Published by Roanoke Publishing Co,
FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH:1
W. FMCTCTIER AUSHOW. Emma.
C. V. W. AUSBOX, fcU8lN.-S illAOM.
VOL. Ill-
PLYMOUTH, N. C-, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1891.
HO.' 2ft
FOR THE AGRICULTU
BIST.
WHEREIN THE PRACTICAL FARMER
MAY FIND BOUND OPINIONS
FOR EVERY DAY USE!
Let us Reflse if or Sheep.
, JoMph Harris, In Tarboro Advocate,
Sheep, hogn and poultry may, to a cor
tain extent, be regarded as the tcavenvers
of the farm.-'! he; eat up and convert iuto
a variable produefmunh food that would
be otherwise wasted. But the supply of
thii cheap food is limited, and we may
aaily overstock our farms. We Can often
buy to advantage food, such as cottonseed
and linseed Cake, inalt sprouts, dried grains,
corn and bran to feed to sheep, provided
ire bare a quautity of strawhay and corn
talks that we wish to feed out on the farm
and conrert iuto meat, wool and manure.
There is a growing demand for good rout'
. ton and lambs. In this country for a long
. time mutton was not a favorite meat. Beef
and pork commanded a higher prion. Now
mutton 'is higher than bet-f, and judging
VnrrliaK mvTariaiPm lhit will Annliiin
to be the case, The demand for good
lambs is phenominal. It seems almost
impossible to fully supply the demand.
Lamb is ndl only intrinsically a good and
nutritious food, but it is easier to keep in
our hot climate than beef. A farmer who
has plenty of ioeaatJ a rofrigera'.or can kill
a lamb for hie own use. Let us raise more
lambs. If the batchers do not want them
at a fair price, keep ihont until are a year
er two years old aud sell them for niutton.
There is profit in doing so sometimes more
profit than in Milling them as lambs.
In order to get a pi oil t from keeping
abeep aid rawing lambs it is not absolutely
necessary that we should have the lambs
excessively early. I have had lambs born
at different times from the last ot Decern
ber to the last of May, but seldom get the
mam crop before March. I van generally
get earlier lambs from grade Merino ewes
than from the Euglieh mutton breeds. I
will not go so far as to say that grade or
common Meriuo ewes are better than ewes
of the mutton breed, but ifllivedina
section where tuee common Uerino sheep
were plentiful, 1 should have full conn,
deuce that I could raise spUndidlumbb from
maul aiuiyj j mionmg ftvw, uv,uj ,
thrifty three or four-year old ewes, feeding
them well and putting tueui with a well
bred mutton ram, or ram limb.
' ' There is uot one of the above three points
jthatcan'be neglected. '1 he ewes .muet be
healthy, strong, and thrifty.. If they have
much Merino blood in them they should be
at least three years old. If they have more
Eugliah blood in them they should be two
or three years old. Our sheep are usually
half-starved, and common Merino nhetp
will stand starvation and neglect better
than the English breeds that are bred with
reference to early maturity and rapid grow,
tb. For this reason it often happens that
we can get healthier, and more thrifty com
mon, neglected Eughsh breeds. Of course
there in no profit to the breeder of such
eomaion Merino sheep that are kept for
three or four years and then sold for $3 or
$4 per bead. But, if selected with j'idg.
inent, the buyer may make money out of
them. To do so, however, he must feed
well and take good care of them.
A strong, vigorous ratirtamb can be al
lowed td thirty er'forty ewest aud a yearl.
ing to fifty or sixty. They should have
good feed, a'ud a quart of oats per day or a
pound of oil cake or oofn. A ram lamb
will sometimes vat oats when he will not
eat oil cake or corn. The ewes should have
the bent of pasture and, if early lamb are
desired, a feed of grain or oil cako, say one
pflund each per day, will be amply repaid
in the increased number, strength aud size
of the lambs. As soon as the ewes aie
served lesti rt,in may be ted, and if the
pasture is good it may be omitted altogeth
er. But remember that kuoce&s in raining
good lambs for the batcher depends largeiy
on the liberal feeding of the ewes. "Hut
what ram should we select ?'' I am inclined
to think it will make very little difference
.L. .ttt.t .tnA f Iku lomllM Vital. llr
ticular breed the ram is selected frtiru. But
it will make a great difference rhetber the
ram Is well-bred or not. By well-bred I
do not mean mere purity ot blood or pedi.
gree. We cannot have too much cf this,
provided it is accompanied wi.h good form
small hope, fine head and ears, short legs,
good ham or "leg ot mutton," good loin
and a vigorous, healthy thrifty growth of
firm flesh. In raiaiug lambs for the butch
er we do not care for wool. A pound of
wool contains four of five times as much
nitrogen aa a pound of ''lamb chops, i
Bake well, the great Leiceiter breeder, prob
ably did not know this fact, but his Obser
vation taught him to " select , sheep that
matured early and grew rapidly rather than
those which produced a great fleece wool.
When we are raising lambs to be killed for
food at tbree or four months oliJ, or chick
ens lor broilers, wol and feathers are
cosuy proaucts. iney run away with a
I good deal of food or, which is still more im.
portaut, a good deal of digestion and as.
emulating force. WewaTit as little offal
as possible. The less offal the greater will
be the production ef choice meat.
There is a popular notion that black
faced lambs are better than white-faced,
aud the butchers often leave the black skin
on the heads to show their customers that
they are of the fashionable breed. Of course
the color of the head has nothiug to do
with the quality of the meat. A black.'
faced Ootswola is neither better nor worse
than a white-faced one. It always makes
me sad to see a young and hopeful farmer
think he is going to get lieu because he
proposes to select some particu.ar breed,
aud, feed "well balanced rations." Old
and experienced farmers know that the
breed w not so importaut as a breeder, and
the feed not so important as the feeder. In
other words, success or failure will depend
on the care, promptness, regularity, gentle"
nesa. persistence and good judgment of the
breeder and feeder rather than on whether
he selects South Downs, Shorpshire or
Ootswolda, or whether be food clover hay
aud oil cake, or clover hay and oats, or
clover hay and corn. A good feeder who
feeds clover hay aud oil cake will beat a
poor feeder who feeds clover hay and Corn ;
and the good feeder who feeds clover bay
and com will beat the poor feeder who feeds
clover hay and oil cake no matter whether
It is lineed cake or cottonseed cake, old
process or new process. If we want good
lambs that will be strong and vigorous, and
so that th ewes will give plenty of good,
rich milk. And then the lambs must be
taught early to eat a little grain or oil cake.
I have known men who could not get a
lamb to eat, while another man with a lit
tie patience and good judgment would soon
iuduce every lamb in the flock to run into
the separate Don every time they saw him
going to the trough with a pail of food. If
tue former, who believes tu well-balanced
rations has such a man to feed his sheep,
they will do well, if he his not and he docs
not know how to feed them himself, all the
one ruin ta in the world cannot tell him how
to raise good lambs.
A PLEA FOR PEACE.
TO Til DEMOCRATS IN NORTH CAROLINA.
CorvNw and Obterver.
OoliO, N. C, Oct. 2G.
Let us have peace. The South canuot
afford to incur the danger of an internal
political war. It would be ruinous io her
domestic and commercial interests. There
is not a household in all the land ' where
there is perfect harmony, and yet the mem
bers work together and in Uuiou to promote
thegeneral welfare. They agree on esaeu
tiala and ogree to differ on minor details
The father says this field of corn needs
preseut attention, while the mu says this
field of cotton should be worked to-day.
.--till the plowing goes on and the crop is
made.
No sect of Christians are a unit . upon
theological tenets. The Baptists hold to
close communiou.and yet many good Bap.
tista reject that dogma of the church.
Still they do not devide on the question.
but work together, and the results are seen.
The Metbodiats bold to sprinkle, pouring
or immersion, ret many goou aietnoaists
will receive baptism in no other way than
byimmeraiop. They do uot divide up in
numerous sects upon every shade of opin
ion.
Let us carry this social aud religious wis.
dom into the political field aud see bow it
will work! Democrats differ among them
selves in regard to the expediency of many
measures. Ibis is but natural. The inter
ests of a commercial or of 'a manufacturing
people must necessarily differ from those of
a purely agricultural peoplo., It is impos. 1
ble to make a platform 8 tve upou general
principles. Io illuatnate, take the tariff
question. The late lamented and gifted
Randal, of Pennsylvania, was a recognized
leader in the Deraociatio party, and he was
a somewhat high protectionist. Evety true
Democrat is in favor of - tarilf reform, and
not a few Democrats are still in favor of
high protection. All wise men want a
sound currency, but many differ about the
methods to be employed to effect it. 1
hardly think a Keckar or a Colbert could
devUe a method of fiuauce tnat would suit
ua all. -totue Democrats (and I among , the
other farmers), demand an unlimited coin,
age of silver. would have PotOauielt.
ed iuto silver ingots, and rounded into full
jiugling dollars. Some bth;r equally good
Democrats believe iu gold as ihe unit of
value,' and a , lestricted silver currency.
Campbell, of Ohio, dodges the - Southern
(my) view of silver, and the gifted and pa.
trioiio Ctevelaud has also bad the audacity
to differ with me ; and, trulv, would it be
wise in me to rule them out of the parly
with their followers f Might I not be left
in a cool minority! Truly, this is not the
way great battles are gained. In army
movements, in councils oi war, there may
be a difference of opinion, both among the ,
rank aud file, yet there mut be- unanimity
of action when tbo roar of the enemyVguua
are heard, aud the shouts of the hostile are
threatening our bul warks.
There is a mud-flat, you cannot call it an
island, mid stream in the beautiful Chowan.
I believe it is a small Patagonia, no man's
land. It is first above and then under the
water, rather outre to say lk$ least of it.
Pausing down the lovely river a few days
ago, I observed that its pure, bright and
laughing waters parted, as they impinged
npou the upper end of this unhappy obstruc
tion, and it seemed to me somewhat angrily
part, flowing in oue side, and part,' on the
other. - But I observed that when they
came together again, they did .Bo with a
rufch audit seemed to me with a happy
commingling,, aud the waters went dauc.
ing aud laughing, so glad ton.ee: agaii'.
Just so see. A slignt mud fl it is between
the Alliance and the Democracy. Now if
the luouutain will not come U Mahomet,
why tbeu Mahomet muct even go w tl.e
mountain. Query; which is the mouutaiu?
Let a grand banbedrim be called, the calu.
met of peace be smoked. . Down bitterness,
up love, aud out of darknoas v iil come light,
out of confusion, order will be evoked.
There is danger aheaJI Who Vill cry
"down brakes''' More anon. -
J. II. P.
Alliance Lecturer.
THE SOUTH.
NOBLE UTTERANCE FROM THE NEW YORK
HERALD, 22d TJlT.
Mr. Henry W. Grady never uttered a
sentence which beter unervt a place on
his monument thau the following:
This hour little needs the loyally that is
loyal to one section aud bolus tue other la
enduring suspicion and estrangement. Give
as a broad aud perfect loyalty tnat loves
and trusts Georgia alike with MaasachiiiMttta
that kndws no rfouth, nw North, no East,
no West, bat endears with equal and pat
riotio loffe every foot of our soil, every
State iu the . Union.
These Words were a pa t of the Boston
speech which at once gave Mr. Grady de
served prominence. That they represented
the. aentiments of a New South and a New
North standing shoulder to shoulder is plain
from the fact that they were greeted with.
deafning applause when uttered aud are
uow choseu tor a piece on the monument
which was yesterday unveiled. '
We are told in sheering touts by parti
Bans . In . this section who nave nut yet
adopted the spirit of these .words that the
Confederate rLg was flaunted ia the parade.
It is argued, thereupon, that the whole
South is still on hotaeback and uurchiug
toward Washington,
Lvtry traveler who has vandered over
the plantations bevoud the Potomac and
kindled the peoplo who live there, know
thattne SculU couldu t be dragged or driVeu
back iuto the old regime of slaVeri . ..These
are better days thau those from every poiut
of view, social!) . politically aud commervi
ally, 'these are a plcasaut dream, those
were a nightmare ; for we had conmctibg
intereats tbei, but now we have a common
couutry and a common parpose.
But the struggle, while it lasted, was mil
of hemiam ou both aides. Everything w
btaked on the hazard by North and S juiJi
alike. Since we wou the day it ia all the
better for us. Since the lont ihe fight, it
is all the better for them. But they caunot
forget the sacrifices they made, aud we
should think tea of them if they could.
Their flags ufay indicate a local pride in the
.courage of their sens and fathers, but yon
may have noticed that above all other fliga
ou this grand occasion floated Old G.ory to
the breeze, aud so long as that holds its
place the lips of criticism are dumb. : Let
them honor their deud, even th ir du id
cause, as seems to them best- They aud
w are one and ve are both glad that ii U
so.
- VIE ARE BLESSED.
Wil. Star.
This old world of ours is always in trou.
ble. but she seems to have bad more than
her usual share of it th s year, which w 1.
be a memorable one for its record of aU.
mitics. With short crops and starviug
people, droughts, floods, tidal waves, cyclo
nes aud tornadoes on sea and laud, iWal Sow
ed ships on the ocean, railroad WrtCKP, I .f
destroying earthquakes, revolutions iu-ur
rectioun aud riots, bank failu'ef, embtzz.
menu, robberies, suicides and the deaths
of noted men, the list is full, indeed. In
respect to natural calamities and civil tur.
moil onr own conntry seems to have been a
fortunate exception, being on ll) whole
exempt from any widespread storm or flood
or drought, and blessed with .-bundant crops
while peace has reiguea wjtuiu ber Dnraers.
We may oot a 1 have prospered as we'would
wish to; there may be, and are, those who
have toiled hard, aud who have but little to
show lor it. and there are thousands who
have not been able to find work for : their
hands to do, but as a people we have been '
bo much more bieseed than people in other I
portions of the world, that we ought to be
devoutly tnaskiui.
GOV.HOLT.
New Brrne Joanml '
Governor Holt is making a good govern
or. H has gained greatly io popular
favor since hta mduution iito the executive
ofhee. - "Prudent, careful and industrious;
ouostentatioua, courteous and obliging, he ;
discharges the duties of his office with tho
ea) jjrace of a gentleman. . f
Governor Holt is a business man. and, i
as such, be was a member, of the Cone x. ;
port and' Commission Company. It has
been charged that tbe company is a Trust.
This the Governor baa never admitted, bat
to the end that no supition may attach to
him, he ba withdrawn from the Company.
Without intendiug to commit the Journal
to the support of any prospective candidate
we take pleasure in commending the pres
ent State admiuiHtraiion for the prudence
and industry it has exhibited. '-
While Dr. Gatling, the inventor of the
deadly Galling gun, is at the ExpcsUkm
in Kaleigh, we have ou a visit to Mewberu
Mr. Richard Gill, the sou of the rt-al inven
tor ot the Oejt revo;ver Mr. John Gill,
't he e geuiuees ate both the aouc of North
Carolina. evbeln Journal.
R. W. St ancill, pastor cf the ChrUt'an
church at Winston, has resigned, to accept
the position of State eisngtUst of the
Christian church.
THE TOR IT ADO SEASON.
Lieutenant Flnley Glres the Result ol
- Ills Observations to the People.
During the last 13 years the Weather
Bureau at Washington has paid particu
lar attention to cyclones and tornadoes,
with a view to ascertaining their nature,
force, direction, and the beet means of es
caping from them.
Lieutenant Finley, of the United States
Army, has been for many years in charge
of this subject, and has elicited several
facts important foi all people to know
and remember, among them the follow
ing: 1. Tornadoes occur in the United States
during every month of the year, but are
most frequent in April, May, June, and
July, when the air nearest the earth may
be exceedingly hot while the upper air ii
cold. They may and do occur in every
part- of the country, but are more com
mon in the great central plain than else
where ; and are least frequent indeed
they are extremely uncommon in the
mountainous regions.
2. Tornadoes almost always occur in
. the afternoon, between half past 3 and 5
o'clock.
8. The average number of these storms
in the United States is 146 a year.
4. The signs of an approaching tor
nado are similar to those which indicate
a coming thunder storm, namely, a low
and falling barometer, an intense, op
pressive heat, an absence of wind, and an
accumulation of threatening clouds.
5. The clouds which indicate a tornado
gather in the west or southwest, and
move toward the east or northeast, Ii
there is danger in them, there is soon ob
served a violent commotion in the mass
of black clouds, a rushing toward the
center, while at the point where the ob
server stands the air is hot and almost
motionless. Soon there is heard a great
roaring noise, and then is seen the on
ward rush of the funnel shaped cloud.
6. The line of safety at such a moment
is toward the northwest If the observer
faces the storm r let him . turn directly
to the right, and make the best time he
can. The strength of the tornado is neat
its southern edge. The thing to dais to
get out of its path, or to seek some ref
uge below the surface of the ground.
7. Lieutenant Finley remarks that suf
ficient time is usually afforded for escape
if people will keep cool and make no false
steps. - - : vvV
If they run tq the east they must soon
be overtaken by a tornado moving from
50 to 100 miles an hour. If they run into
the woods they greatly increase their
danger If within a house or cellar, they
should avoid the easterly side, because if
the building is destroyed it is that side
which receives the mass of crushing nuv
terial. ' ?
8. In a wooden house the cellar is the
safest place ; in a houseof brick or stone
the cellar is the most dangerous. Tho
best preparation ia a country much de
vastated by tornadoes is to make an ex
cavation in the jveat side of the cellar,
and make it sufficiently large to provide
room for every member of the family.
But even this is not safe unless the over
hanging earth is supported by heavy tim-.
bers and well constructed masonry.
9. It is well to bear in mind that no
iiuilding wliatever can be made strong
enough to resist the tornado at the point
where its force is greatest; nor is it pos
sible to change the course of a tornado by
discharging cannon balls into it. nor by
exploding dynamite in any quantity.
Still less can the fatal cloud be dispersed
by the use of any electrical contrivance.
Lieutenant Finley's advice to families
living in the Southwest, where these dis
turbances of tenest occur, is to make
tornado cave for themselves, and effect n
special tornado insurance upon their
buildings. r .
ILL OMENED JANE.
All Reral Bearers ot th Name IIav
Came to Grief.
Jane, as borne by the royal families of
Europe, has always been a name of ill
omen, says American Notes and Qneriht
Lady Jane Gray was beheaded for trea
son; Jane Seymour was one of the vie
tims of King Hal; Jane Beaufort, wife
of James I; of Scotland, was savagely
murdered; Jeanne de JValois, ,wife ol
Louis XII, was repudiated for her want
of personal beauty ; Jeanne d'Albret
mother of Henry IV, was poisoned by
Catherine de Medici ; Jane of Castle lost
her reason through the neglect of her
husband, Philip the Hands me, arch
duke of Austria ; Jane I, of Naples,
caused her husband to be murdered and
married his assassin, and Jane II. oi
Naples, was one of the most wanton of
women.
RATS FOR SQUIRRELS
The
Badneia an Enterprising If eg re
Dalit Up. - -
It is reported that a negro employed in
one of the warehouses at Americus, says
the Savannah News, has been in the habit
of supplying dressed Bquirrels to the
good people of Americus. Nothing was
known about him, and it was .supposed
that he was a huntsman, but some one
grew suspicious, and investigations fol
lowed. . " .
- It was discovered that the fellow had .
been killing the great rats that infest the
warehouse, dressing, aud selling them as :
squirrels. Indjsiaticu does not express
the feeliugs of the negro's customer! j
when they learned of tha fraud that had J
been perpetrated upon thotu. ' j
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AND ENDS.
Bogus coffee is giving great grounds
for complaint New Orleans Picayune.
You can never measure how long a
man will be missed in this world bythe
le gth of his widow's veiL Atcliison
Globe.
Simkins Do you and your wife get
along well together? Hen Peck She
gets along well enough, but I don't
Epoch.
If you wish to know what the stand
Ing army of the United States iayou
must patronize the horse cars. Boston
Bulletin.
Never sell a horse to a friend" is a
good maxim to follow, but a better rule
is never to buy a horse from a friend.
The one saves your feelings and the
other your money. New York Re
corder. An Ethical Point La Fiancee I am
sorry to hear pa a is speculating so
heavily. La Fiance-By Jove! It is al
most criminal for a man to speculate
with money that ought to be saved fox
his son in law. Life.
Trouble Below. Arch Imp These
nineteenth century innovations threaten
to ruin our business. Ordinary .Devil
What is going wrong? Arch . Imp
What novelties can we show a man who
comes to us from a crematory ? Life.
The Elderly Bachelor Emma, I look
upon you with the fondest, of feelings.
My heart is yours ; will you be my wife ?
Emma Have you asked my mother
yet? "To be sure 20 years ago but
how did you happen to know it?"
Fliegende Blatter. .
A Sure Sign. Mrs. Sharpeye (at a
hotel) That couple try to act as if they
had been married for years, but I know
they are on their wedding tour. BIr.
Sharpeye Guess not Mrs. Sharpeye
Yes they are. He gave her the tender
loin of the steak. New York Weekly.
One of the professors of the University'
of Texas was engaged in explaining the
Darwinian theory to his class, when he
observed that they were not paying
proper attention. "Gentlemen," said
V.
the professor, when I am endeavoring to
explain the peculiarities of the monkey I
wish you would look at me." Texas
Sittings.
Honest, but Mistaken. Old Griggs I
was readin, Tildy, that Rosa Bonheur,
that big French woman, is 75 years old
an paints as much as ever she did. Mrs. '
Griggs I do dei-are! What desprit,
shamefaced critteia them French women
be! At her time uv life I should think
she'd better be ddn' somethin' else tlian
frivoling like a girl. Chicago Tribune.
RELIGIOUS NOTES.
One hundred and-seventy seven bpw
parsonages were built in the M. E.
Church South jurisdiction during tho
year 1890-91.
Five thousand four hundred and
thirty one missior nries are supported
by the women's societies of the United
States and Europe.
A lady has conveyed in trust an es
tate in Washington valued at $80,000.
for the purpose of erecting an Episcopal
cathedral at the Capital.
The Catholics of Quebec have the
largest organ in Canada, It has just
been erected in the Cathedral of Notre
Dame. It cost $50,000 and contains 5,773
pipes.
During 1890 there were built in tho
United States 8.5C0 churches ; ministers
to the number of 4,900 were ordained,
and a membership, in all denominations,
of 1,090,000 added.
'The New York Evening Post says that
the children of the Unitarian fathers in
Boston have largely gone over to the
Episcopal Church for the sake of morj
form and ceremony.
' The Moravian Mission in Greenland
consists of six stations in two groups
End of nine missionaries. Under their
charge are 1,608 persons. The rest of
the Greenlanders are cared forby Luth
erian brethren of the Church of Den
mark. -
A vegetarian church is to be estab
lished ; in Philadelphia. One of tho
fundamental principles - of the church
will be that life is sacred, and that there
fore the shedding of blood, even though
it be for the sake of providing food for
the human race, is wrong. . .
The membership of the M. E. Church
South for the past conference year shows
a gain of 41,411 members, . bringing
the number up to 1,218,501. All of
the 45 conferences, except five, show
n increase in their membership.
The
decrease in these five conferences only
amounted to 1,083.
It is something that American mis
lions alone now occupy more than 4,000
stations in unevangelized lands, with
2,850 missionaries sent from this country
add more than 10,000 native helpers ;
that there are at these statious more
than 2,700 churches, with nearly 237.000
communicants, of whom 5J6,0"i0 were
added last year; and that $1,000,000 are
contributed annually in our country to
carry on the .work. It is something, I
certainly, that all Protestant missiou- j
ary societies have nw 46,000 mission
aries and helpers in the field, minis- j
tering to nearly 700.000 communicants i
and to more than 8,00 000 adherently
to Christianity, and expending every
year . at least $12,000,000 in the dis- j
tant aud costly work. Dr. Storrs, ia
Sun Jay School Times.
ODDS
GRAINS OP COLD.
"Malice drinks half its own poison. "
Seneca. -
"He who shows his passion tells his
enemy where to hit him.
"Desire not tbon too greatly, for like fire
Destroying what it ..ufolds, bo ia desire." i
Truth is the most precious of blessings ;
without it man is Llind ; 'tis the eye of
reason. Rousseau.
. Men stumble over straws in the way to
heaven, but climb over mountains in the
way to destruction. Anon.
Use well the moment and with seeing eyes
Peruse the thing that's next thee, and be wisel
If a man can not attain to the length
of his wishes, he may have his remedy
by cutting them shorter. Cowley.
"Truth always f. ia. It is always con
gruous, and agrees with itself. Every,
truth in the universe also agrees with all
others."
If a flower
Were thrown you out of heaven at Intervale .
You'd soon attain to a trick of looking up.
Mrs. Browsing.
A perfectly civilized man can never be
perfectly huppy w le there is one
happy being in the universe. Robert G.
IngersolL
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset ,
into the life of any man or woman, I shall
feel that I have worked with God.
George MacDonald.
IIow far that little o Ale throws Its beams!
8o shines a good dee., i a naughty world.
Heaven doth with ut we with torches do,
Rot light them for t -maelves; for if or vir
tues .
Do not go forth of us, t were all alike
As if we had them not.
Shakespeare. -The
Word of G d will stand a thou
sand readings ; and he who lias gone over .
it most frequently is the surest of finding
new wonders ihere. Hamilton.
Out of fierce and persistent agitation
have come the great reforms that have
lifted humanity higher, as out of sorrow
the sweetest resignation has come. . , '
All the doors that lead inward to the
secret place of the Most High are doors
outward out . of self, out of smallness,
out of wrong. George MacDonald. .
. . Artist, let thy words be few, .t '
. To thy shaping tc- 1 be true.
And work thy s ..1 from day to day, :
Like a breath Int. the clay! ., '
At first it was a single thought
The outcome of it none could see.
But, into living action wrought.
It reached and blest humsnity.
There is no royal road to anything.
One thing at a time, all tilings in succes- .
6ion. That which -rows fast wtthbrr89-
rapidly; that which grows slowly. en
dures. . .
' If any one can convince me of an error
I shall be very glad to change my opin
ion, for truth is my business, and right
information hurts Tobody. No; he that
continues in ignorce and mistake, 'tis
he that receives tae mischief. Marcus
Antoninus.
TH POET'S PRATXR.
If there be some weaker one.
Give me strength to help him on; - -
If a blinder soul there be.
Let me guide him nearer Thee:
Make my mortal breams come true -With
the work I tula would do;
Clothe with life the weak intent.
Let me be the t' ing I meant; :
let me find in Thy employ, . ,
Peace that dearer is tt n joy; '
Out of self to lovo be l x!.
And to heaven acclimated, - ' -Unt
il all things tweet aud good
6eem my natural habit e.
J. O. Whlttlor.
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A TAX ON BACHELORS.
A Bill That Will Make Unmarried
Gorglaaa Warn.
A bill has passed the Georgia Legislat
ure imposing a tax on bachelors. Un
der its terms it will cost a , Georgian $23
annually to begin the bachelor business
at 80 years of age, and on a rising scale
of $25 for each five years a man of Q9 .
will be put to the expense of $150 for tha r
privilege of going without a wife.
A more ghastly piece of legislation
could hardly be conceived, striking as it
does at the very roots of personal lib
erty. - Government has quite as much right
to fine a man for not wearing a beard as
for not marrying. Government has. also .
the same moral right to impose a tax on
bachelors as it has to fine the poor for tho
benefit of the rich under the guise of a
"protective "tariff. - .
"Government" is only all of us, and
"all of us" can do as we please.-7Paw.
tucket, (R. I.,) Tribune. ' -
A HISTORIC KETTLE.
The 'Vlelaallwdes Copper Utvnall .
Wat Threagty Years Ag.
A lady residing at Tribes Hill, N, ,
Is in possession of a. massive copper tea,
kettle which dates back to the days oj
the Revolution and hns an interesting
history, says Good Housekeeping. It
then belonged to Adam Fonda, wJiOa
father was tomahawked during Johnson's
raid, in 1780, his house being burued, at
the same time.
Adam Fonda lives on the banks of the
Cayadutta, and his house was also '
burned. One of the Tories who was. en
gaged in this vandalism saw iu thii
house a teakettle which was too good to '
be destroyed, and he took it and tilled it
with butter which had just been churned.
He then hid it under the Cayadutta'
Bridge, 'expecting to return that Svay,
but he never came back for it,. and not
long afterward some childreu playing
under tho bridge discovered . it. ThU
kettle was- the only article saved frolii"
the louse. , . '