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STATHl LIBRABY. i ; ' . .. . 1 4 I 1 i '..I BUI" i.i, -" J.-J I I !! .... II III - I II - I 11 11 ' m" ' ' ' ' ' mi , i i , 7 - m mm ML R. CdWAN Editof and FrorJrIetdr. AVeProudly call ours a Gpveinment by - tho 3?eoplo. Cleveland. TERMS: S2.00 Per Year. VOL. II. WADESBORO, N. C, vTHIJRSDAY, APRIL 15, 1886. NO. 28. ft I'erniH: li Hi Advance. One Year S ix Months ' - Three Months . $2.00 L00 SO ADVERTISING RATES. 1 One square, first insertion - - ' $1.00 Each subsequent insertion " - - 50 Local advertisements, per line 10 fjfSpeeial rates given on applicatio for onger time. Advertisers are requested to bring in their advertisements on Monday evening of each, week, to insure insertion in next issue. "m PROFESSIONAL CARDS. J olm ID. Pemberton. ATTORNEY AT LAW, WADESBORO, N. C, Practice in thi Stata an lj. Fedora Courts. JAMES 1 10CKHABT. Attorney and Counsellor at Law, WADESBORO. N. G. f5r Practice at all the Courts of the States It. LIT I LK. W. L. PARSON LITTLE & PARSON , A TTtltNEYH A.T JjLV WADESBORO, N. C. Collection. Promptly Attended to. II . H. TJe Pew ID E NT I S T, WADESBORO. N. C. Office over G. W. Huntley's Store. All Work Warranted. May 14, '85, tf. &Ct. B. FRONTIS, " PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Offers his Professional Services to the citizens of 'alesloro and surrounding country. Of fice opjtosite Bank. A. U Huntley. M. D. J. T. J. Battle, M. D Drs. limit ley & Battle, PHYSICIANS AND. SURGEONS Wadesboro, N C OtHoe next to Bank May 7 tf I. II. HORTON, J E W KLER, WADESBORO, N. C. 1 'ealcar in Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Musical Instrument, Breech and Muzzle Loading Shot Guns, Iustols, &c. Anson Institute, WADESBORO, N. C. D. 1 MCGREGOR, PRINCIPAL J. J. Burnett, A. B. 1 .1. W. Kilgo, A. B. V Assistants. Miss M. L. McCorki.e, ) The Tpring Term begins Monday, Jan uary ,11th, I860. Trmox In Literary Department, ?2, $3 and $4 per month. Instrumental Music, $4 per month. Vocal Music, $4 per month. Use of piano for practice 50 cents per month. Board, $10 per month. Contingent fee, $1 per year. For Catalogue apply to the Principal. Morven Mili School, MORVEX, IV. C JAMES W. KILGO4, A. B., Principal. t The Fall Session begins on the 3d of August 1S85, and runs through five months. - TUITION, FER MONTH. Primary, Intermediate, Advanced $2.00 2.50 3.00 Board from $3 TO $10 per maafb. For further particulars address the Prin cipal. TO 1 MURR, M I'Ji I FACTCRZR AND DEALER IN llm, Tin-ware, Sheet-Iran AND HOLLOW WARE. WADESBORO, N. C. HOTELS. When you go to Charlotte be snre to call on , S. M. TIM HONS, rou ; . . Fine Mountain Whiskies in' the - Old Charlotte Hotel - CHARLOTTE, N. C. YAHBROUGII HOUSE, RALBIQH, JT. C. PRICK REDUCED TO. SUIT THE TIMES - ' CALL AND BEE Ua THE REDBREAST. Ill country lane-, the robin sing, Clear-throated-, joyous, swift of win j. From misty dawn to dewy eve. (Though tare of nesting rex and grieve) Their little heart-bells ring and ring. And when the rose say to spring: " 'Your reign is o'er;" whea breeze! bring The scents of sprays that lovers weave tn country lanes; ' The redbreast still is beard to fling His music forth; and ha willclinj To autumn till the winds bereave Her yellowinj trees. Nor will be iye Till winter finds him shivering In country lanes. J A GOOD INVESTMENT. A nondescript rel brick, with dingy windows and a brown wooden pDrch that was the sort of house the Darrella lived in, and meanfto die inr Be'rta used to say, sometimes rebclliously, but always hopelessly, until that startling evening when Miss Matilda came home in a state of emotional chao3 and threw herself on the lounge. Berta was knitting an amazing 6titch before a dyspeptic little grate, with her feet crossed scissors-fashion on the fender. "Lost your office ?" ejaculated that young person, when she had pieced to gether the bits of broken sobs that fell from her sister's lips like the toads in the fairy ta'c. "Do give me that paper and let me sjc what it means.' "It mans starvation for two !" wailed out the disconsolate Matilda from the sofa. It certainly did, as far as the sis lines of official literature went; but youth is so insolent in its hopefulness, that when the youngest Miss Dancll h id" buried the letter under the coals wilh a vicious little dig her spirits mounted with. the blaz?. "Oh, Teddy, dear, djn't go on like that; just think,' there's enough money in the tin bank to put a silver -streak in our cloud, and a whole month's salary, with our bills paid in advance" "Seventy-five dollars.!'' f-nitl-d Miss Darrell. "It is that mach better than nothing," observed Beita, with a philosophical nod at the crumpled-up figure, and another nod a confidential one at the fire. "I: believe I could "Smuggle U3 out of our troubles if you would only trust th3 money to me," ' "Likely!" retorted Miss Darrell, with a tear-choked sob of corilenint. "J would as ron trust a baby with matches." v - "That's what I call a burning shame ; but even allowing I wasted the money, we would at least indulge in a new set of woes. There's nothing like variety in one's miseries, Matilda; and if you only would trust me, I would buy two tickets right away." Miss Darrell permitted the feeble fire light to flicker for a moment across her small, wet face, as she lifted it from the arm of the sofa. "Tickets for what? Tickets for where?" "Anywhere," answered Berta, with a generous circle of her brown hands iu the air. '-'For the West, I guess, if the money would take us that far." "Did I ever" "No, Matilda, you never! If you had ever done anything else but plod right on in that old rut. of an office, you wouldn't be crying because you are out of your rut to-day. Serves you just right for not marrying Jack. Oh, you needn't moan or wriggle like that, Teddy dear; it's true, every word, and you know it!" Miss Darrell r'aif cl her head again, and this time her face was flushed a dark, tempestuous red, and it wasn't tire-light either. "True or not, you are not the one to reproach! If I have kept on plodding in my 'rut,' it waonly because you had to be raised and cared for ; an 1 now that I am weak and unnerved from mymy Ircuble, you carr sit there and taunt me with your own superior intelligence. Wait until you have done something to prove it before you begin to brag. Oh,iny head! my head!" and down it went again among the cushions. . i" "You don't consider my head, norrny heart, either, to go on in that unfeeling fashion. Yc3, it is unfeeling in you, Ma tilda, when you know howT it hurts me to see you suffer so for nothing." "Nothing? Good Lord!" "I suppose," and with statistical cheerfulness the girl 'set herself bolt up right and proceed to -check off undeniable facts on her fingers "I .suppose the half the world would change places with you and me to-night. Just think of the streets lined with beggars;; the hospitals cram-full of suffering people; the insane asylums and prisons, and -" "And then look at us. Two women not over strong, with only one month's wages between them and the street; the contrast is really dazzling!" She willfully ignored the small bank behind the Swiss clock; but Berta, wise from experience, suffered the omission iu silence. It was so like her small, nerv-ous-temp-red sister to struggle on and on like a Spartan, and then stumble at last in tho slough of despondency with a helpless splash, that she crept over to the sofa, and procacdei to administer on the haU-exposed cho?k a series of those carressing little dabs that go such a long way toward soothing woman's deepest woe. ; " . . - When the storm of tears had lulled into irregular . and rather childish sobs, Berta, with her cheeks flushed and her voice quivering with eagerness, bcr gan: . . - - ' -' - ," ... . "Oh, Matilda, do let na - 'go ! Tf wc were amonar stransrrs we could be no worse off than wc arc here. If we .were starving td-morrow, dn you know a soul we could go to for a ponny? I don't. And I am to dead tired of this one room, and old Mrs. Bell's" weak tea, and that Tommy Tolsom mooning t us from hb side of the table." - 'But where could wc go? and what could we do when wc got there?" "Anjthmg anything! Teach, sew-" Miss Matilda wriggled couvulseivjely from head to foot. ' "And, if necessary scrub." .Miss Matilda screamed. Vpt lnuorhrd nut in a fashion slifflltlv v . JO D - boyish, but wholly delightful, because the enjoyed it to the last echo, and sprang to hor feet with suddenness cal culate d r.t the very least to drive Miss Matilda wild. "If I arrange everything everything," she cried," breathlessly, "will you let me have my way this time, Teddy? Say, will you? will you?" And because Miss Matilda was totally demoralized and weak from her emotion, she helplessly answered yes. It CQuld be proved if only some one would take the trouble to do it that there exists no one cpiitc so hopelessly ir responsible as a woman newly dismissed from governmental office unless it be a man! When Miss Darrell had cried herself sick enough for a prescription, she sank into a state of apathetic despair and staid there until Berta came home one even ing after a week's busy planning, w'.th two yellow tickets in her hands. "They cost exactly sixty elollar?," she cried, joyously. "And I decided on Goldville for tivo splendid reason; vou see, we shall have thirty ilollars and fifty-' two-cents to astonish the n:'ivc-; with, and there is such a spici of comfort in the first syllable, don't you iliink ":" "What's in a name!" quoted 3Iiss Ma tilda, dismally. But Bertha only laughel. Miss. Matilda almost wanted to laugh herself, two 'day.? afterward, when she found herself flashing through State after State, for all her life had only meant so many reel and blue splashes on the nia;. There .was no longer reed to reprove Berta for the reckless handling of their future. The money was spent now anel, after all, there was a flavor of dangerous pleasure in daring fate to do her wor.4. All her life she hid walked without stumbling in the beaten path th it lav before her as prim as a Dutc h fiowc- ;.yar den, and now that there had conic a sud den and appalling end 1 1 hrr road, all the comfort ;shc lal got from Berta was a reference to "rut," that wasti't sisterly, and another to "Jack," that wai scarcely genteel. Very well! there wa3 no Ion ;cr tho despised rut to plod in. They had a deso late amount of freedom now to starve whrc they pleased, and ot cours?, if it suited Berta best to have their bones bleach on the boundless prairies of the West, why " And then the did laugh at her own amazing stock of self-pity,and it brought such a sparkle in Bcrta's warm gray eyes, that it was worth being hopeful just to see them. And, indeed, the girl was so cheerily familiar with things she never saw before and knew nothing about, so worldly wise in the matter of checks and so equal to the baggagemen, that Miss Dar ril, in spite of her thirty an! something over years, was beginning by the second night to feeh childishly, irresponsibly happy, when their journey came to an end. Came to such a sudden and disastrous end, that she had been lying in an ugly heap under the stars quite twenty min utes before she realized that there had been an accident, and that like a? not she was d?d. Wounded s"hc certainly was, ' for her arm lay under her as stiff and cold as a weiodcn thing, and there was something trickling down her face, in thick, slow drops, that she knew even in the awful darkness was nothing less than blood and then she fainted again. The accident had happened in an out-of-the-way part of the country, with no one to blame but a sleepy flagman. There was an inch or so of i aragraph in the nearest paper, and a two-line t"legram notice in the press all over the State but it takes more than a handful of bruised and battered passengers t o make head lines in these progressive days, so that when Miss Darrell opene 1 her C3cs on the world again it had quite forgotten all about her. It was rather a strange world for a pair of civilized eyes to open upon -four walls of round logs chinked with mud of deli cate yellow, with a small, square opon iug for a winelow, and a long panel slit for a door. Outside the window there were frost coated mountains.shooting up, up alxvc the sky . line, and on the other side of the door there came swift, irregular sounds of what was it? What was that sound? And where in the name of sense was Reberta?- Why, there she stood right beside her, and as her watchful eyes caught' sihf of Miss Matilda's wide, wpndcring ones, there came a pink wave of gladness into her face, as with a womainly sob she leaned over and caught her in her arms. "Berta," began Miss Mhtilda, in tttch a small, faint voice that it very nearly frightened her into silence, "I've been ill, haven't I?" . , Yes, "dear ; but the doctor says" "I've needed a doctor, then?" And 4 when-she hd asked her question, she moaned and closed her cye3. Berta- could have toll her , Bhc came nc-:r needing -a coroner, but fcho - only patted the thin white hand, and purred out a scries of soothing endearments instead. - - . "And what did be-say was the matte with me? I feel AS-if every bone in my body wa3 splinters my arm is broken, I know!" ' ' ' "Indeed it isn't !"-cried the girl, eager ly. "You were just shook up, don't you know, and bruised anel. scratched all over, poor darling ; but thcie was nothing downright dangerous the matter, because the jury, or whatever you call it, sat on you, and, of course, they ought 4- to know." Then Miss' Matilda D.irrell's eyes flare 1 open, and her moan wr.s comething dreadful to hear. V ' -"It only serve i me right tor trusting a childlike you with the responsibilities that belonged to hie. I don't blame you heaven knows; but to conic back to con siousne-ss in a hovel like this, penniless, -anel maimed perhaps for life it 'makes me wish I was dead oh, I wish I was dead " And then the faint, quiver ing voice trailed off into a pitiful and most chilil ish sob. "If you knew what you were talkin; aboii, Teddy, a on wouldn't go on in th it unfeeling way. It isn't a hovel; it's a very nice shant3', with big blazing fires in both rooms, and its the loveliest spot you ver Miw outside, with high ino cains and miles and mile? of pin s 'the van will be coming by presently don't saiver like that, poor dad ing -and heu you sec the doctor --well !" and Berta ac cented her last word with uplifted eyes und hands. "And how am I to paj him. that's what I want to know! Oh, Berta, child, that was a bad investment you made ot our last bit of money " "I call it a very gooel investment,' in terrnptcd tho youngest Miss Darrell, stoutly. "I only had a hundred do'.'.ars to work with', and I'm sure I've n nli: ed on it to the extent of five thousand dol lars and a beau !" 4 'Five thousand dollars and a " , "Beau your beau, not mine. My ope rations have been purely disinterected. I don't even exaet the usual per cent. Good gracious, Matilda, don't stare at a body like that! Jack said I must break it by elcgrces, but he hadn't seeu your eyos when he gave me the order. You see, when we determined to 'Westward IIo,' I wrote to Jack, and the dear old boy you just ought to see what a drab-col-orcd head he has, with a round bald spot in the middle well, he said in hi; reply" that I wai to buy tickets for Gc'.dviiie, and that he wou'.d meet us at the station. The accident happened six miles tnls side, aud as you were not able to be moved, he turned out the lumberman who own this cabin and fixed iu up as snug-, as snug. You can hear the men chopping in the pines now isn't it the cheeriest, crispest music in t'ie world ! I'm going-to marry a lumberman some elay on account of his axe anel dear old Jack owns a comfortable home in Cold ville and gets all the practice in the town. A load investment, indeed!" Over Miss Darrell's face came a tinge of faintest pink, and her lips trembled like a baby's. "Oh, yes, you are so taken up with Jack that you don't consider the caVn proiits of my litt'e speculation! The tivo thousand dollar s is the result of 2 compromise the railroad ma le with nit", and I've put it iu Goldville bonds at s-.v percent., which I consider a downright good investment V--Kann is Lancaster. The World's Biggest Diasnond. In August, 1884, the arrival 'of the eel brat 'd loT-carat flue Avhite diamond from South Africa . and its subsequent purchase by a syndicate of London and Paris diamond merchants Avere an nounced. The gem was intrusted to tho e.ue of one the-most skilful cutters, who has-been engaged on ihe stcne during the past eight months, and expects to complete the work in April. As antici pate 1, the stone Avill turn out the most wonderful "brilliant-cut" diamond on record, surpassing in weight, as also, it i:; believed, in color, purity ,aud lust'-e, II the crown and historical brilliants of the world. The stone in its almost rin i.hcd state weighs still 230 carats, but in oreler to give it the best possible sh.ap and lustre it is intended to rceluce its weight to something under 2S0 carats. The Koh-i-noor weighs only 103 carat?, the Regent of Franco 130 3-4, carats, Star of the South 125 carats, and the Piggott 82 1-4 carats. The Great Mogul weighs 279 carats. It ' is, however, a lumpy stone, only rose-cut and if cut to a proper-shaped brilliant it would probably not weigh more than 140 car ats. London Time. ' Chloroform 'ajfil C.hlaraL A specialist of high repute says he h :.'. many women under his care who intoxi cate themselves though not with liquor. Chlorofoim is the worst intoxicant in the list." A woman wdio uses it is never cured, Avhile she may be of the opium habit oi the love of stimulants. One of the most brilliant "journalists c?i the Boston press some years ago would take chloro form to tuc.h a degcc he. would-be hall idiotic for days, and a cingular deafness was produced temporarily, an infirmity which finally becanie chronic, aud then letup on the chloroform. Chloral has taken a strong hokl of society women, who use up their nervous force and en ergy", and who Hiut have something tc repair the waste quickly without wait ing for natural rest and "time. A Jaly tokL me not long since that she took "little chloral" every night; she could not live without it, and she also added that lots of women she knew did so also. Hodon Letter. . - " . , Good temper is like a sunny-day; it sheds its brightness on everything. ; FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS. The present alphabet, in the coarse ol centuries, grew from the original twenty two signs of the Phoenicians. The finest screws used in a watch have 250 threads to the inch, but screws with 500 threads to the inch can be cut. It takes 141,000 watch screws to weigh a pound. The horses of the Numidians and some of the northern nations were in ancient times so docile and well broken that they could be maaagecLby the voice, without rein or bit. Harry Brownlee, of Adair county, Iowa, has catea tweuty-three big cucum ber pickles in four minutes, and therc fbnfclamis to be the champion -pickle cater cf the State. . Cathay was the name that Marco Polo applied to China when he visited it in the thirteenth century in the employ ol the khan of Tartary. Columbus expected to find this land by sailing westward from Spain. An ordinary freight car holds ninety barrels of flour; 310 bushels of wheat; 200 sacks of flour; 430 bushels of pota toes; 6,000 feet of lumber; and unless you keep a sharp lookout, from one to half a dozen tramps. There was a sort of prison and place of correction attached to the farms and villas of the Komans, in which those ol the slave family who wore kept in fct tcrs were lodged and made to work in irons; whereas the rest, who were not .chained, were provided with separate accommodations in another part of the es tablishment. A microscopic slide in the possession ot the Manchester Philosophical and Lit erary society, in England, contains the Lord's prayer written within the 403, 000th part of an inch. The -minute speck can be founel with powerful microscopes only with great difficulty, as the focus j.ciiit of tli-j lens must be made to cci the exact spot bearing. tho object. It was engraeel by Mr. Webb some yeafs ago bjr the aid of an instrument now held by die society. On May 12, l?e0, a remarkable dark aess overspread New England, varying in intensity at different places. In some sec tions persons could not read common printcel matter in the open air. Birds be eame silent and Avent to rest: barnyard foAvls went to ro st, and cattle sought their accustomed evening resorts. Houses were lighted with caudles, and nearly all out-of-door Avork Avas suspended. The obscuration began at 10 o'clock in the morning and continued until night. The cause of the darkness has ncATer been re vealed. The air aams unclouded. Genera! Lee and the Courier. Ilt'rc's nn incide nt of General Robert E. Lee that has never been published. Col onel Chapman, the special internal revenue officer, Avas colonel of Mosby's regiment. Frequently Mosby AAas off making pri vate seoutings, aecompanicd by only a ; few trusty men. In such cases he left i Colonel Chapman in command. Early in ; January, in 1865, the colonel went to ' Petersburg to see General Lee about mov , ing a part of Mosby's command" for the re ! mainder of the winter down near Kin j sale, on the Potomac River. While the ' colonel was talking to General Lee they Avere interrupted by the arrival of a special courier. The day was"vcry cold. There had been rain for several days. This day the rain had fallen in torrents. The Avar was drawing to a close and ra tions anel clothing were very scarce. The courier Avas wretchedly clad, lie had no overcoat. His suit was very much worn and wa? soaking wet, for he had ridclen many miles that day in the drenching rain. General Lee drew a (diair to the small wood fire and bade the man take a seat. When he had concluded his errand and j Avas thoroughly warmed he arose to go. i General Lee glanced at him almost fur- tively, as if he felt that the soldier Avas ashamed to have' his poor attire ob served. "Are you returning at once to youi general's?" inquired General Lee. "Yes, sir," Avas the response, "if my horse has finished feeding." v "It is still raining very hard," said General Lee; "have you no rubbei coatr" "Oh, that don't matter, general," Avas the evasive but brave ansAver. "Then," savs Colonel Chapman, "Gen eral Lee remained silent a moment, Avalk ed to the Avail where his rubber coat hung, took it down and gave it to the soldier, who protested in vain against General Lee depriving himself. I'll tel1 you," continued Colonel Chapman, "there were many generals in the army who woul.l have risked their lives foi their men, but Le is the only one I saAv part with his gum coat on a rainy, day in dead c f winter, and that to a private who was not even immediately connected with Lee's command. Macon (Gi.) Tele Graph. A Queer Tree. There's a peculiar freak of nature on the road Jeading from this place to Ball's Ferry.;, It consists of two large pine trees, whose ba?cs stanel four feet apart, and wlrch unite alxmt forty feet in the air, to be oni .and the s ime trunk. A few feet above?, where the ttvo trees join, can be traced the two separate bodies, inennng more anl more into one another until all liue of demarkation is lost, and there -is but one trunk from here upward, perfectly round and symmetrical. It is reasonable to conceive how two trees could, from close contact, grow into each idher. But in what manner did one tree lose its ivlcntiry as to a top? Trie inton -((7a.) Aifiil, BILL NYE TALKS OP THE BAXEFCIi THO- TOGKAPH IIAtSIT. The Picture-Maker's View or the Sev en Ages of 3Ian From a Squirm ing Baby to a While Haired Old Man. No doubt the photogra-ph habit, when once formed, is one of the most binef.d and productive of the most intense suf fering in after years of any with which wc arc familiar. Sometimes it seems to me that my whole life has been one long, ibject apology for photographs that I iavc shed abroad throughout a distracted country. Man passes through seven distinct stages of being photographed," each one exceeding all previous efforts in that fine. First he is photographed as a prattling, bald-headed baby, absolutely destitute of eyes, but making up for this deficiency by a wealth of mouth that would make a icgro minstrel olive green with envy. We. 5ften wonder what has given the average photographer that Avild, hunted look ibout theyes and that joyless sag about die knees. The chemicals and indoorlife ilone have not done all this. It is the great nerve tension and mental strain used iu trying to photograph a squirming and dark red child Avith white eye-s, in such a aianner as to please its parents. An old-fashioned dollar store album with cerebro-spinal meningitis, and filled with" pictures' of half-suffocated chillren .'n' heavily-starched Avhite elrcsses, is the first thing we seek on entering a home, and the last thing from which Ave re luctantly part. The second stage on the downward road is the photograph of the boy Avith fresh-cropped hair, anel in which the stiff and protuberant thumb takes a lead ing pact. Then follows the portrait of the lad, with strongly marked freckles and a look of hopeless melancholy. With the aid of i detective agency I have succeed in running down and destroying several of these pictures Avhich were attributed to me. Next comes the young man, twenty one years of age, Avith his front hair plastered smoothly down over his tender, throbbing dome of thought. He does not care so much about the expression on the mobile features, so long as his left hand, Avith the neAV ring on it, shows distinctly, and the string of jingling, jangiiug charms on his watch chain, in cluding the cute little basket ' cut out of a peach stone, stand out avcII in the foreground. If the young man would stop to think for a moment that iome day he may become eminent and ashamed of himself, he Avould' hesitate about doing this. Soon after, he has a tintype taken in which a young lady sits in the alleged grass, while he stands be hind her Avith his hand lightly touching her shoulder as though he might be feeling of the thrilling circumference of a buzz saw. lie carries Ihis picture in his pocket for months, and looks at .it whenever he may be unobserved. Then, all at once, ha discovers that the young lady's hair is not done up that way any more, and that her hat doesn't seem to fit her. He then, in a fickle moment, has another tintype made, in which another young woman, with a more recent hat and later coiffure, is dis covered holding his hat in her lap. This thing continues until one day he comes into the studio Avith his wife, md tries to see how many children can be photographed on one negative by holdiug one on each knee and using the older ones as a back-ground. The last stage in his eventful career, the old gentleman allows himself to be photographed, because he is afraid he may not live through another long, hard winter, and the boys would like a picture of him while he is-able to climb the dark, narrow sta'rs which lead to the artist's room. Sadly the thought comes back to you in after years, when his graA-e is green m the quiet valley, and the worn and weary hinds that have toile 1 for you arc forever at rest; how patiently he sub mitted while his daughter pinned the clean, stiff, agonizing Avhite collar aboui his neck and brushed the little flakes of "dander" from the velvet collar of hu best coat; hoAv he toiled up the long, lark,' lonesome stairs, not with thr egotism of' a half centurj go, but Avith the light of an ticipated rest at last, in hi.3 cyc3, obedi sntly as he would go to the dingy law of fice to hive hi? will drawn, he meekly leaves the outlines of his kind old face forthose he loved and for whom he has jo long labored. It is a picture at which the thoughtless may smile, but it is full of pathos, and sloquent for tho3e who kncAV him best, lis attitude is stiff and his coat hunche? up in the back, but his kind old heart as serts itself through the gentle eyes, and when he has gone away at last wc do not criticize the picture any more, hut beyond the old coat that hunches up in the back and that lasted him so long, wc read the history of a noble li fe. Silently tho old finger-marked album, lying so unostentatiously on the gouty cen tre table, points out the mile-stones from infaney to age, and back of the mistakes of a struggling photographer is portrayed the laughter and the tears, the joy and the grief, the dimples and the gray hairs of one man's life tims--I?Z Aye, ' in Bos ton Globe. The most remarkable product of the temperance fgitation of late ; years is a German antl-lager beer organ ,DerVeut:h AmerUianc: - ' ; ' : : TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT. A Fatal Defect. ' One of the queerest case I cer heard of," jaiel the story-teller in the smoking car, "is down in our town. There's a man there who has a peculiar defect. I know him well, lie's a draughtsman, and an accomplished man. HcrtiidraAV anything he is asked to draw, with a solitary exception, and do as b I a job of it a3 any man iu the country. But that one exception 14 him his situation, his wife, his friends, and his reputation, and now it is killing him. Isn't it strange?' v "Very. But what is that he can't draw." " A sob.r breath." C'A i vyo If-raid. Gough's Tribute to Cold Water. Of all the powerful execrations on rum delivered by the' late John B. Gough, tho most powerful has never been pu' dished. I came a ross it to-day, says a Woosh-r (Ohio) correspondent. It i in (Sough'? own handAvriting, and avus deli vend by him twenty-six years ago. .After its do livery, a young law stud -nt in (lie -audience, Mr. T. S. Mi pheid,noAv a reV-ident of Woostcr, asked Mr. Gough to favoi him Avith his Avords in writing. Mr. Gough c n rented, on condition thut the manuscript never be published while ho was on the lect ire platform. The con ditions were assented to, and Mr. (Sough jotted down the folhming apostrophe en Avatcr and execration em rum as he had delivered them while holding a glass of Avatr r in his hand : ( "There is no poison in that cup; no fiendish spirit dwells beneath those crystal drops to lure you and me and all ot us to ruin ; no spectral shadow play upon its Avavehss surfac": no widows' groans or orphans' (tars ris" to (Sod f-r un those placid fountains; misery, crime, w.etchcdncss, woe, -want aud rags eonio not within the hallowed precincts where cohl water reigns supreme. Pure now as when it left its native hi ave.i, giving vigor to our youth, strength to our man hoxl, anel solace to our oi l age. Co'd water is beautiful, and bright an I p'tre ewryAvhre. , In the moonlight foun tains anel the' sunny rills; in th AvarMin brook and the giant river; in th deep tingled Avil hvood and the cataract's spray; in the hand of beauty or on the lips of m inho d cold Avater is beautiful everywhere. "Rum"! There is a poi.-on in that cup. There is a tcrpent in that cup Avho.se ting is madness, and Avhose embrace is death. '1 here dwells be u-ath that smiling sur ff.ee a liendi h spirit wh'ch for o--iiM"ies. has bie.i wandering over the tart li. car rying on a Avar of (- s-4 ttii and destruction against i.-;.lnki'id. b ighting and mildewing tho nobl'-t j aTe'ctions of the heart and ! corrupting Avith: lis foul breath the tide of human life and changing the Ll:'.d. green earth into a lazar house. Ga-.e on it! But shudder as you ga.e! Ti o u Sjiai kling drops are murder in di-g ii e; so quiet iioav, yet wi lows groans and orphans" tears and maniacs' yells arc iu that cup. The Avorin that dict'i not and the iire that is not quenched a"c in that cup. . "Peace and hope, and love and tYuth dwell not within that fiery circle AVlure dwells that desolating monster , which men call rum. Corrupt now as when it 1 -ft its native hell, g'lAing tiro to the eye, madness to the brain and ruin to the soul. Rum is vile and deadly and ac cursed everywhere. The poet would liken it in its fiery gloAV to the flames that flicker around the abode of the damned. The theologian would . point yon to the drunkard's doom, Avhile the historian avouM unfold the dark record of th past and point you to the fate of empires and kingdoms lured to ruin by the siren song of the tempter, and sleeping now in cold obscurity, the wrecks of what once were great, grand and glorious Yes. rum h corrupt and vile and deadly and accursed everywhere. Fit type anel scmb'ain c of all earthly corruption ! "Base art thou yet as avIi n the Avise man warned us of thy power and bade us flee thy enchantment. Yil ;rt thou yet as Avhen thou first Avent forth on thy un holy mission filling earth with desola tion and madness, woe and anguish. Deadly art thou yet as Avhen thy enven omed tooth first took fast hold on hu man lu art?', and thy serpent tongue firs drank up the warm life blood of immor tal souls. Accursed art thou yet as when the bones of thy first victim rottc 1 in a damp grave, and its shriek echoed along the gloomy caverns of hell. Yes thou infernal spirit Of rum; through all past time hast thou been, as through ad com ing time th u sdialt be, accursed every where. "In the fiery fountains of the till; in the seething bubbles of the cauldron; in the kingly palace and the drunkard's hovel; in the rich man's cellar and the poor man's closet; in the pestilential vapors of foul dens, and in tho blase of gilded saloems; in the hand of bcavfcy and on the lip of manhood. Rum is vile and deadly and. accursed every av here. ''Rum, wc yield not to thy unhallowed influencl', and together Aye have met ia plan thv destruction. And by wdiatncw name sliall avc call thee, and to what shall avc liken thee when wc speak of thj attributes. Others may call thee child of perdition, the base born progeny ol sin and Satan, the murderer of mankind and the destroyer of immortal souls ; but 1 this night will gi'e thee a new name among men and crown thee with a nt;w horror, and tlrnt name shall be the sacra mental cup of the rum power, and I will say to all the sons and daughters of earth! Dash it down! And thou rum, shall be my text in my pilgrimage among men, a'd not alone shall my tongue ut'.er it, but the groans of orphans in their agony and the cries of widows in their desola tion shall proclaim it .the enemy of home,' the tradueer of childhood, and the de stroyer of manhood, and Adiose only an tidote is the sacramental cup oi .temper ance, cold water!" The Clark bill to providefor fci'mtiflc temperance in the publie sLooh. hat passed both branches of the Iowa legis lature.. The State Jlcgiatcr ; says of it that it is one of the best measures that has ever been passed by any legislature, . More than "one-half of the internal, rev enue receipts of the government come from the four states of Illinois, JSew York," Ohio anel Kentucky. - , - Italyhns three . loeomotive f.-i'toriej and three railway repair shops. A Terrible Straggle with a Maniac - I had a little adventure on Goat Island one afternoon last summer, which will keep mo aAvay from Niagara Falls as long bs I lire. It was during the last of. Au- f gust. I was thereto meet a Jew Yorker on business, and I had to wasta whole dav for him. Durinsf tho arrwrnoon of the first day I Avent over to Goat Island.. When I had walkcdi clear down to tho brink of the Amcricap Palis, just whero the bridge start to run out, I at down in the sluule to rc&t. There were Jtwo or three jieople round there at ihe time, but I they soon went twray, and. for half tin hour I avss all aono. Then a single per son approached. He was a tall, black eyed man powerfully built, and having a troubled look on his face. Ho halted near me, looked at rac as if trying to es-. tablish my identify, and I heard him -giAling and muttering. ; At length he Shouted at me: "Well, are you ready!" "For what?" I asked. "To go over the falls!" I 'was on my feet like a flash,, for it had . struck me that he was insane. I was no sooner up than he sprang at mo with a curse, and the next moment wo were struggling thereon the 'bank, not six feet , from tho Avatcr and not orcr forty from the brink of the falls. Tho fellow did rot try to push 'me over, but rather to drag -me with him. In a rough-and-tumble Avith him I Avould have had no . show, but in seeking to grasp my throat he got his thumb in my mouth, and I .shut doAvn on it with all my might. I am famous iu the gymnasium for my Ir ft-banders. I planted my fist in his face whenever the chance offered. He was a human bulldog. I bit his thumbs to the bone, but he never Avinccd. Twice 1 he had me so near the brink that I gave myself up for lost, but I rallied on him, and finally planted a blow on his neck which made, him wilt. - When I got away from him I rushed . up the bank and down the path a.few rods, and then, laugh as you mayj" I tumbled in a heap and camo so near fainting away that everything turned, dark for a moment. It Avas flyc minutes before the Aveakncss left my knees so that I could Avalk, and I at once made tracks for the mainland. Before I reached the Island bridge I met a party of gentlemen, and Avent backAvith them to secure the lunatic, lie was not to be found. Tho ' toll takers of the bridge rcmembcreel of his passing over in the morning, but ha never returned. The island was thor oughly R'arhe:l, but nothing could bo found of hirrji. Detroit Free Press. How the Mexicans Capture Ants. ', An automatic combination self-adjust ingant trap and intoxicating machine has been in use for years in New Mexico and Arizona, which is worthy of careful civilized attention. The chief blessing of that arid section is held to be mescal, i fiery liquor distilled from a species of cactus, and the principal curse is an im mense black ant that considers himself proprietor of any premises to which his nest may belong. It is said that the na tives could not live wdthout either tho museal or the ants, for while it is only mescal that can make a Mexican's life endurable Avith the ants, it is only the ants that Avakc a Mexican from the pro found coma into which the mescal plunges him. The ancient Mexican method of trying to get rid of an ant's nest was to fill up the main hatch" Avilh fine gunpowder and touch it off, keep a fire boiling over it night and day for a week, or drown it out with boiling lye. The only' result was that the ants would stay down cellar" until -the tremble. Avas over, and then cheerfully repair the damage, done to their dwelling, and "lay for" the Mexican in the silent watches of tho night with a vigor and alacrity that Avere truly awful. One day a desperate Mexican poured c quart of viesml' down his throat and buried the bottle in the centre of the principal ant's nest in his yard, with the intention of filling it with gunpowder, and blowing both himself aad his ene mies out of the territory. Having buried thcbottle to tho neck, he went to the trader's to get the powder. When ho returned, he found that thcbottle was filled with ants, whom curiosity had prompted to drop in, and who, unable to climb out, Avere indulging" in a rough and tumb-c free fight that did the Mexi can's heart no cad of good. Another bottle wes quickly procured and filled, and by sunset the Mexican found him s df proprietor of seven quarts of ants in various stages of mutilation and wrath. To 'shake these into a bonfire was easy, and thus ia a day the colony was broken up forever. The Avriterhas seen two pounds of rifle poAvder re-nvncd . into an ant's nest and p;ovc ineffective in its destruction, while by thcbottle system the, work -was thor oughly accomplished in less than a week by the capture of the -list ant inthe com cunity. Scientific Amiri:an. . A Preacher's Intelligent Horce. A Methodist preacher in North Louis iana has a horse Avhich possesses strong reasoning poAver3 or remarkable memory. On the first and third Sundays in the month Mr. Cadin holds service in a town Avhich is reached by taking the left fork of the road, while on the second and fourth Sundays the town in which he preaches is at the termination of the right fcjrk of th6 road. The horse without a word or a touch of the bridle never fails on the first and third Sundays to take the road to the left, and, on thesccond and fourth Sundays that ontho right New Orleans Picayune. . A Detroit salesman held his head un derwater two minutes and five seconds on a wager of $30 and felt no ill effects.