North Carolina Newspapers

If You Are a Hustler YOU WILL ' Advertise .... V O I' I! .... Businelss Srntl in Your Ad. Now. A35VEE.TISING TO BUSINESS WHAT TCAM IS TO MACHINERY That Great Propelling Power. COMMONWEA E. E . HILLIARD, Editor and Proprietor. "EXCELSIOR" IS OUR MOTTO. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE 3x oo VOL. XXII. NewSeries--Vol. 9. (6-18) SCOTLAND NEOK, N. C, THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1906. TO. 35 AMERICAN DRUMMERS ; odd things at grocer's Women "5 Well as IVIen Are Made Miserable by Kid i ley Trouble. BERLIN 13 MACHINE MADE. English Writer Calls It Stiff, FJgid, Rectilinear and Only a Village. UNITED STATES SENATOR FROM SOUTH CAROLINA PRAISES PE RU NA. jD I TORY'S jiouis. EISURE Some of the Questions Women Cus tomers Ask About Various Things. ABE AT FAULT WHEN THEY GO TO SCOTLAND. THE ti oubifs preys upon the mind, dis anct lessens ambition: beauty, vigo? and cheerfulness soon disappear when the kid neys are oat of order or di-.eased. Kidnev trouble has become so prevalent common be born 1": x -A Vi'"i---fT atinctca vun weaK kia U jMXV' U- f ney. If the child urin-.!5J$2L&t-- axes too often, if the '."iLi3 afflicted vith weak kid- irine scales ths flesh or if, when the child i-:-arhs an age when it should be able to 'j-.trcl the passage, it is yet afflicted with i . ;.d-wctting, depend upon it. the cause of the difficulty is kidney trouble, and the first r'.ep rhouli be towards the treatment of 'iiese important organs. This unpleasant t ;.ub1e in due to a diseased condition of the kidneys and bladder and not to a habit as most peoplo suppose. Women as well s men are made mls : ,ble with kidney and bladder trouble, ;nd both need the same great remedy. he mild and the immediate effect o! varnp-Root is scon realized. It is sold by druggists, in fifty- fKr ccr.x and one dollar ftiG&&Sp&ti& You may have aggtfa mple bottle by mail ""ijj;: also pamphlet tell- Home of Swamp Root. rig all about it. including many of the thousands of testimonial letters received f: orn suffersrs cured. In writing Dr. Kilmer i Co., Binghamion, N. Y., be sura and ' rention this paper. Don't mike any mistake, but re member the name, Swamp-Root, Dr Kilmer's Swamp-root, and the address Finhainton, N, Y., on every bottle. DO YOU WVJNT A. OSITION? CArt Young Men and Women 9Uv have been educated at this School since its establishment i-ina years ago, and we offer $1,000 to i-.i'.y graduate who has not received a j: -duou. Whit we have done for o:hers wec?n do for you! Write to (' .y for our catalogue and for particu lars regarding first Five Scholarships ; .tied in each county. OOUTHERN ( y . Yy -s s s AN D (OX JVM. RESSLER, Norfolk, Va. Presides r FltOFESSIOSAL. O. F. SMITH, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURCEON. SCOTLAND NECK. N. C. Office pcrmerly Occupied by Dr. Massell. MILL II. JOSEY, GENERAL INSURANCE AND AC ENT, Scotland Neck, N. C. 0 It. J. P. WIMBERLEi, OFFICE BRICK HOTEL, SCOTLAND NECK-, N. C. MS A.. & ALBION DUNN, Hi attorneys at law, Scotland Neck, N. C. Pract'ce wherever their services art required. aj W. MIX0N, Refracting Optician, Watcii-Makee, Jeweler, Engrave Scotland Neck, N. C. D 51. A. 0. LIVEBMON, Dentist. O Ft ice-Over New Whltbead Building Oiice hours from 9 to 1 o'clock ; 2 to 5 o'clock, p. m. SCOTLAND NECE, N. C. E DWARD L. TRAVIS, Attorney and Counselor at Law, HALIFAX, N. C. Money Loaned on Form Lands. she What makes you think I would H.sv "ves" if vou nroaosed to me? He v Because I know you always like to be on the eide of the winner. Yonkers Statesman. UALVESTON'S SEA WALL Biases life now h safe in that city as on the higner upland. w. uooaioe, who resides on Dutton St., in Waco, Tex., needs no ssa wad lar saioty. ne writes : "I have used Dr. King's New Dirr:verv for Coneumntion the oast five years and it keeps me well snd safe. Before that time I had a cough which for years had been growing worse. Now it's gone." Cures chronic Coughs, LaGrippe, Croup, Whooping Cough and prevents Pneumonia. Pleasant to take. Every bottle guar an teed at E. T. Whitehead & Oo.'s drug store. Price 50c and $1.00. Trial bjttle free. Old maids would be scarce and hard to iiad, Could they be made to see, How grace and beauty la combined ' By using Rocky Mountain Tea. E. T. Whitehead & Co. OBSERVATIONS OF Editors of local papers generally fay a good many things about town and city government. Recently we have noted some pretty spicy things that editors have hsd to say about municipal Are All Alike? government and the slackness with which it is administered. But the general rule saems to be that when an editor sug gasts that certain things are going wrong and ought to be looked after, the policemen or commissioners or mayor say, "Present your man or your greivauce and we will attend to it. "Bless your life, people in authority in the towns, it is your business to find the men and the greivance too. I t t t Chairman Folk of the Anti-Saloon League of Tennessee, and brother Governor Joseph W. Folk of Missouri, makes the following observations concerning the difference between a saloon and Dispensary vs Saloon a dlspeubarj . lReally it is a que8tiou it the dispensary id not even worse than the open saloon, for several reasons. I. It makes the good people of the communiy partners in the crime of liquor selling. On account of the money which the dlspansary pays to the community, it ia harder to get rid of than the saloon. 3. There is an air of respectability about the dispensary which is not about the saloon. We do not believe in Christian people compromising with the devil by taking the liquor traftic out of his bauds into theirs." t m There i3 now talk of cotton sailing this season for 8 cents, but it is hard to believe that the majority of the farmers would take that for their cotton. Not 8 Cents Cotton make the best of It ; but we do not believe that if the price of cotton should drop to 8 cents half the crop made in the South would be put on the market at that price. Farmers now are able to sell or not sell, as a rule, and speculators will not be able to force much cotton on th3 market at 8 cents. We do not believe that the f rice will go that low, and if it should whoever sells at the price this year will sell at a great loss for it will cost much more than that to make aud sive the crop. Such a prlca can not ba considered at all. ttxt The whole of Cubs seems to be in confusion, the insurrection having become very serious. The Cubans seem unable to content themselves with The Cuban Insurrection because they One of the leaders of the insurrection, Baaderaa, was killed a few days ago, but even his death will hardly quell the trouble. Things have proceeded too far. Ar;d the fituation is an interesting one to the United States. Suppose we should b3 called upon by the Cuban government to quell the Insurrection, and we should do it, who can guess bow loug it would ba be fore Cuba would be in a etate of ferment and unrest again? And what need has this country for Cuba as an annexed posiess'on? It would titke a soldier from this country to stand by every Cuban to make him behave himself. - m t . Most things that are brought to pass worth the notice are the result ot pbns and not the happy chance of good luck. A well known historian says ol Napoleon Boneparte that he generally y orkillg by Flans planned things months ahead, and doubtless he took a glance at things a year or more ahead sometimes. In all his great success he was only reaping the reward of labors and activities engaged in according to well laid plans weeks and months ahead. And what crowned Napoleon with success will do the same for men of less ability and weaker ambition if they will only lay plans carefully and execute them well. There is no chance in this world. Things are brought to pass according to the enexorable laws of cause and effect ; and whoever trusts for results on any other baria will in the end find that he is trusting in what no man has ever yet realized. tin Capt. .1 as. D. McNeill, ot Fayetteyiller head of the fire service of the State, in a letter to the Charlotte Observer suggests that a free use of water by fire companies would disperse a mob more Water Cure for Mobs quickIy tban bayonets and bullets. He says that a stream of water vigorously applied to a gathering mob has never yet been known to tall to scatter the crowd. Speaking of the particular case at Salisbury, which has been the subject of so much comment and the con suming ot so much newspaper space, Capt. McNeill says : "Had the writ er been in Salisbury the nlgat ot the recent trouble, with the permission of Mayor Boyden, by virtue of my official position as the executive head of the organized fire service in the State, I would have assumed command of the Salisbury fire department'and quickly attaching two fire streamj from each of the three fire hydrants contiguous to the jail, with the six streams would have so quickly scattered that crowd as to only have left the few vindictive sports among them so cooled down and drenched that convict Hall and his personal followers, including the 'gentleman with that Panama hat,' would have been an easy mark for Chief Miller and his police and Sheriff Julian and his deputies." There is nothing so pleasant as that bright, cheerful, at-peace-wltb-the-world feeling when j-ou sit down to your breakfast. There is nothing so conducive to gooa v,w. sfc"" '" suits The healthy man with a healthy mind and body is a better fellow, a better workman, a better c:t:cu taa the man or woman who is handicapped by some disability, however slight A slight disorder ot the stomach will de range your body, your thoughts and your disposition, Get away from the morbidness and the blues. Keep your stomach in tune and both your bra n and body will respond. Little indis cretions of over eating can be ea y corrected and you will be surprised to see bow much better man you are. Try a little Kodol for DypePf f .aftr voir meals. Sold by E. T. Whitehead. Kodol DyspopsBa Cure its www yoUM"- PASSING EVENTS. JNow and then there is a farmer, as in other vo cations, who has to take what he can get and sel'-government, som9 being disf.ail.-hed cannot hold the cilice they wish. $100 REWARD f 100 The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that scieuce has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catnrrh HaM's ("Varrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Ca tarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroy ing the foundation of the disease, and ill vi ns: the patient strength by build ing up the constitution and assisting nature m doing its work, 'lhe pro. prietors have so much faith in its cura tivo nnwArs thnt thev offer One Hun- dred Dollars lor any case that it falls to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address F. J. Cheney & Co., loieao, Ohio. Sold by all druggists, lac. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Seem for Some Reason to Make a Bad Impression Among the Scot tish People Some Instances. Unite States Consul Flfiming. at Edinburgh, explains the .reasons for the numerous failures of foreign com mercial travelers to effect satisfactory trade results in Scot'ar.f. He thinks it is due to unwarranted carelessness in ignoring certain fundamental rules that obtain with Scottish merchants. "It has been my observation," he writes, "that the average commercial traveler on his first trip to Scotland makes a bad start. It i within bounds to eay that six out of very ten American sales agents who have come to this coun try have not sold enough goods in three months to cover the amount of their ex penses for that, period. The principal cause for their failure is the false as sumption that quality of goods and fair ness of prices and of general terms ara sure to bring success. After a time in some instances a long time they dis cover that the foremost requirement is the exercise of prudent caution in taking the initial step toward getting In touch with business concerns. "In large as well as small Scottish firms and joint stock companies the manage rnent, as a rule, is in the hands oi one person. As to companies (including co operative and all other societies engaged in business) division of authority is even less frequently seen here than in tho United States. Each has a single head, and subordinates have nothing to do with the affairs of the company except to obey the instructions of their chief. "Take the case oi a department store. The so-called head of a department is merely the principal salesman in that branch of t he business. He does not pur chase for the firm or company, nor is ho authorized to act or speak for t he firm or company in matters outside of his duty as principal salesman. These facts are snpposed by the heads of concerns to be universally known in trade circles, and if a commercial traveler calls on the head of a department or invites him by letter to see goods in a hotel sample room, instead of going directly to the general manager, upon his subsequent introduction to the latter he finds him self handicapped by his mistake amis- take which he may regard as trivial, but which may create a prejudice against bim that will be hard to overcome. ' In the Scottish business world cus toms, which are unwritten laws, differ from those of America, and of some other countries, and it is highly impor tant that a sales agent take care to learn the difference. If he does not he might better stay at home. Experienced traveling salesmen, American, German, French and Russian, give close attention to the personal element in business. A few instances have come under my no tice. A German commercial traveler m the hardware trade when he first vis ited Edinburgh devoted several days to work of gaining an accurate knowledge of the men havirg charge of the con cerns on the list which he brought with him. A Russian ales agent in the fur trade once informed me that he spent al most as much time in acquainting him self with the personnel of firms in the cities and towns of Scotland as in after ward placing his goods before the au thorized buyers for the various houses. "An American representative of a well known machine manufacturing firm said that his capital mistake was in muddling his business from the start by not t aklng time to obtain full information as to the names, positions and charac teristics of the managers of firms and corporations. Three or four months' ex perience gave hlin useful lessons, and after that he was remarkably successful. "To call for the 'manager' of the com pany is a mistake. It is a mistake also to enter the business house of 'Jones, Smith & Co.' and ask for 'Mr. Jones' or 'Mr. Smith.' They may have been dead for 50 years, and nobody of their nafces connected with the firm since." To lay one's business before a subor dinate is in most cases a grievous mis take. Mr. Fleming says that it is his ob servation that sales agents who do not congorm tactfully to custom will find their stay in Scotland expensive rather than profitable to their employers. Sultan's Gold Teeth. The young sultan of Johore pos sesses one great peculiarity. Many years ago an accident with a horso resulted in nearly the whole o his teeth being knocked out. These have been replaced by teeth of solid gold, in each of which a large diamond ha3 been inserted; and, as they come un covered, even in the act of smiling, the effect is a most weird one to be holders more especially when the sun catches the stones and makes them flash like fire. All Used Up. "I would like." he said, "to do some thing to cement our friendship." "I'm afraid," she replied, "that you never can. You're so stuck on yourself that I don't see where any more cement 1 is to come fvom."--Cb.i;ago Record- Heraid A man can have a very peaceful) A woman's idea of a perfect gentle home by not trying to-run U. . roan I one wfeo agree with ber. the biggest oranges have ever Feen, absolutely," said a woman in front of a basket of grai:c fruit, according to the Kansas City Star. "What is the price of those or anges?" "They pre 2a cents apiece," said the clerk. "But they are grape fruit, madam." "Oh." said the customer, as she went to he other side of the store. "What is the price of-these toma toes?'' "They are two for a quarter," said the clerk. "They are not tomatoes, they are Japanese persimmons." "Oh. persimmon! What large ones. Do they 'pucker' j-our mouth when you it them, like the ordinary per simmon?" "No; you will find them very sweet and a delicious fruit." "I guess that is all, thanks," as she turned and left the store. In came an other woman, apparently confident of what she wants to buy. "i want a couple of heads of dwarf cabbage, jilease." "Dwarf cabbage? I don't believe I know what" you mean," said this clerk. "Don't you know? Very small cab bage. I want it for soups." "I guess you mean brussete sprout, don't you? They're used for soups and look very much like a miniature cab bage." He shows them to her, and they are just what she wants. They are a very small vegetable about the size of an English walnut. She took more than two, however, as they are 40 cents a quart. "I want a leek," says a woman. "What ia the price?" "Leeks se.i three for a dime." "What are they used for? I never did know. I wanted to see them more than anything else, and I'm so glad I called for the right thing." "They are used for soup." "I don't guess I care for any to-day," and she leaves. "Customers seeing leek," said a clerk, "ask quite a few questions about it. Some call it rhubarb." It is a vegetable that grows very much like an onion. It Is green and looks some thing like rhubarb, but It dce3 ' not have the foliage. The kumquat, a Japanese c range, is a specialty among the fruit3. it was grafted from Japan seven years ago and is grown in the tropical sections of this country. Those grown in Florida are a small, round fruit about the size of a black walnut. The ones gtown in California are plum shaped. Many people ask what they are. "One day a woman came in here and started to peel one as she would an orange," said a clerk "She had difficulty, and when I told her td eat them as they are, without peeling, she asked me if I thought she didn't know anything." High Old Sleeping Place. After two years' dangerous work, a bedroom has been built on the summit of Mount Blanc. It is attached to the Janssen observatory, and is meant for Alpinists who have been overtaken by a storm on the summit or lost tneir way in the snows. A large camp bed occupies all the floor of the room, and can hold 22 persons. The bedroom, which is the highest in the world, is also the most expensive, as every stick and stone had to be carried up by porters from Chamonix. During its erection it was demolished twice and flaed with snow nine times. Postponing the Day. Widow (with marriageable girls) Julia has a most lovely voice, major so powerful, you know; but for ringing, silvery tone, give me my second daugh ter's. Would you like to hear her sing "Some Day?" Major (awfully bored) Certainly ! Delighted, I'm sure! Let's say some day next month; that is er unless I'm unexpectedly ordered away any where. Stray Stories. Odd London Club. The "Silence club's" membership is limited to ten, all of whom are sea son ticket-holders on a London sub urban railway, and the subscription is sixpence weekly. It was established solely to enable the members to read the paper on the way to town. The revenue derived from subscriptions 13 handed . to the guard every Saturday morning, and he reserves a carriage for the members. Too Well-Known. ; ! "Pop!" v;."- - "Yes, my son." "Does a bank loan money?" "Yes. my boy." "Well, the bank will only loan the money if it knows the man, I suppose?" "It is often the case, my eon. that that is the time it won't loan him the money." Yonkers Statesman. Cause and Effect. Bill I called a doctor a liar, yes terday. Jin otner And then they had to call an- doctor. I suppose? Yoakers Statesman. 'Those ar3 I ai uLiuie: ii is impossible to say from looking at it. Some of the t rees 1. r V r t i t . ... m the streets look at least ten years old. but thny must have been plant ed long before the city was thought of the houses' and the streets and the lamp-posts and the statues are all much too neat and new to have en dured the rains of more than one winter. It is all, in fact, quite too new to be comfortable. One feels afraid to sleep in any of the houses lest rheumatism should be lying in wait in rooms where the plaster has not had time to harden. I drove from the station in a "droshki" with a monstrously old horse. Time had bent his forelegs Into a very good Imitation of a switch- l back railway and as we plodded solemnly alorjc the brand-new asphalt roadway, with the brand-new houses ou either side and an oVcaslonul brand-new electric car, wi:h a brand new driver in a brand-new uniform, t found myself wondering what that old home must think of it all. One day he may have been grazing in an open field and when he passed that way a week or so later he found a new broad boulevard, with hotels and shops and churches and great. blocks of flats, all sprung up liku mushrooms. Berlin, then, is a great deal too rurfpt tr in eq t to Pn i.rtt-tr It 1 u tho ' machine-made, not the hand-made ar ticle it was very decidedly made, not born. There is no spontaneity in it, no life; compared to, say. London; 1 it is like a beautiful marble statue to a living woman. Berlin Is, in fact, an awful object lesson to emperors and others who try to make a capital city out of a re , spectable village. It Is easy to put up imposing buildings If you have the money and to rut out broad tree-; lined roads and have everything neat, and nice and fine but you only make vour village bigner and finer wit h-; out making It any the more a capital city. mere is no nt, - the feeling that Berlin is a village a big village a beautiful, rectilinear, new-out-of-the-bandbox village, but a village, all the same. POWER FROM NIAGARA. Sixty Per Cent, of Gross Energy Available for Electric Current. Always room for one more power plant at Niagara. The latest looks to the lower Niagara river, which falls 80 feet in a length of two and a half miles, with the whirlpool nearly at the center of this length. This is about half the descent of the great cataract above and is made by the entire vol unle of water that passes yver both the American and Horseshoe falls. Alton r Adams calculates that the unused Uwpf of these rapids just above aud i hfnw the whirlpool could develop half a3 mucn power as could be developed by diverting the entire flow of Niagara j river at the falls. If the American falls are to be savea lurmer conci sions must be limited to the gorge and lower rapids. His idea is to build pipe lines between the upper and lower rm thP ranids. Niagara river i r1""" " - ., has a normal discharge ot iiiuw cuoic feet of water a second, and this water falling 80 to"A horsepower. Making qu auowamr, for losses in -the pipe line, water wheels, tailrace and generators, it may fairly be said that CO per cent, of the gross energy could be deiiverea as mm tric current if the entire discharge fof the river were utilized. This net power Is twice as great as that or an the electric plants now completed and under construction at Niagara falls. Ancient Skeletons. An interesting archaeological discov ery was recently "made at Leagrave, near Luton, England, by the unearth ing of two skeletons, estimated to be quite 2,000 years old. Beside the bones were also found a quantity of bronze ornaments. The skeletons are believed to be the remains or two females, dat ing back to the late Celtic times, since the mode of burial was typical of that period. Bota bodies, says the Scien tific American, were in a doubleJ-up position with head to the west. Some of the bones were in a remarkably good state of preservation, especially the skull and teeth, although much dls- t.v mniact with the earth. Tha I WIOi X " J - bodies were found 15 feet apart. Boston Man's Bull. Ex-President Soule, of the Mas3a ohnsffts senate, is very fond of telling a story about a young Irish niemter oi the senate from East Boston, who, dur ing a debate in that body on the East Boston grade crossing question, took the floor and argued very energe; ically in favor of abolishing the crossing The senator was more ready wiih hs utterances than with a proper ron ntmeticKi of sentences. In the height of his argument he exclaimed: "Why, Mr. President, there are peo ple now living In East Boston who have been killed over and over again on that crossing." Reason Enough. Tottie I don't see why you are go tr.fr to marrv Jack. You're not in love with him. Dottie No, but another girl is. Bal timoro American. Air Laden with Alcohol Vapor. The wine cellars of Spain are filled with alcohol vapor, as much as half an ounce of absolute alcohol being found in six cubic feet of air. "USE Early Hisers Tho fameu SittI P,!J Ex-Scnatcr M. C. Butler. Dyspepsia h Often Caused Hy Catarrh of ,f, stoma.h-Perun.x A'elin-es La- ttirrt of the Stomach and Is Therefore a lxeiiurty For Dyfffsi. C. Utitlcr, I'.x-U. S. Ht-n-J South Carolina f.ir two! Hon. M. a tor from tonus, in a letter from Washington," l. C, writes to the I'cruna Medicine I Co., as follows: f can recommend Per una tori dyspepsia m:d stomach trouble. have been us'.nx your medicine fori a khort period and I feel very much I relieved. It is Indeed n wonderful medicine, besides a g;vd tonic." t c:; ATAKHII f tho stomach is tin- cur- eot name for rtot oases of dvfi- twnsia. In order to cure catnrrh of tlm et,,m:ioh vlie,.atarrh mu-t U-eradicnte,:. Onlv an inlornal catarrh reined y, (noli nJ IVruna, iJ m ailable. I'oruna exactly meet thv indication). ''l'ertua is . 1 1 by jour lo.nl dn? - gists Ruy a i .ttln to d v." WHERE YOUTH MADE ERROR Probably Lesson Will Teach Him Net to Judtre Hastily by Ap ptaiances. Tho oili"r lny Secretary Shaw an 1 Private Secretary Skitter wore rcturr iuu to Washington fn tn Lll.ins, W . Va., where the fonnei hud uolivore.1 i speech. In the ruiiiiuui. ;iio.-;ite M . . Shaw, .sat a schoolboy j;oig to hi.i home In Texan from a riinu tou p;!ii aratory s hool. The ch.-ip gazed crli Ically sit her ro tary S!i;iw's long co;it and broad brimmed slouch hut aud ensued Idni in conversation. "From the west?" he began, leaning forward iu : friendly way. "Yes." "Fitrnier?" - . "Yes." "Thought ho." A si.hited conversation thin be-;n about crops, find tho yming fe!' w learned that ths man with a bronzed fiicp :o.l slouch h.l know the dir r- ence between si!o and iillod cho-- e. He quizzed Shaw sit a great rate. Fia il- ly, ;-s the ti.iin pul'd Iti t- tho do'.-t.1 Rwrotiirv sIimw rook l i-i turn Jt !' 'i-, tioning. 'Wh re iirv you fcoi!!g?" "To Texas." "Ever been in Washington?" "Yes." "Evtr visit tho treasury dep. :t ment?" "No." "Wv nn tnlr -restinsr place. xt time you are in the city call there : ud; a-sk for me." "Win tin- man r.t the door know v.'io yon are .'" "Yes. Il.rc';'. my card," and Mr. Shaw hau led to th" boy a small . rd with the words under his nat.iC, "Sec retary of the Treasury." "Gee!" fail! th t-nrprl;-'"! roli'e boy. gazing after the retreating form of the genial ser-n-lary, "und I tnoti: ill he was a farmer." USE FOR OLD BILL FLAXK.M "Was of Value to Hi3 Fc.'low Towns men on One Occasion ; at Least. The train had stopped at a little town in Kansas. The passenger In tho chock eult, who was sitting by a car window, opened a conversation with the na tive on the station platform. "Seeing trains p!n tiiioufeh is about r.ll t:c excitement you have herf, isn't It?" he i;sk;d. "No," said tho nativo. "Wo got a gas well here. It ketched fire yls-t'-Tday, aiid wo had a dickens of a time pi.ttln' It out.-'- "How rfid you inHnniie it?" "W"il, s'r, after we'd tr.-i every thing e;F wo tuk old Bill Flaxiiian, soused him ' In the boss trough, dumped h'ra on the mouth of the well, and the lire went out nil to wur.st." "Why couldn't you hav u.-cd any other m-m j".l fl well?" " Cmiiso. sir. Bid Flashcm is tho biggest police in the wholo darnel--" But hero tho train moved oft'. In thi-i fh.fe it U not neewm " -lerve Cn e d.ijs' notice for eviction t f ifold. U.e theotigiiiHl Ia.vitaec u J' rp, KVntied Ltxntiva Honey a d Par. YpUies. old by K T YbU'Liud fe Co.