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The- Alamance Gleaner. VOL. XXXV. GRAHAM, N. C, THURSDAY. APRIL 1, L909. NO. 7 m Thlf popular reatedy ..iiv cute .., ,N jjevar fails Constipation, ittk : .. ai L DISBA5BS Wn from Torpid Liver and Bad Di 101 "1" firal result is go. igestior? good :mi; ?y sugar coated aeosy to BWUllUYi Take no j1""7-; PROFESSIONAL CARDS DONALD GtJLLE Attorneyat-Law ..ix,-' BirRLlNGTOir, N. o. SELLAR8 BDItDIHO. ' H. WILL' & ION, A . . , DENTIST . . r...ham. - - - North Carolina OFFICE in SIMMONS BUILDING timB A. L0N8. ,- J. ELMER LONG. LONG & LONG, Attorneys and Ctounawloro at Law GRAHAM, H. " - t. s. o oors:, Attorney-l-Lew, GRAHAM. - .''- 'N. C. Office Patterson Building Second Floor. , ' .. : , - . C. A. HALL, sTTOBNEY AND 00DNSELLOR-AT-LAW, GRAHAM, N. 6. Office in the Bank oi Alamance Bulding. op stairs. . . lOBSOsA It MOM. ' ...WP-BTirBM, j BVNUM &BYNUM, Attorney ind Gounoelor at Law U.vlCKMBBOBO, B U." PrArtlM mmlarlv In the annrta of Alb nance county. Aug, 2, 04 Ij ROB'T C. STEUDWICK Attorney Low, ' QiiEExsBono a: , Practices in the courts of Ala " mince and Guilford counties. Weak Kidneys Wai Kidneys, imaly point to weak kidney Jerra. The Kidneys, like thetHeart, and tha anmacn. una weir weemaes, not in me ormn Mil. but In the nerves that control and fulde and itrautben them. Dr. 8 hoop's Bestoratlve la a Bedldne speculator OTepered to reach these (oatrolUntnerrea. To doctor tit KMneyi alone, ItfntUt, It U a mute of timm. and ol maoaj as Well. It mar lack ashes or It weak, if the nrtn. audi, or Is dark and ftronf, If you have symptoms of Brlf ha or other di.tin. or danteram kld serdiieaae, trjr Dr. Bhoop's Bestoratlve a month juieu or jjquiQ ana see wnet It oan ana will wiurrou. uruggus iBOonunana ana sou . Dr. SIioop' GRAHAM DRUG CO. 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As I grew well, my twin brother, Gregolre, who was ome minutes younger, was put to bed with, the same complaint "What a misfortune," exclaimed our mother, "that Sllvestre la no sooner convalescent than Gregolre fallBlll.-. The doctor answered: "It aston ishes me that you were not prepared for It, Ma'dame Lapalme since the children are twins, the thing was to be foreseen-; when the elder throws the malady off, the younger natur ally contracts It Among twins it is nearly always so." . And it always proved to be so .with Gragolre and me. No sooner did I throw off whooping cough than Gregolre began to whoop, though I was at home In Vernon and he was at Tours. 60 far as I had any serious aspira tions at all. I aspired to be a painter and, after combating my family's ob jections, I entered an art school In the Quarter, Paris. Gregolre, on the other hand, inclined strongly to the law. During the next day few years we met Infrequently, but that my brother continued to be affected by any nnusual conditions of my body and mind I knew by his letters, which seldom failed to contain ex postulations and entreaties. Our mother still lived in Vernon, where she contemplated her favorite son's success with the profoundest pride. Occasionally I spent a few days With her, sometimes more. One summer when I visited her I met Mademoiselle Leulllet I know very well that no description of a girl ever painted her to anybody yet. Suffloe it that she was beautiful as an angel, that her voice was like the music of the Spheres more then all, that one felt all the time, "How good she Is, how good, how good! Never since I was a boy had stayed in Vernon for so long as now; never had I repented so bitterly as now the error of my ways. I loved and It seemed to me that my attach ment was reciprocated, yet my posi tion forbade me to go to Monsieur Leulllet and ask boldly for his daughter's hand. While I had re mained obscure, artists whose tal ent was no more remarkable than my own, had raised themselves from bohemla Into prosperity. I was an Idler, a good-for-nothing. And then well, I owned to Berthe that I loved herl I owned that I laved her and when I left for Parts we were secretly engaged. - Mon Dleu! Now I worked in deed! To win this girl for my own to show myself worthy of her inno cent faith, supplied me with the most powerful Incentive In life. In the Quarter they regarded me first With ridioule, then with wonder and, finally, with respect For my enthusiasm did not fade. "He ha3 turned over a new leaf," they said "he means to be famous!" It was understood. No more excursions for Silvesetre, no more Junketings and recklessness! I was another man my Ideal of happiness was now a wlfa and home. For a year I lived this new lire. I nroeressed. Men whose approval was a cachet began to speak of me as one with a future. In the Salon a picture of mine made something of a Ur. How I rejoiced, now gramiiii and aanculne I wast I said that It was not too soon ror ma to sneak now: I had proved my mettle, and, though I foresaw that her father, would ask more before he gave his consent, I was, at least, Jus h.a in .vowing- myself. I tele graphed to my mother to expect me. . On tho way to the station I no ticed the window of a florist; I ran In to bear off some lilies for Berthe. The shop was so full of wonderful flowers that, once among them, I found some difficulty in making my eholoe.' Hence, I missed ine train. and, rather than waia atwui uuu. the next, returned to my studio, in- ensed by the delay. A letter for me naa oeen jubi aw Mvered. It told me that on the pre Tlous morning Berthe had married my brother. t MnM have welcomed a pistol shot my world rocked. Berthe lost. false, Gregotre's wuei i reir t ..M it over and over. I was Stricken by lt-nd yet. I eon Id not nails that actually It had hap- POh!'l made certain of it later, be Uave me I was no hero of a fenie ton. to accept such lntlUnoewtth out proof! Ii wored myU cber - mA hurst her lore letters cm by onet tore her photograph, tato sired-strove aleo to tr her tmage from my nean. A year before) I shoaldhave rusj ad to the eafes for forgetfulnees. but bow, as tne snow ,u : , fv-UhJy to Ti .v. -.m pmUtod. deaying myself the small- VucT Proved vainer dally. Were art I should have eoqur-. - though I could eompel mysetf io .r t m eompel myself to Pntw I 4 fo f-P foThalf a year, worked wtU say tar, worked while say piaa dJaatpatlo whJea pnmu. - ttrmgg) had be tweiea a awBw 7l .r Httle of the BOwOat the followeA-lt V" of dgradattoaa and remortamrm- ately. I fell. J-f shaddered at ttat horrors I had ooea- haddered Om aferaoo naii "T " abaont alaos the prrrkrua beard from the 'j5t . i.t m. I climbed the etairi were sluggish, myllmbneadeh. my eyes heavy and bloodshot My visi tor was Berthe. I think nearly a minute must have passed while we looked speechlessly in each other's face her's con vulsed by entreaty, mine dark with hate. "Forgive me," she gasped. "I have come to beseech your forgiveness! Can you not forget the wrong I did you?" "Do I look as if I had forgotten?" "I was Inconstant, cruel, I cannot excuse myself. But, Oh, Sllvestre, In the name of the love you once bora me, have pity on us! Reform, ab jure your evil courses! Do not I Implore you, condemn my husband to this abyss of depravity; do not wreck my married life!" Now I understood what had pro cured me the honor of a visit from this woman, and I triumphed devil ishly that I was the elder twin. "Madame," I answered, "I think that I owe you no explanations, but I shall say this: the evil courses that you deplore were adopted, not vin dictively, but in the effort to numb the agony that you had made me suffer. You but reap as you have sown." - "Reform!" she sobbed. 8he sank on her knees before me. "Sllvestre, in mercy to us, reform!" "I shall never reform," I said in flexibly. "I shall grow more aban doned day by day my past faults shall shine as merits compared with the atrocities that are to come. False girl, monster of selfishness, you are dragging me to the gutter, and your only grief is that he must share my shame! You have made me bad, and you must bear the consequences you cannot now make me good to save your husband!" Humbled and despairing, she left me. At this stage I began deliber ately to contemplate revenge. But not the one that I had threatened. Oh, no! I bethought myself of a vengeance more complete than that! She should be tortured with the tor ture that she had dealt to me I would make him adore another woman with all his heart and brain! How true it is that only the un foseen comes to pass! There was a model, one Therese, whobe fortune was her back, and who had long bored me by an evident tenderness. One day this Therese, usually so con strained in my presence, appeared In high spirits, and mentioned that she was going to be married. The change in her demearc- in terested me. A little piqued, I In vited her to dine with me, but she refused. Before I parted from her I made an appointment for her to sit to me the next morning. "So you are going to be married, Therese?" I said, as I prepared the palette. "In truth," she answered, gaily. "No regrets?" I asked. "What regrets could I have?" she returned. "He Is a very pretty boy, and well-to-do, believe me!" "And I am not a pretty boy, nor well-to-do, hein?" "Oh," she laughed, "you do not care for me!" "Is it so?" I said. "What would you say.if I told you that I did care?" "I should say that you tell me too late, monsieur," she replied, with a Shrug. "Are you ready for me to pose?" And this changed woman turned her peerless back on me with out a scruple. Well, as I have said, she was not the kind of woman I had contem plated, but these things arrange themselves I became seriously enamored of her. And, recognizing that Fate worked with her own In struments, I did not struggle. For months I was at Therese's heels; I was the sport of her whims, and her slights, sometimes even of her In sults. , I actually made her an oner or marriage, at which she snapped her White fingers, with a grimace and the more she flouted me, the more fascinated I grew. In that raptur ous hour whenhjBj ingojent eyes ioftened' to sentiment, when her mocking month melted to a kiss, I was in paradise. My ecstasy was so supreme that I forgot to triumph at my approaching vengeance. h I married Therese, and yester day was the twentieth anniversary of our wedding. Berthe? To speak the truth, my plot against her was frustrated by an accident Ton see. before I could communicate my pas sion to Gregolre I bad to recover I it and this insolent Therese . j have not recovered from It yet. There are days when she turns her remarkable back on me now generally when I am Idle but, mon nteul the momenta when she tarns i... ,i. r worth working for. Therefore, Berthe has been all the time quite happy wun mo Ire and since I possess Therese, ' word of honor I do not ndl-ieonard Merrick in The By atander. Katare of a BeqweeL Homer Oaae ox ux ww atte, N. T bequeathed the ehnreh Eotr there tho sum of 100 oa eoa tlitloa that tho choir ehowld stag -America" every Memorial Day. AasMgaoaa. A amusing relie of tho etvfl war in the poeeeaeion of a yooag woes- ... Inf A .hflM I'lt-ieT. aa. m uaiunwrw, - ... . . ..11 mria vaars aao with lianas iv - - - -ffets of a Soother. reUUvo. At the time oi w. ""V.""" i" Mi itv wore bmsr for Sany boor, making bag. to Mo4 irS seed and aaed la the ; Boarding mewmn mv - V IT EJVlEt oeoorated them with aaoV as ta sua or . The ri. "L? baas oemi e i m :a-a mm tho aanoaav Martaa tuiaa. aim TV V. TVtc boa's Anti- f iw t:j'. rta arnrth tVt TOO UtOTO than $100 if too hsv a child who toils beddiDg froai incontinence of water during Bleep. Cure, old and Toang alike. Itaowlsthe trouble st once. . i. Dow " viu " - & Ox , - ' - HOLLAND HOUSE. One of England's Picturesque and His toric Mansions. Few mansions lu or near London are more picturesque In their sur roundings or more Interesting from their associations with the past than Holland House. The domain in which it stands Is a perfect rusjo urlie a green onsls In a wilderness of bricks and mortar. When you pass from the noisy truffle of Kensington rond nud enter the great Kates there Is a trans formation scene. In a few paces Lon don has disappeared, and you find yourself all at once In the heart of the country. You might be In the forest of Ardeu, a hundred miles from Pic cadilly lawns shaded by noble cedar trees, woodland glades, a green Inue with over arching boughs, and farther on terraced walks, the stone balus trades and the formal parterre of the Dutch garden. The bouse Itself has a long, Irregular frontage, a fantastic medley of turrets, gables, arcades and oriel windows. The series of Rlttlng rooms on the first floor nrc warm, comfortable and homelike nud BHcd with a priceless collection of family portraits and heirlooms. No wonder that Charles Fox was deroled to the place where be had passed a careles and. happy boyhood and In his lust Ill ness drove over from Chlswlck to view once more the familiar scenes, which he regarded with a special ten derness and affection. Naturally his memory Is cherished here, and he in still to some extent the tutelary genius of the place. There Is a statue of blm at the end of the avenue in the park; there is a bust of hltn by Nollclcens in the entrance bull; there is n charac teristic note In tils handwriting on the bock of a miniature of Robespierre an scelerat. un lache, ot un fou (a rascal, a coward and a fool and there Is a picture of blm by Sir Joshua as a youth with two charming damsels, one of whom made a romantic mar riage with an actor, while the other refused the hand of a king and lived to become the mother of the beroic Na piers. Almost every room has Its tradition. In fact, wherever yon tread "a history Is beneath yonr feet" Blackwood's. DUELING IN ITALY. How the Count of Turin Cams to Fight Prince Henry of Orleans. The greatest duel of modern days In Italy was that between the Count of Turin and -Prince Henry of Orleans. It came about In a curious man ner. Prince Henry bad insulted the Italian army after the battle of Adowa and one day received a telegraphic challenge to a duel signed "Victor Em manuel." The challenge was accept ed, and thus Crispl, who wns prime minister, came to know of the crown prince's Impulsive action and Inter fered. "But" said King Humbert, his father, "how can it be stopped? Our honor is now involved." Crispl thought a moment and then exclaimed: "I bare ltl The Count of Turin is Victor Em manuel also!" And tbns be was the one who fought This was followed by one of those genial practical Jokes which convulsed Europe. France at that time bated Italy and never lost an opportunity to sneer at ber. It must be explained that In Rome there was always st car nival time a characteristic figure of a little old man with an immense sword riding a donkey, who was a caricature of the age of chivalry and was called "General Mannaggla la Hocca." One day In the French papers ap peared an Imposing announcement that General Mannaggla la Rocca threw bis glove st the feet of the entire French nation and -ast their base Insinuations In their teuh. inviting any or all to mortal tight Replies were not long In coming, one of wblcb was from s Dot ed fencer and duelist of bis day, M. Tomegoeox, appointing bis seconds sod announcing their arrival In Rome. Franco was on tbe qulvlve. from gov ernment personages to the bumble bargee, and when 'tbe trick played upon them was discovered all Europe shrieked with laughter, and France tbe loudest of alL-Pall Mall Gasette. England's Natlenal Anthem. There Is a fourth verse of tbe na tional anthem with wblcb very few Englishmen Indeed are familiar. But It was given; apparently Id sll good faith. In sn old Hanoverian musical work, and tbe daring of tbe last rhyme almost reconciles one to tbe shocking character of tbe eentlment: Ood save (real Oeorto. oar fclnal Lone live ear noble kln.l Ood save ti e klnnl Bend ae roast beef a atora. U It's tone, aend us mora, And the key of the cellar door, That we mar Brink. -London Cbronlrle. Brlght Pupils. "Ton have two very bright ptrpila, Mis. Winsome," remarked Mr. tweet 1 to tho school ma'am. "Which one. do yow mesa, Mr. Bweetlyr ' -Why, those la yonr eyes, to be are."-Pathflodae. A Riahteeoe Judge. One Bonday morning a aalnhrtefa wife mw bar so. chasing too beos with a stick. She went to tbe door to tovostlgate aad beard blm say. TB teach yoo to lay egg. ta a minister, family est stands morntagr Deiue-ator- The OiwWro. gUga Maaager-I wlaa w rooJd wart to a few moro real let le teaches to fUls woodland sreoo. Kow. kowwo-Jd It bo to bare some one greorl Hko a bear? Aslhor-Tne very tbragt WeTl taB to tho erttk-K.aeaa CUT lado pewdrvt Hirrr-aad Uver TreaMe Cared. Orino Laxative Fmlt Bvmp care stomach and liver trouble aa Haidadijpsetion, and stimulates tbe liver aad boweU without irri tating these organ like pill and ordinary eaihartica. It cures) in digestion and aick headache and chronic eonirtipation. Orino Lax ative Fruit Fjmp dor K uau aeate or gripe and ia mild and pleasant to Uke. Refnoe aubaii um. GraJuui Drug Co. BLINDERS ON BRIDLES. What a Nebraska Horse Trainer Hae to Say About Them. Most any of us would as soon be burled as to lose our eyesight, and yet men by the uso of blinders on bridles unhesitatingly deprive tho horse of all tbe means he has of satis fying himself that nothing will hurt him, writes a Nebraska horse trainer In the Breeder's Gazette, Chicago. When permitted tho use of his eyes he uses them with great Judgment, lie sees better than we do, can meas ure distances better and if allowed the use of bis eyes would save himself from collisions on tbe street washouts and bad ruts in the road. Should you be thrown suddenly out of tbe buggy or the buggy break be could see tbe trouble and stop. Break a horse In a blind bridle and never let him see the buggy; a month later you are driving along the road,' the blinds get adjusted wrong, the colt looks back over tbe top of one, see. the buggy and kicks It all to piece., endangering the life of yourself and family. But he Is not to blame. Self protection is bis first thought. A man once paid me $20 to break a team that would get scared and ran away. I took his money, gave blm a. pair of open bridles, and the team la perfectly safe, but it bad cost blm a broken leg and bad torn up two sets of harness, smashed a buggy and bro ken a wagon tongue. And yet they say a blind bridle is the best. I was talking to a man one day on this sub ject, and he said be knew blind bridles were the best" because nearly every one used them. -What an argument! There was a time when nearly every body thought the earth was fiat, but they were wrong. He said, too, that a horso looked better In blind bridles. What an idea! A little piece of black leather look better than tbe eye, the life and beauty of this noble creature! Yet few men have a better reason for using them. Hone training Is my business. I work at It ten hours a day, six days In the week. I handle every class of horse, from tbe little wild mustang from tho Crow Indian reservation to tho high class speed horse, from tho raited saddler to the circus home. I have spent my life at this work, and there is nothing causes me more trou ble than this subject I can break a team $3 cheaper In open bridles, and where people want them broken to blinds I always use open bridles first My experience runs into the thousands that I have had a chance to test this on, and I cannot see where any one can get 00 per cent In favor of blind bridles. Tbe only place I ever found for them was on a wornout, poorly fed horse that could scarcely go and a blind horse. Woman and Her Back. In Henry Baerlein's novel "Yrivand" there la a discovery about tbe expres sion of tbe emotions which even Dar win forgot to record. It Is to tbe effect that woman chiefly uses ber back to convey ber sentiments. And, Indeed, any close observer of tbe human com edy can hard y fall to notice that doe. a woman wish to annihilate a rival and cast despair Into tho soul of a lover she simply turn, an expressive back upon tbem. No tears, no wrath, no In dignation, can vie with tbls maneuver, which bos, too, tbe advantage of being noncommittal, for no one, In tbe cur rent Jargon, can "give herself .way" with ber back. Tbe expression of the emotions by this part of tbe anatomy la dignified, if a trifle limited. When a woman cries .ho Is too apt to make a deplorable grimace. Does she get angry, ber face will assume an unbe coming red. Very few understand tho uso of tbe gesture of tbe -bands and arms. That Is why woman, with ber primordial Instinctive wisdom, use. ber beck, especially when it is beauti ful, a. one of too chief weapon. In the eternally diverting war of tbe sexeo. Toward tho Pale. Ice eight feet thick on tbe ocean and now falling oven in summer ouch Is the weather experienced In the polar regions. When tho air Is dry and Mill It is remarkable bow low a tempera ture can bo borne with ease. One ex plorer tells us that with the thermome ter at 9 degrees it was too warm for skating. The summer weather In this mrlmi u moreover. In some respect. pleasant and healthful Within the arctic aone thece are wonaerruiiy col ored annruea and sunsets to bo seen. They are both brilliant and Impressive, soy. a writer in tno fenny ricumai. But tho nigbts-tho nigbu are monot onous and repelling, a rigid world buried In everlasting enow, silent aave for tho cracking of tho Ice or tbe wail of the wind. Travelers la tbeoo re gions experience many discomforts. Tho keen air ranees their ski. to burn ami hi later, while their lino swell and crack. Thirst, again, has bees much eomoUlaoA of, arising from tbe act loo of tho low tenspcTBtore oa the warm body. . - Tho eleW ood tho Ply. Io the Iom warfare berweea tho spider and tho Ey tho letter has bad tho iwoeewtf. for Its aasiuary sna friend. Tho Bko have koo solera ted, ore fed and swtxied. while tho apt oars aad their webo have boon ruth lessly destroyed, . Tbi. aafomlttlng and nr testing war. s gainst It keeps tho solder pofmUtJoo doers, while tho Bias la raoes and atolflpty bar the sbU nooo and too. of BBiUkaoa. s bo not wa ebeeked. The stridor le agty. and bis orot) la b-Ija-"t la the eeSJaaUoa of oat people, bat spaders bert no be ajeav cioafa, .They .feed on ftloa, arklrh ore tho foes of saankmd. aad do oa okked a Totasate swriee -rbJUde. t. too Bar, X. IT. Brown, aa attorney, of nttafield, Vtv, write-: "W We oard Dr. Kinjr's New Life nil for yera and tad Uen suds food family asedirise we wruklnl be without them." ' For Chill, Con stipation, BiUouweu or Sick Ileev lache they work wonders, 15c at Graham Drug Co. , - OevVltt a Utile tuny Risers, rao tasaeao !. aatSa - I Absolutely J&r Grapes give fe)p&8 I' ' I fiJp5- A1' ! Pure the chief ingredient, Igffi&A j I feggjfc? if the active principle, t!SM3k IfW TsTCtfik fX V 1 p&mm Igpf! ibtoluUty Turt fit Insures wholesome and deli- ff cious food for every day jffl in every home J7 XSiw No Phosphate. Jfor lVmi,UVnnwf&K NoAlum fSlup set, i i..ma..a,q H poem for Coday I a irk THE T H R. EE TROOPERS By George Walter Thornbury GEORGE WALTER THORNBURY was born In Ixndon In 18. At the age of seventeen ho became a contributor to periodicals. Ho ntudtad art and occasionally practiced palming, but devoted himself to literature and produced some twenty-five volumes. lie d ed In London June 11. 1(78. "Crum-well" is a pun on the niimo of Cromwell, the celebrated lord protector, who ruled England for several years after the death of Charles I. NTO tbe Devil Three booted troopers strode, From spur to feather spotted snd splashed With tho mud of a winter road. In each of their cups they dropped a crust And stared at the guests with a frown, Then drew their swords and roared for a toast, "God send this Crum-well down!" A blue smoke rose from their pistol locks; Their sword blades were still wet; There were long red smears on their Jerkins of buff As the table they overset Then Into tbeir enpe they stirred tbe cruets And cursed old London town,. Then waved their sword, and drank with a stamp, "God send this Crum-well down!" The prentice dropped bis can of beer; The host turned pale as a clout: The ruby nose of the toping squires Grew white at the wild men's shout Then Into their cops they flung tbe crusts And showed their tectb with s frowa; They flashed tbclr swords as they gave tbe toast, "God send tbls Crum-well down l" Tbe gambler dropped bis dog's eared cards, Tbe waiting women scresmed, As tbe light of the Are like stains of blood On the wild men's sabers gleamed. Then into their cups they splashed the crusts And cursed the fool of a town And leaped on the tablo and roared a toast, "God send this Crum-well downl" Till on a sudden fire belts rang, And the troopers sprang to horse; Tbe eldest muttered between bis teeth Hot curses deep and coarse. In their stirrup cups tbey flung the crust. And cried as they spurred through town. With their keen swords drawn and tbeir pistols cocked, "God send this Crum-well down!" Away they dashed through Temple Bar, Tbeir red cloaks flowing free; Tbeir scabbards clssbed; each backpleco shone- Mono liked to touch tbe three. The sliver rape that held the crusts They flung to tbe startled town. Shouting again, with a blase of swords, "Ood send this Crum-well down!" ?ieiaaaas ODD CASE OF COMBUSTION. Rosebushee Shipped In Wet Mess Al most Burned Up. A peculiar case of spontaneous combustion or something like it is described by a writer in CnasicrV Magazine. On Feb. 17, 190C, two large re frigerator cars of young roaebushc were received at Hannibal, Mo., from a nursery in California. They were hipped in wooden cases containing numerous anger holes for ventila tion and were carefully packed with wet sphaguum, or California swamp mots, to prevent chafing a :d to suj sort their vitality. No ice was put in tbe cooling tanks, and tbe covers of t!iee as well as all other openings in the can were closed as tightly tr possi ble. Tbe ran were ten days in transit The outside temperature was 0 degrees F. st the start snd IS degree, at the end ol the trip. Upon arrival steam was issuing from every crevice of the cars. Upon removing the tank covers it rushed out la urge volume, ine doors were opened, snd ice was pot in the tanks. The free circulation of cold sir soon cooled tbe contents of the ears. la smlosding It, was discovered that some of the upper layers of boxes were badly dainaged by beat, which naturally wss most intense near the top of the cars. Xe signs est actual combustion, were found, bat this would probably bare oc curred la a short time bad not the ears been quickly cooled. 1 The' tempera tare matt hare been early up to tbe burning point, as many of tbe green stems of these plants were black sad brittle. Wet sawdust ia Largs Quantities frequently becomes very warm in the interior even when erpooed to winter weather in fret, the lower tetr peri tore of the atmosphere the hotter weuaHy the sawdust. I tavern Pluas of Tea. "Plug of tea, not unlike pings of tobacco, aro used by the Iluasian poor," says a globe irottor. "This is s low grado of tea, the stems sre mixed with the leaves, and sll sre pressed together by means of an sd nive gum into s hard cake, or plug. A. very strong and bitter cup of tea Is made ont of those tea pings, a cup that would give you or me a nervous headache. But the moujik is used to it, and be will down twenty or thirty cups of plug tea along with black bread, raw on ions and salt fish and afterward light his cigarette with as contented a sigh ss you or I will heave on Thanksgiving day at the end of a nine course tnrkey dinner."---New Orleans Times-Democrat. Pottl ood the Emperor. A pretty story is told of Tatti's friendship fry the old Emperor Wil liam L of Germany. Once when she was singing st Hamburg the king sent her s message asking her to walk with him in the morning when be took the waters. "Certainly not," replied tbe prima donna to the bearer of the message. "I get up early for no king in Europe.'' In later years when the emperor, then an infirm old man, sent to ask ber to visit him in bis box, spologizing for being unable to go to her be hind the scenes, she replied, with tears in her eyes, "Oh, now, sire, I would run anywhere to see you." Tko Teoat of on Irishman. Michael Mcrrrs Shoemaker wrott "Waadertnca la Irrlaad. Aa old Iriahaaaa read a fragment of K thai related to tho reader's neighborhood. Ho asked too nam of tho author. "Mr. Shoemaker, ta It?" bo comment, ed. "A Bko gootiemaa. 1U go hoB. Tt. a Sao eoootry ho chose to trave' la too. alay tho heavens bo bis bed for c homing It, scd amy every hair la hi. hooors bead bo . saokl canUat to agM bis oool to gloryr THOMPSON DRUG CO., Graham, N. C. NORTH CAROLINA FARMERS ; Need a North Carolina Farm Paper. One adapted to North Carolina climate, soils and conditions, made by Tar Heels and for Tai Heels and at the same time at wide awake as any in Kentucky or Kamchatka. Such a paper ie The Progressive Farmer RALEIGH. N. C. 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