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THE ASHEBdRO ,. -' URIER. ! f i. Issued Weekly. VOL XXIX. $ryMt.rrtWrt J. I.Cole. Cashier De.nk of R.andlema.n, Rendleman N C Capital patcJ in. Protection to depositor!, $20,0001 40.000 Directors: S. G. Newl'in, A. N Rnlla. W. T. Brvant. C. L. Lmdsey N. N. Newlin, J. H. Cole, S. Biyant H 0 Barker and W a. Maiweii. BRITTAIN & GREGSON, ATTORNEYS- AT-LAW, Aahebor?, - North Carolina uoam, rromBiwimuu HAMMER & 8PENCE, Attorneys - at Law PRACTICE III all the Ccnirte. North ot Court Hnuie. Ahliom, N.?. E. MOFFITT, Attorney at Law, ASHEBORO, N. C. Offlea 5aar Court Hoiwe. 'Phone S3. 0.L.8APP, AtUrney-at-Law. ftwstta la Btat u Fidtnl Ooorta daereoraacra, Ceaaaareial and Fro Mut. All baelaest yrBitli MWte. B. Cos. Preaideai, , jr. Ataflald, VloePraatdant. W.J. Anaflela, Jr., Caahiar. I UK OF RANDOLHi. Aiheboro, N. C- CAPITAL $25,000 CO 7 iNMt prepared to do geaaral aeaklBf kmafBaae; and w aollcit lbs tewaale of BraaJ, corporations avJ laaividial of Baadolpa, oad adjoioin Directors If Worth, W P Wood, P R Mof ria. 0 0 MeAlnrtar, O I Co. W F Karl lag. A If Baakio. W H Watkiua, HoRb Patkav Baal MoH, O B Ci. iW feML Df lAahtury, Joaav Putin. If You Want The Best Laundry Saa4 Yeur Laundry to lha Old RalUbla Charlotte Steam Laundry. They are better prepared to do yonr work right than any Laundry in the State; and do it right, too. Leave your bundle at Woo & Moring's store. Baskets leaves Tuesdays and returns Fridays. W. A COFri N. Agent. WINTER RESORTS SOUTH BEACHED BY SOUTHERN RAILWAY. The ttnuthrm Rallwar aiinounore the aale nt murM -trip Winter Kirun.Umtl. kel. to all the prlm-li! raurU of the ith, hentiinliiic Oi-tolwr L1?i... or North anil Hrwlh Carolina, Qeontla and rhirhta ara eix-inlly Invitiiia to Mats ara wclh noted rworte aa Ptwhuint. N c Camden, Atkiai, auniniervillr, 8. C Charli a C, AurtuU. Mavannan,, Mrunttwir. Jc.iy - tmnA a mi TnoraaMviiif. ua- rule. St. AuraaUiM Onwxid, IMjrki h. k MUI aiwt Tmi, fla t ali tlw mtm TtckMa on aaia ub tu and Includlnr April , IsM, llmttad to (vtuni until Mar SI. r.. Mid throuah between prlnclinl n(U . . ... iiinin. Cr aervioe. and TerTthliuilnr the oomturt and pleasure of Uic U,t TWkr Aaeiit lir further li.fiMTaa. Moo aad OewtptWe lltaratura. ATTENTION! POULTRY A STOCK RAISERs ra royal rrocK rooo. wnrM' irt KnsmT Oalvra. Col. Laml and fly. ' S!Trnfbr Wuilna. ariacl a-lmUatkm. A eu.7m. ! fj?-t5?,n?. TwT will T'""" jubi moocr U It laUalo do aa racomineiKien. . Use Royal Poultry Mixture A auneamav CMera and Bsap and U areat aataaa nreduoaroo earth. HOY I. U(S KIU.KK. Tba fraato brweSila-MM-er kwea WW kill the Lire on oW and ruuint ehfcaewe without Injury In tha atilrken.. H will alM rxraora the llm hnm all kind, of Mnrk. It la a pmlUre and certain remedy lor Mitt. Uoa, ChUrrea, Bed Htm. A ota, rotate Bua. a- In a paaaaat af eaca aai aa caavrjead af Oafr aartu. On airoM will refund rr rawer If n.'pTy tloa ICIllrard m-in al4ute (IwnwMa at Mteuullua or mouoy rafuaded. MAI rACTiaED OKIT BY THE 10YAL f 0-ftr. MANUFACTURING CO trdaaafol, lad, U. S. A. and aUordorelo T. B. CaolTK, 0. nl A1 orla, B. C. ' Wo era greatly pleased to have completed aa arrangement, special nf m h.i ia mails, in .!- ... h.r.h.onp e.iUra m c'l'aia "Farw Life for one wrab- cm to be pld in the National . i. ..t. rl onr nSet fniCt)itol. Her career is one of which v-ff eoluBB. LETTER FROM ALABAMA. Mr Z F Rush, Sr., who Is Visiting ia Ala. bam, Writes Interestingly of that State and Its People. Vine Hill,Ala.,Feb. 1. In my last liHr T nrnmiBfil van to tell Ton 1 my neit something of this country, it s people ana what tney ware doing, rrom Aiuiiston to 'hit place the railroad rnns over tome right pretty country. Here we see a good deal of native forest and some good farms and farming lands. No wheat is raised here, but cotton, corn, pot' toes, peas and gubcrs. Coal burning is quite a business along .tins road A great portion of tins country l swampy, if drained and cleared up I think it won Ul pi ounce welt good portion is woruout by hard labor and is not used and is growing up not as in our State, with old Held pines, but with swamp-wood such as sweet-gum, poplar and such like. In the forest, here grows as fine long leaf nines as is to be found in North Carolina. White oak ana post oak are scarce. This place. Vine Hill is situated in a Talley between two ranges of mountains. Some places mighty narrow, some then again pretty wide. .Near inc Ilill through this valley mm a stream about like Uwhanie called Big Hickory creek. This enters into the Alabama river about 20 miles from here. In this creek are found cat-fish weighing from ten to fortT pounds. 1 think this is healthr country. Wo bad some lovely spring days hero since I 'ame here. The thermometer ranging from 20 to 50. On the 28th we hud suow about two inches deep, but soon gone. It guve us a fine oppor tunity for rabbit hunting one day. I sec here some good hogs and cattle, horses and mules generally, ordinary. Mr Propst has some line Western worses. Hand reds of acres of fair land in this valley lying out for want of laborers to cultivate it. Large bodies as level as a house-floor where coin rows could be run olT, half a mile long and so clear of rocks and stumps that one could plow on and keep his religion. There are places here totally cleared up in those swamps where I dont know so well about. Now as to these people, I find here some of as clever people as to b found in Randolph. Kight smart of wealth and intelligence no dudes and swelled-heads hero for this country to lie cursed with. I)r Worth said to me once if you want to find a dude you need not look for him among the" Worth', but if you want a man of business you may safely look for him among the Worths. I have thought if all the dudes and swelled-heads could oil lie ocated in some country to themselves that country would soon become a Sodom, except that there would be Lot to be found there ami tture would lie no use sending of an Abra ham there to look ufter one. Well I reckon I have written enough of this stufT for this time. If yon publish this I will write again. r . in mi, oi. Saaday Newspapers. Cnminunlcateil, Kicht here 1 want to say that I don't see how any Christian man or woman can touch the ounaay news papers, ion may go to cuurcn regularly, but I do not believe that Gabriel himself could hold an au dience that bos been reading the Sunday newspaper before they come to church. The time nui come wncii the nation should rise up and cry aloud to God to stop this iniquitous thing. It is doing more Darin 10 day than any other one thing in lit erature. You can get ulong with out it one day in the week, and I believe you are dishonoring uou oy having anything to do with it. If iwraona would rather read the Sun day newspaper than the Bible, if they cannot get along without the ope. a and the theatre, God have nieicy upon mem. A litcv once said "that she made a bargain with her husband that if he would go with her to church every Sunday that she would go to the theatre wita him, out sue iobi an her iulluctioe over her husband by bar coinnrounse. A man or a woman never lets down the standard without losing more than they gain. Keep the standard high and let God have the first place, and then he will with hold no good thing from yon. Let the world call vou a bieot I wonld not give much for Christianity if the world had noth'ng to say against it "Woe unto vou when all men speak well of vou." If the world has nothing to say agaiust you, Jesus Christ will probably have nothing to say for you. Jesus taugnt ms aiscipics mm they must bo in the world but not of it A christian in the world is ona thine, and the world m a chris tian Is fjuita another thing, a omp ia the water is all right, but when the water get into the ship it is quite a different thing. ooBtrn in A faatous Aaaerkaa Woman Scalptor, An American Woman "Sculptor, ir Abby O. Baker, in the February r'earaon's, ia charaoter sketch of Mrs. Emu Gadwallater Uuild, Many of the crowned heads of Kn rope hare sat to this gifted American sculptor, ana ner oust oi rremuem MeKinlev was purchased by Con American women may well be prosd. THE GIRDLE OF THE GREAT. Rev. J. J. Douglass Enjrared la Complet ing a Novel on the New South. Rev J J Douglass and family is at the hone of W C Douglass, Esq. Rev Mr Douglass, who has been pas tor of the Baptist church in Wilson, has recently resigned and is here with his father to spend a short time until he determines upon his future loca tion. The people of Wilson greatly regretted to lose Mr Douglass aud their good widhes will ever follow Dun. Mr Douglass will have in the Green liag for March a legal story, "The Mishaps of Squire Berry Todd " Mr Douglass has written several stories of high merit which have been purchased by some of the lead ing magazines of the country. He is now engaged in writing a story of the New South entitled "The Girdle of the Great."' The scenes will be laid on the Tee Dee Itiver, with An- sonville as the town that figures most conspicuously in the liook. It is eventuully a North Carolina story one of its leading features being to emphnmze. industrial education as the motive of the story. I he romance will be "itacv of the isoil and will deal almost, exclusively with the con ditions of toduv. The novels of Thomas Nelson Page deal w ith the South as it was. Mr Douglass will deal w ith the South its it ia toduv and as it shall be. It is expected that the book will be issued by the fall. Nc and Observer. Rev Mr Douglas was born in Ahe- boro. Another Leaf in Randolph's History. By Gen. Grigley. The road leading from Defiance to Level I'lains, Randolph county, N. C, crosses little Caraway creek about half way between these two places. On each side of the roadf near the banks of the creek, there aro some depressions plainly marking some old ginves. There are about half a dozen of these depressions, and the story runs that they are the graves f some 1 ones w ho were hung on a ree which stood near by, during the Revolutionary war. It is said that an American soldier who had been captured by the Brit ish troops, was nt home on parole, and as he was going to a neighbor's get his 8 hoes mended, he carried a gun with him, hoping to kill some gume which was plentiful at that time. He was found hy some lories, who killed him their ex cuse being that it ivas against the rules of war for a parolled soldier to i bear arms. When the news' spread that this soldier had been killed, a small baud )f Whigs started in pursuit of the Tories, vowing vengence upon them, caught. After following them many miles, they finally found them asleep in a cabin. I lie door was broken open, and t:ie wno'e gang made prisoners. - They were carried back to the scene of their ciimt, hanged upon a large oak, whose wido extended tranches formed a convenient gai ows, and their bodies were buried on the banks of the beautiful Caraway Cieek. Farmer Items. Too late for last week. Snow, and the bovs are sleighing on their quickly improvised yankee- juiupers. Great fan lor tnem ana the lassio, who ventures to risk her fo and limb upon such coutnv- auccs. The friends of Bradford Rush will be glad to learn of his uneventful recovery from pneumonia and its complication with jaundice. Brad ford was very sick for a lew uays, but a strong constitution, a good doctor and the good Lord, all togeth er, enabled him tp pull through. Mr and Mrs W a Jjissitcr, ot far mer, celebrated their silver wedding on January 30th. A very large num ber of his friends and relatives honored the occasion, and thay brought and sent ninny beautiful nreseuts. One of the main features of the occasion, was ro-uniting the parties, and using the same ceremony that was used on the occasion 25 venrs ago. Rev M W Boyles used it then, and tho Kev. J r liougers anu and W P Wood and Capt O L Sapp, they wtre present end eat the most, therefore they should Know the most about it. '" Aunt Francis, relict of D B Lewis, it on the sick list, but we think she will tie out again in a few days. Mr II C Nance, whose house was consumed by fire a few weeks ago it rebuilding on the same site. Mr Jim Green, ot nsuington, u. C, who has been stoppiu? at Mr A J Bush's for the past week, gunning for birds, returned home baturday Dioining. Mr Belts, of Ashetioro. accompanied him to this neighbor hood. New Industrie. The Manufacturer Record, of Baltimore, in speaking of newindus triea in the South enumerates several in North Carol ma, which are at fol lows: Building stone factory at Gold bora; number of mills at Maxton and Uavhoro: knitting mill at 1.1 kin: match factoty at Ronda; enlargement of rail road repair shop at tspenoer; cotton teed oil milt at ureenvilie: glaat mirror factory at High Point; cotton factory at Hiah Point; wheel barrow factory and tablo factory at Trinity, and a plant to maka spokes, handles and rims at Rutherford ton. PRINCIPLES, - ASHEBORO, N. C, THURSDAY FEBRUARY II, 1904. COUNTY C9UMISSI00ERS. The Board In Regular Session -N-w Road Jury Drawn. , The County Board of Commission ers met in regular session Feby. 1st, Henry T. Cavoucss chairman, and II. U. Lassiter present. The pau per list aud the road force was given attention with very little miscelleau ous work done. The condition of the weather kept the usual large at tendance away. The jury was drawn as was published in our issue lost week. A new road was granted the petitioners of Grant township. The road will be built from J C Brown's, in the Ramseur road running north west following the cart road to in-j tersect with the Asheboro and Buff alo Ford ' oads. I M J Presnell, of Michfield, N. C. Mr. M. J. Presnell, of Mitchfield, was born 1854 an! grew op during the war and reconstruction period, when the opportunities to get an ed ucation were meagre. Mr. 1 lesnell worked an entire spring and sum mer for two months board in the winter to attend school. The second pair of shots he ever owned he work ed them out at 5 cents a day. This was away back in 70. hen he bo- came 20 years old he married. In KUti he engaged in the mercantile business in connection with his large farm and not "hy leaps and bounds)" but has steadily grown to be one of our most industrious nnd substantial citizens. Rad Perpetual Motion. The New York American an nounces that Prof George B Pegrutn, of Columbia L'uiverntv, a son of 'rof W II Pegraiu, of 'lrimty Col- ege, has discovered in a ran aim vacuum tube machine the nearest ap proach to perptml motion yet de-1 vised: The American ayt tjt radium a activity has not yet oeen inonf truted by any physical instru ment to decrase." So far as is known this machine may therefore be ex pected to run indefinitely, until the iropelling machinery is exnausieu. !n connection with the announce ment of this discovery the American gives a large cut showing the globe ke tube in which is beheld asienuer pendulum of gold, which swings back and forth at regular intervals of sixtv seconds. The two foices of radium negative mud positive ex plains Prof Pegram, set in motion the two forces, one expelling and the other overcoming this force and at tracting the pendulum. Prof Pegram was born at .trinity, Randolph county, and is a grandson of Dr B Craven. Pinsoa Items. Too late for last week. Wheat is looking bad, it has been so cold that it couldn't grow. Mr James Hall and wife, of Kan- dleman, visited his wife's folks here few days ago. Rev J C Richardson has had a severe attact of mumps for the last days, we hope he will recover soon. Mr C Mason caught a line possum sinct the snow fell. Mr A C Griflin's cat went mad the other day, but it was killed before it did any damage. A R Hill w at home this week to see his folks. Several of our people attended Troy coiirt last week. Mr Joel Cranford visited his son, Mr Charlie Cranford here, a few daya ago. Mr Kbenezer Iximax is seriously ill with lung tiouhlc. MrAmoa Clodfclter is going to Trov to see ms tick wife. will have a prosperous year. Aconite Item. Too late for last week. We had a nice little snow last Thursday and Friday, wat glad to tee it and thiuk all of the boys wrte, for they caughtabbiU to beat the band. Rev W C Lassiter preached an ex cellent seruiou at New Hope last Sunday. Mist Etta Presnell it visiting her sister, Mr Russell Williams. Mr and Mrt Walter buck have recently moyed to the Calvin' Cagle1 place. Mr Henry tfeane, oi rort; urcea, it visiting at Mr Joe Spencer's this week. Mist Lillie Beau it teaching a good school at the Monntian school house. - Misses Toa and Lnla Cole and Alios Preanell are going to Why Not Mist Beulah Cox ia going to start to Asheboro' to "tchool the second Monday in February, H L The Courier and Farm Life both one year for only one dollar. NOT MEN. SAM JONES' LETTER. Sam Jones Writes from Lincoln,' Neb. politics and uther itungs, , , . . i am .penning a lew nours be- iwecn trains in ino nomc city ot VY J "ryaii. He is now en route with tho funeial company to bury his sis- terat Sulem. ill.. th ol.I f,n.ii burial ground, for he, like all of us, has his sorrows and heart pains. Mr Bryan is popular in his home city as a limn as a neighbor, nm inn many qualities of head and heart to draw men everywhere to him. But it s in politics like it is in I lie New: York stock exchange, the winner is i the magnate and the loser is the felon. Mr Bryan has lost in each groat game at which he played, and bence he is politically done for. de spised by some, envied by others, and pitied by the balance of tho Ameri can people just because he lost. To win is to be clowned, to lose i to be downed. "ditor Watterson's editorial last st"rday scours the deck, covers the ground, while his rhetoric rankles. His leasi.niiii' is resistless, lirnflier Graves may come buck at him and call him iiumes but his fac s remain and rhetoric blisters. . i But the facts remain. Mr Bryan Is the one tiiisiirmoiititable obstacle ui the way of possible Democratic success. JNo man whom he favors Can get the nomination, nnd no man lie opposes can be elected president, firynnism and Populism are too near j m the service for five years is entitl tJie same thing to longer allow him ed to an annual pasi over his divis- todic.ite either the platform or can- Ornate for the Democratic party. ; an annual paws over the tntire sys There is but little hope now for the i tem; fifteeu years' service entitles Democrats to win. and their future ' hope lies in the complete elimination of every Bryniiixtic populistic plank irom ineir piairorm, anu come iiacn several miles east ot towu, was acci to Jeffursonian and Jacksonian Dcm-1 dentally shot by his cousin, Cornel ocracy. Mr Bryan is not big enough ( ins Clpp. Saturday afternoon while to be president, v.-t he is too big to , thty were hunting. A full load of let his party win if ho is displeased j with candidate or platform. I like , Mr Biyan personally, but we can't gang together in politics. 1 spent u few hours with Tom Dixon, Jr., this week. He tells me so soon us he liills the three or four weeks of engagements already made on the platform that he is done for- ever, lie says he had rattier write than talk, und it pays so much bet-1 ter to write. His books ulready have paid him approximately a hundred thousand dollars and he will have out his third book by mid-summc". Tom Dixon is a combination. He is as fast as the 999 that pulls the Kmpire State Express," a self-win der like an electric clock, a thorough oreu mui can run or iror, or hick. . H-lgvps hooks and money both. He Hu-ks bard ntw o. m- mm book sense and common sen Me both. He can preach magnificently and is also up to a high level in the ufTaiis of business. His next book will be a stem-winder, and a "yalicr" dog , under the wagon. He is inanufac-1 turing turpentine in Georgia, thrill- ing the lecture audiences of Kansas . and Nebraska, and writing a book,1 investing in bank stock, etc., etc., all at the same time. He will bounce j or bust one befoie miiny more moons will wax and wane, but I think he II bounce and bounce, higher and I higher. He is a companionable fel- low, w ho likes a joke, and loves to tell or hear one. He enjoys lint tery and don't object to caustic criticism, ! if they help to sell his books. H? ' lives in style, but is not prodigal. He has the best, but wants the worth , of his money. While he may be ; some sort of fool, he likes a heap of being all sorts oi a iooi. 1 notice in my travels in the north- west that all classes and businesses j seem to moving on with a glow ex- ccpt cattle aud hay iiien, and they have some compensation at this lime the mule business. Seventeen cent cotton has put the mule in front , of the procession, and while mules and steers a short while ugo were bringing about the same price, now a good mule is worth a half dozeu i steers. Mules have jumped and steers have slumped. Corn and heat aio advancing in price daily, and the northwest is full of com. The corn bins along the railroads are all full and the railroads are moving all they can. I am sine 1 ncver saw such a miserable prospect I for wheat over all the territory 1 1 have traveled. Wheat is going to be wheat, by ana ny. i wish my ne'gu- bors had more sown. Cotton soven-1 teen cents ana still booming, i lie unloading of my crop d;d not bear the market in any sense, and that's what makes me think cotton is scarce and the demand is greater than the supply, and that being the case, then it may go to 25 cents sure enough. J The bulls want 25 cents mid the con-; sn:nert uiav want the coitou ban . enough lo pay it. The country is cotton crazy, and God himself only knows what a fool will do belore ue it done.., 1 won't stieculate, gentle-1 men, and 1 won't ovi-rpliint I am going to mind the same things and walk by the same rule. If a man will keep his head, his head will koep him. and the overage fellow needs keeping keeping out of some things and keeping into olheis. Mv Dreamt t tour takes me from Kansas to Chicago and the ice to St. Paul and thence back into Iowa aud Kansas. I am to lecture in the Windy City Thursday night of this week. I find xero weather called beautiful weather np here, but I must con foot I am not a fool about that kind of beauty. A beauty I can't enjoy is. not leally beautiful to me. Train all late, connections hard to make, and travel altogether disagreeable. But inch is life. 1 pi each and practice the fact tLat a thing that easy done ain't worth do- ing. It' the hard things we do that help ns. Sax P. Jokes. OUILFORU COUNTY NEWS. During the vears 1902 and 1903 there were erected in Greensboro i 800 hmls nnJ ..et tho demaild j fiir in eicesa of lm; homcg colpieted, ; ... n ii i p i v .,r' Ocore 1,1:lck' ?,f Fnk ' , Tlll was ,lm011 0,,r callers Monday, I Mrs- l- Lusley, a farmer's wife I li?lnS neur t,,e ,laUle Ground, made Mld ,old "9 po'" of butter from lw w' uu""g moiun oi jan ' llrt,'.v' aftel ll8in a" the ,nllk "nucr the taimiy needed. tn iireensooro tire insurance companies were the lirst to settle with the state for their share of tb lossts sustained in the recent Normal fire. The Greensboro checks aggre gated 1S,SZ4.00. While the little son and daughter of Sheriff .Jordan were playing about home last eiinsday morning cartridge which had been carelessly swept into tne iireiiiaec by a servan exploded, tho bullet entering the little girl s heel aad making a pain rul llesli wound. The explosion threw hot coals all about the room allU cama dangerously near setting l" ,lull- 'e. It is learned that the service passes j for engineers and conductors decided j upon by tho management of tht ; Southern Railway Company some time ago are now being distributed to the men of this division. Any engineer or conductor who has been ion; for ten years in service he gett him to an annual pass for himself and wife over the entire system, Jacob Clapp, a youug man living thot lauded in the young man's hip at thort range, making an ugly wound that will heal slowly. Dr. McDaniel rendered prompt surgical assistance ami mads tho tufferer us comfortable as u. ssible under the circumstances. N one regrets the accident more than tho cousin, whose gun aeeidcinly discharged with such unfortunate results. The iniured boy't life was. probably saved by his heavy clothing. MONTGOMERY NEWS. From tha Bxnrainer. Miss Bon Wade left for Lynch burg. Va.. Fiiiliiv. ou-re she enters Randolph .VncMi ollege. Editor D S Pot1, oi' the Anglo- rmvon, war in Misses Mamie Ilearnc and Stella Dickens visited Biscoe, Tuesday. Miss Hi i l l Vun. -annon was on the sick list last week, but is again on the go. hear the Juniors arc to have 8I1 oyster supper at the Society Hall Friday night. Attorney (i 15 D Reynolds visited his parents at Eagle Springs the first 0f the week. Mrs Cora Liles, who for some tlm, bus been at Johns Hopkins for treatment, returned much improved Saturday. Mr Ernest Liiich of Star is suffering severely from a sprain caused bv a fall on the snow. His brother, Frank is also sick. Mr G J. orris, who has been with G W Alien it Son, for the last year, has accepted a jiosition with the Troy Supply Company. MrJ W Green, ot Montgomery M married to Miss Sallie Mcluuis, 0f Richmond, on January 27th, at the residente of Mr J E Broadway, A P Green officiating. Mrs H C Ingram 61 Star it visiting her daughter. Mrs 1-ic-lds and family. in Atlanta,Ga.,and Mrs McKeathan nnJ children, of Aberdeen, is on a visit to her father II C Ingram. The Simtherman Cotton Mill adopted and put in operation a schedule of working only four davt in the week. Monday. The supply 0f cotton is not sufficient to run on fuu time, Miss Zu'.a Bruton, who lint been 8t the State Normal, is at home for three weeke. the college having sus- pended that period on account of the tire. She did not occupy a room j,, the burned building, consequent- V g,e sustained no loss, Some uukown visitor recently entered the basement of the Sunther- man Store Co., a few nights ago, but evidently failed to get what he was looking for, as scarcely anything could bo missed by the proprietor. Mr Washburn, of Star, of whom we told you last week, falling 32 feet t the D & C lailroad bridge on Little Hirer two weeks since, is still suffer- jnir v.rv much indeed. The railroad 0nieers are having him cared for the best they can. I he wonder it that he was not killed. Mr J A Campbell f(. the tame ditanc at the tame time, I nt caught on a wire rope and reached the ground with less force, and is at work again. j . ! A Noble Undertakiinj. ihestaniy r.nie.rnriso syi mat 1 Rev D Vance Price, Methodist pastor at Albemarle, will conduct a Bight tchool in Albemarle for the benefit of those who work during the day aud have never learned to read and write. There wilt be no tuition charged. This is .i noble undertaking on (he part of MrPnceand shewt hit real in terust in uplifting hit fel low men There ia ue.d of tuch instruction in very mill community particularly and tho man who doe that work can not he held too high in tha c'rutofu! esteem of all good citiwn.'v Raleigh New i and Uboer. DAVIDSON COUNTY NEWS. From Lexlnfton Dispatch. J W Reed, living in the Walburg section of Davidson county, told 468 11)8. of leaf tobacco on the Winston market for $86.59 an average of about uc a lb. rrices ranging trom iuc to doc a pound. Winston republican. The Winston Republican says that Rev. T II Pegram of that city, is still driving his 26-year-old horse. lie bought the animal 21 years ago nd estimates that he has driven it fully 50,000 miles during hit owner- hip. Last Friday's Raleigh Post con tained the following item: "The Liexington Dispatch of this week gives a picture of Miss Kathleen Smith, the lovely daughter of Mr. J 13 bmith, of that place. Miss Smith is a recent graduate of Peace Insti tute and has many admirers in Ral eigh, where she is quite a favorite." In a letter enclosing payment for a year t subscription to The Dis patch, Mr. Walter F.Doby, formerly of Davidson county, but now of Troop B., 3rd U. S. Calvary, sta tioned ac Yellowstone Park, Wyom ing, says snow U 28 inches deep at that place and the thermometer reg isters six degrees below zero. ttevenuc onicerg were here one night last week in search of a block ade distillery. The raid was made, but the distillers were too sharp for them. Only a few tnbt of slop were captured, ihe "still" had been moved for safe keeping and on the still bouse were posted big yellow signs stating: "Smallpox! Stay out!" We have some sharp people around here and it takes smarter men than Revenue detectives to catch up with them. Mrs. Pollie Hedrick, of Silver Hill township, died last Thursday and was buried at Beck's church on Saturday of last week. Deceased was about ninety years of age. J t Alley, a native of Silver 11 ill township, this connty, died here last riday, of consumption, tie had been working in a mine in West Vir ginia for the pnst three years and returned to this county only a short hue ago. Deceased was about 3D years old. The burial was at Hollo- ay s church last Saturday. in hit report to the county com missioners, the superintendent of health gays there were 72 cases of smallpox and 6 deaths resulting therefrom during the month of Jan uary. The Habit of Doing One's Best. The habit of always doing one's Kaor Mlw. tntA tk .aw wnaanw-tw st one's heart and character; it affects one's bearing, oue's self-possession. 1 lie man who does everything to a msh has a feeling of serenity; he is not easily thrown off his balance; he as nothing to fear, and he cau look the world in the face because he feels conscious that he has not put shoddy into anything, that he has had nothing to do with shams, and that he has always done hi level best. The sense of efficiency, of be- master of one's craft, of being equal to any emergency; the con sciousness of possessing the ability to do with superiority wbatevtr one undertakes, will give soul satisfac tion which a half-hearted, slipshod worker never know. When a man feels throbbing with in him the power to do what be un dertakes as well as it can possibly be done, und all of his faculties say Amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to is efforts, this is happiness, this is success. This buoyant sense oi pow er spurs the faculties to their fullest development. It unfolds the men tal, the moral, and the physical forces, and this very growth, the consciousness of an expanding men tality, aud of a broadening horizon, gives an added satisfaction beyond the power of words to describe. It is a realization of nobility, the di mity of the mind. Orison Sweet Murden, in "Success." The Western Social Seasoa. "Tha routine of the social year follow about the same rnle in Wet loin as in Eastern cities," say Mr. Reginald de Koven in Everybody Magazine for tebruary. "in tne utunin, atUr the close ot tne coun try season with its golf tournaments and hunt-balls, there is the horse show, where the largely increased ntcrest in the horse, developed Dy the late enthusiastic interest in hunti ng, is indicated by the large num ber of entries an! the very fashion able attendance. After this, during November and December, there are numberless debutante receptions. The holiday season is given up to the young people, who return from their colleges and boaraing-tcnoois. New Idea Weaua's Maratia. Of especial interest to the reader of this progressive periodical will nrove the Cist ot a aeries ot "cnei Business Talk for Women," by Katherine Louise Smith, in the March number. Her; hint to her fellow-women for a better know! edge in the care of money will prove of exceeding value to those who heed them. "The Vioertwe or. India, a p reteti ted by Waldon Faweett, deal with the'remarkaWe rrftet of that beautiful - Areencxn woman, Lady Canon. ArtiUe -.appropriate to Spring ia the' bouse and garden are lowering i iuu bt m h in-dcw-iwden,? by jbei -. Bexford; KaiMini Mmtirooni :jt- front, Vtdeltue Keilley, and ''Uardening Undrr Mntlin," iy C ijeLt walsu. 9 1.00 Per Year FRUIT TREES THAT BEAR FRUIT. Do your spring planting in March. Write for free illus trated catalogue, also paniph' let on "How to Plant and Cultivate an Orchard." Givea all necessary information. Everything in Fruit, Shade and Ornamental Trees. Fine stock Silver and Sugar Ma ples. J. VAN LINDLEY NURSERY COMPANY. Pomona, - - . Carolina. Cut Prices gg "While you Wait" We find we have a great number of Odd Suits ouZ hand, and in order to move them at once we will Cut the Prices to Suit Your Pocket. For Underwear and every- j thing nice in Men's and Boy's Wearables, come tOj us and save money. Za THE MERRITT JOHNSON CO Clothiers and Genta' Furn ishers, 308 S. Elm St. Salesmen Thos. A. Walker, Chas. A. Tuoker, W ade H. btockard, u. C. Johnson, J. W. Merritt THIS IS A Presidential Year AND YOU MUST CEEP POSTED The Way to do this Is to read the WEBKbY Vourier-clournal HENRY WATTERSON. Editor TWELVE PAGES ISSUED EVERY WEDNESDAY $1.00 Year Rkvesie Reform. Social Refobm. Moral Reform. The COURIER-JOURNAL issues tkc best Alaunac published. Scad JScts. for a cosy by null. Courier-Journal Compani, lotj1hv1llb, xt. By a Special Arrangement you can get T5he Courier and the Weekly COURIER-JOURNAL both one year for only S1.50. This is for cash subscription only. All siiliHcrintions under this combi nation offer must be sent through Tub Coukihr office. GREENSBORO FEMALE COLLEGE, GRXEHSBOIIO.irt. C. Lt tBY AND BCMNKHS COl'RUB. Schoola of MiKto, Art aad Bloaitioa. FALL TERM BKG1NS SKFT. tth. ItO. Tern nodentle. Apply for catalcejua to Mrt Lacy I leberttoe, Pre. The Gulf Coast Resort, Mo bile. New Orleans, Mexico and California. TIA 80UTHERN RAILWAY. Winter Tnortrt ticketa now an aale Iht i antM . ,j it.. n,,ir niMoa and Mexico ant tli- Inrula. Tlrtetion ale via anotriem rtallaraf n tnaniHrKlurttne. April , laM, limit! aa tear tl 1904, for rrtura paeaage. .. Eleiaiit train errca. i n. y liurton anrt aouthanalara Limited" and "moiiwt, UAeknwa Tk-kaS Aaoot far Mattad lafnrau tns and daacripttTa aaataar. Ckeat Settlert' TkAet. On January 10th. February I 16th, March let and 15th and 3rd Aud 19th, 1904, the 1 System (Saint Loiis and Bait I cuoo Bmlroad) will sell reduced i one-way and ronnd-trip ticke I Atlanta. iSirming-Hn and J to point in ArVsi . Kansn, Oklahoma n" a ' lortfw nnd letft. V rtt L t i . ; - lfiC. -