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THE MOIIOLE. -vtilkebboro, N. o. , The Baltimore News believes that there is nearly $150,000,000 of Balti- more money' invested in Southern r According to the Paris Bevue Hor ticole; the largest forests in the world '- axin CentraUfrica, Southern Siberia, North and South America. -1 Public Ooinion thinks it is matter for congratulation that the teaching of X English in oor schools and colleges is &t last beginning to get a modicum of 'the attention that it has long de manded. - The Allahabad Pioneer, the princi pal journal of British India, and the one on which Rudyard Kipling began his literary career, recently contained a paragraph in the "want" columns as follows: "Situation wanted as snake charmer in respectable family. P. S. 7-N0 f objection to looking after the camel." v The status of the fiancee has recently come up in Texas. A railroad man had his life insured for the benefit of his betrothed. He died from injuries in a wreck. His family enjoined the insurance company from paying the money. In Missouri the Supreme Court has decided that such insurance is invalid. The family got the money. That it costs something to launch a big battleship is shown by the state ment that the expense of getting the Victorious, the latest addition to Eng land's fleet, afloat was about $10,000. She is a sister ihip to the Magnificent and the Majestic, and is 390 feet long, t seventy -five feet beam, and. 27 J feet draught. There were used up on the ways over which she slid into the water 7000 pounds of Bussian tallow, 160 gallons of train oil and 700 pounds of soft soap. The gross weight of the ship, ! equipped and ready for sea, is 15,725 tons. Kev. Dr. Talmage,sin a recent ser mon, speaking of our near approach to the twentieth century, said: "Only four summers more ; four autumns more ; four winters more ; four springs more, and then the clock of time will strike the death of the old century and the birth of the new." It is easy to forget, recalls the Pathfinder, that there are still five more years before dawn of the twentieth centurv. The nineteenth century will not end, re member, till midnight ' of Desember 31, 1900, not 1899. You mast spend your 100th cent before your dollar is .gone, and it is so with the years of the . century. Q The Atlanta Constitution remarks : Out in Indiana an old lady ot seventy four offered 20,000 for a young hus band. An enterprising fellow of twenty-six came forward, but the woman's family sued out a writ of lunacy to prevent her from marrying. The jury pronounced her sane, and she -eloped with her purchase and married him. The Chicago Record in commenting on this; case makes the point that a short time ago a young woman in New York wanted a husband with a title, andot him,' after a big cash sum of several million dollars had been settled upon himj by her relatives. Nobody hinted that, the ; New York girl was insane. On the contrary society thought that - she had. distinguished herself. Our Chicago contemporary thinks that it makes a difference when the pur chased husband is an imported article witH a title. If he is a home product the woman who offers a good price for him: is supposed to be erazy. The Italians imported by Austin ' Corbin to become land owners at Sun , nyside, Arkansas, are represented in the New York Post to be superior in "morals and intelligence to the Italian laborers with 4 whom people' in other parts bf, the country are more or less familiar. . They are reported to have been carefully selected fropia very re spectable . and prosperous class. At home they were small farmers gar deners and fruit! growers, and the methods of farming and careful culti vation to which. they, have been accus tomed are expected to be gi'eat aids to them, in their new surroundings. 'They have, strong religion inclina tions; and their first act after arriving 'at their new &me was to conduct re ligious exercises in thanks to God -for the I kindness bestowed - upon them; They were heartily welcomed at Sun nyside, and at 'once ; announced their, intention to become citizens. .: Other ship loads of immigrants are expected to follow this first importation. . ! BY THB FIRS; I7itb!nmy door, good Dame To-day Spins by the hearthstone bright, - AxA keeps me at my task alWay, - ' ; T1U taps my neighbor Night; ' : Then brushes she the hearth, . betimes, And bids the wheel be still, v And, with her gossip Duty, climbs - The path up yonder hill. - While neighbor Night and I, alone, Beside the hearth's low flame. Sit hearkening the wind's wild moan, But speak no word nor namej jFor neighbor Night, right young Is he, And I have heard it said That, haply, he will some time be With gay To-morrow wed. - Land I am old. Eaoh hour I track The step of Watchman Time; ' . 0 soon will Dame To-day eome back, - Then farewell dream and rhymel tBut now. with neighbor Night, a space Is mine, he'll not gainsay, To brood awhile upon a face My lost ,love, Yesterday. -Virginia W. Cloud, in Bookman. A TEST OF THE COMMON PLACE. HEN Clinton's en gagement to Miss Lanston had been broken because of Greta Morrys, con jecture grew and thrived in all di rections as to whether ' or not Greta was", be trothed to Mr. Clinton. That he had asked her to mwrry him, even before the break with Miss Lanston, was certain, but whether Bhe had said yes or no, nobody was abJe to say. jHer manner, to him was the same as before a brilliant coquetry that be longed to her alone and nobody dared question her. When early in the week it became known that Francis Greyford was com ing down from Bar Harbor to Squirrel Island, apparently for no better rea son than that Miss Morrys was there, those interested made sure that at last they would be able to solve this rid dle. Ehen, the day before Mr. Greyfold ie, Clinton went off to New York. There was a whisper that hefwent to buy Greta the handsomest diamond ring at Tiffany's, but those things are rai-ely to "be believed, and the hotel realized with a dull throb of disap pointment that now, perhaps, the rid dle could not be solved. There weve, of course, several girls ready to tell Greyford about Clinton, but he did not seem to mind muoh, and only this morning he had been heard to ask her to go rowing, in spite of I the stormy sea, because he liked to be with her where -nobody else dared gq- She had laughed at him caressingly and looked out at the windswept ocean thoughtfully before she. answered: "Yes, let us go J it jwill be an experi ence that will forever after prevent surface acquaintance between us." lie gave her a quick glance. "Do you want it prevented?" r'Y-es. Surface acquaintance with a man cannot be anything but com monplace, and I do not like a man who is that." 1 4 Will you tell me, Mis3 Greta, what jkliiu ut a luau uu uu icaujr iiao ugdii i Ureyford s handsome eyes were very earnest. Greta pondered a moment : th n, with a little laugh, she brought he eyes back from the stormy sea to th man at her side. 'I would rather not," she answered. Why?" 'Because there is a possible chance ths t tou are that kind of man. and that would be an embarrassing ad mission for me to make. " If she was really betrothed ,to Clin ton, Greyford thought, she would hardly say a thing like that. Greyford spent the half hour she was getting ready anxiously watching th water. He was afraid he had been .unwise in asking her to go out, but when she came downstairs ready to go she1 was such a charming picture he forjgot his anxiety. A slim figure, gowned in sage green, with broad collar and girdle of white, she held a green hat, with white clovers on it, in her hand and let the brisk breezo stir her bright hair into a hundred little ringlets around her face. As they strolled down the sandy road to the beach Greta touched again on the theme they had been discuss ing. YThere are, after all," she said, "few men who are net common place." "No man is always commonplace,1' he replied, gravely. "There are times in i;he life of even the most ordinary mai when he is unusual. Those things def end too much on environment to generalize about them." r- he gave him a surprised glance,' wh: eh he did.not'notice, for they were cloi e to the beach... now and his . eyes were on the sea. , - ' " Would you think me very com monplace if I were to tell you that it will . be most unwise for us to row round the island to-day?" . , - Yes, I should,' she answered, tersely.. ; , e frowned impatiently. snouid not have asked von to ea. Lodk at that sky and wind ; it is going w owiw ixiguiiauy in aoout nai an hour." . , . . . - , , 4 !I shall like that, " said Greta, reck lessly. "When I said I would go I iold you it was for the sake of the ex perience.". . f 4 You will not like it when it turns over the boat!" - jJ1 1 can swim, quite well, too, i and; think how exciting it will be out in the midst of that angry water !" t .MI do not like the. responsibility " hi .pbserved. , I She threw back her head and looked at him. through half -closed lids. "How doea it feel to be afraid ??. He gave her a wrathful glance and moved away to the long narrow boat waiting on the beach. 1 "Without a word ne helped her Nin, ftook up the oars, and with the long, Steady stroke of a Harvard crew man swept out into tne cnannei. it may have been that J luegrwup 01 gins watcning them from the piazza had something to do with Greta's persistence. Now, however they passed out of view, and Grpta attention was claimed by Greyford. She watched him admiringly; the broad shoulders, the proud poise of the head and the annoyed determina tion of his face; then she laughed softly. Greyford looked at the lowering storm-cloud and then at the expressive face of the girl before him, into which no touch of seriousness had come. "If we go round the' island," he said, "we take our lives in our hands, probably to dash them to pieces on the Hypocrite rooks. " He rested on his oars, still looking at her. "J- have never been near death," said Greta, thoughtfully, v. His lips came together firmly. ,4I will noi rate you near it. Have you never a serious moment in your life? Is there nothing more toyou than ef fervescence?"; She had said truly that in such an ex)erience as they were now experi encing conventional acquaintance would vanish. Very gravely she looked at him now, with all the carelessness fled. "Yes," she said, simply, "there is much more to me. Because it has never been put to the test in your presence, you ought not to think it lacking. The effervescence would not be attractive if its foundation were poor." "Thank you," he answered. "I am glad. . It is time, then, that we stopped this madness ; we will go back." Greta made no answer, but the wo man in her approved of his quick tone of command. The boat swung round under his skilful guidance. They were almost a mile out from shore, with the wind and tide aerainst . them, and Greyford's teeth set firmly as he saw the little headway they were making, a wave 01 luaui-uieHiuu waierxuueu Greta's face and over her gown, but she did not even start. 44Most girls would have screamed," thought Grey- ford, with an observant look at her oniet face, with the clustering curls, that the water had not 9 m straightened, about it. Suddenly one of the oars gave an ominous crack, and Greyford's face whitened almost to his lips. "God!" he muttered. "This thing cannot stand the strain, and we are a half mile from shore." Greta leaned forward to the white, determined face. There waa no terror in her own ; the Morryses had not been used to lose their heads in peril. "It is my fault," she said n a low voice, 4 4 You would not have gone but for, me. Before anything happens, you must let me ask you to forgive my selfishness, and to thank you with all my heart for the friendship of a man that you have given me." He met the bright blue eyes with a new light in his own the approving look that bravery gives to courage. "There is nothing to forgive," he an swered hastily. Another long stroke and then once more that ominous crack. ; For an in stant Greyford paused ; then again the oar swept through the surging water. It shivered and splintered in his grasp. Greta's face grew paler as the broken oar tossed out on the wind-lashed sea. The boat swayed around in the waves, rocking and shivering. j ' Greyford looked up. "I can do nothing with this one oar in such a sea. I loaned Dale the other pair yesterday. " "And the storm will break in a few minutes," answered Greta, looking from the dark sky to the island, where all the girls were doubtless dressing for dinner, and then at the mass of water that lay between them and safety. The boat had been swept around to the south shore, where there was no chance of their being seen or assisted ; the hotel and its people had long been out of sight. 4 'There is only one chance" Grey ford's steady voice paused, and he looked at her "critically "f or life. We must swim for it. The tide carries the boat further out each . moment, and if the storm overtakes; us there will be nothing to hope fori!' For a moment she did - hot answer. Perhaps, she was thinking of Clinton, for her eyes grew tender. jThen she threw off her hat and said : i "I think you are right. If it means life or death, I must do my best to make the swim easier ; my shoes and and" A! faint color crept into her white faee. , ' , ') 4 4 Yes." said Greyford, gently. "It will be hard battle and we jmust both of us do without our I useless clothes. n He pulled in the other,; oar and turned his back to her to remove his own' shoes and cost. One moment Greta hesitated ; then her shoes came off and jthe long outer skirt. She gave a little gasp and another look at the water to be gone through ; j then she loosened the full blouse of her gown, removing its girdle and what other impediments to her free movement that 'she could. She, wrapped ner clothes into a bundle swiftly and gave a few deft touches to her costume a white 'skirt 'and a , green andwhite blouse. . , 44I am ready," she murmured.' i ; "With ready tact, he did not look at her when he turned, but jcarefully lifted the bundle of clothes and: put them in the locker a : swaying, un steady performance, -'u J-ji - If we get the boat b&ok they vill be unharmed," he said. - The water gurgled around them ana over them, the stinging- waves - lashed their faces and tossed their bodies to and fro. For many minutes they were almost at Jhe mercy of the waves, but at length the long, steady strokes told, and both were carried slowly forward. It was true that Gretawas an expert swimmer. Each summer that had brought her to the coast had proved it. But the strain now was almost too severe. Slowly they battled on, gain ing, gaining. The shore coulctbe seen between the great waves' that the wind lashed over them. . ' "Can you last five mmues longer t he asked. "We will reach it then if only the storm does not break." Greyford!s voice over the water sounded singularly tender. "Yes," she sighed, though on her face lay an almost mortal weariness. She rejected his offer of help, and they struggled on. 4 'What a woman you are !" he muttered. I I am giving out!" she said in low easps "Float atrain." he answered, "until you are rested." "No," she said, "no progress." A great wave dashed over them, drowning his answer, and low peals of thunder broke on the air, lashing the waves to wilaer fury. Greta's arms fell powerless to her side and, with a faint cry, she felt the water close over her head. Only an instant of that awful sinking down. down into death ; then his strong arm went around her and buoyed her up a choking, breathless burden. She made one last effort and then her feet touched land. She staggered and fell. With his face gray with the struggle that was not yet ended, he lifted her from the shallow water and carried her bodily up the sandy beach out of reach of the waves. Another crash of thun der pealed through the air and the storm broke over sea and land.. Far out on the water a tiny boat swayed and rocked under the storm cloud. Some minutes they rested motion less, exhausted, the salt water drip ping from their hair and clothes., Then he Spoke to her, with that new tender ness still in his voice, and from their friendship for each other the common j place fled forever. Chicago News. Chinese Mai1 Sorvic?- The mails in China are different from the postal arrangements of any other country in the world. ," In China the mail service is not in the hands of the Goverument, but i left to pri- vate persons to estabiisn postal con nection, how'and wherever they please. Anybody may open a' store and hang out a sign advertising that he is ready to accept letters to be forwarded to certain places or countries. The re sult of this arrangement is that in populous towns there are a great num ber of persons accepting letters to be forwarded to all parts of the country ; at Shanghai, for instance, there ara not less than 3500 stores competing with each other and carrying on a war to the knife as far as rates are con cerned. This system, although having great faults, has some good qualities. There are several parties accepting letters in one certain town. The Chinese mer chant who writes letters two or three times will patronize several of the con cerns, and asks his correspondent to inform him which he got quickest. Having experimented for awhile he will select the firm giving the best service, but ho always has the choice of several mailing agencies for his correspondence. Philadelphia Hec ord. . Warts Are Contagious. , Warts are supposed to be somewhat of the nature of a cancer, and are be liflved to be contagious. It is a matter of common experience that a person who milks a cow having warty teats will often have, warts on his hands, and that the warts spread from i one place to another is quite certain. This mAv be. however, the result of eome constitutional tendency to these dis eased growths, but, as it is best to be on the safe side at all times, it will be wise for a.personj having warts on his ; hands not to milk cows, or one who f milks a cow with warty teats should j wash the hand3 before milking an other cow. To get rid of warts is not a difficult matter. Any kind of caus tic applied to a wart, so as to corrode it to the healthy flesh, and then an application of carbolated vaseline to the sore, will make a cure. New York Times. Born in the Tower of London. Mrs. John Heat on, his torical per sonage of the Old World, and a highly respected and Nearly settler of Virginia, 111., died v the other morning, aged seventy-six years. Her maiden name was Mary J. Fuller ton, and she -was born in the Tower bf.Londcn, Eng land, February 29, 1820, when her father, Major James Fullerton, was in command of the tower.) AH visitors to this famous prison, of the. Old World were shown the room and "es pecial attention was called to the fact by the guides that Mary J. Fullerton Heaton was the only female ever born in the tower. She leaves a husband, Captain John Heaton, aged eighty five, and nine Times -Herald. . . children. Chicago A Farmer's Predicament. A farmer near Eaton Kapids, Mich. , recently purchased a suit of clothes of a merchant there. When v half way there he thought it would be'a good scheme to put them on. He took off his old duds and threw them into the river. But when he came to feel for hfs new clothes they had disappeared. He presented himself" in negligee at tire? : The next morning he found his new suit banging to the brake of the wagon, Boston Cultivator, flSE Y0KDS r ; All grand thoughts come from the heart. Vau venargues. j There can be no high civility with out a deep morality. Ernerson. All power, even. the most despotic, rests ultimately on opinion. Hume. Nothing' can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.Emerson. In these times we fight ' for ideas,! and newspapers are our fortresses. Heine. " . The genius, wit and spirit of a Na tion are discovered in its proverbs. Bacon. Some to the fascination of a name surrender judgment hoodwinked. Cowper. Spiritual force is stronger than ma terial; thoughts rule ihe world. Emerson. False praise can please and calumny affright none but the vicious, and the hypocrite. Horace. , It is a. man's duty to have books. A library is hot a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life. Beecher. ' No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether and irreclaimably depraved. Carlyle. It is easy to learn something about everything, but difficult to learn'every thing about anything. Emmons. There are not unfrequently substan tial reasons underneath for customs that appear to us absurd. C.Bronte. Those -whose whole minds feed upon riches recede in general from real happiness in proportion as their stores increase. Burton. Honest instinct comes a volunteer, sure never to overshoot, but just to hit, while still too wide or short of human wit. Pope. It is by studying little things , that we attain the great art of having as lit tle misery and as much happiness as possible, Johnson. True politeness is perfect, ease and freedom. It simply consists in treat ing others just as you love to be treated yourself. Chesterfield. No earnest thinker will borrow from others that which he has not al ready, more or less, thought out for himself. Charles Kingsley. Despair is the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience ; it argues a defect of spirit and resolution, and often of honesty, too. Collier. There are braying men in the World as well as braving asses ; for what is loud and senseless talking and swear- ing any other than braying? D Es- trango. Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved. Marous An tonius. , Feriorated Sails. An Italian sea captain, Gio Batta Vassallo, of Genoa, has made a very interesting innovation in the use of sails of ordinary sailing vessels. He claims that, the force of wind cannot fully take effect in a sail, since the air in front of it cannot properly circu late in the inflated part, and remains stationary immediately in front of part of the sail proper. He avoids as he calls it, bv the application of a number of small holes in that part of the sail where the depression is deepest when it is filled ; these holes are reinforced like a buttonhole so that they will not tear out. . ' , Trials made in various weather have resulted as follows : With a light wind a boat with ordinary sails made four knots, while the new sail increased the speed to five and a quarter knots. In a fresh breeze the respective speeds were seven and eight and three-quarter knots, and in a strong wind they were eight and ten knots per hour. It stands to reason that the doing away with a layer of air, which cannot es cape past the sides of a sail, must in crease the efficiency of the sailboat. Where the wind formerly struck a cushion of air, which acted like ' a spring mattress, decreasing the ac tual pressure of e wind against the canvas, this current of air now strikes the sail direct, and, of course, has a greater efficiency. Vassallo has re ceived much encouragement from practical sailors, as well as theoretical scientists. r Philadelphia Record, Dislocates Auy Joini at Will. H. S. Fitzgerald, - aged forty-seven, of Harrisburg, Peun., gave an exhibi- tion at Washington, before the stu dents of the Columbian Medical Col lege of his powers as a "lax-ligamen-tarian." He can dislocate at will any joint in his body from his little toe to his spinal column, and has absolute control over every muscle. He has been exhibiting before medical col? leges for about twenty-seven years, and during the winder months has a permanent engagement with the Belle vue Medical College of New York and also .appears at the Vanderbilt clinics. ' Muscles that physicians have hitherto beeh unable to reach he brought into plain view and action. Ligaments so deep in the flesh that they could only be reached with a carving knife were brbught into action apparently just under the skin. Chicago Times-Herald. -'-''mL Rare Postage Stamps. High prices paid for postage stamps ' at recent London sales were : Spain, 2 reals, 1851, $140 ; 2 reals, 1852, 8110 ; Madrid,' 3 cuartos, $58; Tuscany, 3 lire, yellow, $133; .Naples, i tomese, blue, $81 ; Canada, 12 pence,' black, damaged, $135 ; Newfoundland, one shilling, vermillion, $140 ; 1 shilling, carmine, $105; 6 pence half penny! carmine, $65 ; New Brunswick, 1 shil ling, violet, $92 ; Nova Scotia, 1 anil ling, mauve, $105; United States, a set of the Department .-of Justice. $58 Washington Star, , - ; Drug ..'- 7- Store. Berry Bros., Wilkesboro, N. C. Keep on hand a full line of Fresh Drugs,! Medicines, Oils, Paints, f Varnishes and Everything kot ia a Fixst-Olaie Drug Store. Prescriptions CareMly Store in the Old Steve Johnson . Building, just opposite the Court House. Be Snre to Call anfl See Them. R. M. ST ALE Y & CO " DEALER IN DRyGS PATENT WIEDICEKtS, TOBACCO, CIGARS, Cigarettes, Fancy and v : :. - ' - ' i Prescriptions promptly 'and accur ately filled. Situated in the Brick Hotel Buildincr. LIVERY & FEED STABLES, A. C WELLBORN. PROP. Situated on Maih 8treet, east- of th Court House. Good horses aiid new ve hicles of all kinds re tdy Sox the accom modation of the traveling public.1 Horsei carefully fed and attended to. Give us a trial and see how we feed. A n WT! r T.TE AT? T Wiljkosboro, North Carolina. " Attorneys at Law, WILKESBORO, N. C. Will practice in the State and Federal (Courts. - .-. - - ' . 1 8 A AC C. WELLBORN, Attorney at - Law, Will practice In all tne courts. Dealer In real estate. Prompt attention paid to collection of claims. T. B. FnnET. H. L. Qsxuni FiriLEY & GREEHE, Attorneyo - at - Law, WILKESBORO, N. O. Will practice in all the courts. Cofc If ctlons'a specialty Real estate sold 00 AominiMion s Will Not Borrow Again. There are two brothers in Memphis who are so near the same " size and figure that they can wear each other's clothing. One of them recently bought a fine new overcoat which was a very istyish and comfortable garment, and of which Its owner was very proud. The first night after he bought che overcoat there was a rairisform. The water fell in torrents ana the mud fairly " swam in the streets. The young man was iroinsr out that even ing, but he didn't like the idea of taking ms new oyercoat out In such beastly weather. His brother had a mackin tosh, and when the first young man spied this hanging on the hat rack he decided to appropriate it for the night and so save his new ovefrcbat ' Without isaying a word to his brother he put on the. waterbroof and ; rjiIHa frtrh ntn 'the rain, calculating that he would save xus new overcoat at least three months' wear that night. When he came home he found: his brother, in their room. "Say, old man," he said, "I used your mackintosh to-night." ' "That was all right," said the broth er, "I got along very well without it." "You didn't go out this , evening, did you ?" asked the owner of the over coat. . "Yes," answered the owner of the mackintosh: "Then what did you wear?" "Your new overcoat." ' There are seven surnames fn Ashan tee correspondinff to the davs of the week, as fpllows: Kwasie indicates a luau uora on ounaay, Kudjoe on Mon day, Kwabina on Tnesdav. ITwaku on Wednfts flair on Friday, and KwamtHa on SatufdayJ uese are aa accented on tne finai eyllable, : .: j j Compounded
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