THE CHROHICL1 "WDLKESBORO. N. C. Chile is womMi's Utopia, can vote on all questions. ' There she With some six thousand homicides in the United States last year there were but 123 legal executions. Judge Lynch, though, contrived to attend 195 more, j The success of the French postal sav ings banks, which were established I ten years ago, is shown by the report for 1890. At the close of that year; the total deposits were over $20,000,000,the number of 2,000,000. depositors numbering over I Not content with planning j an under ground railway, one of Berlin's civil engineers plans underground streets. They are to be covered with a close grat ing of steel, well supported, which admits air, light and rain, and ovei which the usual street traffic is carried . : on. - A company, backed by Eastern cap italists, has been incorporated in Chi cago, 111., for the manufacture ol Ameri can flax. The capital stock is $2,000,000. Speaking for the new company its attor ney said: 41 At present nearly all the flax used in this country is imported. This company has experimented to its own satisfaction that it can manufacture the American article much cheaper than it can be imported, and, at the same time, furnish as good an article as that made in foreign countries." The gross receipts of the Philadelphia and Reading system will hereafter be $80,000,000 annually, and the number of its employes will approximate 100, 000, being more than are employed by any single corporation on this ! planet.. The acquirement of the Poughkeepsie Bridge and the lines tributary thereto throws the Reading and ;its entire aug mented system into the very heart, of Hew England, giving it the ouly all-rail route from the Middle and Southern States .to the East, with connections with all important New England roads, and enabling it to virtually control j the coal traffic of that entire region. The Boston Transcript says: The decision of the Supreme Court that I the "habitual criminal" act is constitutional is a gratifying one. The act provides that on conviction of a third felony i person may be sentenced to the Statt Prison, for twenty-five years. The prin cipal which underlies this legislation is a sound one. The man who proposes to live by prsying upon, the community has. no right to live in the community. This is' one of the propositions which prison reformers long ago laid down, and in securing the passage of the law, which the court now sustains, they have done ths community a great service. Asafoetida as a cure for 'grip" j has .been ridiculed by a great many physi cians, but most of themadm.it, add3 (the New York Post, that they have never prescribed it. In the West asafoetida in pills of four grains has been tried with gratifying results. Quick recoveries are reported in nearly every instance, with out the usual sequel of debility. j In Louisville alone 20,000 of the pills were sold in one day recently. No bad effects can follow the ' use of asafoetida, for, of all things it is a sedative. In Asiatic countries it is employed a3 a condiment, but this is a use to which few persona will cf re to put it. Many old people in the West who were far gone with the . disease have, it is asserted, been cured, by the asafoetida pills. Thej should be taken, according to their admirers, three times a day with a , glass of water, and taken in this way are warranted not to taint the breath. Occasionally, something turns up to prove, remarks the Boston Transcript,' that some of our homelier methods in therapeutics, "old women's remedies," as the doctor's sneeringly call them,' are found to be reasonably scientific after all. Lately, for instance, an expert, who has been experimenting in M. Pasteur's laboratory, has discovered that no living disease germ can resist for more than a few hours the antiseptic power of essence of cinnamon, which seems to be no less effective in destroying microbes than is corrosive sublimate. Its scent will kill them. A decoction of cinnamon is rec omended for influenza cases, typhoid fever and cholera. Perhaps some of us can remember when elderly; ladies used to carry in their wonderful pockets,1 the capacity of which was enormous, bits of cinnamon or other pungent and fragrant spice, the odor of which would betray their coming many feet away. Whether it was carried as a preventive or merely for the satisfaction of having something to nibble was not revealed to us youngs, iters of those days. . Peppermint candy was ;. always a recognized stimulant against attacks of somnolence at eennon a . , . ...... f . tins &t church. EVERY DAY.' nd the tumult of the street ' ' ' !4nd ceaseless tread of restless f rt; What varied human forms' we meet; j J ' Every day. ome burdened with unwnispered woe; ad secrets God alone can know; ITe see them wandering to and fro, j ' Everyday.! ' ' " . j 1 ' , ; " ome seared by timete decay or blight; 7itu furrowed brow and fading right, iVV ho haunt our feet from morn 'till nftrht Everyday. ! . it": Some swayed by passion deep and strong, jEnkindled by some burning wrong. nheeded by the listless throng, ? Everyday. e lust of power, the greed for gain, win tyrants of the heart and brain; e see the ruin of their, reign. Every day.! jThe crafty ghouls that throng the street, Wearing the garments of deceit ; FWho breathe to lie and liye to cheat; ! Everyday. aid some aspiring to be great, STith beaming eye and heart elate. corning the thorny thrusts of .fate; j Every day.j The youth enthralled by some fond dream, E I T borne along on fancy's stream. elieving all things what they seem, Every day. e agsd tottering toward ths tomb, b light to lift their ray less gloom. orhope their weary way Illume, Every day. i 1 he rich and poor, the old and young, ith silent lip or flu?nt tangua. d griefs untold or joys unsung, Every day. ; I bus In the drama of the town. Some bear a cross or wear a crown Until death rings the curtain down. Every day.j ( D. B. Sickels, in Kew York Presi SAItAB BY LUCY Ci. XILLTB. i i URRIEDLT Sarah Moljneux crossed the I hall of her (aunt's house in Cheltsterand stood irresolutely for a moment at the head of the old-fashioned staircase. Her hand Pls. amoved a little netv- uubiy ou me uaius between her delicate c ark brows deepened, j ! If it were only over with -or needn't 1 e at all," she reflected But thero was io May to avoid thej unpleasant task i head of her, and accordingly S.irah passed down the stairs aud into the square parlor over-looking the garden. n about half an hour bid Mrs. Thorpe her room upstaiis heard the front door lose, and a quick j step go down the arden pathway. Presently Sarah came ack, ! 4. The old lady was topped up in bed nd turned a pair of yery bright, clear yes upon her niece as sue entered ths oom. t i . patience. "Sit right down and tell e an aoout it. 3.ncpaon i oougc mo b ask tco many questions. You know aw I hate to have! to wring anything ut of you. j Sarah laughed. 111 do my best. uut Polly," she answered, sitting down the window and ldokincr with gentle indulgence at the old lady. "I suppose I must begin at the beginning, llound Mr. Morison, of course, in the parlor and he fairly jumped at the business Ques tion." I i 'Humph, what'd he say?" "Said that he would not think of dis turbing you while you were ill but that t was very important for him to know hen he could takej possession of the house. He intends putting up the fac tory at once, he saysi j He observed that fir. ueecuam oaa expiainea now lona we were of the old house and all that, but if course we could hardly expect him to pesenumemai in a ousmess mailer. "Did he talk like that right to your ace, earan Moiyneuxz " " Yes.Aunt I can't say well it didn't sound quite so bold: I but those were his ftords." . M "Who does he favor in looks the urners, I guess." 3Irs. Thorpe leaned jack and closed ber eyes a moment, vis ons of the high cheek hones and promi lent noses of the Turners floating before ler. Sarah thought jof them too.sharply : n contrast with thaJpoks of her recent juest. H ! i "He's not a bit like the Turners, she said, presently. don't know the Unisons much," she added. "Let me lee he is not very) tall rather slight ut looks strong and has a clean-shaven lark face." "Handsome?" -Mrs. Thorpe's eyes opened for an instantl I I 'Oh, no not at all oh no, -not the east bit handsome ; but he has a quick, iright sort of look." j "j f "So he's going to put up a factory dear, dear 1 did notithink but well no of course the property's his since your uncle Ezra left it to him by will I never thought Ezra'd do it j j Always took for granted he meant it should be mine out right and after letting me live here forty years." j j . ! "I said something ot the kind to Mr. Morison. - He's coming back this even- 1 "What for; he isn't going to build to nignc, unci t- i 'Oh, no. He want (den very particularlyi'! ed to see the gar- ! "Well, vou make it clear I want the plants." - s j When the objectiontble guest bad paid his second visit, Sarah aunt's room looking cburaged. ) i "Well, what now?" came back to her very much dis demanded the old lady with a scorn. ! j I 'He says we can't have those gardens disturbed, .Aunt Polly," said Sarah, ait jting down dejectedly. "I took him f in trade, and the line down to the arbor, and wt had a very nice talk at first. I really almost liked him. W began about country life, and he told mo how much he had longed for a real. country home a place something like this, he said then he asked who took care of the card en, and. I told him I was your gardner, and how much we both loved the flowers. I showed htm the tree planted when I was a baby, and then the rosebud for my tenth birthday; and he raid that he should think we'd hate to leave it all then I explained yon wanted the plants; but be taid oh, not they were part of the property." Turner straight throush and through," declared the " old lady. "Grasping all they can get. I will have the plants, though; I guess Ezra's will had nothing to say to them." "I could scarcely be civil after that," pursued Sarah, her face flushing in the dusk. I changed the subject, and asked him how nearly he was related to the Turners; but he said it was very distant. He told rie where he lived as a boy. It seems his father had a paper in some country village Saul I think be called it, and he was a very visionary, unprac tical, entbusiastio kind of man. I guess he didn't provide much for the family. Anyway Mr. Morison says be started out young in life to carve his own future, and he has been quite successful only he intends to be thoroughly so, he sayi, if possible." By way of my garden. Humph! "He says he enjoys obstacles. Ho likes something to conquer. I told him I had no fancy for battleaelds; ho said a skir mish was as good as success to him. Oh, Aunt, by the way, do I look like the Turners?' "Well, some," said the old lady, re luctantly. Sarah crossed the room and in th3 faint light regarded her face at tentively in the long, narrow mirror. It was a thin, clear-cut face, rather shadowy as to what might or might not be its owner's strong or weak points; the face of a girl to whom events or emergencies were unknown. Life bad written al most nothing upon it that gave it charm, and the eyes were a pretty hazel with black lashes and delicate brows. "The Hatfield Turners," pursued the old lady, as Sarah sat down azaio. "You do look some like them. Why?" "Ob, Mi. Morison said I had a Turner look, the girl answered. "He tried to make out we are cousins.' " Well you are twice removed. His mother's your cousin, I think." I must ask him. Ho'll le back in the morning, he says." Well, I declare to gracious tie man means to force me out of this bed, I be lieve. Sarab, you must speak up and not let him impose upon you." About eleven o'clock the next morning very unusual sounds floated up to the old lady from the parlor where Sir. Morison was again "interviewing" Sarah. Some one was playing on the old piano; then a man's voice, a clear fine tenor, could be heard. The song was one the old lady remembered in her youth "Phyllis is my only love" and her withered cheek flushed with pleasure. "Sarah," she said, directly her niece ap peared, "did you ask that young man to sing? I want you should inquire if he knows another piece like that." Sarah's eyes were very soft and bright. "Aunt," she said eagerly, "would It lock bold if I sang a duet, with 31 r. Morison? He's coming back this after noon." "What'U you sing? You don't know what you're talking about, Sarah." Does he think tho piano's his?" de manded the old lady with a sudden re turn of severity. Sat ah looked miser able. He says it is Aunt," she admitted. There was an ominous silence; then Mrs. Thorpe closed her eyes aain. Well, it was Ezra's," sho admitted. It was with mingled feelings that she listened that afternoon to the singing from below. Love of music compelled her to enjoy keenly the way in which Sarah and the audacious Mr. Morison sang "I would that my love and "Oh, wert thou in tho cauld blast." Whilo resentment against what she felt an un just will, depriving her and her niece of her cherished home, made her consider everything done or said by Mr. Morison objectionable, yet somehow she found herself looking forward eagerly to her niece's next report of their unbidden guest. "He is going to be married soon. Aunt Polly," Sarah related. "Perhaps that is why ho is in such a hurry about the house. He's been telling me about the young lady." Well, upon my soul. Seems to me he's very free with his confidences. Mar ried? What'd he say about her?' "Ob, I don't know exactly," said Sarah; "he said she was the kind of girl I'd get along quickly with ; it seems, ever so long ago he made up his mind never to marry any one but her." Well, and were there any of those obstacles he talks about?" sniiied the olu lady. "Oh, yes. But he says there's quite a touch of romance in the whole aHair. He's a very well, masterful sort of per son, Aunt. I can quite understand what he means when he says Ae enjovs ovet coming difficulties. He isn't the sort of person any one could trifle with easily.' I guess I will when I get around. What with the garden and the piano and the dear knows what all I'll be grateful if he leaves us the clothes to oui backs. What else'd you talk about?" 1 "Oh, a great many things. Books nome. He's fond of German and, oh, I meant to tell you, he's coming to morrow morning and going to read a little German with me." "Weil, Sarah, you just seehera. Let that young man know you've something to do besides fool around with him. I know; he wants to force me up. I'll see Dr. Baker, 1 guess, before that Tom Morison gets me out of the house. "Ob, Auntl It's Just because he wants, he says, to familiarize hlmf j with the place." Well he's got all the time there Is afUr we're gone. I want you should b very distant with him and, 8rn, I guess you'd better not beln. any German readings." I During Mr. MoritoVs next visit Sarah appeared in her aunt's room with a very anxious expression. j "Aunt Polly, she said, with an a2ort at composure, "Mr. Morison's brought the German books, end I don't know what to say about It V j "Well, go on," said the old lady, "I suppose you're bent on it any way,' and perhaps he'll help you some.' ' j She lay very still when she was alone, sometimes with her eyes open, but gen eratly keeping them closed as pictures from the past, and visions of jwhat might be ahead of her floated through her brain, and the peculiar cruelty of ber brother's will smote her heart afresh. When she had been left a widow forty years ago, Ezra Turner had promptly bade her stay on in the house which' had seen the happy years of her married life, and which had been endeared to hex by hundred different associations; when the sorrows it hsd witnessed consecrated the place almost as tenderly as its periods of joy, while irora tne umesaenaaurougai ber little orphan niece baraa home, a new interest was given her life, yet one inseparably bound up with the oldjmaa sion. Ezra's will fell like a thunderbolt upon the old lady and her niece. j In deed, there was little question but that it caused the weak turn which confined her to her room; and as she layjtbere now, faintly conscious of the voice from below, something like a wish never to leavo the old home save for a final rest ir g place .brought a hot moisture into her. eyes. I It seemed a long time before Mr. ori son went away. When the doer; cad closed upon him at last Mrs. Thorpe alert for evciy sound, heard Sarah lin gering on the stairs. Presently the girl appeared. Her cheeks were scarlet. Well, demanded the old iiady, "what now? what new thing's he Kolng to claim?" Sarah's color now swept all her face. "Oh, Aunt Polly," she said, "it'a all as queer as queer can oe. ua, it tyou u only let mc. Please oh, Aunt Polly, it seems Mr. Morison made his mind uf right away, tho very first day, he iays and he never wanted an j thing so jmucx before I Sarah Molyneux,' said the old lady, sitting upright, what ails you? Speak Eogli.h." "Ob, hes asked me to marry him, Aunt Polly, said Sarah; "that's it; and he says I mustn't say no he made all that un about coins? to be married ot rather, he says he was bound to I make me say yes." Mrs. Thorpe remained rigid ia the same attitude lor a moment wiuoui speaking. Sarah flushed and piled and flushed azaio. I moment "What'd you tell him?" at lait de manded tho old lady, with an accent of fine corn. 6he was very proud of Sarah's conque.t. She knew all about jo ing Morison, and was wed aware how highly he was esteemed. 1 "Oh he say its settled," observed Sarah; "and of course he wa4 only going on, he says, to try me aoout me factory and the garden and the piano; he says, bless your heart and he wouldn't, tako a thin? belonging to you more n he'd ileal." I "Only my girl." said Mrs. Thorpe, grimly. But when Sarah bent t kiss her there was the kind of tenderness in the old woman's embrace that this girt remembered only when sho child. The Independent. was a little Effects of Regular Marching. Dr. Colin, regimental physician in the French army, has published the results of his investigations into the effects of regular marching in disciplined bodies uoon soldiers. The regularity of the step causes the indefinite repititlot of a shock of the bones and brain, innnitciy more deleterious than an irregular walk, and to this regular repetition of the shock to the same parts of tho body is duo the peculiar achei, pains aid ill. ncsses of the troops. In a ono I day's march, he says, this shock Is repeated 4U.O00 times, and often the strongest men, who can walk the same distance without difficulty when not in line, suc cumb to the strain in two or three j days. Dr. Colin's preventive is a rubber heel la all military boots. This heel has been tried at his instance In the French in fantry, he says, and the result has been found to be a great relief to the soldiers. The experiments with the rubber heel are still script. in progress. Boston t'Traa- A Nest In a Queer Place. In the picture gallery of Charlton Park, near Malmesbury, England! Is a glass case containing the skin and festh ers of a big cro. The creature had been caught and nailed to a tree with other vermin, a fate which sojmany thousands of crows share yearly that there is nothing odd in it. The extraor dinary part of the matter is that in the shelter of his wings,where his body was before it decayed, a little wren had. built itself an exceedingly little neat. (With wonderful dexterity the tioy bird had contrived to fasten together the wiags of his dead enemy, whose body he proposed to utilize. The entrance to the nest was where the crow's breast had been,' and here the family of little wrens was reared. Tho nest was observed and when its occupants had flown away it was carefully removed, and placed In the corder. Feeding Tanilla Beans to Hena. A man on Long Island has discovered a way of feeding vanilla beans to his hens so that the eggs are distinctly flavored with vanilla. The hens, knore over, ara so fertile under this diet that he sends up daily to town tweaty-fivt dozen ejrgs. These are engaged to the full laying capacity of the hen. A vanilla flavored gg at breakfast is ths lateat caprice of luxury. New iYoxk Press. DKUQ ST Wilkesboro, Keep on hand a full line of Fresh Drug. Medicine Oils, Pslrta, Varr ihe and Everything kept In a First Clsss Drug Store. X3r-rTtcripii&t Ca-cfu'Jy Compounded..! Store in the Old Steve Johnson Biidia-, jst opposite tie CXurt House, lie sure to call end see thcxa. CuO. STAL DEALER IN- Drags, Patent Medicines, Tobacco, Cigars, Cigarettes, Fancy and Toilet Soaps, etc,, etc - l-Prescriptfons promptly and accurate! Glled. Situated ia tht CRICK HOTEL BUILDING. r SIMPLE IN CONSTRUCTION LIGHT RUNNIN3 AND DURABLE GIVES PERFECT SATISFACTION AMERICAN RH.O& SEWING HAOTXE CO i"i "ai ivi. vinuiwni S.W. COJl203St &WASHLKGT0M AYE. PHILADELPHIA, PA. WHOLESALE BRANCH HOUSES " t C SAg BY I - Queen TIctorUs Pops. Her Majesty, as is well known, is foal of Io, au3 "Mr. G. H. Krchl. in & sop- I'li-mfui 19 ie cicK'&xprr, it e soma tnttrvting particular. ucertmlacJ on a visit to tho kcnocU at YinJdr. rvsprcU iu the rovalcanioo pt . It with, out fraying that the animals rvreire ere rr attention and aro admirably houwi Thtrir sloping apartments are carrfullj ventilated, aud Lot-water pipe run through tho length of the building. - In tao kt-noeU ara dog of nearlv very breed. Fur collies tho tjueea h al ways ahown a preference, and this ac counts for the number kept at Windsor. Th lrinca Ik-atrice'a "fancr" lira in the direct ioa of fux.tcrriers, which ara aUo well reprcenteJ. We are hid to note, bjr tho way, that the fas terriers la the roval kennel are not uKked. It wuuld be a pood thing if the royal ex ample la this respect were generally fol lowed. How anyone can imagine that mutilating a dog adds to its beauty, we fail to und rtand. Some of the royal fox-terriers are cer tainly game enough. One of thera-Jock by namewho when a store waa recently cleared out had a chance of dbtinguUh Ing himself, killed twentr-two rata ia a quarter of an hour. ller Majeaty, it should be aid, frequently inspects the kenneU, "inquiring into everything af. fectiug the health and comfort of the in mates and giving each animal a caress ing pat and kindly word of recognition. hen tho royal dogs die ther are taid to ret "beneath the turf where they gambolled as puppies and were exercised when they grew up. Kach little grave is marked by a stone tablet about a foot loog and eight inches across, whereon a few words are engraved, giving the name and date of death. Among the inscrip tions on the tomhstones of the dogs are the following: Maurice, favourite Mount St. Ueruard of II. It. II. the IVinco Con sort, died November, lbGV A little further a tray lies "Princie, Scotch Ter rier, limught from Ilalmurai June 11, 1S3. Died February C, 1S74"; and in the shade of a small fir rests "Nellie (Collie) mother to Itess, Flora and Sailor. Died Octooer 12, lcS." IPall MaU Ga zette. Winter Houses of the Eskimos. The igloos, or winter stone huts, were cot far trom the summer tuplks. They were built upon the hill-side, a portion of which Is dog out to form the interior. The domed roofs were made of large pieces of flat sandstone, carefully ar ranged and he!d in place by pieces of bone. Tbeso protruded somewhat into the hut, and were utilized as books upon which hung harpoon lines, pouches of seal and bird skin, skin drinking-cups, bonedrills. etc At the back of the hut was a platform raised about a foot from the floor. Opposite this, which served as the bed, was the opening of a tunnel six or eight feet long through which the family must crawl to enter their abode; and here the dogs find shelter during the stoims of winter. The tunnel slopes down from the floor, so that water from the melting snows of spring may not run Into tho house. Over the inner entrance of the tunnel, about four feet square, is another opening of about the same di mensions, which allows light to enter the dwelling. This hole is closed In Winter by having stretched thin and soaked in oil. At Herbert Island, several of ths Iglooe were double, that is, two Igloos were built cloee together, each with a sep arate tansel. but the dividing, inside, partition was left iaoompli te. IScrihatr. 3M i 3 u u North Carolina. L. P. VAUGHAN, M. D. OfSce 'with Dr. Turner. All calls attended to at any hsur. Charges Heasonabte. RESVlEPJiBER : That K. C. LOWE Is nwit the New Ilotel In Sta'ejs Drug Strs and la sti 1 sole "to hit the grit," and reptmcg watches sad clocks. Ills work fully warranted and guaranteed. Keeps always on band clocks, watches and jewelry. Come and see for jon'clf. jEL. C. LOWE, Jeweler. WILKESBQRO, H. C. FIRST CLASS LIVERY STABLE. HcEWEN, ERW1.V & ABSIIEE, Proprietors. (jcoaTn or rocsjcac bocis.) A new tcpplj of excellent Lenta juit purchaed. Good newTehicle oa haad. Always ready to accomodate the trvel ing public Gire u a trial. LIVERY & FEED MAim & WELLBORN, Props. bitutted on Mia Ssrvet, et cf tie Court House, Good hrcs and new ve hicles of all kinds revdy tor the are-nv. dation f the traveling public H rr carefully fed and atten lei to. Give y a trial and see how we feed. rnARIt A WELLIJOUN. Wll lc horn. - North C-aroIipa w. n. n cow lea, w. w Sii.trs. COWLES & BARBER, Attorneys at Law, WILKEaBOSO. X. c vl v. wtiiaoax. B. X. fUCXETT. WELLBORN & IIACKETT, Attorneys at Law, WILKTSBORO, N. a WlU practice la the State and Federal Courts. ISAAC C. WELLBORN, Attorn oy - at - Law, osboro, 2NJ". cr. Will practice la all the court. Dealer In real estate. Prompt attettioa paid to collection of claims. T. B. FcnjtT. H. L. Gsrrjx. FIHLEY & GREENE, Attorneys - at - Law, W1LKESBORO, X. a WlU practice In all the courts. Col lections a specialty. . Real estate soli cn coram 1m Ion. C. E. YARREN, M. D. Mulborry, N. C. Can be found In his cflce when ret prolesaioaally ravaged. J. IYI. TURNER, M. D. WILKES BOIIO. 2L a E702ee si til new raldesce, where he can be found when cot pro fcasic sail? ea Ttd. X Solid Pof. The deleterious loilaence of fogs tray be estimated from some retails obtained frorn ex ami a it ion and aaalvsls iait tr.rn:ij at Kew Gardent.LAaJoa, lia-!aaL Tb director speaks of the leaves as be-- covered with a substance like brown palnt"tarrj hydrocarbon- wh'.ch can anlj be scraped ol with a kaife. Oa analysis this shows otct tUtT-e -or ent of carbon and brdrocartxa, wah fcrtyne per crnt of taulUo iron, magnetio mid a of Iron, and ssineral wa ter. Any one at all aoaIa:fr4 w-j xv pbjsioW of plants aai aa;i's da apprehend In a mooent how u:h a tr.'i turw mail a5ect both the Juss of 3 and the leave which are th la: -r .-.f plants, as rrpmis renplratloa. Sirirv-:r enough, the derxv,;. append to l rX-r. evufced at Kew than at Clc - a r -