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Ef A SINGHALESE" (il.EX
ADVENTURE OF AHEAlTIWaMKR.
A DESI'ERATE COMBAT.
Youth's Companion
In the autumn of Lh vr nf iqoi
when I had long suffered from what
1 believed incurable lung disease.
ine doctors sent me to Nuwara
"ja, on me interior plateau of
eyion, as a last resort. My wife
went with me. Indeed, but for her
x Bnouid not have eone at all.
was then twenty-four years old, and
ho1 k..An i .
"v uoou uiarrieu a utile over two
years. My wife is a Southern j?irl
Kcnciuus neariea, courageous and
1 O 1
resoiute, ioo. it was she, in fact.
wuo raaue trie fight for my life.
wnen l would bave surrendered in
mere lassitude and despair.
.Lnad tried Florida and Colorado
in vain. When told that I must m
luxuwara n,uya, i remonstrated,
"'nit. it'c t. ...
. "VT TKt- r P
v"i "-o 11 v use. j.i will Cost a
great deal and you will only have
I ? . . f . -
iue misery oi oaviner to burv me in
a distant land. It is only a question
of a few months. The doctor knows
it it he would only speak his mind."
"Morton, you are corner to Nu-
wara Eliya, and you are going to
get well!" cried the indomitable
wife, cheerily.
bo we packed off to San Francis,
co, sailed by Pacific mail steamer
for Yokohama and Hongkong, and
thence by steamer again for Cal
cutta and Colombo, the chief sea
port of Ceylon. Thence we ascend
ed by rail to the pleasant little semi
English city of Kandv and two
days later went up by stago-coacb,
n iour hours, to jn uwara Uiiva a
kind of natural sanitarium on the
tableland, six thousand three hun
dred feet above the sea.
The heat had affected me badly at
Colombo, but at Nuwara Eliya. I
felt better immediately. The air is
cool, but yet has no "shivers" in it,
such aa I so often felt in Colorado;
or Ceylon is near the equator.
There was a delightful freshness in
the atmosphere, and there were no
bad winds.
We remained at Nuwara Eliya
but a ftjw days, however, for we had
etters to an English family who
had moved to a still higher locality,
known as Porton Plains, several
eaguos distant. So we went on to
that place. They reckon the alti
tude at Ilorton Plains at about seven
thousand feet above the sea-level;
t is this height, of course, which
gives the climate freshness and cool
ness.
Pedrotallagalla, the highest peak
of Ceylon, is about eighty-three
hundred feet above sea-level; and
the famous Adam's Peak which we
passed on the railway trip from
Cjlombo to Kandy, is seventy-four,
hundred and twenty feet in latitude.
It will thus be seen that, within 80
miles of the sea, the interior plateau
of this sub-tropical island is situated
at an alpine eminence. Hence it
possesses many of the attributes of
the more noted mountain sanitari
ums of the great continents.
It is not my purpose to advertise
the interior.of Ceylon as a health
resort, nor even to advise invalids
to go there; for "climates" which
agree with one person may not be
auited to another. But Ceylon hap
pened to agree with meI felt bet
ter from the time of my arrival.
Previously I had felt very listless,
but at Horton Plains 1 was inclined
to be astir, out-oi-aoors, an aay
ong.
The English settlers to whom wo
had brought letters made us very
comfortable. It was not merely
that the food was excellent and the
accommodations altogether good:
they welcomed us heartily; they en
tered sympathetically into all my
wife's Dlan for curins me, and I r
will bear testimony that 1 have
a - '
found this hearsay kindness to
Americans is characteristic of Eng-
ish people wherever 1 have roamed.
We found noble forests clothing
the sides of the tableland; gran'l
valleys leading down to the plains.
On these wooded slopes and in the
glens, game consisting of the
muntiac and a redsdoer, buttalo, ions
and the Ceylon bear and panther
abounds. There are also many herds
of elephants. Monkeys are numer
ous, and partridges are as plenty as
sparrows, lhe crocodiles are con
fined to the muddy rivers in the
owlands, and although we occa
sionally heard of cobras, wo never
saw one in the highlands.
This is the country in which Sir
Samuel Baker hunted so enthusias
tically when be was a young man.
Emulating Lira in a modest way,
'Cita and I went huuting a great
deal. At first we walked but a little
way, proceeding for no more than a
mile from the house, shooting par
tridges and watching monkeys. -But
as I grew better and my courage
rose, we made longer excursions in
quest of deer.
The air stimulates one to walk.
By the time I had been at Ilorton
Plains three months, we actually
made to ten miles, away down the
valleys, to points where the return
trip was like climbing a high moun
tain. This locality, although now over
grown with forest and very wild,
was once the seat of a highly devel
oped civilization. Everywhere W3
stumbled on the ruins of ancient
residences and tempros, substantial
ly built of stone, but now mostly
fallen in and overrun with vines and
shrubbery.
From nine hundred to fifteen hun
dred years ago, when Buddhist cul
lure was at its height, this salubri
ous district of Ceylon was no doubt
the resorts of the magnates of the
land. All the running water was
then carefully saved in tanks for ir
rigation. The remains of these old
tanks and reservoirs are to be found
in every valley, ravine and hollow
Sjme of them were of great ex-
icni, naving dams ot masonry fifty
ieei. id neigni. A. Jew still contain
water, and are made use of by the
bmghalesa, who will be found liviDff
. . .. o
iu uLiie namieib near Dy, cultivats
mg rice, millet and tobacco. Hor
ton Plains, however, the hamlets
were very few, and we were usually
in a wiiaerness.
Ihere was a sufficient spice of
uangcr 10 give zest to all our excurn
sions, for always we must needs
ketp a sharp watch for poisonous
snakes, and be on the alert for a
possible sudden attack from the fe
rocious little Cjylon bear, or
charge from some old "rofrue'' el
phant which might be observing us
Irons a thicket. But our most nota-
ble adventure bad to do with Quite
a ainerent species ot game, which
A nn .
we nad not reckoned in the least on
seeing. On this occasion we bad
descended into a glen toward the
Menirin lagoon, following one of
tne wen-beaten foot-paths which
serve as roads throughout the wild
er portions of Cdylou. At length,
- i - . . .
we came to a very dense, shady
thicket or grove of the ffieranlic
rhododendron of the country.
lhe Singhalese rhododendron
grows to a height of seventy feet or
more, having glossy, round leaves
and a stem a foot or more in diame
ter. About us the trunks stood
quite closely and the upper branches
had interlocked, forming, with their
toUage, a most inviting shade.
"This grove should bo a good place
or rounettes, 'Uita said, peeping
upward among thelbick, dark foli-
age. "it l see one, 1 shall shoot it.
lhe roussetts, or flying fox a
kind of enormous bat is a creature
so uncanny, disgusting and destruc
tive to gardens, that we never felt
the least compunction in shooting it
at sight. But now we saw no rous-
Betts, and what occurred to me as
mora odd, no monkeys, for such a
grove is likely to be infested with
them. Only a mongeos was espied
stealing away to Ike cove- of some
stones.
Presently we found ourselves near
an old stone edifice, half concealed
by green creepers, over which sev
eral of the larger rhododendron trees
formed a green canopy. Apparent-
y the ruin bad once been a manor
bouse, but the root bad lallen and
the walls were cracked and crumb
insr.
Tho portal on the west side gaped
darkly, disclosing an old ball nearly
filled with rubbish and the tangled
stems of vines, but darkened from
overhead by the shadows of the
hick tree tops. Lintel anc door-step
remained in place; indeed, the front
wall rose to a height of perhaps fif-
een feet, and appeared to be at least
forty feet in length.
The dressed stones of the arch had
been sculptured with designs from
Buedhist myths, many of which
could still be traced.
After a cursory inspection, we sat
down on the old door-step, to enjoy
the shade of the wall. I laid my
head down and shut my eyes to rest
a bit, while my wife watched her
way was to make a baby of me.
We bad kaned our guns against the
wall at our backs. I had brought
a carbine, but 'Cita ha2 a light
double-barrelled gun.
I fell asleep it was so delightfully
cool and quiet there and may have
slept lor some minutes before my
wife gave my arm a slight pinch.
Opening ray eyes, I saw that she
was looking intently at some object,
and following her gaze I espied a
little wild buffalo calf that bad
strayed into the grove. Soon he
was near the old wall, within fifty
feet of where we were sitting.
He was a burly, shaggy, sturdy
little beast, and although he was ap
parently not more than six weeks
old, his little knobby horns had als
ready begun to show in the hair on
bis forehead. We surmised that he
had strayed from bis mother, for
after coming close up to the wall, he
uttered a plaintive bleat. The calf
stood looking uneasily about for
fome moments before I noted an ab
rupt jar, or shaking of the thick
tree-tops overhead. Then, with a
suddenriess that was awfully start
ling a huge anaconda, or python,
dropped its Xlds out of lhe dense
rhododendron foliage!
It came down like a plummet.
Its whole length seemed to shoot
downward, but it hung suspended
by its tail to the branches above.
The frightened calf started aside
with a bound; but quick a was the
movement, it was not quicker than
that of the python. Its bead darted
forward, horizontally, striking the
calf with such force that the little
creature was upset and rolled over
cn the ground.
For a moment it sprawled amidst
the dead twigs then j-imped to its
feet. But meanwhile the python
had had time to swing again. Ben
fore tbe calf could run away, the
serpent, loosing its hold up in the
iree, projected its shining body
through the air, in what looked to
be a huge spiral.
It fell heavily upon its victim, and
in a moment bad him in its folds.
The luckless little animal ha V hard
ly time and breath to emit one
scared, despairing bieat, before tbe
great serpent had suffiocated it.
'Cita meantime had jumped to her
feet with a cry of terror. Woman
like, instead of seizing her gun, she
clutched me by the arm. I seized
my own gun and was on the point
of shoot'ng, when I reflected that,
as it was too late to fuccor the poor
calf, we might as well, see what
would follow. I said this in a whis
per. Accordingly we drew back into
, tbe archway of the old door and
stood still, peeping around the jamb
of stonework. -
For five minutes cr more, I should
CHARLOTTE, N.C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1896.
iniak, the python continued to en
fold the cart' until it was entirely
lifeless. Then, slowly casting off
first one and then another of its coils
it opened its wide jawa as if to take
toe can s neaa inio us mouth.
As these preliminaries to swallow
were going on, webeard a rumbling
sound on tbe outskirts of the wood
and saw a buffalo cow trotting for
ward and bellowing loudly. Pro
bably she was the calPa dam. Two
other buffaloes followed her, somes
what shyly, as if for company's sake
but she moved boldly, looking to
right and lett, and lowing.
Discerning tbe serpent on a sud-
den, she stopped short with staring
eyes, then bawled as from fury' -or
sudden griet, and charged with low
ered head. Tbe python, thus as
sailed, drew back from the calf and
reared its head.
With a vicious hiss that penetrat
ed the entire wood, it struck the
cow mach as it had struck the calf
at first, using its hard head as a
pugilist uses bis fist, and knocked
her backward nearly off her legs.
.Bellowing madly, tbe cow charg
ed again. Tbe python's bead shot
over her back, but wif,n her horns
she succeeded in throwing the rep
tile a distance of ten or twelve feet.
At that tbe python -made suddenly
for the stem of a large tree, ud
which it went with marve'oua speed
to a height of about twenty five
feet, when it again shot down as we
had seen it do at first, and again
struck the cow with its bead, liag-
ng and frothing tbe buffalo charged
again, and by this time the other
two buffaloes had come near, pawn
ng the ground and adding their
deep bellowing to the clamor.
We, though rapt spectators of
this singular combat, had, of course,
been keeping well to cover of the
archway. But now eeverul bits of
old mortar and stone rattled sud
denly down about our ears, and
glancing upward, we saw the head
of another python thrust out over
the top of tne wall above the arch.
ts tongue played out like a jet of
blood.
At sight of this second python.
Cita screamed outright ; and we
both ran into tbe grove as fast as
we could, feeling a horrid appreben
sion that the reptile would launch
ts folds upon us. VVe ran t a dis
lance of thirty or forty yards, and
then turned, guns in hand.
lhe glistening head of the second
python could still be seen on the
archway. Its attention seemed di
rected to the buffaloes and to tbe
fight which the first pythou war
carrying on with them. It thrust
ts head forward, first this way then
that, playing its tongue and hissing.
aying the barrel ot my carbine
alongside a tree, I fired and shot
this serpent through its head.
It drew back and fell down inside
tbe old ruin, and at the report of
my gun the three buffaloes scam
pered off. The first python appear
ed to have drawn himself uo into
he tree-tops out of sight.
By this time the odor of the ser
pents was quite overpi wering, and
lelding to Cita's entreaties that I
hould not exert myself for fear of
hemorrhage for I had not yet
grown very strong we went away.
Next day I came back with a
small party of English settlers and
natives, and found the serpent
which I had shot dead inside tbe
wall of the old house; but no trace
could be found of the other one.
We measured tho dead reptile,
nd found it to be (Twenty-nine feet
and six inches long. We did not
ake its circumference, but I should
have said that tbe one whch killed
the calf was as large around as a
section of eight-inch stovepipe.
Morton L. Whitman.
GWINE BACK TO DIXIE.
Six Happy Negroes Return from Liberia
They Are Sufficiently Amused.
New York. Sept. 27. Among the
passengers whom tbe steamship
Waesland, from .Liverpool, landed
here to-day were six colored people
overjoyed at finding themselves
again in the United States. They
were Taylor Smith, ot forest City,
his wife and two children and two
riends, and they all had a sad
story to tell ot tbe want, misery
and hunger suffered by the bouth
rn negro colonists who sailed
from Savannah on the Laurada last
March to try their fortunes in the
black republic of Liberia. From
tbe day thev landed at Monrovia,
Smith said, until their departure,
bey were unable to get an hour s
work ef any kind. Twenty. five
acres of ground were given them
by tbe Liberian government, but
there were no houses to shelter
them or their families Soon after
their arrival tbe rainy season be
gan, and with it came a dea'.hly
malarial fever, called by the natives
'John Bull fever," which carried
away 40 of tbe newcomers, among
whom was one of Smith's children.
The disease was still doing its dead
ly work when he left for the United
States. Smith staled that nearly
one half of the 202 persons taken
to Monrovia on tbe Honsa, which
left Savannah sometime before the
Laurada, weretiead and buried long
ago. Luckily for him to return
home. When he left, old friends,
half naked and crippled by dis
ease, hobbled out into the purf to
bid him what all felt would be a
last farewell. President Cbeeseman,
of Liberia and the missionaries did
all tbey could for the unfortunates,
but the returned colonists said, like
everybody else, they had very little
money, no food and no work for
them. " - ,
O-a-OTOHJLA..
a . I
THE GIRLS ARE OS THE WAT.
Of a Stronger, More Forceful Literature;
So Some Authors' Insist.
In the October Ladieg Home Jour
nal Edward W. Bok editorially dis
cusses the plaint ot certain authors
It A ' 1 A . 1 -
iuab jruuug gin d eiana in our way
oi naving a strong, lorcetul Iitera
lure. They argue that these offend
mg young girls constitute tbe ma
jority of book buyers and readers,
mas tney insist upon having
smooth, pretty and conventional
reading matter." Mr. Bok is evU
dently disposed to'treat this protest
in a race nous spirit, pointing out to
the writers bow they can pursue
iittraiure iu accora who ineir own
desirer and aims, without disturbing
me young girls or publiahers
either.
"It is very strange," Mr. Bok
wcii-sayo, --bunt certain or our au
i ii.i . . f
thors should so constantly complain
oi being circumscribed in this mat
ter of writing about 'the great truths
or lile and 'tte problems of human
kind.' There is no reason why they
snouio ieei so. lhe world is larcre.
i n rw . . . w - "
and all ways are open to those who
wish to travel them. If authors
want to go into the darkest and vil
est sewers of human life why should
tney notr Jivery man is his own
master. And alter any author with
euch a 'mission' has thoroughly satu
rateu bimseli with tbe atmosphere
of the places he has sought, then let
him write of them. He will not of
fend any one. No one will disturb
him least of all, the publishers.
Certainly the young girl will not.
Refined and well bred women will
not annoy him. Dtcont men
will not obtrude themselves upon
him ; they are busy with weightier
affairs. So why should not the
author anxious to solve the prob-
ems of life go ahead and solve them
There is no reason on earth why he
should feel any sort of thraldom.
lis facts are to be had for tbe ex
perience; ink and paper for a few
cents. Beyond that he need feel no
anxiety. He need not worry about
tyrany: there will, be none. He
need only satisfy himself: no one
Iso. Not a human being will ob
struct bis going. And if, here and
here, a stray speciman of tbe dread
ed 'young girl' happens across his
path he need give himself no uneasi
ness o: mind, bhe will get out of
his way. So, why
this complain"
ng-r -;-
"WHERE MEN FAIL AS LOVERS.
All flood in Deeds, but Most Fail in the
Handling of Words.
"It is a question with me," writes
ilian Belle in October Jjadies Home
Journal, "whether a woman ever
knows all the joys of love making
who has one ot those dum, silent
husbands who doubtless adores her
bat is able to express it only in
deeds. It requires an bet ot the
will to remember that his getting
own town at seven o'clock every
morning is all done lor you, when
e hasn t been able to tell you in
words that he loves you. It is hard
to get a letter telling about the
weather and how busy he is, when
tbe same amount of space laying
that he got to thinking about you
yesterday, when be saw a girl on
he street who looked like you, only
be didn t carry herself so well as
ou do, and that he loves you good
by would have fairly made your
eart turn over with joy, and made
you kiss the hurried lines and thrust
he letter m your belt, whero you
could crackle it now and then juot
to make sore it was there. Near-
y all nice men make good lovers in
eed. A great many fail at some
mportant crisis in .the handling of
words:
"But the last test of all, and, to
my mind, the greatest is in the use
of words as a balm. Few people,
be tbt-y men or women, be they
only friends, loversior married, can
help occasionally happening even
when people are good tempered.
And for a quiclc or evil tempered
ones there is but one the handsome
honest apology: The most perfect
lover is the one
who best
when to
under
elands
gize."
how and
apolo-
KYDER MUST HANG.
The Murder of Miss Sallie Emma Owen
Convicted.
Macon, 6a., Sept. 26. Dr. W. L.
Ryder, who asasssinated Miss Sallie
Emma Owen in Talbotton, Ga., on
tbe night of April 5, was convicted
to-day of tbe crime and sentenced
to be hanged January 15, 1897.
Dr. Ryder was madly in love with
Miss Owen, who did not reciprocate
his affection. E iraged by a disap
pointment and madly jealous of her
other f uitors, be armed himself with
a pbotgun, crept op to the parlor,
where she was conversing with .a
friend, discharged one barrel of his
gun, the load tearing off the side of
her face, death resulting instantly.
The murderer then shot at her vis
itor, inflicting a slight wound.
"AU Full Inside."
"Can't speak for tbe other pas
sengers, driver, but that last dump
fing filled me up." Yes, and 'twill
'lay you oat," if it was a doughy
as some of them are, and then you'll
need Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets
to relieve your pain and gently re
move from the stomach, and bow
els, all irritating matter- No dras
tic purges these, but gently cathar
tic, more laxative than cathartic,
yet though mild, doing thorough
work," and easy to take, aepecific ir
distace of the stomache, liver and
bowels. In vials to preserve their
virtues. Of all medicine dealers.
THE HOUSEHOLD.
o
' Scotch broth is greatly improved
by the addition of & dessert spoon
ful of sugar.
To remove warts, wet them thor
oughly with oil of cinnamon three
ume a day until they disappear.
au exceueni substitute for mat
ting is floor fibre. It is clean, noise
tess and not expensive.
Do not serve potatoes at table in
a covered dish. The will re-absorb
their own moisture and become sod
den.
One of the best ways to mend a
rum, id a oiiK gowu id to gum
piece ot lhe same material ou tbe
wrong side.
If a te'atpoonfal of vinegar is add
Cd to tbe water in which tnnyh
meats or fowls are boiled it will
tend to make them tender.
iiuuuwurn ana noors are now
r 1 i 1 r
stained with a color called forest
green. It harmonizes with draper
ies and coverings of almost anv
coior. - .
According to a wholesale furni
ture dealer the best furniture polish
is maoe oi one-third alcohol and
" 1 A ...
twothirds sweet oil. Apply it with
a soft cloth and rub it with another
cloth.
bow on buttons over a darning
needle, and when done pull it out.
ana tne buttons will be found to be
much looser than those sewed in
the ordinary way, and they will not
pun on so easily.
In making custards or puddings
for which it is necessary to boil the
mug, me sait should not be added
llll I.-j. .t . am .
nil me last ining, as-- tne milk is
more apt to curdle if the salt is put
n wnen tne mug is hrst placed over
the hre.
Graham gems or rolli are among
me moai reiisbable ot breakfast
dishes when properly made. The
secret of snccess in baking any
ibing made of graham flour is to
have the oven as hot as possible
without burning.
To cure redness of the hands heat
one ounce of clear honey, one ounce
of almond oil, the juice of a lemon
and the yolk of a raw egg. Apply
at night to tbe hands and cover with
oli gloves slit across the palms.
Fr better than soap for the bath,
more cleansing and refreshing to the
kin, is tbe use of a muslin bag filled
with the following ingredients: Two
quarts of bran, one ounce of orris
root, one ounce of almond meal, and
one small cake of castile soap shaved
in srips.
Apple Charlotte. Rab the bot
tom and sides of tbe pudding dish
well with butter, slice stale bread
thin and line the dish with it. Peel
tart apples, cut in email pieces
enough to nearly fill the pan, scat
tering bits of butter and sugar well
through it. Soak slices of bread
enough to CQver the apples, put a
plate over to keep the bread close
to tbe apples. Bake in a quick
oven. Womankind.
Biscuit Cheese. Slice into ve-y
thin pieces about a quarter of a
pound of fresh cheese. Let this
stand on the stove for a very few
minutes, after adding butter about
the size of half an egg, and a little
salt. Then sprinkle cracker dust
until tbe desired consistency is
reached.
Dutch Cake One pint of bread
sponge, one cup of sugar, one half
cup of butter, three-quarters of a
cup of a weet milk,, and one cup of
raisins. Splendid, and economical,
too. It can be eaten as cake or
bread either. Christian Advocate.
Baked Chickens. -Uulexs tbe
chicken to be baked is very tender
put it in a kettle of boiling, salted
water and let it boil about an hour
before baking; then remove it from
the pot and treat it as you would a
young chicken. Stuff it with a
dressing made as follows: Chop a
loaf of stale bread from which tbe
crust has been removed, moisten it
with hot water or some of the broth
in which thecbicken was boiled, sea
eon it-with salt, pepper and sage,
and teaspoonful of butter and one
or two well beaten eggs. If liked, a
little chopped onion may be addeJ
or chopped oysters. When the
chicken is well stuffed sew op ttn
incision, tie the wings dc wo, placing
a thin slice of salt pork under each
one, also between each leg and the
body, then tie tbe legs together and
place the chicken in a dripping pan.
Pour hot water around it, or, if it
was boiled, add tbe remaining broth
and bake it until very tender, bast
ing it often. For those who like
celery flavor in their dressing here
is a nice recipe: Boil two or three
beads of celery until soft, mash them
and add them to an equal amount of
bread crumbs, beason to taste with
butler,' pepper and salt, if this does
not make enough to stuff the fowl
add more bread crumbs.
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LAUGHTER A GREAT TONIC
Kep the Spirits Buoyant, the Heart and
Fac Young-.
"I presume if we laughed more
we should be happier and healthier,"
writes Edward w. Jiok in tbe Oc
tober iMdiey Home Journal. True
we are a busy and very practical
peopie. And most of as probably
find more in this life to bring the
frown than the smile. Bat never-
meiess, it ts a pity ibat we do not
laugh more; that we do not briog
oar seives to tne laugh, it need be.
ror we all agree that a good
laugn is tne but medicine in
the.world. Physicians have said
that no other feeling works so much
to tbe entire human body as that
of merriment. As a digestive, it i
uoexoened; aa a means of expanding
at 1 . . .
toe tungs, mere is nothing better.
it keeps tbe heart and face vouo?
It is the bfcst of all tonics to the epir
us. it is, too. ine most em ovable of
an sensations.
A good laugh makes
us better friends with ourselves and
everybody around us,and pats us ir.-
to closer touch with what lsbest and
brightest in our lot in life. It is to
be regretted, then, that such a po
tent agency for our personal good is
not more often used, It costs noth
ing all oar medicines are more or
less expensive. 'Why said an old
doctor not long ago, 'if people fa lit
reauseawnat.it meant to them.
selves to laugh, and laughed as they
should, niney per centfof the do-
tors would have to go out of the
business.' Probably when we est
a little less busy we shall laugh more
ror. alter all the difference between
gioom and laughter is but a step,
and if more of us simply took a step
ma
aside oitener than we do, and rested
more, we would .laugh more. By
autfhmg 1 do not mean tbe silly
giggle indulged in by some women
and so many girls. There is no out
ward mark which demonstrates the
woman cf shallow mind so unmis
takably as that ofgigling. .There
is no sense in the giggle; no benefit
to oe derived irom it. it makes a
fool of the person herself, and ren
ders evary one about her uncom
fortable. But just as the giggle is
the outcome oi a small mind, the
1 . t tm . tm
oeany laugo is tne reflection ot a
healthfull nature. What we want
is more good laughers in the world
not more giglerp."
GIRLS' EVENING DKESSES.
Prettiest Colors and Moat Desirable Mate.
rials for Misses' Gowns.
The materials in vogue for
young girls' gowns for evening par
ties are sine pie but dainty." said Is
abella A. Mallon in October Ladies
lome Journal. 'LlghUweight
silks, cbiojn over silk, organdy
or dotted muslin developed in the
same way with decorations of youth
fuUlooking laces and many ribbons
make particularly pretty gowns for
eveuing wear. Tne young girls
bodice is made either quite high
and finished with a soft laill about
her neck or else it is cut oat in
what is known as the 'Dutch
quire. Long sleevos or elbow
puffs are proper with tbe 'Dutch
equate,' and many picturesque f.
tectsare obtained by this combina
tion. JNo matter how rounded an
arm may be, nor how pretty tbe
and, evening gloves should be
worn with the party dress. The
an is not an absolute necessity to
the evening toilette, but it is al
ways a prett? and graceful addi
tion.
"China silk, light-weight corded
silk, chiffon, organdy and muslin
are the materials dedicated to tbe
young girl. When any one of these
made up for evening wear the
ining should be of a light-weight,
but not a corded, silk, or inexpen
sive satin, rale blue, turquoise
blue, rose and salmon pink, pale sil
ver gray, and, best of all, white, or
the colors in vogae for the young
girl. No matter how charming tbe
elietrope shade may - seem it
hould not be chosen for a young
girls, and no matter how glowing
and attractive a bright red fabrick
is, it is inartistic as a party dress,
and should on no accouut be chosen.
n this connection it may be said
that the prettiest of all party dress
es for a young girl is tbe ono made
of white material."
An Awful Fanny gtory
was related by Smvthe at tbe club
the other night. When tbe laugh
ter subsided some oue said: -'Smyn
the, I never saw a man change as
you have during the past year. A
few months ago, you were tbe most
taciturn man imraaginable; now you
are the life of tbe party. How is
n7 1 "My dear fellow, replied
Smy the. "a year ago, I was a sick
man. 1 was suffering from liver
and stomach derangements. I was
morbid and melancholy, and my
friends, tbe doctor included, thought
I was into consumption. One day
some one advised me to take Dr
Piece's' Golden Medical Discovery.
I did bo, and I am a new man. It
has actually renewed my youth,
and I enjoy life as I bate not in
years."
Dr. R. V. Pierce: Sir Allow me
to offer my thanks to you for my
good health since using your -GoI
den Medical Discovery." I was
but tbe shadow of a person, so thin
and haggard, without one momenta
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stomach and liver, and this "pring
had a very severe attact of La
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the "Discovery" and my recovery
is wonderful. I am forty-five years
old. and feel as well and strong as I
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Trustee's Sale of Land.
By virtue of a Dower r.f a! vtnt.lnl
in a deed of trust executed bv J R Rwn.
and wife, to me, dated Hept. 23th, 1895.
acd registered in the offic of the register
of deeda of Mecklenburg county, in book
106, page 180. 1 will sell at Dublic auctlun
at tbe court house door, in the eltv of
JJSVh 5?. h!gbrw bKMdekfir casb'
Rgi KM
deed of Irust, and described as follows: Be
ginning cn South Mint stre. t at corner of
lot No 3. and runs with the line of said
lot parallel with Second street 89 feet,
thence parallel with said Mint street 4;
feet, to the corner of lot No. 5, thence
with tbe line of said lot narallel whh
Second stre t 99 feet back to ail.l Mint
street 43 9 feet to the beginning, the same
being lot No. 4 and a Dart of the eatata
conveyed by deed from T. G. Allison and
BAmu.l raylor to W. E McKamey, In
1857. and recorded in the register of dmU
office la book 4. paee 2?3. Thla 17th dw
of September, 1890
BREVARD NIXON, Trustee.
Mortgage Sale.
Bv virtne of a nnw v.aA In m. ti .
deed of trust ex cuted hy J. P. Beatty and
wife on the 11th dav of April. 1890. and
registered in book 73. page 9, in the of.
lice of register of deeds for Mtckleoburc
county, and io book 12, pace 53. in the of
fice of the register of deeds for Gaston
county, I will sell at the court bouse door
in the citv or Chariot e, N. C., on Hatar
day the 12th day of October,is98.a tract ot
land in Mecklenbure countv. to-wit: Ba.
ginning at a stone on the eat side of the
Tockasege ford road on 8. W. Be&tty's
1 ne, runs with said road N 49 1-2 E. 10
poles to alone in the road, thence 8. 21 E.
24 poles to a stone, thence 8- 49 1-2 W. 16
poles to stone on 8 W Beatty's line,
thence wiih his line N. 21 W. 24 po'es to
the'beginniDg, containirg two and a fourth
acres. Also one other tract of land, lying
io Gaston county, bounded as follows, to
wit: Beginning at a stake on the banks
of tbe Catawba river at the corner of tbe
Whiten btowe tract known aa the old Wills
corner, runs 8.88 1-2 W. 238 poles to a
stake and pointers oo Beatty'a line, thence
8. 26 W. 23 12 poles to a stake, thence N
83 E. 240 poles to a stake on the bank of
said river, thence with said river 19 1-5
poles to h beginning, containing 81 3-5
acres. Terms cash. This the Slst day of
August, '
W. C. MAXWELL. Trustee.
5w.
EXECUTION 8 ALE
By virtue of executions ireued to me bv
the Superior Court of Mecklenburg coun
ty, North Carolina, in the cases entitled
Aiken & Co., against Leroy Davidson, Z.
S Yandle. asiignee. azainst Lerov David
son, B. F. Mitchell & Son against Leroy
uaviuson, j. ji. uanu against leroy Da
vidson, and i. H Levin & Son against Le
roy Davidson, and of the levy which I
have mide under said execations. I will.
on Monday, the 5th day of October, 1898,
at 12 o'clock, m at tbe county court house
d or in Charlotte, sell to the h'ghest bid
der, for cash, to satisfy said executions,
an me rigm. title, tntenst and estate
which the defendant, Lvroy Davidson, has
in that house and lot of land lying in the
city of Charlotte, said county and Htate,
ir tnuagiweniy-nve (io) leet oa Jsi Trade
streets extending buck seventy-five (75)
feet and common ly called the " Traders
National Bank building " This 2nd day
of September. 1899 Z. T. SMITH.
Sheriff tf Mf cklenburg County.
septS lw
EXECUTION SALE.
By virtue of so Execution directed to
me by the clerk of the Superior Court of
Mecklenburg Coocty, Nirlh Carolina io
ctuae entitled W. D Gills v. Dr J. J.
Rone I will sell on Monday, the 5th dar
of October 1896, at 12 o'clock m-, to tbe
highest bidder for cash, ail the following
property to-wit : All the right, title, in
terest ana estate or Dr. J.J. lione in that
lot of land in Pineviile TownshiD. Meck
lenburg County, North Carolina, adjoin
ing ine lanas oi Airs- Abrroatny, W. E.
xounts and others, and rounded on tbe
South by a line running from Mrs. -
Abernathv's c mer Io an Easterly direc
tion to the Younts line near a cedar;
thence N. with said line to W. E Yount
lot; thence with Mrs. Russell" lot; thence .
Wist to Culp Street; thence with said
street to the beginning containing about
6 acre; known as Tbe Home Place" of
Dr. J j. -ltope. Also one piano.
Thij Aug, 27 1696,
Z T. SMITH Sheriff.
Aug 27 1896. 6w.
IIOHTOAGE SALE
By virtue of a power vested la me bv a
deed of fruit executed by J J. Rone and
wife, M. L. Rone, on tbe 25th day of May
1891, 1 will sell at public auction, at the
Court Bouse door in tbe City of Charlotte,
N. C on Saturday the 3rd day of October
1896, all the property conveyed by said
deed, wh'cb is registered in Book 73 page
847 in tbe office of tbe Kegtster of Deed
fur Mecklenburg County, described as fol
lows, to-wit: BegginLiog at a Stone, Sol- '
cmon Harris' line in tbe town of Pineviile.
runs with bis lie 8. 15 E. 26 poles and IS
links to a Black Jack ner tbe Scnool
House, thence wi'h Mn. Houston's line
N 62 1-2 E. 43 poles to a stone, Mrs.
Campbell's corner, thence with b-r line
77 1-2 W. 80 poles and 10 links to the be
ginning, containing two and a half acrts.
Also one other truck of land in Pioeville
Township, ootnioiog 17 acre and known
as the4 Mescbsm Place," particularly de
sert ed in a deed from II K Keid and
wife to T B Meacbam, regUtered in Book
86 page 844 in tbe office of tbe liegUter
of Deeda for aaid county. Also a blf in
terest in another lot in Pineviile, adjoin
ing I be property of J. W. Morrow and
others, particularly described in a deed
from S. Younts and others to T. B.
Meacbam, registered in Book 18 pige 318 -l"
said office. -
T rms Ctsb. This tie 23th day of Aug. O.
W.C.Maxe.l, Trustee.