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j"iv ; - v:.i in :ts worst form. I tried several
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.-. Liver Regulator, which cured me ia a
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Christmas Coming.
It's getting close to Christmas. Across
the hills and dells
You can almost hear the'ehiming and
the rhyming of the hells,
lint the skies are clour and candid, with
no clouds that dream of snow.
And you hear in dark and daylight all
the olfm bugles blow !
It's getting close to Christmas. There's
something in the air
That seems to breathe of Bethlehem and
all the glory there.
And sweet the bells and bugles sound
through our dreams of rest
King, bells, your sweetest music ! And,
bugles, blow your best !
It's getting close to Christmas. Oh,
time of peace and joy !
And, oh. to be once more, once more, a
wakeful, watchful boy,
With the stocking in the corner for old
Santa Clans to till !
Hut we still thank (iod for Christmas,
and we're boys in memory still !
FliANK L. Staktox.
About Christmas (Jifts.
Too often the holiday present lias
but little of the sweet feeling that
should go with Christmas offerings.
No matter under what obligations
one feels to another,a present should
not be offered at such a time, unless
peace and jpod will go vvitli it. No
debts but those of love should be re
paid by gifts at Christinas time. If
given with any other feeling, the
holy season lias been saerileged.
Let all obligations be filled at other
seasons, even if those to whom you
are indebted have not the same rev
erent respect for Christmas time
that you feel.
All 'presents should be suited to
the age, station and taste of the one
for whom they are intended. Many
a one in receipt of articles utterly
useless or distasteful, wishes devout-
iy that a little thought and discre
tion had been used in the selection
of gifts which often thoughtless af
fection prompted. It is generally easy
to find out what most of our friends
really wish to have for some remem
brances, and how pleasant it is to be
able to gratify some wish of a dear
one.
Above all, let love and good will
accompany everything you buy or
prepare for the coming Christmas
festivities. Let all ill feeling be bu
ied, and extend the hand of good
fellowship to all.
Don'ls for Marriageable (iirls.
We shall not say don't marry, for
men and women were made for each
other, but we do say :
Don't be in a hurry to get married.
Girlhood is a very brief perkd, and
once gone it never returns.
Don't marry through fear of being
an old maid. To a great many young
girls the most horrible thought in
the world is the thought of being an
old maid. Don't marry simply for a
home.
Don't marry a man if he drinks,
no matter how deeply you may fancy
yourself to be in love with him, no
matter how handsome and clever, no
matter how highly educated or
wealthy he may be.
Don't marry a man simply because
you like him, or have a passing fan
cy for his good looks and manly
graces. Good looks do not always
indicate good character and manly
graces are not always a sign of man
liness. Don't marry merely for money.
There are scheming mothers and
heartless daughters to whom mar
riage is a game which they play for
money, just as men play cards for
money. Mercenary marriages are
seldom happy.
Don't marry a man to reform him.
Women have made the experiment,
but have learned by sad experience
that character is seldom revolution
ized by marriage. Husbands are not
any more plastic than lovers. They
are not any more easily controlled,
and, as many wives will concede, are
not as much inclined to refrain from
their vices.
Don't be afraid to marry a poor
man, but don't marry a lazy man.
Don't marry for monej', but be care
ful not to give yourself in marriage
to any man unless he gives evidence
of ability to make money, for while
money is said to be "the root of all
evil," it is, nevertheless, one of the
things that cannot well be dispensed
with. The love-in-the-cottage theory
is very beautiful, but you will find
that love does not go very far to
ward supplying with bread and meat
those who live in the cottage. Very
foolish things are done by people
who are in love, but we can think of
nothing more foolish than for a girl
to marry a young man who is with
out an occupation and who is living
on the hard earnings of his mother or
sister.
Woman's Ki;litn.
In a recently published medical work,
the author assorts that nine-tenths of the
women of America are .subject to ute
l ine and kindred diseases and in conse
quence, maternity becomes to them a
dreaded burden. How very small is
the proportion of ladies who reach mid
dle age wearing tne origin fiiu ui
health which was their maidenly attrae
t ion and of which they have been robbed
by functional disorders and nervous
weakness! We take pleasure in recom
mending to all thusalllicted the use of
Dr. IVree's Favorite Prescription, a
tried remedy, safe and sure in all cases.
Its discovery merits the gratitude of the
-ex for the' blessing he has conferred
upon them. For nursing mothers and
all debilitated "run-down" women, it is
the most certain restorative. To those
about to become mothers it is a priceless
boon. It lessens the pains and perils of
child-birth, shortens laTor, promotes
the .secretion of an abundance of nour
ishment for the child anil shortens the
period of confinement.
AM) THE TIDE.
Watching the Waves as They Come and
(o Sets Him Thinking.
How rapidly the old landmarks are
giving away yielding to science,
discovery and invention. The time
was when we knew but little of the
big, round world and measured ev
erything by our own latitude and
longitude. Civilization came from
the east in isothermal lines. That is
a big word for the children, and so I
venture to tell them it is the line of
equal heats or temperature. Pales
tine is the oldest country we read
about, and it is about the same lati
tude with most of the Southern
States and has the same kind of cli
mate. And so when people began to
move westward they very naturally
sought the climate they were used
to. They do the same thing now.
Northern Texas is full of emigrants
from Tennessee and North Carolina.
Middle Texas abounds in people from
north Georgia and north Alabama.
Southern Texas has more settlers
from the Southern portion of the old
er States and frotn Louisiana.
People do not like to change lati
tude, and hence the Northern people
will not come South until they are
forced by some pulmonary disease or
their long and vigorous winters or
are tempted by a spirit of specula
tion. Northern people have an idea
that the summers in Georgia or
North Carolina are awful hot and
full of fevers. They call it away
down South and look at the parallels
of latitude on the map, when the
truth is that our summers are not so
hot as they are up North. The line
of equal heats is a very crooked one.
It dips from eastern Virginia down
through the Carolinas into north
Georgia and circles up again north
west to the State of Washington.
That is as far north as Maine, but
far more temperate. Dovs can ro i
barefooted all winter in Seattle. ! al reefs again with my venerable
Time was when we got all our his- j friend. Major Shaw, and then I will
tory and poetry from England, and ; be able to tell some fish stories niy
we believed it all. My first geogra- j self. Mr. Phillips and Mr. Kerr, our
phy had a picture of a Chinaman j Kentucky friends, went out yester
selling rats that were strung on a ; day after big game sharks and such
pole. Hut a Chinese laundryman ! things. A 200-pound Jew fish was
told me hejiad never heard of such a j hooked and they played him round
thing. The same geography had a j gently for an hour and thought it
picture of Florida that was awful ; was broken down, but when they
all mixed up with Indians and alii-. hauled him up near the boat he gave
gators and swamps and horribl-e j a last plunge aud broke the line. The
snakes hanging from the trees, and j disappointment after so longa st rug
it took me forty years to get undo-j gle was awful. I said the fish was a
ceived. Mrs. ITeinans wrote a beau-1 200-poundor, but they said it would
tiful piece of poetry beginning
"Leaves have their time to fall.
And flowers to wither at the north
wind's breath."
IJut had she lived in Brazil she would
have said the South wind's breath.
The North wind down there comes
from the equator, and is genial,
warm and balmy. How strange it
must seem to our people who go to
South America to find July and Au
gust very cold and January very hot.
All the great English poets wrote
from an English standpoint, just as
though there was no country but
England. Cowper wrote ugly lines
about our wild Altama (Altamaha)
river that he knew nothing about.
Byron showed his ignorance and his
spleen when he wrote:
"As soon seek roses in December ice
in Juno,
l.elievo a woman or an epitaph.
Or any other thing that's false."
There are plenty of roses in De
cember and plenty of ice in June, and
woman is a more truthful creature
than man. Tom Hood scarified No
vember as the meanest month in the
year. IJut it all depends upon where
you live. English people used to pay
tribute to Italian sunsets and cele
brated them in song, but I have
heard Southern ladies who have seen
them say they do not equal ours.
Any clear, brilliant sunset was glo
rious to an Englishman who was born
in a fog and was never out of it until
he left England. It is impossible to
conceive of a sunset more magnifi
cent than we have almost even' ev
ening on the gulf coast of Florida. I
say every evening because it is so
seldom that we have a rainy day here
in the winter. Even if we have a
cloudy day the sun is sure to find its
way out before it goes to bed and the
illumination is all the more gorgeous
for every cloud is gilded and then re
flected upon the glossy surface of the
bay in prismatic colors that I never
saw elsewhere.
But I am studying the tides now.
We have had very low tides in the
bay and the boatmen told me we
would have seven days of high tide
this week, viz. : The day of the full
moon and three days before and three
days after, and sure enough. Ave did,
but I don t understand the reason
why, and the books don't explain to
my satisfaction. For three weeks
past tide water has been away out on
the beach, nearly 100 feet from our
front fence, and now it has crawled
up almost to the fence, leavinga nar
row passway. Twice a day it goes
and comes. As the Irishman said:
"An' faith, it is a grate keclentry
two freshets a (lay an nary crap oi
ram.
Somebody told the children that
there was a great big, long giant
sleeping in the gulf. He was 100
miles long and as big round as a
mountain and tne watery waes was
his blanket, and when he got tired
i : i ; ;
of sleeping on one side and turned
over he rolled the cover that way
and it made the tide. Then he turn
ed back again and it made the tide
on the other side. lie just keeps on
turning every day and rolling the
wet blanket that is over him. The
children are very curious about this
giant and are on the lookout for him
every time we go to the island.
How eagerly the youthful mind ab
sorbs and ponders supernatural sto
ries. Credulity is not confined to
them altogether. Last Sunday I was
standing in front of the Methodist
church waiting for the preacher when
a serious, solemn man said that 3-es-terday
was an oncommon good day
for fish that the neighborhood at
the Rockies got together and stretch
ed a long seine across the narrows
and hauled it to shore with 7,000
fine fish in it. It was an awful pull,
he said, but they hauled 'em in. The
man wasn't a preacher, but he look
ed like lie could lead in prayer.
Then another man ups and tells
how endurin' of the Injun war the
soldiers saw a big school of mullet
run up the mouth of the creek and
they hemmed 'em in with nets and
seines and sent down to St. Peters
burg for a schooner to come and load
up, but the tide went out and the
schooner didn't come and tin; fish
died there by the thousands and per
fumed the air for ten miles round
and the buzzards came from Tampa
to Cedar Keys. lie said there must
have been over 100,000 fish besides
those that got away. This man
didn't look like a preacher but they
said he used to carry round the hat.
So I have no doubt about their tell
ing the truth. "When the preacher
came and took his text I expected
him to select the miracle of the fish
es, but he didn't.
Business calls me home, where I
shall spend Christmas and then re-
turn. and-I am roin' out to the cor
I have weighed at least 400 pounds.
! That, of course, was piscatorial li-
cense and we always divide it by
j two. These Jew fish are horrid look
i ing creatures and nobodv but the
I Creator knows what they were made
for. Hi t.i. Ari
Items From Itilhille.
We take turkeys on subscription,
and on the sly.
Times continue hard. The onlv
free thing in this community is sal
vat ion .
We did not plant any cotton this
year, as we did not have any money
to lose.
It's true times are hard; but it's
no use to get in jail just because a
lawyer needs money.
Bonds are not popular in Billville.
Can't even get a man to stand your
bond in a hog stealing case.
As soon as we can get a dollar to
buy groceries we are going to study
Mr. Carlisle's financial plan.
We are now getting ready for
Christmas. We've got the hurrah,
if anybody else will furnish the fire
crackers. Asleep in a I'lirning Hod.
Charlotte observer.
Mr. Jonathan Reid lives on the Bar
ringer place north of Charlotte. Mr.
Keid and son and his house narrowly
escaped being burned several nights
ago. He and his little son retired
early, leaving a big fire burning.
They were aroused by the screams of
Mrs. Keid, who had come in the room
for some medicine, and found the
room f iled with smoke and the bed
in which Mr. Reid and his son were
sleeping on fire. The mattress was
in a bright blaze. In a few minutes
more Mr. Reid and the boy would
both have been on fire. The awaken
ing came just in time to save them
and the house. Fire had popped out
on the bed, setting it on fire.
Another Kinston Lawyer Assaulted.
At Kinston Tuesday, Mr. N. J.
Rouse was attacked by Levi Dawson
and his three sons, knocked down and
his clothing slashed with knives.
The difficulty arose over supplemen
tary proceedings that were being
taken in favor of creditors to exam
ine into the business transactions of
the Dawson's, the examination being
by order of the Superior Court, be
fore the clerk and by request of Mr.
Dawson his daughter's examination
was at the store. Rouse was falsely
accused of discourtesy to Miss Sudie
Dawson. The attack is described as
t.0wardlv
Don't lif Deceived.
False economy is practiced by people
who think that urinary troubles got w ell
of themselves. Dr. Kennedy's Favorite
liemedy cures the most obstinate cases
!,.f .li.,!.ro .rv.vol o.- I 1,1 . . I'Mlse
In ijht's disease it lias on nil whore
all else failed.
NATION'S 0IMJS.
The ws From Everywhere (Jathered
and Condensed.
Tramps killed Edward Ott in his
barn at Whcatou, III, Wednesday,
took $T5 and fled.
Nearly half the town of Evergreen,
Ala., was wiped out by fire Thurs
day night. Loss, $100,000.
A gas explosion did considerable
damage to the post-office building at
Danville, III, Friday night.
Highwaymen held up Smith Bay
lor, a farmer, near Greenville, Tenn.,
Tuesday, robbing him of $1,500.
From the effects of horrible cuts
in a gin, Friday, Henry Duncan, of
East Perry, Ala., bled to death.
Jilted by her lover, Gideon W. Lat
imer, Tuesday, Miss Annie M. Brew
er, of Lynn, Mass., fatally shot him.
Six masked men held up a gun
store at Eastland, Tex., Friday,' but
meeting resistance, tied to the woods.
A tornado at Forsyth, Ga., Mon-
day,
church
demolished the Methodist
and unroofed manv build
ings.
Eleven of a counterfeiting gang,
which has floated $10,000 in two
years, are under arrest at Perkins,
O. T.
On trial at Velpin, Ind., Wednes
day, for a minor offense, John Henry
struck Justice Capehart-a fatal blow
and escaped.
Ex-Governor Benjamin R. Tillman
of South Carolina, succeeds Gen.
Morgan C. Butler, iu the United
States Senate.
Crazed by jealousy, Cassimir Her
ner, of Manistee, Mich., shot dead
his sleeping wife, Thursday night,
and then himself.
While out hunting, Monday, Eu
gene Mclver, of Lynchburg', Va., was
killed in Armherst by the accidental
disc harge of his gun.
The clothing of little five-year-old
Blanche Dawson, of Gilberton. l'a.,
ignited from a brush fire, Saturday,
aud she was fatally burned.
Two hundred men are searching
near Trenton, Wis., for Chris Shulz's
two children, who have probably
been devoured by wild hogs.
All the prisoners in jail in Halifax
county, Va., made their escape Mon
day night. Among them is one con
demned to hang on January 2.'!rd.
For killing a twelve-year-old white
boy, Ed Sullivan, colored, was lynch
ed near Williamston, S. C. Thurs
day night, while on his way to jail.
While temporarily insane, Mrs.
William Rhote, of Williamsport, Pa.,
committed suicide. Thursday, by
jumping in the Susquehanna River.
After a long and uncompromising
fight against the South Carolina dis
pensary law, Charleston and Colum
bia decided to enforce it rigorously.
In a dispute over a game of ball
between Ed Bloom and Robert Max
well, two schoolboys, at Athens,
Tenn., Monday, the latter was shot
dead.
Bis clothing catching in a grist
mill wheel at Kelly's Ford, Tenn.,
Friday, Filmore Hobbs' nine-year-old
son was drawn in and crushed to
death.
Jailed for the alleged poisoning of
S. W. Barnes, Thomas Salter, of San
Bernardino, Cal, committed suicide
Thursday by cutting his throat with
a razor.
Robbers killed Mrs. Winslow
Shearman and daughter at their
home at Busti, N. Y., Saturday,
while Shearman was attending a
funeral
Becoming suddenly insane, Sunday
night, David G. Sp'ragg, a butcher,
near Ridgeway, Mo., killed his wife
and four children and then cut his
own throat.
Released on a technicality after
assaulting a girl, Martin Robb, of
Fayette, Mo., was whipped by mask
ed men, Friday night, and ordered
to leave town.
A little stage blaze in a New Bod-
ford (Mass.) theatre, Monday night,
started a panic among the large au
dience, resulting in several being
seriously injured.
While in a fit of despondency,
caused by illness in his family, An
drew Meyer, of Altoona, Pa., on Sat
urday, hanged himself with a hitch
ing strap in an outbuilding.
Dr. R. L. Miller, a sohool teacher
of Norfolk countr, Va., was arrest
ed Tuesday for torturing a small
white boy with hot tongs and shovel
for failing to learn his lessons.
Caught by the foot in a railroad
cattle guard. Wednesday, Charles
Spangler, aged-8, of Shepherd's Sta
tion, O., was cut in two by a freight
train before he could free himself.
In the eighteenth round of a glove
fight between Andy Bowen and
George Lavigne, at New Orleans,
Saturday, the former was knocked
out and died soon after from a fall on
the floor.
In anger of discovered guilt, John
R. Huntington, a clerk in the Citi
zens' Bank of Council Bluffs, la., on
Tuesday, shot two representatives of
a bond company, who were investi-
HUliii vr Uis umiuii is, auu men kuicu
himself.
Finance and Trade.
Sjieeial Correspondence.
New York, De. 17, 1S94.
Business during the past week has
been of fair seasonable volume, al
though trade in most lines reflects
the quieting effect of the near ap
proach of the Christmas holidays.
The retailers are busy; but the
wholesalers are getting ready for
stock inventories and book settle
ments, and there is the usual dispo
sition at this period to defer new ob
ligations as much as practicable until
after the turn of the year. Measurr
ed by bank clearings, however, busi
ness is over 10 or cent. larger in
volume than it was in December last
year, and railroad earnings so far
this month also show a slight gain.
The passage of the Railroad pooling
bill by the House, and the expecta
tion that it will be enacted by the
Senate, have had a little strengthen
ing influence in the railroad share
speculation; but values of the Trust
stocks have slightly declined.
Gold exports have continued, and
the Treasury gold reserve again ap
proximates the $100,000,000 point.
The principal classes of exports in
November showed a comparative de
crease of $S, -logout;, and merchan
dise shipments from New York in
two weeks of December have been
$2,m.")7,270 less than t hey were dur
ing the corresponding period last
year. Imports, however, have shown
a comparative decline in the last two
weeks of $1,072,.'I.'!0. Business fail
ures in the United States and Cana
da during last week numbered Si,
as against o7! for the corresponding
period last year. According to R.
C. Dun vv Co., the failures have in
creased in the South, as an apparent
result of the extreme depression in
cotton; so that the liabilities for the
first week of December amounted to
$l.(i:(;,8t;(!, of which $1,427,415 were
of manufacturing and $2,401,451 of
trading concerns. For the corre
sponding week in December last
year the aggregate liabilities were
$4.7(11,400.
Cotton prices have declined 1-10 of j
a cent, owing to the increasing
weight of supplies and the absence
of incentive, other than the abnor
mally low price, to new investment
demand. Exports continue liberal,
and spinners" takings at ruling low
prices are larger than they were at
the corresponding period last year,
although the new demand is repre
sented as less active as a sequence
of previous heavy purchases. So far
this crop year Northern mills have
taken 418,000 bales more than during
the like period in 1S'J3. Reductions
have been made in the prices of lead
ing makes of bleached cottons, which
have stimulated demand in prepara
tion for spring wants. The conces
sions have carried quotations for
some makes of cotton goods below
the lowest auction records.. The
general cotton goods situation has
been unfavorably affected by the an
nouncement of an impending sale of
27.000 packages at auction, which
brings the fact of stock accumula
tions into prominence and tends to
promote caution on the part of buy
ers. Some strength was imparted to
the grain markets early in the week
by the prevalence of wet weather,
which temporarily restricted the in
terior movement of corn, and by the
continuance of liberal clearances of
wheat. But colder, clear weather
in the West, and moderately increas
ed offerings of grain by farmers, af
terward gave a downward impulse
to values, which was materially aid
ed by the declining tendency of Eng
lish markets and an unsatisfactory
demand for export. Recent large
sales for shipment to Liverpool will
help to maintain a good volume of
wheat exports during the balance of
the month, although new business on
foreign orders within a few days past
has been very limited. Compared
with figures current a week ago the
markets are i . to 1 cent per bushel
lower for wheat, and 1J to cents
per bushel lower for corn.
Government crop data indicate an
increase in the area sown to winter
wheat for the 1805 season. The acre
age harvested in 1S94, according to
the Department figures, was 23,512,
7 acres, and the planted area this
season is 24,224,000 acres. Rains
during the week have strengthened
the jHisition of the new crop.. Wheat
feeding' has continued on a liberal
scale, and the general features of the
wheat situation are favorable to a
higher range of prices, but appear to
have little influence on sieculative
sentiment as against the bearish fact
of steadily accumulating supplies.
In the provision trade values have
been barely maintained, owing to the
effect on speculation of the continued
heavy movement of hogs to packing
centres. Since November 1, the re
ceipts at Western centres have been
about 75 per cent, larger than during
the corresponding jieriod last year.
No matter what your trade
An herbalist or hatter
ay be
Or something else. 1 say to thee
tf you have auitht the matter.
Don't take the old style Kripinn pills
That rather cau.se than cure your ills;
but take Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets,
for they are very small ami pleasant to
j l-'k.e and are pronqit and eifectiye in
i sjt.jj headache.
billiousiioss, disordered
liver and habitual constipation.
ALL OVLU THE STATE.
A Summary of Current Events for the
Past Seven Hays.
The sheriff of Lincoln county was
the first to settle State taxes this
year.
A. Arnold, of Raleigh, devoured
twenty large bananas on a bet last
week.
Fire in M. J. Heyer's naval stores
yards at Wilmington, early Friday
morning, caused a $20,000 loss.
The Republicans have given no
tice for a purpose to have the next
Legislature amend the charter of the
city of Wilmington.
Taylor Means, a brakeman on the
Carol ina Central road, was run over
by his train at Crouse Station, Mon
day night, and crushed to death.
The four-year-old son of James
Small, of Caldwell county, while
playing with ether children, Thurs
day, was killed by a log rolling over
him.
The three-year-old son of M. C.
Quinn, of Salisbury, was set on fire
in a jest by his older brother, Thurs
day, and came very near burning to
death.
The special tax of $25 on whole
sale dealers of cigarettes iiiqo.sed re
cently bj the Greensboro aldermen,
has been decided unconstitutional by
Judge Hoke.
William Warlick, a colored brake
man, fell from a freight car on the
Southern road at Marion, Friday,
and two cars ran over him with the
usual result.
The Times says that Samuel Fowl
er, a barber of Hendersonville, who
recently married a widow with six
children attempted to commit sui
cide with poison last week.
While P. P. Sumrell, of Lenoir
county, was cutting timber, Frida
a limb broke off and struck him on
the head, fracturing the skull and
causing his death the next day.
While fooling with a pistol, Mon
day night, Edmund Corpening, aged
1G. of Statesville, accidentally shot
and killed his friend Herbert Barnes,
aged 15, who came to spend the night
with him.
L. E. Jacowsky, of Washington,
N. C, a tailor by trade, committed
suicide, Thursday, by hanging him
self to his door-knob with coat bind
ing. Whiskey and jealous- seem to
; have been the cause.
A battle to the death with club
axes occurred in a swamp in Colum
bus county, Friday, between Nathan
McDuflie and Henry Wilson, both
colored, which resulted in the killing
of MeDuftie and the serious injury of
Wilson.
According to the Clinton Demo
crat, Avery Butler, who was serving
a life sentence in the penitentiary
for killing his father, escaped a few
nights ago. by means of a key of his
own making with which he unlocked
his cell door.
An altercation between Landon
Ferguson and Samuel P. Queen, near
neighbors, in Haywood county, Mon
day, resulted in the cutting to death
of the latter. The difficulty grew
out of hogs bniking into
Queen's field.
The Concord Times says that J. N.
Solomon, who recently eloped with
Miss Ada DeLamar, of Salisbury,
but who was overtaken at Concord,
has eloped again, this time with Miss
Cora Howell, of Salisbury. They
were married Sunday night.
The "hog question" is stirring the
people of Durham. The aldermen
have passed an ordinance prohibiting
the keeping of swine in the corporate
limits from April 1st to October 1st.
The matter is likely to be an issue in
the next municipal campaign.
The Rutherford Democrat reports
the burning to death of the four-year-old
son of D. II. Westbrooks, of
Rutherford, and the five-year-old
daughter of James Gilbert, of Polk
county. Both were playing with
fire while left alone for a few mo
ments. While standing on the doorsteps
loading his gun, Wednesday, Lum
Hall, of Stanly county, was accident
ally shot. The gun slipped and the
hammer struck against the steps.
The entire load was discharged in
Halls body, inflicting a wound from
which he died on Sunday.
As the result of a matrimonial ad
vertisement, Charles A. Brown, of
Belle Plaine, Wis., was married
Tuesday to Miss Harriet E. Moore,
Of Caldwell county, who saw the ad
vertisement about six months ago
and answered it "just for fun." A
correspondence was begun and pho
tographs exclianged.
The Kinston Free Press says that
J. F. McCoy, aged 44 years, of Ie-
noir county, died Monday, the 3rd,
of an injury received 28 years ago,
when his arm was cut in a gin. The
wound had nearly cured up, but he
over-strained his arm last sprin
causiny the wound to break out
again, resulting finally in his death.
For rheumatism I have found nothing
unial to ChamlM'i lain's Pain Halm. It
relieves the pain as soon as applied. J.
W. Young. West Liljerty, W. Va. The
prompt relief it affords is alon worth
manv times the cost. o0 cents. Its con
tinued use will effect a iormanent cure
For sale by ,J. II. Hill & Son, druggists.
1IS;USEI CATARRH.
A Stealthy, Insidious, Weakening tne
my to Women.
There are a multitude of women,
especially housewives, and all other
women obliged to U on their feet
constantly, who are wretched beyond
description, simply because their
strength and vitality is sapiod away
by catarrhal discharges from the
pelvic organs. These women get up
in the morning tired, drag them
selves through their daily duties
tired, only to go to bed at night as
tired as before.
Pe-ru-na Is such a jerfect specific
for each case that wlien patients
have once used it they can never be
induced to quit it until the' are per
manently cured. It begins to re
lieve the disagreeable symptoms at
once. The backache ceases, the
trembling knees are strengthened,
the appetite restored, digestion
made perfect, the dull headache is
stopped, and the weakening drains
are gradually cured. These results
certainly follow a course of treat
ment with Pe-ru-na.
A valuable illustrated pamphlet of
thirty-two pages, fully describing
this class of disorders, including
coughs, colds, la grippe, and all
other climatic diseases of winter,
will be sent free to any address by
The Pe-ru-na Drug Manufacturing
Company of Columbus, Ohio.
loru Without Arms.
By far the most interesting curi
osity in child life that has UtMi seen
in Asheville, says the Citizen, is the
15-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs.
Curris Tipton, of Mitchell county,
who have come here with him. The
child is armless, and curiously formed
at the shoulders. He is pretty and
very bright and vivacious. He is
rapidly learning to use his feet and
toes in place of the missing hands
and fingers.
Kinging Noise
In the oars, sometimes a roaring, buzzing
sound, are caused by catarrh, that ex
ceedingly disagreeable and very com
mon disease. Loss of smell or hearing
also result from catarrh. Hood's Sarsa
parilla, the great blood purifier, is a pe
culiarly successful remedy for this dis
ease, which it euros by purifying the
blood.
Hood's Fills are the liest after-dinner
pills, assist digestion, prevent constipa
tion. What are you doing to make it easier
to do right and harder to do wrong in
voiir own town?
Itucklen'x .Iruicn Salve.
The IJest Salve in the world for Cuts,
lhuises. Sores. Ulcers. Salt Rheum,
Fever Sores. Tetter, ChapjMil Hands,
Chilblains Corns, and all Skin Erup
tions, and positively cures Files, or no
pay required. It is guarantnl to give
perfect satisfaction, or money refunded.
Price 25 cents jht Imjx. For Sale by J. H.
Hill & Son, Gohislioro, and J. 11. Smith,
Mount Olive.
Now Try Thi.
It will cost you nothing and w ill sure
ly do you good, if you have a cougli,
cohl. or any trouble w ith throat, chest
or lungs. Dr. King's New Discovery
for consumption, coughs and colds is
guaranteed to give relief, or money will
le paid back. Sufferers from l.a(iripMi
found it just the thing and under its use
had sjHiily and jHTfcct recovery. Try
a sample lottlo at our expense and learn
for yourself just how good a thing it is.
Trial bottles free at J. H. Hill & Son's.
GoldslMiro, and J. K. Smith's. Mt. Olive.
Large size 50e. and $1.00.
Specimen hc.
S. H. Clifford, New Cassol, Wis., was
troubled with neuralgia and rheuma
tism, his stomach war disordered, his
liver was atTti tnl to an alarming de
gree, appctit;' fell away, and he was
terribly reductil in flesh and strength.
Three "bottles of Electric 15itters cured
him.
Edward Shepherd, Harrisbiug, 111.,
had a running son-on his log of eight
years' standing. Used three I Kittles of
Electric Hitters and seven lxes of
Huckleu' Arnica Salve, and his leg U
sound and well. John Speaker, Cataw
ba. O., had live large fever sores on his
leg. doctors said he was incurable. One
liottle Electric Hitters and one lxx Buck
Ion's Arnica Salve cured him entirely.
Sold hv J. H- Hill & Son, Goldslior't,
and J. K. Smith, Mt. Olive.
Contentment is the
triumph of mind
over matter.
What They Say.
Those are a few sample .statements
about Dr. King's Royal (Jermetuer from
people who have tried it thoroughly:
Kev. Sam P. Jones: "It is truly a great
remedy.1 Kev. J. I. Oxford, Atlanta:
Finest medicine I have ever used."
Harvey Ware, Augusta, Ga.: '-Greatest
medicine in the world." S. 11. Drip
pers, Columbus. Ja. : 'Greatest of med
cal remedies." Mrs. J. J. Halbert , Ter
ry Miss., after four years use.: "Best
medicine we have ever had in our fam
ily." $1 ; j for $5.
Itch on human, mango on horses, dogs
and all stock, cured in ) minutes, by
Woolford's Sanitary Itin. This never
fails. Sold lv M. 11 Robinson & Bro.,
druggists, Goldslxn o, X. C.
The man who is so straight that lie
leans backward looks worse than the
fellow who stoop.
Balance
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