THE MONROE JOURNAI
VOLUME XIV. NO. 17
MONROE, N.C., TUESDAY JUNE 18, 1007.
One Dollar a Year
PEAVINE HAY.
The Cheapest Way to Grow It
Only a Peck of cai Needed to
Plant an Acre, and One Cultiva
te Does the Work.
Will I. I'favfuftl ! ITrNaf larawr.
f accouut of the high price of
ms I ue tUHt iuu of how beat
to p-t the nitwt laud iu pratine bay
with the lead fiitie, in one which
uow intervals the farmers more than
at any previous tieaaou iu the his
tory of peavine hay waking.
liy adopting the plan which I
will outliue, the ared peas will be
aa cheap at four dollar per bushel
art they were in previous years at
one dollar.
I rop Peas In Every Fourth I'urrow.
Oue of. tho best farmer iu the
county, near uiy place, used the
following plan a year or so ago, and
wan highly pleaded with results,
making the finest crop of hay he
ever raised, and used only one peek
of peas per acre, lie ran off hi
laud, just aa if oat were to be
wiwu, aud iu every fourth furrow
lie step dropped peas, and by not
plowing uerotw end of the laud,
they were practically in rows. Af
ter the peas were up, be ran iu be
tween them one time with a cotton
plow with uothingon but the poiut
aim sweep, this gave the peas
start ahead of the eras, and wheu
ready to eut it was waist high, the
fluent crab grass and peaviue bay
ever seeu to grow in that neighbor
hood.
To Make a Bless! ng of Pea Shortage.
Owing to the scarcity of eas.
this is the plan we will adopt on
Oak Glen farm this year, using a
Vle planter behind the fourth
plow, aud cultivating oue time, aud
we expect better results than the
old way of sowing broadcast. If
this plan is universally successful,
and I have no doubt but that it
will be, the loss of lust year's crop
of eaa will prove a blessing in dis
guise to the farmers, showing them
that while making two blades of
grass grow where oue grew before,
they can also make oue pea auswer
where four were used before. This
is a valuable lessou in farm econo
my, which is as esseutial to agri
cultural success as abundant cros,
and eveu more so, as it is not what
we make, but what we save, that
counts for so much iu making the
farmer cotnfortablo and indepen
dent. Much Honey in Small Economies.
Instead of using, then, all the
peas we have, aud in many eases
Inlying more in order to have an
abundant hsy crop, we can save
three bushels in every four, lo feed
to the old cow which the March
winds failed to blow away, aud lie
richly re wauled with an extra llow
of milk, aud decided improvement
in look uud weight of "Mosaic."
Just so, the funneis are learning to
chink many little leaks around the
farm, which have been unheeded
heretofore, aud which will swell
the credit side of the ledger uutil
eventually they will fully enjoy
that degree of financial prosjierity
which hii all-wise Providence in
tended for them.
With the present demands for
iroductsof cotton seed, the Mouth
ius wasted barrels of money in
sowing itswrop, and chopping out
uiue tenths of it, and no doubt iu a
few years just as good, or a better
stand, will be obtained by planters
"that will drop the seed at the prop
er distance, thereby saving thou
sands of bushels of seed for the
mills. But necessity, perhaps, will
force this upon the farmers as it
has the use of peas this year, and
convince them that a thoroughly
prepared seed bod for any crop,
aud good quality of seed, is more
dm-unai umu iiiinuuiy.
However, we hope to see results
of experience from different farm
ers ou the hay question discussed
io your most excellent paper, from
now until harvest "Iu a multi
tude of counsel there is wisdom."
Wayne Co., K. a x
Needlework for School Qlrls.
Youth's Conipsnloa.
The ability of a girl to do with
out teaching anything she is called
ou to do is pretty generally taken
for granted She imitates the coun
trymnu who, being asked if he
could play the violin, replied, "I
guess so; I never tried!" Thou
sands of girls marry and set up
housekeeping whose experience iu
cooking consists iu making "fudge"
and concocting a Welsh rabbit ou
chafing dish pleasant eating in
their place, but inadequate for the
daily food of a hard working husband.
Ho, also, the girl is supposed to
know by instinct bow to mend and
sew. A certaiu young wife became
on her marriage the stepmother of
three small children. The first
week's nieuding-basket was a reve
lation to her of her own helpless
liens.
with court plaster," she coufeased
afterward, "aud I dare say it would
have been as effective as what I
managed to do."
Two generations ago in a famous
school for girls iu an Hastens city
sewing was an iuiiorUut part of
the curriculum. The first task of
a new student was the making of a
shirt for father or brother. Kvery
stitch in that shirt was set by a
thread. If a seam had to be ripped
a dozen times, it must be Gt for the
closest inspection. This teal on the
part of the school was so:aetimee
excelled iu the borne.
A traditiou lingers in one family
of "a daughter who weut to that
school when she was six years old.
So well did she sew at that age
that she was excused from making
the shirt, and set at once to a bit
of fine needlework a wide muslin
collar, covered with embroidery as
exquisite as lace.
The promise of the six year old
child was richly fulfilled, and her
needle was for a long lifetime
high satisfaction to herself and a
joy to her fortunate family and
friends. Sewing was never a Slav
ery to her, but always a fascinating
creative occupation. The paten ou
a jacket, the darn of a stocking or
the embroidery of a gown or a nap
kin were alike welcome calls upon
her capable fingers. lien people
spoke of her ability to turn of!
sewing, she used to say:
"That's because I know how to
sew. I know how because I was
taught. Skilful bauds, even better
than many hands, make light
work !"
Tired Mothers.
Cheater Lantera.
The following lines are clipped
from the Ninety-Six Star, but we
do not know who the author is. If
you can read them without tear-
bediiumed eyes, tlieu you have not
missed "this restless, curling head
from oft your breast," nor "from
your owu the dimpled hand have
slipped."
A little trirl leant upon your knee.
Your tired knee that ha no much to
bear:
A child's dear eye arc looking lovingly
Krom underneath a thatch of tangled
hair.
Perhaps you do not heed the velvet
touch
Of warm, moist fingers, folding yours
so tight;
You do not prize thislilessing overmuch.
You are almost too .tired to pray to
night, 1
But it is blessedness! A year ago
1 did not see it aa I do today:
We are so dull and thankless ana too
slow
To catch the sunshine till it slip sway;
And now it seems surprising strange to
me
That, while 1 wore the badge of moth
erhood, I did not kiss more oft and tenderly
The little child that brought me only
good.
And if some night, when you sit down
to rest,
You miss the elbow from your tired
knee.
This restless, curling head from oft your
breast,
This lisping tongue that chatters con
stantly, If from your own the dimpled hands
have slipped
And ne'er would nestle in your pnlms
again;
If the white feet into their grave had
tripped,
I could not blame you for your heart
ache then!
I wonder so that mothers ever fret
At little children clinging to their gown,
Or that the footprints, when the days
are wet.
Are ever black enough to make them
frown.
If I could kiss a rosy, restless foot
And hear patter in my home once
more:
If I could mend a broken cart today.
Tomorrow make kite to reach the sky,
There is no woman in Cod's world could
say
She was more blissfully content thaNi I,
hut ah, the dainty pillow next my own
Is never rumpled by a shining head!
My singing birdling from its nest has
flown.
The little boy I used to kiss is dead!
TheMaglc No. 3.
Number three is a wonderful mas
cot for Geo, II. Parris of Cedar
Grove, Me., according to a letter
which reads f "After suffering much
with liver and kidney trouble, and
becoming greatly discouraged by
the failure to find relief, I tried
Klectrio Bitters, aud as a result am
a well, man today. The first bottle
relieved and three bottles complet
ed the cure." Guaranteed best ou
earth for stomach, liver and kidney
troubles by English Drug Co. 50c.
John Cabell Coleman, member of
the well known Cabell family of
Virginia, was iustautly killed last
week in Danville, Va., while try
ing to save a woman from the bru
tality of George Lindsay. Lindsay
knocked the woman down several
times aud Coleman ran np and told
him to desist, whereupon Lindsay
fired point blauk and killed him.
Lindsay was arrested.
A jvoinpt, pleasant, good remedy
(or coughs and colds, it Kennedy's
Laxative Cough Syrup. It is especi
ally recommended for bsbies and chil
dren, bnt good tor every member of
the family. It contains no opiates and
does not constipate. Contains honey
and tar and tastes nearly at good as
i- i 1. I : i. - i, i-i i
1 was wmptea 10 stop the bates , by s , Wesh tnd C . N . Simpson, Jr.
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A New Orleans woman was thin.
Because the did not extract sufficient
nourishment from her food.
She took Scolfj Emulsion,
Result!
She gained a pound a day in weight.
ALL DRUGGISTS t SOs. AND II M
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WirE AND nOTHEK ON FARl.
The Household Duties and the Care
of Her Children Are Enough for
Her Strength.
Hilda atrkawiHl la C.tinlrj limtb-aua.
Tp any woman who reads this sees
her own picture clearly por
trayed in the life of the young far
mer's wite herein mentioned, 1 trust
j she will stop and relloct for a few
moments at least, if she does not
heed the warning. It is difficult to
believe that intelligent women will
sometimes act as they do, but there
are many uuexplaiued mysteries in
the world.
The young woman, in question
was brought np on a large farm
where work was pleutiful, but not
too hard, and she received a fair
education in the country schools.
Whc about eighteen years old she
married a young farmer who had
no property, but was physically
able to care for a wife aud family.
Ue rented a place, aud bis wife es
saved to help him. I ustead of stay
ing in the house and caring for her
little children her chickens and
her housework as the years went
on, she thought that was not
euongh. In old, dirty clothes she
rode on the cultivator to plow the
young corn, drove the team iu the
bay field, aud did various tasks far
beyond her strength, beside her
work in the bouse after a fashion,
Her babies were left to their own
devices just as soon as iHissible,
aud out of a large family, no oue
will be surprised to learn that only
two sickly little girls survive.
These small, uuchildish creatures
must do the family cooking, and
arouud the old stove iu the kitchen
are small boxes, so that they may
be able to reach the pots aud pans.
A few years ago, when one of the
babies died, people said the moth
er would lose her reason; but the
next week she was out iu the field
as usual. Her whole hobby was to
get a home of her own, aud uow
that they owu a farm, she seems
not to lie able to stay iu the house.
Learn to do ouly as much as your
strength will allow, and do not com
mit slow suicide trying to keep to
the standard set by souio stranger.
lour life is worth more to your
family than a few acres of land,
anyway. Sickness and funerals cost
more money thau hired help; so it
is true economy to keep well and
strong. Of course you uiay drag
along for years, bringing a iiuiuls-r
of Bickly, delicate children into the
world before death claims you; but
a grat many women in the country
dio by their owu hands as surely as
do the people who take poison or
shoot themselves.
It Was His Dog.
Yimlira Companion.
An automobile dashed along the
country road. Turning a curve, it
came suddenly upou a man with a
gnu on his shoulder and a weak,
sick-looking old dog Iswidc him.
The dog was directly iu the path of
the motor car. The clmutlcur
souuded his horn, but the dog did
not move until he was struck.
After that he did not move.
The automobile stopiied and one
of the men got out and came, for
ward. He hud once paid a fanner
ten dollars for killing a calf that
belonged to another farmer. This
time he was wary.
" as that your dogt"
"Yes."
"You own him!"
"Yes."
"Looks as if we'd killed him."
"Certainly looks aa.'J
"Very valuable dogf '
"Well, not so ery."m.
"Will five dollars satisfy yout"
- "Yes."
"Well, then, here yon are." He
handed a five-dollar bill to the man
with the guu, and added, pleasant
ly, "I'm sorry to have broken np
your hunt."
"I wasu't going huutiug," re
plied the other, as he pocketed the
bill.
"Not going hunting! Then what
were you doing with the dog and
guut"
"Going down to the woods to
shoot the dog."
A Fortunate Texan.
Mr. K. W. Gondloe of 107 St. Louis
St., Dallas, Tex., says: "In the past
year I have become acquainted with
Dr. King's Mew Life Tills, and no
laxative I ever before tried so ef
fectually disposes of malaria aud
biliousness." They don't grind uor
gripe. 25c. at English Drug Co.'s.
The boy who cannot lie induced
to work will never get to first base
in the game of life. Jeflerson Citi
zen.
No greater mistake can be made
than to consider lightly the evi
dence of disease in your system.
Dou't take desperate chances on
ordinary medicines. Use Hollis
ter'sltocky Mountain Tea. 35 cents
tea or tablets. English Drug Co.
Emma Sorrells, wife of the man
who was killed by a sheriff and
who killed an officer wheu arrested
for blackmail, was discharged in
Mitchell county when tried for con
spiracy with her husband to black
mail. Bert Barber of Elton, Wit., says: "I
hsvt ouly taken (oar doses o( your
Kidney and Bladder Pill and they
have done for ma mors than any oth
er mediciot has ever don. I am still
taking tha pills as I want a perfect
cure." Mr. Barber refers to DeWitt't
Kidney and Bladder Pills, which are
anequaled for backache, weak kid
neys, inflammation of Ilia bladder and
all orinary troubles. A week's treat
ment foe aj cents. Sold by S, J. Welsh
aud C. N. Simpson, Jr.
Death of Senator Hot fan.
Charlotte t larrr.
In the death of John T. Morgan,
' I'uited States Senator from Ala
bama siuce l.sTT, the country loses
oue of its most distinguished pub
lic meu. Bora in Tenntwee &) years
ago, he died in the fulluess of years
and honors. Sir. Morgau s active
career began with admission to the
Alabama bar in 145, but he took
little part in politics uutil
when he became a Breckinridge
and lane elector for the SUte at
large. The beginning of the civil
war found him in the Confederate
ranks as a private. Subsequently
be raised the Fifth Alabama regi
ment, became its colonel, and in
IstU was commissioned a brigadier
general. After the war he resumed
practice at Selma, and in ISTti,
without having held any regular
oflice prior to that time, was elect
ed to the United States Seuate.
lie elections in 1882, 188S, 1S!U,
l'NH) and 1H06, the last two times
with the unanimous assent of even
Populists aud Republicans, serve
to show his great and increasing
hold npon his State's affections. Iu
INOti, the liemocratic party of Ala
bama, wishing to continue iu oflice
Mr. Morgan and bis equally ven
erable colleague, Mr. l'ettus, and
at the same time settle the succes
sion, adopted the novel expedieut
of naming "alternate Senators" in
their primary. As first alternate,
former Congressman John II. Batik
head, whose defeat for re-election
by Captain ltiehiuond P. Hobsou,
turned out to be a blessing in dis
guise, will become the new Senator.
In lMi'- Senator Morgau was ap
pointed by President Harrison one
of the Americau arbitrators iu the
I ten ring Sea Court of Arbitration,
and iu Itt'iS, after the passage of
the Hawaiian auuexatiou bill, Pres
ident McKiuley appointed him one
of the commissioners to prepare
a system of government for the
islands.
It was as an able lawyer, a vig
orous advocate, a statesman of con
structive intellect, and au incor
ruptible public servaut that he
made his great and durable reputa
tion in the Senate. A man of natu
rally encyclopedic mind, he took
all knowledge to lie his province
aud could speak exhaustively upon
almost any subject even when little
or no oportunity for preparation
had presented itself. This wide
range of information, together with
remarkable facility aud endurance
ou his feet, made him easily the
champion long-distance talker of
the Senate and highly useful to his
party when the call was for some
one to talk an obnoxious measure
to death. If our recollection serves
us, his best record for continually
holding tho lloor was during the
Democratic fight on the force bill,
when he kept his feet for 14 hours,
killing part of the time by reading
extracts from books with little re
gard to relevancy. He himself has
Ihh'ii quoted as saying that he could
talk two hours upon a subject of
which he bud never beard before
and about which he knew nothing.
This time-killing ability led some
people to set hi in down as a long-
winded bore, but they were much
iu error.
During nearly the whole of Mr.
Morgan's career iu the Senate he
was most conspicuous as au advo
cate of au inter-oceanic canal by
the Nicaragua route, long serving
as chairman of the Senate commit
tee on inter-oceanic canals. His
light on the Clayton-Bulwer treaty
iu pursuance of his couteution that
no other country should be admit
ted to any share in the venture
forms an important part of recent
political and diplomatic history,
lie always maintained that the,
Nicaragua route was very much
the better from the South's stand
point. When President Koosevelt,
having found a way to kick the
effete Colombian dagoes oil' the
Isthmus of Panama without caus
ing too loud an inter-national rucus,
hud Congress buy out the French
company and commit the couutry
to the Panama route Mr. Morgau
was greatly displeased. He never
became reconciled to the change of
plau, and bis recent severe cross
examination of Wm. Nelson Crom
well, attorney for the Freuch in
terests, is still fresh in the public
miud.
In his political philosophy Mr.
Morgau belonged to the strictest
school of Democrats. More than
once be referred to himself as am
bassador from the sovereign State
of Alabama to the Federal govern
ment s
Every flan His Own Doctor.
The averag man cannot afford to em
ploy a physician for every alight ail
ment or iujury that may occur in his
family, nor can ht afford to neglect
them, as so slight an Iujury as the
scratch of a pin baa been known to
cause the loss of a limb. Hence every
man must from necessity be bit own
doctor lor this clattof ailments. Suc
cess often depends upon prompt treat
ment, which can ouly be bad when
suitable medicines are kept at hand.
Chamberlain's Kemedies have been in
tha market lor many years and eojoy
a good reputation. Chamberlain's Col
ic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for
bowel complaint. Chamberlain's Cougb
Remedy for coughs, colds, croup aud
whooping cough. Chamberlain's Pain
Balm (an antiseptic liniment) for cuts,
bruises, burnt, sprains, twellingt.lama
back and rheumatic paint. Chamber
Iain's Stomach and Liver Tablets for
constipation, biliousness and stomach
troubles. Chamberlain's Sslvt for dis
eases of tha skin. On bottle of each
ol these fits preparations costs but
f i.ij. For tale by English Drug Co.
Fortunate la the man who knows
how big a fool he can be without
trying.
i Rl'FtlAN ATTACKS SPEAKER-
While Mr. Connor of the Depart
ment of Education Is Speaking
in Davidson County, He is As
saulted by Ez-DUtilkrand Mur
derer and a Fleht Ensues.
Sat in day night at au educational
meetiug at Churchlaud Academy,
in Boone township, while Mr. It.
D. W. t'on nor, Jr., of Puleigh was
speaking iu behalf of local tax for
schools, he was Interrupted by II,
Clay Gruhb aud a fight ensued be
tween the two which broke up the
meeting.
Mr. Counor, who is a son of Judge
Connor of the orth; Carol ma Su
preuie Court, is au oflicer connect
ed with the State's educational de
partment under Dr. J. Y. Joyner,
superintendent of public iustruc
tioo; aud he hnd leeu invited, just
as Biiperintemu'iit .lovu-, assume
time ago, to deliver au address in
behalf of I lie special school tax
which was to have been voted ou
Monday of this week.
He had been speaking about 15
minutes, perhaps, wheu the trouble
began. At this particular juueture
he was making the point that if the
people of Churchlaud school dis
trict voted a special tax ou them
selves for better schools, the money
would lie ued ouly iu their dis
trict and the country at large would
have uothiug to do with it. Prior
to this point in his speech, he had
stressed the iuiHirtauee of educa
tion, and hud contrasted the North
and the South: the one educated,
the other not so much, the one rich,
the other not so rich, aud had re
ferred humorously to the old saw
about the sharp New Etiglanders
making wooden nutmegs aud sell
ing them South.
When he made the poiut about
where the special tax money would
be used, II. Clay Grubb, who op
posed the tax, arose and called the
speaker a "G d liar," asserting
that if the tax were voted, any lioy
or girl over the 7th grade in the
county might attend the school.
Mr. Connor pointed out that this
was true of the high schools, where
the State gives one dollar for every
dollar raised by the people, and re
quires the high school to admit any
child in the county, but that the
Churchlaud matter would lie pure
ly a local school and was different.
There is none of these high schools
in Davidson county. Mr. Connor
said to Grubb, "My friend, you
dou't kuow what you are talking
about"
Grubb then referred to the nut
meg mutter, and said that this as
sertion about the school tax was as
much of a ,;e as the tale about the
nutmegs. "Any mau who says that
the Yankees can sell Southern peo
ple wooden nutmegs," he shouted,
"is a G d liar."
Tho speaker, who is a smaller
man than Grubh, weighing uliout
11(1 or 1.1(1 pounds, was "game"
and immediately shucked his coat,
and the two advanced on each oth
er. They met and Mr. Connor de
livered a still' right bander, strik
ing Grubb in the face with such
force that ho was turned partly
around. They clinched then, and
iu the melee Grubb bit his antago
nist's middle finger ou the right
hand pretty severely. They scuf
fled about a minute aud broke
away. Then Mr. uinnor seized an
umbrella and hit Grubb over the
head, and tho latter wrenched the
umbrella away and returned the
blow. Honors were pretty even.
Witnesses of the light state that
friends of Grubb surrounded the
combatants and prevented inter
ference, saying, "It is a fair fight;
let them have it out." The same
witnesses state that they saw guus
and that some of the men were un
der the influence of whiskey.
Meanwhile the one hundred or
more people had scattered, the
nieetinir was at an eud and Mr.
Connor returned to Lexington and
took the train for Ualeigh.
Sunday a delegation of citizens
came in from Boone seeking legal
advice as to what course to pursue
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Num. Heart It.
at the election Monday io order to
prevent further trouble aud to keep
down furt her i tit i midut ion of voters.
Legal advice was M-srce ami after
consultation with m-veial gentle
men, they decided to let the elec
tiou go by default aud not hold it.
The real cause f the trouble is
laid to the had feeling existing be
tween some meu w ho advocated the
tax and soiiie whodidu't, the latter
earing less aUuit the tax, however.
than they did alsiut the prominence
some were taking in public affairs
a sort of rivalry, it deems, as to
alio should run thiugsiu that neck
of toe woods.
Grubh is an ex-distiller, and the
man who killed his brother-in-law
at church uot long ago, and after
wards ki!M a negro .
Over the Wire.
Yuath's CuaiMmulon.
"Yes, indeed, four o'clock will
suit me as exactly as well, Mr. liar
vey If you clnldreu dou't shut up
you II be sorry iu a minute: '
Ihe two sentences, oue in the
gay, sweet voice he knew so well,
the other sharp with anger, reached
the young mau at the telephone
witb nearly enual clearness. He
had always thought Hose Jessup's
voice one of lier greatest charms,
and had smiled to himself to liud
how little the quality was chauged
over the wire when, an unexpected
busiuess matter detaining him
dowu town, he had telephoned to
ask if he might bring his sleigh
round at four o'clock instead of
three. And then that suddeu be
wildering revelation.
Ilusy as he was, Jack Harvey
stood for mauy minutes slaiini;
blankly down into the street be
ueath his window. His mother aud
sisters had never liked Uose, but
he had taken the mutter li&htly,
saying that they must love her
when they knew her, mid pretty
soon that was as far us he hud
gone yet. Now standing at his win
dow in a liewilderment of pain, he
was glad that he had gone uo far
titer. He fancied that voice iu the
home he had begun to dream of
he turned sharply from the window
and rang for his office boy.
Two hours later Kose wits flying
round the speedway behind .lack
Harvey's splendid horses. All the
town was out, and Kose grew gayer
aud lovelier to look at every mo
ment. She kuew that people were
taking things for granted, and the
consciousness of it went to her head.
She was sure that the things won
derful things were coining true
soon.
The next morning Kose received
note from Jack. She read it with
bewildered eyes. He was going
away quite suddenly iihiu a three
months' business trip, he wrote,
and took this way of saying good
bye because Ins hurried prepara
tions left him no time to cull. It
was a pleasant note, but there was
in it uo hint of any future hopes,
and Kose knew with a dull certain
ty that her happy world of dreams
bad vanished in a night.
"I didn t deserve it! ' she cried,
passionately. And in a way she
did uot. It was one of the terrible
judgments of life.
Her Squint.
Youth's CoiiTimnli.il.
Iu Europe many curious super
stitions, half of medicine, half of
witchcraft, still survive among the
peasauts. Occasionally immigra
tion brings them to our shores,
usually from less enlightened coun
tries thau England; but in a recent
instance tho patient, who was af
flicted with a bad squint, came
from Devonshire.
She was, except for that defect,
a wholesome, rosy, pretty creature,
from a remote farm on the moors,
very anxious indeed for a cure, but
with little hope that it could be ef
fected. She had come to the doc
tor only to satisfy a friend who had
greater, fuilh in his powers than she.
A squint, she told htm, had but
one cause: spying upon a couple
who were courting. If a child were
born with it, oue of the parents
must have done so; if it developed
later, then the alllicted person wa
herself the culprit
There was but one sure cure: the
victim must persuade some pair of
compassionate lovers to invite her
to be presetit during a "courting
hour." I hen, at parting, the af
flicted eve must be closed, aud each
lover stroke the eyelid three times:
wheu it was opened the squint
would have disapieared.
lint then why havcu t you tak
en the curet" inquired the young
doctor, curiously.
"Oh, I couldn t, explained the
girl. "1 couldu't bring myself to
ask it of folk that were courting,
sir. They might have laughed, or
they nn glit have been angry and
anyway, 'twas too in sell, and I
couldn't ask it, sir."
Much to her surprise, she was
easily cured "without the necessity
of embarrassmeut to any fond and
foolish couple.
, i -1 i . n . i - -ii
lieu yuu icci toe nt-ru ui a pill
take a uewitrs Little tarty Kiser.
ii -r :u -,, t- .
moan pin, aaie pin, sure pin. svasy io
take pleasant and effective. Drives
and C.N. Simpson, Jr.
While on his way to Vassar Col
lege commencement where his
daughter is a graduate, John A.
Hedrick of Salisbury was stricken
and died in a hospital in Washing
ton Wednesday, lie was one of
the wealthiest men in Rowan and
second largest land owner. - -
The medleln Uiat seta the whole world thinks
Ing.
The Iwmedr na wh lea all Snetors agree.
Tlie i,rmerlpll'a all Tour friends are taking, ta
liomsiei s kuhj sinhiwih lew.
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