North Carolina Newspapers

IEBORO COU Issued Weekly. PRINCIPLES, NOT MEN. ASHEBORoTn"c., THURSDAY JANUARY 21, VKH. $1.00 Per:Year J VOL. XXIX. FHE if"" -rr aSI RIER. ft: a s; r S Brvint. President . J. I.Cole, Cashier -Whe Bsuiik "of Randleman, Randlemarv N C Caoitaf oaii in, $20,000 V0oteetion to depositors, 40.000 . Dirkotors: S. G. Xewlin, A. N Bulla, W. T. Bryant. C. L. Lindsoy, N. N. Niwliii, J. H. t'ole. S. Biyunt II 0 Backer und Vt K Hansen. BRITTAIN & GREGSON, ATTORNEY'S-AT-LAW. Asheboro, - North Carolina. PRACTICE In tin- roartM ot Knmloli'h nii.l ml Joining untl, in Wute all" '"ft- Court, rruui aUenlliiu tii hwwn n" klmli. HAMMER & 8PENCE, Attorneys - at Law JRACTICK III ulltlii-C N"4rtlioiriuirt Ileum-, Ashi-bcm, N. C E. MOFFITT, Attorney - at - Law, 'ASHEBORO, N. C. 0. L. 8APP, Attorney-at-Law. rrsetie. la State and Federal Ooarta OorporaUoa, 0.aroial nd ""' bittlm. All bsaUaaa pioBi'- .tWnded to. I. B. (loz, President, tf. J. Argafleld. Viea'PreiidcDl V.J. Armflald, Jr., Cashier. I INK Of RUM, Asheboro, N. C. CAPITAL $25 000 00 W are low prepared to do a fren-ral banking baaineaa; and aoii.-it lh aeeounts . ot flraaa, corporation, tail IndlvidmaUt ot Randolph nd adjuiuli.p onoiiea. Directors I J II Worth. W P Wood, P H Mcrria. 0 0 MoAliiter, 0 J'Cox. W F Bad dina, A M Bankm. W H Wstkiua, Uugh Parka. Ban! Moffitt, O K ( 1 1, AWE 1xA Dr I E Ajbary, Jo"i Parkia. y EXPERIENCE D jiT Tmk Mam - Disions Anroa wnamt a akatrh anil dwnn'lon mar ISSTirtki KSTtffi W0W oPjlS rmnu UM thrown Milan a CO. noMTt Scieistinc Jfmerlcan rotation of aor .fWnlino Journal. Teron. U a aw : four monlia, IL add br all n.w,i)al.rj. If You Want The Best Laundry Sand Your Laundry to tha ' Old RellabU Charlotte Steam Laundry. They are. better preiurcil to Jo your work right than any Laundry in tht! State; and do it right, too. . Leave your bundle at Wood ft Moring's store. Baskets leaves TiM-adaya'and return Friday. W. A COFFI N, Agent. WINTER RESORTS SOUTH BEACHED II Y SOUTHERN RAILWAY. Th. Mnuthrni Rallwnr ru.d-lni) tniT K'iirin IH-kcU tn .11 thr iinrlil nmirtK o( IIh' ..nil. Ijt-KituiliiK (H lolvr la. wi. Tit. winter Mnrt at Nurtlt mil Hmitri (mtliuL (tronrl ana nurMa ar wpn iully invlUna to tum! Hi amrrn ol neaui or Oltwtin. in in AuiMlna OimoiHl. lavLm.. hint rk h. K' 1"tK, Miami and Tampa. Fla-t the n-rto( Mvhiu atwl Cuba, iMt n-w-ht-U via Houuieni Railway. Ttctata on fntr bp to ana1 liicltMlinir Al-ril 90. loot, limine t n-tiirn until Uny SI. 1904. Southern Knilwar alWtii -l;u)t train arn'l-.. with tin- lau-wt Pullman limwing Kfaan Slivplnn car. n,mui nnwii bt iwn-a prinrii i-itiw rrZ;: C Aa naanw Tw-trt Aariit kit further In forma. i 1 Bead muuel, kctctt or photo ol invcuiii.u tor ' ' i hwrrorton pit-ntl.lliiy Fi-rfrrebootv I imm WASHINGTON LETTER. Hearst's Friends ire Enthusiastic Mr. Gains, ot Tennessee, introduces Bill that Means Much to the Fanner The Lepublican Administration Stand. Chatted ot Bast ardy. Hiwi'lal Cortv.-i'mdriiu! Ouuner. Washington. D. C, Jan. 18. The thing of moat mterest to democrats that has happened, was the meeting of the Democratic .National Commit tee in this city. 1 he conrention will co to Chicago, The other only interesting deTclop- ment of this meeting was the senti ment anont presidential preferences. There was some Gorman talk and some Parker talk among the mem bers or tne committee, and the senti ment for both these gentlemen was about equally diTidad, but the in teuse sunrise of the meeting was the amount of llear.u sentiment that de- reloped not only among the mem bers of the committee, but among the teonlo from all sections of the country who came hre to attend the meeting. Many of the so-called reorgamser, readjuster, recalcitrant section of the parly came here cocked and primed to walk oil witli the whole thing, and they were very cocky when they got here and swelled up like a pois oned purRyhcn they were approach ed on the subject of the candidate, aid announced that there was no doubt that the old element of the democracy would be in control of the committee, and that they would fix things to suit themselves. They had not looked into their hands well, however, before the game started, and when the people who are inter- sted in the success of tho-pnrty be ran to boil into the city from eTery iinin and began to talk Hearst out loud, the reorganizes begin to look wildly about and wonder what it all meant, and began actually to resent the audacity and nerre of the ele ment that wanted Hearst, and inci dentally a man who had been true to the ticket in tho uiirsof 1896 and 1900. The overwhelming seutnnent for Hearst that developed the day of the meeting stampeded the reorgan ize r crowd and the first visible result was the practical withdrawal of the New York people from the contest for the location of the convention. They had conic here to test the I'arker sentiment, and if thcr had found it strong enough they intend ed to set the puce from the stand point of dollars so fust that Chicago and St, Louis could not stay in the race, lor tncy ligured that if, with a trong I'arker sentiment prevailing, they could get the convention ot New iork, the nomination of I'arker was a cinch. Their game failed to work on schedule time and they diopped the thing like a hot potato. It is the consensus of opinion here that the Hearst movement has come to stay and that all other candidates have got to reckon with the man from New York who has so endeared him self to the gieut common jieople of the country, i outiciuns sometimes propose, but the people dispose. Hie bill recently introduced by Mr. Gains, of Tennessee, for the relief of tobacco grower?, ond the rigor with which he is urging it, is awak ening much ink-rest. It repeals all tares and restrictions on free and unlimited trade in leaf - tobacco and permits anybody, anywhere, to buy and sell it in any quantity, It pro vides also that a grower may stem and twist and sell his own crop with out tax or license,- or deliver it to another person lo sell for him. The heavy tax on leaf tobacco (six cents) md the rigid and exacting remure- nieuts of the law regulating ita man uUcture have given the tobacco trust complete control of tobacco and growers are complaining everywhere that they are not allowed a living price for growing it. air. uains has gone laboriously through tho history of tobacco tax legislation and found that nt its inception it was distinctly und reputedly stated that it was only a wur measure and would be remitted when the war necessities subsided. All of those war meas ures have been remitted except this 'jurden on tobacco growers. Under existing law the department rigidly holds that the least change in the form of raw tobacco as it conies out of the barn is "manufacturing." It a farmer stems a hand, or twists or presses it, or in any wise changes it from its form in the natural baud, be becomes a manufacturer and must either take out a license and conform to the various and onorons requirements of the law, or he is prosecuted and fined and imprisoned as a felon. He it not permitted to prepare his own product for market nor participate iu any profit. The law delivers him bodil over to tha trnst. Tobacco growers everywheie are nrging the relief afforded by Mr. Gaines bill From the action taken by several of the southern states, it looks now that the treaty with Panama would be ratihod by the Senate. X he peo ple of the South undoubtedly want a caiml that they nave, to long Deen denied by the machinations of the transcontinental railroads and the help of their co-adjutors, the repub licans in Congress. They are emi nently right in wanting a canal. It means much for them and their fu ture, but they ought not to tie the hands of their Senators in Congreas in the matter of this ratification I. . 7 . i , i Panama were the only place at which ; ! could be built, they perhaps would be justified in telling their I Senator! that this it the last chance and wc must have the canal no mat ter how many commandments, he fracture in getting it. But this is not only not the only place where a canal can be built, but there was a law - on the statute books for the construction of a canal at Nicaragua, and the money already appropriated for it. There was not the shadow of excuse for the rape of Colombia and the birth of the bast ard Panama republic. The rape was committed, and the bastard was born for the reason that the railroads wanted the canal us' far away from the United states as it was possible to get it provided there was to be a canal whether or no, and because the republican party was to get a cam paign fund of live million dollars out of the ten million promised to Panama. These are two excellent reasons from a republican standpoint for looting a neighbor republic of one of ita provinces or states. While it is true we all can recongnize a bastard child as a fact and an en tity, and not quarrel with it because of its illegitimate birth, yet we all condemn the crime of bastardy. For that crime the republican adminis tration should be punished by Un people of the country. The treaty should be turned down. Instead of allowing the President to say to the democrats iu the Senate that it is up to them to ratify the treaty or gel no canal, they should defeat the rat ification of the treaty and' then eny to the President that it is up to him to obey the Spooner law and go to Nicaragua or get no canal. If tin treaty is ratified it will have been done by the working) of the com mercial conscience of the people of the country. CHARLES A. EDWARDS. May His Tribe Increase. The Progressive Fuimer nuotes Mr. P. M. Phillips, of Rowan conn-should tv. as writinc to Unit l inner under date of Januarv 8th as follows: ' How any man can let a paper come to him year' in and year out without paving for it, and then get mad with the editor and say hard tilings ubout him, if he duns him for the price of the paper, is a problem I am not able to solve. The man who edits a paper and sells it to his brother man for a dollar or two, as the case may be, is as justly entitled to it as the man who sells a bushel of wheat for a dollar. The farmer cannot afford to raise his wheat and give it to his fellow man, neither can a man edit a paper and give it to his fellow man. We don't know Mr. Phillips, of Rowan, but we would like to shake hands with him. May his tribe in crease. Statesville Landmark. Why Nt Items. (Received to late for last week.) Mr Cleveland Ellis, of Chatham, came over Saturday bringing his sis ter, Miss hninia, who will spend some time at her brother's, T J Ellis. Messrs J A Monroe and J L Spen cer went to Love Joy Saturday. .Mr and Mrs U ii Uiwrence, ot French, siient Saturday and Sunday with relatives here. Mr J A King went to Ramscur last week. Miss Pearl Aumun and Mr B S Lawrence visited near Kemp's Mill Saturday. Mr Sidney Bean, of Fork Creek, spent Sunday at J A King's. YY e don t like for u certain gentle- nittu to come here so often, we ve got nothing against him, but we don't want any of our girls taken off to the far west. The spring term of the school here has opened lit) well: nearly all the old students have returned. Among the new students are the following: Mr C E Russell, Seagrove; Mr A S Lucas and sister, Miss Hettie,. I'is- gah; W C Vestal and sister, Miss Ilattie, Ralph. Several other new students, are expected soon. not (.turner has added shorthand to his commercial department. 11 has organize u class in bookkeeping and shorthand. Prof and Mrs Garner visited in Moore county Sunday, vi'iting Mil Garner s mother who is very sick The entertainment at the academy on the night of December 23rd was largely attended, and pronounced a success. It was greutly enjoyed. The dialogue, "From down East," was a sure hit. All the students ac quitted themselves well. Courting la North Carolina. An exchange says the following is the method ol courtship in the Caio- lina pine woods: "V heu a boy wishes to express himself to his girl he takes a piece of fat pine, trims it in the shape of a capital 1 unit then passes it to his girl, which moans, '1 piuc for yon. If she rejects him she takes a match and seta it on fire, which means, 'I make light f your pining.' If she likes him she hands a pinewood knot, which means, 'Pine not. 1 am gla-i to say that most of the bOTi get a pine-wood knot back." Road Balldiiif la Oalllord. Modern road building began in Guilford this week. Sixty State convicts trained in road building were taken from the penitentiary, The Alamance road leading out from Greensboro is the first road to be macadamized. Partoled burrocks are used for the convicts. Tha maet dan roads to be built in Gml- ford the result of the election last May when $300,000 of bonds were author i led to be issued for road building. WHEN TO STUDY GRAMMAR. "I don't see no sense iu grammar nohow, an' I don't see no usc'n 8teudyin' hit. Pap says grammars jist a book 'at some folks as wants to put on iu is gits and steady s, so s to make their tongues slick. Why Square Peterson's daughter she went on to school, nil w hen she come back home she jist put on so many o them uirs at pap couliln t under stand her when she 'ml talk. He'd jist set 'itle his mouth shet and look (in a iv. (I course she weren t a talk in' to him spacial, she1 jist made a talk down to the meetin house one Sunday after noon. I hyeaid sunn o' the women Buy in' they thought it wux cruel the way at Miss I Vterson d went back on her mother tongue. Au' pap he says that's jist whur she's done wrong. If she'd jist a left off them there airs she'd a been a smart girl. Pap says hits all right lo have grummur in the school fer them as wants to steady hit, an' e:;crciso thet minds an' tongues a lee tie in the "line arts." But hits plum foolish to try to practise hit iu ever day con versation. Ho says ye r jist shore to git tripped up ef vetiies to change yer way o' pernotincin' thengs right in the community whur ye ve been laiseil. 1 never wuz much of a hand to put on airs nohow, an' I liaiiit agoin' to bother my brains 'itle some- thin at s not practickle, an pap says grammar haiiit." I Ins is the sort of language that the boy uses whose father suvs "1 git along 'ithoitt a cjicatiou an' my childerit kin too 1 reck'n." This boy is thirteen years old and bus just made his first attempt at 'steadyiu grammar. Is it any wonder he 'can t see no sense in bit?" Why should he see any sense in it? He learned to talk years ago in his uncouth way yet it con veys his feeling to his fellows.- Vt hv he want to learn ovel some- thing which he already knows ? His parents consi or the study of En- lish Grammar u soit of gviniuistics for the mind mid tongue. Thev look at it as a high flown treatise on the language: all well enough to lie unmolested on the hook-shelf; to be bought and used to till out the complement of studies and to give the toucher something to do, being that he is a person of leisure--espec ially in the school room. But, never to be used as the proper conveyance f a true American s thoughts. ) perverse and crooked genera tion: When shall wc ever learn to respect our language? When shall we he made to sec that since chil dren learn to talk almost the first thing, they should learn to use cor rectly the English language; that grammar should not be left oil until they can "cipher most anything nnd "spell a blue streak." Just so long as this much needed reformation in the setting of school tudies is left off, so long will the hildren "git along 'ithout steadviu' laminar." And the children, grow ing to manhnod and woiirinlinod will continue to"kiver tutors" mid proph- sy that theie is "gwine to be some kind o' weather." When should children begin the study of the English Grammar? Vt hen they begin to l.tlk. Ill.V I.NIiOl.ll Ma.-trn. Dr. Dred Peacock has sold his in terest in the general agency for North atrl South Carolina of the Provident Savings Life Assurance Society of New York to his partners. Messrs. P. P., Jr., and t . V . lioid, and has moved to High Point to en gage in the manufacturing business, having bought an interest in t lie Globe Furni'ure Coimianv. Davidson 'Jurors. The following jurors have been drawn for Feby. term of Davidson court, which begins Monday reliru- ;uy 20th: D K arner, .M 1. 'avior, a it George, C W Davis, Clark Wessner, loh i N Nifoing, D L Wilson, F H Beall, C F Young, I G Thomas, C A Owen, (' H Gobble, B F Liitiier. K E Harris. Edward llultnian, V A lli-di-it-k. W B Cross. Ciceio Dobev. C W Stokes, George F Moorelioltl, .Si L Hiukle, J Ed Conrad, G D Sink. J A Dair, S A Molsinger, George Coldfoltor, Peter W Wagoner, Felix Delap, J D Starr, J t llurkhart, .1 N Myers, Riley Ix-onard, Robert L C linord, roster M Myers. M Ij ru-u- lull, David linblei, for the irst week. Cigarettes and Crime. At the recent national convention of Charities und Corrections in Ci i cinuati nil address was made by Go i. Torrence, of 1 antiuc. 111., snperi.i- tendent of the lute Kefoi tnatory, I'he relation of the cigarette to crime. Alter reciting his own ex perience with boys coming to his in slitutioti, Mr Torrence said: "I am sure ligarettes are destroying and making criminal of more of them than the saloons. In his reforma tory there are 2 IS bovs. Of ii.l, averaging 12 years of age oS wre cigarette smokers, in 1JJ, averaging 14 years of age 125 were cigarette smokers, of 82 averaging 15 years 73 were cigarette smokers. T his de monstrates that 92 per cent, of the whole number were cigarette lie.ids at the time of committing i-iimcsfur which they were committed to the reformatory. The general discussion developed a similar experience with others connected with reformatories of boys. From result like these and others showing the wreck of health and ruiu of life in boys and men, it is eviuent that not only the use, but also the manufacture of the cigarette should be prohibited by law. Luth eran Observer. SAAl JONES' LETTER. AiiatunJouriMi. I All true im-u the mistakes and -in of the decent people are gratified tot t. All !nml , man or the ten thousand fawns an blessings hu ll have I n show, ;, along their pilgrimage. As I loo over the veai l'.ni:!, 1 am Mire I lint a thousand tilings m ! thankful i'.u- and even a thousand things to ie-i where 1 hate one tiling to complain ot and kick ahoiil. I iliank (ml that ill spiti' of lailload wrecks n: -' disasters, I have ridden safely tin thousands of miles across ami iv it oss the country, and that I Lav never received anything hut Kind itt-ss at the hands of railroad men. 1 sometimes 'regard them as the clever est set of fellows in the world. 1 love to stand under the "cow shed' in Atlauta,und shake hands with en gineers, conductors, firemen, brak men, as thev come in and go out. They give mo a warm grip of the hand, and look at nie as inui-li a- lo suy, "It 1 can help you along at any time on your trips, n will he a great pleasure to me to do so," Now and rnen one of my personal friends who is an engineer or conductor gets killed in one of these fearful wrecks; how in v heart Meeds for him, and his family. Not milv do I I :;.- and ippreciate the men on ei.uiiirs and ars, but the hard worked superin tendents and managers are worthy of ill praise and deserve hut little cen sure ut the hands of the public. I have learned to love those men foi their work's s,tk and to honor them for thfir fidelity to the trusts committed to thejii. There are no harder worked men than the goiter:! I managers, president anil superinten dents of l hose systems. .Many of them I know personally and know how hard they work, - Tho hundreds of thousands of miles I have travel oil, and yet without a bruise or a scratch, 'and in the thirty years of travel, 1 do not believe I have mis-. .1 important connections more th.tu thirty times. I have also witnessed marvelous evolution iu railroad,. and this evolution is traceable to the brains of great railroad ni"n. I am not olilv "lad that I have traveled safely, iml 1 am L'hul of the thous ands of fiiends 1 have nu t, and the kind words and deeds tiny have ex tended to me.- I feel profoundly L'lat. ful to my creditors for their leniency and pati ence 1 1 have not Ml -old my cotton. By the way, genl'h lie u. 1. I ill- Lull and hoars light and scra'ch, and 1. 1 cotton tlnet"al.-a hundred poini s a day. but if you don't want lo .-. !!, ih.l't sell, she i.- eoniiliL' to l "i eetits. in my candid judgment, before the ides of April. I I am profoundly gr it. -fu1 to (iml that the lives of tlToso 1 hue must have been parnl liiruiigh tin- old year, and that Ili im-rci-v, are still continued towatd u-. I tin I llim for his mercies iu the future. A 1 run over these things in nivowu life. so with ol In is, foi we an- all akin each other. When one ma i toll.- hi-' better, deeper ei- rieiii-e, he tells the opcriunccs of million of men. We all know tln-re is a God. and that Ib is good to us. We know that wife and niotlier lire our lu-st friends on earth. We know in common each other's hopes and fears. in?-takcs and sins. joys, and soriows are much alike.' With the experieiiee of lifty si year behind one. I trust ( iod cou nt ly for the Veals that may re main mine here and tor I lie davle-s. less eternity beyond. All iia.ii the New Yeat's dav of the new var. The brightest and the be! fulle,t of hope, and our itirl -should be fullest ratitude. liraliv, I like a live man. it live cilv. a live world. The i-i nieterv is he la-t place I want to go to, and they will have to carry no- there. 1 would like tliechiirclibettei- .fit had more life-:ind le.-s diguitv: more ag gression and less eoti.-erv at ism; lu-He religion and It- ccch-siatieislii. lint all in ail. the church is the best thing in the world, and I have inure lliMilo. weak as lie IllaV I e. III. Ill I "- - 1- - - have for the , alh-d '.-tn.i.g IMlo.v here I where you make up lost time, on the outside criticising the lives of Uy ff plan of reading for the .Hill,,,-,. iU.in the chuivb, or. Get some biography, history, a P. Ji.M.--. Watersno's Latest. 'The attention of Henry Wit ter- sun is culled to the inlereslin facl .1 . . .. I ... .If I H.-.I .. ' Woll klllfil in i-rmoiii lor year nas jusi neon u,s- patched. The significant par. of . he . .i.... .. .u i, i. ...i editoi of the' Courier-Journal invari ably Slavs his gray wolves with a pen ,,.. v - . t:iu.i WIIB , e.l. e....t s,. . e .. with a broom." Jacksonville Times Union. i Alas, poor wolf! Ho deserved a . boiler fate. If he hud any gil-up-. and-git about him he would ha.o gone to the Senate, hired a Skunk of the lobby to fetch and tarry for him, and. lolling hack iu un oay chair, had his picture look for a, Matesiniiu mid Diploiiiuti.-l! Neither pens, nor broomsticks r--a.-h .- i h wolves. Wlnjl I hey the at ail t !i -v die of inanition and go to hell in a hand-bfteket! Iniisv ille Coiirier J on mal. "The Transplatitin a charming story in : of u Lily" i the January 'Some" Missis- issue ol rami i.iie. aittni Froirs" is a iioaint slorv of Southern life on the farm iu tlieNow Year's n limber that will interest both the old and yctt .g. The Corn - IKK has made arrangements w hereby bom rami uie an i me viuintu ca,,l,,edo,,errfor.fl,)0o,,r ti-zular yea ly subscription price. Scad in your subscription today. MONTGOMERY NEWS. lli- Fxumlnri f Green Sinii'ii died is ago at Gold Hill, a native of Pee De. county. tOIMM IWO Mr Smith township, I Ilr l.-vniie officers destroyed two il licit distilleries iu upper" Montgom ery 1-1,-t week. They were iu opera lion, but the operators escaped. diii- next term of court will open -n January 2.rith, 11104, and Judge ') II A'lcn will preside. This will ie :t criminal term of only one week. Miss Bessie Davis, of Beaufort, .t ill have charge of the music in froy High School this spring. She .vill arrivo in a few days and take charge of her work at once. Mrs D A Ewiug and son Will who have been in from Florida, for sever ol weeks, are very sich of pneumonia at the home of Mr T A Graham at Candor. Three boys down on Little R'vera few days ago fired one shot each in to a covey of black birds after thev had risen from the ground; and on counting discovered that they had killed 'Mi birds. Miss Bessie Scarboro has resigned her posiliou as assistant teacher in tin- public school at Mt. Gilcad, and Miss Emma McAulay has been elee td to till the vacancy caused by the former's resignation. Master Ashley Haywood, living near Little Kirer m Mt. diicad township, takes the prize for killing Id gc-ese. A few days ago ho lii ought in three of the wild creatures w ith only 0"i shot. A delightful party ut tho pleasant home of Mr and Mrs R L Thomas. Monday night wa the social event of the week. It was given iu honor of Mr Legrand. of Rockingham, a brother of Mrs Thomas. The popu lar game of "pitt" furnished the amusement for tha guest. They say it !a sure enough small po down below Wadcville, it seems to be in a mild form, as none hare ed and more than u dozen have had jit. No white jwople so far, huvc been attacked by the contagious mal I adv. Mrs Blair and Ingram have it in charge. The pest house has beeu quarantined for several days. Considerable trading took pheo at Mt Giiead about the first of ti e year M L Harris and Baxter Scarboro bought out L P Byrd's stock of mer chandise. Mr Byrd bought out A ' I lav wood's stock and immediately s !d the same to A S McRa-. This 1'i.ives Mr Hyrd and Mr Haywood out of the mercantile business. Montgomery bids fair to maintain h. r murder record. It was hoped thai the seven men tried for murder at our last term of court wou'd he i he last for many years, but before .mother term of court is held an . , In e man charged with murder is placed in jail. Of course this moans mui.lier big trial all at Montgomery's e.xpi us ,. usual w iBkeyi responsible i'.-rii !i i-i ne men boon sober noth ing ol' I no kind would have happen ed: an 1 yet si range to say. many peo ple do not profit by the "sad experi ence of otl i i-. This unfoi lunate u flair should lie a warning to all who are inclined to drink. He who thinks that he eun conlrol himself while under ihe influence of whiskey often tin. Is himself an object of pity in the sight of his friends. L'ing the Time. After supper these nights it i; u long lime until ImmI time. Much de pends on how our boys and girls em ploy the hour from five to nine or ton o'clock. If you live iu a town or vi hi go. voting man, it is a groat temptation to go up town and trifle the lionr9 away with men whonugni to be at homo w ith their families, but who prefer to waste tin- time senseless cabbie about the s'.ove the grocery or the drug store. Do not go near them, boys, wc beseech von. I'so these four hours every night iu improving yourselves. If I, i tie poetry, und three or four 1 bonks frsm "the mastoid of fiction, I such us Dickons or Scott or Cooper. You can get them. Ask your preach er to help you out. He" will take ensure in doing wliut no can. men " . ., ; Ol VOlirsCIJ. IU "tll UIOIW k-uiiiv.- , : - . . haJ cr be rcudingyour Bible Pay no attention to him; he has never l"'r' himself rtding his Lay out i imr rso of reading and then stick I to it. By next May you will find - .W11.,,,.(..,,(1 mid enriched. If all our young friends would only ultilize the golden moments of these winter nights what a blessine would come into their live. Whatever you do, dear f riends do not throw this preciotis time attay gossiping about the streets, Last Wednesday morning parties from the county reporti-d the iod kin river frozen over except in mid st i earn, where the rapid curieiit kept a clear channel. Naturally the was thickest near the bunks on cich side, and was proved to be capable of bearing the weight of a man to the average distance of fifty feet out. Not for many years has the iev taken such a hold on the river. Many creeks and other small streams near here were frozen thick and harJ. . Davidson Dispatch. . , . n i. Tl .. .... ... . ... l .Tit E' R0LLA, MISSOURI, IS VERY DRY The Wagons to Around Wilh Their Tongues Out. Rolla, Mo., Sharpshooter: It is so dry and hot here in Holla that the wagons arc going around with tongues out, and ice lias to be souk- ed all night in watt r before it is wet enough to make lemonade. 1 he cat fish kick up such a dust in the bed of the Gasconade river, that tho river that the rive-has to be sprinkled be fore you can go lishing. A spark from mi engine set the big railroad pond on lire, and burned up a wagon load of bull frogs, before the fire could be extinguished, anil t In round is so hard and dry, that the crawfish holes in the low places ate being pulled up and shipped oft for gas pipes. Rocky Mountain Letter. Montcbista, Col. Dec. 2 1003, Dear Covkieh: Some of the friends of my boy hood days want me to write them and tell" them of this, one of the most wonderful countries in the world. So I will tell them in the columns of the Cotkiek about the great "Sun Luis" valley. Look on the map and find tho State of Con necticut und there you see the area of this valley. It has the continental divide on the west, the Siguache, or Simatch mountains on the north, the Sangre de Christo, or the blood of Christ made perfect mountains on the east and the San Anlone, or Snow mountains on the south and southeast. The highest mountains in each range are on the west Ruld mountain. Dl.oOO feet, the top cover ed with snow the year round and Old Greemo 1,000 feet, and on the notlu, uiguache peak another snow mountains and on the east is "Cre- stone" peak, Mosca peak, and Mt. lilanca (V hite Ml.) ranging irom 13,000 to U.000 feet, all snow moun tains because their tops are above timber line, which is about 12,00 feet altitude and above which alti tude is nothing but jagged and rocky peaks mostly covered with snow all the year, i ne .-snow ,ns. look like a great snow bank most of the year with the Spanish peaks for sentinels. The "San Luis" valley, has an altitude of 7,050 feet with the P.io Grande river running through it from northwest to southeast and is the life blood of the valley, from it runs the tho irrigation canals that give life to the valley as the veins in the body gives life to the system, and without which there would be no life in the mutter of farming in this val ley, of which we will toll you more soon. II. M. Houm ous. CI' RE FOR SMALL POX. Said to be as Unfailing as Fate and Con quers in Every Instance. I herew ith append a recipe which has been used to niv knuwiedu hundreds of case. It will prevent or cure small pov though the pit ting are filling. When Jennor dis covered cow pox in England, the world of science hurled an avalanche of fame upon his head, but when the most scientific school of medicine in w orld that of Paris published this recipe as a solid panacea for sinitll dox. it passed unheeded. It is us un failing as fate, and conquers in every instance. It is harmless when taken by a well person. It will also cure scarlet fever. Here is the recipe as I have used it, and cured niv child ren of scarlet fever: here it is as I have used it to cure small pox, when learned physicians said the patient must die, it cured: Sulphate zinc, one grain; fox glove (digitalis) one grain; half u teuspoonful of sugar: j mix with two tablospoonful of su gar; mix with two tnhlespooiiful of water. When thoroughly mixed add four ounces of water. Take a spoon ful every hour. Either disease will lisappear in twelve iiours. ror chiltl. smaller doses, according t age. I If counties would compel their i physicians to use this there would be q-lis -s j, ,r (.asi, ,nWriptiiin only! ' uo need of pet houses. If you value j sllISeriptioii under this combi udvice and experience, use this foi llatin tiffer must be sent through that torrinic disease. r.x. Never In the World' j Apparently, the hardest thing in the wot Id to git people to under-i stand is the faet that all contributors ' must give their names when thev send in their articles. Almost every paper keeps a notice line this stiind- , ing in its column.-, while others con- tinually refer to it. l ot constantly, people send in eontiliutions wit bout a scratch to indicate who their authors are or whether they are sent in good faith. This thing is a little matter that people will never learn. Mon- : roe Journal. "How Grandma saw Lincoln," a most interesting stoiy, never la-fore published, bused on a incident in the life of the immortal Lincoln, will appear in the February number of Farm Life. This delightful narra tive will charm every reader and the only way to enjoy it is to subscribe Farm Life early so that you can se cure the Febinary number. This is only one of the many good features of thia splendid magazine for farm folks. We are certain that every reader of the Courier -ill be great- ly pleased to read Farm Ufe lor (year and those ho have not already - i . , . . j " 7- FRUIT TREES THAT Do your spring planting in' March. Write for free iirus-' trated catalogue, ah"! pumphr-. v.:'ij let. on "How to Pla.nl. and v. -i Cultivate an Orchard." f'iy'ea ' ' .' all necessary information. . Everything in Fruit, Shade' mi (1 Ornamental Trues; Fine' -.'' .-: m stock Silver and Sugar-. la- . pies. J. VAN LINDLEY NURSERY COMPANY. Pomona, - - - N. Carolina.,- . Cut Prices .'. 'While you Wait? 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