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HAYDN'S UNHAPPY WIFE. The Composer Married Her Merely to Oblige Her Father. Haydn married not the girl he was Sn love with, but her sister. "Haydn, you should take my oldest daughter," said Father Keller, the barber, and as Keller had done a good deal for Haydn J the composer felt that he must sacri fice his v affection on the altar of duty and oblige the old man. At the time of the marriage, in 17G0, Haydn was twenty-nine, while his Anna Maria was thirty-two. There does not appear to have been much love on either side to start with, but Haydn declared that he had really begun to "like" his wife and would have come to entertain a stronger feeling for her if she had be haved in a reasonable way. Unfortu nately Anna Maria had neither rhyme nor reason in her composition. The entertaining Marville says that the ma jority of ladies married to men of genius are so vain of the abilities of their husbands that are frequent ly insufferable. But Frau Haydn was not a lady of that kind. The world had emphatically proclaimed her hus band a genius, but to Maria it was qnite immaterial whether he were a cobbler or an artist. Nay, she even committed the Incredible crime of using the composer's manuscript scores for curling paper, as underlays for pastry and similar things! She was gay enough with it all too. i When Haydn went from home, she would send him the most cheerful lit tle notes. "Should you die today or to morrow," ran one of these missives, 4 the re is not enough money left in the house to bury you." At another time when Haydn was in London he received a letter in which -Maria wrote that she had just seen a neat little house which she liked very much and that he might do himself the pleasure to send her 3/000 gulden with which to buy it so as to have in future a "widow's home." Pleasant reading this for the genial composer! In the first case he wrote without a trace of anger: "Should this be so take my manu scripts to the music publisher. I guar antee you that they will be worth money enough to defray my funeral expenses." In the matter of the "wid ow's home" he thought it would be best to arrange things himself. Ulti mately he bought the house, and in spite of Maria's frequent suggestions of his coining dissolution he lived in' it for nine years after she had been dead. Frau Haydn saw out her seventy years, but some time before that fhe pair had agreed to live apart as the best way of ending a union which had proved utterly unbearable to the com poser. The Penalty of Curiosity. Among the packets received at the Birmingham (England) postofSce one day was one containing a pair of hand cuffs, which were being sent from Der by to a manufacturer in Birmingham tp be f j&tted with ~* fng the transit, so that the handcuffs were exposed to view. They were an object of juriosity to the clerks, and presently one of the young men jocu larly clasped one of the cuffs around his left wrist. It was then that he dis covered that there was no key to un fasten it. The handcuff was on his wrist "to stay." The young man went to the police station, and an officer found a key that he thought would fit, but in turning it round he broke it off in the cuff. Now, the broken key would have to be drilled out or the handcuff filed through before the clerk could get it off. The day was Sunday, and all the shops, including the manufacturer's place, were closed.. The clerk returned to the postoffice and explained his plight to the superintendent. This 'offi cial ordered him to take the first train for Derby the next morning, explain the whole circumstance to the owner of the handcuffs, apologize to him and then return to Birmingham and go to the manufacturer's and have the hand cuff filed off. A Holiday With- Joy. "Life isn't so full o' trouble but that we kin sometimes steal away an' spend a holiday with Joy," said the old phi losopher. "But the minute Joy shakes hands with us we go to celebratin', an' the next thing we know the town mar shal runs us in fer gittin' too happy on tirxe highway, an' we git $lO or thirty days more'n we bargained fer! I once knowed a ole brother who wuz one o' the best fellers in the country when he wuz in low grounds, but h'ist him to the hilltop an' he thought that the sun wuz a silver mine an' he owned it, an' the moon wuz a thirty dollar gold piece, an' the stars wuz small change an' all made fer him! Satan hisse'f would 'a' been flyin' roun' in glory to this day but fer the fact that he couldn't stand to be prosperous. Still, it's a good idee to risk a day with Joy whenever possi ble. Even ef we git into more trouble by it our consolation will be that we had a high ole time gittin' thar! Hu man natur' continues to be the most curious contraption on the top side o' the yearth!"—Atlanta Constitution. Making It Useful. The many blunders in statuary in scriptions recall a story, of one which a worthy citizen of Glasgow was ready to perpetrate upon the city's statue to Nelson. Nothing florid was wanted, but something the merit of which should consist in its brevity and sincerity. '•Glasgow to Nelson V* was the ad vice given by a distinguished visitor when appealed to by the local fathers. "Aye, a very guld suggestion," said en* of the councilors. "And, as the toon o' Nelson's" close at hand, micht we no' juist say, Glasgow to Nelson, sax miles,' that so it micht serve for a jaenument and mUgfiose too?" Du n „ * .. I*-- ir ffT 1 ifFiWlTTiTWHilllWriiflTWlliTfr' MEDICAL FALLACIES. Some Fanciful Notions About Boils and Fevers. "The fanciful notion that a breaking out of boils, pimples or other erup tions rids the system of poison is firm ly rooted in the minds of ninety-nine of every hundred persons," said a phy sician the other day. "When any one kas a large boil or carbuncle his friends tell him it is good for him be cause 'it lets out all the bad blood.' There is as little reason in this as Shere is in the remarks attributed to a tenement house mother to her instruct »r In the hygiene of children. 'Miss Brown,' she said, well, seein' that I've buried ten, I don't see as no one has any call to tell me how to rare up ba bies. 'speshly some one as never rared up any of her own.' "As a matter of fact, boils, carbun cles and similar eruptions are collec tions of germs and pus and not blood diseases, whose origin is Usually at the location found. A sweat gland be comes clogged with germs and dirt, a hair turns in with its numerous bacte ria, or, as is the case of the so called 'bone felon,' the germs are scratched in with the point of a file or by chip ping the matrix of the finger nail. Wherever there are swelling, redness, heat and pus you may be sure there germs will be found. "Boils do not mean impoverished blood and are not a blood disease, al though popular opinion, fostered by 6ome medical men, would so indicate. Infections on the skin such as those mentioned, eczema, the itch, barbers' infection, ringworm and many others have absolutely no connection with the blood or internal conditions. They are skin infections, pure and simple, and as a rule do not influence one's general health favorably or otherwise. Here once more the popular supposition of 'better out than in' is Illogical and un supported by the facts. "Mothers who give children with measles and other eruptive diseases home remedies to 'bring out the rash' do harm in many unseen ways. The worst and most fatal cases of measles, scarlatina and smallpox are those with the dark red eruptions—the well named 'black' measles, scarlatina and small pox. "There are very few today who still cling to the old method of withholding water from the burning, dry, parched lips of the fever stricken. Yet who of us still living fails to recall the tor tures inflicted upon the thirsty suffer er with pneumonia, typhoid or other burning malady? "It has been finally demonstrated as a perpetual truth that water internally and externally is the best antipyretic known. Cold water administered in ternally in unlimited amounts is the ideal fever reducing agent. It is harm less, desired by the sufferer, reduces the temperature, dilutes the toxins, re places (the destroyed fluids and washes K . „.3——wcvuxiiUlaccU waste products. The antipyretic drugs, however, are all depressant to the heart, destructive to the blood cells and injurious to the other organs."— Baltimore Sun. England's First Bank Note Forger. Whether the trick of forging notes was indulged in within the limits of China, Venice, Spain and other coun tries where banks first had their exist ence history does not record. But the man who first forged a note of the Bank of England was thereby, to quote a phrase too often misapplied, "damn ed to everlasting fame." It was in 1758, sixty-four years after the Bank of England was founded, that Richard William Yaugh, a linen draper, of Staf ford was most unhappily led by min gled vanity and affection into this crime. He was then passionately in love with a young lady of his city, who, however, would not listen to his pleadings because, as she frankly told him, his worldly wealth fell short of her desires. He, therefore, forged a number of bank notes, which he show ed to her to prove that he was very much richer than she had supposed. Had he not allowed the avaricious young lady to handle the notes all might have been well, but she ab stracted one of them and passed it, with speedy calamitous results. Vaugh was arrested, his plea of his lack of dishonest intent in making the notes was not allowed, and he was con demned to death and hanged. Pleasant For James. When Mr. Ransom won his bride, he felt properly humble at securing such a prize, and in the after years Mrs. Ransom never allowed him to lapse into forgetfulness of her condescension. "You really cared for me, I'm sure," said Mr. Ransom. "That is a great comfort—to think I didn't urge you against your wishes." "James," said Mrs. Ransom, in a tone suited to her imposing and somewhat massive appearance, "how could you ever doubt my affection? Have I not told you that I had proposals from men who were brilliant, handsome and tal ented and passing them all by, James, I chose you!"— Youth's Companion. •» iv Seesaw and Sawsee. Weary Walker told this, to Bathless Broderick, whom he met on top of a haystack: "Say, a lady says ter me: 'Go inter de back yard an' yer will see a wood pile. Saw a couple uv cords an' den come an' git yer breakfast' After awhile I comes up to de house an' asts fer me breakfast, an' she says, 'Did yer see de wood? An' I says. 'Yes.' An' she says, 'Did yer saw de wood?* An' I says, 'Yes.' An' she says, 'I didn't see yer saw it' An' I says, 'Well, yer saw me see it, didn't yerT An* she says, Tes.' 'Well,' I says, 'if you'd 'a" seed wot I sawed you'd 'a* knowed.*"—Lon- * !• rbt- lock iunt Record, Thursday, April 2, 1908 A Story of Henry Clay. The following anecdote of Henry Clay was told by one of his personal friends: While making the journey to Wash ington on the National road, just after his nomination as candidate for presidency, he was traveling one stormy night, wrapped up in a huge cloak, on back seat of the stage coach when two passengers entered. They were Kentuckians, like himself. He fell asleep and when he awoke found them discussing his chances In the coming campaign. "What did Harry Clay go into poli tics for?" said one. "He had a good bit of land; he had a keen eye for stock. If he had stuck to stock raising he'd have been worth his fifty thou sand. But now he doesn't own a dol lar." "And," the great Kentuckian used to add, "the worst of it was, every word of it was true!" It was characteristic of the man that at the next stopping place he hurried away and took another coach lest his critics should recognize him and be mortified at their unintentional rude ness. Impertinent Lady Holland. In "A Family Chronicle," a book of gossip, is a story about the fearful and wonderful Lady Holland which id comparatively unhackneyed. * — She was at Lord Radnor's, and they could not get rid of her. Lord Radnor thought of unroofing the house, but tried first what prayers of a Sunday evening would do. She was highly pleased (very gracious, Lady Morley said, because she knpw they longed to get rid of her) and said she would go down .for prayers. Whether was ill I do not know, but it seemlf she had to be carried downstairs and wrapped herself up in cloaks, etc. In the midst she called out for more cloaks, which were brought her. When she Went up to the dm wing room she said to Lord Radnor (he hay ing finished with the Lord's Prayer): "1 liked that very much, that last prayer you read. I approve of it. It is a very nice one. Pray, whose is it?" Did any one every hoar such a thing? I cannot imagine why people should bear her impertinence. Eight Points of the Law. A correspondent signing himself "So and-so" overheard some men—"evi dently lawyers," he says—talking ovei a case recently when some such ex pression as this reached his ears; "Well, ho couidn't help winning. He had the eight points of the law in his favor.*' Ever since he heard this "So-and-so' - has been wondering what were the eight points referred to, and he asks me if I can enlighten him on the sub ject. The/eight points of the law, "So-and so," are these: First, a good caused second, a good purse; third, IxJLmk Utatm four^vgOoa {fTi* dence; fifth, able counsel; sixth, an up right judge; seventh, an intelligent jury; eighth, good luck. It is well understood in forensic cir cles that if you have all these in your favor you stand a sporting chance of winning your case. But, on the other hand, of course you may lose.—London Standard. Bonaparte as a Deadhead. Frederic Febvre publishes in the Paris Gaulois an interesting docu ment preserved in the archives of the Theatre Francais. It runs as follows: "Pass the citizen Bonaparte to this evening's performance of 'Manilus.'— Talma." This shows, of course, that the Em peror Napoleon when he was only a lieutenant of artillery was very glad of "orders" for the theater. M. Febvre ■ adds a story which he heard from Tal ma's son to the effect that the future ruler of France used to lie in wait for the tragedian in the galleries of the Palais Royal and that the tragedian used often to whisper to his compan ion: "The other way, if you don't mind. I see Bonaparte coining, and j I'm afraid he'll ask me for seats." Evidence Against Him. "I am proud to say," said the man with the loud voice, "that I have never made a serious mistake in my life." "But you are mistaken," said the mild mannered man with the scholarly stoop. "You have made one very seri ous mistake." "I'd like to know where you get your authority for saying so." "Your declaration is evidence that you have never tried to see yourself as others see you."—Exchange. The Marvelous Resistance of Water. If it were possible to impart to a sheet of water an inch in thickness sufficient velocity, the most powerful bomb shells would be immediately stopped in thsir flight when they came into contact with it. It would offer the same resistance as the steel armor of the most modern battleship.—Strand Magazine. At the Waist Why He Was Anxious. Buloz, the editor of the Revue des Deux Mondes, once had at his country house in Savoy a numerous companj of literary people, one of whom was Victor Cherbuliez. Cherbuliez contrib uted regularly every other year a nove. to the columns of the Revue, and a story of his was at that time running in the periodical. The guests had beer out for a walk and had amused them selves with gathering mushrooms, which were cooked for dinner. As the company were sitting down, it occur red to one of the party that undoubt edly some of the people who had tak en part in gathering the mushrooms knew nothing about them and that there might be poisonous fungi in the collection. This reflection so affected the com pany that all the people present, with the exception of Cherbuliez, declined to partake of the dish. He alone at tacked it with gusto. Thereupon Buloz showed sudden and intense alarm. "Cherbuliez! Cherbuliez! What are you about?" he exclaimed. "Remem ber that you haven't finished your story in the Revue!" w Greatly to his relief, the mushrooms turned out to be innocuous, and the Btory was finished. It Was a New "Team" to Him. " Heinrich Conried told the following story once when chatting of his ex perience as an operatic direct: ol "* "It happened in Chicago," said he. "1 went there to superintend our first sea son in Chicago.- I got there early in the afternoon. As I was registering at the Auditorium a young, a very young, newspaper t man came up and talked to me. lie begged for an inter "view. I told him I had arranged to see the press at 5. That did not satisfy him. He was on an afternoon paper. It wJuld be a feather In his cap If he could scoop the town. 'Very well/ said I to him. 'I shall give you an in terview, but it will have to be while 1 am taking my bath.' He seemed an Intelligent and earnest young man. and I was willing to do that much for him. "I turned on the water and divested myself of my coat, and the interview proceded. " 'What do you open with?' said he. " 4 I open with "Tristan und Isolde," I answered. "'Have they ever been here before?' he queried." Iron Eaters. "The first time I ever swallowed a tack." said a carpet layer, "I jumped to my feet and tremulously asked the way to the hospital. " nvhat's the matter?' my mate, an old hand, asked. " 'l've swallowed a tack,' said I. 'Good gracious, what will become of me ?' L "The old hand sat back on the car pot he was laying and laughed. ■AiltWlig J-litis.- PS>v "ilrn? a tack. Every professional carpet layer swallows half a dozen or so daily. It's a thing that causes no inconvenience. If it did. I'd know it. I bet I've swallowed a hundredweight of tacks in my life.' "And I'm sure," the carpet layer con cluded, "my mate was telling the truth, for since then I've swallowed half a hundredweight myself." He gulped. "Hang it." he said; "there goes one now!"— New York Press. Aroused His Wrath. ''Were you ever done in oil?" ven tured the wandering portrait painter. The old farmer almost leaped out of his boots. "Was I ever done in oil?" he roared. "Well, I should say so! A long legged, fox eared individual that looked some thing like you came past here last week and sold me a bottle of what was supposed to be genuine olive oil to eat on lettuce. When I poured jt on the lettuce it turned out to be sewing ma chine oil, and, by heck, if I thought that you"— But the wandering artist was gone gone in a cloud of dust. Chicago News. Haiti's Legion of Honor. It is not generally known that the famous order of the Legion of Honor was adopted at Haiti in 1549. When Soulouque became emperor under the name of Faustin L. he instituted an order in imitation of that which had been established by Napoleon in 1802. Statues, ribbons and insignia were pre cisely identical, and since the sover eign of Haiti distributed his honors to all and sundry with lavish hand the French government was considerably embarrassed. The death of Soulouque ended the difficulty.—Paris Gaulois. A bis cut or a little cut, smail scratches or bruises or big ones are healed quickly by DeWitt's Carbolized Witch Hazel Salve. It is especially good for piles. Get DeWitt's. Sold by May & Gorham. Pains at the waist, back, front, or side, are nearly sure proof of female trouble. 11 Some other signs are headache, pressing down pains, irregular functions, restless ness, cold limbs, nervousness, etc. These pains may be allayed, the system braced and the womanly functions regulated by the use of Wine of Cardui Mrs." Annie Hamilton, of Stetsonville, Wis., writes: • "Cardui saved met from the grave after three (3) doctors had Med to help me. It Is a good medldne and I recommend it to all suffering women." For sale at all druggists, in bottles. WRITE US A LETTER srtj ssl ni%llfcl " t* Udlcs AJviwry ThnChnnortcn Q.. Chattwwgi. Taan. J47 DeWitt's Little Early Risers, thn famous little pills. Sold by A3 ay & viorham. GOT HIS MONEY. The New Depositor Made Quick Work With His Check Book. During a financial stringency a Swedish farmer in one of the middle west states had sold some hogs on the local market and upon receiving his check in payment immediately went to the • local bank to realize on his sale. Upon presentment of the check the banker said to him, "Do you wish the money on this check?" "Veil, I tank I yust so veil take him," was the quick reply. "You really want the money?" "Yah; I tank I take the.mon-e." "But do you really need the money?" asked the banker. "Veil, no; I don't exactly need him, but I tank I take the mon-e." "Well," said the banker, "if you real ly want the money of course I will give It to you, but I thought If you did not need it perhaps you might open an account and deposit the money and then check against it as you needed it" "Den ven I send my shecks here you vill refuse to pay dem." "Oh, no, we won't. If you open the account, we will pay your checks whenever they come in." This seemed assuring to the Swede, and he said. "Veil, if you pays my Shecks, den I open de account." And the account was opened and passbook and check book handed to the new cus tomer. Half an hour later a close friend of the new depositor appeared at the cashier's window and presented a check signed by his friendiMlthe full amount of the deposit, wlHb was promptly paid by the banker without comment. In about an hour the Swede appear ed and, walking up to the cashier's window, handed the banker his check book minus only one check, with the remark, "Veil, I don't tank I needs him any more."—Youth's Companion. AN ISLAND IN THE AIR. One of the Wonders of Prehistoric Pueblo Architecture. Three miles south of the Mesa En cantada, in Mexico, is a splendid speci men of fantastic erosion—an "island" in the air, a rock with overhanging sides nearly 400 feet high, seventy acres In area on the fairly level top, indented with countless great bays, notched with dizzy chasms. The great er part of tho island overhangs the sea like a huge mushroom, and on the top stands a town which for artistic charm, ethnological interest and romantic his tory has no peer. This little town of Ancoma is one of the most perfect types of the prehis - CLrcrvr If to— • zmsxrC fcr£ -titrj houses remain of the type invented when every house must be a fort. One climbed a ladder to his first roof and pulled up the ladder at night, living on the second and third floors and using the ground floor as a cellar. Against enemies armed only with bows and arrows this was a fair defense. Comfort had to be sacrificed to safety. Nothing except the eagle sought such inaccessible eyries as these victims of their own civilization. Because they were farmers instead of freebooters, because they had homes instead of being vagrants, they were easy to find, and they were the prey of a hr.udred nomad tribes. With incon ceivable labor this island town in the air was built and fortified. It was reached only by a mere trail of toe holes up the stem of the "mushroom." The age of the island is not known, except that it was already old in 1540, when the first explorer visited it and wrote an account of its wonders. No Need of Them Some Day. At a monthly examination a boy of fourteen failed to spell 15 per cent of his words correctly. The tutor told him this was surprising and must not happen again. The boy replied that he thought he had done pretty well on the whole. "You must study those words over and over again." replied the tutor. "This must not occur at any future time. Study them so that you can re member them forever." The boy stood still in silent contem plation for a few moments and then remarked: "I was just thinking that I wouldn't live that lone.''—Harper's Weekly. To have perfect health we must have perfect digestion, and it is very im portant not to permit of any delay the moment the stomach feels out of order. Take something at once that you know will promptly unfailingly assist diges tion. There is nothing better than K/>dol for dyspepsia, indigestion, sour stomach, belching of gas and m rvous headache. Koriol is a natural diges tant, and will digest what you eat. Sold by May & Gorham. Suffering and Dollars Saved. E. S. Loper, of Marilla. N. Y., says: "I am a carpenter and have had many severe cuts healed by Bucklen's Arnica Salve. It has saved me suffering ard dollars. It is by far the best healing salve I have ever found." Heals bums, sores, ulcers, fever sores, eczema anc piles.2sc at Griffin's drug store. To The Voters of Nash County. I hereby announce myself a candidate for the office of Register of Deeds oi Nash county subject to the result oi the Democratic Primaries.. Zeb V. Jenkins, Candidate .for Register of Deeds. Subject to the action of the Demo cratic primaries, I hereby announce myself a candidate for the office ol Register of Deeds of Nash county. Samuel V. Pitts. Candidate For Treasurer. I hereby announce to the voters o: Nash county that I am a candidate fo: the office of Treasurer of Nash tounty -übject to the action of the Democrats yrimaries. Very Respectfully, Samuel S. Gay Notice of Administratrix. Having qualified before the Clerk o Superior Court of Nash county a dministratrix of the estate of R. S lerring, deceased, late of said County his is to notify all persons holdinj .'.laims against said estate to presen -ame to me duly verified on or befon March 9th 1909,0r this notice will b pleaded in bar of their recovery, a>nda! persons indebted to said estate wil >lease make immediate payment to me This March 9th, 1908. Mrs. Ellen Herring, Administratrix of R. S. Herring, Deed C. T. Atty. Notice. Having qualified before the Clerk o the Superior Court of Nash County a executor of Mrs. Lizzina Bulluek, d ceased, late of said county, this is t( notify all persons having claims agains said estate to present the same dul] verified to me or my attorney on o before Feb. 22, 1909 as this notice wil be plead in bar of their recover} , am all persons indebted to said estate wil make immediate payment to me. Thi: Feb. 22, 1908. Dr. J. B. Bulluek, Exeeutpr IJssinia Bulluek 'l*. T. rhorne, Atty. 400 Bushels of King's Improved Cotton Seed For Sale §®e Bushel Apply to W. E. FENNER Rocky Mount, IV. C. 0 University. We have a faculty of Specialists, representing some of the highest col leges of the nation, We teach exclusively by mail and can educate you at home. Write for free catalogue. Address Julian R. Pennington, Pres. Wilson, N. C.
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