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THI RI ,1 BLA J. H. II ALLYBURTON Editor and Proprietor w MORGANTON, N. C, ' SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1880. VOL. V.-NO. 22. R DGE BE. as 4. a . - . , y " ' : i ' vi Ai an eagfe, from tbt height, Lookiog down upon tha lwdia .x On foraU black aa night, Fair fields and desert aazida, Sees tha trareler below Losing heart, u, league OB leafo, Xjong wilderneaaea show No end to his atigoa. So faith, amid her atara, Beholding far beneata Tha bright or gloomy bara In the web of iife and deatk, Bern weary hearts that deem The dark breadth is tbe whole, - Sees happy hearta that dream : . The bright njaail their oL Ah! let thla faith be oars -That oven 'mid tbe pain. Above tbe present towers, And aeea the Hearing gain; While, breadth by breatth, appears, Aa from the weavers-bazuh Thf pattern of the ymi " ffnich God Himself baa pnpd. DR. DEALING'S MISTAKE."' " Of course," said young Dr. Defi ling, " a man has his own fortune to look to." . " ,"Of wmrfl" fund .Tn3?ib and ns she b ipoke the vbrfe &Kjfciir'lwmtAhat nia. u4 whafc deer,7 frank reep, TiSr slly-congerflfe wel rfce had. " - to cree around her whole heart. " If you had consulted me as to yonr affair," went on the young man, "in '.. stead of taking this, extraecdinnry step, entirely without advice or council" "Yes, I know,", hurriedly interposed Judith ; but it's 'over and past how,' 'so' jierhaps we had better not talk about it. " The red winter sunset was blazing with sullen lire above the cedar copse in the west; the leafless woods held up their black arms, in a sort of wrestling agony toward the sky, as the bleak winds tossed them to and fro, and a solitary raven uttered his ominous croak in the woods at the back of the house. Dr. Dedling shuddered as" he looked around him, and glanced out toward the dreary swamp that extended toward the east. . . - "Such a place," he said, ?'for lady to select to live in 1" " It isn't very cheerful," said JudithM ." but 1 have uvea here all my life, you know." "The more reason for wanting to get out of it now," said the doctor, impa tiently, f v r ir . Judith was. afloat. She looked .at the blazing logs in the old-fashioned hearth, and tried to keep back the fast-rising team. Dr. Dedling arose and took up his hat. " Then I am to consider .that our en gagement is, quito at an end?' said the uoctoft-. , " Yes," said Judith, in a very low tone.' " Good-by JP said Dr. Dedling. r " Oood-by !" responded Judifli. . The next moment she. was. alone 'with the logs, and the crickets chirping on the hearth, and the strange, weird shad ows thai came and went on the waittscot tcd walls. - . . " ; It wasjust a month to-night since, they had buried old Miles fry or .u&sighiL Little Judith, who had worn herself out in 'taking care of him, citd dropped n few tears on the cheap coffin that in cased his remains, but no . one else had senied particularly to grieve.. Mrs. Pytehley, her eldest sister, who was married to a New York grocer, had boldly declared that it was high time the old man took himself off the stage of this world, and had made -no; secret of her disappointment ;when ; it was dis- - 1 1. -i. A t nnn ... 13 . . coveiuu uiaii ifvw ui guiu pieces repre- scntccLall his hoarded -wealth, with tha, " exception of the cranberry swamp, upon whose dreary verge stood the house ; and this, dreary propei-tr; by the terms of the will, was to oe divided, between his two nieces, Judith Gray and Martha Pyteh- I - 11 41 -A ! A i ey, m uiey luenineivea migni. agree. , ' ' IH take the ready money, " said Mrs. rytehley, hftstily. " Vhajt could I do with .three or four miles of cranberry swamp?" , y s, " Or, what conld Judith do with it, either?" said Hobart Pytehley," who sat whittling a tine stack beside the fire. " I dare say she could manage very nicely,'' said Martha. - I've heard TJnclo Miles say that he sold JBO worth pi cran berries one year out of the swarrip." " Humph r granted Mr. Pytchly. -. A ...1 1 . . . 1 1 At AAA you know," added his wife. "What do you say, Judith" ' 4 "fit makes no difference to me," said Judith, quietly. " If does to me, then !" said Mrs. Pytehley; '.' because, na you know very well, Hpbart's business is in the city, and we -could do jiotliing at all with a lot of swamp land down here in the back woods." So Mrs. Pytehley had taken the lion's, shiire of the old mniis bcrtnCsts and gone back to her tritYwime. over Hi bnrt's grocery ; and young Dr. Dedliug, who had confidently calculated on at least $500, to buy surgical instruments to lit up an office in the village adjoin ing 8500 as the dowry of liis bride . elect broke Ids engagement in a pique that Judith should have so deliberately flung her fortune away., " " A set of sharpers 1" cried he, with disgust. "Hton, Dr. Dedling!" said Judith, coloring up-. " Yon forget that you re speaking of my sister and her husband." " But they had no business to impose on you thus 1" exclaimed tit. doctor. . " I agreed to the plan without remon strance. . ' . Dr. Dedling shrugged lile shoulders. "in that, said lie, sharply, "you shorted your lack of sense ! If you had no good regard for yourself, yon might have had some for, me !" " Was "it" for my morier you wanted me?dDmaaded Judith, stung to the quick. Dr. Uertling colored and hcsitntat. "A mau must take monetary mutters into consideratiqu." he said. And so it came aloot that the engage ment wa canceled, and Jndith Grey ns sitting there alone in wintry twilight, silently, with clasped hands and head dropjiod upon her breast. Doctor Dedling plodded home to the village, and as he passed the brilliant windows of tlie little hostelry he paused, rememliering the bitter cold of the winter ir, the frosty influence of the breeze. "T may as well go in and worm my self ".thought he. Mine" host met him with a cheery air. " Walk in, doctor ; walk in!" said he -'iNe that room," as Dedling mechanic ally laid his hand upou the door-knob of tlm unarfmeut he usually entered. "The Railway Committee is a sitting tlieTe. Tlii nv. if vou Dleasel" "The, ilaUrtny Committee 1" echoed rv...i1:.. ' VCTial Tlailwav Oommittee? Ton doit mean that they're actually taking any steps about the old idea of a railway DeFween jiuic uu uuboiiuc i Ti: I do." said the landlord. "If - committee of rich capitalisto, as are factories close to the Falls; and Uieymean to put up a row of tenement honses 'all along, and would lay down a line ot-jails ; nd don't say I mentioned it. doctor, because I only canght a snatch here and there, when I was carrying in the plates, and setting on tha fruit, and nut, and wine bat it's to go right tluongh old Miles Grey's cranberry swp,fheilway is! And the Chair man is going to offer Miss Judith $5,000 in good, clean, hard money for her share in it" U HI Doctor Dedling s tarted I " Five thousand dollars I " rerMat1 he, slowly. Could it really be a fact? If so and there seemed little reason lot doubting it what a fatal mistake he had made in rejecting a bride who could hrinr thB rich portion of a " cranberry swamp as uer weucmig oower. ii ne naa known this half an hour one little half-hour agol " Don't fret about him, Judith, dear he isn't worth itl " urged honest Maraa duke BedfieM. who hd Btnrmml n I,,- Vy to the postoffio to bring s message uroiu ma uiuuier. - rxe was always a pretentious sort of fellow, all foe outside biiuw, wiui b iiean iife a stone, ana a .. I I. 1 ' ' . - . 1 w urai uar; m oirtjiiu, BU1U ahaUow aa Beacon Doler's nature brook.' Judith looked ud at the olnmirr tmnA. hearted, hard-handed farmer, and won dered that she had never before seen Forrat him. Jndith " TloA. field; and she began seriously to think that she would at least make the trial. " Come ever to our house and atav with mother. ' It's too bleak and lonesome for you here, for the present at least. Spring will be time enough- for you to come back to the cranberry swamp." uuuiin urey looked around at the sol itary room, and thought of Mrs. Red field's cozy kitchen, with its bricht- colored rag carpet, its window lined with blooming geraniums, and its shrill voiced canary bird hanging over the work-table. " Do you think," she hesitated, ." that your mother would be Willing to be troubled with such a guest as I ? ' Duke Redfleid's face grew radiant. "Only try her." he said: "dear Judith, you'd be as welcome as the flow ers in May. And the next day Mrs. Redfleld came over in the old farm carryall to claim her guest, and the swamp house was left to its own dreary desolation and the driving snows of January. , .scarcely three weeks, had elapsed when young". t)r. edling came to Red field 'farm inhis' riew gig,' with the old roan horse, that really made auite a good appearance when yon did hot hurry him, and he was free from a visita tion Commonly known as the " heaves. " " There ain . nobody sick here, saw Julius, the hired man, who was splitting wood at the side of the house; as he eyed uie. doctor rather suspiciously. JNo, 1 know it." said Dr. Dedling : " but I have called to see Miss Grey." " Miss Grey ain't noways ailin as I know of," persisted Julius, feeling the edge of his ax, and staring hard at the medical representative of Glassville. x have called." said Dr. Dedang, with dignity, V as a friend." "'Mi?N884tilfaB. .. " Will you be kind enough to let me in ?" persisted the doctor. Tain't no use." said Julius, rollincra prodigious pine knot down from the pue, and preparing himself for a stupendous effort ; " there ain't nobody to home." JNobody at home? echoed the doc tor. They've all gone to church," ex plained Julius. . " To church, man 1 , Why, it a. Tues day." . v " Who said it wasn't ?" retorted Julius. ' They ain't gone to hear service 4hey is gone to be married I" " Who? demanded the doctor. " Our Marmadnke and Miss Judith 1" And down came the ax upon the end of the pine knot with a crash that made the man of medicine start back. The new railroad was .duly construct ed directly across the depth of old Miles Urey b cranberry swamp, and $o,uuuwas placed to- Mrs, Marmadnke Redfleid's account, in the nearest national bank; and Mrs. Pytehley thinks, she made a mistake in taking the gold eagles instettd of the cranberry swamp : but young Dr. Dedling thinks his mistake was greater buu. - A Girl's Diary. March 15. I must buy to-day : . Some cologne. Some hair-pins. i Some ruche lace. .. Some satin gloss for shoes, i March-J& Dear me 1 Tm always out of something ! To-day I must Look for material for spring dress. Pair of . " . Bottle of vaseBne. , , . Tooth)6wder. ' Face-powder. ' . - :, . New tooth-brush. T iiitin T was tempted into buy ing two of those beautiful new bows and a new penknife. '. . March 17.--I've nearly decided on the material for one 'dress. It's more ex ban I expected. But I must have it; Bought to-day ; Four yards'of new ribbon; t Two pairs of four-button kids. . Pair bouse slippers. Pair new Corsets. New celluloid comb for front hair. . -.. Tcitoise-shell pin for back hair. ... Two pairs cuffs. Three collars. One paper pattern. One paper pattern for jacket. , Leather belt and pocket. Needles and thread. Worsted fox fancy work. . Two lace ties. March 18. I don't think I want any diins to-dav. I'm iust going out, though, to look at the goods m the shop windows. Bought, unexpectedly, March 18: . Material for three spring dresses. Lining for ditto. Persian trimming for ditto. Pair of rubber overshoes. Pair of new scissors. New feathers for hat. New hat. New traveling bag. New clasp for ulster. t Bottle of smelling salts. Three pairs of cheap gloves. Two lace ties. - Spring parasol. March 19. It's time I ordered another pair of shoes. My best silk is really getting shabby. And l must go out to day, for I'm out of pins 1 ' Xodera ImproTnaeata. When a brave vol tigeur of the Imperial Guard wrote from the Crimea to his fath er in Alsace, asking him to send him pair of strong woes and a ,5-franc piece, the father, bethinking himself of the telegraph's speed, put the money into one of the shoes and hung the shoes upon the wires. An ill-shod fellow com intr alonsr soon afterward made an ex Abhim . a n.l tha rtlA man nmH dlMOVpr. tUHW. , HUU MU , ing the nbstitution went home to tell his wife that their boy had not only re ceived his new shoe- but had returned the old ones C SOUTHERN NEWS. ,Inu Boexhas an artesian well 600 feet deep. Tbm orange crop of Florida will be fine this season. Bnjj-posTrsQ is forbidden on telegraph poles in Charleston, a C. Tex new court-house at Gallatin, Tenn., is a handsome building. Cideb is made in Texas from tomatoes, and sells at $L26 per gallon. Two more 'new factories will soon be under way on the canal at Augusta, Ga. Tex site for the Marine Hospital has bee located at Fort Pickering, Memphis. : Thb Star claims 20,000 population for Wflmington,N. C, under ths new census. , Mobil has received 350,000 bales of cotton this season, 10,000 short of last year. Flirt River has just received a de posit of 100,000 young shad, at Albany, Ga.; Cotton goods manufactured in South Carolina are being sold extensively in New England. ' . The ladies of Little Rock have a build ing association, and $90,000 have been subscribed. -Thb Lane cotton mill at New Orleans has been enlarged to 10,000 spindles, and is doing welL xhb stock ot sea-island cotton at Charleston is nearly exhausted, only 610 bales remaining unsold. Gbkat fears are felt everywhere in the cotton belt on account of the appearance of . worms at different points. Nbw cotton factories are' springing up everywhere down South. One will be started at Chattehooga this season. Vicksbobo is looking into her sanitary condition and is determined that Yellow Jack shall not catch her napping. Of the 1,000 convicts in the Virginia State Prison only two admit that they merit the punishment they are enduring. A correspondent of the New Orleans Times, from Kansas, says he has never yet seen half a crop raised in that State. Galveston has contracted for an arte sian well, 2,000 feet deep and eight inches in diameter, at a total cost of $23,000. Ths Kansas exodus ters are still slowly and sadly working their way back to their old homes in Mississippi and Louis iana. Cows are going blind in the neighbor hood of Jackson, Tenn., and no cause can be assigned for so remarkable a disease. Thb- Board of Health, New Orleans, has adopted stringent measures for sanitary purposes, and seems determined to enforce them. A mah at Helena, Texas, believes there will be another flood in November ; and this second Deucalion is building an ark for the occasion. A disgusted negro, returned from Kansas, says that ".if Kansas should be roofed in it would be the biggest nigger poor-house in the world." Point CiiBAb, near Mobile, is the New Port of the South. It is situated at the entrance of Mobile Bay, fronting both on the gulf and the bay. Thb princely ranohe of Capt, R. King, of Nueces County, Texas, Is inclosed by wire fence 175 miles in length, lnclos- 253,000 acres of grazing land. Thb bullion assays at the Charlotte mint will reach 500,000 during the pres ent year.- The milling interests of North Carolina are being pushed forward with great energy. A negro man in Pointe Coupee Par ish, La., pulled an old log out of the river the other day and found in it $160 in old French coin, much blackened with age and exposure. I Canning shrimp and preserving fresh figs for the general market is a successful industry of New Orleans; rivaling the lamous canning establisnments in Haiti more and the North. Thb census enumerators have ascer tained that for the last ten years the mortality in New Orleans has been twelve in 1,000 per annum, an exceed ingly low death rate! - Thb Columbia and Lexington (S. C) Water "Power Company will send their agents to different points South to com municate with capitalists with the view of inviting them to invent. A pabty in Jacksonville, Fla., has en tered into an engagements with a large. London firm to furnish them with an nn limited number of. sticks of orange and other Florida woods suitable for walking canes and umbrella handles. . . Vert few of the working men thrown out' of employment by the failure of the Vulcan Iron Works at Chattanooga have yet found work. The Aurora Works re fused to employ some ol them pecause they'are "Union" men. Thb city council of Charlotte, N. C have raised the whisky tax in that city to 8500. and included druggists under the ordinance; The bar-keepers are indig nant, and say that the movement will give the large dealers a monopoly. There at nraannt twenty-three bar-rooms in the city. ; Thb New Orleans waterworks have achieved a grand success inbeing able to throw a supply of freshly filtered water to the rooms of the loftiest houses in the city, and will be able to supply water- power for the purposes of operating ma chinery instead of steam at fifty per cent. less cost than steam-power. The medium of this power is the Backus motion. An over-true story comes from "kussed Kansas" to the Little Rock Democrat One good crop in eight years; no ram since last November and hundreds of farmers looking back toward Arkansas and the negroes in Graham County liv ing on the bods and berries of wild roses, wild roots, corn bread and water, and no meat; hard work and no pay, are some of the sweets of that Eden of the West. Thb Tillandsia usnceoides, or Spanls moss, is an air plant and not a parasite It feeds i on the malarial exhalations of the Southern soil, and consumes enough of these noxious properties to render the eountry habitabla It grows everywhere in the lowlands of Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Alabama and Florida, and should b considered the salvation of the locali ties in which it is found. Axlasta is agitating the construction of a canal from the Chattahoochee River, "oasto furnish the city with increased water power sufficient for manufacturing purposes. The length of the canal from the Chattahoochee River to the Sewanee will be about thirty-one miles. The canal can be built at a cost of $18,000 a mile at present prices, making the entire cost of the work from $1,200,000 to 81, 400,000. A good joke is related on on o ', most prominent bankers in Lynchburg, Va. While marketing several days since he inquired of an old negro woman the price of strawberries. She informed him that they were fifteen cents per quart, but, "bein" 'twas him," if he'd take three quarts they might go for half a dollar. He decided to take the three quarts, and it was some time afterward that the thought struck him that he had been financiered out of five cents by a country darky. Splicing the Ladder. One night the-large and splendid Sail ors'Home in Liverpool was on fire, and a vast multitude of people gathered to wit ness the conflagration. The fury of the flames could not be checked. It was supposed that all ' the inmates had left the brirning building. . Presently, how ever, two poor fellows Were seen stretch ing their arms from an upper window, and were shouting for help. What could be done to save them? A stout marine from a man-of-war lying in the river said, " Give ; me a long lad der, and I will try it." He mounted the ladder. 7 It ' was too short to reach the window. " Pass me up a small ladder 1" he shouted. It was done. Even that did not reach to the arms stretched frantically out of the window. The brave marine was not to be balked. He lifted the short lad der up on his shoulders, and, holding on by a casement, he brought the upper rounds within reach of the two men, who were already scorched by the flames. Out of the window they clambered, and creeping down over the short ladder, and then over the sturdy marine, they reached the pavement amid the loud hurrahs of the multitude. It was a noble deed, and teaches a noble lesson. It teaches us that when we want to do good service to others we must add our own length to thedength of the ladder. Harry Norton saw that his fellow-clerk, Warren Proctor, was becoming a kard smoker and a hard drinker, although he was only 16 years old. When- he urged him to stop smoking and drinking War ren replied:. "Why, you sometimes take a cigar and a glass of wine yourself." "If you will sign a pledge never to snloke a cigar or touch a glass of liquor I will do the same," was the reply. The bargain was made, and Harry saved his friend by adding the length of his own example to the length ol the ladder. A widow lady near me was suffering from sickness and poverty. Her daugh ter, a delicate, refined girl, said to her self, "My mother must be taken care of; I'll advertise for a place as a servant gW." .. . She did so. A rich man saw the ad vertisement." and, determining that the brave girl should not undertake that, he tirrv-nred her a situation as secretary in an institution where she gets $600 year. An unselfish daughter thus brousrht relief to a suffering mother. She spliced the ladder with her own self-denying exertions. It is a noble thing to be unseinsh, and to give up gratifications for the sake of other people. When the great Christian sage of old said, " It is not right to drink wine by which my weak brother stum bles," he added the length of his own in fluence for saving others from drunken ness. I could tell of two Christian lads, well educated and refined, who go every Sunday to a mission-school in a dirty, deeraded street, that they may encour age some poor ragged boys to go there too. Those two Doys nave wie spini of Jesus Christ. They are not selfish; and they mean that the poor, ignorant lads Bhall climb up in the world over them. That is the way to imitate the Hi- vine Master, who gave Himself that men might climb out of the folly and degra. uation Ol sin uicu iieaveu iboeij. Evading t Fare. The stealing of a tin is apparently a slight offense. Yet it may reveal char- acter as clearly as tne men oi $iiu. Some years ago there lived in New York a. shrewd old merchant named Aymar. He used to receive cargoes of mahogany and logwood, which were sold , at auc tion. On one occasion a cargo was to tx sold at Jersey City, and all hands .started from the auctioneers store to cross tne ferry. When they were going through the gate, Mr. Aymar noticed one of the 1 unrest bnvers slip through the gate without Tjaving the 6 cents fare. He told tha auctioneer not to take a bid from that man. "Why, said the auctioneer, with an expression ol surprise, " l tnougnt ne was rood. "So did L answered Mr. Aymar; . . . but I have changed my mind, and will not trust him ftL" A few months proved the accuracy of the iodmnent of Mr. Aymar, for the slippery merchant failed, and did not n cents nn the dollar. It does not H anv means follow that business dis aster will come as a retnuuuou w mo- honest trader ; but this is certain, that a man who will steal even so trifling a nm u would pay his fare in the horse- car or the ferryboat will cheat you out of a larger sum u ne nnas a saie oppur tumty. The Cacmaber. The extent to which this vegetable is consumed by the inhabitants of Egypt and the Southwest of Asia, and also m European Russia and Germany, would -. ... . .i scaroeiy seem creaime to uu wuuuj. Ynn nam iu a "Rnndan peasant at din. ner but you see the lump of black bread and a cucumber. The vegetable seems ivrtainl a nntmlar dish to be SO na tional in a country with a climate like that of Russia. Seme writers say thai there nsnd to be a srreat annual lair T iric for mninilwn. when the streets were heaped up a story high with that frecious element of German cookery, a Germany barrels of half and also full grown cucumbers are preserved from one year to another by immersion in deep wells, where the uniform temper ature and exclusion from air seemed to be ths preserving agents. I ! I ' ReBtirdseenee of Early California Days. Away hack in 1852 there was a dimratA over a placer mine in Yuba river, at Park Bar, in California. Stephen J. Field was retained. Suit was brought before a Justice of the Peace for an alleged forcible entry and detainer, a form cf action in vogue for the recovery of min ing claims, because the title to the land was 7ested m the United States. Itwas prosecuted solely aa a mssemnrr actirm The consfatle who summoned the jury naa lecavea fzuu to summon parties named by the other side. This fact was ascertained beyond controversy by evi dence placed in the hands of Mr. Field. While in bed at Park Bar he overheard a conversation between a juror and ene of tl jposite parties in an adjoining AsThe ftrrn-jsured the party that everything was fixed, and that the jury had agreed to render a verdict in his favor. The trial was held in a saloon crowded with spectators, most of whom were favorable to the other side. In sum ming up Mr. Field addressed the jury for three aours. He showed conclusively that his client was entitled to a favora ble verdict. " Gentlemen," said he, in closing his argument " 96 have not endeavored to influence your verdict, except by the evidence. We have neither approached von secret v nor sonstit to control von We have relied solely upon the law and the evidence to maintain our right to tats property. But our opponents-have hot thus acted. They are not satisfied allow you to weigh the evidence. They have endeavored to corrupt your minds and pervert your judgment. With uplifted hands you declared by the ever- living God that you would return a ver dict according to law. Will you per jure your souls? I know that ,yon (pointing to a juror) have been ap proached. Did you spurn the wretch that made the proposal, or did you hold secret counsel with him? I know that you (pointing to another juror) talked over this case last night, for I overheard the conversation, the promises, and your pledge, uanvas bouses are as one here. Words uttered m one are voices in all. You did not dream that you were heard. but I was there, and I know the details of the foul bargain. " , i At this an ominous "click, click. click" was heard. A score of pistols were cocked. i " There is no terror in your pistols, gentlemen, continued Mr. Jtneld, in a thrilling tone. " You cannot win your case by shooting me. You can win it only by showing title to the property. You can never win it by bribery or threats of violence. I openly charge at tempted bribery. If it is untrue, let the jurors speak from their seats. Attempt ed bribery, 1 say whether successful or not will depend upon what may occur hereafter. Jurors, you have invoked the vengeance of Heaven upon your souls if you fail to render a verdict ac cording to the evidence. If you are willing to sell your souls, decide against The address was effectual. After an absence ofa few minutes the jury re turned a verdict in favor of Mr. Field's client. Some admitted that they had been corruptly approached, but added that they were not so base as to be in fluenced in that way. Within two weeks the owners took from the placer over 8J0.OOO in gold dust. Two Paths. An English lady, having been asked as to the propriety it attending on Sunday an exhibition of Bible pictures, replied with an illustration which illuminates a wide range of duties. She said: Alontr the South Downs are two paths. one a very few inches from the edge of the cliff, another about two yards on. Many have walked, and walked safely, along the first path, but t was danger- ovs. One step to the left, and they would have fallen, perhaps, several hundred, feet into the sea below; or, if a piece of loose rock suddenly separated from the other parts, it would have carried the person who chanced to be treading it, down, down with it, into the abyss. Many. too. and I am among them, have trodden the path farther in; we had as pleasant a view, with this great dis tinction from the more danger-loving passengers, we were safe; if we took a step to the left, we were still on solid around: if the edge were jagged, or even a huge mass of rock fell, we only saw unevenness, or ten a sngnt snock. A gust of wind could not hurl us over. neither would sudden giddiness send ns rolling down the precipice. . Which path was best, was wisest, was safest? "The last," you say? Yet both have leen walked without accident. I do not lay down a rule that every one would he doing wrong in going to see a collection of pictures illustrating the Bible on Sunday, but I do say there is a South Down called Sunday ; it is high above the six miles of the country surrounding it ; along the edge is writ ten : " Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. . There are two paths, one called " re ligions pleasure, the other, 4' hours for God alone." Which is the happiest, the safest, the wisest, the best 7 Sand-Showers in China. Every year witnesses curious sand- showers in China when there is neither cloud nor fog in the sky, but the sun is scarcely visible, looking very much when seen through smoked glass. The air is filled with a fine dust, entering eyes, nostrils and mouth, and often causing serious diseases of the eye. This dust or sand, as the people call it, penetrates houses, reaching even apart ments which seem securely closed. It is supposed to come from the great des ert of Gobi, as the sand of the Sahara is taken np by whirlwinds and carried nun dreds of miles away. The .Chinese, while sensitive to the personal discomfort aris ing from these showers, are resigned to them irom a conviction tha they are . great neip to agncuirure. rney say that a year of numerous sand-showers is always a year of large fertility. The sand probably imparts some enrichinc elements to the soil, and it also tends to loosen the compact alluvial matter of tne Uhinese valleys. It is possible that these showers may be composed of mi croscopic insects, like similar showers which have been r"ticed in the Atlantic ocean. Amoso the relics in the office of the Police Board in Cleveland. Ohio, is a roe that has hanged eighteen culprit. It is of hemp, three-fourths of an inch in thickness, and is strengthened by braiding a smtdl tarred ' strand of hemp in tne crevices left by the larger strands. Salkh LrasBXBT. Peel and aline apples. Itew tul done, then run through a colan der, sweeten and season. Beat tha whites erf three eggs to a stiff froth, aad just be fore serving whip them into a qaart of tne stewea apples. KM witn areata and call for more. Haw sb Indian Bona Dowa a Deer. When sufficiently near the hunter takes his aim, and making a slight noise with his Soot on tha ground, which causes the deer to turn toward him, has a good chance to hit it in the middle of i the forehead. But if he misses the j mark, or his gun misses fire, then the tun begins in earnest, and one of the j finest races in the world can be wit nessed a naked Indian and a frightened deer at full speed. If the deer should happen to be not more than a year old it is of no use following it as it will thai outrun any Indian, and run longer with out giving out, but if two or three years old, or older, a good runner will bring it down in a few hours, or certainly within fifty or sixty miles. (The narrator, Jose Mfindml, here insists that a good run. nei among the Apaches can run, 125 miles in twenty-tour hours easily.) The deer starts at full speed, making long leaps of from ten to thirty feet At first he gains rapidly on the Indian, but the T -n .1, ; 1 .1 x innian ioiiowb, every now ana men ut tering frightful yells, but never for a moment halting or losing the trail. The deer, when out of sight, halts and looks back, but soon his pursuer comes in sight, when he bounds on with longer leaps than at first ; finally he makes for water, a spring or stream, and when he gets there halts and drinks all he wants. Now there is no hope for him, for after he drinks he cannot run so fast or leap so far. Pretty soon the Indian comes in sight again, while the tired deer rests a moment, but the tired hunter never halts to drink, not if his .'mouth is as dry as ashes, for by doing so he not only loses time, but cannot run so fast after ward. On he goes, never resting, either on the hill or on the mountain. If the deer takes to the top of the highest mountain, right on his track the Apache follows. By and by the Indian sees a blood stain on a rock, where the deer has stumbled and skinned his knee or struck his nose. He knows now the race will soon be ended, and runs faster than at first, while lj deer loses ground every minute. When the deer sees the Apache close upon him, he stops sud denly by a rock or bush and turns. Sometimes as soon as he stops he drops down fainting, or evan dead from fatigue. . If not dead already, when the Indian seizes him by the head and hind legs he makes but little resistance, and is dispatched with the knife. The hunter now cuts out a fine piece and eats it, taking not a moment's rest for feftr of getting stiff, but puts the deer on his shoulders, or, if too heavy, a part of it, placing the rest in a secure place, and then trots back to his camp, having traveled perhaps 100 miles without rest ing. The next day-some one will take his back-track for the- balance of the game. San Franoitco Port. Josh Billings' Philosophy. Az a general things, thoze who deserve good luk the least pray the loudest lor it Mi dear boy, selekt yuro buzzum friend with grate caushun; once selekted, endorse him with vnre bottom dollar. Beaus seldum fall in luv. but when they do, they are spilte for enny regular bizz- ness. Kards and whiskey reduce all men to the same level, and & very low level, at that Good immitators are even more skarse than originals are. 1 think 1 had rather liv in a big citty, and be unknown, than exist in a villige, obliged to kno evry hpddy, or be suspek- ted bi them. I kan trace all ov mi bad lok to bad management, and I guess others kon, if they will be az honest az I am about it. An immitasbun to equal an original has got to beat it at least 25 ier cent. .Laming iz eazy enuff to acquire, wis- dum cums slo, but sticketh to the ribs. If yer expekt to suckoeed in this life yer must make the world think that yer are at work for them, and not for yure- self. You may find very plain looking coquets, but who ever saw a hansum prude. Iiife iz meazured bi deeds, not years, menny a man haz lived to le ninety, and left nothing behind him but an obituare notiss. Men luv for the novelty ov the thing, woman luvs bekauze she kant help it Thare iz tins excuse for luxury, all luxurys kost money, and sum one reaps the advantage. Ihe man who kant Ian iz an animal. and the one who won t iz a devil. A festive old man iz a burlesque on all kinds of levity. Fashion, like every thing else, repeats itself. What iz new now, haz been new menny times oeiore, ana win oe again, Chicken Breeding; In France. Thanks to some singular statistics just published, for the authenticity of which, however. 1 should hesitate to vouch, a mystery that has long hung over our dinner tables is cleared up. English travelers or residents in France must, like myself, have often wondered where all the fowls that flirure daily in menus at every hot 1, restaurant and private house in the country, at no mat ter what season of the year, can possibly come from. The supply appears to lie inexhaustible, and that it is so practi cally is proven bv the announcement that rrance contains no iewer uinu u, 000,000 hens, which are followed by train of 100.000.000 chickens, about ., r . ' . : ii kt tenth part, of these latter being destined for the duties of propagation, ine 4U,- 000,006 hens lay annually four milliards of eggs, whichat the rate of 6 centimes each a trifle over a halfpenny the price paid to the breeder, realize a sum of 240.000.000 francs. If to this amount be added the Proceeds- from the sales of fowls, whether lean or fat, and taking into consideration also the surplus value attaching to eggs and birds by reason o: city tolls, the total arrived at is set down at. the a most farmlouR nirnre oi doo.ooo. 000 francs, or more than half a milliard, produced annually by French poultry rards. JNeither ducks nor geese nor turkeys are included in these calcula tions -. if they were the gross sum would have been increased by several hundreds of millions of francs. So, accepting this census as tolerably near the mark, we may henceforth cease to be surprised at . - . . t - i i t . : l the vast amount oi cmcaen rosea uauy picked in France. Old-fashioned Tapioca Pudding. fwo ecrcs. one quart milk, one cup tapioca; spices of nutmeg and cinnamon to taste; also sugar and a bit of salt, and small teaspoonrui oi putter meiteo. Wash and soak the tapioca in very little water till rather tender; then put it in the milk, and. place on back of the stove and soak one hour; then melt butter in dish and pour in the beaten.;eggs, milk well sweetened, and spice; bake one hour quite slowly. Tn now pair of shoes came home for little 6-year-old. Ha tried them on, and, finding that his feet were in very dose 1 quarters, exclaimed: "O myj they are i so tight I can't wink my tees." Tha Sick Eaaau From an interesting paper on this subject in the ChrUtidn Union, by Miss E. R. SooyiL of the Massachusetts Gen eral Hospital, we cull the following hints and recipes: The pure mice my be extracted from beef in two ways: First, by cutting the meat in small pieces, putting them in a tightly corked bottle, immersing if in hot water, and boiling for severalhours. Second, by taking a thick piece of juicy steak, broiling it on a gridiron fiver a clear fire for a few moments, then cutting it in strips ana pressing it in a, lemoo squeezer. The mice thus obtained may be given either cold or hot. it may; be Grosen, broken into lumps, and given like cracked ice, A little salt should be added before n-irtg H . Aninvahdlois'trredof hot beef tea will atom tiiBc drink it cold or iced with great relish. Enough isinglass or gelatine may be added W, the juioe to maka a jelly, which can be flavored with sherry, essence of celery,' or anything the patient may fancy. Raw meat is very nutritious, and may be prepared by shredding the beet ex tremely tine, removing every particle of skin or fat, and mixing it with cracker crumbs. A little salt and pepper may be added, and the mixture rolled into tiny balls. In convalescence after typhoid fever the greatest care is necessary with regard to the food, and no new article of diet should be given without the express per mission of the doctor. Even so slight an imprudence as eating a raw apple has xvn known to cause death. While roast boiled and broiled chicken. mutton chop and beef steak have long held a recognized position in the invalid's bill of fare, the merits of a veal sweet bread have been sadly overlooked. When properly cooked it is a delicious dish, and may tempt a capricious ap petite that has grown weary of other lands. A sweetbread should be par boiled for a short time until quite soft, and then fried in a little butter to a delicate brown. It may be served with gravy or white sauce. l'ort wine jelly may sometimes he given where the wine itself would excite disgust Dissolve half an ounce of gelatine in three tablespoonfuls of water; add a little white sugar, and nutmeg or cinnamon if the taste is liked; let it melt over a very gentle heat, put in five wine glassfuls of port, and stir constantly for ten minutes, rjtram it into a mold moistened with cold water. A piece as large as an egg should be eaten two or three times a day. Delicious oatmeal gruel may be made by stirring a cupful of oatmeal into a bowl of water, allowing it to stand for a lew minutes until the coarsest particles have fallen to the bottom, pouring off the Water, and repeating this once or twice. The water must then be boiled, stirring it constantly until it is sufficient cooked. t ew persons understand properly the art cf making lemonade. . The lemon should first be rolled between the hands until it is quite soft the skin removed with a sharp knife, and every pip ex tracted, the lemon being held over a tumbler that no juice may be lust in the operation. The pulp should then lie divided into small pieces, and the sugar thoroughly mixed with it Last of all the requisite amount of water should lie added. Orangeade may be made in the same way as lemonade, using less sugar. Ihey should be iced. Imperial drink is made by adding a small teaspoon ful of cream of tartar dissolved in boiling water to each pint of lemonade. In some diseases it is impossible to give anything containing acid, and then the ingenuity of the nurse is tested to provide some beverage at once cooling ana paiataiiie. iced tea and cotleo are excellent when they are liked, and may 1e taken either with or without milk. Barley water is made by boiling two ounces of pearl barley, previously well wasnea, ior twenty minutes in a pint and a half of water. It is then strained and flavored with lemon peel and sugar to taste. This may be alternated, with flaxseed tea. Steep half an ounce of un- i i ...... . r ' . - . , bnused flaxseed in a pint of boiling water, Let it stand in a covered jar near a fire for three or four hours; then strain and flavor. A Wonderful Dinner. A magnificent dinner was that which was given on Feb. 16, 1476, in Naples, by Benedetto Salntati, of Florence, to the sons of the Neapolitan King Fer rene. As a preliminary course there was little gilded cakes of pine kernels, and small majolica bowls, - with some kind of a fancy preparation of milk. Then came einht silver platters, with gelatine of capon s breast, ornamented with heraldic devices, the dish for tbe most distinguished guest, the Duke of Calabria, having a fountain in the mid dle showering a spray of , orange water. The first part of the meal consisted of twelve courses oi meats, including veni son, veal. nam. pheasants, pannogen, capons, chickens and blanc mange. At the close a great silver dish was .... ... .. placed before the Duke, and when the cover was raised a flock of birds flewup. On two enormous platters stood two peacocks, ap jmrentlyaelive, and with tails spread; in theirbeaks they held burning, per fnmede ssence, and on their breasts were ilken ribbons, with tha" Dnke's arms. The second division consisted of nine courses of various sweet' dishes tarts, marzipan and right, ornamental cakes, with hippokrasa kind of spiced wine. There were 'fifteen Unas of wine, mostly native Italian and Sicilian. At the close of tha meal the guests washed their hands in perfumed water, and after the removal of the cloth a mound of green twigs with costly es sences were placed on the table, the per fume of which filled the room. During and after the meal there was music anil a pantomime. After an hour's pause there was a dissert of eevfeotionery, served in dishes of silver, with orna mented covert of sugar and wax Gbobob Abrahams was extravagantly fond of cold cabbage, and one day, see ing that quite a dishful was left after dinaer, asked his wife to save if for his salad at night About midnight George came laboring under a stress of heavy weather. Feeling hungry, and thinking of his favorite cabbage, be asked where it was. His wife replied: " In the pantry, on the second shert Down he went, found the cabbage, got out the oil, mustard, and vinegar, cut up the cabbage, dressed it to the Queen's taste and ate it all In the morning his wife noticed the plate of cabbage where she had placed it the day before, and, turn ing to her "dear George," innocently asked why he did not eatthe cabbage. " I did," he said. " How did you like it?" " Oh! not very well; it was tough and stringy." "But here is the cabbage cow; where did you find any mum " Why, on the second shelf, where you told me." A quick look at the shelf by the wife and then a cry of agony. "Why, George, you have eaten $20 worth of lace collars and. euffs that I had put in starch; stringy cabbage, indeed!" WAIFS AID WHIMS. li Tn hotel keeper lives en his mn- come. 4". Taw centa won t maka a railj.l pugilists. T Two heads art better than Qu. Jxltnot on tha same pjn. Thb battles of the union fight between husband and wife. Dn anybody aver aee a little )dg lead out oy tne earr Doss not a farmer become a cannibal when he eats his own kine? Braca tha foot-produce ache-coras, what kind of fruit will tha negro. Thb addage must be changed. Bread always falls oleomargarine rids down. Man can not add one cubtt la his titi A atatare, "bt he on,amak a fewsws&k r " aV . tha Wr." as fc- axMV.. , remarked when ha sent hta guat by xaii. As wjple threw tha first man. Bine than it has sort o' let tha basin ovtto the banana. , Mbn with deaf and dumb wives poaseea tome advantage over their more unfortu nate brothers. "This farm for sale, subject to mort gages and cyclones," is the way they now hang out signs in the Southwest 1r the Government wishes to keep colored cadets out of trouble, It should plant watermelon patch oa at West- Petal An Ithiea man lost his wife and a yel low dog by one stroke of lightning, and he tried for a half a day to revive tha . Ths Japs itndy political econonry, Ah, yes; we know what that la, " Fiwaollaiw directly to the voter is worth $25 spent on fireworks. Two church socials at Topeka Kansas, led to flvedivoceeB.ottO violent death and several fights. -Seems to be a good place Toieka quarrel. Two French Senators meet: "I hava just come from the Senate. Tha aiHing fasted three hours. "What peaaadT "Three houra." - - ' ' ' Jakes H. Gallup and Emma Canter were married at Grand Rapids a few days . .. ,7.1 f! V . ago. Uive em nme ana tney u mu . spanking team. . A topno Darwinian: Jack (to hla mar ried sister)" Hi I Polly I I Look 1 1 1 Here's your baby trying to walk on its bind legs I 1 1 1 " . " 'Plant no flowers on ntv Crate whan I aa dead," she said. They didn't, but a sua flower came up of its own accord. Waan t she foolish? In the midst of life some man da all' the evil they can. and when they die tha papers tell lies about them at tha rate cf fifty cents per line. ' . Wrinkles are not always the sign of age. Look at the call a neec m at a oorrugated atove.-pjpe (elbowj Ox ft a , badly ironed shirt bosom, t . ( . Apothbcabt "You want this , pre scription filled, sir, I understand?" Pat rick " Divil a bit of it, surrl It is the bottle I wud have filled." It ia only tha faaaal ayianuiaa -thai bites, but when a man gets a chance to belt one with a towel, he's going to do it without stopping to inquire its gender. Ralph Waldo Emekhon keeps two cows and milks them himself. Boms of his brightest thoughts have come to him while being kicked hall way across uie . stable. When you see a man sit down in a barber's, ohair, pin the newspaper round his neck, and begin to read the towel, , you may put him down as absent- minded. "Will, Miss-takes will happen in tha best regulated families," as the old gen tleman remarked upon hearing that the tall and slender young man had stolen his cliild away. Thb young Englishman, just over, read , vertisement "Gained eight pounds in ten days," and remarked, "Heicellont wages, that, Mary." . "Hocsbrolo art decoration is what takes with my boarders," aaf Mr- Gil dersleeve, as she made a bread pudding and called her eldest daughter down stairs to paint raisins on it , A linb in a Welsh poem - reads: "Mi ganabihvH ganu amfy rtoyrin Ptlt." We advl Pets to do nothing of the kind. It would be injudicious. NorrU town Herald. A hkdioal writer asks: "Does posi tion affect sleep?" It dona, particularly if Uie man is holding the positkw of night watchman. He is liable to be dis- A Carloai Accident. A cnaous though awkward accident hapiJRed to a clergyman of this city who wss being shown tha points of in terest around the city by one of his parishioners. Among other placet they visited a wharf commanding a view of our grand old river. The reverend gentleman became absorbed in contem plation of the prospect before him, and forgetful of the broken plank behind him in the dilapidated wnan. Boaoeniy . stopping backward, ba found ntmsen falling, and instinctively grasped his friend by tha shoulder wun on nana and threw his other arm around his waist, and both fell into the opening, which proved to be too small to let theta into tha deep and rapid current beneath. United they filled tbe mouth of the yawning abyss, which gaped wide enough to swallow either of them alone. N Tbe union of pastor and people was never better illnstrated wa&Bt anyeir crunstanoes; the ; two clung together like Damon and Pythias, and formed a suspension bridge across the homd chasm with their interlaced bodies, un til, by the exercise of herculean efforts and acrobatic contortion, they straggled out of their perilous position aad re gained their perpendicular, whan the minister comphmcnted his companion with the remark, " WelL you are a good man to cling to. Are all tbe members of tha parish like you?" " Oh, yea," was the answer ;" we are all bound to give our j pastor s good tupport roru K II.) Sates and Union. mouth V He Base ta tha Oceania. , Nowhere excepting in this free and beautiful country of ours could aa inci dent combining tha humorons and prac tical have occurred like the following: It was between Mr. Bhaa, a conductor on the Chicago and Rock Island rail road, whose height is Ave feet, and Mr. Henry, a passenger, who stood seven feet in his stockings, afr. Henry put his ticket in his hat battd, and stood himself up when the brief conductor came slung. Mr. Bhsa could not Teach the ticket, even when standfng on his toes, and his unavailing efforts to do so made all tha ' passengers 44 laugh corf sumedly." But he rose to the occasion. Without changing countenance, ha brought a stervladder, leaaei it again the elongated Henry, climbed np to and picked off tha ticket, and want oa aa though nothing had happened Bather goad, and very Amencan. Harper' I Magazine.
The Blue Ridge Blade (Morganton, N.C.)
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