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no JLV UlUUOi AO. -VI establishment. WOOD'S 25? Sarsaparilla isj carefully fc'ffi ' - -J V L J i.A prepare ujr cA.pci reuco pharmacists frpm Sarsa parilla, Dandelion, Man- drake, Dock.PSpsissewa, m'-ref Berries, and other -well known 5et4o remedies. The Combination, Pro--tloj and Process are Peculiar fco Hood's :airilla, giving it strength and curative r power Peculiar, to Itself, nqtposr ;w j ii sessed by other medicines. Hood's arsaparilta irtd Scrofala, Salt Rheum, Sores, .Boils, mpjiis. and all ether affections; caused by. !pu3 hlood ; Dyspepsia, Biliousness, Sick eadjifihe Indigestion, Debility, Catarrli, ien$alisEi, Sidney and - Lik-er Con lM&&&'-plaints.: Jt lajNot What 5f we .Say, but wfiat Hood's ja, !:. 'sarsaparilla iloes, that L 1. 1 1 S LUC OLUljf uwu a Sarsaparilla ORES ftbycl'SJ P'l'S1" enqe,mUdiideflecUv p Mont AmoeSa : - EIIKAIRY, Mt, Pleasant, ji is destined to bel TO; LUTHlRiH SCISDL l y'6ung -FOB i I. -:- LADIES IN THE SOUTH". . .. y . .. -n I -f-TT of Nine Teachers. r 4 V- jh' 1 Moroughly reliable Sphqol is the am bition of the management. Address, C. It. T. FISHEE.I PrinoiDal. c pcord High ; School, , Opens Jan. Q. Jjreparps fqr Arjjr Gojlege GIVES THOROUGH, PRACTICAL BUSINESS TRAINING. For announcement or iniormation. ad- L' Si tlipss, s ( i I HOLLAND TUOMPSUJN. -If : f" ' tV. N. Haiaemaiw Fresiaent of the great iuisvllle Courier-Journal iCompany, sayst f Br. Wintersmith's Chill Tonic cHred two C4es of chills In my family titer many other remedies had failed." t '. -' i Air. It. K. Carr, the leadinpr drusglst of Cferksdale, Miss., says : 'J Have a good sale Efp Br. Wlntersmith's Chili iTonic here, and ,li leading physlcianiof the town.presorlbe j Aiu-jiniiiy plrysicniri relftpmniends li hign- -sarys miss Annie way-rroach, 'iordyce, !(rK. . ;.. . - -i I--.- it .y lamnyoi six cnuuren cannot nvewitn- iLt It J? sars Mr.- Geo VT. Kirbv. Forest Citr. W INTERS SfflTH S CHILL TOSIC &A4 to' Banjaur 4- Qraam, Chipa Grgye, iiuu i n 1 1 1 J 1 j When' in need of Eire Insurance. toll vni see us. or rat. We renre- Jiivt only first-class Hocie and Foreign sJj3pii:uries. ':' . ' ? -. ; RespectfuUr, : WOatiHOP & HARRIS. . THE CAPTAIN'S STORY. Captain- Harry Beaufort was a tall, handsome, middle aged man', who trav eled for a leading Chicago firm. In re- snon8e to a request for a story to while away the time as we4rayeled from Vin cenneB to Cincinnati,' he said: "As I'm going to stop off at my home this trip, I believe I'll tell you about my, utue Yankee prisoner, ;Let me see" retro spectively "it -was in November," 1863, when our brigade the old stonewall brigade was lying below Winchester, Va., momentarily expecting an attack from the Federals. We were a ragged set of devils, I tell' yoo. Half of the brigade was coatless and hundreds were shoeless, and all of us were . hungry. One night I was put Qn guard in a little hollow facing the Yankee front. The glade was surrounded on three sides by low hills coercd with underbrush,, with an opening directly, at my ftont of sev eral hundred yards, immediately sur rounding my position there was a growth of low bushes, so thick that it seemed almost impossible for a man to penetrate it. . .In my rear all was clear of growth of any sort, so you can see that I was not likely to be surrounded and captured if I kept my . eyes open. Well, I had been standing there perhaps an hour whea I heard a hrashing and crashing io the buhes af my left. eIt seemed to mep rnuch Uke the- sort of a racket that an old cow, . tangled in the brush would' make, that I paid but little atten tion to it until a' heavier fash. than comrnon followed, by 'Durn the. brush!' in- accents of annoyance attracted my attention to a point about thirty feet away, and while looking, expecting to see th,e draggled gray make-believe uni form of one of i my regiment, 1 was as tonished to see the blue uniform of a Yankee emerging from the brush. ' "The fellow,' who had not-yet seen 4l 1 It me, was . Ullie mure tuau a uujr was 6nly eighteen -years old myself at the time), and a paie-iaceg, iair-nairea boy "at that! Halfl Drop that gun and stand where you are, Yank V 1 rirdfirfta. I needn't have told nun 10 drop his gun,' for he was so much aston ished that he did it involuntarily. Well. I'll be darned! You re a Johnny Reb, aint you f What are you doing here?! were a;few bf the questions he rattled off ih; his surprise. 'Yes, I'm a Johnny Reb, Yank, and I'm on guard here,' said 4, as 4 aoyanceq anq picKea K';m!n ' Xr( vnn'r mv nrisoner.' HM "fJ fevtv tf" J n - - fr-; . aqaeq, That's iust my luck.' said he.- . mierht have known I would get lost in these blamed Virginia hills. I wouldn't give a .ten-acre farm 6,n an Indiana nrairie for ten miles square 01 mis wooden country.' ' - ' " 'Ought to have stayed there, said I. 'But you won't get pack goon. Yank; for you're. bouhdfor Libby Pnson in short metre. 'Libby Prison f ' Holy Moes, I hope not. But f say, Johnny, got any grub? I'm blamgd rieaj; smarted. -I've wan dered about trying to confiscate some thing to eat ever since 3 o clock, and to tell you. the truth I'ra too hungry and tired to talk.' : .. - " 'That s nothing,' said I. 'I've gone three days without anything to eat ex cept green corn, and that on the ear, But I'll tell you what I'll do; I've got a husk of corn bread in my grub bag over there under- that ' -LUte tree. , You "can have half ot that.' ' ' - " 'Thanks, Johnny: I'll do the same for you some day,' cooly said the little. Yank, and without any more auo on he hustled and got the grub. ' 'The fellow was hungry" and no, mis take.. He ht into the chunk of corn bread like a hungry wolf, and while stood looking at him and laughing at his efforts to get a four-inch section of corn johe into .a tworiach mouth," 111 be blamed if he dido1 gobble; 'down the whole mess, crumbs and all.r J saw it coiner, but 1 couldn't stop it to save me, and don't really Ijplieye I would have ?pp U if j PPtfWj hHngrf ?P I pyseif was, .-, " .- J 'But vou should have seea that Yank's face after he had got away with Hnn.-'f)aramy riggin , said he KnlAof itJ I'm mighty sorry, jonnny uuv unknown to md, but, however that'inay j be, I determined to 'do the best "I could ! to get my. little Yankee out of trouble MIX ARB'S I.ETTEE. I have great admiration And" even on whfn, the relief Wrd men.Place.ine S,18n ar1 ?' our ancestors. The officer merely asked T me where I; ine wuuy;nu. fuuuy m, u me doubt whether there is any better, got my p:iioner, and when I told him he; ordered me to take him to camp and turn him over.; Our fellows were allow ed considerable license, and 1 took ad vantage of the fact by going; back) with my prisoner without any other escort It was very dark in camp;' and I had ho trouble in escaping observation with ray companion and getting into my tent. " M suppose I'm a goner, Johnny," said, my little Yank, after we stretched out on a blanket. " 'We'll see, said I. 'Stay right here and don't' move till I get buck.' And then I slipped out of the tent and managed to hook several pieces of cqin bread, one of which I ate, in bert or der.. Then we lay; down j&gai& and talked in a low tone of- voice intil I thought it might be about 2 o'clock in the morning. ; Then I again stole out and after a- little scrutiny managed to get possession of . an void gray 'hat and PLOT Hill G i I have opened out inlthe room next to Dr, Bmoot s office a good line of 'I AND BOYS' CLOTHING, aji Suits. . ..... Comedo ee me. ' (-v C. M. LORE. l r- i I:. Oiercoats 1 Ji right prices. M CI. 81 tl j 1 I I a . A I if Tlgh j , ii 1 1 n mip 1 4- mm .. are subject to jecnfajui4r; The , remedy for. babiesills especially fwormsi and 6tomach disorders is ' Freys Vermifuge has cured children for 60 years. Bend for lllus. book about fha ills and the remedy. . On bottl mailed toe mu. ? .18. FEET, Baltimore, JUi We had a little rupture in the family 100 years ago, and King George IV. played the fool, but the Chathams and many other noble men were our friends. From England we have inherited the highest type of art and literature, : and England is today the? foremost - nation in the spread of Christianity and Chris tian civilization in heathen countries. - Progressive as we are in art and cul ture, we have not yet produced such men as Milton and Bacon.'and Shakes peare and Johnson amd Cowper and Gray and Byron and Charles Lamb and a host of trthersf .'Then there was New ton and Sir Christopher Wienri and Reynolds and Garrick and Mrs. He mans and Hannah t'Jioore. A man who . would make wanton sport of England is an unread idiot why, if I Was an English subject i would stand jacket. ; These 1 Ordered my little Yank UP mT country an4 mJ QQeen ? to don, leaving ms blue cap and blouse v.Wvuw, ""-"' on the eround. Then when all was else- . 1 remember well when the crown quiet lied hinvout, and by adarkglen; wf Vea upon her head m W7, .and which ran close up to camp 1 got him xu safely down into the brush-covered ese mg years ene naa oeen an exam glade where I had captured him. . An pleof love and-virtue and toleration to hour later by creeping and crawling we "cr peupie. -- . had dodged the pickets and wera out of . An Englishman who says he has been reach. 1 living in our country ior many years " 'Now, Yank,' said I, 'we par,t here. l? me, ana. complains mat 1 nave TBere. a little to vour richt. is Vour written nam ana insulting aDoui jng- picket line. Be careful that they don't land- : He says that 'a nation should shoot you for a rebel. Good-by !' And nf PJ stamped as ignorant u nineteen hplr T rocnf mttintr Hafplw intn Mmn "Ufc UJl lciil,y unu iiecr ucaiu t ui .ir before day. Ilanta. TheJBritish empire is peopled "The next mornihe we went into the v? tw.ws evay luuguc, fight and my Yankee prisoner was for proiessmg every religion, ana ougnt to gotten by the other guardsmen. ! p6 excused it , tney ao not know tne This wns thA Inst I R.nnr nr htearrl nf xvuiciiuauE iuuo uum nutvu my little Yankee Drisoner durine the vour protective tarut exciqdcs' par war. Twenty years after, "or in 3883, I goods."- He says, , r'I haye never seen was traveling then," as now, "outiof .'tjhir in an American paper a frank, manly cago, in Illinois and Indiana and one word of commendation for England or summer evening I. was sitting in a store anything Jngiisn, and am sorry ;tnat in one of the small country villages in yon 01 au men snouia join ue crowa 01 Indiana, in company with perhaps fif- howler?, would it not be well for some teen or twenty others, most of whom I of jou to come fiad teen in ? the 'army. ' Stones ancl Great Britain and cease teaching yom: okes were -told over our cider and pipes, children those bloody shirt tales of . the and we were all in good cheer.! When revolution. I Was ignorant of the real it camfl mv trim I thonpht of mv little PlStory Ot Blinker 8 IXM Until I went Yankee and told the story lust as I have eaw tne piay :oi 'jtne rairiois given it to vou. - One of the listeners, a I A nad always read Uiat tne Untisti tecn- tall ' broad . shouldered, sandv-haired I nicatiy won tnat battle, but wnen at giant, listened so intently that I saw that i the theater 1 saw six British i soldiers w - : i ' . i i , i .i . at least one of mv bearers was interest-1 overcome dv me enure corps ae Daiiiet, ed, and when I concluded thei big f el-1 1 understood why they put a monument low arose and took Watson aside. Wat- on the hill. I have aLways Bupposed son was the store keeper. Thfey talked that all mulattoes were tbirty years old, . " . ll r i mi . . I nohntr f 1" nt KTvfVi frr-t CWnvwinM'a ex.cueuiy iur.peruu.ps a quarter ot an "6 vniu -nwui uunuian c hour before they came back, when marcu mrouen eorgia, cut i am not Watson said: 'Captain. I'va been think- ure that I am right aboufthat'. Let us in? ' about the goods now but I'll tell you what Yeu, mat is lunny tunny to Ameri- I'll do. U you'll stop; sayl within sixty cans, 1 never intended anything but a days, and give me a day or two's notice, I good jke on ;ngliGhmen when 4 wrote '11 give you a good brg order , What aooi tneir ignorance aoout Atlanta and da you say t . ' . j Grady and the Uberty liell and Booker 'Consulting my book I found that I asningion, an or wnicn ; was taken six weeks from that time I would be in from the tfOddon Daily; Views, hut it seems tnat Tof. ; Boyesen was " right when he said in the last North Ameri can Review that an Englismaa can't take a joke. He say3 that they are the most serious people in the world, and that Americans are the most jocular; that no American humorisla are' appre ciated over' there "at all except Bret Harte, and that it even strains an En- people, among w&om were many men glishman-to understand Jlark -Twain's who looked as if they migbfjtiave been jokes. Ho asked ofie of their best read seasoned veterans at one time. I had men if he did not like Mark Twain's shaken bands with Watson and one or 8tory of the jumping frogs and he said: two of his friends whom I recoenized. "Well, no; I don t see anything 'funny when I heard some One savr l in it, and if , I did the pain given to the "'Here he is now. Not thinking 1 poor frog by loading him up with shot- the remark had any reference to my-f would paralyze all the humor that was self, I paid no attention until; 'Give in Tbis reminds me of Chauncey us your naw. comrade.' sounded in mv lepew, who, w?iie crossing- the Atlan ear. m- ?u..-i 1 t J tic wllh an "Englishman, told him all 'TurninTl stood face to face with I sorts of funny stories," and npt eing the biff bearded ciaht who had' .listenedd able to provoke a smile, sajd: "Well, so intently to my stbry 'on ! thai nigTit 1 1 don't believe ypq Cftul4 spp a Joke six weeks befofg.' gy h side tPod a 1 nniess was stio into you wjth a gun." fair-faced, fair-baired. bluWeved man The Englishman still looked serious, of thirty-five or thirty'geven years. The and said : 'Can you shoot jokes out of voaner man looked me over from head a gun? to foot, then back to my f ice again, as We had one over here, twef years agp if looking for some point .of identifica- wno aid not Deneye it possible lor a ne- mother is a widow with ' nine little or phan children and I and their only support.'' Now a sober, solid English man" would read that three or four times and 'then' say, "1 don't se& how that can be," but an American would sruile at the boy's poor wit. My little grandchild kicked her mother while in the bed and : after repeated requests to stop her . mother said, ' 'Katherine, if yon kick me agam I will spank you, ' She kicked again,- and after the spank laugh immoderately. "What" are you laughing about ?"- said her mother. Uoss you panked the wrong leg.'i said she. "That is a fair example of Ameri lean humor, indigenous, native born. An Irish child might have had it, but ah English one never. My English friend says: "If the Americana are as great and as brave and as good as they are always saying they are, and if they have the greatest country and the - greatest liberty as they say they have, they certainly can afford to show more generosity when speaking or writing of their most in timate neighbors." That is so exactly bo I don't like our jingoism ,our braggarts, our chips on the hat. I don't like bullies nor bull-dosers-s-and I don't like England. English friend will quiet down and be at peace. He has been living "with us long enough to take our jokes. 1 It is. perfectly natural that the English maps should not have.Atlanta on them, especially as it is so far from Canada' and Venezuela. Our people know more about Upland than the English do about us. Our people visit Scotland and England in great numbers every, year, and our young folks have to study English his tory and are well posted, better than thfr ajerage English youth. Mr. De- pew says he visited Stratford and asked a ; native "what- Shakespeare did that made so many people come-, there. And he said he wrote something. ' 'What didfhe write V ' "I think, ' ' said . he, "it was the Bible." But, nevertheless, I believe most of the En glish people know that Shakespeare didn't write the Bible, but that it was King James of blessed memory." But I shall not joke my unknown friend any more. Let us have peace. Bill Arp. and would have three or four days' time with nothing special to do. I told Watson that I could 'not reach him sixty days hence, but would be able to do so iust six weeks from that day. " 'That will do nicely, Captain; don't forget the date.' ' - ' "On the day agreed upon I droye up to Watson's store", which I fdand full of tion until his intent began to annoy gro to steal. In course of time his Yonr ddres, With bc cent In stamps, mailed to our Head qoarteni. 11 Klit 8t, BftM, ltn.-t trill brine yon a full of sample, 6n4 rul?r for self. pieaturcment, of our jnstly fa moot S3 pants ; Suits, $13-26 j Overcoats, $10.25, and np. Cut to order. Ageau wanted every, where. .. .-. . 0 -, New. Plymouth Rock Co. -aku AtLrca, UiTc-cor, HonndwJinl'iaby E. Tour joe. 0 r g Rfis""L Send for Prosiject givisg full information. Fhakk W. I alb. General MaaastV SU PENSOUY BANDfAGES. ' Circular free k lavell's, 10'J5 SprUtg Garden st.Phila,Pa Miffi, nbver mind,' Siid t, for it was plain that the half-starved fellow . had. not been really conscious 01 ms aouse of mv nosoitalitv. and althougn I was glaa enough, to give hjm a good licking my bense 01 tne naicuioua prepouuer' ted, and . I couldn't help laughing to save ray life. The whole affair had been so confoundedly ridiculous that 1 laid down my gun and actually rolled over and oVer until my sides fairly ached, - "The little Yankee looked, at me a nnnute or o," apt! Jhji'hh'g comical Bide of the affair suddenly struck him, too, and the next minute. both of ? were laughing like schoolboys "When both of us had laughed until we were completely exhausted we sat down together under the little tree and had a long talk. He belonged; to an Indiana regiment and' had been in the service about six months. He said his parents were living pear Brownfield, Ind.", on a prairie farprV and spoke of bis faJbpr'Wd'-'TnrKerrttt'''rl8- the greatest affection, He bad a ".little sis ter Jcannie two years old, whom saw that the boy fairly worshiped. There had been three other children. ; But they were all dead. 'Before the war I had a number of lriends in Indiana, and 1 spoke oi tnem, one ; or two of whom 1 found were known to my prisoner. :' , Of course told my story of how, with thirty -five other schools I had left school before was seventeen and had joined the Con federate army, and of the many battles we had been in. There were at that time but seven of the thirty-five left alive ."Well, to make a long story short we had not talked ah hour before we felt that we had known each other life time. It Saddened me to think of that jolly, fun-loving face in Libby or some other of our prisons, with r their necessarily short - fare and miserable quarters. - Somehow thought I could see iha. t boy's mother appealing' to me with' her eyes to save her boy from prison, ' - . ., , It may nave been some nynopuc or me, but a minute later his eyes bright- man servant stole hi? . pant? $nd airirt .-j .,.Jt,;nfno VVrnmlHi'h imnUnfUnil SAivi o j,nf.tV arid mJarfnWnf iA a nil enea, nut uu tvp w tty w 1 - - r - ;-r. -'-Ua -;: '- 1 ,li ii'' - ' - f the fhi; r ' .. . - . '3 . . " 'Don't know me,.aoTyqi earn ue. V Ncv I don't helieve I ever saw you before, yet,' as smiljp lit up his face, yet there's sometrung aooup you seems familiar.' . -' ' 'Didn't think you'd f forget your I Yankee prisoner the one who eat up your grub near Winchester in '63 1' - " 'What r 1 ejaculated, and tnen t all became clear. There was the same snnny. smile,1 the same laughing eyes, but fe man before me wag alinost mid dle aged, bearded' and gtalvvart whereas my prisoner haC beea '' tjuf a stripling of a- boy, I forgot tne yearg whicn nad elapsed, but that all came to me in a flash, and there before, twenty years after it occurred, stood my quandam Yankee prisoner. "Two hours later we were trotting up a long avenue 01 cottonwooos to wards a beautiful white mansion, em- nijs restored. Kven. then, be thought bcre was a mistake about it, and that some white inp stole them. 1 wanted to taV,e hirj out ahd tick" him for lata unbeligh He was determ iged. to defend the darkey, i A year ago theXondon Globe had an article about Buffallo Bill which ran as follows: " "The. : cablegrams announce that Col. Cody, who will be remem bered in London, has been returned as Mayor of Nebraska. No bette sel tion coul4 have been made; 'i- OoL Cody as tfie inenq 01 a man narnen xsoonej who discovered Kentucky. He marj ried the granddaughter of Sitting Bull1 frog. JIo was twioe ,(he Governor of Chicago, and at one time was mayoi" of Arkansaw. He served m the . Con federate army, under Gen Butler , who so gallantly defended New Orleans against Gen. Longstreet. He intro duced ,a bill in congress for the relief ibf Dr. It. l. Payne'i FareweU. Correspondence of th3 Observer. Lexington, Dec. 30.1A large num ber of the admiring, friends of Dr. R. L. , Payne went to the depet to-day through a drenching rain to see him and family take their final departure td their home in Norfolk, Va. Many of those were; farmers from. the country, who rode many miles through mud and rain to bi4$V3l a last farieweil. Many were trie expressions 01 regret at ms final leaving. Sorrow was depleted upon the faces.pf aljnd grown men and wonjea, " ept like children. All the waiting rooms and the coverings around the ticket office were packed and some stood opt in the rain under urn- brIas for hours watting for "the train. His friends fairtCkfted him and family and baggage on the train. Thesa marks of esteem are but partial tokens of love and admiration in which' he is held by the good people of his native county. .. . -;A . - .' ;' . - In his departure tho town, county, State, church and society lose a pol ished, cultured gentleman, an erudite scholar and eminent physician. As proof of these facts the medical profes 8ion of the State has elevated him to the highest position within its gift, by unanimously electing him president of the State Medical Society, a position he now so ably fills and wmch was once or- twice fillled by his distinguished father. This loss to the county is a greater Toss than it as ever sustained, except by " the 'djatlk' of " his lamented father, , Dr. J., fPayne,v Sr.. As a physician he is the jfqual of any fas a surgeon he has ho equal in the State. ' I Dr. Payne is truly a remarkable man.' As a student at our State University one if 2ii8 class.'now a physician, says he aH no equal in college. As a student it Jefferson Medical College1, Dr. Da Costa, then professor in that College kid to one of our prominent citizens that "Dr. R. L. Payne has a brilliant future before him. ..lie was one of 'the brigbest 'stude'hts hat ever graduated physician 'of"Virginia told tbo writer that he ba4 rre Payn & one of the medical rlcinvention? and he regarded him a one of the brightest young phys iol&hi he had ever met. - But he has gone, and with him went the last one of the old distinguished tHE "NEW "WOMAN'S" , - BIBLK. TIEW OF T'HE The so-called "Woman's! Bible," the preliminary announcements, of which have been a subject of press comments for months, is rfot a revision or retrans- lation of the Bible in whole or in part. Advance sheets of the first . part show that it is merely a commentary or criti cal review and analysis, from the point of view of the editors, of .those passages in the Bible which relate toTyoman and her status-.- Ihe cnticisms are written a hofefui. from , the Agnostic or Freethinkers' noint rtf virnr Afra "PliahafW CaAt Stanton, the fchief editor, and most of ReZ.!ew ol: Rs- ; r her associates are unbelievers, and they "ew. awns upon a., world deny the divine authority of the Serin-. P1,1 nd8 Itself more thproughly awake tures. They treat the Bible throughout ana more actiyy: interested in itself as as the Production of men ImHfi tn firrnr: I " "u iw um CTer uwu Deiore. j. Highwt of all in Iavcriing PQwcirLatest U. S. Gov't Report : mmm m ft AKl) INTKRE8TXNG NEW TEAR. i -1 a.a. prejuaice,ana bias, and express opinion that true emancipation is jne i -a. 3aoi. tuere naa never oeen a ume oi im-1 "uveuturous interest ana entnusi- ffossiblefor woman as long as she'ac- j. 06 ine f1 penoa.ol voyaging cepts the position assigned her ini the an( discovery thai followed the find- JBible Or in any other religious source. "6 Afr1." V UU Y1"111?- - An In the introduction, Mrs. Stanton says: K18-96 " ,.deci?e hether fPain w ny is , it : more ridiculous for T , " ". ""wiuu women to. protest against ner" present ucr uericn pos- 1 . A. I QADi n ' I ' W . JM mm J m..LZ At. . . ill vJ.n session. This year is destined to 4U V1U IXA ilCIT iwmuicuB.i. , .J- - .. . . -.. - . in the brdiances and discipUne oft the " ieas"OT some time to come the fate church, than in the statutes and consti- JUC or all of the Turkish Empire. tution of the state? ; Why is it , more ridiculous to arraign ecclesiastics -5 for their false teaching and acts of injustice to women than members of Congress and the House of Commons? Why is China, which had until these latter days seemed - so unshakable in . her to add some inertia, 'is fated this year strange and senaationai chapters to her own- history, while influencing ; pro- it more audacious to review Moses than U1 nwiory oi Europe, - japan, B.ackstone, the Jewish code of laws navinS i? amaangiiUustratjon of than the English system of jurispru dence? .-T . "" ! Jf i ''Bible historians Claim special inspi ration ior tne uid and JNew Testimerits, containing most contradictory, recprds of the same events, of miracles opposed to au Known laws, oi customs that de I her ability to play a great part in war and to assert herself in diplomacy, ; is now entering upon a still more marvel ous chapter of industrial' history. The new year is to see much of novelty and change in the drifts and tides of inter national commerce. .particulariy as ge ien the position of Asiatic countries. animal life, stated in the most question able language that could ' npt belejad in a promiscuous assembly, and Call all this the 'Word of God.' "I do not believe that any man! ever saw or talked with God ; I do npt bejieve that God inspired the Mosaic code;, or toid the historians did about woman on the face of the earth degrade her. In : the mmmpnta nn Honpcia ( tha ?iQ;ri ia ii. Vu nT- . tng the rails, and the work g( mmade that- the Tani night by electric illuminltiol Mother, and Son. As a sample page, we quote the argument 'by which this theory is supposed : ; .;'- - ;'r f - ' '26. And God said ; Let ua make man, in our image,' after our likeness; and let them have dominion over, the I iSihflrifln ioilTtrov oma th'a Kloolr' what thpv R.-LW- TTaI" W t tn n iu2 il! U1 iiuriuem Asia, inrougn winter , lus acucivun :U 1 TLl. I II1U1 ICVCilOU AlCbDbO. y not The opening up of Africa goes on at an astounding rate, and the jyear 1896 will probably add a large' number of fresh pages to the marvelous Btory of European enterprise in the African continent than any .previous year haflj contributed. The Russians are pushing the Trans- steppes snows, numbers " of workmen are gradingrthfe road and lay ing the rails, and the wotk goes on. at Almost unexampled progress will . be made on the Asiatic railroad sy stem in the year 1896. We shall soon, therefore, see a road completed across - northern China to the Yellow Sea at Port Arthur, Two Pacific cables, one undW American and the -other render- British auspices, PROFESSIONAL CARDS; . B. Ik MONTqOMBflr H . 1,1.7 -ik MMB v - MIIBlIlldltil offer their professional services to -the citizens of Concord and - vicinity. AU caJJg promptly attended day or night. Office and residence on East -'Depot street, opposite Presbyterian church. . C. Houston. Snrireon Dgntist CONCORD,' N. C. " f Is prepared to do all kinds of Donta work in the most approved manner ' Office oyer Johnson's Drhsr Store. W. J.. MOSTOOlfEBT. LKB0B0WEI.Ii Attorneys anfl ; Connsellors at Law CONCORD, N. C . As partners, will practioo law in Cabar rus, Stanly and adjoining counties, the Superior and Supreme Courts of the State and in the Federal Courts. Office on Depot Street. Parties desiring to lend money ' can leave it with us or place it in Concord National Bank for us, and we' will lend it on good real estate security free, of charge to the depositor. We make thorough examination of title to lands offered as security for loans. .-; , . : . . ." Mortgages foreclosed without expense to owners of same. ,- MORRISON H. CALDWELL.;. Attorney at Law, CONCORD. N..C. Office 'in Morris oourt house. building-, opposite July 4 4f fi0w j . i . iL HWCf uuct- iiuou auouiuco, nre r" Panned for : constructibn this year. tho ZW - .,aufMeanwhUe the Japanese, v with the Je and over every creeping thing largest cotton factories iin the world, -l?7 Ta - J- ' ' are carrying their capital and skill into "mi. w m a China, where they propose to buUd still image, in the image of God created he iger cotton factoc.-nd will employ )Q a a A TZI nei mein: skilled Chinese labor . at eight or- ten tJ ed, tihese new Chi- vvvj wieui : x irutuu , ana ne8e factories wiU be ih operation, in uiumpiy auu repiemsn ine earta ano the present year. Minchester, Fall subdue it: and have dominion oyer, the River and LoweU wiU hkve'to Uke ac- nsn oi tne sea, and over the KM of the ,,0 of these new factd. Itis expected TTn. "r"r " "?s Q1g Inai that horseless carriage wiU begin to VJUUU;'ums iuia. jjj.rs. oianwjii sayo: teresting year : that lectricity wiu : re-, tiere is the sacred historian's brat ac-1 nioce steam on soma imbortant lines of count of the advent of wornan a 8i- maia railwayj that trolley lines will be multaneous creation oiboth sexes in greatly'extended ; that jthe use of bicyc- theimagedfQod; Itis evident, from ieg will continue to Jmultiply. Men the language that there was conaulta- expect"to know moreaWt the Arctic tionu the Godhead, and that the mas- an(i Antarctic regions, s the result of cuhne and feminine elements were plans set on foot for exploration tnis equaUy represented. ' year, than they have ever learned before. "The first step in the elevation of Medical and sanitary ; science seems on woman to her true position I as an.equal the eve of several impojrtant discoveries, factor in human progress, is the culti- and was never so active as now. All vation of the relieious f sentiment in anrta nf nniuioal nrl irwiaKnroblems regardto her dignity and equality,; the are nreasino themselves' uoon the atten- P recognition by the rising generation of I HQnnf the nations, and the outlook w. an ideal heavenft Mother, to: whom I for improvement in thd general condi- their prayers should be addressed s tion - of mankind is at least bright1 well as to a Father. " 'If language has enough, to encourage every earnest and any meaning we have in these texts; a hopeful effort Upon Ithe whole, then, plain declaration of the existence of the J we may look forward to a twelve-month feminine, element in the Gpdhead, j Df man strikine and intensely absorb ing events in the drama of the world's progress. - . ; ' . DlJ.KCARTLAMh.D6uW . CONCORD, N. C. ' Makes a specialty of fiilinsr your tea;n withont pain. Gas, ether or chloroform Office over Lippards A Bar equal in power and glory with the mas culinethe., heavenly Mother . and Father.'". -.: -r " ' ; ' ,. A nUrabet?fcf religious women promi nent in the reform movement have re pudiated tins ."Woman a duble ' ; as penence. rier's store D.G.CACDWELL, M.D., Offers his professional services to the people of Concord and; vicinity. Office in rear of bank. Night calls should be left at Mrs. Dr, Henderson's. . Office Hours, 1 to 8 a. m., 1 to 2, and 7 to 8 p. m. - Telephone call, No. G7. Sept. 20,'81-ly. ' . ""'' " . ' l"''- V' H. BARKHARDT. M. D.. Physician and.Scrgeon, " MT.PLEASANT, N. C. . Calls received and promptly attended at all hours. Office at my home, late residence of Dr. J: W. Moose. Deo 28 m. BIarvos seaalts. . From a letter written by. Rev. Gnnderman, of Dimondale, Mich., J. we preposterovis. and mischievous, - The I are Dermitted to makeithis extract : "1 Ipressdisjc.usSes. ' the probable,:effects of haye no hesitation in recommending biiio piuuuwuva ;uu uic duiuoc I l)x. King fl ew UlSCOTGry. ment ano woman 8 progress generally bowered in "vines. Aa we rode up to the l the citi?ens of Buffalo,- and thereby' cot broad veranda which faced the-venrje j bis haihe of Buffalo.' Bill." He has , a the hall door opened and a gweet-faced, ranch in St. Louis, and finds time to motherly bid lady,;. accompanied by a write for the Atlantic Monthly, - which Ibeautiful, fair-haired, blue-eyed young is edited by Mark Twain and Uncle woman steppea, pui. . ine : emer aay 10m b tjaqin. a gentleman.'-, jnaqe- a- 8toodjat the' head of the steps, and as moua by-hla negro dialect sketches.' I advanced she placed her hands unnni Well- now. we Americans would be- my shoulders, and bending forward I lieve that was a good joke if we did not kissed me on the forehead. - j know r that the English papers 1 never : ",Uod bless you,- my son! ' said she, I joke. The limes thunders, but never while" the tears' streamed down her Hokes. The caricatures of the London cheeks. '1 have prayed to see this day.' The younger woman pressed my hand gratefully, but my eyes were moiet and f could scarcely see her.. "I remained that night, and 'it. was diffioult to get away even the next day, but business demanded my attention. I promised to visit my friends frequent- Payne family! P. as the re sults were almost marvelous in the case of mv wife. While' 1 was pastor of the DR. M. HOLDEN. ECLECTIC PHYSICIAN, "; noNCOBrv. c.x ' , Offers bis piofesssonal services to the oitizens of Concord, and vicinity in the treatment of acute and clironio diseases. I Offioe over Yorke's jewebry store on Main ;' A Deal "WltU the Mormons. Washington, Dec. 20. While there has been "some attempt to give the inside historv of the remarkable transactions I littla intarrnotion and it seemed, as U by which the new State of Vtah is to she cqo4 not survive j them. A friend send two Republicans to the United recormen4ed Dr. King's 'New Pisoor States Senate,' it is dovbUli whether eryt it was quick in ita work and highly thfi rnmnlfitfi vfina inwardness" of the Hfttifitafltorv; in Tesults." .- Trial . bottelt ' . t 1 it . ' . - - i the Baptist church at Kives J anction I street, where he can be found at all she was brought (torn with Pneumonia J hours day or night, fwhen not profes- onnniwHmir T,a f irinnpi. Terrible pftiox- sionauy eneazeu. - -jceu. pm. ysms of chughing would last nours wun ly, and did Bo-every time I could get,a day off." But here's my stopping place, and there's my wife and mother-in-law and the babies. Yes, that fair-haired, blue eyed woman is my wife. You have guessed it. fehe was Jen Punch are . very good, but the wit that seeks to explain them is horrid. Tom Hood had the : besf of wit an4" hu mor, bi?t his. magazine soon failed for jack of patronage. He said that he was sent to a semi-nary and' therefore received only half an education, but the English never saw . the point ; of Hese aresomo interesting facts about the Bible that we find gomg the rounds: The Bible" con tainsy 66 books, l,ly chanters. 31. 176 verses. H6, oyworaa, and 3.586.43 , letters. t he word 'and" occurs 4d,77 times; the word lLord.' 1.855 times; -t'reverend" i but oncej "girl," but once, in fhe 3d chap: ter. 3d verse of Joei: tne woras ever lasting punishment," but- once, and "everlasting fire' - but . tvice. : The middle verse is the 8th rverse qf the ilSth Psalm. The Slsv verse of the 7th chapter, of Ezra contains all the letters in the alphabet except the' letter ' 'J. " The finest, chapter to read is ' the 26th of the Acts of the Apostles. The- 19th chapter of II Kings and the 7th chap ter pf Isaiah arii alike. The longest veree is the tth verse of the 8th chapter of Esther. The" shortest ft is- the. 35th verse of the lith chapter of St. John, viz. : "Jesus wept, The 8thV - 15th, 5isC and 31st verses of the 107 th Psalm are aliKe. n.acn, verso 01 tue iouui Psalm ends alike. There are ho words of more than s,ix sylableg. T the pun until the : magazine was dead. Prof. Boyesen says that climate has something . to ; do- with . humor. The j fogs of London befog and dampen the disopsition .' to joke - and ' be funny. ; There is cloud oyer the I intellect that clairvoyant force or some psychic power poor Uood's Sarsaparilla, nie Nqrthup, and , that sweet-faced Old I keeps it from sparkling. But here in jftdy is our mother," - - jAmeiica 'everybody triesito joke. - He requested a number ot nis pupils to mi - .11 i .. . . I nrii fa f-HMOf hmtrpanhipp ff th0muli.-pa xne Douymusi oe weu nounsnec now, I " C T -r - "V; to 1 " A 1 11 'my J' 1 - l - t 10 preveui eicKuess. xi yuur apuie 1a j and alM)Ut "three were -"iocular.- said: "My father is a drunkard li T lie Ueeuin'.u . - Of a new year, when the winter season of close couhnen ent is only nait gone, many find that their ; health; begins to break down, that the last exposure threatens sickness. ,It is then as well as at all Other times, and with people even in cood health, that the following facte should be remembered, namely: that Hood's Sarsaparilla leads everything in the way of medicines that, it accom plishes the greatest cores , in the world ; has the largest sale in the world devoted exclusively, to the preparation of the proprictery medicine. . Does not this conclusively prove, if you are sick, that Hood 8 Sarsaparilla is the medicine ior ou to take; story will ever, come to light. As a Territory, Utah had been almost with out intermission, reliably pemoeratic. When the "Edmunds" bill, which -was a Republican measure, and, by the way, ah eminently, just one,, .passed, the antagonism of the Mormons toThp Re publican party was apparently much intensified. ' --rv.;:7:v'4v. v.;v :,' In all the preliminary stagea for the admission of Utah to the Union political calculations' invariably gave . her two L ' - - ' m , 1 ' vr- s it f - m - Senators.to the , JJemocrata :au ui sudden the' situation ' ch-inged,., the Democrats lost thtir footliold,- and when the election cmo around they were knocked into sraithertens. . :,The whole . influence of the! Mormon Chuio'i was thrown on the side of "the Kepubhcans, ano W3y, carrieu , .every- thias'. Here is anotner liepuDiican bargain, some of the details of which must come out sooner or later, .but in all likelihood others will remain covered, up.' There'are rumOri that (there it to be a '.'let tip' on Mormon politics, but, whether so or - not, it is evident the Mormons had the promise of some thing substantial for what! they have done. I "" ! free at P. B, Fetzer'sjDrug Store. fTrwl'a Pills act'easilv. vet fcromptiy and tff jctively on the liver and bowels, j 2o cents: - - - - - ' W: Watches, i GIbcks, Jewelry. Spectacles, Knives Electric Bitt rsj Electric Bitters is a medicine suited 1 for any seas h . but perhaps imore gener ally needed, when the lansriid, exhaust ed feehng prevails, ' when jti)e" liver is torpid ana siuggisa auu vua ueeci o n tonic and alterative is feltl A prompt use of the medicine has often averted long and perhaps fatal billions fevers. No medicine will act more sttrely in counteracting and freejngfthe system from the malarial poison. Headache, Indijrestion. Constipation, Dizziness yield to Electric Bitters. rSOs. and 1$ bottle at P. B. Fetzer's Drag Store. J - GOOD FOR EVERYBODY and vryone needs k at all times of ;the year.- Malaria Is always about, and the only preventive arid; relief Is to. keep the Over active.?You must help the Liver a bit, and the best helper is the Old Friend, SIM MONS LIVER REGULATOR, the RETJ Z. Mr. C. Himrod,of Lancaster,: Ohio, says: ' Simmons liver regulator broke a case: of Malarial Fever of three vrJ ctxnHinr for . ne. and less than one bottle did the business. 1 shall use it when in needi arid recommend It'? '. . Be sure that you get it Always look for the RED Z on the package.; And don't forget the word REGULATOR, it is iUft MONS LIVER REGULATOR, and there Is only one, and every one who take it Is sure to be benefited. THE BENEFIT IS ALL IN THE REMEDY; ; Take It al$o fot Biliousness and Sik Headache; botii are - - T. r !--mm. : . -,- caused try a siugg - - r J. H.ZeiliA-& Com, PIiUdelpbi Forks.' Teaandj Table Spoons, Plated Silverware, ' Plated, Novelties, Sterling - mtm V V "W VXV J- , Ai J. Jv F. 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