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E. S. WARROCK, Editor and Proprietor. Wo Proudly call oufs a Grovorniliont , by tlto t'coiilo. Cleveland. WADESBORO, N. C.v. THtJRSDAY, OCTOIiEIt 7 l'sgtL TERMS: S2.QO Por Year. VOL. VII. NO. 51; Ansokt Tmbs, Terrasi-Cash in Advance. One Year - .... gioo Six Months Three Months ' " - - $1.00 r - - 60 ADTEBTISING BATES. One square, first Insertion $1.00 Each subsequent Insertion - 60 Local advertisements, per line . . iq tgy-Special rates given on appllcatlo for onger time. Advertisers are requested to bring in their advertisements on Monday evening of each creek, to insure insertion in next issue. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. John D. Pemberton. ATTORNEY AT LAW, WADESBORO, N. a t& Practice in the State and Federa Courts. v JAMES Lumm. Attorney and Counsellor at Law, WADESBORO. N. C. 1ST Practice at all the Courts of the States K. UTILE. w Ifc PARS0IfS UTTLE & PARSONS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, WADESBORO, N. a Collections Promptly Attended to. H'.H. DePew ; DENTIST, WADESBORO. N. C. Office over G. W. Huntley's Store. AH Work Warranted. May 14, '85. tf. DR. D. B. FRONTTS, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON ?S JhProf essional 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 Ofllce next to. Bank May 7 if I. H. HORTON, JEWELER, WADESBORO, N. C I'ealearin Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Musical Instruments, Breech and Muzzle Loading Shot Guns, Pistols, &c. Anson Institute, WADESBORO, N. C. d. 1 McGregor, principal J. J. Burnett, A. B. 1 J. W. Kilgo, A. B. V Assistants. Miss M. L. McCorkle, ) The Tpring Term begins Monday, Jan uary 11th, 1886. t Trmos In Literary Department, $2, f o and $4 per month. Instrumental Music, $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, MORVEN, 3V. C. JAMES VY. KILGO, A. B.f Principal. IW The Fall Session begins on the 3d of August 1S85, and runs through five months. TUITION, PER MONTH. IVimary, $2.00 Intermediate, - - - - - 2.50 Advanced 3.00 Board from $8 TO $10 per month. For further particulars address the Prin cipal. Wit 1 MDBR, MT7N1 CFACTURER AND DEALER IS Stoves Tin-ware, SM-Li AND HOLLOW WARE, WADESBORO, N. C. The 'Naval Board of Inspection has found hailing from the port of New York alone 102 American iron steamships of over 2,000 tons, capable of running four teen knots an hour, and fitted for auxil iary cruisers in case of war. Purple pond lilies from Japan are the oral glories of the hour. The Japanese 'Iy does not attach itself to any object, hut floabraround in the water. The leaf Jpnngs from a little air bulb that "sus tains the plant on the Surface arid the foots find nourishment in the water: BLOOMING OVER THE DOOR. A cottare, all fitted and furnished, f 'laads daintily over th3 way, And hero a young pair to housekeeping ; Came promptly tbe first day of May ; i The pla e seemed homelike and coiy, - ' The an shena bright on the floor, . Yet one dewy evening t a w them plant in g A rose to bloom over the door. Ah, how they watched over its growing, And trained it with tenderest arts, And swift as its bright buds unfolded, The love of home grew in their hearts. The husban 1 came homo in the evening, All weary and worn from the store, To find the wife's welcome the sweeter For r?aes that bloomed o'er the door. But they eay, '-love flies out of the window, When poverty enters the door f But against all trials and troubles -Ttwymng beartsafnered fullstors, Fcr, when fell the hush cf the twilight, - They whispered anew love's sweet lore, Wove t loser tha bonds of affection 'Neath ro63 that bloomed o'er the door. And when theda-k days closed around them, And poverty's wave overbore, To keep the dear home how they struggled. Where the rore; bloomed over the door. And now, all their "trial time" ended, They dwell in the sunlight once more, And love brightly glea-ns on the hearthstone Where roses bloom over the door. Ye new mate 1 pairs who are building Your home nests, now heed, I implore, This lesson that love lingers longest Where roses bloom over the door. , f o ye who count home more than shelter, Plant ere tfi"e bright springtima is o'er To make home the brighter and dearer A jose to bloom over the door. A COPYIST'S ROMANCE. - "You'll have to go in and out through the alley hereafter, Miss Dana. This lugjin' baskets of provisions in through the front way doa't suit me at all. I go out the back way myself, when I have a basket or a coal-oil can, and a pitcher of milk, an' you can do the same." Certainly!", agreed A mnhnl Dana pleasantly. "I'm willing to bring them in the back way. I didn't know you cared, or " j 'Ido care," was the short answer, "I ) don't want all the neighbors in the row' a-watcmng what's carried in and out. The landlord of these houses don't allow lodgers, as a rule, though he's give me permission to keep one or two, if they are respectable and quiet, an' I don't want everybody talkin'. An', remember, iMiss Dana, your lent's due to-morrow, an' I waat it, prompt an' punctual." '"But, Mr, "sparsely, I don't get paid until Saturday. You can wait till then, can you not?" "JSo. I can't wait, an' I shan't!" re torted Mrs.-Sparsely, with crabbed em phasis. "Pay-day is nothin' to me. I want the rent when its due. or I want the room. That's all I've got to say." And she proceeded with her task of sweeping the hall, while Amabel, with her pitcher of milk and loaf of baker's bread, made her way up stairs with a heavy heart. is xvuiauei uana ana ner mother occun ed a second-story furnished rooom at Mrs. Sparsely's, with the privilege of mak ing their coffee on the basement stove, for which accommodations thnv nnid. nine, dollars a month. 1 he rent was high, and Mrs. Sparsely was the very reverse of accommodating and agreeable. , But rents were high everywhere, and Mrs. Dana felt they could not better themselves by moving. And besides, "the row" was at a con venient distance from the large drug establishment and laboratory where AnT abel did copying and directing envel opes, at Which employment she contrived to earn an nveragj of one dollar a day. "I must borrow the money," sighed Amabel, after informing her mother of thcvlandlady's demand,, "or get the cash ier to advance it to me.- He will if he' in a good humor." The matter of making their cofTce on the basement stove was quite an item in the domestic economy of Mrs. Sparsely's Jo.lgers, as it saved the. consumption of gasoline in their little, one burner stove; and if it was some distance to the base ment, they did not mind the eitra trouble. . "Xow for suppert" cried Amabel, as she trippvd up to their room, one even-, ing about dusk, with a pitcher of milk and a wooden boat of butter from the "bread-and milk depot" on the corner. She had been careful to come in the back way. according to Mrs. Sparsely's slipul -tlo.t. , "2'ow for supper!" she was saying, ffa lv, as she entered the room, which had i not j'et been lighted. 1 lit. to her surprise, she discovered that the figure jn the rockiog-chair by the window was not her. mother, but a tnrngcT a masculine stranger at that. W s he a burglar? thought Amabel, trembling, "Ch!" she cried, hesitating whether to enter t! c room r to scream and run away. 4 I) d 3 on wish to see me?" asked the Sg :re, in a p'easan?, rich-toned voice. An amused voice, Amabel thought, and at oace decided that he was not a burglar. . ."To see you ? No; I I didn't know yv,u were here," , she stammered, with much confusion. The apparition arose, standing full six feet tall ss he did so, and turned on a flood of light from a gas-jet on the wall. Araable was more puzzled than ever, for the bed, the carpet, the marble-top washstand and bnreau were all new to her. Sudfenly the truth flashed over her. I I've" come to the wrong room, or the wrong house !" she cried, her cheeks flushing crimson , with embarrassment and mortification. . "It was nearly dark, and I, came in" the back way and ran right up.' "This is number fifteen," explained the stranger, kindly, without even the ghost of a smile at her mistake. "Ob,, and ; ours is thirteen I" cried Amabel. "I must have come in the wrong gate." ' A nd she sped swiftly away through the dusky ha?l, while the gentleman resumed his seat bytho window. "What a shy, pretty face she had!" he thought, with a smile. "I wonder who she is." "I hope he didn't take me for an im- E03tor!" thought Amabel, a she mad? ?r way undiscovereJ from the house, and entered the right gate this time. "Ho might have thought I went up on purpose to steal something." she added, as she explained the embarrassing mis take to her mother. But Mrs. Dana only smiled at the re cital. ' "Nonsense! It was very easy to make such a mistake in a row like this," she declared, reassuringly. The next morning, as, Amabel wa starting out to her daily work, she dis covered that her pocketbook was miss ing. "I'm nearly sure I had it when I came from the bread-and-milk depot," she as serted; "but it's not a great loss theio were only my cards and some car-tickets in it. I'll have to walk down town, though." ' a But as she tripped briskly across the street, a tall figure came striding after her, and a man's voice said : "Excuse me, Miss Dana, but is this your property t" And looking up, she beheld her ac quaintance of the night before, with the lost pocketbook in his hand. "Oh, thank you' Yes, it's mine," she returned. "I onlj missed it this morn ing." "And I found it!, this morning, just in side my door," wa? the reply; "and wa oing iti to return it to you when I san yo i (orce out of the door and cross th sliest. And now, as I have the ad van ta ;e of knowing your name, will you al low me to give you my ca-d " And he placed in her hand a bit ol pasti board, on which was inscribed th name of "i'oger Travis." Then it seemed quite natural and verj pleasant to Amabel for Mr. Travis t walk on by her side down the street, an 3 only leave her when they reiched th door of the big drug establishment. "How handsome and tall he is!" sht thought to herself; "and what a pleas imt smile hp. 1ms!" And fiat day Amabel actually spoilec an envelope belonging to the drug e:tab lishaient by absent-mindedly directing it to Roger Travis instead of Richard Smith, Esq. So it happened that they frequently met on the r way to and fro mornin and evening, until the acquintance wai ripened into easy familiarity, and eacl expected to sec the other every day. One evening, as Amabel was on hei way home somewhat later than usual, Mr. Travis appropriated the seat in th street-car by her side quite as a mattei of course. He walked with her from the car U Number 13 and paused a moment at hei side while she applied her latch-key attht Aoor; for Mrs. Sparsely always kept th door locked' and lodgers were expected to have their own keys. . j "Jf not too great a liberty, Miss Dana, j would you allow me to cail and see yet ; and 3-0 u r mother sometimes?" asked 1 Roger Travis, still at her side. j But it was too dark for him to se ' Amabel's blushes as she hesitatingly re- I plied: j "1 we occupy but one room, and Mrs. ! Sparsely expressly stipulated that w ' were to have no cjllers." ! "Indeed ! Is she su h a dragon, then' ! I'm very sorry, though," he returned,! coolly. , . j "Vou you are not offended?" asked j Amabel, in a low voice. j "With you? c?Hainly not But good- night Miss Dana." And he turned away, while Amabel opened the door, to find herself con fronted, by her landlady, with a lower ing countenance. "Talking to gentlemen on the door steps, Miss Pana, is one thing I can'! and won't have !" she' cried, sharply, "it's agin my rules, and I want you ta understand it." "I was only talking to one gentleman, and that only for a minute or two whiU I unlocked the door, " explained Amabel, as mildly a possibly. "It makes no sort o' difference," re turned Mri. Sparsely, angrily; "I won"! have it, I say! The neighbors m?ght ol ecn you, and thought it was me flirting out there I don't want it to happen ag'in." Amabel made her escape, secretin amused at the idea of being mistaken for stout, broad -shouldered Mrs. Sparsely but she scarcely knew whether to laugh or cry as she related the occurrence ta her mother. "If she gets too overbearing, we shaL be obliged to move," declared Mrs. Dana, decidedly. "I was determined .to' see you, Misl Dana, so I have bearded the lion of rather the dragon in her den, as you see," declared Roger Travis, claspinq Amabel's warm little hand in his, and smiling down into her flushed cheeki and sparkling eyes. Amabel had been compelled to remair at heme for several days with a sever! cold, and on this first day of her con valesc6nce, Roger Travis had called, and been shown by Katrina, the new servant girl,; into Mrs. Sparsely's own parlor greatly to Amabel's consternation. The" "dragon" herself had gone ,ou to do her marketing a circumstanc which was in the visitor's favor. "I have missed you very much, and was afraid you were ill," added Mr. Travis. "And and circumstances altet cases', as you are aware, Miss Dana. Be Bide I" He hesitated, but gathering courage in an instant, blurted out: "The truth is, I fell in love with you, Amabel, the first time I ever saw you, and I want you to be my wife. I can give you every evidence of my respecta bility and good standing, and will you marry me, Amabel? " It ws all so sudden, so strange, so un expected yet when he clasped, her hand in his, Amabel did not withdraw it, and taking silence for consent, her lovet slipped a gold engagement ring upon her taper finger. "In my parlor Well, I must say if I everheerd of such goin's on! But I'll soon settle itl" cried a sharp,' loud voice. The door was thrown open, and Mrs. Sparsely bounced in, red with anger. "A line thing, miss, for you to be a having your compiny in my parlor!" she began, excitedly. "But I "Law, is it you, Mr, Travis? I beg your pardon, I'm sure. I didn't know. Keep your seat, M?ss Dana1. You are en tirely we'eome to the rocni." And with smiles taking the place o the angry seowK she closed the door, leaving the lovers alone. ' "I know all about U" declared Mrs. Dana, as Amabel en fed their roogi, flushed and smiling, later on. "3Irs. Sparsely has be?h here. And who do you suppose Mr. Travis is?" "Who!" asked Amabel, breathlessly. "Why, he's the landlord Mrs. Sparse ly Is always talking about. He owns all. this row, and I don't know how manj more houses. . Mr. Sparsely thinks hs's a greater man than the Mayor, or the Go.ernor, even, and ha bn apologiz ing for the way she has treatct. us all the time. She sv.v him putting the ring on your finger, and jumped at the right conclusion." And indeed the prospective bride oi :;he wealthy lindlord was an impoitant pcr.onage, and for the ihrt time shi and her mother remained in the house, no one could have received more dbse quious treatment than d'd Mrs. Sparse ly's lodgers. Helen Whi'ney Clarke Tliistles. The thistle pedigree is a long and curious one. The "O up form; appar ently the central and most primitive ex isting tribe of the composite family and it bears in its own features the visible marks of a vast previous evolutionary history. Starting appa ent'y from blos soms with ti .e distinct and separate yel low petals, like thj b ittercups, the an cestors of thistlehood gradually pro gressed, as it see.ns, by ins et selection to a condition something like that of the harebell or the Canterbury be l,iu which the petals have coalesced at' their bases into a single large and united tube. Clus tering together net into closely serried heads, like those, of the scabious, the rampions and the common blue U-heeps-bit, they endeavored to make up for the individual minuteness of- their dwarfed flowers by the number and mass collected in a group on the summit of each stem, i In this way they gradually assumed the distinctive crowded composite form, each floret cor.si-ting of a tubu'ar five-lobed corolla, a calyx reduced to hairs or .lawn and a single tiny seed-like fruit. Of this stage in the development of the faaaily the simpler and less specialized member of the thistle group', such as the unarmed saw worts and the Alpine saussurea, are now tha best surviving representatives. From some such e r'.y central form the evolving composites split and diversi fied themselves into a'l their astonishing and almost incredible, existing variety. Some of them, varying but little in minor details from the parent stock, acquired prickly leaves and grew into the thistle kind or developed hcoked and sticky involucres, and were known as bur locks. Others, producing at their edge a row of brilliantly colored and attractive floretSj which serve the purpose of petals for the compound head, branched off into all the marvelous wealth of daisies, asters, sun flowers, marigolds, dahl'a', golden rods, ox-eyes and cinerarias. In yet" others the whole mass of floret-, central as well as external, has assumed this -rsv'ikc or strnplike form; and to this group belong the dandelions, hawkweeds, salsifies, lettuCes, sow thistles, chicories, nipple worts and catsear3. By far the most suc cessful of all flowering plants the com posites have taken possession in one form rr another of the whole world, and among the entire wealth of their extraordinrrv diversity there is no group more univer Fally fortunate than the common thistle. What from the purely agricultural point of view, we describe as a very persistent and almost ineradicable weed, from the . higher biological point of view we shouid more propcrly regard as a dominant and admirably adapted species of plant. The one conception is merely narrow, practi cal and human; the other is positive, philosophical and universal. Longman' i Afaaazine. Something About Belfast. A correspondent of the New York Tims writes as follows concerning Bel fast, in Ireland: "Belfast, with the ac cent on the second syllable, is a town exceedingly barren of interest for the American, who is prone to enjoy in Eu rope what he misses at home. Thus Belfast is very American in appearance except in the workingmen's districts, where the streets are narrow, and the roughs are able to dodge the police by alleyways from one side of a block of houses to another. The wide-wayed, well-built portions are apt to have sonor ous names recalling the royal family and the nobility of England. Bismarck street and Cromwell road, street and terrace would indicate the worship of men of blood and iron; on the other hand, there are few common names for' women un represented on the labels at street corners. Names out of joint with the times are X3ay street and Joy's Entry; better titles for the present crisis are Mustard street and Vinegar Court. As one approaches the town by rail a very white crop of some kind Js seen on distant fields in the suburbs, which resolves itself into long strips of linen laid out to b'eac h: The wretched workmen in this industry, on the iron ships on the lough, an 1 in the factories, wear no linen of Belfast or other, make, but present the careworn, pale, squalid and ugly look of operatives elsewhere. There is a color special to Irisli mobs, and those of Belfast are like those of Dublin. . Shades of brown and dun prevail; noticeably absent are bright colors; tne cone may oe seen in some ancient clothes preserved in the Royal Irish Museum in Dublin, which were found upon a body buried many feet un der a bog, and kept from disintegration by the chemical action of peat." Thread From Milk-Weed. American inquisiti veness and ingenuity united ha .produced thread made from the blossom of the common milk-weed which has the consistency and tenacity of imported flax or linen thread and is produced at a much less cost. The fibre is long, easily carded, and may be read ily adapted to spinning upon an ordinary flax-spinner. : It has the smoothness and lustre of silk, rendering it valuable for sewing machine use. The weed is com mon throughout this country, and grows profusely at the South. The material costs nothing for cultivation, and the gathering is as cheaply done as that of cotton. Dry Goods Chronicle. in tne last ten years Canada cattle have increased from 2,637,000 to 3,515, 000. During-the same period cattle have increased in numbers in the United States from 23;000,000 to 48,500,000, or about sixty-three per cent. FOR DRINKERS OF COFFER A rOCTOE'SENTEBTAUOITO TAI.'I AT OUT THE BEVEBAGE. Varieties of the riant Raising tl CoffeeTreeTho Drink Medical lj Considered Preparing Coffee. According to a recent statement, write a physician to the Washington tt 1. there are over six hundred grades of of fee on the maikct, which might lead many to believe that there are as mam differ, nt species of the" plant, which i? Dot true, however for there are but few of these, and one only from which the genuine article Is obtained ; consequently the grading must be arbitrary or depend ent upon individual caprice. . The trjf grading and price of the commodity re sult from the treatment the coffee ber ries receive after they have been gleaned, which varies according to the locality cf growth. In Brazil and the West In dies as fast as the fruit ripms it is gath ered, placed on mats aDd fldori adapjted to the purpos?, exposed to thssun and frequently stirred to expedite the drying process. When dry enough the bsrrie are pa if el through heavy rollers, which re move the tojgh outside membrane and pulp that encloses the brans. The lat ter are then carefully winnowed, sorted, put into b .gs i nd are ready for market. The varieties of coffee chiefly distin guished in commerce aie the Mocha, 'frcm Arabia, esteemed the best on ac couLt of its being richest in caffeine, the alkaloid to which coffee owes its popu larity. The Mocha grains are easily recognized by their comparative small ness, gra3', inclining to greenish color.. The Java, or East India coffee, has large yellow beans. Jamaica coffee beans are of a greeni-h cast, smaller than the Java, but larger than the Mocha. Surinam hasthe largest size bean of all, whitish beans. Liberia, Laguyra, and other kinds, have no particular distingni hed features to entitle them to special notice here. The fruit of the coffee tree is a red berry, resembling a cherry, having a pale, insipid glutinous pulp enclosing two hard oval seeds, which we term "grains." Each of these is about the size of an ordinary bean and covered with a touerh cartilaginous membrane called the "parchment-" Orientals do not prepare coffee for drinking purpose; a we do. Arab3 make it from the unroasted beans. The ) Sultan of Turkey, formerly if not now, has a beverage made out of the dried pulp and pericarp for his own use, while some of his subjects prepare a decoction from the dried leaves of the coffee tree. For this purpose the leaves are prepared by a process similar to that for tea leaves, and a great many suppose that the leaves so treated contain a larger proportion of caffeine than the beans. The average composition of unroasted offee beans in 1,000 parts is stated to bj as follows: Caffeine, 0.8; legumin, 13.0; gum and sugar, 15.5; caffeo-taunic and caffeic, acids, 5.0; fat and volatile oils, 13.0; woody fiber, 134.0; ash, 6.7; water, 12.0. : Roasted to a reddish brown color cof fee loses 15 per cent, by weight and gains in bulk 30 per cent. If the pro cess of roasting is continued until the coffee assumes a chestnut brown, '20 per ' cent, by weight is lost and 50 per cent. , in bulk gained. Roasted to a dark- J brown it loses 25 per cent, by weight and iucreases L0 per cent in bulk. Therl roasting of coffee in some mar-ner de velops a volatile o'.l in the grain to the extent of one part in fifty that is not present in the raw state, to which it owes its delightful aroma. If the roasting is protracted beyond a light-brown coirr this delicious odor is jeopardi ed, if not entirely destroyed. (. oilee keeps best in the green state; the older and drier the grain unroaste 1 the better, it is said, is the coffee when loasted. A Fortunately for mankind, coff.-c is a wholesome and harmless beverage, and rarely leaves any unpleasant elects be hind, even when indulged in to excess. It is eminently the cup that cheers, but does not inebriate. The apeutically, coffee is a great con servator of the tissues, p eventing wate of the body, allays thirtt, hunger, and. as above intimated, cheers the mind, but does not intoxicate the brain, whilst the aromatic oil it contains has a gentle aperient effect upon the bowels. For J this latter purpose it is best taken soon I auer rising m iu'j iiiurmug, auout inc strength of two iablespoonfuls of the finely ground coce to a pint of boiling water, drank five minutes after mixing. Regarding the toxic properties (ko called) of coffee little need be said. Only lower animals have exhibited any great sensitiveness in this respect, and then not until after very large doses of the alkaloid, caffeine, had been adminis tered to them, which, when given to man in the same quantities, caused but little temporary nervous disturbance. Its effects, like medicines generally, de pend very much upon the constitution, temperament, and idiosyncrasy of the individual using it. The methods of preparing coffee for domestic ue, some of which have been already alluded to, varies in different places. To get the full aromatic flavor of the decoction it should be drank im mediately after it is made. When too-lone- boiled the aroma is driven off, leav ing the astringent property only of the ' gram in toiuuon mai, imeriering wiiu the function of the liver, causes the 6allow complexion of some free coffee drinkers. In the East many esteem the grounds for their nutritive principle, they be'ng rich in legumin, a vegetable albumen. In Central Africa the grounds left from an infusion, sometimes the freshly-grcund coffee itself, is mixed with butter and used as an article of food. I am just here reminded that the crew of th" Kane '.rctic expedition' wa kept from having scurvy by the fre ' use of coffee g o inds a- a portion of diet. To etract all of the goud oualitfcs of cofrcc. says Professor Donovan in tbe Dublin thytu Jum;t, 1826,, the fresh, fnely ground co Tee re .uires two separate and somewhat opposite modes of treatment. On the one hund, the flavor is lost by boiling, v. hilst, on the other, it is necessary to jubjt ct it to that dcarrec of heat in order to extract its medical quality. Tneic difficulties are overcome by dividing the water to be used in the n aking into two equal parts, with one of these the coffee mu-t be mixed cold and placed on the fire until on the eve of boiling, when it is takcn off the fire snd allowed to settle. The liquid is then poured off and the other portion of wtcr, which ought row to bi Do ling hot, tftAthlcd la tbe grounds nod strongly lxi led f,r fi e min-itc, aftel which tie tw rortionv of liq'rd an mixed tcget.cr, fornrng a coraSinit'on of all th" gi od ropcrt:cH of the coffw in the greatest jcifi-ct on.' A California Snake Story. Another big snake has been seen in Calaveras, cur informant is Mr. A. Lascy, Deputy tit d States Mineral Surveycr, whi reiides at West Point. Mr. Lascy and his s n, Frank, were oau trip into the mountains. Ttey had Reached a roint 0 the old emigrant road, near the Big Meadows. Mr. Lnscj-, Sr., is p-rfectlyl familiar with the whole of that mountain country, m l he had decided on a camping place a few miles f tut her on. But coming to an old I02 cabin on the road, in . which i r. Lascy ut up beiore while on surveying tri., hey concluded to take a lot It into the cabin, water their hdrse3 from a spring in the gulch b?low, and possibly make that their c mping place. They accord ingly stopped their team, got out, and roeeedcd to explore the cabin, as it ooked very dilip dated, the roof being partly crushed in by the weight of winter snows. 3Ir. Lascy, followed by his son, went to the low cabin dodr, which wai closed, but not locked, pushed it open and st oped "to enter, when he was struck with terror at sight of a monster reptile, which, for size and hideouness of appearance, surpis-ed anything that he had ever seen or that he really be lieved did ex'st on land. He never was a believer in big snake stories that he had heard, but he avers that every parti cle of incredulity that he ever possessed regarding these reports was completely knocked out at sight of this living spec imen of a monstrous reptile. The cabin is sixteen feet by sixteen feet. The snake lay stretched across the cabin with its head near and facing the door, and its tail teaching to the opposite side and partly coiled against some stones that had been used for a fireplace. With its head elevated about three feet from the floor and drawn a little backward by the stately curve of the neck, evidently to make room for the swing of the opening door, the huge monster faced his intruders. Both men carried rifles, and as the elder Laccy started back,. the son brought his rifle to his shoulder and fired at the reptile's head. Mr. Lascy, qu'ckly recovering himself, fired also, and dlmost at the same time. There was a terrible shuf fling sound for a second and like a flash the snake scaled the walls of the cabin through an opening close to the eaves and disappeared, and as he was goin over a piece of his tail fell from the wall to the floor. Whether both shots had effect or not it cannot be said, but one shot certainly did, but missing the head struck the tail, which was in range on the opposite side against the rock, a:id in go nj; over the wall it was torn from its slender hold. The severed piece was six feet in length, and ubout the middle was the size of a man's wrist. Mr. I ascy brought the tail home as a proof of his adventure. The snake was at the least sixteen feet long. The body was im mense, as can be judged by the tail, and as it lay upon the floor, partially flat tened, it appeared to be fully eight inches in breadth. It was covered with alternate black and white rings. Mr. Lascy Fays that from the fright which the sudden and unexpected sight occa sioned and the rapid disappearance of the reptile after' the shooting for after they fired they quickly retreated from th door it is impossible to give a minute description of the appearance of ' monster, other than its color and enormous size. Calaveras (Oal.) Ghrin tele. The Midnight Sun. Edward K. Taylor says in the Ban Francisco Chronide: No one comes to Norway without taking the trip to Nord land to see the sun at midnight. My deepest impressions from witnessing the sublime spectacle of the midnight sun were received at a point nearer the Arc tic Circle. It was one of those hushed evenings which occur with a falling ba rometer; so still that the glossy surface of the undulating ea was unrurrled even by the breath of a zephyr. Southward,' above a wall of cloud, majestic moun tains reared their snowy peaks. Far in the west floated a fleet of fish'ng craft, and long lines of water fowl were wing ing their way to rocky resting places. Above the sun, which from my 'stand near the compass, I watched swinging northward, lay several parallel strata of fleecy clouds. The water horizon rolled up higher and higher until, like a great golden globe, the sun rested, upon its rim. The lower cloud stratum became orange-tinted. The next was dyed with saffron shades, while the rosy reflection of the upper stratum pain'ed with deli cate pink the Kjolcn cliffs in the south. For several moments the motion of the earth seemed checked, the sun still rest ing on the ocean's rim, and then most startling vision I ajlioe of light appears below the fiery orb the horizon U retro grading. By thus forcing the mind to regard the sun as stationary in hi true position, and centering the attention on our own planetary motion, an effect is produced far more amazing than that ex jerienced by the startled Hezekiah when the shadow retreated 0 the great dial oi Ahaz. The Mexican White Hons. , The Mexican White House or Presi dential residence is described as one of the most beautiful and artisticpalaces in the world. The frescoing and painting have been executed by Cassarin, a disciple of Messionier.who has surpassed himself in the ceiling of the President's bed cham ber, where the woodwork is ebony and gold, and the bed is of ebonhed cherry, ornamented with gold and metal mar queterie. Out of this opens t' e bathroom, a grotto paved with mosaics, and hav ng wa.ll of namted French tiles. On the first floor is a tropical garden, and .the roof, after the manner of eastern houses, is a beautiful garden of flowers and fountains. The finest room of all is de scribed as the parlor," and is said to be like tbe Princess's apartments in a highly colored fairytale. Here the woodwork is in satin panels, with maple borders and gold flowers ; the walls are capitonne with satin damask, relieved by blue and gold Aubussom borders, and the carpet, spe cially woven in the richest hues, is lajd upon a floor inlaid with the handsomest wood the world produces. LIFE'S COMMON OIFTS. IJfe' ttnaonfe thnSeive renew j Ohbkws the power that will it wl Behold yon clover wet with dew Only a f w short weeks ago. Keen scribes laid low the frajrant ttot And lo, it cheers ax'n the eye Thu U repeated o'er and o'er. The beauty of the earth and sky. Our-ch kTs soft kiss, th love lit eye, The tender words that morn and nijbt Ne'er fail us rcan it be we prize Them all too httle. holl th3iu light On at Nature, may we lean of thos The worth of simple things to know; Friee nrore the grace of purity Than aught of empty ga-id and suow, Jfcr mourn with eyei tear-wet the while, "Our blessings vantbsd e'er we knew Their value Oh, dear kis ! oh. smile ! Oh, clover blossoms wet wi th.de w !" Sprimgfleld IlrpubliaK HUMOR OF THE DAY. A young man of polish Tbe boot black. A climbing plant with tendrils isn't half so annoying as a mosquito with ono. Philadelphia Call. An exchange tells about a sailor who was tiled for assault. lie turned out to be one, too. liurlinyton Vre Vnu "Garments without button" arc ad-' vertised. They are not thi kind bach- fiorsare lODKingior. t nxumeipnvi cm'.. 'There's plenty of room at the top," is the champagne remarko 1 when it flew to the dude's head. Uton Iran script. It's pretty hard luck. In summer wo have horselies, and then again in winter ve have snow fliej. Burlington Frte Press. , . " Women can do a great deal of talk ing with their eyes,"' 6ays a Philadelphia editor, who has evidently stepped on a beauty'? dress in a crowded ball room. Umr.n-t Worul. "You don't know Dr. A? Why, it was he who just passed us." "What! that . man? He looks like a corpss" Well, yes. I always take him for ono of his patients." French Fur. The Abbe Liszt, one of the greatest pianists the world ever produced, died poor. There are a good m;iny people in this country who seem 1 kely to die poor, pianists. Springuld L'ni n. Ti 1 1 -J u.. 11.. ..i:iu.i it lias ucvu juviiy m'ntinii) iiuiinnu i that every man is the architect of his own fortune, but it docs seem that some men would have done better to have let the iob out. Kansas City Spiib. Judge "Have you anything to pay be fore the court passes sentence upon you?" Prisoner "Well, all I got to my is, 1 hope yer honor '11 consider the extreme youth of my lawyer, an' let -my off easy." PurJr. A dog which Ikh been riding up and down the in nes 6:1 cages and wandering through drifts and crosscuts was recently washed and his shaggy coat of h iir as sayed $2'.. 17 worth ol gold dust. fon?i c Vo '( Col.) Vlam ii' n. A cat that disappeared twenty years ago through a trap door in the l'oor of a freight house rt Ansonia, Connecticut, was found t.hcre on Monday by workmen -who were teurinjr away the building. Contrary to expectation -, it was not alive. Norrittoirn Jlciahl. Fogg had said the meanest thing ant man evcr was capable of saying. When Mrs. F. left him alone in, the house the other evening she remarked : "V01 won'i l)" lonely, dear? "No,"' he replied: J ihan't miss you at all.' The parrot yov know, is hre." Jl-ston Transcript. A Noted Hock. About fifty miles above Astoria, says a letter from Oregon, we passed the far famed C offin Hock, the indirect 'caus3 of the great Yakima war of 1850. It is a huge granite stone in the edge ot the river, on the Washington side, and was used from time immorial as a place of burial by the Indians. It rises about two hundred feet above the water, is reveral hundred feet in length, covered with a dense forest of pinest and fir trees -at its ba&e, and on top is bare and broken with immense fissures. , A single fir tree stands on its points like a solitary f cntinel above the resting place of the Indian warrior. The Indians were ac customed years ago to bring the,:r dead here for interment. The corpse was placed in the canoe used by the departed in life, and at his side his bows and arrows, his pipe and blankets, and all he owned on earth, and then he' was la:.d away in some cleft of the rock. After ward the friends of the departed would return to bring supplies of dried salmon and other edibles which they imagined the dead needed in the hunting grounds of the Great Spirit. Finally1 the sacri legious pale-face, being in need of ca noes for mundane purposes, found it more convenient to borrow those of the dead braves than to make his own, and acted accordingly, dumping the bones of thedepaited chiefs into the crevices of the rock, and wearing off their blankets. This, of course, incensed the red man, and finally brought on the Yakima mas sacre and subsequent war. Make Friends. Life is very critical. Any word may be ourl.'.st. Any farewell even amid glee and merriment may be forever. If thij truth y. c e but burned into our conscious ne-8, a d if ruled as a deep conviction and real power in our lives, would it not give s i:c.t meaning to our human rela tionship? Would it net make us far more tender .ban we somet'mes arc? Woul-.l it not tdt nfcimes put a rein upon our rash and imp tuous speech? Would we ca ry in our carts the miserable suspicions and ealoiijA that now so often em bit: e the ;Vnta:sof our i ve Would e i u c imp .ti nt of the faults of others? Wouid we ailU'W t ivial mUuaderfcfcindings to bui d up a wall bctwee uand those wh 1 arght t stand very close to us? Would we ke p alive petty cuarrels year afti vear, whTch a iranly word any day would comrov? Would we pass o:d friends 01 neighbors on the streets witl out rccogni-. tioa, bcrausc of pride, orane'entgrudgei Or would we be so chary of the kicd words, our commendation, our sympr.thy, our comfort, nvheh weary heartsall about us areb er.king for just such expressions of interest or appreciation as we have in our powertD give?- Christian at Woti,
The Anson Times (Wadesboro, N.C.)
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Oct. 7, 1886, edition 1
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