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- . . ... " mmmmmmm I . . : - I : - " - i. . -. -i - t . : DR. TALJIAGE'S SEMOH' THE EMPTY PLACE. Text: -Thou shalt bo missed, because thy teat will be empty." I Samuel, xx. Set on the table the cutlery, and chased silverware of the palace, for King Saul will rive a State dinner to-day. A distinguished place is kept at the table lor his son-in-law, a relebrated warrior. David by name. The niests, jewelei and plumed, come in and take their places. Wfon i eople are lnYlted to a King's banquet they are very apt to go. But before the covers are lifted from the 'east, Saul looks around and finds a vacant leat at the table. lie says within himself, or perhaps audibly: ' What does this mean? Where is my son-in-law J Where is Pa v id, the prtat Varriorf I invited him. I ei rwctei hi iii What? A vacant chair at a Kins s banquet :' ' The fact was that David the wamor had been seated for the last time at his father in law's table. The day before Jonathan had oaxe4 J, 'arid to go and occupy that place at (be table, saviug to David in the words of my text: "Thou shalt b3 missed, because ;"uy seat will be empty.'' The prediction was fulfilled. David was mis.-ed. His seat was empty. That one va cant chair s; ke louder than all the occupied rbairs at tU3 banquet. In al nost every huUMi the articles of furniture take a living personality." That picture a stranger would not see anything remarkable either in its de sign or execution, but it is more to you than ill the pictures of the Louvre and the Lux embourg. You rememlier who bought it and vho admired it And that hymn-book you remember who sang out of it. And that cradle you renumber who rocked it. And that Pible you remember who read out of t. And that bed-you remember who slept in it. And that room you remember who lied in it. But there is nothing in all your Souse so eloquent and &o mighty-voi'ed as the vacant chair. I suppose that before Saul and his guests got up from this banquet there -as a great clatter of wine-pitchers, but all that racket was drowned ,out by the voice that came up from the vacant chair at the ;ilile. Mahy have gazed and wept at John yuincy Adam's va nut chair in the House of !!epresetitatives. and at Mr. Wilson's vacant 'hair in the Vice-Presidency, an I at Henry Clay's vacant chair in the American Senate, aud at Prince Albert s vacant c hair in Wind sor -"a-t!e. and at Thiers" s vacant chair in the councils of the French nation; but all these chairs are unimportant to you as compared wit Ii the vacant chairs in your own huuse noM. Have thes-j chairs any lesson for you 10 learn? Are we airy 1 ett'er men and women than when they-tirst addressed us? First: I point out.to you the father's va ant chair. Old men-always like to sit ia the s-arne plaee and in the same chair. They somehow feel more at home, aud sometimes when you are in thrir place ani they come into the room, you jump up suddenly and my: "Hero, father, here's your hair." The probability is it is an arm-chair, for he is not so strong as he outH was, ami I e needs a little upholding. His hair is a little frosty, Lis gun is a little depressed, for in his early 'lays there was not much dentistry. Perhaps a cane chair and oli-fashioned apparel, for though you may- have suggested some im- provement, tatlieru e not wantany of nonsens iiran'italner never bad mucti ad- miration for uew-f;ing!ol noti- ns. I sat at the table f one of my parishioners in a t oj mer-HrOngregntion ; an aged man was at the fable and his son was pre iding, and the other somewhat abruptly addressed the u and said: "My sou, don't now try to bow off because the minister is here!" our father never liked auy new customs cr man ners; he p:eferitd the Id way of doing things,and ho never looked sj happy as when wit!i his e'es clused he sat in the arm -hair in H.ei orucr. Krom wrinkled brow to the tip of the slippers, what pla- idity! The wave of the past years (i his iife broke at the foot f that chair. Perhaps, onetimes,le was a little impatient, and sometimes told the same f-tory twi e: but over that old chair how many Vcsse 1 memories hover! 1 h pe j'OU did not crowd (hat old el. air. and that it'did not pet v rv mis li iu the way. Sometin a the oilman's chair pets very much in the wav , csc'ially if he has bx n so unwise as to make ov-ra!l li s prop i ty to his children w ith the uuderdnndin; that t:iey are to take caieof him. I have seen iusuchiaeschil lieu crowd the old man's hair to the door, and then crowd it clear into the street, and then crowd it into the poorhousj. and keeo on crowding it until the old man fell out of it into his rave. But your father's chair was a sacred place. The chii jT'sn us-xl to climb up on the rungs of it for a gcod-night kiss. The longer he eta ed the better yen like 1 it. Hut that chair has lH-c.n vacaut now for some tin e. The furniture dealer would not give you lifty cents for it,' but it is a throne of inihience in ycur dometi circle. 1 saw in the Freuch pn It N'a: nlace aud in the throne room the chair that oieon usetl to o etinv. it van a beauti ful chair, I u1: the ino.it s;puiti ant part of it was the letter "N,"' embroidered into the la k of the ( hair in purple aud gold. And your father's ol 1 chair sits in the throne ioin of your heart, and vouraile tions have embi oulere I into t!ie ia.kof that chair in purple and gold the letter "F."' Have all th : prayers of that old chair been answered? Have all the counsels of that old chair been pr.utjced.' f-' j leak out, old arm-chair! His tory tolls us of an old man wlioso three sons were victors in the Olympic r.nies, aud when Vney iame lack, these three -o is, with their garlands, and put them on their father's brow, the old man was so e i el at the vic tories of his three children that he fell d(l in their arms. .And aro you, O man, going to brius u wi eath of y and (.'hristian use f nines i and put it on t vour father's brjw, or on-t! e vacant clud-, oc on the memory of the one do;art-.sl 8 oak c ut. old arm t hair' With reieivnce to vour father, the words of my text have in fuliilled: "Thou shalt be missed, be.ause thy seat will be empty." II. I go a little further tvj in vour house and I find the mother's chair. It "is very apt t bo a rocking-chair. She had so many cares and troubles to -soothe that it must have rockers. I rememler it well. It was an old chair, and the rockers were almost worn out, for I was tho roundest, aud the rhair had rocked the whole family. It made a creaking npiso as it moved: but there was rnu-dc iu the sound. It was just high enough to allow us children to put our heads into her lap. That wa3 the bank where we de posited all our harts and worries. Oh, what i clmir that was! It was different from the father's chair; it was entirely different. You iskemehow? I cannot Hell; but we all felt t was different... Peihapj there was about ;hjs chair more gentleness, more tender less, more grief when we had done ivrong. When we were wayward father iu inuiuci vIUJU. lb war i very wakeful chair. In the sick days of 'hildren other cha rs coukl not keep awake; ,:hat chair always kept awake, kept easily rvake. That chair knew ad the old lulla ies aud all those wordless sons w hich not hers sing to their sick children songs in ivhieh all pity and compassion and sympa .hetic influences are combined. That dd rhair has stopped roc-kicg for a good mauy ' rears. It may ba set np in the loft or tho tarret, bat it holds a queenly power yet. hou at midnight you went into that grog ihop to getthd intoxicating draught, did you sot hear a vpieo that said'-Mv son, why go n there f Aud lou ler than the boisterous mcore of the pla e of w icked amusement, a -o..-e saying: "My son. what do you h-raV And when you wens into the hoaso of sin a rcice sa.-ing: ' What would your mother do a she knew ycu were here?" And you were provoked with yourself , and vou charged your?elf with saperstition and fanaticism, and your head got hot with vour swn thoughts, and you went home and you went to Led, and no sooner had you to ached the LeJ than a voice said: "What a pravor les pillow! Man, what is the matter?" This- xuu are too neir your mother's rOckinEr- rnair. pshaw!" YXu renlv: "tliArc'a nothing m that I'm fivft hnndrwl rrom where I was born. I'm three thousand mnes uu irora tne efcurch whoe bell was th i ever neara." 1 cannot h thai ; you are too near j-our mother's ro uuu.i. - un. you sav, "there can t be mythms m that: that chair has been vacant great while.n I cannot help that; it is all the mightier for that: it is omnipotent, that racant mother's chair. It whispers; it peaks; it weeps; it carols; it mourns; it prays; it warns; it thunders. A voungman went o3T and broke his mother's heart, and while he was away from home his mother died, and the telegraph brought the son, and he came into the room where she lay and looked upon her face, and he cried out: Oh mother, mother! what yoar life could not do vour death shall effect This moment I give my heart to God." And he kept his promise. Another victory for the vacant chair. With reference to your mother the words of my text were fulfilled: "Thou shalt be missed, because thy seat will be empty." Soire one said to r Grecian General: "What wa3 the proudest moment in your life; He thought a moment and said: 'The proudest moment in my life was when I sent ',' -: " -' . word home to my parent that I had gained the victory." And the Pde ami mo8t brilliant moment in your life will be the mo ment when you can send word to your parentJ that you have conquered your evil habits ty the grace of God, and become tern ctOT. Oh, despise not parental anxiety ! . The tome will come when you will have neither father nor mother.and you will go around the place where they used to watch you, and Had them cone from the house, and gone from thefleld, and gone from the neighborhood. Cry as loud for forgivecesj as yoa may over the moun t in the churchyard, they will not an;wer. Deal! Dead! And the x you will take out the white lock of hair that was cut from your mother brow Jur before they buried her, and you wta take the cane with whit h your father used to walk, and you will think and think and wish that you had done just a I hey wame 1 yoa to, and would give the t woild if vcu had never thrnst a pane through their dear o!d-hcat3 God pity the young man who has brought disgrace on his lather's name! God pity the. yon Dg man who ha? broken hU mother's heart! Better if he bad never been born: better if in the first hoar of hi3 life, instead of being laid against the warm bosom of maternal tender ness, be had teen coined and sepulchred. There is no lalm wwerful enough to heal he htait of cnewb'o ba Drought parents tc a sorrowful grave, and who wanders about vJiro;:gh the d'smal cemetery, rending th hair and wring ng the hinds and crying "Mother! Mother!'' Oh, that to-day by all the memories of the past and by all the bopei of the future, you would yield your heart tc God! May jour fathers God and youi mother's God be voir God forever! III. I go on a little further; I come to the invalid's chair. What? How long hive yoa been sik? "Oh, I have ben sick ten, twenty, thirty vears." Is it possible? What a story of endurance! There are in many families of my congregation these invalid chai'H. The occupants of them think they a e ddng no gool in th3 world: but that in valid s chair is the migbtr pulpit from which th3y have been preaching, all these years. trWt in Ood. One day, on an island just o'l fram Sandusky, Ohio. I preached, and there was a great throng of people there; but th3 throng did n-t impress me so much as the Tool just one face the face of an in- valiy wwNas w heeled in on her chair. I said to her after wa-d: "Madam, how long have you been prostrated?75 for she was lyin Pat in the ihair. -Oh," she replied, 1 have been this way fifteen years." 1 said: "Do you suffer very much?"' "Oh, yes ' she said; "I suffer very much. I suffer all the time; part of the time I was blind. I Blwa3"s sutfer." "Well,"' I said, "can you keep your courage up;" Oh, yes," she said, '1 am happy, very happy indeed." Her face showed it. She looked the happiest of any one on the ground. Oh, what a means of grace to the world, thesa invalid chairs! On that field of bun an suffering the gra e of Hod gets it victory. Edward Payson, the invalid, and Richard Baxter, the invalid, anil Robert Hall, the invalid, aad the ten thousand of whom the world has ne er haaru, but of whom all heaven is cognizant. The most conspicuous thing on earth for God's eye and tha eye of angels to rest on-is not a throne of earthly powerIbut It is the invalid's chiirihrthese men and women w'hoare'always suffering but never jLonrpIaihing these victims of spinal diseaserand .neuralgic torture, and rheu- yxttrr--tnatic excruciation, win answer totneron- can or tne martyrs, ana nso to tne martyrs thrnno nnrl will wnvo tViA marfvrs nnlm' But when one of these invalid chairs be come vacant, how suggestive it is! No more bo!stcrin up of the w eary head. No more changing from side to side to get an easy position. No more use of the bandage, and the cataplasm and the prescription. That invalid's chair may be folded up or taken apart, or set away, but it will never lose its queenly rower; it will always preach of trust in God and cheerful submission.' Suffering all ended now. With respect to that, invalid the words of my text have been fulfilled: "Thou shalt be missed, bocause thy seat will be empty. " , IV. I pass on and I find one more vacant chair. It is a high chair. Ii is the child's chair. If that chair be occupied, I -think it is the mo t potent chair in all the household. All the chairs wait on it; all the chairsire turned toward it. It means more than David's chair at Saul s banquet. xVtany rate.it makes more racket That is a strange house that can be dull with a child in it How that child breaks up the.hard worldliness of the place, and keeps yoa young to sixty, seventy aud eighty years of age! If you have no chil l of your own, adopt one; it will open heaven to your souL It will pay its way. Its crowing in tha moi-ninaf rill giro the day a Cheei f lid starting, and it? glee at night will give the day a cheerful close. You do not like children J Then you had better stay out of heaven, for there are so many there they would fairly make you ciay! Only about five hundred million of them ! The old crtfsty disciples told the mothers to keep the children away from Christ "You bother Him," they said: "you troublo the Master." Trouble him I He "has filled heaven with that kind of trouble. A pioneer in California says that for the first year or two after his residence iu Sierra Nevada County, there was not a single child in all the reach of a hundred miles. But the 4th of July came, and 'the miners were gathered together, and they were celebrating the 4th with oration and poem, and a boisterous brass band; and while the band was playing, an infant's voice was heard crying, and all the miners were startled, and the swarthy men began to think of their homes on the Eastern coast, an I of their wives and children far awav, and their hj arts were filled with homesick ness as they heard the babe cry. But the music went on, and the child cried louder and louder, and the brass baud played louder and louder, trying to drown out the ia fautile interruption,. when a swarthy miner, the tears rolling down his face, got up and shook his fist, and said: "Stop that noisy I ia ml nl on v 1 hA liahv . rhnnra. " CIV. tnore was pathos a? well as good cheer in it! There is nothing to arousj, and melt, an I s ibdue the soul lik-j a child's voice. But when it goes away from yoa the high chair become a higher, chair, and there is desolat on all about you. In three-fourths of the ho nes of my congregation there is a vaca it h'gh chair. Somehow you never get; oyer it. Taore Is no one to put to bed at nuht: no we to a;k strange questions abjut God an I heaven. Oh, what is the use of that high -chair. It is" to call you higher. What a draw.n ? u iward it " is to have chil dren in heaven! And then it is such a pr j-Y-entive against sin. If a father is going away into s n be leaves his living cbcldreu w.th their mother; but if a father is goin away mtosfn what ii he o'nx to do with bis dead ch.Urcn floating about him and hover ing over his every wayward step? Oh. speak out, vacant high chair and say; "Father, come back from s.'n; mother, coie back from worldliness. 1 am wat hin? you. I am wa t ing for you." With respect to your ch Id the words o! my text have been fulfilled: "Thou sbaJt be niiss.d, because thy seat will be emr-ty," M' hearers,T have gathered up ths voices of your departed friends, and tried to intone' thorn itit) one invitation upward. I set ii array all the vacant chairs of your holies, and of your social cir le, aui I bid them cry oat: k Time is short. Eternity is near. Take my Saviour. Be at pence with my t-Jod. Come up where I am. Wo lived together on earth; come let live together in HeaY-eo.' We answer that invitation. We come. Keep a seat for us, a; Saul kept a seat for David; but that seat shall net be omntv. When we f are ali through with this world, and wa have shaken hands all arouud for the last time, aad all oar chairs ia t e home circle, and in the outside world, shall ba vacaut, may wt be worshipinfJrxl in that pla o from which we shall go out no more forever. I thanfe God there will be no vacant chairs in heaven. Curious Application of the Magnet A cnrif.u3 application of the magnet is denbed ia a French journal, the sub ject cing a dock rcc:iit!y. patch ted in i'.rii:c- i appearance the clock con s Rts of a tambou.ii e, on the parchment of wni; h is paln'ed a circle of flowers rorre ponding to hour si?ns of ordinary qnK On examinational wo bee?, one Iu g- and the ether small, are discovered crawling among the Mowers. The small le? runs rapidly from oaeto the otJier. complet.ngdhe circla in an hour, while tbe large one takes twelvehours to finish tho circuit. The pa-chment membrane is unbroken, and the bees are simply laid upon it; but two maznets connected w:th the clock work inside the tam b. urine, move just under the membrane. tun urn l.'HCt?. Wnicn aro nf i-nn 1 4.' APhiladelphia oyster dealer has a horse that eats oysters on the half shell ,witlx remarkable relish. " There are 11,000 applications for post lions on file with the Secretary of the Interior. ; : The Besryars of Paris. Next to the concierges, perhaps the beggars are the greatest nuisances in Paris. They have been augmenting so rapidly of late and becoming so aggres sive that the prefect of police now that the spirit is abroad has resolved to ex pel them, and has issued instructions fo police sergeants to get at the number and conduct , of the ' fraternity in their respective districts. These Parisian beggars may be looked upon as the aristocracy of the men dicant world. Begging has become a fine art with them. They take to the streets from choice rather than necessity. They have got a sort of a circular news paper to keep themselres posted in coming events, and systematically take different beats. Rows of them may be seen at church doors when a marriage or a funcralls on, and they hang round the Arn rtf fashionable restaurants. The greatest nuisances among the gang are those who won't b? at all. There is an institution for the manufacture and rrfiininfr of this species. They play the role of distortionists. Several joiners are kept at work in making small wocden carts, ttaves and varicu3 contrivances for them. Their obje-t is to draw money from the public by their piteous rnd excruciating posi tions, and not by solicitation. A nd con sidering that many of them are so pal pably frauds, it says a good deal for the gullibility of the Parisians that they suc ceed. The cuh-Jc-jatte those who squeeze themselves into a sort of wooden bowl and propel themselves along the pavement with their hands frequently combine the functions of thief with these of beggar, as they are just a con venient height to reach ladies' pockets. Acco:ding to the Temps there were 2,765 beggars arrested in Pari3 in 1884, and 4,13i in 1335. When arrested they are first taken to a central police station, where they are asked to give an account of themselves. Some ae sent to the hospital or to the Depot of Mendicity, others to their native departments, and the worst offenders to the police court. There is in Paris a privileged or licensed class of beggars. The police have always had power to deal with others who on whatever pretence receive alms; but the general toleration allowed on iete aax8 seem3 to have been allowed onptherdays as well, until the condition of the streets has become intolerable. Pall Mall Ga zette. Wild Pigeons terminated. The wild pigeon is disappearing from North America, like the buffalo, Lefora the march of civilization. A dealer, who ha3 in years past bought and sold many thousands of these delicate birds, told a T,'me3 reporter that a wild pigeon could not be bought in the city yesterday. The supply has been decreasing yearly duringthepast years,untilnew we get but a few barrels a year, which arc received chiefly from the Indian Territory. It costs less to transport them from there than from the far Northwest, which is now the favorite nesting place for them. Chicago gets a snail supply of the birds netted or shot in Minnesota and elsewhere in tbe Northwest, the prices paid being usually $1.50 to $2 a dozen, and St. Louis and other "Western cities get a fewj for which, about the same rates are paid. Lovers of th's game in this' city have Incarly ceased to ask for wild pigeons in the market, having been no often disap pointed in not finding the birds they seek, There is consequently no vigorous effort made by game dealers to procure them, the profits upon their iale being small. Within the memory of many middle aped persona hereabout, hundreds Of thousands of these bird have been seen flying in great flocks over the large cities of the Atlantic htates, appearing like black clouds again t the sky. When these great flocks roosted in the woods their weight was so great as to break down the limbs of frees. It is while these flocks are roosting that the birds be come the easy prey of the pigeon hunter, either by net, .shotgun or in othec ways. The professional vgeon hunter in the West, although his victims are easily killed, leads a rough life in hunting the birds, and is poorly remunerated for his labor and the hardships he is forced to undergo. A. large game dealer paid that before the war and when the birds were plenty he had frc-.puently sold as many as 1,000 dozen pigeous at rc'ail in one day. They were then quite cheap and within the reach of poor people. 'I he chief cause of the thinning out of wild pigeons is the destruction of forests in all parts of the country. The pigeons are thus de prived of nesting places, and of their fa vorite beechnuts and the food they got from the oak and other trees that were once ro plenty near here. New York Times. . The Human Family. The human family living to-day on i:a.th consists of about l,4oO,C 00,000 in dividuals; not less; probably more. These are distributed over the earth's sur face, -so that now the: e is no considerable part where man is not found. In Asia, where he was first planted, there are how approximately about 00,000,000, densely crowded; on an average 120 to the square mile. In Europe theic are 320,000,000, averaging 100 to the square mile, not so crowded, but everywhere dense, and at points over-populated. Iu Africa there are 210,000,000. In America, Nort'i and South, there are 110,000,000, relatively thinly scattered and re ent. In the islands large and small, probably 10,000,000. The extremes of the white and black are .as five to three; tho remaining 700,000, 100 intermediate brown and tawnv. Of the race 500, 000, 00'J are well clothed that is, wear garments of some kind to cover their nakedness; 700,000,000 are Vemi-clothed, covering inferior parts of the body; 250,000,000 are practically naked. Of the race 500,000,000 live in house.3 partly furnished with the appoint ments of civilization; 700,003,000 inhut3 or caves with no furnishing; 260,000,000 have nothing that cau bo called a home, are barbarous aud sivage. The range in from the topmoVc round the Anglo Saxon civilization, which is the highest known -down to naked savagery. The portion of the race lying below the lino of human condition is at the very least three-fifths of the whole, or 500,000,000. Boston Transcript. Iron in Wood. The curious question has been asked why oaks and elms are especially liable to be struck by lightning. It was de clared in 1 787 that the elm, chestnut, oak and pine were the most often struck in America, and in 1800 G. J. Symonds stated that the elm. oak, ash and poplar were the most frequently struck in Eng land. A Magdeburg record, covering ten years, reports injuries- to 235 trees) 16o being oaks, 34 Scotch firs, 32 pines and 20 beeches. It has been suggested that t,he frequency with which oaks arc struck is due to the presence of iron in the wood.- Jieio Orleans Times-Democrat. A fleck of 200 she?p were killed in the Yosemite yalley by lightning. - . . . . .. i NEW YORK'S YOUNGSTERS. ' ' ' " ' T 2I0BE KTTtt A TVK ABT.T; AJTO VABIED THAW THTTTR TlTTITrRfl. TTieLrfttle Millionaire of Eleven and the Beggar of Eleht Spoiled Dar lings at thft Dinner Table. What a chapter might be written about tho children of New York, writes Blakely Hall. They are more remarkable than their elders ' and of infinite variety. Shortly after noon yesterday a fretful little pony came pattering around the corner of Fifth avenne and Thirty-eighth street with such a tremendous ado that he would have run me down had he been higher than my waist. He shook his ! shaggy head, snorted and bounded up and down with a great snow ol dasn aoa fire. Eehind him was an English dog cart of perfect popoition and finish, yet scarcely larger than a baby carriage. On the bx seat tat a lad of less than eleven yeara, with a natty little beaver hat, a rose in his coat and his small legs encased in leather leggings. His puny fists were clad in gauntlet driving glovc-s, and he sat with his legs stretched out stiffly be fore him, his w toes together, his elbows austj ii ui. ana t.KJa iuuiuj . uio 1 is is it j i across the rems, lie was the meture in miniature, as far as the poswent, of the , era k whip of an EngHshcaching club. All he lacked wasasingle glass. He ll probably explott that by the time he's twelve. His father is a New Yorker who cares little for horse3, but indulges his chi dren in every whim. They lh e across the street from my windows. I looked at the solemn youngster on the box and said : "Tommy, you should always drive free from the curb when you round a corner." "Gad! I know it," said the child, giving a vicious twist to the reins and touching the rim of his hat with the whip, ''but the best's mouth's as hard as a brick. Huh, there! What do you think of his new clothes all white, you know?" I stepped back and looked at the pony. He wa a very dark bay, groomed till he shone like satin His collar hitef canvas, and eyeryJ jpharness on his ilegitjcoat-wrrs wane. Even the driver's whip was in keeping. j 'Rather smart, eh?" said the boy with a look of solemn inquiry. "It'll look better on my black horse, though neater brute than this; fetlocks not so brushy an I action brisker." He noddel carelessly, dropped the lash on the pony's neck and went bowl ing down the street erect, correct and complaisant. As I stood gazing after the miture infant a ragged street urchin, who sat on the edgo of the gutter hard by, looked up at me and said : "Xext time Aersees dat voung feiler t?ll 'ini I'm going fo kick a lung out of 'im some Sundav. "Why Sunday?" "Caurze it's my day fur kickin' lungs," said the boy calmly. He had a mouth of prodigious size, small. eyes, red hair and a cork leg. His crippled form, was half -clad in rags, and his eight-year o'd face was lighted up by a prematurely red nose. The idea of such a dwarf kicking anybody was so grotesque that I smiled involuntarily. He grinned back instantly and said as he hugged the cork log: "He hit me wid his whip once't an'I bin layin' low f'r 'm ever sence. On Sun days he don't go a ridin' an' some Sun day I'll land him. It makes me feel el egint to tink of th' lickin' dat lad '11 git on some fine Sunday. I'm no slouch ef my hair is red." ly this time the smile had gone and Iig looked as' ominous as a child of his age could look. Ths beggar of eight waiting to attack the little millionaire of eleven, Just as his father, the tramp, an archist, or striker, waits for the chance to injure his wealthy employer. There is something uncanny about these mature children of the town. I was at the Windsor Hotel at dinner with some friends a short time ago when a pompous little woman strode down the long din irg room, followed by two little girl?j hand in hand. Neither of them was more than nine years old. They settled them selves in their-chairs, folded their skinny little bauds, and then procteded to stare about them and comment upon their fellow diners. . The elder of the two children, after looking intently at a maiden lady of rather noticeable attire at an adjoining tabJe. turned to her mother and said composedly: "What a real y startling old frump thit is, mamma?" "Which one, dear'" asked the strict disciplinarian of a mo'her. "The .cheerful guy beside the bald' headed man over there." ''Ob; yes,'1 said the mother, with a well-bred smile, "I've seen her before. But don't be so s'angy, Marion. Have more tone. Order your dinner now and see that you let puree en lamb alone. It's too rich for you." Then to the waiter- "Take her order, Augustc." The waiter leaned obseuously over i tne child, who was studymp; the menu ! with a frown on her little face. "Jso soup, Ogeest' she said, intently, "but a bit of weak fish with egg sauce an' ak-dney otnelette not fiat you know, but nice and puffy and artichokes;" kVer' sorry,-31c es Maryon, but there is ho arti--" "There, I thought so !" said the girl, flamming the card down on the tabic and biting her thin lips. "It's" the most pro voking thing! .Whenever I set toy heart" "We have some green corn " "Eat it yourself 1" said the child in a huff. The waiter was quite unmoved. ITe seemed to be accustomed to such eb ullitiot.s of temper and went on suavely, taking the orders of the others while Miss .farion sat the picture of over dressed, pampered and pouting discon tent. And the children of. the flats. Who ever hears cf these shy and melancholy tittle beings, who speak in w;gpers and fcave been bullied, reprimanded and 6colded by servants, tenants, janitors and parents unt 1 they glide about like shad ows and dare not laugh for fear of dis turbing'some one. The joyousness and life of ch.lhood has been crushed out of them a .1 v j . , And the children of the board- 1UOUCU UUl Ul ing house, who live under a perpetual firctest from the grim and snappy land ady and the testy boarder cf the "first floor front," who must have the house quiet 8 a to enjoy her afternoon nap. Nearly every boarding house that adver tises mw puts forth the fiat "No chil dren," and the l'ttlf! ones are so thorough ly cowed that they re are as pitiful in mien as in body. Then there are the chil -dren of the tenements and slums. There is no end to juvenile wretchedness here. For a place that children shonld be kept out of, commend me to New York. , The funniest sight that a San Francisco man saw the other day was a building being moved, which -had over the door fihe sign "Stationary Store." ' A graveyard in County Cork has th following notice over its tit ranee gate: Only the dead who live in this parjtb are buried here." close to Us sides and his whip hddipurchase ho sold 'Cuffs' oil a gooa Sm Fitch. ; BectntlT l met General E. E. Duncan, v$liZl Wre VwTy b,X 'in the twen- was a ooy ix.ic " ..:u tics, writes a metropolitan contributor of the Rochester (K. Y.) PoJ, Express. He left Rochester in '36 for the land of big 'ikceters, and for twenty-six years was an engineer on the road between Jersey City and New Brunswick. He had jtxst been looking ovef Mrs. Parker's H tory of Rochester,11 and was particularly Interested in her description of the Bam Patch episodes. He said: . 'I Eaw both of Sam's jumps; the first one was in September, 2J, andafter swimming ashore he came up to the brink again, and looking at his bear, Cuff, said, Where I go, Cuff, tou must go.' Then he grabbed him by the nape of the neck and n:ar his tail and threvr.him over. Cuff came out all right and the next day Sam sold him to John Sears, the hair dresser, who-4iyed on State street, next door to my m6ther-!Sean generally kept three or four bears in his back yard and turned them into bears' oil, which he sold by traveling around the country. TT hsrt ft bonanza in Cuff, for after his ' many jar3, and always carried one of Cuff's paws in his pocKet ana snoweu it to the incredulous, to prove that he was selling the genuine Cuffs oil! November 12, '29, Sam issued the hand-bill which Mrs. Parker has inserted in her book, announcing his last leap for the next afternoon. . As I was anxious to see fun as any boy could be, I stuck prettv close to him all day, and saw him take the drink of brandy in Cochrane restaurant; it was ODe of the big, old fashioned glasses, and he filled it to the brim and tossed it off at one gulp. Then I followed him to the falls,' where he had ere ted a twenty-five foot scaffold. The day was very cold and raw, and-icicles hang over the brink. Sam waded from the shore to the scaffold and I rolled up my pants and wadtd behind him, and aa he was a':outiogo up to the scaffold I took his Jiand and bid him gooa-Dye; 1 wasydtherefore,' the last person that spoke to bim in his life. He made some indis- tinct remarks, waved his hands, and ovei he went. When about half way down his head fell on his shoulder; next was a splash in the water, and that was the last of poor gam Patch. When I after ward moved to Jersey I looked up his history, and found that he was a weaver by trade, very a tive during the weavers' strike, and quite a speaker, .ne made his first jump at Pawtucket, It. I., and his next at Paterson, K. J. If the citi zens of Rochester ever start a fund td erect a stone over his deserted arid al most unknown grave, just this side of Charlotte, I would lilce to contribute my mite." . To Our Dogj in Slumber Wrapt. Oh, Jim, awake; this is no time for dreams, -When rests the starlight oh the mountain's T brow, I And all the world is hushed; to me it seems . This were a fitting time to chase the cow, Aud tinkle tankle all the startled night With clamorous bell and deep mouthed bays and yells; And shouts of -wrath, and girlish shrieks of . fright, And rattling echoes from the shadowy dells. But no; you lie upon the mat and snore; " And will not bulge a solitary peg; But grit your teeth and growl in' smothered roar, Dreaming you have the preacher by the leg. R, J, Burdette, in Brooklyn Eagle. There is one candy house iii New York that has a factory of immense size an I several elegant stores, and they were all created-within a few years out of an orig inal capital of $10,000, which was bor rowed for the purpose. Sir. (ha--. F. Powell, io:-.tmaster, 1 erre Haute, O. , writes that two of his vtry finest chickens were recently affected with roup, He saturated a piece of bread half an inch square Atith St. Jacob's Oil and fed it to them. Ntxt day lie examined them and tbero was "no trace of the disease remaining. All of the officers implicated in the attempt at'revolution in Madrid have been condemned to death. Sir. E. It. Wilson. .Grand Rapid, Mieb. . reports tho case 0? Sir. H. T. Sheldon of Lansing, Slich . who for several we?ks suf fered from. a frightful coiig'h and o Id, which was cured by one bottle of Red Star Cough Cure. One -of the most remarkable and inter esting discoveries yet made in the excava tions in Egypt is the recent finding of tho mummy f the ancient King, Rameses II, the Pharaoh of the Bible under who: reigu the flight of the Jews led-by Moses occurred. Hints to Consumptives. Consumptives should use food as nourishing as can be had, and iu a shape that will best agree with the stomach and taste of the pa ieut. Out -door exercise is earnestly recommended. If you are unable to take such exercise on horseback or on foot, that should furnish no excuse fcr shutting yourself in doors, but you should take exercise in a carriage, or in some other May bring yourself in contact with the open ar. Medicines which cau.se expectoration must be avoided. For five hundred years physi cians have tried to cure Consumption by using them, and have failed. Where there is great derangement of the secretions, with engorge ment of air-cells, there is always profuse ex pectoration. Now Pise's Cure removes the engorgement and the derangement of the se civtions, and consequently (and in this way only) diminishes the amount of matter expec torated. This medicine does not dry up a cougb, but removes the cause of it. W hen it is impossible from debility or oiner causes 10 exercise ireeiy m tne open air, apartments occupied by the patient should be so ventilated as to ensure the constant acces sion of fresh air in abundance. Hie surface of the body should be sponged as often as every third day. with tepid water and a little soft soap. .(This is preferable to any other.) After thoroughly drying, use friction with the hand moistened with oil, Cod-Liver or Olive is the best. This keeps the pores of the skin in ar soft, pliable condi tion, which contributes materially to tho un loading of waste matter from the system through this organ. You will please recollect we cure this disease by enabling tbe organs of the system to perform their functions in a normal way, or, in other words, we remove obstructions, while the recuperative powers of the system cure the disease. We will here say a word in 'reeard to a cough in the forming stage, when there is no constitutional cr noticeable disease. A cough m:y or may not fore shadow serious pvil - !-.. it. j , t , . . "C 1 I. xii ii miKie&i 1 or iii, jaj say ine least, it : a ,,ir., .v, 1.1 l .4 ' ,L A Cough is unlike any other symptom of ! uisease. it stands a conspirator, with threat ening voice, menacing tbe health and exis tence of a vital organ. Its first approach is in whispers unintelligible, and at first too often unheeded, but in time it never fails to make itself understood never fails to claim the attention of those on whom it vails. If you have a cough without disease of the the luncrs or serious mnd-itntumai a ?-.,. f a - -m--r m. vv V tVUUl VI t Ince, so jnuch the better, as a few doses of x-iso s VAire will be aU you may need, while if vou are far advanced in Consumption, several bottles may be required to effect a permanent cure. ,. Subscription lists for the Charleston suffer ers have been opened at all the American consulates in Germany.-' r.:. n I ii nil n I 1 f . t ri .-111 1.1 n. 1 . . . mm mm. - : . mm IJrjausvi La! U U Erer HMe. ...... .;.v. .! iCl in tFncTonriiunirrAna(m(wmhh....i : : "s" ""iM- :: ,.X Tbe counterfeit silver dollar, seem i tc; b. becoming. T g E V tt. eecret .eriricrf oprat.v. r ' jb.a n,re those b:ar- rrv wine AnntroTfiTi coinsare those ing the dates of 187J, liSSO, and 1881. They are all of tho same workman-sh p, and are c rrecMa size 8ud iitlp' TheJ stand the add lest very well but are i trifle light, there being a differencein weight between tl c ccttnterf eit and the genuine of that of a silver five-cenTpiecfl. Tfc nther counterfeits bear date of 18 181 1884, ard U.83 respectrrely, and are ifl fcrior to the others in workrcanshipbe- ing made in molds mstet-d of cues. 1 ney are verv deceptive in jrppcaraocez how ever, tnd fooled Cashier Fojr of th? iwst-offic?, who wa will iugto wajrrr that one which he presented at the sub Treasury was good. Tbe cashier stamped it ''counterfeit" with his little hammer, all the same. Ch icagi Xeics. Mrs. Lucy Bainbridge, who recently traveled through the East, says they do not vaccinate women in Burmah because they do not consider them worth thr trouble and expense. Is not a dye, and will not stain or injure th?skin, Hall's Hair Rone wer. Dumb ague can bespejdUy cured by tak ing Ayer'sAg ie Cure. Try it. The new crop of Florida oranjes are about ready for shipment. , One of the most succfssfu. books that has been sold in the South for years is lion. Alex ander II. Stephen's -'History of the TJnitl Stntnc w th an ftDDC:vlis bv Mr. H A. Rm4-' Sn.-rof.-irv of the Virginia Histi oefety TT7 P. Jobuson 6c (Jo , or ivicnmoiM, Va., have made quite a "hit." an! their agents too have enjoyed a bountiful harvest selling this valuable work. Ninety thousand cotton spino3r.s iu Born ley, England, have resolved to strike against a reduction in wages. The pure t, sweetest and best Cod IJver Oil in the world, manufactured from fresh, healthy livers, upon the seashore. It is abso lutely pure and sweet. Patients who hav once taken it prefer it to all others. Physi cians have decided it superior to any of tbe other oils in market. Made by Caswell, Haz ard & Co., New York. fnAPPKn itaxds. face, nimoles an m;rh skin cured by using Juniper Tar Soap, by Caswell, Hazard & Co., New York made At a revival in Norfolk over 200 colored people were baptized in one af temoon. Jostilh DtttIVs Trouble. Josiah Davis,- North Mkkiletowti; Writes: I am now using a box of your CaHBOLIC SALVE upon an ulcer, which fof- tiitf past teri dfy has. given me great pain. This wtlve N the only renietly-1 have found that has given me any ease. Mv ulcer was caused by varicose veins, end was pro nounced Incurable by my medical doctors. I find, however, that HENRY'S CARBOLIC SALVE is af fecting a cure. Beware of imitation?. A revolution was attempted by troops at M idrid Sunday evening, S700 to 8250DA2,B3S. expense, can be made working for us. Agent preferred who cdn. furnish their own horses and give their whole time to the business. Spare moments may be profitably employ'eJ also. A few vacancies in towns and cities. R F. JO ir?SON & CO. , IOia Slain Richmond, Va. ra ATCWTf Obtained. Send 6tamp for fna&IVIO Inventor's Guide. L. Di INI- 1 ham. Patent Lawyer. Washington. D. C. CURES ALL HUMORS, from a common niofeh, or Eruption, to the worst Scrofula. Snlt-rlienm, "Fever-sore," Scaly or Hough Skin, in short, all diseases caused by bad blood art conquered by this powerful, pmifymp, and invigorating' mcdicmc. Croat Eatiiif? Ul cers rapidly heal under ita benign influence. Especially has it raanlfeeted ita potrncv la curing Tetter, Itoe Rash, Uo!l, Car' buiiclvm, Sore liyes. Scrofulous Sore and Swelling Hip-Joint Discn. White Swell! if gn, iioltre, or Thick Neck, and Knlafffed Ci lands. Send tn cents m stamps for & large treatise, with col ored plates, oh Skfri fiiSeasea, or the san amount for a treatise on Serbfn fous A Section. "T1IJB DLOOD IS Tilt I.IF. Thoroughly cleanse it by using JDr. Pierc (Soldeii ITIcdical JDiHcovcry, aud good dlgestloiJ, a fair sklrtc buoyant .ir its, vital KtrcitKtlt, and soundness of constitution, will be cat&blishcd. COGaSUffUFTIO&l, which Scrofulous Disease of lbs Lutics, is promptly and ccrtafnlr arreftted i and cured by this Gbd-jrlv en remedy. If taken j before the last stages of the disease are reached, j From Its wonderful fiower over this terriblj I fatal disease, when Urst offering thia cow vi i- ' ebrated remedy to tbe public. Dr. Pii ik i thought seriously of calling it bis "Con. sumption Cure," but abandoned that tmm as too limited for a medicine which, from iu wonderful combination of tonic, or BtrenRihcn injr, alterative, or blood-cieansinr, anti-bilious, pectoral, and nutritive properties, is unequaled, not only as a remedy for consumption of th lungs, but for all CHRONIC DISEASES or the Liver, Blood- and Lungs. If you feci dull drowsy, debilitated, bav sallow color of ekin, or yellowish-brown gpoU on face or body, frequent headache or dizzi ness, bad taste in mouth, internal heat or chills, alternating- with hot flashes, low spirits and gloomy borebodings, Jrrcjruiar anpetit, and coated toujrue, you are suffering from lad i. cM.M.I'9nol8ia Rni "Torpid L.lver, or Biliousness." In many cast only part of these symptoms ore eyperk'no-,d. ai si remedy for all such taes, lr. I'lcrce't Golden Medical Discovery fcoa no equal. For Weak Hiupn, Spitting of Blood, KliorliieM of Breath, lirom lii tl, Severe Coughe, Consumption, an3 lurid red affections, it ia a sovereieu remedy. Send ten cents in stamps for Dr. Pierce f book on Consumption. Soli! by Dragglttt. PRICE $1.00, ??uVSTSS! WeridVDisgsns&ry Medical Assscialisa, Proprietora, 663 Main St, Bcrr uo, N. Y. C S LITTLE Q a S TTTretn ata PILLS i5IJ,Ij,0!T8 a,ld CATHARTIC. Sold by Druggists. 25 cents a viaL $500 REWARD ia offered by the proprlctort of Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy for a case of catarrh which thev cannot cure. If ycu have a discbarge from the none, offensive or other wise. Partial h-sa nt Or IWitrltlir vmlr atro. -?f cs?8 tT'itte In consumption. -:E2 8 Catahkh liEMEDT curcrye wont casesof C'uCnrrlt. "Cold In theBeiU2 " WalerprooICoaf ,. 1 I r BROW IRON WILL CURB HEADACHJf INDIGESTION UILIOJNESS DYSPEPSIA f KERVOUS PROSTRATION MALARIA CHILLS and FEVERS TIRED FEELING GENERAL DEBILITY PAIN in the BACK & SIDES IMPURE BLOOD CONSTIPATION FEMALE INFIRMITIES RHEUMATISM NEURALGIA KIDNEY AND LIVER TROUBLES C-R SALE BY ALL DKL'G CISTS' The Genuine has Trade Marl; and cr i t-j i3 on wrapper. TAKENO OTHER. .f.L.Yn., ., bATAR R H CREAM BALM. r "g;.asn i U US I til - "V 1 ( h second bottle oj ElysCnant Dplm iras cvJuixistai. J teas troubled uiltt chronic catarrh, iiatheriny in hmd HAYFtvtR r v Ul L . A J difficulty tn nreiun inn and dischartf -Trwn m 11 t a rs. C j. i:ortnn. - Cheshtutbt.,i'tnia USA. . ....... 1. .lc amnlled UAY-FEVEP Into earn nosim u S t5 K. FfHil " 50 cts. by mall or a? JS?sl-,f ELY UKorfl.I'- lr S-n-1 for ciri M, ir (fjAtifJ TlttTMBALL ) A i m m m m How A Farmer s Life Was baved. Hon. S. . Huntlncton, c-4'oanfr. ladsf Hon. K. . Smtth, Dftri Alorrtf and Sworit StateinenC tt Others. All of Pulaski, Oswego Co;, N. Yrf fecven years ago my Btruggfc" for Hfe brgan with a burning iDflammatiOn,- (almost rs much to bo dreaded as fire). At first at tack to rn fritli pairt and aching in the back. Tlin least Cold or over rrork would aggravate toy troub les. My stomach and liver became. doranecJ, tongue coated, appetite poor, nerves .im 3 truce and my 6lcep troubled. I mttck? ft desprrat? effort to keep about, but in spite' of i my reso lutions and the help of physicians, tour my- self growing woi w month by month, ail my Once powerful constitution completely break ing down, f suffered front chronic influmrnatKni Of the kidneys, rheumatism nn-t catarrh nf tlni bladder. I'tlood would ruih to :ny head. J wi.ujil feel faint and weak, and found it difficult ta br ;tbo t times as my heart would throb and r-kip bcabi.- In the spring of 1SS0 still more critical symptom sctin. My torribie a?ony no one could tell. My weight was r-duccl ncaiy seventy pound.3. A sense of eorrnpfs and rawness was 'followed by attacks f inwar 1 fever. Win. II. Filkin's affidavit is herewith .given: I often naivlhe urine passca 0; jmvvi uvm-r ball. IllonhedterriblCtaa though tt w eery life's bljod. (Signed) VM. II. l iLKINS, I F worn before me I J. W. FKXTON-Ju-j. thisGth day of Nov., tice, Tubiski, ObwcuoI 1833. I Co., N. V. i At times my back and limbs were so weak, I could hardly stand or walk. The of U nrr tho effort to void urine, the more frequent the call and severer tho distress. Ori November 21st, 1881, I began taxing fr. Kilmer s Stfamp-Iloot KMr.oy, 1 ict and Illadder Cure, and, applying bis 0 Anointment. To-lay f am 6'Z years oM, and t am enjoying excellent health. I am freo from paina in ray back' and kidneys, of.n sletp. I well nights, have an 'excellent appetite and Indeed I am enjoyinj life aa veil as I did eight years ago. Dear TJoctor, imagine j-ou frw kic Inst Iiar ing time working: b the Held; sv.'s'.vf to carry along i01b3. (Which ij my pnsrnt weight-goo.! flcsli r.iKt folid), find tliU too lifter not being able t ) gel v froui -. without help b'j spzi'.s (r i:orcthait. a year. Xow 1 can jump as quick as a boy. It 6--nu v) much like a miracle. I can not find suitable niVlUKWrt 4 '-kvr-wvik-i -- bnn 13 T fl ' '1 111 roceipt of letter3 almost every week, ani jraetlmcs twice a week, asking me' about jny flrit testimony published ia Dr. Kilmer's Invalids' Guide to Health, inquiring if it was true that "I wascured after suii-: so much." Kow 1 repeat thelestimony with sworn proof and if this will btho m-caiii"f iudud:i? somo othcrsuffcrer to try your invaluable iic-3 it will pay ma a hundred fold. I am inter viewed almost every day and I hear of a irat many who have tried your Keraclies and speak of them in great praise. Thia testimony u true as to my recovery but as ta my suffering, the one-half lias cot been told. Sworn and subscribed to before me the Cth Day of ovember, 13i, by David Truuibail. Justice of the Peace TuU-ski. Os.wegJ Co;, -V. i'- w " David Trumball whose name is attached to tha alwve teittmonv is a weil-know.nan'i nonorable citizen of Pulasii, Oswego, to.. T.x- rounty . Ju'iiie- Distri'-t Aitomej and cjc-MeinU-r c Assembly- THE aboro testimony in onlj a fair lllustratiom Of letters received daily showing the wonderful re sults attending the use of DR. KILMER'S X WAttr ROOT, Kidney. LUer and Bladder Cure. Bold by Druggists. - . rrlc. $1.00-6 Bottles, S3. If j our Dnig?! does not sell it send to Dr. Kilmer A Co. . . . BrSOHAMTOX, Pensions to Soldiers & He'.r.;. s.-n.l M .1 1 .. fl.l . I.. ' ' ' . HAM Att'y.WnshlnK't'n.- P C H N l7-3f Tl)e9iitbri1l'! f- r.-A sarpri n:e c.r-l- .;, t : i ndp;iccoMl;c Grist-MiH, Cotton. Gin, feeder, tc denser, Ce-:,!!; mis i i- i n t, -w-w
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