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!j A Humble Uncle Josh, f XCopyrlght, 1W. by C. II. Sutclifre. Uncle Josh Williams bad lived in and round Rawsonvllle for fifteen years fccfore owning the Williams' private bank. Uriah Ileep was bumble be cause be was a hypocrite and bad an object In view. Uncle Josh was hum ble by nature. He was bumble and trusting and honest and sympathetic. How such a man could get along finan cially was a wonder to everybody, but somehow be slowly got ahead of the Same and finally announced that he would open a bank. There was no flourish about the announcement It was in keeping with bis record very bumble. He admitted that he knew nothing whatever about the banking business, but would open a bank more for the accommodation of his neighbors than anything else. It was predicted that be would be made the victim of all sorts of gum Karnes and that be would lose his last dollar within a year. Workmen prepared a building, and the bank was oiieued. It was presided over by Uncle Josh. The first attempt on the bank was with a forged check. Uncle Josh said be was sorry very sorry. He wanted to oblige, you know he'd get up at midnight to obllge-but really, now, he couldn't see his way clear In this thing. Would the stranger call again? Would the stranger go home to a boil ed dinner with blm? Would the stran ger ride out to his farm with him and give bis opinion on how the grass crop was coming on? Then there came a man with a lot of mining londs who wanted to put them up as collntcnil for a loan. They were quoted at tn and almost the same as governments. Uncle Josh looked them over und, although he had no dally paper to refer to, he placed the true value at 4 cents a pound and stuck to it stuck to it In his humble way. 1 Io was real sorry as sorry as If the stranger had fallen off the roof of a barn and broken a leg. lie thought all mining bonds ought to be worth at least 10 cents a pound, but he couldn't help it if they dropped to 4. Would the stranger take half a day to go huckleberry Ing with him? Couldn't they arrange to go tinning together? If the stranger was fond of the an cient, there was a ruined old saw mill down on the banks of the river, and Uncle Josh would go along and point out the moss grown points of Interest. Then there came n man with a pock et full of snuff. Ho bad piped off the bank and discovered that Uncle Josh was there alone from 12 to 1 while the nephew went to dinner. lie called to see about a loan. lie got Uncle Josh interested. lie got close to him. He out with a handful of snuff to throw into the old man's eyes and blind him and then rub the bank, but somehow the snuff went wron. Then something hit hlui, and he lay down. Then some one battered his head on the Hour and rubbed snuff in his eyes, nnd all the valnglorlousness was tuk on out of him. Uncle Josh refused to let him be taken to Jail. lie was sorry for him truly sorry. The people who had taken Uncle Josh for an easy mark because he was bumble soon began to realize that there was a difference. Ho had shown that he could take care of any money Intrusted to him, and the instituliou began to flourish. It got through its first year without the loss of a penny, and some folks were very much disap pointed about It. One of these disap pointed was a tough citizen of the -county named William Hayes. Wil liam, who was generally called Bill to distinguish him from William the Con queror, had read the lives of the James and Younger brothers and other similar literature aud longed to dis tinguish himself. He kept an eye on the Williams bank, fie thought it a sin nnd a 6hame for a bumWle and Innocent old lozer like Uncle Josh to open a bank sand tempt the n icked, and ho finally decided to remove the temptation and Ibenefit by it himself. He would thus !kin two birds with one stone. lie con sulted with other philanthropists of his Ilk, and at noon of one September day an a confederate was in the bank talk ing with Uncle Josh five whooping, disguised men rodo into Rawsonvllle on horseback and made for the bauk. Uncle Josh was a humble man with good ears on him. He heard the whoops and the clatter, ne was talk ing about taking a mortgago on a farm, and without breaking the con versation he touched an electric but ton, and the door of the vault closed. Then as the five riders came rushing Into the bank he touched another, and tslde door closed after them. - was a third button. He pressed x-ut und went down out of sight with a section of the floor. He was sorry to leave the six men there, very sorry, but it wa3 his time to go. If they could find It convenient to. call some other time he might not be bo pressed. They talk of It yet In that part of Illinois. There were six desperadoes safely caged in the bank, and Uncle Josh reached the street through the cellar. Windows were barred and doors locked, nnd armed citizens gath ered to prevent nny escape. For thirty bours Bill nayes and his gang held "the town at bay, and for thirty hours the town held them. Then a military company came down ou a special train, nnd After an hour's firing the gang sur rendered. They made Uncle Josh feel Teal bad with their remarks. They Bald they had taken him f&r a humble, guileless man and he had been an old fox In ambush. Uncle Josh did busi ness for many years after that, and, though all people called him a humble nan, no one called him a fool. M. QUAD. PEOPLE OF THE DAY Founder of the Salvation Army. According to a statement made by General William Booth, who Is now making a tour of Inspection of the Sal vation Army In this country, the work of the army will be uninterrupted In the event of the aged leader's death. General Booth said: "Arrangements have been made, so far ai legal acumen and prayer could enable us to make them, so that as one general of the Salvation Army steps off the stage of action another general shall step on. If, therefore, I should die tonight the message that would flash around the world would be, 'The general is dead; long live the gen eral!' " General rtooth is sevesty-three years of age and began tois 'usado against OKXBKA.Ii WILLIAM llOOTH. sin and misery forty-two years ago. Although he stoops somewhat, his only apparent physical Infirmity is a slight deafness. His eye Is as bright and his voice as strung as ever. "I have lieen in Australia, Ceylon, In Japan, in the different countries of Eu rope and up anil down the length and breadth of Ureal Britain." he said a few days ago. ,-l have more recently been in Canada. I have como here to America t look up my own people and see if they are working in harmony with the rules nnd regulations of the army, and I want to learn while I am here how the American people appre ciate the army." The present is General Booth's fourth visit to the United States. Fairbanks Makes Laughable Mistake. Though Mr. Fairbanks is usually posted by his assistants, he made a mistake at Iteno and incidentally turn ed the laugh on himself. The usual crowd bad gathered to meet biiu when the train drew in, and having but a few minutes to spare the lean vice president lust no lime in getting to his speech. "Senator Nixon." he commenced, with the air nf the statesman-orator, "and fellow citizens of Arizona, I" "Oh, thunder! Got next," shouted a rude miner In the crowd. "IJeno Is In Nevada." A tlmmlergtist of laughter followed the remark, and before it hail s"li!,lod the train was ready to move on. The Kaiser's Card. The German emperor believes in be ing sufficiently represented even on n visiting card. His cards are the lar gest in use in Ilurope and can almost vie with those used by the mandarins of China. They measure no less than six inches in length and four in width. On the upper line Is the single word "Wilhelm," and below are the words "Deutscher Kaiser" and "Koenlg von rreussen." Chanter of New York. Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, who is being talked of as a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, is at present lieutenant governor of New York. He was elected by a plurality of 5,374 votes, although Mr. Hearst, the LEWIS S. CHANLER. candidate for governor on the same ticket, was defeated by a plurality of 57,807. Mr. Chanler is a great-grandson of the original Johu Jacob Astor and Is rated a millionaire. A lawyer by pro fession, be has added little to his in come in the way of fees. For several years he practiced in New York and made a specialty of defending clients who were too poor to pay a fee. On one occasion be became dissatisfied with a ruling of the presiding judge and said so In open court. The Justice commanded him to apologize, which he refused to do. Then he was fined $100, which he paid. Mr. Chanler has Just celebrated his thirty-eighth birthday STAGE FRIGHT. ' ' ctor Have Been Known to Die From the Malady. Ferhnps the most terrible malady which can attack the actor in the course of his performance In the pe culiar disease known as stage fright Through its evil effects strong meu and women have been known to faint, Ireak down and do many other queer things, and there are even on record several cases of people who have died through this horrible seizure. Some years ago a young novice who was to appear for the first time ar rived at the theater very white and shaky. Brandy being given him, he appeared slightly better, but no sooner had be set his foot ou the stage than he clapped his hand to bis heart, with a low cry, and fell down dead. The overwhelming sensation Induced by stage fright had attacked bis heart, and his theatrical career ended thus even at its lieginnlng. Quite ns ghastly was the case of the young amateur actress who, strangely enough, had never experienced stage fright when playing with her fellow amateurs, but who was seized with the attack on making her first professional appearance. She went through the scene aided by the prompter, her eyes glazed, her hands rigid, nnd when the exit came it proved her exit from life's stage as well as the mimic boards, for she staggered to her dressing room and fell into a comatose state, from which she never recovered. Terhaps, however, the most peculiar instance of all was that of the veteran performer who had gone through thirty years of stage work without experienc ing this malady. One night, however, he confided to a fellow player that a (mite unaccountable nervousness had suddenly taken hold of him and that he did not think he could ever act again. His comrade laughed at the notion and urged him to go on, ns usual, but his astonishment may well be conceiv ed when the poor old player went on the stage nnd, after making Severn' valu efforts to speak, fell back and ex pired. The doctor who made the post mortem examination stated that death was due to failure of the heart's action, evidently induced by the presence of an attack of stage fright. rear Jon's Weekly. TYBURN TREE. Lord Ferrers' Tragic Journey to the Famous Old Gallows. Tark lane was Tyburn lane, and it se-eins as if the pillows described in an old document as movable m one time stood ar its east corner. It was there the ferocious Lord Ferrers was hung hi 17'" i murdering his serv ant. IIo.. e .'.;lpole's words paint the picture we": "He shamed heroes. He bore the r nity of a pompous and tedious i : : , .shin of above two hours from t' e '. oier to Tyburn with as much tranquillity as if he wcie only going to his own burial, not to his own execution." And when one of the dragoons of the procession was thrown from his horse Lord Ferrers expressed much concern and said, "I h ve there will be no death today but mine." On went the procession, with a mob about it sullklent to make its progress plow and laborious. Small winder that the nge of Thackeray, wii!i Thack eray's help, set up its scaffolds within four high walls. Asking i r drink, Lord I'eirers was refused, for. said the sheriff, late regulations enjoined him not to let prisoners drink while pass ing from the place of Imprisonment to that of execution, great indecencies having been committed by the drunk enness of the criminals in the hour of execution. "And though," said he, "my lord. I might think myself excusable in overlooking this order out of regard to your lordship's rank, yet there is an other reason, which, I am sure, will weigh with you your lordship is sen sible of the greatness of the crowd; we must draw up at some tavern; the continence would be so great that it would delay the expedition which your lordship seems so much to de sire." But decency so often paraded by those who outrage it ended with the murderer's death. "The execution ers fought for the rope, and the one who lost It cried the greatest tragedy, to his thinking, of the day!" London Sketch. When to Lift Your Hat. In answer to the question, "Please tell when and where are, or is. the cor rect time for a gentleman to lift or re move lils hat." we reply: Without con sulting authorities of etiquette, in fact giving it to you offhand, so to speak, we should say at the following times and on the following occasions, re spectively, the hat should be lifted or removed ns circumstances indicate: When mopping the brow, when taking a bath, when eating, when going to bed, when taking up n collection, when having the hair trimmed, when being shampooed, when standing on . the bead. Wichita (Kan.) Beacon. A Curious Anomaly. Until a few years ago the Philippine Islanders held their Sunday on the day which was Monday to the inhabitants of the neighboring island of Borneo. This curious anomaly arose from the historic fact that the Philippines were discovered by Spanish voyagers com lug from the east round Cape Ilorn, while Borneo was discovered by Por tuguese coming from the west, nnd sail ors lose or gain a day according to their direction in crossing the Pacific. His Title. "Papa," said little James, "what do they call a man who writes comic operas a composer?" "No, my son," the old man answered "he is usually called a plagiarist." Los Angeles Times. Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup Relieves Colds by working them out of the system through a copious and healthy action of the bowels. Relieves coughs by cleansing the mucous membranes of the throat, chest and bronchial tubes. "A pleasant t the taste M Maple Sugar" Children Like It For BACKACHE WEAK KIDNEYS Try BeWltfc Kldnej and Blaffdw Pills-Sun ud Safi 60 SHARES OF STOCK IN MT. AIR APPLE ORCH ARD FOR SALE. At par, payable in four years. $75.00 per acre will put ar orchard in bearing Appl e s are selling th i s year at from $200.00 to 300.00 per acre on the trees. Address JOHNjA. YOUNG, Greensboro Nurseries, Greensboro, N. C. F. C. BOYLES, Cashier Greensboro Commercial Saviners Bank. Secretary & Treasurer. CAPUDINE CURES !"S-"SSr. INDIGESTION and ApmiTV wwktn know Its ooil. It ruri HblUIII IIKAIAI1K4 ALSO bv remuviug the cause. 10 mats. OWNED BY THE Took First Prizes at W W W. L. Thurber, Agent and Breeder the famous Victoria Swine, made an ex hibit at the Fairs in the State this fall and in every instance they were awarded first prize for the best White Hog, Mr. Thurber has a herd of ten of these prize winners for sale. This breed of swine was originated by a Mr. Davis, in the State of New York, about 1870, from the crossing of four distinct breeds of hogs, viz: Poland China, Chester White, Berkshire and Suffolk, which produced a family of white hogs called Victorias. Tha characteristics and markings of the Victorias are as follows: Color, white with occasional dark spots in the skin; they have a good coat of soft, fine hair; head small and face medium disked; bone, fine and firmly set; back, straight, broad and level; low-down heavy hams and straight under. Victoria a Grass and Clover Hog. The competition in pork raising that the Southern and Eastern farmers have to contend with, against the great Western feeders where land is cheap and corn has no cash value, has caused a great revolu tion in the growing of pork. The question arises, "how can we grow pork on our Southern lands and meet the Western prices and leave us a margin." The only way we can compete" with the Wesc in pork raising is by growing a breed of hogs that will lay on fat while out on grass and clover, which the Victoria breed will do more than any other breed of hogs raised. I claim the Victoria to be the only grass breed on earth that is good for the Southern farmer. It would do you good to see a bunch of Victoria out in a field grazing like sheep, and as fat and slick as a butcher would like to see them. The Victoria, when it is matured, is about one-third heavier than any other breed of the same age and feed. The following clipping taken from the Courier and Freeman, of Pottsdam. N. Y., is interesting to stock men: "Mr. Jerry Swaney, liviiuoii the Smith Coltnn road, killed a 2-year-old Victoria hog for the St, Law rence county 1'oor House of Canton, X. Y. which dressed 7(i7 pounds. How is this for s two-year-old hojj? For further information as to prices of Victorias from weeks old up address W. L. THURBER, Agent and Breeder. Randleman, R. F. D. 2, N. C. IT'S UP TO YOU Why? Ko man or woman iving is any better than their Strmacb, Liver and Kidneys allow them to he, and if thee organi become diseased or affected, they will be ill. 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