Wfi!5US0ia Postal. fr,.n laif tor-vryonrpsr: " " !! n int it i fiiiiitfeO from ou post office to Yt you 'want : to -nd si eoiy to a distant '"hvo-j tonJ c a new ab:riber, and VrrTtiv news In yoor neighborhood that j,,'. ,,! int.-Tr to your inud or the public SGUTHKRH RAILWAY COMPANY. , i ucumont ah: mne.) WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA DIV. ron'lfnrtwl Schedule la effect Jan. 1, 1803. i v liirlcorv 12:" 2 v. m.Ar. I. Kock 5:35 p. m. . -5:43 p.m. - Salisbury 7:15 i c iijcrill-; fur Sp vrtaabar 8.10 u.. in. Murphy 8;20 " ,. nrtt !tr P.tint Hock for Knoxvllle and at Sali-t'urr for Waiilnton and ail poiats North aii'i South. SI,KIvI?ii CAR. SERVICE. No 11 ami 1'2 SlecpInK. Cars between Rich moii'l'an.l Greensboro, and Train 27 and 3S .i ii,t serines beinff handled on Noa. 11 V,, l on U A 1 aJ N C DiTirfionu. I'ullraan aU'i 1- " , . . l.;il.v anI rii,..lntl.,tl TITra"o"XNort-13. 14. 15 and lf solid trains be and Columbia, conuectlnar atOo furrbi with C K'.v for Charl.ston and F C P K y lor Sarnanab, jHtkaonvllIe and all Florida iiolntH Pullman ?Ieeprr on Noa. 15 and 10, be ren Jacksonville, Asbevllle and Hot, Springs. WATL'ItK. SHHAUDWICK. (len'l l'a A (it.. A8t Gen'l Pans. Art. WMnhinifton. 1. C. Atlanta. Oa. K BKKKELKY; Gen'l Supt. Colombia. S. O. j M L Ll. Traftic Mfr., V'ahin;ton, U. 0. W 11 GHEKN. tJen'l dr.. Washington, D. C. Chester & Lenoir N. G. Railroad Schedule In effect March 25. 1801. The passenger train from South leaves Hickory 1:12 p. in. From North it 1 raves here at 5:10 p. m. Mixed train from the South arrives at Hickory 4:o0 p. in. Leaves for Le noir at 0:20 p. m. From North leaves Hickory at :40 a. m. Connects at Hickory and Newton with W. C. trains, at Llncolnton with ; 0 trains east and west at tiastonia with Southern, east and wext; at Yorkville with C J C. north and south; at rioter with (J C Jfc A, north and south and with the O 0 N north and south. H. 11. Board J F. &. 1. A. Yorkville, S. C. I. T. Nichols. Supt.. Chester. S. O. ;. v'. F. Harper, I'rest., Lenoir, N. C. DR. B. Fr WHITESIDE Offers bis professional services to the citizens of Hickory and surrounding country. TII0S. 31. HUFilAM, i TTORXEY AT LA XV, HICKORY, N. C. SHUF0RD & WHITENER Make a specialty of FANCY GROCERIES AND TROPICAL FRUITS. You can always rely on "jetting these Fresh and of the Rest. C. A. CILLEY, Notary Public. STERLING SILVER Souvenir Spoons in quite a variety; also Sterling Silver after-dinner. Cof fee, and Tea spoons. Sugar shell. Rat ter knives, Forks, etc., at J.M.LAWRENCE'S. The Jeweler. , WM, A. MARLERv D. D. S., (OKFICK OVER WHITE FROST STORE.) All Dental work guaranteed to be equal to the best. THE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST. If you want the BEST FLOW on the market, buy the Syracuse Chilled. 1 carry the Hill side plows also. Ev erv plow sold on a guarantee. A. S. ABERNETHY. KILLIAN &GLINE Are in the lead for low prices on DRY i GOODS, NOTIONS, GROCERIES And a new line of Clothing just re ceived. Call and see them. : CLAREMONT FEMALE COLLEGE. High-rrade School for young ladies. For information apply to the president. JOSEPH L. MURPHY, Hickory, N. C. Mrs. Sulfonai My dear, your Mal tese cat has run away and left her lit tle kitten?. ' Col. Sulfonai Most un-feline con duct I must saw (From V. S. Journal of IIediin. Pro.V.II.Fteke,who mAkes a specialty of EpDep has without doubt treated and cored more cases than livicg rhyaician ; his success is astonishing. We have heard of cases of 20 years'etanding cored by him. He pubUhes a valuable work on tills disease which he fends with a large bottle of his absolute cure, free t ff.y fuilerer who may send their r.O. and Express ad t-resa. We advise anyone wishing a cure to address, n. PZEKE, F. D., 4 Cedar St, Kew York. ffll IB HiCKO The Economy f Pln. Mr. Howells sayswe are all blinded, we are all weakened, by a false ideal of self-sacrifice1 Even a cursory glance at ourselves and those about us con firms the truth of this statement. In some way we have so - misinterpreted the Bible as to believe that pure relig ion and undefined consists in ignoring common-sense. We do not dare trust our own judgment in the crises of sor row and disaster, and imagine that the most painful course, by reason of its very pain, is the one we ought to fol low. Many of our funeral custom, through a false idea of what is due the dead, become barbarous inflictions up on the living. We are wanting in feel ing for those whom God has taken, w believe, if we do not torture ourselves by every sight and sound calculated to increase our suffering. It is a remnant perhaps, of the savage idea that a LTrave must be heaped with sacrifices. There is such a thing as a luxury of woe amounting to dissipation. It is quite as selfish as any avoidance of pain and more injurious io others. Children are dressed in mourning gar ments, the significance of which they cannot understand, and depressed by darkened windows and hysterical out bursts of grief. Sometimes they grow to hate the very name of the dead, whom in their ignorance they hold ac countable for the dreariuesa of their lives. Often entire families have been sac rificed through a mistaken conception of the rights of one member. Blood is thicker than water, the adage runs, and hence to the black sheep are of fered up all the fat lings of the flock. Sentiment says we have no right to deny the shelter of the home to the prodigal, no matter how vile and im penitent he may be. We forget to ask where the gain lies in allowing the ton who has wasted his substance in riotous living to squander the inheri tance of his brother. The young girl insists upon giving up the man she loves and Avho loves her, in order that he may marry some one he does not care for. Three lives are thus ruined instead of a possible one. The altars of philanthropy are wet with the blood of women who have both gratified and sacrificed themselves in excessive zeal in behalf of orphan ages and reformatories. Their own children are left motherless just at the time when thej need careful training most. In cases of illness there appears to be an idea that it is quite praiseworthy for those caring for the invalid to wan tonly overtax their strength, and so expose themselves that the logical con sequence is an increase of suffering all around. The question where does our duty to ourself end, and that to others begin, is so subtle that it divides the joint and marrow. To quote Mr. Hp wells ;u:ain: 4,It is the economy of pain that naturally suggests itself, and which would insist upon itself if we were not all perverted by traditions which are the figments of the shallowest senti mentality." Helen Jay. You are too young, no matter what your age, to lose your hair. Save it by the use of Ayer's Hair Vigor. It removes dandruff, prevents baldness, restores gray and faded hair to its original color, and makes it soft, glos sy, and abundant. No toilet is com plete without it. Th Dadly Cold Bed. If trustworthy statistics could be had of the number of persons who die every year or become permanently dis eased from sleeping in damp or cold beds, they-would probably be aston ishing and appalling. It is a peril that constantly besets traveling men, and if they are wise they will invariably insist on having their beds aired and dried, eTen at the risk of causing much trouble to their landlords. But, ac cording to Good Housekeeping, it is a peril that resides also in the home, and the cold "spare room" has slain its thousands of hapless guests, and will go on with its slaughter till people learn wisdom. Not only the guest; but the family, often suffers the penal ty of sleeping in cold rooms and chill ing tkeir bodies, at a time when they need all their bodily heat, by getting between cold sheets. Even in warm summer weather a cold damp bed will get in its deadly work. It is a need less peril, and the neglect to provide dry rooms and beds has in it the ele ments of murder and suicide. There is no despair so absolute a that which comes with the first mo ments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and recovered hope. George Elliott. A Christian is the highest type of man. (Youxo.) II Y- RRES d : MAECH 21. Small Attentions. Les petits soin.s" do much towards making life pass pleasantly. The man who help. you on or off with your wrap, who lower or raises a win dow for you, who interims his ready strength between you and a crowd, who finds a seat for you, and treats you as though you were a queeu or a queen's mother, is a man for whom you entertain a genuine regard. "Tom H. is a perfect Gibraltar for honesty and goodnev' remarked a lady of an acquaintance, 4but he stalks in front of you into the .dining-room, and marches out of it before you; he talks to you with his hat on his: head, and puffs the cwoke of his cigar into your face, he calmly takes the best chair in the room, and leaves you the hardest; he never knows anything about pay ing little attentions. He is like a man who may have a twenty-dollar bill in his pocket-book, but never by any chance carries any small change." Probably, if the trutli were known, Tom H., and men like him, were not accustomed in their boyhood either to receive or to pay small attentions. A man learns to be graceful and defer ential, an fait in alTsmall things, gen tle and kindly, not after he has at tained to six feet and evening clothes, but while he is voting and under his mother's and his father's tutelage. Old people are apt to resent obtru sive attention, and to regard with pa thetic irritability the offered help which accentuates the fact of their declining years. None the less, thay like tactful recognition of their claim upon the service of their juniors. A man may safely yield the easy-chair and the window where the light lin gers latest to the grandmother who likes her comfort, and who takes her knitting or her hewing where she can see most readily. The strong shoulder of vouth is meant for the bearing of burdens, and unless an elderly person be exceptionally unreasonable, he or she will not persist in carrying loads which ought to be borne by thoe who are able to assume them Har pers Bazar. "Perhaps you would not think so, but a very large proportion of diseases in New York comes from oarlessness about catching cold," says Dr. Syrus Edson. 'lt is such a simple thingand so common that vfiry few people, un less it is a case os pneumonia, pay any attention to a cold. New York is one of the healthiest places on the Atlantic Coast and yet there are a great many cases of catarrh and consumption which have their origin in this neglect of the simplest precaution of every day life. The most sensible advice is, when you have one get rid of it as soon as possible. By all means do not neglect it." Dr. Edson does not tell you how to cure a cold but we will. Take Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It will relieve the lungs, aid expecto ration, open the secretions and soon effect a permanent cure. 25 and 50 cent bottles for sale by O. M. Royster Druggist. Query If women edit all the papers will the heroic age retur? Premature baldness may be prevent ed and the hair made to grow on heads already bald, by the use of Hall's Veg etable Sicilian Hair Renewcr. A Wemii'i Peiat ( View. Lives of editors remind us. This is our fitting time to shine, And by using paste and scissors Accomplish something in their line. Something, that perhaps another. Struggling through their inky seas, Some poor empty headed brother; Mav ue again, if he please. H. P. W. The faulty metro decs not interfere with the sincerity of this offer. THE WLWm flfJII THE BEST Cough-cure, the most prompt and effective remedy for diseases of the throat and lungs, is Ayer's Cherry PectoraL As an emergency medi cine, for the cure of Croup, Sore Throat, Lung Fever and Whooping Cough, AYER'S Cherry Pectoral cannot be equaled. E. M. Bkawley, D. t).. Pis. Sec. of the American Bap tist Publishing Society, Petersburg, Ya., endorses it, as a cure for violent colds, bronchitis, etc Dr. Brawley also adds: To all ministers suffering from throat troubles, I recommend AVI it! Gftssry Pectoral Awarded Xledal at 'World's Fair. AVER'S FILLS to Lfnr Strzich Trcilei 1895. Poif 1 TwetrEy Years Scott's Emulsion has been endorsed by physicians of the whole world. There is no secret about its ingredients. Physicians prcscribo cott9s because t!:cy know what great nourishing and. curative prop erties it coutiins. They know it ij what it 13 represented to be ; namely, a perfect emulsion of the best Norway Cod liver Oil with the hypophosphitcs of linio and soda. For Congas, Colds, Sera Threat, rronchitis, TTcai Lnags, Cczruzip tion, Scrofttla, Ar.zzr.k, T7cak Babies, THa Children, Eichcts, Zlrir asmus, Lozs of Flesh, General Debility, and all conditions cf "W artier-. The only ganuino Scott's Emulsion is put in salmcx colored wraffer. Ticf uso inferior substitutes ! Send for pamphL't cn Scott" s Emulsion. FREE. Scott & Bowno, N. Y. All Druggists. 50 cents and Si. "Two Of The Best THE -HICKOR Y I XX," Hirkorw X. G. Open all the year. Altitude Equally adapted Jor tourist or 1,400 feet. Climate unsurpassed commercial traveler., located in for pulmonary .affections. Finest business centre; handsomely fur quail shootirg" in the United jnished. steam heat, electric lights States. Hotel fire-proof, lighted in every room. Ashevillo is by, gas and electricity. Hot and known us a delightful all-year-cold water baths and toilets on i around resort. every floor. Rates $2.00 i Will mil Li 1 r PRICKLY ASH, POKE ROOT AND POTASSIUM Wakes Marvelous Cures Cl in Blood Poison Rheumatism and Scrofula -' P. T. P. purifies tfceblooi.bcnajerP the weak and cebilitateO, frirea streogtb to weakened nenre. expels beaes.glTln z the patlnt be&Jtb and happiness where tickoos. rloomy leellsgs and laMlccdo ttrt preTalled. . Porprimary.secondary and tertiary rrpbiUs. tor Lloo.1 poiaonlnsr. mercu rial poison, malaria. dypepia. and la all blood ani aala di lifct blotches, pimples, old carocft dcers. tetter, scald bes a. bolls. eryP eczema-we may aar, without fear ft contradlctlon.tbat P. P. P. Is the best blood punfler in the world. sod makes poeltl ve. speedy and permanent curea In ail cases. Ladles whose systems sre poisoned and whose blood is la an impure eonai tion. dae to mentmaJ lrreg-alaxlUes, are peculiarly benefited by the won derful tocic sad Mono clesnsioff prop erties of P. P. P.-PrlckJy Aa. Poke Koot and Potaaalna. enntomu), Mo., Acjc- 14th. 103. 1 can speak In the atsbest terms cf yoor medicine from my own personal knowled?. 1 was affected with heart disease, pleoruy and rnenmatina for 3 years, was treated by the Tery bet pfajfcicians ana apent fcendred of col lars, tried CTery known remedy wita ot finding relief. J hare oly takea ' one pottle of yocr P. P. P., and can cheerfully aay It bas done me bore good t&aa asyttlnc 1 bare erer taken. I can rccomrBen 1 yocr medicine to ait ac2cxrsel the abore dse"e. UR1 M. 3d. YEAET. Eprls field, Grcea County. Ho. - 0) r Li Emu Isioe I Hotels in The South." S "HOTEL BERKELEY." Ash evil fa, X. C. r to $3.00 a day, J D , rrpior. Pimoles. Blotches and Old Sores Catarrh, malaria and Kidney Troubles Are entirely resnore by P.PJ. Pric"tl7 Ab. Poke Boot and Potaa aiaro. tie crrstea-. blood pvicr oa - Aarsuzmc. 0.. July 21.1 1Iese Lirraia Eton., fesvannah. Ga.: Ttr.KTt bics f tocht abotUeof your P. P. P. at Hot apribn.Ark.aad It has dona me more frood than three months' treatment at the Uotttpnaga. bend three bottles C. O. L. fiespectlolly roars, Aberdeen, Urown County, O. Capt. J. D. Joknstoau To waotw if may evnerr r 1 here by testify to the wonderf ol properties of P. P. P. for eropOoos of the skin. I Buffered for seTeral years with sn ea sisrbtry and disajrreeabie eruption a my face. I tried eTerr known reme dy bat in rain. until P. P. P. was used and am now eatlrelr cored. t8lned bj) J.D. JOUSSTO?r. lUraanaiu Oa. firkin Cancer Cared. r? jrrca tU It ay or tf ZrptLxZcz. 8KjrT3r.TEX.. Jaacary 14. 103. If assaa. Lirrwaw Bso., fcarannsb. Oa. j GemUwnl have trwwj yocr P. P. P. fur a disease of tbe akia. nsnaily known aa skin cancer .of thirty years tadia, and foand cresx reliei: tt pars nee i be blood sod removes ail ir rl i a lion from the seat of the dlaae and preeents any sDfy-sUBa tae ores. I bare taken fltor sa bottles and feel coa&leat tbat aaocaer coorse will effect a rare. It ns ! relieved vu fma indigestion and atoaaca troches, yoerstrnir. Attorney at Lav. ALL DBUCOXSTS EZLL XT. LIPPr.lAH BROS. PEOPaUCTOlIS, XJvpxBUUi'a IUaekvaTannalt, Cjs