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li X. ' A " ' siA jr Af yAy xfiyy Jr v5r Cf JAMES C. OOYLIN, Publisher. The Wadesboro Tflessenger and Wadesboro Intelligencer Consolidated July, 1888. PRICE, SI.5o a Year. NEW SERIES-YOL. III.-N0. 13. WADESBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, JTJLT 11, 1889; AVHOLE NUMBER, 460 RACKET; STORE ! HORVENVN.C. f3 Facts wortlr Knowing THAT Four Hundred and Sixteen, ii roadway New rk is Headquarters. Tliat we bay goods ;LOW THE MARKET VALUE. That sell for SPOT CASH at a SMALL PROFIT. That we make no choice of customers. That we sell strictly for Cash on Delivery. That we give you FULL VALUE for your mon ey. That the "BACKET" is the place to buy your goods. We simply UNDERBUY and UNDERSELL. That we have greatly REDUCED THE PRICE on our WINTER GOODS, That we are CLEARING OUT for our SPRING STOCK. That our town is on a BOOM. That we will sell you goods at the " ' r LOWEST POSSIBLE PRICES. We will sell you a DOLLARS WORTH OF GOODS FOR A DOLLAR. YOURS FOR BARGAINS, BAUOOM & CO. N. Y. Office, 416 Broadway. 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" We are so situated owning the Springs with farm attached, from which we get most of our supplies doing a great part of the nec essary work during the season the Springs are open, we can favor our patrons with the best mineral water the most wholesome food and first-class accommodations at the following extremely low prices. PER DAY. When one person occupies room, $1.50. When two persons occupy room, $L25. PER WEEK. When one person occupies room, "" $8.50. When two or more occupy room, $7.00. PER MONTH ('.38 days.) When one person occupies room, $28.00. When two or more occupy room, $35.00. Children eight to twelve years old half , price. Two to six years old one-fourth price. Servants, special rates in accordance to service rendered in caring for room of family Dr person they are with, -r- ' Where there are a family of five or more, or a party of friends from the same town or section, who will occupy one large room, a reduction of ten per cent, will be made. Cake of Stock. Horses per day, fifty ' ? cents.- Per week, threo dollars. .Par month, ten dollars. AMUSEMENTS and RECREATION. Bowling Alley, Lawn Tennis, Croquet, Foot o Ball, and in-door games of all kinds. TEAM: One Horse ana Buggy. When -two will contract to use it daily for one or ' i4ore hours each day, fifteen cents per hour Tor each person. W. C. Patterson Shelby P.O., or Swang,. P.O. Cleveland County, N. C. Matting Lace CURTAINS a grand line of both. . o ' Mattings for 15c., 18c., 22XcM 33c, ; 50c, etc., etc - Lace Curtains for $2.50, $2.75, $3.00, $3.50, $4.00, $4.50, $5.00, $5.50, $6.00 per window. . ' V Will be glad to receive your orders for anything in the Dry Goods Line, and. will, always try to'give satisfac tion. -The HABERDASHER is sell ing everything in its line low down, and can give you, special prices on HATS, FLANNEL OVER SHIR1S, NECK WEAR&C. i . Very truly, - ? Julian H. Little, Charlotte, N. C. Executors Notice. I HAVE this day qualified as Executor of the last will and testament of Thomas H ThreadgUl, deceased, before the proper- Court in auson tiouncy, a. u., ana l Hereby notify . all persons havine claims ac-ainst; the astafcA . fif my testator to present the same to me, for v ipaymeni, on or oeiore. tne I3tn day of June, ;J890, or this notice will; bar their payment raiiu recovery. Ana an persons owing tne fstate of my said testator must pay the same at once, to -me. . This 6th day of June, 1889. JOSEPH W. ALLEN, Executor j -Thos. H. ThreadgUl, deceased. Executors Notice. ; T ri AVE thi day qualified n Executor of ' sons having claims against the estate hi the traoeaent iuu vnout mo Miuq oh, or Deiore j - June !aa, lew, or uas noace wui be plead pd in bar of their recovery. This Jam nth, - V. - Executor oj Jiary Adams, MxmiW, Absolutely Pure. This powder never varies. A marvel of purity, strength and wholesomeness. More economical than the erdinary kinds, aud cannot be sold in competition with the mul tude of low, test, short weight alum or phosphate powders. Sold only in cans. Royal B-MLTNaPowDKB Co., 106 Wall St., New York. : J& I T. J. BATTLE OFFERS HIS PROFE8SIONAti SERV ICES TO THE PEOPLE OP WADESBORO AND VICINITY. ... J. If. DUNLA.P, M. D. S. B. CARPKNTKR, II. D , ; Ansonrille, N. C." ' r Cedar Hill, N. Cr" Drs. Dunlap and Carpenter Having formed a copartnership iFor the prac tice of medicine, respectfully offer their pro fessional service to the good people of Anson and contiguous territory. . A DAUGHTER OF CAIN. W. A. E0SE, GEp)LIURAItCEGEliT. Represents the leading Fire and Life Insur ance Companies. " . Office Martin Street, Wadesboro, N. C. 8 W. F. GRAY, D. D. S.5 DENTIST, (Office Over L. Huntley's Store,) " Wadesboro, North Carolina. ALL OPERATIONS WARRANTED. 26-tf DE. J. 0. BROWN, Surgeon Dentist, ANSONVILLE, N. C, Offers his professional services to the eiti izens of Anson and adjoining counties, and will visit any neighborhood where there is Dental work tojustify. I will be at Wadesboro on Monday, Tues day and Wednesday of court week. RAPHAEL ALLEN, Barber. HAIR CUTTING, SHAMPOOING Shaving, &c, dona with neatness and dispatch. Shop near Mr. Bruner's Bakery. Anson Institute, . WADESB0K0, N. C. D. A. McGregor. X ii.. Principal.- THE FALL TERM BEGINS MONDAY. SEPT. 3rd, 1888. Trrmow iw Literary Department S2. $3 and $4 per month. music $4 permontn. WHo deduction made for lost time. Polkton Academy, POLKTON, N. C. . REV. JNO. P. BOYD, Principal. J. M. SIMPSON, Associate. TERMS PER MONTH: Primary Course, - - ' - - f 1.00 Preparatory Course, f 1.60, $2, $2.50, 13.00 -No deduction for lost time. Tuition nava- ble at end of each school month. For furth er information apply to .jusv. Jixo. r. BOYD, Polkton, N. C. O 1889. MALE and FEMALE. :-;v - o -Fall Term begins August 8th, . ' o- R. L. SMITH, Ph. B., 4 Principai, MISS VIRGINIA LILLY, Assistant. O- We offer all the advantages of a first-class High schooL Instruction is thorough, vigor ous and practical. Building new aud con venient. Furniture neat and comfortable. The health fulness of the village and commun ity Is unsurpassed. Students prepared for college, or the active duties of life. Expenses are very moderate.; -, ; , TUITION : Primary Jepartment, ; $1.50. " Academic Departmnnt, $3.00 to $3.00 Music, (Piano or Xrgan), , $3.00 Board, including furnished : : room and wood, $6.50 to $7.50. We respeotfully Solicit the patronaee of all those who are seeking the 'advantages of a nrat -class mgn Bcnooi. or lutoer lntorma tion address the Principal at- -' - " ; : - . ; . , NORWOOD. N. C. T. J. LNQRAiyi, Corner Wad and Ruthrfor4 streets, . WADESBORO, N. C, , Will continue to furnish " j his patrons with ,aB:E-;EyFj-- Mutton, Pork, Poultry, Butter, Lg-gs, trresri uysters, Fish, Fruits and Vegetables, And whatever else can satisfy the uppetite of a gentleman always giving the best the market affords. I will pay the highest m" ket price for Cow? Hogs, Sheep, Chicken. , Eggs,5,,&.c,.. ' . 27tf BY S. J. JESSAMINE DICKSON AND MRS. M. r. DAVIS. CHAPTER XXIX. 'EARTH TO EARTH , DUST TO DUST, ASHlfiS TO ASHES.' Go, when the hunter's hand hath wrung From forest cave her shrieking young, And tame the lonely lioness But soothe not, mock not my distress!' Almost three weeks bad passed sence Violet Marvin's flight long, weary weeks of suffering to her wretched father, who during the time had been hovering, as it were, be tween life and death. But now the critical period had passed, and he. was able to leave his couch and sit an hour or two each day in his easy chair, but' he was greatly changed. In those weeks of ' both mental and physical suffering, his brown locks bad become sprinkled with silver, and a restless, uneasy light had come into his calm eyes. On the evening when we again vis it Sunnyside, we find him sitting alone in his room, where Mrs. Mar vin after making him comfortable, had left him for a few moments, promising to return in a short time, tor during his illnes she had been un-. ceasing in her attention and all who saw her bendingabove his couch with such tender solicitude, went away, saying: 'What an exemplary woman is Mrs. Marvin, and what an affectionate wife!' But to return to the invalid.. He was lying back in his 'easy chair, his eyes closed and his pale lips moving as if in prayer. The door opened softly and Olaud- ine glided into the room, but he neith er saw her, nor knew of her presence until witn quiet tread she approached him and touched tier warm lips to his brow. Then he started nervously and unclosing his eyes looked up in 'Oh ! is it you. Claud ine?' 'he said. while something of disappointment crept over his face. Yes, papa, it is I.' was the soft re ply, as she sat down on an ottoman at his feet and laid her cheek against nis Knee in a caressing, cnild-like way. He smiled faintly, and putting out his emaciated hand laid it on the flossy waves of" silken hair that crowned her head. Won't you love me just a little papa, and let me be ycur daughter?' she murmured. The quick tears sprang to his eves. as he made answer; 'Yes, CLiUdine, I love you. and you shall indeed be my own dear daugh ter. 'And I will love you ever so much more than I ever have, because you need my love more now,' she whis pered, drawing close to him and clasp ing his tbin hand in her own. 'Heaven bless you. my daughter! I never knew your true worth until now,' he said in a voice husky .with emotion. 'Aud ir ay Heaven bless my dear Eapa and restore him aain to health,' reathed the deceitful lips. Thank you. darling.' be murmured leaning back and closing his eyes, as it by the act he would shut out a painful memory. At tnat moment Mrs Marvin re turned and with an approving smile at Claudine, she bent over her hus band and touched her hps to his brow, saying in her soft, peculiar-voice:. 'Do you feel sufficiently rested to lie down, Randall, dear? I think you nave sat up quite long enough.' ' What a tyranical nurse you are I he said with a feeble smile. 'You will make me believe. Ran dall, that I am Some dreadful ogre. 1 am trying to' attend to your com fort, sir. and for my pains get accus ed of tyranny. If you do not forth with reform I will leave you to take care of yourself, sir,' she said with a gay laugh. ' - 'Do not mnict such dreadful pun ishment as that Hester, on your poor. weas patient, tor i tear tie would suffer sadly if left in his present con dition to see after his own comfort,' he said, smilingly. 'Then he must be careful' how he talks to his nurse.; But, by the-way, Randall, dear,' try and cheer up, it renders me wretched to see you so sad and listless,' she said, her words felling soft and anxious, as she bad intended tbey should, on his ear. . 1 do not feel now. Hester, dear wife, as if I could ever aeain be cheerful. I have been sorely tried, and a sword has entered my heai t and souL : Would I could cast off the agony which binds me like a clank ing chain, but it is impossible im possible 1' he cried, wringing his hands hard together. . I know it is a sore trial .'my noor dear husband,' murmured, the wicked woman kneeune at his side, and laying her arm about his neck, -'but is it right to make all your life drear and gloomy, when there are others wno iook to you for happiness. I am as devoted to you, Randall, as I was on the first day of our marriacre. but you will make me think, dear, by aua oy, tnas you nave lost all love for me.' - - '.'''Not so, my . wife,' : he ' responded, putting his feeble arm about her, "you are as dear to me as in the early days of our union, and I would not have you think otherwise.' 'Then endeavor to be cheei fuL Ran dall. .--r "T ' " , 'Fof your sake, I will, dear. " - At that moment a servant entered the roorat3say uig : ; -. . , j j - 'Miss Hester, there's a gentleman in the pariah as says he's f rum the city, an . wants to see you or Mas ter Randall quick as he. kin, Go meet him my love,' said Mr. Maryin. t ' . S - She rose without replying aod went out." Ua reacniag tne parlor, a mid d'e-aged gentleman came forward. and after introducing himself led her to a sofa, saying : . 'My dear madam, it is my. painful :, . ' ' ' duty to-be the bearer of sad tidings to your happy home. Here he paused, and with a 'rapid paling of the cheek, and a sudden wild fear clutching at her heart, Mrs. Marvin caught his hand saying: Sir, what evil tidings do you bear? Speak out I beseech you !' 'Can you bear It?' he said, compas sionately. "Yes yes 1 1 can bear anything but this suspense.' Without another word he drew a dispatch from his pocket, and read off the contents, but Mrs. Marvin only heard thesa words: 'Terrible Railway accident. Miss Violet Marvin, of Lousiana,was mor tally wounded and died a few hours after the disaster. Her remains will be sent on today.' Pale to the lips sat the woman. Not a word escaped her, but a thousand thoughts were surging through her mii; and in that moment, when the hear,t of a good woman would have bled with sorrow, that of this evil being's swelled with a wild, exultant joy. The man mistook her statue-like stillness for the dumbness of despair ing grief, and clasping her hands, he said compassionately: 'Poor mother, from my heart I pity youl' Oh, sir ! I pity myself, ' she cried, in a well assumed tone of grief. 'She was only my step daughter, but she was dear very dear to me. - Itan dall I Randalll bow shall I -break this terrible news to you?' wringing her hands as is if in an agony, then sud denly turning to the man, she cried: Will you not break this to my husband? He is, ill unable to leave his room, and if you will releive me of this painful duty Heaven will bless you for the kindness.' The man, evidently a gentleman, regarded her pityingly, as he replied : ; 'If it is your desire that I should perform this sad duty, of course I can not, nay, will not refuse.'. : ' 'Oh, tha ik you sir! Come, xand I will show you to his room. 4 ;. " ' As she spoke she led the stranger away. At the chamber door, she paused to whisper; 'Break it to him gently as you can, he is very feeble,' then admitting him, she closed the door and. return ed to the parlor. -- 'Dead I dead' she exclaimed, sinking on a chair, while an expression of almost demoniac joy overspread her dark face. 'Now indeed, I am safe now indeed, I can bid them all de fiance. Not one obstacle remains in my way. Violet is dead, Mark Mer rick is as gcod as buried, for Palmer will never release him, knowing if he should, he himself will meet with exposure. Claudine will heir all this immense estate, and if I can accomp lish a union with St. Orme my great est ambition will be attained. I in tend my child to be a lady and to move among the proudest. Not one shadow of her mother's past can darken her prospects, for it is as if entombed and the great seal of 6ilence set upon it. .Hal hal what does proud society know of the wealthy Randall Marvin s wire, and what will it ever know of her? Nothing nothing! Leagues of land and water lie between those who alone can do her harm or blot out her triumphs 1' ine words had scarcelv left her lips when the stranger returned to the room, and with her handkerchief to her eyes. Mrs. Marvin ent for ward to meet him. 'How, did my pool husband hear the tidings?' 'l-scarcely know 'he has notsDoken since the tejegram was read. uq, my poor dear Kandalll I fear the blow will prove his death. Oh, Violet, my darling I how will we bear it?' 'Do not give u to erief. Be bravn for your husband's sake.' the man said, with an honest ring of sympa thy in his .voice. 1 will, sir, I will trv !' she cried. lifting her head and pressing her handkerchief to her eyes. :.Can you tell me w hen the remains of mir darling will arrive? To-morrow,' he said, then with a sympathetic pressure of the hand he lert ner. she watched bim a mo ment, then walked slowly toward her husband's chamber. He was still sitting in his easy chair his face as devoid of color as the face of the dead and his eyes rixed on vacancy. VKandall, dear, speak to me ' aim said, bending above him. Violet, my. Violet. was the onlv reply that came from' his pale lips. 'Randall, speak. to me.' she repeat ed kneeling at his side and taking bis cold hands in her own. 'Yes' he muttered. 'I drove her out to a cruel death.' ' 'Randall! Randall! why do you not look at me?' 'Yes, my dear, it was a railway ac cident, and my Violet was killed. Did be not tell you? passing his band accross his brow. It was in vain that she attempted to attract bis attention, for say - what she would only the words 'My Vio let,' or some incoherent expression would answer her. Thus he remained until the succeeding morning when suddenly rousing himself and fixing his eyes on Mrs. Marvin's face, he asked : .r.v Will my child be here today?' " Receiving an answer in the affirm ative, he again closed his eyes. According to Mrs. Marvin's direc tions the funeral obsequies were to take place . at the house at three o'clock, ofter which the young girl was to be laid tcTrest in the family burial ground at Sunnyside, by Ran dall Marvin's first wife. . . When the hearse draped ' in heavy mourning arrived on - the following day. it wad followed bv a train of carriages, from the-city containing a nuuiDer ot Air. Uarvin s friends who bad come to pay their last tribute of respect to his fair,'; young daughter. With reverent hands they.- lifted the costly casket with its glittering silver plate from the pluned hoarse and bore it iuto the morning parlor. Depositing it here, the glass door was uncovered giving s full vjy of the marble like face se$ in its sheau of golden hair. - ' ' ' . The friends wfco . had come from J . X'K -' ' ?'- tt -w ..... f the city were conducted to their re-1 epective-chambers and their comfort looked after by weeping servants, who could not. restrain their grief. In the meantime a number of them bad gathered about the still form in the parlor and were sobbing and j moaning out their sorrow. Among them stood aunt Dinah and the ever faithful Bera, both weeping as if their hearts would break. Ob, my poor, dear, dead Mies Vi' let!' sobbed aunt Dinah, as she crept away from the room, meeting in the doorway Mrs. Marvin and Claudine both of whom were robed in the deepest and heaviest of mourning: As they entered, the blacks instant ly withdrew, and while the two wo men stood and looked down upon the white face of the beautiful sleeper an evil joy filled the wicked heart of each and an exultant light glowed upon their faces. 'See,' said Claudine, pointing to the rich laces resting like a veil of mist on the lovely neck and should ers and extending to where the satin waist became discernable ; 'her trunk must have been saved, for tbey have robed her in her ball dress. It al ways has been a standing wonder to me how she managed to get her trunk away. Some of the blacks assisted her. Mr. Marvin unaware that the re mains had arrived, remained as if in a deep stupor from which he did not awake until the fo. lowing morning, when rousing himself and finding no one in the room, he arose and began dressing himself, having just com pleted bis toilet when Mrs. Marvin entered the chamber. 'Did you say my' Violet would be here today?' be asked evidently la boring under the impression that the previous stay had not yet passed. 'Yes,' she replied, taking his band endeavoring to lead him toward his couch.' 'But lie down, Randall, you are too feeble to sit up.' 'I must receive my child,' he said, staggering forward and sinking upon a chair. It was Mrs. Marvin's intention to have the corpse buried if possible, before he knew of its arrival, but in this she was foiled. He remained quiet until the people be gan to gath er for the burial service, then his quick ear caught thesubdued murmur of voices, and he refused to be longer deceived. 'Hester, Violet has come and I must go to her,' he said. Finding that she could no longer deceive bim, she took his band and led him slowly toward the parlor. Pitying eyes were bent upon bim, as be entered the room eyes which wept copiously, as he looked down on the marble face, and then with the one heart broken wail : 'Oh, Violet I my Violet' Violet!' he sank on his knees by tho casket while sob after sob as if wrung from bis inmost soul, sprang from bis pal lid lips. Some one attempted to draw him away, but with strength unnatural for one in his feeble condition, he put them from him, saying: Leave me alone with my dead. I can not and will . not be separated from my child! Oh, God! pity my distress, and have mercy upon roe ! The waters have gone over my bead the deep waters of affliction. Oh, Violet, my daughter, would to God I had died for the!' Thus in his heart's deep anguish unconscious of the sympathizing eyes that witnessed his sorrw, he knelt there and wept, moaning like a grief stricken woman. At last the minister entered, read ing the impressive burial service, and as the concluding words fell from his lips, Mr. Marvin sank for ward in a death-like swoon. While tender bands drew him away, the burial procession passed from the house and eutered the en closure where lay the first mistress of Sunnyside; and there with the solemn words "Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust," they laid the dead Violet Marvin down to rest by the side of the living Violet's mother. TO BE CONTINUED. Polygamy Dying oat In Utah. Mr. Springer's report on the bill for the admission of Utah as a State of the Union, made to the last Con gress, gives the latest and best inter esting authentic information to be had on the subject of polygamy in that territory. From the paper, which seems to deal frankly with the .sub -ject, the inference is drawn that under the repressive influence of the acts of Congress and the activity of the prosecutions, . by the Federal courts polygamy is gradually being extirpated. It is not denied by the advocates of admission that "the in stitution" is upheld by the Mormons, or that polygamy is not practiced in the Territory, but that less than one per cent, of the population are men having more than one wife; that Ihe doctrines of the Mormon Church do not command polygamy, but only permit it; that while, by the creed of the church, it is permissible, ii is only permissible where there is no law of the State to the contrary, and it is proposed by those favoring admis sion to forever prohibit plurality of wives by constitutional provision, and indeed, that in fact such a pro vision has been incorporated in the constitution as drafted already for the new State. They further claim that polygamous marriages have ceased to be solemnized, and that in the near future the practice will have ceased to exist. - Blair Says It'dall Right. Mr. S. O. Blair, Chicago, says "We could hot .keep house without your Clarke's Extract of Flax Skin Cure and Cough Cure. We have used both for numerous troubles, espec ially for our child. We lecomend the Cough Cure to every family having childreu. We use it for Whooping Cough with remarsabiy quick and satisfactory results, aud use it for any and every cough (he family may have." Only one size, large bottle. Price $1.00. If you want the best toi let soap get Clarke's Flax Soap. 25 cents. Ask E. A. Covington & Cb's t .1 .- - 41 uj;g iota, iur menu preparations, Helping to Bang Himself. In a handsome mansion situated in a lonely part of England there re- I sided, a few years ago, a maiden lady of considerable wealth. One morn ing ehe was discovered foully mur-1 dered. Her man servant, named Lee, was suspected, arrested and convicted on circumstantial evidence and sentenced to be baneed. So conclusive was the evidence against the prisoner that no attempt what ever was made on the part of the LI:. . - , . puuuu 10 inuuee tne nome secretary to exercise executive clemency. The day of the execution having arrived, tne prisoner was led forth to sutler the extreme penalty. The rope to be used, the texture of which was silk and hemp, had been, as is cus tomary in such cases, tested with the aid of sandbags and was not found wanting. The bolt was drawn and the prisoner was given a drop of eight feet. The rope broke. The prisoner walked, unaided, up the steps leading to the scaffold, and af ter the rope had been fixed again and the noose adjusted the bolt was drawn for the second time. The rope orose again. Lee was by this time considerably stunned. However, after the lapse of a few moments he again ascended, unaided, the steps, and after doing all in his power to allay the nervous ness of the hangman, assisted the latter in once more fixing the rope. The prisoner fixed himself on the trap door, the bolt Was pulled, and the condemned man dropped once more out of view. The rope parted for the third time. After considera ble delay Lee once more placed him self in the executioner's hands, but that personage and the other officials, terrified at what seemed a divine in terposition, refused to proceed furth er with the business. The facts were reported to the home secretary, who at once respited the prisoner, con demning him to imprisonment for life. Three years later a woman, who was Lee's fellow servant, confessed on ber dying bed that it was she who killed her mistress. She declar ed that Lee had no connection what ever with the affair and stated facts strongly confirmatory of her confes -sion. Instances may possibly have oc curred in which an equal amount of physical courage has been displayed, but outside of the pale of fiction there cannot be cited a single instance in which bravery ever played a more conspicuous part than in the incident above detailed. Old Style and New Style Youths Companion. The Julian celendar was in use throughout the civilized world from the time of Julius Caesar, about half a century before Christ, until the year 1582. It was generally known that this calendar made the year too long, the excess was about three days in four hundred years, so that any given date had moved forward, by the end of sixteenth century, about ten days. To correct this error, and make the course of the year correspond with the course of the sun. Pope Gregory A.111. ordered ten days to be dropped. from the 4th to the 15th of October. and provided against any variation in the future by giving the year its due length, and nothing more. This was done by decreeing that years divisible by one hundred should not be leap years, except those which are divisible by four hundred. Thus the years 1900 and 2100 will not be leap years, but the year 2000. will be. The suggestion of the Pope was im mediately acted upon by most Cath olic nations, but in 1582, under Queen iuizaoetn. tne relations oetween Jng land and Rome were not cordial. The "New Style," as it was called. was adopted in Scotland in 1600, but in England it was not until 1752 that Gregory's calendar was adopted. At that time the necessary corection tad grown to eleven days. Russia still holds to the "Old Style," and the difference between the two styles has incresed to twelve days. There is one thing to be kept in mind, as we read of the festivals which were observed in England, and in these Colonies, before 1752. Most of our literature relating to May -Day, for example, is of that early period, or traditional in its character. Tennyson speaks of it very much as Milton did, and Milton follows the account given by Chaucer. In reality, those earlier poets were describing a day which corresponds with a later day of May from the 8th to the 10th. It is, per haps, from this circumstance that we have the impression that spring used to come earlier, and with a more genial air. The same .caution ia to be observed in regard to -the old-time Christmas season. Only a' little more than a hundred years ago people here and in England .kept the festivals, so far as it was observed at alL on what is now called the fourth day of Janu ary.. Sjyaician Cotrfettt. All honest, conscientious physicians who give B.' B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm) a trial. Frankly admit its superiority over iu, other blood medicines. . Dr. VV. J 4dair, R.ockmart, Ga writes: "I regard B. B. B. as one of XheJbest hlood medicines." Dr. A. H. Roscoe, Nashville, Tenn., writes. "All reports of B B B. are favorable, and iU speedy action is truly wonderful" - Dr. J. VV. Rhodes, OrawfordsvOle, Qa., writes: "I confoss B B B is the best ad quickest medicine for .rheumatism I have ever tried." Dr.S. J. Farmer, Crawfordsville, Ga., writes: "1 cheerfully recommend B JB B as a fine tonic alterative. Its use cured an ex crescence of the neck after other .remedies effected no perceptible good," . Dr. C H. Montgomery. JaeksemUle, Ala,, writes: " "My mother insisted qn taj getting B. B. B. for her rheumatism, as her ose stubbornly resisted the usual remedies. She experienced immediate relief and her improvement-has been truly wonderful." A prominent physician who wishes his name not given, says; "A patient of mine whose case of tertiary syphilis was surely killing him, and which no treatment seemed to check, was entirely cured with about twelve bottles o B.B.B. He was fairly made up of skin and bones and terrible ulcers." POOR FARMERS. Some Good Advice From Bill Arp. Atlanta Constitution. . But things are not as bad as they seem. . It is just as natural for peo ple to grumble as it is for them to eat. Most everybody grumbles, and it is a fact that the average farmer is a grumbler. He really has but two persons to grumble at. and those are God and himself, and as he won't complain ofvthem he growls at ev ery Dody else. The farmer really has about as good a time as anybody else. I mean the farmer in the South. The very fact that most of the prosperous farmers move to townis a sign that they are able to move and that they want the privileges of schools and churches and society. They don't sell their farms but they rent them or farm on shares. Nabor Freemaa has moved to town and Nabor Mun ford and Nabar Bufurd. Caotain Lyon is coming and Mr. Tumlia and several others, bufthey have no idea of giving up their farms. It is a common mistake that the Northern farmer is more prosperous than the Southern farmer. He farms better and works harder and is more eco nomical, but his competition is ruin ous. He can't get cost for what he produces. The whole concern is in debt. I saw it stated not long ago mat tne larms or new xorfc State would not sell for enough to pay the mortgages if a cash sale was forced upon them, and that Ohio and Illinois were in the same fix. An Elmira paper is before me and says there were 638 mortgages recorded within the last twelve months on the farm ing lands of Chemung county. These mortgages covered ' more than that number of farms and aggregated three hundred and eight thousand dollars. That is just one year's work. The editor says that the aggregate of previous mortgages that are unpaid runs up into the millions. He- says the county assessors report a steady depreciation of farming lands, and that many of them will not now bring the amount they were mort gaged for a few years ago. The Connecticut bureau of labor statistics says that on one thousand average farms they found that fifty four per cent were worked at a positive lues and the rest at a nominal profit, and that large tracts of land have been abandoned to grow up in forests and briar. The same paper speaks of the returns from fourteen counties in New York State that are in as bad a condition as Chemung, and that the insurance companies who loaned the money will not be able to get it back. And yet he says these farms are ev erywhere interspersed and environed with all kinds of manufactories. Think of that, you Southern farmers, and be thankful that you live in a land where you don't have to work one half the year to support you yn winter quarters the other half. A land where your cattle and sheep and hogs can almost winter them selves. Now let us hear no more of the prosperity of Norihern farmers, or of their growing rich through the be nign influence of a protective tariff ("that gives them a home market at the factories. The truth is the North is weakening under climactic inflii ences. It takes too much to build barns and winter stock and provide cellars and bins for their potatoes and apples. The only drawback upon the pros perity of our farmers is that they don't work enough, and they neg lect the side 6hows that are better than the circus. They rather buy a mule or a horse than to raise one. I was looking at a beautiful two-year-old filly that Gus Bates raised and asked bim what it cost to raise her. and be said: "Nothing nothing at all. I never missed what she cat." Well, he can get $150 any day for that colt. Every substantial farmer ought to raise two or three a year, iust like they do in Kentucky and Tennessee, and he ought to raise a few cattle and sheep and bogs to sell. I gave a man two dollars for that pet pig that eat up the hen's nest and that pig never cost him a cent and he sold four more the same day and the old sow will have three litters a year. Every farmer ought to raise apples and peaches and grapes and straw berries and have some to sell. He ought not to buy a sweet potato nop an Irish potato, but he ought to sell some. I have never seen our market glutted with anything that is good to eat. CROUP, WHOOPLSO COUGH' and Bronchitis immediately relieved' by Shiloh's Cure. Fox sale by Me London & rVrsous. , The Different Stagrs at Which They Entered the Gatua. Bill Arp, in Atlanta Constitution. , The Methodists and Baptists have been the pioneers for a century, and carried their relglon into the wilder ness and PStahliahMl r-.ivi lira Linn They drove mules and drove ox wag-. I 1 a t 1 S - V . a uuu bqu uieareu me lauu, ouut jqg churches, and when everything was sorter comfortable the Presbyterians came riding up in their buggies and rockaways and settled among tbeinr and planted out shade trees and 1-00 bushes and built a church with a steeple and set up the Shorter Cate chism and predestination, and moved around as though they were the elect. By and oy, when two or three rau roads were built, and the shade-treta " had all ground up and the greeit grass was groweng all around and around, and the streets were macad amixed. and an opera house built, the Episcopalians came alou jn apoetol ie succession. wiiB ntately steps and prayer-books aud Lent and Mardi Gras all mixed up together, and they bobbed up serenely into a find church with etamed glass windows and as sumed I) be ilte saints for whom the world was made in six days, and all ery od. . ; Thejuadiea UeUbted.t . : The pleasant effect aud the perfect safety with which ladies may use the liquid fruit laxative. Syrup of Figs, uuder all Conditions make it their favorite iemedy It is pleasing to the eye and to the tasje, gentle, yet effectual in aotincr nri Mi liKtiwn Oliver aud bowels. For sale by Me- Lenuou Cv i arsons. d
The Messenger and Intelligencer and Ansonian (Wadesboro, N.C.)
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