The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-06-27

ry. still
Il thank thee faire la lye for teach
ing me that word, and alsp for the gen
tlene,s of the rebuke. | Will write soor
and give you the latest genarl'otlcal r.
searches, and the latest ne v,ufJ 7. "
Look here, Grandma, ! lit ha, be
come Of you? | hope the cold damI
weather has not brought back that
pesky'' rheumatism. Bless your deat
old heart May you long i've to Ill
your accustomed place in the chimney
corner of the Household 50 take your
knitting and come along right straight
! We cannot do without YOU longer.
Ard now for three friends of mine who
have never been initiated into our band
One lives by the deep sad sea and
sometimes reads the Farmer and Ne
citunic. Will she not sometimes meet us
where her talents and accomplishments
will at once force speedy recognition OF
her great qualities of head and heart
She pleads Il HAVEN'T TINE" for thus
staying away from Us. Stop my dear
friend, reading such Fashionable trash
as Phyllis and Lii, Fair, Fair, With
Golden Hair and [ suspect you vii
then and time to visit Us once IN while
at least Another will soon leave old
BERTHE for the far West May her line,
fall in pleasant places. | would here
try to say something original aud nice
but the following stanzas by Tom Moore
are too much prettler and more appro
pirate than anything Of my own, that
will quote them instead
Peace be around thee, wherever tho
rovest,
May life be for thee one Summers day
And all that thou wishest and al that
thou lowest,
Come smiling around thy sunny way
If sorrow e'er this calm should break,
Nay zen thy tears pass off SO lightly
Like Spring showers, they'll only make
The smiles that follow shine more bril- ht-
ly.
May time who sheds his blight Ger /,
And daily dooms some Joy to death,
| o er thee let years SO gently fall,
| They shall not crush one flower beneath.
| As half in shade and half in sun.
! his world along It's path advances,
| May that side the sun upon.
Be all that e'er shall meet thy glances.
Don't forget, old friends, at all events,
and sometimes come into the Household
| To 'Hieroglyphic, at least, your visits
will be as welcome as gentle raiu-showerS
to the sun-parched earth. There's one
more. She dwells by the yellow waters
of the old Roanoke. She is farmer
wife, but the daughter of an accom-
plished scholar and poet, who woke to
ecstacy the living Tyre" Will she too
not join US? Well take no excuse, for
her fathers mantle has descended to her,
and she would he so bright light, cyer
among the lumlnarles Of our Household
Yes, n. +. j., one EYE" at least would
mark your coming, and grow brighter
when you come. Have you seen the
June number Of At Home and 4Lroud
Read it, for it contains Then and Now
the origin of which you DO doubt re-
member.
Well, dear Household, | have about
run aground, but before | close | would
like to give you some Of my impression:
of very poor book nave ust finished
and | suppose the best way TO do this IL
to copy from its last fly leaves what
wrote thereon. The title of the
book il Tobias Wilson, Tale Of tn,
Great Rebellion, aud written by the
E. Hon, rable Jere Clemens The poe
Burns once wrote, Some books are lie
frae enl to end Now, If it has eve
been our fortune or misfortune to Sc,
one whi-h belongs on that category, thi
book, Tobias Wilson, surely does Fo
coars eness, for narrow minded sectarian-
ism an / abuse of other schools of the
,lAnx To oaaI l. hoo,
written. If we accept old ParsOn Brown
lows reply 10 Graves. One would thini
from reading this work that the South
ern Secessionists were all men of th,
meaLs brh and social standing, il
fact, the verleSt pariaf, or oltcasts o
Southern society, whereas. as a rule
Just the reverse Of this obtained On
would also deduce from its perusa
that the Baptist church was the hot be,
and promoter Of secession, when it is
well known fact that all religions an,
ere eds, with Tie exception of the fc,
Quakers scattered through the COnfed
eracy, came maniuliy together and par
1 tcipated In our valiant strug. lie 70
! Southern independence and local self
government. We though, after readin
! the base fabrications of chat Ianke
arch liar, Albion W. Tourgee. that h
I had reached the acme Of viiifying ou
p ople, but must now confess that thi
effort of the Honorable Mr.. Clemen
t out Tourgees Tourgee in the remarkabl
easy manner in which he can call spirit
from the vasty deer to abuse our long
5 suffering South. We do not know VIII
Mr. Clemens is, but ''Mirable dictu
! have heard that he is South erner him
self, native OF Alabama. We hope to
, the credit of human nature that this
not So that We have been mlslnformed
{ and that this living libel o. mankind
was not oorn upon Southern soil Wit
this short notice, We commend this Ion
confederation of fal>ities aud Its author
to the oblivion they 50 justly merit. Th
: book was written Just aite the w r, an
no doubt vii the object to curry fave
8 with the Yankees.
HllRo o.rI.YI HIC."