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South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1882-08-11
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MAoAaE REsLfEs TAnrEr.-A bib
aloas indtssinal was introduced to a
lady rh6 ns6-been represented to hiss
IS quite talented artist. He greete,
her by saying:
Il understand. madame, that yoa
paint .
She started. blusbsd deeply, and, re-
covering herself, wisb 50 much style as
she eosld command.
Well, il 1 do paint, = tiouy make any
mistake md put i,oa ny noser
What is That which shows Others
what is cannot see i.selfs A Mirror
- s.-s--as.s--...
Some men are born slight, some "a
chicye s!igh!nsss, but mos. men. have
sights pa. upon them.
Farewell was the title Of e poem sen /
TO u newspaper; and The cruel editor
in acknowledging it's receipt. said, 1T
IS q good thing that the gifted author.
ess babe ii good-by, as she will never
see 1t again Cb A
The Rev. Hr. Darlington, Of Char
lotto county, Va belonged to one Of he
old families. was an eloquent preacher,
and universally popular. He was careless
about the management Of his large es-
tate, while his brother Paul was noted
for his thrift and industry. The preacher
usually bought his supplies OF butter
from Paul. One Sunday morning after
breakfast and just as the reverend gen.
tlemen was starting TO church, he dis
patched his servant over TO his brothers
house for fresh supply Of butter tina,
nonld BIO Eceded ut the Sunday dinner.
The negro was told 70 hurry back and
report the success Of his mission. lie
arrived at tho church anil had meekly
stepped in 10 take seat just as the
Rev. Mr.. Darlington, already consider.
ably warmed up, said in laundering
zones: "And what does Paul saw"
The negro. thinking the question adj
dressed TO him. replied in the hearing
of whole congregation: "Marse Paul
says as how you can't get any moro but.
ter till you've paid for dat you got last
week.-LoaisciHe Courier Joepaal
IEAcHER: your father gave you
q basket Of peaches, TO divide between
yourself and your little brother, and
there were 40 peaches in the basket.
after you had taken your share, what
would be left PUPIL: My little
brother would get left. for Ia take oil
the peaches.
a little fellow came 10 school brim,
full of talk about bran-new baby at
his home. How old is itP, asked some
body. / don't know how old it is,'
he answered. naivcly; they only found
it last night,
Woo To the man who makes no mis-
takes. l am sorry for isim, If man
has biz bucket and only pint Of wa
ter. he won't spill it; bat if the bucket
is even full, can he help stopping over?
/ honor tho man who Stops over. He is
man Of measures and masnitudes.
They live in an HINT able expanse, and
across their souls plays the quiyering
light OF Cod Beeclier.
A family going north from Raleigh
took the boat at Norfolk after dark.
Next morning the little girl awoke
and scrambled up to the window, and,
looking out on the broad Atlantic,
exclaimed: % mamma, do get up
here and see, the front yard is full Of
water
See here WAITER said Cauliflower,
pushing away his egg cup with dis
gust, Il don't want to count chickens
before they are hatchcd. Control
City (Ncb.) Item.
When is a doctor most annoyed?
When he is out Of patients.
Kick your corn through window.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1882-08-11
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potence, Sexual Debility. 81.
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South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1882-08-11

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See here waiter said Cauliflower,
pushing away his egg cup with dis
gust, Il don't want to count chickens
before they are hatchcd. Control
City (Ncb.) Item.
When is a doctor most annoyed?
When he is out of patients.
Kick your corn through window.
glass and the pane is gone forever.
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Some men are born slight, some "a
chicye s!ighsnsss, bat most men. have
sights pat u pom them.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1882-08-11

Farewell was the title OF poem sen
TO u newspaper; and ,he cruel editor
IN acknowledging it's receipt. Said, III
10 good thing that the gifted author.
ess babe it good-by, as she will never
Zee 1t again 80
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1882-08-11

A family going north from Raleigh
took the boat at Norfolk after dark.
Next morning the little girl awoke
and scrambled up to the window, and,
looking out on the broad Atlantic,
exclaimed: 90 mamma, do get up
here and see, the front yard is full Of
water
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1882-08-11

Whst is That which shows others
What is cannot see itselfs A Mirror
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-07-20

smooth skeleton, Jackalls, too, are fond of
revisting the scenes of their former revels !;
some animals would seem to be endowed with
the gift that supported Cardinal de Ratz in
his exileGtlle fact of 'sluxuriating on recol-
lections." In Europe where new preserves
have often to be stocked with game birds,
hundreds of partridges are sometimes caught
alive by this simple device. Near the haunts
of the game brush-edge with an opening
here and there is set across field and Oh
either side of the tfansit-holes the trapper
fastens wire moose. No bait is needed :;
partridges never fly over hedge if they can
crawl through, their motives being probably
their general reluctance to betray their wlerea-
bouts by taking in an open field. Hunted
coonies, as we'll as rats and mice, are likewise
almost sure to make for the next hole, incur
ring any risk for the sake of momentary con-
cealment. In chasing rat around the room,
much trouble can be saved by twisting an old
newspaper in the form sofa sugarloaf bag and
placing it on the floor alongside the wall. If
the outlaw can be induced to approach it from
the open side, he will dash in with squeak of
delight and can be captured before he discov-
ers that his harbor Of refuge has been block
AIDED T6Dninr1t 81 s..-.-'.
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ea- The swiftest bird on the wingis undoubt-
edlv, the frigate bird, or eagle of the sea,
which often measures sixteen feet from tip to
tip of the wings. 1t hovers at an elevation OF
10. 900 feet whsn a storm sweeps over the
ocean. If it wishes to travel, says an eminent
French naturalist, it can almost annlhllate
space 1t can breakfast i'll America anu dlne III
Africa. This bird reposes Oh it's great motion
less wings. literally sleeping on the bosom OF
the air.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-07-20

GENIUS AND TALENT.-NO artistic achieve
ment is ever the outcome of genius pure and
simple. The creative, instructive and meal
culable factor may make it's presence and op-
GRAFTON most largely and impressively felt, but
in the very greatest work, from which it is i'm
possible to dsassociate the idea of inspiration
there is an element which is not inspired
which belongs to the mechanics rather than
to the dynamics of the intellect, and which IS
seen in those portions of the poem or the PIC
tllre, or the symphony, which bear witness,
not to that unconscious creation whose laws
are hidden with the secrets OF personality, Dut
to that conscious construction which laborl-
ously adapts means to ends. In the highest
Find of this complex work the genius may be-
.ome so potent as to absorb the talent into it
self, so that we may see everywhere the two
elements in union, aud cannot say where one
ends and the other begins !; but this IS rare
experience, and the more ordinary spectacle IS
that of an imperfect amalgamatlon, or per-
maps of no amagation at all, the two products
existing side by side in combination which
is not vital or even chemical, but simply me-
chanical. In these instances, whatever error
or imperfection may exist in the work Will be
found to inhere in that part of it which owes
its being to talent, for the simple reason that
talent is falible, while genius is lnfalllDle.
Genius is like sixth sense, and as we are neV-
er deceived by our senses but only by our rea-
sOning from sensOry Impressions, SO IN ike
manner the errors to he found in work OF ge-
MUS are not errors of genius, but errors caused
by a temporary absence of genius-by rell-
;lnce upon talents for which talent IS not
equal, or to which it is only equal by good
luck.-L0ndon Spectator.
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Selected gaetrg.
UNSPOKEN PRAYER.
BY MARGARET J. PRESTON.


Too tired-too worn to pray,
can but fold my hands,
Entreating In voiceless way,
OF him who understands "
How flesh and heart succumb-
How will sinks, weary-weak.
Dear Lord, my languid lips are dumb,
See what cannot speak.
Just as the wearied child,
Through sobbing pain opprest,
Drops, bushing all its waifing wild,
Upon its mothers breast
So on Thy bosom ..
. Would cast my speechless prayer,
Nor dou bt that Thou wilt let me lie
In trustf,h weakness there:
And though no conscious thought
Before me rises clear,
The prayer OF worldless language wrought;
fiuy Thou vet will deign to hear;
81 For when at best I plead
What so my spirit saith
Ionly am the bruised reed, ...
And Thou the breathing breath.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-07-20

CULTIVATE A SWEET VoICE.-There is no
power of love so hard to get and keep as a
kind voice. A kind hand is deaf and dumb
It may be rough in flesh and blood, yet do the
work of a soft heart, and do it with a SOFT
touch. But there is no one thing that love so
much needs us a sweet voice to tell what 1t
means and feels, and it is hard to get it and
keep it in the right tone. One must start IN
youth. and be on the watch night and day, at
work and play, to get and keep voice that
shall speak at all times the thought OF kind
heart. But this is the time when sharp voice
is most apt to he got. You often hear boys
and girls say words at play with quick, sharp
tone, as if it were the snap of a whip. When
one of them gets yexed you Will hear voice
that sounds as if it were made up OF snarl
a whine and bark Such voice often speaks
worse than the heart feels. 1t shows more ILL
will in the tone than in the words. 1t is often
in mirth that one gets a voice or tone that IS
sharp. and it sticks to him through life, and
stirs up ill-will and grief, and falls like drop
of gall on the sweet joys at home. Such as
these get sharp home voice for use and keep
their best voice for those they meet elsewhere,
lust as they would save their best cakes and
pies for guests and all their sour food for their
own board. l would say to all boys and glrls,
Use your guest voice at home" Watch IT
by day as pearl of great price, for 1t Will De
worth more to you in the days to come than
the best pearl hid in the sea. A kind voice IS
a lark's song to hearth and home. 1t IS TO
the heart what light is to the eye.-Je'r'sh
McSSenger.
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The leader, placing pistol at her breast, said,
Tell, or you shall die in your tracks" She
snatched off long kerchief, which covered
her neck and bosom, and said, 'Shoot me, II
you dare 1 will not tell" He was about to
fire when companion threw up his hand and
saved the brave girls life. [ might tell you a
hundred stories of our brave women, but it is
getting late"
Tell me, please,"I said ''where were you
at the time of the battle of Kings Mountain 7"
SIN it, he promptly replied. II was at
home on parole, and volunteered to resist Fer
guson and his Tories. We met him among
these gravel-hills you saw to-day. lie was
killed. and a large portion of his men were
made prisoners You saw the stone that
marks the place where he fell and was buried"
Eyes, and made this sketch of it," handing
him my rude drawing.
''On that limb" he said, pointing to one on
the tree nearest the memorial stone, u saw
the Tories hung. They were a murderous
gang, and deserved their fate"
Ibid you meet Sumter after the war ~
inquired. oo,
''Often. He died only few years ago, 1882,
when he was almost hundred years old. L
was at his funeral at his home, South Mount,
near Camden.''
Turning to a grand child, Mr.. McElwee
said, Its nine O'Clock hand me the Bible" /"
He read short chapter, a hymn was sung,
and he concluded the simple family worship
with most impressive prayer.
I bade the venerable man goodnight with
feeling of gratitude for rich entertainment.
Benson !. LOSsinq.
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TRAPS.

IRAPS.
Man has been called a tool-makng animal,
and the first tool was probably trap. L do
not believe that our prmogenltorS were car
nverous. Long before they began to covet
flesh they probably hankered after eggs and
milk. and had to devise means for catching
the creatures to supply these. They had no
need of elaborate contrivances. Experience
makes savages the best hunters, and it alone
can explain their success in capturing animals
whose cunning deties the best inventions OF
the amateur spOrtSmem. With the simplest OF
all imaginable trapS-an elastic stick with
noose-the PatagOnian nomads catch hares,
foxes, wolves and the shyest of all American
uuadrupeds. the mountain Vicuna. Won
Tschudi made the acquaintance OF Chilian
farmer who had passed several years III the
Andes before he succeeded in Catching live
yicuna. He had initiated the traps OF the III
dians, their method of fixing them in the sand
in the river banks, their precautlon i'll obllt-
Grating the traces OF their footsteps. but all III
vain, till an Indian renegade revealed the Sc
cret-namely. that the vicunas invariably Sc
lect their drinking-places where there is an
audible ripple in the current of the river, per-
haps for the same reason that COWS prefer Il
brook to a pond, and a running to sluggish
creek. The murlnuring of the stream seemed
to suggest the idea of purer and cooler water !:
and Wien the current was slow the Indians
contrived to produce ripple by an artificial
obstruction.
Nearly every animal has some way or other
that may be utilized for its capture. Minks
have a queer fashion for rummaging pile Of
dry leaves, and the wild turkey Can be taken
in an open trap, because, for some, reason, the
idea of going backward never suggests itself to
his mind. < Kentucky ''turkey-pen' is sim
ply ditch with a roof of logs and ending in a
cul-de-sac, but opened at the other end. To
this opening turkeys are allured by ssprink-
lngS of corn or cranberrles, and, entering tile
ditch where the bait is scattered more liberal
ly, they follow it until they reach the ne plus
! ultra end and it is a decided fact such half
captives will poke around their pen for weeks
without discovering the means of exit.
| The female puma has marvellous talent
for hiding her lair, but the trapper knows
enough if she has torn her prey, for to that
place she will return again and again, even
after the carcass has been gnawed into a
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-07-20

FINGER-MARKs.-A gentleman hired ma
son to do some work for him, and among 9th.
er things to 'thin-whiten" the wall OF one OF
his rooms. This whitening is almost col
orless until dried. The gentleman was much
SURPRISED on the morning after the chamber
was finished, to find on the drawer of his desk,
standing in the room, white finger marks.
Opening the drawers, he found the same on
tile articles in it, and also on the pocket-book.
An examination revealed the same marks on
the contents of the bag. This proved clearly
that the mason with his wet hand, had opened
the drawer, and searched the bag which con-
tanned no money, and had then closed the
drawer without once thinking that any one
would ever know it.. The 'thin-whltening,'
which happened to be on his hands, did not
show at first, and he probably had no idea that
twelve hours drying would reveal his wicked
ness. AS the work was all done on the after
noon the drawer was opened the man did not
come again, and to this day does not know
that his acts are known to his employer. BE,
ware of evil thoughts and deeds They all
leave their finger-marks, which will one day
be revealed Sin detiles the soul. 1t betrays
those who engage in it by the marks it makes
on them. These may be almost, if not quite
invisible at first.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-07-20

d" NJ Grehaut has made Il series of expert
ments which convince him that death is caused
by alcohol when the proportion of absolute al
cohOl in the blood is equal to the hundredth
part of the latter. that the condition known as
i'dead drunk" exists when the alcohol imbIbed
ceases to be absorbed. and the blood presents
the proportion of one part Of alcohol to l95 oil
bood--more than one half the fatal quantity
This observer thinks that if fewer deaths oc-
cur from drunkenness than might be expected,
it is because drunkards stop drinking before
the fatal proportion of alcohol in the blood
has been reached