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Old Times and Sew.
"No times like the old times!" we sing
H nigm and aay;
But the new times by the grace o' God
are happy on the way!
There's still the same bright sunshine
the stars are bright above.
And all the world is blossoming wi'.h
lilies white of Love!
"No times like the old times!" that's
jest the way we sing!
But don't we reap in harvest fields the
promise of the spring?
Are not the rivers rippling the same
glad way to sea.
While the winds that wave the branches
blow blossoms far and free?
"No times like the old times!" but these
are still the times
When Love weaves all earth's roses in
the music of glad rhymes!
And all the birds are singing iu the
splendor of the light;
And all the bells are riuging, and all the
world is bright!
Fkank L. Stanton.
Handwriting Experts.
A decision by Justice Fursman in
the criminal branch of the Supreme
Court in New York city has attract
ed attention as bearing upon the
testimony of handwriting experts.
Iu the trial of Dr. Kennedy for the
murder of a woman named Dolly
Reynolds the prosecution sought to
prove by experts that the accused
had indorsed a check which was
found by the Coroner upon the per-
sou of the dead woman. The object
of the evidence was to show the pres
ence of the defendant at the hotel
where the murder was committed.
Experts were put upon the witness
stand to compare the writing on the
check with writing known to be that
of Dr. Kennedy, but the Court ruled
that the evidence was not competent
because the writing was not the sub
ject matter of the case.
If the writing itself had been the
matter in dispute upon which the
case was based, and its validity had
been called in question, it might be
established under the provisions of
an act of the New York Legislature
passed in 18S0 by comparison with
other writing. New York lawyers,
it is said, attach great importance to
this decision, not only as applied to
the pending trial, but as to the
Molineux case. It is said that the
conviction of young Moliueux of mur
der was largely upon the testimony
of handwriting experts such as Judge
Fursman has rejected in the Kennedy
trial. Expert testimony of all kinds
is often discredited before juries by
putting expert against expert to
contradict each other. It is a seri
ous matter to sentence a man to
death upon the opinion of some per
son that certain curves and flourishes
in one writing are similar to certain
curves and flourishes in another
writing.
The Old Man's Trouble.
Out in Kansas there is a neglected
old man, whose home has been
wrecked by a woman with a mission.
The first mission of Mrs. Nation
would seem to have been to the
home. Instead of that she has rele
gated the old man to the rear. His
desperation may be told in this story:
''I have written to my wife sever
al times since she has been away and
have never received an answer.
When she left Topeka she left word
with friends of mine that she would
only be gone three days.
''She said she would go to Chicago
and then come right back. Now I
see she is having fijjhts with ber lec
ture manager and has threatmed to
create trouble with Mayor Harrison,
of Chicago.
I have put up with her cavorting
around for some time. I will send
her this greeting as soon as she ar
rives in Chicago:
" 'You can come home at once, or I
will sue for divorce.' "
The intemperance which neglects
the home would seem to be as bad in
the one sex as in the other. The
irony of the whole affair is that Mrs.
Nation is glass smashing because her
first husband died a drunkard. And
Mr. Nation wonders why she should
think so little of him.
Internal Revenue Rulings.
The Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue has decided that bank checks
drawn by sheriffs in disbursing pri
vate funds are not exempt from tax.
He also has decided that deeds of
building and loan associations con
veying real property to a non-shareholder,
are taxable. Likewise that
leases embodying powers of attorney
must pay the tax required for both
instruments.
A Very Young 'raiidntotlier.
There is a family living iu Pickens
county, S. C, that has a record most
remarkable, and one seldom acquired
by any family. The mother was
married when 11 years old. She is
now twenty-six and has 14 living
children. The oldest one of the fam
ily has married and has one child.
The mother of the family therefore
is a grandmother and only 20 years
old.
A Convincing Answer.
"I hobbled into Mr. Hlackmon's drug
store one ereninff." savs esley elson,
of Hamilton. Ga., "and he asked me to
trv Chamlierlain's Tain Balm for rheu
matism with which I had suffered for a
lortfr time. I told him 1 had no laitn in
any medicine as they all failed. He
snid- 'Well if Chamberlain s l'ain liaim
does not help you, you need not pay for
it.' I took a bottle of it home and used
it according to the directions and iu one
week I was cured, and have not since
lieeti troubled with rheumatism. Sold
bv M. E. Robinson & Uro., J. F. Miller's
Drug Store, ('oldsboro; J. K. bmith,
Mt. Olive.
ARP HELPS THE Y01XG.
Philosopher Takes the Places of Books
for Many Students.
I feel pleased and honored to re
ceive letters every day from young
girls and boys over the south asking
for information on some subject or
for help in a school debate or for a
start in a composition just a start.
These young people are generally
from the country, where books are
scarce and their eagerness for knowl
edge and mental improvement is
very gratifying. I wish that I was
three or four men so that I could re
spond to all their letters and com
ply with their requests. I reply to
as many as I can, but I cannot take
time to write compositions, even if
it was right to do so. One boy begs
me to write him a speech, a humor
ous speech, and winds up by asking
me please to write two, so that he
may take choice.
We see that some of the good la
dies of the Atlanta Woman's Club
are moving to supply the country
schools with small libraries of good
books and the Southern railway has
donated neat book cases for them.
This, of course, is for Fulton county,
but it is a move in the right direc
tion and will, no doubt, stimulate
the ladies of other towns to do the
same thing. It is the very best
thing I have heard of a woman's club
doing. The desire for books to read
is almost universal among the young
people of the rural districts, and
they should be encouraged. Books
are cheaper than ever before known,
and cheap bookcases can be had for
a few dollars each. I am not at all
intimate with Mr. Carnegie, but if
I was I would whisper in his philan
thropic ear and suggest that he turn
his attention for awhile to the towns
and -villages and let the big cities
alone. Our Cartersville Woman's
Club is struggling hard to keep up
their little library, but are not en
couraged by the men of the town.
Their books are out all the time, and
are read and re read by many of the
children whose fathers do not give a
dollar to help maintain the library.
This may be thoughtless; and so I
have suggested that the ladies go
around and see who will give 50
cents or 25 cents, or even 10 cents
a month to keep up the sup
ply and pay their room rent and in
cidental expenses. Of course the
character of the books must be thor
oughly considered. Nothing sec
tional or trashy or sensational; but
only those that "point a moral or
adorn a tale." Every public school
should have a burning committee,
such as they have at Forsyth, Ga.
A bright boy from Alabama writes
that his name is John Jones, and
wants to know when and how he got
it; says his father and grandfather
had the same name, but they died
without telling where they got it.
He says his schoolmate is named
Will Higgiubotham, and he, too,
wants to know where his name came
from. I admire their eager curios
ity, for our name is our signboard
and every boy ought to know who
put it up and what it reads. Of
course it is too big a thing to tell
much about names in a letter, like
this, but I must tell Jack and Bill
about theirs.
John is as old as the Christian era,
and means "Whom Jehovah loves."
I knew a man very well who lived
near Rome, and his four sons were
named Matthew, Mark, Luke and
John, and his two daughters were
named Mary and Martha. Those
good old-time people had great rev
erence for the Bible and Bible names.
One of my father's customers was
named Shadrack Bogan, and his
three sons were Shadrack, Meshack
and Abednego. Another customer,
David Allen, named his son Absa
lom, and for a wonder he was a good
boy and made a good man, and his
father, David, had no occasion to
say "Oh, Absalom, my son, my son!"
Well in course of time the people
increased and multiplied so that
their children had to have two
names; so as to distinguish them,
and so John's son was called John
son in English, or John Johns in
Welsh. After awhile it became John
Jones. The Joneses are all of Welsh
origin. The Welsh were a brave,
religious people, and fought the En
glish for many centuries. They
never did submit until they prom
ised that no king should rule them,
except one born on their soil, and he
should be called the prince of Wales.
King Edward's son happened to be
born at a beautiful little Welsh town
named Caernavron, and the Welsh
accepted him as their future king
and called him the prince of Wales,
and that is how the title started.
He was King Edward II.
Now, there was another Welsh
way of distinguishing the son from
the father. The little word "Ap"
means son of, and it used to be writ
ten John ap Jones, but in course of
time the little middle word was
dropped. It is a little singular that
away back in the tenth century the
Welsh people who had been fighting
each other iu civil wars for two hun
dred years at last made friends and
chose David ap Howell for their
king, and he had a son named Evan.
He was a good man, and his subjects
always called him Howell Da How
ell the good. Ihat must be our
Evan of The Atlanta Constitu
tion. He has just been hid out all
these years. I see that the cham
ber of commerce gave a banquet yes
terday and Evan Howell responded
to the toast "Good Fellowship."
That suited him exactly, I know.and
had I been there I would have told
how his great ancestor was called
the "Da" and was the last king of
Wales. I called him over the tele
phone this morning and said, "Hello
Da! and he answered "Here!"
Now, about Bill Higginbotham.
That is old Anglo Saxon, and means
a mountain ark. The old name was
hicken. Probably the old ancestor
took his name from an ash tree that
shaded his house. Names were
scarce, and people took their sur
names from objects of nature; such
as hill fountain, dale, peak, pine,
plant, oaks, chestnut, grub, twigs,
branch, water, pool, moon, star,
cloud and so forth; or from their oc
cupations as baker, farmer, carpen
ter, mason, miller, gardener, granger
and all the family of smiths who were
the sinkers of iron and silver and
gold. All who were detailed to watch
for an invading enemy were called
smiters or smiths. John Smith was
originally John, the smiter, Captain
John Smith was an illustrious type
of that class. When names were too
long to pronounce readily, they were
shortened up. Peter, who lived at
the Seven Oaks, was called Peter
Svnoaks; then Peter Snooks, and
that's how our Atlanta friend came
by his name.
The name Coward was origiually
cow herd a herder of cattle and
was not improved by the change.
The adjutant of our brigade was
named Coward, and the army had no
braver soldier. He lost an arm at
Chickahominy. He always signed
his name A Coward, adj't. genl. and
being asked why he did not sign his
full name, said: "Well, my first
name, unfortunately, is Adam, and
it is not quite so bad to be a coward
as it is to be a-dam coward."
A few centuries ago every civilized
nation had to adopt a prefix or a suf
fix so as to prevent the confusion of
names. The English added son to
most of their names, as Johnson, Wil
liamson, Jackson, Thompson, etc.
The Scotch prefixed with Mac. The
Irish with Mac or Mc for son and O
for grandson. The French took De
or Du. The Normans used Fitz or
fils (from Latin of filius, a son). The
Russians took vitch from the same
word.
Then there are many nicknames to
be accounted for, such as Bob, Bill,
Dick, Jack, Jim, Sally, Polly, Betsy,
etc. I don't know how these started,
but some of them came out the col
lieries of England and the quarries
of Wales, for every miner has a nick
name as Nosey, Soaker, Shanke, Jig
ger or something easy to-call. I had
a schoolmate whose name was Mel
ville Young. Oue day he was trying
to do a sum in Fellowship at the
blackboard and wrote down what he
intended To-D but it looked like
tod, and the teacher said "What do
you mean by tod?" That was enough
for the boys. They began to call
him Tod, and they never quit, and he
was known as Tod Young all his after
ife.
But the girls are not so much in
terested in names, for almost every
girl expects to change hers when the
right young man comes along. She
is not obliged to marry a man named
Cruikshauks or Snoozlefanter or
Hogg, but I've known them to do it,
and they did very well.
Bill Arp.
.
Reflections of a Bachelor.
A religious woman takes to a fun
eral like a healthy man does to a
fight.
If a woman only loves a man en
ough, he can make her do anything
she wants to.
The first year after she is married
a woman ought to be made to carry a
bit in ber mouth.
Most girls sooner or later you have
to kiss, but there are a few that you
only have to let kiss you.
Probably if they didn't give them
a pain in the back, women wouldn't
be half as fond of wearing high-heeled
shoes.
After a man has once told a wo
man that her soul was wearing out
her body she goes around trying to
look like something ailed her.
A woman spends half the time
wondering what the Lord thinks of
her husband and the other half won
dering what the neighbors think of
her.
The claim of other cough medicines to
be as good as Chamberlain's are effectu
ally set at rest in the following testi
monial of Mr. C. D. Glass, an employe
of 15artlett & Dennis Co., Gardiner, Me.
He says: "I had kept adding to a cold
and cough in the winter of lsJ7, trying
every cough medicine I heard of with
out permanent help, until one day I was
in the drug store of Mr. Houlehati and
he advised me to try Chamberlaiu's
Cough Remedy and offered to pay back
my money if I was not cured. My lungs
and bronchial tubes were very sore at
this time, but I was completely cured by
this remedy, and have since always
turned to it when I got a cold, and soon
find relief. I also recommend it to my
friends and am glad to say it is the best
of all cough medicines.1' For sale by
M. E. Robinson & 15ro., J. F. Miller's
Drug Store, Goldsboro; J. R. Smith,
Mt. Olive.
AT HOME AISD ABROAD.
The News From Everywhere Gathered
and Condensed.
Fourteen hundred soldiers for the
Philippines sailed from San Fran
cisco, Cal., Sunday.
A church quarrel at Rock Bridge,
Ky., Sunday, ended in the murder of
Elder William Faulconner.
The jail at Alapaha, Ga., was
burned Wednesday night, and a ne
gro prisoner was cremated in it.
James Callahan has been arrested
in Omaha, Neb., and identified by
Edward Cudahy, Jr., as one of his
abductors.
Fire at Atlanta, Ga., Thursday,
destroyed almost an eutire block in
the wholesale district, entailing a
loss of $500,000.
An upset wagon carrying a party
of 13 at Williamstown, Mass , Mon
day, killed a boy and injured ten
other occupants.
Chief-of Police Devery, of New
York, has been legislated out of of
fice at Albany, and will be succeeded
by Moses Cartwright.
Mrs. Rose Hudson, the wife of a
Millwood, Kan., "joint" keeper, was
shot and killed in a raid on her hus
band's place, Monday.
Police are guarding the Barnes
Manufacturing Company's factory,
in New York, where striking sash
and door blind makers threaten trou
ble. Miss Jennie Howell, of Scranton,
Pa., whose brothers tried to have
her committed as a lunatic to pre
vent her marriage, has been declared
sane.
Misses Bessie and Alice Wilkes,
aged 1G and 13 years, were cremated
in a fire at the home of their wid
owed mother at Prattville, Ala.,
early Tuesday morning.
Three persons were killed and sev
eral injured by the Wabash west
bound passenger train running into
a sleigh filled with people near Gos
hen, Ind., Saturday evening.
Peter Berrick, colored, was taken
from the jail at Mena, Ark., Mon
day night, by a mob and hanged.
He was charged with assaulting and
fatally wounding a 12-year-old white!
girl.
Two thieves made a murderous as
sault on Mr. and Mrs. John Harman,
at Severn, Md., Sunday night, nearly
killing Barman, but being prevented
by the wit of Mrs. Harman from get
ting any booty.
Au explosion in the purifying
house of the Lower Gas Works, at
Richmond, Va., Saturday morning,
caused the death of Mortimer Ho
gan, one of the workmen, and the
injury of six others.
Thomas Vital, colored, charged
with assaulting a 13-year-old white
girl, was taken from his home near
Fenton, La , by a mob and lynched
Thursday morning. Samuel Mad
dox, who attempted to defend Vital,
was shot to death.
As a result of the giving way of a
wall, the Asylum mine at Tuscaloo
so, Ala., was . flooded Tuesday, and
thirteen negro miners are now en
tombed in ten feet of water. It is
thought there is little prospects of
their beiug rescued.
George James and his four young
daughters were burned to death in
their farmhouse, four miles from
Versailles, Ind., early Friday morn
ing. A son 12 years old made a des
perate effort to get his father and
sisters from the building, but failed.
The Pacific Mail steamer Rio de
Janeiro ran on a hidden rock while
entering the Golden Gate near San
Francisco, Cal., early Friday morn
ing in a dense fog, and sank in a few
minutes after striking. So far as
can be ascertained 123 liver were
lost.
The "Nellie Bly" express from
New York for Atlantic City, N. J.,
on the Amboy division of the Penn
sylvania Railroad, collided with a
passenger train near Bordentown,
N. J., Thursday morning, killing
twelve persons and injurying thirty
others.
The Virginia Legislature has re
cently passed an act requiring steam
boat companies operating in the
State to provide separate accommo
dations for the white and black peo
pie, just as is required of railroad
companies. The act does not go into
effect until the first of July.
Foreign Affairs.
Chile was shaken by earthquakes
Wednesday.
A severe cold wave is prevailing
throughout Europe.
Great Britain is issuing from $5,
000,000 to $0,000,000 of war bonds
weekly.
Four persons were killed at Gi
braltar, Wednesday, by a falling
roof, and seven injured.
The British steamer Kaisari, from
Rungoon, went to pieces off the
coast of Reunion Island and 25 of
her crew were drowned.
In the Russian provinces of Kher
son and Bessarabia tens of thous
ands of people are famishing. Ty
phus also is rapily spreading. South
western Russia has equally lamenta
ble conditions.
National Capital Matters.
From Onr Regular Correspondent.
Washington, Feb. 20, 1901.
- There is a chance that the Dem
ocrats of the House may duplicate
their triumph in the Ways and Means
committee and defeat the Republi
can scheme to have the bill for the
reduction of war taxes, now dead
locked in conference fail. As the
matter now stands the House con
ferees refuse to agree to the Senate
amendments and the Senata confe
rees refuse to recede. It is believed
that if the matter can be got before
the House again all of the Demo
crats and a sufficient number of Re
publicans to make a majority would
vote to accept the Senate amend
ments and the bill could be sent to
Mr. McKinley, who would not dare
to veto it, much as he would like to
see it fail. That would be as marked
a triumph as was ever achieved by
the minority in either branch of
Congress. The democratic leaders
are striving to bring it about, not
because of any special love for the
Senate bill but because they think
taxes should be reduced, and it is
well worthy of their best efforts.
Is there a deal on between the ad
ministration and the Panama Canal
gang? Several things are calculated
to justify the suspicion that there is.
One thing, is the presence in Wash
ington of Senor Silva, Minister from
Colombia, who has openly stated
that he is here solely for the purpose
of offering to transfer to the United
States Colombia's rights in the Pan
ama Canal, and will as soon as his
task is completed, go back home and
resume the affice of Minister of For
eign Affairs. Another thing, is the
republican show down that Senator
Morgan forced by insisting upon ac
tion by the Senate Committee on
Foreign Relations on his resolution
declaring that neither the Hay-
Pauncefore treaty nor the Clayton
Bulwer treaty should be allowed to
stand iu the wav of legislation bv
Congress for the construction of the
Nicaragua Canal. By a strict party
vote Senator Morgan's resolution
has been adversely reported, thus
showing the republican members of
the committee to be opposed to the
Nicaragua Canal. Senator Morgan
has got his fighting blood up, and
says he intends to put the Senate on
record by demanding a vote on his
resolution.
Democratic Senators may make a
fight on the nomination of Gen. Shat
ter to be a major general in the reg
ular army, sent to the Senate this
week by Mr. McKinley, not only be
cause they do not think he has done
anything to deserve the promotion,
but because of the extraordinary
method taken to give it to him. It
will be remembered that although
Gen. Shafter is now doing duty as a
major general of volunteers, he went
on the retired list sometime ago, un
der the age limitation, as a brigadier
general. To confirm his nomination
will be 6imply to present him the
difference between the salary of a re
tired brigadier general and that of a
retired major general for the rest of
his life.
Some very vigorous protests have
been lodged with Mr. McKinley by
western republicans in Congress
against the proposed appointment of
P. C. Knox, of Pittsburg, Pa., the
attorney for the Carnegje steel
trust, to succeed Attorney General
Griggs, although it is difficult to see
why they should object to one trust
lawyer succeeding another in the
Cabinet.
Mr. McKinley's recommendation
that Congress vote its thanks to
Sampson is hung up in the Senate
Committee on Naval Affairs, and is
likely to remain there. All of the
Naval promotions sent to the Sen
ate except those of Sampson and
Schley will be confirmed. To cover
their cases a compromise was reach
ed under which a bill reviving the
grade of vice admiral and authoriz
ing the appointment of two was fa
vorably reported to the Senate, but
unless some assurance is given that
Schley will be made the senior of
Sampson, as he is now, there is no
certainty that the bill will be al
lowed to go through. There is a
very determined feeling in the Sen
ate against allowing Mr. McKinley
to jump Sampson over the head of
Schley as a reward for a victory won
by Schley.
An active New York democrat
Mr. L. L. Gregory, of Albany said
to a group of friends in a Washing
ton hotel: "If I could name the next
democratic ticket it would be Richard
Oluey, of Massachusetts, for Presi
dent, and Senator Daniel, of Virgin
ia for Vice-President. There's a
combination that would be hard to
beat. Olney is the strongest man
with the East that could possibly be
named, and he is also popular with
the South, with a not inconsiderable
following in the Western States. In
the South Daniel is almost worship
ped, and his popularity in the West
is second only to that of Bryan."
The President to-day issued the
customary proclamation for a special
session of the Senate for executive
purposes immediately upon the disso
lution of the present Congress, March
4th. The date for the entire special
session is thus far withheld.
ALL OYER THE STATE.
A Summary of Current Events for the
Past SeTen Days.
Gaston's county jail, a two story
brick structure, was burned Satur
day morning.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
to burn the business portion of Ilills
boro, Sunday night.
Compulsory vaccination is being
enforced in Rocky Mount and the
whole of Edgecombe county.
Robert Coleman shot and instantly
killed Andy Jackson at Gastonia,
Monday night, caused by jealousj.
Burglars entered the store of M.
C. Winston & Co., at Selma, Wed
nesday night, and stole a large quan
tity of general merchandise.
The store of S. J. Stallings, at Lit
tleton, was burglariously entered
Monday night, the safe blown open
and $30 in money taken therefrom.
The livery stable of J. F. King, at
Greenville, was destroyed by fire
Friday night together with several
adjoining buildings, causing a $0,000
OSS.
The six 3ear-old daughter of Cleve
Ham, near Mt. Airy, was fatally
burned Wednesday morning, while
being left alone in front of the fire
place. High Point, which is the leading
furniture manufacturing town of the
State, shipped $1,500,000 worth of
furniture last year, fifty carloads of
this to Texas.
The doors of the Le with Mercantile
Company, doing a department store
business at Durham, were closed
Tuesday noon by the sheriff. Lia
bilities, $25,000.
The three-year-old son of E. L.
Weaver, at Lexington, was burned
to death Monday evening while play
ing in the yard where a fire was
burning under a wash-pot.
The express office at Roanoke Rap
ids, near Weldon, was broken into
and robbed Monday night. Several
express packages were taken and the
robbers got away with about $200.
At Cedar Springs, Rutherford
county, Wednesday, Miss Mary Jane
Morgan, aged 14, was married to
Bonnie Wright, of same age. The
bride wore short dresses, yet her
parents were willing.
The barn of Thomas Chapel, across
the river from Elkin, was burned
Thursday morning aud along with it
two mules, a hog and a lot of feed.
Mr. and Mrs. Chapel were severely
burned while trying to save a wheat
drill, which was under a shed in rear
of the barn.
Mrs. Henrietta Williams, widow of
the late Dr. Richard Williams, died
suddenly in the Episcopal church at
Greenville, Sunday. She was in fee
ble health and had just taken her
seat in church, before services be
gan, when she gasped a few times
and died.
A meeting of the board of gov
ernors of the Southern Cotton Spin
ners' Association and a convention
of the members of the same organi
zation was held in Charlotte, Satur
day. After a session of about three
and one half hours a resolution was
passed to curtail the production of
cotton yarns, for four months from
March 1st, .to the extent of about
one-third the present output.
Senator Prltchard has introduced
in Congress a bill empowering the
district judge for the eastern dis
trict of North Carolina to appoint a
clerk who will keep his office at Wil
mington, a clerk who will keep his
office at New Berne, a clerk who
will keep his office at Elizabeth City
and a clerk who will keep his office
at Raleigh. The clerks appointed
shall be clerks of both the circuit
and districts courts.
At Reidsville Tuesday a bell in the
graded school building fell from the
belfry, a distance of 75 feet, crash
ing through the ceiling and scatter
ing broken timbers in every direc
tion. The noon recess was on and a
number of pupils were in the hall
near where the bell fell. Miss Bet
tie Hall was knocked to the floor by
a piece of broken timber, receiving
a very painful wound, and several
others received slight bruises.
In a runaway at Hickory, Satur
day evening, W. E. Holbrook, man
ager of the Hickory Democrat, got
his right arm broken, besides
receiving other painful bruises. He
was struck by an engine passing him
while he was attempting to hold his
horse in the dirt road near the track-
Miss Winston, the principal of the
Hickory graded school, who accom
panied him, saved herself from in
jury by jumping from the buggy.
The Wilmington Messenger is in
formed that Mormon elders have
been very active in Columbus county
and have beeu meeting with success
in proselyting the people in some
sections. It is said that they have
met with such success in the Bug
Hill section that they have built and
organized a church. A widow of
considerable means, it is stated, hav
ing become a convert to Mormonism,
built the church at her own expense.
She has also sent her son to Salt
Lake City to become a Mormon el
der.
Mother of Twenty-Three Children.
A rather youthful looking colored
woman on the witness stand in the
Superior Court, at Monroe, last week
startled the judge and bar by saying
she was the mother of 23 children, 22
of whom are living. In her testimony
she spoke of something occurring be
fore the "surrender." The lawyers
were incredulous and began to ques
tion her about her age, etc., with the
result that they became still more
doubtful. But her story was corrob
orated by reputable witnesses.
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mm, pale, ansmic girls
need a fatty food to enrich
their blood, give color to
their cheeks and restore their
health and strength. It is
safe to say that they nearly
all reject fat with their food.
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it not only gives them the im-
portant element (cod-liver oil)
$ in a palatable and easily di- jtj
gested form, but also the hypo-
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bh in nervous disorders that $
usually accompany anxmia.
SCOTT'S EMULSION isa
fatty food that is more easily g
digested than any other form
of fat. A certain amount of $
flesh is necessary for health.
j You can get it in this way.
We have known per-
sons to gain a pound a $
day while taking it. t
50c. and $1.00. ail druggists.
SCOTT Si BOWNE, Chemists, New York.
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Don't be imposed upon.
Refuse the dealer s substitute ; it
is not as good as Dr. Bull's.
Salvation Oil cures Rheumatism,
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Uoldsboro, N . C.
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