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CHaS.J. KERB. 1 r
•ALEXANDER WILSOX.) Admr ®
A MOUNTAIN KID«,
• « course » I>N p|llm , Racbc|
ctZZ'
She was such a shy little thing, aiul
blushed tf you spoke to her, and acted
1 0l '»«• hwii voice, and wore print
dresses all the time, and never was in
vited to our parties.
i She in a tumble down old house
which had been a very grand mansion
ante. .
- Phe Tinkham* had been great people
in my grandmother's day. Nothing was
left ot their grandeur now, however, lor
there bad been wine hi 'one-gouoratioH,
and next, and delirium
tremens iiiitui third.
Kay's father was the tliiid. She had a
wretched time keeping house lor him.
Her mother was dead.
' We' were tho girls of Mrs. Dlaud's
private school.
i of i|? wc»'e npo* the east vers
audiili one morning We ivere-all talkiug
at ohee. one, it l.atl said
the high school »irls were belter Scholars
tlian we were.
'Very well. So they are.'
This was Kate Avery, and she was
standing up by the lattice where the
morning glory vines grow, and where a
hundred clusters of little bells swung out
blue and pui'ple aud rose pink. If
Kate was anything, she was honest,
though she was handsome too.
'We have music and French conversa
tion, ami Lou has a phaeton, and I have
and Q Me ß'iy;ftaC been to
Eirrope;Hnit,' lowering her Voice, 'it's an
awful secret though it's the truth. The
high school girls are miles ar.d miles bes
vond us in Laliu and mathematics'
•mademoiselle callt*an 'idgii' iu arithme
tic. I really suppose thai two and two
make lour, but if one ot those girls were
lo tell me that they made five, I shouldn't
dare dispute her.'
The f>ict is,' said Kate, 'little Tinkham
is the only one Of as who is sure ot her
multiplication taWe. But then she doesn't j
really belong to us. She would not be
here if it wasn't for sweeping ana dusting
to pay her tuition. There she is this miu*
ute.'
A small, tired looking figure in a coarse
dress 'came iu sight round the corner. It
waß~Rachel with her load ot booksuu her
isriji *'-A
'jjjiie has worn that dress every day for
4>U£^ aou| l lß >' k° u Stedinan; 'I ver
ily IjfelieyA bed when it is
done up.
'My dear, she can't. She has to wash
and i.*oii ii herself. Oh, there is Queeny I'
Oiled Kate. It was stich a gentle, graces
ful girl who came walking fast to over
take lJ*y» cjuiglit step .a« she overtook
*her ; and began talking jileasautly,,,
'ltoWSTi't she look nice iu that seal brown
suit? And ign't it just like her to carry
Ilav's books for her.'
Qneenv's real name was Alice. You
woulcT|iavc fctio&n w'Qi vpe . called her
Queeuy if you had socu het \ralk beside
little linkhaui that morning, open the
gate, aud stand still, erect, with that
grand way of hers tor the 'girl to pass
through. I believe we all rather worsliin
ped Queeny.
Kate met them with her forehead all
tied pp into hard knot|,and asked Ray,
'didu'f she want to bean angel, and help
her wllli those dread infractions?'
So the two sat dowu on the door step,
and the rest went info the Schoolroom.
Then Lou called out lo Ray lo came and
dust her desk. She said 'lt wasu't half
dusted.' Qneeny said:
hysy t ljviJJ do it;' and she,
|qjt arid looking pibuder than ever,'
MtedLoo's deA be**elf.
It wa9 this morning, Kriday, that Mrs.
Bland told u8 that to-morniw would be
'Mouutain day.'
All Ihe school i» our town drive to
Ourday ai
ways-eomes ia Sftptsuaber^— J X
This time Mrs. Bland couldu't go, so
she sent along ber cousin to matronize
us. She was a fidgety person, afraid ol
spldof?, Ifid'db jfoodkny way.
We are to'start at nine o'clock,' Queenv
said. -Ray can you he ready so early?'
Queeny was a new scholar. She didu't
know that Ray never went with us to
such plicesj- Now Iheflifthed and re
plied: « a
•I dou't think 1 can so t0 tllJ roo aDS
taiu.' w .... H ,
'Certainly, yon are going,' Alice said it
off
•Saturday is my day to clean tlie school
room,' P»y answered. hg
'We will clean it. Let's begin fins
minula/ An(l off came Qneenie's cnfls aud
Kafe's, all the cnfls, in fact. We went to
work, aud had such fun sweeping and
scrubbing. Justf Imagine Kale and
Queeuy washing the floor. They did it
GRAHAM, X C-, WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 19 1879
well, 100.
1 |Now, remembor, Queeny said. the Inst
f thing, 'everybody is to wear her oldest
dress. And, Ray, would yon be kind
I enough to briug hard bojled cgg9 for
I >our Inncheou? One apiece for us all
I round?'
Ray looked bright all'over, and said
J ves. 1 ,
; Now 1 think it was just beautiful ef
t Qneeny fo think of that. She know little
Tinkham couldn't brliig frosted and
, Ft ench rolls as ihe rest of us did.
, So site spoke of the eggs. Wn all res
. nr.embered that Hay had wonder till shick>
, c,,s - lam euro the word about old dress
t es too, was meant to help her.
The next morning Obed 'fainter came
i r °nud with his uncovered omnibus and
his l wo grfcat horses and picked us up.
We went lor Ray last. She was stand*.
. ing iii front ot the old house, l>e?iile the
tumble down gate, with her basket of
, eggs in Iter hand.
She looked perfectly happy, and her
dress was 6o cleau and smooth Kate whis
pered to me.
I That dress has been "washed and ironed
sinco last uij|ht. , Just think of it?'
It was a clear, warju. morning and
every one was in such a glow of good
spirits. I think wc were all glad we had
Rachel with us.
But it it hadn't been for Qneeny, Ray I
would never have gone, mid if Ray hadn't
gono the rost of us >VoulJ never have
come home, and this story—for there is a
story—would never have beou told. ~
It is eight miles to the mountain and
there is a carriage road to the top. The
last two miles are very hard and steep,
because yon rise nearly a thousand ieet
above tiro Connecticut river ui that dis«-
tance. ' ' " : v tv. lr-
But Obed was a Steady,' good 1 driver
and Ids homes were steady good horses.
We alwflys drew lota for the seats be»
side OtfSw&nd It'was one of our. treats '
to fe et Jj#m%lkiug about bis 'teUm/ as he
called it. '
' What are their names?' asked Qoeeny.
•Well'—a pause. Obed was a slow
talker, but be bad a great deal to say.
• The oil o:ie there is Caesar aud tho nigh
one lie is Alexander.'
'Are they alreid ot the cars?'
'Aint afeard o' nothing in nalur.'
Obed paused for us to think this over,
and then went on:
•Know too imich, them creetnrs do.
They've carried a load to the mountain
four times a week all summer. They'd
lake ye'bom 's well ef 1 wan t along.
They know—well beats all what them
juiimals know. UuderstancVt l'«a- -talks
iAg 'bout 'em miiiit 'i Jr*ll'4
They're used to being talked to. My
wife she thinks a sight ol eui. Beats all!
She'lLgo out to the barn, aud she'll carry
'em apples, ar.d she'll be 411 over 'em;
an* one week When she wassickyfu' kep'
in the house, you c'n believe itor not, but
it's a tact that them creetuiM lost flesh.
Shu braids up their front hair for'em ami
ties it with a red ribbon one day, and
then the uext day abo unbraids it, au' it's
crimped, all iu the fashion, you'll under
stand. As they were a cotniu' to a pars
ty to day, they've got their hair crimp
ed.'
But alas fur Csesar, and alack for Alex
ander. It was a terrible piece of work
that you came near doing that day tho'
we girls jievcr #ball tpel that you were j
much !o blame. *f ft 4 3
You see ibis was what happened.
We were all tucked into the wagon as
tight a figs in a box, that afternoon,'
ready to s'art for home, when Lou called
out that she bad left her parasol. She
juuft get 9pt,and run up UM lie tower to
i frifitX; OXj W w
'You juat keep y'r sittin,' said Obed.
'l'll fetch yer umbrill;' aud be started for
the tower.
■lt was about ten rods off. The tower
and stable are built in a small cleared
space at the top of the mountain. All
around and below are thick old woods
great rocks. »
Obed had just gone out of sight when
Queeny gave a little scroam, and put her
hand to her eyes. 'Something has stung
and then, that instant,
while weHsferei If looking at her, it haps
pened. *
The horses both reared, then gave a
plunge, the omnibus seemed to rise from
the ground with a leap, and sooner than
I can tell it, We were all being borne, at
an awiul speed down that narrow rocky
road.
I glanced toward Cwsar and • Alexans
der aud saw a,terrible pair ot wild ani
mals. I looked toward the girls,
The reins were dragging on the ground
Some of us were shrieking. • Wboal' A
few were getting rfeady to jump. All this
iu an instant, and then, suddenly above ,
the nr,ise ot the wheels and everything I
else, we heard a voice ring out dear; J
•Sit still girlsl I think I can stop the
home.' -
It was Ray Tinkham, of all people in
the world. ' J H "" • ' :
She stood up: with a steady look iu her
eyes. ; .• •... . , j.
I must explain here that the road from
the lower runs down a'gentle slppe for
hall a and thern comes a 'short
'Urn.' Beyond that is Long hill, the
and most danger on* part of
the way! Kate seized uiy baud and
whispered;
'lf the houses are not stopped before
tlicy get lo we shall all be kill
ed'
Hay was climbing over the driver's
seat. She always could climb anywhere
like a cat. She didn't pause au instant,
but she called back to ine: '
'Natty Urock, put on ihe brakes. The
retil of yon sit still."Only prav as hard
as yon can.'
I sprang to the drivers seat, jam
med down the handle of the brakes. 1
prayed too. I believed I should never
pray again.
I saw and thought of a hundred things
at ouce. t saw the great tree trunks and
the huge black rocks ciose upou us. 1
remembered the clematis over the front'
door at home, and wondered who woukl
tell my father that I was dead.
Meanwhile, Kay was over tbe. dash
board anfl down with her feet over the
■ wffletree. " '
* r, ~7 rt r ■*. ii a ~ i
ilow she did it, I shall never know,but
tire next wc saw of her, she waa creeping
along the pole between th*horses steady
ing herself with her bands "ou their
backs.
The horses went tearing on like wild
horses, their m;uic* flying aud their great
bodies quivering all over, v
Every iustaut the girls were becoming
more excited. - V,'
Qneeny was holding Mrs. Blsnds
cousin with bothhanns to keep her from
leaping out. Kate cried:
'VVe are almost to the-turn' . "What is
Ray doing?. She will frighten the horses
worse thaw ever!' aud she covered her
eves.' •*: ***>
The brow,of the hill was not forty feet
off. Far behind, we could bear Obed's.
voice screaming to tho horses to stop.
The keeper ot the tower was flying to*
ward u». k *'•' l .->;.. • ,
lint ihey were.to faraway to' do any
good. There seemed not oho ehance in a
thousand.for us. But that very instant
wheu we all Relieved we were lost, we
looked at Bay
We saw her reach forward with one
hand,^-and grasp the rth*s which folned
the heads of the hoi ses together. 11 Jnst
where tue connecting straps crossed one
auother her fingers Clutched them.
_ Oue sharp, fierte Jerk of thoae heads
backward, and the horsca slackeued
their spued, aud iu aft iustaut more Stops
ped. ~ • *9-1 ui •.« r.
The wagon stood etill,- although Ihe
creatures were snorting aud plungie
yet. But that small hand of Rayto held
011 with a death. grip, a:td in a upmicnt
more Obed caaght the horses by their
heads,
lli9 face as whito as lt{ ever could
be, and he spoked one word. ouly. It
was:
• Hornets!'
i The horses had been ' stung In more
than twenty places. They were uubar*
nesscd at once, and we were all out on
the grouutj directly. * . '
We laughed and we oiSed, snd Mrs.
Biaup'a eousin diatinguiabed herself by
fainting away.
*1 don't blame the horses In the least,'
Queeny said. 'Oue sling is bad enough,
aud she abefwed wqere her eye waa be
ginning to swell. 'The hornets came
awarmiug out of the woods there.' As
for Obed he waa a humiliated man.
•Bui I was (be one to blame, he said.
1 thought the horses would V stood UU
tbe'r hides dropped ofTn the'r ribs; bat
I tell ye ther' never wee the teem bitched
op yet that 'nd stan' hornets, lllast the
creel ur si' hoaddwi in an undertone.
3ut lfey Tiakbamj* cried Kate, and
4c went op to where the little thing was
ling on a rock, looking pale. 'You
saved as all.you blessed child. How did
yen ever think of doing that?
My grandmother stopped some ran a
way horses in that "way once,' grasped
Bay. I didn't know whether I eonld
Stop these or not, but 1 knew somebody
must do something, or we should ail be
dashed to nieces.': "
'Well,' Obed, TVe known &
that tiling's bein' done Just once afore in
my litetime, but U was a bey that did
it.
There's a savin' 'mongst tea rain' men
wbeu yeif aiut got the reins, ron
can Stop a ifuuaway horse Jf you Walk
on tbe pole and grip hold o' the
btid'es, but it aiu't every horse that'll
atandit.'
• But wasn't it splendid of Ray T cried
Lou, going over, and putting ber arms
round her. • , '
.'Never knew a girl e'd have 'so mtch
.pluck, answered tue drivef, If she had
not been light, on her feet, an' level in
her head, she never c'd'a' done it. I tell
you if theso horses had'nt been been un
common good horses, iiothin' on afrtli'
.voul a' stopped 'em.
And RScy ? I never meant to make so
long a story ol it, but I mint tell you that
we gave her a party soon after this. All
the lathers, and mothers, and brothers
went,-and we carried her a carpet for her
room and a new elmniher set, and nice
new clothes all through*, and a few ot
the gentlemen garo her a bank-book,
whatever that may mean, [only know
thiitshe was to have the income ot cer
tain money, aiid that it was enongh to
edncate her thoroughly. We had the
best time that night, and Qneenv'sfather
took Hay ont to supper, and she Mt at
his light band, and everybody treated
her as though she had been a princess ot
the blood. Ido belhwe there never was
a happier girl on earth that liachel that
night
WOKORBFVI, DIfU'eVBHT,
The Slaaacr !■ Which ■ Ttiu Child U
Krpl A lire.
The San Antonio correspondent of the
Galveston Neios tells the following
atory of a wonderful suigical operation
recently performed in the former city.
Bau Antonio contains a wonder the like
Of which cannot be found in the United
States. It nothing otora or less than a
child seven years old that, instead of
masticating and swallowing its food in
the usual manner, fs fed through an
aparlure in the stomach made for that
purpose. The child is gaining strength,
tap walk and play; and bidr fair soon to
be as stout and healty as any other child.
On Saturday last I determined to go and
see the child ior myself. The fa:ts are
as follows.* About two yeais ago Mr.
B. T. Lumley, at tuat ti.no living in
Pennsylvania, bad the misfortune to
have his little daughter Jessie drink a
solution of lie, which a negro woman had
careleasly left on the tabTe. A large
quantity of Uio corrosive liquid was
swallowed. Death is the ceitain result
iu auch cases. There have been q-iite
a number of casas in San Antonio,
where children drank concentrated lye,
and none have survived except in this
instance. The lye destroyed the mucous
membrane, and a stricture of the aeso
phagus is formed which means that the
throat Or at r least the channel through
the whieb the food gofcs into the stomach,
is drawn together or contraoted to sush
a degree that only liquids, and not ranch
of .them can pass through. Jf the child
doea not du* at ouce, it lingers for a
year or ao and then goes into a oonsup
tive condition and then perishes of alow
starvation. It is impossible for a human
being to live exclusively ou liquid nour
ishment; but where concentrated lye has
been taken there are times, particularly
in cold, damp weather, when thn sufferer
.cannot even drink milk. 7 All attempts
to open tho closed aeaophagus are furtile,
hence iLe auiferer slowly starves to
death. ** * «»t it ,*,. ~ ~
Such was the condition of tho little
girl, Jewij Jvimley, when she waa
brought to San Antonio for treatment.
The child was very much emaciated,
oould not swallow even liquid food for
day* at a time. .As it wa» the only poa
aible chanoe. ahe had for lile, her parents
ooosented that the operation making an
opening in the atoutach should be at
tempted. Tho o|ieration has been ]»er.
fojmediu England, but this Ts believed
to be first time it has been attempted
in the United States. Your correspon
dent cannot give the technical terms, but
can make the modnc operandi intelligible
to the general reader. An incision tour
inches long was made a few Inches to
r the left of the pit of the stomach, much
stitching being required. Through the
ieciaon the stomach is reached. The
next part of the operation requires the
most delicate handling imaginable. It
consists in sewing the stomach to the
walls of the abdomen, but the greatest
care has to be taken no* to penetrate the
stomach itself. The needle and stitches
only penetrate the skin of the stomach..
The result is that the stomach, as the
wound gradually hauls, grows to the
walls of the abdomen.
The patient was pat under the influ
ence of chloroform, and the O|teration
successfully performed. Unfortunately
the child hid an attack of chills and fev»
er, which Lad to beoured, which gave it
a setback. The o|>erat ion described took
place three weeks ago. The stomach ba J
grown on the sides of the abdomen, and
eight days ago the final operation in
making a small incision into the stomach,
through which the food was to pass, was
performed, and twice*, day during the
peat week a beef steak oat ap fine baa
been {teased with the forceps in the
Btomach, 'and the child is steadily gain
ing strength.
Ou Saturday last I visited the child
and saw it fed. We halted in front of a
small one-story house, which we entered.
A lij.de girl with light bair and ' blue
eyes was sitting ap in bed surrounded
with playthings. Her mother, a young
woman of about thirty yean of age, was
busy ia the room. - r : , .. j
"Don't you want your supper, Jessie?'
said the doctor.
**l want steak. I don't want any
bread, 'cos it hurt*," said the little girl,
whose thin features and p»Je coui
NOi3 7
plexiou showed the result of her long
fast.
The mother brought ' in it rare heef*
Hteak, which tlie dociflr proceeded to c*t
u;> into small pieces, crumbling uj> (
bread at the same timt. The food being
prepared the obild lay back on the be 4
and the opening in the side was exposed*
it was only an inch in length and present
ed the apjtearance to, a badlj healed cot.
It irafc a httle'inlhfmed;- 1 stood by 1 and
saw tbre doctor take one piece aiW anoth*
er and carefully introduce, it withthe for
ceps into the etonifch until the plate wae
nearly empty. The child complained 4
little at times, but did not appear to he
suffering any. She finally Raid, M My
stomach is full," aud as there waa an
mora steak the doctor desisted. Finally
some cotton Was placed in the opening,
a bandage pat on, and she Sat up
and was soon fondling her plaything*.
Th 3 following additional fxcte may be
of interest to the medical fraternity and
others interested j No particle of eoh'd
food has passed through fhe child'*
throat since the accident. A grain of
rice nearly strangles her. Jdilk is al*o
injected into the stoipach the
opening. The bnly possible danger is
from the wound closing'np, hence it i*
kept open with cotton. At first m plag
of expansive cotton was used. There is
no reason why tfce chi'd should not be
come stout and healthy. The food di
gests readily, just as if chewed and swal
lowed. To the inquiry if this mode of
taking nourishment would to be
Kept up through life no definite answer
was given, as it depend# On the possibili
ty of reducing the stricture of tbe tbrotu
Gleanings«
"Ah, 1 ' said a deaf nfen, who had a
scolding wifa, "wan wants hut Uuio
hear below." .
Old Deacon Dobson always boaatect
that be was 'prepared for the , worst.'
and his neighbors thought he got jt when
he martied bis second wife.
Switzerland pats np condensed milk
in quantities for EngUsl) taurkei,
where it finds a constant sale. There
are several Swiss factories engaged in
the business.
W lieu a man bnya a new hat his saale
acquaintaeces take it off, examine it and
inqnfre the price. When a woman gets
a new one her female friends torn up
(heir noses at it and callit a "horrid thing'
That is the di fie re nee belweeu the two.
"Martha,' said a new-made granger to
his wife, "we'll have lota of pumpkins
next year. I planted about forty; had
to dig awful big holea to put 'eui in,
though.'
c/ A not altogether gallant proprietor of
a provincial menagerie poa ted *P the
following notice; are requested
not to remain stationary iu front of the
cages. It tirea the monkeys."
' A rather gayly dresaed young lady
asked her Sunday School class what w*a
"meant by the pomp aud vanities of tbo
world." The answer waa honest, but
rather unexpected; "Them flowers od
your hat."
"So," said a Texas lawyer, aa he
?*
the table he(t>9» lum» life fact Ulat the
witness is a deaperate man will not deter
me Irotn asking him suck qeeatioas as I
may deem proper. /
A waiter uncorked a bottle of vine in
a Parisian cafe. "How leng did yon say
this wine bad been bottled?" '• Fourteen
years." Ah; that ia a long time for a fly
to kve; see, be around quit*
lively.
"The man who helps to circulate a
piece af gossip is as bad as the one who
| originated ik To putyeur fist in s tar
I barrel and then go aronnd shaking hands
i with is what some people
to do n sententiously remarks the Ue.
aid" Chit-Chat" man.
More than one half of the glass ns»-d
in the United Statas is produced in
Pittsburg, where over 5,000 bands are
employed in making it. Twelve thous
and one* hundred and ten tons of soda ash
were used in the business during last
year, and the valae of the giant unu e
amounted to nearly $7,000,000.
While in New York a few day* ago
P. T. Barnum replied to sa old friend
who told him he looked ys bale and
hearty as he looked ten years ago; £
ought not to, my near sir; I'm an old
man; I'm seventy. But I gave up rum
and tobacco years ago. I havn't smoked
a cigar for eighteen years, ami havn't
tasted f 'glsss of liquOr for ssany mote
yesii. That ha* kept me jonug and
hearty."
In the midst of the performance of an
extravaganza at a Boston theater an old
man rises in the parqnett and says that
be is displeased with his seat, as he is
unable to hear well. One of the actors
invites him to sit ia • chair on the stage, -
which he does, and finally takes India
crous part in the sating. It is not until
near the close af the piece, so cjever in ~ >
the imposition, that the seen
the old man in a member of the