nliip tea Genera! Les ami His Son. Changeable. (May Kell in Sunset Magazine") When John came eonr'inij; "d arm STy slender waist ha J spanned, He of I would whiter tenderly, his "1 wish ycuM hc-H my band!" but how we're married, this is what Most frequently h flung At me, in accents far from sweet, "I wish you'd hold your tongue!" my. self Youth's Companion. tten. Robert E. Lee used to relate 'd pleasing incident of one of his boys with whom he vrcs walking out in the snow ens day to Arringtnn. The liiile fellow lagged behind and looking r v"1' shoulder, the father p-iv; him imitating his every inovenicr.l with head and shoulders erect ;nd .epping exactly in his own fnntnrinN In "Life and Letters cf Lee" the author says that the gener-, m CG3Klng Dgvlces at JamestOWD. "When I saw t.h?s I said to my It behooves me to walk very straight, when this little fellow is al ready following- in my tracks." Ac cordingly, there was never a more circumspect father than was this great man. While ptai.ioiied at Fort Hamilton 'he wrote several letters to his young sons, They may well be called the letters of a model father, Her? is one: "Fort Hamilton, N. Y., March 31-. 184G, I cannot go to bed, roy dear son, without writing you a few lines to thank you for your letter, which gave it& much pleasure, "I do not think that I ever told you of a' fine boy I heard of in my travels this winter. He lived hi the mountains of New Hamhshire. He was just thirteen years old-, the age of Gustis. His father Was a farmer, WELDING TORTOISE SHELL. the farm. and he used to assist him to work on s much as he could. ne snow mere tnis winter waia deeper than it has been for years, and one day he accompanied his f atb er to the woods to get some wood. They went with their wood sled and after cutting a load and loading the sled, this little hey, whose name was Harry, drove it home while his father cut another load. "He had a fine team of horses and returned very quickly; but he found his father lying prostrate on the frozen snow under the large simb of a tree, which had caught him in its fall and thrown him to the ground. He was cold and stiff, and 3itt!c liitvry, finding that he was not Strong enough to relieve him from his positiv.:i, seizod the ax and cut off the Ys:V:b, and then rolled it off hfei. He then tried to raise him but ah father was dead and Ins feeble efforts were all in vain. Although he was out in the far woods by him self, and had never before seen a dead person, he was nothing daunt ed, but backed his sled -rlose up to his father and with great labor got his body on it, placed his head in his lap, and drove home to his mother." In every letter, General Lee wrote "learn to be good. Be true, kind and generous," and always told his boys some instance of courage of duty well done, or some interesting fact cf his daily life. The domestic application of elec tricity is being featured by the Gen eral Electric Compim At thS James town Exposition. This most recent application of the electrical current has been the talk of the civilized world for the past few months, and th? importer tf oi ike movement is evidbneid by the fact that nearly a hundred different electrical house hold devices are being manufactur ed today. The electrical kitchen will be one of the chief attractions on the grounds. Competent young ladies will be in charge 8nd thp visitors will be offered plenty good things t eat while they inspect ihd Utensils. Foods will h cooked by electricity in plain sight of the guests. And when it is prepared they will be ask ed to partake of steaming coffee prepared in the electrical percolator; flakey biscuits, pies and cakes fresh from the electric ovsn; welsh rare bits from the electrical chafing dish; electrically broiled steaks; steamed eggs; tea and toast, and hundreds of other dainties cooked on the wooden Stove over invisible fires. Of course there are many other household applications of electricity shown, such as the motor driven washer and wringer, sewing ma chine, ice cream freezer, grindles, polishers, pumps, fans, etc. There are also on exhibition the electric heating pads, vibrators, shaving mugs, corn poppers, baby milk warmers and a dozen and one other electric things. Hot Water atad Hirh Pressor Doe the business. One of Uncle Sam's naturalists at Washington . asserts that, tortoise shell, which h made from the horny Eklu overlying the bony case of most species of turtles, possesses the prop erty of welding so perfectly that no trace of Junction is visible. Two plates to be united have their adjacent edges beveled in opposite directions, and are then squeezed to gether in a metal press under the ac tion of boiling water;. .. Imitation tortoise shell is made by painting horn with paste of lime Htharage and soda, which is rubbed off after .drying. This process leaves dark spots .of lead sulj?hide in the horn, resembling the mottling of real tortoise Bhell. AUTOMOBILES IN INDIA. Fine Roads Encourage Poitovvers Of the Sport. It Is probably not generally known that India is remarkable for its pos sesion of many most excellent roads soine of them of great length, like thPt which runs from Bombay to DM hi a distance of 900 miles. It is .ipprrlhftd as a "perfect highway. Another fine road, 1,600 miles incrth extends from Calcutta Peshawur, at the frontier of Afgha nistan. These roads are kept in per fect repair; and were built originally for military purposes before the ad vent of railroads. Many of the native princes give particular care to their roads. Of course, the nature of the country plays a part in the existence nt the i-'daA.a: and now they serve as a stimulus to the use of automobiles, which are very popular in India. in to Lowest Known Temperature. The lowest temperature yet rec orded is that reached recently by K ulzewski in an attempt to liquefy helium. By the aid of solid hydro gen he cooled the gas to 259 de crees C; under 180 atmospheres' pressure: then, suddenly releasing the pressure to that of the atmos phere, a degree of cold was created which by calculation from Laplace and Poisson's formula, amounting to 271.3 decrees C. Helium, how ever, did not liquefy, and he accord ingly assumes that, its boiling point must be below 271, and that there is little nrosDect of reducing it to a liquid. "Say, didn't you tell me when you sold me that dog that he was n bird dog?" 'Ye3 that's what I said." "Well, you swindled me. That dog won't hunt." "I didn't say he would hunt. He's a bird dog. Cook the birds for him. That's the way he likes them, best' ---Roseleafi A Dry Niagara. A few miles southeast of Syracuse, N. Y., in a cavity whose bottom la 220 feet below the surface of the adjacent upland, Hep Jftmesvllle Lake, a bodv of water 500 feet in diameter and 60 feet in depth. Eastward from the lake extends a gorge through which flows Butternut Creek. Professor Moorehead, of Washington, states in former times a river flowed there and that James ville Lake is the pool that was form ed under a great waterfall. Steep cliffs rise around it on three sides, and all the features of a dry Niagara are disclosed in great detail. Properties of Tantalum. Tantalum; when . cold, resists chemical reagents; it is not auacKec by boiling hydrochloric acid, aqua re.-ia. nitric acid or sulpnuric aciu. It is also indifferent to alkaline solu tions, and it is dissolved solely ty hydrofluoric acid. Thin wires of tan talum burn with low intensity, and without any noticeable flame, when ignited in air. Tantalum comomeo with carbon very easily, forming sev- il carbides, which, as far as at 1. . t - 1. t T I present known, sfe au oi meuuiw m Ua4 nnA appearance, ana are very uwu brittle, but does not seem to amal gamate with mercury, n can, now- .... nta over, ce aiioyea wua mwi IrtiTlty of Cuban Soil. Cuban soil Is so fertile that at the present time the cane field is planted only about once In ten years. Experi enced American grCwef s say that there Is no necessity ever to plant more than once if care is taken in cutting thR cane at harvest time not to pull up any of the roots, as the ne" cane will Immediately sprout from these. Ten tons of cane pro duce one ton of sugar if treated by the latest mechanical processes. A plantation of 1,000 acres may yield 3,000 tons of sugar under fairly fav orable conditions. Deposits of Asbestos. Rich deposits of asbestos, cover ing hundreds of airea and Contain ing thousands of tons of the valuable mineral, have been located in the mountains of Northern Luzon, Phil ippines. Samples examined In the Bureau of Science, at Manila, say9 the Far Eastern Review, are pro nounced excellent in quality, with only 1 or 2 per cent, of alloy. The deposits are Inlaid between talcum and silica (both valuable deposits), and the fields of abestos are within a few miles of excellent harbors. London's Many Fogs. November is London's worst month for fogs. During a good year the Londoner may have to breathe only fifty fogs. In a very "bad" year he may have to endure as many as 80. London's countless coal fires, mingling soot with mist, concoct the Londoner's fog for him. The great majority Of fogs in the metropolis begin to form between 7 and 8 in the morning, just when most fires are lighted. Must Count $250,000,000 In Casn. The natives of Borneo pray to a pig on all important occassions. If he fears enemies, ill luck or sickness is coming, the pig is brought into the hut and its legs tied together. A lighted brand is applied to scorch it slightly, then the pig is asked about the matter which the natives wish to know. (New York Tribune,) The term of Hamilton Fish as As sistant Treasurer of the United States at New York having expired, an ex amination of the cash in the local Sub-Treasury is to be made, in pur suance of the rules of the Treasury Department, although Mr. Fish has already boen nominated and confirm ed as his own successor in the office for the term of four years. Accord ing to a Washington dispatch, the counting of the cash will be begun tomorrow by experts from th3 Treasury Department. This force, which will consist of eight or ten men, will be supplement ed later on by fifteen or twenty laborers, whose services will be re quired when checking up of the sil ver coin is in progress. The Sub Treasury vaults contain $74,000,000 of silver coin, weighing more than two thousand tons., and $178,000,000 gold, the weight of which is about three hundred and sixty tons. The verification of the cash in the Sub-Treasury will take from forty to fifty days. For a cold or a cough take Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup. It is BETTER than any other cough remedy because its laxative principle assures a healthy, copious action of the bowels and at the game time heals irritation of the throat, strengthens the bronchial tubes and al lays inflammation of the mucous mem brane. Contains Honey and Tar. pleas ant to take. Children like it. Conforms to the National Pure Food and Drug l.-aw. Sold by E. T. Whitehead & Co In Brazil there is a large ant which is regarded by the natives as good to eat, when roasted a delicacy as choice, indeed, as snails are rated by the French. Sometimes they dress the tiny creatures up like dolls and put them in boxes to sell to tourists as a Brazilian curiosity. At the recent carnival at Grasnen grtien, Austria, no admission tickets were used, but every one who en tered the theatre was weighed and had to pay one cent a pound. Sev eral fat men and women refused to mount the scales. My Best Friend. Alexander isenton, wno lives on Rural Route 1 , Fort Edward, N. Y.l says: ''Dr. King's New Discovery is my best earthly friend. It cured me of asthma six years ago. It has also per formed a wonderlul cure of incipient consumption for my son's wife. The first bottle ended the terrible cougl and this accomplished, the other symp toms left one by one, until she was per fectly Avell. Dr. King slSew Discovery's power over coughs and colds is simply marvelous." No other remedy lias ever equaled it. Fully guaranteed by E. T. Whitehead & Co., Duggistsv 50c. and $100. Trial bottle freee. Belgium is the land of low wages. In Ghent, the minimum pay an hour for printers, roofers, glaziers, paint ers and boiler makers i3 seven cents seventy cents for ten hours' work. And of blacksmiths, locksmiths, car penters, masons, plumbers and elec tricians eight cents. San Marino is the smallest repub lic in the world. It has but twenty two square miles, but has a popula tion of 8,500. Its army has 900 sol diers and 150 officers. Here's to your health and happi ness' lie Witt s Little Early Risers- famous little pills. Nasty, sick head ache or biliousness may come on any time ; the cure is an Early Riser. Bold by E. T. Whitehead & Co. Some girls are so proper that we wonder how they can think of going on a wedding trip without a chaper on. Don't Pay Alimony to be divorced from your appendix, Tl rill m .. mere win oe no occasion lor it it you keep your howels regular with Dr. King's .New Life Pills. Their action is so gentle that the appendix never lirs cause to make the least complaint Guaranteed by E. T. Whithcad & Co., Druggists, 2oc Try them. The average man spends most of his time between plans of the future and regrets the of past. A Certain Cure for Aching Feet. Shake into your shoes Allen's Foot Ease, a powder. It cures Tired, Ach ing. Callous, Sweating, Swollen, feet. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores. 25c Sample FREE. Address, Allen S. Olm sted, LcRoy, N. Y. 5-2-4t A man who can joke with his wife lit 1 IK aDour, ner dressmakers bills must have a keen sense of humor. its loo nau to see people wno go irom flay to day sunenng from physical weakness when Hollister's Rocky Mountain lea would make them well The greatest tonic known. 35 cents Tea or Tablet. E. T, Whitehead & Co. A Proof of Extravagance. "We are a most wasteful and ex travagant Nation," said the Barnard College girl, as ehe sprinkled damp tea leaves over a rug, preparing to sweep It. "This is what we do with our tea leaves. Then we throw them away. In England many of the well- to do families dry the leaves and sell them to the grocers, who sell them to the poor people in the neighborhood. Dismal Swamp Sinking. Investigation of the scientists at Washingon have recently developed the fact that at present the area of the Dismal Swamp is slowly sinking. and Lake Drummond, in its center, is growing larger. Similar changes occurred in the past, periods of ele vation and subsidence gradually sue cecding one another. The average elevation above sea level is so slight that natural drainage is insufficient to remove the rainfall. Guarding Against Lawyers. The appearance of a lawyer at Calabar, Africa, has moved a Gold Coast journal to remark that it "Is unsafe for the people for lawyers to practice at this place. Their ap pearance in this river will soon in veigle everyone who is not careful into litigation, and the lawyers will feed on their folly, thereby ruining them." Brothers Win Army PrJase. Prizes to the value of 1,000 have been won in English army shooting by three brothers named King.. Thomas alone has won 400, while his two brothers have each represented England in international matches. Paid to See a Wedding. At Winsted, Conn., about five hun dred people paid fifty cents each to witness the marriage of George Bag- lia and Miss Elizabeth Hallock. A3 the bridal couple entered the specta tors sang, "O, I Am Glad I'm Ready, With the Weddiag, Garments On Before the service there was a de bate on matrimony between three ma-ried and thi-ee Tinmarried cou ples. Dressing for Pste Days. In Valencia, on the fete days, the little girls have their hair dressed just exactly like that of older sisters, having the front locks parted and coiled up into a wheel at each tem ple, and the back hair elaborately arranged from the nape of the neck to a few inches above the head, the coiffure being held secure by fancy pins. The Some Long Lakes. greatest lengths in miles of the Great Lakes in the United States are: Lake Superior, 390 miles; Lake Michigan, 345 miles; Lake Huron, 270 miles; Lake Erie, 260 miles, and Lake Ontario, 190 miles. Tree Planting in Germany. In Germany it is still customary to plant fruit trees along highways. In the province of Hanover there are 1,976 miles of such roads, along which there are 178,134 fruit trees. Curing Like by Like. Observing in the tropics how the intense heat of the sun accelerated the healiDg of wounds and burns French physician, Dr. Asbeck, used the heat of ordinary Are In 500 cases of - burns and wounds, after putting on the usual dressing, and with uni form success. Pauper Millionaires. There are two kinds of million aires those that have money and those that have not. It is estimated that two-thirds of the very rich In England to-day are little else than paupers. London Graphic. New York's Death Rate. Statistics of the Board of Health show that the general death rate in New York city is decreasing in al diseases excepting the four groups of acute respiratory troubles, cancer dipeases of the heart and diseases of the kidneys. Diamond Cutting in Africa.. me jonannesDurg Leader an nounces that practical steps have been taken toward the establishment of the diamond cutting Industry, in South Africa to give employment to 20,000 hands. Poor Transportation. New JTork city transportation fa cilities are as inadequate as they were before the subways were built, although those underground high ways carried 45,000,000 passengers in 1906. A Narrow Escape. G. W. Cloyd, a merchant, of Flunk Mo. ,had a narrow escape four years ago when he ran a jimson bur into his thumb. He savs : ' 'The doctors wanted to amputate it but I would not consen I bought a box of Bucklen's Arnica Salve and that cured the dangerous wound." 25c atE. T. Whitehead it Co. Druggists. The Larsest, Beit-Equippea ana bieaiwai , ri The Eeyfiolds factories, equipped with every modern appliance for producing the best chewing tobacco by a clean, sanitary end healthful process, under the direction of men who have m4e the business a life study, are located in the centre of the Pied mont tobacco Tvlt. known to the world as the YsmW amount of sweetening than any othe- Vn, end has a wholesome, stimulating end svtis. r..: rTo nn rowers. schnapps is the brand that mi? the ReyafiM factories famous as the r.z-&. facturers of the test and most popular : t-d-j of chewing tobacco, end made nccci-y enormous r---'th from a stnna lctcry r p " t)e$t productive soil for tobacco with an aroma so de- appetizing that it created and popularized the fondness for chewing tobacco. Only choice selections of this well matured, thoroughly cured leaf are used in SCHNAPPS and others of the high-grade ppwiflMa hrands. and exnert tests prove that this tobacco requires and takes a smaller s&J&k in 1375 to thrive. est flat-ph-fc-. -- o. torymtnewr.r'ci. ggv The men ho st artel the Kevfiolda Co., in 1875, ere directing ii today. There are a greater number of manufnei .:rers making imitations claimed to be just od r.s schnapf3 than any commodity ma tured; yet there are more pounds o2QV.::;-vz chewed than the total amount of a1- imita. tive brands, cr tob'eco cf rJmir rpp, n x-. B tort th lottors en the taj end eater th te8 tpB S-C-!IN-A.r3, f3 m feav u 6-. R.J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO GO-, Winston w. Monuments & Gravestones We pay the Freight, and Guarantee Safe Delivery. Largest Stock in the South, Illustrated Catalogue Tree. The Couper Marble Works, (Established 1848.) 150, ioi and 103 Bank Street, Norfolk, Virginia. a ' Undertone Supplies. Full and Complete Iht The Keeley Cure Do You Know What It Does? It relieves a person of all desire for strong drink or drugs, restores his nervous system to its normal condition, and reinstates a man to his home and business. Cor- respondence confidential For Full Particulars, Address The Keeley Institute, Greensboro, North Carolina. Coffins aiidC skfts i Burial Robef, "Jc. Hearse Service fiuvTim i N. B. Josey Con i -any, Scotland Neck, Nortli ' '. ' ! , 1 A. C. L. RAILROAD COMPANY PASSIiNGER DEPARTMENT Wii.mingtox, X. C, April Cth, 1907. TRAIN SERVICE: Inauguration New Train Service (Nos. 7o ami 72) between A Void on and Kinston, N. C. To Agents in North Carolina : Effective April 8th, 1907, new train wrvice will he inaugurated hot ween Weldon and Kinston, N. C, trains Nos. 7J5 and 72 on the following schedule: No. 73 Daily Except Sunday No. 72 Daily Except Sunday 8.2.") A M Lv. "Weldon Ar. 7.'() V M S.40 " " Halifax " 7.10 " 9.08 " " Tillery " j;.r,l ' 9.1S " " Spring Hill " fi.40 " 9.33 " " Scot'd Neck -" o.2 " 10.02 " " llohgood " c.io " 10.18 " " Oak City " r,.4S " 10.50 " " I'annele " 5.2(1 11.17 " " House " 4.;?2 " 11.25 " " (ircenville " 4.21 " 11.39 " " Winterville ' 4 10 11.49 " ' Ayden " 4.01 " 12.07 PM " (i rift on " 12.20 " " Grainger " - 3 30 " 12.35 " Ar. Kinston Lv. r!l5 " Train No. 73 will afford connection at Hol.guod with No. 90 for Norfolk and intermediate points, at Parmele with train No. 5G for Plymouth, and No 78 for Washington and intermediate ioints. Train No. 72 will afford connec tion at I'annele with train No. 4 for Plymouth, No. 70 for Washington and No. 57 for Tarhoro and intermediate points. Effective same date fi-7nw v,.. 50 and 57 will ho operated between Tarhoro and Plvmouth inste-id of h. tween xaruoro ana mnstou as prewsouMj. ociieoiue as lollows: No. 5 Daily Except Sunday New York City's Thieves. There are between ten thousand and eleven thousand professional thieves in New York city, and several thousand amateurs who only steal when opportunities are offered. Wonderful Eczema Lure. "Our little hoy had eczema for five years," writes N. A. Adams, Henrietta, Pa. Two of our home doctors said the case war hopeless, his lungs being af fected. We then employed other doc tors but no benefit resulted. By chance Vv-e read about Electric Bitters ; bought a bottle and soon noticed improvement. We continued this medicine until sever al bottles were used, when our boy was completely cured." Best of all blood medicines and body building health tonics. Guaranteed at E. T. White our Stomach No appetite, loss of strength, nervous ness, headache, constipation, bad breath, general debility, sour risings, and catarrh of the stomach are all due to indigestion. Kodol relieves Indigestion. This new discov ery represents the natural Juices of diges tion as they exist in a healthy stomach, combined with the greatest known tonic and reconstructive properties. Kodol for dyspepsia does not only relieve indigestion and dyspepsia, but this famous remedy helps all stomach troubles by cleansing, purifying, sweetening and strengthening the mucous membranes lining the stomach. Mr. S. S. BaD, of Rarenswood, W, Va.. says: " I was troubled with sour stomach for twenty years. Ksdol cured me and we are now using It in milk for baby." FOH BACKACHE WEAK KIDNEYS TRY DeWIITS KIDNEY and BLADDER PILLS Sara ad Ufa Prepared by B. O. D.WITT OO., Ohlcaco For sale by E. T. Whitehead & Co. 10.00 A M Lv. 10.21 " 10.32 " 10.55 " 11.03 " 11.14 " 11.30 " 11.57 " 12.25 P M Ar. Approved : W. J. CRAIG, Tass. Traffic Mgr. Tarboro Cone toe Bethel Parmele " Robcrsonville " Everett " Williamston " Jamesville " Plymouth Lv No. 57 Daily Except Sunday Ar- ;.oo p. m 5.41 5.28 5.20 4.57 4.45 4.30 4.04 3.35 T. C WHITE, Gen. Pass. Act. Notice. Having qualified as administrator of the estate of Alfred Lee, deceas ed, this is to notify all persons hav ing claims against said estate to pre sent same to me for payment within one year from this date or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their re covery, and all persons owing said estate will make immediate payment to me. This April 25th, 1907. N. H. Lee, Administrator of Alfred Lee, de- KiTCHftr & Whitley, Attorneys. 4-25-4t English Kitchen, On American and Juropoan Plan. Established 1890. A nice Toat Beef Dinner ior ,i 25c. seasoVy J QJ7 iri " . Largest and Best lv Plant in tli' -m Chas. Miller Wall J MONUMENTS, v- a.-. Tombs end Civ.cs:.os-i of Every Descrip:l -:i. i Yfiolit prepaid !:..''''; int'iits. Safe dciiv. ; ..... . .1 ii ci;:ict;u. r. rue n. and prices. - Iron Fencings fo- Cemetery and otln purposes a Speci.m iv. Peters i:it.' V.. J. Y. SAVftGLS v fit. 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