then the lessons are given, and Gerty returns home in the dark, drizzly January evening, forgetting all about the party, and thinking of nothing bujf her lost song. The week goes by, and on the eve of the party Mrs. Carnegie asks : J " By-the-by, Gerty, what are 0u gaing to sing to-morrow evening the Har mons?" j "Oh, I don't know, mamma. Any thing that comes into nfy head at the time. It does not signify in the least. The people the old one, I mean will have eaten so much dinner that they'll be content to doze at aj(y ditty, and the young ones will wisljt over as quickly as possible, ho as to commence the danc ing. My singing will be merely a stop gap, and the choice of songs therefore immaterial." "What a lovely girl!" Tom Went worth remarks to his cousin, Ethel Har mon, next evening, as Gerty makes ber appearance in the drawing-room. Who is she? I fancy I have seen her face be fore. "- "Yes, she does look lovely to-night. That black gauze dress sets off her bril liant compexion," Ethel rejoins. She is Miss Carnegie, our music mistress, and I'll introduce you to her presently. But you must come and sing first. You can spoon afterward. Come. I'll play your accompaniments if you like. What will you sing? 'Tom Bowling?'" "No; I've sung that at everv partv these last three years, I'll sing a new song, and play my own accompaniment by heart, thank you all the same, Etty." And Mr. Wentworth seats himself at the piano. What is that? " Flow down, cold rivulet, to the sea." Gerty listens with straining ears. Is she dreaming? Her own song! How dare any one But as she stands and listens, her heart beating fast, the tears come welling up to her eyes, and she hastily steps behind a window curtain to hide her emotion Mr. Wentworth has a good tenor voice, and sings simply and unaffectedly, and with intelligent interpretation, and some how Gerty is more deeply affected by her SO"8 than she has cver 1)43611 before. x uc Bimg ceases, ana tJerty still stands O 1 1 . wing. rne nears the comments and plaudits on the song and the singer, and uer neart exliuits. She steps from her hiding-place pres wmiy, ana is immediate v accosted hv Ethel Hermon with a request to take the now vacant seat at the piano. " But first let me introduce my eousin oar. v entwortn, Miss Carnegie. Has he not a splendid voice, and did he not sing uhw loveiy song splendidly?" " Would you object to telling me frdm wnam you obtained that song, Mr Wentworth?" Gerty asks. not at all. it was m the oddest way. I found it in front of a railway carriage at Waterloo station, probably dropped there by a young lady who had been singing it about half a dozen times in the carriage, fancying herself alone. I imagine, and He comes to a full stop, and a look of amazed recognition comes into his face as lie notices Gerty 's confusion "By Jove! you are the young lady. I've been wanting to find you ever since I tried to trace you at the time, but you had vanished, and I have been advertis ing for you the whole of last week. How is it you never read the advertisements?" 1 never see the papers. I am so glad it is found, for I wanted to take it to the publishers." " Then it is your own composition! '. had no idea of it. I thought it was sim ply something you were practicing for your singing lesson." Gerty blushes crimson at the recollec tion of that absurd vocal journey up to w aterioo. Then the petition for a song from her being repeated she complies, and she sings and looks her very best, and Tom Wentworth gazes and listens in rapt ad miration. Later on in the evening he persuades her to walk through a quadrille with mm, and presently says : "I'll tell you what, Miss Carnegie. Let me take your song to the publishers. I am personally acquainted with Mr. W -, and although your charming song can stand on its own merit, ye these publishers ate 4 kittle cattle,' and perhaps I may be able to manage it bet ter for you than you could yourself." Gerty gladly accepts the offer. The song is published. Gerty does not know till many months later that it has been at Tom's expense, and the business ne cessitates so many interviews between the two young people that nobody is very much surprised when, in the merry month of June, Gerty Carnegie is turned into Mrs. Thomas Went worth. lea OaTe. X correspondent of the Scientific Amer ican describes aj visit to a wonderful natural curiosity at Decor ah, Iowa, as follows : The thriving town of Decorah lies in a romantic valley of the Upper Iowa river, and the cave is almost within the corpor ate limits. Following the left bank of the stream, one soon reaches the vicinity, and with a hard scramble through a loose shale, up the side of a precipitous hill, forming the immediate bank of the river, the entrance is gained an opening five feet wide and eight feet high. These dimensions generally describe the cave's section. From the entrance the course is a steep decline. At times the ceiling is so low that progress on hands and knees is necessary. About 125 feet from the entrance the " Ice Chamber" is reached. At this spot the cave widens into a well proportioned room, eight by twelve feet. The floor is solid ice of unknown thick ness, and on the right hand wall of the room a curtain of ice drops to the floor, from a crevice extending horizontally in the rock ati the height of one's eyes. Close examination discovers the water oozing from this crevice, and as it find6 its way down the side it freezes in the ow temperature of the chamber. Singu- rly this one crevice, and that no wider than a knife edge, furnishes this, nature' ce house, with the necessary water. It was a hot day in August, the thermome ter marking eighty degrees in the shade when the visit was made, and compara tively the cold was intense. In common with all visitors, we detached some large pieces of ice and with them humedlv departed, glad to regain the warmth of the outside world. The most remarkable fact in connec tion with this wonder is that the water only freezes in the summer. As the cold of the aetual winter conies on the ice of the cave gradually melts, anct'when the the river below is frozen by the fierce 'old of Northern Iowa, the ice has dis appeared and a muddy slush has taken the place of the frigid floor. I would add that the ice chamber forms the terminus of the cave. Bevond a shallow creviee in the crumbling rock forbids further ad vance. The rock formation of this region is the Portland sandstone. Why should the temperature of the ice chamber be such as to freeze the water trickling into it? And above all, why should the ice disappear with the cold of winter? Snow-Raised Bread. Somebody thinks he has discovered that snow, when incorporated with dough, performs the same office as bak ing powder or yeast. "I have this morning for breakfast," says the writer in the English Mechanic, " partaken of a snow-raised bread cake, made last eve ning as follows: The cake when baked weighed about three-quarters of a pound. A large teaspoonful of fine, dry, elean snow was intimately stirred with a spoon into the dry flour, and to this was added a tablespoonful of caraways and a little butter and salt. Then sufficient cold water was added to make the dough of the proper usual consistence (simply stirred with the spoon, not kneaded by the warm hands), and it was immedi ately put into a quick oven and baked three-quarters of an hour. It turned out both light nd palatable. The reason," auus uie writer, appears to Re this : tt light mass of interlaced snow crystal ; hold imnrismied a larm nnonfi'f,. - , j-, v vj uuu 11 b, JX lyu" densed atmospheric air, which, when the air is warmed by thawing very rapidly in the dough, expands enormously and acts the part of the carbonic acid gas in either baking powder or yeast. I take the precise action to be, then, not due in any way to the snow itself, but simply, to the expansion of the fixed air lodged be tween the interstices of the snow crys tals4by application of heat. This theory, if carefully followed out, may perchance give a clew to a simple and perfectly in nocuous method of raising bread and pastry." And stop the discussion as to whether alum in baking powders is del eterious to health or otherwise. Scien tific American. The Long and Short of It. A teacher, in illustrating on the ques tion why the fingers are of unnatural length, made his scholar grasp a ball of ivory, to show that the fingers are equal, It would have been better, says Sir Charles Bell, had he closed his fingers upon his palmfand then asked whether or not they cof respond. The difference in the length of the fingers serves a thou sand ends, adapting the form of the hand and fingers to different purposes as for holding a rod, a switch, a sword, a ham mer, a pen, a pencil, engraving tools, etc., in all of which a secure hold and freedom, of motion are admirably combined. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the London Telegraph says that among the poorer classes of St. Petersburgh suicides, through swallowing a solution of phos phorus, have become so numerous that it is proposed to prohibit the manufac ture and sale of lucifer matches made to ignite by means of phosphorus. TIMELY TOPICS. The plea of several Western settlers. who have been writing to the bureau of emigration at Castle Garden, New York city, forwivee has been answered. The superintendent has received letters from three or four young women, who are anxious to ally their destinies with th Western Benedicts, and it is just possible that they may light the torch of Hymen. The late Joseph. Gillot, the steel-pen manufacturer, after he became rich, had a mania for collecting old Italian instru ments, and, although he knew nothing whatever about music, he became the owner of over five hundred violins and violoncellos, a large portion of which were made by the great artists af Cremo nia. After his death thev were found lying in dusty heaps or thrust away in boxes. A painting that is greatly admired at Rome this season, "The Revels of Mas- salina," has a strange history. The man who painted it lived in an attic and kept body and soul together on a limited diet of bread and onions. When it was done he gave it to another painter in pledge of $300, and finally killed himself in utter despair. Now that he is dead, his pic tures are selling. The artist to whom "Massalina" was pledged also killed himself. Advices from India report a circum-l stance of very rare occurrence, the con version of a European to Buddhism. The person in question is an Austrian savant, and he obtained from the king of Siam permission to pass his novitiate in the magnificent temple attatched to the palace. His reception gave rise to a most imposing ceremony. He will have to spend four, years completely isolated from the world. The reasons which have induced him to take this step are said to be that he may the more readily study the Fall language, which is known to the Indian high priests only. The Emperor Napoleon III., during his visit to England, contrived to win the warm friendship of the queen and Prince Albert, which, in the case of the former, has been extended to his widow and son. The young Louis Napoleon, before departing for the Zulu war, called upon the queen to bid adieu, and, accord ing to a London paper, she received him with the greatest cordiality, thanking him in a trembling voice for the cour ageous interest he evinced in her army and country. She seated him beside her on a sofa during the interview, and, as he rose to depart, 6he drew a ring from her hand, and placing it upon his finger, asked him to preserve it as a mark of her gratitude. The young man was visibly affected by the queen's gift and words. Anti-treating temperance societies are multiplying throughout the country. In Philadelphia, a Sunday morning break fast is the inducement to attend a tem perance meeting. A member of the Michigan legislature has introduced a bill making it a aiisdemeanor to sell liquor to a woman under any circum stances. The curreat temperance agita tion in London takes the shape of a con troversy as to the extent of beer adulter ation. Francis Murphy has been lectur ing, during a great part of the season, for $100 a night. Gough finds favor as a lecturer in Great Britain, particularly in Scotland. An Ohio man has bequeathed $10,000 to distribute tracts setting forth the injurious qualities of lager beer. A society for the enforcement of the civil damage law is to be formed in Buffalo. The validity of jthe law having been settled by the court of appeals, this or ganization will prosecute, free of ex pense, the . cases of drunkards' wives against liquor dealers. Some Historical Walking Matches. Among the most famous of the world's walking matches are some of those re corded in military history, where the obstaes of heavy burdens and difficult nf r fv ded to those of time and 5l ch of the heavily-armed Spa . JsuwB. C, from Laceda: mon to Marathon, covering 150 miles of al most a-oadless country in three days, woulfl have earned high commendation in an age of sporting papers. The con sul Jero's march to the Metarus, to surprise- the Carthaginians (201 B. C), lasted two days and a night, with" the slightesfcgossible intermission, the sol diers tekingMbod from the hands of the country people, and eating it as they went. Hannibal's retreat from Zama upon Carthage brought him to Andrume tum, sixty-three miles distant, between dawn and nightfall, the purs.uing Ro mans accomplishing the same distance in even less time. Csosar's Tenth legion achieved a parallel feat in Gaul, while in heavy marching order. The Bernese Swiss, when summoned to aid those of Soleure in repelling an invasion, are said to have answered the call so promptly that the newly-baked loaves which they carried with them were .barely cold on arrival. Frederick the Great, on the hottest day of the terrible summer of 1760, had a kind of race with Marshal Daun for the occupation of an important post, both armies making such -speed that 200 Prussians and 300 Austrians dropped dead on the line of march from sheer exhaustion. Frederick's younger brother, Henry, during the same war, marched for fifty hours, with anly three intervening halts. Napoleon's "Old Guard" repeatedly made sixty miles in a day during the great campaign of 1813 ; and one of the Russian regiments in Cen tral Asia is stated, on good authority, to have accomplished seventy-eight. The similar exploits achieved during the Indian mutiny of 1867, and the American civil war of 1861-5, are too well known to need repetitin. ARTIFICAL DEATH. A- 2f ew and Wonderful Process for Free iiiflr Alive Cattle and Sheep. The Bathurst (New South Wales, Aus tralia) Courier gives publication to a dis covery which, if it is as represented, is certainly most wonderful, and will prove of the higieslrimportanoe to certain in dustries, particularly that of meat expor tation. But listen to the Courier : The gentlemen engaged in this enter prise are Signor Rotura, whose research es into the botany and natural history of South America have rendered his name eminent, and Mr. James Grant, a pupil of the late Mr. Nicholle, so long associ ated with Mr. Thomas Mort in his freez ing process. It appears five months ago Signor Rotura called upon Mr. Grant W invoke his assistance in a scheme for the transmission of live stock to Europe. Signor Rotura averred that he had dis covered a South America vegetable poi son, allied to the well known woorara, that had the power of perfectly suspend ing animation, and that the trance thus produced continued till the application of another vegetable essence caused the blood to resume its circulation and the heat its functions. So perfect, moreover, was this suspension of life, that Signor Rotura had found in a warm climate de composition set in at the extremities after a week of this living death, and he imagined if the body while in this inert state were reduced to a tem perature sufficiently low to arrest decom position, the trance might be kept up for months, possibly for years. Before he left Mr. Grant he had turned that gen tleman's doubts into wondering curiosity by experimenting on his dog. He in jected two drops of his liquid mixed with a little glycerine into a small puncture made in the dog's ear, and in three or four minutes the animal was perfectly rigid, the four legs stretched backward, yes wide open, pupils very much dilated, and exhibiting symptoms very similar to those of death by strychnine, except that there had been no previous Btruggle or pain. Begging his ojwner to have no apprehensions for the life of this favorite animal, Signor Rotura lifted the dog carefully and placed him on a shelf in the cupboard, where he begged he might be left till the following day, when he promised to call at ten o'clock and revive the apparently dead brute. Mr. Grant continually during that day and night visited the cupboard, and so perfectly was life suspended in his favorite no motion of the pulse of the heart giving any indication of the possibility of revi val, the frame being perfectly rigid that he felt the sharpest reproaches of re morse at having sacrificed a faithful friend to a doubtful and dangerous- ex periment. The temperature of the body, too, in the first four hours, gradually lowered to twenty-five degrees Fahren heit below ordinary blood temperature. which increased his fears as to tne re sult, and by morning the body was as cold as in actual death. At ten o'clock next morning according to promise, Signor Rotura presented himself and laughing at Mr. Grant's feas, requested a tuo of warm water to be brought. He tested this with the thermometer to ninety-two degrees 'Fahrenheit, and in this lafd tne dog, head under. To Mr. Grant's objections Signor Rotura assured him that, as animation must remain en tirely suspended t;,i the administration of the antidote, no water could be drawn into tiie lungs, and that the immersion of the body was simply to bring it again to a blood-heat . After about ten min utes of this hath the body was taken out and another liquid injected in a puncture made in the neck. Mr. Grant tells me the revival of "Turk" was the most startling thing he ever witnessed, and having since seen the same experiment made upon a sheep, I can fully confirm his statement. The dog first showed the re turn of life in the eye, and after five and a half minlitpo Hrw a firaf lnmr Viao k and the rigidity left his limbs. In a few j minutes more he commenced gently wag- gmg his tail, and then slowly stretched himself, and trotted got up, on as though nothing had happened. From mat moment jir. tyrant Docame aware of the extraordinary issues opened by his visitor s discovery, and promised him all the assistance in his power. They next determined to try freezing the body, and the first two experiments were discour aging. A dog (not Turk, his master de clining to experiment any further on this favorite) was put in the freezing cham- j ber at Mr. ""Grant's works, after being! previously " suspended " by Signor Ro- j tura ; and although the animal revived ; so far as to draw a long breath, the vital energies appeared too exhausted for a ! complete raHy, and the animal died. The two next animals a dog and a cat died in a like manner. In the mean time Dr. Barker had been taken into their counsels, and at his suggestion res peration was encouraged, as in the case of persons drowned, by artificial com pression of the lungs. Dr. Barker was of opinion that, as the heari in every case commenced to beat, it was a want of vital force to set the lungs in motion that caused death. The result showed his surmises to be entirely correct. A num ber of animals, whose life has been sealed up in this artificial death, have been kept in the freezing chamber from one to five weeks, and it is found that though the shock to the system from the freezing is very great, it is not increased by dura tion of time. Messrs. Grant and Rotura then determined upon the erection of the works just finished at Middle Harbar, an enterprising capitalist finding the neces sary funds. On Saturday last I was invited to go down to see what had been effected. Ar rived at the works in Middle Harbor, I was taken into the building that con tains Mr. Grant's apparatus for gener ating cold. Attached to this is the freezing chamber, a small, dark room about eight feet by ten feet. Here were fourteen sheep, four lambs and three pigs, stacked on their sides in a heap, alive, which Mr. Grant told me had been in their present position for nine teen days, and were to remain there for another three months. Selecting one of the lambB, Signor Rotura put it on his shoulder and carried it outside into the other building, where were a number of shallow cemented tanks in the floor, having hot and cold water taps to each tank, and a thermometer hanging along side. One of these tanks were quickly filled, and its temperature tested by the signor, I meanwhile examining with the greatest curiosity and wonder the nine teen days dead lamb, There was the lamb, to all appearances dead, and as hard almost as a stone, the only differ ence perceptible to me between "His "con dition and actual death being the ab sence of dull glossiness about the eye, which still retained its brilliant trans parency. The lamb was dropped gently into the warm bath, and was allowed to remain in it about twenty-three minutes, its head being raised above water twice for the introduction of a thermometer into the mouth, and then it was taken out and placed on its side on the floor, Signor Rotura quickly dividing the wool on the neck and inserting the sharp point of a small silver syringe under the skin and injecting the antidote. This was a pale green liquid and is, I believe, a decoction from the root of the astra charlis, found in South America. The lamb was then turned on its back, Signor Rotura standing across it, gently com pressing its ribs with his knee and hands in such a manner as to imitate natural breathing. In ten minutes the animal was struggling to free itself, and when released skipped out through the door and went gamboling and bleating over the little green in front. Nothing has ever impressed me so entirely with a sense of the marvelous. One is almost tempted to ask- in the presence of such a discovery whether death itself may not ultimately be baffled by scientific inves tigation. Signor Rotura tells me that though he has never attempted his experiment upon a human being he has no doubt at all as to its perfect safety. The next felon un der capital sentence he has requested Sir Henry Parkes to be allowed to operate on. He proposes placing him in the sleeping chamber for one month, anil declares he has no fear of fatal result. Childhood, Youth and Manhood. It is a man's destiny still to be longing after something, and thus the gratifica tion of one set of wishes but prepares the unsatisfied soul for the conception of another. The child of a year old wants little but food and sleep ; and no sooner is he sup plied with a sufficient allowarlce of either of these very excellent things, than he begins whimpering or yelling, it may be for the other. At three, the young urchin becomes enamored of sugar plums, apple pies and confectionery. At six, his imagination runs on kites. marbles and tops, and an abundance of playtime. At ten, the boy wants to leave school, and have nothing to do but go bird nesting. At fifteen, he wants a beard, and a watch, and a pair of boots. At twenty he wishes to cut a figure and ride horses ; sometimes his thirst for display breaks out in dandyism, and sometimes in poetry ; he wants sadly to be in love, and takes it for granted that all the ladies are dying for him. The young man of twenty-fiie wants a wife ; and at thirty he longs to be single again. From thirty to forty he wants to be rich, and thinks more of making money than spending it. About this time, also, he dabbles in politics, and wants office. At fifty, he wants excellent dinners, and considers a nap in the afternoon in dispensable. Thp rwruvt Vile nld crfn 1 1 pm a n nf ni t tv i wants to retire from business with a j . , , , . , , I inaepenaence 01 uiree or iour nun dred thousand, to marry his daughters, : get up his sons, and tive in the country ; and then, for the rest of his life, he wants to be young again. A New Version of Marco Bozsaris. At midnight in his guarded tent the Turk, Mr. Marco Borzaris, was dreaming of the hour when Greece should bend her knee in suppliance, apologize, eat humble pie and so forth and so on, and tremble at his power. In dreams, or, as we might say, in his mind, through camp and com t he bore the trophies ofa oonquor. Also in his mind he bare the monarch's signet ring which cost four (dollars and a half and pressed that monarch's throne a king ! and thought himself a bigger man than the Akaond of Swat. However, an hour passed on the Turk awoke, he woke to hear his sentries shriek, " To arms ! they come ! the Greek ! the Greek !" This was not all Greek to Mr. Bozzaris. He knew full well what it meant, and, springing out of bed, told the boys to light into them while he got into his clothes. Then there was flame and smoke and shout and groan and sabre-stroke and death-shots falling thick and fast, like lightning from the mountain cloud. ! and the awfulest uproar generally that i was ever heard outside of a country ! school. They fought, like brave men. i long and well, and were about to mop up ! the ground with the Moslem ?lain. when I they heard, with voice as trumpet loud, ! Bozzaris cheer his band from be i hind the cook-stave in his tent : " Strike j till the last armed foe expires ! Strike, j for your altars and yaur fires ! Strike, ; for the green graves of your sires, and j I'll be with you the moment I can get on j these blamed boots r I i A Chinese proverb says, " Great souls have strong wills ; others only feeble T wishes." Only a Little. i A bird has little only a feather Plucked, it may be, from a tender hraart, Only a thread to bind together The delicate fabric of his neat; Tat he sings : " The wide free air in mine, The dews of earth, the clouds of heaven P He site and swings with the swinging Tine, And all he looks on to him is given. A child has little only a blossom Caught at random from fields of bloom. Only the love m a tender bosom, Freed from the shadows ot care and gloom; Yet he laughs all day from the deep of light ness, And feels his joy in the joy of heavea; He loses himself in a world of brightness. And all he asks lor to him is given. A man has httle only a longing Higher than labors ot sword or pen. Only a vision whose lights are thronging O er the tumult and toil of men ; Yet wealth is his from the wealth of being. His are the glories of earth and heaven. He feels a beauty too deep lor seeing, And all he dreams ot to him is given. ITEMS OF INTEREST. A sweeping reform Spring cleaning. This is the walking year; the next will be leap-year. The gold and sifver product of Cali fornia since 1848 is $1,997,500,000. Tennessee has 6,334 public and private schools, with an attendance last year o 292,882 pupils. It is a figure of speech to say that a man walks off on hie ear, but he may stand on his gums. At the present rate of increase of the Slav race, Russia will have 300,000,000 of inhabitants in fifty years. Irving said of a conceited man that whenever he walked toward the west he expected the east to tip up. Many persons given to hitting the nail on the head find on investigation that the nail in question is the finger nail. A Nebraska City woman not only lis tened at a keyhole, -but fired through it at a man whose talk offended her. A young Philadelphian says he'd rather walk right into the affections of a cer tain young girl than to win the champian belt. Can animals learn arithmetic ? asks an exchange. We believe they all multiply, and one is a good adder. New York Com mercial. A profound writer says :" We are cre ated especially for one another. " Then why blame the cannibals in wanting to get their share? "Always pay as you go,'" said an old man to his nephew. " But, uncle, sup pose I haven't anything to pay with?" " Then don't go." The Glasgow bank relief fund has reached $1,750,000, a sum unprecedented in charitable ' annals. Lady. Burdette Coutts gave $5,000. An Iowa horse has a nondescript gait. He simultaneously runs with his fore legs and trots with his hind legs, in away that astonishes the turfmen. In Philadelphia last year there were 18,346 births (9,649 males), 6,247 mar riages, and 15,743 deaths (7,959 males). Of the deaths. 7,385 were children. According to the San Francisco Bulle tin the departures of Chinamen from that city during the year 1878 were nearly as large as the arrivals. The latter were 6,675 and the former 6,071. ' Find out your child's specialty," is the urgent advice of a phrenologist. A Boston man says : " We have tried this and find it not so easy. Sometimes rock candy seems to be the favorite, and then again there, -is-. a marked tendency to taffy." Bishop Colenso has issued a form oi prayer to be used during the Zulu war. in South Africa, in which occurs this passage: " Watch over, we beseech The,,, ",, all near and dear to us, and all our fellow- -a a 1 J f men, wnctner wnite or uiaca, engagea in As thistle-down borne on the air, Or downy bit of feather, So flit along the uncertain hours In springtime's catching weather And soon the shepherd will atari ottv To bring hie flock to tether; O'er rook and fence he'll skip about, Employed in catching wether. A Question of Damages. Some lawyers take very practical view of cases in which they are retained. In a certain town in Missouri Squire G was defending a charge of malpractice. A colored man was suing for damages, his wife having died shortly after an operation for the removal of cancer. When it came Squire G s turn to -a m . m sum cross-examine Uie piamtiu, ne asxeo : 'Mr. Wilson, how old was your wife when she died?' "About forty-five, sir. "Been in feeble health a long time, had she not, Mr. Wilson, and cost you a great deal for medicine and help?" "Yes, sir.n "You have married again, have you not?" "Yea, sir." "How old is your present wife?' "About thirty-five, sir." "Is she stout and healthy, Mr. Wil son r "Yes, sir." "Then, Mr. Wilson, will you please state to this jury how you are damaged in this case?" Mr. Wilson had evidently never taken, this view of the matter, and could make no answer. The good and true men thought he had made rather a good thing by his bereavement, and brought in a verdict for the defendant.-" Editor's -Dratoer," in Harper'. t tit . . conned - Hnnl , ntil-Nortli, ,. ps at u I V rrr. and 'lujat Drury'a . .rain daily ray). topsatail train daily. t.i only uchestcr. uilv. con nee t- m
The Warren News (Warrenton, N.C.)
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