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A Home Newspaper Published5 in "the" Interest of the People and for Honesty in. Governmental Affairs,
Vol. V. No. 40.
Salisbury, N. G Tuesday, September 2 1st, i909
Wm, h. Stewart, Editor.
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THE ANCIENT CITY OF JOKTHEEL.
At one Time the Strongest and Wealthiest
CltV On Earth now a Field Of Ruins.
Thefollowhw account of Jok-
tense interfi9fc of ih atotv and the
vfllne of . thn information Th ;a
taken from The Union Bible Diet-
lonary, published in Philadelphia
in 1881
(2 Kings xiv. t.)
rpi , . . .
Ihe name given by Amaziahto
Solah. or thA morlpm Pt.ra. Tt.
was the capital of Idumea, and
,i i e , , i -
one ot the most masninctei t of
the ancient cities. It was situat-
ed near the base of mount Hor,
t j 1 1 j- ,
Jericho, and the same dietance
. c- i ii cnrowii across it at a great height,
from mount Sinai ; and must be LT7, ,. i.cigui.
j j . i . i ,1 VVnetner this was the fragment of
rftcrarHftd us t.lifi moafc siiirnlRr snot, I "Bduu w
..... . . .
hi ail Arabia nernaps in the
whnlAlCuRt rn world. Tt,9 remark-
ahta o,harafit,fir and hist.orv. whin.h
have beei but recently disclosed,
d.. , .
lfqf.losft fininificti )n wrtk nrn-
h a. Jjl"1 UOlllll , U c LJ ti Li fit UVDi L Li U 11
t- i .v ,, ,u i
artic:e than would otherwise be
given to it. .
mu- -i. i. t. i
This city appears to have been
coeval with the birth of com-
j iU i i i i
merce; and ther- is indubitable
evidence that it was a .nourishing
. . i
f . t .
for t.hft Christian ra. It wns tno
. , . u ii ii. i. j e
noint to which all the trade of
i - -
nnrtWn A-rohin nriaina-1, t. llfi.
fid and whsro thfi first mftrrhants
e 4.u . i 4. j a
of the eart h stor-d the nreciona
commodities of the East.
With th-decline and fall of the
Roman nower, in the East, the
f ..i .
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from the pag of history. About
t.ha norinri rf tha llrnfiRfipa. ih u ab
held in such esteem bv thesultans
I
nt P.jrvnt. on amount ot its err a ft I
strath. that-thv made it the
depository of their choicest treas-
ures; and, in the course of these
roliriona warn, its nosBPSBion was I
- i -j. - v u I
Turks and Christians, who regard-
ed it as the key that opened the
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cfnt.PH of Halfistinft. Hrom that, I
.. , i ses and narrow valleys branch out
time it was known on'y as thel. .... J
seat of a Latin bishop. Its ouce
crowded marts ceased to be the
emporium of nations. The ob
scurity of nearly a thousand years
covered its ruins The very place
where it stood became a subject
of controversy.
The accounts of recent travol
lers, who have discovered the ruins
f f this great city, tell us of the
utter desolation which now reigas
over those once celebrated regioos
described by an inspired pen as
the fatness of the earth. It is
scarcely possible, they say, to im
agine how a wilderness so dreary
and deac late couid ever have been
adorned with walled cities, or in
habited for ages by a powerful
and opulent people. The aspect
of the surrounding country is
singularly wild and fantastic On
one side stretches an immense des
ert of shifting sands, whose sur
face is covered with black flints,
and broken by hillocks into in
numerable undulations; on the
other are rugged and iusulated
precipices,' among which rises
mount Hor, with its dark sum
mits, and near it lies the ancient
Petra, in a plain or hollow of un
equal surface, (WadyMousa,) en
closed on all sides with a vast am
phitheatre of rocks.
The entrance to this celebrated
metropolis is from the east,
through a deep ravine called El
Qtlrl. oi-id !fc in link fiiisv t.n (nnc.pivfl
f i - ui- the castle' or palace of Pharaoh,
anv thing more awful or BublimeV F , . '
than such an approach. The
width in general is not more than
j - v-
sufficient for the passage of two
Ks horsemen abreast; and through
- the bottom wiuds the stream that
watered the city. As this rivulet
C must have been of great impor
S .' U tance "to the inhabitants, they
: Beem to have bestowed much pains
1,-iu protecting and regulating its
, course. The channel appears to
-ifegve been covered by a stone pave-
ment, vestiges of which still re
s&ns ' 1 . - n - 1 ! 1 1 .
5 main; and in several places walls j bold Protection of the rough
werflonstructed to give the cur- , as it is from be ow by the
;VVent proper direction and pre- smoothness of the polished sur
::M vau'Jjt from running to waste. ev he front of the mausoleum
i':- . -. . , , , , ifaal rioQo in HAvaral ntorips to thfi
'Jf- Several grooves or neas orancnea ,
r'rtff latri liver dest-ended. in or -
4 -V-Vier to wnvey a supply to the gar-
:lenft and nigner parts ot tne city,
On either hand of the ravine lises
a wall of perpendicular rocks
varyiug from four hundred to eev
e hundred feet in height, which
often rhang to such a degree
meetinS. e sky is intercepted
soarcey leaving more ligtfb than
18 in f cavern' for a hndred yard
together- T1e side of this roman
cnasmi from which severa
small streamlets issue, are clothed
with the tamarisk, the wild fie
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the oleander, and the caper plant
which sometimes hang down from
l uuo Villus AllU UIOVIUCB ILI UOIflilllLU
f eB0U or.grow about the ith
I mf h n 1 . n A. 1 i- ! i I,
,
I eutrance of the pass a bold arch is
I . .
Ian annedno.t. or narf. ot a. mar fnr
. ' r
merlv connecting the opposite
cliffj the travellers had no oppor-
tunit of examining; but its ap-
i jcniauuo, as 6'jwv uaaotfu llLlUtr' i it.,
r ' J F 1
I heads between two ragged masses
.
I unnBronr. i7 inorKumiihU Wit-U-
I juu uuaug me mucn us genera ai-
. 5. .5 sm
""' UUiD "ui Pi
I sents so many windings in its
J B
J
cannot penetrate beyond a few pa-
ces forward, and is often puzzled
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I to distinguish in what direction
I &
I 4.U ill T7I i
P8 will opeu. r or nearly
I crease the height as the path des
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" .' utuiuu
by tbe lncessaufe screaming of
"UVVRD' ttUU XttVt,lja
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suunug aDove in consiaerauie
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& &
habitftti6n. At every step the
C". n A 1 1 r l f HtanAtfni.fi -vrt nt . . 3 . w , .
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wmarkable features; a stronger
1,8U,U UU8
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Boml re perspective, until at length
J ,1
view cf the astohished travellfj in
their full grandeur, shut in on
every de by. barren, -craggy preci-
piuea, uuin wuicn numerous rectus
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in all directions.
The entire face of the cliffs and
sides of the mountains are cover
ed with an endless variety of ex
cavated tombs, private dwellings
and public buildings; presenting
altogether a spectacle to which
nothing perhaps is analogous in
any other part of the world. "It
is impossible," says a traveler,
"to give the reader an idea of the
singular effects of rocks tinted
with the most extraordinary hues,
whose summits present nature in
her most savage and romantic
form ; whi'e their base are work
ed out in all the symmetry and
regularity of art, with colon
nades and pediments and ranges
of corridors adhering to the per
pendicular surface. ' The inner
and wider extremity of the circui
tous defile by which the city is ap
proached, is sculpture) and exca
vated in a singular manner ; and
these become more frequent on
both Bides, until at last it has the
appearance of a continued street
of tombs .
About half way through there
is a single spot, abrupt and pre
cipitous, where the area of this
natural chaBm spreads a little and
sweeps into an irregular circle.
This had been chosen for the site
of the most elaborate, if not thp
most extensive, of all these archi
tectural monuments. The natives
gave it. the name of Kazr Faraoun,
though it resembled more the se
pulchre than the residence of a
prince. On its summit is placed
a large vase, once furnished ap
parently with handles of metal,
and supposed by the Arabs, to be
filled with coins ; hence they de-
' nominated this mysterious urn
the treasury of Pharaoh. Irs
height and position have most
probably ba filed every approach of
avarice or curiosity from above it
i3 rendered as inaccessible by the
! gh of slxty 01 seventy teet,
ornamented with columns, rich
inezes, pauiuicuoB uw uS-
urea of horses and men. The in-
terior consists cf a chamber six -
teen naces sauare. and twentv-five
feet high ; the walls and roof are
quite smooth, and w:thout tha
smallest decoration. The surpris
ing effect of the whole is heighten
ed by the situation and th,e
strangeness of the approach
Half seen at fifBt throrgh the dim
and uawow opening, cohmns
statutes and corniceB gradually
appear as if fresh from the chisel,
without tf:e tints or weather-stains
of age, and executed in stone of a
pale rose colour. This splendid
architectural elevation has been
so contrived that a statue, per
haps of Victory, with expanded
wings, just fills the centre of the
aperture in front, which being
closed below by the le -ges of the
rocks folding over each other,
gives to the figure the appearance
of being suspended in the air at a
considerable height ; the ruge;ed-
ness ot the cliffs beneath setting
off the sculpture to th ) great st
advantage. Nojjait of this stu
pendous temple is bui't, the wh 'e
being hewn from the solid rock;
and its minutest embellishments,
wherever the hand of man has not
purposely effaced them, are so
pei feet that it may be doubted
whether any work of the ancier.ts
except perhaps some on the bunks
of the Nile, has survived with so
ittle injury from the lapse of
time. 1 here is scarcely a build
ing to bb found of forty years'
standing so fresh and well preser
ved in its architectural decora
tions as the Kazr Faraoun. which
Buckhardt represents as one of
the most elegant remains of an
tiquity he had found in Syriu.
The ruiris of the city itseli' open
on the view with singular effect,
fter winding two or three milns
through the dark ravine. Tombs
present themselves not only in
every avenue within it, and on
every precipice that surrounds it,
but even intermixed almost pro
miscuously with its public and
domestic edificef ; so that Petra
has been truly denominated one
vast necropolis, .or city of the dead.
ft contains above two hundred
and fifty sepulchres, which are
occasionally excavated in tiers
"one abovo the other; and in places
where the side of the cliff is so
perpendicular that it seems im
possible to approach the upper
most, no aceess whatever being
visible. There a:e besides numer
ous mausoleums of colossial di
mensions, and in a state of won
derful preservation. Near the
west end of the wady are the re
uiihiB of a stately adifice, the
Kazr Be,nit Faraoun, or palace of
Pharaoh's daughter of which on
ly a part of the wail is left stand
ing. Towards the middle of the
valley, on the south side, are two
large truuicaked pyramids, and a
theatre, with complete rows of
benches, capable of containing
above 3000 spectators, all cut out
of the solid rockl The ground is
covered vdth heaps of hewn stone?,
foundations of building, frag
ments of pillars and vestiegs of
paved streets. the sad memorials
of departed greatness. On the
left bank of the river is a rising
ground, 'extending westward for
about throe-quarters of a mile, en
tirely strewn with sjmiliar relies.
On the right bank, where the
ground is more elevated, ruins of
the same description are to be
seen. In the eastern cliff th- re
are upwards of fifty separate se
pulchres, cioee to each other.
There are also the remains of a
palace and several temples; gro
toes'iu vast numbers, not sepul
ohral ; niches sometimes excavated
to the height of thirty feet, with
altar for votive offV rings, or with
pyramids, columns and obelisks ;
horizontal grooves, for the convey
ance of water, cut along the face
of the rock, and even across the
architectural parts of some of the
excavations; dwellings scooped
out of large dimensions, in one of
which is a single chamber sixty
feet in length and of a proportion
al breadth ; many other habita
tions of inferior note, particularly
numerous iu ona recess of the city,
the steep sides of which contain a
sort of excavated suburb, acces-
! Bible onlv bv fligbts'of. steps .chie- i
1 elled out r f the rock. In short,
I the outer surface of the -strong
girdle that encircles the plae is
hollowed out iuto innumerable ar
tificial chambers of different di
mensions, whose entrances ar,e va
riously, richly a:;d oten fanasic
a!ly decorated with every order of
architecture: showing hov tho
pride and labour of art has Juried
t j vie with the sublimity of na
ture. The effect of the wtfch-fTis
heightened by the sppearan.ee -f
mount Hor, towering abov."'this
city of sepulchres, and perforated
almost to the top with natural
caverns and excavations fcr the
dead.
The isnmense number of in sis e
stupendous run s corroborates
accounts gi en, both by ti
and prof.-uie writers, of the kin- s
of P;it.ra. their courtly grdfur
and their ancient and 1 n -c ;.
tinued royalty. Great mug-, buve
been the opulence oi a e
'that cr.uld dedicate such jnoi.u-'!
meats t-j the memory cf its ritlei f.. j
Its mawnificieiice can only oe x j
plained by a reference to tLe im-i
mense trade of which it, was th- i
immcn centre from the u&-.rn or i
:
ovmzation. i
These magnificient remaii.te c;'.si
now ho regnrded onlv as the era
Id:ur.:i, in which its , rm-r
wealth and .srdf-ndcur l'e int&rrfrl
The state of dea 'ation into -iich
it has long fallen is not Oi ly )
work of time, bat the fulfilling t-
of prophecy, which faietottf t hit
wisdom ai:d understflhdip.g
a
perish out of nv-niit
F.dr
Edom shouid be a wi'd ino o-; i
cities a perp'-'tual wast--, to aht.
of everv ui-olr-a:i i-eou-r (I?
1
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xxxiv. 5, 10, 17.) Io h-fe is
there a more striking Mid visible
aem.jnstrrati n . ot t he ;ron
tnes-? divine predict .ous ta&a.
am.'O-r r ip t 3.l;,.n
serteri pal,-c-s of Petrn. The
dw-'llors in the clefts of the rocks
are brought low ; the prince-t of
Edom are as nothing; its eighteen
cities are swnpt away, or r-dnc d
to empty chimbera and mskf.d
walls; and the tt;rritory the
descendants of Esau affords oe
miraculous a pro. if of the inpir i
tioii of Scripture history se the
fate of the children of Israel.
Fifteen Gents may be Fixed by Farmers'
Union.
The sentiu:entJLufche F
Union meeting at Birmi
rni 'i s
:-ch UU
Ala., is strongly against S urhem j
farmers sr '. ir th
:ieir cotton eariv. !
The belief is that thw short cr p j
warrants fif .e-o c-nt? nod 'dej
-
leauers wa an larmers do item s -:
cure that, j;rice by not
i
inrry is g
the cri.p t-- !'.-:.-o -t.. Some f;vor
fixing a minimum price of hfo en
cents. The majority seem t fa
vor leaving the fixing f the prir-e
to the executive committee, which
will
probably
make
minimum to be adjusted act-out
ing to conditions. The Union
do-s not control enough ware
houses to store the crop, u!, it -s
urging the erecti n or rontr '1 of
otberF, hoping ju a foW years to
ranch thfit position.
The big problem is "How to
Prevent Early Selling." I" is re
cognized that the twelve-cent
price is tempting that many are
in aebt, and the eh or Is of
toe
leaders are being directed toward '
much earlie
selling. They
10-
iive if
the crop is held awhil
eve r y b o d y wid get fifteen centf.,
but no fixed price is probable.
Nigiit on Bald Gontain.
On a lonely night Alex. B-mtou
of Fort- Edward, N. Y,, cl mood
Bald Mountain to the h. me of a
neighbor, tortured by Asthma,
bent on curing him with Dr.
King's New Discovery, that had
cured himself of asthma. Toi-
wonderful medicine soon relieved j
and quickly cured his neighbor.
Later it cured his son's wife of s j
severe lung trouble Millioi f be
lieve its the greatest Throat and
Lung cure on Earth. Coughb,
Cold3. Group, Hemorrhages and
4Sore Lungs are surely cured by it.
Best ror Hay Fever, Grip and
Whooping Cough. 50c and $1.00
Trial bottle free. Guaranteed by
All druggists.
TBEOTATiON AT 8910 HILL.
.
be Sr,rmrr fjAf. j su i i- ,' m
Hath Tsmporarify, If is Hop!, Mmc
Editor Carolina WatciiMan :
iour imniy readers -hare
been surfeited . for the past
m :n?;hs with the m ny jolt
from thi-i comnnity by this c:i
pondent. Of late I have not ;
11:2
n
very much amoved by -the spirit- of
driving the pencil, and the exists.
r nap.peiiitig-, m and ar-a
1.18
: ot
comm-onity
( Gold Hi!! Iv
been such as to inspire m ono r.
quenoy.of writing. Audaothrp-.
int has become blunt and the
01-
cii has lair inactive. But perl-.ans
your readers are none the w-.'-se
tor that. Swifi-ly borne on tirto'e
v;pid
e 'aii.'
ewii't!
' n)
months h ve
fheyhavo giid d
ft'
;no.
away and wo were ha:
coiiBcioiH o th-ir phasing. A
l!Cw " the hat'Vost i prtt,
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summer ,s ooded v.irS
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no
y,oar3 & pr..sp
But the times
and ( ovironmOi ts
.d we havo ch uo
have chat);-: d and v
ed with th'.'m, most
beter-to-d-, :-..-otb
have di d aod r
t i;0 old ood
otie-r voi.rg
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oo s:i o- j .
d. and the
glory hos depart":
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yea Co
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Wo.-Uh:; ouiiaingS
oavo f:r-..-.-.0! d cur bills
come aryoiai? f-.-r oat
tt;.-d are r-;p:d'ty fading a
Iut stiil while mauey
wo bav a jood ?;: o .
it- d n r un-d :o l..io:t!i
nave g
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intellige
industrious,
d
t" ao . xrn
tne po
wo
i,
vay3 with us.
There 'm much g
iurmmg
ao ux, iu tuis c
v 7.
nil to
i irmiior o nosuu
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their so;
;M d idiis
id
eM; ois ot won-:
;g been a year of geora
prosperity, crops io-vo been -divt r-
.- .0 o
the
mo m
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B.i-jjlS;
CI opS
ot thf
! i i lo- y o,:(i o; pretty mud.
HiO; has bono n'eotrtut.
:o.yOi;s have bo'eo iu t ;
avorable. While we htv.-
i&th-r pndonged J
the eiij, ; -u the lutt o
have sustaiiifxl no sovom
except in the earUi-" pa-o
vear the rainv soaeo-, w.o
; prolonged that f-omo oa.loo
iantod corn in low r lands -vr.:
i -liwned and nbae.doned, a no: id
';;o ;v matured' was can? f d (c r-i
.- the shuck. The pun has b
sh
ung on the evii and th'"1 p;. ;
tiip rain falling on the jo-th--
unjuai, und all namro :i
. "o hfifi toon w r'c -.!:-t t.;
;.n
t
on an
man and all living ere i
And .tho latter rains, wh-k h
i'';S:ii.ir will vorv mo; h
ur. s.
,re no-
supperment the yiokl of late ci o
and potatoes, and otlur pr dnc &
of-field and garden, und won poo
the follow grounds in good c-nd -ti
n f.--r pr--paration tor tbe com
ing fsli seeding. J y
Gcdd Hi).:. N. 6. fi-n'-iol. r :0-.p
1009.
liirsy H;
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Quick 1 Mr. Drus-gist Qui, 'A I
A box of .BucUen'e Arnica's. i o
Here's a quarter For. the Ur. e
q" Moses, hurry! Eabv'g brror 1
nimeeir, trrrioiy Jobnie cut h
toot with the ax
r-iamie s seal
ed Pa can't walk
trom
piks
Billie has boks and
my c( r; s
! fA ? got ai;d soon cur & ' i
I l;:Zl:?u r,lr gr.,a 631 hea -
! or oarfK COJ t. n i . (
i "UiU Laii aruggigt i,
Tiis Finest 'Horses In me Wcfll
! W -
I t jc-etruy 4 Agr?cniture, "0ait-
od fctaTes of Am9rica James mi-
n, woo attended the B:;lh-F; ito
Ill lW;H
cnows, recently
ivuu iti i irs pr:::se ot the perior-
uiiu purr-icmany so oi the
'xcel Inn
t exhibition given by thf
i am 'us
$25000
Ann . ur
gra
4- i
t-ne prize winning int- rut
tl-. nal
retfiro
hfjojpi. -us. Among 6 ic
w ii.: eon's comi) lment-jfv
in u r j; vv p re L 1 o ' 1 o i n g :
farmer and hie
S IB
mou1
d iu .- Ai urour xeam, tiiey
large&t and most b.ainiful
r. --. t U , A .
Tfj?3 ill
ne
world.
i i) --s-'
pow-rfui gray,-' Percheron Goioi.
-h-'o a -groat Rttrcction,"
This splendid and exceptio
quino -xhib;tii.n has noiunhc;
as
it h r.ny ox her circus, and
i
or
o-
:ou
niitrked- with j
-ss abroad and aii
d auco
".fit!:-. r.-, ". i-r n
t no nior t ?... ; i
a v
-t o:i th' t has e er
"ens.
Geo- r.il
1 - - - '. i i i 1 O 1)1
- . nodidat-ed 8h
' roi.Kl the diiio,
renur-bie citizen wb
-re
l-U'S 0! Lil
;w is oner!
F 1
oj is not tbo:
Ujzniv satisfied ! h
i-.o oxcoi: -ot rxnitition given oy
too Armoti gray under the retro
d the exceptionally clever wi'p,
WiTiiaai ('Bi!!y'') Ynf-u The
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annual income vf
a in.
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r $1.75
s. x m il
by i be
o acre,
ite ! ;' f
eie
man
a .led
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France in
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of protective
u- - ?;,.;- b
t -rest-3 wh--re
ii be-'in car? d
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century about 2,
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jt productive and healthfal
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now cover the ceun
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the Hacibi
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-Life is Short.
i61t.
iong stories, hoi
rhortati
blMO V
os ana long, prayers
fit the s; who htve to do
wdh them. Mom outs are precious
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m . in
an
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-isure
grows insipid a. d many in citable
!:" "'- Prf'ta5;d boyood the
h!:.:;tp -.-i r-asrn and covnonieuce.
Lean, to bo short. Lop off
branches; stick to tho main facts'
in your ca?e. If you would re
ceive and get thrnnoh if
epeak tell your message and hold
w --i1 J " uu
i your Peaco Boil n two words
i Into one. nd three into two. Al-
i
WayS learn to be hrif
STATE NEWS.
Up to the end of last week Dav
idson College reported an enroll
ment of 315 students, the A. and
M". at Raleig 420.
".Jos. Black, of Frenoh Broad
township, Buncombe county, iein
jaii charged with mistreating his
own daughter.
t Jff Wentz, a weaver in the
Girtson mill at Concord, who as
saulted and seriously wounded
Chalmers Propst, the timekeeper
at the mill, last week, ia in jail.
Propst is1 expected to recover.
Zeb. Cathey, 14 years old, was
found dead in a ditch partially fill
ed with water, on his mother's
farm in Haywood county, last
week. The boy was subject to fitgj
He was working in the ditch and
it is supposed that he was seized
with a fit. fell in the water and
was drowned .
At Lumperton Saturday Police
man Ourrie went to arrest Niel
Goodman, colored, who was drunk
and disorderly, when the negro
opened fire on the policeman.
The officer returned the fire, in-
fJic-dng wounds from which the
negro died next day. The coron-;
er s rarv decidad that f.ha im;nd
as justified.
President Taft's appointment of
Prof. GlaSSOn. of t.hft nhnir n
1 www JX
conomics at Trinity College, as
censue supervisor in the fifth dis
trict, has arouBed a bitter protest
among the Republican oganiza-
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After ia short conference the own
era of the new, hotel, which is be
ing erected at Marion, stated that
the damaged to the unfinished
building caused by the collapsing
of the middle wall about two
weeks ago will not amount to over
$500. The middle wall will be
reioforced with concrete which
will make it strong enough to
carry several times the weight
which will be placed on it. The
men injured by the accident some
time ago are recovering. Work
on the building will be rushed
rapidly to completion.
George Mebane, the big colored
man afflicted with pellagra, died
Monday at Durham and an. au
topsy performed that night diclos
ed the mysteriousness of the dis
ease. Dr Dolly, of the State Uni
versity Pathological Department,
conducted the examination, and
not a traoe of the disease could be
found internally though Mebane
died as crazy as a lunatic. The
germ found in the recent exami
nation was again located in the
negro's blood, but an effort to in
oculate the guinea pigs by infn
siui of pellagrous blood failed.
The pigs are as fat as ever.
An Advertising Fable.
In a certain barnyard there were
two hens, one of which, .when she
laid an egg, cackled, because she
knew whan she had a good thing
and wanted others to know it
that hen believed in advertising.
And many were the breakfasts
her enterprise supplied.
When the other hen laid eggs she
disdained to cackle. "What's the
use? ' she said. "Everybody knows
1 hay eggs." and she cackled not,
die day the owner of the hens
by accident discovered the nest of
the Noiseless One, and it was full
with eggs. But they weaetoo old
to use. Aud immediately he cut
off the head of the hen that had
refused to be "modern" and ad
vertise. Mr. Merchant, are your goods
becoming "over ripe?" Try
"cackling" advertise.
The Road to Success
has many obstructions, but none
sn desperate as poor health. Suc
cess to-day demands health, but
Electric Bitters is the greatest
health builder the world has over
known. It compels perfect action
of stomach, liver, kidnevs. hnwfll
purifies and enriches the blood,
and tones and invigorates the
whole system. Vigorous body and
keen brain follow their use. You
can't afford to slight Electrio Bit.
Iters if weak, run-down or sickly.
voiy uw. vruarauteed by - all
druggists,
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