tlie carolina watchman 70l xx.-third series salisbury n c thursday june 6 1889 no 33 pianoforte tuning foe salisbury v|k owes ii bishop pupil of dr marx music at merlin university uul , - benezel of paris has come from ■ i close to salisbury and is • me regulate and repair piano pipe < irgans elaving had tical experience in england i gentlemen who wish their musical ■- carefully and regularly attended . . relv upon liaving thorough and con 1 work done if they will kindly favor th their esteemed patronage liv ■ town 1 1 • > traveling expenses will be fore the terms u il be low l 1 pianoforte if tuned occasional three tunings in one year please irther particulars by postal card r iffiee si inimann says : it is the falsest liiow any pianoforte to remain uii : ruin both instrument and ear if any dealer gay he ha the w l donglm rhoea without name and price stamped on the bottom put him down an a fraud w l douglas 3 shoe centlemen lu-bt in th world eiamlne hlb . „_ jjs.-.oo genuine 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told anything it is easy to see how unavailing as a restraining force philosophy or the facts of figures would be on a man in this mental condition the captain was human and in this case an excel lent type of the race he wa in love more he was infatuated — to things of which he should have been obser vant he was blind we will now pass over several months during which tim the love craae of our hero was at its full and marching towards a crisis doubtless it would lie interesting were the writer in possession of the facts and could relate the particulars of each visit and the reader not acquainted with the devel opments of such cases might be warn ed against the absurdities of them we will mention an incident in one of his visits as showing how dead he was to all abstract subjects when in the company of his augel — a very pretty worthy and sensible girl she was they were returning from church one sun day horseback and the captain's sad dle blanket commenced working out behind from under his saddle it seems that it had been very awkwardly put on at the first for which he was probably responsible it worked back until it covered the horse's rump and then it commenced unfolding until one enil dropped down and covered his tail and yet the captain did not see it but was riding as erect and talk ing as brisk as if in good trim the lady saw it and was smiling at it young thing as she was but the cap tain's consciousness was otherwise oc cupied if he saw it it did not seem to be amiss — he didn't take it in a countryman riding up behind the party was less ab.-orbed and said stranger you are about to lose your saddle blanket the captain glanced back and immediately drew his rein and dis mounted and as he did so the blanket slid off the horse to the ground he felt a little awkward — a little like a fool but sought to make light of it another incident as showing the captain's demeanor on coming sudden ly upon danger he and miss liebecca were out in the fields one saturday evening gathering strawberries — and talking of course — when the captain's eyes fell upon a large snake lying in coil only a few feet from them la what a snake he exclaimed and dashed ff from it clutching miss rebecca's dress as he did so he ran off some twenty yards or more every ' muscle strained up to its utmost ten sion and looking the very picture of fright it is probable that there never i was a full grown man who could on : such occasions so suddenly become a boy snakes were a terror to the cap tain miss rebecca to whom snakes were no uncommon sight found it impossible to behave in sympathy and it was only after a hearty laugh that she seemed to remember what should be done let's kill it said she and picked up a stick for the purpose no no said the captain don't go near it — just hold on a minute until i find a stone thus armed he ap proached with caution the place where he had seen it his snakeship was still there and it may be was an amus ed spectator of the captain's excited manner but if so it was a brief enjoy ment it had put en a more defiant ! uspect had lifted its head higher j its tongue playing out and in like i lightning and as the captain came | within about thirty feet it began \ slowly to unfold its coil and more to j wards him miss rebecca was enjoy , ing the scene with peculiar relish when i she heard a sudden zip and then saw about six feet of snake writhing and contorting on the ground the cap tain's rock had knocked its h«nd off an achievement both gratifying and astonishing to his sweetheart the subject as a whole afford them a free topic of conversation while they con tinued to gather the berries and with the family after their return as they carried it home for exhibition one other incident this time illus trating the captain's agility on an other saturday evening while they were roaming the fields for it seems he preferred to do his courting in the open fields and apart from the observ ing eyes of mother and sisters there was a captivating freedom about it which pleased rebecca he thought about as well as it did himself th y came to a meadow ditch and wanted to cross it it was about eight feet wide from bank to bank and not many days before it had been full of water the banks were wet and slippery i don't believe we can cross it said miss rebecca we had a bridge just above here but i see the jiigh i waters have swept it away l 0h i can jump across it said the cap tain and bring those rails and lay them across for you to walk on no mr woodman don't try it — it is too long a jump said the lady ah no and the captain stepped back a few paces and took a running start he reached the ditch with the wrong foot foremost and on slippery ground and landed in the mud of the opposite side with her other gifts his sweet heart had a keen perception of the ridic ulous and of course enjoyed the failure but with seeming anxious concern fortunately the captain wore boots so that though he sunk pretty deep in the mire he pulled out and after get ting clear of the mud fixed up a bridge for the lady and they went on their way but it is not to be supposed that our | infatuated hero had at no time a re turning sense of the responsibility of his careerof late thoughtsof it would at times confront him like ghosts and awe him into most serious reflections he felt that his honor was deeply im plicated and that he must vindicate it cost what it might he had fully committed himself by the attentions he hud bestowed on miss rebecca and there was no honorable escape from it even if he could bear the thought of giving her up he f;lt that he must at once make a tender of his heart and hand and as he had no doubt of their acceptance he whuuld also lay his plans for the future in reference to the new relation his own means were very scanty and hers were no better but he believed that by renting a cheap house and bringing into it the simple and inexpensive articles of furniture for two persons they could manage to live comfortably however this might be the trial must be made his in come would not allow them to board at a hotel or even at a private house and the situation in either case would not be so desirable as a home of their own though that home might be very hum ble he believed that 50 would pro cure half a dozen chairs a dining table cupboard candle stand cooking uten sils and table ware if judiciously laid out and rebecca's mother he thought would give her a bed and furniture " man wants but little here below '" was an old saw that fitted his case ex actly and he settled down on testing it and with his mind nade up and plans thus laid he set out to lay them before miss rebecca after she had answered to the momentous question will you have me he could not for the life of him decide beforehand upon the manner of submitting that question he wanted to do it neatly and effectively but found himself at miss rebecca's door as undecided as ever she met him with her usual smile of welcome was indeed expecting him as it was his usual time of calling she was alone in the sitting room with her work-basket on the table near her after the customary greetings were over which were cordial free and easy and the captain had drawn his chair near hers she said " i've been plan ning a new pattern of patchwork since you were here capt woodman and i must have your opinion on it planning asked the captain i've been doing that kind of work myself this week and as my planning concerns you as well as myself 1 will tell you of it before i leave all right was the happy rejoinder but you must see my new patchwork i have a part of it made up ' after a careful inspection of tbe work the captain said it is indeed very pretty aud worthy of the skill and taste of a professional " you must not praise it too much or i'll think you are flattering me flattering you saiil capt wood man no i have called to pay you a higher compliment than that — the highest a man can pay to a woman to offer you my heart and hand for life will you a cept them the captain had performed before he was fully aware of it the very thing he had studied how to perform a mere formality — and was surprised at himself for having reached it with eo much ease the lady however evinced no great surprise nor feeling either her fingers twitched and fumbled with the scraps on her lap a little and her cheeks paled perceptibly but her head was too much bowed to admit of reading the language of her eyes she delayed to answer until pressed and when she did speak she said no to be continued we stood near a coal yard during the cold weather and saw scores of wa gons come for fuel they all came empty that was to be expected some were bright newly painted others were dingy and worn from long use some were high others were low some went away full others only half full the comparison was devoid of poetry but it reminded us of souls coming to the sanctuary they were not all alike in dress or appearance or age some'car ried away n large blessing others a smaller portion but all received just what they came for here is a marriage notice clipped from a cleveland paper in guilford me dina county ohio on the 21st inst by s wilson/esq mr ssiniu-t d curtis to mi sally murphy after i tedious courtship of fifteen yeurs which was borne with christian fortitude and pa tience 0 h kothaker on ingersoll mr ingersoll is the only great phi losopher who was ever known as col onel " or familiarly called " bob he is the drum-major of the army of athe ism he creates a profound impression upon the people below stairs thev always crowd up to the area gate with loud admiration to see him pass with what dignity he marches through the mud what florid grace in the sweep ! of the arm what a lovely baton what an awe-inspiring hat it is alto ! gether very splendid and very impresire the drum major has turned more thoughtful fools into recruits than the sergent with his shilling the man has done much harm atheism was once the somber monop oly of unbalanced scholars he has popularized it men with strong brains i do not follow him there for he is most dangerous he gives primary lessons ! in donbt penny readings in infidelity i he is the apostle of the shallow the ' derai-god of amatuer thinkers he is ' an authority in the kindergarten of i speculation the grace of his oratory hold audiences which are above the sub stance of his speech he bedizens im piety with pretty words and makes jests of the mystery " an eloquent juggler he attacks truth with trickery he hides the snake under a tropical luxu riance of word-blossom distinctly practical he buffets at the surm because the essence is beyond him he plays ' with language in that which is essen tially spiritual and beyond language he answers an organ tone with a jin gle a poem with a gibe he is a phrase-huckster preaching the gospel of unrest a moment brawling at eternity lacking the finer fibre himself he has been singularly influential in brusingor destroying it wholly in others in one sense he is a mental phenom enon his arguments are not new | uor is the basis for his declamatory un belief a foundation recently built he is on the same ofd forum voltaire sneered before him hume philosophized before him paine railed and denounced l>efore him he is simply a repetion of the substance with an addition of tin sel rhetoric they were hard logical and sterile he has many musical mannerisms he covers the hardness and sterility with flowers of language he adds to borrowed weapens an arti ficial sentimentalism beauty and bru tality go hand in hand in his mental world the infidelity with which he lures to spiritual ruin is a lilitk tes ted by the intellectual standard he scarce ly merits mention tested by results he has been the raostdangeious man of the century his influence commands the necessity of serious combat the potency of lugersoll's position lies in his ingenious avoidance of exist ing facts in the practicle workings of christianity and his noisy citations of persecutions in the time when church and state were one he confounds the present church with the church that was simply a political machine all the faults and follies of men he ascribes to the religion of which they were but poor exemplars he attacks that which is by heaping denunciation upon that which was he brings in evidence against this generation the tomb-stones of its ancestors in even this he is not honest he forgets luther nailing against the old church door at witten burg the ninety-five theses which con stituted magna charta of mental liber ty that was a time when ideas leaped from rack and from scaffold to freedom — a time when thought was so young it had scarcely learned how to think and only knew that it must es cape from the old bondage surely its just meed for the mightest movement 111 the history of human advance should not be denied to christianity yet there has always been overmuch of galileo and too little of luther in the favorite infidel argument that religion persecutes progress and withal there has also been a consistent disregard of the fact that each was persecuted by the same power and that this power was not religion but its false represen tative the name of galileo and the churchmen courtiers and politicians are placed on the same platform riche lieu was a cold crafty cloudy diplomat therefore ohist is a myth or pretender the inquisition existed therefore his doctrines are false this is the argu ment it does not commend itself to intelligence an institution must be judged by its power to purify itself this applies as much as to any other its tendency has been steadily away from forms and j symbols and towards a closer conson j ance with its principles and teachings j in the very nature of things this con ; sonance can never be complete re \ ligion is the concern of the individual j it reaches each man in its way a church is a human effort to organize j the spiritual it is strong or weak as i it approaches that which it seeks to ty ■ pifv in so far as it is alloyed by hu man p.ission it is not a reflection of re ligion because there are bad poets one can not condemn poetry because there are bad christians one can not con demn christianity there are dividing lines between the false and the true and the only reason which mr lnger soll boasts ts the basis of his doctrine is necessary to throw the distinction under the light of calcium he holds reality responsible for the pretense he talks of genuineness when he means i hypocrisy jtistruethat men enter the church as a means of individual ad vancement it is true that the church is sometimes avaricious enough to ac cept the one tenth as a tithe of that which was not honestly earned it is true that pretentious piety can hold its temporal own at times against the pu rity which should overthrow it it is true that the mantle of the just has cov ered injustice and that falsehood has been the noisy partner of truth yet all these do not destroy the pure met tal a counterfeit does not invalid a legal tender the fate of reform a yery jcst reason for complaint the returns of the november elec tions were scarcely in before the re publican spoilsmen and place-hunters were in full cry for the offices beseig ing every appointing power and ev^rv one who had any influence whatever with the officials at washington this vriis not otherwise to be expected nor was the administration responsible for it but what they were and are respon sible for was the fearful blunders they have made in hurriedly aud without consideration yielding to this army of place-hunters whereby incompetent men were placed into positions that they were unqualified to fill in other other words they were profoundly ig norant of their official duties which render their services a source of un measured annoyance to the public whom they pretend to serve for in stance look at our mail service it is in a condition to-day more unsatisfac tory than it hus ever before been since its organization the complaints are loud and long against the gross neglect and incompetent service it seems to have been the policy of republican representatives at wash ington to fill the places with party favorites as rapidly as possible regard less of their lack of qualification or special fitness and in utter disregard of the public requirements on the salem branch road between this point and greensboro an old gen tleman was placed on the mail service a very clever old man we presume when attending to business he had some knowledge of but totally unfit to be mail agent physically weak and without any experience and lacking a knowledge that he never could be able to acquire he may have done the best he could but that beht has been far short of meeting public requirements this fact he no doubt h;is learned him self as he has or will at an early day forward his resignation to washington city to take effect at once last night we got no mail at all and to-day we are without a bingle exchange he may be sick we know not what the trouble is but we felt very much this morning as if we would like to con struct a battering-ram out of about a doaen billy goats of the billy persua sion and turn them loose with trip hammer velocity with directions to strike some where a little to the left of where hon john brower wears his pistol pocket for not exercising more discretion in making this and other appointments in this district the republican national conven tion at chicago reiterated the follow ing declaration which of course sim ply meant that public office was a private snap the reform of the civil service aus piciously begun under the republican administration should be completed by the further extension of the reform system already established by law to all the grades of the service to which it isapplicable the spirit and pur pose of the reform should be observed in all executive appointments and all laws at variance with the object of existing reform legislation should be repealed to the end that the danger to free in stitutions which lurk in the power of official patronage may be wisely and effectually avoided and gen harrison in his letter of acceptance uses the following lan guage the law regulating appointments to the classified civil service received my aupport in the senate in the belief that it opened the way to a much needed reform i still think s and therefore cordially approve the clear and forcible expression of th conven tion on this subject only the inter ests of the public should suggest remov als from office it will be my sincere purpose if elected to advance the re form as to how much of this was meant the public are learning day by day we have not a word to say against the filling of the places held by democrats by competent republicans this is what : the public expect and they have no j right to demur against it but they do i have a right to protest againt the filling i of responsible positions by incompetent i persons whereby they are made to suf fer an inconvenience and loss and ; this protest should be made in a way j that will not be misunderstood — twin city daily the trustees of the hartford theo logical semenary has voted to open all courses of the institution to women on the s;\me terms as to men tins action is taken to meet the special needs ol women who are desirous of preparing themselves for christian teaching f<.i the missionary nvm and for any relig ions work other ttrin the pastorate he fought at winchester akd he will n'ot pass through thk penitentiary gates judge phillips who held korsyth court told the sentinel a pathetic incident which occurred at the last term of sorry court it beautifully illustrates the tender sympathy of one old soldier for another who has been unfortunate in the case of the state vs john stuart indictment for larcenj the prisoner appeared in the court-room shuffling along scarcely able to work he wore a soiled check shirt a very much worn suit and a battered hat appearing as states-witnesses were two well-dressed sleek-looking men who clearly showed by their looks that they were determined to send the old man to the penitentiry if pos sible has the prisonor any counsel?"ask ed judge phillips i hare none your honor answer ed stuart i am a p«or man unable to pay an attorney the judge saw by the man's looks that this was au unusual case and said well go on and tell your sto 7 well sir i was in the confederate army and at the battle of winchester i was shot through both hips since then it has been exceedingly hard for me to support myself 1 went to work for this man la.it year and worked eight months upon his promise to board and cloth me and pav me what my services were worth during that time he p.iid me ten cent with which i bought tobacco at the end of eight months be refused to pav me any money and refused to give me any clothes saying that inv services were worthless then vour honor 1 went into his ward-robe took a suit of clothes to hide inv nakedness and left ik had me indicted for larceny and i have been in jail ever since as the old man finished a hushed murmur of indignation was heard throughout the court-room you say you were shot at winches ter asked judge phillips who was himself an officer in that splendid and memorable charge yes sir were you in the second charge to the left on the other side of the town the prisoner's face brightened yts he said i was there in rhodes division a id was shot while crossing the ravine just below the hill the judge was satisfied that the old veteran was telling the truth but to be certain he called the states 1 wit ness while the witness was giving in liii testimony which was to the effect that the old man's story watt about right but that he refused to pay him anything because his services were worthless stuart leaned over to solici tor settle mr settle hesaid your father and i were friends i lifed in uockingham county and your father r;rsuaded me to enlist in his company received my wound while following him since then it has been a hard struggle for me to keep out of the poor-house hy this time judge phillips solici tor settle and everylnxly else in the court-room was satisfied that the old soldier had b«en pitilessly persecuted and the faces of the on-lookers show ed the deepest pity and sympathy for the unfortunate man and the black est indignation for his heartless em ployer mr solicitor said the judge change your bill of indictment from larceny to trespass this was will ingly done by mr settle now he continued judgment is suspended and the prisoner is discharg ed scarcely had the last word been spoken before every man in the room applauded and great tears were seen rolling down the cheeks of strong men a similar scene judge phillip's tells us he has never seen in the court house as the old mm who half hour be fore had been friendless hobbled out of the court-room hundreds of men drew around him to shake his hand our townsman hon w h glenn volun teered his services to secure a pension mr holiyfield offered him a position as miller and in less than five minutes a handsome purse of money was made up to buy the old soldier a comfortable suit of clothes needless to add he was almost over come with gratitude and to his dying day be will bless the memory of hisold comrade-in-.u m and generous new found friends penalties for contempt the post has called attention to the need of legislation fixing the bounds and power of judges in prescribing penalties for contempt of court that unrestrained power is a relic of despo tism in the present absence of law the utterance of an offensive word or an uncalled for disturbance in the pres ' ence of a jurdge or a failure to obey a 1 j summons or ignorance of an obscure . point of judicial etujuettte on the part i of juryman may entail a heavior pun • | ishmeut than the running down and i killing of a pedestrain by a reckless " | horseman and there is no apparent relief