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VOL. VI. - NO 47.
DIRECTORY
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Tom# Officers
Mayor—B. P. Godwin.
Commissioners—A. Auderaon, N. S.
Peel, W. A. BUiaon, ]. D. Leggett, C. H.
Godwin.
Street Commissioner—J. D. Legtftt.
Clerk—C. H. Godwin.
Treasurer -N. S. Peel.
Attorney—Wheeler Martin.
Chief of Police—J. ft. Page.
LodgCS
Skewarkee Lodge, No. 90, A. P. and A.
M. Regular meeting every and and 4th
Tuesday nights.
Roanoke Camp, No. 107, Woodmen of
the World. Regular meeting every and
last Friday nights.
Church of the Advent
Services on the second and "fifth Sun
days of the month,morning and evening,
and on the Saturdays (5 p.m.) before,
and on Mondays (9*. m.) after said Sun
days of the month. All are cordially in
vited. B. 8. LAMITKK, Rector.
Methodist Cnorch
Rev. B. B. Row, the Methodist Pas
tor, has the following appointments:
Bvery Sundsy morning at 11 o'clock and
night at 7 o'clock respectively, except
, the second Sunday. Sunday School
every Sunday morning o'clock.
Prayer-meeting every Wednesday even
ing at 1 o'clock. Holly Springs 3rd
Sunday evening al 3 o'clock: Vernon Ist
Sunday evening at 3 o'clock; Hamilton
»nd Sunday, morning and night; Haasells
2nd Sunday at 5 o'clock. A cordial in
vitation to all to attend these services
Baptist Church
Preaching on the Ist, and and 4th Sun
days at 11 a. in., and 7:30 p. tn. Prayer
meeting every Thursdsy night at 7:30
Sunday School every Sunday morning at
9:30. J. D. Biggs, Superintendent.
The pastor preaches at Hamilton on the
3rd iSuiulfcv in each month, at II a. 111.
and 7:30 p. m., and at Riddick's Grove
•n Saturday before every ist Sunday at 11
a. m.. and on the Ist Sunday at 3p. m.
Slade School House on the and Sunda>
at 3 p. m., and the Biggs"School House
on the 4th Sunday at 3 jf. m. Kverybodj
cordially invited.
R. D. CARROLL. Pastor.
SKEWARKEE Jk
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A. B. Whitmore and T.C.Cook, Stewards;
R. W. Clary, Tiler.
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Green, P. K. Hodges.
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w **" wufc *° b " y ° r * u i *" di
The Fish That Get Away.
I've fished in the old Ohio
When a freckled, barefoot boy.
Pulled "cats" from the bokl
With a hickory pole
And carried them hornd with joy.
But among the cats, both large
and small,
That I hooked in my bygone day
The cat that I wanted most of all
Was the one that got away.
I've tossed the lively shiner
With a rod of snpple steel
Where lie the bass
"By the Boating grass
And brought them in with the
reel,
But of all the bass I ever caught
None was so large and fine, .
None sent the Mood through my
veins so hot,
As the bass that broke my line.
I've waded the clear, cold northern
streams
And have cast for speckled trout,
Have found the fly
That took their eye
And lured the beauties out,
But of all the trout that ever rise
From many a teeming brook
None loom so large in memory's
eyes
As the ones that slip the hook.
So runs the world. Our wisest
words
Are the words we fail to speak;
The sweetest kiss
Is the one we miss;
The sweetest grapes we seek
Hang just too high, and we long
and look
And sigh as we sadly say
The best of the fish that come to
onr hook
Are the fish that get away.
—Century Magazine
Pointed Paragraphs.
Deaf-mutes are always ready to
take a baud in arguments.
Rejected suitors are the victims
of misapplied devotion.
It's a wise man who patches up
the quatrell instead of his face.
Bewar: of the financial pointer;
it usually points the wrong way.
As a weather forecaster there is
nothing superior to a healthy corn.
Charity is a garment that serves
to cover up much moral scrawni
ness.
There's something radically
wrong with the man who enjoys
visiting a dentist."
Isn't it a pitv that the average
reformer neglects to begin his work
at home ?
Cigarrettes, if properly classified
would come under the head of fouls
of the air.
Any small boy can make a home
run every time he knocks his ball
through a pane of glass.
Nothing arouses a woman's
wrath so much as a man who ap
pears to be well satisfied with him
self.
If the automobile is known by
its horse power, the airship should
bo known bv its bird power.
It doesn't necessarily follow that
a man is rich because he happens
to have more money than brains.
One man may be able to break
a horse, but later the horse does a
stunt on a race track and breaks a
dozen men.— Chicago News.
A Jilted Man's Triumph.
Mrs. Wilkins Freeman, the nove
list, nodded toward an angular
woman of forbidding aspect at tea.
"Yon would hardly believe,"
she said, "that she was once a very
beautiful girl. And she was as
vain and.selfish as she was beauti
ful.. She jilted three desirable
young men in two years.
"She had, I suppose, a good
time while her beauty lasted. Now
her beauty is gone,. and she is'
alone in the world—a hard, cruel
old waartn, with a bitter tongue.
"And if she once triumphed over
men, men now if they are vindic
tive and cruel enough, may triumph
over her.
"Oue of the men she jilted was
sufficiently cruel and vindictive for
sttch a triumph. She met him a
few years ago and said:
" 'Let me see; was it you or
1 your brother who proposed to me
whCn I was a girl?"
" 'I don't know, madam.' the
man answered. 'Probably it wa?
j my father,'"—Pbiladel. hu Record
WILLIAMSTON, N. C-, F.IDAY, SEPTEMBER 8. 1905.
Future Han May Be All Blind.
Mr. Burt Green Wilder, the
well-known neurologist of Cornell
Universitv, has a collection of hu
man brains in the neighborhood of
a thousand' in number, and he is
constantly adding to it. Not a few
prominent men, among them
"Mark Twain," have willed their
brains to Dr. Wilder. Naturally
the neurologist, with his large col
liction now in baud, has an excep
tional opportunity to study the
organ.
A short time ago, while in con
versation with a group of student
ft lends, he made the most startling
prophecy for the future of man.
"It is no play of the imagination,"
said he, "to say that some time in
the future the body of man will
not exist—he will be just brain.
We are fast approaching that state
now. The eternal law of nature,
which says that all things that are
not used shall not exist, is at work
with man. Man is not using his
body, therefore the body must
cease to be. Evolution works
slowly but truly. You know Em
erson said we have coaches and
street cars, but we have forgotten
how to walk. It is true.
PRAT or ANCIHNT ATHLRTR.
"Just to give you an idea how
fast our bodies are becomiug dwarf
ed and weakened I might mention
the fact that less than 3,000 years
ago—an extremely short time in
the course of evolution—all people
were athletes, and a man at the
Olympic games in Greece made a
broad jump of sixty feet. Some
thing like twenty-five feet is the
limit uow. In these days an ath
lete is such a wonder that we pa>
money to see him perform little
feats that a 6-year-old child could
do in former times.
"Conditions have changed won
derfully in this short space of 3,000
years. Even at this verv moment
evolution seems to be jumping and
hastening forward at a pace un
known to the past. This is espe
cialiy true with the brain. Dr
Tohn Carty, of Chicago, who ha?
made measurements of the heads
of students for the last dozen years
says that the head of the averagt
American student has grown an
inch in circumference in that space
of time. Ido not doubt the truth
of the statement.
"When, however, we considei
what the brain must yet come to
and how hard It is now to learn
and to perceive things we know tin
brain has just begun to develop
It is eveu difficult to remember
what we have once been told. Wt
have to be drilled and drilled be
fore we learn a thing. In fact, tlu
brain is quite stupid when we con
sider its limitations. This will 1101
be true when the brain is further
advanced.
RVOLUTION WII.L SHOW A WAV.
"You probably wonder, when
we have become a mere lump oi
brain without a body, how we cai.
transport ourselves from place to
place, how we can talk without a
a mouth, how the brain will gei
nourishment for itself, and how
the race will reproduce itself. Il
is not so difficult to understand
how all this will be dons. Evolu
tion and science will take care of it
all. Yon know that eveu now a
person often knows what another
is thinking without a word having
been uttered. Wave thoughts
seem to pass through the air.
"So, by the mere thinking, wave
currents of thought will be sent out
and all other brains may receive
them, even as wireless telegraph
instruments receive their wave vi
brations. A 8 for transportation,
this will be easy when we consider
that we now have instruments
which can detect the heat of a can
dle a mile away. We shall have
more delicate machines which will
catch the power of the wave
thoughts and set the machine in
motion. Likewise, chemically pre
digested food will be supplied to
the brain by the use of a machine
run by the force of thought. The
science of chemistry will easily
take care of the of
the race of braius."—Chicago
Chroniclk.
OFF MLTON !
I POIT.
CBy Ruby niglaaa.) f
Dorothy picked r way carefully
across flSe sli«ey,»eaweed-covered
•tones U> the Ui*i»tilns rocks off
Milton Point. H russet oxfords
were wet, her balsas blown about
In an untidy, it pitching fashion
and oa either che* the delicate blue
nse had bloom.' Into a veritable
american beauty . Its coloring.
Perhaps tor th first time she "re
alised what a afcm a masculine arm
la when oae g», Ashing and climb
tag over slipper ,nck* Her arm was
tired from carrog her rod and bait
and cushion —Irothy could not go
Ashing without cushion. e
She had wal«l all the way from
the Oxford beose a certain young
man with whoiahe did not care to
have any more • do had gone to the
beach arid she >uld not got a b«at
Without conilnrin contact with his
distasteful preace.
The Hat roc! ws« deserted, and
Dorothy heaveia little sigh of re
lief. She hop> the usual anglers
would not coo- because —well, bo
cause one roar should be alone
when one fished
Little wrlnkleof perplexity dodged
In and out on sr brow and played
hide and seek meath the berufflod
sunbonnet whemhe began to get her
rod and line rely for ashing. Such
• tangle aa It 'as In. She almost
cried with wilon at the rod. of
course.
One by one te undid tho tangles
and did not noce the boat coming
over the sound owsrd the rocks. A
blg-hatted, gra whiskered person
with a pipe andieveral rods was pre
paring to ease J *' himself on tho
rocks.
"I never t hot hi he would do such
a thing." Dordiy was commenting,
mentally. "Aa then for him to think
I would accept in apology. It was an
unpardonable ffence —to let a girl
go home wllht wbtilo crowd and at
their mercy. A'ho ever heard of a
man's being bid by force when he
had a girl to ike home?
At last she Id straightened out her
Une and. giagrly, she drew the bait
pail toward he She looked In ainoug
the crawling ddlers and shuddered
How could sh ever pick up one and
•tick a hook trough It?
She trlod t summon up courage,
and Anally puther hand Into the pall.
"OI O!" decried. Jumping up and
dropping
of the flddU* had nipped her Angor
and was stujliornly hanging on.
At her sctams the olher occupant
of the rockj turned from his poIOH
and looked t her.
"Please," lie said timidly, seeing
that the oldpiau did not offer to as
•Ist her, you lake this awful
thing off?" I
With somddMculty she recovered
her pole
sitting plucky on the rocks. Ashing
and thinking .
"If only it jail rained," she was say
ing to hrrhtjr, "be might tiavo come
hack, but tlx horrid crowd would uol
wait for biiif'
A nibble JI« 1 her back to her oc
cupation. St' pulled In her line but
found nothii| hut a portion of the
fiddler on th( lunik.
Suddenly t i re wax a strong tug st
her line am Dorothy gave such a
Jerk that theinng. slippery, squirming
something in Ihe end landed square
ly on the had of the fisherman and
sent his broifl straw hat Itylng.
"O, what give 1 done?" cried Doro
thy. )
And then »■ gasped. A sleek head
of brown hi(i What a surprise to
see that hairwlth the gray whiskers
The man t«>k the eel—for It was an
eel Dorothy Ibad caught—and threw
It back Into tie water.
"Tom Stauord!" Dorothy whisper
ed almost liamlltily.
"Dorothy!' he replied, smiling. „
Neither of them paid the least at
tention to thi hat and the rods which
were floating about In the waters of
the sound
"How coull you do such a mean,
mean thing?! she asked, pushing her
hair back kueath her Isinnet and
trying. genefcHy, to recover herself.
Tom did lot know which of tho
things she riferred to —the escapade
of the night tiefore, or tho prank be
bad Just playtd on her.
"Because at you," he ventured, an
swering tbe htter Idea.
"But—but 1 wasn't going to have
anything mon to do with you after
last night," she said, slowly, tying and
untying her 'tonnct strings.
"It was abtolutely unavoidable. Dor
othy. That fang of fellows held me
forcibly upstairs, and I could not get
away to Join you. Do you think that
I would purposely IcrtYe, you to go
home without me when I had escort
ad you there?'
"No." she admitted reluctantly.
"And you will accept my apology
and admit that I played a clever game
to see you alone and iorce you to lis
ten to me?" be asked, going nearer
to her.
"Perhaps," she said.
"And youll forgive me, too, for
taking that fiddler off your Anger so
nnfeellngly and without making my
self know?"
"Tee." Dorothy was very submis
sive. She was glad ahe was not alone
on the rocks. •
"And, dear, will you promise, while
you are In the mood, to marry me?"
He pat his arm about her.
"If—lf you'll take those whiskers
off." Dorothy answered. ,
And later a boat arrived at the ho
tel wtth two occupants who had been
Ashing, bat they had neither poles nor
Ask.
Hs Was a Wise William.
Winnie (during the elopement)—De
you thiuk papa will pursno us iu his
Mttomohilo f
William—He enn't. I Blind his gaSO
ltae tank with water.
Couldn't Otherwise.
Photographer—Now, look pleasant,
please.
Henpeck—Put my wife in the next
room and I will. ]
No Race Suicide.
f~~ '
First Hen—You nay ho received a con
gratulatory letter from the President 1
Beoond Hen—Yen; you see he is th«
father of over 800 thickens.
Wsnt of Confidence.
Little Girl (to Cm ate, who is waitin|
for his hostess) —Don't touch anythinf
while I'm gone, will you, Mr. Jones f
Punch.
Nearly a Third.
Jack —I believe that Ohplly is half
witted.
Mnisio —He's more than that.—Pitt»
burg Dispatch.
A Horrible Example.
Mrs. Henpeck—Our son has gotten
• married secretly.
Mr. Henpeck—l thought I was a hor
rible enough, example to deter him from
such a foolish step.
A Difference.
Hoax—l thought that ooat was a four
button cutaway.
Joax—So it was, but one of the but
tons came off.
True as Preaching.
•' The sleep one gets before 19 o'clock
at night does one the most good," re
ma-kel the preacher.
" I guess you're right, Parson," ob.
i served the young man ;" 1 know pop
' says the sleep he gets In ohuroh always
gQQPrcn (he uunnrtjut,"
lait We Forget. ~|
He—Juiit when wo wore in the Ter
he-rt of the cavern the liffhts went oa
—end no one in the inrty had a match
She—How did you nee to got out?
He—Well, I VM wi*> enough to taki
m light lunch witli mo.
Hit Idea.
Blr». Honpeck—l nee that a wit
olaiinii that her hindmnd'n affection
have boon alionulod by bia mothor-ii
law.
Mr. Hen peck—Ah I Mtop your kiddlnj
Corrected.
"I» it no. .Tone*, tbat your son ra
away aud got married last week?"
" The facts are essentially correct, ill
only ho got married first and then a
my instigation ran away."
Nothing Doing.
"Goe ! Din lone liandit bnfinoaa »in'
' what it'K cracked np to lie. Hero I'r
been Htandin' for three hour* an' not
' single millionaire him come through (ii
alley yet!"
Too Glad.
i
I'rofoHHor Yen, Mr. Ootrox, it i
•imply a pleasure for nm to inatruo
four charming daughter on the piano
Octroi—All! Then 1 don't suppoa
yon will render a bill.
: #§
I -J
k Both—Hully goe 1 Ain't he funny!*
Moat people would prefer to heaf
of your ill luck than of your good for
ten*. *
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