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? IU E tDevoled to the Protection of Homcitd the Interests of l?ie CouHly. '' r . Vol. III. Gastonia, Gastow Oounty, C.j Fmday Morning, February 17, 1882. T00L00. SNOBBERHOSSER'S LAST. Diem mo I Bho'8 a pretty maldtm I Sokes nil vol she' sweet 1 Continental t she's a bounty t Almost (food to oat. Darling little roselip Tooloo, Tako your eyes away ; Evory glanoe but sets mo crazy All tbo livelong; duv. Oh I persimmons I hold mo, fullers Boo I she smiles on mo. Honey-comb 1 sho oalls mo to ber I Funning r no sir-oe I Hail Columbia 1 did you over Boo so sweet a f aoo 1 Boys, I say, lot go my collar,' Or I'll brook a trace I Yanklo doodle I whoso af card f Jorusalom I that band ; Its pearly Whiteness can't bo boat. In all this glorious land. . And that mouth I'm suro you nover Saw ono sweet as that I Tooloo,"bloss you I little darling ' You can'tuko my hat I Tooloo, may I call you mine, lovo 1 Bo my littlo wife I Hand in hand we'll wander, darling, Through tlio whole of lifo. In tho cottago, by tho river, Wo shall ilnd a homo, Whoro among the fragrant llowcrs Wo can over roam. Hail-stones ! wherefore placo your lingers, Thus upon your nose? Thumb is motionless and quiet. But tho linger goes ? -Now git out I you're joking, surely 1 What! won't marry mo ? Tlion I'll throw myself right over Into tho deep sea 1 Applo sauce I you'll marry Sprigging 1 Darn mo if you do I Say now, Tooloo, ain't you funning, Just to provo mo true? Walt awhilo, don't leave mo, sugar I What! must I let you pnw I ) I allalu Jah ! burst my buttons I HJi do, and go to grass I That Awful Wood-Pilo. Coming home from school one Jny, . found a large pile of wood before our door "There's work for you, Willie," Buid Ned Blake, the boy who was with me. "Your father had better do as my father does hire a man to get it in. It ia too much for a boy '(mother say-), and it will lake the whole of Wednesday alternoon. Yod will have no time for play. Now Will. I would not do that, I tell you.' This was the substance of Ned's talk as we stood before the wool-pile, and the more be Buid the higher it grew. By the time he left me, I began to think myself a poorly used boy indeed. 'There is work for you, Willie.' said mother, as I elided Into the kitchen. 'Did you see that beautiful wood at the gate as you came in?' 'I should think I did 1' 1 muttered to myself, but said nothing aloud, only asking how father was. II was ill, and had been for many months, and the family funds, I knew were becoin itig low. 'It's a monstrous pile,' I at length suid, getting a glimpse of it from the window. 'So much the better for up, Willie,' said the mother cheerfully. 'A long win ter is before us, you know.' Dinner was soon ready, -the table spread in the little ditcben, aud father was helped oat from an adjoining room by bis two lit tle daughters one on each side. Father and mother sat down to our frugal meal with thankful hearts, I am sure ; the girls chattered ns usual, while I sat brooding over that 'awful wood-pile.' I am afraid my chief dish was a dish of pouts. Futher ask me several questions, but I took no part in the pleasant table talk. 'Well my boy,' said father after dinner, there's that wood to be put in. No school this afternoon, so you have time enough. You had belter do it the first thins.' 'It will take the whole afternoon,' I Bald coldly.. 'The boys ore going nutting.' I was not sure of ibis, but an thing in the way of an object to the wood. My father said nothing. Pear, dear lather ! God forgive me for wounding his feelings ! 'Mother,' I said following her into the pantry, 'Ned Dlake's father hires a man to get his wood in. His mother thinks it is too much for a boy to do. Why dots not father hire some one V 'Ah 1' said my mother, sadly the Makes are belter off than we. Your poor father ' Texas came into ber eyes; she stopped. Mary run ia where we were, and I, half ashamed of myself, escaped oat of the back door, Still Ned Blake's words rackled la me, and I thought it was too bad ( nor did the brisk west wind blow off the fumes of the foolish grambling which made a coward ofmc, I sat down oo the wooJblock, my bauds io niy pockets, aud. shiO my feet among the chips io sour discontent. It is such a monstrous pile 1' I said to myself a d( tea timet. Presently cat oaine mother. I jumped op, Willie she saiJ, cheerfully. I would go to work in earnest. Yoa will soon get it in.' 'It so monstrous, mother 1' I said, in self-pitying tone. 'It will tuke me forever and half kill me in the bargain." 'Forever' is a long, long while,' she said 'Come, let us look at the pile. It is big, but all you have to do is to take a etic at a lime. That will not hurt you, Willie I am sure only one slick at a time ; yet ono stick at a time will make that pil vanish quicker than you think for, Willie. Try it now.' There was a kindness and yet a decision in mother's tones which were irresistible. She could put even bard things, or what wo thought hard, in a very achievable light. ; 'Ouly one stick at a timet' I cried jumping np and following her. Really the pile stems already to lessen under this new mode of attack. 'Only one stick at a time That set'ms easy enoujjh. "Only one slick at a time! What was the need of mautodothat? Due stick at a time I If Ned Blake could not do that ; be was a poor tool. Ah! and a poor tool he proved to be My mother bud got my mettle up, and I boldly went to work. 'Father,' said bolting into the house at a later hour in the afternoon, all iu a glow, please tell mo what time it is.' 'Eight miiiutts after three,' answered he, looking at his watch. 'Whew T I shouted and the pile is mastered!' Never did I feel such a strong and joy ous sense of the power of doing. Finding mother, I put my arms around her neck and said, 'Mother, I was a nnughty boy but one stick at a time bus cured me.' I did not than know the full value of the lesson I had learned, years ol lubor suc cessful labor have since tested and proved its value. When the work looks insur- (- mountuble, and you seem td have no heart to take hold of it (as work many a time will) remember it t.i onlu one stick at a time, and go at it. Ex. The first-premium fowls of the Fuirs are hatched this month. Chester white pigs have Increased in price io the past two years. Separate all breeding ewes from the other sheep ia the flock now until after lambing. Orchard grass, though suitable for orch ards, can endure more sua and drought thun blue grass. It is a misluke to allow sows to breed before they are at least a year old, as they are not then sulliciently multireel, and pigs from such arc sometimes too weak to lire. Like the blackberry, the raspberry bears the fruit upon the cane of the pre vious year's growth, which, after fruitage dies, the new cane coming forward for the next year's crop. Nearly all kinds of fruits do well on a mixture of superphosphate and wood nsh- 3. Lime is not suitable for strawberries, ul excellent around apple, peach and pear trees. Grapevines should be pruned as enrly as the season will permit. If deferred too late they will allow an escape of sop (bleed j even if trimmed a little while before it be gins to ascend. Hints on Eating, Never eat in a hurry ; masticate your food well ; this is of great iinportanee, for many articles of diet, perfectly wholesome when properly masticuttd, unless mixed well with the saliva, are very indigestible, and greatly derange the process of diges tion. Do not eat or drink under excite ment of any kind, for food taken when in this state will do you comparatively little good, nd is almost certain to pr duce in- urlous tulcw- Tho greatest composure of mind and body is important while eating- ami for a ehoit time aflcr until digestion is fuirly commenced. Chen fulness while tat nig and drinKieg is excellent, und u chut with a friend' after meuis will assist diges tion exlraordiuurily. The boiler io the Kirkham mill, at Doc- tortown, Gu , yesterday exploded, killing David Mitchell, and ecalding six others. The 3-yeur-old daughter of Joseph II. Da via, of Maiitou, II. I , was on Wednes- ay night bururd, probably lutally, by her clothes taking Ere. A freight train oa the Louisville Short Lioe was tbrowo from the truck yesterday near Eagle Tunnel, Ky., and Engineer Slcuford was fatally crushed beneath the engine. The Methodist i!ok Com tiitlcc, in ses sion at Cincinnati, yesterday decided tj baodon the book concern at A'laula oa account of the losjes incurred ia its main- tenatice. j Sociables. 8outhern Baptist. As soclublcs are becoming quite fashion able in various parts of our country, and I have seen nothing refering to them in your columns I believe I will write a few thoughts. I hope that no ouo will conclude from whut I shall eny that I am selfish or unso cial. Man is a social creature ; and I pity the person who is destitute of sociul pro clivites. The object of this article is to discuss the propriety of Christians attend ing and engaging in the so-called sociables of the day. Can thf y, by so doing, honor their profession, and demonstrate to thu world the truth and realty of the Religion which they profess ? Can they conscien tiously implore the Divine blessing upon such amusements as are common at sucjr pluces? These are important questions.; We ure commanded to avoid ull appear-j ance of evil ; to let our light shine that others may see oar good works, and glorify our Father who is in heaven. In my opin ion, Christians should not encourage or participate In any such vain worldly amuse ments, and whenever they do, iimtead of letting their light shine, they conform to the world and lend their influence to the cause of the evil one. Let us inquire something about the ob ject of these sociubles. Are they gottei up for the purpose of mutual benefit and improvement, in cultivating the conversa tional power, by engaging in refined end intelligent conversation? If this were the object, I would commend sociubles ns wor thy the patronage of all. But alas! a large number of thote who make np such ccm panics ure entirely incompetent to engage in intelligent, much less refined conversa lion. The subject of "sweethearts," "ju siier' or "jew-fnucies," according to the different modes of expression, is about the only sul j ct in which all can engage fluent ly. Of course, this soon becomes tiresome und something else must be resorted to, In order to pass off the time. Then come the plays, uch as, ''Stealing Partners, 'Suapp," "Finishing for "Live" "Charlie,' and other of their class too numerous to mention j and not unfrequeully result in real Fandangoer, and occasionally in drunken rows. It is that good people sometimes attend such pluces, but I think they are out of their proper sphere ; to say the least they are giving encourugemcot to idle aud vain amusements. Now, we ask, again, can Christians con scientiously engage iu ungraceful, and un refined amusements? Amusements, which are unworthy of refined- gentlemen and la dies, much less Christians. Amusements that ore better suiti d to tho back-woods, where the? light of civilization has never dawned, than to unenlightened aud Chris tian community. It would bo better, far better, in our opinion, to engage iu the regular IJance, than to attempt such miserable aud apish imitations. In conclusion, I will say, if it is wrong for Christians to attend and engage in dancing, for the same reason it is equally wrong, if not more so, to attend and en gage in the omusements common at sociu bles. I make this assertion boldly and feel prepared to prove the same. Who will assume the negative. W. T. Gay Kki.u's Store, Miss., Jan. 27, 'fc2. PUSH If there was more push in the world there would be fewer hungry, and half-clothed, homeless, suffering children, fewer broken own, disappointed men and women ; less need of alms houses, houses of correction and homes for the friendless. Push means lift for a neighbor in trouble. Push means a lilt for yourseil out oi tne siougn of despond and shiftlesness, out of troubles, real or fancied. Push never hurts nny body. The burder the pu.-h the better, if it is gieu iu the right direction. Always push up hill, few people need a push to get down hill. Don't be afraid of your muscles and sinew ; they were given you to use. Don't be afruid of your hands; they wero meant for service. Don't be afraid of whut your companions may say. Don't be afraid of your conscience ; it will never reproach you for a good deed done, but puh wiih all your heart, might and soul, whenever you see anything or anybody that will bo better for a good long, strong determine I push. Push ! It is just the word for tho grand, cleur moruing of life ! it is just tho word for the strong arms auJ you'ig hearts ! it is just ibe word for a world that is lull of work as this is. If anybody U In any trouble, and yon see it, dou't stand back ; puk 1 If there is anything good eing done in any place where you bnppxii to U), push ! One man was killed and Seven wound d by ao explosion iu Lcinp's Brewery, at St. Louis yesterday. Tho Work of Child-Shaping at Home. Some one has suid, that a mother Is quite right when she declares enthusiastically of her little one, "There never was such a child ds this, in the world, before 1" for in fact there never wan such a eh! Id before. Each child starts in life us if he were the only child in the world, and the Brat one ; and be is less like other people then, than ever be will be aguio. lie is conformed to no regulation pat Urn at tho outset. lie has, to begin with, no stock of ideas which have been pushed on and approved by oth- ers. lie neither other people think knows nor cares what . He is a law unto himself in ull matters of thought and taste an ing. He is, so fur, himself ; and, juif So far, he is different from everybody teff to himself if thut weie possible a wouK) continue to be himself; but hS isbot left to himself: he is under truin ing and iu training continually. Child trainibg is child-shaping. Child-shaping at home is the work of parents und ser vants and playmates ; and somotimcs mere Cnsaul visitors have u very important pJrt iii it. What a child comes to be and to do in the world, depends n great deal more on hia shaping by the influences und instructions from above and around him at his borne thun on his originul character istics find possibilities. The child's ebap ing at home, it i, which decides whether the child shall be just like the average child or a great deal better, or a great deal worse. To the child himself, his shaping u everything ; and it is but little less than this to those who are interested in Lira and who, at his home, is not? . A child has everything to learn, and he must learn it from others. He must lesrn from somebody bow to enl, and how to walk, and bow to talk. He must get his ideas of what is and of whut ought to be, by what he sees in, or what he bears from, those about bim. The first six months of a child's life shapes him more than any subsequent six months; and his treat ment iu that period has a Vast deul to do with 'lie case of all his future shaping in both spirit and conduct. Ia the first two years of his life, a child learns more than in all the rest of his life put together ; more that is indispensable to bim in life more tbat goes to decide his place among others. By the time he is seven, it is pret ty well settled how much of a child's orig inal self is to be preserved in his personali ty, and bow far be is to be conlormed in likeness to the people about him. Com monly a child's character aud future are mainly shaped, or directed, for all time, before he has passed seven year3 of age. Yet the shaping process goes on in a lesser or larger degree so long as ona is a child ; und there is a sense in which we all are children always. Because each child is himself to begin with, the sources and methods of his shaping will be very different in different cases. One child is more imitative than another. It is a mistake to suppose tbat every child wants to do just what be sees others do. There are children who have so much of personality and 30 much of ndividuality, tbat they ore rather inclined to do the opposite of that which those about them do. A touch of wilfulness, and another of obstinacy, prompt some children, very early, to refuse to follow promptly anybody else's example or counsel. Auin there are those who bavo less of reverence, less of affection, and less of clinging trust than others. They, in consequence areuot always disposed to follow tho example of their parents above all others. Tiry are quite as likely to bo impressed favorably with the more striking, but less wise, ways of servants or visitors or phiynutcs. And a natural bent or bias In one dircctiou or nother inclines every child to move in that direction rather than in its opposite ; hence he needs special guarding just there. Child shaping giiis on ui ccasingly in every home where there are children; but it does not go on iu the saint w:iy, nor from the same sources, nor yet by the suino methods far less iu the same direction in every home. It is not always, nor commonly, the irect iff rt at child-shaping that do most n the child-shaping line in any home. A child's mod of pronouncing word.-, und liiifemrul style of lunuu&e, ure a better indication of his parents' ordinary habits of (qxech before Liin, than of their specific dirt ct ions' in case where he lias askid and nceiveJ their instruction. The spirit which I U patents di-pluy toward one another or toward their Servant, or toard those wi'.h whom they ure leattt oil their guard, is far more impressive pattern to the child thuu tho model spii it described by the patent on a Sunday ufUrooou or a bed time religious talk with the chikL What ibe chi d is permitted to do, at the table or way from it, whta the fumi'y U all by itself, is more likely to stand out in the child's conduct when visitors are there, than the company manners which were enjoined on the child most faithfully and repeatedly while be was being washed and dressed for the occasion. Habits of thought, standards of conduct, rales of taste, purposes of life, are given or promoted ia the work of child shaping at heme, by example rather than by precept ; unconsciously more often than by design. And this it is which increases the difficulties of right child-shaping, without lessening its responsibilities or its duty. There is no use in our trying to evade the imperative duty of rightly shaping the minds and characters of Iheoliildrenluxiur homes, except by facing the alternative of having thtra wrongly shaped by us and by others through our neglect of this duty. Here are the children, shapeless and ehup able to begin with, needing to be shaped, and sure to be shaped. Their right shap ing is our duty; their wrong shaping is an imminent danger. For their shaping be it right or wrong we are responsible ; and we shall have to tuko the consequences. Wbethiii we mean to do it or not, we are shaping our children, day by day, by what we say, and by what we do, and more than all by what we are. Our words to them and before them, and our spirit and con duct in their presence, are potent factors in their shaping--for time aud eternity. Does it not then behoove us to consider well the needs and possibilities of our chil dren individually ; to well consider, also, opportunities and methods of their wise shaping ; anJ to bear ever iu mind the du ty, the responsibility, aud the difficultif s of such shaping ? E;.rly Marriages. These Eparkers are looked upon by pa rents generally as a nuisance, and often they are right. Nine-teuths of the spark ing is done by boys who haven't got their growth, and they look so green that it is laughable for old folks to look at them. They haven't generally got a second Bhirt, and tbey are no more quulined to get married than a steer is to preach. And yet marrying is about the first thing they think of. A green boy without a dolluV present or prospective, sparking a girl regularly and talking about marrying, is spectacle for Gods and men. He should be reasoned witb, and if he will not qo it until be is able to support a wife, and to know wbo be loves, and the difference between love and passion, be should be quarantined or put in a convent erected on purpose for such cases. Nine-tenths of the unhappy marriages aie the result of green human calves being allowed to run at Iarg in the society pasture without any yokes on them. They marry aud huve children before they do moustaches ; they ore fathers of twins before they are proprietors of two pairs of pants, und the little girls they marrv are old women before they are twenty years old. Occasionally one ot these gosling marriages turns out nil right, but it is a clear case of luck, . If there was a luw against young galoots sp irking and marrying before they have ull their teeth cut, we suppose the little cusses would evade it ia some way, but there ou'ht to be a sentiment against it. It is tiuieeuuugh for these little bantams to think of finding a pullet wbeu they have raised money enough by their own work to buy a bund'e of laths to build n hen heuae. But they see a girl who looks cunniug, und they are ufruid there is uot going to he gills euough to co nrouud. and then they beain to get iu their work real spry ; und before they are aware of the sanctity ef the marriage relation, they are hitched lor life, and be fore they own a cook stove or a bedstead tbey have to get up iu the niht and go after the doctor, so frightened that they run themselves out of breath, and abuse the doctor becau-e he does not run too aud when the doctor eets there bo finds that there is not linen enough in the hcuse to wrap up a doll baby. It isut about this lime that a young man begins to realize thut he has b cn a colossal fool, and as he flits around to heat water, and bring iu the bath tub, mid goes whooping after his mother or her mother, he turns pule around the gills, his hair turns red thut single night und he culls hii;h lieu veil to witness thut if he lives till morning, which he has doubts about, be will turn ever a new Itaf and never get m irried uguin till lie is oldtr. And in the morning the green lin king "father" is un uml before a drug store is open, with a collar on, hia huir siiekirg every way, his ry s blood shut ami bis frame uervu, waiting fur the clerk lo open the door s he ca i get some &.0rnn to make t a of. L ss thun a .tear ugu he thought he was I Ik greatest nun that there was anywhere, but as he siis there n the house that morning, with Lis wtdJing coat rusty and shiny, and his pants fraytd at the bottom and patched at the elbow, and the turse putt iu bis trots a little roll cf flannel, with a baby bid in it, he bolda k as he would a banana, and as he looks at bis girl wife on the bed, neorly dead from pain and exhaustion, and bethinks that there is not provisions enough ia the bout to feed a canary, a lamp cornea into bit throat and be says to himself that if be ba4 it to do over again he would leave thai little girl at borne to grow op witb her mother, and he would wait till be bad sue dollars to buy baby fknnel, and tea dollars to pay a doctor. The New Scientific American Offices. We are glad to announce that the Scien Ufic American ,tKC& oqt of the late fire ia New York, like the fabled Pboeoix witV renewed life. The subscription lists, account books, patent records, patent drawings, and correspondence were preserved io massive fire-proof safes. The printing of the Scien tific American and Supplement was done in another building ; consequently the types, plates, presses, paper, etc., were unharmed, and no interruption of business waa occasioned. " The new Scientific American offices are located at 261 Broadway, corner of Warren Street, a very ceutral and excellent sit nation. The new building fronts towards the City Hull, the Court House, and the New Post office, a magnificent structure, which coat eight millions to build. Nearly opposite, and a few hundred feel distant from the Scientific American offices, is the entrance to the great Suspension Bridge over the East Eiver, between New York and Brooklyn, which required tea yean lo construct and twenty millions of dollars to pay for. In front, also, of the Sdentifit i'merican is ti e City Hall Park and Printing House Square, which its statue of Bet jtmiu Franklin, and the bomes of eminent editors and newspapers, such as the New York Tribune, New York Timet, New York Sun, New Yerk World, New York Herald, Mail and Express, Zuilung, and others. The new Scientific American offices are admirably chosen for active business. Here in uddition to the issuing of their interesting publications, Messrs. Mono & Co., aided by trained examiners and drangbtsmeo. prepare specifications and drawings fcr American and Foreign patent. If any of our readers should happen to make a new discovery (we hope every one of tbem may do so, and gain a fortune), tbey have only to drop a line to Munn & Co., 261 Broad way, New York, wbo will reply at oace. without charge, stating whether the inven tion is probably novel and patentable. A handbook of instructions, with full partic ulars, will ulso be sent, free. Messrs. Mono & Co. Lave had over thirty-five years' experience in the business. New Orleans has a debt of $20,000,000. The Alabama river is again oo a boom, Jupan plums are ripening ia Tallabas see. Two thousand persons have been vuccl- nattd at Selma. Neuro.s are migrating to Arkansas' from West Turn' sste. Corn is worth $5 a barrel in the crib iu Powell county, Ky. The whipping post bill has been defeated iu the Kentucky legislature. Of CI convicts in the Arkansas state prison, more luau luuare murderers. One n un, ncrntly, while cn a camp bant ia Polk county, Florida, killid eleven deer. The appiouehiug Mardi Grass in Mobile bids fair to excel all former exhibitions ia thut city. Itcv. J. W. Thomas, of Putnam county. Flu., shipped this seuson 107,M) oranges in 534 boxes. The bullion assays at the Charlotte, N. C., mint, during the month of January amounttd to ?7, 763,57. Orange, lemon and lime trees are in blossom, roses abundant, vegetables plenty in Draytou Island, Florida. A national bank of $1,001,000 capital will be started soon at Columbus, Miss. This will be the first and only oue io tba state. Mr. Uules, of Abbeville county. South Carolina, left home to go buutiag oo Ibe 24lh of Juuuary, and bus not since been Iu ard of. Two cases of small-pox have appeared mocg the laborers on Ibe Georgia Paeifio . roud, iu Dunn's camp, iu Calhoun cvoty. a Alabama. A fire in Raleigh. N. C, last veik urued a bouse without iutriroplion froas the fire companies, the engines sticking fust iu the mud at the doors ol ibe engine house. Last year 6 352 firms were doing ba. iness in Mississippi. There wire 153 Gut - res witb liabilities smoonling to $1,942. 0, wbicb is much greater than any year since 1870,