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-:r THE TIMES STEAM BOOK BHD JOB OFFICE We keet) on hand a fall stock of LETTER HEADS, NOTE HEADS, STATE MENTS, BILL HEADS, ENVEL OPES, TAGS, VISITING CARDS, WED DING INVITATIONS, ETC, ETC. COOl) PRINTING ALWAYS PAYS :-. ' ' ' i "It is an III Wind That Blcnvs Nobody Good, ' That small ache or pain or weakness is the ill wind ' ' that directs your attention to the necessity of purifying your blood by taking Hood's Sarsa parilla. Then your whole body receives good, for the purified blood goes tingling to every organ. It is the great remedy for all ages and both sexes. Dyspepsia " Complicated ' oxth lever and kidney trouble, I suffered for years from dyspepsia., tvith severe pains. Hood s SarsaparSU made me strong and hearty." J. B. Emerton, Auburn. Me. iJM7JJiiUi.i.i.uMP.y i fffirn Hood's Pills cure Utct ; the Don-lrrltatlng end ciiIt cathartic to take with Hood's Saraparill! anything yon invent or improve : also sret t 2 VE AT JR OE-M AR K. 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It artificially digests the food and ald9 Mature In strengthening and recon structing the exhausted digestive or gans. It is the latest discovered digest ant and tonic. No other preparation can approach it in efficiency. It in stantly relieves and permanently cures yspepsia, Indigestion, Heartburn, flatulence, Sour Stomach, Nausea, feirkIleadache,Ga8tralgia,Cramp8,and ai l other results of Imperfect digestion- Prepared by E. C DeWItt A Co- Crj'caflO. ' J. P. GIBSON. Best Coutrh Syrap. Tastes Good. TJe In time. Hold bv drneslfit. IH III 1 Tiriu candy II S V CATHARTIC y John B. Sherrill, Editor Volume XVII. MY OLD KKXTICRY U09US. Th! 8 home'"68 bHKbt iD Ur ol? Kentcky 'Tis summer, the darkies are gay : bkwrn 'Pe aUdthe n" n the While the bird's make music all the day, The young folks roll on the little cabin ttJor And merry all happy, all bright; ' m door timeS CmeS a knock,n' at the Then, my old Kentucky home, good night 1 Chorus. WPtnodmyT' lady; h' WCep DO mr We'll sing one song for my old Kentucky For our old Kentucky home far away. They hunt no more for the 'possum and the coon; On the meadow, the hill and the shore; Ihey slug no more, by the glimmer of the moon, .:. On the bench by the old cabin door ; The day goes by, lite a shadow o'er the heart. With slrmw wkK. Alt j .. 1 - i . 1 he time has come when the darkies have' to Then, my old Kentucky home, good night 1 The head must bow, and the back will have to Wherever the darkey may go; A few more days, and the troubles all will end, In the tielil whuro thu cn.m ' few more days to tote the weary load. A few more days till we totter on the road, Then, my old Kentucky home, good night! Stephen Foster. SOMETHING ABOUT GIANTS. Tallest Men of Our Day Compared With Those of Ancient Times. Chicago Record. Old chroniclers tell wonderful Ktnrips of the eiants that used to walk the earth even as we read in the Bible of Goliath, wno was slam by the youth David. In later days perhaps the most interesting book on eriants was written hv a Frnr-h scholar named Henrion in 1718. This book asserted that Adam, the first man, wa8, 123 feet 9 inches tall, and that Eva was only 5 feet shorter. After Adam man began to lose height rapidly. Noah, sayB M. Heirion, wa about 27 feet tall, and Abraham measured not mom th an 20. Moses "reached only the poor neignt of 13.feet, and finally man had to be contented with little frames from 4 to 6 feet in height. Many huee human skeletons have been found, according to report. It is said that the skull of Chevalier Rincon, whose remains were discovered in 1509 at Rouen, held a bushed of wheat The shinbone was four feet long and others in proportion. Manv other nimilar skeletons were found, one in Sicily that measured aoo feet in length. In the pres ent century, however, it has been shown tnat tnese skeletons were not of humans, but of prehistoric beasts. Onfe of the world's famous giants was Patrick Cotter"0'Brien. who was born at Kinsdale, in Ireland, in 1761. He was o feet 3 inches tall, and was the greatest giant of his day. He died in loin, in tne museum of Trinity col lege, Dublin, is the skeleton of a giant named Magrath. who was 7 feet 8 inches high. It ia an interesting facFthat giants as a rule are both weak of body and of mind, while dwarf? are usually keen witted and healthv. A storv is told that the Empress of Austria in the 17th century nad all tne giants and dwarfs of the Germanic empire assembled at Vienna, They were quartered together, and fear was Expressed that the giants would terrify tne dwarfs, xne contrary Droved to be the case. The dwarfs tor mented and robbed the giants to the extent that with tears in their eves the .giants begged to be protected from them. xne usual circus and museum giants of today are rarely over 7 feet in height. but tney wear nigh neeled boots and high hats, that add a foot or more in height to their appearance. High L.lrbts. Chicago Record. . There is no fun in grumbling when nobody pays any attention. Nature is kind; any artist can paint a sunset and sell it for a sunrise. Knowledge is power sometimes when communicated, at other times when withheld. Dignity and pride Are lonely because happiness always wants to sit in' some body's lap. Life is not short when we count up all the foolishness we have had time to indulge in. He who does many things correctly and makes one error will hear only of the error. , Luck consists of getting a few of the desirable thines we started out in life determined to have. When a woman truly loves a man she admirers his indifferences more than the attentions of other men. Reflections of Bachelor. New York Press. Jealousy is like the toothache when there isn't any hole in it that you can stuff cotton in. Every woman has an idea that she looks like pictures of the Madonna when she is singing the, baby to sleep. It takes a girl under twenty to really look artless and innocent when you mention ome books she knows you don't know she's read. Some people seem to think an old bachelor ought to go around all the time with hia thumb in his mouth and Klinrlera on. like ahorse. When a girl is ip . love, and doesn't feel sure the man knows it, she acts like she was homesick on a rainy day with a funeral going past the house. No F"er for Ueorge- Y annnoRA vou worrV a good deal about your son, don't you, Mrs. Mag- 9 "Yes, I just tremble eyery tim I see a messenger boy coming dowa the street, and until he gets past our house I am always sure that he must L ave a telegram telling roe that something ter rible has happened to my boy." "Still, you must remember thst the chances against him are comparulively email. Let me see, I think I feaw a statement Bomewhere the other day that the percentage of soldiers killed or wounded in the Philippines was only "Oh, it isn't George who enlisted that I'm worrying over. It's Harry, who haB been made a member of hie college football team this year." c and Owner. JKFFtuRSON MAXIMS Selections from the Writings of One of wresitest or Americans. I do not mean to say that it may not be for the general interest to foster for awhile certain infant manufactures, un til they are strong enough to stand against foreign rivals, but when evident that they will never be no, it is against right to make the other branches of industry support them. I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty. A judiciary independent of a King or executive alone is a good thing, but independent of th&will of the nation is a solecism, at least in a Republican government. The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they have gotten hold of us. The Representatives of the people in Congress are alone competent to judge of the general disposition to what pre cise point of reformation they are ready to go. No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators of the earth is a phenome non of which no age, nor nation, has ever furnished an example. When we get piled up upon one an other in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as in Europe and go on eating one another as they do there.' No other depositories of power than the people have ever yet been found which did not end in converting to their own profit the earnings of those com mitted to their charge. Taste cannot be controlled by law. The introduction of one new culture is worth more to a nation than all the victories of the most epl ndid battles of their history. Every man, and every body of men on,ea:-th, possesses the right to self government. They receive it with their being from the hand of nature. Iudi vidua s exercise it by their single will ; collections of men by that of their ma jority for the law of the majority is the natural law of every society of men. Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is their.intere8t to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them. The press is the best instrument lor enlightening the mind of man and im proving him as a rational, moral and social bing. Education is the only sure founda tion that can be devised for the preser vation of freedom and happiness. Peace and friendship with all man kind is our wisest policy. It has been thought that corruption is restrained by confining the right of suffrage to a few of the wealthier of the people; but it would be more effectually restrained by an extension of that right to such numbers as would bid defiance to the means of corruption. An elective despoiiBm was not the government we fought for, but one which Bhould not only be founded on free principles, but in which the pow ers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy, as that no one could trans cend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others. The excise law is an infernal one. The first error was to admit it by the Constitution; the second to act on that admission. Private charities, as well as contribu tions, to public purposes in proportion to every one'a circumstances, are cer tainly among the debts we owe to society. Every society has a right to fix the fundamental principles of its associa tion and to say to all individuals that, if they contemplate pursuits beyond the limits of these principles and involving dangers which the society chooses to avoid, they must go elsewhere for their exercise. The press confined to truth needB no other restraint. Taxes on consumption; like those on capital or income, to be just, must be uniform. The true foundation of republican government is the equal rights of eyery citizen in his person and property ajd in their management. The dead have no rights. They are are nothing; and nothing cannot own something. It is not enough that honest men are appointed judges. All know the influ ence of interest on the mind of man, and how unconsciously his judgment is warped by that influence. The example of four Presidents vol untarily retiring at the end of their fiicrhth vear and the Drogress or duduc oninlon that the principle is salutary, have given it in practice tne iorce oi ... .. . precedent and usage; insomucn mat, s'ionld a President consent to be a can didate for a third election, I trust he would be rejected on this demonstration of ambitious views That 150 lawyers Bhould do business together ought not to be expected I know no safe depository of the ulti mate powers of the society but the peo ni themselves, and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wnoiesome discretion, the remedy ia not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by eou cation. Science is more important in arepub lican than in any other government , I have ever thought religion aeon cern purely between God and our con sciences. The true office of our legislators is to declare and eniorce ouiy uur untune rights and duties, and to take none of them irom us, Wealth acquired in speculation and Jl ' 11 ONGORD ,TTT.!'-n a. Kr-rs ii ii a - , plunder is fugacious in its nature and fi!ls Bociety with the spirit of gambling. Private fortunes are destroyed by public as well as by private extravagance. Among the most inestimable of our blessings is that of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most agreeable to his will; a liberty deemed in other countries incompatible with good government, and yet proved by our experience to be its best support. It should be remembered as an axiom pf eternal truth in politics, that what ever power in any government is inde pendent, is absolute also; in ' theory only, at first, while the spirit of the people is up, but in practice, as fast as that relaxes. Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. - Our greediness for wealth and fantas tical expense have degraded, and will degrade the minds of our maritime cit izens. These are the peculiar vices of commerce. A single good goyernment becomes a blessing to the whole earth. An equilibrium of agriculture, manu factures and commerce is essential to our independence. I am for responsibilities at short periods, seeing neither reason nor safe ty in making public functionaries inde pendent of the nation for life, or even for long terms of years. We are never permitted to despair of the commonwealth. This (the press) formidable censor of the public functionaries, by arraigning them at the; tribunal of public opinion, produces reform peaceably, which must otherwise be done by revolution. I love to see honest and honorable men at the helm, men who will not bend their politics to their purse, nor pursue measures by which they may profit and then profit by their measures. While in the public service, I thouRht the public entitled to frank ness, and intimately to know whom they employed. Interior government is what each State should keep to itself. It is necessary to give as well as to take in a government like ours. I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. Political dissension is a less evil than the lethargy of despotism; but still, it is a great evil, and it would be. as worthy the efforts of the patriot as of the philosopher to exclude its influence, if possible, from social life. No Government can continue good, but under the control of the people. The Government which can wield the arm of in peojJ must be the strongest posible. The judiciary branch is the instru ment which, working like gravity, without intermission, is to press us at last into one consolidated mass. Free Government is founded in jeal ousy and not in confidence. 1 fear nothing from force, but I have felt much and fear more from English books, English prejudices. English manners and the ages, the dapes and designers among our own professional classes. How They Standi. Greensboro Patriot. President Mclver furnishes the fol lowing interesting statistics : Of the first 426 students enrolled at the State Nor mal and Industrial College 142 are members of the Methodist Episcopal church; 122 of the Pres'jyterian cUurch; 39 of the Episcopal church; 14 of the Christian church; 11 of the Protestant Methodist church; 5 of the Lutheran church; 1 is a member of the Friends church; 1 of the German Reformed church; 1 of the Advent church;! of the Jewish church ; 391 total church membership. Of the 35 non-church members, 2 prefer the Friends church; 6 the Presbyterian ; 11 the Baptist, and 16 the MethodiBt. "Jack," asked the father, "are vou going in for any of the school sports this year? "Yes, daddy, replied the unsus pecting boy. "I'm going to try for the mile race." "Good," returned his father. "I have a letter to be posted, and it's about a mile to the post office and back. Let me see what time you car do it in." "What a large head vou have!" re marked the loquacious barber to the Irish customer. "Why, it's twice as large as mine." "Oi suppose you're afther foindin' that head of yours large enough, thougn 7 ' queried tne insn- man. "Sure," replied the tonsorial artist. "It suits me all right." "Av coose," said the son of Erin. "Phwat's the use av a man having a big trunk when he has no clothes to keep in it, Oi dunno!" Young Wife I am going to make a nice steak and kidney pudding for sup per tonight Young Husband (with recollections of the last one) Ahem I did intend to bring a friend home tonight. Young Wife Well, so much the bet ber. The more, the merrier. Young Husband All right, I will fetch him along. He Berved me a mean trick himself once. First Tramp (in the road) Why don't you go in ? The dog's all right. Don't you Bee him wagging hre tail 7 Second Tramp - Yes; and he's growl in at the same time. I dunno which end to believe. Bega "How in the world did you discover her age ?" Jess "I asked her at what age she thoug it a girl should marry, and she promptly said twenty-seven. "Rob Peter to pay Paul." That is what they do who take stimalants for weak nerves. Hood's Sarsananlla gives J true nerve strength. CP! X V TVT'VTT'TT kjc nwn O 1 C r SEKMUS BY REV. GEO. STUART. During his recent remarkable meet-' ing m Charlotte, Rev. George Stuart1 preached from the text, "Who can find i a virtuous woman, for her price is far I above rubies "The word virtuous, in my text," said he, "is historical and has changed its meaning several times, but in every age the word virtue has always stood for the best and highest element in character. So if I were to read my text as the author really meant it I vould read the word virtue as strong. A good woman is the best thing this side of heaven and a bad woman is the worst thing this side of hell. The worst character in Charlotte to-day is a woman. And the reason why a woman is so corrupt and lost when she falls; the reason why she is so crushed is because she falls from such a marvel pus height. In this chapter from which my text is taken we have a life size portrait of a strong woman, every terse a stroke of the brush. ; "1. Her husband doth safely trust in her; that means there is happiness in that home for love does not dwell in the house with distrust. That's the fault I have to find with these society folks. Too many of these society women are not satisfied with thir own husbands and children. I tell you if I would see my wife as fond of talkiug to other women's husbands as some society women are I would not be satisfied. ; "2. She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. That means she will not take him to places where he ought not to be found. I "3. She is industrious. ; "4. She is helpful. The helpful life is the only happy life. The happiest hours of my life are the hours when I am helping someone else. a "5. She is liberal and stretches out hrr hands to the poor. i "6. She is industrious, for we read that her husband is clothed with scarlet and she is clothed with silk and purple here mentioned are equivalent to linsey and flannel at the present time. Yes, she is a woman who clothes her children well. I can always tell a home where there is a good mother by the way the children are clothed. f "7. She is not deceitful. A good wife is the greatest blessing a man can have, but there is a great difference be tween marrying a good wife and a mere woman, a canary bird. And how much deceit some women prac tice! Sometimes a man hardly knows whether the pretty rosy cheeks of a woman are due to nature or the box of powder on the dressing case. i "8. The woman I am talking about dresses sensibly, and that sounds strange, doesn't it? I don't mean to criticise the way women dress, for I don't care about the style just so they dress. I don't care how big or how little the sleeves are just so yeu wear sleeves. Yes, wear sleeves and tops to your dresses. Say what you will, but the modern style of evening dress was bjbrn in the heart of sensuality. You may call it high art, but there is not more than one person in a hundred that can get anything out of high art but low morals. J "We need women in America and America wants women women who will stand for the right. O, that our women would stand solidly for the sin gle standard of purity of life, and de mand as much of men as men demand of them ! Let a woman diverge one inch from the standard of purity and not a man or woman in town will rec ognize her, but a man can be as cor rupt as he will,, and then shave and put on clean clothes and be recognized in the parlors of the best families in town. This ought not to be, and such men should be turned away from the door and receive a toboggan slide on a boot. "God pity mothers who rush their daughters into society and are proud of their popularity if a lot of little dudes that wouldn't amount to good sized gnats, if boiled down, are atten tive to them! Don't worry about beaux, for too many beaux is is a bad sign, it means that the girl can be kissed. Anyway dudes don't run after women, but after mere things. ! "9. Finally, this woman never talks except when she opens her mouth with wisdom. This woman governs her tongue, and what a blessing it would be if all women would do likewise. Deliver me from a 'tonguey' woman, and man, too, for men need criticism along this line as well as women; How much trouble would be avoidable in this world if moutha did not open ex cept with wisdom , and if tongues were governed by the law of kindness, as was true ot this woman, i like a kind woman. O, the gossip and slander that tongues utter ! I never go to a place that some one does not. have something to tell me about some one else. I used to listen to such tales, but I don't now. Never pay any attention to gossip, no matter who brings it to you. Remember that a dog that will carry a bone will take one, and one that will take one will carry one. If you hear anything about yourself, don't repeat it, but leave it with God. Never repeat gossip or slander about any one. Always ask these questions before you repeat anything ot tne kind: (11 Is it right? (2) Is it true 7 (31 Ought it to be said ? (4) Will it do any good? 'There is but one phrase in this chapter that refers to a society woman and that is this '.flavor is deceitful, and beauty is vain.' Yes, you can support your clubs all right, but I have a letter here now saying the W. C. T. U. wo men will have to give up their room because they are unable to pay the rent $5 a month. That is a shame on this town. (Here Mr. Stuart made a special appeal for the W. C. T. TJ. and raised $60, enough to pay the rent of their room for one year.) : "The trouble with young women to day is that they are not ambitious. So few of them have any ambition for any thing but to be pretty and popular. May God change the motive power of this4ime, and may our young women have noble ambition to be something in and to the world. In conclusion I want you to remember this if you re member nothing else I say to-day : , Woman is stronger in piety than man. I believe God made you with astronger endowment ot the strongest elements of religion faith and love than He did us men. Thank God for woman's faith and woman's love !, God started religion in woman becnuse everything begins at mother's knees. The most wonderful instances of faith, fidelity, humility, hospitality and liberality to be found in the Bible are to be found in the women of the Bible. . "God bless and consecrate our wo men and their work. The world needs you, Christ needs you, and may God bless you in your service for Him and humanity." Maud Donne Said to be Enlisting Many Fellow Countrymen to Fight In Aid of the Boers. Philadelphia Times. Prominent Irishmen in the United States are anxious to know whether the influence exercised by their idol, Maud Gonne, in the Emerald Isle will be re flected here. This remarkable woman, well known in this and other cities, ac cording to reports from across the sea, is enlisting her countrymen in the ser vice of the oppressed Transvaal. "Anything to down England" has ever been the slogan of this unique and magnetic leader, whose will has become the loadstone of thousands. Ju?t now Maud Gonne is in Ireland, and it is said that secret meetings are being held in eyery city and hamlet. "The English are trying to strangle another nation," she is now saying to her people. "The cause of the Trans vaal is our cause. All of you who are not kept here by absolute obligation must come with me and fight for the Boers." Maud Gonne, the modern Joan of Arc, will take the field in person. Two thousand Irishmen are soid to have al ready embarked for South Africa. These and many others make up the contingent which will strike England through the Transvaal. McBriue, a trusted lieutenant and himself a well- known agitator, is organizing and dril ling the Irish forces as they reach Pre toria. . - Those in this city who have met Maud Gonne say that she was born to com mand. A commanding fejuale viking, beautiful, strong, impressive in her re-, pose and inspiring in ber every move ment. She is the daughter of an officer in the Engineer tCorps, a wealthy man of good Irish blood, but absolutely loyal to England. More than ten years ago she abandoned the court, renounced her friends and cast her lot with the peas- acts. It would be difficult to discover a more picturesquely romantic figure, than this heroine of Ireland. She is Bhrewd, determined, stubborn aud ag gressive. In France, where she resides, she is universally beloved. 1 Maude Gonne became one of the greatest powers in the politics of Ireland before she left her Dublin home. She elected 'or defeated candidates at will. It4s said that leaders of the Irish repre sentation in Parliament often had to "come to terms with the youn woman. About eighteen months ago she spoke on the situation in the Ememld Isle before a large audience at the Academy of Music in this city. No bach Lack. A new military prison chaplain was recently appointed in a certain town in Scotland, and, entering one of the cells on his firsfromd of inspection, he, with much pomposity, thus addressed the prisoner who occupied it: "Well, sir, do you know who I am ?" "No; nor I dinna care," was thenon chalent reply. "Well, I'm your new chaplain." "Oh, ye are; well, I have.heard o' ye before." "And what did ypu hear?" returned the chaplain, his curiosity getting the better of his dignity. "Well, I heard that the last twa kirks ye were in ye ppeached them bath empty, but I'll be hanged if ye fin i it such an easy matter to do the same wi' this one." Robbed the Grave. A startling incident is narrated by John Oliver, of Philadehohia, as follows : "I was in an awfal condition. My skin was almost yellow, eyes sunken, tongue coated, pain continually in back and sides, no appetite, growing weaker day by day. Three physicians had given me up. Then I was advised to use Electric Bitters ; to my great joy, the first bottle made a decided improvement. I continued their use for three weeks, and am now a well man. I know they robbed the grave of another victim." No one should fail to try them. Only 50o., guaranteed, at Fetzer's drug store. Letting It Out. "Did the postman leave any letters, Mary?" the miBtress asked on returning from a visit one afternoon. "NothingJaut a postcard, ma'am." "Who is it from Mary ?" "And do you think I'd read it, ma'am?" asked the girl, with an in jured air. "Perhaps not. But anyone who sends mefa message on a postcard is either stupid or impertinent." "You'll excuse rne, ma'am," return ed the girl, loftily, "but that's a nice way to be talking about your own mother !" Baking Powder Made from pure cream of tartar. Safeguards the food against alum Alum baking powders are the greatest menacer to health of the present day. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK. $1.00 a Year, in Advance. Number 18. BEWITCHED THE STEAK. Effects of Liquid Air Mystify the Walt ers and the Cook. Boston Transcript. Charles E. Tripler, the famous experi menter in liquid air, recently went to Boston to visit his friend, Elihu Thomp son, the electrical expert He took him a can of liquefied air. It was a quart of the coldest thing on earth that, Mr. Tripler had in this tin can, and hetook it with him to luncheon, where he put it on the floor by his chair. They lunched in a hotel cafe and ordered a steak. After it had been brought in and while the waiter's back was turned, Mr. Tripler lifted it from the platter, opened the can and exposed the meat to the liquid air. When he put it back on the platter it was as hard as a rock. "Waiter," called Mr. Tripler, "come hre," The waiter obeyed. "What's the matter with this steak?" he asked, anxiously. And he lifted it from the plat by two fingers and struck it with hia knife. The frozen meat rang like a bell. "I d-d-d-on't k-n-now. sir " he fat Ltered, and he started for the head waiter I . . u y'n i Lie ruu. Mr. Tripler, by the way; is one of the fiercest looking men in the inventing business. His mustache ib of the pirate cut, and his eyebrows bristle and meet in the middle. Therefore the head waiter approached him with almost timidity. "Do you serve your steak like this as a rule?" asked Mr. Tripler, as he struck the time of day on it "It's that fool chef," exclaimed the waiter as he started for the kitchen. A few minutes later the chef appeared with the head waiter. He recognized the steak by sight at once. Then Mr. inpler took it up and rang it again. "Merevl (rrneiniial" Aiar-nlurori tho chef piously crossing himself. "I didn't do it, sure !" Then, Mr. Tripler laughed and Mr. Thompson smiled. A npnr atAnlr was ordered and the frozen one waa carried below to fool the rest of the kitchen. Boers a Race of Giants. Howard C. Hillegas, in his book, "Oom Paul's People" says: "It would be difficult to find any where an entire race of such physical giants as the Boers of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State. The roving ex istence, the life in the open air, and the freedom from disturbing cares, have combined to make the Boers a race that is almost physically perfect. "If an average height of all the full grown males in the. country were taken, it would be found to be not less than 6 feet 2 inches, and probably 'more. Their physique, notwithstanding their comparatively idle mode of living, is magnihcently developed. "The action of the almost abnormally developed muscle's of the arms and legs, discernible through their closely-fitliug garments, gives an idea of the remark able powers of endurance which the Boers have displayed on many occasions when engaged in native and other cam paigns. They can withstand almost any amount of physical pain and discom fort, and can live a remarkably long time on the smallest quantity of food. "It is a matter of common knowledge that a Boer can subsist on a 5-pound slice of 'biltong' beef that has been dried in the sun until it is almost as hard as a stone for 10 to 15 days with out suffering any pangs of hunger. In time of war 'biltong' . is the principal item in the army rations, and in peace, when he is following his flocks, it is also the Boer shepherd'B chief article of diet." Don't Worry About Salaries. "What salaries are paid in different business callings is a question often asked by young men, and one which seems to enter into their deliberations as a qualifying factor as to whether they Bhall enter certain tradeB or pro fessions," writeB Edward Bok in the September Ladies' Home Journal. "I never could quite see the point of this, nor the reason for it. What are the salaries which are paid to others, to you or to me ? They signify nothing. If the highest salary paid to the foremost man in a certain profession is $10,000 a year, what does it prove or signify ? There is no obstacle to some ene's else going .into that same profession and earning $25,000. The first step in going into business is to find out not which special line is most profitable, but which line you are most interested in and are beBt fitted for. Then drive ahead, and the salary will take care of itself. When a young man thinks too much of his salaiy it is pretty good proof that he is not of very superior make. Ability commands income. Bit you must start with ability; not with salary." Blgmark'a Iron Serve Was the result of his splendid health. Indomitable will and tremendous energy are not found where Stomach, Liver, Kidneys aud Rowels are out of order. If you want these qualities and the suc cess they bring, use Dr. King's New Life Pills. Only 25 cents at Fetzer's drug store. "Well, little boy, what's your name?" "Shadrach Nebuchadnezzar Jones." "Who gave you that name?" "I don't know. But if I find out when I get older they'll be sorry for it." On the 10th of December, 18!7, Rev. S. A. Donahoe, pastor M. E. Church, South, Pt. Pleasant, W. Va., contracted a severe' cold which was attended from the beginning by violent coughing. He says : "After resorting to a number of so-called, 'specifics,' usually kept in th(j house, to no purpose, I purchased a bot tle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, which acted like a charm. I most cheer fully reccommend it to the public." For sale by M..L. Marsh, Druggist. 'Wasn't a Fireman. She: If it were necessary, and I were your wife, would you go through fire and water for me. He: Do you think it would be nec essary ? 8he: It might. He: Then I think you had better marry a fireman. Good evening ! 3 ' : 1 1 THE CONCORD WEEKLY TIMES Leading Paper in This Section. LARGE AND ESTABLISHED CIRCULATION. ESTABLISHED IN 1875. If you have anything to sell, let the people know it. NO USE TRYING I can't take plain cod-liver1 oil. 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