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JOB PRINTING I sappu4 wit aU airmiry Boaterl, aa4 ;he people's press. L V. i E. T. BLUM, PUBLI8HER8 AND PROPRIETOR. Is eny prepared to ee work wttl HATNCU, DiaVATOM. TERMS: CASH IN ADVANCE, VERY LOWEST PRICES Ob OofT on year, ........... .tttJ8 tlx month, .75 a - three " '. Jl Bimto1nitri4MbMe "i treat Ins wills utm (bk 1 VOL. XXXVI, SALEM, C., THUKSDAY, APRIL 19, 1888. NO. 16. VtIT US rff MTU LtA AAS nA ' J lU J -A a) J ii i i i i r i i i i k. ii i i i i i i - l i i . i i i i va r i z i i i i a w mi iwr e-srwr i - ' .. T ' : : Tin statistics prove that each inhabit ant of the United States consumes one iin per day. This makes necessary the daily manufacture of sixty millions of pins. . " - . ' The tigers were a little behind in India last year ; one thousand four hundred and sixty-four of them were killed by hunters, and they killed only about one thousand persons. r Statistics of the peanut trade show that those who are fond of the humble jroobrr paid $10,000,000 last year to gratify their fondness. Altogether about ;:, 100,000 bags of the nuts were pro duced, of which the greater portion came from Tennessee. STORM AND CALt. 1 All day the angry southwind roaring past. With warm, tumultuous showers of fitful - rain, Rattled upon my streaming window pane, And through the autumn Woodlands driving lass. Stripped off and whirled into the air the last Few wthered leaves. On the wide misty plain The bell, the whistle and the rumbling train Were silenced in the thunder of the blast Now all is still. A few faint wandering sighs Alone. The patient trees, though robbed and shorn, ' Lift their bare arms and greet the sunset light Flashing on spires and windows, while the .... skies Glow with the promise of a starlit night, " And the calm sunrise of a radiant morn. G. P. Crunch, in Scribner. The wealthiest Knight af : Pythias I odse in the world is the Live Oak Lodge, of Oakland, Cal. Its member ship is over three hundred, and the ag gregate wealth runs high in the millions. nc of the aged members died recently, bequeathing the lodge $300,000, and his widow, who did not long survive him, willed the lodge $100,000. SUSY'S BLUE GINGHAM. A profitable market has been found for the poor, despised American red oak that has lecn considered of no value at all, mvs the Chicago Ilsrald. American deal ers arc buying up all they can get hold' of and shipping it to Liverpool. There the lumber is manufactured into fancy furniture and shipped back to New York, m hi-re it i sold to wealthy people as the rial Euglih oak, and at pretty stiff prices, too. ' A report just made by Pension Com missioner Black shows that, excluding the eighty-two counties from which no statistics have been received, the' grand total of Union soldiers supported in tiovemment and private charitable in stitutions was in October, 1887, 35,953. Of this number, 15,152 were in soldiers' homes, while 21,801 were in State and county institutions or supported by charitable aid in towns. The German Army Commander recent ly attempted a "minor mobilization" ex periment Dear Metz. The railroad station master received at 1 o'clock an order to prepare coffee for 2,800 men at 4, and a dinner for the same number at 6:30. At 1 o'clock 2,S00 men came in, had their coffee, and took the train for another station, and at C:G0 the next '2,800 promptly appeared, dined and went to the next station, wh-re they had coffee, and both parties returned to their quar ters the uext morning. The attempt was highly successful. The history of such millionaires as Cooper, Cornell,' Peabody and the late W. W. Corcoran shows that it is possible for rich men to be public-spirited, and .'onerous without impoverishing them selves. Mr. Corcoran gave away $5,000, ooo, and continued to make money until the last. If he had been miserly and griping, says the Ccmmerclal Adtertuier, he )ni'ht have died a poor man. As it was, everybody loved him'. Good men w ere ready to back him in any enterprise, and furnish him with any amount of money, if he needed it. Texas , is a large State, and it does things on a large scale, says the New York OWm. Its new State Capitol i a magnificent structure, looming up four feet above the Capitol at Washing ton. It has not cost the State a cent of money either, and that is where it differs fr. m the Capitol at Albany,; A syndi cate was given 3,000,000 acres of "public hinds to build it, not a very larg ntnount, considering that Texas has shout one hundred and seventy millions of acres left. The State has a balance in its Treasury, too, of about $9,000,000 in cash and securities. Commodore Samuel Barron, of the late Confederate States Navy, who died at his home in Virginia not long ago, may be said to have been born in the United States Navy, for at the early age of three years he was appointed a Midshipman by the f-ecrotary of the Navy. This ap pointment is the only one of the kind ever made in the United States Navy. At the age of eight years he made his first cruise, being ordered to the Medi terranean station; and from that time on until the breaking out of the late war he served almost continuously, and rose to the rank of Post Captain. ; "The area of dry land in Holland ji a million acres greater now than it was in the sixteenth centurv. thank tn th energetic works of reclamation which have long been, proceeding," says the S". J'ime, Gazette. "It is computed that eight acres of land are daily re stored to cultivation in the wonderful little country which has fought so sturdy a fight against the ocean. For forty years past, Dutch engineers have been proposing the reclamation of the Zuyder Zee a greater work by far even than the draining of the lake of Harlem, which I The House Committee on Ways and Means was in session The house be longed to John Van Vechten, and stood, in' its old-fashioned whiteness, with its gable end to the road. In front of the wing was what John always called a "stoop," perhaps the only reminiscence of his far away Dutch ancestry. The stoop was the committee-room, and the committee consisted of John, his wife and their sister Anna. It was early June, and nine o'clock of a bright moonlight nisht. and thev were ..discussing whether or not Susy should go to the seashore for two months. Anna had brought the question with her from her school in town. "As I told you," she now said, "Superintendent Felton had invited the Governor to visit the school that day, and, of course, we were all in a flutter. That is, inside. Out side, the school was in beautiful order. Miss Forsyth, my assistant, knows Gov ernor rainax very well, fene was a friend of his wife's before she died. several years ago. In fact, she is to go to Spruce Beach this summer with his little girl, -to mother, you know. She would give Sue the best of care." "If I could see her," began Mrs. Van Vechten, doubtfully. "I can arrange that. I know Miss Forsyth would' bring Alice Fa'rfax here." "But how did he know you were any relation to Susy ?" "That camo about very naturally. Miss Forsyth introduced me as Miss Van Vechten", and Mr. Fairfax remarked that he met a little girl named Van Vechten under rather peculiar circumstances last summer. He told me a little of the story, and I knew the heroine must be our Susy, for I had heard something of the same sort before. And in a few days Miss J? orsytu tola me about this plan, I do hope you will let Sue go !" "But we don't know Governor Fair fax, Anna," , "Neither do I much." Aunt Anna's face blushed and changed in the moon light, and an inward protest went with her words. "But I do know Miss For syth, and Susy couldn't possibly be in oeiter nanas lor two months "And make next summer without any seashore harder than this summer with it!" "No, indeed, it will not!" The bright-eyed little woman spoke posi tively. "Our little girl is not made of that kind of stuff. Widen a life once, and it stays wider, and so can take in more, wherever it is." Mrs. Van Vechten's face looked puz zled, but not ill-pleased. "She hasn't anything to wear, Anna." "I never expected to live long enough to hear you say that I It does my com monplace soul good ! But, seriously, I'll take care of that, if you will let me. In fact, it is already taken care of. Tell me I may tell her to-morrow, Maryl" " "I Buppose you may," answered the mother, doubtfully, as her sister lighted a night-lamp. "We bha;l have our summer in a light house yet, mother, said John, cheerily, after Anna had gone upstairs. That is, if I can find a lighthouse to let." "Mr. Van Vechten was not a typical American farmer. His nose was not un familiar with the smell of new books. He really liked the outside of the kitchen best for his wife, and the outside of the houFe better still. To that end she was never without a deputy in what he called "the infernal regions," if it were in his power to obtain one ; but the capital was not quite in proportion to the number of acres, so.the coast of Maine, which their Western souls longed for, was as yet, an impossible luxury. Aunt Anna sat on the stoop next morn- ing, with a pieee of dainty work, when a little girl on horseback, wearing a rather short long-skirt of dark blue, dashed up to the gate, and rcund to the barn, from which she presently came with a parcel. - "You've never told me the story of how you came by your pony, Sue." "Haven't I? But you know?" "Yes, in a sort of way, but not very well. Tell me all about it after you take off. your habit." "All right!" called the little girl, al ready disappearing within the doorway. "If mother doesn't want me I will." "To begin with, Aunt Anna, I just hate blue ginghams ! Sometimes I feel like a whole charity school. If mother would only let me have calico, then this summer's dresses wouldn't be just ex actly like last summer's. Welt it was man with his load all done up In blankets. That was the fee cream, you know. They do me up in blanket In whiter to keep me warm, and the ice cream in summer to keep it cool. I don't see wny, ao your' - "I had twenty-five cents to spend, too, that I earned myself raking the yard. Danny can't, he's so little. Well, I couldn't keep still till it was time to start, so I asked mother if I couldn't go down to Kate Stevens's, and they could take me in when they went by. Kate Stevens's houses is that big one you can see down the road. ;When I got there, Kate said: Why, Susy Van Vechten, are you going to the Fourth in your blue gingham! I've got a new dress.'' : 'That spoiled my good time all in a minute, and my throat got a big lump in it. Queer, isn t it? Does vour -throat choke up when you want to cry, Aunt Anna! I don't see where the choke comes from. But 1 aidn't want her to know I felt badly, so I answered right off : ; , " 'I'm not ! soingto toe r ourtn at all. and that is why I've got on my blue ging gam. "And it was true, for I wasn't. I had just made up! my mind. - Mother said afterward that it was not quite true, for I had It Wrong end foremost. 1 couldn t go With that choke in my throat. Well, 1 stayed around till our folks came, and then went out quick and told mother that I did not want to go to the picnic, and if she'd please give me the key, I'd go back home. "Mother looked astonished for a minute, but Kate Stevens came running out, and called her to see het new dress, and then I think she knew, for she did not look supri8ed any more, but only sorry. She gave me the key, and told me that there was some of all there was in the basket left at home, and that I could have it for my dinner. : "Then she ; whispered to me that she had a book for my birthday, and that it was under the sheets in the lower bureau drawer. I did not care one speck for the book. I was thinking so much about Kate's new dress ; but 1 went and found it the first minute I got home, and then 1 forgot all about everything. I tell you my mother knows so much 1'' It was all about those old Greeks and Romans.! That's, why I called my pony Pegasus. I named him first 'The r lying Horse of the Frame,' but now 1 "Welt Aunt Anna, I. wts i little afraid that my face was dirty, running last Fourth of July; 'Forch o' Duly, Danny calls it. "I went over to Kate Stevens's in the morning, and she had the beautifulest white dress on I It was just full of trim ming, ruffles and tucks and emboidery, and she had a Roman sash, and bangs. It was mean, wasn't it! She waited till the night before, after school, so the girls wouldn't know, and then had her hair banged so she'd look her best. "Don't you think'a dress is prettier the more trimming there is on it? Well, I do, and Kate's was lovely 1 You see, I had on my everlasting blue eineb.am.but I hadn't thought a word abont it. The leaves danced about so, and the sun occupied twelve years. The Zuyder Zee I shone so bright, and I had been so busy was formed in 1282 by u invasion of the 8' a, which engulfed seventy-two villages. Thcmatter is now being taken up very energetically throughout the country, and several organizations have, been formed to collect funds for defraying the cost of the preliminary surveys. It is proposed to separate the Zee from the ocean outside by means of dykes of great strength, and then to pump out the water obviously a long and costly operation. That this colossal work of reclamatiou is practicable there " can hardly be a doubt. The effort is worth some sacrifice ; for if it be successful, it will add a new province to tlje Kingdom Holland,? cracking my torpedoes, that I just hadn't time to think whether 1 looked well enough to go to the Fourth. "You ought to have seen these steps! I wished I hadn't cracked so many when mother made me sweep them up, and Danny kept throwing on the clean spots just as last as I swept. - "Mamma had put up the lunch. We had ham Bandwiches. I helped chop the ham, because the knife was sharp ; if it had been dull, I wouldn't have wanted tp. - And jelly cake, and hard, boiled eggs, and cold coffee in a jug, with the cream and sugar all in. Mother lets me have that Christmas and Thnnkseiviner and Fourth of July and such days. And ginger-snaps, "That mornine we had watched the man go past with the cans of water and I the let far he lemonade, an4 another call him 'Peg'ifor short. "I read on and on, and never thought of the picnicl but I was hungry by eleven o'clock. I always do get hungry quicker when there's something good to eat; don t you? Mother won t let me bring a book to the table, but I had a good time that day, for I just rocked and ate my sandwiches and read about Achilles. i i "When I was a little eirl I used to wonder whether I would rather marry a man who kept a candy store, or one who kept a book store. couldn't make up my mind. Which would you! And I thousht ii 1 could only lind one with a little confectioner's shop back of the books, I would be perfectly happy ; but I'm not so silly now. "Pretty soon T happened to look up, and I saw a blue smoke over the corner i of Mr. Steviens's corn barn. And I thought of rire-crackers, and the city of Portland, where Prudy Parlin's house was burned up, and I knew Jim Stevens had his out there that morning. "Then I ran ! The woodshed was just blazing, and the kitchen had caught a little on one corner. And then I thought of Davy Stevens I" "Who is that? You have not said anything about him before," asked Aunt Anna. I j "Oh, it's their lame boy. He can't walk a step not one otep. At least he couldn't ; he's eettine better now. Just as quick as I opened the kitchen door,he called out that he was so glad I'd come, and what was that dreadful smoke? And there he was; lying on his cot by the kitchen window, and just choking. "He told me to run down the road and get some men, but I said I had to get him out first; and he thought l couldn t, and I did not; know as I could, but I knew that kitchen would burn before I could co to the grove and get back aeain. i i "I began to push the cot, but it was too shaky, and I thought of the wheel barrow. I wheeled it in and put it right at the end of the bed. It was one of this kind like a cradle, sidewise, you know I laid a pillow- in it, and then just pulled him straight on. I suppose it almost killed him. He helped himself a little ; with his hands, though," I "I wonder how you dared try it, Sue," said Aunt Anna, quietly, but with a sparkle in her eye. "Dare ! I didn't dare. I was as afraid as I could be. ! But there wasn t any thin e else to do. auntie. It was a wide door, but I hurt his foot dreadfully get ting him through, and he fainted. How he looked with his head hanging down on one side and his feet on the other ! I iust put him on the other side of the wind, so the smoke wouldn't choke him, and ran down the road as fast as I could eo. Aunt Anna, 1 was never so not in my life 1 j "When I got there, there was a man speaking and throwing his arms about. In a minute I saw Mr. Stevens on the end of a bench. So I told him as still as I could that his house was on fife. But he just shouted and rushed for his horses, and everybody ioilowed him. Mrs. : atevens said something real quick about Davy, and ran too. The man that was speaking came down, and Aunt Anna, who do you think it was! "The governor! "I thought j he would be dreadfully angry with me for making such a dis turbance in his meeting, but he wasn't, and got in father's wagon and rode with us dpwn to Mr. Stevens's. When we got there, there was a whole line of men from the well to the house, and they were pumping water and handing pails from one to another just as fast as they could. But there wasn't much left of the kitchen." t '.'Where was Davy?" asked Annt Anna, j - "Oh, dear me ! He was on a bed they had brought but, and the doctor was pulling him around and talking about the shock to the system. tie was not faint any more and he smiled a little weak kind of smile, and said I'd eiven him a ride for the Fourth of July. "Hy-and-by the fare was out, and Mr. Stevens came and shook hands with me, and the Governor stood up in a wagon and said he would make them a little supplementry speech. What is supplementary, Aunt Anna! I've just remembered that word. maybe they didn't all know why the whole house wasn't burned down, and Davy in it. And then he told them." 'Told them what?".!1. ' Why about what I did, you know. I was so ashamed! And then Mr. Stevens lifted jne into the wagon, and i.. 1 4 1, tne crowu tuwreu. so fast in all that dust; and l it's silly, I know, but I was I mean I didn't exactly like to stand np there with that blue gingham, on. 'And father asked him home to supper. Just think t the Governor and he talked with mamma ever so long. That's all, auutie." "Well, my dear, your story is rather like the old saying about 'the play of Hamlet, with the part of Hamlet omitted, by special request. n "Why!" asked Susy, wonderingly. "I haven't heard anything about the pony." , "So you haven't. About : two weeks after Mr. Stevens came over one morn ing with him. He had a beautiful side saddle On and Mr. Stevens said he was . Davy's present to me. He didn't bring him over right away, he explained, be cause he wanted to have him broken Ho the feel of skirts.' . Don't ' you think that's a funny way to say it! Father didn't want me to keep him at first, but I did beg so hard, and now he is my lovely, lovely Pegi" j "And how is Davy!" ' 'That's the strantrest cart of it 1 He really getting better. He has even walked two or three steps latelyi" i "I have a letter -for you, Susjr," said Aunt Anna, taking it out of her pocket. It was a large, square, white envelope which Susy opened in a flutter and read breathlessly. J. "Who is Charley W. Fairfax?" and before Aunt Anna could answer, " 'My obedient servant,' how queer! What does that mean? Oh, will mother let me go?" "Mr. Fairfax is your Governor, Susy, and I suppose from his letter he is rather an old-fashioned gentlemen but that means the most perfect ox all gentle men," replied Aunt Anna, with a bright lOOK. 1 . "But will mother" "Yes, mother will. Dame Durden, or I should never have told you. And I've brought you some dresses and things. Come up to my room." "You are better than a lairy god mother, Aunt Anna!" exclaimed Busy, as she sprang up the stairs, three steps at a time. Nothing had ever seemed so full of interest to her before as the outside of Aunt Anna's sole-leather trunk. "O Aunt Anna! If I'm to go, how I would like a trunk like yours 1" "You may take this one if you like. And here's your bag." I It was real alligator-skin, but Susy did not know that, i She did not say a word, but sank down on the floor with a long sigh of content. - "Don't you want to see your dre3ses?" "Dresses I Ohl I haven't got as far as dresses, Aunt Anna." ; But Miss Van Vechten proceeded to take out and unfold a grayish-blue seersucker trimmed with embroidery of its own shade, a soft, leaf-brown wool, of dainty fineness, checked off with just one line of the same lady blue, and with silken lights laid into all the shadows ; and lastly, a white lawn, sheer and beautiful, with enough lace about it to soften all the edges. " - "There, dear, which will you try on first?" i Aunt Anna began to answer her question by taking up the brownl went on talking. . . . 1 1 A 1 "lousee, juiss rorsytn naa tne ouy- mg oi Alice rainaxs aresses ior me summer, and she got three lor her very similar to these." Wise Aunt Anna! She had been a little girl herself dressed on not too abundant means. "Of course, we did not get things alike," Aunt Anna went on, "but they are of the same kind after all." If Sue had been drawn by wild horses she would not have asked what Alice Fairfax was going to wear that summer, but she wanted to know, and her aunt, . like a loving little woman as she was, knew just how much she wanted to know. BUDGET OF FUN, HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM . VARIOUS SOURCES. h. Lawyer's Courtship The Euro pean Situation Incredulous Mamma Booklshneaa A Comblne.Etc. -my errand here to-night," said a young lawyer to a damsel on whom he had called, "reminds me of the cry of an owl." "Indeed," aaid the maiden; "what is your errand here to-nicht? "Courtship To wit, to Woo Mer- eurtfi The European Situation. Foreign Prem"er "Your Majesty, the people are grumbling about the military nxesj' The King "What children the people are ! They ought to know that the army cannot live on less than it does." "They know that. sire, but they say the army can be reduced. They want it reduced one-half, u not more." "VeryWclL Declare war." Incredulous Mamma. A Young School Girl "Oh, mammal please mayn't I read romances? Lucy Jones does, and she isn't a day elder than I am. I peeped into her book the other day and the first two lines read : 'And they were married and lived happily ever afterward.' Mamma "That wasn't a romance, tny dear; it was a fsiry tale." Judge, Really, dear. I dont remember. 'WelL yod remember that they had two kinds of tickets, white and red?" "Oh, I remember now. It was the lovely little red ticket that I put on the Dolls." "Why; I am surprised. That was the opposition ticket." "WelL 1 did t ask. I saw that the color of the ticket was a delicate red. and that it exactly matched my dress." vommertiat AdtxrUier. words or WISDOX. Rebuked. WelL Bertie, dear, were you a jrood boy at school to-day? " asked a Kalama zoo mother of her son of ten years. " i ou can list bet I was " replied Bertie. "The bot that's bcrfect in our room fof a month is going to get a prire and I'm going to freeze ontd it myself." "Bertie," cried his shocked parent, "I want you to ttnp using those vulgar slang words and phrases. Where you catch on" to all of them is a mystery to me. Every other word you say is a slang ex pression, and I want you to drop it, sir. Talk about freezing ' on to a thing! What you giving us, boys? Do you ex pect me to tumble to any such vulgarity as that! Not if I know myself, I don't. Now you light out, and let it be a cold day before I hear any more such talk from you, and don't you forget it." Detroii Free Pre. A lover's lid is Worse than a stab. A short blow makes a krog bruise. Even reproofs can be kindly if eu. Leave it to lack when you don't care. The' greatest good is done most quietly". He has much to do who would please everybody. He who docs not look before he leaps lags behind. Don't expect too much from those around you, It is nothing to begin; perseverance is everything. Listen to both aides of a question be fore you decide. You will not be loved if you care for none but yourself. A man can see his way into a fight better than he can see his way out. If jou would be pungen t, be brief ; for it is with words as with sunbeams, the more they axe condensed the deeper they burn. Life's a reckoning we cannot make twice over. You cannot mend a wrong subs tract ion by doing- your addition right. Booktshnesn. Lieutenant Boxer "I'm ordered to Morocco, Miss Elson. We're likely to have trouble there, you know." Miss Elson "You must be careful not to get captured." , Lieutenant Boxer "I'll try not to." Miss Elson "I would. Just think how ridiculous you'd look bound in Morocco." T id-Bit. Time's Change. Good Citizen (bedtime, 1788) "H.ve yon left the latchstring out? Wife " Yes, rcy dear." "And placed a candle in the win dow I " "Yes." ' Let as pray." Good citizen (bedtime, 1898) "All the doors and windows locked? " Wife" Yes, my dear." " And the burglar-alarm set? " "It looks all right" "And the dogs untied?" Yes." " Is my Winchester under the bolster and a revolver under each pillow?" Ul course, dear." Let us pray." Omaha World, A Combine Time leap year. Scene a tete a tete. Lady Angela "What, can you tell me, are these 'trusts' one reads so much about lately?" Adolphus "A 'trust' is a combination for mutual advantage, so to speak." Angela (confusedly) "Adolphus e r that is Mr. " Adolphus "Yes f Angela "Why may we not form a trust i" They combine. Tableau. LoveU Qiti-ten. own She An Expert Stock "Waterer. Jay Gould "Mustapha, what is the price of your camels f" Mustapha "Twenty-five dollars apiece, your serene richness. I couldn't take a cent less, bum Hah!" J. G. "Cheap enough. Ship me two to New York by the first vessel. Figsl I never in my life saw stock absorb water, so magnificently as those camels do?" SyriimJieli Union. On the Santa Fe Trail. Hospitable Native, producing flask "Irrigate ?" Temperate Tenderfoot "No." II. N., producing pipe "Fumigate !" T. T. "No." H. N., producing Navy plug "Masti cate ?" T. T. "No." Disgusted Native, uncoiling mule whip "Castigate ?" Timid Tenderfoot, flying "Evac uate !" Wrathful Native, pulling iron "Per forate V'EurfcUe. I do not know the seashore story. To tell the truth, I am acquainted with the sands, the sunshine, and the umbrellas, only through the hearsay of verse and novel. But I know that the Hon. Charles Fairfax brought Susy home himself. Miss Forsyth, he said, had an engagement to meet before the school- year opened. J Having come, he did not seem to be in a hurry about going away again. Two days he loitered about under the.trees with Aunt Anna, while Busy's busy mother, glancing out in amused fashion, remarked to her husband that she began to suspect that there was a method in His Excellency s madness One brilliant morning in the following June, a group of people under the trees at Mr. V an V echten's crystallized around two who were standing before the min ister. Susy and Alice Fairfax stood beside them. Susy's white dress, brides maid eear though it ' was, could, even now, hardly rival Kate Stevens's in the manner of tucks aud ruffles. But her eyes had grown clearer with two whole years of open vision, and her mother's sense of the fitness of things had began to dawn in her own brain. When the last words of the ceremony died on the air, the congratulations hung fire a little, till Davy Stevens, slowly and painfully rising, began to take the few steps that separated him from the newly made husband and wile. Susy rushed forward to help him, and Gov. Fairfax, stooping a little as he warmly shook hands with the boy, re marked, : "But for this young man, Anna. I mieht never have known you. "Oh, Uncle Charlss!" Susy gasped and stumbled over the name, but got it out bravely: "if it hadn't been for mother's making me wear that blue ging' ham you wouldn't ever got acquainted, I am sure." i "I think. Sue." laughed Aunt Anna, "that it was because your mother didn't make you wear the blue gingham to the Fourth of July that it all happened. Frances Cole. 1 Big Carolina Pine Trees. In a private letter to a gentleman in this city from Col. John D. Whit ford there is an account of some forest giants lately measured in Greene and Wilson Counties on Contentnea Creek. One pine tree measures 22 feet in circumfer ence and would make a stick of timber. solid heart, 6 feet square and 85 feet lone, or straieht-edee plank 6 feet wide and 35 feet long. Another pine meas uredlSfeetin circumference and 100 feet to the first branch. Some white oaks were measured and would make a plank 2 feet wide and 60 feet lone. ninA wrViirh was felled for malrincr ,hin. And he said j gig. measured 4i feet in diameter and 142 feet in lengin. mese immense trees are found abundantly in that section and will some day commaada good price. The Real Cal f. Quaker wit is not aggressive, but one who is rash enough to scratch a Quaker generally finds a wag to his cost. An old Quaker went into a bookstore, and an impertinent salesman, wishing to have some sport at his expense, said to him, "You are from the country, aren't you ?" "Yes,' quickly answered the Quaker, "lhen here's just the thing for you," responded the clerk, holding un a book. "What is it ?" asked the Quaker. "It's an essay on the rearing of calves. "Friend," said the Quaker, "thee had better present that to thy mother 1" Good Cheer. Mrs. John a. mcnard and - Miss Sara Tt T aolraav nf N ewlllrwivr If . 1. j jvii, -Biftw.. nave collected 1,128,000 ancellrt tJ.,- imrt-.s. JtJ: .... tVi.V .Vrtnf Rnl" , .lamnl llnM Jtnnira Dt 1ooti B A Fatal Delay. youne man had been The young man had been trying to tell her how madly he loved her for over an hour, but couldn't pluck up the couraee. "Excuse me a moment, Mr. Featherly," she said, "I think I hear a ring at the telephone." And in her queenly way she swebt into an adjoining room. Presently she returned ana men ms mad passion found a voice. "1 am sorry, ovi. iwuicnj. ouc hiu, to cause you pain, but I am already eneaeed. Mr. Sampson, learning that you were here, has urged his suit through the telephone." ajiocn. Delights In Iniquities. Mrs. Greenapple was exhibiting her daughter's collection of curios, and waa dilating thereupon with maternal pride. "They are certainly very interesting. observed Colonel Mooney. "Some of them annear to be exceedinelv rare." 1 - .... - . i . .11 I should thmicso." smiraea me oia ladv. "I can assure you that Gertie de lifrhts in iniquities I" - . - . And then there was a suauen sneace, and the Colonel was iust about to vamp up a few new and original remarks alwut the weather when harmony was restorea by the explanation of the younger Green-apple. "Mamma means antiquities i' .new Tori Mercury. Willing to Oblige Him. The voune man had asked him for the hand of his daughter, and a pang wrung the fatherly heart of Mr. Kajones as he looked at the youth for some momenta in silence and thought of the bitterness of parting with his well beloved child. "I suppose. Oliver." he said at last, "it is only natural and right that when the young birds become old enough to fly they should leave their parental nest and go off with their chosen mates to build nests of their own, and yet it hurts. Oliver: it hurts when I think of one of mv fledGrclines eettine ready to flv awav " "This seems to be a good sized nest, su?rcsted the voune man, anxious to soften the blow : "perhaps you'd rather have me and Alvira stay right here." Chicago Tribune. Female Suffrage In Kansas. First Kansas Woman "Were you at the Twlla Testerdav. Minnie?" Second. Kansas Woman "Oh, yes, I was nut at the dear little polls. Isn't it just too nice to vote?" "How did jou Totef A Lesson in Etiquette. "Melissy," said a Dodge City woman to her daughter, "I ben read in' that book on etiketty that your paw went an' fooled a dollar an' a half fer on the train that time he went to Topeeky." -nev?'' "Yes, I hev ; an' it says that when a girl's ingaged to a feller they should con duct theirselves in public with the same reserve and dignity' as if they war'n't ingaged." "Well?" "Well, then, you an' ill JJaggct air tnakin' plumb fools o yerselvcs." "Haow?" "Why, at the party at Bill Hob- son's las' night when Hi come in you stuck out ycr foot'a-purpose, an' tripped Hi up, jist ler a joke, an' Hi he up an' chased you three times around th' house, an' ketched you. an kissed you three times, before ev'rybody. Evry- body'll know you're ingaged, if you carry on tbat-a-way; an' it ain't etiketty. The book says o."Tid-BiU, Breaking Bad News. They are telling a story ou a well known and now wealthy Irihman of th's city, which, it is said, happened before he was either so wealthy or so well known. Judge McCartv, so the story goes, had been killed by an accident, and the problem was how to break the news to his wife. The Irishman in ques tion volunteered to break the news so gently that it would not jar on the most sensitive feelings, rutting the body in a wagon he started for Mrs. McCarty's res deuce. "Does the Widow McCarty live here P he asked significantly. " She does not," said airs. AicLarty. "But indade she docs. The ) McCarty does live here!" he insisted, with more significance and greater em phasis on the "widow." iiut sne does not," repuea juts. ic- Carty. Distrusted at her lack oi perspicuity the bearer of the bad news asked in dis- spair: "An faith, does judge uciariy live here F' "He does." " Well, I'll bet yes tin dollars he does not." " But he docs," insisted Mrs. McCarty. "But he does not," insisted Tat "1 11 bet y ez tin dollars he does not," and then. in utter despair he added : " for I've got his corpse in the wagon, and a foiner wone was niverseen at a wake." Kanta City Timet. Knowledge is made by oblivion, and to purchase a clear and warrantable body of truth, we must forget and part with much we know. Too many believe that "the world owes everybody a living," and that ao personal effort is required to make the collection. The wise man is but a learner in fact, spelling letters from a hicroglyphlcal, prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity. The way to cure prejudice is this that every man should let alone those things that be complains of la other and ex amine his own. It requires a sterner virtue than good nature to hold fast the truth that it is nobler to be shabby and honest than to do things handsomely in debt. Thought and sympathy are often more valuable than anything money can j ro cure. Both need continued circulation to keep them wholesome and ttrong. To insure long life recreation should be a part of our daily life. It makes the busy man thoughtful and keeps the thoughtful man busy. It insures health, success and the accomplishment of more work in less time and better. ! GRANDMOTHER'S COTTAGE DOOR. la the fair, fresh mornings years ega" " When the world was good to . f When sarth seemed a little heaven below. Aad youth was a joy to tur, ' When trtmtOm were raal and love was trot And life was rwtvi to Uw core, . What beautiful moraine gtoris grew At grandmother's cot tags doer I I ran somII tba fragrance of rum red, - Ami of mint as toe soft winds pas. While the dew like a web of jewels is spread All over the crowding grass. The pink sends love ia her fragrant way And lbs robins chirp as of yore, -. When the morning glories in rich array . Clnng close to the cottage door. The cottage waa old and email and quaint, . A picture without and within; The coating of age was its only paint, " And roost hid iU shingles thin; " Its windows twinkled uader the eaves. With the laughter of tight they wore. And the morning glorias with daaHng leaves Laagbed back from the cottage door. And grandmother, too, like her bouse wa oU, -v But the burdens of love and cars v -Had changed the drees of her life to gold, r Until she was angel fair; tike the glories, bar heart, at the raoraing hour. Unclosed to the sad and the poor. She was. symbol and .queen of the dainrj flower That grew at her cottage door. X.- Oh! many and many a year, the sod Hat greened over grandmother's grave; Sbs went lie s little chil l to God Her soul was ao pore and brave; Bat I know though heaven's garJn be fail ; to view . She remembers th day of yore. A ul the morning glorte abe loved that grea Bound the dear ukl cottage door. Jfarf JL Draaiaoa, Acts York QrapkU Camel-Cradles. Camel-cradles are not designed for rocking young camels to sleep, but they are a contrivance by which travelers in the desert may journey by "night, and yet not lose all sleep. Mr. I.aatdell, in his book. "Throuch Central Asia." de scribes them in au entertaining way, in telling how he went by camel-train from . .a fvmva to tne Caspian : About seven o'clock all was in readi ness, and we were to get into our queer sleeping-cages. Let the reader imagine two narrow, wooden crates sucn as earthenware is packed in, each suffici ently large for a man to lie in when twisted to the shape of a letter 8; and let him further imagine them suspended on either side of the huge hump of kneeling cameL This, I am given to understand, is to be my sieeping-piace for the night, and I according chose my berth on the port side of this "ship of . e. il Jl. the desert," hrst putting into tne craaie for a lining a piece oi leit, and then two pillows. Then 1 put on, over my orai narv suit, mv lacaai iinea auaisi, en veloping me from head to foot, over that my ulster, and on my head a sheepskin bat, to say notning oi iur-iincu uwi. and then, getting into tne erauie, cover mv feet with my sheepskin coat. And now comes the tug of war 1 Nezar asks are we ready, bids us hold on, and says to the camel, "Chut" whereupon the animal get up leisurely, nrsi on ma hind legs, and in so doing raises our feet to an. angle of sixty degrees, thereby threatening to pitch us out ooauy. i e hold on, however, for dear life, and then comes a lurch from the lore, lilting our heads once more to the horizontal. The fear of danger is now past; but it is not - . . 1 a, a L eay at nrst to get arcusiomcu io iuv strange motion caused by the long strides of the tamel. When the creature was urged to go quickly, the nearest simile for the cradle I can think ot is that of a bottle of physic in the process of being "well shaken before taken;" but when the camel walked leisurely, then one lay as in a boat idly tossed by the billows; and sleep became possible, just as it is ia a Russian tarantasa, wneu one is aeaa tired, cramped and "used to it." Slavery existed in Mexico from the time of the Conquest, 1321, until shortly after the iadependanca of u couatry lHM-.f rrcnllarlties of Some Straage Fish. "What an odd fish!" An old member of the tsew York Maritime Exchange was exhibiting in a bottle one of the queerest submarine monsters that the fancy could paint. It apparently had no beginning and no end ing. One could hardly tell where its outlines left off, and the alcohol in which it was preserved began. It was like jelly. "It must be remembered, explained the owner, "that at the depth of 1,000 fathoms the pressure upon a fish or any other body is equal to a ton to a square inch. These flabby looking fishes, that can be tied in a knot at the surface, at such depths are firm-bodied and vigor ous. When fish, adapted by organiza tion to these depth are brought to the surface frequently their bodies are rup tured, their viscera protrude, their eyes start out and they present the appearance of having suffered a frightful death. n hen the fish ascends the pressure upon Its body becomes less and less, the gases in its body begin to expand, and the ex pansion causes the demoralized appear ance of the fish. If the fish could be popped out of the sea in an instant, it would probably explode with a bang when it reached the surface. "Just look at its jaws," continued the exhibitor. "When the fish are brought to the surface most of them appear to be soft, pulpy masse The bones and muscles appear to be feebly developed. The tisses seem thin, weak: and easiig ruptuied. These conditions, implyiny muscular weakness, are apparently in consistent with the powerful shape of the jaws and the rapacious looking teeth of some of the predacious fiahea." "How do they live?" "That is hard to say. To the absence of light ia dne many of the mwt won derful peculiarities oi the deep sea nsn. come of them are totally blind, having no ejes at all or mere rudimentary ryes. Others have huge eyes, so organized as to collect as manv light rays as possible. Dunugai, it ii saift, noes not iprnciiic to a depth of 200 fathoms. If there is any lignt there at all it is the merest glimmer, and below this depth there is absolute dark a ess. "'ow these deep sea fishes being cut off altogether from the sunlight, many of them furnish their own light. They have no organized cas companies, but each furnishes his own light carries a lantern or torch around with him. They have organs that emit a phosphorescent gleam and shed light on their path. tvme of them carry little torches in the form of tentacles that rise from the tops of their heads. Many of them have regu lar tymmetrieal rows of luminous spot on their side." Jtow York Mail aao E-preta. ) riTII AND MM. An innovation A hotel serenade : A cheap garment A coat of white wafil Joe Cook says he would rather live among Sioux than in Hioux city. He can be easily Siouxted. Untpliir. , A poet wants to know "where the fleecy clouds are woven." In the airVoom, of course. DurliAjtoi'Fre J'rmu t ,We regret to learn that the Chicago Anarchists have disbanded. We have always thought they should tang to grt.be r. iV. i'adJpli ia Preu. , Many a man goes down under we sling and arrows of an outrageous for tune, because if hit by one of the arrowa he fill up with the slings. iijA The candidate's boomlet now bulging! y bootneth. . And baehtutlv bozaeth the beggarly bee: ' Is the bulRe of hit bonnet it tmiy huiuaaUl - A tong Uka the sob at the aad sounding sea. With microbe in the drinking water, tyrotoxicon in ice cream, malaria in water melons. Bright dUcase in beer aad paralysis in iced tea, wherewithal may the thirsty soul refresh itself? , After a midnight lunch of mince pie,' a vitien complained of horrid dreams, in which be was chaed by pirates. Mince pirate?, probably," calmly sug gested his wife. limVt Comyanttm. Mr.- Waldo "So you don't care for poetry, MUs Breezy I" MUe Breezy Xo; I acquired a great distaste for it in early life." Mr. Waldo "Indeed! How s6r Miss Breezy "Parsing 3U tcn's Para Use Lost.'" A York SunJ ' Before the wedding day he vows and protests that his dearet care will be her happiness, and that there ia no sacrifice too great for him to make to secure her comfort. Three months after they are married she has to tack the blanket to the side of the bed to keep him from roll ing himself up ia all the clothes. A York M-rcmrjf. i Teacher in loud tone) "What Is your namef Boy tia wtek voiceh Johnny Wells sir." "How old are you, John Wells;" "Twelve years old, sir." ""ow, John, tell me who made this grand and glorious -universe P "Don't know, sir." "Ulaat, twelve year old and don't know who made this noble sphere! James Smith go and cut roe a whip." The birch is broeght aad held over the trembling loy. Ia thunder tones the rigid disciplinarian demanded: Now, teil me who made this great world we live in?" In a tearful voice Johnny answered, l did, sir, but X won't do it again. -. V - An Abaadaare ef Glaases. i A Bene Dies ef a Broken Heart. An incident illustrating the affection ate nature of a horse is told by the Georgetown (Ky.) EnUrprim: "Eugene Moore's noted horse. Villain, died last week of lonelineas. He was eleven, years old, and from the time be was a colt waa greatly attached to his master. In winter's cold or summer's heat Villain was always ready to carry his master on his back or draw him in a buggy. Shortly after Christmas be was sent to Kincaid to spend the winter, and his owner failing to put in an appear ore for several weeks, the horse pined away, refusing to eat any food, and finally died. He was given a decent burial, and, while no monument will be erected over his remain, his gentle disposition and noble qualities will long be remem bered by those who knew Villain." A Laa'-era fer Hints Threats. The young English electrician to whose ingenuity 1 believe, Mr. Irving owed the cleverly-contrived effect of the sparks which fly from the blade of Me pnisto's sword ia "Fust"ha been further proving what I may call his electric versa tility. U is latest ia ven uoa, i nnacriana. turns electricity to an account as an aid to laryngoscopies! examination by means of a tiny electric lamp, which is actually put down the throat of the patient. It waa with this novel electric apparatus which Mr. Vesey has invented that Sir Morell Mackenzie examined the throat of the Crown Prince. The lamp is appended at the end of what looks like a long, slender penholder, aad the proportion ately small battery which supplies the electricity ia worn about the examining Vgeon ' neck, &i Vara. Pome forms which human eccentricity takes are decidedly amusing aad instruc tive, too. It is somewhat rare, however, to find mental eccentricity combined with and wedded to physical infirmity. There is an old gentleman in this city, who, at the age of seventy-five, rejoices ia remarkably good ejesight, which la, however, subject to the weakness of age. It is peculiar that, although he can see clearly enough to real hi newspaper without any kind of artincial aia in toe early morning, as the day wears on ha needs increasingly stronger assistance from his glasses. Instead, however, of having a properly graded series of lenses, be is stued at 8 a. m. with none,, at 10 a. m. with a pair of pin cenez, at noon a second peir placed in front of these, at 2 p. m. a third pair are fixed on the ooe aad held by long arms over the ears, at 4 p. m. another pair are added and held in place by a ribbon sur rounding the head, and when the ra is lighted the old geotlman quietly holds another pair of "nipper" before the rest to enable him to irUece over the ltet quotation" in the evening papers. AVte Yvrk Pr. Wealthier tkaa Eetksckile. t - The m'llionaires of Prussia are fewer and smaller than those of America. Krupp, the cannonmaker of Eaaen, is the ib-bct. lie is aaseaaM on an Ituome of l,U2,00Oyear, and pays 39,no income tat. Pour years ago be only paid I " W), showing that his yearly reve nue must have increased very rapidly. The second rich man is Rothschild, the Banker, stFiankfort-oo-the-Main. Pour year ago he paid more than Krupp, If, 900. Batthisvear Krupp hat left him far behind with only 29,700 in come tax. The third richest man ia banker Bleichroeder, paying fl.tOO in come tax. Then loi.ow eve litu millionaires, with ?T00 to t?00 in come tax and income of 10,000 to $ J'iO.O-K) a year. Then come twenty seven men with only 11 CO. 000 to t-O.-000 yearly income and tiOO to t ' 000 Income tax. Lea than half of three richest people live at the city of Berlin, t i
The Western Sentinel (Winston-Salem, N.C.)
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