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MftQO AT Company Shops t - , , • now receiving aud putting up his A rich and beautiful line of ladies dress goods c*SS9Qti§Ms£ Jot of cheap ready-made clothing Wrs FROM $4.00 to $27.00 10 Ol ß e TO n te. my,Ow P ■ NOTICE. w npon *he estate of David indebted »« C -J the,r I>ereb y notify all persons ltcnt - n i° 08ta 'e to nake immedia/c pay "aidestjJ!.. per ' ionß * ,oW,n K cltinis aeain?t ?*s%a*gssfc 187 V. • 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

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