jl iiu jdl ullllcx nd il/hilldl i nol ix third series salisbury n c february 7 1878 if \ 16 mi yiji.'n.in n ('.: jam ai 28th 1878 i liiui watchman surface-scratching is hb>e ii.i ne ami deep plow ing is the coustit p iit piii.ciph ot successful farming this p^iopomtion is so well established by wience reason and experience — so freely wkiluiittril by the mass of intelligent ngri f ultiii i-t s mid so seldom disputed by men i roltll of dell ite that we heed hot here ppither state in detail the facts deduced * from chemistry and from the fields them selves or stop to cavil with a few isolated jimbbyist beyond the reach of information fclid coiivincrmclit but w hv does not the 6 sub-soil plow follow the surface plow in j leaking up our lands as constantly and ' . jtustoniai ily a it is out interest to make two blades grow while there was but one in'forv and to make two farms to one of the surface cultivator one abo'c and the other below '.' it is mere negligence want of enterprise and lack of that complete uinic i landing of the constituent principle which gives the faith the abiding faith in good thorough preparation of the soul every whcie known b.v it works care of course must betaken to never nerer bring the sub-soil to the top if this is done there need be uo fears even in sandy soils of running too deep that the soft finely cut up and in ok en soil of light texture should be afterwards lulled or blushed down till it is firm enough to present a ready anchorage foi the roots of wheat and corn and this before any sow ing or planting is done i do most assured ly believe ami he harrowing or rolling of wheat al'tei it is up however much it may benefit the plant i mu half as good as to do this work ot compacting the bed before the seed is put in t he grou ml the hard freezing weather of december and january may uproot a great deal of if be fore you can harrow in february il the ground is well packed in october or no ve in be i and earlj owed iis roots maybe secure and the frosts cutting it off in good time it may stool onl and form a solid mat upon the lirm surface deep preparation is be 1 question the best but for corn and other tillable crops the deepest cultivation after the previous preparation is not always the best but the plow should go rain or no rain constantly stirring the soil and keep ing down all the grassy and weedy ene mies of the crop clow plowing with narrow keen and bright 1 lades is the thing no covering up of grass or having the sloven lj ridge between furrows the man that does it may get over a heap of ground but will eventually cheat himself . quality and uof quantity is the essential doctrine of the rigid kind of work and this brings to my mind the foolish custom of allot ing as large an acreage as possible to each hand sir if there is any one thing in particular before all others which has ruined so many thousands of farms and worn oul so many millions of acres of land here in the south that cus tom is tbe oye thing which has done it i thirty acres to the hand they say — - fifteen iu small grain and fifteen in coin tobacco or cottou six or nevcn acres in coin it as much a auy one man can do justice to and cultivate without always being in that time honored but ridicu lous lix of hurry hurry hurry rip rush ami scramble all through the hot season the man is generally i laugha ble lump of regrets and lamentations that be cannot get oil faster ami e.ni't get over bis com another time before it rains the poor horse is driven af top speed and if the beasl could speak he would reprove the master and utter a sincere prayer for winter and rest-time to come now i contend thai hurry is downright nonsense i inl that steady reasonable la bor is a positive pleasure what ! en danger your life and that of your beast ib order to skim over a greal half-sub dued half-manured half prepared wild briei v weedy grassy wilderness of land - to make a lew ears of corn and a big pile of nubbins !*' how surprising that many otherwise sensible meu will thus act in obedience lo a custom which has onl that pecies of logic in it which we may heartily wish the devil fly away with e p ii the reliable man of all the qualities that c bine to form a good character there is not one more i m por tanl than reliability most emphat ically is this true ot the character of a good business man the word itselt em braces both truth and honesty and the reliable man must necessarily he truthful and honest we see so much all around us that exhibits the absence of this crown ing quality that we an tempted iu our billions moods to deny its very existence uut there are nevertheless reliable meu : men to be depended upon to be trusted in w hoin you may repose confidence whose word is as good as their boud and whose promise is performance if any one of you know such a man make him your ! friend you can only do so however by j assimilating his character the reliable man isamauof good judg ment lie does not jump at conclusions lie is not a frivolous man lie is thought ful lb turns over a subject iu his mind and look at it all aioiuid lie is not a partial or one-sided man he sees through a thing he is apt to be a very reticent man lie does not have to talk a great ileal he is a moderate man not only in habits of body but also of mind he is not a passionate man it so by nature he lias overcome it by grace he is a sin cere man uot a plotter or schemer he does not promise rashly what he says may be relied on lie is it trustworthy ' man you feel safe with your property j or the administration of affairs in his i hands lie is a watchful vigilant man vou feel secure withiu his protection he is i brave mail lor his conclusions arc logically deduced from the sure basis of truth and he does not tear to maintain them lie is a good man tor no one can be thoroughly hones and truthful wiih out being good is such a quality attain able most assuredly so it is not born • , " : " made character may be formed of course then iu competent parts mav ik ' molded tot formation ror hand price 1 ' br«i nt santa crock and tiie inquisi tion in florence a a a a a a « * in the gallery ofthe marchese caponi's palace in florence many years ago i saw a picture that has haunted me ever since i do not intend to see it again it often comes to me in night watches when visions of distant years aud cities stand up before the eyes of the soul and say here look on me once more 1 it is the picture of a woman sitting on the floor with her hands clasped about her knees her head sinking upon her breast a small lamp dying out at her feet gives light enough to disclose the truth that the fair sufferer is in a dun geon walled up and left to perish who is she is it the horrible fancy of sonic artist to make a sensational picture is it fiction founded on some domestic tragedy no it is a veritable passage in the history of santa croce a chapter in the chronicles of this beautiful flor ence a page in the annals of the gentle and christ-like church of rome ! ! sliall i tell you the story ? thk story of faustina she was young and beautiful in a humble walk of life endowed with ge nius and by diligent study she had fitted herself to give instruction to the youth of her own sex in florence in the early part of the seventeenth century the morals of priests and people were alike corrupt and vii ture was quite as rare as solomon said it was among the women of his day more than four thousand nuns tilled the convents the convents were gov erned by the monasteries that were swarming with monks the civil power sought to separate the kindred institu tions so great was the scandal but the chin eh was the superior authority and monks and nuns had it their own way faustina was not a nun it was no unusual circumstance in those days for the daughters of the proudest families to separate themselves nominally from the world by taking upon them the vows of holy orders young men tied from the conflicts of business and wars and so ciety to the case the plenty and the pleasures of monastic life the garb of the devotee was merely a cloak for selfish indulgence and no class of persons had more comforts and luxuries and enter tainments than these religious who mere ly assu d the life of seclusion that they might be idle and well fed without labor or care such was not the spirit or the purpose of faustina mainardi her early reading had inspired her with a desire to lead the young of her own sex to the higher en joyments which she herself had found in books and the pursuit of art and at a very early age she gathered a school in wliich she taught with the devotion and success of ono who is under the influence of a higher motive than the pursuit of gain young women under her care in successive years became infused with her love ofthe beautiful and true they sought wisdom knowledge and skill for the good ihat was in them and the joy tbey give to expauding minds the priests bad their hands upon every thing in those evil times the holiest places of home were not too secret to es cape their intrusion then a now the confessional made tbe priest the ruler in every household the master of all the thoughts a.s well a.s the actions it is the easiest thing in the world for priest to become the tyrant of the family and to make the weak the superstitious and religious submissive to his will men are not as subject to the priests as women are in italy to-day the men do not frequent the confessional women are still its dupes and victims the serpent is creep ing iuto the church of england and silly women are led captive by the priest in absolution who extorts the secrets of the heart by the awful lie that sin cannot be forgiven unless confessed to him this has been the real inquistion of the church of rome in all thr dreadful ages through which her power has been perpetuated among the families of the earth among the learned and accomplished divines who filled the pulpits and minis tered at the altars ot florence in 1645 there was one who had won great repu tation as a preacher and a director of schools for the young this fascinating saintly and distinguished priest the canon i'andoll'o ricasoli had do difficulty in adding to his other very agreeable duties of the same nature the spiritual oversight of the school of which faustina was tho teacher it was the sad but too natural result of this association that she who lirst sought in the priest a guide and helper pouring her heart and soul in to his ear ashercoufessor should gradually come to make known to him those romantic feelings and passions which would never have ripened into evil bad they not been inspired and stimulated by a crafty de siguiug and unprincipled man under his despotic power her conscience wa perverted and she became bis tool aud ac complice in tin-corruption ofthe young and tender minds committed to her care as their spiritual director he received their confessions aud as tlic inuoceucc of their simple natures was opened into his eai . he poisoned them and so led them into sin and misery alas for the depravity of human nature shame it is that such a fact should be on record in the annals of | any church in any age ofthe world this proud and wicked priest the con j feasor of these young women was by the laws of his church and in spite of his own depravity such was the power of super stition overhini constrained to confess the j secrets of his soul to to a brother priest ! how the plot thickens and the policy and j craft of the church are displayed as we trace the system in its successive steps • the canon ricasoli revealed in confes ; sion to father marius the pleasures in which he was indulging in the school j which it was his duty to watch over with ; pious solicitude : he knew it was very j wicked for him to abuse his sacred otlice ! and the confidence reposed in hiin by the j parents of these precious youth but he i had led this bad life with the knowledge i that if he confessed his sins in secret he would have absolution : to return to his sins and be again forgiven in the weak : ness of his vanity it had never occurred i to the learned and popular ricasoli that | his standing in florence had excited the | envy and therefore the hatred of his brethren who would rejoice in his down ! fall the secrets of the confessional were regarded as sacred even in those times of general corruption but there was not a priest then a.s there i.s not a priest now j who would not use the confessional for the good qf the church though the ruin of individuals and families might also be i the result when father marius had the ! eloquent canon ricasoli in bis power he i was not slow in betraying him to his su periors at this period the inquisition was in j vigor father marius informed against j ricasoli and he was brought before the j dreadful coun faustina was arrested j also and with ricasoli was accused of i corrupting the minds of the young women ' of her school if the words of the blessed i master had been addressed t the judges ' not one of them could have said a word ! against this erring woman : let him that i is without sin cast the first stone but the occasion was too good for them to lose j the opportunity of showing zeal for mor j ality and in an age of general dissolute ! i ness among priests and people they re solved to make an example of the priest , i and his victim when we remember the j j power which a priest now has and then i j had over the conscience of a weak and ' j gentle and confiding woman who looks up ! j to him as her teacher her father in coil i : and the guide of her soul it is right to say that the sin was hugely his and that he | i should bear the punishment which human i tribunals would inflict but the inquisi [ i tion never knew the altitude of mercy ' i it lived only to destroy its proceedings were the most part con ; ducted in secresy the most profound ! into their gloomy chambers faustina was taken for examination and the rack would j ; have stretched her joints with torture hail ■ she denied the charge but what had the poor thing to do except to admit as she : did most freely that she bad been guilty of every thing of which she was accused ; she had obeyed the priest whom she hon : ored as one who had the spirit of god ! and she now bewailed her sin and surren i dered herself to the judges the refectory of santa croce is the largest hall in the convent it is in the same state now in which it was in no : vein ber 1641 when it was the scene of ; faustina's condemnation and sentence j at the end of the long room is a paint ing ot'the east supper by giotto admired a one of his best preserved and masterly works above it is another picture the crucifixion and at the sides arc frescoes of saint benedict and saint francis they have all been on these walls more than lour hundred years in the centre of the great ball s raised a platform or scaf fold hung with black drapery as for the exhibition of a corpse the inquisitors were seated in elevated chairs around it the cardinal the chiefs of the medici family priests nobles and dignitaries of j the city filled the room on the platform ', in the midst of this assembly the guilty priest ricasoli and the miserable faus tina were placed : they were dressed in robes painted all over with hideous devils and flames then they were made to kneel before the rand inquisitor while a monk in a deep sepulchral voice read aloud the crimes which they had com mitted and had confessed the sentence was pronounced and carried into im mediate exec lit ion underneath the chambers of the in quisition was a row of dungeons where wretched victims were confined to wait their trial and to which those were con signed whose fate was to escape the pen alty of death aud drag out a miserable existence ill these subterranean cells no light penetrated tlieni air enough was allowed to protract their sufferings those dungeons are now to be seen in many old castles and palaces and prisons iu europe it was not uncommon for a feudal lord to have some of his enemies in dungeons underneath the floor ou which he and his family were feasting 1 have been in many of these cold damp dismal cells and have wondered how frail women or even strong men could endure a month not to speak of years in such a horrid den with scant food the stone tioor the onlv l.ed into such a dungeon faustina was led it was but six feet long and four or five feet wide the door was narrow the walls were stone she was left with a lamp in her hand and crucifix on which she fastened her eyes in despair not hope her pleas for mercy her agonizing strug gle against ber awful doom were all in vain the pikes of the rnde officials would have subdued her had she offered the least resistance to the stern decree in silence and woe unspeakable she stood in the living tomb while with swift and cruel hands the opening by which she had entered was walled up with solid mason ry and she was left to suffocate or starve the men who bad doomed her to this horrid fate ministers of god high priests of him who died for sinners sat in their chairs of olliee till the work was done and then went to dinner the canon ricasoli was condemned to the same fate and the sentence was car ried into effect scarcely more than two centuries have passed away since these events occurred in this lovely city of florence not a century has yet sped its course since the inquisition was suppressed its infernal work was going on until the year 1782 god grant that it may never be re stored ! ire_s____s fatal effects of disforesting a country that the sanitary condition of a coun try is endangered by the removal of its forests is a well established fact which it needs no argument to prove and to this we but add the additional fact that de pleted forests will finally eventuate iu rendering the most fertile country upon the face of the globe unfit for the dwell ing place for mau this fact is well es tablished by reference to the present con dition of those portions of the earth which from the earliest ages have been the hab itation of man it is wiih extreme diffi culty that wc can realize that asia as de scribed by herodotus the father of histo ry is the same land we to-day behold it when we remember the great multitudes which once populated the vast extent of territories which are to-day arid deserts the thought conies home to the thinking mind with resistless force that man — reck less and destructive mau — not only war red upon himself but also upon nature with the consequence as we behold them of making a fertile country a howling wil derness this has evidently arisen from the long-continued destruction ofthe na tural forest and stands as a startling cor roboration of the fact that forests are essential to the well-being health and comfort of man but in a continuance of this thought — the present condition of palestine stands out in flat contradiction of the bible de scription ofa land flowing with milk and honey nine-tenths of the country into which the israelites were brought by josh ua is to-day uninhabitable and will pos sibly remain so to the end of time being nothing but a continuation of rocks mountains and sandy deserts where now are the vineyards and cultivated bills of palestine one after the once dense anil health-giving forests which fell under the axes lifted up upon the thick trees — i sal ms 74 : .">. and so we might point to various por tions of the old world in support of the fact that removal of trees will eventuate in the death of boih mail and beast in journeying through northern michi gan in the past two months we have been struck by the evidence of the slow but sure process of nature's death cousequut upon the removal of forest trees in con versation with old settlers we learn that tin average rain-fall is yearly becoming less where the forests have been removed the waters in the streams have fallen to insiguiticauco where twenty years ago a rushing torrent was continuous this may be considered trilling but it is indic ative of the sure result of depleting our health and life-giving forests without re storing the same by tlie planting of young trees the above which we take from the lum berman's gazette is petineut in a double sense to many ofthe southern states it is an established fact that a country dries up when disforested ; it is also true that if trees be planted on arid wastes rain will soon fall and vegetable life will renew its activity this has been proved iu egypt where a fertile tract has been formed out of the desert by artificial planlations of date trees the south the above shows the necessity offence laws to save timber every means possi ble should be adopted to stop the de struction of timber in this country it is said that governor hampton of south carolina has forwarded requisitions for the arrest of senator patterson to the governors of maryland delaware and ohio through which the senator will pass on his way to pennsylvania to visit old simon cameron the friends ofthe sen ator think tliis action shows a want of gratitude for his service lately rendered in seating senator butler this is mere nonsense senator butler may feel grate ful to honest lohn and would prob ably shield him to the extent of his pow er but we warrant gov hampton has no such feeling and will bring the thief to justice if there beany law in the laud ral xew internal revenue there is no complaint among manufac turer or planter that au internal revenue tax is levied upon certain articles nomi nally of luxury practically of daily aud universal use the needs of government the pleasure of the publie debt make such impositions necessary and there will always be cheerful dispositioa to meet them provided they are impartially lev ied and without oppressive weight upon special industries for certain purposes the revenue tax has beeu a good thing to the people in the tobacco trade for in stance by compelling the use of stamps aud caution notices upon which the place of manufacture was made obligatory it has created a total revolution inj sales of the raw material ; has originated to bacco sales warehouses has concentrated business upon certain centres has secur ed to the planter quick sales and immedi ate returns has built up manufactories called towns into existence quickened the pulse of all business all this is admitted to be fruits of the internal revenue tax but while it is such it is not because the tax is a large one but because its require ments are of that formal character whicli compel concentration a less tax would act in a precisely similar way ; and with the advantage that where there are ten factories run there will be twenty if the tax is reduced one half many who can not pay twenty-four ceut can pay twelve cents and the multiplication of small factories gives better evidence of the life of the people than the erection of such colossal establishments as the lorillards boastful of the payment of a tax often million dollars and insolent in its demand for the extinction of its petty rivals this government was made for the many not for the few let congress heed this car dinal principle — hillsborough recorder neal dow's new plan neal dow has introduced a felony bill into the maine legislature which he fondly hopes will be more effectual than any of its predeces sors have been iu preventing the sale of ; liquor the sale of liquor is to be pun ished by a fine of 200 and six months imprisonment at hard labor second of fence a year no liquor is to be brought into the state even for private persons people are to be held responsible for li quors found on their premises and the burden of proof as to ownership rest on tbem apparatus for selling liquor is to be deemed evidence of guilt if a team is found drawing liquor the horses and ve hicle are to be confiscated common drunkards are to be sent to jail for a year but released on conviction of the seller drummers for liquor houses are to be fin ed 1,000 and imprisoned for a year officers obtaining convictions are to be paid premiums and so on and so on general neal dow's legislation has in twelve years increased the county taxa tion at bangor from 12,000 to 60,000 while the number of arrests for drunken ness in the city has increased from 222 at the passage of the maine liquor law to 770 in 1370 there were 332 arrests for druukeness at bangor ; in 1872 417 in 1874 643 ; in 1.75 704 and in 1s76 770 new york world how silver was demonetized mr thurman said in his speech last thursday : i say then it was not by the coinage act of 1873 that the dollar of 412 grains was demonetized it was done by the passage of the revised statutes iu 1874 > as i have said at that time the silver dollar of 412 grains was full legal tender for all debts public and private but what was found in this book he vised statutes after it bad passed without read ing — after it had passed as i saw without ' evev the package containing tlic bill being untied on your clerk's desk but the bill simply read by its title ; what was found iu it ?" he then goes on to say that silver was thus secretly demonetized without i venture to say ten men in either body every knowing that there was any such thing iu the bill or would be in the law that ought to settle that disputed ques tion montgomery county letter correspondent of the raleigh observer montgomery january 18 1878 messrs editors — montgomery coun ty is wedged in between the yadkin and i little rivers so tight that it spread out east some ten miles over the latter river it is governed at present by radical offi cials but it is admitted by all that this is their last term which will cease at our next election the inhabitants are most ly fanners most of whom are good socia ble and honest citizens and by their en ergy and through a kind providence show signs of improvements notwithstanding hard times and radical rule last season they turned their attention 1 to syrup there was made in the county 8,000 gallons one firm invested 140 in a cane mill and evaporator which made 2,450 gallons ; the toll charged was one third the syrup sells readily at 50 cents per gallon making a handsome prolit on the investment operator the bland silver bill text of the bill as passed by the house and at 1 amended by the senate committee on finance below will be found the bland silver bill as it passed the house aud as it now stands before the senate the house bill ends with the words printed in brack ets the senate committee on finance struck out the words iu brackets nnd ad ded the words which follow embraced in quotations the reader thus has both bills before him and will be able to un derstand the references made to them during debate an act to authorize the free coinage of the standard silver dollar and to restore its legal-tender character lie it enacted die , that there shall be coined at the several mints ofthe united states silver dollars ofthe weight of four hundred and twelve and a half grains troy of standard silver as provided in the act of january eighteenth eighteen hundred and thirty-seven on which shall be the devices and superscriptions provi i ded by said act which coins together \ will all silver dollars heretofore coined by j the united states of like weight and tine ness shall be legal-tenders at their nom inal value for all debts and dues public and private except where otherwise pro vided by contract and any owner of sil ver bullion may deposit the same at any united states coinage mint or assay ollice to be coined into such dollars lor his ben efit upon the same terms and conditions as gold bullion is deposited for coinage ■ under existing laws and the secreta ry of the treasury is authorized and di rected out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated to purchase from time to time silver bullion at the market price thereof not less than two million dollars per month nor more than four million dollars per month and cause the same to be coined into such dollars j and any gain or seiguorage arising from | this coinage shall be accounted for and paid into the treasury as provided un der existing laws relative to the ubsidi i ary coinage provided that the amount of money at any one time invested iu such silver bullion exclusive of such re sulting coin sliall not exceed live million dollars the goloid hollar i vi '.: ii._.i m star perhaps etc most attractive ol the pro posed new dollars is the goloid dollar of which we have a line photographic repre sentation from mr m i brady the pho tographer it contains gold monetizing siver ; forty per cent in value gold and sixty per cent in value silver it is a ternary metal of .. purple golden color rings clearer than silver or gold and maintains its brilliant color the thirty eight stars represent the present states of the union the piesent mint capacity can coin 100 000,000 of it in one year its value as coin is equal to gold halves quarters and ten-cent pieces are to be made of it the coin metal goloid und processes of coinage were invented by william wheeler hubbeu of philadel phia the committee on coinage of con gress of which hon alenander h ste phens i.s chairman directed the specimen coined it i.s hardly credible but nevertheless a fact that washing postage and revenue stamps has become one of the established industries of the country it is estimated that at least one-twentieth ofthe thou sand million postage stamps annually used by the american people are washed and re-used the greatest ingenuity is exercised iu collecting tliese stamps and all sorts of expedients resorted to to ac complish the result the punctual at teudance of boys and girls at the new york post-ollicc daily licking up every envelope thrown away by persons opeu ng their letters in the otlice has often attracted attention ami provoked the cu riosity of inquiring minds but few per sons would imagine that the envelopes thus secured yield from fifteen to twenty dollars per thousand though such is snid to be the fact the cancellation is easily removed by the use of a little castile soap and tepid water judiciously applied this it is said can lie done by a novice with at least fifty per cent of the cancell ed stamps while with an expert eighty to ninety per cent readily yield to soap and water this is one of the yankee industries we sni.po.se at which the new york times tells us the yankee man work ninl his wife works and his children work and all work together ir is an industry un known at the south ral observer singular phenomenon we learn from the alamance gleaner that on monday evening the 21st inst a water spout misled about two miles 1 south of graham it was seen in the air i and in shape resembled a horn and seem ed composed of something like the folds and billows of a dense smoke coming from the smoke stack of a furnace it moved in an easterly direction appearing iu un easy commotion until it reached a poiut about two miles from that place when it : burst ed and emptied its contents which flooded the ground instantly toa depth i of at least six inches on level ground i there was a slight rain near by but tin few ai-res covered by the spoilt were con verted into a lake tor awhile it was observed by people i__iles away aud its course watched nothing of the sort was ever known iu those parts be fore the proprieties of courtship from the new york sun we continue to get very many ques tions from lovers which concern the eti quette ef courtship it is both gratifying and interesting to observe how prevalent is the desire among engaged people to so conduct themselves as not to olfend tbe laws of the most rigid propriety in doubt themselves just what reserve is re quired of them both men and women who have plighted their vows come to the sun for advice in this delicate matter inas much as the questions grouped together by a friend in north carolina inclmle those asked by scores of our correspond ent it is right that we should answer them with care and iu detail : sir : will you be so kind as to give me your opinion on the following questions i how late at night ought lovers to sit up alone ? 2 after then is an engage ment would it be impolite for the gentle man to ask for a kiss from his intended lady li how often ought the gentleman to visit the lady . 4 is it customary to present the ladv an engagement ring with his and her name on the inside of the ring ;.. how is the proper way to eat a philopena with a ladv ? ii ought the lady to keep the gentleman's photograph in the parlor for the inspection of all vis itors ? loxo creek long creek x ('.. dan 4 i there is no exact hour of the even ing at whicli a lover should depart from the house of his sweetheart lt depends a good deal on the habits of the family but it is the part of both wisdom and pro priety to make the hour comparatively early our previous decision that 10 o'clock is late enough for him to stay ou her account as well as that of the old folks is one to which we adhere ii as to that matter we have nothing to say it might be well to consult the leading authorities in poetry and fiction to see what they make their heroes do under such circumstances moreover the views of the lady ought to be con sulted iii he may visit her nuitefreoueutlv some lovers call every evening ami their sweethearts think they do not come too often while others put in an appearance only once or twice a week and the girls are not dissatisfied tin great thing is so to act lhat you shall not wear your welcome out iv it is customery of course to give an engagement ring and usually ihe ini tials ofthe two are engraved ou its inside with the date when the happy pad was sealed it is a very proper thing to do y why she simply eats one of the twin almonds and you the other then if it is give and take the forfeit is due from the person who having taken some thing at the bauds of the other is philo penaed it is obligatory on you to pay your forfeit but if tlie lady neglects to pay hers you have no remedy and must make no complaint you mnsf assume that she has forgotten the circumstances but be careful not to forget it yourself if you have lost vi if she chooses to put bis photograph it in the parlor she has a perfect right to do it perhaps she herself so admires his manly beauty that she wishes ber friends to see how handsome a fellow she i has won some voung ladies however rs i ' prefer to put it in a less conspicuous place j where tiny may frequently contemplate the pictured features without being seeu by any one ax alphabet of good counsel attend carefully to the details of your • business be prompt iu all things consider well then decide positively i dare to do right fear to do wrong endure your trials patiently eight life's battle bravely manfully io not in the society ofthe vicious hold your integrity sacred injure not another's reputation or busi ness loin hands only with the virtuous keep your mind from evil thoughts lie not fur any consideration make lew acquaintances never iry to appear wind you arc not observe the sabbath day pay your honest debts promptly question not the veracity ofa friend respect the counsel of your parents sacrifice money rather than principle touch not taste mu handle not intox i icating drinks use your leisure time for improve ment venture not upon the threshold of sin i watch carefully over your passions xtend to exerv one a kindly salutation yield not to discoui agenjent zealously labor for the light and success is certain concord sun : two more gold miner weie opened in number nine township ; last week on tuesday i lump of gold as | large as a hen's egg was picked up in one i of thera there are now sis mines in that immediate vicinity i """ asheville citizen one patterson sen i fenced t the penitentiary at the late tei ni of the transylvauia superior courtfor ; mule btealing was shot in the imnlder irjil severely wounded by the guard at i the railroad works at swannanoa gap last week while attempting to escape