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Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-03-09
Victor Hugo on the Immortal Soul

At dinner given to Y lctor
Hugo in Paris, some years age,
says L Universe, h. delivered an
impromptn address, in which he
gave expression to his faith in the
Infinite and in tie sout's immor-
tality. His friend, Houssaye, who
was present, says:
Hugo at that time was a man
of steel, with no syn of old age
about him, but with al the agility,
the supplsne-s, tile ease and grace
OF his bet year." He was con-
tradicting the Atheists, and his
friend says ''his face was Fright
with the heavenly halo, and his
eyes shone Ike burning coAl.,'
"'There are no occult forces,
he said; 'th,re a,e only luminons
force, O Gu t force is chaot; the
luminous force is God Man is an
Infinite little py o. God; this is
glory enough Ter man. am a
man, al. lnvisib Z atom, drop in
the ocean, gain # sand ,.n the
shore. l. tie as | am, | tee lhe
God in me, tecause | can also
bring Tor h out OF ms chaos. l
make boo $, h ch are creations.
| feel in mvse that tuture lif.; |
am lice a forest which has been
more than cree cut dawr; the new
shouts are stronger and ive,ier
than ever.
81 am ris ny. | know, toward
the sky. Tie snnsnihe is on my
head. The earth gives me its
generous sa but heaven ights me
with the 7. h.ction Ut unknoxn
words. You say The soul is moth,
ing but the result nt bodily powers
Why, then, is my soul more lumi-
rous when my bodily powers be-
gin to tail! Winter is.on INV head,
and eternal spring is in my heart.
There | breathe at this hour the
fragrance of the l.lace, the vioets
and the roses IA at twenty years ago
The nearer ! approach the end the
palmer | hear around N; the i'm.
mortal s. mphonies of the worlds
which invite me.
1t is marvellous, yet simple. II
is a fairy tale, and it l. historic.
For half a century | have been
writing my thoughts in prose and
verse history, phil sophy, drama,
romance, tradition. satire, ode and
song. | have tried al, bnt | feel
have not said a thousand'h part of
what is in me. When | 20 down
to the grave. I can say, like many
others, | have finlshed my days
work, but | can not say, | nave
finished my life. n, days will BE-
gin again ;he next morning. The
tomb is not blind alley. 1t is
thoroughfare. 1t closes on the
twilight to open on the dawn"
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-03-09
A PERF1NET ENQUIRY,

The Memphis Appeal Ava,
lanache. speaking of the continued
comments of the Northern papers
upon the Texas lynching, CD.
serves:
"But they haven't 81 ace in Their
editorial Co usnDs for even q twC,
line paragraph regarding the burn.
ing at the stake If a white woman
ia Michigan on the charge of BE-
ing possessed of devil. Wehav
called their attention to it day
after day; bat the New Y TX Tri-
bune ia silent, the Press has a pre-
vious engage meut, the (hicag O
Mter< Ocean is busy giving a
George Washington pie to every
new subscr Der, G, lonel Murat
Halstead is still picking the. spins
ters out of his old ed.toria Kun
mel Cockerili /, challenging the
late Jefferson Davis to mo. tai M
bat"
1t can at least be said in bthalf
of Michigan woman that it she
was posed of a devil she was not
as m1eh of demon as the victim
of the Texas lynchers.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-03-09
LOVE MUST BE WON,

Love is not free to take, like sun and
air,
Nor given away for naught to any
one,
1t is no comm IN right for men to share,
Like all things precious, it is sought
and won
so if another is more loved than you
Say not, st is UNJUST" but say, "If
she
Has earned more love than it is her
due,
When deserve more 1T will come to
me-"
But if you longing be for love indeed
I'll teach you how to win-a sure way,
Love and be lovely, that is all you Feed
And what you wish for will be yours
some day.
Susan Coolidge.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-03-09
SUNDAY READING.
Made Up OF Divers clippings

The love Of God is very prec-
ious thing; it is not given to those
who serve God through interest or
for the sake of spiritual consola,
tions.-St. Teresa.
**
I love to enter plea, ure by postern,
Not the broad popular gate that CUPS
the mol;
To find my theatres in roadside hooks
Where men ar, actors and suspect it
Lot,
Y here nature all UNCONSCIOUS works her
will,
Aud every Passion moves with easy
gait,
Unhampered by the buskin or the train
Hating the crowd, where we gregarious
Nor seldom find the best with simple
Unswelved by culture from their native
bent,
The ground we meet on teing primal
And nearer the deep bases of our lives.
james Russell Lowell,
1t is an extraordinary popularity
in unbslievers that they are often
more subject to petty superstitions
than other men ; and similarly, it
often happens that the most syni-
cal and coldly calculating of con-
spirators, who believe themselves
proof against all outward inf1u~
ences, yield to some feeling of ner-
vous dislike Tor an individual who
has never harmed them, and are
led on from dislike to hatred, un.
til their soberest actions take color
from what in it's earliest begins
nings was nothing more than a
senseless prejudice.-F. Marion
Crawford.
Methinks we do as fretful children do
Leaning their faces on the window
pane,
To sigh the glass dim with their own
breath's stain,
And shut the sky and landscape from
their view,
And thus. alas! since God the Maker
drew
A mystic separation 'twixt those twain,
The life beyond US, and our souls in
pain,
We miss the prospect which we are
called unto
By griets we are fools to use, Be strong
o man, my brother! hold thy sobbing
breath,
And keep the soul's large window pure,
tr1rn wrong
That SO, as LIES appointment issueth.
The vision may be clear to watch
along
The sunset consumation-light of death
Elizabeth Barrett Brewing.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-03-09
ADIEUi
BY WALTER HARRIEs POLLOCK

You have heart of fire and gold
Nor gol1 nor fire for me is bright,
I would forget those days of old,
Which seemed to show your heart
Alright,
N. 1T mine to mix among the crowd
who worship Jou, and bend the knee,
To wing your praises long and loud
Loves silence is reserved for me.
MY 10y e, that is both dumb ami deep,
Is frt ely givtn rs tits true,
What ecIet still the Fates may keep
kno not-but say, Adisu!
1 say Adieu because my part
Must be to leave thae whirling train,
Where every moment is smart
And every day year of pain.
-Longman's Magazine.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-03-09
is 1T PLAGIARMIS?
BOSTON PILOT.
HELENA, Mont. Feb, ID.

HELENA, Mont. Feb, ID.
EDITOR OF THE PILOT In the Pilot
of the 11th inst, you call attention to
seeming plagiarism en- the part OF Rud-
yard Kipling. Not having seen either
one of the songs Gf they are songs) re-
ferred to, cannot express an opinion,
but there are many instances of like
similarity in language among the poets.
send you the following
MY wIFE's wINSOME WEE THING,
She is winsome wee thing,
She is handsome wee thing,
She is a bonnie wee thing,
This sweet wee wife o. mine.
l never saw fa1ret
l never lo'ed dearer,
And neist my heart I'll wear her
For fear my jewel tine.
She is a winsome wee thing,
She is handsome wee thing,
She i, a bonnie wee thing,
This sweet wee wife O. mine.
The warld's wrack we share OF,
The warstle and the care OF;
Wi her I'll blithely bear it,
And think my lot divine.
Robert Burns.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-03-09
A REvERY.

A footprint washed with rain,
Il ray where some ono smiled,
A dream that shapes in vain
The phantom of child,
l watch the daylight down,
/ ask the stars for him;
| was his father once;
Why are these eyes SO dim?
Fleet echo, faint~perfume
: OF young life stolen away!
The grass has hid his bloom,
Tho right has stilled his play,
Sometimes where schoolmates meet
His form k [ know;
| was his father once.
But that was long ago.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-03-09
MY AND.

She Is rich and rare land.
Oh! she's fresh and fair land
She is dear and rare land
This native land of mine.
No men than hers are bravsr-
Her women's hearts ne'er wav.r,
I'd freely die tie save her,
And think my lot divine.
SEES not dull or cold land,
No! she's warm and bold land.
Oh! she's true and old land
This native land OF mine.
Could beauty ever guard her,
And virtue ever guard her,
No foe would cross her border
No friend within it pine.
Oh, she's fresh and fair land,
Oh, she's true and rare land!
Yes, she's rare and fair land
This native land of mine.
Thomas Davis.
1t is plain that the form and some OF
ne ideas af the latter song were taken
ON the former, and some might call
lis plagiarism. Even SO, the majority
readers will be thankful for the
which produced 50 exquisite
gem as Thomas Davis has given to the
orld. HEMBs.
Atlanta Journal.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-03-09

Washingtoa, Cd. CD Post: M 8.
John l.. Morehead, of N orlh Cars
olins, gave luncheon last week at
the Shoreham to her friend, Mre.
Francis Adsate Lipsaomb, of Geor>
gia. The entertainment was
characteristic in every way of this
charming Southern hostess,
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-03-09
-FOUR YEARS MORE.

Grover Cleveland again President of
these United States-The Inaugural A d.
dress '.I sidious 1nfirmi,ies threaten
Our National Vigor'-'t hallenge of
Wild and Re ckless EeI sion Expendi-
ture'' -Civ1 Service Reform Restraint
of Trusts Tariff Reform and the Demo-
cratic Party's Responsible Therefor.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-03-09

In our confined columns we have
only room to report the splendid
inaugural address of Preside Mt
Cleveland, which bears his characs
eefistic ear marks of forcefulness,
holiness, c!earness end terseness.
It is as follows:
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-01-04
PLANTING AN ASPARAGUS BED.

The right time to plant an asparagus
bed is either in the fall or early spring,
SO you can take your choice. We pre-
fer the autumn if the roots can be as
readily obtained, because there is usually
more time to prepare the beds and for
planting than in spring, when all kind,
of gardening operations are pressing.
No special preparation Of the soil is
necessary further than to pillow it deeply,
and if it is not rich enough make it so
by liberal dressings of good stable ma
nure. II broken up eight to ten inches
deep it will answer very well for aspara-
gus grown for home use, which is usu-
ally cut at the surface of the ground,
aud not several inches below it, as prac-
tised by gardeners who raise this vege-
table for market. One or two years old
plants are best for setting out, aud these
should be placed in rows four or five
feet apart, and from three to four feet
in the row. By giving the plants plenty
of room the stalks will grow much
larger than when the plants are crowded,
even if literally top-dressed with manure
every season. Trenches for the recep.
ton Of the roots may be opened with q
pillow or shovel, and when set in the
bottom, and five or Elk inches below the
natural surface of the ground, the soil
may be thrown back over them and the
bed made level again with rake OIL lar
row. Only a moderate quantity of
manure need be mixed with the roots
are in place spread a liberal quantity
over the surface. No manure should be
buried under the plants, as often prac-
tised, for the roots will not descend t o
secure nutriment; hence, placing it in
such a position is to waste it. All fer
~tilizers should be applied to the surface
of the bed aud be left to be carried down
by rain, or merely worked in with the
hoe and cultivator. A light soil is
preferable to a heavy n for asparagus,
but il will grow almost anywhere except
in very wet land.-New York Sun.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-01-04

much. Nature works in her own way,
and forcing plants often kills them.
Don't expect your flowers to bloom in
a week or two, nor yet in a month after
you have potted them. 1t takes some
plants several months TO adjust them
selves to the conditions of life in a flower
pot.
Don't try to grow lilies Of the valley
or glsdioli in the house. Not one per-
son in a hundred can do it excepting
under conditions that do not exist in
many houses.
Don't put a year old rose bush or a
tiny geranium into q ten inch pot. A
six inch pot is big enough for the rose,
and a three or four inch pot is large
enough for the geranium.
Don't talk about your "bad luck" il
your flowers are not doing well. Ten to
one your ''bad luck" is simply a bad
condition of the soil in your flower pots
or a lack of proper care of your plants.
Don't try to grow flowers if you are
lazy. They must have the care that
comes from energy and love of plants,
and it must be a regular aud not spas
modic sort of attention. Success With
Flowers.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-01-04
COLOR OF JERSEY COWS.

The prevailing color of the Jersey
cattle is favn and white, or solid fawn
with darker standings. Some families o!
the best reputation are dark-either what
is known as squirrel gray, with shading
to black, or nearly all black, with brown
shading. The nose is generally sur
rounded by a yellowlsh or orauge-col-
oree ring, and tbs muzzle is black, but
some have a light gray muzzle and a
fawn ring around it. A dark, reddish
fawn is not to be taken as a mark OF i'm
purity, ror is a brownish black; but
these colors are not common or fashion
able. If a COW is pure Jersey it is most
probable that her pedigree is recorded.
If it is not, good evidence would be re-
quired TO prove her pure blood, as a re-
corded animal is worth so much more
than one rot recorded that it cannot be
supposed the breeder would neglect to
give his yourg animals a record. But
if the COW has the most valuable point
of these cows, which is rich milk and
high colored butter, the pedigree is
only desirable to the breeder; the butter
maker may be satisfied if he gets the
product.-New York Times.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-01-04
now TO CLEAN nRAss.

Brass, to be kept in proper order,
should be cleaned at least once a week,
while 1t is the custom in households with
well-trained domestics to have brass
andirons, Tenders and other fire place
furniture given Il light rubbing every
day. In cleaning brass it must first be
relieved OF all canker and other spots to
which the metali is subject, from contact
with acids, exposure to water or other
causes. An application of alcohol,
spirits of turpentine, benziae or kerosene
will generally remove all ordinary spots
on brass, unless very old spots, the
metal in some cases seeming so perfectly
to absorb foreign substances that the re-
moving of them amounts almost to an
i~mposslbility. Spots removed, there is
no more certain cleansing and polishing
application for brass than rotten stone
and oil. Rotten stone usually comes in
Jumps. Before using for polishing brass
it must be reduced to powder, aud in
this state it quickly dissolves to a
smooth consistency when mixed with
olive oil. A thin paste Of the prepare
ton should be rubbed lightly on the
metal, and when perfectly dry it should
be rubbed off vigorously with a flannel
cloth, the finishing polish being given
with the powder, dry, and subsequent
rubbing with a clean flannel cloth or
chamois skin.-New York World.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-01-04
FARM co~NYENIFNcEs.

Much time is lost on many farms from
a failure to provide in the best manner
for the ready passage of teams and ami
mails from one part Of the farm to an
other. Whether stock is allowed to run
atlarge on tie public highways or moi a
considerable amount Of fencing is re-
quired on every farm in the proper divis-
ion Of fields for cultivation and pastur-
age. Access TO each field ought to be
made easy, ard often there should be en-
frances at more than one point. At such
points there should be gates that can be
quickly opened and closed, instead of
bars that must be removed one at a time,
thus causing delay to beth men and
teams. Then, again, for want of a gate
It is often necessary to make a gap in a
fence in order to get into a field at a GER
tain point, when another delay is caused,
and the fence itself is injured every time
1t is taken down. 1t costs but little
more to make a rough gate on a farm
than to make the same length of fence,
and the gate itself becomes a part of the
fence, which is a good reason for making
gates wherever they are likely to be
wanted. Large losses in time are in
many instances also occasioned by the
want Of proper facilities for readily wa
tering stock. In such cases it seems to
me it should occur TO every farmer that
q present expenditure sufficient to pro.
vide them would be a profitable outlay
in the end.-New York World.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-01-04
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
INTERIOR DECORATIONS.

There is a growing severity Of simpli-
CITY in interior decoration that is very
welcome, for until recently most parlors
have looked like curiosity shops. and the
ornaments, IL n may so :nisapply the
term, have been really "a for the rubbish
heap. 1t Is a good idea for housekeepers
to dispense with All but most necessary
furnishings until they can give beauty,
comfort and quality first consideration,
and this remark is equally true when it
is applied to articles intended solely for
decoration. Pictures; books and palms
ornament a house more than anything
else, but photographs ana family por-
traits should be relocated to the living
rooms, for whatever may be or might
have been the beauty Of the minds and
characters OF u kinsfolk aud friends,
their physiognomies are frequently such
as to strike terror to the heart Of the
casual caller. Brooklyn Citizen.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-01-04
BLOOD MONEY.

Not long ago, in the beautiful city of
Edinburgh, the capital of Sc )tlaul. a in.
university hall was built entirely out of the
profits from the sale of u certain kin | of ale.
DOUBTLESS 1t was \ generous thing for the
maker of the ale to devote a share Of his
profits 10 a useful public purpose. but the
temperance people of Scotland bring the i'm.
parchment against the hall that il is a monu.
ment to E1inburgh's drunkenness.
Terrible pictures of the degradation of the
lower classes of Edinburgh, due to the use
OF drink, are often drawn by residents OF
that city.
''on a recent Saturday night" one such
resident writes to a Scottish newspaper, If
had occasion to pass through COwgate.
Canongate and High street. The scene [ vas
compelled to witness made me sliver.
Drunken women, many OF tn sm with
BARNS in their arms, jostled ms every few
steps. G~ray-haired old men filed the air
with drunken yells and vulgar Ian qua re. IL
grieved me beyond description 10 see a
bonny, falr-haired iassie standing no lelessly
drunk at a close mouth, tue butt of the rule
testers who passed her by
Such scenes may be Sc N in many another
Scotch aud British city, al to sons extent
in American cities as well. While they are
to be seen, should money be accepted, even
for beneicsnt public purposes wlich is de.
rived from a traffic which brings suc1 dis.
grace TO our civiliz Itiol?
There are many private monument 10
drunkenness" scattered through the lani.
The time will CONF, beyond a Doubt, wlen
there will be scarce one to wnom We sigat
Of them does not bring a pang of sorrow.
and very few indeed to whom they will ever
cause a thrill of pride. YOUTHS Com Dal-
ion.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-01-04
Taste and Smell.

Some curious observations by Profess
sor Jashow indicate that our apprecia.
ton of food depends largely, if not
chiefly, upon the sense Of smell instead
of that of taste. The subject of the in
vestigation was a student twenty-one
years old, who inherited from his mother
the defect-acquired by her in child
hood-of complete absence of the sense
of smell, taste and other sensations being
unaffected. He was found to be unable
to detect any difference between tea,
coffee and water. In three trials out Of
five he confused bitter almond water
and water, but distinguished between
ether and water aud ether and
Fruit syrups were simply sweet, no diff
ference between them being perceived.
Cloves ana cinnamon were recognized,
but mustard and pepper gave only a
sharp sensation on the tongue. Trenton
IN. J.l American.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-01-04
DRINK AND DRINK.sELLERs.

The War Cry, organ of the Salvation
Army, prints the following:
l have heard all the arguments which are
brought against respectable men for manu-
featuring and selling rum | nave heard
them violently denounced from the pulpit
aud warmly defended elsewhere; but a
scene 70 which | was once a witness decided
my opinion as to my own duty on this point
and that Is about as far, in a matter OF
opinion, as any man can wisely press his
arguments. e., TO his own conscience.
During an occasional stroll in an obscure
part OF the town, my attention was once at
tracted by the preparations for a funeral In
a small house by the roadside. What in
duced me to enter a house of mourning.
where l was alike u~nknowing and unknown.
Is not at present material.
The room that l entered betrayed at a
glance the abject poverty of its occupants.
There was neither carpet nor fire; the bsd
was a heap of straw; four or five old broken
chairs constituted all the furniture, and the
windows were stuffed with rags.
A plain board cofin-which, from its size,
must be that of a child-lay on two chairs
IN the center of the room; a woman, sobbing
aloud, was benting over it; ten or twelve
men stood around in silence, and by a cor
ner OF the fireplace. seated ON the floor, was
a man in a beastly state of iptoxication.
This man, as | after ward learned, was the
father of the child, whom, on the pre-
cedlng day, in another fit of drunk
enness, he had accidentally pushed against
a teakettle over the fire, and the little crSa-
ture was so scalde by the water that it died
during the night.
After a few minutes silence, broken only
by the sobs of the heart broken mother, one
of the men, apparently with the intention of
Offering 10 the poor woman the consolation
OF sympathy, approached and said to her:
Mrs. - this is a great affection"
"Aes," said the woman, raising her
streaming eyes from the coffin and fixing
them on the speaker with all the ~sternness
she could command at the moment, lit is a
great attiiction-a dreadful affection; but it
is not for you, who give him pointing to
her drunken husbandl his daily liquor, and
take from him the means of buying our
daily bread; you who knew his weakness
and our poverty; you who yesterday sold
him a dram which made him murder our
darling child, ami to-day, knowing what he
had done. tempted bin 70 drink what makes
him sit there like a brute beast, and the
baby dead by the side of him. II is not for
you to offer me consolation-thAt can come
only from God above, who will one day
Judge between the rich man who sells the
nquor and the poor man VINO drinks it,'
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1893-01-04
DOZEN DoNr's.

Dou't try to grow choice roses in the
house if you have never made any study
Of the habits and wants of the roses.
Don't begin with roses if you have
never had any experience growing plants
in the house.
Don't try to get along withouta good
thermometer in the room in which your
plants are, and don't forget to take the
trouble to look at it ono in "A while.
One cannot succeed without paying some
attention to the temperature Of the rooms
in which they are kept.
Don't forget that the midwinter sun
coming through glassis too hot for some
kinds OF plants, and that they should
be kept out Of il in the middle OF the
day.
Don't give all your plants the same
moun Of water. Find out through in.
curry and observation the needs Of the
plants in this respect.
Don't buy plants you never heard Of
before simply because the advertised
pictures OF them are So pretty. Novel
- are often the destruction Of all she
enthusiasm Of yoJlg flower growers.
Ooat ~ To force your plants too