OL. XXIV.
WELDON, N. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER It. 1893.
ISO 24
jVIARKED BY LIGHTNING.
COLORED MAN'S STRIP Ol' WHITE
p FROM THE Til' OF It rs FI.NOERS TO
ju& iil.i- ur ma ruin.
ouiona Progress.
f Charles E. Thorpe, ol O.'egoo, tells a
V ry rem irkable incident which happened
i t seotly when he was ging from Yuma
t Tucsjn, A. T., on the Southern Pa
ct lie Railroad. Said he:
1 ' I happened to take a seat in the car
' it it u.:-j . .1 i .i
juo muiiiuu u jfidimj un:03Uil uut iiou
looking colored man. The train had nearly
eachod Tuscun when the colored man
jappened to throw his right arm over the
J Back or the seat with his Hand in plain
''Jaipur nnil T wns nlinn.4t tlinniler-Mlrnelc nt
hat I saw. I could scarcely believe my
es, and eagerly leaned forward to get a
lloserlook at the hand and be sure that
was not the victim ot'an optical illusion.
satisfied myself that there was no mis
ke. The third and fourth fingers of
le colored mans nana were as white as
l lady's and a white streak over an inch
wide rau back of his hand and up his arm
fur as I could see.
''1 was sure i had seen that hand be
'ftrc I went to the front end of the car
Iter a drink of water siaip'y that I might
gt a look at tho man's face. Every doult
wis then removed. He was George Wald-
ron, the man who had been my coachman
in l'hiladelelphia for over five years some
twenty years ago. Though paid him
well for his services, in an evil huur he
Vstole over S30U from in j and fled to parts
'unknown' I never madoauy effort to find
' him outside of the tity and had never
?en (jr heard of hiui until that day. When
litced him he reeoguiz.'d me and fairly
bathed through his black skin ut the re
..fu: : i : il.. i . 1 1 .
I bij'tuoo in ins crime aim lugrauiuuc. nu
uie that he is now liviug an honest
in Texas, where ho has a family and
I fie and a small tract of land.
it f Though I have read stories of similar
er jes, I don't believe there is another
hijn in the world marked in the same
' Wty that Waldron was. My house was on
J, a til'i and he wis standing in the barn
'owing a severe thunderstorm, with his
lf" ..MUM uitivt4 ODJ i(.iUq optimal.
t fsida of the building, when lightning
s fck the barn on the side where he was
ai. passed down bis arm and body. It
oy feu tus clothing wherever it touched
hi ody, and tore the shoe from bis right
tn ,ind threw it nearly across the barn.
' jf course, the shock knocked him
do. j and rendered him insensible for i
fju. jcut, though he suffered no lasting in-
im-But if there ever was a scared darky,
:ao tut uue. lie was too irigiueueu 10
pray, ana as iooks halt scared even now,
He will always bear on his right side,
bnj thfl tips of his two outside fingers,
fhich were next to tho building, to the
la of his foot, the white streak which
mrks the track of that flash of lightning.
' J is the most remarkable oase I have
i ier heard of, and I have asked physi
ios and scientists how lightning oould
roduoe such change of oolor in the skin,
ithive never reoeived a satinfaotory ex-
I i!anati0D.
KINGDOM OF THE ORIENT.
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EXCITING TIME,
TUB IIO.MK (F lll IIDIHS.M C1I L'LULONO
KO.M, THE ASIATIC AKTOCUAT AN
INCOME OF 27,775 A IIAV.
HISTORIC MISSION RIDGE.
A BRILLIANT I'EN-I'ICTrRE-THB
SHADES OF NIclIIT AROL'.VD LOOKOUT
MOUNTAIN.
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ilkesboro Chronicle.
Up on Stony Fork last Sunday while
e ministers were engaged in the solemn
remony of immersing several persons,
e lady tho got too near the edge of the
eek fell in whore it was pretty deep and
it wet all over. Thi so excited ono of
a candidates for baptism, a young lady,
Lt-tt6 fhtuted. Her best fellow was
Lire, and he took a notion that his girl
(nit about to die. The doctor was on the
jber side oi the creek. Not waiting to
down by the foot log, the young man
plunged in the creek up to his waist,
udea overanu earrieu ine aocior uacK
3 his shoulders. The girl soon revived
i a pleasant smile ran over the young
n's face, although bis "best Sunday
like lloUinty's, were njt very
ft 1 -
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loud and color tuaiti'f for hair
Jtediein.il her'M for the sei'p, curing
.ss, bilJQi, dandruff, and scalp
Siam is one of the best known of the
great countries of Asia. It lies at the
lower part of the Peuinsula of further
India, and it is cut up by the Gulf of Sl
um. The mighty river Menaiu runs
through it from north to south, and the
whole country is a network of canals. In
the winter a largo part of it is covered
with water and the people go from house
to house and from place to place in boats.
Siam is about four times as large as
the State of New York; it contains
about 10,000,000 people, and the coun
tiy aud the people, body and soul, belong
to the king. The Ling has the right to
every man's labor, and any woman whom
he calls upon must enter his harem, lie
has the most arbitrary power of any
king of the East, aud he is one of the
world. His palace in Bangkok is a mag
nificent structure, with golden elephants,
guarding its entrance. It has twenty
five acres of ground about it, and it is
said that 5,000 people live within the
palace walls.
The king is said to have oOO wives,
but the (tieeu, who is the chief of these,
is his majesty's half sister. She is a very
bright woman, aod has made herself
noted for her charity. She rules the ha
rem and smokes cigarettes
Siaui is I lie home of Buddhism. There
are 25,0110 Buddhist priests in the Sia
mese capital, and these are of all ages,
from 10 to 80. They go about with
shaved heads and strips of cloth wound
about their half naked bodies, aud they
chew the bethel and smoko cigarettes as
they go begging from house to house.
Chululoug Kom, the king, is one of
the brightest of Asiastic rulers and has
done much to advance civilization in
Siam. He has put telegraph liues
throughout a great part of his kingdom.
There is now a street car hue iu Bang
koktand the city has electric lights.
It used to be that the money used in
Siam was cowrie shells, or silver or gold
buttons. The king has adopted a coin-
ago, making money much the same as
ours. He has a mint of his own, and im
ports Mexican dollars and recasts their
into coins for the use of his people. The
unit of value iu Siam is the tecal, aud
the chief silver coin is about the siz ; of a
half dollar.
There is a postoffice department, and
Siam belongs to the international postal
union. The king talks English, and he
is thinking of building a railroad which
will open up the interior of rich king
dom. Siam is full of valuable resources,
It has mighty forests of teakwood and its
mines contain the finest of gold and sit
ver.
The king has an immense income of
about 10,000,000 a year, and he is said
to have about $50,000,000 stored away
in his coffers. He has his own secretary
of tho treasury, but he signs all the checks
himself, and is said to be a very fine bus
incss man. He has his cabinet, just as
our president has, and he has a war de
partment, state department, interior de
partment and agricultural department.
The country is divided up in forty-one
provinces, presided over by governors
and runs things to suit himself, making
such appointments as he chooses.
E. Gilliam in lleidsville Review.
The city of Chattanooga with its beau
tiful aboriginal Indian name, is situated
within the bottom of a great natural ba
sin, the walls of which are lofty mountaiu
ranges. In the cool and thrill of the even
ing air I boarded a street car for a su
burban hotel situated on the crest of the
Mission Ridge, fronting Lookout Moun
tain and overlooking the lovely city
spread out below our feet. The ride was
one of those exhilarating experiences
which ever remain as a fragrant and fruit
ful memory. The pulsing bree.c was as
soft against the cheek as thislo down. The
slantiug rays of the dying sunset fell ath
wart our way, and the golden lances were
shattered to pieces amid the emerald rifts
of the trees on cither hand.
From the emioce I gained I beheld a
prospect of unparalleled splendor, It was
like a revelation l'atmos itself. I stood
on the veranda of the hotel and watched
where the daylight died. The sun's blood
red disk dropped over into the open space
beyond the horizon's verge, splashing the
molten golden spangles of light and dap
pling the sky with glowing color- The
dark vault overhead was becoming inky
in its blackuess, aud the silent stars stole
out one by one and took their places in
the vasty sea of space. IMrectly in front
of me Lookout Mountain loomed up iu
the gloom like a ghastly death's head
its awful beauty, with a siiijjli- illumina
ting tower arc light like a great Gorgon
eye. Far in the distance the boom of an
iron furnace could be heard, and the con
flaration it sent up through its smuko
stack stood out iu bold relict atratust the
dark background where mountain and
sky miugled together.
We stood on historic ground. Oa these
mountain sides Bragg and Graut met in
mortal combat. Only a few feet away was
the spot where the rebel line was formed,
which resisted so long the onslaught of
superior numbers. Here was the scene of
one of the most memorable battles of the
great struggle. Here on these green and
gentle slopes rose and fell the red tide of
war. But now the cannon have beaten iu
to plowshares and the swords into prun
ing hooks, and the spirit of peaee swells
up from the valley. As the twilight shad
ows lengthened the lights of the cily be
low appeared in the dusk like myriad
fireflies twinkling amid the leafy closes
of the sylvan aisles. In the distance be
yond the range of vision one could ima
gioe the bended arm of the Tennessee
river encircling the city a great artery
of trade throbbing amid evergreen slopes
and pleasant savannahs.
As I stood and watched and thought
myself a part of the picture in this
scene of Edenio beauty, whilo the clear
throated birds poured out a choral swell
of airiose musio, the quaint conceit came
to me that in the dim aeons of the past.
ere the foot of man had profuued this pri
mitive garden, this amphitheatre was be
loved of the gods, who made it there fav
orite haunt and trysting place. Thus uius
ing over past and present, and reveling
in the high carnival of fairy-like sights
and sounds in upper aod subtler atmos
phere, I hung my head and dreamed
Passenger elevators were in use
Paris in the 17th century under the name
of "flying chairs."
During the settlement of New England
the white man's smallpox was more fatal
to the Indians than the white man's gun
Don't you Know That to have
perfect health you must have pure blood
and the best way to have pure blood is
to take Hood s Sarsaparilla, tbe best
bloed purifier and strength builder. It
expels all taint of scrofula, salt rheum and
all other humors, and at the same time
builds up tl' whole system and gives
nerve strength. '
Hood's Pills may be had by mail for
25c. of L. 1. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass,
A SEDENTARY OCCUPATION.
plenty of sitting dowu and uot much ex
ercise, ought to have Dr. Pieree's Pleasant
Pellets to go with it. They absolutely and
permanancntly cure Constipation. One
tiny, sugar-coated Pellet is a corrective
regulator, a gentle laxative. They're the
smallest, the easiest to take, and most
natural remedy no reaction afterward
Sick Headache, Billious Headache, Indi
geslion, Billious Attacks, and all stomach
and bowel derangements are prevented
relieved and cured.
A "cold in the head" is quickly curei
by Dr. Sago's Catarrh Retm "ly. So
Ca'irrhnl Hpnlach, and every trouhl
caused by Catarrh. So is Catairh itself.
The proprietors offer $500 for any caso
which they cannot cure.
BARROWING TROUBLE.
ANCIENT DOG WORSHIP.
llOUIILE l-S TO 1SE HAI IN EVERY
MAKKET AND EVEIIY MAN CAN TAKE
AS MUCH AS HE CHOOSES.
EDIFICATION OF THE CANINE IN EtIYl'T,
1IAIIYLON, NINEVEH, (JREECE AND
ROME.
Reformed Church Messenger.
It has somewhere been said that a
business house which does not borrow
money eannotbe prosperous. In other
words, a growiug business necessitates a
certain amount of borrowing, and in such
a business, borrowing is not only safe but
commeudable. On the right basis, bor
rowing means progress, advancement.
enlargement of enterprise, and possibili
ties of greater profit. But there is one
thing which ought sever to bo borrowed
under any such circumstances, and that
is trouble. Every man and woman under
the conditions of life has a sufficient
capital of trouble without adding to it by
the process of borrowing.
The chief business of the successful
man or woman is to diminish trouble by
meetiug is courageously and dealing with
it strongly. There is neither wisdom nor
wit in adding to one'e stock by borrowing
it, and yet this lack of wisdom is so wide
ly diffused that the people who refuse to
borrow in the market of trouble are nota
ble exceptions At this instant, when
ominons clouds hang on the business
horizon, the business men are few who
are not wasting strength and energy in
anticipating possibilities of trouble against
which theycaonot in anywise provide.
To foresee trouble and get ready for it,
is not to borrow trouble. The foreseen
trouble actually comes to us; tho borrow
ed trouble is unnecessaiily added. At
this moment, when so many are unable to
borrow money on what would ordinarily
be considered good security every man
finds himself able to borrow trouble with
oat putting up any collateral. Tronbli
is to be had in every market, and every
man can take as Tiuch as he chooses.
The more ho borrows, however, the less
likely they will be able successfully to
deal with what actually come to him
It is a fact of experience which we arc
slow to learn, that the trouble we borrow
never would have been ours in any other
way. Wo appropriate what would never
come to us otherwise. The real trouhl
of this life are numerous and hard
enough, but tluy constitute a very small
portion of its trials in comparison with
imainarv troubles To deal successfully
with tbe real troubles we must refuse to
cousider the imaginary outs.
TO THE WORLD'S
FAIR VIA K.& O
GOING VIA WASHINGTON AND RETURN
ING VIA NIAGARA FALLS.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad has
placed on sale at its offices excursion tick
ets to Chicago good goiog via Washing
ton or Baltimore via Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad and returning via Niagara falls,
with tbe privilege of stop over at each
point, these tickets are valid for return
journey until November 15th, and are
not restricted to certain trains, but are
good on all B. k O. trains, Besides the
opportunity of visiting Washington,
privilege afforded by no other route
tourists via the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road will traverse the historic Potomac
valley, the theatre of the war between
the States. At Cuiaberlaud they will be
off, red a choice of routes, via Pittsburgh
or serosa the Allegheny Mouutaius, 3,000
feet above the level of the sea, and via
D')er Park and Oakland, the fa-onus sum
mer resorts. The scenery along the Balt
imore and Ohio route is the most pic
turesque in America.
Address for further information Arthur
G. Lewis, Passenger and Ticket Agent,
76 Main St., Norfolk, Va.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
The very first pages of human history,
the annals of the Egyptians, record the
act that the progenitors of our race were
worshipers of the dog, says the St. Louis
Republic. Sirius (the Baker,) the
guardian of tho Nile, was one of the prin.
cipal deities in the country to the south
of the Mediterranean at the time or before
tbe building of the great pyramid. This
mythological creature Sirius which
was supposed to give warnings against
the periodical inundations of the Nile,
and which finally became to be regarded
as the genius of the river, was alway
figured as having the body and intelli
gence of a mao and the head of a dog.
This dog god was glorified in all the
chief cities of Egypt, and Cynopolis
"The City of the Dog" was subsequeii
tly built in order to more grandly honor
his canine and godlike virtues.
From Egypt dog veneration spread in
all directions, and after assuming various
forms, may be distinctly traced into Greek
and Roman religious rites, as well as of
other nations of tho north and east. Long
before the so-called fire worshippers bad
begun to pay divine honors to their dog
god, the Romans and the cnlightened(?)
Greeks had instituted sacrifices to their
canine deities, and were daily and hourly
bowing before huge images of mongrel
curs, to which were imputed diviue attri
butes At Babylon and Nineveh the
religious taste was of th same order, as
is proved by the many beautiful sculpt
ures of dogs of all siz?s that are regularly
brought to light by the excavators among
tho ruins of the cities mentioned.
It is related of Vulcan that ho mado a
brazen dog of ghjanio size for Jupiter,
which could eat, run, bark and playj in
short a dog animated by all the functions
and qualities of a living one. Further
than this, the giganio breed of dogs com
mon iu Epirus (Molosia) at the time when
Herodotus wrote were said to be descen
dants from the brass automation fashion
cd at the forxe of the first treat metal
artificer!
By the time when Moses appeared as
tho deliverer of his people tbo reputation
of the dog had sadly degenerated; this
lor several reasons, duct ot which was
that he was an "uuelcan"animal. By
rcadiog Deuteronomy, xxiii, IS we find
that the feeling against him was such
that even the "price" received for the
traiisferral of the ownership of a dog from
one to another was not to be accepted as
an offering to God. How this was to be
determined without prying into people's
private affairs is not stated. Probably
the high priests bad aright to ask the
regular Sunday contributor "Is this dog
money?" and to refuse to accept it if the
answer was in the affirmative. However,
we are left in blissful ignorance as to how
a great many old time hair-splitting cere
monies were carried out.
Is Life
Worth Living?
That depends upon tho
Liver. If the Liver is
inactive tho wholo sys
tem is out of order tho
"breath is bad, digestion
poor, head dull cr aching,
energy ana hopelulness
gone, the 6pint is de
pressed, a heavy weight
cxistB after eating, with
general despondency and
the blues. The Liver is
the housekeeper of tho
health; and a harmless,
simple remedy that acta
like Nature, does not
constipate afterwards or
require constant taking,
does not interfere with
business or pleasure dur
ing its use, makes Sim
mons liver Eegulator a
medical perfection.
" I have tested it Dcrsonallv. and know that for
Dyspepsia, biliousness and Throbbing Headache,
It is the best medicine the world ever saw." H.
H. Jonks, Macon, Ga.
Take only the Gamine,
Which has on the Wrapper tl - red 25 Trade
mark and signature "1
ii. : i ii.jn & cOi
HE CURSED GOD,
AND HAS SINCE BEEN UNABLE TO RE
PEAT ANY OT1IER WORDS A
STRANGE TALK FROM SOUTH
CAROLINA.
In all that goes to strengthen and
build up the system weakened by disease
and paiu, Ayer's Sarsaparilla is the supe
rior medicine. It neutralizes the poisons
1,'ft in tV system af:or diptheria and
.-earlet lever, tin ! restores tin; debilitated
pati'int to perfect health and vigor.
Mr. C. A. Mathews, while on his weekly
visit to Winnsboro, S C. Sunday, picked
up an item who h sounds a bit strange.
but which he vouches for. A farmer by
tnc name ot Jos. uarnson lives near
Winnsboro. When the storm swept over
his crop, prostrating his cotton and flooding
it waist deep, Mr. Garrison, standing in
the water and looking over his ruine
products, cursed God, swearing that
xniifi was a a n scuutuirel. since
ulteimg these words he has become inenp-
able of uttering any others, and tosse
side to side on bis bed, mumbling tli
words over and over 'ike ono devoid
retson. Mr. Matlicv.jaays be saw tl,
man and that he was in just the condition
d.'ocribed.
TO THE LADILS OF
WESTERN HALF OF HALIFAX CO.
I know Dr. J. A. Md'.WYn ORANGE
BLOSSOM ,0 bo a VC17 K11 klessiBS t(
our sex. We have long needed some
thing which we could use ourselves and
which could conquer the stubborn forms
of chronic inflammation and congestion
which lie at the foundation of all female
troubles. That Dr. JeG ill's treatment
meets the demand of this long felt want
s shown by tbe fact that many cases
which have bafHeil the skill of our best
physicians, nre being cured by it. I have
pledged myself to let my suffering sisters
in the above Counties know of this simple,
entirely safe, yet wonderful cure, lo
iiecoiniih.sh tins 1 must have the help ot
some good Christian lady in each township.
There are not less than one thousand ladies
in t ai-h ol' the a'-ove Counties to whom this
cure would he of inistimahle value, mam"
of them mothers who need strength that
they may train their little ones; then there
are so many voung jsirls whose trouble is
not considered serious, hut nevertheless
need attention, as only a little time will
be required lor it take the color from tho
cheeks and all the joy from their glad
young liyes as it lias done in thousands ot
cases. Write lor mtorinatioii. l answer
all questions. I will also send Township's
Agent s Terms to those who will assist me.
A11S.S L1..1U K. JJAV1S,
Areola, Warren Co., N. C.
t-'.m-ly
r THE TALK OF "Wi
1ST THE TOWN "a
86T NOW is m
Have YOU Seen
The pretty goods at
erys
Store
Dress Goods of all Kinds;
And trimmings to match.
EVERYBODY
says they are the prettiest in town. A
nobby line ot UentB furnishings A large
line of sample goods to be sold at
NEW YORK WHOLESALE PRICES,
and if you can't get a suit of clothes in
stock you cau select a pattern and the
fit is guaranteed; it takes only five days
to make a suit.
TT A rPC. A big line of the
XIxjl. L Ot Newest styles straw
and felt hats just opened.
I am always glad to show f4t and
prices shall compete with tie that
good goods c;.n be sold at.
Respectfully,
W. B. TILLERY,
Wcldoi, N. C.
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