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JAMES C. DOYLltl, Publisher.' NEW SERIES-YOL. IIMO. 51.. ; The Wadesboro Messenger and Wadesboro Intelligencer Consolidated July,1iC88; . WADESBORO, N. C., THURSDAY, Al'ItIL 3, 1890. PRICE, SI..60 a Year.il WHOLE NUMBER, 502. NOTHING SUCCEEDS " LIKE SUCCESS. The reason RXDAITS MICROBE KILLER is the most wonderful med icine, ia because it has never failed in any in stance, no matter what the disease, from LEP POST to the simplest disease known to the human system. The scientific men of to day claim and prove that every disease is CAUSED BY MICRO RES, RAD AM'S MICROBE KILLER Exterminates the Mfc bes and di-ives them oat of the system,and when that is done you cannot hove an ache or pain. No matter what th disease, whether a simple case of. 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And t have Just received a large and selected etocx oi uenerai uerenanoise which 1 ai Forced to Mark Down at the lowest prices to keep the W hale from getting them. Come and get bargains and See The Whalei i est prices paid for all kind of conntfy 7( JO H27 A. KENDALL. By BAEQLAT K0ETH. (Ooprrishted, Ifefl, by O. M. Danhara. ' Published by special arrangement through Tbe American . Press Association. ) . . ., , . . . CHAPTER XXL TOM MEETS WITH A CRUSHER. HE satisfaction with which . Tom reviewed hii work was mixed with wondet that . Fountain sliould have been so easily and rap idly trapped. i He marveled that the police authorities had not seen that th obvious thing-tc do was to discover at once where th clothes worn by the murderer were pur chased. It was true, he admitted, that he had had an ad vantage in determining whe the purchaser was, through Holbrook'i acquaintance with Flora Ashgrove, but why had not the detectives of , the regu lar force found out, a3 he had done, where the clothes had been bought? He was in high glee over his discovery, and much pleased with himself. The facts were indisputable, and were to be recognized at a glance. . There was the conversation between -Flora and Fountain on the veranda at Newport, and there was the identifica tion of Fountain with the man who had purchased the one suit which had noi been bought by the U. S. Ts. .While these wero not conclusive, still they were sufficient to justify the immediate arrest of Fountain, when the facts necessary for proofs before the jury could be easily brought out by judicious inquiry. To construct the chain of evidence which would convict Fountain in court was work for the authorities, not foi ;hiat He had. d etected the criminal, and that was all that could be demanded of him, and all that he had set out to do. : It was thus tilled with triumph that he sought Holbrook to consult with him as to the next step the placing of all the facts before the 'district attorney. - To his surprise no less than to his indigna tion, he found the lawyer loath to gc further in the matter. . So long as there was a question ol doubt involved in the investigation, Hol brook had been earnest and energetic, but now, when all question of doubt had vanished when the identification was complete, he hesitated, "baulked," as Tom said, "right at the finish. " Tbe fact that Flora Ashgrove would be inevitably drawn into the matter dis turbed Holbrook greatly. While all the tenderness with which lie had formerly regarded her was wholly dissipated, still it seemed a horrible thing to him, that she should be dragged to the witness stand and compelled; to give the evidence which would send to the gallows the man 1 she had shown she so deeply, and even wildly, loved. Ho shrank from the idea that he should be instrumental in putting her in such a position. ! With theso sentiments Tom could not, or at least would not, sympathize. It might be hard for her, but it was hard also for Annie Templeton that her brothel should be struck down and killed, and it was one of the inevitable consequences of Crime that the innocent suffered no less Mian the guilty, and while it was un fortunate that Miss Ashgrove was in the position in which she was, yet justfee must be done. To all of this argument Holbrook had no reply, and he realized he could make none. In the end, however, he gave a reluctant consent that everything should be laid before the district attorney, but he positively- refused to go with Tom to that official. J If he appeared at all in the matter, it ih.:!d only be as an unwilling witness, to toil how his suspicions of Fountain had been aroused, and he sin oerely hoped that even that much would not be- required, of him. , So Tom was compelled to go alone. " On his way he dismissed IloIbrOos's scruples as fanciful tol the last degree, and busied himself with, the order of the narrative which he was to submit to the prosecuting officer. On entering the office he saw the door of the private room was closed, and he was auoui k senu in nis cam, wnen a voice called out from an adjoining room --naUoTouiU Come in. Wliere have you been this month of Sundays?" v.-Tom passed into the room and saw an assistant xt 'the district attorney, in the center of a group of his fellow deputies. "Is the cliief engaged," asked Tom after salutatidns. -, . ' . . r - xes, was toe reply, wit only for a 6hort time. Come in; I was just telling the boys some of my adventures while yachting. We were out ia Teddy Bra ham's yacht only a small party, Jact Hanshaw, Fred Cox, Harry Fountain and myself." 'Who? Fountain?' "Yes, Harry Fountain, bo you know him? A fine fellow." "What Fountain?" asked Tom, some what interested; "Fountain of the Union and the Lambs athlete?" T . "The same. Why?" "Oh, nothing particular. When was this?" , : ; "Oh, let mo see. We were out the Kth, 16th, 17th and 18th of last month. We went on board the 14th at night, and sailed early the next morning.'' "Of August," said Tom, with sudden alarm. -"Hold on; where were you on the 17th?" :.-.: "We ran into Green port bay, about 9 o'clock at' night, under the brightest moon" .... "You are sure of that date?" queried Tom earnestly. "Why, yes. - Certainly., What's the matter with you?" "This la important, You'va rcade no mistake?" . - . , ''Mistake, no. -Here's my diary with the entry. See," and, he held it up for Tom to read. " For heaven's sake!" cried Tom, "let us "eet this straight. ' . When did that murder in Union square occur?" "Ask Jim there; it's his ease." - :"Yoa mean Templeton'sT asked the one referred to. "On the morning of the eighteenth, an hour after midnight." , "Great heavens I" cried Torn. They all stared atiiim. . He took the photographs out of his pocket . and handed them to the first speaker. ' "Was this the man the Fountain who was with you?" -"The very same. These are good pict ures of him?" , 1 "Was he never away from you during the trip?" "Never, from the time be joined us on the fourteenth.'' - Tom stood like one rooted to the spot. In the meantime the others looked npon him amazed. ' Finally Tom said: "I do not think I want to see the dis trict attorney after aU." , He turned on his heel without a word and walked out, leaving them wonder ing at his strange manner and questions. "He's been drinking,'' he heard one say. ' "One would suppose he thought. Foun tain had committed that murder," from another. . He paid no heed, but passed on and descended the stairs like one who had met with a distressful blow of misfor tune. 1 He walked along the street dazed, un heedful of all about him. , Without knowing just how h had gotten there he found himself in Broadway, opposite the postoffice. His emotions were difficult t6 analyze. Heartfelt - gratitude and thankfulness that the story had been told him before he had gone in tothe district attorney possessed him, but dominating every other sentiment was his feeling of keen and bitter disappointment. His quest had ended in failure, his triumph had turned to ashes. , He made his way hurriedly to Hol brook. The lawyer was erfgaged with a client, and Tom paced the outer office in a fever of disappointment, thankfulness, humiliation and even anger. How could he have been such an idiot a3 to have supposed Fountain could have been guilty of such a crime? he asked himself, and then in the most illogical way he found himself growing angry with Foun tain for going off on that yachting trip, and thus making it impossible for him to have committed the deed. N Unable to contain himself longer, he sent his card, on which was scribbled "Important. All the fat's in the fire," to Holbrook. . v Holbrook came out immediately. " He looked wonderingly at Tom, who bore the visible traces of his crushing de feat. "What's the matter, man?" asked Hol brook. v "Harry Fountain didn't commit the murder." Holbrook could not have suppressed Lis surprise if 'he had desired, nor his evident relief at the information. ' ' That increased Tom's bitterness. -why?" asked Holbrook. - "Do they know who did it?" "No." "How do you know, then, that he didn't?" "He was not within a hundred miles of , Union square when the deed was done." Holbrook told him to wait a moment and he would dismiss his client at once. This he did speedily, and calling Tom in made liim tell all that had occurred. There was silence at the conclusion. After a moment Tom said: "We are just where we were ten days ago. We ve been on a false scent" 'No, said Holbrook, "not quite. There is the motive we reasoned out this morning. We must now follow up the Pierson inquiry." "Until we get near the finish, when I. suppose you 11 baulk ayain," replied Tom bitterly. ' Holbrook raughed. "Be reasonable, Tom. You know it was a liaru thing to bring it lora Ash grove into the matter, and I am sincerely glad she is out of it." "Unless, said Tom. "Fountain -hired some one to do it.": "Oh, dismiss that idea," replied Hol- brook.- "Our suspicions of Fountain were caused wholly from our belief that Flora thought Fountain had himself done the deed. If her manner and words did not mean this, they meant nothing. No, the 'handsome Flora' herself has been on a wrong scent." "But she didn't think so without there was a reason for it." "You're right there, Tom. Now what was that reason?" - - "To find that out would put us on the light track again. By Jove, Holbrook, I've an idea. "Let us have it, then." "See, The Ashgrove girfthinks Foun tain did the murder. She hasn't told him of her belief, nor won't you remember the conversation. Now, she .still labors tinder that belief. You can go to her and earn her undying gratitude by dis abusing her niiiid of that error." "Well, what then?" "In her joy at finding that the object of her love is not a guilty man, she will tell you her reason for supposing he was." "You have an idea, Tom." "Yes, "and besides, she'll tell you who was the owner of the diamond button." "Surely. But she is still in Newport." "No," said Tom, 'T saw in this morn ing's papers that the Witherspoons have returned to the city." "Then I'll go to her this very day." "Do. And while you are on that line Fll - seek- . out Fountain, tell him my former suspicions, and ask his assistance in our effort." "He won't talk, to you." ' ".Well, I can try the same." ' Having agreed to this plan, and ap pointed a place of meeting they parted. ANOTHER CHAPTER XXIL VISIT TO THB FtORA." 'EAKDSOMB jfl: ... ROTJI the manner in which Flora had received him on the night he had met her at the Casino, Hol brook had no rea boq to suppose his visit would be met with much cordiality. Thereforewhen the servant re turned after he card, with the information that the lady was not at home, he was not surprised or disconcerted. : , "If that means," he said to the ser vant, "that Miss Ashgrove is denying herself to visitors this aftnrnnnn. nlmun say to the lady that- Mr. Holbrook calls i a. - npon Dusmess oi the utmost importance .and of unusual interest to her." The servant went away a second time, leaving him seated in the reception room, and returned to say that the lady would see him in a few momenta, He did not-wait long, for Flora, still in morning touet, followed the servant closelv. She was cold and hanvhtv in the extreme, but none the losslfcearied She saluted Mr. Holbrook, and with out waiting for a return, she said to the servant: ... "I am not at home to any other callers, no matter who they may be." ; She closed the door after her, and sat down in such a position that the light was upon Holbrook's lacex while her own was in the shadow. She waited for Holbrook to speak, turning npon him with a polite look of inquiry . . Her manner conveyed that the call was to be regarded as one purely of business. Holbrook felt it, and was stung by her manner. ; Upon her part she felt that the blow she dreaded so much was about to falL . Holbrook accepted the situation, feel ing that in the end he must win. . "I beg you will excuse my urgency," he began, "but necessity knows no law of etiquette or custom. The last time I had the honor-of . calling upon you, the conversation was wholly, if my memory serves me; upon the then recent mur der of Mr. Templeton. -1 desire to renew it." . Flora visibly paled under this exor dium. She replied: "The subject i3 not an agreeable one, but I suppose you have a purpose in re newing it." . "I have, and also a confession to make.", "A confession!" she repeated in sur prise." "Yes, a confession. From your man ner and from your words at that time, and subsequently from your manner at the Casino, where I metryou some days afterwards, I arrived at the conclusion that you suspected Mr. Fountain of hav ing committed the murder." "The dreaded blow has fallen," she thought,, as she gasped out, her face ghastly white, "but you did not know him; he told me so." "I learned who he was that night at the Casino," he replied calmly. "I feared so," she said, with 'a low moan. "And. yet he went to you the next morning. Fool, fool, fool, that he was!" . - "That conclusion," continued Hol brook, conscious he was torturing her as a cat does a mouse, "was strengthened by the report of an interview between yourself and Mr. Fountain on the veran da of your uncle's house at Newport." She sprang to her feet, nerved by the strong . tide of anger and contempt that swept over her. "And were you low enough, base enough, to spy upon us, or to place a spy upon us?" Holbrook was struck with her great beauty as she stood before him, burning with scorn, and he admired her. "No, Miss Ashgrove," he replied, quiet ly, "you wrong me. You are mistaken in both conjectures. I neither spied on you nor placed one on you. The report came to me in my professional capacity, after it was all oyer, and without, my knowledge that Mr. Fountain was being followed and watched. This, I say, con firmed the suspicions and strengthened my conclusions, but I desire to say to you now that both of us have been wrong. I hasten to inform you that Mr. Fountain did not commit the deed." "Did not!" The revulsion of feeling was too great. She sank back in her chair, and for a moment Holbrook thought 6he would swoon. He started up hastily to go to her as sistance, but she waved him back, and after a supreme effort regained control of herself. "How he is innocent?" "Yes, innocent. He was not within a hundred miles of Union square when the deed was done." x "And why do you. come to me with all this?" Having repossessed herself, she took refuge in haughtiness, while her manner was an assumption of extreme indiffer ence. - She made tlolbrook angry, ana it was with difficulty he could control himself. "You will pardon me, Miss Ashgrove, I hope, if 1 remark that your tone and manner are particularly offensive to me, and neither wise nor just. It is far from my purpose "to descend so low as to threaten a lady, but prudence should ' suggest to yoifthat it is not wise to show such contempt, whatever you, may feel, toward a man who is in possession of such knowledge as you know I am' "And pray, what may that be?" "That you love the man Fountain with a strong, powerful love a love which e.xc;tes my respect and admiration; that the object of that love is a man who lears a name by sufferance only, not by light; and that even when you. believed him to be a murderer you shed the bright light of your love upon him." "How do you know these things?" "They come to me professionally I am the legal advisor of the dead Temple ton's mother and sister.. "Mother and sisterl" she exclaimed. "I thought he had neither mother nor sister nor any relative." ."That is strange, since he was a rela tive of yours a remote one." Flora blushed. "That was a fib, Mr. Holbrook, I free ly confess it; I confess also in the game of wits I am beaten. Though I am not pleased that you know so much." "Be not alarmed. But one other per-t son possesses these facts, and you can rest assured neither he nor I have any desire to use the knowledge thus ob tained to your disadvantage or to that of Mr. Fountain." - "Thank you. But may I not ask what your purpose , is in -telling me these things?" - , - "I might fall back on' the statement," replied Holbrook smiling, "that having a feeling of regard for you I desired to relieve your mind of unjust suspicion against one ydu love so well and the en tertaining of which must have given you so much torture; but such statement would not be the whole truth, for I have another purpose as well, not an entirely unselfish one." "And that purpose is?" ' "Let me explain. The fact of Mr. Fountain's innocence came out inciden tally in the pursuit of certain inquiries and the proposed initiation of - some ac- tions touching the murder of Mr. Tem pleton, and perhaps it may be said also in an effort, feeble as yet, to connect the late Mr. Templeton with the late Mr. Pierson. '' I shall be very frank brutally so, I fear, Miss Ashgrove. The fact that you suspected Mr. Fountain of the mur der of Mr. Templeton that Mr. Fountain had remarked, with reference to an en terprise he was engaged upon, that Provi dence had removed Mr. Templeton from his path, and the final fact that that en terprise was made known to me by Mr, Pountain'8 call upon me, to be an effort to obtain the late Mr. Pierson's property. shows tpat in some way, unknown to i me, Mr. , Templeton was connected with Mr. Pierson. and the interests of Mr. Fountain and Mr. Templeton were an- . tagonistic. I have tbe audacity to ask you iri what way Mr. Fountain touched Mr. Pierson, and how it was that Mr.. Templeton's interests were antagonistic to those of Mr. Fountain? In that point lay your reason for accusing in your mind Mr. Fountain of the deed.". ; "May I ask to what use you would put the information were I to give it to you always presuming I had such informa tion?" "I believe I had the honor of inform ing you that I am the legal adviser of Mrs. and Miss Templeton. The interests of the brother are now the interests of the mother and sister." Flora showed clearly that the knowl edge of the existence of a mother and sister of Templeton was not pleasant to her, and- she remained in profound thought for a moment or two. Holbrook waited patiently for her to speak. Finally she said: ''",rZm' "Mr. Holbrook,' I shall not conceal from you that I know the relationship you ask to be informed of. In the brief time I've had to consider I have made up my mind that I cannot speak of it, for I cannot explain it without gi ring you secret3 1 have no right to give to a third person without the consent of Mr. Foun tain they are his they belong to him and concern him only. . You have reas oned most accurately. Therein lay the reason of my unjust suspicion of Mr. Fountain; the motive was so strong, and he himself felt the bitterness and disap pointment of finding Mr. Templeton in his way so much, that I feared in a mo ment of passion he had been lad into a frightful crime. I must, however, de cline to answer your question." Holbrook bowed courteously and re marked: "Of course, that sends me to Mr. Fountain." "If Mr. Fountain determines to in form you, I, of course, can offer no ob jection." "Perhaps you may find yourself able to answer another question?" Flora seemed to give him consent by an inquiring expression of face. "You will perhaps remember," he con tinued, "that on the occasion of our pre vious interview in this house I displayed k diamond button 1 had found that morning at the place of murder." "Perfectly well." "You seemed to recognize it then. May I ask to whom you thought it be longed?" "So," said the lady laughingly, but partly vexed as well, "your display of the button was a trap laid for me?" "I confess it. Laid on the impulse of the moment." "I have no objections to tell you, I had seen a similar one worn by Kendrick Noble." "Ahr "He was very proud of it, -as he, had inherited it from his grandfather, who had received it from an Italian nobleman in whose family it had been for, many generations. It was given the grand father hi recognition of some great serv ice rendered. Concerning Mr. Noble I presume you know quite as much as I do. He is but little more than an ac quaintance, a youfig gentleman of , our set." "What earthly connection can he have with the matter that puzzles me sor "That is for your astuteness to dis cover," replied the lady, not without the suspicion of sarcasm in her tones. "I cannot help you in that matter."' At this point Holbrook rose to take his leave, and as he did so Miss Ashgrove, rising with him, said: "I fear an apology is due you. But surely you will excuse a woman seeking to protect her secrets?" Holbrook began to feel ashamed of himself under the gentle dignity of her apology, and felt it almost a rebuke; so he replied: "The apologies should be mine for having performed a delicate task with much awkwardness and little kindness, Thus, with a better understanding between them than had existed since their first interview, and perhaps than ever before, they parted after a warm grasp of the hand. to be continued. "Forward. Youth's Companion. Uoniparatively lew persons inor dinary life have ever been thoroughly sleepy; bo sleepy, for instance, that they could drop off, an the common saying i?, while pistol shots were be ing fired all about them. Old soldiers. however, know only too well what such a state of exhaustion is like. During the latter part of this day's experience, writes a Massachusetts soldier, describing a forced march in IN or in Carolina, many became so tired that they slept while standing in the road during the numerous little halts when we were cautiously ad vancing; and when softly the order "Forward!' was jriveii, they would topple like tenplua before they could recover themselves. Whenever we were permitted to lie down, in epite of the roar of cannon, the rattle of musketry and bursting of shells, the majority would be asleep in an instant, only to be awak ened by that recurring "Forwai dp which seemed to be the onjy souud that reached their comprehension. mere was something so curious about .this that it excited universal comment. On the Goldsboro march a f oldier, sleeping, thoroughly tired out, with his feet to the burning stump of a tree for warmth, rolled over upon it, and eet his clothing afire. Two or three of his comrades seized him and shook him vigorously .shout ing themselves hoarse in trying to awaken him and warn him of his- danger; but he rolled like a dummy in their hand?, and slept on undis turbed till some .one mischievously uttered tbe command "Forward 1" when be was ou his feet in an instant. rubbing his eyes, and gathering him self tdgetSer ready to march. Are you restless at nitrht, and harrassedbv a bad cough! Use Dr. J. H. McLean's Tar Wine Luni; Balm, it will secure yon souud sieep, ana etiect a prompt ana radical cure, If you suffer pricking pains on moving the eyes, orcannot tear bright light, and find your sight weak -and failing, you should promptly use D. J. II. Melon's iiti eugtaea- B S -' lve. 25 teats a box. . THE OLD TIMES AND THESE. Comparison Instituted Between Them, to tbe Disadvantage of "Tbe Good Old Days." Baltimore Sun. Rev. -Dr. J. J. Lafferty, editor ftf he Richmond Christian Advocate, lectured at St. iiPaul's Methodic, church last night. His subject was. What Is and What Has Been," and for nearly two hours the speaker held the clo3e and interested atten tion of a large audience. He said he was not one of those "who thought hat all the good things were in tbe past. "Who wants to go back to tbe days of John Randolph and Na thaniel Macon, who spent as many days in going to .Washington as it now takes hours f Who would want to go back to the days when every one thought it ueaes&ary to go through a course of medicine every spring to relieve him of the lassitude and spring lever; when be was dosed with a saucerful of sulphur and mo lasses, washed down with salts and senna? Or to the days when in New England a preacher could not make more than two visits, even on Suu- day, for fear he would be overcome by the New England rum he would be required Xo drink at each house, or when postage was twenty live cents on a letter, and when you paid your money the letter "Would be car ried by a man cn a epavined mare, aud then he would be com celled to wait at the ferry until the ferryman got sober t "The scenes witnessed in Congress a few days ago when the House was without rules was as nothing com pared to the encounters of one hun dred 3-ears ago. Who would co back especially of the girls to the good old limes of Washington, who, when he wanted to treat his girl to candy, had to send to Liverpool for t when the journey over and back ecupied four or five months? How her mcuth must have watered in the meantime. They say people -were a good deal belter way back yonder. Now, there is nothing like statistics to explode such ideas. They show that church membership has increas eJ eight times as fast as the popula tion. In the old days church bells. libraries and steeples were paid for from the proceeds of lotteries. Now the people are 60 moral that but one lottery exists in the whole country. and that will soon be without a place ia which to do business. Indeed, some states are so moral that they will not allow newspapers to publish tbe advertisements of such concerns. "And of the churches. When I was a boy the church members were so stingy that they would not pav for stoves to warm the miserable shanties they called churches, but would come there in their carriages n th powdered footmen, dressed in their fine auks, satisfied with the condition of the church. I went to preach once in May, and the people caa.e as usual in their carriages They had no blinds to the windows. and the sun poured in and warmed the room : it warmed something else. too. Beneath the church, all through tue winter, bogs were accustomed to shelter and five hundred flees came up from below and turned their at tention to the congregation, who iri turn turned their attention from the preacher and he shortly lost tbe thread of his discourse, owing to the attack of the same vermin. I sud posa no Deneaiction was ever more welcome. Those people were rich. but tuey prefered annoyances to church improvement. Now through all that country are handsome churches, with carpets and organs have dedicated church afier church, yet those people haven't a dime now where they had a half dollar then The churches that you see all through that country is an evidence that the piety of the people has steadily risen in the last forty years. "Just after the Revolutionary TFar nearly every scholar was an itifidel; they got their ideas from the French wno were our mends, jnow there is but one infidel and that is Col. Inger soli, who charges a dollar to tell the people there is uo bell, while on the opposite side stahds 70.000 preachers and 9,000,000 Sunday school scholars and teachers. Religion has put on seven league boots. The first tem perance organization was in 1859, and men who signed the pledge were going to pay a penalty of twenty five cents for "every drink taken except on the Fourth of July, muster days, Christmas and other holidays, aud the few people who signed were call ed fanatics. Consider how the church looked at the qnesiion then. It drew the line at treating except on extra' ordiuary occasions, and the Metho dist Church passed a law that uo minister addicted to alcoholism could retain his standing. Drinkiug was the cuilom of the time, aud the first act of hospitality was to offer the guest something to driuk. It was ex pectea. feopie oaa a poor opinion of the man-who neglected it. - They bad immense orchards iu those days and were at a loss for some use for the apples. They could not feed them all to the hogs for fear they would make the animals sick. They had - uo railroad's to carry them to tuark and they could not matte them into ciaer ana viuegar fur waul of mar ket, and so each man bet up u still and turned tbe apples into brandy 1 Oue niuu, tio waa bort of a publUa er. proposed a supp'y of hymn books Hecarried an armftill to his stillhouse to sell to his neighbors. .When trade was dull he would pour out a cup of brandy and while inhaling its aroma would open a hymu book and sing Corse Tbou Fount of Every .Bless- ng. 'Who would go back to the poli tics of those days which improbable as it may teem, were worse than to day? TTiey, would attack a man's home life. It is said of a certain wo man staying at the house of Wash ington that she published an affidavit n a newspaper, that in the little hours of the night she tripped across the hall, and placing her ear to the keyhole, beard Mrs. Washington lay ing down the law to the President. Could politics have descended to a lower dentlil The lecturer ppoke of the great im provements In the means of traveling of the vestibule cars of today. more comfortable than anything ei ther the four Georges could have commanded. He then passed in re- View the wonderful strides in the sci ences and the arts, and spoke of the marvelous growth of the newnpapers, the telegraph and telephone. Girl-Life in India. A HEIiMIT3 PROPHECY. New York Ledger. On the day "of her marriage, the East Indian girl is put into a palan quin, shut up tight, aim carried to her husband's house. Hitherto she has bi eu the spoiled pet of her moth er; now she is to he the uitie blave oi her mother-in-law, upon whom fehe is to wait, whose commands she is implicitly to obey, and who teaches her what she is to do to please her husband what dishes be likes bt6t and how to cook them . If the mother-in law is kind, she will let the girl go homo occasionally to visit her mother. Of her husbuud she sees little or nothing. Sho is of no more account to him thau a little cat or dog would be. There ia seldom or never any love between them, and. no matter how cruelly she may be treated, she can never complain to her husband of anything his mother may do, for he would never take his wife's part. Her husband sends to her daily the portion of food that is to be cooked for ber, himxelf aud the chil dren." When it is prepared, she places it on one large brass platter, and it is sent to her husband's room. He eats what he wishes, and then the platter is sent back with what is left for her and her children. They sit together on the grouud and eat Ike remaiuder, having neither knives, forks, nor spoons. While she is young, she ia never allowed to go anywhere. The little girls are married as yocng as three years of age: and. should the boy to whom such a child is married die the next day, she is called a widow. and is from henceforth doomed to perpetual widowhood; she can never marry ago in. As a widow, she must never wear any jewelry, never dress her hair, never sleep on a bed noth ing but a piece of matting spread on the hard brick floor, and sometimes. in fact, not even that between her and the cold bricks; and, -no matter bow -cold the night might be, she must bave no other covering than ihe thin garmeatshe has worn in the day. She must eat but one meal a day. and that of t he coarsest kind of food, aud once in two weeks she must fast twenty-four hours; then not a bit of food nor a drop of water or medicine must pass her lips, not even if she were dying. She must never sit down nor speak in the presence of her mother-in law, unless command ed to do so. Her food must be cooked and eaten apart from the other wo men's. She is a disgraced and de graded woman. She may never even look on at any of the marriage cere monies or festivals. It would be an evil omen for her to do so. She may bave been a high caste Brahminic woman, but on her be coming a widow, any veven the lowest servants may order her to do what they- do not like to do. No woman in the house must ever spek one word of love or pity to her, for it is supposed that if a woman shows the slightest commiseration to a widow she will immediately become a widow herself. He had the Organ of ;DettrucU5nir Fully Develcpcd. Atlanta Constitution. In August, 1S57. the Bavarian All gemeine Zeitung printed a remarka ble prpphecy, which had ben mad by an old hermit-. many years be- fore. In it the rise of Napoleon III. was clearly outlined, as were also th Austro Prussian and the Franco Prussian wars and t!-e commune id Paris. He told bow the death of Pope Pius .would occur in 1876 or 77, and how it would be followed by it Turko-Prussian war, being but slightly wrong in either prediction. He said that Germany would bavo three Emperors inoie year before the end of the century, which was' verified to the letter. He misted it one1, at least, in the number ofUniled States Presidents that were to die by assassination, whidi was remarkably clcwe. He said that when the twentieth century opened Manhattan island and the whole of New York City would be submerged in the waters of lite Hudson, East river aud the bay; Cuba will break iu two, and the went half and the city of Havanua find a -watery grave. Florida and Lower California are to break loose from the mainland and carry their load of human freight to the bottom of the sea. The twenty-fifth is to be the last of the United Staves Presidents.and Ire laud is to be a kingdom and Eng land a republic by tbe end of the century. The United States ire to be divided and San Franc'fco, Salt Lake City, . New Orloaus, St. Louis, Washing ton and Boston are to be made capi-. tale. There should be some conso lation to the Mormons ia this, "if not for the other part of our great " union. , " To return to Earop9. The end of the century will not find either Italy or Franco ou the maps, and Barhu will have been totally destroyed by an earthquake. "Poor Mamma!" Youth's Companion. Not many things in the life of a boy seem more important to hiui than his first getting iuto trousers. It is to be doubted, indeed, if be is like ly to find much in his after life that will give a joy so keen and unmixed ; and when Master Jainte, baying reached "the mature age of "most five,'. as he put it, was given his first pair of knickerbockers, the wholo family were naturally called upon U rejoice with him. It was after his first transports of delight were over, and he was able to speak of the great event with calm uess, that Jamie came to his mother, aud after parading up and down be fore her two or three times, said, in a tone of perfect satisfaction : 0 mamma, pans make me feel so like somebody' l)ou t I look real grown up, irSAtnrua?,' His motuer smiling told him that he certainly did, and thai she could not feel that he was her baby any more. . "Didn't it make you feel grown up, mamma," Jamie began, "when you" He stopped short. It had evidently come to his mind that his mother had never known this deep delight which so filled his soul. He looked at her a moment, an expression of ihe deepest pity coming over bis faca, aud thru he took her hand iu both of bis and laiti it against his cheek. "Poor mamma!" be said, softly. "Poor mamma! If you'd been my little girl, I'd have let you wear pants just the same as if you'd been a boy." Paper Pillow a. The latest fad in England is paper pillows. The paper is torn into very small pieces, not bigger thau the fin gor nail, and then put into a pillow sack of drilling Or light ticking. They are very cool - for hot climates, and much superior to feather pillows. The newspapers are printing appeals for them for hospitals. Ne wrappers are not nice to use, as they have a dis agreeable oder of priu tor's ink ; but brown or white paper and old letters aud envelopes are the best. The finer the paper is cut' or loru, tha lighter it makes tbe pillow. The New Discovery. You have heard your friends and neigh bors, talking about it. Yoa may yourself bd oue of the many who know from pareunia! experience just bo w good a thing it is. If you have ever uiod it, yoa are one oi iu staunch f riomls, loause the woudei f ul thing atut is istii j.t wLou once giveu a binl, ln 4-in s JMe-- ULiCovery evj- atuir 1k.-I.Js a uico iu the iiuuh. If you have never ivmx! it uua iujuuiu Ixi aiuioteu wuu cou 'a.coiUt. auy lh;v&S, Liang Ot C'uoot Uou'olc, ecui-t a but- tlo at once aud Live it u fair trial. It Ul W'Wi euaivhteed every U:u, or uiouey rvfuaUod. vrwt ber ufe.U.eU e..rsir itU 'lit , 1 rial liutUa IVtKi ut ilcLcv-a l'-.--' "McIaW NwyU.i.iii: Cw.a" ' Inherited Blood Poison. How many people there are whose distress from sores, aches, pains and eruptive ten dencies are dne to inherited blood poison. Bod blood passes from parent to child, and it therefore is tbe duty of husband aud ift to. keep their blood pure. This is easily accooi-. plisLed by a timely use of BBB. (Butaniu Blood Baim). Uend to the Bluod RiimCu., Atlanta, for book of most convincing proof. James Hill, Atlanta, tf4k, writes: "My two sots were aillictod with l.lood poLon. which doctors suid was hereditary. T her " both broke out in sores and eruptions which SiiB. promptly controlled and finally cored completely." " - U11S.M. Williams, Sandy, Texas, writes "My three poor afflicted cliiidrdii, who in horiied blood poison, have ioipro-ved rapidly after a use of a. B. B. It is a G4 Mid." J. R. Wilson, Glen Alpine Station. N. C. Feb. 13, ISSj, writes: "Boue and blood pois on forced me to have my leg amputated, anl on thestnuip there came a large ulcer, whicU grew worse every day until ductors gave mo up to die. I ouly weighed 133 pouuda wbe.i I began to take'B. B. it. and 12 bottles in creased my weight to ISO pound? and made . me souiici and well. I noer knew what good health was before." . . . ileet your wife with apmUeon your lips,' says an exchange. Better wait until ihe odor of the 'smile hat abated somowhat, though. Texas Siffngn. Tbe first Step. JPerfcapa yoa are run down, can't eat. can't aleq), oui'i Uuiik, can't do anything to your satisfaction, and you wonder what ails yow. You heed the warning, you are taking tlx first step iuto INervwu frustration. 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The Messenger and Intelligencer and Ansonian (Wadesboro, N.C.)
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April 3, 1890, edition 1
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