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TfiB CSB01CLE. TYILK&SBOItO. N. G . Train robbery Is punl$able by deattt 5a Arizona. The Supreme - Court baa st upheld the constitutionality ot the statute. - t; Li Hung Chang- is keeping a diary of his trip around the world. Whether the old diplomat will publish the re sult of his observations or not will probably be Bettled by the personage who manufactures the yellow jackets at Pekin. ' A New York young man has found it necessary to apply to the bourts for protection from a girl whoj is in lore with him and who pursues him with attentions, relates the Washington Star. This incident invests the "new woman" with augmented terrors. It was once said that .there was lit tie or no drunkenness in France, where the people 2 indulged freely in light wines, but such seem3 to be no longer the case. A man's temperance association has been established re cently in Paris, and there is declared to be great need for it. Says Harper's Weekly : It was re cently reported that the post of mili tary attache to the American Embassy to London was vacant, and had been of fered to three officers, all of whom have declined it on the ground that their salaries could not support the dignity of the job. It is a very pretty place, and one that has not been used to go begging. It calls for an officer of the rank of major, and gives him little to do except to look handsome and to adorn London society with his presence. He is entitled to wear the most decorative clothes of any one connected with the embassy. When he rides out with the Embassador he goes on the front seat inside, and not on the box seat with the coachman, as ill-informed persons have erroneously supposed. Opportunities to meet folks that really are folks come to him daily. He dines out nearly every night, and seldom is at loss for a hearty meal of nourishing food. His chief expenses are for lodgings and cab hire, but the hesitation of worthy officers to, accept the place indicates that even those . expenses may be too considerable. The real trouble must be that the majors in Uncle Sam's army are middle-aged men with fami lies, and a salary that might maintain the attache himself well enough in London will not also maintain his family, either at home in his absence or with him abroad. If lieutenants had rank enough for the place, it would probably be easy to keep it filled with young unmarried offioers of the requisite stature and comeliness. A very curious state of affairs is re ported from France, where the popu lation! which has been decreasing for Eome time, is growing at an alarmingly feeble rate. Fot eome time the de crease among the French has been a cause of comment among European economist?, but in most cases it has been ascribed to the tremendous de struction among the men who, during the Prussian war, were just entering upon the middle years of manhood. This excuse can be used no longer, and it vis noted with mortification among the French leaders that the present trifling increase in the popu lation is due chiefly to the immigra tion of people from other Nations.. The wisest observers of the situation claim to have found the reason fdr this sudden arrest inNationai growth, and their explanation is both plausi ble and an important object lesson for people of other lands. It is pointed out that the increase of taxation in France to keep no the burden of the 'National debt has been such that peo ple who, some years ago, were per fectly willing to assume the respon sibility of supporting a household are now afraid to make the venture. The French peasant is proverbial! thriftv. - - W Abd One Of the P.hinf nni nt Uim is to supply has children with enough v m UIO means upon which to make aresoecta- hie start in life. If he cannot support a family and leave it in comparatively :CO0J w . w rwwa uaio no family to support. Me would rather foreero the attempt to keep up a house hold if he believes that possibly his Attempt may bo a failure. This fact in - now offered in explanation of the ' mofir alila failinar off in the growth "of ' French population, and the Chicago TWAd maintains "it is a plausible nu..n ntA ha no better proof one. . . . , Of ine lnumave ""'w- National legislation bears to Jndivid-. of the intimate reiaummii' v,vnfLinrnflterifcy. The laws ual and National prospev. ----trhich oppress the people of a Nation hi,rt it physically- jnsfc as, surely ihy.fcuxt is Dflu'v THE " PLOW, ' Our youth all to the city fly jAnd leave the country bare; They like to view a murky sky, jTo breathe a smoky atr. The flowers, the grass, the rippling ,rain, j The bird upon the bough, Have lost their charms.' an d in the rain I Bust gathers on the plow. t! hard v toil -which blessinsrs won Our fathers tilled the field, F -om rising to the setting sun The golden grain to yield; T 16 work was then the work of mai And not contemned as now; N r fortune scorned the ancient plan To sow and reap and plow. Time wa s 'twas In our fathers time, f (History tells the tale How men did rise to heights sublime Who worked with spade and flail; With manly pride they tilled the land - With sweat upon the brow; ' . N r did old Scotia's minstrel grand Despise to hold the plow. O ir mothers' tastes now girls admit These times would not become; T ley loved to spin and sew and knit, With care to make a home. Where pease and sweet contentment did dwell, With love to cheer their lot; A nbition rarely called to teli i His dreams within the cot. ; T lose days are past a sickly change Subjects the heart and mind; T 5ward a feebler race we range, A race more dull and blind; On, for those simple days again, When humble faith did bow T God and nobleness and man Took piide to hold the plow. -t-Alfred Lavington, in Chicago Record. KENTON'S AWAKENING. TJSINESS is busi ness, Miss Mathers, and hereafter your wages as copyist will be five dollars and a half a week. There are plenty of girls who own ma chines who are willing to do for rive dollars the same amount of work for which I am now paying vou six. However, con sidering your cir cumstances, I do not mind giving you Eve and a half. Shall I expect you next Monday on the new terms?" Kate Mathers looked at her employ- t . a 1 - - er witn a toucn 01 scorn ana piiy in her blue eyes, then said, gently: VI shall be at my desk, sir, on time." Opening the office door, she passed out into the night. VFather, forgive him, for he knows not what he does!" That was her hesrt cry. And truly, Paul Kenton knew not what he did. Acting solely onl business principles, he did what he had been taught from childhood was his duty to do he considered the in- . I j 1 T A J .1 1 3 terests 01 tne rxemon urm auu woiea forj its pecuniary success. And in or der to obtain that, must he not ob serve the petty details? Even as far back as Noah's time, when drops of rain combined to flood the world, the little things " havo gone to make the grpat. To save at the bunghole and lose at the spigot had never been I !L t TTT I . TT uia puuosopny. naai were jvaie Mather's private affairs to him ? What if he had been told that she was an or phan with a sister and a brother younger than herself dependent upon her ? Was that any reason why he should, continue to pay her six dollars for work that, he could get done for five? He arose and- reached for his hat. He had intended going through a lot of private correspondence that had me in on the late mail, but somehow could not see about it. He did not mit the fact even in the "secret amber of his soul," but the memory of a pair of blue eyes, scornful yet sorry, did in a certain way annoy him. And so he opened the office door and passed oaf into the night ; and as he raised his face, cold, proud, . stern in all its outlines, upward to the heavens, lol ! the stars, like Kate's eves, looked down in pity on him. Why ? Because money is ours only for a little while ; it! is ours only by the law of outward physical possession ; we can touch and hold and use it for a time, but we cannot take it within ourselves or .make it a part of us. And there is other wealth in the universe besides gold myriad things that gold cannot buy. Night, night all about, but night made luminous by a thousand light. It was nearing Christmas, and all the city wore a look of festivity. Before one of the shops stood Paul Kenton, waicmng wnai t xne automatic toys in the window. There was something about these mechanical devices of hu man genius that fascinated ;him, and the interest he took in them was al ost pathetic. It made one wonder he never had a childhood, if in all e years of his youth he had but few ys, uo we ever thus yearn toward d strive to attain the things we have issed out of life? Was Paul Ken n's interest in the puppets before im. humanity's avenue of approach to a! 'soul unconscious of itself ? , v LThe climbing monkoy traveled up ana aown its siring, toe train or cars rolled swiftly along their track, the village blacksmith toiled inoessantly, the orrourj of dancers never 'n.nnrl w - A , ' X f and the old woman in the corner kept nodding her muslin-capped head. , i j jMidge, - said . a childish voice, Visn't it a beauty?" . J Jfaul iventon turned toward the speaker, wondering what particular toy in the display had excited his ad miration, and found that the' little fsl ljow was not looking at the brilliantly lighted iymdow,vt an, but .at some thing which he held in- his hand. It was an orange, big round and golden. The sunny face under the shabby cap was bent over it exultantly. "Kate will be pleased, sister," he jsaid, with a long-drawn sigh of dolight in the anticipated happiness of an other. "Yes; sho will be glad you remem bered her birthday," said Midge, thoughtfully ; "but somehow I think, Tim, she would rather you kept it and ate it yourself." . . "What!" cried Tim, in astonish- lment. "Eat it? mer wny, x Dougnt lit for Kate." . . r - "I know, answexeu. mo K1-11 you earned the money for it by carry ing coal up three flights of stairs for Mrs. Harmon, and it made you look so white and tired, and Kate would be sorry, Tim, and I I think you better eat it." "I don't want to," declared Tim, stoutly. ; "Yes, you do," urged Midge. "No, I I don't like oranges very well, you know." "Why, Tim Mathers, what a story I You know you just love them." t "No," slowly the lie, after all, was hard to tell "they don't seem to agree with me." This last rendered Midge utterly speechless, and she could only star at Tim in open-eyed wonder at this sud den depravity. Tim himself felt rather guilty, and battened to excuse the baldness of the-nntruth by saying : "Kate has been so sick, Midge, end even now she says the fever in her veins often run like fire and that her tongue is dry and hot, and " Paul Kenton strode up to tho boy and laid a hand on his shoulder. "She," he said, pointing to Midge, "called you Tim Mathers, and you speak of Katie ; is she your sister?'' "Yes," answered Tim. "She has been sick. " How long?" ' "Three weeks." "Yes," Tim hesitated a moment, then went on: "You see, sir, she used to write or do something like tha,t in office downtown, and they uso-i to pay her six dollars a week. But one night she came home and said the man was only going to give her five dollars and a half after that, and she needed every cent of the six for our rent and food and coal, to say- nothing of clothes. And Midge here, she thinks sister Kate just cried over it and wor ried about it until she was down sick, because the next day she had a fever, and she has just laid there ever since." There was a lump in his throat, but Tim swallowed it manfnlly. "We haven't any father or mother, you know, or any who seem to care much about us, and Kate, I suppose, didn't see how she was going to get along, andr and " s The little fellow quite broke down nnder the weight of it all, and his voice died away in a sob. 'But your sister is better? replied Paul, huskily. Oh, yes, sir ! Much better," replied Tim, with a child's quick transition from grave to gay from despair to hope. "But she is still too we&k to work, and that troubles her." "How have you managed daring her illness I mean, how have you lived?" "The neighbors have helped us some, ana 1 nave earnea a iittie money by selling papers and running errands and Midge washes dishes for Mr3. Harmon and sweeps her kitchen, and altogether we have not been very cold or hungry, 1 Paul Kenton's eyes darkened with horror. Not verv cold or hungry that meant how much? Then there were human beings in this world who had not enough to eat. He supposed everyone contrived somehow to satisfy hunger, and yet - "Tell me the name of your sister e employer." "Kenton Mr. Paul Kenton," said Tim. "I am he!" The man said it, not audibly, it is true, but in mental articulation very slowly and distinctly, as if he wished the fact the word announced to stand forever in his memory. Until now his hand had rested on Tim's shoulder, but he withdrew it, thinkingperhaps if Tim knew he might instinctively shrink from his ton oh. "Here is a silver dollar, my lad, "he said. "Go and buy one of those toys within." "No, I would rather giva the money to Kate," was Tim's prompt answer. "Very well ; then I will buy you a toy myself. It will be a new experi ence for me to purchase a gift." "Haven't you any little boy or girl or sitter to buy birthday and Christ mas gifts for?" asked Tim', wonder ingiy. "No one," replied Kenton. "And didn't anybody ever buy you a present?" "No." "Oh I" Tim felt very sorry for this desolate man. With quick resolve, and a child's blissful ignorance of any lack of propriety in what he did, he said : "Then you must come to our house to-morrow afternoon. It will be Kate's Lbirthday, and we want to surpri&a her. bally Mason she lives next door to us, you know has promised to pop some corn for us, and Mrs. Harmon will make soine molasses candy, and altogether it will be nice and jolly. Will you come?" ( i!iul Kenton stared wistfully at the eager face. VNoyesi I will come," hs an swered. "You live where?" Tim told him, and Paul, hitherto so cold and prbud and stern, felt the thrill of, a new emotion within him as he repeated gently: , - , "Very well, I will be there, Tim. Goodnight." - ' - . " . Home I Yep," this massive pile of stone and brick and -mortar,:with the icaii'irious interior of rare woods, its costly furniture, its perfumed exotics, its gleaming services of silver, its fine linen and china, its rows and rows of valuable books yes, this was home, the only home Paul Kenton had ever known. Tho hard, grasping old man who had reared it as a monument to his pride, and whom Paul had called "father," was dead ; his stately, fash ionable stepmother still lived within its walls. But Paul had spoken truly when he had told Tim that his real life was lived alone, with no one to share m its joys or sorrows ; that he had known nothing of holidays or holiday-making. His baby feet had been set in the path the man was to tread, and up to the present he had been absorbed in adding to the Ken ton fortune. But now he was begin ning to realize that there were oth3r and higher things in life than money. The eager longings of years gradually assumed tangible shape within him, and he could have wept at tho memory of his sordid, cheerless childhood and youth. i It was a cheerless looking place, and during the, three weeks when Paul had accounted for Kate Mathers's non-appearance at the office on the ground of anger at the reduced wage, she ;had lain here ill, suffering. The man looked about him more closely. How easy for a human ' life to burn itself out in surroundings such as those! He knocked at the door ; Tim opened it, and let him with boyish delight into the little sitting room, and straight into the presence of Kate. "Mr. Kenton!" she exclaimed, startled to find that Tim's new friend was her former employer, but not half so overcome by the fact as was Tim himself, who grew red and white by turns, and finally sank on the nearest chair in speechless agitation. Paul was self-possessed and calm ; advancing, he wished Miss Mathers many happy returns of the day, and hoped he found her better. She as sured him that she was very much im proved, but he, looking down at the wasted form reclining on the old sofa, at the wan face and shorn head, and the thin, white hands lying against the dingy blackness of her gown so thin and white that he could see the blood flow in and out her fingers felt how weak and helpless she was, and how long it would be before she would be able to take up life's battle again and earn the beggarly pittance that meant life to her and to Midge and little Tim. Five-fifty even six dol lars think of it ! The sluggish blood within him quickened, and creeping upward, dyed his cheek with shame, and Kate, seeing it, understood, and again was sorry. Kind little Tim was tho soul of hospitality, and it was not long be fore he rallied his forces and set about providing for the comfort of his guests. He took Paul's hat and coat, brought a chair for him, replenished the fire, that the bare little room might seem more warm, and bright and cheery. A half hour's pleasant conversation fol lowed j then, as the shorp winter day was drawing to a close, Tim lit the oandles. and spread a table with his little birthday feast, Besi4esthe corn and candy, there was the orange he had boaght for Kate, and another for Paul. "I thought as you'd never "had a present I'd give you one," said Tim, modestly; "it's all I could afford, you know." With an odd sensation Paul took the fruit and tried to thank the boy. But a mist had gathered before his eyes and shut out from their vision the fragile little boy that had known both cold and hunger, and yet was the earthly habitation of such afkmer liko soul, and he oould utter no word. Tumult without and a knock at the door. Paul hurried into the hall and gave some directions. Then there was confusion within, and a sound of heavy boxes being deposited and unpaoked, and soon the little sitting room looked liked a veritable shop, for there weie stores of food and fuel, books and pa pers for Kate and toys for the chil dren. Best of all to Tim there was a wonderful jackknife with seven blades. He had wanted a knife all his young life, and now that his ambition was realized he could hardly belieYC him self to be awake. It was a wonderful time for the chil dren just like Christmas, they de claredbut Kate was strangely silent. She continued unusually grave and quiet during the days and weeks that, followed, and that found Paul so often in her humble home. But the soft pink of returning health, and the life and light , of returning strength and spirits came slowly baok into face and form, and one evening she told Paul she thought the worUd be able to re turn to her desk on the following Mon day,, provided he still needed her ser vices as copyist. "Will you come to me on my terms, Kate ?" he asked. And she, thinking he referred to the amount of wages she was to receive, made answer: "Yes, on any terms you desire." In spite of all the novelists may say, there are few ' 'set" offers of marriage. Lovers somehow come to a mutual understanding without knowing just how it happened. All Kate rem'em bered about it afterward was that Paul bent his head and kissed her and that his proud eyes .were strangely tender, and the flush pn his, pljeek was of joy, nqt shame for at last his soul had en tered into its heritage of love and 4eace and gladness, and he would be a loneTy man no more. Farm and Fireside. Two establishments for cultivating oysters in Bussiau waters have lately been opened near Sebastopol. There are many wild oysters in the Black Sea, which have &r bitter taste ; these are taken to the' Sebastopol reserva tions and fed. In t a few. weeks they lose their disagreeable taste and are sent to market at St.: Petersburg, Mos cow and Biga. . SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. ' JL' new kind- of waterproof dres? goods is being manufactured in Franca out of the feathers of geese, ducks and hens, treated in a peculiar manner. . Threads of shredded steel are nsecf in Germany as a substitute for sand paper . It is said to work more quickly and uniformly than sandpaper and does not clog. A method of nickelling wood ha been devised by the German chemist Liangbein, the wood being covered by a thin coating of metal by either a dry or wet process. . A French astronomer is of opinion that the red glow of the planet Mars is caused by crimson vegetation. He thinks that the grass and foliage there are red, not green, as they are on earth. An English motor car manufacturer is building a two-story steel house to run on wheels, propelled by a motor under it. The top story is collapsible so as to enable the house to pass under bridges. The air after a heavy snowfall or shower is usually very olearj, because the snow or, rain in falling brings down with it most of the dust and im purities, and leaves the atmosphere exceedingly clear. A submarine mountain range has been discovered in the southern part of Davis Strait by the Danish steamer Ingolf, which has been carrying on deep-sea explorations on the Iceland and Greenland coasts, for the past two years. President Octave Ohanute, of the American Society of Civil Engineers, has offered a prize of $100 for the best monograph on the kite, giving a full theory of its mechanics and stability, with ' quantitative computations ap pended. The French periodical L'Eleotricite has an article on some successful ex periments of Dr. Dalmas in killing the phylloxera and other organisms dangerous to plants by means of elec tric currents, after wetting the soil with metallic solutions. Balloons in France cost from $400 to $600 for those holding 500 cubic metres of gas and from $1000 to $1200 for those containing 1500 cubio metres, the largest size usually made. They are let at the rate of $20 or $40 a day in addition to the cost of the gas, which is about four cents a cubio metre, so that a balloon excursion costs from $80 to $100. In Germany a new process of color ing leather is being exploited. Elec tricity is utilized as the active agent. The leather is placed upon a zinc table, which forms the positive pole. The dyeing material is poured over this and the negative pole connected to the leather. Under the action of tho current the coloring matter pene trates the leather, and patterns, may be designed upon the surface by cover ing it with a pattern plate connected to the negative pole. The City ol Damascus. Damascus is the oldest city in the world. Tyre and Sidon have crumbled. Palmyra is buried under desert sands and Nineveh and Babylon have dis appeared, but Damascus alone re mains as it was in the days of Abraham, a centre of trad and trarel. Damascus is an Island of verdure in a desert with martial and sacred asso ciations extending through thirty centuries. It was near Damascus that Saul of Tarsus saw the light. The caravans come and go as they did 1000 yeais ago and the merchants of the Euphrates and Mediterranean still crowd the narrow streets. From Damasous come the damson, our blue plums and the delicious apri cot of Portugal called damasca, damask linen, the damask rose, which was in troduced to England in the time of Henry VIII. Every one has heard of the wonder-, f ul Damascus swords, tho secret of the make having been lost when Tamer lane carried off the artists to. Persia. The swords are remarkable for their keen edge and wonderful elasticity. Painless ltifle Bullets. Dr. Delorme, surgeon-in-chief of the French army, has been lecturing in Paris before theAcadamy of Medi cine on the new steel-coated rifle bul lets and their effects as projected from the modern magazine rifld, says the Daily News. The most remarkable fact in Connection with them appears to be this, that they cause very little pain to those who are struck by them. At Fourmies, during the riots there, one man was wounded so badly that he afterward suffered from paralysis, yet he did not even suspect he was shot until he saw blood stains upon his clothes. Another man, who was shot through the leg,, described his sensa tions thus : 'X felt a slight shiver come over me." Another, who was 'shot through the arm, could only re member that his elbow twitched and that he involuntarily- closed his fist. Dr. Delorme finds that when the bull let meets with an obstacle, at a, shork distance, say from JQO, to 150 yards, they are very apt fa -explode, and the pieces of metaA are capable of doing eerio.ua mischief. Surreptitious Photographs. One of the most ingenious methods in the world for photographing per sons and keeping them in ignorance of the fact is that of the Bank of France. The bank has a hidden studio in a gallery behind the cashier's desk, so that at a sigual from one of the bank emoloves aUv snanAnfeAfl will instantly have his picture taken' without his own - knntlorlfvn ' ti, camera has also become very useful' in the deteotion ot frauds, a ' word or . o : ' " wy uvwmgu; j j 1 1 1 pletely erased being clearly produced in photographs of the d had been tampered wnh; , . now Drug Store, erry Bros., TVilkesboro, N. C. Keep on hand a full line of Fresh Drugs, Medicines, Oils, Paints Varnishes and Everything kept ii a First-Olais Drug Store. Prescriptions Carefnlly Store in the Old Steve Johnson Building just opposite the Oourt House. r Be Sure to Call ana See E. I. STALEY & CO, DEALER IN DRUGS. PATENT MEDICENES, TOBACCO, CIGAItS, Cigarettes,' Fancy: and ! Toilet Soaps, etc. etc. , Prescriptions promptly and accur ately filled. Situated in the Brick Hotel Building. LIVERY & FEED STABLES, A. C WELLBORN. PROP. Situated on Main Street, east of th Court House. Good 'horses aBd new ve hicles of all kinds reidy for the accom modation of the traveling public. Horses carefully fed and attended to. Giv ns a trial and see how wa feed. A .C. WELLBORN, Wilkesboro, - North Carolina R, m HACETT, Attorneys at Lav, WILKESBORO, N. C. Will practice in the State and Federal Courts. ISAAC C. WELLBORN Attorney - at - Law, Will practice In all the courts. Dealer in real estate. Prompt attention paid to collection of claims. T. B. Ftztxjby. H. L. Osuim. FIN LEY & GREENE, Attorneys - at - Law, WILKESBORO, N. 0. Will practice In all the court. Col lections a specialty. Real estate sold oa aaunisalon. HKU CLAIM TO HI3 WHISKERS. Little Alice gaze.l long and earnestly at uer uncie s wmskera, and then broke out. with: - 1 .Did you buy them all at once, uncle, or did you get them us fast as you could. er i . . iuxuru 11." I did not buy them, Alice," he replied,. ' 4tbev crew there " She subsided "for a while, and then im- piurugiy asKea: . . " When you die, uncle, will you wilB them tome? I want to stuff a mattress tor my dolly." ' A KISS RATIO. ' 'Charley is a 1G to 1 man," said EllieJ to Mabel, speaking of her fiance. "I don't take any interest in politics," replied Mabel. "Ob, this isn't politics." ' "What is it ?" 'He's willing to give me sixteen kisses for every one 1 ive him." I . UNEEMITTING. - "I must s.ay," remarked the merebantr,. 'that Mr." Fucash devotes the most unre mitting care to his business." fle dopsn't rmr Viia hilla ro- plied the bookkeeper. , 4 "iti-s wuat l nave reference ick WUenever wa naV Kim tn nrr.t 114 doesn't nay any attention to it." A MUCH- SOUGHT WAT. '; Carruthers 'Yea- T .wrmlrln!: mind a situation that was quite laborious, in a way." ... . - ' Waite "In what way?" . Carruthers Whv. ' whera'T'd have to Work hard tQ con vlrf ft mvaplf -that T was. doing anything." . ' TAKEN LITERALLY. .Horton-AVho should ask you to lend mo ten dollars ? Give it up.' - , HOTton Thnnlra rJA T'hot.'ft-! TCiy CTQOd Of VOIl. VU nntr Uta first possible moment, 'poa honor- B 'J ' ' i
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