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WAREENTON, N. C, FKID AY, DECEMBER 1907.
NO. 40.
NOW
THE CENTRE
Highest Market Prices at all times. Bring us Your
next Load and be Convinced
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
CHAS. E. FOSTER,
LITTLETON, N. C.
Civil Engineer nd Surveyor.
R. R. Road, Park, Timber, Town,
Citj and Farm Work quickly done and
accurately planned, mapped and
platted. Farm work solicited.
Dr. EC. INT. Walters,
Surgeon Dentist,
Warrenton, North Carolina.
Offiee oppsite court house in Fleming
arrii Building.
Phine: Office. No. 59: Rience. So. fifi
Dr. Hob. S. Booth,
3Dexvbs"e,
Warrentou, North Carolina.
Office Phone 6.
Residence Phone 66-4
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Dr. W. W. Taylor,
Surgeon IDentist,,
Benders any services included in the
practice of Dentistry. Crown and
bndga work, porcelain inlay, and cast
fillingB according to the methods of
to-day. Office 'Phone ; 2.
27 6m Residence " 34.
Dr. P. J. Macon,
Physician & Surgeon,
Warrentcn, Ncrth Carolina,
Calls promptly attended to. Office
opposite court house.
DR CHARLES H. PEETE.
Office in flyman Building.
Consultation by Appointment.
Ttiephone Connection.
B. B. WILLIAMS,
Attorney - at - Law,
Warrenton, N. 0.
S. G- DANIEL
Attorney at Law,
LITTLETON, N. C.
Practices in all the courts of the
State. Money to loan on real estate.
Reference Bank of Littleton.
Will be in Warrenton every first
Monday.
M. J. Hawkiks, T. W. lilCJTCTT,
Ridgeway, N. C. Louisburg, N. C.
HAWKINS & BICKETT.
Attorneys at Law.
B. G. Greek.
H. A. Boyd.
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.
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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 line of overcoats
for little men.
L. W. Barnes Clothing Store,
Henderson, North Carolina.
Eclipse Engines
Eclipse Engines, Saw Mills; Separators, Etc., shipped
in car load lots. Repair parts kept in stock.
Apply to
J. L. TATE, LITTLETON, N. C.
Poultry Sale.
We are offering for immediate
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Leghorn pullets and cockerels at
$1.00 each. One hundred b. C.
White Leghorn hens at $1.00;
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all from our improved strain of.
heavy laying Leghorns and price j
for immediate delivery only.
Statheden Poultry Farm,,
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South Dakota, with its lich silver
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the home of Airs. E. IX Clapp, a '.von -deiful
case of healing has Utely occur
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Men who never work are prone i
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Dadly Mixed Up.
Abraham Brown, of Wiuteiton, N Y..
had a very lemarkable experience; he
says; "Doctors got badly mixed up over
me; one said heart disease; two exiled
it kiduep trouble; the fourth, blood
poison, and the fifth stomach and Her
trouble; but none of them helped me,
so my wife advised trying Electric Bit
teis, which are restoring me to ptrfect
health. One bottle did me more good
than a'l the live doctors prescribed."
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ply Buckleu's Arnica Salve. It eurcd
me of them for good 20 years ugo."
Guaranteed for sores, wounds, burns or
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Store.
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your system with Hollister's Rocky
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The pies are just as good as
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your food dif-tressts jou, your kidneys
pain, lake Hollisfcer'r Rocky Mountain
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A Dangerous Deadlock,
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To quickly end this conditicu without
disagreeable sensations, Dr. King's New
Liife Pills should-always be your rem
edy. Guaranteed absolutely tatisfao
tory in every case or money back, at C.
A. Thomas Drug Store. 25c.
Millions of bottles of Foley's Honey
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rjnson ever baviug experienced any
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use for roughs, colds and lumr trou
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ODD MISOF MIKES
Peculiar Titles Given to Some of
the Black Hills Claims.
WHIMS OF PIONEER MINERS.
Many of the Early Prospectors Select-
ed the Names of Wives or Sweet
hearts, Which Stand Now as Remind
ers of Romances of Bygone Days.
'Behind the names of many of the
dining claims and mines of every min
ing district In the west there lies a
wealth of romance and history, both
pathetic and ludicrous. The Black
Hills furnish as many and as good ex
amples of the peculiar circumstances
under which many claims are named
as any locality in the country.
One of the best known mines In the
southern hills is the Holy Terror. Back
in the early days this claim was lo
cated by an old miner who had work
ed some years without success. The
claim was a hard one to work. When
the man went home in the evening
after locating his claim his wife asked
him what he named it. He smiled and
told her, "For you, my dear," and hev
further Inquiry drew forth the fact
that he had called it Holy Terror. An
other man once named his claim Gen
tle Annie for his wife, while still a
third perpetuated the memory of hlu
wife, who was a noted clubwoman, by
naming his claim Silent Julia.
The hills are doited with the name4
of claims recalling romances of bygone
days. Many a young, ambitious ma:i
came here when the mining boom cf
the eighties was at Its height, lurel
with hope of a fortune, and all that re
mains to tell the tale is the name of
Katie W. or Mabel E. or Lulu J. Many
a sweetheart or wife in the faraway
east was honored in the naming of a
claim that its owner hoped would prove
a bonanza. Some few made good. Wit
ness the Annie Fraction and the Josle,
both of which were named for tha
eastern wives of their owners. They
are in the Bald mountain district and
have produced thousands of dollars for
the locators.
In the Galena district there is a
small abandoned claim known as the
Widow, with which there goes a story.
Years ago a youth named Ilanley ap
peared from somewhere with a few
thousand and with zeal commenced to
sink his money in a hole in the ground
in the hope of a vast fortune. Back
in the old home a little widow waited
in vain for the golden wealth he said
was sure to come and the wedding
day that would celebrate it. . It took
but a short time for the youth's smail
savings to dwindle away with his in
experience, and, chagrined and dis
heartened, he put a bullet through his
brain on the site of his blasted hopes.
One prospector who worked diligent
ly on a claim which was staked by an
outsider and had difficulty in even get
ting his living expenses secured his re
venge by naming his claim Old Per
simmon. Men of patriotic turn of mind have
chosen names of those famous in his
tory, as Washington, Lincoln, etc.
Each of the presidents has been re
membered, famous generals, all. of the
states, seafaring heroes and heroes of
the Philippines, as Dewey and Fun
ston. Indian names by the score are
found, as Hiawatha, MInnekahta and
Nanoma. Those of sporting proclivi
ties chose race hoses, as Nancy Hanks,
Salvator, Maud S.. Red Wilkes. Joe
Fatchen. Favorite, authors have been
remembered, as Longfellow, Burns and
Dickens. One student named his
group Miltiades, Mark Anthony, Attiia
end Cleopatra.
One man of a pessimistic "vein chose
What's Left and Some Left. The aver
age business man in naming claims
will choose a simple name and use a
series of numbers, as, for instance,
Thomas No. 1, Thomas No. 2, etc. One
man favored his wife by calling his
claim Bed Headed Woman. Two ad
joining claims are known as On Time
and Late.
An odd case was known in the name
of the Hoodlebug claim, which was lo
cated by a German and an Irishman
and Intended by the former to be called
Heidelberg. When the Irishman reach
ed town to record the location he had
forgotten his partner's selection of a
name and said it was something lilce
Hoodlebug. which, for convenience,
was the name recorded. .
The Prodigal Son lived up to its
name by bankrupting its locator, who
returned to Iowa at the behest of the
father who had put up the funds for
the venture. Among the names that
doubtless conceal stories neve?1 known
are Old Whiskers, She Devil. Crack
Brain and Crank.
Some of the gulches have names
that refer to incidents. Two Bit was
named because a placer miner de
clared his first panful would yield
about two bits. Then there are Poor
Man's Gulch. Sheeptail. Blacktail,
Whitetail. Crooked Arm. Poverty and
Prosperity. Deadwood Cor St Louis
Republic.
A School Coinage.
It is not a generally known fact that
the Bluecoat school (Christ's hospital)
once possessed a coinage of its own.
At that time the coin of the realm
could not be used at the hospital. Be
fore he coirid biiy anything in the
"tuck shop" a new boy had to get one
of the beadles, who were the school
money changers, to change his shillings
and pence Into "house money," as It
was called. This was made of cop
per, the coins being octagonal In shape,
with their value stamped on them.
These curious coins are now very rare,
and numismatists possessing any are
fortunate. London Captain.
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THE CENSOR IN RUSSIA.
Newspaper workers in Russia are
now in a worse plight than ever be
fore. The conservative Voice of
Moscow sa3rs of the recent order:
"It establishes a new censorate far
more severe than the old. The for
mer censorate was administered by
a committee of censors and a de
partment of the press. The present
censorate is administered only by
policemen. And naturally the pres
ent censorate deals out severer pun
ishments than did the old. For
merly the censor could only oblit
erate an article or seize one edition
of a paper. Now he can fine the
writer and the editor 3,000 rubles
($1,500). Formerly an editor could )
complain to the department of the j
there is no appeal against the po-,
liceman s nat. This means that m
the days when it was impossible to
use the word 'constitution' the lib
erty of the press was nevertheless
greater tha71. it is now."
Cigar Delays a Train.
A Montmartre tradesman delay
ed railway traffic for twenty min
utes at a suburban station recently
because the officials would not add
a smolcing carriage to the train on
which he was about to return to
Paris. The occupants of a -nonsmoking
compartment objected to
the tradesman's cigar, so the trades
man, still puffing his cigar, lay down
on the line in front of the engine.
He announced that he would remain
there until he had finished 6moking.
Various officials were summoned to
argue with him, and finally, when
the train had been delayed twenty
minutes and the irate passengers
demanded that it proceed regardless
of the tradesman, the latter was
forcibly removed and arrested.
Paris Dispatch in London Express.
Beauty and Marriage.
The examination craze has reach
ed heights of imbecility which its
most ardent initiators could hardly
have dreamed of, but if the maidens
of Great Britain have to pass an ex
amination before they can become
eligible for the . honor of a man's
hand we fancy we should range our
selves on the side of the angels and
oppose the plan with all possible
vigor. The plain fact is that the
prettiest girls are notoriously the
stupidest, and if none but the ugly
girls could get married, whatever re
sult their ability might have on the
nature of the infant, it would not
take long before there were no types
of British beauty left to lighten the
burden of a drab world. London
Medical-Press.
Woman an Expert on Shades.
When Miss R. L. Hoy was being
examined as to her fitness for a po
sition as telegraph operator, Divi
sion Operator Johnson asked the
color of a piece of ribbon.
"That is cerise," said Miss Hoy.
"I just bought a hat of that color,
trimmed with a veil of crushed vio
let." "What's this?".
"That is Alice blue."
Johnson recovered slowly, but
was game for another effort.
"What would you call this?" he
asked.
"Nile green."
"And all these years we thought
they were red, blue and green," he
signed. Reading (Pa.) Cor. Toledo
News-Bee:
The Steam Turbine.
The steam turbine in its most
effective form consists of a long
series of rings of moving blades, be
tween which are rings of fixed
blades,, which serve as guides to de
liver the steam with the proper di
rection and. velocity against the
moving blades. The latter are
mounted on a revolving drum,
which is put in rapid rotation by
the force of the steam. As the
steam passes through the turbine it
falls in pressure by a long series of
steps, each small, so that all of its
energy may be utilized. New York
Am erican.
Musical Sarcasm.
Eichtcr. the famous conductor,
can be stern at times, and he also
knows the value of satire. During
the rehearsal of a certain musical
festival the distinguished conductor
was disturbed by some one in the
hall beating time on the floor. Rich
' ter endured it for some time and
thcn turning round, requested the
offender in his broken English to
j desist. "You see," he explained, I
j with, a smile, "when I am conduct-
i incr T rnnnot always keeD time with
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: your foot." London Standard.
' A Chorister at Eighty-one.
At the age of eighty-one James
Pollitt is still a chorister at New
ton Heath. When eight years of
age he became an alto boy at Cul
cheth Old school, Newton Heath,
snd with the exception of. one year
spent at Accrington he has contin
ued to attend the church at the
Sunday services, the festivals and
week night rehearsals. London
Mail.
Hakes Kidneys aad Bladder Righic
DO YOU READ THE LABELS?
The hardships imposed on manu
facturers of articles of food by the
recently enacted food laws was, the
subject of discussion recently in a
small circle. Two of the men pres
ent wore manufacturers who object
ed strenuously to the descriptive la
bel. One of the party contended
that consumers seldom read the la
bels, and in order to demonstrate
his contention he had some labels
printed and, taking a groceryman
into his confidence, sent to consum
ers of the "particular" class some
strangely marked delicacies. One
bottle bore on its face in bold tj'pe:
"This catchup is made from turnips
and potatoes, but is well colored and
properly seasoned." Pickles were
marked, "These pickles were color
ed with pans green, and olive ou
was sent out with this label: "This
pure olive oil is really the product
of the cotton plant, but we warrant
it strictly pure." Over the label on
a glass of jelly this label was pasted:
"This is make believe delicious ap
ple jelly." "It was an expensive
experiment," said the man who
practiced the deception, "but it
proved my assertion. The grocer
told me that not ore of the people
whom he had served knew what was
printed on the labels." New York
Tribune.
Imprisonment For Debt.
In spite of the reform worked
very largely through Charles Dick
ens' picture in the debtors' prison in
"Pickwick Papers," it is said that
imprisonment for debt is largely on
the increase in England. A parlia
mentary return just issued shows
that last year 11,986 debtors were
imprisoned in England and Wales.
In 1905 the number was 11,405, so
that there was an increase of over
500 last year, although the number
of, complaints was less than in 1905.
The house of commons during the
recent session passed a resolution
that the power of committing to
prison for nonpayment of debt
ought to be restricted, and the
house of lords upon the second read
ing of the lord chancellor's county
court bill expressed a strong opinion
in favor of restriction of this sort
of power.
A Woman Coal Miner.
Margaret Peterman of Peterman's
coal mine, near Stoystown, Somer
set county, can mine coal and out
lift two men. She mined two loads
of coal for Joseph Koontz and
George Wagner, the condition be
ing that they should load the coal
in a mine car and run it out of the
mine. The second car jumped the
track,. and the two men were unable
to lift it back on the track. Miss
Peterman made a wager with the
men that she could lift the car on
the track herself. She lifted the
car on the track unassisted, and
now Mr. Koontz and Mr. Wagner
say they will back her against any
girl in Somerset or Cambria county
in a weight lifting match. Phila
delphia Record.
A Mansfield Story.
A famous American singer, now
resident in London, was at one time
a member of the late Richard Mans
field's company. "One redhot day
in New York," she says, "we had
been rehearsing all the afternoon
until we were nearly melted all
except Mansfield, who looked as cool
as an ice cream soda. It must have
been a greasy looking lot that was
summoned to the greenroom at the
close of the rehearsal. Mansfield,
it seemed, had something to say to
us. It was as follows :
"'I wish to inform you that I ob
ject to perspiration. I must request
you hereafter to refrain from per
spiring. I absolutely forbid itt
That is all.'"
When Oklahoma Blushed.
Here is the way Champ Clark oi
Missouri talks about Oklahoma to
her blushing face: "The garden ol
the gods;' a marvel of human in
dustry, a colossal and enduring
monument to the American love ol
home; a model, progressive com
monwealth, the last to be carved
from the magnificent empire which
Jefferson bought from Napoleon for
a song an empire greater in possi
bilities than that' over which the
mad Macedonian waved his ever ad
vancing banner or over which the
Roman eagles flew when the seven
hilled city was mistress of the
world." Kansas Citv Times.
. Making a Choice. "
"The people and the corpora
tions." said Senator La Follette in
Madison the other day, "remind me
of a woman and her little boy.
There were a very large chicken and
a very small duck on the table, and
the woman, pausing with the carv
ing knife raised, said, 'Johnny,
which will you take, chicken ,01
duck?' Duck,' piped Johnnj'. But
the mother shook her head. No,
Johnny,' she said in a -firm, yet
kindly voice, 'you can't have duck,
my dear. Take your choice, darling;
take your choice, but you can't hav(
duek.'"
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