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0 & A ill Hi I LARGE AND iNCK EASING CIRCULATION. "TRUE TO OURSELVES, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD." AN EXCELLENT ADVERTISING MEDIUM VOL. H. SMITEFIELD, N C. THUHSD 1Y, FEBRUARY 10, 189S. NO. 42 i V fc J) ri't;.' Years Ao. Ko the Arte l: f to c:.:u When anii'iit lovers took their Ell. How I'.ij'py th. ere t io Luov Th; g . rm-fa-J -o yTf zjo. Acrs Cherry Feciord is the standard family reraocly of the world for ccids, coughs and lurxs diseases. It is not a palliative, and is not therefore put up ia cni.11 cheap bottles. It is put up ia largo bottles for the household. They, cosi mora but cr.ra moro. Fads come and lo but no theory or fad can overthrovr the fact, that the greatest euro for all colds, coucrhs and throat and lung diseases, is Ayr3 Cherry Pectoral. 50 Years of Cures. How to Head! the North Pole. We kiow that dogs are the cavalry horses of the arctics, and then we must have plenty o! :d-)g-p"wer to drag all the 1 ad over the good ice, in order to sivc tbe strength of the men tor trie rougher places; and p'cntv of man power to get evervcSing q-ixk'y over the rub Ire, "ridges, and K- tds the dogs rr-sting at these b-'d 5"ts and the mtrti resting while the dogs do the v rk on xi long reach reaches o lev-1 or undulating surt; ce. ' i . 1 1 n nor r c C17 hard v - - r . - . Sib-i-ia. with a rubber pneti .Y-.0--1 -tirn Mrr nrair n rr lrtitri rnatiobmt which has no rigid ! . I surface to reciveinjariotis blows in ice, with specially built sledges that are drawn ee.ch by one dog and that may capsize without injury- or tbe need o righting, so that the dogs go along practically without atten tion or driving, with light weights constantly becoming lighter, with min-power and dog-posver enough to ke-p mov ing str tight ahead all the time with a'l the loads without the need of "doubling up" that is, to divide the load into two parts and thus go three times over the road with careful attention guided bv experience to every minute detail of food and equip ment, it is possible to travel an av; rage of from thirteen to sev enteen miles per day. At an average progress of only twelve miles per day tbe pole could be reached and returned from in eighty-eight days. Am ide time would remain for the party to make its way back to the station on the southern coast to meet the steamer sent out after it. In this way, with a yery small expenditure of money and with oniy a year and three months' absence from civilization, I be lieve the north pole can be at tained without the loss of a sin gle human life. From "Arctic Exploration and the Q lest o the North Pole," -by Walter Wellman, in American Monthly Review of Reviews for Febru ary. Four VYaeJcs Racing. Wa hlnstoo, X. C. Progress. The New B-rn, Washington, Greenville and Rocky Mount F.dr Association have arranged a circuit for four weeks racing and MTer the l'l.-L-e sum i cWcn thousand and four hundred dol lars in pulses. The classes range from tour .e minutes to a irec "-"- " from $100 to $OOU." The races ot trnscircr.it commence at Ne v Bern on March lsf W ishingf.n March 9th; Greenvid-M jrch 18th and R cky Mount M "ch 23rd. There will f four tfays racing at each plce. The entries for the hrst two races close on Feb. 12th and the last two on March 1st. Mr. G crge Green is the Secre- W V nfof places. Ccstof a Railroad Car. Thr nnr.it. nsr deportment of a jv r A nerican railroad corpo- ' ; . says tlie New York Sun. iv i hi rtpect ot its records ' t ranact;ons a u I merit . The government earnings of t e ti es o the Pennsylvania , i ad srst em in a year aver I ..Innt $130,000,000, and r"-' i"05s earnings of the Van r ! s-. st- m amount to rather ,. , . $ ..- 000,000 from New . Y C.r-ral, $21,000,000 from j . ,. j. dce Shor?, $10,000,000 o'u h West Shore, and Nickel I Pi 33. 000.000 from the il'H ;!n and Northwest. $13 U )j 0 )0 from the M-ehigau Ce tr a-d about $15,000,000 . Irui collateral lines or system T tt figures are large, hut they In ar still larger when they . r mpared with items of Fed . - i s c v-Tue The total receipts :' t U oted States Govcrn u roia customs during the ii . t-nr ending in 1S9G were I . . .".O 0t'iO,0 O, and from internal U v .-. $140 000.000 The two i oer irtHde up 5ut,tHr.uuu. ' sv?' rrvenue lor the povert -! -of the affciirs of a nation-' i 75 000,000 inhabitants, but t i tw r i:lroad systems reierren t t p esentrd together receipts or S27o.tOO 000. and if a third b e railroad svstem were added j tie rtc-"tpts of tbeFvnrtl gov ernment would 1 e excecdeo. Tt e accounts of -i ri!rar corporations rccptie car- and aiueh hard work, m i tb- sv--tetn of preei-e b okkee; i" railroad accuints (now asoc ial brand of cccouritin-) lias been carried close to the poin" ol perfection by tbe Pennsylvania Rjdroad, wh'ch, for instar.ee, gives to tbe fracion of a cent the expenses incident to tbe con struction ot a car or a locomo tive. Tnercate 30 000 pssen 'er cirs and 8,000 batae, mnil :inii (inifss cir-i in actual use on tne" railroads of th. t United St tts, and the ordinal y passenger car costs anj -v here troin S t. 0(iO to $5 000. tbe di!- it ci'it addtd tm- provemcnts in furr i-hing. There Ins recently appeared a 1 -I 1 . J . A. k U . r I detailed statement of the cost r I constructing at the Altoona shops o' the Pennsylvania mil- road a sample hrst class, mod em, up-to aaf, luxurious jus sender car, and some of te items- are of interest. The wheels and axles represent a cost ot $332 25; the trucks upon winch toe car rests cost $538 62; the air brake represents $131.75; the seat fix tures, twenty-nve in nuinoer. cost Sot) oU; the ttiree orurze lamps $13 50; the two gas tanks, $81; the chandeliers, $50 75, and the ittm of screws. which might not appear to be an important one, $51.88 Fer the building of a car like tne one taken in illustrations. 2,4-80 feet of poplar wood, 3 434- of ash. 1,100 of white piae, J.doO ol yellow pine, 440 feet of hickory. 400 of cherry, 700 of Michigao nine. 500 of oak and 430 of ma ple veneer were re juired in addi tion to thirteen gallons ol var nish, fortv-five pounds of glue and nearly 3 000 pounds of iron, exclusive of 800 pounds of iron castings. For the furnishing of tbe car there were required sixty nine v-irds of scarlet plush, forty four yards of green plush, sixtv one yards of sheeting and 243 pounds of hair. Tne basket racks cost $77 35, the sash leave! s $42, the bronze window lifts $14 40 and the gold leaf lor the embellishment of the wood work fasteners $15 47 worth ot material was nqiired, two stoves cost $77 55 and the t:n used on the roof of t'ie car $4144 Thelbr in the con struction ot te car represented a cost of $1,203 04. bringing up tbe expenditure to more than $4,400. He Found It. Twos m of Ein sharing the same bed, as well as the same hotole of whiskey. Pat waited M.kc asleep, when , . tU. ot.a nnA emnt ed the - ej"1'' , - - hr trie Soon after, Alike, waK ing, stole out of bed and grop ing about in the dark was ashed by his compan:on: "Phwat areyez looking fer, Mike?" Oh. nothin'!" says MYe. "Well. Mike," says Pat. ."ye'll foind it over there in the corner in the bottle." Ex. Robert Allison. ged 17. w His Valentine. I send my heart in rhyme to you, With love in every line, Ai.d should it conic in time to you To ho your valentine. Then listen how it heats for you. Ami should vou h;u.c to guess The question it repents to yoi: S;iy yes, Sweet hen: t, s:iy yes! Oh, send youii r Cn i-iI hack to me. Nor let him know :i fear; Ami may the word not lack to me 1 lomr so much to hear; Without it :!l is dumb for me Am: life is loneliness. Then let your answer come for me! Say yes. Sweetheart, sav yes! Frank Dempster Siieuman in Ladies' Home Journal. Thieving For a Bet. Svraouse St.-cxlurd. One day while dining together the Vrereh ambassador and a Grand Duke o Russia were dis cussing tbe cleverness of the pick pockets of their respective coun tries. The Grard Dake claimed that the Russian pickpocket was the uu.t skid'ul. S-ting the ambassador incredulous, he told bini i-e wcu-d, M-h'ut knovsing it, b - relieved of bis watch before lea vin? the tab e ; He then it lep' omd f o the head of the pobce to send hiiii one f tbe cleverest pickpockets h could lav his bands on. Tnt nnn ramp iii.d was out lutoi ! ;jVe ry and was told to wait it j at the table with the other ser i vants. He was to ive t it- iGrand D ike a si-jji as sooa s iie had done the trick. B it this was rot given vt y -oon, for ihe ambassndr was very wary anil always kept on the alert an 1 held his hand on his fob, even when conversing vith tbe most distinguished guests. At last the Grand Duke reccivd he preconcerted ..ignal. He :t nce rc q let-ted .he ambassador to tell him tbe time. T e latter triumphantly put his hand ia his pocket and pul'ed out a p v tato in tead d his watch. 1 o cor ceal his feelings be wou d take a pir ch of snufT his sm fT bx was gone. Then be missed his ring from bia .finger, and lis golel toothpick, v hich he h-.rl been holding in his hand in its little case. Amid the hilarity of the guests the suave lackey wa requesttd to restore the articles, but the Grand Duke's merriment -v.is changed into alarm and sur prise when the thief produc d two watches, two rins, two snufT boxes, etc. His imperial highness then made the dicov ery that be himself had bet n robbed at the s eme time th-t the French ambassador was be ing despoiled so craftily. Gift From a President. Kiitetel' Xews and Observer. In the State Library there is a book presented to the State b" President lames Madison, near ly a hundred years ago, and con taining his autograph. It is The History of Carolina, con taining the exact description and natural history of that country, together with the prev eat State thereof, and a journal of a thousand miles, traveled thro' several nations of Indians, giving a particular account of their customs, manners, &e. By John Lawson, Gent. Surveyor General of North Carolina " This book was printed in Lon don in Hi, ua ine uy it-ai is .... t i. t . 1 , -v . 1 fl . 1 t ". vntten l'resenteo uy iiiu Madison to the Mate of Nor h Carolina, 1813." Ho Has No Faith in Them- Of course no sensible man has any confidence in the leaders of the Populist party. Thry are after plunder, they will go to the right, to the lelt, or switcii oft onanv track, or go in any direction that leads to that plun der, or do anything that will capture the plums at the pie counter. But I still bdieve the m ijori y of the rank and file of that partv are honest good people, and witi not follow their leaders and office seekers and office-holders any farther in the direction of the Republican party, or into the Republican camp, or into a tight where it is impossible for their party to win, of one single one of their financial principles to prevail, or a single one n their side to be benefited, exceot the few who succeed in getting office in the Kilkenny-cat-dog scramble for spoils and plund r. Capt. W H. Kitchen in Scot land Neck Common wealth. CENERAL NEWS. Ninetten private pension bil- wire passed by the House Fri- '18 V. Lsst Friday nine people were ii ! -I- i i " : 2 killed in a railroad roliision l Scotland. Setiator Roger Q. Mills, Texas, Las announced htmsell candidate for rt-thction. Senator White Friday finished his thnedys sretch against be annexation ol Hawaii. n. j t i i t The Rhode Island Locomotive Works made an assignment las wek. Liabilities $016,700; as sets $51S,C00. Five firemen lost their lives i a larcre warehouse tjuiiairig t f 1 - .v ... - which uas buried in Boston Saturday morning. z, t.jt i.t: . The Iudiana Republicans wan ex-President Berjamin Hartison to represent that State in the Uidted States Senate. The steamship Tartar sailed fr'-m Southampton Saturday with 3U0 Englishmen destined for the Klondike region. Iliino s Democrats in Congress think that Mayor Carter Harri son, ol Chicago, will be a Presi dential possibility io 1900. The bill annexing twelve q iare miles to the city of Mem phis has passed both houses cf tho Tennessee Legislature. Thirty-five of tbe fifty-two eind erin ported lrom Norway for tbe Klondike, die 1 during the voyage across the Atlantic The Cz ir of Russia has sent a note to the Sultan of Tutkey de claring that Prince George o' Greece mut be Governor of Crete. The production of pg iron in Alabama and Tennessee last year was 1,220,501 tons, an in crease o 50.000 tons over the year b fore. Details received from Balikcsr, Asia Minor, show that 20 per sons were killed and 50 injured bv the recent earthqiakeat that pl ayte and Brusa. The Legislature of Tennessee has elected Thomas B. Turley to h'.l out the unexpired term of the late Senator Harris in the United States Senate. A corporation has been formed in Ne.v York with a capital of $45,000,000. combining twenty paper manufacturing plants, with an output of 1,143 tons daily. Democrats, Populists and sil ver Republicans ot North Dako ta have arranged for a demon stration in Fargo during March, at which Mr. Bryan and ex-Congressman Towne will speak. Tae cost of the Cuban war from February, 1895 to the end of 1897, is officially estimated at $240,000,000, besides the ar rears due from the Cuban Treas ury, amounting to $40,000, 000. Warrants have been issued for seventy three members of a mob that burned the two Seminole Indians near Maud Large. Okla homa. A force of deputy United States marshals have been sent to make the arrests. Representative Fi zgerald, of Massachusetts, has intioduced in the House a resolution for a constitutional amendment to in , . . nt prM: i crease the length ot tne i resi ': .. nr-A dent's term to six years, and to make Presidents hereafter ineli gible for re election. A judicial separation has been ranted to Donna Elvira, daugh ter of Don Carlos, the pretender to the Spanish throne, trom ber husband, Count hilippe 1'oicr.i The Court ordered Count Fob chi to pav the Countess $60 ali mony a month. Rer sentatiye Corliss, of Michigan, whose immigration measure was ircorporated in tbe legislation which passed tne last ICIJ" - PMrvrAna 'rt YVA Vet OPfi1 h?!S prepared a substitute for the Lodge immigration bill which he will offrr. The measure pro vides for exclusion only in case of mental or physical incapacity, senator Daniel, of Virginia, has introduced a resolution in the Senate to appropriate $10, 000 for the erection of a mora- youn a-d gallant Warren, who fell at" Banker Hill. The Con- gress over 120 years ago passed a resolution in favor of honor ing the hero, but for some rea son nothing ever came of it. IOO Miles an Hour Railroad Xew York Sun. Through the air from Chicago er Tfrepv Ctv tv riavitrht at - j . y - the rate of 100 miles an hour is .t j iir a : ii me oream oi ine j ransconunen- tal Railway Companv, which is , en mtal?zed at S200.000.000. most of which is already paid up. a-coroing to tne presinent. A trust deed was executed ve terday with the Equitable Trust Company as trustee, and placed on record ia ' the recorder's office i uis ueea uroviaea tor me issue , a v c per cent. gO)d oonds not to ex ceed $100,000,000, in order to start the buildini? in lersev Citv. The construction of the road is i V UTIII 'IL vjtivv.. 1 1 v auu how the company is going to es- tablish a terminal in Chicago are mvsteries vet to be re- to benin at once. Where 'and are mysteries yet to vealed. Tne Transcontinental Railway Company got a charterfrom the Illinois legislature on June 29, 1895. The trust deed sets forth that the Transconticental Company is encraced in constructing a double track derated electric railway from Chicago to Jersry Citp, representing a mileage of from 700 to 900 miles. It is also set forth that the company has been authorized by the di rectors and two-tbirds of tbe stockholders to borrow money i i ov issuing, s.iiing ana exenung ing its bonds for construction purposes, acouiring other r il- roads, spur tracks and branches. Ia exercise e! this povytr the company yvill issue corporate bonds dated September 1,1897, and to mature September 1, 1947, of $1,000 each, with inter est at 5 per cent., p - vable in 2old in March and September each year, provided the bonds shall not exceed $100,000 a mile of the main lie , spur tracks branches and tquipments. 1 the road is to be 9J0 miles long this would mean the issuing of $90,000,000 bonds. As trustee, tbe Equitable Trust Company is authorized to issue it necessary, in addition to this $10,000,000, another $10.- 000,000 for the purpose of acquisition of rights of way, but in no case must t heissueamount to more than S100.000.OOO. The companv conveys to the trust all the property it pos se - es or may become possessed oi at any future time, in order to secure the payment of the bonds. Chinese Partition Sooneror Later. The situation on the Chinese coast that has folio .ved Germa ny's seizure of Kiao Chau has continued to hold the foremost place- in the attention of the world. Nobody knows what will happen eventually, but it is not hkelv that the great game of Chinese partition is to b gin at once. Indue time, however, the Chinese empire bids fair to t?o to nieces. We have been ac customed in times past to think of the Chinese as several hun dred millions of perfectly ho mogeneous people. As a matter of tact, although they belong to the ereat vellov division of the hu nan race, the diversities of tvpe in the different parts of China are greater than thed vcrsitie3 among white men f Europe, and there is less con? cc tion and by far less sympathy among them than among be discordant population eb meats that make up tbe pres nt day conglomerate that we k".r as the Austro-Hungariaa e npire. There is an immense r ge of di alects in China, and it ften hap pens that the people of one neighborhood cannt talk with those who liye in another four or five miles away. There i9 no such thing in China as a preya sive national feeling or an impe rial patriotism. The various nrovincial governments are not under firm control by the con- i u o V . i 111 LJJi k hi - j I 4.-.! 1 fliA AMfro1 frnifprtimpnf an(j such military and naval forces as exist are provincial rar.her than imperial The Chi- nese Qf different provinces and sections hate each other worse . m t t han they hate the foreigners of o ther races. When the moment rrives for a partition of China pon a plan that wouin not in- European peace, the thing can be carried out as easily as was tbe German landing and conquest at Kiao-ChauFroni The Progress of the World, in American Monthly Review of Reviews for February. A Wintoi's Night. Be happy on n winter's night A lonj as you your pipe eau light Before a lire. When all without is wrapped iu snow And sleet-drops fall, and blizzards blow, You have your paradise be-low Before a fire. And who knows? when life's race is run And all life's genial winters don. And you retire, On some cold nijrht, far out of ight, W ho knows but when you end your flight Your pipe (and bo forth) si ill you'll light Before a tire. ; SrAXTOM. A Wonderful Rescue. Jiu-ob A. Klin ia Century. At the Hotel Royal fire in New York six years ago Sergeant Vaugban went up on the roof. Tbe smoke was so dense there that he could see little, but through it he heard a cry for help, and made out the fdiape of a man standing upon a window- sill m the fifth story, overlook- ing tne courtyard ot tne notel. The yard was between them. Bidding his men follow they we re five, all told he ran down and around in the next street to tht roof of tbe house that formed an angle with the hotel wing. There stood the man below him, only a jump away, but a jump - bich no mortal might take and live. His face and hands were black with smoke. Vaugban, looking down, thought him a negro. He was perfectly calm. 'It is no use," he paid, glanc ing up. ' Don't try. You can't tio it." The sergeant looked wistfully about him. Nejt a stick or a piece of rope was in sight. Ev ery shred was used below. There was absolutely nothing. "But I couldn't let him," he said to me. months after, when he had come out of tbe hospital a whole man again, and was back at woik "Ijust couldn't standing there so riuiet and brave." To the men he said sharply: "1 want you to do exactly as I tell you, now. Don't grab me. but let me get the first grab." He had noticed that the man wore a heavy oyercoat, and bad already laid bis plan. Don t try, urged the man. "You cannot save me. I will stay here till it gets too hot; then I will jump." "No. vou won t, from the ser geant, as he lay at full length on the roof looking over. "It is a pretty hard yard down there. I will get you, or go dead my self." The four sat on the sergeant's legs as he swung free down to the waist; so he was almost able to reach the man on the window, with outstretched bands. "Now. jump quick!" he com manded; and the man jumped. He caught him by both wrists as directed, and the sergeant got a grip o the collar of his coat. "Hoist!" he -shouted to the four on the roof; and they tugged with their might. The sergeant's body did not move. Bending over till the back creak ed, it hung over the edge, a weight of two hundred and three pounds suspended from and holding it down. The cold sweat started upon his men's foreheads as they tried and tried again, without gaining an inch. Blood dripped from Sergeant Vauchan's nostrils and ears. Sixtv feet below was tbe paved courtyard; over against him the window, behintl which he saw the back-draft coming gathering headway with lurid, swirling smoke. Now it burst through burning the hair and the coats of the two. For an instant he thought all hope was gone. But in a flash it came back to him. To relieve the terrible dead weight that wrenched and tore at his muscles, he was swinging the man to and fro like a pendu lum, head touching head. He could swing him up. A smoth ered shout warned his men. They crept nearer the edge with out lettiog go their grip on him, and watched with stariog eves the human pendulum swing wider and wider, farther and farther, until now, with a mighty effort, it swung within their reach. They caught the skirt of the coat held on, pulled in, and in a moment lifted him over the edge. They lay upon the roof, all six. breathless, sightless, their faces turned to the winter sky. The tumult of the street came up as a faint echo; the Bprayol a score of engines pumping Deiow fell upon them, froze, and cov ered them with ice. The very roar of the fire seemed far off The Sergeant was tbe first to recover. He carried down the man be had savtd, and saw him sent off to the hospital. Then first he noticed that he was not a negro: the smut had b;en rubbed off his face. dae had dawned before be came to, and days passed before he knew his rescuer. Ssrgeant Vaugban was laid up himself then. He had returned to his work and finished it; but what he had gone through yvas too much for human strength. It was spring before he returned to his quar ters, to find himself promoted, petted, and made much of. Carolina Cullins. Laurinburg had a $30,000 fire last week. There are 21 prisoners in Wake county jad. Kinston will soon build a $59, 000 hosiery yarn mill. M. T. Wood, of Enfield, killed a hog last week that weighed 706 pounds. Ed. Johnson, a Raleigh negro, has been appointed clerk to Dis trict Attorney Bernard. - The Blue Ridge National Bank of Asheville opened its doors for business last week. The State Democratic Execu tiye Committee has been called to meet in Raleigh February 22. The WiscosscttMill Company, of Stanly county, was incorpor ated last week with a capital stock of $175,000. The Record says a man is in jail at Greensboro charged with stealing a hay stack. He hauled the stack away at three loads. Fowler's Cotton Factory at Elizabeth City was burned last Thursday. Los3 $18,000. Fifty people were thrown out of em ployment. Dr. S. E. Koonce, of Jones county, has been elected First Assistant-Physician at the North Carolina Central Hospital to succeed tbe late Dr. Mott. Whither Co You? "Is your wife literary?" "Ye"; every time I step out of the house at nigh, she savs: Quo Vadis?'" Counting: The Cost. The pastor of a Michigan Presbyterian church delivered an address at a church social, held in celebration of the payment for a carpet for the church, the store price of which was $899. The addres3 should cause church people to ponder. Tbe pastor said: "This carpet cost not $899, as shown by the bill ren dered, but $4,999. To the bill rendered must be added all the incidentals, the work and worry and nervous strain and bodily weariness and headache and heartaches of seventy fire or one hundred women during all these years, while the purchase fund was slowly accumulating To it must be added the colds and fevers and doctors bills, and also what you have paid do other thurches, for when Meth odists and Baptists come to your socials you must go to theirs. The incidents do not stop here. A man buys some groceries and bis wife at the ex pense of fuel and strength and time makes a cake or something else and gives it over to the so cial, and then the man and his wife and children go to tbe so cial and eat the cake and pay for it count that in. Suppers have been given that actually cost eight or ten do'lars and have netted only five to seven dollarscount that in. Demor alization of church society, a cur tailment of legitimate giving to the church proper, and various other things follow in tne train of church social habit. Greenville Weekly: For about forty years the Falkland post office has been in the Mayo fam ily. During the war it was kept in Dr. Mayo's house. The post- mastership had passed through Dr. Mayo, his brother, bin son and his daughter's hands, the last being succeeded by Mr. Par ker, the present postmaster. For more than sixty years the Pac tolus office had been in the Rol Iins family and the appointment of Mr. Mobley makes a change i there. Royal mnk tb food pura, wbolcoin Mod delicious. POWDER Absolute! pure A Sensitive Foot. Milwaukee Kentloel. There is real novelty in the wonder Hue in Wisconsin. A carefully prepared newspaper article is published from Grants burg, Burnett county, which tells of an astonishing discovery of copper veins in the county be tween Atlas Postoflice, in Polk county, and Nigger.Hill, in Trade Lake town, Burnett county. The Copperville Mining Compa ny is reported to have begun the sinking of "a shaft seventeen chiles northeast of St. Croix Falls, and fifteen miles south east of Grantsburg, and ten miles from the Minnesota State line " The desirability of this well-defined location for copper mining purposes is admitted to have been demonstrated in an entirely original manner. It ap pears from tbe story of the cor respondent that the Rev. Mr. Fredin, of Omaha, is unable to walk upon the ground which conceals mineral without feeling a ticklish sensation in his right foot, which grows stronger presumably according to the richness ot the ore passing up bis body through his shoulders, to his left arm. If he has a wire in his hand the force pulls him to the ground. It is asserted, moreover, that those who have tried to bold declare that it is more than man's muscle which struggles with tbem, while those who have witnessed the facial contortions credit the claim that he undergoes great agony when a discovery is made. The remarkable powers of this Omaha clergyman were first no ticed in Sweden nearly twenty years ago, when he traced the workings of a developed mine simply by following his tickled feet. Some person may not be satis fied with the assurance that tbe Rev. Mr. Fredin located one vein twice on one man's farm offered him $15,000 for the property, and after his refusal to sell a company was organized to de velop the mine. It will, per haps, be asked how the man who utilizes his ticklish feet to discover minerals can tell wheth er it is copper or iron which is concealed beneath. Undoubted ly curious minds will inquire what the Rev. Mr. Fredin has been doing with feet during the twenty years since he discovered their peculiar value'to tbe world. Such persons simply have no ap preciation of a good thing when it is brought to them, and are ignorant of the resources of Burnett county in general, and ot Grantsburg, Burnett county, in particular. Mr. Hull, of Tonawanda, N. Y., advertises that be will give any respectable young man who marries bis daughter. Emily, $5,000, and that the voung lady, who is only 35, has $30,000 in her own right. James Pingree, of tbe same place, will give to the winner of his daughter Lil lian's hand $10,000 and an es tablished business. Moreover, she is one of two heirs to an es tate of $75,000. Panerers of Small Talk. "J had a narrow escape last night." "What was it?" "I asked Miss ZDozelbarun if she favored annexation and she thought I was proposing to her." There are three little things which do more work than any other three little things created they are the ant, the bee and De Witt's Little Earlv Risers, the I ist being the famous little pills for stomach and liver troubles. J. R. Ledbetter. Hood Bros. J. W. Benson. jminaiif' o
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