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' ' " ' ' " R.-H. COWAN; Editor and Proprietor. We Proudly call ours a Government by the Ieople.-rClevelarid. TERMS: S2.00 Por Year. VOL. II. WADESBORO, N. C. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 12, 1885. NO. . Terms: CiihIi 1 11 Advance. One Year S ix Months Three ?Ionti:s $2.00 fl.00 50 ADVEIITISINfi RATES. One square, first insertion - - $1.00 Each s-ubsoquent insertion - 50 Local ad veilLments. per line - - 10 s?Sje"ial rates given on applieatio for ouger time. Advertisers art- requested to bring in their udvei tisrmcnts o:i Monday evening of each wok, io insure insertion in next issue. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. .Tohn D. Pemberton. ATTORNEY AT LAW, WADESBORO, N. C. . Practice in th State and Federa ( 'ou.' fs. JAMES A. LOCKHART. Attorney and Counsellor at Law, WADESBORO. N. C. ;,' I'rac-ti.-e at all the Courts of the States k. i.im.K. W. L. PARSOS LITTLE & PARSONS, " A ! 'l'OUNKYS AT I.AW, WADEKBOItO, N. C. Dili t ioiiv Pi'omiuly Attended to. JL.J1. lcPow I) K N T I 8 T, WADESBOliO, N C. Oilice over G. 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When May with apple blossom Her loYing-cop w brewing, With beams and dews and winds that get The honey from the violet, With hopes on which the heart is set, Oh, then's the time for wooing, For wooing, and for suing, Dear lad, the time for wooing I When August calls the locust To sound the year's undoing, And, like some altar dressed of old In drapery of cloth of gold, High pastures thick with broom unfold. Oh, then's the time for wooing, For wooing, and for suing. Dear lad, the time for wooing! Wben brown October pauses, The ripened woodland viewing, And all the sunny forests spread Their fallen leaves, as heart's blood red, A carpet fit for brides to tread, Ob. then's the time for wooing. For wooing, and for suing, Dear lad, the time for wooing! Oh, listen, happy lover, Your happy fate pursuing: When fields are green, when woods are sere When storms ere white, w hen stars are clear, On each sweet day of each s weet year, Oh, then's the time for wooing, For wooing, and for suing,1 Dear lad, the time for wooing I Harriet Prescott Spofford, in Bazar. ; AUNT MITTABLE'S THINGS. The oraugc- glow of the March twi light threw the leafless copses into strong relief; the little brook had burst its thick crust of ice, ;ind sung merrily under th velvet fringes of the pussy .-willows, and up from the woods there camu nn Inde scribable odor of sping. A red flaq rolled up and tied around its stick by a hemp string, lay just inside (he do.ir yard, when Mrs. Origson came in with the last pail of water that she should ever draw from the o'd well. fcd,e sighed as she filled the squat copper kettle and hung it over the tire. "The'auction sale is to be to-morrow," said she, "and I never was so glad ol anything ia all my horn days. Seen a time as I've ha.d cleanin' up and scrub bin' down and scourin' and polishin'! There ain't a bone in my body bui aches." "It's all time and trouble thrown away," sepulchrnlly observed Misi Ketchum, who had dropped in on her way from the store; "the old trans won't sell for sixpence apiece vou "see if they do." " - "But the things ain't no use to me,", said Mrs- Grigson, "and I need a little money so awful bad! As for the nooi luck I've had, right straight through, there ain't no calculatin' it. Ef I wasta tell you, Martha Ketchum, you wouldn't believe it. Even down to my last col J dollar!" "Eh?" said Miss Ketchum. Being of a melancholy turn, she liked to hear sad recitals, although personally her sympa thies were enlisted on the Widow Grig son's side. . "Why, it was last week," said Mrs. Grigsou. in the level," complaining tone that always reminded you of tha little brook down in the hollow, "brother Lyman left his little Brazil monkey here overnight. lie was a-calculatin' to sell it to Mrs. Gartney's little boy, John Henry. And ef you'll believe me. the mis'able critter swailered the gold dollar I'd left on my bureau to pay the meat peddlar with, and dropped my silver specs down the well." "La!" said Miss Ketchum. "I seen him champin' it between his jaws," said Mrs. Grigson. "and shake and squeeze him as I would, I couldn't get it out of him !" "Well, I never did!" remarked the guest. "It did seem as ef thi was the last straw that broke the camel's back," sighed Mrs. Grigson. "Brother Lyman he was dreadful consarned about it, but he couldn't do nothin' for me. He of feaed to kill the monkey, but I knowed how disappointed John Henry Gartnev would be, and, arter all, the critter hud only acted accordinY to its natur', and they was to pay brother Lyman a ' dollar and a half for him. As for the ! specs, brother Lyman fished 'em up with a long pole wich a crooked pin hitched i on to the end on't. The glasses was ! broke, but the frames is good yet. I'm calkilatin' to get 'em mended when " ! "Wonder how much the feather bed '11 go for !" said Miss Ketchum. break- j ing in on the monotonous refrain. "There ain't no tellin'." said Mr j Grigson. "They're dreadful old. Aunt Mittable she'd kep' house for forty year, and never had nothin' new. I don't s'pose an auction sale will pay, but what j else could I do with all the old duds? ; 'Squire Daggett wants possession of the ) place at once, and "Ain't gwine to sell these 'ere house ; plants, be yef said Miss Ketcuum, nod- I ding toward a green-painted stand in the corner. "Brother Lyman thought they might fetch a few cents, said Mis. Grigson. "And the stand ought to bewoitha quarter of a dollar. It had a new coat of paiut r year ago. I give or.e J'rusa- ! lera cherry-tree to Abigail Barton for ; helpiu' me to clean oat the old cup- boards. She's been dreadful neighborly, ; and she wouldn't take a penny for what she did." "More fool she," curtly observed Miss Ketchum. "I'd like that thar monthly j rose with the striped blooms on it." "It is pretty," said Mrs. Grigson, ig- j noring the broad hint. "And I guess it 'ill sell cheap. I'd like some friend to ; Lev it, for the slip it growed from was give me by Grigson the very first yeai 1 we were married." - And as she was not invited to stay to j tea. Miss Ketchum at last went away, i leaving Mrs. Grigson sittinjr sorrowfully i before the fire of discarded barrel slaves, j ruinous packing boxes, ancient chair legs j and wooden stools which had absolutely j refused to I e made capable of further service. "Aunt Mittable" which name ! was a pervislon of the good old New Eng- j land pranomen Mehitable had been all the mother she had known, and it seemed j lonesome enough t be sitting there in ' the empty house with Aimt Mittable j tucked away in a corner-of the frozen ; church yard. Her husband was deiid, f and her three little children were Strug- j gling up in the world as f est they could. ' fehe had had a position as janitress in a i public school, but she had lost it when she came to Mullein Farm to nurse Aunt Mittable in her last i'lness; and now she scarcely knew -which way to turn. Brother Lyman, lier.only living relative; was poorer than herself a good hearted, empty-pocketed;, man. who occupied some position on a sailing vessel which which pl ed betw.een Boston , aud tho Azores islands. There was a mortgwee on the place which had swallowed up all ampliations in the direction of veiling it, and M. Grigson faintly hoped that the auction sale might help to pay the 'expense of her old aunt's burial. Other wise she did not, to use her own expre? sion, "see her way clear." Mrs. Grigson was not a sentimentalist. A janitress. in a public school building, with forefinger roughened by the coars est needle-work, and mind narrowed down by the daily tread-mill of the most groveling cares, has not much time for thai sort of indulgence; but a the s;;t there, disking an infusion of I'.e weak est icj. an i watching the ve. o v Man-! moon ighr liy h - ; rf c. : t:vr. nf uncurtained window on the carper floor, while the i-a'rcl staves smonl 'ered into carmine tinted ache's, she co d remember the days when-the ha ' hope ' for such a differen if "I was a gal : hen. tV- ir'ii. Grigson. "It didti't sr m i was anything impossible. e s'pose most folks are disri -p'imed jest as bad as'l t e, el they li e on;' enough. And ihi-n 'he poor wid -w went tob"d to keep warm: and all niht lonr the yellow moonliglit flooded the solitary room' where Aunt Mittable had died, and a solitary cricket sang on the hearth stone where the red ashes had long since faded into white dust. The morrow dawned wild, bright nn 1 windy, as March mornings often come rushing over the. bleak Connect cut hill crests. The auctioneer arrived in a one horse buggy from the vil age; the neigh bors assemble 1 from all p ints of the compass. For in Feltvill'e Four Corners people entertained the same sentiment toward an auction sale as New Yorkers feel toward a private view of the Acad emy of Design, or a flower show at the Madison Square Garden. Miss Ketchum was there in her be-t dyed shawl, and the bonnet which the irreverent youth of the neighborhood had christened "Old Ply mouth Rock," from the. otsilized ap pearance of its feathers; Squire Daggett drove down in his family carry-all with the six Misses Daggett. The par son and the parson's wife were there, punching pillows and inspecting bolsters, and counting cups and saucers. A man twho was vaguely reported to be an emis sary from an old curiosity shop in the .city was prowling about with a memorandum-book under his arm. Everybody was there, evendown to the village fool, who had been allowed to come with his grandmother, under solemn promise of "not spe-iking a word the whole time." In her special corner Abigail Barton was whispering to a knot of eager women with much excited gesticulation, and close by the hich wooden mantel sat poor Mrs. Grigson in her best gown, trembling a little, she scarcely knew why. "Aunt Mittable was a ways partial to auction vendooV said she to herself. "It does seem as ef she'd ought to be here." , And Bhe thought of the lonely grave under last year's weedy mullein stalks in the neglected corner of the church-yard, and sighed. "1111 set a rose o' Sharon there as soon as the spring fairly opens," mused she. "Aunt Mittable always 1 ked llowers." And the crowd around Abigail Barton increased; and a sort of intangible thr 11 went through the rooms like an electric current. "Is anything wrong?" Mrs. Grigson ashed, nervously. "Ilev they heard any news?" "I seen it myself," she could hear Abi gail saying: "I've got it to hum in my pocketboo'k. I've always heard that fhe was queer, and I shouldn't wonder if that was the way she'd hoarded up." Mrs. Grigson rose to join the group; but just then the auctioneer's voice drowned all else in its high, sing-song drone : "Now, then, ladies and gentle men, if you please," and the sjle began in good earnest. " The breadths of well-worn rag carpet brought a pitiful sum. but the four hair cloth "cheers" in the best parlor, and a certain uncompromising sofa of the same slippery material, rea'ized twenty dollars, and the wooden clock was bid up to six dollars and a half by Squire Daggett him self. "He can't know that tho machinery's clear Worn out, an ' t hain't struck in six mont';.?' said '! r Grigson. don't Know but it" in .! ry to teb a n "Hold your ton i T-.omi " ii s pered brother i.v .,. -fT- . h hands in his pockes. was : agiinst the wall. "1 yuc- bors hevea'outs kn- t Aunt 'e'- - bed ! Folks . rs. Grigson. "And a ."--n.a :.cm worn-out bed-quilt! ; :h --rui i comin' to an end?" But when they came to t e a ; f house plants, Mr?. Ciig-o.i' ft; !: reached its culmina'insr ;it:i. . striped mon'hly rose brought a do ! , a stumpy old lemon lih in a drer t which had never been s ispcte 1 o? the faintest inclination to bloom. ra:i up to five; a myrtle-tree ascended the scale, and was finally knocked down at ten and a half; an oleander was bid up to three, half a dozen spindling tish-eeranium- va ried from fifty cents to a dollar each, and ten callas find a sickly carnation were bought by Miss Dora Dagget-. at seventy-five rents each; and the surplus age of pallid primroses and cactus mon strosities was lumped at a dollar to Mr. Tows, whose door-yard was laid out in carrots and parsnips, and who did not know a pokeberry bush from a holly bush. "Be folKs mad?" said breathless Mrs. Grigson. The proceeds of the flower stand amounted to eighteen dollars, and the purchasers eagerly seized their property and carried it off, a if unwilling to let it out of their sight, and the sale went briskly on. "Well, Naomi," said brother Lyman, chuckling, when the "vendoo" was over, "how much did ye ex peck to git for Aunt Mittable's things?" . "I did hope for fifty dollars, all told," said Mr. Grigson. "But Miss Ketchum said I was a fool for calkilatin on any sech amount." "What d'ye say to two hundred?" said brother Lyman, gleefully. "What!" shrieked Mrs.. Gngsom "Ly man, you're a-pokin' fun at me." "No, I ain't," cheerfully spoke up brother Lyman. "It's two hundred and fifteen dollars and eighty-eight cents, that's what it is! Oh, ef ye'd only seen the women-folks a-carryin' out Aunt Mittable's house-plants nugged np close to 'em, like they was little babies 1" Brother Lym in stopped to shake all over with a species of inaudible laughter which convulsed him as if he were a mold of jellv. "Two hundred and fifteen dollars!" gasped Mrs. Grigson. "It's like a dream." ' . The auctioneer counted out the bills into the good woman's toil-hardened hands. . r "I congratulate you, ma'am,' said he. "Are you sure there ain't no mistake?' said Mrs. Grigson. Quite sure, ma'am." "Well, 1 don't nohow understand it," id the widow, slowly shaking her head. "PVaps, Mr. Pulfield, you can explain it to me)" The auctioneer looked around, winked one eye solemnly, and twirled his quill pen backward and forward. "No one here?" said he. "Not a soul," declared brother Ly man. "Everybody gone?" , "Yes. everybodv." "Then look her," said the auction eer. -1 couldn't help c tchin' a word here and there; aBd it wan t no business of mine to interfere." - v "1 don't unde stand " said Mrw&rig son. more' bev ildered than ever. "Don't ye, now? 'Well, less see if I can't make it clear t' ye." said Mr. Pul- j field. "Abigail i'arton she whs a-whis- perin' to Deacon Plimpton's widow ! how't she found a little go d dollar bur i led in the earth ot a flower-pot that held i a J'rusalem cherr.-tree vou give her; and it went from one to another like wild-fire. Oh, yes, Mrs. Grigson, your aunt Mittable was a good woman, a very i-.i-.o .. :!! . O il aw. tit -.iiecr And i ov every u in, woman ;nd child will he rippin' open feather beds, diggin' up house-plants, and ! kin' into c heer seats and bureau drawers for hidden treasure. See?" "You don't s'pose " cried Mrs. Grig son. "Yes, I do s'pose," said the auction eer. "If folks will be fools, there ain't no way of prerentin' 'em as ever I knowed of. And I wish 'em good luck findin' what your aunt Mittible has hid there." "Well, I declare !" said Mrs. Grig3on. "Y'.mr th tig-; hcv so'd virv well, ma'am," said Mr. Pulfield, buttoning up his coat. "1 don't know when we've had such a successful auction sale in the neighborhood." Mrs. Grigson went back to the city feel ing richer than any capitalist. And not until the train was running into the New Haven depot did she start wildly from her seat in the coiner of the car. "It was the monkey," she said, speaking aloud in the sudden enl ghtmeut of her soul "brother Lyman's monkey ! And there was me, poor, simple critter, a repinin' again the mischief he had done !"' The other passengers stared dubiously at her, wondering if they had come ad the way from Feltviile Four Corners with a crazy woman. An old man took up a basket and shawl-strap and went to the other end of the car. But they need not have been alarmed. Mrs. Grigson wai not crazy. Harper' t Ba-ar. Blacksmiths' Hammer Signals. There are few persons, cither in the city or country, who have not at trmes watched a blacksmith at work in his shop with his assistant, or striker. They have noticed that the smith keeps-up a constant succession of motions and taps with a small hand hammer, while with his left hand he turns ahd movthe hot iron which the assistant is striking with a sledge. Th taps are not purposeless, but given entirely for the direction of the striker. Accotding to a writer in the Hardirnrd Reporter, the signals, as given bv the blacksmith and wheelwright, are as lollows : When the blacksmith gives the anvil quick, light blows, it is a signal to the helper to use the sledge or to strike quicker. The force of the blows given by the blacksmith's hammer indicates the force of blow it is required to give the sledge. The blacksmith's helper is supposed to strike the work in the middle of the width of the anvil, and when this re quires to be varied the blacksmith indi cates where the sledge blows are to fall by touching the required spot with his : hand hammer. If the sledge is required to have a la-t'c-il morion wh ie d-.--ceLding.the black- i smi a indicates the same to the helper ! by delivering ha id hammer b'ows in which the hand hatnra-r moves in the dir tion required lor the sie Ige to rn ve If the 11 cksmth d livers a heavy blow u.ou tit" w-.o-iv a d an mtermed t e lijht h iw n 'iit an il i deno es hat heavy s 1 ' S e ,- u:j ed .i t t -v o mure u 1 ers. the. !. ac; !! a - es i olo v tween each h- r' s e :on,n-r i.low. the "! ect i l i'i- u el, t) .ia e .v here tiie fledge bl .) s are t fa 1. Vh"u the bl ek-rai'h drs r. s the se'g- lo v- to cease, lie lets the hand h.'i'iiuHT head fall upon the anvil and ciri i Hie its reU un 1 upn he same uu.il it a-'. Tins .iie mo -'cents of the hand hani-:-ie ! ;ir ,t trials to the helper, and w.:a a pea:- des tnrv bio vs to the com ni'i'i o-. server c n-t:t;ite the meciiod of coiaiimmcffiou between the blacksmith and his helper. In the Laud of the Knih. The Afghan women, of whom we saw perhaps a dozen! wore no bonnets, but simply a long veil of gauzy stuff. Look at tht;m in the right way and they are pretty. Their countenances have a Jew ish cr.st, but they are not brunettes. Their skin is pale, strikingly so, and they wear their hair tied over a ball, so as to make them look more, than natura ly white. They walk remarkably well, and in the management of their vei.s display much grace and elegance. Of the men, I may as well say that they are not un like a cross between . a Hindoo and a Persian would be. Athletic, fair and well-bearded, they have aqu line faces, with the foreheads shaved, and the hair 5n the sides hanging in curls that fall Dver the shoulders in a picturesque, shagiiy, mane-like way. Their carriage 'a full of resolution and pride, and from ne corner of the country to another you cannot but remark that they remind you of bantam roosters. And they are like (hem, too turbulent, vain, brutal, quar relsome liking nothing better than the practice of cruel sports. The kazh, o ;hief tribesman of Cois. was as perfect a game bird- as I ever saw. Prof. Yam lerg. Another Burgarlan Outrage. As the Turkish regiments ordered against the Bulgarious insurgents marched into battle they sang their na tional war song, the opening stanza of which is, ' Khiudpsb Sheik, el Djizair Bozak mustapba tion, ' Psiugh heh, Koran el sandjak that Cbu atari Apasha Kbabrout tbrablousi erzel a she hun. Psingb heh, uskup Roumelia al khazar. About the time they got to the chords however, the insurgents recognized th' a"r, and after that the slaughter was ter rible. Burdttte in Brooklyn Eagle. -. THE CAPUCHIN CArACOUBS. SXTgAOBDXVARY BCXVS8 XV BUS XAX CBAXBES. A Gliatlr Drrfagr Proceai Cistflerle f .Unwmlet-now the Ied are Cared for at Palermo The soil upon which the Capuchin monastery at Pa'ermo, Italy, is built, possesses to such a degree the singular property of'hastening the decomposition of a corpse, that in one year nothing rc ! mains upon the bones except a few patches of black, withered skin', and per haps some of the hair of the beard and cheeks. The colfjns are placed in small lateral vaults, each of which contains about eight or ten dead; and, after a year.pas-es, the colli n opened and the- 1 r vui, a iiiLUHiui uiuiiiuiv, that is then susr-ended in one of the main galleries, where the members of th." fami Iv come to visit it. Those who wish to be preserved by this drying process m ike their wills accordingly: and they will be tiled away under those black vaults so long as their relatives pav a certain annual stipend. When this is no longer paid, the remains are taken away and buried in the ordinary man ner. To enter, we pass through a chapel and slo a ly descend a broad stairway oi stone. Before us is on immense gallery,to whose walls are suspended a whole nation of skeletons clad in fhe most oddly gro tesque costumes. Some hang in the air side by side. A line of dead stands erect upon the grouud. Some heads are gnawed by hideous vegetations, which deform even still more the jaws and the bones of the face; some still preserve I their hair, others fragments of mustache; others a long bit of beard. And they are all dressed, these'dead these wretched, hideous and ridiculous dead aU dreseed by their relatives, who have taken them out of their coffins in order to make them take part in this awful assembly. Almost all are clad in a s rt of long black robe, with a cowl which is generally drawn over the head. But there are others whoso friends desire to attire more sumptuously, and the mis erable skeleton, wearing an embroidered Greek cap and enveloped in a rich man's dre-s ng gown, seems, as it-lies upon its back, to sleep a night marish sleep a sleep at once ludicrous and terrific. A placard like a blind man's begging card, bearing the name and the date of death, is hung to the neck of each corpse. Those dates make a cold shiver pass through the very marrow of one's bones. Here are the w omen, even more bur lesque than the men, for they have been coquett shlv attired and bedecked. Their heads stare at you from within bonnets decorated with ribbons and with lace, making a snow white fringe around each black face, all petrified, all gnawed by the strange chemistry of the earth. Their hands protrude, like the severed roots of trees, from the sleeves of new dresses, and the stockings that contain the bones of the legs look empty. Some times the dead wear tjnjj a pair of shoes, too large for the poor dried up feet. But ribw we enter a gallery full of lit tle glass cofiins; this is the children's burial chamber. The bones of the little creatures, still soft, could not resist the work of decomposition.' And you can not tell exactly what you are looking at, the miserable little things are so de formed, so crushed, so frightfully shape less. But tears come to your eyes when you observe that the mothers have dressed them all in the same little dresses they wore when alive. And they come here to look at them some times. Often you see beside the corpse a pho tograph showing the living person as he was, and nothing is more startling, more terrifying than this contrast. We pass through another gallery, lower and darker, which seems to have been reserved for the poor. In one black recess there are some twenty of them, suspended ail together under an opening in the roof, which lets in the outer air upon them in strong and sudden winds, t hey are clad in a sort of black canvas, fastened about the neck and feet, and as they lean one over the other, you imag ine they were shivering-, seeking to es cape, screaminsr for. help. They look like the drowned crew of some ship. Here h the chamber of the nriests a v; st gallery of horror! At the first glance they seem more terrible than the o ers, ro' ed in their sacred vestments lack, red and violet. But as vou ex- ami' e them one after the other, vou be hold s nie wlio sinr; vou ee others who n ac ''"he face of all have t een lifted un; the hands of all have been cr-ssed. They wear the sacerdotal biretta upon their fleshless brows. Sometimes it hangs si dewavs over one ear in a jocular way, s metim' s it slips down over the nose. A very carnival of death is this, made more picturesque by the gilded richness of the ceeles'astica! robes. From time to time a head rolls down upon the ground, the attachments of the neck having been gnawed through by .nice. Thousands of mice dwell in this human charnel house. On certain festival days the catacombs of the Capuchins are thrown ooen to the public. Once a drunken man got into the place, lay down to sleep and awoke in the middle of the night. He called, screamed, howled with terror, rushed madly to and fro in vain efforts to es cape. But. no one heard him. In the morning he was found clinging to the iron bars of the gate with so desperate a grip that it required a longtime to de tach, them. He was mad. Since 1 hat time a great bell has been suspended near the entrance. Paris Fi jaro. fhe Dread Name of Cancer. A physioian, writing in the Medical 1 Ustiew about cases of cancer, says: "I : cannot bear to say cancer to these pa- ! tients. J-f they are told that they have a cancer thej go d-wn hill rapidly. Some years ago I was asked to see a case in this city. The doctor sani to me, 'This is a sensible Christian lady, and I thi k if you find a cancer it wouid be best c tell her so. She took the announcement ; very calmly at the t me. A short time i afterward I saw the physician and asked him about tho laiy. He s dd, "She is ; dead. She had been going around tbe house, but after she knew that she had a ; cancer she never got out of bed, and I went down hill rapidly.' It is a cruel ; thing to do, so never do it if vou can avoid it." . A noted statistician, Edward . Atkin son, insists that there is abundance of room-yet in thjs world. - The 1,400,000, W0 persons supposed to be on the globe ;ould all find easy standing room within Jlxe limits of a field ten miles square, and Dy the aid of a telephone could be ad Iressed at one time by a single speaker. In a field twenty miles square they could ill be comfortably seated. . SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTCIAL. Iron bars and steel are elongated by magnetization, the latter not so much, but nickel bars are shortened. Round chimneys are best for work shops, factories, etc. They deliver the smoke more easily and are less exposed to the wind They are not, however, so easy to build. - Professor Tyndall has stated that the purest water he ever obtained was from a mehed block of pure ice. The water of the chalk districts of England he con siders remarkably pure. M. Pordoz gives a very simple and use ful method for detecting lead in the lin ing of culinary utensils. The vessel, i being carefully cleaned to remove crease, a drop of nitric acid is applied to any part, and a gentle heat is used to dry the spot.- A drcp of solution of iod de of potassium is applied to the spot; and, if lead be present, a yellow iodide of lead is formed. Admiral Mouchez has taken, at the Paris obsecvatory, a photograph of a section of the sky some five degrees square showing nearly 0,000 stars on a plate ten inches square. The print shows quite clearly stars of the four teenth magnitude; while on the nega tive some even of the fifteenth magni tude appear, which, however, could not be transferred to tne paper. The plate is perfect al! over, manifesting no weak ness even at the extreme edge. If these twenty five square degrees' may be takeu as a representative portion of the sky, the numbers of s'ara visible to the four teenth magnitude inclusive, is some thing over 20,000r000. A new method of preserving fruit is practiced in England. Pears, apples, and other fruits are reduced to a paste, which is than pressed into cakes and gently dr'eJ. When required for use it is only necessary to pour four times their, weight of b 'iling water over them, and allow taein to soak for twenty minutes, and then add sugar to suit the taste. The fine flavor of the fruit is s ud to be re tained to perfection. The cost of the prepared product is scarcely greater than that of the original fruit, differing with the supply aud pr;ce of the latter; the keeping qualities are excellent, so that it may be had at any time of the year, and bears long sea voyages with out detriment. No peeling cr coring is required, so there -is no waste, Some interesting instances of spontan eous ignition of various substances, with attendant losses of property, would ap pear to have been due to simnle ignor ance of the relations of animal, vegetable and mineral oils to combustion. Pro fessor Altfield points out that the former are much safer than the latter, since they do not ignite at low tempera tures nOr give off vapor which, when mixed with a certain portion of air, ex plodes in contact with flame; on the other hand, in their liability to spontan eous ignition, when freely exposed to the air, under certain conditions, they possess a dangerous property from which the mineral oils are free. Then, too, the animal and vegetable oils differ consid erably among themselves, in the rate at which they cause the genera tion of heat on being exposed to air, up on the surfaca of fabrics, thavings or other materials, though all are more or less liable to this result when spread out in thin films, or in any other state of minute division. What are known as drying oils are particularly susceptible to such atmospheric influences, the dry ing itself consisting in the conversion of the oil into a kind of rosin by the action of the air. The Valne of a Wiar. The hair of which wigs are made is col lected by special drummers in Germany and France. England and Belgium are L-ut poor markets for hair, not because of its scarcity, for both English and Belgian womeft have the finest heads of hair in the worid, but because they will not sell it. When collected it is put through a cleansing process severe enough to fetch the dirt out of an ele phant's hide, and then dyed several times over. The best hair dressers never buy hair from the head or from private hands. To this rule, however, there are two exceptions. Perfectly white hair is so rare that it is grabbed eagerly from any source, and a lineral price given fos it. Natural curling nair is also of considerable value. A good wig of white hair costs about $40 and (tois is a secret of the trade and can only be told in whispers) the material of which these wigs are made is clipped from the festive goat, and never from the 'human head. A peculiarly soft, silky kind of snow-white hair originates on the angora rabbit. A perfectly white and abundant w ig of white human hair would cost $1,000 at least, apr.ee which few would be willing to pay. Dead hair, i. e., hair cut from the head after death, is never used by any ton serial artist worthy of the name. Indeed, it cannot be used to any advantage, as it wiil neither curl, twist nor manipulate. Hair cut from a living head is not dead, a fact which can easily be proved by taking a hair and stretching it out to its utmost capacity. It wiil then contract quickly back to its former position. It will live for a couple of years or mote after having been cut, and when it dies the wig, front or switch becomes limp, rough, disheveled and useless. an Francisco Examiner. Skeletons. Every physician must have a skeleton as part of his outfit, and therefore this preparation is an important feature in the profession, says a ew Y'ork cor respondent. The students of the medi cal coilege have neither the time nor the facilities for such work, and hence it naturally falU into the hands of the jan itor. Skeletons are with him an article of merchandise, the quotations beins: -i0 for a very fine specimen, while an ordi nary article is offered for $ 30. The im portant but difficult task is to clean the bones without marring them or leaving the mark of the knife. It is not neces sary to tell how this is done, but the process is very simple. , Each janitor may get up twenty-five skeletons in a season, sometimes more. This forms a very important perquisite, and, indeed, if rightly improved, his berth can be made very profitable. There is a con stant importation of skeletons from Paris, which is carried on by the dealers in surgical instruments. The French have the art of whitening the bones in a wav never attained in this country, and the" price is genera'ly from $60 to $100. The I'arisianestabshment excel in turn--- he best skeletons of chiidren, and f infants, and some of the latter iike dear little doll skeletons that or. might want to dandle cn his knee or r ck in the cradle. They are very cun niu locking tLings, these dear little baby skeletons , . IT i VTV fT TIT!-- TTlVTT T? iV XSX.A2TX) RTHESE BIO TIQBR3 ABB SBA'SES ABOT7BB- llanr tbe Ticer Kllla Hi I"nmn Irf y A Snake SevefT-tW "Feel "Lnsr "Walay Trait. "Singapore is a British possession," said Consul Adolph G. Studer, who is home on leave, to a Washington Pod ie porter, "atad it h?s grown wonderf'dlj during recent years. It will, in fact, soon rival Calcutta, which is the largest port on the Asiatic coast. It has fine streets, well graded and well drained. The public buildings are large and hand; some, built of durable stone, and there a,e many fine private residences. From its posithyjL oajfctt iiaod at the inot southern point of Asia, it is the stopping y:ace for all vessels going to and from the East, and its traffic is consequently emrnaous. Over 2,000 steamers call at the port every year The Llan 1 on which Sinsiporc is situ itcd was a comparatively short time ago a mas of jungle. Now there tire 1-10,000'inhabitaiits in the city. It is a cosmopolitan place, and you can find on its streets representatives from every country in Europe and Asia, the Esquimaux of Siberia possibly excepted. The Brahmin of India josth?s with the ubiquitous pigtail from China, the swarthy Arab with tho fair Circassian, aud the tire worshipers of. Persia with the betel chewing Malay. Tho universal language in which all business is transacted is Malay." "Are the tigers and other wild animals as destructive and dangerous as they used to be?" ' Perhaps not quite so much, but it is almost an every-day occurrence for some one of the natives to be carried of by one of the ferocious beasts. Numbers arc killed whose deaths are never re ported to the police. Sometimes bodies are found lying out in the jungle with the neck broken and half eaten. The tiger grows to an immense size there. A full-grown tiger's paw will leave a mark in soft sand which could scarcely be covered by a large saucer. In killing a man or beast the tiger always approaches from behind, and, spiinging on the back of the victim, breaks the la'.ter's neck with a stroke of its powerful paw. Then the tiger sucks the jugular vein and sometimes the calf of the leg of the vie tjm, according to the state of his tiger ship's appetite. He then either eats the choice and fleshy parts of the dead car cass or leaves it until he is hungry, when he returns and finishes it. They have terrible teeth and can crush a horse's or bullock's bone wiih a? much ease as a dog could a chicken's. The tigers are so bold when hungry that they will carry olf a woman or a child fnm a hpuse in broad daylight, carrying them with as much ease as a cat does a mouse." "Are there no measures taken to ex terminate them?" "There is a reward of $'2o for every tijer killed. It used to be $o0, but they .became so plentiful that tho price for their death had to be reduced. One of the most famous tiger hunters Singa pore ever boasted wa3 a man named Carroll, an overseer of a sugar plauta tion. He was a South Carolinian, aud always use 1 an old Kentucky ririe. He was a dt a 1 shot, and sometimes killed two man eaters a day. When a carcass was found in the woods he would go out to it, and either dig a hole in the ground in which to conceal himself, or climb a tree, from which he could get a goo I shot at the tiger when he came to finisf the remains of his victim. From thii coigne of vantage he used to fetch theiil every time. He was never once hurt b the beasts, and at last died of jungl fever." "What other wild animals are to ba found in your neighborhood?" "Oh, there's a long list of them. Tha jungle simply swarms with life. Of tha felines there are the spotted leop. ar is. cheetahs, pumas and the black leopards, the latter of which are only to be found with us. Then there are rlu r.oceri, elephants, tapirs, deer and ante lope of all kinds, aud great, iierco bulTalo. One kind of deer is mo-l beautiful. It is a gruceiul lit t la thng, standing only a foot high and shaped ju-t like a large deer. Jt is called the 'pluntok' (pronounced pi. into). Then there are the largest crocodile to be f und in the world, When Joing up the river I often sh t these monsters, but we could never gel them because they immediately saiiU. They .'.o feari'ui havoc among the native-, attacking them in their little boat whica they upset anl then catch the occupants as tney fab in tne water." "Are there any snakes?" "Yes, indeed. We have the p-'Vn-and several kinds of boa const r.cto; . and lots of smaller varieties. If alL tl'K stories I have heard of the size to which thep'thon grows are true, ti.en there; are some fabulously big ones on ouf island. One of the , stories relates thai: o-e uight a man and his wife were goinv p the river in a boat. They were lying I cc.lmed apd the woman was stretched out in the bow of the boat with her arm banging over the side. Suddenly some thing t juched her arm and she called out to her husband, who immediately went to her. Just then be saw the head of a large python above the guuwalc of the boat, and pulling out his kris, a sharp dagger, which all Malays carry when goin,' thr .ugh the jungle, he plunged it into theciea.ure's head, pinning it to the bod. The weapon went crashing through the brain, and the next morning the rep ti e w s found lying dead ou the bank, while all the sma ler trees around it were smashed and broken by the snake in its death struggle. It was inea-ured and foun I to be twelve fathoms, or seventy two feet long. It w--is told bv manv per sons who went to see the dead python that thi -i was the actual measurement, and t was as large around as a stout man's holy. . I as ;ed whether ten fatli oms wouldn't be long enough for the snake, but they ail averted that it was n less titan twelve. They always measure in fathoms over there. " If you want a pi-jee of jungle cleared you are charged by the fathom, instead of by the yard, as here" 'is the not a of the country as proline as the fauna?'' "Even more so, if that were 'possible. Bv the way, Americans have an errone ous impression that 'jungle' mean 'un lergro vth.' That isn't so. 'Jungle' is the Indian word for forest. In the jungle vou see tall forest trees growing to the height of 100 or l-r0 feet before they send out a branch. Then in the forks of the i tranches grow ferns and beautiful orchids. Underneath these tall tree are shoiter' ones of larger volume, which spread out and form a perfect shade from the rays of the tropic sun. Be neath these again are small bushes, un der whose branches grow immense fern9 and all kinds of grasses.' from the tiniest to those as tall as a house. Decaying vegetation in the forks of the trees forma a sort of mould, in which seeds of Tinea and creepers are deposited by birds. .These grow downward until they reach the ground, where they tike root, and lince they receive more sustenance at ihe lower end than they do from the up per root, they grow six or eight inches .i k a i. '. ton ana sena lortn ii-.iW it I ;- S. : i ..c e.i!' ! . h ou iicie the neichborine . i.r. t; a sea l their shoots 'to . itib. :h:s forming a ba-Tier im- v.u-: a'1, cm cpt to tho jungle knife. W hit i-the hettlnut of which the '!. : n a ! 1 to i-eo fond?" It is i whin nut which looks almost Ke r. or ,-. livery Malay family without ii :i.n has a box, divided into lit ; . o;np.! io:tt,-od with u drawer at 1 .- t.,n-om couta uieg a pair of shears. : :.e ol lite compartments of the box is :.!.' i cteh'.ut ut r.ne with the shears; .!t'h.r M-vet al sit ih - leaves ; in tho : c; s ;:i s akrd lime made from coral he' Is, and in the last some ;iro 'otmcco. M middav. wh ch is the dinner hour, roe family assembles an 1 squats in a .'iicl t n mats, which do duty for chairs. In the center is a bowl of rico and mother of curry. Each one takes handful of rice in turn, dips it in th curry and conveys it to his mouth with out spilling a crumb. To do this grace fully is the height of Malay table eti quette. After all have fin. shed tho betel box makes its appearance and is handoJ lound. Each person takes one of tho firih leaves, which are live inches long and arrow shaped, an I lays it out fiat in the pa-lm of the left hand. Then 1.3 takes a little betelnut. puts some of tho lime upon it, adds a small quantil ot tobacco, and th it rolls the whole up to gether. Then lie places it in his mouth, holding it bv his front Ntceth,. never chewing it by his sido teeth us Ameri cans do tobacco. Thea you tnay want to hire him, or to transact some business with him ever so ba lly, but he won't stir. He will simply say 'I have no time, master, I am chewing tho t-liih.'" HEALTH HINTS. Tincture oK iodine painted on styes wiP cure I hem. For ventilation, open your windows both, at top aud bottom. The sc-d rod of plantain, boiled in milk, will check the most violent attack of cholera morbus. Od of wiiitergrecn and olive oil, mixed in equal parts and applied externally to the joint adected by rheumatism, is sa d to uive a'most instantaneous relief from pain, and, on account of - its pleasant odor, very agreeable to use. . A di-tinguished children's doctor gives his oi iit'on that healthy babies will take water every hour v ith advan take, especially in warm weather. Their fret 1 ulness and tise in temperature if often due, to their aot having it. For ivy and dog-wood poisoning boil ,-ood ashes enough to make a strong e: wash the. poisoned "parts in this, k-t it remain a few minutes, and wasu ' oil in warm, lukewarm water; when dry, anoint with grease. Kepeat this ; process as the poUon develops, and one i or two applications will cure the most obstinate cases. ' i Only those who watsh infants with intelligent discriminatio t know Low of- ; ten they sulLr from fever. With this i fever comes thirst. What docs, tho ' ! mother put into that little, dry mouth? Often nothing but m-'k. V hen we adults hive fever, do we find, that milk relieves the thirst?I)oes it not rather in ciease it? Be assured, it is the same with the. baby. With the slightest svmptoms of lever, cold water admin-i-Ww3 with a teaspoon is tho preset) p tieo o "wisdom and mercy. '" How to Eat an 0 ranee. To receive a basket of sweet oranges, or yal-la-ha, as tho Indians t ail the fruit, is to most people a real pleasure, and to the superstitious a forerunner of Gluck: but the o e great trouble about the golden fruit 13 how to eat it without making a spectacle of ore's pel'. rlhi ili.lic iliy may be overcome in many ways. Cut the orange in two without paring quarter cut again, and cat from the sidn; mother cut in even halves and cat from ; he goiden cup w.th a spoon; a third pare (bur do not sk u) the orange around us you would an apple, leaving a finger, hold at both en Is, and eat from the cup: a fourth cut in quarters and squeeze the juice iuto a spoon; another, and less diiiitv, is to cut in halves and squeeze he Jul e i it o a glass, drinking it there-. ;rom, We have seen aa orange eaten with a knife and fo:k. But the pleas lint est way of all is to prepare the fruit before sending t to the table by remov inir the oitt-cde skin, dividingin sections, ".id then with a sharp krdfe dctachinp the pu p from the inside liuing of eaclv . art. sprm'slir g with -ojrar, and p acing on or ne r t h-- for foil half an Lout beore i s nir: in hi wa. it becomes no on v a delirious but comfortable dish, for wh ch your trieu is will think you, lithoutrh o-a:i'es an- not near so health ! witeu. sugared ; and the old sayint ha' an orange is iroid in the morning, -dver at noon, and on V an orange at 'dudit is not far on: of the way as to if .,-ef lneas tor al! kinds of ' de miseries,' its old Aunt Clo would say. Bazar. Pass iti? the Plate. A good story is told in JN'ew York of the well-known lawyer, Francis , D. , Bangs. Mr. Bangs, so the story runs, went once or twice to hear K. Heber N'ewton preacli. He was favor dly im pressed, and engaged two -pews for him-, ielf and family as regular attendants. Shortly afterward some of his fr ends in the church combine 1 to eiect him a ! vestryman, lie accepted the matter as a I compliment without ine'e st.in dingjtny ! thin"- of the duties of the position. Sev eral Sundays afterward he was startled one n?ght by having the contri'Hition ylate thrust into his hand, with the request to pass it. He begged to be let oil, but the sexton told him he was the onlv vestryman present. "How much does-the contribution come to?" asked .Mr. Bangs. "About $20," was the reply. Mr. Bangs pulled a $50 dollar bill out of hi3 pocket, laid it on the plate, and said that ought to be enough and he guessed the plate need not go around for this lime. "Yes, but Brother Bangs," said the sexton, "you don't .understand: all these people here want to give their mites for the support of the Gospel." "Brother Bangs" heaved a sigh and marched forth to do his duty. He left the bill on the plate, and there was a fire in his eye that said to the worshipper! that they had better not trifle with the vestryman, but put in their pile and be done with it. The vestryman does bet ter now, as he has-a son who does duty, for him. Chicago 1'ribune. ......... S
The Anson Times (Wadesboro, N.C.)
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