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Paxtoii, Prop. backachS I HI ladder and CURE Diseases. t, eoc 91, A i YEARS (f : IN aie by Gibson Omg Btore. AiV OLD HOME, SWEET HOME By John Howard Payne JOHN HOWARD PATNK, author and actor, wu bora north Africa, la April. 1851. He made his first atr with treat favor. Ha. played alao la Endaad and J " retired frem the ataa la MaVrooi 5 to 1845 and la UU-B Payne wu United aWcikt "a. the author, traaaiator VulapE? of more than eUty. plays. Hie moat pop on "Home. Sweet Home." occurs la a otteraCUrl-T The Maid of aCUaa. ' -aP1 M ID pleasnrea and Dalaeea r it V. .. c xi. mi oumDie, mere's no place like borne! A charm from the aky Menu to hallow na there Which, seek through the world, is ne'er met with elsewhere. j Home, sweet bomel i There's no place Uke home! An exile from home splendor dazzles In vain Oh, give me my lowly thatched cottage again! The birds singing gayly that came at my call Give me them, with the peace of mind dearer than all. j Home, sweet home I There's no place like home! .--TftJtimtMttMMmtMiMMMMMm BILL AHPS LETTER. Atlanta Constitution. "I still live." I was ruminating about the last words of great men, and loose oi lamei Webster always impress me with peculiar force. On the vrv confines of eternity, on the brink of the everlasting change that he knew was at hand, his great mind seemed " to be studying and waiting for the moment of his departure waitine and watching for the separation of the soul from the body, and wondering I how he would pass the crisis. There was no fear, no dread, as he camly whispered, "I still we," and immediately died- His bodv died, and what was the next vision of his great soul the. world would like to know, but it is forbidden. I thought of all this not long ago as I seemed to be drawing near the end and approach ed the confines of that undiscovered country from; whose bourne no traveler returns. - I was serious and solemn with expectation, but was not alarmed, for my faith is that my Maker will take care of me and of all others who love Him and try to do right. All that tr Ubied me was the separation from those l love and their grief at my de parture. Two months is a long time to be a child again without; vital force enough to .walk alone. But I have passed the crisis, and though weak and nervous am on the upgrade, . and can walk about the garden and carry the little grandchild in my arms and give : him flowers on Wis smiles and caresses. Well, that is enough on that line, You readers 1 can find sermons and prosy commentaries on sickness and death on another page. "Carpediem." Let us enjoy the day and be thankful that we still live. But to drop reverent ly from the sublime to the ridiculous, I recall that when I was young a num ber of us were quoting the last words of great men such as Seneca and Plato and Calvin and Luther and one said: Well, you know what Daniel Webster said?" No, we did not remember and he replied: j "Why, he opened his great big eyes and looked at his friends who were weeping around him and whispered, 'Boys, don't cry; I am not dead yet.' " : Forty-one years ago last Sunday the battle of Mannassas was fought.- It was the first battle of the civil war and made a deeper impression upon those engaged in it than any other. Compar ed with the 'great- battles that came after it, it was almost insignificant, for there were w only- four hundred and seventy federals killed and three hun dred and seventeen confederates. The federal account gives sixteen hundred of their armv as missing. . lhat is a mistake, for bv 4 o'clock they were all missing. Our cavalry couldn't . 'find them, though they followed their trail of discarded trans and haversacks for miles and miles. There never was such, a rout and such ; a panic during the war. We didn't have enough wag ons next day to gather "up the scattered munitions of war, and it took. McDowell a month to call in his army of twenty- seven thousand men and Reorganize But in the long run they got even with us and a little ahead, and the Grand Armv is still! braeeine how four of them whipped one of us in four years, That's all rieht. We are satisfied with nnr record and it srrows brighter as ' the vears roll on. Anno domini will tell. The other day my doctor said I must take aome exercise and he took his mother and me up the river road for few miles to the ruins of the Cooper ironworks. It was a wild, weird, ghosty nlace on thei banks of the Etowah, where once 1 were rolling mills and f rn ndrv and furnaces and flour mills and tan vards and hundreds of cottages, where haoDV laborers and mechanics lived. But Sherman's army burned and destroved everything, and since then most of the crumbling walls have fallen and the trees have grown up in their midst and wild vines have climbed the trees and nothing is visible but rainn and the sad srjectacle of a crutl and hratal war.1 But this is one bum ing that, according to the rules and usages of war, was jusunea, ior iuwkj iron works were making cannon for the ronfederacvJ It was the lonesome chimneys of ! the poor all along his line of march that marked nis.Drutautyana provea nis assertion mat m jo ui. But no more of this. While view ing these ruins my memory went back to the time when Joe Brown -was gov ernor and ordered that 5,000 pikes be made with a SDear point and a side blade curved don ward like a reaphook and a long handle in a socket,' so that our boys might take 'em coming - and going. 'If they didn't run we were to spear 'em, and if they did run we were to overtake 'em " and ' hook 'em back. That's what" old man Lewis told me, and he was the master mechanic who made them, and he still lives near here and is in his 88th vear. I saw him to day and he steps FAVORITE I tknirh n... . ------ -v . n light and springy. He is an English man.? "Mr. Lewis," said I.iwhy didn't tne ueorgia boys use these pikes?" "Well, you see," said he, "the old army omcers wno were cuiuing our boys at Big Shanty looked at these pikes and said to the governor: 'What will the enemy be doing with their guns, while our boys are rushing on them with these pikes? They will shoot our boys down before they can get to them, and they made so much fun over the pikes that they were refused. West Point wouldn't have anything that was not used at West Point." And so the ' further manufacture of pikes was stopped and those that were made are now scattered all over the country as curios for museums. A sister of mine says she saw one of them not long ago in a museum in Boston. But still I don't see why spears are any more out of order , than bayonets when a desperate charge is to be made. "Charge bayonets!" is in the West Point tactics, and why not "Charge pikes" They are an awful looking weapon, and if they were coming at me and my gun was to miss fire I should drop it and run like a turkey. I had rather be bored with a bullet than stuck like a hog. But it is all over now, and we have beaten our spears into pruning hooks according to scripture and will not learn war any more, except when the mulattoes and niggers refuse to give up their lands to us. We want more land - for territory and more niggers for subjects. 1 But I heard the dinner bell and must go not to partake of the feast, but to Bay grace and preside and inhale the savory order of roast lamb and green corn pudding and look at the peaches and cream for desert. -They let me do that and give me nothing but soup and nee for my share. My tomatoes are now in their prime and it pleases me to rather them in the early morn. My largest weighed 2 pounds, lacking 2 ounces, and was a beauty, it was working them in the hot sun and then filling ud with ice water that laid me up. : Bill ajtp. marloa Butler GeUlaa; Btteh, Raleigh Cor, Atlanta Constitution. Ex-United States Senator Marion Butler, one of the great chiefs of the now nearly forgotten Populist party, has his home and his law office in this city, but is here hardly half his time He is in large business ventures, in tne far west and in Alaska. He is a large owner of stock in the company which makes liquid air. It is said he is mak ing a great deal of money since he left pontics. The DODulists. once a terror to demo crats in this state, are now rarely men tioned. As a party they are utterly ignored in the new election law. Once thev claimed 110.000 votes, l hey tnen got as low as 83,000 but they kept their prestige even then, as tney ana tne republicans were in power, by securing the insertion of a provision that any party casting 80,000 votes should have representation on all election boar us Thus did the populist tail wag the re publican dog. The populists really have strength in only two counties, Samnson and Chatham. In the former they hold all the omces. mat - is tne ivnntv Senator Butler-came from. No one man has ever controlled a party in North Carolina as he controlled the DODulists. v Kepubhcan8 nere, wno ougut i . . . ' ' . t jL know, declare most positively that there is no foundauon for the rumor that Senator Pritchard is to be that party's nnminA for chief iustice. There are some republicans who profess to believe that hv some strange turn of events Pritchard will be re-elected, is ever was there anything more absurtt. ine ripmrv.ni.ta are fairlv solid for whoever their nartv DUts up: the republicans, ha vine lnt the negro vote, or at least 75 per cent of it, cut but little figure, and so it is. . . " all Earthquake End lua Bif One. San Luis Obispo, Jan., July 81. A strin of country fifteen miles long by fnnr miles wide, rent with gaping fis sures and dotted hills and knolls that sprung up during me mgu " night as u Dy magic a village in ruins u Jiuuureun of people fleeing for their lives are rwjiilta of last night's Beismic disl the disturo- r.u in thA vallev of Los Animos, in thA northern Dart of San Barado county. For the last few days that section of the country has been shaken by a series Au-thnnakes that, ia without pre cedent in the history of the Pacific coast and the continuance of the dis t,.rUnxi and the increasing severity of the shocks have so terrorized the in k.Mf.nta that thev are leaving for other parts as rapidly as possible and n now the village is almost entirely deserted.' " A pretty good example of supererc-. gation is teaching a girl baby to talk. I CUILD-LIFK IRTIB61KIA miXTi" i. TKABS ACO. Marlon Hart and la Toata Compaaloa. The little Virginia girl who came in. to this bright and beautiful world in 1842 had English ealiooes for everyday wear, but finer and fadeless French prints were, as she would have said, "for nice." The English print coat from twenty-five to thirty-seven and one half cents a yard, and the French seldom less than hf ty; so that her at tire was not as cheap as it would seem to readers used to nine penny calicoes and shilling ginghams. Moreover, money then was worth more than' half i much again as now. j For highdays and holidays our little maid had white and figured muslins and lawns in 8ummer. In Winter her best frock was of merino, her second best of "Circassian," a coarser woolen fabric. Her stout shoes were made br the plantation or village shoemaker. He had a "last" for each member of the family, the lesser children growing up to those discarded by, the larger as they succeeded to outgrowns frocks, jackets and trousers. If, under this law of succession, the shoes were not always an exact fit, the fault was not on the side of mallness. Toes and ankles were never cramped. j lne fashion of her . best bonnets changed twice a year. If the newest baby were too young to be left at home while the mother made her annual pilgrim age to town for the season's millinery an obliging nieghbor who could go was intrusted with the family memoran dum, or the country merchant nearest the, homestead undertook to fill an or der for three, four or six bonnets of as sorted sizes and prices. Only boys wore hats." If our maiden's last season's head gear was hopelessly shabby, there was always a spinster or widow in the neighborhood who eked out a living, or perhaps made her 'church money.' by bleaching, blocking and making over "straws." . Chips, Dunstable and the more pliable leghorns were much worn. A good leghorn was expensive, but it went down through several generations of wearers, coming out as good as new every six months. The rural modiste bleached bonnets by hanging them in an inverted barrel and lighting a pan of brimstone underneath. When the straws had paled and cooled she. cut them down, or pieced them out to or der,! wetting and shaping them upon a block which, by the exercise of a little ingenuity, could be made to last several years. ' Jbor daily wear there were plenty - of homemade Bunbonnets in Summer, and quilted hoods for the Winter that began just before Christmas and was over by the first of March. We bad for week-day wear stockings of lamb's wool or - fine cotton knit at home, the heels and toes "knit double," and for Sunday what were called "In dia cotton." Every lady was proficient in plain and fancy knitting. Some of our stockings were far pret tier to our taste than the openwork silk hose imported for grown people, being wrought in lacelike patterns upon insteps and ankles by the ; deft fingers of our mothers, aunts or elder sisters. At, the top of every stocking, coarse or fine, the initials of. the wearer were knitted in by some mysterious process of i"widening and narrowing." There was not a letter in the alphabet which the gentlewoman of that time could fashion without the aid of a sampler Of aprons we had great store, black silk, embroidered with colored silks; muslin and fine linen trimmed with lufflea. or scalloped all around with nun's cotton," bird's-eye huckaback, and checked muslin and gingham for play and school hours. Behold, then, our little southern girl, thus clothed and ready for the days work and play. She was dressed by a maid or nurse. The head nurse of the household bore the honorable title ofj"mammy." She was more likely to spoil than be severe with . her charges, , but her rule was generally judicious. She might and did lecture us: she never. scolded, nor shook, nor struck one of us. - Her qualifications for the office were steadiness, neatness and fondness for children. The colored girl or woman who did not "take to" babies was never allowed to tend them. Mammy managed us by talking, and did a good deal of managing:. From the time we could frame the two words with our own lips,, we were "little ladies," and were continually remind ed of what was expected of us in that character. Without ever hearing the phrase "Noblesse oblige," mammy interwove the spirit of it into all her monitions. ("Little ladies musn't run bar loot like boys,' which we were solely tenanted ' to do in ; hottest weather "Little ladies must have their nair . ..... nlatted and tied ud with ribbons, not flyin' 'bout their ears like colts' manes, Little ladies mustn't bang aown their heads, or put their fingers in mouth&t or down their arms over their eyes , wnen anynoay says Howdve do?' to them.' . Nobody but overseers cmuun an po , wnive ioia. a ii a i v vir chillun behave so." ("Little ladies mustn't say 'I declar . The Bible says there's but one 'Old Declarer, an' that is Baton." "Ldtue ladies must say their prayers every night an' mornin', same . as . they'd say Thankye,' when anybody is good to them, 'cause 'tis sut nly mighty good in their Hevenlv Father to take such good keer of them." Mmmv said "keer" and "cheer' gut'nly," but she despised "negro ... "nio-crpr " finr touc8he never" said "nigger," nor let us say it as heartily as she de spised po' white folks" and free negroes. She taught us through tnese dislikes, salutary avoidance of low com pany and improper associations. 'real gentleman" mighf be poor; an ill-bred millionaire was . always j 'po' white folksy." 'r - At breakfast, as at dinner.' we. JU re gret to say, were fed upon jofelwhat our elders ate. There were always three or four kinds of hot bread on the table with eggs, two or- three- dishes :of meat, honey, molasses or sirup . milk, tea, coffee and, Winter and Summer, batter that is gnddle cakes. . We were cautioned against greedi- as to quantity, bat made oar own selections as to quality. A mortifying 'reminiscence of my childhood is the unexpected tarn gives by my mother to an economical drric npon which I had prided my seven- year-old self. Bh had lectured m so often upon the sin of wastefulness that expected praise for the practical illus tration of the contrary principle, j 'Mother,' 1 whispered behind the coffee-am one morning, "I made one Muiaagehold oat for eight buckwheat cakes!" -! '! . - I Tie ! What a greedy little girl to eat eight buckwheat cakes!" I can see now the horrified arch of her brows. Heavy suppers were interdicted be cause they gave children bad dreams. n all else pertaining to the kind of food we devoured and the timet of eat ing, we judged fori ourselves. If ; we were hungry between meals we ran in to the kitchen and begged for whatever was at hand. i Sometimes is was hot ash-cake and buttermilk; sometimes cold pone and a eu pful cf hot liquor from the pot in which bacon and cabbage were boiling; sometimes hot buiscuit or a 'ginger- cake," and in "killing time," a broiled spare-no, or a pig tail baked in hot ashes. ; . The least hurtful of these peri pate tb unches were green corn, roasted in the inner "shuck," and sweet potatoes raked out from the chimney-corner. In fruit season we ranged garden and orchard at will. I am afraid to try to guess at the number of unripe apples, pears, peaches and plums we consum ed daily, ; .!.-.,- j i - Uu f surfaced mothers most of them in delicate health themselves, I may re mark eat in the house or upon the shaded porches doing wondrous thiogs wnn neeaie ana netung-noox, ana gave never a thought to our digestions. "All children would eat trash. They would learn better by and by." The "old field school," so named be- i cause the schoolhouse was usually built in the middle or upon the edge of a worn-out field given up to broom-straw and sassafras saplings, was attended by both girls and boys, and usually was taught by a college student or a gradu ate who desired to "put - himself through" the university or law school or medical college. I r While there was no actual prejudice against this primitive order of co-educa tion, many parents preferred to have tutors and governesses in their own homes. The schoolroom was an ap pendage to eight out of ten country nouses. I Under tutor or governess we studied and recited with our brothers until they were fourteen years old or thereabouts, when they were sent off to boarding- school, the girts remained lor a year or two longer under! home rule before going to some young ladies' seminary or institute. Some of the best educa ted women I know never went from home to such a school. ' Our childhood ended at twelve or thirteen, when we begged to "tuck up our hair." But it was glorious while it as ted for those of us who were not pat' tern children. . I i Our regular duties were school les sons, and "tasks Of sewing and knit ting. We learned to : knit hrst upon garters, then upon stockings for our selves that grew wofully grimy with much handling and ': unraveling and knitting up again before the toes wer turned off." I Our earliest tasks in the use of the needle were upon! patchwork quilts. When we had knit a certain number of rounds above the bit of black thread tied in for a mark, and put together in unpuckered seams a given tale of "bed' quilt pieces," we were free for the rest of the day. : Freedom meant open-air exercise ex cept in stormy weather, we dug in our nower gardens; we climbed cherry and apple trees; we tramped for hours, a retinue of small negroes at our heels, over old fields, knee-deep in broom staw or "hen's-nest grass," hunting for partridge's eggs or wild strawberries, or persimmons, or chincapins, or huckle berries. We rode colts and plow-horses and mules; weswung; in loops made of wild grapevines or tore them down - to use as jumping ropes; we played Hide the Switch, and Bound about the Gooseberry bush, and Fox and Hounds, and sat on mossy banks, our bared feet in the warm water of forest brooks, watchirg the f lightened minnows skurrying up and down stream Or, grouped under the pines, we told the small negroes stories of Cinderella and Bed Biding I Hood in return for the folk-lore they heard oer the kitch en fire, of "Brer! Babbitt" and "Brer B'ar" returning home in the breath less Summer sunsets and the dim Au tumn - twilights j tired, happy - and hungry, bringing our spoils with us. Mammy s turbaned head was shaken at us from the porch like a mournful cotton ball. Our mothers scolded and sighed over torn frocks and mud-en crusted shoes, and fine young lady visitors - held up hands of laughing horror. - But we got the good out of every day in that far-off) time. Nature, dis dainful of conventionalities, kept us in her own school. We bless her for j it, in our riper . years, and the animal spirits, the mere joy in being alive, that tempted us to follow her leading, But for this merciful overruling where would be i the stomachs and nerves originally bestwed upon chil dren who were permitted to eat minoe- pie, boiled dumplings pound-cake, pot liquor, nuts just ripe,! and fruit quite unripe: fresh pork, sausages and fried cakes, and to drink, from babyhood tea, coffee and cider? If a flaw Me Taw. -. And say some other salve, ointment lotion, oil or alleged healer is as good Bocklen'B Arnica Salve, tell him thirty years of marvelous cures of Piles, Burns Boils, - Carna, . Felons, Ulcers, Cuts Scalds, Braises and j Skin Eruptions prove if s the best and cheapest. 25 cents at Feteers drag store. - A Missouri editor wisely remarks in the home department of his paper that "a child should never be spanked on a full stomach." i Of course not he shouldn't be spanked on bis stom ach at aD. ' i 1 TMT DIK 1M OKATSS VALllcr. Fate TWMtf Hair OtmM kr Tfttrwt rttUa m Ike P rt Tf The treacherous, nxroiWas sands of Death Valley have yielded np the story of another grvwsome, ghastly tragedy fifty years after it, was enacted, i (Sto ries of similar tragedies ia th4 Valle delos Maertos hare been told again and again, yet they are always new in the truing, for their faacanaUoa lice in their horror. Yearly, as tbe white; men traverse that trapdoor of bell, they play their lives against the tales of yet low lure that lie under U and some lose. The next year their mumified corpses are found by others, who pity them as gooa men; they played the nmit and lost." There u do occasion for mourn ing; tbey were strong men, and knew the game they were against. They acurpted the chance in the gamble with dVeth. and, having lost, they paid the winner in full. But when women and children go down that journey of death only be cause husbands and fathers go there is an excuse among those who "know" for the moisture that collects oof sun dried eyelids. Fifty-one years ago a party of men, women and children twenty in all left Independence, Mo., in two wagons drawn by oxen, bound for the 1 gold fields of California. -From that day until now they have never been beard of, and their fate lias always been a mystery, although it was thought prob able that they had strayed from the overland trail and had ! been massacred by the Indians. All these years has the bare, brown-breasted " desert held the secret securely locked,; and only re cently have its restless, crawling sands disclosed the key; that key was the huge, rusted hook of an ancient ox chain. H ' Don Pickett is a prospector, with a frame of tempered steel and sinews and muscles as tough as whang leather. He is not well known in San Francisco, but is a familiar figure : from Carson to the Mexican line. Tonopah, the sink of the Amargoaa, Death Valley and the Desert of the Colorado know; him. He is in the city now, and it is difficult for him to back-track himself from a mining oilice on Montgomery street to his hotel, but in the country named he knows the trails as they are known to the Indians and the eagles. He has just returned from a prospecting trip from Tonopah through the rauamint country and Death Valley, by way of Mojave and Keeler. It was in the northern extremity of the Panamint range that he picked up the key that unlocked the hall-century-old secret. At a foot of the spur of the Pana mint Mountains on its northeastern elope he and his partner, Len Gorson, had. stopped to rest themselves and their burros from the exhaustion at tendant upon their trip across Death Valley. Where they stopped a spring of perfectly clear, cold; water bubbled from the rocks and lost itself in the sands a few vards further on. Thev did not drink of the water; they knew it; so did their burros, and tbe animals hardly sniffed at it as th' y turned to nibble at the scant herbage. It was poison, deadly poison, and the arsenic contained in a good draught would kill a dnnker. Tears ago some prospector had scrawled the word : "Jroif on ' on a board from a packing box and had fastened it to a stake by the edge of the spring. It was while resting in the shade of the rocks and brush I that Picket saw, a few feet from' himL the top of a rust-eaten iron hook project ng above the sand. He took hold of it, but it did not come away easily! and exerting his strength, be uncovered an ancient ox chain forty feet in length. the kind that is practically out of use now. From its rusty condition it must have lain buried in the. sand for at least fifty years, and knowing the man ner in which the desert concealed its secrets, they : took their prospecting picks from the packs and began drar ing them through the sand. The points of the picks turned up bone after bone and pieces of wagon irons, some of tbe bones were of oxen, and some were of humans, a few evidently being those, of women and children. As many of the bones of humans as they uncovered they re-interred in a trench in the 'sand and then packed on across the j dreary waste that stretched away before them They told the story of their find to In dians. and old white settlers in the Amargosa country, and from one and another of the old men they gathered the following: It was in the fall of '51 that a party came down Amargosa way with! two worn-out ox teams. The party had left Independence. Mo.; that spring J but had been delayed by sickness, and had once lost its way and had left the trail. consequently they did not approach the Sierra Nevada mountains until the near ness of winter prohibited their passage. They had, therefore, turned south from Humbold sink and bad Jaken the Southern route by the way of the old Salt Lake and Los Angeles trail. One or two of the women and several of the children had died on the way, one of the wagons had broken down, and the oxen were so thin and worn that all were attached to, the-best wagon and the other abandoned, as were some of their goods. The remaining women, children and outfit were packed in one wagon, and with the men on foot, the sorrowful little cavalcade toiled on to ward El Dorado. Nothing more was seen or heard of them by the Amargosa settlers, and it was presumed that tbey had gone through in safety. 1 The grewsome find at the poison springs tells a different tale, it is a tale easy in the reading for men who travel the desert and know it better than you know the park. Oxen in the desert are - worse than useless; they cannot haul enough wa ter for their own needs, k It is a long, thirsty way from water to water be tween the sink of thei Amargosa and Death Valley if one does hot "know end the party from" Independence did not. " If they had, they would have dug a few feet in the dry sand of the bed of the lost Amargosa and found water, bitter, it is true, but its would have Dreeerved life. Neither did thev know that if with the axe or hatchet thy had s$tthe tare W3 or &!f I gtttkead" cartas they woaUfcavefottaJ a acrid, faky pu?lU woeii have moirtcd the parched tferoa of the- oxmi ad theae-irea. Ia3 thisthey I did ttot know, aad ettwcgWd esiwUh suriAg eyes and pares aadcreraiagl tocgtMe ihrooxh tb hot aad ttUUftc aiaaii dust, straining their eyes 1 the dreary, tfaS gray west tor a spotl Mgreea that might mark Utt water. They saw thai vaot at the! foot of the riaamints aad headed tor it, goading on their dragging, laded oxen. They reached it aad all drank I their fill. That was fifty-oa years ago ana ur ary aooes have last found. rkkeUfuand aa oil ladiaal who remembered eneini rears aro. aa araadooed tamUedowa wagoa near thei The woodwork of the wheeii had J dned and fallen apart aad the ntaainfl gears were held ep oaly by the meted tires. How many yean aro the ladiaa I did not know, be did not measors time I by years. Since that time the drifting I sand, beaten back by the mooalaiae of I basalt and granite as the shore back the surf, had buried the .evidence I of iU enme. It requires ao stretch of I the imagination to picture that ceoe oil lonely death, the utile party of tortured emigrants dying at the moment thryl inougni uxe naa pees loand. That part of Death Valley lying be low tbe level of tbe sea is ooiy about eighteen miles long and three or four nines wiau, out me twain valley t a . a ..a .a mm h proper is about seventy-five miles long ana xrom nve to onsen nuiea jrtde. As miles go, the distance, with water, is not far; without water, entirely lies between one and the little block dots on the map that shows the fceaoosi of water. There are true aad correct maps of the valley, but they are seal on tbe brains of a few hardy prospect on. There have been men who thought they could cross that country alone with the aid of a topographical map. Their bleaching bones offer mute but indisputable evidence of their error, of Judgement 1 In the cooler seasons men inured to the hardships of the desert have been known to go for several days without water, subsisting on the juice of the cactus; in the summer season from twenty-four to thirty-six hoars is saftV cient to unsettle their reason. A as comer, a "tenderfoot," will go stark. raving mad in from four to sight hears in hot weather if he has not water. To such men three gallons of water a day are necessary the hot. dry atmosphere causing a rapid evaporation and phe nomenal thirst. Dunng the daysia the middle of the summer the thermometer stands anywhere from 125 to 185 de grees in the shade in the coolest place that can be found. On the sand in the sun the bight to which the mercury climbs is almost beyond belief. Only the excessive dryness of the atmosphere permits one to live in such heat, (liven the humidity of San Francisco ia the same temperature and neither man nor animal could five in it a day. It is this terrible heat that boils the blood of tenderfoot" until the steam cooks th brain and drives him a naked maniac. shrieking across the blistered sen That is a peculiar feature always ao oompanying dementia from thirst in that region the tearing of all clothing from the body. Men have been found in this condition, and it was necessary to tie them with a lariat for a day or two and give them water slowly, a few rips at a time, until their suff erinrs were relieved. To permit them to drink their fill at once would have been little short of murder. Those who "know," in going from one waterhole to another, always carry enough water to last them there aad back in the event the objective water hole should be found dry. There is water at certain points in Death Valley, but unless one knows tbe exact location of these springs or water holes, it is death from horrible torture to attempt to traverse the valley in the summer months. The daily sameness of the country is such that all mountains and rocks look alike to the stranger and he may pass to his death within a few yards of where he could have found life. The frequent sand storms obliterate the. trail and in that region of constant mirage effects, a stranger is easily lured to death. Sparfclaa; ralra Steek Vi ITew Tors. Boa. There is much indignation among the young residents of the Morris neighborhood section of Bloom field, N. J., over the work of a practical joker who recently poured tar all along the coping of the stone bridge over the Yantacaw River at Franklin avenue near Broad street The bridge is a favorite try sting puce for young people. It Was that night and the bridge was filled with young women and their escorts. All went well until one of the couples thought they would uke some ice cream. As the young man attempted to iumD from the coDinr his head went forward, but the rest of his body re fused to follow He tried again and this time there was a ripping sound. The young man put ms nana oenina mm ana maae w cover, wnen the young woman tnedl to jump down she found herself alaol stuck. , Most of the other couples dis covered that tbey were in the same fix. A crowd gathered and guyed them. The bridge presented a curious ap pearance late in the evening with Us bits of feminine and mascohne apparel stuck here and there. Heeel Here Hal. Often the over-taxed organs of diges tion cry oat for help by Dyspepsia s pains, Nausea, Dizziness, TTrarlaf hfSj fiver complaints, bowel disorders. 8och troubles call for prompt . aee of Dr. King's New Life Pills. They are gentle thorough and guaranteed to cure. Z5e at Fetser's drag store. j A Chicago school teacher has sued a real estate dealer for $50,000 damages for an alleged attempt to kiss her. Great Scott 1 what would the figure have been had the man succeeded? Chicago Poet. ! Our hearts and arms are never sol strong as when Justice is behind. Ho Timo to Xccd You ca&aot h&oni to etarrgs! the. w-snuAgt of si wreak aad diseased ; heart aad gat tak ing the prearriptiosi ef tha world's grcafrtt auttariry ca keart ahd nervous sordcrr muTv Heart Cure If your Itesrt tsJitarej, fetters, of you tr short el brrat a, hare sasothetrtfig sfQs peia ia left Side, shcaiUcr or arm, yoa have heart trouble aad art Uahle to drop dead any mocnrnt. mwmmUt.M ill m r-ila. lA, Mis. M. A akW7i. 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The Concord Times (Concord, N.C.)
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Aug. 7, 1902, edition 1
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