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Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1877-10-04

GRINDING TIE MILLEKs.-The Bos.
ton Globe says: A threatened tax
on flour of q very curious kind has
come to light. There is 4 process
called high grinding in use in most of
the flour-mills in the country, which Is
said to be essential To the best results
in reducing wheat to flour. 1t has
long been in use in Europe, and was
introduced here in 1871, and the ma
chinery in use in all the great nillsis
adapted to it. A ring of spectators
in Washington is said TO have got
hold cf an old patent on the process,
quietly had it reissued, got up a case
II which the def n liant was a man of
straw, carried it to the Supreme Court
without any real defence having been
made, and got decision in support of
its validity. Now suits have been
brought for Infringement against the
leading flour manufacturers of the
country, including the Jewels of
Brooklyn, the Haxalls of Richmond.
and G. G. Washburn of Minneapolis,
and the holders of the patent propose
to grant licenses to milIers for the
modest sum Of Sc 900 for each run of
stone. This would impose a tax of
$50 100000 on the flour business Of
the country. which would, of course,
come out of the consumers in the end.
1t is unnecessary to say that a wig
orous fight will be made against thus
imposition, and special act OF Goa
gress cancelling the patent will be
asked for next winter.
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| A slim graceful g:ri; with wine-
brown eyes and dark brown hair,
leaning against a rustic gate, andsa
tail, stately man, his, iIand, resting
lightly on one of the bars, his
grave, eafhest ayes 9fged ION her
face.
ono" he said, "I. do not believe
it impossible for any one to love
twice, I az not believe that we can
ever love but once. Often the sec,
ond love of mans lie is greater
than the first love is swcet-ah,
strangely7sweet!' ~ss- 49,
The face Of the girl flushed GRIM
son, and then grew pale, but she
made no comment, and Barton
Lesley's eyes grew half questioning
as they fingered on the fair young
face.
Barton Lesley loved this girl; not
with the passionate glow OF loves
first dream, but with the tender,
loyal devotion of his manhood.
He can never, perhaps, forget
the first love of his life, but he can
look calmly back at it; for it is long
years past since it came to an end
years in which his hair has been
lightly touched with grey, and in
which his face has grown grave
years in which, with all man
hood, he has battled with the COW
ard Eain at his heart, and then at
the end of many years he had met
Grace Leighton, and for the second
time in his liic learned to love.
Late{that evening hc told Grace
of his love, and asked her to be his
wife, and she, remembering the
tore of his voice as he said 4: "1et
first love is swcet-ah strangely
sweet" had answered him sadly:
@No.s's ss4 $3.50 "a
"No." she had said it coldly,
calmly, and then gone to her room,
and thrown herself on her knees in
silent anguish, for she knew she
had wrecked her own life's happi-
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1877-10-04

81 love him-I love him - she
cried, pssssionately, iTar,d / sent him
from me. What if he did love be-
fofe-did he not say he loved me
now 2''
Grace Leighton lived with Bar
ton Lcsley's sister, and the next
day, complaining Of a headache.
she kept her room; and her head
did ache, but not SO painfully as
her heart.
The day passed, and the evening
came again, and then she stole out
OF the garden, and sat down on a
rustic bench beneath the parlor
window. go.
Suddenly the voire of Barton
Lesley, talking to his sister, fell on
her ears, and. half unconsciously
she listened, for 1t WAS of her they
we're speaking.
| "No," she heard Barton say, 81
did not tell her; what need after she
rejected me 2 You say she told you
once she would accept no mans
second love; had l known that
might not haye offered it; though
| love her as l never believed ]
could love again. l am going away
Helen, and promise me you will
make no change in your manner
| to Grace; it is not her fault that
! love her-in vain"
A thrill, half pain, half joy
passed through Grace Leighton
heart, as she listened.
81 WONDER" she heard him say
again, "if Grace knew the story O
my past love, would she have ans
wered me SO coldly."
+ EstYou never told me the story o
Your first love-" his sister said. =
81 have never spoken to any ont
of it before, Helen; the name of the
woman whom / once loved, has
never passed my lips, from the day
my eyes last rested on her. | in
tended to tell it to Grace this even
ing had she given me her love.
will tell it to you, Helen, if yo'
wish, and then l will bury it out 0
sight again. am going away to
morrow, and it may be years befor
you see me again.
! "He would have told it to me,
she thought; he wished her to hea
it and she gave no heed whether
was right or wrong; she would lis
| ten to the story of Barton Lesley
first love. aa
ssI was visiting at Uncle Hugh
when | first met Celeste Murat. =
You can scarcely remember
! fHelen, for you were a,anere child
/ met her, and from the first mo
, ment | loved her.
r ''' s'She was SO very, very pretty. :
, When l first saw her that was all
, thought, for the rare beauty of he
face did not dawn on one at once
it stole over them by degrees.
: "The low, white brow, the wist
full eyes, the tender smile of : he
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1877-10-04

NOEF0REJ ER. ~
-s

zzsEssz2s sss4 ssAas - -
Not forever are We chastened
By-the might of sorrows hand,
Not Forever pass we flying. Ts
~ Nsfi1ro,lg Oh tf stTan.efs Nseepne land.
There shall come time of gladness
the heart shall cen forget,
In the melody of pleasure.
AH-the ills that grieve it yet. lEtE.g
Not forever in the valley.
With the yawning gulf below,
Not forever mid the briars
Zion's pilgrim band shall go! =
They shall tread with pleasant footsteps
! On the.pieas ant sunny hillsr
They SHAH march with mirth and music.
While their song the sweet air fills.
Not forever shall the darkness
s~Of the midnight's lonly hour.
OyerwlIeIm the timid spirit
With the terrors of its power.
Then shall come the light of morning
10 the weary waiting heart,
And amid the joy of daVbreak,
Tears and sorrows shall depart.
Not forever have they left rs,
Those for whom we'd shed our tears.
Not forever shall our morning
Darken long and weary years.
There shall beaa joyous meeting
When the reign of death is Ger
In the house where all is happy,
In the land of evermore.
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1877-10-04

When you see woman standing
on kitchen chair, looking up at a
ragged hole in the pIastering, while
she holds a hammer in her right
hand and her left thumb in her
mouth, there is your chance for a
candid opinion about the nail
works.
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= '.' wfNs1oN.s ~ G., THURSDAY. OCTOBER - 1871


she laid her" hand in mine, ana
someho I thopght she. raised her
eyes to my face viii. h.a, a i efalf, illf, Plead aa1Ii
ipg look. - . a,se;t..l. '.T.,,,.s.,. !, I, !
that there was a third person in
the room. A magnifcenuy, hand
some mans who stood leaning
against the window. s.7 81. ;.a:..-
."Geleste turned to him.
"fClarke, she said, let me In
trodnce you to my friend, mfr.
Lesley. Barton. I know you will
be glad to make the acquaintance
of-ofLa - fr'f1sF..'. -Sdt tf-fc.,
"'Your future husband the
man said, laughing was that
what you were going to say, Celes-
te 2
"'Celeste +! My God, Celeste
what does this mean ? | cried,
deeming it almost impossible.
"Clarke Everitt drew the girl
close to him.
Miss Murat is my promised
wife, he said. haughtily we have
been eng ged almost two years.
"Oh, God the agony of that
moment man and all as I was, I
could not suppress the moan that
arose to my lips, AS I put PIP my
hand 10 close out the light Of day,
and then, without a word, I pas
sed from the house, and never
looked on her face again.
THAT is years-long years ago,
Helen, but till [ met Grace, | never
believed there was woman living
who could make me forget Celeste
Murat.'
GLOW he must have loved her, .
Grace murmured "bnt did he not
say that | could teach him to for
get her? I must have been mad
when l refused his love, for every
cord of my heart is his"
It WAS a very white face that
was raised to Barton Lesley's when
he went to say farewell TO Grace
Leighton.
Il wish to say sood-by, Grace .
he said, and may every happiness
be yours
Her eyes We're raised to his, and
on the impulse of the moment he
drew her to him, and kissed her
tenderly. Even, if she did not
love, she wouldl not refuse him
that first, last kiss.
"Good-bye," he said, again, as
he released. her, and turned away.
All that the girl was conscious
of was tha: he was going away
and she could keep him. Would
it he unwomanly to ask him to
stay :?
lie laid his hand on the door
the next moment he would be
gone. f
"Barton-Barton !" she cried
holding out her hands.
The next moment he was beside
her.
o"Grace," he said, "Grace, dar'
ling, what does this mean ?"
Did he need ask the question
No, for it was not answered, bu
the next moment he held her il
his arms.
"My darling" he said, "yor
mean"
s.Ihat your second love is dear
er to me than the first love of an
, other. l will try to make yo,
forget Celeste Murat."
J Darling" he said. chad I my
choice now between Celeste Mura
and another little girl l know
what do you suppose it would be?'
"Who ?" che said, raising he
wine brown eyes.
"They call her Grace Leighton
now; but tell me, sweetest, will sh,
not soon be Grace Lesley ?"
l -
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1877-10-04

The Pittsburg, Pa. Post says
that under the adjusting plan of
ascertainiug losses by the riots, SIM
liar TO that of insurance companies,
it is believed the final awards will
not vary much from these figures ::
Railroad company, 81, 100000 !;
fseigt destroyed, 81 100000; ele-
vator, $3.50 600; Keystone Hotel
Company, 800. 600; Pullman Car
Company. $4,000 private indi-
viduals, 100000 total $2.93O, 900.
That is one item of the cost of d
strike.
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1877-10-04

He was named Thomas and she
was named Jane. They sat on a
hotel balcony yesterday for three
long hours and giving themselves
dead away as being t-of-tcwners.
As they sat down Thomas took one
of James hands. She allowed that
sort Of thing to go on without a
word of protest, and the fiaxen-
haired youth finally seized the other
one. They talked and talked, and
looked down upon the street, and
sighed, and the hours slipped away.
At the end Of the third hour she
said:
ssTommy, dearest, 1 want to ask
you something"
"Ask me a hundred-a thousand
IA million things ~ he exclaimed
in reply. So
"Well, Tommy, I've got an aw,
full cold /, in my head" she con
tinued; esand if [ drew one of my
Would You think aSs h,sdedI'vt
either got to dosthat, Tommy, ol
let my nose wipe itself. just one
wipe, Tommy, and then you may
have il back, y
Tommy released her hand
though. he hated tos and Ger Anos1
was softly and duly wiped.
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1877-10-04
! COMMERCIAL ITEMS.

2 .
A Baltimore firm put mp. ,400,7
900 cans of oysters last year.
The United States annually shi bs
over Toe, 0O0 boxes of clothes pins
to England. -T'si. as.i a'
It is Southern estimate that z
Georgia's dried Peaches :his year
will be worth 81, 100000, 9nl
The cost of the Paris Exposition
of 1878 is estimated at 81, ,313, 900 j
francs or about S7,662, 600.
It is stated that there are at pres,
ent &c, 900 spiDdles silent in the
Belfast, Ireland, linen trade district.
Thetotal value OF the silk manu-
factured last year in the United
States was 25,593,103. 81
This very large quantity of 430,-
900, 900 pounds OF resin Tor rosin)
was produced in the United States
in the year 1876.
1t is estimated that the wheat
crops of Ohio this season will be
worth sl29,00O,oo0, and hay $780,
100000.
The gross productions of this
country are 6,O00,000,000 annual
ly. To handle this We have only
00,0O0,0C0 in currency.
There are sixty eight different
sewing machine STITCHES, aud IL
hundred and sixty-eight different
ways of lying about them.
Two thousand American firms
are said to have already made ar
rangements to be represented In
the Paris Exhibition Of 1873.
Utah surpasses any of the States
in the production of lead-having
produced about three fourths Of
the rehued supply last year.
The failures during the past three
months were 81 100000 more in
amount than the failures for the cor
responding period last year.
During the year just closed the
United States sold 1O5, 100000 yards
of cotton goods abroad. ten times
more than was exported the year be-
fore.
1t is estimated that turbine water
wheels have, since their invention,
saved the country over S300,00o,-
900 in the one single item OF fuel.
One manufactory of silverware
in this country has the credit of
working up more silver than all
similar manufactures in the United
Kingdom Of Great Britain.
PittsburS has 73 glass factories,
SO iron rolling mills, 8 steel rolling
mills, whitelead factories, and 80
oil refinerles, and the coal mines
tributary to this market number
15S.
The worlds annual production
of sugar aggregates 2,150,000 tons
of cane sugar, 100000 tons of
beet root sugar, 100000 tons of
date sugar, 10000 tons of maple
sugar and 10000 tons of sorghum
sugar. -
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1877-10-04

We take the following simple
and useful receipt from a writer in
the Lynchburg Ncacs !: cit is not
generally known that hartshorn is
a valuable medicine. Many have
always used it as smelling saltz.
From ten to twenty drops in a halt
glass Of water, taken inwardly, will
give relief in few moments, when
one has dyspepsia, headache or
collie; in severe cases repeat the
dose every five minutes.
A drunken man can be sobered
with hartshorn, and all the ills at
tending "sprce' banlshed.
It possesses many virtues for the
human family. "A teaspoontul
poured in two or three quarts OF
water makes a healthy bath for the
skin and hair; if persevered in ii
makes ones skin as soft, smooth
an3 sweet as baby's, and the hair
Edark, clean and glossy, aud prevents
it from turning gray. 1t is the
washer,woman' comfort, for il
makes clothes as white as snow
without injnringstheir texture. Ii
makes the dist washing duties easy
Mixed with prepared chalk it cleans
all polished metals beautifully; any
common piece of brass can be made
to shine like gold. It 'remarkabl,
cheap to be 80 valuable. Get five
cents worth and try it; but dom
put it in your eyes.
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1877-10-04

And forever shall the tear drops
Vanish from its face away,
And forever is the darkness. - II
BaniShed where tits endless days;
And forever death and sickness,
Sorrow, pining, pain and woe,
Shall be known no more or looked for
In the house to which we go.
Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1877-10-04
TNELAST DANCE.

During the occupancy of the
City of Moscow by the French
army, party of officers. and sol
diers determined to have military
levee, and for this purpose chose
the deserted palace of a nobleman.
As the sun went down they began
to assemble The women who fol
lowed the French army were deco
rated for the occasion. The gayest
and noblest of the army were there,
and merriinent reigned over the
crowd.
During the dance the fire rapidly
approached them, they saw it aom'
ing, bnt felt no fear. At length
the building next the ore they oc-
icupied was on fire. Coming to the
windows, they gazcd upon the bill
lows of fire which swept the city,
and then returned to their amuse
ments. Again and again they left
their pleasures to watch the progress
of the flames. A: length the dance
ceased, and the necessity of levaing
the scene of merriment- became
apparent TO all. They were envel
opcd in a food OF fire, and they
gazed upon it with deep and awful
solemHity.
At last the fire communicating
with their own. building caused
them TO prepare for flight, when a
brave young officer named Carnot
waved isjeweled hapd-abovc his
head, and exclaimed "One dance
more. and defiance to the flames! .
All caught the enthusiasm I of ; the
moment, and "One dance more,
and defiance to the flames ~, burst
from the lips of all. The dance
commenced; louder and louder grew
the sound cf the music, and faster
and faster fell the pattering4 foot>
steps of dancing men and women,
when, suddenly, they.heard a cry:
s'The fire has reached the magazine!
Fly, fysfor your life - One mo-
ment they stood transfxed with
terror; they didn't know the maga-
zine was there, and ere they recov-
cred from their stupor, the vault
exploded; tho building was shat
tered to pieces and the dancers
were hurried into fearful eternity
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1877-05-02
REVENGE OF INJURIES.

The fairest action of our human life
Is scoming to revenge an injury;
For who forgiyes without further strife,
His adversaTy's heart to him doth tie,
And t is firmer conquest truly said,
To win the heart, than overthrow the
head.
If we a worthy enemy do find,
Toyield to worth it must be nobly done /;
But if of baser metal be his mind,
In base revenge there's no honor won.
Who would a worthy courage overthrow?
And who would wrestle with a worthless
foe?
We say our hearts are great, and cannot
yield;
Because they cannot yield, it proves
them poor:
Great hearts are tasked beyond their
power but seld;
The weakest lion will the loudest roar.
Truths school for certain doth this same
allow:
High-heartedress doth sometimes teach
to bow.
A noble heart doth teach a virtuous
scorn =
To scorn to owe a duty overlong;
To scorn to be for benefits forborne;
To scorn to lie; to scorn to do a wrong
To scorn to bear an injury in mind;
TO scorn a free-born heart slave-like to
bind.
But if for wrongs we needs revenge must
have,
Then be our vengeance of the noblcst
kind.
Do we his body from our fury save,
And let our hate prevail against his
mind?
What can against him a greater vengeance
be,
Then make his foe more worthy far than
he?
--Elizabetb Cdrelc.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1877-05-02
CAMBRIDGE, N. Y,

- p1Ah 49,
Editor News -
want to tell the Christian women of
your county something about the work
that women of this State are doing for
the far-of heather: for the land of
darkness and idolatry. 1t may en-
courage them, and when women sit
idle, day by day, signing for the time
when they may stand an equal to man,
and cast a vote by his side, l only
ask them to take one view Of the poor,
drudging women Of Siam, Persia, and
other heathen lands, as we get it from
returned missionaries, and they can
but realize that women have much
greater work to do than to cast a bal
lot. The annual meeting of the "Wom-
ans Presbyterian Board of Foreign
Missions, Synod of Albanys" was hol-
den in this village, April 18th. The
two branches Of this society-Troy
and Albany, sent rs ladies to attend
the meeting. They are at work in be-
half of a girls school, started in Siam,
three years ago land supporting mission
aries. Among the number present,
was Mrs. House, wife Of DR.. Samuel
House, Of Waterford, N. Y. She has
been missionary laborer in Bankok,
Siam, for thirty years. In the morn
ing, she addressed the ladies as fol
lows:
~ have been missionary 80 years.
When | went back to Siam the last
time: it was twenty years ago: founo
it very different from what it was wher
| went there the first time. / was 81
days out of sight Of land, with only thC
poor provision which the ships those
} days carried. You know very little o
' heathen hearts, if you imagine tha
| they can be brought out of darkness
! very rapidly. 1t is darkness on ever,
) side, there. You must live there, Il
: Get true idea Of it. / found the peo
pie ignorant; ; now, most Of the men
t can read. We have had a boys schoc
e for thirty years. But it has taken a
e these long years to get the minds c
a the people redeemed from the prejudic
n against women, so we could start
y school for girls. And three years ag
1t ] had the honor to organize the frs
e boarding school for girls ever organize
Il in Siam. 1t is in Bankok. | le
IL twenty pupils, eighteen boaNlers an
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1877-05-02
HYDE PARK, VT, WEDNESDAY, MAY 2 1877.

not forget, BILL he said, that YOU
have saved your coloners life.' We
had fierce struggle, master, ere we
beat out the French; but, broken and
half-naked as we were, we did beat
them out, and the battle became gen.
eral, "At first the flare of artillery,
as the batteries blszed out in the dark
ness, dazzled and blinded me; but
loaded and fired necessarily, and. the
thicker the bullets went whistling past
me. the faster l loaded and fired. A
spent shot, that had struck through a
sand-bank, came rolling on like bowl,
and, leaping up from hillodk in front,
struck me on the breast. 1t was such
blow, master, as a man might have
given with his fist; but it knocked me
down, and ere l got up, the company
was a few PAGES in advance. The
bonnet of the soldier who had taken
my place came rolling to my feet ere ]
could join them. But, alas +! it was
full of blood and brains, and | found
that the spent shot had come just il
time to save my life. Meanwhile, the
battle ragged with redOubled fury OF
the left, and we in the centre had 6
short respite and some of us needed
it. For my own part, lhad fired about
hundred rounds, and my right shoul.
der was blue as your waistcoat.
"You will wonder, master, how
should notice such a thing in the hea
Of an engagement; but l remember
nothing better than that there was ,
flock Of little birds shrieking and fut
tering over our heads for the greater
part Of the morning. The poor little
things seemed as if robbed of theiI
very instinct by the incessant dis
charges on every side Of them; and
instead Of pursuing a direct course
which would soon have carried then
clear Of us, they kept futtering in onc
little spot. About midday, an aide
de-camp went riding by us to the right