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Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-06-28
AS WE VIEW II.

Yonder landscape, regal in its splendor,
Smiling with a look half proud, half tender,
Seems shrouded corpse when dense fogs
roll.
Life is glorious when the rays Of duty
Shine upon it from a loving soul;
But its hills and glades are robbed of beauty
If selfish mist hangs DER the whole.
Scoring this great fact, the base man loses
Truths best diamond, priceless if be knew
it:
Life Is good or bad, as each one chooses,
Life is as we view it.
Wanting wealth Of heart, the miser's treasure,
Now too small to purchase lofty pleasure,
Soon will be deathbed pang or worse.
Love, contentment, goodness, hopes ethereal
Make the peasant slender though his purse,
Vastly richer than the whole material,
Starr-illumed, unconscious universe.
Mental wealth. whose very touch entrances
Boundles lies for ali whose minds pursue it;
Man is rich or poor, just as he fancles:
Wealth is as we view it
Lifes fame, Pickering feebly in the strong
est,
Oft blown out, is soon burnt at the longest;
Frail we live; we're nothing in our graves.
Almost awful now, yet daily heightening,
Is our power, that rides the foaming waves,
Weighs the planets, grasps the leaping light
ming,
Changes fire and air to dOcile slaves.
Man can humble Nature if she dares him,
Set her some hard task and make her do it:
Man is weaker than the steed that pears him.
Power is as we view it.
Knowing not where Truths first step COM
mences,
Since the sages say our very senses
Teach but fictions, dark we live and die.
Priceless thoughts that time in it's long trav-
els
Through past ages gathered open lie;
Science shows the cipher that unravels
Natures secrets, writ on earth and sky,
But the wOndrOus volume spread before US
Needs eternity to read right through it.
Allis darkness! Floods of light float DER us !
Truth is as we view it.
One faint gasp and then the low death rat
tie!
Thus we end it, beaten in the battle,
Losing ell things with our parting breath.
Life has glories but intensely brighter
Is the glory of noble death,
When the soul, its load each moment lighter,
Needless now Of what the vain world saith,
Seeing Visions pain sublimely scorning,
Feels the icy hand, yet dares to WOO it:
Death is star,less night or radiant morning,
Death is as we view it.
j. U. Chapman, IN the Academy.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-06-28
A NOBLE REVENGE.

During the siege of Sebastopol almost
every step of earth round this mighty
fortress IN the Crimea was stepped with
human blood. Thousands of Frenchmen,
Englishmen, Italians and Turks lad
fallen by Russian bullets or been carried
off by cholera or other diseases. Still.
the fortress deied the united exertions
of the allied armies. On June IS, 1855,
the French had, indeed, with wonderful
bravery, attempted to storm the Malakoff
Tower, considered to be the KEY Of
SebastopOl; but they were repulsed, with
immense losses, by the Russians. On
September s a second attack was to be
made on the Malakotf, and on the pre-
ceding day the zouaves gave themselves
up to the few amusemcnts which the camp
afforded them.
The zOuave is always a merry soldier;
he laughs at everything -at many things
at which be ought not Iaugh-at life, at
death, Of the cholera, at poverty, at guns
and cannon. On that evening the mer-
riest among the zouaves were the two
brothers, Charles and Victor Carabine, so
called because they knew no other father
than their musket. They were not even
certain they were brothers; the chief
proof of their relationship was their
mutual affection. They were as like, too,
in face, as they were in heart Victor
was to-day telling all sorts of funny
stories; they seemed to think little about
the terrible day which was to dawn on
the morrow.
AL the bells of Sebastopol and all the
trumpets and drums of the French camp,
too, announced noon on September s,
1855. A signal sounded from the hill
where General Pelissier had posted him
self with his staff, and with sharp eye he
was following all the movements of the
army. Before this signal General Mac
MahOn, who commanded the First Di-
vision, threw three battali0ns of zouaves
against the left side of the Malakotf.
Charles and Victor Carabine had the
honor TO stand in the vanguard. With
their comrades they crossed the enemy'S
trench, climbed up the breastwork, and
were soon inside. Colonel Collineau led
them. He received a shot in the head as
he fell upon the Russians, but he quickly
bound up his wound with his handker-
chief, waved his sword and rushed into
the fray.
Charles Carabine had a young Russian
officer opposed to him, who had already
cut down five or six Zouaves with his
sword Charles rushed upon him, in order
to avenge his comrades, and disarmed the
officer with the first blow of his sword.
But the Russian had already seized
heavy fragment of shell, which he was
IN the act of hurting at his foe. Victor,
who was fighting about fifteen PAGES off
from his brother, saw the danger in which
he was, and fired at the Russian. The
ball struck upon the eagle of his helmet,
without even causing the officer who wore
it to vince. Meanwhile the great piece
of iron had smitten Charles to the ground.
In moment Victor is at his side; but he
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-06-28
LESSON FOR LAGoARps -


You think of taking a journey some day;
You have talked ii over FOR years and
years:
Yet somehow or other You make delay,
Until further and further away appears
The beautiful goal: s.nd tell you now
To bind yourself by solemn vow
To cross the Rubicon Pluck up heart,
For you'll never get there unless You start!
There looms before you from day 10 day
A task that you dread 70 undertake;
So it hangs like a cloud upon your way
Through which the sunshine can never
break
And tell you now that the better plan
Is to do the work as quick as you can;
Over your fears victory win,
For you'll never get through if YOU don't
begin
With the braveSt and busiest keep abreast.
Nor through love of Incidence lose your
place,
For in each endeavor to do your best
You raise the hopes of the human race.
Be not content to grovel below,
But rise to your duties with faith aglow
Let your aims be high. and strive to excel;
For he who does better must first do well.
The heart that gives way to its doubts and
fears,
That idly dreams when there's work to do,
Will find itself, before many years,
Beggared and bankrupt through and
through.
There are journeys to take and tasks to be
done,
From early morning till set of sun,
And triumphs to win, as none can deny,
And you'll never succeed unless you try!
Josephine Pollard, in NeW YORK. Ledger.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-06-28
HUMOR OF THE DAY.

A cool proceeding-An ice trust.
In the soup-Well, that's the cooks
secret.
The motto of the Socialist-One coun-
try, one flag, one pocketbook.
Ships are very polite. They always
meet the oceans wave with a bow.
Of all sad words by writer penned,
The SaddeSt are these: No dividend"
-NeW York MercuJy
If there is one thing more than another
that ''goes against the grain" it is
reaper.
With the camel, as with the diner, the
desert is frequently the last course
Hdrper's Bazar
We believe that an Italian who should
start out with a noiseless hand organ
would make money.
A lisping young miss said she hoped
to be married before she was as "old ath
NTH Thuthelah. "-SJtings.
The woodlands axe is an inconsistent
weapon. First it cuts a tree down and
then cuts it up.-L0o0eU Courier.
Littleend-''My wife never gives me
any rest so long as she is awake" Henpect
-'Pshaw my wife even talks in her
sleep"
Did you ever observe that while you
can see through a glass window, you
can't see through glass eye?-Horper's
Buznr.
Never give to young man on small
salary present of a high silk hat. He
cannot afford to dress up to it Chicago
Tribune.
Mrs. Slimdiet boarding house keeper
-''Isn't this coffee just a leetle thin?"
Cook-'I amt made the coffee yet, mum;
that's water. Thine.
A man last week came very near get
ting his wife arrested by leaving s. in
counterfeit change in his vest pocket over
night Washington Critic.
Cad1Ilac-''Don't you think a full
beard would become me, Miss Bessie"
Miss Bessie Indeed I DO, Mr. Cadillac;
it would hide your face. '-Boston Beacon.
The poet inscribed dainty rhyme,
His loves charms to rehearse;
But no one saw that rhyme sublime
For the editor was a-verSe.
-SomerriUe Journal.
''Ah, Malinda, you are indeed one of a
hundred. and" 'EThank YOU, Mr..
Montague, | prefer to be considered as
one of eighteen, as | am. One of a hun
dred!"
He who is bashful always tries
To woe with the language of his eyes;
But my ill-luck all else surpasses-
I am bashful and [ wear blue glasses
-HdrpeT's BGzdr.
Jinks-''Do you suppose man with a
family can live on dollar day and be
Christian?" Binks-''Of course. He
can't afford to be anything else. "-Boston
Beacon.
Guide Ito American tourist in Venice
-''1ou will want to see the Lion of ST.
Mark, of course, sir?" Tourist-''Yes,
s'pose so. About what time do they
feed him?"-Life.
IF naughty girl would hurt you,
you would forgive her, like a good girl,
wouldn't you2" asked a teacher of
little girl. Yes, ma'am," replied the
child, If I couldn't catch her"
Old Cashbox to applicant for clerk
ship)-''Have you any bad habits, young
MANI" Applicant with humility)-''I
sometimes think l drink too much cold
water with my meals. "-Bosto1e Herald.
''Hast thou ever yet loved, Henrietta?"
I sighed. Il should rather imagine I
had" she replied. .'Oh, did not my
chances my feelings betray when you
helped me the third time to pudding TO-
Jov71
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-06-28

The weight of fish landed in Great
Britain and Ireland last year was SIS, 900
tons, of which somewhat less than half
vas carried into the interior by railway.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-06-28


Several months had passed since these
events. Peace was signed at Paris, and
Victor Carabine, with his comrades, had
returned to the capital, taking the
young black eagle with them.
About the middle of January, 1856, an
old man and young lady in deepmourn-
ing-still very pale from the effects of i'll
ness from which she had scarcely recov-
ered-arrived at a hotel in Paris from St.
Petersburg. The first thing they did was
to drive to the barracks in the rue de la
Pepiniere and inquire for Sergeant Victor
tCarabine. ssYou mean the Lieutenant, "
answered a groom; "he lives few steps
from here" and he told them the street
and number. The young lady did not
even get into the carriage again, but led
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-05-17
Crime and Its Treatment.

Time was when folks afflicted with
disease were put out of the way, not
as Bergh's men kindly kill dis
abled animal TO mercifully end its dis
treSs, but because deemed unfit to
live. Now the browning glory of our
century is its magnificent hospitals.
Time will be when our prisons, the dis
grace of this grand age, will be
changed TO humanitarian institutions
for the control and cure of crime, in
stead of pest places for its punishment
and propagation.
Statesmen and reforuiers are begin
ming TO consider that our system of So
ciety is really accountable for moro
crime than it prevents. Judges and
juries are frequently called upon to
condemn unfortunate creatures of cir
cumstances less guilty of offense
against their fellows than those before
whom they are arraigned. Did all
wrong doors escape detection, as
doubtless the majority do. there would
be no criminals known; while if the
consciences of men were incased in
glass all would be criminals alike.
There would be no honest men to bring
the guilty to justice Let all who read
reflect upon this.
He who robs you wrongs himself
worse than you. You may recover
your property or purchase more, but he
has corrupted his conscience, ruined
his reputation, assassinated his man
hood. He has inflicted upon himself
a misfortune, while you have but sus-
tanned a pecuniary and perchance a
tritiing loss. IS. 81. Preston in Jour
nal of Health.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-05-17
Ready Answer,

Most OF US are able TO supply a rep
artee If we are given time 10 think ii
over. but repartee half an hour after
the occasion for it haa passed is like q
blank cartridge 1t is the readiness of
the retOrt that makes it effective. The
great Russian soldier, Marshal Suvor
off, was in the habit of asking his men
difficult questions, sometimes foolish
ones. and bestowing favors on those
who showed presence of mind in an
swering them.
On one occasion general of division
sent him sergeant with dispatches.
at the same time recommending the
bearer to Suvoroff's notice. The mar
shall, as usual, proceeded to test him by
a series Of whimsical questions.
How far Is it TO the moons"
Two of your excellency's forced
marches" the soldier promptly re
piled
If your men began to give way In
a battle, what would you doa"
I'D tell them that just be".nd the
enemys line there was a wagon load
of good things TO eat.
How many fish are there in the
scar
Just as many as have not BEEF.
caught
And SO the examination went on.
nllSuvoroff, finding his new acquaint
ance armed at all points, at length
asked him, rs final poser. What i
the difference betm cen your colonel
and MYSELF
The difference is this, replied the
soldier, coolly Ny colonel cannot
make me captain, bat your excel
lency can
Suvoroff, struck by his shrewdness.
kept his eye upon the man, and soon
afterward gave him the promotion for
which he had asked Youths Com
DaniOn.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-05-17
That laxative Barber.

Clothes may not make the man, but
they have everything to do with his
general appearance. Enter a barber
shop any day when the chairs are full,
scan the heads of the customers as they
lay back in the chairs, with the towel
nd buster close up TO their chins, form
your idea of the appearance of the man
when he shall have stepped out on the
floor, and in nineteen cases out of
twenty you will be surprised. In the
first place all idea of his size is hidden
under the duster In recognizing a
friend you do so as much by his size
and manner as you do his features.
You readily recognize an acquaintance
. ON rear view as he walks on ahead
Of You. In the barber shop you will
see a man with massive No. head.
and when he steps down you are as
much shocked TO find that if is placed
on foot inch body as to learn that
the boyish 81 head in the next chair is
on top of 6 foot body. You will see
noble. high browed head that YOU
are sure must belong to some distin-
guished lawyer, and you are knocked
out when a policeman or the engineer
from next door in his blue flannel
shirt emerges from under the covers.
Another thing that amuses me is the
failure of friends to recognize each
other while in the barber chairs, and
that happens twenty times a day. the
recognition only following when one
or the other comes off the chair. st
Louis Globe Democrat.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-05-17
Olipilant and GOufd.

Oliphant had work to do for English
shareholders in respect to the tele-
graphic cable between England and
America A friend has lately told me
the following anecdote on this sub
ject: One of the chief persons with
whom he had to do in America was
the well known jay Gould, a financier
of much greater force than his new
adventurer in such unaccustomed
fields, and against whose overwhelm
ing cleverness his friends warned him.
His account of how he met this dan
ger was exceedingly characteristic.
He went to the remarkable parsonage
in question with that fine frankness
which is one of the most polished in
struments of diplomacy. being the
plair truth He said TO him Il do
not think that your interests and
those of my clients are opposed
to each other, but if you take
them in that light am not equal to
you in ability; | cannot fight the
question with such champion as you
are-I must 60 to the wall. Jay
Gould was man enough to understand
and appreciate. and during the whole
negotiations treated his unusual oppo-
nent with perfect good faith and hon
or.-Blackwoods Magazine.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-05-17

Did you ever think what place a
depot in city like Minneapolis is for
the study of human nature. and what a
world of interesting sights and scenes
are to be had there2 If one could become
ubiquitous for an hour or two and
stand disinterested observer at all the
railroad stations and become oblivious
to everything else for the time being
what would be the impressiona Whv
Il you look at the incoming trains as
they stop. you would be tempted to
think that everybody had run awav
from everywhere else and come to
Minneapolis and brought his wife and
daughter. or somebody else's wife or
daughter, and all were hurrying with
all their nights and mains to get away
from the depot before they got arrest
ed And this impression would not be
lessened by the rush and scuffie be-
tween them and the hackmen and cab
men and draymen and hotel and
boarding house drummers. as the lat
ter grab and nab. and rush and push
and yell and scramble TO get baggage
and passengers into their various con
veyances. and the former lodging and
showing and rushing and Juggling and
pulling at goods and grips and other
luggage; dogs. canary birds and ba-
bies.
But then your attention is drawn
from all these before they are out OF
sight by another such a crowd rushing
and hurrying the other way, just as if
everybody was running away from
Minneapolis and going TO other parts
unknown, taking with them ali the
money, all the portable property. all
the wives, daughters, dogs and-and
babies of themselves and their neigh
bors. and were all doing their very
best TO get out of the city before they
were arrested At the gate the keeper
seems TO think so too, as he gives each
of them a punch as they pass out
This hurry and scuffle, hustle and rus
tie and hustle, is being repeated every
hour in the day and many hours In the
night. This is too wearying, almost
bewildering TO the brain. No doubt
good many of these crowds, both ways.
contain some runaway thieves, bur
glars. bank defaulters, clippers, ETC..
for the next thing that attracts the at
tention is the crowds of ever dreaded,
ever welcome, never appreciated.
never feared and never half respected
ubiquitous newsboys, crying, in every
imaginable key and tone of voice:
Here's your Jour-'nawayl Ali about
the lateS' scandal st Paul Pioneer
Press.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-05-17
Continental Strikers.

Early in 1888 the Continental con-
gress was discussing financial ques-
tons. Alexander Hamilton proposed
to fund the public debt and issue Ger
tificates for officers pay which were
to lear interest. and in this position he
was supported by Madison. The op-
ponentS of strongly centralized gov
ernment insisted that the whole mat
ter should be left to the states, even
the matter of officers pay. On March
10, 1883, an anonymous call appeared
In Washington's camp at Newburg,
on the Hudson, for a meeting of the
general and field officers of the army,
including one officer for each com
pany, TO discuss the aspect of affairs
The call was accompanied by an ap-
peal, written in violent language by
Capt Armstrong, son of Gen. Arm
strong. In general order, issued on
March IL, Washington denounced
this call as irregular and subversive of
discipline, and named a day subse-
quent to that mentioned in the call
for a meeting in which TO hear the re-
port of the committee sent TO congress.
By personal appeals TO each officer he
sought to calm their passions and pre-
vent hasty action On the 18th the
meeting was held according to the
call, and Gen Horatio Gates, who
was suspected of being in sympathy
with the authors of the appeal. was
made chairman to prevent his taking
any part in the discussion A com
mittee was appointed TO draw up reso
buttons, of which Gen. Knox, close
friend of Washington, was made
chairman. These resolutions were
passed in spite of the opposition of
the authors of the meeting. Gen
Washington in an address urged the
officers TO place implicit confidence in
the wisdom and justice of congress
Philadelphia Times.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-05-17
AMUSING ACUTENESS.
Anecdotes Of Three Men Whose Wit Was
Amusing As Their Cheek

rs Amusing as Their Cheek.
Nowadays acuteness is deemed es
sential to success in any direction, and
certain amount of il does materially
aud In the accomplishment of a pur
pose But of person reputed cute
II Is advisable To beware, else one NAV
Ind himself unexpectedly involved in
difficulties of some kind.
While, for the greatest part, human
acuteness is tinctured with base ele
ments. If may be exercised without in
jury TO the agent or object. merely to
exemplify good natured. though
keen wit.
A young man under examination
for admission to the University of Ed
lnburgh, was asked if he studied logic.
and replied affiirmatively.
You understand the difference be-
tween cause and effecti' inquired the
professor
Il do"
did you ever know an instance
where the effect was in advance of the
cauSef
Yes, sir"
Mention it." said the professor, in
great amazement
We'll, when man pushes wheel
barrow ahead of him"
On certain occasion Rabelais de-
sired 10 visit Paris. but was destitute
OF the means for SO doing. He made
up three packages and marked them
Poison for the king" Poison for
the dauphin, Poison for Mon
Sleur-
His landlord saw them. reported the
case TO the authorities, and he was ar
rested and taken to Paris. The con
tents of the packages were analysed.
found TO be brick dust and harmless.
Then Rabelais explained matters. and
the king was highly amused by the
ruSe.
In days gone by few southern law
yers were more distinguished than
Luther Martin. He was one day rid
ing TO Annapolis in a stage coach,
when his onl y companion-a young
man who had just been admitted to
the bar-addressing him. said:
MIR. Martin, you have been won
derfully successful in your profes-
sion Are you willing to acquaint me
with the secret of your SUGGEST"
IF you will pay nv expenses dur
ing the few days that / shall remain
in Annapolis. "
Il will, was the earnest response.
1T is in this advice: Deny every
thing and insist upon proof"
At Annapolis, Mr.. Martin enjoyed
all the iuxuries that fine hotel could
furnish, regardless of expense, and,
when the time for his departure ar
rived passed the "bill"-of enormous
proportions-to the young lawyer
who was standing near The latter
merely glanced at il and then re-
turned it TO Mr.. Martin.
Aren't YOU going to pay it," Mr..
Martin asked.
Pay what2"
This bill. Didn't you promise to
defray my expenses while / was in
Annapolis2''
My dear sir" was the quiet reply,
Il deny everything and insist upon
proof"
The eminent lawyer paid his bill,
and laughingly said to the young man:
You need no further counsel from
me. Golden Days.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-05-17
Live and Die on the Water.

took ride on the river this after
Doon. Canton has about 800, 00O PEG
pie who live on the water, and there
is no buster city in the world than this
city of boats. Crafts of all kinds, from
the small steamer, the great Chinese
junk and the river cargo boats to the
sampans and the little tubs rowed by
spoon like paddles, move here and
there, or dart in and out through for
ests of nlasts. Whole families live on
boats about twenty feet long and no
wider than the ordinary city vestibuIe
Here children are born. grow up anG
die.
Marriages take place and the whole
business and actions of life go on.
Little children swarm over them. and
tots two years old with cues hanging
down their backs play about upon
their decks. The boys have little
round barrels or drums about a foot
long and six inches in diameter tied
by strings to their backs. and many
girls of the same size have nothing. LII
the girl falls overheard it would be
good fortune TO the poor family to gel
rid of the expense of raising her, bat
The boy must have his life preserver.-
Frank G. Carpenter