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STOP Borrowing your neigh tof. LED GEK. WE will send it to YOU twelve months for ONE dollar; months 50 cents. VOLUME Xll NO 38. Stationery AND School Books! H yon want to buy the best and latest styles STATIONERY. School Books, Writing Pads, Ink, Puns and Holders and all kinds of Envelopes and Paper, as well as Blank Books, we keep them. Kemomber that we carry a full line of Toilet Articles, Perfumery, etc., at the lowest possible prices. Don't forget that you can be supplied with the purest and freshest drugs at our house. Prescriptions accurately com pounded day or night, and we continue to solicit your trade. Yours truly, J. Q. HALL. s) i (1 ( $ i RHEUHflCIDE 1 rapidly taking the place of all other known remedies aa a rheu ruMtic cure, laxative, tonic and blood purifier. The reason is plain, for it CURES There is no better time to treat rheumatism thau during the fall mouths. Cure yourself before the ri"ors of winter are felt. K1IKU MAC1DE cots but $1 per bottle. Smd by all druggists. Secure it and cnre your RHEUMATISM! I Sold in Oxford by F, W. Uancock and J 1. Stedman. JOS. S. HALL, Funeral Director, OXFORD. N. C. Full line of Burial Goods of all kinds. Wood and Metallic Cases, Caskets, Coffins and Burial Robes at almost any price you want. Prompt and satisfactory atten tion to all business in town and country. Interesting to the Lais! Of course the ladies are always anxious to get hold of the best Sewing Machines And all they have to do to get their wants supplied is to call on us and it will be promptly done. There is no better machine made than the STANDARD as they have stood the test. Also agent for the old re liable NISSEN WAGON, which is numbered among the best in the world. Yours to serve at any time, sept. 28. J. S. HALL. 1 New Millinery Store IN OXFORD, J net opened in the Btore lately occupied by the Jlinser, Kronheimer, on Main street, next door to Hublic Ledger otlice. Hcing familiar with the wants of the public in My line in thia section, having for eeveral years pint had charpe of the mUlmery;department of Aleser!. Long Brothers, my stock of Fall and Winter MILLINERY And other FASHIONABLE NOVELTIES and P tn date styles were carefully selected in Bal timore, Philadelphia and New York City. Mv entire etock is new, varied and attractive all 'pauk and new and includes many beantiful and striking selections in Imported and Domestic pattern Lats and Bonnets that mnst be seen to w appreciated. Some of them perfectly lovely. Also many noveltlps among which are Golf hats ''ml tien to match, assorted wraps, collarettes, ''andnome fur collarettes and boas, table covers, ?(w tyL. corsets, ladies' novelty chiflbn veil ready made silk and cloth skirts, superior tdoves, chea and warranted, mourning veils "ml mourning siJKs, &c, &c. Also infants' caps "ml children's capes and jackets, a nice assort Dent. 'i he ladies are cordially invited to see r fall and winter goods before making their P'irthHHeB. Yours to please, Miss Emma Day. w line of Wraps, Ladies' Jackets and Capes, '."'If npes, Chileren's Keefers and Infants' ''-i'll;H Siillr o OTw.f l a1H7 VfTV etieaU. rr capes and all the new nack novelties, 1, i I TV BtLU LD a DUU-1UJ, tv..t Ui'iim.U. persons of a mechanical or inventive mind "cfirlnif a trin t iu v.iuiiHnn. with (rood iikiiic persons of a mechanical or inventive mmu f'r'nuatriptothe Paris Kxposition, with good r I "Pauses paid, bdouiu wmo x Aho iAXKN1 JttJCOJtU Baltimore, Mil TTNTT TmNTT tt bJI - STOP OCTOBER PARAGRAPHS. SHORT-STOPS IN THE LOCAL LINE Oathered and Condensed for the Eye of the Reader. The loye of self outlasts all other devotion. It cost $20,000,000 to give Dewey that great reception in New York. It is easy to say how we would act if we were in someone else's place. Pleased to note that Mrs. J. Y. Paris, who has been sick for a few days, is much better. Mr. Earnest Bragg is clerking for Mr. C. A. Carroll, where he will be pleased to see his friends. Hon. Thos. Settle will settle in Asbeyille, and will become the lead ing Republican of Buncombe. If you are looking for the Twin Elephant our esteemed friend, J. D. Brooks, says he is one of them. We call attention to sale of land advertised in this issued by Messrs. F. P. Hobgood, and S. W. Minor, commissioners. The new president of the Atlan tic & North Carolina Railroad, James A. Bryan, is lemoving the fusionist officials along the line. j large numDer ot negroes are leaving this part of the State for the North. It is said that as many as a 1 . 1 n 3,500 haye left Wilmington in the past eleyen months. The editor is pleased to learn that Mr. Edgar Crews, of Hester, who was badly injured by a scaffold falling on him about 2 months ago, is able to walk about. The Rev. F. W. Hilliard will hold services and preach in St. Peters church at Stovall on Sunday next, Oct. 22, at 11 o'clock a.m. All persons are cordially invited to attend. A large number of our people left on the Wednesday train for the State Fair, which is .already pro nounced a success. There was a big crowd in attendance Tuesday. The Horner foot ball team play ed the University team Monday, and was defeated by a score of 46 to 0. They did not play the Bingham team at Mebane Saturday. We wish the boys better luck next time. When you or your family come to town shopping John Paris extends a cordial invitation to you to visit him at the old Kronheimer store as he has a new stock of goods and in spect it before making your pur chases. There are hotly contested State compaigns in Ohio, Maryland, Ken tucky and Nebraska, but in the three States first named there are Govern ors to be elected. The Republicans must carry Ohio to avoid a fatal brain-clout for McKinley. Congressman Atwater of the 4th district, when informed that Senator Butler had declared against the franchise amendment, he said: "That means that he proposes to fuse the Populists with the Republi cans. But he can't deliver the goods." Tom Jenkins, a negro, attempt ed to assault a school girl, at Ander son, S. C, Thursday. She escaped from his clutches and he was cap tured. He was given his choice between being hanged or submit ting1 to a surgical operation. He chose the latter. The operation was performed and was turned loose. The deyil is having a good time. After getting trusts upon every thing secular, he is about to succeed in starting a Bible trust. The Charleston News and Courier says: It is interesting to learn that a cut rate war now being waged among publishers of the Holy Scriptures threatens to terminate in a Bible trust." When you come to Oxford with tobacco don't forget that the Owen Warehouse run by R. F. Knott & Co. will get you the highest market prices on all grades. Rufe Knott has been making some good sales and is selling large quantities of to bacco. Don't be led off from your home market as it is equal if not su perior to any in this territory. Fashions foremost favorites, Field and Hanson's Minstrel Stars, traveling in their own palace car will be at the Opera House Saturday night, Oct. 21st. It has 38 hot mem bers in the company, and in the first Dart of the performance represents silk and satin. The grand first part opens with Admiral Dewey's recep tion. Tf vou wish to spend an evening of mirth and fun why don't miss Field and Hanson's Minstrels. A trust reduces prices only on one condition when it is desired to freeze out a competitor they want to destroy or to purchase. The weaker competitor cannot long survive the reduction and must succumb. Im mndiatfllv this characteristic trust Bill It. is achieved prices resume the old rate and are never again reduced except for similar reasons, xne trust hv p.reatinsr and maintain- fj xr m ing a monopoly, and it should be the duty of the people to remove me power and maintain monopolies. THAT JOTFVI FEELING, wm. ti.a ovhn.raMne- sense of renewed health and strength and Internal cleanli ness, which follows the use of Syrup of Figs, is unknown to the few who have ,.r.f V.T--XTT- csaH VKwnnrl the old-time medi- clnes and the cheap substitutes sometimes offered but never accepted by the well informed. Buy the genuine. Manufac- tured by the California Fig Syrup uo OXFORD, N. The rock crusher has suspended operation until some repairs are made. We are glad to learn that Mr. J. A. Taylor, who has been quite sick for over a week, is improving. Nice houses have been built over the two wells in the Orphan Asylum grounds, which are a great improve ment. As to flying machines being a success, even air castles as a means of transporting young people ultima tely tumble. The love of a dollar is a mild term compared with the positively mad affection of some persons for a five-cent piece. The person who waits for in spiration in line of work ought to have a pretty strong bank account to fall back upon. Deputy Sheriff E. K. Howard carried to the insane Asylum at Goldsboro yesterday a colored wo men by the name ot Mary Marrow. For a trade combine to run the prices of stoves and pipes up is merely a variation on the people having to pay the piper right along. A pair of gold-rimmed spectacles was lost on the streets of Oxford some days ago, and the finder will be rewarded by leaving them at this office. Some think this doubtful talk about Ohio has been inspired with a view of so scaring Hanna that he might try to creep deeper into his barrel. Messrs. Edwards & Winston will erect a blacksmith shop on their rear lot near the Farmers Warehouse to be occupied by Mr. W. R. Garner, of Grissom. As for building factories on pa per Oxford is a winner, while towns all around us are building them out or oricK and mortar and are paying handsome dividends. Come off everybody and stop growling about the town going down, get rid ot tne cotton string running up your back bone, and pull and worK to push uxtord iorward. There are quite a number of im provements going on in different sections of the town, which shows that Oxford is not as dead a town as some of our people would believe. xne u& u range oentmei is on our table, and is well edited and nicely printed. We wish it sue cess, and suouid receive the warm support of that prosperous commu nity. The Central Association which met with the Brassfield Baptist church last week was largely at tended, and tne delegates as wen as the people were royally entertained by that hospitable community. Our friend Charley Hester, of Fishing Creek, was on the good break of tobacco Monday, and stop ped at the Farmers Warehouse where he captured for 570 pounds, $5.80, 7.75, 10.50, 30, 13.50, and 6. - Mr. Sol Cooper, of the Minor Warehouse, was quite happy Friday as he enjoyed tne largest break of tobacco this season. He had 5C0 piles on his floor, and succeeded in reaching the highest market price for it. Dr. J. M. Emmett, who is well known in Oxford haying practiced medicine here several years, died in Georgia Thursday. His remains were carried to Fayetteville f or burial, and Mrs. Emmett attended upon the last sad rites. Sheriff Fleming is on the round of the county collecting taxes, and is meeting with but little response from the taxpayers as tobacco is so low they find it almost impossi ble to get money enough to pay taxes now. Many of our Oxford merchants are enjoying a good trade, as our people have found out that they can buy goods as cheap in Oxford as anywhere else. Thats right, pat ronize home people. If everybody would do it all of us would be better off. Dr. C. D. H. Fort, who has been numbered with the citizens of our community for over twenty years, has bid us goodbye and removed to Wilson with his family. The Public Ledger regrets his leaving but still wishes him great success in prosper ous Wilson. Mrs. W. S. Hundley, who has been very ill with a carbuncle, we are pleased to learn is much better since the attending physicians, Drs. S. D. Booth and G. A. Coggeshall performed an operation. The editor t . , J : -l joins her many inenus m wisues her a rapid recovery. At the last session of the Legis lature Prof. Holmes, at the instance of the "Good Koads Association,"; . - a . mm secured the enactment ot a road law, which applies to 47 counties. The Supreme Court is now called upon to pass on the validity of the law, there being two appeals for injunc tion cases. Col. Frank Hobgood held his examination for public school teach ers certificates Thursday,Friday, and Saturday. Prof. Alex. Baker, the rival school examiner, also held open house anu usuubu vitations to applicants, but no man or woman so far as we know came unto him. Medicines, patent medicines and everything else Kept in a well arranged drug store can be found at Hancock's. C, THURSDAY. OCTOBER 19, 1899. HORRIBLE ACCIDENT. Sudden Taking Away of One of Ox ford's Best Men. On last Thursday evening the whole town of Oxford was shocked by the announcement of the horri ble accident which so suddenly ter minated the life of Bro. John Mea dows, one of the most beloved and highly respected citizens of Gran ville County. About 3 o'clock on the evening of that day, accompan ied by Col. L. C. Edwards, he drove out into the country to enjoy an hour or two in hunting birds. . It seems that Col. Edwards had charge of the horse and he (Meadows) was holding the guns, and when getting out of the buggy, one of the guns in some way was accidentally discharged, the contents entering his nck about two inches below the left ear, sever ing the jugular vein, and ranging upward, entered the "base of the brain, causing almost instant death. Between 8 and 9 o'clock his bodv fwas brought into town to his home, where a large concourse of sorrow ing people had assembled to sympa thize with his beloved wife in her awful grief, and to assist the family and friends in every possible way. Bro. Meadows was born near Mt. Tirzah in Person county, March 17, 1856, and therefore was forty-three years of age when he came to his sudden and untimely death. He spent his boyhood days at the old homestead; but in early manhood came to Oxford, and was for more than twenty years one of her most honored and useful eitizens, and leading buyer on our tobacco mar ket. He was married June 7th, 1883, to Miss Katie Hobgood of Granville, Dr. R. H. Marsh performing the marriage rite. This proved a most happy union. They were kindred and congenial souls, and their years of married life were years of srreat blessedness to them both. The fond and devoted wife is left behind to mourn his sad and unexpected death; but she, like her husband, is a true Christian spirit and knows where to go for strength and comfort in this time of sore need. God's grace shall be sufficient for her. His aged father, three brothers, and three sisters also survive him. We sympathize with the whole stricken family in their deep affliction, and commend them to the consolation of that "Friend that sticketh closer than a brother Bro. Meadows was converted to God in early life. At fourteen years ot age he connected himself with the Methodist church at Mt. Tirzah, aud from that time to the hour of his death he was a true and faith -ful disciple of Christ. For many years his church connections had been with the Methodist church at Oxford, and all the while he main tamed his Christian character and integrity. The church, as well as his family, will greatly miss bim. The whole church mourns his death. But he was so meek, reverent, tender and loving in character and life that we can but belieye that he has gone to rest, "For of such is the Kingdom of Heaven." He had been in rather delicate health for some years, at times having severe attacks of sick ness, and he often expressed to his wife and on one occasion to the writer, his readiness to die when God saw fit to take him. We hope that he was ready when the summons came. He was sincerely loved, honored and trusted by all who knew him. Perhaps no man in Oxford had more friends than he. And being true, faithful and reliable in all the rela tions of life, he merited all the love, honor and esteem which his friends bestowed upon him. He was a very intelligent man; and socially he was pleasant, genial and entertain ing. He will be greatly missed by his friends. The burial services took place from the Methodist church on Saturday morning in the presence of a large assembly of sorrowing friends, the writer being assisted in the services by Bro. Hardaway of the Baptist church, the pastor of Sister Meadows, and who has been so faithful in offer ing comfort and consolation to her in the name of his Lord and Master. After appropriate services in the church and at the grave the mortal remains of Bro. Meadows were laid to rest by loving hands in the town cemetery, there to remain until the last trump of God shall awake his sleeping dust to a new life of glory in the "Resurrection Morn." M. H. Tuttle. Rheumacide is not recommended for the cure of every ill : it does not cure everything. But it is a certain cure for rheumatism, and is a fine blood purifier and laxative ; try it. aug 25. Oentry and Pinto. Prof- Gentry's famous collection ot educated dogs and ponies, now in their 12th year of success, have be come such household fovorites that their appearance in Oxford under canvas at old circus ground Friday Oct. 26th at 2:30 and 8 p. m. rain or shine, have started all the little folks to making preparation to attend the show. In addition to the ponies and dogs Prof. Gentry also offers as an attraction this year Pinto, tinest elephant in all the world. Pinto is 27 years old and hardly as tall as an ordinary pony and is as gentle as a lamb and very fond of the children. The prices of admission are children 15ets., and adults 25cts. The largest and best five cent pencil writing tablets can be found at Hancock Drug Store. Carry your seed cotton to Parham Bros. Co. cotton gin Henderson, if jou want best result and price. ACROSS THE THRESHOLD. YOU KNOW SOME, BUT NOT ALL. They Will Come and Same. Go AH the Mr Luther Farrebow enjoyed Sunday at Stem. Mr. J. M. Currin was in Durham Thursday on business. Mr. R. B. Hines spent a few davs with his family this week. Mr. R. Broughton spent Friday and Saturday at Chase oity. Mrs. J. T. Cozart, of Carlton, was on our streets Thursday. Mr. Wiley Beasley, of Durham, is on a visit to his brother Mr. John Beasley. Miss Fannie Hughes is on a visit to her sister, Mrs. A, J. Feild, in Raleigh. County Commissioner W. H. Waller, of Lyon, was on our streets Tuesday. Dr. Rapport, the optician of Durham, was in Oxford Monday and Tuesday. Mr. A. W. Graham returned Sunday afternoon from a business trip to Boston. Miss Bemis, the General Man ager of the Orphan Asylum, took in the Fair yesterday. Col. W. J. Hicks is in Raleigh this week looking after the exhibit of the Orphan Asylum. Mr. R. J. Stem and daughters, of Stem, joined the crowd of shop pers in Oxford Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Gooch and children, of near Berea, were on our streets Monday morning. Mr. P. C. Graham,, of Durham, was in Oxford Tuesday and his old friends were glad to see him. Our old friend, Mr. C. C. Wheeler, of Creedmoor, was on the large break of tobacco Tuesday. Mr. H. P. Blackley, of Wilton was on the Monday's break of to bacco, and called to see the editor. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Malone and accomplished daughter, Miss Cora, of Moriah, were in Oxford Saturday shopping. Mr. R. B. Longmire, of Stem struck the immense break of tobacco in Oxford Friday, and the editor en joyed a visit from him. Mrs. R. B. Owens returned Mondav from Salisbury where she has been at the bedside of her sick sister, who is now improving. Mrs. N. M. Ferrebee, after a pleasant visit to relatives and friends in Oxford and the country, returned to Norfolk Saturday. Mr. Charley Bryan is in South Carolina in the interest of the Tay lor and Cannady Buggy Company. He is a hustler and will put in good work. Mr- L. T. Daniel and family, of Benson, Johnson county, is in Gran ville this week yisiting relatives. Mr. Daniel was in uxrord Friday and called to see the editor. Mrs. H. M. Lanier left a few days ago to accept a position in Waynesboro, Va., much to the regret of her numerous Oxford friends, who will miss her valuable society. Mr. Winston Kogers, the very efficient book-keeper at Orpl ai Asy lum, is off for a week taking a much needed rest, and Miss Bertha Hicks is temporarily in charge of the office work. Mr. W. J. Stem, of Darlington, S. C, was in Oxford Saturday to at tend the funeral of late his greatly es teemed partner, Mr. John Meadows. We were pleased to learn from him that his family was enjoying good health and that he was doing well in his new home. Mr. and Mrs. Hillman Cannady arrived in Oxford from Charlotte Saturdav. and their many friends extended them a cordial welcome. Mr. Cannady is now rapidly lecover iner from his serious illness, and will be out in a few days. They are stop ping at the Osborn House. During the winter of 1897 Mr. James Reed, one of the leading citizens and mer chants of Clay, Clay Co., VV. Va., struct his leer asrainst a cake of Ie In such a manner as to bruise it severely. It be came very much swollen and pained him so badly that he could not walk without the aid of crutches. He was treated by physicians, also used seyeral kinds of lin iment and two and a half gallons of whis ky in bathing it, but nothing gave any relief until he began usin Chamberlain's Pain Balm This brought about almost a complete cure in a week's time and he belieyes that had not used this remedy his leg would have h ad to be amputated. -S3. - -. i s i'aln Balm is unequa ed ior sprains, Druis- es and rheumatism, a or saie uyj.u. Hall Druggist. Call and see our $1.25 pants, worth $2. See our counterpanes at $1.00. Can't be bought elsewhere for less than $l.5U. bee our shoes, tne cneapesi ever uuereu m town. In fact the Klondike Is the place to buy goods because we deal exclusively with C. B. Kouss.wno is neaaquamers mr the world. We can sell you bed tick tor 14 cents. Can't be bought for lees than 16 2-3 anywhere. When in town don't fail to call at the Klondike and see our many bargains. oct.12. The Parham Bros, Co , Henderson, are offering large Inducements to cotton planters. They only charge one twentieth ttol and 70 cents ior new uagging auu iesl. bushels of primed seed wheat for sale by .CiD WARDS VV JJSolTJJi. REPORT OF MASONIC COMMITTEE The Charges Made by Public Investigated. Ledger On our editorial page we publish, as it is just and right we should, t.rm report of the Committee appointed by the Masonic Lodge of Oxford to investigate the charges we made in Public Ledger of October 5th upon what we honestly believed to be re liable information. We have always made it a rule not to nublishftd any thing unless we believed we had grounds for doing so even in the heat of campaigns in which the su premacy of the white people was at stake. The investigation seems to have proven to the satisfaction of the Lodge that that part of the article relative to the negro woman having been employed as an instructor of the girls was a mistake, but the fact still remains, as is shown by the report of the Committee, that the NEGRO WOMAN WAS EMPLOYED to do the same work which the girls were doing and received her instruction from the same matrons the girls did, and in the same room with them and on the same work the Assistant Ma tron had begun and would have fin ished had she not been sick. By referring to the Crews woman's tes timony yon will find this to be sub stantially correct, and in that par ticular sense she was occupying Miss Tucker's place until the work she had already in hand was completed. As a practical illustration: If Mr. E. W. Jones, the able Manager of the Printing Department of the Or phan Asylum, was engaged in set ting up and printing the proceedings of the Grand Lodge, and he was taken sick and it was urgent that the report must be gotten out, and if General Manager Bemis was to send down town and their happened to be an expert colored printer here and employed and put him to work to finish up the report would he not be in charge ot that particular work although he would not be instruct ing the boys in the office? .b'or eyery man whose name ap pears on this Committee we haye the highest respect, even if some of them have not the same for us Every one of them are men of un doubted honesty and integrity, and for the honesty and integrity of our informant, upon whose statemen we based our article we have no less respect. Somebody is honestly mistaken but we are satisfied that it will be apparent to everybody that the re port of the committee states the fact that the negro woman Crews was at work in the same room with orphan girls. The conclusion of the report is as follows: Jbrom the foregoing statements your committee is of the opinion tnat saia article is without any foundation of fact and is not true." jjet us see aoout tnat. rne evi dence which we print as a part of the report of the Committee, and we take it all the evidence they took, establishes beyond controversy the tact that the negro woman was em ployed in the sewing room among the girls, and we have to thank the gentlemen of the committee fo their kind aid in this particular as we would have been unable to have conducted such a thorough investiga tion and have substantially es tablished the grounds of our charge, in the face of the fact that it could not be expected that any one employed at the Orphan Asy lum under the dictatorial rule of Misss Bemis would have been dis posed to even think or giving testi mony that might have had a ten dency so damaging to her adminis- tration.hence it would have been in judicious for the editor to have at tempted to combat asrainst a man agement who had it in their power, if they willed to do so, to have ar ranged beforehand to forestall in measure the charge in every particular, but we must again be al lowed to thank the Masonic Com mittee for having accomplished for us what it would have been impos sible for us to do. Be that as it may, there is no denying the fact that the public, both in and outside ot the Grand Masonic Fraternity, whose glorious work is to take care of the widows and orphans in which the Public Ledger join hands, looks with sus picion upon the present administra tion of the beloved Orphan Asylum because the real head is a Northern woman and not a mason or course, whose methods are not in accord with Southern ideas, and this same fact has been the cause of much friction in the Grand Lodge of Masons of North Carolina. We honestly believe we voice the sentiments of the people we come in contact with. If a Southern woman were at the head of that institution does any one suppose that the em ployment of a negro assistant matron could ever have been suspected? Never. Such a thing would have been impossible. , The Public Ledger wishes to ask those in authority in all candor if it would not be vastly better for he interest of the Orphan Asylum if this desturbing element, this Miss Growling- and join in and help build up your town and county. All we need is to pull to gether, and success will be our reward. $1.00 PER ANNUM. Baking Powder Made ie irom oufg r - cream of tartar. Safeguards the food against alum Alum baking powders arc the greatest menacers to health of the present day. ftOVAt BAKIHO POWPEH CO., NEW YORK. Bemis, on whose account there is so much dissatisfaction among the out-, side supporters of this great Institu tion and so much dissention among the Masons of the State, was per mitted to get a salary of $1,000 per year including board, room and lights in some other place? The testimony further shows that the negro woman received her in structions from Miss Maggie Meyer, matron in charge, as did Miss Tucker, the assistant, in the same room with the same girls on the same class of work, and being the only person that went to work in the room after the assistant matron left. We are quite sure that all of us have as a first consideration the interest of the Orphan Asylum and in that connection we wish to call attention to a fact which to us is a very pertinent one. The increased cost in salaries of the administra tion is only a small part of its cost to the institution, which can be pro ven to the satisfaction of any man who will take the trouble to com pare the list of cash donations pub lished in the Orphans' Friend each week under former administrations with those published now. Say two years or more ago it took often from a half to one column to contain them, now they occupy only about half dozen lines, and all this in the face of the fact that twice as much brain matter is used up in the man agement of the institution as it for merly took. The editor does not have the dis tinguished honor of being a Mason, but will say that we have always been taught that the basic princi ples of Masonry was to care for the widows and orphans, and why could not Manager Bemis have sought out a widow or daughter of a Mason, of whom there are plenty to be found, and given them the work when she found out that the girls could not keep up with the work instead of continueing the colored woman eyen after attention had been called to it? Some one may ask what right have we to interfere with the man agement of the Orphan Asylum? We answer because it is a public Institution and as a taxpayer and a representative of taxpayers we claim the right to do so, because the State appropriates $10,000 a year to aid in the support of the Orphans that enter the walls of the Orphan Asy lum, and the editor can say that he is heartily in favor of the appropria tion, and if the institution was un der the full control of the Masons of North Carolina we are confident that no criticism would be passed upon its management. The editor loves North Carolina, "Heaven's blessing attend her," and deplores the fact that there is not a single lady within its domain that does not possess ability enough to occupy the same position that Miss liemis does, in the face of our boast ed culture, refinement, learning, and conservatism, along with the tender feeling we haye for the un fortunate orphans of our beloved State. We invite your attention to our 50 cent corset. Also to our line of stationerv. The largest tablet in town for 5 cents at the Klondike. Oct 12. Carry the news to the farmers and let them know that prices for tobacco on the Oxford market are reaching up on the top rail, and ask them to read for themselves. Hunt & Meadows, of the Farmers Warehouse, sold last week for Ross &IHarris one load at $G.30, 8.75, 20, 35, 6.70, 7.25, 8, 9, 33, 15, 5.80. Thomas Hunt a load for 5.10, 8, 2G, 42, 14, 10.75, 5.20. Chills and a torpid liver go hand in hand. You will never be rid of chills until you get your liver and bowels right. Stedman's 5-Cent Blood and Liver Pills Do the work. Take the pills and afterwards quinine or chill tonics. Get Well !
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