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-1 understand that you called; on ,the plaintiff. Is that so . " Yes,' 'replied the witness. . W'Whatdidhesay?" . The attorney . for the defense jumped to his feet'" and objected that the . conversation'' could not vv?:be admitted in. evidence A. half hour's argument followed, and the judges retired to their private -' rooms to consider the point. ; : . Ah hour latter they 1 filed1 into the courtroom and announced that-the question might; be put 'Well,, what did the plantiff say?" ' - ; , : ;"He weren'- at nome, sir, j . . came the answer. J M Cantlonacy Rtt : Be sure IF x, 'til you get this stov Me II that th name-plate II radsNw Perfection." Gives no outside heat; no smell, no smoke. It wQl cook the biggest dirmet without heating the kitchen or thy cook. It is immediately lighted and immedi ately extinguished. It can be changed from a slow to a quick- fire by turning a handle There's no drudgery connected with it, no oal to carry, no wood to chop. You don't have to wait fifteen or twenty minutes tffl its fire gets going. Apply a Hght and it's ready. By simply turning the wick up or down you get a slow or an intense heat on the bottom of the pot, pan, kettle or oven, and nowhere else. It has a Cabinet Top with shelf for keeping plates and food hot, drop shelves for coffee, teapot or saucepan, and even a rack for towels. It saves time, worry, health and temper. It does all a woman needs and more than she expects. Made with 1, 2, and 3 burners ; the 2 and 3-burner sizes can be had with or without Cabinet - .... . " v"f x.'-;V-;- Every dealer everywhere 5 If not at yours, write for Descriptive Circular to the nearest agency of the Standard Oil Company ' - '"':--y- (Incorporated) ' : ; .. Cl'ewwofwjwWWWSWpsiwsse"re'?Bis - . f - .r , , -. . t -. a. - j -i, mil if -jf 1 r - y -It- 'fftX-ZZ f -- :pf aluable Farm for Sale. We offer for sale one of the largest "and most valuable farms in this County. - The home place of Mr. R. B. Bass, with- his three other farms adjoining Containing 910 Seldom is such an opportunity offered to any n wanting a fine farm. These farms are all in a high state of culti vation, situated within one and a half miles of a depot, close to schools and churches, well water ed, with timber enough on it to pay for it. Six miles of wire fencing- Good dwellings and nec cessary barns, etc : - " Fine tobacco land, as well as grain and grass es. Price very reasonable? For fiirtner information call -or address r Fanners' oan l lrust Co.7 Roxboro, North Carolina. ; We have just installed the most complete Planing Mills and Saw Mill ever in this sec- v tioh and are prepared to furnish Contractors, Builders, and Farmers everything needed in ; ; the way of r . -, v'. J . ouldings Mooring, Ceiling, Lumber, ; : V ; Shingles; Etc. r r i "Our work is first class in .up in uic niuai iduititiuiy liiciiuici. , . , J . With unsurpassed iacilities. for securing and cutting 1 tim-. ber, and the very best new machinery, all run by electricity, enacleSUS Jo give the LOWEST PRICE t on everything in , ifur fine: . -': ' ; - ( ; - ' : When you buy from us you not only get 1 the best work md first class material, but you know you are buying from ; first hands arid are saving the dealers, profits, : besides the . A nusao ebtfifreights. Give, us a trial 1 7 X; R0X0R0 LUMBER COMPANY. When the, medicine, you take cures your disease,, tones up your system and makes you .feel better, stronger and more vigorous than before. That is Foley Pills do for you, in all cases of backache, ner vousness,1 loss of apottite, sleep lessness and ' general weakness that is' caused by any disorder of the kidneys or bladder. - ' ; M orris AV'ebb Drug Co. Perhaps the Law Enforcement League will interpret Mary' Aun Butler's self-government plank. If it does then its- organization Will have been justilied. Ashe ville Citizen. . "' lV V ; :- Women wlao are ;: , Splendid! Cooks dread having to prepare an elab orate dinner because they are not sufficiently strong to stand , over an intensely; -hot. coal range. This is especially true in summer, 'Every woman -takes pride in the table she sets, but often it : is done at tremen dous cost to her own vitality through the weakening effect of cooking on a coal range in a hot kitchen.. It is no longer necessary to wear yourself out preparing a fine dinner. Even in the hejat of summer you can cook a large dinner without being worn out. km. every respect and twill ..match J w tm m. J Iiussla 13 establishing numerous 'wireless stations over Its great terri tory. ' ; - ; - Over 2G0.230 marriages were per formed in England and - Wales last year. . " . From 4,(XxT to 5.000 words . of ' the English language are used by the ordi narily educated person. . Forty per cent ot existing: American mortality ; is preventable, according to Professor .Irving- Fisher. . . , ; t The curfew has been rung in .the Nortli cnurch steeple at Portsmouth, N. B.., for 192 years, or since March 6, 17ja Among all their palaces nd cast lesfir Is Balmoral that the mfers : of the British royal family have uiways look ed upon as their home. ; During the last -thirty , years the , de mand for servants has doubled; ; while the supply has Increased only by half in the last decade only 5 per cent. V I&odern agricultural methods make it possible to renew the fertility of de pleted solls'.and grow 100 bushels -of corn .where only ten grew In the olden days. ,v , ' f . . - There are now 200,000 Kaffirs em ployed in the Transvaal mines. With a monthly i output of $12,500,000! gold the average production per, Kaffir is $62.5C a month. - , - " v Canadians write more letters ' than any other nation- on thvglobe-221.7 apiece - per Fear, - No other - country exceeds 200. The figures for England and Germany are 111.5 and 95JL. Two steamship companies have grant ed reductions of 50 to 30 ; per cent to students going from Latin-America to France. The French universities and schools hare also made reduction's for them. r - The7 benefit reported to ; be derived by farmers from their co-operative so cieties in- continental countries, espe cially Denmark, has ' stimulated the formation of like societies' in Great Britain. The surgeons F. B. and C. C. Guth rie propose the use of human hair for sewing up wounds, particularly in blood vessels' Experiments made with such sutures upon a dog proved highly successful Enraged at waiting for several hours without seeing the aviators make any attempt at flight at an aviation meet ing at Durango. Spain, recently, the public burned the aeroplane shed and wrecked ; the machines. Great Britain's survey of, Africa from the Cape to Cairo along the thir tieth meridian began many 'years ago and, revived by a bequest from Cecil Rhodes, has been carried to a point seventy-two mUes north of the equa tor. ... ' , - The sun worshipers ' cult, called Mazdazman, has become sufficiently strong in Canada to propose, building a temple of their own . in Montreal Plans have been prepared, and a tem- pie costing 30.000 jWlll shortly be erected. According to a method recently in vented by a Frenchman, gutta percha Is extracted from the leaves and branches of the trees by evaporation and distillation such leayes and branches being shipped , to Europe in a dried state. The . Cabezona pineapple of Porto Rico reaches , a . weight of twelve pounds. It 13 so easily bruised that the expense of gathering it is increas ed, yet the returns from .exported fruits show net profits of up to $1,600 per acre in a good year. The highest cableway in the world is in the Argentine Republic The line traverses a mountain stretch of twenty-four miles in the region of Cordil lere. It starts from Chllecito. 3250 feet a bove the' sea level, and rises to f an altitude of 15.000 feet , In x. future ' Austrian v officers will be required within three years of being attached to tho staff to pass an exam ination in the language of one of the neighboring countries, giving proof of ability not onlyjto speak and write the language with fluency, but to translate from manuscript, j ' ; . Experiments maqe in England s by the Institution For; infectious Diseases 'showed that the " germs of such dis eases as typhoid, diphtheria, - tubercu loslsjand cholera aro not destroyed by the process i of ironing linen. To kill them a temperature of 250 degrees Is required, "whereas in ordinary ironing 150 degrees Is seldom exceeded. , In Italy the supply of machine guns Is still in its Infancy. By the vend of the year, ; however, every Infantry reg iment and every Alpine battalion is to have "one ? gun for training the meh. In the fall a beginning is to be made to give every Infantry and cavalry reg iment one battery of -four and every Alpine battalion one battery of two such guns. tc "I t ' Beginning in 1914, every Harvard graduate who receives a degree of A. B. must have a reading knowledge of either French or German. The fac ulty has decided that it swould be m fair to makevthe requirement effective before all the classes now In the col lege sha U have graduated; so that the entering class of "next fall will be the first to be governed,by tiie new planj - One can hardly Imagine Sir Hiram Maxim, who celebrated his seventieth birthday' recently, in the prize ring, and yet he confessed that In his young days he thought of adopting a pugilis tic career. But when he was fourteen years old his inventive faculty, made Itself manifesto As a lad of fourteen he Invented a wheel hub and a clock work mousetrap : then he evolved the first ( Incandescent electric lamp.- ln 1SS4 a kicking gun gave him the Idea (crhich ultimately resulted in the deadV ly Maxim, , The .Curators Flight.. . , Slgnor Luigi Luzzatti, the new Ital ian premier, being also minister of the Interior, was' conducted the other day over the spacious archives of .that department.- Heaving a sigh at the mountainous piles of dust laden docu ments, Slgnor Luzzatti asked. 'Is It really necessary or desirable- to pre-, serve all these accumulations?" "Decidedly" so." quickly retorted the curator. ; "Herfe, , f or . - instance, ex clainjed" he, picking up a bundle at haphazard, is a dossiejlealing vwith a grand scheme of. administrative re form which occupied successive min isters for thirty years." . "Heavens !" ejaculated Signor Luz zatti, . now profoundly Interested. "Lefs have:a"look at it.' . t - Imagine 'the poor curator's plight when, the parcel' being undone, the contents were . found to consist of a big bouquet of faded violets, a very old pair of gloves ' and a large . liver patty; all supposed to be relics of the faroff days when Crispi ruled. Milan Letter to London Chronicle. , , An American' In japan's Councils., Henry Willard Denlson j occupies 'aT position , in Japan . not unlike , that which Sir .Robert Hart held so many years in China when he was 'inspector general of the Chinese customs; Ever since 1880 this American Jurist has been legal adviser to the foreign office at Tokyo, and in that capacity he has been - behind the scenes; of Japanese policy .for "thirty years. He has even been a representative, of the Japanese government on several . important oc casions, notably at Portsmouth and The Hague. The fact that an Amer ican is a most important part of the Japanese foreign office has never help ed . us to the slightest degrinj In' any negotiation with - Japan. But as a barometer of international : relations Mr. Denlson's office is of the greatest interest to us. He has just renewed his contract with the Japanese govern ment for five years, e In case of war between America and Japan he would Instantly resign. At present, therefore, the barometer stands 'steadily - at set fair. Metropolitan Magazine. ' . An Unlucky Find. . '. . Ah unfortunate experience has . just befallen a French stableman named Brodequin. Seven ;t years ; ago when cleaning a carriage he found a brooch with a white stone inset, which he took to.be an, Imitation diamond: He married and a year , later became the father, of a girl. The brooch was used to hold up the baby bib, dnd on her sixth birthday Brodequin took the child to a jeweler, to buy some ear rings. . The child was ' wearing the brooch, and ' the jeweler, recognizing the white stone as a diamond, offered 1,000 francs for It Brodequin refused the offer and took the brooch to an other Jewejer, who handed him over to the police. Experts find the brooch to-be worth 4,000 ; francs, and Brode quin Is to be prosecuted for theft be cause he did not take his find to a .police station seven years ago.:. W -.;" -' - Hard Wood." , Ever since he was a boy at school Field Marshal -Sir Evelyn Wood, who recently celebrated his seventy-second birthday, has had. a tough time and often; has been called-"Hard Wood.' At the age of ten years he went to the Marlborough grammar school - and then to the college in the same town. Here ' he received . his baptism of war.M It was a riot among the boys, brought about by the prohibition of pyrotechnic displays on the nth of November. -The. culmination was a month ; of mutiny, during which the head master's desk was burned and great damage done to the, premises. Young Wood " was flogged, fined 2 and given 800 lines of Latin to learn by heart. Tit-Bits. v " ' ' t A Queer Episode. A curious electoral episode is report ed" from the Slovak village " of Za- kopese. In ; the Trencsen. .county " of Hungary. The official candidate. , Bar on Ludwig Levay, was attempting to address a public meeting of Slovaks in ' the Magyar, language when 'a peasant- came forward and asked" him to speak English, as his audience-knew no Magyar. The candidate therefore spoke English fori half an jiour and received a vote of thanks, also in Eng lish. He, subsequently ascertained that more tb?tn 80, per cent of the 3,000 Inhabitants of the village had returned from America; where they-had as emi grants acquired a good c knowledge of. j English.' ,c Ocean Freights, '"; ' ' One of the marvels of the age is the extreme cheapness of ocean carriage. The modem tramp steamer could car ry her cargo 1,000 rnlles'for ninepence a ton and make a profit of 10 per cent.: A modern .tramp steia mer ' could leave England iand go around the world by the two capos . and even then ? carry cargo at 2 Ss. a ton. - These are maxv velous, figures, and they show to what extent' the world is Indebted to : the carrying traded -Cassler's Magazine.--; V An Old English' Proverb.' '! How ' strange Good Friday : should have" fallen on Jfcady, day this yearl The old proverb has come too true ; If our lord falls on our lady's lap, N England shall have a great mishap. - . The : last ftline "Good Fridayfell on, Lady day was the year of the prince' consort's death. London Globe. Y BLOOD- 'Sgf--;5'KIN N For Health and Vidor V . - .WRITE FOR BOOKLET MILAM MEDICINE COX The North Carolina COLLEGE, OF AGRICULTURE AID . MECHANIC -:JlR18.-;;"'.-:v The State's college for training industrial workers: Courses .in Agriculture, 7 Horticulture, . Ani mal Husbandry and Dairying; in Civil,. Electrical and Mechanical Engineering; in : Cotton Milling and Dyeing; in Industrial Chem istry; and in Agricultural teach ing: k r . Entrance examinations at each county seat seat on' the 14th, of July, D.-H.lHILL, President, , West Raleigh, N; C. . Notice oi Administration. L v Having this day qiialified as .ad- ministratix and administrator on the estate of the late J. M: Blalock deceased uve hereby notify all per-; sons owing said estate to come for ward and make jmmeliate settle ment, and -all" persons holding claims against said estate are here by notified, to present them to the undersigned on or before the 21st day of July 191 l,for pavment jot this notice will be plead in car' of their recovery. .Tois July 21st; 1910." . Mrs. Lucy E. Blalpck, ' Ad ministra tix, .' " W. ABradsher, ? ' r , Administrator,, L. Carlton, Attorney. V ; , NOTICE Having qualified as Executrix on the estate of J. D. Morris, deceased, I hereby notify ill persons owing said estate xto come for ward and make immediate settlement and all persons holding claims against - said estate are notified to present them to the undersign ed for payment on or before the 11th day of July, 1911 , or this notiee will be plead in bar of their recovery. ; - . This July 11, 1910., '. - ; , , ; . . - MRS. J. D. MORRIS, Executrix L..M. Carlton,- Atty, - - J ; , :; EXECUTORS NOTICE. Having qualified as Executor on the estate of Manirva Cearnul, deceased, I hereby notify all persons owing said' estate to come for ward and make immediate settlement and all persons holding claims against said estate are notified to present them to the undersign ed for payment on or before " the 26th day of July, 1911, or this, notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. This 26tH day of July 1910. 1 ' JOHN P. HUGHES, Executor. : : x COMMISSIONER'S SALE. "By virtue of, an order,' of the ' Superior Court of Person ' County made in a special proceeding entitled Mary F. Bumpass in her own right and as administratrix of R. D. Bumpass against Margaret E. Bumpass and others, I wifl on Saturday the,3 day of Sep tember, 1910 at the Court House door in the town of Roxboro, N, C. expose, to sale at Public auction to the highest -bidder a cer tain tract of land situated, lying and being in in Holloways Township of Person County in the- State of North 'Carolina, adjoining ,the lands of W. H Dixon, R. 1 H. Gillis, J T Yancey and vothers and .bounded-'as follows; On the North by the lands of W. H: Dixon, and R. H; Gillis, on the West "by the 'lands of Daisey Harris, Maggie Harris and .Annie Harrrs, on the South by the lands of H, Bumpass and J. Yancey, on the East by the lands of J T.V Yancey, containing 158 acres more or less and known as the 'R. D, Bumpass place." ' ' .t TERMS: : One third cash and the balancs in six months. Purchaser giving bond bear ing interest from day. of sale for the deferred installment of the purchase moneys .Title retained "untill the purchase money is paid. ; Julius Johnson Commr. 1 Thjg the 1st day of August, 1910 v The north Carolina OTA7C fJOnr.lAL and inDUGTniAL CO L LGGC , : ' - Maintained by the State for the Women of North Carolina. ' Four regular Courses lead ing Degrees. Special Courses for Teachers Fall , Session begins September 14y 1910. Those def-iriring: to enter should apply as early as possible; - For catalogue and other nformation address.. ; Jdius I. Fczst, President, Grabcro J N. C, If You Care For Style vehi you care for style, and lot ; ople do, it can behadinny .cleon'our floors. We are . Prepared for1 trie early spring' tr?de., Our stock is at its best. ve are "showing a remarkable . assortment of. vehicles, including- ' surreys, buggies and carriages. , OurvHarnes ;Depariment . is a regular, "savings bank for j those whos have no prejudice against buying such things at this serson of the year. Our MOGUL Wagons . Don't forget that we are selling one of the best wagons ever put on sale in u Roxboro Come in and examine The Mogul when you come to town. We want to show it; to - you whether are ready to buy or not for if you see one of these wagons you wil ' , know where to go when you are ready to buy. . . j v ROXBORO VEHICLE AND CASKET CO. Grarett, Hester & Stanfield. We are headquarters lor Flour, ; Shipstuff,. ; . . Brann, ; s- . Seed Oats, " ' T3ay and Fertilzers. We-want; you to make our store your headquarters when in town and wilalways give you a cordial welcome, Come to see us. ; , ; Yours lor - business, Hester & Cucccsd whta everything el In nervosa prcstratioa ? and female 7eslcnr-j3 they are the snpreme rtssdy, C3 thotandj have testified. rcn hid: i cv-li vcr an p CTCr.lXIlTnOUDLE it u the ttzt .medicine ever sold over a drcsist's counter. CzzzZiZzti'g Arnica Salvo Garrett, Stanfied 'APr0 at a & 'SPC bis ov deacor Tbc ions praye: h wc r bour. when the t . cburc gpeak 6houl -At sund: ! bad c do an th fa h( T st H tl il T!.2 C::t C:lvc la Ths WcrM.
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