ADVERTISING - » v • fe ■ *?* .. * Your ntoner back.—Judicious advertis i»K i» the kind that pay* back to yon the money you invest. Spacf in this paper assures you prompt returns . . VOL. VI. - NO 37. DIRECTORY Town Officers Mayor—Joshua L,. Rwell. Ol—Woaiw-A. Anderson, N. S. Peel, W. A. Elli«ou. J. I). Leggett, C. H. Godwin. Street Commissioner—J. D. Legxtt. Clark— C. H. Godwin. Treasurer —N. S. Peel. Attorney—Wheeler Martin. Chief of Police—J. H. Pajce. Lrites Skewarkee Lodge, No. 90, A. F and A. M. Regular meeting every and af 9 4th Tuesday nights. Roanoke Catup, No. 107, Woodmen of the World. Regular meeting every 2ud last Friday nights. Church of the Advent Services on the second Sun days of the mouth,morning aud evening, and on the Saturdays (9p.n1.) before, aud on Momiava (9 a.m.) after Mid Sun days of the month. All are cordially in vited. B. S. L/uisitk*. Rector. Methodist Coorch Rev. H. K. Row, the Methodist Pas tor, hat the following appointments: Every Sunday morning at 11 o'clock and night at 7 o'clock respectively, except the aecodd Sunday. Sunday School every Sunday morning at 9:30 o'clock. Prayer-meeting every Wednesday even ing at 1 o'clock. Holly Springs 3rd Su in lay evening at 3 o'clock; VernokJSt Sunday evening at 3 o'clock; Hammon »nd Sunday, moraitig and uight; Hasaells and Sunday at s o'clock. A cordial in vitation to all to attend these serviced Baptist Church Preaching on the Ist, and and 4th Sun days at 11 a. m., and 7:30 P- 1,1 • Prayer meeting every Thursday night at 7:30 Sunday School every Suuday morning at 9:30. J. D. Biggs, Superintendent. The pastor preaches at Hamilton on the 3rd Sundav in each month, at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m.. and at Riddick'a Grove on Saturday before every Ist Sunday at 11 a. m.. and on the Ist Sunday at tp. ni. Blade School House on the ami Sunday at 3 p. m , and the Biggs' School House on the 4th Sunday st 3 p. m. Everybody cordially invited. TT. D. CARROLL. Pastor. SKEWARKEE A L — E W 1 No. 90, A. F. It A. M. ZNJZX DIRECTORY FOR 1905. S. S. Browu, W. M.;W.C. Manning,S. W.; MC. O. Taylor, J. W.; T. W. Thorn "Is, S. I).; A. F. Taylor, J.I); S. R. Biggs, Secretary; C, 1). Caratsrphen, Treasurer; A. K.Whitinore aud T.C.Cook, Stewards; R. W. Clary, Tiler. STANDING COMMITTERS: CHARITV—B. S. Brown, W. C. Man ning, Mc. U.Taylor. FIN A NCR —Joa. D. Biggs, W. 11. Har ell, R. J. IV*I. RKFKRKNCR -W. H. Kdwards, W. M. Green, F. K. Hodires. ASVLI'M— 11. W. Stubhs, W. H. Rob ertson, H. D. Cook. MARSHALL —I. H. Ilatton. Professional Cards. Dk.JOHN D. BIGGS AAIH DKNTIST Omen- MAIN STRKKT PHONIC Q W. H. HARRRLL WH, K. WAKRKN DRS. HARRKLL, & WARRKN PHYSICIANS AND SURGKONS OFFICE IN BIGGS' DRUG STORK 'Phone No. 2Q DR. J- PEKBLK PROCTOR PHYSICIAN AND SURGKON Office in Mobley Building ours: 9:00 to 10:30 a. M.; 3"to sp. m. 'PHONE u BURROUS A. CRITCHKR, ATTORNEY AT LAW Office: Wheeler Martin's office. 'Phone, 23. WLI.I.IAMSTON, N. C. Prsacis D. Winston R. Jaatm Kvrrctt WINSTON & EVERETT AT LAW Bank Building, Williatnston, N. C. S. ATWOOD NEWELL LAWYER Otter up stairs Is New Bask Build. * lag, left Hand aide, top of mcpa. V 11,1.1 AMBTON. X C. SVPrmctk* wherever services at* MK4 Special atteatkm gives to esaminlng sad auk eg title for purchasers of timber sod timber laad» Special aUesUaa will be gtvra to real estate eachaage*. If you with to Vmy or aell la ad I aa help roe. r»i PHONI T«- BUND MAN AT BALL GAME Clarence Hawkes Telis how he Follows the Play. Clarence Hawkes, of Hadley, Mass., the writer and lecturer 011 nature subjects, is totally blind, yet is fond of attending baseball games. He gives this account of how he is able to follow the game: "For one who is totally blind to say that he has been to see a game of baseball sounds like a contra diction of terms, yet is 110 one iu the grand stand or on the bleachers who sees more of the game than I do for a summer af ternoon. ' I do not sec as much of the side play as the others, but froiu the moment the umpire calls 'Play ball,' and the first ball is shot over the plate, until the last man is out, I follow every play that is made with a minuteness that ofteu makes my companion for the afternoon feel a bit creepy and wonder if the Old Nick is not standing at my elbow prompting me, just as he did Faust in the duel with Valen tine. But my methods are all le gitimate and of the earth earthy. "I always try to secure such a seat that the diamoud will be a geometrical figure before me, and not on a skew. Then I can keep the players and their positions from becoming confused. Opposite first and third bases and directly be hind the home plate are my favo rite positions. "When I am behind the plate, the catcher, pitcher, second base man, and centre field are directly in front of me. each a little further off than the last, and the first base man and right fielder are to mv right, the third baseman short stop and left fielder are to my left. This makes things ship-shape and to my liking. I can then tell most of the plays as they are made, by noticing in what part of the field they are made and how far away the sound of the spat of the sphere is from me Occasionally it is hard to tell whether a certain play is made by the shortstop or second baseman, but there is usually some clue that makes it clear. "When the umpire calls plav ball, my nerves are keyed up to the highest pitch, and my ears strained to catch the slightest sound. " 'One ball,' cries the umpire. That was wide one, of course, and is easy enough. " 'Strike,' shouts the umpire. "Now I am puzzled. Was it called upon him, or did he strike and miss ? A small boy near clears up all doubt by muttering, dis gustedly. 'Stand there like a wood en man and let him call strike on him! I'd have struck at that.' "The bat cracks like the report of a rifle, and the fraction of a second later there is the clear cut spat of the ball on a gloved hand. The two sounds reminds me of the two shots in Capt. Jack Crawford's famous double, they come so close together. 'Out,' cries the umpire. "Thia is another easy one. It was right in the pitcher's hand. "Another man steps up to the plate, and the fun goes on. Then there is a dull thud, shouts of de light from the small boys, and the umpire cries, 'Dead ball,' Take your base.' "I immmediately pictured the player either limping to the initial bag or rubbing his ribs as he goes. "'Nowget 'away off', cried the coach. 'Go down with bis arm.' "Spat goes the ball on a in it at mv right. Hello! the pitcher is trying to catch the runner off the first. This part of the fun I do not care for, so I am glad when the ball is shot over the plate again. "There is scampering of feet, and the thud of the ball In the second baseman's hands, but the umpife has nothing to say on the subject, so the runner is safe at second, and the play goes on across the plate, while one coach tells the runner to get 'away off and anoth er admonishes him to be careful. "Again the bat cracks; and there is a.much longer interval before the ball strikes than before. There ffljc (Mtxip WILLIAMSTON, N. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 30. 1905. is a spat away out in centerfield, a good running catch, and a spat against second A double. The runner had thought the hit safe and had started for third. "Two gone -a goose egg this time. "The next man up hits out the first ball pitched, and I hear it ricocheting along the diamond. It is nip and tnck between the ball aud the runner to first, but the short-stop is quick and the runner is out. "So the fun goes on. Occasion ally there is a lightning play that mystifies me, but the small boy usually sets me right. A baseball audieucc cannot but express its ap plause or disgust as the game pro ceeds so before the beginning of the second inning I am using the eyes of a score of people about ine without having any of them conscious of the fact. "I can occasionally hear the rush of>a line drive that is very swift, but usually I do not know where the ball has gone until I hear it strike. If there is a spat of the ball in bare hand in deep field and then a dull thud. I know the field er has muffed the fly. I should know this even it I did not hear the groans from the player's ad inirers or a howl of delight from his opponents. "Of course, curves and drops are lost to me, but I can tell very ac curately as to a pitcher's sj>eed and distinguish a speedv fiom a slow ball, by the difference'in the spat when the ball strikes the catcher's init. "The beautiful curve of the ball when the centerfieldcr makes a perfect rainbow with the sphere against the summer sky and drops it fairly in the catcher's hand, head ing off the man from third, of course I cannot see. but the prin cipal thing was the out, after all. "I can always tell whether a ball is a high fly or a low drive by tin time it takes in going, and many other details that would surprise you. "Sometimes, when I have (been unable to get a seat in the grand stand, and am occupying a bleach er opposite third, a little eyesight would l>e most handy. It is when the bat cracks viciously, and I feel a start among the spectators alxnii me and a cry of 'Look out!' from n dozen lips. "Why should I dodge? lam as likely to dodge the wrong way as the tight. So I simply put lioth hands over that portiou of in) cranium from which maga/.ine ar ticles and books are supposed to proceed and wonder vaguely what it would feel like to lie shot through by a ten-inch shell. "I do not care about my arm or ltgs, but my head and stomach I am particular about. I have been hit several times by batted balls, and once a wild throw ovet third struck me in the forearm, Slit this fact saved the home team the game, as the bases were full and the ball rebounded toward tlu baseman. I had uo intention of interfering with the play, but nat urally gave my arm a forward mo tion when the ball struck it. "I am usually tired when th last man is out, but no small bo> on the bleachers feels better paid for coming than I do. "So you see, after Ml', my metfi od of seeing a baseball game is very simple and depeuds largely upon the making the most of all 1 hear and of seeing all that others do about me with their own eves, without as much as saying by your leave. —New York Sun. fyfllg If I-Mlll is in its torments, like dying of consumption. The progress of consumption, from the beginning to the very end, is a long torture, both to victim and friends. 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Livingstone and other travelers in ceutral Africa could have never made their discoveries without its aid. It is said of the great Ger man explorer, Schweinfurth, that when he last his entire property by fire, valuable scientific instruments among the rest, he felt the lass of his quinine to lie the greatest of all, and often thought with fear of the journey that lay before him,-which, Tiowever, he perscrved in. The soldiers in the 'American civil war depended greatly upon quinine. The pioneers in this country when it was first settled and civilized had as hard work fighting fever, and ague in the then swampy, malarial districts as in fighting Indians, and quinine was even more necessary than fire arms. NKKDKD ON PANAMA CANAI.. The great interoceanic canal now in process of construction across the isthmus of Panama requires the lalior of thousands of men largely unaccustomed to the climate and so much more susceptible to its ill effect. Before the route was decided upon many surveys were made and the men, naval officers and others engaged in this work, were exposed to all conditions of weather. But through the univer sal and proper use of the medicine laily as a precautionary measure the mortality was no greater than 4mong men in like employ in other localities. Out of a little over 6,000 white men employed in the construction of the Panama rail road there were only 293 death.--, and some of these were the result of other than climatic causes. The whole world is indebted to the cinchona tree, from which qui nine is made. Who could have foretold that this tree, a native of the mountanious forests of South America, would lie of such impor tance in the advance of ci/.ili/.atioti and Christianity. Its safe transportation from one side of the world to the other and the success attained in converting a wild into a cultivated plant and naturalizing it reads like a romonce. Que of the strange things aliout quinine is that it is not used as a medicine in the practice of the na tive physicians of Peru, Kquador or Columbia. CALI.KD BY MANV NAMKS. The native Indians did not even know of its curative property till enlightened by the Spaniards about 250 years ago. They called the chincliona tree kina, from which comes the word quinine. What do you call it—kwine, kin-nine, keen-neen or kin-neen? What a lot of names the drug has had ! China bark, quina, quinquina, chincliona bark, quinine, Cardinal De Lugo's powder Peruvian bark, etc. I Great fortunes have been made out of it. At the time when Louis XIV purchased the secret a pound of the bark cost alxmt JSO. As it came into general use it became a most important article of export from Peru. Now it is successfully cultivated in Ceylou and Java. As a means of guarding the sys tem from intermittent fever the Kughsh naval regulations require that every man should take a por tion of the drug when the ship is within a certain distance of the east or west coast of Africa and that it shoifld be regularly taken by those engaged iu boat cruising along the coasts or on the rivers or creeks. We may sav with as much truth now as did Lambert in 1S20: "The treusures which yields and which the Spaniards sought and dug out of the lx>wds of the earth are not to be compared for utility with the bilk of the quinquina tree, which they for a loiir time ignored.— Sunny South. Why Mrs. Hayes Likes North. Frequent adverse comment hav ing been made among the confed erate veterans in Mississippi over the fact that Mrs. Jefferson Davis and her step-daughter, Mrs. Mar garet Davis Hayes, have perma nently removed from Mississippi and rarely visits the state, Mrs. Hayes has taken occassion to ex plain her reasons for this course of action. In a letter written to a friend in this state, a portion of which has just l>een made public, Mrs. Hayes speaks as follows: "I have felt pained that my birthright as eldest daughter of Jefferson Davis should have seem ingly passed from me, through 110 lack of loyalty on my part, though I was glad my only sister should be so greatly honored. The northen people among whom my husband's health requires me to live, and who have shown me every kindness and attention, fre quently ask in surprise why my own people should show me so little consideration, and why my father's eldest daughter should be forgotten by the pehple she loves so loyally and I have 110 answer to offer, 1 have never sought publicity, and it was impossible for me, owing to my many home duties and limited | means, to attend the reunions in j>erson, but mv heart, my interest and my prayers were with every man who wore our precious uni form, and will l>e always. My husband and his family were and are devoted to the cause, anil iny huAbaud was a mere child when he ran away to join our army. His brother Richard Hightowef Hayes was promoted for gallantry, and at the age of 19 he was made captain. My husband is a native of Holly Springs, Miss., my own best l»eloved state. So I cannot feel in my mar riage I have forfeited the considera tion I should so value from my own people. I have recently been notified by the Daughters of the Confeder eracy of Henderson, N. C., that they 1 have honored me by naming their chapter after me, and I assure you I was more deeply gratified than I can tell you by this first rec ognition of my claim in southern hearts, through no merit in me, t>ut through their love for all I ad mire in man, my beloved father, their one and only president, who so loved his people that he was ready to bear humiliation to became a man of sorrows and die for them if need be, as our Divine Master died tor mankind. If the southern people offer me this 'jew eled crown of love' I shall feel more honored than any queen of earth. -Special to Atlanta Consti tution. A Bad Scars Some day you will get a bad scare, when you feel a pain in vour bowels, and fear appendicitis. Safety lies in Dr. King's New IJfe Pills, a sure cure, for all bowel and stomach diseases, such as head ache, biliousness, costiveness, etc. Guaranteed at S. R. Biggs drug store only 25c. Try theui. The fewer friends we have the less disagreeable things we hear about ourselves. Huge Task It was a huge task, to under take the cure of such a bad case of kidney disease, as that of C. F. Collier, of Cherokee, la., but Elec tric bitters did it. He writes: "My kidneys were so far gone. I could could not sit on a chair without a cushion; and suffered from dread ful backache, headache, and de pression. In Electric Bitters, how ever, I found a cure, and by them was restored to perfect health. I recommend this great tonic med icine to all with weak kidneys, liv er or stomach. Guaranteed by S. R. Biggs druggist: price 50c. THE MAN OF THE FUTURE. He will be an Earless, Nose less, Hairless Creature. In the prehistoric period, even, man's mouth had ceased to be an instrument for grasping food; it is still growing less prehensile, his front teeth are smaller, his lips are thinner ami less muscular; he has a new organ, a mandible not of ir reoarable tissue, but of bone and steel—a knife and fork. There is no reason why things should stop at the partial artificial division thus afforded; there is every reason on the contrary, to believe my state ment that some cunning exterior mechanism will presently masticate and insalivate his dinner, relieve his diminishing salivary glands, and teeth, and at last altogether abolish them. Then, what is not needed disap pears. What use is there for ex ternal ears, nose and brow ridges, now? The two latter once protect ed the eye from injury in conflict and in falls, but in these days we ke4> on our legs and are at peace. Directing his thoughts in this way the reader may presently conjure up a dim, stiange vision of the lat ter-day face; Ryes large, lustrous, beautiful, soulful, above them no longer sej>erated by rugged brow ridges, is the top of the head, a glistening, hairless dome, terete and beautiful; no craggy nose rises to disturb by its unmean ing shadows the symmetry of that calm face, no vestigial ears project the mouth is a small, perfectly round aperture, toothless and gum less, unanimal, no futile emotions disturbing its roundness as it lies like the harvest moon or the eve ning star i:i the wide firmament of the face. Such is the face the professor beholds in the future. Of course parallel modifications will also effect the body and limbs. Every day so many hours and so much energy is required for diges tion; a gross torpidity, a carnal lethargy, seizes on mortal men after dinner. . This may and can lie avoided. Man's knowledge of or ganic chemistry widens daily. A 1 ready he can supplement the gas tric glands bv artificial devices, livery doctor who administers physic implies that the bodily func tions may be artificially superced ed. We have pepsiue, pancreatine artificial gastric acids—l know not what like mixtures. Why, then should not the stomach lie ultimate ly superanuated altogether? "A man who could not only leave him dinner to be cooked, bfit also leave it to lie digested, would have vast social advantages over his food digesting fellow. This is, let me remind vou here, the calmest, most passionless, and scientific working out of the future forms of thingN from the data of the present. —H' O. Wells in the Metropolitan Mag azine for July. 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