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GREAT IS THE DOCTOR I He Makes a Blessing of 8cience aid a Benediction of Humbug. Blocking out this letter in my mind, I find it will be chiefly de voted to doctors, although I have no ill will against them. They are of all blessings the greatest in time of nesd. They play the most be nevolent and beautiful confidence game in the world, for they are supposed to know all about things which nobody knows anything about. Most of us know the glori ous relief the doctor brings with him ; for evenwhen he cannot heal the body he brings comfort to the mind and takes responsibility which nobody else can assume. He is a ray of light in dense and dangerous darkness, a kindly guide in a trackless desert. A great power lifting away a pressing weight. - When he says the danger is over or the patient is better, his voice is as sweet as any music chanted by a heavenly choir, and the heart sings jubilant in response to it. He is a elendid institution, a good providence, a present and "potent help in the time of greatest trouble and fear the human life can know. Yet, like men of other trades, when he departs from the sure ground of common -sense and goes to following theories, he is as likely as anybody else to develop himself into a most unreasonable and fantastic asa ; and sometimes he becomes a fakir, consciously or unconsciously. A very eminent specialist read a paper here a few days ago in which he laid it down as a fact that day dreaming air castle building is both a symptom and a cause of in sanity. He knows more about brain cells and nerve structures than I do, of course ; but when he gets into the abstract realms of the human mind we are on equal ground, for both of us must judge from our experience ,and observa tion in life. And I say he is an ass. Nine-tenths of the lunatics in the asylums are people without imagination. Shew me one dream er committed by the judge of pro bate, and I will show vou 10 men and women who' have confined themselves to the hard facts of life and have been driven mad by them. The truthr ie, day dreaming and castle building are reliefs for the mind. The capacity of dream in daylight is the capacity to rest; the castles in the air are castles of refuge in which the tired and op pressed mind may find hiding places, for the time at least, from "swarms of besetting and wounding cares and unfortunate and relent less facts. I believe day dreaming and castle building have saved countless millions of people from lunacy. To get away from things as they are to things as we urould have them is joy and strength. The day dream is a stimulant and a- narcotic for the mind, and as useful and necessary' as' things having the same effect on the body. Of course it can be used to excess and can make minds effeminate and valueless. Of course that hap pens, as it happens that other good things are used to harmful excess, A man died in Bellevue hospital the other day from inordinate tea drinking ; 'as a matter of fact there are doctors who will tell you tea is poison they usually do not use it; just as others will tell you it is not only harmless but' helpful they usually do use it. But, however tolerant of the foibles of other doc tors, I mustlinsist that this alienist I have been talking of is an ass. I am sure he is. Doctors follow fashions as obe diently as the women they deride that is, town doctors do. The country doctors plug along and everybody says they are behind the time: but I notice they pull through about as many of their patients as anybody else does for people who can afford to pay for it. A welkto do young married woman told me a few days ago that a, young woman is not regarded as being in society now unless she has undergone a surgical operation. Nearly every married woman she knew had been cut into one way or another. She had been under the knife twice, and so far as she knew and believed, it was not necessary either time. She told me two stories. One was of a woman who was informed that she had appen dicitis and that an operation was necessary to save her life. Being a very determined woman and hav- jing opinions of her own, she posi- : tively refused to allow a knife near her, and the whole shooting match of consulting M. D.'s abandoned her indignantly. She went to work just as if she had been a poor woman in the country and treated herself, for an old-fashioned case of cramp colic with hot water and flannel and waB well the next day. The doctors could not cut her with knives; but they cut her acquaints ance, and two of them actually re fused to speak to her because she wouldn't die when they eaid she must; and she laughed in their faces. The other storv illustrates the fact that it is not aiwaya the doc tor's fault. A conscious man had a woman patient who insisted that she must undergo an operation. He tried and tried but she would not respond to treatment or get better, and vowed she would die unless operated on. So he gave her chloform and scratched her skin about a sixteenth of an inclj and bandaged it up, and she imme diately got better, and as soon as her suppositious wound healed re covered entirely. She believes un til this day that the operation saved her life and goes around tell ing other women about it, persuad ing them to undergo the same. The doctor doesn't dare undeceive her, and is trying to fight off patients she sends him. These stories not only tell something about doctors; but indicate that a woman will have her way or keep on trying until she thinks she has it. I have always been puzzled by hearing of "daring operations" per formed by eminent surgeons never uave been able to see where the surgeon's "daring" comes Xru He does not risk even censure, for as myfriend House Mover Haynes remarked, the doctor's bad jobs are put six feet under ground and covered with flowers, while those of the carpenter are left in plain view and covered with ignominy and re proach. A. B. Williams' New York letter in Greenvillle, (S. C.) News. - Bridging a Difficulty. Women often find unique ways out of difficulties which would not at all suggest themselves to the masculine mind. This was demon strated satisfactorily recently in arranging the details for the great white ribbon conclave of the Wo man's Christian Temperance Union at Seattle, in October next. It was found that the eastern women could not reach their destination from Chicago, where they will assemble preliminarily for the western trip, without traveling on Sunday, and this they would not consent to do. How to get around the difficulty was a puzzle which troubled the brain of more than one feminine engineer. It was considered use less to think of sending the eastern delegates into .Settle three or four days before the convention began, and it would not do to get them in too late. "Finally,"" says Mrs. Helen M. Barker "the difficulty was solved by deciding to sidetrack the train" for the sacred hours of the day of rest. "We do not know," she says, "where we will be when the clock strikes 12 October 14, but wherever we are there we will stop." "We will sidetrack the train at Saturday midnight," said Mrs. L. M. N. Stevens, the national presi dent, "and the next day we will proceed to paint that part of the country white." It is not clear, however, that the long monotony of a quiet Sabbath on the sidetrack of the railroad in some desolate re gion of the far west will not dim the" white appreciably. One may imaginze things will look a little blue during the long wait. But the happy way has been found to avoid the dreadful deed of travel ing on the Sabbath, and the end justifies the means of obtaining the object. The Sabbatarians will have the Sabbath all to themselves, and nobody to disturb them in their enjoyment, of its absolute posses sion. The women are to be con gratulated on the way the problem was solved. :" Hard Times at Manila. Sioux City, la., June 30. P. S. Consedine, a man exceptionally well informed concerning Philip pine affairs, is a visitor in Sioux City. He was at Manila at the time of its capture by Admiral Dewey. Of existing conditions in the island, he said: "Of course, no one imagines that the boys have been having a play spell. But it is realized that there are whole regi ments which can't line up to exceed twenty - men to the company. Re member, most of the South Dakota, Kansas and Montana troops have been through fourteen hot fights under a broiling sun and in a mur derous climate. "It is a commonplace remark among the volunteers that their superiors' policy is to sacrifice them kill them off, most of them call it because they will not be long available, and the regulars' ranks must be kept unbroken in antici pation of the time they will be left alone. "The volunteer officers generally feel differently from the men. Some of them are drawing better salaries than they ever got before and have the additional incentive of prospective glory and promotion. " "Otis has made five separate and distinct campaigns, and each has absolutely failed of its avowed ob jectthe destruction of Aguinal do's army. The natives are as fresh and full of fight as ever, and Aguinaldo can get five times as many recruits as he can suppy witb arms." Hot7 a Filipino Dies. The general, in a white hat, was marching in advance of the firing line, when the discharge of a rifle was heard in the yard of a house next to the road. Several soldiers rushed into the yard, but not in time to prevent two more shots, which came whizzing in the direc- tion oi tne general. At this mo ment I came to a break in the, hedge where I could see what was going on. A young Filipino was about thirty yards off. He was turning this way and that like an animal at bay, thoroughly fright ened. He had a rifle in bis hand. It afterwards turned out that this rifle was choked. The soldiers were breaking down the high hedge to get in. Suddenly the Filipino made a run for life. He got through the hedge some way and dashed across an open field. Three shots followed, all of which took effect. The wounded man turned, ran side ways a few paces, lay down on the grouna, ana a second alter was dead.i I got a good sight of the whole incident, and so naturally did the Filipino stretch himself along the ground and rest his bead upon his arm that I thought he was shamming. An examination a minute later proved that he was dead. There is this difference be tween the manner in which Ameri can and Filipino soldiers diet the American falls in a heap and dies hard; the Fillipino stretches him self, out, ana wnen dead is always found in some easy attitude, gen erally with his head on his arms. They die the way a wild animal dies in j ust such a position as one finds a deer or an antelope which one has shot in the woods. John F. Bass, in Harper's Weekly. I i WJiatis aSpendthrift? j A Chicago court is just now en gaged 4n seeking an answer to the question as to what constitutes a spendthrift. The issue has arisen out of the Benedict will case, on trial in that city. Mrs. Benedict, who died in Paris, left an estate of $600,000, to be held in trust for her son, out of which the young man received an annual income of $20,000. He now sues for the whole estate, ami the trustee resists, saying that Palmer is a spendthrift because he has spent $100,000 in two years." The defense, in outlining the case, attempted to prove that the com plainant lost $50,000 , in three months on the New York Stock Exohange. Taken altogether, the question is a peculiar one. There are many men in Chicago who might give Valuable information as to the spending of money. No doubt there would be a wide difference of opinion between the views of Joe Leiter, the great wheat plunger, and those of Mr. Dooly, who has become so famous through the Writing of Mr. Dunn. Somewhere between the views of Leiter and Dooly we might find a safe line, beyond which the . region of the spendthrift might be reached, and under which a character for chrif tinees would be gained. There are millions of men throughout the United States today, who, in their anxiety to be counted conservative, are anxious to know if it would be safe for them to spend as much as $50,000 a year. Of course there are those who would not pass the 50 cent limit ; but these people are penurious. A Cheap Trip to the Pacific Coast. The National Education Association meeting at Los Angeles, Cal., is the oc casion for the Southern Railway to put on the remarkably cheap rate of one fare for the round trip , (plus $2.00 As sociation Membership fee). This, in connection with the new palace tourist sleeping cars, Operated over the South ern Railway and the Southern Pacific, a double berth in which costs only $7.00, renders possible the cheapest and most enjoyable trip of the season. A particularly pleasant feature of this trip is that the tickets are good going one way and returning another ; I. e., going via New Orleans and returning through Salt Lake City and Colorado ; or by the payment of $12.50 addition al, the. trip may be made returning through Portland, Ore. " ; Stop over privileges are allowed at EI Paso or any point west thereof, on the going trip, and at any point west of Denver and Colorado Springs on the the return trip. By this means pas sengers are afforded the opportunity of seeing the entire Pacific Coast. Side trips are arranged at nominal cost from Los Angels and San Francisco to all points of interest in California, j Further information may be obtain ed from any agent or representative of the Southern Railway, or from ! A. J. POTSON, " ..'' General Agent, j 511 Penn. Ave., ! Washington, D. C. ," We hare sold many different cough remedies, but none has given better satisfaction than Chamber lain's," 8 ay 8 Mr. Charles Holzhauer, Druggist, Newark, N. J. "It is perfectly safe and can be relied upon in all cases of coughs, colds or hoarseness. Sold by C. E. Hoi ton. j The Care of the Byes. On arising in the morning the eyes should be bathed gently in cold water twenty "passes": are said to be decidedly strengthening. While using them closely ithjey should be rested at intervale of an hour or two1, for the strain of con stant reading or sewing is like that of extending the arms at a certain height immovable. Imagine then the taxing of the eyes, which can not complain save after years of irreparable neglect. When dust settle in the eyes warm water: will sooth them of any inflammation; rose-water is extremely refreshing, but it should be bought in small quantities, as it keeps but a short time. Five cents' worth will give a daily eye bath for several weeks. Tea leaves and alum-water jwere the eye tonics which our grand fathers used ; but in these modern days of absolute hygenic and anti septic simplicity, water. esDeciallv in a distilled form, is considered strong enough. Harper's Bazar. A Good Family Medicine. W. Lee Wilmoth, Top of Alleghany, West Va , writes : "I have used Ra mon's Liver Pills and Tonic Pellets for the past five years in my family. I do not hesitate to sav that thev are the best. They are mild in action, splen did in effect, besides being pleasant to case ana requiring one only at a dose. To all who are unable to pav large doctor's bills I Would sav. alwava keen a box of Ramon's Liver Pills In the house to use in case of necessity. For sale oynowara uaruner. An Apt Answer. St. Mary's; W. Va., a little town, which has elumbered in a little valley for a century or bo, has for fifty years had an unwritten law that no colored man should! live within its j' boundaries. A negro cook located in the village a few days ago, and the populace have notified him to quit, besides at tempting to mob him. The inhab itants of St. Mary's are evidently the same rugged old citizens who still vote for Andrew Jackson! and J ! have never heard that there; had been a wari Chisago ! Daily News. It might be added that their views in regard to the colored brother are similar to those held in certain communities in Illinois, which now; vote for McKinley and are fully aware of the fact that a war is in j progress between the United States and a foreign people. Charlotte Observer. THE TORCH TO POWDER, j Touch a lighted torch to the contents of a powder mill and up it goes! But it isn't the torch that blows up the mill; it's the pow der. The stuff is all; ready to ex plode. It! only needs one touch of fire to start it. When a man's blood is all ripe and ready for dis ease it only needs a little touch to start him going. Maybe he gets a slight cold, srets wet feet or sits in a draft ; then off he goes into a gal loping consumption. I i But it isn't the draft that does it; that only starts him. His blood was all ready for it in the first place. It was thick with bilious poisons ; clogged with germs, of disease all ready to be roused into fatal activity at the least touch. I j j ' My wife had a severe attack1 of pleurisy and lung trouble," says Abram Freer, Eso., of Rock bridge, Greene Co., 111., in a thankful letter to Dr. R. V. Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y. " The doctors gave her up to die. She commenced taking Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and she be gan to improve from the first dose. By the time she had taken eight or ten bottles she was cured, and it was the cause of a large amount being sold here. I think the Golden Medical Discov ery is the best medicine in the world for lung trouble."; '.. j" ' ' i '' I Not only for lung trouble is it the : most wonderful medicine in the world, but for every form of weakness and debility. It redeems the very sources of life from these subtle poisonous taints which lay the sys tem open to dangerous disease. It gives digestive power ; helps the liv:r to do its work; enriches the blood; builds up solid strength and vital force. ) When you I find yourself losing flesh and appetite ; growing listless by day? and sleepless by night there is an enemy lurking ready .to apply the j torch. Write to Dr. Pierce. Your letter will be con sidered strictly confidential and he makes no charge for advice. His great thousand-page book, The People's Com mon Sense Medical Adviser, will be sent free paper-bound for the bare cost of mail ing, 21 one - cent stamps, or cloth -bound for 31 stamps. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y. I i Notice by Publication. Action Concerning Real Estate, j . Domenica I.uchi, Thomas Luchi, Bafaella Ra- vina and Bettmi Francesco, 1 . Gioranni Rossi, G. Emsley Donnell, R D. Pat terson ana wife Annie f atterson, w. n. ian gon, J. F. Jordan and wife, Mary W. Jordan. In this action it aDDearintr to the satisfaction of the court, by affidavit, that W. 11. Lanron, one of the defendants, cannot after due dili gence be found in toe state, but is a resident or tne state oi rennsyirania; mat eaia w. 11. Langon is a proper and necessary party to said actibn; and that the nature of the action is real property, the purpose of the action being to de termine the various interests oi the parties thereto in two certain tracts of land situated in Guilford county, North Carolina adjoining the lands of Ed. Lambeth, John Barker and others, and known as part of the Donnell tract, con taining 400 acres more or less; and to require the defendants to make and deliver to the plaintiffs good and sufficient titles to two hun dred and twenty acre of said tra?ts, in accord ance with written agreement between the Jtarties; and to exclude the said W. II. Langon rom any interest or lien in the said 220 acres: It is ordered by the court that publication ; be made once a week for eix weeks in the Greens boro Patbiot, a newspaper published in Guil ford county, N. C, requiring the said W. II. Langon to be and appear at the next term of the Superior court of Guilford county, to be held in the court house in Greensboro, on the list day of August, 1-09, and then and there answer or demur to the complaint herein to be filed, or the ease will be proceeded with as if personal service of snmnions had been 'made upon the said W. II. Langon. i Given under my hand at office at Greensboro in aid county thit 27th day of J one, 27-Ct JNO. J. NELSON, C. S. C. i A BLESSING TO AI1Y j- ---- - Bound hand and foot to household drudgery, scrub bing an4 rubbing day In, day out. Women, rhy do you do it? Break away from the hard old-fashioned way of doing your cleaning with soap, i w ccoaomj obj our urgt package. The N. K. Fairbank Company ( Cm ( ta y- r for Infants and Children, . i Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oif P goric. Drops and Soptliin-SjTups. It Is Pleasant, n contains neither Opium, Morphine iior other Xarfot u substance. It destroys ; Worms and allays FevorisluuiS ' It cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. It relieves TV ing Troubles and cures Constipation. It resuiateH ti,! Stomach and Bowels, pivnr healtliy and natural sice 2 iThe ChUdren's Panacea The Mothcr'sHFrieml. r The Kind You Have Always Bears the In Use For tmc etwnuw eewnwr, tt Hold On! Don't Despair VICE'S LITTLE LIVES PILLS &5c. Vial, has cured others and will cure you of Constipation and.ir ttteodtt.: evils. This pill is a Vegetable Tonic Laxative, the purest prescription knoia to medical science. Never gripes child or adult. Trial vial 25c. Sold by drur gists and merchants, or sent on receipt of price. THE L. RICHARDSON DRUG CO, AVHOLESALE AND MANUFACTURING DRUGGISTS. '.. QBEE1TSBOBO, 2lT. C. 1 ! 0 "r uu Insure your property against fire and see before placing; it, t&d OUR RATES. We have strong companies, and all busiriess ea- get trusted to us will have prompt and OPPOSZT22 BEN330"WiE0"rj"SE. 0 () IfO fi If you intend to holld or enlarge your house, come to us tor an estimate on Material. JWq will surprise you on prlces.-We make a specialty or Now don't think for a minute can do business on that basis. ii'1 we can show you the largest stock in the South. u J Guilford Lumber Company, GreensboroX. C Is it Lumber Fou T7s7"e 3a.a.Tre It all Iri r d n'Jtta.rrxlTLgS&T'GO. nLoorl33.gr, Colll2ior, also tiio.'foeot licart zt-rco. press stn.d. Tunlpor and sa"wed Pino .Slilss-u cj Sash, Doors and Blinds in stock. Work and all kinds of house nnish made If you are going to build anything trom a hen house to a tniiiKJ , us. We can fix you up and the price will be right. .' LDtef of Cur country friends will find ther can reach our yard frMu town by crossine fewer railroads than okpe Pear 3a JOHN A. HODOnT, Secretary mnini nTTTr nnnrv H hA f I j hi I ft If We solicit the trade of this custom work. Ve make a specialty Ground" Flours, Meal, d-c, which Bemember the place, The Mill GUILFORD ROLLER Children Cry for HOME i I ' n Bought m 0 Signature of Over 30 Years. wu TrvT, wcw vpwn tm. - careful attention., ' i BOYD & GLENN, Room No. 6 Ivatz IUildixo. we are selling helow coot, a no fine; Our motto : Large sales, small-profits. Door and Window Fram.-, Slant - f i r- to order. " ' , e t? any other. Comeio we ,u.: - fact - u.xirig", aad Treiswr, Greesst:::, Ti m I TTT) 1 Itm-jLMVU' andTguaranteeatrt of "Our Paten npv cannot Hi-S 03 c" R DOLLARS; MM S LLUuyi section eu. ! for the money can at the Depot Pitcher's Castor ia
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