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' 9 "."it '" i vol; xxix. GRAHAM, N. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1904. UO. 51 PTO . . .. H Orator, Batra Won Olufc. 7 Www AtmtK CMICA90, LU, Oct. M, 1501 t J nwurly four Y(ri I tuffend fan onriaa troablet. The doc tor iatiUd on m operation M tb. air wj to frt well. 1, howerer, itroaslr objected to an operation. Mr hueband felt diahearteiMd aa well ae I, for bome with aick woman U diieoiuolate place at be. A friendly draggiit adrieed aim to gt a bottle of Win of Cardoi for no to tr, and ho did to. I began w unprore in arew uan ua my reomrery wai rerf rapid. Witl ia eighteen week I waa another being. Mr. Stowe'e letter ihowt erery woman how a homo ia aaddenod by (mala weaknes and bow completely Wine of Cardtii caret that tick tm and brisgi health and happi dm again. Do not go- on offer ing. Go to rour druggiit today and ieeu (1M, bottk of Wine JEWELER GRAHAM, , ' : Jf. ,C. Watches, Clocks, Jewelry and Silverware. Hr ESTABLISHED 1893 , r Burlington Insurance , . -A&ency , ' : IMUMNCK W ill, ITS MMCHU. Local agency of Perm Mutual Insurance . . Company. . L 1 Best.- Life Insur.i -ance contracts Dow . on the market ' frotnpt pwasnal atteotfoa to alV orden. CoraNpondenoa eoUetted. , JAMES P. ALBRIGHT, Agent. ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTI CE r-rr"- m aaauiMraaoa tanag mm ie m imuM, a. eerenjr nouno. Willi b- .-TTTi i . . . la day of DMnnbar, ifOt. ; 1 1 .. . AdnVr of Oand MieBMi, ;.s. ;codK, AtUrnoy.itt.taw, , , 0m rattenon Batldlo l Floor. 1 WILL S. LQAG, JK. DENTIST . .-. .' - - . Nortk CrllM nSIMMO.NS BUILDLSO B5TJJI & BT2073I, - eaaxsgsoRo, a . .wjreclarljr la lb. eoartt of ala Aa.t,S4.1y face A. LOSS. J. XXMKB L01TO. I T. ilEl.; JJfla.t Kid cute to prewtnt thm erSirT "" r o Dwieiaoer, WW. '"ft'e W1U beplMded U bar ol tMtr xata.1 ioxa & LONG. Conwowlorw mt Xaw ' CixrUM, X. C. I should never have known that he was a failure if he had not told me so himself. Most assuredly he had not the air of one, for his coats . were always fashionably cut, and his taste in liqueurs was almost as deli- ait,a W own and h could af-. quently." ' - y-- Such. was the testimony of ap pearance, and so far as I knew his j history it pointed to the same con clusion. He had been, I under stood, a writer, like myself, though even less successful, and then "for tunate speculations" had enabled him to retire from a calling which he found more honorable than ra- rfnunerative and to spend his after noons in playing billiards at the club. And yet Everard Deane esteemed himself a failure. He told me so emphatically one evening at the hour when truth "peeps over the glass edge when dinners done."" "It was all that confounded Stock Exchange," he murmured, gaiing gloomily into a glass of green char treuse. I begged him to accept my cor dial congratulations. "It's a better way to fail than njost," I said, for I had known so many who failed upon the Stock Exchange and lived hap pily, drinking champagne and driv ing about in broughams, ever after ward. But Everard Deane protested. "I don't mean what you mean," he said. "I didn't lose money on the Stock Exchange. I made it lots of it. That is the mischief of it. That is precisely why I am a failure." He looked gloomier than ever as he spoke and ordered a second green chartreuse.' Jerking his head so as to indicate a man at the farther end of the room a well dressed man, exces sively bejeweled with whom half an hour since he had cordially shak en hands, he whispered: "That is the man who has been my evil genius. You know him?" "I think so. It's Morrison Par ker, the great financier, isn't it f "It is, and Morrison Parker, the great financier, has been my evil genius. It's a foolish story, but I sometimes like to tell it after din ner. A brandy and soda?" I accepted, and when the waiter had brought the glasses Everard Deane resumed: "I was an author, you know a young author with great aims and high ambitions.' I made enough money to live upon by writing for the papers, but I looked upon lit erature not as a trade, but as an art. I was a member of the Waste Paper club, where all of us profess ed, to take the same artistic views of life and letters and sat up till the . small hours discussing t&em through a haze of tobacco smoke and steaming grog. Iwasveryhap- S. there until the day came when orrison Parker joined the club. He owned a newspaper the Stock Exchange Recorder. I think he call ed it and therefore he was tech nically qualified. But when h came and sat up with us in the small hours he did not talk literature. He talked finance." "Yet the two subjects may occa sionally have relations with eacn other," I suggested. "Precisely. That is the point that Morrison Parker used to Insist upon, especially when he had had a good day, and made ui drink champagne with him to celebrate his luck. "My -do so many half educated city men profess to look down on suthors?' he would ask. And then he would answer his own quaatioa: "Because there isn't one author in five hundred who knows how 'to make 1,000 year. That has al ways been the great rerroaeh I letters, from Dr. Johnson's time to ours. It's high timeto put an end to that reproach. Why don't J0 fellows do it f . I sighed, wishing that I knew how to put an end to it myself, and 41.. T l raA "And did your friend descend from the general to the particular and tell you how it coma oe utnw. "He did. He told us all to open . MwAiiiattva - aceeunt in Lwuie- . - j. - rilles." . Tnnllea? That is the ef an American railroad. I be- It is, and opening a speculative account means buying the shares without being able to pay "5Jf telling them at a profit and putting the difference in your poc. P"zJf""V , . v The TIT ..'mnV I Said. merest child's play, provided that the shares go up. they.wentupanrhtMi eo ma ine ou erward. I ve never m through following Mf0",. ln tins. I cant complain of thai. And yetyou call the man your VixTl stiU eall the ina, 1 genius because I lost mi Srough him-my soul a. an art-t, that wss so much to me. I .urted. I could not navdar- j&'aa-.wa roa do not understandf C-Sl thst an artut i ... . .. ., )uu bujijnMu wiai jiie wui sHiaown. q lietly to toH for doubtful' gahis . indefinitely when -be' knows that ni ; guuuen. turn ol the market may put uiiuureasfin . niSf pecgotr ' Ho. no, my friend, it is' not" possible. What does he dd? Why, he buys every edition qfho evepiflg paper, to tee the prices. He runs into his club to watch the tape. He drives up to the city in working hours to ask his broker whether he ought not to sell.- That is how it was in my case. That is how it must be in every case. My balance at the bank was growing, but while it grew my soul my artist's soul, in which I gh ried so was dying, crushed out of its bright existence by the dead weight of material cares. And so things went until I stood, as it were, st the parting of the ways and swore that I would make my choice." . "Your choice?" "My choice between the artistic and the material life. I meant to make it dramatically too. There was still enough of the artist left in me for that. It was at midnight, in my chambers in the Temple. I took the manuscript of mv half fin ished novel the novel that wasjto. make me famous frorn the desk and placed it on the table. , Beside it I laid a heap of share certificates snd transfer forms and contract notes. Between the tu piles there stood a lighted candle. One of them was to be burned to ashes in its flame one of them, and at this solemn hour I was to determine which and by determining decide the whole course of my future life." He paused. I had to press him before he would proceed. "And then you burned" ' "Neither," was his unexpected answer. "Neither, for I could not decide. My novel . went back into the drawer it came from to wait there till the old joy in the higher I Hie came back to me. And that joy never came. Even to this hour it has not come. I look back to the old days. I long for them, but I know quite well that they will not return .to me. The greed for gain, its ceaseless worries and anxieties, has killed my soul, and that is why I tell you that I am a failure." There was a melancholy, at once incredible and convincing, in his ac cents. Unless there were a woman in the case I would not have be lieved it possible for a man so well to do to look so miserable. I sought to say something that might lift ! him out of his despondency. , "Failure or no failure, at least you can go to Monte tarlo in the winter," I suggested. "I know. I'm going next week with Morrison Parker," Everard Deane replied, . , And then he shook his head slow ly and shrugged his shoulders gloom ily, as though to say that the joy of sojourning on the Biviera while we were toiling in the fogs was nothing to the price that he had had to pay for it. .v . .r; And as I drove home that night I tried to persuade myself that he was right ' , STAGE PRESSING R0Ci-Ob Often the Cause of Disputes as4 F eeJafcl . Between Aetrmia, t;,. "Deliver me from staging a show -.1 : 4k. Wlin two wuimu evai. u vk, said one of the veteran Broadway stage managers. "They will give you more trouble than a barrel of monkeys or a regiment of blond chorus girls." "Jealousy, I suppose, ; because their parts cannot be exactly alike," observed the ordinary citizen who was lucky in the friendship of the lord of the greenroom. "It is jealousy all right," said the manager, "but not over their parts. They have fought that all out with the author during rehearsals. When they get into my department the trouble is sll over stressing rooms." "One would think that any com fortable room would be good enough to dress in," remarked the citizen, betraying bis ignorance. You'd think a lot of things," growled the manager, "but unless the dressing rooms are as like a two, peas Ird like yon to. convince twin stars that they were receiving nrooer treatment Even if the rooms are alike the women art not sstisned. They want the wall pa-!E ner- and the wardrobe curtains , ehanasdito match, their complex- J iens. , ' I iiiu ins sotfl dunled by ahem 7 Do; Tb average weaver ia oroaiij menccmrat dinners 1 bad the duty, shy bn dressing rooms. It may be as the presiding omcer, of in trod oo thorvughly up to date and perfectly ' ing the speakers. In performing appointed in everj way until you f this duty with reference to Mr. Ev gn paca m nm mtmw -- ( main floor,. where art the quarters t of the people. I've never seen the - time that 1 could not use a oosca i more rooms than I bTat my com mand. Generally there is one room . that is very much superior in Iocs- J Jxn and f nrnkhings to the others. I i i. faitUl for the leading worn i an, and in the old days when there was only one leading woman there wys little trouble about this prist room. ;'":' . I "la this act of the life play, bow ever, there art likely to be several leading women. : The woman who plays the name part insists that she Is tie star. The popular singer who it being featured in the piece and who draws $50 or $100 a week more than the woman of the name part iasista that she is tb star. If the leading mas baa a wife t the east, she surely deservee the best drese- J ing.rooa.. And inere you- are, three women and on decent room, . at a uk, this business "of dealing oui aressing rooms, sometimes it H but breaks up a show, and many lifelong feuds between actMMaee era j the result." New York Tribune, . .Eva's Apple Tree. A fruit supposed to bear the mark of Eve's teeth is one of the many botanical curiosities of Ccvlon. The tree on which it grows is known bv the significant name of "the forbid den fruit" or . "Eve's i apple tree." The blossom has a very pleasant scent, but the really remarkable fea ture of the tree, the one to which it owes its name, ir the fruit It is beautiful and hangs from the tree in a peculiar manner.v. Orange on tne outside and deep crimson with. in, each fruit ha the appearance of navmg had a piece bitten out of it mis tact, together with its poison ous Quality, says the Liverpool Post, xea ine juonammedans to represent it as the forbidden fruit of tne gar den of Eden and to warn men against its noxious properties. ;Tlm to fray. A preacher at the conclusion of one of his sermons said, "Let all in the house who are paying their debts stand up." Instantly every man, woman and child, with one ex ception, rose to their feet The preacher seated them and said, rjiow every man not paying his debts stand up." . The exception noted, a careworn, hungry looking individual, slowly 'assumed 4 per pendicular position. ' "How is it; my friend, asked the minister, "that you ape the- only man hot to meet his obligations?", "I run a newspaper,"., he meekly answered, "and the brethren here who just stood up are my subscribers, and" "Let us pray," exclaimed the min-ister.-r-Joplin News-Herald.' Wonders of Oaometrloal Progroaalon. The story of Sysla and the king is usually told as a good illustration of geometrical progression. Sysla, so the story goes, wss the inventor of the game of chess. The king was so delighted with the diversion that he promised to grant any request the inventor might make. Sysla, who must have been a mathema tician as well as a mechanical gen ius, only asked that the generous king would put one grain of wheat i on the first square of the board and double the amount upon each suc cessive square tip to and including the sixty-fourth. Lucas do Burgo -'ys. that there was . not enough wheat in the kingdom to pay the crafty inventor, which waa 18,446V- 744.073,709,357,610 grains I The Effect of Repetition. This sound of a door bell may not call up much of a motor response, but repeated often may cause a very considerable . response. A slight tickling when one is asleep Or awake may, if continued, produce eonvul- sive responses. To strike a horse repeatedly on tbs saraa spot is to invite him to kick. Continued drop- 6ing of water from a lancet dunn lie night or the intermittent sound of a mouse gnawing produce ex treme irritability. -. The psychology . i i oi aaveruaing snows many eviaences of this law. .Temptation in all its I forma usually works by the summ tion of stimuli. The young man of slight moral resistance on bis way home in the evening passes through one, it may be two, streets of sa loons. In the third street bis in hibiterv newer is exhausted, and h passes helplessly through the doors, -success.-- -' -' Blue Monday. A great many people have wh'it they call blue Monday that is, they do not feel so well then as on other days of the week. - The cause is found in overeating on Sunday. . A good dinner ia provided and eaten, and then instead of taking the cus tomary exercise the man site about the bouse and reads or sleeps., Of course, he feels bad the next day, If the same amount of exercise and .kind of diet were taken on Sunday as ail other days there would be no such thing as a blue Monday. One, Sentence The quickness and .. felicity of Hon. William M. Evarts in the line of repartee are pleasantlr illustrat j i by President Timothy Dwight in story from Memories of Yale jjfo and Men." " On one occasion, writes President Dvfehi 0D ' onr tU ecmi ana a aaiu ut uiiuwu w ui wcu known length, of his eehtoncee ia pnble address; -jir. Crarts win now give us a ' nngie seni sentence." He rose and instantly replied: It will V a life sentence" ' ; Mle Tanked if that 'ere hired man o mint ain't the most worthless, shuck lees, trifiin. critter on top V sod T growled honest Farmer Bentovtr sav agely. Why, ram him, be read last week that the length of the day -on earth is increasin' twin' to the con stantly augmented aize of the worW b'coz of the deposits tf metoors and such like on rt, and ever since, even though the article plainly stated that, the change, is so alight .that it U I jhSU mi:;.p years toad! ha4 asooowd U tM tengtA aL Omj, vummed if he aiat been eomplain la' dismally about the prospect tf his bavin' to work longer for 1 the same pay T Puck.. WELL IN LONDON TOWER. Disclosure of a tacret Which i the Antiquary. , Baffle For ages antiquary after anti- quary found himself baffled bv I simple problem at the Tower. How in the old days did the garrison get supply of drinking water?; The antiquary could show you the orig inal fireplace at which William the Conqueror warmed his hands, could point approximately to the spot on which the murdered princes fell, he could lead you to the place where Henry VIII. s queens were butchered and to the tombstone that collapsed upon their poor bones, be knew tne tiny dungeon in which Sir Walter Baleigh spent twelve dreading years hidden from the light and could have led you in a twinkling to the stone dog kennel where still re mains the ring to which they chain ed Guy Fawkes, but how these un fortunates and their Janitors drank none could tell. The Thames hard by waa not the source, they were sure. Organized search was rain. .Then there came a thick headed, unim aginative mason, to whom and his fellows the work of converting cer tain of the historic dungeons into storehouses for war material meant ninepence halfpenny an hour and no more. ' ' ' '' -! '- His pick struck through the floor ing of the corridor from which the prisoners used to, enter their cells. Behind these latter and correspond ing with the main one ran and still fMtnaina 1 1. 1lf4l lamiPMrrllA- along which eavesdropping officers tiptoed , to listen . to conversations between captives, for the purposes of evidence. A few blows' from the pick brought to light the mouth of pit. Sixty feet down, was water, thirty feet of it The mason had happened upon the historic well for which search had beenmade in vain for centuries.1 It was as perfect as on the day the Conqueror sank it Today it still carries its thirty feet ... A .UntA VI .WWb .AUlg wbwi. auu IUVWU ever the Tower be beleaguered its garrison would still be independent of outside - supply, we have out holy wells of medicinal waters. If this historic old shaft which the mason brought to light were distant 10,000 miles Londoners would make pilgrimages to drink its waters. St James Uasette, -(-. ANIMALS ABOARD SHIP. They 0l Beeslefc, Though Net Just -' the Way' Human Beings Da. "Speaking of animals getting sick at sea," said a man who has had some experience with the dumb brutes on the briny deep, "I can tell you that they do get sick, and sometimes they get very sick too. " Of course, they do not manifest the sickness in the way that human beings show it and for reasons wnion will suggest tnenv selves on a ' moment's reflection. But they nevertheless get quite aa tick as members tf the human fam ily. Seasickness in human beings will manifest, itself In violent vom iting. A seasick person cannot re tain anything in tne stomach. Ths old rule that whatever goes up must tome down is in the case ofpro nounced seasickness reversed. What ever goes down must come up. Kut when we come to reckon with horses and cows we And different condi tion to deal with. ..Horses and cowe sever vomit, They cannot So hert right at the beginning of the mat ter we find a reason for difference in the way this peculiar sickness snows itself in man and beast "I have had more experience with horses thsn with any other kind of dumb animal and consequently know more about tbt way the horse suners during seasickness. - it Is father curious and rather interest ing fact that the horse is more vio lently attacked in the feet than in any other portion of the body, have seen the feet tf horses sit i swell until they could scarcely stand on them. Of course, the stomach of the animal is affected to some extent, but this is not so serious a Unatter as the attack in tba feet ine effect of tncet attacks la some times of a lasting' kind, and the usefulness of horses ia seriously im paired. The tact that seasickness attacks tbt horse in tbt feet ia mainly due to the peculiar influence av vessel's motion has on the kidneys of the animaL At any rata, this is tht generally accepted view tf tht mat ter. We cannot say definitely just why horses get knotty feet at sea. out tne popular view ox horsemen wht have studied the matter it aa stated. Aa to cows, I do not know great deal about them, but I un derstand tbt chief trouble with them at sea is that they lost their taste for food and quit eating." Kew Orleans Tinw-Democrat , Very many Japanese bouses have beautiful gerdena. . The Japanese excel in gardening, and eves In Ta- wbert space is very valuable, contrive to have some pictur ;ut adjunct. Over a bamboo tret for instance, will hang tht mar. velously picturesque J spaneae gourd, which forms a favorite subject for the deeoratioa of metal work, ea ptdally tht antimony metal work thinly silvered over with which tht Japanese flood tht western' market These rovrdav with a pinch is the middle like e lady's waist, when dried end' hollowed out, art fitted with stoppers for pilgrims' water bottles and art very freouenUy ex ported. If he ran do nothing more every J panose wht can aZord it will have, his row of . nuir3TUe , jars containing dwarfed blossoming fruit trees or tiny Japanese firs, which are made to grow smaller as they grow older. Good Advloe. A venerable professor of a noted medical college Was addressing the graduating class. ."Gentlemen,'.' he said, "you are going out into the world of action. xou will likely follow in some de gree the exsmple of those who have I preceded you. Among other things Jou may marry. Let me entreat you be kind to your wives. Be pa tient with them. Do not fret under petty domestic . trials. When one of you asks your wife to go driving i do not worry if she is not ready at the appointed tune. Have a trea tise on your specialty always with you. , Bead it while you wait and I assure you, gentlemen, and the pro fessors kindly smile seemed to show a trace of irony,' "you will be as tonished at the vast amount of in formation you will acquire in this way." ' Fsrt No Need of It.'"'1'- An seronaut at a county fair had made rather an unlucky ascension. His balloon had gone high enough, but the wind had carried him a mile or two farther away than he antici- Cted, and the car in descending hsd some entangled in the top of a tree in a village street and spilled him , out He struck the ground with some violence. , -s A crowd quickly gathered about nis prostrate torn. , 'Stand back and give him sir!" exclaimed three or four at once. The aeronaut was not seriously hurt. .He raised himself feeblv to sitting posture. "Air?" he echoed in a tone of deep disgust' "Don't you think Fve : had air enough in tht last ten min utes r" - ' - . . !- THE ART OF FALLING." Easy te Avoid Barlow Injury If Vee) ' Knew the Trleh. - "The story that a man fell 200 feet the other day and didn't hurt himself is amusing," said the di rector of a gymnasium; "but, cut ting all foolishness out, there was more than' a grain of truth iri it What I mean is that a man -who knows how to fall can fall a con siderable distance .without getting anything more than a bruise or two. ' " "The trouble is thst the average man doesn't know anything about falling easily. .Now, one of the first things that a gymnast or one who performs anywhere above the ground must learn u just how to avoid seri ous injury in falls. 1: ; "Nearly every gymnast tumbles sooner or later; but, if you will think it over, the number of profes sional and amateur performers hurt In a year is comparatively smalL Tht reason for that ia that they have learned not only how to avoid falling, but how to protect them selves whan tbt fsll does come. . Just as an example, I bad a fall from a. height of about twenty feet the other day, and I got right up from tht floor practically unhurt, although I confess that It shook sot up a good deal more than I liked. In falling, however, I re laxed my muscles and, as tht ath letes say, 'folded' my bead into my chest I struck on the uppermost part of my back, just below tht neck. When anybody is falling, that ia me pan oi int ooay on wnica to fail. :,-,'v;.' . : ,--,,:i: "I am not a particularly heavy man, but I am fairly well protected by my muscles. Those oh tht back of my beck were a sufficient cushion. With that to help mt tbt I ell was not so terrifying. , Now. the reason why tbt ordi nary man ia so easily hurt in a fall it that be thinks he must letter him self to the ordeal, as it were. He comes down, sprawling out, with bit arms and legs rigid. Nint times out of ten be either breaks a limb or severely sprains a muscle. That b tht wrong way to falL ' If von want to set tbt right war take a few lessons from your eat If she is a good, healthy eat with a good training, she never jumps or falls at if she was trying to break leg. ; ' ' Let ma sum all of this an bv sav ing that, to be a really good athlete, one must know bow to relax bit muscles as well as distend them. TW . r.n ma ... v. Chicago Inter Ocean. BABIES ARE BOSSES. They Boom te Borve Many la Thle Buoy World. Tbt baby serves t manifold pur pose in the world, lie makes men and women more m-'11' and fur nishes the amount of trouble nec essary to keep them comfortably busy. He sanctifies borne and gives tht doctor an excuse to look wise. A well ordered, well born baby with red fact and a bald bead is a de light, particularly when ht belongs to a inena ana apeso opesu uihm in your neighborhood. Every baby ia the prettiest baby ia the world, and it can be proved bv its mother. A baby that wont tat carpet tacks, brass headed nails and young luttens is a mistake, tf biee art bosses and boodJers. They i iv. j I tTrwrS; oTtrusTy ever tfc emmtiae and take everything that comet their way without ask ing any questions. All babies art svppcwod, quite properly, to eeme from heaven, but what tht angels, cherubim, seraphim and fho v "f the celestial population do for sleep , . " ""nut . has never been inquired into. Boy I Oct Minute Cough Cure gives re babies are sweetest at four and girl lief In one minute, because It kills babies at twenty-four. the microbe which tickles tht mu- A baby is a joy forever until it; coot rnembranccr causing the cout h, begins to fall out of the second sto- and at the same time cleara the ry window, turn over the water' phlegm, draws out tbt inflamma pitcher, hammer tht china to pieces tion and bealaand soothes the affect with its. fork and investigate tht td parte. One Minute Cough - Cure medicine bottles on the shelf. Ev- j strengthens the lungs, wards off ery baby is eternally trying to find '.pneumonia and is a harmless and out more than ht has any business j never failing cure in all curable knowing, and tba habit of asking questions lasts through life., .The touch of a . baby's hand opens up heaven to a woman and makes a man ' willing to ' wear ' patches ' the rest or bis natural Hie. it bas been said that every woman is entitled to' at least one child., So is every '.nan, but nobody has ever mention ed the fact. Borrowing babies' is much sadder than' it is funny." Some day tht government will go into tbt bus! ness and keep babies to rent out as a matter of morale alone. . Every old bachelor's quarters will contain a nursery, and clubs will be a thing ox tne past. raria (Mo.) mercury. ., Ready For Promotion. A young rising Scotch artist who afterward became a distinguished president of the . Boysl Scottish academy; was painting on one occa sion amid tht rugged scenery tf tht west highlands of Scotland, in close proximity to an isolated and rudely built thatched cottage such as - art usually inhabited by tht hardy, peasant crofters of north Britain. - '' '!' ,'' While engaged in giving tht rough stone exterior of his dwelling its annual cost of whitewash tht high- lander espied the future academi cian engaged on an important pic ture and, thinking probably that landscape painting was but an ele mentary and poor use for tba brush of a youth who had nearly reached the estate of manhood, said to hims Man, yer a big callant to be pentin' Clctur's. Can ye no learn to peat ooeetf """' ---rr- ' ' Hie Account Book. .' A firm of masons in an Irish town employ a laborer whose novel method of keening account of his time waa brought to light lately br a queer circumstance. He went one evening to his employer's home with the tad intelligence that ht had lost his account book.' He said that tht pigs bad unfortunately got in and eaten it up. ,' ' . "What sort oi an account book did you keep?" asked his employer. Why, I had an empty barrel, and when I worked a whole day I Sut in a potato, and when hall a ay half a potato, nd tht pigs ate them all entirely." Pearson's Week- . Blslng Up to the Auntie. . Young Edgar was on a -visit to the home of nis two aunts, one of whom is, to put it mildly, rsther plump. He saw her In her room just" as she waa about to go out to a formal dinner, and as she had not drawn--on her gloves be hsd an op- Ertunity to see ber arms bared to t shoulder. , A little later, when tht other aunt wss superintending his evening bath, he stopped for a moment, looked himself over and said thoughtfully: . - ,1 ain't very fat, am I ? My legs aren't as big as Aunt Cordelias arms." New York Press. " , Justifiable Boeplcien. What makes you think Mrs. love Weeds isn't sincere f "She says she will never again." " " ' .' -Wellr' - ' And that lift holds nothing for btr.", ...Vi WeUr And that this world is but a fleeting show." Welir Wtll. I roomed with her last Bight, and she massaged her fact for an hour and wort a toilet mas. bed with her. Houston Poet Tht Tapping tf the Death' Watefc.' Tbt to called death watch, dread- to by tbt superstitious, is a small beetle which bas, a very powerful joint in its neck and calls its mate by tapping with its head on the wall tr on any surface Where it m happen to be located. The noise similsr to that which may be pro duced by topping with tbt finger naua on a table, and the Insect can frequently be made to answer each tape. ; ' ' Justly Condemned. ., What .an unfortunate contre temps that was of Mrs. ' Gold thwaito's at the Rockingham last night," said Mrs. Oldcsstle. I know it" replied her hoeteaa. "I waa teuur. Josiah en the way borne that I was surprised that a woman who's the mother of grown up daughters should of wore such a thing, and with her long neck too." Chicago Beoord-Herald. . . . .Wledom of the Bchooltseohers. - A schoolteacher knows things she has been through the mill ol angry mothers and tocorrigible chil dren, baa baa bad to go through the mill of preparation for teach ing; she has been compelled to dip into diplomacy and capture a board of education or a committee of ox oaacauow. or a camnuHee olar. 7litr.hf? T?..rr7 pop-" 1 riros. Atchiaon Globe. DeWItt'a WltcJl liaxel Salvt casta of Coughs, Colds and Croup. Ont Minute 'ugb. Curt is pleasant to take, harmless and good alike for young and old.- Sold by tht J. C. Simmons Drug Co. . . . - . Ratification of tjie American Chi nese comnoerical treaty were ex changed at the State Department in Washington Wednesday by Secre tary Hay and Hir Cbengtung, Liang Cheng, tbt ( hineee minister. The treaty provides for ibe opening of lh porta of M nkden and Antung, -in Manchuria, to tht worldV com. merce' The President signed tbt proclamation puttirg into tffect tbt treaty. ;;,i''.'':';;.-; c-J Wbat'aUa NamtT .'V - Every 'bing in the name when it oome i Witch Hnsel Salve. ' E. C DaWin dt Co.; of Chicago, dia covered tome yearn sso bow to make a salve from witch Hszel that ia a ptcifio for Piles. For blind, bleed ing, itching -and proiruding Piles, eczema, cuts. hums, braiaea and all skin diseases DeWitt's Salve baa no equal. This hat given rite to num erous worthless counterfeits. - Ask for DeWitt't -the gonuint. Bold by the J. C. Simmons Drug Co.- . Rev. Dr." J. A. B. 8cberta, of Charleston, a prominent Lutheran minister, bas been elected president of Newberry College, an institution of the Lutheran Church,' at New berry, 8. C. Dr. Scberer ' wat. formerly a mlwionary of bit Cborcb in Japan. Ht ia a ' native of Bxnrao. ' 1 N. Jackson. 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The Alamance Gleaner (Graham, N.C.)
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Jan. 21, 1904, edition 1
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