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JOUHNAL. VXW BXB3C. K. a4 SEPT. 13 1987. BX51TOXS John Sherman and , TUIlf Mahnne ar to be at the Ral- i colored fair this fall. It is to O) no pea tnac ineir mission is 10 , fire the colored people cf this State, and all who may attend, genuine 1 laduifcrial tails. Oar Kaleigb friends will doabtlesa treat tbem -with becoming dignity. Soxe of the papers are making th lOiat that Virginia Democrats Stand alone in demanding the re peal oi the internal revenue laws. Some of the papers that give pub licity to thia know that North Caro Una Democrats are with those of Ylrfinla, and yet they are not in favor of "free smokes and free drinks." PBXSiDKjiT Cleveland has written a letter to Mayor Thomp son Of Raleigh in which he states that it is impossible for him to at tend the Fair this fall. lie had so many invitations to consider in ar ranging his Southern and Western trip he found it impossible to ac cept them all, so Raleigh is one of the unlucky places. Bat oar farm er shoold go to the Fair and carry the boys jast the same. A txiy who has worked throngh the crop ought to have a little recreation. Let him go to the Fair, whether he the President there or Dot. THX Baltimore San notes the fact that of the foar hundred and fifty new national banks organized between March ISSo, and Angast 13S7, majority were established in the South. The San regards this as evidence of healthy pro gress, and the establishing of aaviogs banks as a feature of pro gress that will materially aid the working classes. There is plenty oi room for more banking capital in New Berne. There is not now . mora than one-third of the capital employed in banking that was here previoas to the war, where really there ought to be more. SPXJLEEB Carlisle has been to "Washington and bad a conference with the President. It is said that the conference was for the purpose oi discussing a plan to reduce the amrplas in the-treasury. A plan to reduce taxation and stop the col lection of more money than the gorernment actually needs is the first thing that ought to bo con sidered, and doubtless was con sidered by the President and Mr. Carlisle, bat they ought to hare had a representative of Sam lian dallism at the conference and greed upon some measure that would hare been passed by Con- ess. DURHAM nas voted one hundred thousand dollars for another rail road. The vote stood seven hun dred and thirty-six in favor of rail road to one against. The readi ness with which the towns and counties in the central and western portions of the State vote large subscriptions to railroads and other enterprises seems almost reckless to we eastern people who desire to -leave oar children, grandchildren and greatgrandchildren clear of debt. In our younger days we frequently heard old men say that a debt is a good master if the man who owes it wants to pay. Oar np- eoantry friends are not afraid of debt because they have the push, Tim and courage to accomplish whatever they undertake. Oar people want to leave no debt, and less spirit of enterprise. The International Medical Con gress now in session at Washing ton City is attended by about fifteen hundred doctors. North Carolina is represented by some of her ablest physicians, such as would do honor to her in any convention cf doctors. Two of the foreign doctors, erne from Italy and one from Ireland, have caused the only friction in the Congress. The doc tor from Italy became offended be eause he was not recognized as the representative of his government instead of another individual who claimed that honor, and the Irish doctor is offended because he was not invited to a banquet of editors. These foreigners as well as Amen cans are sensitive people ; la fact It is a disease that travels the world around. These little jars though will not interfere with the work of the Congress which is im portant and of interest to all the world. Thz editor of the State Chronicle and Congressman John Nichols are still using ugly words towards each 'other. Mr. Nichols in a long card published in the Signal and North State attempts to prove that there was a "deal'' oetween the editor of the Chronicle and the Independents in the General Assembly for the publio printing. But his proof is more from inference than Irom direct testimony. He also inti mates that the manner in which the accounts of the editor of the Chronicle as State Printer are ex amined is not above suspicion and opens wide the door for both slop work and robbery. The editor of the Chronicle answers the charges and denounces Mr. Nichols as un worthy of the confidence of any honest man. It seems that the Tocabolaxy of decent epithets is aboat exhausted ; what will be done we know not. We do not think the controversy has strengthened Mr. Nichols as an available caudi- date for Gorernor. OLD TIMES AT CHAPEL II ILL. We haTe before us the April number of the Quarterly of the Delta Kappa Epsilom fraternity.one of the far famed Greek societies. I which contains an interesting his- j tory of the Beta Chapter established j at our State I'niversity in 151, 'and obliterated by the war in 1 St 1 . lnis is an exceedingly well written editorial by the accomplished editor, who issues his m.igaziue from Fifth avenue. New York, to thousands cf graduates and pro fessors of almot every prominent college in the Tinted Stah-s. It may lx? interesting to New l'.t-iii-l.ins to read -ome extracts imm this article, as l)r. .lames 11. Hughes and John S. Long, '.- . wi-re both (barter mem rs of tin- old ll.'ta Chapter, and soorrs of wt-11 known North Carolinians of today spent some of the brightest hours of tln-ir youth under its classic shade The editor of t lie laarterly gives a brief sketch of the founding of the State I'niversity and hastens on to the time the Let a Chapter was organized, in lv"l, when the I'niversity was at the very acme of its prosperity. From almost thebe- ginning of the diversities' career the Phi and Di literary societies have existed. The L. K. L. was a ! Greek society made up of the i brightest members of the Phi and' , Di, the scope and designs of which is best told by one of its members: When I was a:i active member of the Chapter at the I'niversity. : 1nj1-'3, we met on the evenings ot the 1st and loth of each month, at : the residence of Mr. John 'arr, i an influential citizen of Chapel ' Hill. lie is still residing at the I same place in oue of the loveliest ' houses of that beautiful village. I j remember well that we selected our : members with reference to their I literary qualifications. At each' i meeting there was apointed an orator, an essayist, a poet, and several debaters (or these duties at the succeeding meeting. Some of these orations, essays, etc., re flected much credit upon my young fellow members. Among our best writers were Vine A. Allen, of N'ewbern, and Nichols, of Alabama. William Hall, of Wilmington, was a charming speaker fluent, sweet voiced, chaste and elegant. Woods, of Tennessee, wa a tine debater. My first daty in the chapter was an essay on Fdgar A. Poe. I subse quently delivered an address or oration on the '"Force of Early Im pressions," which was requested for publication, and appeared in print in the University Magazine, then published monthly, edited by students chosen three from the Philanthropic and three from the Dialectic societies. D K E rilled for ns a great want. Phi and Di, of one of which each was a member, were powerful and most useful. Hut the membership of each was too large for intimate relations to exist between all the members of either. And then, too, the one whom one most loved and trusted might be a member of a society rival to one's own, and of whom as a Phi or Di you might be proud a faultless student, or forcible speaker, might not be per sonally attractive to von. There was thus another sphere, outside of the greater societies, which I) K E filled for ns. It was a gathering of those who had choseD each other as friends, and we chose as new members those whom we were proud to call such without regard to Phi or Di. Our pride in our chapter led us to pick oat good students and fine speakers, and to insist on a scrupulous performance of chapter duties, but to be a conge nial gentlemen the was prime quali fication. Once inside the chapter, each felt that he must make a mark there, and more than one there worked hard over literary work for D K E students whom no honors of the greater societies could tempt to inch efforts. It may interest you to hear the remark made on this list (of H's members) by one gentleman to whom I have shown it. He was one of the professors during the time when Beta existed there, and is an honored professor, an emeritus now, one of the most truly re spected and loved public men ot the State. As he went over each name I heard him say to himself, 'Fine fellow,"' "Nice boy,'- and, turning page after page, the mem ory of the old times came over him when these boys,'' long since men, and doing the work ot noble men in the world, were students under him ! "What a fine set !" he said. "Why, they just picked out the best men of every year !" (This in letter February i'I, ISS.l, from I) K K ot another chapter. A society made up of such ma terial must necessarily have im bibed a large share ot patriotism, so when the war signal sounded in 18(31 it was not surprising to see the members oi ieta .. napter rusning to arms. Of this the editor says: Of all the chapters none on either side of the line has a grander war record than old 11. So universally did her members, alumni, and undergraduates rush into camp from the bar, the pulpit, the study, the counting room, and the plan tation that if her roll could have been called so as to have been heard and answered throughout the Confederate armies the officer could have reported at the close, "All presentor accounted for." Of the 118 members ol the chap ter, fourteen are known, and one other believed to have died before the war ; ten are known not to have been in the army (two of these being L'niou men, two physically disabled from service, andtwoe-' strained by religious vows), and of 10 others the writer has yet no trustworthy record, though as to ten it is reported, and there is every reason to believe, they were in the service, as were all not included in the exception just noted, of her 10 5 1 i i t i .,uo seven ceriainiy, ami prouaoiy ac least eighty-seven, were in the Confederate raDks; and none fought more desperately, or stuck longer in the service, or spared j themselves less, or were more ; marked for their gallantry, than ! ; the D K E's of Beta. Fourteen are ; ! known to have been killed or died j in the service, and three others are i i believed so to hav done, One-, ! third of the remainder were: wounded, and manv repeatedly1 jand desperately, only to rejoin the ' i army as soon as they were able, or when permanently disabled to serve the coniederate government in Isome other capacity. Naturally I promotions were numerous among such men, and "for distinguished gallantry'7 becomes almost a trite phrase in the record of these. Though such record is as yet sadly imperfect, there is already included : a brigadier general, five colonels. , two lieutenant-colonels, nine ma jors, twenty one captains, and eleven lieutenants, besides live surgeons, and two chaplains, while i others are known to have been commissioned officers. Not only did these do their duty in time of war, attaining distinction, but many ot those who survived, hae been favored m public prefer ment. Here again we copy from t he editor of the (Quarterly : Latham. Irion, and MeClanimy have been sent to Congress : Irion has been a Judge of the Louisiana Court of Appeals; Gilmer is now Judgeof theFifth District of North Carolina, and has been Adjutant General of the State; Pool ?C. C. was Judge of the Superior Court; Stockton was a Chancellor of Ten nessee when he died in 1S7S; and Shorter is President of the Rail road Commission of Alabama, while of State senators and repre sentatives, judges of county and local courts, presidential electors, delegates to constitutional conven tions, clergymen, physicians, and lawyers who have dignified their calling, the list is too long to be given here. Long, Nor com, Harrington, Hughes, Mclver, Gilliam and Hassell are best known among the contributors to profes sional and literary periodicals ; and Long and Gilliam have obtained widespread distinction as lecturers, while a score of others have done a noteworthy amount of distinctively literary work. Such is the record, oi the few short years and of the members that made np the chapter, that the old Beta has made second to none that anv chanter of D K E has left as a tribute to its Fraternity, its college, its State or country. No memories are more tender than those which, dwelling in the Memorial Hall at Chapel Hill, single out her slain from the three hundred that her university gave to the Confederate cause. No graves are more hon ored than those where rest her dead, no seata are more honorable than those filled by her living sons. No story is more inspiring than that which she bequeaths as an heirloom to the youths who have undertaken to renew and perpetu ate D K E prestige at the I'niver sit y of North Caroiina. After giving this history of the Beta Chapter, which began in the palmy days of the University and become extinct at the close of the war, the editor then takes up the dark period when the old Univer sity, loved and honored as it wa, fell a victim to the "reconstruction'' of 1SGS. This was a sad, sad day ! lor Chapel Hill. "The old faculty was turned adrift, its old precedents broken down, and the "common people" of the State, as the innova tors termed themselves how com mon some of them were North Carolinians alone know took full, control." But a re awakening came , at last. Alter a dark period of about fiveyearsthe L'uiversity was; replaced in the hands of its old friends and ii gradually working its way back to its former prestige and glory. With its returning prosperity the ban against the Greeks, which held for a period of about fourteen years, has been re moved and the old Beta Chapter, under the name of Beta Alpha, has J been revived, and it gives us great j pleasure to note that one of the eleven charter members of the new j chapter is Francis Marion Harper, ; of Lenoir, of the class of lSS-S aj former typo of the Journal office. We would like to copy further from the Quarterly's article on this . interesting topic, but lack of space i forbids. Among the letters from! D. K. E. alamni, from which the ' editor makes copious extracts, we recognize the graphic pen of our townsman John S. Long, Esq. No one rejoices more at the returning prosperity of the University and the revival of the Beta Chapter of D. K. E. than he. WHAT INFLUENCES THE JOURNAL. The New Berne Journal thinks Stedman should not be nominated for Governor by the Democrats be cause the North State speaks well of him. That should not influence you, brother. We do not measure a man socially by his politics. If there is any likelihood of a Demo crat being elected next year, (and we confess we can see no indication of it, i in the interest of the State we want a man who has soul enough to take in the whole people. We had understood that the Journal was looking for a man that would take the Atlantic road away from Rule Tucker, and we thought Sted man could do that. Greensboro North State. No, we are not influenced in our opposition to Major Stedman be cause the North State speaks well lor him. That paper knew of our opposition before it spoke ; and the fact that Major Stedman could not rally the Democrats in this section is perhaps the very reason the North State would partv make such a like to see the ! blunder as to j nominate him. We are not after a man to take the Atlantic road from Rufe Tucker, we didn't know he had it; but we want a man who will consider the wishes and interest of the people in this section in com mon with other sections of the State. We don't think we intimated that the North State measured a man sociallv by his politics. We not believe it does; but this does not alter the fact that it wouid like to see the Democrat nomi nated, even though he should be its best friend, who can be the easiest beaten. The Raleigh News and Observ er of Wednesday gives an interest ins chapter in North Carolina history. It covers the seven years' strife over unequal representation when the straggle between the northern and southern counties originated about the place for the seat of government. i THE OXSLOW RAILROAD. Next Monday the county commis sioners of Onslow county will hold a special meeting at Jacksonville to eoi.sider the (juestion of ordering an election on the proposition to subscribe sixty thousand dollars to the Wilmington, Onslow and Last Carolina Railroad Co. We are in formed that the proper petition has been presented to the board for the election and they order it. but I he i vides them is upon t:on. are willing m that He: a new regist ra- We hope the e pot pone act ion day in ( ictober. to think there is oniiiiissioiier- will until the 1-; Mon We aie inclined omt ie ot get- ting our people and those of Wil olidate their people of ( )ns he building ot mington to con chemes aud ask th low to subscribe to a through line. National KaniierV Alliance ami ( Olierflthe Union oT America. WHAT Is II f AN All II i I ; IT A 1 IV K ANSWKK. As t here seems to be a eiieial awakening to the importance of or ganization among the farmers, aud a special desire to organize on the part of those who raise cotton, it is perhaps due the public and the fanners' alliance also, that some official statement should be pub lished outlining some of tin- main features ol that organization, it is due the public m order that all ma understand the objects sought to be achieved, and in order that none may join for a purpose that is for ei gn to the real object .-- o f ! h e oi del'. It is due the alliance that these statements be made in order that it may not be confounded with other alliances and similar organ izations that haveentiieh 1 v d'.llerent objects The farmers' alliance was in Lampasas county, Tex a. Garvin says in his history time between ls7 and 'T.". chartered lv the State ol T tarted . Mr. was xas as a benevolent association in ( )etobor, 1SSU. In August, l-vSo. there were about Too alliances organized and in one year from that time, August, 188(i, there met delegates represent ing about iNibO alliances. This was a wonderful growth, and in tact was too rapid, because it was spreading faster than it was under stood. People who did not belong to the order and could get no re liable information as to its objects, formed wrong ideas and began to antagonize the movement. Many joined the order who knew nothing of objects. They had a precon ceived idea that it was to untie ex tent iuteuded to be political m its action and in some instances they so taught for a while. But during the last year a slower and surer method has been adopted, and gradually the merchants and other business men, as they see that the movement is not intended to an tagonize them, are becoming friend ly to the order. They are all truly anxious for the farmer to get as much for his cotton as possible. The political soreheads who joined the alliance there were a few such) have found out their mistake, and as a rule have abandoned it in dis gust. The objects of the order as usual ly stated are to promote mental, moral, social and financial improve ments, and this, boiled down, means that it is a friendly business itxsocia ti'Hi strictly. The meetings are friendly and sociable. They tend to make country life less lonely and more attractive, and the cultivation of friendliness and sociability has a tendency to bring out and develop the better part of human nature and make man less selfish make him think more of himself and his fellow man. This is as good and as it should be, and harmonizes nicely with the other and more important object of the organization, that is, financial improvement . For if the alliance is not a business organiza tion it is not anything, and right here arises the necessity for having it a secret society. No good busi ness man heralds his business to the world A successful horse I trader even, keeps his mouth shut about his business until, ready to divulge. It is well known that no manufacturing or large dealer will give any man or set of men, cuts on prices unless they have some as surance that the cuts given are not made public. Why, in one sense of the word all our merchants are organized into a secret society. We know they have no secret associa tion, but they all use a secret cost mark and it is necessary in order to make a success of their business. Consequently it is held that in or der to succeed as a business asso ciation a secret organization is ab solutely necessary. But the very fact that it is secret must of neces sity, absolutely preclude any ten dency toward partizau political ac tion. Nothing can be truer than to say that whenever you introduce i any secret feature into a political 1 party it will destroy the party, and rice- versa. Whenever you intro duce partizan politics into a secret society, the society will die, and should be avoided as contrary to 1 the spirit of our government. In January, 1887. the National Farmers' Alliance and Coopera tive Union of Aruciiea was organ- ized. It has since been chartered by the United States Government1 and now has State branches in , Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas aud I Mississippi. This National Asso-' ciation is organized with only one : object, and that is clearlv defined ! and well understood, and is of such I universal application that it can be endorsed in all the States. The ' watcli-wonl the central idea and full purose is, co-operation. On i this the National Alliance depends and leaves all local issues to local I organizations. That is whenever a ' State alliance is organized in any State and chartered by the Nation al Alliance, the State Alliance has all original jurisdiction within her borders aud can make and defend such issues as to the people of that State seem proper and best. Now to sum up: The alliance is a strictly white man's non-political, secret business association. It does not seek to force any issues on any people, but asks them to co operate as cotton raisers and go into it themselves and meet such issues as they may have in any wav the choose. C W. Mai ink, President National Farmers' Al liance and Co-operative Union of America. Abvicr: to .moth Kits. Mrs. Wi.nslow's Southing Svkli' should always bo used for children teething. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all pain, cures wind colic, and is the best remedy for diar hcea. Twenty-rive cents a bottle. mar71 dtutheat wly ' Waists. The girl of the period seems to be a trifle more sensible than her sister of the last decade. Her boots are not quite as pointed at tdie toe, and : their heels are not as distinctively French." She does not as atnbiti- ously emulate the camel, in the wearing of a hump upon her back, and she has discarded the "rats" and cushions which erst were wont to make her coitl'urc into the sem blance ot pillows and bolsters. Un fortunately, however, she does not yet realize that beauty is inconsist ent with a pinched waist. Admirable as the wasp may be in his humble capacity as an insect, there seems to be no legitimate reason fur a young woman's model ling herself upon his figure: but the young woman insists upon doing so. Siie is won; to express the most fervent admiration tor the Venus of Mih : but even at the moment when she stands rapt in contemplation of the grand creature, she finds it difficult to draw a lull breath, so tightly enc'o-ed is she in the corsets. Napoleon L, who had as much common sense as military ability, was disma ed at theieial of the corset in 1 s l . He said to an emi nent physician, in regard to it, "This wear, born ot' coquet ry and bad taste, which murders women and ill treats their offspring, tells of fnvolous tastes, and warns ineof an appioaching decadence." Cuvier, whose work on compara tive antomy was published during the consulate, and who occupied high official position both at that time and under the empire, had also the greatest aversion toward thi article of dress. He once endeavored, by p:u-; ..-.il ill ust i ation, to force his iews up n a Miring ladv who was a i.-tim ! tight lacing. Walking m t he -lard in ihs l'l,in!, pressed her ada. iration lovely tlowei . You were once like ! i: ;. said Cuvier. dancing a a lei' : inn ic as the the She pale face. "To morrow it will I you are now." The next day 1 same spot, w hen lei: he her to found I ing. tlower drooping ami asked the cause. "The plant." said the great ana tomist, -is an image f yourself. I wiil show you the trouble." He pointed to a cord bound tightly about the stem, and con tinued. --You are lading away ex actly in the same manner, under the compression of your corset, and you are losing by degrees all your vouthful charms, just because von have not the courage to resist this dangerous fashion." Said the last king of France, in .in epigram which should have stung his subjects into common sense, ' bice you met Dianas, Venuses. or Niobes: nowadays, only wasps.' Beauty is always to be revered and sought after, and the woman 'might be forgiven who, by tortur ing herself, really attained true loveliness; but when she attempts to improve upon nature, she merely defeats her own object. It is no more possible for her to enhance her charms, save by healthful liv ing, than it is for a river to run up hill. The unnatural is always the ugly: it is but another name for deformity. ' The human figure in the shape of a i wasp is as truly deformed as if its 1 spinal column described a semicircle --Youths Companion. The farmers' Alliance and I'oli.ics. The Galveston News, in speaking , of the little breeze in the Atlanta Convention caused by the political .speech of Mr. Streeter. of Illinois, s;iys : Indeed all the farmers' organiza tions in Texas have apparently as j a rule kept political questions out ' of their secret councils, and therein ! may be found the secret of their harmony and strength. There are : agitators like Streeter in their ranks who would convert them into political conclaves if they could, but 1 these are decidedly in the minority. I The organizations would prosper even better it they were excluded. They have no interest in common l with those farmers whose purpose : in organization is to promote their legitimate industry by association. The political agitators enter such organizations solely for the ad vancement of their personal ends, and unfortunately they are some times intrusted with authority which enables them to trade with other politicians on the basis of their supposed influence with the class they represent. Although they may not be able to make their contracts good, their course reflects discredit upon the bodies which they assume to represent, and this is one of the most serious evils that affect the organizations of farmers nnd other laboring classes. j These bodies would make a long l stride forward and greatly augment their usefulness and influence if :they would repudiate and exclude the political bummers and agitators who so misrepresented their charac ter and purpose. The Senator's Patriotism. i Not long ago. according to a Washington dispatch. Senator Evarts was dining with some friends when the conversation turned to the subject of fish in gen eral aud shad in particular. I "It is one of the most extraordi nary things," said Mr. Evarts. how absolutely ingrained are men's prejudices in favor of the fish of their own locality. It would be impossible to convince a patriotic citizen of Washington that any thing in piscatory world compared to the Potomac shad, while a Hud son River man would stake his im. mortality upon the superiority of the Hudson River shad to anything that wears scales and fins. A North Carolina man thinks you are a fool if you call anything shad except North Carolina shad, while it is a fact with which the whole world is acquainted" hero the orator brought into play his deadly forefinger, with great force and precision '-that the Connecti cut river shad is the noblest fish upon the roster of the seas." The senator's audience, who knew that his country residence is on the banks of the last named, historic stream, laughed at his un-: conscious illustration of his own maxim. Nine hundred persons recently lost their lives by the sinking of a steamer in the Bay of Bengal, be cause the captain paid no heed to the government storm signal, warn ing vessels not to go to sea. A small but terrific cyclone came up, following the precise path indicated in advance by the Bengal Meteor ological Department, and the steamer was overwhelmed with all on board. He Raises Snake's tails. We think the attention of the antivivisectionists should be called to the old fisherman, who is report ed by the Elmira Gazette as telling the following "snake story.'' 'I have discovered a sure bait for bass," he beiran: "it is snakes' tails. Every body has observed that the tail of a snake don't die until sundown, but keeps wriggling all d;iy after the rest of the snake has expired peaceably. Now bass, above all fish, want a lively bait. The idea struck me one day when I was fishing. A freshly killed snake was lying in the weeds while its tail was keeping up a livelv agita tion. I took my knife, cut the tail ' off. pnt it on the hook, and threw out about thirty feet from the shore. I had no sooner tightened up my line than I had a vigorous bite, and in live seconds I was pulling on a three pounder. In half and hour 1 had landed eight bass, averaging two pounds each. The ninth one got away wi".h my bait and my fun ceased. I tried other bait, but only got one in the next four hours. I then s:arted out to hunt snakes. I fouud one after an hour's search, cut off its tail, and it lasted me for five bass, which I pulled iuside of twenty minutes: but I had a fine basketful and was ready to quit. "Since then I have a couple of country boys in my employ, who catch alive and bring to me all the snakes they see, and I now have no truble in getting all the bass 1 want every time I go fishing. At first I killed the snakes and cut off their tails, but then I made an important discovery which will enable me to hsh all summer with a d z'.-n : Tiakcs. I found that by :'r-:i: oil the tail while the snake w.!-. pving and putting a little cos m 'liae on the wound it not only lrcVded, but that in about three weeks' time the snake would grow another entirely new tail, just as l: cl v as the old one." Hitter Make One's own Way. The effect upon a young man of bringing him up and keeping him i n ; on b.n -tate of pupillike dependence ome si longer mind is very The native powers of such a person are neve lully developed. The constant help which he re ceives has rather the effect of re pressing such energies as he pos sesses. He acquires an inclination to cling to the power by which he has always been protecte 1, and to which he has been accustomed to look for the gratification of all his desires. Treated always as a child, he continues to be a child. Being unable to think for himself, his very sense of right and wrong is languid, and ho is content to take his morals, as his support, from his protector. In the caso of one who has to plunge into the struggle of the world at an early period of life, with the consciousness of having only his own energies to trust to, how different is the result ! There may be a danger of foundering at first ; but, that over, we quickly see him exerting his whole powers a manly, vigorous, and determined being, lie may go wrong upon certain occasions, for want of ex perience : but every error is a lesson to a mind so sharpened, and in time he attains to a far higher standard than he ever could have done under the fostering hand of any kind of protector whatever. This is what enables friendless youths so often to make rapid ad vances towards fortune, while others, possessed of what are called advantages, often fail in the practical affairs of life. America's Timber Siqqdy. Notwithstanding the great draw upon the wood reserves of the coun try there is no danger of exhaustion at present. N'ew England Is by no means denuded of its timber. The great northwestern pineries are comparatively unexhusted. There is also a vigorous second growth of white pine in New England, where the forests are alredv yielding be tweeu 200,000,000 and' .300,000,000 feet of timber annually. Southern pine, although stripped from the banks of streams flowing into the Atlantic, is practically untouched in the Gulf states; especially those borderiDg on the Mississippi. The hard wood forests of the Missis sippi basin are still prolific. In Michigan, particularly the nor thern peninsula, hard wood is plen tiful, maple especially. In the Pacific region the great forests of fir are practically intact. The forest capacity of the country is vast. Strange to say, the decimat ing element of most potence is fire, and not the axes of mercenary timber speculators. Boston Bul letin. The Centennial of The Con stitution of the United States. A hundred years ago, September 17, the Constitution was adopted by the Convention sitting in Carpenter's' Hall, Philadel phia. The September Wide Awake cele brates the event with a paper by Annie Sawyer Downs settiDg forth in brief the situation out of which the Constitution came; with en gravings and portraits. This paper is so important as a very short and easy statement of one of the greatest achievements in history that we should be glad to print it entire. For contrast, skipping some bits of poetry, Lucy's High Tea. by Sophie -May, comes next a little story for very little girls, which every reader of whatever age will find more than delight in. There are the usual eighty pages: Charles Egbert Craddock's story, and a great deal more. The publishers offer to send a specimen copy (back number of course) for five cents. D. Lothrop Company, Boston, Oil the Waves. In a pamphlet issued lately by the l S Hydrographic Office, Lieut. I'nderwood says that mine ral oils are not so effective for use at sea as vegetable or animal. A comparatively small amount of the right kind of oil, say two quarts per hour, properly used, is suf ficient, he asserts, to prevent much damage, both to vessels and to small boats, in heavy seas. The greatest result from oil is obtained in deep water. In a surf, or where water is breaking on a bar, the ef fect is not so certain ; but even in this case oil may be of benefit, and its use is recommended by Lieut. Underwood. He advises that, when an attempt is about Jto be made to board a wreck, the approaching vessel should use the oil after running as possible under the lee of the wreck. The wreck will soon drift into the oil, and then a boat may be sent alongside of her. SEPTEMBER. Here's a lyric for September, Best of all months to remember; Month when Bummer breezes tell What has happened wood and dell, Of the joy the year has brought And the changes ebe has wrought She has turned the verdure red: In the blue sky overhead She the harvest moon has hung Like a silver boat among Shoala of stars bright jewels set In the earth's blue coronet. She has brought the orchards fruit To repay the robin's flute Which has gladdened half the year With a music liquid clear; And she makes the meadow grass Catch the sunbeams as they pats, Till the sunbeam's floor is rolled With a fragant cloth of gold. St. Nicholas. Onslow County Items. The sick in our county have been numerous and deaths frequently occur, mostly among the children. Kevival by the Missionary Bap tists at Enon Church last week. Seven baptized this week at llich lands. Mr. G. P. Young, a prominent I citizen of our county, died last week, aged about 53 years. He 1 leave a wife and several children. Our masonic lodge met last Saturday and elected officers for the ensuing year. W. M., E. Mur ! rill: S. Y., S. W. Venters; J. W. E. VY, Murrill; Secretary, J. F. Giles; Treasurer, R. N. Summer sill. Col. E. D. Hall and E. B. San ders. Esq., from Wilmington, spoke in Jacksonville last Monday on j railroads. They want the railroad 'from Wilmington to Norfolk, Va. Hope they may get it, but I have no idea of ever seeing a railroad in our county till nil the people will join together and build one. Oue syndicate wants .mug and another wants :., i ihiug, and the whole is, notim,g pet talk will be done until they ai. come to gether. There is a lady living not far from here who sent by a man for some dry goods to New Berne the other day : he came back and said he couldn't find them in town. Taint so, said the lady: you didn't look 'em. Ys'em I did, looked all over town. I don't believe you, she said, when a gent stepped up and said to the lady, yes mam Mrs. B. he did look for them for I was with him, and saw him en quire .at Detrick's, Whitman's, Bolton's, Keelers's, Colligan's and several other places, sure. Well, says the lady, I will take your word for it, but there are several dry goods stores advertised in the Journal besides them you men tioned and he ought to have tried them. Guess she didn't know these stores mentioned were wet goods stores. A long, cool spell and the people are feeling better as to health, but not much better as to crops. The nearer the time comes for harvest ing the better the crops show, and they certainly don't show to ad vantage with us; both cotton and corn are at least half cut off. Mr. W. H. Hurst on Brown sound, says he has neither cotton nor corn as to call a crop ; says he was two thirds done picking cotton on the first day of this month, and if fie makes seven hundred pounds of lint off of 10 acres he will do well, and of a piece of ground that he generally gets 120 barrels of corn, will be glad to get 60, and that not good corn. S. Gornto, Esq., says he never had a sorrier crop in his life. The people in the upper part ot the county have some better crops, but all cut off at least one- third if not more in all things. Mr, W. W. Martin has the best cotton we have seen in the county; the weed in manv places have a splen did growth but the bolls are lacking. Peanuts and sweet potatoes look good, but those who have tried them say they are not there. Aurora Items. Cotton picking has commenced, trade improving. Capt. Gaskins, the oyster man is in port, but no oysters. M. B. Wilkinson, Esq. is build ing a gin house lor a new steam gin. Messrs. Cherry & Selby are hav ing their gins fixed up ready for work. We are having nice beef in the market now. Better late than never. Mr. W. T. Bryan wi.l leave today for N'ew Y'ork to buy his fall stock of goods. Mr. J. B. Bryan has returned from Ocracoke. Glad to see him looking well. The "ole hat man" is receiving He will new goods every week buy eggs and chickens. J. B. Bonner, J. B. Whitehurst, B. F. Mayo and W. H. Gaskins have gone North to buy fall stock. Mr. Henry Broome, one of our successful farmers, is hauling wood to town while others rest and go hunting. Dr. T. P. Bonner is going to take a trip down to the seashore for few days. lie is overworked and needs rest. Fall session of Prof. Bonner's school will commence the 20th of September. The prospect is bright ror tnis school bend out your boys. Messrs. Smithwick and Mayo of Campbells creek are having their dwellings painted. Let the im provements go un. This is a grow ing section. Prof. Hamlin and wife are in town. He is going to take charge of Pantego Academy. e con gratulate the people of Pantego on securing his services. Died In this town on Sept. 7th, Mabel, little daughter of Mr. Jno. M. Litchfield. Little Mabel was a sweet child. Another tie has crossed the Kiver. Died Near Aurora, N. C, Sept. 5th, Carlvle, little son of F. B. Hooker, Esq. "Suffer the little children to come uito me, and for bid them not for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven." We are anxiously waiting for the Pantego liailroad. Quick transit, give us Railroad from here to New Berne via Bayboro and then from JNew uerue to Wilmington and we will be all O. K. This much we want and will have some day. A Tennessee country editor who went off for his summer vacation left the following notice on his office door: "Will be gone for several days and have left matters in charge of the office boy. People who wish to pay subscriptions will see our wife. Those who have com plaints to make will please go fo the devil." Pamlico Items. Walter Lane, Esq., has built and moved to the Whitehnrst land on Neuse river. Cotton is popping open very rapidly, but the indications are. the crop will be short. Our public school opened on the oth inst. with Mr. H. L. Gibbs, of nyde county, as teacher. Thos. Baxter, Esq., of Smith creek, had a little iLlliciilty with a negro at that place a few days ago in which he was right badly hurt by a blow given him by the negro. Some of the farmers have been busily engaged saving liny for several days past. Nice weather for such work, was completely 'the fodder crop destroyed by the j recent storm, hence Ihevhave to resort to the grass for forage. Mrs. S. S. McCleese of La Grange, N. C, who has been spending some time with relatives in this section, left for her home last week in com i pany with Miss Mary Whitehnrst, one of Pamlico's most pleasant j young ladies. We are all always j glad to have people visP us but some of us are opposed to our visitors taking the lair ones aw ay with them, but, however, we Miss Whitehurst a nice time. W 1 s ! i Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. For September opens with a bril liant romance entitled "The Bed Mountain Mines," by Lew Vander poole, author of "Ruhianah,'' etc., in which the pioneer life of Califor nia is painted with a firm ami artis tic hand. An artcle ot great and timelv interest, in view of the approaching Constitutional ('entin- j nial to be held in Philadelphia, is ; Moncure I). Conway's "Suppressed i Statesman" It deals with the! life of Edmund Randolph, Virginia, a name now almost unknown, to whom Mr. Conway insists that the initiation and ratification of the Constitution were especially due. The reader will be, surprised to learn how important a personage Randolph was in his own day. He was a statesman, an orator, a politi cal writer, a philosophical thinker. At every stage in the development of our nationality his influence was paramount. "His criticisms of the Constitution partly anticipated those of Mill, Bagehot, Karl Blind, Louis Blanc, and other authors of Europe. Indeed, a number of works have recently appeared in our country, in advocacy of organic reforms, whose writers seem uncon scious that they are repeating points made by Randolph a hun dred years ago." Genie Holtz meyer (Mrs. Sidney Rosen feldt) contributes an amusiug bit of aut obiography entitled "How an English Girl Sought to make a Living." Frank Carpenter reports a conversation with the man who captured John Wilkes Booth. James Cummings writes of Social Life at Johns Hopkins University." The poems are by Alice Wellington Rollins, A. Lampman, and Robert son Trowbridge. In the Monthly Gossip the Editor makes a good natured reply to criticisms on his July talk to contributors, and in Book-Talk he reviews Uowells, Hag gard, Sidney Luska, Miss Baylor, and others. The Fear of fclod. ( rdinarily when the fear of God is spoken of as an element of the spiritual life, we do not mean that fear of punishment which has a proper place in humau and divine government, but the high regard of a noble nature for those to whom it is related by birth and association. Instead of producing a sense of de gradation for servile inferiorty, its natural tendency is to elevate and purify one's nature. This is really the crown of the highest culture in the best human society, and beauti fies the purest earthly relations. To be well persuaded that God is our Father, and he cares for us in the commonest things, and is mak ing all things, work together for our good, should produce the most exquisit sensitiveness, lest anyt hing should come into our lives that might displease him. To walk in the light of his countenance is al together different from hiding from him because we have been disobedi ent and rebellious. The wicked have need to fear God as one who will not pass by evil doing; but in God's children, love has cast out all fear of this sort. Central Christian Advocate. Poison in the Ice. While the purity of drinking water is a subject to the importance of which nearly every one is awake, there are lew who concern them selves about the condition of the same element in its solid form commonly called ice. The coldness of iced water makes it impossible to taste pollutions which would other wise be quite apparent; and this seems to have given rise to the idea that all ice is pure. Asa matter of fact this is far from being the case. The N'ew iTork State Board of Health receutly condemned the ice supply of the city of Syracuse as being dangerous to health; and contaminated ice has frequently caused outbreaks of dysentry and other diseases. Al though in the process of freezing water does lose someof its impuri ties, enough of them remain to sow deadily orders. To cool water for drinking, do not put ice into it, but place the vessel which contains the water in side another containing the frozen fluid. This is a rule which should always be observed. Endearing. Sailors become strangely attached thejeraft in which the sail. This to appears from the fact that they give to their boats feminine names. The same tenderness of affection marks their handling of the craft or any mention of it. An English man who made a yachting trip along the shores of Lincolnshire, says; There was a nasty lump of a sea, and the boom buckled so much that we lay to and took in two reefs, so as tajog along more easily. Under easy sail the boat rode over the steep waves in a way that dieted warm expressions of admiration from the pilot, whose exclamations were rather amusing. "Yep, ye little toad. There, the darling! See how she too that now! I'd go anywhere in herl" He called her many curious and endearing names; but his favorite was "litle toad." He meaut it to be polite, but it did not sound so. It bas been asked why a city has been called "she.'1 The answer seems an easy one. There is al ways more or less bnitle about a city. Resides a city has outskirts, and a he could not under any cir cumstances, have skirts of any kind. Do InTentJoni Decrww Wc?e7 t V Amnnc t.hct man nhA ara nrnmlnl'' ent agitators in industrial lines -are. many who explictly assert that 'in ventions and improvements in machinery aee responsible for the decrease in wages so much talked about nowodays. The assertion is of course easily disproved by the fact tha in comparison with wages in the old days before machinery came into general use, the wages of mechanics are higher in these dajs of machines of the highest excel lence. The Illinois Central Kail road publishes a record of locomo tive service for thirty years which hi s a strong bearing on this point. According to that record, which is given in The Milling World, the running cost for a mile has fallen fromL'C .VJoents in 1 S.r7 tol3.9.3 1886. This reduction has been effected wholly by inventions and iinpiove ments m machinery. Bur the ligui es show that the progress of in vent ion has been even more remark able than these figures imply, be cause the wages of engineers aud firemen have risen in the same per lod f i oiii 4 " I to '1.7'l cents p i imIc run . In l s.")7 the engineers aud firemen received 171!01 per cent of total cost. In 1807 the engineers and firemen received 20-865 per cent ot total cost. In IHT5 the engineers firemen received 51091 per cent of total cost. In 1HSG the engineers and firemen received 39 027 per cent of total cost. Demagogues may dispute these figures, adds onr contemporary, but it is nevertheless true that improvements in machi nery, not only in railroads, but in other important lines as well, are a benefit in every way to everybody concerned. The general public are i better served at cheaper rates, and the mechanic receives increased .wages. Those peculiar individuals who advocate a return to "good old times," who prefer hand work to machinery, and who preach that invention is really a curse to labor, should try to understand the situa tion, open VVmiI Cases like one quoted will their eyes. The Milling A n "old Doctor.'" A prophet may bo honored in his own country, but possibly not for those qualities which have won for him world wide recognition. Two strangers in Concord once asked six men in succession for the site of Thoreau's hut, and some of them had the slightest idea where the place could be, orwhoThoreanwas. A Boston paper tells the Btoiies of distingHisbed New England authors: nawthrone used to ride in his later years, he tells, with plenty ol people who knew him well as the ex surveyor of Salem, batJ who never knew that he had written anything, and had never heard of the "Scarlet Letter." In Samuel Longfellow's memoirs of his brother, there is an enlry from the poet's diary in which he tells how a "society woman," at whose table he was dining, one day asked him, ' O Mr. Longlellow, have you ever published a book!" This was after two thirds of his life work was done. Literary eminence does not effect much lodgement in the minds of people of a certain grade. The other day a gentlemen came into a barber's shop jnst as Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes was going out, and occupied the chair which the autocrat had vacated. "Do you know who that was that just went out?" said the harber. The visitor was curious to see what account of Dr. Holmes the barber would give, and shook his head. "Why," said the barber, "that's Dr. Holmes?" "And who is Dr. Holmes?" "Oh, he's been a doctor hero a great many years. I believe be aint praclisin' any more, but he's thought a great deal of." It is reported now that a "Woman's Bible" is to be prepared by female revisers. They are going to search out the trne definition of leading texts that may make for suffrage, dress reform and other details of femenine manliness, and see if they can't strengthen their case. Chills and Fever. Malaria. "Many cases of fever and ague, dumb ague and congestive chills were prompt ly arrested and entirely banished by the use of Simmons Liver ReRulator. You don't say half enough in regard to the efficacy of the valuable medicine in cases of ague, intermittent fevers, etc. Every case has been arrested imme d iately. I was a sufferer for years with the liver disease, and only found relief by using the Regulator." Robert J. Wells, Batavia, Kane Co., 111. W. P. BURRUS & CO., GRAIN & COTTON COMMISSION merchants; v i:w BERNE, N. nia5 dwtf c JONES PAYSthfn?EICHT 5 Too Wttra KcaJra, Iron Leverm, Steal Hearing, Braj TV fittn aofl Bm Boi Ibf B60. Wrvrr ill BeaW. For trw prim Us mcntloa ibla paper and addraaa )0Htt f tlHaHAIITOI. BINUUAftlTON. N. T. Atlantic N. C. Railroad TIXE TABLE A'o. 5 In E(fert 4 50 P.M., Monday, .Sept. 12, 1867. EAST WIST. No. 61 Passenger No. 60 Pasmengei irr. L,- STATIONS Arr. L've. r u. 6 lo S -I A. Iff 11 27 A. M 10 42 10 OS 8 10 6 37 k M 1 5i Ooldsboro 5 4 1 La Oranit 10 .H9 6 11 Kins ton, 68 Si New Heme 8 Id ! Moretiead City I P. M A K Dully except Sunday. LA.ST. I WEST. No.l Mixed Fgt. A ; Pass. Train. No, '2. f Mtied fgt. k Pass. Tram STATIONS. Arr. A U . 8 12 L've ; i A. M. 7 SB Ooldsboro LTS. r. m 4 28 B 1. I Best's ! 48 .1 18 2 2 02 I 41 1 l'i 12 43 1'2-tH S A3 8 28 2 i i 20 I 40 ) 21 12 48 12 It) 11 57 11 20 8 I 9 ID I si) 8 4tt 15 1U C4 10 2 ") 10 50 11 2.1 ll La Grance Falling Creek. Klnston, Uaswell .. Dover Core Creek Tucsrora ID 20 In irt 11 IS 11 47 12 ni 12 II y. m. 1 ir-.i ('larke'f II &2 J Newbern, I P. M I A. M. A. M Tuesday t Monday, Tliur day an Haturday. Wednesday and Friday. Train 50 connects with Wilmington A Wl don Train tx 'ind North, leaving Ooldsboro 11.50 a. m., a. id with Richmond A 1) nvllls Train West, leaving Ooldsboro 8 30 p. m. Train 61 connects with Richmond A lonvllls Train, arriving at Ooldsbcro 4:H5 p.m., and with Wilmington and W'el lon Train from ths North at 4:45 p.m. -Train 2 connects with Richmond and Dan ville Through Freight, leaving Ooldsboro at 8:10 p.m. S. L. Dill, Superintendent
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