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Whiskey, Creator and King of Human Misery, Watches The Procession of His Victims March Slowly to Destruction. A TEMPERANCE LECTURE. fe Wanted n i'hotocraph to Remind Him of Hi* Looks. Having an engagement at his office at an unusually early hour," Allen was hurrying in that direction whan he was amazed to see his friend Walters stand ing in the doorway of a cheap photo graphic studio nervously rattling the handle of the locked dor.r and tapping Impatiently on the glass panel. Wal ters was in a condition that comes un der the heading of "unlit for publica tion." lie was in his evening clothes: his once shiny silk hat was ruffled and dented, necktie askew and overcoat rumpled. As Allen hailed him he turn ed a pair of bloodshot eyes and tried to smile. "What on earth are you doing here?" asked Allen in surprise. "Want to get my picture taken," said Walters gravely. "Picture taken? This hour? And in your condition—that is to say, without fixing up a bit? Don't be silly, man. Go home and get a little rest." And Allen tried, to draw Walters in the di rection of a drug store. Walters wrenched himself free. "I know what I'm doing," he declar ed. "I want my picture taken—the big gest picture I can get too. And I pro pose to get it before I leave here." And, turning, he pounded again at the photographer's door. Although Allen was In a hurry, he felt that he ought to stay by his friend, who seemed to be utterly irresponsible. He coaxed, begged and pleaded, but all the satisfaction he got was the state ment, "I know what I'm doing." Finally, as Allen showed no disposi tion to let him alone, Walters braced himself against the and said: "I Tr» s drwik last night, hopelessly and foolishly drunk, and I look and feel it. I'm all mussed up, got a head like a barrel and a throat like a fur nace. I'm dirty, disreputable and dizzy and feel like the back yard of an east side tenement house. "This is the second time I've been drunk in ten years. The first time it happened I was with some friends, and in the course of the end of our gpree we invaded a photograph gallery and had our pictures taken just as we were. That picture was the best tem perance lecture I ever had. I kept it framed in my room. In the morning as I went out it warned me not to drink during the day. At night it showed me plainly what I* had avoided by not drinking. "There was a fire in the apartment next to me a few weeks ago, and the firemen burst into my place. They upset things generally and smashed my picture all .to bits in hacking down the mantelpiece to get at the blaze. I lost my guardian angel, so to speak, but felt reasonably sure of myself. Last night I met some congenial friends, and—well, I'm going to get an other picture taken if I wait here all day." And Walters kicked savagely at the door, which this time was open ed by a sleepy looking man, who ush ered him into the studio, while Allen hurried away.—New York Press. Unnecessary Hurry. You have promised, let us say, to call for a friend at his office, so as to go down into the country together. He is a stockbroker, merchant, what you will. His place of business being ten min utes' walk from the station, you call after business hours, about a quarter of an hour before the train starts. You find him cheerfully doing nothing un less a cigarette counts for work. He ab solutely declines to start yet. It Is too absurdly early. After five minutes you suggest departure. By no means will be move. It never takes him more than seven minutes at the utmost. Knowing his walking capacities, you doubt, but acquiesce. At last you are off. nut 1 . halfway to the train he says: "Bv Jove, old man. we must hurry up. My watch is slow." So you run—ignc mi.iious'y 3011 run. If luck befriend you, you just catch the moving train, and as you -ink perspiring and breath less into your seat he says: "You see, we were in p!sutr oi' t!~e. missed a train in my life." Plenty of time, indeed! And all this hurry for nothing. If he had been doing any thing—had a letter to write or the like— ih those wasted eight minutes, you could forgive him, but he hadn't, or at all events he didn't. You mop your brow and. though he is your verr good friend, remember with complacency that this "just" catching trains leads to many coroner's inruests.—London Sat urday Review. A Spider's Web. It is hard to realize how small a spider's wob really is. A famous mi croscopist ■ uce mr.de some interesting comparisons of a cobweb with human hair. "I have often compared the size of the thread spun by full grown spiders with a hair of my beard." he says. "I placed the thickest part of the hair before the microscope, and, from the most accurate judgment I could form, more than ICO cf such threads placed side by side could not equal the diam eter of one such hair. If, then, we sup pose such a hair to be of a round form it follows that 10,000 threads spun by the full grown spider, when taken to gether. will not be equal in substance to the y'. ze cf a single hair. To this, if we add that 400 young spiders at the time when they begin to spin their webs are not larger than one full grown one and th-.'.t each of these minute spiders possesses the same or gans as the larger ones, it follows that the exceedingly small threads spun by these little creatures must be still 400 times slenderer and consequently that 4,000,000 of these minute spiders' threads cannot equal in substance the of a single hair." INSIDE THE EARTH. Professor Milne, the great British seismologist, has demonstrated that at least part of the weather and changes in the atmosphere's tem perature seems to come from below instead of directly from the sun. He has been in the habit of leaving an ingenious photographic arrange ment in quarries at night. The photographic paper when examined later was found to be marked from time to time by dark bands, black spots and what are called singe ings. Some of these markings oc curred at the time of earthquakes, but by no means all. Scientists say that most minerals become lumi nous at frequent intervals. The cliffs of Dover have been seen sud denly to gleam and hilltops become visible in the darkness. The con clusion is that the disturbing forces which go on even at the very center of the earth are converted before they reach the surface into heat and light and make all manner of dif ference in climate and weather. Burns, the Detective. Lincoln Steffens in the American Magazine says: "Secretary Hitch cock wanted a detective. Chief Wil kie was called in. He offered to lend the interior department 'the star of the secret service/ William J. Burns. Burns is a detective. Ho is a detective of the old school, the kind you read about in books. He uses his head. Burns also makes thieves help him, but the thieves he uses are those that did the job. He 'gets them right/ makes them 'come through/ as he calls confessing, and his genius appears in the way in which he finds out who the thieves are. Burns' suspicion is almost uni versal. The president once com plained that Burns thought every body was a thief until his inno cence was proved, and Burns an swered, with surprise, Well, they are—here in Washington."" The Rocky Mount Record, Thursday, March 19, 1908 PLENTY OF CHALK. A Block That Was Once as Large as the Continent of Europe. The small piece of chalk which is in constant use in the schoolroom, the lecture room, the billiard room and the workshop has a strange history, the unraveling of which through all its complexities is one of the most diffi cult problems with which the science of the present day is cnlled upon to deal. This piece is in reality a chip of an immense block of chalk that once filled an area the size of the continent of Europe and of which even yet sev eral gigantic fragments remain, each hundreds of square miles in extent. Those patches are scattered over the region lying between Ireland—on the west and China on the east an# extend In the other direction from Sweden in the north to Portugal in the south. In the British isles the chalk is found in greatest perfection and continuity in the east and southeast of England. A sheet of chalk more than a thousand feet in thickness underlies all that por tion of England which is situated to the southeast of a line crossing the Is land diagonal/ from the North sea at Flamboroug'h head to the coast on the English channel in Dorset. This eno~ rnous sheet of chalk is tilted np slight ly on the west, and its depressed east ern portions that dip toward the wa ters of the North sea are usually buiv led from sight by means of overlying snnds and clays. Where the edges of the chalk floor come upon the sea the cliff scenery is strikingly grand and beautiful. Any one who has once seen the magnificent rocks of Flamborough and Beachy head, the jagged stacks of the Needles? or the dizzy mass of Shakespeare's cliff, near Dover, can anderstand why "the white cliffs of Albion" has grown into a stock phrase. This massive sheet of chalk appears again in France, in many parts of Eu rope as far east as the Crimea and even In central Asia beyond the sea of Aral. How far it stretched westward Into what is now the Atlantic may nev er be known, but chalk cliffs of at least 200 feet in thickness are seen at An trim, in Ireland, and less conspicuous formations are found in Scotland, in Argyll and Aberdeen. There can be lit tle question that all these now isolated patches were once connected in a con tinuous sheet, which must therefore have occupied a superficial area about 3,000 miles long by nearly 1,000 broad, an extent larger than that of the pres ent continent of Europe. Sitting: Bull and the Telephone. Sitting Bull had been captured by the United States troops and was held in close confinement So also was an other obstreperous Indian held in confinement at a post about 100 miles away. The officer in charge of Sit ting Bull had been chasing the Indiana for two months and was wondering what he would do with the captive. In an inspired moment he decided to arrange an interview between the two Indians over the telephone. After the necessary ringing up Sitting Bull was asked if he cared to talk into the ma chine. He talked into, it for several minutes and did a heap of listening also. He put down the Instrument finally- and for hours was even more gloomy than visual, at last beginning to talk to himself, something very A Bad rare for the Indian. Asked if he was dissatisfied with his accommodations or if there was anything they could do for £im, he broke forth at last: "No, rtnefinished. It's alf right when the white man's plaything talks the white man's.- language, but when it learns to talk the red man's tongue it's time to stop." * It is believed that this talk over the telephone between the two Indians had a considerable influence in short ening the Indian wars.—Boston Herald. When Umbrellas Were First Used. Umbrellas are of great antiquity. Amoag the Greeks they were a mark of elevated rank, and one is seen 6n a Hamilton vase in the hands of a prin cess. We find the umbrella figured upon the ruins of Persepolis, and the Romans carried it at the theater to keep off the sun. Yet Coryate, the traveler, in 1011 notices the umbrellas of Italy as rarities. These and other umbrellas are only described for keep ing off the sun. which may be explain ed by the comparative scarcity of rain in the above countries. The frequency of rain in other lands led to their being tfse&far a very different purpose. Jona* Hanway is described to have been the first to walk the streets of London with «n umbrella over his head, which he iiad probably used in his travels in the esist. And In 1778 one John Macdon ald, a footman, was ridiculed for carry ing in the. streets an umbrella which he had brought from Spain, However, as he tells us, he persisted for three months ia carrying his umbrella, till people took no further notice of the toreJty DOKH and Fleas. I have tried all sorts of soaps and so lutions for killing fleas on dogs, with the result that the dogs die first. Now, fleas are as much a part of a dog as ticks are of a cow. But, of course, there must not be too many fleas on the fam ily pet—just enough to keep it we.i tickled and to prevent it from becom ing too phlegmatic. There seems to be but one cure, and it comes from the land of fleas—lndia. The Hindoos use a crude oil emulsion, which consists of 80 per cent of crude petroleum mixed with 20 per cent of whale oil. soap. This combination forms a jelly which mixes freely *vith water. A 3 per cent solution is used. At 10 per cent it kills fleas with perfect certainty. Any ani mal washed with it will be relieved of the insects. It can be applied to walls, ceilings and floors by means off * gar den sprayer.—New York Pre«». Plants That Poison One Another. It is a matter of common observation that grass does not grow so well close to trees as in the open. The same is true of grains. Experiments in Eng land and in this country have shown that the deleterious effects of the near neighborhood of grass and trees are mutual. The tree suffers as well as the grass and grain. This is especially true of fruit trees. The cause is as cribed to the excretions by the trees, on the one hand, of substances poisonous to the grass and by the grass: on the other hand, of substances poisonous to the trees. It thus appears that the fail ure of grass to grow well near trees should not be ascribed to too much shade to the exhaustion by the tree roots of the rood supply needed by the grass.— Exchange Irregularity is bad in every department of life, in meals, in sleeping hours, but especially when it is a question of womanly habit. Not ohly is it a sign of female disease, but, unless cured, it will cause dangerous troubles, because ol the poisons thus allowed to remain in the system. If you suffer in this way, get a bottle of Wine of Cardui Mrs. Lucinda Johnson, of Fish Creek, Wis., writes: "I suffered for fourteen (14) years with Srregu larity, causing great pain. At last I tried Cardui, and now lam cured." At all druggists, in $1 bottles. . tr , . ■ rt Write todav for a free copy of valuable 64-pajje illustrated Book for Women. If you need Medical WRITE US A LETTER Sg gg saas £&£"£ ~ HAPPY MONTHS. , Odd Custom Observed In England at Christmas Time. "Happy months" is the name applied to the little mince pies made at Christ mas time throughout England and! served to any guests who may call at the house during the holidays. The saying is that for every one of these tiny pies one eats a happy month will come during the year, only the pies must be given to the one who eats them. When one calls at the house the little pies are brought forth with a glass of wine or a cup of tea, and, however well satisfied one may already be as regards one's appetite or how many of these "happy month" pies he has al ready eaten, it is considered a marked breach of etiquette to refuse the little pie, although one is allowed trtake it home and eat it later. This, however, is not very often done, for who would refuse the coming of a happy month by refusing to overtax the stomach for just one more little pie? In some parts of England these little pies are literally made by the dozen, •o there will be plenty of them for family and friends. They are made of the richest of puff paste, too, which, at the best of times, is an indigestible goody, and the crust is filled with a mince meat filling that is even richer than the crust.—Suburban Life. CEYLON ELEPHANTS. The Only Species In Which the Males Have No T. J'KS. What a sight for a Ceylon elephant hunter would be the first view of a herd of African elephants—all tuskers! It is a singular thing that Ceylon is the only 'part of the world where the male elephants have no tuskS. They have miserable little grubbers project ing two or three inches from the upper jaw and inclining downward. Nothing produces either ivory or horn in fine specimens throughout Cey lon. Although some of the buffaloes have tolerably fine heads, they will not bear a comparison with those of other countries. The horns of the na tive cattle are not above four inches in length. The elk and the spotted deer's ant lers are small compared with deer of their size in India. This is the more singular as it is evident from the geo logical formation that at some remote period Ceylon was not an island, but formed a portion of the mainland. It is thought that there must be elements wanting in the Ceylon pasturage for the formation of ivory.—(leylon Man ual. | —j—— ————■——■us——■■in in is ■■——■ mitt— man A Higher Health Level.' "I hive reached a higher health level since I began usinq Dr. King's New Life P Us," writes Jacob Springer, ot West Franklin, Maine. "They keep my st >mach, liver and bowels working justritjht." If these pills disappoint you o > trial, money will be refunded at at G ffin's drug store. 25c. THIS-GLORIOUS-GOLDEN GLO!Mt for a few minutes of your time. No one who has _ , Y a home to live in can afford to miss this truly GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY JIL To secure FREE of charge a Clock, the ®^ C> t0 jarRSSi most important thing in the home. And such a Clock, too! BEAUTIFUL GOLD AND GUARANTEED FOR TEN YEARS•' READ EVERY WORD OF THIS GREAT OFFER Yem * To get this beautiful Clock FREE thing- in package of handsome portraits flrst be pres"dent of^the^United States, and are different from Vliu ■* and handsomer than any pic- it'll' ' f i ture the kind you ever (Pi Jvj M\ k'. f'( and young alike, everybody collect $5 in this way to T\ill% FYTEJA RIFT** make this Glorious Clock rfflkf IWU LA 11 fiA u,ri *X^i£*d yours forever. Go with this Clock TWO BEAUTIFUL EXTRA GIFTS In addition to the Clock I have two other lovely presents which I will give you—two more handsome ornaments which anyone who loves a pretty home will be delighted with. One of these gifts I will send to you FREE AND PRE PAID as soon as I receive the postal card with your name on it. The other one I will give to you just for being prompt in following my instructions. I will tell you all about the second extra gift, when I send the first one, which I will do as soon as I hear from you, so HURRY UP. vmi TAirr un PUAIIPPC in. writing to me, because, if the Clock does IUU I MfVL nU vnAnvbO no t prove to be even better than I have de scribed it, and if It does not delight you in every way, you may send it back and I will pay you handsomely in cash for your trouble. Also, if you get sick or for any other reason fail to collect all of the $5, I will pay you well for what you do. M So you see, YOU CAN'T LOSE, so sit right down and write to me as follows:* 1 "D. R. OSBORNE!, Manager, Nashville, Teiui. Please send me the por traits of Geeorge Washington and complete outfit for earning the Glorious Golden Clock, with the understanding: that this does not hind me to pay you one cent." Then put your name and address. * It Does The Business. Mr. E. E. Chamberlain, of Clinton Maine, says of Bucklen's Arnica Salve! "It does the business; I have used it for piles and it cured them. Used it for chapped hands and it cured them. Ap plied it to an old sore and it healed it without leaving a scar behind." 25c at Griffin's drug store. Pepper In Olden Times. During the middle ages in Europe pepper was the most esteemed and irn portant of all the spices. Genoa, Ven ice and other commercial cities of cen tral Europe were indebted to their traffic in pepper for a large part of their wealth. Its importance as a means of promoting commercial activ ity and. civilizatiou during the middle ages can hardly be overrated. Tribute was levied in pepper, and donations were made In this spice, which was frequently also used as a medium of exchange in place of money. When the imperial city of Rome was be sieged by Alaric, the king of the Goths, in 408 A. D., the ransom demanded in cluded 5,000 pounds of gold, 30,000 pounds of silver and 3,000 pounds of pepper, illustrating the importance of this spice at that time. FOP Poetical Reasons. "Perchance," called the amiable wid ow, "come here!" The little lapdog trotted meekly up. "Surely that is a strange name for a dog!" exclaimed the gentleman visitor. "What made you name him Per chance?" "I am so fond of poetry!" explained the lady lucidly. "Madam, forgive me, but I fail to see the applicability." "Why, silly man," exclaimed the merry wido^ r , "I named it after By i ron's dog! Don't you remember where he says, 'Perchance my dog will I howl T " What He Knew. Master—lf your friend were to bor row 12 shillings from you, agreeing to t pay 1 shilling a month, how much would he owe at the end of the year? Pupil—Twelve shillings. "You don't know the elements of arithmetic." "But I know my friend."—London Scraps. The Bonds. "I want to get rid of some bonds." "Out of my line," replied the lawyer. "But these are mat*:!nonial bonds," rejoined the caller, pitting a different face on the matte Philadelphia Ledger. When we are happy we seek those we love. In sorrow we turn to those who love us.—Cecil Raleigh. Be careful about that little cough. Get something right away; some good reliable remedy that Will move the bowels. Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup acts gently yet promptly cn the bowels and allav s inflamation at the same time. It is pleasant to take it is especially recommended for children, as it tastes nearly as good as maple sugar. Sold by May & Gorham. ..J
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