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Headli 0LD8B0R0 GHT ESTABLISHED 1887. GOLDSBOEO, N.-C, THUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1903. VOL. 11VII. NO. 18. -1- JTilii Ml Stuffed Up That's the condition of many sufferers from catarrh, especially in the morning. Great difficulty is experienced in clear ing the head and throat. No wonder catarrh causes headache, impairs the taste, smell and hearing, pollutes the breath, deranges the stoiu ach and affects the appetite. To cure catarrh, treatment must be constitutional alterative and tonic. 'I was allliotM with catarrh.- I took niedk'iiu-s of different kinds, giving each a fair trial; hut gradually Brew worse Tmtil I could hardly hear, taste or tiii'll. I then cni ludi'd to try Hood's Sarsaparilla, and after taking live bottles I was cured and have not had any return of the disease since." Ki ckne Foudes, Lebanon, Kan. Hood's Sarsaparilla Cures catarrh it soothes and strength ens the mucous membrane and builds up the whole system. TELL ABOUT IT. 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Out In. 11 I pnlutal,;.-, -111 m ii A Short but Complete Story of the Yea.r Told Graphically So svs to Show the Meaning tvnd Inter-relation of Events and Classified For Con venient Reference IIFE'S Infinite loom spins ceaseless ly the vast fabric of civilization, g of jwblch the leust of us human creatures is a factor. In and un der and over and through flies the great shuttle of history, while we per form the psychological marvel of being at once actor and. spectator by pausing on the threshold of the new year to take a quick, sweeping glance back ward at the new strands which the Great Spinner has added to the sum total of world experience since a year ago. A Look vt the Log 6f Our Ship of State The amazing thing Is the figure we have cut in world politics. Few and far between are the nations that have not felt the pressure of American di plomacy backed by American guns and by American money. There was bank rupt Venezuela blockaded by three ureat European creditors. A word from Washington and Minister Bowen was able to get the whole matter ad justed by arbitration. The Russian bear barred the Manchurian gateway to China until an American diplomat led the way to an open door. Our voice of protest against persecution of Jews in Russia was heard. The prestige of the United States in the Mediterranean was enhanced by the presence of ships at T.eirut and the sending of Skinner to Abyssinia; England came closer to us in the Alaskan boundary concession through arbitration. Finally iit fulfill ment of a great responsibility, however opinions differ as to the method, the Roosevelt administration paved the way for the isthmian canal project by extending the helping hand to the new republic of I'anama after Colombia had let the llay-IIerran treaty, which was signed at Washington in February, die by failing to ratify In time. We continued our general supervi sion of Central Amer ican and West Indian neighbors. Chile ac knowledged the Mon roe doctrine, being the first South Amer ican country to do so. The features of the internal policy of J. L. Bristow. the administration were the effort to check trusts through the enactment of the Elkins law, the effort to expose and punish corruption discovered in nearly every department, chiefly in the postal service; the insistence on the recogni tion of negroes in oiiicial appointments, the open shop declaration in response to labors challenge in the Miller case at the government printing office, Cu ban reciprocity at 20 per cent off the Diugley rates, the reorganization of the army under a general staff and the unifying of the state militia. For the thoroughness of the postal exposures credit is due to Mr. Bristow. Other important acts at the closing session of the Fifty-seventh congress were for free trade in coal, for I'hilippine gov ernment, antianarchy, creating the de partment of commerce and labor and appropriating a total of $1,554,108,514 for the two years. The ship subsidy bill failed, and the statehood deadlock in the senate went over to the present session on a compromise. It was un der the Spooner act that the treaty with Colombia was made. The Fifty eighth congress, summoned in extra ses sion for the confirmation of the Cuban treaty, started in with new house lead ers, "cannon being chosen speaker, while Williams of Mississippi took command of the minority and scored by not opposing the Cuban treaty. Around both the for eign and internal pol icies thus outlined the party alignments were begun in anticipation of the national cam paign of 11)04. Al ready it was clear that the south was made more solidly Hemo- J. S. "Williams. r.itic bv its view of the negro recognition policy, and the opposition took advantage of the post al scandal to begin the cry, "Turn the rascals out!" The state elections in November made new changes in the political map. Tammany captured New York city, llanna overwhelmed Johnson in Ohio, giving new inspira tion to the llanna boom, while Gorman made irood in Maryland. Through the year the Democrats were engaged in a still hunt for presidential timber. The Cleveland movement gained considera ble headway in the east until the ex president formally denied his candi dacy. The Bryan faction scoffed at the suggestion while considering Folk of Missouri,- Parker of New York, Cock rell, Gorman, Harrison, Hearst, John son, Garvin of Rhode Island and oth ers, but could agree on none. Vermont and New Hampshire aban doned prohibition. Kansas and New Hampshire rejected woman suffrage. Many states worked for direct election t)f senators. Pennsylvania adopted the press muzzier, but could not enforce It. Other notable executive acta were retirement of General Miles, ded ication of War college at Washington, appointment of Day to supreme court, resignation of Secretary of War Root, successful test of world's largest gun, launching of largest battleship, the Pennsylvania; appointment of Cortel you secretary of commerce and labor, ordered deportation of Anarchist Tur ner, nomination of Brigadier General Wood to be major general, and women inspectors of immigrants. The no table legal decisions were by the bu preme court against marginal trading, by the court of appeals against North ern neeunties uici i-i, iiivu.i wu. I In Minnesota deciding that the merger 3 o was not In violation of interstate com merce law; by the supreme court up holding the Kansas eight hour law and declaring mental science healing legal. The most notable criminal trials were those of Tillman, acquitted of charge of murder of Gonzales; death sentence for Caleb Powers on third trial for con nection with Goebel murder, death sen tence for Jett as murderer of Mareum In Kentucky feud; electrocution of the three Van Woriner boys. POLITICAL CRISES IN OTHER LANDS GREAT BRITAIN has been brought face to face with an economic revolu tion that rocks her very foundations through one tenacious and magnetic personality that of Joseph Chamber lain. It was after the popular ovation for his Boer settling trip last spring that the colonial secre tary proclaimed his policy of a protec tive tariff on food stuffs on a pro gramme of imperial reciprocity and uni ty. Later, in Septem Job. Chamberlain. ber, he decided to go it alone, and the Balfour cabinet went to pieces, though again patched up for a time with nondescript material, Balfour himself taking a moderate course for retalia tory tariff and the free trade war horses snorting in opposition alignment At the same time an internal sore of long stauding was healed in the his toric passage of the Irish land pur chase bill July 21, piloted by Redmond and Wyndham and sealed by the royal journey through Ireland. England has exerted a new power through the diplomatic personality of King Ed ward, who in a se ries of royal visiting has drawn France and Italy closer in bonds of amity and arbitration, though the partnership with Germany in Vene zuela's blockade met with popular re buke. A great stride toward American fellowship was tak Lord Alverstone. en when I.ord Alverstone, Oct. 20, cast the deciding vote favorably to the American boundary claim in Alaski and swept away with a stroke of his pen that ever threatening casus belli. England is believed to have dis appointed Japan by a neutral attitude toward Russian aggression in China, while India's year, started with the splendors of the durbar, ends in a new military movement against the hermit realm of Tibet, also coveted by Rus sia. Australia granted full wom an suffrage, restrained government rail road strike and rejected the arbitration bill. Canada had an era of indus trial growth; was bitter over Alaskan award. South Africa placed under 10 per cent reciprocity. First Trans vaal parliament opened In May. British captured Kano. RUSSIA in all her vastness and pow er has pressed remorselessly toward her goal in the far east while checking with an iron hand the internal revolu tionary propaganda of socialism and organized labor. Disregarding all prom ises by the failure to evacuate Man churia, the government of Czar Nicho las stood dishonored in the pillory of world opinion. Great hopes were raised by the czar's manifesto of re ligious freedom and liberty for peas ants March 12, but the massacre of Jews at Kishineff in May and their persecution in other places with official connivance went far to discredit that great proclamation. The continued and increased restriction of liberty in Fin land did not improve this impression. THE ORIENT, take it all in all, has had the front and center of the Inter national stage most of the year. From the newspaper man's standpoint it would make a rather funny, zlgza record suggestive of the famous gen eral who marched his army up the bill and marched it down again Manchu ria in this case substituted for the hill But the Russians never budged. They rushed more troops thither, and on va rious llimsy pretexts tightened their grip by reoccupying Mukden and Hal cheng and by scaring Japan into fever lsh war preparations by land and sea mobilization near Korea. War was ex pected almost daily for months. The one bright spot in the oriental year was the success of American and Brit h diplomat In getting treaties with L'hina actually signed for the opening )f certain Manchurian ports to world trade. These would have to be recog nized by Russia In event of her con juest of Manchuria. Japan and L'hina have come closer in view of their jommou danger. Boxer uprising vas suppressed. Japanese lan- 1 guage was adopted In the Chinese uni- rersities. Nevertheless the Chinese rovernment reacted against the reform clement, whose editors were punished. ' The Philippines enjoyed an era Df comparative peace and commercial growth with only sporadic fighting by ladrones and Moros. Thirty years' ar in Sumatra ended with Dutch con Quest. THE NEAR EAST has been the plague spot of the year, a chamber of horrors that hangs heavy on the con science of Europe and of all Christen dom. Whatever the technical merits Df the Macedonian controversy, the re volt of the Christian inhabitants was checked with such a horde of murder ous Turkish fiends as to cause even currents of Russian and Austrian diplo macy hasten to etay the sultan's hand. Unwillingly he has at last accepted vir tual Russo-Austrian sovereignty of his rebellious vilayets. The disorder at Beirut and the reported killing of the 0 4 American consul, Mageissen, brought American warships Into Turkish wa ters with salutary results. Bul garia checked her anti-Turkish senti ments for the time, having appealed to the powers in vain. Servia went clear to the foot of the class by her popular acceptance of the army's de liberate murder, June 10, of King Alex ander and Queen Draga and substitu tion of King Peter on her blood stained throne a month later. The Austro Hungarian union continued to hang by a thread. GERMANY'S monarchical Institu tions suffered a shock in the electoral Buecess of the Social Democrats, who polled a vote of 3,000,000 and gained many seats In the reichstag. The operation on the kaiser's throat was believed to be for incipient cancer and to endanger his life and reign. The fatherland has suffered an acute Industrial depression. FRANCE pursued undeviatlngly her republican programme against the gov ernment authorization of the religious orders and schools, causing a sharp alignment on the question of the sep aration of church and state. Dis ciplined Morocco. Tried and con victed the Humbert swindlers. Reopened Dreyfus case. ITALY AND GREECE experienced no decisive political changes other than the growth of socialism among labor ing classes. SPAIN AND PORTUGAL encounter ed serious revolutionary outbreaks and labor disturbances. Viilader succeeded Silvela as Spanish premier. LATIN AMERICA'S story, omitting the inconsequent rebellions, has just four important chapters. Vene zuela went into international bank ruptcy by defying the warship-backed collectors of three European creditor nations Germany, England and Italy. These pounced down on Castro and blockaded his rocky coast until he pot the American minister, Bowen, to help him fix up the., special arbitration courts and t get the preferential treat ment decided at The Hague court Re sult was scaling down of claims from f22.Cj00,0U0 to $2,0UO,OO0, while Castro captured Bolivar and crushed the re bellion. Brazil and Bolivia com promised their dispute over the rubber forests of Acre by giving title to the former on condition of the hitter's hav ing outlet to Atlantic by river and rail. Santo Domingo went through the fire and sword melodrama twice, first bowing to General Wos y Gil in April and seven months later being battered into submission to former rulers. Mo rales, Jiminez and Vasquez. Co lombia, through her failure to meet the American canal proposition half way, lost the whole pudding in the opera bouffe revolution of Panama un der the guns of Uncle Sam's ships, making a live issue as the old year goes to press. Cuba accepted American reciprocity. Mexico paid the pious claim. Chile and Argentina were peaceful and prosper ous. STRIDES TAKEN TOWARD CHURCH UNITY The mills of God, which grind slow but exceeding fine, have brought into use lenses of vision powerful enough to conceive the ultimate goal cf uni versal religious unity for the human race. This lofty aspiration was realiz ed in some measure when the death of Pope Leo, July 20. caused a universal wave of recognition and appreciation of his personal character to seek ex pression regardless of the barriers be tween Protestant and Catholic. Again this note of a wider Christian unity was struck in the ap--;s peal of the Episcopal f' bishops' congress at Washington for great er charity toward their t. . J brothers of the Roman v- A faith,and when a great movement for the fed eration of all Protes tant churches was def initely started. Par allel with this effort Pope Plus X. Was the progress made toward a fed eration of Congregationalists, Methodist Protestants and United Brethren, while the several varieties of Tresbyterians have cleared the ground for one com munion. In all this the forces of lib eralism have been necessarily domi nant, with an insistence on practical mission work at home and abroad and a greater participation in the social and political problems of the day as the true remedies for the waning pow er of the church. The democratic per sonality and policy of Plus X., Loo'i successor, place the Catholic church In line with these tendencies. The oth er points of general interest were the consolidation of smaller churches, the final approval of Fresbyterian creed revision, celebration of Wesley's two hundredth anniversary, the death of Archbishop Temple of England, suc ceeded by Davidson; completion of Methodist $20,000,000 thank offering, spectacular New York crusade of Dow ioites, building of largest auditorium at Battle Creek by Adventists, erection of $1,000,000 church at New York by Christian Scientists and the united church war on divorce. Schools Becoming More and More Practical One word epitomizes the year's ed ucational effort and aspiration practi cality. This is true of Germany, France, England and especially of the United States. It applies from primary grade to graduate university work. The most Impressive instance in our own coun try was the $3,000,000 school of profes sional journalism intrusted to Colum bia university by the munificence of Jo seph Pulitzer, editor of the New "York World. The teaching of practical Journal ism was begun also at the Kansas unlver sity. In many col leges for women new courses in domestic science were started. At Yale and elsewhere insurance was taught and at Chicago a new Joreph Pulitzer. department was de voted to elaborate courses In fire pro tection. Forestry was taken up at California-, cattle killing at Iowa and gar- dening at Columbia. Western Reserve started a school for librarians. Mis souri had a traveling school of farm work. Columbia established a chair of Chinese. Southern schools gave In creased attention to actual gardening, both for training and support Travel ing medical university for country doc tors in Germany. Throughout the north more attention was paid to manual training and kindergarten work. Charles M. Schwab began the establishment of a series of trade schools. There was a continuance of the era of ex pansion, the enrollment of students in public and private schools and colleges rising to new records, and the total of benefactions runulng into the tens of millions. Throughout this country a concerted effort was made by teachers In public schools to secure higher sal aries. Nevertheless prominent churchmen, notably Cardinal Gibbons and Dr. Greer, began a vigorous assault on our educational foundations because of the failure of the schools to incul cate a religious spirit end seriously proposed to reorganize by letting the churches take their proportionate share of the schools and operate them. 4 t fr The Efforts a.rvd Achievements of Science What does the" world know that it didn't know a year ago? The year was yet young when the realm of science was astounded and the whole civilized world Interested by the achievement of a woman, Mme. Curie, working in asso ciation with her husband. Professor Curie, in France. It is still too soon to attempt any final estimate of the scien tific value of the new element, radium, thus identified. The greatest scientists are yet perplexed by Its apparent con tradictions and miraculous powers. To the layman it is known as a substance separated chemically In very small quantities by the reduction of a largo amount of uranium, which is the waste product of the oxide works in Austria. Its most striking property, for which it was named, is the capacity to radiate particles of It self constantly at inconceivable speed without apparent loss. This "radio ac tivity" later was observed by Ramsay to cause a gaslike sub stance w h I c h changed spon taneously into helium, suggest Mme. Curie. ing the possibility of the transmutation of metals. Other women figured notably in scientific achievement. Dr. Florence R. Sabiii of the Johns Hop kins faculty received the $U0O prize for the most original work throwing light on the mysteries of the lymphatic system. Mrs. Workman, in company with Dr. W. II. Workman, made new world's record for mountain climbing, getting 2,(V)(; ftvt high in Himalayas. Dr. Charles Barrows of New York announced the success of forma lin as a cure for blood poison. From all quarters came news of successful serum cures, such as Dunbar's hay fe ver, Tizoni's pneumonia. Aronson'a Fcarlct fever, Fletcher's cholera infan tum and a number for tuberculosis. The microbes of. sleeping sickness, hy drophobia and smallpox were identi fied. Carbolic acid and the salts of chloride and potassium were used suc cessfully in lockjaw cases. Professor Ilatai of Chicago discovered a food called lecithin, producing rapid growth of animal tissue. New mercury arc light and static converter were per fected by Steinnietz and Hewitt. Pro fessor Bedell of Cornell sent alternat ing and direct electric currents simul taneously. German government made new world's trolley speed record of 1S0i miles an hour. Professor Goodspeed of Philadelphia photographed from hu man body's radiations. Ruhmer, in Ger many, made wireless telegraphy capa ble of secrecy. Mcsster exhibited com bination talking and moving pictures. Many airship experiments were made, the most successful being those of the Lebaudy brothers of Faris, who made a new speed record of forty-four miles In 100 minutes; Dr. Greth, who sailed over San Francisco; Stanley Spencer at London, and Benbow, who used a new system of automatic steer ing and balancing near Syracuse, N. Y. Professor Langley's man-carrying aero drome, built under government aus pices, was tried on the Potomac, near Washington, and proved a complete failure under existing conditions. Pickering of Harvard dfscredited the long accepted Franz theory of moon craters. Professor Dugan discovered a small planet. Great spots' were ob served near the central meridian of the sun. Ten new stars were discovered. German explorer located new land in antarctic regions. New gospel papyri were unearthed in Egypt NEW RECORDS IN REALM OF SPORT The great feature of the sporting year was the arrival of the two-minute trot ter and better in the equine personality of Lou Dillon, the five-year-old Cali fornia mare owned by C. K. G. Bil lings. She not only did her two-minute mile at Reedville, Mass., equaled soon after by Major Delmar and bettered by Cresceus, but reclaimed her queen- dom at Memphis later, doing her mile in 1 :tSV&. A still lower figure for pacers was made by the equally wonderful Dan Patch, who went a mile In 1:56 and half a mile in 0:5a Prince Alert paced a 1:57 mile. On the running turf Africander took the Suburban, Picket the American Derby, and Waterboy beat them all in the Century with one and one-half miles Lou Dillon. in 2:31 3-5. Reliance defended the America's pup against the third Sham rock. Cambridge outrowed Oxford, Yale outrowed Harvard, and Cornell again swept the Hudson. Janetzy won the auto Derby in Ireland. Old field made the mile auto record of 0:551-5, Rolls the kilometer in 0:26 2-5. The British Doherty brothers took the Davis cup from American tennis players; Lamed American champion, Vardon, British golf champion and Travis the American leader. Bos ton Americans beat Pittsburg Nation als for world's championship. Prince ton, in east and Minnesota, in west ranked first in college football. American team of marksmen took the Palma trophy. Ups ivnd Downs Of the Worka-day World Taking In sail. There. In three words, is the last analysis of the whole indus trial and commercial tendency of the calendar year past The fact is writ large over the economic face of the world, with M ar and fear of war plus famine in the orient and eastern Eu rope, with western Europe struggling desperately under trust competition and the handicaps of vast national armaments, while young America, big and proud of new powers, pushes on, but with the white face and set teeth that betoken a bad case of financial indigestion. This. too. in spite of a good, crop year, generally speaking. Looking particularly at our own case, a diagnosis will place before us vir tually the business history of the pe riod. The sails of prosperity and con fidence were still full set when the year 1903 hove in sight. It was in January that the biggest of trusts put into operation its so called profit sharing scheme for employees and a number of largo Erown. corporations conceded higher wages to their employees, some voluntarily. Wall street saw a record payment of dividends and laughed at the wise acres. It was ot many weeks before Blgnals of distress began to show in curtailed dividends and public distrust Morgan hastily returned from Europe, but even his magnetic name failed to stem the tide of downward prices when the shipbuilding trust went under In June, carrying many a fair reputation in its wake. Then followed a long era of tobogganing, nearly all the standard se curitiesdraggingafter Steel and theother industrials. The great war between the Pennsylvania and Gould systems had become acute over the destruction of Western Union poles rending litigation, and the outcome wos a Rockefeller Morgan financial duel, with victory for the man of oil. Whether due to this or to the lessening output, the price of oil has steadily advanced. Schwab was superseded by Corey as head of the steel trust The collapse of Lake Su perior and a large number of minor failures occurred. The one bright ppot in the financial firmament was the high price of cotton under the influence Cf the Brown clique at New Orleans, which carried through successful David M. Parry. ly a worldwide corner, with millions for themselves and the south, but seri ously curtailing the activity of the mills and the wages of mill operatives. When this corner still stood solid in the presence of a new crop. King Cotton ruled a rising market all along the line. The tendency to vast industrial combinations which characterized pre ceding years continued, but with signs of abatement. Notable instances were the iron combine of the middle west the coastwise schooner trust, complete street railway combines in New York and Baltimore, combination of largest banks in several cities, the automobile trust and the glass machine works. Other industrial efforts were the commercializing of wireless telegraphy nnd publication of first wireless papers on land and sea. President Roosevelt receiving the first wireless message from Europe; the putting into opera tion of the new American cable to Ma nila, a woman's daily paper in Lon don, developments of long distance trol ley systems, beginning of Pennsylvania tunnel under Hudson river, beginning of union station at Washington, fight against boll weevil in Texas. Next to watered stock, the aggressive attitude of organiz ed labor was be lieved by capitalists to be responsible for the unfavorable turn in the business tide. The labor legions, flushed with their coal strike victory, forced the fighting in every trade and industry for better nay, shorter hours John Mitchell. and union recognition, Mitchell setting a conservative pattern. Staggered at first by this onset, the captains of in dustry took up the gauntlet under the leadership of Ia id M. Tarry, thfl cho sen head of the Citizens' Industrial As sociation of America, a militant com bination of ail the great employers. In many citfes employers' associations were started. Labor's effort to rule the government printing office resulted in the president's "open shop" declaration in the Miller case. With Sam Tarks and his pal in prison, the striking iron workers fought on against a solid phalanx of builders, but unionism was taught a lesson. A new movement was the starting of Independent unions. The New Factors In the Social Equation Society as a whole, and especially our own country of loasted liberty within law, has been confronted with an appalling disregard of law and legal process, amounting to an epidem ic of crime. This is a condition which confronts thoughtful and law respect ing people, however theories may dif fer as to its cause. And it needs no de tailed list or statistical compilation to prove that it has been intensified in the twelvemonth past It stares us in every one of the 200 or more negro lynchings plus the unspeakable crimes that inspire that extra legal, un-Chris- tian and Ineffective remedy. More than in any former year the north has such instances to answer for without the apology of an outnumbering negro mass, which the south has to deal with. This phase of the epidemic has, of course, its practical political bear ings, growing out of opposition In the W. P. ate south to federal appointments of ne groes. Unquestionably the number and brutality of murders, the suicides, the robberies, the arsons, the forgeries, the briberies, and especially the crimes of the very young, like Chicago's boy bandits, have exceeded all former rec ords. Sociologists are trying with new zeal to find and remove the cause of this decay, and many are tracing it to the accumulation of vast fortunes and the extravagance and unequal distri bution of opportunities. The al leged tendency of modern society to avoid the responsibility of rearing chil dren came in for widespread condemna tion through President Roosevelt's let ter in commendation of Mrs. Van Vorst's "Woman Who Toils." Ills char acterization of this tendency as race suicide was echoed by the many, though denounced by some who regard quality of offspring as more important than quantity. The increased number of divorces. Including many In so call ed high society, has stimulated afresh " concerted movement of pulpit and press for more uniform restriction of the marriage relation, though a strenu ous minority sees health In utmost lib erty. The beginning of the or ganization of domestic servants has added to the perplexity of the servant problem, which has been solved by the co-operative family club. DEATH'S FAVORITES Out of all the unnumbered depar tures for the life beyond, the few whose eminence of work or official sta tion made them known to all are the following: Ex-Premier Sagrita of Spain; Julian Ralph, Journalist; M. de IUowitz, Journal ist; Abram S. Hewitt, philanthropist; Dr. J. L. M. Curry, diplomat: Ada Ellen Bay ley (Edna Lyall). author; Dr. Ed R. Shaw, ducator; Dr. Richard J. Catling. Inventor; Joseph Henry Shorthouse. author; Major General Schuyler HHtnilton; Rear Ad miral Belknap: Rev. 'William II. Milburn, senate chaplain; Bripham Young. Mormon apostle; Hillary Bell. Journalist; Richard Henry Stoddard, author; Max O'Rell, au thor; Archbishop Vaughan. primate of England: Major James B. Pond; William Ernest Henley, author; Pope Leo XIII.; James MacNeill Whistler, artist; Phil May. artist; Noah Brooks, author; William E. Dodge, philanthropist ;Fredericlt Law Olmstead. landscape gardener; Rabbi M. M. Jastrow; Gordon McKay. Inventor; Samuel E. Morse, editor: Right Hon. William E. H. Leeky, author; Rear Ad miral Lester A. Beardsley; Dr. Cyrus Edson, physician; Professor Mommsen, historian; ex-Governor Daniel H. Hastings of Pennsylvania; Herbert Spencer, phi losopher; Lord Salisbury, premier of Eng land; Dean Farrar of Canterbury; Paul Du Chaillu. explorer; Stuart Robson. actor; Sibyl Sanderson, singer; P. M. Arthur, chief of Locomotive Engineers; Alexander Bain, educator: Richard H. Savage, au thor; Andrew 11. Green, Father of Greater New York. NEW YEAR'S IN OMAR'S DAY It Waa Celebrated In the Springtime Muf Centuries Afro. Now the new year reviving old desires. The thoughtful soul to solitude retires; Ah, my beloved, till the cup that clears Today of past regret and future fears. So sang old Omar, the Persian poet nine centuries ago, and we of today can but echo his thoughts at this New Year's season of resolution and festivi ty, though kingdoms have risen and fallen, old nations have decayed and new ones sprung up and we live in a country where sentiments of freedom and justice abound, for the human emo tions remain much the same whatever the time or clime in which we live, whatever the religious influences which govern us. Of course in the time of Omar in most countries the new year was celebrated in March, that being the beginning of the vernal equinox, and as it is the season when everything in nature is given new birth the an cients probably for this reason consid ered it a suitable time to begin their year also. Christianity, however, made a distinct break, and finally in the six teenth ceutury Jan. 1 was settled on by common consent in all continental countries. Those New Year Resolution. Every 1st of January that we arrive at is an imaginary milestone in the turnpike track of human life, at once a resting place for thought and medi tation and a starting point for fresh exertion in the performance of our journey. The man who does not at least pro pose to himself to be better thU year thaa he was last must be either very good or very bad Indeed. And only to proiose to be better is something. If nothing else it is an ac knowledgment of our need to be so, which is the first step toward amend ment. Dut, in fact, to propose to oneself to do well Is In some sort to do well posi tively, for there is no such thing as a stationary point In human endeavors. He who is not w"orse today than he was yesterday is better, and he who is Hot better is worse. Charles Lamb. We Will Help You Start the New Year right by giving abso lutely free a year's subscription to FARM LIFE, the handsome magazine published by Rand, McXally & Co., Chicago, with every new subscription or renewal to The Headlight. Start Right and Stay Itiglit. Headlight, one year, Farm Life, one year, $1.00. .50. Our price for both, $1.00. Subscribe or Ilencw To-day. THE NEW YEAR'S TABLE. Dishes Hot and Cold Suitable Fow th Day. Following Is a list of hot and cold dishes suitable to be served Informally on New Year's day: Hot Chicken consomme, beef tea, clear green turtle soup, chicken okra In cups, oyster poulette. chicken, lob ster and sweetbread, croquettes and patties, lobster Newburg. Cold Pickled oysters, roast turkeT. partridge, quail, boiled ham. tongue. saiaus Chicken, lobster, potato, crab. Sandwiches Hani, chicken, tnnene. sardine, cheese, nut beef, turkey. bweet Dishes Ice cream, biscuit Tor ton!, biscuit glace, cafe parfait. straw berry parfait, charlotte russe. merlneua glace, meriuirue a la creiuo. Ww Yonr'a cookies, chocolate, lemon, orauge and Jelly layer cakes, fruit cake. mince,-ap-ple and pumpkin pies, fruit tarts, all varieties of fresh fruits, varieties of cheeses, crackers, biscuits, wafers. Beverages Lemonade, tea, coffee. chocolate. The walkintr sick, what a crowd of them there are: Persons who are thin and weak but not sick enough to go to bed. "Chronic cases" that's what the doctors call them, which in common English means lonqf sickness. To stop the continued loss of flesh they need bcott s limulsion. ror the feeling of weakness they need bcotts Emulsion. It makes new flesh and gives new life to the weak system. Scott's. Emulsion gets thin and weak persons out of the rut. It makes new, rich blood, strengthens the nerves and gives appetite for ordinary food. Scott's Emulsion can be taken as long as sickness asts and do good all the time. There's new strength and flesh in every dose. We will be glad to send you a few doses free. Be sure that this picture in the form of a label is on the wrapper of every buttle of Emulsion you buy. SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, 409 Pearl St., N. Y. 50c. and $1 1 all druggists. HOTEL EMPIRE Ilroadway and C3rd Street, N. Y. City. TELEPHONE IN EVERY KOOM. Room Sl.OO per day and opwarda. A fine library of choice literature for the exclusive use tf our gue&ta. The Empire has long been the favorite Hotel for tourists visiting the Metropolis. From all Ferries, Steamboats and Ocean Steamers walk short block to Elevated Railway and take '".th Ave., to .Wth'' Street from which Hotel is one minute walk. Headquarters N. Y. Cbai'ter Daughters of the Confederacy. All surface cars of the "Metropolitan Transit Co.," a&s the Hotel Euii.ire. The Kestanrant of the Empire is noted for the excellence of its cuisine, itrf enjeient service and moderate prices. Only 10 minutes to principal theatres anil chops. mi sic evf.ky evemm;. XV. Johnson Ql inn, Puop. Want To Save Money? Those who are hunting the lest goods for the least money will lind my two stores headquarters. One contains Dry Goods, Notions and Sloes, all of which I am prepared to sell at any time and to everybody at the smallest margin of profit. It will pay you to examine my varied stock. In the other store will be found Heavy and Fancy Groceries, also tobacco and cigars, fruits and all kinds of green groceries, to be sold lower than the lowest. r37IIighcst market price paid for all country produce. J. R. DANIEL, John Street, (ioldsboro, N. C. FRANK BOYETTE. D. D. S. All manner of operative and mechan ical denistry done in the best manner and most approved method. Crown and Bridge Work a sjweialty. Teeth e.v tracted without paiu. y
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