North Carolina Newspapers

H it ii !' ' 's tn il(lver-'rtU 'n tue Gold I.i:.u , is shown by its well As an Advertising Medium The Gold Leaf stands at the head of aiw lillfdauveriiHinKcomruuH AT- SENSIBLE BUSINESS MEN 0 newspapers in this section fiZ of the fatuous BRIGHT TOBACCO DISTRICT hoiiot continue to upend ujnod money where no returns are seen. The most wide-awake and successful business nien That is Proof that it pays Them a its columns with the highest Satisfaction and Profit to Tneaselies. THID R.MANNISG, Publisher. cc G A.n.oiznsr, Carolina, HjELA.TTE3sr's ZBxessjzn-os -Atte3stid 97 ISDBSCE1PTI0I Jl.tOCub, VOL. XVIII. HENDERSON, N. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1899. NO. 37. O Wrecks. Kvery once in a while tne newspapers ttll of some once beautiful woman who has been consigned to an asylum, because physical weak ness drove her to seek temj rary strength in the alcholic mix tures that are found on many women's toilet tables. The story is an old, but ever new one. A woman finds herself suffering: from weakness, nervousness, de spondency and She cannot divine the cause, t i-i.iiv physician seems equally at 1 fr.i n! who suffers jn the same way r :i:at i wee drop of cologne, brandy ... l.-r, " malt-extracts " or other -ak1 Kive temporary relief. And th- beginning that ends in a mad '!':'.' woman who suffers from the Ic-cribcd may safely infer that disease or at least weakness of :i rjrans that constitute her a th til' iir. Pierces I're'ictiption, i iiitnins no ..: n!her stimu-:tn-bt i;ite. will i .tit things ;,!'! ! make her h H I arid Ii.;ilthy in iX-f j i.tv with nccfS- (IJB tiiii .x iim-4 ex- :ni'l local treatment. it', run: in t .in.! pm M It cures n.i v of the home. It gives vigor iliiv to the organs upon which de- : ! jn -luaiion oi ine numan race. jl Ai-tirook. of Austin. I.onoke Co.. .!. -'Aftrr five months of great suf 1 a ;!, this for the benefit of other suf . the -:tme affliction. I doctored with . ..li-u ian wiihont any t'hmI result, so i. m I urgel me to try Ir. Pierce's luedl- . aim. Ii I did. with wonderful results. I -ni !,;,;. fi !v 4 tirrd. I took four liottles of j,T i:.!. .. l-'.ivoritc rrecritiou. four of his i M . . I ii .it Discovery ' and two vials of his li, .,,.u.i iut 1 " t ,,:i-i!,.itioii kills slowly. Dr. Pierce's .l-.nil l' Hi U cure quickly. 'Wave's Place," ,t ),n.iic S. A. L. Station) Restaurant and Lunch Counter. Fhinishoil Rooms, Comfortable Reds. l.'.'-nilnnsi -.I net I y tirst-class. An orderly, wel 1 kept place. SALOON In smv in the. State, stocked with i,i, '!u!, but tin- very Ilest and Purest mhIs money can buy. MM. ( KiAUS AND TOBACCOS ninms in connection. si subject to .peculiar Ills. The right remedy ror ibics" Uls-especlally worms auu kiowmvu . i M aisoraers 1 Frev's Vermifuge -hi cured children for 50 years. Send f,.r i'.liiu. book ubout the Ills and the rtnuolv. (lu bottu mlld lor IS oenU. t. JL S. i'lttl, Baltimore, no. In the Springs mi litvil a 'I'onic ami liivignr aiitr -something to tone up the .Sys tem ami give added strength to the Constitution. A good Wood I'uri lier is what you want. To purify tin- blood and keep it so take 0i etest of all Blood Purifiers. Scrofula, Old Sores, Rheumatism, I:czema, Tetter, And all diseases of the Blood and vi in readily ield to its treatment. M-uiy mai ve'loiis cures effected by its use. Write to-day for book of "nohcileii testimonials, l'ostotlice l i t Laboratory, Klttrell, '. Sold in Henderson by The Dorsey Drug Co., IMiil H. Thomas, and W. W. Parker. t lor the free booklet: 'IT TliHSty 'J'lM'S." ' Merry Rootbeer time is here THE CHARLES E. HIRES CO.. Philadelphia, Pa. Makers uf Hires Vundensed 3di',ii. PARKER7! HAIR BALSAM Clcuuca and bowline the htit. Proiiiotfi m loxuriftnt ffrowth. i Kvm Fall to Bettors Orayl Hair to ita xouimui voior. (jure acaip duranea a nair lau. JOc. and f 1 UtfatJruggijtj nirheatrr'a Fncllaa Diamond llraad. rEMNYROYAL PILLS Urlylnal ud Only det-uUe. ?C. rtlaSb. LADIES Uk liruretit for Chichester t A'nuA Brand iu Ke4 toJ Cufei fiif lAlltO 1 botes . 'raied wuh blue rtbbua. Take jbo other. P M doMarrtr rufutuw 'turns aMi (tioiwiu. A i lrua-sist. r send A. in taruia fur particulars, testimonial ao. 1 ltf UsT lor l.dl, letter, by rtr NOTICE. n.i.i'iiiis nay associated Willi nie 111 ' raetiiv of medicine my son, Dr. Juo. ' I '""ker, Jr.. under the llrni name of Its. Tucker Tucker. Olllce In Tucker '"lug building;. li.Mirs.-ii a. in. to 1 p. in. p. in. to . p. in. alls I. -ft with the Dorsey Drii t'o., or ""! t t.. my residence, phone Xo. T, will r-e.-ive at l.-uli,,,, July r.tli. IS!!;). J. 11. TUCKER, M. D. II I : , l.' iiu-r;itT you can have ioods deliver " ittny u here in town absolutely free of ' "-g... f,,,,,, THOMASOX'S. Wnmin Job Person's Remefiy 'A Hie J , on ft GOD'S BEST. 'r. ,,is things for the few. 1 bat dare to stand the test. Oorl i has hU second clioice tor those no wui noi nave the best. It is not always open ill rr.Th?t.Jisks the Promised liesf, 1 he better often is the foe That kee p3 us from the cVf. There's scarcely one but vaguely wants In some wav to be blest; Tis not thy blessing, Iid, 1 seek. I want thy very best. And others make the h'ghest choice Hut when by trials pressed, ' They shrink, they yield, they shun cross, And so they lose the bast. I want in this short life of mine, As much as can he pressed Of ervice true for God and man. Help me to do my bent. I want to stand, when Christ appears. In spotless raiment dressed, Numbered among His hidden ones, His holiest and best. 1 want among the victor's throng, the j.o in-ai my name coniessea. To hear my Master say at last. "Well done, thou didst best." Selected. WAY OF THE WORLD. A woman, barefooted, hungry and footsore walked through a certain town recently looking for a poor house. She once was the hope and pride of a happy home, a reigning society queen, a feader in church and Sunday school work. Men adored her, women envied her, but all rendered her homage. Beautiful, re fined and accomplished, pure and spotless. Hut the sunshine went out of her life, the shadows came. She irusieu in mans nonor ana in a moment of weakness fell. The proud woman became a social outcast, a weary homeless wanderer. Life has no charms of her. The poor house is her ouly refuge. As she knocks at the door the author of her degrada tion lends to the altar a spotless bride, amid the congratulations of those who denounced his poor victim md made her an outcast. Orange blossoms, bouuuets and honors for the man, degradation and tears for the woman. He is applauded, but she is lost forever. H comes 10 our minu mat there is retributive justice somewhere await- ng these cases. Methinks in the great hereafter she will wear robes of potless white, for He who forgave Mary Magdelene, will forgive her, if she repent of her sins and pleads her cause at the throne of Erraee while her betrayer will roast in hell, ami the unforgiving will be judged according as they judged her. Dur ham bu?i. Love. Love is the only bow on life's dark cloud. It is the morning and the evening star. It shines upon the babe and sheds its radiance upon the iiuiet tomo. ii is me moiner oi an, inspirer of poet, patriot and philosO' pher. It is the air and light of everv heart, builder of every home, kindler of every lire on every hearth. It fills the world with melody for music is the voice of love. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings and queens of com mon cloy. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and with out that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it earth is Heaven, and we are gods. Ingcrsoll. It is not the man who does tl most talking who does the most in building up his town, nor the man who is continually denouncing some one else lor ine lacs oi enterprise but the solid, substantial worker who believes that deeds accomplish more than taw-bone clatter, savs an ex change. During the t ml war, as well as in on late war with Spain, diarrhoea was one of the most troublesome diseases the army had to contend with. In many instances I became chronic and the old soldiers still sutler from it. Dr. David Taylor of Wind Ridge, Ureene Co., Pa., is one of these Ileuses Ceamlierlaurs Lobe, ( hoiera and Diarrhoea Itemed v and savs he never found anything that would give him such quick relief. It is for sale by the Dorse v Drug Co. Boys and voung men sometimes start out in life with the idea that one s success uepenus largely upon sharpness and chicanery. They imagine that if a man is able to get the best of a bargain, no matter by what deceit and meanness he carries his point, his prosperity is assured. This is a agreat mistake, fcnauring prosperity cannot be founded on cun ning and dishonesty. The tricky and deceitful are sure to fallvietims sooner or later to the influences which are forever at work against them. Their house is built on sand and its founda tion is sure to give way. You, oan not irive these truths too much weight. Lay the foundation of your career in the enduring principles of everlasting truth. Durham Sun. The Narrow Chasm. The narrow chasm between success and failure is bridged by effort. Many an advertised article has been on he verjre of success only to be dropped at the moment when, by a tt e more bust lnsr. it couiu nae been made profitable to its exploiter - The Advertising Man. A Night of Terror. "Awful anxiety was felt for the widow of the brave General Eurnham of Machias, Me., when the doctors said she could not live till morning." writes Mrs. S. H. Lincoln, who attended her that fearful night. "All thought she must soon die from Pneumonia, but she begged for Dr. King's New Discovery, saying it had more than once saved her life, and had cured her of Consumption. After three doses she slept easily all night, and iu further use completely cured her." This marvelous medicine'is guaranteed to cure all Throat. Chest and Lung Diseases. Only 30c an.d fl.OO. Trial bottles free by the Dorsey Drug Co. People shouldn't who live in glass houses go to bed with the blinds up. IN A BLAZE OF GLOEY THE DRAMATIC EXIT OF OLD FROM LIFE'S STAGE. CAP Be Lived a Wild Life and Wasted . Wild Death, and He Saaanoaed a Wild Aadienee to See Him Do HI Flaal WUd Act. The longing for th center of the stage exists not only in the centers of civilization," said a man who had gono west, made his pile In mining and come back to enjoy himself. "You'll find it up In the Rockies among the hardest, toughest citizens that ever handled a pick or shot a bear. The melodramatic instinct is mighty strong In most men, and the glare of the cal cium Is eagerly sought after by many who won't admit it I knew an old man out in Arizona some years ago who was one of this kind. He was about the most "don't give a darn' cusa I ever knew. lie lived up iu the moun tains, about ten miles back of Tucson, all by himself. I low he mn tinged to live 1 never knew, but he seemed coutented. His evil deeds never seemed to worry him any. and the Ixrd knows his record was black enough. He had been a great gun tighter in his time, and even in the days I speak of it wouldn't do to tread on his toes. He lovvd to tell of his wild life, and the frankness with which he related his somewhat ques tionable escapades made blm an excel lent entertainer If you didu't happeti to feel squeamish. Squearaishness isn't common fault out that way, and everybody kuew and liked Old Cap that's what they called him except the few who had beeu in trouble with him at oue time or another. "Now, no one ever thought thut Old Cap was spectacular. He was the last man ou earth who would be thought likely to waut the center of the stage for any of his stunts. But he did, and the climax of his life was more pyro technical than any nuln's I ever got mixed up with. He certainly did go out in a blaze of glory. It all happen ed about seven years ago. I was in 'I'ucsop. A. lot of us boys were sitting around In front of a glnmill one after noon, just talking about things in gen eral. Our horses were tied in the yard at the back. It was a mighty fine day, just warm enough for solid comfort out of doors, and with the sky as clear as absolute dryness could make it. It was one of these days, you know, when you throw your chest out and congratulate yourself on being alive. "As J was saying, we all sat on easy Wicker chairs, talking and whittling I reckon, when down the street came a 10-year-old boy riding a broncho. We recognized him as a youngster who lived a couple of miles this side of Old Cap's on the same trail. He rode right up to where we were sitting and rolled off his horse, witu his eyes a-poppmg and his breath a-panting. "'Whats the matter, bub.' asked a tall Texan, who was in the party. " 'Old Cap says t come right up t' his place right off an fetch all tli' men yer kin git. T b' Injuns is comln!' "The Indians were always liable to bust loose and do something nobody suspected, so we got our horses out in a jiffy and started up the trail to save Old Cap. There were about a dozen of us, and we had our Winchesters and six shooters with us. When we got near to Old Cap's we slowed up a bit and began to look pretty sharp for Indians, but not a sign of a redskin could we see. " 'We'll be in time, boys,' said the Texan, who was leading the band. Ef we get to Old Cap's cabin we kin stand off a pretty smart lot.' "Old Cap's cabin was situated in clearing off the trail around a bend, with high rocks hiding it until you came out in the open. We reached the turn in safety and swept around It at full gallop. There we saw, first of all, the little cabin looking as snag as usual, and then we noticed Old Cap sitting astride a keg about ten feet in front of his door. His big, gray som breio was cocked to one side, and the red scarf about his neck gave him the look of a stage hero of the plains. He had heard our horses' hoofs beating the rocky trail before we wheeled Into view, and he was ready for us. "Wait ing until we had come within 75 yards of him. he lifted his hat and moved it above his head with a hoarse, wild yell. As 1 think of it now it sounded like the cry of a madman. Then he reached into his pocket and drew forth a match. This he drew carefully across a rock which was within reach of the keg upon which he sat, and saving 5t from the breeze until It was safely lighted he opened his legs and dropped it between them. "There was a yellow puff cu! smokes tinged with a flash of red, and then a, terrific rpar. Old Cap's body flew sky ward, and when it came down it didn't look like a human being's. He had beeu sitting on a keg of powder and bad deliberately blown himself up. Funny thing for a man to do, wasn't It? Old Cap apparently got tired of life and decided to kill himself. He wanted an audience. So he sent the kid out to drum oue up. He got what he wanted, but it wasn't a very sympa thetic one. Men don't go much on gush out there, and the Texan was a little sore about the trick we'd had played on us. He helped to straighten out too corpse, and then he sat down o,n a bowlder and gazed at it- " 'Well.' he said finally, 'he certainly did give himself a good send off!' And the rest of the gang guffawed loud enough to start the echoes down the ralley. "But it was all pretty human when you come to think of it Old Cap had the center of the stage when the cur tain dropped, and his audience then proceeded to forget him." Chicago In ter Ocean. When the drop curtain goes down men go out and put down another drop. A M ERICA'S Greatest Medicine la r Hood's Sarsaparilla, because it pos sesses unequalled curative powers and its record of cures is GREATEST WHERE ARE THE STRONG? (The North State Endeavorer.) Is it ever so in a Society that the most talented shrink from the im portant places? A young man would make a good president but he has never led in prayer. He shrinks from it for iflidence or some other reason. Some one who knows nothing of the plans of the Society is chosen, he is willing to pray in a service. He may have no tact for good work. A Will vou. a half dozen Question vigorous vouno' ueonle in your church, stand,-by and see your Sunday School go down, your C. meetings dwindle, in spite of the faithful efforts of some noble veteran or on account of the unwise and hiftless doings of some quack Chris tian worker? How it must grieve our Master to see the strong stand with bands off, leaving the work to be done by the faithful week. Reckon Before you say that Well you cannot do a certain work for Christ, suppose you sit down and count your powers one by one and ask: W'hy did God give me this? If I do not use this for mv Master what shall I do with it? What if I had been born into the world without this talent? Suppose I had no eyes, no voice, no physical strength, no money, no carriage? Your "I have laid help upon Powers one that is mighty." You know that you do not fail at other things. Your business succeeds under your direction. He who calls you into His work would have you mix your virtue (whatever excellence gives you success) with your faith, your knowledge too, and your self control and your endurance. A faith in God linked to these human , traits is surety against failure. And you must be Godly, and have sympathy for your fellows, and love must pervade the whole. U you are idle in God's service is it not because you have thought that one who suc ceeds in worldly affairs cannot suc ceed in spiritual service? Another can You first say some do Better one else can do it bet ter than you. Why can you sell goods as well as any, or do school work, or teach, or make a political speech, or talk in a crowd, or why can vou use your hands so deftly as a carpenter, or "persuade men" to insure or give you an order looking at your samples? rou learned to do these things better than others by trying. An honest service to Christ cannot be surpassed. I ' This is so often the cry. Can't Do you really mean that you cannotr iou mean mat ii is embarrassing, or it would take some of your time, or your money. When you say that you could not oe at the Prayer meeting you mean tnat you went somewhere eise, or tnat you did not make up your mind to attend your own church service. Is it not so that you have a ffood opinion of yourself about everything elser Be I can't, does not so Careful. often mean, I cannot, as it means, I care not. Tell me, is this not the fact, in your heart r Two ladies have nome uunes. Each has a church engagement, one says: I have company, we connot take our children, I just can't go to the meeting. The other excuses herself from two customers live hun dred miles away from the home, leaves them in her parlor to await her return, while she goes to fdl.an engagement- The Master U, young people Caleth far Thee, of our beloved North State, our historians have rightfully resented the charge that the North Carolina men ninched in the battle at Guilford Court House The salvation of our State depends uron our unflinching obedience to 1 7 our Captain's call. It is far more embarrassing to let the cause fail than to endeavor and succeed, a more stinging remorse not to have tried than to have done our best. The Master calls. It is ours not to shirk but to work. GIVE THEfl SOflETHING TO DO. IK. M.W., in North State Endeavorer. A few days ago a bright little" girl was telling me of the Junior work in her town. With that charming candor of childhood she helped me to under stand what the secret of success is in the work with the children. She said. I liked the meetings "came some of us always led.'''' Boys and girls (and older people too) like the idea that they are needed and when they "have a finger in the pie" their hearty co-operation is as sured. One very successful worker says "I let them run themselves." Junior Superintendents : Are you fdanning your work so that very ittle, if any of the responsibility is falling on the little folks i U you are I am afraid they are not doing good work. Give everv member some thing to do. Help them to realize that if tbev do not attend to their part it will go undone, and then ex plain that the loss will be to the A. entire Society. Never do anything for the Juniors which they can o for themselves. Perhaps it would be a great deal easier to do it yourself than to teach the untrained little lingers how, but by patiently, lovingly helping them you are bringing blesssings into their lives. And some day with their mind and heart trained in the service of the King they will "pass on" the lessons you have taught. Remember that He whom having not seen we love, will reward you for your "work and labor of love." M. W. WHAT IS SAID OF HENRY BLOUNT. Some Tributes Paid to His Oenlus and Talents as a Lecturer. Key. Dr. Munday, former pastor of the Baptist church in Wilson, says: I have heard Henry Blount's wonder ful production, and I was charmed with this masterpiece of wit and humor and pathos and eloquence. It was pure, chaste, ornate, thrilling and sublime. Rev. T. N. Ivey, D. D., editor of the Raleigh Cliristian Advocate, sys: I consider Henry Blount the greatest genius that North Carolina ever pro duced, for he is not only a humorist of tt.e very highest order, but he ?s an actor and poet and rhetorician and orator, and wields an audience with the potent wand of those irresistible powers. I have heard his grand and beautiful creation, "Beyond the Alps Lies Italy," and was charmed with its purity of sentiment, loftiness of aim and beauty of expression and impressiveness of delivery, for it was the creation of a poet and the emanation of an orator. Theo. Smith, President Browns ville Baptist Female College, says: I have heard Henry Blount and was perfectly charmed with his matchless powers. He is, in a most unusual degree, trifted with a many sided versatility. From the most wonderful and extraor dinary aptitude for dialect portraiture to the highest! flights of magnificent imagery his genius ranges supreme. One moment the enchanted hearer is con vulsed with merriest laughter, and the next, he is moved to briniest tears, for mirth and pathos are the arrows which he flings at will from his skillful and well directed bow, and they never fail to hit the mark and stir the feelings. It would be the height of folly for me to attempt to portray the most prominent charac teristics of this remarkable genius, for he is an actor, a mimic, a humorist, an orator, a rhetorician, a philosopher, a philanthropist, all combined in one beautiful and harmonious and symmet rical grouping, and no one can tell in which role he excels, for he is superb in each. Mr. Blount will lecture at Cooper Opera House Friday evening, Aug. 25th, under the auspices of the Ladles1 Aid Society of the Methodist Episco pal church- Hear him. A Mother Tells how she Saved her Little Daughter's Life. I am the mother of eight children and have had a great deal of experience with medicines. Last summer my little daughter had the dysentery in its worst form. We thought she would die, I tried everything I could think of, but nothing seemed to do her any good, I saw by an advertisement in our paper that Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy was highly recommended and sent and got a bottle at once. It proved to lie one of the very best medicines we ever had in the house. It saved my little daughter's life. I am anxious for eyery mother to know what an excellent medicine it is. Had I known it at first it would have saved me a great deal of anxiety and my little daughter much suffering Yours truly, MRS. GkO. F. BUKDICK, Liberty, K. I. For sale by the Dorsey Drug Co. WEALTH IN SMALL THINGS. Did you ever think how very valu able are many small inventions what large returns they have brought the fortunate inventors? The Patent Record gives a glimpse of some of them that is surely instructive: "The Stylographic pen yielded X2U,UUU a year to its proprietors; a plan for shading in different colors was worth a simular amount; rubber stamps proved equally valluable to their inventor. A certain rich man owes his wealth to the gummed news paper wrapper; and the genius who put a piece of riibber at one end of a tube and closed up the other end by- slipping in a lead pencil realized a forttine. The spring window shade yields ,20,000 a year. A miner, find ing that the buttons upon the flags of his trousers' pockets would not support the weight of all his heavy tools, substituted metal eyelets and hooks for buttons. That miner is now a man of wealth. The inventor of the roller skate made 200,000. The erimiet-pointed screw has been re sponsible for more wealth than most silver mines. One hundred thousand pounds in first-class securities would not represent the fortune made by the man who first thought of copper tips for children s shoes. hven little thing like the common needle threader is worth 2,000 a year to its owner, while the "Return ball - wooden ball fastened on a piece of elastic yields 10,000 per annum this is only of many profitable toys We may mention the "Dancing Jim Crow," which produces 15,000 year; the "Wheel or lne ' worth in all full 100,000; the walking figure "John Gilpin, and the "Chameleon top." Multiply the figures that represen pounds sterling by the figure o and you will have approxmately the sums in American dollars. BAD BLOOD CURE FREE! Eating Sores, Tumors, Ulcers, Cancers, are all cured by B. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm,) which is made especially to cure all deep-seated, obstinate Blood Diseases. Persistent Sores, Blood and Skin Blem ishes,' Scrofula, that resist other treat ments, are quickly cured by B, B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm.) Skin Eruptions, Pimples, Boils, Itching, Eczema, Scales, Blisters, Red or Brown Patches, Catarrh, Rheumatism, etc., are all due to bad blood, and hence easily cured by B. B. B. Syphilitic Blood Poision, producing Ul cerated Sore throat, Aching Bones, Pain ful Swellings, Eruptions, Falling Hair, etc., literally driven from the system by B. B. B. (.Botanic Blood Balm,) in one to five months. B. B. B. does not contain vegetable or mineral poison. For sale by druggists everywhere. Large bottles 51, six for . Send 2 stamps lor post age on free sample bottle, which will be sent by return mail. When you write describe symptoms, and personal free roedicat advice will be given. Address Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga. Even wood. a forest don't waste tire- Attention iscalled to a new lot of shoes for men, women andchildren verv cheap at H. THOMASO.VS. How to Kill Town. Oppose everv movement that is started for new enterprises or local i improvements. Innovations are dan gerous. What was good enough for the last generation ought to satisfy this one and the next. Just grum ble. Never praise your town, its public men or leading citizens. In fact, never have a good word for anyone. They might hear of it and become puffed up with pride. Only criti cise. Don't patronize home merchants. Everythingis much better and cheaper i t.h.t om. tl,,, vwi. iHrua 1 that comes from the North. Advise your neighbors to send away from home for what they want. You have done your part when you sell your produce at home. Keep on grumbling. Never pay anything to the churches, or any charitable organization. It is much cheaper to find fault with the preachers and to point out the mis takes of those people who are always "bothering you for money for a thou sand and one different objects." Pose as a martyr. Don't paint or improve your prop erty, but make some spiteful re marks about your neighbors when ever they begin to "put on airs." It may really be an evidence of prosper ity, and, besides, these Improve ments make your property look shab by. Just whine. When you meet a stranger tell him about the excessive taxation, the lack of public spirit, the bad streets, the unhealthy climate, the unprogressive city officials, the clannishness of the people tell him everything to dis courage him from making a lengthy stay. Here is where you can put in your best licks. Assume a truthful air. Do not appear to take anv pleasure in these sad recitals. Lie regretfully. finally, don t patronize your home paper, there are others larger and much better, and they keep you posted about special bargains. If the home paper succeeded it might help the local merchants, and encourage a arger circle of readers to spend their money at home. It costs nothing to borrow it. Just stand off and criti cise. Charlottesville Progress. Good Argument to Remember. One of the best arguments against advertising in any other way than in newspapers is contained in the fol- owing excerpt: A local merchant asked the other day, "Have you noticed the fine advertisement I have on the fence out West of town?" No," replied the customer, "but if you will send the fence around to my house some day I will read it over and see what you are dealing in. Fact is, I'm reading newspapers and don t get much time to study fence ology . " Exchange. DIGNIFIED LABOR. The old Southern planter, with his army of slaves, was a princely char acter. But there were many ideas. the subject of condition, which should have passed with the passing of the conditions. The vast army of the people in the South must now eain their living uy what we can common labor, if they get it honestly We need nothing more than a dig nifying of labor. There is room for only a verv small per cent- in the professions, and even in business We need to reoognize more largely than we do that character can be formed at the loom, at the forge, and in all other lines of useful employ ment. Anglo-Saxon. Eminently correct, but not far enough. We need, not only to recog nize that character can be formed at the loom or forge but that it is formed there, character of some kind, and what we are concerned about should be what kind of character is there formed. The South is waking up to vastly new conditions of life A tremendous element in our social fabric will ere long be the laboring people in our various manufacturing plants. There is no use denying there is danjrer ahead for us. With the rapid desertion of the rural dis tricts and the congestion of popula tion about the mills and towns where proper social and religious influences are largely absent, there is need of some means of impressing upon these people the dignity of labor and the dignity of character and responsi bility. It is not so much a need in the South of a dignifying of labor as the Anglo-Saxon calls it, by which we understand it to mean that those who live without manual labor shall have a greater respect for those who live by it, as there is need for a dignifying of character by those who perform manual labor, referring of course to other labor than that of tilling the soil. Monroe Journal. We don't think that the Americans should discount the sincerity of the mutual admiration society that has been formed between John Bull and Uncle Sam. There is no telling what would have happened as an outcome of the Spanish-American war had not England lent her moral support to the position this country took in the matter of Cuban liberation. I he rest of the world did not dare to move out of its tracks, confronted as it was by a practical Anglo-American alliance. Norfolk Public Ledger. Spai n's Greatest Need. Mr. R. P. Olivia, of Barcelona, Spain, spends his winters at Aiken, S. C. Weak nerves had caused severe pains in the back of his head. On using Electric Bitters, America's greatest Blood and Nerve Remedy, all pain soon left him. He says this grand medicine is what his country needs. All America knows that it cures liver and kidney trouble,, purifies the blood, tones up the stomach, strengthen the nerves,, puu vim, vigor and new life into every muscle, nerve and organ of the body. Weak, tired or ailing vou need it. Every bottle guaranteed, only 50 cents. Sold by the Dorsey Drug Co. It is far better to fail in a ood cause than fail in a bad oue. AftTS AS FIGHTERS. thf timv waopinoc adc cronriru ie IN BATTLE. So Vleiaaa Arc Taew That Kt a Lara eat Aalaaala Dare Sot Meet Taeaa la Caaat A Maa Wtaia Their Bttea Maae a RaTla( Maalac. "I was one of six American miners who were routed from their camp by a Venezuelan ant army," said a mining expert who lately arrived from Veue- . lit ,. vadejrs without making a fight, and fur two good reasons. In the first place we would have got the worst of the encounter, and. secondly, we know that if we let them alone they would do us a good service. "Shortly after dawn one Sunday our native cook burst in upon us with the news that we were about to be attack ed by an army of ants. We had beard enough about ant armies to know what to do. We arose hastily, and ev ery ounce of provisions that was not sealed in cans or iu jars was hurricdly ptlcd on a table, the four legs of which were Immersed In as many basins of water. Every maneuver that is known to the armies of civilized humans you may safely exitect from an nut army, but the little black warriors have never learned to swim. Our provisions thus protected, we left the cauip to itself and went out to reconnoiter for the In vadcrs and to watch their assault from a distance. The army was mak ing fair time. An irregular patch of black 10 feet wide and double as long was swarming steadily toward our camp. As the army was In no way disturbed by our presence It was pos sible to approach Its lines closely. There must have been millions upon millions of little soldiers marching hip to hip. At the head marched the lead er. On went the army, up the posts of the camp and theu within. Once within, the army spread itself in all directions, forming hundreds of little attacking parties. The camp was an old palm thatched affair and so In fested with scorpions, cent! pods and spiders that we had been on the point of destroying It. Now, however, the ants had come and would clean house for us, and therefore they were wel come. The ants swarmed up the joists and the dry leafy walls, and wherever there was a spider or a bug there was a brief tussle and a dead foe. But there was bigger game In store for the invaders. The star battle was with an Im mense centiped, one or the bluish gray kind, about seven Inches loug and as big around as your middle finger. He darted out of a hole like a blue 6treak, evidently trusting to his speed and superior strength to run through the enemy's ranks. But he didn't go three feet before he was stopjied. Ants literally covered blm. lie turned on himself and swept them from his back. but before he bud gone another three feet he Mas burled beneath another swarm of his plucky assailants. And then began a fight to the death. Again and again he swept his tormentors from his back while from nil sides hurried streams of ants to take the place of fallen comrades. The wrig gling of the big fellow became less vio lent as the fight progressed, and final ly, after an effort, which I well knew was a desperate lust oue, he remained quiet while what little life was left iu him was bitten out of biiu. Later, when the army had retreated and when we had swept up the centipeds and scor pions and lizards and a tarantula which the ant army had vanquished, we put the hero of the star battle tin der a quartz magnifying glass. The bodies of dead ants still clung to their foe. From his back, from his legs. from wherever there was a chance for a bold, the bodies of ants dangled, hold ing on, I suppose, by their teeth. "Perhaps you wonder what would happen to a man who would under take to fight an army of ants, assuiu Ing, of course, that the man relies on his natural means of defense his bands and feet I can best Illustrate that by the rare story of an uufortu nate who was brought to a hospital In Caracas shortly before my return borne. The man was a coolie who had worked on a cocoa plantation In a creek not far from Caracas. Following habit of some of his countrymen, the coolie, owing to the heat, had left his camp and stretched himself on the ground to sleep outdoors. Exactly what followed no cne can say with cor talnty. Presumably be was surrounded and covered by an army of ants be fore be awakened. At dawn the shrieks and cries of a man In agony aroused the inmates of the camp, who ran out to learn the cause. "The man was gesticulating wildly and calling for help, whlled he squirm ed and writhed and slapped his face and neck and chest and legs In a mad effort to slap himself all ever at once He was standing in the midst of an army of ants and was too distracted with pain to run away. Then be did exactly what a panther or leopard docs when be Is being overcome. The man threw himself to the grouud to roll his tormentor to death. A single active white man could have saved the poor wretch, but the stupefied, barelegged coolies dared not. or thought not. of rescue, while the victim himself wa too crazed with ogony to seek other than instant relief. From a slight per sonal experience I know the poor fel low was burning In a fire which would take hours to kill him. "Finally a bystander regained his wits and rushed Into the midst of the army and dragged the man after him and threw blm Into the creek. The rescue came too late. The victim be came unconscious. His velvety, brown skin was a pink mass of raw bites. When be came to the hoepitaL he was bound hand and foot a maniac, whose continuous notion was that be was be ing eaten by ants." New York Sun. It is seldom the man with the most checks in his trousers who has the lar get bank account. INDIGESTION, resulting from weakness of the stomach, is relieved by Hood's Sareaparilla, the jrreat fetorn ack Waic and cure for DYSPEPSIA. 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