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Send only Heads ef Famffles. This Is the South' Great Literary Weekly, published at Atlanta. Ga.. only y cent a year. QrculUon now over TSoa. . The sample copy yoa recehre wil Beta yoa s regular Sonny South Reader. The paper Is not devoted e news, bat literature, romance, fact and fiction, and five the best of all within this wide add. The most noted 8 southern writers are among its cootrtbanrs. Two food serials are always m from pens of naSonal fame. mu .ejaaaaaasr Soatll the Ufe of B frest south. The ranial sun shine warms everything Into activity, and the season Is never cold enoagh to check the hand of Industry. The paper comes fragraat with the breath of the magnolia and etna, and gives oat the very air of the orange, patan and bay. The beauty sad pstnoa. As romance and arystery of the land when, a corn stores up Sm golden susms sad the cotton whitens In the moonught. wO be given in the weH-fflled colons of amfae nating weekly. fend osa av "ostal -Camel m names and addresses of six of yeersibjS bora who would appreciate Sm upiimtonltj to reads copy of The Sunny Sostt. sad eae sample wttlsssuilsafrM to sack Address M'CommunlcHom a 15ha SvLtkthT Oovittu jpDITOFJS JEISURE JoUlS, OBSERVATIONS OF Last week was a week ot great loss in North Carolina. Oxford Female Seminary went np in flames Monday morning, Greensboro Normal College suffered great loss two days later, Louisburg sui- A week of Loss. fered 8ever8 losa by fire a day laterj and there was a serious railroad wreck on the Seaboard road near Ridgeway Thurs day. Perhaps there were other losses in the State, but at this writing no others bare been noted. It seemed to be one of those weeks in which many III winds were blowing t t t t Generally throughout the South the anniversary of the birth of General Robert E. Lee was observed with appropriate honors to the great Southern Honored the Great Southerner. South, have become fairly well reconciled to each other ; bat the memory of the great leaders is still kept green. Perhaps no chieftains at any period ot the world's history were more generally loved by their people than Lee and Jackson. No people have been more delighted to honor their heroes than have the Southern people to honor these two great leaders. And so while the spirit of war may no longer live in the hearts of the Southern people, it is something beautiful in their characteristics that they still de light to honor their great and good and noble men. tut The Government Is making effort to stamp out the boll weevil. The following special, recently sent out from Washington, indicates the care which is being exercised in the work : "Secretary Plglltinje the Boll Wllgon i8 arranging the details of the campaign vTesvil. authorized by Congress to be waged against the cotton boll weevil. A number ot government entomologists and scientists are already enroute to the ravaged Texas fields and to the Sabine river in Louisiana, the pest having been reported from three places in that section. There will be thirty or forty scientists at work against the pest before long. They will organize the farmers to fight the weevil and will educate them in the best methods of attack. Secretary Wilson expects to make another trip to the districts involved while the fight is on, and Drs. Galloway and Howard, ot the entomological diyision, will keep in close touch with the situation." t t I t Perhaps no town in all the country meets emergenoy so well as Greens boro, and certainly none excels it. II it is a State convention -of any kind, n n v Greensboro entertains it in a manner at once Great GreenSDOrO. and magnificent. If It is a reunion of North Carolinians from all parts of thejcountry, Greensboro entertains them in a manner to make them feel that no place In the State could have done it quite so well. And now when disaster sore and terrible has befallen the State Normal and Industrial College in the burning of a great dormitory whereby one hundred and fifty young lady students were bereft ot their clothes, trunks, books and all their belongings, Greensboro is equal to the occasion In giving homes to them all and in raising a liberal amonnt of money to supply the needs of those who were so unfortunate as to lose by the fire. Greensboro will henceforth be known as one of the most mag nanimous towns in all the country, and well will it deserve the praise. t t t t The Waynesville Courier makes editorial reference to the action of the Odd Fellows and Masons in this State in the matter ol retailing liquor being an offense against the rules of those or- Sentiment Growing. den The Courier adda . ,The Catholic chorciij for a long time silent on the liquor question, is taking a stand against the vending and drinking of whiskey. Railroads all oyer the country, seeing the inefficiency and incapacity ot dram drinkers as railroad employes, are beginning to clean out all such and are picking sober, clean men to take their places. The sentiment against saloons and the drink habit Is get ting so pronounced that the day is not far distant when ' the fellow who drinks will not have a chance to earn enough to buy a drink. Business concerns wili not employ such men. It is passing strange that a young man who has Intelligence above an idiot would fall into this vile and self deatructlye habit. It weakens the body so he cannot make even a good farmhand. It beclouds the brain so he cannot think cannot do any ef fective mental work. It undermines the moral nature so that he has not the will to carry out any noble purpose he may foim. The drink habit simply makes a moral, mental and physical wreck of the fellow who forms it. For our part we do not like to look upon any kind of wreck." t t t t It is positively appalling to witness the brutality of some men upon mules and horses. At this day of twentieth century civilization it is a cry Hafcea the Heart Sick. own mercilessly evil treatment of dumb animals. It is not uncommon to see a horse or a mole straining under a heavy load bearing bold evidence of having been belabored with whips and sticks beyond all reason. Only a few days ago we saw a team tugging at a wagon which was heavily load ed whose wheels were mired into the soft earth and the driver whacking one oi the horses with a club. The strokes attracted attention quite a dis tance, but the cruel driver seemed to think it nothing wrong to beat and abuse the horse so. Sometime ago one who was trying to train a young horse to the saddle carried a hard and heavy stick as a whip. The horse already showed signs of the use of the stick in the whelks along his side. It is time for all men to learn that kindness Is the best Influence to use in breaking young horses ; and after any horse or mule is fairly well broken care and attention to harness and the like, with proper loading and proper treatment, will do much to keep him in manageable spirits. "Black Beau ty," by Anna Sewell, should be read by every person who owns or cares for any kind of stock ; and the law against cruelty to animals should be rigidly enforced. Mr. Wm. 8. Crane, ot California, lid., suffered for years from rheuma tism and lumbago. He Was finally ad vised to try Chamberlain's Pain Balm, which be did and it effected a complete cure. For sale by E. T. Whitehead A Ck Ecotlsnd Neck, and Itt'.jbSalve on e for Pile,, too. 23c PASSING EVENTS. general and Christian soldier. The smoke of battle has long since lifted and cleared away, and the two great sections of the country, North and ing shame that so many people are so dull and stupid as not to have been impressed with their WONDERFUL NERVE. Is disolayed by many a man endur- insr nains of accidental Cuts, Wounds, Bruises, Burns, Scalds, Sore Feet or Stiff Joints. But there's no need for it. -Bock ten's Amies Hale will kill the bain and cure the trouble. ' In the . a m. WmCS. a IUf. "Blazed Trees." Youth's Companion. " In earlier days, when large portions of the country were covered with for ests, and there were few roads, travel was often possible only by way of paths "blazed" through the woods. To blaze, as every woodsman ; knows, is to strike off a chip from the sides of trees, so that the line of marks shall indicate the direction of the trail. In blazing for a path, small trees were marked, but in blazing for the bounds ot a lot or town, or for a f arjn line, larger trees wore usually selected, the blaze being sde about breast- high. 'When, however, as was often the case, the blazing was done in win ter, on deep snow, by men traveling on snowshoes, the mark was necessarily higher up. When such a line is trav. eled in the summer, especially after some years, during which the trees have grown, the marks are sometimes found high up on the trunks, and are likely to escape the eye of the inexpe rienced. As many of them will also be partially overgrown, the task of the surveyor who goes over one of these old lines is not always easy. If the boundary line passes to tha leit of a tree selected for blazing, the cut is made upon the right side. If the line goes to the : right, the tree is blazed upon the left side. In running a boundary at a corner where two lines come together, either a "monument" is erected a stake sup ported by four bowidera or a tree is blazed on all four sides to indicate as nearly as possible the turning point of the line. The permanency of the record made by blazing trees is quite remark able- It is a matter of. fact that in many cases of disputed Hdcs or bound aries of lots in forest land the courts haye held the record of blazes as suffi cient and reliable, where carefully drawn plans and formally attested title deeds have been set aside. The wound of a blazed tree heals over, but never so completely that the scar may not be readily recognized by the experienced woodsman; hence 1 follows that, so long as the blazed tree escapes fire and the ax of the lumberman, so long it remains a faithful record of the line as surveyed. It will not lie, nor will argument or cross-examination refute its testimony. Blazed trees also fix dates almost as accurately as they preserve boundaries. The outer shell which has grown over the sear is cut away, and the rings in the wood beneath the bark testify to the number of years which have elapsed since the blaze was made. A Strange Use for Skimmed Milk. Gny E- Mitchell in Scientific American. A use to which skimmed milk, sour milk, buttermilk, or eyen whole sweet milk is not olten put is paint making, and yet this product of the dairy makes possibly one of the most enduring preservative, respectable, and inexpensive paints fos-barns and out buildings. It costs little more than whitewash, provided no great value' is attached to the milk, and it is a quest ion whether for all kinds of rough work it does not serve all the purposes and more of the ready-mixed paint, or even prime lead and paint mixed in the best linseed oil. It is made as fol lows, and no more should be mixed than will be used that day. Stir in a gallon of milk about three pounds of Portland cement and add sufficient Venetian red paint powder (costing three cents per pound) to impart a good color. Any other colored paint powder may be as wan usea. xne milk will hold the paint in suspension, but the cement, being very heavy, will sink to the bottom, and so it becomes necessary to keep the. mixture well atwrl with a saddle. This feature of the stirring is the only drawback to the paint, and as its efficiency depends nnnn dministerine a eood coating of cement, it is not safe to leave Its appli cation to untrustworthy or careless help. Six hours after painting this paint will be as immovable and unaf fected by water as month-old oil paint, I have heard of buildings twenty years old painted in this manner in which the wood was well preserved. My otto experience dates back nine years, when I painted a small barn with this mixt ure, and the wood today second growth Virginia yellow pine shows no sign whatever of decay or dry-rot. The effect of such a coating seems to be to petrify the surface of the wood. Whole milk is better than . buttermilk or skim milk, as it contains more oil, and this ia the constituent which sets the cement. If mixed with water In stead of milk, the wash rubs and soaks off readily. This mixture, with a little extra of the cement from the bottom of the bneket daubed on, makes the best possible paint for trees where large limbs have been pruned or sawed THE OLDEST It 3 A1ERIGA Tells How He Escaped the Terrors of Many Winters by Using Mr. Brock's ' ljBS MB ISAAC BROCK, BORN IN BUNCOMBE CO., N. C, MARCH 1, 1788. HIm age Is 114 years, vouched tor by my extreme old age to toe use of fe - ru ISAAC BROCK, a citizen of McLen nan county, Texas, has lived for 114 years. For many years he resided at Bosque Falls, eighteen miles west of Waco, but now lives with his son-in-law at Valley Mills, Texas. Farming as a Business. Selected. We often hear men say that they are going to stop farming snd go into business. They do not know what they say. This expression is very com mon, and can be heard eyery day. Why is farming not a business, and why should it not be classed as such ? I go further and say that farming should be classed as a' profession, and one of the highest and most honorable in the pro fessional line. Some time ago I told some ot my friends'and neighbors that I was going to an agricultural college, and you know what followed. You know how I was laughed at and how they ridi culed the idea. But I was not dis couraged at this ; for all good things have been strongly talked against. If I can leave I will take a short course this winter. I would like to know more of my business. This country needs farmers who are more highly ed ucated and prepared for the work. Farming as a business is the highest occupation that a man can fill, and every farmer should think so. Jtte should know that farming is the most independent ot all trades. The farmer feeds the whole population of the globegandso all are depending upon him for food ; and if agriculture sup plies food for the vast number of peo ple In the large elties, is it not worthy of being called a business? Many times the farmers themselves give their business a low name, and then the people ol the city are not go ing to praise it when the farmers are runnirg it down. We farmers should know that we are engaged In the most important work and business on the earth, and while we are farming we should not say, "We have no business, we are only farming." By this some might be led to believe that farming is sort of slsvery. as it Is when done as many farmers manage it. When done in an un-to-daie way and by the latest methodsand Improved machinery it is a pleasure. Why do we consider our selves so low T Let us look a little nigh- erand know that we have a business which is worthy of the highest honor. Above all, let us consider our work as a business. It Is a business, and we should know and realize it. "Give your blood is cleaning." Rheu macide clears ont all the impurities Born before the United States '! was formed. i Saw 22 Presidents elected. i Pe-ru-na has protected him 1 from all sudden changes. Veteran of four wars. Shod a horse when 99 years , old. ! Always conquered the grip with ; ' i Pe-ru-na. ' , Witness In a land suit at the age of 110 years. Believes Pe-ru-na the greatest , 1 1 remedy ot the age tor catarrhal diseases. last make you ill. ; Ask your druggist. authentic record. He say t "i attribute - na. " A short time ago, by request, Uncle Isaac came to Waco and sat for his pic tare. In his hand he held a stick cut from the grave of General Andrew Jackson, which has been carried by him ever since. Mr. Crock is a dignified old gentleman, showing few signs of de crepitude. Bis family Bible is still pre served, and it shows that the date of his birth was written 114 years ago. Surely a few words from this remarka ble old gentleman, who has had 114 years of experience to draw f rom,would be Interesting as well as profitable. A lengthy biographical sketch is given of this remarkable old man in the Waco TLnes-Herald, December 4, 1898. A still more pretentious biography of this, the oldest living man, illustrated with a double column portrait, was given the readers of the Dallas Morning News, dated December 11, 1898, and also the Chicago-Times Herald of same data Ask your Druggist for a free Peruna Almanac for 1904. Manners. December Woman's Home Companion. Every day the editors of this maga zine receive hundreds of letters on questions of etiquette. People have worked themselves into a state of wor ry over questions of no more import ance than whether a man shall or hall not wear a gray tie at a morning wedding, or whether a girl may ask a man to come and see her if she likes him. Let us neither underrate the yalue of detail, nor mistake the reason for rules of behavior. Rules make social intercourse easier, but many rules which are excellent and unnecessary in a complicated society such as Wash ington or Newport are absurd if applied in smaller towns or country places, where life Is simple and rules may be few. Because certain methods are in vogue at a court reception, it does not mean that these methods need be fol lowed by a housewife who gives a party to her village neighbors. Perhaps eve rybody would ba more comfortable .'with simpler ways. And so In ncost other matters of etiquette. What might be sood for one place could be bad in anotner u it seemea rorcea ana exotie. Manners should adjust them selves nicely to every society. You must, in a certain sense, be your cwn law ; you must act., from within ; you cannot read a book and become a lady. It is a curious fact that an attempt to behave properly frequently inter feres with behavior. To act simply and naturally is of more Importance than to get'every detail correct. It is better to shake hands at the wrong tome (according to the book) if ycu do It heartily and honestly, than to pause and stare and show that you are in doubt as to what to do. Never de spise rules that are helpful ; do not go out of your way to transgress accepta ble ones ; but on the other hand, do not make laws of those laid down by other people for other conditions. Be natural and use common sense. DOMESTIC TROUBLES. It is exceptional to find a family where there are. no domestic ruptures nAAaoinnnliv. but these can be lessened hv bavins Dr. Kine's New Life Pills around. Much trouble tbeysaye by thatv croat work in Stomach and Liver troubles. They not only relieve you, but core. 2oo at E. T. wniieneaa a. Co. drag store. ; " Pe-ru-na. ' This centenarian is an ardent friend of Peruna, having used it many years. In speaking of his good health and extreme old age, Mr. Brock says : "After a man has lived in the world as long as I have, he ought to have found out a great many things by ex perience. I think I have done so. " One of the things I have found out to my entire satisfaction is the proper thing for ailments that are due directly to the effects of the climate. For 114 years I have withstood the changeable climate ot the United States. "I have always boon a very healthy man, but of course subject to the liltlo affections which are duo to sudden changes in the climate and temperature. During my long life I hare known a great many remedies for coughs, colds and diarrhoea. "As for Dr. Hartman's remedy Peruna, I have found it to be the best, if not the only, reliable rem edy for these affections. It has been my standby for many years, and I attribute my good health and extreme old age to this rem edy, ' 'It exactly meets all my require ments. It protects mo from the evil effects of sudden changes; it keep me in good appetite ; it gives me strength; it keeps my blood in good circulation. I have come to rely upon it almost en tirely for the many little things for which I need medicine. When epidemics of la grippo first began to make their appearance in this country I was a sufferer from this dis ease. " had several long sieges with the grip. At first I did not know that Peruna was a remedy for this disease. When I heard that la grippe was epidemic catarrh, I tried Peruna for la grippe and found ft to be Just the thing." Yours truly, For a free book on catarrh, address The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbia, O. If you do not derive prompt and satis factory results from the use of Peruna, write at onco to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case, and he will be pleased to give you his valuable ad vice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President ef The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, I Ohio. Seemed to be a Suitable Name. Youths' Companion On the seat ot the car sat a young man who was smoking a peculiarly rank and pungent cigar. oa the seat behind him sat an old gentleman and lady, who had chosen to ride there rather than stand up in the next car, which was crowded. They endured the smoke patiently for a time, feeling that the smoker hr.i the "right of way" ; but at last the old gentleman leaned forward and said : "I beg your pardon, young man, but would you mind telling me what kind of cigar that is 7" "It's a Porto Rico," was the reply. "I couldn't quite catch the nan.e." explained the elderly man, turning u his wife, "but be says it's some kind of a 'reeker,' and he's quite right about that." When bilious try a dose of Cham berlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets and realize for once bow quickly a first class up-to-date medicine will correct the disorder. For sale by E. T. White bead & Co., Scotland Neck, and Leg gett's Drug Store, Hobgood. B ' "nlr- a? How foolish a thing it is to threw away a friend. Suppose he has some faults, we ail have tnem. CERTAIN CURE for CHILBLAINS. Shake into your shoes Alley's Foot Ease, a powder. It cures Chilblains, Frostbites, Damp, Sweating, Swollen teet. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Very few church members have enough religion to make satan take any notice of them. Selected. CONGRATULATIONS. Mr. John H. Culloro, editor or tl.e Garland, Texas, News, has written a letter of congratulations to the manu facturers of Chamberlain's Cough Uc m edy as follows: "Sixteen 3 ears ag-i when our first child was a huby he wi subject to croupy spells and we would be very uneasy about bim. We began nsing Chamberlain's Cough Remedy in 1887, and finding it such a reliable remedy for colds and croup, we have never been without It in the house since that time. We haye fire chil dren and have giyen it to all of them with good results. One good feature of this remedy is that It is not disagreea ble to take and our babies really like It. Another is that it is not dangerous, and there is no risk from giving an overdose. I congratulate you upon the success of your remedy." For cale, by E. T. Whitehead feCo Scotland Neck, snd Lepgett's Drug Store, Hobgood. " Off. 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