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. A K-j J i 7i diNTERPM VOL. XXII. NEWTON, N. C. , FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1900. NO. 16. TV "y" N EWTON 1HE To those living in malarial districts Tutt's Pills are indispensible, they keep the system in perfect order and are an absolute cure for sick headache, indigestion, malaria, torpid liver, constipa tion and all bilious diseases. Tutt's Liver Pills J. E. THORNTON, Keeps constantly on hand nil size of wood coffins. Alao variety oj burial robea. NEWTON, - N. G. . B. CAMPBELL, M. 0., PHYSICIAN and SURGEON, Newton, - N. 0. OJera bis professional service! to the people of Newton and Catawba, cunty. -M. J. B. LITTLE, RESIDENT DENTIST. NEWTON, - - N. O. Office in Yount & Shrnm's Building. , DR. GEO. H. WEST, M. D., Physician and Surgeon, NEWTON, N. C. Offers bis pvoiessional service to the citizens of Newton and Catawba county1 OJEoo at residence. W. S. DAVIDSON, II. D, Hm located in Newton and will prac tice medicine in all its branches. Calls attended promptly, day or night. M. A, Newland, Attorney-at-Law, fJEWTON, - tM.C. Office in Shnford's Bank Building. r r r- - i ERNEST L. MOORE, FASHIONABLE BARBER AND HAIR DRESSER NEWTON, N. C. He keeps a first-class Tonsorial Par lor where yon will always find clean towels and sharp razors, and a polite and attentive barber. Every one coming to Newton desir ing anything in the Tonsorial Art will be pleased after they call on me, for I alwaya please all my customers. TO YOU I wish to say that I bow have oa hand and am oonstanty reoiving a nice line of seasonable dry goods, notions, hats, caps, clothing, shoes, groceries, etc,, that I am selling very cheap for cash. I am located near Newton Cot ton Mills. Come to see me and I will do yon right. JOSEPH GEMAYEL, Nobody need have Neuralgia. Get Dr. Miles Pain Pills from druggist. One cent a dose. ' J. Schedule effective April 1st, 1900. KORTH BOUND. Pass. Mixed. No. 10 No. 60 I v Chester 8 10 am 7 50 am Lv Yorkville 915 .. 9 52 .. I v Gasionia 10 13 . 12 35 p m f.v Lincolnton 11 03 .. JJ 15 .. l.v Newton 11 52 .. 3 32 .. Lv Hickory 12 15 p m 5 50 .. Ar Leuolr 116 .. 7 50 .. Mixed No. 62 9 00 am 11 25" BOUTH BOUND. Pass. Mixed No. 9 No. 61 4 30 pm 6 80 am Mixed. No. 63 1 30 pm 4 25 pm Lv Lenoir Lv Hickory Lv Newton 6 so . .i.v8Uatn 6(6 918 .. 11 10 .. 1 12 pm 3 20 .. 6 15 .. Lv LincolEton 7 00 Lt Ga-tonia 8 15 Lv Yorkville 9 21 Ar Chester 10 31 20 minutes for supper at Gaatobia. No. 10 north bound connects at Chester with Southern Railway. Seaboard Air Line, Lancaster A Chester Railway from all points South: At Yorkville with South Carolina & Georgia Exten ion Railwav: At Gostonia with Southern Railway: At Lincolnton with K-at)oard Air Linet At Newton and Hickory Southern Railway. No. 9. south bound, makes close connection at alljuno Ion points. L- T. Nichols. General Manager. Address, E. f. Reid, Auditor, Chester, 8. O. RQ1IWQY Ml V. Ill Denounces His Attempt Seat by THE DUKE HAS A RECORD. The Governor Says He W!d Not Be Sacri ficed by Pearson to save His Constituents From the Pangs of the Damned," Governor Russell, in an interview last wee-k, flayed Richmond Pearson, who is attempting to defraud Congress man Crawford out of his seat In the lower branch of Congress. Governor Russell was dicussinj? the recent Republican State convention, when he consented to make public his pronounced views as to the Duke of Richmond, who is contesting the elec tion of Mr. Crawford, and whom Re publicans as well as Democrats admit has not theslightest just grounds tot a contest. The Governor openly charges Pear son with attempting to steal Congress man Crawford's sea.r Vvhich he charac terizes as "contemplated larceny." His Excellency has seen the hand writing on the wall, and he asks: "What is the use of our making the great issue as to honesty in elections if our party should perpetuate tmch a fraud as this?" Pearson, it will be remembered, was the chairman of the platform commit tee in the Republican State convention and he it was who worded the resolu tion relative to the State administra- tion. wnica ignored the Governor uic exposure ana denunciation of Peaivro.il, coming as it does from the man who holds the highest office with in the girt of tli J)arty in the State, will doubtless have its effect in Wash, ington before a Republican Congress Little Richard will have to return to his home in Buncombe. "The Governor said: "Pearson's attempt to steal the Ninth district does not hurt his reputation It only sustains it. But the late Re publican convention, in permitting Pearson to smuggle through a resolu tion commending himself and his con test, but for the fact perhaps that moot of the convention did not know it was in the platform would have disgraced the Republican party of North Caroli na. Here we are in North Carolina charging truthfully that the Democrats are sweeping things by force and fraud, that they have put upon us an election law that Is meaner than the Goebel deviltry; the State convention meets: it appoints a committee on resolutions and platform. Pearson schemes to get himself at the head of the committee. He fixes the resolutions, especially the one which extols himself, and con dones his contemplated larceny. And then what a sight for the gods! A platform denouncing fraud and demand ing honesty this platform prepared and reported and read (with a sieklv effort toward the dramatic) by a mail who has been and is now and was at that moment making the supreme ef fort of his life to disfranchise by bald fraud all the voters of the city of Ashe ville and to steal a seat in Congress by methods substantially as lawless anl desperate as these which are known of all men to prevail in the non-suffrage States." "But, Governor, Pearson expects to make it by a party vote on the ground that he is a straight Republican." "Oa. yes; of course. Party politics are coming to that, are they? Stand up f.?r any villainy, no matter what, if they call it a party matter. Law. risrht. i v- , i honesty, decency, equity, justice, all to oe ditched to put in a contestant be cause he promise to be a Republican. When did tbi3 man get to be a Republi can? Those of us of the old guard who stood by the party in the days of its defeat and weakness, when none of us believed we could live to see it in power, have not forgotten this man's career. His father was a Whig, a Un ion man, an intrepid judge in the days of secession and war, and a Republican The present Pearson, because of his father's merits, got office and remain ed Republican as long as his father liv ed and the office lasted. The office failed, the father died, the Republican party got beat and Pearson turned Democrat. Like ether apostates he tri ed to wipe away the past by extreme servility to the present. He joined in close communion with the politicians who hated his father, pursued him with relentless rancor and hounded ' him to his grave. But he did not get his expected pay from the Democrats. They were strong enough not to need him and proud enough not to want him. Then he began to plot against them and got into Congress by running as an independent. After his election to Congress he denied that he was a Republican, saying he carried his poli tics under his hat. When he became satisfied that the Republicans were strong enough to win, he got out from under his hat and went to sneering at the men who, through all the years of defeat, wibhout the hope of reward, had f ollofved the party flag. "The truth is, he was fairly beaten. His real complaint is that he didn't get votes enough. The plain men of the mountains have had enough of him. They know that he has nothing in common with them no sympathy with their struggles, their labors or their wants. They don't care to be rep resented by a man who, as they know, would not willingly sacrifice the mint in his morning julip to save them and theirs from the pangs of the damned." "Do other Republicans, Governor, think about Pearson as you do?" "Yes;- Col. Lusk and Mr. Smathers think about his contest just as I do. They say that Crawford ought to want Pearson seated because it means a sweep foT Crawford next November. They think it is worse than that. It means the loss to us of many seats in the legislature. What is the use of our making the great issue as to hon esty in elections if our own party should perpetuate such a fraud as this? Why, just think of it! The whole vote of the city of Asheville is to be flung in the ditch because a colored man was arrested for perjury committed during the contest, long after the elec tion! Why not throw out the whole vote of Buncombe county? And as to that, why not all the Democratic votes in the district? Every voter' in the precinct of South Waynesville is to be disfranchised on the excuse that those of them who were newly registered D IS To Take Crawford's Fraud. were registered three or four hundred feel from the spot where the polls were held, everybody having i fair chance to register and nobody defrauded or prejudiced by the failure to have the books oh the very spot where the polls Were held. And as for the great body of those registered in previous years, no irregularity even charged! And with this sort of a record upon.ua, we are to go around ranting about Demo cratic fraud I "An ounce of civet good apothecary, to Sweeten the stink 1 "Th only point of law that 'reaches' and is worth considering in Pearson's case is this: He says that the Demo cratic Senate in 1899, in order to un seat Republicans and Populists reject ed the precinct of Mofttexuma in Mitch ell county because the register did not keep open his books at the time and place required by law. Now; says PearsOn, the Democrats made this pre cedent. Let the National House stick to it. Then the precincts in South Waynesville in Haywood and Marble in Cherokee must be rejected. By re jecting these precincts Pearson gets a net gain of 215 votes. This wOuld lack only four of electing him. These four can be got by finding that Crawford bought them. Perish the thought that Pearson Would buy! Now the fact of a register booking voters at a time and place different from that fixed by law would never vitiate the entire poll, nor even the particular votes thus improp erly 'booked' if the statute Is merely directory as to the time and place. In the absence of fraud the Votes would be counted. This is the law as the courts have often held. But Pearson can plausibly perhaps correctly con tend that our law of 1895 is mandatary as to the time and place of registration because it uses negative words prohib iting registration at any other time or any other place. The House commit tee (Mr. Driscol. of New York, and all the Democrats dissenting) takes this view. It is technical. There is no mer it in it. As to Pearson, it shows him up is trying to get himself IN by dis franchising honest voters. "But as dry law the point makes per haps a colorable "contention. As put by Pearson's counsel, it is that at these precincts all the VOTERS were unlaw fully registered and all of them must be rejected not on the idea of reject ing the poll or return, but of rejecting the individual voters because each and every one of them voted M-ithout being lawfully registered. Now, right here the committee has made a monstrous mistake. The record dees not show, nor is it, as I am informed, a fact, that there was a NEW REGISTRATION in any of these three pm-lnots. Under our acts of 1S93 and 1397 no new regis tration was required except in special cases when ordered by the county au thorities. "It appears affirmatively by the re cord, page 212, that at South Waynes ville they only registered the new vot ers. All the rest were already regis tered under the registration of 1896. So Pearson's point utterly fails. The bad registration only gees to these particu lar voters who were unlawfully regis tered. The election was held, regular in form; the returns were regularly made. Under the general unwritten law all presumptions are in favor of their validity, and by the express terms of our acts of 1895, section 12, the reg istration book is presumptive evidence of its regularity and its rightfulness. It was incumbent on the contestant to show the number of votes that were unlawfully registered and to show that they voted against him. He shows nothing of the sort. He simply shows that some voters perhaps a small fraction of the total were improperly registered. By this he gets the com mittee to think that ALL the voters in the precinct were unlawfully register ed; -whereas the truth is that only an insignificant number were . unlawfully registered, and so far as the evidence goes, all of THEM may have voted for Pearson. The committee have simply been misled as to the facts. These competent and honest lawyers would not have signed that majority report if they had understood the facts in the record." Raleigh Pst. AN EMINENT LAWYER Shows That the Amendment is Entirely Constitutional. BY JOSEPHUS DANIELS. New Orleans, La,, Special I spent much of one morning talking with Hon, E. B. Kruttschnitt, one of the foremost lawyers of the South and leader of the New Orleans bar, dis cussing the Constitutional Amend ment of this State, which in its main provision is similar to the North Car olina amendment. His views on the wisdom and constitutionality of the amendment are given below: "I believe that the suffrage clause of the Louisiana Constitution is perfectly valid, because it does not deprive any one of the right to vote on account of race, color or previous condu-on of servitude. The qualification of voters in this State are to-day educational or property in the alternative, coupled with the proper amount of poll taxes after the year 1900. This is the rule for all persons, white or black. The convention did not deprive anyone of the right to vote by reason of race, color or previous condition of servi tude, but did provide that certain vot ers, already entitled to the right of suffrage should not be deprived of that right, provided they registered on or before September 1st, 18.98, for the purpose of preserving the right. The class of voters, whose rights were thus saved, were the sons and grand sons of suffragans of January 1st, 186?. On that date the negro was allowed to vote under the laws of at least eight States in the Union. The sons or grandsons of negroes, who were al lowed to vote in the eight States named, on January 1, 1867, had the right to register under section 5 of the suffrage scheme of the Louisiana con vention. Between 1868 and 1894, not only was intermarriage between the races lawful, -but all illegal marriages contracted between the races prior to 1868, were validated by legislation of that year Hence, many children of ft mixed race were entitled to register under section 8. Th acknowledged illegitimate colored child of a white father who was able to vote on Jan uary let, 1867, could also, ill my opinion, h&ve registered under the same Bection. Hence the excepted class Was not one so constituted as to admit all white met! and exclude all negroes, but so as to admit some white men, and to exclude some ne groes. 1 may hiairitaih, as a matter of fact, that quits a number of fhulat toes aid register in this city under the provisions of section 5 (the grind father biause.) i always believed that it was fcbmpetent for a State to de scribe qualifications which would rule out the vast mass of negroes, provided the ground of exclusion was not one which necessarily excluded all ne groes, and I believe that the right of the State is still stronger if a class of preferred voters, the large majority of which happehs to be white, do not constitute the bulk of the electorate. In this State there were registered on January 1st, 1897, 164,000 White voters and 130,000 colored voters. The reg istration Was at that date probably fuller ahd more accurate than it had been for many years in this State, be cause the State political campaign in the spring of 1896 had been more ac tive and involved more of a cdntest than had existed in the.State for anany years, t, therefore, beiieve these figures ttj be as accurate as any thai cculd be found. Of the white voters. 133.603 wrote their names, and 28,371 made their marks. Of the colored voters, 33.S05 wrote their names, and 94,498 made their marks. The records, at the office of the Secretary of State, will shew that somewhat less than 36,50d voters availed themselves of the rights accorded by section 5 (the grandfather clause), of the suffrage scheme of the constitution, it is a well known fact that not only in the country parishes, but in the city of New Orleans, many persons who did not need to avail themselves of sec tion 5; did register Under its provis ions in order to set an example to in duce their illiterate neighbors to do so. This was done, for the reason that the illiterates showed an indis position to come forward and confess the fact that they could not comply with the general provisions of the con stitution. For this reason many lead ers came forward and registered. In some parts of the State this course was urged by printed or written cir culars or newspaper articles. It is impossible to get statistics on this subject, but I feel certain that the number of voters who availed them selves of the provisions of scetion 5 (the grandfather clause), was below the number of white voters who niadc their marks when they registered prior to January 1st, 1S97, or less than say 28,000. I believe that it is per fectly competent for the State to con fer suffrage as an honor upon a select class in the community, whatever the i ground of the selection may be, or to refrain from taking away a pre-existing right of suffrage from a like class, because the prohibition of the consti tution is not against the granting of the right of suffrage, but against the deprivation of that right, I, there fore, believe that it is competent for a State whilst fixing general limita tions upon the right of suffrage, which limitations shall apply to all men, white and black, and which limita tions are not unreasonable in them selves, to also constitute a special class to whom the right of suffrage may be given, or in whose favor a pre existing right may be reserved, whilst it is taken away from others. Thus, I do not doubt, however, Tepugnant it may be to our American ideas, that it is perfectly competent for the State to provide JJiat no man, whose an cestors served in the Revolutionary War, shall ever be deprived of the right of suffrage; that no man, whose father, or grandfather ever served in the Confederate Army, shall be de prived of the right of suffrage; that no man, whose father, or grandfather ever served in the State Legislature, shall ever be deprived of the right of suffrage, etc. It may well be, wat not a single negro will be granted the benefit of this saving clause; but no negro is deprived cf the right of suf frage by the saving clause. I do not think that the State stretches the principles, for which I above contend, to any very great extent, if she ex tends such a right only to the children and grandchildren of those who were suffragans for so many generations back that the public conscience re- cits at the idea of depriving them, or their descendants of a right which is viewed by all Americans as a vested one, in practice, when it has once been acquired, although we may the orize and say that suffrage is a privi lege, and not a. right," Later I will give Mr. Kruttschnitts j view and the opinion of other leading j men as to the practical operations cf the amendment as seen in the election in this city in November 1899 and in the State election in April of this year. In its practical workings, it has elimi nated the negro as a political factor, and brought peace, good government and friendly relations to this long dis traded State. I will have half a doz en articles showing the .practical operations of the amendment in city, town and country, but thought well to introduce the series by publishing the views of the great lawyer who pre sdeid over "the convention that formu lated the plan. Handy Hairpins. The hairpin deserves to be classed among the great inventions of the world. It is a woman's best friend it fits a multiplicity of uses and she is never without one. A man makes the observation that If a woman buttons her shoes or her gloves she uses a hairpin. If a nickel drops between the bars of a wooden foot grate in the street car. out comes the hairpin, and the eoiiiis lifted out without much trouble. If her shawl pin is lost, where so good a substitute as the hairpin? It is a hairpin with which she marks her progress in her favorite book; if a trunk key is missing the hairpin open3 the refractory lock as neatly as a burglar's skeleton key would, and with it she cleanses her finger nails. The feats of hair securing that she will make a single bowlegged hairpin accomplish nearly surpasses the belief of man, and as a substitute for a miss ing hatpin nothing better caii be found than a "straightened out" hairpin. A charter has been issued to the wins met mi fiction Mills, of Wil- liamston, Anderson county. Mr. Geo. W. Sullivan is the president and treas urer of the company. II ill But the Amendment in Louisiana Guarantees to Every White Man the Right to Vote. II H PURIFIED THE POLITICS Of HE ENTIRE Elections Are Now Absolutely Fair, and Even the Republicans Admit That It is a Good Thing BY JOSEPHUS DANIELS. New Orleans, La., Special In this city the adoption of the constitutional amendment, similar to the one pending in North Carolina, resulted in reducing the negro vote from 14,177 td 1,493. These are official figures, taken this morning from the books in the office of Mr. Jere M. Gleason, State Registrar of voters for the parish of Orleans. This fullv answers the question as to whether the amend ment, if adopted in North Carolina, would eliminate the negro from politics. A reduction from 14,177 to 1,473 in the city where the negro is better educated and posseses more property than anywhere else in the State, is a fact that nobody can get around. The negros are said to be better educated in this city than in any other portion of the United States. The public schools here are in a high state of efficiency.and have been open to the colored youth for more than twenty-five years. The number of negroes is smaller here than in most Southern cities, being in the proportion of about four whites to one negro. Here the negroes get better wages than in any other parish (all coun ties here are called parishes), and are of a higher grade of intel ligence than in the farming sections of the State. If in this city, where the negro is superior to his brother on the sugar and cotton plantations, the nero vote has "swunk" from 14,177 to 1,493, the proportion of shrinkage is said to be even larger in the rural districts. I will go to some of the country precincts later and give the official figures. One of the best posted men I have met in this State is Hon. Jere M. Glea eoii. State Registrar of voters for the Parish of New Orleans. I interviewed him to-day about the practical opera tions of the amendment and found that it had been a perfect success in doing three things: 1. Eliminating the negro. 2. Guaranteeing the right to vote to every white man, whether educated or not. 3. Purifying politics. Mr. Gleasoa said: "In 1898 a full registration was brought out by reason of the hot fight made by the Democrats against the fusion of all the element opposed to the Democratic party, and by a bitter faetioBl fight In this city for control of the city.offices, owing to a very un satisfactory municipal administration for the preceding four years. The registration in the city in that year (189G) exceeded 60,000 of which num ber 14,177 were negroes, as this table shows: Registered voters, April 12th, 7,895, Parish of Orleans. Ward. White. Colored Total. 3.62' 3.629 7.353 3,335 4,871 3,437 5.132 2,501 3,9S0 5.0S6 4,876 3.2S3 2.17S 1,503 3,393 965 919 1 2,846 2 2,916 3 5.121 4 2.4S1 5 3,850 6 2,924 7 3,683 783 713 2,237 854 1,021 513 1.449 270 558 914 1,100 711 522 337 1,431 488 276 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 2,234 3.422 4.172 3,770 2,578 1.656 1.166 15 1,962 16 477 17 643 Total 45,907 14,177 60,081 "In November 1899 the first election was held under the new constitutional amendment. The total registration was 38,964, of which number, 1,36$ were negroes, a reduction of the ne gro vote from the 1896 registration, which was the fullest known, of 12, 709. This city election showed to the whole State the value of the amend ment, and opened the way for the re sult seen in the State election held last month. The State election was held on the 17th of April. Registra tion closed on the 17th of March, as the law requires It to close tblrty days before the election. The registration in the parish (it embraces only the 17 wards in New Orleans) for the State election was 38,894, of which number 1,493 were negroes. "In the election only about 21,000 votes were cast, and all were for the Democratic ticket except about 2,500 which were cast for the combination opposition ticket. The vote was small for two reasons: 1. It was apparent that it would be a land-slide for the Democrats, and 2. It was almost im possible to get to the polls, the entire city being under water, and almost the j entire State as well. The railroads j were under water and some of them j have not been able to run trains until i two or three days ago. I never saw anything before lrke that flood. It be gan the night before the election and such a pour down was something new for us. I left home at 6 o'clock, and voted on my way up. The voting pre cinct is two squares from any resi dence. It was 11:30 o'clock that morning before I could get to. my of fice so great was the flood. Men had to go to the election in skiffs and crafts, and of course, knowing that the vot ing was all one way many did not care to go to the trouble to vote." I asked Mr. Greason as to the pro portion of illiteracy among the whites in this city and he said: "We have not many illiterate white people, of the total registration for the city election in November there were 36,713 white voters who signed their names made out their own ap plication and 883 who made their marks. That is to say, only 883 voters In this city registered under the grand fathers clause! Of the 1,368 negroes registering, all except twelve regis istered by having the educational qualification, five under the property qualifications, and seven under the grandfather clause. These seven ne groes came forward ana made affi davit that their fathers or grandfath ers could vote in 1867 and no ques tions were asked, lt may be that they , swore falsely, but this seven were 11 permitted to register rather than raise the issue." I next asked Mr. Gleason this ques tion: "Have any Illiterate white men in New Orleans been denied the privi lege of voting because they could not read and write?" He understood the question, and made this answer: "None whatever. Every white man who wants to vote is permitted to vote. Public sentiment is such that no man in politics would attempt to throw obstacles in the way of an il literate white man's voting. Practi cally all who couldn't read and write registered under the grandfather clause in the time prescribed by law and is on a permanent roll of qualified voters, and is guaranteed the right to vote all his life. "No white man none, whatever have been disfranchised." "What has been the result of the adoption of your new constitution on the elections I asked Mr. Gleason. Here is his answer: "Elections are now absolutely fair, The most bitter enemy has been un able to substantiate a charge of the least unfairness. The opposition, af ter election were forced to say, 'We havn't a word to say. There is not a suspicion of unfairness about our. elections. I believe that the registra tion in this city is the cleanest of any city on the continent. I was anxious also, to ascertain from Mr. Gleason whether the amend ment had had any effect on the party primaries, and he said: "It had a splendid effect upon the primaries of the dominant (the Demo cratic) party, men who hadn't gone into a primary since the days of Re construction went into our last city primaries. They recognized that fair, play would be had and that cleaner politics had followed the adoption of the amendment. We had some bitter and close fights in some of the wards,, and those who heretofore held aloofi from them participated with good re suits. As to the constitutionality of the amendment, Mr. Gleason said: "There has never been any serious suggestion of testing Its constitutionality. The lily white Republican party claim they are satisfied with it. Privately the Re publicans say that the amendment is a good thing, but publicly they can't af ford to say it." "When the amendment was first proposed, were some of the uneducat ed while people afraid it would dis franchise them?" was my next ques tion. Mr. Gleason said: "It took two years to educate the people of Louisiana up to the point that it would not result in the disfran chisement of any wrhite people. Now they all see It and like it and wouldn't go back to old conditions under any circumstances. This is as true of the" uneducated portion as of the educated portion of our population." Weddin? Fashions. A few brides of late have discarded; bouquets and carried prayer books. In the summer bridesmaids held parasols and fans instead of flowers, and now these are replaced by muffs, entirely made of flowers, with a foundation of some gossamer fabric. If the brides maids are robed in white or cream, as many are, red or . deep pink blooms give a pretty touch of color, but if there is any dominant tint in the cos tume it is reproduced in the flowers on the muff, and when chrysanthemums are most used there is not much diffi culty, for they are to be bad In almost every color. When that good daylight color, yel low, is selected, mimosa and yellow roses are employed, and the shower bouquet has been succeeded by the shower muff, lilies and roses falling therefrom. The muffs are generally liued with, satin, with a frill of lace round, and are Suspended on a jeweled chain, which Is often presented by the bridegroom. Occasionally fur mingles! with the flowers, violets and eatleyaj orchids, with bows of light blue rib-' bon shot with pink forming a charm ing combination of color. The neutrality of the great Powers ot Europe can hardly be looked on as vir tuous. They are holding their hands j off in the South African business be ! cause they are afraid of each other. ME Which surplus, we per cent 2.50 New Hampshire is often referred to as the Granite State, but the strike of granite cutters has brought out the fact that the stone is quarried for com mercial purposes in every State ast of the Hudson. One of the most im portant centres of the industry is liarre, Vt, a town that has grown re- j markably in recent years because of its quarries. In this State the village of Niantic is becoming a granite centre. It has been a small manufacturing place for many years, but bids fair to develop rapidly in the next decade, thanks to the stone business. AVerv Remarkable Remedy. "It is with a good deal of pleasure and satisfacticia that I rs?nsm?nd Chamberlain's Cclic, Cholera and Diar rhoea Rem-edy," says Diriggist A. WJ Sawitelle, cf Hartford, Conn. "A lady customer, seeing the recmsdy exposed for sale on- my sic.v case, said to me: 'I really "believe .that -moIC-cire ev:d my life the pist s'unrmrar while at the shore." and she .becaim so enthusiastic over its .merits that I at once made uo my mind to reeom;mie!nd it in the fu ture. Recently a gen-ilem-an came into my store so overcome with colic pains that he sank at once to the floor. I gave him a dose of this remedy which (helped him. I repeated the -dose ani in fifteen minutes he left my store smiiltogly informing me that he felt as well as ever." Sold by T. R. Aber nieiUiy, Druggist. RED HOT FROM THE GUN . Was the ball that hit G. B. Steadman, of Newark, Mich., in the Civil War. It caused horrible ulcers that no treat ment helped for 20 years. Then Buck len's Arnica Salve cured him. Cures cuts, bruises, burns, boils, felons, corns. skin eruptions. Best pile cure on earth. 25 cents a box. Cure guaran teed. Sold by T. R. Abernethy, drug gist Briton's Argument to Savages. On his African j num-y 10 Uganda Sir H. II. Johnston addressed the Baso ga, a tribe living on the east side of the ietoria Nyanz.i. He told them that the Britons were once as uncivilized as ihe Kairrondos. a tribe which the Baso- ga despise, wearing no clothes and painting their bodies, but that Chris tianity had made Britain great. "We want you." he said, "to learn Christianity and follow our steps, and you, too, will be great." The speech, it is said, made a pro found miDression on tin n.i' MILLIONS GIVEN AWAY. It is certainly gratifying to tbe pub lic to know of one concern in the land who are not afraid to be generous to the needy and suffering. The .proprie tors of Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds, have given away over ten million trial bot ttles of this great medicine; and have the satisfaction of knowing it has ab solutely cured thousands of hopeless cases. Asthma, Bronchitis, Hoarse ness and all diseases of the throat, chest and lungs are surely cured toy it Call on T. R. Abernethy, Druggist and get a free trial bottle. Regular size EOc and $1. Every bottle guaranteed or price refundad. W. W. May hew. Mertott, Wis., says, "I consider One Minute Cough Cure a most wonderful medicine, quick and safe." It is the only harmless remedy that gives immediate results. It cures coughs, colds, croup, bronchitis, gripe, whooping cough, pneumonia and all throat and lung diseases. Its early use prevents consumption. Children al ways like it and mothers endorse it T. R. Abernethy. Wireless Telegraphy la Warfare. Apropos of the use of the Marconi system of wireless telegraphy in the w'ar in South Africa, it is interesting to note that it has been proved the cannonading does not interfere with the transmission of messages. The apparatus has been worked success fully and messages sent while the largest guns in the British navy were being fired- BRAVE MEN FALL. Victims to stomach, liver and kid ney trouWes as well as women, and all feel the result in loss of appetite, pois ons in the blood, backache, nervous ness, headache and tired, listless, run down feeling- But there's no need to feel like that. Listen to J. W. Gardner, Idaville, Ind. He says: "Electric bit ters are just the thing for a man. when be is all run down, and don't care whether he 'lives or dies. It did more to give me new strength, and good ap Bite than- anything I coulfltake. I caa now eat anything and have a new leasa on life." Only 50 cents at T. R, Aber ceCby's Drug Store. Every bottle guar teed. "No family can afford to be without One Minute Cough Oure. It will stop a cough and cure a cold quicker tha'n any other meikine," writes C. W. Wil liams, Sterling Run.a. It cures croup, bronchitis and all threat and lung troubles and prevents consumption. PleasaaKt and harml?ss. T. R. Aber nethy. A Mao's Collection of Letters. Every man has a lot of girl's letters somewhere that all have "Burn this" underscored two or three times at the bottom. New York Press. Otto Koto, Grand OhanoellOT, K. P.. Boonville, Ind., says, "TteWitt's Witch Hazel Salve soothes the mioat delicate 6kin and heals the most sttfhfboni ulcer with certain and good results.' Cures piles and skin diseases. Don't buy an imitation. T. R. Abernethy. llBli8iiSiilf 1 m r-'TfiiTir- ARE OVERSTOCKED With Bissell Chilled Plows, have proved superior to the Oliver. To reduce will sell One, Two and Three Horse Plows ai below their value. Prices oa application. FARMER'S FRIER IMPERIAL m OTHER IWS u REPAIRS. IS A rECIAL LOT OF THE BEST HUNG CORN PUNTERS PRICE $1.M EACH. EACH. 5Ss2 nnnniro niniiroo o - i ' - : DuuuiLo, nrtnixcoo, &c. at pupai pi iocs. FOR CATAlOUriS AND PRICES. ALL KINDS OF AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. THE IMPLEMENT CO., 1302-1304 EAST MAIN STBEET. RICHMOND. VA. A writer in Munsey's states that tfce Post Office Department believes It saves the credulous people of this coun try fully a hundred million dollars a year that they would lose by invest ment in clever swindling schemes, but for the care exercised by postmasters and inspectors in the delivery of letters and the payment of money orders. Beware of a Cough. A cough Is not a disease but a symp tom. Consumption and brcncbitte, which are the most dangerous and fatal diseases, havie for their first indication a persistetat cough, and if properly treated as soon as this cough appears are easily cured. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has proven w onderfully successful, and gained its wids reputa tion amd extensive sale 'by its success in curing the diseases which cause coughing. If it is not .beneficial it will mot cost you a cent. For sale by T. R. Abernethy, Druggist .H. dark, Cfcauacey, Ga., Bays De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve cured Mm ctt pilea thia had afflicted him for twenty years. It is alao speedy cure for ekin diseases. Beware of dangerous coun terfeits. T R. Ahernethy. Lord Herschefs Stories, Sir Algernon West, in his "Recollec tions," gives some good stories related by Lord Herschel. He told how in sentencing a forger of bank notes to death a certain judge had said: "I can hold out no hope to you of mercy here, and I must urge you to make prepara tion for another world, where I hope you may obtain that mercy which a due regard to the credit of our paper currency forbids you to hope for here." He also tola of an American who had bought some red flannel shirts which were warranted neither to lose their color nor shrink in the wash. Af ter a fortnight be went to the store where he had purchased them and was asked by the shopman whether the shirts had lost color or shrunk. "All I can say," he replied, "is that when I came down with one of them on to breakfast my wife said to me, 'What have you got my pink collar necklace round your throat for? " A Sprained Ankle Quickly Cared. "At on.3 time I suffered1 from a saver i sprain of the ankle," says Geo. E Cary, editor of the Guidie, WasM-nton Va. "After using Tsral wall reeoin mended imiedicines without success, 1 tried Chiimlberlai'n's Pain "Balm, ojx4 aim pleased to say ithat relief canue as scon as I began its uf and u complete cure speedily followed. This renueij h'ais also t:een used in my tfaaiily foi frost (bitten feet with the .best results I cheeilfully recommend its use vo al wbo may need a first-class linun.ait Sold, by T. R. Abernabhy, Druggist. The Boer and ihe Set. Few Boers in the pioneer clays had ever approached or seen the sen. and most of them bad not the slightest idea of what it was like. One Boor was known to have visited ihe coast and seen the ocean, and he was so aston ished by the movement of the waves and the white foaming surf that he filled a bottle from the waves to bring home "up country" to show his friends the "live water." Upon his arrival home the "explorer" invited his frien la to come and see the bottle uncorked, but on pouring the clear still salt wa ter into a basin he was thunderstruck at its tameness and bitterly disappoint ed, exclaiming. "Good heavens', it baa died on the road; it w is all alive when I bottled it" WORKING NIGHT AND DAY". The busiest and mightiest little thing that ever was made is Dr King's New Life Pills. Every pill is a sugar-coated elobule of health, that changes weak ness into strength, listlessness into en ergy, brain-fag into mental power. They're wonderful in building up the health. Only 25 cents per box. Sold bv T. R. Abernethy, druggist "I think DeWltfa Little Early Ris ers are the best pills in the woajd," 6-2 vs W. E. Lake. Hapwy Creek. Va. They remove all obstructions of liver and bowels, act quickly never gripe. T. R. AJbermethy. the and World's Largest Theater. The Degollada theater, the front of which was damaged by the recent earthquake in Guadalajara, is probably the most costly and certainly the most modern of th city's great buildings, and it is accorded the distinction of being the largest exclusively theatrical structure on the continent. Its corner stone was laid in 1S56, and although at the present day it is not entirely completed, some $3,000,000 have been expended in its construction. It is four stories in height, and covers an area of 11,127 square feet' The interior plan is modeled after the great Pa risian playhouse, the boxes being ar ranged in tiers about the three sides of tha auditorium, while the fourth is entirely taken up by the stage, which has a length of 155 feet by 55 ini depth. J. L Carson, Prothonotary, Wash ins ton, Pa., says, "I have found Kodol Dyspepsia Cure an excellent remedy in case of stomach trouble, and have de rived great "benefit from its use. 4t digests what you eat and can not fail to cure. T. R. Abernethy.
The Catawba County News (Newton, N.C.)
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