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COLD TOOTHED SHEEP. Ttwy Ld to the Diacavery of Rich Placer Mm. "Tou'J not think that bunch of coyotes and a flock of sheep voulj ever discover one of the best placers in tho far west," said the mining broker. "But they did. "You see, it ii this war. Cattle arc verj poor eaten of grass, leaf ing it long ami ragsjej. Horses can follow cattle and gvt cuough to eat out of short grass the cattle would starve on. And sheep crop tho very closot of all, eating the grass riht down to the roots. Well, fir. there was a Mexican herder Pedro Cortina. I think his nana' was and ho ued to take his she p into a big valley in the moun tains of California, where tin re was the very finest grass. His fWk grew and pnspctvd, and then the cattle men wanted the valley. They tried to drive Cortina away, but couldn't. 1'inally they decided that a good sheepman could only bo made tho same way a good Indian could be made, so they raided the big valley one day, killed Cortina and killed oil all the 6heep they could liml, leaving them there on the ground. ''So soon as the grass was grown the cattlemen turned in their herds, and the cowbovs camped in tho val Icy to tend the cattle. One of the cowboys kicked a skull one day, and a strange gleam caught his eve on the jawbone of the sheep. Ho stopped and looked at it closely, Every tooth had a thick rim of gold nriiun.l if nrnmmil tiiTrifli. Iutvi-,n the sharp little cropping teeth at tho front of the jaw. The gold was a solid mass, soldering all the rings together, as it were. "This man got the gold fever and started from skull to skull, picking the gold out with the sharp point of his knife blade till he had col lected quite a pile of dust and little nuggets of line gold, then lie be gan to wonder where the gold came from. "Ho began to see light after a few davs of thinking and decided that the sheep had cropped up dirt from tho grass roots and that the pure gold particles had stuck to gethcr under tho pressure of chew' ing the cropped grass and had worked up just under tho j-ums of the animals mouths, where it was more or less protected against being worn oil by the grit from other grazing done by the flock, l'uro gold, yon know," said the broker, "is perfectly soft, like lead, and it diK'sn t corrode. A very slight pressure will weld pure gold partieles together fairly strongly. The Mexican's sheep had been do ing a little mining without know ing it. "The t;pshot of the whole affair was that the cattle watcher and his assistiint tried p-inniug out along the little stream that ran down tho valley, and they struck tho very finest kind of pav dirt, cleaning up $100 to SV.M) a day. "One of them wandered out to ,. the nearest town for a drunk with his dtit. lie talked a little too much, and his dust excited sus picion, so a couple of men trailed him back to the valley in the moun tains. A regular stampede started for the Khlorado, and in ubout five days the peaceful valley was alive with miners, and their tents dotted it from one end to the oilier. This . took place some years ago, and the pliieT is worked out now. Xew York Press. Zigzag Lightning. A flash of lightning is really the passage through tho air of u mass of "electric fluid" to use a popular term at such a speed that it looks like a continuous stream of light. Like all fluids, it follows the path of least resistance, and, as the atmos phere through which it passes is of different density in different strata, the "bolt" changes its courso with each change of density; also its in tense heat burns the nitrogen of tho air in tho oxygen and produces a temporary vacuum in w hich it spbts up. Instantaneous photography proves this by showing that a flash of lightning not only takes a zigzag course, but also splits up into small r side flashes, something like the tranches of a tree. 1 Namo. A Roman citizen generally had throe names a praenomcn, denot ing the individual; a nomen, indi cating the gens or clan to which lie fctlongcd, and a cognomen, specify ing the particular branch of the clan to which be belonged. Some times he had also the agnomen, so that his full name would run as fol lows: Fublius Cornelius Scipio Afri canus. For a long time men had but a single name, which was given them to indicate their special phys ical or mental peculiarities, as iTlato, mck iptfsd "to man jrith the broad forehead." A Pen-Picture of Korea. Clan-a,- -u ia Prucrwit tanner. I am become a contemporary of David and the patriarchs of Israel, in the civilization into which I hive come science and invention are in swaddling clothes, the Pyramids are yet young, the great Nations of Western Europe still ia the woat of Time. This at least is how I have felt now that, having left Japan, I am traveling through Korea, "the Land of the Morning Calm," whose au thentic, recorded history runs; back into the twelfth century before the Christian era, and whose general features must have changed but lit tle in all this time. A tjpical Ko rean view of the year 11J10 might well be photographed to illustrate a Sunday school lesson from the Old Testament. The men in the fields I have seen plow bullocks harnessed in the primitive fashion of the ear liest civilization. Their plow stocks are of wood rough-hewn faim their native forest trees, the plowman here never standing between the "plow handles" as we say, because there is only one handle and that little bet ter than a stick of fire-wood. With sickles equally primitive, I have socn men cutting the ripe rice in the fields; with flails, beating out their grain. Their houses are little more than four-square rock walls with roofs of straw, over which pumpkin vines clamber or on which immense quantities of red pepper aro drying in the autumn sun. Nor would the dress of the people everybody in white (or what was once white) gar ments have seemed strange in ancient Judea; there is the samr mixture of plains and peaks as Bible pictures of the Holy Land have made familiar, and at night as October's hunters' moon glorifies all the land scape, a faint light gleaming here and there from an opening in the rock huts, and with Arcturus and the Pleiades of Job in the sky, it has seemed almost sacrilege to mar the ancient environment by such an anachronism as a modern railway locomotive. Waited Two Hours With Leg Cut Off. Charlotte Chronicle. After a very terrible experience, Mr. Henry Bost of Concord was brought to Charlotte Saturday and placed in the Presbyterian Hospital, after having been run over by a Southern passenger train at Concord and his left leg was left hanging by a shred. When an operation was performed last Saturday night the member was amputated and at pres ent the patient is getting along quite well under the circumstances It is supposed that train No. 43 was the one that ran over tho man, which was due to pas Concord at that time, a little before 10 o clock One of the most distressing matters about the whole affair was the fact that the man was not found for some two hours after tho accident occur red, and as no hospital was near be was placed on a Unarlotte bound train to bo taken to Charlotte, and at no timo was the man unconscious. The i nicker a mid i cntitn rid oft lesstliB ilnncer from inn'iniii'iiia and mint eriiu ilisfuws. Mr. li. W. I Jlall, ei U'nuxrlv V . k:iv: "I til III V lie ll'Te 1 ll.lM- lierlitin's Couth Ki-wrily to hoahwihitely the I tent uemnitii'li n Hie matkei lor coins. ll,le I vjiiiimi:'. . " they all agree with wo." ior wile by a dealers. Machine Shop Wear now rrcrei in rruilr your endue or oilier nuelilnerj', ilo your ilumlili:' ami other work In our Hue. Shop near the freight ilepot AUSTIN & CORRELL. With Quality Unsurpassed. We continue to sell our full ca pacity every day. The mill keeps running merri ly day and night and the end of our good times is not in sight. This is because all over the country dealers who are selling our product are having a great demand. It is because the people are buying more and more of the fa mous brands of Invincible, Golden Cream, Bakers Choice. Every year dealers are calling on us for more. And this is what we strive to do to make our flour liked by the consumer so well that he will insist on having it Our flours always guaranteed to give satisfaction. Henderson Holler Mills Co. How to Fix t'p the Front Yard. Mr. F. L. !Kirt-ii la fimit-nf I arturr. The key to beautiful home grounds ia the lawn. Any smooth, grassy surface suitably bounded is an ob ject of admiration. A house ia made important not only by its own size, but by the size of the lawn in front vf it The bout; of the lawn is its unbroken character, anything that destroys this, destroys the lawn. Tho rule is to keep the center abs lutely clear with the exception pos sibly of trees. A common belief prevails that grass will not flourish in the shaJe of large trees, and so people often excuse the larren, wind-swept lawn by saying that grass and tnes will not llounsh on the same space, and that thoy prefer trees. Now, the facts are that procticdly the only place that the beautiful bluegrass does llourish in the South is in the shaded lawn. Trees with surface roots effer rather serious obstacle?! to the growing of grass; but as suc-j cessm lawn grass as I have ever seen has been cultivated on a lawn thickly studded with maples. The trcuble with the lawn is that the seed bed is too shallow. A first class lawn can not be made w ithout G or 8 inches of good soil. With the yard well drained, 3 to G inches of clay, over which there is at least four inches of soil made rich by cowpeas and good stable manure, no good reason exists for the presence of the broom-swept, cheerless front yards too common among us. "I had been troiiM.d ilh constipation fur two rears ami tried all of the best dind ciantt in KrMol, Trim., and they con I J do nothing: for mo, writes 11km. K William, .MiilillilM.ni, Kv. "Iwo ai km."' d I ham IwrlaiiM Stomach and Liver Tablets cured nie.'' For Kile by all dealers. REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE State Bank of Wingate, AT WINGATE, N. C, at the close of business Jan. 7, 1911 resoirces: Loans and discounts $27,494.00 Banking House $1.14.1.54 Furniture fixtures. 1,646.91 2.790.45 Demand loans 5,270.00 Due from banks and bankers. 7,085.52 Gold coin 10.00 Silver coin, including all minor coin currency 417.10 National bank notes and other U. S. notes 1,130.00 Total $44,197.07 liabilities: Capital stock $10,000.00 Surplus fund 500.00 Undivided profits, less current expenscsund tuxes paid.... 1.04H.S5 1 lme certtoHtes of deposit... lu.&lb.ril Deposits subject to check 1(5,765.00 Cashier a checks outstanding. 3t6.91 Total $41,197.07 North Carolina, Unin County - ss. I, J. VV. Hivens, cashier of "the above named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement id true to the best of my knowledge and belief. J. V. Bivkns, Cashier. Correct -Attest: S. W. Hinson, J. 1.. Austin, W. A. Chaney, Directors. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 12th il.iv of Jan., 1911. 11. k. Helms, Notary Public. My commission expires March 11, 1911. Notice. Having this day qualified as adminis trator of T. V. Sim-lair, deceased, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of my intestate to present same to me duly proven on or iK'fore the 20th day of December, 1911, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will make prompt settle ment with me as administrator and aui'it rnrifu Thia 10fh ,biv nf Iloepm. ber, 1910. T. K. SINCLAIR. Admr. of T. P. Sinclair, dee'd. Williams, Lenimond & Love, Attys. Notice of Dissolution. Notice is hereby given that the co partnership heretofore existing be tween O. S. Lee, J. W. Fowler and Luther Williams, under the firm name of Luther Williams & Co., has been dissolved by the purchase of the whole business by Luther Williams, who will collect all accounts and assume all debts of the firm, and continue the business at the same stand, individu ally. G. S. LEE, J. W. FuWLER, LUTHER WILLIAMS. WOOD'S HIGH-GRADE Farm Seeds. We are headquarters for the best in all Farm seeds. Grass and Clover Seeds Seed Corn, Cotton Seed, Cow Pe&s, Sola Beans, Bsorgnums, naiiir worn, h Millet Seed, Peanuts, etc. a "Wood's Crop issued Special monthly gives timely information as to seeds to plant each month in the year, also prices of Season able Seeds. Write for copy, mailed free on request V l a aaaTjaaftaa m ai y i.w. wuuu & aun;, Seedsmen, Richmond, Va. Notice of Administration. Having this day qualified a adminis trator of the estate of Monday Starr-, deceaat-d, late of L'nkm county, N. C. this U to notify all person having claim against the estate of the said deceased to exhibit them to the under signed at Monroe, N. C, on or before the 2Mb day of December. A. D. 1911, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make imme diate payment. This the 24th day of December. A. D. I5t0. JOHN C. SIKES, Admr. of Monday Starnea, deceased, D R. B C. e D FEA R N,l DENTIST, Charges reasonable. Satisfaction (rmraateeJ. OJEce one door south ot C.W.Bruner's Store, Mocroe, N. C. Will be at Marseille, N. C.on Erst lad third Mondays of each month, and at Matthew i on second and fourth Mondays. Phone 131 TALKS CHEAP And Some People Always Claim to Have the Best! Fowler & Lee Co. Leading Dealers and Liverymen. r Some r V Crow Bros. Cash Store J Of r0. J. T. EAM3ET, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Otlice Upstairs at The Union Drug Uoiupauy. I'boce 377, day or nisht. 3C We always have just what we say we have. We are always sure to have the goods just as we repre sent. Our last lot of mules contain some fine matches in iron gr&y and sorrels, ranging in weight from 1000 to 1200 pounds. Driving horses and brood mares are our Specialty, We are agents for the well known Columbus bug gies and other good makes. Agents also for the great Studebaker, White Hick ory and other good wagons. We want to buy a lot of good country hay. Quick Bargains Right now we are offering some good bargains in Clothing to Quick Buyers. From our big fall and winter stock some suits were left which we will give you at knock known prices. $15.00 SUITS FOR S12.SO $12.50 SUITS FOR 10.00 Sll.O RUITS FOR 8.SO All high class stuff and it will pay you to buy and carry over if necessary. Our new line of Hats have just come in. All new spring styles and shapes. Everything that you want in clothing, dress goods, dry goods and general merchandise. Notice of Administration. Having duly qualified as the adminis trator of the estate of Henrv Chapman. decea--d, all persons holding claims against said estate are hereby notified to present the same to the undersigned administrator on or before the 24th day of December, A. D. 151 1. or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recov ery. All persons indebted to said estate are requested to make prompt payment and save cost. This the lytn day of December, MO. The Savings, Loan- L Tarsr Co.? Admr. of Henry Chapman, dee'd. Redwine & Sikes, Attys. A- M. STACK. J.J. I'ARKEB Stack & Parker, A T X 0 P N K V - A T - L A V , M-.nnar, JS. Han 1 civil HiMno-u in )! Sa! n.l Fi smi 1 -rtirt. rDN-it attvttiittn im-n to niin ir'iirt mI 4Ui Ur futor, AviimtUcU- Mr. rrk.T .rat-ru in al' h Criminal (Vu'N. 'illifr f-r lh Ma! or tir df-a-r. Mit.t iu ijtm Uutkhti (A. M. stack' m 7 U
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