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1 V A R. H. COWAN, Editor and Proprietor. "We Proudly- call ours a Government by the People. Cleveland TCnr.10 02.00 Per Year. VOL. II. WADESBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1886. NO. 43. Anson Times, ' Termi--Caih in. Advance. On Year - . ... j2t(X) Six Monthi - ... . j qq Tares Month - . . . M ADTEBTISING bates. One square, first Insertion - . f 1.00 Each subsequent Insertion ' -' 50 fyxai ad vertisementa, per line - - 10 -Bpedal rates given on applicatio for ccger tune. Adrerti are requested to bring in their advertisements on Monday evening of each mek, to Insure Insertion In next issue. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. John D. Pembertpn. ATTORNEY AT LAW, WADESBORO, N. C. 1ST Practice in the State and Federa Courts. A. LOCKHART. a Attorney and Counsellor at Law, WADESBORO, N. c. t- Practice at all the Courts of the States a. Linus. W. L. PAESO.NS LITTLE & PARSONS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, WADESBORO, N. C. Collections Promptly Attended to. H.H. DePew DEN T 1ST, WADESBORO, N. C. , Office over G. W. Huntley's Store. All Work Warranted. -May 14, '85, tf. DR. D. IL FRONTIS, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON .J Professional Services to the citizens ')l " adesboro and smrounding country. Of fice opposite-Bank. A. B. Huntley, M. D. J. T. J. Battle, M. Dr. IInntley-& Battfc, PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS Wadesboro, N C Office .next to Bank May 7 D tf I. H. HORTON, t JEWELER. WADESBORO, N. C. Dealearin Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Musical Instruments Creech and Muzzle Loadiny Shot Guns, Pistols, &c. Anson Institute, WADESBORO, C. D. L MCGREGOR, PRINCIPAL. J, J. Burnett, A. B. .1. W. Kilgo, A. B. V Assistants Miss M. L. McCorkle, ) The Tpring Term begins Monday, Jan", uary 11th, 1886. ' TcmON In Literary Department,1 $2, ?:s and $4 per month. Instrumental Music, f 4 per month. Vocal Music, $4 per month. Use of piano for practice 50 cents per month. Board, $10 per month. Contingent fee, $1 per year. For Catalogue apply to the Principal Morven High School, MQRVEX, IV. C. JAMES W. KILGO, A. B., Principal. 37" The Fall Session begins on the 3d f August 1SS5, and runs through five mouths. TUITION, PER MONTH. Primary, -Intermediate, - -Advanced $2.00 2.50 3.00 Board to $3 TO $10 per moiitlL Forfurtbar particulars address the Prin cipal. WlilURR, MUN CTACTCRER AND DEALER IN fin-iare, Stel-IroB AND HOLLOW WARE. Vf ADESBORO, N. C. HOTELS. When you go to Charlotte be- sure to' tall on S. M. TIM HONS, FOR Fine Mountain Whiskies LN THE Old Charlotte Hotel CHARLOTTE, N. C. . TARBROUGH HOUSE,. , RALEIGH, K. C. PRICES REDUCED TO SUIT THE HUES i CALL AND BEE US. THE SUMMER'S CALL From tha lake's pebbly shire with its soft ened roar, From the depths of the woods and shadowy vales, From the river's glad breast as it speeds to its rest. From the fields and quiet dales," thj brook and tin Comes the joyous summer vo!ce Mis us follow a ad rejoice; -A ud the hills take up the sound, ' And the echcej toss it round. 'In the smile of my sky the broad fields lie, In the deep cool dells my era leaves wave, Fronthe tree tos tall my song birds call And my brooklets flow with rippling stav. Leave your roots and carves and signs, Leave your books with learning fraught; I.ara older than their lines, I am wiser thnn tbeir thought. ' And my pine trees shall sin swin?. g as they sleepily And clouds skies " j iJ t. j LUaiillug With iho flush of the dawn, and the fleece of the noon. Ari l the sunsets gold and crimson dies. And for you my waves shall call, And my floweret? lift their eyes, ' And my fh ckered shadows fall. And my glad bird chorus ri e. " ; Rochester Po it-Express A QUEER PATIENT. A doctor's story. I am ;t doctor. T live in "Vw VnrV : City, and in one of the most crowded j localities. I am not ashamed to say I live there, because. I find it a better place for a young physician's practice 1 than the uio.e fasiiionuble streets. My j patients ..were little shop-keepers, poor . mechanics, laborers and even beggars. ! The latter, of course, paid me nothing, I though they f-howered blessings on' me ' by the bushel. The r.oortr they were j the oitener they sent'for me, and on the smallest pretenses. j . I had been in my present office two j years, an l had never had a patient from ! the mole aristocratic circles, when one , night I was startled by a violent ring at j my bell, and having just composed n-y- self for a nap, after a hard day s work, I can't, say the summons was agreeable. Uowev er, I ran to my window at once and cried : i "Who is there ?" voice 'answered : "Only I, doctor. It's an urgent case: 1 Please come down to the door." The tone of the answer surprised me. (.The form "only I" was still more aston ishing, for grammar was .not a favorite j accomplishment in that neighborhood. That a lady spoke I felt sure a lady of ; education and refinement, j I hurried down sta'us and opened the door. There stood an . elderly lady ; "dressed in mourning. . Her face, though , wrinkled, was very line in feature. Her hair was arranged in elegant puffs under a handsome bonnet. She put out the smallest of hands in j a fine black kid glove, and said, pite- ! ously : j i "Are you the doctor?" i "Yes,'4Isaid. " ! "Then . come with me n said she ' 'Don't delay. It's life or death Come." i numea on my overcoat, caught up my umbrella, r.nd offering my arm to the " old lady, walked down Mhe "street with her." "You must be my guide, m.idame," I said. "I do not know where you live." She instantly -gave me a street and number that surprised me still more. - It was the most aristocratic quarter of the city. "Who is ill, madarue,"' I inquired "a grown person or a child?" "A young lady my - daughter," she said. . " ; ' 'Suddenly 1" . ! "Yes, suddenly." she answered. "Do ' you keep a gig 2" You should have had ' it out if you do. We would have been ! able to go faster." I ' I keep no conveyance," I said. "Perhaps you are poor," she said , eagerly. T 1 "i "Certainly not rich, I said. "Cure her and , I'll make you rich," the said, in a sort of suppressed shriek "cure her ami I'll give you anything you ask. I don't care for money. I'm rolling in gold, cure Tier and I'll shower it on you." "You are excited, madam," I said. "Pray be caJm." "Ca'm:" don't know she said "calm! but vou a mother's heart." Wo reached the stre she had indi- : cated, and were at the door of one of its j finest mansions. ' The old lady ascended j the steps and opened the door with a I latch-key. A low light burned in' the ; hall, another in one. of three parlors, the i furniture of which was draped and shrouded in white linen, j "Wait here, sir, if -ycu please," she i said, as she led me into one of these. 4 Til see if my daughter is prepared for your visit." And with, a sweeping courtesy, she glided away. Doctors are hot used to btintr kent wa't'njr Iocs. . I waited what I thought I w A O a most unreasonable time in those gloomy"! parlors, -Avhcn a step, very different from k the old; lady's was heard upon the stairs, i ami a stout, snort, red faced woman bustled into the parlor. "I beg your pardon, sir," she said, in a singular tone; but my lady, the lady who brought you here, is very nervous, and was needlessly alarmed. She begs your acceptance of the customary fee, and there is no need of your services." Thus speaking, shes handed me a five dollar gold piece, courtesied and opened the door for me. ' . I bowed, expressed my pleasure' that the patient was better, End departed. It was a queer sort of adventure, but ratuer amusing than otherwise; beside I ha4 my fee. I went home and slept oundlj. I aro3e early next moning and made a nsit before b;cakfast. Returning, to my asloi'shmcht, I found sit tin or in mv office ( the aZ of tbe night before. She ii)x 'as I entered. "What must you think of mef sho said. "But no matter. My daughter is very dear to me, and I have heard of your skill. 6he is worse again. Can you call sometime to-day, as early as possible, at my house!" : "I will be there in an hour," I said. The old lady took out her purse. "I am an English woman," she said. 'I retain English habits. In my day the doctor received his Ices on the spot. I was in ordinarv cases a guinea. Wiili I vou receive it now?'' ! - T - I till not know what to say, but she laid the gold piece on the table and de parted. ' I eat my breakfast and made my way to the old lady's house. I rang the bell The door was opened by the stout femalo who had dismissed me the night before. "The doctor," I said, by way of ex planation. f'Ah!' said she. "Has missus called you in again?" ''Yes," I answered. "There's no need, I assure you, sir," she said. "I can't really ask you im There's no one ill here. It's a whim of missus's. I'm a better judge of illness than she. No need of a doctor." "But since the lady called me I must see the patient," I said." "Beg your pardon, I've orders to admit no one," she answered, and shut the door j softly in my face. I left the house, of course, partly in dudgeon, partly in amazement. .Could there be some plan on the part of this old woman to keep medical assist ance trom some unhappy patient whoga ! cath would serve her purposes? I asked myself this question for several nays; then I forgot the matter. Two weeks passed by, wheulo! the old lady again. " She walked into my parlor, dressed as before, as greatly agitated, as carefully polite. "Sir," she said, "again I trouble you. My poor, poor daughter ! Come at once." "Madam," I answered, "It is the phy sician's duty, as it should be his pleas ure, to obey such calls, but you are aware that I have been sent from your door twice without seeing the patient? Allow me to ask you a question : Are you the mistress of that house:" "neaveu knows I am," said the old lady. "I have lived there for forty j years. I own it. I am the only person i under that roof who has the right to give ; an order." "And the. person who sent me away?" "My old servant, Margaret." "Did she do it at your order?" "2s o, sir; it was a piece of presump tion. But Margaret me ni well. She loves us?" "Then, madam, if I accompany you I 8ba11 SGe the Tient?" "Asfiiiredlv kit " j j . I put on my hat again, and w"e went out of the house together. At the door of her mansion, the old lady paused. "Don't mind Margaret, "she whispered. "She means well." Then she ascended the steps. At the last one the door was opened to us by the woman I had twice seen be fore. "The doctor must see my child, Mar garet," said the o'd lady. Margaret stepped back. "Walk in, sir," was all she said. The old lady beckoned me to follow her. I did so. She went up-stairs and opened the first door we came to. It was an empty. bed-room. She closed it with a sigh. The next room into which she led me was also empty. So were all the others. In effect wo visited six apart ments, only one of which seemed to b regularly occupied as a sleeping apart ment ; and at last the old lady turned to me with strange glitter in her eyes. "Stolen," she said; "6tolen some body has stolen my girl. Sir, do you know I think it must be Satan? Then a steady step crossed the, sill. Margaret 'came in an the old lady, burst ing into tears, suffered her to lead her away. -" As I nlade my way down stairs Mar garet lejoined me. "You understand it now," she said. "You see my mistress is not in her right inicd?" . . "I do, indeed,'? I said. "She had a daughter once," 6aid Mar garet, "and the girWa pretty creature of sixteen ran away with a bad man. She came back home one day and begged forgiveness ; her mother turned her from the door in a fury, ' It was night. The rain and hail beat ' down on the poor thing, and the wind buff etted her.' There is no knowing what happened to her that night; but the next morning she lay dead in the police office. Her moth- - er's stress wa pinned to her baby'a clothing, and they brought her home. From that awful day, sir, my mistress who in her remorse and delirium, called i in twenty doctors to bring her dead daughter to life has always been do ing what she has done to you. I try to keep the secret generally, but some .find it out, and others think odd things of us. , I thought I would let you know the truth. If she contrive! to come again to you,, you can always promise to call, and so be rid of her. "Poor soul! She has nobody in the woildbut me now She's punished foi her hardness, at any rate, and you'U ex cuse her conduoti" . ;".: ' I bowed. I could say nothing. Mar garet opened the door for me, and 1 walked out into the. fresh air. As I looked back npon the house, with all its elegance, it seemed to me to hare a hauntel air, as though the ghost oi the poor girl still hovered about it. "God 'only knows how. many fearful secrete such splendid homes may at times shut in," I said to myself, and I turned mj back upon it gladly. ?" I have never seen the poor old ladj since that hour.; probably Margaret bai kept too close a watch upon her. The Science of Silence. uc science of silence ought to teach us when not to be silent, as well as when to be silent. Certainly there is such -a thing as an idle and a wrong eilence, and we shall have to give en account for it, as well as for our idle words. The "good fellow," whose, conversation is so bril liant and charming when with strangers, but who has not a word for the inmates of his Lome, is guilty of a wicked si I lenre. If a lady is at table as a guest, j the gentleman brings some topic of social conversation to entertain her ; should ha do lew when his wife is the only lady present? Should he then sit silent ot take a letter or newspaper out of his pocket, and read it himself? A man and wife enjoying a walk together, or a te'e-a-'eie sweetened by confidential con versation is a sight beautiful before God and man. But too often the picture is reversed. He saunters out with her, careless and uninterested ; scarcely, during the walk, uttering a word. Is not this, to say the least, a great abuse of the science of silence? In the hour of absence and of solitude, the husband is impressed with a sense of the amiable disposition and demeanor of his wife, of her unwearied endeavors to promote and perpetuate his happiness, and of its being his bounden duty to show,-by the most unequivocal expres sions of attachment and of tenderness, his full approbation of her assiduity and faithfulness. But too often these ex pressions of approbation are not forth coming, and,, with a mistakea silence, he shrinks from honoring his .wife, and represses those few words of praise which she so well deserves, and would greatly appreciate. "According to Milton, 'Eve kep silence in Eden to hear her husband talk,' V said a gentleman to a lady friend, and then added in a melancholy tone : "Alas! there have been no Eies since." "Because," quickly retorted j the lady, "there have been no husbands worth ' listening to." Certainly there are too few rnen who exert themselves to be as agreeable to their wives (their best friends) as they are to the comparative strangers or secret enemies whom they meet at clubs and other places; of resort. And yet, if it is true that, "to be agree able in our family circle is not only a positive duty, hut an absolute morality," then every husband and wife should say j. on their wedding day : I ' ! - ' i j "To balls and routs for fame let others roam, ' Be niino the happier lot to please at home." I There is a time to speak as well as a time to be silent, and the best time of I nil for pleasant conversation is the time of meals. 'We, should have at least three j laughs during dinner, and everyone is j bound to contribute a share of! agreeable i table talk, good humor, and cheerfulness. ! Even from a physiological point of view, j "Better is a dinner of herbs where love ; is (which will show itself in dispelling ' sullen.; silence), than a stalled ox, and j hatred therewith.' Brighter Days. i Live and Dead Ivory. "That knife handle is worth twice as I nuch'as the other," said an ivory dealer ! to a Sun reporter as he pointed out two ; handsome knives in a case. They looked I exactly , alike, so the reporter asked in ' what the difference lay. ' j j "Well, one handle: is formed of live j vory and the other of dead," replied ; the merchant. "By live ivory I mean ivory j taken from an animal recently i killed. That sort of ivory is expansive, j because it is hard to get. It is strong, because there i3 life in it, and it is used i - for the handles of the best knives, audj- ; where dead ivory could not be j used. ! When an elephant loses i a tusk that tusk becomes what we call dead ivory. He sheds j j the -task, and it has no strength in it. It ' I is brittle, and breaks easily, and can only J be used for the handles of pocket kmv?s, or in ,other forms where the ends are pro tected. If they were not, the ivory would split and crack in a very short time.j The ivory taken from the tusks of the antediluvian. mammoths buried in the soil of Siberia is, of course, all dead ivory. Its uses are, therefore limited. I you ever want to buy any Ivory goods, be sure to ascertain whether it is-live or dead- ivory before purchasing. If the former, it is strong and durable; if the latter, it is brittle and liable to crack, even where fastened. "The same rule applies to horn. Dcerhorn and buckhorn, so commonly used,! especially in the handles of pocket knives, is much of it made from the horns shed by the deer, and of little valuel The live horn is more expensive. Xew YorTc Sun ! Manufacturers within easy reach of Niagara Falls expect to use that water fall soon. A company has been incor porated with a capital of $3,000, 000 to develop this scheme. A great pipe or shaft is to be cut through the rock close by and parallel with the Niagara ' River, 160 feet deep, and running half a mile or more back from the falls. ' It is said a wheel as big as a man's hat will supply 2 00 -horse power. i England is making large purchases In Canada of horses for cavalry and artillerj service. ' ' . . . The S'ory of Bljj Jiai. HeVaburyr Hes a cowavd!" "He's got to hang!" 'That's his third man! The one narrow street of the rron. town was filled with a surging crowd oi excited men. They were Indian fighters, scouts, gamblers, tramp?, miners, specu lators everything and everybody. . Every town has its bully every fron tier town. Big Jim was the bully v Hill city. He could drink more, curse louder, shoot quicker and start a row sooner than any other man. "When he shot Limber Joe it was a stand-off. It was rough against rough. Whoever weni under the town would be the gainer. The death of his second victim brought him a certain respect, for he had given' tht man a fair ehow. There was ,a limit to the number of men one might shoot it Hill City. It was three times and out. Big Jim had killed his third. - Two hundred men all excited somt half -crazed all indignant some terri bly aroused, surged down the 6trect k the Red Star Saloon bent on venge..r.ce Big Jim and the man he had killed wer alone in the place. "Bring him out?" "He's got to hang!" "Bring out the bully tnd coward !" There was a rush, but it was checked. Men had knives and. pistols in theii hands, but the sight of Big Jim with i "navy in each hand cooled their ardor. A life for a life is no revenge. They lied "when they called him a bully. Bulliet strike and run or -bluster and dare not fctrike. They lied when they-called him a coward. Cowards do not remain tc face death. Big Jim advanced a little! The crowd fell back. He stood in the door and sur veyed the mob as cooly as another man might haveldokedup at the pine-covered crest of Carter's Peak. The mob gre'sv quiet. There were 200 right handi clutching -deadly weapons, but not a hand moved. Two hundred to one is appalling odds, but the one was master. Seeming to face every man of them seeming to cover every . breast with the black jnuzzles of his revolvers the man backed away up the road into the dark ness, out of 'their sight and hearing. ' He said not a word. There wasn't a whispei from the crowd until he had disappeared. Then men drew long breatas of relief. A terrible menace had passed away. Out into the darkness down i-he rough road over the rude bridge, . and there Big Jim put up his revolvers, turned his face square to the West, and stepped out without a look back at the camp. It was ten miles to Harney's Bend. Men driven from the one camp took refuge in the other. The half way land mark was a bit of a valley skirted by a creek. Wayfa ers who were journeying by team many times halted here. On this night there was a lone wagon. Uuder the canvas slept a mother and four children. Resting against a wheel was the husband and father, his eyes peering into the darkness his ears drinking -in every sound. t Big Jim had not Teached the valley yet when the still night air was rent with war-whoops the crack of rifles the screams of a woman and her children. Indians had discovered the lone and al most defenseless family. There were five scalps "to adorn their lodges. The bully and the coward had not been dis covered. He could find a safe hiding place. Did he? A half-dozen screaming, yelling fiends were dancing about the wagon shoot ing striking dodging closing in on the white man who somehow escaped their blows and bullets, when there was a cheer and a rush, and the Navys began to-crack. Sixty seconds later ead silence had fallen upon the.valfey. One two three dead Indians. The immigrant leaned against the wagon, faint with a wound in his head. The wife looked out with an awful terror at her heart. Bullets had chipped and splintered wheel and body. "Who are you?" asked'the Immigrant as a figure approached him from the dark ness. "Big Jim." "You have saved us from a mae?acre.w i "Yes, it was' well that I happened along. Rouse up the fire, for there is no further danger." 1 When the blaze caught the fresh fagots and lighted up the little valley the immi grant counted the dead Indians again one twe three. 'He turned with ex tended hand, but Big Jim had departed Next day, when men from Hill's and Harney's found his dead body beside the rocks a mile away, with five wounds which had let his life-blood out, they whispered to each other : . "We thought we knowed him, bat we didn't" -Ddro&Free'Priui j . Model Firanciering. An Ann Arbor, Mich.,, young man re solved that every $lb bill coming into his possession he would put into the bank; every $5 bill would go toward a fund for buying clothes, etc. ; every $1 (bill or coin) should go for board, wash ing, etc. ; every twenty:five and ten-cent piece to an icecream, soda water, and so forth fund for his girl, , and the pennies for church collection. At the end of six months he balanced up, and found $6.27 for the church collection fund; $65,35 expended in the icecream-girl fund; he was three-weeks behind with his board on the $1 fund; had accumulated just $20 for the new-clothes fund, and hadn't , a red cent in the $10 fuhd.-Rochester Chronicle. ' '''' A alight decrease in the acreage of wheat in Nebraska is reported for this year. .. ". : AWFUL LEPROSY. FACTS OP INTEREST ABOUT THE LOATHSOME DISEASE. A Doctor, Who Has Treated Over 2.000 Cum in Five Years. Talk about the Dread fnl Affliction. "I have treated over two thousand cases of leprosy within the past five years," said Dr. Fitch, "and have no hesitation whatever in pronouncing this one, and in a very advanced stage at that." ' ' "Is it contagions, doctor?" was the auxious inquiry of an AUa representative, who happened to be present. "Contagious? No, not in tho least' replied the doctor, with a hearty laugh at the reporter's fears, as he' unconcern edly handled the leprous man. "In all my experience I do not know of a single case where the disease was the result of contagion, and there are instances in numerable of utter failures in the attempt to inoculate the virus into the system of a healthy man. Fifteen cases have also oome under my own observation where white people have consorted with lepers a great many years without contracting the disease. Two of these were white women who were married to white lepers and bore them several chilcren, but neither the mothers nor their offsprings, now nearly grown, have as yet developed any leprous sign. -I could quote many other like instances, also, but most strik ing are those of two native women, Lilia and Kalehua by name, who have been residents at the ' leper settlement on Motokai for upward of twelve and six teen years respectively. The first "went therewith her leprous husband, and after his death married two others, who also died from the same cause. The other woman has for the last eleven years been the laundress for the hospital at the set tlement, washing the pus-saturated gar ments and bedding of the inmates in the last stages, and yet neither of these has shown any sign of the disease." "But to return to the subject of in oculation, doctor," interrupted the re porter. Would you- nvnd mentioning some instances in corroboration of your theory?" "Certainly not. In Honolulu about two years ago Keanu, a native convicted of murder, had his sentence of death commuted to imprisonment for life on condition that he submit to being inoc ulated with leprosy, in order to test the question. Dr. E. Arning accordingly raised a blister on Keanu's arm and rubbed into the raw surf aee matter- from a leprous ulcer taken from the arm of one of my patients at Kakaaka hospital. In addition to this a leprous tubercle was cut off and transferred to Keanu's other arm, to which it adhered and grew fast, but no symptoms of the disease .'are yet manifest. Perhaps I. can interest you further by relating an experience of my own. On the 29th of June, 1882, while engaged in making a a post-mortem examination on the body of a boy who died from' lep rosy, I accidently scratched my wrist, but was not aware of the fact until the end of the operation, when the smarting sensa tion attracted my attention, and I found the open wound covered with bipod from the leper's body. Beside this, on one of my visits to the Lazaretto I know ingly slept in a bed which had been oc cupied on the previous night by a leper, , and for two days ate of the food cooked and prepared by a leper. So far as I am aware, however, I have not con tracted the disease. . Dr. Fitch then cited the experience of a certain ' physician, who, after several unsuccessful attempts to inoculate him- self with turberculous leprosy, met with the same failure in his experiments upon twenty healthy individuals. - "Has science yet ascertained a means of curing this horrible affliction, doctor?" "Nothing satisfactory," was the re sponse. "Cures are claimed to have been effected in Norway, and physicians there give the ratio of cures at thirty and a fraction in every hundred cases. I knpw also of several cases in the Honolulu hospital which became so much improved under treatment that all the leading phy sicians there joined with me in signing permits for their discharge. If they were not cured and there were still any chances of contagion, why were these permits signed?" "Is this Chinaman's case the only one you have . met with since leaving the Islands?" "No, indeed. Why, I have run across seven cases in this. State and two in Washington Territory. A few weeks ago, as I was walking along Eddy street, I met a teamster who showed unmistakable- signs of leprosy. I followed him, got into )m wagon, and explained my action to him briefly us possible. He did not attempt to deny it, and said that the disease had gradually developed from a less serious one, contracted several years since. He is now under regular treat ment by me. Soon after this I saw an other pronounced case on Stockton street, but there were a great many people around, and I felt rather delicate about approaching him upon the subject at that time, You see, he might have resented, the accusation in a manner, I would not have appreciated, for he was a very large and muscular man." AUa California. Something Wrong. Tk Lord helps those who help themselves," Is an unimproved assertion, Thinks Johnny as the pantry shelves Give way to his exertion. . For as he rises smeared with joi And feels the ire paternal, He knows the adage is a sham Aad leads to wtw infernal. ; - . - Texas Siftinys. ' General Grant's book has been trans lated into Japanese. FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE What Falrr Prne Saw. My dear child-fairies, again I entreat you cease watching sidewise that poor little frightened white butterfly, and come listen to the story of my journey. (Alas ! you will be cross-eyed in spite of all my painstaking.) When I went to Tarrytown Prairie to day, to get that knot of fluffy thread) from the clothes line Elevated Road, I bethought me to call on some young J friends there the Golden Hearts. When last I saw them, on "May-day," they had just begun house-keeping, and so happy were they that even the hearts of grim giants passing were warmed from the sunshine in their facer. To-day I flew all down the grass alleys and found them not; went up stairs among the great, 6weet white horse chestnut flowers, calling them, and looked as far through the maple leaf blinds as eye cou'd see among the Plantain vil lages, and saw them not; and then went to the very garret even of "King Elm" on the corner that overlooks all Tarry town, and called as sweetly and as dear ly as I could think to do: "Gold-en Hearts Gold-en Hearts an-swer to my calls ;" and no answer came back to me. And then I bethought me to ask a lit tle wandering West Wind that was pat ting around among the leaves in the tree tops, where my golden-haired friends had gone? And he whispered never shall I forget how fadly "Dear Fairy Prue, two days ago Father Time came this way in his cloud chariot, and told . all our golden-haired young friends that were thdugh now I must admit they are iu middle life they must make ready to sail unto a far country, to the land called 'Sunny Somewhere,' that their souls might be made perfect, and they return another springtime in all. their youth atid beauty; and that a younger generation would soon awake in all the grass valleys, and keep their memories golden, and their hearth-stones green." And then he rode away on a thunder cloud, calling to me as he passed King Elm to see to it Wit day, whan the sun rides high, that the fairy ships set sail with the Golden Hearts all aboard. "It is near the dread time now,", he shuddered; "come, Fairy Prue, come you with me." And I descended, trem bling, by the side of West Wind, to bid my friends, good-bye; and found ah, wee to me '. they had grown thin and tall, and their once golden heads had turned, white so white with grief and they all stood pale and meekly still, waiting for the lairy sail to come and bear them away from sunny-loved Tarry town. That moment,, then, wandering West Wind whistled softly once twice and with one universal sigh the white souls wavering one long minute in mid-air when, they heard many small sweet voices calling from all among the grass valleys, "Good-bye, dear Grandmama Dandelions, g-o-o d-bye" rose and floated upwards and far away to the land of ".Sunny Somewhere.' And and thank you dears, but , I'll not take even an apple blossom for my dinner to-day, my heart is so sad with thinking. (And then, when Fairy Prue settled herself wearily in her cozy new sitting room, she thought she- heard a little fair haired; boy down among the lilac bushes' whisper: "Idezt would like to know ichevver that's Mr. Robin Red-breast or a fairy, an' what he's she's talkin' about way up there 1") Mrs. Anna D. Midli , A Captive Child's Story. The full story of a little white, girl rescued from hostile Indians in Arizona, by Mexicans, throws considerable light on r. the manner in which the redskins mark heir trail. Trinidad Nerdan, aged ten years, the rescued girl, says that during her captivity the band was almost con stantly traveling, but always stopped for meals. They had plenty of tortillas, coffee, beef, and nearly every day, beef steak, of which she was always given plenty. She never saw any one killed, but often heard firing, atd was told that it was bucks killing beef. ' She never saw soldiers nor any one during her captiv ity. The nearest, she came to ceing anybody was one night when the Indians passed so near Magdalena that she heard Iht band plaj.ng in the p'aza. From what the child further states the Indians must have carried her over a large region of country. At one time they were in the mountain?, where she saw a large number of squaws. On another occasion the bind cmpe 1 on the top of a high mountain where they made a big fire and smoke. On the following night a great number of Indians came in and a man in command, evidently Geronimo, sent them away, five and six. together, in fif teen or twenty different directions. Sht thinks there were about thirty in the band she traveled with, but she was alwaye kept in the rear, and could not tell very accurately th?ir number nor what thej did. She was weil treated and given plenty to eat every day. The greatest hardship she experienced was being compelled to ride bareback day after dav through brush and over a rough country. She says , that when the 'Mexicans at tacked the Indians at Satacachi, the main body 1 ad gone on ahead, and only about, seven -or eight of the band were present. The Indians seldom spoke to her durjnp her stay with them. The squaw would not let the young men come near her. A vein of Iron are discovered at tfe gaunee, Mich., turns out to be 150 feet in thickness. , . The heirs of revolutionary Colonel 'Flemming are hunting for property in Kentucky valued at $10,000,000. FUN. 1 The) llnsb of the law A policeman's ilub., A woman's declining years are gen irally from eighteen to twenty-five. Nobody, believes In the ' lock-out sys tem if he has forgotten his night key. tine Eaten Ifetci. "Those who use our goods are very ouch attached to them," is what a torous plaster company advertises. Philadelphia Herald. We see a lengthy article going the rounds of the papers headed ''How to Manage a Wife." We didnt read it ; no tse.Kentvely Stat Journal. The Pekin, (IU.) girl who was winner In a recent chewing-gum contest wagged her iaws 6,000 times in sixty minutes. She has blasted all hope of matrimonial honors Waterburg American. A music-publishing house anouacca a ist of piano music "to take to the sea ihore or mountains." If the suggestion h followed, tourists generally will be sompelled to take to the woods. Boston Post. Old gentleman (to small boy smoking I cigarette) "Little boy, don't you know that a great many people die from imoking cigarettes?" Small boy "yes (puff), but many people (puff) die . who (puff) don't Smoke 'era." 2feu York Times. There was a merry tailor, once,. Who trained some moths so well That he could put tbem'in the coats . And vests he made to tell. And they would revel in the goods,' And glad their tiny souls, Whjle in the cloth they'd only bit ' The marked-out button holes, -zVcr, " Not long ago a man went out and hanged himself. He was cut.down just in time to save his life. By whom? By1' his mother-in-law. And what was the comment of the brutal reporter? j, Simplyj this : "She hadn't got through with him." Boston Advertiser. Milk for Yourr and Old. Milk is popularly considered a perfect food. This, says the Lire-Hack Journal, at first sight appears to be indisputable, since the young live and thrive on it ex-, clusively. F But if we look into the mat ter a little we shall see that, .while it is a perfect food for the young and growing it does not follow that it is a perfect food for sdults who have growth. In a cer tain 'sense it may be considered too per fect for the adult. It contains too much mineral matter, for one thing, to be suit ed" to the adult as an exclusive food. . His bones are already formed, and therefore he needs only just enough of the mineral elements to restore waste of bone. Bui the young have their bones to make, and this excess of mineral matter is just what is needed for the purpose. Then milk is highly nitrogenous, containing an abund ance of material for constructing muscu lar and other tissue. - This makes it act on the kidneys of the adult too 6trongly t taxing them toJ; throw" off the excess of nitrogen, only just enough, to restore ' waste being required, wbile this nltro geneous material' in abundance is just, what children and the young of animals need, as they are building the whole sys tem and must have these nitrogenous -elements out of which to.build it. Milk is, therefore, a perfect food in young animals and 'children, as it contains in the right proportions all the elements needed to promote their growth and de, velbpment. But for jld people milk is far from a perfect -iood, containing as it does both the mineral and nitrogenous elements in excess. For adults, who aFe undergoing considerable exercise, and therefore requiring to replace a large amount of waste tissue, milk is better adapted than for the aged. Still for adults who may use up the nitrogenous , portion through physical exercise there is an excess of bone making material, as the waste of bone is but slight compared with both.the waste and graarth of bono in the young. To sum upnen, milk is a perfect food for the growing young.but needs -to be supplemented with other more carbonaceous and less mineral foodi for the adult? and is quite illy adapted to people of sedentary habitror much ad vanced in age, as the excess of nitrogen, more than the large per cent, of water which it contlains, overtaxes the kidneys. The aged should, therefore, take milk . sparingly, which is the exact reverse of what the young should do. "Dragon Day'' in San Francises. A recent issue of the. San Francisco Jhronide says: "Yesterday was known as "Dragon Day" among the Chinese, 1 1 1 A .1 1 V.t.'l ana was ceieuraieu as a gtucmi in tne C-ninesr quarter. iuis icoiivm n next in imnoitance to that of the New Year, and is always celebrated by the Chinese in whatever part of the world they may be. In this city the restau rants, theatres and other places of resort In the quarters were lavishly decorated, and the triangular dragon was floating tc the breeze from every flagstaff. The Chi nese look upon it almost as a religiom duty to eat duck upon this holiday, ana it is estimated that nearly 8,0CO ducki Viuva Kapti disTtnged of in Chinatown " r . v during the last three days. Yesterda morning the supply ran short, and thi shrewd dealers ran the prices up nea' fy 100 per cent. Last evening many of tht wealthier merchants and business men gave dinner parties in the, restaurants, and the merrymaking was, kept up. far into the night. Several Chinese holiday take place during tnis montn, and tut restaurant men call- it their bonanza month, the tables, in most of the best estaurants being engaged in the even ings for days ahead.
The Anson Times (Wadesboro, N.C.)
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