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A SONG OF SPRING. God's LoTe has broken winter's chain, The Earth is Paradise again. A smi'e of sun. a kiss of show'rs Stars nature's firmament witb flowers. After this waiting, what relief To scent the spring; the robin thief Chirps champion on the holly bough, Let's sing! the winter's over now, And lovers lead beloved ones home. The snowdrop's come! Have you forgotten? Love, last year Our springtime smiled without a tear! That night when we went out and kist The roses folded up in mist! That day you pulled the branches down And made for me a leafy crown! To you sweet heart, when sun had set I gave closed daisies, Margaret! "Tis spring again! Love's hour has come. The snowdrop's home. Have you not felt as yet? You will, That wild reaction, and the thrill Of nature's resurrection-day, That comes as prelude to our May! The May weve sworn to love, whose birth Sends carols round the weary earth. I have forgiven all; can you. Who sent me winter, thyme and roe, Forget love's birthday? Spring is homjj. The snowdrop's come. Let'R turn the year's sad leaf; forget Its tear-stained pages, Margaret. The cheqnered chronicle of time That died in sorrow, born in rhyme. Love's epitaph! 'twas I alone Carved on a monument of stone: "Look round! Eternity means love, There's no decay! In eaves above The swallows gather winging home. The snowdrop's come! n Clement Scott. THE MANAGING WIFE BY HORATIO ATjGEB, JR. NEWTON ZKA had just finished looking over his yearly accounts. "Well," asked his wife, looking up, "how do you come 1 up?" "I find," said her husband, "that my expenses during the last year have been 37 cents over a thousand dollars. " "An1 mm ir come has been a thousand dollars ?" . "Yes, I managed pretty well, didn't I?" "Do you think it managing well to ex ceed your income?" said his wife. "Whafs thirty-seven cents?" said Mr. Newton, lightly. "Not much to be sure, but still some thing. It seems to me that we ought to have saved instead of falling behind." "But how can I'.save on this salary, Elizabeth ? We haven't lived extrava gantly. "Still it seems to have taken all." "Perhaps there is something in which we might retrench. Suppose you men tion some of the items." "The most important are house rent, one hundred and fifty dollars, and articles of food, five hundred dollars." "Just half." ' "Yes, and you'll admit that we can't retrench there, Elizabeth? I like to live well. I had enough poor board be fore I married. Now I mean to live well." . "Still we ought to be saving up some thing against a rainy day, Efcra." "That would be someting like carry ing an umbrella when the sun shines." - "Still it is well to have an umbrella in the house." "I can't controvert your logic, Eliza beth; but I am afraid we shan't be able to save up anything this year. When: I get my salary raised, it will be time enough to think of that." j "Let me make a proposition to you," j said Mrs. Newton. "You say that onej half of your income Ikas been expended j on articles of food. fire you willing to allow me that sum fear the purpose ?" "You guarantee to pay all bills out I "Yes." "And relieve me of all cares on that point?" "Yes." "Then T will shift the responsibility upon you with pleasure. But I can tell you beforehand that you won't be able to save much out of it." "Perhaps not. At any rate I will en gage not to exceed it," "That's well. I shouldn't relish hav ing any additional bills to pay. As I am paid every month I will at each payment hand you half the money." The differing characters of the hus band and wife may be judged from the conversation which has been recorded. Mr. Newton had but little prudence or foresight. He lived chiefly for the pres ent,, and seemed to fancy that whatever contingencies might arise in the future he would somehow be provided for. Now trust in Providence is a very proper feeling, but there is a good deal of truth . in the old adage that God helps those who help themselves, and in proportion as they are disposed to help themselves. Mrs. Newton, on the contrary, had been brought up in a family which was compelledto be economical, and al though she was not disposed to deny herself comforts, yet she felt that it was desirable to procure them at a fair price. The time at which this conversation took place was at the commencement of the second year of their married life. The first step which Mrs. Noprton took on accepting the charge of the household expenses, was to institute the practice of paying cash 'for all articles that came under her department. She accordingly called on the, batcher and inquired: " "How often have you been in the habit of presenting your bills, Mr. Williams?" , Once in six months," was the reply. "And I suppose you sometimes have bad bills." "Yes; one-third of my profits on an average are swept off by them." "And you could afford, I suppose, to sell somewhat cheaper for jready money?" "Yes; and I would be glad if all my customers would give me a chance to do BO." "I will set them an example, then," said Mrs. Xewton. "Hereafter what ever articles are purchased of . you will be paid for on the spot, and we shall expect you to sell as reasonably as you can." This arrangement was also made with others, who, it is scarcely needful to say, were very glad to enter into the arrange ment. Beady money is the great sup port of trade, and a cash customer is worth two who purchase on credit. Fortunately Mrs. Newton had a small supply of money by her, which lasted till the first monthly instalment; from her husband became due. Thus she was enabled to carry out her cash plan from the beginning. There were other ways in which a careful housekeeper is able to limit ex- pense which Mrs. Newton did not over- J look. With an object in view she was always on the lookout to prevent waste, and to get the" full value of whatever j, was expenaea. The result was beyond her anticipa tions. At the close of the year on ex amining her bank book, for she had reg ularly deposited whatever money she bad not had occasion to use in one of these institutions, 6he found that she had $150 besides reimbursing herself for the money expended during the first month, and having enough left to last another. . "Well, Elizabeth, have you kept within your allowance?" asked her hus band at this time. "I guess you have not found it so easy to save as you thought for." "I have saved something, however," said his wife. "But how is it with you?" "That's more than I can say. How ever, I have not exceeded my income. That's one good thing. I find I ha exactly spent all. But I can't see how vou have saved anything. We have lived full as well, and I don't know but better than last year, when we spent $500." "It's knack, Ezra," said his wife, smiling. She was not inclined to mention how much she had saved. She wanted some time or other to surprise him with it when it would be of some service. "She may possibly have saved up $25," thought Mr. Newton, "or some such trifle," and so dismissed the matter from his mind. At the end of the second year Mrs. Newton's savings, including interest, amounted to $350, and she began to.feel quite rich. - Her husband did not think to inquire how she had succeeded, supposing as before that it could be but a very small sum. However, he had a. piece of good news to communicate. His salary had been raised from $1,000 to $1,200. He aided, "As I before allowed you one-half my income for household ex penses, it is no more than fair that I should do so now. That will give you a better chance to save up apart of it than before. Indeed, I don't know how you have succeeded in saving anything thus far." As before, Mrs. Newton simply said that she had saved something, without specifying the amount. Her allowance was increased to $600, but her expenses were not proportion ately increased. Indeed they were scarcely increased at all, so that her savings for the third year swelled the aggregate sum in the savings bank to $600. Mr. Newton, on the contrary, in spite of his increased salary, was no better off at the end of the third year than before. His expenses had increased by a hun dred dollars, though he would have found it difficult to tell in what way his comfort or happiness had been increased thereby, In spite of his carelessness in regard to his own affairs, Mr. Newton was an excellent man of business, and his ser vices were valuable to his employers. They accordingly increased his salary from time to time, till it reached $1,600. He had steadily preserved the custom of assigning one half to his wife for the same purposes as heretofore, and this had become such c. habit that he never thought to inquire whether she found it necessary to employ the whole or not. Thus ten years rolled away. During all this time Mr. Newton lived in the same hired house, for which he had Eaid an annual rental of $160. Latterly, owever, he. had become dissatisfied with it. It had passed into the hands of a new landlord, who was not disposed to keep it in the repair which he con sidered desirable. About this time a block of excellent houses was erected by a capitalist, who designed to sell or let him, as he might have an opportunity. They were more modern and much better arranged than the one in which Mr. Newton nowlived and he felt a strong desire to move to one of them. He mentioned this to his wife one morning. "What is the rent, Ezra?" inquired his wife. "Two hundred and twenty-five dol lars for the corner houses; $200 for either of the others.' "The corner ones would be preferable on account of the side windows." ''Yes; and they have a larger yard, be sides. I think we must hire one of them. I guess I'll engage one to-day: you know car year is out here next week." "Please wait, Ezra, till to-morrow, be- fore engaging one. "For what reason? "I should like to examine the house.' "Very well; I suppose to-morrow will be sufficiently early. Soou after 'breakfast Mrs. Newton called on Squire Bent, the corner of the new block, and intimated her desire to be shown the corner house. This re quest he cheerfully complied with. Mrs. ! Newton was quite delighted with all the I arrangements, and expressed her satis faction. ., I Are these houses for sale or to let. she inquired. "Either," said the owner. "The rent is, I understand, $225. "Yes. I consider the corner house to be worth $25 more rent than the rest.' "And what do you charge for the house, to a cash purchaser?" asked Mrs. Newton, with subdued eagerness. "Four thousand dollars," was the re ply; "and that is but a small advance upon cost" . "Very well; I will buy it of you," said Mrs. Newton, quietly. - "What did I understand you to say? asked the Squire, scarcely believing his ears. "I repeat that I will buy the house at your price and pay you the money with in a week." "Then the house is yours. But your husband said nothing of his intention, an(j in i not know ' "That he had , the money to invest, 1 suppose you were going to say. Neither joes jie know jt and I must ask you not f to tell him for the present." The next mornmg Mrs. .Newton invit ed her husband to take a walk but without specifying the direction. They soon stood in front of the house which he desired to live in. "Wouldn't you like to go in?" she asked. "Yes, it's a pity we haven't got the key." "I have the key," said his wife, and forthwith walked up the steps and proceeded to open the door. "When did you get the key of Squire Bent?" asked her husband. "Yesterday, when I bought the house," said his wife", quietly. Mr. Newton gazed at his wife in pro found astonishment. "What on earth do you mean, Eliza beth?" he inquired. "Just what I say. The house is mine and what is mine is thine. So the house is yours, Ezra." "Where in the name of goodness did you raise the money?" asked her hus- ,band, his amazement still as great as ever. "I haven't been a managing wife for ten years for nothing," said Mrs. New toD, smiling. With some difficulty Mrs. Newton persuaded her husband that the price of the house vas really the result of her savings. He felt, when he surveyed the commodious arrangements of the new L house that he had reason to be grateful for the prudence of his managing wife. An Incident of a Murderer's Banquet. I heard related the other day a very striking incident, which was said never to have been in print, although so much has been written about the sad affair with which it was connected, the Web-ster-Parkman murder. It will be re membered that even after suspicion had been turned toward Dr. Webster his friends most vehemently asserted his innocence, and stood firmly by him until the evidence brought out at the trial be came so overwhelmingly conclusive. During the interval between the mur der and his arrest, Dr. Webster gave a dinner to a number of his gentlemen friends, who attended quite as much for the purpose of showing their confidence in him as from ordinary pocial reasons. All the evening Dr. Webster was dis trait, but during the dinner he did an ex traordinary and painfully singular thing. J ust as the roast appeared he directed the servant to turn down the gas. The company sat silent in the half light won dering what was to come, when the host deliberately took up the carving knife, and, throwing back his head, made the motion of drawing its blade slowly across his throat. The effect was, of course, startling in Ihe extreme. It seemed as if Dr. Web ster's mind was completely unhinged by dwelling on the horrible crime, which from that moment most of those present were forced to believe he had committed, that he could not resist the impulse to do this strange thing. He recovered himself as if with a mighty effort, bade the servant turn up the gas, and the dinner proceeded. It is safe to assume, however, that it could not have been very hilarious. Providence Journal. A Wonderful Rocfcing-Stone. Imagine a stone, in sizo containing about 500 cubic feet, in shape nearly as round as an orange, in weight not less than 80,000 pounds, or forty tons, and so nicely balanced upon a table of rock that a child ten yecrs of age, by pushing either against the north or south side, can rock it back or forth'; yet the strength of a hundred men, without levers or other appliances, would be in sufficient to dislodge it from its position. Such is the oslebrated rocking-stone on the farm of Mr. J. McLaury, two miles west of Montioello. This is one of the greatest natural curiosities in our whole country. What sculptor could chisel ont a piece of marble of its size, and then poise it so nicely that it would vibrate under so light a touch? But its shape, size and position are not the most wonderful things about it. Its body is composed i of a somewhat loose and soft sandstone in which are imbedded numberless round nnd flinty pebbles, of a diamond-like hardness. In all the valley where it is 1 situated it is the solitary specimen of its class. Around and under, the rocks are of a totally different structure. The table on which it rests is a hard stone nearly as firm and close-grained as the blue stone of our quarries. From whence came this wanderer and how ? Monti- J aUo (jV. YatcJuran. WOT SAUCE THE TY1D(W AGAIN Singular and Efficient Punishment of a Boy in a Cherry Tree. Sckakton, Pa. Just before the cher rv won had commenced to ripen a lot of I unruly boys daily annoyed a handsome young widow, on Jenerson avenue, oy climbing into her cherry trees, breaking down the limbs, and stealing the unripe fruit. She mildly chided several gangs of them for their repeated acts of wilful meanness, but' her gentle treatment was sneered at by the urchins, who, because there was no man in the house, contin ued to make frequent raids on the cher ry trees. The largest and sauciest lad in the last crowd that trespassed on the lady's premises came to grief in a way that made him yell. As he was creeping among the branches and throwing down green cherries to the other lads, the lady begged him to go away, promising him a good lot of the fruit if he would let the trees alone until the cherries were ripe; but the saucy boy up the tree told her that he would take his share then, because he preferred green cherries to ripe ones, and the other boys cheered him for his prowess and hooted at the lady. ..Then she went into the house. A brother of the widow was in a room on the second floor of a house just across the alley, and he heard the conversation and saw the impertinent boy in the tree. He had a small Flovert rifle in his room and he knew that a bullet from its muz zle would not enter the boy's flesh or even go through his trousers. So he seized the rifle, waited until the garru lous cherry thief's back was toward him, aimed at that part of. the lad's person where the trousers were tight and pulled the trigger. The gun made no noise, but the boy began to bawl, and scream, and hustle out of the tree, trying at every yell to rub the spot where the bullet had stung him, and finally losing his hold and tumbling to the ground. The other boys imagined that a swarm of yellow jackets had tackled him, for he rolled in the dirt, pressed both hands on the in jured place, and took on frightfully. He kept up this noise until his compan ions removed enough of his clothing to find a red and purple spot as big as a Bland dollar, but how it came there mystified them so much that they car ried him out of the garden. The widow heard the rumpus, but when she went out to see what the trouble was, the saucy boys were gone, and . she was as much in the dark as they were regard ing the source of the lad's sore spot. Ten minutes later a very angry man appeared at the widow's house. He was the injured boy's father, and he stormed about in a state of intense wrath, and wanted to know what she had done to his son. She politely told him that she didn't know that the lad had been hurt, assured him over and over again that she had not touched the boy or seen any one else lay a hand on him, and said she was sorry if anything had happened to the youth. "I know better!" the man roared. "He's got a black-and-blue spot on him as big as my hand, and you put it there, and I'm going to make you smart for it before the week is out!" Then he rushed away, and the lady was greatly worried over the affair until her brother came! in and solved the mystery to her. The angry man brought no action against her, and the gang of boys did not molest her cherry trees after that. Dogs have been pawing and kicking in the flower bed of a Wyoming gentle man this summer, and a while ago he got a noiseless Flover rifle to protect his garden against their capers. When ever he saw a dog thrashing around among his flowers he pointed the gun out of the window and sent a silent bullet that way, and the dog would run, yelping, down the avenue as though a red-poker was being thrust into his side at every jump. The other day a dog that he had fired at a short time before made his appearance in the flower bed. As the gentleman was about to get out of his . chair the dog seemed to recall what had happened at his former visit, for he gave one yelp and leaped from the yard as though he had been shot, although nothing had touched him. BUFFALO BILL ON THE INDIAN. Col. Cody Tells How to Solve the In dian Question. From the N. Y. World. There are two occupations which the North American Indian has abilities for, and which he will follow willingly and with enlergy war and the hunt. It has always Ibeen a mystery to me why our Government does not enlist the Indian in our regular army. It would give them congenijar employment, teach them dis cipline and make them self-sustaining. They make the best soldiers in the world, and we must not forget that we owe the Indian something. Again, if the Indian is enlisted as a soldier and employed in guarding our frontier, he cannot at the same time be stealing horses or carrying on a depredatory war. In place of teaching them all to be farmers it would be better to make stock men of them. Kaising cattle, horses and sheep is more to their tastes and devel ops their instincts naturally in a useful channel. Ranching is but the civiliza tion of the chase. Teach them to raise cattle to sell. Their schools of instruction should fce upon their reservations and not 500 miles away. Adjoining each school should be a large farm, where they could be practically taught farming and stock-raising and such trades as are use ful in their own country. If you bring an Indian boy East, keep him in school for nve years, teach him the tailor's trade or to be a printer, bookkeeper, musician, mechanical dentist, of what possible use is his knowledge and occu pation when he returns to his home in the wild "West. He can make no practi cal use oi it. Aeain. drmrn? th w a i w years he has bee!!! parents hare had no u improvement he has be g he goes back t u.lDeea mW feels discontented, is nIitEtra-c P the manner i n.ot UuW and cannot live ia the ? has been taught to y 10 Whereas hA ETV to . hi. near his hCt see him growing in drffiaST1 his advancement, it wonS u proud of their child. 2 improve, and thev ioS? partly civilized in' smi fully civilized cSloT 2 feam8 13 gone tip T v no further ?se for 5 M2'Ife yvcr. x.acn Indian shonLlT WJ5 tarn tof landjlfito deed for it. Then ,,u , Pt, i which was his land andn he was depended ter fural taste for change of 1? it is now he does not know S? k !and,andtesnointerrin it, as he does not know w be taken from him. ? ? 160 acres. Arrange that fanS;5 relatives shall kv t. or in a body ThT reservation, after the allotment 160 acres sell Give them money to build homes and bay implements, seeds, horses, oxe and sheep. Take the remainder 0'T money derived from the sale of tW cess of land, and let the Govern pay them interest on it. Of course the Government must st continue to help them a little M it need looking after. If this vere dor-' wiuv oac liiu viuvernment proULH half of the present outlay, and in t iew j tttio uie inaian would be sdf-si tain in c find a nrvnd if i't O Q VlUKUi TOWED BY A 1YHALE. From the Cape Ann Advertiser. x iciici uiw ueeu received irom taj siewaru 01 me scnooner a. B. Gr 1 the Banks, in which it is state! tb: they have met with an unusual en. ience, viz., mat, oi oeing towed br t 7 mi , v wrnue. xxie auair occurred on I cs day when all the dories were out ittesi- ing the trawls. Ihe captain andrttnri were on board as usual, looking', ite' tne vessel ana Keeping an eye otfy dories, when all at once they felt i ioJ- uen jerK, ana soon tne vessel was through the water at a rapid rate iad no motive power visible. It takes cos- siderable to startle a fisherman, but this was something so uncommon, a vessel dashing through water at rapid nit wite her sails furled and anchor dorr that they began to look alarmed. Sal denly the cause made itself manifest. when a monstrous whale arose to tis surface, with the anchor fast either h his jaw cr blow-hole. He tore through the water at a high-pressnre rate, and. was iasi taxing uie craiiuuk vi div. the dories, thus leaving the crews ex posed; and besides this there wasdaa ger of the vessel being towed under. The only remedy was to cut the cable. This was done, and his whaleship we: off with the anchor in tow. The and foresail were hoisted and the vesse.. dories, and on the way to Newfound land, where a new anchor and cable Tar?, Vi urn a ra ln t. fvrn similar casi which we have any record, viz. : botoca- gt j. tL. irricrewua wcu -half by a whale in 1873, ken U flnira r.f ha nnrW broke ana was released. Then again, on tte of December, 1874, while the scboo, Sultana, Capt. Peterson, was at ascaj on the Grand Bank, a suaueu n ertrtn f ho vMsal wasiivv intrihrrmcrh tha xrflter at a tweive-E, speed. The captain, not wishing to j signi oi nis uorjuiitju tu . he had been towed some distance, va TYiirrht havecap-f- the monster. There was a comr whale which swam with the o: V T ll 1 1 V,o TTRS eU nacune ancnor, un : - f astonisnea at mo mate. - . A Few Jlaxims. TWa r,o svstem of maiics or ?H fessional rules that I know .or laid down for the guidance of J-V I nalist, said Charles A. Dana to tw cousin editors. The phpiaan I system of ethics and that fJ of Hippocrates, which human JJ has never transcended. lvtr& also has his code of ethics, and tj of the courts and the rules oi P which he is instructed in; never met with a system 0Zx seemed to me to be perfectly the general &tio?l(Tl manf and I have written d principles wmcu ia um&.l'l with your permission, Sll read for the benefit of . the jaw J yxh-vpv mn hpre to-nicht: i - if Get the new,Ket all the but the news. . . t n v;t fmm another XX. VWV JJUM" wunoui penec . III. Never print an of the P-" I knowledge and contn a yieweu matter. i i i V. Never attack tne w - ther by argument b? ' SSe 1 unless tnere is some t yj Xo bo doing. :;nns bnffe VL Fight for jour opnu t v& w Hpt contain tiie wo" onlv truth. . roaI,l!Ij Vfl. Support W.lg-Jjis But do not think all t .jr and all the bad oner ouwde VIIL Above all, know ano rrv , in human lif a and hiunaj aure as God lives tac , e , and better than the preset or & That is a pretty fJe T seems to me it corers the o
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