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7 t . Ml R. H. COWAN, Editor and Proprietor. "We IProudly call ours a GNnrernmentrV by? tne:People. Cleveland. TERMS: S2.00 Per Year. VOL. II. WADESBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1886. NO. 45. Anson Times. Termft-CMh in Ad-vemocu Cos Year - - - - Six Month! '. . Thres Months - - $2.00 too 60 ADTEBTISIXG BATES. Om sqnara, fiirt Insertion Each subsequent Insertion Loeal advertisements, per line il.00 60 - - 10 HTSpedal rates given on appUcatto for ecger time. Advertisers are requested to bring In their sdTertiwnMoti on Monday evening of each wek, to insure insertion in next isra. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. V John 33. Pemberton. ATTORNEY AT LAW, WADESBORO, N. C. t3f Practice in the State and Federa Court. JAMES A LOCKHABT. " Attorney and Counsellor at Law, WADESBORO. N. C. Practice at all the Courts of the States 31. LTTTXJL W. I PARSONS LITTLE & PARSONS, ATTORNEY A.T LAW, WADESBORO, N. C. Collections Promptly Attended to. H.H. Do Pew DENTIST, WADESBORO. N. C. Office over G. W. Huntley's Store. - rAll Work Warranted. May 14, '85, tf. DR. D. B. FRONTIS, PHTSICIAK AND SURGEON J"8 Professional Services to the citizens of VV adesboro and surrounding country Of fice opposite Bank. A. B. Huntley, M. D. J. T. J. Battle, M. D Drs. Huntley & Battle, PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS Wadesboro, N C Office-next to Bank May 7 tf I. II. HORTON, JEWELER, WADESBORO, N. C. ,Lealearin Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Musical Instruments, Breech and Muzzle Loading Phot Guns, Pistols, &c. Anson Institute, WADESBORO, N. C. D. A MCGREGOR, PRINCIPAL J. J. Burnett, A. B. J. W. Kilgo, A. B. V -Assistants. Miss M. L. McCorkle, ) ' The Tpring Term begins Monday, Jan uary 11th, 1886. TcmoN In Literary Department, 2, f 3 and ti per month. Instrumental Music, $4 per month: Vocal Music, f 4 per month. Use of piano for practice 50 cents per month. Board, $10 per montlw Contingent fee, Jper year j For Catalogue apply tohe Principal. Morven High School, morven, iv. c JAMES W. KILGO, A. B., Principal. tW The Fall Session begins on 'the 3d of August 1885, and runs through five months. TUITION, PER MONTH. Primary, Intermediate, Advanced $2.00 2.50 3.00 Board froi $8 TO $10 per putt. For further particulars address the Prin cipal. WJL i MDRR, MU N" CT A CTU RE R AND DEALER IN Stoves Tin-ware, Sheet-Iron AND HOLLOW WARE. 1 WADESBORO, N. C. HOTELS. When yon go to Charlotte be sure to call on S. ,M. TIM M0NS, FOR Fine Mountain Whiskies IS THB Old Charlotte Hotel CHARLOTTE, N. C, YARBROUGH HOUSE, BALXIGH, K. C. FRIGES REDUCED TO SUIT THE TIMES CALL AND SEE US. UrCN THE HILLS. Along their heights on peaks of stone The bird of prey alights; He rears his young and dwells alone Along the heights; A sentinel whose soul invites The lurid clouds that shriek and groan With frenzy on tempestuous nights, O come! O come! for years hare shown The storm but vainly smites The wails that create Freedom's throne) Along their heights. Upon these walls doth ocean beat With clamor that appals; But wrecks at length his billowy feet Upon these walls; Then writhes, with pain, and backward falls, ( -pdjpoaoi within his safe retreat vnufagaJn some cyclone calls. ' O, come from the city's heat, From where decay enthralls, For ruin cannot plant his feet Upon these walls! On crests so high, "mid rocks and bars There's wealth for all who sigh, No fitful fever scathes and scars On crests so high. The calm and cool and open sky, With all its hosts of changeless stars, Seems spread so very close and nigh! O, come above the cloud, that wars Where tranquill stories lie! No strife from sorrow's lowland jar On crests so high. The spirit fills with joy,snblime On these enduring hilla; 5 With sheen from heaven's unclouded clime, The spirit fills. The breath like balm of living rills From fountains flow ing through all time Into the suffering soul instils. O, come from out the rueful grime Which soon corrodes and kills; The hills sing and their deathless chime The spirit fills. BufusJ. Childress. JOHN'S WIFE. So you think my. wife is beautiful?" said my friend, John Brown. When John asked this question we were silting together cozily in the room he called "his den," because, as he said, he had things in its as dusty, disordered and unarranged as he pleased. However, this was a little delusion in my friend's mind; I have always had a keener obser vation of trifles than John, and as I looked around his cozy study I saw in dications that, though his papers were left religiously untouched, and if he laid a book down on its face open it would stay there a month undisturbed, stiil a feminine hand stole in when the grand lord and master of this confusion was absent and applied many a deft touch and many a gentle whisk of the duster, so keeping his disorder endurable to him self while, he fondly imagined that he was keeping it unendurable to every one else. There ' wc sat, I say, before his cozy, open fire, for John always would have a little wood for his den, cost what it might, when John asked me if I thought his wife beautiful. "Why, no," said I frankly. "But," said John, looking a little sur prised,. "I saw you look at her at table with glances I call precious near admira tion, my boy." ' "Why, yes," said I, "that is true, too." "Then," said John, after a few mo ments' thoughtful jrall at his pipe, ' "you say she is not beautiful." "No," said I. "Passable, eh?" said John, looking: at me with the kind of artistic sarcasm in his face which I remembered his having cultivated so successfully in our college days. "No," said I again, with provoking calmness and as much indifference as I could assume. "Helo," tried John, waking up a lit tle; "perhaps you'll tell me now whal she is, if neither beautiful nor passable, fcr I don't see anything Jeft but hideous, and if you say that I'll throw you out oJ the window. Now I can tell you she is beautiful.' "Yes," said I again,- with the most studied listlessness, "I believe you." "Come, now," said John, sitting a little straighttr, "drop that drawl you used to think so fine when you were a senior, and speak out. You would see she is lovely if you conld know her well." "Very likely,"' said I, "but you know I have not seen her at all." "But," said John, opening his eyes very wide, "that was my wife at the table. I introduced you." "Exactly," said I ; "I could see a small bit of her." Now, I must say thit my friend John Brown was an excellent fellow and a very fair scholar in college by dint of prodigious digging, which same splendid application (for, after all, what can the greatest genius do without labor?) had given him an honorable success in busi ness ; but he had not a very quick mind, though a very safe one. And so when I remarked that I had seen but a small bit of his wife, he simply stared at me in silence. After amusing myself with his vacant countenance and wide open eyes, I began to expound. "Suppose, my dear fellow," I said, "that a picture of the Madonna were set before me all carefully curtained but a square inch of the forehead. Now, tell me, will you, you who stood what num ber was it in our class? something out rageously higlt could I say whether that Madonna were beautiful , or not? Nows I have looked at your wife through the square-inch hole of one session at a table ; and, if even the complexion of a Diana peeped through that hole, how on earth could I tell what the whole Wouid appear viewed by day and nigh'f, in parlor and study and kitchen, 'and at all meals! Don't you see that, as I said, I have seen but a bit of youi amiable wife, and can say no more than that the square inch of the forehead is well painted P " " , "Ah, " said John, settling back, 'oo are the same old philosopher that you used to be when you stood in the class where was it? Somewhere outrtfreously low. Well, I tell you,my boy, that was a lucky sprawl for me." "Sprawll" said I. "Yessaid John, "the tumble which landed me at my wife's feet in more senses than one. Didn't I ever tell you about it?" said my friend, seeing my look of surprbe and cuiiosity. "Well, t isn't much of a stor after all, only, you know, it made me supremely happy, and all that. Why, you remember, never could stand on my feet if there was a possibility of slipping, and this event was an cgrcgioin half-somersault which I performed at a country boarding-house where I was taking vacation. There were two or three girls in the house, and some roun men. and one day when out for a picnic I went back quite chivalrously for a bucket of milk that had been forgotten, and the others waited tor me at the foot of a little hill. Now, as I came down, my proclivity be ing strongly in unison with the declivity of the hill, what should I do but stnb my toe, pitch over quite serenely on my face, and spill the milk most skilfully ; and that's the way I got my wife." "Well," said I, feeling a little inclined to stare in my turn, but concluding not to gratify John by such a simplicity, "that is an odd kind of wooing, certain ly; you don't mean to say -that's the whole of the story?" "Why, yes," said John, "at least, all I'll tell you. You see, the point was she didn't laugh. All the others made im mensely merry at my expense, confound them, and the girls as badly as the boys. I thought they would, fairly faint with laughter when I got up, red and'be scratched in the face and begreened with grass stains all over my white linen suit. In the midst of my confusion, as I tell you, I had sense enough to note the fact that one girl did not laugh. On the coh trary, she had a shade of quiet concern on her face, mellowed (for I tell you I remember the expression, my boy, with remarkable distinctness) by intense ob servation, to assure herself that I was not seriously hurt. Well, now, perhaps you will think I fell in love with her on the spot?" with a suspicious glance at me. I nodded. "Well I didn't. I was such an uncon scionable cub that I was really madder with her than with the rest of them. Bah, said I to' myself. I knew she was quiet and still but I thought she might be waked up.r There is no more humor in her than in a monkey." Here John paused a long time, gazing into the fire. "Go on," said I. "Oh," said John with a little start, "why well, there's nothing more to tell ; only the next day when I was wandering about alone, a little sore in the knees, and still sorer in my mind the mortifi cation, you know, and those detestible girls giggling every time I hove in sight why, what should I hear but a little rippling laughter, for all the world like the babbling of a brook over its pepples, a kind of cross between that and the twit ter of birds when they have just builded a nest; and when I came where the sound was there. was my wife, you know, I mean well, you know who I mean laughing over Pickwick. So I was for cd to conclude that she had more humor than a monkey. After that I fell to observing her, and discovered that the reason she didn't laugh at me was simply because she had too kind a heart. I no ticed now how she always deftly covered up little mishaps, and, in short, I found her out and myself too." "Now, "continued John, after another long gaze at the fire. "I am not going to tell you of another preposterous fall I had; it was when but no matter; what she said to me then was: "Stand up, my dear; it is my duty now to hold you up when you slip." Chicago Herald. White House Autograph Hunters. Every day the visitor at the White House may see a pile of letters upon the desk of one of the private secretaries with the abbreviation "auto." written upon each envelope. It means that they con tain requests for autog: aphs. Thousands of these letters are received at the White House in a year. Those that come now contain irot only a request for the President's autograph, but some of them for that of his bride. The latter requests are seldom complied with, for, while the President has thought it proper to yield to the demand for accurate portraits of Mrs. Cleveland and has consented to their sale under certain restri tions, it has not been thought advisable to encourage the pub lic in a miscellaneous demand for auto graphs. The president continues, how ever, to give a few minutes occasionally to -gratifying the requests of the many applicants for th's class of favors. Charles Lefierthe President's usher, is the autograph hunter's friend. The let ters are turned over to him, and when he can catch the President with a mo ment of time to Bpare he lays a bundle of cards before him, and he writes "Grover Cleveland, Grover Cleveland, Grover Cleveland," until his arm gets tired or his o'.her end more important duties take his attention. Then Charles takes the precious autographs and distributes them by mail to the applicants. Often there are perrona! applications by the owners of autograph albums, and they are generally directed to leave them with Charley, who presents them at the same time he does the cards for the President's sign manual. Washington Letter The Corean Government has Issued aa educational law which requires all chil dren between eight and thirteen years of ae to attend school. THE CAPITOL MAIL.- HOW COfcORES8ME?r RECEIVE AND 8E3TD AWAY LETTERS. Documents aild Speeches Sent A Way Dally try the Thousand The Correspondence of Mem bers Postal Cards. After the discussion of a great qnes 3on the amount of mail matter that passes through the postoffices at the ITouse and Senate 'is something enor Treus, writes a Washington correspond ent of the Cincinnati Timet-Star. Any dy, and almost any hour of the day you are liable to see heavily loaded bags pulled away from tbe door of the House and Senate, carrying tons of public docu ments, speeches which have been made in the House and Senate, and are sent out as campaign literature by the thou sandreports of the various departments, documents of all sorts and sizes and kinds and characters. Even the letter mail of the members of Congress is something remarkable. The big mail bugs which go from the city postofficc to the House of Representatives postoffice every day carry probably on an average of ten thousand letters daily. Ten thousand letters a day seem a good many, but a pretty careful estimate of the nam ber received there shows that this figure is not too great. They come from all directions and are upon all conceivable subjects. Your average Congressman gets more letters, of course, from his own district than elsewhere, but he is not confined to his own people and the sec tion which he immediately represents in his correspondence. Many of them get letters frqm all parts of the country, and from all parts of the world, indeed. For eign stamps and foreign postal-cards are by no means a novelty in the House and Senate postoffices. All mail intended for members of Con gress is sent direct from the Washington postoffice to the House and Senate post- offices. Letters and newspapers for members of the House and Senate are not sent by carriers to the residences of mem bers except by special directions. They all go in huge mail bags as soon as they reach the postoffice, and are hurried to the offices at the House and Senate. These postoffices, as they are termed by courtesy, are not postoffices in the full sense of the word ; that is to say they are not a part of the Postoffice Department, nor branch postoffices in any sense of the word. True, you can mail any letter; there,; buy postage-stamps and postal cards, and if a Congressman wants a money-order or a postal-note he can get it by leaving an order at these offices, but they are not apart of the Po3toffico system. They are simply established for the convenience of members of Con grrss i They look very much like an ordinary country postoffice. There is a big screen filled with letter-bags, and in the mid dle a window, behind which stands an official who passes out the mail just about as the Postmaster at a country postoffice hands out the mail to a waiting populace Each member has his own box, and in it are put his letterand papers. A thou sand times a day on an average a page rushes , breathlessly into the postoffice and yells at the top of his voice: "Give me Mr. So and So 's letters and papers." If he does not get them at once he yells again, and keeps it up with pertinacity until Mr. -'s mail is deposited into his hands, when he leisurely wends his way back to the House. The registered letters, however, he does not get, for they are too precious to be trusted to these Arabs of the House-floor. There is a staid and careful messenger of the House and Senate postoffices, whose bus iness it is to take these precious packages, laying them before them and receiving a I receipt for them, and deliver packages in person. The number of these regis tered packages which reach the members of Congress is very great. . Many of them contain documents which the office-seekers or others will send, and consider too important to be intrusted to the ordinary mail system. It is probable that the average number of letters and packages and newspapers delivered to members of the House and Senate i nearly or quite twenty thousand. As to the number of packages that leave the House and Senate postoffices for ail parts of the world and country, it would be almost impossible to make an estimate. You can get the figures by the number of tons, but as to the packages and let' ters it would be practically impossible. The postal-card mail arriving at tbe postoffices is quite large also, though not so great a proportion of the Congress man's correspondence is now upon the postal-cards, as was the case when the postage was three cents instead of two. Most of the postal-cards come from the South and West, very few from the North and East. The South seems espe cially devoted to the postal -card, par ticularly the . Eastern sections of tht South. North Carolina, for instance, seems to have a particular affection for postal-cards, and the number of these little missives reaching members of Congress from that State is astonishing. When the Houe and Senate postoffices receive their mail, . and see among it f huge package o postal-cards, somebodj generally 'makes the remark, "That is the mail for the North Carolina mem bers." The. Southern members patronize the money -order system of the postoffice department more extensively than those of tire North. Banks are not so common in the South, and the money-order sys tern is in great favor for transmissions ol sums small or great The joung man full of promise fre ouentlv turns out bad pay. Picayune. rHE HOME DOCTOR. Do Toa Know? That ice may be preserved in a sick room for many hours during hot weatbet by the following plan: Cut a piece of flannel about nine inches square, and se cure it by ligature around the mouth oi an ordinary tumbler so as to leave a cup shaped depression of flannel within the. tumbler to half its depth. In this cup ice will keep for a long time, especiall j if a piece of flannel be used for a loose cover to tbe cup. Use flannel with com . paralivery open meshes. That serious headaches often come from ill-fitting spectacles. ' That elevation of the head of the bed, by placing under each leg a block of the thickness of two bricks, is stated to be an effective remedy for cramps. Patients who have suffered at night, crying aloud with pain, have found this plan to afford immediate, certain, permanent relief. That the following is a perfect cure for corns : Dissolve a little pearl a few worthless pearl buttons will do in the juice of a lemon ; this will occupy a few days, when a creamy ointment will be produced. Moisten a piece of rag with this and apply it to the corn for a few mornings, and surprising results will soon, follow. That the white of an egg is said to be a specific for fish bones sticking in the throat. It is to be swallowed raw. Re member it. That ho$ water, swallowed slowly be fore breakfast in the morning, is good for weak 6tomach. Gargled, it is good for sore throat ; so, also, is hot milk. Self-Cure. The body, to a large extent, is a ma chine which, when disarranged, repairs itself. Physicians tell us of the vis med icatrix naturoe the power to heal in herent in nature. It is natural to get well. The body's recuperative resources are not equal to every need, but they are very great. It is because of this even that the well man tends to keep well, if he conforms to nature's laws, for the sys tem is ever full of poison from its own waste, the disposal of which nature has provided for better than any city has for the disposal of its deadly sewage. Take the case of any ordinary wound. It needs only to have its disrupted parts brought together, and nature does tht healing ; and even in many cases where the parts are not brought together, na ture fills up the space with hew flesh. So nature will mend a broken bone, on the simple cdndition that the adjusted parts be allowed the requisite rest. Dyspepsia, whether induced by im proper eating, the neglect of exercise, brain over-work, or care, worry and fret, will in time wholly disappear on removal of the cause and compliance with the laws of nature. The best physicians now freely admit that typhoid patients, in the great majority of cases; would recover without a drop of medicine; that they need medicine merely to promote ease and comfort, and that pure air is better for them than all drugs. The same is true of some. other diseases. More and more is it being ad mitted that, in no case, do drugs have any curative power, but only aid nature, as the surgeon aids in the case of a badly broken limb, by removing irritating bits, spiculai, etc., and securing the proper adjustment and fixation of the parts. The old-time doctors greatly over-dosed people in multitudes of cases literally dosed people to death. Within less than twenty years a personal friend, called to watch with a neighbor far gone in con sumption, was shown eleven different medicines, each of which she. was to ad minister during the night, according U the varying symptoms. It cannot be too strongly emphasized that those who observe the laws of theii physical nature are likely to keep well and even infectious diseases have little power over such persons, and would wholly disappear if all observed these laws. Youth's Companion. A Southern Rice Field. "A large rice field," says Judge Hen derson, Commissioner of Agriculture of Georgia, resembles a map of a large city. I mean a skeleton map, such as real es tate agents frequently distribute wacn advertising lots for sale. The canals and ditches of various sizes suggest the lines of lots. Or, it might be likened to n backgammon board. The squares in a rice field are checked off with almost as much regularity. 3Ir. 3Ioynelo's planta tion, which I recently visited, contained about 1,200 acres, of which 900 were in cultivation. , The number of miles o" ditches in the 900 acres was 1,500. Some of the ditches were called canals. They were large enough to float boats, which served the same purpose of carts or wagons in wheat or cotton fields. The dykes must have cost many thousands of dollars. My attention was called to one 'trunk' on a canal which alone cost $700. The number of 'trunks,' drawbridges, snd bridges of various kinds, must also have cost many thousands of dollars. Superadd the cost of labor in";; clearing the immense forest growth which orig' nally darkened and encumbered thepla tation, and, it will readily be understood that rice growing is an expensive l;usi nass." - . . A considerable industry -is now carried en in Europe in the manufacture of pic ture frames from paper. Paper pulp, glue, linseed oil, and carbonate of lime, or whiting, are nixcd together and heated into a thi-k creau, which is run into molds and hardened. - The- frames are then gilded or bronzed . ; . There are about 3,000 nevwpapers puD lished in Asia, of which 2,000 appear ii: Japan, and most of the rest ire fcublisb!d in India, - WEATHER REPORTS. HOW OBSERVATION'S ARE MADE AT A SIGNAL STATION. Gathering Facts as a Basis for ''Old Probabilities" Watching the Weather and Issuing the Bulletins. The tall tower. on top of the Equitable building, where the agents of the Signal Service Bureau used to collect samples of weather, has been torn away to make room for one much taller, which , is part of the plan for remodeling the build ing. Temporarily the signal oTce has been removed to another tower, perhaps not quite so tall, yet high enough to .en able a keen observer to note any weather that may happen around it, on the south east corner of that same edifice. It will be hoisted two or three stories higher over the front, after a while, and from that elevation the weatherwise young men who perch up there expect to peep over the edge of the world on fair days. This signal station began to superin tend the weather on November 6, 1870, and has had a sharp eye continuously upon -tho doings of the "Prince of the Power of the Air" ever since. Sergeant H. J. Pernod is in charge of both this station and the Marine Agency, at the Maritime Exchange, but occupies lr.m Belf most of the tim? at the latter place, leaving Sergeant E. B. Dunn to rule the roost on the Equitable building. The assistants are Serjeants Francis Lomr (late of the Greely expedition) and G. A. Werren, and Messrs. G. A. Loveland, R. -E. Hinman, and L. F. Passailaigue. The work done at the Marine Agency consists mainly in comparing ship' barometers and receiving and forwarding to Wash ington observations taken at se i by ship masters. That which falls 'to the share of the signal station men is much closer to the' popular interest, for this is one of the. principal points in the great system by which the publie daily gets authorita tive official information as to the sort of weather it is going to have, provided it doesn't have some other kind. The hours of duty are divided into eight hours each, but as there are four men two' are on together in the middle of the day. Seven observations a day are taken and recorded, and three of these are reported to headquarters at Washing ton. The hours for observations are at 3, 7, and 11 a. m., and 3, 7, 10, and 11 . p. m. Those taken at 7 a. m. and 3 and 11 p. sr. are the ones telegraphed on to Washington to be used with others from all parts -of the country in making up the newspaper reports of weather probabili ties. This explanation will, it is to be hoped, be deemed a sufficient refutation of the story that General W. B. Hazen, Chief Signal Officer, guesses for those reports by the feel of his corns, shrewd observations on the habits of pigs, the breastbones of geese, and other occult sources of information. Taking the observations includes tak ing the records of the automatic self-registering barometer and anemometer, reading the thermometers and noting the direction of the winds, the look of the clouds, the state of the weather, and the rainfall, if any. Another and inde pendent observation is made at 2 r. m. each day by Sergeant Long on the tem perature and depth of the North River, for which he goes down to Pier 13, at the loot of Cedar street. j Telegraphic circuits bring to this station every morning duplicates of all the reports made from the 100 or more other stations to Washington. The,se all come in cipher, which has to be trans lated. A morning dispatch, for instance, that reads: "Mocking Finely Gandy --Habit 111 Pintail Vice," means "Barometer reading 29.94; temperature of exposed thermometer, 6o ; temoera 3ure oi dew point, 45 ; north wind and clear sky; velocity of the wind, six miles per hours; three-tenths of the cloud Btratus moving from the southwest; lpwcst temperature since la6t reading, 61 ." From these reports bulletins are made out and given to the public. While one man reads aloud his translation of the 'cipher dispatches, another puts upon a semi-skeleton map of the United States the reported figures indicating baromet rical pressure and temperature at the re spective stations whence the reports come. Then blue and red lines are drawn on the map, enclosing irregular sections of it, so as to mark out by the blue lines and figures where the temperature is high; est and wher it is lowest, and by the red lines and figyres the a-ras in which the barometrical pressures - are highest and lowest. Finally the map is adorned with many little arrows, showing, by the way they point, the various directions in which the wind has blown at the hour of making the report, in different pa:t of the country. That completes the map, and it is then ready for duplication and sending abroad for exposure in public places, where it can rattle citizens who try to understand it. The red marks and the arrows enable one to observe that when a storm centre is established anywhere a3 shown by the lowest baro metrical pressure the winds rush in from all directions to that common centre to help the trouble along, just as a man's creditors concentiate on him at his period of greatest financial stress. It will be seen from this description of the work done he :e that it results simply, in the statement of ascertained facts con cerning actual conditions of weather all over the country. ' The proud prerogative of prognostication is monopolized at Washington, and a conscientious signal officer here, or at any other station, would as soon think of lending a dollar to a total stranger, as of permitting himself o say tnst "it is liKely to rain," though, if the rain were actually falling, he would not hesitate to affirm the fact to anybody. Airie York Sun. A Uilaia Wkeat Deaf. Ira Holmes has the reputation of being the biggest trader on smallest margins in the West "I have oftea hnd 2,500 shares of stock for Ira," said a b oker to the writer yesterday, "with only $1,000 margins, and always came out whole." Holmes is the man who made $250,000 off $250 in ninety days. As that is about his meihod ought to be made public, j It f was Handy's wheat deal when Ira was broke. - He took a $250 check to John T. Lester and bought 25,000 bushels of wheat. I don't suppose that Lester would have bought 25,000 bushels with only a cent margin for everybody; but it Is part of the courtesy of the life that a great trader who pays in thou sands in commissions, when in bad luck is entitled to attention on the thinnest possible margins. Just as soon as the price of that wheat advanced lfc. a bushel Holmes took down his original margin, gave Lester a 6top order at $c. from the market, took the check to an other house, and bought 25,000 bushels more wheat. That $250 check, it i? said, went through twenty different houses, the same procedure being fol lowed in every case. Wheat kept on advancing. That was where Holmes was lucky. There were no halts and no breaks. At each half-cent advance he had 25,000 more wheat bought. There were, perhaps, a few cases where he was frozen out. That was to be .expected.- After the price had gotten up five cents he had credit enough to double up. That is the way Ira Holmes made $250,000 out of a $250 check: It would have made him famous if he had hot been famous before. Chicaao Mail. Gathering News on Wheels. Mr. O. P. Austin, a Washington cor respondent, thus writes of a fashion which he introduced of using the cycle in news gathering at the Capital: "Mr. W. E. Curtis, of the Chicago later-Ocean , has taken to the use of a j frirvA fnr n mnfhnrl nf travrliner in news ! Catherine. The 'wheel' is becoming i quite popular as a factor in the race for news in Washington. With the smooth pavements, traveling by bicycle or tri cycle is both a convenience and a luxury. Just three years agotyour correspondent inaugurated the fashion of using the bicycle for newsgathering purposes. He was a-pioncerin this line, and like othei 'reformers' found new principles unpopu lar at first. For the first year he rode alone. Then 'Carp,' of the Cleveland Leader, after much hesitation and prac tice on the back streets, followed the ex ample. Pretty soon one of the Associ ated Press staff, a noted Siberian traveler fel a victim to the bicycle habit. Pretty soon J. A. Trusdell, of the Pioneer Press, joined the band of mounted newsmen, and paralyzed his northwestern rcaden with descriptions of Arlington and othei surroundings of Washington as seen from the saddle of a bicycle. Then one of the local papers mounted one or twe of its men. Then the telegraph com panies, seeing the advantage' of the sys tern from a business 'Standpoint, pul bearers of dispatches on bicycles. Soon other converts to the system appeared ic the newspaper field, and now you ma count those who use the bicycle for new gathering or news dispensing by the dozen, and a walk down newspaper rcn discovers 'wheels' waiting patiently be fore a good many doors." "I ne Puzzle of the tog. , Mr. Malthicu Williams, in one of hi, lectures, says: "Every one who eats h matutinal ejrg. cats a scrnlon and a mini ckj. Inside of that smooth, symmetric al beaut. ful shell lurks a question which ?as been the Troy town for all the philan thropists and scientists since Adam. Armed with the engines of war the m--croscope,the scales, the offensive weapo is of chemistry, and reason they have probed and weighed and experimented : and still the question is unsolved, the citadel unpacked. Professor Bokorny can tell you that albumen is composed . , , , , , troen and hydrogen, and can persuade -x f c -v m a n r vv si 1 as nice ia l-Kftn nnf) v-t you of the difference between active and passive albumen, and can show by won derfully delicate experiments what the aldehydes have to do in the separation of gold, from his complicated solutions ; but he can't tell you why from one egg comes j 'a little rid hin,' and from another a ban j tain. You lea.e your little silver spoon j an hour in your fgg-cup, and it is coated j with a compound of sulphur. Why is that sulphur there? Wonderful, that 1 evolution should provide for the bones of the future he 1 ! There is phosphorus j also in that microcosm ; and the oxygn of the air, passing through the shell, unites with it aud the acid dissolves the shell, tnus ma'cing good, strong bones f3fr the chick, and at the same time thin ning the prisou walls. Chemists know a o-ood deal now about albumen, and if they cannot tell us why life differen tiates itself therein and thereby, they can tell you how not to spoil your break fast." m 1 : A Cat Whipped by Sparrows. A large house cat belonging to J. F; Williams, of Streator, according to a Delaware newspaper, was attacked by two sparrows. The birds plunged their bills into the animal's thick fur many times, drawing blood freely. The cat squalled and tumbled over on its back, trying to beat off the sparrows with its" paws. Its Jittle enemies, however, easily eluded its blows and continued to stab it with their bills. At last the cat ran off and hid under a fence. The sparrows ' then flew away. , FUN. Made of all work The newspaper. Boton BuUstin. It is the bootblack who improves the shining hour. Judge. Those who toil and spin the bicycle riders. Hartford Time. An old-fashioned board of investiga tionThe shingle. yVUminfton Star. Congressional garden seeds are dis- tributed for raising votes, not vegetables. r..j IT 1.1 A typographical make-up-The male and female compositor adjusting their lovers' quarrel. Pacific JesUr. The foreman has just whistled down the tube to tell us that type always trav el son its form. New Haven Hew. . First young buck nelloo, Bob! Heard you had some of Mumm's extra dry last niht. Was it fine? Second young buck Yes, $5 and costs.- Burlington Fire Prees. "Bees unquestionably possess tho power of memory," Fays a scientific wri ter. So does the man on whose neck the bees happen to hold a caucus. Xew Uarcn Xetcs. "Yes, I will grant your request. I will put some finishing touches to it, " mur mured the editor as he finished reading a poem on Summer, and ho jammed it into the waste basket. Sitings. There is;not so much difference be tween a restaurant and' a 'cattle barn as one would at first suppose. The former has many tables, and the latter has its tah!es, too. Chirayo News. Smith "I saw you carrying home a couple of nice-looking watermelons last night, Brawn. How much did they cost you?" Brown "I don't know yet. Tho' doctor is up at the house now." Life. It is asked how editors pass their leis ure moments. Bless your dear soul, they don't pass them. An. editor is usually from ten to forty years behind his leisure moments, and h1 always dies before he gets within gunshot of the rearmost of them. Tid-Bits. An exchange says: "The editor of this paper is the possessor of a hog." WC SCVCral Of them, in fact. So aro Their names are on our subscription b&ok, and they have taken the . paper for. the last three or four years and have never paid a cdnt.EsteUine (Dakota) Bell. "Look here," remarked Do Wiggs to thecorner grocer, "this pavement here is awfully slippery. Why don't you throw seme sand on it?" "Can't get a a bit," replied the grocer, "Well, throw some sugar over it; the pavement won't' know the difference."- "Chestnut!" yelled the grocer. Pittsburg Chronicle. An exchange, in speaking of a certain man, says: "He will pend some time looking after his business interests in this vicinity." This comes of careless-, ness. He should have kept his business interests tied up in some safe place and then he wouldn't have to spend valuable time hunting after them. Eselline.Bell. "I'll engage you," said the theatre man ager to the actor in search of a job, "but times are hard just now, and I can't give you any Patti prices. IIqw would one hundred dollars a week suit you?" "No," taid the actor; "that won't do at all. That isn't enough. Say, see here! Sup pose you give me ten dollars a week and pay it." Som'.rtille Journal. Riding Elep ant Back. We quote as folio as from Edwin Ar nold's "India Revisited :" It is somewhat odd to hear "Hatti taiyar hai the ele phant is ready,"' announced as naturally as thoucdi it were a cab or carriage w hich' stands Waiting at the door. Yet the least experienced might safely climb to ths mountainous back of Bhnirava, one oi the guicowar's quietest and. biggest tuskers. Caparisoned in scarlet and yel IoWj with a forehead cloth of kincob, which the mahout pushes aside whou ho desires to prod the mighty beast on tho occiput with the pointed hook, I'hairava seemed grand and ponderous enough to be wholly above serving as a sort of colossal omnibus. At the word "baitho," how ever, he meekly folded his hind legs and stretched his front legs forward, lower- in his body to the earth, whereupon, a , , . i-u- - j ladder of ten steps, set against Tiis side, enabled us to climb to the silver ho . vdah, where a party of four can be comfortable accommodated. Then Bhairava heaved majestically aloft a movement which demands precaution on the part of the passengers and rolled forward on a trip of circuraambulation round the city aud . its suburbs. Behind him ran a hattiwal lah, uttering gruffly many a "sum" and "chutf to keep the monster going, and sometimes emphasizing the-ejaculationa with a tremendous blow upoa tlu ele phant's tailroot from a &tafl four inches thick, which v. ould have broken the leg of a horse, but seemed to be regarded by Bhairava as the merest and most playful hint to "move on.' i A Good B.ter. A large "loggerhead" turtle - wat caught in the D'Arbonnc, in the north east part of Lincoln Parish, the head cut off and thrown to one side of the yard of a farm-house, where it remained three davs, when some children in their play had thrown a piece of bread in the turtle's open mouth. A short.time after a little chicken, having discovered the bread in the turtle's mouth, ::ttemtd to abstract it by pecking at it, w. u the jaws of the turtle closed and killed the hicken. Duston (La.) Catigraph. Tailor made costumes are furnislKT with three vests, .one of the material, on, of pique and one of nankin. , Hereafter English. soldiers will not bc allowed to smoke in the streets in daytime.
The Anson Times (Wadesboro, N.C.)
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