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1 y JAMES C. DOYLIfl, Publisher. The Wadesboro Messenger and Vadesboro Intelligencer Consolidated July, IOS8. PRICE, ONE DOLLAR PER EAR, NEW SERIES--VOL I3.--N0. 29. Wadesboro, N. C, Thursday. January 26, 1899. W- -4 WHOLE NUMBER 940 Great Improvement Reports a Welcome Change in . Her Condition Statement by a North Carolina Woman. -" Kearly all my lite I have had one cold 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 bat I grew worse in stead of better.; One day I procured a bottle of I jd's Barsaparilla and bean taking It, and Boon found it was doing roe good. I gained strength and was greatly benefited in many way. I con tinued its use ajjd now the bad feeling in my head ifltone, and the earache with Which. I aaXEd has disappear-!. I am now able to do my housework .without help. I shall keep Hood's Sarsaparilla in the house as long as I live." MBS. T. Q. 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MORISOK, DEALER IN 2 hi 0 w' 1 y, Clocks, Eye-Glasses, Spec tat a 1 J ewelry of all kinds re I - . i1 "rt notice. - " r ' Inq-ectw4.Y,'ataies for S."A.L.R It. for.r years. -l : ; ' 1'oart jea" years esperieuce. Can It icznl'm Caraway's store on Wade THE LEGISLATURE SKXATE-Thlrfeeuth Day. Bills were introduced as follows: By senator Lroodwio, to prevent the removal of cases' from the State to Federal courts. By Senator Smith, to provide primary elections for political parties. By Sena tor Robinson, to add new members to the board of county commissioners of Samp- sou county; uy aenaior jusuce (Dy re quest), to amend chapter 329, of the pri vate laws of 1895, and to allow surety companies 10 Decome surety tor guar dians, executors, etc. (piactically re- enacting the old Democratic law). Upon the suggestion of Senator Jus tice, Senators Glenn and Brown were ap pointed as a part of a joint committee to investigate the penitentiary and Senator Osborne selected to examine the evidence submitted as to the dismissal of S. Otho Wilson from the railroad commission. The Cannon expense matter was brought up, and exactly an hour and twenty-five minutes were consumed in de termining whether there should be a re duction of $60 In an account, sanctioned by the committee, of $270.60. This ac count has taken up more time and trouble than any other two bills introduced, since the beginning of the session. Almost ev ery day it has come up in some guise; the usual hackneyed arguments are made with regard to it', and it is always referred to the committee. Senator Glenn object ed to more than $200 being paid. He said that in his section of country when a man was beaten he reached in his pocket and paid his own expenses, and asked for no money to be refunded to him. The Sen ator said he was not stingy; jnst wait till it comes to voting for appropriations for asylums and other charitable institutions and he would show that he was gener ous: but he thought that $370 as expenses to Cannon would be excessive and not in good policy. Senator Williams also ob jected, saying: Why, Mr. Chairman, I know you must be feeling easier than when in the last Legislature, but you know even that body voted no such amount as this as expenses in a contested election case." And then Senators Glenn, Williams, Hicl.s, Brown and others for reduction, and Coolie, Cocke, Osborne and others, favoring the committee re port that the amount given only meant bare expenses, fenced with one another at length and proposed amendments and sub amendments and motions and sub motions until finally out of all the chaos there came an amendment to give Can non $202.50, which was adopted. The Hertford county bill came up on second reading. Senator tGlenn rose to ask that the rules be suspended and that bill be imme diately passed. He said that he spoke in the east in the last campaign , and that men and women came to him and beg ged to enlist the support of their country men in the west to rid the east of the fearful black cloud, and he had promised his God that he would do this. He said that 90 per cent of the taxes in Hertfld were paia Dy wnue men, wnne tne-government of the county was in the' hands of the unscrupulous men white in skin, but black at heart. He believed it right that five men should be appointed by this Legislature to set aside these three com missioner?, and act in the interest of hu manity, virtue and good government. The resolution then passed third read ing. .:''' ;' plauded when he repudiated Carter's as sertion that Ihe lawyers on the judiciary commit'ee had reported the bill unfavor ably because they wanted thereby to put fees in their own pockets. The bill failed to pass, yeas 24, nays 72. The Speaker announced the following as the House branch of the committee to investigate the management of the penitentiary: Gattis, Willard, Patterson, of Robeson A bill was tabled to repeal the act mak ingj.o years abandonment ground for divorce, as was also the bill to prohibit the charging over 6 per cent on crop liens, etc., by merchants, etc. , HOUSE -Thirteenth Way." Curtis, of Buncombe, introduced a res olution to instruct the committee on the judiciary to enquire and report whether articles of impeachment ought to be pre ferred against V. L. Norwood, who claims to be jndge of the twelfth judicial dis trict. (The resolution recites that evi dence before a legislative" committee showed that Norwood was drunk while on the bench at several places, and that he gave his foi mal resignation to Lusk, and that it was later sent to the Gover nor and accepted as a resignation, and that yet Norwood is claiming to be the rightful incumbent and is yet exercising the functions of judge when opportunity offers, and that he has been publicly drunk since the said resignation was de livered to Lusk. Norwood has been" publicly-drunk in Clay and Cherokee and in Bertie and in Asheville and also drunk on the trains. The resolution then proposes to raise a committee to enquire and report as soon as practicable whether it is true that Nor, wood is yet exercising these functions and also whether he has been publicly drunk and also whether he is liable to impeachment as a judge dejuie or de fac to, and whether he should be impeached, and if the charges are sustained the com mittee is directed to prefer formal charges against Norwood for such misconduct in office. . -'. Bills were intoduced as follows: By Overman, to amend chapter 47, acts 1877, by allowing administrators and executors of trustees in a mortgage to make deeds to the purchaser at sales nnder foreclo sure. By Gilliam, to fii' Salaries of so licitors and require" their fees to be turned into the State Treasury; ",.By Boggs, to have the elementary - principles of agri culture taugnt in, the public schools. SA A biir to. give magistrates final uris-diotlon- In cases - for parrying concealed weapons caiae ttp'withan unfavorable re port, and provOked-eonsiderable" debate. WjlliamlbC'lredeiT, said he hoped5-the! bill wonld pass and that it was meritori ous. OvernianBaid that orice such"5 raw was icCeSeot. for two yearsj .but thenTthe; Legislature gave the jurisdiction Jback to the 'Superior Court. Soae of the6ppo- tpent8 ot the bill " said-there, were -many magistrates not intelligent enough, .-to have jurisdiction. Carraway" jraised a" laugh by saying fiat-the negromagis trates in the east were regarded as a so ciety for the protection of criminals. Car ter, Republican, of Forsyth having taken occasion to reflect on lawyers, Moore", of Jackson, gave him, a rasp and eulogized the lawyers as the Men J? of law end or der and good govern meet, andte SEXATE Fourteenth Day. Reports of committees were favorable as to the bills to appoint extra commis sioners for Caswell, Edgecombe and Sampson counties; to repeal chapter 401t laws of 1S97; and unfavorable as to a bill to repeal the law regarding disabilities of married women, and upon a bill to pun ish lawyers that "conspire" to the injury of clients (Senator Lowe's bill). - The following bills were introduced: By Senator Black, to amend chapter 71, laws of 18S9, by striking out, "thence through Montgomery county to Alber- marle and Stanly county," and inserting "thence by way of Troy, in Mongomery county to the town of Mi. Gillead, in said county; thence to Alangum, in Rich mond county;" by Senator Miller, to place a tax-of $30 on billiard tables, etc.- Senator Franks was voted $160 as expenses in the contested election case. At 11:15 a. m., on motion, the Sen ate adjourned in honor of Lee s - birth day., k ... , IIOISE-Fourteeut, Day.- The following bills were introduced: By Mr. Carroll, to repeal the act'of 1897, imposing a tax on inheritances; by Mr. McLean, of Richmond, to create the county of Scotland, out of the four south ern townships of Richmond connty (at his request this bill was read in full); by Mr. Allen, ot Wayne, to so amend chap ter 122, acts of 1897, as to the charter of the Atlantic & North Carolina Railroad, so as to take all power given the Gover nor and place it in the hands cf the board of internal improvements; also to repeal charter 150, acts of 1897, regarding the same read, so as to take from the Gover nor the power to appoint State proxy; by Jones (this was bill No. 400), to protect the people from court house rings. There was laughter at the title of the bill, and for information Mr. Brown, of Stanly, asked that the bill be read. The bill makes it unlawful for any board of coun ty commissioners to employ any attorney when the latter Jis in any way connected with any bonded officer of the county or in any affairs in connection with the county ommissioners. and it further re quires that all public improvements shall be let to the lowest responsible bidder af ter due publication; the penalty for vio- i lation of the law being $50, or imprison ment for 30 days. At 10:50 Representative Overman said: "Mr. Speaker, in honor of the memory of the world's greatest chieftain, the Christian soldier, the patriot and the stateman, the teacher of the youth, the exemplar of all that is brave, good and true, the South's greatest hero, General Robert E. Lee, J moye that this House do now adjourn." Mr. McLean, of Harnett, moved that this be a rising . vote, but tfie"peaker said the constitution required a yeaand nay vote. The motion of Mr. Oyerrnaq was unanimously adopted. . SE.ATE-Fifeeutli Day. Reports of committees were favorable as to bills to exempt ex Confederate sol diers from paying peddler's license; to repealchapter 220, laws of 1897; to im prove roads in Anson county; to repeal chapter 297, laws oi 1895, in relation to bankruptcy (requiring that any promise or contract made by a bankrupt shall be in writing). Bills as follows were introduced: by Senator Stanback, to incorporate the town of Mt. Gilead, Montgomery county. The following bills passed their final readings: To pay Senator Franks ex penses incurred in taking depositions re garding the contest for his seat, $160; to increase the number of comrrhsstoners for Edgecombe county; to appoint extra commissioners for Caswell county; to re- .1 - i-l u 0ULIAH TO OUR SOIL. Catarrh is ' an American disease. Mrs. Greger, Bagby, Tex., says: "Pe-ru-na has done so much good for me that I am able to ttiv nwn wrwlr n , Mr. JacobGriffin, Elmer, !fi Mich.. writes: "Iw.TOrr , . j nervous and unable to work. I have taken several bottles of Pe-ru-na and am entirely welL" Esther Luther, Frank linsville, N. C, says: "I took your Pe-ru-na for deafness can hear now as well as I ever could.". - Aug. Tryloff , Mt. Clem ens, Mich., writes : "I had la grippe and it left me y with a terrible cough. . I 3. took Pe-ru-na and was jiff - cured." - w Mrs.: E. Guest, Kearney, aBuffalo Co., Neb., writes: ""I took jour Pe-ru-na for catarrh,' and can aay that I am now'entirely cured of it.? t , V ; - H. Walter Brady, Cas cade, Ark. says : I liad running ears. , It was so offensive I excluded uy- t .self from all societv! After .v i .1 had borne jt fourteen y- -s I read Dr. Hartman's Book called !.i Tils of -Life. I took" seventeen "-doliar : -vorth cf his remedies and am tJireiy cured," . - ' est peal chapter 431, laws of 1897 (law with regard to special school tax); to appoint two extra commissioners for Sampson county. ' .1 HOUSE-Fifteenth Day.' A memorial was presented from tJosiah Turner as public printer 25 yeW ago, asking that his bills be re-audited and any balance found due, with 6 per -cent interest. . By Mr. McLean, to appropriate $16,500 for each of the years 1899 and 1903 for improvements at the Institute for the White Blind, including an electric light plant, new boilers, new wards for females, etc.; by Mr. Brown, of Johnston, to allow clerks of court, on their own motion, upon petition backed by proper proof, by a mother of an indigent child or of some good citizens, to set apart not to ex ceed $20 of funds paid by administrators, executors, etc., fr the maintenance of in digent children; by Mr. Allen, of Wayne, to repeal chapter 217, acts of 1895, and chapter 119, acts of 1897, so as to abolish the fusion board of directors of the ne gro normal school at Goldsboro. On motion of Mr. Winston, the Honse took up the contested election case of W. M. Dees, Democrat, against Dudley Paul, Republican, from Pamlico county, for a seat in the House. A majority report was submitted, in favor of Dees, and a minority in Paul's lavor. The minority based its fight which was weak, on the sheriff's failure to read the notice to Paul and to the statement that the office of the clerk of the court was not secure. The contestant showed that the recount of the vote ordered by Judge Brown showed conclusively that in fact Dees was elected by 32 majority. The vote was then taken, on the minor ity report The vote was yeas 21, nays 75, so the minority report was lost. That of the majority was adopted. George Dees was then,on Mr. Winston's motion, sworn in. Mr. Allen's (of Wayne) bills to take charge of the Atlantic & North XJarolina Railroad were taken up. There were three hills. Mr. Allen said with entire frankness that the bills were for the pur pose of placing these roads in the hands of the Democratic party and to take con tol out of the hands of the Governor. He the;s told of how the fusionists had grabbed these roads, and given the entire control of the board of public improve ments, the latter to be composed of nine members. (At present the Governor is ex-offlcio chairman of the of board inter nal improvements and has the power to appoint the two other members). There was no further debate and the bill passed. Two other bills along the same line were taken up and passed. (One of the bills passed takes from the Governor the pow er to appoint the State's proxy of the At lantic & North Carolina Railroad and re store it to the board of irternal improve ments.) A bill to prescribe a short form of chat tel mortgages and crop liens combined, also reducing lees thereon (Mr. Allen's bill) came no. Mr. Rav offered an amendment exempting Macon county. (The fee to register of deeds is 31 cts and 15 cents to the clerk as against the old lees aggregating $1.05. The short form chattel mortgages now in use at 20 and 10 cents can still be used.) Mr. Ray said that in Macon crop liens were unknown. He liked the bill for eastern counties, say iDg the form prescribed would take the place of the chattel mortgage. Mr. Ray said this was unnecessary as the man who took the mortage would dictate the form to. be used. Seyeral other speeches were mad$ and then there were seat in a lot of anyndments, excepting various coun ties. Mr. Allen made another explana tion of his bill, saying the new form would be touad an additional security to land owners id would save tenants neaily 95 cents. He said that if any persons here4ft!td the bill he did not at all object td" thplacing in it of a provision that it should not affect the chattel mortgage form or. fee. Mr. Overman said members who were send ing up amendments excepting their counties were acting hastily, as the bill was in the interests of the poor tenants ot North Carolina by" reducing their fee3. Mr. Ray's amendment providing that the bill shall not apply to the present form of chattel mortgages (fees 30 cents) was adopted. Mr. Holman, of Iredell, offered - an amendment Tdre duce the register's fees and the probate tee to 30 cents. This was lost. Mr. Ray's amendment to except Macon was adopted. ' He said he had never seen a crop lien.' Clay, Cherokee, Alleghany, .jrannsylvania, lenderson, Madison, Polk, Jackson, Swain and various other counties were excepted, and the bill passed its second reading. Mr. Allen then suggested that the bill be recom mitted to the committee on judiciary, in order that it can draft a bill containing all of to-day's amendments. On motion of Mr. Holman, the fees in Iredell were fixed at 30 cents. SEXATE-SIxteeuth Day. The following bills were introduced By Senator Harrison, to enable married women to contract just as feme soles; by Senator Campbell, to protect operators in bonds from loss in yalnes; by Senator Miller, to amend section 3311 of The Code; by Senator Jackson, to amend section 3363 of The Code. The calendar was then taken up. The following bills passed their final reading: To amend section 2831 of The Code (by making it lawful to impose a fine of $10 or ten days' imprisonment for hunting on land without written permission; to im prove the roads in Anson county; "to pro vide for the cross indexing of wills; to require the new promise or contract of a bankrupt to be in writing; to exempt Confederate soldiers from paying" ped dlers' tax (This was amended by adding, "and shall not act as agent for another")i to encourage the killing of certain wild animals in Graham county (by giving $5 for killing panthers and wolves and $3 for ktilirg wildcats); to protect depositors i a tat:'.; try reqv.irir t c.:ers of banks to give bonds. - IIOL'SE-Mlxteenth Day. Bills were introduced as follows: By Mr. Nicholson, to amend The Code in regard to vagrants, by punishing vagrancy by 30 days sentence to labor on the public roads; by Winston, to amend section 1041 of The Code, so as to punish fornication and adultery between whites and negroes by jail imprisonment of not less than four months or penitentiary imprisonment of not over five years, and make it a felony; by .Mr. Williams," of Graham, to punish the carrying of con cealed weapons by a fine of from $5 to $15 for the first offence, and from $lto $30 for each subsequent offence; by Mr. Leatherwood, to amend section 2326 of The Code by continuing for 12 monts the presumption of negligence in cases agaist railroads for killing live stock; by Stevens, to. provide for the punishment of pool i, trusts, conspiracies and combi nations; by Mr. Carrie, to amend section 1, chapter 24S, so that the unsupported evidence of the weman shall not be suf ficient to convict. The special order was taken up, being the bill to authorize the publication of the sketches of each North Carolina reg iment in the Confederate service,. 1,000 copies. Mr. Wall, of Richmond, paid Judge Walrer-eiarke a tribute for hfe la bors in perpetuating these records of North Carolina, and then paidagraceful and forceful tribute to the gallantry of North Carolina's soldiers in the civil war. He was several i times annlauded. We thanked PresidenV McKinley for his ut terance at Atlanta,which gave the finish ing touch to the burial of sectionalism. He was specially applauded when he made a sharp hit at SVnator Butler for his folly in introducing a' bill for Federal pensions to ex-Confedt rate soldiers. He concluded by quoting the words of Gen. R. E. Lee: "God bless North Carolina," and then saying, to quote Kipling: "Lord God of Hosts, be with us yd, Lest we forget, lest we forget! He was followed by Mr. Caraway, of Le noir, in support of the bill and who was given quite an ovation when he took the floor. Mr. McLean, of Harnett, also vigor"-.' orously supported the bill." The bill passed its readings by a unani mous vote. Inquiry wa3 made as to the status of the bills for separate cars for whites and blacks. Mr. Allen, of Wayne, said there were three bills and that these were- ia the hands of a subcommittee and that there would be a hearing on them next Tuesday and an ex amination into their constitutionality. A bill to make twelve months' separation ground for a divorce passed. UtA.VDTIIE CI V if Married Her C'ouvict Ltver. A dispatch from MoVile, Ala., says Miss Ionia Lay, ot Montgomery, a young woman ot excellent faaiily and many ac complishments, was married at Dolive, a convict camp alew mile-? nGrtb-of-hdre, Saturday to Dr. W. S. Baldwin, a con vict. Baldwin ia a "member of one of the most influential families in the State. 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From impressions I ha 1 before Coming here I'imagined it Was a low, fiat place,' with bo drainage ai d Very lilthy, and uri healthy It is filthy atleast some parts of it, but it isbeing rapidly clean ed, and! think when the people get over the Jffeeta orthe blockade, the city will be in goo l shape. -The 'u."S.. Government lahavmg "everything cleaned. Natives irre hired to clean the" ..streets, and the people are made to clean around their housos. " The houses ht are built of a kind of concrete rock and plaster. There ate" U6 wooden bnildin sjs at all. Under neath the top soil of the land around Havana is a lime rock foundation, aud you ran strike a rock quarry anywhere. It is easily quarried , and makes a fine building stone, and by burning the rock they have lime. Nearly.all of the houses are one story high and have very high ceilings, with wide porches and big col umns and every one of them have iron giatin? covering the windows, pointed and wrought in pretty styles. There are a great many line housss in and around the city. Invariably there is a garden of palms and shrubbery eitheron rear or side, inclosed with a high iroia fence, or with a solid wall of masonry wVh spikes or broken glass on top. Thesegardens are beautiful witri' Hieir dffu, iJkiuds of fruit and flowers, and if one could be set down in the United States it would be a show to the people. Ti:r are high hills all around Ha vana, each one'rowrii?(!iv'af'ort. and there are breast-work3 and block-houses covering eyery road and path into the city. The only way an invading army could have taken it would have been to lay seige, and shell and storm them out. If we had undertaken to storm the place with less than 100,000 men, we should have been badly left, and I expect two thirds of them would have been killed before the city was taken. No wonder old Blanco hated to give up without a fight! Havana is a queer looking place. It reminds me of pictures I have seen of ancient Rome, especially in looking at it from out here cn the hills. The streets arejnarrow, the side-walks about 2 1-2 feet wide. The Piazza are quite pretty and are great gathering places for the people especially at night The stires are pretty and have fine displays of al most everything. Everything here is hauVoa- two-wheel carts, one little mule invariably in the shafts, and two, three, or four strung out in single file ahead. They haul tremendous loads. I notice a great many ox teams out in the country. Their manner of hitching them op is different from ours. They never use a yoke, but instead a sling fitted over the head of the ox by which he pushes. I believe this plan is the better cne, certainly it is more humane. The cattle are a go xi breed for beef, but are poor milkers. The people do not depend on cows for milk, however, but every one has goats and they milk tfeem. There are no large horses here except in the city, and they are shipped in from aboard. There are lots of ponies, little ugly, scrawny fellows, but very gentle and hardy. All of them single foot under the saddle. I have seen hundreds of them around here, and have my first one yet to see that doesn't single-foot. I do not know all of the different kinds of fruits that grow hera. I see something new almost every day in that line. The oranges are much better than the Florida variety, and grow in great abundance. We get them or almost nothing. Bananas are very plentiful, so also are coca nuts, mangoes, English walnuts, etc. Corn and sweet potatoes are planted about once in seven years. I notice cane ready to cut, and some just sprouting; also young corn a few icches high, other patches in a roasting ear state, and some ready to pull. It is winter here, but it is like June or July weather, especially in the middle of the day. Iu the morn ings and afternoon it is pleasant, and most ot the nights are cool. You see no galled or bare spots on the land, bu everything looks green; grass of the ap pearance of OTif Ktmn grows luxuriantly everywhere. soVjj very rich, ana needs ncfertiiizrnwrrfwhere that I have seenj The stlras,- cftvn.h there a deep. In tare, exs great iacitn? snv rjety'i-tO'V aiea. -4 - -- The people do t -r- -inie so fa ably. Injthe4$ub5$bv Jcq jsc'royt tougbest fotagirMfblie? The coal bL, t coon, th!?traight -haired yellow, ad the punkin colored, and every other kind imaginable, you will see living in the same house together." The high-toned CuEtSaadress well, and look like white people. They are cultrred and refined and sometimes live in elegant style. I was in a Cuban's house to-day, at Jesus del Monte, a suburb south of Havana. The house looked like a palace; and in side was elegant marble floors, stained glass windows, etc. These people speak English. One of the companies of the First Regiment is out there doing provost duty. The Spanish element are quite tony. The women wear silk and are much better looking than the men. The Spanish soldiers are small, and . do not look like the same race as the women. I guess they have been starved so long, and their incessant working when off duty causes them to look so puny. - Yes, there have been some right' lively times around here lately, which is net surprising; and I expect there will be more of it before everything is settled. The Spanish soldiers are about all gone now. When we came the town tyas alive with them. Oar arrival caused the Cu nv7NV A n 1 V. ilBSCUJTEIY fcuRE Makes the food more delicious and wholesome oni ftA.mo prrnorm co . rw bans to crowd out of their holes, and they went to demonstrating too much. About two hours after our arrival I went up to the In slat a re Hotel and walked right into a shooting match one fellow was shooting at another oa the crowded street with a rifle, and that night there was a fusilade at the same place, in which several were wounded and one or two killed. The day we marched through the city to camp we expected trouble, owing to the state of feeling, and being the first troops to land, we did not know what was going to happen, so 100 rounds of am munition were issued to each man, and we came through that way, the band played national airs. The Cubans went wild, brought out their flags for the first time, yelled, danced, and shouted! I never 'saw or heard such a huliaballoo and it was a continuous thing clear through the seven or eight miles. The Spaniards gave us the road and we had no trouble, but when ihe first fire-crackers were set off the men mechanically loaded their gnii3. I thought myself for a short time that we were being fired upon, and everybody was surprised when they learned that it was only fire-crackers. On the first of January the army march ed into the city to do the honors, at the formal turning over of the island. We stopped opposite Morro Castle and saw the stars and stripes take the place of the Spanish flag. All of the bands in the army played national airs, the war ves sel? in the harbor fired salutes and the men yelled. After that we marched by the Inglature Hotel where fjenerals Brooke, Lee and others reviewed the" troops, and thence to camp. In all we marched about 18 miles. The regiment stood it welL some of the men dancing when dismissed. A detachment of the First North Carolina was placed in Mor r j Castle, when vacated by the Spaniards. Wat. Iu Memory of Joseph V. kins. The angels came the other night On joyful wings of love, And look the fairest flower And carried it home above; He is gone to that sweet home of joy; He has joined the angel band; He walks the golden streets to-day With sister, hand in hand Yes, he is free from all sorrow, In that happy home above, Where 1 hope, some day, to meet hiui, There to sing redeeming love. How happy was the meeting Around the great white throne, When loving sister and fond brother Met Joseph coming home. Oh yes, there was rejoicing In that land of pure delight, When they met our loving brother At ti e golden gate that niht. They have waited, waited long, To greet i.im in shore; And now he'll sing the sweet, new song With the angels ever more. Yes, he will sing the sweet, new song As he marches along the way. And 1 hope to join the choir Some bright and nappy day. ne is waiting over yonder --t For the friends he love4-"feestrU. I. y He'll be glad to see ihefif"4ii?r-, A&uiiic ivj ucavcu, sweet 4V 1 Oh, brother and sister, let ustJy""; To meet our brother there, . r 1: Where Jesus lives and reigns on high, Is my earnest wish and jrayers . AJTNA DF.ASfe. tVliat Xexl? It does seem as though the seedsmen would stop somewhere, but here comes a work of art. Think of it, twenty-four pages lithographed in colors, upon an en tirely new plan. This, in itself, is en ough to turn every woman's head. Then iillow about oue hundred"' more pages, filled with handsome half-toie illustra tions of Flowers, Fruits and negtables, phrjjographed from nature, all printed on fine1 paper and enclosed in an elegant cover of white and gold. Vick's Cfarden and Florial Guide also contains lull de scriptions and directions for Planting Flowers and Vegetab!es, Plants, Small Fruits, etc. It explains a new departue in selling Vegetable Seeds v weight in place of old style of packets; x grand offer giving customers credit 9i-XTpt of purchase to apply on i Tor Implements and useful articles, s splendid work of art will be mailed 1 a Due Bill good for 25 cents worth oT Seeds, for only 15 cents. Write James Vicks Sons, Rochester, N. Y. Opposite. Boston Traveller. - She They say that persons of oppo site qualities make the happiest mar riages. He That's why lam looking for a girl with money. r . Cause For Gratitude. "1 cannot speak too highly of Hood's Sarsaparilla. It ias cured me of a bad cougb and given in e a good appetite. My little girt had a stomach trouble and did not see a well day up to tne time she began tak ing Hooris Sarsaparilla. This medicine cured her." Mrss-J. II. Sutler, Stephen's City, Va. Hood's Pills cure all liver ills. Mailed for 25c. by C. 1. Hood & Co., Lowell, Mass. Kestore full, regular action of the -bowels, do not Irri tate or Inflame, but leave U tin delicate digMtl-r or- rniim la paifect condition. .A n5 Trv ti.m. IS nni irpr4 talj Bxt 4 Col, Loire U, tua www II I LIAS TKIUUrt: TO LEE. Hen. Benjamin IlilTa Spientlid Tribute to t.eurral Robert K. Lee Atlanta Constitution, i7th. Thursday being the anniversary of Lee's birthday; wilt be observed as a holiday in the public schools of Alanta, Ga. On Wednesdny exer cises will be held at the" different schools ia honor of the occasion, and talks will be made by the teachers regarding the life and character of General Lee. An extract from the speech of the late Benjamin Harvey Hill will be written npon the black boards in the school rooms, and it is thought that the pupils will then memorize the words. It was deliv ered by Mr. Hill at the time of Gen feral. Lee's death, and is considered one of the best offorts.of the famous speaker. The extract 13 as fol lows: ' "He was a foe without hate; a friend without treachery; a soldier without oppression, and a victim without murmuring. He was a public officer without vices; a pri vate citizen without wrong; a neigh bor without reproach; a Christain without hypocrisy, and a man with out guile. He was Caesar with out his ambition; Federick without his tyranny; Napoleon with out his selfishness, and Washington without his reward. He was obied ient to authority as a servant, and royal iu authority as a true king. He waa'gcStJgas a wotnaa in life, and modest aiid pure as a virgin in thought; watchful as a lioman ves tal iu dutv: submissive to law as Snrrata Achiliea! anir-"Tui kittle A Woman's Terrik. Trial. New York Letter to Baltimore San, 19th.. Mr3. Bertha Victorson, who last night dislocated her jaw while screaming for aid for her husband, who had just taken poison is in a precarious condition at her home, 197 Johnson avenue, Brooklyn. While the dead body of. her hus band lies in one room she is. utterly prostrated in another. Her friends, who are in constant attendance, have already noticed that her hair, which was jet black yesterday, is turning gray. There was no reason that her hus band, Nathan, should have killed himself, except that he was out of work. In her presence he swallowed a dose of poison. She realized that he was dying, that his death would be a matter of only a few moments unless help came. She ran to her neighbors and with her jaws locked open and tried to explain. ' . But they could not understand, for she could not speak. Agony despair, misery, all the tortue that a woman could suffer, were blended oa her countenance. At last she seized one man and dragged him to her home and point ed to the prostrate body of her hus- fiVind. Xh hen aid was summoned, but it as too late. Nathan Victorson was dead. Tula's Latest Proposal. New York Letter to Baltimore Sun. Z Nikola Tesla, whose boldness in con ceiving astonishing uses to which elec tricity may be put has given the scientific world snrprises from time to time, has a new proposal. He now proposes to destroy the bacilli f of all diseases by arplying millions volts of electricity to persons afflicted The tremendous force is to be applied in,, such a manner that the vital orans will' be free from harmful effects and so thai , . the bacilli will be drawn from the system. ine tremendous current which Tesla proposes to apply will not be sent through. " the body, as in cases of persons executed by electricity, but will run along tf.e gur- face. T.v,"". The n3W plan for" destroying TdiseiSe'Ks germs, including even thcsefcKXnunrp4; -tion, was outlined in an exhaustive pa per which the electrician read before the jSlectro-Therapeutic Society and created deep interest. Tribute to Stonewall Jackson. A prayer made by a clergyman at the unveiling of the Stonewall Jack--son monument in New Orleans, says the Buffalo Commercial, ended with these peculiar words: "When in Thine inscrutable decree it was or dained that the Confederacy should fall,' it became necessary for Thee to remove Thy servant Stonewall Jackson." Late to bed and eaily to rise, prepare a maa lor bis home in the skies.i "it early to bed and a Little Early Riser, the pill that makes lite longer and better and wiser. J. A. Hardison. . t When you ask for De Witt's "Witcfc Ha zel Salve don't accept a counterfeit or im itation There are more cases f Piles being cured by this, than all others com bined. J. A. Hardison. "Brown appears to be a great expan sionist," "Yes; he won't even conSae himself to the truth." Ohio State Journal. V So-Io-Be tor Vltty C'ata.
The Messenger and Intelligencer and Ansonian (Wadesboro, N.C.)
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