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SI M01CL WILKESBORO, N. O. The coal-mining industry of Great Britain has seldom had a mere unsatis factory year than 1895 proved to be. It is said that in the event of war between England and Veneznela, 100,- IWO Ttviiiona inin the latter www -im. ------- - - WW &.. country. Since 1875 the marriage rate in Ber lin has decreased from 30.6 to 20.3 per thousand. At that rate there would be no marriages at fill forty years hence. The famous Russian artift Verest - schagin advises the people of Moscow to build all their houses on distinc tively Ku3sian styles of architecture. He says that it wauld give the city an original aspect, and attract thousands of tourists, with the accompanying profits. - - A heated controversy is now in pro gress between St. Paul and Minneapo lis, as to which eats the most mutton. St. ' Paul claims that she consumes twice as many sheep as her sister city, and Minneapolis claims that the sheep consumed in St. Paul are very small, and although she may consume a greater number of muttons that they are" so small as to cause Minneapolis to lead in pounds ot mutton. The Scottish Farmer says that har ness horses are so scarce in that coun try that they must come to America to have their needs supplied. Not find ing what they wish, they take back the best available, which is to their loss and ours. The French are buying their light cab horses from us, which they formerly obtained from Germany. They colatend that they can buy their cheap horses cheaper than they can raise them. A greater number of suicides was committed in Ne w York last year than in any other city in the world. The list of suicides for the year comprises 458 victims, taken from all walks of life, and varying in age from children of less than fifteen years to men and women nearly ninety years old. This list is the largest on record in New York, although the percentage of suicides to the entire population is lower than on some previous years. During 1895 just closed the Utica (N. Y.) Herald tried to keep a record of all people reported to have died in the United States at the age of 100 years or over. The total reported was curiously enough, pays the Herald, just 100. Two-thirds of those x were women, all but four being white wo men. Of the colored centenarians there were thirteen men. The oldest person to die was a colored man, who was 125. A white man died t St. Louis who had claimed to be 140, but there was no proof that he was over 121. Even at that age, however, he was the oldest white man to die during 1895. The oldest white woman was 120. Ihere -ere fourteen people whose ages ranared from 110 to 125. The New York Tribune says': Some little time ago a famous firm of; Lon don solicitors found it necessary, in a case involving large interests, to have , some detective work of a difiicult and delicate nature done in this city, and instead of employing the regular agen cies put it in the hands of an American women of good social standing in pri- . vate life.r She undertook the task, and has been so completely successful in the performance of it that the firm employing her has not only thanked her, but sent her a check for a hand- ... some sum. - The employment of women of education and position for delicate I work has become common in England, j but thus far few women have been so J employed in this country. If they go into the business,. however, it is pretty J safe to say that they will succeed in it. romVlennaconaes the news ol a Wonderful discovery in photographic science. It is no less than a means of photographing the interior of solid, , Opaque bodies. By the new system . the bones of a man's hand were per fectly photographed, the flesh being ; invisible in the picture. Broken limbs and. bullets in human bodies were also successfully revealed, as well . as ob jects placed in a wooden box. : Pro fessor Routgen, , of the University of Wurzburgv as the inventor, v The light he uses to pbotogroph by is produced ; what is known as a Crooke's pipe, vlzt a vacuum glass tube with an induction (electric current - passing through it. The result is a light that appears to penetrate organic substances Just as ordinary light passes through glass. The inventor throws open a wide field for: the; deduction of new truths . in electricity andoptics. : : . ; - ; h, sprin time, O the spring time ' bo does not know It well? . - : Whin the Uttle birds begin to build, ILd the little buds begin to swell. Whin the sun with the clouds plays hide-and-seek, ; A id the lambs are bucking and bleating. Ijxc the color mounts to the maiden's cheek, A id the euekoo scatters greeting'. In, the spring time, joyous spring time! The summer, O the summer! r Who does not know it well? Wh :n the ringdoves coo the long day through And the bee" refills his cell. When the swish of the mower is heard at morn. And we all i a the woods go roaming, And. waiting is over, and love is born. And shy lips meet in the gloaming, In the summer, ripening summer! Alfred Austin. WOU.RALL A TALE OP BRITISH GUIANA. "ERT well, you fellows can believe it or not as you like," said Mackay, "but I tell you that for a day and a night, I have known what it is to be dead. " "Oh, come, Mac, that's too much. The Major has given some pretty tall ones, but we can't quite swallow that." ("Perhaps," suggested the Major, "Mackay refers to a state of aloholio saturation. I have heard " rOh, all right," said Mackay. "Only you said it was my turn for a yarn ; but of course if " "Fire away, Mao; never mind the .M ijor ; he s an unbelieving ehap when his own tales are bested. We'll believe you. Observe the childlike innocence of our countenance." ("Very well then, you shall have the yarn. J4 'It happened out in British Guiana. Phil Egerton and I had been knocking about that district in- a yacht. Phil was a bit of a scientist ; had dabbled in! the ologies when he was at Oxford, aud he found something to interest nim ig the shallow waters round the coast. The buckets of mud and slimy things he fished up weren't very ex citing for me, so I put in a good deal of time hanging round the billiard rooms of Georgetown. J "I don't think I could mention the place that I've spent more than a month in without contriving to make a jf ool of myself over some. girl. She was a waitress this time, and, by ."ove ! she was pretty. We called her 'The Queen,' and I never knew her by any other name. What nationality she belonged to I can't tell you. I t&ink she had a dash of most of them in her, but English, Spanish and In dian were perhaps the most prominent -j-English in business, Spanish in love, but pure undiluted Indian in hate. It was a dangerous mixture, b'ut you've no notion how fascinating. I wasn't by any means the only fellow who succumbed lo her charms, but I believe I was the only one she cared a fig about. You'll admit that the posi tion had its dancers. Of course I knew perfectly well that I was making an ass of myself, but I couldn't help ii. The only thing for me to do was to bolt. If 1 stayed another week I should marry her, and then there'd be the deuce to pay. j ' 'Look here, Egerton,' I said one night ; 'you've got to take me away from here. Leave those confounded weeds of yours and let's weigh anchor and be off.' I "'What's the matter, Mao?' said Egerton. 'Got the fidgets? I'm sorry, old man, but I've discovered a new species among these said weeds, and I want to work it up. " Well, Phil, my boy, if you won t eave, you'll have to be my best man, ;hat's all. "That frightened him a bit. I told him the whole story, and he saw there was no time to be lost if I was to be saved. Phil Egerton knew me pretty well in those days. " 'I'll tell you what we'll do, Mac he said. 'You know Wilson, the sugar- lanter. ae tens me mere is some apital shooting to be had in the in nor; any amount oi Diras ana a hance at a stray jaguar or two. He's omg to have a month of it, and has sked me to join him. We can take the yacht's boat and go up the Dem- erara until we strike the woods. What do you say ?' " 'Anything you like, so long as you get me out of this mess. "We went in the morning and saw Wilson about it. fie was delighted, ana saia ne wouia start as soon as we could get ready.; , "Of ccfurse any sensible man in my position would have had the common prudence to employ the. intervening time in cleaning his guns and looking out various odds and ends for the ex pedition, but as I tell you, where women are concerned I'm not to be counted in the class of sensible men. I went to see The Queen, and naturally she wormed the whole thing out of me. . v . . "Phil,' I -said, when I got back, if we can't start to-morrow we needn't go at all. It would spoil the party if 1 took a wife with me. . . r " 'We'll start to-night if you like, 'Mao. I'm ready; and if Wilson isn't, the can follow us. But what's the hurry ? You haven't told her you're l going, have you T j ' v ! r ' Yes,V I have, and that's why it l won't do lor me to stay -here longer. ; " 'Well, Mac, of all the thundering r idiots it has ; been my privilege, to know, I do think you're about the big ' gest. Why on earth couldn't you : vanish s quietly tnd leave her to. find out about, it afterwards?' M meant to, but when I started talking to her, out it all came.' --. i 'What possessed you to go there ).v .... w w J f . . :v- j i.' ' ..... Oh, ebm, Phil, fct; xtaionfthlt. Ton couldn't have kept away yonxwlf, if you'd been in my Plaoe 'You had a scene, I suppose?' ' 'Well, slightly,. She accused me of 'wanting to get rid of her, trying to run away, in act ; and as it was per fectly true, I fancy I didn't show up very well "in the argument that fol lowed.' - "Oh, you great bearded infant; put your hat on and we'll go and see Wilson at once.J "We sWted next morning. I was feeling a bit hipped, of course, but the others were jolly enough. As I think I told you, Phil had a weakness for pottering about in scientific messes, and he found a kindred spirit in Wilson, whose hobby was birds. It was really to get some specimens that be had originally proposed this expe dition. " 'By the way, Wilson,' said Phil have you ever managed to get hold of any curare? "Curare?' said Wilson. kl don't know what it is; what is it?' " 'Probably it has got some other name out here. We called it curare in Oxford Indian arrow poison, you know. " 'Oh I you mean '"wourali." No, I can't say I have, and I don't think I want to, either. It isn't a very safe plaything.' " 'Safe enough, said Phil, 'so long as you haven t any cuts or scratches on your hands.' " 'For heaven s sake, shut up that scientific shop 1' I exclaimed. 'We've come out here to enjoy ourselves, not to talk like a confounded British As sociation meeting. 'Poor old Mao 1' said Phil, 3'what shall we talk about? Will billiards do or waitresses? "Drop it, Phil,' I said; 1 don't want to be & bear, but your jargon isn't very interesting to a chap who hardly knows an ology from an ism. Let's have something to eat.' 'We found a shady spot under some bushes to have our meal in. We were just lighting up afterwards, and I was holding the match to my pipe when something flashed out of the bushes and knocked the pipe out of my mouth. " 'What's that? said Phil, starting op. " 'It's a dagger,' I said. 'Just see what's behind those bushes, you chaps, while I tie my handkerchief around this hand. I've got a bit of a scratch. If it's "The Queen," let her go. Thank goodness she missed my face. f'It was 'The Queen.' They saught sight of her among the bushes, but she got away all right. They didn't fol low her far, but came back to see if I was much hurt. ' 'It's nothing serious, I said ; 'only a scratch, but I think my nerves must be a bit upset. It has made me feel horribly tired. I'll go and lie down in the boat for a while, and let you fel lows finish your smoke. I've got a bit of a head.' ' 'Mackay, you're crying,' exclaimed Wilson, 'and the sweat is simply pour ing down your face. You re pretty badly hurt. , "'Crying!' shouted jfnii. 'Wilson, that dagger is poisoned ! " 'Poisoned? You don t mean " 'Yes, I do. It's "wouralia;" copi ous secretion of sweat and tearsj, head ache, feeling ot extreme lassituae those are the exact symptoms. Off with that bandage, Mac "Good heavens I he's done for,' said Wilson. . " 'Done for? Not a bit of it. Off with that bandage ; I'm going to suck the wound !' "I had just got energy enough left to protest against his doing this, but he insisted, and I was too feeble to prevent him. " 'Nonsense, man, he said; 'I'm sate enough. The stuff isn't a poison taken internally, even if I do manage to swallow some.' - "He put his lips to the wound, and then I closed my eyes and everything became blank. "It must have been hours afterward that I began to regain, I can't say consciousness, but an indefinite sen sation of existence and horrible weariness. It seemed to me that I was swimming on and-on. somewhere in. a vague, purposeless way and I was very, very tired. I called it. swim ming, but that isn't an exaot descrip tion. I could feel my arms . moving back and fore with a steady rhythmi cal' motion, but the rest of my body was absolutely still. I was almost suf focating for want of air, but 1 didn't, seem to have strength to gasp. How long that sensation lasted I can't say, but it must have been a very long time. 1 wouldn't voluntarily go through another hour of such unutter able and helpless misery for anything you could offer me. I tell you it has given me my theory of what future punishment may be like. "As consciousness gradually re turned, the feeling of infinite weari ness became more and more unbeara ble. My arms were; still swinging backwards and forwards like a couple of animated pump handles and I was quite unable either te stop .them or to move any other part of my body. Try and imagine the sensation; it was simply awfuL "When I did finally come to myself so far as to know what was going on, I did it pretty thoroughly. You know the theory that when a man loses the use of his eyes, his senses of touch and hearing became unusually acoute? From my experience that 4day I can quite believe it. I had lost all power o f mott'oh, and my perceptive facul ties became, to compensate, most un comfortably keen. . I felt as though; I could almost 4 see through my closed eyelids. - "Phil-told me afterwards that the peculiarity o f ' wourali ? poisonin g is that if the dose is not very large, only the nerves of motion are paralyzed, while those of - sensation' become ab- ' normally sensitive.; I knew, everything that was going oa around:i me, and I. could hear every irord they said, but I couldn't even-wink to let them know I was alive. '; : 0 fit's - They had stuck a knife handle be tween my teeth to i keep my mouth open, and the weariness in my arms was caused by the fact that for nearly' a day And a night Phil and Wilson had been taking it in turns to practice artificial respiration on me. " 'Egerton, I heard Wilson say. 'do you think it's any good going on longer? He hasn't breathed now for nearly twenty-four hours. I believe he's dead.' '"We'll go On as long as we can stand 1 said Phil, and I blessed him for it. 'If we can only keep the arti ficial respiration going till the poison is eliminated, he will recover. For God's sake; keep it up as long as you can, Wilson. " 'If you think there is the slightest chance of saving him, 111 go on ; but I don't think I can last out much longer.' " 'He's still warm, Wilson, and I won't give, up hope as long as -that is-so.' , "That was a'nice cheerful conversa tion to overhear, wasn't it? Listeners never hear good of themselves it is said, but I doubt whether the most persistent eavesdropper ever had the pleasure of hearing a man pronounce him dead, without being able to con tradict the statement. If I hadn't begun to breath spontaneously pretty soon after that, I should never have had the opportunity of contradicting it.4 Phil and Wilson couldn't have gone on much longer. How they kept it up for the length of time they did I have never been able to understand. The power of friendship is very much underrated. "It must have been about two hours after Wilson had decided that I was dead, that Phil saw my eyelids begin to twitch. , "'At last, Wilson!' he cried. 'Go and get some water from the river.' "They dashed the cold water over me, and it caused me to gasp slightly. They carried me to the boat, and as soon as they saw the danger was over, they, both of them, sat down on the bottom boards and fell fast asleep. In a very few minutes after them, I was asleep too. "Nearly fifteen hours after that, I woke, feeling rather weak and faint, but otherwise as right as a trivet. The other two were still asleep, and I didn't wake them. f "That is the story, and I don't think I was guilty of an exaggeration when I told you that for a day and a night I had known what death was. A man who remains for twenty-four hours without drawing a breath may fairly claim to be dead, I think." Cham bers's Journal. The Deadly tirape Seed. The grape seed, having been relieved of the charge of causing appendicitis, seems to have taken a new tack and is trying to do its mischievous work in another fashion. An official of a New Jersey county is iii a critical-condition from the ef fects, it is said, of a grade seed. He ate some grapes and took great care not to swallow the seeds, but by eome accident managed to inhale one, which lodged in the upper portion of his lungs. Himself a physician, he real ized the necessity for care and rest, and supposed he had given the seed ample time to become encysted, which however was not the case. There are a number of cases on rec ord where small articles of various sorts have been drawn into the lungs with the breath. In several instanoes irritation had begun that ended in death. Sometimes, though, the article becomes coated with exadations from the surrounding surface and is gradu ally covered up, foxming a lump that one may carry through the remainder of life without serious injury. Post mortem examinations have disclosed several of these cysts which had noth ing to. do with the death of the subject. New York Ledger. A Great Dog-. . 'That pointer of mine is a great dog," declared Howard Vernon, as he petted his $1000 dog Glenbeigh. "I can always depend; on him. When he makes a point I know that he has scented a bird andi know that he will not move a muscle while ' I have a chanoe at that bird. "I was hunting quail up at Point Beys last month when I lost Glenbeigh. I knew he must be pointing in the brush somewhere, but I looked every where for him and could not find him. The next day I resumed the ' search, with no better success, but on the third day I found him in a dense thioket, standing perfectly rigid, with bis tail sticking straight out behind and one foot up. A quail had ran in to a hollow tree, and the dog stood at the opening pointing. The quail dared not come out, and the' dog true to his training, wouldn't move. He had been standing in that position, without so much as moving a foot, for sixty-five hours, add when I tried to lead him away he could not walk." San Francisco Post; Bailway Travel in Africa. Discontented passengers by the London, Chatham, and Dover should try South Africa. . A pathetic story comes from the Transvaal of traveler who, at Kaapmuider, asked a railway offioial to direct him to a train for Barberton. He was shown into the down Delagoa train, and at ' Hector spruit was fined -5 for traveling to a place other i than i that mentioned on his ticket. 'Next day hie went back to Kaapmuider, inquired of another offi cial, and found the right train. Bu his . welcome at Barberton . was no warmer, than that at Hectorspruit. The authorities promptly fined, him another $5 for traveling with a ticket of the previous day. London Realm. - v TTI31S TTOBDS. .j... C Society is human nature at its best. The way to get happiness is to give a" VtV, ' , Only those who love souls can lean how to win them. . A negative sinner is as sure to bo lost as a positive one. The slave is no less a slave whose chain is made of gold. The grateful heart has music in it that angels cannot sing. There is no greater commandment than "love one another." Toliave no aim in life is to sooner or later all into the ditch. A fool learns from no one. A wise man learns from everybody. Joy has a new meaning when we, have learned what sadness is. ' No man can be : made rich whose happiness depends on money. It is hard to believe thatfa sin will bite if it has gold in its teeth. The day is coming when the man who gives little will feel little. Keep out of the crowd when vul garity passes for wit and humor. k What a mistake, to think we can be-, come rich by keeping all we get. A word to the wise is enough, when it happens to be the right word. Contentment is an angel who teaches us how to be rich without money. It costs a great deal more to be proud than it does to be generous. It is the same man who sows the wild oats who has to reap the crop. The man who minds his own busi ness will always have something to do. ! The self-made man is always find ing new ways to show that he is proud of his job. When the wolf puts on sheep's clothing, he is pretty sure to have mutton for dinner. No rich man was ever happy unless he tised a part of his money to make others so. Barn's Horn. 5 General Grant was Clubbed Once upon a time General Grant was beaten. He was beaten in less than half a minute, and he made no attempt to fight back. Jacob Biis tells the sto ry in the New York World. When it happened he was a reporter at Police Headquarters for the Associated Press. '"The Masonic Temple was on fire," said Mr. Biis. ."The temple is on the corner of Twenty-third street and Sixth avenue, and the fire happened more than ten years ago. The fire lines were formed, snow was falling and, the police were out of temper. Along from the Fifth Avenue Hotel there came a small man, with his hands in his pockets and a big cigar sticking out of the corner of his mouth. He did not notice the fire lines or anything, but walked straight ahead with his head down. He ran into the arms of a big policeman who had tired himself pushing people back. 'Blank, blank, blank J' said the police man, 'do you take me for a wooden Indian?' Without waiting for ,an answer, he policeman seized the small man by the collar and, with a few more blanks, brought his club with a loud whack across the small man's back. The small man said not a word, barely looked up and resumed his walk, with his hands' still in his pockets, I said to T,he policeman, whom I knew r 'Great neavens, man! do you know what you've done? Do you know who that was you clubbed?' 'Naw,' said the, policeman, 'I don't.' 'Well,' I said, 'it's General Grant, and his face fell almost a foot." About flags. Here are ten interesting facts about flags: 1. To "strike the flag is to lower the National colors in token of sub mission. 2. Flags are used as the symbol of rank and command, the officers using them being called Flag-Officers. Such flags are square, to distinguish them from other banners. '3. A "flag of truce" is a white flag, displayed to an enemy to indicate a' desire for parley or consultation. 4. The white flag is the sign of peace. After a battle, parties from both sides often go out to the field to rescue the wounded or bury the dead under protection of the white flag. 5. The red flag is. the sign of de fiance, and is often used by revolution ists. In our service it is a mark of danger, and shows a vessel to be re ceiving or discharging her powder. 6. The black flag is a sign of piracy. 7. The yellow 'flag shows a vessel to be in quarantine, or is a sign of a con tagious disease. ; 8. Aflag at half-mast means mourn ing. Fishing and other vessels return with a flag at half-mast to announce the loss or death of some of them. - 9. Dipping the flag is lowering it slightly and then hoisting it again to salute a vessel or fort. 10. If the President of the United States goes afloat, the American! flag is carried in the bow of . his V barge or hoisted at the main of the vessel . on ooard of whioh,he.-is. T-National Tri bune Library. - ! v! Talne Per Acre of Farm Products Western farmers who are I looking for a new home in the. South -should remember that, according, to the of ficial reports of the Department of Agriculture, the value per acre of arm products raised in Florida is $12. Only two States in the Union (Massa chusetts and Bhode Island) make a etter showing. 1 Other Southern states rank as follows : South Carolina nd Mississippi, $10 ; Arkansas, $9. 66 ; Georgia, $9 ; Alabama, $7.50; North : Jarohxra, $7 ; ; Kentucky and Tennes see, $6 ; Virginia, $5. 50 ; West ' Vir ginia and Texas, $5. --Jacksonville (Fla.) Citizen.' - - - x ' Drug Store. TVilkesboro, N. C. Keep on hand a full line of Fresh Drugs, j Medicines, Oils, Paints, ' Varnishes and Everything kpk in a First-Glass Drug Store.. Frescriptions Carefully .' Coipaiiei. Store in the Old Steve Johnson Building, just opposite the Court House. ' . . '" . ' , '' Be Sure to Call and See Them. 1 1. STALEY & CO, DEALEB IN DyGS5 PATENT MEDICENES, . - , X TOBACCO, CIGARS, Cigarettes; Fancy, and . '.- . Toilet Soaps, etc., etc. Prescriptions promptly and accur ately filled. Situated in the Brick Hotel Building. ; 2 ... . , .. . " LIVERY & FEED STABLES, ft. C-.WELLBORN. PROP- Situated on Main 8treet, east of tb Court House. Good horses asd new ve- uivivV ui ail m.a.uuo jiuj a ui but? awua i modation of the traveling public. BDrsei carefully fed and attended j to. Gin us a trial and see how we feed. -OL .J. ff M J 1 J m Wilkesboro, North Carolina R, . HACKETT, Attorneys at Law, WILKESBORO, ,N. C. Will practice in the Stat and Feder! Courts.: '-. -, i r- 1 v; ISAAC C. WELLBORN, Attorney, - at - Law, Will practice In all the courts. Deslei in real estate. Prompt attention paid to collection of clairna. - , T. B. FnrLBT. H. L. GnxKim FINLEY & GREENE, Attorneyo - at - Law, WILKESBORO,' N. a Will practice in all the courts. Ool lectioni a specialty. Real estate sold on AM&xnission " How to Insure Longevity. Some curious ligures have lately been made, public by a celebrated Berlin physician, which seems to' point to the i.aci iuai ii a man wants to live long and preserve his hpalth nnd strength hf ftiicht trv ma men between the ages of 30 and 45 the death rate Is 27 per cent. Among mar ried' men between thesame ages it is. only 18 per cent For, forty-one bache lors who live to be 40 years of age, ser-enty-elght married men triumphantly arrive at the same period.. The difference gets all the more marked as time goes on. At 60 years of age there are only twenty-two bach elors to forty-eight married men; at 70 there are eleven bachelors to twenty seven who were married, and t by the time they reach 90 the " married men are. three to one, for there are nine of them to ev,ery three bachelors! t And yet, in the face of facts like. "fhio' XXTCk cMll flnrt vvr Ani-X-ncr tn VO- 7 ' - m--m. V &. gf ' main single! It really Is as much as their lives are worth; if they only come to think of It, lien may talk of their lives being shortened by domestic, wor ries arid" anxieties and caresl That is all rubbish.' Statistics must tell the truth, and these statistics of the Berlin- doctor, say that the man who is a bachqlor stands in far greater risk of a shortened span. V An Indiana; Judge, in his address to the local Grand Jury' the other day, charged ihem to hear certain evidence "with aai unsparing haud. ; The tea plant may be grown anj where kn the Southern " States of tbl country. :
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