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The Chronicle, ' 3VHiKESBORO. N.C. s' BILL iBPS LETTER. - I This Christmas is like !'lengthend sweetness long drawn out'! at our house, for the boys have gathered - from he four corners and brought their love and their rations with them. New York brought a huge box of decorations for the -Christmas , tree. It was beautiful beyond description." : Dolls of 'silk and satin and paper, all covered with glit tering spangles little angels with pearly wings suspended by threads of invisible rubber, golden harps and hearts and wreaths of spun glass in rainbow colors scores of little waxen candles : to illu minate the scene. Oh, it was like; a fairy vision and every limb and twig of the stately long leaf pine was burdened with Christmas gifts for old and young. There were twenty-four of the family present, and it took half the night 1 to untie and unfold the surprises, for fall were remembered over and over by old Santa. Yes, all. even . to venerable old patriarch the "Pa children. ' ' , , - Well they came back in due time and it was amusing to me to hear them tell how every thing. had changed within tnese dozen years; now the bouse seem ed to have sank into the ground a foot or two and the farm bad shrunk up and the fields: were smaller and : the hills lower and the shade trees shortened at the top. I've been through all that be-; fore, and was not surprised. Interspers ed with our daily and nightly pleasures we have music, good music, classical music of the great, masters and minstrel ANDBEW CABNEGIE ON ABUSE OF THBIFT. THE TNTOLD GOLD IN ALASKA. HOME, -SWEET H03IE. Fouth's Companion, i- . ...-,,", , j: It is 'surprising how little it takes to provide for the real necessaries of life. A little home paid for, and a few thou sand dollars a very few make all the difference. These are more ; easily ac quired by frugal people than you might suppose. ' 1 . ' Great wealth is. quite another and a far less desirable matter. It lis not the , jkuw vuwtv vm. huo ouwuui cum uciuo I a v xaov f 1 1 ' 11 c ouaxxg uuui&Oi auu for 1901 will . be fully $15,000,000."! the wearv man returns to the partner said Lyman b. Ailes, of Seattle, ; who of his bosom, a feeling of sweet con left Nome City on October 22, and who tent pervading his soul that day, with is now in New York. 'Alaska will soon be to the United States what South Africa is to England," continued Mr.Ailes. Some of the vexatious things which the miners c had to contend with this year - were the in terminable squabbles over claims. The overflow of miners from the Klondike INGERSOLL'S EULOOT OF Wilis, KEX AND DR. DUCCLEY'S . BEPLY. . ;' , "I send you some of the most won derful whiskey that ever drove the skel eton from the feast or painted land scapes in the brain of man. It is the mingled souls of wheat and corn. Itt it you will find the sunshine and shadow; that chased each other owr aim of thrift, or the duty of men. to music with choruses from all the band millions. It is in no respect a struck Nome last spring and settled on and even my wife, Mrs. Arp, was con- ue w Bet 1H oeiore ua aB an ena. claims already staked. In some cases strained to play the "Caliph of Bagdad" ty to save ends when just enough they would rename creeks and drive with her firstborn dWhtPiChPr money has been put aside to provide new stakes, and, the original owners again he er- he daughter Music is our family's gift, for they all play on'something, and all have ; voices for harmony of j sweet sounds This gift, I suppose, t comes from their mother, and her touch upon the ivory keys is still as delicate as when she was a lassie of sixteen. I used to think that I too had a melodious voice. and sometimes would venture to hist the tune in Sunday school . when the tune hyster was absent and, like the crow who tried to sing, I thought I did it finely. Nobody else ever told me so, comfortably for those dependent upon us. Hoarding millions is avarice, not thrift. . , - ' Of course, under our industrial con ditions,' it is inevitable that a few, " a very lew men, will una money coming to them far beyond their wants. There are men, who have ; millions and . who continue to pursue money making only to collect "more millions , for hoardin&r. This is, as I have said, a very different have, been fighting thousands of these cases in the courts all the year. , "The gold output for 1900 would haue been much larger but for; this. its cares, its turmoil and strife, is over, and naught but sweety peaceful re pose is, the 'promise of the hours to come. , . "DfiflT : mft I" "ho - o-rnlofrrifl na Tift sinks into the nearest chair "I'd give the my very life for rest: I am tired half dew of the n8ht, the wealth of summer to aeath." . , . , L ,. , , And she, the loving one, she knows his trouble is seldom told and that his weariness is but half expressed. and so she cries : 'Tlno 1aot . A An i xrrVfcw rll r-rm1f ei - fumilifta ' th antinna anpftfltnr. for ; . j j I,-,, , -n- j it ... ii ii . i ' brought me a ball and a monkey jick and one day my wife said that my voicel Ui """""b oi uouws w usuauy ine oi iMome. he had heird was a little cracked and if she was me reBU11 Ul eni.erP"8e wq jaagmeni ana mat promi and some candy, because mas ,i was me ooy-tne oniy poy ane wouia not try to raise the tunes in about the house. But later on I dis-1 the church any more. It was a revela- covered a Bilk cap and a pair of slippers, tion that shocked me, and I haye never some nandkercnieis ana an inKstana sang in cnurcn since, nor anywere else, that the little grandchildren can't spill There are voices in church choirs of the the ink out of if they do . turn it over, same kind, but nobody : will tell ; them, little Aary Lou, who is Jessie's child, They are called falsetto. got so many dolls and pretty things Farewell Christmas farewell old that she looked tired and, drawing a Santa Claus while we all reioice. let us not forget that Christmas commemo rates the birth of the Saviour of men the nativity of Kris Kringle, which means "the little Christ child." It is thing from thrift and, the making of a important strike is on Kotzebue sound. modest competence. The accumula- bav of Good Hotw. wav nff fn f h a nnrfK Another important strike promises "great results is in the hard ? Why : can't you, won't you j restr ioa tret and slave all day, and when night comes you're almost dead. The beach claims at an near Nome and I wanted vou to saw some wood, and uiiu Dace irom ine coast naw haati now worked out, but back on the creeks there is an unlimited amount of gold. "I : have a ' good claim on Oregon creek, 25 miles from , Nome, and 20 1 miles back from the coast. The 'latest I long breath, said: , "Ganpa,; it's too much, and I can't hardly stand it." There were toys and books, and vases and perfumes, and baskets and gloves, some exceptional ability for orgamza tion. It does not come from savings in the ordinary: sense of that word. Men who in old age strive only , to in crease their already too great hoards are usually slaves of the habit of hoard ing formed m their youth. At -first they own the money they have made and saved. Later in life the money owns them, and they cannot help them selves, so overpowing is the force of habit, either for good or evil. . it is the abuse of Blue Stone creek district, west of Nome, , ' ''All rieht. dear. I'll ero and saw- "Never; you're too tired!" -"Precious one, it won't hurt me to saw, wood.," , - '. '' And he is the strongest; his "will prevails; so he Calms her fears and saws the wood, and with a weary sigh returns to rest. , In a moment she cries : . ana autumn's ricn content, all golden wiiu imprisoned ugnt. unuk it, and you will hear the voice of men and maidens singing the 'Harvest .Home,' mingled with the laughter of children. Drink it and yoa will feel within your blood the starred dawns, the dreamy tawny . dusks of perfect days. For forty years this liquid joy has been within staves of oak, longing to touch6 the lips of man.' . . ; DR. J. M. vnd 20 miles south of i Port Clarence, 4 We're all out of bread, and you're so one or the two good harbors of western Alaska. ; The Blue Stone creek district has opened with a rush, and it Aseems to be fully as good as the famous Anvil creek, which cleaned up 2,000.000 this year.- -.. , ; "One of the peculiar features about "No my dear, I'll get some bread. I'm not so tired;, ;I'll soon get rest." o he goes to the corner store six blocks away and gets the bread and returns, but not to rest. Blue Stone is that it was discovered and as he entered the door,' "isn't it mean? opened up by tenderfeet." An ex BUCKIEY'S KEPLY. I send you some of the most wonder. ful whiskey that ever brought a skel eton into the closet," or painted scenes of lust and bloodshed in the brain of man. It - is the ghost of wheat and corn, crazed by the Joss of their natural bodies. In it you will find a transient sunshine, chased by a shadow cold as Arctic midnight, in which the breath of June grows icy,, and the carol of the lark: gives place to the fore boding ; cry of the raven. Drink it,, and you shall have woe, sorrow, babbling, ; and wounds without cause) your eyes shall behold strange ' women) your heart shall . utter perverse things! Drink it deep and you shall hear the and jewels and other gifts too numerous I well enough to rejoice, but we should at who will to mention. Mexico brought a beauti ful hand-woven castilian shawl for my wife, and she struts around as lithe and gay as Eden's garden bird. ; "My boy brought it from Mexico," she says, forty times aday. "My boy and my crjil dren" are always on the tip of her ton gue. Well, that'B all right. They are her boys sure enough, and she knows it. There may be some, doubt, some times, about who is the father of a child, but everybody knows who is its mother. Downstairs has all been cloth ed in mistletoe and holy. Geraniums the same time reflect and be grateful. Bill Abf. Funny Answers In School. In a certain Kentuckv town. - where the colored population is quite large, the pupils of the school were all obliged last 1 I - A t A wiuwjf iu lw vauuiuaieu. a sister in quired of a little colored lass about eight years of age as to the cause of the absence of her brother from school re ceived this answer: "Please sister, he's sick; he dun got procrastinated tother day and his arm is swelled big as a saw Those horrid old pipes have all come I mailing nA mnMat,.H ' j , ., . perienced miner and his nenW r down. T'm alm rrf 1 m. I " t" cniia thft oivilirl nir,r ioir f - iT. 1 . uZ7..Zrr7 V"' J wmwiruuiK ine lops oi a lather who insdnct. and not its use. that produces miner wnt 11 nw rp -r uk itana serpents this class of men. No one need be told his friends that there was not any- "Precious Phoebe,xdo not fret I'll afraid of fahmg a victim to this abuse thing there worth while and came away, fix things in a jiffy." of the habit, if he always bears in mind Afterward the 'tenderfeet' came along "Oh, Joshua I" ' mat whatever surplus wealth may come and opened ; the district, with great "Calm to mm is to be regarded, as a : sacred results. . t,jik hnt hiss in your ears, coil themselves about your necK and seize you with their fangs; for 'at last it biteth like a serpent anri inivvi B.im riii. m.v-m iiiu.ithii m.i i HniiiTin nri iA wt-i m i mmm , , , . i," I i"g. "wnat is a laKer" asiced an other teacher. A bright little Irish lad.- some beautiful roses lift up their lovely forms from beautiful vases that jld Santa Claus brought. Bunches of mis tletoe hang from every chandelier, and every time these' merry, mischievc-us nui long over, Bnriejcea out, "tsure, sis ter, it's a hole in mother's tay kittle." The classes of spelling also show Iheir Z1jZ rinmnr Tamoa an ham f a!1 wa Ua I v uujivu JkJ-MXX J vu null JXftw blio trust, which he is bound to administer for the good of his fellows. If the man resolves and faithfully ad heres to his resolution never to hoard money, but to put each year's surplus to uses beneficial to others, then the money-making habit ' may still be classed among the virtues. The man must always .be master. ' He should keep money in the position of a useful servant: he must never let it be master and make a miser of him. Burns expresses a truth when he de clares that savings are precious because yourself, my dear, it will a moment or two at most to "Between 6,000 and 7,000 men are put them up, you know." -.w wintering at Nome and-doing what they After an hour's wrestling and vexa- iooi ycai mciti. were ueiween "wu tuc (Jipea are njgeiner again ana can. 520, UUU and 30,000 in . and around Nome. The general health was excel lent. The run of typhoid in 1899 led everyone to believe that disease would again be prevalent, but deaths were exceedingly rare this year. There were Joshua returns to his sympathizing i partner, who rewards him with, "My dearest dear, I'm - so glad it's all over at last I It's simply awful to see you look so tired. Do take this easy chair, my dear, and I'll just give stingeth like an adder.' For forty years this liquid death has been within staves of oak, harmless there as purest water. I send it to ! you that you may put an enemy in your mouth to steal away your brains. ; And yet I call myself your friend." guuu uiaujr uguuj over territorial ngnis yuu me Daoy to noia, ana then you early in the season, but things have can rest all the evening:.'' man girls find me standing under one, tley definition of contagious?" "Contaeious, ..r wuippmg is contagious. "mow is mrs. -arpiopt ner nomairoignity ana, that?" asks the teacher. "Whv. it's coming slyly behind me, suddenly catchincr. and I often natnh Wn.: : . I ' .. i ping.- "xmow, hoys, what is an epi- wrapped the drapery of .her castilian shawl around me and claimed a mistle toe kiss from my connubial Uls. j But the old marble clock that for nearly fifty years has stood upon the mantel ticking the moments and re cording the hours as they pass did not stop on Christmas night, and : at mid night the happy group retired to rest and happy dreams. Next day came the feast the Christmas dinner. Every leaf was placed on the long extension table. At each end was a' large well browned turkey, and all the interme diate space crowded with luxuries for the inner man and woman. Eighteen of the family were the welcome guests at the table, while six of the irffantfles surrounded a smaller one nearby, j I never asked a blessing with a more grateful heart, for. Providence has been kind,and since last we" met no affliction or calamity has befallen ua. Verily, the lines have fallen to us in pleasant places. Would that all our kindred and friends yes', would that every family in the land-the rich and the poor could have a like happy and unclouded Christmas. ,A8 I survey the happy scene it ia enough to look upon the serenity of thebnaternal ancestor as Ihe ji ... j Kues xunuiy upon jaer . Doys yea, ner boys, who have come so far to give Jier joy and comfort. Oh, ye boys ye young men and middle aged, whom forture or fate has removed far front a good old mother's tender care, and s )li- citude, don't forget her. yearnings s nd if you cannot go to her at least once a year, write to her every month and comfort her. with , your loving letters. auo papers are iuu oi crimes oi au le scriptions, but in my opinion, there is none that will more surely provoke he curse of God than for a man to neglect or distress his mother. Yesterday the boys with their mother and sisters visited the old homestead the farm in the country, where iur children grew up to manhood and womanhood where these i scatters boys worked and plowed and planted demicr" Answer: "It is something that spreads." "Very good, now give me an example." One little lad pipes out. "Jam is an epidemic, cause it spreads." Another asked to name the three meals of the day started - off in a rush by saying the first one in the day was oatmeal. Another class was asked what kind of an animal zebra was. One boy said, "A zebra is a donkey wim a football suit on." The same boy was asked by. his teacher on another oc casion the following question in mental arithmetic: If I had a mince pie and independent. As he was a poor man himself, to be inde pendent of others naturally seemed to I hira the great aim of life; but great i wealth is even more desirable since it permits one to be of service to others. Only One, but That Was a Ronser. Raleigh Post. ' Some years ago before the dav r.f setuea aown now. Judge Stevens sits 'in criminal cases and Judge Noyes is the district judge. Both are doing ex cellent work." The Rebuilding: of Galveston. Washington Post. ' "Shipping knows absolutely no senti ment," observed Mr, ' Charles T. Alex aeder, a vigorous, stalwart representa tive of Texas manhood, at the Metro politan. "My home is in Waco, but I was. in Galveston the other day, and the up gin njce magic. Politeness In Children. Henry Ward Beecher said, "Polite ness is a religious duty, and should be part of a religious training." The law of politeness applies to men and women quite as much as to children; and if courtesy and kindness are the natural expression of parents the chil Ml 1 m Voted. With the Rennbllcans to Tils- franchise Their State. Special to Charlotte Observer. Washington, Jan. 3. The Bepub- Thousands of houses are being built,but licans in the House to-dav srave an I tneF 8X6 Qot so large or pretentious aa exhibition of partisanship that erreatlv I their predecessors. The value of ex- disgusted many Democrats, who. not Prts fr0m Galveston during November ueing aDie to stand Jtfryan, lent their support to JVIcKinley in the recent election. They tried to take the House by surprise and rush through resolution to lav .uuuU uo uiwvuouw w n.8ucvme uic;i win uaburaiiy aaopt good man- f franchisine uuaiiyO- uvid. -n- vy nici lix tUtJ UU1UI1 Signal ton, S. C. with return loads of ero- tells of a visit to. a home in whiVVi t ho wnea ana goous. une oi me promi- mother very properly classed eood four Southern States. North Carolina among them. Thanks to the masterly activity of Under- ocuuiug m iiiauiiers among ine cardinal virtues not passed to-day. but probably will wagons to the city by the sea, caution- of life. Her method of inculcating he t.n-rr,nnw prooaoiywili iui -K n t.Al 1 J . J i .1.1 i ..... 3 r"" t1" wttguer, au uhj -uarKey, to tnem, nowever, was astonishing, and load his wagon, a six horse one. with not tn hp nnTnmondpH oe to-morrow. The three Republican members last was $25,000,000 vhich is $1,000.- 000 more than the value of exports from Gal veston .during November of 1890. Galveston is the ocean outlet fnr tbe vast trade of Kansas, Missouri, Indian Territory and .Texas. Congress ' has long recognized this, and appro priated generously for the h arbor. "The agricultural products of Texas last year," continued Mr. Alexander, who is a native of North Carolina, and received his education in New York. 0uij im..iuiu - -j. . , j wui unxifc. on a very cum ever jSSt.VriJr''01!!?' The master merchant was glad to toV&J?- Jim and hia waQs, as th! seasoi V. ' . . . . . - u ' my8en, much salt was at hand. , RrrV sait. jia Jim went, ana after many days returned, reaching the mountain city about dark on a very cold evening. see season for what would be left? Soeak out lond now so that the class can hear." "The i plate would be left," yelled the boy, amid shouts of laughter. Fell Dead While Smoking Cigarette. much salt was at hand. Jim, saying: "Well, you brought the salt?" "Yes, sir." "How many sacks ?" "Only one, sir," said Jim. ' "The 1 Onlv one sack ?" No sooner were we seated at the ta ble than she besran to instmnt t.hA children in this wise : "Edith, sit up straight. It is vul gar to lounge at the table, above all from North Carolina Linney, Pear- ' yielded about $300,000,000. Her son and White voted with the Re- Pople were never in better condition, publicans to put their people in Immigration into the State, which has chains. . Thomas and Bellamy were f11 oft somewhat during the last four absent, but paired. - . or five years, is now starting again. The mi I ... . A M XT A l r 1? ' n . ine JKepuDlicans are not a unit for I auua ux-xionu uarcuna, ueorgia, mis bohe accosted places. Harry, take your elbows from the resolution, and many of them to- si88iPPi and of States to the northwest vcfci. xiukv uiMjuuavH l in n vnn now nporn it o hn f nAnt4A are aain inrri nor rnwrn rnA i .nno star t j v c uaii'ijcaix tcu . duu uii. l I o avuv yvwi ''Yftfl. TVTflrs. .Tim. nnlu nna aarh- Ki-if Edwin Deaver, a young man, died in fo" de Lord, she's a rouser." ' this county last week of heart disease under peculiar circumstances. He was apparently in perfect health, and after dinner was sitting in front of the fire smoking a cigarette and "Jaugh ing and talking with members of the family. Suddenly, without speaking, he sprang to his feet, lurched forward with his head in the fire. Tha hndv Jim had gotten about salt in one "package." a ton of bulk Mrs. Becker Dead This Time. A Binghamton. N. Y., disf.atch savs: "After making all known tests, physi cians have decided that Mrs. Benjamin Decker, of West Baihbridge. is dead. This precaution was made necessary by that it was rude to put vour elbows on the table ? Is it possible, Harold, that you are eating mashed potatoes with a spoon? I have told1 you over and over again just what was the proper use of the spoon at the table." In the parlor it was: "Edith, kit. erect! Harry don't pass in front of Mr. H. without an apology. .Mamma wants her little boys and girls to be polite." " ' . One is reminded by these ill-bred suggestions of the discouraged wo lf the resolution is adopted, the nen- otate. Ihe cosmopolitan character of sus committee will probably dispose J Texas people has long been a notable of the matter bv citinsr the exhaustive characteristic, and it is not to be' lost. - - I . 1'A . treatment of the subject by James A. Garfield at the time of the reappor tionment under the ninth census. Mr. Hopkins, chairman of the census committee, calls attention to this re port by Mr, Garfield in which it is held to be impracticable to strictly a ' i a , cosmopolitan people are always , little more liberal and broader , in their views, which applies exactly to Texans." Western Philosophy. Atchison Globe. ' Every man thinks he is better known follow the . fourteenth ; amendment, in his community than he reallv is. since it would not permit even insane persons and persons not long enough xeai residents in a state to oe ae- tUX iff s. ,l"e?iai!t ? occurrence some Urn. .go can't beat none into 'you." ' w a icn UIUU16UU9. I in wniCh Mrs I loob-or maa ,amna.A - - . lMWVU from a trance in her coffin. She was taken ill and it was supposed died. The remains were prepared for" burial, but no embalming fluid was used. While the body was in the coffin awaiting the funeral service one of the family who was arranging ine nouse oroae a vase man who said to her children," "You prived ofthe privilege of voting, an4 aint got no manners, and I declare I Me was 22 years of age and was a strong sturdy specimen of manhood. He had never had any serious illness and his death ; was a great surprise to his friends! - j At the Other End A Statesman, a Safe and Conseravatlvc .;- Ijeader. ;,. Shelby Star. ..... . ' One of the strongest presentations , of the future Democratic position, if De mocracy is ever to win, was contained in the ; interview with ex-President A certain naval officer was very pom- and a piece of the : glass struck the sup- Grover Cleveland, which appeared in pous and conceited when on duty: i. uaJ wiieu ue was omcer oi the ue Diooa to now. .mis aroused . snsni watch, and he could not, as usual, find cion and physicians who were sum any thing of consequence : to grumble moned restored Mrs. Decker to con about, he attempted to vent his spite on sciousness. When Mrs. "Decker was one of the stokers of the vessel, who aeain taken ill and died the former life- and reaped where they had BOwn; where w4s in the engine room on duty. I like resemblance remained and the mey l&Dorea nara by day and hunted "woing to the speaking tube, the offi- body was kept four days. Then the coons ana 'possums by. night: where cer yeuea: "is there a blithering idiot way went 10 me naooring mill and fish-1 luo ena 01 his tnbe rT ni .v. . v. . -1 . uia . jwuu wiuie me - gnst was snuuiuK, wnere uari and Jessie went 10 school and crossed the creek od a, uenaer xooUog, and gathered haws and Miimypuyu ana wna strawberries on the way. These boys and their sisters wanted to revisit the old scenes and drink water from the same old gushing iviiuhm 10 eee the meaaow where the big trees stood in their magesty-the oak trees that we had named for Roscoe Conklintr Blaine, and the big sycamore that was ! named for Voorhees, the taU'eycamorel of the Wabash ; T, r4 , I : JThey wanted to see the old barnyard I wnere , mey used to tease old Fete, Merino ram and incite him to rear nis mna legs and run to butt them tney presented their posteriors in a nan ana provoking manner. Some times they got out of his way just in one, nut even and anon they dident. The reply came auick and VNot at this end, sir!" i ' The feelings of the officer, s he turn ed away with a black frown, ; can be better imagined than described. ' His Answer. 1 queried the teacher of you know your do the on . as de- y: "Johnny," th9 new pupil, alphabet? , , "Yes'm," answered Johnny, "v "Well, then," contmued the teacher, what letter comes after A?" ,'A11 the rest of them," was the tri umphant reply. '., r - -; : The Sonth, as jwell as this State- is fortunate in having upon the Censu, Committee of the House a gentleman o ' the rare tact and good judgment of Hon. Theo. F. Kluttz.' His reasons given through the Washington corre- eponueni oi an irost yesterday i mora- posed corpse in the forehead, causing f The Atlanta Journal. Cleveland has been cursed by his. former, party asso ciates, but there is no. denying the fact that he is a statesman and a safe and conservative leader. During the period he occupied the Chief Executive's office he was President, and . all the world ; knew it; and every man had entire confidence in his ability and hi? grim determination. He was the best and truest friend the South has had in the President's chair since Jackson's James H. Pou, Democratic ex-chair-1 administration. He no longer aspires i.0- ? man, says he sees a way, and only f one t( leadership, but still desires to see the ;t v wajr, iu ki wowub vaiue oi real prop- -omwxauu yaxiy xriumpn in me na- erty. Under the present law a man tion, and there' are many of the rank has to make oath as to the value of his and file, whilejthey do not endorse all personal property. Mr. Pou says asim- ne says, who devoutly desire to see '" the ilar oath should be required as to the party get back to its old-time moorings value of land, and that the law should and advocate only - Safe, conservative plainly state that such, sworn valuation measures, and gam control of the that necessarily everv State in the Union violates this amendment. Should it be determined that the course of the Southern States in the abridgement of suffrage is too extreme to be permitted to . continue without restraint the action decided on will probably not be taken by a provision in the bill passed at, this session; but by means of an amendatory, act at the next Congress, when there will be more time arid a larger Republican majority. tests were made, and it was decided that transition had certainly occurred startling: this time and. interment followed." Jnba Told the Truth Once. ; - New york Tribune. "After having supplied a moonshiner in a South Carolina jail with a month's supply of smoking - tobacco," ' said a government surveyer the other day, I presumed upon the deed to ask; - VDidn't you know it was aganst the law to manufacture moonshine whis- ; If a man hasn't a wife, there are a lot of things he never finds out until they happen 1 ; ' T When a woman has a corn trimmed these days, it is referred to as a surgi cal operation. , 1 There probably never was a wife loyal and loving enough to respect her husband's wishes in . regard to his fu neral. ' .' ; ;. . ' ;. If a man pays somethiD? affectionate m - f-y to his wife in public, she forgives him for all the mean things he has said in private in ten years. , ; We all know what it means to damn with faint praise, but there is praise so extravagant as to be damnipg, and some praise barely veils a sneer. Sarah Bernhardt, who is 56 years old, and still young looking, says that noth ing ages a - person so much as being lonesome. ,! Her religion is to avoid be ing lonesome. , by the owner should bind him in leeal various branches of government. uioucro. x or luaumue, u ne were a surety or wanted credit he- would be told that his land value was,' bv his own oath, such and such a sum.' and he sent them on their winding Way ing, for supporting the Hopkins' appor - -1 o o wMA CkUUUXB. I vui.w uawujvud OHO BUUIlll. 811(1 Wfl They wanted to see the erave of I old are pleased to believe, from hia. -f- Eotts, that good ;old dog whom they ment, hat he thinks that bill, or some- folks iuVvu. . x uiu uuk gu lor tneir was i no I mmg equ&uy aa conservative They tell in Southwest Missouri of a young man there who advertised under an assumed name for. a wife. The fellow's sister happened to see the ad vertisement and answered it, also under an assumed name, i and then they ex- uuangeu pnoiograpns. The ' Outcome Slodeat. 'Her Father -And I s'poseyou expect if I consent to let you have my daugh ter that I will set you up in busmes and make you rich? Mr. SplighNo, I really haven't any such extravagant expectations as that. heard that was a law once." he replied. , , What do you mean by once?" , "Whyi Juba French told me thair was sich a law, but when . I asked Jim Trum an about it he says that Juba is sich a liar that nobody kin believe him under oath, and so I reckoned ' I was safe to go ahead. Shoo, but I ! wonder now j una come to tell ihe . truth fur that one time!" -.,,.' Another Blltmore. Im willing to take her iust for my board and clothes. , 4 " -, Mr. lie Was Illght. Newly wed i : actually be 'imagined. but wVmff t ha i nid . . . -v,vi j- -v ..jvw.,' uv . uuuuiD , uciLCi Ulan umuiT Raleigh News and Opserver. Report has it that Mrs. ' Cornelius Vanderbilt, who; has been visiting at Mr. George rVanderbilt's castle, "Bilt-. more,'' is so 'pleased with the beauty and bealthfulness of that' region that she will purchase "a large estate near Biltmorej and erect a palace there ' No believe pare ox the United Price of School Books. Winston Sentinel. ; , One of the advantages of State adop tion of public echool books is uniformity of price all over the State, and it is but reasonable to suppose that the price will be less than under the present county adoption plan. The Wilson Times noties that "a: set of: school books in South' Carolina costs $5. 17, while in Wilson county the same 6et costs $8.78, a difference of $3.61 saved to the South Carolina child." The Times adds: 'The present system was adopted by the fuBioui8ts. We trust the coming Legislature will change the system so bur. boys and girls -will be given every advantage to accelerate their educa tion.'. We.mink it very likely there will be change from -county adoption to ; State adoption of public school books. : '' room, and as i am me boy, 1 had to tty at home and take care of Jessie's to all Post. ; sections, will SaiU When thPT fnnntt (hal ttiA vnn rln ma prevail -"Ro1;,.k I I J.7 . , . " wmuy may i uj-ih. xiewiyweu nonsense, ueorgei prevail Kaleigh not be repeated in print. Th a - W fn. Vnn io r LnnA a o av! Sll DldS It. ' I TvntllH Ar fnr V.a and erandeur ; than ' Western North Carolina, and when the world discovers that "Land of the Sky" it will be filled with travelers from every quarter. The Citizen says that on house in AsheviUe which has but nine rooms ia fffafa nfto-r mnrtk I noinrAtA hv 1 ft families and each fam ily averages two or more children, making 52 persons in the house, xuv are also 18 dogs and nine cats, two horses and three cows attached to tne premises. ,
The Chronicle (Wilkesboro, N.C.)
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Jan. 9, 1901, edition 1
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