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T""iin." .'"aim,- hi i ii i n i ibimh mil - I IMF 1 " t " .' 71 7 7" i ' ; ,1 V I BALTISQ TEE CATTLE. 1 "John ! John r I cried, for I spied the rover "Where ire you going, John ? '-illxft go, " i00 ' " V: I ' i I" Tour roice came faintly up across the clover; "To salt the cattle. Yes." Awtr I flew. j ;. . i . . ' - i - I ! . - . ' i ! I Dam the dark' lane, 'neaih the drooping r - larches, - -.', . j You waiting for me just beyond the corn. - That opened in long lengths of gleaming ' arches, -. And led me out into the dewy morn. Then wc . sped on. Did our -feet; touch the - grasses?. ' j Or did we glide, as sometimes in dreams, '7itbont a motion save the thought that i passes, , J' i And wills aa onward over fields and streama! . l A brook's loud brawl called us from; the valley, Telling of pools where the minnows sleep; And fragrant spruce . trees wooed jos long to ; dally . , ; '. r v I "i ; With hoards of spicy gum packed close and doep. I V 1 A ledge, high up, flashed a sign of treasure, That Inred us upward . from the ferny glen; "We had not learned all pleasingi things to measure, ( ' f ' . I , And mica was as rich as silver then, j wo ml to find the thrush that sanr belowus. I . .' 5 . . - ... . !.. I " lift kvl uh through wild mazes inj hia tight? JJut,: oh, what wonders did the wooalanq show Wjtli shy, mall , creatures hurrying from fight! We wont so deep the outer world was ban i irthod; II'.' Then shut our eyes, and- twirlingiround and ; round, ' . . t M i" Boon every trace of' path and home had ran- , ipp V.. j 1 ' r And Wo were lost in that enchanted ground. I. I - i No hint from sun or pointing shadow heeding, We went the way we found our faces set ;j Which led us out to where the herd was; feed- Anil i brought to mind our task neglected yet When, at your cajft, they came with eager scurry, ' f r 1 You laughed aloijd to see my lookSof fright; But helped me climb where, free frotn childish ' worry, .. I ' I looked down calmly from! a boulder's lieiirTif ' ' I. watched the horned mass of living crea . turos J 1 "-"Surging about the base of my retreat, And marveled at' yoii, as with tranquil fea ; tures ! You klropped the salt close by the! tramping ' foet. " ( j The sun had slipped behind , fringes the mountain Before we started on our homeward way, And western skies were bright ;with sunset . tinges. ' f- Ah I ; Our short task had iled 'the summer .day! , ! ' Lauha Gaklaxd Cia? very precious: I DID not give it him ! He Isbjle to it put of the inojther's album. Hd iiii ! he did ! he did !" The; speaker's voice rose with each repetition and her cheeks got redder and; redder. "I must know better chfln you, Itosie !'. . ' 'Oh of course, you do not ball it giv- - ing, but I do. You were standing by, I uppo80, when he took; it V Ypur eyes were iast down, and you put your! most becoming pout on ? And jaow that Tom Crichton, with his ten thousand a year, falls in love with you and wants tomarrV you, you are afraid poor Ceicil j Ham if- ton will show him your photograph and ' talk about your silly letters! dnd make ; mischief. You incorrigible little flirt ! It would serve you right to pe I treated ae you have treated others. How many men have you made fools pf, I: wonder i A dozen ?" i ; v 1 f 1 - I ; vVThe speaker spoke sarcastically ; the hearer was beginning to cry. The girls wero L?ters: both vounc. -liittl nrp am.1 charmuig, biit Lcttr-,. file Hfouner, ww a lovely, brainless little, nit.j The eldor, Rosalind, had plcntvi of brains, but scarcely experience 'enjugli to en ; able her to juse them judieidusjyj She . was a beaitiful creature to look at; warm-heart!ed and impulsive toi aliault. Th ere was otlxing slie would riot do or dare for onb she loved, and 1 shfe dearly loved her bewitching little jsister, and rejoiced wth all - her heart when the genial, good-looking young j "Squire," Tom Crichton, who came into; thf neigh borhood to) take possession of an unex pect'd inheritance, fell in ! lpvel it first ,ight with JLetty, and propose to her , after a wee' c's acquaintance. t 1 But Tom! was a quick-tempered jeal- i ous young fellow, and he hadlalready spoken his jmind to Miss Lettj I about her love of : flirtation. She promised to amend her jways, but it was more than ahe could d!o to keep her promise when temptation jcame in alluring guise. ! Miref ord was a garrison town, and one of the gallant Dashshire j Regiment, Geoffrey Hamilton by name, bad quick ly succumbed to the fascinations' of the jounger of the two daughters! of the f widowed Mrs. Maitland, who lived ! in a pretty cottage on the London road, about half a mile or so froml Mpeford. It was in vain that Rosalind Warned the heedless young coquette that phe was treating poir young HaniOtoh disgrace fully. But in good truth the jrouiig man was very well able to take caa of him eelf. j He was not very deeply wdunded: : . 1. - ; l -j The sitters. .21 . Ir.v bat as soon as Crichton appeared upon the scene, he made up his mind to pun ish Miss Letty.'if possible, for her tricks, by pretending to be broken-hearted and desperately jealous, j . He was, hqwever, sufficiently in love to be able to put a fair amount of Seri ousness into his reproaches; and when he flatly refused to give np the photo graph Letty had given him, and one or two absurd little notes she had written to him, and a glove he had purloined, the silly girl was thoroughly frightened, and firmly persuaded that Tom" would hear all about it and break off his engagement. Had Rosalind but known how slightly Hamilton's heart iwas touched, she would have quickly laughed , Letty out of her fnght; but when the girl solemnly assured her that Geoff was bo much in love, and bo angry and jeal ous that she knew he meant to have his revenge, the sensible elder sister forgot that she was not living in a melodram atic age; and, moreover, she quite over looked the fact that Hamilton, being a gentleman, it was not likely that he would act as if he were a cad. f I oo, on tne wnole, tilings were loosing i very serious wnen, ior tne mtietn Jtime at least, RosaUnd tried to make her sis ter confess whether she had gif en Geofl the photograph, or whether hehad taken it from Mrs. Maitland's album. She had her own opinion on the" ubject; so it was really waste of time tooss-ciues-tion the naughty little girl, who was anxious to keep the peace between the old love and the new. "I think you are very unkind, Rosie," she said, at last; "and if you do notbe lieve me, how can I expect Tom to do it?" -,; "I do not . expect Tom to do it ! You talk as if believing in you wens a gym nastic feat. I know what I should do in Tom's place, if another man told me he had a photograph of the girl I meant to marry, and gloves and things , J ."He has only one glove and, no things !" interrupted Letty, whimper ing. "Don't exaggerate; and I ;gave Tom two photographs ohesi.tting and one standing and he has heaps and heaps of letters !" j "I hope the spelling is all right.' 'I hope so. He is not much of a speller himself." I "He spelt 'adored' ' with two d's the other day 'My.addored one. ' It looked so funny." "Mr. Hamilton-, is away just now, is he not ?" Rosalind asked presently, j "Yes. He went to his sister's wed ding. I wish it was to his own." j "He does not Uve in barracks, I think?" 1 . . . ! "No; he has rooms in Diamond Cres cent, No. 15, and ,Gerard Townsend lives with him." "He is the woman-hating person who is reading for something and never igoes out ? . 4 An(i now I suppose! you are going to write to your adored Tom ? I am croing out for a walk. "And wont you advise me how to get back my photocraoh ?l I wish I had not given it to him." '.' V- "Oh, so you did give it !" , "I am afraid I did," sighed Letty. "But he begged so hard, and said he had never cared enough for any girl to ask for her likeness before. j "Poor fellow! But he must giye it up. Now go and write your letter." And RosaUnd ran out of the room, j : About an hour later a young lady with a mackintosh on her arm knocked at the door of 15 Diamond Crescent. She had evidently been walking; fast, for) her cheeks were 'glowing and; her eyes! were bright.- .j - .j ' ! ., - - .' "This is awful," she said to herself, as she heard steps approaching the (door on the inside. A civil-looking woman opened it. i '' . j , j "Are are-the gentlemen at home?" the visitor asked. ,"I mean is j Mr. Townsend at home ? I am his sister, and he expects me, I think." I "Oh, walk! in, ma'am, 1 if you please. Ir. Townsend told me you were! not coming until to-morrow; he is out j just now, but your room is quite ready. Have you no luggage, ma'am ?" i The visitor muttered something about the station as she went into the' ha!l. "Please show me into the sitting-room," she said; "I can wait for my brother there. No, hank you; no tea. Is this this the room t" "Yes, ma'am. v Tlie gentlemen has this between them, f Mr. Hamilton is coming back unexpected this evening. He was telegraphed for, as there is some talk of the regiment leaving at once. , 'fWhat is that noise?" the visitor asked. '. "Rain, ma'am. It's a thunder shqwer, I think. It always make3 that noise on tho roof of the verander. It's well; you xraa nniTpr flnwr -ma'am . 1 Rosalind gave a sigh of reHef as the door at last closed behind the landlady. 'Now, if by a stroke! of good fortune I cajk commit mv felony and get away be foremy brotner comes in what an ex traordinary thing that he should b ex pecting his sister. I suppose" (glaricing at a cabinet photograph on the chimney pioee) "thatis the man himself. Why, fie must be forty at least I Now, I won der where Mr. Geoff keeps his treasures? In a drawer, of course; but which drawer ? I do not half like rummajging among the poor man's possessions, but he brought t on himself." j She presently came upon a packet neatly tied j up with! red ribbon (and feealed. She pinched it. It evidently contained aiphotograph, for she felt the cardboard, and there was something soft that might be a glove; and surely those were withered flowers that crackled as she pressed them ? and the more lumpy enclosures must be letters. Should she untie the tibbon arjd break the seal ? But time wis passing, and there 1 was really no necessity. Then she turned the packet over and found an inscrip tion that settled the question. In a man's writing wert the words: "Ia likeness and letters. Very precious." j "Poor Geoft ! Poor dear fellow ! How devotedly he loves her! Iam so sorry for him. Very precious he calls them," Rosalind murmurectv "But precious or not, I must rob him of them. Wb . cannot lose Tom. I wonder what Letty will ! say when she sees them ? Now, I wish I were safely out of this. I must write the tiniest scrap of a note and leave it for poor dear Geoff. j She closed the drawer, put the packet in her pocket, and wrote- hastily Ion a nan sneet ioi paper, "Hi's sister has taken what: you have no right to keep against her wilL" . j s She had iust addressed the enveiore when she heard steps on the stairs; in another moment jthe door ;was opened and a handsome j roung man came. ! "How awkwarg f thought Rosalind. "But I must keep up the character of Townsend's sister. Who in the world is he?" f ''' The newcomer stood still and stared at her. She was the prettiest girl he had seen for many a dayl She made him a little bow. XI am Mr. Towns end's sister," she said, "and I expect him every moment; he does not expect jne until to-morrow. Did not the land lady tell you I was here?" ! "She she she did ! the young man tnirwvl . v' What a donkey he is!" thought merciless Rosalind, quite at v her ease, although she had just jbeen robbing a drawer "I wonder if you would mind going to look for my brother?" she said aloud in the j sweetest manner. It would be so very kind- It is awkward to be here aU alone with people com inrr in.". She crave him a little smile to She hfldjust addressed the envelope, indicate that he iwas one of the people. I have to go to the station ! for my lug gage" ("What! dreadful stories J. am telling!" she added to herself;) then aloud, "and, perhaps, by the time I come back he wiU be here." ' "Oh, you will come back, will you? But it's raining drenched!" Icats and dogs! you'U be ; "Oh, dear, nq! I have a waterproof; and Rosalind took up her , cloak. "Thank you," as the younir man rushed forward and putj it round her shoulders. "And you will go and find Gerard for me," she said turning to him with the sweetest smile, j There was the sUghtest possible hesitation before she said the name; he noticed nothing but the beauty of her eyes. "Thank you very much!" ' She was gone before he recovered , himself and when Geoff Hamilton came into the sitting-room' at No. la a few minutes later, he found his friend Town send hanging out of the window. I 1 You look dazed Seen a ghost?" i prettiest girl in "No, but the the she world. She was here. She said was my sister, look f or mysel She asked me to go and while she went to the station for her luggage. "L 1 "Then she'll be back.", j "Not she! She turned the other way." "Then who in the world is she, and what brought her here? ! j ' "I suspect yop. knowiaU about that, you rascal! She's one of you?;. army of martyrs, I take jit." j "Rubbish ! I j am tlie martyr. I. What's this ?" He had! picked; up RosaUnd's note from thej writing table. " 'G. Hamilton, Esq. Now for the heart of the mystery.'' He opened the note and read it. Then he threw himself into a chair with a vey red 'face, j Then he laughed. Then I am afraid he swore. Meanwhile Rbsalind, with her heart thumping, half with fright : and half with triumph, was speeding homeward. She flew inter Ietty's room, and found that young person on her bed, reading a novel. j r ! "There !" Rosie cried, throwing down the packet, "never say again th vt I ain not your best frjiend ! There are i your letters and your; photograph, and all the keepsakes you gave that poor dear man from time to tinie; and you ought to be ashamed of yourself !" "What!" cried unabashed Letty. "Did he give them, up ?" He is a dar ling!" "No," answered RosaUnd, calmly; "I stole them." . "Oh, you dear . deUghtful darling! How sweet of! you ! Poor boy, how sorry he will be! But what fun! What is this written Outside? 'L.'s likeness and letters. Very precious.' j Poor dear Gooff, how fond he is of me?" ! And she gave a little sentimental sigh. "Had you not better open the thing and see if you have them all right ?" said practical Rosie. "Here, cut the knot. t ' ; , ! No sooner saijl than done, j A cabinet photograph feU out, then a piece of deep crimson ribbon,! a few faded flowers, and two or three notes! r ! "This is such a good likeness Tom had better have it,", said Letty, as she took up the picture, which lhad fallen face downward on the bed. j 'Look, Rosie !" Rosie looked, : and behold , it was a like ness of a tall, hjxndsome girl, j who j bore, not the slightest resemblance to winsome little Letty. Beneath was written in a firm and dashihjg woman's hand the one word "Louie." j . j ;t j The sis hers looked at tone another with blank faces. Aj glance ! at the notes re vealed the sanie dashing hand, j "So you are not the j only one, and I made a fool of myself and robbed the man's drawer for nothing !" cried ! Rosalind. 0, if I had but known." j "Never mind, dear," said Letty; "I am sure I don't. But I wish I knew what he sees to admire in that black woman. ! Just pack her up and send her back to him." .; j i - A tap at the door interrupted them. It was a maid ' to announce that Mr. Townsend was in the drawing-room. He. wanted to see Miss Maitland for a ' few minutes on business. He had a message and a little packet to deliver. ! "Tell Mr. Townsend I am coming directly, said RosaUnd. f "Oh, Rosie I do you mind? "'cried Let ty as the maid went out. He has sent my picture, I suppose, and he wants his black woman back. Tell him we think her frightful. Are you sure you do not mind seeing him ?" ! "Not in the least,- said Rosalind. "1 saw his likeness in their sitting-room, and he is plain jandt elderly.! Give me those things, and trust to mj ingenuity to get myself but of the scrape. They cannot say much when they know it wai another girl's photograph I carried off. And iust as she was in her muddy lit tle boots and with the wind i blown un : ' - j ;. . -i-'. , ;-r i i tidy hair she went downstairs; land it still is, and it ever will remain, a my tery what those two said to one another when they stood face to face. j I f 1 But Geoff got back his precious pack et and Lenty got her photograph; she gave it to Tom forthwith and he was de lighted. S l (She is now Mrs. Crichton. Hamil ton was finally captured by a pretty young widow. I do not know what' be came of "Louie," but RosaUnd married Gerard Townsend, and he stiU j thinks she is tbe'prettiest woman in the world. London World. i j j ! : OXE WOULD GET STRUCK. I I A Story Told by the Inventor of tht Pneumatic Gun. i f Among the many stories in Lieutenant Zalinski's repertory, which he is cap- able of hnng at will at a defenceless com pany of friends, is one of the substance of which is as follows: j j ! Some years ago the Lieutenant was on duty, by order of the :War Depart ment, as the miUtary professor at the Boston Institute of Technology.!. On 'a certain occasion, at the head of Ids com mand composed of boys of from twelve to fifteen years he visited Philadelphia to be present at an encampment of de tachments from various institutions 5f learning in different parts of the coun try which maintained military depart ments. The Boston contingent was as signed to the grotmds of the . University of Pennsylavnia, and there the Lieuten ant established his camp and posted hfs guards in strict accordance with the reg nlations. His "men", it is almost un necessary to say, .were thoroughly versed in eruard duty, and their orders were imperative to permit neither irigress nor exit unless the countersign was j given. At the main gate at the time of the mid night reUef was , stationed a self-reliant son of the hub about thirteen years of age. In the course of half an hour three students of the University drew nigh, and when about to enter the grounds were halted in due form by the sentry. The young men of the University weire highly indignant at the detention, and with an important bearing, born pok sibjy of several hours, tarrying ! ac the shrine of Gambrinus, demanded imme diate admission. This dialogue j result ed: ; Youthful Bostonian Sentry No use; you can't come in without the counter sign. . ' . I ' ! i ' I Spokesman of the University Three, looking down on the bayonet of the Y. B. S. as it glistened in the gasUght- Yes-of course-but you must understand that we belong here and you can't stop us. j , j Y. Br S. I know my orders. You can't come in. ! S. of the U. T. Can't eh? Well, we'll show you that we can, J and will. There are three of us, and you may as weU understand us and; let us pas's with out any foolishness. ' j i Y. B. S. How many did you say there were of you;? . j I S. of the U. T. Three. ! Y. B. S. AU righi (Getting ready for the lunge laid down in Upton's tactics.) Two of you may get through, bntoneof you wiU be stuck, j ; j j j They didnot go in. j . . ; j The Lieutenant applies this "story $s an illustration of what his pet pneumatic torpedo gun could accomplish against j a fleet of ironclads. He thinks one of them at least would be "stuck."-: THE DRUG PRICES. Gifted and Rare, but It Would Takie Time for Him to Save a Million. An advertisement in a commercial pricer, experi paper, called for a drug enced in the wholesale and retail trade. A wholesale druggist, who was asked about the duties of a pricer, said: j I "The pricer fixes the prices of the goods sold in each bill. The pricer in the drug business must have an inti mate scquaintano with an exceedingly large Une of goods, and must keep posted on the fluctuations in values pf things for which,, for instance, ho may hot have a call once a. year. In' tne I drg business we make five per cent, dn : some goods, and on some fifteen, and on ) some fifty. It cos,ts, say, ten per cent, ltd run the business, and we must make up what we lose on the five per cent, j goods out of the fifteen per centi goods. Sometimes we ; can, on account j of - the fluctuations of costs, get greater profits than at others. The pricer is the most important employee of the house, for on his knowledge and skill the success 1 of the house depends. He must ha a wonderful memory for names and fig " jures, and he must be able to forestall ' changes in themarket Ho is usually familiar with the processes of I manufao ture, and can tell you all about the gathering of opium in India and the curing of ginseng in the United States.1" "Then every wholesale druggist must be a pricer, too f" "On the contrary; not one in a dozen knows anything about the prices of the goods he owns. The pricer does it all.' "What sort of pay does such ia map command?" . ! ! . I "Well, competent men are scarce They are hard to find, and when a firm gets one it hangs on to him. A young man who was trained under me went to another firm and got $2,500 a year. He has since been ra sed to $3,( 00.": "As salaries for scarce men go in New York that does not seem to be extrava gant" : :- : : ; I "No? Well, it's good pay in the drug business- mighty good;and there are plenty of salesmen, who are the next thing to pricers in the matter of knowledge, who get only 31,000 anfl $2,000.' If. T. Snn. iff So Wicked. There is a citizen df San Bernardino, CaL, says the Courier of that place, who rears ago decided that kissing was wicked, because Christ was betrayed with & kiss. He has been married twentr years and is the father of eleven children, but has never kissed his wife nor one of his offspring; Puncro the pass eununer the night 4 watchman and the clerk of a hotel at Sugar Hill, in the White Mountains, were both divinity students, and the scrub girl had been for five years teach er in a pub?-"c 'h"L and speaks TVench and Latin. AT WHITE SULPHUR. CORRKSPOXDEXCE FROM FASHIONABLE RESORT. The Spring Pheasant Hunting The Snlphurous Bath as It Is. T 8 of clock in the morn-' ing ton axe awakened bj al knock at jour door.j 8rmnisinjt a tele gram) von hastily arise, clothe yourself meagrely in yur spectacles for the'eike of appearances, and bpening the door a feir inches peer around In frpnt of vouj is a buxom yellow girl with a basket. ! "Mornin. Sab," she says. "Do yer want yo washiu' done?" ; i Tour extra collar is awa ting the laundry, but your visitor is more int eresting than any lavatory problems. : Hhe is entirely unmoved by the peculiarity ! of the situation. She is plump, lazy, and has the complexion of a rell cooked griddle cake1. She! would enter and e at her your belongings with the happy c&rc- essnesscf a tinted imeaddw. It is her cus tom. Not bt-ing used to it j however, you ad vise her to call later, and 4hen as' you dress ponder the lell-i)oy system) as compared with that of the bell-boy without being able to reach anv proper cnctusioit. Y9U dress to the musical 'accompaniment of a dozen! negro boys in tatters who are shuck ing corn under a tree in the yard. They sing constantly, thevfavojriie'axia being madrigal in honor of one "VDearest May," who is au thentically reported tbe as "lubly asdeday." They have all grades of voices, from falsetto to bass, and sing in pleasant harmony. They could not work without'singing. Out in Colo rado when they desiie to stay the morning THE MUSICA1, DABKIE3. song of the melodious jackass they tie a rock to bis tail. While thus adorned he is incapa ble of motion or emotion. The shutting of a darky's mouth would have precisely the samo effect. He could not do a stroke of work After they have expressed their laudatory opin ion pf "Dearest May" perhaps twelve or fifteen times, you experience s really earnest desire to see the experiment tried. Upon going out you lock your door carefully, and then hang the key on a nail in its centre so that anybody else may unlock. it. The hotel notifies you that it is not responsible for any of your valuables and instructs you to leave your key with the chambermaid. You accord- ngly hang it on the door as everybody else does. Colored servantare sometimes said to be generally prone to kleptomania. It floes not seem to be so here Nobody ever loses any thing, and they could embezzle the who'e ho tel if they chose, j Your first object ! of interest i the pnlphur Spring. This is a circular pool of cleiir water with a greenish tint, surmounted by n Ionic pavilion with twelve columns painted red-gray and marbled. The coiline is decorated with a pink Venus, who has a painful expression of countenance as she rides on a pink ocean in a wooden cradle without rockers. The pnly as signable cause for her agony ia seemingly an overdose of dried ! apples followed ljjr an in cautious indulgence in cold water. Sho is cer tainly either very ill or badly out of tlrawing. A mulatto boy fishes up four glasses pf water from the spring,! and you are about to drink one when yoti tstop ! and consider. Tlie water has an individuality,' so to speak; a bouquet that gives you the impression that death has hovered near and perhaps' fallen in. Never theless, you drink it, and, then sit down with the other devotees j of the brimstone cocktail to watch yourself : get well. Old Rurrill says the water' is a great thing if you want "to git shet of malaria. It probably is. No malaria, not even the most vicious and depraved of its kind, could live in the same system with that sulphur water. It would cure the bite of a rattlesnake or the nerves of a prima donna. Behind the spring, the Labor Problem of the South lies asleep in the sunshine! on the grass. He is in several kinds of rags, but he is perfectly happyi He would be equally All he rags, be kind to will not he can happy without any clothing at all. asks of life is to be allowed to wear idle, and have food enough of any keep soul and body together. He work any of tener or any longer than help. Ho has no sense of moral obligation and will not pay his bills when ho geti money. This, of course, I refers to the lowest negro class, the great mass of former Hlavcw and their progeny. He cannot read or wite, and would be too lazy to do either if he knew how. Every Southerner here says that thi Sout!i would be a magnificent country if it had a fair .quality of labor,! but that no enterprise can be relied on with negro labor to carry it; out. A well-known Virginian states that he has a thousand acres of the best land in the State, which he has offered to both of bis monx, but neither will take it, because with the kind of labor avertable it cannot be profitably con ducted. Thero are but a few thousar d more whites in the State of Virginia at the present time than negroes, and tho latter are increas ing the more rapidly. The Negro Prlem is a sinister one to the Southerners, and there soem to le no solution for it. PerhaiM it is a judgment. j ; . j A man comes Mp to you and in a tinid. al most sneaking way offers you peach e for pur chase. He is tall, gaunt, has watery Hue eyes and a general look j of utte shif tlesatu-sH and incapacity. He hax an old, flaring !trk f eit hat. His clothing jis but MUle better tjltau the' iM-gim-. uno icw amen ui pruuriii, a lew sticks of corn, and a shanty in mziui hollow sperm or hdreaboot, where he gets food enough to es cape starvation, and breeds gaunt children to grow up and follow in his footsteps. He is "ioor white trash." In general valpe be It close to the negro which hasproducel itim. He raqnestionably is trash. There nrer was a fitter name for a more melancholy article. The big oaks shade the sward; some young people are playing tennis, and their bright cos tumes make picturesque the morning kcene. A beautiful Loairrilie girl in a red dre4, a scar let Scotch cap and expressive black eyes, makes a series of pictures in ber unaffected, jt-nthuM-asti, and RTat eful play. Stated about, under the trees, the old people look on. All the re marks, whether they are "oat," "deuceL 'love ahy er any others, have an accent pfjculiarly sad strongly Southern. It is strange that tha meat cmltirated peonle of that section still ire its edjre ! ! - st I I .: i -' ' L HOJ.IX TASH.i so pronouaeed in whit is distinctly a Tsrnaca 'Jar. Cosmopolitan aa many of them axe in all lse. they cling to their local method of speech '-aaif they wer proud of it as perhaps thy '-are. M- -!-b -; -!;:' :"R Ton stroll wv from the iprimr Just at .litUe ooal-bUck darky almost tumble in and (the hideous thought enters that perhaps on had tumbled in before you drank, and that tn Jperfoine which pttzxled you was bouquet as pxqr. This quite destroys your interest uv the iron spring furthsr on, which tastes hke 'gasipe broih, and you stroll up to the Casino or clubhouse. Here a gams supper is seryed nightly from 11 to 3 o'clock, aa you are notified "by numerous placards all around the hotel. 'Outside of the sweet-breads, turkey, partridge 'arid other delicacies they serve faro a la mw Toulette a idfinanciere and a superior quality of chicken hazard. Gambling is positively prohibited about the hotel, scarcely m ths in terest of morality, but apparently to enable the sporting men to turn an honest or dishon est penny, whichever it be. They hare, not done very well this season. Here and there a young Southron j has dropped $230 or some similar sum, but as a rule they do not indulge to more than a small extent in banking game. Whist is the popular relaxation, with now and then a quiet game of "draw. The gamblers will never do much at tlie watering places until they get the landlords out of tho way. The roulette ball hums for all comers, but its song is not apparently; fascinating to the . mass. ; . Ii . Pheasant hunting is quite an industry here among the unsophisticated. The Pheasant, in West Virginia i is a fabulous bird, like the roc and the grifiin and .other juicy songsters perpetually out of season. Consequently, though there is much pheasant hunting, there is no pheasant shooting. The hunters nejrer kill anything but time. It w said that the pheasant, wul lie to a dog, uuy-lt u certain 1 thiit tlie average untrymanywill lie to any body , who asks! him tot - shooting. Tho) countryman desires you to 'charter'hU team, a rattletrap vehicle tied to two small mules, that he may drive you out to ; unscalable 'hillsides and. impenetrable wods, where he assures you that pheasants are hke fleas on a dog's back. This is true.. There may be a million, but not one can be - seen. After, you scale the . hillsides and explore the woods and expend several hundred dollar's worth of energy with out of sight of a feather, he notifies you that it is "prob'ly the wrong time o day," and the bill is six dollars. There are old men about here to declare that they have seen pheasants in West Virginia during their time, out they are looked upon 'as romancers. H. O. O'Neil, a Louisville capitalist and a great hunter, brought in three one day and broke the record, ibut his champion setter, "GlacLi tone's Lad," ( shakes his head in a peculiar way when the '.matter is referred to, and could evidently shed much light on the mystery if herhose. High times of the highest character ome ,thnes prevail here during the season. There is an informal organization, of eight or nine members who come here every year, known as the Irish Club. When any member fails to iput in an appearance during any year bis check for a hundred dollars is due, and this fund, together with the outlay of others, is. lord in entertaining. The name arises "from the face that no Irish can join. It was at one y0t their eidertainmenta last year that a young gentleman drank champage out of the slipper of a Baltimore lady, the occurrence of which waa made much of by tho newspaper and illustrated weeklies. This year an equally startling entertainment took place, and every body tells you of it as if it were the occasion of chief interest. Three members of the club gave a champagne supper to three ladies, young ladies, whereat the rosy wing of friend ship lost no.feathers up to 3 o'clock a. m. It is asseverated that the entire par" y were re markably clouded, and that instead of break ing up they took carriages at that hour, and only returned at six, one of the young ladies upending' the day in roost contrite tears. The use of champagne is ranch more general than in the North, and the young ladies do not seem to be aware that ii biteth hke a black bans and stingeth like a hornet, - according to report. iExcesae3 of the kind mentioned are not com mon, however, and consequently when they do occur create enormous talk. ! 1 The sulphur bath Tb a local luxury, and with , a clothespin on your nose is not bad. Having read the pleasing account in large print in the daily papers of a man who scratched for twenty-eight years and then unfortunately got cured and entered the advertising columns in OLD BUBSOX. time to stKil your breakfast appetite, you rim-' elude to bathe. Modern physiology is discov ering so many kinds of microscopic nuisances concealed about one's anatomy that tho idea of a sulphur bath is rather att active. Having givci yourself no bodily tooldBurriu, a white hairol, powerfnf old mulatto of twenty years' experience, lie iads you to a bathroom and puts yon in to boil. When, you are somewhat soft he comes in and rubs you with s brown .crash toel. the sensation being lazily and warmly plea1 int. When you are quite done he taker yon oat and polishes you oft for the Stable, industriously chatting meanwhile alat iBerry Wall, Jay Gould, and others of his clients here and at' Old Point Comfort in winter, jsummaririn;? each of his paragraph with I' V'anity, nothin' bnt vanity." Old Burrill jsay-i that thre has lx-en verv Ijttle bathing, (comparatively shaking, thi summer, all thoe who cam for rest and treatment having, as a rule, len too busy in social gayfuj. for sulphuroU'4 indulgencies of aa aqueotw kind. In fact, ber an elsewhere, the sringst though they are the origin of the watering plarv, bare -almost fallen into disoae a eomparwl with seanon vt iwrap Tfars ago. Yon Icsv the bat h Entirely permeated with milphur. If yi nb Ixxl agaiiut a pest ron would tak Sre ' Tlie Southim' Vpnug Man who ia the con trolling force brre i usually dutingtii-habln primarily by his nose. It is always straight, aquiline, or itoman 'never anob. ihiml 1 noKeK are a distinguishing race trait of tbe H,wt .. Otherwise he docs not appear to take pre-eminent rank, however, a he average tuv low th- medium height, and is lightly built a a rule. He is pax excellence a society man and tbe most industrious of cavaliers. Homo one of him nsually takes the lead in inaugurating entertainments, and germans and mule racre he is equally enthusiastic in promoting. His preferred locality is the. betel ballroom, how ever. ' This is a targe hall in the front corn of the first floorj with a polished floor and a frewoed ceiling The frescoes portray four ladies, evidently belonging to a preeeedin g era, for their singjef garment is prevented front falling entirely off of them by some secret of the modiste, either glue or carpet tacks, which has entirely escaped the modern dressmaker. The builder aavs they are Juno, Ceres, Fa! las. and Yeta, and h bootblack say their names' are Malaria, Insomnia, Pneumonia, and Diph theria. Tbe difference is somewhat wide, bat ss you pay your money yon are permitted to . take your choice. Xev Tprk Tmtet. Ik a Fix. The Probate Judge of Smith county, Kansas,, is insane; Ha ought to be removed : and another ap pointed. But the Governor finds hin4 self in! a dilemma, He cannot appointj a Probate Judge until a vacancy occurV and no vacancy can be declared nntiC the incumbent be adjudged insane, Ini order to effect this the lunatic must be tried by a jury and declared by tho; "PrrATA Jndtre insane. iXo other Tier-, son in the county has the powen Thia. is the first caso 01 tne juna wicn tuui ovor ttriwn in Kansuii . -i j :f I' ' 1 I T f 1
Dan Valley Echo (Leaksville, N.C.)
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Oct. 13, 1887, edition 1
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