THE SEMI-WEEKLY HOBES0NIAN
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
A. MeLNi
IcLEil, IcLEAI 4 IcCORIICI,
ATTOKNKVS AT LAW,
LfMBKRTON. N C.
Ufa.- on .'u.l flour of iiauk of Laui
trloa Hallding, Kuomi 1,3, 3, A 4 J
Itjiu( '.trntUiD given to til buaiuea.
T ALLkV
V 1. CSTI .KSl'BV.
Pi SKY PILOT
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i HALTH COJVMOU
"Tfc H ffa Clwvrf
J 'X!tr,SkJDajS"BJM4 ."
f umt. if. iu . ewu oaarui
riiAlTKU I.
TIH nxiTltlllJl cot TT.
Drs. Allen & Castlebury, f n Ikyom. n. Bre.t pr.n
LUMBERTON, N. C.
Office over Ir. McMillm'i Irux Store.
Phones Office, 4J ; Rrulenc, 94-
c.
H. LENNON, D.D.S.,
DKNTIST,
Rowi.am, N. C.
DR. J. D. REGAN,
DENTIST,
Lt'M BKHTON, N. C.
Office in
Shaw building,
drug store.
over Pope'
Dr. F. H. PITMAN,
DENTIST,
ASH POLE. " N.
J. J. FREESLAND,
Jeweler and Optician
Rowland, N. C.
a. C. UWllirCI
STirai McIsttii.
Mclntyre & Lawrence,
ATTORlfaYS AT LAW,
Lambert on, N. C
R. E. LEE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Somas, Nos. : and a. McLeod Building,
LUM3F.RTON. N. C.
D. P. SHAW,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
LUMBERTON, N. C.
Office over Pope's Drug Store.
Practice in all the Courtj.
Norman McLean,
Tmiorial Artist,
XSflPOLE, .... N. C.
Shop fronting; posteffice.
Itim and
I locales
lie the foothllla For l uille
the prairies aprvnd theuiielve
out In uit level rva ha. oml llicu t
(hi to (limb over softly rouiidrd
mound tlist ever grow higher and
liiirjMT till, b-rv an1 there, they breafc
IlltO Jugged pullll Ulld ut luiit rvl UHlt
tin great bu, of Hie in! shly moun
tain. Tin- nuuidi-d bill that Jim) j
the prairie to th,e mountalna fortu the j
foothill country. They riti-nd for 1
t!)iit m I iriilrwl mile only, but no'
Sthor hundrrO miles of tii great ff
urn ki full of Interest and romance.
Tin natural features of the country
combine tin- In-autlra of prnlrlc and of
mountain scenery. There ure valleys
w id.- tliat t Li further side melts Into
the horizon, and uplands so vast as
to suggest the unbroken prnlrle. .Ware:
the mountains the volleys dip deep mid
ever deeper till they narrow Into can
q 1 vonn through which inountnln torrents
, pmr their t)lue gray waters from
1 glaclcra that Up glistening between the
! white peaks far away.
1 Here are the treat ranges on which
I fe-d herds of cattle and horses. Here
I are the homes of the ranchmen. In
1 whose wild. fre lonely existence there
I mingles much of the tragedy und
j comedy, the humor and pathos, that go
I to make up the romance of life. Anionic
I them are to be found the most cnter-
prising, the most daring, of the peoples
I of the old hinds. The broken, the out
cast, the disappointed these too have
found their way to the ranches nnioiiR
the foothills. A country It Is whose
sunlit hills and shaded valleys reflect
themselves hi the lives of Its people,
for nowhere are the contrasts of light
and shade more vividly seen than In
the homes of the ranchmen of the Al
bertas. The experiences of iuy life hnve con
firmed In me the orthodox conviction
that Providence sends his rain upon
the evil as ujioii the good; else I should
never have set my eyes upon the foot
hill country, nor touched Its fascinating
life, nor come to know and lore tbe
most striking man of all that group of
striking men of the foothill country
the dear old Pilot, as we came to call
him long afterward. My first year In
college closed In gloom. My guardian
was la despair. From this distance
of years I nlty him. Then I considered
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1,1m itnmuwuarllv vinrwrnl ntvint inn
ABERDEEN AND ROCKFISB .- f
I suesrestod. The Invitation from Jack
RAILROAD CO.
TIM TABLE IS KFFKCT A f'(i. IS. lwM
Daily except 8undj. Mall and Bxpre s. No..
Leare Aberdeen. S J" a. m ;lere Leivttt.
S. ib a. m.: leave J notion, S..';l m.; !ee
MoptroHe. K.iOi. m.; leave TlmtierlanH. V IS a.
m. ; leare Raeford a. m . tear Dundar
rogh. 9.fo a. m. leave Araht. I '.c) ni. : leu-
Bockflsh, 10.15 m : leav lreefali. 10 5 a.
m ; arrive Hope Mil; j. 11. IS a. n..
Daily except 8undy Mall and Eiti-m. So. .
Leave Hope Mills. I t w : leve T'eefaH.
J.SO o. m.; leave hiK-k.lsh. MS n. in.: leave
Arabia, 2." p. m . ; 'me Itundarrfli. J 1" n.
m.; leave Raeford. :i "0 n. 111 ; leuve 1 tail -r-land,
. n. ni.: Ive Mimtr e. x i p. m.;
leave Junction. .1 is p. n.: l've Ledvlttj. l.lu
p. m . : arrive Aberdeen. p. at.
All trains mm nn over Betliesda Hi1' must
be under perfect contrm. C N. HLI'K.
,en"-l Surrtlfei.ietif.
Approved: JOHN BLI' K. l'ies;deM.
FOR SALE HOl'SE AND LOT ?ITL"
ated in beit portion of town. House
contains seven room-, water worksard
electric liht. Pientv roo;:i in atiic
for two more largt rooms. T. A. Ni r
tnent, Jr. au 30 tf
First-class Harness work done to slay
done by a man th it knows the businesi
at Webster's Tin Shop.
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We are
Pushing Paint
Th" uinting season is at
hariv and we are ready to
supply your needs with
The
SHEHrtlN-WlLUAMS
Paints
Let us figure on the paint
for your house. S. W. P. will
prove the best and most
economical paint vou can
buy.
Full color cards for the
t -sking.
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SOLD IT.
Dale, a distant cousin, to spend a sum
mer with him on his ranch lu south
Alberta came in the nick of time. I
was wild to go. My guardian hesitated
long, but no other solution of the prob
lem of tuy dlsiMMal offering, he finally
agreed that I could not well get Into
more trouble by going than by staying?
Hence it was that. In the early sum
mer of one of the eighties. I found my
self attached to a Hudson Hay com
pany freight train. inaUIng our way
from a little railway town In Montana
toward the Canadian boundary.
' Our train consisted of six wagons
; and fourteen yoke of oxen, with three
i cityuses. in charge of a French half
i breed :: ud his son. a lad cf i bout six
teen. Wo made slow enough progress,
but owry hour of the long day. iroia
the dim. gray, misty light of dawn to
the soft glow of shado wy evening, was
1 full of new delights to me. On the
evening of the third day we reached
the line Stopping Flace, where .lack
' Dale met u. 1 remember well how iny
heart beat with admirutlon of the
I easy grace with which he sailed down
, upon us in the loose Jointed cowboy
style, swinging his own bronco and
the little cay use he was leading Tor me
into the circle of the wagons, careless
of ropes and freight and other Im
pedimenta. He Bung himself off before
his bronco had come to a stop and gave
me a grip that made me sure of my
welcome. It was years since he b-d
seen a man from home, and the eaer
Joy in his eyes told of long days and
nights of lonely' yearning for the old
days and the old faes.
I came to understand this better aft
er my two years' stay among these
hills that have a strange power on
some days to waken in a man longings
that make his heart grow sick. When
! supper was over we gathered about the
! little tire while Jack and the half
! breed smoked and talked. I lay on my
back looking up at the pale, steady
stars in the deep blue of the cloudless
sky and listened in fullness of con
tented delight to the chat between Jack
and the driver. Now and then I asked
a Question, but not too often. It Is a
listening silence that draws tales from j
a western man, not vexing questions.
This much I had learned already from j
iny three days' travel. So I lay and
listened, and the tales of that night are
mingled with the warm evening Hghts
and the pale stars and the thoughts of j
home that Jack's coming seemed to
bring. I
Next morning before sunup we had (
broken camp and were ready for our
fifty mile ride. There wai a slight dri
7.1 e of rain and. though rain and thine
were alike to him. Jack Insisted that I
should wear my mackintosh. This gar
ment was quite new and had a loose
lirtW anliuAj, with oor white In hit
eye lUa I cared to a. Altutlber. I
did m draw loaard him. Nuf did L
to ii apparently. I'r am I took tiliu
ty the bridle he auortrd aud aid led
about Willi (rrat awlfllteM aud aloud
fai-lnf me with hla ft I planted nruily
In front of hlui as If prepared to tr
)t uirDurr of any kind a.wvrr. 1
tried to approach hliu with auulhlnf
worda, but ho peralatrntly backed away
until we ttd idutnt ! each other
at the utmoat diliM of Lla out
atrrti tied n. k and uiy oulatrrlchrd
nini
A I tlila point Jack came to my aaaUt
niti-e. cot the itony by th other aid of
(he hrldle ami held him faal Ull 1 '"
Into laxltlon to mount. Takluf Arm
trip of the horn of the Mexlcau saddle
I threw my W over hla back. The
next Instant I wna dying over bis head
My only emotion wit one of surprise.
tbe thins was ao unexpected. 1 had
fancied mjavlf a fair rider, bavin had
experlemv of fanners' colta of dive
klnda. but Ihla was something quite
new. The hnlf breed atood looking on,
mildly Interested; Jack was smiling,
but the Uiy was grinning with delight
'Til take the 1 1 1 T I - beast." an Id Jac'i
Hut the grinning ixiy h raced lue up and
I replied as cnrcleanly a my shaking
voice won lil allow :
"oh, I guess I'll manage him," and
once more cot Into position, lint no
sooner had 1 got Into the saddle than
, the iHiny sprang straight up Into the
i air and Ut with hi buck curved Into a
bow, hit four leg gathered together
and bo absolutely rigid that th' shock
made my teeth rattle. It was my first
experience of "bucklnc." Then the Ut
tie brute went seriously work to get
rid of the rustling, dapping thing on
hla back. He would back steadily for
some seconds, then, with two or three
forward plunges, he would atop as If
hot and spring straight Into the upper
air, lighting w ith hack curved .and legs
rigid as Iron. Then be would walk on
hla hind legs for a few steps, then
throw himself with amazing rapidity
to one side and again proceed to buck
with vicious diligence.
"Stick to him!" yelled Jack through
shouts of laughter. "You'll make him
sick before long!"
I remember thinking that unless his
lnsldes were somewhat moro dellcatPly
organized than his external appearance
would lead one to suppose the chances
were that the little brute would be the
last to succumb to sickness. To make
matters worse, a wilder jump than
ordinary threw my cape up over my
head, so that I was in complete dark
ness. And now be had me at his mercy,
and he knew no pity. He kicked and
plunged and reared and bucked, now
on his front legs, now on bis bind legs,
often on his knees, while I In darkness
could only cling to the born of tbe sad
dle. At last. In one of tbe gleams of light
that penetrated the folds of my envel
oping cape, I found that tbe bora bad
slipped to bis side, so tbe next time be
came to hla knees I threw myself off.
I am anxious to make this vlnt clear,
for from the expression of tnumph on
tbe face of the grinning boy and bis
encomiums of tbe pony I gathered that
be scored a win for the cayuae. Wlth-
..... r. 1 1 . . 1 . . hml. fiAAHnliul
for some seconds to buck amf plunge by which you aretrobably known
walk rnxn the hilltops we caught
giliupw of little lake covered with
wild fowl that shrieked and squawked
ud aplaahed, rarrlraa of danger Now
a ad tbea we saw what made a black
put again! tbe given of tbo prairie,
and Jack told me II wa a ram her'
aback. How remote from tb great
world, a'ud bow Uiurly It avemed bl
little black aback among Ihese tuultl
ludtnoua hills!
I shall never forgrt tbe summer even
ing when Jack and I ride Into Hwao
Creek I aay Into, but the tillage was
almost entirety one of Imagination. In
that It cnlted of the Stopping Place,
a long log building, a story and a half
high, with itablea behind, and the atore
In which the pot office wa kept and
over which tbe owner dwelt Hut tbe
situation was one of great beauty. Oo
one aide the prairie rauibl d down
from the hill and then stretclud away
la lawny level Into tho ruity purple
at tlie Itorlsun; on the other It clamber-j
ed over tfie round. uiiny top to tbe
dim blue of tbe mountain leyond
In this world, where it I Iniposalble
lo reach absolute vnluc. we an forced
to bold thing relatively, and In con
trait with the long, lonely mile of our
ride during the day these two house,
with their outbuilding, seemed a cen
ter of life. Some horse were tied to
the rail that ran along In front of tbe
Stopping Place.
"Hello!" anld Jack. "I guess the No
ble Seven are In tow n."
"And who arc they?" I asked.
"Oh." he replied, with a shrug, "they
are the elite of Hwan Creek, and, by
Jove," he added, "this must bo a per
mit night."
"What does that mean?" I asked, as
we rode up toward the tie rail.
"Well," said Jack In a low tone, for
some men were standing about ine
door, "you aee, this Is a prohibition
country, but when one of the boys feels
as if he were going to hare a spell of
Icknesa he gets a permit to bring in a ,
few gallons for medicinal purposes,
and. of course, tho other boys being
similarly exposed, he Invites them to i
assist him In taking preventive meas- j
urcs, and," added Jack, wltb a solemn
wink, "it Is remarkable. In a healthy
country like this, how many epidemics I
come near catching us." ,
And with this mystifying explanaUon
we joined the mysterious Company of
tbe Noble Seven. I
(to bk coti.iud.
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ROWLAND, NORTH CAROLINA
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Puzzling Figures and a Joke.
rut down tbe veir vou were
born ; add 4.
Then add your age at your next
birthday, provided it cornea be
fore Jan. 1; otherwise your laat
birthday.
Multiply the relt by 1,000.
From this subtract 014,428.
Substitute for tbe resulting fig
ures tbe corresponding letters of
tbe alphabet A for 1, B for 2. C
for 3, etc.
The result will give tin name
even after my dismounting as If he
were some piece of mechanism that
must run down before It could stop.
By this time I was sick enough and
badly shaken In my nerve, bat the trl-
L. : 1 i
This trick is given to suit the.
year 1905
For li0i and for e ery year af
ter that add an additioual 1,000 to j
he arnouut to be subtracted viz, j
for 1J0 ' make it fiy.Vl23, ami so j
on. !
Try this trick aud see how it
works. I
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Agricultural Supplies.
AGENCY FOR THE
GeleDratedflome Harrow,
Lovell Diamond Bicycles,
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Shields Hats.
We thank onr friends and customers for their liberal patronage
during past years, and beg to assure them that no pains will be
spared in our efforts to please them in the future
Yours Anxious to Please.
JNO. W. WARD, North CaroHiS
Do You Contemplate Building?
Vr. prr Treatment of Pneumonia.
Pneumonia is tco dangerous
I If so it will V e to your interest to see me before
buying your n aterial. I am now prepared to fur-
nish weather boarding. GermanSiding Sash, Doors.
iso for anyone to attempt to doctor j f t anything needed for a plain building except
elf, although he may have the .- ' j J . v e. T T . & .
trren.ed.es at hand a physician brick and metal roofing. I guarantee the price of
1 cane which rustled as I moved toward
R. G. Rozier, Lumberton m . h was an ugiy looting
"Stick to him!" yelled Jack.
uniphant shouts and laughte of the
boy and the complacent smiles on the
faces of Jack and the half breed stirred
my wrath. I tore oft the cape and. hav
ing got the saddle put right, seized
Jack's riding whip, and. disregarding
his remonstrances, sprang on my steed
once mor. and before he could make
113 his mind as to his line of action plied
him so vigorously with the rawhide
that he set off over tbe prairie at full
gallop and in a few minutes came
round to the camp quite subdued, to
the boy's great disappointment f-od to
my own great surprise. Jack was high
ly pleased, and even the stolid face of
tbe half brevd showed satisfaction.
"Don't think I put this up on you,"
Jack said, "it was that cape. He
ain't used to such frills. But It was a
circus," he added, going off Into a fit
of laughter, "worth $5 any day."
"You bet!" said the half breed. "Dat's
make pretty beeg fun. ehT"
It seemed to me that it depended
soniowhat upon the point of view, but
I merely agreed with him. only too
glad to be so well out of the fight
All day we followed tbe trail that
wound along the shoulders of tb round
topped mils or down tnelr long slopes
Into the wide, grassy valleys.
Reflections of a Bachelor.
A crood wav to resneot people is
not to get t o intimate with them
You can put it down for a fact
that when a husband and wife get
aong together they don't have to
keep telling ever if body so.
A girl can get so mad with you
for mussing up her hair tbat she
will forget to be mad with you for
tbe reason you did it.
Women have extracted more val
ue and happiness from a cook
book than from a'I the works that
ever were written on mental pbilo
sophy.
H.
disease Ic
himself,
firnrvi
f - r 1 J 1 4 -1 L 1 C J Jl .11 1 ,
should always bo diied. it shooid an materiai uO D6 sausiacfcorj- aua win oe pleased,
be bom iu mind however, that yiieu-, to quote you on application. Very Truly,
mo'mia always results from a cold or Oct 4 tt J T BRYANT
from an attack of the grip, and that
by giving Chamberlan's X3oUgh ; J ' , .
Remedy the threatened attack of
pnenmoniama? be warded off. This
remedy is also used by physicians in
tbe treatment of pneumonia with the
best iesults. Dr W. J. Smith, of
Sanders. Ala., who is also a druggist,
says of it: "I have been selling
Chamberlaid's Cough Remedy aud
prescribing it my practist for the past
six years. I used it in cases of pneu
monia and have always gotten the
best results,'' Sold by Dr. H. T. Pope
& Co. an Dr. R. G. Rozier
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Congress is now wresting vigor-
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and tbere tbe valleys were cot through a f 1 bill stretch far enough tocOT-
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