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. ,- . ' ' j - 4- - , - ' " -, .. . . . ' ,y.-. ;.v:, . ; -v. v VOL. XXIII. TO PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS. Th Superintendent , of .Public S -bools of Franklin county, will ia houiaburg on th9 second TThura (iov of February, April,, Julyf "Sep tv:n bor , October and December, and rniain for three "days, if necessary, ior t he purpose of examining appii r;:nts to teach in the PablieSebpols ' t his county. I will "also, be in Louidbiirg on Saturday of eacfi e.'k. and all public days, to attend. to nny business connected with my 3. N. Harris, Supt. Protewsioual ca ii. c. M. COOUE & SUN,1 ATTORNEYS- A.T-LW,r LOUIGBL'KG, JT. C. Will r.tten.'i the courts of Naab, Franklin, Gr-mvtilt!, Warren and VVakecoonties, also t be ;,.- -;ac 0 )rtrt of North Cdroliup, awl the ,i circuit an i District Courts. U. J. B. MA LONE. 1) iitlce two doors elow Thomas & Aycocke'a rujf utore, adjoining lr. O. L.. iiilis. V. H. NICHOLSON, PRACTICING PHYSICIAN, " LOUISBUEG, N. a W. TiMBERLAKB, E. ATTORN EY-AT-L AW, LOUISB'JRG, H. a Oiue on Nash street. 1'. S. 8PRUILL, ATTORNEY-AT-L AW, L0C1SBURG, N. C. . . Will attend the courts of Franklin, Vance, Oranvlll, Warren and Wake counties, also the Saprsme Coart of North Carolina. Prompt attenti jn given to collections, sc. N Y. QULLEY. ATTOR NEY-AT-L AW, FRANKLINTOX, X. C. All legal business promptly attended to. rjHOS. B. WILDER, ATTORNEY-AT-L AW, lOUISBURS, N. C. Office on Main street, one door below Eagle not-1. 7 M. PERSON, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, LOUISB'JRG, IT. C. Practices In ail courts. Office in the Court House. NOTICE. Having qualified as Executor of Wil- s-m Oa.v, all persons indebted to liis e; tare are requested to pay the same at once, and all persons holding claims a r'linst the said estate will present them o:i r Ivf'ire December 8. 1894, or this n ties. will be pleaded in b;ir of their re covery. This December 8, 18&3. Thos. Gat, Es'r. OTICB. I'.y i n .1 ( v of r!v !! inortj rorer of Bale eontai&fid ;a.a;e mode by C. R. Jak o. registered in Franklin rt. ' ut v i ii In i I- i;v F'!- k 87 at 210, I riJl on rit'.i 1804 offrr for sale to the ,;':" "hi-Mer . th Conrt House door in Li';:! l.r. i rue plr-ce whereon paid Jackson I .! l:it yi'.ir lying on Locisburgand War r n'cMi ro."! near J. K. Snencnr's and con- t ,'inii.: 40 acrs. Terms, one full rtL cash. l.h.!;iiice uiiii interest at 8 pr cent, in t'.vi-ivi- nioiiths. januarv of.lf, 1894. l G. TnaaELL, mortgagee, Thor,. B. Wilder, Attorney. LAND FOR SALE. Bv-virtue of authority given by rrort- g 'Ke lieed executed by Wra. V. Womoti. ;iiui recorded in book b-5. page H)!i, in tl e r.fTIi e of Resriwter of Deedsfor Franklin conn- t I will sell at public auction at the Court ii n!Sf door in Louisburgon Mouday Feb;, r.t!i, IS 94, at 12 o'clock, m. for cash, the 1 r i.-t i if land described in said mortgage. c mt.iiniiiir one hundred and one &crs, sit- in Freeman's township in Franklin rrmntv cn Davis creek adjoining the lands ii Mrs, Marv H King, J. P. Tim'oerlake, Jaraa Jones and others This January 5 th, 1894. J. P. Tim bkrlake, mortgagee. NOTICE, In accordance with a decree of the Supe rior court of Franklin county made in the case of P. j. Diment. exr..-vn Mrs. E. B. Di raent e't als, to make real estate assets, the undersigned Commissioner will on Tuesday Jauuary 23, 1894 (court week) offer for sale at the Court House-door in Louisburg, two tracts of land formerly belonging to j. Diment, deceased, viz. one tract known as the Parrish tract containing 111 acres ad joining the lands of A. A. Diment, James Bledsoe and others and the other known' as the low ground tract containing about 83 acres adjoining the lands of James Bledsoe, L. E Lancaster and others. Terms of sale, orjp fourth cash, balance with 8 percent in terest payable December 1st, 1894. Tnos. b. Wilder, Dec. 29th, 1893. Commissioner.' The above sale was postponed until Mon day, KeBruary 5th, 18'J4. NOTICE. Having qualified as administrator ol- N. 11. Murphy, dec d., all persona owihir his es tate are notified to pay thJ same- at once and all persons holding claims against, said estate must present them on or before Jio vera her 10, 1894, or this notice will bt plead'in bar of their recovery, This No vember 10, 1893. A. S. Tuckeb, Adrn'r. NOTICE. ' ... Having this day qualified as admihis: trator on the estate of John' W. Ham, n ; o-u jcrsuus owiug. saiu estate are , xer quested to settle,' and all who have claims against said estate to Present them on or before the 1st day of Dewm- ner iaa4, or this notice will Jje - pleaded in oar ot tneir recovery. , . : J IV IIam, Ad mr. W. M. Person Attorney., Dec. 1st, 1893, - , .- . . .M ' COPYRIGHTS. .CAN I OBTAIN A PATENT ft For a" 7 r v. apswsr and an honest opinion, write to t N. N Jk CO., who have had nearly fifty yccnrV. e . i-enence In the patent business, omjatavlca-i tn-? VP011 y confidential. A Handbook ot In tii?lcn eoncaming Patents ani bo- to ob in? lra ?ent free- Also a catalogv ot xaocha.V; leal und scientlflo books sent free. - -: .t . -Patents taken through Munn k Cov reeeival out rr L? rogJl widely before the public wtih-i iua,. . ; . "uo. ""raw, . ''raiB spieDcua paper, i-r!:2iweM??.!yillnstrated,hasyfia-tb i i i,,:""''uu ot but Miennae vori m we ; 8 year copies. i5 nm. ho in? '? lo, and photogrrapha of new law h w th p,8na enabling builders !o show the in-8,rnAd.B0Our1t- Address ? i i -vw . T cj y iiuiuurF GUULB11J A XT IN SCAR By A. COHAU BOYLE. PAST I. Being a repAni from the rtminiteenee of ,Tobh tL WATSON, 1L D-, laU of tM Army jftdical Department. - CUPTER L SEEIU.OCK ROLlTCa. Ma 4 SN the year 1S78 I took my degree of doctor of medicine of the university of London,' and proceeded to Netley to o throufrh the efloree pre scribed, for stir geon s i n -the army . 'Having completed m y studies there I v -J TL V ."i was duly attached to the Fifth North umberland Jfusiliera as assistant sur geon. The regiment ware stationed in India at the time, and-before I could join it tne second Aignan war nad broken out. On landing at Bombay I learned that my corps had advanced through the passes and was already deep in the enemy's country. I fol lowed, however, with many- other offi cers who were in the same situation as myself, and succeeded in reaching Candahar in safety, where I found my regiment, and at once entered upon my new duties. The campaign brought' honors and promotion to many, but for me it had nothing but misfortune and disaster. I was removed from my brigade and attached to the Berkshires, with whom I served at the fatal battle of Mai wand. There I was struck on the shoulder by a Jezail bullet, which shattered the bone and grazed the subclavian artery. I should have fallen into the hands of ' the murderous Ghazis had it not been for the devotion and courage shown by Murray, my orderly, who threwv'me across a pack-horse and succeeded in bringing me safely to the British lines. Worn with pain, and weak from the prolonged hardships which I had un dergone, I was removed, with a great train of wounded sufferers, to the base hospital atiPeshawur. Here I rallied, and had already improved so far as to be able to walk about the wards, and even to bask a little npon the veranda, when I was struck down by enteric feve-, that curse of our Indian posses sions, tor months my life was de F9I'. XOXTITS MT LIFS SPAERED OF. scaired of, and when at last I came to mysulf and became convalescent I vas so weak and emaciated that a medical board determined that not a day should be lost in sending me back to England. I was dispatched, acooru dingly, in, the troop-ship Orontes, and landed a month later on Portsinotith jetty , with my health irretrievably ruined, but with permission from a pa ternal government to spend the nest nine months in attempting to im prove it. I had neither kith nor kin in Eng land, and was therefore as free as air :or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will per mit a man to be. Under such circum stances 1 naturally gravitated to Lon don, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the em pire are irresistibly drained. There 1 stayed for some time at a private hotel in the Strand, leading a com fortless,' meaningless existence, and spending such money as I had eon siderably more freely than I ought. SO alarming did the state of my finances become that I soon realized that 1 must either leave the metropolis and rusti cate somewhere in the country , or that I must make a complete alteration in my style of living. Choosing the lat ter alternative, I began by making up mv mind to leave the" hojbeL and to take up niy .-quarters -in some less pre tentious and.Iess expeusm; domicile.-, - . On the very day that I had-come to th& conclusion, I was standing at the Criterion bar, when some one tapped me. on -the shoulder,1 and , turning round 1 rccogn izedyounjr Sta m ford. who had oeen a dresser; under me at Eart's.'-;Thei; sighi ''hi a friendly face ' in the great wildersesB of London is a pleasant thing indeed to a lonely man. In old days - Stamford had never been ; a particular -crony Ot- mine, out now bailed mmwith enthnsiasm, and oe indium, appearea to pe ueuiiicu wj see tne." In- the exuberance of my joy ' asked him ;: to - lunch- with; me --at the -Holborn', and wo started off together in a hansom.. ::. : ". ' f-.r 'Whatever have ; you been doing with yourself .- Vfatson?' he"; asked, in undiscrmsed wonder, as we1- rat tied throujrh the crowded i. London streats. 'You are as thin as a lath and as browa- Vas a: nntf!: " I c-ave' him a short ketch of "mv ad enturesi ndiihd hardly concluded it by the - time that we . reached our des- : - "Poor devil!" he said commiserating "'.ly, after he had listened tp. myjnisfor- - tunes. T's " nat are you up ro bqw r s 'Looking for lodgings," I answered. Trying to solve the ' problem - as to whether it is possible to get cpmforta- bla rooms at a. reasonable; Drice. . - ; r 'F- H v;P iMf WAS DH- . That's a strange thing," remarked my companion; iyou are the second man to-day that has used that expres sion to me.V ; . "And who was the first?" I asked. "A fellow who is workinsr at the chemical laboratory up at the bospitaL .He was bemoanihg himself this morn ing because he could not get some one to go halves wih him in some nice rooms which he had found,-and which were too much for his purse." "By Jove!" I cried; "if he really wants some one to share' the rooms and the expense, I am the very man for him. I should prefer having a partner to be ing alone." - . Young Stanford looked rather strangely a t'mo o ver h is winegl ass. "You don't know Sherlock Iloimes yet," he said; "perhaps you would not care for him as a constant companion." "Why, what is there against .him?? "Oh, 1 didtft jsay there was any thing against him. He is a little queer in. his ideas an enthusiast, in some branches of science. As far as I know, he is a decent fellow enough." "A medical student, I suppose?" said I. "No I have no idea what he intends to go in for- I believe he is well up in anatomy, and he Is a first-class chemist; but, as far as I know, he has never taken out any systematic medi cal classes. His studies are very desultory and eccentric, but he has amassed a lot of out-of-the-way knowledge which would astonish 'his professors" "Did you never ask him what he was going in for?" I asked. "No; he is'cot a man that it is easy to draw out, though he can be com municative enough when the fancy v seizes him." - "1 should like to meet him," I said. "If I am to lodge with anyone, I should prefer a man with studious and quiet habits. I am not strong enough yet to stand much noise or excitement. I had enough of boh In Afghanistan to last me for the remainder of my natural existence. How could I meet this friend of yours?" "He is sure to be at the laboratory. He either avoids the place for weeks, or else he works there from morning to night. If you like, we shall drive round together after luncheon." "Certainly," I answered, and the conversation drifted away into other channels. As we made our way to the hospital after leaving the Holborn, Stamford gave m a few more particulars about the gentleman whom I proposed to take as a fellow lodger. "You mustn't blame me if you don't get cn with him," he said; "I know nothing more of him than 1 have learned from meeting him occasional ly in the rabcratcry. You proposed this armrsgcraent, so you must not hold me responsible." "If we don't get on it will be easy to part company." I answered. "It seems to me, Stamford," I edded. looking hard at my ccnianior., "that you have some reason for washing your hands of tha matter. Is this fallow's temper so formidable, or what is it? Don't be mealy-mouthed about it." "It is not easy to e.rpress the inex pressible," he answered, with a laugh. "Holmes is a little too scientific for my tastes it approaches to colJ-b!ooded-ness. I could imagine his giving a friend a little pinch of the latest vege table alkaloid not out of malevolence, you understand, but dimply cut of a spirit of inquiry in order to have an accurate idea of the effects. To do him justice, I think that he would take it himself with the same readiness, lie appears to have a passion for definite and exact knowledge." "Very right, too." "Yes; but it may be pushed to ex cess. v nen it comes -to oeating tne subjects in the dissecting-rooms with a stick it is certainly taking rather a bizarre shape." "Beating the subjectsl "Yes, to verify how far bruises may be produced after death. I saw him at it with my own eyes." "And yet you say he is not a medical student?" 'No. Heaven knows what the ob jects of his studies are! But here we are, and you must form your own im pressions about him." As he spoke we turned down a narrow lane and passed through a small side door whieh opened into a wing -of the great hos pital. It was familiar ground to me and I needed no guiding as we as- cended the bleak stone staircase and made our way down the long corridor with its vista of whitewashed wall and dun-colored doors. Near the farther end a low, arched passage branched away from it and led to the chemical laboratory This was a lofty chamber, lined and littered with countless bottles. Broad, low tables were,scattered about, which bristled with retorts, test-tubes and little BunseU- lamps, with their blue flickering flames. . There was only one student in the room, who was bending over a distant : table absorbed in bis work. At the sound of our steps he glanced round and sprang to his feet with" a cry of pleasure. . "I've found it! I've found it!" he shouted to my com panion, running toward us with a test- tube -in." his ' hand. "I have found reagent which . is precipitated by haemoglobin, - and by--nothing -else Had he discovered a gold mine, great er delight Could not , have shone upon his features.. , ..ir . . . i " "Dr.: Watson Mr. Sherlock Holmes, said Stamford, introdacing us. ."How . are you7" he said, cordially, gTipinff my hand, with a strength ' for which I should hardly have given ; him .credit. VYou "haye been in Afghanis ;tanVl perceiye.?;;--'; : ?"IIow on earth did you know that?" 1 asked, in astonishments ' "Never mind," said he, chuckling to himself. rhe'cinestlon now is about haemoglobin.' 'No doubt you see the Bignificance of' this '-discovery o mine?" - 'K ' ; - . : -ut is . Jnterestini?, cbemtoury, no doabt, I answered; -. !but practically ' "Why, man, it is the most ' practical medico-legal discovery ipr ,; years. IQUISBURMFIIIMPRP udnxyoti see tnat It glvea'ua anr in fallible test for blood -stains? : Come TBKR3 WAS 05LT ONE STtTDEXT over b.ere, viow! He celzed cae hj the' coat-sleeve in his eagerness, and drew jne over .to the table at which ' he had been working. "Let . ua have some fresh blood," he said," digging a long bodkin into his finger, and drawing off the resulting drop of blood in a chem ical pipctto. "Now, I add .this - small quantity of blood to a litre of water. You perceive that the resulting mix ture has the appearance of true water. The proportion of blood, cannot be more than one in a million. I have no doubt, however, that we shall be able to obtain the characteristic reaction." As he spoke, he threw into the vessel a few white crystals, and then added some drops of a transparent fluid. In an instant the contents assumed a dull mahogany color, and a brownish dust was precipitated to the bottom of the glass jar. k "Ua! ha!" he cried, clapping his hands, and looking as delighted as a child with a new toy. "What do you think of that?" "It seems to be a very delicate test," I remarked. "Beautiful! beautiful! The old guaiacum test was very clumsy and un certain. So is the microscopic exami nation for blood-corpuscles. The lat ter is valueless if the stains are a few hours old. Now, this appears to act as well whether the blood is old or new. Had this test been invented, there are hundreds of men now walk ing the earth who would long ago have paid the penalty of their crimes." "Indeed!" I murmured. "Criminal cases are continually hinging upon that one point. A man is suspected ol a crime months per haps after it ha3 been committed. His linen or clothes are examined, and brownish stains discovered upon them. Are they blood-stains, or mud-stains. or rust stains, or fruit-stain or what are they? That i3 a question which has puzzled many an export, an I why? liecau! there was no reliable test. Now we have tho Sherlock Holmes test, and there will no longer be any diiuculty." His eyes fairly glittered as he spoke, and he put his hand over his heart and bowed as if to some applauding crowd conjured up by his i&jaginatioa. lou are to be congratulated." I re marked, considerably surprised at his enthusiasm. 'There was the case of Von Bisehoif at Frankfort last year. He would cer tainly have been hang had this teft been in existence. Then there was Maton, of Bradford, and the notorious Muller and Lefevre, of Montpelier, and Samson, of New Orleans. I could name a score of cases in which it would have been decisive," "You seem to be a walking calendar of crime," said Stamford, with a laugh. 'You might start a paper on those lines. Call it the Police News of the Past." "Very interesting- reading It might be made, too," remarked Sherlock Holmes, sticking a small pleec of plas ter over the prick on his finger. "I have to be careful," he continued, turn ing to me with a smile, "for J dabble with poisons a good deal." neheld out his hand as he spoke, and 1 noticed that it was aU mottled over with simi lar pieces of plaster and discolored with strong acids. "We came here on business," said Stamford, sitting down on a three legged stool and pushing another one in my 'direction with his foot. "My friend here wants to take diggings, and as you were complaining that you could get no one to go halves with you, I thought that I had better bring you together." Sherlock Holmes seemed delighted at the idea of sharing his rooms with me. "1 have my eye on a suite in Baker street," he taid, "which would suit U9 down to the ground. You don't mind the smell of strong tobacco, I hope?" . 'I always smoke "ship's myself," I answered. '" "That's good enough. I generally have chemicals about, and occasional ly do experiments. Would that annoy you 'By no means." Il me see what are my other shortcomings? I get in the dumps at times and don't open my mouth , for days on end. Yon must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let m9 alone and I'll soon be all right. What have you to confess, now? It's just aa well for two fellows to know the worst of one another before they be gin to live together." I laughed at this cross-examination T keep a bull-pup." I said, "and -object to rows, because my nerrcs "are shaken, and I get up at all sorts of un godly hours, and I am extremely lazy. I have another set of. vices when I'm well.' but those are the . principal ones at present.T? ' - - ; - v "Do yorv Include '.violin-playing la your category 4. of " rows?"' he . asked. anxiously, y -r .v'ri.'. '.-V, :" "It depends 'on . the player,", I. an- swereLT"A. well,-played violin is a treat for the gods; a badly played one . "Oh, that'a all right" he cried, with a merry laagh. I think we may con eider- the thing as 'settled that is. ii the rooms are agreeable to you." - - - "When shall .we sec them?" -', ' ; "Call lor xne here at coca to morrow. a no well go togetoer ana settle every thing. he answered. , ' - '""All right noon exactly." said I. shaking his hand. : We - lefc him working among, hit chemicals, and we walked together to-' ward my hotcL -"By the way - I asked suddenly, stopping and turning npon Stamford. ;fhow the deuce did he know that I had eome from Afghanistan?" My companion smiled an enigmatical -smile. That' just hU little pecul iarity." he said. "A good many peo- pie htve wanted to know how he finds things out." I VOhl a mystery. Is it?" I cried, rub - blng my bands. "This is very piquant. I am much obliged to" you for bringing .us together. 'The proper stadj of mankind is man you know." IS "You must study him, then," Stam ;ford said,' as be bade me good-by aTouTl find him a knotty prob'em. though. Ill wager he learns more about you than you about him. Good- by." " ' "Good-by,"' I answered, and strolled on to my hotel, considerably inter ested in" my new acquaintance. CHAPTER II TBS SClEt-'CB or DEDrCTIOW. ve met next uay as tie bad ar ranged, end inspected the rooms at No. 221b Baker 6trvet, of which he had spoken at our meeting. They con sisted of a couple of comfortable bed rooms and a single large, airy sitting room, cheerfully furnished, and Il luminated by two broad windows. So desirable in every way were the apart ments, and so moderate did tho terms seem when divided between us, that tiro bargain was concluded upon the spot, and we at once entered into pos session. That very evening I moved my things round from the hotel, and on the following morning Sherlock Holmes followed mo with several boxes and portmanteaus. For a day or two we were busily employed In un packing and laying oat our property to the best advantage. That done, we gradually began to settle down and to accommodate ourselves to our new sur roundings. Holmes wan certainly not a difficult man to live with. He was quiet in his ways and his habits were regular. It was rare for h!m to bo up after ton at night, and lie had invariably break fasted and gone out before 1 rose In the morning. Sometimes he bpent his day at the chemical laboratory, some times in the dissecting-rooms and oc casionally in long walks, which ap peared to take him into the lowest por tions of the ity. Nothing could ex ceed his energy when the working fit was upon him. but cow and again a re action would seize him and for days on end he would lie upon the 6ofa in the sitting-room, hardly uttering a word or moving a muscle from morn ing to night. On these occasions -I have noticed such a dreamy, vacant expression in his eyes that I might have suspected him of being a Idictcd to tho use of some narcotic had not the temperance and cleanliness of his whole life forbidden such a notion. As the weeks weut by, my interest m him and my curiosity as to hi& aims in life gradually deepened and In creased, nis very person and ap pearance were such a to strike the at tention of the most casual observer. In height he was rather over six feet, and so excessively lean that he seemed to be considerably taller. Ills eyes were sharp and piercing, save daring those Intervals of torpor to whieh 1 have alluded; and his thin, hawk-like nose gave his whole expression an air of alertness and decision. His chin, too, had the prominence and square ness which mark the man of determina tion. II is hands were invariably blotted with ink and stained with chemicals. yet he was possessed of extraordinary delicacy of touch, as I frequently hod occasion to observe when I watched him manipulating his fragile philo sophical instruments. The reader m i.y set me down as a hopeless busybody, when I confess bow much this man stimulated my curiosity and bow often I endeavored to break through the reticence which he showed on all that concerned him self. Before pronouncing judgment, however, be it remembered how object less was my life and how little thera was to engage my attention. My health forbade me from venturing out unless the weather was exceptionally genial, and I had no friends who wculd call upon me and break the monotony of my daily existence. Under these circumstances I eagerly hailed the lit tle mystery which hung around my companion, and spent much of my time in endeavoring to unravel it. e was not studying medicine. lie had himself, in reply to a question. confirmed Stamford's opinion upon that point. Neither did he appear to have pursred any course of reading which - mighty fit him for a degree In science or any other recognized portal which would give him an en trance into the learned world. Yet hi zeal for certain studies was re- markable, and within eccentric liiu.u his knowledge was so extraordinarily ample and minute that his observa tions have fairly astounded me. Sure ly no man would work so bard to at tain sueb precise information onle&i he had. some definite end In view. Desultory readers are seldom- remark able for the exactness of their learn ing. No man burdens bis mind with small matters unless he havsome very good reason for doing so. - His ignorance was as remarkable" a bis knowledge. Of contemporary lit erature, philosophy and politics he appeared , to know next to nothing Upon my quoting Thomas ' Carlyie, be inquired In the nai vest -way who be . might be and. what he had . done. My surprise' reached climax, however, when I found Incidentally that he was Ignorant of the Copernicaa theory and of tbe composition ' of she solar sya ,tem. ;Tbat any civilized homaa being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that -the earth ' traveled round the sun appeared to, be to me . such an extraordinary fact that I coald hardlr realise It."-. ' - " ,- - to us conuruxoj ', - '. ... i , - Highest of all ia Lcavcnicj Tower. 3 ABSQlJUiTE!? PURE THE F AMI EE IS 0T 15 IT. We are sorry tbe Virginia and North Carolina delegation! in Congress fell victims tb tbe wiles of t'je cigarette trusi and joined Ut in urging tbe v ays and means committee to put tbe cigarette lax at$l per 1,000 instead of fl-50, as it bad purrcsed doing. Tho argument which, of course, influ enced tbe Congressmen was that the larger tax would operate against tbe farmers. As a mat ter of act it wonld have corne-ofT tbe cormorants who constitute the : cigarette trust, or rather tbey would havesaddled it on tbe help-1 le3 victims of the cigarette habit, o far as tie farmer is concerned, there is absolutely no competition in the purchase of cutters, tb grade of tobacco from which cig arettes are made and has not been since tbe trust was organized. It bas already depressed tbe price of cutters until it bnys tbetn nw at the cost of production, and if it takes anytbiug off the pre?-ent price, tbe farmers will quit rais ing them, as they should have done long ngo. No. It is not tbe farmers who are to be hurt by an increase in tbij tax. The trust has already ground them under its heel, and any change whatever would 1-e a change for the better fc-r them. Charlotte Observer. To Build Up Yonr System and restore Your Strengtli Invigorate Your Liver und Purify Your Blood Strengthen Yonr Nerves and Give An Appetite Take that excellent Medicine P. PaP. Prickly Ash Poke Root and Po tassium. REMOVED. Jaeob Evan, t.ie celebraU-d Boot and Shoe Maker of IuilTurg, has moid his shop to the houM on Main atrwt, recently occopled by Ferril Parrih, and will be gai to bare his patron ud in any work driped in his lin. Look out for the sign of tbe Thb Bio Bonr. FllA X K LINTON HOTEL E. M. WARD, Prop'r. Good Accornroodaoot). jlit servants, and the best fxre the market afibrds. Gooi Livery in connection with hotel New Barter Shop. I have opened a barber . v 2. T 1. rber hr.p in Looi. d to serve the pnb- Naah street, one burg, and will be glad lie. My shop is on door beiow Jones & Cooper's newbniid ing. My razors are sharp, and I coar an tee satiafaetioo. Res pec tf oily. KDWAKD rTHCTIS. ' J i ev Bctav, . GOctav, aad ILOOper ' CureaCwa -. X hroji. Croo p proas pUys reHevrt Wbpl Cwwck and AatKBwA. -r Camptloa tt hosno rlvaJ; baa cured UomS ytci t U oUrB failed; wlUcvB TOU If taken 1 ta tune. jBo4 bv Drugrarta on a atwi r ntv. - roe l-a me itaca iiaS2juuivowH 1 lASTaai. acta. HILOH'S, CATARRH REMEDY. it woutLuaxTR t TiWi fevavy to rawnv teed to ours too. rrtooMcaa. lacioe (res- ma SALS OTLX ilMAHA&U BT Ajcockz Ek Co. "' nxrocisTS. - SaafJ X a 1ia o mm mmm C LOCI5BrEO. V. C Price 10 tents. a- -T m f fl I i mm. V fwaawa 1 Dottle."" ,j - - - NUMBER IS. . ... Latest U. S. gov't Report Mm. Pvdk Toq will miss it if yon under take to measure a nan's religiou by the length of his face Rita's Iloru. Ob. wut a ccbu Will you heed the waruiag. Tbe tV-' nal perhaps of lb sore approach of that mere terrible dis Coiuio caption. AsV Toer!e if yo ex a afford for tb sake of ravicg tQ eata.io jts tbe rfck aad do aothiag for It. We know free experience tLst ShUoh's Cure will rare your eon gb. It nvcr fail. Tbi ex plains why more than a t&iUVoa botilM wre sold tbe i3& rear. It reUf eroup and whooping coorh at oee. Mothers, do not be without it. 180-k UAItPE&'S WEEKLT. ILLrsTRATED. nrpr ws a'y u b. yo4 r Qowrtloo t fc-v.li-g Josrn; to Arcl la ?t pto4lJ IU )atr tk jt. Id l' .-,tf cf - ut; f aufeM cen. trt:.utur, o 1 li rjmt Array ct rmir. 1 p 1 I l'r.r it -lri on lh fclf b t or T t UJcnt. I'm ron t-j iul by rittoo tl trjln to tn-it tb; t-:lajr topr cf t bt 6y In ".-Uoo. It- in fr pol -r :ory vrtlcr nojt l ri-a: to it ro ami a tnfrru :r tnjr tv th for n-.oii :nidtineIM lit rtbl ir tt --. itt itortn. in 1r-ry TtP'iJ I- nt pafJi' inu r. i ; u rc-ntajn portxlt ol tb r tln.a'.Vvl n-ii m I wmix-ti lj ,r nbtnc to- hitry of th- V.va bil r-l Htn i too u n to th-. Army aa I 5ry. Amlt fp-vl. )iil Mnr-inill- Iriav ly uvtln jtuUb -1 Xi rt in wor'. IIwpr Wrkr rb rv f -ntur-a vt ts i''y rv k rtuu-. t t lrerry aa:i:i, f th atr-r.r." wilh th boJH crltUai fbvrtrr of lb r fk-. HARPER'S PERIODICALS. Pu Tata HARPERS MAO VZ1XE I HABPKH-S WKKKI.Y ' i; Cm. HARPH.1 S TOV0 PEOPLE . ted rlAlT. Cnti'i, aaj Mcitro. la Th ' Voion-i rf rb WoJi?t N-jr-ta itb tb ftru Nmr f r iknoary of eb yr. Wbn nntlmli -nllTiV nl arrlr-ZK-M vlQ be. tin tb ntENrr turr.l ml Lh tua rarrtpt of ortmr. Bouo-1 Voiu in- cf HtmVt Weekly frr thrl- yrr tMsh. In tt (WXb t4Cla. ul n! r y tnU. prtr r. Vr itr f r of tipri i r-r,7T t In tbe f r-ijj k I Artr-m on oo AoUar per vlaev fo S7 00 jf TOlOIM. Ootb cwi far -b Tlane. aU14 for b!n-lT(r. win nt ty taiU, pclpl-l. 00 VNetr of SI 0 rrh Rrtatttm- fcoal1 t bvV Ty Pcwt-Affte JJoVy Or ler or Irt ft, to ltd 1 rkfie cf low. yewwppr aao oot Inocry l'a .trertlw-ti-.-tii tiirt Um czperaa c-ecr if Hi iru a A k:iNM: Iliirm a Bioniw, Jtew Torb. 1804. HARPERS MAGAZINE. ILLUSTRATED. Hirr-r Mi(1n for l4 11 mlstJ tb ; riU1 ;--ro l-ci fr lb- bota. iKon tb' Mu 'i of r.tTpr'.! B4ertjkaa ty tb ;.hr lb r ilirciricrlOf tb-r n LY, Ttlr l!iQrl! towrjon ldlA t t fcjwi., r1W ea. op tb Jtxc mom t-T A. fre-i rvn , oo le m-HJT. ry PoaUoey Bk low. on PrH tr Rv- hxri Hu-.1lc.4r Uarv ui rn Mraico ty rrW1? RintbfVc-. lat tb cthr Oi-telV f'taianwcf lb yer win I ocrrr! t-y Goorr da atafn t3 CXrV DflJJrT WirorMbt rerwwt! renialtBe of W. D. Rowel!. tA ebjrbt bort atorv. rf Wems-ra f rooUr, uf ty Owen Wlcter. Kkri torV will Xat b rolrfrct4 ty Pjco.Vt Hlili. Ekk-M 1UHI Dsvta. Mrry V. WIlbLra. R b M'Knry Mwwt. HIm Lorrbo A tm T-Vmi. Ortnrt A. HIMiri, WarMtrf A bwurrpirr. Tboav tko tmsa4 otb-e-r . ArlHri on topic of nrmt telt win i txo -ji ! t-d by uncaibd icuu HARPER'S PERIODICALS. PER TEAR. Rtirti't Mieinvt 4 er- (itrtt i vtrtu 4 O iirii'i x- 4 cr uiirfi'i Toro rcori.t. ... J f I'otiat fr'.t to mil ntlcrU,frt tm lit Untied Slain, C-aJia and JfxiVv. oreet af tha WfAlj blr with the aasbcra for J mat ad tStrrtcbrv of each vrar. w bf tioi U p-eiCetl. f uKrrtptioat will fcrria wiLS tb nkrr earreat at tSr tio of reeljl ef idtr. lK-nrd Toiaoci ml itarnera "wilt IM loret jcin DC, II IMI IMI Ctlc wilJ be D b t.4 fmf , , p.r rolma. Cloth for bisdiar. ce racb by aia'J. uorrt aid. K dm tunc 1 ibo-jl4 be taia bv rt- offiee raotvry btitt or wrait, to a ehaaee of tv4. fCewspoperi art ot to crj-y f lu eJrr- turmoit rilkmU (W trprr order Aodroa ffAareaa Baomra. 5ew York CACTI OX. If a Oewlar oOea W. X. MBMUtai TCMtl ihm m it?"- W.L. Douglas S3 SHOE toYSoXLx XT, 1 XKCGXJUl Sboea mm atrb. ear f. l!r, aadfff. brav aalatUnjM aiib kKtoti' wnnj Uu aav fltbrr aaaac Try nmi k 4 btcawvaaoai. TW Unaf V. L. Vmmj,' a m a4 pcio aa Ot bni aibicb rmmmmt tbrir valac, aacs tbeaaauaaa V Swiiji mm im" $ likaikorriM. Daaiara wfaa asr ! aaW of W. 1 r,!-a Taora rla t-e. Wikb heinm to MOTX t'fO lr W IU t . of rW. Tbry rxa aSorU a 3 at a te r-ri. , a4 w na vn ca-a aww t bvrf-i .j W Im DOCLAa, P.iw. at a. St. . JONES A COOPER, baltaaa 4 at a, Cimaal. if u mm mr J a r ss - . .-. r .