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Volume XIII.
CONCORD, N, C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1896.
Number 33.
ciauusnment.
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MedicJnal value in a bottle of nook's Sarsa-
) i pnrilki than in any other preparation.
MorO skill is required, more care taken, more
' expenso incurred In its imanufacture.
I jll costs the proprietor ard the dealer.
More- l"it it costs the consumer less, as he
"i .--gets more doses for his niicy.
MOr curative power is secured j'its peculiar
combination, proportion arid process,
. I - which make it peculiar to jtself.
Mo r'd people are employed and more space oc-
i ; eupicd in its laboratory tllan any other.
V1orQ-''i(irrful cures effected and more tea
s' timonials received than $y ,any other.
Morcti sales and more -ncreaseyear by year
. i i are reiorted by (Irujruists.. .
Nloro !"'I'le are taking Hood's Sarsaparilla
i loilav than any other, and more are
IV taking it today than ever efore.
MorO !' stili, more reasons might be
given why you should take
Sarsaparilla
One True Blood rurifier. $l per bottle.
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Address,
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"l)r. Winrersmitirs Ciiill Tonic cured two
'at of rtnHs in tuv fdiuily tUter man v other
remeaies had failed." ":.. "
it. iv. 'arr, the leadjjng drugfrist of
Cliksd-thf. Jfiss., says : M n;tve a sood sale
f''4lr. U uitetsrnitirs ChiiJ fume here, and
Jl!sj!";iiliivj pliysicians of tins ;t:tvn prescribe
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tiMv f-imilyof bix children 04innt. livewith--vp
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rear of tlie Metliodisfefchurch, and am
Jjeivlvat all times todo any kiad of
f.ny call in fjO miles of uoncord.
I ' Head the following tjfctimonial :
f Coxjojti, N. cijDtic. 80, 1885,
This is t-. certify thuJiMr. D. W. Sni-
-aer nis .none considerable sewing ma
fhine work for us and jail of it was done
'Jn first-cl iss workmonUke manner and
i "puuhiauiory to U8. y.
Yobke, Wadswobth A Co.
L(ook for my sign. 4esPectfully,
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BILL ARP'S UITTEK.
It was raining hard and the wind was
driving .it at an - angle of 45 degrees
when I was aroused from my reverieby
the eteamer's signal that we were going
to stop for something. Looking out
from the open door I saw the same fe
male mail boy of Palmarosa that I wrote
about last time. ' She was some distance
up the coast and had just pushed her
little boat from shore And was -rowing
with all her strength against the wind
and waves and the drifting, rain (so
as to meet the boat that was slowing
up in the middle of the channel. Up
and down -over the heavy billows she
plied her oars. Her back was to us,
her head was bare, her hair hung loosely
to her shoulders. She wag clad in a
loose shirst waist, with sleeves that fitted
closely to her shapely arms.- Ever and
anon she glanced behind to see that her
course was right and shook the water
from her treescs. Grace Darling could
not have rowed more swiftly, and in a
few minutes she had rowed alongside
where the mate, stood at the gangway,
with his long hooked pole in hand to
catch the prow and hold it fast until
Rhe had exchanged uncle Sam's pouches.
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i loOKea at ner wun anxiuuH uiieresi. as
. . A w, tu T,iu orsat
and with a pleasant smile tossed the
mail into the open way. ' The mate
threw another pouch down to her, and
and said, "Why didn't wear a hat and
put on some clothes, Miss Grace ? You
will catch your death with cold." "Oh,
no," she said, "I like it; it is splendid
fun," and she shook the raindrops
from her hair again. I had a good look
at her nut-brown face . as she receded
from us, and would have thrown her a
kiss if I could have called back forty or
fifty years. "She is a good, brave girl,"
said the captain, "and is not ashamed
to earn her $25 a month ' and help the
family. Rain or shine she never fails
to meet the daily boat just at the right
time and in the right place."
i had been down to Manatee and
Bradentown to see what the great freeze
'of last winter had done to the oranges.
I found that most of tne crop had been
gathered and marketed, but the boats
still take on a few more boxes every day.
The crop was not a full one, but brought
about five' times as much per box as it
did the year before. The fruit was
never finer in size or more luxurious in
flavor. One orange was given me that
measured 18 inches in circumference,
and it was not puffy or overly thick in
the rind. The growers realized about
$2.75 per box, and those that have been
held back are now bringing $3. As a
rule the best groves belong to residents.
Non-residents got discouraged last year
at 50 cents a box and quit fertilizing
and quit paying a man to look . after
their property. Consequently, you will
see many groves that have been practi
cally abandoned, but right alongside
you will see a grove in perfect and vig
orous condition. "An orange grove,"
said Sheriff Watson, "requires as much
nursing. as a baby, . but it will reward
you if you care for it." The clever
sheriff took me out to see. the Royal
Palm nurseries that are conducted by
Mr. Eeasoner and son. The young
man was kind and courteous and I
wondered at his enthusiasm as he ex
plained everything and discoursed of
the beautiful tropical plants, and talked
botany and floriculture, much of which
was all Greek to me,-" lie gave me clip
pings of coffee and tea and rubber and
camphor and cinnamon and other ex
otics, and showed me orders from the
north and west and from across 'the
water. If I was a young man I would
pursue this business lor one reason u
for no other. I have observed that all
florists are enthusiasts about their call-
ng it. They love it and are happy.
Look at Mr. Breckmans, of Augusta
what -a noble, earnest man he is. Just
think how mush pleasure his fruits and
flowers have given the people, especially
the wives and daughters all over this
southland of ours. How intensely he
studies nature and how extensivaly he
diffuses knowledge over ljis adopted
country ! He has neither time nor in
clination for politics. He hankers af
ter no olhce, he has no quarrels with
mankind, but is happy- in communing
with nature and nature's God. I would
rather know what he knows than to be
learned in any other profession. Be
sides all this, horticulture is a profitable
business and brings its sure rewards.
hese Reasoners began on a small scale
and from year to year have enlarged
their plantjand now are financially in
dependent. I looked into the depot at
Bradentown and saw boxes of their
trees and plants waiting for the boat,
and some of them were marked to Ne
braska and Michigan. Their palms and
ferns and acacias go to Boston and New
i ork, where they are wanted for fune
rals and fetes and weddings. They
can. get $50 for tue 'leaves of a single
plant.
' In company with Judge Cornwell
visited Manatee, which is only three
miles from Bradentown and is the old
est town on the river, The coimtry be
tween the two is thickly settled and is
ornamented with oranges groves and
date palms and other tropical trees. At
the boautiful home of Mr. Adams, of
Boston, I saw more beautiful birds than
have ever seen in all my life. The
veranda was fu?l of cages large cages,
six feet square and six feet high, aud
in them he had pairs of most every
fancy kind to be found in the world.
Strange to say they were a happy family
from the tiniest linnet? to.the paroquets
in other cages he had rabbits and
guinea pigs, and there were doves and
quails and pigeons and pheasants from
South American and Honolulu and the
isies of the sea. He has been a great
traveler and has brought treasures from
every country. I never saw at any fair
such beautiful fowls, nor so many of
them as those that grace his grounds
There was oniy one thing lacking to
make his home complete, and that was
children little girls and boys to bright
en up the picture. Not far away from
Manatee is the old castle, the tumbling
walls of a once stately mansion that was
built Of concrete away back in the 40 s.
bpaoiQUS halls and spacious rooms up
stairs and down, broad verandas with
out floors and windows ' without sash,
wild orange trees and - palmettos crowd
ing the walls, and a wilderness almost
impenetrable around. Surely this must
be the place where Hood wrote "The'
Haunted House ' ' 'O'er all there
hung a shadow and a fear." Mr. Bra
den, for whom the town and a river is
named, lived in :it like a prince until
the Indians drove him from it. For a
long time he and his family and his
slaves successfully defended it by firing
from every window, but they carried off
everything he had outside, and he was
forced to abandon his beautiful and
costly homestead. How little do we
know of the brave deeds, the sufferings
and perils of the pioneers of Florida!
If traditi'on'is to be believed, there is not
a county or a township in all this region,
from Tensacola to Charlotte harbor,
that ia not consecrated by the blood of
the early settlers. It took thirty mil
lions of money and twenty thousand
soldiers, first and last, to subdue 6,000
Indians, under the lead of Osceola and
other chiefs.
But I must leave Florida for a time
and go home to comfort the better half
of the family It is hard on us old peo
ple to have to run after the children,
but it won't last much longer our time
is almost out, our journeys will soon be
ended, and we will have to trust them
to the keeping of a Parent who doeth all
things well. '. Bill Arp.
Speaker Reed's Astonishing Politeness "
Made the Ladies Wonder.
WASHrsGTOsr, Feb. - 2.. General cre
dence is not given to the story of the
remark attributed to George Washing-
ngton that he "would not be outdone
in politeness by a negro." Neverthe-
ess, it is a story that goes, and it evi
dently has been taken to heart by ,Mr.
Thomas B. Reed. One day last week
Mr. Reed was sauntering along a fash
ionable uptown street during calling
hours while ladies were alighting in
droves from their carriages. Two col
ored brothers, decidedly the worse look
ing for wear, and belonging to the fac
tion which, by casting from ten to
twenty-five votes apiece, recently se
cured the election of a Reed delegate
from his District to the national repub-
ican convention, were hanging around,
watching the scene. As Mr. Reed was
passing they tugged at the battered
remnants of hata surmounting their
pates and said? "Howdy do, Mr. Speak
er." Instantly the hand of the Speaker
was elevated, his hat was removed clean
from his head, his body was bent for
ward in a bow deep and profound,
and the habitual cynical smile which
plays around his hps melted into one
of
extreme cordiality aa he replied:
Good morning, gentlemen." And
the ladies looked on and wondered.
. tlow She Looked.
There are those who wear the mantle
of prosperity with grace and ease after
a"life of privation and hard work, and
there are others to whose shouldeis it is
not quickly adjusted. ,
A western man who had been unsuc
cessful in one venture after another at
last made money in a mine, and shortly
after his wife and daughter were eeen
riding in a handsome carriage behind a
coachman. -
A person past whom the . pair were
driven noticed the look of painful self-
consciousness that overspread the
features of the miner's wife as she sat
bolt upright, looking straight before
her.
'Now, ma," came -in clear tones
from the daughter, whose keen face
was alive with enjoymenf too Btrong to
be concealed; "now, ma, can't you loll
back, and not look as if the water was
b'ilin'over?" -
A Unique Prescription.
A Virginia gentleman, dunng an ath-
etic exercise one day, felt a sudden
pain, ana fearing some internal loiury,
sent for a negro living on the plantation,
who made pretensions to medical skill,
in prescribe for. him.
The negro; having sagely investigated
the case, says Healthy Home, prepared
and administrated a dose with the at
moet confidence of a speedy cure.
JNo relief being obtained, however,
a regular physician was sent for, who,
on arriving, inquired of the negro what
he had given.
sambo promptly responded, "Rosin
and alum, sir!"
"What did you give them for?" con
tinued the doctor.
"Why' replied Sambo, "de alum
to draw de parts together, and de rosin
to solder 'em."
Condensed Testimony.
Ckas R. Hood, Broker and Manufac
turer's Agent, Columbus, Ohio, certifies
that Dr. King's New Discovery has no
equal ss a Cough remeey. J. D. Brown,
Prop. St. James Hotel, Ft. Wayne. Ind.:
testifies that he was cared of a cough of
two year's standing, caused bv La
Grippe, by Dr. King's New Discovery,
B. F. Merrill. Baldwinsyille. Mass..
says that he has used and recommended
it and never knew it to fail, and and
would rather have it than any doctor.
because it always cures. Mrs. Hem
ming. 212. E. 25th St,. Chicago, always
aeeps it at nana and has no fear of croup,
because it instantly relieves. Free trial
bottles at P. B. Fetzer's Drug Store.
Could Mot Stand Disgrace.
Danville, III., Jan. 27. Blaine
Lynch, 18 years old, committed suicide
last nighi by jumping down a coal
shaft 200 feet " deep. He had been
caught robbing hia father's store. At
the top of the shaft was found a note
which said: . 'You will find mv bodv at
the bottom of the shaft, and I will meet
you skating in h ."
lie Escaped.
Chicago Post.
"He stood at the top of the steps,'
she said, in telling about it afterward
'.'and I mustered up enough courage to
say: lou know, this is leap year.' "
"Yes. What then !"-.
"Then he leaped, and I haven't seen
him since."
A Lexington, Ky., preacher. Dr. Bol
ling, of - the Hill street . Methodist
church, ia carrying the war into Africa
by denouncing race track methods from
the pulpit. -In a sermon last Sunday
he said he had no more hope for an
honest man at a race track than he had
for the preservation of a snowball in
hell. -
Blood and nerves are closely related.
Keep the blood pure with Hood's Baras
parilla and you will not be nervous. -
I DISGUSTED WITH FUSION.
To the Editor ol The Landmark 1 , -
- Things are very perplexing when we
think of the state of affairs politically.
Now, respecting my people, the negro.
Not only politically, but morally, we
have our faults. Some are very bad
indeed, while we have good traits as
well. While other , races are robbing,
murdering, stealing, etc., we do ours
on the small scale as a general thing.
While other races, when they steal, take
enough to get out and have - some left,
we always get just enough to get tne
chain around our leg. As to prejudice,
we have none. We don't know how to
hold it. As citizens, we are a part of
the fifteenth and sixteenth amendments
to the constitution of the United States.
Bnt politically we are in one sense
slaves : and we make ourselves more so
by continually allowing ourselves to be
led about by any one, just so he says
he is not a Democrat. Now be it "un
derstood that the writer is a Republican,
and has never voted any . other way-.
But I am sorry to say that our party
has made us horses to carry everybody
into office, save the Democrat. Now
understand, . wa mean to support the
Republican party hereafter, but our last
campaign sickened us nigh unto death.
We are republicans for protection - to
America and not to carry discontented
men into ofhee. IhaKour people are
imposed upon politically every one will
admit that has a thimble full of con
science ; and of course the strength of
the Republican party is the negro, and
we know it. v '
Now it seems1 that this strength is
being use for the benefit of men who
have no more interest in the negro
than the devil has in holy water.
These things will not work any more.
We speak exclusively of the fatate and
more especially of the county. Some
negroes advocated Republicanism on
last election and many of us said they
were hired by Democratic money. But
if this thing goes this way again we will
all be hired by Democratic money, if
you call it bo. Negro eyes are being
pened more and more, and without
some of the coon' we will not be in the
chase. , Please some one tell us . a few
things that fusion has done for the
negro. All we ask is a little recognition
from our party and all will be O. K.
t must not use ud as a cat-claw for oihce-
seekers. Another year's leading in the
party will scatter the negro as the back
bone of the party. You will hardly be
able to marshal him as one man Baid a
few years ago, ' 'Drive the negro like
n -sheep. ,
Gentlemen, think of one hundred
and ten or fifteen thonsand negroes vot
ing for a man that is in favor of Marion
Butler, who went to South Carolina and
took sides with .that dreadful -Tillman
in his conventions held in South Caro
lina. Do you think he has.any sympa
thy for the negro ? Was he (Tillman)
invited to North Carolina by. our
Senator? Do you call that being in
favor with Tillman's ruling ?
Now let us come home just a little.
We.'ll not be . hard. Where are our
friends that were going to divide the
spoil with Mr. Cuffey if he would only
vote this fusion ticket ? We will give
you a part ot the county jurors, sure.
How many do you see? Just before
the election we'wfire expecting to have
to fight a lamp to see. the judge. But
not so, my countrymen. Off one
occasion a special venire was summond
and one negro said to the sheriff, "W hy
don't you put some negroes on the
special venire ?" The answer was:
Oh, I don't want any friend s feelings
hurt." That s strange.
What do you . think of Shuford ?
Have you kept up with his actions - in
Congress ? He is a nice follow for Re
publicans to support 7 A gentleman of
color told the writer Wednesday that
Mr. Fritchard told him that he had
spent about $1,000 for colored papers
in the State (we suppose for the fusion
success.) We suppose the Raleigh
Gazette got its share of it.
-W . 1 A Hit.
lie it Known to an, vaai we can never
again support a ticket made up of this
kind of material. Our party said to us,
'Anything to beat the Democrats."
Now, my fellow citizens, the negro
hasn't beaten anybody, but has the
worst of it. We are ten years back.
Respectfully, - ' -Republican
Negro.
The Hudson River, Bridge.
The great North River bridge from
Hoboken to the foot of Twenty-third
street, New York City, will be a single-
span cantilever about 3,000 feet long-
more than 1,000 feet longer, than the
span of the Brooklyn Bridge. It will
be built by private capital at a cost (inj
eluding the terminals) of $3&,000,000.
All the required capital will be supplied
before work is begun. It is said that no
shares of stock will be put on . the
market till all the stock has been sub
scribed and paid- for, nor befole the
structure is near completion. The
architect estimates that, the earnings of
the bridge will pay 6 per cent, on $ o5,
000,000. It will provide tracks for both
steam and electric rail way cars, but
will not supply a transportation system
of its own. it is believed that, this
great work can be completed within
four years.
Did Ton Ever
Try Electric Bitters as a remedy for
your troubles? If "not, get a bottle
now and get relief. This medicine has
been found to be peculiarly adapted to
the relief and cure of all Female Com
plaints, exerting, a wonderful direct in
fluence in giving strength and tone to
the organs, HI you Loas of Appetite
Constipation, , Headache, ' Fainting
Spells, or are Nervous, Sleepless. Ex
citable, Melancholy or troubled - with
Dizzy spells, Electric Bitters is the med
icine you need. Health and strength
are guaranteed by its use. Large bot
tles only fifty cents at P. B. Fetzer's
Drug Store.- 1
A celebrated Frenchman said: "Per
fection consists, not in doing extraordi
nary things, but in doing ordinary
things with an extraordinary spirit.'
Silver Cross. -
The Lenoir Topic says that' three
children of -Mr. Allison Perkins,
Caldwell county, died of measles last
Sunday aud Monday. -
A SEW rOKK TABN ABOJJT K AN SOW,
New Tort Sun. . - ' T
Gen. Matt Ransom, ex-senator from
North Carolina, now Minister to Mexi
co, is a- facinating man. Near his
country seat iu Northampton county,
in North Carolina, there bnce lived one
Neighbor Brown, a well to-do farmer
and great admirer of the senator. . .
The senator had borrowed from him
the Bum of $500. As' the farmer was
not in need he never asked the senator
to pay the debt until hard time3 came
two years later. The session of Con
gress was over and the senator was
home on a vacation.'
The old man called his eldest son to
him ono day and said: "Saddle your
horse and go over and ask the Senator
if he wouldn't be so kind as to pay me
now, bin' as I need the money."
j Off went the young man. : He was
was received graciously by the senator.
When Jack got back home he reported
as follows:
VFather, he treated ms so nice that
I just couldn't ask him for the mon
ey." The old man got angry, and calling
bis younger son to him said: "Now,
Jim, don't act a fool like jour brother,
but go and ask the senator to pay me
what he owes . me, and don't you come
back without the money; do you
hear?", 1
A11 right, fathers you can count on
me."
Jim brought back the same report as
Jack. The old man was now thorough
ly angry and disgusted. He had his
horse brought and swore that he would
gel back his money or die in the at
tempt. The boys said nothing.
Toward sundown their father rode
leisurely back, his face beaming with
smiles.
The boys began to speculate on the
result, and Jim said; "Well, well, and
we let the old man outwit us"
"Well, father, you got your money,
did you?" they both broke forth in one
breath.
"No, my sons, I was wrong and you
ere right. You see the senator is a
ittle pinched just now, and, as he was
mighty clever and nice to me, I
thought I would lend five hundre4
more. He's all right boys."
Chicago Justice.
A decided sensation was created at
the recent meeting of the Illinois Bar
Association by Judge John Barton
ayne, formerly of Virginia, but now
superior court judge in Chicago.
He charged that under the present
system of judicial administration
Ihere is a practical denial of -justice
in Chicago."
Judge Payne enjoys exceptional op
portunities for knowledge on this sub
ject, and his -statement has provoked
much comment. He said that much
of the blame for the deplorable state of
affairs in Chieago rests upon some of
the individuals who are now on the
bench in that dity. The jury system,
he says, is rotten, and he advocates the
abolation of the grand jury.
"In Cook county," declared Judge
ayne, "no man wno has sumcient in
fluence to see a' county commissioner
can be brought to trial for any crime
on earth.
If any considerable part of what
Judge Payne says about the Chi
cago courts is true, that city is in a
miserable condition. His attack has
aroused the wrath of some of the local
political bosses, but the Judge asserts that
he means every word he said and has
ample proof to substantiate every
charge he made. Au investigation will
probably be made and startling devel
opments are expected.
The DecUne of Kansas.
Kansas very rashly took a Btate cen
bus last year. This sort of thing is fre
quently done by States which1 are too
inpatient to wait for the next federal
census to show their grpwth but why
Kansas should have wanted to stand
up and be counted is a mystery. Any
intelligent marin the state must have
known that it had lost population since
the census of 1890. But the state cen
sus was taken and it shows that last
yeai' Kansas had 97,000 less population
than she had in 1890. This is a very
poor advertisement for the state, but it
has gone forth, lhe loss ol populatian
is easily accounted for. It is due to
two reasons, bad crops and . Populism.
Which of these causes has been most
effective in producing the exodus from
Kansas would be hard to say. Bad
crops are discourging but it is hard to
estimate ths damage done the state by
the domination of a party which could
find no better Senator than Peffer.
Taking into . account the natural in
crease of its population it is evident
that at least 120,000 people have moved
out of Kansas since 1S90, and they are
still going.
- Who can blame them?
A Mechanical Horror.
Machinery is a monthly journal pub-
ished at Johanesburg, South Africa
In a recent number is an account of a
most remarkable clock, belonging to
a Hindoo prince, which the editor
thinks the strangest piece of machinery
in India. Near the dial of an ordi
nary-looking clock is a large gong hung
on poles, while underneath, scattered
on the eround, is a pile of artificial
human skulls, ribs, legs, and arms, the
whole number of bones in the pile be
ing equal to the number of bones in
twelve human skeletons. . When the
hands of the clock indicate the hour
of 1, the number of" bones, needed to
form a complete human-skeleton come
together with a snap; by some mechan.-
lcal contrivance the skeleton springs
up, seizes a mallet, and walking up to
the cone, strikes one blow, lnis nn-
lBhed, it returns to the pile and again
falls to pieces. ' When 2 o'clock, two
skeletons eet up, and strike, while at
the hours of noon and midnight the
entire heap spring up in the shape of
twelve skeletons, and strikes, each one
after the other, a blow on the gong,
and then fall to pieces, as before.
A Buncombe county constable who
undertook tokcarry a Burke county of
fender to jail at Morganton is in jail.
He was repeatedly given whiskey by his
prisoner, became drunk and let the let
ter escape.
THE BOND ISSUE. V ;
Atlanta JonrnaL ' '
When the present bond issue was pro
posed. that element among news papers
and - politicians which has only i one
principle, namely to oppose whatever
the administration undertakes, raised
a chorus of predictions that the effort
would be a miserable failure. What
was the real result ? X)ffer were made
for nearly seven times the amount of
the proposed issue and at rates that ran
from 109 to 119. ' - : .
-This shows how President Cleveland
and Secretary Carlisle have damaged
the credit of the; country. This proves
how strong the faith of the country iu
the administration stands, while - the
demagogues bark and snap and squirm
because it is an administration that is
far above their policy as it' is above
their principles. . ! '
The credit of the government has re
ceived a splendid indorsement, though
that credit has been assailed by a set of
politicians who have openly proclaimed
that if they had the power they would
pay all . the outstanding obligations - of
the government in fifty cent dollars and
that all future loans should be nego
tiated on a free silver basis. ' Had this
element been in control at Washington
no prudent man would have made a
bid for any part of the bond ! issue
which is now so largely eought. j '!
The bids for these bonds prove that
this country and the world holds a con
viction that the" United States is both
great and honest, and that it will never
be controlled by the Stewarts. Tellers
and other silver niine representatives,
nor by their followers in other sections
of the country. j f
An Old Maid's Postofflce. ;
CixciNiiATl, Ohio, Jan. 29 United
States Postoffice Inspector W. T, Fletch
er has just completed a singular inspec
tion of the postoffice at Georgetown,
Ind., and put it in new hands. : This
is a village of six hundred inhabitants.
The postoffice for more than a quarter
of a century has been administered by
the Motweiler family, father and daugh
ter. The father died fifteen years ago.
The daughter, Miss Louis Motweiler,
now sixty years old, has been in charge
even since. I . . i .
Inspector Fletcher found the floor of
the office covered five feet deep with
mail. It required two days' hard work
to sort it out. The old postmistress
had lanes through this mass of matter.
Forty cartloads of newspapers,! : some
dating back to 1876,, were dumped out
where the villagers could pick out their
own mail.' Over 4,000 undelivered let
ters, with unbroken seals, some of them
postmarked twenty years ago, were de
livered. - it
Miss Motweiler lived in the same
house of two rooms, and had for her
companions ten cats. Thirty-three
pounds of copper cents, which, with
silver com, amounted to 1W. were
found in the office. - . " I-
- No Issue Bat to Beat the Demorata.
News and Observer. ' ; '
WeTiave recently printed the' views
of the Winston Republican and the
Caucasian in regard to fusion. The
Raleigh paper was the central organ in
1894, and the Republican the Western
arm. The Eastern arm of the conspir
acy was the E. City Carolinian. That
paper is strongly infavor of Russell for
Governor and a divided electoral, ticket
It says this arrangement would defeat
"the common, enemy," and asks:
"And isn't this the yital issue in
North Carolina V f
That it is. There is no issue on
money, tariff, taxes, good goverment.
The only thing is to beat the Demo
crats. This is a frankavowal of aband
onment of principle. il
The Proper Time, j 3
When the most benefit is to J be de
rived from a good medicine, is "early in
the vear. This is the season when the
tired body, weakened organs and . ner
vous system yearn for a building-up
medicine like Hood's Sarsaparilla
Many wait for the open spring weather
and, in fact; delay giving attention to
their physical condition so long that a
onsr sieee of Bickness is inevitable, lo
rid the system of the impurities accu
mulated during the winter season, to
purify the blood and to invigorate the
whole system, there is nothing equal to
Hood's Sarsaparilla, Don't put it off,
but take Hood's Sarsaparilla now. It
will do you good. Read the : testimo
nials published in behalf of f Hood's
Sarsaparilla, all from reliable, f! grateful
people. They tel the story. ; j
An interesting feature of the dinner
recently give to President and Mrs,
Cleveland by Secretary and Mrs. Carlisle
was the entire absence of wines and
liquors from the table. There were two
glasses at each place,' one for ; Potomac
water and the other for apolunans
Mrs. Cleveland, Mrs. ' Lamont, Mrs.
Carlisle, Miss Morton and Mrs. Wilson
of the cabinet ladies are all tetotalers
and never touch wine or any 'occasion.
Col.- Lamont says that he has never
tasted whiskey in his life, and it is well
known that ne . never annits wine at
dinners. Secretary Carlisle: ; used to
drink a good deal, but has not touched
a glass of anything intoxicating since
he entered the cabinet. ' Mrs. Cleveland
and all the ladies of the cabinet with
the exception of Mrs. Carlisle, serve
wine at dinners and lunches for tne
benefit of their euesta, but Mrs. Carlisle
says that no wine or fiquor of any kind
has crossed the threshold of ner nome
since the inauguration oi rresiaeni
Cleveland. . - n , -
Headache and Other Trouble.
Sherrills Ford, N. C.Jan. 23, 1896.
I Was a great sufferer with headache and
parns in my limbs, and also had a
swimming sensation in my head, and I
tried different physicians, i but ' to no
value. I also tried other medicines but
they seemed to do me no good. I was
advised by my friends to take Hood's
Sarsaparilla, and after using four bot
tles I am strong and healthy and better
than I have been for four years.
' - Mbs. F. O. Eobixson.
Hood's Pills cure biliousness, and in
digestion. ' - ; .' ;.
Thus far the farmers State alliance
has secured $2,600 for its shoe factory
at Hillsboro. i y,
Highest of all m.Lveriing Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report
7fo&oiuuuEffitr pure
HYPNOTISE A FRAUD. "
St. Louis Bepubuc. . '
Harry Davis, of Chicago, who has for
four years been a professional hypnotic
subject, has made the declaration that
hypnotism is a fraud and has issued a
challenge to all professors of that scienc
to meet him in public at any time or
nlace. Davis norrtmnor tA cihov all in.'
8tructions given to, him and defying1
any proissor to nypnouze mm. r
- Davis, who is but 23 years old, has
lived in Chicago, for seven years - and
dunng the last four years has appeared
i.u uuuuicua u puuuu iLuu private ex
hibitions of so called professors of hyp
notism. - He has undergone every
auegea test Known to the profession.
and the details of these have appeared
in newspapers and medical journals not
only in this country, but in Europe
uespue tuese tacts, tne young man
says that he has never been hypnotized
and declares himself capable of per
forming and explaining any "test"
known to the world. . i '
Davis is perfectly sincere in his de"
sue to . expose hypnotism, which, he
says, he realizes has become more than
mere amusement. He explains , a
number oi so caiiea tests, ana amon&r i
refers to his famous ' 'hypnotic
.
sleep" .or seven days recently m a Chi-1
caetotheater. He says "three of us took J
turns sleeping in that bed. We--took I
thejanitor of the theater in with us the
first nisrht and., the next niht th
ii ' t j i
" "r:, ,
uv limb wets., wuue tue
people sup
posed I was sleeping in he theater."
Great interest is attached to the
promised expose from the fart a num
ber of prominent persons are alleged to
have been "taken in" by professors or j
teachers of hypnotiem.
- How Long Can Seeds Live,
An Italian, Signor Italo Giglioli, has
just published the results of experiments
to determine how Jong the vital princi
ple can exist in seeds. I These experi
ments were begunin 1877 and 1878,
when the . seeds werei deposited m
various gases and solutions. In 1894
the seeds were taken out and planted.
On the whole, a small proportion of the
seeds germinated: of those preserved in
hydrogen, carbonic acid and sulphur
etted hydrogen, none; but of those kept
in nitrogen more than a half survived.
Almost all those preserved in liquids
died, but two-thirds of those kept in
alcohol lived. Signor Giglioli belives
that if he had known at the beginning
how deadly moisture is to seeds kept in
gas he could have saved a large propor
tion.' Indeed, he says that he suspects
that "latent vitality may exist for an
indefinite period when Sufficient care is
taken to prevent all interchange with
the surrounding medium.
Bather,
Chatham Record.
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Senator Marion Butler, iu one of his
numerous speeches in the Senate, caid
a few days ago that "a man who claims
to be for silver and votes for a gold man
for President is the most valuable friend
the gold men can nave, xie oeirays
his people in the interest of party sufi-
an " I
This is rather hard on Senator Pritch
DMil..'a MrllAnnrt,A arm nniirifju
o., uuii r
twin-orotner, cu ;
Drofesses to be for suver yet he openly
advocates tne nomination ui ju.vbj.iuvj
for President,
or Pritchard?
Which is right, Butlfr
The Fr) Exhibition of 1900.
Th mafrmtude of the labor involved
in the nrenaration for the Paris Exhibi
tion of 1900 mav be judged from the
fact that already the French people are
artivelv enaraired in I the preliminary
work of organization, although the
onenins dav of their great enterprise is
- -r . i .
nearlr five veaxs distant, it is esuuw -
, . . fK - af;rtr, f thfl pTonnds.
ted ttthprepMationof 1
erection of the buildings, and general
maintenance oi tnis amiuiuuu nm
absorb a round Bum of $20,000,000.
"TTTOIOIN are cot tb
III I t only oni wno are
111 I .nlfwe about their
I arts- Amandoem't
J U A . like to be told, that
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man doesn't like to
hid at all. Bnt
worse than getting
old, is the appear
ance of aire. Health
keeps a man young-.
It doeant make any
difference u ne naa
. S lived aiflrhtr veara.
-5L If they have been
haalthr. Tears, he
Will -be'' bale' and hearty and won t 100a
i.thiM it.ntii . veara s old as he is.
1-1 - : - - ' -C " .
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