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1 MOBGANTON Star. H w . : 1 'Hew to the Line, Let the Chips iTall Where they May' VOL. I. MORGr ANTON, N. C, &RIDAY, MAY 8, 1885. JsO. 10. " -timJmnL.mM-uinm.i, m.j.ij.,..,,, L , , t , u ,i u i iu iuj.i in ' 'i i 1 1 i I ' I)C iitorgantou Star. OITICIAL PAPEK OF BURKE COUNTY. Itll&cd. Every Friday. T. O. COBB, Editor and Proprietor. It. A. COBB, Manager and Soliciting Agent. Terms: $ 1 .00 pe r Year in advance JgTEntered at th Fost Office in Morganton. as Second-Class Matter. THE GRIZZLY'S POCKET. BY HEKr SETTPOfcr. 1 'That's a' pretty little girl with you in the Pullman, Cap daughter j" "No, she ain't no granddaughter,' said "Cap.," looking at the conductor with an injured expression. "I ain't no spring chicken, and yit I ain't no gran dad." 'Daughter, perhaps?" 4 'Nary daughter." "Niece!" "Nur yit niece." Cap. gave two or three Bavage pulls at the long cigar, which had beguiled him from the side of the little girl in the Pull man into, the free and easy atmosphere of the smoker, before he saw fit to answer the conductor's last question. The ex press (en route to El Paso) had entered on that long run between Oakland Pier four miles out of San Francisco and Lathrop, ninety-one miles distant, and seeing several hours without a stop before him. the conductor had strolled into the smoker for a chat. "See here, young feller," said Cap. at last, "did I pay that little gal's way, or didn't I? Did you punch her cowpon with that there silver pistol of yours, or didn't you? Do I owe this yer road any thing? Ef I do, present yer bill; ef I don't, what makes you so all-fired keen to know the whole history of the case? I ain't a kid nappin' her; you kin bank on that; but all the same she ain't no kith nor kin er mine, and 6he don't belong to no friend. I'm a takin' her to her mother in St. Louey. Jest heft that pile." He twitched area cotton handkerchief out of an inner pocket and thrust it into the surprised conductor's hand. "Jest heft that pile," he continued, "it's pure, 6olid twenty-four karat gold; ever grain of it belongs to that little gal, and I'll bet the drinks you can't come within a hundred of its value. Jest heft it once." The conductor held the handkerchief by its ends, and gravely "hefted" some thing of about the bulk of an ordinary fist, which was knotted in the center of the rag. "It weighs about two pounds. I judge," he said, after some little hesitation. "What is the figger?" ""Well, if it is pure gold, as you say, it may be worth $500." " i ou are iest a hundred out. fche is worth 1402.23. A greasly bar played bi. .Nicholas game last unnstmas eve and throwed that handsome little tribute into the little girl's stocking. He killed her dad at the same time and died him self which was two of the wnitest deeds as ever a greasly done, to my way of thinking." To the conductor's way of thinking, as well as that of every passenger within hearing, Cap. was altogether too light- Headed to be trusted with his own su penntendence while making his five . days' run between San Francisco and St. Louis, much less to be the pro tern, guardian of a seven-year-old girl. He saw the incredulous smiles excited by the remark, and seemed to understand the pitying glances which want with them. "Of course, you think I am crazy," he said, simply. "They can't be no such thing as that happen. All the curious things has happened already. There ain't no gold in Californy no more, and they ain't no greaslys in the Rockies, and they ain't nothing odd nor outland ish in the whole world. Everything is dead open and shet. What you don't iee you don't believe. But all thejsamee it's true, and ef I told you it happened back in '49 you'd believe it; but becuz it happened last Christmas eve, and be- . cuz I'm here and the gold is here and the little gal is back in the Pullman asleep it seems too much like bringing miracles home to you, and you shake your head and say: 'All a lie; the old ; man's crazy.' f He had the knot in the handkerchief undone by this time, and gave the cfon- ductor, as well as two or three of the passengers, a satisfying inspection cjf the pound and a half lump of dull, yHow . a i t 1 i 1 r 1 Jl rr 5 meiai wmcn u naa enioiaea. in con ductor pronounced the metal to be, with- . out doubt, genuine gold. J "You sec, it was this way," eaiy Cap. . turning about in his seat so that he could speak to those in the seat behind him as to the conductor in front? "me and the old lady alius calc'late fo give our children a little candy and things every Christmas ; but when, the day be fore Christmas, I came hcmc from the store down in the village -yVith a pound or two in this pocket, and a few pounds in that, and a sack full s'ung over my shoulder, and a wooden elephant with a leather trunk and a Noah's ark. and a you got Grand- sees my pile, 'I don't believe that little gal down to Jake Pearson's ranch is got a blame thing. Jake is that mean that he'd never squander a dollar for fool toys, and it jest natchelly makes me tired to think of our brats rolling in goodies and that little yeller haired gal without even molasses.' "I saw her bluff and raised it. 'Gimme that there doll, old lady,' I sez, 'and a tin horse and about two pounds of that confectionary, and we'll see if she don't have a Christmas yet, all the same. "I put 'em in a sack and waltzed along the road tell I kem to the place jest above Pearson's ranch, which lies at the foot of the. mountain, and after stumbling down fur about ' a hundred yards I could almost look down Pear- ' son's chimbly, directly underneath me, and all at once I beam the little gal scream. "Pearson hadn't lived in them dig gin's more 'a six months, aridw- neigh bors didn't know a great deal about him; but our wimmen. folks they'd a spied out the land a little, a3 wimmen will, and they 'lowed that Pearson wa3 a-living in the shanty all alone, 'cept ing fur this little seven-year-old gal, and they swore up and down that he didn't treat her right. They knew he was a rascal the first time they seed him, and once or twice he was seen a whippin' her with a hither strap. We men didn't take much stock in their talk ; but we laid low and 'lowed that the first time we ketched him red-handed a-whippin' nry gal with a luther strap 'ud be a mighty unhealthy time for Pearson. "Well, sir, boys, he wus doing that very thing when I lit down on him with the buckle end, too, mind you; and if I hadn't been a law-and-order-abid ing citizen, I swan I'd a shot hi m then. But I 'lowed it wuz best to have witnesses, and ef I'd a killed him 'thout no one by to see fair play, it might have caused talk. So I jest tuk the strap f rum him, and kinder scared him into decency with a touch or two on his own shoulders, and then I tuk him to one side and him the knick knacks. " ' You put them in the kid's stocking to-night so she will find 'em when she wakes up in the morning sez I. 4 It's Christmas morning, and we are all Christians up yer in these diggins,' sez I, and if you don 1 1 swear ril smash your head.' "He snarled and showed his teeth, like a bull dog that wants to bite but is afraid to, and I swan to man, gentlemen, I wuz downright put out that we'd a let that little gal live all alone so long witn sech a human hyena. But, as 1 said Be fore. I didn't like to take the law into my own hands all alone, so I waltzed off and hunted up some of the neighburs, and told them jest how the land lay, and asked their advice. They all said the same thing. "'We'll go down and talk to him, right off,' sez the v. " 'Bring the little gal up to our ranch, after, you get through with him,' sez my old lady : she kin have a home with us so loner as she pleases.' "Thetdruvthe nail home and clinched her on the other side. The wimmen wuz with us. So we tuk along a stout luther lariat, with a running noose in one end, kinder handy fur talking to seech car rion ez Pearson, and jest as night wuz beginning to sot m we got under way toward his ranch. They wuz 6ix of us Hank Fletcher, Cale Bledsoe, Stumpy Bluebaker, old man Bassett, Injun Pete and me jest enough to be judge, jury and executioner." Cap. paused here to light a fresh cigar; but before the flame of the match had taken hold on the tobacco he tossed the JS3!.F. -1 GAMBLER FROM INFANCY. miff couldn't see what had waked her up, and I 6ez, sez I: " 'It ain't quite Christmas, yit, honey,;' sez I; 'but St. Nicholas is come, sre, and he's got a whole raft of thing fur, you, up to my ranch.' ' " 'I want my stocking,' she sez,kinder struggling to git away from me. 'Father don't know I hung it up, but I did, and I want it. "Well, sirs, jest to quiet her, I found out where she'd hung her stocking, iway up the chimbly, where her father couldn't see it, bcuz 6he knew powerful well he wouldn'i hev no sech foolish ness, and I got one of the boys to kinder hunt around fur it, jest to quiet her. "Well, sirs, gentlemen, that thar little stocking with more holes and patches and places where she had cobbled it her self with cotton string, than stocking wulavinjs in- the ashes jest twhe the bar had knocked it when he brokeido'wn the chimbly, and they wuz a nugget of. gold as big as my three fingers right on top of it. Two or three smaller pieees was scattered around, and it wuz plain to the meanest intellec that in falling the greasly's paw had clawed out a pocket of gold in the rocks just above the shanty, and the whole had jest natchelly gravitated down with the bar. "He wuz dead, of course, and when the boys kem to lift him, Jake Pearson wuz under him, smashed so that he had jest breath enough to tell me where to find the little girl's ma before he went. "The next day Christmas day we sashayed around there with shovels and picks, and, alter some little trouble in tracing it, we finally located the pocket and dug out the balance of the gold. I had every crumb of it melted into this yer brick in my handkerchief, and when we get to ot. Liouy 1 bands it over to little girl's ma, and I sez, sez 1 : "Four hundred and two dollars and twenty-three cents as a Christmas gift for your little gal. from a greasly bar, who wuz a whiter Christian than ever Jake Pearson wuz, madam, beggin' your pardon," sez J. ' 'Lathrop twenty-fi mmutesf rspr 1" 6ung out the braneman, as the tram slowed up at the supper station, four hours and fifteen minutes out of San Francisco. Detroit Free Press. ITSAVQB ATS EVXWTrrJX. CAKE OF A OTJJTTB 7XZACESB. For Slanr Tears . a. Prominent anil 9nrceful (ambler Incident . that ed to III Reformation. In the heart of Louisville's gambling quarter, on Jefferson street, between i ourth and Fifth, says the Courier-Journal, one man has been seen daily for years. He is . plainly, almost shabbily dressed. His face is pallid and careworn always, and on it deep lines are craven. but not by the fifty winters whose pass ing have left him in his pnme. He wears no beard save a stubby brown mustache, and his hair, hardly touched with gray, falls partly over a high forehead on which anxious lines are ever resting. The deep set, keen blue eyes are the most promi nent feature of his face, and they burn with a fire that is never quenched. , . The man is Hev. Stephen Holcombe. lie is the well-known reformed gambler and city missionary. He is doing a work which no other minister has attempted and which no one else can do. The story of his life is a strange ore. lie was born at bhippingsport, Aug. 25, 1835, and from his cradle up was a gam bler. He does not remember the time when he did not play cards, and at twelve he left home to fight life's battles among his old Twining Plants. cry "mamma, a doll baby that would . a. r . m - oursung out oi a paper sacic in my arms, and me a-sneakin' around the back way so as the children might not catch me and tumble to the racket, I felt like a full growed St. , Nicholas and my heart was jest a singing 'Peace on earth and good will toward men.' Abner, says my old lady when she burning match aside. "Jest excuse me fur about two sec onds, gentlemen, whilst I waltz in and see ef my little gal is a-hankerin' for any thing that I kin get her." The girl was contentedly cuddled up in a corner oi the green piusn-coverea seat, fast asleep, with her head resting on a soft black and white plaid shawl. With her delicate features and beautiful yellow hair, she would have been consid ered lovely anywhere, and after seeing her it was easy to understand the look of tenderness which J lighted up the old ranchman's face Whenever he mentioned his "little gal." "Well, sirs,'" he continued upon gain ing his seat in the smoker and by this time every man in the car was a listener, "well, sirs, we didn't saymurh, becuz our heads had a powerful sight of think ing in 'em and our feet wuz busy climb ing over the rock toward Pearson's. It wuz a long time sense we'd a ben engaged in sich business; but we knowed Pear son deserved it, and we meant to give him sich a talking to as he wouldn't have no chance to forgit. - "But the cards wuz packed agin us In the centre of the road, jest where we meant to leave it, to climb down toward Pearson's, an' old greaslv bar wuz camped as cool as you please, diggin among the rocks fur worms. I hadn't seen no bar in those diggin's fur years, and I begun to think that things wuz happening pow erful brisk all at once, and thet it never rains fun but it pores, when clip went old man Bassett's rifle and clip went Pete's and the greasly started down the hill toward Pearson's, with a bullet in his forehead and another in his chist. "You remember I told you that I could a'most look down Pearson's chimbly from the road. Well, that's what the b'ar did, an' more. He jest natchelly tumbled down the side of- the mountain and gave one big bound jest above the shanty and went kerplump onto the roof, smashing in the rafters like they were straw and knocking the mud chimbly seven wavs for Sunday. "When we got there the little gal wuz in her night dress, standing in the mid dle of the floor and rubbing her eyes. " 'Is it Christmas?' she sez, ;and is St. Nicholas come? And what woke me up ?' One of the first peculiarities to be no ticed in connection with the twining of plants is the fact that with very few ex ceptions all the individuals of one species always twine in the same direction. Most plants twine in an opposite course to the movement of the sun or of the hands of a watch, Supposing them to stand in front of you, they twine from your left toward your right. Such twiners are the morning-glory, wistaria, bean, hoya or wax-plant, trumpet-creeper, and many others. Of those which twine in the op posite direction the hop and wild bind weed, or climbing polygonum known as wild buckwheat are familiar ex amples. It is an interesting experiment to en deavor by pinning, tying or other means to make a plant grow in an opposite di rection from that which it naturally takes. It will be found that even a plant has away of its own which is not to be changed. Let us undertake to discover the manner in which a plant twines about a support. We will suppose that a young hop-vine is growing in the yard, lhe first two or three joints called inter- nodes will be found to stand upright. There is no need for them to twine, and nature does not waste her forces. The internodes which next form begin to show an interesting peculiarity, how ever. After they have attained a length of a few inches they will be found to be deflexed first to one side, then to another, until they have made a circle. The motion becomes more rapid as the internodes grow longer, until, when two or three feet long, they sweep a circle in two or three hours- They will often make a circle four or five feet in diam eter in search of some support to twine upon. And if the tip of the revolving shoot should strike a support, what would happen? Just the same thing as if you were swinging a rope about your head and the end of it should strike pole. The rope would wind about the pole in the same direction in which it was moving. The hop shoot revolves with the sun, and if it should come in contact with a stick, it would twine about it in the same directioxs TouthU Companion. unattended and unwatched. He left Bhippingsport as a cabin-boy on one ot the magnificent steamboats that plied the river in those davs, and for the next six years followed thit wayward, wandering life. Then he came home and started a tmall store in the fsh and oyster business on Third street, in partnership with his half brother, Wil liam Sowders. He was even then an ex perienced and daring gambler, but he did not become a "professional" uttil later on. He married when only twenty years old a Miss Evans, of Saippingspcrt. She was a sincere Christian, but the union did not long have a restraining In fluence upon him, though he was always a devoted husband. When the war broke out Holcombe went to Nashville to collect a debt owed him by some one in the same line of business. He remained there sometime, and finally opened a fish store, but he did not keep at it long. He began playing faro, and in a short time lost all he had. From that time he was & pro fessional gambler, and followed that feverish existence for seventeen vears. He had no such thing as nerves, and had trained eyes and fingers to lightning quickness and dexterity. He became one of the most successful gamblers in he South, over which he traveled for years. He was especially lucky at poker, but he met his match one time at Nashville, to which he had drifted with his pock ets stuffed with winnings. One night he sat down to play with a chance ac quaintance, anticipating his customary luck. Instead of that he lost steadily. lost heavily, and finally every cent passed into the pockets of his new friend. He watched him until he dis- rent a cottage from him During their arrangement of the matter the gambler incidentally mentioned his occupation. Mr. Alexander laid his hand on Uol combe's shoulder and said: "If that is the case, my brother. I hope this meeting will be profitable in snore wavs than one. The gambler received an invitation to attend the preacher's meeting, and was converted. He joined the church, and from that day entered upon his life work. He began laboring among his old asso ciates and the miserable and degraded. wherever they could be found. His charity was never appealed to in vain. and in a short time he and his family were without a penny. From that time the story of his life has been a hand-to-hand combat with sin and poverty. Tho reformed gambler could get nothing to do here and went to Denver, where he fared almost as badly. He washed dishes in a restau rant and cooked for mining-camps at $1.50, when he could have have had thousand by going back to his old com panions. Then he returned to Louisville, and for a long time he and his family were in actual want of the necessaries of life. When Ed Hughes was elected chief of the fire department Holcombe asked him for a place, and he was the first man appointed, an act oi kindness which will never be forgotten. The labors of the reformed gambler associates attracted the IIEALTII HINTS. attention about four years ago ol Rev. J. C. Morris, then pastor of the Walnut Street church. He suggested to Mr, Holcombe that he devote his whole time to mission work, and he has done so. A mission room was ti si opened in the Tyler block, and was so successful that it was moved about two years ago to its fresent position. The good it is doing s incalculable, and is familiar to all. Mr. Holcombe was licensed as a local preacher four years ago. The mission is Lis life-work, and he says he will quit it under no consideration, lie has the con fidence and respect of every gambler in the city, and every now and then is suc cessful in leading one to a better life. For sprains, some physicians highly recommend wet clay bound about th joint, while others immerM the part. when it is possible to do so, in water as hot as it can be borne for twenty min utes, followed by bandaging and rest. Everybody has a cure for sore throat. but simple remedies appear to be mMt effectual. Salt and water is used by many as a gargle, but a littlo alumn and honey dissolved in sage tea is better. An application of cloths wrung out of hot water and applied to the neck, changiaa as often as they begin to cool, has tbt most potency for removing infiammauon of anything we ever tried. It should b kept up for a number of hours; during the evening is usually the most conven ient time for applying this remedy. Hundreds of women all over th country are sufferers from neuralgia to such an extent, in many ctses, as to find life a burl. The - following extract from the liriiUh Mlital Rcru-w gives one solution as to the cause: 'There is no recognized reason why of late years neu ralgia of the face and scalp should have increased so much in the female sex as compared with our own. There Is no doubt that it is one of the most common of female maladies one of the most painful and difficult of treatment. It is also a cause of much mental depression, and leads more often to habits of ioten ptrancc than any other. This growing prevalence of neuralgia may to some ex tent be referred to the effects of cold upon the terminal branches of the nerves distributed to the skin, and the reason why men are less subject to it than women may, to a great extent, I think, be explained by the much greater pro tection afforded by the mode in which the former cover their heads when they are in the open air. It may be observed that the surface of the head which is actually covered in man is at least three times that which fashion allows to a woman; indeed, the points of contact bt-tween the hat or bonnet and the head in the latter arc so irregular as practi cally to destroy any protection which might otherwise be afforded. If I were to report to the journals a cae of facial neuralgia cured on the principle of pro tecting the lateral and frontal surface ef the face as well as the superior part ef the scalp, it might excite a certain amount of ridicule. I can assure you. Cost or Bad Heather. To the natives of countries where the climate is very warm, and where custom dses not require a complete covering of the body, the expense" of clothing Is slight. So it is in extremely cold coun tries, where the discomfort of being un- however, that ray patient considers that covered even for a moment leads to the 1 her case ought to be reported: for she habit of a very unfreouent change of says that, if we cannot do much for neu ralgia with our prescriptions, we ought to oppose fashion when we find it preju dicial to health and productive of saf fering." covered the man had a "system," and was equally lucky in every game he played. He won thousands of dollars in a single week. Holcombe told him of his discovery, and, stating that they could work to much advantage together, his proposition was accepted, and they traveled over the south for a long time. The "system" proved invaluable, and thev won heavily at every place they visited. Both might have been rich three or four times over had they taken any care of money. They were inveter ate gamblers, and what they won at poker they lost at faro or squandered in reckless ways, as men of their calling al ways will. At Shreveport the partnership came to an abrupt termination. They played with their usual good fortune, and in a week won about $20,000, depleting the pockets of every gambler in the place. One night Holcombe and his partner quar reled, and after a fight they separated, never to meet again. The system" which they used with such success was invented by an old gambler, named Major Drake, who has long been dead. After that the Kentuckian traveled for a long time over the racing circuit in the South and East. He went to live in New. York, bat after staying there a while came back dissatisued. It was restless period of his life, and he seldom remained in one place longer than three or four weeks at a time. He was the heaviest as well as the most successful poker player in the South, but he never accumulated any gTeat amount of money. clothing. How many persons have reflected upon the expense which changes of weather in the civilized temperate zone occasions! To say nothing of the ruin of fine cloth ing by sudden showers, let us consider what a cost is inflicted upon the com munity by unpleasant weather which ia foreseen. An umbrella lasts in respectable con dition through a certain number of rainy days, according to its quality. Let us take one hundred rainv days as an aver age. Let us also suppose, for a guess, that on a day which is rainy all over the for the purpose oi country, one million umbrellas are brought into use. Then each of those umbrellas has lost one per cent., 6ay two cents, of its origi nal value, and in the aggregate the um brellas used are not worth so much by twenty tho.isand dollars at night as they . . v i - . . were in the morning. These amounts some time struck a vein ci coarse goia, are mere guesses, but they serve to show specimens of which have been analyzed the principle. in London with most promising results. January 20, 1884, was a pleasant win- Mr. Davis' find was soon thrown into the ter day in London. On January 20, shade by that of a young man named 18S5, there was a "London fog." On Hankie, who had the luck to meet with the former day a single gaslight company the nuartz bursting through the surface, sent out sixty-one million cubic feet of I and extending for two miles. Near thU district is the famous .Morgan reel, w men contains gold in immense quantities, wanting only one-tenth of being virgin gold. Verily this story of facts beat Jules Verne's fiction hollow, and threat ens a revival of that fever in the heat of which 60 many heads and hearts have been irremediably lost. .Miles efl.'oia. Australia boasts of having In its bosom the richest Dorado of modern dis covery. A young engineer named Dans, after the most thrilling adventures among cannibal aboriginies of the northern dis trict of the southern continent, at list came upon a region of the finest geld ore. Forthwith he returned to England studying mining op erations, and soon again faced lor his Dorado. To his utter astonishment he found on his return a whole colony of miners delving away in the treasured earth of which he thought he alone was aware. Himelf and a companion, how ever, started bravely to work, and after gas; on the latter day it sent out ninety six million feet. The difference of thirty-five million cubic feet was wholly due to the dark ness caused by the fog, and the extra gas supplied by this one company of which there are several in London cost the public more than twenty-six thousand dollars. It is probable that a single foggy day in London entails upon the people of that city, in various ways, an aggregate It The Value of" Soup, may be safely taken as loss of more than one hundred thousand physiological fact that the stomach a stable rill dollars. Youth's Companion. not so readily digest solid substance when these arc taken alone as when they are preceded on the digestive journey by soun. The bread which is eaten will be converted into dextrin in the mouth and Sunflowers for Fuel. A correspondent of the DnkoUi Farmer, and sunflowers, has settled upon the last the stomach, wi waPrcUT .PP1! the namrd . the chranest and best fuel for httle glands of the organ with the power to manufacture the pepsin ot the gastric wood the essentials of the soup, on reaching named as the cheapest and best fuel for treeless Dakota. He says: I grow one acre of them every year, and have plenty of fuel for one stove the whole year round, and use some in another stove beside. I The Shiahs and Sunis. One of the most striking characteris tics of the Afghan and Turcoman tribes, which has more than once been very skillfully utilized by Russia in her oper ations against them, is the extreme bit terness with which they take sides in the great controversy between the Suni and Shiah sects. The Shiahs, who are strong in Persia, hold Mohammed's son-in-law, Ali, the fourth Caliph, to be the prophet's only legitimate successor, denouncing his three forerunners as usurpers, while the Sunis, who abound in Afghanistan, hold a directly opposite creed. This which has made the countless wars unspeakably fero- cious, is carried to sucn a neignt mat. an Englishman who lately begged the life of a wounded Persian was answered by one of his Afghan comrades: "Were he only an unbeliever 1 would spare him, but being a Shiah he must die." A stranger entering an Afghan or Turcoman camp is often met with the challenge, "What say'st thou of the first three Caliphs?" and should be pronounce lu their favor, the crucial question follow "What think'st thou of Ali" to which if he value his life, he must reply, "At was a Kafir" (infidel). ulant them in hills the same as corn "About $5,000 or $3,000 was as much (0nly three seeds to the hill), and culti I ever had at any time," he says. "I Tate same as corn. I cut them when the leader or top flower is ripe, let them lay on the the ground two or three days; in that time I cut off all the seed heads, which are put into an open shed with a floor in it, the same as a corn crib; the stalks are then hauled home and packed in a common shed with a good roof on. When cut in the right time the stalks, when drv. are hard as oak. and make a as never knew its value and threw it away as fast as it came into my hands. I wouldn't stick to poker, but as soon as I got flush I would go to playing faro, and this would terminate In my losing all I had. Faro has a wonderful fascination for most gamblers, and no matter how fair the game is the bank is sure to win in the long run. juice in due quantity. It would seem, in truth, as if these glands demanded nourishment and stimulation in their own turn ; and the soup, through its con taining an abundance of dissolved mat ters, presents them with the wherewithal from which to derive the necessary en ergy. An Italian physician points out that where the meat we eat is juicy and tender the savory principles are readily extracted from it and are thus seized by the stomach without trouble. But if the meat be tough and the reverse of juve nile and iuicv. it will, in consequence. be diirested with difficulty. The trench- feeling, Perso -Afghan The percentage of the dealer's take-out I cood hot fire, while the seed heads with man, in this view of matters, has found never learned, though I was one so long mvself. It decreases with every deal. but is some unknown ouantity which gives the bank an unfailng advantage. "The stories of gambling and of gam biers' wealth are nearly always exagger ated," he continued. "I have been very lucky at times, and have made heavy winnings, but $3,000 is as much as I ever took in at one sitting. You often hear of gamblers being worth $103,000, when the chances are that they ha-e not more than 5. 000 or f 6.000. lhtt was as much as I ever owned." He finally abandoned the racirg cir cuit and came back to Louisville, where he dealt one of the heaviest faro games in the city. Subsequently he cpeneo two houses. He owned some real estate at that time, and one day a Methodist minister, Rev. Gross Alexander, came to the seeds in. make a better fire than the best hard coal. The seed being very rich in oil, it will burn better and longer, bushel for bushel, than hard coal. The sunflower is very hard on land. The piece of ground selected to plant on should be highly enriched witn manures. In the great steppes (prairie) region in the interior of Russia and in lartary, where the winters are more severe than here in Dakota, the sunflowers are, and have been for centuries past, the only kind of fuel used. A recent invention is claimed to re duce the temperature of a room to eighty-five degrees below zero. It is thought to be the phrase used by the wife whose husband has returned from the club at 1 a. m. Lotion FotU . . by experience that he can more readily direst bit tou!?h meat if the meat is thoroughly boiled, and if bread be added to the soup which forms the introduction of his meals. BrooUvn Eaqle. m . 1 ."Mrs. TTettin.- In answer to the. question, "Will you gire Queen Victoria's surname P the pa tient notes and queries man of the Bos ton Trantrrivt nses at last to remark as follows: This question finds its way to the editor's desk once a week on an av erage the year round. We answer it once more, and for the last time. So far as she is entitled to any surname on her family side, it is Guelph. After her marriage her surname became Wettin, that being the family name of her hus band. Wettin Mrs, Wettin. Now,don't forget it ! I I
The News-Herald (Morganton, N.C.)
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May 8, 1885, edition 1
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