the carolina watchman vol xi third series salisbury n c january 22 1880 no 14 poetby - — for the watchman true worth g or tiie rose's name i never make a fav'rite flower • iiiii odors breathe their fame tutors bear their pow'r ; s praise e'en from the blind tbeir beauty homage from all eyes i.ftagrant lioney-jiearta enshrined the sceptre ofthe flow'r-qucens lies - , e v'ni::l''s star no lover turns to worship venus in his drcams iffection's sweetness round ii bums ' jh f dear and absent haunt its beams ■ ber softest pace i life \\ liich his entwines — .-,-.. \ enuis r il ed to inai k il • place , star his mary shines full oianya planatary sun * k d ostein in wide space revotve y et ifter all tliers is but one ; vl i tlm we oft may solve tred size and weight ""-,, |,: merl lines of heat and light th its ward that makes it great es its gift unit makes it bright boundless heav'n the beauteous sea the crescent moon and little boat b but oh bow cheerily the songs that float the ivai ing watera 1 sweep art and moonbeam's smile and mirrori il deep are merged in music's self the while ... 1 stars and suns anil seas ••,, s s ili ine gurrouti i ! pow'r to please so !. iii phcre i good if our loving der is were this bul rightly understood \\" ii . : ricks and trumpets needs nov e p n the i.illirs of the field rl m wide scattered o'er the pleasanl land in garments while and radiant stand . sentim is fresh from his hand the lillies ofthe held they never weep nor toil nor spin nr ever grieve nor ever sin a ithout anrl pure v ii hin sweet iraise ami incense yield . light's sultry beam or lew beside the murmuriug stream they meekly br»w heir heads nur ser i to know nf discontent ■■■ by i hem preferred nn voice of sad repining heard . silent preachers of i he word to ivi nn mortals sent n'i tr&uures rare nor priceless gem lie with jeweler hem . idem n'nr wealth of india seas an with these humble flowers compare -- garments soft and fair '• ■ kings in all their glory are arrayed like one of these - •■ e-et . simple lillies of the field ; i how much of ' od revealed ! ids a bulwark ami a shii id in lessons you impart u h my v iii to be resigned i in proud and wayward mind tlie highest truest peace to find so sanctify my heart the southern soldier hoy i.i i ' \ ; in i i:v iyouug itugest who donned the gray true s ij tmes who wore it - brave as the bravest . he inarched a way hot tears on the cheeks of his mother lay rriiunphant waved onr flag one day he le i in i'nint before it firm as ihe firmest where duty led he hurried n ithout n falter : hold as is the boldest he fought and bled and ilie day was won the field was red and the blood of his fresh young heart was shed on his country's hallowed altar u lhe trampled breast of the battle plain here the foremost ranks had wrest led "» liis pale pure face not a mark of tain motliei dreams they will meet again luefairesl form amid all the slain ike a child he nestled 0 the solemn shades of thr woods that swept fhe field where his comrades found him llj v buried him there and the hot tears i . , ' , '' ! ' : w#trong men's eyes that had seldom i ... qit a m mother oil pity her smiled audi teaming her arms were around him * pave in tlie woods with the grass o'er grown b a grave in the heart ofhis mother , j i flay in the one lies lifeless and lone ;*"' lv is not a name there is not a stone - u-'iily tlie voice of the wind inaketh moan erthe grave when never a flower is strewn hit his memory lire in the other jl '<' united states has become the chief gricqltural region of th world and the va ue ofour agricultural productions has w reaehed the enormous annual nggre s»**of 2.7,l iii iii 10,(1(1(1 at the breaking out of tho revolution e colonists possessed but nine colleges j'-ftog then yak anrl harvard now l are three hundred similar liistittt ona in this country - w i'lin-to j 15 hunter in theox '' torchlight john it kuight has the at tree thia side of the loaemite ( '. v - sixteen yards in circumfer tij stacia or an old man's darling she stood iu the garden among her flowers with the sunshine about her and john ashley watching her from the doorway with a curious thought ful expression on his face could think of nothing but a bird or butterfly as she flitted about from rose to lilac with her yellow curls flying about her face in a cloud and her eyes full of sparkles like water in shadowy places his years were more than double hers he was a man whom study had made sober and thoughtful in early manhood he had a brave strong face with a strange gentleness in it now as he stood and watched the girl in thc garden she was the only child of an old friend of his who had left her to him when he died ; he had accepted the trust willingly he had tried to be faithful to it , and he had succeeded she is growing into beautiful womanhood he said to himself some one will be robbing me of her one of these days i suppose he sighed a little as he spoke and the thoughtful look upon his face grew deeper unless — ' and then he stopped suddenly and shook his head as if to assure himself that " what had been in his mind that moment was not to be thought of seriously the girl in thc garden began to sing her voice was clear as any brids and the still morning air rung with its melody john ashley left off tliink ing to listen a bird perch ed on one ofthe little lilac bushes by the gate began a song in pnreiivalry it seemed as if he won hi split his slender throat in the attempt to out warble tlie singer in the garden she listened a moment and began again ; she ran up and down the lines of melody in lights and dips of sound that made hira think ofa bird flitting in raid-air bravo he cried clappi _, his hands as her voice died into silence and tho bird flew up and away in the blue overhead you have put your rival to flight why john !' — she always called him thai — i didn't know any one was listening you would make a fortune with your voice he said but i wouldn't like to have you try it why she asked because i don't want to lose you he answered you'll never be fortunate enough to do that she laughed i'm going to stay with you always john you'll change your mind some time he said gravely looking away toward the mountains in that way he had when thinking deeply waittill roy comes i wish roy were here she said coming up the steps and stopping close by liitn you have told me so much about him that i want to see hira ho will be here to-day or to-mor row ho answered thinking that with roy's coming there would be an end ni the old quiet life in which he had stacia all to himself someway it had seemed to him all along as if roy would marry stacia they were suited to each other he knew of no one he would sooner give her to but — and always at the thought of giving her up to any one ihere was a curious little pain al his heart lie wanted her for himself that night roy came i like him very much she told john ashley next morning we ! shall be the best of friends or lovers he added with a grave slow smile oh no only friends she said dropping her eyes before his earnest gaze while a soft color like that in a rose's heart came into her face i'm goin to have no lover but you john 5 wait and see he answered you don't know your heart yet 1 jut stacia only shook her head i she anil roy were the best of friends as she had said they would be she had novel known a brother's love or companionship and roy's pleasant ways won a place in her regard from the first there were ioug rows un the river in the pleasant days when i all the world was full of summer ; sweetness and walks in the twilight j and john ashley sitting apart with . only his thougts to keep hira com | pany saw the two together and told himself that what he had foretold had come true roy loved her and he was going to lose the woman he lov ed i must be a fool to think of such a thing as linking her life and mine i together he said bitterly one day as he stood at tlie window watching them rowing slowly up and down the river i am almost an old man may and december were not meant to mate together and yet you wo men have loved men as much older than they were as i am older than ! stacia if she could love me how 1 complete life would soem ! without her i shall always be a lonely man one day roy and stacia were in the garden together they were tying up carnations i don't know of anything in the world sweeter than carnations except your cheeks said roy all at once that's a very pretty compliment said stacia i suppose i ought to give you something in return mere is a carnation that's fair — you give com pliments and i'll pay in carnations i'd rather you'd pay in kisses said roy do you know i am jeal ous over that kiss you gave uncle i john this morning you never kiss me in jiat way because i keep my kisses fur ti.e one who loves me best she answered softly i love you roy said suddenly you must ltave seen that stacia ! j have loved yon since the first time 1 saw you i never thought you cared for nic — not in that way at hast said sta cia pulling away the hand roy had taken possession of i hope i haven't j done or said anything to make you : think that — ' anrl then she stopped at ! a loss how to explain her moaning yon hav'nt tried to make me love you or exerted any wiles to catch me j if that is what yon mean lie answer ed but 1 thought you did care for me stacia ?' so i do as a very dear brother she answered i love you very much roy but not in the way you meant just now roy's face was full of keen disap pointment he had hoped to woo and win this eirl rut it could not be o i am sorry very sorry for vou roy she said tenderly touched by the sight ofhis disappointment let me be your sister stacia and forget that vou ever thought of me as any thing else you shall be brother roy from this time forth is that agreed on roy yes since you will have it so he answered he understood that it would be useless for liitn to urge his suit sta cia always meant what she said let me seal the compact with a kiss then she sairl and kissed him looking up after thc caress she saw john ashley's face at his window lie had seen her kiss roy and his heart was full of keenest pain at the sight he thought it was such a ki.is as a woman gives to thc man she loves and sighed to think his life must be barren of such kisses that night he was in the parlor alone thinking of her when she came in i have been hunting for you she said i am lonesome ; i want some one to talk to she drew a little stool up to his feet aud sat down leaning ber head upon his knee lonesome are you ?' he said strok ing her yellow hair gently where is roy he ought to keep you from get ting lonesome i don't want to talk to roy she answered i want you john you don't act as you used to before roy came i don't have you all to myself for a quiet talk as i used to you don't miss my compahy,doyou ?' he said threading his fingers through her tresses in an absent way lie was thinking how much he should miss her when roy took her away you know i miss you she ans weren - i nue to tunc to you better than to any one else better than to roy he ques tioned ! yes better than to roy she ans wered i suppose it is all settled between you and roy he said by-and-by breaking thc silence that had fallen about them his voice had a sharp touch of pain iu it it hurt him to talk about losing her yes it is all settled she answered has he told you ?' no but i saw you kiss him in the garden this afternoon and i have known how it wmtld be from the | first i hope you will be happy very j happy stacia it will be hard for me togive you up i shall miss you more than you can think but i am not selfish enough to try to keep vou ' when love calls you elsewhere i don't understand you she said looking up at him in a puzzled way i kissed roy in the garden but it dosen't following from that that you've gnt to give me up or that love calls me away from you it dosen't i am going to stay with you always and bo your stacia don't you love roy he asked lifting her face up that he might look into her eyes yes i love roy ?' and we're going ' to be the best of friends he is broth 1 er roy to me and i am sister stacia to him anil nothing more tiiere was a strange eagerness in his voice nothing more she answered soft ; ly stacia i wonder — ' he began and ! stopped suddenly wonder what ?' she asked no matter lie answered getting up and going to the window where he stoorl looking out into the night with a shadow on liis face ; but i want to know she said foi | lowing him and laying her hand upon his arm tell me john would yon force ine to tell you > that i love vou ?' he cried passion ' ately that 1 have been fool enough to dream that i could make you hap py ? go away stacia and let me think of my folly and try to conquer it is it folly to love me she asked softly lifting her shy eyes to his oh john j could be happier with you than any otic else in thc world !' do vou mean that vou could care for the old man as the old man cares for you stacia ? have you thought of the years between us i only know 1 love you she said and put her hands in his if you want tne john why take me !' rut — with thc old haunting thought throwing its shadow in his face — i am so much older ami sober er than you do not take me out of pity stacia it is love i want you will be in woman-hood's prime when i am a white-haired old man then 1 will be an old man's dar ling she said softly and john ashley bent over anil kissed her with a great joy in his face she was his — all his ! bmt-imrstsmai-msbra-'n rufinii — i *— ****— — miscellaneous kindliness a beautifier a beautiful person is the natural form of a beautiful soul the mind builds its own house the soul lakes precedence of the body and shapes the body to its own likeness a va cant mind takes all the meaning out of the fairest face there is no sculp tor like the mind there is nothing that so refines polishes and ennobles lace and mien as the constant presence of en-eat thoughts the man who td d lives iu the region of ideas moon beams though they be becomes ideal ized there are no arts no gymnas tics which can contribute a tithe so much of the dignity the strength the ennobling ofa man's looks as a great purpose a high determination a no ble principle an unquenchable enthu siasm but more powerful still than any of these as a beautifier of the per son is the overmastering purpose and pervading disposition of kiuducss in tiie heart attection is the organizing force iu the human constitution wo man is fairer than man because she i has more affection than man love nness is the outside of love kind ness sweetness good will a prevail ing desire and determination to make others happy make the body a fair temple ofthe holy ghost tlie soul that is full of pure and generous affec tions fashions the features into its own angelic likeness as the rose which grows in grace and blossoms into loveliness which art cannot equal there is nothing on earth which so quickly transfigures a personality re fines exalts irradiates with heaven's own impress of loveliness as a perva ding prevailing kindness of heart presbyterian journal aglow 400 hours the time during which mr edison's lights have burned without losing lustre workmen were employed in menlo park yesterday in further increasing the number of lamp posts that line the neat board walk leading from mr edison's laboratory to thc depot tiiese new lamp posts will be connected with the wire by which those already standing are sup plied with the electric current mr edison says that before long lie will have 800 lamps going night and day all fed from one dynamo machine attached to an eighty-horse power engine thc lights new burning necessitate the use of only two generators but the dynamo machine standing in the engine room it is said wiil supply fourteen generators some of the lights have now been burning about 400 hours supposing that artificial illumination is repuired six hours per rlay on an average it has thus been demonstrated that these lights would have remained unimpaired for two months nice tests have shown them to be yet as bright as when first set up on several occasions iu the last two weeks how ever thc engine has been stopped for a short time — once when the supply pump for the boilers gave out aud at other times for experimental purposes at such times of course the lights cease to glow — new vork sun kith old folks on the farm the tenacity with which the veteran farmers stick to their farms not only but to the actual work on them is one of the niosr interesting subjects for the student of social characteristics a retired farmer living on a small income in a country villiage with nothing to do but to higgle over his purchases and growl at the taxes is a proper object of pity happy tlie man whose younger kins nifi will carry on tlie old farm and let him work or not as he pleases — giving him an easy chair by thc warmest corner ofthe lite place in winter and a shady nook on tlie verandah wherein to nod ov er his newspaper anil play with his grand children in summer thrice happy the j good farm wife whose daughter or dangh tersdanghter reserves lhe best groundfloor room for her antl carries ou the work herself all the while pleasing mother with the belief that she is still doing it as she did for half-a-hundred years how sweet and placid the dear old face as she goes with feeble steps to kitchen and aud dairy lookin artcr things she knows how many chickens there are and when the speckled hen ought to come off she passes judgment on the new cow and gives that finishing touch to the but ter which won the first premium at the county fair so many years ago — before help 7 was known in the farm house she goes to nice in with a regularity that shames her children and passes gently down the farther slope of the hill of life serenely happy amid accustomed scenes and familiar faces what ham pered village existence would be so good for her as that ? it is poor work trans planting old tress there is we think a danger that the old men on the farm will work too much the gritty american ; fanner gives up hard ; and in the hurry of work or from thoughtlessness of younger men the old frames are often overtaxed enforced idleness is often thc beginning ofthe end avith men whose whole lives have been spent in activities hut taking it easy won't hurt them make laying olf and lighter cans around the house so natural anil easy for them that they will never know it wus planned the younger gen erations should take good care of the elder for from the present outlook it is doubtful if grandparents are so plenty fifty years hence — golden rule many ofour readers will remember rev samuel s bryant one of the most eloquent superbly endowed methodist preachers of thc south his sermons were fine nnd his literary lectures and addresses of marked excellence this gifted man has just died in kansas his death occured on decem ber 28th wc do not know his nativity we do not think he was born in this state although he was f>r a long time connected with the north carolina conference ml e church south — wilmington star never tru-t a man for actual nec essaries who refuses to promptly pay cuoh for h'n luxuries ' news items iaj wilson's engineering work j what col camekox saw up west from the durham recorder * * * passing up the narrow valley of . mill creek the route soon displayed its labyrinthine character much as has been said about the wonders of this ascent noth ing but actual observation can realize it the work is a wonder the yery romance of engineering bold original beautiful yet eminently practical in conception in fact the only mode apparently by which the ele vation to be reached could have been over come the first marvelous feature occurs at tlic round knob which the road encircles from the left approaching it high up in the air 120 feet above the track is seen a long tres tle crossed apparently by a parallel road curving sharply to the left the road crosses mill creek on a single archway of granite 43 feet above the water with a span of 40 feet the work of convict labor and very beautiful work it is then hugging the base of the mountains following all its recesses and indentations passing through deep and formidable rock cuts it sweeps back in ir regular curvatures crosses mill creek again encircles round knob and mounts that liiyli trestle which a few minutes before was high in the air above us then bearing to the right it sweeps in a majestic symmetri cal curve round a conical peak with broad but irregular base and conies back again to find itself in close proximity to the round knoli track but far above it then again bearing to the right and winding along the bases of the hills and plunging deep into the recesses of the coves it turns again to the left crosses a fill of extraordinary height cuts through the point of a steep slope to formidable depth curves sharply to the left again aud then crosses by a trestle partly filled in a valley which is 130 feet below the track and about 200 yards across emerging from this the train halts im mediately at the famous mud-cut the difficulties of this spot have not been alto gether exaggerated only it is grave error to regard them as insurmountable the cut was made through a soil which ages before had slipped from the steep mountain face high above and the continuity of loose tex ture having been broken gravitation caused a sidelong settling and the exevasse which has occasioned so much delay about 7 acres thus made their way to tlie track and offered an apparently endless battle but having seen the cut in the early stages of trouble wc cannot fail to see how much of t hc difficulty has lessened the face ofthe cut originally nearly perpendicular and fin feet high is now reduced almost to a level and the angle is so small thai there is little pressure and except occasional delays the cut itself has proved an indispensible mine of earth needed to fill up the adjacent high trestle which had to be brought from remote distance maj wilson will at once proceed to construct a track around the point of tlie mountain below tlie eut and with a turn-table escape all fun her delay both in the passage of trains and thc pros ecution of his work some fiooil sound sense now to kl in a party if a man like billy mahone who has just been elected to thc united states senate in virginia differs from you upon a single question of paying the state debt denonce him in unmeasured terms and brand him as a radical — in other words drive him out of the party — if you can ! if the negroes in any number vote for him hold it up as jiriiitti facie evidence that he i a radical dyed in the wool although you may have tried to get these same negroes to vote your way and failed to doit how to bdstais a i'aiitv if a man like billy mahone differs from you upon tlie local or general questions ot state policy simply express regret over tlie difference and labor to convince him he is mistaken in his views but do it in a mild and courteous niauner and at the same time accord him equally a much honesty of pur pose and party loyalty as you profc-s to have do not seek to belittle him nor de nounce him as dishonest corrupt c in st ad of laboring to drive him out ofthe party labor to keep him in it give him credit for being a good democrat in all the great national principles upon which the party is founded — alilton chronide the above allusions to virginia affa : rs may be very applicable next summer to pub lic matters in north carolina there's gc ing to be some difference among democrats about spending money by public appropria tions and paying salaries to an increased number of state office-holders — charlotte democrl according to thc opinion of tlie supreme court of maine as delivered to tin gover nor at his request certificates should not have been denied io the members of the legislature on account of technical irregu laries and defects in the elections and re turns there is no doubt of tbe actual elec tion ofthe members to whom tin governor and council declined to give certificati s anrl public opinion v iii not tolerate their exclusion when the effect is to reverse the political character of the legislature and enable the minority ifthey choose to make themselves perm mently a majority charlxs t nt '•- ■■'■■ *■ co 1 '■ ■• d l senator bayard's platform from ills letter to the newark jaeks.ni dinner each one of us whether in the senate or any other place of public trust whether ia public or private life must do a man's part to prove that political duty can be perform ed by american citizens in as high stead fust and faithful a spirit as though each were privy councillor to a monarch and sur rounded by all the pride and state of agor ernment arbitrary and limitless in its pow ers yet we never fail upon any occasion to denounce any act executive legislative or judicial which exercises power not dele gated by the constitution and laws this was the old faith and practice ofthe dem ocratic party under which for more than seventy years they administered the affair ofthe i'nion with honor prosperity and peace and they will do so again so soon as our countrymen recognize the fact that we stand once more in thc ancient pathways of the constitution let us prove that we do and that thc success ofour party at the polls means a return to constitutional bounds in every department of the government and thc subordination of every official high and low to the spirit and letter ofthe only su preme law of the land let us make our party the recognized agency for honest ad ministration and wise economies and thc cousequent advancement and honor of our entire people cutting them i'r it is said that the western medical colleges have so much dif ficult in getting subjects for dissection that they contemplate overcoming all diffi cultics by an abundant supply from the ne gro emigrants who are now going iuto in diana and kansas from xorth carolina and other southern states the negro cannot live long in that cold climate and thc doc tors know it hence the prospect of an abundance of dead bodies for the use ofthe medical colleges of indiana kansas anrl other western states let the deluded freedmen move along west ifthey want their skeletons hung up in medical colleges and doctor shops dis sectors know that it is hard to get the bod i ies of white men but are confident that thr black man will furnish an abundant supply poor fellows — charlotte democrat grant boox reaction — washington january inst the antl-graut fetlii g p rtic ularly in the north is being felt here in a marked degree within the past few days the grant men are becoming alarmed they disclaim any intention to force the nomina tion of grant if against the better judgment ofthe party a well known ohio republi can who has just arrived in the city who lately ran for congress in the fourteenth | district says that if grant is nominated the democrats will almost certainly carry ohio such testimony as this ami much of the same sort heard here lately is having a damaging effect on the third term boom ohio is regarded as essential to republican success and ohio republicans are in a situ ation to make themselves heard cincinna ti commercial the in-raw and salibnry railroad has been completed to within i.ve or six miles of wadesboro prof a w mangum of chapel hill writes tn tie raleigh christian advocate on the eve of his departure from new york for a tour through egypt and palestine rev dr deems placed in charge of president battle and myself the sum of three hundred ; dollars as a memorial fund to bear the '■ name ofhis lamented bon theodore deems j the appropriateness of the gift will be ap preciated when it is known that theodore who fell at gettysburg was born at chap<-1 hill while his father was a professor in the university tin maine ixbroglio — augusta mi january 11 — lewis barker onbebaifofl.it client ebenezer spronl of veazie has at tached the property of e f pillabury of the maine standard for libel based upon au article in that paper charging mr spronl with bribery personal service will be made on mr pillsbury to-morrow wilmington review six sisters of mercy left this city a few days ago for hickory where they go to establish a : female school they left here under the ; escort of rev mark s gross of st thom ! as's catholic church mrs grant is quoted aa having sairl that tho happiest period of her life and the general's was when they lived in galena in a small brick house and kept one servant sheriff manning of wilmington ds nated the ten dollars allowed hitu by law for hanging allen mathis to thr pastor of a colored eburch for the benefit ofhis charge the kentucky senate has decided w a large majority against a bill propos ing to admit women to the bar a letter addressed to george sworn i south carolina in haste ia held at the i office it will go slow until a stamp is atlixed to it the work of placing memphis in a good sanitary condition is being pus'ied to an early completion life is put together considerably li/re a set of harness there arc traces nf care lines of trouble bits of good fortune breaches of good manners lir.dled tmgne and everybody has ' to nig to pull through