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VOL. XXV.
GRAHAM, N.G, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1899. 1
NO. 40.
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Look In Your tJIrror
Do von sparkUnf T. A Baalthy,
UBUd flkin, a tweet expreeeioa Md gnce-
falform Thau Attriutlmia Are the nenlt
ofaod health. K they are ebeeot, there
is aeerly always some disorder of the die.
tinctly feminine organ present. Healthy
neostrnal organs meaa Keaith and beanty
verjrwhexe.
4 KcEUZEETS
Wtoocf Czidu!
vakf -woman beautiful and hemttbr.
It strikes at the root of all their
trouble. There is no menstrual dis
order, ache or pain which it will not
fttre. It is for the budding; girl, the
"'"y wife and the matron approaching
the change of life. At erery trying
crisis in a woman's life it brings
health. sBength and liappineaa. It
costs Ji.coof medicine deaWra.
For advice in cases requiring special
direction, address, riving symptoms,
"The Lad?,' Advisory Department."
The Chattanooga Medicine Cc, Chat
tanooga, Tenn.4)
raa. BOZKHA IIWHL mt Oenertlle,
J1 "r--I was tmiM et PaM;
"e wtth terrlbte seine te mj hee4 fni
Rnbber Stamps
RimI I-1 J.tAvl nntlL.
inks, pada. and all kind of
muncr tstamp enppliea. eiamp"
10c np. W. P.EZZELL,
Barlingtoo, N. C.
tat TtoU.YBwriipiBl!t
Oak or Woiojofiv
Betk,t3.9S. :
n i
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I
Hi
Trapped In a Mine With a Blast Fuse
LlsMed.
A Dnn with an empty sleeve told a
curious story In one of the hotel lob
bies. "In 1889 I wns prospecting In tho
Joplin lead district," he said, "and with
two partners bad sunk a shaft about
30 feet deep on a promising claim. At
tho bottom of the excavation we start
ed to 'drift' In other words to drive a
tunnel at right angles. One nfternoon,
jwhepheJunnelJtiadj)rogiMse(LEome
12 feet. It became necessary to put In
a blast I was below at the time and
my two companions were at the top,
working the windlass. I drilled a hole
In the formation, which was very hard,
put In a dynninite cartridge, tamped !t
well with broken rock, lit the fuse and
stepped Into the bucket. At the first
turn of the windlass the ropo broke at
the -top and dropped down into th'i
shaft The bucket fell only a yard or
so, but I plunged bead first against the
side aud It was perhaps a couple of
minutes before I could collect my
senses.
Then In a flash I realized my situa
tion and Jumped back Into the tunnel
to extinguish the fuse, but It had al
ready burned down to the tamping and
all I could see was a little smoke ooz
ing out through the rocks. I could hear
my partners yelling to me from above,
but I knew there wns no other rope In
our camp ond the only thing 1 could
think of was to pick out the tampl"":
and get at the fuse before It reached
the dynamite. For all I knew the ex
plosion might take place at any instant,
but I grabbed a drill and began to claw
nt the tight packed rock. In a few
seconds I realized that It was a hope
less task, so I dropped the drill and
as a last resort ran back to tho shaft
and crouched against the far wall.
"If I live to be a thousand," contin
ued the story teller, "I will never for
get my agony while I waited for the
blast to go off, knowing full well that
my chances for escape were almost too
small for computation. It seemed as if
the explosion would never occur, and
all tho while a horrible panorama of
death and mutilation was rushing
through my brain. 'Now!' 'Now!'
'Now!' I kept saying out loud, think
ing each time I uttered the word that
tho roar would follow, but It didn't. 1
could have sworn that 15 minutes
elapsed and I was beginning to feel a
wild hope that the fuse had gone out
when an awful thunderclap came and
everything disappeared.
"My partners had secured a new ropo
and were pulling me out when I recov
ered consciousness. My left arm had
been crushed and I was peppered all
over by flying- rock, but I suffered most
from the poisonous gases of the nitro
glycerin In the dynamite. Next day
they took off my arm at the elbow and
It was six months before I got out of
bed. Strange to gay my hearing wasn't
affected and, es you see, 1 have no
scars on my face. So I may consider
myself very lucky on more counts
than one.
"By the way, there was one very
strange incident connected with the af
fair. As I said before, it seemed to me
that I lay there an Interminable time,
waiting for the blast to go off. After
ward, when I was convalescent, 1 men
tioned the matter to one of my part
ners and he looked surprised- He told
me that be was at the shaft month
when I crouched down and that the
explosion occurred Immediately after
ward. He was Intending to drop his
coat over me. but didn't have time to
take It off."-New Orleans Times-Democrat
Ferial Irreawlarltr.
"Physiologists tell ns. " said a lawyer
to the writer recently, "that no two
faces are exactly alike, and 1 think they
are correct, elthough we often hear of
one person being the exact image of an
other" That this is largely a matter of
imagination can be proved by investt
ration. I have in my office a clerk who
U constantly mistaken for myself. Sev
eral people say be resembles me so
doythat I ma be joking when I
deny the relationship.
" In order to ascertain how much rea-
at a.1 ... arwatv ATarrji I
10.
on there was lor- uo V . '
took the fellow to photographer s one
y last week and we both bad oar pic
ture, taken together, and I wooJd defy
any one to point ont a single point of
Semblance. My clerfcl however re
gard, the matter as a good joke, and!
ST snspert be ackwled-. rt4aUon
SP taigood many -e intent
1T, so as to cause complications. Ibave
born, the photon
wbo hare made the mistake, bnt it has
nolnnncnce upon them whatever, and
Ui. impossible to convince them against
their wilF-Washington Htar.
Te.rer.awr. Drt-k of 183.
On one of the pages0 sjicedcUary.
dated 183S. this recipe for ID
Sot weather drink was found in the
handwriting of a woman:
"Pnt six quart of water s
SaSsrwifiS
. L iw aa soon as it is cold.
gWptcTTb....
THE SINGERS.
He (track hit harp Bounding stroka.
And high in heaven the music rang;
The echoc in the ikies awoke
Fluting tht mighty note he sang.
And no one paused to greet hi thought;
Life wa too iwitt nd love too sweet;
He ssng his Ufty stave tor naught,
The throng went by with hurrying feet.
But one who loitered by the way.
Who wore ao singing robe at alL
Lifted a warble light and gsy . j. '
As a child's laugh, a throstle's calL '
And half beneath the breath his strain
Seemed fu.i .of tunes all men had heard
Long, long ago, sweet falls of rain,
The love song of the mating bird.
The rustling leaf, the murmuring dove, '
They heard in that melodious sigh;
The whisper of first trembling love :
They heard and their first lullaby.
e
Within their hearts they sang his lay
Again. They kissed his garment's hem
And threw their laurels in his way
That he might set his feet on them.
Harriet Prcscott Spofford in Independent.
lllllllllilllllllllllllllHL!!
The Swamp Swallowed the Loco
motive, and the Lake Swal
lowed tho Swamp.
BY MOKLEY ROBERTS.
CopiiiflJit.
It wns undoubtedlv a swnmn.
"There ain't no shnddcr of a doubt
of it," said tho railroad men when they
cut sods from the moss with short
handled shovels.
North of them stretched the mighty
rahSj jj?LyieUlhigorn,Jor Jinlt
a thousand miles. Beyond the prairie
lay tho muskeg, the barren lands of
northern Canada, ha nut of the red
eyed, matted musk ox, of the moose
and caribou.
South was Lake Superior, a silver
green sea, quiet, unruilled and tremen
dous. Upon Its Hhores thousands of
men were working at tho making of a
railroad, part of Iliitain'a steel girdle
round the world.
But now it was on the nuvll, and the
nature of thlnga was bueklug against
the Intention of mini, and every now
aud again Kale pipped u card played
by the engineers, and this happened
sometimes just ns the C. P. II. man
was reaching out his hand to collar
the stakes.
"A swamp. It Is true." suid the sur
veyor, "but nothing serious. Let the
engineers look to it."
They shifted ahead and measured
the rotund earth and left the swamp
behind them. And a spell of dry weath
er took the engineers In. It even took
Archer In, who wns not truly an en
gineer, but a man who understood
things generally nud often was hard
est driving when he was as Invisible
as steam In the cylinder.
"Get on, get on," said Archer, who
was a real chunk of millstone grit, orig
inally from Yorkshire and American
ized till he bit like a file Into any op
position. "I just mean having It done." wns
Archer's motto, und It was forever in
his mouth.
"He meant having It done" should
bo his epitaph and perhaps will be by
and by when it gi ts done finally.
So when the swamp cprend out he
jumped on It and declared decisively
that It wasn't a swamp nt nil, or. If It'
was. It wasn't much of n one. And If
it was much of a one he didn't care.
"The railroad goes over It," said
Archer, for ho wanted that section
through, and l:i his mliiJ was the uo
tlou of the driving of the last spike,
which represents heavenly attainment
and paradise to railroad men.
And the railroad did go over It, aud
then Archer snld:
"I told you no. Hurry up, now; hur
ry up."
As everybody had been hurrying up
till tho horizon danced the men grunt
ed n little. And Archer slid cast on a
train on business aud wasn't back for
three days. As he returned It rained
In a gentle, Insinuating way, good for
crops and soothing to the farmer's
mind, as It was a long time from har
vest But It did not soothe Archer, who
wauted nice, dry, warmish weather, as
he knew men, if they worked at all.
never worked as well In rain, for when
a man Is thinking about himself It
takes his mind away from bis shovel
and ho who would shift 15 cubic yards
of "dirt" In ten hours will come down
to shifting only 12 or less.
He got out at Nrpljon.
"It's a bit damp, Mr. Archer," said a
man loafing there on the platform.
"Humph!" said Archer.
"And they do ssy there ain't no rail
road on that swampy patch," said the
Nepljon man.
"Wbatr
"No railroad on that swamp piece. I
said." returned Nepljon, spitting.
"Gone through V
The deuce!" cried Archer, and, go
'Ing to his office, be foond a few tele
grams, reading: -
1. "Swamp loc'-s rcry shaky.
2. "Swamp too soft Can hardly run
the gravel train over It"
3 Boad gone in. Locomotive gone
with It Wire Instructions."
Archer went outside and shook bis
flst at Katnre and swore a Bllle very
softly and a little not rood and. get
ting on the locomotive with the engi
neer, went like the wind on a rlalt of
Inspection. ..
-1 own it freely." aald the man. with
bis band on the lever as the engine
fled west like a aqnattering dock. "I
own It freely. Mr. Archer, but I never
bad no confidence in that swamp"
"Nor me," said the fireman.
n. .Hnjf ahnt his left side sub
ordinate np wltb a frown of surprise
wbtcb was liks a pw
rake.
-Too dldnX hl" asid Archer. "And
whTOOtr
"Waal. Mr. Archer. It's t'jl way."
returocd the engineer: "1 Mt that be
didn't trust It And when a waa'i en
gine don't frost the road, bnt gt-t on
a nervous tremnlntlon. like a bofae 00
a plank bridge that's Ixudy. a maa
hasn't the proper eonflfieoce neither."
"Humph!" growled Archer.
That's so," said the engineer as be
peered ahead through the rain, which
was now coming down "k.-rxpioah."
The take was lost under a black
annalL but here and there it showed
tbundrrotu green, like bve swamp, j
green and mockjj. Jo Jarddrled f em. j
The'ronu's ditches were ruli of water,
and so were the drain culverts running
athwart the road.
"It's got to be tried with all weath
ers," said the engineer, who was rather
religious. "The Almighty says that
about all things, Mr. Archer, and rail
roads ain't no exception and haven't
no especial gifts of grace. It's good
works put the railroad througl. Wo
find salvation on the bedrock."
But Archer had no love for theology
then or at any time, and be growled.
"Here we are, sir," said the senten
tious man nt the lever.
They pulled up nt a bit of a wayside
shanty thnt is now a dandy station,
and Archer lit off the locomotive Into
n puddle.
He found a gang of melancholy mak
ers of railroads awaiting bin coming.
They looked very much ashamed of
themselves.
"80 you've let her Jhrough, hove
you?" cried Archer reproachfully.
And Scott, the chief of them, nod
ded. The others nodded, too. like au
tomatic Chinese inandnrlns.
''We've let her through, sir," said
Scott; "that's a fact"
Archer nipped him by the arm just
above the elbow.
"Coino in and let's have a look," said
Archer. And he went out of the shel
ter Into the rnln.
Behind them tailed the gang of sub
dued subordinates. A dozen of the
men came out of their tents and fol
lowed. "Think bully Archer can cure her?"
asked one.
"He's a rustler."
"Bustles us."
"And himself, sonny. But this yer
swamp! Dr. Archer can cure swamps
and give new life nud tone to the
whole railroad system of the ('. V. IE.
ro not dewy till It ls too luie. Men
tion this advertisement"
The tall of Archer's group laughed at
tho joker. But Archer overheard, for
he had cars.
"You heard that?" be said to Scott
"Young Wade Is saying I'm the swamp
doctor. If so. It's uiy first case."
They came down to the creek or lit
tle river which bounded the swamp.
The bridge was wrecked, and the rails
gradually disappeared Into bubbling
slime on the far side of the water. And
right across the swamp which now
glimmered In pools lay a broad bund
of this same black slime, mnrklug
where the loud to the Uockles nud be
yond had once been.
"Oh, British Columbia!" said Archer
to himself; "oh, British Columbia, must
you wait?"
He spoke out
"So tho gravel train went through?"
"Yes," said Scott, with the curt
American allirmatlve, "It did so."
"Then she's deep?"
"She Is so," said Scott pulling his
mustache.
"We'll report this when we've cureJ
It," said Archer. "Oh, hang this ruin!
How shall we cure it?"
Scott put the end of his mustache
Into his mouth and chewed It.
"Mr. Archer, It's my opinion that It
wus a mistuke to take this line. It
would have paid us to go up yonder."
"Extra miles cost dollars. Mr. Scott,"
snapped Archer, "aud never mind
about the ought What's to bo done
now? for I Just menu having It done,
and that settles It."
He sat down on a baulk of pine lying
on the ground and motioned Scott to
sit beside him. Tho others retreated.
"He Kays 'he Just means having It
done,'" sold Charley Wade. "He's a
tough. Isn't he? I'll bet drinks be d.es
It too."
And be nud his crowd argued nil the
way back to camp.
"A swamp can be drained." said
Archer.
"This one drains Itself," replied Scott.
"We're sitting beside tlie drain nuw."
"Then we waut another."
"I don't see bow It's to lie done, i!r."
"I Just mean having It done!" filed
Archer. "But for raising dllirenltles
give me your expert This man who
knows too much knows too little."
"And the ninn who knows too lllt!e
often knows too much, sir." said Hcott
sharply.
"Oh. pslmw!" cried Archer. "I'll cure
this swamp or bust It's late now and
getting dark, and I'm wet to the s'aIu.
But tomorrow I'll go. through this
swamp and fix It I tell you I mean
having It done. Think It out, Scott
I'll give a month's pay to any man
who makes a feasible suggestion,
whether It works or not?
He went back to the cnuip and staid
by himself, sweating over the swniny
problem, while the crew of engineer
and the men argued till the night fell
on the take anL.tlie vast fertile north
ern prairie. And It rained mightily till
dawn, when the sky cleared In the cast
and the suu came up from Ontario to
see bow the work got on.
It found little Archer sitting over hi
swamp, thinking II out, anJ went on to
Insiwct the Kocky Mountnln division,
where 10,000 human ants strove among
the great hills. And when the sun
raine round agnln It still saw the man
who meant having It done sifting over
bis swamp thinking it out
II called aU the engineers up one
after the other and found tlicni fixed
In cursing the surveyors for having
struck this swamp In flue, dry weather.
But none of tbem had any ntloa of
chart a g up the dl(3culty without de
lay. kavlne It d.joe and without
any more waste of time," be sal.1 te
Charley Wade, wbo was as bright as
tha bt of tbem. "If this swamp
taya, there'e a reason fur It What Is
It WadcT
it'a nn aa much above the take lev
el, sir." said Charley, -and ''
there's a eooorcHoe) between the two."
-Come here." said Archer, an l ue
wivivl tiia- r oritur fellow far down tle
bank cf Ibe creek. "Isn't this a good
enough drain V
-Only It don't drain It" answered
Wade.
And then Archer dipped him tight
by the shoulder.
-I've got It Wades. Look at the
creek and read It and teU me what
you read."
Wad knitted his clear young brows
and stared at the Mack and gloomy
stream. But be read nothing.
-Yew see nothing?" taogbed Archer.
Then III show you engineers what f
wrong. I told yoq 1 meant baring It
done, and when I say so something's
got te give. Go and get me tne noat
rip here from the shore. TooU And sm
here wbea yoo get back."
And while Wade jraafor the boat
Archer strode alongside to the camp.
"Give me nn Iron rod," ho demand
ed of the storekeeper, "and let mo hnve
It quick. One ten feet long, and stiff
nt thnt Steal It take It, get It, -man
alive!:
And as be stood waiting be looked
back between the steel rails running
east past Ncmagosendn, Metagama and
Nlplsslng till they struck tho Ottawa
river and went through under the
crowned city of Ottawa to Montreal.
And westward, wostwnrd lay the
nighty mountains, and beyontl them
was the sen.
"Let us get our bit doue, my men,"
said the doctor of tho swamp, "0h, I
Just menu getting It done!"
Tho storekeeper came hurriedly, try
ing not to run for the sake of bis dig
nity and hardly daring to walk while
the half tamed bear. Archer, danced on
the hot plate of his desire.
So Archer snatched a long clearing
rod from the bunds of his man and.
with It over hid shoulder, started back
for his sick spot In the railroad, like a
thick set little surgeon handllug a pro
bang and hungering for enlightenment,
for he wns more like n surgeon than n
doctor, aud no dilettante or mere futn
bler ut that.
"I'll drain you." he said savagely.
"I'll give you Uenns. I'll rake up your
vitals, my precious swallowor of lo
csuiollves. I'll make you a mud spot
nnd scrape you dry with a shovel."
Ills eyes brightened, and he walked
with a swing. Three deep Hues le
twix his eyes were now two, nnd If his
diagnosis of this swamp disease were
but accurate he would smooth out
these to a single crease.
HO got back to bis drain, the slow
nnd (llsmnl creek, and saw Charley
Wade lu tho distance coming up from
the lnke In n rotten shell called a fro;
"Step light or you'll step through,
sir," f-nld Charley. "She's a basket
and as crazy ns a state asylum."
"Was It easy rowing up. Wade?" ask
ed the little bear, handling his rod like
a harpoon.
"Easier up here thau below," said
Wade, and the bear grunted Joyfully.
"And still she tells you nothing?"
Wade looked up chopfnllcu.
"Not a word, sir."
"You come through a place where It
was a bit weedy, eh?"
"I did," said Wuile.
"Let her drift," said Arehrr, like a
bear when he smells honey.
And he let his iron bung deep lu the
water, but found no bottom.
"I'm on mud," said the boss, and bo
stood up.
"Let her drift," ho said sharply, and
ho jabbed Into thick ooze.
"Not yet," be growled. "Uo lower."
Agnln he Juhlicd at the under enrth,
nud tho rod went deeper.
"L'gh!" said the boss, nnd there were
three lines between bis half closed
eyes.
"l.h. .1 yard more!" he cried to Wade,
nnd then he rnmmed ngalu at the earth
and struck a rib. The divining rod
a:ig.
"Oh, I've got It!" suld the surgeon,
nnd the world wus a happy place for
Iilui that moment. "I touched, her
oh, I touched her! Illbs o' rock!"
Whdo opened his1 eyes and under
stood. "Hunan!" be cried.
"You read her now?" said Archer,
with the open brows of a child.
"She's A, B, C," laughed Wade, and
the boss and the boy shook hands.
What greater Joy than to circumvent
the ancient, cunning enrth! The Maker
of Things nnd the builder can declare
It. l-et those of n city's meaner Joyi
and those who piny their little wills
against a brother ant' brains laugh If
they will, but they are nothing in the
wnlrs of Kate when Ood holds the liul
niico -niitl sets ugaliiHt their golden
pIuuipiHSS some natural lord of the
(Im-ii air.
ray nothing nlout this. Wnde; not a
word." cried Archer. "Home of you
think I'm nothing but n whip and
spur."
"Not I," snld Wnde. "I told 'em."
"Lemnic ashore," cried A rcher, "and
take your Ixat back."
He inarched to the camp triumphant,
tuotd'ng his hat In his hand.
"Send me quick three rock men, with
ilrllla nud dynamite," he cried cast
"And this Is private," he added to tho
oMTntir Hi king the message.
And early next morning he ho'! three
lads of metnl drilling under water Into
a rib of the earth.
"There's nothing In It" said Kcoit. a
bit sulky nt In-lng dlKMsccd of the
Initiative by this brigadier who believ
ed lie saw the enemy's weak Kt
"There'll Ik dynamite In It." said
Wade to bliiwclf. "And grumpy Arch
er's In It nnd he's a whale nt things."
Aud grumpy1 Archer growled and
swore snd trnmpod nd tmncd and
walked rouud aud round bis swamp
and op and down It and waited for the
crisis and the proof. Between his eyes
came other lines, and I bey were criss
crossed wltb other wrinkles.
-I'll rake yoor Insldes out," be told
the swamp that regarded Iilui with fat
black couu-faipt aud stood In ooze. "Ml
rake and m-raie you and make dry
peat of yoo and get my locomotive
back."
The tads drilling went at It steadily,
and when one hole was made under
the dark water Archer ordered another.
"I'll give yoo pill, my boy," be told
bis sick railroad, "snd fetch yoo out
bale snd hearty."
Tie eat watching the men work, one
of theft turning the drill stolidly awl
the others striking.
-Keep the bole op and down. Don't
go out of Hie rib." snld Archer. "It's
not so big ac-roaa."
All wbo were doing nothing came
down to took at Die operation, and
they made bets for and against, ac
cording as they believed la Archer or
In Hcott.
"A dollar be docs!"
-And a dollar be doesa'tr
-Fifty dollar I dor said Archer. "1
just wean baring It done."
And next morning early they put to
the dynamite cartrldi;.-. tailed Ilk
Casing cooKts. wltb Bk kford's foae,
-Kef Vm going." sal the doi-tor. and
an banda sat back to watch for geyser
spouts In the creek.
And presently the crack came, and
the water heaved, and a rock lump
leaped In foam.
-Bully for aor elder said Wade,
Jumping. "I'll double my bet." ,
And stow the ereek was lined wltb
sea who watched It la doubt that soon
was doubt no more.
Jibe's movlngr jelled. Wade, and
tho others cheered. For the current of
the stream was Bwlft Archer wltb his
rod, was Jabbing for thnt earth rib, anil
found It no more. Tho ancient accu-'
mutation of weed and wreck and oozo
piled up against It began to go, and tho
stream moved swifter aud swifter as it
cut Its way into the earth. And as It
moved it sank inch by Inch.
"Havo I done It?" asked the doctor.
"It looks like It," said Scott, "nnd I
own you've beaten me. She's draining
draining fast."
"Let's go up higher," said Archer.
"Where's my locomotive?"
He Bet men by the place of blasting,
and as the creek fell they cheered the
way for It He piled them Into the
water with their shovels, and the
swamp went out Into the lake aud
made a black, broadening band In the
silvery waters lapping on their beach.
"I'll tench you," said Archer to the
enemy; "I'll teach you! Give me back
my locomotive!"
And presently they saw the engine
show Itself above the sinking ooze, and
from both sides of tho swamp the
length of three long rails was visible.
"A bit of sun," snld Archer, "will
make It peat I'm wanted east Just
now. Hurry up, hurry up."
And tho man who meant having It
done went back to do something else
New York Press.
Made Hint Sins; DaaaS, ,
"What man has dono man 'can do," j
is a good motto, but It needs to be in
terpreted In tho light of common scuse.
Every now and then we bear of a man
who takes It to mean that a little per
severance will make a Newton or a
Beethoven out of the stupidest of us.
Hero Is a story counectiul with Lid-
del I, tho somewhat overposltlve dean
of Christ church, borrowed from Tho
Spectator:
Dr. Corfe, the orgaulst of Christ
church, was nt this time sorely plagued
by one of the cholrmen, whose nlto
singing was miserably bad. He came
to the defih.
"Mr. Dean, 1 really cauunt have that
man singing any longer. He spoils the
wliolu choir. If ouly he sang buss It
would not so much matter, but such an
alto Is Intolerable."
"Very well, Dr. Corfe," said the dean,
"I will ileal with the matter."
So the cholnnan was sent for.
"Dr. Corfe complains of your sing
ing nnd says he cannot have you sing
ing nlto any lonyer, bnt thnt It would
not be so Imd If you sang bass. For
tho future, therefore, lie good enough
to sing bass."
"But, Mr. Dean, I cannot slug bass,"
rejoined tho uinii.
"Well," answered Llddell, "I om no
musician, but sing bass you must.
Good morning."
Aud for muny a year afterward, as
can be but too well remembered, the
man sang bass till be was finally
Rhelved.
Makes Artificial Bye.
Tucked a way In juulnt old world
corners wo find some of the most odd
persounges. Such Is tho great artifi
cial eye maker nnd painter, A. Mullcr
Hipper. In ijunlut Luuschu, lu the
very heart of old Thurlngeu's dense
forests nnd high mountains, be sits and
works nway day In nud day out, sur
rounded by bis family, the male uicin-Iki-s
of which arc all experts in this
delicate work and have been such
since the days of his great-grandfather,
who first started the work lu
I'nrls, but who, owing to the strong
nutl-Genuan feeling, wns forced to re
turn to his native mountain land. They
have grown rich, but lead simple, quiet
lives.
While the writer Nat lu front of Mr.
Illplier he deftly nixed different col
ored glasses over his gns lump and
within half an hour brought forth a
IK-rfm-t reproduction. In everything but
teal sight, of the writer's eye. Kvery
year thousands of eyes uinde by tbls
old world family find their way to
America. Leslie's Weekly.
"Why docs Hcnpcck refuso lo eat
sausage?" .
"lie says thnt they provoke sad
thoughts. He proKMed to bis wlfo on
the golf llnks."-Brooklyn Life.
Seetai For Car rare.
An amusing Incident happened on a
Carondclct street car the other after
noon. The car was going south. At
Land street a big, portly woman got
aboard. On her arm she carried a
largo market basket that apparently
was filled with "bargain" purchases
from some department store. Three
minutes after she had sst down and
dctHisltcd the Imsket between her feet
on the floor tho conductor came along
with the usual cry, "Fare, please."
Tito old lady opened bcr purse and
began rummaging through the various
pockets for a nickel. Again and again
she went through It but no change
was to be found. Then site turned to
the conductor and said:
"I was sure I bad saved car fare, but
I cannot Hud It. I lire at the end of
your line and will pay you then."
"That won't do; must have your fare
now," said the fare collector.
"WelL I haven't tho money."
"Well, give me somcthlug the value
of a nickel, and yoo can redeem It at
the end of the line."
The old lady bcaitated a- moment,
then put Iter band down Into the
bastri n.l drew out a bar of laundry
snap snd banded It to blm.
Evcrylwdy In the car laughed, but
the conductor took the soap and rang
up bcr farc.-Bl. Louis Star.
A aavlaws That la Laws.
Isn't It possible to nave too much
economy? If we scrimp and pinch
every bit of sweetness out of life, what
a heavy prlc we pay for economy!
Often om may lose a friend or catch
a disastrous cold or miss a train for
some little miserable point of economy.
People often Uborioosty save at aa
actual lose, A woman will press ber
way to a bargain counter at danger
to life and limb and pickpockets and
go away radiant with a pair of GO cent
gloves which win but about three
wearing. Tbe sum woman wfll go
to ao Incompetent dressmaker and
have ber new gown ruined la the nam
of ecoooay. "Economy la wealth,"
ayetb . tbe wis saw, bwt the poor
make believe economy which erer
reaehes Itself defeats Its own purpose
and leads to nothing but the direst
poverty of spirit and purse, Before
rashly deciding oa a point of economy
(j it folly worth while to sit frrwu sad
fhere are two things we give to every
Who buys a suit or an overcoat, viz:
Wo do a cash business and have
Only One Price.
Everybody pays us the same price. You buy as cheap as your neigh
bor your neighbor buys as cheap as any one. We think this is the only
way to do business eo that it will be mutually benefiicial both to tho
customer and ourselves.
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figure out which Is tho more profitable,
to leave tho gas burning or waste
matches. Carrie E. Garrett In Wom
an's Home Companion.
The Beanlt.
Greene Why did they discharge tho
messenger boy?
Brown Well, you see, Dr. Bungle
sent him to the drug store with a pre
scription, and on his way there Scrib
bles, tho author, gave him a poem to
toko to The Dally lugle. Tho boy got
IhetwoTnixodrnnd Cnngle's patient re
ceived such a mixture that bo died.
Greene What became of the pre
scription? Brown Oh, It was printed ns
Scribble's poem and made such a hit
that ho got $500 for It, and the paper
signed a contract to take all he can
write for a year at $10 a line Cleve
land Lender.
The Shlpltoaie.
An Interesting laudmurk of German
town, To., Is the "Ship House," In
Mfltn atreet above Washington lane, n
short dlstanco from the battlefield of
Oennantown. The building received Its
odd name on account of a plaster of
parls model of a ship which has been
on the lower gable of tho house from
time Immemorial. This model Is sup
posed to havo been placed there by a
former owner, n sea captain. Tho rear
of tbe building was the first hall In
Gerniautown nud was used for prayer
meetings and- singing schools. The
front part wns erected about 1700, and
the ball was built afterward. "
r CORK LEGS ARE MYTHS.
Information From aa Expert In the
Artificial Limb Buelncea.
"The term 'cork leg" Is a misnomer,"
said a mau who used to be In the artifi
cial llinb business. "There never was
any such n thing, nnd a leg actually
made of cork would be as unwieldy as
a sawlog.' Tho up. to date artificial
limb is a very thin shell of weeping
willow, covered with rawhide, nnd
some of them that como clear up to the
hip havo been built as light as three
pounds. c
"It Is a singular fact that a first class
leg, which is supposed to bavo a life
of about five years, will be more than
paid for In tbe saving of shoes. Of
course, the false foot wears a shoe,
Just the same as the real one, but for
some reason that has neverbeen fully
explained It Isn't aa bard on leather.
A flesh and blood leg will wear out
four sboos while Its mechanical mate
Is wearing out one, due perhaps to tbe
footgear never being removed at night
and the lack of elasticity In tbe tread.
Tho licst customer of the makers Is tho
government, which pays for a new ar
tificial limb onco every, five years for
pensioners maimed In war. Tho price
Oxed by law Is $75, but scores of old
soldiers simply draw tbe money and
make tho same leg do for as long as 13
years at a stretch. Artificial arms are
mado very successfully nowadays, and
a certain amount of action Is secured
In the band, even when the stump
reaches only a few Inches from the
shoulder. With ono of the styles, for
example, a man can lift bis hat and re
place It on bis bead wltb a snrprlslngly
natural movement The mechanism by
which tbe false band Is mado to open
and close Is controlled by a strap,
which reaches to tbe opposite shoulder.
A slight shrug does tho work, and a lit
tle practice renders It Imperceptible.
"There has been a wonderful Im
provement In llmbmaklng during the
last ten years, and a proierly con
structed artificial U-g cannot be detect
ed by the casual observer. Tbe chief
difficulty with tho old stylo was Its
tendency to swing outward in an arc
of a circle at every step. That has
been entirely overcome. Some years
ago, when I was In business at Chica
go, I fitted out a man wbo bad lost
both legs snd both arms In a Dakota
blizzard. When I first saw blm, be was
simply a helpless trunk, lying on a cot
to tbe hospital, and bis deplorable con
dition had reduced blm to a state of
despair bordering on Insanity. I took
a great deal of interest In the ease,
and I flatter myself that I did a fairly
rood lob. When I got through with
sbim, be was able to get up without as
sistance, wslk shout feed himself and
do a hundred and one little things that
changed Ufa from a mere blank to
something really endurable. When be
found himself emancipated from total
helplessness, be Improved mentally,
and now, I daro say, b wants to live
as long as anybody.
"One of tbe greatest obstacles to soo
eessfol limb fitting hi the careless nee
f surgeons In performing amputations.
An operatloo may be entirely success
ful from a surgical standpoint, yet
leava a stomp upon which a false kg
can never be worn with comfort. 1
know of a number of eases in which a
reamputatlon has been submitted to
for the ex pitas purpose of correcting
soch difficulties. Every medical col
lege course ought to Include at least
no lecture with practical demonstra
tions by a thoroughly scieutlflc maker
of artificial limbs. It would be of In
estimable rains to the students la aft
er practice.'' --New Orleans Tlmea-Democrat-
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