'( '( ( Us, r j m-mM n 3 I 7)evoled to tfte ZYotection of Home and the Interests of the County, Vol. II. Gastonia,. Gaston- County, N. C.: Sat diay Morning, October 15, 1881. No. 41. Li pjjjj P fWWWgMlj p fa. MY LITTLE WIFE- Our table Ih spi-end for two, to-night NO RlU'MtH our bount v Share ; Tho damask cloth la snowy white, The sei-vlco elegant imil hrbcht. Our fhlnii inniint nnil rare ; My Uttle wife preside. And jjorfoct love abides. Tho hread Ih sMnro. the butter gold, The muffins nice and hut, M'hiit though the winds wJtlMnttkw1d Tho Willis a llttlo world unfold. And tho storm is soon forgot. In the nre-litfht'.s cheerfull glow Ucams a Puradtoe below. A fiilrer picture who hnth seen ? Soft lights and shadows blent ; The central llgure of tho scene, he sits, my wife, my love, wy queuu Her houd a Uttle bunt ; And In her eyes of bluo I rend my bliss anew,, I watch her as she pours the tm, With quiet, gentle grace; With lingers deft, and movement free. ,tho mixes In tho cream for me, A bright smile on lu-r face; And, as she sends It up, I pledge her in my cup. Was ever inaa before bo blessed ? I secretly reflect. Tho pausing thought she must have guessed, .For now dear Hps on mine are pressed, An arm is round mv neck. - 1 Hear treasure of my life (Jod bless her little wife. Ovi-rltind Monthly. Helen Hyde's Good Peed. Yes.' said ttie doctor, solemnly, ' she showd every indication of going into a decline, Ii si, ' itlaxatiorj, change of hit and scene that's what slie ought to have!' Mrs. Durdat.el looked perturbed. 'Dear, dear.' she si. id, ' what a iJiy. And she's uite a pet of thine, too, dear little thing. iSlie is very quick with her ne die, and xeally ingenious and the wy she puts trimmings on a dress positively reminds one of Madum Antoine herself.' ' 'The Seaside cottage would be the place for her,' suggested Dr. Midland. You are 01 e of the lady patronesses, I believe, and' '.Yes, but the Seaside cottage is full,' ouil Mrs. Dardanel. ' Not an inch of room .unoccupied. I had a note from the matron yesterday V Ah, indeed V Said (he doctor, fumbling with hid watch-seals. Uufortrjnate very.' But,' cried Mrs. Dardanel, au iilea sud denly occurring to her much bepuffed and befrizzed head, 4 there is Airs. Daggett's (farm, a fi miles further down the shore. She takes boai'deta for five dillurs a week. and I believe it is a very nice place. If you think it advisable I will take a month's board for the girl there. I really feel as if .the dear littlt thing belonged to me.' An excellent 1 'D, madam, an excellent plan,' said the doctor, oracularly. 1 have io doubt but that a month of sea air 'would inuke quite a different person of her.' ; Helen Hyde could scarcely believe her tn ears when Mrs. Dardanel beamingly announced ber intentions. ' The seashorej sbe cried, her pale face flushing all over, ' the real sea! Oh, Mrs. Dardanel, I kave dreamed of it all my life. And for a whole -bright long summer month ! Oh, bow shall I ever thank you ! ' By getting well and strong as faet as you ean,' said Mr?. Dardanel, real'y touched by tho girl's innocent coti usiasni. ''And here is a ten-dollar bill for you,' she added, with anile. ' Yon may need some little trifle o' dress, or there may be a drive or a picnic or on xcuuioo going in which you will want to participate. No, jou shall not give it back it is a present from me, and I choose that jou shall keep jt. Helen Hyde's heart beat bigh with delight when first she saw the Daggett farmhouse, a long, low, red building, with un immense s'ack of chimneys, a cluster of umbrageous maple trees garlanding U about with shade, and a door yard full of eweet, old-fashioned flowers, while in full sight of the windows the Atlantic flung its curling crests of foam ujong the shingly shore. Mrs. Daegett welcomed her warmly ; she had been Mrs. Datdanel's houstkeepir once, and knew the value of that lady's patronage, ' I've just one room left, my dear,' said she. ' Under the eaves of the house. It's rather small, bat it's furnished comfortably, end there's a fine view of the ocean. I could have given you better accommodations jf I bad received Mrs. Dardaoefs letkr a day earlitr. But four young ladies, teacheis in the Txwood institute, came yesterday, and I'm sleeping on a sofa myself in the parlor. But we'll make you as snog as po-sible, and the very first good-siz-d room that is vacatid you shall hare,' And Helen was very happy in ber little nook, from whose casement sbe could see the sparkling plain of the sea, all dotted with white sails. Mrs. Daggett was a drivinsr, energetic business woman. Farmer Daggett was a vacant, boucst faced man, who invariably fell asleep of on evening, with his chair lipped back against the wall and every available inch of the house was filled with summer boarders, mostly ladies'. There were only three masculine appendants to the house, besides its master a sup- . nnu ated clergyman, whose paris-hioners ' ed together every summer to treat hii : six week's vacation a literary man , iie aspirations and small income, who hud come thither for rest and opportuniiyjo study np the ' skeleton ' for his next novel, r,d old Mr. Mifflin 1 It was some time before Helen Hyde tail ly comprehended who old Mr. Mifflin was. A bowed, bent over little man, with silver hair curling over the collar of bis coat, a ruffl d shirt like the pictures cf our Revolutionary forefathers, and dim blue eyes which glistened from behind silver spectacles, he shuffled in od out (o his meuls after an apologetic fashion, and sat all tho long bright afternoons under (he maples, staring at the sea ' Who is that old gentleman ?" she at last ventured to ask Mrs. Daggett. That lady frowned, impatiently. , ' It's old Daddy Mifflin,' said she. ' And I wish it was anybody else !' ' Is he a boarder?' B9ked Helen. ' Well, he is and be isn't 1' rather ob scurely answered Mrs. Daggett, who was picking over currants for a pudding while Helen sat by end watched ber. ' But he won't be here long. You see, my dear, he hiisn't any friends. When me and Daggett can.e down fron Vermont and bought this place we got it cheap because of old Mr. Mifflin. We was lo give him the northeast chamber, and they were to allow us so much a month for his keep. It ain't every body, ou see, as would r.e willing to have an old man like thut around the place. But he's harmless and innocent enough, and I won't deny that the two dollars a week helped along. - Bui now prices hove gone up, and Breezy Point has got to be a fashionable loculity in summer time, und thiugd arc altered. And, what's worse, his folks have left iff sending lie money.' ' I wonder why?' said Helen, with her jrge dreamy eyes fixed pityingly upon the old man, who sat in his usual place under the maples, wistfully watching the sea. ' They're dend, p r'aps, said Mrs. Dag gett. 'Or, p'r'aps they've got tired of him Anyhow, it's three months since we've heard a word, and me and Daggett have made up our minds we can't stand it any'longer. Ho we're going to put him on the town. Lawy. r Buxall says it's legal and right, and they can't xpect noth ing else ofus. Squire Sodus Is to send his covered carryall next Saturday, and old Daddy Mifflin 'll suppose he's going for r ride. And so things 'II go ( ft smooth and pleasant.' Smooth and pleasant !' Helen Hyde looked across the grassy lawn to the little old man witb.Lis mild, abstracted face, his ruffled shirt front, the silver hair that glisieneu in me nuMitiiu, .l. claw-like lingers that slowly turned them. selves backward and forward as he sat there.' ' He owned the place once.' - .id Mrs. Daggett, ' but his sons turned oi.t oid. and he indorsed for Squire Sodas' ci c-io, and lost everything. And here he is, i.-i his old age, without a peonyTWhat is it, Beckj? The oven ready for the pies? Yes, I'm coming.' And sbe bustled away, leaving Helen alone. A sort of inspiration had entered into the girl's heart as she sat there with the briny smell of the ocean filling ber senses, the rustle of the maple leaves murmuring softly ov rlnad. She took Mrs Dardanel'9 ten-dollar bill from her pocket and looked long and earnestly ut it. She thought of the little one-borse curryull, which she and the girls from the Ixwood institute were to have hired together to drive ovir the hills and glens, all those sweet, misty summer afternoons; of the excursions to Twin It ck by steamer, upon which she bad couuted ; of the new black bunting drees, which sbe had decided to buy. She must abandon all these little darling exlravugances, if she iudulged this other fancy. ' As if there could be any choice ebe said to herself. And then she got up and went softly across the grass and clover blossoms to where "Daddy Mifflin' sat. ' Do you like this place ?' she asked, softly. It's hsme, my dear,' he answered, seem ingly to arouse himself out of a reverie; 'it's home J I've lived hire for tiirhty odd years, I couldu'l live anywhere else.' But lb re are othe r place p.'eusautcr !' It my be, my deur, it may be,' he said, looking at her with troubled eyes through the (Jon vex lenses of his glasses ' But they wonldu't seem the same to me 1' I leli u went back to Mr?. Daggett, who was baking pies and rolls aud straw bent shortcake ail at once ! Mrs 'Daggett,' said she, ' here are $10 which Mrs. Dardanel gave to me to do as I pleased with. And I pleased to give it to you to keep old Mr. Mifflin here five weeks longer.' ' Mercy snkes alive !' said Mrs. Daggett, l.e ain't no kind to ycu, is he ?' No,' said Helen, ' but he is so old and fieble and friendkss, and and please Mrs. Daggett take the money. And per nape by the time that is gone I shall be able to send a little more. My employers are going to pay me generouely in the city, and I frei myself growing better able to woik e. ry day.' So Ilelto Hyde adopted the cause of one even poorer and more friendless than herself, and ior a year sbo paid the two dollars a week steuuily, and Mr. Mifflin never knew what a danger had menaced him I At the end of that time the old gentle man's grandson cume from some wide, wild region across the sea, a tall, dark -eyed young man, with the mien of a prince in disguise. ' My father hag been dead for a year,' he said. ' And hie papers have only just been thoroughly investigated, so that I have recently learned, for the first time, that there is au arrearage due on my gran father's allowance. I hope he has not been allowed to suffer ' 'Oh he 'a all right,' said Mrs. Daggett. ' We've took excellent good care of him. ' You are a noble-heurted woman,' said the young man, fervently clasping her band ' and I will see that you are no loser by your generosity.' ' It aiu't me,' Baid Mrs. Daggett, turning red aud white, for ILIen Hyde, now spending her second summer at the farm house, sat by quietly sewing in the window recees. ' I'm free to allow that me and Daggett got out of patience and was goin' to put him on the town, but Miss Hyde here, one of our boarders, she's paid for him ever since.' I beg your pardon if I have iutorfered,' said Heh'D, blushing scarlet as the large dark eyes fell scrutin'ziugly on ber face, 'but he seemed so eld and so helpless, that " ' God bless you for your noble deed 1' said Amuruse Munui, earueaitj . But there was something in Helen's manner which prevented him from offering any pecuniary recompense to her. - ' My grandfather will need your cares no further," said he. "We have been fortunate in our Australian investments, and I am prepared to buy the old farm back agai i and settle here permanently.' A lid when Mrs. Dardai el began to think about getting her winter ball dresses made up, she teceived a note from Miss Hyde, which ran as follows : "Dkar Mrs. Dakoaxkl : 1 am sorry to disappoint you, but I cannot undertake any more orders. For I urn to be married next month to Mr. Ambrose Mifflin, and we are to live at the Daggett farm. And, ob ! bow prOUO X eUvulJ V if you would come here and visit me next summer, when the roses are in bloom and the strawberries ripen. Ambrose is all that is nice, and I shall have the dearest old grandfather in law iu the world. Affectionately, "Hki.kn Htdk." And all this life romance had grown out of Helen's mouth at the seaside. LOCAL PAPERS. A h.rge proportion of the people do nothing to support their local papers, yet reap the benefit every day of the editor's work. A mau will say, " Advertising does not pay in business," and yet the fact is, that the town in which he does business would be unkuown, the railroad over which be ships his goods would be unbuilt, and he himself would be unheard of, if it were not for the newspaper, which he suys does him co good. The local paper is of advantage to every man in the community, and when a man refuses to contribute to the support of the paper on the ground that it " does him no good," he might just as well refuse to pay his taxes for the support of the courts and tho police force, on the ground that he never breaks the law aud docs not ueed any offiixrs. There are men who believe them selves lo be hontst aud pious, who are do ing business iu every community, and every day appropiiating to their own use the fruits of other nuW labors by rcjping the be in fit vl the newsp.ipcr without con tributing a ceul to iu support. Too much credit cannot be given the weekly paper for the work it has doue and is still doing ' for the benefit of this country. M namiii's Printers' Circular. Tbcy have the electiic light in Salem. J George D. Bateman, of Perquimans i county, was beaten so badly by a neighbor named Griffin, recently, that he died in a few days. i BIIL A EPS BUDGET Of Rural Observations and Horns SDun Humor. Written for the Constitution. The earliest fires of the fall Have liriffiitcned up the room, Tho cut and dopr and children all Huve hid old winter come. The wind Isrunnimr at the nose Tho clouds are in a slii ver ; By day we want more warmer clothes. At nitflit we want more River. Persimmons and possumns arc getting ripel The Mny-pops huve dropped from the vines. Chesnuts and chinkapins are opening and walnuts are covering the groou. - Crawfish and frogs have gone into wiuter quarters snakes and lizzirds have bid us adieu. All nature is preparing for a winter's bleep -sleep for the trees and grass and flowers. 1 like winter ; not six long months of snow and ice and howling winds, but three months inter spersed with sunny days and Indian suni mersXorth Georgia is the place for me, the region of mild and temperate climate, of lofty mountains and beautiful valleys and fast flowing streams. The region where the simoon, nor the hurricane never comes und streams do not become etagnsnt, nor the munmito sing bia little song. I don't want to be snow bound in wiuter, nor to fly from a fierry hurricane in summer, and it's cur bus to me that our northern brethren dou't bid farewell, a long farewell to such a country and settle down in this pleasant land- I know there is no place like home, and it's home where the heart is. The Eskimo loves his snow house, and the Mexican his lusbiander, but there is reason in all things, and if this ain't the best country on the continent there's do sense in reason or philosophy. jJJut I'm sorter glad we have had it to ourselves this long I'm glad our people are getting strong encugb to keep it for their children that is, a pood share of it. I doQ't want em to sell their pleasant homes for ever, a I big pile of money unless they have got another one iu view Tuere is plenty of room for all who want to come, aud money will turn a, wilderness into a 'garden. Thousands of them are looking this way now for deliverance from hard winters or lor profitable investments, and this exposition is going to g-enile 'em ond take the scare , and they will dare to look round, and will price our lauds and analyze our minerals anJ ioppect our water-power, and peruse our forests, and while the north is frozen up they will bask in our sunshine and wonder that there was such a blessed land so near and so unknowu. The expo sition is iioirg to be a mighty hurmonizer It will get up a union of sentiment and social feeling. Our folks always did Appre ciate northern intelligence and northern energy. Long before the war when these educated girl ustd to come south to teach school our boys married 'em a9 fast as they come, and pet 'em to roisinc children, and Uiey made pood wives and good mothers. Well, the war made the. yankecs so sick and our people so poor their girls quit coming, but of lute they are summering it down here, ond our boys are beginning to pice 'em cfT like they used to. Thej go for 'em quick, and it's a pietty fair bargain for there is money on one side and rebel blood and independence on the other, and that's a good compromise. A clever girl was picked np the other day by a young man of my acquaintance. He was good looking and poor and proud and she was a little over age and undersize, and not altogether as beautiful as the Lord might have made her if he bad wanted to, but she was rich. Well, he took her in out of solitude, and sbe took him iu out of the wet, and it's ull right. I reckon it's all right, and I hope they are happy. AVheo a fresh murritd woman gives her feller a check lor tweuty thousand dollars next day, aud has plenty more behind, it's a sign she is satisfied with bim, and if he aint satisfied with Iht I shall always think he ought to be. ' I bavent seen the exposition as yet. I'm waiting until it gets in lull blast, and then I'm going to take the family down in small detachments. It's our show aud iu a cheap show, considering, and may be it won't happen again for many years to come aud I think everybody iu reach of it ought to go, especially the women and children the women for pleasure und the children for in struction. I thii.k I be railroads ought to reduce the fare to one ceul a mile for their sukes. Tney wouldeut loose by it for twice as many would go and it wou'd make the little folks so happy. Its no pleasure to me to see a big thing aud go hotnj and tell about it. 1 always feel a little uitau if Mr. Arp aint ulong or Some el toe children. When King Cvk's railroad is fioUiu-d I W;iui hjiu lo furuish a long traiu of palace cars and give us a free ride from Home to Brunswick and furuish us with fish and oysters wucn we gei mere ana lei our cuu dreu Bee the oo.au auJ look aud gaz j aud wonder. He can do it and make so many people harpy- I'tit Mr. Seney wiP, if he takes a notion, or gets on another spree. Henry Grady invited me to a reception lust night, I had a beadaclio but I thought niHjbe it would hope me to he received and so I took the street car and went out, and shore enough he received me and mixed me up with a goodly company of elegant gen tlemen and he made everybody feel at home in his new and splendid mansion. There's more rooms and snuggeries and dodging places than I ever saw in a house of its size, and all the deekoratiotis are beautiful and everybody so fine and new, I was afraid to stand up or set down, but I watched Howell and done as he done and Howell he wanted to open a window but was afraid of the trigger for be said some thing might full on him, and I asted Dr. Lawton what was them verses high up on the wall in the dinning room and he said he reckoned it was the bill of fare bat Howell said it was some lines froa Burns about Catches his hens and puis 'em in pens, Some lay eggs and some lay none ; Wire, briar, limber lock, Three geese in the flock. , O-U-T spells out and begone. Well, there was newspaper men from Boston to Galveston and all along the country between, and they look smart and thoughtful, and I coulden't help but ponder over the power of their pens and the re sponsibility that was on 'em to influence peace in the land and good will among our people. Long life and health and happiness to Henry and bis family. I didn't look in all the closets but I hope there is no skeleton there. Bii.r. Arp. VARIETY IN YOUR FOOD. There is no one standard for food appli cable to all persons, whether as to kind of food or quantity. Our tastes are more or lets a matter of education. A taste edu cated in ooe direction revolts at a taste educated in another; Tomatoes, now almost universally used In this country, were re jected with lc athing a generation ago. The French, who led efl io eating frog Kesri, are now eating hone flesh tbeir taste for the l itter having been developed during the exigencies of ilie siege of Paris The English have heretofore, turned with disgust from corn (maize), which is a very staff of life in this country, and, in some of its forms of cooking, a delicious favorite. It might be well for men generally to have their- tastes broadened. Some per sons are altogether too nice aud narrow in their preft;rencet: for food. It should be re membered that unused functions tend to wards complete cessation. Forinetauce, one of the beet preservatives against consump tion is in the ability of the stomach to di gest fat ; but the power to digest it mav be lost by long disuse, the glands ceasing to secrete the necessary fluid. So, too, the quantity of food eaten by Ulm'"" f " ..omn in (rood heulth, too, aud in the same surroundings, would be killed by what is essential to the health of another. A hard-worktr in the open air would starve if restricted to what amply suffices for the man whose employ ment is iu doors aud sedentary. Life could uot be sustained in the arctic zone without immense quantities of heat producing food. An Esquimau will eat daily from twelve to fifteen pounds of meat, onejhird of it fat. He generates so much internal heat that he always throws off his coat in his hut, where the temperature ranges fiom freezing down to zero, with an outside temperature from thirty to seventy degrees oetow mo tatter point. loum s Companion. PROFANITY. From Gems of Thought. Nothing is a greater sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue Jeremy Tay lor. The devil tempts men through tbeir am bition, ibeir cupidity, or their appetite, un til he comes to the profane swearer whom he catches without any reward. Horace Mumi. The foolish aud wicked prartice of pro fane cursing aud swearing is a vice so mean and low, that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.- George HWl(H,fOM. Profane swearing has always seemed a mint volun'ary sin M.-st crrieg people, whin tl.ey do wroi g, count upon some good lo be derived fiom thiir conduct, but for pn fuin'v there is no excuse, . Halloa. Pn famness is a low, groveling vice, lie who indul.rs in it is no gentleman. I care not whal his stand may be iu society; I care not what clothes he wears, or what culture he boat'?; dtspite all his r Sue metd, the li:ht habitual taking of God's name in vaiu betra s a coarse uature and a brutal will. E. II. thapm. BESULTS OF SEGLECT. He who cannot find time to consult his Bible will one day find he has time to bo sick. He who has no time to pray must find time to die. He who can find no time to rehVet is most likely to find time to sin. He who cannot find time for repentance wil find an eternity in which repentance will be of no avail. He who cannot find lime to work for others may find an eterni ty in which to suffer for himself. Hannah Moore. CVMMUMSM. Lutheran Church Paper. Communism is a bad principle. The leveling idea is a false one. Leveling- is not only wrong, it is impossible. Some men will rise above Olers- Economy, industry, and shrewdness will ensure thrift: Extrav agance, idleness and incompetency will bring poverty. But arrogance on the part of successful men is just as wicked as envy on the prt of unsuccessful men; and the arrogaoce od superciliousness of the rich and the great are responsible for much of the communistic spirit that is abroad in the world. Abate the former, and you abate the latter. Let the rich be humble, and the poor are more likely to be noble. Charlotte is open to the fluids, bnt the license tax is high. The Scotland Neck bratich road is still progressing rapidly. The Baptist State Convention will meet iu Winston in November. Revenue collections in the 4th District for beptember, $120,331.87. One hundred Polish Jews are employed at Durham, N. C, making eigarettes. The S mth-Atlanlic States are cnpable of producing all the frui',3 in abundance. Paul Furr, of Concord, N. C, this year netted $110 from half an acre plauted in melons. The yield of gold in the South-Atlantic States to date is over twenty-three million dollars. Sheep-husbandry is increasing in value and importance in the South-Atlantic States. ' The Yoiktowo Centennial Celebration commenced on the 13' b of October and closes on the 2 1st. Can yon afford to miss the grand display of Southern resources at the International Cotton Exposition in Atlanta. The Scnppernong grape is the grape of the Soutl -AtlaHic Siatts capable of pro ducing a wine equal to the Tokay " of Hungary. The new depot at Xew Switzerland, Ga. , is being built as rapidly as possible. A number of Swiss and German residents of Atlanta are arranging to build summer bouses there. The climateof the South-Atlantic States does not run into extremes. Although the warm weaiuer uegiua er, the range of the thermometer is not so bigh in summer as in the Xortb. WIIA T IS AN INCH OF RAIN ? An inch of rain is that quantity which falling upon a level surface and not ab sorbed or allowed to run off would stand an inch io depth. The amount of water falling upon an acre of laud when the rain fall is one inch would astonish any one who has given no thought to the subject. On each square foot of surface there would be 144 cubic inches, aud on one acre which contains 43,"00 square feet, would beJJ, 273,640 cubic inches, which reduced toim- petial gallons, each containing 10 pounds avoirdupoise, would be 22,6113 gallons, weighing 226,230 pounds, something more than 113 tons' weight to tbea acre. The atnual average rainfall io this locality ap proximates 50 inches, consequently each acre receives about 5, 6554 ton8' we'6n' of water io a year. This amount of water would require a train of 565 freight cars to carry it. If one bad to waier a 640 acre farm at this rate it would require figures like those of the distance to the nearest fixed star. With pleasure the friends of Clarcmont College wttl learo that about 320,000 brick have now been successfully burned, and a considerable part already on the college grounds. Major R. W. York, of Durham, will deliver the oration, on the laying of the corner stone of Spona Lodge, No. 280, A. F. M , at Asbury, Chatham county, on the 19 h iust. A fine large iron screw steamship, the Barnesmore, 2 200 toaa burthen, rewntly arrived at Wilmington. Her carrying ca pacity is between 4.000 aud 5,000 baki of compressed cotton.

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