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) Wl JNORTH LKESBORO iEW v - V J- I:!:;.;;t-(i.( iiiir aii,l Publisher. hEVOTED TO THE UPBU1LDIXO OF XORTH W1LKESBOHO, WILKES COVXTY AXD THE MAGX1F1CEXT VALLEY OF THE lAhhlX. M: ix.I.I.Ai: l KM YKAI.-ln AJr,ce. VOL III. NORTH WILKESBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1894. NO. 24. ; H. B, PARKER, Jr., Attorney at Law, ANIi NnTAItY ITMI.K', North Wilkcsboro, N. C. V.'ill irii't!ci' in Imth Stiitu uml Federal ' 'iris. Sjifrial iittintion to latter. R. N. HACKETT Attorney-at-Law, WILKESBORO, - N. C. T. h. i:ni.i:v. II. I.. (.KKE.M. I'iNI.I-Y 4- (iltKEXK, Attorneys - at - Law, WILKESBORO, N. C. Wi'l r.u !ii-c in all tin? Court. Collections n "it-iulty. Kcul it:i'i'M(l(l on commission. Dr. Geo. Doughton, PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, North VViiKusuoro, N. C. OFFICE at RESIDENCE. W. P. Horton, M. D. !lt) sielitn ii mJ Nnrireoii, Xorth Willcoslmro, - N. C. A L!. CAI.I.S I'UoMrTLY ATTKXDKD, iiay ot: moist, 1-34 :-i-r ;:'( ; at j:i:sim:xce. Br. 1 B. Surgeon Dentist. 0fi.c - JDo-y& : ri'r,;n M t.. loth of EACH MONTH, over Miii'T Pr !..' store. sM7-12m i:i Dr. L. A. Hanser. OHice :- ia -:- Hotel -: Gordon. )lit,rhtl Uv'il All k ( unwind cil. 1P. Ihcivr i- :i r.i.l i ite or the H. ' 1. 8.. Itaoiio. r n i'l "Per .rfeWnuiiil sur-vie,- t t!ie pi-ojiN' nC North Wilkeiborn dv! vtrr-iiiiniiii r i':ti!ilry. fun In; found in ;.i oli'ii e the lirt week in each month. F. HOWARD, Koriii YiliCCsboro, - H. C. All MinN of repairm; clone with wmIM'js and dispatch. Will liy found at Turner's r'uriiitssri; Store, (i rinr.iHtiv sat i. !':h';kii. !,-.v 1 :i lirvt-clas meat the rear of L. E. , 1 1 i i (!! in I) t v i l.l I Will KCCp i;ii-o lino, of nil on ml n ;ind of- IRATJ : OYSTERS, : k Mo a Call. ADAMS. c. w. T. HOlCOfflD im Besf larketli M. 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Tliejr say at midnight when the wind From out the canyons blow. And Colorado's foamy wave llreak on the reefs below, A It rse of solid silver, WhoM fret are shod with (fold. Comes daxhiiiK down the canyon Itemed by a rider bold. The shout of Hoskaninnl, With wild and wandering eye. Who comci to guard the pathway Of tV Hosteen Pes' La-kL. The sheepmen tell the story. And the prospectors who came From Tintic mines In Juab Bay they have heard the same. The trapper by the river My guide, the Navajo, Kays be has heard the story And knows that It Is so; That every night at midnight. When winds go wniilna; by. Rides the ghot of Hoskaninnl 'Gainst the Hosteen I'es' La-kL "For here it was the Saniard,n He said, "made Injun slave. And may be so the river Flows somo time by the crave "Of my own mother's mother. Who ere she came to die Was made to dig tho peso For the Hosteen Pes' La-kL Tut brave old Hoskaninnl, Ere death his hands had tied. Said be would guard the peso. Made paper talk and died. "And even now at midnight As w talk, you and I, Rides tbe ghost of Hoskaninnl 'Gainst the Hostern Pes' La-kl." Cy Wirmu In Now York Sun. White silver hunter. A QUEER VOYAGE. I had been upending the Christmas holidays with friends in Prince Ed ward Island and wee crossing to the mainland on my way to Ottawa when our stout eteel steamer ran into a pack of ice just outside Pictou har bor and seemed likely to be delayed there for hours. There was nothing to do ..but make tho best of the cir cumstances, so the passengers, all men, retired -to the smoking room for warmth and talkr- "It's too bad to be stoppedhere. We might almost ewini ashoro.'Efiid" a fat little man. "You wouldn't find winter swim ming pleasant," said a young doctor. "Have you ever tiied'it?" asked the fat man. "Had to once." Tim fa? a ex pression "betokened recollection of a woeful experience. ' 'Tell us all about it. Come, out with the story,'" and at the word story there was a general shifting of chairs to f aco the doctor. "Well, all right. It will help to pass the time, so here it is:" In tho winter of 1S85 I was going to school at Pictou academy, and a cold winter it was. The harbor froze so early that several barks wero shut in. The ice held, and before long it was so thick that the island steamer had to cut her way up to the wharf. Splendid skating and clear, steady weather we boys had, I tell you. Going to school was a hard trial those days. With eyes on our books we thought of nothing but skating. Why should dull learning enchain boys who wished to scud down the harbor to East river and whiz along its crooked course? But you all know how we felt. After school we'd skate till late at night, illumi nating tho harbor with bonfires and torches. One afternoon in January I skated up to New Glasgow to visit my sick friend, Hob Goodyear. Ho had been taken down with fever and was dan gerously ill. Bob was then boarding in New Glasgow, where he had few friends. It took me about an hour to skate from Pictou to New Glasgow. I got there a little after nightfall and found Bob so very ill that I decided to stay all night and help nurse him. The doctor came in soon and gave me instructions for my night's watch. About 11 o'clock my real task be- j gan, when the people of the house had gone to bed, and I was left I to myself in the sickroom. I was j somewhat tired after the day's exer tion, the wind had made my eyelids neavy, ana i soon caught myself nod- However, by frequent sips of ? "E eyes open for several hours and do Mi in, N. CT.!mydutybuttfradually I fdt myself pruning ucivuua. i ineu io reau, but couldn't, and to keep myself un der control I was obliged to pace the floor. The room was very warm, and in the small hours I went out into the halL There the cool air refreshed me considerably, and tbfj bright idea occurred to mo that I miht as well skate back to Pictou that night. My watch would be over at 3 o'clock, when I should be relieved by Bob's regular nurse. In half an hour she came, and then I decided to go. So I started before ; she had time to wheeze out half the list of dangers to which, she assured me, I was exposing myself, i Outside a fine snow was falling, i and the wind was northwest I was l At. I 1 . ! on luw luiu away in almost no time it night was most exhilarating, and the verv strong coffee I had last taken stimu lated me. I seemed intoxicated with strength and longed for more resist ance than the wind and ice would offer. Digging my skates into the ico, I dashed along aguinst the brisk nor'- wester with the speed of a race horse. Tbe distance to Pictou was not more than nine miles, but the storm and the increasing snow underfoot would lengthen the trip consider ably. If I had paused to consider this, I should at least have reserved my strength instead of hurrying on at the pace I was going. There was no real danger, I thought, but I made far too little of tho risks of skating in such darkness. The river channel often remains open in places, even during the cold est weather. When I found myself frequently running ashore after pass ing tho first bend, the thought of this danger should have occurred to me. Strange to say, it did not. But my progress was fast becoming unsatis factory. The course of the river has many sharp turns, hard to follow. I often dashed up against one of the steep banks, and if it had not been for getting direction from the wind I should have been completely bewil dered. Buffeted by storm and shore and pretty tired, I was still not dis couraged. The idea of turning back never entered my thoughts. I should soon be outside the river banks, which I could tell were already di verging. It seemed long, however, before I got well away from them. Eventually nevertheless I appeared to have succeeded, and pulling my self together I made a bee line for Pictou. Quite a depth of snow cov ered the ice by this time. But I thought my task was as good as done now that nothing remained but to cress the harbor. A straight course for home took me right in the teeth of the wind and blinding snow. It was imiiossible to keep that direction for any con siderable time, for the wind was stronger here than in the river and colder as well. To get along easier I resorted to en occasional "tack." This was a risky device, but I had repeated it a good many times before it occurred to me that through this repeated altering of my course I must soon lose my bearinprs. In fact, I had lost them already. ffjw uv,ar 1 might Iw to h own vra- tojr at the mouth of tbe harbor I had no means of detennining. My lec ,vay, which I had not thought to tako account of, must have been con siderable, so that instead of being p posite Pictou I had very probably al lowed myself to be carried several points south. I congratulated myseli on having discovered my error so soon. I was not too late to rectify my course so as to avoid the danger, and I hzl no doubt I could do that. There was, though, one other ground for apprehension. Up tho harbor for some distance a passaifo had been opened by the winter boat from Prince Edward Island. Thij, however, I judged to be on the oiipo site side of the harbor from where I then was and might be avoided by keeping well to the north. It was apparent, therefore, that I must shift my course farther uort'i. The wind guided me in this. Pleased to think that I had been careful to note its direction before setting out, I started off once inore and took a course a couple of points north of the wind. I soon realized that a good hour's work was cut out for me. Tho snow was so deep as to make progress a matter of difficulty, while tho wind came in gusts that took my breath. There was nothing else to do, though, but to set my teeth and struggle on. Tired out from the exertion of the afternoon, and still more by that of the last hour and a half, I felt a great weariness stealing over me, and now and then I would stumble in the snow, which had drifted in heaps over the crevices of the ice. I could not tell how far I had gone on in this condition, when suddenly I felt a sensation as of the ice giving way under my feet. It was not Ira atrination. but reality. In tho Eame instant I was struggling in the cold water of the harbor, clutching with my mittened hands a piece of float ing ice which seemed to have been broken away at the moment when I went down. Terror seized me. I knew that much Bwimming in that freezing wa tcr was impossible. Besides where should I swim to? Fortunately the block of ice to which I clune was pretty firm. To raise myself upon it was my immedi ate thought My skates impeded me. Those were moments of an cruish. but after a terrible struggle I succeeded in dragging myself out of tho water upon the slab of ice. There was no longer any doubt in my mind as to where I was. I had allowed myself to be carried out of my way into the open sea near the mouth of tbe harbor. My situation was horrible to think of. The frag ment of ice upon which I found tem porary safety was being carried away from the main body, and I was mov ing out with the tide into Northum berland strait so I supposed. To shout loudly for help I could xir.i . benumbed as I was With cold. It would be useless anyway, for tbre was no possible chance of be- ir g heard. My situation was utterly d.-sperate. I was so paralyzed with c d t'aat I could hardly move a ous el' . My legs were numb, and the up I '.-j-partof my body chilled to that u. :;ree that I fancied myself burning bjt. My senses, instead of being quickened to action, were overpow ered. Still I was conscious that 1 ought to try to move my limbs, and by a great effort I raised myself on my knees and began slapping my body and limbs ia order to excite some circulation. Gradually I recovered the partial use of my legs, and I felt saf o to stand erect on the floating ice. My skates, which were of no further use, I tore from my feet and carelessly allowed to tumble into the water. How far I had floated I could not telh The tide was flowing out rap idly, and no doubt I should soon be outside tho harbor. Horrible fate that threatened! Even though I should not be carried to sea, I must soon succumb to cold and exhaustion. Already all my power of will was strained to keep hold of conscious cess. Suddenly it occurred to me that If I were near the entrance of tho har bor tho gleam cf the lighthouse should be visible. I could not be sure, howevor, that the light was kept burning in winter, as there seemed no need of it I might, there fore, be near it now without being aware of it A cry of distress might be heard. Feebly I called "Help! Help 1" Then regaining my voice I shouted out into the storm my try for assistance. No answer. I might have passed the light already. No hope remain ed. A great weakness was coming over me, and I must soon wholly give up to it All at once I was aroused from lethargy by a slight concussion. Startled, but still drowsy, I could not immediately account for it Then it dawned upon me that my ice block had come into collision with some other floating fragment There was really nothing in this to inspire me with hope, yet strangely at that in stant hope did dart through me. I was ready to clutch desperately at anything. The shock at all events was beneficial, in that it partly re stored me to my senses. Another effort, and I was fully awake. There was some ground for hope too. I must have come into contact with some large moss of ice, for I felt that mv little -- n lonw- v. borne along by the curreut My mind was soon made up to cross to this new ico. If, ns I hoped, its surface should prove tirgo enough to admit of my moving about there was a chance of escape from iiume diate death, for such must be my fate if I remained ia my present re stricted position. There was not the same danger cf being earned out to sea on the larger niasj cither. How long a time had elapsed since my plunge into the harbor I had no correct idea. Possibly not more than a few minutes, though it then seemed to me much longer. When the sudden jar had roused me from that drowsi ness that would soon have been fatal, I had ceaed to movo and was sitting on the ice. Feeling my way cautiously to the edge of my insecure raft I sought its point of contact with the new ice. My hands were so thoroughly be numbed that I could do no more than guess the relative position of tho two blocks. Satisfied, however, that I had really met a larger and therefore safer mass, I mustered my energies and resolved to cross the chasm. My little block would not allow of my leaping from it I could not have done so anyway, for I was almost too weak even to rise to my feet I rath er sprawled across to the point I sought and then not without dip ping my legs ence more m the water. More dead than olive, I lay for n moment helpless. . I could feel never theless that the ice on which 1 rest ed was more stable than that whichJ I had left With great effort I gained my feet Tho muscles of my body had begun to contract, and tho blood seemed frozen in my veins. 1 In almost any circumstances a man dies hard, but when cold and exhaus tion, like an anaesthetic, have dead ened his senses and energies tho struggle for lif e becomes very feeble. Consciously I endeavored to 6hako off my fctupor. Violently beating my limbs and body, I succeeded in par tially restoring circulation a natural and easy thing to do, one would think, but I remember tho effort of those moments us the moct painful of my life. Vitality gradually came back, and with it a despairing anxiety to know where I was. Tho stability of tho ice under my tread enured me of temporary security, and I longed for daylight I tried to movo, but it was with pain. My knee3 cank under me. Hardly realizing what I did, I groped and stumbled forward for perhaps SO yards. Then suddenly it ttruck me that I must be again on solid ice. There could be no doubt of it The mystery cf my position was clear at once. I had broken through the ice, not near the mouth cf the harbor, but at the edge of the narrow chan nel cut by the steamer, which ran like a gash right up tho frozen har bor to Pictou town. I had floated down this pasege for somo little dis tance and across it till my course was stopped by a cake of ice project ing from the Pictou side. All this appeared as plain as day light to my brain, now quickened to action by the assurance of deliver ance. But how was it possiblo for me, who knew the way so well, to miscalculate so strangely my true course for home! I certainly had made due aUowanca for the channel. The solution of this problem was not revealed until I reached Lmd and found myself moro than half a mile below where I had expected to be. Then all was ierfectly clear. Since my setting out the wind had shifted from northwest to due northeast. Consequently my course, instead of taking me where I hod wished, car- i ried mo far down the hr.rbor. It was indeed fortunate that I had not foutd myself at the harbor's mouth, far be low town. All peril of water was now past It only remained to drag xnytelf home. I crawled painfully up the bunk, and by a final effort reached my lodgings, completely prostrated. My hair did not you may see, turn whito, but my ears and face were of that complexion for awhile, for face, hands and feet wero badly frost bitten. As I was young and vig orous the shoc k to my nerves from fright, cold and exhaustion lasted but a few days. Cut I didn't skato any more that winter. I hae not by any means kt my fondness for the amusement I have persuaded my self that I can get enough of it dur ing the daytime, and I prefer making long journeys by rail or steamer, even at tho risk of having to picnic a day or two in gulf ice. Before the young doctor had con cluded his story our boat had freed herself from tbe jam and was mak ing her way through open water up the narrows. Soon we were tearing through ico a foot thick in Pictou harbor at the rate of eight knots an hour, and the doctor shivered as he glanced oyer tho stern into the seething water. "I couldn't count much oa my keeping company with you down there," he dryly remarked to the fat man. "It looks as cold as ever." David Eoloan in Youth's Companion. Daw Be Ma4 tfe Alps. Has any painter ever fixed on can vas such visions, distinct and haunt ing, of hinds he had never seen Claude or Turner, or the Flemish people, who painted the little tow ered and domed celestial Jerusalem f I know not The nearest thing of tViA kind was a wonderful e recti 5 browu txiner and r agea iously arranged snelvvngg, built up in rocklike fashion. covered with little green toy box trees and dotted here and there with bits of mirror glass and cardboard houses, which once puzzled me considerably in the par lor of a cottage. "Do tell me what that is," at hist rose to my lips. "That answered my hostess very slowly, "that is a work of my bite 'usband a representation of the Halps as close as 'e could imagine it for 'e never was abroad." I often think of that man "who never was abroad," and of his representation of the Alps; of the hours of poetic vi sion, of actual creation perhaps from sheer strength of longing, which re sulted in that quaint work of Art As close as he could imagine them 1 Vernon Lee in Macmillan's Magazine, The Way It IntdtiL At a certain mission Sunday school it was tho custom for all the children to recite the golden text for the day in concert. This is not a good way, as the following incident will show, for sometimes the children fail to catch the sense: One Sunday the school was visited by some ministers of a conference holding its session in the city, and the superintendent put the pupils through their exercises. "Repeat the golden text in con cert," said the superintendent, and the school repeated in its coiloctivo capacity as well as it could: "They went out and preached that men should repent" "Mary," said the superintendent turning to a girl about 8 years old, "you may repeat the text yourself." So Mary stood up straight and ob served: They went out and preached that men should wear pants." Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. Cktv Ota, Gum ha at last found its mission. An eminent M. D. recently gave it u his opinion that in fevers where pa tients were fed largely upon liquid foods the salivary grands, from inac tion, became partially paralyzed. To counteract this, which was sure to lead to indigestion and a dyspeptic condition of the stomach, this doctor recommends that the patient be made to chew gum. This, he said, would make the salivary glands act and yet not give the stomach work on solids, which would be the case if food were being masticated instead. This emi nent authority did not state, how ever, that it is not necessary to chew gum outside the privacy of one's own chamber. San Francisco Examiner. KimIu Marriage Castasaa. A somewhat curious incident U re ported from the village of Nicolaef skaya in the province of Kharkoff. A peasant named Litvinoff, with a very handsome wife, sold her to an other called Lukianoff for the sum of ICO rubles, giving a receipt in due form for the money. In a fortnight however, he wished to buy her back, ind her purchaser was quite willing, but the woman refused. The orig inal husband referred the matter to the zemsky natchalink, who declined to interfere, and the communal au thorities also declared that it was no business of theirs. Consequently the wife remains with the man who bought her. London Standard. About Mrs. I'artin(3ii. It was while r.s.rociatc l with Tho Gazette that tho "call" fur v.iy ::; pearancc in tho lecture f.c !d "rvw reremptory, end i:i Fpitt? cf rr.tuiv.l obstacles and entire io:qrfrivi:co, through the kind iK-nuission and ml vice of Colonel Clapp, 1 wtin, after much imiK.rt unity of lecture com mittees and the exieiulituro of a small fortune in ioetagc stamps tie voted to refusals, induced to go, meet ing with tolerablo fucccks on the rostrum and obtaining a wealth of experience, some of which the pres ent opportunity admits cf iny de scribing. George W. Curtis, I think, has Kaid with regard to lecturing as it was, that if one has stood on Lis head wie cessf ully in private ho unut do tho same in public. I found it so. Mrs. Partington was tho one wanted, but I would not make a motintelisink of myself. Artemus Ward wroto iuo from Cleveland, "Come out hero us the old woman, put on tho cap and specs, and you will carry tho town." Josh Billings wrot" me, "Trot out tho old dame." But I would not to my cost Vd sacrificed a fortune for a sentiment I never met with but one serious failure, and that proceed ed from illness. B. P. Shillalvr in New Eugland Magazine. Tbe New England Farmer. The New Englander is really no less generous than the westerner; he is merely less lavish. For genera tions the New England fanner has cultivated economy until it is licconie a fine art He has pared off his ex penditures to so sharp an edgo that ono cannot touch theia without being cut He has been as saving as tho Scotchman and for tho same reason a cruel climate and a niggardly soil would starve him else. I sometimes fancy many traits of resemblance between the Scotch and the Puritans. They have tho same unrelenting energy, the same stern theology m both cases considerably softened of late years the same dry humor, the same very vigorous curi osity, frequently allied toawrvamc- mio sense of ' '- . the same1 inorftl -r. tM'- intrepidity that w ldotn brags and never surrenders, tin- same stoical coldness without anddii pand tender affections umli r the ni.-t, tho same apparent pettiness of thrift that looks like sordidness, the same devo tion to those things that inako for righteousness and the same ungrudg ing sacrifioo of all of them if tho need come. Scribner's. A Sabetltata For Horseback Hiding. An apparatus by which Uth the expense and difficulty of riding on a live horse are avoided consists of a saddle mounted on a stand, the interi or works of which aro 6 arranged that with a minimum exertion on the part of the rider ho may n-produco the trotting and galloping motions a horse. Mounting utstrido of the horse, the rider places his feet on supports at tho sides, which can x raised to any level and which corre spond to stirrups in ordinary riding, In front of him are two handles, which can be also raided or lowered, thus bringing the muscles of tho arms and chest into action. The whole saddle can bo also raised or lowered, thus giving an easy trot or gallop at the will of the "horse man." The rider puts the horse into motion by his movements up and down. Thus the apparatu i is differ ent from the mechanical horso vx hibited somo years back, in which the horse was moved by a pivot in tho center of its body, winch w worked by a steam engine beneath the floor. The experiment is very ingenious. London Lancet. Uaw to Care a Sick Headache. If you ever havo a sick headacho and want it cured quickly and effect iveiy. witn nono or iiio uebuitatiii'' effects of drugs, just take a table spoonful of red pepper, mix it with vinegar to a thick paste and spread on a cloth cotton or linen bind upon the forehead with n handker chief from temple to temple ; then take about two grains of the red tei per in a teaspoonf ul of Tinegar and swallow it The mixture on the fore head will burn, but not blister, i.lJ in the course of 10 minutes tho heud ache will disappear under the stiir.u biting effects of this remedy, leaving the patient feeling as if such dist rest ing things as sick headache wcrj un known to the human family. Kan sas City Journal. Magaolla Leaf Love Sfesnazc a. Southern lovers havo a pretty cus tom that deserves poetical immortal ity. It is well known that when tho petals of the great laurel magnolia are touched, however ughtlv, tho re suit is a brown spot which develops in a few hours. This fact is taken ad vantage of by a lover, who pulls a magnolia flower and on one of its pure white petals writes a motto or message with a hard, sharp iointod pencil. Then he sends the flower, the young lady puts it in a vase of water and in three or four hours the mes age written on tho leaf becomes visi ble and remains so. St Louis Globe- Democrat Kara Documents. The hleroom of the house of rep resentatives in Washington contains many rare treasures. A letter from General Washington, a petition from Andrew Jackson after ho had lost 500 gallons of whisky, are prominent relics among the interesting docu ments. Philadelphia Ledger. A CAPTAIN'S TALE OF THE SEA. lion Sul!r Kid Tlir nisrtves of a Haveaeae Sl.nik Willi n Mnnili, , One of the olihvt him nipt:ins who vi-It thi-4 port i a German who years no left bit fatherland to tr.koserv i"i. iii one of tMe I'glis-h VrsHels ply ing between Lon;l 'ii tuid tl e Hist In dira. In conversation with some friends b; ;. tve r.u nevount of his "m i:-t exciting exp' i iencv." "A gival i -hark," he sv.M, "had fol lowed us -our vessel was rot very lame for iivodays on ono of my early voyages. It was Imp -sibld to sti.-fy his ravenous l:un;;vr, r.nd bo swallowed almost ecrv.h:ng that wo threw overboard. .V tried in' vain to capture tho anini:.! and al most d.vidiil to jrive up l'.i. attempt Then unhappily I '.y cabin I toy died, and wo of coiir.-o mado pr "parations to brry him, ns s:tilorrt wish to lx buriiil, in the depths of t'.n' sea. Wo watched closely for the- t.Iiaik on the mriiingof the fumnil. naturally not wir hing him to make a i.iiv.l of ths ship's littlu favorite. Wo hud not seen him for an houi ot more and believed tho time favoraMj for the burial. But wo hud In en deceived. Tho Ixuly, h K:dd with -a:i:oii balls to carry it to the liotloui f tho sea, had just touched tho water when tho great hhark ojH iieil its mighty jaws and swallowed it. Tho t-;:ii!ors who had lowered tho lxxly were almost drawn overboard by the forceful pull of the shark. "This lingered tho Me::inen lieyond endurance, nnd they swore that they would kill tho erratum. They pre pared a ixmib, which s made to explode under the water at a certain time, inclosed it in u c vhido and threw it to the shark when he again apicarrd near tho nhip. Tho cow hide quickly disapearrd. As a m! the shark, after grttiug sonicthin;-; in its "mouth, swam away from tho ves sel a considi rabl distance In crci to cat the morsel. We of course ex pected it to do fmtni-.o thing this time, as ih- ""-I' M't 1 endan-gen-M-y thrci!iinge.ps.....int,4, i to ihe terror if us all, the sh. rk re mained in close proximity to 11. u es- sel. Ono of tho ttuilor.4 suggested that tho bite was not liigo enough to inconvenienco tho inonstrr and pr - Kiwd that wo make a larger package for his stomach. It was done as quickly us possible. One cf tho sea men tfot a sack which waa hlkl with old rags and othrr usrhvs things and threw it into the water. Tho jaws opened, but ho could u-it gut tho fituff down bis throat easily, so he swam away, to tho grrat delight of all on lxwrd. But thy time hadcoino for thu explosion, ml wo waitrd with quirk beating hearts for it, praying that he would keep uway from the ship. Wo could jmt seo the fish start lx-low the turfuro when udull sound was heard, and the waters juried and flew into the air. Tho shark was divided into pirrr, And our danger was jn-t. 1 ahall never forget our terror while the ani mal remaiued near us wiLh- bomb in bis belly." Now Toik Trib une. Lovod Their lla-ses. An affecting iuridc-n t '. ook place b -fore the batt le of Coru;:na. It w:.s found iuiTK)Hbibletociiil;ark tho hors.3 of tho cavalry in tho lace of tiio c fe rny, end orders were gi veil to s!rot theiS to prevent their Ix-in;' I:si :b utcd among tho French cavuivy. l.n poor uuitnals, tho faithfi;! ";m; ar. ions of the troopers i:i many a v - march and nam i ought ska stood trembling as t!i y saw companions fall, one, i Mr tho ! . and by their piteous M-jLks ci-i-.UK ' implore mercy, till 1 hJiiiyuri upon mo uragooiib mu j executif bearabl from t scaldir tained and ai to office their faith with billets them to the Boston Herald The nailer" The modern term marks the coal- ,7troffioeH formerly d: t' , w'ie?i tho butler, or "boteler," pi t . .1 over the buttery, or "botelerie," and the "panter," or "pautler," over tho pantry or bread closet The duties of carver, sewer and cupbearer were held to be very honorable ones nnd couli b dis charged by men of high rank, nd in great establishments tho butler, the pantler, the porter and the oaicers of all tho several household depart ments had each his own contingent of grooms aud yeomen. (Quarterly Review. Itelniteer In I.alaail. The number of reindeer owned by a Laplander ia Sweden vuries to a considerable degree. The poor may havo from 50 to i!0 reindeer, those better off from 300 to 7 ), and tho rich Laplanders will keep 1,000 and even 5,000 reindeer. There is somo diCi culty in collecting t-tatistica oa the number of reindeer, as the Laplander may sometimes Ixi unwilling or una ble to give any correct statement Exchange. Life's Surprises. Life has two surprises. In youth ono is surprised that he knows " much. When he has reac hed ma'.o ed life, ho is f.urpriscd that ther" aro so many things that ho doe". know. B ton Transcript. ' ; ' ,0 u f r. 1 ' 'i.irje. iM.- .i!"'!! thi ni-r ) ) A. v --r.f- K j. a - : ;r-'- f. i t
North Wilkesboro News (North Wilkesboro, N.C.)
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April 5, 1894, edition 1
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