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Fire and
( II KlsTMAS.
, , . f Palestine
r. -,1 ii'r ta r U-in to shun-.
kI'.i drw her shadows ofily riuniil
i 'iw filuniU'runj earth, without a ound.
Aiuuin ihf ti . I i and dewy ruck
'he sh.-pherd kepi their quiet tlockii.
V 11. 1 l.iktl nlnriir the darkening land
Tht waite.1 the 1'ivine command.
When . .' through all the opening blue
i' i r ii ; tic l-.-p , dark he.ivetin itlni re w
An-i luir.- in a wileinn light
PraLHMl (nxl to all the lwUDin nilil.
A f ' .. . l" A'.," I.". l1.1?"rl?"r.l2' I hn" "
he Seraph fuuig irrxxl-wiU U men:
i haiten. arth
ui meet the morn.
The I'riuc'1. Lli
I'rince of I'eare is tnim'
Ak'ii the sky was de-ep ami dark.
Ka-.'h star relumed hi silver S(iark.
The dreaming laud in silence lay.
And waited fur the dawning day.
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11 a stable low anil rude.
re w hit-tiorajt'.l . miu
ved oxen
Pn' at.s.'f heaven were atill displayed,
l"r i hrist was in the manger laid.
t.Ol.ni-(iS CHRISTMAS.
It w.is very strange, tlioutfut old
.I.KH'ph t'.oldmg, that lie couldu't be
ni.istcr ot" Ins own mind, lie bad
lived t reitt ninny years, aud
neither remorse nor memory had
ever been iu the habit of disturbing
him: but now it seemed to himasi
if the verv foundations of his life 1
were breaking up. He was well
through with his day's work lie
had dined comfortably he sat iu
an easy chair in a luxurious draw
ing room, whose criuisou hangings
shut out the still cold of the I)e
eemlvr afternoon he had nothing
to do but enjoy himself. Mr. Gold
ing liked to enjoy him at this season
as much :t.s others did, for it was
Christmas F.ve. What though he
wa.s 111 the habit ol sending it
solitarily T he liked solitude.
For many a year ou Christmas
F.ve he had sat balancing in his J
mind the great accounts presented I
in his ledgers, the accumulating1
coffers at his banker's, the strokes ;
of business he would make in future.
Not so now. The year was draw-'
ing to a close; some intruding YOiee
kept whispering that in like manner ;
so w as his career. He could not j
put it from him, try as he would,
The voice reminded him of a coming !
time when his life's work would be
all done even as the day's work
was all done now- when he would
Im ready to sit down in the evening
and look over the balance-sheet of
his deeds, good and evil. Curiously
the old days came trooping in slow
procession lefore him. Ami he had
been able to forget them for so very-
long !
His dead wife. He had not loved
her much when she was with him,
but how vivid was his memory or
her now! He could see her moving
ronnil the house, noiseless as a
shadow, never intruding ou him
after he had once or twice repulsed
her grnitly, but going on her own
meek, still ways, with her face
growing whiter every day. He be
gan to understand, as he looked
back, why her strength had failed;
and she had lx?en ready, when her
babv came, to
float out on the tide 1
aud let it drift her into God8
heaven. She had had enough to
eat and drink, but he saw now that
he had left her heart to starve.
Heaven! w hat a hard man he had
been! He seemed to see her white,
still face, as she looked at it the
I last time, with the dumb reproach !
fror.on on it: the eves that would
never plead vainly any more, closed
forever.
He recalled how passionately the
three days old baby had cried in
another room just at that moment,
moving all the people gathered to
gether for the funeral with a thrill
of pity for the poor little motherless
morsel. She trujr a passionate,
willful baby, all through her baby
hood; he remembered that. She
wanted missed without knowing
what the lack was the love and
sustenance w hich her mother would
have given her, and protested
against fate with all the might of
her infant lungs. Put as soon as :
she grew old enough to understand
how useless it was, the had grown
ipiiet. too; just like her mother. He
retailed her, all through her girl
hood, a shy, still gul, always obed
ient and submissive, but never
drawing wry near him. Why?
Pecans' lie would have repulsed
her a.s he repulsd her mother. He
could M-f if now. 1 1 wits wry strange
these facts should come back to
him to day , and their naked truth
with them. He had been a cold,
hard, nngeiiial man, without sym
pithv lor any one human iH'ing:
a'lori'cd utterly in the pursuit of
mi'iioN making. And so the child.
Amy, had grow n up without him.
Put suddenly, when she was
e-.jhteeii. the old. passionate spirit
tii.ir li.nl made her cry so when a
1m by must have awakened again,
he thought; for she fell in love then,
and u ished to marry. Tr marry in
ilef.ancc ol his wishes. He remem
bered her standing proudly before
him after one of their piarrvls,whieh
had tx-eii harsh and bitter, and
.ibn-.ve id the man he wanted to
call husband. She had I Kirn e it)
silence
of bun
her I'l
came 1
laf
.ig.i'.ns
reproach oflierself: but not
who had become to hot as
-t cMstctice. Her words
ack t the old man now .
her. do you know an thing
I larry 'liuroh'"
." he had answered . wr.U li
I k im iu ; ii at he ; a p sir m an .
if iie can Hot keep a wife as
ii 'i-r i f in ; :ie m list be kept ."
if lung else, lather!" looking
ad i ly in t he eyes.
that's enough," he had
red . I'll fell you, besides,
you m.u-ry him mv doors will
Si
No
tilUM'l.
that ;l
never
never."
lie :i.
!:: i'W li
ppetlei
to yon again.
11 as strong as
Sin- 'f i marry
.'h 1 1 i in fro 1 1 1
Mr. (milling
y flu- wedding
'..1 .l:-.la::ied to
1 hi- hand- "i
I .; Amy. hi
:ne a ; f er anl s.
.uo
laf !
Well' a'.i . i
er's i.o:ie,
'i I he do
ike place, a
lie wa.lic
ii ". rcii, a: i
:e rote ho
'- r ag.i; ii
b
M ;'. Cold
- back im
fii.it, they
and he had
''g
.1 ir.'in !
hfl'.lilli
li year--trange
;
ot them,
igo now .
at t hose
. is : : -,
very
uld have come buck to
haunt him and with a
i : a . i - . i .
,U Sl'ff.H
j tljings ,,l,i
I njght to
wild remorse, a jiitying n-ii-r. He
had done nothing to recall them.
Conld it Ik his sense of failing
health that brought, them if so,
what sortf of arfguish might he not
, kmk lor as he drew neaier and
nearer to the eliding! He began
to w ih that hf if""!11 heen
mtho.se reject 9- wlu'ther
Amy h.u,f'g00m . Jk '"
thing thu. V?l.l supply.
TheiTexMYiouTftnTW 'Suek lnm
'wiis, why he had oppbsed tlfPiT.ar
; riage so virulently. It is true
Harry Church had been but a clerk
in his own employ; but he avius a
wed educated gentleman, '--and
would rise with time. Faithful, in
telligent, preserving, respected
but poor. In that last word lay
the head and front of Harry
.Church's offending. He, Joseph
Golding, was rich then; he was far
I richer now; but he could not help
asking it, what special good were
. his riches bringing him! He was
j an old man, the span of life running
iqniekly on, and he was all alone.
I Who would take his gold then ?
I He could not carry it along with
! him. All in a moment he saw it
'clearly the dreadful truth stood
! naked and bare: his life and its ob
Iject had been mistaken one
"All alone! all alone!" he kept
savine to himself in a sort of vague
self-pity. "I've toiled and worked
for nothing."
But during this time, even now,
as he sat there, a message of love
was on its war to him. Perhaps
Heaven had but been preparing his
heart to receive it.
He heard a ring at the door-bell.
Heard it without paying attention j
to it. Rings were nothing to him;
people did not come on business to
his residence, and of visitors he;
expected none. Down went his
head lower with its weight of.
thought. I
Meanwhile two people were, ad
mitted into the hall below; a man'
and a little girl. The man took ort';
the child's warm cloak and hood,
and she stood revealed: a dainty, 1
delicate creatnre of some eight j
years old; her golden curls droopinj
softly round her face, with its large
blue eyes and its cherry lips. The
servant who admitted them, not
knowing what to make of this,
called Mr. Golding's housekeeper,
old Mrs. Osgood. The latter went
into a tremor as she came forward
and looked at the face.
"It's Miss Amy's child!" she ex
claimed to the man, nervously. "I
couldn't mistake the likeness.''
"Miss Amy's that was," lie an
swered. "Mrs. Harry Church she
has been this many a year." 1
"I know. It's as much as my
place is worth to admit any child of
her's."
"You are Mrs. Osgood.'' exclaimed
the little girl. "Mamma said I
should be sure to see you."
"Hear the blessed lamb! And
so she remembers me."'
"She talks of you often: she says
you were always kind to her. no
body bat you loved her."
"Well. I did love her. The old
house has never been the same
since she went out ir. What's your
name, my pretty one ?"
"Amy!"
"Amy !" repeated 1: house
keeper, lifting up her hands, as if
there were some wonder in it.
"And mamma said vou would let
me go up alone to grandpapa."
"And so vou shall'1 decided Mrs.
Osgood, after a minute's hesitation.
"I won't stand in the way of it, let
master be as angry with me as he
will. He is up in the drawing-
room, all by himself."
The man sat down to wait. And the
child went up alone.
Opening the door, she went softly in,
not speaking; perhaps the stern-looking
old man. sitting there with bent head,
awed her to silence. Joseph Golding,
waking up from his deep reverie, saw a
letter held out to him. He took it
mechanically, supposing its messenger,
hidden behind his large chair, w a mm
of his servants. With a singular ijuick-
enine ol nuise, ne recoimizea ms
daughter's writing.
She had waited all these silent years,
"he told him. because she was determ-
inel UrVcr Wl wmf in nun ttdiu uaiu
they were rich enough for him to know
that she did net .--ite from any need of
his help. They had passed ten years in
the West, and Heaven had prospered
them. Her husband was a rich man
now, and she wanted from her father
only his love wanted only, that death
should not come between them, and
either of them ko to their mother's side
without having been reconciled to the
other.
"How did this come here '' who
brought it demanded Mr. ( ;uldiiig. in
his usual imperious manin r.
"1 did. grandpaa. "
He sprai g up at the soft timid voice,
as if some fright toik him. and -tared
at the lovely vision, standing jlieie like
a epirit on his hearthstone, with her
white fare and her gleaming gulden
hair. Was it real .' Where w:is he '?
Who could this child be '.' Hut. a.-; he
looked, the likeness Hashed u;on him
and he grew hungry to clasp her to
him. It was the little Amy of the old
days grown into beauty for Amy had
never been so wondrously fair as this.
"Come here, my child; don't be
afraid. Tell me what your name is. "
".Amy. grandpapa.'
Another Amy '. (irandpapa! He felt
the ,-obs rising up in his heart with a
great rhxHl of
it ion: hut h
them back.
"What have they told you :
he rejoined, after a long pau.
they bid you liati' me '.-
'They always t'ld me that
far awav toward where the
a: no -
Hav
y .ii were
sun ro-e:
and if I with good they would bring me
t. , -ff you S' me .J.iy. Kv.tv nigl'.t 1 say
in my prayers, 'iio.1 bh papa and
mamma, an I (hid fl -s grandpapa."'
"Why !,.! t they bring y u What
ma le tlu-ni let -u .. :;! al
1 1 Mamni'i -' in nc v.c,ii .1 'im give
vou the l.-ttvr. u .1- the . m ;uisw r.
"The carriage i- at th- it..;--. ait.iig f.-r
nie. "
"Who is Jol.n-"
"Papa's -ervant. "
"And where are t hey -tav ; i . -
At the hotel. We onlv g-'t i.-r-morning."
Mrs. i sg. -. h"Vi-ri:i t
k'd "ii 1:1 won 1 er. 11
coming down sta i r- ." i
and ' at , a:iu leading t ic
into the earriagi' with !
away. Mr. Ii ! ii:.g -a
al.
!! l-
i
aguely whether it
i hev tirnvf. 1 a: 1.,-: .
i. : m :r. . o; j'n :ng a d
i
1 t:..
c. t).
1
; ng rruliir. She sp, .k" . ':. r.' -i
M.
i ma. hern s gran I ipa. i 1
uld come b.u k with no
ti-. fling's head y.-:.t :f
A.ivinring w-.ik:. : l. .
in -u 'li mor-.- rt- :i- '.i.'---
i; and th -r.- w.-re .::.y -i
.i u Amy '- -.i : - : : he
ii .' tin- t wo s. i tic m ''
M :
1 I'
ll.
sa:
h
y '.:
: b,- : i i. Why had I..- never kr.
in! h.' 1. t through ail lb -e v. mi
i r- '
r.ciuT
an
Hi
i at last"
"I 1'ii t know, my daughter, until
you tell me if you forgive me."
"There should be no talk about for
givenes." (die ?aid. "You went ac
eordii.g to your own opinion of what
wo.- . 14IU. And perhaps I was to blamo.
too. Father, u is enough that liod has
brought us together again iu peace. I
thought that no oue could resistfm'
little Amy. lea.-t of all. her grandpapa. "
He l.K.ked up. The child sUxxi by,
silently; the firelight glittering on her
golden hair, her face fhiuing strangely
sweet. He put out his arms and. drew
her into them, close w here, "no child,
not even his own, badeyer-iiestled be
fore! Oh how- niuch he had missed in
JifeShtT kfew it now. He felt her
"clinging hold round hisueck her kisses
dropped upon his face like the pitying
dew from heaveu; and he was it him
self, or another in his place?
"F ather, see. "
Amy 's voice had a full, cheerful ring
in it. Her married life had been happy.
Mr. Holding turned at the call.
"Here are Harry and the boys waiting
to speak to you,"' she said, in a less as
sured tone.
He shook his son-in-law's hand heart
ily. Old feuds, old things, were over
now, and all was become new. In hia
heart he had always liked Harry
Church.' Then lie looked at the two
boys, brave, merry little fellows, of
whom he might b3 proud. Explana
tions ensued. Fortune had favored Mr.
Church: they had come back for good,
and were already looking out for a
house.
".Nil house but mine,'' interrupted
Joseph Golding. "It will want a tenaDt
when I am gone. You must come home
tomorrow.
"Tomorrow will be Christmas Day,"
said his daughter, doubtingly.
"All the better. If Christmas was
never kept in my house, it shall be now.
I shall not live to see another, Amy. "
She looked up at the changed, thin
face, and could not contradict him.
Soijie one, going to their western homes,
had told them how Joseph Golding was
breaking: the news had caused them to
return prematurely. Amy said to her
husband that if her father died, unre
conciled to her, she should be full of re
morse for ever.
"Y'ou will come home to-morrow, all
of you," repeated Mr. (Jolding. "And
mind. Amy, you do not go away again. "
"Hut if the children should be too
much for you, father!"
"When they are, I'll tell you," he
said, with a touch of the former gruff
ness. "The old house is large enough."
He went out, and found his way to
the shops open to the last on Christmas
Eve looking for Christmas gifts. New
work for him! but he entered into it
earn6tly. Perambulating the Btreets
like a bewildered Santa Claus, he went
home laden with books, and toys, and
jewels, and bonbons. Mrs. Osgood
lifted her hands, and thought the end
of the world must be coming.
"Help me to put these things away,
Mrs. Osgood. Don't stare as if you
were moonstruck. And, look here
there'll be company to dinner to-morrow.
Mind you send in a good one."
"The best that ever was Been on a
table. if it's for them I think it is for."
"Well, it is. Miss Amy's coming
home again."
"Heaven be praised, sir! The house
has been a dull one since she left it. "
"They are all coming. And they
will not go away again, Mrs. Osgood.
If you want more servants you can get
them. "
"It's the best ChristmasJ greeting you
could have given me, master."
And they came. Amy and Amy's
husband and the pretty boys were there:
and, best of all, the sweet little girl
with the golden hair, sitting next to
grandpapa. It was too happy a party
for loud mirth. And among thorn
Joseph Golding saw, or fancied he saw,
another face, over which, almost thirty
years ago, he had watched the gravesod
piled a face sad and wistful no longer,
hut hritrhr. with a strancfi elorv. Close
by him she seemed to stand; and he j
heard, or fancied that he heard, a;
whisper from her parted lips, though it
might have some only from his own
heart :
"Peace on earth and good will toward
men.
The Relations Between Food and Tem
perature. A series of experiment made by
M. Ch. liichet upon rabbits shows,
far better than the bald statements
usually given, the relations which
subsist between the quantity of food
required by an animal and its pow
er of maintaining its jnormal tem
perature, also the need ef a cover
ing, natural or artificial, as a pro
tection against cold. Two rabbits
were placed in a cool chamber (be
'tween 0 degrees and GO degrees 1 ).
The larger and heavier of the two
was kept constantly shorn, and the
certained daily. For two weeks
the shorn rabbit resisted the cold
eating every day at least one third
more than the unshorn one, yet los
ing constantly in weight, while the
otlier one gained. During this time
t he tern perature of the shorn animal
was about half a degree less than
that of the unshorn oue. After two
weeks the organism of the shorn
rabbit became unequal to the task
of producing heat, the temperature
fell, and on the nineteenth day the
animal died. I hiring this short
period it had lost more than one
sixth of its weight. Abundance of
loud and warm clothing, are, there
tore, the necessities of a cold cli
mate: but aud this is the great
reason why the natives of a tem
perate climate succumb in a hot
one not only light clothing, but
still more a light and not too nour
ishing diet are essential to health
iu hot weather or in a tropical region.
As M. Pichet puts it "it is no exag
geration to say that an Englishman
eats ten times as much as a Hindoo,
and if, when in a hot country, he
persists in t he same regimen, he eats
ten t hues too much."
TYNli.U.I.'s EAlil.Y JSl'ECVL.V-
iii'N. Prof. Tyndall began life as'
an engineer and worked hard at it;
for small pay many years. .During I
t hat t line occurred a little incident ;
winch will illustrates the charactei
of the man. When tho great rail
road building mania was at its hight I
in iM.io. he invested some ot his1
earning- in railroad stocks. He
held them for three weeks, and dur
ing that time became so infected
yy i: h gambling spirit that, he could
do nothing but watch the stock
in. u kef. Pecoining disgusted with
ioin-eli for his hick of self-control,
he hi';:: to his broker and ordered
h:ui to -i 11 hi.- stocks, which, if he
had In i'l -onio time lunger, would
h nr I 1 1 : ; g i i li:m a liaiiil-oinc pro-
! Vl Sy --.li -i Mv Lt'CK."
lb- - a to 'i: -ii man yv ho say.-. I ; is
my luck." yvln-n .something goes
.igaili -t hi Hi . 1 )' 'll'i .-ay . 1 wi-h I
1 ; v ed in a ui !il y liei e I here i - no
- uioyv and no disappointment." If
yyould be a pitiable yoild: it yvoiild
mean nifelleclii.il and inoial death.
No wisdom or -k:l! can keep us fiom
ti"iible: !oi trouble is universal and
whatever is universal under the
government of God must be good.
Chaiiu'-es or the Karlli". SmT.H-f.
Scientilic men have been dipovi
to attribute the evidences
nces (icTiaiiir
es on the earth's surf
acu violent
.: . ,
ciuasti'opiies in the operation
i nature; but Eyall and L more n
cent geiihigists savneJpiiT'.r ol the
altera I ions u e wit,n,..,s u ere In ought
about I y--tJo' ou 0per.1t ion :l
I natural loi rc a.; ing through v.i.-t
j periods of t iuie. The e erul eai 1 ii
quakes which have recently vi.-i:ed
j the northeast quarter of North Am
erica did something inward either
raising or depressing the surface of
the region ailed od. It is known
that '.hi different poitions of the
globe are either raising or sinking.
It is also known that the Atlantic
' coast between Cape Hatteras and
; Cape Cod has been steadily sinking
j for centuries, and it is within the
bounds of probability that befoie
I 2000 years have elapsed, the cities
j of New York and Brooklyn may be
; under water. When the Dutch
I colonized Manhattan Island lion
J years ago, the Indians told them
: that in the time of their great
i grandfathers it was possible to cross
I Hellgate drv shod from one bank
to the other. Prof, (iuvot estimat
ed that the lowering ot the Atlantic
coast was twenty-three one-half
inches every centuiy. At tnesniiiei
time it is certain that the greater
portion of the American continent
is rising wniie tne comment 01 .uid
tralia is as certainly sink in
Yoi v
many islands of the Pacific, Ocean
were unci- tue lujks ui luuiuiiiiiun on
continents afterward submerged.
The stupendous volcanic eruption
of Krakatau on Aug. 27 last year
entirely changed the physical aspect
of the Suuda Straits. A part of
Krakatau was shot out of the sea
and dropped into the straits eight
miles northward. The greater por
tion of the island, containing sever
al thousand million cubic yards of
earth, was hurled through the
mgh the air
Plunged into
liles fo tin.
new pieces
over Zaug Island, and
the channel seven mil
northeast. These two new piece
ot land, which have been named
Steers and (Jalmeyer Islands, now
appear above the sea where previ
ously 240 feet of waters existed.
Where the volcano of Krakatau
stood a sea fathomless by a line ot
1,000 feet uow exists. In t'e neigh
boruood of Eugla::2 -K-ctutiy new
islands haye appeared composed of
black volcanic rock; and so these
migutyf changes keep on. Oceans
of vast antiquity are continents to
day, while the populous plains will
in the distant ages hence be found
at the bottom of mighty seas.
Demoresf s for January.
How to Kuy a Horse.
An old horsemau says: If you
want to buy a horse, don't believe
your own brother. Take no man's
word for it. Your eye is your mar
ket. Don't buy a horse in harness.
Unhitch him and take everything
off but his halter, aud lead him
around. If he has a corn, or a stiff,
or has any other failing, you can see j
it. Let him go by himself a way. i
aud if he staves right into anything i
you kuow he is blind. 'o matter!
how clear and bright his eyes are. ; Winthrop wa.e to deliver at the
he can't see any more than p. bat. dedication of the Washington Monu
Pack him, too. Some horses show j nent is stated to be completed, and
their weakness at tricks m that way in case oi his inability to deliver it,
when they don't in any other. Put, i it will, perhaps, be read by some
be as smart as you can, you'll get j gentleman selected, for that pur
caught sometimes. Even ;u: expert j poso. The fact that he made the
gets stuck. A horse may look ever ; formal address at the laying of the
so nice and go at a great pace, aud
yet have fits. There isn't a man
could tell it till something happens.
Or he may have a weak back. Give
him the whip and off he gois for a
mile or two, then all of a sudden
he stops in the road. After a rest
he starts off again, but he soon stops
for good, and nothing but a deirick
could move him.
xue w ,ik p.u is ui iicu.se can oe ,
better discovered while standing!.
lne weak parts oi a norse can be
than while moving II he lasouud, i
he will stand squarely aud firmly on
I . '
his limbs without moving any of
them, the feet llatly upon the
ground with legs plum) am natur
ally poised, or if the foot i.-; lifted
from the ground and the weight
taken from it. disease may be sus
pected, or at least tenderness, which
is a precursor of disease. Jf the
horse stands with his feet spread
anart. or straddled witli his hind
legs, there is a weakness in the loin:
aud the kidney are disordered.
Heavy pulling bends the knees.
Bluish, milky ca.-r eyes in iecs.-s
indicate moon blindness a some
thing else. A bad-tempered hoise
keeps his oars thrown ba-.-k. A
kicking horse is apt to have scu ted
legs. A stumbling hi.i.-e .has oo-ni
ished knees. When the .-k:n :
rough and harsh, aud does not iin.y e
easily to the touch, the hor-e :- a
heavy eater and digestion i- bad.
Never buy a horse whoso brent hint;
organs are at all impaired. Place
your ear at the side o- the heatt.
and if a wheezing sound i he-tj.i
it is an indication of trouble.
Iib'itioii II
While then- is uu;y
in Franco and ( ci n:a
ous circiun-: aiico ili.it
of vot I
right to sciccf
During a receiil
many, it is s.iii
Berlin would
voting yva.-
country
a right.
tensely
Not so
,. liro;
"'fiLir
subm.
ie ami Ahroa ; oeiicvc Inr a . h,.u I'lieral Mite! beinir carbonic a-cid l',v-.
iln li." K-xwJb? l!u'i.,n.i.:. Vl,, '.vrf -: au.t t!;e y e.-si'l hv moan- el a :i e!e.-i i ' : :
1, ujJfcT.' , i:.-:::. I d :,!.:;?;.. a: .; that Lading three oi four minute-, u ..: m.,:. . k . .....
iioWff ,i, , i . oa'd :- iearneu v, ith almost invisible cial an !'. ... ,. va..i
kilns'. U ' , . ,, . , ,.. , , . .... '.liny
jBF .... : . ; .. ; ,. . i e .. -: v. . ii ci -e i ',y a : , -: .u cllgi ne oi tiesi i ne , oi , 1.-
nS--T v wi.' o , , :, . I... : I ,i-.i :.t :"; lo: taking i hem most powerlul nonco! li,iii . - .
rwes ic ' i'h'-.'.;.v' "!' ' i- ' - -' ; ' " ' pf ' i 'a : a - prepared for :f- -i y -t ,-t " on- ,- , :, U :-ston
f , i : . -,.--"'; -'I 1 iroach.
ii J""'"'-''. ." . ' ' The tortiedo. u ha ii :- "I h.- v - . .. -. . . -...n n'-
.il.iit. : : J : ', .:-..! ias-iii'i known Lay 1 1 a : gh t pa ' ' i " . - n i -u i .' ' ' n y u,
, 1 ,1 ... v . .,:!,- , :. i ; copi.i t . J t I s i -i;.-i . u c -
i;UUlit is I'clldele'i. i . -'- - " :.'." ' ' ue , g n , oy e. ui' . . ... '
;the pivotal State c:,,c,,:o; "'id ...1 ' -hy.. :.-. v.cw ,. ,;-,: , . ,Ui
eril davs the re.-'fi' - i:t loti'-;. Hfci i '.':.''''' '
.,vyyas naf:: . . : : f :.-: - . Sand .,.y p, n c A ( . u 1 iA T m H . M 1 ,. - N .
m ' , , , ., o ,1,. ., .,.! .. : . ;: :-: ' , ,.; galiliod drust U lui dol pa': -
rn: .,.?:!;. -t. '-n
t!,e ' 'o-cUed i.ufy subn.-i;.-; v.':::. ' la- t..:lc- -'i i:c - fi". eio: ' o. -P, cause you i,ev, ; -. . on n:-
out a . .,. .,:.. -;.,. j,. ,c!-;o .,'..r.,p-' .c.-.-Pi:: the mv-taf:-'! -T ie-yv. btr 1 y -
SSe'ivc'' lico::,: c;li -ei:c- :occ, co. .. ,;'-:: .c'i'.eaoi-c! by yyhah joac e - , . m, . ,c .
j, in s ' i ; : -1 pe: 'i : '!. :'.. ' '-;'-;' ' ': :n u; oi: io- money.
!i c':..u..'.-,-i ie.l '..!.. ' -r i i'..;.: - oe uad r:-i.do:'
i ,-,....-.. , .;. ,-,,,!,,.,'.,-..: . -A :.. : c c:-"i!: cod -..e kUow (,...,: :i i.LMI Ct. UUfi,
the oiiict i " - . :- -;. : ... .,u.. ,:;,.' I :,c!i turiiiMg t- ...:.-- t he - i ,-. -. ,.-.i.v
l -iliv'ii .. .... weoV
t(-'n'"1 'lu'iU'- -" i. ..ic ' -6:.: --- foe, o'.gf.-g.i'io.c ; s.oi young faces. -A,--. u.
the canvi S:c::-i'o. ; :. .. ! :...'. il.t tef.t and -all. " 1'he' e -Weil. II 1 tell h:t.. w. :n ',"1 .( ' c.i, t.e
ill io. an ' ' - .
cine "1.,, ,,',' ;!,.. ::,;:. o: c . - - ice : y 'c a; ; . filetld-, i.:U::ii ali.l mo lor a pailol p..n:-.. t.c . ci-t :;'...'. .
are i'l,l",!fj,-,.,i't,.i'' -,"t. o . o-.-:.;. !.c i; p:' n " I'ne way me t.i a coat and y-t ''on; ;. ,".i ' "; ; ', :, .'.:" 'V-
he, ed ti ot' . ,- r u the en ; ov t:i e 1 1 1 - o I tmii'.- as much as a pan ..; pad-. s .' '' 1
ioi. i lie 1 1 V .... i ... . . , . . . i c . o ii i i . -i i i ic, ,i Tic sec . a iii.ll ,111'i ii-vi :ii,' .',-:.,, in,- n . ,o. l
b'cling. nvJ,.,.:. ,,;! ;,.: i,i;;,-r-4, lio ,, , :.-.o:'. p'ovel ; i lie ol.e of Y-'Mi h.s'b - ! hile m , l.,-i::g J
'" 1 bef.veep the ill 1 ,' i-l.e ;:,. ci SUCi'es.-iiu .-inaon- ce .
0uN 1,1 IVst cnic-ts. Jr fprciith-d.- Vahiiu;t,, li.-Uh , '!"" - 'etUum-. you g.u (. -v
' Kmj- JIonu deiUit.-. W
(;em:kai, m:vs.
d
noticed in England that
It
pawn-broker
- 1, ,,,!.,, ...
can-els ever become
Spain was visited on Tuesday!
with M-vcie gales and snow storms.
Many shipwrecks aie reported.
The mateiialof the Jimxtt.s Pro
h lint nDiis St.. John's Kansas organ,
,,,,,, 1, -i, ,.- t- ,, '
tun b Martm an lJuren Bennett,
11, ,, . , , '
w as sold li the Shell Ion luesdav.
.,
1-ighty native chiefs have pro-
'J"""" .-pamsu soxereignry over neighbor's fence, never got inanvl
1 ,.()l0 square kilometies of land on j 01J0's field, or destroyed a cent's ' Jii.'U-'.V.-. . -'.'.Ix J--the
(.nil of (.uniea. opposite Comko WOrth for any one but their lawful I ,...,.! "..,, ti- 1
Island 1 ' . .1 1 ihiiiih, 'ohI - in n
1U' I owner, and yet they were as good ;
A salmon weighing eighty pounds
was recently taken from the river
ia.. oconanu. jne Heaviest 1 ay
lish on record w eighed seventy
pounds.
The Pepubliean Union gave nn
uniual diiiner 111 honor of the mem-
ory of (bunbetta in I'aris 011 Tues
day night. Five hundred guests
participated.
Numbers of sheep and pigs are
being killed in sections of Dakota
by wolves, packs of which have
been prowling about in the vicinitv
1 ol Pismarck. particularly
; mountains.
in the
cost of cholera may be est. -
the northern ltaIian Tililr0 ln
SontPIll hfr ft wmrr i tlia hm. n ro
' , ' , to :
II 1 I! lit 1' Till Al.ir.ln ,l.,n. 1...-., ....1
, will b'e.320,000 lean than in 1883
IIUll. lUllCl lUail 1 IM t ill
v
i
I Judge Wheeler, of Jamaica, Vt.,
j recently removed to Brattleboro,
twenty-six miles, taking a favorite
cat. The cat the next day returned
to us oiu nome, out nuding the
. ..... . .
doors and windows closed it re -
turned to the family in Brattleboro.
Sister Theresa, a niece of
the :
Hon. James (I. IJIaiiu
the Mallin"krodt Convent
in
Wilkesbarre. who is snflering with
i)nemonia, is gradm.'ly sinking.
lierrecove; vis thought fo be hope -
oss ' 1
For killing a puppy dog, a two
and a half-year-old child was sen-
fenced in a Vicksburg, Miss., court,
a few days ago. to pay a line of
ToU or undergo an liiipiisonmeut
of thirty days. The line was paid,
and the child tfiken home iiv its
lather.
. .1
i-e aua i .tiicuinaii lias a neiii
bvbrid cattle, crossed between
male bnrtalo and the domestic
r. They are very hardy, and
ive where other ' cattle ' would
Nevada rancumau has a herd
of bvbrid cattle, crossed between
the
cow
thrive where other cattle would
starve. Their beet is excellent, and
yarn has been spun from their hair.
The State of M.i ;chusetts is
having a vei v accurate topographi-
cal survey made, which, when com
pleted, will be oue of the most
elaborate and minute State surveys
ever made. It is said that had a
gootl topographical map of the
State been in existence it would
have saved, since the first railroads
were built, 20,000,000 iu their con
struction alone, by indicating where
the most leasible routes lay.
The oration which Mr. liobert C.
corner stone of the monument in
1SKJ increases the disappointment
springing from his seeming inability-
to respond to the part assigned
him for the 21st of February.
Last Tuesday was an eventful
..ay m iUC iUe im .cuuu,( .
Kansas, man who had previously '
.1..- ... t.r f n t .-., i.
borne a good reputation. At 1) in
the morning he was recognized as
ex-convict. Just after dinner
nn1 ffi nt- a nf.
, .,- A t ,i.,, u
l'Ji 1 1 11 1 (lit I . JTLU J J KsLVKs rv TT II til
he was hovering between life and
death from his terrible scalds, a
sheriff arrived with a warrant for
his arrest as a highway robber. He
died at sundown.
Manual Dexterity aud the Letter.
It is well known that in its devel
opment each new born being passes j
through very much the same stages
thathisancestors have been through
before him. Even after birth the I
growth of th" child's intelligence '
simulates the progress of t lie human
race i rom the savage condition to
that ot civilization. It has been ;
shown by Preyer, and others yvho
have studied infant development,
that ,t faculty yvi,,oli nas been ac
quired by the lace at a late .-tagt ,
is late in making its appearance in
i lie child. -'., reading and wilt
ing are a! ; - of com pur a 1 1 vol lecen!
achievement. Savage man could
re a;
hoi.
:n;i:i
id siw. and "acave. and buih
1'ii.g befol e he i oilid colli
' " his thou
- t .nice bv nieafi
hi.- ;.' a i 'Ci son
oiccij. T'leie 'i:c". rea,-on mi screw per minute, t he motiye pioiei JN jj U i i.'-L... .
ei -ai ..-;!.; ..go ligciice wotiid be bes; trained by Moving three or four led I, ecu St.' ribic Co;.: pa v.
,'..,: i-,i c-ui :- iaa ! nig ;: : in --kj if' .! iu ii',tny kinds : he surface of the water, .md gu.ilel
gto.it .tiniii:- ' 'bHoTiTToTTibiir tiefoie bcriiiuing T' by an operator iioia the .-!.! i ,
reproraVy' inoi o .. :. i --. f 1 1 ai -i .; : c ' i I i s ex pect ed 1 1 1 a t :. c .- i 1 o '
rlw-JmSP. f' .'. n.struct:-:! mioup; bi ii.-tmfn.ii in ed, which is at the r-dc .. m:!- ; : . 1'' :P
FA KM NOTES.
NUMBElt 4.
HOCiS.
On 'Tuesday, Dee. Hi, 1 killed m
Ii0f,s, 1.5 in number, in good order,
weighing from 17") to L'l'o pounds
each, leaving out the same number
of good sized shoatsthal I expect
l.v I- ill 1 ,..11 ... 11.,. 1......1.. .. . ...
. H' Hill illlU OCll III l C OUtCllCIN 111
1 x- ,. .
'.Now Berne when at pigs are scarce
1 ., 1 1 ; 1 ti
and high. These pigs were never
U1 tue public road, never broke a
j or a better lot of hogs of their age
than could be found anywhere
aoout here. 1 ney stayed in a small
pasture lot of about 10 acres with
j three cows and six sheep. In the
j summer after the grass was good
tlll gt 'uui a pecK 01 corn twice a
day for the whole lot and kept 111
good order. When the corn was in
good roasting ear it was cut one
stalk for each pig and thrown over
the fence to them. As soon as corn
could be gathered they were let in
to the field pretty well stocked with
field peas and about one on the
field peas planted with the corn.
1.., .. i- 1 1
, Qn a,.ra Qtw,
1. TlTJ
1 , - ....
I Ml- T ion hod tir n-imlQ mi eorn
ana meal in tiie pens to limsh.
Tl,n l . 1
rai in i v .1.-, haiu n r i ut-i
were killed.
I cut them up the
same day and rubbed the pieces;
well with salt and spread them on
i shelves and planks in the smoke
! house to drain and cool. The next
' t , . , i ,.
I (,ay t ne meat was nam and me salt
, uad gone in. I then piled it up on
one end of the, smoke house floor
with plenty of salt. In ten davs I
will pack it in barrels and fill up
with good pickle when it will be
i ti .r 7 t i V B '
' f'eded r bacon, after sta.-
' 6 1 1 'T a "
be hung up and smoked dry long
safe tor all summer or till it is gom
befoie tiy time.
1 Meat treated m this way cannot
spoil. I am sure that hogs kept up
j iu small' pastures will make more
j and cheaper meat than those that
; are let ruu to annoy 1 he neighbors,
' .1. P.
-
An Ancient Oruidioal festival ti he
Cunt in t..nrl.u
r"
"
! The Eistedfod is the great nation-1
lal festival of AN ales, which had the:
commencement of its history in 1 he i
remote past. It was established m
! 1116 listed tod is tne great nation-1
;hhb rbi. h a.s fiaunni-ii m
' tni "i.aiv i civilization and
: knowledge in the British Isles. The
histedfod has been the nursery ot
the bards and bardism in Wales,
and in the absence of any other ed
ucational facilities it wan the in
structor of the people from time
immemorial
According to an old A eisli triad,
"there are three artifices of poetry
aud record among the n.! .-.fi the
Kymry: (Welsh) Gwyddon Ganhe
bou, wiio first in the world invented
' voal song; Hu the Migh'y. who fust
invented the means ol recording and
preserving vocal song; aud Tydan.
the Father of the Muse, who first
gave rules to vocal song and a s,s
tern f recording. From what these
three me: ftectd, bards and bard
ism originated, the dignities and
customs pertaining to which were
arranged systematically br the
three original bards, Tlenydd.'
'Alon' and 'Gwron. Three ranks of
orders constituted what was called
Bardas or Bardism: That of bard
or poet, that of Ovydd or philoso
pher, and that of Druid or instruct
or. The motto of this institution
was and is to this day; "Y Gwir yn
rb byd" (The Truth Agaiust
J w jd) f hj u t 0l(1
appear that the Eisteddfod or Bard
lZ-,"ZtiWth In li
; ot propagating t he Uuth
ism was iustituted for the purpose
The Eisteddfod was the fount of
instruction, moral and religious, at
the time o'the ancient IJruids. The
vehicle by which instruction, or as
it was probably termed Truth was
propagated was poetry. The Bard
wrought the philosophy of the
j Ovydd into song, and the Druid oi
instructor, who was also minister ol
such religion as the Celtic Cymry i
possessed, communicated
to hi.-
pupils the result of the Paul aud
Ovydd. The Druidical verses then
probably constitute the most ancient
poetry of Britain,
The .'..pop Welsh people ui Ci.i.'i
ado jiropo.se to hold in I enwr a
grand Eisteddfod on ( 'hi istma-s Day.
lhnvr Tribvnt.
A Destructive Torped.
A remarkable automatic toipcdo
in the form of a cigar-shaped vi---i-l
is building in Hartford, Conn. I:
is thirty feet long:, yvith a diamele;
in the center ol i hirty nine niche.-,
and com bines a very iowerf:il e
jilosivo, yvith aiiple(propolliie and
steering machmciy. Six engine.-
y i I'teii , develop 1,00 revolution- ol the (
Prolossioiiu! Curds.
CFAS. H BROWN,
A T I N i; V V T - I. A W
KKWtMVII.LiK. M. C.
I'l .t.'t ! k 111 t h ' .i! : 1 1 m'n of 1 iln. I ."In 'M
..I,. J.,!,.-- .,
II. I nt I '111) III
I l'.l. 1. .Illtt'll "I K .
.11.
P. H. PELLET IElt,
- t t r 7 ic -y it- aw
POI.l.tX HliV I I.I.K.
.luiktra ('(iiinlr, N.
"iii'iet, Jn
rolylon of
... iV..( per-
nlHrlwll
--
j C. R. THOMAS,
A tto j: n 1: y a t
LA W,
mi
in CrM i-n uTr.-i-l I 11
Ii. r ..f I'.. II ,. u -lr.-..
Hiiiniv linlldmg
intv4dwly
Ci R. THOMAS, Jr.,
-A-t tornoy n.t
HF.AVfOHT. A (
( )ITch on corn
Will pra-n-
OOU'lllch
' f Turner Hfifl Front irtrel.
Ii, citriin our) mljolnlnf
ii) -I mien t .. .n 1. l 1 ; :iin if rlutTnn
WILLIAM J. CLARKE,
COCNSKI.I,( K AT LAW,
' S.1, ', :' ,. ""- '
la m w Morn,
. .illrtliig
1 it r 1 t 11 1 ii t 11 1 1 1' 1 1 1 1 1 ' 1 1
r. r 1h 1 in k, mih( ii it . H t . , -1 , , .
r 11 1 w-ti 1 u 1 h ( 1 1 u j , 1 km
S-iil. M h. 1.
.
k.
l.. j muux k.
W. C. OI.A.BHB,
: un?rr riT a TiTrr
luoonii 01 (jljilXVJttJj,
j I Uttfl a x o A T IaAW,
Now Heme, N. C.
Will prartlNd In t :, ( inirT
i r (;rtret,Cni-
i n,i pmn-oiiino... '(
vi-ii, itifii,, iiv'i. .iiintis
Ainu in inn miiiipii" iinri ai riAitKD ud
Hi.- I'lilli'd HUi'.ihi inittv m :w HThmm.nA
KlllilKll
' 'ill IfM'T 1 Tig H I- '- ,-l H i I , .
itpftdWtf
V. HTROltO,
Halt-lull, N C
tiakirl k. mar,
Kin urn, N. O
STRONG & PERBY,
K I BUTTON. J t .,
ATTORMnS Alt. C!U .!tLUX AT tAW.
Having formed cipftvtTi"nillp for lh
pnfcOlloe 'T ir-iiiu i n .11 in 'miniy , vr til 1
mriy uixna mi i nline ir lin
allntloii paM ta i ,! 1, rtlorn.
mini. ITompt
- - - - . JL?
X HI'. I'lKf. I-1.BME1TT MAtri.1, j .
SIMMONS & M AWLVV V.
ATTOKNF.VS AT LAW.
onmi.w. oan-ri, rnmiwio. l uotr and Hyde,
HIlll ill III" Kl'lll'nil I 'nurt Hi NV HwN.
fmwuin,
mi
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