How
They Farm in Rowan.
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He's Ferry roaa yesceraay. to
. chairman- ; -
mmissioners, went down
how the convict force was getting
: see 4vvay down the road in the
S'y Wocd" section he saw some-'2-
that has been heard of before
his very seldom seen in this part ot
nnntrv' In a large cotton patch
- a ffoman was plowing. That would
not have attracted much attention of
tsef but at the other end of the plow
instead of a horse the woman's hus
band was hitched up in harness and
uilin the plowi As sumissive as a
but with a dexterity that would
"have made- a horse blush, he-pulled
;.and tugged at the plow, obeying ex
'plici;lythe "gee" and "vvohaw of
Words of heer.
ROYAL JOKES.
te woman
between the handles,
Salisbury World,
Liu k,
"-There is no such thing as luck,'.:
si:d Colonel North once.' 'r Every
body in this world has chances yes,;
-ever)'Doa iiuuj tuc wunviug cuuin
vvho strikes a seam of coal which was
never thought ot by the mining engi
neer to the colliery proprietor who
gets information regarding . that seam
and resolves to work it. Wha; peo
ple call luck simply means that a
man sees his chance, holds on to ;it,
and at the right moment works it for
himself. Luck ? Nonsense I Luck
is simply the faculty of seizing pass
ing opportunities" Exchange.
Don't be alraid to speak them.
Some of your friends are hungry to
hear them. You ,can find no better
way of helping people to do better
than by speaking words of apprecia
tion for what they have already done.
Your wife will cook a better dinner
to-morrow if you praise her a little
tor, the well-cooked dishes of to-day.
The parson will -preach ywith' new fire
.and force, ifx you can honestly shake
his hand, and say that his last sermon
went straight to your heart, and in
spired you . with better purposes.
The mechanic feels in a better mpod
for his work, if he is . sure his skill
will not go unappreciated. It seems
,a pity, since God has made man with
such a deep hunger for praise, that
some of them get so' little of it. Re-
I member, there1 is no one in whose
. - ... - - . -
actions' something cannot Je found
Worthy of commendation. Cheering
words give wings to wearyjfeet, and
new life to the laging purpose. Don't
grudge the help you can afford your
fellow men by giving them the praise
and cheer they have fairly earned.
They are discouraged tor lack of
somebody's frank and honest appro
val. Give ,j them yours in a hearty
way and jt will set them on their
. 4 w . I -
way again. 4 Ex. ! 7
It will astonish- you how quickly
Johnson's .Magnetic' Oil will kill all in
ternal acjies and plains for man and
beast. .5i;oo size 50 cents-; 50 cent size
25 cents, at Hargrave's. '
."Death of an Eccentric Citizen.
I Lewis Click died Monday at his
home, near Hot Springs, aged SS.
centric. It is related that he once
sentenced his dog, alter going through
.the regular form of a trial, to eleven,
year's close confinement, for killing a
chicken. The dog was imprisoned
for seven years in an old crib, till fi
nalijr some one carried the animal
away and it was never seen after
wards. Another time Click sentenced
an ox for tnree years to a pen ten
leet square for pushing. down a few
pannels of fence. The ox served the
sentence Charlotte Observer. ;
TjRfcD MOTHERS find help
m Hood's Sarsaparilla, which gives
them pure blood, a good appetite and
new and needed STRENGTH.
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Nothing but politics ; people talk
it, oftentimes to the deteriment o
their business interests, politician
make speeches about it, mostly full
of froth , wind and falsehoods, news
papers are full of it, to the exclusion
of almost everything else. Business
will, to a great extent, be paralyzed
until after the oWtinn anH thr rpmilt
- - , . - -
Will il . I 1 Ml
"" uc mat one set, ot incapaoies win
:oe turned out and another set equal
ly incapable will be put in. Politics
.area curse to this country anyway.
Argonaut. ,
Texas is not only the biggest State
Ir the Union, but lays claim to the
Dlggest hog ever raised in the United
States. The hog weighs 1,430
Pounds and is eight feet three inches
1Qng. He measures six feet around
the-neck, eight feet around the body
ad stands four, feet, one inch high.
feet are as large as those of a
COrnmn ox and the leg bone larger
an that ot the largest steer. He is
Poland China and Red Jersey. He
eats corn like an ox, takes the whole
ear in his mouth at once and eats the
. D as well" as the corn, eacing from
to fifty ears of corn at a time.
ere seems to be - no surplus flesh
nim and physicians who have ex
arniaed trje hog say he can easily be
made to reach 2,200 pounds. The
0vv ner T- Ratigan , paid $2 50 lor
lor and has been offered $1,500
0r him. He has a fire policy on the
janimal for $5,000. No other hog, it
ls said ever reached such tremendous
Portions.
The oldest ex-UnitedStates Senator
living is Hon. James W. Bradbury,
of Augusta, Me., who celebrated his
ninety-fourth birthday a lew days
ago. His health is excellent and his
interest in politics keen. jIr. Brad
bury has been a lifelong Democrat.
He was sent to the- United States
Senate is 1846, and occtpied a seat
next to that of Jefferson Davis. With
him in the Senate were 1 W ebster,
Clay, Calhoun, Hamlin, Mason, Ben
ton,. Hale, Seward and Cliase. Mr.
Bradbury was graduated from Bow
doiri in the -famous class of 1825. in
which were Longfellow, Hawthorne,
Horatio . Bridge, George "; Berrett
Cheever, John Stevens, Cabot Abbott,
Jonathan Cilley, killed , in j a duel in
Bladonsburg, Md., by Wiih'am J.
Gravec, of Kentucky, and others who
became men of note. Mr. jBradbury
considers Daniel Webster the great
est man he ever knew. i
what He Needed Most.
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A story is told of a now famous
American artist vvho had hard luck in
his Paris student days. One day he
was seen in the street with his clothes
in the last stages of rags; and his
shoes tied with twine. . There was a
wild gleam in his eye when he caught
sight of a friend across the street.
"I've got $100!" he cried, waving
the bill in the air, oblivious of the
crowd. :"One hundred dollars ;and
I'm going to buy some shoe-strings."
Chicago News. ! ;
The Landmark : says that a phase
of the new woman business in States
ville is that she gets drunkj and fights
the coppers. For the good name of
the town and the peace and dignity
of the State, to say nothing of the
new woman herselt it is to be sincere
ly hoped there is not many of her
representating I this particular phase
of the business. Ex. j
Etoiies Ilajfcl Capers Indulged In fcy
Mnarchs and Princes.
Royalty dearly loves a joke, and
nowhere are practical jokes so much
in yoguo as in the palaces of the old
Tvorld monarchs. Curiously enough,
their idea of joking, like their con
ception cf wit, is inclined to rough
ness and even to downright coarse
ness, as tell as vulgarity, rather
than to delicacy, and many a prac
tical joke; has heen perpetrated in a
palace tlmt -would never have been
tolerated in a private house.
One of fho most peculiar practical
jokes -was that organized in the
council chamber of the late Kins:
Alfonso of Spain by his intimate
friend and favorite companion, the
Duko cf Tarn an es, who accompanied
the Infanta Eulalia to this country
in 1893.. ; ; ; y
It was during carnival time, and
the king had complained to the
duke that it was a very dreary affair
and entreated the nobleman to do
something to liven things up a bit.
The following looming when the
king entered his council chamber he
was almost pitched over by a most
extraordinary apparition. It ap
peared to bo a bag such as millers
use for flour, and it was terminated
by a pair of bowlegs . that were
prancing about in every direction.
The architecture of these legs at
once revealed to the kingvtke iden
tity 9f the human flourhag. It was
no other than tho little minister of
agriculture, who, with the assist
ance Of the Cuke of Tarn an es and
the apparently grave and auster-e
minister of foreign affairs," had
.dressed himself in his odd rig. The
king joined so heartily in tho laugh
ter provoked by the extravagant
ahtics of his cabinet cfQcer. that the
tears streamed down his face, nor,
was his mirth diminished when the
minister, after having finally extri
cated himself from the bag, showed
himself with-his hair, his beard' and
his .uniform literally covered With
flour. .. '
Another monarch - who is' very
fond of practical joking. is Emperor
William of Germany, v On 0120 occa
sion about a year after lie ascended
the throne his right hand was seri
ously injured during thorough horse
play that takes place every St. .Syl
vester cf New Year's eve in the
streets cf Berlin. " On that night no
citizen ventures to appoar upon any
public thoroughfare wearing a tall
hat of oven a derby.! The students
havo 1'roni tirao immemorial had a
sort of unwritten right to bonnet
any civilian thus arrayed by smash
ing his hat with a sharp blow of the
fist upon its crown.
Tho kaiser, who had always joined
in this form of sport before his ac
cession to the crown, on the first New
Year's eve that followed tho death
of his lamented father' walked out
with the collar of his coat well
turned up and a fur cap drawn down
over his eyes so as to conceal his
identity. He soon had several badly,
wrecked hats to hi; credit. He then
encountered an elderly citizen of
portly figure and benevolent de
meanor, whose looks, however, be
lied his character. He had been bon
neted in. previous years and was re
solved to teach his tormentors a les
son. So he had made a sort of leath
er skullcap, thick in texture and
studded with long, sharp nails.
So when the emperor brought
down his fist with all his might on
the inoffensive looking tall hat his
hand was pierced in many places by
tho nails and covered with blood,
the injuries at one time threatening
lockjaw. The citizen was arrested
and imprisoned pending a decision
as to whether he should be prose
cuted on a charge of "leze majesty. "
He was, however, released, as his
offense was entirely an innocent
one San Francisco Examiner.
LUCK OF OLD BOATS.
The Ideal Ear. j
An ear to bo perfect should be
daintily, and delicately formed, with
the curves all artistic and pretty. It
should be neither too thin nor too
fat, but a pleasing medium between
the two. It should be delicate rose
color on the inside and pure white
on the outside. The lobe of the ear
should be small and well shaped and
should curve up toward 3 the cheek,
not hang down in an inartistic man
ner: A small ear is usually a sign
of birtfy and good breeding, but, like
'everything else, there are vast ex
ceptions to this rule: New York
World. " : ; " -I - . ; : v
- lie Had Her. 1
Mrs. Nowwife You promised that
when we were married you would
grant my slightest ' wish, and now
yoti refuse me a $50 bonnet.
Mr. New wife liemember, my
dearI said slightest Detroit Tree
Press. - -
In the Same Handwriting;.
' A gentleman at the Riggs House
was responsible for this story: T
reached home after business hours
the other day for supper and was
handed two telegrams from the same
telegraph company. After I had read
the first I handed it to my wife. It
was from a brother out west, who
was coming to pay me a short visit.
" 'What did he send the other one
about?5 asked my wife, as she read
the first one and looked at the writ
ing on the envelopeof the second. I
cpened it and told her it was not
from him, but was from another
businessman.
"That's funny,' she said. 'They
are both directed to you in the
same handwriting. ' "Washington
Times.
A fabric made of pine and spruce
wood pulp is made into overcoats in
Leeds, England. It looks like frieze.
In Collisions on the Lakes the Valuable
Vessels Fare the Worst.
"Did you" ever notice," said an
old mariner," 'that when a collision
occurs on the lakes the better boat, '
in nine cases out of ten, gets the
worst cf it and generally goes to tho
bottom? On the other hand, the old
boat for in a great' many instances
it is an old boat receives little dam
age, if any. If she is damaged, her
owners send her to some drydock to
be patched up. '
"I havo always found that to be
the case," continued the old man
who for the past 40 years has earned
his livelihood on the lakes. "In all tho
collisions that I can remember be- j
tween a now and an old boat the old j
ono, somehow or other, managed to
stay on top of the water. Take, for ,
instance, the sinking of the Lehigh
Valley liner Cayuga, which occur-j
red on tho 10th cf last May. She col- j
lided with the steamer Joseph L.
Hurd and was sunk in Lake Michi
gan, near Skilligalee light, The '
Cayuga, which was one of tho best
steamers on ;the lakes, was bound
down with a load of grain and mer-;
chandiso. The Hurd was an old lum-1
ber barge, which had been condemn- i
ed onco and then rebuilt. She was
not worth much, while the Cayuga"
was worth somewhere in the neigh
borhood of 200,000. L !
"At the time of tho collision the
fog was very heavy and lay close-to j
the water in banks. A fog bank is
a peculiar thing to run up against,
becapse one minute you are right in ;
the midst of it anl the nest you are '
through it, only to meet another.
For this reason they are very puz
zling and have a tendency to get a
fellow rattled for a minute. .A min
ute is not very long, but a man is
likely to lose his boat as well as his
life in that short space of time. A
captain has no business to get rattled,-and
especially x when running
in a fog. Tho best of them will lose !
their :heads,' and when in that state
are liable to give orders they ought
not to have given. ; '. . :
"That was the way tho fog acted
on the night that the Cayuga went
down. Tho night signals had appar
ently been given, but with hardly a
minute's warning the Hurd took a
sheer and struck the Cayuga amid
shij)s. The Cayuga Went down in
about five minutes, and the Hard
made for the land,. which was not
very If ar off, where she was beached.
She was leaking quite badly. ; Tem
porary repaii'3 wero made, and she
was then towed to a drydock. She
camq out again later in the season
and ran in the lumber trade on Lake
Michigan.
"The Cayuga, however,, is still at
the bottom, lying in about 101 feet
of water, and her chances for re
maining there are very good.
"Let me cite youanother instance
where the better boat was. sunk' by
an bid one well, I won't . say she
was old, for she" had not been in
commission ery long. She was an
ungainly looking craft and about the
unluckiest boat that had been built
on the lakes in some time. She was
called the Jack. Her first "feat that
brought her before public notice was
when she collided with one of the
locks in the Welland canal. Navi
gation was delayed for several days
by tho accident.
"The next prominent feat that she
I accomplished was to sink the big
steel steamer Norman, which was
owned by the Menominee Steamship
company. She sunk her in the mid
dle of Lake Huron and in deep water.
In fact, it has been a mystery where
she did go down, for they have nevr
eribeen able to locate her. She was
worth $200, 000. The 'Jack sustained
little damage and was soon in com
mission again. Now, there are two
boats which were worth about $400,
000, and both were sunk by boats
which could bo bought for $20,000,
and that would be a big price ' for
them." Buffalo Express.
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the leafless desert of the mind,
the waste of feelings unemployed.
Byron. ; '
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