"(1). 'Better wait a while.'
(2). 'You had better be quiet.'
Here 'had' is Subjunctive, meaning 'would have;' and the sentence would be in full—
(2). 'You would have (find) it better to be quiet.'
(3). 'I had rather be a door-keeper,' i. e. 'I sooner ['rather' meant 'early,' 'soon'] would have,' i. e. 'I prefer to be a door-keeper.'"
Base Ball is now the game of the season. Four or five clubs have been formed and there is a match-game nearly every afternoon. Mr. W. H. Johnston is Captain of the first nine, which is named "The Crowell." The Trinity club has been successful in days gone by and expects to keep up its past reputation under its new name and Captain.
Mr. C. G. Peacock left on the 1st of March for Philadelphia where he will take a business course at Pierce's Business College, preparatory to entering business. Success to you Charlie!
We understand that Mr. Jarrell, of High Point, is leader of a Prohibition Vigilance Committee and those who drink and those who sell will be brought before the authorities every time.
Trinity was enlivened by the charming faces of Misses Lena Hudgins, Lizzie Ballance and Lizzie Lawrence, of the G. F. C., who were visiting Miss Mamie Robbins. They returned on the 25th. Next day the "spider-legs" were sick: their webs had been broken.