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The Wadesboro Messenger and Wadesboro Intelligencer Consolidated July, 1888.
PRICE, SI. 5o a Year.
NEW SERIES- VOL II. NO. 32.
Wadesboro, N. C, Thursday. February 17, 1898.
WHOLE NUMBER 884
Great Improvement
Reports a Welcome tJhange in
Her Condition r
.-.Statement by a North Carolina
Woman.
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after another and the trouble seemed like
catarrh In the head. There were dis
charges from my ears, and my hearing
became affected. I took a number of
kinds of medicine but I grew worse in
stead of better. - One day I procured a
bottle of E0jd'a Barsaparilla and bejan
taking it, and soon found it was doing
zrie good.. I gained strength and was
greatly benefited in many ways. I con
tinued Its use and now the bad feeling in
- my head is gone, and the earache with
which I suffered has disappeared. I am
now able to do mv housework without
help. 1 shall keep Hood's Sarsaparilla ia
the house as long as I live." . tlss. T. Q.
- Ehynb, Dallas, North Carolina. ;
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and t'ateriiie to (lie Rabble.
Washixgtok, Feb 10. Following
is a translation of the letter acknowl
edged to have been written to Senor
Canalejas by Senor De Lome, and
which forced De Lome's resignation as
Spanish minister to the United States.
Legation De Espana, a
"Washington.
Eximo Senor Don Jose Canalejas:
My Distinguished and Dear Friend
Yon need not apologiza for not having
written to me. I also ought to have
written to yon, but have not doue so
on account of being weighed down
with work and nous sommes quittes.
The situation here continues un
changed. Ever thing depends on the
political and military success in Cuba.
The prologue of this second method
of warfare will end the day that the
colonial cabinet will be appointed, and
it relieves us in the eyes of this coun
try of a part of the responsibility of
what may happen there, and they
mast cast the responsibility upon the
Cubans, whom they believe 10 be so
immalculate.
Until then we will not be able to see
clearly, and I consider it to be a loss of
time and an advance by the wrong
road, the sending of emissaries to the
rebel field, the negotiating with the
autonomists not yet declared to be le
gally constituted, and the discovery of
the intention and purpose of this gov
ernment. The exiles will return one
by one, and when they return will
come walking into the sheep fold, and
the chiefs will gradually return.
Neither of these had the courage to
leave en masse, and they will not haye
the courage to thus return.
MCKINLEY A LOW POLITICIAN.
The message has undeceived the in
surgents, who expected something
else, and has paralyzed the action of
Congress, but I consider it bad. Be
sides the natural and inevitable coars
nesj with which he repeats all that
the press and public opinion of Spain
has said of Weyler, it shows once
more what McKinley is, weak and ca
tering to the rabble, and besides a low
politician, who desires to leave a door
open to me and to stand well with the
jingoes of his party.
Nevertheless, as a matter of fact, it
will only depend on ourselves whether
he will prove bad and adverse to us. I
agree entirely with you,f without a
military success nothing will be ac
complished there, and without milita
ry and political success there is here
alwaya danger that the insurgents will
be encouraged, if not by the govern
ment, at least by part of the public
opinion.
I do not believe you pay enough at
tention to the role of England. Nearly
all the newspapers canaille which
swarms in your hotel are English, and
at the same time that they are corres
pondents of the best newspapers and
reviews of London. Thus it has been
since the beginning. To my mini the
only object of England is that the
Americans should occupy themselves
with us and leave her in peace, and
if there is war, so much the betterjthat
would further remove what is threat
ening her although that will never
happen. .
It would be most important that you
should agitate the question of com
mercial relations, even though it would
be only for effect, and that you should
send here a man of importance in or
der that I might use him to make a'
propaganda among the Senators and
others in opposition to the junta and
to win over exiles.
There goes Amblarad. I believe he
comes too deeply taken np with little
political matters, and there must be
something very great or we will lose.
Adela returns your salutation, and
we wish you in the New Year to
be a messenger of peace and take
this New Years present to poor
Spain.
Always your attentive friend and
servant, who kisses your hand.
ENBIQOE DUPUY DE LOME.
the relations of the two countries.
The Spni.h duplicity is laid bare.
The purpose to deceive this govern
ment by friendly overtures is d:sclosed.
The hollow pretense oE the autonomy
plan is made clear. The proposition
to negotiate a reciprocity treaty with
this country to give it advantages in
Cuban trade is acknowledged to be
merely a diplomatic trick, important
to the advancement of the plans of
Spain to hoodwink the administration
and things to be promised if ' only for
effect. This letter has made it impos
sible for Spain to proceed along the
same lines which have been heretofore
successful in dealing with the United j
States.
Neither "autonomy'" or "reciproc
ity" will now serye to oil and smooth
down the rnffled feathers, of the eagle.
They have served well for awhile. In
the future Spain will be embarrassed
in dealing with this country by the
fact that her unfriec.dly attitude and
purposes to deceive will be fully un
derstood. A change of relation must
come. Whether the disclosures will
lead the president to change his policy
and to turn directly to recognition of
the belligerency of the Cuban insur
gents or intervention to put a close to
the war, the near future will disclose.
The belief is that Spain haviug had
the cloak torn off and being forced to
greater frankuess may assume brava
do and defiance. .
ficatf
Jtj.-XT.1TE OKNOKTII CAROLINA.
j a Arson Countt.
i Superior Court Office of Clerk
The creditors of the estate of Daniel P
Johnson, deceased, Are hereby notified
that a special proceeding has been institu
te in said court before the clerk thereof.
tiv W. L. Little and others, in behalf of all
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the CretlllOru 01 Kuu csmic nuaiusi r . 11.
Johnson and J. S. Jones, the executors and
the heirs at law and devisees of said de
cedent, for the purpose of ascertaining the
".,ipht outstanding against said estate
and of making assets to pay the same. The
j.. torsare nereuy unuum iu uie me evi
iei i f tbeir claims with the undersigned
cltfi'k oi said court, at his office in the court
liouse at Wadesixtro, on or before the 7th
r'av of April. 1H8. reoruary am, iys.
,y 1 1 JOHN' C. McLAUCUUX,
Clerk of Superior Court,
EFFECT OF THE LETTER.
It H ill Lead lo a Crisis Without
a Doubt.
Washington, Feb. 10. "All the
real importance of the letter,'' said
Representatives Howard, "lies in the
utter hopelessness of the Spanish.
"The letter, apart from being insulv
ng reveals the real situation as it pre
sents itself to the Spanish To all in
tents and purposes DeLome says the
game is np unless the Spanish can
achieve more political and military
success. By political he evidently re
fers to the plan of autouomy which has
proven a complte failure, since the
letter was written. Heietofore tha
Spanish have been claiming victories
in the field which the letter clearly de
nies, it stamps as false every official
statement made by Spain to this coun
try and verifies many of the claims of
the Cubans." :
The consequence upon De Lome
personally who is very popular here,
and the insulting allusion to the presi
dent, Jias absorbed the attention of the
public mind chiefly and the chief sig
nificance which Mr. Howard points
out has been lost sight of. This letter
will have an important effect upon the
relations between the two countries.
The De Lome letter is not only offen
sive, oat it also makes
The Negro I'opulation.
Atlanta Constitution.
According to the last federal cen
sus the negro population "of the
United State aggregates 7,638,360
sonls. Of this number 6,795,722
reside in the south.
Georgia heads the list in the size
of its negro population. As distri
buted among the states of this section
the figures of ths last federal census
are as sollows: Georgia 858,996,
Mississippi 744,799, South Carolina
689,141, Alabama 679,299, Virginia
635,858, Xorth Carolina 562,565,
Louisiana 560,192, Texas 489,588,
Tennessee 430,881, Arkansas 309,
427, Kentucky 268,173, Maryland
215,897, Florida 166,473, Missouri
150,726, and West Virginia'32,717.
With respect to the remaining
portion of the negro population it is
scattered all over the United States.
As the following table shows, there
is not a single northern or western
state without its sprinkling of negro
residents: Arizone 4,040, Califouia
96,458, Colorado 7,730, Connecti
cut 12,820, Delaware 28,427, District
of Columbia 75,697, Idaho 2,367,
Illinois 57,879, Indiana 45,668,
Iowa 10,810, Kansas 50,543, Maine
1,823, Massachusetts 23,570, Mich
igan 2-1,005, Minnesota 5,667, Mon
tana 4,888, Nebraska, 12,022, Ne
vada 6,677, New Hampshire 690,
New Jersey 48,352, New Mexico 10,
874, New York 73,901, North Da
kota 596, Ohio 87,511, Oklahoma
3,008, Oregon 12,009, Pennsylvania
109,757, Rhode Island 7,647, South
Dakota 1.578, Utah 2,006, Vermont
1,004, Washingthn 8,887, Wisconsin
6,407, and Wyoming 1,430.
Of the last named group of states
'Pennsylvania has the largest negro
population, closely followed by Cal
ifornia and Ohio, while North Da
kota has the smallest negro pop
ulation, closely followed by New
Hampshire and Vermont.
Sent the Hill as Requested.
The Pans (Ky.) Reporter says: "A
youth of this city has been de: perately
in love with one of Woodford's lasses,
and as a token of his esteem sent her
bracelec. After she had received it,
and hung it on her dainty arm. and he
had locked it with his lilly white
hands, there came a cruel rival who
promptly relieved the arm of its orna
meut, and then came trouble. The
Georgetown youth heard of the action
of his Woodford county rival and at
once wrote the youug lady to return
the token of friendship. She answered
by saying she had destroyed it.but if he
would send her a statement of the cost
of the ijacelet,she would pay him for
the same. The young man sent the
bill as folio vs:
" 'To 1 Bracelet, $1.50. Please re
mit by return mail. Terms strictly
cash. No gbodssent on approval.'
"The next day he received a money
order for $1 50. It is all over now.".
CHINA'S INEXORABLE LAW.
Children Who Cause Their Pa
rents Death Must Undergo the
Death Penally.
In China, when a parent has met
with death at the hauds of a son or
daughter, no circumstances of inten
tion or age are permitted to interfere
with the infliction of the penalty;
which is that of the lii'gch'l, followed
by decapitation. Any mitigation of
this cruel sentence, says the North
China Herald, would be considered by
the Chinese as aiming a blow at the
fundamental principle of filial duty.
which is supposed to be the
groundwork of their. code. Time and
again has the penalty of liugch'l been
recorded against parricides and matri
cides, eeen when thej happened to be
idiots pi lunatics, and, therefore, not
accountable for their actions.
The corruption and venality of the
great mass of officials in the empire
has become a by word, and it is not
strange, therefore, that justice can be
easily evaded through bribery. Thus
a wealthy man who has been guilty of
killing a fellow-creature, whether by
premeditation or accident can escape
all serious consequences and receive a
sentence of three years' banishment to
a spot 1,000 milesjdistant instead of the
death penalty. Or, on the other hani,
when the relatives of the murdered
man are powerful euough to make
themselves hiiard by the officials and
to demand the strict observance of the
lex talionis, the rich criminal may pur
chase a suitable substitute from
among the beggar class, or perhaps an
old and faithful servant of the family
may be permitted to forfeit his life in
his master's stead. But never has it
happened since China had a history
that one who occasioned the death of
his parent or parents has contrived to
buy himself off and escape the lingch'l,
or ox eared knife, and the executioner's
sword. So deeply has the doctrine of
the ancient sages on the observance of
filial piety become rooted in the hearts
of the people of China that no magis
trate would dare to exercise leniency
by taking into consideration the eir
cumstances that led to a case of parri
cide or matricide with the view of mit
igating the doom fixed by law. Not
only would the magistrate incur there
by the danger of violence from the
mob, but he would subvert the obedi
ence due from his own family.
A parricide not only brings certain
death on himself, but disgrace on the
district in which he resides. In the
case where both parents are victims.
Chinese law ordains that a corner of
the district city walls shall be pulled
down as a lasting chronicle of the
shame and disgrace of the district in
having sheltered such monster. The
magistrate and local officials are cash
iered and debarred forever from public
employment as a punishment for oot
having taught more effectively the
doctrine of filial piety, while the Gov
ernor of the province, with his col
leagues the treasurer and jud.e, to
gether with the taotia and prefect of
the district, are all degraded several
steps in rank. In the case of the mur
der of both parents the murderer is not
only sentenced to undergo lingch'i and
decapitation, but bis body is nailed on
the top of the coffin of one of his vic
tims. So far reaching and immutable is
this law that it is plainly laid down
that even the infant in arras who ac
cidentally caases the death of its
mother must suffer the extreme pen
alty, provided the infant has grown its
teeth. For instance, an infant borne
in the arms of its nurse and carrying in
its tiny hands some sharp instrument
may let the same fall, and thereby ac
cidentally" cause the death of its
mother, and if it should happen that the
iufant has one tooth in its head at the
time it will be doomed to the extreme
penalty of lingch'i and decapitation,
but if it has no teeth it will escape all
consequences. Such is the barbarou.
law of China. It is the only law that
offers no loophole for the escape of the
perpetrator, whether the death was
premeditated or the result of accident.
All other laws and penalties have
been and can be evaded for5 the
usual consider lion.
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Concerning t rows.
Morjanton Farmers' Friend.
Id a conversation a few days since
with Col T. G. Walton, who, by the
way, talks intelligently t n any subject.
we learn that crows are a blessing in
stead f a curse. The colonel says
that he will not allow his tenants to
have a scare crow in their fields of
corn. The purpose of the crow is not
to debtioy corn but worms, and that
when they do pull np corn, it will gen
erally be found that there is a worm at
the core. He argues if crows were
really destructive to con they would
be worse than an army with banners.
for by their numbers they could lay
waste evey field in the land. In view
of the fact that Col. Walton hvs often
taken the premium at different fairs
for the largest yield of corn per acre,
and at the World's Fair for the best
corn, we are impressed with the
force of his argument in behalf of
crows.
Children and adults tortured by burns.
scaius, injuries, eczema or SKin diseases
may secure instant relief bv usinir D Witt'a
Witch Hazel Salve. It is the great File
remeay. james a. llaiuison.
Don't 'annoy others by jour conghfn
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Pertinent Questions.
L'liiisville Dispatch.
Why have not the leaders fixed our
banking laws just exactly right! For
thirty years no one but the bankets
has written a line on our statutes about
money, hanking, standard of "busi
ness interests" but the bankers. Now,
why at this late date tell us every thing
is all awry and must be "refoimed"
soma morei If things are wrjong,
whose fault i3 it! Did the plow hand
get them wrong!
Did: the farmers jumble up our
finances in this awfully awful manner!
Did the laborers do this deed! Did the
factory folfe hang around Washington
and procure "thi? system of absurd
currency laws" that we he.ir so much
about nowadays! What's the matter
with Gage & Cq., anyhow! If wefol
low them some more, after getting intj
this maize of ruin, bankiuptcy and
souud money and unsound everything
else, will wedeserye any better fate
than their lust of greed will deal out
to us!
, The Scotch proverb runs: "If a man
fools you once, that's his fault;, if he
fools you twice that's youf fault "
Who has been the fooler and who the
foolee these past thirty years!
How did gold get to be twice as val ,
uable (and 12 cents more) oversivei in
twenty- five years! Can you honestly
answer this! Over-production won't
do. There is none. Gold has been pro
duced within 8 per cent, of silver,
pound per pound, during the past
twenty five years, and yet its ex
change value is double plus 12 cents
dollar per dollar weight. Now, why!
Do you say nature! If so, what change
has nature wrought in gold or silver in
the past twentj five years! How has
nat'ue nut 112 ceuts per dollar weight
into old! D y you merely change your
phrase and assert "intrinsic value!"
If so, how came 112 cents of "intrin
sic" to speak into 23 22 gold grains in
twenty five years! In 1792, you say
Hamilton and Jefferson, after a pro
longed, exhaustive, expert and holy
consideration, started gold at just 100
cents per dollar, and silver at the
same. Exactly even they started.
Neck and neck they pulled for awhile.
Then you say silver fell behind 3 ents
(that is lost 3 cents "intrinsic value,"
your logic says). Then Old Hickory
took compassion on silver and 'by
the eternal" he just forced gold to
hold back its end of the double tree
and drove 3 "cents "intrinsic value"
out of gold, your logic again says.
Made gold 3 cents cheaper per dollar
weight than silver. Then, your gold
bug logician cries out and "points
with pride" to the great historical fact
that Andv Jackson established the
goM standard over sixty years ago,
by making gold worth 3 cents less
per dollar than silver! Do you see the
joke!
If Andrew Jackson and Thomas
Benton established the gold standard
sixty years ago, why didn't Rotschild
and Sherman let it stay established!
Can you answer!
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He (theatrically) "You have re
fused me! To-morrow I go to seek
my fortuae in the Klondike." She
"May I have the refusal of yon when
you return?" Puck.
m
A little girl from town was staying
with some country cousins who live on
a farm. At breakfast the following
morning slie saw on the table a dish of
honey, and regarded this as an oppor
tunity to show her-country cousins
that she knew something of country
life after all. Looking at the dish- of
honey, she said carelessly: "Ab, I
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The Author oflfChrist Cain e to
Congress" Can I Avoid a Debt
by It.
It ashinjjton Dispatch. Stli.
The Cout of Appeals of the Dis
trict of Columbia to-day affirmed a
decision made twenty years ago, that
a Senator or Representative iu Con
gress has no special immuuity from
arrest, but is subject to legal pro
ceedings as any ordinary citizeu, ex
cept as specified iu the contention
of the United "States. The decision
was made iu the case of Milford W.
Howard, appellant, against the Cit
izens' Bauk and Trust Company, of
Nashville, Teun. Mr. Howard is
the Populist congressman from Ala
bama, better kowu as the author of
"If Christ Came to Congress." He
became indebted to the bank in the
sum of about $450, for which the
company obtaiued a judgment
against him iu the Circuit Court of
DeKalb county, Ala. At that time
he was a member of Congress, and
the bauk learned that he had funds
deposited in the Lincoln National
Bank, of this city. These funds,
about $91, were attached by the bank
and suit was brought here to recover
the money. Mr. Howard filed a de
murrer, in which he setup the ques
tion of personal priyilege of a mem
ber of Congress, that he was a resi
dent of the District of Columbia,
and several other questions of minor
importance. The first two were the
main issues, and the case was argued
at length.
The demurrer filed by Mr. Howard
was overruled in the iuferior court
and judgment rendered against him,
from which judgment he appealed.
Now the court holds that the evil
doctrine that a member of a legis
lative body has any particular rights
above those of an ordinary citizen,
originated with members of Parlia
meut, and that they abused their
privilege to such au exteut that fin
ally they were compelled to pass a
bill which "did away with those prac
tices. The constitution provides
that "members of both houses, iu all
cases, except treason, felonies, and
breach of the peace, shall be privil
eged from arrest during their attend
ance at the session of their respec
tive houses and in going to and re
turning from the same." The court
holds that this is the limit of their
immunity.
Mr. Howard argued that he was a
resident of the District of Columbia
for all intents nd purposes; that he
was detained here on public busi
ness and ,was here almost all the year;
that he expected to be here untill
the end of his term and that he in
tended to reside here as long as his
public duties required him to do so.
The court held that a member of
Congress was a resiuend of the Dis
trict only temporarily and that he
was not to be regarded as a perma
nent resident, or he could not be
qualified to be a Representative, the
constitution prescribing that he
must be an inhabitant of the State
from which he was elected. It also
held that Mr. Howard, beiug here
on public business and not private
business, could not be regarded as a
resident of the District.
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Slaves Sold on the Moorish
Coast.
Almost within sight of Gibralter.
and certainly within gunshot ef Eu
rope, namely, at Saffi, on the Moorish
coast, slaves are publicly bought and
sold in the open market, and, accord
ing to the Saffi correspondent of the
Cronica, which is the Italian paper at
Tangiers, women are selling now at
$25, grown men at $00, while children
bring from $5 to $15. It is merely the
jealousy among the various European
governments with reganl to the pos
session of a predominant influence in
Morocco that prevents any concerted
action from bein? taken on the part of
tEe great powers. Untold sums haye
been spent by civilized States to stop
the slave trade even in the interior of
Africa. Yet it is tolerated within
sight of the back .vindows of Eu
rope.
In a recent letter from Washington, D
C, to an old friend. Major G. A. Studer,
for twenty years United States consul at
Singaiore, says: "While at Des Moines
I became acquainted with a liniment
known as Chamberlain a fain Balm
which I found excellent against rheuma
tism ai well as against soreness of the
throat and chest (giving me much easier
breathing). I had a touch of pneumonia
early this week, and two applications
freely applied to the throat and chest re
lived me of it at once. I wonld not be
without it for anything." For sale by
J. A. Hardison.
Metaphysical: Bronco Pete
(thoughtfully) "Wonder what ever
became nv Tarantula Jim?"
Grizlly Dan W'y don't you re
member helping to lynch him last
July?"
Bronco Pete "W'y uv course,
but I wonder wot ever become of
him finally?" Puck.
Large Increase Iu (he Value ot
Agricultural Products.
Washixgtox, Feb. 9. The Depart
ment of Agriculture issued yesterday
bulletin No. 10. It treats of the na
tion's foreign trade in agricultural pro
ducts. The report shows total exports
for the fiscal year 1S97 amounting in
value to $1,032,007,003. This outstrips
all previous records. Of the total
6G.84 per cent., or $080,755 193, had its
oriara in agriculture, a gain over 1S0G
of $115,356,929, or about 20 per cent
The total imports for the year were in
value $7G4,730,412. of which $400,S71 -403,
or 52 42 per cent., was represented
by agricultural products. This is an
iuctease of nearly $10,000,000 over the
record of 1S9G, and is explained, the
bulletin says, by extraordinary impor
tations of raw sugar and of wool m
anticipation of new taiiff. Wool im
ports showed an increase of $20,000 -
000 over 1896, and sugar of $10 000,
000 over that year. There was a fall
ing off in all other agricultural im
ports, because of the successful propa
gation here of certain products we
were formerly obliged to purchase
elsewhere.
Of these articles exported which
show the greatest increase cotton is
mentioned first. In 1S96 the total ex
port of cotton was 2,335 226.3S5 lbs.
In 1S97 it was 3,103,754,949 pounds, an
increase of 768 528,564 pounds Wheat
comes next. The record is 79,562,020
bushels, against G0,650,0S0 for 1S96.
The price also was better. The aver
age in 1S9G was 65 5 cents. Last year
it was 75 3 cents. There was a slight
falling off in the exports of wheat
flour, but the price obtained for it ad
vanced from $3.56 a barrel to $3 84 a
barrel, and the total receipts show an
increase of nearly $3 900,000.
The total exports of Indian corn
amounted to 176,916,365 bushels, an in
crease of more thac 75 000,000 over
1896, and despite a decline in price
from 37.8 cents to 30.6 cents, the
amount received for the product show
ed an increase of about $17,000,000.
At the same time the export of corn
meal was nearly doubled, the record
being 475,263 barrels in 1S97, against
270,8S5 in 1S96. Of other cerials, the
shipment of oats show an increase of
22,000.000 bushels, of barley an in
caese of nearly 13,000,000 bushels,
and of rye an increase of uearly 8.000,
000 bushels. The total export of bread
stuffs amounted in value to $197,857,
219 against $141,356,993 in 1S96, an
increase of $56,500,226
The exports of flaxseed increased
from 80,453 bushels, valued at $73,207.
to 4,713,747 bushels, valued at $3,850,
835. The bulletin shows important gains
in "the export of cattle, horses, fresh
beef, hams, bacon, butter and cheese.
In 1S96 the export of cattle amounted
to 372,461 head. Last year it amount
ed to 392 190. Horses, 1SU0, 25,126;
1S97. 39,532. The exportation of frpsh
beef increased fiom 224,783,225 to 290,
395,930. The exports of bacon in
creased from 425,352.187 pounds to
500,399 44S pounds. The increase in
the exiorts of butter and cheese was
in about the same proportion.
The record of fruit exportations
shows an increase in value from $o,
587,783 to $7,613 500.
The bulletin shows reduction in ex
ports of canned beef, salted and pick
led beef, pickled pork. hides,( skin,
and sheep
A thrill of terror ia experinced when a
brassy cough of croup sounds throuuh the
house at night. But the terror soon changes
to relief alter One Minute Cough Cure has
been administered. Safe and harmless for
children. James A. Hardison.
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nni owing pnra o.. wfwvpC
LEWS OTS.
A fire iu Pittsburg, Pa., Wednes
day night destroyed property to th.
value of a million and a half dollars.
Fourteen persons were killed and a
score or more iujured.
President McKinley has aroused
the greatest indignation among th."
white citizen of Savannah by ap
pointing a colored politician, Joh.i
II. Deveraux, collector of customs at
the port of Savanuah.
Ex Senator and Ex-Secretary of
State, Wm. M. Evarts.of New York,
a once prominent statesman and on
of the most prominent men in thi
Republican party, is 80 years old an I
blind. He is confined to his horn;
iu New York aud the general public
has forgotteu his existence.
Chicago doctors are puzzled over
a Bohemiau who can make himself
60 Eick in two minutes that lu
doesn't look as if he could live two
minutes. He can ruu his tempera
ture up to burning heat or chee'e
his pulsatious at will and he plays
that game to get snug lodging an I
something nice to eat from sympa
thizing people, lhats the way h
beats the world out of a living, au.l
puzzles the doctors, too.
Joseph Ski, or "Ojibwa Joe," an
ha was called, is dead. Before the
war John C. Breckinridge owne I
some land near Superior, Wis., and
employed Joe to clear it. He became
so impressed with the young Iudi:;:i
that he made him his body servant.
When the war broke out Joe; .raisevl
a company of guerrillas, and fought
at their head through the war su
sharpshooters. Joe claimed to hae
killed 113 Union soldiers, which lie
recorded by notches on the stock of
his gun.
Modern Treatment of
Consumption
the
IS The latest work on
j treatment of diseases, written
by forty eminent American
physicians, says: "Cod-liver
$ oil has done more for the con-
sumptxve than all other reme
$ dies -put together." It also
- ..
says : i he hypophosphites
of lime and soda are regarded
by many English observers as
specifics for consumption." $
Scott's Emulsion I
Two Sou mis to AVhicli n Man
Cannot Become Afcustometl.
Atlanta Constitution.
When Joseph Ilenry Lumpkin was
Chief Justice of the State a case was
brought up from Columbus in which a
wealthy citizen asked for an injunc
tion to prevent the construction of a
planing mill across the street, ver
near his palatial residence. fl:s
grounds for complaint consisted chiefly
in the proposition that the noise of tho
mill would wake him too early in tba
morninsr.
"Let the mill be built," said th3
Chief Justice in rendering his decision;
"let its wheels be put in motion. TLe
progress of machinery must not ba
stopped to suit the whims or the fears
of any man. Complainant's fears are
imaginary The sound of the machin
ery will not be a nuisance. On the
contrary, it will be a lullably. In
deed, I know of but two soundV in til
nature that a man cannot become rec
onciled to, and they are the brayic.
of an ass aud the tongue of a scoldirg
woman!"
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in a partially digested form.
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j quarter of a century, is in
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Cacarets stimulate liver, kidneys and
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Be sure" you get SCOTTS $
Emulsion.
All druggists ; 50c and $1.00. 4t
SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New York.
CeCC
The Lord Changed His Glasses
Wilkesboro Chronicle.
They tell a good one a citizeu
not many mile3 away who very occa
sionally takes his toddy. He prepar
ed a little in a glass aud placed it
near his bed to be handy in case of
"serious illness" during the nijrhi.
His young daughter, as soon as l.e
was asleep, put water in place of the
liquor. During th night "serioi;3
illness" attacked him aud he reached
for the remedy. He found only a
broken glass aud some - ice. He
questioned his daughter about it and
her answer was that the Lord bad
changed the glasses, and the poor
fellow is suspicious, yet that t!:e
Lord didn't treat him right in the
exchange.
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