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1 VOLUME 8, RICH SQUARE. NORTHAMPTON. COUNTY, .N. .C, THURSDAY. JANUARY 12,-1899. NUMBKJl 3 GLEANER. 1 II ICJilE. .We know of nothing better to tear the lining of your throat and lungs. It flatter than wet feet to cause ranchi:i3 and pneumonia. Only keep it up long enough and you will succeed in reducing your weight, losing your appetite, bringing on a slow fever and making everything exactly right for the germs of con sumption. Stop coughing and you will get well. .n 1 Hi Vi a cures coughs of every kind. An ordinary cough disap pears in a single night. The xackiig coughs of bronchitis are soon completely mas tered, And, if not too far along, the coughs of con sumption are completely cured. Ask your druggist for one" of Dr. Ayer's Cherry Pectoral Plaster. It will aid the action of the Cherry Pectoral. If yon hvo any complaint what CTor and desire the In at medical advte you ran possibly obtain, write nt frnly. You will receive a prompt reply that may be of great alnetoyou. Addrenn, DiL J. O. AYEB, Lowell. Mam. 11 Wall Panor 1 havo sever?, styles of Wall Paper on hrr y hich I will sell cheap. - M . H. Conner, Rich Square, N. C. For Rent. One Tjfroom new dwelling, with outhouses, lot and garden, in the town of Rich Square, within 100 yards of Express office. For further information appl; to , Mills H. Conner, Rich Square, N. C. Dental Notice. Dr. E. J. Griffin, Dentist, requests us to announce thathe will be in his office in Woodland till January 20, 1899 and would be glad to see all needing his professional services. FOR RENT I have a good two h orse far m, tw miles fronf Roxobel, gooddwelling and outhouses, which I will rent -or ltase for one or more years. For further information call npon or ad dress 1 W. T. Tyler, ' Kelford, N. C HOTICE OF DISSOLUTION The partnership heretofore exist ing under the -firm name of W. J. Lassiter & Co., is this day dissolv ed by mutual consent. Any claims against said nrm must be presented at once to either of us for settlement W. J, Lassiter, I S. M. Lassiter. ) Tha Jcsj i v.J Rich Square Telephone Co. INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF NORTH CAROLINA. Splendid service. , Polite agents. Has correction with Jackson, Rich Square, Bryantown, Lasker, Pote tasi and Woodland. Messages sent to any point on the line for 10 cents. Connects with Western Union Tel aph Company at Rich Square. DR. W. P. MOORE, President. J. JR. WEAVER, Secty. and Treas. Ganeral offica.: Jckson, N. C. Millinery Goods. I wish to announce to my friends and palronsgenerally that my FALL and WIN TER line of Ladies, Misses atd Childrens Hats, Caps, Ribbons acd MILLINERY GOODG in general is now complete, and I can please any in style, quality and prices. I guarantee to give satis faction and good goods at the very lowest prices. Call and see me before yoopui ' Mus. W. J. BROWN, tf Woodland Depot, N. 0. r Aprs PICTURE OF GOY. BEffJ- SMTH. Au Interesting" Sketch ot Ills Ca reer How Ills Body Was Tak en by the Masons. A recent issue of the Raleigh News arid Observer eonta.ns the following interestirg sketch of Governor Smith: An int'-resling period of North C irolina's history is rec tiled by a picture received here this week It is a fine life siaa portrait of Benjamin Snith.one of the State's Revolutionary Governors. Thepcture was presented to the Grand Lodge of North Caro lina by Barnwfcl! Uhett Hey ward, of Albany, N. Y., through Wil mington Lodge, No. 319, A. P. & A.M. I: is a pr.oHIe picture, showing a tine fornhead, firm nit uthauu cu:ly hair. The yortr it is done lu rayo.i, copied from a dtguer reotype rubably the only pict uro of Governor Smith is exist onco. It will be given a conspic uous place among the portraits of the Grand Masters of the Stati, Governor Smith was born'Ja uary 10th, 1726. He was Grand Master of Nc rth Carolina in the years 18U8 1809 and 1810. Governor of North Carolina in 1810 " MajorGeneral of tha Stae mi-' litia in the rear Colonel and Aide-de-Camp o General Washington in the Conti nental Army. He was on ; of the most remark able men the State has ever pro duced and the.e are many inter esting stories of him still remem bered and told. Governor" Smith was once a very wealthy man. but before his death he impoverished him s If by giviDg his property to the sup port of worthy objects. .Fifty thousand acres of land was his gift to the State University and when he died he was in absolute poverty. He lived and died in Smithvi'le (now Southport) nam ed for him. Under the laws of that day ev en the bones of a man after death could be levied on for debt, aid this, according to the stories now current, is what happened when Gove ' nor Smith died. Before the body could be buried Govern or Smith's debtors secured a levy od the body and had it held un- doi guard in an old building, for the purpose of compelling his friends of the deceased to pay his debts. The debts being quite numer ous and larger than they cared to pay, the Masons of Smithville (Southpor:) resorted to the trick of making drunk the deputy sher iff on guard over the body. While the man slept oi his intoxication they stole away - th corpse and gave an old negro 85 to take it across the river aud ury it in St Philip's church yard. For a long time it was suppos the darkey had kept his con tract, but just before his death he con fessed that he had not. While crossing the river, he said, he be came f righter.ed and threw the body everboard. In order, how ver, to cover up tiiis act he went on to the church and made a now mound ia the grave yard, which was thereafter supposed to con t -in the boues of Governor Smith Prominent among the Masons who planned the theft of the body from the sheriff was Maj. Gener al Cowau, grandfather of C. B, Denson, of this city. The Elizabeth grape, now so common, was first grown at Smithville (Southport) by Gov ernor Smith and was named for Lis wife, Elizabeth Smith. Ac cording to the story a vessel was wrecked near the mouth of th Caj-eFear and Governor Smith picked apand rosus itt;tt-d ; or f vom it, who washed ash ;c:i Smith viae (Sou tii port) t Y.xl ' i round the suii- v.m- .t j... , . .?' grape une which G.vr wr rv,n'n!",. planted and pixwiniK-d, raUif.j It the "Elizabeth Grape." m There are perhaps many other? interesting stories of this re u markable man that might be coi'- j lected and printed. Governor Smith wasa member ; of one of the earlier Masonic Lodges, orgauized under the au-J thority of the Crand Lodge of Englaud and under Provincial Grand Masters. . On the register of the G rand Lodge of England, jm hushed in 17G2, there is " A list of regular lodges according to seniority and constitution," and on this list is the following 3ntry: 213 A lodge at Wilming ton on Cape Fear River, in the Province, of North Carolina, March, 1755." This evidence of the existence of such a lodge at that time is-cor robe rated by a well established tradition that before and perhaps during the Revolution there wert meet ngs of a Masonic lodge in the settlemen t eight miles from Wilmington on the sound. rom wrhich the settlement took its name of Masonboro. These meet ings were held in the private res idence of William Hooper, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and the wails of this residence (which wa recent ly burned) boreMasonicemblems which were visiabie until a very recent date. In this same ettie ment of Masonboro, which was the summer residence of many Wilmington people, dwelt other .prominent Revolutionary charac ters, chief among whom was Cor nelius Harnett, and most if not all of hem. including Governor Smith, are confidently believed to have been members of this lodge although, as the records of the lodge were lost, or, like the records of the Grand Lodge of North Carolina, were destroyed by the British during the Revo lution, there is no conclusion evi dence as to its membership, However this may be, there is no doubt that Governor Smith lived in that section and was Grand Master of the State, it was therefore proper that Mr. Hay ward should send the picture to the Grand Lodge through one oi the Wilmington lodg3s. Who is the Good Citizen? Perhaps the estimate on what c onstitutes a good citizen can be as variously construed as there are persons who might analyze the subject The good citizen in a communi ty may be the rich man, the mod erately rich, or even the mau who has little in this world's goods. ltis a fact to be regretted ythat the rich man in a community is too often not in the class of what may be termed, its good citizens. A man may own houses, lots and have a good sized bank ac count, and yet be very far from a good citizen in the sense of being a factor for good in his communi ty- Too often the rich man who ougat by every sense of justice be a good citizen in his com muni ty falls very short.and is really a hindrance to all that is progres sive among the people where he lives. j Money in itsacVive use begets monev, and the man in a commun ity Qjay continue to augment his wealth, regard himself as a good citizen, and yet be a good citizen oaly so far as outward respecti biiity is concerned. So Jar from being an agent to loster the development of his community, he does nothing with his wealth. He lends his time and money to no enterprises unless uch investment means per cent. upon per ceut, for him individ ually. It is nothing to him that the loaning of his time and money shall helphis less fortunate neigh bor or build up his city. Unless it is per cent for him, individual ly, he will not lend himself to any local in terp rise. It is t iN st.lf iute rest, this ex c'usive thought of sci: before all .,Sse of or e -niu.0. and the open :! artedness a:.d kindly interest his neighbor's lx:e of an :r h.rk-.- tii i renl- no ;d citiz ;. tie out uny . 'ui Xh'v if no i i S C'OiA . -' -V--! u. it, h!i cAjujmuiily, and iuj ;o Srins'. agcxxl citizen. The oth r.may have little mon y, yet with his optimism, his be- j jiyf hi himself and his good will towards his neighbor, assist ma- terially in advancing the social and commercial interest of his community and be in -ery truth j a really good citizen. New Berne ; Jouriidl. If I Could be a Boy Again, If I were a boy, I should want a thorough discipline, t uny he gun and never relaxtd, on the great doctrine of will force as the secret of character, with faith in God as the foundation. I should want my teacher to put weight ol responsibility upon me; to cjakt me know and feel that God fur nishes the material and the cod. dttions, but that I must do the work of building my character; to fill me with the thought that I am not a "thing," a stick, a stone a 1 ump of clay or putty, but a pe rso n, " a "po we r, " a "ca u se, " a "creator," and that what lam in' the long run, in the final out come, I am to make myself. If I were a boy with my man's wisdom I should eat wholesome food and no other. I should chew it weil. and nevec "bolt it down. ' I should eat at regular hours. I she uld never touch tobaeco.chew inggum or patent medicine; nev er once go to bed without clean iog my teeth, never let a year go by without a dentist's inspection and treatment; never sltup late at night unless a greit emergen cy demanded it; never linger one moment in bed when the" time camefor getting up: and never fail to rub every part of my body every morning with a wet towel, and then with a dr , one. tiut all this takes will power. Yes, but that is all it does tike, I should never speak a word to anyone who might be worried about it, and only kind words of others, even of eeemies, in their absence. I should out no un clean thoughts, pictures, sights, or stories in my me nory and im aginaiton. I should want to be able to say, like Dr. George H. Whitney. 'I havQ never pro nounce a word which I ought not io speak in the presence of the purest women in th: world." I should treat little folks kindly and not tease them; show respect to the servants, and be kind to the unfortunate. I should romp aird play, sing and shout, climb trees, explore caves, swim rivers, and be ab!e to do in reason air the manly things that belong to manly sports; love "and stu ly nature, travel as widely and observe as wisely as I could; -tv dy with a will when the time came to study read the best books; try to SDeak accurately, and pronounce dis tinctly; go to college and go through college, even if expected to le a clerk, a farmer, or a me chanic; try to be a practical, e very-day Christian; help every good cause; "use the world, and not abuse i;" treat older men and women as fathers and mothers, the young as brethren and sis ters in all purity. Thus I should try to be a Chris tian gentleman, wholesome, sen sible, cheerful, iudepeftnent, courteous; a boy I with a will; a boy without cant or coward'ee; a man's will and wisdom in" me.and God's grace, beauty and blessing abiding with me. j Ah, if I were a boy! Bishop Vincent, in Success. Cause For Gratitude. "I cannot speak too highly of Hood's Sarsaparilla. It has cured me of a bad cough and given me a good appetite. My little girl had a stomach trouble and did not see a 1 well day up to the tim she began! takiig Hood s Sarsaparilla. This medicine cured her." Mrs. T. H. Sutler, Stephen's City, Va. Hood's PiUs cured all liver ills. Mailed o for w25c. by C. 1. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass. Social Life of Clerk?. Some people say that the pri vate cia racier of an employe should have no bearing upon his relations with his employer; that so long as he does his work satis factorify it is nobody's business how he spends his- time away from the store. This is a fallac ious idea, however. In railroad, binks, and other lines of busi ness there is strict watch kept upon the habits of employes, and if they are known to be spending their spare hours in dissipation, it is not long before they are d roped from their position. Em ployers know that it is only a question of time when fast living means stealing.- Keystone. 1. : V V v - $ Mdces the food ew3 powoc MEET DEATH FEARLESSLY. ! Entombed Miners Pass the Time in Playing dames. A mining story would be con sidered incomplete without abar- rowing description of the hero's s u fie ri ngs d u ri d g a i u iod e rg rou nd catastrd'ie. People tixpect it, and never doubt that the sensa tion of the imprisoned miner ar accurately pictured. Butliose who havo had experience in res cuing colliers from living tombs know that 'th j men do not alway-s act in the sentimental manner at tributed to them. On; the contra il . ry, not a few of them I face their horrible death smilingly, refus ing to give way to vain regrets and tears. When a great mass of coal fell in a northern it com pie tely blocking up the side pass ages, tventy men and boys were trapped in a remote part of the workings. To dig these unfor tunate fellows out a relief party worked madly, biit thi? coal was hard and at the close of the first day thetearful women at the pit brow were still waiting lornews. Another day passed wjthojitgood tidings, and it was not until the third morning that a faint hum ming sound filtered through the frowning blockade of coal. "They're alive!" shrieked one of the party, "and singing hymns to show their faith." After that all worked with re doubled energy, strain thei r ears meanwhile to catch the chanting of the underground choir. It soon became evident, however, that the miners were rot singing at all. They were laughing and shouting like children, and' the familiar cry of "Duck's off!" wa- clearly- heard by the anxious res cuers. Two more hours of super human effort followed,' and then the black partition gave way re vealing the pale and naggard min ers in the very act of playing a game dear to the collier's heart. 'Hello, lads; we didnft expect to see ye," laughed one of them,- stooping to replace the lump of ccal which served as the "duck. "Ah, reckon ye'll stop an' hev a game wi us afore we go back?" And the half famished men and boys actually insisted on finish ing the game before they would allow themselves to" be taken to the shaft After a similar accident in an other colliery, the relief party did not get through the coal in time to be "of service, behind the cruel barrier. .That they ha4 died coolly and fearlessly, though, was beyond questionfor on the damp floor were scores of little marb es made from compresssed coal dust and two of the men were lying at full length with their fists screwed up ready to fillip. . Their wan faces , smiled even in death, and this touching proof Of their unfailing optimism brought tears to the eyes of e very one who entered the pit. Falls of coal and Hoods are tar-: rible catastrophes, but the aver age collier fears an explosion of firedamp most of all. One occur red not so very long ago in a lit tie Midland pit and fifteen good men and true were shut off from the cage by tons of coal- The anxious crowd at the pit mouth waited until the foul gas has been cleared from thecuting, and then began their work of rescue, with little hope or saving their mates from the suffocating fumes of the firedamp. Progress was. rapid, however, and before long tho re lief nariv got into tl-e i arrow parage tie re they sau- a sight which fuiriy made them gast , foi th j fif ttn colliers were ou the floor, some of them deut and oth ers sitting up and unconcernedly singing comic songs. A littl fulheron wasa football im pro vis -d from the collies shirts and caps, and bearhig unmlstakeable signs of rf'Ct nt and rough usage -We thowt, as long as we'd got Vt dee, -we'd dee kick": u explain- cd one of .the survivors, 'so we SDW(S A more delicious and wholesome co., f?w toon. Kid u a football an punched lit abnrt it t 'dark. Ge rge thoer Ml iialir- ead us he wor scorin Ja goal, but we went on playiug to nass t.nieon, and then V gar clear ed off a bit" Only four of that brave bevy of miners camtvout of the pit alive, but they assured their questioners that the bthrt had laughed and sung iu the very face of death Cassell's Satur dky Journal. An Old Time Kansas Tale The announcement that ex Judge Steve Osborn, of Salina, ill become a candidate for Speak er rf the Kansas House is remind ful of a story Stove used to tell on himself. In the earlydays of Western Kansas he was a poor but industrious young man striv ing t practice law at the little town of Xess City. About all the practice there was to do was be fore the United States Law office at Wakeeney.and whenever Steve had a case in that tribunal his poverty compelled him to cross the forty miles intervening be tween the towns on foot. Out showy night in late November he found himself lost, from the road, but before darkness came entire ly he found his way to a ranch man's house, where he was c r dially welcomed for the night The remainder of the story, in Judge Osborn's words, goes as follows: ; "The house was one of a famil iar plains type, being a big one room agair, built out of sod.; At one end was a fireplace, which served alike for giving warmtD and cooking, and included in the 4stof the furniture was one sol itary bedstead. Insomuch as the fnlm ily con sis ted of the m an and wife and six small children. 1 sqon commenced to wonder where tliey all slept and what manner of provision could be made for my self, the guest j "After the chores had been done and the ranchman had made his sfock safe for the night we all sat down to a good ranch sup per, or rather, the ranchman and I did, for there were but two chairs in the house, and the wife and children stood up to take their food. After supper we men drew up to the fireplace j and smoked our pipes, while the Vfcr man cleared up thesupperdishes The evening passed pleasantiy, and aboat 9 o'clock I observed the woman prepare three of the children for bed, after which she tucked them j into the only bed stead in tho house. They went off to sleep presently, and then the oman carefully removed them from, the bed an st them up Against the wall close to the fireplace, aft r which she put the three remaining children to bed in the same manner. I began to catch on to the game by this time and it tickled . me half todeatr. By and by the last three child ren went off to the land of nod, and they, too. were carefully re moved to a place along the wall. Then turning to me, the good peo pie told me I was to occupy the bed for the night, and that it was ready for me whenever 1 saw fit to turn in. ' ;' ; .;: 'Naturally I protested against taking the ouly bed in the house and declared that I could sit in a chair and sleep as well as not,but no amount of protest could move these hospitable eopit and at list I reluctantly turned in, leav ing my host and hostess codding by! m open fire I never slept sounder in my life. J had been made dead tired by the long waik of the day before and the soft bed was very reductive I did noi wak'i until tav vas breaking, itid then 1 eucc untered the most d LQnisii' ng thing I ever mot with m my life." i "What was it? h": ruseti the boys, who h&d been iistenttg'io Ste ve'i trancing story. l found the mau and woman iu bed find I was sitting with the kids along the! wall." Kansas city Journal. From Factory to Fimi&e. 31.75 Tvyt tits Wlilt Enaoteled Steel B4 IntithtT 54. 4S.4or j5in.iriJUi. Lo(Lk nt.hfilUrMdNia. tiler. Guaranteed tb iror-rt bed m4. " . . t ... a " txttdi of hncaim in Famtturc. Qothlex. D4 in$, Crorlcery. i".lTrre. Sewinf SiackiaM. Rcfrigcmon. Pictures, Mirror, Ti Km, More, etc., and in bey in f from tn, ym nn iinra 4 w w per cent. 0 CVerTtiUM forget thi. , We twtUUfc a litKoapbl catalogue cf Car- M mu, Kuj. Art Square. Portiere aa4 Lac il Cortatna which (hows exact deatgM t ho l Minted cc'.on e'ection caa be laad al ati- Lactorilr aa tnoaeh yoo were kare at th amiH. Here th ceWhrared Hinem Sewin Machio t- none better mad. Cuar- 1 ted State, io Canada. rart ' Mejnco, ticrrauUa, vuba. tar as Australia and South " ntjpfa Africa? Send for otirrre 0JdOAfMa. Caolocues. They will tell ytm. AdJrea that w9 Julius Hincs Ct Son, SALT!!3REf UD. Dept. 909. FOR BUGGIES CARRIAGES HAIDIIADE HAESlb BRIDLES SADDLES && at reasonable prices go to W.T. PICARD'S Jackson, N.C., 8. Ilandmade Harness at the price you have to pay for chine made. A i XT- r- vgeni, ior renn s ifugjr,i. A Hint to the Wise. If you wish to please the ladle or want the ladies to please yon in tb selection of a nice Christmas prese&t jou win uo wen u can on a laay clerk to assist you iu making cbole, wbicb you will likely And at Raeui Store in Woodland, which has IIm reputation of displaying the nioesi lot of holiday goo.ls anywhere, tad bought ftom the largest establitb ments in jew York city, including nice line of Christmas Books by dis tinguished authors, beautifully bound 30 and 35 cents. Picture Books fog children 3 to lOcts. each; Autograft Albums 6 to 25c. beautiful Chris4, mas Cards in frame from 10 to 23. fine plush box paper 28c. Cellalofd Toilet Cases 65c. tot$l,25. ;Collar aal Culf and Nectie cases from 50 to SCO hand painted Mirrors 10, 15c. A clea assortment ot dolls front 5 to 50c. A varied line of vases, cups and cers and toys cheaper than wTtr known. Silk and Swiss embroidered handkerchiefs, fancy work basktta. Silver Knives and Forks plated O niekle. White Handle Carving Skt Funcy Tidies, Table-crovers, Buteca covers, Picture Frames and a bundndi uvuli iiuiugs, tuou j ut nuivu j iutm before advertised and still centimes to sell at same prices, Please eall and examine my ttoc before purchasing elsewhere Britg jour eggs if you haven't the moBtft MA TTIE R. C0PELAND. Pr$fi New York Racket Stora, , Woodland, N. C. Bono Liniment' not only as a grea Liniment, but iositively as the great esi jinimeni maue,aau us u is soia a, the small price of 25 cents a bo le, it is in the reach of all sufferers. No sufferer with Rheumatism need despair, as it cures wben"the best" have failed, Reuienber the kind, Dixie Nerra nd Done Liniment. JPricc, 25 cents a bottle, five bottles for $1. s e P3 n r p3 IS JUTA3 COOD FOB ADCfr VAnrjAUTED. PRICS COC- OAtATTa, ILUU, VOT.C, i'.sn'Jnvcn: we aokl last year, 600 tottlM r.:-.i.VES TASTELESS CTJTLI, TONIO o4 k. t,1 t 1 L ,i2ht lUiee crua already UxU year, la U om I nonce or 14 yenra. id u orj wmu . l.aUoa a jvur Toale. aateed for o yean. Cata- mi loffue tella tou all about it, I ' 11 i Ptc (j Drawer Styl), I 1 jfj S13.2S ir m Why have we cwtr f - I In ewr rart o th Ual 1 1 ' , I
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