$1.00 a Year, in Advance.
'FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY, AND FOR TRUTH."
Slnsla Copy,
vol; xi.
PLYMOUTH, N. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1901.
NO. &L
SNAPSHOTS FllOJI BKYAIN'S COM
- ITIONKIt.
Paul Kruger has just submitted to an
operation fur defective vision. He
strained his eyes looking for justice
among the crowned Leada of Europe.
One of the Democratic papers dis
cusses "The passing of Hann," but
the trouble is the Senate from Ohio has
the cat's habit of coming back.
The floral tributes which greeted Mr.
Quay on his re-election to the Senate re
call the fact that flowers like showers
fall alike upon the just and the unjust
. , .ThA recent burnings in thn Northern
-..ates will temporarily embarrass these
tepublican papers which take pleasure
In descanting on "Southern outrages.
The war in thePhillippines is so near
over that Secretary Root refuses to let
. 10,000 volunteers come home before he
(hia 17,000 m
' Mr. R)ckel
. h !.. ..i:
more to take tneir places.
.)ckefeller will doubtless point
to that anti-trust on well in Texas as a
proof that the Standard Oil Company is
deserving of a subsidy for its tank-ehips.
The parcels post has been indefinitely
delayed. Senutor Flatt is president of
an express company; with this as a basis
it is hot difficult to reason from cause to
effect.
If some genius will invent a green
'ack with an interest coupon attached
Ji believed that Mr. Secretary Gage
fih soon be able to look it in the face
Vathout growing faint. '
It seems that some of the Republicans
still shy at the gold standard when it
comes around a corner suddenly
Just now the proposition to redeem the
silver dollars is making them nervous.
The large army idea seems to be
more popular with Republicans now
than it was Just . before election. Let
us also hope that it is more popular
now than it will be four years henc3.
Adjutant General Corbin has just re
ceived from the Sulu archiapelago one
of His Majesty's flags. The SultaD is
not willing to have it hauled down, but
he can can afford to loan it to . the
department in return for a few uncon
stitutional courtesies. -. .
The Englishman's Frank Toast.
Albany Journal.
A well-known local minister who has
just returned from an extended Western
trip tells the lollowmg:
"Recently in Los Angeles five
prominent gentlemen of foreign birth
chanced to meet. One was a Russian.
one a Frenchman, one an American
and one an Englishman. Taese gentle
men became bosom friends,- and finally
a champagne supper was proposed, at
which each gentleman, to be in keeping
with the times, was to give a toast to
his native country, the one giving th"
best to be at no expense for the wine
Here are the toasts given:
The Russian "Here's to the stars
and bars of Russia, that were never
pulled down."
The Turk "Here's to the moons
of Turkey, whose wings , were never
clipped."
Tje Frenchman Here's to the cock
of France, whose feathers were never
picked. "
The American "Here's to the stars
and stripes of America, never trailed in
defeat."
The Englishman "Here to the
rampin' roarin' lion of Great Britain,
that tore down the stars and bars of
Russia, clipped the wings of Turkey,
picked the feathers off the cock of
France and ran like h 1 from the stars
and stripes of the United States of
America." - .
CHEAT MEN NOT SOLDIERS.
From time inioieciorial it has beet
the men who fought and won decislv
battles which were alone counted great
by their fellows. The world's progress
has wrought a change In this thing,
and, while the great general is not
without his meed of honor, men In oth
er pursuits than war share with him
the praise and appreciation of their
fellows. The inventor, the Eclentist,
the philanthropist, the men who have
Vi made the old world larger and better
I In story and song, and, by unfolding
snnture's secrets, have opened up new
fields'" 'of opportunity .and labor are
numbered today among the world's
. -eat men. The men who developed
J..e Concord grape, the Wealthy apple,
the navel orange, our improved breeds
of stock, modern dairy methods and
transportation facilities have each and
all done their country grand service
and are more worthy of memorial in
. bronze or marble than he who made
the earth run red with the blood of hlf
fellow man.
Won AVUhoul Trying.
London Lanor Leader.
A minister was on tT4vj''u along
n ."."'"I. flP'Lia V-"-' V taw
ntre.
Ait the
re you
yiTv hoever tells
ii '"mister "I am
a i if boys, lor when I
yr told lies." There
ihile, until ( ne of the
Jd him up the dog."
IIILL AltP'S IETTEB.-
V
I feel pleased and. honored to re
ceive letters every day from young
girls and boys over the south asking
for information on some subject or
for help in a school debate or for a
start in a composition just a start in
a composition just a start. These
young people are generally from the
country, where books are scarce and
their eagerness for knowledge and
mental improvement is very gratify'
ing. I wish that I was three or four
men so that I' could respond to all
their letters and comply with their
requests. I reply to as many as I
can, but I cannot take time to write
compositions, even if it was right to
do so. One boy begs me to write him
a speech, a humorous speech, and
winds up bv asking me please to
write two, so that he may take choice
We see that some of the good ladies
of the Atlanta Woman's Club are
moving to supply the country schools
with small libraries of good books and
the Southern railway has donated
neat book cases for them. This, of
course, is for Fulton county, but it is
a move in the right direction and
will, no doubt, stimulate the ladies
of other towns to do the same thing
It is the very best thing I have heard
of a woman s club doing. The desire
for books to read is almost universal
among the young people of the rural
districts, and they should be en
couraged. Books are cheaper than
ever before known, and cheap book
cases can be had for a few dollars
each. I am not at all intimate with
Mr. Carnegie, but if I was I would
whisper in his philanthropic ear and
suggest that he turn his attention for
awhile to the towns and villages and
let the big cities alone. Our Carters
ville Woman's Club is struggling
hard to keep up their little library,
but are not encouraged by the men
of the town. Their books are out all
the time, and are read and re-read by
many of the children whose fathers
do not give a dollar to help maintain
the library. This may be thought
lessness, and so I have suggested that
the ladies go around and see who will
give 50 cents or 25 cents, or even 10
cents a month to keep up the supply
and pay their room rent and inciden
tal expenses. Of course the character
of the books must be thoroughly con
sidered. Nothing sectional or trashy
or sensational; brut only those that
"point a moral or adorn a tale."
Every public school should have a
burning committee, such as they
have at Forsyth, Ua.
A bright boy from Alabama writes
that his name is John Jones, and
wants to know when and how he got
it; says his father and grandfather
had the same name, but they died
without telling where they got it
He says his schoolmate is named Will
Higginbotham and he, too, wants to
know where his name came from.
admire their eager curiosity, for our
name is our signboard and every boy
ought to know who put it up and
what it reads. Of course it is too big
a thing to tell much about names in
a letter like this, but I must tell Jack
and Bill about theirs.
John is as old as the Christian era
and means "Whom Jehovah loves."
I knew a man very well who lived
near Rome, and his four sons were
named Matthew, Mark, Luke and
John, and his two daughters were
named Mary and Martha. Those
good old-time people had great rever
ence for the Bible and Bible names.
One of my father's customers was
named Shadrack Bogan, and his three
sons were Shadrack, Meshack and
Abednego. Another customer, David
Allan, named his son Absalom, and
for a wonder he was a good boy and
made a good man, and his father,
David, had no occasion to say, "Oh,
Absalom, my-son,my son! '
Well in course of time the people
increased and multiplied so that their
children had to have two names, bo
as to distinguish them, and so John's
son was called Johnson in English,
or John Johns in Welsh. After while
it became John Jones. The Joneses
are all of Welsh origin. The Welsh
were a brave, religious people, and
fought the English for many cen
turies. They never did submit until
they were promised that no king
should rule them, except one born on
their soil, and he should be called
the prince of Wales. King Edward's
son happened to be born at a beauti
ful little Welsh town named Caernav
ron, and the Welsh accepted him as
their furure king and called him the
prince of Wales, and that is how the
title started. He was King Edward II.
Now, there was another Welsh way
of distinguishing the son from the
father. The little word "Ap" means
son gf, and it used to be written John
ap Jones, but in course of time the
little middle word was dropped. It
is a little singular that away back in
fib? tenth century the Welsh people
who had been fighting ach other in
civil wars for two hundred years at
last made friends and chose David ap
Howell for their king, and he had a
son named Evan. He was a good
man, and bis subjects always called
him Howell Da Howell the "good.
That must be our Evan of The At
lanta Constitution. He has just
been hid out all these years. I see
that the chamber of commerce gave a
banquet yesterday and Evah Howell
responded to the toast "Good Fellow
ship." That suited him exactly, I
know, and had I been there I would
have told how his great ancestors was
called the "Da" and was the last king
Wales. I called him over the tele
phone this morning and said "Hello
Da!' and he answered "Here!"
Now, about Bill Higginbotham.
That is old Anglo Saxon, and means
a mountain ark. The old name was
hicken. Probably the old ancestor
took his name from an ash tree that
shaded his house. Names were scarce,
and people took their sur-names from
objects of nature, such as hill, foun
tain, dale, peak, pine, plants, oaks,
chestnuts, grub, twigs, branch, water,
pool, moon, star, cloud and so forth;
or from their occupations as baker,
farmer, carpenter, mason, "miller, gar
dener, granger and all the family of
smiths who were the smiters of iron
and silver and gold. All who were
detailed to watch for an invading
enemy were called smiters or smiths
John Smith was originally John, the
smiter. Captain John Smith was' an
illustrious type of that class. When
names were too long to pronounce
readily, they were shortened up
Peter, who lived at the Seven Oaks
was called Peter Svnoaks; then Peter
Snooks, and that's how our Atlanta
friend came by his name.
The name Coward was originally
cow herd a herder of cattle and
was not improved by the change. The
adjutant of our brigade was named
Coward, and the army had no braver
soldier. He lost an arm at Chicka
hominy. He always signed his name
A Coward, adj't. genl., and being
asked why he did not sign his full
name, said: "Well, my first name,
unfortunately, is Adam, and it is not
quite so bad to be a coward as it is to
be a-dam coward."
A few centuries ago every civilized
nation had to adopt a prefix or a
suffix so as to prevent the confusion
of names. The English added son to
most of their names, as Johnson,
Williamson, Jackson, Thompson, etc
The Scotch prefixed with Mac. The
Irish with Mac or Mc for son and O
for grandson. The French took De
or Du. The Normans used Fitz or
fils (from Latin of fillus, a son). The
Russians took vitch from the same
word.
Then there are many nicknames to
be accounted for, such as Bob, Bill,
Dick, Jack, Jim, Sally, Polly, Betsy,
etc. I don t know how these started
but some of them came out the col
lieries of England and the quarries of
vv ales, for every miner has a nick
name as Nosey, Soaker, Shanks, Jig
ger or something easy to call. I had
a shoolmate whose name was Mel
ville Young. One day he was trying
to do a sum in Fellowship at the
blackboard and wrote down what he
intended to-D but it looked like
tod, and the teacher said "What do
you mean by tod?" That was enough
for the boys. They began to call
him Tod, and they never quit, and
he was known as Tod Young all his
after life.
But the girls are not so much in
terested in names, for almost" every
girl expects to change hers when the
right youg man comes along. She is
not obliged to marry a man named
Cruikshanks or Snoozlefanter or Hogg
but I've known them to do it, and
they did very well. Bill Akp.
P. S. In my last letter the types
made me to say 266,0tf0 confederate
soldiers. It should be 766,000 all
told from the beginning to the end of
the war. B. A.
To Telegraph Over the Ocean.
New York Sun.
The Sun is authorized to state that
the plans for the machinery of wireless
telegraphy to signal across the ocean
have been completed and a site for the
plant selected by Nikola Tesla, and
that the project will at once be actively
begun. It is estimated that the time re
quired to perfect the apparatus will be
about eight months.
We have received inquiries of late as
to Mr. Tesla s place among inventors,
and as to his credentials to fame. We
don't know fully about ttu se things,
but we do know that it is Tes'a who
has given the world what is perhaps the
most precious invention of the time,
the electrical transmission of power, and
we have seen the letter in which Prof.
Slaby of Berlin, calls him the "father of
wireless telegraphy.
Will his gorgeous vuion, described
above be realized? We don't know. So
we must let doubt and incredulity gnaw
upon the bare statement.
Burled In Q,nlcksand He Cut His
Throat.
The dead body of Alvis J. Hamilton,
a prominent young merchant of Guin,
Marion county, Ala., was found in a
quicksand bed near his home one
morning last week..
The head was the only part of the
body protruding. - The throat was cut
with a knife. Young Hamilton had
been drinking heavily, and it is suppos
ed had wandered into the quicksand
while under an hallucination occasion
ed by his drinking. There be sank in
the quicksand and was finable to extri
cate himself. Seeing a horrible death
ahead of him from exposure and suffo
cation it is supposed he cut his throat.
He was well connected.
DAILY NEWSPAPERS.
Statesvllle Landmark.
The Evening Herald, a bright little
daily afternoon paper at Henderson,
edited by Mr. Will X. Coley, formerly
of the Mocksville Times, has suspend
ed publication. In announcing the
suspension of his paper Editor Coley
says:
In our opinion, Henderson is not yet
large enough, nor is there enough busi
ness transacted in the town, for it to
support a daily paper. We at first
thought it was, but a thorough trial of
ten months has convinced us that we
were mistaken.
Mr. Coley is not the first newspaper
man who has made this sort of a mis-,
take and he won't be the last. The
newspaper field is overworked consid
ering the fact that so large a number of
our population do not take and read
their home papers but in no depart
ment is it more sadly overworked than
in the attempt to publish daily papers
in towns of small population where
there is really no field for a daily. ' Of
course some sort of a sheet can be pub
lished in a town of 2,000 or 3,000 peo
ple and called by courtesy a daily news
paper, but no well regulated editor
should be content to father Buch a pro
duction, aud no well regulated commu
nity should want such a production
sent out to represent their town.
We have submitted these remarks in
passing for the reason that The Land
mark has at various times and seasons
been urged to publish a daily paper in
States vilie. We know enough about
the newspaper business to know that
there is no field in Statesville for a daily
paper of any consequence and we would
not be content to publish one that waB
not large enough and complete enough
to command respect. Under ordinary
conditions, no town of less than 6,000
to 10,000 population is sufficient for a
daily paper even a local daily of con
sequence and sometimes even towns of
this size, or larger, do not support a
daily. Much depends on the character
of the town, its environments and mail
facilities, even when population is
deemed sufficient.
Some years ago the publishers of The
Landmark realized that Statesville ' de
served something more than a weekly
and The Landmark become a semi
weekly. Whenever we think the field
sufficient for a daily, we will, if we are
alive and standing on our feet, begin
the publication of one, but we will first
be sure that there is business enough to
make a paper that neither the publishers
nor the community will be ashamed of.
It is very easy to Hit down with pencil
and paper and figure out a profit in a
newspaper the late Chas. R. Jones
used to say that nothing else would
figure out so well but results are some-!
thing else, as every well informed news
paper man knows. Of course there are
people who will not be convinced until
they have had experience like that of
Mr. Coley at Henderson, but there are
enough daily newspaper wrecks in the
State and enough papers that have a
half-starved, slipshod appearance to
convince any experienced newspaper
man that running a daily paper or any
other sort of paper isn't as easy, and
si m pie as it looks.
Impeachment.
Concord Timeg.
The Times congratulates Representa
tive Morris on his vote against the re
solution of impeachment of the two
Justices of the Supreme Court. We as
sure him (and this assurance is based
on the fact that every man with whom
we have talked is with him) that he
voted in accordance with the wishes of
ninety-nine one hundredths of his con
stituents. We see the beginning but who can
see the end of this important matter ?
As some one has said, we "have been
oppressed with the gravity of the situa
tion," and have been astounded and
mortified at the flippant manner in
which some of the legislators have dis
cussed this great and far reaching
question. The pyrotechnics of a Craig,
the pugnacity of a Graham, and the
sophistry of an Allen are not safe pilots
to guide the Democratic ship into the
haven of permanent peace and power.
AVe Are With You, Bro. Clark.
Statesville Landmark.
A newspaper libel law which is con
sidered just and fair to the newspapers
and the public recently passed the btate
Senate. The measure was drawn by
Senator London, who is a lawyer as well
as an editor and an eminently fair and
conservative man. Now it is stated
that the House committee having the
bill under consideration will report it
unfavoraly and the Raleigh papers seem
to think the bill will fail in the House.
The newspapers are asking no special
favors but they consider this measure
fair and just to them and they demand
ts passage. A similar bill was killed
in the last Legislature and if it fails in
this the newspapers will, if they are
true to themselves, hold those whU are
responsible for its-failure individually
responsible. So far as The Landmark
is concerned it is "willing to go on
record right now. It will not support
for office any man, no matter whose
candidate he is, who shows that he has
no use for newspapers except to get
their help to boost him into office. We
want no favors of the politician but we
will not give help to those who will not
treat the press with common decency.
JOSH BILLINGS ON "MANIFEST
DESTINY."
Manifess destiny iz the science ov go
ing tew bust, or enny other place before
yu git thare. I may be rong in this cen
timent, but that iz the way it strikes me,
and i am so put together that when
enny thing Btrikes me, I immejiately
strike back. Manifest destiny mite
perhaps be blocked out agin az the
condishun that man and things find
them Hefts in with a ring in their nozes
and sumboddy hold ov the ring. I
may be rong agin, but if i am, awl i
hav got tew sa iz, i don't kno it, and
what a man don't kno ain't no damage
tew enny boddy else. The tru way that
manifess destiny had better be sot down
iz, the exact distance that a frog kan
jump down hill with a striped snake
after him; i don't kna but i may be
wrong onst more, but if the frog don't
git ketched the destiny iz jist what he iz
a looking for.
When a man falls into the bottom ov
a well and makes up hiz minde tew stay
thare, that ain't manifess destiny enny
more than having yur hair cut short iz;
but if he alm08te gits out and then falls
down agin sixteen foot deeper and
brakes off bis neck twice in the Bame
plase and dies and iz buried thare atlow
water, that iz manifess destiny on the
square. Standing behind a cow in fly
time and gitting kicked twice at one
time must feel a good deal like mani
fess destiny. Being about ten seckunda
tew late tew git an express train, and
then chasing the train with yure wife,
and an umbreller in j our hands, on a
hot day, and not getting as near tew the
train az you waz when yu started, looks
a leetle like mnifess destiny on a rale
rode trak. Going into a tempranse
house and calling for a little old Bour
bon on ice, and being told in a mile way
that "the Bourbon iz jist out, but they
hav got sum gin that cost 75 cents a
gallon in Paris," sounds tew me like the
manifess destiny ov moste tempranse
houses.
Mi dear reader, don't beleavein man
ifess destinv until yu see it. Thare iz
such a thing az manifess destiny, but
when it occurs it is like the number ov
rings on the rakoons tale, ov no great
consequense onla for ornament. Man
wan't made for a machine, if he waz,
it waz a locomotiff machine, and mani
fess destiny must git oph from the trak
when the bell rings, or git knocked
higher' than the price ov gold. Mani
fess destiny iz a diseeaze, but it iz eazy
tew heal; I hav seen in its wust stages
cured bi sawing a cord ov dn hickory
wood. I thought I had it once, it
broke out in the shape ov poetry; i sent
a speciment ov the dissease tew a maga
zine, th9 magazine wrote me nex day
as f pliers:
"Dear Sur: Yu may be a phule, but
yu are no pqeck. Yures, in haBte.
The Decline or France.
Atlanta Journal.
No nation lost so much relative im
portance during the last century as
France. At the beginning of that cen
tury there was a population oi 26,000,
000 in the territory which France now
occupies, The population of the same
.territory is now on 38,000,000. A
hundred years ago the French was a
fifth part of Europe; now they are but a
tenth. In the last hundred years the
other great nations have increased
wonderfully. At the dawn of the nine
teenth century "active humanity"
numbered less than 200,000,000; now
what may be called the progressive
peoples number at least 800,000,000.
France has by no means kept pace
with the advance of the other leading
nations. She has lost in prestige, in
comparative power and her population
has increased very little in the last
twenty-five years.
A hundred years ago France was by
far the most powerful nation of con
tinental Europe and a few years latter
had nearly every one of them at her
feet. Now she is far inferior in strength
strength to both Russia and Germany
and seems to be declining still further
instead of gaining. The last century's
history of France is a sad one.
King Edward as a Man Who Know
Thing.
London Truth.
The new King is the most exper
ienced man of the world that has ever
ascended a throne. He has seen life
in every capital, he has met every cele
brity of his time, he has for long been
in touch with almost every class of the
community, and he knows the intimate
history of his own period as no other
man does. He has visited the "thieves'
kitchen," the "doss houses," and the
opium dsns of the East End; he has
been conducted through the chief man
ufactories of the country, he has oc
cupied the chair at hundreds of meet
ings, his is the most familiar face at the
theatre, at the opera, find on the race
course; he has been to every exhibition
of importance, and almost every work
of art with any serious pretension to
merit has been submitted to him for
his approval. He is popular, he is an
j-rr-pllpnt. sneaker, he has tart and
nu nor, nis memory ib paeuumenai,
aodhe has been trained by the late
Queen to spare neither himself nor any
trouble iQ 'he exercise of his public
duties.
Dr.tleo.L. Kirby, superintendent
of the Insane Asylum at Raleigh, died
last Tuesday.
The Impeachment Case.
CharJbtte Observer.
Theophilus White held the office of
shellfish commissioner.. The Legisla
ture of 1899 undertook to abolish him,
and in a supplemental act forbade the
Treasurer of the State to pay "any
compensation to any person or persons
claiming the same for services render-
ed- concerning the shell-fish industry
unless Buch person or persons are au
thorized to render such services under
the provisions of the said act" refer
ring to the act abolishing White'e office
and creating instead of it - a shell-fish
commission composed Of Beven mem
bers. This was for the purpose of de
priving White of his salary, and he
brought Buit in the Superior Court not
against the State, which he could not
do, but against the Treasurer, who was
the custodian of the funds arising from
the sup r vision of the shell-fish indus
try and out of which funds the ex
penses of supervision were payable.
Judge Starbuck, of the Superior Courts
ordered a mandamus to issue against
the Treasurer, compelling him to pay
the amount claimed a little ever $800
apd the case went to the Supreme
Court on appeal. That court decided
the case in accordance with the decision
in Hoke vs. Henderson, in which it is
held that an office is property, and or
dered a mandamus to issue upon the
Treasurer. Chief Justice Faircloth and
J ustices Furches and Douglas concur
red in this action. For ordering the
issuance of this mandamus Judges
Furches and Douglas are now impeach
ed and Judge Faircloth would be if he
had not died.
This is the case, as briefly as it can
be stated, and the statement is made be
cause a good many persons seem not to
be familiar with the merits of the case.
Vote for Impeachment 62 to 33.
Raleish Post, 19tn.
The Craig resolution for the in ptich
ment of Chief Justice FurcJhes and
Judg Douglas of the Supreme 0 'rt,
passed the House yesterday bv a Tote
of 62 to 33.
The majority in favor of the resolu
tion was 29.' There were 16 members
paired and nine did not vote. " The Re
publicans voted againet impeachment
without a break.
The Connor resolution of disapproval
was first voted on, 12 voies being cast
in its favor and 85 againet. The other
amendments were withdrawn and only
two votes were taken on the impeach
ment proceedings, which have occupied
the attention of the House for four days
past.
The fourth day of the argument came
to an end yesterday afternoon. In all
thirty-eight speeches have been deliver
ed by the members of the House. Mr.
Ebbs, the Republican leader in the
House, made the principal speech
against impeachment, while Mr. Craig,
of Buncombe, brought the argument to
a close in an eloquent effort in favor of
his resolution of impeachment.
Today the charges against the judges
will be presented at the bar of the Sen
ate and both judicial officials must
leave the bench until the Senate vindi
cates or convicts them.
Queen City Telephone Co. Placed In
Itceel ver'tt Hands.
Charlotte, Feb. 16. The Queen City
Telephone company, an independent
concern established here some two years
ago to compete with the local exchange
of the Southern Bell Telephone com
pany, was placed in the bands of a re
ceiver last night. Dr. J. F. Robertson,
of Charlotte, being named as receiver.
The company has an extensive sys
tem here and connections with sur
rounding towns, and for some time ap
peared to be doing a good business, but
at a recent meeting of the stock holders
it was found that theie were a number
of claims outstanding which the com
pany could not meet, and it was decid
ed that a receiver should be asked for.
Receiver Robertson is authorized to
operate the exchange until March 18th,
when the plant is to be sold. A bond
of $10,000 was required of the receiver,
and each bidder must deposit a certifi
ed check for $1,000 in order to receive
consideration.
Hold On, Boys.
Hold onto your good character, for
it is and ever will be your test wealth.
Hold onto virtue; it is above all price
to you in all tiroes and places.
Hold onto your hand when you are
about to strike, steal, or do an impro
per act.
Hold onto the truth, for it will serve
you well and do you good throughout
eternity.
Hold onto your good name at all
times, f jr it is much more valuable to
you than gold.
Hold onto your temper when you are
angry, excited or imposed upon.
Hold onto God. He is the best treas
ure of earth and heaven.
Mrs. Ann Herndon Maury, widow
of -the distinguished Commodore
Matthew Fontaine Maury, "the path
finder of the sea, ' died at Richmond
last week, at the advanced age of
ninety years. She was a relative pt
Mrs, (J. U. Richmond, of Loneprd.
Until a man falls in love all girk' look
a like to him.
Any man may guess a woman's age,
but he never find's it out.