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is the Organ of th
Farmers' Alliance' iji
6 th and 7th Consreie-
sional Districts.
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VOL XXI1V- THIRD SERIES.
SALISBURY, N C, THURSDAY JANUARY 27 1893.
NO 12
fcAuiUtaahaa
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Castoria is Xrf Samuel Pitcber prescription fof Infanta
and Children. It contains neither Opiam, Morphine nor
other Narcotic substance. It is a lirmlesa substitute
lor Parcorlc Props, Soothing Syrupsand Castor Oil ,
It is Pleasant. Its guarantee is thirty years use by
Millions of Mothers. Castoria is the Children's Panacea
the Mother's Friend.
Castoria; - . Castoria,
-Castoria km frrfl adapted toduWrea that Catorla cures Colic, Constipation,
i recommend it aa superior toany prescription Sour Stomach, Uuurucca, jsruc-auon.
known to me." II. A. Aacuzit, ai. v., -
111 So. Oxford St., Brooiaj-n, i. tuuu.
Y ttnouv injurious meajcauoa.
"The use of 'Castoria Ma sotoilversal and
Ita merits so well known that it aoeiiu a work
of supererogation to endorse it. Few are the
Intelligent families who' do not keep Castoria
within easy reach."
Cabiz Uabttic, D. D.,
' New York City.
The Good fllatiV liogpoiise.
Last Sunday morningj Deacon Smith
" In serrice slept HWiUie,
And Deacon Jone sat cbing liira.
" With grira'mali.ioiis m le,
Which broadened whn the preacher cried,
ily friends the Lorjd do b call." .
And Deacon Smith but half awake,
Said, '-One small pair that's all."
. . : - v Ex,
----n? -. . .
t.nvnl rwrh:in vnii thOMCTlif. tinr. nf thorn niirsii
....... j.. ...... , -- - r-- - MI A tJVIUU Wltl I'CISOIllll
i ti ii i t . - v. . r:.
ex-
ABccdi.te of t-orcufco Dow. .
A farmer came to; Lorenzo Dow one
iiiDrnintr is he was foreoarinj' to Dreach
before a large 'country audience and foundation, the 'stepping Mones to
said. ,T'' . i
Tof aoreral years I havd recommended
your ' Castoria,' and shall always continue tc
do as It Las Invariably produced beneficia
results." - ' ,
Enwnf F. TAanEE, II. .
125th Street and 7th Av., New York City
Th Ckntacb Cokpaht, 77 Mctuut Street, New York Cut
- in i iiittt tiii aw VAinraelf and fa:
IIt titt the hM for your mocy.
yL..mica la Toar ftwerbr parchmla
w:i7. Doarlaa Saoea, which repreaeat the
Vio for prices asked, mm thoaaaada
.p3rx3tSKS KO SUBSTITUTE. 1
w f
Advice to "Womeh
- If you would protect yourself
from Painful, Profuse, Scanty,
Suppressed or Irregular Men
struation you" must use
to four
The first sfeisp obedience obedience
in the little things as welhis the great
er ones -oliediencc, to those wlio hare
htithoritj over you whoever that ruay
be. Obedience to"lhet youth '.ii what
i he prim iry scliO.il is t the scholar, the
fu-
ttue knowledgpfir&tf willies, and integ-
"Mr. Dow. I am tbld vou can tell a nty. iKH yn
sinner by.hw hok.,liind can tU a thief, , The next round in the -ladder of life
by his couiiteuauceii Now, sir, I; have .l":; '- .Fr Gd ahi: keep his e;maiatid-
lKid h excellent nxstolen ffroHtfue, menM." iThen when the evil days
hiid I S'lialPbe forever -gralef ul--if you eoiue and triaU. aud ileiuptatlou and
will point out to nib the ruhCal. who the feelings" with. wifictryoa-varep-
tiiokit, us in all probability he .willbe pressed because of heavy trials. Each
at your meeting to-day, judging from victory will help to gaiu some other!
the crowd that is coming." Have au aim in life. Set uj a stan-
Lorenzo was not the man to deny diint Jina try to rech it :y ail possible
the nosession of anv wondtrful facultv means, provulmji they are' legitimate.
that the pe. p'e chose to ascribe him, so Have perse vera nee.
lie told llie tarmer ue would get nis iununnivw uiaii) iuiu wmcu jiu
axe. Lorenzo mounted the pulpit, have be;uu until ou have given it at
took out of his pocket a stone as big least a fair trial, mid prove whether or
hU KsK hiid it bv Hip. Hibl. an 1 ho you are capable of materini: that
i-nninienoHd th HxnrctisHS of thedav. I which YOU have undertaken.
" - - . , -
His sermon was on the subject of
and!, will have become so wovennto- pendilure hvour irilt
your nature that vou will find it an im- . The heroic w.tr. To limit our
Mssibility t break' loose" from them, penditure to a certain uhr, aiid give
and you '-will look'-; regretfully back, away all the rest of our income. This
wishing that you had taketrmore heed ' was John. Wesley s way.
(n viiii u'.ia I "V L" ' i
v : .
ex
ile Had a Limit.
The dude w& visiting the penitenti
ary accompanied by uti official and a
newspaper man, and the party wtre
talking to one of the prisoners.
"H ive a cigarette?' said the dude as
they were about to' depart, offering
him the package.
uMuch obliged," resnondetl the pris
oner, shaking liin he;td. "I've stoln
hosses and robbed clii ken roosts and
broke into houses and killed a man or
two and had'fouror, five wives . and
made counterfeit mbney,Tut I never
anioked cigarettes, and heaven- helpin
-me I never will. So long," and the
cell do.r went to with a bang ai pro
nounced as the one the dirde wore in
his hair. Detroit Free Pre.f.
Farming is a business mid the man
who would make a real success of it
nowadays must be a good business
manager. Besides buingaud selling
There is another important feature atid the employment of labor, there ar-
all the sins mentioned in the decalogue, too often disregarded. Look not upon the plant ng cuDivutmgaml Harvesting
and he went on to give proofs from his- the wmecup,for in its sparkling depths of crops the brecd.ug, feeding and care
1 he ruin, oerhans death. 'Lt the face of live stock, the use machinery, and a
denceiu nunishinir tnuuusresors in of father of mother, of some loved one, hundred other important things that
this life. con,e between your eyes and the rising require iiueiugeuce, skiu ana executive
t..j :n .. i. fi..:n Nin " amiity oi a niu oraer. mere
in ii i iikf will iriu . Aitiii i r. in mil i ""ki k. -
I a rnrA f nn ndt. irn tn ibnt when I thousand
cauuoii conceal ilscii, uuu l ui awui i -v c " " ' .. . I i r ii i i. l ti l.
tl,; mnrnirtir mv iip;ir I vou come to mature years vou will ue w w'"u"J ... " u,,l,vc
wa aMvo m - ,m i j m -
Colorailo River and promhes to become
one of the most important agricultural
products in Arizona. "
There u an old married, couple in
Porter 'County, Indiana, who, -it is
started, have not f joken to each other
for twenty-five years, although they
live in th- same house and eat from the
5am table.
A singular and fortnnateW nnnsnal
cireunist;inc was reported by a farmer
in 17G0. A wheat field of seventeen I
ur-s near Kingston, N. Y was
found to have no rain in the ear, and
was substcpieullv cut down for straw.
'the tallest soldier of the Untish
Army, a trupper in the First Regiment
f prusian bards, msi x feet eight and
a halfineh heii;h. When he printed
hi.n elf for his uniforn as pecial h t mi-
oieut ivd to be prcured to take tots
ueasun. ' ,
All bmk keepers are well aware that
difficult to draw straight lines on
he padres of h ru lexers, on account
f the convex form which the page
issume when the books is opened. To
meet this difficulty a Frenchman has
ieviseJ anVxible rule which reaaiy
conforms to a covered surface.
a.
ST
BRADFIELD'S
FEMALE
REGULATOR
respected because of your integrity.
lnir)rove now the uolden moments,
hun those things that in the meddling
with them will make you less a man.
lie honest, true, kind-hearted anil
though you may never win fame and
the plaudits of the world, you may
have what is better, an unsulled name.
DOUCLAS
17. L.
S3 SHOE CSNTLEmEN,
THE BEST SHOE IH THE WORLD FOR THE MONET.
A remain sewed aho. that irill not Hp, fine
emit, reunion, smooth Jnsldo, flexible, more com
fortable, u Una and durable than any other shoe erer
told t the r rice. Equals custom made shoes costlns
Ci tl naJ-wed, flneealf shoea The
2 most ctvlish, easy and durable shoes ever Bold .
t the price. They equal une Imported shoes costing
from S8 to . ,,
CO 30 l'ollce Shoe, worn by farmers and an
OOm others who. want a good hoary ealf, three
luted, extension edge shoe, easy to walk la, and will
kern the feet dry sod Trnnn. . .
SOFiaeCalf, and 7.00 Work-
Oaaa Immen's Shoes wlU give more wear for the
moner than any otper maie. i ney are umuc mt
vice. The IncreashiK sales snow I
liv found this out.
Cartkkstill,e, April 586, 1888.
This will certify that two members of my
Immediate family, after having suffered for
years from Menwfr-al Irretcularlty,
being treated without bcjfit by physicians.
lator. IU
, S thai a .
Book to-" WOMAX ""mailed FREE, which contain
aluable Information on all female diseases.
BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO..
ATLANTA. GA.
TOR 9 ALE BY .iX. USUOaiSTS.
to give you, tins morning, mv
hearers, an example of a terrible ven
geance; to follow the breaking of the
eighth commandment. Two nights
ago a f el lew stole John Smith's axe;
and I have been, commissioned, by an
authority which no one will question,
to knock down, drag out, sacrifice, de
stroy and utterly annihilate the misera
ble wretch, and send him. body soul (World of life.)
and breeches, to the pitchy realms of
au awful eternity! Poor sinner, you
turn pale before the rock has crushed
you," continued Lorenzo, grasping the
stone, and raising it as if to throw.
"Don't -dodge, rascal; you Can't es
cape me." lie-paused a moment, and
pointing his long crooked finger - at
poor lelluw in the audience who appear
ed to be in an ague fit, with his hair
standing on end like quills of a fretful
are a
ittle details of the business to
the
farm do its best. Taking everything in
far consideration, the wonder is that
toere are not more failures on-the farm
than there are. No business in the
city would long stand under the ens)
ijoing management or the average
form. Form ami r tresule
Furcot Fires and Mosquitoes
ka.
(a Alas-
no
strans on his back and moves along the
- . i .
porcupine, cried, 4Jolin bmith, there I triail, of course without extinguishing
the man who stole )our axe! his tire. In
1
that worklngnxenv
2.oo and Ventha 81.75 Scliaol
Iiupi are worn bv the boys every-
The moat serviceable shoes sold at the prices.
Ilanti-eowea.
very-prices.
Boys' n-oVi
k-hera? The moat s
i i fkl.no llnml-flcwed.
IR fl I Rl'i' t.m Khoea for
Misses are made of the best Dongola or fine Calf, as
desired. They are very stylish, comfortable and dura
ble. The $3.00shoieiualscuRtom made shoes costing
fromM.00tot6.au. Ladles who wish to economise la
their tootwesr are finding this out.
t'astlea.-W.L. Boughs' name and the price Is
tamped on the bottom of each shoe ; look for it
when yon bay. Beware of dealers attempting to sub
stttnte other makes for them. Such substitutions are
fraudulent and subject to prosecution by law for ob
Ulnlng money under false pretences. , , .
W. iZ lOL GL. S, Bracktoa, Mass. Sold by
m. S. BROWJV.
Blotches
JIRB EVIDENCE That the blood It
wrong, and that nature is endeav
oring to throw off the impurities.
Nothing is so beneficial in assisting
nature as Swift's Specific (S. S. Sp
It is a simple vegetable compound. 1 1 ,
harmless to the most delicate child, yet
it forces the poison to the surfactant
eliminates it from tJie blood.
The eyes of l he whole congregation
were fixed on the consciente-suiitteii
fellow who looked as if he wished tin
mountains would tumble upon him.
"You will return Mr. Smith his axe
and steal no more if I forgive you,
won't you?" akel L r.-uzo."
"iM don't darn me!" exclaimed the
culprit, with a look and tone that
showed the s"rnceritv of his declaration.
John Smith got his axe.
X North Caroliuia-i That Will Spell
at ('kicago.
Farm And Garden notis.
The successful dairyman keeps
cows except those of go h! age.
A new variety ot beeket pers is
Miles and miles of blackened stumps I needed more than variety of bees.
Activity devoted to the useful honey
bee is a good definition of happiness.
The truly scientific beekeeper is
modest. He is aware how little is
positively known
The nearer a m in gels to his lees
the less rea-on there is for his
itfraid of them.
At no time should fowls b fed more
than they w.U eat up clean in a few
minutes.
He who tries to solve a'l the
problems of beekeeping will find it
takes a little longer than a lifetime.
Eu.-il age fed wi h a grain rati n
mkes the kind of butter for which th-
mark the ravages of finest fires, lhe
Indian, when resting on his journey
Hiid suffering from uioqaitoes, sets tire
to th twigse and leavt-s around hun,
creating a smoke which keeps the est
at a distance.- and when refreshed he
being
I contracted a severe case of blood poison
that unfitted me for business for four years. A
few bottles of Swift's Specific (S. S. S.) cured
me. i.e. Jones, t-ityftiarsnai,
V. Fulton, Arkansas.
Treatise on Wood and Skin Diseases mailed
free. Swirr Srscmc Oo,AtLiata, Ga.
s
announcing his pproac.
to 1 1 lends at a distance, he ets tire to a
half dead spruce ,r tamarack live, aim
the column of thick, blaik smoke is the
signal, to be acknowledged iu the s.iuu
manner by those who see it, so as t
Jirect the traveler to tneir camping
grounds. In the summer everything i."
crisp and dry, and the timber is satura
ted with turpentine. The trees left to
g.nolder are fanned into blaze by th
slightest breeze; tbe il imes creep along
the resiuous trees and spread till whole
forests are destroyed.
These fne t tires and the mosquito
account for the sc.trcityof game. Over
the vast untruvelled regiou that we
visited there was a remarkable scarcity
of wild animals. We saw only a lesv
round sciuirrels and some grouse a nd
O A w
Laughing n a Medicine.
Persons suffering from rhenmiilism are
mtturully anxious to try every proposed
remedy. Johu Jiayinouil, of northern
iowa, had tried wiTuout reher nearly ev-
'.. . -j i mr i
ry ulle;etl. cure su;gesieu ny irieuua
rlieu he read this in a meuical journal :
4Tnere is more benefit iu a good laugh
than io tho hot water remedies, the faith
. a . a
cures, tlie cieetnc ana uu muer new
treatments in the world, ami it costs notn
iug. If ou know, of nothing el-e to
laugh at, laugh at your iuighhor."
Tnis was a new idea to poor Mr. Ray
mond. But what should he lauh at ?
In the house was nothing amusing. How
ever, the medical journal said, 'Luugh at
vour ueisrhbor.,'
lie went out on the front porch, and
silliug in a chair, watched the people on
the streets. For a time he saw nothing
tunny. Then a big Geruiau walked by
muttering aloud to himself.
"Ha. ha, ha!" went Mr. Raymond.
'The big German atopoed and looked.
"Vote dot!"
"Ha, ha, ha!"
Vot vor ai haw, haw, haw, mit me?"
"ila. ha, ha!
Over the fence leaped the big German,
his lists upliptetl.
"Oh! ened Raymond, "I I meant no
Harm. I was laughing for my health '
' Und dea you leetlo Rick Yankees
laugh mit uig Dutchmen! Dot isha'l right
Dot ish vou good shoke ou me, Ya, ya ya
liuuMr. Raymond, who really had not
meant to bo rude iu tha least, gave up
the laugh cure, believing that the 'shoke'
was on himself rather than on the good
German. YoulWe Companion.
one'8 WnXxirchard. Th tlon
ready toj uses should cosist of a short
section of a Iwhj containing two buds,
the lower end made in the form of a
JrfSvTJ? 6 brancb Kraft ed is then
cut off with a saw; and split with a chis
el, to receive the lower er wedjje shaped
u xa ihB rion 101,6 edof the cion
should be set even with the bark of the
cleft in the stock, or branch on which it
is inserted. li the severed branch is an
inch or more in diameter then two of the
ciom may'beset iu each' cleft and on op '
posite sides, and then all the exposed
wood covered with grafting wax. The
main point is to have the cions fit neatly ,
and smoothly in the cleft or split bratch
This is usuad way nl cleit grafting, but on
smaller branches or stocks tbe splice
graft is preferable, the principles beings
involved, and at least one side of the ciou
must fit closely to one side ui the brunch,
or stock. If you. have m.ch grafting t.
do it would be advisable to procure some
one - of the hundreds of bookrpublished.
in which the different' modes of graftiu '
are Tully described, with illustrations'!
jth such a work to aid you there woultl
be hitle danger" of failure iu grafting ap
ple or fruit trees. New York Hun. K
A dispatch from Pittsburg, )?a. says j
vn&inger, a young tanner livne
at Oreenshurg, near here ii better off by
$10,000 than be was c week aro Three.
months ago Crisinger visited Pittsburg
and while walkiu? down Fith
was accosted by an okl man, who iutru
duced himself as Day id Dallison, of
Wheeling, W. Va. He told Ciisinger he
bad lost his pocket book containing a
sum of money and a railroad ticket to
Wheeling, and wound up by asking Cris
inger to help hhn out of the predicamentr
Vuh some mental reservaiiou about. I.e
iog swindled, he got a supper for Dalli
sou.aud then bought a Wuveliug ticket
and saw the obi fellow safely lo his train.
DalliMm said he would return the money
and took Crisinger's address. That par
ticular amount of money never came,
but. last Monday iu the mail taken to the
farm from this city was a letter from a
VY heeling attorney telling Crisiuger liiui.
old Mr. Daliisou was dead, and that hi
will was found with a codicitbequealb
mg ten thousand dollars to the young'
man, iu recognition of his kindness IXTu
stranger iu a strange city.
The
Sun.
lhe Governor of Tennessee.
iniblic are willing; lo'niv for
1 m mf
Washington Life Ins. Co.
OF NEW YORK-
CONDENSED STATEMENT.
JANUARY 1ST, 1892.
Assets, - 111,459,638
Reserved for policies, N. Y..
.-Standard 4 per cent., ana
all liabilities, - -New
Insurance, 1891, -out-uinling
Insurance,- -pail
Po'.u--liolders in 1 83
paid. j'olicy-holders since or
ganization, '
Income, 1891 -
lasets Invested as Follows!
. Loans secured by mortgages on
Real Estatk first liens, - $9,541,12 02
11,032,520 2b
11.7G9.Gtl
50.586,622
lj447,000 Ab
- 20,035,554 95
2,684,435 74
New York itv bonds,
Brooklyn waeer bonds, -l!khrabuil,
(Vra.) bonds, -Loan
3-to Policy-holders on Co.'s
Policies, - - -Collateral
loans,
Reil Estate, cost va'ue, -Cash
in bank and trust Co.'s,
Iuterest accrued, premiums de
- lerred and ia transit, etc.,
211,832 5:
144.00C
10,300
GOQGOQOOOO
Xlio gmalleat Pill fax tlio Worldly
Why do yon Buffer
from Dypil3 and Slok-nadachs Q
remedy Is at your nanar .
rVJVtTYIWWb
r JL ID JL JL
Mr. Allen, of Franklin county, the
champion speller who astonished the
audie ice and vanquished the entire
line of contestants at the recent "Kill
ing bee" in Kaleigh, was in the city
Hsterdav. There will be at Chicago
iliirinir the VVor Id s Columbian lixosi- I the larger
tiou an inter-national sjielling match. I to the hilltops, where exposed to a con
;md Mr. Allen will be there to cham- tsant bre. z-, they are free from the t r
prowess of North Carolina,! rnent of insects. E. J. Utate in ten-
human probability will bring 1 tury.
he Old orth btate the lan
tsrmii$aii.
i ion the
and in al
back to t
rels of the great contest.
0
Pli
oTimr Liver
gm will speMnir wmoT all this trouble,
enablayoa to eat and dl great your food, W
prevent
beadaeho and
Impart
enjoyment of lUTo to wnlcn yo
t" J .Mnmr. lima imslL
- -ki- -v
go cents. jnioe, o i-ara "lT
O O QGO QOO
OV
Price,
. - $11,459,638 78
For agencies and other particulars, address.
It. P. BLAKC,
Special District Agt.,
Raleigh, N. C.
If h enters the lists in this great
battle of orthoeraphers it is safe to
wager that he will come off conqueror.
He is nothing less than a progidy as a
S e ler and has been ever since he saw
id down a class of over forty the first
dav he we it to school when a inert
Sad on tbe word of fustian. He ha.
been in many a heated spelling contest
since and has copied with many dis
tinguished scions ot lei. o raphy but
has never been whipped.
Mr. Allen says he has a mental pho
tograph of every word he has ever seen
or henrd spelled and these mental im
pressions never become blurred or un
certain, and if the committee in charge
of the Chicago contest dees not get out
of VVebster's Unabridged he has no fear
of being tripped. He has never missed
i t i i n 1 l n' , I ore. tie aoes UOU iairt ui vua. nc iuu
Owned and Wrolled by Alhancemen jre
word out you want spelled and Mr. Al
len will erind out the letters that spell
I it and tell you the number of the page
m the oarirain, il i i o oc luunu iu
lhe stnil made trom cream oy the
use of bbick pein is a fraud. It will
not keep. It will Ull your In.tter trade
It is the opinion of a oid many
lairymen that ensilage is good for
milk and buftci us the best jasturage.
As raised on the average farm, ii
will cost little, if anv more to rair
turkeys per pound, than pigs, while
th "turke s whether so d alive or
dressed, will bring several . cents more
Tim i,j;.e..v t h:ii a per pouna.
animals retreat in summer An experience of ovr-r twenty years
in fat e;in g siiei'p couvun.es rro:e-iSjr
lioberts that it pays to have a regular
system, to be followed as nearly as pos
sible, in both feeding and in irketiug
sheep.
Corn fodder is one of the most digest
ible of plants used for cattle food. In
careful pxperiuieuts seventy-two per
cent, of the drv. organic matter lias
1 a' J
Midnight
From the last days of May to th
eudofjulj, in the northern part ot;
this laud, the sun shines day ana nighty,
upon the tuouuiaius, lords, rivers, lak
iorests, valleys, towns, villages, hanj,
iets, fi.dds, and tarws; and thustswedata
and Norway may be called the laud, of
ihe midnight sun. During this period
ot coutiuuous daylight thestars ate
never seen, the moon appears pale; and
sheds uo light upon the earth; summ r
is short, giving just tmie enough tor
the wild flowers to grow, to bloom, and.
to fade away, and barely time for the
husbandman to collect his harvest
which, however, is tonielimes nipped
by a summer frost.
A few weeks the midnight sun bas
Judge Turney, governor of Tennessee'
though he has been ou the supreme bench
r.f twut.tv.tivn vears. is a farmer. He
lun a mauifit'cnt old typical southern I passed, the hours of sun shin sho.rteu
... .1 . I k. aa A
home in Franklin county known fapidlv, and bylbe middle Ot Au,;0t
Wolfs Crai;. He is sixty-bve years oia,
G feet 4 inches tall, has broad shoulder
in.! weighs UG0 pounds. He wears a full
short gray beard. With the exception of
i slight rheumatic alRction he is hale
anlheartv." His rheumatism hascausea
him to abandon deer and fox huntiug, oi
which he has been a great lover. At
Wolf's Crag he has his pack of dogs and
the horses which have carrieu mm on
many a fox hunt.
For years he'has been noted as the best
deer shot in the state. Men who have
been with him ou the hunt say he can
bringdown a deer running at tun gpeea
100 yards distant. He is one of the peo
ole. All over the state he is known as
'Old i'ete Turney." n was iiwcuumj
It Wouldn't Work.
Something impressed bin with the
belief that a Republican family lived
m the house, and with a cunning I U(Jen digested, as against sixty per cent
smile he shuttled up to the kitchen ana i Qf timothy.
knocked. The fe'd o' the turkeys
. . Ml fll .1 . ..
liooI morning, snerepnea jneasaui i gradually n.cre.is-ii now,
the air becomes chilly aud the nigh is
colder, although during the day tho
sun is warm. The grass turns yellow,
the leaves change their color, wither
and fall; the swallows aud other mi
grating birds liy towards the south;
twilight comes once more: the st irs
one bv o.ue, make their appearance,
shining brightly ul Ue pule blue sk) ;
the mooti shows itself - again as the
quern of the night and lights and
cheers the long. and dark days of the
oeaudinavian wititer.
The time comes at last when the
sun disappears entirely from sight; th
under his leadership which first seceded I i,eaveus appear in a blaz-i of light and
from tho Union. Before the state o- i j stHfg aD(j tne moon pale
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il , 13 ) v ro t
.to k ' .,
Iv. "what will vu have?'
".L idy," he said meekly, "my name
is Harrison Benjamin Harrison and
I called to see ef you couldeii't give me
a bite of I re kfast."
"Harrison? Harrison?4- repea'ed tlv
ladv inquiringly.
"les. urn; ben Harrison they cans
me fer short, au 'tan't sitch a bad name
after all .is it, mum?''
"Oh, no," she answered brightlv;
1 1 . i
Ill lllOSf
sidling e
and good.
intendrd
iht is an
sliould be
especial I
for market. In
impoitrnt item.
... s
Tennessee had seceded he hart organized
the lirst Tennessee regiment and gone to
the front. Though many li'nes offered
promotion, he declined to leave his reg
iment and went through the war as col
onel of the First Tennessee. At the bat
tle of Seven Tines h- w as shot through
the face. New York World.
before the aurora borealts. Phallus
"Land of the MidnighrSun."
278,7.
3,500
501,818
247,708
416,067 77 for handling produce.
COTTON A SPECIALTY.
Don t sell before writing for par
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out,
ticulars to
J. J. E0GERS, Mgr.
P. O. Box 212.
STATESVILLE
ARBLE WORKS
Is the Place to Get Monuments, Tomtstones, &c
the covers bf "Webster's blue Back."
The faculty amounts to a phenomenal,
it not au occult power with him. It
is uo wise the result of hard applica
tion. Jf he goes to Chicago he will
bring back the trophies of the victor.
Mr Allen is a descendant of Revo
lutionary parents and had twelve first
cousins killed in the Revolutionary
war.
of it will have to get
began to call. the dog.
"Ugh," tie growled as he dodged
through the gate, "I might a' knowed
by that eheerful look of hrn she wuz
a Democrat," and he sat doWn in an
alley to think up a better gag with
wh'ch to work ths uuware. Dtt oil
Fret Press'
Seven Ways to Give.
rn
The careless way. lo give
some
thing to every cause without inquiring
into its merits.
The impulsive wav to give frjm mi-
Curious Facts
Oyer 17( 0 different kinds of soup are
known.
There are orange trees in Malta over
200 years old.
Millions of butterflies are eaten
every year by the Australiu aborigines.
Several thousands of hair pins, iu
many styles, have been recovered from
Pern Dei i.
The tallest man in the kj. a. u. k
William P. Boyne of Green County
Pennsylvania. His height is seven
feet.
Greek d indie?, like Alcibiades, al
lowed their hair to fall on their shoul
ders and at night rolled the curls
round a stick.
A fruit grower, Windsor, Conn., has
a barrel of Russet apples of the crop
of 1891, whieh have been kept in cold
storage.
N ileu'i theSpmish theologin, died
Mutiny at the Penitentiary Farms.
A few days ago a plan to break out
from tha penitentiary buildiugs at the
convict farms near hero t was discovered.
There were four or five loaders and they
n wiLh them about htiy convicts, liiey
had perfected a plot by which they would
at the proper time at a given signal rush
upoa and overpower the g lards, and
seize their guns. They were thei to take
possession of all the arms and ammuni
tion and murdering all who resisted them,
turn the doors open and liberate every
convict on the farm and arm him. They
wvre then to set fire to all the buildings
an I go their several ways neiore assis
tance ould D3 obta'ueJ or bjfore they
could lm captured.
One of the oiivicts who had been let
into the plot disclosed the whole thing
,.n,l it was fru trated. The leaders are
n iw in irons. Tho prime mover in this
attempt at murder aud arson was tne
man who abducted a girl in Chatham
county, took her to South Carolina and
was arrested there and brought back,
convicted and sentenced to the peniten
tiary for tifieen years. Roanoke News.
A four story brick building collapsed in
Puiladelphia Monday and three men
wre buried in the ruins.
Mr. Cleveland and family have g!no
to L dee wood N. J. and will renia:ii
there until a few days before his inaug
uration. In a collision of two trains ffcar Do
ver, Ky. last Thursday the engineer,
rlreui n and six passengers of one tram
wer killed.
Garzt, the Mexico revolutionist has
A large stock: of VERMONT MARBLE to arrive in a few days
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' action i i every respectjandjpositivelylwill not be uhdersold.
Grranite Monuments
. Of all knd a specialty "
' , C. B. WEBB & CO-,
We guarantee
lie a 31 an.
"My
Proprietob.
What the world ned to-day is men
noble in every sense of the word.
These men do not appear upon th
world's stage suddenly, but come up
by and by through their own exertions,
to the highest pinnacle of nobility.
Young lads, ao you realize that be
tween twelve and sixteen years of age
is vour character for lite? The older
vou grow the more discretion you will
have, and in a few of the minor points
there may be a change, but in the main
its !
vou van ue tne same.
y .... ..a .1
those Habits wim-n you inoug
,,Um n m..r.h and as often as love and of grief bicause h was accused by the
1 t ?i -i i. . I ti i U XT,... t .Lih'..1 si n:i4:i p iu St. durim? the W
pity ana setisiuiiiiy prompt.. i .p- o. u u6 l ""anTi- stocks,
ine lazy way. xo maive a s'-'M . . ... r in a warm cellai
m. . y . r.,- K..., f ,.i,-1 (,t P,,i i 'plnbia s nolice force is al1"" , . ...
oner io earn moiicy. iui ucucuicu ju i v ...... - r --- -- ,
k r.,4;.,.,Q orrt I ,..,, wort b .XI ;i(.(MM). Whose lDCOIllJ is
lects uy laiis, icvmii'i i ........ , .
.... J . . , o 1.1 I i i Si k fi M ...... i-ltr nulul rF Ins
The sell denying way. oare nie uuoui ?iu,vw tcmy, --
cost of luxuries aud apply them to $20 a week salary,
purposes of religion and charity. This The fleeces of ten goats and the
may lead to aceticism and self-compla- work of several men for half a ear are
etnee. required to make a genuine Cashm. re
ThA systematic way. To lav aside shawl a yara ana a nan wiue.
as au offering to God a definite portion A Kansas fanner who
ofr., iruin one-tenth one-third or trouble in shipping egs
y J a I
This is adaDtethto all. wheth- succeeded in u-'trm' a
er poor or rich; and gifts be largely in- delivered iu good order by marking
creased if it were generally practiced, box "dynamite."
TIip pfiual wav. . To mve to Wodand Wild hemp is growiu- iu y
ht so ' the needy just as much as we spend on luxuriance along the valley of
hud much
at last.
consignment
the
How To Grult Apple Trees.
Nurserymen usually graft apple trees
inter uinitns, using smau
, performing the operation
r, and men placing me
graltea plants til oanu uuu. Di""fs
tliey -ari set out in uunserj iuo.
rafling large trees in the orchard it of
ten becomes desirable to rhange the va
riety ot fruit. In such eases the graftiny
is always done in the spring. jut as thi
bu Is on the trees begin lo swell. . Tin
wood used for oions is always umi me
urecediug season sesuoiis growth, or
1 . . ..... vu,ir iilil Hllil
Wil li IS usually caiicti jv ...t -
a'in appeared ou thw Rio Grande IU Tex
a and is organ-zing revolutionary torcta
Miss Ethel Carr of Crawford Station
nearrMilan Tennessevst Friday night
shot and killed an unkuowu niau wlie
tried to assault her.
Forty- nine soldier- were burned to
- .ib in a runniii train in Russia Moh-
I'he leaders are 1 .....--rpi,- flmnr did not iton till it
uij. a 1 ' o 7
was consumed.
A gas well was struck in the heart
of the city of Fort Wane, lti; on
Mondav last, and it has been throwing
out a "sh-wt of fli mi forty feet higa.
The Leaksvilie Gaa tte says Wenb
Cox, a white m iu, went to sleep with a
bi.x of matches in hi pocket and in
some way they ignited and burned bun
so severely that he died from the tffects
several days afterward.
Tliinrs Worth Kaowinff.
A -hoe that is uncomlortable from
pinching may b fixed Uy f';t'
wet with hot waur, acroHS the pla-e
.vnere it pinches, changing it as l grow
cooler, for a number of limes. i bM wj
cause lhe leather to fhape itself to the
foot.
m -i:..i. n.i.ni iat her. take a half
io nous" ik"v".
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it may be taken Trom ine ir es unn s m i . iice ofauus ara hc
lall J w.mer and preserve.1 in a rool eel P-""" blac!t "d .il
unu v ' - .. . j ..
I... Liiriu.! in mi.iHt SUlid or IllOrS, Or till
ms, hrt l(ffrrol until soring" and the ci
i-ut and set lhe me day
-11 tttftihtr. men le
il el renin
great stante will allow, or when cvu are pro
leiij'ioor vr irui
t'.iejctirel of some near
it stand until
mled and fettled When a mJ - "
oolites for i se,
black s iocs.
kThis is also good for U
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