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era. W1LKESB0R0,U1) i Fbe rx?&ch blossom has "been select islbAYOteoi theEchool children tit Delaware to the floral n&lem xf the Stete.v V ' "Ike ISoM Sotith" Will finan cial phrase ten years Settee predicts ihe Chicago Tftmes-feratd. Professor Cesare lmbroso, who ad arises that children and youths of liabittial fcriminat ten leases be iso lated feslnnaties, feays there is scarcely child xrho 3oea not abuse his power OYer those who are weaker than he. If England sees fit to eqnip its most Important war vessels with wire Wand guns, this country must follow uitj declares the New York Telegram. The nre wound segmental cannon is an American device that has proved under tests by this Government 'to be practically unburstable. Pro f essor Dy che, of , Kansas Uni ver si ty says that lie has praotically de cided to make another trip to the Arctic Ocean in search of the North Pole1, having received an offer of as sistance from a source which" he de clines to name. His plan is to creep around the west coast of Greenland, and then make a dash for the pole by sledge or boat. So great has been the reduction of steamboat accidents in the waters of the United! States since the Federal Government introduced the inspec tion system tthat Inspector-General Dumont now asserts that travel by water is much safer relatively than travel by railroad or even by street car. He asserts, on the strength of the fatality records, that one is safer on a steamboat than in walking the Btreets of a city or even sleeping in one's own bed. New York Sun thinks it would doubtless surprise many folk to know the number of furs that are taken an nually in v Connecticut and Massa chusetts. William Clark, of Vernon, Conn., makes a tour of Tolldan County, Connecticut, and Hampden County, Massachusetts, every fall col lecting furs 'from the farmers. Last season he collected some 1500 skins, mostly skunk skins, but many of them mink.' These animals are probably not more plentiful in these two coun ties than in some other parts of the two States. The result of the census taken the other day in Berlin has caused some surprise. It shows the total popula tion of the German capital to he 1, 674,112, whereof 797,186 are males and 876,926, females. The estimate, based on the periodical returns of births and deaths and of departures and arrivals, Which m Prussia have to be reported to the police, had shown, as worked out on November 10, a total population of 1.757,898. Moreover, the increase in the population during the last five years, according to this census,' has been only six per cent., as against twenty per cent, be - tween 1885 and 1890, and sixteen per cent, between 1880 and 1885. The cxplanatien lies in the enormous growth of the subrubs as compared with Bflih proper. The Atlanta Constitution says : About six months ago Massachusetts L-J.n il. . TT T- ft - creaiea me oiaie sxigawskj commis sion, and since that time eighty-nine miles of ' first-class roads have been constructed under the auspices of the new Board. The experiment is so satisfactory "that the Legislature this winter is expected to make a larger appropriation for roadways, , and it is now certain! that the work so auspic iously begun will be pushed forward with iccreased vigors The fact that the people are willing, after spending ) $700,000 in 1895, to spend' a still larger sum. shows that the . movement in favor of good roads is already pop-. nlar enough in Massachusetts to bold its .own, and it is natural to suppose that ' other States will organize their commissions and go to work on the ' same line. , -New Jersey had a: some- what similar experience a lew years ago, and after a few score miles of substantial roads" had been. completed the people all over the. State 'demand ed their extension and -expressed their . willingness - to - submit ' to a much higher tax rate in order i to , secure these improvements. - As the country fills up' with population the highway ; question will assume -greater promi- nence and good roadways will be .con-, etructed ' at the expense of future ( generations, instead of - cansingi thei entire, cost', to fall upon the people who are progressive enough to inaugv nr? LitS crate such reforms. J.JU. OUR TICTURBS W TIB rwM- The frames aVenot expewlv and he pie tures they are plala, . v A-brooAtn'g there whew sunlight or the Hi firelight softly fails ThM straAsrer would not note them, yet no iot t grce or fotild make us think of parting with our pictures on the walls! Nay, w would tjave no changes in the por traits if we could. r gazing on the faces, we can see them ; as they were ," i Th father strong, the sisters in their lovely womanhood, , . T le mother sweet and tender and the baby j in his chair. . ) Their voices-come at even or on quiet after- I noons, d while we look upon them we recall the dearer days; jLnd still they, seem to love us as when Hope its sweetest tunes Trent chanting low and tender here among the homestead ways. years have been so many, and the days have gone so slow, rh4 'S; nee we were undivided in the years the mind recalls; yet we feel less lonely as we on our journey go. And "With the faces ever with uswith . the pic tures on the walls! Will T. Hale. HETTY'S RETICULE ?B A I G hallo, there!" I stopped short. Jim Studley was behind me, waving 1 his cap. ""Are you walk ing for a wager?" he asked, as he came up. "I have been looking for you all the morn ing. We are get tinc Tin a fileiffhinc t v o tr o o ty will you go?" Yes," I said, "you might have counted on that. . Where is it?" r'We meet at Etulda Whipple's at her iather's, I mean, and we drive to the .Ked Farm, and have our dance an4 supper there. As usual, you in vite whom you please to share your sleigh, always providing it is a lady, anjd . But you'll meet with us to talk it over to-night. I'll not detain yon here any longer." : I was in haste, I told him, and promised to meet them; and went my way. It was the same way that it had been the short cut to the house where Histty Harrow lived. U. had a fashion of going that way about twilight, when the school was closed and she (the teacher) had gone home for the evening, telling some lit tle story as to how "I happened to pass, and thought I'd stop." j Any other young fellow would have owned to coming on purpose, and would have spent .more time with her and said something more to the pur pose than I any one who liked Hetty as well as I did. Liked ! that was a cool word for it I loVed her. ( It frightened me to know the truth ; for how could she like me ? I was not hideous, perhaps. A tall, straight, angular Maine youth, with yellowish hair and blue-gray eyes. But I was certainly not handsome. Then we were poor mother and I. 1 was too poor tc marry, certainly ; but after I had felt I cOuld only be happy if Hetty liked me, I resolved, come what would, to make some effort which would lift us above the condition which bordered Bty closely upon poverty. If I could only first obtain ner promise to be mine. I Yet it seemed also impossible to speak to her on the subjeot. I had resolved to do so a dozen times, but her presence awed me. iBut that evening, having spoken ith Studley of the sleigh ride, I went ( l with a lighter step. I could muster courage, I thought, to ask her to go T ith me. The long sleigh ride, fast and furi cjus, with jingling bells and merry laughter, each fellow with the girl he likes best nestling "by his side, with a chance, for once at least, to say what he chooses to her. j J If Hetty would go with me, when I had her all alone with me under the old stars I might whisper what I had nly dared to dream thus far. - I was very brave until I stood face o lace with ner. Tnen mv coura&re eserted me. Bnt T found, when I ent away, that I had asked her to ide with me and that she had agreed o go. I whistled merrily all the way home. ind after I had met Jem and the rest, nd we had settled matters. I could hot help turning into the shed where bur little red sleigh stood, and looking at it. it was shabby, and the cushions needed 'patching. 1 took it in for mother to do. "It's shabby," I said, "confounded y shabby. " ' t - - "That's 'most swearing, Almon," feaid my mother. "What's the matter With the sleigh? It used to be good enough. Gom to take a girl out?"-' "Who ever Went on a; sleighing arty alone?" I asked. -" 'Twould look funny," said moth- r. .ua, tnose sieigmngs, j. was iona 'em once. Wrap up w ell, Almon. ere's many a death caught a-sleigh- ing. xonrememoer speasing oi my lUncle Eben?'V : "Yes," said I. Did ,he . catch his peath sleighing ?'f . : , - i k- "No," said; my mother. : "Me pro posed a-sleighing. ' It was a dreadful thing for him.'. What a , life she led him 1 v Who are yon going with?" " , "Miss Harrow." 1 "Don't wonder you talked of the sleigh's being Bhabby" eaid. mother. They say: she takes on airs. I never caw such a bonnet. -AOne tht puts all on her back isn't the wife for a poor man. I bona when the marries it will be a rloh one." I hope so, too,V saw i. 'Ehr" asked m? taother, sharply. Then she went on with her knitting with a pttfczled face. After mother had gone to bed I went tip stairs and brought down my writ ing desk. There were some sheets of paper and envelopes, which liad been there for months stored within. I took them out and began to write : Dear Miss Harrow-I am a -coward. ' Not; I hope, in one sense, but certainly as re garcfeyou. For a year I have .loved you. Yet I no more would have dared to jay so than I would have dared bad you been a queen. To-morrow WJLjgtoto. cether To-morrow I had made up my mind to trv inv late, but I know I shall not dare to sneak. So I write. I will give you this let twio. read at home. If the answer be "No" it will be easier for both of us. Will you try to think well enough of me to De my wife some day? If I am to have that hope, give me some sign- line, your name only, any thing to show me what you mean. If I am to be miserable well, then, make me no an swer. Silence shall mean No I sealed this note and wrote Hetty Harrow's name on the Jback, , and hid it and the desk irom mother's eyes sharp eyes that looked after me anxiously as I drove away with the little red sleigh the following evening. She was ready for me. My mother's hint was in my mind, and I looked at her dress. All I discovered was that it was blue, but her furs were good. "She must marry a rich man, or one on his way wealthward," I said. She shall, too. And I tacked her into the sleigh and drove off. It was a pleasant drive, and a merry dance and sapper ; bat as time went on I felt glad that I had written the letter, for I could not have said what it would say for me. It was at the last moment when we were driving homeward that I mustered courage to ask her for the little reticule she carried. 'Why do yon want it?" she asked. 'To put something in it which you must not look at till you reach home, " I said. . I had dropped in the letter and snapped the clasp. Not a word more could I speak. But at the door I tried, for the first time, to kiss her. Her lips eluded mine, and I dared not repeat the attempt. I took the sleigh home, and waited, and waited hopefully, as I knew after wards, for an answer.' None -came a day, a week, a month. Then all hope was over. I had seen her. She had given me a little cold, smileless bow. Mother," I said that night, 'we must have some one to farm the place. 1'ir going to some city." Why?" said she. To make my fortune," I said. For that girl?" she asked. "No; never for Her.'' Mother knelt down beside me, as I sat on a low stool. ..She put her hands on my shoulders and looked into my face. 'She didn't refuse you?" she said. "Boy, you are in trouble. I'm your mother. Tell me." She did not accept me." And that's to part us?" "Not if you'll go with me." But she would not leave her home, and I went alone. I had a cousin in New York who was deep in the mysteries of Wall street. He helped me. So did luok, or fate. In five years I was a moderately rich man. My mother wanted nothing but my presence. She would not come to me, but she urged me to return to her. At first my heart was too weak to be trusted among those . old scenes. But time helps ns all. At the end of five years I wrote : I am coming home, since you will not live here with me." My mother had not altered much. But I was a youth no longer a fact which troubled her. There were changes in the place, too. Girls were married. Old people dead. The church was rebuild and the . huts in the hollow had been burnt down. A factory had risen and the factory peo ple's houses were about it. Instead of the old frame school house was a brick building with many windows. Who was the teacher? Was she there Hetty Harrow? I dared not ask. - Idly I sauntered about the house, painted and refurnished" now ; and idly in the evening of my second day of home I went out, to the shed where the little sleigh stood the shabby old thing with a patch on the cushion. It ain't been touched since you left, Almon," said my mother. "Re member my patchin the cushion?" She lifted it as she spoke. From behind it dropped something. What? Of leather, blue With mold, crushed by its long lying under the cushion, but a reticule. Hetty Harrow's reti cule ! ' . ' , I opened it. There lay my letter ! "What's the matter?" asked my mother. ' For a few moments I did not know. At last I spoke: .. k "It is Miss Harrow's reticule." "Sh9 must have lost it when yon took her sleigh riding. Jest like her, to lose it and did not know. She's teaching yet; she ain'A married ; ho doubt she'll be an old maid, and serve hex right." .: : , The rest my mother said to herself, for I waited for no more. i , . I took the reticnle in my hand and went over the long-forgotten ' path to ward the school house. School was over. A figure stood atone near the gate.. I did not know itfat first. But on a nearer view I. found that it was a more mature editionT of Hetty Har row's slender frame -not so slender now, but just as pretty in the face, and fresh and. buxom. . . I' walked . up , to aer. Her cheek flushed. j T "Mr. Oraig !" she said. Yes, Miss ; Harr o w, " I answered. 'Tarn here to restore your property. You lost a reticule in ,my sleigh five years ago. To-day J found it. There is something in it jwhich I asked yon to look at when ybu were alone.' -1 tnak the same request now. May 1 Bee you this evening?" mf She bowed. k I walked away. ;That nleht I went once more to see her.i She had been weeping ; the letter lay tinon her knee. , ' - gu0h an old relio of those foolish old times," she said. I took her hand. "You never answered it, Hetty, x said. "WiU yon answer it now?" After all this time ?" ' "Yes." ----- ''" She said nothing, bat I kissed her. Our wedding was a quiet one,. t and our lives have been " quietly happy from that day to the present. New York News. . Telescopic Lenses. The great lenses, forty inches in clear aperture, for the Yerkes teles cope, are now complete in the work shop of Alvan G. Clark at Cambridge port, Mass. . An observatory, to be7 under the control of Chicago University, has been equipped for the reception of the great telescope, and it will soon be in use. The tube, which is of steel and sixty-three feet long, was made in time for exhibition at Chicago during the Columbian Exposition, and is said to be equal to all the demands for strength, rigidity and easy movement. The two lenses composing the objec tive are of the simplest form. One is of crown and the other of flint glass, each being forty and a half inches in diameter. An inch and a half is cut off in mounting, giving a clear aper ture of forty inches. The crown lense is double convex, three-quarters of an inch thick at the edge and two and three-quarters of an inch thick at the center. Being well supported about the circumference, this thickness gives sufficient rigidity, although the weight is nearly two hundred pounds. . The flint or negath e lens is plano-concave, two inches thick on the edge and about an inch and a quarter in the center, weighing 3000 pounds. These lenses have been tested for months by Mr. Clark, and local imperfections have been corrected in the most care ful manner. The production of the rough disks of glass was a labor of great difficulty, and the final success of the makers in Paris marks a great advance in the manufacture of optical glass. One of the disks was completed and delivered at Cambridgeport long before the other was perfected, and it was necessary to await the production of both before the labor of grinding and polishing could be undertaken. - It would not be surprising if a teles cope of forty-eight inches aperture were constructed within the next ten years and perhaps earlier. Of course, the possible sagging of the glass from its own weight may become percepti ble in a glass of fifty inches. 'But the perfection of the forty-inch glass shows that the limit has not been reached, and no one can tell whether a properly proportioned glass of forty eight inches will sag or not until the experiment be tried. .Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. Some Bare Minerals. "Once in a while," remarked a mining man last evening, "you hear of a man who claims to have found a mine of bismuth, and basing his cal culations upon a price of- say $2 a pound, he heralds his find and thinks he has a fortune within his grasp. The fact is, there is no bismuth pro duced in this country and there are only about thirty tons imported. So if any one could put 100 tons on the market it would bring the price down to twenty-five cents at least. "Of cobalt not more than 200 tons are used annually in the world. fin regard to mica I am speaking now of the uses it is put to in electri cal appliances the East India product is driving the Canadian product out of the market. Mica that is in the least associated with iron is useless for this purpose. It is much -the same with some of the rarer minerals. Were tellurium found in large quan ties its value would lessen, but, as only a few ounces are found each year, not enough to supply - the- demand, why the value is enhanced." Three-hifths of the nickel produced in the world pomes from Canada. The production in other portions of the world is so small as to cut no figure in the statistics of mineral produc tion. Spokane (Wash.) Beview. ; The Japanese Nose. In Japan the nose is the only feature which attracts attention. The nose determines the beauty or ugliness of the face, according as it is big or small. This is probably due to; the fact that differences in noses consti tute about the only distinction be tween one Japanese face and another. In Japan a lady fho has a huge pro bocis is always' a great beauty and a reigning belle. Tacoma Iiedger. The Right That Will Never End. The eight-year-old daughter of Will iam Jenks, of North Manchester, TEnd., recently had an attack Of scarlet fever, and, as a result Of the disease, has be come totally blind .Her parents have not had the courage to speak to her of the affliction, and . the little one in quires pathetically at short intervals when it will be daylight again, and when the night will be over. Cincin nati Enquirer. , . , .: - Yersatillty. . An editor received the other day a curious :. application for help. 'The writer said .'I am sorry 'you do not like my romance, for I feel that I have the secret fire in; my veins. If, how ever, you cannot accept my book jot. my -poetry, will ;you give me a : berth as a y heavy goods porter ?" 'London Bookman. ; . 7 HOUSEHOLD APFAIBV v 'A DELICIOUS SWEETMEAT. ' : Ginger pears are a delicious sweet meat'. Use a hard pear, peel, core and cut the fruitinto very thin slices. For eight ponnds of frnit after it has been sliced use the same quantity of sugar, the juice of four lemons, one pint of water, and half a pound of ginger root, sliced thin. Cut the lemon rinds into as long' and thin strips as possi ble. Place all together in a preserv ing kettle and boil slowly for an hoar. j New York Advertiser. i - l. HOW TO BOAST THE SUCCULENT OTSTEB.1 Select large oysters and have them scrubbed thoroughly, then place? them in the oven in. a large tin with the round side of the shells down, so that when they open the liquor will nob be lost. As soon as they do open remove the upper shell, sprinkle them with salt, pepper and chopped parsley, add a little butter and serve hot as possi ble on a bed of watercress. Oysters served in this way make an excellent first course at dinner if accompanied by thin slices of brown bread and but ter. Ladies' Home Journal. , 1 CUSXABD SOUFFLE. A really dainty dessert is custard souffle, which is made by. melting one ounce of fresh butter, sprinkling into it a half ounce of flour and stirring it till smooth and wellblended. Pour over it a full gill of boiling milk : and stir it over the fire for seven or eight minutes. Beat the yolk of an egg Very fresh with one ounce of caster sugar, add this to the milk andtnrn it all out to cool. When cold, add to it the white of the egg beaten very stiff and bake in a well buttered pie dish in a very sharp oven. Serve at once, either plain or . accompanied by cream or boiled custard sauce. New York Times. . RICE FOB GARNISHING. A rice border makes an attractive looking dish of any warmed-over meat, fowl or fish. Wash a cup of rice and put it in a double boiler with three cups of white stock; place over the fire and cook thirty minutes. Add half a teaspoonful of salt and two tablespoonfuls of butter and let it simmer twenty minutes longer. Beat the yolk of two eggs with three table spoonfuls of cream and one of chopped parsley, and add to the rice five minutes before it is ready to take from the fire. Butter a border mould and pack the rice into it. Let the mould stand in the heated oven ten minutes and then turn it out on a hot platter. . Fill the centre with the prepared, meat. New York World. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. Variety is the best culinary spice. ; A good cleanser for paint is weak lye or saleratus water. Always buy rye in small quantities and keep it well covered. Butter should be kept in stone if possible and never in tin. , Lard and drippings should be kept in earthern ware and should' not be salted.1 Sugar is just as cheap in small quantities as in large, and it is better to keep only a little on hand at a time. Provide on Saturdav for Mondav. tf w so as not to take up the fire with cook ing or time in running errands on washing day. Arrowroot, taoioca. sasro and all such articles should be bou&rht in small quantities and kept in glass jars" or coverea ooxes. Bathe vour eves frecraentlv in weak r s alum water if they are weakened by close work, suoh as painting, embroid ery or reading, i . Buckwheat, rice and hominv should be kept in small tightly covered boxes or in tin cans, and should be ex amined often as vermin is apt to infest them. Cook a oeeled white onion 'in tha' same pot with your mushrooms, and if they do not turn black you may eat them with a feeling of tolerable se curity. Never put away clean clothes with out examining ererv -niece to baa if it . w is m anv wav out of order. Stock ings, especially should , be, carefully : aarnea. ' Vinecrar is best nnrchased bv the half barrel or the keg, and should be made of wine or cider It should never be put in glazed ware, as the glazing is eaten on and forms with it a poisonous compound. , , An Odd Situation! The conscience and pride of good citizenship of GJ Green, of McCune, Kan., got to working together ( re- cehtly and produced an odd situation. Mr. Green got intoxicated, boisterous and disagreeable during a visit to the neighboring' town of Pittsburg, and created considerable disturbance on the streets. ' He was not arrested. A few days later he appeared before the county attorney at Pittsburg and . swore out a warrant against himself for disturbing the peace. v-He was ar- rested, arraigned, pleaded guilty, paid his fine and went home with a shriven conscience.- New York, Sun. - , Built a House In a Bottle. A few years ago the writer saw a genuine curiosity which 'had been made by a little blind boy in Chicago.-: It was nothing more or less' than a miniature house, made up of forty odd pieces of wood,: which was placed on the inside of a very common-looking ; four-ounce medicine bottle. The gen eral verdict of all who examined the wonder was that it would puzzle a man .with two.good eyes to, put the pieces in the bottle, to say nothing of the task of glueing them together so as to make them resemble a house. St. tiouis Republic, Eovr Drug Store. ,j e nyros., Wilkesboro, N. C. Keep on hand a full line of Fresh Drugs, Medicines, Oils, Paints, Varnishes and Everything kept in a First-Olass Drug Store. Prescriptions Carefully Store In the Old , Steve Johnson Building, just opposite the Court House. . j Be Sure to Call and See Tlem. -DEAIiEB IN PATENT W1EDICEWES, TOBACCO, CIGARS, Cigarettes, Fancy and j . ' Toilet Soaps, etc., etc. Prescriptions promptly and accur ately filled. Situated in the Brick Hotel Building. ; LIVERY k FEED STABLES, A. C VELLBORH, PROP. Situated oa Main 8treett east of th Court House. Good horses aad new ve hicles of all kinds re tdy for the accom modation of the traveling public. Horsea carefully fed and attended to. Give us a trial and see how we feed. A .C. WELLBORN, Tfilkesbbro, - Kortli arolinai Attorneys at Law, TYHiKESBORO, N. C. Will practice in the State and Federal OourtSr f-' - v.-.,--. . . , , ' ' '", . ... ISAAC C. WELLBORN, Attorney - at - Law, Will practice in all the courta. Dealer In real estate. . Prompt attention paid to collection of claims. T. B. FruruiT. H. lu Gszxkm, F1HLEY & GREEUE, Attorn ey o rat - La wc WILKESBORO, N. O. t W01 practice in all the . courts.' Ool Itctloni a Bpecialty. Real; estate sold oo iftTnltilftn Badger Dog for His Pet. At the foot of the middle butte of , the Sweet Grass H1113 in Montana .lives a miner named Byron Banner. He is . practically a recluse, seldom associating with any neighbors or even talking to them. He works bis .claim all alone, and no , one knows whether he Is rich or poor. . ' Like most , recluses he has his pet, but Banner's pet is so uncommon, even unnatural that it deserves to be pnt on . record. Thisr pet, says the Dupuyer Acantha ,is a badger-dog. The animal is small and has the feet and legs of a badger while the body resembles a dog. ; Its claws have to be trimmed every J few months, as, they grow out of all proportions to f the j foot. When J it walks it has the peculiar waddle of the badger. Its bark is somewhat " similar to hat of the lapdog. It will bite savagely when, . teased,' but is otherwise perfectly' docile. . ' A cross j between a wolf or coyote and a dog is not uncommon, nor is it so much of a freak, since Hbey belons to the same family. But a cross bc ; tween; different families, as the dog and badger, is something for natural ists and evolutionists to think about. Lincoln's Duel. A monument Is to be erected at Al ton, 111., on the spot where Abraham Lincoln and ; James Shields met to fight a duel op September 23. 1842. But both thought better of it, and jtbe , quarrel was amicably settied, .The--difficulty arose out of satirical 'articles contributed to a Springfield newspaper by Miss Mary Todd, then engaged to CoinM 1 1. STALE i t CO Llncon
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