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Mr
J. D. BIVIM3, OWM ANO PUBUSHEK.
ESTABLISHED 18SO.
t.OO A YBAH, in ADVANCE.
VOL. XV.
ALBEMARLE, ST. C, AUGUST 22, 1907.
NO. 48.
HE
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RPRISE.
Ok CONQUEST
OF CANAAN
By BOOTH TARK1NGTON.
Autker ef "CWmrry." "Monsieur Bea
OM." Etc.
Copyright, 1WS, by Harper & IlrolUers
Vou you didn't happen to me him
anywhere this this afternoon."
"No' in. I nln' gee lilin." Sam's liiiudi
tor vanished, uud bis lowered voii-e be
came serious. "1 aln' see him. but I
beam about Ului."
What did you bear?"
"Key be'n eousld'Mble Htlr on tie ald;;e
u' town, I reckon, " he uuswerisl rave
ly, "uu' dcy be'n bavin' some trouble
out nt du Betictr"
' Beaver Beach, do you uieau';"
"Yes'iu. Uey lie'u some shoot In' (jo
in' on out dat way."
She BpraiiK forward and caught at
hi arm without apenkliiK.
".loe Louden all rlht," he said reus
urbiKly. "Aln" nuffuiii happen to
him. MkIi us I kiu mek out fin ile
talk, dat Happy Fear gone on de ram
page ng'in. on' dey batt.i sent fer Mist'
Louileii to rorue In a hurry."
CHAPTElt XIV.
6 upon a world cauoplej with
f storm, bung wilt) mourning
purple aud habited iu black.
A K did Mr. Flilcroft turn his
morning face at 8 o'clock anteiiieridian
Monday as be bled himself to hi daily
duty at the Washington National bank.
Vet wore than the merely funereal
Klooujcd out from the blllocky areu of
IiId couutenuiice. Was there not.
I' faith, a glow, a Vesnvlan Miiinmer.
Iieueatb the murk of that darkling
eye? Was here one, think you. to turn
the other cheek? Utile has he learned
of Norbert Klltcroft who conceive.
that tbla fiery spirit was easily to be
quenched! Look upon the Jowl of him
and let him who dares maintain that
people even the very I'ikes them
selveswere to grind ieneaMi their
brougham wheels a prostrate Norbert
and ruie on scatheless! Iu this his
owu metaphor is nearly touchej: "I
guess not They dou't run over uie.
Martin Tike better look out how he
tried It!"
So Mother Nature at her kindly
tasks, good Norbert, uses for her
unguent our own perfect Inconsist
ency, aud ofteu when we are stabbed
deep In the breast she distracts us by
thin scratches Iu other parts, that iu
the Itch of these we may forget the
greater hurt till It be healed. Thus,
the remembrance of last ulgbt, when
you undisgulsedly ran from the wrath
of a Pike, with a pretty girl looking
on (to say nothing of the acrid Arp,
who will fllug the legend on a thou
sand winds), might well .agonize you
now, as, In less hasty moments and tit
a safe distance, you brood upon the
piteous figure you cut. On the con
trary, behold! You see no blood crim
soning the edges of the horrid gash In
your panoply of self esteem; you but
smart and scratch the scratches, for
getting your wound In the hot Roll for
vengeance. It Is an Itch which will
last (for In auch matters your temper
shall be steadfast), and let the great
Goliath in the mean time beware of
you! You ran last night You ran of
course you ran. Why not? You ran
to fight another day!
A bank clerk sometimes has oppor
tunities. -
The stricken f it one could not un
derstand how It cume about that he
had blurted out the dninning confes
sion that he had visited Heaver Lieacli.
When he tried to Bolve the puzzle, his
uilud refused 'the strain, became foggy
and the terrors of UI- position acute.
' Was he, like Joe Louden, to endure
the ban or Cauaun- uud, like him.
stand excommunicate beyond the pale
because or Martin Tike's displeasure?
for Norbert saw with perfect clearness
today whut the judge had done for
Joe. Now that he stood In danger of
a fate Identical this came b.mie to him.
How niauy others, be wondered, would
do us Mniule had done and write uo'.es
.Kuchn he hud received by the band or
Sam Warden late last uigut?
Dear Sir this from Mamie, who. In the
O.naanltlsh way, had been wont to ud
dress him as Norb!" My father wishes
me to state that after your remark yes
terday afternoon on the steps, which was
ovarheard by my mother, who happened
to be standing In the hall behlnJ you.
and your behavior to himself later on
he considers It Impossible to allow you
to call any more or to speak to any mem
ber of his houuehold. Yours respectfully.
MAMIE PIKli.
Erasures and restorations , bore wit
ness to a considerable doubt in Mamie's
mind concerning "Yours respectfully."
but she bad dually let it stand, evident
ly convinced that the plain signature,
without preface, savored of an intima
cy denied by the context -
"Dear Birr" repeated Norbert be
tween set teeth.- " 'Impossible to allow
you to call any more!" These aud
other terms, of his dismissal recurred
to him during the morning, and ever
and anon he looked up from bis desk,
his lipg moving to tbe tune of those
horrid phrases, and stared out at the
street Basilisk glaring this, wltb uo
Christian softness la It not even when
It fell upon his own grandfather, sit
ting among tin sages within easy eye
hot from the big window at Norberfs
elbow. However, Colonel Flltcroft was
not disturbed' by tbe gate of u de
scendant, being, iu fact aulte unaware
of it The aged men were having n
busy morning.
The conclave was not what It bad
been. (See Arp and all hl works.)
There Cad come as tha years went by
few recruits, but face were mining.
The two TiiImm-s hud ,., au,i i;n,.ie
Jo Iavvy could uo lunger lay -i;iiiu
to tlie patriar.-lisliip. He im,i it
jli.Ufi ..-11. .. ii
......... .iu ,,iUi sin", ana kuiv his
way. Kskew lilmsHr was now the
oaie.-t or the conscript fathers the
colonel and Squire I'.iu kalew prosing
hlin closely, with l'eter lSrailliury no
great time behind.
Today they did not plant their feet
uiN.ii the brass rail inside the hotel
windows, hut courted the genial weath
er outdoors and, as their slimmer cus
torn was, tilled hack their chairs in the
shade of the western w all of the build
ing. "And who could of dreamed," Mr.
i Hradliury was saying, with a side
glance of expect: y nt Kskew, "that
j Jonas Talior would ever turn out tf
have a niece like that"'
Mr. Arp ceased to fan himself with
his wide straw hat and said grimly:
"I don't see as Jonas has 'turned
! out' not in particular'. If he's turned
: nt nil lot,.!,- I -....I i.. 1.1
I " " t-i nun iin in ins KliMC.
I ..i. .1 I'll I.... i i. . i
i Him ii oci ue nas ii ue nau any w:
' of heariu' how much she must of spe
ay
spent
lor domes:"
I "I believe." Sipiire lluckalew began,
! "that young folks' in.'iiiorie-; are short."
"They're lucky!" Interjected Kskew.
"The shorter your memory the less
I mcaniics i you know."
! "1 meant young folks don't reiiiein
1 her as well as older pc iple do," con
' tinned the squire. "I don't see what's
so remarkable Iu her cumin' lan k and
i walkiu' up sli 1 with Joe Louden.
j She used to go kitin' round' with him
j all the time before she left here. And
yet everybody talks as if they never
! bean I of scch a thing."
! "It seems to me." said t'olou-l I'lit
' croft hesitatingly, "that she did right.
: I know it sounds kind of a queer thing
to say, and 1 stirred up a good deal of
opposition at Hume yesterday evening
by sort of mentioning something of
the kind. Nobody fceemed to agree
with me except N'oibcrt, and he didn't
say much, but"
He was Interrupted by an uncontrol
lable cackle which Issued from the
mouth of Mr. Arp. The colonel turned
upon him. with a frown. Inquiring the
cause of his mirth.
"It put me In mind." Mr. Arp began
promptly, "of something that happen
ed last tiiglit."
"What was it?"
Kskew's mouth was open to tell, but
he remembered just In time that tho
grandfather of Norbert was not the
audience properly to lie selected for
this recital, choked a half horn word.
Miighed loudly, realizing that he must
withhold the lory of the felling of
Martin I'ike until the colonel had tak
en his departure, and replied:
"Nothin' to speak of. (Jo ou with
your argument."
"I've finished," said the colonel. "I
only wanted to say that it seems to
mo n good action for a young lady like
that to come back here and stick to
her old friend and playmate."
"Stick to him'" echoed Mr. Arp.
"She walked up Main street with hlin
yesterday. Io you call that stickin'
to him? She's, been away a good
while; she's forgotten what Canaan Is.
You wait till she sees for herself jest
what his standing iu this com"
"I agree with Kskew for once," lu
torrupted l'eter Hiadbury. "I agree
because"
"Then you better wait," cried Es
kew, allowing him to proceed no fur
ther, "till you bear what you're agree
lu' to! I say you take a young lady
like that pretty mid rich and all cul
tured up. and it stands to reason that
she won't"
"No; it don't!" exclaimed lluckalew
Impatiently. "Nothing of the sort! I
tell you''
Kskew rose to his feet and pounded
the pavement with his stick "It
stands to reason that she won't stick
to a man no other decent woman will
speak to, n feller that's IhMi the mark
for every stone throwed iu the town
ever since he was a hoy. an outcast
with a reputation as black as n
preacher's slns-s on Sunday! I don't
cure If he's her oldest friend on earth,
she won't stick to him! She walked
with him yesterday, but ou can mark
my wowls", his goose is cooked!" The
old man's voice rose shrill and high.
"It ulu't Iu human nature fer her to
do it! You hear what I say - you'll
never see her with Jot? Louden iigi'l"
lu Ibis livln' world, and she as good
as told me so herself last night. You
can take your oath she's quit him al
ready! Dou't"-
Eskcw paused abruptly, his eyes wid
ening behind his spectacles. His Jaw
fell. His stick, raised to hammer the
pavement, remained suspended in the
air A sudden color rushed over bis
face and be dropped speechless Iu his
chair. The others after staring at
him in momentary ahinn followed the
direction of his gaze.
Just across Main street and in plain
view was the entrance to the stair
wsv which led to Joe's otllce. Ariel
Tibor. all Iu cool gray, carrying a big
bunch or white roses iu her white
gloved bands, had Just crossed the
sidewalk from a carriage and was as
cending the dark stairway. A uio
tneut later she cume down ugaiu empty
banded, got Into the carriage and drove
" "She missed him," said Squire Buck
alew "I saw him go out half nn hour
ago. But" he add.nl and. exercising a
self restraint close anon the saintly did
even glance toward the heap w hich
was Mr. An.. " n?t!ce sbe
" Trlefwas not the only one who
Cimbed the dingy stair. day
read the penciled script upon Joes
oor: "Will ot "turn nntll evening.
jTouden." Muy other, came, all ex
Unlike the 8rst visitor. Some
wTre quick and wstohful. dodging Into
toe narrow entrance furtively; some
Liled contemptuously a. long as they
I
wanly as they reached the stairs; some
were brazen and amused, and some
were thill and troubled. Not all of
them read the message, for not all
could read, but all looked curiously
through the half opened door at the
many roses which lifted their beads
delicately from .1 water "pitcher ou
Joe's desk to scent that dusty place
with their cool breath.
Most of these clients after a grunt
of disappointment turned aud weut
away, thoiudi there were a few, either
unable to read the message or so press
ed by anniety that they disregarded it,
who entered the room and sat down to
wait for the abseutee. There were
plenty of chairs In the office now, book
cases also and a big steel safe. But
when evening came and the final gray
or twilight had vanished from the win
dow panes all had gone except one, a
woman who sat patiently, ber eyes
upon the floor and her hands folded lu
her lap, until the footsteps of the last i
or the others to depart bad ceased to
sound upon the pavement below. Tbeu !
Willi a wordless exclamation she
sprang to her reel, pulled the window
shade carefully down to the sill and
A Imly hciiullfvlly drained in white
dimity appeared in the doorway.
when she had done that struck a mutch
on the heel of her shoe a soiled white
canvas shoe, not a small one aud ap
plied the flame to a gas Jet. The yel
low light flared up, aud she beguu to
pace the room haggardly.
Tho courthouse hell rang 3, and as
the tremors following the last stroke
pulsed themselves luto silence she
heurd a footfall ou the stairs and im
mediately relapsed into a chair, fold
ing her bands again iu ber lap, her ex
pression composing Itself to passivity,
for the step was very much lighter
than Joe's.
A lady beautifully dressed In white
dimity appeared In the doorway. She
hesitated ut the threshold, not, appar
ently, because of uuy timidity (ber ex
pression being toj thoughtfully assur
ed fur that), but uluiost Immediately
she came In and seated herself near
the desk, acknowledging the other's
presence by a slight Inclination of the
head.
XUis grave courtesy caused a strong,
deep Hush to spread itself under tho
rouge which unevenly eovcred the wo
luuu's cheeks as she bowed elaborate
ly In return. Then furtively, during a
protracted silence, she took stock of
the new comer from the tip of her
white suede shoes to the lilmy lace and
pink roses upon her wide white hat.
aud the sidelong gaze lingered marvel
lngly upon the quiet, delicate bunds,
sieuder and fluely expressive, In their
white gloves.
Her own hands, unlike the lady's, be
gau to fidget confusedly, and, the si
lence ontlnuiug, she coughed several
times to effect the preface required by
her sense of fitness before she felt U.
proper to observe, with a polite titter:
"Mr. Louden seems to be a good
while comiu'."
"Have you been waitiug very loug?"
asked the lady.
"Ever since ti o'clock!"
"Yes," said the other, "that Is very
loug."
"Yes, mn'uin. It cerfuly Is." Tbe Ice
thus broken, she felt free to use her
eyes more directly and, after a long,
frank stare, exclaimed:
"Why, you must be Miss Artel Ta
bor, ulu't you?"
"Yes" Ariel touched one of the roses
upon Joe's desk with her finger tips
"I am Miss Tabor."
"Well,' excuse me fer askiug; I'm
sure It ain't any busiuess of mine,"
said the other, remembering the man
ners due one lady from another. "But
I thought It must be. I expect," she
added, w ith loud. Inconsequent laugh
ter, "there's not mauy In Canaan ain't
heard you've come buck."- She paused,
laughed again, nervously, and again,
less loudly, to take off the edge of her
abruptness, gradually tittering herself
dowu to a pause, to fill which she put
forth, "Bight nice weather we be'n
bavin'."
"Yes," said Ariel.
."It was rainy first of last week
though. I don't mind rain so touch"
this with more laughter "I .toy In
tbe house when It rains. Some people
don't Snow enough' to, they say.
You've heard that saying, ain't you,
Miss Tabor?"
"Well, I tell you," she exclaimed
noisily, "there', plenty ladle, and gen
lemen'in this town thata like that."
Her laughter did nof cease. It be
came louder aud shriller. It had been
until now a mere lubrication of the
conversation, helping to make her
easier in Miss Tabor's presence, but aa
It Increased in shrillness she seemed
to be losing control ot berseU. aa If
ber laughter were getting away with
her. She was uot far from hysteria
when she stopped with a gasp, and
she sat up straight In ber chair, white
and rigid.
"There!" she said listening intently.
"Ain't that him?" Steps sounded upon
the pavement below, paused for a sec
ond at the foot of the stairs; there was
a snap of a mutch, then the steps
sounded again, retreating. She sank
back iu ber chair limply. "It was only
some one stopplu' to light bis cigar iu
the entry. It wasn't Joe Louden's
step anyway."
"You know bis step?" Ark-l's eyes
were bent upon the woman wonder
Ingly. "I'd know It tonight," was the uu
swer, delivered with a sharp and pain
ful giggle. "I got plenty reason to."
Ariel did not respond. She leaned a
little closer to the roses upon the desk,
letting them touch her face and breath
ing deeply of their fragrance to neu
tralize a perfume which pervaded the
room, uu odor as heavy and cheap
sweet as the face or the woman who
bad saturated her handkerchief with
it, a scent which weut with ber per
fectly aud made her unhappily deli
nlte; suited to ber clumsily dyed hair,
to her soiled white shoes, to the hot
red bat smothered In plumage, to the
restless stun fingered hands, to the fat,
plated rings, of which she wore a
great quantity, though, surprisingly
enough, the larga diamonds In her ears
were pure uud of u very clear water.
It was she who broke tbe silence
once more. "Well," she drawled,
coughing genteelly at the same time,
"better lute than never, as the saying
is. I wonder who it is gits up all tbeiu
comical saying;.?" Apparently she had
no genuine desire tor light upon this
mystery us she continued immediately:
"I have a geu'lemau friend that's al
ways glttin' 'em off. 'Well,' ho says,
'the best of friends must part.' aud
'Thou strihest nie to the heart' all
kinds of cracks like that. He's real
comical. And yet," she went on lu an
altered voice. "1 don't like hlin much.
I'd be glad if I'd never seen him."
The change of tone was so marked
that Ariel looked ut her keenly, to find
herself surprised Into pitying this
strange client of Joe's, for tears bad
sprung to the woman's eyes and slid
along the lids, where she tried vainly
to restrain them. Her race had altered.
Ion. like her voite, haggard lines sud
denly appearing about the eyes and
mouth as jr they had Just been pen
ciled there the truth issuing from be
neath her pinchbeck simulations like u
tragic mask revealed by the displace
ment of a tawdry covering.
"I expect you think I'm real foolish,"
she said, "but I be'n wultln' so awful
loug. aud I got a good deal of werry
on my mind till I see Mr. Louden."
"I am sorry." Ariel turned Trotn the
roses aud faced her and the heavy per
fume. "I hope he will come soon."
"1 hope so," said the other. "It's
something to do with uie that keeps
him away, and tlie,. longer he Is the
more it scares me." She shivered and
set her teeth together. "It's kind of
hard waltln'. I eert'nly got my share
of troubles."
"Ijon't you think that Mr. Louden
will be able to take cure of them for
you ?"
"Oil, I hope so. Miss Tabor! If he
can't, nobody can." She was crying
openly now, wiping her eyes with her
musk soaked handkerchief. "We had
to send fer him yesterday afteruoon"
"To come to Beaver I leach, do you
mean?" asked Ariel, leaning forward.
"Yei.nia'aiii. It all begun out there
leustwuys it begun before that with
me. I: was all my fault. I deserve all
that's coinln' to me, I guess. I done
wrong! I done wrong! I'd oughtn't
never o went, out there vesterdav "
one checked .."I'-elf shii,;y, but
after a moment's pause continued, en-'
couraged by the grave 'kindliness of
the delicate face' In the shadow of the
wide white bat. "1 oughtn't to of
went," she repented. "Oh. 1 reckon
I'll never, never learn enough to keep
out o' trouble, even when I see it
coinln'! But that geu'lemau friend of
mine Mr. Nashville Cory's bis name
he kind o' coaxed me Into It, and he's
right comical when he's with ladies,
nud he's good company, and be says.
Claudlne. we'll dance the light fan
tastic.' he says, and I kind o' wanted
something cheerful. I'd be'n workhf
steady quite a spell, aud It looked like
he wanted to show nie n good time, so
I went, and that's what started It"
Now that the bad begun she babbled
on with her story, nt times incoherent
ly, full of excuses made to herself
more than to Ariel, pitifully endeavor
ing to convince herself that the re
sponsibility for the muddle she had
made was not hers. "Mr. Cory told
me my husband was driukin' and
wouldn't know about it, and, 'Besides.'
he says, 'what's the odds?' Of course
I knowed .there was trouble between
him and Mr. Feur-that's my husband
a good while ago. when Mr. Fear up
and laid him out. That was before me
and Mr. Fear got married; I hadn't
even bei to Canaan then; I was on
the stage. I was ou the stage quite
awhile In Chicago before I got ac
quulnted with my husband."
"You were on the staire?" Ariel ex
claimed involuntarily.
TO BE CONTINUED.!
TEN YEARS IN BED
"For ten years I was confined to
mv bed with disease of my kidneys,
writes R. A. Gray, J. P. of Oakville,
Ind. "It was so severe that I could
not move part of the time. I consult
ed the very best medical skill avail
able, but could get no relief until
Foley's Kidney Cure was reccomend
ed to me. . It has been a godsend to
me." Red Cross Pharmacy.
Cutm Coiiiti rraveata rmmammm
JOHN SHARP WILLIAMS.
Raleiirh Evening Times.
If Hon. John Sharp Williams has
been reading the papers, he must
feel Rood over the comments his
election to the United States senate
has elicited. Tromoneend of the
country to the other his victory has
been hailed with unfeigned pleasure.
He had a hard fight and barely won.
His opponent was a demagogue
with a demagogue's methods, ap
peaHng to the feeling or passions of
the voters rather than to their reas
on. Iiut the campaign happily was
not a short one and reason prevailed.
Mr. Williams will take his seat in
the Senate with a standing already
obtained. His intellectual equip
ment for parliamentary work was
demonstrated to the nation while he
sat in the house. He was the peer
of any member of that body. He
pursued few phantoms, and was not
deluded into mistaking a shadow for
an object. His mental horizon was
unclouded, his comprehension of
subjects was broad, his conclusions
logical - in fact his career as a con
gressman was characterized by the
unmistakable qualities of a states
man. In the senate, where deliberation
usually precedes legislation, he will
maintain and strengthen the reputa
tion already won. As a great de
bater, if the occasion should arise,
he will tower among his colleagues;
he may even win a place beside
Hayne, Calhoun and Webster. C er
tainly his past record and his intel
lectual endowments would indicate
as much.
Mr. Williams will undoubtedly add
strength to the senate.
Crime in Rowan.
Mrs. D.W. Kesler, a respectable
white lady about 2S years old who
lives about seven miles south of Sal
isbury, while walking to the store of
F. M. Tyuck about two miles from
her home, was attacked by an un
known negro at a bridge across
Dutch Creek. He forced her to
drink the contents of a bottle. She
then ran about 175 yards, when the
negro caught her and drug "her to
the creek and threw her in. This
was in the early part of the after
noon. She remembered no more for
five hours except she had a dim re-1
collection of crawling out upon the
creek bank soon after she was thrown
in. There were marks on her throat
where the negro placed his hands. It
will be hard to prevent a lynching if
he is caught.
m
Sad Death by Accident.
John Palmer, flagman on the South
ern, whose home was in Columbia,
S. C., was killed by the train at
Cary, eight miles west of Raleigh,
last" w eek. He was doing special
work at that point. He had only a
few days before greeted his sister
on her "way to the Jamestown expo
sition. He was 19 pears of ago and
had an aged mother dependent on
him for support, lie was horribly
mangled by the train.. The accident
omirrud about 7 o'clock in the even
ing and was caused by the young
man failing to notice that he was on
the main line track.
An old Slaten Island ferryboat has
been cleaned up and moored at the
dock at the foot of West Sixteenth
Street on the North River, New
York, and is used as a day camp for
consumptives. On it fifty men and
women are getting back health and
strength under the care of a regular
stan of physicians and the trained
nurse in charge.
Letter to Prof. W. N. Shaqkleford,
Albemarle, N. C.
Dear Sir: We would like to set
your boys and girls at work on this
question in arithmetic and casuistry.
A farmer is fattening three hogs
in three small pens; they have equal
room and straw and care, and are
fed in these three ways: first hog,
on a certain proportion of milk and
cooked cornmeal; second hog, on
the same, half water; third hog, on
the same, half water and sawdust.
How long will it take, how much
will they weigh, how much will they
cost, and what'll the profit be on
the three?
And a similar question in pigmen
try. That same farmer is going to
paint three barns same size; 'and he
says to three painters: "what'll you
take to paint that barn?" .
First painter scratches his head a
few minutes and says: "I'll do it for
f50."
Second painteri "$75."
Third painter: "$97.48."
Will they each get a barn to paint,
or one get two, or one all three, or
nobody any; and what'll they make
on the job?
That's about how painting goes
sometimes.
But there is a way to reckon: $5 a
gallon. The difficutly is in knowing
how manv gallons to buy. There's
a way out of that.
Buy the least gallons paint, Devoe.
No matter how much one buys; he
returns what's left: costs nothing.
Yours truly
29 F. W. Dkvoe & Co.
Morrow Bros. & Heath Co. sell our
paint.
hat fever and summer colds.
Victims of Hay Fever will experi
ence great benefit by taking Foley's
Honey and Tar, as it stops difficult
breathing immediately and heals the
inflamed air passages, and if it should
fail to cure you it will give instant
relief." " The genuine is in a yellow
package. Red Cross Pharmacy.
EFIRD BROS. BRANCH OUT.
! TheRfird Brothers company has
been chartered with a capitalization been chartered,
ticn of $1(X),RK) authorized, the in
corporators being Messrs. H. M , E. The Tuscaloosa mills in Alabama
L. and J. R. Efird, managers of the had a f:H),KM) fire Thursday.
cantile business in Condord, an,j hna Day at Jamestown Thursday.
Messrs. E. L. and J. Ii. Efird will ; Shelbv is organizing a cempaay
leave for that place by September for a new cotton mill, with a paid-up
1st. The decision of this well known , capital of .$ 1;0,(HK and privilege U
firm to branch out into smaller increase to $250,000.
tows is indicative of the liberal pat- j
ronage which the managers have en-; A daringaeronanaut named French
joyed -Charlotte News. : was killed near New Havea, Conn.,
; Saturday by the failure of his para
chute to open.
Might Have Gone Out.
An Irishman who was travelling ' R-.lrt A Pinkerton. head of tha
in England for a dry goods firm was 'WJ 'letective agency, ded on
once showing a line of sample dress
goods to a merchant who was woe-
fully slow in making up his mind.
He handled them and rehandled
them, until the commercial traveler
was at his patience end. Finally the
merchant asked if the goods shown
were fashionable. j
"They were wlwn I first began to
show them to you." replied the irav-
eller, "but I'll be hanged if 1 can tell
you now." j
It is said that the buyer was so !
pleased with this answer that he par-!
. ... , . i , 1 :
doned tlie rudeness or it anil ncoame
a steady customer.
Comet in Sight. i
"Sub-ieriber," Mill Spring, N. C,
sends thu following letter to the
News and Observer: i
"To the Editor: Have you ob-1
served a comet in the east? It ap-1
pears above the horizon about threo
o'clock a. m. and is visible until day
light. I have noticed it for several (
mornings, and have called the atten
tion of several people to it. I sup-j
pose it has made its appearance very ,
recently, as I have not seen any re-'.
ference to it in the papers."
i
Sewing Machine Needles
for all makes of machines at Five j
Cents per package, and everything :
else pertaining to sewing machines;
at great lv reduced prices. Look fori
the Red S. Singer Sewing Machine j
Co., Main St., Central Hotel Annex.
Hardly Knew Her Own Son They
Have a Wonderful Influence Over
Boys.
Ilui'saw N. C, June 5th, 1907
I knew of no better preparatory
school fur boys. The religious influ
ence of the Y. M. C. A. and the sys
tematic study of the Bible have a
wonderful influence over boys away
form home.
The progress made by my son dur
ing the past ytar was yery satisfac
tory from every standpoint. I shall
always be glad I sent him toHingham
School. Mebane, N. C. He has
tl,.,t T t-,...
k;.,. i ..v, i.. t,;,, i b ,J
nun i i s " i i i wiiii urn, ix iw
you ill the Fall. I take pleasure in
semlHig you this testimonial anil leel
I have not said half enough in praise
in our scuiioi as i see uv.ii a i mi
iiiipt o pint'iiL in my suns ih-jiui i
tlielll.
Mus. E.L. Larkins.
"Doctor, how can I cure insomnia?
I'm not gelling to sleep these days
before 1 i:i the morning."
"Have a boy knock on yourdoor at
midnight and tell yon it is tinn to
get up."- Cleveland Leader.
"Youngling is going to in
the
Widow Heiipeck." J
"Why she's twice as old as he is." j
"Oh, well he'll age fast enough af- j
ter the wedding."- Town' and Coun- j
try. ;
Mrs. New wed: "Bridget, I saw you j
kiss that man.
Bridget: "Shure mum; an' yer
wouldn't have me resist an officer of
the law, woould yez. mum?" Illus
trated Bits.
C0ILEGE OF AGRICULTURE
AND MECHANIC ARTS.
Practical education in Agriculture;
in Civil, Electrical, and Mechanical
Engineering; in Cotton Manufact
uring. Dyeing and Industrial ('hem
try. Tuition f 45 a year; Board $100
month. 120 Scholarships. Addres,
President Winston,
West Raleigh, N. C.
Winter or
Hairy Vetch (
makes not only one of the largest
yielding and best winter feed and
forage cropg you can grow, but is
also one of the best of Boil-improv-ers,
adding more nitrogen to the
soil than any other winter crop.
Wootfa Descriptive Fall Cat
alogue gives full information
about thir valuable crop; also
about all other
Farm & Garden Seeds
Pfor Fall planting. Urtaiogua
mailed free on reo. uest. Write
for it.
T.W.WCCD&SOHS,
Seed man, . Richmond, Va.
WOOD-TsEEDSr !
J Best qualltle obtainable. I
1
GENERAL HEWS.
A f 100,0K) mill
for Waldos a as
!,L 1,1 ' '.7' ",a" V 7 o
Bremen, while enroute to England.
Five persons were killed niul It in
jured by the collapse of a two-atory
building, during a terrific wina
slorm iu Chicago Friday.
One hundred persons ware killed
or injured by the explosion of dyna-
mite in a dynamite factory in Gar-
many the loth instant.
.. . . ,
" oi goes up higher in pric
n'URt h f ne Ju' If -J
tho crntlrtniun k-jf mit thp 2() OOU -
"' ., ' "
ooo fine on the oil trtwt. Anglo haic-
j on.
i A storage-house for suppliea far tha
Southern Railway, at Spencer was
burned early Sunday morning. Itae
loss is not very large though it
amounts to several hundred dollars.
The Pope company, manufacturers
of bicycles and automobiles, is in the
hands of the receivers. Dun's states
that it is not lack of business but
stringency of the money market.
The 9-months little girl of Mr. and
Mrs. C. W. McMakin fell from the
second story of their home at Well
ford, S. C. to the ground sixteen feet
below without serious injury to the
child.
Thursday, the 15th, was observed
by all the great Krupp gun and ship
building works in Germany because
of the birth of a son and heir to the
daughter of the founder of the
works. .
Caesar Cone, receiver for the'
Odell Mills, Concord, states that tha
indebtedness on the mills has been
reduced from :M1,000 to $265,000
since he took hold in January.
The North Carolina Furniture
Dealer's Association at Wilmington
chose Charlotte as their next plaaa
of meeting and elected Chas. W.
Parker, of Charlotte, as their next
president.
Japs in Tokio mobbed a Russian
spy, who had been detected in an in
vestigation covering a period of.,
davs, and tortured him and mutila-
ted his body in the streets, in
spita
...
of the officers.
Owing to a pressure of 4.1 pounds
; tu, square jnch.whieh is 28 pounds
, a,ve nonnal, a person cannot wins-
tie in the tunnels being constructed
in New York City. The workman
breathe compressed air, which ac
counts for the heavy pressure.
I The gasoline launch, Edna May,
( bound from Man ten to Nag's Head,
iafew miles distant, with a large
I party aboard, exploded, Saturday
1 drowning one passenger and proba-
bly fatally injuring the engineer and
' fireman.
SHORT TALKS BY.
L. T. COOPER.
CHRONIC CRANKS.
We all have met people who are con
tinually kicking. Lite leemi a terrible
thing to them. They
seldom smile.
Something dreadful
is going to happen,
nothing is ever just
right, and they
worry and fret and
complain from
morning till night.
Their trouble
seems to be juit
had disposition but
lis is seldom so.
In most oases thers
is one of two things,
the matter with
them: either their
MB. ). SMOCK.
nerves or their digestion is responsible.
Both come from the same thingstomach
trouble. A man or woman whose nerves
are tied in knots is bound to be mighty
poor company. The same thing is true if
what they eat don't digest properly. No
wonder they grumble, I don't blame them.
I have seen Cooper's New Discovery
change the whole deposition of people in
month's time simply by getting thai?
stomach in shape again. Even tbe ex
pressioa on their faces was altogether
different. The worried, tired, fretful look
changed to a peaceful happy expressien,
and the lines of care disappeared altogether.
Many people tell me about this in letters.
They seem to think it a miracle, it tt at.
It's just the stomach working again.
Here's.a ease of this kind:
"I suffered with my etomsoh for thirteen
years. Nothing I ate seemed ta digest. 1
also had chronio constipation, and was
tired, dull, irritable and despondent sB
tbe time. I fennd it dimealt ta attend M
say duties es traetioa agent Sethis pteee."
"Six different doctors treated aae and
all gave different opinions."
"I began taking Cooper's New Diseey
cry, and to my surprise it helped sae treat
tbe first. I have gained sea poaads in
three weeks and aa fceling . My
work now ta a pleasure, where before it
was drudgery." i. R. Ssaoek, Uet
Indiana.
' We sell the Cooper Budine. 1
Bed Cross Pharriiacf,
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