A Jske Tfcat Fs'tao.
Tbe clerk of a Ure la
joutbern Colorado dl3 oot kaow lo
dUn nature terj trHI wbeo be iaTited
a Vtn hurf to boxluir ltJL Aftr
cxpLsiuing le of the gioeea. wnieu
tbe chief teemed to readily cndr
srtaad, tbey went Into ft vacant room
fa the rear of tbe store to tsar. The
afWre were adjusted, and tbe cleric
finrfeed the chief to hit htm. Thia, of
ooara. be failed to do. as Indiana err
or ctriie with their hand la conflict.
All U once the clerk struck oat,, and,
aidhlnz the chief under the ear. land
ed htm on the floor. ThJj waa enough.
The Indian sprang to bla feet, pulled
off tbe gloves. Jerked out a knife, and
th clerk bad to run for bla life. For
Coaately be manajjed to keep oat of
reach until some friend caucbt the
lnfurlnted Indian and held him until
fie cooled off. Then the rlerk explain
ed tbe Joke, but with very poor suc
es. Tbe chief consented to forego
Tenpeanre for tbe !nult, but be was
never friend with the clerk again-
St. Louis Glolx-Democrat-
Ornimtnd With 8cars.
"The native of some of the Islands
of tbe Taclflc are always glad to see
the doctor on hi periodical visits. At
Kalaer Wilhelm's harbor the German
government has stationed Dr. llelae
ang as medical officer. lie Is a busy
anno. Natives by the dozen come to
iim, not to be treated for Illness, but
to get the benefit of his professional
opinion on how to scar themselves ar
tistically. The natives are very fond
of scars, and nearly all of them are
covered with specimens which have
resulted from self Inflicted wounds
which were kept open by frequent
acratchlng or by tbe Introduction of
foreign substances like sand, bamboo,
chells and so forth. The excrescence
-which results from the average vacci
nation is scratched off at the proper
time, and the resulting large scar Is
very dear to the native. A young
Islander whose face and body are a
mass of cuts, bruises and scars is con
ldered the catch of the season by the
-dusky belles.-
CiviHtlMft tH India.
The f otto wins Is from Tb ftcwl ef
IK. trwtUn - hntsk bT Dt. CbaXte
Alexander fcUtma. bimietf & l&d&s: j
-Loos: tftrr I ever brd of tQw
or saw a wtlte ma a f had Iraroed tmc
an untutored wuin-m tb ece of
morality. With tb help uf dar oa
tort b-rrf tan- tblajri lsa
ply but of mUrhty I I kuew God.
I perrled wbm I La, I taw
nd lovl what U really beautiful. O?
Silxjittoo baa oof taoght me anything ;
better. A a child I u ruler food bow to '
jslre. I irnvf forgotten that grace sificw
I tecum i lrlllxed. I lived the nataral
life. whi-r.if I now live tbe artificial.
Any pretty pebble was valuable to me
then. evry growing thing an object of
reference. Now I worship with the
white man lfcre a painted landscape
who-H value U painted In dollars. Thus
tbe Indian U rwotw true ted. as f be nat
ural rocks are ground to powder and
made into artificial L. k w.-ti may
be built Into the walla of nuJrru soci
ety." Bignett of Big Ban. 1
Big Ben, which marks the hours for
parliament at tbe top of tbe clock tow
er at Westminster. Is bigger than it ap
pears from below. Looking at the dial
of Big Ben from tbe northern footway
of Great George street or from tbe
Thames eajbankment. It appears as if
Its diameter might be equal to the
space that a man of medium size could
cover with outstretched arms. As a
matter of fact, however, the diameter
A
of the dial is twenty-three feet. From
the ground the minute marks on tbe
dial look like ordinary minute marks
and as if they were close together.
Really they are a foot apart. The nu
merals are two feet long. The minute
hand, with Its counter balance the
heavy piece of metal that projects be
yond tbe center of the dial Is fifteen
feet in length. This hand Is so massive
that during a snowstorm the clock is
sometimes retarded by the weight of
the flakes that alight on it London
Mail.
Whistler Ecefjrit!t.
Whistler rrsxarkabkr genloa la &
doubt irtpcoaShie for his caaey eccen
tric! lies. He qeirreted isdiaeriraisAi.
iy trtzl and torn, and tor bi&i
tS public were a set of IgorusmMm
who hid oo rtifct to any oplsioa what
ever. Iprclally well known la his caar
ret with John Bcakis, who la his
-Am Clavlgera" bad heaped scorn oa
one of WbJjtWi "Nocturnes' in the
following language. "1 fcave eeeo and
heard much of cockney impudence be
fore now, but never expected to bear
a coxcomb ask 200 guineas for tinging
a pot of paint in tbe public's face."
Tbe artist promptly sued for damage,
and in tbe celebrated trial which fol-
,ed be was awarded one farthing,
which coin be triumphantly wore as a
watcb charm ever afterward
In his art work, as In his own per
sonal appearance. Whistler was fastid
ious. Ills palettes were beautifully
wiped, bis brushes faultlessly kept, and
as for bis general behavior it waa
foreign, one may even ay exotic
mt. irrxA ntrrno!.
f
X Ctmters IUte 0pns4 aa4 ShsHf
lMt to Ahtfuadoci Tfiw Iloaa
Sewni IJog Dsad bj Eartb-
qoikke.
j Catania. Sicily. SeL II The enj
I tloa of Mount Kt&a baa hecose oore
f Intense. The ahowerm of aahe and!
' cinders are heavier thaa yesterday
' and the rumbling of earth shocks at
short intervals U heard for miles.
; The shocks are growing in violence
and a panic prevails. The fear of the
; people is augmented by the great heat I
suffocatfng atmosphere. Ail tbe;
country round about is covered with'
'' ashes and seems under an Immense
vefl hwee have bma diatfti
. MHtbAeftkM aft J hattroda of
w J .mr w
smni. os;fo tvsd chUdrttu Sn are!
withoct shelter, go ftboal frota pltt
to piac CAtryitsg rla
SAinla, crritsif d lapiortsg merer.
At Oiarre. tixtfes taiiee froe C
ta.aU. the patients were carried out
of a hospital by corset, who feare4
the building woald roUmpe.
pall.
They Couldn't Help It.
During the American invasion of
"Porto Rico, in the course of the war
writh Spain, General Tasker II. Bliaa
with bis troops, was stationed near a
village beld by an overwhelming force
of Spaniards. Orders were to keep
Ms "eye peeled" and. If he beard any
thing suspicious, to fall back about. I Bummoned .and he did not hurry.
Instead of this his men
He Took the Cue.
He was a man who gave little and
got much. Today, for Instance, he had
got a clothes brush, a basin of water,
a towel and a shine, and he had given
nothing at all.
Tr-r-r-ring! went his bedroom bell.
The. hotel attendant smiled sourly.
This was the fourth time he had been
eight miles
turned in onf day and captured the
village, chasing the Spaniards out
Tbe next day the commander of the
American forces came along to find
Bliss sitting in front of the home of
he chief man of tbe village. The com
mander asked him why he bad attack
ed tbe Spanish force, when he knew
that he was outnumbered. "Couldn't
help it" said General Bliss. "You see,
my men have been hungry for some
days, and the wind blew toward them
from the village, and some squaw was
frying onions over there. And so"
. Argonaut
Jefferson as an Inventor.
"Not many people know that Thomas
-'Jefferson was a great inventor. His in
ventions were all of articles of every
- day use. He devised a three legged
folding camp stool that is the basis of
11 camp stools of that kind today.
'The stool be had made for his own
rose was his constant, companion on oc
casions of otitings. The revolving chair
was hla invention. He designed a light
wagon. A copying press was devised
-by him and came into general use.
He also Invented an instrument for
mpnsiirlnir the distance he walked. A
plow and a hemp, cultivator showed
that his thoughts were often on agri
cultural matters. His plow received a
old medal in France in 1790. Jeffer
son never benefited financially by bis
Inventions, but believed they should
be for the use of everyone without
2flSt
"I thought you were never coming,"
exclaimed the visitor when tbe at
tendant appeared at last "Are you
nicknamed 'Slowcoach? "
"No, sir," answered the attendant
They call me 'Billiard cue.' "
"Billiard cue!" repeated the visitor,
frowning. Then an inspiration dawn
ed. "Ah! Because you're such a stick,
I suppose?" he asked.
"Wrong again, sir!" returned the at
tendant. "It's because 1 work better
with a good tip." London Answers.
Why Thackeray Waa Moved to Tears.
A lady, an intimate friend and a
frequent visitor at the Thackeray
borne, called late one afternoon. She
was shown Into the study, and on en
tering perceived the novelist himself
seated at bis desk, his head bowed
upon his arms. Fearing she was In
truding In the presence of some great
and unknown grief, she paused, hesi
tating. Then, thinking she might be
of some help or at least express her
sympathy, she stepped forward. Just
then Thackeray looked up. His shoul
ders were shaking, the tears stream
ing from his eyes.
"Little Nell is dead." he said broken
ly. "Little Nell? his visitor interrogat
ed, s '
"Yes, Little Nell." was the answer.
"She Is dead. I've just been reading
It" Before him on his desk lay an
open copy of "Old CurioOy Shop."
Ladies' Home Journal.
It is reported that three new crat-J
ers have opened, but so far it has
been impossible to ascertain whether,
they are emitting lava because of
their high situation and the thick J
smoke that lies over them. People1
of tbe villages on the slopes of Mount'
Etna have abandoned their- homes.
rrraldrot Tmtl JHr. 4 lUrtfott! oo
ArtHtrwXioa.
Hartford. Conn.. Spt. 7. To a
Connecticut audieno of 5.00 9 popl
gathered oa the hoae stretch of
Charter Oak race track, thla after
noon, Pretident Tail spoke oa arbi
tration between catio&t.
President Taft was both the guet
of the Stat and the Connecticut Fair
Aclatlon, and his addreaa followed
a State luncheon in tbe new Memo
rial Hall on Capitol Hill. Time and
again the President' plea for an ar
bitral court between the great nations
of the world was applauded. At the
c!ae the President left for Boston at
5 o'clock.
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When Lobsters Were Common.
The lobster was not always the aris-
tocrat of the supper table and tbe
most costly of delicacies. A man who
used to live in Maine, but now lives in j
Ohio, has this reminiscence, according
to a writer in the Cleveland Leader: '
"One day here in Cleveland I took a ;
friend out to luncheon, and suddenly .
the old appetite for lobster came back j
to both of us, as we were both born (
on the Maine coast. We had two full !
portions, and the bill was $2. And yet
as a boy I've seen my father standing j
on the wharf, bargaining with a fish- j
erman for his lobster catch of the day, j
and often, for $2 I've seen the lobster :
fisherman turn over to my father the J
entire catch, and the whole boatload
250 or 300 big, black lobsters, perhaps
would be dumped on the landing and
taken back on our old farm as feed
for the pigs.
A Herculean Katydid.
Experiments conducted by a natural
ist attached to one of the government's
scientific bureaus at Washington ad- j
duced an interesting example of the j
strength of the katydid. He harness- j
ed a katydid to a kind of sled made
by folding a piece of ordinary note
paper, and then loaded tbe sled with
various articles. The bisect proved!
able to draw. In addition to tbe orig
inal paper, twelve paper sheets each
3 by 4V6 inches, a large screw, two
steel pens, a stone weighing two
ounces and three and a half lead pen
cils. When the weight became too
heavy to draw otherwise, the katydid
got its fore feet over the edge of the
table for a better bold, and on the
addition of another weight it increas
ed the adhering power of its feet by
moistening them in its mouth. New
York Tribune.
He Didn't Know.
One June day in 18G2 near Freder
IckshalL Va.. General Stonewall Jack
son saw one of General Hood's Texans
. climbing a fence to get into a cherry
tree. "Where are you going?" shouted
Jackson. "1 don't know." replied the j
soldier. "To what command do you I
. &elttugf "I doo't know." the Texan j
cepSed. "Well, what state are you
ffroisr "I don't know." Jackson j
jpw the man up. but he asked a com-
ra8e what it all meant. "Well," was
fbenep!y. "Old Stonewall and General
tleod jrave orders yesterday that we
were not to know anything until after
. the Text fight."
The .soldier was left to his cherries.
Not a Parallel Case.
A writer in the Philadelphia Satur
day Evening Post tells of a big over
grown, bashful booby of a fanner's
boy who was afraid even to speak to
! a girl, and whose father one day final-
! Iy lost patience and scolded him round-
, Iy for not looking about and finding
: some girl to marry. "Why." ta said,
"at your age I had been married three
I years and had a house and farm of
my own!"
"Well, but dad." complained the boy.
"that ain't the same thing at ail. You
only had to marry mother, while I'vw
got to go and bunt np some strange
girl and ask her to marry me!"
. What He Was Showing.
A young man sitting in a subway
car with legs crossed and one foot
showing a highly polished shoe and
silk sock extended so far into the aisle
as to make it almost impossible for
people to pass without eoming in con
tact with the obtruding member was
brought to a sense of his disregard for
others by three young women who sat
opposite. -One said. "I wonder If he is
showing his foot or his shoe?" The
second said loud enough to be heard
above the car clatter and of the
amusement of others, "1 thjpk he
wants to show his clocked socks
watch It" "No." said the third, "he's
only showing his bad manners." The
foot came down and was lost in the
crowd which got off at the next sta
tion. New York Tribune.
An Innocent Query.
At a dinner party in England the
tiost Introduced to the favorable notice
.of the company, amid murmurs of ad
miration, a splendid truffled pheasant
"Isn't-It a beauty?" he-said. "Dr.
So-and-so gave it to me; killed it him
elf "
"Ah! What was he treating It for?"
.asked one of the guests.
One Disadvantage. ,
Potts It Is a gnut deal better to
own your own home and not have to
pay rent Isn't it? "Lofts Well, yes, in
m general way it is. but it has its dis
advantages. A fellow can't go roundx
driving nails anywhere he pleases in
' he woodwork . of his own home, you
Sknow. Boston Transcript
Her Advice. ,
Ah." he said, as he led her back to
toer seat after the waltz. "I Just love
dancing.'
Weli,' she replied as she attempted
to repair a torn flounce, "you'rejaot too
old to learn."
The man. with a new Idea is a crank
Until tbe idea succeeds. Mark Twain.
Conferring a Title.
While he was governor of Kentucky
Proctor Knott sent to the Hon. Stod
dart Johnston a certificate, officially
signed and bearing tbe impress of the
great sea of the state, duly commis
sioning him as "Mister." which be said
was a distinctive and honorable title
theft no Kentupkian had ever previous
ly borne.
Lost and Founda Heart
Nothing - seems so hoped ess iy lost,
when It l lost as a heart; yet noth
ing, when It la lust is by the expe
rience of the centuries so absolutely
certain of recovery. Puck.
v The Comeback.
Skinflint I have no money, but I
will give yon a Ifttle advice. Beggar
-Well, if Ver ain't got no cfoney yer
advice can't be very valuable. Chris
tian Advocate.
Laughter. ,
Laughter, while it lasts, slackens
and unbraces the mind, weakens the
faculties and causes a kind of remiss
ness and dissolution in alllthe powers
of the soul.-and thus far it may be
looked upon as a weakness in the com
position "of human nature. But if we
consider the frequent reliefs we re
ceive from it and how often it breaks
the gloom which is apt to depress the
mind and damp our spirits with tran
sient unexpected gleams of Joy, one
would take care not to grow too wise
for so great a pleasure of life. Addison.
. A Matter of Color.
Why do you refer to your youngest
soa as tfie black sheep T
Because he paints the town red."
Toledo &lade.
You complain of ingratitude. Were
you not repaid by your pleasure in
doing good? Levis.
Light Men.
At a certain hotel in Liverpool an
Englishman! an Irishman and a
Scotsman were arguing as to which
of , their respective countries had the
lightest men.
The Irishman led the argument by
saying:
"We have men of CorkP
That may be." said the Scotsman;
"but we have men of Ayr.?
"Well," said the cockney, "that is
very light, but we have lighter men
on the Thames."
His Ways.
"My husband. sobbed Mrs. , Frivol,
"Is the most contrary kind of a man.
"How sor" asked her. sympathetic
friend. ,
"Why. every time, responded the
aggrieved wife, "that I begin dressing
up he is; sure to give me a dressing
down." Baltimore American.
Hidden Danger.
Owner How did you come to punc
ture the tire? Chauffeur Ran over a
milk bottle. Owner Didn't yon tee
it in time? Chauffeur No; the kid
bad it under bis coat Town Topics.
A Dream of a Hat
She I dreamed last night yon bought
me a new hat He Well, that's the
first dream of a hat you ever had that
lidn't cost me money. Club Fellow.
TO
rice Consideration
Buy the best piano you can afford. That's a safe rule for the piano
purchaser. There is nothing so unsatisfactory as a cheap piano, an in
strument made for the piano market to'be sold to those who can bo ca
joled into buying.
Such a piano gets out of order, can hardly be kept in tune by the
constant labor of a tuner, is a constant source of expense, and Instead
of giving pleasure, is a perpetual cause of annoyance.
When you come here to look at pianos, you will find at least four
separate and distinct grades, all of them tagged with the prices mark
ed in plain figures. What an advantage this give3 you to be able to
compare pianos of different grades right along beside each other, the
best with the cheaper grades. Every piano warranted to be a most ex
cellent instrument for the price charged or money cheerfully refunded.
Here we keep about fifty pianos in stock and you will certainly find
one in this great number that will please you in every way.
You will never know the many advantages gained in buying of us
unless you come here or send to us for piano literature and quotations.
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