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. ' : "Our Aim will be, the People's Bight Maintain Unawed by Power, and Uiibribed by Grain." WILSON NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1892. NO. 8 r - ' ' ' i : : . ; p- " , VOL. 11. f -.. : - ' : - ir- MERRY MORSELS. AND RADIANT REFLECTIONS BY HENRY BLOUNT. Punctuated with Pungent Points and Spiced with Sweetest Sentiment A crying baby is the roar of the tied The want of monev is the root of much evil. j The road to economy is rudent buy- way. A baiter ought to be a dpugh-mestic man. Passion evaporates by j words; grief by tears. Mean fortunes and proud spirits act like fuel and fire ! . Virtue and a trade are the best fortunes i ! for children. j A false grounded hope is ,bu; a waking man's drearn.- , j i . Apprehension of evil is often wor&i than evil itself. It is better to buy your rye y the loaf than by the pint. The most magnificent sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness, j Our acts make or mar, us; childi en of our own deeds. Next thing to kissing God's we are the ! - land is kiss ing the flower on which hU hand has laid the touch of beauty. I Sympathy is a "pathy" that touches many a tore heart, when homeopathy and utterly hare Utterly failed. "Be sunny, girls, be sunny says Ella Wheeler Wilcox. We don't see how they can, but still they daughter be - ' : i - A spiritual mind has something of the nature of the sensitive plant. There is a holy shrinking away from evi God openeth manv hearts with gentle picklocks. While with others he useth the crowbar of terrible judgements. Bill collectors sometimes promoters of a colonization imitate the scheme and offer special Inducements tm settlers. ,We .don't know positively why a ship is called "she," but we persume ft is because it is capable of having so many births. One who knows says that! to infringe i upon the adjoining territory in cutting corns is very apt to make a clip toe-maniac of a man. i The most afflicted part of the house is the window. It is always full of panes, and who has not seen more than one win dow bjind? j "The press Is mighty and will prevail, said a Wilson maiden the other night ;as she "creened" over into the outstretched arms of her lover. A Subscriber asks us. "When is the dawn of womanhood?"! We don't know, but suppose it Is when j a son rises upon exchange if the horizon of her existence. A correspondent asks in an it is proper to waitz with a married lady when her husband is looking enough but not much fun in A "high larnt" school girl on. Proper it. reprimanded her brother for using the phrase "Not to be sneezed at." She says he ought to say "Occasioning no sternutatory convul sions." Kindness and love are the influences that shall form of humanity a brotherhood of peace and joy eternal ; these are the weft-springs of enduring bliss in the heart oi man; these are the roots or that tree of life that flourishes forever in of God. the paradise There Is in every true woman's charac ter an inextinguishable spark of heavenly fire, ana it blazes up with effulgent bright ness amid the very darkest ipurs of ad versity and misfortune. Like a pure diamond, it show, its richest brilliancy when the shadows of trouble ire drooping around it. j j Love does not ask for perfe ction, it asks only for its own. You canncjt propitiate it with gifts nor satisfy it with ajl the virtues if vou cannot pay it back valufe for value in its own coin, and if this tribute be paid it will forgive every weakness, overlook w. uu,criamr,ana gtu with sunshir.e every single cloud. An Ever Present Comfort. Let every child of God remember His Omniscience and Omnipresence that He is present with all His children. The Christian may be in his own view he may be in fact poor, ignorant, little and insignificant.: When he- reviews himself may , not he unnaturally exclaim, "I am a worm, and no man" when he reviews his services he may pronounce them too worthless to be remembered of God when he reviews his sins he may believe them so great as to cut him off from every reasonable hope of a share in the Divine attention. But notwithstanding his insig nificance, fears and doubts he is not for forgotten here, and will not be forgotton "in the day when God makes up his jewels." The tears which he has shed, the prayers which he has offered up, the two mites which he has consecrated to God, the cup of cold water which he has given to a fellow-disciple, wercneither un noticed nor forgotten. God was present when each act of humble and sincere obe dience was performed. He marked it with His eye, recorded it in His book, and will acknowledge it at the final day. From this constant, kind and merciful re gard of his Maker, no situation, no circum stances will preclude him, even for a mo ment. However lowly, however solitary , however forgotten of mankind his course through life may be, i himself and his in terests, hi wans and his woes, are tender ly as well as continually regarded by his God. In seasons of sorrow, of sickness, of bereavement, of desertion wfnen.he has lost his former friends and companions, when the world begins to seem to him a desert, and life to be a burden, God is then at hand, his Father and everlasting Friend, and will be "better to' him than sons and daughters;? "The Physician oi the body as well as of the soul will admin ister healing to his' deceased .frame, pour the balm of consolation into his wounded spirit, and enable him to say: "Why art thou cast down, O my soul, and .why art thou disquieted within me? . Hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise Him, who is the health of my countenance and my God," Has he come to a dyirg bed?. Is eternity with all its amazing scenes begin ning to be unveiled? Is his final trial ready to commence? Is his account even now to be given, his sentence to be pro nounced, and .his endless allotment to be fixed? Behold on the throne of judgment that glorious Saviour and God who has promised that "He will nevtr leave him nr forsake him." He 1 the Judge by whom he is to be tried, the Re warder by whom his destiny is to be fixed forever. This divine Redeemer will now remember him as one of those for whom He died, as one of those for whom He has made intercession before the throne of His Majesty in Heaven, and a loving Saviour will then place upon his head a crown studded with gems of eternal glory, and into his hand that harp that will breathe the sweetest melodies forever. Keep Your Letters. Never burn kindly written letters; it is so pleasant to read them over when the paper, yellow with age, and the hands that traced the friendly words are folded over the hearts that prompted them under the green sod. Above all never burn love letters.To read them In after years is like a resurrection of one's youth. The elderly spinster finds in the impassioned offer she foolishly rejected twenty vears ago a foun tain of rejuvenescence. Glancing over it she realizes that she was once a belle and a beautv, andbeholds her former self in a mirror much more congenial to her taste than the one that confronts her in her dressing room. The widow indeed" drives a sweet and solemn consolation from the letters of the beloved one, who has journeyed before her to the far off land, from which there comes no message, and there she hopes to join him. No photographs can so I vividly recall to the memory of the mother, the tenderness and devotion of the children who have left at the call of Heaven, as the episto lary outpourings ot their love. The letters of a true son or daughter to true mother is something better than the image or the features it is a reflex of the writer; soui. Keep all loving letters, for they artndeed the precious links "that bind our .hearts to that hallowed past w hich is sof dear; to memorv and to tears. Elegant Simplicity. The fact is we mav as well understand that elegant simplicity in dress as in man ners requires an outlay which demands a good income. Showiness is cheap. Ele gance must be paid for by both money and taste, still more costly is elegant simplicity, which, for its indulgence, demands more money and more taste. To a looker-on nothing seems so easy as to make grace ful motion. Ashe holds a gymnast or danseuse it seems to him as though it only required him to will to do the same thing, in order to have it accomplished. But let him step out into the middle of the floor and try it. A few movements of his limbs will convince him that it will require months of practice, under tuition, to move with the simple grace of the person whom he supposed it would be so easy to imitate. In literature we take our models of simple elegance, the writings in which the para graphs run after one another as the rip ples of a brook. It seems as though we could certainly write In that way, if we could not employ a more ambitious style. And what a mistake we find this to be Our attempts show us' that it is much more easy to turn off out periods- full of ses quipedalian words and inflated bombast; and that a little imagination, Webster's Dictionary and Roget's Thesaurus will en able us to write in a style which seems ab solutely sublime to the uneducated masses. But if we are to write like an Emerson we must write overhand oh, and take pains to correct, expurgate and polish, so that each word shall seem to be the very best possi ble in its place. Our; readers can carry this thought Into their meditations upon the formation of character. An elegantly simple character is -one of the most char m ing things In the world.. But what thou ght what care , what constant discipline , what incessant practice of every virtue, through what a number of years, are required to give a man the character ot elegant sim plicity I Let our young readers ask them selves whetherk is worth while to endear or to attain- such a character as will re main for the admiration of 'the ages, like the Apollo Belvidere in statuary, and the Great Pyramid, which shall be the admira tion of mankind when ten thousand ephe meral pi ettinesses, produced by sculptors and architects, shall have passed away. Yes, simplicity is a jewel of rarest lustre, and whether it is seen in dress, in speech or in character it shines with a brightness and a radiance that hath in ever gleam the immortal glowing of its own eternity of virtue. The Commencement Seasou. Tis now the college graduate, With shirts and cuffs immaculate, Does trusts and men annihilate In language bold and strong. The day that we commemorate. The measures we should agitate, The gas that is inadequate Are touched of in his song. He says we should eradicate The evils that contaminate The sons, that all are profligate. And paint the city red. The wine that will intoxicate. The many drinks intemperate, All these, he will reiterate, Are questions of much dread. He'says we should evapbte This state of things unfortunate, And easily facilUte A man to make a dash. One year from now he'll advocate, In tone of voice effeminate, Tne wares of men importunate, And boldly cry out, "Cash!" A Fearfiil Outlook. When times get so hard that delicately cultured girls, reared in the lap of luxury and accustomed to every delicacy , that can be craved by the intellect or palate, are unable to pay two cents tor a stick of full flavored chewing gum, and are com pelled to cut indigestible quids from the heel ot abandoned overshoes it is time that something was done with the tariff. -We are no alarmist; we don't say that such times have fallen upon us yet; we don't even say they are near at hand. We do say, however, that such times .hare been, aye, and worse in the siege of Jerusalem s Let our tatesjbe warned in time. A Sweet Sabbath Scene. It was a glorious Sabbath sunlight. The windows of Heaven were opened wide, and from the throne of glory 'a dazzling stream of splendor was falling in silverest mantles, giving to each a scene of radiance and loveliness which baffled the -power of language to express. We were slowly strolling up Church street, enjoying the brilliant scene, drinking in the melody laden notes of the music-throated minstrel sy in leafy bowers, and inhaling the delici ous perfume of the thousand flowers, which had just opened their fragrant petals to pour their life breath out in sweetest odors as a precious offering on this God built shrine of radiant beauty and perfect loveliness. This radiant scene of precious beauty grew in increasing loveli ness, for on every street corner there came pouring along a sparkling tide of ra diant humanity bevy after bevy of blight little maidens on their joyous happy way to church. And as they passed by, fresh from their Saturday night's ablution, they seemed as pure as the gentle winds which were then blowing from off some sinless hills in Heaven, and as sweet as the odors which wooing breezes had enticed from the luscious recesses of the fruitful flowers, and as sparkling av the glittering sunbeams which rippled o'er the graceful ringlets of their soft and wavy hair, and left comming ling corruscatious bathing brightly there. What a beautiful picture these little maidens presented, and who knows but that the matchlesss radiance, which was then en silvering the world, with so much splendor, was but the dazzling drippings of angelic smiles of beaming approbation , as the tin less hosts mi Heaven looked down upon this scene of hope and blessed promise. It was a scene indeed most rich in promise, and preciously redolent with the inspiring aroma of the comforting hope that the lit tle maidens these pure and sweet and tender btids of Innocence,, by the; invigorat ing beamings 6i: the Summer' -ripening breath of religious consecration and train ing, would ere long blossom out into sweet and beautifully tinted flowers t brightest christian character, whose bloom would enrich and beautify the earth, and whose perfume would give to life its highest and holiest and purest emotions of happiness and delight. A Slight Misunderstanding : A good joke is told on a minister not a thousand miles from here. He made a call r -centry at a home which had not long before been blessed by the -arrival of a new baby. He was met at the door by the lady of the house, and after the usual salu tior, he asked after the baby's health. The lady, who was little hard of hearing, and suffering with the grippe, did not quite un derstand him, and thinking he was asking about her j cold, answered that although she had one every Spring, this was the worst one she has ever had; it kept her awake nights a good deal, and at first con fined her to bed. Then noticing that her visitor was getting nervous, she said that she could tell by his looks that he was go ing to have one just like hers, and asking him to go in and sit down, and she would do all she could to relieve him and make him comfortable. A Fact. dome so-called christians, puffed up with thelr own Pharisaical conceptions of immaculate purity, have 'very little yea, dimindtiveljr Uule Christianity in their own lhtle ;cramped-up hearts, for Christianity gives birth to those glorious virtues ten derness, gentlness, kindness, forbearance, charity and forgiveness; and it never flaunts in flimsy auze the detetible and thoroughly contemptible and pharalacal spirit of "I am better than yol Very Kind The highly accomplished editor of the Progress very kindly and generously says: Mr. Henry Blount arose, and in a speech of about fifty minutes held the whole audience spell bonnd. It was said by many present to bs the finest effort they ever heard. It was ornate, chaste, eloquent, and full of burning feeling and thrilling oratory." f RJght Here. . . .. A gushing and yearning and enlhuslattlc voung poetess, in a thrilling burst of soul ful ebulitlons and bubbling emotions asks in a seeming fit of phrenzfed despair: "Where, where, oh! where doth grace and beauty and purity and true excellence dwell? and I will there repair and all my loving admiration tell." Right here, in the charming and delight ful home of Turner Suggs we dwell, and can be found at any time enjoying that blissful serenity of emotions which always follow the consciousness of possessing those virtues enumerated above, and which we know can satisfy the soulful longings of the yearning Imogene. Come on I mo gene, come right here, and we will give thy heart sweet cheer; your soulful long ings will be supplied, and you will then be satisfied. Our Profoundest Thanks. We thank very sincerely the big brained Joe Caldwell, the admirably equipped edi tor of the Charlotte Observer for the fol lowing gratifying allusion to our recent visit to his lovely and beautiful city : w Henry Blount's ornate style Is so well known that his coming had been looked forward to with' great interest, and his elo quent remarks, on the inspiring occasion upon which he appeared before the pub lic here, were heard with the utmost pleas ure.Apartoi his speech appeared In the Ob server of the next morning after its deliv ery. Mr Blount made many friends dur ing his all too short stay In Charlotte, whose people hope that on some future occasion they may be favored with his ge- A Heart Throb. We have been most fondly dreaming to-night of a little maiden, who is indeed an elegant and bewitching poem of the most exquisite grace and loveliness, and upon whose entrancing charms the heart floats in dreamiest spells of fondest rap tures. Changing the metaphor, she is in deed a magnificent little jewel, without a blur or blemish ; and he, who wins her, will have the regal wealth of the grandest earjdom in his keeping, for she has all the charms' and all the noble virtues and all the wooing graces that give a glory light to earth and an enchantment to ex istence for her pure life the sweetest rap tures give, and mortals learn of her how God's own angels live. A Jevreh There Is in Wilson now a rare little jewel of exquisite beauty and lustre, j and the entrancing beamings of her sparkling eyes so full of witchery and enchantment intoxicate the senses with a delirium of delight, and carrfe the soul ut to an ocean of blissful dreaming. In other words or In plttn blount terms we here assert that no maiden . has ever visited Wilson who has been more enthusiastical ly admired than the petite and pretty and fascinating Miss Cairie Zolllcofer, whose every smile is witchery's own, for seeds of rapture in each one ire sown. A Souvenir. Eddie came in the office the other morn ing, and gazing down most fondly at a strand of golden hair, which he held most tenderly in his left hand close up to hi gently throbbing bosom, he was heard to say in tenderest notes of sweetest pathos: Golden ringlets can awaken My deid heart from its despair. And my soul from grief is taken ' By this strand of sunny hair. Why does sadness so surround it As it meets my startled eve? TJs because I have just found it In the huckleberry pie. Daffjrer Of Ice. A rebuke from one, around whom the garland of heart-worship was being wreathed with all the affectionate tender ness of the warmest and purest throbbing, goes tkrough the bosom like a dagger of ice, and freezes its current with the chill ofdesair. V '
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