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KILLTHE COUGH MP CURE THE LUNGS| w,th Dr» King's ! New Oiscovery ; FORC§SFGI !S * O"OS Trial Bottle Free AND ALL THROAT AND LUNG TROUBLES. GUARANTEED SATISFACTORY j OR MONEY REFUNDED. Y FIXED THE PIANO. Aa Unmusical Variation In One of Gottschalk's Concerts. Gottschalk, the pianist, was noted tor his enormous physical strength al most as much as for his brilliance as a pianist. On one occasion he gave a practical illustration of his strength which, while it did not display his dis position in the most amiable light, un doubtedly afforded him much satisfac tion. He was in concert playing ou a piano that was built on a new model, one of the peculiarities of which was that the lip of the keyboard cover projected far ther over the keys than in most pianos when the instrument was open for playing. Gottschalk, who was accus tomed to throw up his hand to a con siderable height during the perform ance of brilliant passages and was un used to this new form of keyboard, constantly hit his knuckles against the projecting lip. This repeated rapping of his knuckles at last began to have an irritating ef fect on him, as the audience could plainly see. Suddenly after a partic ularly hard rap he stopped short in the middle of his selection, wrenched the offending cover out of the instrument by main force and hurled it across the platform with great violence. Then, with a smile of the greatest satisfac tion, he reseated himself at the piano and continued his playing. Chicago Becord-Herald. CIRCUS RIDERS. They Were Kings of the Show In the Old One Ring Days. Riders at one time were the chief at traction of the circus and were billed as we now bill our "death defying deeds." In the old one ring days the whole performance was practically di vided between the rider and the clown. When the rider was not riding the clown had the ring all to himself, even the band ceasing to play until the which the rider resumed the perform ance. All riders in those days were champions in the show printing, writes Tody Hamilton In the Washington Star. When the late James A. Bailey made his tour of Australia he had Jim Robin son, the great rider, at SSOO a week, payable In gold. The showman became sick of his bargain and tried to gcare Robinson out of it by dwelling on the unhealthfulness of climate. He told Robinson that it was very risky; that few people could stand It. But Robinson was wise and wouldn't scare and Insisted on the terms of the con '• tract - ' • '• ' -• • • i,. It used to make Bailey,turn cold to ■. approach Bobinson on the long voy-» age every! week and hand the champion . 9800 in gold coin the same as if the cider were at work, but Jim held Bailey to his contract. No rider before or 4nce has ever received such a salary. Fasting as a Sacrifice. The origin of the religious practice ef fasting is very obscure. Herbert . Spencer collected a considerable body of evidence to show that fasting may have arisen out of the custom among ttvage peoples of providing refresh ments for the' dead. These offerings are often made in so lavish a manner ■ mm necessarily to Involve the survivors in temporary starvation, and it is no uncommon thing for a man to ruin himself by a funeral feast. It is sug gested that the fasting which was at first the Inevitable result of such sacri fice on behalf of the dead may eventu ally have Come to be regarded as an indispensable part of all sacrifice and mo have survived as an established usage long after the original cause had ceased to operate.— New York Ameri can. First Class Farm Implements at reasonable prices. ' You save Labor, Time and Money when you buy Implements that wear well and work well. The kind that we sell. We issue one of the best and most X complete of Farm Implement Cat- y alogues. It gives prices, descrip- A tions and much interesting infor ' mation. Mailed free upon request. " Write for it. The Implement Co., 1302 East Main St., RICHMOND, - VIRGINIA. ~ We Are headquarters for • V. Crimp and other Roofing, Wire Fencing, Barb Wire, Poultry Netting, etc. Write for prices supplies or Farm Implements you require. XZZX 7 Found the Set. This story is told by a man who dis likes nothing so much as to be asked question^: "My little girl is very fond of sea shells," he said, "and, having been called to Atlantic CNfe* on business one day, I took advantage of the oppor tunity to run down to the beach to see if I could pick up a few. I was stroll ing along the sand, gathering a few •hells and pebbles, which I placed in my handkerchief, when along came one »f those old idiots who ask questions with their mouths which their eyes itould answer. He smiled upon me and «aid: 'Fine day, isn't it? Are you gathering shells?' " 'No,' I snapped back, saying the first tiling that popped into my mind; 'l'm looking for a set of false teeth I lost while in bathing.' "He expressed his sympathy, and then his face lit up as his eye caught sight of a pink and white object on the sand. 'Well, I declare! Here they are now!' he exclaimed, and, sure I r I enough, he picked jip a set of false ! teeth lying right at his feet. I was too surprised to do anything but grab them and put them in my pocket. The fun ny part of it is that I never had a tooth j pulled in my life. I wonder whom that I false set belongs to."—Philadelphia | Record. He Believed the Boy. A judge was explaining to a young student friend the intricacies of evi dence. He illustrated well the case of conflicting evidence —how when the statements of two witnesses are op posed the more probable statement is to be accepted. "Usually In conflicting evidence," he said, "one statement is far more proba ble than the other, so that we can de cide easily which to believe. It is like the boy and the house hunter. A house hunter, getting off a train at a sub urban station, said to a boy: " 'My boy, I am looking .for Mr. Smithson's new block of semidetached cottages. How far are they from here.' " 'About a twenty minutes' walk,' the boy replied. " 'Twenty minuses!' exclaimed the house hunter. 'Nonsense! The adver tisement says five.' " 'Well,' said the boy, "you can be lieve me or you can believe the adver tisement, but I ain't tryin' to make no sale.' "—Cincinnati Enquirer. A Dish of Tea. In reference to a. note about a "dish of tea," it may be mentioned that "dish" throughout the eighteenth cen tury was a colloquialism for cup. In fashionable houses at first, and for long, tea was drunk from a cup with out a handle brought from China. The vessel was termed a dish. When the Chinese cup was first copied by Eng lish potters, the convenience of a han dle was added. The saucer also was brought from China. It received the f> 1 mr> hAnoneo to the English saucer, a platter In which sauce was served. The familiar: gibe, "saucer eyes," Was originally inspired by the sauce saucer long before Lord Arlington gave the first tea party in England In Arlington House, where Buckingham palaoe «tands. at the Res toration period.—London Chronicle. Destructive Music. A member of the board of directors of the Metropolitan Opera House tells a story that he had from one cijf the musicians attached to the orchestra; there. It appears that a friend of the wife of the musician had during a call on the latter inquired as to the hus band's taste in musical matters. * Among other things she wanted to know.what operas the musician liked best to play. "I* don't know much about dot," said the better half, who Was at the time busily engaged In darning an old shirt, "but I do know somet'ings. Voteffer he likes I like not dos Wagner operas. Dey sounds veil enough, but dose clothes—ach! He neflfer yet comes home from dot Wagner opera dot he haf not torn a place in bis poor old shirts. 1 brefer the Italian operas." ... '' - . A Dangerous Feat. # | For a feat of dexterity and nerve it would be difficult to surpass that of the Bosjesman of South Africa, who walks quietly up to a puff adder and deliberately sets his bare foot on its neck. In Its struggles to escape and attempts to bite its assailant the poi son gland secretes a large amount of the venom. This is just what the Bosjesman wants. Killing the snake, he eats the body and uses the poison for his arrows. Where Ma Was Strict. Little Cir!—My mamma is awful strict.. Is 3 ours?. Little Boy—Orful. Little Girl—But she lets you go any where you want to and— Little Boy— Oh, she ain't strict with me. Little Girl—Then who is she strict with? Little Boy—Pa. Wasteful. Grasper (a very careful man)—No, I should never allow my daughter to marry a journalist. He always wastes one side of the paper. And still less should she wed a poet. He doesn't even go to the end of the line. Suited the Case. Tom—Here! You've started your note to Borroughs "Dr. Sir." Don't you know that sort of abbreviation is very j slovenly? Dick—No, sir. "Dr." is all j right in this case. He owes me mon- • ey.—Kansas City Independent. Result of Early Training. l Cobwigger—ln what way does New rich show that he isn't a gentleman ?| Merritt—By paying cash for everything he buys.—Tailor. Just praise is only a debt, but flaftpry IS LA A '** . v. c. ij. The Rocky Mount Record, Thursday, March 5, 1908 STEDMAN'S LOST BOOK. How the Poet-Banker Paid F° r an Outburst of Temper. Edmund Clarence Stedman, the poet banker, had a high temper and was ex ceedingly sensitive. One day. exas perated by the cr&ss stupidity (jf>f a servant, he threw a book at his head. The boy ducked, and the book sailed out of the window. After it hurried the menial, but he was too late; a passerby had picked it up and walked off with it. Stedman began to wonder what book he had thrown away and to his horror discovered that it was a quaint and rare little volume for which he had paid SSO. His chagrin was in tense. as the work was almost unique and the prospects of replacing it were remote. Some time afterward when browsing in a second hand bookshop our sple netic poet-banker perceived to his great delight a copy of the very book he had lost. He asked the price. "It's very rare." replied the dealer, "but as you are an old customer I'll let you have it for S4O. Nobody else could have it for less than $60." Stedman gladly paid the S4O. got home with his treas ure as soon as possible and sat down to gloat over it. A ou * of the leaves. It wasv his own. Fur ther examination showed that he had bought back his own property. It cured him of casting books at servants' heads.—New York Press. THREE DEADLY fltetNTS. Peculiar Properties of a Spider, a Grain and a Vine. What is the most terrfble form in which death comes? Here are three, but which one of them is the worst it is hard to say; In Peru and parts of SoTith Australia there is found a small spider about half as big as a pea. When this insect digs its fangs into its victim it inserts a poison which begins at once to act. It scorches up the blood vessels and spreads through the tissue, causing most dreadful agony. The worst part of It is that the victim usually suffers for two days, but death in the end is inevitable. Another fearful death results from eating "bliat," n vegetable which grows in the east, of which a few grains cause violent mania, ending in death. "Bhat" occasionally grows in among the rice crop, from which it is hard to distinguish until dry, when the poisonous grain is of a brick red color. There is a South American vine call ed the "knotter," which grips any liv ing thing coming in contact with it. Its tentacles twine round the object seized, searing and burning the flesh like redhot wires. Then the prey is drawn into the heart of the foliage and there crushed to death. The meth od is too horrible to describe in detail. —Pearson's Weekly. A Sporting * After X»ttrok xixfcrufli, a great horror of sporting "prophets," had become partially deaf he was on one occasion trying a raciig case, an exercise of his functions hereveled in. One of the counsel engaged in It was named Stammers, a solemi, formal, sententious personage, wld seldom made a speech without qu)ting pas sages from Scripture. In tddressing the Jury he was about to jursue his old habit and got as far as "as the prophet says" when the julge Inter posed: - , J "Don't trouble the Jury, Hr. Stam mers, about the prophets. Tiere Is not one of them who would not iell his fa- j ther sixpenny worth of halfpence." "ftut. my lord," said Stammers In a j subdued tone, "I was about to quote j from the Prophet Jeremiah." "Don't tell me," replied the baron. "I have no doubt your friend Mr. Myer- Is Just as bad as the rest ot them."— London Graphic. Presence of Mind A clergyman was talking on the prev alence of selfishness. "We Incline," he said, "to put ourselves too far ahead of other people. We could ill make no better resolution than to be less selfish. As It is we are too much like the art student. There was. you know, a poor Vermont art student who shared , a studio bedroom with a Journalist from Wisconsin. The Vermonter went out one morning to do the marketing and brought home two chops. He laid them on the table, and the cat leaped up and devoured one. " 'Hang It,' he said to his Wisconsin friend, 'the cat has eaten your chop.'" —Washington Star. « A Puzzler. Solomon was fain to admit that there were three things too wonderful for him, yea, four which he knew not: "The way of an eagle In the air. the way of a serpent upon a rock, the way of a ship in the midst of the sea and the way of a man with a maid." Had Solomon lived till this day and gen eration, says the Philadelphia Ledger, he would have added a fifth puzzler— to wit, the way of ap express company with a prepaid package. I It I Builds I I rce ■ .({ ' 'i I) j-a, , ♦ - •' JUGGLED HIS EYE. The Trick by Which Lord Wolseley Conquered an Arab. The loss of an eye years ago once f.tood Lord olseley in good stead. It F.eeined impossible to get any informa tion of the enemy's strength and the forces under the of Arabi Pasha. At length an Aiab was caught near one of the outposts. Naturally pecting that he would be able to g : • a good deal of information, he a as taken before Lord Wolseley, who qu ': - tioned him. The man, however, fused to speak. Seeing that it was useless to con tinue to pjy him with questions, the commander in chief resolved to use strategy. "It is no use your refusing to answer me," he said to the man. "I am a wizard, and at a single word I can destroy you and your masters. To prove this to you I will take out my eye, throw it up into the air. catch it and put it back into my head." * Suiting the action to the word, Lord Wolseley removed his glass eye, threw it into the air. caught it and put it back into the empty socket. That dem onstration was sufficient to convert the Arab. A man who could do such a miracle was a wizard indeed and was to be propitiated, not angered. He ca pitulated without further demur, and the information he gave is said to have led to Arabi's defeat. ECCENTRIC PLANCHE. Why the Famous Critic's Hands Were Still Soiled After a Bath. A correspondent of the Boston Her ald says that a remark attributed to the late Sully Prudhomme was made originally by the famous and eccentric literary and dramatic critic, Gustave Planche, who died in Paris in Septem ber, 1857. For a long time it was thought that he slept in the public streets, and he himself took pleasure in giving credit to this report. "Where are you lodging?" some one asked him. "I don't lodge," he replied; "I perch." "And where?" "Champs Ely sees, third tree to the right" Another anecdote of Planche is that, being once invited to dine with a cele brated actress, Annias or Mme. Dorval, he arrived before the company. "My goodness, Planche," cried the hostess, "what a figure you cut! Go take a bath, I beg. Here is a ticket." He (l returned in an hour's time as clean as when he set out. "You un happy man, you have not taken the bath!" "By my faith, I have!" "Look at your hands." "Ah, that is because I had a book while in the water." The Thief Traokers. A curious profession among the Be douin Is that, of the "thief trackers.'.' \y Ol* and their animals always more or less at liberty, theft of stock would appear to be an easy and frequent matter. Each tribe, however, has its little company of "trackers," and it would be either ft bold or an ignorant man indeed who ventured to interfere with an Arab's live stock. There was one instance in which a camel stolen from a camp near lemallla was, after weeks of la bor, successfully tracked to the Sudan, where the beast was recaptured and summary vengeance wreaked upon tlie robbers. Selected for natural ability and trained from boyhood to discrimi nate between each animal's footprint, this faculty becomes so highly devel oped that a particular horse's or' cam el's trail is unerringly picked up ! from among the thousands of impressions on the dusty highway. * An Aggravating Boy. Lord Curzon exhibited brilllantiquul lties both at Eton and Oxford. At the same time he was by no means u quiet, studious boy when he attended the famous public school. One of the mathematical masters there fold how Curzon gave him more trouble'than any boy he ever taught. "He wis in cessantly playing the fool and 'rag- 1 ging* and apparently paid no attention to what I was teaching. But what made him more especially aggravating was that, whenever I came down on him suddenly and asked him to go through some difficult problem that I had been explaining, he never failed to give me a perfectly lucid and sat isfactory proof. And very often he was the only boy in the class who could."—Pearson's Weekly. Moral Idiots. A good many people still hold the no tion that all persons are equally good by nature and might be equally good actually had they but the will to be. so. They fail to see that men are born with all degrees of moral capacities and in capacities and some of them wholly lacking in that regard, just as they are born with all degrees of intellectual en dowment and some of them with none whatever. A man may be an idiot morally as well as intellectuall * - What is medicine for? To cure you, if sick, you say. _ . But one medicine will not cure every kind of sickness, because different medicines act on different parts of the body. One medicine goes to the liver, another to the spine, Wine of Cardui to the womanly organs. So that is why Wine of Cardui has proven so efficacious in most cases of womanly disease. Try itJ Mrs. Wm. Turner, of BartonvUe, 11. writes: "I suffered for years with female diseases, and ' without relief. My back and head would hurt me, and 1 suffered agony with bearing-down pains. At last I took Wine of Caidui and flotf I am In good health." Sold everywhere, tn SI.OO bottles. SdS£: i t!Ste MsjdJco. t r mrtkm - ReoortofThe Condition of The Rocky Mount Savings $ Trust Co. AT ROCKY MOUNT, N. G., A, Cose o. Business February RESOURCES, , ~. Loans and Discounts, ® 0 Capital stock paid in, 510.000.00 Banking-house, furniture and fixtures, 3,0ua.00 .divided profits,less exp.and taxes paid, 9,184.35 ! ) ue from Banks and Bankers, or oo .idividual deposits subject to check, 154,969 3? ""■ash Items, S 5 - 22 _______ '.ver coin including all minor coincurrency 195.84 Total. 5174.153.72 ■ -itional Bank Notes and other U S Notes 271.00 Total, / $174,153.72 ✓ STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA-COUNTY OF EDGECOMBE , I, F. P. Spruill. Cashier of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. p p g pru ;jj c as j, ier Subscribed and sworn to before me. this 26th day of February, 1908. Edward Patchelor, Notary Public. Correct-Attest: 0 My commission expires Jan. 11th, 1909. JJ" j^^° g C L. F. Tillery, Directors. Report of ttie Condition ol The Sharpsburg BanKing Company, At Sharpsburg, N. C., At Close of Business February 14,1908. RESOURCES. f LIABILITIES. Loans and Discounts, $8,684,49 Capital Stock $7,000.00 Overdrafts . 68-®® Undivided profits less exp. & taxes pd 16132 SSe& h »s , Sdßa„\"l fl " , " reß ' BSS Depwits subject to check, Cash Items 45 50 Cashier's checks outstanding 133.4 i Gold Coin. 125.00 Silver coin, including all minor coin Total §20,440.31 currency, _ National Bank Notes & U S notes 1,798.00 Total 20,440.31 STATEOF NORTH CAROLINA. OTfflOF is Irue to the best of my knowledge and belief. F c G orham. Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 29th day of February, ~. ~ J. R. Bennett. Notary Public. Correct attest: My commission expires Oct. 9th, 1909. Geo^A^Lucas, J. H. Robbins, Directors. JNO. D. DAWES. President F - C * GORHAM, Cashier Directors: Jno, D, Dawes. H. C. Robbins. G. A. Lucas J. H. Robbins C. R. l>ut nes. G. T. Dawes. Report ot the Condition ot The Bank of Whitakers, AT WHITAKERS, N. C., At close ol Business, Februaryy 14, 1908. RESOURCES. * LIABILITIES. &ir ,k " nltote *SB SS2£S2S?.f deposit. B.SS Casn items Individual deposits subject to check 31,473.01 Silvercoin, including all minor coin Cashier's Checks outstanding. 403.37 currency 1,150.50 National bank notes and other U. S. notes 2,850.00 Total, $55,508.67 Total, $55,508.67 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA—EDGECOMBE COUNTY. I, W. T. Braswell, Pres't of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. W. T. Braswell, President. 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