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1 on t^.rTnwrrrniTTi 1 ■■ JIZIDWro A NERVE TONIC I far Over-Wrought iusSness l¥sen Business conditions today ask more of a man's vitality than ever before. It's one The Siary of continuous drive at high tension, overtaxing * the body and brain until a complete break- down comes. The nervous system suffers most of all. R the The demand upon it is the most relentless. combination makes To succeed in business today usually means ALL king oi to be a nervous wreck at forty, if not before.. We have proven For a man working day in, day out, ILmrSr!^ under these conditions dies are kings above all others.. Americanitis Elixir wonderful cure of is as necessary as food and drink. This IXKSihei*? unique medical discovery strengthens and sonaiiy could see tones the nerves to meet this unnatural de- rf e tu>n ° f used e —mand upon them. It supplies to the body mwe P he°foundthe phosphorus in soluble form—a thing never remedy perfect he before considered possible. Rexall Ameri- scrip'tfon^buUtwas canitis has accomplished wonderful results never used as a Rex all over the country and its merits are now had b^n universally recognized Get a bottle of this thoroughly anai nerve tonic today Note how quickly that . y * ed b J t J e ? h . em , r . • f ' J ists and physicians I feeling of nervous strain disappears. a t the united Drug Company 73 Cents Per BsMt J. M. GRIFFIN, Druggist LOTTERIESOF EUROPE The Way French and Italian State Drawings Are Handled. PRIZES PICKED IN PUBUC. Officials Who Preside at the Selection of the Lucky Numbers—The Differ ence Between the French Bond Scheme and the Italian Lotto. A year or two ago a Manchester pub lican, although he heard that a city of Paris bond which he possessed had won £2,000, was so skeptical of the genuineness of French government lotteries that he refused to believe he •could receive the money, even when a check for the amount caia«rto hand. At last he was persuaded to cash tlie •check. Accompanied by a. few friends, who were going to get the money "or know why," he jset out for Paris. They invaded the Hotel de Ville and came away gaping with astonishment because the check was cashed the mo ment he handed it in. The French state lotteries are worked on a system which, while put ting fortunes into the pockets of lucky individuals, enables the country to raise loans when required. Each stock or bond, besides earning a small rate of interest, entitles the holder to par ticipate in a series of drawings for prizes, ranging in value from a sov ereign to several thousand pounds. The bonds range from 16 shillings to £6O and, being made payable to bearer, can be turned into ready money very easily. The drawings for prizes must, ac cording to law, take place in public, and no one, whether a bondholder or not, can be refused admittance to the Credit Fonder, where the drawing takes place. At every drawing the governor of the bank and other high officers are present, whose duty it is to siiperlntend the whole proceedings. At the commencement one of them reads out a list of big prizes to be drawn for, and also states the num ber of bonds which are to be redeemed at par. Each number is drawn by a boy from a revolving wheel or drum, varying height from four to eight feet, accord ing to the number of persons partici pating in the lottery. This boy is usu ally obtained from a neighboring or -phanage or similar Institution, and the sum of'lo francs is placed to his credit In his savings bank book as payment for his services. Before inserting his band in the aperture the boy faces the audience witMhis hand in the air, fin gers outspread, and his arm bare to the elbow, to show that he is conceal ing nothing before making the draw. As he draws each little scroll from the wheel of fortune the presiding of ficer takes off the copper covering and read 3 out the lucky number, afterward passing it round to members of the press for verification. And so the drawing goes on until the whole of the prize winning numbers have been drawn. After this the drawing of those bonds which are to be repaid at par takes place, the boy drajving them from the wheel in handfuls and empty ing them into a crystal bowl. From the latter they are taken, sorted out, counted and entered by clerks. The Italian state lottery, or lotto, as It is called, in conducted on somewhat different lines. Each week, at eight of the principal cities in Italy, five num- Ijers are publicly drawn from the num bers or.o to ninety. People have in the meantime been busy taking tickets for the lotto, on which are specified the numbers on which they are playing. If any two numbers selected by a player appear among the five drawn, he receives fifty-two and a half times his stake; if three numbers appear, .times his stake, and if four num bers, 60,000 times his stake. The low est stake is 12 centesimi, equal to about 1 penny of our coinage. Seeing, however, that there are 4,005 combinations of two In ninety numbers, 117,480 combinations of three and no fewer than 2,555,190 com binations of four, it is obvious that the odds are very heavy against winning. In spite of this, however, the lottery is very popular, as may be judged from the fact that on an average the Italian government draws £2,500,000 every year from this source. In their selection of numbers the Italian gamblers are guided to a very great extent by dreams and eventa. for no people are more superstitious. Dream books are largely published and bought, while any untoward event is looked upon as furnishing a clew to lucky numbers. Some time ago, for instance, a seri ous accident occurred at Genoa. Two horses bolted, fell headlong from an elevated piazza Into a street below and were killed, a lamp post being up set In their fall. Immediately those who witnessed the tragedy decided to £>lay the following numbers: Two (number of the horses), five (equivalent of horse), ninety (meaning accident) and sixteen and forty (the number painted on the lamp post which was upset). By a curious fluke every one of the numbers came out, aad over 6,000,000 lira—£2s2,ooo—was won. In Austria and Germany, too, gov ernment lotteries are .flourishing in stitutions. What is known as the Royal Prussian lottery has monthly drawings, and the number of tickets disposed of for each event is close on 250,000. Owing to their high price, however, these are seldom held in their integrity, and tickets for small frac tions of ea£ji are issued. Never during a whole century has the holder o£ an undivided ticket won the great stake, though thousands have won fortunes by being possessors of shares of wiiv pfng numbers.—London: Tit-Bits. A QUEER TREE The Tumbo Is a Monstrosity of the African Desert. The mature tumbo is a tree i»4th a trunk about two feet long, shaped much like an inverted cone. Almost all the trunk is below the surface of the ground, the visible part rarely exceed ing a few inches. But the remarkable feature of the stem is that it is often fourteen feet in circumference and be comes more or less a two lobed image. The stem looks more like a great mass of "the burned crust of a loaf of bread," to quote Dr. Welwltsch's letter, than the trunk of P. tree. The under ground portion becomes greatly eJon gated, and its continuation Is the top root of the plant. This goes down »e*r eral feet in its effort to get the few drops of water that the arid conditions of the country permit. There are never more than two leaves after the seed leaves drop off, and very curious leaves they are. Start ing from a groove on opposite sides of the depressed mass, they stand straight out on both sides of the plant. They are often six feet long and two feet wide aad usually split into ribbons that undulate over the ground in a way strikingly suggestive of the tentacles of an octopus. With its great ugly body and its tentacle-like lea ves it is no wonder that it has been the most re markable plant novelty of the last cen tury. The flowers are borne in scarlet conqp on a cymose Inflorescence com ing from the crown of the trunk. Tumboa bainesil belongs to the joint fir family, or gnetaceae, and is known only from Portuguese West Africa to Damaraland. This Is a region that seldom gets any rain, and desert condi tions prevail almost completely, except for the sea fogs. The tumbo is thus a desert plant par excellence, and it is only by a close approximation of these very arid conditions that we can cul tivate it.—New York Botanic Garden. The Rocky Mount Record, Thursday, April 30 , 1908. CARD GAMES. The Earliest Played In England Were Imported From Spain. Spain is generally believed to have sent us our first card games. "EI hom bre," or "the man," corrupted by us Into "ombre," was probably our earli est card game in England, and that must have come from Spain. Alsa the oldest packs of cards found in England show Spanisl* symbols, such as cupus, maces and swords. Another popular English card game in the sixteenth century was trump, clearly a form of the Spanish game triumfo. Cards could be bought in 1545 for twopence a pack. These were very wretched specimens and most inferior to those produced "by the Cardmakers' company of London, in which Charles I. created a monopoly, with the finan cial genius of his race, by buying there up cheap and selling them at a high price. In this he was a more open rogue perhaps than his father, who forbade card playing in Scotland and Indulged in it himself at every oppor tunity. Cards have always been a royal game. Queen Elizabeth played cards and lost her temper over them fre quently. She was no Anne of Austria, to play "like a queen without passion of greed or gain." In her reign was commanded to be played "at Wynd sore a Comedie or Morral devised on a game of the cardes," which resulted in the performance by the children of her majesty's chapel of "Alexander and Campaspe," in which the pretty lines occur: Cupid-and Campaspe played At cards for kisses. Cupid paid. —London Chronicle. LEARNING TO SHOOT. A Simple Rifle Target and the Way t« Practice. The first moving target that I would recommend is one that is simplicity it self and yet, with the assistance of a gentle sloping hill and a friend to take turns with you, will be of great value and benefit. One of the success ful deer hunters I know trained this way, and you will readily see the good points of this practice on trial of it Secure half a dozen barrel heads for your partner. Have him take a posi tion at the top of the hill and roll these heads down the slope diagonally. At first it will be best to select a fairly smooth slope and have the targets roll ed down at a medium rate. At fifty to seventy-five yards take your posi tion, according to your gun and am munition. If it is a 22, a somewhat smaller target might be used at a little shorter distance. At your signal one of these targets is started on its Jour neys. As It starts bring the gun to the shoulder, taking aim and swinging with the moving object. Always aim to hit the center of the object You will find that the eye naturally seeks the center, just as It is nature for one to see the front sight through the cen ter of the peep. Do not attempt to hold your gun at a point the target will pass and try to pull the trigger while it passes, but pull when the aim has been secured, just as when firing at a stationary object—Outer's Book. Where the "Brave" Excelled. Bloodthirsty, vindictive, treacherous, crafty, scornful of suffering, brave un to death when at bay, more cunning than the fox and of infinite patience on the trail, the Indian has proved more than a match for the whites in the Jungle. It is certain that more whites than savages have perished in forest fighting. But in a set battle the red man is without steadfastness and perseverance. The least reverse dis heartens him. After the first mad rush his purpose wanes, and the slightest check is apt to dispirit his capricious mind.—Lynn Tew Sprague in Outing Magazine. His Ancestors. An Irish gentleman was recently at tended by an eminent London physi cian, who, pausing and looking at him with an inquiring glance, said: "I should like to know, sir, If your family have been long lived?" "Long lived, Is It?" responded the patient thoughtfully. "Wtell, doctor, I'll just tell you how it is. Our family is a west of Ireland family, and the age of my ancestors depended entirely on the judge and jury who tried them." —Strand Magazine. Embarrassing. Bobson —You look all broken up, old man. What's the matter? Cralk—l called on Miss Pruyn last night and no sooner had I entered the parlor than her mother appeared and demanded to know my intentions. "That must have been rather embar rassing." "Yes, but that was not the worst Just as the old lady finished speaking Miss Pruyn shouted down the stairs, "Mamma, mamma, he Isn't the oner **— London Tit-Bits. Significant Silence. "What has become of your son, the young inventor, who used to advance Buch startling theories?" asked a friendly man of an old negro known to the Washington Star. **l never hear of him any more." "No, sah," replied the shrewd father, "he's re'lly Inventing something now." • One Better. First Child—Our baby can say 'Tapa." Second Child (with lofty su periority)— Our parrot can say "papa/' and papa's swear words too-—Los An geles Herald. Executive Ability. Little James—Father, what is execu tive ability? His father—The faculty of earning your bread by the sweat ot other people's brows, my son- gSubscribe To| 1 The 1 | Rocky I I Mount . | I Record | An 8 Page Home Paper I Devoted to the interests of H J| Nash and Edgecombe counties Jj§ 111 and surrounding territory... 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