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v r w m w i ne uaroima w atcnman. zz 1 ! - ' ; H 1 e '" .T1'' fOL XVIIL-THIRD SEEIES. SAUSBUBY N. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1887. KO. 42 BY J. J. BRUNER. Wise Thoughts. Eyerybody is i8 after the event. r. ft l 11 Wiling is so leartul as n baa con- cienc-- . He that has no character is not n he is only a thing. man; TV crutch of Time accomplishes fliore than the club of Hercules. Advice is like caster oil; easy enough j gite, but hard enough to take f he path of genius is not less ob structed with disappointment tlian that of ambition. "So man preaches his sermon well to others if be does not first preach it to ,:g own heart. T!;e worse prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life. When one has no good reasons for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone. ( Revenue is a debt, in the paying of which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, puncui;u. bTT? e? 9 1 larfTTrl Unfailing Speciac for Lifer Disease. CVMDTflMSQ Bitter or bad taste In WliriUiriW mouth; tongue coated wliito or covered Willi h brown fur; pain in the back, sides, or Joints often mistaken for Rheumatism ; nuur stomach; loss off appetite ; sometimes nausea and water Iiraslr, or indigestion ; flatulency and acidT eructations; bowels alternately costivo and lax ; headache ; !o.-..s of memory, with a painful sensation of having failed to do something which ought to have been done ; debility; low spirit: a thick, yellow ap pearance of the skin and eye3; a dry cout:h; fever; restlessness; the urine is scanty anil highcoloreii . c.nd, if allowed to stand, deposits a sediment. "SIMMONS LIVES REGULATOR (PURELY VEGETABLE) lis & nrjally used in the Soui to arouse the Torpid I.iver to a healtliy action. , It act with xtrsordiAsry efftcfrcy on th I a and Bowels. A'l EF'EGTl'M SftafHS FOR Malaria. Ko'-rcl Complaint .v Dyipppsia,. iSicW liradaelie, CnuxOpatlon, liilloutltsoaa, Kilnt'3' AfTVeiltHJ. Jauiulicn, Intnl IprL:Kitio:. Colic Endorsed by the ue uf Tf MilMonf Fi. :i'es, as THE BEST FAMILY KKKSiNE IbrChildrea, for Adultw, and ibt the AgcU. ONLY GENUINE has our Z Scamp iu red on frotit cf Wrapper. J. H. Zeilin & Co., Philadelphia, Pa., (OLE ruoPKisiORS. I'rioo. 91.00. IEDMONT HICKORY, N. C. 4 CAN'T BE BEAT! They stand wherje they ought to, rigfit square AT THE FRONT ! It Was a Hard Fight But They Have Won It! Just read what people say about them and if you want $ wagon come quickly and buy one, either for cash or on time. UlIBTJRV, N. C. S-pt. 1st, 188G. Two years ago I bought a very light two-hor-e Ptcdjjinnt .wagon of the Agent, Jno. K- Boyuen; have usetl it nenr'y all' the time Pfc. Iiiive tried it severely in hauling saw ltt; and .other heavy loads, and have not ha 1 to pay one cent for repairs. I look Ipontlie Piedmont wagon astlie bestThiui lc Skein wagon made in the United States. The timber used in them is most excellent Md thorough ry well seasonct. TlTaNKB P. TOMASOX. SAiaspuav. N, C. Aug. 37th, 1886 A.Hsut two year. aao I bought of Jno. A. pjdeir, a oue h orsePicdmon t wagon w h icji w done, much service and no-pait of it "s broken or given away and consequent ly it liaseost nothing lor reiirs. J i ntit D; IT i; n j. v . S-VLitBunr, N, C. Sept. : I, lta. r Kghtecn months ago I bought ot John A. Boyden, a 2J inch Thimble Skein Pied Wont wagon and have used it pretty much a,! the tune and it has proved to he a tirst .wag. hi. Nothing about it has given y 4nd therefore it lnts required n re-P,rs- T. A. Walton. Salisbury, N. O. Sept. 8th. 1880. I months ajo I bought of the Agent, In Salisbury, a 2$ iu Thimble Skein Piedmont wagon their lightest onc-liorsc wagon j-1 f? klpt it in almost constant use and Mur.nr the time have hauled on it at least .-wis ..t wooi l :nU that without any I WAGONj AT Josiah. There lived a chap whose on!)- aim hr to he called u flyer; An empty-headed ass, his name Was, t be brief -J osier. He once encased a maid to court, And Vostly things he'd boy her; Which she pronounced ''delightful sport," Winch much upset Jo's-sire. For "he declared it was a sin Such costly tilings to buv her. 'To notsupuly you witbthe tin," Thereat arose JoVire! But useless 'twas to crow enraged When yifts he did deny Net; She cried: "No longer we're encased,"' Hifc name was then Jo-sighcr. Day after day of love denied, He ambled sadly by her; II is speeches would the maid deride, For wealthier Jos ee-her. At last one day lie onk lo gun And cried : "Farewell, Marier; Ah, ha," Jte yelled : "this life is done.". Fizznang ! Oh, ho, Jo's-higher. UmtkitiUe Gazette. THE USEFUL SAW. The Origin Buried in the Mists of Antiquity. y 1 XoV AN INSTRUMENT OF GREAT UTILITY IN THE INDUSTRIAL WORLD. The Greeks attributed the invention of the saw to the accidental finding of the jaw bone of a snake by Tains, who used it to cut through a small piece of wood. Being a slave and finding this jaw bone eased his labor, he made a saw of iron and thus shaped for man a new and most valuable tool. But the o,,ail anrrtraaoJl to primitive man in different sections of the globe by accidental notching of metals, or the serrated bones of hsb. It is said the original inhabitants of 'Ma deira found a read v made saw in the back bone of it fish. There is a Saw-fly with saws in its tail, which it uses to saw stems, leaves and lruit to make re- ptaeles for its eggs. in ancient saws tile tcetn were so ar ranirm that the rut was made bv nnl-i ling instead of pushing, and the tjeth . " . t . " . . " .. - - i wt so that ten or a dozen in succession slanted one wav and then ten or more were slanted in the other instead of each alternate tooth. The Greeks used cro.'-s cut. saws for two me!!. :i!o s:ivs for enHine nv-irnle infn i h u i t..K..! ..- c - i vor hollow ing out a marble bath tub simii.iT in nnncitiie to the modern im plement. In the burned city of llercu- laueutn a picture was uncovered repre senting two Grenii sawing a piece of wood on a carpenter's bench not unlike the style now in use and using a saw with a wooden frame similar to those emnlo red, and the frame is tightened with a rope and stick just as wood sawyers imve it. and was doubtless as familiar to the Romans as it is to ns. The first trace of a saw-mill in Ger many is of one at Augsburg in the year 1337, and there are now two near that city which are known to have existed since 1417. Before the invention of the saw-mill boards and planks were split with wedges and hewn smooth by the axe. Peter the Great of Russia states he had great difficulty in induc ing the timber cutter?, of his empire to discontinue this method, and it is still resorted to where the toois of civiliza tion are not at hand. In Norway, a country of forests, there was not one saw-mill before lo30, and the English bitterly opposed the introduction of the saw-mill. In 1G03, a Hollander erected one near London, but the wood cutters and sawyers would not permit it to continue. Noserious attempt to erect a saw-mill in England was again made until 17b i, when a large English lumber dealer built a saw-mill to be worked by wind. No sooner was it complete tlntrrthe sawyers assembled in large numbers and demolished it. The Government compensated the owner and a large number of the rioters were punished. A new mill speedily replaced th? destroyed one and was a success. Now, they have saws in Great Britaiiuso fine as to cut dia monds, and circular saws nine feet in diameter, while the United Scales have distanced the English and almost reached perfection in saw-mill ma chinery and wood shaping machines and tools. An immense amount -of lumber is wasted in sawdust, but this wastage aven is to be practically stopped by machinery. Dr. H. S. Smith, of Brooklyn, N. V.. the investor of the improved veneer cutting machine, has applied the prin ciple of t hat machine to one for cutting logs into timber. - One of the machines adopted for cutting logs four feet long and avenging two feet in diameter, will cut in one day 3D.5O0 feet of inch, 60,000 feet of half-inch, or 80,000 feet of quarter-inch lumber. The operation of cutting renders smooth the surface of the board, as if plane.!, so that the nnchiut is a combined substitute for sawing and planing. The inventor show. barrel staves made from lumber manufactured by his machine and claims that it will turn out 4,500 staves nei 1.000 feet instead of the 1,WK) other mac nines produce. It will revo lutionize box and small wood manufac turing;. The Earth. 1 . . The greatest thing a hunt in soul ovpr does m this world is to se tonic 1 then tell wlr.t it saw in a thin, an bystem on the Farm. The cause of hard tirae3 among far-' Bank Commissioner Foot, of Los mers is not high taxes or what they Angeles, Cal., had an amusing experi pay the preacher, not a fault of their enee in the gold times of -California, members -to the legislature, or of their The storv, as told to n lodt reporter, wives, who do more work every twelve runs as follows: months than the best man servant on j In the early davs of the gold excitc the plantation; not freshets, droughts, ment, before many of the young men killing frost and insects, which often of the present day were born, Mr. Potts disturb the little half-done work con- and his partner, 'both miners, put their stuntly going onv even on the best heads together and decided that there arranged farms no, none, of these, j was probably gold at the head waters It is lack of system in the business of of the San Joaquin. They thought it farming, among the land owners. ! would be well to investigate the matter Who can succeed, or is success to be and accordingly they set out. In due found where there is no system ? . time they arrived. You hear the land owner complain; j They discovered a deep hole in the the common, ignorant white man and bed of one of the forks, and they con the negro complain of hard times, eluded that if there was gol an v where Each accuse the other of not having in the bed of the stream it was m that done his duty, and, to a certain extent, hole. They tried diving to reach the the accusation is correct. But really bottom, but the water was too deep, the stinting point for hard times is in and fhey found themselvesin a dilem the so-called intelligent land owner, ma. Mr. Pott's partner bettMnight him He lacks system in his business from ofa divim? suit in S in Francisco, that j beginning to end. System m ikes , i heavy loads light, it inspires confidence, j brings about obedience and respect from those who are dependent upon j ' the good citizens for home and employ- ment. When we secure those things j the are we iMty to be rid of the in- fernal nuisance of always crying hard inies- I In the first place, we cannot educate everybody. The majority will not ac- cePfc & even if is ottered them, and so icli .i agriculture is a uusmess, we will to a greatjextent have to contend j with an element of labor destitute f intelligence and order. In every sue- ! cessful enterprise you find there a man j capaoie oi mrmsning ana entorcing a : System. One of his Own. Or he adoDts one of his neighbor's who in the j same line and with the same capital has made it profitable, and until such is tne case on our rarms we may con tinue to carry posted on our fyicks the large black letters, "Poor Old Farmer.' Now we can't afford to live as we have been for the past twenty years. We go in debt at it; it is not respec table. Besides, it is injustice to white alwl black, who are compelled to work l i i j. r i: LUl il PP"rt srt in lire, iv poor i : .. l 1. 1. ... it. l a ss"Jm "stter man none mosc oi us have none), but can't we h ive irrrA one. we nave money enourh left, if applied i rr i K.. 1 courage and directed farming, to under n ' a good : svstem of farming, to soon no lnaepenaenc. out to Keep our I ' i i i i i "snal :ut means destruction. One or two farmers can't do what is to he done in this direction; in a meas ure, it will take us ail. We must unite. I In the first place, own your land, and if ! you have mare than 3-011 can bring to a hign state 01 cultivation, and don t care to sell, put some man on it who can show a certificate from his hist employ er stating that he is faithful and obe dient, and allow him to know even by passing through your neighborhood that you with tne balance of your neighbors, are fair and honest, but determined and progressive, and that not a momentsrtime is to be wasted and the pajr he receives must be earned. Then put into this tenant's hands a method by which on that land he can expect good crops and improve your land every year. To make the above merely an under standing or contract with a tenant on the first day of .January is not worth the time 3 011 spend in naming over what is required. Your, or a competent agent's personal attention must be there three-fourths of the time. Agri cultural Bulletin. Bill Nye. The New York Graphic has the fol lowing sketch of Bill Nye, the humor ist, now of the World : Bill Nye's exact age and birthplace are topics which afford considerable scope for speculation. He is certainly, however, under two score in point of vears. and if he was not born in Wis consin he has lived long enomgli at Hudson, in that State, to caii it home. Somewhere in the neighborhood of eight or nine vears ago Nye was country" pedagogue in one of the North western counties of Colorado, hpell-ing-lees were all the rage at t hat period in his vicinitv and he wrote an account of one given in his school-house and sent it to the Denver Tribune. O. H. Rothaker, who is now publishing a splendid newspaper in Omaha, was the manasriiir editor of the Tribune who received Nye's first humorous offering Ho recognized it as a piece of good - a I til work, printed it, and secured tne am bitious schoolmaster as an occasional correspoiwfent by placing him on the list of dead-Head subicribers. Nye wroto in lis manner for several months, add then concluding that funny journalism was his forte he re moved to Laramie, Wyoming, and started the Boomcranq. He made money bv the venture, and eventually became the postmaster of that flourishing little kcity. v ailing health rendered n:s re turn to Wisconsin necessary. His recent temptations and tribulations are too commonplace for comment. We have lived a long time longer, indeed, than the- allotted period but we neter yet knew a man to make money by going trr law. Observation has taught us it would be better, certainly cheaper, to give your neigh bor a hundred tlollars or two than to "law him" for the amount, though it may be justly iu you. AHiens (Tenn.) i'ost. Surprised Bedsk'n?. he could procure, and the descision was reached tnat he go and bring it. This he did, arriving with it after a time. Those who have seen ndiving suit are aware of the frightful appearence of a man arrayed in it. The front of the headpiece is a large circular pane of glass that gives the wearer the ap- pearance of a hideous Cyclops. From t he top of the head runs a rubber tube for snnnlvinc air tn divr nnd rWo is also a rope attached tor hauling him np. Mr. Pott's partner arrayed himself in the suit. Laying across the hole was a fallen tree, and Mr. Potts and his partner walked out upon the lo, and the partner shppid down into the Wntor ami vv.19 instnnf.lv nnf nf siarlit Mr. Potts holding the rope by which to hold him up. The agreed signal was a jerk on- the rope. While Mr. Potts u-as thus sitting on the log and holding the rope he ap peared to be fishing with a stout line for big fish. He was thus engaged when Chief Kaweah and his squaws came down from the mountains, where they had been gathering nuts. lie stopped and addressed Mr. Potts: 'Yon ketch nm fish?" uNo, not 3-et," was the reply, ''but 1 expect a bite pretty sooii." The old chief was evidently much interested in the scene, and without more ado he squatted on the bank and awaited developments, his squaws fol lowed his example. Pretty soon there came a jerk on the rope that rippled the surface of the water. Kaweah became greatly ex cited when he saw Mr. Potts pulling on the line, and the old chief got to his feet and watched the procedure with the deepest interest. Presently the monster of t lie deep came to the sur face, with the hideous Cyclopean eye turned in Kaweah's disrection. "Ugh!" shouted the warrior, and then he and his squaws turned and lied panic stricken over the plains. A Good One cn a Senator. In Washington no man has a greater reputation for flow of language than Senator Blackburn of Kentucky. He is considered a fountain of words and oratorv. Congressman Green 01 North Carolina tells a storv of how Assistant Postmaster General Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois, hit oil this accomplishment at a banquet where they were both present. Reminiscences were in order, and Blackburn had been striking out right and lpft with jokej at every body at the table. Stevenson started out to relate an incident of his college davs when Blackburn and he were students together, and said : "The Senator will tell you that he remembers well theduel between two of our fellow-students in which we acted as, seconds." Black 1 ..- ft a a burn lntenected a remark that lie re membered perfectly well, and Steven son continued : "The two young fel lows had got into a dispute which ihev saw no other way of settling except by the code of honor. We went out to .11 a . . a 1 V it the held ot battle. v e posted our men. You remember, Blackburn said he, "how you paced oh t he ground and how we stood the lellows up ? "Oh, yes, said nlacKDnrn, l remem ber very well." Then Stevenson re sumed the thread of his story. "Well we had the fellows pistol in hand ready for use just as t he sun was shooting it rays un over the hills m th - : ft tOli Blackburn seemed to think it was proper thing to say something, and he stepped out in front of our little party to make a few remarks. It is mourn ful to think of the results of that duel." Here Stevenson paused for a moment, when somebody at the table called out, "were they both killed ?" "No," was the quick response, "when Mr. Black burn got through it was too dark for them to fire." Amid the uproar of laughter that ensued the Senator tried to protest that he did not remember that part of the duel. But the jury of diners passed the verdict that he had not proved an alibi and that he stood convicted on his general reputation. New York Tribune. Our g.-vijeniinent is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built upon them stands upon corruption and revolution. No school is more necessary to chil dren than patiencerbecuuse either the w;il mnssf, Vp hrnlrpn in ehi'dhood orfhp II i uuiu wivi heart in old age. An Early Bird and tha Worm. N. Y. Sun. It was not quite five o'clock in the morning. The sun had not yet begnn to transact his daily business when a newspaper man, ho loves early dew, took a stroll through Central park. Only two persons from the Fifty-ninth street entrance to the mall disturbed the monotonous clatter of the birds. , A few feet f , om the music stand was an el lerly gent'emr.n with a revolution ary c at and frayed trousers. He car ried a cane and wore a restless pair of eyes. "Out earlv mv friend," said the re porter in an off hand style of salute. "Got to begin my business," said the win' old fossil. - , . f A 111 V - 1 1 Ana wnat may oe me peculiar na ture of your business ?" "Well 3'ou see, purd, Fm a profession al se.ircher. I change with the seasons, just like bonnets and other parts of woman's gear. I'm on hand the first fellow after a big crowd to pick up the crumbs. What's crumbs? Why, whatever they drop; knick knacks, jew elry, mone3r. All's fish as conies to my net. Beats the world how much a smart scavenger can pick up after a mob. In the winter time I work the balls and the opera and swell private entertainments, 011 the outside, after the whole thing is over, and ju-st as it's lignt; and in the summer I work the parks and picnics and the excur sions. "Regular business, though, and you've got to have S3'stem in it. Big crowd yesterday (Sunday) On the mall, and here 1 am. Been here since day break, nosing around, and picked up so far $325 in change and a bracelet. Get in my work before the cops come around. Early bird and the worm, see! "What do you do with the valuables, say jewelry!" "Watch the 'lost' columns of the pa pers, and if the reward's half way de cent I turn 'em in. Got $50 last win ter for an earring dropped in the gut ter in front of the Metropolitan Opera house.. When there's no show of an owner I convert 'em on the Bowery. Took in a lot of lace handkerchiefs last winter and a fair stake in cash. T . i- v y-V a 1 T -x -v 4 4 h ii itn AtTArt 4 a-ar 4 nlno , iJiii- uiii vt" U' iu 11. i . i- e c iu i;ci tiiuui: n this profession pan! tier." "Can you manage to make a living it it?' "Well, it ain't no national bank, but I've stood the wolf off five years at it. and the hours ain't so hard as von find in some other professions.' How Indians Poison Their Arrows. Ouialia licpublicnn. It was a long time ljofore Friday came, and I begun 10 tir.iiK ne was go 1 T 1 i .I'll ing to disregard my summons, and was getting angry, when he suddenly put in an appearance. 1 exp inn i iii liitu what I wished to know aid without the slightest hesitation he said to the venerable arrow-maker "Tell mv brother all about the poi.-. oned arrows. "Well," said the old man, "first w. a 1 tl ..I t take a bloated yellow rattlesnake in August, when h j is most poisonous, and tie him with a forked stick to a stake; then we tease him until he is in great rage. This is done by passing a switch over his bodv from head to tail. When he threshes the ground with his body and his eyes grow bright and sparkle a " -1 I'll T like diamonus, we Kilt a deer or some other small animal, and tearing out th liver, throw it to the snake while it e i,i ii i i'ii warm and tne blood still coursing through it. Tne reptue will strike it again and again and pretty soon it will be'in to turn black. W hen he tire the snake is teased again and he is in duced to sink his fangs into the soft .-m i . ft a - 1 1 llt'sh until all the poison has been ex tracted from him and the liver is reek ing with it. He is then kiiled and the a i i . i .! 1 1 P liver l.lted with a sharp pole, tor so dangerous is it no one dares touch it The liver is let lie for about an hour when it is almost jet black and emit : sour smell. Arrows are then brought and their iron heads pushed into the liver up to the shaft. They are lef sticking there for one hour and i i ii hair, when they are withdrawn am dried m the sun. A thm glistening yellow scum adheres to the arrow, a if it so much as touches raw flesh it is certain to poison it to death." I asked if Indians still used poisoned arrows. "No," he replied, "no man. Indian or white man, for years pas! has been shot with these arrow.?, and they are no longer made. T'ti ii Arrested. The news was received with the utmost satisfaction by the community that ho had terrorized; but the arrest of a dis ease that is stciiiin away a loved and valued life, isau neltievement that should inspire heart -fcli gratitude. Chilliness, cold extremities, depressed spirit?, and extremely miserable sensations, with pale, wan feature ;. are the results of dis ordered kidneys and liver. Aire t the cause at once ty taking Dr. Pierce's Gol den Medical Discovery. It is a purely vegetable detective, that will ferret out and capture the most subtle lung or blood disorder. Druggists. While jockeys are getting $1,000 for winning a single race and $10,000 is given a baseball player for one season, some of our most deserving country edi tors are offering to take watermelons "and oeaches for subst riidions.- New York Commercial. To Save His Mother. We have had a German Baron among us, Baron von Karlstein. who has written a book about New York and its inhabitants. One of his anec dotes i3 vera good and interesting: On Washington's birthday he was stand ing in a crowd on the corner of Fifth Avenue and Fourteenth Street, waiting for the grand procession to arrive. The first drums were in the distance, when a young man, in his shirt sleeves and batless, passed through the assembled multitude, and addressed the policeman who kept the people back. "Officer!" he exclaimed, my another is sick iu a house near Sixth Avenue; she has suddenly been taken much worse, and.the doctor says that if the i procession passes our nouse tne noise will kill her." O. K Tnnnnr fpllow " rilrl tlio rn iceman, and left him to run up the av enue where he stood some twentv reet before the procession, and screamed, "Halt!" holding up a light rattan cane with botn hands. The word was passed along the line, an adjutant galloped forward, bent over us horse s neck, and exchanged a tew words with the policeman. Suddenly the com maud, "Forward, march!" was heard, and the immense sody of men proceeded to the corner of Fourteenth street, without any music except the lightest possible tapping of drums. Then came, "Right wheel!" and nearly fifty thousand men, whom immense crowds were waiting to see and cheer, wheeled up Fourteenth street 4o Broad w?,v, and down Broad way they marched without music until the3r were beyond the distance at which hey might disturb the sick woman. No one asked why an arnn' of well- drilled, ad niiriably-cq nipped, many of hem battle scarred veterans, turned out of their path at the simple request of a single policeman armed with but a rattan cane. It would have been but a trilling matter for them to ake Gotham; but, no, the general in command, when he received the young man s thanks, reminded him that his vervT natural request was addressed to gentlemen and soldiers. And a gentle- man, ne he soldier or not, reveres tne ii ii i ill reveres sacred name of mother. Boston Lead-: ei How Long a Watch Should Last. "A first class watch should last for a hundred years if properly taken care of," 1 111 i.l 1 i 1 aid a wen Known watcn-maKer to a New York Mail and Express man. The reason that thev wear out is the fault ofi the owner and not of the wateh. in tne nrsc pi ace a watch . , 1 . . . ..I should be cleaned and oned m everv li 1 T i 1 ii iii i i i i i eigiiiecn mon n. it iu;s is not done the oil which lubricates the works will drv and the works wear out bv friction. Anotiter inistaKC is to wear a watch in All i 1 1 . 1 an outsidt? pocket, where it is liable to be jammed. I have known more watches mined by billiard playing than anything else. In leaning over to make a long shot the vest pocket is frequent ly brought into violent contact, with the table, and this repeated jarring can not tail to injure tne woiks. I he bcsl watches are made to-day in England. Thev are masterpieces of workininship. I should say the American watch ranks next, and those manufactured inSwitz i iii"i i ri i enaun mint m oraer. rouie watches are made to run eight days with one i l i i 1 "11 i winding out. tnev win never become oopular. Their owners almost alway forget to wind them up on the eighth day. I know of onjj one or two in this country. I' hey are made in Switz erland. 1 ne usual length of time modern watches are calculated to run with one winding is from Jtnirtv to thirty six hours."' Sam Houston's Big Lie. Tne vote of General Houston in the United States Senate on the repeal of the Missouri Compromise rendered him temporarily unpopular in Texas. In the political campaign following he drew large crowds as usual wherever he spoke on the hustings, but was sonic- tunes interrupted, un one occasion a local politician, Colonel (call him Thompson), gave the old veteran the lie direct in the middle of a speech The Gener.il paused; all eves were upon mm. and everv one was curious to see how the hero of San Jacinto would re sent the wanton insult. He said, promptly and very deliberately : "Col onel Thompson calls me a liar. ( Pro found silence.) I cannot truthfully sav that in my long life I have never Id a falsehood; but, fellow-citizens, I win now ten tne oiggist lie l c II lllJl I "11" T ver told ton is (i in all my life Colonel Thorn i; lentleinan th man " In Editor's RAWER, Harper's Magazine for August. An ITnTrataful raubher. Ji i:r, I'once, or rr Augustine. Fla go ug!i tne wotKis heard trcmen- '.-- ' dona s jM wis. yens, ajj.t roars and tiouely investigating came np.n a en foot panther fighting with an i 1 1 i . i , t an sev i - a i i ;- gator, which had the panther fast in its ponderous jaws, rone. s inert with the dded under dog and shot the alligator, where upon the panther, freeing himself, made for the hunter, who had a hard fight before he killed the ungrateful beast. X. Y. Sun. Vicious habits are so odious and de grading that they transform the indi vidual who practices them into an in carnate demon How The Kaiser Escaped. I had myself been in Berlin when both attacks were madeoipon the life of the Emperor when Hoedle shot at him from the crowd, and NoblingfVom a window overlooking the celebrated street, Unter den Linden. A rill 1 aw j little incident occurred upon the latter occasion. as me .bmprror was going to his afternoon drive in the The! YiT Mr- ten, he asked an attendant standing in the hall of the palace why such an un usual and gayly-dressed crowd throng ed the streets. "They go to see the Shah of Persia, -your Majesty," was the auswer. "Ah. then I must also put on a gala " attire!" the Emperor remarked smiling, and forthwith took from the table his Prussian hemlet, replacing with its steel plating the military cloth cap which he had before placed on his head. Wrei a few hours later he was brought ba k to the palace, wounded and bleeding, the hemlet was dented in several places where the mixed shot used by Nobling had struck against the metal. Had the tmresistingcloth been there instead, who can tell how different the endings of the tragedy might have been? Two or three days after the attempt ed assassination the old monarch asked to see the clothes he had worn on that fatal day. Looking at the military cape riddled with shot, and the dents in the eagle-capped hemlet he turned to those standing by his bedside, with tears in his eyes and pointing to the marks of the bullets said: "Thank God it was not one of mv own Berlin men who did that VBlachivood. Treatment of Balky Horses. The Fanner's Gazette ( Ireland 1 mvea the following different wa3's of treating balky horses which are recommended for trial: First, pat the horse on the neck. examine him carefully, first one side fiier,.5'e other' 11 vou ca get him a handtul ot grass give it to him and speak encouragingly to him. Then jump into the wagon, and give the word go, and he will generally obev. Second, taking the horse oat of the If. t. a a . ait ar o nl 1 I . , , . , ... 1 . . ",'o ,1,m "ruunti in a circle until he is giddy will generally start hinr. 1 bird, another way to cure a balky house is, place your hand ovpr hi5 nnp ;nd ctinf nff' l-.Io .;,,,1 til he w;mts Fonrt then - t . a couple of turns of stout twine around the fore legs, just below the knee, tight l a . i " . TP enough lor the horse to feel it: tie in a bow knot. At the first click he will Drobablv tro dnneintr nff AfW ,Wn a short distance vou can sret ont and remove the string. - .. . . " C7 - 1- to prevent iniurv to the tendons. Fifth, againjron try'the following: Take the tail of the horse between his hind legs and tie it by a cord to the saddle girth. . Sixth, the last remedy that I know is as follows: rie a string around the horse's ear. close to his head. This will divert his attention, and start him. A Simple Curo for fiixeumatism. A correspondent of the English ITe- 1 , T . 1 a. . . aa - enanic, savs: "jet all or "ours knew the following: My wife had suffered occasionally with acute rheumatism in her feet, with painful swelling, com pletely taking her off her feet for many days at a time. - The following remedy was recom mended recently and tried, and took away the agonizing pain in less than fifteen minutes, and in a couple of days she will be able to button ier boots and walk without a stick or crutch. One quart of milk, quite hot, into which stir 1 ounce of alum: this makes curds and whey. Bathe the parts af fected with the whey until too cold. In the mean time keep the curds hot. and after bathing, put them on a poul tice, wrap in flannel, and go to sleep (you can). Three applications should be a perfect cure, even in aggravated cases. The Pistol in Mexico. Almost any Mexican would as leave go outdoors without his coat as without his pistol. He wears it to church, to the opera, to see his best girl in short, wherever he goes you may see a glir ening bit of nickel-plated steel Sticking out from under his coat tad. Every 1 1 I I a a . uav when my teacher ot bnanish ( a swarthy young man in jacket of yellow kid and pointeoMoed boots with enor mously high heels) comes to give mo the customary les-son he is obliged to unbuckle his beit and deposit a big re volver upon mv table before be can sit down to business. Mexican loiter. I I l lfc-C . Zsb Vance Never Did it. Every Southern man who makes a speech North, devotes half his time in apologizing for the part the South took in the late war. Governor Lee is no exception to this rule. It is very con temptible, tnortitiying and humiliating o near asv oontnernman apologizing the North for the South; we fought and would do it again and are not ashamed of it, and would die before we would apologize for it; we were right, all the sycophants and boot licks to the contrary. Scotland XcxiT Democrat. He that looks upon the bttsfceja and bustle of life with the philosoj hy with which Socrates surveyed the fair at Athens will turn away at last w th this 1 exclamation. "How m my things are here I do not wrnH 1 . ajP repairs. L. Ii, Wai.to:;. plain wav
Carolina Watchman (Salisbury, N.C.)
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