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i i AN INGENIOUS SWINDLER. The Daring Scheme That Was Worked by a German Doctor. Vcar a sniall village In one of the lik, .. states lived awestern millionaire !' seclusion with his ""little daughter r, a a few servants. The child was af j V r. ii with a rare cerebro spinal com ,:rit, a "most" unpleasant . manifesta . , :i ,,f vhieh was a frequent hic--.,v.j;ti. and eminent physicians, both j , A iuorka -and Europe, had pronounc ,d tV case organic and Incurable. Later there earner to live In the vil- a widow with a little girl affected -!n-:iar to the millionaire's daughter. This child was a delicate, flower faced creature, wistful from the isolation tiV:c iirast have been her sad lot, and "the peculiar bark-like hiccough which made at once attracted the mil i'', -lire's attention, and, being a big 'lyr.rtetTlf rather ignorant man, he Lave the mother employment about his L-'iiie and showered the afflicted child v.Iih presents. . . Ptphnps four months after trie wid ow's advent an eccentric German doc tor sottled in the village, and, his serv es being sought by the 'Widow, he p.ive her child treatment, with the re sult that it was completely cured. The mllionalre immediately sought to phee his own daughter under the kr;:ian's care, but the latter flatly re fused to take the case. He was a Socialist of a violent type and would have nothing to do with a man whose wealth exceeded the sum that he had tLvfd upends the lawful limit of ma terial possession. ' -i . 1 . Finally, however, after, the father had patiently borne the grossest in sults the German agreed to. give the n fill ted child treatment on condition that "the other would first deed over a lan-'o tract of land In Texas for a So cialist colony and pay him for his fee .a mm little short .of $50,000. This the ir.iukriaire did, but)as.soon as the doc tor had cashed the check he disappear ed with the widow and her child, and the wealthy man rmlized that, blinded 1)V paternal love, he had been made the vicliin of an Ingenious swindle. x The flower facd girl of the widow had been taught to simulate a disease and the Germar was no doubt her father. lie was subsequently located In Iiucnos Aires,, but he injured man, not wishing his daughter's affliction published broadcast, dropped the pros ecution. Don, Mark Lemon In Bohe mian Magazine. EXECUTING MAZEPPA. Peter the Great's Odd Way of Punish ing a Deserter. Peter the Great, czar of Russia, pun ished a traitor on a notable occasion in a way that the numerous victims of the present czar's wrath might well wish were still in vogue. Mazeppa, chieftain of the Cossacks, had deserted to the king of Sweden, with whom Peter was at war. Ma zeppa was at once tried by court mar tial and found guilty of high treason. Sentence of death was passed upon him. " ' - Mazeppa, however, was safely h the camp of the Swedish king, but this fact was not permitted to stand in the way of the carrying out of every part of the sentence. A wooden effigy of Mazeppa , was made,, and the punlsh nteuts were inflicted upon the Cossack chieftain's substitute. . The effigy was first dressed in Ma zeppa's uniform, and upon its breast were pinned all of the medals, ribbons and other decorations that the real cul prit had worn. While the commanding general and a squadron of cavalry stood near an oflicer advanced to the wooden 'man and read the sentence. Then another officer wrenched off the effigy's patent of knighthood and his other decora tions, tore them up and trampled upon them. This done, he struck the wood en gentleman a powerful blow in the pit of the stomach, knocking him over. Xext a hangman appeared. While the soldiers shouted he threw a noose over the imitation Mazeppa's head and drag Red the effigy to, a nearby gallbws, where1 it was "hanged by the neck until ft was dead." Scrap Book. Could Handle a Shovel. rt- i m - i-ue toreman of a Chicago Iron mill once employed a tramp who had been a college baseball champion. Their acquaintance began In a way that showed the tramp still to be game and cheery, it was a cold autumn dawn, and the tramp had slept in front of a furnace on a warm stone. The fore man, being short of laborers, on ' his morning tour of inspection spied the fellow and thought he would give him a job. ; . . , . ""My man," he said, f'can you do any- thing with a 6hovel?" '"Well, I could fry a piece of ham on it." Minneapolis Journal. The Pompous Man. ' I do not like the pompous man. I do not wish him for a friend. He's built en such a 'gorgeous plan that he can hly condescend, andwhen;he bows kis neck Is sprained. He ralks as though he owned the earth as though his vest and shirt contained all that there is of sterling worth. With sa cred joy I see himtread upon a stray banana rind and slide a furlong on his head and leav a trail of smoke be hind. Emporia' (Kan.) Gazette. From Limb to Limb. Housewife Why don't you get a job and keep it? Hobo I'm like de little Wrd dat keeps flyln from limb to limb. UousewlfeG'wan, you're only a bum! jiow could you fly from limb to limb? uobo-i mean de limbs o de law, mum -Kansas City Independent. . " . Criticism often takes from the tree RlcluerlarS blossoms together.- THE STORAGE WAREHOUSE. It Sheds Some Side Lights Upon Life and Morals. For a few dazzling side lights upon life and morals apply to the storage warehouse. You can find almost any thing there from baby alligators to blocks, of Ice cream and from Teddy bears to sauerkraut So you won't be amazed at what Uhe institution has most recently divulged, Ilere you have the story: ' Mrs. Q. repaired to the storage ware bouse to extract her soup spoons; though It may have been .aunts or un cles or popcorn or guinea pigs. At any rate, her property declined to come ont. It had been tucked in by Mr. Q. 0iy Mr. Q. might tempt it forth. Mrs. Q. protested. She wanted her catnip or theology or safety razor, or whatever It was, and made I representations with great emphasis. She moved upon the management. She stormed and wept. After long I wrangling the warehouse decided it would yield up the college Ice or was It, the piano? if Mrs. Q. would swear she j was still married to Mr. Q. and would send him a written statement (he was in Quebec, and I lost track of hini owing to bewilder ment produced by merely thinking of a storage warehouse) and make him re turn the statement, countersigned, to the management. . This, then, is how Mrs. G. regained possession of her golf links or prayer book or sugar tongs. Well, say it was sugar tongs, though golf links would be likelier. Pressed for an explanation, the ware house remarked: "Have to be careful, you know divorces, separations, af finities, you know. Minute such things start up there's a race to the storage place. I Game Is for each to snatch out everything first.. Becomes embarrass ing!" feoston Transcript. 1 ros GOOD: mow Draughon gives contracts, backed by a chain of 30 Colleges, $300,000.00 capital, and 19 year's success, to se cure positions under reasonable con ditions or refunnd tuition. BOOKKEEPING Xtn accepting his proposition, concede that he teaches more Bookkeeping in THREE months than thev do in ! SIX. Draughon can convinceYOU SHORTHAND 75 per cent, of theUnited States Court Reporters write the system of Shorthand Draughon teaches, be cause they know it is THE BEST. MIXED THE SIGNS. Sarasate and the Sandwich Men In Edinburgh. To advertise Sarasate's performances in Edinburgh eight sandwich men were sent out, each of whom bore in front and behind him one letter of the great musician's name. They started all right, but after a. time removed the boards from their shoulders to have a rest. On resuming their labors each man shouldered the board nearest him and fell in behind the man who had for merly marched before him. When the leader, who bore the initial "S,?' turned around to see if hisfhen were ready, what he saw was "Sata resa." He knew enough to realize that something was ? wrong, but how to right it was more than he could tell. After changing a man here and there he got it "Starasea." But still it didn't seem correct. : By this time the poor fellow was in a terrible state. I If any of their em ployers' people were on the outlook and could see them, their day's wage would be stopped! He tried, again and yet again, but it was no use. And a moment later a man bearing the letter "S" before .and behind was seen running toward the music hall to copy down the name from one of the posters there. And along the right side of Princeton street there walked toward the appointed rendezvous at the Mound three men who bore the strange device "A A E," while opposite them there paced along the left side gutter four others, who, if to advertise means to attract attention,, succeeded well, for every one who passed looked around in wondering amazement as to what "Rats' meant. Edinburgh Dis patch. - j Too Much For the Ferret. An old buck rabbit is not to be light ly tackled by . weasel, stoat or even ferret. On the sanded floor of a small public house a ferret of long experi ence was matched with an old lop eared buck, th property of the land lord. The ferret made straight for the rabbit's throat, nut the latter was In the air before master ferret could reach him and, leaping clean over the ferret's head, let out with those power ful hind legs of his a kick which hurled the ferret bodily 1 against the wainscot. Twice the ferret returned p the attack, and twice he missed his grip and went hurtling through the air. The third repulse was enough for htm. He "knew he was beaten and could not be persuaded to stand up for a fourth round. Pearson's' Weekly. Brilliant Fish Hues. Like birds, many fishes assume their brightest hue when they wish to at tract the opposite sex of their species. The colors of the male common pike become exceedingly intense, brilliant and Iridescent in the breeding seasom The eel also puts on an intense silvery hue at the breeding time which Is very noticeable and at one time caused nat uralists to distinguish it as a distinct species. The males of the tench, roach and perch also show a marked Increase In brilliancy In the breeding season. Mental Arithmetic. "Two' years. ago I asked Aunt Jane to visit us for a fortnight, and she has not gone home yet." , "It's a blessing." "What's a blessing?" "That you didn't Invite her for a month." Harper's Weeklyl i Uncovered. Horace I can't' understand yon girls. Now, you hate Mabel, and yet you just kissed her. Hetty I know, but just see how the freckles: show where I kissed the powder off. London Tatler. Domestic Politics. "Whom did you support during the last campaign?" j "A wife, two children and a mother-in-law and kept up my life Insurance at the same time.' Puck. FOR FREE CATALOG and book let, ''Why Learn Telegraphy?" which explains all, call on or write JNO. F. DRAUGHON, President DRAUGHON'S PEACTICAL BUSINESS COLLEGE (We also Teachby Mail) Raleigh, Knoxville, Nashville, Cc lumbia or "Washington, D. C. WE THANK YOU for the liberal pat ronage you have given us through this year and asK for.a liberal share of it next year. We have never been in better shape before to serve the public i i our line of v' Groceries and MEATS M; Pi Alexan ; i der & Bro. Phone 241. ABOUT ADVERTISING NO. 2 The Dollar rrri mat e Spent Can't While it uses It helps the i By Herbert Kaufman Every dollar spent in advertising is not only a seed dollar which grows a profit for the merchant but is actually1 retained by him even after he has paid it to the publisher,, Advertising creates a good will worth the cost of the publicity. ! It actually costs nothing. funds it does not use them up. founder of a business to grow rich and at the same time keeps his business .from 'i not dying when he does. It eliminates the personal equation. It per petuates confidence in the store possible for a merchant to withdraw from busi ness without having the profits oi the business withdrawn from him. It chaiiges a name to an institution an institution that will survive after the death of its builder. It is really an insurance policy which costs nothing pays a premium each year instead of calling for one, and renders it possible to change the entire personnel of !a business without disturbing its prosperit. 1 Advertising renders the business stronger than the man independent of his presence. It permanentizes systems of merchandising, the track of which is left for others to follow.! A business which is not advertised must rely upon the personality of its proprietor, and personality in business is a decreasing factor. The public does not want to knowthe man who owns the store it isn't interested in him, but in his goods. When an unadvertised business is sold it is only worth as much as its stock of goods and fixtures. There is no good will to be paid for it does not exist it has not been created. The name over the door means noth ing except to the limited stream of people from the immediate neighborhood, any of whom could tell you mare about some store ten miles away which has regularly delivered its shop news to their breakfast tables. It is as shortsighted for a man to build a business which dies with his death or ceases with his inaction as it is unfair iov him not to provide for the continuance of its income to his family. (Copyright, 1903, by Tribune Company, Chicago.) The Evening: Mascot, lOcts NEW SHOE S H WE HAVE SHOES THAT ARE GUARAN- i ecu iu tsti ABSOLUTELY WATER PROOF fiice enough for general wear and heavy enough for farmers. "wSEE THEMCSTS- Complete line of Dress Shoes for Men. Wnmpn And jgj v""aren. uversnoes, Underwear and 068' Furnishings, gj Everything new and as represented. We will appreciate a RJ call.- Yours to serve, g S. M. & H. SHOE COMPANY Onnnflitp Pnnrf, Tlnnao o v f f w w V. U A V XJkV UOV 1 Phone 40. KI"IaaIIt-I;(M Heres Health, Happiness and a Prosperous Hewean STA TESVILLEDRUGCO. . . 'Prescriptiontsts. . - w-M-r.i aHIIIMIMlnIn..I..I.,I,,:MIM:nlvIn:,: - If: MEW STUDIO mm g Maynard & Ellis, Professional Photographers, in N. B. Mills New ( J . .Building, adjoining Stimson Drug Store, Statesville, N. C. 7J fl High Grade Photos at a Low Price. 5 JT i j i i . - mm JJ Penny Pictures, the best that can be made 24 for t2Bc.,n s Cabinets, in folders, dozen, $2.00. Half dozen SI. SO. Pictures of vour home. Post Card size, and nn tn SyI 0 inohen and out-door groups, is one of our specialties at a moder- rt ate nrice. (rivfi ns a trial and ha nnnrinnol fKof. wa qpq it ; trying to please you. We are now ready to serve you. ;jj Will also Develop and Finish Kodak Work. 0 ; ' "TVT A 7nT A TT P T71T T TCi n . -. -Lrx-ca- ju jli j. jlx. j CV rj jm i i Mortgage Sale of Valuable Real Estate. J3y virtue of power of sale con tained in a mortgage deed executed by R. S. Sherrill and wif Mattie R. Sherrill, on March 20th, 1908, to the Henkel Live Stock Company to se cure a note of $300 due and payable Nov. 1, 1908, (see Book 26, page 485, Registry Iredell Co.) the said mort gagee will sell for cash by Public Auction, at the Court House door in Statesville, N. C, on Monday, the 18th day of January, 1909, at 12 o'clock noon, the following real es tate conveyed in said mortgage, or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay the aforesaid debt and costs of Sale viz - ..... 1st Tract. 'Beginning at W. F. Bailey's S.1 E. corner, thence north with his' line 210 poles to a stake, Bailey's corner; thence E. 85 poles to a post oak; thence north 52 poles to a post oak; thence E. 140 poles to Murdock's corner; thence S. 320 poles to a stake; thence W. 56 poles to a stake; thence S. 7 poles to a stake ; Whence W. 66 poles to a sour wood, Lingle's corner; thence N. 65 poles to a stake,' Lingle's corner; thence W. 07 poles to the beginning, containing 356 acres, more or less. Also one house and lot in the su burb of Statesville on what is called "Diamond Hill," beginning at a stake, corner of Vance and Dagen hart streets; thence N. 4 degrees 100 feet to a stake; Jthence S. 85 degrees E. 180 feet to a stake; thence S. 4 degrees' W. 100 feet to stake on Dag enhart street: thence N. 85 degrees W. 180 feet lo beginning. Terms Cash. . . The Henkel Live Stock Co., Mortgagee. Armfietd & Turner, Attys. THE! BEDELL CAFE LEADER IN CANDIES .....and.i... FRUITS Oysters for retail x and . serving. , uaU on Toast. -MPHpWE HO. 323 W W. GAITHER ; Proprietor. SOUTHERN RAILWAY CO. - Great Highway of Trade and Travel Through the . Southern States - Through Pullman Sleeping Cars on palatial trains between the principal Cities and Resorts of the South. High-class ' Dining Cars. Many delightful Summer and Winter Resorts on and reached by Southern Railway. "The Land of the Sky," "The Sapphire Country," in rscehio Western North Carolina; beau tiful at all seasons. Hotels of the highest cla3s.! i T. t , , , '. i For detailed information apply to nearest Ticket Agent, R. L. VDRNON, T. P. A., Charlotte, N. C. S.H. HARD WICK, P. T. M., W. H. TAYLOE, G. P. A., Washihgton, D. C. STATESVILLE - : ' - -.1 Oper House Building Open from 3 to 5 and 8 to 10 p., m. No Children Admitted-to Flpor at Night Sessions. Mother do you hear that rat-'' r tling in your babies throat ! Put -! a little Mothers' joy Qn it and stop . it at once. x 1.' I El I 1 I 11 1 11 "Mi
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