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7 VOL.. XIII. WARRENTON, N . C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1907 . NO. 39. NOW THE CENT Highest Market Prices at all times. Bring us Your - next Load and be Convinced PROFESSIONAL CARDS. CHAS. E. FOSTER, LITTLETON, N. C. Civil Engineer and Surveyor. R. R. Road, Park, Timber, Town, City and Farm Work quickly done and accurately planned, mapped and platted. Farm work solicited. Dr. H. IS1". Walters. Surgeon Dentist, Warrenton, North Carolina. Offier opposite court house In Fleminj arris Building. Phones: OiHoe. S.59; R.'Henee. No. Dr. Hob. S. Bootli, Warrentou, North Carolina. Officf Phone 6S. Residence Phone 56-4 33-12m Dr. W. "W. Taylor, Surgeon ID en t is t, lenders any services included iu the practice of Dentistry- Crown and bridge work, porcelain inlay, and cast fillings according to the methods of to day. Office 'Phone '2. 27 fim Residence " 34. Dr. P. J. Macon, Physician & Surgeon, Warrenton, " North. Carolina. Calls promptly attended to. Office opposite court house. DR CHARLES H. PEETE. Of nee In R'ma Build's Consultation by Appointment. Ttiephone Connection. B. B. WILLIAMS, Attorney - at - Law, arrsnton, N. C. S. G- DANIEL, Attorney at Law, LITTLETON, N. C. Practices in all the courts of tiie State. Money to loan on real estate. Reference Bank of Littleton. Will lie in Warrenton pyery first Monday, SI. J. Hawkins, T. W. Bicmtt, Ridge way, N. C. Louisburg, N. C. HAWKINS & BiCKETT, Attorneys at Law. B. G. Gbbbx. H, A. Botd. GREEN & BOYD, Attorneys at Law, Warrenton, North Carolina. Eggs for Hatching My Barred Rocks, White, Golden and Buff Wyandottes were among the winners at the State Fair, Raleigh, N. C, Oct. 1906 and at Monroe Jan. 1907. My matings this season are better than ever. Jno. H. Fleming, Warren Plains, N. C. U. F. D. No. 1. IS sell your tobacco. oers 70 TAKE PEOPLE k ItTKI BttlTt WW r Look at your last winter's overcoat and see if the cloth about the seams in the back and around the cuffs is not badly worn. If yuo tuck your sleeves you will make them too short. If you length en them or leave them as they are, you cannot get away from hav ing people know that you cannot afford a new overcoat. Then is there any reason why you should not buy a new one, especially when you can do so for such a small price. Our men's ovorcoats are styish, being especially made for us. And the little men; to be sure we have a splendid ling of overcas. fpr !itti mm- L W. Barnes Clothing Store, Henderson, North Carolina. EeliDse E Eclipse Engines, 3 aw Mills., Separators, Efe., shipped in car load lots, Repair parts kept in stock. Apply to J L. TATE, LITTLETON, N. C. Tobacoo After the harvest and the marketing of your crops, let us offer this timely Suggestion. Deposit the entire amount in our Savings Department, and check only that which is an absolute necessity. You'll be surprised how much further your money goes with our help. Cal1 personally or write for an explaynation of this system. Capital and Surplus, $150,000.00 Henderson, North Carolina. TIME Proprietors. RESOLVED THAT AS YOU WEARVOUR. OVER. COAT ON THE CXfTSiDE IT IS THE FIRST THING TWAf OTHER PEOPLE SEE WHEM YoO MEET THEft.YOU CAUTAFFOm CHANCES ON DODGING gysxeR BR dodo? C !. ngmes Datton Growers! BANK, How's This? We offer . One Hundred. Doll trs for any" case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Caturrb Cure. P. J. OHErEY & Co., Toledo, O. We the undersigned, have known P. J. Cheuey for the iasl 15 years, aud be lieve him perfectly honorable in ail business transaction nud financially able, to carry out any obligations made ; by bis firm. . WaiiDing; Eixsan & Mabvin, j Wholesale .Druggist," Toledo, O. : Hall's Catarrh Cm e is taken inter j nally, noting directly upon the blood and mucous if aces of he system. Testimonials sent free. Price 75c. per ! bott le. Sold by all druggists. j Take Hull's Family Pills for cousti pat ion. You can. never make anotner noise with the cracker that has been exploded. A Real Wonderland. South Dakota, with its lich silver, mines, bonanza farms, wide ranges aud strnnga natural formations, is a -.verit able wondorUud. At Mound City, id the home of Mrs. E. D. Clapp, a won -deiful caso of heahug has lutely oocar-n-d. Her son temeil utar death l'di lung aud thioat trouble. '-Exhausting coughing pcl!s occurred every five minutes," writes Mrs. Glapp, "whan I btgu givir.gDr. King's New Disro;rry the great medicine, that saved hi life and complete! j cured him. "Gurai; ;r,d for coughs and colds, throat and lung troubles. hy-C. A. Thomas, Druggist. 50o. and $1.00, Trial bottlo free. Men who never work are prone : to grow eloquent on the subject- of ' the dignity of labor." Badly Mixed Up. Abraham Brown, of Winteiton, N Y.. hnd a vrry lcmatknble experience; he fajp; "D ctora got badly mixed up over me; one said heart disease; two called it kidnep trouble; the fourth, blood poison, ud the fifth stomach and liver trouble; but none of them helped mi', so my wife advh-ed trying Electric Bit teis, which ar restoring me to ptrfect health. One bottle did me more good than all the five doctors prescribed." Guaranteed for blood poison, weakness and ail stomach, liver and kidney com pi lints, by O. A- Thomas, Druggbt, 50. The pies are just as good as ev er you r ' 'taster ' ' is out of whack. Here's Good Advice. O. S. Woolever, one of the best know n merchants of Le Raysville, N. Y., says: "If you are ever troubled with piles, ap ply Bucklen's Arnica Salve. It cured mp of them for goo.d 0 years ugo. " Guaranteed for sore, wounda, bums or abrasions. 25o. at U, A. Thomas Drug fc'toie, This is the season of decay and w ak ened vitality; good health is hard to retain. If you'd retain yours, fortify your system with Holhster'B Rocky Mountaiu Tc a, the surest way. 35c, Tea or Tableto. Hunter Drug Company. The pies are just as good as ever your "taster" is out of whack. You know as well as acy one when you need somethiug to regulate your (jybtem. If your bowels are sluggish, your food distresses you, your kidneys pain, take Hollister'r ivooky Mountain Tea. It alvrajs relieves. 35 ceutf, Tea or Tablets. Hunter Drug Company j The vacation earned is the va cation enjoyed A Dangerous Deadlock, tljatfipmt-times terintu-.ites fatally, is the etoppage of liver and boeI functions. To quickly eud this condition without disagreeable seusutions, Dr. King's New .Life Pills should always be your rem edy. Guaranteed absolutely satisfac tory in every case or money back, at C. A. Thomas Drug Store. 25c Millions of bottles of Foley's Honey and Tm havo been sold without any p-rsou ever having experienced auy other thau boneucial resujis irom us use for coughs, colds and lung trou bles. 'Ibis is because the genuine Foley's Honey and Tar iu the jeilow package contains no opiates or other harmful drugs. . Guard your health by refusing any but the geuuiue. The Hunttr Drug Company. . - The vacation we mis is the one we would have enjoyed the most. Passed Examination Successfully. JameB Donahue, New Britian. Conn., writes: "I tried several kidney reme dies, and was treated by our best physi cians for diabetes, but did not improve until I took Foley's Kidney Cure. After the second bottle" I showed iaaprovo ment, and five bottles cured me com pletely. I have since passed a lieid examination for life insurance." Foley's Kidney Cure cures " back ache aud, all forms of kidney and bladder trouble. The Hunter Drug Company. The richest man is the one who , is satisfied with what he has. Politics sometimes makes strange cellmates. tops tbe eottgfe andllslu&gi THE AEROPLANE. Keeping It Property Balanced Is a Dif ficult Art. An aeroplane may be defined as a surface propelled horizontally in such a manner that the resulting pressure of air from beneath prevents Its fall ing. A balloon can remain stationary over a given spot iu a calm, but an aeroplane must be kept In motion it It Is to remain In the air. Such a plane literally runs ou the air like a skater gliding over thin Ice. The most fa miliar example of an aeroplane is the kite of our boyhood days. We all re member how we kept it aloft even In a light breeze by running with it against the wind. Substitute the pull of a propeller for the cord and the aeroplane flying machine is created. If this were all, the problem of arti ficial flight would have been solved long ago. There remains the supremely difficult art of balancing the plane bo that it will skate on an eTen keel. Even birds find if . hard to maintain this stability. In the constant effort to steady himself a hawk Bways from side to side as he soars, like an acro bat on a tight rope. Occasionally a birf will catch the wind on the top of his wing, with the result that he will capsize and fall some distance be fore he can recover himself. If the living aeroplanes of nature find the feat of balancing so difficult, is it any wonder that men have been killed in endeavoring to discover their secret? If you have ever sailed a canoe you will readily understand what this tas'i of balancing an aeroplane really means. As the pressure of the wind on your sail heels your canoe over you must climb out on the outrigger far enough for your weight to counterbalance the wind pressure, so that yon will not be upset. The physicist scientifically ex plains your achievement by stating that you have succeeded In keeping the center of air pressure and the center of gravity on the same straight line. In a canoe the feat is comparatively easy; In an aeroplane It demands con stant and flashlike shifting of the body, because the sudden slight varia tions of the wind must be Immediately opposed. Waldemar Kaempffest in Cosmopolitan. MAGIC OF THE BASS. Memories of the Battle That Linger With the Angler. "The Indians call It 'Me-da Mon-nuh-she-gan,' which translated means mag ic bass. He is said to be much like other black bass in appearance. But his peculiar attributes are these: 'Tie must be caught by casting, with a surface bait, so that you can see him rise to it. He may be taken in running water where the clear current foams over mossy bowlders and through gur gling, sunlit shallows or In the silent pools where the forest hangs darkly over the stream. He may be taken at pome still lake's grassy marge, where the water lilies build him a green acd white and golden canopy, or In the open places when the west wind's magic .turns the glassy surface into silver. "But wherever you find him you will see that nature rules supreme. Aud whether In brawling stream or quiet pool, In some peaceful lilied bay or just beneath the rippled broad expane ?, where the wild beauty of the spot makes your heart beat faster, here may you find the magic bass. "And this is his magic: That when you have fought him inch by inch and have looked upon him as he lay ex hausted In yqur lapding net-you are his forever. For wherever you, go and whatever you do there will come to you ever and often a dream of his first leap Into the air, of the tugging line and of his body at your feet, and indis: tlnct behind It all lie the sparkling wa ter and the forest and the blue sky. "In the dead of winter you will of a sudden hear the soft splash of the bass rising to. your fly, you will feel the sud den tautness of the line, and the snow outside your window will melt Into a summer landscape. When you are busiest there will come to you the song of the reel and the smell of pine aud fir and balsam. That is the magic of the Me-da Mon-nuh-she-gan." Out ing Magazine. Various Kinds of Meteors. - 'Meteors" and "meteorologists" have little in common, although their origin is Identical. "Meteor" meant a good many more things to Englishmen of a few generations ago than it does now, In accordance with the meaning of the Greek adjective, which signified "up in the air," so that "ta meteora," the things up In the air, meant the heav enly bodies. Winds and whirlwinds were aerial meteors formerly In Eng lish, clouds, snow and rain were aque ous meteors, and among luminous me teors were reckoned rainbows and twi light Meteorology preserves the rue:n pry of all this, but the word "meteor" has gone over altogether to the astron omer's sphere. - : . Infinitesimal Shears. A clever workman In a cutlery fac tory in Sheffield, England, made a doz en pairs of shears, each so minute that they altogether weigh less than half a grain; That is about the weight of a postage stamp. Each pair is perfect and will cut if sufficiently delicate ma terial could be found. Lying on a piece of white paper they seem no larger than fleas. Not In Stock. Customer (at bookstore) I'd like tc get a cheap edition of Shakespeare's plays. New Salesman (after an extend ed search)-Sorry, sir. but we haia'l got nothing but his works. Chicago Tribune. He who commits no crime require! no law. Antiphanes: get fTimsdiate relief frts 3r. S's hl?c Qla&cJL ! PILES - ' .- - I The Hoodoo By INA V. RIGHT HANSON. J Copyrighted, 180T, by Jessie Morgan. Pauline, I love you. Will you mar ry me or won't you?" I made my lit tle speech desperately, with my eyes shut. The silence was so long that I opened them to find Pauline with her own ; eyes shut and her lips moving rapidly, but noiselessly. "What are you doing?'! I Inquired as calmly as I was able. "I was saying the protection charm for lovers," she answered, smiling sweetly at me. "It's lucky for you that you: asked me today. No noreS lucky days for me till the middla of next month." - v ' "Oh, superstition, thy name Is Pau line!" I said fondly. No matter what absurd ideas she had. she was the sweetest" girl in the world. "Tomor row I will bring the diamond,!' I add- ' ed after awhile. "Oh, no, please," she answered promptly. "I should rather have a ru by. Rubies exert a special protection in matters of love." Next day when I entered the only jewelry store the place afEorded I was wishing that my Pauline were not so superstitious. Of -course I wanted her to be pleased, but diamonds seenn d to me the only gems for betrothals. When I met her in her garden that night I fancied that she looked pale, and when I gave her the box 1 tho sight she seemed on the threshold of tears. "Open It, heart's dearest," I allured, not without Eoaie trepidation. But she put the box up her lace sleeve and began whispering to me of how she was ever prone to hold her pleasures a little while from her until she had tasted anticipation to the full, and she was so wonderfully entrancing that no mortal man could remember 6uch mundane things as metal or bril liants In the soft symphonies of her feeling-swept voice. But there was a change In my sweet heart after that I had sometimes chafed over the necessity, when we were starting for somewhere and had only a brief time to ge, there in and had forgotten something, of being com pelled, when we returned for It, to sit down till we had counted fifty, but this rauline always laughingly insisted on. Now she treated all signs seriously. She no longer laughed when we spilled SPYING A LADPEH LEANTKG AGAINST THE WALL, SHIS WALKED UNDER IT. the salt She looked at me with fear in her eyes as she threw- a pinch of it into the fire. She sometimes cried when I left her, as though my absence were to be an indefinite thing instead of a time of hours, and when I came to her she often rejoiced, as though I were come from a far country, and through all these days she refused to wesr my ring. One night I spoke sharply to her. "Pauline, take my ring from your sleeve, or the corner of your handker chief, or your pompadour, or wherever you have concealed It, and put it In its rightful place," I insisted. "It's in the house," she faltered, look ing at me with frightened eyes. "I'll get it" Returning, she placed the red leather box on the arbor table, and wit'i her face wreathed in tragedy she began to talk. "I looked at the rings In that store before you went In to get it. There was only one ruby, as you knots', and I thought it beautiful, beautiful! I had told the man when I went in that 1 wasn't going to buy, so he began to talk to me. He said he called the ruby his 'hoodoo ring. He said a young man bought it first for his girl, but she jilted him before she ever sav the ring, so he brought it back, exchang ing it for a diamond scarfpin. Th?n a man bought it for his daughter's graduation gift but she died the week before, and be sold it for nionsy to buy the poor child's shroud. Wasn't It dreadful, Harry? Then a mysterious veiled lady said she was going to buy it but she suddenly disappeared aud was never heard of after. "I went home in a dreadful stita of mind. Ali day I was sending the mental suggestion to you not to buy that ring, but Just before closing time I sneaked In to look, and the ruby was Bakes S EUrftUr B ijU ng. DBHrsHflMYGlti gone. I could not bring myself to teL you then that I didn't want it after you had been good enough to please me, for I knew you preferred a dia mond, so I said I would forget its his tory. I compromised with evil and took it but I have never opened the box." "You haven't looked at the ring?" I exclaimed. "No. But just having it Iu my pos session has done such awful things! Firet my poor kitten ate the poisoned meat then my best loved vase fell to the floor . when no one was near it and broke itself to pieces, I tore my best dress the first time 1 wore it, and you had the automobile accident" "But I didn't get hurt," I objected. "Yes, but it's a warning!" she wail ed. "I don't want the ring, and I don't want you to keep It and It is a shame to make that poor mau take It back. Let's bury it somewhere, and you needn't get me another. I will be satisfied without an engagement ring.", Then I laughed. I couldn't restrain myself any longer, and my poor girl's wet eyes looked at me reproachfully. I picked up the box aud touched the spring. She gave one long, earnest look at the sparkler, then looked wild ly at me. "Why, it's a diamond!" .- I nodded. I could do no more then. "Is that the ring I have been carry ing around or hiding away for two mortal weeks?" I nodded again, helpless with laugh ter, and It was not long till Pauline laughed with me. Then she kissed the ring and slipped It on her finger. Next she went to the door of the arbor and locked deliberately at the moon over her left shoulder. Spying a ladder leaning against the wall, she walked under It A rusty nail showed entic ingly in the moonlight, but she did not turn it around. She came back to me, sat down and regarded me gravely. "I still have an unholy curiosity to know who did buy that riug and what It did to them?" she said mournfully. "Oh. heart of mine," I crooned, "can it be that you have lived for a whole summer in this place aud have yet to learn that that Jewelry man is known hereabout as Auanlas Jones, although he was christened Henry? He just dotes on talking to pretty girls, and he has guite a genius for story telling. Figuratively speaking, my beloved, he sold you a gold brick." Tauline sighed and removed her shoes. She placed the high heeled, absurd little articles on the table, re garding them seriously. Then she put them on again, being carefulAto dress the left foot firet "There! That's the very worst one cf them all." she said In the tone the great man must have used when he had conquered his last world and there were no more of them. "There's a worse one!" 1 cried in so mighty a voice that Pauline jumped. "Today week is Friday, the 13th. Yon wouldn't dare let it be our wedding day?" I knew it was an unfair advantage, and I was about to take it all back when my blessed girl snuggled herself into my delighted arms. ' "I might dare, Harry," she whisper ed, "but wouldn't you as lief it would be a day sooner?" Trespassing. Inventive genius seldom achieves success at the first attempt A half grown boy in Pennsylvania, who had, devoted his leisure hours for many, months to the making of a milking ma chine of his own devising, at last com pleted It to his satisfaction and re solved to make a trial of it. Without saying a word to any one he carried his machine down from the attic, where he had wrought patiently day after day to bring it to perfection, and took it out to the barnyard, where old Cherry, the family cow, stood placidly, chewing her cud, with her big, lusty, calf playing round her. A few minutes later his mother saw him trying to re-enter the house un seen. He was covered with dirt from head to foot and in a state of demoral ization generally. In his hand he waa carrying something that looked like the wreck of a toy battleship. I "For mercy's sake, Jud," she ex claimed, "what have you been doing?" "I've been trying my milking ma chine on the cow," he said. I "Your milking machine? Good land! Did the cow do all that to you ?" "No," answered Jud. "Old Cherry, would have stood for it all right it was the calf that er kind o' seemed to object to the machine." Youth's Companion. , The Discovery of Bret Harte. ' A copy of the Overland Monthly had fallen into my hands, and I was ex ceedingly Interested in a sketch, "The Luck of Roaring Camp," by an author whose name I had never before heard. I asked Mr. Fields to read it, and he cared more for it even than 1. being much older aud wiser, and he very, soon dictated a letter to Mr. Harte, begging him to send something to the Atlantic. The reply, which came la due time, I think, not only expressed a, willingness to become a contributor,, but spoke of the writer's probable de parture from California. I cannot say, how long it was before the Harte fam ily reached Boston and became the guests of Mr. Ilowells Iu Cambridge. I only know that it was the time when ' every man was quoting from "The Heathen Chinese" and generally carry ing the verses in his pocketbook. There was, I thought, a good deal ot curiosity felt about the office as to the sort of man the suddenly popular au thor would prove to be. He was found good looking and exceedingly well dressed, extremely self possessed, wlthf a gracefully friendly and even affec- , tionate manner to the new business and literary acquaintances of his own nsre in the establishment with whom he speedily became intimate. Atlantic,' - TSEwm r. W