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TIB CK WILKESBORO, N, O; Hi i - t ' v Australia has a population 4 of less than 5,000,000, but. economists de clare it could support i00,000,000 with ease. . "" " " i wax f- 'X' tell the siok person something he did not know if hecould understand them. Chalk and dUi-itte.T ra:,r for nervous ness, sugar pills for headaches, and pink -water for dyspepsia are frequent prescriptions, The Society of the Army of the Ten nessee decided to ask Congress for an appropriation with which . to erect a statue to General Grant, in Washing ton. Strangely enough, neither Grant, Sherman nor Sheridan have been re membered by monuments at the Capi tal. - William E. Gladstone receives mote requests for his autograph than any other man in,- the world. In one day recently twenty-five letters reached Hawarden from various parts of the world politely asking.for specimens of the Grand Old ; Man's chirdgiaphy. Mr. Gladstone is too busy to gratify the wishes of autograph collectors, and his secretary so informs correspond ents, j - Saved from a horrible death by prayer alone, Tom Darr, of Waycross, Ga., has turned from evil ways to become a preaoher of the gospel. Darr, says the Atlanta Constitution, is supervisor of a wreck machine, which capsized a month ago. He was under 5000 pounds of machinery for thirty minutes, while scalding water poured on his body. He prayed f dr help God saved, him from death. He repented and was concerted. Darr was a wicked man before his conver sion. He says his escape was a direct answer to prayer. He is now preach ing to enormous crowds every even ing. ' . At the time of the great distress in France in the year after the Franco- Prussian War a citizen Qf Bourges.l Delorme by name,! vowed that he would. never wear on hiafback any other gar znent than the blouse he was then wearing. Although twenty-five years have elapsed he still adheres to his ' resolutions, but the famous blouse has been patched and repatched so often that l?ut little of the original material remains The wearer s fame has gonei jon increainor. The Town Council of Bourgea recently offered him $20 for the garment with the idea of exhibit ing it in the museum, but Delorme re fused: the otter. Le means to wear the blouse till he dies. Says the Chicago Chronicle : "The, Supreme Court. of Illinois has just ren dered a decision to the effect that an .elector does not lose his vote if he fails to make a perfect X in the centre of the party ticket circle or in the square opposite the candidate's name. "When a mark ia made which clearly indicates the voter's intention the vote must 'be counted in accordance with such .intention. That ought to be plain enough without going to the Supreme Court to find out about it. Still, it is well enough to put the mat ter beyond all quibbling. It is well enough to have the court of last, re sort affirm, .the doctrine which to healthy minds ,rput seem to be al most self-evident tljat it was not the intention of the law to. annul the Con stitution- by depriving any qualified; elector of his vote." The million canceled postage stamp cAllp.nt.mn "which eama one is alwava trying to make, notwithstanding the vehement protest of TFncIe Sam thai. they are worth no more than any other ' raising international postal tfomplica- : uuu ui juuuuis. ooiuB Ou Blltriitiu. collection of canceled postage stamps fcy means of that philanthropic black mail scheme known as the. "chain sys , tern. It worked so successfully that the house, the bare, the corn erib ofi the crippled girl they were to benefit Srere soon filled with canceled Ameri can aF.fl.m-ns. - lhen the "chain" HnToaf? to Europe, and the letters continue to " come in by the thousands. So ( manvj lAttsrs have not the full toat- v.W hmw " ... Jl ( ago paU tiu.av m- ywoo the Government $40 a day in losses, HB VUO JUA Diul,f letters as were'not fully prepaid outofj the office, and the Postoffice Depart ment can do nothing but return thenj A tnA Dead-letter Office. Already : 25,000,000 stamps have been receivedJ , una siui luev wmci .- wwrf w how to etop them,. THE SINGING IN GOD'S 'ACREf. Out yonder In the : moonlight wherein God's Acre lies, - ' '. ' ' 3o angels walking to and fro, singing their lullabies. i V ' , -. Cheir radiant wings are folded, and their eyes are bending low, " is they- sing among the beds wherein . the . flowers delight to grow "Sleep, oh, sleep I T; The Shepherd guardeth Hi3 sheep. Fast speedeth the night away, Soon cometh the glorious day; ' r Sleep, weary, ones, while ye may - . Sleep, oh, sleep!" j The flowers within God's Acre see that fair j . and wondrous sight, , And hear the angels singing to the sleepers j through the night ; " I And, lo! throughout the hours of daythose gentle flowers prolong : The music of the.,angels- In that, tender Slum ber song ' '''' "Sleep, oh,' sleep! , ' The Shepherd loveth His sheep He that guardeth His flock best . J Hath them to His loving breast, So sleep ye now, and take your rest Sleep, oh, sleep!" From angel and from flower the years have learaed that soothing song, And with its heavenly music speed the days and nights along; So through all time, whose flight the Shep herd's vigils glorify, God's Acre slumbereth in the grace of that sweet lullaby - . "Sleep, oh, sleep! ' """' The Shepherd loveth His sheep. Fast speedeth the night away,; Soon cometh the glorious day; , Sleep, weary ones, while ye may ' ' Sleep, oh, sleep!' Eugene Field. THE WANDERING HEIR. N a rose-shaded corner off the ball-room Lady Tiplow reclined and twittered. It was sUoh an ad vantage to Lady Tiplow to find a rose-shaded cor ner. "Yes, we leave to-morrow leave this wicked London, with its arti ficialities and its weary treadmill, and yield ourselves to complete rest, to a life more , approved by nature, surrounded by innocent pleasures." Lady Tiplow sighed a fluttering lit tle sigh, and languidly leaned her scheming- little head, the curls of which had no right to be amber-tinted, against the velvet curtains, smil ing archly up at Sidney Fielding with a thin-lipped mouth, and tapping in a caressing but cautious manner her rosy 4 cheek, which was a protest against the mellow tinting of her throat. But she mentioned no ad dress. It was at this moment that Helen, Seaton came in sight, and, dismissing her partner with a friendly smile, came to jcin the group in the shadetl corner. Lady Tiplow waved her im periously to a vacant half yard of cushion. - "Ah, Mr. Fielding," she continued, "I am serious when 1 call this London a wicked city." "I fear you may be right," hazarded Mr. Fielding. "What is society? A fraud! Per haps for the very rich and tor the the really common classes it is easy to be .sincere and good ; easy for those who are able to keep up appearances, and for those who have none to keep, up. But for the others !" "You were ever candid, dear mamma," remarked the frigid Miss Tiplow, with a curl of her lip. "Ah, Alicia, you are one of the fav ored ; it is easy for you to be good." The Honorable Alicia Tiplow's small fortune was iightly secured to her, thanks to the foresight of an old aunt of saving- tastes and Philistinish no tions; a fact which inconveniences Lady Tiplow not a little. Miss Alicia curled her lip yet-more scornfully, - "Poor society seems fairly happy in spite of its sins," she remarked, with a scarcely perceptible wave of her fan towards the ballroom. Fielding followed her eyes, to the scene of light and color, beautiful ?wo men and comely men, rich gowns, bright jewels, smiling eyes" and tender glances. Then his own eyes fell on Helen Seatony' as she; sat gazing ab sently upon the floor. "Yes, they look happy enough, he gad, with a sigh, "perhaps they are :U of the first class named byLadylTip low." "Perhaps so," assented the Honor able Alicia, carelessly. "That would be the most sensible way of settling matters let the rich' enjoy their their riches, and let the poor keep away' Miss Tiplow knew of her own moth er's struggles, as a paid ehaperone to keep pace in any way with the so ciety which" was very lifev to her ; she hadalso decided that poverty wis the lot of Sidney Fielding, her would-be admirer, as she deemed- him. But Miss Tiplow, being somewhat inde pendent arid insolent, spoke as she chose. h. . "Then you do not approve of a di vision benefits," Fielding inquired, "of the . meeting of the poor and the rich, that love may give them a chance of leveling matters?" " ; He questioned Miss Tiplow, but it was at Miss Seaton -he glanced the while; and he noted that her attention had returned to" the conversation, and that her usually merry face was grave. . "I do not rccognize;such leveling," retorted " Miss1 Tiplow." "it is impos sible.'.? ; 7 ' I f; ' "You would not approve if a poor man should ask for. the hand of a rich girl?'- He pursued the subject with a t smile upon his Hps; but his eyes still rested anxiously-upon Helen Seaton. eyes, on him slowly. s .' V. . , 'Suchra t man would be contempti ble 1" she replied. ;y v, "Spare my feelings, Miss Tiplow," he pleaded; may be such a man.," "You?" she drawled in careless in terrogation, as - if Sidney Fielding, barrister, must be quite beyond the pale. ' , "Yes, I. But of course I oaght not to have come to such a rich and lofty sphere as this. " , . "Then, why did, you come?" " , "The lowly are. ever anxious togaze upon the lofty, ' "You are lowly?'' indifferently. . "Oh, very." A smile lay about his mm tt lips as ne answered. i " 'Lowlv born' is fbo would use, I suppose." "Exactly," he replied. "My par ents were quite countrified people, what one may term 'honest and re spectable ;' they went in for horses and cows and such like, living, as Lad v Tiplow would exoress it. a life approved by nature, surrounded by innocent pleasures. ' " "Indeed," slie remarked, languidly, scarcely repressing a yawn "How extremely interesting for them and you." ( The merrv expression returned to Helen's face, and 'she smiled at Field ing with a daring smile. "Our dance, I think, ".he said soft ly, holding his arin to her. it was no such thins:, but Helen rose and went with him. "Do you want to dance?" he asked, as they waited away from tne rosy shade. . - "Not a bit," she answered. "That's all right. , Now I want to ,x -nA ;v. 4- "Was I grave? Yes, I know I was. It is so odd," frankly, "to feel grave." "Did my lowly origin surprise you?" "I had never thought of you as low ly. But the passage at arms amused me. Alicia is so grand. " "Fielding laughed softly. "Yes; but before that you were grave. I think I had never seen you so before. Is it-are you may I ask, are you sickening ?' "For what?" "Love." Helen's laugh answered him. "Not in the least. It was not the grande passion which sobered me." "That which has been sobering Lady Tiplow and myself is 'money,' or the lack of it," he ventured. "Yes," she exclaimed, "that is it. Shall 1 tell you a secret?" "I wish you would tell me one I very much want to know." "What is it?" "Where are you going when vou leave town to morrow? Lady Tiplow hinted at Arcadia, but was careful to mention no fixed point. " "Ah, I may not answer that. I've been commanded." Fielding whistled long, and low. Then he apologized. "Oh, I don't mind," declared Helen. "So I'm an ineligible." "Dear me," exclaimed Helen, struck by the remark; "then that's it. You are supposed to admire Alicia." "Oh, am I? Well, what is your se cret?" She clasped her hands in tragic fashion to her breast. "My secret is that this night is my last in the gay world. I have come to the end of my pleasuring. When these lights go out they will go out on my magnificence. To-iriorrow I shall be dinderella at home." "What do you mean?" They had reached a little balcony by this time, and were1 looking into the high-walled garden below. Helen's white arms were lying bare upon the dingy stucco. "I have been a hollow sham for one season. I am poor," she said, solemn ly, "and Lady Tiplow is mad with me for the chances J have missed, and because I am on her hands till my ship is fixed. So I am to governess the children after to-morrow, and live in the schoolroom ; and I can't teach, you know; I don't, know how." "But, surely, Lady Tiplow did not" "No," laughed Helen, "she certain ly did not. It was my godmother who said: 'I will give her one season in town ; let her have everything 'she, wants, go where she will and get a rich husband.' " The girl's unaffected frankness startled even Fielding. "And you " "And I have not done it." "What does that entail?" ' "My transmission to an unknown uncle's in India, who is not enchanted thereby." ' "I imagined you a tremendous heir ess, to whom the offer of a moderate income in thousands and a plain name would be an insult. But why.did you not secure the rich husband?" "1 couldn't bear the ones who came my way; they were horrid." After a pause, "I believe I liked you better than any of them. " "Then marry me," suggested Field ing, quietly. ' Miss Seaton laughed whole-hearted at the joke, which she considered tod trivial to require an answer. "86 now you know why T was grave," she said, after a few moment's silence, during which she had contem plated a white cat on the garden wall and Fielding had contemplated her. , 'But couldn't you love any of them V? "Ko; I think if I had even liked One I would, have said 'yes,' for I al ways thought I should rather like to marry first and fail in love afterwards. " . "Risky;" rather i but in that, case do as I said before; marry me. You said you liked mel" r ' ' She looked at him this time with real interest. I His voice was perfectly calm. ' . - . - ''It's- awfully good of you to offer to ' help me out,' she began, hesitatingly. "and it really does sound betjter than) Alicia turned her cold T Ha.'' -Tl Alr?1"n r At A ttt. arraTi "but somehow," you've always loeen so jolly to me l should feel a oruw, a perfect brute, to take advantage; of such an offer." "But, really, you know," said Field ing pleasantly,; "I should rather like it. I love you' She lookad at him steadily, and he looked at her ; then he laid his hand on her arm as it lay on" the balcony. "I want you to dot, truly I do." x "How odd you are," she said; "not a bit like the others." . Tou are odd," he answered, smil itifir: "not a bit like the others." She placed her other hand on his as it lay tnere, and patted it in a friendly fashion.' ' "I'll think of it," she promised; "give me time." Then she turned to walk back to her chaperon. "And where is it?" he asked, per emptorily. "Broadelms." He colored swiftly and looked at her ; but her face was frank as usual. "Coincidence !" he decided to him self, as he escorted her to - Lady Tip low's, corner, t It's to be a masked ball." " Miss Seaton jumped from the stile as if she had been shot, -and blushed scarlet. "Goodness! Mr. Fielding! Wher ever did you come from?" "From Lady Tiplow ; and it's to be a massed ball." "How do you know?" "Because she has promised me." "unf do explain. Mow did you come to Broadelms? What do you mean by it all ?" "If you continue asking questions, and I promptly answer, we shall soon get it straight. " "Well, what made you face Lady Tiplow?" '"I had a message from my aunt for her." J "Who is your aunt ?" "Mrs. Darrell, at the Court." ' "Then you are!" "Yes, I ani the longrlost ieir, or rather, the wandering heir. " Miss Seaton gave a long soft whistle. "When I did that," remarked Fielding, calmly, "I apologized to you." Miss Seaton laughed. "Well!" she exclaimed. "Well! How astourding! And you are going to the ball?" "Yes; and what are you to wear? That is the right question to ask, isn't it?" "I am not going." "Not going?" "Of course not, I have not been in vited. No one here knows me; I've been in the school-room, you know ; and my ship sails the day after?" "For where?" "India." i "Ah ! Bat you're coming to the ball?" "I cannot. I have no dress. Lady Tiplow does not want me " ''Nonsense; I'm going!" "Yes, of course; you have been anxiously expected." Helen's eyes twinkled. "What did Lady Tiplow say?" "At first she would not believe in me ; but when I had proved my iden tity, she playfully reproached me for my 'tricks.' But she did not seem angry, and even Miss Tiplow curved her lips and smiled upon me icily." "You are a pleasant surprise, you know." "Oh, am I? But you are coming to the ball?" " "No!" "Yes!"' Silence. ""' ."A costume of my great-grandmother would look rather well," meditatively. Miss Seaton paid no heed. "With a short waist, and sandalled shoes." Miss Seaton grew mildly interested. "And to walk up under Lady Tip low's very noe ! " miss oeaton tittered and suc cumbed. "Will it do?" The question came from a slim Old- World maiden, as she stepped from the cloak-room, clad in anarrow white silk gown, short-sleeved and short- waisted- The answer was given by a beau of a contemporarv period, who drew her away down the corridor to a softly lighted recess. "No, he answered, slowly, "'My great-grandmother' always wore a wedding' ring." The maiden blushed hotly. "What nonsense ! As if I had one. "If you undertake a costume it should be complete,' protested the beau. "Well, I have no ring, so I must go without." -"I have." She looked, and from his waistcoat pocket he drew a tiny gold ring set with dazzling diamonds. "Oh!" she cried, bending forward impulsively. Then he took her mit tened hand in his and slipped the ring over her finger. "Turn the diamonds inward,"-he commanded. "Put on your mask, and let us goto make our bows." With out waiting' to protest, he maskedr himself and led the way. " In the ballroom were lights and music, wonueriui toilets and' merry laughter and by the door stood Lady Tiplow, the only unmasked, person, smiling and twittering at her mys terious guests. . With stately tread the man and the maiden advanced to the hostess, and Lady Tiplow, smiling still, bade them welcome, - noting as she did sol the details of their dis-I guises, , dui lamng to penetrate their masks. , Miss Seaton, with trembling fingers and an hysterical flutter at her throat; passed on . into : the ballroom; Mr. Fielding following her. With eyes twinkling with merriment through her mask .she looked, at him and h placed 'his arm round her and drew t 1 j . . ; . i.- ner into me uance. ' "Under her very, nose." laughed Helen, softly. "Her very nose,!' he repeated, with something strangelv like a chuckle. - But when the dance was done the Old-World beau led the white-gowned maiden through an open window to the lawn outside,, where the air was cool, and the lanterns mimicked fairy land. And then, as he removed his mask, she saw his face was grave, anil he halted beneath a swaying light and stood facing; her. "Arid now," he began, "I want to know why you have served me so?" "What have I done?" she asked, trembling. x "You have treated iner badly. When I parted from you in, London 1 asked you to marry me. When I meet you here, you tell me the date of your ship's departure. Was that even civil?" The blood rushed to her face ; she tried to speak, but" no words were ready. "Am I not better than India, after all?" her pleaded. 'Ton you did not come," she faltered. . "You asked me to give you time," he declared. "That is why I did not come. I did as you bade me, and meanwhile you made piahs to escape from me." "No, no," she cried. "You did not come. I thought you had been laugh ing at me. I was ashamed " "Oh, Helen, Helen, lieve that I love you, Won!t you be my darting?" Helen was silent. :; "Once," he pleaded, "you said that if you but liked a man you would an swer 'yes;' that you, would marry him first and fall in love with him after wards. Won't you do even that for me?" Helen hid her face in her hands, but he saw that she shook her head. "Helen," he drew her hands from her face, ''my darling; say you will do that much for me." "I cannot," she whispered, "I can not." "Why not?" he aaked, and his face was white with his eagerness. 'Because because" shelooked up suddenly, and he saw that though her lashes were wet her lips were"smiling. Oh, Sidney, I had fallen in love with you already before." And the lantern looked down with a winking eye on the little scene that followed. After a while the strains of the band came stealing across the lawn.. "The old 'Blue Danube.' Helen; we must not miss that. Turn the ring round, my darling ; ? Woman. who cares now?" TVISE WORDS. Nothing multiplies so much as kind ness. Wray. No man's religion lever survives his morals. South. Discretion of speech is more than eloquence. Bacon. Sense shines with a double lustre when set in humility. '"Penri. The true way to gain much is never to desire to gain too much." Beau mont. ' ' ' What king so strong can tie the gall up in a slanderous tongue. Shakes peare. - - Philosophy, if rightly defined, is nothing but the love of wisdom. Cicero.. ' 4 Girls . we love for what they are ; young men f.or what ithey promise to do. Goethe. That virtue which requires to , be ever guarded is scarce worth the sen tinel. Goldsmith. Take my -word for it, the ; saddest thing under the sky is a soul incapa ble df sadness. Countess deGasparin. dust laws are no restraint upon the freedom of the good, for a good man desires nothing which. a just law will interfere with. Froude. If a book comes from the heart it will contrive to reach other hearts. All art and author craft are of small account to that. Carlyle. Sedition is bred in the lap of lux ury, arid its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the irhpov erished libertine. Bancroft.1 ' Truth is the handmaid of justice; freedom is its child ; peace its "com panion; saf3ty walks in its steps ; vic tory follows in its train. Sydney Smith. Public sentiment powerfully re strains men from doing wrong;, but, when they have done wrong, sets it? self as ; powerfully against them. Beecher. ' -. . Whatever difference may appear in the fortunes of man kind j there is, nevertheless, a certain compensation of good and evil which makes equal. Rochefoucauld. 1 ' 1 1 m them Three-Compartment Bicycle Tire. r A Chicago inventor has devised a three compartment pneumatic bicycle tire which, while not unpuncturable, still reduces the, liability of injury to a mininium, because if the rubber in one of the compartments is punctured, the other two .are still .sufficient to carry the- rider and keep the tire in' cylindrical form. The partitions' are arranged spirally. . The tire is inflated through three separate tubes, each chamber requiring separate pnmping. - Scientific American. . An Operation ot a Great Financier. One of the. stories told of Russell Sage is that when a' thief one day dropped a bill : near him in order to draw his attention from counting some money he iiad drawn at the bank, Mr.. Sage put his foot on the bill, thanked his informant, finished 1 his count,' ' stowed his own money securely away, and then smilingly put the thief's bill 1 also in his pocket Detroit Fxeo Press. - Drug t Store. Wilkesboro, N. C. Keep on hand a full line of Fresh Drugs, Medicines, ; Oils, Paints, Varnishes and Everything kpt ia a First-Olass Drug Store. Prescriptions Carefully r Store in , the Old Steve J ohnson Building, just opposite the Court ' House. . . , Br Sure to Call ana See B. I STALEY & CO.. DEALER IN DRUGS 5 , 5 PATENT MEDICENES, TOBACCOy CIGARS, Cigarettes, Fancy and Toilet Soaps, etc., etc. Prescriptions promptly . and; acour ately filled. Situated in the Brick Hotel Building.- Vv - U7BRY & FEED. STABLES, ...ft; U- WtLLBUKN. FKUrV Situated on. Main Street, east of th Court House. Good horses and new ve- hi a nf all Unrln r,r1tr fur fhn afmm. mod at ion of the traveling public. Horsei carefully fed and attended to. 6i us a trial and see how we feed. A .C. WELLBOllNv WilKesDoro, - wortu tiaronna. Attorn eys at Law, "WILKESBpRO, N. C. Will practice in the State and Federal Courts.- ' ' Attorney - at - Law, 3M- O. " "Will practice in all the court. - Dealer In' real estate. Prompt attention paid to collection of claims. ; , ' T. BJ Fdvubt. H. L. QBKKfU. FIHLEY & GREEHE, Attorney 8 - at - Law, WHiKESBORO, N. 0. Will practice in " all the court. Col factions a specialty. Real estate sold pn Amgomiaaion - DIseaso Microbes - Pasteur was the pioneer in those studies of fermentation which led to the discovery rof the bacteria of diseases. It was he who wuuu msi me yiruience or Dactena couiu be so diminished by cultivation as to be 'no longer fatal, on inoculation into sus- Cfint.ihle nnimolo nflian frMnrar tha fiU- covery that animals thus . inoculated were protected against the- disease, even when afterward inoculated with ;. virulent bac teria. r r The next step . was the discovery k that the blood-serum of animals thus in oculate, when transferred to other ani mals, wouTd protect them from the same disease, rrom these discoveries, in which Pasteur led, but to which other biolo gists contributed .has r.nmp. a. creat revo. lution in the ; defence of man against dissase microbes. " ' 1 ! . v V " : ; AN 'EXPEE1KNOKD HUSBAND. Mr. Blinks I wish to get some hairpica for my wife. ' Great Merchant This1 is a wholesale house, sir. - ; '; ; r Mr. , Blinks Of. course. You don't suppose I'm fool enough to go on buying hairpins at retail, do you ? ' ,1 want a bar . ' ''r,;:': ' fathekly advick. .. DaughterThis piano is really my very own, isn't it pa? ; ; Pa Yes, my dear. ' ' "And when I marry I cao take it with me, can I?". , - " .-' ' v " "Certainly,: my child; but don't tell any one. . It might spoil your Chances." . SHAMELESS MALICE. First Author Have you heard that our chum, Smithers, has married? Second Author Yes; he wanted to double his circle of .readers. : EEiaUT GIEL. r He Miss Reeder is a very bright girl Berry Bros, Compounded bhe Yes, when she reflects.
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