DIRECTORY,
TOWN OFFICERS,
Mayor—C II Gwyii,
(Jo.nijiissioiiers—A (f Clicl;, J S 15dl, 0 M
King, UMlSurcliam, II G Chatliam.
Tax Collectov—O O 35idson,
COUNTY OFFICERS.
Sliei-iff—J M Davis.
Clerk of the Coirt—W }Iainptoii.
Register of Deeds—T W Davis.
Surveyor—Vestal Taylor.
^ Coroner—J S Arinstronj’’.
Commissioners—J L Worth, J J 'VVallace, J
M McCann. • ,
Board of Education—J II T Calloway, AV II
WoH, W y Needham.
Examiner—Jn.0 W Williams, Stony Knoll.
TOWNSHIP OFFICERS.
Justices of the Pcace—J F Walsh, T ]\I But
ler, I. A Eldridge, J M Gentry, A 11 Lvons, S
T Wilborn, J C Hurt;' ^
Deputy Sheriff—J M Eldridgc.
chUMes.
Baptist—Rev. W. R. Bradshaw, Pastor.
l^reaehing every first Sunday at eleven and
seven o’cloclc. Church meeting- and preach
ing Satiirday night before at so-ven o’clock.
Sunday school, every Sucdiiy at 9 A. M. J. W.
Bowles, Supt.
Methodist—Rev.F. Townsend, pastor.
Preaching every first and third Sundays at
II a. m., and 7p. in. Prayer meetings every
Wednesday night. Sunday School every Sun
day at 10 a. m. A. Or. Click, Supcrintenx>cnt.
Presbyterian—Rev. C. W. Rohinsoh, pastor.
Preaching evep’ second Sunday at 11. A. M.
and 7 A, M. Sunday school every Sunday at
0.45 A. M. J. II. Ball, Superintendent.
Lutheran—Rev. W. A. Lutz, pastor.
Preaching every fifth Sunday in the Metho
dist church morning and evening at the usual
hour.
Episcopal—Rev. Mr. Williams, rector.
Preaching every first Sunday night in the
Presbyterian church at seven o’clock
Colored Presbyterian—Rev. C. B. Ward,
pastor.
Preaching every fourth Sunday at eleven
o’elo(^k. Sunday school every Sunday at 9.30
A. M. M. Hickeason, Supt.
Colored Methodist—Rev. J. W. Jones, pas
tor. -
Preaching every first Sunday at It o’clock.
Sunday School every Sunday at 3 P. M. Dan
iel Roberts, Supt.
SECRET ORDERS.
Elkin Lodge No. 454-, A. F. & A. M. njeets
the first Tuesday night in the month before
the full moon.
J. S. Bell, W. M;
J. F. Walsh, Sec’y.
Knights of Pythias, Piedmont Lodge No. OC
meets every Thxu'sday night at seven’ o’clock.
Visiting brethren corclialh' invited.
A. G. Click, C. C.
J. F. Ilendren, K. of R. & S.
I. O. O. F. Bryan Lodge No. 57, Independent
Order Odd Fellows meets the first and third
Monday nights in the month.
J. W. Davis, N. G.
C. N. Bodcnhamer, Sec’y.
MAILS, ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE.
Mail trsm Greensboro' arrives at 12: 21 p. ni.
Loaves 2: 50 p m.
Wilkesboro arrives 2: 50 p ra. Leaves 2: 30
p m.
Sparta arrives 11: 45 a m. Leaves 2: 80 p in.
Traphill arrives at 12:00 m. Leaves 2:'80
p m.
Joncsville arrives at 11:30 a m, and 2:30
p m. Leaves 12:30 p m and 3: 00 p m.
All the above mails are daily.
E. D. HARRIS, P. M.
LOCK BOX 21,
IV. C.,
will do a general
bj Ue iitl EtiiUl Sb!s
PROPERTY
placed with us sold to the
BEST - ADVANTAGE.
No Sale No Pay for Services.
lisi to Projsrlj W Is
and we w’ill find 3'on a buyer.
[f you have a
HOUSE
to rent, let us rent it for you.
If you want to borrow
MONEY,
or have some to lend advise us.
For further particulai's call on
or address
mi ESIITE Wil,
Lock Box 21, Elkin, N. 0.
Office ; Up .stairs corner Main and
Church Streets..
STATU NEWS. ■
Corrected returns made by the labor
bureau give North Carolina cotton and
wooden mills 1,044,^85 spindles.
The State Board of Missions of the
Baptist Convention in North Carolina
will report put of debt at the Convention
at Oxford.
Mr. E. I). Thompson,' of Yorkville,
S. C., raised i bales, 1,722 pounds of
lint cotton on one aero of land this
year.
Peter I’rice foiind §5,000 in gold coin
in a pot on land he lately bought, near
Madison. It bad been buried by a
miser, long dead, named Black.
It is reported that C. A. Traylor, who
was convicted of forgery at Union court,
and appealed to the Supreme Court, has
skipped his bond. He left Sa’isbury
Saturday night.
The man McGee, who war connected
with 0. A. Traylor in his trouble at
Monroe seyeral mouths ago, is said to
be insane. He is physical wreck and is
now stopping at the Union county poor
house.
Jilembers of the democratic State
committee say they desire it understood
that there is to be a clean and open
democratic fight from beginning to
end without compromises or fusion with
any party.
A special frqm Raleigh says that Al
bert Johnson, the oldest locomotive en
gineer in the United States; died there
Saturday, aged 88. He was a native of
Petersburg, Va., and'began running an
engine in 1830.
An important change in the free-
baggage allowance to passengers has
been made by the Seaboard Air Line.
On and after Sunday three hundred
pounds of baggage will be carried free
for each passenger holding a full ticket
and one hundred and fifty pounds for
each holder of a. half ticket. This
action is taken, according to General
Passenger Agent Anderson, because
similar allowances were being made
quietly by competing lines.
The man Lambert who shot and
killed Engineer Bamgardner, of the
Southern railroad recently, is still at
large. ' The Southern has offered a re
ward of $500 for his capture; the Slate
had already offered' $400, and Mrs.
Bumgardner has offered $200, making
a total of $1,100, and every effort will
be made to catch him. Trouble is
anticipated it any one attempts to arrest
Him, and it is thought that he will never
be taken alive. Many are of the
opinion that ho is in hiding near his
home.
Sonly Eyan, a white man of desperate
character, shot and killed his v^ife. in
her home, in Greensboro last Saturday
night. Eyan has been in hiding from
the officers for some months for-various
offenses and ventured to the city yes
terday afternoon. He once went to
his wife’s home and without warning,
drew a thirty-eight caliber pistol and
shot her in the neck, killing her in
stantly. It is thought that her refusing
to give him money led to the murder.
Eyan fled, but was caught in ,ihe south
ern part of the city about two hours
after the murder. When arrested Eyan
had shaved his mustache and had on a
woman’s dross, with which he had tried
to disguise himself and escape. Mon
day he confessed the murder, and said
he had intended to kill three other
persons. He has been sentenced to be
hanged.December 23rd.
The Fusion Con£frc.‘»sioiml Candidates
Talked About,
Salisbury Sun.
The Eepnblicans of this district are
doing any amount of talking now over
the Congressional nominee from this
district next year. A prominent Salis
bury Kepublican stated to the World
this morning that W. A. Bailey (sheriff,
everybody calls him.) would be nomi
nated.
The Ealeigh Press-Visitor states that
J. E. McCrary,.of Lexington, is jwomi-
nently mentioned in connection with
the nomination. ' The Eepnblicans say
they will certainly name the next can
didate aithough the Populists by no
means concede this much.
M. H. H. Caldwell, of Concord,
seems to be a favorite among the Popu
lists, and if they should determine to
put up a man irrespective of Eepublican
action he will be tlieir nominee.
Pritcliard and Sk\i\nor at Oxits?
Washington, December 7.—Senator
Pritchard and Representative .Skinner
reached t'le parting of the ways to-day
over the appointment of a collector of
the eastern district. Mr. Skinner in
sisted upon Mr. Cobb’s appointment.
His rejection, he said, meant a Demo
cratic Congressman from the first district
and a Democratic Ijegislataro next year.
All .offers of compromise were rejected
by Cobb. He declined the offer of
bank examiner and also an offer to al
ternate with Duncan in the tenure of
the office. The outcome of the confef-
ence to-morrow will be the appointment
of Duncan as collector, and that will be
followed, it is said, by the appointment
of Chas, A. Cook as district attSirney,
Col. Skinner loft hero for home to-night
and the rejection of his ultimatun by
(Senator Pritchard will lead, it is con
fidently Staten, to his renvlnciation of
co-operation and his re-allegiance to
the Democratic party.
It is as well settled as anything can
be four months in advance that if the
General Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South decides to add
to the number of its bishops the men
selected will be two Nashville editors,
Rev. Dr. J. J. Tigert, of the Methodist
Review,..and the Eev. Dr. E. E. Hoss,
of the Christian Advocate. Both are
strong men.. The General Conference
meets in this oity next May and jire-
parations are already well advanced for
it.
—The combination passenger and
day coaches that have been run on the
Southern vestibuled trains, Nos, 37 and
38, for accommodation of local trayel,
are to bo taken off. Two coaches will
take the place of each, one for baggage
and the other for passengers. The
combination coaches were small and
were frequently overcro\tded. The
change will be appreciated by the trav
eling public.
President McKinley’s message to
Congress will bo devoted mainly to cur
rency reform and foreign ralations.
Poor Soull Poor Devilt
Our enemies (when wc avo old)—an6
•who is without them?—no longer an^
noy us. Indeed, they have ceas<^ rovil
ing. To them we arc as dead men, “oul
of mind. ’ ’ To whom the proverb de mor*
tuis applies. And our friends are twic».
our friends. No one who is not “li5.d
by” can understand the' depths of hu
jjian sympathy. Even our acquaintances
become our friends, and the least sofi
hearted of visitors murmurs to himself,
“Poor soul!” or perhaps (with equal
commiseration), “Poor devil!” Wha^
is most curious is tho interest, if we
have in any way "beeomo known to tht
public at large, complete strangers tak«
in our physical and mental condition.
If prescriptions could euro us, wt
should be in rudo health indeed. Thi
materials are sometimes a little difficult
to procuro. I have seen a letter from
New Zealand recommending an old gen
tleman suffering from' rheumatic gou\
to bathe in whales. In that island
whales, it seems, are occasionally thrown
up on tho seashore, when rlieumatic pa
tients hasten to lie in them during the
progress of their evisceration for pur
poses of commerce. Tho extreme rarit;y
of whales upon the Thames embank-
'ment seems to have been unknown ta
the writer. Some correspondents givt
most excellent sanitary advice, but toe
late for its i^ractieal application. Au
aged ^oct who had lost tho uso of his
limbs was exhorted by an admirer tc
dig, “even if it were but in his bad?
garden, ” for an hour or two every morn
ing before breakfast. All that was want-
ed, he was assured, for complete rccoverj
was “profuse perspiration followed bj
a healthy glov/. ”—James Payn in Nine'
teenth Century.
His Ot7ii KecommcDdatiozi.
When J. W. Sherwood, now geneJal
snperintendent of the Clover Leaf, -wa^
superintendent of tho Big Pour, he had
to disehargB a brakeman for violatioi!
of tho rules. The man luing about ths
office asking for a letter of recommcn.
dation. To got rid of him Mr. Slierwooc
told W. A. Sullivan, ■who 'was his chiel
clerk, t(j ■write the letter. This Mr. Sul
liv'an did. The man ■went out and re-
t'urned in half an ho-ur.
“ Whati's the matter now?” asked Mr.
Sherwood.
“That letter you gave me is all right,
isn’t it?”
“Of course it is. That ought to gel
you a job anywhere. ”
“Well, I ■^vish you ^Yould read this
letter of recommendation I’ve got, Mr.
Sherwood, and give mo a job. ”
Sherft'ood took the letter on whicli
his own name was hardly dry, read il
carefully and remarked:
“I am ■well acquainted with Slier,
wood, and anyone he recommends musi
bo all right. You report to the train
master and tell him to pnt you to work.
.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Coming Fiction Heroes 'Will Be Patriots
‘“Patriotism of tho right sort will b^
-tho master passion of the coming hero, ’*
writes Droch of “Heroes In Fiction” in
Tho Ladies’ Home Journal. “It fur
nishes an endless scope for the highest
kind of courage combined with thai
mastery of men that is leadership. And
yet how seldom does it creep into cur^
rent fiction, except in the spurious garl
of rhetorical blusterer tho melodramat
ic account of physical heroism in bat
tie I There have been many attempts iij
American stories to depict the perver
sion of patriotism that shows itself 11
ring politics and corruption, but th^
plain citizen, doing his duty simply and
at a sacrifice, is hardly alluded to. 'An^
yet the country is filled with him, ai
has been shown in every supremo tesi
of its temper on a moral -issue. As Lin
coln often said, you can always couni
on tho ^plain people.' Perhaps if mor(;
ideals cf citizenship were depicted iv>
popular fiction there would be more o1
the real thing in actual life.”
Friends No Longer.
He was an estimable young man iiJ
every way, and she was moro than es*
timable—in his opinion—so, W'ith th€
idea of wheeling his way into her heart,
he saved, and hoarded his shekels and
purchased a fine tandein, .according to
the Philadelphia Record. But “the best
laid plans of mice and men gang aft
agley.”
They had ridden some 15 miles, and
after slowly and laboriously pedaling
to tho top of a long hill lie, after mop
ping his dripping brow, gasped out
convulsively, “M-M-May, you c-c-can
p'p-put your feet on the c-c-coastera
now.” “Why,” said his companion,
“I’ve had them on ever since wo start
ed. ” He said nothing, but set his teeth
grimly, and she lias wondered since
why he has not called on Sunday even-
inga. ^
Two Infltiences.
Young Man—That was an-excellent
paper your daughter read on the “In-
fl-aenoo of Science as Applied to Practi
cal Goyernment. ’ ’ •
Wearied Father—Yes; J^nlia is the
pride of her class, and now that she has
mastered the ‘ ‘ Influence of Science aS
Applied to Practical Qovorimieiit” 1
hope that she will be able to find out
something concerning the “Influence of
the Broom as Applied to the Kitchen
I’ioor. ’ ’—^mloii JTun,
A ■WJ.se Night’s Woi-k.
Cliarlotto observer.
The Democratic party of the State is
to be congratulated upon the action ta
ken by the committee at the meeting
held in Ealeigh lust Thursday night.
The re-affimatiOn of the Chicago plat
form was to have- been expected and
will be acquiesced in by those who do
not believe in all that is in that docu
ment. This declaration was discounted
long ago. That is one point. There
are two others; The one is that the idea
of entangling alliances found no favor
whatever with tho committee; and the
other is that there was a round denun
ciation of the results of legislative and
administrative fusion in North Carolina.
It means, unless tho action of the
committee is reversed, a straight tight
next year. It means that the head, the
heart, the conscience of the people arc
to be appealed to, The speak-jjasy
business is over with. Ground has been
found for a re-united party to stand
upon.
Reports summarized by the labor sta
tistics bureau show that 41 per cent, of
land in the State is yet timbered, that
52 per cent, is tillable; that the average
sixe of farms is 115 acres, that the
average value of improved land is
$13.40 per acre and of unimproved
$3.52.
GKNKISAL NEWS.
Reiwesentative Dingley, the chairman
of the House ways and means commit
tee, says currency legislation cannot be
expected from the free-silver majority
in the Senate.
Divers statisticians are telling us that
the world’s population is growing so
fast that in a few centuries there will
not bo food enough to support it. A
Belgian statistician. General Brialmont,
thinks this time will come in loss than
four hundred years.
Tho President last week appointed
Blanche K. Bruce, of Mississippi, to be
Register of the 'Treasure. Mr. Bruce
represented Mississippi in the United
States Senator in reconstruction days
and is one of the best-known Republi-
c’ins in the country. The position to
wbieh he is appointed is one ho held
some years ago.
The Postoffice Department is taking
a firm stand against the so-called
“missing letter” and “missing word”
contests which are being conducted by
a number of publi'shers to increase the
subscriptions to their papers. All news
papers and periodicals containing ad
vertisements of this character' are for
bidden traiisroiwoh in the mails.
The era of good times has at last set in
in Ehode Island, The voluntary offer
of Charles Fletcher to restore tho sched
ule of 1893 to tho operative of the
Providence and National Worsted Mills
has been caried out, and last week the
increase of 20 per cent, wont into effect.
The other mill owners have fallen into
line, and about 25,000 operatives will
soon be drawing the new pay,
Ex-State Printer Stewart, of Winston,
W'as in Ealeigh last week. Asked what
his business here was he replied: “I’ve
come to give Father Worth the glad
hand and break to him the news that
I’ve professed sanctification,” It will
be remembered that the State Treasurer
professes to be sanctified and also that
ho is suing Stewart for overcharge on
public printing.
According to au order just announced
by the Central Eailroad of New Jersey,
all engineers on the road who are over
50 years of age will be relieved of their
jobs after Jan, 1, The reasons ad
vanced by the railroad officials is that
the risk is toO great to continue men
who have passed that age at the impor
tant post of engineer. Such engineers
will be employed in other capacities by
the road.
Editor Hoss, of the Nashville Chris
tian Advocate, predicted that the union
between the northern and southern
Methodists' would never occur until the
Southern Methodists were ready to
acknowledge that they were always
wrong. It such a union should occur
southern men must throw away all
ambition and expect to see their places
in the church taken by men sent down
from the north.
The terrors 6f initiation into the order
of the Xnights of Columbus proved too
much for Thomas McCormick, of Ston-
ington,. Conn. He became ao fright
ened by the first stages of the ceremony
that he junijifju from a third story win
dow to escape what was to follow.
Falling heavily on the ground below he
was badly bruised, his collar-bone was
broken and it is feared that he has
sustained serious interna! injuries.
’releplioiic charges.
Concord Times.
The Eefloctor syas that “Greenville
has as good a telephone exchange as
any town in the State, and in addition
.to the local service gives its subscribers
the benefit of communication with
most of tho neighboring towns, and the
cost is only $2 per month for business
houses and $1.50 per month for private
residences;” while the Landmark, com
menting upon the same paragraph that
our Greenville contemporary comments
on, says that “Statesville has a tele-
pone system that furnishes first-class
services for per year for business
houses and $12 and $18 per year for
private residences.” In Charlotte the
charges of the Bell system are from §20
to $40 per'-year for business houses and
$18 to $30, for private residences. If
the Bell Telephone Company furnishes
twice as good d service as other com
panies it is justified in making double
the charge for it, but the Greenville Ee-
flcctor says its. telephone system is as
good as that of “any town in the
State,” while the Landmark says the
Statesville telephone system “furnishes
first-class service. The matter may be
straight and all right, but in viSw of
the great disparity in charges it occurs
to us that it might not be amiss for the
railroad commission to look a little
deeper into it unless it has already gone
to the bottom of it,—Charlotte Observer,
Concord . has a new telephone ex
change that charges for its service con
siderably less than the ones at Green
ville and Statesville. The. rate here is
only $1.25 per month for offices, stores,
etc., and onlv'S4i?ent8 per month for
r(,'side.n0es, ,i tbAse low prices it
is estimated th^j^^,i>e company can de
clare a dividcn(^'.Vi its stock.
I5ut It Hasiut lieaclied UB-Yot,
Washington Star. V -
Prosperity signs continue to occumu-
late. A Pittsburg firm employing 3,500
men has decided to grant to, these work
ers an increase of 10 percent, in wages,
thus restoring former rates that were re
duced when business was suffering from
the general depression. The present
action is entirely voluntary^ and serves
to indicate that the, revival of activity
in all lines has beei<. suflieient to war
rant a heavy outlay that will admit the
workingmen to a share of the benefits
of good times. Eopqrts are received to
tho same cheering effect from Michi
gan. The farmers of the State are com
plaining bitterly, but not of bad times.
They have found such a market for
their products that the railroads choked
with orders from .all sources cannot sup
ply freight cars enough to do the
hauling.
White Caps in Buncombe county
forced their way into the house of Peter
■Woody and beat him with clubs. His
wife lied with a baby in her arms. The
mob threw her little children out doors,
where they remained all night, and then
W’recked the house. People are indig
nant at the outrage and have run down
three of the “White Cappers,”
Christ is not well received where his
seryant is improperly trcjated.
IJ»<1 Hank 15reak at Morfiraixtoji,
The Piedmont Bank at Morganton
closed its doors last Thursday, It was
the orily bank in tho place. Its Presi
dent is Mr. George P. Erwin, W. E,
Ervin, Vice President, and S. T. Pear
son is cashier.
The bank is insolvent. State Bank
Examiner Crow'der gives the following
statement; Assets, notes, $22,400;
cash, $1,218; real estate, $0,700; lia-
bilrtiee duo depositors, $40,254. Judge
Hoke appointed W. E. W'alton re
ceiver. Judge Eobinson, at the in
stance of State Treasurer Worth, ap
pointed A. D. Cowles receiver. Ee-
ceiver Walton 4iled his bond, and
served papers on Bank Examiner Crow
der demanding control. Crowder re
fused to turn over. The State Treasurer
claims that he alouo has the right to
move for the appointment of receiver of
a Stale bank. He instructs Crowder to
turn over only to Cowles. , Monday at
9 o’clock Bank Examiner Crowder ap
peared at the Bank, supported by Ad
jutant General Cowles, Judge Eobinson’s
receiver, and attempted to force himself
into the bank, Walton being in posses
sion, but Walton and his friends would
not be crowded out and Walton collared
Crowder, telling him to stand back;
that he could come in as Examiner but
with no other authority.
Meeting: of the State Peuiocratlc Com
mittee.
Salisbury Sun.
Hon, Theo, F. Kluttz returned this
mornine from Ealeigh where he had
been to attend a meeting last night of
the State- Democratic Executive Com
mittee.
There are '86 members of the com
mittee and ol these 20 were present and
five were represented by proxy.
There were tiius only two of the
members absent, one of these Hon. M.
H. finnix, deceased, of Lexington.
The meeting was harmonious and
lasted until midnight. Messrs. Manly
ICluttz, Ashe, Winston and 'Webster
were appointed a committee to prepare
suitable re.^lutious, the resolutions to
be in the nature of au address to the
people. The resolutions were gotten
up and presented to the Executive Com
mittee at midnight. The resolutions
re-alfirm tho Chicago'platform and re
fer to Bryan as the leader of the party
and declare for white supremacy in
North Carolina. Mr. Kluttz speaks
very favorable of the meeting and ap
pears pleased with the outlook for the
Democratic party. Mr, D, M, Luther,
of Asheville, and Hon, &. J, Pemberton,
of Albemarle, members of the commit
tee, were interviewed by a Sun man
while on their way home and both
spoke very hopeful for Democracy.
What Will the Governor l>o ?
Baltimore San.
Only one white woman, it is said, has
ever been executed in Georgia, but if
the sentence of the highest court of that
State, \i’hich.has been sustained by the
United States Supreme Court, is carried
out, Mrs. Elizabeth Nobles, sixty years
old, will perish on the gallows, '^here
is an overwhelming sentiment in Geor
gia against the hanging of a white
woman, but there are certain circum
stances connected with the case of Mrs.
Nobles which will make- it almost im
possible for Governor Atkinson to com
mute her sentence to life imprisonment.
Mrs. Nobles paid her colored man-ser
vant $10 to kill her husband. The
servant was a poor hand at murder and
had to invoke tlie aid of his employer
to finish the work. Both were convicted
and sentenced to death, but the white
women of Qeorgia protested against the
execution of Mrs, Nobles, and Governor
Atkinson finds himself in a^ disagreea
ble predicament, If he commutes the
sentence of the woman and allows the
colored man to .be hanged, he will be
charged with unjust discrimination,
however good his motive may be. On
the other hand, if he does not interfere
to save Mrs, Nobles from the gallow'S,
he will incur the enmity of the thou
sands of women who have protested
against her death on the gallows.
Au oriental died, leaving seventeen
camels. Ho willed one- half to his eld
est son, one-third to the second, and
one-ninth'to the third son. While
disputing about the division, a camel
driver came along and offered to settle
the question. This he did by loaning
them one of his own camels, thus mak-
eighteen in all, when the division was
easy. No. 1 took nine camels, No. 2
six camels. No. 3 two camels—seven
teen in all—■ and the borrowed camel
was then restored to its owner. How
cam we explain the fact that each son
got his share and something over?
“My Husband’s First Wife.”
When the lecturer inquired dramati
cally, “Can ' any one in this room toll
me of a perfect man?” there was a dead
silence. “And has any one, ” he con
tinued, “heard of a perfect woman?”
Then a patient looking little woman in
a black dress rose up and answered,
“There was one. I’ve often heard of
her, but she is dead now. She was my
husband’s first wife.”
Dry den wa'3, we are told, “a great
favorite with the fail- sex,” but when
his wife once tqnderly observed that she
wished she was '■ a book, for then she
would have more of his company,
“Yes,” ho repJied, “I wish you were
an almanac,'for then I could change
you every year.”
Magistrate—“You are charged with
asaulting this man ?” Prisoner—“I
plead guilty, your honor, but I had a
good excuse I addressed the man civil
ly three tunes and he never answered
me.” Why tho man is deaf and dumb.”
“Well, why didn’t ho say so.”
In the counting-house of an Irish
man the following notice is exhibited in
a conspicious place; “Persons having
no businos in this office, will please get
it done as soon as possible and leave.”
A gentleman visiting Liverpool was
being shown round by a citizen, ■who
sAid, “Now lot’s go and see the Wid
ows’ Home.” The gentleman put liia
finger to the side of his nose and
winked, and theu said, “No thanks. I
saw a widow homo once, and she sued
me for breach of promise, and proved it
on me. It cost me a matter of £120.
No, ■fir, send the widows home in a
cab.”
Too Much For the DojB*.
A historian of tho town of Atl;-:.
Mass., w'riting in The Transcript o;
that town, tell.9 of an old citizen,_ Dex-
tex' Leo by name, who possesseci the
power of controlling, even of intimidat
ing, aninial.s. Mr. Lee was one of the
most sunny and good humored of men,
in whose presoiice even a quarrel was
well nigh impossible. Yet he was ab
solutely fearless of cither man or beast,
and no animal dared to approach him
■with hostile intent.
One day a peddler arrived in Athol
■with a valuable stock of silk in his
wagon. A little crowd gathered about
it, among whom was Dexter Leo. As
the peddler moved about the place,
from one store to another, Without
looking up his silk, Leo remarked to
him:
“I should think you would be afraid
of being robbed with so costly a load. ”
“No fear of that,’’said the peddler,
laughing. “I have a guard in there who
will protect the stock against anything. ’ ’
He pointed to a large bulldog of fero
cious aspect who lay inside the wagon
and who growled threateningly at the
crowd.
“Nonsense!” said Lee. “Ho wouldn’t
stand up against a man. ”
“Wouldn’t he? You’d better not go
near him. ”
‘I can scare him out of tho ■wagon. ”
“If you can, I wiU give you every
yard of silk there is in it.”
Lee said no more, but stopped back a
little and drew his nnder lip between
his teeth, which caused his wiry chin
whisker to project into the air in an
extraordinary and alarming manner.
Then ho fixed his eyes sharply on the
dog and slowly approached the animal.
The bulldog watched him for a mo
ment as if fascinated, but pi'osently,
when Lee made a little dive at him,
the dog made a leap out of the wagon,
and with a series of terrified howls
bounded acro.ss the street and crouchcd
there with his tail between his legs.
Nor could his master induce him to
come to hint- until the terrible man had
gone to a distance.
One Cannot Overthrow a Kepnblic.
In The Century there is an article on
political society in Paris under tho title
of “Royalists and Republican, ” writ
ten by 3aron Pierre de Coubertin.
Speaking of the efforts of the Legiti'
mists and Orleanists, M. de Coubertin
says:
The period which followed the de
cease of tho Count de Chambord was
ono of increasing disillusions. It had
been so contimially reiterated amonj*
their adherents that the Orleans i)rinccS
would “do something” as soon as thcj<
had “tho right,” tlmt every one iv.ul
ended by believing that they would.
Now that the right was theirs as the
sole representatives of legitimacy,, they
did nothing. Very little reflection suf-
ficed to show how impossible it wa<
that they should do anytiiing. Ono may
conspire against a sovereign, overthrovv-
a monarchy. What power can be used
against a republic based on tJie ballot:
To all pretenders the repiiblic replies ;
“You wish to take my place? Very
well. You have the right to do so. GeC
a majority. G-et them to elect you.'’
An electoral majority largo enough to
modify the coastitution in favor of the
individual to whom democracy gives
its confidence—that is the only chance
in a republic. General Boulanger might
have attained his end in that fashion,
and even ho failed. With the Comte do
Paris it w'as out of tho question. Pie
could not at any time have conimandetl
a sufficient number of votes. And it
would have beon incompatible with hi&
dignity as pret‘^nder to sue for them in
person.
Sheets of Bank Notes.
A bank cashier in the west writes to
us to say that bank notes are always
supplied to tho national banks by the
treasury department in sheets of four,
not 12.
Our friend confers a further service
by tolling a little story. All tho bank
notes on a sheet bear the samo number
and are distinguished from ono another
by being lettered. Tho note at the top
is“A,”and the others aro“B,”“C”
and “D” in order.
“An amusing incident,” writes our
correspondent, “occurred some years
ago when I was acting teller in this
bank. We had just issued some fresh,
crisp bills, and one day a gentleman
rushed in all out of breath to inquire if
three bills that he had in his hand were
good. When assured that they were, ho
said that ho distrusted them because
they were so new and because, when he
laid them down, th5 little letters on
the face of the bills read ‘B A D, ’ as he
showed by arranging tliem in that way,
and he supposed they must be bad.”—
Youth’s Companion.
The Skylark’s Song.
In the Avinter the skylark of England
does not sing, but in early days of spring
tho great flocks of these birds break up,
and then go in pairs to look for places
to build their nests and rear their young
ones. And then tho charming song of
the skylark is heard in all itsp""'''*-'''"'
While the mother bird is brooaiug over
her eggs to warm them her mate often
rises into the air, and then with quiv
ering wings mounts vertically upward
so far that ho’looks like a mero speck
in tho sky, and all tho time pouring
forth his rich and beautiful song,, but
ab last ceases his song before descend
ing again to tho nest.—St. Nicholas.
I^ost Arts of Egypt.
Analyses of weapons and tools, dat
ing from very ancient times in Egypt,
have convinced M. Berthelot, thePi-ench
Chemist, that the old Egyptians nsed
pure copper in the manufacture of such
.objects. They displa.ycd nuich ingenii-
'ity in manipulating that metal, A chis
el was made by folding thin strips of
copper over one another and then forg
ing them into a solid blade, while hol
low needles were formed from copper
leaf by a method very similar to Ihaf
Which is employed at the jin sfiit day
in making heliintl tubing for bieyoles
Thc Charlotte Qbserver says J. W.
Wilson, of Mecklenburg, raised a crop
of longrhandled goards this year and
sold 40 of them for 50 cents each. One
with a handle five feet long he sold for
.fl. What the purchasers of the gourds
will do with thSra is not stated.
A tramp came to Durham the other
day and said he had been down South
all the summer looking for work,- and
had not succeeded yet. When asked
what business he was engaged in, he
said ho was a snow-shoveler.
i EeDiUg Wilis
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The Largest Woolen Mill in tbe
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Largest Tailoring Establishment
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Largest Shoe Factory in the
state.
Roller Mill.
Depot.
Telegraph OiBce.
Express Office.
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Nine General Stores.
Tvpo Hardware Stores.
One Drug Store.
Two Furniture Factories.
Largest Pin and Cross Arm
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Large Hotel.
Four Boarding Houses.
Two Physicians.
One Dentist.
One Attorney.
Two Justices of I’eace.
Two Tin Shops.
Two Newspapers.
One Large Job Printing Office.
Two Shoe Shops.
Two Harness Shops,
Two Lumber Dealers.
Four Contractors.
Sis Draj'S.
Six Daily Mails.
Two Daily Passenger Trains.
One Daily Freight Train.
Two Blacksmith Shops.
One Woodworking Shop.
Two Jewelers.
Two Brick Contractors.
Five Churches.
One High School.
Two Private Schools.
One Music School.
Cotton Mill.
Barber.
Land Company.
Toll Bridge.
Cornet Band.
Telephone System.
Long Distance Telephone.
Stove Manufactory.
Livery Stable.
, Millinery Store,
i Dress-Making E-stablishnient.
Taiinei-y.
Brick Yards.
Three Secret Ord i rs.
Roaring Gap eiimnier resort
fourteen miles distant.
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