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-Vlwrtising Brings Success.. l int it pays to advertise in the Gold Leaf, is shown by its well As an Advertising Medium The Gold Leaf stands at the bead of A newspapers in thin K-tion filled ad vort.ininKcolumnB of the fatuous SENSIBLE BUSINESS MEN (j BRIGHT TOBACCO DISTRICT !i riot eontiuu to Hpond i;ood money where no f The muflt wide-awake and r-i-i;il!e returns are wn. vmvvooiui IlirU use its columns with the highest That is Proof tbat it Pays Item. Satisfaction tod Profit to Tbsmselfes. THAD R.MANMSG, Publisher. cc OARoiiiNA, Carolina, Heaven's "Rt .essinqs -A-TTEisro TTtie.. 99 I SDBSCBIPT10I Sl.tO Cltk. VOL. XVII. HENDERSON, N. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1898. NO. 28. Eczema ! 7't- - a-fr-iIxT f'- -f I,.v:iiii is more ttmri a akin disease, .,,; -kin remedies can cure it. The ,,, :, r-. iire ufmble to effect a cure, find I r Miiherni mixtures are aamngmg t , : most powerful constitution. Tho v. trouble is in the blood, and . Specific is the only remedy v. ... -'a -u:i roach such deep-seated blood !.. run broke out on my 1mihter, and oon- t; : : : hfireao uuui I , . i! wati entirely r , !. hiif was treated r . . . r.il ''ttt doctors, ! .;- v wcr.w', aii'l the ch-is- lread i : r.i -. She w a ( t' two celebrated 1.. ; 'ii -jiritijjs, but re- ,.. v i no l..-nflit. Man v JSMBSKs-iKiliw j, r :!.-! i--iti-M were taken, hut without re- ' : w- decided to try 8. S. 8., and by the t::-.- !e fit -it lwttle was finished, her head be k ' .il A dozen bottles cured tier com t .v ini.t l.-ft her ali i ri perfectly smooth. She !- -a -xv-en year old, and ha aiiiiiKiiiflcpnt ! ,:;). "f Imir. Not a sijn of the dreadful ti: .- iiai ever returned. II. T. SHORE, 2701 Lucuk Ave.. St. Louis. Mo. on't expect local applications of i. ;!; i- iumI salves to cure Lczema. They r vi only the sun-face, while the di f n- onies f.-nn within. Swift's S;,. riiir. Ffhe Blood i tii'' only curt! and will reach the most i.l :ixi: t-use. It is far ahead of all ri .i.l.ir i-'.-inedies. liecause it cures cases h-'-ii nr.' beyond t heir reach. S. S. S. is I .'in-l v vegetable, und is the only blood i mi dy giinriinteed to contain no pot-ii- :, nii-reiiry or otJjer mineral. li'i -ik mailed fn-e by Swift Specific C 'mpuny. Atlanta, Georgia. FRANCIS A. MACON, Surgeon Dentist, 1 1 1.M KRSON, NORTH CAROLINA All work in operative and mechanical t.-:.i-.tiy. No charge for examination. Oltice : Dr. lloyd's old rooms, over A Mitchell's tre. r 1 IlUUdcilIU Testify- id i tn-: woNDrkiuiL ci kAiivi; powiiKS of 'S Ot tdtest of all Blood Purifiers. L Nature's own remedy it never dis- f points. It lias stood the test tor it more than a ipiu ter of a century. I lias cured others it will cure you. a 'I he most atmiavated foims of Scrofula, Old Sores, f Rheumatism, I Hczema, Tetter, : and all diseases of the lJlood and L kin M-1 1 1 .1 tit-ii 1 1 y cured by its use uheicolhcr treatinent failed. 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SOME GREAT WOMEN. SUBJECT OF AN ADDRESS BY HON. THEO. F. KLUTTZ, Before the Literary Societies of Eliz abeth College, Charlotte, at Com mencement Exercises the Oifted and Eloquent Speaker Charms His Hearers in the Treatment of so Fruit ful and Inspiring a Theme a Run ning Synopsis of His Remarks. At the commencraent exercises of Elizabeth College, Charlotte, Hon. Theo. F. Kluttz, of Salisbury, de livered the literary address before the societies. His theme was "Some (reat Women." and from rhA fifu. server's report we take the following: Mr. Kluttz'is address a sermon ecture was as instructive as it was jeautiful. It was replete with his torical citations illustrative of "Some reat Women;" full of advice so delicately and cleverly intorwoven with the thread of the discourse as to be really palatable; chaste and beautiful In its diction; lofty iu its tone and sentiment, and delivered with a simplicity of style that was delightful. the speaker was necessarily Uni ted by the seemly proprieties of the occasion, and embarrassed only by the great number of great women whose names abound in history. "ituiuan is essentially anu jren- erically great," said Mr. Kluttz. She is not only man, for 'male and female created He them,' but with her liner sensibilities, her hio-her spiritual nature, she is more and greater and better the complement, the consummation of man. Iu the creation, when light had gone forth, the land separated from the waters, the heavens from the earth) when tho llowers and fruits of Eden had budded and bloomed over the recent waste of chaos; when suns, stars and systems had been launched is space; man created in the image of his Maker all nature waited for the coming of the mistress, the (jtieeii, mother of the world. "When Jehovah, had fashioned ler, fair and beautiful, His creative hand was stayed, because He could create nothing fairer, nothing better, greater. Woman had come and creation was complete forever. Four thousand years later, the great Light I5earer,on His mission of suffer ing, glorified woman by becoming her son, that through her love and ministrations He mifrht become in- deed our hirh 3 priest who might be touched with a feeling of out in firmities; and so, woman became, not only the mother of man, but the mother of God! Oh, daughters of Eve, sisters of Mary, rejoice in your womanhood, nor ever dishonor it Ijy mimicking the manners, the fashions, the follies of man. "In all history woman has demon strated that she is no whit inferior to man. First emerging from the mists of antniiuty is the half fabled Sem- lramis the mirhty, queen, the architect and builder of Babylon the (ireat, which she made the most superb city in the world. As a warrior she led forth, conquering and to conquer, an army of three mil lions of men. She razed mountains. tilled up valleys, and by great ac- queducts made blooming gardens of barren deserts and unfruitful plains. Dying she received immortal honors. Yet with all her greatness, her character was stained with licentious-i ness, and like Catharine of llussia. she cannot be held up as an example of what is best and noblest to woman. Zenobia, the queen of the East, was equally great as a ruler, as a warrior, and infinitely greater as a woman a mighty witness to woman's capacity, and an answer for all time to those who preach her inferiority. Tytler, the historian, says that most of the revolutions of the Roman States owed their oririn to women, lhe abolition of the royal dignity; thede-s livery from the tyranny of the De ceinvirate and tho restoration of consular government; the change by which plebicans became eligible to the highest offices all these Rome owed to the influence of woman. "Of those who, through faith sub dued kingdoms, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in tight and turned to flight the armies of aliens, no name stands out more brightly in history than that of the French peasant girl of the fifteenth century, Joan of Arc. Her story ia unique a.nd unparalleled, and she has been well called the most illustri ous heroine of history. Called to (iod to deliver her people and crown her king, nobly did she fulfill her destiny. Without education, with out military training, relying upon divine guidance, she put to shame the greatest captains of the age, and made a conquering army of the long beaten and dispirited hoss. of France, Pure as the lilies of her own valleys she passed unscathed through all the dangers and snares of court and camp and Held, and left a name im mortal in the records of glory and virtue. She was, as Kossuth says, the only person, male or female, since the writing of human history began, who ever had supreme com mand of the military forces of a great nation at the age of 17. More than two thousand books have been writ ten about her. Glo.rio.u, martyred, but now Ca.nouied Purcelle, let thy life ue an inspiration to woman, an answer to her detractors throughout all time. The time would fail to tell of Isabella of Castille, of Madam de Stael, or Maria Theresa, of the long line ofjhe heroiness of scripture and our own wars. Of her, however, who was, perhaps, the greatest of the sovereigns of England, a few words may well be said. The daughter of a disowned and beheaded queen: watched, slandered, suspected, im- prisoned in her vouth, Elizabeth yet Lm tn tK tkm'np wiP ft cnnratre- -uv. w - o ous, a sen-reliant ueen. l r reign the true greatness of Englan began. Spencer, Sidney, Ben John son, Bacon, Shakespeare, these alone would be sufficient to illumine her reign with splendor. Her chief glory is as the defender of the Christian faith. Under her, the last estige of lue power of Kome was fo rever re pudiated in England and her colonies, and the prowess of her arms was vin dicated by the crushing defeat of Spain; then as now, bigoted, cruel, oppressive, teacherous and despotic. If Elizabeth had been gentle, more womanly, her fame had been brighter. Judged by the standard set by the Master, Elizabeth Fry, the plain little Quaker woman of Norwich, England, was one of the great women of the world, one of the greatest F radical reformers of all the ages, n England, France, Belgium, Hol land, Germany, Scotland, Ireland, she was received and welcomed by Kings and Queens and ministers, and reformed the abuses of the prison and asylum systems of all these countries, and compelled the humane treatment of their unfortu nate inmates. She passed out, loved as woman was never yet loved. Verily, great shall be her reward. Florence Nightingale, Clara Barton, Francis Willard, these have their names written in the grateful hearts of men, and from thence they will surely be transcribed to the Book of Life. "Dorothea Lynde Dix, the delicate little New England woman, who out of a soul full of love to God and His creatures, in less than four years, traveled over ten thousand miles, in the lumbering stagecoaches of her day, visiting every State east of the Rocky mountains, inspecting the jails and penitentiaries in all of them, and advocating the building of asy lums for the insane lives to see the direot result of her labors, twenty asylums built in as many different States otirs in North Carolina among them and prisons and poor houses made wholesome and com fortable. "Hath man done greater work than this? It was Eli Whitney, who as all the world knows invented the cotton gin, but what all the world does not know, is that when in abso lute despair at the failure of his in vention it was a woman, the widow of General Nathaniel Greene, who came to his rescue and by a simple and timely suggestion obviated the difficulty and assured success. The whirl of every spindle, the music of every loom, the smoke of every factory, are but memorials of her praise. Rosa Bonheur well contests the palm with Landseer, the great sympthetic painter of animal life. George Elliott ranks as the very queen of literature, as Shakespeare does as its king. She combines the merits of Collins, Bulwer, Trollope, Thackery, Hicks, Bronte and Scott, inferior perhaps to any of them in certain lines, but superior to any and all of them as a great oreative artist. Maj we not throw the mantle of charity over the departures of this most gifted of woman? They oost her a tomb in Westminister Ab bey. "Great men are produced by great emergencies, and great resposibili ties, and it is demonstrated that like emergencies and responsibilities de velop women equally great; and further, that th purar and more womanly the woman, the greater, the brighter, the more enduring her fame. "Be not ambitious of the perils and penalties of greatness. Culti vate feminine grace as well as in tellectual strength. Be- advised of those who are older and wiser. Find the only safe-guard from the tempta tions of life in our holy religion. A godless woman is an anamoly, a monstrousity. Woman's mission should be benefactions rather than politics; hospitality rather than he roism; goodness rather than great ness; her mcaei, victoria, the gentle and the good, rather than victorious Elizabeth, the grand and the great. To woman the familiar lines of Tenny son are especially applicable: "However it be, it seems to me, Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood." WHAT IS CHARITY? Tis not to pause when at the door A shivering brother stands. To ask the cause that made him poor Or why he help demands. "Tis not to spurn that brother's prayer For faults he once has known; 'Tis not to leave him in despair And say that "1 have done." The voice of charity is kind, She thinketh nothing wrong; To every fault she seetneth blind, Nor vaunteth with her tongue. In penitence it placeth faith Hope smileth at the door Believeth first, then softly saith, "Go brother; sin no more." Trestle Board. This age loves the enterprising man. Energy and enthusiasm earn praise, because they deserve it. boy who was seeking a situation was asked by a merchant in his oiitce, "Well, my lad, and what is your motto?" "Same as you have on your door Push!" replied the boy, who it is almost needless to say, was thereupon engaged. The world gen erally gives way before the man who pushes. But in order to attain the truest and most abiding success, there U one thing that should be joined with push, and that is piety. Dr. Tierce's Golden Medical Discovery is a remarkable remedy. It cures diseases in a perfectly natural way. without the use of strong drugs. It cures by helping Nature. It has a peculiar tonio effect on the lining membranes of the stomach and bowels. By putting these membranes into healthy condition, stimulating the secre tion of the various dicestive luices and furnishing to the blood the proper purify ine properties, it reaches out over the whole body and drives disease-germs be fore it into the usual excretory channels It builds up Jirra. muscular nesh, makes the skin and eyes bright. Dr. fierce Golden Medical Disooverv has been found wonderfully etticaeious iu the treatmentof 1 kjn diseases-eczema, tetter, erysipelas. aaiurheum from common pimples or blotches to the worst ease cf scrofula. POINTS ABOUT CUBA. NOTES BY PROF. HOLMES, OF THE UNIVERSITY. Cuba as Compared With North Carolina in Relation to Area, Topography, Height of Mountains, Population, etc Some Matters Not Mentioned in Other Descriptions of the Islands The Climate not as Hot and Unhealthy as it is Generally Supposed to be. o Cuba has an area, including' its 1,300 adjacent islands, of nearly 46,- 000 square miles, about equal to that of the State of New York, and near ly one-fourth the size of Spain, and about 6,000 square miles less than the area of North Carolina. With the exception of a strip on the south ern side oi Central Cuba the island as a whole stands well above the sea; it is thoroughly drained and presents a rugged aspect when viewed Irom the sea. About one-fourth of the total area is said to be mountainous; about three-fifths of the area may be described as a rolling or undulating plain with valleys and gentle culti vated slopes, somewhat like Pied mont, M. C. lhe remainder or the island, especially along the southern shore of Central and Western Cuba is swampy. The island is about 730 miles long; its width varies from ninety miles across Santiago to less than 20 miles in the vicinity of Havana; the eastern end of the island lies directly south of New York, while its west ern end lies south of Cincinnati. The coast line is very extensive, measuring, without following the minor indentations, nearly 2,200 miles. On all sides, except the southern shore of Central and West ern Cuba the coast is abrupt and elevated. In many places the im mediate coast line is a narrow beach . -a m t .1 1 1 or shell oi elevated corai reei rocK, only a few yards in width and some wenty feet above the sea. Back of this coast the higher bluffs rise by a succession of old sea beaches, which reach in places to from one thous and to two thousand feet elevation. The mountains of Cuba do not form, as has been stated, a back-bone extending along the entire length of the island but are arranged in three distinct and independent groups; one n the western province of rinar del Rio, between Havana and Cape An- tonio, the higher hills of which rise to an attitude of 2,500 feet, and the slopes of which are covered with a growth of pine and flanked with many beautiful valleys, ine central eroup is a short one extending from Cienfugoes some fifty miles eastward on the south side of the central por- tion of the island, reaching a maxi- mum heieht of nearly 3,000 feet, Trip third o-roun lies on the southern side of Santiago province in eastern r ... i Cuba, the crest of the mountains Ivine; parallel to the adjacent sea to- wards which the slopes descend pre- j . ... . I ipitously. The mountains of this eastern group reach a maximum the cities oi ooutn uuoa with the ad-hei?-ht of 9.000 feet some 2,000 feet iacent islands. In 1894 the tonage hio-her than Mt. Mitchell in Western North Carolina. Near Santiago har- bor, the scene of hostilities at pres- ent. there are some peaks more than 5,000 feet high; the scenery is fane and the climate is deligrhtful. This last great range of mountains belono-s p-eosrraphicallv with the Blue Mountains of Jamaica, which reach the elevation of 7,000 feet and the I hio-her mountains in Hayti which I reach an elevation of 11,000 feet, The larsrer part of the area of Cuba I at least three-fafths is made up oi the I limestone nlains with an elevation of from 500 to 1,500 feet. Much of this reanon is cut hv streams into hills and valleys; and a considerable por- tion, especially in Santiago Province s exceedingly wild and rugged, in i Cuba the great sugar plantations are on these elevated plains and not, as n Louisiana, on the low river flats. The fine tobacco is also grown on the slopes of these hills and on the low mountains. On the mountain slopes of Western Cuba and hills and "moun tains of the eastern provinces there are said to be 13,000,000 acres of un broken forests never penetrated by Spaniards. The flora of Cuba is saia to De quite varied, more than 3.000 species of native plants having been collected and catalogued, lhe beauty ana abundance of the vegetation first caused the island to be called the Pearl of the Antilles. This includes over thirty species of palm, while as sociated with these are pines, wnicn are so characteristic of tne Southern United States, and the mahogany. the lignum vitae, and the cocoa wood. Among the more valuable fruits that crow very abundantly may be men tioned the lime, the orange, the lemon, the banana, and the pine ap ple. The last of these together with the manioc, the sweet potato and the Indian corn are said to be indigenous to the island. Concerning the climate of Cuba but few reliable records are obtainable; on the whole, however, the climate is much more salubrious than most descriptions would lead us to believe. A gentleman who has traveiea a great deal in different parts of Cuba in a recent article savs: "The winter months are delightful in fact, ideal while the summer months are more endurable than in most of our own territory. The cur- rent impressions of insalubrity have arisen from an erroneous confusion of bad sanitation with the weather. While it is true that sickness follows the seasons, the former would De srreatly allayed almost abated if public hygiene received proper offi cial consideration." In July and August the mean temperature is 80 degrees Farenheit, the maximum tem perature being 88, the minimum 76. At Charlotte the maximum tempera ture for August is yo degrees raren heit, the minimum 55 degrees Faren- heif.at Raleigh for the same month the maximum is 93 degrees Faren heit, the minimum 56 degrees Faren heit, and the mean 77 degrees Faren heit. The annual rainfall at Havana is 42 inches of which 28 inches fall in the wet season, May to October. The average number of rainy days in the year is 102, coming mainly within the rainy season. The average rain fall for North Carolina is 44 inches. Among the agricultural products, sugar and tobacco are by far the most important. The central plain of Cuba, except where broken by hills, and until the present insurrection began was one vast continuous field of cane. The yield of this crop in 1892-93 was something more than 100,000 tons and was valued at $80, 000,000. The sugar plantations vary in extent from 100 to 1,000 acres and employ an average of one man to two acres. The cane requires to be planted only once in seven years. Tobacco, while secondary to sugar, is said to be far more profitable in proportion to the acreage. It grows well in all parts of the island but the finest tobacco is said to be raised along the southern slopes of the mountains in the western province of Pinar del Rio. Coffee was once ex tensively cultivated, but the coffee plantations have largely given place to sugar, which is considered a more profitable business. Doubtless, how ever, in the future coffee will become one of the principal crops grown for exportation. In a number of prov inces the cattle industry was at one time a large and flourishing one, but this, like the other industries of Cuba was largely destroyed during the past few years. In 1895 there was said'to be in Cuba over 100,000 farms valued at $20,000,000. In mineral products Cuba has not been found to be very rich. But lit tle gold and silver has been discover ed. Iron mines a few miles east of Santiago, were worked on a large scale until the present insurrection began. In 1890 the output from the Santiago mines was 560,000 tons whioh constituted about one-fourth oi i.ne total importation oi iron ore to the United States during that year, Some deposits of asphaltum, copper and manganese have been found and worked to a limited extent There are about 1,000 miles of rail wavs in Cuba, located mainly in the .: .. . western portion connecting Havana with the neighboring towns, mere are nearly 3,000 miles of telegraph 1 1 14 AAA m t lines anu nearly i.uuu mnes oi caDie which, until recently cut, connected of Havana and the eight other prin cipal ports amounted to about 3,500,- 000 tons, carried by 31,000 vessels Cuba is rich in good naroors, among the best being those at Ha vana and Matanzas on the north, Cienfugoes and Santiago on the south. In addition to these there are many small harbors on both north and south coast. Nearly all of these harbors have a comparatively small entrance, and widen inland, pouch- like, so as to make safe shipping in ine case oi storms, ana are easny defended by fortifications. Ihere are only a few short wagon roads in Cuba deserving of the name, and this fact illustrates as well as any other the utter indifference of the Span- laras to sucn puDiic improvements as have to do with the welfare of the common people. On the neighboring island of Jamaica, which is under the control of the English, and which is only one-tenth the size of Cuba, there are over two thousand miles of superb roads which makes easy over land communication between all parts of the island. Much interest is manifested at the present time in the population of Cuba, but unfortunately accurate data are not obtainable. The most reliable statistics accessible, are those published in the census of 1887. These give the total population of the island at 1,631,687, of which 1,111, 303 are white and 520,384 colored, the percentage of the colored popula tion being 32. Ihis includes both the pure black and the mulatto popu lation. In orth Carolina the per centage of colored population is near Iy 35; in South Carolina there are 227,000 more colored people than white people, hence it will be seen that there has been lately a great deal of meaningless and erroneous talk in the United States about Ameri- can intervention to set iree a lot oi Cuban negroes. Of this total popu lation in Cuba there are about 30,000 Chinese laborers; and not including the present army of invasion there are not 30,000 Spa'nish born residents, and not exceeding 50,000 other Cau casian foreigners. Excepting the Chinese, this for eign population is engaged princi pally in office-holding, in trade and shipping, and is largely conhned to the cities which contain about one- third the total population of the is j land. It is this foreign population I which nowadays is doing all the talk I ing and which falsely claims to be I the true representative of all that is worth having in Cuba. It is this element which represents autonomy, or Spanish rule, and wealth for it self, even if this means death and destruction to everything else on the island. It is this e'lement that, it is to be devoutly hoped, when th American flag floats over tho Cuban soil, will leave the island In th o session of its real owners the natlvn 1 white Cubans. And who are these native white Cubans? They constitute 75 per cent, of the native population of the island outside Havana, which is the centre of the present unwelcome foreign despotism and not at all representa tive of true Cuban life and character. What are left of the true Cubans are now mostly found in the provinces and provincial cities. They are mostly of Spanish descent but are said to be quite different from the native Spaniards of to-day. Thous ands of the better class of Cubans have settled in the United States, in Paris, in London, in Mexico, and other West Indies, and many of them hold honorable positions in these countries. The term "creole," as applied to the Cubans, means simply white decendants of the Latiq races, but it is often erroneously understood to mean an admixture of negro blood. There are said to be no more mixing of the races in Cuba than in our own Southern States. Of the half-million colored people in Cuba, as given in the census of 1887, many have been destroyed by starvation during the past two years of the insurrection, as these consti tuted the poorest class of the popula tion, which has probably suffered most. Hence the colored population of Cuba to-day is probably less than 300,000 and may not exceed 20 per cent, of the total population of the island. No reliable recent statistics are ac cessible concerning the rate of taxa tion of Cuba, but in 1879 the total revenue collected by the Spanish government from the island amounted to $35,000,000, or $25 per capita, all of which except $98,000, is said to have been spent mostly in payment of the Spanish soldiers and office holders and in the settlement of Span ish debt. And practically none of this terrible annual taxation is spent in public improvements for the peo ple, or distributed in any way among the real population of the island. And in the expenditure of this money the native Cuban who pays the tax has practically no voice. lhe spirit in which Spain has kept in subjugation the population of this wonderfully productive island is well represented by a proclamation by Valamaseda, a Spanish commander during the former ten years war, whose acts during that war may be compared to those of Weyler during the present war. Valamaseda wrote: "Not a single Cuban will remain on this island because we shoot all those we find in the fields, on the farms, and in every hovel So every one receives what he deserves, the men with bullets, the animals with bayonets. The island will re main a desert." Humane America should have stop ped this butchery long ago. Let us hope that Spanish rule in this hemis phere is nearing its end. In addition to this appeal in behalf of humanity, the United States is con cerned in another wav. In 1892-93 the value of our trade with Cuba amounted to $103,000,000; in 1897 this had been reduced to $27fc000.000. J. A. HOLMES. The victory rests with America's Great est Medicine, Hood's Sarsaparilla, when it battles against any disease caused or pro moted by impure or impoverished blood . Hood's Pills are the favorite family ca thartic. Easy to take, easy to operate. REMEMBERED THE SAILORS. Major F. R. Scott on His Death Bed Sent Tobacco to Manila. (Richmond Dispatch.) In a few weeks the men on board the American fleet at Manila will re ceive as a donation, practically from the grave, a shipment of 100 cases of fine Virginia tobacco. The tobacco is a gift of Major Fred It. Scott, the wealthy railroad presi dent and banker, who died some time ago, and now rests beneath the green sod of Hollywood. Major Scott, during his last illness, read the war news closely, and he was, though he did not at the time know it, on his heath bed, when the news reached him that Commodore Dewey's fleet had destroyed the Spanish ships in Manila harbor, and so impressed was he with the splendid work of the American sailors that he directed that 100 cases of tobacco be sent to them from the factory in this city, in which he owned a large interest. The Southern Railway Company and the Big Four agreed to give the goods free transportation, and they were shipped a few days ago. ihey are now on their way to the Philip pines, and the sailors will, no doubt. enjoy the treat, but few, if any, of them will ever know that the heart which prompted the good deed has ceased to perform its functions, and that the man to whom they are in debted-is in his grave. S. C. P. Jones, Mile burg, Pa., writes: "1 have used DeWitt's Little Early Risers ever since they were introduced here and must say I have never used any pills in my family during forty years of house keeping that gave such satisfactory results as a laxawve ut t.iinoi nu. & uu Thomas. Senor Mendonca's proposition to range all the American Republics in a solid combination for the assertion of the Monroe doctrine seems to have met with a favorable response in Mexico. Hereafter, whilst assent ing to its propriety, the Latin Re publics have been satishea to ac cept the benefit without participat ing in tne ouraen oi niaiuirnsutc. The task of defence has the United States alone. been left to One Minute Coueh Care is the best preparation 1 have ever sold or used and ean't sav too much In its praise." L. M Kannon. Merchant. Udell. Ga. Phil 11 Thomas. People who are continually "talk ine down" things, will not be able to "raise up" much enthusiasm AHRE rheumatism by takinf W iLHd'MSanapartlla,whithbyncu Iraluing the acid in tho blood 'neatly relieve achea ami PAlFlV. ANOTHER TRIUMPH. THE MUCH DESPISED AND MUCH MISUNDERSTOOD MULE Scores a Victory Over Hla More Shape ly and More Petted Rival the Horse an Important Discovery Made by the Quartermaster's Department la Favor of the Long Eared Biped Not Subject to Seasickness What ever Else His Faults May be. (Washington Post.) "The Quartermaster's Department of the Federal army in San Francisco was torn from center to circumference the other day by the important query as to whether or not govern ment mules are liable to seasickness. Telegraphic orders from Washing ton to immediately ship 120 mules along with the re-enforcements for Rear Admiral Dewey at Manila knocked the precedents of the Quartermaster's Office higher than Gilderoy's kite. As the mules were required to take an ocean voyage nearly half-way around the world, the Quartermaster tried in a score of ways to receive authentic informa tion as to the liability of the animals to seasickness. It was reserved for a St. Louis horse and mule trader to to come to the government's assist ance with an assurance that mules never become seasick, although horses do, and consequently the long-eared cargo is now afloat on the heaving waters of the Pacific." New Orleans Times-Democrat. When you want something thoroughly reliable, in which de pendence can be placed in an emer gency, secure a mule and cease from worry. Any one tolerably well ac quainted with the mule would have been willing to make oath that sea sickness would not come near him. There need not have been the slight est hesitation in the matter. A mule would no more beome seasick than a i a i i a ne wouia take yeiiow iever. lie is a real, genuine immune from outlying diseases. A mu,e is liable to get sick in the natural order oi things, tie may have the ordinary troubles of the horse kind, such as colic or founder. although tne latter is not common with him, but he does not go out of his way to scrape acquaintance with unnecessary and undesirable afflic tions. A change of climate docs not make any difference in a mule's feeliDgs. Hot or cold, moist or dry. is all one to him. He journeys from Kentucky, or Missouri, to Cali fornia, and is just as comfortable on the Pacific Slope, and as much at home, as he was in his native State, and thre was no need for the slight est apprehension concerning the effects of an ocean voyage. He jogs patiently along, attached to a street car, or trips gayly down the street in front of a light buggy, with equal unconcern. When he is given a good feed he enjoys it greatly. but if he is compelled to go supper- ess, he never says a word. He is not given to making complaints. A Louisiana drouth or a Cuba wet season look alike to mm as iar as can be detected, jno observations will come from him in either case. A sudden change, from browsing con tentedly in a rich pasture to hard work drawing army wagons, he ac cepts with social indifference. It seems absured to question his ability to stand a sea vovaee, of tat'jver length. Of course he can stand it. No matter what the dis tance he sails, no matter how high the angry waves may toss their crests. the vessel in which he is travelling may roll and pitch, but the mule re mains serene through it all. lie takes his regular meals, when he can get them, and steps off the boat at tne end of the lourney cheerful, feasant, ready for business. Horses may get seasick, elephants are said to be affected in this way, but not the mule. It takes a good deal more than the slamming around of a vessel a rough sea to make a mule miss a meal. He is as erood in the Philip pines as in the United States, in the Andes of South America as on the dains of Texas. W herever v u put him he is ready for service. Nothing can discourage him. We have beard of only one serious . objection, which is, that he must be sworn at, and vigorously, to get the best results from him. Perhaps this is not true. t the charge has been made. Bar- lg this one detect, the mule is a success, ana his ireeaom from sea sickness, adds another triumph to to his already long list. The hunfan machine starts but once and stops but once, lou can keep It going longest and most regularly by using De Witt's Little Early Risers, the famou little pills for constipation and all stomach and liver troubles. Phil II. Thomas. At 16 we feel 60, as lap as world- liness goes, but rarely at 60 we feel 16, unless secoud childhood sets in over early. loo much iced tea is as bad as an intoxicating beverage, making the habitual drinker nervous to the last dejjree. It Is folly for people to subject them selves to attacks o( chills and rever and malarial troubles, when by the timely use of Ramon's Liver Pills A Touts Pellets and Ramon s Pepsin Chill Tonic they can so fortf v their systems and entirely prevent them. Every one knows these famous remedies, but for fuller information ask your druggist tor pamphlets and sample dose. A man likes to have it said that his baby looks like him. but he gets mad if told he resembles the babv. A woman thinks it fun to lie back in a and get shaved but face to try it. must lo barlHT's she han' great i hair t th The vlllian Is always aujjht act usually the last act. If som men fell a bad a He rrallv ar U nll h naWa ,s f in a doolor. Biliousness la caused by torpid lirer, which prevents diges tion and permits food to ferment and putrtfy la Uie stomach. Then follow diizlness, headmen, LTU insomiua, nervousness, ami. If not relieved, bilious fever or blood poisoning. Hood's Pills stimulate the stomach. Pills rouse the liver, cure headache, dizziness, eon stipaUon. eu 25 rents. Nld by all dnucclsU. The only Pills to Lake with Hood s Sanaula, V. S. IIAKKIS, DENTIST, HENDERSON, N. C. fcaT"Olnee over Street. KG Davln store, Ma n tau. 1-a. J H. HUH Hi Kits, ATTORN KY AT LAW, HKM1KRHON, . I. Otlioe: In Harris' law uulldlng nea sourt house. Tried and Proven. J Africana is not a new and untried remedy, but a medicine of gen uine merit that is com ing more and more to the front on account of its wonderful cures. Almost every day you read in the newspapers of what it has done for the relief of suffering humanity. That direful disease Rheumatism caused by impure blood is driv- a 4. r.t en out ui iuu system Dy the use of Africana. and other terrible blood disorders are cured per manently. Ask your druggist for it or write to the Atlanta. Ga. Save Honey ON Bicycles and Bicycle Supplies. W. W. Parker, Wholesale & Retail rv -.igrjlst. HUMPHREYS' CURES No. 1 Fever, Congestion. No. 2 Worms. No. 3 Infants' Disease. No. 4 Diarrhea. No. 7 Coughs A Colds, No. O Headache. No. lO Dyspepsia, Indigestion No. 11 Delayed Periods, No. 12 Leuchorrea. No. 13 Croup. No. 14 Skin Diseases. No. 15 Rheumatism. No. 10 Catarrh. No. 27 Kidney Diseases. No. 34 Sore Throat- No. 77 Grip Hay Fever. 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