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WILKESBOftO. H; O.
01dEnglish names are . frequent
enough in Winthropi"Ma.pj3o'thatron
three stores side by side appear Ing
ham, Oldham and 'l5illingaam. The
neighbors craok jokes because tnere
isn't a ham in either store.
One man in Chester, England, has
been before the police jastioes 130
times for drunkenness or assault; his
father was up thirty-five times, one
Bister sixty-seven and another twenty
nine. --The cost of - prosecuting the
family and keeping " in prison has
been over $10,000-
Cuba's sugar crop and her tobacco
crop are failures this year, more's the
pity, exclaims the New York Herald,
She sella us $10,000,000 worth. It
doesn't look as though Spain could get
any taxes out of her for some time to
come. There ' isn't any blood in a
stone, and there isn't any money in
Cuba. "
The Japan Gazette says that the
Kissa Emigration Company contem
plate?" sending 20,000 emigrants to
Brazil, who will be chiefly employed
in the coffee districts. It is estimated
that if the project" proves successful
this first draft of Japanese emigrants
to Brazil will be followed by many
others, and that the authorities of
Japan look with favor on the move
ment because it is calculate!! to relieve
the pressure of population in the
Mikako's empire.
According to a Copenhagen paper
the largest encyclopedia in the world
is the Buddhistic work "Tangym,"
which has been "from ancient times
preserved in several of the larger
Buddhistic cloisters. In comparison
to this book of refere nee the Encyclo
paedia Britannica itself sinks into in
significance, at least as regards size.
It consists of 225 volumes, each of
whish is two .feet high and six inches
thick. The 225 volumes weigh 3000
pounds, br twelve pounds a volume
rather heavy reading evenV for a
Buddhist priest. The original edition
seems to have been limited and com
paratively few copies still exist. One
of these is owned by the British Gov
ernment and another by the Russian.
The latest price noted is 7000 francs.
Here is ' something to alarm
"scorchers." In two or three cases
that recently occurred in Philadel
phia, the Ledger says, the doctors di
agnosed a derangement of the intes
tines, caused by bicycling, setting up
appendicitis, from which death result
ed. - It appears that the victims were.
young men who used their bicycles to
an excessive extent and took a wrong
position in riding them, bringing tho
abdomen down against the saddle, as
done in "scorching, " with the results
that the contents of that sensitive part
of the body were pus' ied out of posi
tion, complicated together and pound
ed into inflammation. Bat if riders
will sit upright, on their wheels and
keep their bodies in a normal position
it is believed that they will be in no
danger of appendicitis.
-i We have had, in the past five yearsj
a recrudescence of Columbus, of Na-V.
poleon and things Napoleonic ; now,
it appears, .there may be an infliction
of Robinson Crusoe. A learned so
ciety of London, England, has come
to the conclusion that readers of De
Foe's charming fiction have all along
been misled as to the island on which
their hero was landed when he experi
enced shipwreck, says the New York
Post. It has been hitherto assumed,
much to De Fe's discredit, that he
stole (or "appropriated") the story of
, one Alexander Selkirk, who passed
several years on the island of Juan
Fernandez, in the Pacific Ocean. But
-members of this society declare they
have discovered that the novelist did
nothr- steal his narrative at all ; and,
.moreover- that . ,i .a.: .
TtucAO UUC
original Robinson was wrecked lies
jiot in the Pacific Ocean but in the
. Atlantic , They are going to send out
: 7. an expedition next winter, as soon a
. iue Bio.j doocuu cioses, to ascertain
-'- I. n 3 ... . '
Deyonu mi. perau venture just where
r his island is located. In the interest
of all true narratives (of fiction), and
for the benefit of all lovers of Crusoe
it is to be hoped that their mission
will be a success. : " The true island,
they say, is situated somewhere on the
north coast of South America, not far
distant from the mouth of the Ori
noco ; for Crusoe . himself says in his
journal that the last, recorded obser
vation, taken just 'before his ship-'
wreck, "was in; latitude eleven dlgreef
riorth between the islands of Barba
dos and Trinidad. , :, .
- : Over $5,000,000 ifspenH yearly b;
Londoners on "row : ,
NAY ASK NO VOW.
Kay,, a;
dear hear!. Too lightly
no vow,
t 1 The Word "forever" iruiu -rWe
pledge eternlty-who In one day, .
Forg$teii, silence, mingle clay witn clayl
-How dV you know your eyes will always
i : sttlne I
With that glad welcome when they meet
with mine?
; How Oare I say this heart for. aye will swell
To answeryoursknowlnglts frailty well?
To-day I sees plighted troth and clasping
hands; r - 1
To-morrow, shattered faith and broken
binds. " - v
: Oh," pitiful for mortal llp to sw ear! ',
lore fitting this: unceasing fervent prayer ,
; That ur love's flower, escaping frost and
blight, , -
May bloom immortal, as we hope to-night!
Catharine Young Glen, in Century.
ANGELINE,S,t8RQUEATU.,
ANNIE HAMIXiTON DOSNBIiL.
IN'T it good? Take
the north side of
our well, ' an I
guess you won't
beat it for coldness
an relish any
wheres in this
country. No, this
ain't the poor
house that is to
say, not exactly,
though it's kind of
a blood relation to
it. Jotham an' I
take" the town
paupers to board.
We've done it so
constant now that it's give us the
name of fcein' the poor house, an' it's
a real cross to me. won s you lase
another glass?"
She J was tall and plnmp and com
fortable looking. Her calico sleeves,
rolled nigh, revealed a distinct divid
ing line between the fairness of the
upper arm and the tanned skin below.
Evidei tly she had many a time dug
the po atoes for her pot with her own
stout l ands. She nodded toward the
shady doorsteps.
'be
down," she urged cordially,
ook real tuckered oat. Ain't
You
it hard work turning them sranks up
hill an' down a hot day like this?"
The stranger laughed with easy
good Lumor. He looked up the long
dusty road, peering from under his
hand. It stretched away blank and
lonesome-looking, and he turned back
to war $ the pleasant, vine protected
steps relieved.
"I will sit down and rest a bit," he
said. "The other fellows are not in
Eight. I took a spurt on ahead and
left thpm loafing under a tree. You
don't mind my resting my wheel here
across kour poppies? It won't touch
.... '
em.
RVAoa wrtrt nr t Tint T mAca if Ml
be a new' experience to the poppies.
Bisickjes are scarce around here,
about as scarce as paupers are.'' They
sat down : together, and Mrs. Jotham
took bp "her berry-pan again. The
stranger, with his hands clasped
around one knee, tilted back and forth
gentlyj?
i 3carce, are they, round here ?" he
said. That's a good sign."
"Nt t for me an Jotham, it ain't
Yes, they're dreadful scarce this sea
son. Since old Uncle Elnathan died
an' Mis' Parkman got married, an'
Hester Ann fell heir to her uncle's
place an live stock, we've run real low
of paupers only her,' an she don't
know phe's a pauper." .
Mrs. Jotham's berry-reddened finger
pointed out a slender neat, little old
nay sailing m me ironi vara m a nign-
backed rocking-chair and knitting
something white and soft. She held
her stately little white-capped head
high and there were indefinable tokens
of gentle refinement about her every
where in her slender fingers,' her
laces at throat and wrists and the
poise of her little shapely head. She
nodded drowsily over her knitting.
"She don't know it,n Mrs. Jotham
said witn a little laugn tnat naa an
echo of good-hearted compassion in
it. The implied tenderness - of the
laught and the odd contrast of it with
tne i Diun, unsennmeniai general as
pect of Mrs. Jotham, made the
stranger on the lower step glance up
surprised.
."Sne doesn't know it?" he queried.
"No. Bless, you, she ain't so much
as a suspicion. , You see, she's only
been here a short spell, since the other
paupers went away all except Uncle
Elnathan, an she thought he was
hand to help J otham do the chores.
Jotham an' me's kind of hired hands
too, only a remove or- two higher up
tnan iioor uncle Jiiinatnan. sne
thinks." .
The stranger drew in bis breath in
a subdued whistle. He shifted his
T ositibn a little to tret a better view
of the little old gentlewoman through
the whitewashed pickets of" the front-
yard pence. She had let the knitting
slip out of her fingers, and her head
lav over on one shoulder.
tT,ell me the rest of it," the stranger
Jotham dropped the last berry
into her yellow nappy and got up
clumBily.
"You wait till I get these berries
set away down Bullar."she said. "Mis'
1 IAnKeflme,fl real particular to have me
set am down in the cool an in the
dark!" - .
r,Mis' Angeline?"
9 v.'Her." Mrs. Jotham nodded across
the jfence r. pickets. "Mis Angeline
Fair brothers. She was a f Peterson
from- over Bickford wav. i Married
SimionFairbrothers's oldest son. She's
"j:eaaiui particular with i me t some
nays." r ' v v
. JY. - Jotham sighed. , The sigh
echoed back fronf her retreating form
sook tne berries into the house
x recently sbe came "back. She had
vow i oi salt anrl n. Ilffla o,;...
uf! wants 1 ebld always eift the
: !aH rx said 9xplanatorily. ' 'She
won't I eat a mite of 5 salt; that. aint
sifted. - It takes quite a good deal of
time to sift it." ' r .
4 ? A pauper 2 Did you say she was a
pauper ?' - : - '
V: f'Bless you, yesl She ain't got a
red cent in the world, but she don't
know it." - -
Do you always sift salt for your
paupers?" The stranger's hands un
clasped and his leg fell limply.' He
looked up at Mrs. J otham in un
feigned amazement.
- "Bless you, no ! But I humor her.
Jotham sort of scolds me for it, but
his scoldin's ain't only skin-deep. He
humors her, too. He stan's a dread
ful lot of orderin' an' geein'. round to
humor her, an Jotham's a real inde
pendent man, too. He's dreadful
proud of ownin' this place an' keepin'
it up so nice an' neat. Mis Angeline
tries him a good deal. Her notions
of farmin dont just match Jotham's,
an' she makes it real kind of embarras
sin' sometimes. . ' -
"Generally Jotham can get along
all right without lettin Mis Angeline
know about everything. But I've
known Jotham to swaller some dread
ful big farmin' pills for Miss Angeline.
He planted the medder-patch to corn
this year, when he was all planned
to sow it to oats an' lay it down
next season, jest to humor her.
An' he fenced in the new
pasture with rails when he wanted to
make a barb-wire fence. He done
that to humor Mis Angeline. Jo
tham's bark's a good deal worse'n his
bite. Mrs. Jotham plunged the sifter
into the bowl and held it over the
blue-edged platter on her knee. The
stranger watched the fine snow gather
in a little drift under the sifter. He
waited impatiently for the rest of the
story.
"rihe was brought here to board
he town brought heran it pretty
- i at 1
near broKe ner nearc. one s reai
proud feehn'. She thought 'twould
kill her to go to the poor house, an' it
almost did. She took on so an'
grieved so it sent .her into a fever an'
she most died of it. When she come
out at last shewarn'i just herself."
Mrs. Jotham 'laid down the wire
strainer to touoh her own forehead
with explanatory significance. The
stranger bowed silently his recogni
tion of the explanation.
'She come to thmkm she owned
this place, every stick an' stoue on it,
an me an domain was runnin it ior
her hired out to her, you know.
She's thought bo ever since. We ain't
had the heert to undeceive her, poor
soul ! We'd ruther stan' a little or
derin an' geein'. She's real happy
an' contented, an she don't mean to
be too particular with us. It s only
special particular days she has to
day's one when it's kind of embar
lassin' for me an' for Jotham."
The bees bnzzed round the salt
bowl in evident anticipation of finding
it sugar. The stranger watched a
growing dust cloud down the road
materialize into a farm wagon, clat
tering past. He turned back to Mrs.
Jotham in undisguised relief.
"Tell me the rest of it," he said
again.
Up aoross the field toward the house
Jotham was walking wearily. He came
out and sat down on the lower step,
too, nodding sociably to the stranger.
Mrs, Jotham glanced up froxn hei sift
ing. "Tuckered out, Jotham? she said.
"Yes, I be; all creation tuckered!"
You got the dreen laid yet?"
Jotham shook his head dejectedly.
He followed his wife's glances aoross
the fence to Mis' Angelme s, involun
tarily. She was still dozing, and a
beam of sunlight had crept through
the syringa leaves and played over
her cheek. It cast little quivering
shadows of the leaves. Jotham looked
back, up at his wife, and their eyes
met.
'Well, that dreen's a good thing,
Hannah, he said reflectively. "It s
a good thing. Mis' Angeline done us
a good turn that time, orderin."
Another dnst cloud rose at the
road's vanishing point, and the stran
ger eyed it with increasing suspicion.
It took on greater proportions and
shot suddenly into a reality of two
men pedaling something along on
their.wheels. The stranger got up.
I'm much obliged," he said. "I've
been a good deal interested in your
boarder over there. Is there , any
more to the story ?"
"There am t any more to it, Mrs,
Jo than said simply. With a f aw more
polite words the stranger mounted his
maobme and went to meet nis friends.
He lifted his straw hat to Mis' Ange
line as he passed by her, though she
did not look up to notice the salute.
"Now, warn't that nice in him, Jo
tham,' Mrs. Jotham murmured ap
preciatively, "takin' all that pains to
please her? Home folks has plenty ol
the mice of human kindness m em.
and some is all dried up. That young.
man's one of the juicy kind."
i They watched the bicycles glide
away out of i sight, and then -Mrs.
JothaL. went in to get Mis Angeline's
tea. - -
It. was two summers - afterward that
the same stranger asked for a drink of
water again at Mrs. Jotham's door.
He had noticed that there was no lit-J
tie, prim old lady setting beside the
syringas in the front yard. The whole
story came back to him at sight of the
housed and he was wondering where
she was. . t- ,.
-xs uuis ngeiine sick ne in
quired, the minute the door opened
and Mrs. Jotham stood in it. ;: She
looked at him in blank surprise. Then
her eyes caught the sun's glint on his
wneel, and she remembered.. . .
- "O, -' it's youJ" - she . said, re
lievedr xou : : ain't , forgot the
water out o' the - north side "of
our welU have you? It ain't the kind
of water to forget ! " I tell Jotham
"Is Mis. Angeline sick?' the Strang
er persisted, interrupting her gently
. "Mis Angdine's dead." Mrs. Jo
tham's rugged face suddenly softened.
Its lines melted imperceptibly and the
network of laughing wrinkles round-
her eyes melted, too. : -7 -. -1
"Mis' Angeline's dead," 1 she re-,
peated quietly. "Won't you set
down?
"Tell me the rest of it," the Strang-;
er said, dropping at her feet, on the
lower step. . .
"She s dead, tnavs about ail tnere
" ri t - fiiilin' i.Vit olnhrr laAt
fall an' winter, an come Marcn, tnere
warn't nothih' left,of her sparcely but
her" shadder. -She died the thir-1
teenth." . ' ' .. - ,
Mrs. Jotham looked over tne Strang-
r'fl head, away idto the -field wher d
'two or three new pauper recruits were
helping Jotham staoK up nay. rauej
did not speak for a while; then she
said: .
"At a quarter to five in the mornin
She went real easy an' happy. Along
about the middle or last of Feb'uiry
she was dreadful upset over mam
her will."
"derwill?" r
"res, it seemed to upset her a sight.
She didn't breathe real easy till 'twas
all over with. She kep' at Jotham
till he hitched up an' fetched over
Lawyer Higginbotham from Forks
Village, an' he fixed it up for her, est
to suit. He put in all the 'whereases
an' 'aforesaide, too. Mis' Angeline
was dreattful pleased. You see, Law
yer Higtjinbotham understood how
'twas. Mrs. Jotham toucned ner lore
head in unconscious' explanation of
how it was with Mis Angeline.
"After the will was made she failed
up fast, and breathed her last the loth
of March, at a quarter to hve.
During the pause ensuing the beer
buzzed insistently among the syr
ingas, and the voices of Jotham and
the paupers drifted over to them soft
ened and mellow. The stranger un
til ted his machine from its resting
place against the house and stood
leaning on its saddle.
"It must be a relief to yen, he
said, "not being ordered around in
your own house."
Mrs. Jotham s plump figure straight
ened and she spoke with unconscious
dignity. -
"vve miss Mis Angeline a slight,
Jotham an' me," she answered. "-
guess she liked us; we laid out to uso
her well. We humored her some."
A mist of sunshine, driting through
the 'mesh of thick-laced leaves over
head, alighted gently on Mrs. Joth
am's tight, faded hair. Somehow it did
not look out of place to Ithe stranger,
crowning, thoag'a it did, hsr sallow,
unbeautiful face, and contrasting with
it oddly.
"Mis Angelina left a bequeath.
she went on soberly. "rfhe left
Jotham an' me the place the farm an'
live stock an all. She made Jotham
her (administer." American Agri-t
cultnrist.
India's Hoard of Sp?cie.
For a long period of years India has
been characterized as a "sink hole2 of
the precious metals, or, in other
word?, there has been for many years
a continuous flow of the precious
metals gold ind silver into India,
where they have to a large extent dis
appeared, undoubtedly by burial un
der ground fo tbe purpose of hoard
ing and concealment. The motive
for this under the Mogul and native
rulers was unquestionably to escape
direct plunder or confiscation ; but
under British rule these hoards,
amounting unquestionably to many
hundreds of millions, are not taxed,
mainly by reason of their inaccessi
bility, and partly by the recognized
policy of the Government to avoid di
rect taxation of active capital, and en
courage, by making safe its employ
ment, the tendency of these buried
treasures to come to light and enter
into the channels of trade. And that
this policy has been a wise one is
shown by the fact that within recent
rears there has been an increasing dis
position on the part of the Indian
owners of concealed treasures espe
cially the Indian princes or rajahs to
withdraw them from their hoarding
places and invest them in Government
bonds or other desirable interest
bearing securities ; and in this way a
very great addition to the world's ac
tive stock, the money metals, may be
anticipated in the perhaps not distant
future. Appleton's Popular Science
Monthly.
Preserfiiig Flowers.
A florist of many years' experience
gives the following receipt for pre
serving bouquets : When you receive
a bouquet sprinkle it lightly with fresh
water ; then put it into a vessel con
taining Some soap sods, which nourish
the roots and keep the flowers as bright
as new. Take the bouquet out of the
suds every morning, and lay it side-
wavs in fresh water, the stock enter
ing first into the water; keep it there
a minute or two, then take it out and
sprinkle the flowers lightly by the
hand with pure water! Beplace t be
bouquet in'the soapsuds, and the flow
ers will doom as fresn as when nrst
gathered. The soapsuds need to bo
changed every third day. By observ
ing these rules, a bouquet can be kept
bright and beautiful for at least; one
month, and will last still longer in a
very passable state, but the attention
to the fair and frail creatures, as
directed above, must be strictly ob
served. Horsrs That Take Freqneut Baths..
. - The horses which are used on the
Kennebec ice fields are so accustomed
to dropping through the ice that they
don't seem to . mind it. They are
yanked out a little roughly, to be sure,
but they take their medicine like tho
chickens belonging to the family, that
was constantly moving which, every
time they saw a covered cart stop ia
front o tneir nouse, would turn on
their backs and stick their legs, into
the air to be tied together, ready for
transportation;- Portland (&Ie.) Press.
; HOUSEHOLD AFFAIBS;
. ' XiAtnTPBT CONVENIENCES. . .
Desirable conveniences to incorpor
ate in a laundry, particularly , where
one is building a new? house, is the
providing of a chute from the second
floor " down - to - the .lawndry, so that
soiled clothes can be dropped down
whenever a change of clothing or of
bedding is made. Such a chute may
well start from the bathroom bn the
second floor, if the situation is right.
Such a chute should open out of the
wall in the bathroom or other room on
the second floor. Where the laundry
is in the basement and the china closet
is in a position to make this possible,
a small chute may also extend from
the interior of the closet to the laun
dry for the. easv disposition of all
soiled table linen and other soiled ar
ticles on the first floor. Another laun
dry convenience is a rack to be placed
against the wall, with lon hooks for
hanging up pails and mop cloths. The
bottom of the rack should have a zinc
or galvanized iron pan the length of
the rack and shallow, tocatch all drip
from 'mops or pails. The laundry
should also have a small closet where
soap, washing powders, etc., maybe
kept. As. to the floor of this room, it
is eafe to say that unless care can be
exercised to keep water from being
constantly spilled upon it, a hard wood
floor would better give place to one of
soft wood with joints kept constantly
full of paint. If it is to be hard wood,
then use a wood "filler' to fill the
grain, and keep the wood full of oil,
oiling it occasionally with raw linseed
oil and washing it when necessary
with kerosene. New England Home
stead. HOW TO MEND KITCHEN UTENSILS.
It sometimes happens that a granite
saucepan or chafing dish gets a fall,
and in this fall a bit of the granite
enamel is loosened and finally peels
off. The dish is of little value, for a
hole will soon ensue. Granite is sup
posed to.be unmendable, but we have
proved that it can be mended. If the
granite is not weakened all around
the hole, a copper rivet, such as is
Used by harness makers, may be used
to fill up the break. There are dif
ferent sizes of the rivets they come
with a small head, something like car
pet tacks. The rivet proper is slipped
tbrougu the hole in the granite, and
then over the end that passes through
i slipped a copper washer (which
comes with the rivet), then with a few
taps of a tack hammer the rivet is
flattened down on the washer. This
effectually mends the break in the
granite, and makes it practically as
good as new.
If only a very small hole is found a
bit of copper wire is used to mend it.
The wire is slipped through the hole,
after being cut the right length, and
then with-a taok hammer it is flattened
on both sides of the granite vessel
which is being operated upon.
The process is so simple that oven a
woman is doing "light housekeeping"
need not fear to undertake it, provid
ing she can strike a straight blow with
a hammer, which women are not sup
posed capable of doing, though it may
be among the new women there may
be found a few who can do this. The
only thing to be avoided is striking
promiscuously upon the. granite sur
face, and so scaling more of the en
amel off. The mending is almost as
simple as the old method of putting a
rag into a hole to mend it.
It once happened that a high wind
played havoc with a paper tub, and,
after rolling it around promiscuously,
it threw it against a stone and virtu
ally wreoked it iorever. It also hap
pened that the tub belonged to a wo
man who had some original ideas, acd
she straightway went to work to dem
onstrate that, although ventilated, it
was not wholly beyond repair.
First she secured some putty and
put this over the hole and? smoothed
it down carefully until it was about
the same thickness as the papier mac he
itself of which the tub was made, etc.
In case of an article needed for such
use it might be well to paint it all
over, and then it might be decorated
if desired. I have seen this paperware
decorated with nasturtiums, and it
really looked pretty. An occasional
ooat of paint would be a good deal
toward making such utensils lasting.
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
EKCIPES.
Broiled Chops Put the chops in a
double broiler and broil over or be
fore the tire for eight or teu minutes.
Serve in a hot dish with one-quarter
teaspoonful of butter and a small -pinch
of salt for each chop after they
are cooked. The fire for chops should
not be as hot as for steak, i Turn sev
eral times while cooking.
Cream of Beet Soup Four bunches
of blood beets ; pare, then grate and
strain through a cloth. .Put on the
fire and let soald. Let one pint of
milk come to a boil and add it to tho
hot juice ; one saltspoon of salt ; cream
two - tablespoons of sifted flour with
two "of butter and stir them slowly
into the soup and continue stirring un?
til the mixture is thick as a rich cream.
Add a sprinkle of black Of red pepper
as preferred. -
Peas Peas should be cooked in boil
ing, fresh water, enough to coyer them
well, and not be dished until perfectly
tender. It is .impossible to give an
exact time for cooking, as the younger
'and more freshly: gathered the more
-quickly theywill cook; from ,forty
minutes to an hour and a half will be
needed, according to 6ize and fresh
ness. , When tender drain off all the .
water, add one-half teaspoenful of salt'
and a tablespoonful of melted butter
to a pint of. peas and serve tin a hot
covered dish. , - ? -
A bust of Victor Hugo; was recently
seized .at Prague, Austria, by. the
custom house officials. Inside -N the
were found a number of- anarch 4
ist writings. v w .y r - '7 i
Drug
Store,
Wilkesboro, N. C.
Keep on hand a full line of Fresh
Drug, Medicines, Oils, Paints
Varniihee and Everything kpt in
a First-Olasa Drug Store.
Carefnlly
Store in the Old Steve Johnson
Building, just opposite the Court
House.
Be Sure to Call ai ges Them.
R. H. STALEY & CO.,
DEALER IN-
DRUGS,
PATENT MEDICENES,
TOBACCO, CIGARS,
Cigarettes, Fancy and
Toilet Soaps, etc., etc.
Prescriptions promptly .ad acour
filled. Situated in the Brick
Hotel Building.
LIVERY & FEED STABLES,
ft. C. WELLBORN. PROP-
Situated on Main 8tret, eait of tht
Court House. Good horses aBd new ve
hicles of all kinds riidv for the accom
modation of the traveling public. Horse
carefully fed and attended to. Gira
us a trial and see how we feed.
A .C. WELLBOliN,
Wilkesboro, - North Carolina.
R, N. HACKETT,
Attorneys at Law.
WILKESBORO, N. 0.
Will practice in the State and Federal
Oonrta. : - - : v .--. " ' ,
IOAAC C. WELLBORN,
Attorney - at - Law,
Will practice in all the court. Dealer
la real estate, frompt attention paid to
collection of claims.
T. B. FnoBT.
H. L. Gbxxxs.
r milk. i a unLuiL,
Attorney - at- - Law,
WILKESBORO, N. 0.
Will practice in all the courts. Col
lections a specialty. , Seal estate told on
MsnxniMion.
Why a Cat Falls on his eet
; An experimenter . recently ..undertook'
to discover why a "cat invariably 1VII
on its feet. lie finds that a cat always
falls on its feet, providing it has a dis
tance of a yard to fall in and enable it
to make a half turn in the air, so as to
get' its ; feet undsrmost. It holds It.
paw4 vertically and manages to riv
serve this position during thej rest o ir
Ito -foil in cnin if -tYtd IniHfil mnvomprf
of rotation taken . by its body. TIi
mechanical ekplaation is simplj7 tha t
the animal, by thrusting, forward its
left4jmb, shifts the center of gravity o'Z
the whole lody so as to malice it revolv;'
upon the axis Of the piue until the feet
reach the ground. Moreover, a cat doo v
not hurt itself by a fall .from 'a-height,
not only because it invariably falls on
Its feet, but because tne structure o
a cats back -and iapine Is extremely flex
ible. 'The. muscles of its legs also arc
extraordinarily strong and numerous
and, further, it has elastic rads ;
cushions consisting of : a mass of
fibrous tissue and fat on all its feet,
seven in each f orepaw and fiveTrTeach
hindpaw. ;. : 7 ' . . '
Worth't Predecessor, j
The first man who made a name as
a woman's dressmaker was Rhomberg,
the son of a Bavarian peasant from the
neighborhood of Munich. One day in
1730 a beautiful carriage appeared on
the boulevards of Paris with an es
cutcheon In the shape of a pair of cor
sets and an open pair of scissors paint
d on the pahel of each door. This was
Rhomberg's coat of arms. He owed his
jing 'and remedying : defects of "figure.
:He left an annual income of $1,000 a
year to Ids heirs."
: IkjduiiOb in procrastination, and in
time you will come to this that, be
cause a thing ought to be done, there
BerryBros.,
Prescriptions
Pompounflefl
fore you can't do it