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LOUISBURG, N. C, FRIDAY, JUNK 2?, 1001.
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CHURCH DIRECTORY '
. METHODIST.
Sanday School at 9:30 A. M. -
Gbo. S. Baeb, Sopt.
Preaching at 11 A. M and 8 P. M.
every Sunday. , , . , .
Prayer meeting Wednesday night.
M. T, Pljler. Pastor.
BAPTIST.
Sanday School at 9:30 A. M.
Tho8. B. Wilder, Sapt -Preaching
at 11 A. M., and ft P. M.,
eyery Sunday. .'. , ., . . .
Prayer m-eting Thursday night.
FoEKEdT Smith. Pastor.
episcopal, -Sunday
School at 9:30.
Services, morning and night , on
1st, 3rd and 4th Sundays.
Evening Prayer, Friday afternoon.
Albas Gbeaves. Rector.
Ill IK
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McKinley Won't
Congress on His Hands.
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DECIDES IT UNNECESSARY".
Will Rule Philippines According
to His Own Ideas.
SUPREME C0UBT BTJLHIG IGN0BED
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Xio torsional c?ni-tl
R. S. P. BURT, 4-
PRACTICING PHYSICIAN,
Louisburg, N. C.
Office lir the Ford Building, corner Main
and Nash streets. Up stairs front.
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R. R. F. TAEBOROUQH,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
LonisBUKe.'N. C. ' " '
OiUce 2nd floor Neal building, phone 39.
Night calls answere'i from T. W. Blckett's
residence, phono 74.
B
B. MAS8ENBURO, - ' . '
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
L0UISBGK8, H. a ,
Will practice In all the Courts of the State
Office In Court House. -
c.
M. COOKB As SOTS,
ATTORNKYS-AT-LAW,
LOUISBUBe.K. O.
Wul attend the courts of Nash, Franklin,
Granville, Warren and Wake counties, also the
Supreme Court of North Carolina, and the D.
8 circuit and District Courts.
DB. K. B. Fostsb.
.RS. FOSTER ft: MAXONK.
DR. J. B. Malonk
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PRACTICING PHYSICIANS ft SURGEONS,
Louisburg, N. C.
Office over Aycocke Drug Cjmpanj. ".-.
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M. HAYWOOD RCFFIN,
AlTORNBY-AT-LAW,
IiOUIBBUBe. V. 0.
Will practice in all the Courts - of Franklin
and adjoining counties, alsain the Supreme
Court, and in the United States District and
Circuit Courts. -
Office iu Cooper and Clifton Building.
fJIHOS. B. WILDBK,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
, LOTJI8BUB. I. O.
Office on Main street, ore Jones Cooper's
store.
S. SPKUILI
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, :
LOUISBUBO, If . C -
Will attend the courts of Franklin, Vance
Granville. Warren and Wake counties, also
the Supreme Court of North Carolina.
Prompt attention given to collections. . - :;.
Office over Bfrerton's Store.
(J W. BICKETT,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW.
louisbubs v. a .- ,. -
Prompt and painstaking attention given to
very matter intrusted to his hands. : .
Refers to Chief Justice Shepherd, Hon. John
Manning, Hon. Rout. W. Winston, Hon. J. C.
Buxton, Pres. First National Bank of Win
ston, Glenn h Manly, Winston, People Bank
of Monroe, Chas. B. Taylor, Pres. Wake For
est College, Hon. B. W. Timberl&ke.
Office In Court House, opposite Sheriff's.
w.
M. PERSON,"
ATTORNEY AT-LAW, t ,
wmisBUBe.K. o.
Practices in all courts. Office In Neal
Building. '
H YARBOROUGH, JB.
ATI ORNEYAT LA W,
LOUISBURG. N. C. :
Office in Opera House building. Court street
. AIL legal business intrusted to him
will receive prompt and careful attention.
JTR. R. K. KING,
DENTIST, .
LOUISBURG, N. c.
0n ovbb Atcockk Dbtjq Compart,
With an experience of twenty-five years
a a sufficient guarantee of my work .in all
the no-to-date lines of the profession.
HOTELS.
FRANKL1NTON HOTEL
' i - FBANKLLNTOJI, N. C. . .
S&M'L MERRILL, Pip-r. . ;
Good accomodation for the traveling
public.
Good Livery Attached. ; ; ; - f
M1SSENBUEG HOTEL
J I Massenburff Propr
HENDERSON. II.' O.
9ood accommodations. Good fare: Po
HU and attentive aervaaf r
; fioawooo rouse
Wirrentoa. . K
ns car;:::i
W. J. NORWOOD, Proprietor.
Patronage ', of Commercial
trvollng Public Solicited.
Tourists and
Tariff Will Contlnne to Be Collected
From Filipinos Fat Salaries Will
Be Paid In Collecting Them. Al.o
la Refunding; Them Laier-Drpen
and' His Third Term Nonsense.
Two Modern Dogberries Bryan
Still Alive "Constitution Flayed
Ont," Says General Merrltt Repub
lican Split on the Tariff Question.
Senator Coekrell's Defiance.
Special Washington Letter. .
On a celebrated occasion Mr. Cleve
land spoke dismally of his vexation by
reason of, "having congress on his
hands." Mr. McKlnley is too tactful
to say anything of that sort, but as
actions speak, louder than" words it
may not be unreasonably assumed that
he really indorses his immediate pred
ecessor's idea. At ; any rate, he does
not propose to have any session of con
gress when he can avoid it. Every
body knows that every dollar collected
off our new fellow citizens in the Phil
ippines in the shape of tariff duties is
illegal, even according to the recent de
cisions of the supreme court, and that
congress will have to refund it, as it
did in the Porto Kican case. Neverthe
less the cabinet and the president and
the latter's will is always the former's
will have decided" that ? there is no
necessity for a meeting of congress.
Consequently for six months or more
one set of officers will be busily en
gagedat good fat salaries, of course
in - collecting tariff duties from .the
Filipinos which another set like
wise at good fat salaries will spend
several months in refunding to them,
thereby giving lucrative employment
to a large army of Republican papsuck-
ers." This ia fun for the officeholders,
but tough on the taxpayers. :i
Of course nobody desires an extraor
dinary session of congress if it can be
avoided reasonably; but, undesirable as
an extraordinary session is, it is prefer
able to absolutism In any portion of
those vast regions over which Old Glory
floats. And our government in, the
Philippines is absolutism pure and sim
ple. " ' ' ' '
Missed Fire.
If that delightful orator, raconteur.
statesman and leader of society, Sena
tor Chauncey Mitchell Depew, will
"take stock," as the merchants would
say, of his status, he will : discover
that he has added nothing to his fame
by his III considered interview pre
dicting and advocating a third term for
President McKinley- The senator was
not even lucky enough to have that un
American pronunciamento fall fiat. It
has, unfortunately for his reputation
for wisdom, been widely discussed,
generally with open : derision, some
times with a savageness which should
teach him that the ancient landmarks
are still dear to the people. The sena
tor has become the laughing stock of
the country. A few , words from Mr,
McKlnley poohpoohing the preposter
ous idea were all that was necessary.
So far as I know, not a single paper
of influence and respectability stood
with Senator Depew in this matter.
Nobody even thanks him least of all,
perhaps, the president himself.- Love
of lame is the latter's master passion
and Is a noble one. He would not risk
It in a vain endeavor to secure the un
attainable. ' He today enjoys a most
enviable position perhaps the most
enviable occupied by any of the multi
tudinous sons of Adam. The chief of
the mightiest nation on earth, with the
country indorsing his first term by giv
ing him a second, with absolutely no
rival for the first place m his own par
ty and possessing the good will of al
most all the members of all the oppos
ing parties - and factions, he did : not
turn idiot and sacrifice the golden opin
ions of millions for four years more of
power even if he could get it. -
Two Current Decisions. '
Two modern Dogberries one In Indi
ana, the other in New Jersey have re
cently Immortalized themselves by de
livering startling and -iconoclastic opin
ions from the bench. The Hoosier has
upset all the sporting fraternity by de
claring that in the game of draw poker
it is not unlawful to open a jack pot
with counterfeit money.:. He would
have spoken with more wisdom If he
had decided it to be lawful and accord
ing to Hoyle to open It with a jimmy,
for the sole object of a j. p. is to con
centrate enough coin of the realm to
make its possession desirable. But
what will it profit a. gamester to win
the' j. p. end then to discover that his
winnings are base money? -'
The New Jersey Solomon-solemnly
enunciated ; the .doctrine that to tise
"damn" or "damned,"., in conversation
or debate is not swearing or "cussing."
That deliverance of the great jurist
will bring relief and "happiness to the
hearts; of many good men Rev. Dr.
Rainsford,- for instance who permit
their zeal or temper to betray them Into;
the use of words more emphatic than
are prescribed in any "polite letter
writer" for' young ladies'- boarding
schools. ' He of Jndlana is entitled to a
leather mcdaL- His ' brother f of New
Jersey will be blessed by hot hessded
men everywhere.- ,
' Still tTnnappy. - '
The St Louis Globe-Democrat Is not
haDDv unless it is miserable." It has as-
cnrt - mtth J'f!nmnable iteration," to
hnrrow" ShakesDeare's forcible phrase,
t,ti wnHnm Jpnntn?s Brvan Is dead.
But for some reason which The G.-D
cannot explain that marvelous young
man refuses to die.
Just now The G.-D. is rawhiding be
cause on- recent occasion Bryan lec
tured at the little city of Cameron, Mo.,
on short notice and that the box office
receipts amounted to ?S45, Bryan's rake
Off being one-half of that. Surely that
1 la a most unseemly way for a dead
man to perform. If that is death, most
people, including all the editors, . pro
prietors, writers and typesetters of
The G.-D. would take pleasure In dy
ing. The Globe-Democrat, as it thinks
of Bryan making ? 100,000 a year out
T Ttta - C rtna n .1 A sBvyn
it o I fuycr oiiu Q-tw or ouu a aay lec-
iiaVc . turing, must frequently reflect upon a
wonderful prediction It made in the au- j
tumn of 189G, shortly after the election
of that year, to the effect that in less
than six months Bryan would be so
thoroughly forgotten "that he would
have to fall out of a third story win
dow in order to get his name into a
newspaper. " Nearly five years have
elapsed since that Idiotic and malicious
prediction was given to the world, and
yet the editor of The G.-D. would not
consider, any issue of that paper com
plete without one or more mentions of
the mighty Nebraskan. ' .
Barring Mr. McKlnley alone, there Is
no Republican statesman who can draw
an S845 audience in any town in the
United States of the size of Cameron,
Mo., not even Marcus A. Hanna, who
is undoubtedly the leading Republican
presidential candidate. If The G.-D.
believes he can, let him try it. .
1 Much Depends. :
Some time before long I intend to
hunt up one of Nebraska's old blue
backed spellers and transplant from it
Into The Congressional Record the
story to the effect that much depends
on whose ox is cored. It contains
much wisdom, and the rising genera
tion should be made familiar with It.
It finds its latest illustration in the
savage and scurrilous manner In which
Republican organ grinders are Jump
ing on Bryan for his strictures on the
supreme court's preposterous decision
in the Porto Rican case-L e., the de
cision which turns over the Porto
Ricana to the tender mercies of con
gress, unrestrained by the limitations
of the constitution. The Kansas City
Journal has a very commendable-habit
of printing the title of each dally issue
in a flaring red line across the face of
the front page. One day recently It
had: "Porto Rico should take a rain
check. . William J. Bryan reverses the
supreme court." That was not only in
teresting, but mystifying.- What rain
checks have to do with Bryan,- Porto
Rico and the supreme court, like the
peace of God, passeth all understand
ing. But. waiving that, why should not
Bryan reverse the supreme court? Ev
ery lawyer in America knows that the
decision is utterly ridiculous and mis
chievous, and every lawyer of any in
dependence of character hasvsaid so, is
saying so or will say bo. or course
there is a class of sycophants and lick
spittles who will indorse it because
they want office or desire to stand well
at court. There is another class who
indorse It, well knowing that it shames
common sense and law learning, be
cause they honestly believe that an lm
perial policy Is best. ' .
That great constitutional lawyer,
General Wesley Merritt, ' who learned
his law while fighting Indians, voiced
the sentiments of that class when he
delivered the opinion of the court In
this curt, succinct, comprehensive and
straightforward fashion: "The consti
tution is played out. -There is no use
to discuss it." People would have had
more respect for Mr. Justice Brown
and his decision if he had simply an
nounced, "This court hereby affirms
the decision of Major General Wesley
Merritt and declares the constitution
dead as the men who lived before the
flood," Instead of wasting much ink
and paper to write an opinion which
means the same thing and which by Its
limping logic has a tendency to bring
the supreme court and our "whole Judi
cial system into contempt'
The Journal and others of that ilk
need not try to write down the men
who condemn that opinion. - To write
them down would be to write down the
brains and conscience of the country.
Very much depends, on whose ox Is
gored. The love and reverence of Re
publicans for the supreme court are
comparatively new. They made a po
litical issue of the Dred Scott decision
and enlarged and packed the supreme
court to reverse the first legal tender
decision, and, although they pretend to
worship the supreme court now, if It
dared to render a decision not-in accord
with . their political ideas they would
remodel It or enlarge it or abolish It,
just as the exigencies of the political
situation might demand. So they should
go very slow about abusing men who
have the sense and courage to denounce
this outrageous and un-American dec!
sion. Folks who live in glass houses
thould be economical In the rock throw
ing business. . -
urget, wtit would it en count er f It wuu'J
corer RrpublTcan newspaper la .11 Motion ir )m
the Atlantic to the Pacific that are eorJiaUr tup
porting' the reform propowd br the Rucauj.
congTeaaman. On of these is Senator Ilawlry'S
paper, the Hartford Count nt, which in its Utue
oi June 1 saya, "We hie no need to protect prod
ucts that art sold in foreign markets in competi
tion with the rest of the world, least of all If
they are sold there cheaper than ia the c ontry
that protect their manufacture."
A man does not have to be a free
trader to indorse every syllable of The
Post's article. Such papers as The
Economist might as well realize at
once that such men as Senator Hawlcy
cannot be whistled down the wind.
Another Kick.
While The Post, Brother Babcock et
ah are thus cavorting about and using
violent and tumultuous language cal
culated to disturb the peace of the lion.
Sereno E. Tayne, chairman of the com
mittee on ways and means and ex
officio bellwether In chief of the
house Republicans, the Baltimore News
gets up a vigorous kick of its own
which Is not calculated to increase
Brother rayne's equanimity. Speaking
of the tariff on works of art. The News
says:
The peculiar absurdity of It resides in the fact
that practically all American artiats of any repute
do not mean only those of hish rank are
opposed to it.
Congress, however, looks at these things in its
own peculiar way and imposes a penalty of 0 per
cent upon any American citizen who drains to in
troduce European art treasures into this country.
air. J. Pierpont Morgan seems to be particularly
averse to paying; this penalty and haa, therefore,
deposited ia the South Kensington museum. Loo-
don, the Mannheim collection of mediarral works
of art, which he has Just purchased and which is
valued at about 2,500,000. It would be a great
addition to the attractions of New York if Mr.
Morgan were to present this collection to the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, as it is supposed as
naturally would do if he were not met by the un
pleasant demand at ths custom bouse. Ilowerer
good natured a man may be, he does not likt to
have his gift hone looked in the mouth, still less
to psy s heavy fee for the examination. Perhaps
this exhibition on a Urge scale of the nature and
working of our foolish antiart tariff laws will tend
to open the eyes, of congress.
Now, I am not setting up as either
the spiritual or political adviser of The
Economist or of B.rother Tayne. God
forbid! But I make free to suggest to
them that there Is but one thing for
them to do If they would be saved, and
that is. to take the editors of such
papers as the Washington Post and
the Baltimore News out and shoot
them as unceremoniously as General
Diaz would shoot a Mexican guerrilla,
and while they have their hands in
they had better "work off" such pes
tiferous agitators as Mr. Babcock and
General Hawley. Nothing short of
heroic measures will settle the hash of
those people who are against . the
trusts. A French savant once declared
that It Is the unexpected that happens,
and if The Post & Co. keep on whoop
ing it up till a majority indorses them
Mr. Payne may Join in the chorus,
changing his mind as radically aa he
did in the Porto Rican matter.
His Dell.
General Francis Marion Cockrell,
senior and perpetual senator from Mis
souri, makes no epigrams and Is not
much given to rhetoric, but he carries
around on his shoulders a level head,
and recently delivered himself of one
short sentence which-all Democrats
and many Republicans will indorse.
Being Interviewed as to the third term
Idiocy, he sententlously remarked, "Let
them try It, If they -want tor Now,
that Is not so gorgeous as Macbeth's
famous defiance to his antagonist:
Lay on Macduff,
And damned be he who first cries: 'Hold!
Enough I"
But it amounts to the same thing In
the end. Democrats would welcome
such an Issue, knowing certainly that
the victory would be theirs.
Reauleseat.
Death has invaded the Texas delega
tion and taken from the busy scenes
and fierce contests of politics one of its
stalwart members. Hon. Robert Em
met Burke of Dallas has fallen in the
very flower of his years. He was Just
entering upon his third term in the
house, and when the Fifty-sixth con-
gress adjourned sine die at high noon.
March 4, he appeared to have as good
a. chance for length of days as any of
the S61 representatives and delegates
composing that body. He was begin
ning to take high tank among bis
brethren, being recognized as an hon
est, capable and - industrious man-
faithful to his principles, his constitu
ency and his country. He was a good
soldier In time of war and a good citi
zen In time of peace. Three of the
Fifty seventh congress are dead
Crump, Brosins and Burke.
A BIT OF DIPLOMACY.
CLEVER TRICK OF AN ENGLISH GOV
ERNOR OF THE PORT Of ADEN.
Ths Csri.ai Storr C.aatetti Wit
the White IIos.s of Bab-el-M .
A lloaiatal of the radelasj of s
French Admiral.
On the foreshore of the Arabian coast
In the strait of Bab-cl Mandch. at tli
COST OF EMi'IUC
TUW5 A3UCOL5TEY LITE.
A Pretty Fight as It Stands.
Lovers of truth and right and justice
everywhere are rejoiced by reason of
the Internecine fight now raging in the
Republican party on the tariff question.
The, Washington Post, as I have re
peatedly stated, is an able high .tariff
advocate, but It recently contained the
following editorial under the title
"Dangerous Tactics:" ,
- Abuse of Representative Babcock by those Re
publican organs that have gone daft on protection
will not drive that sturdy champion of Repub
lican principles and policies out of the Repub
lican party. The man who,- in ' four successive
congressional elections, has led his party on to
victory will not be dismayed because he encoun
ters scurrilous attacks for having pointed the way
to a continuance of the series of victories. The
leader whose fidelity tojhe cause of protection
has impelled in the Interest of his party, to
protest a&ainst ths most flagrant abnsea f pro
tection is on safer ground tnan is occupisa oy
any of rbe politicians. In or out of congress, who
demand' adherence to tariff . schedules . that are
plundering the publie for the. enrichment of mo
nopolistic combinations.
Mr. Babcock has inquired, "What answt
we make when we are asked why we maintain du
ties on products that our manufacturers are sell
ing all over Europe at lower prices than they ask
for them at their factory doorsf" To this inquiry
the only reply of the daft organs is calumny.
The American Economist, referring- to Mr. Bab
cock's bill to abolish obsolete duties on certain
steel products, says that "as s matter of fact he
disputes with the New England Free Trade league
the priority of invention in connection with the
formation of -s plan whose success involves the
overthrow of the Republican party. He stands
sponsor for a legislative measure which embodies
the Cobdenite contention that "protection ia rob
bery and that the tariff Is ths mother ot
trustu' "
That is not scurrilous, although it ia nbusire.
Mr. Babcock is an out and out, -lyed in ths wxol
protectionist. As a sincere, but not fool, friend
ef protection he proposes to abolish abuses that
are perpetrated, as all the world knows, under the
false pretense of protecting the home market, but
the New York Press goes several laps ahead of
The Economist and becomes positively scurrilous
in its sneers and innuendoes. Here is a sampls of
its treatment of the man who has led his party
to four successive victories in congressional cam
paigns: '
"The Babcock bill has never been more than an
economic silly reason topic Its most serious as
pect fcss been in the obvious opportunitx for
blackmail it presented and which in the bands of
s less pure and his minded statesman than the
representative in congress of the lager trust wiuld
be. embraced advantageously hi the next setsion
to extort contributions for the next campaign."
""Supposing The" Press should desist for awhile
from assaulting Mr. Babcock and look elsewhere
on ths ReoulUcan side of ths tone Um uu
Seven Years In Bed. '
'Will wonders never cease?" inquire the
friends of Mrs, L. Pease, of Lawrence, Kan.
They knew she had been unable to lerve
her bed in seven years on account ot kidney
and liver trouble, nervous prostration and
general debility, but, "three bottles of Elee
trie Bitters enabled me to walk, aod in
three months I felt like a new person."
Women suffering ,rotu hesdache, backache
nerqongnecs. sleeplessness, melanchollr,
fainting and dizzy spells will find it a price
l8s bieg'ing. Try it. SatiMsction is guar
anteed. Ouly 50c YV. U. Thomas.
fouthern entrance to the Red
Btands a Lare white house concerning
Lich the travelers to the far east may
fc ar a curious story. In the raldJle of
tLo nineteenth century, when M. de
L r.-eps, after many difflcultloa, tad
B", -cessfully Coated the Sues Canal
cv. rany, the governor of the I'-rltUh
I- t of Aden, about 100 m!Us distant,
wns surprised or.e morning by the Ti&'t
cf a French squadron of very unusual
s'ze for tbat part of the orient which,
having encountered a tcrrlflc storm off
&Jk.uUa, had i cl Iu fur re;lra.
In the mind of the governor curiosity
was at once aroused aa to the destina
tion of o large a command, a curiosity
which increased as be found It Impossi
ble to extract any further Information
from the French admiral or bts oncers
beyond the statement that' they were
upon an ordinary cruise, an explana
tion which the former was not the
least inclined to believe-
Firm In the belief, therefore, that
some political move of great Impor
tance was afloat If not afoot, the gov
ernor, in order first of all to gain time.
gave orders to go Tery torto'.s.-like on
the repairs and tben set to work to take
the Frenchmen off their guard by giv
ing a succession of such entertainments
as both his slender means and the aw-
ful barrenness of the place would afford-
But though at the end of two weeks
the French and British o Seers Lad got
upon the best of terms the Immediate
destination of the French squadron re
mained as much cf a mystery to the
governor of Adcu as before, and In
spite of all possible delay the repairs
were nearly completed.
Now, It happened that the wife of
the governor possessed an Irish maid,
who had been receiving attentions
from one of the French petty oncers-
attentions which the girl did not regard
seriously. It occurred to the governor
that by such moans something might
be learned of his unexpected vUUora
plans, and a private conversation be
tween the governor's wife and her
maid resulted in another between tb
latter and her French admirer, by
which It was discovered that Tcrlm Is
land was the objective point.
At this Information the governor
opened his eyes wide Indeed, for. If the
Saes canal were cut through, rerira. as
commanding the southern entrance to
the Red sea. in the middle of the strait
of Bab-el-Mandeb, would be a place of
great strategic importance, over which.
without doubt. It was the Intention of
the French admiral to hoist the tri
color.
Secretly giving orders, therefore, for
a gunboat to immediately embark a de
tachment of soldiers and steal away In
the night for Perlm Uiand. the govern
or then announced a farewell banquet
and ball for the day but one following,
a final act of courtesy with which the
French admiral wocld willingly have
dispensed, for ho was anxious to sail,
but which he could not well refuse on
account of the use he had made of the
British supplies and machinery at
Aden.
So the dinner and party In due course
came off, the governor being in high
spirits, because In the meantime be bad
received the news cf the occupation of
Perlm. which under the circumstances
would surely be followed by tbe longed
for promotion, and the French admiral
was equally happy, for he hoped on the
morrow to add tbe same Important lit
tle speck of land to tbe dominion of his
own country, thereby covering his
breast with the stars and hlmseif with
maritime glory.
Next day, after an Interchange of
cordial farewells, the French squadron
sailed away to an apparently unknown
destination, until, when clear of tbe
land, tbe course was laid full speed di
rect for Terlm Island.
Then what was tbe dismay and dis
appointment of tbe. French admiral and
his officers when, on coming In sight of
their destination, they beheld tbe Brit
ish flag flying and a company of sol
diers drawn up to give them a proper
salute. It Is said the French admiral
was so mortlSed at being thus outwit
ted tbat he first flung his cocked bat
overboard and then followed It hlmteif
Into the sea.
Be this as It may, as ivrlm was
clearly already occupied by tbe British,
the only counter more which the
French could make was to take posses
sion of a strip of tbe foreshore on the
opposite Arabian const, where tbey
built the fortified white bouse la ques
tion, but as tbe'plaee was entirely at
tbe mercy of tbe guns on Fed a Island
It was shortly abandoned, to remain to
this day as a monument of a French
admiral's undoing. Exchange.
"Ttv: Er.glh Ui rJcr' re
n:r?g to rcil re the eoorraoui t'-tvlen
they Wi.l hit to tir oa account of
the B r rr.
The LuUiniiie Sua corameollsg cp-
on the enoi-ai coat cl cop:re gives
the foil jwirz ftirei:
"Tbe otlkisl fcurrof the ccit of
he Su'.h Afncsa war (rauiSQito
90a are given bj the DritKb chaccet-
or of the exchequer at I71 4.035.00.
Tr.W total embraces all that baa been
pent up to the rrtjcnl time and ill
hat will be spent according to recent
euimates, to the cod of tbe Steal jear
in looa. The war la China from
190010 190a is estimated to coat fiS,.
300,000, tbe aj gregaie 01 two wan
carried 00 at the same lime wiib $ aa.-
250,000 of irterejt adied being ;66,-
585,000, Tbij doo not Include lie
cost of two oifcer sinall" war begun
and ended while Ezhticz wit in rro-
grrss in South America and China
namely, tbe formidable war la Aihan
ti and the military expeditioa ia Sjra
aMand. These together can hardlt
have cost leu thao f 9,000,000. From
O-e tl the gftatrtt tsnrt el it
coua'.fy, 2 jtxh at well at !:. a, rat
tto ,U rT..t7 ef re, Jen-. tf it I f aT,1? J" V'l'tV
o-o?rv r'fitfi i4.e litsi r,d like I jeg
op m i'!t tail' c :2rtcr i-t.
We rarVt $ r&se? U;e c, t ia tie
S.o'h.Ur. l.fxi- tj jvart kit
been tn hr avt that lt C'5irj tat beta
;ra; rovrr;-l H a drrre tsltfal cd.
There has, enf rfUM'.tly, tra torst
gfjood f,r th.i crrwr, but tap?.! it
is d.nj:ai.fc;r.g. M :rt Kbi".t sad
with item core rceict of d;vtno
YALUAELE TCu'H F;.:?HTt
T 0 f Aa Li
I lave la ev tat da tzt ta'tlwa
kU ta !"tl'.s hirt-sL
twi
ts; I ta lb?
t .civote ta eo'.e
hich it appears that the tardea im
posed oi British taxpajersbf actual
fightirg In three years U over JT775.
000,000. Empire ts doubtless a br
I act thing, but it comes big a at the
price.
lo his .recent apeech io the cota-
moos ta detent 01 tit tax rropouu
S r Michael Utckt-Ikach gare hit idea
of the meaning of the present cor C ct.
which implied a "dig tt Mr. C'uJ
s'ooe and bis magnanimity' ia s S3 1.
We are now, be uid, r5;ricg for
the mistake of Msjiba ted re pairicg
the loss of prestige dase la that igno
re ioioos retreat. As swots there-
cent oltimatara was delivered it was
clear tbat a qjctlioa which was solved
tbe wrong way ia 1 S3 1 had to be scl
red ra the right way, lest Sonta Afctca
thould be fjsl to us and the d-nte-gratioaoftbe
empire should begin.
Tbe cfucical view, it tbas appear, was
that tbe issue raised by tbe n'tima
lata was larger tbat South Africa,
involvicg tbe wbote empire. Tbe
United States may f.sd io (bit recital
good reason for avoiding ite entangle
ment! of extended empire."
The Sun't warning ta tbe Uoited
States will not be beedei by tbe pres
ent gteedcraxed politicians tbat are ia
potr, of coortc.
Tbe tax pater may yet have to tear
ts' enormous a burden ts tbe Eritah, il
our greed for empire cooliow, troly
says the Charlotte News,
and pkavure art 19
cavalry atvl il it a
thai ibsre it a c jft lorot io the de
ten;-. AtwCr gtt Uetr it thai
ibe trVecffifia uvix'ilu tea
ad'tccng little by l.tile.
proved tre'nodicf
adapted and there it estsratty ic-ertta-
ed interest aad attrsctioa Is tbe coca
try d -:rct
!a tru'h tKere was very l.ttlf tol.4
bcadtikm tot U.:t eil3i ia the nt
place. It wat a ro'.kfa idea. A
young nan wotk rg day ty day oa iht
farm wo!4 gn it icto h read lbt
bewatdjir mete w.-ik tc hs pay
tSao h:-t tsin t. gHh"- and he gTw
i iu!.-..r.cj ir b.t M. To b et iNete
was f.WiMiia 11 the 1 lea cfst&d.r g
behir.d a c- u-:r drd tjp J ke San--day
every a&4 treatsr.eg iff
ctl.co it the jt r-t ar. 1 h.rg a g-d
t rne g'eer!j, i't wa be tr evj tt
be iy.'.i jt tty d 5;tt& fnea ilepic
late he had pi.ated. Aa o'-J (artr-rf
o&ce il to a j r u " nut cf ti.a k-ud
onf aa years ag3 ibal if be "ic'd pet
toattntoy bsn, year taatl year
00;. tt h. f.ini wjtk at the orS ry
clerk di ta t&e V. t lKt It wcc".J l
a 1Kb rota tctas day. T- Utrzi boy
so-led ! b;a, t-i be itocghi crrr H
a&d the o-?re be ti-oc,;ht tbe core be
became eoo ic-ctd the old bead was I
wrsctt. He t:ck ta b-t rlaw aa4 to
day be can t?r tai tar cub ai
rs ast tey i.oe ia Crt&tic j.
!a!tohtva fen aU tit Cel. Jctt
Tctaesxj Warsh&stt atd tit Itzi,
coi.r.scU-1 tbtrtwl'.b Itr'.ailtg Via
rubles ted tbt tacairtsl teste ea
Mala t'lrwst.
All iba abort prcp-ery c tla! t
le tt.UiEjt It pay sg Ua per
et&t.ea tie a-c3tt aiki it tt
property.
Ls;tCj3::t: tf jc?vatU bsf.
J. A. T oat 11,
Lcalitarx, It. C.
Wdn Feed Sale 5 Livery
STABLE.
HATES I Km, Fn;.-ir.:n
LOU1SOURQ N. C.
GOOD TEAMS A5D
IX) LITE DRIVERS,
InXXAL ATTENTION TO
TiUYEXINQ HEX
1 hauti or twvotas ?
ctxa aLartcx tusa.
W tdwaja tup fo4 tvtrMsj far
a!, tl vtrr ra-a:rai!t
p,rtesj.
PEERLESS STLUI COOIER
IW1T Marry tLr ytomrj
Tae Ho u aV lst.'r mjrtM
idi'ti;if .iftu, is a.-r .
fr a rt t. t.vsf's Lk-'s l-S
f a4 ar- as4 4 -!
lrI.-. ,- tl s?4i. Cs. T i-"
SI W. ti.TVsaa f ..
Ignorance shuts its eyes and imagi
nes it is right.
Mr. W. S. Whedon, Cashier of the
First National Bank of Winterset, lows,
in a receat letter gives some eiperienee
with a carpenter in his employ, that will
be of valae to other mechanics. He says:
"I had a carpenter working for ma who
was obliged to stop work for seversl dsys
on accoaot ot being troobled with diar
rhoea. I mentioned to him that I had
been similarly troubled and that Cham
berlain's Colic. Cholerea and Diarrhoes
Remedy had eared me. lie bought a
bottle of it from the drosgist here and
informed me that one doe cored him.
and he is strain at his work." For sale
by W . G. Thomas, DrngRist-
laopporlaae.
"I Just saw the young Widow Werds.
She looked Jast charming In her mourn
ing, said the pretty woman.
"1 suppose," remarked her crotehcly
husband, 'that you "wouldn't mind be
ing a widow yourself."
"Oh, It s hateful of you to talk thai
way, when yon know I've got Mce
silk waist that I baveo't worn yet."
Philadelphia Tress.
fools are poor in-
Crazy men and
itructors.
i
A Good Cough Medicine.
' Itsreaks well for Chamberlain's Cooph
Eemedr when drngcrists use it ia their
own families in preference to any other.
"I have sold Chsmberlaln'a Cough lleru-
edy for the past five years with eomplft
satisfaction to myself and eostomrs,
says drorist J . Goldsmith. Van E tten,
N. y.. 'l byve always u?d it in my
own family both for ordinsrvcoujrhs and
colds and for the congh following la
grippe, and find it very eScscioos." For
sale by W. G. Thomas. DroggLst.
Parrots.
Eome rarrota are very quick In ac
quiring words and are generally fend
of displaying these new acquisitions,
but occaslosally a bird wtll be pro
foundly silent until tbe teacher d-
tnalrs of ber mastering a certain
chrase or word: then all at once am!
unexpectedly the "scholar" will rtpca
her lesson. ...
The Irs are lalktd t lest tbe
leva ja are aloicd.
Japan is beginning to thow op t
triSe froggy ia tbe diplomatic prel:aai-narica.
Half the WcVl U la tssksMav.
as I t tM mt ik.t l'i traJ X
lkf 4r m svi .rjttirr'
f4.! tMif. Sua 1 llei (-n.aSv. f
it U k'fti. ef U'mss ?-. Is ia snj
V. Tilt it. IU l l l.fW
at4r' y v i vk;ae )tf';.
Iva'.a c.' tsy $
accora;Ub tayih:g.
tvettr tctra la
Tlltlt ttt l;stf all Ust lta
try tsotiM.-'ef tb:'.i tt
trj cc&&;ti.t p -toll's.
Ttt jrrttUit csTtt'.rtte tf aH
It tit rxuLixtt Brtx C-K t uu
It taves TIME, LAE02, ST EL
i FOOD.
Aey ejttUtj tf rt Hal win
kttptsrt ejiarUtf wtbtr WUitr
I'.l wllb tbe ce tf a rtriXM
SriAK Coossa, coca a BtaL
A Terrible rupk-kwa.
Of Ossollae slwve karae-i a la-J T i.rs
frihlfuUy,-writes N. F. I'alaier. .f Kift
cia. la. "The bt doctors cwalda't hJ
b. ruaeieg sore U.al followej. bt !'
ta s Arai- ?Je isUc.lf ttrw r.
IcfalhMe forests, eoraa. sort. W la, Kru
akia U-a aod fil. Ta SI . U
Thoua's l'ro fctor.
Tbe man who gives advice freely ic.
curs unnecessary retpoca bilitJes.
Ira I. r.eekaH. DBeoftb. Is., wr;U-:
"ilf little buy sJJ4 his let: from vKe k o
t.Uie ankle. 1 sm4 lUoiirr kvaiva!
Uialcly aad la three arek's l.ra it was 1
nol eatirtly heav.r 1 sisbI lo rreommeaj
it lo sverv family soJ sjrue them U kr
lUugrr ialtt o ttsd, u d U t ur csrv
sor acaltis or soy soies."
Tke lsr sf esefxy ys !!. U k-k
tL thl i rs4a 4.S; r?.
all asea kti.tr i.Mitr klf
Cart wU vr r:mr: sat " f
bfkU.irU.l I( ti.l. Takes W
scivl. W.U. Ta
UliS. J. jUTlIOMAH,
was. Bittrr.
Ttwa.
4.
t 0m rwa.
Ufpe b tbe lu r&rdi&e
caa give ba puico a.
A"a II!re f w-i I.
MV: -wr-Se tarn ! si' I ksy I
lys K4f Csr," ki J. A. rrr
li.;sarr IsJ, mh as U. aa4-caU
4r M Its s.
ii Finns itj mziin mi
If yea wc:i t ttiTT
Ieiro io lire t diy al t time.
j
What the mer baa ts of no en:
use lo htm than what te has not.
re
SpralneU Ankle Vulrkly Cwrrd.
At ooe time I sofftrsd frora a stsre
sprala f the askU." asvs iio. K. Carv.
editnrof the unrjt, astiouo. ta
'Afur osiaar aeveral well txotsi3
tndicib wtthal soccti I tried Chsta
brlsin'B rain IUlca. and ssa tlesswl to
ay tbat relWf came as soca at 1 eaa i:s
qs and a eotnt: core spf !
low-d." tfj'.i by W. U. Thotaas, Drug
ft 1st.
Call si W. G. Tbo6s drae ew as4
gt a fre a ssrlt ttet-r.:a's f i.-s-
ach atl Llt.r Tati. TVy lea-
trot Iks ar p!-, strvsc'lo its es
luw aaJ rsUrit l..a! t--s.'a.
Thr a rV r liUksstl t lat st la
vCs-rt.
The harder it ct to i tt tsjtllrg
tbe larger we retaia iJ-
The more promucs a man
ihe rncre be dscao'i keep.
make
Oskk KclK-l r-r .Uhsu.
Wit klaaie Iirkent, rarsnwa, Ki.
writes: "1 sSer4 ei;M years .k a.t'.saa
la iu worst form. I hs j fsi atuckt
darios; the Ul yesr a4 iis cl eip4
to live Ihroorf them. I bl sv.tr C f s
Honey at4 1r asJ il kss never I1 Is
girt ItomeJ.ate i!:f."
CASTOR I A
. For Irfxrti tzl CliLL-ta
Tl3 Kki Yea Km AIjx E
iare cf 6-c27.'
ta.
Bears
Every man' ts tooctimct
thauld be at all times.
whit be
A.O. r.'aoebaJ. TA'e.l V-nsar. X. Y-
st; I hat been lrTotlc4 k sissy
eajie for the last t v years )1 ave d.-cur4
nh .evrrsl phytiriaaa sol I t r.'itf
uul.l I -4 Iwo bo-.Les ef Foley's Kilaey
Curt." T. tl. "Ikoma..
A t!oh on the Uce is
blt on the heart.
better, than a
Feibas ih Uiuo ,-, 'e w.!l ewa
th;ertb tu'tbatDf ikf d:ta)i
ht S i'. 5 l-;er.
tilVK loiu iiosu
la tire Am-rVo Surety l"ci;-ary.
rl New Yurk, th. brti rirvty
Co-rpaay in t:. torM cvotfi ex-
cl j4vrly ta g-3arantrr. th tdf..ty
I of teritia bolJ.r.' p.t;rss of p-
cuz.'.rf trct. aaj a-t.-4 a-s zrtty
no boa '.s nn-i cad'Ttaki. .
uivl r t!-e lawn of Nort-i ttrpl.nt
ns -.th.ct.t surety no l-"n ts svr. 1
UQi.'ertAk.n.rs ut evvry drrrt.u3.
For ralw. n I irw. t'. aexri AS
L0C15BCE0. t. a
r;uj asf t sf ..4-J Trtm varX
Mn U-mmr fslMt - thmur
sj.ia Tr;s IVsbs Uu.
r. r .ntir'V
i t.Tn ii
l. IILJ 1.
C t C t T H I .
T. w. r a i t
w. w. i rui.
.J.li:aXT.
tsi ir ml t iu.l armusM alw m
bsa svs?-e e m;-;w4 swrniy.
EEHCEKSCI TEP:X C3.
ssassiBSsasBsssst
Cxvuaxx 5'rtarrrijrirjrr'l CYnci.
Tb eorr-vay lc- lo aviaoaae
tl-at t'- Ljm-. towa avre ffrosr
Ww. ai 11 raU brvw ;tb p-aUasWd
ul t tZxlirt a wl swur IX
Srd,UJ:
it-ou lo u i. -r.ur.Q to
OAMTOTIIA..
Esii Ir jT:a Irm Lrt
E f ivlajs
r'urvfr to
York, or a
Jy la
IWisar, -w
Ridicule is not argument, but there
are times when it is much more effective.
Saves Two From IVatU.
"Oar little Janchtcr had aa almo.t fatal
attack rf whvoj.ine rouch and bronchi!. a,"
writes Mrs. W. K. HaxiUnd. of Armin,
N. Y.. but, when all otlitr remeilies lir-i,
we saved her life with Ir. Kick's New l it
eovery. tur ciei-e, b had ronair -lion
ir aa envanced iui;, also o.r l tl.ia wor. lrr
ful medicine and Itxlay skr is perfectly
Well." Desperate thr anj lurj di'-ca
yield to I'r. King's New lio.if to no
other ruedicme" on earth. Iuiallsble for
eouirl.s and col l. f-Hs ant .l-r tx.nt.'rs
cuarutred br W. C. Ihomss. Trial bottle,
(rt-e.
There may be some curi'n ty at u.
the tmouct; but cobody w.'.l kik
Aguinalda where be got it.
A faol at home will be cone the
wiser when abroad.
Yoa rosy as w;j nri to rsa as'essa
eoloewita cot Vrr sstoCal sa se
tit, eoer)Clie rata with a t"rj-l liter
scl jna rn y ksiw thai tls hr is l- r
(its h-i. ts d- Sol rlh IU loul cf
doll aod laotfoiJ after Us. rf:a ts
kssiache sai . rr.e'.:c i uias. A
few d e f Chi ttr's:a's etch sal
Liter Tat'.elS Will r' rs his liver 1j i'-s
Dv real fsi''.. r. rsasw t.s vitality, ia
I rrots bis o.-tUja aaa roaie tira i i
J (ike a cew was. I'ric. w c a t. t-m
J pies f;w at NY. ti. T-.-v zzj srs.
W. U. YakJE JK-.TC. Jb.. A Iff.
STEAM LAUNDRY
h'trant Lr.u". Irr. II . C. ai.4
we r s,-&d. .- it . i t-:.t r t f ;
there e.v U ml U t- It-:. !"!. Au
tl. work Is rnf-'"!, " I
1 1-1 rvn 1 f-t. ..-.! :.-) il-. I
hate li;r t.-.;.. t'wZs. L:rX.
WaU cf mr art: i t 11 tl
11 Uoa4-rl ..l ni . to U..,r
..irai.t.t t twr.J Ccx tlruzh ta
to t:.e Iur. !rr. All yu j b tv to
w to sr. 1 t: nri.- . 's l ci.asi w
ia U. K. style.
lUv;'J-" v.
r.irltoa. i 1 Nasi,v, Z'
nuut, ti r.a-. r-3
l:sa, J r.xlf kTi!,3
lrt.a-a, S-w'.-aa-J r.ll. t J
llr.'rii, J f-z,.:t'i !.
I rail..;:. 3, II 'Ji
irwtt..o, 40 ttakelVrtwt.
li- jlUro, 4 ) IVarrvtW:,
I I -r. : -ct u. :i :;t.3i, ij
HblVsa!. V,;:,3, 2.i
li.r..ro, r . . z.
r. c, rocrixi! is. cvi .?.; u
f.OTICC-
Sm mf- W a ao4. Um4 a ct a i akw.! a
- 4 y. a-.- i(l.m Sw't. t4
smV . t- '. t lUn i J, tJ
at m ti-e I .-. tt U 1 J. i. -x a
t" i . I M a I 4 iwf rww --r j ,
TV ia jvo,l-. 1.
u i. rt-l ' , ki. r
i t. jam L..t" j' .
Goo4 Sample noon.