THE CHROMCLE. wiLKESBORO, N. 0V;:hU Mulhall estimate that the ciYiliz Nations pay annually $13,700000,000 for food. Fatness in -women is regarded as a mark of beauty in the Orient. ; Since their adrent in the World's Fab grounds as sedan-chair carriers, the Turks have had a good deal to do with fat women, and- the Argonant avers that they have revised their esthetics. Joint-stock farming, by which largei Agricultural operations can be carriee on under one management than is pos sible for the single-handed farmer, will probably be one of the future de velopments of our agricultural system. This is a practical, way of reducing the cost of production. An aerial electric railway, invented by Albert Leslie "Widdis, of Detroit, ie expected to perform wonders. The own er claims that it will send cars whizzing through space at the rate of 500 miles an hour 1 Think of it, exclaims the New York Ledger, a letter mailed in Chi cago will .reach New York in two hours ! Observes the Detroit Free Press: "There is a certain amount of scientific interest knowing that it is not the high temperature that makes the peo ple uncomfortable, but the humidity with which the air is charged. But un fortunately the scientific fact does noi lessen the suffering. One Is just as hot after finding it out as when he was in total ignorance on the point." France is soon to adopt an interest ing innovation in the postal-card sys tem, announces the Argonaut. The cards will be issued in the form of check-books, with stubs. The sender of the postal card can make memo randa of its contents on the stub, and can have this stamped at the postoffice before the card is detached, so that a verified record of the correspondence can be kept. At the moment when horses have taken back seat in this country cam els have come to the fore in Australia. It is said that five lines of traffic have been already opened up and are in regular operation there. Two thou sand camels are in use daily. It is noi necessary to carry any food for these anfmalfl, as they are able to subsist on the coarse grass and shrubs where horses or bullocks would starve; Statistics concerning the failures oi farmers in the first six months of 1893 throw bright lights on the present de pression of agriculture in England. From last January 1 to last July 1 the number of failures among farmers has been forty per cent, larger than in the corresponding months of last year. In England and Wales more than 16,000 persons engaged in agriculture are liv ing in sheds, barns, tents, vans and in the open fields. Thousands of unem ployed agricultural laborers are hover iug on the outskirts of London. In the same volume of statistics 52,484 persons are reported to be living now on coasting merchant vessels and in land barges. Evidence of the most direct varietj places the blame for the destruction of the British battle ship Victoria on the Admiral who went down with his ship, states the Washington Star. All the witnesses who testified before the court-martial at Yaletta agree on that and : every other material point and two of the officers heard Sir George Try on confess the responsibility. In all great catastrophies there is gener ally an effort made to place the burden on a corpse, and when Admiral Tryon was first declared guilty many people Imagined that the accusation was due almost entirely to the fact that he was dead and could not, therefore, defend himself, but . it is now certain that he blundered and did so with persistence that brooked no interference. It is .satisfactory to the Scientific American to learn that the gentlemen who have urged the New York botani cal garden project are nearly now in a condition financially able to begin ac ' tual preliminary work near the Bronx River. At least the, sum of $215,000 has been received. , There are several large subscriptions yetexpected from wealthy citizens, and when these are received it is probable the general public will be asked to ' contribute.) There will be no pains or expense spared to makej the garden worthy of the State and of the Nationi rKew Garden is the model which the ; far-seeing 'men who have undertaken the charge of this en fcerprise have in view, and there : is' every reason to believe that ."their ef iorts will be crowned with success. ' FATIKNCB. Be patient ! Easy words to speaks . While plenty Alls the cup of li. While health brings roses to the cheek, And far removed are care and strife ijalling: so glibly from the tongue Of those I often think of this . Whom suffering has never wrung, ' Who scarcely know what patience Is. - Be patient ! when the sufTrer lies j Prostrate beneath some fell disease, A ad longs, through torturing agonies. Only for one short hour of ease. Be patient I when the weary brain.. .;. Is racked with thought and anxious care; A xd troubles in an endless train . Seem almost more than it can bear. T feel the torture of delay The agony of hope deferred ; T labor Still from day to day, ' The prize unwon, the prayer unheard, d still to hope, and strive, and wait e due reward of fortune's kiss ; Is to almost conquer fate, Is to learn what patience is. pair not though the clouds are darF. And storm and danger veil the sky : Let fate and courage guide thy bark. jThe storm will pass, the port is nigh. B4 patient ! and thotide will turn, Shadows will fade before the sun , These are the hopes that live and burn To light us till our work Is done. All the Year Bound. AUNT SUSAN'S QUILT. F Jimmy and his bride ain't pleased with that, I don't know what would please 'em," said little Mrs. Dake with arms akim bo and head twisted to one mmiff stepped back and gazed with admiration at the object spread out on the bed. It was a carefully-pieced quilt, of a somewhat in tricate pattern. "Jimmy's bride can't help being tickled with that," said Mrs. Dake, as phe smoothed out a fold; ''and if she knows anything about nice quiting, shell see that wa'n't quilted in a day. WjaU, I guess not ! I quilted ev'ry last ititch of it myself, and there's a good half-day's work in some of them blocks, with the feather and herrin' bone pat terns and the shell border all 'round th aidge. I had that quilt in the frames five weeks and three days, and I put all the time I could get on it, and there ain't no slack work, tired as I did get of seeing it 'round." She smoothed out another crease. f'Lemme see, " she went on. "There's 2147 pieces in the quilt, and a good many of 'em are pieces of Jimmy's lit-, tie baby dresses. That'll please his' wi !e, I jest know. Here's a block made of oalico like a little pink dress he had wi en his ma first put him into short dresses. I remember it was made with a low neck and short sleeves, like they made baby dresses in them days, and his little shoulders and arms v as almost as pink as the dress. -l'And here's pieces like a little double gown he had 'fore he went into short dresses. And this piece of blue cham- bexy is like a little sunbonnet he had, all jlined with fine white jaconet. And here is a piece of fine muslin with a little pink sprig in it like the first short dress Jimmy ever had. He did look so foinnin'in it, with the sleeves looped back, and a tumble-curl on the top of his head! 1 I'll show his wife-to-be all these pieces, and if she ain't tickled with the quilt, shell be a queer one." Then Mrs. Dake went over to an old-fashioned mahogany bureau with brass knobs, and took from the upper drawer a large, square cream-tinted envelope, out of which she carefully drew the "invite" to Jimmy's wed ding. 'Mr. and Mrs. William P. Holbrook Invite you to be present at the mar riage of their daughter Helen and James Barclay Larkin, Wednesday evening, September 14." Then followed the address of the bride's parents, in a city 400 miles from Mrs. Dake's home. 'fBut I'm goin' 1" she said gleefully, as she slipped the invitation back into its Jenvelope. "I'd go if it was twice as far. I ain't seen Jimmy for near on to five years, and he always seemed like my own boy to me 'cause I never none o my own, and I helped to ig him up after his own ma died. wh&n he wa'n't but just in his first little trousies." 'IT aint been so far from home in many a long year, and I reckoned my feratelin' days was done, but I've got to go and see Jimmy married. I must see Elviry Hodge right away about tuning and making over my black lilk, and I must see Samantha Rose jfcbont a new cap. I guess I'll have to have something kind o' smart for a city weddin', where thev'll all ha fini- up so. I don't want Jimmy to be ted of his old aunty : but lawsv Jimmy wouldn't be ashamed of I went in my plain calico house He wa n t raised to set clothes above his relations, and he ain't cot nothing to be 'shamed of in any of his lolks." , . ' ;.' Then Jimmy's aunt, her ; face aglow t witi. loving thoughts of seeing Jimmy again, folded up the quilt carefully in an j old sheet, and laid - it away in a lower drawer of the bureau, saying: : ; - 'u s'poser they'll have lots of nice presents, but I'll warrant you they on't have one that represents as much lavhx 'y labor as that ' quilt. I had to err a little when I quilted them -blocks wit! i the pieces of his baby . dresses in .'ezn,: -His wife ought to think the world and all of the quilt. -' I hope to the land she won't go to' using it com mon." , . ' - Aft This urns i isisii fled asnan: met me if or ess. jjxa JLJafce, vrna was a widow and -childless, ; lived m . T a small, remote country town in which hex nephew James Jjarkm, : had, been born, and from which he had, gone ; to become a successful young. lawyer; in the city. He had not been back to the home of his childhood for : five years. As his Aunt Susan sad, he "waVt no hand to write letters," but he often sent brief notes and little gifts to his aunt to assure her of his affection and gratitude. He had not announced his encace- ment to her, ana the invitation to his wedding was one of the greatest sur- prises of Mrs. Dake s uneventful life, "He jest wanted to give his old aunty a big s'prise," she said to Elvira Hodge, the village seamstress, when she came to "fix over" Aunt Susan's black silk. "I couldn't believe my own eyes at firsts It don't seem no longer than yesterday that Jimmy was runnin' 'round here in pinafores ; and io xiuxxo. vi jinn uom JLutuxieu j. de clare I can't git over it ! "But I'll give him a s'prise, too. I don't intend to give him a hint that I'm comin to his weddin, and if he won't be took back when he sees me marchin' in on him, my name ain't Susan Elizabeth Dake! Don't you reckon his wife'll be tickled with that quilt, Elviry?" "They'd ought to be, that's sure," said Elvira. "I think it's a kind of special Provi dence that I put in the frames when I did. I didn't cal'lafe on quiltin' it until next winter, but I had a kind of feelin that I d better do it when I did, and now it s turned out that there was a good reason why I should quilt it ""Cii" There was quite a company of Aunt Susan s friends at the little station to see her off on the morning she started, There was unusual color in her cheeks and unwonted sparkle in her eyes, She bade eacn oi ner friends good-bye two or three times, and promised to take good care of herself. Some of tnem sne promised a crumb of J immy s wedding cake, and a full account of the wedding festivities. "An' if you could git me a scrap of the bride's weddin' dress an' of any of ner otner dresses for my silk quilt, Susan, I d be so pleased with 'eml" said old Mrs. Gray. 1 will if I can, Nancy. said Aunt tiusan. I'm so glad I could get my trunk cntJOiteu ciean inrougn J J. a De in a i t n i t i . nr. - i nice fix if that trunk should get lost with Jimmy's quilt and my black silk in it I Where's my lunch basket? Oh, yoh're goin' to carry it away on the train for me, are you, Hiram Drew? I'm 'bleeged to you, but mind you git off the train fore it starts. Good-bye, Nancy; good-bye alll" In a moment the train was on its way, Aunt bnsan s nandkerchiel flut tered from one of car windows as loner as the train was within sight of the lit- tie station. All the people in the car noticed the happy old lady in her queer, old fash ioned garb. Some had not seen for many years a shawl like the one she wore, with its fringe a foot long and silk embroidery in the corners; but nothing was coarse or amiss in her dress, and there was a quaintness and charm about her that attracted the sympathy of all the passengers. She had not gone twenty-five miles before she was telling . some of them nearest her all about Jimmy and Jim my's quilt, and the wedding to take place on the coming "Wednesday. She was delighted to find that a mid- die aged, kindly looking woman who was one of the passengers lived in the city in which young Mr. Larkin lived, and could easily show her his board ing house. "I'm so muoh obleeged to you !"said Aunt Susan. 'I've been dreadful nerv ous 'bout trying to find the house my self. I hated to write to hirr to meet me, 'cause it'd take off the best part of the s'prise. I jest want to walk right in on him. " That was just what she had the pleasure of doing the next afternoon. James Larkin was taking his wed ding suit from the box in which it had been v sent home, when there came a knock at the door of his room. Aunt Susan was trembling with ex citement when her nephew opened the door. "Why, Aunt Susan I" he cried, and then he took her into his arms and kissed her on both cheeks. There was no lack of tenderness in her nephew's greeting, yet the change in him was painful to her. He was a beardless, boyish-looking young man when she had seen him last. Now he was a tall, broad-shouldered, full bearded man with a way that made it a little hard for her to call him "Jimmy." He did not say so, but she felt that he would rather have her call him "James and that sounded so cold and formal to her. He now had the graces of a city bred young man. She found . it hard to accommodate herself to them, and to the usages of the fashionable boarding-house in which her prosperous young nephew lived. He might, perhaps, have wished that Elvira Hodge had made his aunt's garments more stylish when he took her down to dinner, but he was in no sense ashamed of her. "When, they were going down stairs with her hand timidly resting on his arm, he made her very iappy by looking down into her face and saying tenderly and heart ily, HI am so glad you came Aunt Susan." : ; "I thought you would be, she said," patting.his arm affectionately. . You know you're the only boy I ever had. "And you were always . the best of mothers to me."-;::;: y' .y:-VV- But when she was alone in her room she wondered if it i. had been wise for her to ; come .after aU. She did not doubt now that James was genuinely hapgy to see her, but she had discov ered that his betrothed was the daugh- of a ricn man, and that the wed ding was to be an elegant affair. Aunt Susan feared i she would I be out oi piace mu cue mignt in her inno cence do ? or say something to give James and his bride cause to be ashamed of her. - n v- . - - Theweaoing was to take place the next evening, and there would be no opportunity for her to meet the bride or her family until then. All was sa new and strange to her ! She naa expected to "take riff hi noia ana ueipjnrs. Uolbrook with the i t 3 - wedding dinner, even if she did "keer a girl." There was a bir. new kitchen apron in her trunk, brought with Auni Susan to be worn while she was "mak ing herself useful in Mrs. Holbrook'a kitchen." It disappointed her to be told by her nephew, that her services would not be required, and that caterer would provide the supper. one aid noi snow wnat a oate? was, and felt confused and uneasv and went . to sleep half wishincr herself home. - W - -v. When, tne next, evening, she found herself m the beautiful house of Mr. Holbrook, surrounded by finely- dressed ladies and gentlemen wha looked curiously at the odd-looking little old woman in the queerly-mad and old-fashioned black silk, she heart ily wished that she had not come. JVlr. ana IVLrs. Holbrook were as at- TOii.iii.YU wj utsr t v"y UUUIU do Wltn & house full of guests; but Aunt Susan soon found it convenient to slip ofl into a corner, where she hid like the little country mouse she was. But she was glad, after all, that she had come when James, looking so tall and happy and handsome, came into the great parlors with his bride on his arm in her trailing, white satin dress and long veil. Aunt Susan was so com pletely overawed by this magnificence that, instead of going forward with the others to offer her congratulations, she slipped off up-stairs to the room in I which she had taken off her bonnet and shawl. In it was her wedding gift to Jimmy the quilt that had but vester day seemed to her as beautiful and ap propriate a gift as she could bestow upon him. Across the hall was the open door of a room almost filled with shining: silver and glittering glass, with pictures, and rare ornaments, and beautiful books, gifts to James and his bride. Aunt Susan felt that her own offer ing, although it was the gift of her own labor and love, Would be out of place. It might offend her nephew and his bride to see it there. Some one might laugh and jeer at it, and she could not Dear to tmnK oi tnac. it seemed so poor and trifling, now ; she could not bear to think of allowing Jimmy and his wife to know that she had brought them such a gift. She turned back a corner of the quilt, and looked at a piece of the pink and white muslin of which one ot Jimmy's first garments have been made. A nood oi tender memories filled her heart, and she buried hei face in her gift and cried as she had not cried for years. There she sat for a long time, pay- ing no neea to tne noise ana merri ment downstairs. Presently she heard a rustle of silk and satin in the hall, ana a low murmur oi voices, in a moment a pair of soft arms were around her neck, and a girlish voice was saying: "I am so eriaa tnat we nave round you at last ! "We have been looking everywhere for you ! "When Aunt Susan looked up she found the bride kneeling by hex side, while James was bending low over her. "You haven't been up here all thia time, have you?" he said. ""We have wondered where vou were. Helen was so anxious to see you. " "Of course I was," said the bride. "There is no one here I am so glad to see. James has told me all about you, and it was so good of you to come so far to see us married. You must kiss us both and wish us joy, won't you?" "If you'll let me, said Aunt Susan, with the tears still m her eyes. "Let vou I" said James. "We should think it very strange if you didn't. What have you'here? It looks like on of the auilts vou used to make. It ii a quilt, isn't it?" Aunt Susan tried to conceal the quilt, but James took it from her and un folded it. Suddenly he said : "Why, Aunt Susan, didn't youhrinfj this for a wedding present? "Well, I I did think I'd give it to your wife, James,"- said Aunt Susan, soberly. "I thought that well well, you see, I made it ev'ry stitch myseM and and there's lots of pieces in it from the first clothes you ever had, and I thought maybe she'd like it be cause I did it ev ry stitch myself, and- "Like it?" cried Helen. "I shall value it above any crift have had I It is beautiful I never saw such exquis ite needlework 1 What weeks of labor it must have cost you. I am so proud of it !" "She said them very words," said Aunt Susan to half a dozen of her de lighted friends who came to see her the day she reached home. She waa so tickled over the quilt. She fairly criea wnen snowed ner tne diooks made out of pieces of Jimmy's things. "She said she'd think the world and all of it. She and Jimmy had to go off their weddin' tower in about an hour, and I expected to come on home that night; but Mr., and Mrs. Hol brook wouldn't hear to it. "They made me stay there a whole week, and they treated me as if I was one of the greatest ladies, in the land. They took me to ride ev'ry day, g,nd they; never seemed to mind a bit about my old-fashioned ways said clothes.', v li yy:f 5 :y"iy .$:": "I had a beautiful time ; and the best part of it is that Jimmv and his wife are coming to make me a visit on ner waynome from their tower next weeki : : Zou never see such a splendid young woman as she is I" I ter The New Tear Finds Us in Our New Store Building, Full and Complete Stock Of New Goods of Every Description, which vre are Selling at v PRICES VERY LOW To suit the Stringency of the Times. We keep a full line of everything to meet the wants of our p9$e and are prepared to give our customers the best the markets afford on all kinds of proauoe as wen as ine lowest ngures on evry iuu u gui. We desire to thank our people for the liberal patronage they have given this house under the different names of J. A. Cooper & Co. and T. S. Miller & Co., and assure our friends that we ar better prepared than ever to satis factorily meet their wants. We solicit your continued support. mm W. DRUG Wilkesboro, Keep on hand a full line of Fresh rinn iranf i'n o T7irt moo Compounded. Jgt Store in the Old Steve Johnson Building, just opposite tht Jourt House, lie sure to call and see them. . . " R RSI. STALE Y & DEALER IN Drags, Patent Medicines, Tobacco, Cigars, Cigarettes, Fancy and Toilet Soaps, etc., etc. fgPrescriptions promptly and BRICK HOTEL BUILDING. Di N.'R. Holcomb, DENTIST. Graduate of Vanderbilt University. Will be in hi office in Miller Buildirig fqm 1st to 10th of each month, when he will practice his profession in all its bjpncnei in the latest styles at reasonable rate, A Jtria.1 solicited. The Soldier's Pace in Marching. Apropos of marching, Colonel HuUor reminds us that the marching value of an army is that of its worst regiments rather than of its best, for we cannot afford to inarch so as to outmarch our worst regi ments and thus deplete them of their men. The rate of marching laid down in the infantry drill, 1892 that is, 120 paces of thirty inches per minute gives & rato of 3 miles 720 yards per hour, or, including five minutes' halt, 3 miles 220 pards per fifty-five minutes. This pace is, in the opinion of this officer, obvi ously too great for the movement of larger units of command than a battalion or perhaps of a weak brigade without baggage train. It is universally accepted by continental authorities that the rate for marching under campaigning conditions is ' two and a half miles per hour, including five to ten minutes' halt. The French, who have the tradition of being the best marohers in Europe, lay down in precise form the rate of march for their infantry at two and forty-eight one-hundredth miles per hour, including ten minutes' halt, giving. therefore, two and forty-eight one- hundredth miles in ' fifty minutes, or eiffhty-seven and five one-hundredth yards per minute. The Alpine Chasseuri -the pick of tne Jb rencn lnrantry, wno take special pride in their marching powers march at the rate of five kilo meters or three miles and one-tenth pel hour, including ten minutes' halt, or three and one one-nunareatn miles in nity aiinutes. ' Tropical Roofs. The natives of the interior of Ceylon finish walls and roofs with a paste of slaked lime gluten and alum, which glazes and is so durable that specimens three centurie old are now to be seen. On tli ft Malabar coast the fiat bamboo roofs are covered with a mixture of cow dung, etraw and clay. This is a poor conductor of heat, and not onlv with stands the heavy rains to a remarkable degree, but keeps the huts cool in hot weather. In Sumatra the native women braid a coarse cloth of palm leaves for the edge and top of the roofs. Many of the old isuddnist temples in inaia ana Ppvlrm had rnofa made out of cut-atone blocks, hewed timber, and split bamboo poles. Uneven planks, cut from old and dead palm trees seldom from living young trees are mucn used in tne Celebes and Philippines. Sharks' skins form the roofs of fishermen in the Anda man Islands. The Malays of Malacca Sumatra and Java have a roofing of at taps, pieces of palm leaf wicker work fthnut thrfifl feet hv two in. size and an inch thick, which are laid like shingles and are practically water-proof. The Arabs of the East Indies make a durable roof paint of slaked lime, blood and -ce ment. Europeans sometimes use old sails made proof against water, mould. and inser.ts hv liaraffine . and norms? v sublimate for temporary roofs. Scien viuu American. . ;Bro WITH A, STOKE. North Carolina. Drugs, Medicines, Oils, Paints, Varnishe Timtr fttore. t3T"PrescriDtioDB Carefully accurately filled. Situated in th That R. C. LOWE is now at the New Hotel in Staleys Drug Store an is still able to - hit the grit," and repairing watches and clocks. His work fully warranted and guaranteed. Keeps always on hand clocks, watches and jewelry. Come and see for yourself. lot. O. LOWE, r Jeweler. WILKESBORO, - - H. C, -' 1 ' " " 1 in i c. t. WAKHtn, ivi. b. Mulberry, N. C. Can be found in his. office when not professionally engaged. . ' ii BJ J. V ' ; LIVERY & FEED STABLES, A. C WELLBORN. PROP Situated on Main Street, east of the Court House. Good horses asd new ve hicles of all kinds ie"-dy for the accom modation of the i raveling public. Horses carefully fed and attended to. Give us a trial and see how we feed. A .C. WELLBORN, Wilkesboro, - North Carolina. H. B. PARKER, JR. at Iorth W-iKtbboro, North Carolina. OFFICE IN HOTEL GORDON. Prompt attention paid to all business. Collections a specialty . J. S. Cranor. J. B. Buxton, CRANOR & BUXTON, . I TTOliXEY A T JU.4 W, Wilkesboro North, Carolina, Will practice iirihe courts .of W-lko", As;u AlWli'inv an-1 For v the. -v 3T- HACKETT, Attorneys at Law, . WILKESBORO, N. C. - , Will practice in the State and Federal Courts. ISAAC C. WELLBORN, Attorney - at - Law; 2NT- 17111 practice In all the courts. Dealer In real estate. Prompt attention paid to collection of claims. T. B. Fnrunr. H.. L. Gnsxira. FIIILEY & GREEtlE, Attorn eyo - at - Law, WILKESBORO, N. C. Will practice in , all the coutU , Col taction a specialty.. Real estate sold on cramisIon, - i ( 7-