DIRECTORY,
TOWN OFFICERS.
Mavor—C H Gwvn.
Coninii^sionors—A G Click, J S Bell, C M
Kina:, (t M Buvc'jaDi. II G Chatham.
Tax (JollecLor—O O Eidson.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
Shei’iff—J M Davis.
Clerk of the Court—W W Hampton,
Register of Deeds—T \V Davis.
Surveyor—Vestal Taylor.
Coroner—J S Armstrong.
Commissioners—J L Worth, J J Wallacc, J
M McCann.
Board of Education—J II T Calloway, W H
Wolf, W F Needham.
Examiner—Jno W’’ Williams, Stony Knoll.
TOWNSHIP OFFICERS,
Justices of the Peace—J F Walsh, T M But
ler, I A Eldridge, J M Gentry, A Ii Lyons, S
T Wilborn. J C Hurt,
Deputy SherifE—J M Eldridge.
CHURCHES.
Baptist—Rev. W. R. Bradshaw, Pastor.
Preaching every first Sunday at eleven and
seven o’clock. Ohurch meeting and preach
ing Saturday night before at seven o’clock.
Sunday school every Sundfiy at 0 A. M. J. W.
Bowles, Supt.
Methodist—Rev. F. L. Townsend, pastor.
Preaching every first and third Sunday at
11 A. M. and second and fourth Sundays at
7 P. M. Sunday Scliool every Sunday at 10 A.
M. A. G. Click', Supt. Prayer meeting every
Wednesday night.
Presbyterian—Rev. C. W. Robinson, pastor.
‘Preaching every second Sunday at 11. A. M.
and 7 A. M. Sunday school every Sunday at
9.45 A. M.
Lutheran—Rev. W. A. Lutz, pastor.
Preaching ever;^ fifth Sunday in the Metho
dist church morning and evening at the usual
hour.
Episcopal—Rev. Mr. Williams, rector.
Preaching every first Sunday night in the
Presbyterian church, at seven o’clock.
Colored Presbyterian—Rev. C. B. Ward,
pastor.
Preaching every fourth Sunday at eleven
o’clock. Sunday school every Sunday at 9.30
A. M. M. Ilickeason, Supt.
Colored McLliodist—Rev. J. W. Jones, pas
tor,
Preaching every first Sunday at 11 o’clock.
Sunday School every Sunday at 3 P. M. Dan
iel Roberts, Supt.
SECRET ORDERS.
Elkin Lodge No. 454, A. F. & A. M. meets
the iirsi: Tuesday night in the mouth before
the fulJ. moon.
J. S. Bell, W. M.
J. F. Walsh, Scc'y.
Knights oi' Pyi'hia?, Piedmont Lodge No. 90
tneets every Thursday n'gbt at seven o’clock.
VIsiLing l>r:;threu eoi-dialiy Invited.
A. G. Clivk, 0. C.
J. F. Hendren, K. of K. & S.
I. O. 0. F. Bryan Lodge No. 57. Independent
Order Odd F-.-‘ilow> m.^eiis the lirst and third
M ^nday in lIk. niouCn.
•). 'A'. N. G.
C. N. Bod'ii^^avi -. .r, S'.o’y.
M IlS, . RRI\. L;.ND DEPARTURE.
Miiil trsiji Green..'boro arrives at 12: 21 p. m.
Leaves 2: 5^) p m,
xAViikesboro arrive^ 3: 50 p m. Leaves 3: 30
p m.
Spar! a arrives 11: 45 a rn. Leaves 2; 30 p m.
Trapiiill arrives at 13:00 m. Leaves 2:'30
p m.
Jonasville arrives at 11:30 a m, and 2:30
p m. Leaves 13:30 p m and 3: 00 p m.
All tiie a-bove mails are dailv.
E. D. Harris, p. m.
A GOOD INVESTMENT.
MooresTiUe Eecord.
Good investment are what everybody
desires to make, but very frequently in
vestments that are called good only
have one redeeming quality and that
quality is a handsome income to the
man who has made the investment. It
is perfectly natural for the man who
has mony to let to put it where he can
reap the greatest benefit from it.
We are fully satisfied that there are
thousands of dollars scattered abroad
to-day that bring good to none except
the owner and user. Why do we say
this? Because the man who needs it
worst of all is the man who cannot get
it. Ho has no real estate as security
and the question of honor is no longer
a factor in such matters. The money
in use at this day and time benefits few
people. What incentive is there for a
man to work if he gets simply enough
and not a cent more to meet, to meet
his daily expenses. Monopolies have
been formed on every hand and in al
most everj’ avocation of life so as to get
labor at the lowest rate possible. We
hear the money kings speak of hard
times, yet they can live in the best of
style and do not even know what it is
to be in want. They have elegant
homes and if misfortunes befall them
they sit back upon their dignity and
laugh at every obstacle. We would be
glad to see everybody in a prosperous
condition and enjoying all needed com
forts of life, but we know of families
who labor from day to day and from
year to year, and yet they are always
in a pinch. We cannot see why it is
so. W'e know there are people who
grumble all the time it matters not
what their circumstances m life may
be, but we are now speaking of good
investments. A good investment is
one that will bring the greatest good to
mankind. The man wlio has monev
to put at interest should not have self
alone in view. The nlan who claims
to be a Christian and suffers his money
to be used to help on the works of the
devil, when he can prevent it, is making
a bad investment. We have known
men, who stood high in the church, to
have money invested in real estate, and
fit the same time were renting houses
men for the business of selling liquor,
and also to women of bad repute. The
investments in these instances were
bad and however much revenue may be
derived from such a source, it is only
the price of blood. The hearts of such
property owners yet without the cleans
ing power applied.
■—The Ladies’ Memorial Association
met in Ealeigh last week and selected
as the subject for the next Memoria
Day (May 10th) oration, “The Life and
Character of General Thomas L. Cling-
oaau.”
GBJTEBAL NEWS.
The Georgia House of Bepresentatives
voted down a bill to put Union veterans
in that state on the same legal plane as
Confederates.
A candidate for County Trustee of
Wilson County, Tenn., has agreed, if
elected, to donate $1,350 of his fees to
the county school fund, $1,000 to the
county at large, and $350 as prizes to
the district giving him the largest^ vote.
He evidently thinks that the fees amount
to too large a sum.
Mrs. Margaret Keegan, of Chicago,
believes that banks were instituted for
the purpose of swindling people out of
their money, and desiring to put her
funds in a safe place, she selected a
barrel and placed the barrel in a closet
in her home. The amount in the barrel
was $8,000 in notes and silver. During
the absence of the Keegan household
Sunday, thieves stole all the money.
There is no clue to the robbers.
Engine Ho. 325, one of the huge,
“monarchs” of the rail that the South
ern has had on exhibition at the Nash
ville Exposition,passed through Concord
Tuesday morning on its way to Spencer,
where it will be fired up in a few days
and will be placed in active service on
this company’s line between Spencer,
N. C. and Monroe, Va. The builders
of this engine claim that it is one of the
largest in the world. The Southern has
purchased four of them and they will
all soon be running over this line.
They are the most powerful engines ever
built and are said to be able to pull 33
Pullman coaches with ease.
Rowan’s Delinquents.
Salisbury, Nov. 26.—Sheriff Monroe
to-day presented to Judge Coble a list
of Kowan’s delinquent tax-payers as re
quired by the revenue act of the last
General Assembly. Judge Coble, as re
quired by the same act delivered the
list to Solicitor Holton, to the end that
delinquents might be prosecuted as re
quired by the law. The solicitor, who
had already intimated that he was not
inclined to prosecute until the test case
from Johnson county was decided by
the Supreme Court, announced that all
merchants, lawyers, doctors, flying jen
ny men, and others delinquent upon
special license taxes, had better pay up
at once, and that farmers and others
who are delinquent upon property
taxes, liad better pay as soon as practi
cable—the former being clearly liable,
in his opinion, under the law. The
Democratic sheriff and the Eepublican
judge have simply discharged their duty
under the law, and the Eepublican so
licitor has exercised the discretion
which is his in law, not to prosecute
for the present. He has the first, how
ever, and as the offence is a misde
meanor, he can prosecute at any time
within tw'o years.
Mock Hauffing: Became KeaL
Eeadisg, November 28.—Harry Hen
dricks, ag'id 15 years, and a number of
other boys were playing about a stable
at Dowuiiigtou yesterday, engaged in
the game of “banter.” One boy pro
posed a hanging match. Young Hen
dricks agreed and dared his companions
to follow his example. A halter was
procured, and Harry, by means of a
stool, mounted to the crossbeams,
around one of which he fastened the
piece of harness, tying the other end
arokind his throat. He smiled at*the
crowd below and they shouted in glee.
Suddenly Harry’s feet slipped and he
fell with a shriek which was strangled
in his throat by the band that
tightened about his neck and cut
into the fiesh. The other boys in
horror fled for help. A man quickly
responded and cut the toy down. Drs.
Tyndell and Kerr, after an examina
tion, said that the boy’s neck had been
broken. He was carried home in a dy
ing condition.
■ A Stranger Leaves Mare and Colt.
Statesville, Nov. 80.—About the
15th of this month a stranger came into
the store ot W. G. Wright and said that
he wanted some one to take care of his
mare and colt until he came back from
Charlotte. Mr. Wright asked him how
long he would be gone and on the
man’s replying only a day or two,
agreed to keep his horses. The man left
immediately without giving his name,
leaving the mare and colt in Mr.
Wright’s possession. Since then Mr.
Wright has not seen the man nor heard
a word of him. He has no idea where
he came from or where he is. He
doesn’t even know whether the horse
was his own or not.
—The Asheville Citizen says that the
committee has been appointed to escort
the remains of the late General T. L,
Clingman to Asheville for interment, in
the persons of Col. W'm. H. S. Burgwyn,
Col. A. B. Thrash and Capt. James P.
Sawyer. Unless unfavorable weather
prevents the exercises of the day will
take place place on Court Square in that
city on December 7. Members of Gen.
Clingman’s old regiment, the 25th
North Carolina, will act as honorary
and active pall-bearers. Gov. Eussell
and his staff will be invited to be present.
Attorney L. H. Clement, of Salisbury,
during the trial of the negro gamblers
this week, made a plain statement of
facts that caused a little stir in the court
room. Asking for mercy in the sen
tence to be imposed Mr. Clement said:
“There are men of higher standing than
these darkeys that play cards within the
-sight of this court house day and night
ana they are never hauled up here for
gambling” .
The nineteen bills of indictment drawn
against Salisbury merchants by Solicitor
Holtor for selling cigarettes to minors
has been much discussed since the
grand jurg returned the true bills. It
is told that Solicitor Holtcn went to the
white graded school an3 offered boys to
whom cigarettes had been sold $1 00
each if they would testify to having
purchased the cigarettes, before the
grand jury.
M. Golden, of Guthrie, Okla., who
has been a candidate for agent of the
Osage Indian nation, has disappeared
from Washington, D. C., where he has
been for three months. Thursday he
telegraphed to his partner at Guthrie as
follows: “I leave here to-day for
where I don’t know. I have squan
dered $8,000 trying to get a place, and
have been deceived. I cannot face my
creditors. Send my family to Omaha.’
STATli NEWS.
The Eockingham Index says Sam
Ferrell, colored, shot big wife at Maxton,
Eobeson county, a few days ago aad
attempted to shoot himself in the head,
but the bullet was unable to enter his
skull. He dropped the pistol on his
foot, however, inflicting a very serious
wound.
Otho Wilson in his paper makes a
direct attack upon Senator Butler in
connection with the latter’s Eocky
Mount speech. He says he does “not
doubt that Butler made the statement,”
because he believes ho is the “only man
in North Carolina mean enough to sus
pect such motives in a human being.”
Otho says Senator Butler told him he
would work some kind of a “deal” in
1900 which would make him solid.
Governor Eussell, has been receiving
freight and express packages head head,
and he is being criticised for it in view
of his antagonism to the railroads. The
governor may not be resp">n.sible for
what he receives dead head, but there
would be some point in it if the pack
ages which he ships go “D. H.” As
the governor accepted railroad passes
rather than offend the roads by return
ing them, it may be that he also has an
express frank and pQ-haps a telegraph
frank, too.
Tuesday afternoon the mayor of Sal
isbury sent W. L. Wistley, a white man
of Eichmond, Va., to the chain gang
for swearing. Arrived at the convict
camp Wistley refused to work and soon
thcjeafter attempted to escape, where
upon he was shot by the guard and
painfully though not seriously wounded.
Wistley’s wounds were dressed and he
was discharged from custody but he left
breathing threatenings and slaughter
against the authorities. He says he
will sue for $5,000 damages.
John A. Muder, postmaster at the lit
tle hamlet of Poplar Mount, Warren
county, is in jail at Ealeigh for using
the mails in working a big swindle.
He posed as the “German Supply Com
pany,”'and offered a gold watch for
each list of names accompanied by $1.
Monev rolled in, for the “green-horns”
are by no means extinct yet. Many
legistered letters were received by him
and many were forwarded to Chicago.
Muder is a German, a big fellow, and
there was a lively time getting him
here.
Engineer L. M. Bumgarner, who was
shot Friday near Fletcher by a desperate
character named Lambert, died at the
mission hospital in Astieville last Sunday
night, after every effort had been made
to save his life. Governor Eussell has
offered $400 reward for the ca[>ture of
the tramp. A special to the Governor,
Satulday, says there were two of the
tramps and that they had twice been
put off the train. The third time they
were put off Bumgardaer left his engine
and went to aid the conductor. One
tiamp shot him and fled.
Gilmore Hammond, who was tried in
Salisbury for the murd3r of “Bed”
Averitt, was found guiltyof m.inslaugh-
ter and sentenced to two years in the
penitentiary. The nuirder Occurred
only a fev,' weeks ago. Avitt, who was
an employe of the railroad shops in Sal
isbury, had a difficulty with Hammond
in a barroom when the latter shot and
killed him. The case wes given to the
jury Saturday and they returned a ver
dict Suiiday, when Judge Coble imposed
a sentence of two years. Hammond
bore a very bad character.
The Press-Visitor says Mr. E, M.
Furman will be the editorial writer and
Mr. Thos. J. Pence, at present city edi
tor of the Press-Visitor, city editor of
the Post, the new morning daily to be
established in Ealeigh. Mr. Greek O.
Andrews, president of the company,will
be general manager, and Mr. Will X.
Coley, formerly ot the Mocksville
Times, will be oi>e of the paper’s travel
ing representatives. The first issue of
the paper will appear next week. The
office will be equipped W'ith type setting
machines and other new and up-to date
machinery.
NOTES ANO COMMENTS.
The judgments that you form and
express concerning other people are an
infallible revelation of the state of your
heart. Isaac Taylor has beautifully
said that the object glass of a telescope
may or may not bring back a correct
report of the star at which it is pointed,
but that it never fails to disclose any
specks or flaws upon its own surface.
The man who makes a habit of pulling
out the motes from his brother’s eye is
most likely to have a rather largo beam
sticking in his own eye. Who sneers
at truthfulness except the liar, or at
purity except the debauchee? Who pro
claims his belief in the doctrine that
every man has his price except the dis
honest fellow who is himself for sale?
Be careful, friend, that in speaking
harshly about your friend or acquain
tance you do not uncover the nakedness
of your own soul.—Nashville Advooate.
The Secretary of the Treasury gave
out a remarkable statement last week
concerning the appointments by States
in this department. His table shows
that while the District of Columbia has
an excess of appointments of 208, North
Carolina has a deficit of 26. The Tar-
Heel State is entitled to 65 appoint
ments, in the Treasury Department,
and is only , credited with Sy. Every
Southern State except Maryland Vir
ginia and West Virginia has a deficit of
appointments in this department and
this statement illustrates that discrimi
nation against the South in every de
partment of the government.
T. H. Simpson, of Union county, is
going to Texas by private conveyance.
'The Monroe Enquirer says he v;ill make
the trip in a four-mule wagon, which he
has fitted up with an oil stove, a bed
and other conveniences.
—John A. Eamsey, of Salisbury,
gets a nice slice of pie in the shape of
civil engineer to the State Board of Ed
ucation with a salary of $1,000 a year.
He is the defeated candidate for post
master at Salisbury.
The American Bible Society is in
financial difficulties.
To Cure Constipation Forever.
Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25c,
Xi C. C. C. fail to CUfO, druggists refund money..
A Yanl^«e Skipper’s 'Srick,
A goou anecdote is told ilhii?trat3iig
the superior enterpriso of the Yankee
skippers years ago. The I^dford whalers
h)ft port for many a lou^'oyage,- somo-
timcs to t|d^:r uorth, at oihor times
to the far so-uish. These iutrepid follow
ers of the ser« sought and pursued the
%Yhnie in the ice clad hititudes about
the poles v/itli a natural fcarlossness.
A squadron 'sent out by I\usna to ex
plore the south seas and rcacli the polo
if possible had arti-.ined a degree of
latitude which the comniodoro proudly
told himself -hati nover been reached be
fore by white men or other human be
ings. While ho reflected upon the fame
that would f^urely embellish iiis name,
his Gailbrs cried, “Land ho!” Off to the
south he descried a long, low lying bit
of land and hastened to shape his course
to reach it, there to plaiit the Hussian
standard on it§ highest point, claiming
it iu the name of his majecty.
V/hat was liis disgust and astonish
ment when, as his vessel api^roached
the shore, ho observed, over a bit of
headland, a flag fluttering from a mast
head. In a fe^^minutes a little schoon
er poked her nose around the point and
came sailing smartly over the v/ave? to
ward his vessel. The lean Yankee cap
tain, who was standing in the rigging
as the schooner camo up-in the wind,
yelled:
‘•‘Ahoy, there! What ship is that?”
“His majesty’s bhip the ”
“Well, this.^,^^ the Kan tucket from
Rhode Island.*' ^^e’re doing a littlo
piloting in tkr-,j^Iatitudes, and if you
want to run in the cove yonder, why,
we’ll pilot you in for a small charge.”
The admiral’s disgust causcd him to
square his sails around and shapo his
course for liussia.—Harper’s Round
Table.
Atmospheric V»'ejgJxt.
At tho sea level, with the barometer
marking 80 inches and the thermomoter
33 degrees F., a ciibic foot of pure dry
air v/eighs about 5G5 grains troy. The
W’eight of a cubic foot of vrater vai^or,
under the same conditions, is only 852
grains. When vapor is mixed v/ith dry
air, therefore, the resulting compound
is lighter—that is to say, damp air is
lighter than dry air. In stormy weatlicr
the air is lighter than it is in fair
weather and not heavier, as many per
sons'suppose. Vv'hen smoke hangs about
the surface of tho earth, it shows that
the air is lighter than the smoke. When
tho air is dry,- it is heavier than the
smoke, and the latter therefore ascends.
The w^eight of the earth’s atmosphere,
or, in other words, the pressure exerted
upon tho earth by the atmosphere, is
about tho same as would bo exerted by
a flood of water 33 feet in height over
the globo. At thasea level tho pressure
of the atmosphere is about 15 pounds
to the square inch. A man of ordinary
size thus b^ra all the timo a pressure
of about 80,000 pounds, but ho does not
feel it, because the pressure is exerted
in every direction, above, below and
around him, and because his body is
filled W'ith ait' caid other fluids that
press outward, thus maintaining a state
of equililxium.—Philadelphia Times.
The Stormy Gulf.
The gulf or Mexico is a water of
storms, not frequent, but frenziedly
violent. It is, in effect, an immense
scallop cut from the land, and hurri
canes seem to gravitate to it naturally.
They are born in tho neighborhood of
the Saragc^fj^a-^.i,-strike the W^est In
dies and not infrequently leavo those
islands at a tangent, just as a ball
thrown at an obtuse angle against a
wall slides along it for a littlo space
and again seeks vacancy. These crratio
forces of the air strike the coast of Mex
ico, or the coast of Texas, according to
their angle, and death is in their track.
The things called “tidal waves” in that
Bection are not i-eally lidal waves. They
are not caused by an upheaval. They
are merely local in ellect. They are not
vast walls of water moving with resist
less speed and weight over tho face of
the ocean. They arc waters banked up
against a low coast by wind pressm’e
until thoy overflow. In many instances
the submergence is gradual and ample
opportunity for escape is given. Other
timoB the violence of the air makes them
sudden and people are drowned.—CJhi*
cago T'imes-Herald.
Eock Work and Planta Isi Aqnariutns.
In the best modern aquarium practice
the rockwork in tho tanks is simple in
construction and limited to a minimum
in bulk. Elaborate rockwork is more
difficult to keep clcan, and if bulky it
displacps, .of course, just so much Vvater,
and so lessens the sustaining power of
the tank, but rockwork in some form or
vegetation is desirable for the comfort
of the fishes. There are fishes that like
to loaf aroimd rocks or perhaps to creep
under them. In nature they fmd food
in such places, and it may be shelter
from their enemies, and there are fishes
equally accustomed to plants of one sort
and another, and almost all fishes at
times like seclusion or places where
thtiy can go by themselves. In an aqua
rium it is a common thing to see a fis;h
motionless behind some slender plant
v/hich does not conceal it, but does
serve as a placo of retreat. ^Kew York
Suix
Th.e Corpso^^tiglied GOO X’ounds.
San' FKAxNCisai. Nov. 20.—Mrs. The
resa Cardoza, a ^^ell known resident of
this city, who ^ied on Saturday, v/as
buried yesterday in the Italian ceme
tery. She weighed' over 600 pounds
and the undertakers had to break down
the stairs of her late residence in order
to lower the body into the hall. A spe
cial casket, bound with iron, was con-
siructed for the remains. As it was too
heavy for any L'jarse in tho city, it was
taken to the cemetery in a heavy ex
press wagon. Llrs. Cardoza had been
married twicc and leaves five ciiildren,
the youngest being 14 months old.
A Gisajjtic Schejiso.
New York, Noy. 20.—Wall street
financiers believe they have discovered
the most gigantic trust ever heard of.
It is a scheme to control the money
market of this city, and threuii<h it, the
financial policy and affairs of the entire
country. The caiutal behind the trust
is almost unlimited. It is said that
this trust has already begun operations.
Rockei’eller, llavemeyer ' and Morgan
are n-ported to bo the originators of
this trast.
William C. Etters, who v.-as convictod
of manslaughter at the spring term,
1^^915 of Cleveland Superior .Court, and
sentenced to 15 years in the peniierjtiary
has been pardoned by Gov. Russell.
Etters killed Dr. Hogue.
Paul Verlaine.
Verlaine is the master of lyric expres
sion, using every delicate means in or
der to express every shadow of his senti
ment and to excite by harmonious
sounds tho nervous striiigs of tho mod
ern, ini'prcssionable listener. That is
why tlv) “young ones” considered him
their leader and why ho was called tlie
first ‘ symboli&t. The melodious, sug
gestive wordf:, the tstrange, symbolic
pictures, arouse in tbo soul of the read
er tho impression, which the poet
wishes to givo him. '“II pleure dans
moncceur, comme il pleut sur laviile, ”
says the poet, a.ud the use of assonance
and alliteration (“ploure,” “pleut”)
gives to the lines pleasing harmony and
to the picture charm and color. To move
the sensitive soul of the listener by the
munic of the rhyme, such is'Verlaine’s
aim.
When Leconte do Lisle died, one of
the Parisian reviews asked the literati
and artists who, after the author of
“Poemes Barberes, ” was worthy to
take up tho national lyre. The votes
were all for Verlaine. The public of
the boulevards v;as astonished at such
an artistic jjlebiscitum. The new poet
laureate was so little known. I'Tever-
theless many lovers of poetry loved and
admired him. I3nfc hov; many lovers of
poetry are there?
Paul Verlaine died Jan. 0, 189G, and
was buried tvro days later in Clichy
cemetery. All tho artistic and literary
youth of Paris followed his coffin. Sev
eral eminent literati spoke at his grave.
Verlaine never soiled hi jself with a
falsehood, nor did he humiliate himself
by seeking the applause of the multi
tude. His lyro v/as not for sale.—M. S.
C. de Soissons in Forum.
Noted In tlxe Hoase of Commons,
Disraeli, I noted, sat during a debate
in dumb abstraction, never cheering
and never interjecting a denial. Tliere
he sat, the man v\’ho recreated his party,
sm‘ely a gi’cat achievement. I have no
doubt he loses friends by his apparent
insouciance and the method in which
he walks to his place without looking
at anybody, but I surmJse, from my
own experience, that it arises from near
sightedness. I perceive that he cannot
tell what o’clock it isv\'ithout using his
glass, and somebody told me lately that
he saw him hailing a police van, mis
taking it for an onmibus. His face is
often haggard and his idv weary and
divSappointed, but he has the brow and
eyes of a poet, which arc always pleas
ant to look upon. Ho generally says tho
right thing at the right minute and in
the right way, and he is lustily cheered;
but, sitting among tho opposition, I
have abundant reason to note that ho is
not trusted.
It is said that young Stanley and
other youngsters of his class believe in
him, and that tho man v/ho is so taci
turn iu parliament is'a charming com
panion among his familiars and is a
gracious and genial host. Some of his
postprandial mots steal out, and, I
should think, make fatal enemies.
Somebody asked him lately it Lord
Robert M was not a stupid ass.
“Ko, no,” said Benjamin, “not at all.
He is a-clever ass.”—Sir Charles Ga-
van Duffy in Contemporary Review.
The Continuous Performance.
One man, evidently a play actor, and
another man, who evidently ^vasn’t,
were coming down in an elevated rail
road car on Sixth avenue.
“How are you getting on?” asked-the
man who wasn’t.
“Oh, only so so at this season of tho
year. Instead of going on tho vaudeville
stage I started out in tragedy, but it’s
played out. Such hamfatters as Booth,
Barrett, Forrest, McCullough and men
of that ilk havo ruined (hat line of busi
ness, and there’s nothing in it now.”
“Why don’t you try tho continuous
performance racket? I see that some
first class peoijle are in it now.”
“Oh, it Vv'on’t last. It’s a nev/idea,
and it’s being run into the ground. ”
“I think you’re wrong about its be
ing a new idea,” said tho man who
wasn’t. “I remember having seen a
continuous performance v,’hen I was a
little boy, and my grandfather has told
me that the same snow Vi^as drawing
big crowds when he was a youngster.”
“What was it?” asked the man v>dio
was doubtingly.
“Niagara falls.”—New York Com
mercial.
A Surpi’is©.
A cook at a cheap boarding house
played a little game on a grumbling
boarder by serving him with a piece of
sole leather instead of beefsteak.
“Y’ou’ve changed your butcher, Mrs.
Hascher?” said tho boarder, looking up
at tho landlady, after sawing two or
three minutcid at the leathor.
« “Same butcher as usual, ” replied tho
boarding mistress, w’ith a patronizing
smile. - “\\’hy?”
“Oh, nothing much,” said the board
or, trying to make an impression on the
steak with his kjiife and fork, “only
this piece of meat is the tenderest I
havo had in this house for some weeks, ”
—Strand Magazine.
Chippendale.
Chippendale not only made cliairs,
but almost CTcrytbing iu tho furniture
line, except &e one articlo with ■which
his name is most frequently associated
today. We refer to sideboards. It is
doxibtful if he ever laade a sideboard.
In his book there is no referenco to side
boards, though there are several large
tables which he calls “sideboard ta
bles.” Though the word sideboard was
used long before his day, it is probable
that the early English sideboards wero
merely tables.
“Trimmings” is the term under
which alcoholic dri.'jks are disguised in
tho bills English ladies run up at the
London department stores, according to
Salvation Army investigators.
More than 10,000 persons are engaged
in the manufacture of explosives iu
England. Last year 40 persons in the
business wero killed and 167 injured by
accidents.
John B. Barnes, the Populist magis
trate who attempted to crimmally as
sault Miss Gora Yarborough near Rockj?
Mount last month, is now in Wake
jail for fafe keeping. He was convicted
of the crime charged and Judge Tim-
berlake sentenced him to seven years in
the penitentiary. The case was ap
pealed .
—A fourth Presbyterian church has
been organized in Charlotte. It is
called Westminster, and is at Uilworth.
It has 56 members.
Why i'lowo'.-s Are rrag^rant.
Nature has pro^■id;'^T ways and means
for all of the ofilccs v/hich it i.s her pe
culiar province to fill Why flowed” are
fragrant has often been di.scussed. Bot
anists have dtcidcd tliat tho fertiliza
tion is largely acccmpiir-hed through
tho agsncy of insccts th:it pass from one
flower to another in search of food.
They become covered with pollen from
one blossom, which they in turn scid.fei
upon others. The accur:icy and com.pre-
hensiveness of nature’s plans are illus
trated by the fact that while the in
sect may visit a hundz’cd sorts of plants
in a day the pollen cf one has no cffoct
eave upon that parliculur speeicv: tc
which it belongs. The bumblebee, for
example, becomes loaded with yellow
dust, but this is of no value as a fer
tilizer to the multitude of other phints.
It is related that a lupine grows in
California sometimes oompletely cov
ering large tracts of_ land. Its bright
purplish crimson bloL'Soms are so abun
dant that they color \dq surface cf the
coimtry and can bo S(;ai for a long dis
tance. These blossoms have a pov/erful
fragrance, but are not nectar yielding,
therefore bees rarely visit them. It,
however, produces vc.y large quantities
of pollen, and the winged creature?
that seek this food oar:y on the proc-
esstjs of cross fertilization in tho most
satisfactory manner. Whether the in
sect is attracted by the fregrance oi
whether it instinctively knows where
the pollen grows ha:-; not been decided.
At all events the bee is%yise enough not
to rvasto time on llovi^ers which secretc
ncr nectar, and why shonld not its con
temporaries exercise equal intelligence^
—New York Ledger.
We Uve on a Ni:.rrow Marg^.
A very small change in tho presetit
cpndition of our eai*th would iimno-
diately kill every living being tipon it^
sm’face. An eastern writer comments
on the fact that we live on a very nur*
row margin. A little moro heat or a
little more cold, and v.'e die. Our ex-
isfence depends on keeping changos oi
^mperature within a range of about
1 per cent of what wo know as possible
•ctremes. If the moon were very much
larger, tho tidal wave would carry the
•ntiro ocean twice a day over tho sur
face of the earth. If the earth were
much smaller, wo would lose our at
mosphere; if it were much larger, w^
could not stand upright moi*© than fiv6
minutes, nor would we be able to mount
a hill except by painful crawling. If tha
year wero twice as long as it is, it is
doubtful if we could raise food enough
in the summer to carry us through the
winter or if we could survive the ac
cumulated cold. In every way our e.irtL
lies just at tho meeting point of tv.'C
kinds of death, which “on this ba.nl»
and shoal of time” wo must fight with
either hand. It makes no difference
whether wo have fitted ourselves to tljs
earth through a long series of evolution
or whether it was fitted to us. As iai
as wo know it is the only inhabit-ible
spot in the universe, and the chaLiCes
are almost infinite that no other is so
favorably located. Let us make tha
most wo can of it.—Chicago Record.
Smuggled It.
A bright young matron of West Fine
boulevard, who has just returned fiojn
a trip across tho big pond, exhibits Vvith
a good deal of prido ono of the hand
somest diamonds in St. Louis.
“Wliat makes it dearer to me than
anything else,” she tollti brr Intimates,
“is tho fact that I smuggled it. YoV
knov/ my husband couhln’t go with
me, and I joined a prrty of frieiids, but
ho warned me emphatically not to be
caught with d'atiable goods on me. 1
havo alwaj’s been wanting a diauiond
for this setUng”—shov/iag an antique,
beautiful design—“and 1 had a jewelci
hero give mo the dimensions of the
stone I must buy. Woll, hero it is, and
hov/ do you suppose I managed it? I
took with mo several packages of chew
ing gum. When the ofiicers came aboard
for our declarations, I stuck tho stone
into a picce oi gr.m that I had chewed
into a pulp, 1 kvr.i ou renewing tho
gum until wo got x^xcw York and
chewed away until I v/as safely landed
in my room at the hotel. Nov^, girls,
don’t you think I was clover?”
The young woman avors that sh<‘ has
not told her husband yet about hei tn-
terprise, but if he sees the old setting
with the new stone on her hand this lit
tle story may open his eyes. —St. Louis
Republic.
True to tbo Family Cange.
She was the daughter of a street rail-
way magnate.
And the good looking young man had
just kissed her.
A moment later he looked in her eyed
with a disappointed expression.
“Can’t you pay that back?” he mur*
mured.
■The lovely girl tossed her head.
“I believe,” she said, '“thatyou favot
lower fares?”
“Y^es,” he roluctantly admitted, “I
do. ”
“Then,” she said haughtily, “you
need expect no transfers on this sys':tem. ”
And the yoimg man knew that the
magnates had won another .round. —
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Young Astronomcrg.
“Children, come in. It is getting
late.’ ’
“Mamma, we’re only watching tho
stars. ’ ’
“That may be, but it isu’t good for
your health to stay out v,'atehing the
stars as late as this. ”
“What’s the use of talking that way,
mamma? We’ve been reading up. As
tronomers live longer than anybcd\
else.”—Chicago Tribune.
Hymen an Expert,
It was their first quarrel after mar
riage, and he was leaving for the clut
iu anger.
At the door ho turned and hui-led
back one parting shot.
“If love is blind,” he said, “it ninsi
bo admitted that Hymen is a first cVi- '
oculist. ”—Chicago Post
At Wilmington last week, while a
theatrical performance was in progress,
a lady member of the company dis
covered a man peeping through a win
dow into the ladies’ dressing room.
She ran for helji, the window wag sud
denly raised, and the peeper fell bfick-
ward, breaking his leg. He is wliito
and is named Poltey.
Judge Robinson declares the law put
ting men in jail for not paying their
taxes is unconstitutional.
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Tiie Largest Wooieu i^Jill in the
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Largest Taiiorit’.g Establishment
in the :-t ite.
Lugist bhou Factory in the
:-tate.
Eo11.t Milt.
Dep.)i:.
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Express Office.
Four Gr.ii;: and Guano Ilouscs.
Nine Gentral Stor^js.
Tvi'o Hardware Stores.
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Two Furniture Factories.
Largest Pin and Cross Ann
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F.jur Boaid'.ng Houses.
Tv.’o Phy-siiiians.
One Dentist.
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Two Tin Shops,
f wo Newspapers.
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T ,vo Shoe Shops.
Tivo H a-ness Shops.
Two Lumber Dealp.-:-.
Four Contractors.
Six Drays.
Six Daily IMails.
Two D.iily Passenger Trains,
One Daily Freight Tram.
Two Blacksmith Shops.
Ono Wood'-vorhing Shop.
Two Jewelt r.-'-.
Two Erick Contractor.-.
Five Churches.
One High School.
Two Piivate Sch''ols.
One Mu:-ic School.
Cotton Mil!.
B:irbi r.
L.ind C-)!opa;iy.
Toil Bridge.
Cornet Bend.
Telephone System.
Long Distance Tthp"': ne.
Stove iManufact'-ry.
Livi ry Stable.
?iliilinery Store.
Dress Making Establishment,
Saw Mill.
Tannery.
Brick Yards.
Three Secret Ordr ta,
iioaring Gap fummer resoit
fourteen miles distant.
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