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When some beloved voice that was to you Both sound and sweetness, faileth suddenly And silence against which you dare not cry Aches round you like a strong disease and new. What hope what help what music will undo That silence to your sense f Not friendship's sigh, Not reason's subtile count. Not melody Of viols nor of pipes that Faunus blew ; Not songs of poets, nor of nightingales Whose hearts leap upward through the cy press trees To the clear moon : nor yet the spheric laws, Self chanted ; nor the Angels' sweet "All bails!" Met in the smiles of God. Nay. none of these. Speak Thou, availing Chris , and fill this pause. Mrs. Brmoning. Melissa's Cooking. Mrs. Orena Fales had lost her house keeper by death. It was a great calamity to Aunt Re. For twenty years old Nabby had taken charge of her house, having full control of ev erything but the garden was Aunt Re '8 realm ;here only she cared to hold sway . She had a passion for flowers. She had neither husband nor child, and the roses and lillies, the pinks and pansies, were her delight, her darlings, her babies. She tended them, caressed them, held her breath over them lest they te disturbed. And they richly repaid her care. From May to November the flower garden at The Chestnuts was a blaze of beauty. Rather close otherwise, Aunt Re never spared expense to grat ify her passion. A root or a bulb, if rare and beautiful, was never too expensive for her purse. It was said that she had once given ten dcllras for a tulip bulb which could not be obtained for less. For keeping her house she had not the least taste. Old Nabby had kept the house swept, garnished, bought the provisions, and cooked them. But old Nabby was dead. Imrnedietely upon this eyent Aunt Re shut up the house and went to Florida for the winter. But in April the neighbors looked for her return, and wondered where she would look for a housekeeper. 'Mebbe she would bring home a cullud person,' said Melissa Ruggles. A colored woman who couldn't keep the accounts straight she'll never do that!' said Mrs Brown. "But its a nice chance for some one. Pleasant place up thereat The Chest nuts good beds, good food ; though Aunt Re's a little near. And its worth one dollar a week to have her posies to look after all summer." 'Posies! tb1 last thing I'd set by," said Melissa. 'Its money you're after- -eh ? "Well Aunt Re gives five dollars to them that'll take all the care an' work to suit her. There's not much to do for them that has faculty, an' its a life-berth, to say nothing of what might come in the will. I say, Melissa, you're sec ond cousin or something to Aunt Re why don't you try for it?' 'Mebbe I shall,' said Melissa, mod estly. Melissa Ruggles was an "old girl" of forty, and who had a habit of bridling her bead, and believing that she knew a "thing or too." She had gone out nursing, and had the reputation of being a good cook. She was alone in the world, but was known to be fore "handed," having quite an account at the bank. Still, there were those who did not like Meiissa's cold gray eyes, emi nently, respectable though sho was. Mrs. Brown had heard Aunt Re re mark something of this kind. 'I shouldn't wonder after all, if she took Sylvia.' Sylvia Fales was Aunt Re's niece -her deseased brother's only child. She was poor, worked at sewing and supported her mother, and was just seventeen. She was pretty and good, and when Aunt Re returned she came to the cottage to see them. She had not been there before for two years. 'You're quite a young woman now, ain't you Sylvia? And you look like your father. Daniel had the same dark, blue eyes, with black lasnes; only you're a little too pale. Are you well and strong?' 'Its the confinement and the sew ing makes Sylvia pale, Aunt Re,' said Mrs. Daniel Fales, an invalid. Aunt Re looked thoughtfully at Sylvia; still, she did not ask her to come to The Chestnuts. Melissa had already offered her ser v ices. 'I am thinking of asking my niece and her mother to come and live with me,' Aunt Re said to her. 'Sylvia's young but with hex mother's help' 'Law ! Sylvia don't know a thing about cooking, and her mother can't make anything but a gruel.' 'That settles it. Will yau come, Me lissa?' - 'I'll try to,' said Miss Ruggles. Yet Aunt Re gave up the thought of Sylvia with a secret sigh. She was young, fresh, pretty as one of her white roses, and she knew 6he might have been kinder to her poor relations than she had been. But Aunt Re, who had good health, and spent nearly all her time in the fresh !:air amone fcer nowers. Had a good appetite, and must have an ex perienced icook. So she took . Melis 8a. . . - j ; "Here are the keys - she : BaicLr- 'Now don't bother me about anything My garden is dreadfully behind hand this year.' She bustled away to her flower beds. In twenty-four hours Melissa learn ed that nothing1 annoyed Aunt Re like referring any household matter to her. She made Melissa under stand that she paid her to take care of the house. Larder and cellar were fairly stock ed. The k itchen was large and pleas ant, tho adjoining sitting-room over looked the beautiful garden, and a nice bed room for the "help" at. the Chestnuts opened from the kitchen hall. Melissa found her domain pleasant, and resolved to make her situation a permanent one. 'Do you like sweet potatoes?' she asked rather timidly. 'Yes,' responded Aunt Re, briefly. She did not like to be consulted re garding the dishes cooked. Now, Melissa had discovered among the apple barrels and potato bins of the dry, airy cellar a few gray col ored tubers. It was notf the time of year for sweet potatoes, and these might consequently be considered choice. She thought she would not cook any for herself, but she would boil four for A unt Re the tubors being rather small and thought they would go nicely with the chicken she stuff ed and roasted. i But in her anxiety to boil the sweet j potatoes to a turn she forgot to baste the chicken, and it was dry and un savory. As for the potatoes, Aunt Re cut one open after the other, and left them uneaten upon the table 'I'll bake some for breakfast,' thought Melissa. 'Baked sweet po tatoes are always good." So the next morning she baked four more. But Aunt Re seemed to relish these still less, and they did look very pale and watery, Melissa thought, as she surveyed the broken fragments which AuntRe had fail ed to partake of. But if the latter liked a good dinner, she had the idi osyncrasy of never remarking upon what she ate ; and Melissa, secretly troubled by these two failures, yet valiantly resolving never to give up so, decided to make a pie of the re maining four potatoes. So she got her cook book, and carefully read the receipt: "Boil four medium-sized sweet po patoes and sift. Beat the yelks of three eggs light. Stir with a pint of sweet milk, into the potato. Add a small teacup of sugar and a pinch of salt. Flavor with lemoil and bake as you do pumpkin pies." Melissa got the directions well into her head, and proceed, d to make the pie. It was baked into a large, deep, tin plate, looked very nice when baked a delicate brown. 'There, 6he'U like that can't help it,' sho said as she placed it upon the dinner-table. The lamb stew was vry nice, and Anut Re, who had been sorting out pansy roots and tying up tulips all the morning, ate with an appetite. Then Melissa helped her to a generous slice of pie. Aunt Ee tasted and a shudder stole over her countenance. She tasted again, and pushed aside her plate. 'The pie ' stammered Melis sa. 'Is execrable!' pronounced Aunt Re, with emphasis. 'Such a very pe culiar flavor! But I am through with dinner. Perhaps I shall want youi help a little while this aftarnoon Melissa; I have so much to do ! I am going now to plant my dehlia bulbs. Will you go down the cellar and get them? The3'- are on the swing shelf twelve of them in a wooden bowl. I hope they have kept well, for they are very rare and expensive. I only got them as a favor. No one in town has any like them. . Be as quick as you can, Melissa; I am in a hurry.' Melissa stumbled down the cellar stairs and stood looking at the empty wooden bowl upon the swing shelf like one in a dream. Then she went 'slow ly up-stairs again. 'Aunt Re, I may as well tell you first as la3t, I I boiled them things. I thought they were sweet potatoes.' 'Boiled my bulbs my magnificent Queen Anne dehlia bulbs, that I paid twelve dollars a dozen for?' Melissa bowed dismally. 'What a fool!' ejaculated Aunt Re, and then was speechless for ten min utes. I dont think your style of cooking suits me, Melissa,' she said at last. 'Sylvia Fales would never have done such a thing as that. If you will let me know what I owe you for your services, we will part at once, and I will send for Silvia this evening.' 'Oh. you don't owe me nothin'. Only don't let folks hear 'twould make me such a laughin' stock' Teach you to have more sense,' re sponded Aunt Re, as she left the kitchen. In the shades of evening, a wiser and, let us hope, a better woman, Me lissa crept down the avenue of The Chestnuts, followed by .a man bear ing her goods, and. chattels upon a wheelborrow, and, i positively, from that date forborne to bridle her head. Meanwhile Sylvia pretty Sylvia had been bitterly disappointed that her aunt had not asked her to live at The Chestnnts. 1 don't' care for myself, mother, though the sewing gives me a stitch in the side, but it would be such a good home for you 60 many com forts that I can't get for you ! Oh, I am so sorry 1 And, mother, I heard to-day that Melissa Ruggles told Aunt Re I couldn't cook, Its a real down falsehood isn't it?' 4Ye. You have prepared the dain tiest dishes to tempt my capricious appetite for years, and are naturally the neatest of housekeepers.' So Aunt Re, to her delight and sur prise, discovered, and in her satis faction took pains to make Sylvia and her mother feel entirely at home at the Chestnuts. Housekeeping agreed with the for mer. Her cheeks grew rosy and her spirits merry; while her mother, re lieved from core and surrounded by comfort, became much improved in health. And by-and-by, Sylvia, hav ing added the good fortune of mar rying to suit Aunt Re, became her heiress. The wedding took place at The Chestnnts, and it became her permanent home. He Was a Shlibbcry Shgamp.' I got him, dar young-shgamp, und uf he don'd gone up py Shdades Brison, dot's not my vault ainahow.' Jacob Hentzell held little Johnny Ward by the ear as he delivered himself of the above in the Jefferson Market Court this morning, 'Who have you got and what did he do?' queried Justice Murray, rising from his seat to get a look at the prisoner. 'He vas a leedle poy, dot Chonny. I don't know vat's hees oder name, but he vas a tarn pig rasgal, und I brove it.' 'What did he do?' 'He shooded my gal.' 'Did he kill her!' 'Nein; he don't sood her so pad like dot, but he shood her mit a vire gracker und den he sgooded.' 'Did he hurt your 'gal' much?' 'Vaell, dot viregracker vent down her pack by her neck und uf you hear dem shqveals. Ach, mein Gott, I dhink meselluf I was gone grazy und she couldn't gone do wen mit Goney Island. Dot's vat makes me so maidt.' 'W here is she now !' 'She vas home, governed ub mit bouldices, und she vas nod able to gomeoud. 'When did this little 'big raal' shoot her?' - " 'On der Foruth of Chuly, but I vas nod able to see him since. I lose mo dwo days vork looking fur dat shgamp.' 'Let go of his ear; you'll pull it off.' 'Id's petter hold him. He vas shlibbery like he vas all shmooded ofer mit soft soap. Uf I don'd holt he chump oud.' 'No he won't. Let go.' Jacob reluctantly released the boy's ear. 'Now, Johnny, what do you say ?' asked His Honor. 'I did'd mean to zhood her nd all oo-hoo-hoo o-o-o.' 'Did you throw the fire-cracker?' 'Yed :urr, bud I dided drow id ad her, boo-o o o. Id wed dotvn her deck ad I got sgared and wed hobek boo boo o o.' 'I'll hold him Jacob until your gal can appear against him.' 'U'll righd. Lock him up shdrong und vatch him glse. He vas gunnin like a mouse nnd he can run like der tuyvei. With this admonition Jacob left, and Johnny was consigned to the compan3r of two other wayward juveniles, with whom he soon forget his troubles and was plying hand bali ogainst the back of his cell, A Thoughtful Husband. A Detroit lady who is subject to heart disease, took tea last Sunday with a neighbor, and while sitting at tablQ, her husband rushed in without a hat, and in his shirt sleeves.' "Be calm !'' he exclaimed, hurried ly to his wife ; "don't excite yourself; you know you can't stand . excite ment, and it might be worse." "Good heavens !" gasped his wife; "the children! ' They're all right ! Now, Mary, dont get excited. Keep calm and cool it can't be helped now ; we must bear those visitations of Providence with philosophy !" ' 'Then it's mother !" gasped his wife. "Your mother's safe; get on your things, but don't hurry or ivorry. It's too late to be of any use, but I'll fly back and see what I can do. I only came to tell you not to get excited." "For mercy sake!" implored the almost fainting woman, "tell me the worst!"' Well if you will have it, the con sequences be on your head. Mary. I've tried to prepare you, and if you will know don't excite yourself try and survive but our chimney's on fire, and' the whole department and the neighbors are in our front yard!" . She survived. Free Press. - Mrs: L. Ried, Matthew 'sN.C.says: I used Brown's Iron Bitters for gener al debility and received great bene fit :.('.' -h .-' v- ' - - Hot AVater Remedies- Hall's Journal of Health publishes some interesting facts relative to hot water as a remedical agent. It says : There is no remedy of such general application and none so easily attain able, as water; and yet nine persons in ten will pass by it in an emergency to seek for something of far less ef ficiency. There are but few cases of illness where water should not occupy the highest place as a remedial agent. A Strip af flannel or a napkin fold ed lengthwise, and dipped in hot wa ter and wrung out, and thrh applied around the neck of a child that has croup, will usually bring relief in ten minutes. A towel folded several times and dipped in hot water, and quickly wrung and applied over tho seat of the pain in toothache or nearalgia, will generally afford prompt relief. This treatment in colic works almost like magic. I have seen cases that have resisted other treatment for hours yield to this in ten minutes. There is nothing that will so prompt ly cut short a congestion of the lungs sore throat, or rheumatism, as hot water when applied promptly and thoroughly. Pieces of cotton batting dipped in hot water, and kept applied to old sores, or new cuts, bruises and sprains is the treatment now generally adap ted in hospitals. I have seen a sprain ed ankle cured in an hour by shower ing it with hot water, poured from a height of three feet. Tepid water acts promptly as an emetic ; and hot water taken freely half an hour before bed time is the best of cathartics in case of constipa tion, while it has most soothing effect on the stomache and bowels. This treatment continued for a few months with proper attention to diet, will cure any curable case of dyspepsia. Headache almost always yields to the simultaneous application of hot water to the leet and the back of the neck. It is an excellent plan to record facts like these in a note book which should be always at hand when wan ted. In the anxiety caused by acci dents or sudden illness in the family , one becomes confued and is not apt to remember quickly what should be done; hence there may be prolonged and unnecessary suffering before proper remedies are applied. Just His Luck. "I'm hungry and ragged and half sick and dead-broke," muttered a tramp yesterday, as he sat down for a sun-bath on the wharf at the foot of Griswold street; "but .ifc,s just 7 luck. Last tall I got into Detroit just two hours too late to sell my vote. No body to blame. Found a big wallet on the street in December, and four police came up before I could hide it. Luck again. Got knocked down by a street car, but there was no opening for a suit and damages, just because I was drunk. Just the way. Last fall nails were way down. I knew there'd be a rise, but I didn't buy and hold for the advance. Lost ten thousand dollars out and out Alius that way with me. Glass went up twenty five per cent., but I hadn't a pane on hand, excepting the pain m my back. Never knew it to fail. Now lumber's gone up, and I don"t even own a fence picket to realize on. Just me again. Fell into tho river t'other day,, but instead of polling me out and giving me a hot whiskey punch, they pulled me out and told me to leave town or I'd get thebounce. That's mo again. Now I've got set. tied down here for a bit of rest and a snooze, but 111 be routed out here in less than fifteen minutes and I know it. It'll be just my behanged luck !' He settled down, slid his hat over his face, and was just beginning to feel sleepy when a hundred pounds of coal rattled down on him. "1 knew it I knew it!" shouted the tramp as he sprang up and rub bed the dust off his head "I said so all the time, and I just wish the durned old hogshead had come alruig with the coal and jauqmed me through the wharf." Free Press. A Lucky Fisherman. In the vast amount of business transacted at the Baltimore Md., Postoffice, Mr. M. V". Bailey, Suprin tendendent of the Mails, is kept ex ceedingly busy, but somehow he finds a spare hour in the day to go fishing, and from his experience he gives his testamony, that St. Ja cobs Oil is the best remedy in the world for rheumatism, sprains, sore feet and joints, bruises, etc. It is .Tie remedy for fishermed and gun ners, who should always keep a hot7 tie on hand. The following incident will mark how things will be after awhile when twelve good women get on a jury : "The proprietor of a bar room was placed on trial in Washington Terri tory, under conviction of keeping a disorderly resort. Seven women were on the jury, and all were firm for conviction, and the five men stood doggedly for acquittal." Mr. Phil G.Alstoh, Jr., Warrenton. N. C, says: VI have used' Brown's Iron Bitters and consider it the best known remedy for m&sestioo." ; : Josh Billings Insuring 1 1 is Life. I kum to the conclusion, lately, that life waz so onsartin that the on ly wa for mo tu stand a fair chance with other folks waz to git my life insured, and so i kalled on the agent of the "Garden Angel Life Insurance Co.," and answered tho folloing ques tions which was put, to me over the top of a pare of goold specks, by a slik little fat old feller, with a little round gray head, and az pretty a little belly on him az enny man ever oned: QUESTIONS 1. Are you. mail or fenail? if so, pleze state how long you have bin so. 2. Are you subject to fits, aud, if so, do yu have more than one at a time? 3. What is yure precise fiteing weight? Did yu ever have enny ancestors, an J, if so, how menny, and of what sex? 5. What is yure legal opinion of the constitutionality of the ten com mandments? 6. Did yu ever have enny night mares, if so, what color waz they? 7. Are y u marrid or single, or are yu a bachelor? 8. Do yu beleave in a future state; if you do state it? 9. What are yure private senti ments about a rush of rats tu the head? can it be did successfully? 10. Hav yu ever committed suicide, and,- if so, how did it seem to affect yu? After answering the above ques tions like a man in the confirraatif , the slik little fat old fellow with the goold specks on, cedl was insured for life, and proberly would remain so for a term of years. 1 thanked him, and smiled one of my most pensive smiles. Didn't 'Know Himself. One Saturday night, recently, a Detroiter commenced getting drunk, so that he could not be used as a witness in a case in the Police Court, tobe;tned the next day. The man was pretty , drunk Sunday morning, almost sober by noon, drunk again by night, and Monday noon was just about half and half just able to navigate but so befuddled and mix ed up, that he didn't know a street car on a switch from a white headed boy with a wart on his neck. Entering a store on Woodward Avenue, the tippler-asked : 'Sheen Johnson 'round yerc?' 'What Johnson?' was asked. 'Sham Sohnson, course.' 'Why, you are Sam Johnson your self!' 'Zat so?' exclaimed' the victiir, blinking widely, and seeming much put out. 'Of course it is. Who did you think you were 5' 'Gov'ncr Cass.' 'Well, you aren't.' 'Zhen I'm Johnson, am I?' 'Yes, sir.' 'Sham Johnson?' 'Yes sir.' 'And I zhon't 'mount to much, do I?' 'Well, not a great deal.' 'Just common man, eh?' Yes, you are about an average mnn.' The inebriate held' on to a chair and looked sorrowful, as he said: 'I'm sorry. Thought ali the time I was Mizzer Gov'ner Cass, but 'f I'm Sham Johnson I won't try to put on any more style. Mucher 'bliged to you. Might went 'round here hull year 'thout knowing I was Sham Johnson fuhadn.t 'formed me!' A Reliable Currier. A business man near the Wood ward avenue had three or four im portant letters to mail one day about four weeks ago, and as an acquain tance was going up Griswold street he asked hiui to drop them into the po3t office. The mission was cheerfully accept ed, and yesterday the acquaintance happened in at the office for the first time since that date. 'Say,' Ben," began the dealer, 'do you ever forget any thingf 'Never !' was the prompt reply. 'Do you remember the letters I gave-you to,' mail last month?' 'Perfectly.' 'And jTou mailed them?' 'I did.' Please feel in your left hand coat tail pocket and see if they are not there." 'I'll feel, but I remember posting those letters as plainly as I remem ber ' He felt something and began to haul up, and out came four letters', crum pled sod and worn. 'I thought so.' 'Well, by gosh !' And the money I gave you to buy stamps!' 'Bless me bless me did I ever! 'Say I used that coat on that day to go to a funeral, and I'll be banged if I didn't forget to go to that, too !' Free Press. -i It is spring. A resurrection of na ture's latent forces is taking place. Like the world around you, renew your complexion, invigorate your powers, -cleanse the channels of life. Ayer's Sarsaparilla is the - means to use for this purpose. " ' . Hereditary Tainta. SOME REVELATIONS ON A SUBJECT WHICH CONCERNS THE WELFARE OF THE RACK AND THE HAPPINESS OF ALL. To any one who has studied tho laws of life, and especially thoso which relate to reproduction, an ex perience such as we are about to re late, will come with special force and interest. The transmission of certain mental traits of prominence, and of certain physical traits of equal prom inence, are facts which all acknowl edge, but which none can understand. The father may be distinguished, the son, an imbecile; or, the parent may be decrepit and unknown, and tho child achieve the highest place possibles to humanity. But through it all, there will ho certain characteris-. tics, which mark tho individual as descending from certain ancestors." Too' often, indeed, these character istics are inlirmaties, and often of a physical nature. These facts were strikingly brought out during a conversation, which a representative of this paper recently had with Mrs. Carrie j D. T. Swift, who is the wife of one of our most prominent citizens. Thisi lady related that sho inherited from hor parents certain tendencies, over which she had no control, and which were in the haturo of blood difficul ties, assuming tho form of rheuma tism. Her experience can host be described in her own words. To tho writer sho said: 'I felt tho beginning of this heredi tary taint many years ago, in vaguo pains, which seemed to come unac countably aud at uncalled for times. T.iey wero annoying, exhausting.and interfered not only with my duties, i but also totally destroyed my happi-" ness. At first, they would be 6nly transient, appearing for a day or two, and then disappearing; then again they would come in such violent forms, that it was impossible for me to lift a cup to my 'mouth. After wards, my feet and hands swelled so that it was impossible for mo to draw on my shoes or gloyes without the greatest effort. 1 realized what the difficulty was, but seemed powerless to avert it. 1 finally became so bad that I was confined to the house and. to my bed most of the time. joints pained me continuously and my feet swelled 'to enormous propor tions. Knowing that I inherited this tendency, I had about abandoned bcl, when I began th9 so of a remedy, which was recommended to mo by a friend as being specially effi cient in cases of a similar kind. To my great gratitude, I found that it re lieved me, restored my appetite, and I am ubie to say that now I have ' s gained forty pounds in weight, feel perfectly well mid mil in the best possible condition, owing, wholly to Warner's Safe Rheumatic cure, which was tho remedy I used.' 'No one would ever sunpect you, had suffered so, Mrs. S wilt, to see you now;' remarked the reporter. 'That is what all my friends say. Only yesterday, an acquaintance of mine, whom I had not seen for some - , . time, hesitated, before speaking, "and apologized by saying, 'Why, I really -did not know you, you have changed so for the better since 1 last met you, how well you do look.' - 'Have you any objection to giving the name of the party who first men tioned this remedy to you?' , - 'Not the slightest. It was Mr. Ii. II. Furman, the photographer.' The newspaper inrsn, after bidding -Mrs. Swift good bye, repaired to the photographic room of Mr. Furman, when the following conversation' en bued: 'Have you been a sufferer, from rheumatism, Mr. Furman' - 4 rt'ell, I should think I had.' 'For how many years?" 'Twelve or fifteen.' 'Did you try to cure it?' t- 'Yes, I tried everything, and, at last, went to the Hot Springs of - " Arkansas, and nothing seemed to . do me any good until I tried War ner's Safe Rheumatic Cure.' 'And it cured you. did it?' 'Yes, completely.' 'And you can coi dinlly recommend it?' ' 'Yes, indeed, more cordially than i anythinf 1 have ever known of. It t is simply a wonderful medicine. I believe that two thirds of all cases, both acute and chronic, could be i cured as I was cured by the use of 1 this remedy. In fact I know a num ber of persons who have been in the. wonst possible condition, and are now completely well wholly through its - ' -use.' , ''": x I : ' : The statements x;bove made aio . . from sources, the authority of which " cannot bo questioned. They jyon- - clasily prova the value of the prepts', ration uamed and show that even " hereditary trails can be removed by , , . the use of the proper means. Hoch ester Democrat and Chronicle. . A an whose business transactions had beeu rather suspicious, and who had passed through bankruptcy twice, was boasting; 'I left business and settled down with a comfortable fortune.' when a listener said : - . I If you had settled up, you would t have had a cent.' JL
The Anson Times (Wadesboro, N.C.)
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March 13, 1884, edition 1
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