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Thrilling Night Hunt Which a
Maine Man Will Not Forget
for Some Time.
Cool in Judgment.
No judge must decide between two
persons wnne ue is. nusw-
hammed.
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OXFORD. N. C. SATURDAY. JAN. 20th. 1912
Umbrellas have a way of finding
new owners these days.
China seems to be doing a thorough
job rf awakening this time.
Wives who learn to box can make
the last word doubly effective.
This is the season when the aver
age janitor is an ardent coal conserva
tionist.
New York is to spend $30,000,000
on education next year. It needs every
cent of it.
Neiher electric currents nor one's
neighbor's chickens should be allowed
to roam at large.
SUSPENDED IN SPACE
Nature Provides.
Nothing happens to any man which
he is not formed by nature to bear.
Marcus Aurelius.
Crawled Out on Limb to Dislodge
The Shame of It.
It is a shame that ignorance and
Game Unaware That He Was Di- conceit should be stronger than wia-
rectly Over a Chasm Which Was dom. Marcus Aurelius.
300 Feet Deep.
Human Nature.
TntnA tvt Tf tliAVA is another rwnrinir.t is the largest tribute
1 til LlUllU. TJ.-. I JUUtMlM"
region anywhere better cut and fitted neavr-i re eives, and the sincere part
to suit the tastes of the night prowi- of our devotion. uean smu
inff ring-tailed coon than the country
round about Lake Keuka, up in oia Obedience Not uue
Steuben," said Packy Griswold of There is no obedience due to sTn-
Hammondsport, "then I would be ful commands, nor to any otner man
rionRP.fi to have a look at it. what Is lawful. Mohammed.
f i
"Ordinarily there isn't anything
about a coon hunt up in the Lake The Best Eating.
Keuka country that is calculated to The best tnings which ye eat are
terrify the hunter, but I came just as tnose ye earn yourselves or which
near being scared to death by a coon y(mr cnildren earn.-Monammea.
one night as anyone coma come una
yet live. And I'm scared yet when
ever I think of that coon hunt.
"I was hunting with a friend of
mine from Bath. I had a good coon
dog, and we weren't long in starting us
a coon. He took a bee line up the
steepest and highest hill there was
within five miles, but my dog was up
Our Religion.
SCHEME TOO SUCCESSFUL
Young Man Tries Hypnotic Experi
ment and Finds Out Seme Things
That Are Unpleasant.
"Now, Maud," said Edgar, with a
complacent smile, "I am ready to try
that little experiment. I am sure I
can bring you under the hypnotic In
fluence if you will agree not to resist.
Just put your mind in a passive con
dition. Try to think of nothing at all.
Fix your eye on that light now, and
don't forget to keep your mind a
blank. I will count sixty secouu w
my watch."
The girl followed directions literal
ly. In twenty seconds her eyelids
blinked; in forty they closed.
"Ah, I knew I would succeed!" ex
claimed Edgar, highly elated. "Now,
Maud, I command you to tell me the
secrets of your heart. Whom do you
love? Tell me, I command you."
a momentary expression of resist
ance crossed the girl's face; then she
spoke in a monotone:
"T love Edear Popham, and "
"Yes, yes!" cried Edgar, trembling
with rfoiiirht "Go on. Tell me all
tho RPnreta of your heart."
t inv. Edear PoDham." continued
the eirl. in the same tone, "and I
would love him more if he were not
so stingy. I want to go to me ca
ter twice a week, and he takes me
only once in three months. I want
diamond rings, and he gives me rings
with nheaD stones in them. When I
go out with him and get hungry he
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THOSE FOREIGNERS.
iFroo Dyspopsia
am
Sufferers from indigestion are wak-
ine up to the fact that peppermint
lozenges, charcoal and "dyspepsia
cures are only makeshifts in the cure
of so troublesome a complaint as
chronic indigestion. What is required i
something that will not only relieve but
which will tone and train the digestive
apparatus to again uo us worn normaily
and this these simple remedies cannot u0'
There is something more to the cv.
of indigestion than sweetenine tho
breath, and yet a remedy that only con
tains digestive ingredients will not cure
permanently, as xne Dasis or Indigestion
is poor bowel circulation, and that re
quires a. scienunc laxative. We know
of no remedy that combines these r
auirements better than Dr. Ca.iriwr.iv-
Syrup Pepsin, which has been sold for
a quarter oi a century.
Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Ptpsin is a laxa
tive tonic, a scientific blending of nat
ural ingredients for the cure of con
stipation, indigestion, liver trouble sour
noctor (after careful examination) stomach sick headache and similar com
iociui vtiici . , , . plaints. Its ingredients will so strengthen
Some foreign substance is lodged u anJ tone the stomach and bowel muscl
vour eye.
Dennis Oi know ut! That's what
Oi git f'r wurrukin' wid them da
goes!
. . -v. cHr,n tn nover thinks of oysters. When l
We nave just . r Qh,a I "Tmnrht" pried the young
man.
moVo iic h nt ft out noi euuugu
It CflTI ISWIIl. 1 -tv w CVJVG ;
lOVe one .4v. roUlTur to see
Ann no ueu, wiiuuui, ti o
I command you.
the result of his command
Faculties, slammed the
nomoriiher at anything that shall . , nrun,d her eves, smiled
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to tne trices oi me couu uu xunwv befall thee to turn to inyseii sweetiv and said:
that they will again do their work nat.
urany. no wnen ir.ai nas been accom
plished 3rour trouble is over. Farm'e
Stuart, Staunton. Va., was a lons-ti-ri
sufferer, as was O. Tuck. Blackburn
Mo., and they both found their cure
with this remedy. Thev became wm.
vinced that mils and tablptc Enit
VAniM n TAKE CIGAR INSTEAD Pepsia cures.'; etc., were at best orlv
WUUL.U IMIt OIn irvw. I temTj0rarv reliefs. Thev first nJZliZ
Dr. Caldwell's offer of a free sample bot
tle, which he willingly sends to anyone
who forwards name and address. Later
having convinced themselves through the
free sample, they bought Syrup Penn
of their drug-gist at fifty cent3 and one
dollar n hot.le.
Dr. C&iuwen personally will be pleased
to give you any medical advice you may
desire for yourself or family pertaining to
the stomach, liver or bowels absolutely
free of charge. Explain your case in a
letter and he will repiy to vou in detail
For the free sample simnlv send vm.?
name and address on a postal card or
otherwise. For either request the dor-tor-
address 5s Dr. W. B. Caldwell, R.500 Cald
we:i i'J nr. Votice!Io. Ill
Pur sale by J. G. Hall.
Girls look as though they would
have to grow a lot in order to fit their
new fangled baggy overcoats.
Meanwhile other shaky dams hold
ing back water that might destroy
towns should be braced up.
An amateur has no business trying
to fly. Let him hang hie hat on a
hangar, but don't go near the aero.
Edison is under the fire of the Ger
mans because he says they drink too
much beer. He might invent a substitute.
New York's death rate has reached
a new low mark. We congratulate that
city upon being such a poor place to
die in.
A burglar who coughed like a moto
cycle robbed a garage. What could
he do if he were trying to rob a roundhouse?
Yes, Claribel, as you say, the duke
of the Abruzzi must be a very domes
tic man, since he has been sweeping
the seas.
Since the duke of the Abruzzi has
become such a popular hero in Italy
they ought to let him marry the girl
he wants.
Prospects for the rice crop are good,
but that does not especially interest
the young woman who is soon to be
come a bride.
The New York man who is trying
to compel his wife to marry her affln
ity has evidently made a Btudy of the
refinements of cruelty.
this one so close that the ringtailed
thief of the vineyards was forced to
climb a tree.
"We had managed to get to the very
highest point of the hill, though, more
than 300 feet above the lake. ia
An 1804 dollar, lurking around
Chicago, is said to be worth $650.
There are times when a dollar is
worth more than that.
For $10,000 an Indianapolis man is
pushing a wheelbarrow around the
country from capital to capital. How
does this assist the uplift?
It was polite of Togo to give his
gift horse to the emperor instead of
to the elevator man, to whom so many
American hand their gift cigars.
The office boy's relatives will now
regain their health for a few months,
the frequent reports of their deaths
having been grossly exaggerated.
Your plain citizen will do little
aviating across the country so long as
the necessity remains for private
trains in the immediate background.
New York courts have sent to the
penitentiary a farmer who recorded a
horse race bet. It is better for the
amateurs to leave these affairs to the
professionals.
Those Harvard astronomers who
have discovered a new comet should
have waited for a more opportune mo
ment. There Is too much real news
In the papers these days.
what faculty thou hast for making use
of it Epictetus.
Acts Unjustly.
h often acta unjustly who does
not do a certain thing; not only he
who does a certain thing. Marcus
Aurelius.
True Charity.
A man's giving in alms one piece ot
.... . j. fat nvm i
silver in his Utetime is oeuw i
than giving one hundred pieces when
about to die. Mohammed.
The Impossible.
To seek what is Impossible is mad
ness, and it is impossible that the bad
should not do something of this kind.
Marcus Aurelius.
I hope I did not spring too much
on him at once. Perhaps I should
have let the diamond rings and the
oysters go till another time."
THE EASIEST WAY.
The Point of View.
The power of fortune is confessed
only by the miserable, for the happy
impute all their success to prudence or
merit. Dean Swift.
- Brooks comet is now moving away
from the earth. It can still be seen
by the naked eye In rear elevation. It
has a fuzzy tall and looks like a two
cent star that has got smudged.
Earle Ovington is going to try to
carry mail by aeroplane from the At
lantic to the Pacific coast. It Is hoped
that he will assume no needless risks
by reading post-cards on the way.
It is reported that women are going
lto wear smaller hats this winter. The
milliners must have discovered that
some of the women had big hats that
Ce as good as new left over from
Saved Myseif From a Tumble.
night was dark, but when we got to
the foot of the tree in which the dog
had treed the coon I soon discovered
him, all in a bunch, on a good-sized
limb ten feet from the ground, and I
got ready to climb the tree and kick
the coon off the limb down to the dog
"I shinned up the trunk and soon
reached the branch on which the coon
was perching. Then he ran out to the
end of the limb and made his stand,
or he couldn't go any further.
"I crept along the limb until I came
within kicking distance of the coon.
The limb was too big for me to shake
him off. I reached up and grabbed it
with one hand and aimed a tremen
dous kick at the coon.
The kick landed all right and
knocked the coon from his hold and
off the limb. But the force of the kick
broke my hold on the limb above and
ray feet slipped off the lower limb, so
that I was following the coon in his
tumble. I caught one arm on the
lower limb as I went down and quick
ly grabbed the limb with my other
and saved myself fro.m the tumble.
The limb being only ten feet from the
ground, I had only a couple of feet to
drop as I hung, but I hung on and
listened to hear the coon hit the
ground and the dog pitch into him.
"I didn't hear the coon hit the
ground, but after a quarter of a min
ute or so I heard a sound as if some
thing were crashing through a tree a
good way down the hill. Pretty soon
a similar soon came up from some
where a good deal f arther away. Then,
after an interval, another further
down than the second, and at last a
distant, dull thump, as of some object
striking the ground. I felt myself,
turning cold. I worked my way along
the limb back to the trunk of the tree
and slid to the ground.
"That chestnut tree stood a few feet
from the edge , of one of the deepest
ravines along the lake. We knew
the ravine was there all right, but it
never occurred to me that the limbs
of that tree grew away out over it.
They did, though, and when I kicked
myself and that coon off of the limb
we were on I wasn't , hanging almost
within reach of the ground as I sup
posed, but was suspended in the air,
with nothing under me but 300 feet
or so of vacancy!
"I have never hunted coons much
since that night. I don't say that that
is the reason there are more coons up
in the Lake Keuka country now than
there mied to be, but I have my opin-
ions ab
Eating Acid Fruits.
Acid fruits should not be eaten with
food rich in starch, such as bread and
milk, cereals and meat. They com
bine well, however, with vegetables
and other fruits.
Ignorance.
Ignorance of books Is not the great
est ignorance. Ignorance of the ways
of peace, of kindness, of justice, of
charity, of unselfishness and honesty,
is the ignorance which works the
most harm.
Rev. Dryasdust Young man. do you
drink?
Freshly Not in business hours, old
chap, but I'll take a cigar with you'
Mother- Now, Bobby, you must not
get into any fights with the neigh
bors' children.
Bobby But, mamma, I've got to
get acquainted with them some way.
In Safe Deposit.
"Come in," called the magazine editor.
"Sir I have called to see about that
article of mine that you bought two
years ago. My name is Pensnlnk
Percival Perrhyn Pensnlnk. My com
position was called 'The Behavior of
Triumph of Positivism. Chiomunks in Thunderstorms, and I
Mme. Ackermann thus expresses the Should like to know how much longer
perfect triumph of positivism: "Na- j must watch and wait before 1 shall
ture, the eternal stepmother, has but see lt in print."
one desire. It is continually to Driug ..j remember," the editor repnea.
We are saving your little essay to
use at the time of your death. When
public attention is drawn to an author
we like to have something of his on
hand."
A Tribute.
"Why does Dinks call his motor car
the Goose?" "Because its nonK is so
natural."
He'll Take Him Up.
The man that goes around with a
wad of mcaey making a bluff that he
wants to bt and can't get any one to
take him up can get accommodated
by enterirs any downtown office
building an:! telling that bluff to the
elevator boy. Judge.
forth, endlessly, unceasingly; greedy,
mother! she has chosen eternity for
herself, to you she leaves death!"
The Test of a Man.
Giving evidence at an inquest at
Yarmouth, a market stall carrier de
clared he could take ten pints of
beer before breakfast and get home doorgtep
all right The coroner toia mm
ought to be ashamed to say so and
the witness replied that a man who
could not take tour or five pints was
no man at all. London Evening
Standard.
The Spooners.
For the fourth time he said "Good
night," but still they lingered on tne
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Ah, dearest," he whispered tender- forjeJYHAMILTON Drugjso.
ly, gazing toward ne starlit skies. AYS mflv he found
UI. XJ . x. a a ' ... j
in his office from 10 o'clock a m. to
o'clock M.
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HIV
the night has a thousand eyes."
"Sh! you goose!" cautioned the
pretty girl, as she noticed dark forms
at the opposite windows. "Not so
loud! The night albo has a thousand
ears.
Modern Complications.
Well, Madam,"
lillsboro St.
The oldest Butcher in town, C. J.
Marke
t
specialists advising five meals a day port of the cnihiren.
I ww 1 : himcalf with his
i.rm. 11 VncV.n.1 I I limpr nJIS HSSUUJUICI1 iiiuiowi
iue nw mjr uucuauu ' - m : v, nAot Kc5-
me isn't enough." son. n. M. lurner u .
But, madam, we decided it was ness, ana wui comme tu ky
ample for your support and the sup- people wun uie uwi '
for obesity it sounds as if the doctors
liked change as much as the mode-
makers.
Aaes Add Garments.
Centuries ago. as Sir Walter Scott
says, in "Ivanhoe." men wore one
thickness of clothes, whether of wool,
leather or velvet. The shirt was in-
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A Difference.
"Gosh! Look at that little sawed
off dame with the pug nose."
"Yes, that's Miss Van Roxe, who Is
heiress to a million.-
'Gee! Introduce me, will you? I al-
C iJ. Turner
ion.
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Id
IS YOURS GOOD?
Tactless.
'Miss Giggles has not a particle of
tact."
"What's she done?"
"The other evening when she was
asked by Mr. Jaggles, who is-notorious
Foe led Only Himself.
There was an American once who
stayed so long in England that he im
agined he had not only got quit of the for not paying his debts, for a song, I
"American manner, but had shea tne ge went promptly to the piano and
Trans-Atlantic accent. He deceived sang Trust Him Not.
many and was happy until the day of
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how much?'" said he to the booking
clerk at Huston. "Five dollars p.nd a
half, colonel," promptly replied the
clerk, and the illusion was shattered
forever. It's a matter of intcwatlon
when we are all speaking the same
words.
The Present Style.
"Aren't the Cashits in very fashion
able life just now?'
"Sure. Their son has been running
down some of the most respected resi
dents of the piace in his new car, and
their daughter has eloped with the
chauffeur."
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