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2 ' Jre55 and (farolinian rroLiMHEi) Every Tbcrsday by THE HICKORY PRINTING COMPANY, Ilickury, North Carolina. Of course the Cleveland cranks and seekers after Cleveland's fa vors are crazy for a rold standard- and, like Josh" Stallinprs' ramwill butt the rock wall down or have it You see Cleveland's appointees figuring in every tfold standard meeting and organiza tion. Yet Cleveland is a Snivel Reformer in civil service? He had better reform some more. A Reformer is never any gevd. Liook at New York. The Reform ers are the worst scoundrels in the whole kit. Apologists for Cleveland do themselves no cred it now and will have less here after. Hello! Kohlsoot has bought a paper at last. It has two names. Guess ho is buyng them in sec tions He is a Republican. The associated press informs a yearu inir public that Mr. Kohlsoot tri'd to hire President Cleveland's so called etc., or otherwise Demo cratic U. S. Comptroller of the Currency, the young - Mr. Eckles, as the editor of the financial planks in the aforesaid newpaper, at a salary'of ' nearly" ten thous and a year. Mr. Eckles consid ered it and ultim.itt ly declined. He could not step out of a Demo cratic feathered lust into a Re publican rat hole. The shameful conduct of sever al small boys in this city, on Thursday of last Week, should warn parents of the danger of erivinsr their children unbridled license to tramp the streets. Child hood should be protected from too many temptations to wrong doing. Parental authority is ab solutely essential to their well-' being, and if it is not exercised, it is not difficult to determine what the harvest will be. Jenks: Can'tyou find no better word than idi-o-sin-crasy to ex press your idea? Mr.deSalol: Note another one. There is no other word to express it; unless it is idiosincrasy. You will catch my meaning by follow ing the trend. Jenka: I follow. At a recent term of Catawba Super ior Court Dr. L. A. Crowell was con victed of seduction and Judge Tim berlake sentenced him to prison and imposed a heavy fine. The Supreme Court has decided that he cannot be both fined and imprisoned andCrowell is remanded for re-sentence at tha next term of Court. Statesville Land mark. Free Pills. Send your address to II. E. Bucklen & co., Chicago, and get a free sample box of I) r. Kind's ew Life Pills. A trial will convince you of their merit:. These pills are easy in action and are paiticularly effective in the cure of Constipation and sick headache. For Malaria and Liver troubles they hr,ve been proved invaluable-. They are guaranteed to be perfectly free from everv deleterious substance and to be purely vegetable. They do not weak en bytheir action, but by giving tone to stomach and bowels greatly invigor ate the system. Regular size 25c. per box. Sold by O. M. Iloyster, Drug prist. - , 4 As a financial note of considerable interest, we can state that North Car olina 4s are higher than they have ever been. In Richmond, yesterday 101 was bid and no sales. For C's. 125 was bid, with no sales. Charlotte News. If King Solomon was alive he would now sav: Go to the traveling man, learn his ways, and be wise.' Mr. C. "W Battell, a Cincinnati traveling man representing the Queen City Printing Ink Co., after suffering intensely for two or three days with lameness of the shoulder, resulting from rheumatism, coiupletelv cured it with two applica tions of "Chamberlain's Pain Balm. This Temedv is gaining a wide reputa tion for its prompt cures of rheuma tismu lame back, sprains, swellings, and lameness. 50 cent bottles are for bale bv O. M. Royster Druggist. lS-4t COOKING FOR A 31ADMAN. "You may laugh at me 't you will." said Mrs. Sands, good-humoredly. "about my cooking, for I don't pro fess to be much in that line. I think that 1 took an early distaste for the business: but I believe I can say what none of you can that I once cooked a satisfactory supicr, judging by ir being entirely eaten and the plates licked; but, pausing, it was for a mad man." "A mailman'. How strange. How came you to cook for him? Do tell us all y.bout it," &sid several of the ladies, who were assembled and chatting about their cooking school. "I don't much like to recall the cir cumstance for it makes me nervous, even now; and' there were years that I could not mention it; but if it will entertain you I will try; and you mit let me tell it in my own way, so I may not get excited over its painful re membrance." 'You nervous, Mrs. S ? Why, 1 should never dream of your being ner vous. You seem so placid." "That shows how appearances de ceive, for 1 was an extremely nervous, sensitive child, and after that supper I was much more so; and, although I am now twenty-three, it seems but a short time since then, when I wanted but two days of being seven. The date is fixed on my mind, for I was ex pecting a birthday party 'then to be given by my indulgent mother. I was a spoiled and petted child, being the youngest of five girls. My only broth er was the oldest of the family, being then eighteen years old. I was his particular pet. Dear Ned, you were the best and most lovable and loving friend I ever had, and how 1 miss you yet, .and ever will, as long as I live, and I can hardly bear to think that now you have a wife and children to pet. Then I monopolized all of your love and caresses." "Excuse me. I am wandering from my recital. So many things are called up to my remembrance connected with this." "To begin. .My father and his fam ily lived in the city of R but during the summer he used to send us all out to his farm for our health. It was about three miles from the city, and beautifully situated on the lake shore, where we learned fishing, swimming, and all the delights of a country home, and became wild and healthy, and re turned (sometimes regretfully) to our city home in the fall to attend school and resume home duties." Well, in the fall of '80 my mother concluded that we would move to town before the fall rains and bad weather set in. Then she promised me the birthday party, so I was wild with anticipation of pleasure. "My father had not returned from fall court, bnt mother thought she would not wait, but get settled by his return. "She and the girls were packing to start, when she told brother Ned that she wished he would go on ahead in the buggy, so as to have the house aired and fires made before the rest of us arrived. He soon had the vehicle at the door, and I was frolicking about him as usual, when he said 'Mother, let Elsie go with me. I will take good care of her until you come.1 "Of course I begged to go with him. Mother demurred at first afraid I might take cold, etc., but we prevailed. So, getting up beside him, and, moth er, wrapping me up; and putting two or three baskets in the buggy, and giving him parting instructions, we started off. What rThappy ride that was for me. Ned let me hold the lines, to make me believe that I was driving, while he had his arms about me to seize the lines if necessary. He told me fairy stories, jokes, and teazed and kept me in the highest spirits imaginable. "When we reached home Ned found that he had left the house key behind; but, finding the kitchen key, opened that. The kitchen was a separate building from the house, the door leading off the back gallery. It was one large room--cellar below, and ser vants room above. Nel soon made a big fire in the cook stove, while I was dancing about him. getting on his back when he stooped to put wood in, hugging and kissiug him, and hindering his effort, not minding his mild Elsie, do behave. In. fact. I was as -wild as a health v. loving, delighted child could be under the circumstances not, alas, dream ing of the misery I was to have in the too near future. "Ned proposed that we should set th supper table in the kitchen, saying he knew mother and the girls would be glad to get their supper anywhere, they would be so tired and hungry vfcen they came. So we spread the cltth, set the , table, took out of the tickets th loaf of bread, cold ham, buver, eggs, etc., and he proceeded to make coffee, with ins? t a-ing and hin dering him, and ftliug very important that 1 Muld help him so much. "Presently he said E!sie, you will nor mind being nloae a lwtle while, '-will you I want to go down to the library a few minute to ee v;ht new looks have omie in: will be. back lie fore mother cumes. I j-aid If you'll bring nie some ran dy and nuts you . .ay go. "Tiiey were proii-d. and h- went 1 our, Telling me to Jock tliedinir behind j him for safety. 1 did also clcd , the cellar door, but did not lock it, for I he had unlocked and opened ir io air j the cellar. Then I looke 1 about " ! and began to -feel lonesome. I thought I would coo the eggs to pits away the time. Then the thought occurred to me that 1 mighr make some waiie to surprie the fAiail, that they would all be glad to have s.oui hot bread. 1 h;:d seen the cook, old Aunt Cindy, mix ami bake them often. S;, break ing three egg in a pan, I proceeded to beat "them, singing at the to; of my voice all the time to keep up mV spirits, keeping time with the, beater. Several times I thought 1 heard a noise, but telling myself that it was only the echo of mj beater against the pan, I went on, succeeding tanioijj.lv with the wattes until 1 had a pile of eight keeping warm on the back of the stove. They were nice and brown, and looked appetizing, and 1 felt ex ultingly happy over my achievement. "But what is that noise! and surely something is coming up the cellar stairs! slowly and laboriously, making a clanging sottd, and now fumbling with the latch? "Without a second's thought I darted up the open stairway into the servant's room. There was a hole in the floor for a stovepipe to pass through in the winter to heat the room, but not used that way in the summer. To this I crawled noiselessly and looked through below in the kitchen. What a sight mot ' my eyes, and caused my heart to thump so that I feared it would be heard. I watched breathlessly, a creature; hardly know ing whether it were man or beast. All I could see was a great, moppy head of grizzled, tangled hair, on broad shoulders, stooping over, carrying in his right arm a large iron ball, which, upon further investigation, I saw, was attached to his ankle by a long chain, while the" other ankle had a shorter piece of chain dangling, which made a noise at every movement. He had only a loose robe of striped goods like bed ticking, but so tattered and dirty and blood-stained that it was of no define color. "Suddenly the creature made an aw ful sound that almost froze the blood in my vins. It was more like the roar of a lion than anything human. It sounded something between a chnckle and a groan huh, huh, oo, oo, o-o-m, drawing out the last sylla ble. 41 'Oh, Mrs. S ! Don't do that again. You maV.e nie so nervous,1 said Mrs. L . "Oh, you are nervous too, are you? But I can tell you that I cannot make it one-half as terrible as his was. His voice must have been a basso profundo with a gutteral attached. That sound was constantly in my ears for years, and I never can forget the creeping sensations down my back when I heard it. The creature approached the stove jangling his chain and muttering, and seeing the wafies, reached his left hand out clutching them as with a claw, and almost choking himself munch ing them so fast. Soon they were gone. Then the hot coffee went he drinking out of the pot. Then he turned and saw the table. All the eatables followed quickly down his his capacious maw, he licking the plates they were on, occasionally stop ping to make that music which you request me not to repeat. He looked about for more, but seeing none, com menced amusing himself by throwing the dishes against the stove and walls. Everything that was breakable went the same way, until it was a scene of utter devastation. . "Next thing, to my horror, he went to the stove, and muttering 4I will warm; I will warm,' began to rake out the coals and brands from the stove. "Almost Reside myself, and fearing to bo burned. I cried out in the agony of my soul Oh. don't! don't!' He threw back his head and looked up at me. 1 "never can forget that first view of hi? face. Eyes like burn ing coals, looking out from under bnhy, tangled hair. wii4i black rims Minder them, and so much dirt and blood, on the whole, that a lion's face would be a beauty com pared with it. With another loud noise, he limped over to the stairway, and slowly as cended, carrying his huge iron ball, and clanking the other chain at every step. "Is it not a wonder that I did not die right tho and there? ' - Ye," .-aid out- o: the ladies. "I think that yoV must have died and that is your very substantial ghost that we sv but go on, don't stop now, for pity's sake. ".S-!f preservation is the first law of nature. m I l rttd to the far corner of the roo'ii. but quivering with t fear. Ali. my pretty chicken, I have got you now upon your roost and I will eat you too. he- greeted me with. Then began the closest chase on record: to and fro. to and fro. he keeping between me and the stairway. His having to carry the b ill so he could walk, and .only befog able to use his left hand to catch me, was in my favor, but several times he caught my dress skirt, which being of thin material, was left in his claw. He also caught my hair, of which he got several locks, and 1 still have a bald spot on the. back of my head to remember him by. but I can not torget hun anyway, if no token was left. The chase seemed to iu of hours duration, but 1 Mippose really lasted only a few minutes, netting, desperate at his lack of success, he dropped his heavy ball on the floor and went for mo with both hands. I dodged him once again, and he, mak ing a sudden turn, sent the ball roll ing; then, as if guided by Providence, it rolled in the right direction and dropped through the hole through which I had watched him, dragging him along with its heavy weight, until his leg followed it and went through and he lay flat and helpless. I after ward hoard that the leg was disloca ted. 1 rushed by him down the stair way, unlocked the door and fell sob bing into Ned's arms, a poor, limp lit tle objVeL w ith dress in tatters, hair dis-hevoled and tangled with gore, un able to speak, but could only point to the ball and chain and leg suspended from the ceiling. Nod had been knock ing, ca;iing, and trying to break the strong lock f..r several minutes, but the carriage had just arrived with mother and the girls, who were all crying around me. I was carried oil to bed, and to make it short, I will only say I had a long spell of brain fever, which left mo so prostrated and nerv ous th-it I could not sleep for months, without starting up and crying that 'Dooga was after me,' a name that 1 gave him in my delirium. 4iTo go back to that eventful even ing help -was. called in and thr. mani ac was .carried to the asylum, from which he had escaped months before. Search had been made for him in vain. He had broken a window in our cellar and hail been concealed there a long time, the house being vacant. The cellar piesented a horrible appearance, and it was judged, from the nature of the bones, that he had subsisted on raw cats and dogs, which he had de coyed through the window. 'My dear Mrs. S , you have enter tained us most horribly. I hope you will never do so again, said Mrs. Gould. "You must not make fun of my cooking, then, for you see I am an ex perienced cook,1 replied Mrs. Sands. "Yes, with a very novel experience, which none of us crave, and a very bad result. "Well, I was sorry that the family could not enjoy my wafles, of which I was so proud. They were satisfied to recover me alive; for my life hung in the balance for a long time after my first attempt at cooking. Do you wonder that I made no more attempts for a long time, and am not particu larly foud of it now. I hope, though, to get " interested in our new school, and succeed in cooking, and forget the horrible experience of my first attempt in that line.' Well Satisfied with Ayes Mair Vigor. Nearly forty years ago, after some weeks of sickness, my hair turned gray. I began using Ayers Hair Vigor, and was so well satis fied with the results that I have never tried any other kind of dress ing. It requires only an occasional appli cation of AYER'S Hair Vigor to keep -jKT my hair of good V color, to remove .J-.mfxC,i .dandruff, to heal itching humors, and prevent the hair from falling out. 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