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At Napoleon's Tomb.
An American win beinff shown the
tOmb Of Xfllmleitll. Ad tllu I.l1iinlna
Book
! Uide referred to tin; various points of
Interest In connection with the tomb
the Amerinii nnlil tl, .11..
I tlon to nil that was saiil.
"ri,; - . ..
1 u.o iiMiui.-iie snrcopuaKUs, de
claimed the gui le, "wei'.hs forty tons.
Inside of that. air. is a steol receptacle
weighing twelve tons, iind Inside of
that is n leaden casket, hermetically
sealed, weiKbiiiR over two tons. In
side of that rests a mahognny coffin
containing the remains of the great
man."
For n moment the American was si
lent, ns if lu deep meditation. Then
be said:
"It seems to me that you've got him
all right. If he ever gets out, cable
me at uiy expense." Success.
OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
8ay over again and yet once over again
That thou dost love me. Though the
word repe ted
Should seem a "cuckoo song" as thou
dost treat It,
Remember, never to the hill or plain.
Valley and wood, without her cuckoo
strain,
Comes the fresh spring In all her green
completed.
Beloved, I, amid the dui'.tncss greeted
By a doubtful spirit voice, In that doubt'a
pain
Cry. "Spenk once more thou lovestl"
Who can fear
Too many stars, though each In heaven
shall roll.
Too mitny (lowers, though each shall
crown the year?
Say thou dost love me, love me, love me
toll
The silver Iterance, only minding, dear,
To love me also In silence with thy soul!
Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Honesty as Qood as Sobriety.
Gear -of Iowa was a candidate for
congress. The Prohibition sentiment
was running high In bis district, espe
cially among the Quakers, who held a
meeting to which they invited Mr.
Gear. lie accepted.
"We learn," said the chairman to
Mr. Gear, "that thee does not belong
to any temperance society and that
thee does take a drink when it pleases
thee."
"That Is true," replied Mr. (ieor with
out hesitation.
. "Thee is very frank," said the Quak
er. "I do not like Ihy habits, but I do
like thy honesty. Perhaps we shnlirbe
able to vote for thee."
Aud Gear got the Quaker Vote.
All He Asked.
Stephen A. Douglas was very de
monstrative in his professions of
friendship. One day he sat down on
Beverly Tucker's knee and, throwing
Lis arm around the Virginian's shoul
der, said, "Bev, old boy, I love you."
"Douglas," said Tucker, "will you
always love .meV"
"Yes, Beverly, I surely will."
"Rut," persisted Tucker, "will you
love me when you get to be president?"
"Indeed 'will. What do you want
me to do for you?"
"Well," said Tucker, "all I want you
to do then Is to pick out some public
place and put your arm around my
neck just ns you are doing now and
call nie Bev."
Seneca on the Ways of God.
Why does tiod allllct the best of men
With III health or sorrow or other trou
i bles? Because lu the army the most
: hazardous services nre assigned to the
bravest soldiers. A general sends his j
I -choicest troops to attack the enemy In :
-a midnight ambuscade, to reconnoiter i
': bla line of march or to drive the hostile j
garrisons from their strong places. No !
one of these men says as he begins his
march, "The general has dealt hardly
With me," but "He has Judged well of
me. Let those who are bidden to suf
fer what makes the weak and coward
ly weep say likewise, "God has thought
us worthy subjects on whom to try
how much suffering human nature can
endure." i
Veil Up In Geography. j
Vbere was Christ born?" asked the ,
(teacher of Willie. Willie pondered
y fhile and finally announced:
' ' "'Mauch Chunk!"
'"Maucb Chunk!" exclaimed the
(teacher. "You ought to know better
(than that. Why, little Georgie knows
where Christ was bora. Where was
Christ born, Georgie?"
And the shrill treble of the four-year-old
answered:
"Bethlehem!"
"That's right," said the teac.t-T.
"Well," said Willie, pouting, "I knew
It was somewhere ou the Lehigh Valley
railway!"
Health Is Holiness.
Health is the holiness of the body.
Uirls should be as much ashamed of
j illness brought on by their own folly
' t as or being wnippea Dy tne teacner ior
dlsoDeoiencc airs, uneney.
Absence of Mind.
Dr., Jenkins of Stanford university Is
head professor of the department of
zoology. . He Is often profoundly ab
sorbed In the problems of his profes
sion. He was reading one evening after
Inner when his wife approached and,
niching him on the shoulder, remark
I softly, "Oliver, Mr. and Mrs. Bran
ir are coming over this evening, so
' list go upstairs and put on your other
it
loat"
The professor compiled without a
murmur. An hour later, when the vis
itors bad been In the house some time,
the hostess excused herself for a mo
ment and slipped upstairs to see what'
detained Dr. Jenkins. She found him
In bed, calmly sleeping.
"Oh, to be sure, the Branners!" ha
Bird's
mid when she awakened him. "I'll be
right down. I must have forgotten
what I came for when I removed my
;nut, for 1 kept right ou undressing
ud went to bed."
Dunbar's Resignation.
Paul Laurence Dunbar, while he was
dying of consumption, contributed to
Llppincott's this sermon of resigna
tion: Because I had loved so deeply, '
Because I had loved so long,
God In his great compassion
Gave me the gift of song.
Because I had loved so vainly
And sung with such faltering breath.
The Master In Infinite mercy .
Offers the boon of death.
An Astonished Indian.
lu one of the engagements of General
Sheridan wirli the Indians his men,
taken unaware by the redskins, had
no time to remove their mountain
howitzer from the mule's back, so
they blazed away, sending mule and
vuu tumbling together down hill upon
the Indians, who fled In panic. One ot
them, captured a few days afterward,
was a-ked why he ran away. He re
plied: "Me big Injun; me not afraid of
little guns or big guns; but wheu white
man shoots jackass at Injun me light
out da 111:1 quick."
Montaigne on Self Assertion.
Not to speak roundly of a man's self
Implies some want of courage. I dare
to speak of myself and only of myself.
When I write of anything else I miss
my way and wander from the subject.
I. who am monarch of the matter
whereof I treat and who am account- !
able to none, do not. nevertheless, al-!
ways believe in myself. I often haz
ard sallies of my own wit, wherein I
very much suspect myself, and certain
verbnl quibbles at which J shake my
ears, but I let them go at a venture. I
see that others get reputation by such
things; 'tis not for me alone to judge.
I present myself standing and, lying,
before and beh 1. my right side and
my left, and In all my natural postures.
To Get a Better Crack at Him.
A Sunday school teacher recently
asked his pet scholar why they took
Stephen outside the walls of the city
to stone him to death. The little fel
low was silent for a moment as though
absorbed with the problem, when,
brightening up suddenly, he replied,
"So they could get a better crack at
him."
Schopenhauer on Journalism.
Exaggeration of every kind is as es
sential to Journalism as it is to the dra
matic art, for the object of journalism
Is to make events go as far as possible.
Thus It is that all Journalists are, In
the very nature of their calling, alarm
ists, and this Is their way of giving In
terest to what they write. Herein they
are like little dogs. If anything stirs,
they immediately set up a shrill bark.
Preparing For the Worst.
A Trench gentleman anxious to find
a wife for a nephew went to a matri
monial agent, who handed him bis list
of Inily clients. Kmming through this
he cuite tj bis wife's name, entered as
desirous of obtaiuing a husband be
tween the ages of twenty-eight and
thirty-five a blond preferred. Forget
ting bis nephew, he hurried home to
announce his discovery to his wife.
The lady was not at all disturbed.
"Oh, yes," she said, "that Is myaame.
I put it down when you were so 1H in
the spring and the doctors said we
must prepare for the worst."
Indians on Education.
In 1744, at the treaty of the govern
ment of Virginia wilh the Six Nations
at Lancaster, Pa., the Indians were
Invited to send six youths to Williams
burg college to be educated free. It Is
a fule of Indian courtesy not to answer
Important .niestlons on the day they
are asked. After deliberating they
declined the invitation. They said that
they had - sent several young men to
the colleges of the northern provinces,
and when they returned they were
poor runners, ignorant of how to get a
living la the woods, could not bear cold
orhungert could not build a cablntake
Eye View of the Jam ss town Exposition.
a deer or kill an enemy aud spoke thojr
own language badly. They were not
fit for hunters, warriors or councilors.
They were totally good for nothlug.
"If the gentlemen of Virginia will send
us a dozen of tiieir sons, we will Jake
great care of their education. Instruct
them iu nil we know and make men of
them."
How Bismarck Gjt Well.
"lo you 11. ii liml it : great relief,"
asked llisnian U of ( 'khii! P.e'ist at (Jas
leiu in 1 ST 1 , "to simi.-'!i tlshiKs when
you nre in a passion '! One day I was
Lovers' Lane
over there" pointing to the windows
of the emperor's apartments opposite
"and I got into a violent rage. On
leaving I shut the door violently, and
the key remained In my band. I went
to Iijindorfs room and threw the key
Into the basin, which broke Into a hun
dred pieces. 'What Is the matter? he
exclaimed. 'Are you ill?' 'I was III I
replied, 'but I am now quite well.
thank you.' "
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States Exhibit Palace
Dyspephia and Central Debilit).
nreeuri'd by P. P. I', l.ip man'. i;ri.Mt Ri'ineilv,
rtii'Miiicrinrof nil iirimrl!lu.
P.P. P. 1- tile un-ulo-t t-:,U- f it tV stmniich
that ii eve r kuomi. lh,li(!.-ii,m. R:,.t im-iinis.
mid BilmiKiiws iflvv W;iy mpidlv to tho imwer-
fill tunic unci bin
1-111S pr".'rue ot P. r.
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ii-ii -t'Miiictit liviim
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i;nuiH tite. .1 l.l the iiolc he -i'c d vd with
Ion ransom I1I111 tn vomit nftcn. iif hill tmfns
in the ''.will. lireiK' nnii li.in ii i . 1-:r :i fr r ii-iht
U fv bnl'li-Mif P P. P.. .-I' like a n.-w num.
lie -ii" Unit lie fi l lie coiilil liw furever if lie
(.'iilil uU'iiyx net P. P p.
His mime will he uivcii .1:1 iipphiatinii to us.
Sdld liy AKhcldiiu H'ukOi.
at Jamestown.
Two yesiis agowhen the big mil
road magnates believed Roosewlt
was really going to.ccniel proper
reduction in rates, they w?re all ear
nest defenders of Stale's rights
Now all the big railrouls are for full
Fedtral cot.trol and so is Roosevelt.
Which gave the tip? News and
Observer.
Where North Carolina 's
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STORIES OF THE CAT.
Legends and Facts About the Still but
Half Tamed Animal.
"There arc few tales of cat fidelity
ami many of do', yet one thinks no
worse of the cat for this," savs an ob-
I surver. "Ills very independence com-
! pels respect, lie walks 'by his wild
I Inne. waving his wild tail, through the
I wild woods,' as uu inspired modern
writer litis set forth. All the genera
! timis have not served to tame him.
i and the most domestic of the race will
; revert sooner to a wild life at 'the call
: of the l.lood' than any other friend of
I man. It is thus scarcely surprising to
; find that the most famous cat lovers
j have been drawn from the ranks of
: politicians and poets, those whom rea-
sons of state or a sensitive tempera
. nient have rendered av rse from trust
1 ing tiieir fellow creatures and who con
sequently bestow all their nfTectlonS)
upon (lie "lireside sphinx.' We are In
vited to believe that the most famous
of all cats, he who brought fame and
fortune to bis master, Dick Whlttlng
j ton, was no four legged animal at all,
1 but merely the I'reuch word 'achat'
j to buy and sell at profit and that the
i groat merchant made a pet ouly of his
merchandise from the very beginning.
Thus In later years do the Idols of our
outh topple about our heads.
"But other legends nay, facts are
left us. Cardinal Wolsey, for Instance,
when acting In his ofHclal capacity as
lord chancellor Is said to have had bis
favorite cat always seated beside him,
and another prince of the church, Rich
elieu, found bis only relaxation In
keeping n number of kittens In his pri
vate cabinet and watching their gam
bols during his spare moments. We
cannot really reckon Richelieu as a
true lover of the race, however, for di
rectly the kittens grew to three months
he had them sent away and replaced
by others. Lord Chesterfield left In his
will life pensions to his favorite cats
and their kittens. Victor Hugo's great
cat Chanolne always sat ou a large red
ottoman lu the center of bis salon and
received his guests In state, showing
marked displeasure if auy one failed
to caress or praise her.
"Tasso wrote a sonnet to his favorite
cat, and Petrarch had one he loved as
dearly, we are told, as Laura. No
doubt she was the confidant of many
of his trials and consoled him for much
of the fair lady's disdain, and when
pussy died the poet had her embalmed
! iu the Kgyptian fashion and carried her
I mummy about with him everywhere,
j Baudelaire, the French poet, a very
i shy man. was always ill tit ease iu any
; now house he entered until the family
cat was brought tip and introduced to
him. after which. w!th the cat ou his
knee, he was perfectly happy lu his
silent poet fashion.
"Traditions respecting eats are. of
course, legion. From time immemorial
they have been regarded as somewhat
uncanny, omens of weal or woe, beings
to bo either conciliated or crushed.
The cat worship of ancient Egypt and,
later, th Tinman creed that the cat
1 was sacred to Diana speak of the one;
the wild charges of witchcraft or
coueeru In it rife during the dark
1 ages of F.urope will attest the latter.
But there Is another popular belief de
serving also of mention, that which
sets forth the old maid lis the cat's
only friend, a legend arising In the
mediaeval nunneries overrun with
mice, where one or more cats were
always kept and were ut doubt much
petted by the good nuns." Chicago
News.
A Hard Burial.
Some few winters ago n gang of car
riage washers was engaged washing
carriages on one of our northern rail
ways when one of them remarked to
his mate, an old soldier who was fa
mous as a long bowlst, "It's awful cold
this morning. David."
"Cold! This Is nothing," said David.
"I remember wheu I was In Canada In
180 one of our mates died, poor chap.
And you will have some Idea what
sort of frost It was when I tell you It
froze the body so stiff and the ground
so hard that we had to get hammer
and chisel, make a nick In the ground
and then drive him In with a pile
driver. That was the only way we
could give the poor chap decent
burial." London Answers.
No farm is well ordered whre there
are foul fields and overgrown fence
rows. Rush land is a boarder, and the
owner pays the board bill in the shape
of taxes, while Ui land is depreciating
because it la growing all the time more
expensive to clear.
Wealth Can Be Seen.
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ASHEBORO, N. C.
oners hi professional service to the
:itieo of Ashtborojaud nunouudizuj
(v.mniimity. Offices: At residence-
Dr. J. V. HUNTER,
PHYSICIAN - AND - SURGEON.
Office -Asli.-lwni Drug Co.
Residence -Conic, of Jlaiu and Worth
.Vrwis.
Asheboro, N. O.
Dr. S. A. HENLEY,
Physician - and - Surgeon.
ASHEBORO . N C
Office over Snoon li-ddinr.' .
Standard Drug Co.
DR. D. K. LOCKHART,
DENTIST,
Asheboro, N. C.
OVKB THKBASK " I "p. Pp. '
I 11 in now iu my office rvinrtil to uiictio
d Mit-try in its various Lranclic.-.
N. PCOX,
Jewe er and
Photographer,
Asheboro. N. C
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W. R. NEAL,
PHOTOGRAPHER
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JEWELER
Randleman, N. C.
CHAS. JL. HOLTON.
Attorney-a.t- L&w
ASHEBORO, . N. C.
Practice in !oth .state and Federal courts
Slcin! attention given to c illecticns nod th
-eti lenient of estates. Oilice: North nida
court house.
THAD. S. FEUREE,
Attorney At Law
ASHEBORO - - - N. C.
All matters attended to w ith care
and promptness. Special atten
tion given to collection and the
settlement of estates.
J. W. JOLLY,
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Undertaker.
I have placed 111 my new quar
ters, in the Aslii lioro (Irocery
Company building, (iliehrii k build
itig near the depot) in Ashelioro, 8
large line of coffins and caskets,
and undertaker's supplies, anil am
now better prepared than ever to
attend those desiring my i-ervires.
A nice hearse is a, the command of
my customers.
1 I also carry a good line of Fur
niture including Chairs, BeJroora
suits. Conches, etc. at prices to t-sit.
I solicit your patronage.
J. W. Jolly, Asheboro.
S Bryant, President J. B.Cole, Cashier
Dak.uk of Randlemawn,
Randleman, N. C.
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On Time Deposits
Capital $JZOOO. Surplus, $5,000.
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i W J ARMFIELIJ, Jr., Cashier.
!The Bank of Randolph,
Capital and Surplus,
Total Assets, ever
$36,000.0
$150,000.00
1th nmiile assets, exiHTipiu e and protection
solicit the busiiiess of tlie tiiiukiim public au l
fii-1 wife in saying we are jirejiured and willui
to extend to our customer, every (ncilitv and ao
cinuiodatioii consistent with sufe banking.
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