The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-08-18

us if favorable opportunity should pres
ent and we should be caught undefended
or unprepared for war;
] HE WAS A YANCEY MAN.
..On Horseback" little book of South
ern travel. by the late Charles Dudiey
Warner, describes the loss of a purse
containing money and also something
more valuable than money.
i IT was discovered that a man named
! David Thomas had ridden that morning
/ toward Bakersville, Mitchell county,
| North Carolina, where the travellers re-
| turned to search for their missing prop
erty If he had found the money they
| would see it again, for he was an honeSt
| man. At the little hotel they met him.
~ discovered" said the owner OF the
money, that l lost my purse just after
meeting you"
"What sort of a pocketbook was it,
| asked Mr.. Thomas.
/ He had taken up his position on the
sidewalk. conscious of the dignity o. the
occasion.
ut was of crocodile skin. or an imita-
| ton, and about so large
"What was in it,"
'sVarious things. Some specimens OF
mica, some bank checks, some money"
/ Anything else?"
eyes, photograph. Oh, and some
/ thing l presume is not in another pocket
book in North Carolina. In an envelope
a lock of George Washington hair
Here there was a sensation mingled
with incredulity.
| "How much money was in II?
| '"That l can't say, exactly. | remember
four $40 notes and roll Of small bills.
Something over $780,"
rs that the pocketbook? asked David
Thomas, slowly pulling the loved and lost
| out of his trousers pocket.
cit So
YOU'D be willing to take your oath on
| i.?'
| Yes"
"Well, l guess there amt so much
money in it. You can count it"
| Here he handed it over.
"There han't been nothing taken out.
| l can't read, but my friend here counted
| it over, and he says there amt so much
| as that
There was intense interest in the result
of the counting. One hundred and ten
dollars. The owner paid literally for
| the return of his property, and in doing
so ventured on little speech, ending:
II shall go away with high opinion
| of the honesty of Mitchell county"
"Oh, he lives in Yancey!' cried two
| or three voices. and then there was a
great laugh
| Mr.. George HILBERT, who has been Dig
ging up Horace Walpole's letters, furnish
| es this extract that fits in well with Bish-
OPP Berkleys Westward the Star of En-
pre- We quote:
'The next Augustine age will dawn on
the other side of the Atlantic. There will
| be a Thucydides at Boston, Xenophon
Eat New York, and in time Virgil at
Mexico, and Horace at Peru. At last
some curious traveller from Lima will
visit England and give a description of
| the ruins at st. Pauls like the editions
of Baalbec and Palmyra"
! The following interesting story is told
| in General Daviss article in the August
Literary Era about Andrew Jackson at
| New Orleans:
1T is related that Edward Livingston,
whom Jackson had just appointed his
aide de camp, had invited him home to
dinner, and sent word to his wife. who
| had some fashionable ladies to dine with
| her. This news created CONSERVATION,
and the young ladies whispered to each
other, what shall we do with this wild
general from Tcnnessee?" Jackson en-
| tered, erect, composed, bronzed, clad in
| his uniform of cloarse blue cloth and yell
| low buckskin, and other appointments to
| correspond. He bowed to the ladies mag
! nificently, and all arose. Mrs. Livingston
| came forward to receive the distinguished
| guest, who met her with 4 digaity and
grace never surpassed, if equalled, con-
Quoted her to her seat on til esofa, and
! sat by her side. The fashionable creoles
! were almost dumb with establishment.
] During dinner he conversed with the Ia
! dies in an easy, agreeable manner, in the
| tone of society He arose soon from the
! table, and left the house with Mr.. Liv-
| ingston. AS soon as they had gone, the
/ young ladies said to their hostess in one
| chorus: 'Is this your backwoodsman
Why, madam, he is princeo