LITTLE ITEMS OF NEWS
HAPPENING EVERYWHERE
General Happenings of the Week From
All Over the Country as Gathered
From Our Exchanges Many Things
Toid in a Few Words.
3jS. J. M. Haire, of Wadesboro,
isdanperausly ill with peUegra.
" The Confederate monument will
be unveiled at Lenoir June 3rd.
Roosevelt received a grand ova
tion at Copenhagen, Denmark, on
Tuesday.
The Southern Methodist Con
wnce convened in. Asbeville
Tuesday.
The entire business section of
Stockton, Ga. was wiped out by
fire last week.
East Spencer raises up in her
rath and puts a tax of $2,000 on
near beer dealers.
Work on the new boiler fchop for
the Southern railway at Spencer
will begin at once.
Two men were dangerously shot
in Catawaba county last week by
man named Bolick.
W. C Xewland, of Lenoir, is
willing to run for governor two
years hence. Strange. . ..
The saw mill of Adderholt and
Dishmau, near Statesville, was
destroyed by fire April 30th.
President Taft speut Thursday
io Cincinnati, his old home town,
and was greeted by thousands.
The Landmark says that it has,
been agreed that L. C. Wagner
should be appointed postmaster at
Statesville. ' .. ';
Jamea H ilobough, of Charlotte,
was struck by a fast train in that
city Thursday, death resulting in
few minutes. . :
One mau wa instant ly lied
Wd a score seriously burnea in
Philadelphia by the explosion of a
gasoline tank.
Ed Clark, colored, is in jail in
Winston, charged with cutting
his wifee thioat. She is in a se
rious condition.
Fire last Monday destroyed the
residence of Marvin Turner, near
Tamersburg. Iredell county. A
defective flue.
The Standard Oil Co. has. been
fiied $24,000 for violating the
interstate commerce act. Wonder
if they will pay it.
Walter Murphy, of Salisbury,
annonnees uimself candidate for
Congress in the eighth distric.
Democrat, of course.
TheSoutnern railway shops at
Knoxville, Tenn. have reduced
the working period from nine to
eight hours per day.
ht riders in Kentucky are
"gain active. About 7,000 pounds
f tobacco was burned by them at
Augusta last week.
Dispatches froai Alabama say
that local option won ont in that
ate last week, which will likely
toean open saloons after Dec. 1st. "
Tnirteen patriots have offered
their servinpa n.r imui
fil the post of corporation com
missioner, made vacant by the
death of B. F. Avnnr-V
A dispatch from Marietta. Ga..
ysCapt. R. w. Boone, the last
pendent of the famous hunter.
Boone, and
baQkea. of that eitv. dipri Friri
afterao iiinOBQ 'i
ocveiai weens.
e was a native of North Carolino.
Hickory, May 2 Harris and
snipped 170 crates or
K 1 tf
Qeggs on April 28 a big car-all
1 HIINTM7V UII I CTAPlTAM YYiMP ANY
Home and Of f ice Furnishers
Wmltbn-Salem,
load. This is said to be the larg
est, shipment ever going out of this
lerdin egg emporium of North
Carolina.
Mark Twain was in New Orleans
when Louisana Settled. He served
two wooke as an officer in the Con
federate Army. He says he re
sigded giving as his reason that, he
bad been incapacitated by fatigue'
caused by continued retreating.
Mayor Gay nor, of New York
City, who has been prominently
mentioned for the Democratic nom
ination for President, has been
charged with authorizing the pay
ment for a payment of an illegal
fee of $48 000 to the private lawye
pfChas. F. Murphy, the Tammany
leader. Mayor Gay nor. was elected
on the Tammany ticket, but has
posed as being independent. The
payment was made the day after
the Mayor was elected.
A Champion Mail Carrier.
A correspondent of the daily
papers from Elkin, N. C, claims,
and without doubt, that Mr. Frank
Day, of Jonesville, is . the cham
ion mail carrisr of the State. Here
is his record: At the age of 14
years he lost his right arm in the
machinery at the Patton mill here.
The year after the war closed he
secured a job as carrier on the
route from Elkin to Hunts ville, a
distance of 25 miles. Twice a
week tor three years he averaged
a total of 15,600 miles; for two
years three times a week, 15,600
miles; from Jonosville to Mocks
ville, 30 miles, twice a week for
Sir months, 2,880 miles; from
Elkin to Dobson, 18 miles, twice a
week. 18 months. 5.184 mile;
from Jonesville to Clingman, 8 re 1 could walk, 1 caught every
iniles. four vears. dail v. 20.032 !iD lse "f. 'The measles
v t i i
miles; - Jonesvilie to Swan Creek f 5
miles, eight years, twice a week,
8,320 miles; Elkin to Jonesville,
one mile. 13 years, twice a day,
16,276 miles; two years, three times
daily. 3.756 miles. This makes a
total of 87,642 miles. During
these 45 years of mail service he
never lost a mail lock, was never
more than 15 minutes behixd the
scheduled time and more than
half the time was made on time
on foot. He is now 60 years old
and still tramping the road -thiee
times each day, except Sunday,
from Elkin to Jonesville. -
What Everybody Wants.
Everybody desires good health
which is impossible unless the kid
nej'8 are sound and healthj'. Fol
ey's Kidney Remedy shonld be
taken at the firtt indication of any
irregularity, and a serious illness
may be averted. Foley's Kidney
Remedy will restore your kidneys
and bladder to iheir normal state
and activity. Sold by all druggists.
Travel 20 Days to West.
. Two families, consisting of live
people, arrived at Spokane, a few
days since after one of the longest
journeys possible in the United
States proper. They left Mt: Erie,
N. C. on March 1. and arrived
here March 21. Barring delays
they were traveling all the time,
in day coaches by preference. Ihej
will locate on a ranch near Sun
nyside. Spokane, Washington
dispatcn. ..
Foley Kidney Pills are antiseptic,
tonic and restorative and a prompt
corrective of all urinary irregulari
ties. Reiuss substitutes. Sold by
druggists.
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UNCLE TOBEY'S LECTURE
ON "WHEN I WAS A BOY."
Uncle Gives Good Advice to the Bov
Says Times are Different Now From
His Young Days Had a Lot of all
Kinds Fierce Experiments.
Your Uncle Tobey was once a
boy; he couldn't help it; he was
born that way. It might have
been different; then there., would
have been no Uncle Tobey. - So
probably it is best it happened the
way it did. I don't remember, the
event of my being born, but there
can be no doubt of it, as there was
unimpeachable witnesses - present.
1 was prese.it, too, so they told me
afterwards, but I don't remember
it. ".
The firtt thing that I do remem
ber is that I was trying to saw
vood with one of those old buck
saws. The buck was so hisrh that
when T pat my foot on the stick of
wood to hold it down and drew the
saw tjward me the whole thing,
b'uck included, would come tumble
ing dow u upon me. You see 1
was? below the center of gravity
and much to one side of it. '
I was about two years old then.
and later on l mastered the art of
sawing wood on a buck under the
careful supervision of father. In
those days, when I had to saw
wo hi 1 was in the naoit of saying
something, but f have inee learn
ed i hat it is best ta just to "saw
wood and say nothing.".
I was a eoutractor'at a very early
age; that is contracted all the
diseases to which children are sub
ject. The measles caught . rae he-
. . ... i . ... a , . jr i
koi me wnen i was vniy
sixteen months old, and they al
most killed me. " A boy of that
age seldom -gets a "square deal"
from the measles, I beat the
scarlet fever in a tussel at the age
of seven, the whooy ing cough at
nine, the chicken pox .at ten and
the mumps at twelve. Aside from
these disease, which are hard to
dodge for a boy who follows a boys
business and does the usual amount
of running around, I usuully car
ried about my person a stubbed
toe. At the age of . twelve I was
pronounced proof against green
apples and drowning.
I was a healthy boy. In fact
there weren't many sick boys iu
those eays. Just the though of
the mediciue which the doctors
gave them kept many a boy lrom
being sick. They never gave you
less than a tablespoon full, and it
was always black and dusty look
ing. I am sure now that the medi
cine us boys didn't take saved
many of our lives. We just could
not bear the thought of taking
the nasty medicine, got out doors
and got well without it. When I
was a boy. the doctors were not in
such a big hurry to get a patient
in the graveyard as they are now.
They waited till you got sick be
fore they gave you any medicine,
and then they gave you enough to
cure .you or kill you. Now they
give you the medicine and you
get sick afterwards. In those days
a doctor who didn't carry pill
bags that would hold from a peck
to a half bushel of medicine vcould
not get much parctice.
They didn't fix up the medicine
to take like they do now, in cap
sules and sugar-coated pills and
pellets. .When I was boy we
would suffer a whole heap ot belly
ache, ahd not let the" bid folks
know it, rather than take the big
tablespoonful of nasty black look
ing ined icine. ; Now they fi x it up
80 you Can v ;iaie euitviwc.
A. A. A. ' lUAiTiinlM.
and ; make some .fiVthe - children'
jnklts cfndy When I, waj a
boy the parents didn't lie to their
children except about Santa Clauc.
They just gave us that tablespoon
ful of old black nasty ",tnff and in
an hous we didn't know which end
of us was the sickest. The medi
cine in those days was mighty
quick: on trigger. ;
When I was a boy there was
man'; doctors, and they were most
ly honest. People didn't eat
much medicine then like they do
now and there wasn't much sick
ness, i So far as your Uncle Tobey
knows i there wasn't much sickness
nowhere until people got to having
livers and kidneys and eppendices
and such things as that. Just as
soon as anybody knows that he bas
all kibd8 of macbinerp on his in
side and that it has all got to be
kept in proper condition he feels a
little Miurting here and a little
hurtitig there, and he begins to
take some kind of dope. The
kind of dopa that loosens up one
wheel clogs up two or three others
and then the trouble begins. The
doctor.comes and gives medicine
for the liver and then the kidneys
won't; play, and the bladder be
comes ' '-blocked up." In -the
meantime the patient, not being
able to live on hluernass alone,
eats something that lodges in his
appendix and a surgeon is called
in to cut him open and cut off his
appendix to feed the cat. If the
palient gets well after all this he
might have as well died, for it will
take all he has to pay his doctor
bill and he'll starve to death, -
When I was a boy just the sight
of a pair of medicine bags made
sicker thar a half dozen calomel
tablets do now. In those days the
doctors bombarded the disease
with artilierj'; now they shoot at
it with bird shot. If the artillery
failed to kill a man he got well,
and the fear of having to withstnd:
anothe Jibmbanlment kept him
.well.fc
When I was a boy taking medi
cine nevr become a - habit. The
medicine was too nasty and too
"drasticy" in its effects. But
nearly everybody nowadays has
tne pellet aud tablet habit.
When 1 was a boy I was very
healthy and thus escaped death at
the doctors' hands, although I had
several narrow escapes. Besides
this, however, I had many oppor
tunities of being killed, but hop
ing that better ones would come
later I did not embrace any of
them. I was in a wagon when a
vicious team ran away with it.
They made a sudden turn, upset
the wagon, turning it completely
over, and running off with the
braken tongue, left me under the
upturned bed. - I crawled out be
fore the whools. stopped running
arouud- and wondered why the
other part of the wageu wasn't
moving tap. . I hadn't a ficrrtch
on me, but the horses ..were pretty
bad ly scratched up." I was al so
exposed to the comet before the
civil war, but it never hurt me.'
A cousin fooling with the tongue
rf an empty wagon started it to
wards a steep ' precipice, but it
caught.on a tree, at the very edge,
and my life , was saved. These
little occurrences happening at so
early an age made me a here, but I
don't think I appreciated it as
much as I should now.
I do not regret having had these
opportunities to get myself killed
at any early age offered to me
They had no temptation for me.
while other boys might have yield"
ed and left a bright luture behind
them. " I cannot forgeT these inci
dents. Other boys fell around me.
One was bitten by a mad. dog witb
iu a few hundred yards of my b une
and died with hydrophobia. Who
knows but what tnat dog was ' in
tended for me, and thatr if I had
been present I might have saved
the boy's bfe? ; . ; y j -
At any rate ny udele killed - the
$ogaiH$y when-1 w$t a b, I was
a boy, I did what I euukrto avert
what might have been calamaties
to other boys. . v , ; -
. There ought to be enough for
everybody these good times.' Even
the plow has its share.
A TRIP TO THE CLASSIC
SHADES OF YADKIN VILLE.
What We Saw, Heard and Thought A
Good County and a Good People
A Few Rambling Remarks About
the County and its People.
It was our good fortune to spend
a day and hight in the quaint aud
historic old town of Yadkinville
during'court last week. We left
Mock8viIle Sunday afternoon at
4:30 o'clock, going by Holman's
and Courtney. Courtney is loca
ted just within the borders of Yad
kin county, and U one of the pret
tiest little country villages that we
ever ran up against. There is a
nice school bnilding, church, two
first-class stores, conducted by Mr.
Rollins and a Mr. Craufill. Court
ney has a number of beautiful resi
dences and some of the finest pear
orchards we have eer seen. She
also has lots of handsome men and
fair maidens, not counting a wash
board factory. -Here is also located
a keg factory, where many-kegs are
manufactured and shipped empty
to old Virginia, only to return to
North Carolina in a shon time well
filled with '-mountain dew." All
Courtney needs to make her a live
ly town is a railroad and a few old
bachelors she has the old maids.
We arrived. within the classic pre
ciucts ol Yadkinville shortly alter
the evening shades had fallen, and
put up with our friend Mr. Isaac-
Shores, former sheriff of Yadkin,
but now proprietor of the leading
hotel. , We waut to stop right here
loug enough to remark that friend
Shores is one of the cleverest. tinea
iu that town, and that no one evei
leaves his table hungry. t It makes
Lour mouth waters tu T.hink about
the fine country ham. fresh eggs
corn, beans, cabbage, cakes, corir
bread, hot biscuits aud juicy black
berry pie we devoured while there.
Wise, people who have business in
Yadkinville, will alwajs stop ai
the Shores hotel. Early Monday
morntug the people from far aud
near began pouring in fir court.
The judge did not arrive until the
afternoon, but the crowd amused
themselves by drinking lemonade,
eating peanuts and buying town
lots. We secured a number of new
subscriptions for The Record, ami
succeeded in running down severai
of our enemies. The people of Yad
kin county are the greatest news
paper readers in the world or the
biggest liars that we ever came in
contact with. Nearly every man
we approached said be was taking!
from four to fifty newspapers. Yad
kin ville is a nice little town, in
habited with good people who can
not help that they are ugly so far j
as looks are concerned. The merch
ants there seem to be doing a good
business, so are the lawyers and
doctors, judging from their well
fed appearance. Yadkiuville needs
a railroad, and needs it badly, and
one of these days she is going to
get it. With a railroad running
through that town and county they
would bloom forth as the rose. We
had to return home Monday after
noon, and therefore missed seeing
tiany of our old friends whom we
are accustomed to meeting there
during court. The crops iu Yad
FOR THE BEST VALUES IN
Men's and Boy's Clothing and Furnishings
VISIT
"Same Price ta AIL"
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WINSTON-SALEM,
kin and Davit are looking flue.
Much of the wltt-Mt i in head, and
corn ia.lookiig fine. The fruit
j crop will bi-ttn largrst in years,
and the farmers are wearing broad
smiles. .Sorry space will not per
mit us io giv? a more lengthy ac
count of our trip, which .was in
deed a delightful one.
The High Cost of Living.
Increases Ike price of many nec
essities without improving the
quality. Foley's Honey and Tar
maintains its high standard of ex
cellence and its great curative
qualities without auy increase in
cost. It is the beat remedy for
coughs, .colds, croup, whooping
cough and all aliments of the
throat, chest and lungs. The gen
uine iu a yellow package Refuse
substitutes. Pold by all druggists.
Great Honor to Ex-President.
Paris, April 28. With - military
honors, Pari3 bade adieu to Theodore
Roosevelt today. So great was the
crush at the Gare Du Nord, from
which the former president left for
t w.v v . iiiu iuiiiui.cn lilt;
railroad officials vainly tried to p-et
the train under way. Officials throng
ed the platforms, and about the
station and on the streets for blocks
around the citizens of Paris were
jammed into close packed ; rank,
cheering and waving the stars and
atripes and the tri-color- of tie
French republic. It was a farewell
such as is usually accorded to royal
ty. As Mr. Roosevelt arrived at the
station, accompanied by his family.
Ambassador Bacon, Ambassador
Jusserand rnd representatives' of the
irmy, the navy, the government and
President Fallier's the crowd burtt
into cheers. '
Commander Julius ArPrrtt Post Ro
134, Dept. III G. A.
Mr. Isaac Cook, Commander of
ibove Post, Kewanee, III., writes:
'For a long time I was bother d
with backache and pains across my
kidneys. Atout two months ago
I started taking Foley Kidney
Pills and soon saw they were doing
just as claimed. I kept on taking
them and now I am free from
nackacne, ana the pauitul madder
misery is all gone: I like Foley
Kidney Pills so well Jhat I have
told many of my friends and com-.
rnilpa nhont thpm nd shall r(Hu,n.
mend them at every opportunity."
Sold by all druggists.
Laying of Rails Begins Next.Wetk.
President H. E. Fries stated yes
terday that the work of laying rails
on the Southbound Railway would
start next week at Lexington. Then
about May 20 the work will be start
ed here and at Norwood. And be
fore September shall have passed
the road will be banded together a
a unit by steel rails, and trains will
begin the work of pouring out the
wealth of the factories, fields and
mines of the north to the south and
receive wealth in impotrs and mon
eys of countries with whom new
trade will be established. Winston r
Journal, 28th. '
For More Than Three Decades
Foley's Honey and Tar nas been
a household favorite for all ail
ments of the throat, chest and
lungs. For infants and children
it is the best and safest as it con
tains no opiates, and no harmful
drugs. None genuine but Foley's
Honey and Tar in the yellow pack
ages. Refuse substitutes. Sold by
all druggists.
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