North Carolina Newspapers

POLITICAL NOTES. A PLEA FOR PLANT-FOOD. ? Hints That May Save Many Doctors' Bills ( ;;'" 'and Valuable Lives. Itis not agqne'ral J .understood fact," but a fact nevertheless that some of the wealthiest1 and modt luxurious appear ing people le on the plainestfood. 'There ore children in the families of millionaires-Avho would ; no more be permitted to partake of - such meals as are civen to the children of many a la boring man than t hey would be allowed to use articles that were known to be poisonous. Many a mechanic's little ones live on meat, warm bread, all the butter they want, and that of an inferi or quality, coffee-' as much as they choose,' and cheap bakers' cake, which is in itself enough to ruin the digestion g an ostrich. The children of one family make their breakfast of oatmeal or some oth er cereal and milk, with bread at least 84 hours old,' a little,' very little, butter, sometimes hone atalL The breakfast is varied by corn bread, well done, a little zwieback and sometimes stale bread dip ped in egg and cracker crumbs and browned with butter.,- A fresh egg is often the only article outside of farina ceous food that they are allowed. For dinner, which is the middle of the day, they have some well cooked meat, one tor two vegetables, a cup of milk if they like it, or weak cocoa, with plenty of bread and butter and a simple dessert. Supper, which is a very light meal, fre quently consists of . graham crackers or brown bread and milk or the pudding, eaten with a little molasses or "maple sirup. A few days ago, in a call at the house of a "workingman, there were five chil dren seated at a table, on which wa3 a .large -dish of meat, swimming with gravy, in which potatoes had been cook ed. These potatoes were saturated with fat and almost impossible of digestion by any person of ordinary constitution. There were hot rolls, soggy looking and smoking from the oven; parsnips fried in lard and reeking with the grease. A pile of cheap cakes, sufficient to fill a good sized foar quart measure, stood on one corner of the table ; also two pies, with crust containing so much lard that they looked absolutely greasy. ' There was coffee, dark and rank look ing and worse smelling, and this the children were indulging in quite as much as th-r pleased. Theyate like lit . tie wolves, with an unnatural and fero cious appetite. Two of them had pasty, unhealthy looking complexions; one Was evidently suffering from some skin disease; the elder of the group had an ugly looking eruption on his faca and ears, and the entire lot wer living ex amples of the results of a mistaken sys- ' tern of feeding, it wa5? l-o surprise to the visitor to hear, a few clays later, that two oi them were very ill, one hopelessly so, with cholera morbus. That the death rate among such peo ple does not increase with frightful ra pidity is the onethi-ng that the thought- lul persons ana philanthropists never cease to won dor at. ' The parents of these children would undoubtedly nave said mat tney gave the little ones the bent they could af ford, but ' this was just exactly the cause of all the troubles. They gave them too much and too expensive food. A proper diet would havb cbifc a third of the money and would have saved health and doctors' bills, to say nothing cf their lives. ;New York Ledger. Hawthorne as a Worker. There is a story aboat the famous Brook farm experiment to the effect that several of the iost distinguished members, Hawthorne among them, found the place so unuongoniui that they used to loan oyer the pigsty and scratch the pigs' backs for amazement. When, however, it became 'iluwt home's. duty to feed the pigs, ho drew . the line. Scratch a pig's back be might; feed pig he would not. , His daughter, Mrs. Lathrop,' denies that ho w'ud a finical I man. bhe writes in the Cambridge Mag azine: 'Hawthorne could work with his hands too. He hoed many a vegetable , garden, planted sunflowers, of which he was a thorough adaiirer,"cut beanpoles cheerily and - ate his personally raised, fresh vegetables with the best of us. He did ; not fear to help his .Wife in ; their early married ? life by doing the house work when she was not. strong enough. Moreover, he .did not do it with surly innuendoes and: sudden snarlings, nor 'did the abruptly stop and sit down to - niggardly reproach. He washed dishes anu cieanea Knives ana coaiiea line a pririca of fairy tale reliability and gen-! tlene3S." , . ; Truthfulness. A man may, from education, train i in'g and habit,; or even from motives of policy or other reasons, usually speak the truth and be esteemed accordingly. - Yet ' he may not by. any means be im- bued with the spirit of truth which ani mates . his neighbor, who love's and re- Veres it,' not merely for its 'results, but for its own sake, whose' impulses spring . . toward . it and whose; whole: life mani : vfests it not only in word, but in deed V- and in thought. Truth dees not; get.ex- . alted by flinging it at people. If is ex ,.( alted "whenever it i3 really ckptesed in . ta roan's life and shines cul through -.'v.-him.' Exchange. c r , Doubly Fatal. ' ' The extravagance of ex pression com - inon to certain young ladies ti an cm phatio habit leads them into queer bt.ite- inenjcj. r lusiauoc,. a coiivCii.rv "I was just dying to see it. , :::.. 'Yjes?"- ' . - -. - - - 1 Yes, and when I saw it' it'waa per fectly killing. r - : , - , v ' i :,. y .- - ' '---' ' ' - '- . '- r.T -" V " ... .-V - ' " ' "' - ' ' -:V ''-" ' '.Why She Took It. 1 . '.'My dear,", said . Mr. Darley, "did ou: take any money out, of my waist- jqat pocket?". " "I did, ' replied she defiantly.' : . Whv did vou?" , : -V , "Because that is one of married wom h's vested rights. V Exchange. DICKENS' OUMMYvBOOKS. ' The Most Dolicloua botre:,wa8 mscniwu - , - Oa Their .Covers. - . . , ' Gad's Hill was a merry house, writes Stephen Fiske in fondly Recalling inci dents of his visits to Charles Dickens in an article telling of the personal side of the novelist in Ladies Home Journal. Dickens was a wellspring of mirth, and his humor infected the whole party. Often when I came down from London heVould walk out and lean against the doorpost while I was at the gate," and we would shout with laughter over the fun that we had had and were going to have. When everything else failed, the library was an unending amusement. The room was lined with books, from, floor to ceiling, even the backs of i doors being bookcases, but the books on the doors and along the floor were bogus. Dummy backs had ( been lettered with titles and pasted on the glass, and the titles had been selected by such wits as Dickens,' Y ates, the Collins brothers, Albert Smith and Mark Lemon of Punch. We used to sit on the floor to study this mock library and roll over with de light at some clever satire. I remember "The virtues or Uur Ancestors." a vol ume so thin that the title had to be printed lengthwise ; "Five Minutes In India, by a British Tourist, " in two vol umes as large as an unabridged diction ary; "Lives of the Poets," a mere pam phlet; "Eggs on Bacon," to match "Coke on Littleton;" ' 'Statues Erected to the Duke of Wellington," 15 portly volumes, and there were dozens of other quips and cranks A catalogue of these bogus books should have been preserved, but nobody thought of writing it out; nobody realized that Dickens would ever die. A PLUCKY CONJURER. I2e Displayed More Nerve Than Did His Volunteer Assistant. A very pleasant- anecdote is told of Professor Anderson by Mr. Arthur a Beckett in his "Green Room Becollec tions. " He says the ; professor in His great gun trick used to give one of the audience a rifle, some ; powder and a marked bullet. The ' marksman was then requested to load and prepare to fire. :.'V: Thereupon thd professor walked to the end of the stage and invited the ri fleman to shoot him. Then, after the marksman had fired, he used to produce the marked bullet, insisting that "he had caught it on a plate. On one occa sion a friend of mine, who was an ad mirable amateur conjurer,, offered him self as an assistant. He took the gun and the ammunition and duly loaded. ' It was the custom of the prof essor to give the bullet a final tap with his wand to see that it was rammed; down properly, and this final tap, I have been told, extracted the bullet. This my friend' knew, and when the professor offered his assistance he politely;; de clined. Anderson did not! insist, but coolly walked to the end of the stage ancTcalled out, ' 'Now, sir; take a good aim at me and fire. " ' My friend hesitated, as he was well aware that the gun he was holding was really loaded:. "Fire, sir; fire!" cried the professor. . ,.: ; My friend lowered the weapon, and, saying he could not let . it off, returned it to Anderson, who immediately, un der pretense of seeing whether it had been properly loaded, extracted' the bul let Then he gave the gun to some one else. But before, the rifle was fired he addressed the audience. ' 'Ladies and gentl emen, said he, ' 'the ; person who has just resumed his seat knew my trick and foiled it. If he had fired, this prob ably would have been my last appear ance before you. But he hadn't suffi cient nerve to shoot me." - : When it dawned upon the house that Anderson had risked his life rather than confess himself beaten, the; applause was deafening. My friend told me. that he felt rather , small and regretted his penchant for practical joking. ' ' BEAUTIFUL SEVILLE. There Is Always Something Amusing, Pic torial or Dramatic to See. -The landlord at the Hotel de Paris as; vei7 patient ; and v good humored vYiiui ub, (.juvjuu wo wautBQ mm an OVer his OWn hOUSe before We chose a room that opened upon a small, dark, wen-iiKe courts tun oi palms and orange BaiQ tne juage a he glared at the law trees "and with a fountain He seemed er who had aroused his ira" 1 delighted when' he found: that we were satisfied. V You know," he told us, VI always say tnat strangers who come to Seville in the ; summer;; time i must be mad. " - - " , , . . , xei; oniy in tne summer time does one see the true character of tb.8 conn- try, ana more especially of Seville. The town was as hot as, if not hotter than Cordova. All its stock amusements were off for the time. There were no gypsy dancesi no bull fights, but nothing could iiavo Deea gayer and more, animated than, the nuuajMBssi-c t&jjiacei, jxa oaxrcnv auey-Ways, v -WnertJ me , noWGT laden balconies almost ; met -above t"onr. heads, were 'lined with hougos,' shining white or pale roo or green - or gold in the sunlight. The market places, wfcre at 1 all hbnrs . cro wded with clattering and laughing ' peasants, while . the air perhaps, was cool ed by a fountain -play-, ing in - the '"cemcrA The.shops opened, easterulike, without. windows, upon the streets, their .. wares -, tumpiing oui ( al most at ono's loet. , ' - - Hardly a grcon square but had a gau dy little booth vat each .corner, where old men or women sold fresh water . and sweet - iced drink. No matter in what direction we w en t : there was ' al W ays something amusing, pictorial or dramat ic. Now it was a wonderful church or convent or "hospital, with fine flamboy ant doorway and romantioassociations, or again i t was , a garden of palms, a high miradcr, aflame with roses;, a dark interior, .with oxen in the far shadows; a long arcade; making a frame for the Moorish wal 1 of the- cathedral : mosque", and always it was a long train of mules in gorgeous .trappings, , coming and go ing or, resting in a narrow street and under the shade of a,high wall, withr as like as not,' a row of potted flowers on its top. Elizabeth R.;Pennell in Ceu- :- The Woman of It. ' - . She had read the sign, "Do not speak to the m'otorman, '' and ; she said, "I wonder why, not?" Then in winsome voice she inquired of that functionary, "Why mustn't one talk to the motor- man?" He told her it was against the rules.. "But why, is' it against: the rules?' ' " Because ; it is. " "Then you don't like to be talked to?" "Oh, yes. but Thunili r, I came within an ace of running down that old gentl" ""But I should thini it would be nice to have somebody to speak to instead of talking to nobody all day 1 ong. 'Lady, . you are going to stop talking, or there s go ing to be a smash up on this line, and a big one, see?" . "The hateful thing 1 And I did so want to be sociablelike. He's married, I'll bet. He's just like Henry when he's pot the papetf under his nose. " Boston Transcript. : The Granting of Patents. ; ! In tho case of a person who believes himself to be . t ho original inventor of an article or devide on which he desires a patent the. fight .will not bo refused, even if the same article or device has been known cr paten ted in some foreign country that is, provided tho invention had not bec-u described in any printed publication. , , -. - . . ' A I'orttWt's Eyas. . - Wollastcn's urions discovery was rliat by adding to each parr - of eyes a xiose directed to the right or the left the oyes lose their front direction and look to the right or left, according to the di rection of the nose. By means of a flap representing the lower features in a different position, as Dr. Wollaston re marks, "a lost look of devout abstrac tion in an uplifted' countenance may be exchanged for an" appearance of inquisi tive archness ; in the leer of a younger face turned down'ward and obliquely toward the opposite side. As by changing the direction of the lower features we change the direction of the eyes, so by changing our position the eye of the portrait apparently fol lows us." If a vertical line be drawn through the tip of the nose and half way between the eyes, . there will be tho samo breadth of head, of cheek", of chin and of : neck on each side of this middle line, and each iris will be in the middle, of tho whole eye. If we now movo to one side, the apparent horizon "tal breadth ' of every. -part of the head aud i face will be diminished; but the parrs on each, side ' of ' the middle line will be diminished equally, and at any position, "however obliquo, , there will bo the same breadth of face on each side of the middle line, aud Jthe iris will be m tho center of the whole of the eve ball, bo that,- being on. a flat surface, the iris will be seen in front of the "pic ture or obliquely. Notes ' and Queries. j ' , : Proverbs of Assam. Here are some , rather clever proverbs oi Assam: "".The best crops grow oa oth ers'. heids, , but the best . sons are at borne" "A bird is a little thing, but it builds its nest on a lofty; hulung tree. V "Buy land which slopes ; to the rniddle' j i . - . . - anu marry a gin .; wno, nas a good mother. " "The biggest jack fruit al ways hides under the leaves: " "If a man slips down, it as always his eldest wite's lault, but if his youngest wife makes a mistake ' he . says : he will see about it". "A hasty : cook,, 'a, hasty oroom, ana tne husband goes fastine a slow cook, a slow broomand the hus- band eats three meals a day. V . "j: i i '" . , . . . .. ... . -r ,-: - x nad Very' Moderate. ' should,' fine you for contempt," 4 With all due respect to your hon- or,'f' responded -the attorney, "I think that you should not I have been nar- ticularly careful not to express my true feelings i toward the court,, Detroit FreePress.-" . s. - , . Improved Farm Method. They are talking of putting in long distance telephones for the farmers' use." ...,: ' - How. charming! Of course, . they can be utilized in calling the cows.' Chi cago Record. . , . ' ' THE CHILDREN1 refai Sagsestions For the HyCienle Diet f nf fihildren. ' i. ' . a Uinti' "to what hot to give tr youngs children maybe Kelpful to mnhhprs i for children are creatures of habit from earliest iniancy, anu ax v. ,- ...;'.v-K. . jt tM -Urm I have formed habits oi caring iur uao j Whose'fault is it? : How many mothers oip W r.hUd a slice of bread- not only tC Knffpm hnfc covered with a lay- "'T rZ hesides? Waa not the ZnnA P.nemzh with ' either alone? Pricft mothers when remonstraieu, witu answer L Why, my cnuu -wuuau .uw.-vm., bread and am uniess wx uui, also. xnai .nauio wa child by the mother;. "Even young chil dren .-are; very, shrewd in dealing wivu their elders and will soon discover ineir weak" points,;' Perhaps when mere are gives a piece of cake, and this is adroit, ly made use of to secure a like favor at a subsequent time. 5 , . r-'v . young -mothers, ,ao. no auuw own' ease and comfort at the moment to causo your child to form a pernicious habit be ie the candy habit or he cake you a world of trouble and annoyance, Of course a piece of light ' spongecake will not hurt a well child, .but let it be given as a" rare treat. - Never give any kind of pastry. ' You and your child will be happier for.it.' Neither are rich pud dings and pudding sauces allowable. Tea ' and coffee should not be given under the age of 21. Old vegetables or hearty; fruits,- such as bananas, should not be sriven to" children under 6 A helpful book for 'mothers is "How to Feed Children, " by Louise Hogan. The following extracts may well be copied in large - letters arid -hung in tHe kitchen or pantry, wherever , children's food is prepared. "The amount of nutrition : required in every instance must be carefully coh- sidered. One of the most important rea sons for this is that energy must not be wasted in getting rid of superfluous maK terial, as organic disease may result vA little food thoroughly digested is far better than much that is half digested. Many of the diseases to which children are liable would disappear : under stricl; supervision of hygiene and diet, espe cially the various intestinal disorders, lnolnriinrr mfinv reshltant throat, ca tarrhal and nervous troubles. "Nature resents carelessness and is relentless in her punishments." ' -. - A legal ' enactment m France pro- hihits thft rrivinfi" of an v form of solid food to infants under -1 year " of z age without authority of a prescription from a qualified medical man. The employ- ment of the rubber tube for nursing pot- ties is also forbidden, as it' is almost im- possible. to keep it clean. ".. :r-yi-' L'cf t overs' pro decidedly not to be uccd in the nursery; if for no other xea- son than in; many houses cooked rand uncooked foods of Various kinds aro'kept in rrnoiHvred dishes fiotn dav to duv in ....:--- ab- t r.n v.-It''!' rov.J t. J' . -r niu not x-v. u -' uis ue. Tha'ixroiKU or whistling. tree ls iound in ; tn wciC Indian lsianas.' ni JNUDia ana-T-nc miuan,.vx6.nas a peculiar snapea loiif i-.ml pods with a split or open edge. The wind passing through these sends gut the sound which;. gives the tree its peculiar name. In Barbados there is a valley filled with these trees, and when the trade winds blow across the islands a constant moaning, deep toned whistle is heard from it, which in the 6till hours of the night, ' has a ; very weird and un pleasant , effect ;. A ' species of acacia, which grows very abundantly in the Sudan, is also called : the whistling tree by the natives' Its shoots are frequent ly, by the agency ; of the larvae of in sects, distorted in shane and swollen in to a globular bladder from. 1 to 2 inches in diameter. After the insect has emerg ed from a circular 'hole in 'the side of '. ill'1 i t .- . una sweiimg, tne opening, piayea upon by the , wind, becomes aK musical instru ment, equal m sound to a sweet toned flute. London Tit-Bits. . ' - ; '.'-;'. . He Eal Souse. t jv . " . .'. :The Louisville' Courier-Journal tells a story olva : woman :who was learning now to riao ;a wneei. One morning, .when sho, was1, out ou her bicycle mak ing good time'iu" rather' uncertain curves, she" saw a man'coraira'toward her in. the middle of tho rod Still speeding along; sho hailed 'him:- - 1 ' - ;;0h, mister, mister,1 won't yod please get out of my way?' The kind hearted gentleman jumped nimhly off on , the' grass at the side .of the road, and, as she sped' by ho -exclaimed: I ' . ; i" , ' ' Yes 'indeed," I will, good lady. -1 wouldn't stay, in "your Avay for a $10 bill.' - -'. 1 , " J discrimination. ' " " The young man-with longish hair was gazing abstractedly out of - the car Window .when the - f atherlv old gentle- man earned along, looking for a seat Having-settled himself in comfort, he enpged his neighbor, in conversation. ; 'Been onva long journey?' I he asked.; : VNot very.' . -w . "On business?'1 ; ' "No, sir. In sir. In pursuit of . my profes- sion." 'Oh, excusa me. Mierht - T rnUf :ho differenco is?M W&"in2tcri iar. nn,nr p,Ilirihfl Knn n. lulul"i . ouu Grant's son quitting the Republican party in. the west, and Doekery and Mott.quitting it in North 'Carolina. , v.. " . J; ...i.'.A e. - ' , wnat reaeuu iviukuab iui xiy,repuoii- cau to stay jij except, iur oooaie . Columbus, Ohio, Post:. How freft stands W. J . Bryan of all corrupt in - P , wvu uy every trust; syndicate, Dig. corporation or wealthy, institution in , the country. utd is is wiiv lliw peupie iove ana re- vere mm. xiti is opposey to, . usin the government for .private gain at the expences of the people. Buckien's Arnica. Salve. The -Best Salye in ' the world n r Cuts, Bruises,' Sores, Uiotjft, jsir Kheum, Feyer Sores, ;Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains. Corns ' uud all bKm,rnp.tion8,:a0po8tively:.cuie rues, or. no . pay . requireq., it !8 guarpteed to. give perfect satisiuci oii or monev refunded, r Price 25 cei.ta b - , For b j w r . -" ; , , '' ' "" ; - ' THE WHIP POO RWILL. " Listen how the -whlppoorwill, ' From his song "bed veiled and dusky, - Filli tha night, ways warm and musky "With hia musics throb and thrill. . '.'Tis thd western nightingale, ; i Lodged within the orchards pale, " Starting into' sadden tune; .' ISlid the timorous air of Jane. . , Lord of all tho songs of night, ' " Bird unseen, of voice outright, v 'Buried in tho sumpfuona gloom Of his Kha&o-W ijuneied roonj, V - Roolod ativo by webbed 'and woven Lcf and bloom, by moonbeams cloven, V Boarchpd by pdoious zephyrs through, Dini with dask and damp with dew. 4 Ho it U li.at makfs tho night' j An '-c-nohantnient and delight, ; :tOpening his entrancing talo "Where ihe evening robins, fail, i. Ending the victorious strain - When the rob:n3 siii'agala. -:i r O C Anringer in Boston Transcript. THE- SEA1. OF SAND. Marco Polo's Account of the Great Desert " - ofiGobl. ' - ' Lop is' a larqe town at tho edge of the desert; which is cajlefl .the desert of lcp and is: situated between east and nor theast. v It belongs to the great khan, and, the people worship -;M0ham- med. JS Ow. such nersons as propose to cross'' the 1 desert' take a week's : rest in this town- to : refresh themselyes and p their cattle, and then . they, make ready for the journey, taking .with i; them a , month's sppply for man and beast- On quitting thisity they center; the desert I The length of . this desert is so great that it is siud it would take a year ana more to ride from one end of it to the other. 5 And here where , its breadth is least, it takes a month to cross it 'Tis P "... all composed of hills and valleys of Band, and not . a "thing to eat is to be found on it Bat after riding for a day and a " night you' find fresh water, enough mayhap for some" 50 or 100 per sons with their beasts,' but not for more. And all across the desert von will find -ater in like mannerthat is to say, in cnmA 2R nlricns aHnfferher von will una . nnrl xantpvJ hn . in- rirt prvat nnantitV. r - and - in four Tjlaces alsb ybu find brack- ich wn.fftY 1 - ish water. -:,Beast3 there; are none, for there is naught for them to eat But; there is a marvelous thing related of t this desert, which is that when travelers are on the move by night and one of them chances 'to "lag behind.' or to fall asleep or the like, when he tries o gain his company again he wilVhear spirits 'talking 'and w i 11 suppose n them to be his comrades. Sometimes the spirits will call him by namer. xind thus shall a traveler of ttimes be led astray.vsQ that ho never .finds his -party. 'And in. this- way, many have per ish'eil Sometiuios 'thD;.Bi.ray travelers will hca:r, as it were,' the tramp and kvn of v a. great .cavalcade .. of" people away from ' the'reallin'e of 4 road, and, takiag this to. be their own company, they will . -follow the sound- and when day breaks they fiud that i choaVha.? been put on them r.nd that tiicxrb in' iui ill V&Z . Even in v"th tdaytimo "ono hears those spirits talking! And : sometimes yoj shall hear tho sound oi a ' variety musical 'instruments' and still mora coinmcnly the sound sOff- drums, in making this, journey it is custom foT. travelers to keep close together. A)1 the- animals, too,' have bells .fit etf rnecks; so that thev cannot" easily & astray.' And, at sleeping time a siSP is ;put up 'to show the ' direction of nost -march. " J : ' urn i. . t'n t , .: j . '. tr .T'-'.Id - W eiu i.ne ocory oi . mau u Noah Brooks, in St. Kicholiis- m Tc V.-.. b.ii.i -rifaxrf.ntS "o ' tuovi uj tiuiiu liver, wiuuu piu'" i-fJD Con and permits food' to ferment and Pue, the stomach: -Then follow dizziness, hea n n insomina, nervousness; and, if not -relieved, bilious fever or blood poisoning. Hood's f tipation, etc. 25 cents. Sold by aiS i ltd caly PU13 to take with Hood's sarsaP j oadli olls1