Lie Dp Nearer, Brother.
The AVir Rnyland Diadttn, a magazine
published many years ago, gave its readers ths
following beautiful stun/as, which wore sag
gestcd by hearing road an extract of a lottur
from Captain Chase, giving an account of the
aicknoss and death of his hrotlior-ih-law, Mr.
Brown Owen, who died on Ins passage to Cali
fornia. The poem deserves rescue from ob
livion by republication:
Lie up m arcr, brother, nearer.
For my limbs are growing cold.
And thy presence seemsth dearer,
Whon thy anus around me fold;
I am dying, brother, dying,
80011 you'll miss roe in your berth.
For my arm will * >on be lying
'Neath the ocean's briny surf.
Hearken to me, brother, hearken,
1 havo something I would say,
F.re tho veil tuy vision darken
And I go from bonce away.
1 am going, surely going,
But my hope in Ood is strong,
1 am willing, brother, knowing
That He doeth nothing wrong.
Toll my father when you greet him.
That in death I prayed for him.
Prayed that I may one day moot him,
In a world that's free from sin;
Tell my mother (God assist lior
Now that she ia growing old),
Tell, her child would glad have kissed her.
When his lips grew pale and cold.
Listen, brother, catch each whisper,
'Tim my wife I'd speak of now,
Tell, oh, tell her, how I missed her,
When the fever burut my brow.
Tell her, brother, closely listen,
Don't f< a single word.
That 111 death my eyes did glisten
With tho tears her memory atirrad.
Tell her she must kiss my children.
Like tho kiss I last impressed.
Hold them as when I last held tliem,
Folds 1 closely to my breast ;
Give them early to their Maker,
Putting all her trust in God.
And H never will forsake liar.
For He aanl so in His Word.
Oh, my children ! Heaven bless them !
Thov were sll my life to mo ;
Would 1 could once more caress them,
Ero I sink beneath the sea ;
'Twas for them I crossed tho ocean.
What my hojies were I'll not tell,
But I have gained an orphan's portion.
Yet Ho doeth all things well.
Tell my sisters 1 r-member
Every kindly parting word,
And my heart has lire 11 kept tender,
As tho thoughts their mcm'ry stirred; j
Tell them I ne'er reached the haven
Whore I sought the " precious dust,"
But I have gained a port called Heaven,
Where tho gold will never rust.
I'rge Ihern to secure an entrance.
For they'll find th' ir brother there ;
Faith in Jesus and repentance
Will secure for each a share-
Hark ! I hear my Havior speaking,
"Tis, I know Hia voice so well.
When I am gor.e, oh, don'qbo weeping, ,
Brother, here's my last fsrewell.
THE RIVALS.
lmogone De Forest was eigh- j
teen years old, a beauty and a belle.
Oirls of all kinds, if they live, can he
eighteen years old; bnt to he a l>eanty
and a belle needs a concurrence of fa- '
rotable circumstances. In Miss Imo
gene these favorable circnmstances wore
of a decided order. She had a lovely
face, a graceful figure, and she was the
only child of the Hon. Lysander De
Forest, an ex-governor, an ex-senator,
ana a probable foreign minister.
Besides, she had a very respectable
private fortnne, though young Jefferson
Duval and Captain Milton Fontaine
both averred that was the very least
point in her charms, and not worthy to
be named with her dark eyes and her
bewitching smile. Girls of eighteen
are not all-wise, and perhaps Miss Imo- ,
gene believed this; at any rate she j
looked as if she believed it; and both
Duval and Fontaine ha 1 many hours in
which they certainly firmly believed it-
When wondering in the moonlight
under the orange tt <-**, or when whirl
ing through the waltz in some splendid
feast, they were both quite certain that
nothing but Miss Imogene's personal
loveliness enterod into their dreams
ooncerning her.
Hitherto, though both pretenders to
Imogene's favor, they had preserved
tho semblance of friendship. Duval
rather wished to do so; it gave him an
honorable opportunity of watching his
rival's obances; and Fontaine was of
that order of men who like a little op
position. Ho intended at some favor
able opportunity to make a coup rtriai,
and at once and forever put poor Duval
out of the painful uncertainties of love.
For somehow bo regarded his own sue
oess as certain—and if the confident
heart wirs the fair lady, and the faint
ono loses her, he had some reason for
his blissful security.
One lovely evening in the charming
May—for May is charming in Central
Texas-Imogens was slowly riding
across a prairie that was one billowy
sea of grass and flowers. Duval was by
her side, reciting Byron in a very I
touching manner. Imogene had cas-1
mally noticed that two horsemen had
emerged from a little wood, and were
slowly following them; and she had
also noticed that they bad passed, at
rather closer quarters than she liked, a
herd of cattle feeding. Whether the
magnificent bnll leading them was
irritated by Duval's floating scarlet
nook-tic, or by tho ]>ootry, or by motive#
boy on (1 human comprehension, is pn
oortain, but bis angor was positive
enough. Bellowing and tearing np tho
ground, be oamn furiously after tho
lovers. Poetry and sentiment collapsed,
and the first law of nature promptly
asserted itself.
Both put their horses to their utmost
B|>eed, but tho prospect was not cheer
ing. In fact the question wad this,
Would the bull or tho horses havo tho
best of it in a race over two miles of
open prairie?
"Ho is gaining on us, Duve.l, and I
am turning sick and faint. Oh, what
shall I do ?'
" Let us separate, no cannot fol
low both, and perhaps ho will seloot
mo."
Suddenly the shouts of tho men bo
hind uttractod thoir attention. Imo
gens glanced fearfully around. Tho
two horsemen she had noticed were
coming on at a thundering pace ; and
before sho could chock or turn her
horso one of them had risen in his stir
rups and thrown a lasso around the
furicus animal. It was now evident
that Governor Do Forest was ono of
these horsemen ; tho other, who still
held the rope, was quite unknown both
to Duval and Imogens.
Tho governor quickly dispatched the
bull with his rifle, and then, as tho
herd were evidently growing uneasy,
the whole party rode rapidly homo.
Thanks and introductions woro prac
tically delayed, although the stranger
knew that no thanks and no introduc
tion would ever bo more satisfactory to
him than the glance and smile he had
received in the swiftest moment from
Imogeue.
Duval was very unhappy. Ho won
dered if he had behaved in a cowardly
manner. Tho whole affair had bean so
sudden and rapid he could neither ana
lyre his feelings nor his notions. Imo
gene had only said that she " quite ex
cused him." Had there been anything
to excuse? And then this stranger!
He was quite as inexplicable. Gover
nor De Forest had simply introduced
him as " Mr. John Winthrop." He was
a little man, with a plain, positive face.
His skin was tanned, his hair light and
his eyes of that steely blue which al
ways annoys weak and incapable per
sons.
Mr. Winthrop mado very light of the
adventure, and gave all the credit of
the rescue to the governor, except per
haps for one moment, in which Imogene
and he once more changed eyes. The
news soon spread through the little
town, and Fontaine wan very indignant
at fate. "If only he had been with
Miss Imogene ! Managing wild cattle
was a trifle to liim. Ho would rather
have er j.yod such an encounter than !
others lso. lie had half a dozen plans j
always ready for such emergencies," j
etc- And really he did look so gallant, j
so handsome, that most girls would
have been willing to face a herd of wild
bnfTaloes under his protection.
Dnval felt Fontaine's bravado a per
sonal slight, but he did not wish to
make Imogene the subject of a quarrel,
and after a rather unsatisfactory visit ,
the two men went home together.
However, next morning Captain Fon
taine had the most graceful little note
from Miss Imogene, asking him to
bring his guitar and assist her in enter
taining a few guests that evening.
Dnval hsd also one, equally flattering ;
for it tonchingly referred to their mutual
danger and escape, and hoped he would
come prepared to finish the exquisite
poem which had been so terribly inter
rupted.
The evening was a remarkable one in
many respects. Scarcely ever had the
ex-governor's mansion been so profusly
decorated and so brilliantly illuminated,
and to the magnificent feast prepared
all the principal magnates of the neigh
borhood had been invited.
Imogene hsd never looked so bewil.
dering unreal and poetic. Her oval
face, with its creamy color and soft
dark eyes, was crowned with great
waves of black hair aud snowy flowers,
and her long drapery of some soft silky
tissue seemed to shimmer and glance
like a fairy robe, as with winning smile i
and gracious, graceful manners sho
flitted to and fro among the guests.
£ John Winthrop was among them. He
did not dance, and he did not sing, aud
he smiled queerly at the very idea of
his reciting poetry; consequently neither
Duval nor Fontaine felt uneasy about
bis infiuonce. Indeed he secnud only
to be able to converse on two subjects—
property and polices.
Htiil he had one great advantage--he
stayed in the same house with I tangent,
and could see her in many favorable
moments forbidden to lees happy mor
talsjgllnt Duval, who watched him
closely, was soon convinced that he
was indifferent to this immense favor;
for Duval had found opportunities of
putting very clever leading questions
to Winthrop, and that gentleman had
answered them with the greatest can
dor.
Indeed, he was so mnch more polite
and sympathetic than he expected that
Dnval, who really longed for a confi
dant, poured out his whole soul to him,
and asked John candidly what was Lit
opinion about bis own and Fontaine's
chances. Did he really think Fontaino
would win Imogene?
John said ho knew very little of
women, but he thonght Fontaino would
not win Miss Imogene.
It is a comfort to have a confidant,
and Duval brightened so much under
the process of pouring out his hopes to
John that Fontaine noticed the ahango,
and begau to fear that his rival had
comfort and encouragement of which
ho did not know.
Ho was pondering this question vory
gloomily one night when he met John
Winthrop. How it liapponod he never
could tell, but in flvo minutes the two
men were talking of Imogene, and
Fontaino had told John all his hopes
and fears with regard to her. John
listened with interest, and oven en
couraged tho conversation, though he
tried to moderate Fontaine's complaints
of Duval.
"For," said ho, "it is only right to
toll you that I am also Duval's confi
dant. I must say tho affair is full of
interost to me, and I can partly under
stand how it tills and colors all the
hours of your two lives. For mo, thing*
are different. If 1 should fall in love,
I could not afford to lose either an
hour's time or an hour's sleep about
any woman."
Iu this way matters went on for some
weeks. John was tho known confidant
of both men, a post not half as difficult
as it appears at first sight. For Fon
taino often wanted to say something
aliout Duval ho did not care to say to
Duval's face. Ho therefore made the
remark to John, hoping that he would
be his mouthpiece; and it is need
less to say that Daval followed the
same plan.
John smiled,and smoked, and listened,
and kept very quiet—a thing easy
enough to do, for both lovers only
cared to hear themselves complain.
That they kept up so long an appear
ance of friendship was entirely due to
John's who reticence, and his charitable
rendering of such scraps of conversa
tion as he felt obliged to report.
But smoldering fire cannot always
be controlled, and one night, when
Imogene had been very haughty and
cross to both Duval and Fontaine, they
unfortunately met on the piazza of
their hotel. Duval was despondent and
prostrate, Fontaine angry and scornful,
and Duval's air unconsciously irritated
him.
" How ill-tempered Miss Imogene
was to night 1" be said, fretfully, flinging
his half-smoked cig.tr into the street.
" Miss Imogene is never ill-temp
crod," answered Duval, warmly. " I will
not allow you to say such a thing."
" You won't allow me! Understand
I shall say what I choose about that
lady. Ido not rccognitc your right to
defend her."
"Nor I yours to blame her."
" Perhaps I have more right than you
know of."
" That is a lying insinuation; you are
no gentleman to make it."
•' Do you dare to sty it is a lie?"
"Yes, I don't mind sayinq it in a
solid lie."
" Yon know the consequences of that
speech I suppose ?"
" I know them very well. I am not
afraid of yon."
"Dnvall Duval! PU—"
"Ob, keep cool, Fontaine! Bend
your second to mo at midnight. If
your valor holds till morning, I'll give
you a chance to prove it,"
"Very well, sir. Understand this
goes to the bitter end. I will receive
no apology—not the most abject one."
"No apology will ba offered you'"
Then Duval flung his hat on his head,
untied hia horse, and rodn rapidly np
the street. He went, in fact, to John
Winthrop to ask him to make the
proper arrangements for a meeting be
tween Fontaine and himself the next
day. After a little persuasion John
agreed to do so; but ere Duval left
Fontaine tapped smartly at John's door
and made the same request. The two
opponents bowed to each other, but left,
all speech to John, who, in truth,
seemed sdmirsbly adapted for the part
he found himself almost obligod to
play.
He tried first to effect a reconcilia
tion, but finding that impossible made
the strange proposition that he should
aet as second for both. "Gentlemen,"
he said, with a winning courtesy, "yon
aro both equally my friends, and I am
honestly disposed to do equal justice to
each. Fix on some plaoe and hour and
I will bring my friend Dr. Allen, and
soe everything as pleasantly and hon
orably settled as possible."
Both Duval and Fontaine bowed to
this proposal. Perhaps neither of them
was in bis heart aa bloodthirsty as he
pretended, and a peaceably inclined
second has a great deal in his power.
Bo a little wood about two miles out of
town was fixed upon, and sunset the
following dsy wss the fsted hour. John
had insisted on this delay, partly, be
said, because he still hoped the princi
pals might change their minds, and
partly because it would allay any sus
picion which their quarrel and lato visit
to himself might arouse,
i Bo both Duval and Foatains were at
their nsnal desk* in tbo morning, and
their evening horseback ride wan HO
common nnd nut oral that no one at
tached any unusual meaning to it
ltotb men arrived at tbo designated
spot by different roads, but within two
m inn tee of each other. Dnvai bowed,
leaned against a tree, and Hmoked what
might bo bin last cigar. Fontaine
paced nervously np and down, waiting
with great impatience John'H arrival
with the ap)>ointed weapons, which
both men had intrusted to him. The
ann not. The little wood got darker
and darker— BO dark at laat that Du
val's cigar made a distinct glow. Htill
John did not corns.
Neither liked to make the first re
mark, yet it was evident that for some
cause or other their wounded honor
would have to endure another twelve
hours' wrong. Yet Duval was just
lighting another cigar, when a little
negro hoy came running through the
wood.
" Dono found you at last, Mas'r Jeff.
Thought you'd done shooted aach other
for sure. I's l>een a-lookin' all round
yar sinca sundown."
" What havo you camo here for?"
" Mass'r John Winthrop send dene
two letters —for sure ho did, now."
" Where is he?"
" Bono gone."
"Fontaine," said Duval, "will you
have a match to read yours by?"
"Thank yon, Duval, I will."
Ho, by the light of a sucer*aion of
Inciters both gentlemen read the follow
ing words:
" My friend, I am opposed to duels
on principle ; so is my dear bride, who
hopes you will both remember her too
kindly to stain her name with your
blood. Your little foolish quarrel
hurried our arrangements, which had
been made for a month later. Yon will
see now the wisdom of the adrioe I have
always given you both.
"Jum WIWTHBOP."
There was a moment's dead silence,
then Duval said: "Fontaine, we have
no quarrel now ; and if we have, we
have no weapons. Bupposc we go hack
to the hotel and have supper V
Harper'* Wckly.
The Kin,' and the Miller.
Near Ban*, Bonoi, the favorite reei
dence of Frederick the Great, there was
a mill which much interfered with the
view from the palace. One day the king
aent to inquire what the owDer would
take for the mill; and the unexpected
answer came back that the miller would
not sell it for any money. The king,
much incensed, gave orders that the
mill ahouid he pulled down. The mil
ler made no resistance, but folding his
arms, quietly remarked: " The king
may do this, but there are law* in
Prussia." And he took legal proceed
ings, the result cf which was the king
had to rebuild the mill and pay a good
sum of money beside in compensation.
Although his majesty was much eba
grined at this end to the matter he put
the best face he could upon it, and turn
ing to his courtiers he remarked: "I
am glad to see that there are just laws
and upright judges in my kingdom."
A sequel to this Incident occurred
about forty years sgo. A descendant
of the miller of whom we have just
lieen speaking had come into possession
of the mill Aftar having struggled for
seversl years agsinst ever increasing pov
erty, and being at length quite untble
to keep on with his business, he wrote
to the king of Prussia, reminding him
of the incident we have jnst related,
and stating that, if /b> majesty felt so
disposed, he should be very thankfnl in
his present difficulty.to sell the mill.
The king wrote the following reply
with bis own hand:
"Mr DBAB Naniimoß: I cannot
allow you to sell the mill. It must be
always in your possession, as long aa
one of your family exists, for it belongs
to the history of Prussia. I regret,
however, to hear that you are in such
straitened circumstances, and there
fore send yon, herewith six thonsand
dollars, in tho hope that it may be
of somo service in restoring your for
tunes. Consider me your affectionate
neighbor, FRKtunurK Waun."
Hevcnth.Day Adrentlsra.
I a the course of the hiitorj of the
Christian chore h men 7 tecta here arisen
by whom the speedy coming of Christ
to eet up e visible empire bee been pre.
claimed. The Heventh-day Adventist* t
ways Professor Hohem, originated as
early aa 1844, and one of the first organ,
iters of the movement was Elder Jamee
White. Their headquarters are at
Battle Ore k, Mich., where they have a
flourishing publishing house, etc., and
they have several denominational papers
ia various languages. The same writer
adds that they hold atrict temperance
views, including the prohibition of the
nse of tobacco, and abstinence from
pork, tea and coffee is recommended.
They have about 350 obnrehee and a
membership in the neighborhood of
0,000. They set no time for the ooming
of Christ. __________
The apple ia now considered excel
lent food for brain worker*. Well, we
believe this fruit originally name from
the tree of knowledge.— Botton Courier.
MORA h A5l) KP.MOfOUM.
Have Coarma.
There are times in one's life when all
the world seems to tarn against ns.
Onr motives are misunderstood, onr
word* misconstrued, a malicious smile
reveal* to ns the unfriendly feelings of
others. Oh 1 how hard it all seems,
and the more so that we cannot divine
the cause. Courage, patience, discon
solate one! Ood is making a furrow in
your heart, where he will surely sow
Hi* grace. It is rate when injustice or
slights patiently home do not leave
the heart at the close of the day filled
with marvelous joy and peace.— WoriU
of Faith.
KHlilxua Scots ail Sate*.
The income of Tal mage's Tabernacle
for 1882 is estimated at (25,000.
Hix healthy liaptist churches have
grown out of one at Minneapolis, which
was organized in 1853.
Ht. Pant, Minn., is to have a fiity
thousandslollar Christian seminary for
young ladies. It is to provide unsec
tsrian education of the highest order.
Although more than half the Baptist
churches in the Htate of New York re
port no baptisms for 1881, the 874
which do report foot up a total of 3,530
persons baptized.
The Reformed Presbyterian church
(Covenanter) has in this country 107
ministers, 122 congregations, eighty
three pastors. Of the congregations
thirty-four are withaut regular pastors.
The not increase of communicants
last year in the Protestant Episcopal
church in the whole United States was
only 3,733. There was a decrease of
3,000 in baptisms, of fifty in confirma
tions and of forty in candidates for
orders.
In the first decade of the Methodist
Episcopal church there was one minis
ter to every 100 members; in the fifth
decade the proportion was one to 2*4 ;
the present proportion is one minister
to 147 members, against 142 in the
ninth and tenth decades.
The New Jersey Baptist Hunday
school is preparing for the campaign
of the summer months. A great Bun
day-school convention is to be held in
June at Asbury Park, for which the
best speakers and singers on the conti
nent have been engaged.
At Lead City, Dakota, the miners
worked as steadily on Sundays as on
other days until the Rev. Mr. Bryant
began to preach there. He has exerted
such an influence in the place that
most of the miners have dropped their
Sunday work, and have become regular
attendants on his ministry.
An order has been issued in India
that in future all Protestant and Roman
Catholic churches which have been
built by the government or which have
!>een made over to the government
shall be repaired and maintained in
proper order at the cost of the state and
t*s treated as state property.
According to the Unitarian Year-Book
for I*B2 the total number of churches
is 344 and of these 252 are without
pastors or stated supply. Fourteen
clergymen died during the past year
and only seven were ordained. The
Unitarians support one foreign mission
ary, the Bcr. Mr. Dale, at Calcutta,
India.
There were built last year in the
United Btates 141 Lutheran churchce.
Of this number twenty-three were in
Ohio, twenty-seven in Pennsylvania,
thirteen in Illinois, and ten each in
Indians, Michigan and Nebraska. In
the past four years the Lutherans have
bnilt 605 churches, 309 for German and
102 for English congregation*.
A Mountain's Fall.
Bnffslo mountain, running north and
south, ends abruptly five miles south
east of Johnson City, Washington oonr
ty, Tonn. Immediately on the cud of
this mountain, several hundred feet
above the surrounding oonntry, is a
tremendous massive rook, known as
" White Rock Summit." It is noted
for its lofty height and pietnreeqne
grandeur. In years gone by the Rev.
Harry Anderson, colored, preached to
the colored people of the neighborhood,
who gathered there on the Sabbath
day. Bat " White Bock" 'peak is no
more.
On a recent morning s powerful crash
and fearful rumbling noise startled the
inhabitants of the entire vicinity
aronnd the terminus of the mountain,
and many of them ran in wild exoite
ment, panic stricken, crying and pray
ing aa though tbey were in the midst of
an earthquake. A glance toward where
this lofty mountain of nature has stood
unmoved and apparently immovable
for centuries past, proved it had sunk
down into one huge mass of earth, logs,
trees and rooks. The whole end of the
mountain has melted or rather slid off,
and the summit around which the
clouds loved to gather of their own no
oord no more holds aloft, toward the
aky with its white-capped peak.
The people who lived is the country
around this fallen mountain were great
ly excited. The unlooked-for and
strange occurrence is supposed to have
been reused by the long and almost
incessant reins that have descended on
the oonntry for several weeks.
CLIPPINGS FOR THK CURIOUS.
According to Darwin there is a species
of monkey which can sing a complete
and correct octave of musical note*.
The value of the waste paper collected
from various offices in England and oold
for the public benefit average* $50,000
a year.
There ara thirty Egyptian obelisks
scattered over Europe. Rome has
eleven, fflnr of which are higher than
the one in New York.
In Siam there is a race of cat* with
tail* only half the ordinary length and
often contorted into a kind of knot
which cannot be straightened.
News of the result of a " Derby" at
Epsom, England, reached New York
last July in exactly five seconds after
the horses past the winning post.
Is Europe a copy of the first edition
of the Decameron has' been sold for
over 811,000, and one of the Outen
berg Bibles on vellnm for $17,000,
The Htate of Missouri contains sev
eral hundred springs which send forth
a large volume of water with sufficient
energy to rnn Urge mills or factories.
The railway system of India includes
8,611 miles. The gauge is three feet
six inches. All lines are built nrimarily
for military and commercial purposes.
According to Hpanish historians eight
centuries of warfare elapsed, and 3,700
Isattles were fought before the Moorish
kingdoms in Bpain submitted to Chrio
tian arms.
The silver coins of the United Btates
and of France are made of nine parts of
, silver and one part of copper. Less
; copper is used in making the silver of
| Great Britain.
There was a question among the early
! rhristians as to the propriety of wear
' ing in military festivals laurel wreaths,
l>ecaue laurel was called after Daphne,
the lover of Apollo, god.
Aa English statistican calculates that
every man on an average speaks fifty
two volumes of 600 octavo pages per
annum, and that every woman yearly
brings out 520 volames of the same size
in talk.
In a southern seaboard district of
China wild silk worms are fonnd, which
feed on the camphor tree, and their silk
is utilized in a singular manner. When
the caterpillar has attained its fall aire
and is about to enter the pupa state, it
' is cut open and the silk extracted in a
• form much resembling catgut. This
substance, having undergone a process
I of hardening, makes excellent fish line
and is generally nsed for that purpose
! in the Pakhoi district.
Color Hlindtif
There are three kinds of color blind
ness. There are the red blind, the
green blind and violet blind. A very
large proportion of those afflicted are
ret! blind, some arc green blind, and
very few are violet blind. Borne are
blind as to two of the baae colore, gen
erally red and green. There are only a
few authentic cases of total oolor blind
ness. To snoh everything in nature
appear* black or white or light or dark
gray in various degrees. To a red
blind red will appear yellow, green,
brown or black, according to the shade
of red nsed and the degree of the
blindness. A bright red will appear
dark-green and an equally bright great
can be distinguished from it only by
being of a lighter shade. To the color
blind every change in intensity of light,
from twilight, fog or from changed
physical condition, as by fatigue or
excitement, represents a change in
oolor or shades of color. Hantnnine, a
medicine not very frequently used, tem
porarily makes everything appear yel
low, while aloohol and tobacco used tc
exoees permanently impair the chro
matic senae. To the green blind, whose
only two concepts of baae colore are
red and violet, green, being composed
of almost equal parts of those colon,
appears gray; reds appear brighter than
normal, orange and yellow as more or
leaa luminous red, blue as an intense
violet.
A Wholesale Grocer's Rule.
Every established local newspaper
receives subscription, from large cities,
which pnaale the publishers to account
for, but which the New York Timn
lately threw some light upon in the fol
lowing : " A wholesale grocer in this
sity, who had become rich at the busi
ness, says his nils is that when he sella
s bill of goods on credit to immedf*
ately subscribe for the local paper of
bis debtor. So long as his customer
advertised liberally and vigorously he
rested, but as soon as he began to eo*|
tract his advertising space he took the
fast as evident* that there was trouble
ahead, and invariably went for bft
debtor. Raid he: 'The man who j||
too poor to make bis business known is
too poor to do business.' ** The withgj
drawal of an advertisement is * ridansP
of weakness that business men are not
slow to act upon.—Kmrha*f.
Twenty rears ago Virginia paid New
England •3,000,000 for eotton doth.
Lost year the factories in Petersburg
alone mads over $7,000,000 word