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. ; ' ' v-"V ' ' ' -:: -Vr s . . - ZiZ ' " . ' ' ' ...... ' ' " R. H. COWAN. Editor and Proprietor. "We 3?roudiy call ours a Government by the People. Cleveland. TERMS: 82.00 Por Year. VOL. II. WADESBORO, N. C, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 18, 1886. NO. 20. Tt-rmi: ComIi in Advance. ( w Year S ix Moytfis 2.00 $1.00 1 50 Throe MTTIiths ADVERTISING RATES. fine sijuare, fir:t insertion - - $1.00 I'Mch smVeluent insertion - -50 f.ocal aivertis-!nents, per bne 10 .jrPpccial rates given on applicatio for 'nger time. Advertisers are requested to bring in their ?dvertiseme"nts on Monday evening of each nwk. to insure insertion in next issue. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. .ohn IJ Pembertori. ATTORNEY AT LAW, WADESBORO, N. C. IV o'i in th State anl Fel-ra f.. nits. JAMES L LOCKHART. Attorney and Counsellor at Law, ' WADESBORO.' N. C. I?:' 5 i ti e at all the Courts of the States K. UITU. W. L. rA I. SON LITTLE & PARSONS, ATTORNEYN AT 3L.AAV, WADESBORO, N. C il!f r ions Promptly Attended to. 1 1. II. DePow :d e n t ist, WADESBORO. N. C. Oili over G. AY. Huntley's Stoic. All Work Warranted. May 11. tf. DR. L). B. FROXT1S, PHYSICIAN ADD. SURGEON fFt rs his Professional Services to the citizens t' r.iU-slioro and surrounding country. Of tie ojjjx.site Bank. A. Ii. Huntley. M. D. J. T. J. Battle, 31. D Drs. Huntley A Battle, PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS Wndesboro, N C Olllcc next to Bank May tf II- HORTON, J. K E L E R , WADESBORO, N. C. lKal.'.-ii in Watches. Clocks. Jewelry Instruments. Breech mid Muzzle Shot ( Jtins. Pistols, &c. M usieal Loading Anson Institute, WADESBORO, N. C. d. a. McGregor, principal. J. .1. I. Be i;.m;tt, A. B. " . .ll!.oo. A. M .Uckt. Miss M. L. McC'orkle, ) The Tpring Term begins Monday, Jan uary .11th, 1880. TriTioiu Literary Department, ?2, &j and 4 jier month. Instminental Music, 4 per month. , al Music, ?4 per month. Use of piano for practice 50 cents ier month. Board. 10 or month. . Contingent fee. 1 per year. F. r Catalogue ajply to the Prim ipal. :CllOOl, JAMES VY. KILGO, A. B., Principal. l-i'' Hie Fall Session begins on the 3d of August ls-sr,, an.l runs through five months. Tl'ITION, PKR MONTH. Himary. Internniliate, Advanced $2.00 2. .50 3,00 Board fronf $ TO $10 per unto.; F.t further particulars address the Prin 'ia!. WM. i fflDRR, MI NI FACT! RER AND DEALER IX I Tin-ware, Sheet-Iran AXD HOLLOW WARE. WADESBORO, N. C. HOTELS. When you ro to CTiarlotfe be snre to call on S. M. TIM M0 ITS, FOR Fno Mountain Whiskies IS THE Old Charlotte Hotel CHARLOTTE, N. C. YARBROUGII HOUSE, RALEIGH, N. C. PRICES REDUCED TO SUIT THE TIMES CALL A$D SEE US. RESOLVE. As the dead year is clasped by a dead Decem ber, o let your dead sins with your dead days lie. A new life is yours, and a new hope! Remem- ber We build our own ladders to climb to the sky. Stand out in the sunlight of promise, forget ting Whatever your past held of sorrow or wrong; We waste half our strength in a useless re gretting; - - We sit by old tombs in the dark too long. Have you missed in your aim? well, the mark is still shining; Did you faint in the race? well, take breath for the next. Did the clouds drive you back? but see. yon der their lining. Were you tempted and fell? let it serve for a text. As each year hurries by let it join that proces sion Of skeleton shapes that march down to the past, While you take your place in the line of pro gression, With your eyes on the heavens, your face to the blast. I tell you the future can hold no terrors For my sad soul while the stars revolve. If be will but stand firm on the grave of his errors. And instead of regretting, resolve, resolve! It is never too late to begin rebuilding. Though all into ruins your life seems hurled For look ! how the light of the new year is gilding The worn wan face of the bruised old world! Ella Wheeler Wilcor, in Xeiv York Sun h?. Thfi COWBOY, C. GKEEXE. uncomfortable day. Th; it .v.;; ( 1 b ew iev of our Id. in gusts down the chim little school-house, nutting oui iue anii n.-King me question oj keeping a hopeless one. The L.'l-naked children huddled about the stove ami patiently conned their lessons. Poor things, they were so used to cold and ovleriiig, that even the dreary school-ho sc was comfort com pared o their miserable homes ! I missed my big boy, Jake. If he were only here, I could send him to the woods for fuel. He was always our de pendence in a cold or rainy day. He had wonderful luc k with the "rickety old stove, nncl could make the tire burn when nobody else could. Jake was my favorite scholar. Hews only a rough cowboy, and had borne a terrible reputation, but lie always be haved himself in school, and was so kind: and helpful, that I had come to rely upon him as my right hand man. On the day I opened my school he came to me, and, tucking an enormous quid of tobacco away in his cheek, said awkwardly, "I wan'ter jine your school. I ain't nothin' but a cowboy, but I've tuk a notion lately ter learn to read. I reckon I should like to know how to read."' he added, with a wistful glan-ca into my face. His evident earnestness and his sim plicity touched me, and I answered cor dially, "I shall be glad to have you come, :;nd I have no doubt you will learn to read very fast. I will do all I can for you, and you must help me. We will help each other." He seemed embarrassed; dropped his eyes, shifted his quid, 'then spat dextrous ly into a corner of the room, and wiped his lips on the back of one great hand. "I reckon you hain't never hearn o' me,"1 he said, finally-, with an uneasy laugh. 'T ain't ginerally 'counted much, good round here."' "But I wouldn't wonder." he continued, looking me over with the air of a cor noissur about to bargain for a pup or a horse. "I wouldn't wonder now, if jTou'n me tuk to one another, teacher "I think we shall," I said, good na- turedly, "and you look as if you might be a friend worth havii.g, if you chose." He was a noble, great fellow, fully six i feet tall, wiih limbs like the trunks of j trees, and the haad and shoulders of a : young Hercules. ' j At my remark he blushed a tawny red, i up to the roots of his hair, and made a j sudden movement as if to offer me his ! hand; then drew back " and choked, i I struggling to speak. ; "I can be, and. I will be!" ' i he muttered at. lar.t, hoarsely, ! j and strode a'wav to a seat closely ' followed by his dog a savage, ugly-looking cur, which seemed inseparable from ; his master, and came to school as regu larlv from that dav. The dog's name was j Tige, and I noticed that Jake was always j ! considerate of him. sharing his own din- I ner with him when he was so fortunate as ' J to have any; and once, when the poor i brute came in wet and shaking with the cold, he gave up his own warm place by J the fire, muttering by way of apology, an i his eyes met mine, th.nt "the little cuss; was gittiu' old." There seemed to be an ; almost human sympathy between them. One afternoon Jake came in covered j with' blood. He had evidently been : fighting, and what was more remarkable. . had got worsted ; but he went coni , posedly to his seat as if nothing had I happened. Indeed, quarrels were so commom among the scholars, that if ! they did not bring them into school, I i took but little notice of them. So on ' ; this occasion I said nothing, but I saw . j Tige crawl to his master's feet and look i up into his face with a questioning I ' whine. He had been doziug comforta- ; blvbv the lire all the noontime, and so' had not shared his master's trouble. whatever it was. i Receiving ; no attention, he finally j squatted dowa in front of him and pa- tiently watched his angry, downcast j face; nor did he have to watch long. I Jake suddenly lifted his eyes and j flashed a lightning glance at a boy who j sat opposite him on the other side of the j room. Then, clearing the distanee with j I one bound, the dog was at the offender's j i throat! And I knew it was with him 1 .Tom Came that Jake had quarreled. ; "Call off the brute!" gasped the fcl : low with a terrible oath, j Jake spoke to the clog, who reluctantly i loosed his hold, and rising to his feet, ! stretched out one brawnv arm toward his- foe: "I call him off," he said, "because j you'n me will settle our own little diffi. fcilty. It lays, 'twist ypu'n me net you'n the dog and I'll have it out with ye, and soon, too !" with a threatening shake of his fist. ' I heard no more of the matter; but a few days afterward Jake was absent from school, for the first time, and I missed him, as I said in the beginning of this sketch: I made inquiries of the scholars, but no one knew, anything about him. Tim Carhes was also absen,b it I thought nothing of that, as he was always irregu lar in his attendance. My oldest scholar tmo.-ig the girls Jinny by name she was the brightest and most advanced pupil I hi. The other girls both hited and ad mired her, seeming to regard her superi ority as a reproach and insult to them selves. Judging from her appearance Jinny must nave been at that time eighteen ox twenty years of age; but she did not know how old she was, nor did she care. "What's the odds?" she said, with a rhrugof indifference, when I questioned her in regard to the matter. She had the pale, sallow complexion common to her class, and her speech and manners were" uncouth enough, but there was a charm about her, after all. There was a wild grace and .retdom in her movements, a magnetism in her dark eyes when she turned them full upon you. a consciousness of power in her saucy, defiant ways, that fascin ated all who came in contact with her. I myself was strongly attracted to her; what wonder ihen that Jake and Tim Canes became her abject slaves. I had often amused myself watching the three, feeling about the same kind of interest---half amusement, half fear in their fierce, rude love-making, their jealousies and y.i u rels, that I would in the gambols f , trio of wild animals. The clays j.i .v. on, but my two big boys' cam" t.) sr-h ol no more. At last I began t ) wo:nler. if Jinny had any thing to do with their absence. Evi dently there was something wrong with the girl ;she seemed sullen and depressed, and sot in her se.)t frowning, silent; and when I quvMim d her she shut her teeth fiercely tvt'r-. . rnd answered jiot a word. But soon there came a change; one afternoon I noticed that she was terribly restless and excited, and her great eyes, no longer defiant, sought mine contin ually, with an expression of mute ap pear? such as we see in the eyes of a dumb aninjTi whn iT p'in. My he.'u t hed for h' ", but I had been so o.'!-n repuls-tl, t '! I thought best to1 rt"t for her ? ..p ak. When the sohola: v. no dismissed she lin gered behind, and as the door closed on the lajjt one she sprang forward, and throwing herself at my feet, with tears and gioans and incoherent cries, made known th i uis - r her wretchedness. "I've kilic i; S - a .", liiaiin! I've killed Jake!" she ;n.,-ined, rocking herself wildly to and fro. "How how is that!" I asked, re coiling from her instinctively. "Why, 'twas mc Jake and Tim fit over, that day they came in kivered with blood ! I set 'em at it, and laughed ter see it go oh. Then a few days ago thev begun again and I might a' stopped 'cm with a word, and I didn't ! Somehow I couldn't. But I wish I had ! Oh, how it was only instead o' Jake, I muttered fiercely. I wish I had! If Tim a dyin' now, wouldn't care!" she "I allers hated Tim allers!" "But, Jinny," said I, wishing to divert her, "are you quite sure Jake will die?" "Oh, yes marm, they say so; and I fear it here," laying her hand on her heart. I made inquiries as to the nature of Jake's injury, but could gather nothing definite, except that it was a wound from a pistol shot, and that for some unaccountable reason he had made scarcely any show of defending himself according to those who witnessed the encounter, "he seemed all at once spilin' to get killed." "Perhaps you Avould like to go to him!" I suggested. "Oh, I would, I would," she exclaimed eagerly. "I hain't seen him yet. I hung round the place all last night, f earin' to to go inside. Yes, I will go! ' she cried, with sudden vehemence, her pale cheek flushing, "and I'll die with him, too! One grave shall kiver us me and Jake!" An idea occurred to me. "I have had some experience with such wounds," I said. "I might do something for him. Shall I go with you?" "Oh. ves. ves. Come!" She hurried me out and led the way road through the woods. along a cross Never a good walker, I feel weariness, and Jinny soon began to noticed that I lagged behind. "Mebby you're a tired, marm," she remarked. "I don't mind miles o trampin' myself. I'm used to it. Lem mekerry ye, mum." And before I could remonstrate she picked me up and shoul dered me as if I had been a sack of corn. " 'Pears like it'll do me good," she mut tered as she strode along seemingly little encumbered by her burden. At last we reached the miserable hut that Jake called his home. We pushed open the door and looked in. A very old woman crouched by a smoky fire, and on a rude bed in a corner of the room lay Jake, his immense proportions sharply outlined through the scanty covering. Tige, the dog, crouched at his. feet, and took no notice of our approach. ' A handsome rifle and a brace of pistols hung against the wall beside the bed ; for the cowboy of the Southwest is seldom so poor that he does not own handsome fire arms. As we entered, the old woman, who proved to be Jake's mother, got upon her feet with great difficulty, and came to ward us. But Jinny laid her finger on her lips and glided swiftly past her to the bed. Clasping both hands tightly behind her, she leaned over Jake, softly calling his name. At the sound of her voice he opened .his eyes and gazed wildly about, without seeming to see the face so near his own. He turned his head and caught sight of me, and knew me. Brushing his hand slowly across his eyes, he said : "I didn't know I'd fell asleep, marm," evidently thinking he was in school. Jinny dropped on her knees beside him and clasped his hands to her bosom. ' 'Oh, Jake, Jake!" she cried in agony, "don't yer ste me? Don't yer know your pooi jinny?" Then his bewildered eyes met hews: "Why, why, Jinny, gal, how's this, how's this?" he muttered; then seeing her tears, he smiled strangely. "Cryin'?" he said. "I allers knowed you had a kind heart. I kifctwed it, Jinny; thar thar, soothingly. But that wan't no sign'that you liked me, was it? I see it all now. But somehow, that day when I found 'twas Tim, for sure," raising his voice and moving his head restlessly on the pillow, "why then I jest laid off and let him kill me, as it were. What's life to me withg out Jinny? says I ter myself." The girl seemed suddenly to have lost all power of speech. She was still kneeling beside him with her face.-buried in her hands, but no longer sobbing, and as motionless as if she heard him. not. He turned to me. "Can you tell me, marm,"' he said, with, great earnestness, "if so be there's directions in the book 1 the Test'ment, you know, that you give diffikilty as mina couldn't find no word no orders." "If I could only a' gone by the book, he repeated, wistfully, "but as it was we had ter settle it in the old way pistils and bowie knives. But what's the use o' talkin', it's all squar now." He sighed wearily, and closed his eyes, muttering - a i; i t t again 10 uimseu, nil squar : m I laid my hand on his head and tried to soothe him. I told him that Jinny and I had come to nurse him and make him well again, and that I hoped 1 ould come right. , He put out his hand and touched Jinny, but she made no movement. Jinny and me use'ter talk sometimes, marm," said he slowly and painfully, "we use'ter talk, that we might go to gether somewhar', fur from this place," J and do better. Try ter live more nice folks, and 'cordin' ter. the -book, yer knowi Give up all this fightin' aa' swairin', an these poor, miser'ble ways, and have a home together.- But thar, what's the . use o' talkin'; it's too late now too late !" A sharp, passionate cry burst from Jinny's lips, and broke the spell that was upon her. She sprang to her feet, and leaning over Jake once again, clasped both his hands tightly in hers, and fas tened her great magnetic eyes upon his own bewildered ones. "Jake! Jake!" she said, "I say taint' too late! We'll have a home yit you'n me! Do you hear?" together Yes: at last he understood. His face flushed, brightened. With a mighty ef fort he -threw up-both his arms as if to clasp her, and fell fainting on her breast Jinny uttered a stifled cry, and at tha moment I saw a stream of flood tricklin from his side, staining the garments o both as they lay claspe d in each other' arms. The exertion had opened hi wound afresh, and I feared for him ex ceedingly. But to my surprise, I found on examina tion, that the. wound was not mortal not even a severe one; and his weakness and prostration were pr,obably the results of excitement and loss of blood. Thanks to my hospital experience I was able to dress the wound properly, and had the satisfaction of assuring his old mother and Jinny that with good nursing he would soon recover. When he returned to consciousness Jinny was bending over him. - He spoke her name, but she, smiling, laid her finger on his Hps and shook her head : "You want ter get well, don't yer:'1 she snid softh". "I corns here ton-ight .er die with yer. but I reckon it's better for us both t-r live." Boston. Traveler. The Wolf and the Wild Hogs. A former resident of San Jose, Cal. said to a New York Sun reporter ' 'I never saw a drove of wild hogs loose but once, and from what I saw of them and their methods then I was satisfied to hunt them with barley-baited corrals, and leave the free and open chase to some one else. I was oat shooting birds one day, and as I was passing through a dense thicket, to get to an open where I ex pected good sport I heard the unmistaka ble snorting and tusk-grinding of wild hegs. I thought some one had a corral set near by, and had got the drop on some hogs as usual. I drew toward the edge of the thicket, and then it seemed to me that the snorting was too voluminous and the grinding loo fax reaching and penetrating to be made by a dozen penned-up porkers, but I kept on. When I reached the edge of the thicket I peered out into the open. Well, that's all I did. I had no desire to proceed further. Such a sight I never saw be fore nor since. I think there must have been a thousand wild . hogs, of all sizes, ages, and sexes, congregated in that one open. They were huddled together like freemen at an out-door ward meeting. Each and every individual hog was mad very mad. Their bristles stood up all the way from their ears half way down their backs. Froth flew about in that undulating mass like foam on a storm-lashed coast. Rage gleamed from every eye, and voiced itself in every snort. I stood there, peering out on the extraor dinary scene, wishing myself ten miles away, and not daring to move, for fear the furious mob of hogs would detect me and parcel me up among them. It was five minutes before I discovered what was the cause of this turbulent gathering and the object of its fury, when I saw, in the midst of the wild concourse, a poor, lean and haggard wolf, gathered together on the top of a stump, just beyond the reach of the biggest boar in the drove, and with the most abject look of terror on . his face that it was possible to express. I don't know what the wolf had done to bring this avenging army of hogs down upon him. Possibly he had sought to inveigle some suckling of the drove into appeasing his hunger. It might be that the wild hog is the sworn enemy of the wolf. I don't know. But there was this vulpine, unfortunate, trembling and haggard, perched on a pinnacle barely large enough to give room for his four feet, gazing over this waving sea of upturned tusks. He was a cowardly, thieving wolf, but I felt sorry for him. I did, I vow. ' 'Seeing that they were so intent on the terror-stricken wolf that my presence would never be noticed. I became easier, and watched the show. The hogs never let that wolf rest a second. Some big fellow would lift himself up against the stump on one side, with a snot like a thunderclap, and quick as a flash the wolf would turn his face that way. Then another long-tusked brute would jump up and let go a howl, aid around the wolf would go toward him like a flash. And so it went all around the stump, and it was a wonder tome how that terrorized wolf managed to keep his footing on the stump at all. By and by I got tired of watching the proceedings, and I thought I would try an experiment. I raised my gun and fired in the air. That was the climax. The wolf hadn't calculated on that. With the report of the gun he lest his presence of mind. He leaped ten feet in. the air, ad came down twenty feet away. A thousand upraised tusks were ready to ;eceive him. There was one wild yell." Then pieces of wolf filled the air for a second," and the vengeance of the wild hog was comp,ete. I don't know what followed. I hid no further business there, but made for a more congenial part without delay. If you ever go out to San Joaquin, go over to the wild hog pre erves, and try it. It'll 'liven, you up." Prize Winter Poem. The mill wheel's frozen in tha pond; The plumber skips along the way; The pipe has burst its leaden bond; . The red-hot stove is cold and gray. "Ohwmter in-our hours of ease,, i Why don't you keep the plumbers down'f Is life one long, continuous freeze? Oh. let me bore the ice and drown! LiouUville Courier-Journal. me for settlin such was? I looked, but I A MOONSHINE STRONGHOLD MFE AMONG TT.T.TCIT DISTELIiEBS OF NOBTH ALABAMA. A Visit to an Illicit Still Rough Men and Their Weird. Surround. ing A Mountain Waif. One of the most interesting localities in North Alabama is the mountain regions of Marshall and DeKalb counties. It has become so on account of the character of the citizens. Of this section the most notorious and best known locality is the Sand Mountain in DeKalb county The people in this section are far behind the happy elements of civilization which sur round their neighbors. Here the. women do most of the work, whild the men make, the illicit whisky they can. A stranger is looked on as a natural enemy, and one is eyed with suspicion. The visit to an illicit still was under an oath characteristic of the mountaineer, which was sacred and binding. It was about two miles in the mountains, away from any settlement. The distance wai traveled on the back of a mountain colt. After following a narrow, beaten track through bushes, over rocks, down hill sides, across ravines and through moun tain passes, a point of a precipice was reached; My companions pointed to the depths below and told me to watch a cer tain spot. A blue curl of smoke arose, which was front the still we were going to visit. Then down the narrow mountain-side we rode, guided by the sensible animals. If a slip of his foot was made, eternity would have been our doom. Soon a point was reached about two hun dred yards from the still. One of my companions took from his pocket a whistle, made of a piece of reed, and gave- two shrill whistles, wliich were answered. The animals were tied, and one of the men said to the other: "Jim, his peepers are too good ; I guess we had better cover them." With these words the two men proceeded to bind a cloth over my eyes. Sifter walking around and about a cave was entered. When the doors were thrown back my eyes were freed, and a scene of interest was pictured. The 'room was a cavern dug out of a coal deposit, about twenty by sixteen feet, in which were arranged the worms and barrels with piles of corn -and dried fruit. Hanging about on the walls were guns and pistols, near which was a slide madeto open and close at a moment's notice. The interior was sug gestive of the w'ilc nature of the moun tains. The men inside were dressed in clothing of coarse material made at home. In the corner of the room was a man busily engaged in pouring whisky in a funnel, which was conveyed off through a pipe made of mountain cane. "Where does that go to?" was asked. "You can't know all, stranger. x Whar that runs to you nor no other man will know; but it is taken Oiie of, you cau bet on it." Behind a tub of sour-mash was a little, ragged nine-year-old child, who had a stick, stirring the contents. The little thing was covered with dirt and half clad in course homespun. "Chunk it up, Mag, and come here and see the, stranger." The child, i half frightened and cow ered, approached me, but her timidity overcame her, and she stopped. "Come here, you little cat, and sing," was spoken by one of the men. The child began to sing in a voice as plaintiful as a dove, and before she had finished the tears were streaming down her cheeks. What is the child's name?" wTas asked. "We call -her Mag for short. That child has a history as long as your arm, but she will never tell it. She knows she will get the strap." Her dark blue, childish ej-es looked up, moistened with tears, and pleaded to be spared the lash. Her story was a strange one, and was calculated to touch the chords of a hardened heart. One cold morning six years before, a man was seen slowly riding along the mountain road with a little child in front on the saddle. The snow was falling and he tenderly clasped her wraps around her. Up the mountain higher were two men who have been introduced, and they were gazing at the sight below. "Take the glass and see if you arc sure he is a spy." Soon the sharp pingof a rifle was heard, and the traveler dropped lifeless from his saddle, and the chili was taken to the cave of the moonshiners. The. child has been there since. The duty of.the child is to mix sour mash and keep her eyes closed. This she performs faithfully. The question wa asked of these men : "Are you not afraid of the revenue men, and will they not get you?" . "Stranger, 'we are not afraid of heaven or hell, much less of any thing on two legs. We arc trying to make an honest living, and the man who tries to stop us dies that's all. The law has got to take the same chance that we do." These arc some of the characteristics of the men the revenue authorities have had to contend with in Alahama. At anta Constitution. Ticpinj the Waiter. Speaking of tips, the" other evening I supped ac the St. James with an old friend from California, a .prodigal and a bon vivant. The change brought by the obese and well greased waiter consisted of a five-dollar bill and two dimes. My host lifted the bill, and the waiter, with an insolence as magnificent as it .was original, took! the dimes from the salver, laid them on the cloth and departed with an undisguised shrug. A twenty-cent tip for a ten-dollar check was not enough for hinv. My Eldoradan friend smiled md glinted at me in his palm a silver lollar which h-j had drawn from his pocket. Wc-went out, he rattling the dimes and the dollar as he went. At the door a miserable urchin was vending the stray remnants of his stock oi cven iug papers.- My friend 'took them in bulk, dropped the three silver pitces into his filthy paw, and as we walked 4own Broadway tore up the papers and scattered the1 fragments into the street. When the last strips had fluttered off, h said solemnly. "I'm blessed if I ever give a waiter u tip again! Have you any fire?" But is it, after all, the fault of the waiter whom our prodigals spoil that ho refuses to devour husks? One . cvi ing I was talking to Siro Dchnonieo when noticed a yeungstcr at the next table, who had had half a dollar's worth of brandy, leave the change of a two-do'!? note for the waiter. "lie did not have to earn, that money, said Delm on ico, grimly. - Delmonico himself never tipjjed a waiter Neither, by the way, did A. T. S'owi New York To-Day. . r . SELECT SIFTING. At the beginning of the present century It was considered "fast" bv respectable Londoners to have sofas in the parlor. The Australians tic the hands of th corpse and extract the finger nails, that the dead may not scratch his way out of the grave. According to an ancient idea pelicans were hatched dead, but the cock pelican brought them to life by wounding his breast and letting one drop of blood fall upon each. A physician who passed many years in South America says that he never saw a bald Indian and scarcely ever a gray, haired one. In one climate physicians have not discovered a general rule updn turning gray and boceming bald. A Frenchman has found means to re store the lifelike expression to the eyes of dead persons. He placesa few drops of glycerine and watar in the corners of the eyes and the effect is said to be startling, so lifelike do the eyes b3 come. A calculation made by Mr. Corthell of the figures of the mile-long railroad train drawn by a single locomotive establishes that there were 3,253 tons weight on this train, which was drawn by a single 55 ton engine. This would be more than the weight of many steamships with their cargoes. There are 30,000 stamp collectors in New York, and the number is constantly increasing. They call themselves phil atelists, a word not found in any but the newest editions of the dictionaries. The most valuable stamp known is one that was issued by the postmaster of Brattle borough, Vermont, in 1847 and was only in circulation for a few moaths. It ix now worth $700. The Germans, who have always Been celebrated for heavy eating, fur ii-h us with some curious culinary items. In the middle ages the goose was the grand dish among them, but they also ate crows, storks, cranes, herons, swans and bitterns thes2 last warned dishes being arranged in a circle of honor around the goose. The geier or European .vulture, the dogfish, the dolphin, and even the. whale were eaten, while a roast guinea pig was considered a very great delicacy. All their foods were highly spiced, and sauc es were endless in their variety, thre or four kinds being served up with eacl dish. In these sauces, pepper, mace, cinnamen, cloves, ginger, garlic, saffror and pimento contended for the mastery, and the mere decided the flavor the bet ter the cook. Watching the Pickpockets. Police Inspector Byrnes, of New York, the "American Vidocq," has been gossip ing to a World reporter: "Once in a while New York is unusu ally crowded, like on the day of General Grant's funeral. We worked a little plan on that occassion that succeeded beauti fully. My men went all along the line of the New York Central and Hudson river railroad and picked up all the big and little pickpockets who had posted them selves at djfferent stations to reap a har vest of watches and pocketbooks from the crowds who gathered to see the fun eral train and follow it to New York. In this city, too, we arrested all the pick pockets, and the police justices kindly committed them as vagrants. The result was that although there were 1,000,000 strangers here during the funeral week in addition to New York's, population of 1,500,000, there was but one theft-reported, and that was the stealing of a silver watch from a drunken man on the Bower v. When such emergencies arisen it is well to meet them half way." "I thought I recognized one of your men at a ball the other evening," re marked the visitor. "Very likely," said the inspector. "They attend all the big entertainments. There were eight of them in evening dress at the Dixey ball, with their eyes wide open for the first crook who showed his nose there. At both of the big fancy dress balls that the Vanderbilts gave a few seasons ago four of my men were present in costume. It would have looked fuuny, wouldn't it, to see a hooded monk lugging off a light-fingered Louis XVI. to the county jail for trying to run away with some lady's diamonds? I expect before this season is over to see Nanki-Pooh preferring a charge of, at tempted larceny against some Pooh-Bah whom he has caught in the act of pick ing pockets. Keep your eyes open the next time you attend a fancy dress ball and see if you can find some of my boys." ah Early Weather Prophet, For more than thirty-five years pre ceding the establishment of the weather bureau by the government Isaac Yocum, of PaschalvilleJ was the recognized weather prophet for the people of Dela ware county. If the breast-bone of the goose, the hog's melt, the ground hog and other well-established weather signs cor respond with Isaac Yocuui's predictions, welt and good ; if not, they were at fault that year and everybody so understood it. Mr. Yocum was gathered to his fathers soon after the establishment of She weather bureau department, but were he living to-day he would say in his jocular way: -""Every snow this winter will be a rain." Weather Solon Yocum was a bvitcher, and one of his theories re specting the weather was the set of the wind at the turn of the seasons. If, for instance, during the season of the fall equinox say from September 15 to the 22d the wind was generally in the east, shifting southward and finally clearing up by shifting around to southwest, then to northwest, Mr. Yocum would make a contract at a very low figure to pasture cattle on the Hog Island pasture lands until about the 20th of December. He would take a run through Delaware county, purchase a large number of thin cattle at low prices and would invariably have three months of warm weather and j.the best of pasture for hk cattle, which i ne wouia iatten ana sen at mgn prices. During the winter solstice, along about j the 20th of December of 18S5, the wind i .1-11.. 1 ii hung around the -southeast and finally veered to northwestward and back again by the- southward, thus betokening, ac cording to the Yocum theory, which in variably held good thirty years ago, a warm winter, with much more rain than snow, and, when three or four days of cold weathei overtook us, to be followed suddenly by warm spells. Philadelphia Times. Boy and Man. Now the little boy. With a smile of gloom and joy, lyly hides around the corner while tha statelv man goes by. And then the snowball flits, And the stately man it hits - . nd knocks his new Fedora right down upon I . his eye. Cleveland Graphic I THE POISON EATING HABIT. BTARTLPTO mSCIiOSURIS AT A BE . CENT TRIAL FOB MURDER. People who are Acouatomed to Con sume Arsenic Their Purpose and the Fatal Result. A very interesting trial for murder took place lately in Austria. The prisoner, Anna Roebel, was acquitted by the jury, who, in the various questions put to the witnesses, in order to discover whether the murdered man, Lieutenant Martx, was a poison eater or not, educed some very curious evidence relating to this class of persons. As it is not generally known that eating poison is actually prac ticed in more countries than one, the fol lowing account of the custom, given by a noted Hungarian physician, will not be without interest. In pome districts of Lower Austria and in Styria, especially in those mountainous parts bordering on Hungary, there prevails the strange nabit of eating arsenic. " The peasantry, in par ticular, are given to it. They obtain it under the name of hedri from the travel ing hucksters and gatherers of herbs, who, on their side, get it from the glass blowers, or purchsse it from the corn doc tors, quacks or mountebanks. The poison eaters have a twofold aim in their danger ous employment, one of which is-to obtain a fresh, healthy appearance, and ac quire a certain degree of embonpoint. On this account, therefore, gay village lads and lasses employ the dangerous, agent, that they may become more attrac tive to each other, and it is really astonish ing with what favorable results their endeavors are attended; for it is just the youthful poison eaters that are, generally speaking, distinguished by a blooming complexion and an appearance of exu berant health. . Not many years ago, a farm servant, who worked in the cow house of a wealthy farmer, was thin and pale, but, neverthe less, well and healthy. This girl had a lover, whom she wished to enchain still more firmly, and, in order to obtain a more pleasing exterior, she had recourse to the well-known means, and swallowed, every week, several doses of arsenic. The desired result was obtained and, in a few months, she was much fuller in the figure, rosy cheeked, and, in short, quite accord ing to her lover's taste. In order to in crease the effect, she was so rash as to increase the dose of arsenic, and - fell a victim to her vanity. She was poisoned, and died an agonizing death. The second object of the poison caters have in view is to make them, as they express it, "better winded," that is to make their respiration easier when as cending the mountains. Whenever they have far to go, and to mount a consider able height, they take a minute morsal of arsenic and allow it gradually to dissolve. The effect is surprising, and they ascend with ease heights which otherwise they could climb only with distress to the chest. The dose of arsenic with which the poison eaters begin consists, accord ing to the confession of some of them, of a piece the size of a lentil, which. in weight would be rather less than half a grain. To this quantity, which they take? fasting several mornings in the week, they online themselves for' a con siderable tun:', and then gradually, and very carcfrlly, they increase the dose ac cording to the effect produced. i"The peasant A , living in the Parish R ! , a strong, hale man of upward j of sixty, takes at present at every dose a juece of about the weight of four grains. For more than forty years he ha practiced -this habit, which he inherited , anatomy,and is evidently located immed from his father, and which he in his turn iatel under the eaves of the nose. If w.u oequeatn to nis cnuaren. it is wen to observe that neither in these or in other poison eaters is there the least trace of an -arsenic cachexy discernible, that the symptoms of a chronic arsenical p isoning never show themselves in indi v.duals who adapt the close to their con stitution, even although that dose should be considerable. It is not less worthy of remark, however, that when, either from inability to obtain the acid or from any other cause, the perilous indulgence is stopped, symptoms of illness are sure to appear, which have the closest resem blance to those produced by "poisoning from arsenic. These symptoms consist principally in "a feeling of general, dis comfort, attended by a perfect indmer ence to all surrounding persons ann things, great personal anxiety, and i ous distressing sensations, arising fro;;! the digestive organs, want of appetite, constant feeling of the stomach bein;: overloaded at early morning, an u lUMiar cleg e of salivation, pins in the stom ach, and especially, oiilienlty of breath ing." For all these symptoms there is but one remedy u return to the enjoy ment of arsenic. According to inquiries made on ti: subject, it would seem that the habit of eating poison among the inhabitant- of lower Austria has not grown into a pas sion, as is tho case with the opium eaters in the East, the chewers of the betel. nut in Indi;i and Polynesia, and of the cocoa tree among the natives of Peru. When once commenced, how ever, it becomes a necessity. In some districts sublimate of quick-silver is used in the same way. In the moun tainous parts of Peru a writer met very frequently with e iters of corrosive subli mate, and in Bolivia the practice is still more frequent, where this poison is open ly sold in the market to the Indians. In Vienna the use of arsenic is of every clay occurrence among horse de ilers, and es pecially with the coachmen of the nobil ity. They cither shak-; it in a pulver ized state among th'. corn, or they tie a bit the size of a pea in a piece of linen, which they fasten to the c irb when the horse is harnessed, and the sa!iva of the animal soon dissolve it. The slevk, f.ound, shining appear.ince of tho carriage horses, and esjK'cially the much admire 1 foaming at the mouth', is the result of the ursenic fcediug. It is a common prac ti witn the larm servants in the mountain ous parts to strew a pinch of arsenic on the last feed of hay before going up a 6teep road. This is done for years without the least unfavorable result, but should the horse fall into the hands of another owner who withholds the arsen ic, he loses flesh immediately, is no longer lively, and even .with the b?st feeding there is no possibility of restor ing him to his former sleek appearance. Brooklyn Eagle. Picturesque. The most picturesque figures in thf upper house of Congress are Senators Hampton and Butler, of South Carolina, and Senator Berry, of Arkansas. Th total number of legs they can boast of ii three. Butler lost his right leg at the battle of Brandy Station on the Qth oi June, 1863 ; Berry lost his at the battle oi Corinth, Miss., October 4, 1862; Hamp ton, after riding gallantly through th war without serious injury, lost hi by a fall from his horse. Uticd Observer. THE AFTERGLOW, . The tired eyelids of the Day . Droop heavily ; the faint light flashes Fa golden gleams beneath her lashes. To charm the dark, advancing ittght, She throws a backward smiie of light; But still she lingers lovely Day., And while she waits, the shadows stsal Across thevineadow, o'er the bay, While in the distance far away rhe hills float in a purple haie, ' ind to my eager, lingering gaae, The whit4e sails dip and reeL . Upon the rocky cliff I wait, rbe fftary, fleecy clouds that fly : ; n scurrying crowds' across the sky lave caught the radiance and the light ."hat wrap the earth in garments bright - But still I watch and wait. With music sweet the waters flow, ind softly kiss the waiting sand. : 1 jo: over hilltop, wave and land, 'ouching the' woods with mellow light, lingering in colors warm and bright. Soft gleams the afterglow. The dying smile of day grows dim, ind night with somber mien appears ly heart is sad, and through my tears . watch the waters' silvery sheen, ' ,'be golden ring of light that's seen Around the horizon's rim. . The gorgeous coloring of the Weet rrows faint and fainter, and the light )f stars gleams softly to my sight. )h, Light divine, oh, holy linve, thine brightly thro' the gates above, And to my heart bring rest. Jennicla Verne Blower, in Freb Vesa HUMOR OF THE DAY. A big spread - The sky. A high old time The town clock. Likely to 1m? mistaken -An engaged toss. Life.. A one-legged man will never Ixs roublcd with wet feet. Man wants the earth, and woman vants the man. Bill -Vyc. Because the baby is w little ycller it's "io sign he is a Chinaman. Palmer Journal. There were! only seven wonders of th world in ancient days. That was before he dude was invented. SomrruUe Jour inl. . ' A St. Louis girl thinks she's an angel. She caught sight of her curs in the mir ror, and mistook them for wings. CWt 'ornia Marerifk. "How shall a cabbage worm b ;reated?" asks an exchange That is iifficult to answer. We should like to snow what the worm would like beforff sve. answer. Graphic. " . A late dispatch from Portland says that Oregon has a a wild man. Dakota svill have quite a number of them should ,he present Congress fail to admit her as i State. Merchant-Traveler. "I. consider him a lold, arrogant man." "Ves, I know he is now, but he won't be very long.-" "And why not, I should like to know!" "He is to be married nxt week.'1 ' Vhiwjn ledger. The name of the new Swedish minis ter to the United States is Kjolt. He isn't as skittish as a young cjolt, but is J said to have a powerful hjoltsn the Eng lish 1-janguage. -liaianapoti Journal. A poet says: "I kissed her on - the nalco nv." The balcony must be a new name tor a portion oi ine numan. it isnt it should be. Xon ntoirn Herald. . A writer in the Popular Sri ence Month ly says the nerves which convey pain are rather slow in their power' to convey in formation, but anybody who ever stepped on a cat's tail with abrupt .suddenness-, will be likely to entertain stalwart views in the opposite dire t ion. Chicago Ttdjer. Well, I never knew thai before!''' said Mrs. Gummidgcv looking over the edge of her newspaper. "What's that, ray dear?" asked Mr. G. "Why, thatMr. P'urnell is a bachelor!" "Well,' you might have guessed it. He's in favbr of home rule." Mrs. Gummidge was silent a long, long time, wondering just what her husband meant. Meantime Mr.' Gummidge-went out and sat on the backdoor step like a prudent man. - Chl-ago Newi. ' -lr . An Amicable Arrangement. There is usually some amicable method' of settling troublesome disputes,cven if it be the old resort of drawing lots, though unfortunately too many of us prefer to argue, or even wrangle, about the matter in hand. ThwJapajie.se arc not so foolish. . Says the author of A Sketch of Korea:" As soon as the traveler has set foot in Japan, ancl safely passed through the Drdcalof the custom ho-we, he will heed something in which to carry himself and his baggage. He had loen told that a jinrikisha, or large baby-carriage, drawn by a man, is the vehicle in common use, and seeing some such conveyances stand-; ing idle he calls for oiie of them. A score respond to his call,T hurrying toward him so quickly as to suggest a rush of autumn leaves, started by a sud den gust of wind from the quiet corner in which they lay. In a twinkling they arc. all about him, and the shafts' have fallen at his feet. As he is only one, ancl his baggage is . limited, he cannot use them all; he therefore prepares to make a choice. Ha turns his attention for an instant to his ' traps, to judge what he shall need, and on turning back again, behold ! the men have all vanished, and he finds himself the tenter of a mute but expectant-looking circle of baby-car rwges; their shafts all pointed toward him, as if in an atti tude of entreaty. He wonders what can so suddenly have : happened to the. men, until his eyes at last light upon them in a group at the corner of the square. After some watch ing he becomes conscious that not a quarrel, but a settlement, is going on. The coolies are actually drawing lots for the privilege of carrying him ! . One man in the center holds the slips, each man selects his" own, and all abide in the best possible humor by the result. Improvment of Hearing. A prize is offered of ,3,000 francs ($600), by Baron Leon de. Lenvai, ol Nice, France, for the best readily porta ble instrument constructed according tc the prihcipal-of the microphone, for im- proveineht of hearing in cases of partial deafness. The award committee will re ceive instruments intended for competi tion up to December 31, 1887. The awarding of the prize will take place al the fourth international congress,- foi otology, to. be held atBrusseJs, in Septem ber, iWS.Semtifi American , . :
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