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The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-05-10
DON'T MARRY.
A Genial Life as Pictured by Burton
Strange Views

strange v Jews.
From Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy"
Consider withal how free, how
happy, how secure, how heavenly, in
respect. a single man is, and that
which all my neighbors admire and
applaud me for, account so great a
happiness, | never had a wife; con-
slider cOntentedly, quietly, neatly,
plentifully, sweetly and how merrily
he lives he hath no man to care for
but himself, none to please, no charge,
none to control him, is tied to no
residence, no cure to serve, may go
and come when, whittier, live where
he will, his own master, and do what
he list himself.
But if thou marry once, bethink
thyself what a slavery it is, what
heavy burden thou shalt undertake
how hard n task thou art tie to, and
how continuate, what squalor at
tends it, what irksOmeness, what
charges, for wife and children are a
perpetual bill of charges; besides a
myriad of cares, miseries and
troubles; for as that comical Plautus
merrily and truly said, he that wants
trouble must get to be master of a
ship, or marry a wife; and as another
seconds him, wife and children have
undone me; SO many and such in
finite membranes accompany this
kind of life. lights and invitations
cease, no friend will esteem thee, and
thou shalt be compelled to lament
thy misery, so that thou shall be
compelled to complain and to cry
out at last. GLOW happy had | been,
If | had wanted wife -
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-05-10
Tho Encts the Other Way.

It has lately been stated that some
years ago Prince Bismarck was anX-
ious to induce the Duke of Edinburgh
to surrender his right to the SAKE
Coburg) succession III consideration
of pecuniary indemnity. This
happens to be just the reverse of the
truth. If Prince Bismarck had really
entertained such a wish, the Duke of
Edinburgh would practically have
mad no alternative but to acquiesce
AS a matte" of~fact, however, it was
Duke Alfred who desired to sell the
reversiOnary interest of himself and
his son, and in 1876 the queen went
to Baden-Baden and had a confer
ence with tho old Emperor William
in the hope of being able to arrange
satisfactory terms. After a great
deal of haggling the negotiations
fell through because the duke stipu-
lated for sum paid down, whereas
the German government would give
him only a liberal annuity. But
there was no anxiety at Berlin to
conclude the transactiOn.-L
Truth
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-05-10
A BURGLARS DISCRETION.
It Was Only Exceiled by the Iavalid Won
ans Presence of Mind,

It Was Only Exceiled by the Iavalid worn-
ans Presence of Mind.
The 70 lowing incident shows how
an invalid woman acquitted herself
in trying circumstances. 1t was in a
country village an hour after mid
night. The woman of the house was
weak and i'll. A light was dim1y
burning in her apartment, which
was occupied also by her husband.
He was sleeping soundly, as strong
men are apt to sleep, and she was
lying awake trying to control her
nerves so that her restlessness might
not disturb him.
Presently she saw man approach
as stealthily as a cat and noiselessly
extinguish the night lamp. Horrible
visions of robbery and bloodshed
fitted through her mind. What
could she-what should she do2 She
controlled her desire to scream and
decided on her course. Slowly she
turned over in her bed, and YEARLY
speaking to her husband said: 'Oh,
dear, the light has gone out, and l
feel SO bad. I wish you would get
up and light it, john y
John was not easily aroused, and
she had to speak to him again. Then
his senses began to assert them
selves, and he slowly comprehended
that something was wanted, after
the manner of the average man wax
ing up from sleep. He lighted tho
lamp, and the woman, who had kept
her tense nerves quiet by her strong
will, was too weak to do it longer.
The inevitable scream came, and her
face betokened the hard experience
of the last few moments.
She told her story about the man
approaching and putting out the
light, and although it was apparent
that the light was out the rest of the
tale was thought to be the Pigment
of a troubled dream. But the hus-
band went down stairs at her re-
| quest, and this was the most indubi-
table proof Of her story The doors
were open for sudden flight in case
of necessity. The burglar had sup
| posed the couple asleep when he put
| out the light, and, just as the woman
had hoped, had fled when she Ian
| guidly and feebly said that the light
| had gone out and she wanted it re
| lighted.
The burglar evidently thought that
she was waking from sleep, and as
| he had good Opportunity to get out
| judged discretion to be the better
| part Of valOr Had she screamed at
first and brought her husband, halt
dazed, face to face with a burglar
fully armed and with every sense
about him, the result might have
been a serious one. The presence OF
mind of tho invalid woman had
saved the possibility of bloodshed.-
Boston Herald.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-05-10
FOR THE SOUTH.
A Bureau of Colonization Opened by
Blue and Gray

A Bureau of Colonization Opened by
Blue and Gray.
Southern readers of Blue and GRAY.
the popular magazine of patriotism,
published at Philadelphia, will be
glad to see that it's Bureau of Colo
nization has already become a prom
inent feature of this publication
The idea is to encourage emigration
from the North and West to the sun
ny South, and the idea will common
itself to our people. Blue and Gray
maintains it's characteristics of broad
national patriotism, non-sectional-
ism and liberal Amer icanism in such
u straightforward, unbiased manner
that it has already acquired much
influence both North and South.
The current number May is beauti-
fully illustrated, and full of interest
1t seems even better as O 10 cent
magazine than it was as IL % cent
publication, and it seems reasonable
to suppose that it may soon reach
the $50, 900 circulation for which the
publishers are striving. Their
''Memoirs" of General Grant, and
the promised Life History of Gen
eral Robert e. Lee" are doing much
to introduce this already popular
magazine.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-05-10
NORTH CAROLINA.
What Northern Editor Thinks of
the Old North State.

A. X. Mcclure, in Philadelphia Times
North Carolina is now single from
the other reconstructed States in
having attained, solely by the efforts
of her own people, a higher degree of
general prosperity than she ever
before attained in her history.
She has Il more prosperous and
thrifty people today than at any
period of the past, and there is more
capital employed and less debt, State
and individual, than at any time in
the last century. Texas has sur
passed the Old North State because
of her large influx of immigrati ton
and wealth but North Carolina has
fewer foreigners and more completely
homogen 7ous population than any
other State of the Union.
Since the 1escue of the State from
the tempest of prOfigacy that swept
over it after the war, taxes steadily
diminished, and the schools have in
creased until they proffer educa ton
to every child in this commonwealth,
regardless of color.
Her legitimate debt is steadily re-
duced; her treasury has large sur
plus, her humane institutions, con
| Quoted with equal care and outlay
for both races, are monuments of
credit; her public improvements have
kept pace with the growing wants of
her people; her authority reflects the
pride of the State in it's stainless in
tegrity, and thrift and content are
the common blessings of her people
When it is considered that North
| Cal DINA has every important miner
al within her borders, from gold to
iron; that she has every variety OF
| soil for every variety OF crops, from
wheat to cotton; that every variety
of climate, from the sunny southern
| coast to the chills of the highest peak
of the Appalachian range; that she
has waterpower enough in a single
river to spin and weave the whole
cotton of the South. and that her
| lands are nearly as cheap and her
climate better than the West-when
these facts are weighed in the scale OF
intelligence, the momentous mean
| ing of a New South, may be under
stood in the North as It'll now under
stood in the Carolinas
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-05-10
the Income Tax.
From the Review of Reviews.

From the Review of Reviews
An income tax is not dishonest
or rascally mode of procuring public
revenue in England or Prussia, and
there can be no gain for the argu-
ment against it in this country by
applying such adjectives. There are
a great many persons in the West
and in the SOuth-although eastern
newspapers seem unaware of the fact
who enjoy incomes exceeding four
thousand dollars. 1t is unworthy,
unjust and absurd to denounce the
project az one primarily and spite
fully intended by those great sec
tions to throw undue burdens upon
New England and the East. The
Atlantic seaboard north of Mary
land possesses no monopoly OF pri
vate honesty or political virtue. An
income tax is a perfectly legitimate
proposition; and if the question o f
sectional advantage or disadvant-
age is to be considered, it may at
least be retorted that the Eastern
rallying cry of "free raw materials"
involves an infinitely more disas
trous attack upon the prosperity of
the West and South.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-05-10
Russia and China.

It may be Laid down as a safe gen
eral rule that any and every agree
ment made between China and Rus
STA must be detrimental to the inter
ests of China, for the simple reason
that Russia always knows precisely
what she is driving at, while China
has never yet apprehended the true
purport of any convention she has
made with q foreign power, and usu
ally discovers too late that her conf
dence in the magic power of phrases
has been misplaced.
This is especially true of the trea
ties and protocols she has made with
Russia during the past generation.
They have been SO many steps in the
Russian advance, and such they are
likely to continue. -Blackwoods Mag
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-05-10
Medieval Nonarchs.

Almost every medieval monarch
claimed the whole or part of the
dominions of almost every other,
and insisted on inserting his claim in
his list of official titles. In treatises
and all official documents the whole
list was religiously copied, and as it
often happened that the two negotia-
ting mOnarchs had some of the same
titles, it became usual to insert q
clause in the list, non prajudicando,
in order to indicate that, no matter
how absurd, inappropriate or untrue
were the titles, they were understood
to be inserted because they pleased
the monarch who claimed them, that
they did not confer valid claim, and
SO no harm was likely to result from
their use.-EXchange
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-05-10
The Oldest Church.

The oldest Christian church in the
world is at Rome. Not far from the
great church of st. Maria Maggiore,
in street bearing the same name, is
the much smaller church of ST. Pu-
entiana, which tradition, as we'll as
the opinion of archaeological experts,
declares to be the most ancient of the
Christian edifices of Rome.
About the middle of the first CEN
fury certain Roman senator named
Pudens had q house on this spot. He
was a Christian convert and, it is
said, a distant relative of Paul the
Apostle, who lodged with him from
A. D. Al to so, and converted his two
daughters, Praxedes and Pudentiana
For the religious uses of himself and
guests he built small chapel in this
house, and when he died in SO and
his wife year later his daughter
added a haptistry, the plans for
which were drawn by Plus, the then
bishop of Rome. In course of time
a church was erected on the site of
the original house of Pudens and con
secrated by the bishop in los or 145.
London Million.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-05-10
The Waltz.


1t was Lady Jersey who introduced
it, and when later the Emperor Alex
ander visited London, an army OF for
eigners gave q strong impetus to the
movement. Its great popularity gave
rise to many disputes as to whence
the waltz originally came, whether
from tho old Provencal La Sau-
teuse," or ''Volte," or the German
national dance, the 'Laendler." It
is most universally ascribed to the
last named The "Laendler" was
under the ban of the authorities as
being dangerous to both health and
morals, but in spite of prohibition it
made its way to Vienna, where IL
was introduced in the opera Una
Casa Rara, by Vincente Martens.
The character of the dance was,
however, greatly changed and moti
fed, the tempo being much accel-
Grated. From Vienna it quickly
passed to France. DR.. Burney saw
it performed in Paris in 1850 and
could not help rejecting, chow I'M
easy an English mother would feel to
see her daughter SO Familiarity treat
ed and still more to note the obliging
manner in which the freedom is re-
turned by the females"
Had he lived few years longer,
the good old doctors sense of deco
rum would have received a shock in
the welcome accorded to the dance
by English women.-Au the Year
RO11nd
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-05-10
An Anecdote of Professor Owen.

Mr.. Thornycroft remembers Pro
fessor Owen as "a grand sitter" Il
got my impression of him, said the
sculptor to the Strand Magazine in
terviewer as he looked upon 1.-The
almost smiling face" of his statue,
''by seeing him sitting on the verte-
brB of whale which was made into
a garden seat on the borders of Rich
mond park" MI. Thornyeroft re-
calls the circumstance that the great
naturalist, speaking one day about
the birds in his garden, said, Eng
land is richer in birds than in any
other branch of natural history"
Sir Richard at this time had a bed
almost as high as the ceiling of his
room and had to mount pair of
steps in order to reach it-an exam
pie which these who shrink from
keeping the upper sash of their bed
room window frame down at night
would not do well to follow. On be-
ing asked his reason for this he re-
piled: ooh, it is very simple. l
have had it built so that 1 can look
out on to Richmond park and sec the
deer in the early dawn. They be-
have SO differently at o'clock in the
morning when there is nobody there
to disturb them. London News.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-05-10
EnIichtened the IaWYer.

81 presume, my good fellow, you
are a laborera" said a lawyer to a
plainly dressed witness.
''You are right. l am workman,
sir" replied the witness, who was a
civil engineer.
Familiar with the use of the pick,
shovel and spade, I presumed"
ITO some extent. Those are not
the principal implements of my
trade though"
Perhaps you will condescend to
enlighten me as to your principal
implements2"
ut is hardly worth while. You
don't understand their nature or use u
Probably not" loftily, "but l in
sist on knowing what they are"
''Brains. "-Exchange.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-05-10
THE OBJECTIONS
That Are Made to the Proposed In
come Tax.

From the Review of Reviews
But while we shall insist upon
recognizing the perfect good faith of
the Western and Southern people
who favor the income tax, who seem
destined beyond much question to
| succeed in making the project a law,
we are none the less opposed to it on
many grounds. A sufficient ground
ought to be the lack of any necessity
for the revenue it will produce. The
tariff and internal revenue taxes as
adjusted by the Senate committee
would provide sufficient national
revenue, without the addition of a
tax on incomes. Another and a
graver objection grows out of the
very Dature of our federal system
1t has not been our policy in matters
of taxation to bring the federal
officer into personal contact with the
private citizen, except as the citizen
passes his imported wares through
the gOvernment's custom houses. 1t
is true that the whisky and tobacco
taxes form a limited exception TO
this rule, but the system has become
, we'll established and the government
has only to deal at the point OF
| manufacture with a few easily regu-
lated industries. Yet the experience
OF federal attempts to enforce the
internal revenue laws has led many
statesmen and thoughtful citizens to
| deny totally the expediency of any
| attempt on the part Of the general
government to procure revenue under
any such methods. The income tax
| is totally opposed to the spirit o,
our federal system, and ia an en-
croachment upon the domain COM
monty regarded as wisely belonging
| to the individual States. The whole
machinery which the assessment and
collection of the income tax will re
quire, must surely prove itself to be
complicated, inquisitorial and often
sive in practical operation, to a
degree we'll nigh intolerable. AS the
law stands, the tax will operate in
anomalous ways; its curious in
CAPABILITIES in practice will tend to
create the sentiment among its
victims that it is a form OF persecu
ton and blackmail rather than q
taxation, and that it is to be evadec
if possible. Whatever it's Theoretical
merits may be, We do not think that
it could at the present time in this
country be put into success ul opera
| ton.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-05-10
She Has Diamonds I'm Her Teeth.

called at a dental establishment Of
this city last Saturday afternoon, and
instead of finding the proprietor extract
ing teeth perfectly painless" he was
engaged in looking for diamond which
he had dropped on the floor. It was
soon found, and to our establishment
employed as filing in the front tooth
of society belle. When completed,
the diamond represented brilliant star.
The crescent formed gold filling at the
periphery of the diamond made the star
and crescent beautiful in design and
finish. We have heard of the fad of dia-
monds in teeth, but do not think there is
another person in Norfolk with diamonds
in her teeth.-Norfolk Landmark.
The BARRIERS of Trenton, Mo-, attempt
ed to charge Republicans twenty-five
cents for shave on account of the long
faces they wore for several days after
the aIactiun Exchange.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-05-10
SOY BEANS,
Their Distribution to Farme rs of Non { n
Carolina.


The North Carolina Agricultural
Experiment Station at Raleigh, de
string to extend the cultivation of
Soy Beams, proposes to distribute
quantity of seed to careful planters
desiring to test their merits. The
only condition is that each appli-
can't send 10 cents in postage stamps
to pay cost of transportation by
mail. Enough seed will be sent to
each applicant to plant LILO acre.
The firsU 400 applications will be
filled in the order received.
The Station regards this as very
valuable forage plant. 1t is of up
right growth 2 TO 3 feet high and is
u legum;ne capable of adding nitro
gen from the air to the soil in which
it grows 1t is planted in hills or
drills * to 81 feet apart according
to richness of soil, and Is and "a
inches apart in the row. 1t can be
planted any time from March to
July, either alone or in the corn row
between the corn, and 2 to beans
are usually planted in each hill Soil
suitable to it and the general prepur-
ton is the same as for corn. When
planted for corn both crops can be
ensilaged together, and the corn
ensilage will be much improved by
the combination, or the plants when
planted alone can be cut for forage
before they get too woody. The
seed are found in small pods and can
be saved by cutting the whole plant
when leaves and pods have turned a
golden hue. They can easily be
beaten out when dry. If cutting is
delayed beyond this time the pods
will open and some will be lost on the
ground. 1t will not pay to pick the
beans. 1t is also good table bean,
but requires "a long time to cook.
The Station urges a careful trial of
this crop.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-05-10
The Human Heart.

The human heart is a hollow mus
Gle of conical form, placed between
the two lungs and inclosed in the
pericardiuTn or heart sac. The orGi
nary size of the heart in the adult is
about 5 inches in length, 81 inches il
breadth at the broadcast part and q
inches in thickness. Its weight is
from 10 to II ounces III men, and
from to 10 Dances in women. -Leis
ure Moments.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-05-10
"AMERICA" IN HIS EYES.
Green County Boy Born With This
Word In His Optics.

The little county of Green, wedged
in between Lenoir, Wayne and Pitt
has produced one of the most re.
markable human freaks ever known
in this country. Within q stones
throw of the little village postoffice
at Lizzie lives Mr. S. w. Lassiter, a
prominent and we'll known citizen,
who has little son in whose eyes
nature has cast in living letters, the
word america"
The child was born on the 4th day
of February, 1898. His eyes are
blue, and the letters are a little dark
er, and surround the sight. In each
eye can be seen plainly the word
"America /" There is no doubt about
this. Hundreds of people have visit
ed the residence of Mr.. Lassiter aid
seen the child and looked into its
eyes and read for themselves the
remarka BILE birth-mark.
The little boy is growing rapidly,
and can see perfectly. The letters
can be seen as plainly as the letters
in O. book.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-05-10
WHY UN Remained.

It was getting late, but Algernon
Charles had not his watch with him.
There was a clock on the mantle, but
it was out of the range of his vision
"What time is it by that clock,
Miss Bellefeldl" he asked. Il can t
see it distinctly"
"Oh, that clock doesn't 60" replied
the maiden.
Doesn't it2 Then I won't either.
And he staid hour and Is minutes
longer, estimated time-Pittsburg
Chronicle-Telegrap
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-05-10
Stonewali Jackson's Grave.

Blue and Gray for May lPhiladel-
phia), Memorial Day" number, con-
tains a charming poem in blank
verse, entitled "Stonewall Jackson's
Grave" by Mr.. Ernest N. Bagg, of
Dorchester, Mass. The poem is &C
companied by a handsome floral
setting in which is shown an engrav-
ing of the tomb OF the great south
ern leader.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-05-10
Cochin China's Imperial Safe.

The Emperor DucTu of Cochin
China protects his treasures by plac-
ing them in followed trunks of trees,
which float about a huge tank stu
ated in the center of the royal pal
ace There are 20 crocodiles in the
tank as well. When he wishes to
draw upon this bank, all the reptiles
are killed, but this cannot take place
without the joint consent of the en-
peror and his minister of finance
Exchange.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-05-10
The Snail.

He has no ground rent to pay, for
he does not build his house upon any,
and asks no better foundations for
what he lives in than his own back.
Being his own landlord, he is not
liable for house rent, and when he IS
not inside them his apartments arc
unfinished ones.
Where'er he dwells he dwclls alone;
Except himself has chattcls none,
Well satisfied to be his own
Whole treasure.
He is the despair Of his creditors,
for he has nothing to levy upon, and
if the brokers seize his house they
seize him, too, and he is none the
worse, for he was at home as he was.
Income tax collectors gnash their
teeth over him, for if they assess linn
on his house property he walks out
of it. It is his freehold only SO long
as he remains within.
Once outside it is nothing, mere
shell, and no heading in any schedule
meets the case. This is why, nc
doubt, he sometimes leaves his lodg-
ings and goes into others to baf1le
the commissioners and leave the law
yers to tax each others costs at then
own expense. Nor does he run UP
any bills.
He is his own hosier, halter, tailor
and shoemaker, and as for his food
he takes it where he finds it. Ii the
caterpillar tells him he has no right
to eat the cabbage, the snail replies
with a Iu quoque, and if the earwie
protests against his coming into the
lettuce he asks it to show its title tC
possession-G Words.