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Alcohol to Chnflcflireim
Ask your doctor how often he prescribes an alcoholic
stimulant for children. He will probably say, "Very, very
rarely. Children do not need stimulating." Ask him
how often he prescribes a tonic for them. He will prob
ably answer, "Very, very frequently." Then ask him
about Ayer's non-alcoholic Sarsaparilla as a tonic for then
young. Follow his advice. He knOWS. J. C A yer Co., Lowell, Mass,
The first great rule of health " Daily movement of the bowels." Ask your doctor if
this is not so. Then ask him about Ayer's Pills. Sold for nearly sixty years.
WATCH REPAIRING.
Leave your watches with H. L. Lyerly
& Sons, Granite Quarry for repairs, or
get you a new one THERE.
R. L. BROWN,
The Watchman $1,00 Year.
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Carriage and Wagon Builders,
FARM AND DRAY WAGO
DELIVERY WA60NS, OPEN AND TOP, BEST QUALITY AND 1 9
We sell the celebrated Geo. E. Nissen & Co's Farm and
Log Wagons, fully warranted.
Old Carriages and Buggiesl repaired, painted and made
as good as new.
New Tops made and old Tops repaired. New Cushions
furnished and old Cushions repaired.
New Dashes furnished and Old Frames Re-covered.
Rubber Tires a Specialty; steel tired wheels changed to
Rubber Tires. Old rubber tires repaired.
All kinds of Wood and Iron, Work done at short notice.
We have skilled workmen in each department.
Surreys, Buggies and Wagons for Sale.-
Harness of all kinds made and repaired. Call aud got
prices.
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Furniture is one of the Essentials of a home, its quality and quan
tity determines the comforts of its owner. We would like to s a every
home iu the county luxuriously furnished, and, we would like to snp
ply just as much of such furnishing as possible. This is why we ad
vertise. We want you to know that we handle furniture aud that we
aro anxious to sell you some. We carry a large stock including the
laini which is good and substantial and sold at small figures, and the
-iore pretentious and luxurieut, which, though highor in price, is
worth every cent that we aslcfor it. It is both useful and ornamental-
V!hen in need of
Furniture don't forget us.
You are cordially invited to give us a call aud we assure of nvery
possible courtesy whether you buy or not.
Very respectfully.
W. B. Summersett,
108 W. Inness St. - . Salisbury, N. C.
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VETERINARIAN.
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How Ccwpeis Pay.
The following illustrations (of
the practical or actual beneficial
results from the growth oftegnmts
are taken almost at random from
huudre-is which might be ""cited if
space permitted :
ThiT.Nrth Carolina State De
partment of Agriculture fond that
a crop of bur clover increased the
yield of seed cotton 400 pounds
per acre and gave a net profit of
$16.
The Mississippi Delta Branch
experiment Station found that a
cr jp of oowpeas in corn as a result
f two years' tests increased the
yield of lint cotton 110 pounds
per acre, which with cotton at 10
cents pound, gives a valne of $11
per acre from a crop of cowpoas
grown in corn.
At the Alabama Experiment
Station in four tests the average
increase in yield of sped cotton
per acre in the year immediately
following the plowing iu of cow
pea and velvet bean vines was 5G7
pounds.
Ab this station of test with com
gave an increase in the first crop
where velvet bean vines were
plowed iu of 81 per cent or 12.3
bushnla. When the vines of the
cowpea aud velvet bean wero util
ized as hay and only the roots
and stuM.le left as fertilizer, the
increases in the first succeeding
crops were as follows :
208 pounds of seed cotton.
4 2 bushelB of corn.
28 bushels of oats.
6.7 bushnls.of whoat.
2.08 tons of sorghum hay.
At another experiment station
the yield of corn immediately ful
iowiug a crop of crimson clover
was increased from 35 7 bushels
per aero to 55.1 bushels, or over
54 ptr cent.
With these facts, aud hundreds
-t others equally convincing be
fore us, why do we buy commer
cial nitrogen, and why do we not
grow more legumes? By the use
f summer legumes for making
h:iy to feed to live stock, and the
use of the winter legumes for cov
er crops to plow under by these
aud these alone that r,$500 More
a Year" is easily within the reach
of the average Southern farmer.
Let's make it i Raleigh, (N. C.)
Prugressive Farmer. '
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Women Who Are Enyietf.
Those attractive women who are
lovely in face, furm and temper
are tho envy of many, who might
be like them. A weak, sick I v wo
man will be nervous and irritable.
Constipation, cr Kidney poisjns
show i- pimples, blotches, skin
eruptions and a wmtched com
plexion. F"i all such, Eloctric
BittHi-s work wonders. They reg.
uiatH iStumach, Livey aud Kid
iihvs, purify the blood ; give strong
uervna, bright eyes, pure breath,
sin )oth, v-lvity ekin, love'.y com-pl'-xidii.
Mauv charming women
owe their health and beuuty to
them. 50a at all druggists.
It's All
Right
for a
Ch-ap oiano to be sold as'a
cheap piano at a chea
price, but,
There Should
be a way
To pr-iV3nt cheap pinnrs
from b,.ing sold as bigh
grades and at prions that
will Hijy a. strictly high
grailn piano.'
If v 'it turn a daf ear to
ail circulating agents aud
buv y tir piano from the
old rohabb) firm of Chas.
M. rftiolT, you run no rink.
I?, Write today, tfuay terms
if desired.
Chas. M. Stieff
IManufaciurer of the
Artistic Stieff, Shaw, and
Stieff Selfplayer Pianos. 8
Southern Wan r om:
6 W. TRADE 8TREET
Charlotte, - N. C.
C, H. WILMOTH,
Manager
Mention this paper.
MR. GAB li of S
LIVELY FOURTH
CARYTON had retired late the
night before, for-he-had gone to
town on au eveniug train after
a lot of things for the boys
things that were mostly covered with
red papeij and decorated with Chinese
designs in gilt and that had fuses at
tached. It was edd, but he had not once
thought of the Fourth being so near
until Newbold, the third nephew, had
declared his intention of remaining
out all night "to wake up things."
He had suddenly realized that his
brother, with whom he wa spending i
a few weeks, was only a teller in a (
country bank; that his nephews had
perhaps a few i
nickels each to!
expend 1 the ;
explosives neces
sary 'to accom
plish the waking
up.
When he re
turned two men
were required to
help him in
bringing the
packages from
the train. The six
nephews were in
the back yard
then, at work
upon a diabolical
horn which was
to blow wakeful
ness over the en
t i r e neighbor
TEARING THROUGH
THE WOODS.
hood. Caryton hurried the explosives
through the front hall and hid them
behind the library window draperies.
It was then 11 o'clock, and he tiptoed
up to his room for such sleep as he
could get before the early morning
noises should commence.
Ten minutes later he was dozing off,
when the first experimental .blastings ;
of the horn commenced. By the time ;
he had found a way to pack the bed
clothes about his ears there arose va
rious accompanying and disquieting
hisses, snappings and roars.
Then directly under his window
came an explosion that shook the
house and brought . him to a sttting
posture. They had found his contribu
tion! And U was only midnight!
Caryton sank back and listened with
varying emotions regret at his gen
erosity, submission to a just retribu
tion and finally a pleasurable sensa
tion of retrograding to his own boy
hood. By 1 o'clock he was the ring
leader of all their more daring demon
strations. But when he went in, long after
daylight, blackened and burned and
bruised, and tried to make himself
presentable for breakfast he felt that
he had had enough of the Fourth.
After breakfast Caryton made a di
vision of the remaining fireworks and
then slipped from the house with his
trout rod while the nephews were
gloating over their treasures.
He knew of a trout stream that wan
dered aimlessly back among the trees,
with apparently no object or destina
tion save to clothe its banks with
moss. He would follow its eccentric
windings until perhaps he could get
cool enough to irTdWwome of the
moss to grow upon him.
But as he passed the last house in
the village and noted a figure in light
dress upon the piazza half hidden by
a climbing rose he was tempted to turn
In and spend the day there. He had
met Miss Leslie only a few times, but
she was a friendly kttle body and the
most charming of Vll the girls he
knew.
His feet even turned at the gate, but
as they did so he heard a wild yell
from the back yard, and he suddenly,
swerved away, merely lifting his hat
to the figure. Miss Leslie had seven
brothers.
A half hour in the woods, and he
was beyond the songs of robins and
orioles and sparrows and only heard
the occasional voices of hermit thrush
and tanager and woodpecker.
Presently he put his rod together
and cast a fly into the stream. After
a half hour of desultory fishing he
found an enticing rock and seated him
self upon it, leaning his back against
a tree trunk.
How long he slept or if he slept at
all he did not know, but the first
thing he was acutely conscious of was
an effort to disentangle his hook from
something behind and of a vicious
humming in the air.
Turning hastily, he saw that in
throwing his fly back for a new cast
he had caught the hook In an Immense
hornets' nest and that in his effort to
disentangle it he was bringing the hor
nets tQward him In an angry cloud.
Even as he looked one dropped upon
jhis ear and another upon his forehead
and a third upon the back of his neck.
The unexpected pain brought him to
his feet with a yell.
In the presence of others the cry
would have been suppressed, but back
here in the woods, with no one in
hearing, It was simply a straight yell
of surprised exasperation and pain. A
moment later he w&q tearing through
the woods with the speed of his col
lege racing days and with what he be
lieved to be 10,000 hornets singing a
death song about his head.
He had not gone more than a dozen
yards when he broke into an open
glade and almost into Miss Leslie's
arms. The sight of her brought him to
himself, ad he whirled swiftly with
the intention of dashing in another di
rection, for he realized the conse
quences to th girl. Bnf her quiet, au
thoritative voice stayed him.
"Throw yourself down upon your
face, Mr. Caryton," she admonished.
Qukk! It's the only way. Don't
. :!!.:! me. I anere often and know
KAvtu avoid the hornets."
lie hesitated but an instant, then
betvl, burying his face deep in the
.noss. A little while and the vicious
Slumming lessened and soon died away
altogether. ,
When he rose cautiously and looked
around Miss Leslie was standing among
the foliage twenty yards away, where
she had retreated so slowly as not to
attract ' the hornets' attention. She
now came forward.
"I hope you're not badly hurt, Mr.
Caryton."
He looked at her ruefully, remember
ing the yelk "
"N-no, I think not," he answered;
"only in spirit. You heard my battle
cry?"
There was lurking mischief In her
eyes, but her v6ice was calm.
"Why, yes, I heard it, of course," she
said demurely. "But you were per
fectly excusable. Hornets are awful
creatures."
"H'm! Yes, I suppose so," doubt
fully. Then he caught sight of a lunch bas
ket and of a pile of familiar objects
beside It, things covered with red pa
per and decorated with Chinese de
signs in gilt and that had fuses at
tached. His eyes sought hers inquir
ingly. "I beg your pardon. Miss Leslie," he
said, "but how is it you happen to be
here, and with fireworks?"
It was her turn to look embarrassed.
"Why, 1 f am trying to accustom
myself to them," she explained. "We
always have a lot at home, and the
boys laugh at me for screaming when
ever one goes off near me. They are
going to hare a big time tonight, and 1
I brought these off here to to prac
tice with them so I needn't scream.
The boys will be surprised."
"I see. And have you fired off any
yet?"
"N-no," she confessed frankly. "I
haven't dared to. I've just looked at
them."
"Well," boldly, "why can't I stay
with you and help fire them off? I
could hold the match, you know, and
you could tell me how."
She looked at him doubtfully, but
with evident relief.
"You won't be afraid?" she askedv
"I'll try not to be, with you to stand
by and tell me how."
"Well, then. I guess you may. If you
don't mind. I I
don't really be
lieve I would
dare do it by my
self.:' It was a long
red letter day, a
glorious one in
spite of its being
the Fourth of Ju
ly, in spite of the
powder burns of
the night before
and' the vicious
punishment of
the hornets, and
when in the late
afternoon they
stopped at the
Leslie gate there
was a look of
MAY I Sl'EAK TO
YOUR FATHER?"
absolute content on Caryton's face.
Miss Leslie's cheeks were flushed and
her eyes downcast.
"May I speak to your father now?"
Caryton asked in a low voice as she
opened the gate.
"No, no; not just yet, Mr. Caryton,
please," she whispered hurriedly. "The
Fourth seems such a bold, wild, noisy
time to tell a a thing like this. Wait
a few days until I get used to the idea
The boys are sure to chaff me when
they find out, and but you must never,
never tell them about the fireworks.
Promise."
"I promise," said Caryton solemnly,
"including the hornets." Frank H.
Sweet in Boston Globe.
Our Glorious Fourth.
"Seems to be you are beginning your
preparations for the great and glorious
1' ourth a little early," observed the fat
clubman to his thin brother when the
latter took from his nocketbook what
appeared to be half a dozen tiny flags.
"i ourth of July nothing! I'm going
for a week's fishing." . .
"Where do the flags come In?"
"That's where the fish Wte, I hope,"
smiled. the thin man. "They are flies,
as carefully made as any grayhackle
or Silverton you ever cast."
"Do you dope it out that the Adiron
dack trout have taken on a patriotic
streak?" asked the fat man, taking one
of the American flag novelties and ex
amining it. "Whose idea?"
"The first one," explained the owner
of the files, "was made for the British
Fly Fishers' club and presented to Am
bassador Choate at a dinner which the
club gave him. It was just a conceit,
a pretty compliment, and no one
thought of really using the fly. Then
one of the members tried it on the Tay
and got rise after rise for. the Amer
ican flag when the fish had scorned
everything else. If British trout will
bite simply out of their regard for the
new hands-across-the-sea spirit, what
won't the Americans do for their own
emblem? Anyway, I'm going to give
them a try, and we'll hope they have
sense enough to follow the flag swal
low it, I mean." New York Tribune
How They Celebrated.
Said the belfry: "Clang! ClangJ"
Said the crackers: "Rap! Rap!"
Said the brass cannon, "Whang!"
Said the torpedoes, "Snap!"
Said the skyrockets, "Whiz!"
Said the candles: "Sh! Piff!"
Said the small plnwheels, "Fizz!"
Said the big ones: "Whir! Wiff!"
Said grandma: "There! There!"
Said father: "Boys! Boys!"
Said mother, "Take care!"
Said cook, "Such a noise!"
Said puss, "Gracious mel"
Said Towser, "Bowwow!"
Said Susie, "Wee-ee!"
Said Will: "Hurrah! Ow!"
St. Nicholas.
A Real Fourth of July
Champion of Freedom
Giusepp Garibaldi, not an American
born, buTfor a time an American citi
zen and as truly a devotee of political
liberty as "any of those who signed the
Declaration of Inder -ndence, was born
on July 4, 1807.
The story of his life as & lighting
Italian patriot is one ofthe world s
greatest romances. He was first exiled
from Italy In 1834, then choosing
South America for an asylum. He
serve the now forgotten republic of
Rio Grande do Sul and later-the re
public of Uruguay. In 1849. he return
ed to Italy and entered the service of
the Roman republic. Defeated, he was
exiled again. This time he came to
the United tffes. This was in ,1850,
the year that Hawthorne" completed
"The Scarlet Letter."
Garibaldi was then as hard pressed
for money as Hawthorne ever was,
but entirely without the supersensi
tiveness which was Hawthorne's curse
through life. Confronted with "a
plentiful lack of cash," the great Ital
ian established a candle factory on
Staten Island, in the harbor of New
York, and apparently decided to live
the rest of his life as a citizen of the
United States, for he took out natural
ization papers and manifested a good
deal of interest in the politics of his
adopted country.
However, he remained here only
four years; then he dreamed anew his
dream of the freedom and unity of his
beloved Italy and returned to its
shores, settling as a farmer on the
island ofTCaprera. Five years later he
was 4h the military field again in the
war waged by Sardinia and France
against Austria, and he was a figure
ill 'most of the fighting that preceded
Italy's final unification. He died twenty-seven
years ago on his Caprera farm.
Usefulness of Skyrockets.
The white1 stars in the cheap, one
ball "candles" are merely balls of cot
ton soaked with benzine.
. Scarcely less indispensable to the
Fourth of July celebration is the sky
rocket. But hundreds of years before
a Fourth of July celebration was
thought of the skyrocket was used as
a warlike projectile. We are indebted
to the Chinese for this also, though all
the rockets that are now used in this
country are made here.
' The rocket was used for purposes of
war in China as long ago as the early
part of the eighth century. It was
soon adopted by the Europeans, who,
however, up to the first part iof the
present century used it mainly for sig
naling and as a means of setting fire
to besieged cities. Many improve
ments have been introduced, and rock
ets have been made which will carry
a five pound shot 6,000 yards.
The motive power of the rocket is
the pressure against the air of gases
generated by the burning of the com
position which it contains. The gases
escape through holes or vents in the
base of the cylinder containing the
composition and give thus a forward
or upward motion of the rocket, as the
case may be. The long stick or tail
is added to keep the projectile steady
in its course.
Rockets have long been used by the
life saving service as signals, and all
ships carry a dozen or more on every
voyage, which they send up as signals
of distress In case disaster' overtakes
them. But they are now likely to play
a still more important part in the
work of saving lives of shipwrecked
mariners since a rocket has been in
vented which bids fair to take the
place of the mortar and shot at pres
ent used to carry lines from the shore
to distressed vessels.
The Red Men and the Rocket.
An Emporia (Kan.) man recalls an
Interesting incident of the Fourth of
July celebration held in Emporia in
1859. The Kaw Indians, whose reser
vation reached almost as far south as
Americus, heard of the celebration and
started to Emporia in order to reach
there in time for the big feast at night.
A few fireworks had been secured
for the celebration, and when the In
dians reached the corner where the
First Presbyterian church now stands
the people downtown fired a big rocket
up north. . The Indians saw it coming
and gazed in open mouthed wonder till
it broke high above their heads. Then
the warriors and bucks gave a big
yelp and, turning, fled back toward the
reservation, leaving the frightened
squaws and papooses to follow as best
they could. People at Americus said
that when the Indians passed there
they were still running. St, Louis
Post-Dispatch.
Took Off the King's Kead.
During the battle of Princeton re
treating British troops took refuge in
the chapel of the college. Washington
personally directed the fire of his ar
tillery, which was aimed at the college
buildings. The first shot, it is said,
entered the chapel and passed through
the head of a portrait of George II
After the war Washington paid Charles
Wilson Peale $250 for a portrait ol
himself, which was placed in the iden
tical frame through which the cannoi;
ball had passed.
Fo'th o' July.
Hitch up de ox team. Don't stand by!
wwine ter ae city rer de Po'th July!
tng gun Deiier at de blazin' sky
Fo'th July in de mawnin'l
Hitch up de ox team. Time on de fly!
Gwine ter de cTty fer de Fo'th July!
Roman candle en a jug er rye
Fo'th July in de mawnin'!
Whip up de ox team. Rock 'long de road
Gee-haw, Jonah! En you got yo' load.
Bes' ote country dat I ever knowed
Fo'th-July in de mawnin'!
Looky at de big crowd comin inter sight!
Ioky at de sojerB heppin' ter de right!
Hurrah fer de old flag-red, blue en white'
JTo'th July In de mawnin'l