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. lij .-' L 'j tjl lid St) ' ' - R. H. COWAN, Editor and Proprietor. We Proudly call ours a Government by the People. Cleveland. TERMS: S2.00 Per Year. VOL. II. WADESBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1886. NO. 14. . 1 7 Termsi-Cash in Advance. One Year Six Months Three Months 12.00 11.00 50 ADYERTISING RATES. One square, first insertion -Each subsequent insertion Local advertisements, per line 11.00 50 - 10 tySjp?cial rajes given on applicatlo for onger time. Advertisers are requested to bring in their advertisements on Monday evening of each week, to insure insertion in next issue. PROFESSIONS L CARDS. John ID. Pcmberton. ATTORNEY AT LAW, WADESBORO, N. C. 3r- Praciici in thi States aai Feidra Courts. JAMES 1 LDCKHART. Attorney and Counsellor at Law, WADESBORO. N. C. SIT" Practice at all the Courts of the States R. LITTLE. W. V. PARSO N LITTLE & PARSONS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, WADESBORO, N. C. ' ( ollertiohs Promptly Attended to. II. H. DePew D E l T I S T , WADESBORO. N. C. Office over G. W. Huntley's Store. All Work Warranted. May 14, '85, tf. DR. D. B. FRONTIS, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON fffrs bis Professional Services to the citizens f V'fk.tro and surrounding country. Of fice opposite Bank. A. B. Huntley. M. D. J. T. J. Battle, M. D )rs. Huntley & Battle, PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS Wadcsboro, N C Office next to Bank May 7 tf I. H. HORTON, JEWELER, t W ADESBORO, X. C. i liealear in Watches, flocks, Jewelry, Musical Instruments, Breech and Muzzle Loading Shot Guis, Pistols, &c. Anson Institute, WADESBORO, N. C. D. A. MCGREGOR, PRINCIPAL J. J. Bcrkett, A. B J. W. Kilgo, A. B. AP6I6TAXTS. Miss M. L. McCorkle The Tprinj? Term begins Monday, Jan uary 11th, 1880. Tcttion In Literary Department, 2, and 4 per month. Instrumental Music, $t per month. Vocal Music, $4 permonth. Use of piano for practice 50 cents per month. Board, ?10 per month. Contingent fee, $1 per year. . For Catalogue apply.to the Prir ipal. Momn High School, MORVEX, IV. C JAMES W. KILGO, A. B., Principal. tsP The Fhll Session begins on the 3d of August 1SS, and runs through five months. TUITION, PER. MONTH. Primary, Intermediate, Advanced 12.00 2.50 8.00 Board torn $8 TO $10 per month. For further particulars address the Prin . Hpal. : WM. A. SLTTRB, MrxrFACTCBEn ai? d dealer i. - Stores, Tii-ware, ' Ste-Iroi AND HOLLOW WARE. WADESBORO. N. C. CO CO c o CO c ceo S c ! c c c S eS S5 c c M 3 .3 C e a 05 S 2 J t a so 5 - O IB 5" u S u CO C i CO be 4- 4 HOTELS. YARBKOUGH HOUSE, RALEIGil, . C. PRICK REDUCED TO SUIT THE TIMES CALL AND SEE US. CHANGE. A bloatamg rose, as rammer days withdraw Drooped, by degrees, its gentle, queenly bead. ABd, when its beauty vanished, life want too The rose was dead. A cnarm from off a radiant Beba faos Fled with the years. Bo:h youth and Joy were gone; tat goodness left a higher beauty's grace, And love lived on. Edgar Irving Brenner, in the Current THE SAYINGS BANK. BT BEKTHOLD AUETtBACH. Tou know I lost my father and mother in my infancy, and that I bad not a relative in the world. I wil'.i and thoughtless when I beg in my apprentice ship a blacktm th. My master was, on the other hand, a grate, reserved man, so that a very few "words from him were important. When for the first time he paid me a week's wages, he said : "Peter, Von do not need more than half of what is duej; the other half I will set aside for the savings bank." And so it was. , On iFalm Sunday he went with me to the saying's bank. My name was written in a large register, and they gave me a book, on the first page of which was in scribed my name, and on the second, the deposit, seven crowns. I held my little book lovingly, and looked often at my name and the amount of my capital.. I reformed iny habit of smoking, and gave myself no rest till I had another email sum to deposit. When I passed the bank building I would say to myself : 'There's my good money bringing interest night and dav. Very good. I will udd to the amount." Would th it I had contin led to talk alone to myself! But I soon confided to a companion from tha Palatinate, and whom for that reason we called the Palatin. To amuse myself on Sunday I would tafce my book from its box, and would try to compute precisely how i much a month my twelve crowns would i bring me. The Palatin, who was a skill- ful accountant, told me exactly, and then he began to make eport of the tri- fling amount, and tossed my. book in the ! air, exclaiming: "Look at the fortune of the great capitalist, Peter Werner!" The little book fell on my head, and seemed to have suffered insult. I wiped it, put it back into the box, and did not show it to my companion again. . One day there was a great fire in the ctf. The house that contained the savings bank was consumed before aid conld be brought. I was greatly excited when I learned that the registers trf de posit were burned. All iny fortune was described in them. The Palatin, how ever, laughed heartily. "You fool!" he said, "what are you crying for? The city has guaranteed tht deposits made io.the savings bank. Yor have your receipt. The State must pa you." . This reflection reassured me. I showc' my book to my companion again, and hi told me that it was perfectly correct. That night when we lay down side b side to sleep, he said : "You and I can be rich, and will havi nothing to do but to see the world am let our money work for us." He added that we must go to California where the earth is ful! of gold. "Very good," I answered, "but wh will give us money to make the voyage V "Haven't you your bank book?" "You call it a trifle yourself." "We will make something better c it," said he, striking a light. "I have n; idea. Get up and sbow me your book. "Capital !" he cried, when I had give him my Look. "Nobody wl 1 hve th slightest suspicion. 'Received this da; five crowns.' Of 'five crowns' I wi! make 'five hundred," and we will hav the mem? of atartinyron our travels." At these words I began to tremble. "My friend." said I, "this ought no to be done. I will not permit it." "Let me alone," replied he; "I wi: show you how easy it is." A fatal curiosity woke in me, and " said to him: . "You can do It this way. Try it o: ano'her piper, or cle you would spo" my book, and I should lose the little possess ." I hoped he would not . succeed, and that his failure would deliver me from my guilty covetousness; and yet I could have wished hm to succeed . "Let me alone," he sharply replied "and do not make me angry; or else my band will tremble and I shall spoil everv thing." 1 crossed my arms on my chest, and with trembling I watched him change the words in my precious book, while it seemed as ifmy heart was bursting. Then he took a little knife and scratched out a few letters. I shivered, and yet 1 said to myself: "Now you are" rich and able to grow richer." I looked at what he had just written : "Received five hundred crowns." No-' body could detect the least falsification in these words, and the great register was burned. ' We returned to bed. I already saw myself across the ocean, picking- up nuggets of gold. I had a carriage, with four magnificent horses, and a servant who offered me a beautiful meersohum pipe, trimmed with silver, while another poured my champagne. The next morning. " at the table, I feared every moment that I might see an officer approaching to take me to prison. I was so much afraid of utter ing an imprudent word that I dared not reply immediately to any question. I no longer dared to carry money to the savings bank, but made long detours to avoid passing the building in which I had been recognized. Gradually, how ever, I recovered a sort of tranquility, as I saw nobody suspected what 1 ha done. But when, on the approach of Christmas, my master's children began dancing around me one morning, saying, "We know something that we shan't tell!" their voices pierced my heart like a knife. They knew the surprise that their father was preparing for our pleasure, and were delighted with theii secret. On Christmas eve Counselor Menning-' er's servant came running to our work- shop. I was ia the doorway. She said she had come forme, and that 'I must go at once with my tools to her master's house. The counselor's name had terrified me. Could my fault be already known? I had decided not to use my book till spring, and had never shown it. But I was afraid of everything. Nevertheless, I went with the young girl: She had a sweet, fresh face, and ' a pure light burned in her eyei. "My father was a tockamith," said she. "St. Peter is our patron, and for the Vr arrived at the counselor's house, and I was ahown into a richly furnished room. The counselor brought me an elegant caae, whose key waa broken, and bade me open it. lie then told' Catherine, my guide, that he had other preparations to make, and bade her re main with the locksmith. "It will be hard for you. ' said I t Catherine, "to r leave, these beautiful rooms for some poor I ttle home." "I have plenty of time in which to make up my mind to it," she replied. "But you. do not yet know everything, living in a right dwelling one soon 'earns' that it matters little whether be is served with a golden spoon or a brass one. The essential thing is to live in peace with a good conscience." ' At these words I could no longer find the keyhole, and Catherine bac to laujfrh at my lck of skiil. At length, hdwever, I opened the caket, and my eyes were dazled by its contents. Un der a blue velvet cushion glittered a set of diamonds. Catharine stepped to the door and called her master; but no sooner had he glanced at the ca-ket, than he rudely seized my hand, saying: "The brooch with the large diamond in the center is gone." I shook like a poplar leaf. I was about to throw myself on my knees, when I heard Catharine's voice. "How can you think " she said, "I was here 1" "Be still! We will examiae you, too!" He called his wife, and then turning to. me, said that he should search me while his wife did the same to Catha rine. And seeing that honest maiden out rased by such odious suspicion, I yielded myself to his hands. But 1 never can tell what I felt at that moment. I fe t no longer like a man, or even a slave, but like some vile animal. An act of cruel unjustice was committed against me. After this, the fault oJ which I was guilty myself seemed but t petty and childish thing. My anger grew still greater when another servant suggested that Catha fine might have hidden the diamonds in her hair, and I saw the poor girl as pal as death, with her braids all unbound. Naturally, the counselor found nothing on Catharine or on me. I remember that in parting, I said to the young girl : "Be patient; I will make up to you al you have suffered through me." -The affront i had suffered paralyzec my conscience. I sought often to sn Catharne, but seldom successfully. Shi said she waa afraid that if we were seei together it would cause Iresh suspicion One day, however, she met me with t joyful expression. "God be thanked! We are now com pletely justified. My master's sister ha written him that she forgot to put th brooch in the casket." "And is not the counselor going to bej my pardon?" "He wished me to do so," she replied "and asked me to do so for him." A the 6ame time she begged me to hold m resentment because of what had ban pened to me. "You may have committed some secret fault," said Bhe. "Accept what you havi suffered as an affliction." I never had felt so happy before. 3 told Catherine fiat I would yet be rich, and would give her a beautiful carriage harnessed to four horses, and she prom ised to be faithful to me, should I comi for her on foot. The thing I had don seemed nothing in comparison with thi humiliation I had suffered. Palm Sunday having come, I decided, on the instanoe of the Palatin. to drav my money, in order to trv my fortuno ii the world and make Catharine my wife I wished the PaHtinto accompany me ti the bank, but he reru?ed. I entered the counting room. Coun selor Menninger was there. At first ! was frightened, and - then the sight o him gave me new ardor. He was thi man who had insulted me. Whi'e waited the sweat trickled down nr limbs, and my book stuck to my fingen as if it never could be shaken off. At last my turn came. The counselo put on his spectacles and locked at mj book. I could hear no sound but thi monotonous t:ckings of the clock. Mj heart knocked hard against my side. "You have been very economical,' said the counselor. "Will you have con or paper?" I said I would have paper, and hi gave me a little roll of notes, on eacl of which was written: "100 crowns.' I trembled so that I could hard y hol these notes ia my hands, and when h asked if the right sum was thfre, I coult only hod my affirmative. Suddenly hi looked attentively at me. "Are you not the locksmith?" h asked, "whom I summoned on Christina eve?" "Yes," aaid I. "I am delighted to see you again, beg you to forgive my unjust suspicion of you, which must have caused yoi pain. If Itcan render you a service i will give me great pleasure. But wha is the matter? Are you ill?" I fell on my knees, crying, "No, no; 1 am a scoundrel. Take back youi money." And I told Mm all. The counselor as a good man. Hi paw my despair and spoke to me kindly My dangerous companion was obliged to leave the city. I was affianced t Catherine in the counselor's' house, and he aided me to establish myself in thi city. I ought to add that before I left the savings bank I burned my littli book. From tM German. Love In the Legation. Donn Piatt writes as follows to the Vashington Critic: I was told a funny ttory the other day about an attache of me of the foreign legations, who is very nuch in love with a young lady, and she e quite as badly smitten with him. - But to she cannot talk his language and he tnows very littie English they are very Heavily handicapped in their courtship, t is said that "love knows all lan guages," and while that is doubtless true ft ia difficult to convey a sentiment by gestures alone. The way they do it is to it down together with a pad of paper nd a lexicon. He hunts out the words ae wants to use, and writes them down a English; then she replies in the same - way. They have a lot of fun, and ap pear to be getting along pretty well. She says that while he makes some funny mistakes she never fails to "catch on" to. his meaning, and supposes her blun ders are quite as great. The other day he wrote on the pad: "I have not the most desire to arrive at my home with out to arrive with both," which she thinka moans that he does not intend to go back to his country without her.' tosny people the ke tD Paradise is key to their money box." 'OLD PUNKtMIEAD'S ItLS.r tow VBW.rAsroz.irx bssstsass GOT HI If tVTO TBOUBX.V. I rbe Ta)t T4 hf;m CSragT VVnt t Be4 la Bathlak Slee 1 In Upt4 Do rot All artffht. i Seated in a well-known road-house ot he Ocean parkway the other, evening, ; vhen the riding waa over and when none I ut the natives were present and vied rith each other in scoring bullseyes on j he stove door, the writer met a crowd ! f grangers who bad been engaged in ! elling stories of hot summers and cold rinters that made even the thermometer ; ihiver. "Let me introduce you to these folks," taid Mine Host Ravenhall. The reporter had no objections, for he lad sometime to spare and was in search i news. He was introduced to all the selebritie? of the ba liwick in turn, and ;ach introduction was accompanied by a , learty grip that caused the reporter to ipend most of the remainder of the night i n picking his fingers apart, j "If you can get old Punkinhead there ! :o tell you the bed storv, you're m j uck," said mine host, aside. "He's a i .'haracter! His name's So-and-So, but J kg call him JOld Punkinhead, because ! le's so set in bis ways. He never reads i newspaper and doesn't believe in any ! f the "new fangled notions of our ! lay." i "Can't yon tell this young man that j jed story?" he asked, turning to the old un. 1 It consumed nearly an hour before Old Punkinhead was wound up to the spin- ling point. He was thin almost to j ".ransparency, and he had one of those i iconomical faces, for whatever his nose aropped his chin caught. He baa a (vhisk broom beard that poked out in f?ont as if it dared anybody to come near it. . "'Taih't much ov a story !" he began, is he scored another bullseye, but it got me inter trouble. Now, at hum I've illers hed a bed wot sooted me. It wasn't much ov a bed, ter bs sure, but tny gradpop sip' inter it an' it's good ;nongh fur me. I hain't proud ef I am tmn'sum. It is one ov them high posted beds, an' whin I gits inter it I hain't huv up ter the wall like somebody wus under it boostin' ov it. "Wall, one day I hed ter go to taoun an bizness, an' ez I wus goin' ter be aout all night, I takes my grip along, with my night gownd an' nightcap in it. I went ter ther circus, walked around an' seen the sights, hed my fill ov peanuts and bolivars, an' about 11 o'clock 4 sashays up to the hotel wat's kep' by Mr. St. Nickylas, on Broadway street. I walks up ter the desk and sez to the fel ler behind the bar, sez I, I want a room. ' " 'How high?' sez he. " 'I don't care,' sez I; 'ennywhar be twixt yer an' the roof.' "He laff3 and 6ez, I mean ther prioe. Will f 10 soot yer?' "I tole him that I didn't want ter buy the house, aud that I only kem to stay one night. He sed he'd comper mise on $2, an' ffinally gev it ter him. " 'Want me ter keep them valleybuls?' sed he, pintin' to my grip. "I wusn't as green as thet, and I tuck it up with me. A nigger showed me up to ther attic, an' to make a long story short, I got inside and locked myself in. Ther wuz a bed in one end o' the room, but it looked too purty to muss up, an' I guess it wuz only th ir fur show. "I hunted through the other room, an' thar I found a bed. It wus a funny lookin' thing, an' wus med ov tin with wooden sides. I didn't like ther look ov it, but I wusn't goin' to be green, so I endresses an' jumps in. Ther folks at hum had tole me not to blow ther gas out. but ter turn it out, an' when I gets in I looks fur ther crank. I finds it all right and gives it a yank.; What hap pint? 1 was almost drownded. Some body up stairs, I guess, pours about a million pails of water over me, an' I yells an' yells ontil ther hired man cum? irj an' yanks me out " 'Tryin' to commit sewerside, hay!' he sez. "'Who throwel that water?' sez I: 'show me ther man wot throwed that water, an' I'll pulverize him, I will, by grasshoppers '.' . "Then he called me a fool, an' said it was a bath-tub. Then I hed ter go down by ther kitchen stove an' sta thar all night ter git dry. No more ho tels fur me, an' if I'd a caught old St. Nickylas I'd a mashed him, I would, by chowder!" 'Is that all?" "Is that nil? I should holler ! Ther next niht I steered clear ov hotels an: bethought me ov my granddarter wot married a s oneWroker or euthin' ov thet kind nn Wail street, so I fckoots up to her house in Brooklyn. They was rala glad to sec me, anas they hed a party I went to bed arly, after 1 hed winked at ther gals all around. 1 was showed up ts my room bv my grand- darter after she hd seen that everythink i was all right. She p'inted out ther bed, j wot wus ten times nicer than ther one in ; ther hotel, but I wusn't goin' ter be fooled ng'in if I busted it all ter pieces. ! I told her ter turn ther gas out an' put a L lamp on ther stand. Then I ondresses an' jumps in. "What d'ver think happint?" "Couldn't say." "Ther bed flies up in ther air an' ketches me fast. The lamp was upset an' I'd a-bin burned up alive if I hedn't reached out an' put the fire out with mj hands, burnin' ov 'em ter blisters. "What did I do? Wall, I wusn'i goin' ter letem have ther laff on ontei me. like ther hotel folks did. I didn'1 know but it was another bath-t'Vb racket, but when I laid still fur a while an' 1 wusn't drownded, I thought mebbe it wus a ne'w kind of bed, an' I jest mad myself as comfortable as possible an slep' upside down most of ther night; Ic ther mornin' they had ter break ther dooi open ter let rhe out, an' I've never bee thar since You can. bet yer boots thet my bed's good enuff fur me.an' I don't 6leep upside down again ef 'tis fashiona ble, an' you he'ar my shout." Xeu York World. An 0ld Test for Leather. For testing the quality of leather for belting, Mr. Eitner proposes the follow ing Bimple method: A small piece is cut out out of the belt and placed in vine gar. If the leather has been perfectly tanned, and is therefore of good quality, it will remain immersed in the vinegar, even -for several months, without any other change than becoming of a little darker color. If, on the contrary, it U not well impregnated with tannin, the fibers will promptly swell, and, after a short time, become converted into a gelatinoua mass. Qdeago Times. REITS-. AN!) NOTES FOR 1T0XEN Chenille dots are to be seen on thi long wrists of undressed kid gloves. Walking skirts are as long as possibli without touching the ground. Fur bonnets, caps and glovea vary but little from last season's styles. The fur aet of the season ia muff, bon net and cape in sable or less expensive fur. Fancy rings to wear on the little fl11!?". are much affected now by youna ladies. The "creche" or day nursery in Buf falo often cares for as many as forty ba bies a day. Ladies' collar buttons are quite small; the preferred cuff button is a single one with a link. Bamboo tripois, the baskets filled with artificial smilax, are something new in household ornament. White, cream colored and pale-tinted tulle dresses are fushionab e for debu tants and very young 'adies. Manicures soak the hands of their cus tomers in tepid water a few minutes be fore filing the nails into oval shape. The president of the New Orleans Wo man's Club is Mrs. Marie Jefferson Swayze, a niece of Thomas Jefferson. Japan has a society for reforming the style of dressing the hair of women The association his over 3,000 mem bers. The National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry, at its annual rnee:ingat Boston, passed a resoiution favoring wo man suffrage. Female society correspondents are to be admitted to all public entertainments at the White House, by order of Miss Cleveland. The low Catogan loops are coming in again, and those who have recently re turned from Paris are dressing the hair in this style. Ladies must not be found with more than from five to seven pounds of cloth ing, exclusive of boots on. who propose to join the Rational Dress society. Fringes wrought in the goods like shawl fringes come in some of the hind some wool fabrics, and are used foi borderings laid over plain goods. Three canes fastened to an oblong bot tomless waste basket and covered with bright hued ribbons, forms a pretty cane or umbrella rack for the hallway. A girl of thirteen years, at Canton, Dak., is reported to have plowed eighty-two acres of land with a pair of horses and a common stubble plow. The old family heirlooms of real lace flounces and lace .shawls miy be brought out now and aired. They appear in trim ming elegant costumes for evening wear. Miss Cleveland's favorite flowers are pond lilies and roses. A bouquet of pond lilies is taken to her room every morning and a fresh basket placed on the tab e at breakfast. There are many opinions in regard to he restoration1 . of crinoHne to public favor, and when a few Parisian modistes have decided the matter satisfactorily to themselves we shall know what is to bo. The new feather trimming comes in all the desirable shades, such as black, wine color, two bhades of olive, two of green, two blue in dark shades, with browns and light evening shades of light blue and rose, with white. The Infanta Eulalia, whose marriage has been a subject of discussion in Spain, has for one of her ladies in waiting Mme. Calderon, an American lady, the aunt of Calderon Carlisle, of Washington. With Mme. Calderon, Eulalia . epeaks and studies English. The New York Sun says that the homespun suits of this season, both for men and women, are made of real, rough woolen cottage and cafin woven home spuns, and crude in appearance and want of finish as the "butternut'' homespuns worn by the rebels during "the war." English homespuns, Irish friezes and blarney cloths, kerseys and bcotch ! cheviots.are used almost to the exclusion of all otner woolen stuns ior street utility and informal visiting suits, and with such 6uits a ' jacket of the same or of heavy cloaking cloth i3 the proper wrap. China crape is usually chosen for the wedding dress, and there are lengths of embroidered crape to be Used for the front of the skirt. A Canton crape shawl was lately utilized in this way for the gathered tall across the entire front and sides of the dress, also for the revers and plastron on the waist. The fringes were -ut off, and the clever bride worked neavy scallops in buttonhole stitches along the edges. At the wedding in Troy, N. Y., re cently, of Joseph A. Powers, general manager of the Troy electric light com pany, and Mis3 Emma J. Tibbits. there were present Mrs. Martha Waters, aged ninety-six. graodmoiher of the bride, and Mrs. Deborah Powers, aged ninety five, grandmother of the bridegroom. Mrs. Deborah Powers is the head of the banking firm of I). Powers & Son, and is the oldest woman banker in America. Dr. Alvarez, a Pans homceopathist, hronrrht suit asainst the Princess of Medina Cceli for tfOO.OOO francfor med ical services, stating that he was enti : tied to more than the usual iompensa- tion on-nccount of the great wealth of ' his patient. The court awarded him 84,000 francs, he to pay the costs. Most j physicians would consider $1 7,000 a ; handsome fee, but this dofitor was much ' chagrined over the result. A few days ; before he had refused a much larger sum to compromisethe matter. At a recent fancy dress party a cos- tume, "Night and Day," was unique I and complete every detail. One half ! of the dressfwas of gold tissue with del i icate scarfs of pale pink and mauve j tulle coining from the right side. The j other half-was of dark blue tulle, with a scarf of b'ack tulle starred with silver, and looped on the left hip with a large paste crescent. The bodice correspond ed. One glove was of dark blue silk with 6ilver stars over jt and the other pale pink with a bracelet of flowers. One 6hoe was of silver, the other of gold; one-half of the hair was studded with silver stars, and the other dressed with flowers and sprinkled with diamond dust. One earring was a silver star, and the other a gold one, and the fan was half black and silver and half pale pink and sold. Liquid fuel is excitiug much attentio; in England. With a view to its use th Russian B'ack Jiiea Navigation compan; is building alar-'e fleet of tank steamei to import pcl'ro'e.im in b:ilk. The number of cattle on the pi a is estimated to be over 10,000,00, of u value of $1,190,000,000, ODD POINTS ABOUT CHINA. TOaUB MM' Ererytblnar tm Tfcla Cenatrr neaa4 l nfcaadjr Hint iMr Cmiitmu la Kvrrr natter. Aftetan absence of twenty-five rears in China, George Dean, ft native of the Ninth ward in this city, returned to New York recently with the intention of re miininghere. His mother, three sisters and a brother live in the same house they occupied when he went away. He had been here only two days when he began to be homesick for China. He thought that time would eonquerthe feeling, but it became stronger everyday, and after staying two weeks he bade his mother and aiatera farewell, and sailed for Liver pool on his way back to the strange country he had learned to love better than his native land. "I raisa so many things, and every, thing comes so unhandy to me here." he said. "For instance, everybody drinki cold water here, and laughs at me when I want to do as they do in China and take my water warm. In China it is im polite to take your hat off on entering a house, and here I have forgotten mysell a dozen times, and been stared at and frowned at by ever so many because 1 observed the Chinese etiquette and ked my hat on my head on going into peo ple's houses. I find myself ordering my desert first at dinner, as land all China men do at home I mean in Shanghai and my embarrassment has been great. Polite natives of China always drink their tea from their saucers, which are p'aced on top of the cups. I forgot my self more than once and did the same, with an effect on others that made mi very uncomfortable. On going out invariably have taken my fan, and fan like mine couldn't be purchased is New York for the price of a town lot. I couldn't thiuk of going anywher wi'hont it. But it has i-rought me onl ridicule wherever I went. I find that mj visiting cards, made after the best Chinesi fashion, each one printed on a yard of the finest 6ilk paper imaginable, an simply useless here, and if used would create a strong suspicion that I was in sane. In China my bed, and everybodj eise's bed, is formed of matting, whili here the matting is laid on my bedroon floor for me to walk on. When I go U bed here my head sinks down deep intc the pillow, and I splutter and tumbli about all night and can't s'eep. Ai home in China, I mean I rest on a pil low as hard as wood, and sleep like i top. , The other day my nephew, a youni man whom I like very much, asked ml what I thought would be a nice thinj for him to buy as a present for his fathei at Christmas. I answered at once: " 'The very best coffin you can afford.' - "Why do you believe me! he wai insulted, and my dear old mother wai vastly shocked. It all came from m being, thoroughly Chinese. It is quiti the proper thing in China for a eon t buy a coffin for his living father. Ji vjt, it expected that he will do bo i he is possessed. of sufficient filial regard I to d my friends so, but that shockec them st. 11 more, and I was miserabh again. There is no use. I never coulc get along here at all. 1 shall die if don't get back home to China, I mean "Yes. everything seems to' be done it China exactly opposite to the way ii which it is done here. Here I am Mr Dean. In China I am Dean Mr. Thei don't use any soap to shave with ii China, but simply to rub the part to hi shaved with warm water, put on with i bni3h like a toothbrush. The part to bi shaved is never the face, but the top y the head. The front of a Chinese bool is the last page, and the reader begins a the right hand corner of the page an( reads down. The foot notes are alwayi at the top. The title of the book ii printed on the outside margin-of thi page. If you should ever enter a schoo room in China you would surelv thin! the scholars were engaged in mobbinj the teacher, for they s udy their lessoui as loud as their lungs will let them. When they recite they back up to th teich r and stand with their faces to th other screaming pupils, instead of thi teachers, while they yell their recitationt all together. "In China the needle on the compa always points to the south. At any rate, the Chinaman believes it does. Then is no northwest or southeast. In theii place wc have westnorth and eastsouth I see that you have in New York arti&ti who live by trimming fingernails. Thei would be run out of China, for a persoi who hasn't finger nails four inches long there isn't much in society. 'They never have any breach oi promisi cases over in China. . A future Chinesi belle isn't three days' okl before hei parents have bctrothedher to some ac eeptabla. scion of a neighbor's house When she is old enough and she doesn' have to be very old, for if she were Ir this country shewould be playing witk her doll yetshe goes to tbe house o her fiffiiince4 and marries him. " Shi weeps andw ails all the way there, as i her idearof matrimony wasn't exactly i cheerful one. Thereis always mourning at aChinese marriage, while at a f unera the bands play and there xs feasting anc reioicing. And there, 1 tnmK, tni Chinese idea is the correct one. Whei a person marries his troubles begin. Why should he rejoice? When he dies hi: troubles are over. Why should any on mourn? I must get back to China. "A true-born, patriotic Chinaman wil turn with loathing from a glass of fresl milk, while he will lift a cup of casto: oil to his lips and drain it with a gusto The oil won't make him bilious." Thi milk will. I told you it was the prope thing in China for a son to give a coffir to his father. In case the man has ni son, or the son is lacking in filial regard or money, it is the ambition of the fathe to procure the coffin for himself, and h does so as soon as he is able to. It i used about the hpuse in various capaci ties until it is wanted for the purpose fo: which it .waa purchased .f Go inti any . well-regulated Chinese family's house and you will surely see the coffir of the head of the house occupied as a tete-a tete, a bench, a table, or some thing else. When ite owner dies and is put into it he may be taken to the graveyard immediately, or may knock around about the house for years. Whei they bury a cottin in China they simplj carry it out and. set it on top of thi ground in the family burial plot. Thi name of the individual who ia in thi coffin i marked on one end of it. Then the coffin remains fora year or two. and then, if the friends of the family can af ford it, they build a brick vault over it This, in time, becomes covered witi dirt, and bye-and-by grass and weedi and bushes grow on it. There are scorei of these burial places around Shangha and other cities, looking like a prairie dog viliage on a gigantic cale'." Nu TerkBun. DEALT II HINTS. There ia a greenneaa in onions and po tatoes that renders them hard to digest. For health! aake put them in warn water for an hour before cooking. The pain and injury from bee stings ! quickly cured by onion juice. Cut an onion in two and apply oae-half over tbe part aa aeon aa you 'can after being tung. 8 ilt and water will prevent the hair from' faljiflg out, and will cause new - hair to grow. DO Hot use ao strong aa 10 leave white part cles upon the hair when dry. A writer in the Russkaia Meditz aayi that he haa had great success in the cure of over throe hundred cases of acute and chronic catarrh, or cold in the head, by the use of Ice-cold water. The legs, from the So? .downward, are washed with it in the morning and at night, and rubbed vigorously with a coarse towel. It is necessary t do this for two days only, and many patients are said to have been cured in one day. Let any one who has an attack of lock jaw, says an exchange, take a small quantity of turpentine, warm it add pour it on the wound, no matter where the wound is, and relief will follow in less than a minute. Nothing better can be applied to a severe cut or bruue thin cold turpentine; it will give certain re lief almost instant'y. Turpentine is almost a certain remedy for croup. Sat urate a piece of flannel with it4 place, the flannel on the throat and chest, and in at very severe case throe or four drips on a lump of sugar may lie taken in wardly. Every family should bavo a bottle on hand . Rescue of the Monitor's Survivors. From a paper on the "Loss of the Monitor," in the Century, we quote the following: After a fearful and danger-. DU8 passage over the frantic seas, we reached the Rhode Island, which still bad the tow line caught in her wheel nd had drifted perhaps two miles to leeward. We came alongside under the lee bows, where the first boat, that had left the Monitor an hour before", had just discharged its men; but we found that getting on board the Rhode Island was a harder task than getting from the Monitor. We were carried by the sea from stem to stern, for to have made fast would have been fatal ; the boat was bounding against the ship's sides, some times it was below the wheel,, and then,, on the summit of a huge wave, far above the decks; and once, while Surgeon Weeks was holding on to the rail, he lost bis fingers by a collision which swamped the boat. Lines were thrown to us from the deck of the Rhode Island, which were of no assistance, for not one of us L-ould climb a small rope; and beside, the men who threw them would imme diately let go their holds, in their excite ment, to throw another which I found to be the case when I kept hauling in rope instead of climbing. It must be understood that two vessels lying side by side, when there is nny motion to thc-,feal move alternately; or in other words, one is constantly pass ing the other up or down. At one ; lime, when our boat was near the bows of the steamer, we would rise i upon the sea until we could touch her j rail; then in an instant, by a very rapid i iescent, we could touch her keel. While j we were thu3 rising and falling upon the ; sea. I caught a rope, and rinlng with the ! boat managed to reach within a fo it or I two of the rail, when a man, if there had ( been one, could easily have hauled me i in board. But they had nil followed ! iftir the boat, which at that instant was j washed' aster j, and I bung dangling in the air over the bow of the Rhode Isl and, with Ensign Norman Atwater hang- j iug to the cat-head, farce or four feet j from me, like myself, with both hand- j ;!in hing a rope and shouting for soma :ne to save him. Our hands gruw ains ful and all the time weaker, until I saw Ills strength give way. He slipped a foot, Mnght again, and with his last prayer, "Oh, God!" I saw him fall and sink, to rise no more. The ship rolled, and ro'-e jpon the sea, sometimes with her keel out of water, so that I was hanging thirty feet above the sea, and with the fate in view that had befallen our much beloved companion, which no one had witnessed but myself. I still c lung to the fope with aching hauds, calling in vain for help. But I could not be heard, for (he wind shrieked far above my voice. My heart'here, for the only time in my life, gave up hope, and home and friends were most tenderly thought of. While was in this sta'e, within a few seconds ii giving up, the sea rolled forward ringing with it the boat, and when I would have fallen into the, it was there. can only recollect hearing an old sailor lay, as I fell into the sea bottom of the coat, "Where in the deuce did he come from?" White Gold-Seekers in China. Siberia has always betn regarded as rich in auriferous deposits, and travelers' tales have been heard describing the rich results of washing the mud of the rivers, while the soil was mingled with golden icales. Strange, iluse stories did not seem to attract the hordes ofc needy ad renturera who flock wherever gold is, or is supposed to be, in existence; but recently, for tome months past, a busy community of diggers has been at work in a place so inaccessible that. un:il last winter, the Chinese were unaware that i tribe of foreign devils were gathering ap wealth on the borders of their own empire . The mining camp is composed of detachments from Australia and Cali fornia, and a sprinkling of diamond teekers from South Africa; and these men have formed a government of their own Dver a republic they have coolly appro priated from the Chinese empire, having the Russian administration on the other side of the river. The results of the work are good, upward of 2,000 pounds weight of gold having been purchased last year by Russian agents, who have paid excellent prices, ranging up to sixty-five shillings for the troy ounce. This new "natioa"' founded on the banks of the Amoor river, is likely, if the stories told about it are true, to become a power in the world; for aa its only trouble is likely to be with China the bold diggers bave taken the initiative and defied the "ten thousand" which the ira e and disappointed man A.r,na threatened them with. This in cident is anotherpainful leaf in the his tory of China. The brother of the sun and moon, the son of heaven, lo be de fied by a gang of outer barbarians clad in flannel shirts, corduroys, and knee boots, and speaking on unknown but emphatic language, and to see the golden treasures of his land taken away from under his very nose, is humiliation too great to be submitted to ; yet what can be done? The "ten thousand" had bet ter keep at home, and let well enough tXom.- Japan GfotetU. 8LUUBER-LAND. Oh, baby mine, tb nlfbt ia bens TTm night that drifts oa slowly Tbe ralmaof Slumber -land. Gently the waters ebb and flow, Creeping through nodding lida of mow. That border 81amber-4and. . Hotber'a arms are the tails and boat. And mother' voioe tbe wind that "float Your bark to 81 umber -Und. ' Beautiful dreamt, Instead of.tanda. Fleeting vision people the strand Of far-off Slumber-land. Seepy sands that creep Into eyea Ever to open, ever to wise, Wafted from Slnmber-land. Hatht Pm tare yon are almost them Breathing the drowsy, mystio air That float through Slumber-land. How a kits on tne rosy f aoe, Just to show we hare won the race sv The race to Slumber -land. Adelaide Sameon. j HUM OH OF THE DAT. Billiards must be an easy game, for it'a mostly done on cushions. btockton iae iriek. ' The average postage stamp generally gets in place after it has been well licked. Electric Light. A canal horse should never be htrd ap. He can always draw on tbe bank. St. Paul Herald. . There Is no hen so self-contained but that she is liable to lose her head. Binghamton Republican. "What is your idea of love, Mr-Sin-, nick?" "Three meals a day, and well cooked. Chicago Itdjer." 1 When she was younger and wore the queens wreath, She was the finest sooranoyou met, oh! But now she's grown older, with a set oi false teeth, I find that her voice is falsetto. " Gorham Mountaineer. Three editors are members of the Delta (Cal.) brass band. They were driven to it in self-defense. Burlington Free PreM. j Strange, that with the 21., 000,000 but tons manufactured in th;s country last year, we still have to fasten our suspend ers on with a" shingle nail.' Palmer Journal. A nicely sharpened lead pencil is the only thing ia creation that defies the law of gravitation. The lighter end always strikes the floor flrs!. Burlington ( Ft.) Free Prtts. A LOVER'S COMPLIMENT. "A pretty thln? in g! ve," said !ie. "I Wish to pet a perfi-ct clove,"' "The prettiest thin in iovei,'; said he, "Arethose whito Iianils ( yours.my love." -fj.itoii Courier. H The king of Dahomey has 3,U0 wives. " When his royal husbandness rolls home ward about :i a. m. the chances are :J,50O to one that he will be overheard when ho tries to sneak upstairs in his stocking feet. Lneasy lies tbe head that wears a crown. JVw York Grajiw. TWO WAYS OF I.O )KIt AT II. The snow is beautiful to so? And to the poet give dull h'r When over lawn au i over I ki It lies, a tnantlo pure ani wliite. But when six inches deep, or s . It lies, at morn, h-jsi io lmlr And must tw shovelled oil, tl snow, Tbe poet defined a blasted lwre. Ho ilon Courier. A Sailor's Wouderrul Escape. Cantain sterling, of the schooner Mercury, which arrived at Chicago re ;cntly, tells an exciting story of the marvelous eec:ipe of a seaman who was washed overboard in Lako Michigan 3uring a storm. About midnight a tre mendous spa struck the vesvel, which was laboring heavily, and carried John Anderson over the side. It was impos dole to round to, and his companions gave him up for lost. Captain Sterling, who was at the wheal, was thunder struck a few minutes later to see the man holding on to the port quarter fen der and endeavoring to climb over tht side. Captain .Sterling sang out to the mate to tike the wheel, and rushing to the fender ro; e. reached over and nulled Ande'son on board. The man says that the sea which washed him overboard carried him about fifty feet from the vessel in the direction in which she was sail ng. He is a good swimmer, and when he came up on tbe crest of the wave he culd see the vea gel's lights Bhining faintly through th driving enow storm, and struck put ai best he could to get as near them as pos Mble. In his life and death struggle h was materially assi-ted by the undertow, or back sea, which, being strong, drag ged him toward the vetssel. At this mo ment another wave swept over him. and as he came to the surface his head struck against thes de of the schooner. He re tained his presence of mind and begai, reaching for the fenders. Portunatelj he succeeded in grasping the last one oi the port side and was helped on board more dead than alive. - Noses and Esrs. With the astrologers a large nose wai always a sign of much character of some kind, but that was determined by other characteristic marks. A Roman nose' was a sign of a courageous temper and a disposition to face and overcome diffi culties, while a more4 strongly' aquiline nose was an indication of rapacity; the idea being evidently borrowed from i he similarity of this description of beak to that of the eagle, the most rapacious of birds. The snub nose showed little character but much temper, while the Greek nose, eyen, straight and regular, waa a sign of the temperament of the owner. Large nostrils indicated good lungs, health and long life, while swell ing nostriU showed a warlike spirit anp fire. A very sharp nose Was considered an indieation of a busybody, while a bluntness at the end of tb is membet was an outward sign of the possessor's men tal lack of acuteness. Large ears were always bad, the similarity between theii owner and the donkey being supposed to extend further than the ears, while small ears were always good. The lobe of the ear passing insensibly into the check was a sure sign of a thief and liar, while an exceedingly sharp division be tween the two indicated honesty ,and candor.. Thick ears meant thick braids, w bile thin, delicate ears ' declared thei possessor to be a man of refined intelli gence, i' Sixty tons of-abnonds wer gathered from a sixty -five Jicre orchard on the Oak a'i ie farm, nenr Woodland, Cal., tli p:st season. At ten cents per pound thi ' crop will bring 112 000. Onehundied and ei-ht ytttrs- ago the i-ticles of confederation, under which t ie American colonies fought jEor and aihkved their independence, wa id opted by Congress.
The Anson Times (Wadesboro, N.C.)
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