The wi lusdp MaeeM,
"Our ulim ictfZ 6e,j7ie People's Might Maintain,
unawea by rower, and Unbribed by Gain."
WILSON. NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNSDAY, JANUARY 4. 1888.
NO. 42
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VOL-VI.
POETRY.
It
ELEVATIWO AND ESWOBMJf ,
Lifts the Thoujhto lo Higher
--ri sMter Scenes.
We love poetry. We love it for its sof
and refining influences its elevated
I W and tender pathos. It is and ever
uien the great civiiizer of man Long
Sore letters were invented, or music as in
story of Orpheus, claimed the passions,
dnting caught the fleeting visions, pce
n trembled from the lips of the wander
:;bard and softened the heart of the rude
Parian. The giant angels of Hebrew
first told us in majestic verse of God's
aierous love. The , poet has passed
through the unfolding veil pf futurity and
on the brow of eternity, we nas wandered
r'ththe Peri through the bowers of nature,
. ...:k Vi cnns And snheres throno-h
noveu wil" "- ""v -r-
pace.
watched the rosy light of Aurora,
i i .
rwed the gorgeous cioua pictures,
s-pped himself in the sunset draperies of
eve,walked 'mid worlds of golden fire, and
risLn still higher, has opened the gates of
'(e celestial citv and floated back to earth
or the melodies of his song. The poet, as
fbv divine right, has ever held the golden
kevs to the enchanted chambers of knowl
edge. Dante, Tasso, Milton. What an
Immortal triumviry! Dante, the first great
poet of the Reformation, depicted in lan
zzz unequalled for music and power the
corruptions of the papal hierarchy and told
of the hope and redemption for man in his
Divina .Commedia. Tasso, the flower of
chivalry, saw two great armies marching
across the planes of Palestine,the one fight
ing under the Cross and for the recovery
of the Saviour's sepulchre. How grandl)
he describes the scene and how proudly he
waves his banner over "Jerusalem Deliv
ered." Milton, the great, high priest of
sor.g, teHs m deeporgan tones of entrance
of sin in the world "with all our woe, and
loss of Eden. He tells of "Paradise
Lost," and then standing of the ramparts
f time flings his lyre into eternity and
akes Heaven echo with the music of
Paradise regained. These three were of
the christian order. We now describe an-
The Old Mother.
will go fur
for you than
You cannot
other trio totally different and so grand,
jet, perhaps not as brirHant . Byron,
Bnrasand our own Poe. Byron, deformed
by nature, was robbed of domestic happi
ness. It has been said that he makes us war
against ourselves and our fellows,and that he
kves in cloud, as darkness rolls away we
e the summits of the loftiest peak upon
eh. Burns, the plough boy poet, the
peat author of the Cotter s Saturday
Kght, he who crowned with undying
ilory the barren heaths and winding loches
wyond the Tweed, yet whose glory, like
Cwpatra's pearl, was dissolved in dissipa-Jon-
Poe, poor, dissolute but brilliant
How sad, how short his life! What
ever be his fate in the great unknown," we
that is fame will ever be carried
tt-oss the ocean of time oh the dusky
Rs of the Raven. False religionists,
ttenng monkeys, drivelling idiots, ex
hm m tones of pretended piety that
JTerblilliant these men were they are
red with the lost and the damned.
t ve U nt.God's mercy is unbound-
He tempers the winds to tho shorn
N and perhaps thse men who have
so much for civilization, refinement
bVTUre' WiU n0t forev?er barred
frc 1 gatCS r Heaven We believe
Se men who started such a grand
' "on earth wilt at last, be called to
etestial choir that chants the eternal
Monies sublime.
Tie Difference. '
41"f5ermet a coal dealer on a lonelv
an. d stopped him. -Your monev o'r
' said the robber. "Who' are
manSd Cal dealer- 'rm a hiSh
tin d the man "Good enough,"
eih the Coal dealer i "Vm a low
Andtran Shake-we shbuld be friends."
e.y ere.
At The Ball.
Ier face was fare
1nne!-0HndmPare-
nje haughtiness supreme;
J thought, and vet
thinVsanntfor&et, '
fhr rareJ-v what thev em.
?,!rils he spoke,
idwX:hl5" like the str -
n fragrance rent mv dream.
s ou dance?" I said,'
i. .ne turrit 1 i , '
uance!1" I said,
ds?5niturned her head,
.answered,"! should
Honor the dear old mother. Time has
scattered snowy flakes on her brow,
plowed deep furrows on her cheeks, but is
she not sweet and beautiful now? The
lips are thin and Shrunken, but those are
the lips which have kissed many a hot tear
from the childish cheeks, and they are the
sweetest lips in the world; the eye is dim,
yet it glows with the soft radiance that
can never fade. Ah, yes, she is a dear old
mother. The 1 sands of life are nearly run
out, but, feeble as she is, she
ther and reach down lower
any other person on earth.
enter a .prison whose bars can keep her
out You cannot mount a scaffold too
high for her to reach that she cannot kiss
and bless you in evidence of her deathless
love when the world shall despise and for
sake you ; when it leaves you by the way
side to perish unnoticed, the dear old moth
er will gather you in her arms and carry
you home and tell yfru of all your virtues
until you almost forget your soul is disfig
ured by vices. Ixve her tenderly, and
cheer the declining years with holy devo
tion, for there is no one else as true and as
good as mother, and you will realize this
some day when you stand, as we have
done, at her grave in Maplewood.
The Sarcastic Woman.
t
Have you ever met the sarcastic young
woman? No! You will find her every
where that the ice grows luxuriantly. She
is a cross between a tarter and a tarantula.
She is a pest. The giddy girl, the lacka
daisical miss are not ornaments whose loss
would cause the world grief, but they can
be tolerated. The sarcastic maiden should
be suppressed by law. The school is
growing.. Nobody likes the sarcastic girl;
everybody fears, and many hate her. I Ier
stock in trade may originally have been
satire, but has long ago degenerated into
impudence, and with the degeneration has
slipped awajr her ability to see the differ
ence between what was and what is be
tween satire and impudence. She has
been fostered in the family circle! and gen
erally stays there. She began with mild
criticisms of her friends, and ends lam
pooning them. Now she has none, and
caricatures her acquaintances. Her pa
rents applauded her early efforts, and she
retaliates by staying on their hands. 1 The
family thinks her brilliant, young men
avoid her, and what the world knows as a
sour old maid is generally thus created.
Remarkable Discovery.
It may not be generally known that
some very remarkable discoveries have
been tnade in . tbis State which tend to
prove a state of something like civilization
ages ago. One of these discoveries is of
recent date and is located at Chronly, on
the line of the Charlotte and, Columbia
railroad. It consists of the wails of a
building one hundred by sixty feet, built of
well burnt bricks As far back as 1780 a
wall of rock was discovered in Rowan
county and it has been traced for several
miles. Since the latter war a wall has
been discovered in Halifax county, and
another was recently discovered in the vi
cinity of Asheville. All of these walls are
under ground. The foundation of Hope
Mills factory in Cumberland county, near
Fayetteville.is partly built of sandstone rock
which once formed the "Indian Walls," a
solid structure found in a creek in the vi
cinity of the factory. The discovery at
Chronlvwill be thoroughly investigated.
GENTLY nOCKIXG.
scream.
On the porch a maid is sitting,
Gently rocking:
And he watched the rythmic flitting
Of her stocking. s
On the porch together sitting,
Interlocking,
Sweetest foolishness committing.
Gently rocking.
In the year the lady's knitting
Him a stocking.
And he's by the cradle sitting.
Gently rocking.
Tbt Seats at the Circus.
The seats at the circus are getting nar
rower every year," remarked a young lady
the other evening- "When I was told
where to sit down there was not a sign of
a seat anywhare, only the laps, of two gen
tleman." -
"Did you 'sit down?"
"Why, of course," and there was a lapse
in the conversation.
A MIXTURE.
EDITOIXIAI ETCHINGS EUPHOKI
OUSLT ELUCIDATED.
If nmcrtm Xewsy JJTotes and Xfany
Merry SXorsels Paraffraphieally
Packed andPithlly Painted.
Conscience is the pulse of reason.
In search of change a begging
tramp.
We cannot 6ing the new song -with
the old tongue.
Make children love you if you wish
them to obey vou.
mm
You will never have a friend if you
must have one without failings.
War is anticipated in the Spring be
tween Russia and the allied powers.
The infant, as well as the politician, is
generally "in the hands of his friends."
Life is not all sunshine for the tramp.
There is a good deal of dish water thrown
in.
Another Indian outbreak is reported
in Arizona; it is whooping cough this
time. -
A woman's scorn is not to be trifled
with. Especially when vou sU'D on it in a
W A
crowd.
The pen is mightier than the sword,
but an argument from either is likely to be
very pointed.
Intense cold weather with heavy
snows is reported from the West and
Northwest.
A reception will be given to the Presi
dent and other distinguished Democrats in
New York early in January.
Col. F. D. Grant's friends are actively
at work to Fecure his appointment as quar
antine commissionc at New; York.
Cornelius Vanderbilt ha $75,000,000 of
assetts, and he wants to make it more; just
as badly as he did when he had but $10,
000.
"I thought you took an unusual -interest
in my welfare," remarked an unsuccess
ful lover. "No, indeed," she replied; "only
farewell."
A man will do almost anything to in
crease the happiness of the woman he
loves except to leave her when she wants
to. get rid of him.
Col. Higginson his written a paper on
a new kind of bonds the "New England
vagabonds." They are coupon bonds
cut off from society.
The critic who said "this rare little vol
ume is well done" may have known what
he was talking about; but we don't believe
he knows -what he said.
The messenger boy that went to Eu
rope has returned. He could not walk,
but had to come on the boat, which ex
plains the quick time he made.
Among the amusements that seem
to be dying out are jim-jams and rollar
skating. There is a distinction, but not
much difference between the two.
Duluth's new Congregational Church
will have a stirway so citizen and strangers
can climb up under the spire and see the
city from the religious point of view. .
Uncle Sam's navy is not the only one
subjected to ridicule. The Pall Mall
Gaxette calls John Bull's war ships "Our
Crockery Bulwarks," they are so fragile.
No, Ethel, when you hear of a young
girl having made a good "match" it does
not signify that she got something that
will get up every morning and light, the
fire.
A dry goods clerk who has been receiv
ing a weekly stipend of $4.00. recently
eloped with the daughter of a minister.
Her father will be obliged to minister to
him
A Kentucky negro made a rush in the
night on what he thought was a calf. It
turned out to be the back end of a mule,
and the negro "will always remember that
it was,
In order to get ahead of all contempo
raries we here bid Mr. Shakesphere a long
farewell. Here after it will be "oh fay,"
as they say in Chicago, to write "as Bacon
truly said," etc
A little Burlington girl who dislikes
arithmetic was asked to give the sum of
nine cows and seven cows. "Fifteen," she
r.rliVH When informed that this was
A scientific exchange asks: "What is
rotary motion?" Why, it is that expel
rienced by a drunken man when lying flat
on his back and clutching the sidewalk for
fear he'd fall off.
Girls who can play "Gospel Hymn"
on the piano, with the windows open Sun
day afternoon, are greatly wanted In the
Western mining towns. At least they are
not wanted here.
4 What did the Puritans come to this
country for?" asked a Massachusetts
teacher of his class. "To worship in their
own way, and make other people do the
same," was the reply.
An egg shell is said to be 6trong
enough to support a man's weight, but the
man who puts half a dozen in his coat tail
pocket and steps on a bananna peel cannot
be made to believe it.
Nervous lady passenger (in the train,
after passing a temporary bridge) Thank
goodness, we are now on terra firma!
Facetious gentleman Yes, ma'am less
terror and more firmer.
An exchange says: "A potato ,that
weighed eleven pounds was raised by a
man in Lawrence county, Ark." The
Arkansas men must be "powerful weak" if
this is considered a remarkable feat of
strength.
The best explanation of the phrase
"between the two horns of a dilemma" is
a boy on the top of an orchard wall, with
dog patiently waiting him on one side and
the owner of the premises, with a cowhide,
on the other.
"Did you ever," said one preacher to
another, "stand at the door after your ser
mon and listen to what oeople said about
it as they passed out?" The other replied:
"I did once" a pause and a sigh "but I'll
never do so again."
Judge Martin, the reputed Texas cow
boy, is in Congress and; some newspaper
man has set the story afloat that he was so
green he blew out the gas. Texas is laugh
ing over the report, and Martin is fairly
"sizzing," he is so hot. , ' '
"What did you marry my son for?"
fiercely demanded an old gentleman of a
clergyman who had just united his luna
way scapegrace in the holy bonds. "Two
dollars, sir," meekly replied the dominie,
"to be charged to you."
- The chief event of the Christmas tide
was the strike of some 4,700 employes of
the Reading railroad. Happily it is no
settled, the railroad making few if any con
cessions so far as appears. Still a settle
ment has been reached, and all right-thinking
people will rejoice in the fact.
Mr. W. W. Corcoran, the aged mil
lionair of Washington, celebrated his 89th
birthday receritly. His mind is perfectly
clear and he is in fact represented in good
physical health though he is somewhat
weak in his legs from the effects of the
paralytic stroke-of last summer. He. has
given away seven million of dollars.
The funeral of the late Hon. Daniel
Manning, ex-secretary of the treasury,
took place Tuesday afternoon in Albany.
President. Cleveland and all the members
of the cabinet, except Secretaries Whitney
and Endicott, attended it. The coffin was
borne to the hearse by the foremen of the
mechanical department of the Argus, Mr.
Manning's paper.
If taxation is not reduced the surplus
for the next twelve months will amount to
$140,000,000. There is no sort of legiti
mate use for it. It robs arid bleeds the
people to that extent. It takes from the
currency of the country that great sum
and locks it in the vaults of the Treasury.
Is not that stupid? It is that and much
worse. It is a "crime."
An old man ramed Dan Stillwill, ot
South Pittsburg, Tenn., froze to death
Christmas night in a field near his home.
He was returning from a business trip
when darkness set in and a blinding snow
storm followed, during which he became
bewildered,. lost ais path and perished. It
is the first case of freezing to deth that has
been known in east Tennessee for many
vears.
The silly Republican slogan of "pro
tection to American industry," has lost its
efficacy with the tax-ridden masses, and
they will not listen to it any longer. They
will regard it in its true light a the deceit
ful song of the siren and it will beguile
them no longer. They will recognize it as
the same old "word of promise" which the
rong, she petulantly exclaimed: "It 1 Republican party has been holding to the
1
! doesn't make any difference
(get the milk."
if we only 1 ear and breaking to the hope of the Amer-
I ican toiler, for all these years.
PRIZE RING.
axxehicjlx xxrscxjs again tsi.
UXIPIIA3CT.
Jake Ullraln, the American
list XXeeta Jens Smltn. the Chans
ploa ef England.
France, Dec. a ut The great battle
has been fought Jake Kilrain and Jem
Smith met yesterday in a twenty. four foot
ring on a small island in the Seine, oppo
site the historic forest of Vernon, and for
over two hours struggled manfully for the
fistic supremacy of the world.
It was exactly 2 roo o'clock this afternoon
when Jem Smith approached the square
inclosure in which he was to battle with
Jake Kilrain for the world's fistic cham
pionship. The Englishman was attired in
full figting rig, and a warm woolen coat
was spread over his massive shoulders.
There were fifty people gathered about the
ring, and forty of them gave a genuine
British cheer for England's mightiest man.
Jem grinned cherrily and shied his castor,
as became a Briton, into the ring. This
evoked another cheer, and Jem smiled
again. He was in the pink of contion and
tipped the beam at 182 pounds.
Almost instantly the, redoubtaolc Jake
Kilrain followed. He, too, had on his
fighting regalia and by his side trotted
Charley Mitchell with an overcoat in hi
hand. He tossed it about Jake's shoulders
just before the stalwart American leaped
over the ropes. As Kilrain entered the
ring the small coterie of Americans pres
ent gave a lusty cheer for the brave
American lad who had journeyed three
thousand miles to do battle with England's
greatest gladiator. A dozen or more En
glishmen 4what loved a" mill" followed
suit. Kilrain bowed gracefully, and evi
dentally appreciated the compliment. He
was remarkably cool, and the air of quiet
dignity with which he deported himself
gave evidence of a calm, manly confidence,
He evidently felt that he would win the
battle. He was in fine fettle, and pulled
down the scales at 196 pounds.
Contrary to general expectation, Kilrain
assumed tne part of aggressor from the
start. He maintained this attitude through
out, and had the Englishman beaten al
most to a stand still. When Smith saw
that Kilrain was his superior in brawn and
science, and that it was only a question of
time when victory should perch "upon the
brave Yankey's banner, he pursued a sys
tem of tactics common to the generality of
English fighters, -he 'dropped every time
Kilrain drove him over to his own - corner
to avoid punishment. Upon all sides were
the highest encomiums passed upon the
American's splendid fighting abilities. The
referee pronounced him the manliest fight
er he ever saw;, and many fair minded En
glishmen present personally, congratulated
Kilrain upon the magnificent form he had
displayed. These same Englishmen
roundly hissed Smith when lie resorted to
his dropping tactics to avoid punishment.
Fate and an English referee, however,
were against the American. He outfought
the Briton at every point in 106 desperate
rounds, displayed a generaUhip that
laughed to scorn the attempts of his adver
saryj to hold him, and even held his own
with the Englishman in that branch of ath
letic art in which he was supposed to excel
all other pugilistsX-wrestling.
As night came on the unfair referee de
cided the fight a draw.
Why He Wept.
A San Antonia darkey was on a trial
for stealing money f rom'a house on Soledad
street. Julian Van Slyck, the attorney for
the prisoner, in his address to the jury,
said:
"Gentleman, my client U a poor man.
He was driven by hunger to take this small
som of money. All that he wanted was
sufficient money to buy bread , for it is in
evidence that he did not take the pocket
book containing $500 that was in the same
bureau drawer. If he was a professional
thief, he would have certainly taken the
pocket-book."
The eloquent attorney for the accused
was interrupted by the convulsive sobs of
his client.
"Why do you weep?" asked Judge
Xoonan, who was on the bench.
Be lease I didn't see dat ar pocket-book
in de bureau drawer," was the reply.
Everybody laughed except Van Slyck,
the attroner of the defence.
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