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LORD BEACONSFIELD.

My object is to call the attention
OF young men to 5 o lie of tie elements
of the late Lord Beaconsfed's great.
ness and some of the high qualities
by which he achieved his memorable
career AS a rule, the character OF
English statesmen in the last two or
three generations has been a lofty
character. AS rule, it has main
tanned, in all regions Of public life,
he stand Of English honor and Eng
llsh disinterestedness.
We think with admiration of
Chatham's splendid vehemence, of
Pitts inextinguishable hope, of Per.
civars sincere religion, of Bnrke's
phi"sophic genius, of Fox's burning
enthusiasm, of Wilberforce's hallow
ed philanthropy, of Grattan's un
daunted patriotism. of Canning's S
brilliant gaietv, of PeePs pure life.
of Palmerston's genial kindness, OF
Russelrs high toned magnarimity.
of the great soldier "whose grey
haired virtue was a grander thing
than even Waterloo"
Lord Ellenborough says in his
diary, The more know of the in.
terror of politics, the more shabby
and personal the motives of men ap.
pear.' But the poorness of the mo
tive may be due to the fault Of the
observer and although l should be
far from representing the character
of Lord Eeaconsfeld as being in any
sense an ideal character. or his career
as an ideal career. yet l think that
It is a noble instinct which ma kes
us desire to make mems virtues live
in brass while Sve write their evil
manners IN water.
However serious may have been
the faults of Benjamin Disraeli, Envy
herself will, l think, admit that he
had qualities which leave large room
for honest praise. 1t is about one
or two of these qualities that l now
propose to write.
l. Notice, for instance, the courage
with which he stood by his race. He
never shl ank from the name Of Jew
lie met with open scorn the sneer o1
those who scotfed at what he claimed
as a distinction. He felt that i,
must indeed be a great race of which
alone it could be said that it gave q
Prime Minister to Pharaoh in Egypt
four thousand years ago, and a Prime
Minister to Darius in Persia two
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BAYARD TAYLOR.

Bayard Taylor, an American au.
thor and celebrated traveller, was
born, Jan. IL, 1925, at Kennett Square,
Chester County, Pennsylvania.
During his boyhood he received
common school education, and was
apprentice at the age of seventeen
years in a printing Office. During his
stay at this place he began his poeti.
cal contributions to various periodi.
Gals.
In 1874 he published volume Of
poems under the title Of s'Kimena,"
and soon after started on u pedes.
trian tour of Europe, and in 1916
published the volume, Views Afoot,
or. Europe Seen with a Knapsack
and Staff
Upon his return he edited for q
time country newspaper; then went
to New York and wrote for the Liter.
ury World ond Tribune. Soon after
he became assistant editor of this
paper, and DEVOTED much of his time
to travelling in California and Mexico,
an account of his travels being writ
ten by hin for the paper with which
he was associated.
In after years he spent much of
his time abroad, residing some time
in Germany. If 1873 he was appoint.
ell United States Ambassador in
Berlin. where he died in the month of
December. same year. During the
last twelve years OF his life he was
engaged in writing the life of Faust.
In certain particulars he was une.
qualed by any of our poets. His
writings were distinguished by his
power in producing clear, distinct
nictures of life and nature.
Among his various Writings we
would uolice ..Poems Of the Ore Mt. :"
Poems of Home and Travel 81. he
Masque of the Gods. The Prophet
and "Home Ballads. ."-Educutionta
Journal.
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CHURCHES :

Baptist. D. Hufham. D. D.. Pastor.
Services every Sunday at II o'clock. A.
NJ, and I. P. NJ. Also on Saturday
before the first Sunday at IL o'clock, a.
NJ. Prayer Meeting every Wednesday
night. Sunday School On Sabbath morn
ing.
Primitive Baptist-Eld. Andrew Moore.
Pastor Services every third Saturday
and Sunday morning.
Methodist-Rev. G. W. Byrd, Pastor.
Services at o'clock, P Nj on the second
and fourth Sundays. Sunday School on
Sabbath morning.
Episcopal-Rev. H. G. Hilton, Rector
Services every first. second and third
Sundays at log o'clock, A. NJ. Sunday
School every sabbath morning
Meeting of Pible class on Thursday
night at the residence of MIR. P. E. Smith
Baptst-(colored.) George Norwood,
Pastor. Services every second Sunday
att o'clock. A. NJ, and Z, P. Nj. Sun
day School on Sabbath morning.
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LEARN YOUR CHILDREN TO WORK
AND TAKE CARE.

How many parents make sad mis-.
take in raising their children up in
ldleness. because they have wealth
sufficient to indulge them without
needing their labor?
The experience of time speaks in
audible words, ''that idleness breeds
mischief in a very prolific manner.
Would it not be better for parents,
regar4 less Of estate, to early instill
into the minds of their children strict
obedience, industry and economy.
The day has been when men depen.
ded on slave labor and did not need
the help Of their children they could
indulge them in idle whims and
pleasures and did not feel the weight
pecuniarily, but it was not long be.
fore the nursed habit Of idleness, re.
bounded back immorally, with double
force against the parents and the
community. And these is some Of
that dissi?atedness lurking in the
veins of society yet; aid will be till
parents learn their children. in firm
but mild wav, to abstain from the
corrupting. demoralizing elements of
degraded society. by early throwing
around them the restraints Of train.
ing them in an honorable avocation
Of life.
A child cries and begs for things
many times that would prove instant
death to it. So does the youth. at Q
premature age, want and persist in
indulging in idle habits, that,are bold
steps in the direction of temporal
AMI eternal ruin. Think for moment
of the hundreds Of men that have
risen to great elninence from very
limited circums' ances. in life, and
others, rocked in the cradle of luxu-
ry, raised in pomp and splendor,
have degraded themselves to the low.
est degree in society and made per-
feet shipwrecks of superior advan-
tages.
We contend that more men are
ruined by idle. indulgent advantages
| than e,.2r have been for the want .Of
such opportunities. 1t is best for
man not to have too mnch Of any
thing at once.-Moore Gazette.
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classes, he yielded to the current
made. instead Of inaugurating a
thorough revolution. But. in spite
of these defects. Dryden remains
the one conspicuous figure among
the poets OF his age. His defects
are those of the period: his excel
lences are his own. If he failed to
reopen the springs of English. he
did much to clarity and render
healthful the miserable adulteration
imported from France.
From Dryden the scepter passed
to Pope, who has not inappropriate.
ly been recognized as 1.-THE prince of
the artificial school of English
poetry" He inL erited the traditions
and taste Of the Restoration. In
him the movements eliminated.
La his voluminous writings, also, It's
excellences anu defects became con
spicuous. Form and style usurped
the pace of substance. He was
elegant, but cold. In the new liter.
ature there was no Drawn. no blood
the rully Saxon countenance was
replaced by wan and faded visage
strange to those islands. The Eng.
lish nation had come to feel how
alien was this growth, ard to long
.or something more In harmony with
its constitutions AMI tastes. Gray
had sympatnies with the exotic
literature of the outgoing age; he
was scholarly, elegant, anil a devotee
Of the classics; but me felt still
leeper Interest in the beauties o.
nature AMI the fortunes of the race
to which he belonged. BY the lat
ter he became the interpreter of the
rising sentiment Of the people, the
earliest prop.et of the new litera
ture springing from the still vital
root Of native English.-NeU York
ChriSttua AdOocute.
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them. They would like distinction
very we'll if it dropped into their
mouths. but they lack the manly
fibre, the stern self. ontrol, the never
wearied patience, the inflexible de-
termination, the unwavering adapta-
tion Of means to ends, by which sue
cess is won.
Still more do too many of them
lack the strenuous wisdom which
takes the measure Of earthly success,
and despises it, and sees the most
eternal and magnificent of all sue
cesses in the beatitude Of poverty
bravely borne for noble cause, and
in the anguish Of that martyrdom
which is virtue fighting to the death
for truth.
But even for earthly success, much
more for the divine success, energy
is indispensable. 1t is only to TIL"
energetic man that the blessed i'm
mortals are swift. while the youth
who chooses Incidence, and selfish
pleasures, and vulgar comfort, will
alas! give back to his Creator at
the last perhaps not even his one
talent in napkin perhaps. alas !!
nothing but "the du ,t of his body
and the shipwreck of his soul"
5. Another admirable feature Of
his life was that this fine power of
will, this battlc-brunt and manhood
OF his nature, was undaunted diff
cultles.
Truly if he had feared diff, ultles.
he wou. d not have died an acknowl-
edged leader OF men. A Jew. the
son of an author Of limited means.
without rank, without connection,
: without public-school training, with.
out university education, not even
baptized till he was about fourteen,
| beginning life as an articled clerk
long hamperrd by debts, wit, no adj
vantages Of person, with no over
whelming power Of oratory, with
some disadvantages of manner, he
yet determined to become the leader
OF the proudest aristocracy in the
world.
BY steady perseverance, by genius,
by patience, by watchfulness. by
lnextlnguishable resolve and daring
he burst his way through all these
thorny obstacles, AMI diei an Earl,
a knight of the Garter, a man who
had swayed cabinets and parliaments
and foreign congresses. the friend OF
his sovereign AMI the favorite OF the
nation.
And l think that one reason why
the people Of England admired and
loved him. whatever may have been
his faults, was because of this reso
luton, which ploughed its way
through so many rude detraction,
and would not be subdued even by
failures.-Youth's Compunion.
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GRAY, THE LAST OF THE REST0RA-
TION POETS.
BY d. SHERMAN, ID.


In the galaxy of English poets the
name. of Thomas Gray shines with a
brilliant and steady lu,ter. If not a
star of the fiji st magnitude. his posi-
ton in the poetic heavens and the
cheerful pensive light he emits have
made him an object Of attraction to
all classes of readers. Indeed 1t may
be doubted whether the name of amy
other poet of the age is so familiar to
the public Of to-day. Ramsey, Phi
lips, Armstrong, Shenstone, and
Akenside fade in tho dim distance,
and even Thomson. Young, and Col
lins appear to recede with each year.
while Gray. like fixed star. holds
his original position in ur literature.
Even Pope and johnson, those great.
er lights Of the eighteenth century,
are felt to belong to comparatively
dead past j.; but Gray remains our
contemporary lie is of our century,
as really as of the past. How few or
dinarv readers of our literature know
any thing of the 'Dunciad, the
Rape of the Lock-" or the Essay
on man - but who is not familiar with
the ''Elegy in a Country Church.
yard p
To those who estimate literary
genius and production by material
bulk. the continued hold OF our poet
on popular favor is an in>oluble
mystery. In the view of Dickens no
poet ever gained place among the
immortals with so small volume
under his arm as Gray. The entire
list of his poems would not fill de
cent sized vest.pocket volume; and
even of these only part remain vital.
In fact, when the problem is reduce q
to it's lowest terms, the fame of the
poet rests ON the elegy. Precious as
are some other passages in his writ
ings, this masterpiece. lnestllnaole
level, remains the best expression OF
| his genius. Minute and elegant, it
has from the first won the favor OF
the common as we'll as the culturei
reader. Whether any addition to It's
bulk could enhance the fame OF its
author may be doubted. Compact
ness is great element of ofpermanent
popularity. Many a genius who
would have shnne in an'ode OF lyric
lies sumptuously entombed in tolios.
which are carefully packed away like
SO many mummy cases, never to De
reopened until the roll-call OF Rhada-
M anthus Posterity is a severe Judge
of literary merit and rigid econo-
mist Of time. demanding that wisdom
be passed along in homeopathic
packages. If you would address that
great and unimpassioned audience. it
must be in few and c.4os"n words.
But our interest in Gray is derived
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COUNTY,.

Superior Court Clerk and Probate
yudge-John I. Gregory
Inferior Court--Geo. L. Simmons.
Register of Deeds-J. NJ. Grizzard.
Solicitor-A. J. Burton.
Sheriff-R. J. Lewis.
Coroner H Jenkins.
TreasuIer-E. ID. Browning.
20. Supt. Pub. lnstruction-D C Clark.
Keeper of the Poor House-John Ponton.
Comnissioncrs-Ch Chairman, Aaron Pres
colt, Sterling johnson. DR.. w. r.
Wood, John A. Morfeet, and NJ.
Whitehead.
SuperlU Court-Every third Monday
in March and September.
Inferior Court-Every third Monday in
February, May. August and November.
Judge of Iuferior Court-T. N. Hill.
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TEACHING SCHOOL AND BOARDING
AROUND.


My thoughts go back to the rosy prime,
And memory paints anew the scenes
Altar in the bleak New England cline,
Though half a century intervenes.
On highway corner the school house
stands,
Under an elm tree broad and tall,
And rollicking children in laughing
bands,
Come at the masters warning call.
They pile together their sleds and skates,
Hang hats and hoods in the entry-way,
And gathering pencils, books and states
Diligent study succeeds to play.
4 mounrain stream turns gray stone
mill,
That runs with slow and slumberous
sound.
And there fancy wander still,
Teaching school and boarding around.
Near by is a farmhouse large and square,
With doors and Easements of faded red,
stoop that shades from the Summer
glare.
And wood we'll piled in the sheltering
shed
There's all ancient barn with swallow
High in the gable, three in line;
The 1.-the bay colt III the deep snow rolls;
From RACKS of hay feed the doclie kine;;
Closely are hudded the timorous sheep !:
As the fails resound from the thresn-
ing floor,
The pilleriny poultry stealthily creep
And silently watch at the open door
For each stray kernel OF the shelllng
grain.
Full of content was the lot found
.+I,o fol a
Teaching school and boarding around.
The farmers table has lavish supplies
Chicken and sausage Of flavor rare,
Crullers and cookies, and puGdings and
pies,
! Are items rich in the bill of fare.
+ The teacher sleeps in wide, soft bed,
! Kept clean for guests, in the great
spare room.
! With CAV chintz curtains over his head,
And blankets woven in the old hand
loom.
The thrifty wife ere the break of day
, Springs from her rest though the morn
is cool.
And, breakfast en- led, we haste away
O'er the shining crust to the district
school.
dere morals are pure. and manners sim
And men in the Church and State re-
nowned
Here make the first step in a grand career,
Teaching school and boarding around.
In the moonlight evening long and and
still
The youth assemble from many a farm
Though the air without is crisp and chill,
There's bright wood lire ana wei
come warm.
Nuts and apples are passed around:
The hands of the clock get a backward
turn,
Innocent frolic and mirth abound
Till low in their sockets the candles
burn.
Young men and maidens of artless ways
Are drawn together IN groups like this:
J Their hands are joined in the rura! plays.
And sweet lips meet in the gulleless
I Their hearts are linked with golden
chain,
And love with marriage is early crown
ed,
How oft dream | am there again,
! Teaching school and boarding around.
-Setected.
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FirSt-Class Restaurant.

KEEP 4 FIRST-CLASS RESTAu.
/ rant at my old stand Oh Main st near
the Brick Mill. Lodging can :" De had Z
Meals al all hours. rh., best the market
affords viii be given you served up as
well as in any sim lar house IN North
Carolina. and at as reasona Die rates.
Beet. Fish. Oysters, &C., always on
hand at the lowest figures. Meals may
aiso he had at all hours at my oiiie..
stand first door South Of K. Alsbrook's.
T cordially invite and ask the patronage
of the people. Will guarantee satlsfac.
ton. JACOD ~ s'AA4A1. A-A1.
Feb. 8. 23-tf.
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NERAL DIRE TORY
SCOTLAND NECK

Mayor-W A. Dunn.
Ccmmissioners-Noah Biggs, J. R. Bal
lard, r. NJ. johnson. J. Y. Savage.
Meet first Tuesday IN each month at 4
o'clock, P NJ.
Chief of Police-C W. Dunn.
Assistant Policemen "A. David. W Il
Shields. e. F. Speed. Sol. Alexander.
Treasurer-R NJ johnson.
Clerk Y Savage.
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ELOQUENT MEN.
BY A LAWYER.

LlOuuenCc Is incense iTOtu Cne
Gods. 1t can neither be defined nor
described. | account Mirabeau the
most eloque 1t man who has lived
since the birth of Christ. He tiled
at the age of forty-two consumed by
the fires of genus and debauchery.
Barnave charasterized him as 1.-The
Shakespeare Of eloquence." After
his famous interview with Maria
Antoine ette, in which be undertook to
save the monarchy, he FASTENED to
the States s-General. The streets
of Paris resounded to the cries Of
the news boys as offering the daily
papers :or sale they shouted-''The
Great Treason of the Count Mira.
beau" AS he passed down the as.
sembly he was greeted with storms
OF misses. Ascending the tribune
began his address with the celebrated
utterance.-"Silence We thirty voices"
When lie finished he was borne in
triumph upon the shoulders Of his
fellow members along the streets OF
Paris to his home.
America has produced but one
orator. The author of the famous
sentiment, give me liberty or give
me DEATH was, like Mirabeau.evoke e
from obscurity by the upheaval of u
giant revolution.
Tyranny is the parent IF genius.
The late war between the States
developed but one man of genius on
the Southern side; and he was not
an orator, but a soldier, Stonewall
Jackson. No great orator appeared
althou III the occasion was emincntly
adapted to display of elolp.nce.
While 1t is not eloquence, Grays
Elegy is the most complete and
soothing expression of ambition and
re .ret ever penned.
There is nothing in language that
equals the eloquence OF Niagara
Nothing more heroic has been
said than the Great Napoleon's utter
ance, Soldiers from .onder pyra-
mids forty centuries look down upon
you.''
Erskines Simiie Of the Indian
casting his tomahawk into the
ground cannot he excelled.
Men like Mirabeau, Henry, and
Erskine appear once in century.
North Carolina has produced
some speakers whose fame is likely
to survive for many years. My
father has told me that George <.
Badger and James Allen of ertie
were the strongest debaters he ever
heard in this St"te. Nv friend
James Bond Of BERTHE. who was a
member of the Secession C0nven.
ION told me he heard Judge Badger
speak N that body at length on the
proper hour to dine. SO realistic
was his style that Mr.. Bopd added.
Il could almost hear the dishes rat
tie and the glasses ginele while my
n ,uth watered for the feast"
ANY man in Eastern North Caro-
lima who is fifty years old will tell
YOU there never was such an orator
as Kenneth Raynor.
l heart Henry W. Miller speak at
| Oxford in 1860. He advocated the
election Of Judge Douglas in speech
| which for matter. manner and voice.
I have never heard equailed in this
State Badger ant: CIingman also
spoke at the same time.
Very few sentiments are eloquent
in and of emselves. There Is
more III the manner of saving Il
thing than in the matter The voice.
the gesture, the look these are the
levers that move the souls OF men to
action. All speakers are plagiarists.
I'tn. audience cares nothing for the
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are very desirable. This is rapidly
growing town, and persons wishing to
secure good places for residences and bus.
mess stands. and to make good invest
ments, will do well to call on us.
KITCHI-I & DUNN.
July 5th, 1882.
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source of a speakers sentences; what
is wanted is a graceful delivery and
a voice distinct and attractive,
Eloquence, genuine eloquencs can.
not be acquired. 1t mu st he in
born: and then it is only developed
under Certain conditions and pccu.
liar circumstances.-Farmer and
Mechanic.
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