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For interniediate rnti's coitch
jioe.l with the Filitor.
Local notiiis cents n line.
Snhsi iijition invniiahly in An-v.vnci-:
ninl iiilvci tisinents pnya
on ileiiiMiid.
A f! nd rollnhle remedy for IIKADACIIE,
TOOTMACHR and fiKl I'.AI.I.IA. A few
SXrr;
Price 2Sr. and Mr. per bottle. FOR KALK
BY AIX l)liri;GIST8.
Prepared only ny the KEPHALINE DRUB CO.
Lenoir, North Carolina.
KEPHALINE TESTIMONI
ALS.
Mr. A. G. Curpening North
Catawba Caldwell Co. N. V.
says, "I write this to say
tl-at the hrile bottle of hiedi
r!no called Jvephaline is a
elldid remedy for headache
my whole family use it and
ail say that it relieves them."
Mr. wil: m Lanton, Kings
CrHk, Caldwell Co. X. C. says
"I have used Kephaline for
headache, toothache and
neuralgia add have never
failed to be relieved, 1 have
also used it for Colic in doses
of one and two drops with
great benefit."
The Last Dance.
"One. two, three, four, five,
six." The town clock was
telling the eveniwg hour as
tlwgiil half-turned her head
and listened.
"One, two, three, four, five,
six," the pale lips counted
softly, and the faintest glow
of excitement shone a mo
ment on the marble cheek.
"Six o'clock; I must be dres
sing for the ball; I wear my
white silk, with lilies at the
tnroat."
She was dreaming of the
grawd ball that vas to have
been that night, thet last of
the season.
"It will be my last dance
this season," she. whispered.
Ay, the very last; the wat-j
chers turned away to hide
their faces from the agonized
mother who bent sobbing a
bove her dying child busy
with her Inst toilet.
"Ah ! the effect is good;
those burs are lit to bloom
i; paradise. 1 look well to
night. She was all ready now, and
half waved her small, white
haird, as in the motion" of a
fan, then said merrily :
"I'm coming Frank; almost
ready."
She was going now; going
down to meet her lover, and
the careless lips were trying
to hum a measure of two old.
Danube waltz, whose strains
the had followed to the verv
KEPHA1M
portals of eternity.
i 1 i- wr it i.e-.s Miiul ri .. h
dread, while her mother liiil
l'i'' ,,ii:nV V t !
t he nor mi l la. ing out i
meet Death, ami so'.l.ed a-
Jul. The revel was almost
ov. r. ;iini tin d ing ! l ; i 1
' Aer hand on t lie bowed head
: beside her, and said :
''Frank do yoti hear lluit
music : ii is tin' i.isi waiiz.
Ilurr.v, or I shall miss it Is
it not I vl.v. that U1 l):iiiult
strain? Listen! how it limits
a way n way a way. Faster:
you are lafiin a way a-
w ay away !
were lirt,(1 1
7!for the lover's c
isp. hut
Death was weary of the farce.
rM , , . '. ,i
J he dance was over; lne
lights of the ball-room were
I.!?...;.,,.;,..... n;..i,u,. .,.,.1 ti,.J''l anotlier oporunity
dancer was very tired
She
i i S
uiueu uiirasii , cii;iieii -a-
fieillv iiiiil KiwiLi" mi :-i iv
(. , , ,,.:, '
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the oici all gone. ,
r I'ailk Where ai t VOU ;
Ilonu1 take ine home. It
is getting dark wow".
Ay, datk! the watchers
shuddered at the horroi of it
mid the frantic mother put
her ha'Mls over her eai s when
the girl said :
"Why don't the l.iusicstop?
It is out of tune."
Demons are twanging the
chords which grate on dying
ears. The girl slaverer, and ;vhis
pered, "Cold go faster-it is
late."
Av, late; too late! They
were going last; a wo t;e gni
nestled close in the pillow ami
said, so softly taey could
hardly hear: "Nearly lionie
g( f a st f reezi ng g . "
They thought she was dead,
but she sighed, shivered, and
said : "We stayed too long
but my last partner ."
lie had come to claiw her;
the belle of the ball was dead:
and the last partner was
Death; andthey drifted out
together to the music of sob
bing am tears.
The fairy form was robed
in the white silk, and liily
buds liesled upon the lifeless
breast; Death held Inn- in a
clasp, closer tuan tue lovers
nadbeen; tue ball was over,
but ire still Held iter; tue mu
sic iras ended, tueligntsgone
but still tue beautiful dancer
lay quietly in the arms other
last partner Deat if.
Will Allk.x
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OKLAHOMA.
Career of Capt. Payne, Foun
der of the New Terr
itory,
The Various Attempts Which
He Made at Colonization.
T'ojit. Payne will go down
to posterity as the foun-doi-ffthe
coming State of
Oklajoma.
He was a Western adven -
turer a. bold and brainy
man, lull of schemes and ex
pedients, and gifted with
some of t he magnetic quali
ties of leadership.
Some ten or a dozen years
ago Capt. Payne took a trip
through the Beautiful Land,
as the Indiansoallit. He saw
a fertile territory with a ge
nial climate, whore every pros
pott pleased, and where there
iras nothing vile but man.
Why not seize this attrac
tive country, and turn it o
ver to white domination?
With this dazzling idea in
his mind, this enterprising
filibuster harat g:ed thepeo-
file of Kansas until In- had
,., ted a cnmd oMniumi'ls.
A l:!lr,ui.:iMv wiis i.riran-'
.
nvf. and s;a res were sold at
:iv dollars each. A colony
romiia: y was ilso riaui7.el
witli t wo dollar shares.
Finally, in 1NN0. Fayii"
inn e a break to Oklahoma -,(vn, or tln-re will lea ilis
uitli twenty-live men, aud'eord. Tou,et htr let our tears
started a town. At the end fall, and toirether let our iovs
nf thnv weeks l "dM al troops
marched in, raptured the vil-jurr he alone at the iiave. j
la-. and Kent I'ayne andhisjhut l ready to prop them-i
; men to prison. At the expi -
ion ,f t w, wks t he hoon, !
:ers were discliare.ed.
Findii'p; that lie was reanl !
ed as a hero, tht'Capt . organ ;
i.ed a camp of 200 men on i
, ' ,
the k'ansax border, aiuwait
irorioui or aeeais men
were
occasio;;al invasions of
,
Kiaii(iiua. rMjiiaus oi men
would ship in, locate lands,
am lie tollowedbv t he trooits ; liemgs no better or worse
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'"'O ejei ten, in ueiin i lie m i.i k
over again.
In 188 1. Payne carried
colony of (500 into Lie covet
ed land, built a town, witli a
news-paper, church and
school. The soldiers roKe
uj) the settlement, and its
foundei went to prison again.
He was released, and was get.
ting ready for another expe
dition, win n death struck
him down in his prime.
Hut Payne's woiKwent on.
Hp had started th Oklaho
ma craze, and men continued
to talk about it, and collect
in camps on the border. The
idea spread like a prairie lire,
until speculators and states
men gave themselves up to
it, and at last Congress yield
ed to the pressure, and ena
bled Payne's followers to ac
complish in a lawful way.
what was unlawful furingthe
lift time of their leader.
So the dead ad venturer was
the first Oklahoman. When
hi colony grows into a state
it will honor his memory,
and perhaps votehim a stat
ue or a portrait in its Capi
tol. Although he knew it not,
death overtook him just
when success was about to
crown his efforts. Atlanta
Constitution.
SKUVF
YOUIt
TIOX.
GEXERA-
Dev. W. B. Wingnte preach
ed an excellent sermon in the
Baptist church last Sunday
night, using the above ca
tion as a subject, in which he
gave his audience some food
for thought. We have been
talking about the sermon
since we hoard it. In hisear
nest manner the preacher ad
vanced the thoughts we re-
i produce below
"The Creator of us all con
stitutod each one of us with
an aptitude for soi 10 work.
Xo man was created to do
nothing. The generation in
which we live demands ser
vice at our hands iw turn for
the service it does us. The
world contains three classes
of individuals. One whose
influence is bad mid often a
curse to his generation, one
who floats upon the tide of
time like a piece of 'drftwood'
upon the smooth bosom of a
stream, and one whose deeds
have a salutary effect upon
those with whom becomes in
contact . whose iiillii"!n is a1,
jenl blosing tu his guorn-'
ti. - tti I
liis guorn-!
liumkto wnmr duv
. ,
projH'ily weinust sympathize
"wi!; it. 1 he woes of our
neililioi s inut 1" our woes. ! l;ts upwafil. Hardware ronsistiiifr of. ilowx,
Wlieii tlu ir liarp strings areioes. j.lanes. rliistles, saws, lianinierH, hinges. Ac etc.. & et
HiiapjM.l. our piping: must ,Futlery of nil soit. at lottoin prig's. Crockery in endless
. K'-iowii. Let not t he Uioui i
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wnrd sinkin- and H'':
u it I. those whorejoice. This j
Jl(ads to tli;1 second tiiou.uh:
We must know theneejs of
the world, and in order to do
this we reiich another idea
. .
we must be one of the world I
of mej and women by whom j
we are Mirrounded. No man !
can live to himself- Iteinem-i
. .
i" i m:,iic iiuuuoi, ami f
are Mirroumled bv human!
I i nun win ra iir,-'. ivni i mhii
yonrseit up m the narrow
i isiteii or your own seir.sn sen.
Stir a bout and com mu we with
others, remembering that
you are one of your fellows.
A man who communes alone
with his own feelings and i
Uc;ts oi tmnu'K will nml Ins
.i- , .
soul becoming dwarfish, sick
1 t -t 1
ening and dying, and will till
the unbedecked grave of a su
icide, or go down beneath
the S'.IAMK OF INSANITY. L'e
liberal. Don't be afraid of
dirt; for ' dust thou an, and
to dust shalt thou return."
"He that oxhaulteth himself
shall be brought low."
Serve your generation, be
cause it is the will of God that
you do it. If the duty we
owe toourfellow-men will not
constrain us to serve ourgen
oration the unalterable duty
we owe God will surely con
strain us. Yadkin Yalhv
News.
A Young .Man Without A
Skin Baffles The Physicians.
Chicago Dispatch, 11th.
Win. Cra vford, the son of
the well-known tug captain
of that name, died Sm day
afternoon. He bled to death
at the nose, but had lost
so much blood previous
ly that the hemorrhage from
the nose was not great. Mr.
Crawford, who was but 22
years of age, was peculiarily
afflicted. He had but one
skin, which is to say he had
no other skin at all. The
veins stooa out an over nis
body in the plainest manner
possible.
From the time that he was
six years of age he had beew
subject to bleeding spells,
which were liable to break
out at any time, and iw any
part of his body. He lost
a vast amount of blood in
that way, and was afraid of
taking any exercise at all for
fear or starting the bleeding
anew. For the past two
weeks the young man had
been confined to 7ns bed, be
ing too weak to even sit up,
and this morning, bleeding
at his nose having set m, he
soon passed away. Physi
cians were sent for from va
rious cities in the East, but
tHey could do nothing for
him. A new skin could not
be grafted on and it was but
a question of a short time
until the patient would bleed
to death.
Standard Print. 0 to 10c. Worsted 1 '2 to 22 ots.
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A11 Kinds a dress goods a t correspondingly low figures.
-'!ns iron) to loots .Men
variety, and as lieai as it can
finoCFlMFU IJliOCKKH'iS finoCKKIE
'UO
I)kV(;s. patkxt MEHWIXKm of
Lare lot of shoes in latest, st vies, Hoots nt Prime cost
hvnv on hand a hii"-e lotof IV.ffev Uiothers h,th,.,.
at factory urices. Jeans and
Tinwan. at almot notnin-
;nsox
,v(Tonv
ATKKSON
rou 1
! Yarn and Jeans at Factory
nsl1- 1,,,n h, "''"'"1 to tn
Wi 'A 111 :iie yu to pay ni
bottom figures at
May (Jin.
HOW CAN
Will W. Ilolsclaw sell goods so cheap?
1st. Hy buying for Cash a the lowest prices and getting
all discounts, 2nd. Hy being satisfied with small profits,
.'bd. By having no bad debts or a cots, as he sells only for
for pay down. I now have in stock one of the most com
plete assortment of goods over offered for sale, at bottom
prices, even the bottom droj pod out. 2,000 yards of cali
cos, consisting of indigo i hit s, ginghams, checks, eham-
brey finish, all the latest styl
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nainsook, cheese cloth, velvets, drillings at 10c., sheeting
7, alamanoe at 7o. Table oil cloth, Twilled drapery for
window curtains 01 organ coers. Men and boys eassimer
20 to 50c per yard. Men and boys' summer hats 10c and
up. Ladies hats uutrimmed latest styles, 25c and up,
Trimmed $ 1.25 a'.nl up. Misses trimmed hats all stylos,
75e and up. v.orth .?1. Anything you want at the lowest
price possible, from a paper of needles at 5c to plows and
even saw mills if you will let me order them for you. XO
GOODSSOLD OX TIME, the rotten credit system must go
Low prices instead of High is my motto. All orders by
mail promptly filled. Everybody is respectfully invited to
call and see our new goods and low prices. Xo trouble to
show goods.
lours, anxious to please,
mar 13.'4in. Will W. Holsclaw, Vilas, N. C.
SEWIXG MACHINES
-AXD-
OKGAXS
This handsome 4 Drawer Sew
ing Machine with full set of at
tachments and
five years guarantee from
THE MANUFACTUK
for Eighteen Dollaus cash.
0 or 8 other 1st. class Machines
Organs for less Gash than
any house in Kr.oxville. 20 years experience in this busi
ness. Write at once for circulars md prices. Xeedles i: '
parts for all Leading Machines.
S. P. ANGEL, KN0XVILL1 ,
SO jan 12m. '
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Price $1 per year, in ADVANCE.
s wool hats I'.j rts. to .?
le found in the County.
S.
Fiiu;
wiioi'i'itiri
all kindn. nt. factm v ..-..
Cassin.ers at Faetorv Pries'
We also have n la r-e lotof
IIATKHSOX
1 ATKRSON
WACTOIIV
1 ACTOR
irices, to exchange for wool or
with lis if you owe lift, for
for
nt.
hack debts. All for salo
Dr. J. B. Phillips & Son..
Sugar Grove X. C.
s, ."i00 yards dress ginghams,
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of rk r 101 fn
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and Most Reliable News.
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