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A ifl . . O Y A ii. ii . i : JAMttS C. DOYLI.' Publisher. The Wadesboro Messenger and Wadesboro Intelligencer Consolidated July, 1888. PRICE, ONE DOLLAR PER EAR.? NEW SERIES- VOL. I 3. NO. 24. Wadesboro, N. C, Thursday. December 22, 1898. WHOLE NUMBER 035 Put 0lt YourOnon SetsNow. Now : is also the time for sowing WHEAT, RED CLOVER, y cqtfjsofl cLoveh, BARLEY, RYE, and all fall seeds,' We keep a full stock of all of them on hand. J AS. A. HARDSON, T. W, DAVIS, Practical Watch Maker, 13 still in Wadesboro, where lie expects to stay, and would say to the good peo ple who have Fine Watches, Clocks and Jewelry, that need repairing, can have it as well done in Wadesboro as any place in the State, and as reasonably, when quality of work is considered. All work warranted for one year, if well used. He ia not a stranger to many of you, and those who do not know him would do well to become acquainted with him; he can do you good. Anson Institute, WADESBORO N. C. D. A. McGregor, A. B., Principal THE FALL TERM BEGINS MONDAY, AUG. 29, 1898 $2, $3 and $i per month. tyTo deduction made for lost time. Boardin private families for $8 per month 1831 Country Sixty-Ninth Year. THE 1899 Hem The ONLY Agricultural NEWSpaper INDISPENSABLE TO ALL COUNTRY RESIDENTS WHO WISH TO KEEP CP WITH THE TIMES. Single Subscription, $2; Two Subscriptions, $3.50 Four Subscriptions, $6. SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS TO RAISERS OF LARGER CLUBS. Write tor Particulars on tbis Point. Free till Jan-, ist to New Sub scribers for 1899. It will l e seen that the difference between the cost of the Country Genti.kmas and that of other agricultural weeklies (none t which even attempts to cover the agri cultural news of the day) may redily be reduced, by making up a small Club, to Leas than a Cent a Week! Does such a difference as that justify you in contenting yourself with some other pa ler instead of having the best ? SEND FOR SPP.CI.U EN COPIES. Which will be mailed Free, and compare them with any other rural weekly; it will not take long to see the difference. Ad dress . - LUTHER TUCHER Jk SON, Albany. N. Y. Executor's Notice. : 1, James Thomas Allen, have this day qualified netore the proper court 01 Anson county, North Carolina, as Executor of Moody 11. Allen s will, and I hereby noti fy all persons bavin? claims against the estate of my testator to present the same to me for payment on or by the 21st day of Octocer, 1899, or this notice will bar their recovery. And all persons indebted to the estate of said testator must pay the same to me at once, 1 us ran aay 01 October, lav 3, J. T. ALLEN, Executor. Executrix's Notice. I have this day qualified before the Clerk of Superior Court of Anson county as ex ecutrix of the will of James T. Urasincton, deceased. All persons indebted to the estate of my testator are notified to make Immediate payment of their indebtedness All persons having claims against said estate are hereby notified to preseu the same to me for payment on or before the 17th Jay of November, l9t, otherwise this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. waaesuoro, ji. u., jmov usm, lows MRS. L. C. BRASINGTON, Executrix of James T. Brasington, dec'd Pains of Rheumatism Have Completely Dis--appeared Since Taking . Hood's Sarsaparilla. Rheumatism is due to acid in the blood. Hood's Sarsaparilla neutral izes this acid and permanently cares the aches and pains of rheumatism. Bead the following: " I was troubled with rheumatism when I was a small boy, and I have been a suf ferer with it more or less all my life. Not long ago I took a bottle of Hood's Sarsa parilla, and it did me bo much good I continued its use, and since taking three bottles I have felt no symptoms of rheu matism." E. B. Bcalock, Durham, N. C. "I was troubled with rheumatism and could hardly walk. I have taken three bottles of Hood's Sarsaparilla and today am a well man." Robest Jones, 302 Macke St., "Wilmington, North Carolina. Hood's Sarsaparilla Is the best in fact the One True Blood Purifier. AU druggists. $1 ; six for $5. Get Hood's. Hood's Pills are the favorite cathar tic. All druggists. 25c. R. T. BXifNETT, Crawford D. J no. T. Bennett Bennett. Bennett & Bennett, Attorneys-at-Law, Vadesboro, - N. C Last room on the right In the court house. Will practice in all the courts of the State. Special attention given to the examination and investigation of Titles to Real Estate. drawing Deeds and other instruments, Col lection of Claims, the Managing 1 of Estates (or Gaardiaus, Administrators and Execu tors, and the Foreclosure of Mortgages. Will attend the courts of Stanly and Mont gomery counties. Prompt attention given to all business In trusted to them. Covington & Redwine, Monroe, N. C. T. L. Caudle, Wadesboro, N. C. Covington, Redwine & Caudle, ATTORNEYS - AT - LAW, WADESBORO, N. C. Practice in all the State, and United States Courts. Special attention will be given to exami nation and investigation of titles to Real Estate, the drafting of deeds, mortgages, and other legal instruments; the collect ion of claims, and maugementof estates for Guardians, Administrators, and Executors. Commercial, Railroad, Comoration and Insurance Law. Continuous and painstaking attention will be given to all legal business. Office in the Smith building. Administrator's Notice. 1 have this day qualified as the adminis trator of the estate 01 Mrs. Jslia l. Ed wards, deceased. All persons having claims againt said estate are hereby notified to present them tome for payment on or before the 2nd day of December. 1899. otherwise this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. AH persons indebted to said estate are required to make immediate -payment. This November 26th, 1898, J. L.EDWARDS, Administrator of Mrs. Ella L. Edwards .'. Wadesboro, N. C. Administrator's Notice. Having this day qualified as administra- on eounty. N. C. notice is hereby given all persons having claims against the estate -of -the said deceased to present them to the undersigned on or before the 17th day of November; 1S99, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All per -sons indebted to said estate are requested iu innKR imuieuime pajrmeuu ill 18 1Q -day of November, 1898. WILLIAM GTJLLEDGE, Administrator. FOR SALE., . Good second band Baggy and Har voess at right price. - Best seed wheat. ee B. H. CROWDER. Mothers, when yoir children are at tacked by the drtadful croup, you need not despair ; Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup will relieve and cure them at once. You can always depend on this marvelous remedy ; it always cures. wis IT COUCH SYRUP Will cure Croup without fail. Doses are small and pleasant to take. Doctors recommend it. Price 25 cts. At all druggist. MOUTH'S ;PABT IN WAR. IT are subject to peculiar ills. The right remedy for babies' ills especially worms and stomach disorders la . 's Vermifuge has cured children for 50 years. Send for illus. book about the ills ana u remedy. Oh bottla nulled far ts mc . A S. FRET. Baltimore. Md. it rests with yon whether yon continue - imj . remove, the desire for tobacco, with-1 : out nervoaa diutresi, expels nico-fpl I tine, purities the blooa, reMJg i k RTXdkTlEoo.- stores lost maataool,tfT. Q B uJPwO boxes fJce8,.Zoa "tTO"53Ti 181 Unsold. 400.000 lnbealth.nerveJW W 1 Wllscasescured. Bur nd pocket-rfVlf H fcjiO TCUl l' from book. Lroor own druircrut. who rfrf Hi! Pjwill Touch for as. Take it with ,J V will, patiently, persistently. One SB ly box.Sl, usually cures; S boxes, C2.M, fM (maranted to enre. or we refund money. SUrita Reowdj Cfc, Ckleafa, IMnil, lew Imri. W.A. INGRAM, M.D. SURGEON, vTADESBOEO, - - N. C. Railroad calls by wire promptly attended Office opposite National Hotel. W. F. G RA D. J). (Office in Smith & L anlap Building. Wadesboro. North Carolina. ALL OPERATIONS WARRANTED. A. S. M0RIS0N, DEALER IN s o I i Ai Y 1 . o V J J & Gen. "Joe" Wheeler Says Peo ple oi Slave States Were Al most Eqaally Dlviled in 1861 65. Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 15' Speaking of "The So ith's Part in the War," at theAt lanta Jubilee to-day, Gen. "Joa" Wheeler said : "From the earliest history of our coun try in all conflicts of arms the Southern people have done brave and honorable service. Twenty years before the Decla ration of Independence it was a brave Virginian who, leading Virginian sol diers, by courage, and Braddock's army from complete annihilation. "When the sound of war was heard at Lexington andConcord it was a brave band of Virginians, under Captain Mor gan, that hastened to the defense of their American brothers in New England, The Virginian boy hero who fought un der Braddock, now in the maturity of manhood, hastened to the army in front of Boston and after seven years of battle fin illy conquered a peace and laid the foundation of what is now the most pow erful government on earth. Among other heroes from the Southern States who were distinguished in that war were1 the brave Marion of South Carolina, and the chivalrous 'Light Horsa Harry' Lee of Virginia. "The leading generals of the war of 1812-15 were Winfield Scott, of Virginia, the hero ot Lnndy's Lane, and Andrew Jackson, of Tennessee, the hero of New Orleans and the victor in many other sanguinary battles. Also prominent among the actors in that war were Maj. Qens. Thomas Pinkney, Wade Hampton and George Izard, ot South Carolina; James Wilkinson, of Maryland, and Thomas Flournoy, of Georgia. "In our war with Mexico it was Zach Taylor, of Louisiana, who won Palo Alto, Resaca de la Pal ma, Monterey and Buena Vista, and it was Scott, of Virginia, who led our armies in their victories from Vera Cnre-to the City of Mexico. Prominent in that strugglo also were the gallant Quitman, of Mississippi, Twiggs, of Georgia, and Pillow, of Tennessee, and our Southern troops suffered proportion ately much greater losses than did those of any other section. "In the war of 1861-65 the martial spirit of the Soathern people was signally demonstrated. The entire country rose to arms, the able-bodied men of the South ern States flocking to one or the other of the standards of the c intending hosts. The records show that the people of the slave-holding States were a lmost equally divided, those who fought under the stars and stripes of the Union being fully equal in number to those who arrayed themselves under the stars and bars of the Confederacy." In this statement General Wheeler included the border States. H&xoutinued: "When the call to arms was sounded a few months ago the people of no part of our country responded with more fer vor and devotion than did those of the Southern States, and no people were more anxious than they to encounter their country's foemen. The first officer to give up his life upon the sea wis the gallant Bagley, of North Carolina, and the first officer to fall in battle on land was the gallant Capron, from a family proudly claimed by the State of Florida that land of sun and fl iwers. 'While it is true that there was uo dis tinctive Southern organization in the Cu ban campaign, yet every State in the South was represented in the regular reg- mentsandthe First Volunteer Cavalry. The same is true regarding the regular regiments which were at Manila, while one of the be3t regiments of our army in the Philippines is the First Volunteer In fantry from Tennessee." CAPTAIN SIGSBEE'S. 8TOBY. Watches, Clocks, Eye-Glasses, Spec tacles and Jewelry of all kinds . re paired on short notice. Inspected "Watcnes -for S. A. L. R. R. four years. Fourteen years experience. Can be found in Caraway's store on Wade treat. There is quite a jumble in Greene coun ty. The official election returns give the couuty by a small majority to U13 R epub licans, but an official recouut of the vote gives it to the Democrats, and on Monday both sides swore in their various officers. a id now boih sets of officers are doing bus iness, ftom county conr.nisrioners to clerk. The Democratic clerk is in charge of the books of that office and the Republican sheriff has the books of that office, and the Republican treasurer has charge of the couuty funds- Late to bed and-eaily to rise, prepares a man tor his home in the skies. But early to bed and a Little Early Riser, the pill tnat makes lite longer ana better and wiser. J. A- Hardison . Educate Tour Bowels With Catcaret. Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever. 10c, 25c. If C. C. C. fail, druggists refund money. Well Children that arc not very robust need a warming;, building1 and fat-forming food something to be used for two or three months in the fall that they may not suffer from cold r CCOTT'G tZCJULCiOU of Cod-Liver Oil with Hypophos phites of Lime and Soda supplies exactly what they want. They will thrive, grow strong and be well all winter on this splendid food tonic Nearly all of them become very fond of it. For adults who are not very strong, a course of treatment with the Emulsion for a couple of months in the fall will put them through the winter in first-class con dition Ask your doctor about this. Be cure you get SCOTT'S Emulsion. Sc that the man and fish arc on the wrapper. AH druggists ; $oc and $1.00. SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New York. His Own Aecaniot (be Blowing Up of 111 Halae-He MWmm Writ ing m Letter la Ilia - Cabin When (he Explossioa Came He Tboroashlw Believes the Ves sel Was Blown Up From (he Outside. CapL Charles D. Sigsbee is contri bnting to The Century Magazine hia "Personal Narrative of the 'Maine.' He will write for no other periodi cal. In the December Century "bis second paper describes the blowing up of the Maine and the scenes that followed it. Capt. Sigsbee says: About an hour before the explo sion I had completed a report called for by Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, As sistant Secretary of the Navy, ou the advisability of continuing to place torpedo tubes on board cruisers and battleships. I then wrote a let ter home in which I struggled to apologize for having carried ,in my pocket for ten months a letter to my wife from one of her friends of long standing. The cabin mess at tendant, James Pinckney, had brought me, about an hour before, a civilian's thin coat, because of the prevailing heat; I had taken off my blouse, and was wearing this coat for the only time during the cruise. In the pocket I had found the un opened and undelivered letter. Pinck, a light-hearted colored man, who spent much of his spare time in singing, playing the banjo, and danc ing jigs, was for some reason in an especially happy frame of mind that night. Poor fellow! he was killed, as was also good old John Ii. Bell, the colored cabin steward, who had been in the navy twenty-seven t years. . I as. em -1 -. iit taps 1 cum in anct keep quiet, ) ten minutes after 9 o'clock, I laid down my pen to listen to the bugles, which were singularly beautiful in the oppressive stillness of the night. The marine bugler, Newton, who was rather given to fanciful effects, was evidently doing his best. Dur ing his pauses the echoes floated back to the ship with singular dis tinctness, repeating the strains of the bugle fully and exactly. A half-hour later Newton was dead. I was enclosing my letter in its envelop when the explosion came. The impression made ou different people on board the Maiue varied somewhat. To me, in my position, well aft, and within the superstruc ture, it was a bursting, rending and crashing sound or roar of immense volume, largely metallic in char acter. It was followed by a succes sion of heavy, ominous, metallic sounds, probably caused by the over turning of the central superstructure and by falling debris. There was a trembling and lurchiug motion of the vessel, a list to port, and, a move ment of subsidence. The electric lights, of which there were eight in the cabin where I was sittiug, went out Then there was intense black ness and smoke. - The situation could not be mis taken; the Maine was blown up and sinking. For a moment the in stinct of self-preservation took charge of me, but this was imme diately dominated by the habit of command. I went up the iuclined deck into the starboard cabin, to ward the starboard air-ports, which were relieved somewhat against the background of the sky. The sashes were out and the openings were large. My first intention was to escape through an air-port, but this was abandoned in favor of the more dig nified way of making au exit through the passage, and along the passage to the outer door. The passage turned to the right, or starboard, near the forward part of the superstructure. When the turn was reached some one ran into me violently. It was Private William Anthony, the or derly at the cabin door. He said something apologetic, and reported that the ship had been blown np and and was sinking. He .was di rected to go out on the quarter-deck, and I followed him. Anthony has been pictured as making an exceed ingly formal salute on that occasion. The dramatic effect of a salute cau not add to his heroism. If he had made, a salute it could not have been seen in the blackness of that com partment. Anthony did his whole duty at great personal risk, at a time when he might have evaded the dan ger without question, and deserved all the commendation that he re ceived for his act. He hung near mewith unflagging zeal and watch fulness that night until the ship was abandoned. " I stood for a mament on the star board side of the main-deck, for ward of the superstructure, looking wwara tne immense dark mass that loomed up amidships, but could Bee nothing distinctly. There I re mained for a few seconds in an effort to graspJthesituation,and then asked Anthony for the exact time. He re plied: "1 he explosion took place at 9:40, sir." It was soon necessary : to retire from the main-deck, for that part of the ship was sinking rapid ly. 1 tnen went up ou tne poop- deck. By this time Lieutenant Commander Wainwright and others were near me. .Everybody was im pressed by the solemnity of the dis aster, but there "was no excitement apparent; perfect discipline pre vailed. The question has been asked many times if I believed then that the Mauae was blown up- from the outside. My answer to this has been that my first order on reaching the deck was to post sentries about the ship. I knew that the Maine had been blown up from the out side. 1 herefore, 1 ordered a meas ure which was intended to guard against attack. There was no need for the order, but-I am writing of fiiet impressions. There was the sound of many voices from the shore, suggestive of cheers. - ARP OX THE JUBILKE. it. TUB TRUTH OF IT. A Kentucky Regiment Weald Never Drop Their Canteens. j The war correspondent, who had returned from the scene of action in puba or who said be ha1, was giv ing the crowd of listeners a lurid ac count of the fight he had witnessed on the SKirmish line in the vicinity of Se villa. Everybody in th crowd was taking the story right down without the least sign of a doubt as to its absolute accuracy, until a long, slim party, with a smooth face and a ruffled shirt front, became an interrogator after the facts: "Did I understand you to . say it was a Kentucky battalion that had gone right up the hill over the brush and rocks in the very muzzles of the enemy's guns?" ."That's what," asserted the nar rator. "And they threw away their knapsacks on the first jump?" "You bet they did. They didn't want" any handicap in a race like that." "Then they threw away their coats?" "Indeed they did." "And their hats?" "They went into it bareheaded, like the daredevils they were. "And dropped their., cartridge belts?" 1 "Every one of them, and went for the foe with their cold bayo nets." "And their can teeus?" "Everything. By George, they went into the scrap stripped like prizefighters." . The smooth-faced man coughed and shuffled his chair. "That's all right," he said firmly. "They were not Kentuckians. That's their style of nghting, but yon can bet a farm that Kentuckians never would have thrown their canteens away." About Catarrah. 1 1 is caused by a cold or succession ot colds, combined with impure blood. Its symptoms are pain id ine Dead, aiscaarge from tbe nose,-ringing noises in tbe eais. It is cured by Hood's Sarsaparilla which purities and enriches the blood, soothes and rebuilds tbe tissues and relieves all the dis agreeable sensations. Hood's Pills cure all liver ills. Mailed for 25c. by C. 1. Hood & Co.. Lowell Mass. If 1 Should Bie Tonight. If I should die to-night And you should come to my cold corpse and say, Weeping and heartsick o'er my lifeless clay If I should die tonight And you should come in deepest grief and woe And say, "Here's that ten dollars -that I owe" I might arise in may large white cravat And say, "What's that?" If I. should die tonight And you should come to my cold corpse and kneel, Clasping my bier to snow the grief yon feel I s ty, ii I should die ton-ght And you should come to me aud there and then Just even bint of paying me that ten, I might riss the while; But I'd drop dead again. Poems of Ben King. Soothing, healing, cleansing, De Witt's W itch Hazel Salve is the implacable en emy or sores, burns and wounds. It never fails to cure Files. You may rely upon it. J. A. Hardison. Many a household is saddened by death because of the failure to keep on hand a safe and absolutely certain cure for croup 6uca as One Minute Cough (Jure, bee that your little ones are protected against emergency. . A. Hardison. To Car Constipation Forever. Take C as carets Cundv Cathartic 10c or Se. II C C. C. fail to cure, druggists refund money. if the descending iMlTAIiW THE EICELENCE OF SYfl? 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In order to get its beneficial effects, please remember the name of the Company V CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. AM FRANCISCO, OoL LOrDtTTLLX. Kt. IEW TIES. C Bill Says It is a Very Good Time to Jubilate Just Now That Peace is Now With l-Anil it is Near Christmas Time. It was a fitting timo V jubilate for peace. The nearer to Uhnstmas tbe bet ter, for next Sunday all the Chnst&iu world will celebrate the day and the event when a multitude of the heavenly host sang "Peace on earth and good will to man." Christmas is near at hand. and the usual are signs in almost every household. My folks are slipping around and picking up little things and hiding them from the children and me. They keep all secrets from me for fear I'll tell or let the cat out of the bag some way. My wife has said for fifty years that I can't keep a secret and I reckon it's so. I never have any secrets myself and I don't see much good in them. They are selfish. My female folks are making a lot of rag dolls great big ones and they are fine and made from first-class pat terns and stuffed with cotton and their faces painted. Every yearling grandchild and two years and three or four years has got to have one and some of them have got to Texas and Florida by express. Bat they are lndestru ctable and have on all the garments of sure enough babies except some. It looks like that girls never get too old for dolls until they get married. The littlo grandchild who lives with us is now ten years old and has a beautiful Paris doll that her uncle Tom Brumby gave her, and since he has made such a good name at Manila under Dewey she is prouder than ever of her doll and had to have finer dresses made for it and I had to put a canopy top on her cradle. These children have been saving every copper they get to buy little presents for each other and seem to realize that there is as much pleasure in giving as in receiv ing. Christmas seems like a rest from a years work a time when everybody tries to lay aside the cares and anxieties of life and give pleasure to those around him. Peace and good will and good things to eat prevail and always have ever since Christmas began to be observ ed. Three hundred years ago an English poet who as a farmer named Tom Tus ser wrote a Christmas poem beginning "And now let's play and have good cheer, For Christmas come but onces a year." Later on in the centuries the couplet was changed in old Virginia to "Applejack and simmon beer, Christmas comes but once a year." And away down south in Dixie the darkies made another change "Christmas comes but once a year And every nigger must have his sheer, Aud they did have it in old ante-bel lum days. The household aervanta were always remembered with shawls, ha id kerchiefs, store stockings, pipes, tobac co, pocket knives, scissors, etc The old time darkies haveu't forgotten it and are proud to retaliate when they can. Old Uncle Sam killed his threa hogs yester day and sent us up a big panful of spare ribs aud backboue as a Christmas gift. Of course we will have to remember him when the day comes and he knows it. But our people have for years made too big a frolic of Christmas. Christians ought to observe the day with solemn, lgrateful thoughts and feelings. There noeumfif frolic and levity. For centuries the shepherds of the mountains in Germany, Italy and Switz erland have religiously observed the day by marching down into the valleys with music and song, andjtheir Christmas car ols are heard echoing from cliff to cliff or miles around them. I wish that our boys would quit shooting guns and fire crackers on that day. It looks heathan- sh. Away down in Mexico they cele brate Judas Iscariot's day about like our boys observe Christmas. They make pasteboard images of Judas and fasten them on the trees and lamp posts and telegraph pole3 and stuff them with fire crackers and set the fuses all on fire at once and burst the figures into a thousand fragments. This day is the next after Easter and belongs to the boys and the rabble. But Christmas day should be ob served as seriously as Easier day, and all this noisy racket with firecrackes should be postponed until Christmas is over. There is an old England superstition that even the cattle kneel down in prayer on inristmas niat because the savior was born in a stable where oxen were used to be kept, but the cattle didn't consent to the change lrom old Christmas to new Chrismas, and still eo to prayer on the 6th of January that was Christmas day until the clock of time was set back. Christmas is the most notable day in the world's history. Every event, every birth and death and the rising of every sun is dated Ann? Domini the year of our Lord. Every letter head and the date of every issue of every newspaper in all Christendom proves the truth of the birth of Christ 189S years ago. 189S! There is a solemn meaning in those figures a meaning that all the business world ac knowledges, for it governs court and com merce, and both Jew and Gentile conform to it, whether it be their faith or not. It is an argument, an evidence of the truth of Christianity that strengthens with ev ery year that come3. If I was an infidel or an agnostic I would'nt date my letters 1893. I would date them from some oth er great man's birth Jnlus Caesar or Cromwell or Napoleon or the declaration of independence. Now is a fitting time for every man and woman to stop and think and take ac count of stock like the merchants do once a year. Let us all foot up the good we have done and the bad, if any, during the year that has gone the pleasure and the pain we have given to others, the blessings we have had from a kind providence. The passing ot a whole year is a serious reflection. Even a day concerns us, for it will never return. It is gone torever, and we should be careful how we spend f The poet says: Count that day lost sun Sees from thy hand n generous action done." Alas! how many days have we lost. now let us all do all trie good we can durirg these Christmas holidays. Let us make every member of the family happy i and as many outsides as we can. it is a I miserable prayer to say "Lord bless me and my wife, my son John and his wife ! us four and no more." But rather, let us j say, with the sweet poetess: "Oh, Lord, be pitiful this day, Get none uncbristianized go, Let not the poor for help in vain im plore, Let none from any door, Un warmed, unfed, No kind word eaid, Helpless be turned away." Bill Arp. The Bis Yield ot Corn .Wakes Heating aud l'ooklii au Kasjr Matter. Kimball, S. D., Dispatch, to St. Paul Pioneer Press. Farmers in tbia section have just completed gathering the biggest corn crop ever raised here. Owing to its low price and the great quan tities grown many are using it for fuel, burning it in both cooking and heating stoves, especially those iving a long distance from market, Hauling a big load of corn 20 miles to market and returning with a small bag of coal bought therewith makes the grower feel as though he was not paid fer his labor. Corn makes a very hot fire, is clean to handltt, makes very little litter and ashes, all of which commends it for use as a fuel, although it does seem a pity to see the mammoth yellow ears put into the stove. In fact, corn makes so intense a heat that it burns out the stoves in a short time, which is its only drawback as a fuel. A his tory of the various kinds of fuel used by the settlers of this Western country, where wood is unattain- 7 r Baking Powder Made from pure cream of tartar Safeguards trie food against alum mmarrrsto powders are fhegreatot oi the praent day ovm. Buona vowee eo.. rw ronn. - rl XORTII DAKOTA'S FUEL. CHOP DISPOSITION OF TIIE,TROOPS 1 Plan of CSarrisoaiag th Island Recommended by theV Cabau Commission. V Washington. Dec. 14. The recomtnin- datian of the Cuban commission, coli- posed of Generals Wade and .Sampsoih-: was dated October 19. It provided . r the distiibution of 50,000 United Stales troops in Cuba, as follows: Proyinceof Pinar del Rio, 3,000; Prov ince of Havana, 24,00C; Province of Santa Clara, 10,000, Province-of Puerto Priri : o w. r c c. : vvi The totals show lorty-five regiments of infantry and five of cavalry. There is also 1 ght artillery, as follows: Havana, four batteries; Matanzas, two batteries. Major-General Wade, in forwarding the commission's recommendations to the department.made the following state ment: ' X v In the very most generally pioneers hay able and coal so expensive, would maKe a long 6tory. first year hay was burned by the "twists." These twists were made about the size of an ordinary stick of stove wood. 10 make them rapidly and of the proper tightness to burn if made too loose they nicker away, and if too tight they will not burn is in itself quite an art, and one that once learned is never forgotten. Any old-timer will take a handful of long hav, give it a couple of turns and a twist, and throw out the twist with a rapidity that would astouish the beholder. Later came the hay and straw burner or boilers, being, as the tame indicates, large sheet- iron boilers the size of an ordinary washing boiler, only about twice as deep. They were filled with hay or straw, tightly pressed in, and turned over the fireplace of the cook stove. They gave a good heat, and as they would burn a half hour without re tailing, were somewhat 01 au im provement on the twist. Drought continued year after year, however, until it became a task to even furnish the hay or straw, or other material, to burn in the boil ers. Then came the inventor, moth ered by necessity, with the original idea 01 burning "butlalo chips, va riously called "cow chips, "prairie gasoline, "native coal, etc. "Cuba is and for a long time haA-Jbeen really a military camp and governed the most arbitrary rule. The Spanish force consists of about 11S.000 regulars 21,000 volunteers on duty, and 52,000 vol- nnt..n a T-m er Knf nnt rtn lntr Tta . , " .j. - j, insurgents claim to have about 40,000 armed men, making a total ot Ml,uyu. Probably the evacuation by Spain will remove about 100.000 men, leaving con siderably more than that number who will be or recently have been under arms to a great extent living off the country. "Many of these men will, from necessi ty, if not from choice, be without em ployment. Among these men, as well as those who have not taken part in the late Spanish-Cuban war, exist race feud3 and political frictions. Many ot these people are very ignorant. Few under stand what independence and liberty mean or have fixed ideas as to what the future of their country will or should be. It will require tact and force to har monize the conflicting interests and in- sure order. If a larsje force occupies the island as soon as Spain evacuates, it can, under favorable conditions, be much re duced in a few months. But it will be very unfortunate to begin with a small force and be obliged to increase it." Pains in the chest when a person has a cold indicate a tendency u;z... TTTieu monia. A piece of flannel dampened with Chamberlain's Pain Balm and bound on to the chest over the seat of pain will promptly relieve the pain and prevent the threatened attack of pneumonia. This same treatment will cure a lame back in a few hours. Sold by las. A. Hardison. To Cure a Cold iu One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund money if it fails to cure. zoc. ihe genuine has L. a. on each table L The Test. Town Topics. The modiste held the mirror to the lips of the prostrate womn, and a cry of de spair escaped her as faint traces of moist ure gathered upon the polished glass. "It doesn't fit!" moaned the modiste. Clearly, the gown the prostrate wo man was trying oa would haye to be ripp ed out and made over. She could breathe in it. The moisture on the mirror proved it. Some Item of the Bill of Ex- pattsion. Xew York World. The army is to be increased from 23,000 to IoO.OjO nieu. This larger army will cost at least four timas as mach as tbe present one. The annual cost ot the army on the old basis was more than $10,000,000. The last regular appropriation called for $55, 652,035.74 Deducting from this the river and harbor item of over $14,000,000 and other small items not affected by the army increase, we find th:U it costs us over $4),- 000,000 a year to keep up an array of 25,000 men. Multiply $10,010,000 by four gives us $160,000,000, an increase of $130,000,000 for taa cost of the army alone in oar new policy of expansion and imperialism. Is it worth it? An lugeuions Device. Life. Pat If wan of us gets there late and the other isn't there, how will he know if the other wan has been there and gone, or if he didn't come yet? Mike Well aisily fix thot. If Oi get there furrst I'll make a chalk-mark on the side- walk, and if you get there furrst you'll rub it out. Constipation prevents the body from ridding Itself of waste re atter. De Witt's Little Earl v Risers will remove the trou ble, aud cure Sick Headache, Billious- nees. Inactive Liver and clear the Com plexion. Small, sugar coated, don't gripe or cause nausea. J. A. Hardison. , The sooner a cough or cold is cured without harm to the sufferer the better. Lingering colds are dangerous. Hacking cough is distressing. One Minute Cough Cure quickly cures it. Why suffer when such a cough cure is within reach? It is pleasant to the taste. J. A. Hardison, m m Doa't Tobacco Spit and Sarake Tow lift Away. To quit tobacco easily and forerer. be mag nctlc. luU of life, nerve and vigor, take No-To-Bae, the wonder-worker, that makes weak men strong. AU druggists, 50c or ft. Cure guaran teed Booklet and sample free Address Sterling Remedy Co.; Chicago or New York. A Ueurral Has Prudent. The late Dr. Bliss was for many years General Sherman's physician. Once when the soldier complained: "Your stuff's doing me no good," he replied: Take Shakespeare's advice, then, and throw it to the-dogs." "There are too many valuable dogs in our neighbor hood," replied Sherman. San FranciECJ Examiner. When you ask for De Witt's Witch Ha zel Salve don't accept a counterfeit or im itation lnere are more casa of Piles being cured by this, than all others com bined. J. A. Hardison. Chamberlain's Colic. Cholera anT Diar rhoea Remedy can always be depended upon anu is pieasant ana sate to take, j Sold by Jas. A. Hardison. . " NOTICE. U" Cure sick headache, bad taste la the month, coated tongue, gas In the stomach, distreaa and lBdigeattoa. Do not weaken, but have tonic effect. S eanta. The only Pill to take with Uuod'l SaraapartUa. Pills Tax Notice. The taxes are past due and as I am com pelled to collect notice is heretrj-Riven to all who have not settled to come forward and do so at once and save cost. J.T.GADDY, Sheriff. 10,000 Pounds Hides Wanted. 1 will par the highest cash prices for Hides and receive tbein at my Tannery at Polktcm and at my old stand at Ooodnian. 1 will also keep a lot of Upper, Kips, Calf, Lace, Harness, Dak Tan and Hemlock Leather. Shoes, Bruldles, Collars, Jtc, at both plaees. 1 run in connection with my Tannery at Polklou a first -cla.3 Grist MilL and will grind on Tuesday and Kriday of each week. i aiso on, clean up and dress harness, re pair, &c r Thanking my friends and the public for past patronage, and hope by fair and hon est dealings to merit a continuance of the same. Kespectfully. - J. C. GOODMAN. For Eent. Six-room boose for rent Good garden good water, and desirable location. B. G. COYLXGTON. 1 - I'