the carolina watchman vol ix third series salisbury n c september 12 1878 no 47 wise men differ written for tin watciuuaii murder bridge l„.ve tin1 sluggish creek that veers hound corn-field and thro meadows lone i night the highway traveler hears i , iu minder bridge thedead man's moan a boating corpse one autumn day here rocked within its watery grave till children on tbe planks at play were startled by the crimson wave and lifting up their timid eyes the whole ghaiint spectre they espied — beheld ad sunbeams snatch the prize from midnight crime she sought to hide a brainless mass of clotted hair and features marred to hideous shapes i in bead was slowly nodding there to mock their swift retreating steps and as they ran with sidelong glance thev saw cold swaying arms reach out aad e©w feet in the eddies prance — heard cold lips echoing their shout at last in breathless haste they reach their elders and to tbem narrate a freezing tale with stammering speech — tl mystery of a dead man's fate anon while broods a muttering storm throng laborers o'er the meadow's dank and lay the friendless stranger's form lu reedy couch that clothe the bank wbal time in solemn phalanx stand a dozen btern and low-voiced men around each lifting bigli bis right hand to heaven red lightning tills the glen and deep-toned thunder shakes the hills the distant watch-dog's howl is heard with chilling notes of u hippoorwills and liiiotinns dire of night's lone bird the robin flaunts his bloody crest in maples tbat o'erhung the crowd iln wild wind sweeps from willows dre.it in garments dun a sere-leaved shroud a serpen coils beneath the sack nl stone tbe move from round bis waist ; the c(iat ihey i-tiip from off his back a great toad chooses i'm his nest i he rain descends iu copious streams and wash the pale corpse iis it lies in cloud-laud tears lb lone one seems llewailed by even these sad skies tin fire-fly trims her evening lamp to li^bl the darkling shadow's gloom that gathers iu the vapors damp around tlio murdered wanderer's tomb a lm ve a sluggish creek thai veers itouud corn-melds ami thro meadows lone l'i night the highway trav'ler bears < tu murder bridge the dead man's moan e p h sept 1-7 . southern school books krotn tin columbia lti",*istt*r mr v 1 i millie has laid upon our ta ble a series of school books prepared by able southern authors which seem to be most admirably adapted to our wants at the south these books are the result of home enterprise throughout they are preferred at the south their authors are of the south they are printed at tho south they aro bound at the south and they are published at tbe south we be lieve that the paper is manufactured at the south now ull this would amount to naught if they were of an inferior quality but tbey aro really as good as any and in many respects much better than any i we take up the history of the united states prepared by the hon alexander 11 stephens to give the name of the au thor would be enough to introduce this book anywhere but at the south it would not need oven an introduction it is a volume of five hundred pages and illus trated throughout it was prepared ex pressly for schools ami colleges to ap preciate the value of this work let the reader compare it with the history pre pared for the same purpose by t w higginson of new england mr higgin son'n work being rather better than the mom of them 2 we next have the history of south carolina by james wood davidson in running over this little volume we are impressed with its value as a school book for beginners it is admirably arranged in 2_»g lessons and the story of the state >« told in simple but elegant language from its early history up to 1s70 we cannot recommend this little work too highly a we lastly come to a series of works for young children and more advanced wholars by the late professor j i rey k i d who was for many years a professor of languages in the south caro lui.i college the author commences from the egg and goes upward 1 he gives us the admirable little ele wentaiy spelling book illustrated thau which we have never seen anything better oi the purpose intended 2 he gives iu the order of the progress of the young mind the pictorial reader *•• i which begins and ends with words of one syllable * w e then come as the pupil advances the pictorial header no j in which throughout there cannot bs found a word of more than two syllables * theu we are introduced to the pic torial reader no .., in which are found pleasant little stories plainly told to in terest ami improve the young r wi then come to the pictorial read w no 4 which takes the scholar a stage tl in giving the mind a little stronger f0°d to be digested 6 a»d lastly iu this series we bave the ' 1>a!!y valuable volume called reynolds new fifth reader that is interesting to all old and young we have here selec tions almost entirely from southern au thors and most elegant are these extracts iu poetry we come to the household names of simms and wilde aud timrod aud hay ne aud meek iu prose the great names of calhoun and legate and pres ton and thoniwell and griuike and many more who wrote and spoke with the greatest force purity and eloquence apart from the books we here incident ally notice the subject is an important one it is no iusiguificant matter that southern men nud women are beginning to realize that they should educate south ern boys and girls that was a very wise nnd observant man who said let me make the songs of a people und i care not who make their laws thero is even greater truth in its application when we say give ns the making of the school books for the young and we care not who may be their j legislators what man or woman has , ever forgotten in his blue backed spelling book the boy up the apple tree and the old man trying to bring him down with tufts of grass ? it was this feeling of the young mind that built up that great party in the country that finally led to the great est war in modern times one picture in a spelling book with the lazy master in a broad-brimmed hat sitting on his horse in the shade and the drawn whip in band scourging tho slave in the cotton field and iu the distance a runaway in irons escaping to freedom poisoned more youth ful minds and made more ranting aboli tionists shan all die preaching of parker and beecher aud sunnier and wendell phillips put together lt i in this view that we approve of educating our chil dren tb rough the means of our own books and if need be our own pictures and it is for ibis reason that we hail with pleas ure the dawning ofa new day in this field of intellectual and moral culture we do not know to what extent our preseut ex cellent superintendent of education may have authority in this matter but we are sine that without any promptings from ns the line of thought wo have suggest ed has not escaped bis mind both as au educated gentleman and an experienced teacher some eggstraordinay inven tions in view of the broad streak of foolishness that runs through humanity asa whole it is not at all surprising tbat out of hun dreds of applications for patents received by the patent office every week there should be a sprinkling of those open to criticism on the score of practical nseless ness nor is it strange that among the applications granted a few should strike the uninterested observer as — funny to say the least the wonder is rather that tbey are so few possibly they seem all the more ridiculous by contrast with the high average worth and gravity ofthe general work of the patent ollice be that as it may it never fails to strike one as consumedly funny to be advised under official seal and signature that the united states have granted letters latent to a ll or c for — well say a pinhole in the big end ofa pickled egg seriously that is just the poiut of the specification upon which patent no 205 i,*j was granted the patentee calls it a new and useful improvement in pro cesses of treating eggs the object of the improvement being to provide a means for preventing the bursting of pickled eggs when boiled said means consisting in the piercing of a small hole in the eggshell over the air blister the hole is too small to lie observable yet sufficient to allow of the expansion that ensues when the egg is immersed in boiling water and the liability of such eggs to burst their shells in boiling is obviated by this iugeuius process old eggs the patentee avers are made as good as new-laid eggs and they are much cheaper what he wants to do with his old eggs after they are boiled he does not say possibly tbat like the suitable instrument for piercing the sheets may constitute the subject mutter of another application now before the patent ( ffice if so we trust the ap plication will be promptly granted it would be such a blessed relief to travelers to have some one man monopolize the use of stale eggs and so keep them from the breakfast tables of hotel - and board ing houses no fear that the normal or abnormal food supply would be seriouly diminish ed by this diversion of pickled eggs to other than breakfast table use the ubi quitous inventor has provided against that in patent no 170,670 mr joseph a griffin is his name his invention relates to that class of compounds used to facil itate and improve the process carried on in the preparation of food and also to im prove the quality of cakes pies puddings bread biscuit and other articles of food in wliich his compound a substitute for eggs is used as au ingredient this compound the paten tee declares is a per fect substitute for eggs in all culinary and other uses to which eggs have been com monly applied is cheaper and will pro duce better results than eggs themselves we bave diligently inquired iu the mar kets for chickens hatched from this supe rior egg compound but failing to fiud any we cannot furnish any particulars with regard to their appearance or quali 1 ty the substitute the specification fur ther states will keep longer without de composition than fowls eggs and contains iu equal amounts more of the essential qualities for which eggs are valuable thau eggs themselves this is most remarkable ; and it must be true or else mr griffin would not have spent his money on it iu patent fees still we must coufess we have our doubts of the availability of the substitute for all egg uses say for political purposes or for personal expostulation with an offensive public speaker lt is not clear how it could ever be made as fragrant and ex plosive as mr stempel'seggs for instance mr omar a stempel is the gentleman who patented the pinhole or make so handy a missile to throw still you can not expect everything from an invention as a matter of purely scientific interest we will add that mr griffin's egg coin pound which is so much better aud cheap er thau real eggs is composed of cream tartar tartaric acid alum soda bicarbon ate sugar curcuma gum arable sulphur and starch iu proportions specified see ing that real eggs contain only albumen mucus water and a little saline matter the superiority of the substitute will be readily appreciated — scientific a merican what is wanted badly not a day passes but the press or tele graph brings us some frightful case of wife-beating to excite onr horror and in dignation never was there a time when this brutal practice was so prevalent anil the number ol eases appear to increace daily yesterday's record for new york city alone was a fearful one no less than a half-dozen eases were brought to public attention by the arrest of wife-beaters and uo one can estimate how many such crimes were perpetrated for which tliere were no arrests there is but one adequate punishment for such outrages and that is by the rc establishment ofthe whipping post : yes terday furnished a sample case in that of a worthless dog who would not work when work was given him pilfering to live up on the haul earnings of a delicate wife who has been again nnd again the victim of his blows day before yesterday lie went home in a half drunken condition and demanded money from his wife who was sick in bed she did not respond promptly and he dragged her to the floor by the hair kicked and beat and bruised her and when neighbors gathered attracted by her cries he drew a knife and would have murdered her had not a prompt po liceman knocked the weapon from his hand iis it descended toward his prostrate victim he was arrastcd after stout re sisrance aud the woman cared for yes terday as they were being taken to court the brute watched his opportunity broke from the officer and before any one could interfer struck the poor patient sufferer a blow in the face that felled her to the sidewalk a wretch like this should have the life lashed out of him yet he will be sent to jail the judge will indignantly reprimand him and he will be comfortably fed and lodged for sixty or ninety days as a re ward for his villainy at the expiration of that time lie will be released heartier and stroner to maim and torture her fur ther if not to kill her is not this offer ing a premium to brutality hi ! but we will ik told the whipping post is a relic of barbarism what is wife beating t a stimulus to civilization t a social accomplishment t a modern im provement which is likely to be the most demoralizing — an adequate private pun ishment of a deserving scoundrel or the public mangling of innocent women by furious and drunken debauchees which is the grossest relic of barbarism — the hon est administration of justice or the pub lic encouragement of savagery ? it is time brutes were met with such punishment as they can appreciate and comprehend they are always cowanls who would not dare to resent a blow from oue of their fellows but who vent all their cruel and bloodthirsty instincts upon the helpless hapless creatures within their power if that man johnson whose case we above describe were trice up and giv en a sound lashing he would make a quiet citizen hereafter as it i.s lie will swagger into jail be fed and supported iu laziness and idleness at the expense of honest men and then lio turned loose a fiercer and abler brute than ever is not this a mock ery of justice a parody on civilization an insult to intelligence and humanity ? — baltimore news whilst our fair south is being so fear fully scourged and so much of suffering ayid so many deaths are almost at out door onr hearts go out in profound sym paty at the mention ofthe great calamity and disaster that occurred near london on the river thames on tuesday even ing two steamers collided one of them i the princess alice went to the bottom it was a very large steamer and had on board eight hundred excursionists tf these it is believed six hundred and fifty were drowned think of this large num ber of immortals being hurried into eter nity almost iu a moment imagine the scene if you can it is one well calcula ted to harrow tbe most callous boul ' wii star i wise men differ ___ • the committee raised to ascertain the cause of the distress in the country of which mr hewitt is chairman is still in session examining persons of various pur suits in life tbe result so far reveals no information whicli could not have been obtained by any man by mixing and con versing with the multitudes fouud every where it is evident from the conflicting opinions elicited that no conclusion can be drawn and put into statutes that could afford any relief oue person thinks the uuited states senate ought to lie abolish ed another thinks the government ought to issue 5,000 to every person in want one that all out of employment ought to be put on public lands at public expense one was of the opinion tbat improved ma chinery bad caused the distress by bring ing about over production auother _. day's labor ought to be restricted to eight hours while another thought six would be enough as over-production would be checked another thought if all were requir ed to labor the whole day that would stop idleness which enables them to spend iu dissipatiau the earnings of the day oth ers thought all a man made over a com fortable support should be divided out to the needy no two gave exactly the same views no good cau be derived from these conflicting opinions and it is time and money wasted as no bill can be in troduced to remedy the evils of life in ac cordance with such opposing views all this information could have been picked up by an intelligent man without the aid of a committee which has cost the gov ernment thousands of dollars yet throw ing uo light ou that important question committees of investigation accomplish nothing satisfactory as there will be con flicting opinions what is remarkable most of the persons examined attribute their distress to the government while it is at their own doors economy indus try and frugality are the only remedies and they aro in tho reach of all the great object in the organization of a gov ernment is to protect persons in life lib erty and property ; and then if people are protected in these can live if they will do right ; if not then a government can do nothing except to pass penal laws against vice and idleness if aid is given to tramps or idlers it will increase the evil idleness can uot be cured by charity the idle must be forced to work and make a living for themselves the reply of the late 11 w connor of charleston s c to a gentleman who was raising money to relieve the wants of the irishman who car ried the palmetto flag of the company safely through the mexican war illustrates the true policy give him employment it is all wrong to give him money as it will soon be spent and be will expect more the tramps are becoming numer ous the question must be met with se vere penal or compulsory laws or our gov ernment will fail in the object of its or ganization to protect life liberty and property — south home wonderful leaping — the pest standing jumps on record sometime since george w hamilton of freedonia n y issued a challenge for a standing broad and high jump for 200 a side j kinerick of ypsilauti michi gan accepted the defiance and the match came off in buffalo on thursday august 8th moses mcallister and d a slaigbt were the judges george be llanton referee and george b colhath stake holder the buffalo base-ball grounds were selected for tbe contest the buffalo star says j kinerick is a medium sized man and one of the last to pick out for an athlcto george hamilton is about 5 feet 5 inches in height weighs about 120 pounds and is a wiry little fellow the first jump was made by emerick who cleared thir teen feet hamilton then with great ease jumped 13 feet 2i inches emerick now strained himself for a final effort and with a bound he left i'd feet 10 inches behind him beating the best time on record by 1 inches hamilton did not look worried or frightened a bit and picking up his 181b weights he merely raised them above his head gave a tremendous spring in the air and cleared fourteen feet i inch this beats the records all hollow the best previous being that of jos graves woodpark grounds bardsley england september 18 1875 who using ih pound weights cleared 1 feet 7 inches — the best previous american record having been that of a s thompson san francisco cal who on november 25 1875 cleared i'l feet 5 inches using 14 pound dum bells — turf field aud farm if our recollection i.s not at fault there used to be a horse trainer who either liv ed iu or visited north carolina oxford and other places who made 42 feet at three jumps he would make easily 14 feet with eight pound weights we think his name was miller and he was splendid ly proportioned and some six feet high it is a long time ago 15 years or more — wilmington n c star the cincinnati breakfast table signifi cantly remarks : it takes a keener percep tion of wise expedients and a more adroit tact to collect tive dollars in present times without wearing out seven dollars worth of shoe leather than it formerly required to run the government department of agriculture i circulars circular no 41 department of agricti.ti rl raleigh september 4 1878 dear sir at the approaching state fair thousands will visit our museum and tbronghoiitthe falland winter large num bers of persons desiring to locate in our state are expected to come here to exam ine the various products ofthe state our legislature being in session will also at tract many visitors and it is in.por.aut that every county should be well and handsomely represented the case for your county needs the following to com plete its display wheat corn cotton tobacco oats rye barley buckwheat flax millet broom corn sorghum cane grass es clover chufas peanuts peas beans all these on a stalk in bundles of four inches in diameter and in seed of quarts and half gallons wool honey syrup wines oils models of inventions samples of manufactured goods tobacco etc veg etables fruits and all your varieties of woods iu blocks eight or ten inches long with two sides dressed these articles when handed to your nearest express agent will be promptly forwarded we paying all charges mark the name of each contributor on each article and put as many together in oue bundle or box as can be conveniently packed mark the package department of agriculture raleigh n c permit me to suggest that you ask the attention of the township correspondents for your county to this important matter and solicit their aid iu making the col lection allow me to beg that you will give this your earliest convenient atten tion that we may demonstrate by this exhibition the splendid resources aud capabilities of our state the utility of advertising has been recognized aud de monstrated by those states which have so far outstripped us iu progress popu lation development and wealth let us resolve to come to the front let us show as we certainly can do that our good old state possesses advantage and attractions nowhere to be excelled please send in your specimens by the first day of october yours most respectfully l l polk circular no 4*2 raleigh n ('., sept ... 1878 to the hoard of county commissioners : gentlemen : — at a meeting of the board of agriculture held in this city on the 17th day of july 1*37 the following resolution was adopted ; resolved that boards of commission ers of the several counties be requested to send to the commissioner of agrculture a map or a plat of their respective coun ties to be hung up in the department of each county with its products iu the agri cultural museum i had the honor to send a copy of the above resolution to each county board iu the state on the 18th of july of last year and maps only from the following coun ties have been received viz : alexander bertie cleveland lenior rutherford randolph pasquotank transylvania wake aud warren in this museum it i.s our design to make such a display of all the products of our state as will illustrate its capabilities each county has its separate space in whicli we want not only specimens of all its products but design as soon as the material can lie procured to place there a statistical compendium of all its products industries and prominent physical charac teristics in short we desire to have this museum a permanent object-shool in which may be learned the resources and capabilities of our state to make it com plete it is indispensable that we should havo a good map of your couuty will you do me the kiudyess to inform me whether we may expect one from your county f your early attention will greatly oblige yours most respectfully l l polk commissioner a successful in ren tion some time ago messrs liddell &: co of this city invented an eight-horse pow er steam engine for which they have ob tained a patent the first oue made was used in ginning cotton and when in operation ginned 10 baits per day a month ago they sold ou trial to mr j p hunter of this county one of their en gines with the guarantee that it would ! saw out 2,500 feet of lumber daily aud that if he was not pleased with it he could return at any time after giving it a fair trial mr hunter declares that it will ! accomplish more than it was guaranteed ! to do and he came to town on tuesday ' to close the tiade these engines are the ! cheapest known costing ouly 575 andean j be used in grinding grain ginning cot i ton sawing lumber aud for a number of 1 other purposes all who have seen these 1 engines speak in the highest terms of their utility and ofthe ingenuity and practical skill of their inventor and think they combine more advantages for their size aud power than any known invention we hope mr liddell may realize hand some results from the salts of his engines for he is a hard-working man attentive to a laudible busiuess and deserves a large patronage and success southern hume terrible disaster colli^n of steamers i the thames near london-eight hundred excursionists engulfed m tht strcam—orer sic hun dred lives lost i-oxih>x sept 4 the excursion steamer princess alice which was run into and sunk with such frightful results last evening was one of the largest saloon steamers of the london steamboat company she left london at 11 o'clock yesterday uiorniug for grave send and sherness many excursionists being induced by the tine weather to go for a holiday trip the vessel left grave send on her leturn journey soon after h o'clock in the evening arriving within sight of the royal arsenal at woolwich i about 8 o'clock the by well castle was i then approaching on the opposite course j the two steamers were near the middle ! ofthe stream just off the city of lou.lou j gas works at beckton and at almost the ' precise spot where the fatal collision oc curred between the metis and went worth ten years ago what happened it is impossible accu rately to detail all that is known amid the maddening excitement is that tin screw steamer struck the princess alice on her port side near the lore sponsor when a scene which has had no parallel on this river ensued a few very few persons clambered ou the other vessel ' but nearly all rushed to the after part of the princess alice and as her bow sub i sided gradually umler water the shrieks ' were fearful and nothing could be done i to save life there were a dozen or more ; life buoys ou board and some boats were i swinging in the davits but even if they ', could have beeu got at they would have been of little service under the circum stances withiu live minutes the princess alice keeled completely over and went down in deep water some small boats hastened to the scene and the duke of teck an other steamer belonging to the same com pany which was also on her passage up the river with a party of excursionists went to the rescue but the river for a hundred yards was full of drowning peo ple screaming iu anguish and praying for help aud as it was growing dark then not ninch could be done it is believed that not more than one hundred and fifty persons escaped out of eight hundred aboard tho vessel the princess alice was a long and low river steamer built for excursions down the thames of which the middle and i poorer classes of londoners were very fond she had saloons on tho forward j and after decks and her passenger cany ing capacity was unusually large a large proportion of her passengers last evening wero on the upper or saloon deck and must have seen beforehand their impend ing doom but those in the stern of the of the steamer had no warning until they heard the crash and found the passengers from the forward part of the vessel run ning to the after part beyond the fact that the tide was about two hours ebb which would enable the princess alice to ease and stop sooner than the screw steamer which would be borne on tho tide it is impossible to dis cover any ofthe circumstances immediate ly succeeding the collision before the boats came iu collision there were cries from one to the other to keep out of the way but as usual in such cases the accident was probably due to a mis understanding the misinterpreting the intention of the other all the rules of sailing were cast to the wind iu the mo ment of peril each taking the wrong course to avoid each other's blunder hard work what is your secret .'" asked a lady of turner the distinguished painter he replied i have no secret madame but hard work says dr arnold the difference between one man and another is not so much in talent as in energy nothing says reynolds is denied \ well directed labor nothing is to be at j taiued without it excellence in any ! department says johnson can now be 1 * i attained by the labor ol a lifetime but it | is not to be purchased at less price . there is but one method,-1 said sidney | smith and that is hard labor and a man who will not pay that price for dis tinction had better at once dedicate him self to the pursuit ofa fox step by step reads the flinch pro j verbe one goes very far nothing,'1 says mirebcau is impossible to a man who can and will this is the only law of success have you ever entered a cot : tage or traveled in a coach ever talked j to a peasant in the field or loitered with \ a mechanic at the loom asked sir ed i ward bulward lit ton and fonud that each of these men had a talent you have ' not knew something you did not .'" the , most useles creature that yawned at a ' club or idled in rage under the su us of calabria has no excuse for want of iutel j bet what men want is out talent but iui pose in other word not the power to | achieve but the will to labor alamance gleaner there is a woman near clover orchard i:i this county who ha bee i married twenty years and has bad nineteen children only two of whom are uow living she gave birth to eight een of the.e children during the first nine years of her married life gongressional candidates six out of eight of onr presrnl delega tion in the house of representatives have lieen nominated for re-election and are now canvassing their respective dixtric to-wit : 1st dist jesse j y'eatos of hertford 3d dist alfnil m waddell of new hanover 4th dist joseph j davis of franklin 5th dist alfred m scales f guilford oth dist walter l steele of rockingham dist robert b vance of buncombe the 2d dist now represented by hon c h brogden is strongly republican and will probably elect a negro delegate in that gentleman's place o'hara in uie 7th district r m armfleld take the place of hon wm m bobbin de feated by the wilkesboro convention the election takes ptace tuesday nov 5th pre-eminence ofthe american fxtibut - "■ the london times of august 24 in an editorial comment on a two column de scription ofthe mechanical display of tu united states at paris which it prints remarks that the pre-eminence of the mechanical genius of the citizeus jpf hj united states may be admitted and is il lustrated not for the first time in the exhibition at paris the times without pretending to ex haust the whole secret of the pl'ci'iiineuou of inventive genius o thjs ide the at lantic linds reason therefor iu the great er efficiency of labor litre and the iu ereascd cost and difficulty of hiring it the conditions of the union as au eco nomic society it holds drive our inhabi tant toward invention and here as else where necessity . may be said to be the mother of it votes for judges ami mllititoyf for chief justice w n h smith re ceived 128,960 for associate justice i'hos s ashe received 12h.040 john h dillard 127.745 for judges of superior court jesse f graves 122.074 a ('. avery 122,952 j c l gudger ttt£s3 w m cooke 11.5 s solicitor of 1st dis trict james p whedbce s.197 cyrus w grandy 9,483 solicitor of 2nd district f ii p usl.ee 11,722 jan.es h collins | 17,545 trd district swift gtslloway 17,549 this ir official a diiiibury tnan who went to a drug store to h-'ye a prescription prepared seeing nobody but a clerk present snid young man are you keeping company with a girl yes sir answered the clerk with a blush do you think the world of her f i do said the clerk firmly although blushing considerably is she in tow n '.'" no sir she i away on a visit ?" that will do snid the man decisive ly vou can't fool around any prfscitp tion for uie ami he y,i*nt away carted to the limit uud told to co uite nn obstinate case was up before the mayor last week a tramp was taken up for lying around the railroad and when la-fore the mayor nothing could lie learn ed of his name whereabouts ir but when the town sergeant was ordered tn show him the way out of town he liecanic insoleut and showed light he refused to walk and a cart was employed whicli soon conveyed him to the town limit where he was told to go north stnte i reus a prai timi joke a practical joker a prudent man withal had gone to a cafe and ordered a three-masted schooner of beer when a friend appears at the loot and beckons to him to go out for a min ute the intending drinker is afraid that in his absence some one may away with the liquid when a happy thought strikes him and he wraps around the handle of the mug a scrap of paper in scribed : i have spit iu thi !" with a light heart he hastens to the door communicates with his friend ami returns to find written in another hand beneath this warning : so ha\e i '" j list us quick as fanner jul painted his barbed wire feme blue plain blue farmer smith's wife wqn ahe wa_u__i ;■" ing to be outdone am the tcuci around the smith farm oon blossomed out red picked wiih white mrs jones wasn't going to have any pf the smith family put on airs over her and their him lence was trimmed with gold li.d atiigp smith triumphed ovei them by putting a gilt i ball on every barb and lone when hist ; heard from was painting vines j»jli horses peacocks and lightning-rod tips a 1 1 over hi fence and swearing he'd beat the smith family if he bad to pul a cupola and a b.i window at every hist and hang i chium * every two u t along the iiuc god be thanked for books they are un voices of the distant aud the dead and nial-i u.s licit s of the spiriual life of past -._;(■-.