Colored Gentility in the Happy Valley By Emily McGuire A Southern Woman Tells Quaint Anecdotes About Some Colored Folk She Met in Old Virginia— Secluded Abode on the Top of the Alleghanies Which Has Been Visited by Many Noted Persons, Including Washington and Jeffer son, Whose Names May Now Be Seen There on the Hotel Register. (Copyright, l>y Joseph B. Bowles.) (Mrs. Frederick McCSuire Is the wife of j the president of the board of directors of the Corcoran art gallery, of Washington, I>. CM and is conspicuous in - society and art circles of the national capital.) On the top of the Alleghany moun tains, in the very heart of the "Old Dominion," lies the most perfect mod ern reproduction of that real old Ar cadia so beloved by the poets. Nor is it such a very modern reproduc tion, either, because the "happy val ley" of which I am speaking has been visited by succeeding generations of devoted pilgrims since the early days of our young republic, and among the many names found on the register of 4he quaint little hotel there can be «een tlior;e of Washington and Jeffer con and many others which are also inscribed upon tlie roll of fame. In this Warm Springs valley of which I am speaking not only does the Bunshine seem of a different char acter, its rays coming to earth soft ened and veiled by a mist, which, though golden during the day, turns to purple toward evening, but the song of the bird becomes more melo dious, the bee hums more drowsily, the streams ripple more musically, the leaves rustle more soothingly; but our fellow beings whom we meet there are of a different order from any whom I have met elsewhere, and are possessed of a quaint, and humorous turn of mind and have an originality exclusively their own. Of course it must be explained that I am speaking now only of the col ored race. The first time I entered this "happy valley," more than 20 years ago, I said to an old negro, who looked as if he had grown old with the mountains; "Is the train on time this morning?" and he responded: "Oh, no, indeed, honey, dat train ain't on time." Then I asked: "How much is it behind time?" and he said: "Fo' hours." 1 was appalled, and asked: "Has it ever been as much as four hours late before?" and he an swered: "Yes, indeed, honey; one day las' week de train never come at all." Hut a little circumstance like that did not seem to have the power to over throw the equipoise of that calm com munity. They also have a phraseology and a vocabulary all their own, but what they say never for a moment leaves any doubt in your mind as to what they mean. I once went into the cabin of a poor woman where death had entered, and, not seeing any means or methods of burial, I asked: "What will be done?" and the woman replied: "Why, Mr. Crizer has always undertook in our family, and always done it well." Old Uncle Billic, who was always regarded as a "last court of appeal" In matters meterological, was once asked what he supposed was the cause of some peculiarly disagreeable weather, and his explanation was: "The heavy respections of the at mosphere make the elements dismal." Which really sounded so exactly as If it had been promulgated by the weather bureau that we almost hoped to secure "Old Billie" a position in the signal service on the strength of it. In the "Cowardin Cap" of the Alle phany mountains, at a little settle ment bearing the classic name of Shake-Rag, stands a colored church, of what denomination 1 never have been able to discover, and to be there when there is either a wedding in the church or a baptizing in the Jackson river near by, to see the bucolic trav esties upon the prevailing modes, es pecially in the matter of chignons and pompadours, is a liberal education. A window's mourning, if one happens to be there, is something fearrul and wonderful to behold. At a baptizing in the Jackson river on one occasion I saw and heard hundreds of the faithful singing and shouting: "Now eve-ry one of you that thirst, Step down into the water, And free-ly drink and squench that thirst, I, ike Zion's son and daughter." At a recent wedding in the church at Shake-Rag the preacher, who seemed to have heard rumors of the matrimonial snares and pitfalls of the outer world, made a charge to the contracting parties—a laundress and a waiter from the Warm Springs ho tel —and concluded by saying: "And may you liv.e together forever in un avoidable infidelity and may you never suppurate.' It is amusing, also, to see what rare combinations of Christian humanity and worldly pride one frequently en counters in that peaceful valley. I once attempted to adjust a difficulty which had arisen between two old female colored autocrats living in that mountain gap, and finally one of them said to me: "The trouble is in this hero (lap that these niggers will speak mistruths which ain't outright, and make it hard for Sister Jane." \ said I, "If you a< e Jane a sla- ter, I can soon settle the Vfeole diffi culty." She placed her arms akimbo, cant a baleful and rebuking eye upon me, and replied: "Sister In de Lord, honey, and de First Baptist church, colored." Sho flouted the idea of their being of the same family or blood. At the sweet little old Warm Springs hotel near by, presided over by two sisters, high-born, high-bred Carolina gentlewomen, one meets all the true aristocracy of the southern states, and there the rude world never seems to enter, there being nothing to attract the flashy element. On the contrary, a high-bred distinction seems to characterize the place, and it is neither impressed by the pres ence or depressed by the absence of the "smart set." A woman at the north once wrote to a friend at the Warm Springs that she was not able to join her there, and gave as one reason that she had not been able to provide a summer wardrobe that season. The friend at the Warm Springs responded, say ing: "Here one needs no new ward robe nor any large bank account, but ono does require a 'family tree;' so if you have ancestors, bring them, as here every one is the granddaughter of a dead president, or, at least, of Patrick Henry." The wonderful thermal baths here are presided over by two most typ ical r.nd interesting colored people, and these hot pools are 50 feet in diameter and the water hao a temper ature of !)S degrees. Jackson, who has been at the men's bathhouses for these many years, is a great authority upon gout and rheumatism, a great believer in the occult and the un seen, in omens, and conjuring, and is regarded with deep respect by his own kind as a reliable and dependable interpreter of dreams. Fanny Shep ard, whose term of service at the women's bathhouse has been as long as Jackson's, is as picturesque and interesting a character as is he. She was indignant because the ho tel official who "personally conduct ed" President McKinley to see "her pool," had not only not officially pre sented her to him, but had not even told her who he was. She com plained to me that "when he come from the men's pool that 1 seen Jack son a-bowin' and a-congeerin' to him," but that had not enlightened her She said further: "The president ! would have been interested in me If any one had told him that I have 8 son who is a missionary in Africa, and who is a fellow of the Royal Geo ' graphical society, of London, and who I had dLped with Queen Victoria at her ! own table at Windsor castle." All of which I knew to be true, be cause I knew this son, William Shep ard, and during my early years at the Warm Springs he was one of the waiters in the dining-room and at | the same time a Baptist preacher, but he felt called upon togo into I the missionary field and he went to | Africa. There it was soon manifest j that he could exercise great influence | over some of the most savage of the ! African tribes. He .is one o( those | who has penetrated the farthest into i some of these African wildernesses. :He was invited to London by the i Royal Geographical society, which made him one of its members, and he was invited by Queen Victoria, and did dine with her at her own table j in Windsor castle. The whole of my account of this J part of the world, however, must not be accorded to human nature alone. ! The grand and beautiful scenery must be spoken of to those who have not had the good fortune to see for them selves. Nothing in nature can be as beau tiful as to see the spring come up In the Warm Springs valley. The whole face of the level country is white with the bloom of the locust and the dog wood and of the fruit blossoms,•es pecially the apple, for which that re { gion of the country is celebrated, j Then there is a native thorn, which ! when in full bloom, looks as if enow I had fallen upon it, and in passing any j cottage or farmhouse the atmosphere 'is heavy with the fragrance of li | lacs and lilies of the valley, while the fields are heavenly blue with myriads of waving Roman hyacinths. No pen can adequately describe the mountain sides at this season. They are literally ablaze with laurel, rhod odendron and the wild mountain aza lea in pink, orange and pale yellow. In all seasons of the year nature is at her best here but the beauty, charm and enchantment of the spring are be yond anything I have seen in the world elsewhere. Upon a clear, exqui site day these lines insensibly glide into the mind: "Blue Isles of heaven laugh between And far in forest depths unseen. The topmost -elm trees gather green From draughts of balmy air." The Child's Skin. The chief peculiarity about the treatment of skin disease in children is that the reaction to the remedies applied is more prompt than in adults, says a writer in the London Hospital. Moreover, since the risk of absorption is by no means inconsiderable, oint ments and lotions containing power ful poisons, such as carbolic acid or mercury, should not be employed, un less well diluted, over large surfaces of the body. Certain cutaneous lesions also are transient, so that one is left with , their results, notably the scratch mark and the scab. The history of the mode of onset of an eruption, as given by an intelligent mother or nurse, is, therefore, of greater value than the statement of the patient him self. who might even be unaware of the existence of anything wrong witlt his fckin. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1907 A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE. How a Veteran Was Saved the Ampu tation of a Limb. B. Prank Doremus, veteran, of Roosevelt avenue, Indianapolis, Ind., says:"l had been showing symptoms of kidney trouble from the time I was mus tered out of the army, JpMjnwV never suffered as in 1897. Headaches, diz zlness and sleepless ness ' first, and then dropsy. I was weak and helpless, having run down from 180 to 125 pounds. I was having terrible pain in the kid neys, and the secretions passed almost involuntarily. My left leg swelled un til It was 34 inches around, and the doctor tapped it night and morning until I could no longer stand it, and then he advised amputation. I re fused, and began using Doan's Kidney Pills. The swelling subsided gradu ally, the urine became natural, and all my pains and aches disappeared. I have been well now for nine years since using Doan's Kidney Pills." For sale by all dealers. GO cents a uox. Foster-Milburn Co., BufTalo, N. Y. COINED A BIG WORD. Little One Wanted to Pick the "Un derchildrcnable" Flowers. When the first little granddaughter ■was big enough to want to pick the garden flowers, the grandparents tried every guileful means to save their pet posies from devastation. A truce was reached when it was agreed that Har riet should let the garden plants alone and pick only "children's flowers," a descriptive name bestowed at once allko on dandelions, buttercups, daisies and clovers. After this there was peace in the family. One day Katherine, the newest granddaughter, was contentedly pulling grasses while grandmother snipped off blossoms from the forget-me-nots. Katherine remembered that fresh flowers had not been gathered for the dinner ta ble. She ran over to grandmother and promptly coined one of the longest words a four-year-old ever used. "Grandmother," she begged, "can't I pick the underchildrenable flowers for dinner?" SLEEP BROKEN BY ITCHING. Eczema Covered Whole Body for a Year —No Relief Until Cuticura Remedies Prove a Success. "For a year I have had what they call eczema. I had an itching all over my body, and when I would retire for the night it would keep me awake half the night, and the more I would scratch, the more it would Itch. I tried all kinds of remedies, but could get no re lief. "I used one cake of Cuticura Soap, one box of Cuticura, and two. vials of Cuticura Resolvent Pills, which cost me a dollar and twenty-flve cents in all, and am very glad I tried them, for I was completely cured. Walter W. Paglusch, 207 N. Robey St., Chicago, JU., Oct. 8 and 16, 1906." Yes, Why Not? Dr. Frank C. Bostwick, official den tist to the sultan of Morocco, has been spending his vacation in Plainfleld, N. J., and at a recent dinner he said, apropos of a bad child: "It is wise to punish children, but not corporally. I know a dentist in Gibraltar who got out a birch rod to punish his little son with one day. The boy, looking at the rod, said pite ously: " 'Papa, would you mind giving me gas first?'" As In the Olden Time. A great sensation has been caused at Mantua, In Italy, by the discovery in real life of what r.?ads like tho lurid climax of a redleval melodrama. It appears that a young woman named Cornelia Orlandelli, 18 years old and of good family, has been immured in a lunatic asylum by her own family in order to keep her from correspond ing with a young man of her own sta tion in life. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any RRMH of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hail's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CITKKEY A CO., Toledo. O. We, the undersigned, have kn<»wn F. J. Cheney for ibo last 15 yoars, and believe him perfectly hon orable In all iHislneMS transactions nod financially able to carry out any obligations inade by hi* flrui. WAxniNo, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. HalTa Catarrh Cure la taken Internally, acting directly upon tho blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price «5 cents per bottle. Bold by nil DriiKKluts. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Whether you be men or women, you ivill never do anything in the world without courage. It is the greatest luality of the mind, next to honor.— lames Allan. ""OUCH" mwSms' oh, my back 1 IT IS WONDERFUL HOW OUICKLY THE PAIN AND STIFFNESS CO WHEN YOU USE KV $• JACOBS OIL \ A THIS WELL-TRtED.OLD-TIME REMEDY FILLS THE BILL 2Sc.— ALL DRUGGISTS. —SOc. CONQUERS HIS MEMORY WAS GOOD. Commodore Vanderbilt Had Not For gotten Old Days. The coming of age of Miss Gladys Vanderbilt and the payment to her of some twelve millions of dollars inher itance has brought out a new crop of anecdotes about the Vanderbilt for tune. One of the latest illustrates the democratic spirit of the old com modore. Sitting on the porch of a fash ionable hotel at a fashionable resort on one occasion, it is related, the commodore saw a lady aproaching with whom he was acquainted. His wifo and daughter, who recognized her, could scarcely contain their an ger when he arose and politely ad dressed her. "Don't you know," said (he daugh ter after she had gone, "that hor rid woman used to sell poultry to us?" "Yes," responded the old million aire, "and I remember when your mother sold root beer and I peddled oysters in New Jersey." ON A MACKEREL 3CHOONER. Daily Routine in the Life of the Glou cester Fishermen. The routine life on a mackerel schooner is not strenuous. The crew consists of 14 men, a skipper and cook. Two men constitute a watch, one aloft as a lookout, the other at the wheel, so that each man has two hours on duty, and then 12 hours off, before his turn comes around again. During this period he may be called onto shorten sail, wash the deck or to perform other work. Half of the crew have their bunks forward with the cook, who is king of the forecas tle, and the rest sleep aft with the captain. We were assigned to a double bunk aft, where we were not troubled with galley smells, but had to be on our good behavior. All the rolics and revels were forward. The crew ate in two shifts, the older men with the skipper.—Travel Magazine. The Shah on His Travels. How the shah of Persia left Te heran on his journey to Europe in 1900 is described by the author of "Through Persia in a Motor Car." The imperial baggage—items of which were sacks of corn and barley, a school globe and a colossal musical box—was four hours rolling through Teheran. In the midst, on a diminu tive donkey, came a little man with a gray beard and spectacles, who car ried an enormous wallet, out of which bulged mysterious-looking articles, among others a huge open telescope. This was his sacred majesty's as trologer. All Explained. There is a little story going round the house of commons about a certain member who abstained from voting on the deceased wife's sister bill. Questioned by one of his friends as to the reason for his abstention, he re plied: "Well, my dear fellow, it's just like this —my wife has a sister."— John Bull. Important to Moth«r«. Examine carefully every bottle of CABTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it Bears tha /I* , Z/3/7-+—&- Signature of In Use For Over 30 Years. The Kind You Have Always Bought First Thibet Newspaper. A report received at Peking from Chang Yingtang, the Chinese resident at Lhassa, tells of the establishment of a native newspaper, the first one ever printed in the Thibetan lan guage. ft . HICKS" OQCAPUDINE ACHES And Nervousness Trial bottle 10c At drugstores A. N. K.—C (1907—41) 2199. 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