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I got Dr. Miles' Nervine and Heart Cure at a drug store in Lawrence burg, after spending $300.00 in medi cines and doctors in Louisville, Shelbyville, Frankfort, Cincinnati and Lawrenceburg, and in three days have derived more benefit from the use of your remedies than I got from all the doctors and their medicines. I think everybody ought to know of the mar velous power contained in your remedies." W. II. Hughes, Fox Creek, Ky. All druggists sell an 4 guarantee first bot tie Dr. Miles' Remedies. Send for free book on Nervous and Heart Diseases. Address Dr. Miles Medical Co, Elkhart, Ind. Who is Tonr Candidate ROOSEVELT OR PARKER? The coming campaign promises to be close- Neither candidate is certain of success. Events may happen which will change the whole aspect of the po litical situation. No newspaper is bet ter equipped to handle the news than The Washington Post it ha narfect te1eeraDbi. service, its special correspondents rank first in the newspaper proiession, ana an mo uw is printed without lear or iavorui wiu or nartv. Thn Post is thoroughly ID dependent, and eacb day will give the true situation, uncoiorea ny partisan zeal. No paper is more widely quoted At. (rrMt anat it obtains cable dispatch es from the London Times, giying the news of the Russian-Japanese war; Siihsftrintinn for three months, $1.90 : 1 fJni-'-jJ I two months, $1.25; one month, 70 cents. Sample copies free. THE WASHINGTON POST COl DIT01S JwEISURE jfoUHS,. OBSERVATIONS OF News went out from Roanoke, Va., some days ago that a letter received there stated.that James H. Tillman who killed Editor Gonzales, of the Tillman Wants to Pa ade plication to the Methodist conference for privi lege to preach. The Methodists of South Carolina better put Mr. Tillman on a long probation and make it so long that he will be put "out of heart" for preaching. t t X 1 The Charlotte News calls Senator Simmons' defense of the Watts law a good example, and so it is. Senator Simmons has been a great man in And So It Is. Watts law has given another evidence of hie greatness. He has not tried to dodge the issue, but has met it Fqnarely. The Charlotte News says : "The News balieves as it has often taken occasion to say before, that the Watts law is the best liquor legislation that has ever been placed upon the statute books of North Carolina. And now that the State Democratic par ty has made temperance reform a cardinal principle of its faith, so to speak, every moye in that direction should receive our most earnest endorsement. Apologies, excuses, or half-hearted support never help any cause. In cham pioning the Watts law in the splendid way in which he is doing, Senator Simmons baa set an example which it would be well for all to follow. If there is anything wrong with the provisions of this act let us amend and not abandon it. But no one 'has been heard to say of late that the posi tion we have taken upon temperance ought to be abandoned. The senti ment upon this subject is gaining rather than losing ground." tttt The following clipped from the Washington Poet shows how the people of Great Brittain think we let slip our chances for knowing how happy and ,. , ... prosperous we are : Don t Get Our Share. "You turn over more money in America than we do in Great Britain ; you pay higher wages ; you spend more, and jet I doubt if you get any more out of life than we do in the old country,' said Mr. A. Mungall, a manufacturer of Edinburgh, at the Arlington. 'One of your workmen will get, say, twice the wages a man ot his class would get in England, but the Yankee will also pay two or three times as much rent for his house. This applies all along the line, and so, on the whole, there is no great amount of difference between the mother country and this. I havo been to the United states before ibis trip, ana 1 mean to keep on coming at intervals as long as I live, for this is the greatest coun try to learn things in on the globe. People who travel get an education that is not in books, and they acquire liberal views by contact with the va rious races of mankind. The St. Louis Exposition has been a bjon to thousands in this way, for by its attracting thousands who would not other wise have journeyed to America it has shown to the citizens ot old and more or less effete nations what a tremendous young giant has grown up on this side of the Atlantic in an almost incredibly short lapse of years.' " tttt The Atlanta Constitution recently printed a communication by Judge John L. Hopkins, a distinguished jurist ot Georgia, who made the follow Judge Hopkins' Flan. of self-preservation. The laws should be such as to admit of exercising that right. Our laws are not equal to it, and, as they now stand, the State is helpless. A county that allows lawlessness to prevail, sins against all the State. I suggest that the following changes be made in the laws : "1. Allow the State the right ot changing the venue in all cases, civil and criminal, where the opposing party has such right. "2. When a human life Is taken by what is known as lynching, if a prosecution and conviction do not occur within a limited time, the coun ty in which the lynching occurred shall be liable to a fine of $10,000, which shall go to the common school fund of the State. "3. Let there be a revision of the criminal procedure with the view of procuring a speedy trial of all criminals embracing lynchers as well as may be consistent with the ends of justice. "The talk about the 'law's delay' as an excuse for lynching Is, in the main, without true foundation. It is as old as Solomon's time. He said : 'Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore, the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.' tttt The Washington Post which enjoys the respect and confidence of thous ands and thousands of readers, says that there ought not to be any law against a About Bace Inter-Marriage against a Private John T. Smith, a Nebraskan, of the Hospital Corps, stationed at Mott, N. J., married a negro woman from Maryland. When he took her to associate with the wives of other enlisted men it raised a furor. He was reported and the case is ready for the Secretary of War and President Roosevelt to pass upon. The question arises, Is Smith's marrying a negro woman sufficient offense for his discharge? The Washington Post discusses it freely and does not strengthen its hold upon the South by its position. Among other things the Post says : "What concerns us for the immediate moment is the uproar that has followed the marriage of one of our. white soldiers to a negro woman in New Jersey. We shall not pretend inability to understand the feelings of the man's associates. That would be sheer hypocrisy. Life in camp and barracks is at all times dangerously intimate. Every clash, every incongru- ity is magnified a hundred fold. Prejudices take root. Incompatibilities become intolerable. Nevertheless, we do not see how .the soldier ean be punished on such grounds, still less why he should be discharged from the service because the other soldiers do not like bis wife. There is no law in New Jersey against inter-marriages. There shou Id be none in any State. When legislation enters such fields the effect must be oppressive. It amounts, in fact, to tyranny in its most odious form. When a white man marries a negress or a white woman a negro, he or she must bear the consequences. To prohibit the act by statute is to revive the despotisms of the dark ages. These are matters which should be left to settle them selves." Few people in the South will agree with the Post's position. Lulu Stanhope, St. Lcuis : "I used to have a horrid complexion. Ltook Holliater's Rocky Mountain Tea and am called the prettiest girl in the city." Teacr tablets. 35 cents. E. T. Wbite- PASSING EVENTS. North Carolina tor a number of years, and his strong and manly position in defending the ing suggestions about how to stop lynchings : "Editor Constitution : Society has the right white man marrying a negro, woman or white woman marrying a negro man. From Indigestion, aches and pains, Your system will be free, If youll but take a timely drink Of Rocky Mountain Tea. , ! E. T WHY ALLOW WAR? A DISQBACS TO CHBISTENDOM. Not Permitted in Indiviluals. Richmond Times-Dispatch Former Senator George E. Edmunds made a stirring address in Philadelphia on Sunday last in the interest of in ternational peace, in the course ot which he paid bis respects to the sav age war now progressing in the far East. "When an individual sees bis neighbors fighting," he said, "be goes to them and makes them stop. They do not like it, .of course, else why should they fight 7 The individual has done his God-bidden duty. But when Christian nations see other na tions fighting, the example of the indi vidual is not lollowed." Mr. Edmunds took the ground that as the people were masters they should govern their rulers and should make them interfere and command peace when two nations took each other by the throat. In other words, he thinks that it is now the duty of the Christian nations of the world to intervene in the war which is now progressing be tween Japan and Russia and put a etop to the slaughter. Mr. Edmunds !s right. The reports which come to us day after day from Manchuria are reports of horror. Thousands upon thusands of human beings are being butchered every day, and it appears that the bloody struggle will go on until either one or the other shall have conquered, or else until eve ry drop of blood has been poured out as a libation to savagery. It may be said that this is an affair between Russia and Japan with which outsiders have nothing to do. This may be the law of diplomacy, but there is a higher law. As Mr. Edmunds has so well said, there is no difference be tween the duty of individuals and of nations, for after all a nation is nothing more than an organization of individ- als. We cannot have two strndards. We cannot have one code of morals for Individuals and anoitier cuavur aiorats lor nations. That which is Individual ly wrong cannot be nationally right, and all the arguments of diplomacy, couched as may be In fine language, cannot alter the fact. If a crowd of men should stand by and see two hu man beings engage in a duel with Lnives and slash and cut each, other until one or the other or both are killed and never attempt to separate them and preserve the peace, they would be denounced the world over as cowards or brutes. But a duel very much worse than a duel between indi viduals is now progressing in Man churia. Instead of one life or two lives being involved the lives of thousands and thonsands are being daily tacrj- heed, yet the Christian nations of the earth are standing by and not even offering their good offices in the inter est of neace. They are going about their affairs as though the smile of heaven were brooding over Manchuria instead of the frown of the grim mon ster of war ; as though the streams were rippling and sparkling in purity, instead of being stained with human blood ; as though the hilla were crown ed with the gorgeous foliage of peace ful autumn iustead of being mounted with death-dealing gnns. It is a spectacle to arouse every man with a spark cf humanity in him. More especially is it a spectacle to arouse those who claim to be enlisted in the army of the Prince of Peace. If a crowd ot spectator standing by and seeing a duel between two men with out offering to interfere are amenabie to the charge of cowardice or brutality, why may not the same charge with equal justice be made against the so called Christian nations who stand en folded in their diplomatic garments, a picture of indifference and imbecility, while this bloody tragedy in the far East is goiug on Irom day to day ? Let us have peace. THE GOOD OLD WAY. A severe cold or attack ot la griippe is like a fire, the sooner you combat it the better your chances are to over power it. But few mothers in this age are willing to do the necessary wore required to give a good old-fashioned reliable treatment such as would be administered by their grandmothers, backed by Boschee's German Syrup, wtich was always liberally used in con nection with the home treatment of colds and is still in gieater household favor than any known remedy. But even without the application of the old fashioned aids German Syrup will cure a severe cold in quick time. It will cure colda in children or grown rjeonle. It relieves the congested or gans, allays the irritation, and effecti vely stops the cough. Any child will take it. It is invaluable in a house hold ot children. Trii size bottle, 25c ; romilar sice. 75c For sale by E. T. Two Stories That Scotland Neck Commonwealth, J line 30, '04. A Mammoth Apple Dumping. Mr. Peter E. Smith gives account of a great occasion in Scotland Neck which dates back sixty rears. This is longer than the memory of most men run ; but Mr. Smith' days have been unusually length ened and manj interesting things can he recite of the long ago. He relates the apple dumpling story as follows : In 1840 William Henry Harrison was elected Presi dent. In a part of Halifax coun ty not far from Ring wood there was a voting precinct called "Dump ling Town " In that precinct in the year 1810 there were 114 vo ters and the entire vote was cast for Harrison. Scotland Neck wishing to show special appreciation ot the unani mous vote in "Dutflpliflg Town" precinct set a day on which to honor the voters of that precinct, inyited them down and sent wag ons for them and brought many down - under the escort of a band of music. A large crowd came to gether to celebrate the day, and the place of festivities was in Mr. James Baker's grove, now known as Mrs. Ferrell'a rove. Two days aud a night were consumed in pre paring the bill of fare. THE HUGE DUMPLING. It consisted of a mammoth ap ple dumpling weighing 114 pounds to correspond to 114 votes past for Harrison at "Dumpling lown.'' The dumpling was prepared and cooked under the supervision of Mrs. James Baker. It was placed in a large sack, lilted under a tri pod with rope and tackle and low ered into a iarge bog ke'.tle snd cooked two days and a night. When it was well done it was low ered into a Iarge tray and around it were 114 apple dumplings of or- invited to partake of the unique dinner. A barrel of good molat-S was used for sauce, and Mr. Smith says be distinctly remembers (be scene as the hungry crowd ate the apple dumpling sauced with molasses. Tells Northerners to Ccme South. Chicago Tribune. There are some Northerners who know more about Germany and about Ita!y, and perhaps about "the romantic and picturesque Balkan peninsula," than they do about Georgia and South Carolina and Texas. Consequently they show more sense when they are talking about his majesty, or about the temporal power of the pope, or about Turkish oppression than they do when they are talking about the right of the negro to vote. Il is so easy to think that just be cause you live in a country you must understand it. The Southerner and tie Northerner are fellow-citizens. They owe allegier.ee to the same flag. Therefore the Northerner is perfectly I competent to tell the Southerner how I to settle the negro question. The fallacy in this logic is that be cause'of the presence of the negro the social condition! of Charleston, S. C, differs from that of Boston, Mass .more than that of Boston, Mass., differs from that ot London, England. And a citizen of Boston gets on better in Lon don than be does in Charleston. The negro question is greater than any other question in America. And it is not only greater but more delicate. It is a matter of social as well as politi cal and industrial life. So, more than almost any other question that can be Imagined, it needs personal experience. The occasional negro of the North is not an adequate basis for studying the negro question of the South. In the South the negro in many communities outnumbers the white, and there is a possibility of negro rule. Therefore, Northerners, if you have time and money to visit new scenes, visit the South. Some of your fellows baye gone to the South and have lived there for a few years. They don't feel nDw;quites you do. See if yon can find out what it was that modified their opinions. Go South and watcb.the descendants of Washington, Madison, Jefferson, Marshall, Jackson, Clay, Calhoun.Polk and Lee while they, bone of our bona and;flesh of our flesh, are working out, with errors of mind and .with errors of heart, but with American pluck and hope, the greatest domestic problem that ever ate into the heart of a civil- i.aH nannln Thn come back, and if you 'still think that they are wrong you will say so In a different tone. as r t Differ and Agree. Youth's Companion, Oct. 13 1904. A Monster Dumpling. An aged citizen of North Caro lina tells the story of the greatest apple-dumpling ever made. His home is in Halifax county, where, prior to i840, there Was a voting precinct known by the odd name of "Dumpling Town." In 1840, when William Henry Harrison was elected President, after a most exciting eooipalgn. Dumpling Town had exactly one hundred r.nd fourteen voters, and every man ot them cast his ballot for Harrison. The people of the small but prosperous town ot Scotlard Neck, in. that county, showed their ap preciation ol the unanimous vote of Dumpling Town by a generous and whimsical gift. Two days and a night were consumed in building a big ctlftpHng; which was nude of apples and flour, and which weighed one hundred and fourteen pounds, one pound for each vote cast at Dumpling Town. This monster of a dumpling was put la a tack, supported by a tripod and lowered Into an immense iron kettle. It required two days and a night to sook it properly. Then it was lifted out and placed in a specially made bowl cut from the trunk of an enormous cypress-tree, and round it were placed one hundred and fourteen dumplings of the usual sie. A bind of music and fifty wagon werg sect to Dump ling Town, and in these wagons were taken to Scotland Neck the one hundred and fourteen true blue Harrison men and their fam ilies. There was great ebenng when they arrived at Scotland Neck, and the guests cheered themselves when they saw the feast prepared lor them, for besides the dumi tv ena of koou inings nuea man, ubles in the spacious warehouse, ai.d the feasting and fun lasted the rest of the day and nearly all nht. A bairel of the best molasses was u&ed as sauce for the big dump ling, and the hungry people ate it all. Fine Gold Properties County. In Union Monroe Journal. Union county is lull of gold and would make'a great mining district if developed economically and mined iu an up-to-date and business-like way. We need no greater proof of this than the showing from the work now being done in the county and the amount of gold found where, practical ly no work has been done. The Howie mine, now being operated by the Colos sus Mining Company, will prove to be one of the largest mines in the United States. With their immense vein of ore, 400 feet wide and running 5,000 feet on their property, assaying from $4 to $200 per ton,iby should produce over f 1,000,000 a year. The large cyanide plant in couree ot construction will be completed in No vember. With their improved and up- to-date machinery, they should treat over a quarter of a millon tons of ore per year in the most economical way. The Brown Hill mine is showing up very well. At the 85-foot level, a drilt of 130 feet and cross cuts have been run, opening up several very fine shutes of high grade ore. These shutes, ad depth is obtained, should produce enough ore to put this property on a good dividend-paying basis when ar rangements for treating are completed. The Nichols mine has made a very good showing with little work, and in the surface work has located a numbei of veins, all of which show gold in fair quantities. In the main shaft the vein is good size, and at 25 feet milled $34 per ton and has improved continu ously to the present depth. This prop erty will undoubtedly make a good payer and should be pushed with ener- The Black mine is showing up wen. At a depth of 200 feet the vein carries atieak of fine smelting ore, being ten to fourteen inches wit'e and running hiffh in cold. coprer and lead. With the proper facilities for treating and a little more developing, this mine will be a credit to the county. There are a number of mines that have been worked years ago and made to pay ; also some good placer ground that would pay largely if worked with improved methods. Joe Mi nob. Kink haadache is caused bv a disor dered condition of the stomach and is nnfoklv cured bv Chamberlain d bwm acb and Liver Tablets. For aale by E. T. Whitehead A Co. A FAMILY REMEDY. Pe-fL'-ne In Use In Iticusantft tT Homes. . . . V MT; II 1 Ex-Governor Isaac Slurp, Isn:i filiarp, ex- iovcrn r f Khusah, In a letter from 1.--7 I sin-el, N. ll.Vv'a il lusion, I). C., wrilos: " run earnestly recommend ycut Pcruna as an excellent tonk: Its reputation as tt cure for cztr.rrU in firmly established by my fricri.'-,, w ho have been benefited by its use, itntt the public should know it:; xri'SU ifrra tive qualities "---Isacc Sharp. C'oii;w.-:;li):;i II. lU r.:y l'dwciv wiiles from Murri.svillo, Vt.: "IVruna I hr.vowsed ii; my family with Buei-e.si. I can reeummend ii s:n uu cjl rell"i:t family remedy." Jf y;illi net derive prompt rsml .it is factory ri-pv.l'.i f..-::: 1'e tiscrf riTiina, vi rili sit .!!; lo Jir. li;;f iu.iv, y.'i '.: : fr:ll .-(a'emeiil of yr :..;- nix! In will be ple;i.-cd lo give yc:t M v:i!:!::M' Vieo pr.it Address lr. ll.irlmr.n, President of The llartuian .Sanitarium, t'ulutul.i:-.-, .'- AU Friza Office, Raleigh Time;. Tom Watson could have put his eti' tire letter of acceptance Mi a tinplo line. Here it is: "1 am mid with (ho Democrats." That's the tiuth. Sam Jones says they once counted Tom out and he has nvcr for got It. You can take n fellow's l.iiitf, his cows and horses, even licat him in a suit to recover aainsies irom a r;ti -road, and he will, after a while, r r;i't H. But if you take his ( Wee lroui him, he will cu9syou,if he does it e . , to the day ot his denth. Most ptopU' have long ago forgiven the Republi can party for emancipating the ne groes, but the fires continue to turn in the breasts of Democrats, when wo remember they stole the Presidency from Sanr.uel J. Ti'den. There is something In an t flice that stickmh closer than a brother. V hen .Sennt' r Vance was sen-sick he sai l ho threw up everything except his mmI in Con gress. Men are of the mmc opinion who are yet upon dry land. The tak ing away of an (fliso la a serims busi ness. It was at the bottom ol the im peachment proceedings which provtd such a farce a few years ngo. T j:-t somebody's (.dine or (o prevent. fi,-t? a one's gettiug it, has been the In sis 1 f some doubtlul legislation i: remit years. A LOVE "LETTER Would not interest you if you're looking for a guaranteed H!ve l.r Sores, Burnes or Piles. Otto IhtCd, oi Ponder, Mo. writes : "I tuffered wi.li an ugly sore for a year, but a box -t Bucklen's Arnica Salve cured me. I 's the best Salve on earth, tl'ic at . X. Whitehead & (Vs. drug store. i t Campaign managers may iusist th.it no money is being used in the election contest, but it is just as well to watch for an increase in bank e'e :::? i- 'he doubtful States. Washington Post. HOW TO CUR K CORNS A X I BU.MOSS. Flnt, soak the corn or bunion in warm water to soften it ; ihen p:.rt it down as closely as portable without Irawing blood and apply Chamberlain's Pain Balm twice daily, rubbing !: ously lor five minutes at chi-Ii nppl:o -tion. A corn laster should bo w ru a few days to protect it from the !.!. As a genenl liniment for fp.-i? s, bruises, lameness and i hetimat is i , Pain Balm is ur.equalfd. F. r sa'c by E. T. Whitehead & Co. Tommy Mo, can I play mukin' be lieve I'm entertaining another little boy? Mamma Ye?, dear ; of cnur.-e. Tommy -AH right ; gimme some cake for him. CASTOR I A For Infants and Children. Tt3 Kind You Hate Always Bought Bears the SicMtwtof mm ..- - '
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