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Courage.
To brave death in the deadly breach
That Yvere an easy thing;
With sword in hand and blood aflame
ho Yvould be lingering?
But ah! to wage Life's daily war,
And bear its petty woes.
Takes courage of a nobler type
Than fighting mortal foes.
To tread stern Duty's thorny path,
Nor ever swen'e aside;
To follow where clear Conscience leads,
Tho1 passion be denied;
To measure Justice with a hand
That knows not friend nor foe,
Ah! 'tis, indeed, no easy task
Thus self to overthrow.
Tho1 no admiring crowds may shout
At mention 01 Ins name;
Tho' no rich marble monuments
Perpetuate his fame
He who shall lowly duty do
And cast all self away
Shall rank as Nature's nobleman,
And heaven s protege.
Why Bachelors Are Many.
Iu the May North American Re
view there is an interesting discus
sion by Miss Kate Wells of the ques
tion, "Why More Men Do Not
Marry?" Most men, it is conceded.
do marry, but the proportion of
thoughtful men who remain bache
lors is supposed to be increasing.
Among the causes of celibacy are
cited the summer girl, education and
clubs, but the increased complexity
and expense of our modern life are
the principal reasons. The summer
girl dissipates the young man's dis
position to take his own feelings very
seriously. She teaches him "the art
of flirtation fencing and ofbreaking
off in the middle of a declarations"
At the end of several seasons his
"ideals of honor and loyalty" are
somewhat blurred and he is thence
forth "ready for any test of his emo
tions which will not culminate in the
fixiti' of feeling requisite for a wed
ding." "Too many summer girls" is
the epitaph the author would in
scribe on the urn of most defunct
"intentions."
Education is another obstacle. It
consumes time, and just that time of
life when a young man is most likely
to be carried away by his feelings.
"It is not enough," says Miss Wells,
"to go through high school; ordinary
fellows must also go to college.
When a boy finishes his four years
there, seven more at least lie ahead
of him, if he studies for a profession,
before he can earn a thousand a year.
The graduates of to-day argue that
though a wife may help some, the
birth of many children hinders pros
perity." Education, moreover, tends
to make a wife superfluous. "The
delights of knowledge," we are told,
"act against haste in marriage until
inclination for it has faded away. Cul
ture is less expensive than a wife and
her charms are more enduring. The
scholar need not now be a monk. His
librar' can be far more to him than
the actuality of a children's nursery."
It is alleged further that education re
fines away the natural disposition to
marry ' 'the more culture a man pos
sesses the less gross are bis instincts.'1
Without subscribing to the idea that
the instinctive disposition to marry
is gross, it may be conceded that, as
the writer says, "man grows fearful
as he gets educated," especially when
his education has been such as to
cause him to study "economics, hy
giene and mental growth" in their
practical aspect.
Clubs are cited as obstacles to
marriage, inasmuch as they supply
the comforts of domestic life without
its drawbacks. In clubs young men
escape "the friction of home arrange
ments." There for the first time
they find perfect physical comfort,
and what is worse, acquire a habit of
expecting it. Clubs slacken one's
energy in the work of increasing in
come to the marrying point. "A
fellow can live at them," Miss Wells
says, oetter man in nis own uou&e.
He likes the obeisance of the trained
waiters, and knows he cannot get
from self-regardful girl-domestics
that quick attention to his wishes
which his club provides. He has no
responsibilities there. There he has
many newspapers, instead of one,
which if he were married, his wife
might desire to read at the very time
he wished to peruse it. If the menu
is not well cooked he can find fault
without having to engage a new ser
vant, as would be the case if he were
wedded. In short, club life provides
that easy affluence, personal inde
pendence and gratification of the
palate which a fellow on a small sal
ary can command as a bachelor, but
which would be impossible if he had
a wife."
The cost of married life is affirmed
to be greater than in former times
"because what once' were luxuries
are now family necessities. Apart
from herself the woman as wife and
mother demands more accessories
than did her grandmother." Science
has multiplied expenses. Sanitation,
refined tastes, the reading habit, im
proved ideas these things cost."
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ARI AS A REVIEWER.
"A Glance at Current History" TroTea
Interesting To Bill.
It is only a little book a very lit
tie book that the author has sent to
me, but a perusal of its pages has
impressed me profoundly and has
proved a real comfort in my old age.
I have read most of it aloud to my
wife and daughters and it has com
forted them and established them
more firmly in the faith, if that were
possible. This book is only 6x8 and
contains ICO pages in large print
very large so that the veterans
might read it without glasses or a
strain of the optic nerve. Its mod
est title is "A Glance at Current
History," by Colonel John Cussons,
of Glen Allen, Va. It is the work of
a retired confederate veteran, who is
known and loved by all Virginians
and who was grand commander of
the grand camp of Virgina confede
rate veterans and the intimate friend
of General Maury, Dr. Hunter Ma
guire, Fitzhugh Lee and Joseph E.
Johnston. This book was written
with no selfish motive, neither for
profit or fame, nor with any desire
of crimination, but rather to heal the
breach and at the same time preserve
the truth of history and hand it down
to our children. There is not a line
of malice or revenge within its pages,
but a high-toned, dignified, consera
tive appeal to his comrades to uphold
the government that is now a nation
and at the same time defend the
south from any taint upon her honor.
It is beautifully written in thoughts
that breathe and words that burn
and no man,. north or south, can
question a statement contained with
in it. I wish that I was a million
aire. I would place a copy of this
book in the home of every family in
the south and in the hands of every
young mau, and I would make it a
little text-book of history in every
public school. There are only six
chapters, each not more than ten
minutes long, but there is not a
wasted sentence nor a paragraph too
much.
The last chapter is a defense of the
American Indian, for the author was
long a frontiersman and lived among
them and mingled with them for
many years, and as General Maury
said of him, "He has more thoroughly
studied the Indian character than
any man now living." The first
chapter is devoted to a review of a
United States history recently writ
ten and published by Professor Gold-
win Smith, an Englishman, who was
for years a professor of history in
Cornell university and is now a doc
tor of canon law in Toronto, Cauada.
This history is published both in
London and New York, and is amaz
ingly popular both in England and
the north. It is intensely venomous
against the south, and especially
against Virginia. Now listen for a
few moments at some of his histori
cal utterances taken verbatim from
his book. Listen and wonder that
such a book could find patrons any
where: ' South Carolina got her
start by combining buccaneering
with slave owning and making her
ports a shelter for pirates and cor
sairs, such as Captain Kidd and
Blackbeard. Georgia was the refuge
of the pauper and bankrupt. Her
first settlers were good for nothings
who had failed in trade a shiftless
and lazy set but later on some bet
ter elements came in Highlanders,
Moravians and persecuted Protes
tants of Salzburg.
"The first settlers of Virginia
were an unpromising lot lackeys,
beggars, broken down gentlemen and
tapsters out of a job. To this crew
of vagabonds were afterwards added
jailbirds. English convicts were of
fered their choice between the gal
lows and Virginia, and some were
wise enough to choose the gallows.
Even their place of settlement-
Jamestown has long been a desola
tion. They were not such colonists
as the Puritans. They made the In
dians work for them, while the Puri
tans worked for themselves. Many
of them were kidnaped from the
streets of London and all were of de
praved character. Afterwards came
African slavery, the bane of Virginia
and her ultimate ruin. As were the
people so were their leaders. A
chief formentor of the quarrel with
England was Patrick Henry, a man
who had tried many ways of earning
a living and had failed in all. A
bankrupt at twenty-three, he loung
ed in idleness till he found he could
live by his tongue. James Madison
was a well meaning man, but moral
ly weak. Henry Clay was a dazzling,
but artful politician. John Randolph
had natural ability, but lacked good
sense and had no power of self con
trol. He would enter the senate
with his hunting whip in his band
and behave as if he were in his dog
kennel." He gives faint praise to
Washington, and much more to Ben
edict Arnold, who, he says, was one
of the best of American generals and
the most daring of them all. He
was slighted and wronged by politi
cians and had despaired of the cause."
Ben Franklin and Samuel Adams
were lacking in the ordinary traits
of gentlemen and as for Patrick
Henry, nothing better was to be ex
pected, for the character of an Eng
lish gentleman is not to be formed in
the backwoods."
Concerning the civil war he says:
"The slaveholders escaped military
service and thrust the poor people
under fire. Guards impressed men in
the streets and conscripts were sent
to Lee's army in chains. At the tak
ing of Fort Pillow the negroes were
nailed to logs and burned alive. The
southern lady was but the head of a
harem. She was soft, elegant and
charming, but the civil war disclosed
an element in her character of a dif
ferent kind." This is enough of the
scandalous and slanderous book and
it is only popular at the north be
cause of its vilification of the south.
He flatters New England and the
Puritans and gives praise to Benedict
Arnold, who was born in Connecticut
and more to old John Brown than to
General Lee.
These are the kind of books that
northern children read and study
and believe. How can that section
ever be reconciled? And yet there
are people at the south who condemn
us for defending the honor of our an
cestors and the heroism of our sol
diers and speak of it as "ex-confederate
rot." Lord Macauley said: "A
people who take no pride in - the
achievements of their ancestors will
achieve nothing for their own chil
dren to be proud of." Some of our
most gifted men are still toadying to !
please northern appetites, "licking
the hand that strikes the blow." Of
all such a patriotic northern writer
says beware of the "chronic recon
ciler," the man who improves every
opportunity to haul out his faded
olive branch and waive it in the eyes
of the people. When any man, north
or south, talks in a mellow way of
his love for his old enemjr, watch
him. He is getting ready to ask for
something. Watch him. There is
something pathetic in the picture of
the north and south clasped in each
others arms and shedding a torrent
of hot tears down each others backs,
but the aged mothers on either side
have not yet learned to love the foe
with much violence. Nor does the
crippled veteran love the adversary
who robbed him of his glorious 3-outb
and left him a feeble ruin, nor hae
the patriot soldiers ou either side
deserted the cause for which they
fought.
But think of Virginia theglorious
Old Dominion the mother of states
and statesmen. Her domain extend
ed from Carolina to Canada and from
the Atlautic to the Pacific oceans.
Born upon her generous bosom was
Washington, Jefferson, Madison,
Monroe, Lighthorse Harry, Robert
E. Lee, Joe E. Johnston and Stone
wall Jackson. Who would not be
proud to be a Virginian? Who can
wonder at the patriotic pride of
those two venerable sisters, Miss
Judith and Miss Anna Thomas, of
Southampton county, now passed
their eightieth year, the only sisters
of General George II. Thomas, and
who, ever since 18(J1, when he ac
cepted office under Lincoln, have uni
formly declared that they once had
a brave and noble brother of that
name and that he won renown in the
war at Mexico when he was a major
in Colonel Robert E. Lee's regiment,
but that he died in 1SG1 and now
they have no brother. Ever since
Virginia seceded they have patheti
cally declared their dear brother
died in the spring ef 18G1. Every
Virginia officer of the old army, save
George H. Thomas, promptly resign
ed and volunteered to defend their
state. These lonely old maidens
seem really to believe that their
brother did die. The county of
Southampton had presented to Ma
jor Thomas on bis return from Mexi
co a beautiful sword and after our
civil war he wrote to his sisters and
requested that the sword be sent to
him. They replied that they could
not part with it, for it was the only
memento of a very dear brother who
died in 18G1. They still live alone
and in poverty in the same old man
sion in which they were born, but
neither friend nor neighbor ever pre
sumes to mention General Thomas in
their presence. These venerable and
venerated ladies are but a type of
the old Virginia aristocracy. Well
may they be proud of their state and
their ancestry. Bill Arp.
Four Pointed Paragraphs.
It costs a lot more to get divorced
than to get married.
The man who has no ememies may
also have no friends.
It doesn't take an X ray apparatus
to see through some people.
Talk is cheap until you want to
use a long-distance telephone.
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AT HOME AND ABROAD.
The Sews From Eferywhere Gathered
and Condensed.
A bill for a dispensary law was in
troduced in the Florida Legislature.
Four men were killed by a falling
wall at Chicago, Saturday, while de
molishing a building.
Thirteen barges and a tug sunk in
collision at Evansville, Ind., Satur
day, caused a loss of $45,000.
Burglars robbed the First Nation
al Bank of Guilford, Me., of $115
Tuesday night, by dynamiting the
vault.
Fire at Lufkin, Tex., Saturday af
ternoon, swept away twenty-two
business houses, entailing a loss of
about $05,000.
Tho street car lines, gas works
and electric plant at Lynchburg, Va.,
have been sold to capitalists of that
city and Philadelphia.
A two-year old child was burned
to death in a fire in the department
store of George E. Lorch & Bro., at
Pittsburg, Pa., Monday.
The War Department will discon
tinue its transport service to Cuba
and Porto Rico and turn the busi
ness over to regular lines.
Made melancholy by the death of
his brother, John McRiel, of Wyom
ing, Pa., committed suicide Satur-
day by blowing his brains out.
The mysterious disappearance of
Frederick Kinney at Salina, Kan.,
has caused the arrest of Henry Free
man, charged with his murder.
At Kenova, W. Va., Sunday, Miss
Lulu B. Akers became despondent
over a quarrel with her lover and
committed suicide by drowning.
For pilfering an orange from a
street cart, Joseph Hoffman was
killed by stabbing at Pittsburg, Pa.,
Saturday, the murderer escaping.
According to a Census Bureau
bulletin the center of population of
the United States June 1st last was
six miles southeast of Columbus, Ind.
Two children of John S. Shade, of
Shippensburg, Pa., were scalded to
death Monday morning by the acci
dental upsetting of a boiler of hot
water.
In a jealous rageC. R. Armstrong,
a grocery merchant of Jacksonville,
Fla., shot and killed his wife Thurs
day night, while she was returning
from church.
Hiram McMillan died at Connells
viile, Pa., Tuesday, from wounds re
ceived the previous night in pro
tecting bis wife from brutal assaults
by eight colored men.
Despondent because his hotel li
cense had not been granted, Frank
Kronsieder, of Altoona, Pa , placed
a -revolver between his teeth and
blew out his brains Tuesday night.
Joseph Glenning, aged 70, of Chi
cago, committed suicide Monday by
throwing himself under a freight
train in the Lake Shore yards, at
Collinswood. Glenning was a vete
ran of the civil war.
Two masked men entered the res
idence of Mrs. Ruth Ayers at Spring
field, Mich., Monday night, bound
and gagged her and ransacked the
house. They obtained about $8,000
in gold and currency.
Mrs. Norman L. Randolph, of
Richmond, Va., has protested to Sec
retary of War Root against the pro
posed removal of remains of Confed
erate soldiers from the Soldiers'
Home to Arlington Cemetery.
A fire which started in Jackson
ville, Fla., Friday afternoon burned
itself out. One hundred and forty
eight blocks were laid waste, leav
ing 10,000 people homeless. The
loss will reach over $11,000,000. It
is presumed that many persons per
ished. The school children of Potts ville,
Pa., failing to get the directors to
give them one session a day, inaug
urated a strike Monday by fixing
their signatures to a petition de
claring they would not attend school
unless their demands for one session
were granted.
While on their way home from
Frederick, Md., Thursday afternoon,
William Sheets, aged 20, and his
only sister, Mary, aged 14, were
struck by a passenger train of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and in
stantly killed. Their father was
plowing in a near-by field and wit
nessed the accident.
Foreign Affairs.
Starvation and typhus are increas
ing in Southern Russia.
The Chinese indemnity, it is now
stated, will be $327,000,000.
Census returns show the popula
tion of London to be 4,530,034.
The Japanese Cabinet has resigned
owing to a crisis in the Finance De
partment. .
Six hundred persons are said to
have been arrested as a result of Ni
hilist plots in Poland.
A bloody battle between the Rus
sians and Chinese is reported to
have occurred near Mukden, Man
churia.
A man accused of mutilating wo
men like "Jack the Ripper," has
been arrested at Ludwigshaven,
Germany.
Last Week In Trade Circles.
Special Correspondence.
New Yokk, May 7, 1901.
The week has been characterized
by phenomenal activity and strength
in the financial markets, but there
have been no unusual developments
in the trade and industrial situation.
More favorable weather has facili
tated building operations and farm
work, and has given rise to increased
activity in many branches of trade
at retail. Otherwise the commer
cial situation is unchanged. Busi
ness continues quiet in textile raw
materials and manufactures, but it
is active in practically all other
branches. Price changes have been
within narrow limits except in the
Chicago corn market, which has
been "cornered." The statistics of
the commercial agencies show ex
ceptionally strong conditions of bu
siness solvency. According to R.
G. Dunn & Co., the total of $5,571,
222 of liabilities involved in April
failures this year was the smallest
in twenty years, and it compared
with a total of $9,761,869 in April
last year.
Cotton prices have declined 1-16
of a cent per pound. Weak features
have been improved by weather
conditions in the South, a continued
liberal movement and an unsatisfac
tory demand from domestic spin
ners. Exports have been of good
volume, however, and for the week
have considerably exceeded the re
ceipts at the ports. Northern mill
takings of cotton for the season have
fallen 355,000 bales short of those
for the previous crop year, and
Southern consumption has also de
creased. The crop season is back
ward owing to unfavorable weather
in April, but good progress has been
made by planters during the current
week. There has been a decline of
3 16 of a cent per yard in print cloth
prices, and a sympathetic weakness
in the market for prints and for a
few lines of staple cottons; but the
general range of cotton goods prices
has been more steadily maintained,
and for some of the export grades of
brown goods values are a shade fir
mer. Home trade demand has im
proved slightly, but it is still very
conservative. The recent increase
in demand for export has been main
tained, and the purchases during the
the week have included about 10,-
000 bales for shipment to China.
Dirorcees Wed Practically on Sight.
Edwardsville, III., May 7. Albert
E. Lee and Mrs. Lucinda Lewis, of
East Alton, met for the first time
yesterday in Judge Cook's court,
where each had a suit pending for
divorce on the grounds of desertion.
They occupied adjoining seats in the
court room. Lee opened conversa
tion with Mrs. Lewis by saying:
"Our cases seem to be similar."
"Yes, my husband deserted me
seven years ago," was the answer.
. "Had you ever thought of getting
married again?" asked Lee.
"N o, but if the right man should
come along, I would probably say
yes to his proposal," was the answer.
Lee's case was first disposed of and
soon afterward Mrs. Lewis also got
her decree. When she took her seat
Lee leaned over and whispered some
thing in her ear. Mrs. Lewis nodded
her head in the affirmative. Attor
ney Glass, who had charge of both
cases, motioned the couple to follow
him to his office. On the way there
they told him that they desired to be
married. The attorney paused for a
moment, and then said:
"Well, if you mean it and believe
that neither of you will be back to
me again for a divorce, I will assist
you.
When they reached the lawyer's of
fice the latter sent his son for a li
cense and a Justice and the knot was
quickly tied.
Woman Found Bead Standing.
Charleston, W. Va., May 7 Mrs.
Thomas Griffith, aged 45 years, who
resided near Rome, Boone county.
with ber husband, Tom Griffith, and
children, was found yesterday stand
ing against the yard fence, dead from
heart trouble. She had been engaged
in conversation with some female
neighbors, and when they departed
she became HI and leaned, it is sup
posed, against the yard fence to give
herself a rest. Mr. Griffith came
home and missed her. The children
were playing in the yard, and when
asked for their mother they pointed
to the gate. Griffith spoke to his
wife, but no answer came. He went
to her and found ber dead, standing
as if in life.
Smallpox Halts Wedding.
Reading, Pa., May 7. Miss Mame
E. Wisler and Laverne J. Coyle, res
ident manager of the John Hancock
Life Insurance Company, were to
have been married this afternoon
Yesterday the groom to be was taken
ill with smallpox and an hour later
was driven to the pest-house. Two
trained nurses were sent out, and
the prospective bride wanted to go,
but the health authorities would not
oermit. To-day a telephone was
placed in Miss Wisler's home, and
another beside Coyle's bed. The
lovers are thus able to converse to
their hearts' content.
ALL OYER THE STATE.
A Snmmary of Current Erents for th
Past Seien Days.
At the recent term of Surry Su
perior Court A. L. Norman, former
standard-keeper of the county, got a
judgment of $50 against Chris. Bunk
er for refusing to allow Norman to
seal his weights and measures.
The Atlantic National Bank and
the National Bank of Wilmington
have been consolidated under one
management to reduce expenses.
The National will liquidate and trans
fer its business to the Atlantic Nat
ional.
The barn and stables of Henry A.
Finch, four miles from Henderson,
were burned Monday night with their
contents two horses, a colt, a mule.
50 barrels of corn, a lot of rough fed
and four or five tons of fertilizer,
causing a $1,000 loss.
Six negro prisoners escaped from
Guilford county jail Monday morn
ing. They were in the corridor for
exercise and managed to work the
combination lock of the corridor
door. One was soon captured but
the other five got away.
J. R. Davis, of Wilmington, one of
the official umpires of the Virginia
North Carolina baseball league, has
resigned. He said the teams were
all right toward him but the kicking
of the crowds and the partisan criti
cisms of the press were more than he
could stand.
Seth Phillips, aged 22, of Onslow
county, was drowned last Wednes
day in a singular manner. He was
out on Bear Creek in a boat clam
ming, was supposed to have had a fit
and fell over the boat with head in
the water, and was dead before help
could reach him.
The incorporation of churches and
school houses in Burke county by
the last Legislature has made that
county practically a prohibition
count-, as it is claimed that no dis
tillery can be located in Burke with
out being within three miles of a
church or school.
The Daughters of the Confederacy
and the Ladies' Confederate Memo
rial Association at Raleigh have pe
titioned the Secretary of War to al
low them to remove the remains of
100 North Carolina soldiers from the
Arlington cemetery to the Confeder
ate cemetery in Raleigh.
Last Saturday William Morefield,
who lives near Winston, was at bis
barn and heard a peculiar noise in
the stable. On investigation he
found a negro child that had been
burried alive by Stella Williams, its
mother. The grand jury found a
true bill against the woman.
Mrs. Clark Robbins, of Randolph
county, was found in the creek, near
her house, drowned Monday morning,
her entire body lying in the water
and one arm out on the bank. She
had been sick for quite a while, and
it is supposed that she got up in the
night and in her wanderings got into
the creek.
A Canton (Haywood county) cor
respondent of the Asheville Citizen
says that E. D. Brown, a druggist of
that town, recently went away, leav
ing a wife and three children. A
young woman of the town left a few
days before the druggist and the
presumption is that the two have
gone together.
Hart Sipe, a carpenter living near
Claremont, Catawba county, was
killed Wednesday evening while
working on a house in Claremont for
John Setzer. A falling plank struck
him on the head and fractured the
skull. He lived a few hours after the
accident but was for the greater part
of the time unconscious.
Carl Kirkman, a Southern Rail
way fireman, was fatally injured by
an accident at Greensboro Wednes
day afternoon. He was at work un
der his engine, when several freight
cars were shoved against the loco
motive in shifting. His right leg
and left arm and shoulder were
crushed and he was injured inter
nally.
During the past 20 years this
State has expended $7,310,964 for
white and $4,091,139 for negro pub
lic schools. It also spent $3,823,564
for general expenses for both races,
of which the whites got the benefit
of 56 aci the negroes of 44 per cent.
The total expended was $15,225,000
The negroes pay 5 per cent, of the
taxes.
Thi3 year $100,000 from tbe State
Treasury, for a current appropria
tion, will be available for the public
schools whenever called for. An
other $100,000 was appropriated this
year, to bring the school terms up
to not less than four months, but
this will not be available until the
taxes for this j'ear are collected.
which means tbe end of the year.
In the Federal Court at Elizabeth
City last week Arthur B. Alexander
was found guilty, sentenced to 18
months in the penitentiary and fined
$500 for using tbe mail for fraudulent
purposes. He bad changed his name
to A. Alexander to fit a merchant of
the town quoted in Bradstreet to be
worth from $5,000 to $10,000 and had
bought goods from different firms on
the strength of this.
Triplets Come Fast In Kansas.
Topeka, Kan., May 6. Gov. Stan
ley confessed to-day that Lc made a
very foolish offer a month ago, when
he agreed to give a solid silver mug
to all triplets born in Kansas during
his second administration. Five fond
mothers have already secured from
the Governor fifteen silver cups, and
to day's mail brought another letter
backed up with the affidavit of A. C.
Dunlap, of Crawford county, that
two sons and a daughter were born
to his wife two weeks ago.
The salary for Governor of Kansas
is $3,000 a year, and at the rate that
triplets are being reported, much of
this sum will be used in the purchase
of silver cups. The Governor fears
that he may be deceived in this trip
let business, and as a necessary pre
caution he has demanded the certifi
cate of the attending physician along
with the affidavits of tbe parents.
Bad Blood
Breeds Humors
Boils, Pimples, Eruptions,
Sore9, Debility, Languor,
Kidnev Troubles, Indigestion and
That fired Feeling,
All of which Hood's Sarsaparilla
Cures, by purifying, enriching and
vitalizing the blood.
Blood troubles, left unchecked, in
crease and multiply just as naturally
as the weeds and thistles infesting
the soil.
They need the same radical treat
ment, too.
They should be rooted out in Spring.
HOOD'S
Sarsaparilla
Stops the breeding of dipease germs
and impurities in the blood.
It also imparts vitality and richness,
and that means a 6trong, vigorous
body as well as a clear healthy skin.
You will look better and feel la-t-ter
if vou Iegin taking Hood's Sarsa
parilla TODAY. It
Purifies
The Blood
As nothing else can.
"My son had pimples on his face, which
after a while became a mass of sores.
"I began Riving him Hood's Sarsaparilla
and soon the sores were getting better.
"They finally healed without leaving a
acar. Mrs. L. Theist, 7 Willow Avenue,
Hoboken, N. J.
REAL ESTATE
BULLETIN!
FOR SALE.
8 room residence, George street, A.
M. I. $3,000.
6 room residence, George street,
A. M. I. $2,250.
5 room residence. Oak street, A.
M. I. $1,500.
10 room residence, alnut street,
$1,!K)0.
7 room residence, John street, A.
M. I. $2,750.
9 room residence, Daisy street,
$1,750.
5 room residence, Beach street,
$1,150.
5 room residence, Park Avenue,
$1,250.
5 room residence, cor. Chestnut and
William streets. A. M. I. $1,200.
Several choice building lots on
William, Beach streets, and Park-
Avenue.
Two or three small tracts of sub
urban property. East of the city.
Big investment.
FOR RENT.
Nice pleasant rooms in Arlington
Hotel, single or en suite, to desirable
parties.
HUMPHREY-GIBSON CO.,
Goldsboro, N. C.
Opposite Hotel Kennon.
BICYCLE - BARGAINS,
You Will Save Money
bv buying vour bicycle of me. I keep
the largest and best selected stock in the
city.
Barnes' White Flyer Chainless,
Is a beautw I also sell the Kagle, Co
lumbia, Reading, Monarch, Racycle and
other well-known makes. The Racycle
is warranted to be the easiest running
wheel in the world, otherwise the manu
facturers will pay you $1,INM, deposited
in a bauk.
New And Strong Wheels
f-l lir tli Amprinni I?icvrlt ( 'o . all
standard goods, ranging in price from
17 Ml !) :tll i:C lll 1."; ami
$50. You can buy a cheaper w heel but
nothing like tne makes i sen. i ue ih-m
is always the cheapest.
Bicycle repairing and supplies, guns
and revolvers for sale.
OLD WHEELS BOUGHT AND SOLD.
Powder, shot and gun shells. General
jobbing done with neatness and dis
patch. Gold, silver and nickel plating.
Gun locks, trunk locks and keys all
kinds a sjecialty.
T. H. STANTON,
Grold.s"boro, N". C.
SUKtS WMtKt ALL tlit rwi-d.
I Beat i:oufh bjrrup. TaMcatiuud. DR
in tim. trto: or qruggiwiw.