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1 njj J&L-lL ; f E. S. WARROCK, Editor and Proprietor. ' a.. ' We Proudly call ours a Government by the People. Cleveland ' , . . . A ' " I ' TERMS: S2.0Q Per Year. VOL. VIL WADESBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1886. NO. 9. Anson Times. Termsi-CQBli in Advance. One Year - - . Six Months - , .-Three Month - - - $2.00 $1.00 60 ' ADYEBTISING BATES. One iqoare, flnt Insertion - $1.00 Each subsequent Insertion 60 Local advertisements, per line - io tiT" Special rates given on applicatfo for Per time. Advertisers are requested to bring In their advertisements, on Monday evening of each ek, to Insure Insertion In next Issue. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. J ohn 3D. Pembertdn. ATTORNEY AT LAW, WADESBORO, N. C. j -t3T Practice In the State and Federa Courts. ; ' . JAMES L 1CCKHART. ' Attorney and Counsellor at Law, t WADESBORO. N. C. tW Practice at all the Courts of the States P. Z. X1T1LE.. W. L. TAP.SOJfS LITTLE & PARSONS, ATTORNEYS A.T iLvw, WADESBORO, N. C Collectlont Pronprty Attended to. H. H. DePew vDENTI S TV WADESBORO, N. C. Office over G. W. Huntley's Store. All Work Warranted. May 14, '85, it. DR. D.' B. FR0NTT5, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Offers his Professional Services to the citizens t-t Wadesboro 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. H. HORTON, JEWELER, WADESBORO, N. C. Dealearin Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Musical1 Instruments, Breech and Muzzle Loading Shot Guns, Pistols, &c. 1 H A M.A CHARLOTTE N. C- ! . - .-; .. I o' -'HSHKllRfl s WHY RISK YOJXt CROP And tie whole Jrjfl's of a Yar, ly Foolishly Exrikientlng with So Cal'ei Cheap Fertilizers. i WHEN TTOTJ CAT C.ET Lister!s Guaranteed pure bon: which will cive vou en" Increased ViM.l value or your land. This has been proven Liven the Farmerr, for 1-.a Inf 5 30 . OI your Iand. This has been Proven given .ue 2'armsrs for the last C years : each - J a , mjij you have no knowledge of your own from the Lister's Phosphate . Ask ?ors neighbor who has use! it, or write to us for catalogues of testimonials. . LISTENS AGRICULTtlRAL CHEMICAL WORKS, . 202, 206, BUCHANAN'S WHARF, BALTIMORE, 3ID. . FACTORY IvTJEVAXi.K, 1ST. ArVfIXor,FARMER,s COMPANION and REFERENCE BOOK, . and A copy of 'AnRICl;T;TUR AL PROfiF.W:0..ntainH.K ust-ful information end direv'tions, analysiHnd Testimonials, . . . . Nov. 25-tf . .. .. T ..' Favorite Food of Noted Men. The meals of Charlemagne consisted never of more than four courses, and his favorite dishes were egga and roast meat, particularly venison, which -was served on long spits by his foresters. Luther preferred Torgan beer and hock to all other bsverages. Torqtiato Tasso was very fond of preserved fruits and all kinds of fancy swests. Henry IV." was often ill from eating too many oysters or melons. His favor ite drink was Vin d'Arbois. Peter the Great liked nothingbetter than Limburg cheese. Charles XII., King of Sweden, preferred a piece of bread and butter to anything else. Voltaire, like Frederick the Great and Napoleon I., was-very fond of coffee. His favorite food was oat cakes, but he preferred oranges to any other kind of food. The Dutch lady scholar, A, 31. Schurmann, ate 6piders as a delicacy. Kant retained till his old age a pref-. erence for pork, all kinds of pulse, and stewed frnit. He devoted three hours a day to his dinner. . Schiller was in his youthful days very fond of - ham. Lord Byron liked Chester cheese, with ale or porter. Pope was 'greatly interested'' in vension, Jonathan Swift in turbot, and Sir " Walter Scott in roast goose. Pall MU Gazette. Bathing and Rubbing. singular as it may s:cm, the cbese ar more liable to general disea e thau ttt lenn, being especially liable 1o gout, dropsy, and various lesions and fatty de generations, cither cf brniu, heart i liver. When a person find? himself grow ing uncomfortably stont for which nothing can-be more hurtful than rcscrt to any of the diets supposed to bt) e ii cacious in' getting rid of niperfluGU flesh the proper thing for h;m to do is to excite nnd increase the healthy actio, of the skin by frequent bathing und rub bin. This disposes of a great deal of the superfluous investiture of the fr, me, strengthens the vascular activity, andin creasts the gene al - elasticity of the muscles and of the blood .vessel?, thus diminishing the liability of the latter to burst or break through weakness, and by . go much lessening the chances of apo plexy. --Bsar. Hanging Up Time. "Well, Bobby," said the minister at dinner. "I suppose you expect to hang up your stocking?' Oh, yes," replied Bobby. "And will your papa and mamma and sister hang up their stockings, too?" "Ma and sister will, put pa says that he will have to hang up his watch." Anson Institute, WADESBORO, N. C. d. l McGregor, principal J J. J. BUBJJSTT, A. B. J. W. Kilgo, A. B. Miss 31. L; McCobxle, ABSISTAJfTS. The pring Term begins Monday, Jan uary 11th, 1886. Tuition In Literary Department, fa, f b' and $4 per month. Instrumental Music, $4 per month: Vocal Music, f 4 per mouth. Use of piano for practice 60 cento per mont h Board, $10 per month. Contingent fee, $1 per year. For Catalogue apply to the Principal. nclrews 3 w 33 ZP o O o w CP O a W i 37 Q r- bv tho lTnivrKal Satisfaction whirh it by vwiradils to if a Riktoos nd Pmnritr Tf rxii iIU use of T THE THRASHING. t Is not the voice o! the wild wind, Nor the rush of the noisy rain, Kor yet the tread of tha river That sounds across the plain. F or low is the voice or the wild wind, The rain is f ar at sea, And soft Is the tread of the river Whatever can it be? The brown-cheeked country children Will tell you, for they know It Is the noise of the thrashing That roars apd rumbles so. ? Before the breath of the morning Had melted the frost-work hoar From the stubbly fields and the hedges, Began the grand uproar. The thrashers came through the dim lot?, A-whistling up the dawn, And bright as the glancing starlight, The prongs of their pitchforks shone, The garrulous folks in the hen house Were never in such surprise - - And the cows started through tbe'stanchions With mildly wdndering eyes. " There were lanterns glancing hither, And lights a-blinking yon, And the drowsy, horses snorted To feel the harness on. It .was bustle and hustle and hurry Around the wind mill tower ; It was whoaing and hawing aqd geelng. With hitching to the power. Then rang the voice of the driver To the clack of his snaky lash, And the teams began to circle, And the ponderous wheels to crash. And a rout of mingled noises Spread on the peacef nl air, A creak and a groan and rumble That deepened to a Ware. It is chatter and grind and rattle, It is whistle and buzz and burr. It Is thud and thwack and 6hudder, With endless whizz and whirr. The men on the stacks, like giants, Loom through the clouds of chaff; They are black with the dust of thrashing, You could not tell tham half. The 6heaves with their several g utiles; Are caught by the great machine, ' And the teeth of the monster tear them And 6hake the grain out clean. It trickles into the measure, . Each kernel deftly flayed. And the straw streams up the belting And falls in a wild cascade. Swelling in a perfect cadence, Matched to a stately rhyme, A paean sung for the harvest Is the noise of the thrashing time, All day in the gold October. Through .luminous haze3 borne, Its rhythmical roar sweeps over . The uplands and vales of corn. It sings of the great earth's bounty. Of the garner filled withfgrain, ; And it mingles in its measures , The musio of light and rain. It sings to the hopes that falter, To the hearts that doubt and strive, Like the strong voice of a prophet That promise is still alive. Jean Blow, in, Inter-Ocearu JACK'S FIR PILLOW. , BY EMMA E. BROWN. He was a bright handsome young fel low of perhaps five-and-twenty, while I, a demure spinster well into the fifties, looked quite old enough, to be his mother. So the gossips at the little summer hotel where we were boarding could real ly find nothing to say, though we often had long talks together, this young Jack Turner and myself, when we happened to meet in the parlor or out on the piazzas. . The special craze among our young lady boarders just then was the hiaking yflf all sorts Of pretty pillows, which they filled with pmo-needles or buds of the fragrant balsam-fir, and embroidered with various appropriate mottoes, such a, "Dream of the woods," "The pines shall whisper peace," "Give me of your balm, O Fir-tree," etc., etc. And as the picking of these pine-needles and pitchy nr tips was rather disagreeable work for dainty white fingers, it was quite the fashion for all the chivalric young men in the house to volunteer their services in this initiatory part of the work. More over, there was not a little rivalry among them as to who ccild find the most fra grant frees, a specif of the balsam-fir denominated "Erawborry" being the rarest and most Intern and. I was therefore not at all surprised when th's new acquaintance of mine, having found out my botanic proclivi ties, cams to me one bright morning with an immense tqr bag slung across his shoulders, and announced his intention of picking fir in some remote woods on the other side of the mountain. Would I gojwith him and show him the right ktnoof tree? He had brought back a whole bagful of worthier s stuff the day before,, and all because he couldn't tell a spruce-tree from a fir. - How, could I resia, such apathetic appeal especially when he could show me in this particular piece- of woods a rare, and beautiful species of orchid that I had long been trying to find. t No I I couldn't refuse. So Jack with his bag and I with my basket started o2 in high spirits that glorious .summer morning. It was ope of those rare days in early July when a cool breath from the mountains tempered the midsummer heat and gave me an exhilarating sense of what Longfellow calls: "The electric thrill, ths touch Of life that seems almost too much. " Tiie three miles' walk around the moun tain seemed as nothing, and we soon reached our destination the broad, dark belt of woodland that enclosed like a velvet girdle the picturesque little lake afc the foot of the highest peak. Jack Bad proved himself a most entertaining companion all the way. He reminded me of a dear young nephew I had Tost, and although a. week before we had been total strangers I was glad to notice that he seemed to regard -me already as an old and tried friend. Upon one subject, however, he was very reticent. When I found for him a clump of the genuine "strawberry',' trees, and jokingly asked him for which of our pretty young ladies he was going to pick the fir, he looked up quickly, and then, with a confused look on his frank countenance, said: "Oh, it h for no one here ; it is for f ome one miles and miles away. . And do you think," he added, with an ab stracted air quite foreign to his usual manner, ''that it is really a cure for con sumption?" "Hardly a cure," I answered, "al though I've known it to give relief in many cases of 'confirmed lung troub'e." The young man sighed heavily. "Well," be replied, after a long silence, "I am determined to try everything for her." Of course my. sympathies were imme diately aroused. I began at "once to picture to myself the pale -young girl in Tier far-off home fading away day by day likesome frail sweet flower. "Has Bhe been ill a long time?" I ven tured at last to inquire. ?'For more than a year," he answered, briefly, and then quickly turned the con versation upon some other subject. Still, X could not help noticing a heavy burden .evidently lay uiWhis mind, that, try -hard as he mijjht.he" could no ent?rilv fhake off,.:r '-''rLfv: . " ' How 1 do not think I anvover-sympa-thetic, or have more than the ordinary amount of curiosity usually attributed to womankind, but all the way home I kept thinking of jack's little sweetheart, "so many miles away," and wished he would tell me something more about her. . It was evening of that 6ame day, I re member, that he came to me in tne par lor, and drawing me into a cuiet corner, said he wanted to ask my advice upon a very important subject. : 'Did I think it would bo portable for him to make up the fir pillow all him lelf? He used to hem the sails of his toy boats when a little shaver, had served a good apprentice -hip in sewing on but tons when a college boy, and thought he could 8tiil manage a needle pretty well , if I wou'.d only have the patience to show him. . j Of course, with a wornjan's inconse- j quence, I immediately offered-' to" do the j whole thing for him. But no ! he thanked ; tne just the same, he.foid, .bur. would I really prefer to do it himself. Now, in spite of myi mature years, I still have stored away ' in my nature a deal of romance, and this fancy of the young man touched a sympathetic chord. Of course it would give an added value to the pro;ty gift if it was ail his own work, and who could tell what psycho logical power, what wonderful "mind cure," might not be effected when the little invalid, pressed to her lips the magic pillow her lover's hands had made? As to the material and-colar, I really wished that-1 knew the young trirl's preferences, and when Jack suggested a j Drain arrav sercre. as "sur to wear well.!' I wondered not a little that a young man with so much delicacy of feeling should, at the same time, .be so intensely practi cal. I had already decided in ray own mind that the pillow should b of some delicate shade of blue pongee, decorated in one corner with Alsacian bows of pale pink satin. However, I yielded the point with as good a grace as I could, mildly suggesting that u border of yak lace of the same color as the serge would; give a pretty finish." "But wouldn't it tear easily?" asked Jack, j "Why, ye3, if ; it were handled roughly," I replied; "but on a pillow like this it would wear for years." "On the whole I think I'd like it bet ter without any such filigree work simples things are always the best," re turned my somewhat discouraged pupil, as for the fifth time he picked out some unruly stiches that I plainly told him would spoil the looks of the whole pil low. Well, in due course of time it was fin ished; that is, the plain serge cover was firmly stitched together, and then how I longed to embroider upon it some lovely bit of sentiment about the murmuring pines and the balmy fir trees! But of course all that was out of the question. Jack had evidently no idea of doing any thing further himself in the way of needle-work, yet was as anxious as ever to have the whole pillow made by bis own hands. Ou the whole he was a very patient and persevering pupil for an active young fellcw so devoted to tennis and baseball, and I often used to wonder what tender, loving thoughts he was working into those great clumsy seams wnen l saw that peculiar jar-on look come into his beautiful brown eyes. There was only one thing that troubled me. In spite of the persistency witb which Jack had worked day after day upon the pillow, and in spite of the nu merous letters that come to him addressed in a delicate feminine hand, I couldn't help noticing, a3 did ail the other board ers in our little hotel, that the young man was paying marked Attentions to a pretty young girl that had lately joined our party. She had fascinated us all, this winsome Muriel Fales, with her sweet face and her charming manners, and I couldn't wonder that Jack had not been able to rosist the spell; but then -did I not know his secret, and were not all my sympathies .with the frail little creature for whom the fir pillow was de signed? 1 Hrycv-' could Vyounsr man ba so fickle? Was theld proverb, "Out of sight, out of mindio prove true again in his case? I confess I was beginning to be much disappointed in Jack. 'Til let you know.H the fir pillow re ally does her any good," he said to me in a light, flippant way:thnt quite vexedi me, as be Dadei us good-by a few days Jater. A telegram had come to him from the distant city, nnd although I knew we should all miss the bright young fellow; I was heartily glad of anything that would take him away from beautiful Muriel Falcs. Not that I had aught against her; on the contrary, I was charmed with her myself, for she was no ; coquette, but a sincere, gentle, noble- hearted young girl. bull, I couldn't help seeing that matters were beginning to take a serious turn with her as well as with Jack, and I thought it was high time that such scandalous proceedings ; should come to an end. , Indeed, I had half a mind, to tell Muriel myself all about that mysterious pillow, only that I j had promised Jack eternal secrecy in re- gard to it. Now, though I am an old maid, and supposed to have all an old j jaiaid's proclivities for meddling with j other people's concerns, it is not often 1 that . I . become - 60 greatly interested in J people that I meet in this random way at j a quiet summer resort. : 1 But Muriel and Jack .and the little consumptive maiden had somehow crept, each one of them, right into my foolish oid nearx,ana 1 ieic strangely responsioie for the future happiness of them all. ! Moreover, MuricTs mother had placed Tier under my charge for the remaind J of the summer we were to talk French to- g ether preparatory to her European trip t the fall and when the frank young gir, knowing my interest in Jack, began to show me the letters that came to her on his return to the city, the burden weighed upon me all the more heavily. Each letter, as I could plainly see, grew moro and more lover-like, till at last Muriel ceaed to show them to me, but would read me short sentences here and there with a charming, blushing hesi tancy that I could not fail to interpret.. One day, however, there came to me, as well as to Muriel, a letter from Jack, and as it will explain to you the whole situa tion, especially the romance of the pil low, far better than my garrulous talk could do, I am going to give it to you in full: "Mr Dear Miss Hardacrje I promised to let voa know if the fir pillow you so kindly helped me to make for my poor An gora pussy really did her any good. Moth er's letters. about her quite worried me whi'i I was with you at the mountains, for she ii of a rare breed, and is a ereat oek with ua rU The doctors told us her sickness was case of confirmed consumption, but . sin? Bleeping on the - fir pillow her cough has grown less f reqrent, and her appotite is de cidedly better., I think sh9 fully appreciates, too, the delicate 'strawberry' fragrance w took that long, pleasant walk around th mountain to serure. If she recovers, as 1 now feel almost sure the will, I hope to hav the pleasure of presenting , her to you thi kind benefactor to whosa inflnito patiencf and forbearance she owes the pretty fir pil low upon which she is soundly sleeping at the present writing. "One wordmore before I close. Congratu late me, dear Miss Hardarre, upon ha vin : won lor my own the dearest, sweatast little woman in all the wide world. Muriel wil tell you all about it. lf Ec statically yours, Jack Tcrxer." 'Harper's Bazar. A Naval Hero. One of the "Ward-Room Table" sto ries, told by a naval officer in the New York Tribune, is as follows: 'Wheu the rebel, prestan, became ugly at Colon (Aepinwall) last year and seized the steamship Colon, Captain Kane, then of the Gal ua, sent Lieutenant Judd ashore to demand an explanation. Prestan promptly f eized Judd, the . American Consul Wright, and M. Connor, the local agent of the Pacific Mail Steamship Com pany, and placed them in the 'calaboose.' Then he. sent word to Captain Kane that at the first Gun the Galena fired or the first marine or sailor she landed, he would execute the prisoners They were kept in the 'calaboose' all night, expecting to be shot next morning. In the morning, Prestan came to them and told Judd that if he wou'.d aign ah agreement in&t the arms on board the colon wouia ce de livered up ho would let them all go. "Judd did so and Prestan released his prisoners. Judd returned on board the Galena ar.d told what he had done. But meantime Captain Kane had driven thy Dagos o.'I th9 Colon and towed htr out into the stream. Whn Captain vane learned what Judd had done he said the arras should not Redelivered to Piestane. Now Judd had purchased his life by signing the agreement that they would be, so he immediately returned ashore and told Prestan that he could not keep his compact. "Prestan promptly put him in the 'cal aboose' again, and the next morning took him out to Monkey 'Hill .to be shot. Be fore .Tudd's grave was dug, howerer, Colonel Uiloa came dashing up with the Government troops, and in the fight Judd esraped and went onboard the Ga len a. ' It was then that Captain Kane landed his men, and Judd went with them, ea ger for revenge. That day the horrible massacre and the burning of Colon took place, and all day Judd fought bravely. Rut for two nights and tbreo das his mind had been under the most terrible strain and his reason gave, way. ' ' ; "He is now, as you all know, a hopeless maniac, but I think his voluntarily put ting himself in the power of Prestan, when he fo.ind he could not keep the promise to him by which he had pur chased his life, is one of the most chival ric things of the century. When he went back ho went to almost certain death, and he kaew it, but he web calmly and de liberately rather than break his word. How how many people who read of j the burning of Colon knew this sto-y of : .'uaar queer Way or Getting an Appetite A recent issue of the Kingston (N. Y. Frcemwi snys: This morning a dyspep tic-looking inanl entered a blacksinitl shop in Roud jut. He waited until th blacksmith put a hotrshoc to the foot o. a hois'! that wai being shod, when hi bent down and drew in with his'nostril; several daughts of smoke that arose fron the burning hoof. After the man lef the shop, a reporter of the Freemai asked the blacksmith if the man wb had just taken Lis departure was crazy "Oh, r.o." responded the-blacksmith "he is only working up an appetite Strange ns it may appear to you, yet th fact is true, tbat-the inhalation into th lungs of smoke from a horse's hoof v.hen it is being shod, is the best appe tlr'er in the world. That man you sav here w ill now go borae and eat a goo s jusre meal. H jame into the shoj without an appetite, nnd went away hun gry. 1 nave on an aveiugc uc jwusu a day, who visit my shop for an appe tizer. Cne dsy not long ago iney ai . eatbered about at one time. It was ; funny si;ht to see them all bending ove j IO gt 1 uvf" ; i hoof and draw in good hearty 'snifters. If I could bottle the appetuer and get. patent right on it, I could make a min of money in a Fhort time. How does i e 'ect my appetite? Go ask my wife, am she will tell you that I cat more thai r.ny man she ever saw. On extra bus; day?, wV.n I cannot go home to dinner she 8cis it to me by two children Each one brings a well-filled pail. It i a rare occurence when a blacksmith wh shoes horses gets rich from the revenu he derives from his trade. It is almos mnnotiMp fnr h:m to do it. The anpe j tizer that is constantly arising to hi ro3trils makes him ravenously hungrj and the bulk of his earnings goes to sat isfy a craving appetite." v A Cordial Invitation. Head of tho house (to young man at front door) ",Hayen't I told you, sir. never to yall hero agaim? ! Young, man "Yes, sir; but I haven't ..lUri n con ii:i t ijirn. this time. 1 have a two-months gas hill to collect. Head of the house h in a milder toaej-r "L see. i You will please call Life. . again.' SELECT SIFTINGS. A perfectly petrified rosebud has beea found at Valley Head, Ala. The face of the Bartholdi statue is mod eied after the artist's mother, who still lives in Alsatia. The case has been reported of a goldeD plover which alighted on a vessel in the Pacific after a pauseless flight from land of at least 1,300 to 1,500 miles. The first person upsn whom the title of doctor in medicine was ever conferred was William Gordenia. The college at Asti gave the degree in the year 1329. The highest gratification which an em inent Roman could furnish to the popu lace was ia some bloody or dissolute show The stoic3 spoke of ftho gladia torial games with contemxftor reproval, but their censure never reached the masses.' The materials employed by the Phoeni cian, architects seem generally to have been the cedars of Lebanon and the vari ous metals of transmarine commerce; It is on tiiis account mat tne preserved monuments are so few, and their remains so bare of carved decorations. Lieutenant Greely believes in the theory that there is an open sea, some fifteen hundred mile3in diameter, roundabout the pole, that never freezes, the conjec ture being that the pole itself is the cen tre of an ice-capped land, covered wita ice from one thousand to four thousand feet thick. On May 4, 1776, the Legislature of Rhode Island passed an act releasing the inhabitants of that colony from. allegiance to Great Britain. It was carried in the Upper House by unanimous vote, and in the House of Deputies with only six dis senting voices out of sixty. The act was tantamount to a declaration of indepen dence, and the establishment of a self constituted republic. The famous Dick Turpin, the high wayman, once resided at 31 Broadway, Westminster, London; that is a well-authenticated fact. In pulling the house 'down recently, it was discovered that there was a broad space between the room walls and the main walls, fiomtop to bottom, as well as other artful de vices, no doubt arranged to enable the wily and historical Dick to dodge the police, or as they were called in his day. the "runners." Measurements have shown the thick ness of the human hair to vary from the two hu jdred and fiftieth to the six hun dredth. part, of an inch. The silk worm's thread 1 one five-thousandth of an inch thick, anl the spider's web only on thirty-thousandth. Blonde hair is' the finest and red the coarseit. Taking foui heads of hair of equal weight, a patient German physiologist found the red one to contain 90,000 hairs; the black, 103, 000; the brown, 100, 000, and the blonde, 140,000. Clay That Cures Rheumatism. A wonderful electric pit' recently dis covered three miles from Sharon, Ga., is effecting hundreds of cures from rheu matism. A far.ner named Ilillman was prospecting for gold. In a little bend of Harden's creek, where the bunk lises abruptly, Mr. Hillman observ. d some strange discolorations of the soil. He began digging, and finally desisted when he could discover no metall c deposit. A negro who was aiding Hillman had long been aiicted with rheumatism. He no ticed thtit whenever he handled the oozy clay in the pit that the muscles pf his hands relaxed, permitting him to use themwUh all natural ease. When Hill-' man abandoned the pit, disappointed in h's search for gold, This employe left it surprised at his freedom from the rheu- matism of years. The story soon spread, and people be gan making Sunday visits to the strange spot. Rheumatics resorted thereto, and began to confirm the experience of Ilill man's servant. Mr. J. P: -Moore, a well-to-do farmer, who had been unable to use his hands, after burying them twice in the soft mud of the pit found them fully restored to usefulness. A well known white lady from Warren county, who was badly drawn up, visited the pit, and walked away declaring herself cured. Charles Cal away (colored), who for ten years walked on crutches, after one visit to the spot left his crutches be hind him and walked home. 'The most wonderful cure related is that ot a colored house servant of Gen-, eral Heard. This woman was a perfect wreck from rheumatism. A year ago she went to bed; and since has had to be waited upon like a child. When the vir tues of the pit were first moot'.d her friends conclude 1 to try it. The woman was carried on her bed to the spot, where she was rubbed over with the mud twice. The result was that the wot. an took ,up her bed and walked home. The spot is in a dense thicket, ren dered almost impenetrable by laurel growth. Hundreds of people are respit ing thither, as a matter of curiosity. The water-flows In sufficiently to keep the clay in a waxy condition. By ap plying this clay to the parts aBicted it wields 6ome kind of influence which af fords relief. Ths only theory advanced is that the mud must be charged with clectricitv sufficient to effect the curei mentioned. Neic Tri Fun. glides For American Bojs. The trades in our country of late years h.TA heen almost monopolized by fore ignefi. The American boy, however when he does take a trade, goes stra-ght tnn of the ladder. It seems as if our boys would rather be foarth rate ! lawyers, or physicians, than earn their ; living by working with their hands. Only the other day I read in a New ork j newspaper 01 a young wwjci - tant city, whom I knew some yean ago when I resided in that section of the country, who literally starved to death. He made scarcely any money, was too proud to tell of his want and lived as long as he could on crackers and water and was found one day, in hu office, dead from the lack of nourishment. He should tered the legal professiou, for he had no ability in that direction. ; As a farmer or mechanic, ho might have j lived a long, useful and successful Hie. i No boy, of course, should enter abrade j nu ho feels himself fitted for it ; but on 5 the other hand, he should not, it seemo to me, let the false pride against manual , ik -ort.ih now nfeYailsto such a wide ; extent in our country, prevent him from better work witn nis ban in his inmost thoughts he knows che can do with his head. Nicholas, St. HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. Breakfast Food. J Over and over again have I advocate j the use of oatmeal in these columns. Pot' j breakfast or supper, whnt a stay and sup port to life is good porridge! Not over - long oouea, nowever; and maao 01 a medium oatmeal, aud eaten with butter or milk, or both. - . Oat cakes again not the horrid Imi tation they sell at' the con feet ioners'r but wholesome, home griddle-bskcd cakes, with nothing in them but oatmeal and salt and a pinch of carbonato of soda, " are excellent. - As to flour bread fam, of course, a firm believer in the whole meal bread, in which there is more nutriment and les binding qualities. Bread should never be eaten new. ' It should be day old at least. Even toast ought tobe madejrom stale bread. Toast should Ve thin and aliovtcd to "oL if for hrcakfast. But toast for tea maybr. ami Is better, thick. Here is my receipt . .Cut the slice from a loaf tifrTM.Wh, a stront' sharp knife, let the slfces be due inch thick or more. Toast them slowly, then butter abundantlv. pricking the surface with the knife's point that t the butter may run well in. Crush the cdges oi the toast with the back of tho knife, sprinkle a little salt over the surface, and eat while hot. . - . ' But independent of oatmcil and flour, there are many valuable farinaceous foods which are, unhappily for r ur population, made to take a back seat in the scale of diet. Lentils, peas, beans and maize are among the number. ; If those rwho suffer from dyspepsia could only be got firmly to believo 'that frequent charigo of diet is most essential to well-being, and believing this, wcro to give these farlnV a fair trial j thou sands among them i would be restored to health, and De -ysjjeptics no longer. There was a' pamphlet written some years ago, called 'Cfne 'Hundred. Way to Cook Fggs." -1 havV no idea what thee hundred ways were, no ever a tenth of them, but as eK are so very nutritious and cisily digested, 'dyspep tics would do well, to learn -some of thrt many methods of 'rendering them pa'a. table. G"tW '' Mfjon.' ... : Vf eTul Hints'- ' . Glass, vessels nnd other utensils may b t v purified and cleaned by ringing thein out with powdered cha eoal. , niaps should be washed iu.cokl water, which gives it a brighter lnd clearer look then when cleansed wkh warm water. To keep insets out of bird cages, ti up a little sulphur in a big nnd suspend it in the cage. Hcri ants will never bo i -found in closet or drawer if a smull bag of sulphur b; kept tlierc. ; Small umbrellas are effective for hades on lamps and gas -hand -licrs. '1 hosoof Jap.-nese pajjer site covered with orange, pink or crimson loses made oiu 01 tissue paper, and are fastened :is a shield atone side of the elobe. A larsr b nv of ribbon of the same color fattens the. handle. Cleansing silver is r.ot nn ensy task.' The use of kerosene will greatly facilitate the operation. Wet a flannel cloth in tho Oil, dip-ioLdry whiting, and thoroughly rub the plate I or silver ware; throw it into a dish of scalding soapsuds, wipo hrithfi soft flannel, and polish with -a cnamojs sKin. . , After a stove has been ilnckeued, it can be kept looking very well for a long time by rubbing it with paper every morning. Rubbing with paper is-n much nicer way of keeping the outside' -of. a teakettle, coffce-iof, and tea-pot bright and clean than the old way of washing . them with suds. Rubbing.' with paper is also the best way of polishing knives, tinware and spoons; they shine like new silver. For polishing mirrors, win;low3, lamp-chimneys, etc., paper is better than a dry cloth. For removing spots of grease -from boards, take equal parts of fuller's earth and pearlash, a quarter, of a pound of each, and boil in-a quart of soft water; and while hot lay it on the greased parts, allowing it to remain on them for ten or twelve hours; after which it may be scoured off with sand and water. A floor much spotted with grease should be com pletely washed over with this mixture the day before it is scoured. Fuller's earth and ox-gall boiled .together form a very powerful cleansing mixture for floors or carpets. Stains of ink are re moved by strong vinegar, or salts, of lemon will remove , thorn. Emotions of Very Small Children. That children have fceling3 will, of course, not be gainsaid, says; a lady in Babyland, but to what extent the little ones suffer when punishment is inflicted upon them or some one dear ' to them I am inclined to think very few under- . stand. A case in point occurred in my own household. My little daughter, ago seven years, had been troubled with a fester upon her finer, which was very ;painful In its necessary dressing and at tention. Her little brother of three and a half years has always shown grent sym pathy for her; he would entreat rae not to hurt Lulu. This was all considered as nothing more than childish sympathy, as after each occurrence he would re sume his play; but it would appear that I unwittingly taxed his feelings past en durance. At the last dressing of the finger he begged me, as usual, not to hurt Lulu, standing, by the basin in which I was washing the hand, when suddenly ho fell fainting to the floor. and it was two or three minutes before he could be revived. In future, he will. hf taken' out of the room whenever I again am called upon to pla . the nurse; but think how mucn ne mun have suffered. I am convinced that it was mental anguish that caused him to faint, for both previous to and after tho faint be played arOund the room with tho other children, and .while bo had been suffering with a slight cold, he . was in no other way unwell; e have never had to call the doctor to him since, his birth, neither has he heen similarly affected before. , The COO glaciers in Alaska are nearl all larger than those of Switzerland, an, all of which if combined would not equal those of Glacier Bay, wnicn arc uuij among 600. An Indiana man wont to a cemetery o ' urpose to spit on a certain '-grave and orag about it. The law couldn't touch him, but -'he was he'd against a fenc. while forty -two persons passed by and pu in ms iace at ciyserauf. 0 S G c S 0 V 0; o 1
The Anson Times (Wadesboro, N.C.)
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Dec. 16, 1886, edition 1
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