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v O- Cist, LP , u vNPI SCREASING CIRCULATION, "TRUE TO OURSELVES, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD." AN EXCELLENT ADVERTISIKGUEDIC14 VOL. IS. SMITHFIELD, N- C. FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1899. NO. 17 s; ftff - IE ZJy SPEAKING AT FOUR OAKS. i ! I". W. Per Discusses the v. ; i rrrioxAL Amendment ; . an Aule Manner SuiKiFi-' Ellington Speaks. ! .n-e than two hundred people u Four Oaks on Saturday! :o :uar Messrs. J. T. Elhng- nal Amendment. Mr. Von opened the discussion. He cx. 'aia.d the causes which j j :: iaced th-; legislature to : -i.n'-.i the amendment to the ,,e : . There were hundreds ol , : i-Ktent negroes in office. M ;r,v of them were not only il'ktnue but immoral. All o! L;u ;i er unfit to hold public ,. : v; ,ior white people. The ; -iot;s in the eastern towns At: e ii?t jicrable. There was vc.;r,.;.ii ar.d corruption where lV:r -L; ev were in power. The K. , ;! if '. ii politicians were i : A: tlitir control. Four-fifths r! ti c K. publican voters in the .vete negroes. The result iViij the State was under negro r.:'L whether laws were ndminis tiiiii bv the negro or by white r.'.t:: wno were the tools of the njro It was not suprising that she pnbHe service had become . uehed. that public money either wasted or stolen. f:.e reople rose upinlS9Sand ileu-r:r.mevl to put an end to this -t;i:e oi affurs. Legislators kuuv ibat the people were tired -- I: u: under a perpetual threat u! n-.rj rule ;cd they deter ninc: to pive the people a chance to ssv whether they were Will ie to take- the risk again. They c:d the bol l manly thing and submitted the qutstion to be passed upon bv tbe people. The cbec o! the amendment wa to e'irnicate the vicious and illiter ate ntro vote. It is not a dis crimination against him on ac count of bis color, but because ol his incompetence and unfitness to rule The Chinese are net per mitted to vote and yet in one sz" the people of that nation at tained to the htahest civilization ever reached by man up to that time. Were the negroes better than the Chinese? The fifteenth amendment to the Constitution ct the United States provides that "the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged on account of race, color or previous condi tion of servitude." Mr. Pritch ard sas the constitutional amendment is void on account of this provision. Of course Sena tor f'ritchard says this. His stuck in trade has been the negro vote. It sent him to the Senate, but for the negro vote he might still be Deputy Collector in the Revenue service. But other Re publican leaders more able than Mr. Pritchard declare the amend nent constitutional. Gen.Cow les. Col. Argo and Mr. Lovett Eldndgf, all lawyers of ability equal to Senator Pritchard, de cUre the amendment constitu tional and their intention to sup port it. The amendment does not dis criminate against color, for under it twenty thousand ne groes will vote and twenty thousand more can vote just as soon as they comply with the requirements of the act. But our Republican friends show great anxiety about the ignorant white man. What have they ever done for him? They very flippantly speak of "poor white folks and niggers." It is one of their favorite expressions. "I assert without fear of con tradiction" said Mr. Pou, "that the etTect of Republican rule is always to degrade the poor and illiterate white man. It does not fall so heavily upon the man of means. He can send his children to the school under the super vision of a negro committeeman or not just as he pleases. He has money and is independent. Put wht can the poor man do? With not a dollar to pay the tuition of his child, can he send to the entered school? No, my nends, he must send to the pub lic school or permit his child to grow up in ignorance. Don t you forget either that we have just gotten rid of these negro school committeemen and that some of them decline to give up even in the face of the act of the last legislature. Just before the 'ast election, I saw and talked with a young lady from Gran ville county who was about to take charge of a white public school In Wake county under control part'.y of a negro com mitteeman. I said then and I say now that a white man who will submit to that without pro test will submit to anything. His manhood is gone aud there is no hope tot him Republican rule makes the negro insolent. It encourages him tocommitcrime. I mean the vicious ones of the race, aud the poor white man or the poor white woman is the one that is generally made to suffer. My friend Mr. Dave Adams would not suffer because he has some means and can protect him self. But the very poor man or Woman is the one that feels the humiliation greatest and it is the poor white man or woman who is generally selected by the negro criminal for insult or outrage. Every man here knows this to be true. "So you see what Republican rule does for you. Are you not afraid of their professions of friendship? I think we had all better beware of them in the light of our bitter experience for four years I say deliberately that when they tell the ignor ant white man that the amend ment takes away his right to vote or in any way endangers it, they are simply trying to fool him. They know better. "Republican lawyers some oi them at least don't hesitate to tell you in private conversation that Mr.Pritchardis makingthis fight because he is bound to, but that there is nothing in his con tention. This very law has been adopted lor two years in Louisi ana. Why hayen't the courts de clared it void? If the law is con stitutional there won't it stand here also? A law analogous to this was passed by the State of Massachusetts and the courts upheld it. And, ray friends, there is one remarkable thing about all this fuss the Republi cans raise, isot one of them has yet iisen up to explain how they propose to test the law. Several have tried to devise a plan, but the absurdity of their proposi tions drives them into silence again. "No, my friends, there is no dan ger of any white man, no matter what his party may be, losing his right to vote under this amendment if he registers with in the next nine years. 'No male person who was. on lanuary 1, 1SG7, or at anytime prior there to entitled to vote under the laws of any State in the United States wherin he then resided, and no lineal descendant of any such pei son shall be denied the right to register and vote at any election in this State by reason of his failure to possess the edu cational cpjalifications prescribed in section -4 of tais article.' " "Is therea white man here who can't read and write? If so, did you vote in 18G7, or were you entitled to vote then or beiore the wai? If so, then you vote under this law just as ycu have always yoted in the past. If you were not old enough to vote in 1S67, was your father entitled to vote then or before the war.or any one of your ances tors? If so, then you continue to vote just as you have always done. "Could anything be plainer? Could anything be fairer? They are trying to fool you into voting a Republican ticket. The first thing they will tell you will be "vote against the amend ment." The next thing they will tell you will be "vote for the Re publican candidates." And if you should succeed what will you have again? Negro rule yes, negro rule, with all its hu miliation for you and your chil dren to live under. "The Democratic party has no ill will for this unfortunate race. It has done ten times as much as the Republican party has done for the negro even in the South, but it says the negro is not fit ted by nature or by training to vote in governmental affairs, that his enfranchisement has been a failure, that he is not the equal of the Anglo-Saxon men tally or morally and that the time has come when the State should be rid of the danger of his political supremacy. "Now, my friends, there is just one other phase of this question I wish to discuss. Republicans tell you that there is danger the Supreme Court will declare the 5th section of the law, common ly called the "grandfather clause," void and let the remain der of the act stand. You all know Col. Thomas M. Argo. He is a National Republican. He is a lawyer of acknowledged ability. He has been a student all his life and he has made a careful study of this question. He declares that this is utterly impossible, that the court could not declare the 5th section void without repadiating the entire act. You all know of Mai. Wm. A. Guthtie. He is a Populist. Bear in mind that I emphasize Pop ulist. He is not a fusionist. He has never sold his principles for office. He also declares in one of the ablest arguments I have ever read that the entire act is constitutional, that the court could not declare part of it void and that under its provisions every wnite man can vote whether he can read and write or no. Mr. Pou closed by thanking the people of Ingrams for their support in the past. His speech was listened to with profound attention and made a decided impression. Sherifl Ellington followed in a short but entertaining speech. He inquired of the crowd it they wanted to hear him speak as it was getting late. There were yells of "yes," and "go on." The sherifl exposed the absurd ity of the colonization scheme which the Republicans are trying to work. He said it was a scheme to fool somebody into voting against the amendment, but it was destined to fail. The people all knew the men at the head of it. He thought it was very ungrateful in the Republi cans any way. Alter tuey have used thcr poor nieger for thirty years" said be "they now pro pose to ship hun away whether he wants to go or not." Where are they going to send him? Who is going to pay the bill? Do they propose to force him to go? Tbe proposition is too ridicu-j lous tor discussion. No Repubb can platform outside of Johnston county will declare for it. Can Johnston county send all the negroes eff? The Republicans have control of the government now, and we are badly in need of soldiers who can stand the hot sun. Why don't they send tbe negro off now? Most every white man is willing for him to leave, bu: we don't propose to take any chances we will take him out of politics, make bim a betttr man and a better laborer. and then if the Republicans want to colonize him, we will let them doit. The best way to get him to agree to go is to take him out of politics and put him to work. Maybe he would agree to go if this was done. The Sheriff's speech was full of fun. Both speeches were enjoyed. Onv one man on the grounds declared against the amendment and he was a Radical office holder. Wooine in Lapland. In Lapland the crime which is ounished most severely next to murder is ttie marrying of a girl against the express wisnesot ner parents. When a suitor makes his appearance he says notning to the girl nor does she often know who he is, but her parents inform her that her band has been applied for. Then, on a day appointed, the girl, her parents and lrieuds meet togetherand sit at meat, with the suitor and his intended opposite to one another, so that they can view each other's face and converse freely. When the feast is over the com pany repair to an open space where the "race for a wife" is to be run. The usual distance is about a quarter ot a mile, and the girl is placed a third of the distance of the starting point. If she be fleet of foot, at d does not care for her suitor, she can easily reach the goal first, and i: she accomplishes this he may never trouble her again. If, on the othei hand, she wishes to have him for a husband, she has only to lag in her flight and so allow him to overtake her. If she ve particularly struck with him and would signify to him that his love is returned, she can run a short distance, then stop and turn, and invite him with open arms. Ex. Keep the stomach and bowels in good condition, the waste av enues open and free by an occa sional dose of Simmons Liver Medicine. PORTO RICO STORM-SWEPT. Towns and Cities Destroy ed Many Lives Lost- San Juan de Porto Rico, Aug. 10. A courier who has arrived from Humacao brings informa tion of the complete destruction by Tuesday's hurricane of that city, which had a population of 8,000. Only two buildings in the place are standing. The loss of life was large, it being known that sixty-four persons were killed. The injured number two hundred. Among the killed were a Mrs. Carlson, an American, and a dis charged United States soldier named North. The property loss is placed at $2,000,000. In Yabuco, a town of 4,000 inhabitants, every house is down with the exception of one. Twenty persons were killed. The total number of deaths thus far reported is 136. The reports of Tuesday's hurri cane received from the interior say that the coffee and fruit crops are totally destroyed and that thousands of people are destitute. The military road is strewn with trees, boulders and debris, and is absolutely im passable for vehicles. The towns of Aibonito and Cayey are wrecked. Four persons were killed at Catano. The oil works of the Standard Oil Company were destroyed. The loss on this property is $150,000. The steamship Slocum, which left Mayaguez with two barges in tow on Monday, was struck by the storm. One barge broke loose with twosailors on board. A lifeboat manned by four Porto Rican sailors, in charge of the second officer, put out and res cued them. Capt. Thomas, the commander of the Slocum, was crazed with fear, and ordered the second barge, with two sail ors aboard, to be cut loose. First Officer Tingle took charge of the ship and refused to permit the barge to be cut loose. Tingle was sustained by the chief engi neer, and the barge was brought safely to San Juan. Ponce, Porto Rico, Aug. 10. A terrific hurricane struck Ponce on Tuesday, causing great loss of life and enormous damage to property. No Americans were killed. The bodies of 45 natives have been found, and it is likely that others will be recovered later. It is probable that many others have been washed out to sea. A great many buildings'are wrecked, and most of the houses in the city are unroofed. Industrial Education. The North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts begins its eleventh session Wed nesday, September 1st, 1899, with an addition of an impor tant department. A course of instruction in Textile Industry, which is attaining a phenomenal growth in this State and throughout the South, and which requires specially prepared superintendents for Its various branches, has been added. Hitherto it has been necessary to get such help from the New England Cotton Mill districts, or elsewhere, but now an oppor tunity is to be given the youths of this State to acquire the skill and knowledge requisite to fill these positions. This college has already at tained an enviable reputation for turning out graduates ol highest excellence in the various branches taught, and they are filling positions of trust which require skill and a technical edu cation. The demand for persons so educated is far in excess ot supply. We advise any young man to seriously consider taking a course in this institution. Entrance examin itions will be held at the court house in the various county seats August 19th, under the supervision of the County Superintendent, or in Raleigh September 5th. He Fooled The Surgeons. All doctors told Renick Hamil ton, of West efferson, 0., after suffering 18 months from Rectal Fistula, hs would die unless a costly operation was performed; but he cured himself with five boxes Bucklen's Arnica Salve, the surest pile cure on earth, and the best salve in the world. 25 cents a box. Sold by Hood Bros, druggists. Pay your subscription now. CENERAL NEWS. Ex-Governor Rector, of Arkan sas, died Saturday. Ex Governor Atkinson, of Georgia, died last week, aged about 45 years. Richard Croker, the leader of Tammany Hall, has returned from a two months outing in Europe. The yellow fever situation at Hampton, Va., is so much im proved that the quarantine has been raised. A plot to overthrow the French government was discov ered last Saturday and several leading citizens, members of the conspiracy, were arrested. Minister Buck has reported to the State Department that the Japanese government has con cluded arrangements for the pur chase of tobacco through agents, and will obtain supplies gener ally from the United States. The financial statement forthe island of Cuba, covering the first six months of this year, shows custom receipts to the amount of almost $7,000,000 and ex penses to the amount of $5,500,- 000, leaving a good working balanccof more than $1,000,000. The Secretary of War has di rected that the census of Cuba shall be completed by January 1st next, and Gen. Joseph P. Sanger, of the Inspector Gene ral's department, will be as signed to take general charge of the work, with headquarters at Hayana. News has been received from Montezuma, Mexico, that when Gen. Torres learned that his nephew had been killed by the Yaquis he promptly ordered that forty prisoners, who had fallen into his hands during the en gagement of three weeks ago, be put to death, and they were ac- cordlv taken out and shot. One night last week three thousand people paid 10 cents admission to People's Temple in Boston to see Miss Jewett and the Baker family. Mrs. Baker furnished the sensation of the evening. While J. W. Hutchin son, the white-haired abolition ist singer, was singing his song "The Fatherhood of God and the tirotherhood oJMan," Mrs. Baker experienced religious ex hiliration. She dropped her lit tle son, Willis, who had been sleeping in her arms, and strode around the platform, rolling her eves and waving her arms. A dozen people conducted her to a seat. Among the other speakers were Rey. Justin D. Fulton and Miss Jewett. For over a year Levi Ramsay and Sherman Smith, of Hamlin, Lincoln county, W. Va., have been rivals for the hand of a young woman, and several times they have nearly come to blows on her account. Until last Sun day night, the girl appeared to divideher favorsequallv between the young men, and neither knew" which was the fayorite, but on that niht, when both were at her home, she announced that she preferred Rams-.y and told Smith not to call again. This enraged tbe discarded lover, who swore vengeance. When the men met on Tuesday even ing they became involved in a quarrel. Ramsay was shot through the heart and instantly killed. Smith fled towards Gal lia county, where he has many relatives. After knowing for two years what it is to be a millionaire big Alex. McDonald is again a poor man. The reign of the Klondike king is ended and he has shouldered his pick and started out as a poor miner, leaving his bride in Dawson with a horde of creditors for whose benefit all his interests, both mining and trading, have been assigned. In his formal declara tion of insolvency, filed at Daw son on July 29, MacDonald states his liabilities to be ap proximately $6,000,000, while there is no way of fairly com puting his assets, as his invest ments are of largely problemati cal value. As they will have to be sacrificed, MacDonald himself says there will not be enough to go around, although be believes their ultimate value will be $20, 000,000 at least. He is not at all disheartened by his sudden change of fortune. , Julius Alexander, a negro, is to be hanged in Charlotte, August 24 th. Bismarck and Carlbaldf. Cincinnati Enquirer. It says much for the essential humanity of love that two of the most delightful love stories of the century are told of such grim warriors as Bismarck and Garibaldi, whem even their most intimate friends would not light ly have accused of sentiment. It says much also for the "domin ion of love" that both these men, who never acknowledged defeat in arms, were vanquished by a single glance from a pair of beau tiful ees. Garibaldi's first view of the woman she was only a very 3'oung and very beautiful girl then was through a telescope from the deck of the Itanarica, as he sailed into the laguna of St. Catherine in Brazil. There mut have been a powerful fasci nation in what he saw, for, put ting down his glass he gave orders that he should be rowed ashore forthwith. He spent hours in trying to find the house in which he had seen this vision of beauty, but all in vain, and he was on the point of returning defeated to bis ship when he met an acquaintance and accepted hh inyitation to drink coffee at bis house. By some curious freak of fate the first person to greet him was the girl whose beautj', seen from afar, bad conquered bim, and, in his own words: 'We both re mained in an ecstatic silence, gazing at each othtr like two persons who do not meet for tbe first time, and who seek in each other's lineaments rornething which shall renew renumber ance." At last be greeted her, as by some overpowering com pulsion, with the words, "You must be mine," and with these words, as he afterwards often j aid, "I bad tied a knot which only death could break." Bismarck's fate' was equally sudden and unexpected. It was at a wedding that t' e young army studtnt met his future wife, and he was so conquered by her charms that be very same evening he wrote to her parents demanding her band. The parents knew little of the impulsive young lover, and less to his advantage, for tboe were the days of his hot-blooded youth, but thev invited him to visit them so that they might learn more of him. When Bis marck rode up daughter an parents were awaiting him on the threshold, prepared (the pa rents, at least) to receive bim with cold courtesy. But Bismarck's plan of cam paign did not admit of formali ty. On dismounting he sprang up the steps, threw his arms around the fraullen's neck and gave her a series of hearty kisses. What could the parents do with such a warm and unconvention al lover Lut accept him as a son-in-law? And this they did, tohis lasting happiness. Wishiner Wells. Inlon Mall. In Scotland old customs die hard .especially in the Highlands, as was evidenced tbe first Sun day in May, when the time honored practice of paying a visit to the wells, the waters of which arc known for their heal ing virtue, was observed by hundreds of persons. Young and old journed from lverness during the day to St. Mary's Well, which 13 situated near to blasted Cullodeu Heath, and alter drinking the water a coin was drop ed into the well. This act is supposed to be an earnest of good health and suc cess during the year. The practice of visiting "wish ing wells" has descended from father to son, and despite the fact that many ministers point out that it is not conductive to keeping the Sabbath holy, and is only fit for superstitions ba- barians, still the numbers who go to the well never diminish. Not only was the practice ob served in parts of Inverness shire, but in Rosshire also num bers of people visit tbe famous healing well Craigie Howe, de posited their coins and returned apparently satisfied that trou bled and sickness had effectually been guarded against in the coming year. Daniel Brown, colored, has been indicted by the coroner's jury at Red Springs for the mur der of Sarah McKay. Jealousy is supposed to have been the cause of tbe crime. Two Letters. KaiixitH City Journal. Here are two letters in which may be found a world of pathos and sorrow and yet there is something extremely ludicrous in the situation which they pre sent. The two women present are middle aged colored women and sisters, one being in Topeka and the other in Forth Smith, Ark., and in presenting their epistles we only withhold the names. The first is from the Arkansas woman, and it reads as follows: Fort Smith, July 11 Dear lister: I write to let you know they are going to hang my son im on the 20th of next month. He was found guilty, and there am t any hone tor a nardon. a a - When they hang him I will not nave any money to buy him a grave-yard lot ai d so he will be buried in tbe poor house lot, where tbe doctor men can di" him up and cut him to pieces The hanging would not be so terrible bad if poor Jim could rest peaceful in his colli n. I am crying all the time to think about it, aul I write to you to know if I can't bury Jim in the ront yard of your place here. Vc can fix the place so it won't be much noticed, and Jim can rest in peace where the devil doc tors can t get bim. Please, sis ter, 1 don't think it would spoil the sale ol the place much, and 1 will try to make it good to you anvhow. I suppose you can't come down to the hanging and the mourning, but how I wish you could. It is awful to think of poor Jitn being cut up by tbe doctors, but that's what hap ns to them who don't own their own burying ground. 1 our sister, . Topeka, luly 18 Dear Your letter gave me such a shudder that I fell over like a dead person and the neighbors came in with camphor and other ahvcning tuingi. leu could bury poor Jim anywhere in th lot you wanted to, but you see, I don't own the place any more. It was sold for taxes, and some white man bought it in, and Parson Parker wrote tome that it was no use to try to saye it unless I bad back taxes for three years. So it's gone, and I don't suppose thr white man what's not it vould be willing to let Jim have the resting place. Those that hangs ought to do the burying where tbe doctors can't get to the corpse, for it ain't right to destroy the resur rection by dividingout tbe body. 1 don't know what the law is about renters, but couldn't you bury Jim in your own place and then move him when you had to move? He would be safer after he had been buried awhile, for the doctors don't want that kind. I would truly like to be w:tu you at the hanging and the mourning, but you mut re member that tbe Lord giretb and the Lord taketh away, and that Jesus feeds Ilislambs. Write o me bow Jim takes it and what you do about the burying. Love to all. American's Victorious. Washington, Aug. 10. Gen. Otis cabled the following to the War Department to-day: "Manila, Aug. 10. MacAr thur's movement yesterday was very successful; serves to clear country rear and left and right of insurgents. He has advanced north to Calulct, six miles from Ssn Fernando, whence he is now rcconnoitering. His casualties were five killed, 29 wounded. Officers wrunded: Major Bradcn and Capt. Abernethy, Thirty sixth Volunteers, leg and arm, moderate; Lieut. Williams, Fifty first Iowa, thigh, moderate. These troops operated to left and rear toward Santarita MacArthur'a advance under Wbeaton and Liecum consists of the Ninth, Twelfth, Seventeenth, part of the Twenty-second rcgi mcnta, and portion ol tbe i'llty first Iowa. Movement very dif ficult on account of mud and surface water. MacArthur re ports insurgents' loss 100 killed, aod some J0O wounded, lliey were rapidly driven northward and last evening apparently abandoned Porac lice where thev blew up powder works. Otis." Went worth N. Price, of War saw, has been nominated by Congressman Charles R. Thomas for appointment as cadet at West Point. Tails ot Woe. A hornet' nest small Willie found, Then otralgbtwajr did explore The mjsterka of the curious tiling, But he ne'er will do it more; The dwcllcm la that quaint abode Were anything hut slow, And Willie oon the victim wan Of a thousand tails of woe. Chicago News. The Yaqui Rebellion. CliifsKo lUrord. Mexico's aboriginal outbreak continnes to threaten trouble for that republic. Like all tribal revolts in mountaneous rcgionf, the Yaqui rebellion will occasion a loss ot life and an expenditure out of all proportion to its im portance. Tbe Yaquis are an ancient, warlike tribe who at one time possessed a large ex tent of territory in Sonora, Mex ico. They baye successfully de fied all attempts at subjugation. The Yaqui river, 300 milts long, flows through a fertile val ley in northwestern Mexico south and southwest of the Gull of California. The mineral wealth of tbisi region has at tracted prospectors and its fa vorable agricultural conditions hare brought settlers. A certain mystery has a'ways hung about the tribe, which is said now to have been incited to hos tilities by a romantic prophetess. In their mountain fastnesses the Yaquis have dwelt secure, but the irrepressible gold seeker and the land-grabber have been quietly encroachingon tbe native territory delimited by the treaty of 1897. The fierce mountain temper could stand it no longer. Five thousand warriors arc on the move and at Cocoritthe first blood has been shed. Although tbe Yaquis suffered severely in this battle they are none tbe less determined to continue the struggle. For a long time past they have contemplated revolt and have made preparations for a protracted war. In the north ern valley some settlers arc saiH to have been massacred, and grave fears are entertained for the safety of the many Amer icans who inhabit the Yaqui country. With bis wonted vigor and an experience gained through long years of warfare. President Diaz is making ready to crush the revolt. Ten thousand Mexican troops are being mobilized; all the passes will be seized, while the main army will attack the over confident Indians. It is not possible to read of this struggle without pity for the unfortunate Indian moun taineers. Their attachment for their native land is strong and their tribal sentiment is deep. et they must inevitably go down before tbe onward rush of a new civilization. Porfirio Diaz does not deal overgently with rebels. The mysterious valley will be opened up. Peace will reign; but tbe Yaquis may not c there to enjoy it. Hard Luck of an Editor. Jerry Klnifmon'M linyoiii'l. Here are some of the terrible things, which, according to a country exchange, are likely to befall a delinquent: "Last week a delinquent subscriber said that he would pay up Saturday if he lived. He's dead. Another, 'I'll eeeyou tomorrow.' He's blind. Still another one said: "I hope to pay you this week or go to the devil. He's gone. There arc hundreds who ought to take warning by these procrastina- tors and pay up their subscrip tion now. Remarkable Rescue. Mrs. Michael Curtain, Plain- field, III., makes the statement that she caught cold, which set tled on her lungs; she was treat ed for a month by her family physician, but grew worse. He told ber she was a hopeless vie tim of consumption and that no medicine could cure her. Her druggist suggested Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption; she bought a bottle and to her delight lound herself benefitted from first dose. She continued its use and after taking six bot tles, found herself sound and well; now does ber own house work, and is as well as she ever was. Free trial bottles of this Great Discovery at Hood Bros. drug store, large bottles cents and $1. 50 Hon. Daniel L. Russell, North Carolina's corpulent Governor, weighs 345 pounds.
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