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^»«im®Q9O0QQO| MONDAY’S S SPECIE XUS 20 doz. Linen Napkins, that were 98c and 1.00 doz, WILL GO MONDAY at 75c doz. 15 doz. Large Size All Linen Napkins, that were 1.50 doz, will go Monday at 1.15 doz. 20 per cent discount on all higher priced napkins. 2000 Yds. Of very fine high grade bleached domes tic, the regular price of which is 10 cts yd., Monday at 8 1-3C yd. Samson Cloth and Indian Head Domestic Monday MT 10 c Y©. 9 Laces One lot of Torchon Lace at 3c yd. One lot of lace, much of which has been marked down from 7 1-2 and roc yd, Monday at 5c yd. WHAT IS LEFT OF THE 12 1-2C CURTAIN SWISS WILL GO AT 10c YD. ± 0 VV IOC YU. 9 Come Monday 9 ^>@@@@mts@9e@9c^ Mt. Pleasant Collegia ^■WTlnstitute, MT. PLEASANT, N. C. “ Prepares young men for the Junior Class in our best colleges. A six year’s course offered. Preparatory Department- $75; Collegiate $97 per year for all necessary expenses. No fees charged. Thorough work. Firm discipline. Experienced faculty. Commodious Buildings. Splendid Literary Society. Three Libraries.. Large Campus and Athletic Field. We would gladly call on or correspond’ with young men interested. bev. H. A. McCullough, G. F. MCALLISTER, Session Begins Sep. 20. Principals. Commissioner’s sale of land By virtue of a judgment and o T der obtained from J. Frank McCubbins, Clerk of the Superior Court of Rowan county, State of North Carolina, in the special proceeding entitled John L. Casper, admr of Hugh Casper, de ceased vs John L. Casper and J. C Casper, appointing the undersigned Commissioner to sell certain lands, I will expose at public auction for cash at the court house door in Salisbury on Monday July nth, 1904, the following described property: An undivided one third interest in a certain tract or lot of land situate in the village of China Grove, N. C., adjoining the lands of Rosa M. Cline and others and containing one and one half acres more or less and de scribed in a deed from I. Frank Pat terson to Margaret Patterson, said deed recorded In office of Register of Deeds for Rowan county, in Book 76, page 270. Also in deed from J, C Casper in Book 119, save and except that part of the above described lot of land conveyed in a deed from John L. Casper and Hugh Casper, dated Nov. Sth, 1902, and recorded In Book 96, page 20 to which reference is here by made. JOHN L. RENDLEMAN, June 4, 1904, Commissioner. THE GAME OF POKER IT SEEMS TO HAVE ORIGINATED IN : NEW ORLEANS. , For a Few Days Only Honey Cut Hams, Fine 2 Packs Chalmers Gelatine Currants, one pound packs Postum Cereal, per pack, (Regular Price 25e) Tangle Foot Fly Paper, per box. MEALS AND EMOTIONS. 13 l-2c 15c 5c 18c 30c W.I. WALLACE Wholesale Grocer THE SUMMER CAPITAL BY THE SEA.” The Atlantic Hotel & Cottages MOREHEAD CITY, N. C. The largest and most fashionable Seaside Resort in the South. Three hundred rooms, single and en-suite. Private baths Hotel greatly im proved and made more attractive than ever. Lighted by electricity. New piers, large pavilions. Finest bathing, sailing and fishing on the coast. Largest and most beautifully decorated ball room in the South, Music by the famous Levin Orchestra. Beautiful and varied electric display on the pier Cusine and service first-class in every respect. The Ideal place for rest, pleasure and recreation. Special rates to families. Wri*e for diagram and booklet. Owners A. & N. C. R R. A. J. COOKE, Manager. The American Version of the Game I* Apparently an Improvement on the Old French Game “Le Jen du Pogue” or German “Pochenspiel.” All the evidence about poster which has come to light points to its origin in New Orleans. The question Is, Where did New Orleans get it from, or is it an Improvement on some game known to the population of that city, who, it must be remembered, were French and used French terms in any games that they played? There is no French game played with only twenty cards, as poker was played at New Orleans In 1832, but there are several French games in which all the poker hands are to be found except four of a kind. Ambigu, brelan and many others will at once suggest themselves. But all these French games are played with three cards only in the hand of each player. Where could the Inventor of poker have found a game played with five cards in each hand and the pack Consisting of* twenty cards only? The standard pack of cards in Eu rope from the earliest days has been what is now called the piquet pack, which is the same as our American euchre pack, thirty-two cards. There is easily one country in the world that uses a pack limited to twenty cards, and that is Persia. There is only one country in the world where poker has always been played with five cards in the hand of each player, and that is Persia, but the game is not called po ker. It is called as nas. Those who are familiar with this an cient Persian game unhesitatingly as sert some Frenchman must have brought it to New Orleans in its primi tive form, with the pack limited to twenty cards and the hand of each player increased to five. The question still remains, How did it change its name? The old Persian pack had no aces, court cards and spots, like ours, but each suit was made up of pictures which ranked: Lion, king, lady, soldier and dancing girl. This pack was An Odd Difference That Exists Be tween Men and Women. I cannot understand the difference between men and women about eat ing. It is such a radical difference and there doesn’t seem to be any reason for it. It gave rise to the old saw, “The way of a man’s heart is to his stom ach,” and many maidens have profited thereby—if gaining a permanent posi tion as cook is to be regarded as profit. I have seen men at the time of a great crisis, when their faces were white with emotion, when a life, or a fortune, or a name—or a woman was hanging in the balance, answer a din ner call with alacrity, and eat, eat heartily. I have seen a chafing dish tempt a man from an important busi ness engagement, and a cup of tea even make him sacrifice a train. The man who comes home a nervous wreck, cross, irritable, taciturn, after a meal to his liking is a creature to.conjure with, so great is the change wrought It is an established fact that criminals eat well when awaiting trial and even execution. Men in destitute circum stances will sacrifice everything for the sake of three hearty meals a day, where with women clothing, or, in rarer instances, reading matter, is a first consideration. Men in distress go and eat—and feel better; if women attempt it they feel worse. The very thought of food re pels them, it chokes them, and actually does them more harm than good. To oat in a time of grief seems to them sacrilege. They cry out against the ne cessity after days of fasting and yield only in degrees. Women cannot suf fer and eat at the same time. Men can. And that is the difference I cannot un derstand.—Brown Book. No Risk. Fond Father—Heaven bless you, sir, for rescuing my daughter from a wa tery grave. Think of the risk you ran. Life Saver—No risk at all, sir; I’m mar ried.—Milwaukee News. Too much effort to increase our haj^ piness transforms It into misery.— Rousseau. THE called varak i as, varak i asands or simply as, from the game as or asands^ Administrator’s Notice. MIE DFHRTBT STORE HAS BEEN FOUND GUILTY OF MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE The murder on the prices ot the goods which started yesterday was a great success, crowds too heavy to be handled by our efficient salesman. Have employed more help Vand everybody will be waited on if you come. REMEMBER 8c dress gingham at Good apron gingham Fruit of the Loom, 1 yd wide, Hill and Androscoggins, 1 yd, 4 1.2c 5c 8 l-2c 8 l-2c Entire stock slaughtered. No space to name prices. Fire is Furious. and may breakout any time. Take a hint and insure. It costs little and may save much. If you possess a oo- sy home or handsome furniture or a valuable stock of goods, they can be duplicated By the money furnished to holders of policies in any of the com panies we represent. See us before insuring, MAUPIN BROS., Real Estate and Insurance, Office: Overman Building. Phone 256 Salisbury and Spencer. Executors Notice. The undersigned having qualified as executor of the estate of M. Luther Sloop, deceased, notice is hereby given that all persons indebted to said es tate are required to make immediate settlement. All persons having claims against said estate are requir ed to present them to the undersign ed on or before the 13th day of June 1905 or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. JACOB H. H. SLOOP, 6.15 Executor of M. Luther Sloop. Remember, stock to be swept con sists of Dry Goods, Clothing, Shoes, Hats, Trunks, Grips, Skirts, Waists, Ladies and Gents Furnishing, Carpet, Rugs, Matting, Oil Cloth and a full line of Furniture. Headquarters for Bunting and Flags for the Firemen’s Tournament. Y : Sun One Week IOc. If you don’t see the place look for the big American Flag on roof of our store. A The Globe Department Store 121 S. Main Street. Salisbury, N. C. Bed Room Suits AND Dining Room Furniture Dont forget that our Fine of Bed Room Suits and Dining Room Furniture are strictly up-to-date in style and workmanship, and our prices never fail to tempt you and for you to yield is wise. QIIMMEDQCTT 108 West Inniss St 1 08 OuMmtnaLlIj Sali s bury, Nor. Car. The Invention - of - playing - Garas-Lias' been attributed to the Chinese, Hin doos, Arabians and Romans, but cards as now used were invented by Jacques Gringonneur, a painter, in Paris in the fourteenth century. They were sup posed to have been first made for the amusement of Charles VI. of France, who was deranged. The French had particular names for the twelve court cards. The four kings were David, Alexander, Caesar and Charles; the four queens, Angine, Esther, Judith and Pallas; the four knaves, or knights, Ogier the Dane, Lancelot, La Hire and Hector de Garland. Cards seem orig inally, however, to have been taken to England direct from Spain, having probably been introduced into that country by the Moors; the clubs in Spanish cards not being trefoils, as with us, but cudgels—that is, bastos—the spades, or swords, espadas. They were at first stamped from wood blocks in outline and filled in by hand, but after the invention of engraving the best artists engraved them on copper and struck them off at once. Columbines were spades; rabbits, clubs; pinks, dia monds, and roses, hearts. Human fig ures opposed to those of flowers and animals were the ancestors of court cards. Extinguisher. “I followed good advice about re turnin’ good for evil,” said Mr. Raffer ty. “Casey has done me some bad turns, but he wanted a favor, an’ I heaped coals iv fire on him.” “Coals iv fire, is it?” said Mr. Dolan. “Well, there’s no great danger. As he cem past the house awhile ago yer wife, be way iv neighborly repartee, tossed a bucket iv wather on ’im, so the chance of his burnin’ alive is over.” —St. Louis Republic. Speaking- From Experience. “If a man tells the exact truth at all times,” said the philosopher, “he has done as much as ought to be expected of him.” “My friend,” answered the weather forecaster, “he has done a great deal more than ought to be expected him.”—Washington Star. of A Doubtful Compliment. He—You are just as sweet as you can be. She—I don’t think that much of‘a compliment. You see, it all depends upon how sweet you suppose I am capable of being- —Town Topics. None are less eager to learn than they who know nothing— Suar4. ^^^^£S^^£3®^£5£S23£3 K See The Glassware I g AT THE g I Ladies Bazaar | I On T hursday July 14th, 8 8 The Sale Begins. J 3 Any one buying one dob 3 £ lars worth of goods can have 3 8 choice of any piece of glass- 8 8 ware in the window for 5cts. 2 a Mrs.L.Finkl 8s36S€3€S^S^€S€3^€3^S^8 which was played with it. This an cient game was simply twenty card poker, as it was first played in Amer ica at the beginning of this century. But if poker was originally known as asands, how came it to lose that name? It seemed to the writer, and also to Mr. Jessel, that the answer to this question must be looked for in the lan guage of the people who brought the game from Europe, if they did bring it. If they brought it to New Orleans from Persia, or if some resident of that city was familiar with the Per sian game and thought it an improve ment on the French game of ambigu and brelan, the introducer was prob ably French and more familiar with French games and French terms than with Persian. Curiously enough, one of the oldest and most authoritative works on card games was published in France and ran through a great many editions. This is the famous “Academic Univer- selle des Jeux; Chez Theodore Legras, au Palais, Paris.” ’ In the 1665 edition of this work we find the first description of the game I f hoc. L.The game of hoc continues to be de scribed until the edition of 1702, with So mention of any improvement or change in its form. In 1783, however, page 305, we find a description of Ie jeu du poque, which exactly agrees with the game known to all German children as pochenspiel or pochen. The “Academic des Jeux” speaks of poque as a descendant or offshoot from the older game of hoc. The peculiarity of poque is that aft er the cards are dealt and each player has taken from the common pool the counter for the rank of the highest cards held he is at liberty to bet upon the various combinations of cards he holds, triplets, pairs, etc. In the French description of the game we are told that a player opened the betting by saying, “Je poque d’un jeton,” or two chips, or as many as he pleased, and that then the others could see him, raise him or drop out in their turn. In the German game pochen as it is played today we find exactly the same expressions still in use, “Ich poche eins,” or as many chips as the player cares to venture, and the answer of the player entering the betting against the opener is invariably, “Ich poche mit.” Both poque and pochen are played with piquet pack, thirty-two cards. Now, it is very curious that in the English translation of this “Academic des Jeux” and in all the English de- Ecriptions of the game of poque we find the players are instructed to say in English, “I poque for so much,” and the following players are to respond, “I poque against you.” Show this word “poque” to any ordi nary English speaking person not ac quainted with French, and he would undoubtedly separate it Into two syl lables and call it po-que. In the Ger man the word poche is already as near poker as the vowel sound will admit. What more natural than that a resi dent of New Orleans of French birth or extraction already familiar with the game of poque and seeing asands played for the first time should use the ^pressions “Je poque d’un jeton,” etc., S»d that the English or German speak ing person adopting the game should say, “I pd-que.” From this it is a short step to drop the curious and difficult foreign name of asands altogether and call the game po-que and later to spell it poker.— Chicago Inter Ocean. Imagination Runs Riot. “But,” the publisher complained, "the chief characters in your story are a man and a woman who go on making love to each other for years and years after they are married.” “Well,’ the young novelist replied you must remember this is a work - Action.”—Chicago Record-Herald. Only to the Inexperienced. Miss June—You are married, Mrs. March, and you ought to know. Do The undersigned having quali fied as administrator upon the es- tate,«f Howard A. Varner, de ceased, notice is hereby given that all persons indebted to said estate are required to make immediate settlement. All persons having claims against said estate are re quired to present them to the un dersigned on or before the 1st day of June 1905 or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. C. M. VARNER, Admr of Howard A. Varner. June 1, 1904. E. C. Gregory, Atty. pd FOR SALE *AT A BARGAIN! Bran New Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine. Highest Grade And Up-To-Date In Every Particular 1 i;I THIS WHINE you believe in love at first sight! Mrs. March (looking grimly at Mr. M.)— Well, I think it can happen once.— Somerville (Mass.) Journal. Is Now On Exhi Important Part. 'Lawyer—Then, too, there will be the court crier’s fee. Fair Litigant (breach of promise)—Oh, I shall do my own crying! I should never think of trust ing anybody else to do that—goodness, no!—Puck. Though this is a dairy country, every one watches jealously when the cream pitcher is passed to see how much the others tske.—Atchison Globe. bition at Brown Shoe Co s STORE is always giving anil aug am qaSioj 7,uoa Respectfully, 120 South Main st. and bring it with yox'Ml^^Hm I cents on every dollars worth ofs goods you buy from us till loth If you are looking for a handsome dress you should see our line before you buy. JOB PRINTING’ Some Prices on 1,000 Lots—Larger Lots at Reduction. Letter Heads, $3.00 to $3 50 Note Heads, 2.00 to 2.25 Envelopes 2.00 to 2.25 Prices on Business Cards, Wedding Cards, Visiting Cards, Programs, etc., will b^ furnished at this office or by ’phone Account the above occasion, ef fective April 25, 1904, Southern Kailway will place on sale daily, tickets at extremely low rates, to St. Louis, Mo., and return. Fol lowing are rates applying from principal points in State of North Carolina: Reason 60-Day 15-Day Asheboro $35.55 $29.60 $24.20 Charlotte 36.10 30.10 24.65 Durham 34.10 28 40 23.30 Greensboro 34.10 28.40 23.30 Hickory 34 10 28.40 23.20 Marion 34 10 28 40 23.30 Morganton 34.10 28 40 23 30 Mt. Airy 37.00 30.85 25.10 Newton 34 10 28 40 23.30 Raleigh 35.60 29 90 24 80 Rutherfordton35.55 29 60 24.20 Salisbury 34.10 28 40 23.30 Sanford 37 60 31 90 26 25 Salem 37.10 31 40 26 25 Statesville 34.10 28.40 23.30 Southern Railway, effective April 25, 1904, inaugurated Through Pullman Sleeping Car between Greensboro, N. C., and St. Louis, Mo., via Salisbury, Asheville, Knoxville. Lexington and Louisville; leaving Greensboro daily at 7.20 p. m. For full information as to rates from all points, Sleeping Car re servations, schedules, illustrated literature, etc., address any agent, or R. L. Vernon, Traveling Pas senger Agent, Charlotte, N. C. S. H. Hardwick, Pass. Traffic Manager, Washington, D. C. J. H. Wood, District Passenger Agent, Asheville, N. C. W. H. Tayloe, Gen’l. Passenger Agent, Washington, D. C. WORLD’S FAIR, ST LOUIS, BIO. Freni May to November, 1904, The Southern Railway. ’PHONE —89- PURCELL’S. Prescriptions a specialty. Sun One Week ICc. Dr. R. V. BRAWLEY Practice Limited to Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat. Salisbury, N. C. Office Over Wachovia Bank.
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