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IERI GATHERERS. HeOW S4OME NORTH CAROLINA PEOPIE MAKE A LIVING. Collectting Medicinal Plant., Roots, Itarks and Berries-The Lar. gest Herb-Collectlung Ioumse in the World, Ete. In a letter describing the industrial growth of Statesville, N. C., a corre spondent in the New York Commercial Aderr. ier says: Besides the many stores carrying considerable stocks, there are tre tobacco factories in operation and one under construction, three tobacco warehouses, two tanneries, a spoke and shuttle block factory, and two large es tahlishments for the collection of med icinal herbs, roots, barks, gums and berries. One of these, the largest house of the kind in the world, does a business of $103,Ot) annually in these goods, of which it handles more than 2,u00 varie ties, weighing upward of 2,000,030 pounds. This concern began business lo a small way in 1859, but was broken up by the war. goon after it ende-I the firm of Wd ace Brothers was formed and the business resumed. At first they dealt in few articles except gensing, but after awhile they added to their variety such things as druggists called for until their catalogue contained the names of nearly 2.100 artic'e. l'rofessor Gray, of Cambridge. has said that there are more medicinal p!ants in western North Caro lina than in any one place in Noith America, and the business of this firm confirms his s'atement. The system. employed is simple enough. but it required executive ab Lty of no mean order to establish it and to keep it in successful operation. The Wallaces were ea intry merchants doing business with people who had little or no money. The little crossroad traders came to them for goods. and paid their bills with such produce as they could get from their customers. Ginseng was the most marketab'e article. China never gets too much of it, and has, wh- n it was scarce, given its weight in gold for it. Se-neka snake root was another equivalent for ready cash. The Wallaces encoura~cd their customers to get all of these the could. They in t arn sold their stocks to exporters and druggists,and through the acquaintances thus made they learne:l what the trade would buy and at what After a time they concluded that f they could secure the services of a thor oughly capable botanist they could in crease their business and consequent profits. Them in they wanted was living at Marion, in McDowell county. Pro fessor M. E. Ifyams was born in Charles ton, South Carolina, received a prep:ara tory education there, and graduated at the State Univerity in Columbia. When seventeen years o'd he began his botani :al studies, which soon became his ruling passion. At the age of twenty lve he made the collection of botanical specimens his business. When the Wal lace Brothers found and hire I him he knew more of the flora of Western North Carolina than any one had ever known before. His duties were those of an instructor. The women and children in the mountains were taught where to look for plants they had never gathered before, when to pluck them, and in what condition to deliver th:m at the stores. The merchants who received them were then instructed, and finally the headsof the firm and their chief em ployes. It was a long task; there were collectors and stores in some thirty coun ties to be visited. Iuring all that time and for years afterward the Professor ex plored theunountains in search of new botan!cal specimens, or of fresh fields in which the more valuable herbs ,rew. While in one of these botanical quests in 18;8 the Professor found in %McDowell t'ounty a pri: e. The discovery of a mate to the Kohinoor would not have elated hi-n so highlg. It was the 'hortia galu cifolia. a rare plant ona e fo:nd and de scribed, then lost to botanists for seven ty-tive years. lie could scarcely believe his e)es, bat there it was beyond mis take. .o carefully gathering a few speci mens from tile very small number that grew there,and noting well the surround ings th..t he m5ght findl it again, th. I Pro. fvssor left the wilderuess and put himself into communication with Professor Grey :nod other eminen: botanists. T.ey were anmo.t as exrcited as the discoverer, and Prolfe sor Grey left his beautiful gaiden at Cambridue and made hasWl to the monmtahns that he might seeo for himself this loag-loet uad rare plt.at. There Sot mn.ch of it, certainly, amd to the untrained eye there is nothing attrso've I about "'lyam's sparkling shortia," the name popularly gives it, but it placed the I:rofessor's name on the scientilc roll of honor, and he and his children to the latest generation will have an affection for all plants of the natural order of galacinea to which this shortia belongs. 1 here is a phase of this botanic busi ness of intere t to both philanthropists and political economists. The collectors are usually women, children and maimed or broken down men. Most of them have no other means at command for getting store goods. They live, as a rule, remote from all villages or from p!aees where they can earn wages. Were there no wild fruits to dry and medicinal he. bs to gather they would be destitute indeed. Time is of no account to them, because there is nothing in their lives to give it value. They will therefore spend hours. in gathering a few pennyworths and preparing it for the store. I ater they will walk barefooted ten, twelve and sometimes twenty miles, to trade oft their little stock for such things as they need. Between four hundred and flve hundred country stores deal with the Wallaces. All of 40,000 persons collect the stock. Here in a small way is a great beneficence. A Romance of the War. A recent copy of an Indiana paper con tains the following paragraph: Married - By the R-v. Dr. Turnhull, George A. Dawsnn, of Louis'ana, to Miss Alien Lemon, of Washington, D. C. This marriage is the sequal to an an usually ro:r.antic story. George Dawson, ayoung Capt tin in the Confederate army, lay serin usly injur.ed in 1 t 4, a prisoner of war, in the tInit"-l States Hospital at Ilndianapolis. One of the ladies who ris it.d the hospital frequintly and admin i tered alike to the wearers of the blue ard the gray was a Mrs. Cray, the wealthy widow of a Union o.Icer. In these t tsit Mrs. Lemon was usua'ly ac companied by her daughterAlice, then a little miss of tenu years. A fast friend ship sprung up between the young Con federate and the little Union girl, whceh continued some months until the former was exchanged and sent back to his reg iment. Seven years ago Mrs. Lemon died, and Miss Alice, through the efforts of her frienlds, secured a clerkship in one of the Wa.hington departments. Her health gr:d.ally fa led, and ilR October she re sirned her position and went West to re side with relatives. The announcement of her resignation was printed in one of the oew Orleans papers. where it met the eye of Captain Iawson, now a dig nilied hache'or of middle age and one of the richest planters on the t ower Missis sippi. Captain Dawso:n immediately wrote Miss i.emon and asked her if she Swas his little sweethea;rt of former years, and if so by what caprice of fortune she had been thr :wn upon her own resources. Miss Lemon answered the ('Captain, de tailing their financial losses at the timeof the .hIy Cooke failure and the sub sequent death of her mother. Captain Slawson thereupon mailed the lady a check for $1,000,which h3 begged her to accept as a slight recompense for her mother's kindness to him while a pri oner of war. Miss Lemon returned the check, saying that under no circum stances conad she receive it. Captain I:awion then came North to see if he could not personally prevail upon the lady to accept his assistaae. He went to Indiana, intending to stop only a couple of days, but he remained a month, and when he returned he curi ed with him a Northern bride to gr.:ce his Southern home.-Ne-e York IleredJ. Invention of the Leek. This is not a modern devise. Among the ruins of the gre t temple of Kunak Its general principles have been d scov ered. From this we gather that it is at least forty centuries old. The lock smiths of Chins, we are told, had, cen- - tuices before the birth of Christ. per fecte(i a lock out of which a sharp bam b o thin would dart and st-ike the hand of any one wrongfully tampering with it. The e:,d of thii bamboo thorn was ste.,ped in a poisonous decnection, and should the luckl,,as thief escape death he would be main,,e for life. But this story ts hardly entitled to full be lief, for the reason, as the Chinese them selves_ lam that gunpawder wai mann fa cthred by them at that time, a Celestial safe b'ower could caily reider the thorn harmles by the aid of a few grains of powder. A boy has been born in Kansas with an eye anthe beck of his head. When he Is old he will be able to look back ema his pmt earee withbeout turning sem Betrayed by a ,aOs. - e "One of the best laid schemes to do murder," ays Mr. A. . Canby of the Carleton Opera Company, "was a pla g that was detected by the meret chaace in the Kellogg-Iles. Opera Company years ago, when Mr. Carleton was the baritone of that organization. A cer. tain artist playing prominent roles was suspected by a member of the chorus with paying altogether too much attean I tion to the chorister's wife, and the art ist was duly warned by his friends to I keep a close watch on the movements of the husband. tine evening as he was passing across the stage to his dressing room, he chanced to hear one of the 1 wardrot.e women msy to another that there were buttons off all the soldier uniforms. "Now, as the husband was to be one of a file of soldiers whose duty it was to fire a volley of shots at the artist as he made his escape up a rocky pasa. the ab. sence of the buttons--little balls of steel --soon awakened suspicion in his mind. Before the curtain went up on the act in which this incident ocrurred. he went to the prcperty man and insisted on having the charges in the chorister's gun examined. The frearm was taken from the husband's hands, and when the load was drawn one of the buttons was found rammed down under a wad. One button had been r-ut from every uniformn so as to conceal the positive proof that the missile came from the huslrsuds t gun. II d that shot been fired and I proved fatal, no evidence but the thin est of crecumstantial testimony cou:al i have connected the true murderer with i the tragedy." Dr. Merse, phyician at Marin Hospital, Balt;more Md., found Rod tas Coegh Cure a harmless sad meet Roe tiv. remedy in the eureof coghs. He reeomeds Itespecially for hlildren who are irritable and oblstnate, as p 'saato tace am I prompt in lid*.ee. 4 Prie, tweaty-Ave cOnts. Denti.t, who was formerly a phoographer ",, ipalt"nt)--Tke a seat, please. Now turn v,,ur head a trine this way-that's it. 'IPtre I ILwmk rrght at the knob on that door. and an -Ule :a pleasant expr"ci'on. Now keep p-r ftctly still. and I'll be thraugh in a moment. "A meet extraordlnary ant ablutoe urwe ee rheumatlem sad other heilly ailments is US. Jasobs Oil," says Ho . Jassl Harlan. es-Vies. Chancel.cr, lossvr lI EK. A phtogr.aphler telegraphed to a friend whose lpotrit he we engaged to o take. "E 'te't artist to-mrrow." The clover telegraph e .ratoar had it. 'Expect arrest to-morrow;" .uAd when the artist recihed his friend's hoea f.~r arn'.l that he had gone to Canada. "What we learn with pleasure we neve re L'et."--rd-ifWd Mer4rie'. Tbhe hlowl Is a1se in pOins: "1 a i out hundrled of d olae wt h at t riev ao g an benet." says Mrs Emilyr ki, a -Is. of Mcer de Michk. I had fm comwlrin e a :pecrlaly '"rtn down,' for cIt.r %is years. Dr. It. * PVerc's 'Favorite I'he.'r ption' d vid n more gepl t han a imd. crneo I ever took. I atdv.e over alkt lady to tkesit." And so do we. Itneveor diep a is ptrofn. I) ru tsl it. 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