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rl ; ' i 1 i Irvi R. H. COWAN, Editor and Proprietor. ; We Proudly call ours a Government by the People. Cleveland. TERMS: 82.00 Per Year. VOL. VI WADESBORO, N. C. THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1885. NO. 1 Terms:-Cash In. Advance. One Year Six Months Three Months $2.00 $1.00 50 ADVERTISING RATES. One square,, first insertion - - $1.00 Earn subsequent insertion - - 50 Ixxal advertisements, per line 10 jff Special rates given on apphcatio for longer time. Advertisers are requested to bring in their advertisements on Monday evening of each week, to insure insertion in next issue. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. .John I ). Pemberton. ATTORNEY AT LAW, WADESBORfi, n. c. Z3f Practice ill the State and Federal Courts. ' - JAMES A. LO HABT. Attorney and Counsellor at Law, WADESBORO, N. C. lYactice at all the Courts of the State. K. LITTLE. W. L. PARSONS. LITTLE & PARSONS, ATTOUEYH A.T LAW, WADESBORO, N. a Collections Promptly Attended to. II . II. De I3ow D E NT 1ST, WADESBORO, N. C. Office over G. W. 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The next session will begin Monday Au gust Slst, liS5. Tuition Inr literary Department, $3 aud $4 per month. Instrumental Music, t per month. Vo:al Music, $4 per month. Vocal Music in classes of four $1 per month . Board, - - . - - - $10.00 Contingent fee, $1 per year. Use of piano for practice 50 cents per month. For further particulars, address the Prin cipal jNIovven High. sScliool, MORVEN, N. C. JAMES W. KILGO, A. B., Principal. The Fall Session begins on the 3d August 1SN5, and runs through five months. TUITION, PER MONTH. Primary, Intermediate, Advanced 2.00 2.50 3.00 Board from $8 TO $10 per lontii For further particulars address the Prin cipal. W A MUBB, MCNUFACTCRER AND DEALER II I Tin-tare, Mm AND HOLLOW WARE. WADESBORO, N. C. TO THE DANDELION. Golden Harbinger of 1 Thee we bail; tboa latest oorner Welcome! Beauteous Dandelion. Rarer blossoms often fail at, Blighted ere their beauties hall us; Care and toil may naught avail ns. Thee, we always can rely on. In the field and meadow grasses. In the wilder mountain passes, Bright as gems of far Orion; Glisten, golden stars unnumbered. Which, through weary months have slum bered 'Mid the grass by snows encumbered. Welcome, beauteous Dandelionl On grassy bank, with view unbounded, By these fairy gems surrounded, Gazing upward into Zion; Dreamily, I lie reclining. Neither m arm 'ring nor repining, Never mortal, life resigning, Found more, peaceful ted to die on I Ere thy blossons numbered legion, Thou dids't hail from fairer region Fairy Messenger of Zion I For wherever thou appearest, Saddened, burdened hearts thou cheerest; Blossom to the child-heart dearest Go 1 don-petal led Dandelionl , Brooklyn iloujatin. A MAN OF HONOR. Colonel Skerrctt, Major Marsh and Captain Pickering were sitting in their rooin at the Hotel Anglais, Paris. They were Americans on their travels, all tnree rough looking down easters, who had come through the worst fire of the civil war. Dr. Vicaire, surgeon in the French army, was standing in front of them, regarding them with a severe rfir. "I come to denounce to vou as you hare insult my friend, M le" Lieutenant Foulon. He demand zc satisfaction," said Dr. Vicaire, particular!)' addressing Colonel Skerrett. "Yon have kick his dog. You write apology, ver goot. You no write apology, you choose fce re ah! vat you call i'armee ze " Weeponsv' said Major Marsh, com ing to his assistance. Dr. Vicaire bowed. 'Apologize for kicking his curl" shouted the colonel. '-What did it come snapping and laiking at my heels for? I would kick Mr. Foolong himself if he did that." "Ah," replied the doctor, "vcr goot. Insult additional?'' and he blew his nose like a flourish of trumpets. Colonel Skerrctt was as brave a man as ever stood in boots, but beside his conscientious objections to a duel, the cause of quarrel was so ludicrous that he only answered with a burst of laugh ter. "Ah," said the doetor, calmly, but red dening, "insult tree!" and he took a pro digious pinch of snutl. The three friends looked at each other. Major Marsh took the word. "My friend will allow me to act for him. We haro the choice of weapons)" "Yea." "Then I choose them that nature pro vided fists." "Fcest?" said the doctor, pondering. "You mean ze zc " Major Marsh explained in pantomine. "Sir," cried the fiery doctor, "you make ze game of me. I see you after my friend have ze satisfaction." "Don't get so hot, now. What do you say to stuffed clubs in a darkened rojmf It took a long time to make the doctor understand this proposition, but when he did he rejected it with constantly in creasing wrath. Captain Pickering sug gested a rough-and-tumble in the pit kick, scratch, bite, claw and gouge. Major. Marsh thought an excellent way of settling the difficulty would be for the two adversaries to go into shallow water and sec which could drown the other. Finally, Colonel Sherrett suggested that they should bring a keg of powder on the field, cast lots, and whichever lost should sit upon the keg and apply the cigar he had just been smoking to a hole in the keg. Dr. Vicaire tore his hair and re jected ono and all. "Why," said the major, "it 'pears to me that wc haven't got the choice of the weapons at all." "Of ze weapons, yes? But zis ia no weapon. Swords, dagger, peestol, gun zey all weapon. But ze gouge, ze feest, ze club rempli, or vat you call ze stuff clups eh, Monsieur !" and the worthy doctor stamped with rage. "Doctor," said the major quietly, "the last suggestion of Colonel Skerret is one that has been acted on, in at least one case in one of the southern States of America. If your friend wants an out and out duel, Low ill accept the offer ol a barrel of powder under them condi tions. If he don't he is only foolin' with the matter. People blaze away at each other here for half an hour and shoot nothing but the pigs. When we do a thing in the States wc do it." "Sir!" shrinked Vicaire, with concen trated rage. "You coward, you pol troon! I post you in' ze cafe, ze hotel, land my friend whip you with zech! te whip ol ze horse!" and be rushed from the room, swinging his hat franti cally in one hand and plucking at bia hair with the other. Left t themselves, the three friends laughed n!tdy. As-for the doctor's threat of pcrseual chastisement, Majoi Marsh ,alooe Uoked strong enough to horsewhip the national guard if it wcic called out. For ihe posting in the cafes they CM'ed mctly nothing. They chat ted snd saoaod mid were beginning to forget th w6o!e affair. Rut a ar later th-,- waiter announced "31. le L:e'jef.ant Foulon !" M. FouScn advanced into the room, bowed co irteously to the two, and. ad dressing (. oionel Skerrctt 3aid, in perfect English. , ! "I have just seen my friend Vicaire. Possibly he raisundorsUOdJ From what he told mc, I understand that you made propositions which no gentlemen would make. Therefore jou are no gentleman. It remains to be seen if jou arc a coward as well. I am aware that your last propo sition is a mode of the duello practiced in some parts of your country. Of that rty friend Vicaire was ignorant. Al though the practice is irregular, I wave that consideration, and personally ac cept your proposal of a keg of powder under the specified conditions. You will oblige me by naming the . time and place." "Say to-morrow at 3 . o'clock in tht afternoon. I reckon the little wood ot Plessls, on the road to Versailles. . ia a quiet enough place. I will supply the keg of powder for your use and you will supply the one for mine.' - "Very well," said Foulon, bowing. "I shall be there. Tfce terms to be rig idly adhered to! To apply the cigar which one has just becu smsking to the open hole in the keg!" "Precisely," answered the colonel. "I presume," said the lieutenant, with . sinister smile, "that in any event the services of a doctor or surgeon will be unnecessary." 1 am sure of it," said the colonel, with a grin. Foulon left the room, and when he had gone Colonel Skerrett siid: "I'll fight this chap, but Fm not going to be blown to atoms, nor to let that fool blow himself to atoms. The three friends took measures accordingly. The neit day, at th? appointed time, the five men, all 6moMtig vigorously, were on the ground. Each party had brought its powder-keg along. Tiic major and Dr. Vlciare tossed up. ilia major won. Foul tit turned ghastly pale, b at w alked flnly to the keg which the American had brought and sat down on it. It wai f n ordinary cider keg, and Major Marsh i nocked out the tung. AH then retired to a safe distance except the colonel, who remained standing by Foulon's side. The latter, down whose livid face the sweat was rolling, took his cigar from his mouth and advanced it, still glowing, toward the open bung-hole. "Hold on there," said the colonel, "that cigar is lit." "Certainly it is," gasped Foulon, his lips quivering in spite of himself. "Well," said the colonel, with a grin, "you are not s'ich a fool as to put a lighted cigar into a keg of powder, are you? When were you born?" "Sir," replied the lieutenant, vainly endeavoring to hold the cigar motionless in his shaking hand. "I have given my word that if I lost the toss-up I should put this lit cigar " "Hold up; you didn't say lit." "Well, the cigar was smoking." "Put it out then." "Sir, you have run the risk that I ran. I have lost, but I do as you would have done: I will put this lighted cigar into this bung-hole " "Put in the chewed-up end, then." "You insult rue again, sir!" "Bless your heart! You fire up a Bight easier than this powder ever will. Do you think that I would put the burn ing end of a cigar into the bung hole of a keg full of powder?" "I have told you again, and I repeat It, that you are no gentleman. But I I am a man of honor. Bah ! You shall ee me die as one. I keep my promise." Poulon slowly advanced the burning cigar toward the opening in the keg be r ith. . "Go away here, you shall be killed?" shouted Vicaire to the colonel ; but the latter remained quietly beside the vic tim. Vicaire covered his face with his hands, and waited for the awful moment which was to blow his friend to atoms. There was a dead silence, and then a slight hiss was heard. Vicaire looked up. Foulon, his face purple with rage, was holding his cigar, after repeatedly poking it into the bung-hole. The Col onel was one broad grin. "Is this powder?" asked Foulon. "Tooth powder," answered the col onel; "cost a heap." "But," said Foulon, shaking now with rage instead of fear, "if you had lost the toss-up our keg was full of gunpowder. What then?" "I'd have put the cigar out before I put it in," said the colonel. "Ah!" murmured Foulon. "Or stuck in the chewed up end. Hold on to the terms, vou know." Foulon calmly walked to his carriage. He and Vicaire hoisted in their keg of gunpowder and followed it themselves. "Sir I" shouted Foulon to the colonel, "I said you were no gentleman, I say now you are a coward." The colonel smiled. For three davs the friends walked about Paris and saw both Foulon and Vicaire several times. They were not posted in the cafes, for the Frenchmen feared the storm of ridicule which a knowledge of the grotesque duel would Jjring upon them. Neither were they horsewhipped, for Vicaire argued that they would probably retaliate, and in such a case the whipping would be only a modiform of the duel a la club rempli. On the fourth day after this;-'duel" the three friends hapjiened to be on one of the large and beautiful steamers carrying excursionists down the Seine. Colonel Skerrett, like a consistent Yankee, was in the pilot house, watching the work ing of the wheel, lie came down after ward and sauntered back to where his two friends were standing. Near them were no less individuals than Foulon and Vicaire. Neither party addressed the other. The boat was in the middle of the river. For a long distance on either side the banks were straight, and the tide was flowing directly down the middle channel. Suddenly arose a cry of fire. A -wild stampede of passengers in the bow of the boat was made toward the stern, and Foulon, who was standing near an opening in the railing, was thrown from his balance. Ashe was fall ing overboard the Colonel stretched out his long arm, grasped him by the collar and pulled him in again. The French man's hat had fallen off. The colonel picked it up, and with a friendly smile handed it to his late adversary. Foulon colored up and said eagerly: "Colonel Skerrett, 1 beg your pardon. You are a gentleman." In the meantime the panic increased. All the bow of the boat was in a bright blaze, and the fire reached the pilot house. The pilot rushed out with singed beard and eyebrews, and the boat slowly drifted down the stream. The colonel caught hold, of the pilot and dragged him to Foulon. "Sir." said he, "ask this here fellow which bank is the safest to land on, and tell me." ' "He says the right. one," answered Foulon. "But the boat cannot be man aged. The wheel must be on fire." Without a word of reply the colonel plowed his way through the shrieking crowd, leaped ud the steps of the pilot house and seized the wheel. . There he stood, the flames roaring about him, the crowd shrieking beneath him, steadily steering toward the right shore. Foulon shuddered at this exhibition of simple, superhuman courage. The bank was reached. The crowd, selfish and crazed with fear, rushed to land. The major and the captain struggled up the burn- in!? steps of the pilothouse, followed by Foulan and Vicaire. They dragged the colonel out through the flames, bore him to the bank and applied restoratives. He was less injured than might have been supposed,- and at length opened his eves. "Oh. Colonel Skerrett!" cried Fou Ion. with tears in his eyes, "your pardon. vour pardon ! You are a brave man and a man of honor." "The colonel, said Captain Pickering, "can swim like an otter. Ho could have crossed the creek a hundred times without stoppiug." "Fists." sa d Maior Marsh, "are no weapons, perhaps. Well, pistols are The colonel can knock the centro of a five-cent piece spun in the air at fifty yams." "I will never fiffht a duel again, M mur mured Foulon. "And I never call one man re cowartt for not fight o! zc duel," said Vicaire. "Are all the women safe?" asked the coloucl. FretUtick W. Axtri.- Home df the Esqslmanx. Lieutenant Schwatka says in the Ne York Timet: About half way up the ice bound coast of Labrador begins a rsc that, following the coast line of the polai waters of the North American continent and its outlying islands, extends to tht Pacific ocean, past the peninsula oj Alaska across its oase to a point almost within sight of Mount St. Elias. Thi distance thus covered is from 5,000 U 7,000 miles of coast 1-ne, about 20,001 miles being in the distant United Statei colony of Alaska. Some of these Esqui maux are said to be on the Asiatic coasj near Behring strait; but even if proper called Esquimaux they comprise a ver small emuant of Ihe family. They an nearly always a seaoost alillg people, existing upon the products of the sea such as whales, walrus and seal, althougt many trips are made inland to secure th skins of the reindeer, the almost exclu sively Esquimau clothing. Here and there in widely separated sections if found a tribe of this family which doei not dwell near the salt water, th Arctic fishing inducing them tf reside near inland rapids or rivers, or i favorable position allowing them to sub sist throughout the year on reindeer anc musk oxen. They, however, form aver3 small portion of the race. The dialecti of the curious language of these tribei vary slightly, but an Esquimau from Lab rador or Greenland could converse with o"jo fiom Behring strait or even those facing the Pacific ocean. The word Es. quimau has been applied to these tribes as the title Indian has been given to the savages in lower lati tuacs, Their tribe from them their anu they do not recognize it. name for a person of their own is Innuit, as usually spelled, and this as a basis a traveler among may make, as with any word ol language many variations, even in the same tribe. A "revised version" of the word based on the way I have heard it most frequently would be pho netically spelled "Een-u-eet," the ac cent being, on the first syllable. Some writers assert that these people are strongly opposed to being called Esqui maux, considering it a term of reproach, or, to put it mildly, not a national com pliment. My experience among them has been that they had little or no feel ing in the matter, not understanding the title any better than they would had they been termed "dudes." Coney Island Years Ago. "Howard" says in a New York letter to the Boston Globe : You know Coney Island, of course. No one comes to New York in the summertime without tasting the clams and the beer of Coney Island. But which of you to-day knows Coney Island as the Lord made it? Jump back with me twenty-five or thirty years. Let's play we are both boys again. Here we are in Brooklyn on a bright Saturday morning in July, and we want something to do. One of the boys suggests to go down to Coney Island. What for? Clams and a bath. All right. Clubbing together we hire a wagon, and take the twelve-mile drive along the king's high way, shaded on either side by magnifi cent over-arching trees, beautiful in their untrained naturalness. All along, dotted here and there, are road houses, nothing more than a shanty in which there is a bar-room with a huge piazza stretching all about it on which men sit and loaf and spit. On wo go till we come to a long stretch of sand on which are a few deserted bathing-houses and one or two fly tents. Quickly disrobing we nlunge into the magnificent surf, sheltering our selves from swarms of mosquitos that hum and sing above us in baffled rage. An hour spent there in undiluted lun among ourselves, with a fight or two with another gang of boys beyond, brings us to the dressing point, whence we go in a body to the nearest clammery and gorge ourselves with clams fresh from the sand, with soft-shell crabs still kicking the mud of a neighbering creek from their claws, with blue hsh lust hauled from the stream beyond, and with vegetables, if we care for them, pulled ten minutes before from the garden spots we passed as we came along. This, mind you, was all there was of Coney Island, fifteen years ago. Removing Spots on Paper. Grease spots, if old, may be removed by applying' a solution, of varying strength, of caustic potash upon the back of the leaf. The printing, which look3 somewhat faded after the removal of the spot, may be freshened up by the application of a mixture of one part of muriatic acid and twenty-five parts of water. In the case of fresh grease spots, carbonate of potassa (one part to thirty parts of. water), on.jorotorm,einer or oen zine renders good service. Wax disap pears if, after saturating with benzine or turpentine, it is covered with folded blotting paper and a hot fiatiron put upon it. Parafine is removed by boiling water or hot spirits. Ink spots or rust yield to oxalic acid in combination with hot water; chloride of gold or silver spots, to a weak solution of corrosive sublimate or cyanide of potassium. Seal ing wax is dissolved by hot spirits, and then rubbed off with ossa sepia. Indian ink is slightly brushed over with oil, and after twelve hours saponified with salmiac; any particles of color still re maining must be removed with rubber. Blood stains disappear after the applica tion for twenty minutes of the chloride of lime; the yellowish stain still remain ing yields to a weak acid. Fresh spots of paste are removed wjth a moist sponge, older ones with hot water. An Inexpensive Hammock. The season for hammocks is here, says a writer in an exchange, and I will tell you how to make a comfortable, inex pensive one. Bring your old flour bar rel from the cellar or store room, knock it to pieces, clean and paint the staves. Procure a rope four times in length of the place where it is to be suspended, and in size a little larger than a clothes line. Now halve the rope, double each piece in the middle, and commencing two yards or so from the end. weave it over and under each stave about three inches from the end of each one, which will bring the rope crossed between each ; do both sides the same and your ham mock is complete. One end of the rope should be fastened up . higher than the other. At first this may not seem firm, but when there is any weight on it, the rope becomes ."taut" and secure. "White serge dresses for little girls are trimmed with many rows of gold braid.; . ,- ; ;:: :-. ; SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Weather vanes illuminated by elec tricity, so as to be visible at night, have been suggested. C. F. Im Thunn, the German explorer of British Guiana, in climbing Mount Roraima, found, at a height of 5,600 feet above the sea-level, a garden of orchids. It has been discovered that the famouf tree from the bark of which quinine ia obtained furnishes no quinine excef t ut malarial regions. If the trcb is planted' In a malarial region it will produce qui nine. If it is planted in a ndn-malarlal re- fion it will flourish, but will not pro-' uce quinine. It is therefore claimed that quinine is simply malarial poison drawn from the soil and stored up by the tree. The antiquity of trade-marks has been traced by a contemporary to be almost coeval with ihe industry of the human; race. It has been found that ancientj Babylon had property symbols, and thej Chinese declare that they had trade- marks 1,000 years before Christ. Gutert--burg, the inventor of printing, won a' lawsuit about a trade-mark, and the use) of a distinguishing stamp was recognized by the English parliament in 1800. " Mother-of-pearl, of which ornamental buttons, buckles, fan sticks, card cases and other fancy articles are made, is the principal production of Tahiti, and makes a commerce variously estimated between $20,000 and $100,000 a year. The la goons in which the oysters producing this material are found are growing poorer every day, and unless protective measures are adopted, they will be im poverished, if not ruined, in a lew years. There is no record of the distance from shore at which divers have gone down in. the Atlantic ocean. They can go down to certain depths at any part of the ocean. As long ago as 1856, E. P. Harrington, of Westfield, N. Y., went down 170 feet and recovered the iron safe of the steamer Atlantic, sunk in Lake Erie the year before. He was dressed in a common diver's suit, and remained down eleven minutes. A re bent French invention enables men to descend over 800 feet. The peculiar acid which exudes from the pores of the body acts directly upon leather, and takes the "life" out, render ing it stiff and hard. In a pair of shoes' recently returned to a prominent manu facture the uppers were moist with iweat, the soles dry. The kid leather, when it hardened, was so brittle that it could be torn and cracked like paper. The destruction was caused by perspira tion of the feet. New shoes from the same maker and of the same material were perfectly sound and firm. Professor Riley states that "insects probably outnumber in species all other animals combined, and that some three! hundred and fifty thousand species have' already been described, and full as many more remain to be characterized." It has often been asserted by naturalists that the proportion of species of insects to plants is about five to one, and, as considerably more than one hundred thousand plants have been described, it is quite probable that Professor "Riley's1 estimate is not far out of the way. It must not, however, be supposed that the insect enemies of plants are equally distributed, and that each has just five and no more, for Professor Lintner,, State entomologist of New York, records no less than one hundred and seveuty six different species of insects affecting the apple. Cultivated plants useful io man appear to have more insect enemies than those of little or no economic value. New York Sun. A Water-Museum. A water-museum consists of glass ves self containing fish, mollusks, larvae, and such other creatures as will live in the small quantity of water these vessels hold. The great advantage tnac tne wafer-museum has over an aquarium is, that while the latter is bulky and has manvdark corners in which you can only see with difficulty, if at .dl, the jars of the museum can be ca-sily carried about and held to the light, so that you can readily observe the smallest movements ol your specimens. Beside, in an aquarium you can have but one kind of water at a time, either salt or fresh, and you keep only those specimens that will live to gether peaceably ; but in a water-museum one may have both sorts of water (in different vessels), and both marine and fresh water specimens. This museum, or water-cabinet, too, costs very little, while an aquarium is not only expensive but troublesome. We must first make sure of a sunny window, where the museum will be out of the way, and where there is room for a small table. Then we must forage for the vessels in the glassware shop, or at the dealers in chemical apparatus. I have often been able to pick up con fectionary ja:s which I got cheap ly because their tops were broken, which, of course, made no difference to mo. I consider these the best for our purpose, in size from four inohes in di ameter by six in height to seven inches in diameter and nine m height. The jars must be placed on the table" in the sunny window, so that they will all get plenty of Tght, as this is necessary to most forms of life. One or two of the larger jars had best be used for fish, and to malxc them attractive their bottoms should be cevered with clean river sand and pebbles, or fragments of rock in the shape of grottoes, as the fish like to rest on these and to eat the almost invisible weeds that grow uponthem. Of course, all the vessels must be filled with water and sprigs of aquatic plants, such as water cress, villisneria or duck-weed, placed in them to keep the water pure. Many kinds of water insects are carnivor ous, or prey upon the weaker species. Of course, it won't do to keep these in the same jar with heir victims. To find out which kinds agree, we can mix inem in tne clear, shallow bell-glass, where we can easily observe the peculiarities of each. St. Nicholas. Followed Bismarck's Lead. It had become the fashion in the sit tinn of the earlv German diet for onlv the imperial ambassador to smoke. One day Baron von Bismarck drew out his cigar case and asked his Austrian col leaoniA for a licht. which, of course. could not be refused. Henceforth Prus sia, as well as Austria, smoked : but one hv nna tiA cmallpr afftt of (lermMT felt the distinction thus made between them and the great powers to be invidi ous, and lighted their cigars. One el derly gentleman who had hitherto been mi !1 i"ltaa tt fnhtoitn !l ftt1 in llUVA Rll f - fered severely from the energy with wnicn lie puueu away ai nu cuui uiuui cipar in order to assert the independent sovereignity of his government. He was aha C t.nA - a ..in 1 n vl I.I t1 (I atvmt. whose self-sacrifice even posterity fails a : rrt 7 - Tf - MOMENTS F9R MERRIMENT. Th9 tMtm lnkmMA-Xrhmt fVp4 Tli DeacM Df-rTfc Her Was SIsUb BCaUisv4M fcy s rials. A gentleman came home in the "wee sma' hours ayont the twJj"tat the South End recently, and was surprised to find his wife clad in black. "Why, are you wearing these mourn ing garments f he said, somewhat Un steadily. "For my late husband," was the sig nificant reply. - He has Deen in jthe house at 10 ever since. Boston Budget. What He t?ed. "You say that you was forcibly ejected V "No, sir; I don't say nothing of the kind." "Didnt I understand you to say that he removed you with violence V "I don't know what you understood, but I didn't say that' "I inferred from what you told me that he used force to compel your exit.?' "I don't see how you got that into your head, for I didn't say nothing of the kind." "You didn't go out of your own ac count?" "Not by a tarnal sight." "Then how did you get out?n 'Why, gosh it all, he kicked meout. "Well, 1 want to know if he didn't use violence." "No, I'll be shrunk if he did. He used his foot. " Chicago Ledger. Tne Deacon's Dos; A good story is told of the presence of mind of a New Hampshire deacon who was very fond of dogs. He had one valuable setter that he had trained himself, and that understood his every word and slightest gesture with an al most human intelligence. One evening at a prayer meeting the good man was Offering an earnest exhortation and the people sat with bowed heads, giving earn est attention. The audience faced the stand where sat the pastor ; the doors opened on either side. All at once one of the doors, which bad been left ajar, was pushed open, and the handsome head of the deacon's favorite setter was thrust in. ' The head was followed by the body, and the dog in toto had just started with a joyful bound toward its master. The deacon generally knew what was going on about him,' whether he was praying or shooting, and the first movement of the intruder attracted his attention. Quick as a flash, the deacon, raising his head with a warning gesture, exclaimed: "Thou hast given us our charge ; help us to keep it." At the em phasized word so well known, to his ca nine ear, the handsome brute stopped as if shot on the very threshold of the door, with his intelligent eye fixed upon his master. In the same unmoved tone, with a slight wave of the extended hand: "We would not return back to Thee with our duty on earth unfulfilled." Again the perfect training of the dea con's "pet was made evident, for, without a whimper, he turned as noiselessly as he had entered, and remained quietly outside until his master appeared. . The Hero Wa.a Slain. One:of the farmers who succeeded in backing his wagon into place at the City Hall market yesterday morning had sev-. eral errands to do around the neighbor hood, and he left his son of fourteen on the vehicle to make a sale of five or six bags of potatoes. The old man had scarcely disappeared when a bill dis tributor came along and threw into the wagon the first chapters of a sensational serial. The boy grabbed for the "fly" and began to devour the literature in chunks and hunks, and of the half dozen people who came along and asked the price of his potatoes he answered only one, and him so absent-mindedly that no sale was made. In about half an hour the old man returned. Ho halted at the back end of the wagon and took in the situation, and then asked : "George, what you got?" "Story." "What about?" "Injuns." "Do they kill anybody?" "They are after a feller and I guess they git him." "He's the hero I s'pose? "Yes." "Don't sell any taters, does he?" i thought not, but I reckon I'll soon V know the reason wbyl" With that he leisurely climbed over the tail-board, reached for the boy and the shaking up that youth received will make him dream of earthquakes for many nights to come. "You don't want any more ot that," said the old man, as he finished business and dropped the "fly" overboard, "l ne Injuns not only overtook the hero but they slew him in the most fatal manner, and don't you forget it! Now you git up'n gallop and sell these 'tatersi Detroit Free Press. OTctytfieaded by n trials. "TT-rc'a an old acquaintance." saidmv friend, as we stood looking at the fish display of Commissioner jbiackiora, point ing out a parti-colored eel-like fish sev eral feet long and of most villainous as pect. In form it resemuiea tne typical sea serpent that figures in the old work of Pontoppidan ana otners. inc ooay was high the mouth large, and in it appeared a most, formidable array of teeth. Tht in the famous, or rather infa mous, murray of the South," explained my companion, giving tne creature a spiteful dig. "It's as mucn oi a sea ser pent as I ever want to see, and I must tell you a good joke on myself in which one of these brutes played a prominent part. Some years ago, when I began spending my winters in Florida, I devoted almost my entire time to fishing sea fishing, you know and almost the first fish that caught me was one of these murrays. This is a medium sized one. They attain in the Bahamas and around Cuba a length of four or fire feet, and, being proportionately stout, present a formi dable appearance. ' One day I was fish in or of? the reef, in about five fathoms, and had been having fine luck with vellow-tails. when suddenly I had a bite that brought me to my. teet. I hauled tne nsn ana ine nsn hauled me, and after ten minutes hard work I had him at the surface, and, with a tremendous jerk, landed, not a AoVa knt Ann vf tllOM TT1TTBVS a UMI) WW --- rouser. I was amazed as much as the murray. "No sooner did it feel itself in the boat then it opened its cavernons mouth and made a rush for me. There were Ka.f wn mothnda of esnane onen to me. one to jump overboard and. the other to climb the small mast of mv boat I cheee the latter, and as tie murray reached the spot I just cleared it, and there I was in the attitude generally known as shinning. The murray made the circuit of the boat several times dragging the line, thrashing the -oars about, and darting its ugly head in my direction at every move I made. It was impossible, however, to hold such a position long, and I was about consider ing the possibilities of leaping into the water: and swimming to the reef when the creature wriggled overboard. I then slid down and cut the line. When I got ashore my friends asked me what I was shinning the mast of the dingy for. - They had been watching me through a spy glass. I told them I had been clearing the halyards. If they had ever got hold of it that I had been there for ten minutes to get away from that green-hued eel, 1 should never have heard the last of it" Neve York Sun, Shops In Japan. The villages are full of shops. There is scarcely a house which does not sell something.' Where the buyers come from, and how a profit can be made is a mystery. Many of the things are eatables, such as dried fishes, and a half-ineh long, impaled on sticks; cakes, sweet meats composed of rice, flour, and very little sugar ; circular lumps of rice dough, called mochi; roots boiled in brine; a white jelly made from beans; and ropes, straw shoes for men and horses, straw cloaks, paper umbrellas, paper water proofs, hairpins, toothpicks, tobacco pipes, paper mouchoirs, and numbers of other trifles made of bamboo, straw, grass, and wood. These goods are on. stands, and in the room behind, open to the street, all the domestic avocations are going on, and the housewife is usu ally to be seen boiling water or sewing, with a baby tucked in the back of her dress. A lucifer factory has recently been put up, and in many houso-lronts men are cutting up wood into lengths for matches. In others are husking nee, a very laborious process, in which the grain is pouuded in a mortar sunk in the floor" by a flat-ended wooden pes tle attached to a long horizontal lever, which is worked by "the feet of a man, invariably naked, who stands at the other extremity. Lakes of Solid Salt In Asia. Yar-oilan means "the sunken ground," and no word can describe the general ap pearance of the valley of these lakes. The total length of the valley from the Kangruali road on the west to the Band-i-Dozan, which bounds it on the east, is about thirty miles, and its great breadth about eleven miles, divided into two parts by a connecting ridge which runs across from north to south, with an average height of about 1,800 feet, but has a narrow, which rises to some 400 feet above the general average. To the west of this ridge lies the lake from which the Tekke Turcomans from Merv get their salt. The valley of this lake is some six miles square and is surrounded on all sides by a steep, almost precipi tous, descent, impassible for baggage animals, so, far as I am aware, except by the Merv road, in the northeast corner. The level of the lake I mado to be about 1,430 feet above sea level, which gives it a descent of some 400 feet from the level of the connecting ridge, and of some 950 feet below the general plateau above. The lake itself lies In the center of the basin, and the supply of salt in it is ap parently unlimited. The bed of the lake is one solid mass of hard salt, perfectly level, and covered by only an inch or two of water. To ride over it was like riding over ice or cement. The bottom was covered with a slight sediment, but when that was scraped away the , pure white salt shone out below. How deep this deposit may be it is impossible to say, for no one has yet got to the bottom of it. To the east of the dividing ridge is the second lake, from which the Saryke of Penideh take their salt. The valley in which this lake is situated is much the larger of the two. The valley proper is itself some fifteen miles in length by about ten miles in breadth. The descent to it is precipitous on the north and west sides only, the eastern and southeastern end sloping gradually up in a succession of undulations. The level of this lake is apparently lower than that of the other. I made it out to be some eight hundred feet above sea level. The salt in this lake is not so smooth as in the other, and did not look so pure. It is dug out in flakes, or strata, generally of some four inches, in thickness, is loaded into bags, and carried off on camels for sale I without further preparation. Sir relet Lumsden. Confession or a Smoker. Yes, it is a terrible bondage. It is a slavery. . Yes, I inhale the smoke and blow it out again. It is very silly, is it not? I do the same thing with my breath. Away with this useless breath. Some breaths are much pleasanter far, far away. Why do I smoke cigars? Because I am the biggest and the cigar cannot help itself. It is an economical habit; the smoke of the cigar keeps the moths out of my hair. Then I use tobacco to preserve human life. Science tells me that three drops of the oil of tobacco placed upon the tongue of a rattlesnake or dog will kill either or both of them in a mmuie. i tremble to think how many times I walked in the very shadow of death be fore I began to carry a plug of tobacco around with me. Now when I meet a mad dog I am secure. He may bite me, but I will kid him. The cannibal who eats me will dream that night that he got hold of the wrong prescription. Burdetle, in Brooklyn Eagle. Flesh of Wild and Domestic Animal. An amateur writer on gastronomic matters avers that the "flesh of young animals digests quicker than that of ma ture ones." If that is the fact, Iho world has been much in error about veal. He goes on to say: "The flesh of wild birds is more tender than that of domes ticated ones. This is accounted for by the greater amount of extrc'se they take, thereby renewing their flesh mo:e rapid Iv, and making it younger than that of birds which live a more quiet life." If exercise ie what does it, there most be strange perversity in old game cocks trained for the pit, that makes them per sist in becoming as tough as bunches of fiddle-strings, and hard as clock-works. No birds have more systematic exercise than they, . but, it all does not mako them tender as a young capon. And ex ercise doesn't seem t5 improve the jack rabbit of the-plains. He roams airily over a hundred miles, more or less, to pick up, bit by bit. the fragments of his daily grub, but gets so tough at it that he makes the coyote a-weary that seeks to eat him. But the jack-rabbit's tame cousin, however old, is almost as tender ks a frog, Jieto York Cook. A STAGE ROBBERS CAREER BXCZTHra EPISODES XW THI IjXI Ol A Ulan Who Had Robbed iriote Thai Fifty Majrea A Boasting Lett el That Loot to Ilia Dealt). A recent letter from San AntOnio Texas, to the New York Sun says: It it the general opinion that if James M6 Daniel, the celebrated Texas desperado, whose death has just been announced, had not been killed just as he was bj the officers, ho would have been dea anyway in less than twenty-four hours, "Uis time had come to die," said at old cattle man. "I don't see how h could have escaped at all. He was en gaged to marry both ol old Dave Coflee'l daughters, and, as he was preparing U jump the country, he'd got to take on or the other with him. They're ai pretty girls as there are in Toxas, and they're just as quick with a gun as any body, and the man who lied to one ot them would die, and I'll bet on it. 1 believe that Jim escaped a violent death at the hands of one of the girls by being killed by the officers. So there's no us of anybody grieving over Jim. . It wai fate. His time had come, and he had U go." McDaniel had taken a hand in a greaf many kinds of crime, but stage robbing was his trade, and he had a reputation is that line which was the envy of all thl beginners in the business in the South west. He had robbed more than fiftj stages, and considered his occupation ai legitimate as any other. During tht eight years that he was at work on tht highways of Texas and New Mexico hi made his name a terror to all drivers and travelers. As an evidence of tho celerity, ot cheek, as it is called here, with whici he operated, it may be said that twt years ago he robbed the Boeme stagt twice within three years. He stopped il first on the west side of the town, and, after subjecting the passengers: to man indignities, let them go, pretending tt rideaway from the town when he had got through with them. His victim drove rapidly to Boeme, whf re theii stories caused tho utmost indignation. The able-bodied men got together, armed and mounted, and set out toward tht west in search of McDaniel. In tht mean time the people of the town had supplied the travelers with some readj money, and the journey was- resumed About two miles east of Bocmo the samt highwayman presented himself, and onct more took everything the unfortunate! had. They then returned to Boeme, and when their story was told the settlen. gnashed their teeth in impotent rage McDaniel had simply mado a cirouit ol the town, and after finishing his second robbery he had no difficulty in makinj .his escape. A dozen similar instance! might be related : of him. The fellows that McDaniel had witl him during a good portion of his careet were quite as hard as he was. The killed several people in their stage rob beries, and on one occasion they cleaned out a rival party of outlaws with whom they had long been at swords' points. After this exploit they left Texas and crossed over into New Mexico, when they indulged in a prolonged debauch. visiting all the principal towns and boasting of their crimes. In the salooni which they visited they created a de cided sensation by reaching into theit pockets, producing the ears of theii victims, and clapping them on the bat in payment for their drinks. They kepi this sort of thing up for a month ol more, until there began to be hints thai their presence was. not desirable, and, they returned to their old haunts is Texas. " During all of McDaniel's career ht showed a strong dislike for the press Although living in the wilds the most ol the time, he seemed to have a way of finding out all that Was written againa him anywhere in Western Texas, and al that an editor needed to get a reprimand by mail from McDaniel was to intimate if nis paper that he was a .thief and mur derer who ought to be dancing on a scaf fold. It was this fatal fondness fa writing to the newspapers that hastened Jim's death. The outlaw's last arrest was for mal robbery, and on his trial in this city hi was convicted and sentenced to one ol the Illinois penitentiaries for ninety-nini years. While awaiting transportatiol north he broke out of the jail here and disappeared. A vigorous pursuit was in stituted, but as no trace of him could bt found, and as it was known that hi' would rather die than submit to life im prisonment. It was believed that hi had gone to old Mexico, and would no? again be heard ot on this side of tht Ifne. Just as everybody had settled down to this conviction one of the loca papers received a long letter from Mc Daniel protesting against its suggestiot ' that men should be kept on his trail foi some time longer. lie said that thai was not . a fair way to treat him. , lit was now free, and he intended to ro main. free. He had a good Winchesto; and two revolvers, and he wanted every bqdy to know that he could not fx taken. For that reason it occurred tt him that any newspaper man with anj common sense would let him alone anc urge other people to. This missive wai not dated, but it was postmarked a' Uvalde. The officers made up their "'minds tha' McDaniel had not gone to Mexico as thei had supposed, and they immediately made preparrtions for a thorough search Dave Coffee and his two daughters were known to be iriends of the outlaw, anc as their camp was in a wild and danger ous part of the country about - thirtj mile) north of here, it was believed tha; be was hiding there. Accordingly, I party was made up to go out there, and, -arriving at the place in the evening, thi officers waited in the bushes until day break, and then drew a little nearer U await developments. Just at dawn ttej saw McDaniel crawl out of a tent, and as he grabbed his rifle when they called on him to throw up his hands, the fired, breaking both of his arms at thi first shot. He tried to raise his rifle,bui It dropped from his hands, and as ht, seized one of his revolvers and endeav ored in a helpless way to raise it, he re ceived a rifle ball in the neck, which passed out near the spinal column and caused him - to stagger aud fall on hii face. The Coffee girla threw themselvei on die dying desperado's body and be wailed his fate, but presently ceased thw lamentations to engage in a furioui scuffle e-TS? their respective claims. Twenty minutes after" his discovery "bj the officers McDaniel was a dead man. The outlaw's intention had been te start that day for Mexico, and each ol the girls expected to go with him as hit. wife, though neither knew of the other'i intentions. McDaniel had converted what little property he had into cash, and doubtless anticipated a long lift south ot the border. ,
The Anson Times (Wadesboro, N.C.)
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