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ASHEVILLE, N. C, SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 8, 1902.
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Morganton Herald, Oct. 20.
Charlfe Ward, son of L. A,
Ward, of Morganton has resigned
as flagman on the Southern. This
was done at the urgent request of
his parents, after the fatal acci
dent to Mr. P. S. Sudderth. 1
A man whose name we did not
learn 'was suddenly seized with
rheumatism in his legs on the
east-bound train Tuesday morn
ing and stopped in Morgahton to
see a a physician. He could not
walk and had to be carrie'd from
the train.
Mr. P. S. Sudderth, who was
killed on the railroad at Nebo last
Thursday, carried $1,000 insurance
in the Equitable Life Insurance
Society, and his widow will also
get $525 from the Jr. O. U. A M.,
of which he was a valuable mem
ber. In unpacking some china ware
manufactured iii Japan and re
ceived by Messrs. Clay well Bros: a
few. days ago, Mr. E. B. Clay well
ran across several Japanese -newspapers,
which were curiosities to
bystanders. One of these papers,
by the. way,- contained an adver
tisement of Duke cigarettes, a
Durham. N. C, production.
of Eliza
last Sat-
sr, Judge
Lincoln -Journal, Oct. '61.
Miss Sallie B. Hoke
beth, N. J., arrived here
urday to visit her broth
W. A. Hoke.
"Mrs. S! L. Wilson of Beepsville
showed us on Wednesday, two
large beets, weighing 11 and 1-2
pounds. These she raised herself.
This indicates what industry can
accomplish.
Two colored ministers of Lin
colnton. Eevs. P. J. - Holmejs and
David S. Baker, were permitted to
register under the, grandfather
clause, . their forefathers being
freedmen before the Civil war.
H. McElwee and Miss Bessie
Cranor, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
John S. Cranor, of Wiikesboro,
The 'ceremony-will take place in
the Prebyterian church at Wiikes
boro November 19th at 12 o'clock.
Mr. McElwee is a Statesville man
and now lives at Konda,, Wilkes
county.
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i nere are now hve insane per-1
sons confined in this county, two
in the jail and three in the county
home. Mr. W. A. Moore, of
Statesville, whose mind has been
impaired for many years and who
has been at the State Hospital a
number of times, was committed
to jail yesterday. If additional
evidence is needed, barely
record is sufficient to show
great necessity for more room at
the insane hospital.
Messers. McLain & Alexander's
grocery store and meat market on
west Broad street was enterd Wed
nesday night and the contents of
the cash drawer about $1.50 in
money taken. The unknown
party or parties entered a window
on the west side by breaking the
"slats of the blinds and raising the
sash, which was not bolted. The
money drawer was completely
wrecked. Nothing else has been
missed from the store.
COAL GAR
SHORTAGE
Causes a Closing of
ines.
On One Division of the Penn
sylvania Road But Five Per
Cent of Cars Needed Were
Furnished Last Week.
Pittsburg, Nov. 1. Fully ninety
thisfPer ceilt of the railroad coal mines
the I m the Pittsburg district are closed
on account of a shortage of cars
and the railroad companies are un
able to promise any relief. The
outlook for. next week is unusually
gloomy and it is believed a num
ber of iron and steel mills will be
forced to suspend operations.
Of the forty-six mines along the
Pan-Handle railroad but' six are
being operated.
Reports of coal operators show
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THE O. K. QUEEN STOVE is
the best baking stove that is made. We have
them in all sizes arid our prices are low. Call and
see them. We guarantee them in every particu
lar. Prices low. We sell on time.
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Landmark, Statesville, N. C, Oct.
30.
Mr. Closs Pritchard tied in
Kansas last week, aged about 20
years. He was a son of Mr. Tins
ley Pritchard, of Alexander coun
ty, and a brother of Mrs. C. R.
Gaiter, of Statesville. The re
mains were interred in Kansas.
Dr. Skinner, of Long Island,
was in town Wednesday. He said
two negroes got" into a difficulty
about three miles from Long Is
land Tuesday and one cut- the
other with an axe. He inflicted
several wounds,- none of which are
serious. .
Invitations have been received
here for the marriage of "William
Madison County Kecord, Oct
Emanuel Robinson and Reagan
Henderson are here from Wash
ington, D. C.
Chas. A. Henderson Esq., met
with a painful accident the other,
day, from a vicious kick of a. horse
and is somewhat disabled by 7 rea
son of it. ' '
Married Henry Lunsford and
Ida Anderson, of Trail Branch,
Friday, Oct. 21th. Rev. T. A. Cen
ter pffiicating. The Recordextends
congratulations.
Mrs. G. R: West, of Walnut
Creek found a small snake about
two inches long in a cabbage which
she was preparing for dinner one
day last week.
you that the fine flour is a less de
sirable flour than; that made by
the old process, but the trade de
mauds it chiefly on account of its
whiteness.. On account cf its in
digestibility the disarrangement
of the digestive organs of the peo
ple eating it has greatly increased.
The prime cause of appendicitis is
found in this disarrangement.
"Quite small children have it. .1
know of one boy who has had 13
well defined attacks of this disease
and came out of all of them with
out surgical operations. He chang
ed his food to corn bread and mush
with coarse breads in general, veg
etables, little meat and some fruit,
and he has taken on flesh and has
not had a sympton of the disease
for three years."
CONSUMPTION.
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An Attempt to Eradicate It
to be Made in Philadel
phia, r
Consumption is today both the
most fatal disease known and the
; one which there is the most hope-
that on the Monongahela division ! ful prospect of eradicating. It
of the Pennsylvania railroad but causes one death in six, and" one
five per cent of the cars needed to' death in three or four, among
take care of the product of the ; adults. The mortality from it has white men
BURNED AT
THE STAKE
Fate of a Negro in
Mississippi.
mines were furnished this week.
The Pittsburg and Lake Erie! in a
been reduced one half in this city
decade. Let the city and
Railroad company has 'had but ; State do their duty, and this dis
few cars, for coal shipments this j ease will practically disappear,
week." the Baltimore and Ohio has ! In this duty the first step is the
furnished but ten per cent of the appropriation by council when it
number required and on the Alle-1 meets of a sum large enough to
ghaney Valley division of the! isolate tuberculosis patients at
Pennsylvania but eleven per cent ! Blockley. Crowded as they are
of the
Two White Men Were Im
plicated, Subsequently Cap
tured and They May Also
be Lynched.
Sarlie, Miss., Nov. 1. One
negro name unknown, has been
burned at the stake, and two white
men, implicated by the negro in
his dying confession, are -being
held by a posse pending an inves
tigation in the murder of SE. O.
Jackson and a mill owner named
Roselle at Darling, Miss. Wed
nesdayihight. The negro was burned at Dar
ling last night by a mob of. four
thousand persons, both white and
black, and just before the lighting
of the funeral pyre he confessed
that he had committed the double
murder with the assistance of two
The motive was rob-
without this book of labor will be
fiined about 40.
It looks to. editors of Nicaragua
newspapers, who have been study
ing this law, as though strikes
cannot thrive under it, for labor
ers who throw themselves out of
employment by striking are likely
to be at once arrested for being
out of work. -
The main purpose of .the law,
however, is to prevent employers
from advancing wages to laborers
on contract, which made the labor
er a slave until he settled his ac
count, and also to prevent idleness
obliging every one without capital
to be employed. New York Sun.
bery and a considerable sum was
secured, which, the negro stated,
was divided among the three.
SCALPERS HIT
IIAIU) BY C0UJIT
Dark Hair
" I have used Aver's Hair Vigor
for a great many years, and al
though I am past eighty years of
age, yet I have not a gray hair in
my nead."
Geo. Yellott, Towson, Md.
NOTICE.
We do a great deal of work for people outside the city of
Ashcville; some of them outside the State of North Carolina.
Make up a bundle of your spiled linen - and -express to us and
" ve will return it promptly, laundred to J suit the most
fastidious. . '.'.
J. A. NICHOLS, Proprietor.
We mean all that rich,
dark color your hair used
to have. If it's gray, now,
no matter; for- Ayer's
Hair Vigor always re
stores color to gray hair,
, Sometimes it makes the
hair grow very heavy and
long; and it stops Falling
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$1.0) a Mile.
ir, too.
All drujslsfs.
If
vcmr dnisrjist cannot supply yon,
enl one tiulhii- and we will express
vui a Untie. iJt) sine ami pive tne name
c! vour neai PsT, exirea. oili'-e. Address,
j. c. AAisucu., ioweii, aiass.
IF AVE HAVE IT, IT IS THE BEST
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fS&w THb Go 6 Hot
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Is a comfort and makes life a pleasure in the
home. It isrmade from splendid sheet steel, draft from
bottom, and ashes can be taken from door at front of
stove. They heat up p. room more quickly than a fire
place and consume a Afucb. smaller amount of wood.
We also have a splendid lot of Andirons in brass
and wrought iron, and shovelsj pokers and tongs.
Come in and see them.
...Asheville Hardware
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to
road
cars needed have been sup-, today, they imperil all with whom
companies j they come in contact, friends, phy
best they I sicians and nurses, and they are a
plied. The railroad
say they are doing the
io meet the
coal companies.
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demands of
IT S WORK OR GO TO JAIL
Nicaragua's 'New' Labor Law
Wliich Seems to Make
. Strikes Impossible.
The Legislature of Nicaragua
passed on Jnn
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FIXE FLOUI?
AND APPENDICITIS
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Decision olSweepins Import
to the Railroad Passen
ger Business.
Washington, Oct. 13. A d'ecis-
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ion or sweeping importance
ticket scalpers . and the railr
passenger business generally was
delivered today by Justice Har-
ner, of the Equity Court of the
District of Columbia, who perma
nently en joined thirty-three of, the
local ticket brokers from selling
the Grand Army special excursion
tickets issued by the Pennsylva
nia, Southern, Baltimore and Ohio
and Chesapeake and Ohio Kail-roads.
The defense of the brokers was
that they were pursuing a legal,
licensed brokerage . business and
tuat the railroads in combining in
the establishment of a joint ticket
agency here during the encamp
ment for tne viseing of retnrn
tickets, etc., violated the Sherman;
anti-trust law.
The court held that the tickets
sold by the roads on account of
the Grand Army encampment bore
contracts signed by the purchasers
in the presence of a witness and
were absolutely void when used by
any other than the original pur
chasers. The tickets distinctly
read that any one except the
original purchasers attempting to
use them would be subject to
prosecution for forgery. The con
tract signed by the original pur
chaser is absolute, according to
the court, and any violation of it
constituted fraud, on which the
suit at bar for the injunction prop
erly was based. The court de
clared that the contentions of the
complaining roads was tenable.
As to the claim of the defend
ants that the roads violated the
anti-trust law, the court held that
the joint ticket agency cquld n
be considered in that light, as the
agency had nothing to do with the
fixing of rates. Further, the de
fendants were shown . that they
were violating the law and could
not press as a defense the violation
of the law by another party.
Constitution, Atlanta, Ga., -Oct
14, 1902.
Low tariff, hard times, limited
employment and depression go to
gether in this country, We .have
tried it lately and we know. Clin
ton, Mo., Kepublican.
It is good tor us to keep some
account of our prayers, that
may not unsay in our practice any
thing that we said in our prayers.
Henry.
Physician Says Modern Mil-1
ling is3Responsible for j
the Disease. '
Changes in milling processes
are responsible for appendicitis,
according to a physician who has
been in the practice of medicine
for fifty years and who has ob
served the spread of the disease.
This physician, Dr. II. C. Howard
of Champaign, 111., asserts that
until the trade demand for exceed
ingly white flour changed the
methods ojf grinding wheat there
was no appendicitis.
To prove this assertion the-physician
points to the fact that where
coarse breads are used the disease
is unknown, but that as soon as
the fine breadstuffs are introduced
appendicitis comes along as a se
quence. By this reasoning it 'is
shown that, the people of agricul
tural communities who secured.
their flour from small mills did
not have the disease until the
small mills were crowded out by
the larger ones and fine white
flour supplanted the coarse. Then
the negroes of the South so long
as they ate corn ,bread were iree
from the diseaste, but when -i the
new process flour began to be used
the disease cams among them. The
same results attended the departure
of the German folks from their
coarse 'bread to the refined flour.
"I can remember that prior to
about 18 io, said Dr. Howard,
there was little or none of the
ailment among the people. In 25
years of practice among the peo
ple before that time I do not think
I saw more than 40 cases of appen
dicitis. Now they are common.
"Large and extended change in
the diet of the people has contrib
uted to this. For example, about
the date mentioned there began to
be a general change from the old
method of grinding grain to the
present method of roller mills and
excessively fine bolting . cloths.
This plan of milling began first in
the large cities, and appendicitis
began to increase first there. La
ter the new process crowded out
the small mills in the country,
and the people could not get flour
made by the old processes. They
bought products of the large mill
ing establishments, and then the
farmers began to have appendi-J
citis.
"Still the negroes of the South
did not have it, but in tim!e they
began to 'get away from their plain
bread, and they, too, began to- have
appendicitis. So it goes. They
did not have appendicitis in Ger
many until they began to eat our
fine flour and put it in the new
we I process of milling after our fash
ion. Now they have appendicitis
in Germany, just as we do.
"Experienced millers will tell
the I source of danger of infection to
! the whole city.
! From 2,000 to 3,000 lives a year,
. and irom lo.uuu to -U.UUU disabled i
and diseased victims of tubercular j
consumption in all its forms can !
be saved if this city addresses it- j
self to the task of the intelligent
suppression of tuberculosis. The
almshouse reform is the first step.'
Consumption is not a contagious
but an infectious disease. It is
infectious, not by a single contact
and exposure, but by successive
contacts and exposures. But no
case ever comes without some ex
posure and some contact.
Remove these ana consumption
will end. . Centers of the disease
must first-be broken up. Of these,
the largest and most dangerous is
in the city hospital at Blockley.
Consumption is the disease of the
poor. It accompanies malnutrition
exposure and organic weaknesst
Blockley is crowded with human
wrecks. Such as the insane, the
inebriate, the underfed and the
physically weak, are the natural
victims of consumption. Once
started there, it may attack the
youngest, the strongest and most
healthy, if any local cause aids its
fatal entrance. The cases at Bloc k.-
lev form a center from which the!
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disease is propagated. Isolate thesei
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cases; give tnera iavoraoie sur
roundings, and this peril is ended.
causec
general
- A Gift of the Gods.
A great singer is a gift of the
gods, and should belong by divine
right to all the people. When
ever a Santley, a Patti, a Jenny
Lind, a Campanini,,an Edward de
Reszke, or a Nilsson is born, the
government should claim him or.
her for the nation, - to sing for
everybody as an enlightening, up
lifting, soul-inspiring influence.
Carnegie's libraries may help a
few book worms from time to time;
a great singer would help millions
of depressed souls during a life
time. New York Press.
1901, a law that
consternation
among all classes of society. It
was one of the most remarkable
edict for regulating and defining
labor in its relations with capital
promulgated.
The popular voice at once de
clared that such an edict could
never be enforced. Two months
ago, however, the government put
the law into effect, and, according
to the reports from Nicaragua,
everybody is becoming reconciled
to it. and the results seem to be
thus far beneficial.
The law defines a laborer as any
person, male or female, ' over 16,
who has not a capital of 500 pesos,
which is about slOO m our cur
rency.
It then declares that every
laborer must have an employer,
Any one who is round to De un
employed is to be arrested at once,
imprisoned tor twenty days and
made to labor on public works
while awaiting an employer.
VV hen an employer hires a per
son to work the employe must buy
a small book from the government
in which to register the name, age,
description and conditions of the
contract. The employer ; must
give his employe a receipt for this
book, which the latter can pro
duce as a proof of his good stand
ins? whenever arrested by the
police on suspision of being idle
When the laborer has completed
his contract with one employer
and desires to go to another he
must give his book of labor to his
next employer and take , a receipt
for it.
If the laborer ' wants money in
advance his employer can give it
to him only as a loan without
interest, to be paid by retaining
one-half of the salary or wages
until the debt is cancelled. If a
laborer leaves his employer with
out paying his debt he will be im
prisoned, fined and obliged to re
turn and work it out. .
Any persrn employing laborers
Spun by the Fire.
The happiest heart in the world
is one that knows another who can
share equally his every joy and
sorrow. And a-strong life must
have such a companion or trudge
life's weary path alone.
Life is a dream. But who wants
the dream broken or disturbed?
While youlsit comfortably and
comparatively happy by your fire
side, do you ever think of the many
million homes that cOnnot afford
such a luxury?
If we would applaud and patron
3 only the beautiful and uplift-
mg tne ugly and demoralizing
would go to the fire and vanish
with the smoke.
When-4e throw 'art arrow of
malice at another, life we find later
it has gone forth but 'to lodge in
our own breast". 'When we give an
arm of aid to bur fellow traveler
along life's way, we find helping
us an arm stronger than our own.
After all, it's shadows and sun-
same, nr-rear lire they mix nail
and half. '
-Roscoe C. Brombaugh.
The Exceeding Sinfulness of
Sin.
Some religious teachers make
light of sin. According to their
view sin is not the most dreadful
thnur in the world, lhev tell us
that it is only an infirmity, the
result of ignorance, and may turn
out to be a benefit rather than a
curse. But this is not the doctrine
of the Bible. This is not the ver
dict of an enlightened conscience.j
According to the Bible sin is an;
evil for which it is not easy to find
a remedy. The wisest men of all
ages have made diligent search for,
an adequate remedy for sin. Sin
is corruption. What can wash
away the dismal stain and make
the guilty conscience clean? "The
wages of sin is death." Wha
shall deliver us from the body pt
this death Sin is an evil so dark
and destructive that nothing less
than the blood of the sinless Sor
of God is sufficient to save the
soul that has been tarnished by it.
Christian Advocate,
.Now, in order that people ma;
be hamyv in their work, these
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three things are needed. They'
must be fit for it; they must not
do too much of it: and they must
have a sense of success in it not
a doubtful sense, such as needs
some testimony , of other people
for its confirmation, but a sure
sense, or rather knowledge that so
much work has been done well,
and fruitfully done, whatever the
world may say or think about it.--
John Ruskin.
It is while you are patiently
toiling at the little tasks of life
that the meaning and the sliape off
the great whole of life dawns upon
you. It is while you are resisting
little temptations that you are
growing strong. Phillips Brooks.
OUR LINES ARE
Fine Dress Goods, Silks, Velvets, Staple Dry Goods of all kinds, Un
derwear, Hosiery, Gloves, Corsets, Cloaks, Ladies' Suits and Dress
Skirts, Clothing, Furnishing Goods, Hats, Caps, Shoes of all kinds,
Trunks, Bags, and Butterick Patterns.
Qur senior has handled this general line since the autumn of 'G5, and
has given his poor best to getting some knowledge of the business, and
we buy entirely for cash. Upon, the lowest costs at which we can
. buy we place a moderate profit, marking every item in plain figures
the bottom. . . . . -
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