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POLICE MILITAHY IIELIC3.
Compvllrd to Wear Irafs Cuitons
and Ik Easy Target.
Practically all armies now have
uniforms of khaki or other incon
spicuous material for active fight
ing. Erass buttons hare disappeared
with the scarlet coats in which Eng
lish soldiers made themselves tar
gets for American Indiana a century
and a half ago. Even tho parada uni
forms of modern troops are quiet.
But one place brass buttons hold
their own. The policeman in most
countries, and especially in the Uni
ted States, have to wear them on pa
rade and on the firing line. Tho
thought of a policeman in his dou
ble row of brass buttons Is as pleas
ant to the burglar, the hold-up man,
the street beggar and crookdom gen
erally as was the sight of Braddock's
regulars to the Indians who am
bushed them near Fort Duquesno in
1775.
Much of a patrolman's night work
consists of prowling around dark al
leys and back doors in deserted busi
ness districts. He is permitted to
wear rubber-heeled shoes, and can
be more or less silent. He can lurk
In shadows and often get the start of
a stealthy crook. But the moment he
steps into a street light or even
comes up an alley in the dark he is
as visible as though he were Illumi
nated. His double row of brass but
tons make him not only a walking
figs post on the darkest night, but
but also a plain target If It comes
to shooting.
The) rights of the soldier the world
over to offer i Inconspicuous a
tbootlag mark sjs possible hare beea
jnfvertmlty admitted. But the indus
trious) policeman U sttH hampered by
a antiquated tradition to tb matter
Of uniform. He la a military anach
ronism. Old Roman Recipes.
Women of ancient, luxurious Ronu
used to eat parsley as a mouth cleans
er. Honey boiled in wine and aniseed
was also a sweetener of the breath
and pastils of myrtle were employed
for the same purpose. Silver tongs aud
knlres were employed in caring for
the nails. No woman ot social emin
ence cut her own Anger nails; those
Who had not skilled slaves employed
barber. Perfection in these respects
fU one of the thirty beauties attrib
uted to Helen of Troy. Great pains
were bestowed on the feet, for it was
considered that the breeding was be
trayed by them as taslly as by the
hands. They were always much in
evidence, the sandals worn not hiding
them. Long, tapering fingers were
highly prized. Various kinds of herb
decoctions were employed to beautify
the flnges. Pliny gives recipes for re
moving any undcJred substances from
the nails.
Asses' milk contributed to the white
ness of the women's skin. It was some
times poured into the bath and the
whole body laved in It and sometimes
the hands and face were sponged with
it from a silver basin, the syft linen
towel completing the process. The
hair was delicately scented and ail
kinds of washes and burnishes were
applied to It It took many slaves ro
bring the tresses Into tho classic bands
or high pyramids which were the lash
ion at various tim-s. lerfumes were
not only applied to h3ir. hands,
clothes and the person generally, but
pervaded the rooms, which were hung
with garlands and decorated with
fcloome of many kind3. The dresses
of Roman matrons were made bril
liant with various processes of pres
sing and smoothing, machines being
employed for the purpcoe.
Though most refined In the duties ol
the toilet the women of that day were
barbaric in their cruelty Woe bo to
the poor slave who failed to follow
her mistress' command; she was whip
ped by the public flagellator if she did
not fall a prey to the- personal fury of
her mistress, who would hurl at her
victim the mirror or anything else at
hand and would cot diedaln to pierce
her tender flesh with the long ever
ready hairpin if nails teeth and hands
Were not sufficient
Danger From Tho Plague.
There' grave dan3er from the plague of
Congo? aud Cold? that ate no prevalent.
anlH yon take Dr. King's New Discovery
for Consumption, Coupes and Colds Mrs.
Geo. Wall, of f'orext City. Me., wrtes: "It'
a Godsend to people living in climates
where coughs and cold prevail I sod it
quickly end llieui. It prevents Pneumonia,
cares La, Grippe, gives wouuerful relief in
Asthma aud Hay Fever, and laukes weak
Inugs strong enough to ward off Consnmp
Hon, Coughs ad Colds. SQc and $1 00.
(Kytrmterd by Bproill k Bro. Trial bottle
fw:e.
Mesne Pwple Bare Taken to Keep
Their Money Safe.
One of our best-known members
of Parliament built himself a man-
I sion in a remote part of Hampshire,
on the confines of the New Forest.
J Ho noticed during the progress of
: the work that a contractor's clerk
! came back from the railway station
bringing with htm a walking stick
i bearing a lable addressed to his em
j ployer. This always happened on a
Friday afternoon, and he became cu
rious to know the reason.
When he asked for an explanation
of the mystery thecontractor touched
a spring in the handle, screwed off a
a headpiece, and, turning the stick
upside down, rolled out on the table
a heap of sovereigns.
It appears that the nearest local
bank could not be used In time for
weekly pay. Accordingly the con
tractor had the stick made, tho inte
rior of which was hollowed out In
order to take the sovereigns. The
precious freight Amounted to 100,
and was despatched every week as
an ordinary parcel. During the
whole time It never miscarried.
Possibly a more remarkable sav
ings bank was found during an In
quest held In London recently. It
was discovered that the deceased
had a wooden leg, within which were
a number of sovereigns wrapped In
a kid glove. Surely a wooden leg Is
one of the most peculiar banks Imag
inable. A short time ago an old miser died,
at Brescia. She lately revealed a.
singular hoarding place for treasure.
She had ayways lived as one in deep
poverty, and had carefully excluded
all neighbors from her apartment.
When she was taken ill and felt
the approach of death she sent for a
notary, to whom she confided the
hiding place of her money.
She had lived In constant dread of
robbery or loss, and so for years had
preserved the whole of her money in
a hollowed out leg of a certain table
In the room. When search was be
ing made before properly accredited
witnesses a sum of 5,000 was
brought to light in money securities.
A sum of over a quarter of a mil
lion pounds has been thrown Into
the ash pit by the government. This
extraordinary exhibition of waste of
public money was found out some
little time ago. It was discovered
that scrap brass had been used for
road making.
Originally the ashes from the
brass foundry and rolling mills of
the Royal Laboratory and other fac
tories were regarded as so much
waste material. As a matter of fact,
they were given to the superintend
ent for the purpose of making roads
anl pathways.
This went on for a number of
years, when a wideawake coa tractor
Eii 'to know of it. lie feaeronel aaV
red to remove tho ashca from the
fire holes and to give the govern
ment the sum of 3 s. Id. a ton for
them Into the bargain.
After this arrangement had been
going on for some time It was dis
covered that tho contractor was sell
ing the refuse at 6 a ton. Then the
ordinance officials took the matter
Into their own hands aud issued
proper tender forms for them.
Then the firm which had used to
paying 3s. 4d. a ton offered 5 to 6
a ton, while eventually as much as
7 .7s. Sd. per ton was offered for
the waste ashes. This means a reve
nue of 10,000 a year, which hith
erto had been thrown Into the ash
pit. Actually, It Is estimated that a
quarter of a million pounds has been
wasted by the military officials who
thoughtlessly threw the refuse away
A sum of 8,000 was found in the
mud at Liverpool a short time ago.
This was in the mud behind the
landing stage water, where a cash
box was found containing a number
of bank notes and about 8,000 In
securities. Pearson's Weekly.
Telephone Stops Log lams.
When Alexander Graham Bell
spoke his first message over tho tele
phone, thirty years ago, he had no
idea that the instrument would be
used to break "log Jams," the terri
ble bane of the logman's career. No
more Interesting Incident of the in
vasion of modern invention into the
pathless forest than how the tele
phone thus saves hundred of lives
each year has been told for many a
day. The life of the logman the
hardy work of felling trees and the
perilous task of floating them down
streams to the sawmill presents a
scene Into which it scarcely seems
the Ingenious Inventor would ever
break his way. But the telephone has
made log jams an event of the past.
The passing of the log Jam Is an
occasion of rejoicing by the wood
man, but not to the devotee of pic
turesque Bcenes of the woods. It is a
wonderful sight to see the logs piled
almost inextricably on top of each
other in a rushing stream, and It Is a
thrilling spectacle to watch the dar
ing woodsman cut away the Jog that
Is the key to the Jam and then as the
logs begin to move see him skip nim
bly over the moving pieces of tim
ber to safety on tho shore. Now,
however, the man who makes his an
nual trip into the woods of Maine or
Canada to watch the logman bring
tho fruits of a winter's work down a
mountain stream will be disappoint
ed. The Jama are never permitted to
form. At the first sign of a clog one
of the men patrolling tho banks of
the river telephones upstream to
I have the Cow of logs stopped to the
! quiet stretches, called "trips. " In
this way the Jams are nipped In the
. bud. is soon as the incipient trouble
. Is 'over the men along the trips are
( notified by telephone and the stream
of logs moves along again.
CURES AFTEh.
RHEUMACIDE rus cured tri-cn
had failed. Rheumao.Jo
Johns Hopkins Hosplt?:,
of Salem. Va.. and D. H.
remedies and the doctors h.-.
Alaiost a Mlrac'e in This Csv.
Billon, t. C. .- ;
Bobbitt Chemical Company:
tionilenieii : In September, '"). I r k 'en
matistn in a very bad form (inflaium;ut'- . 1"
r.iontli Hiter tlio disc !J if rtcd 1 dad i r
Biy w;Tkand eo to K.-U. it rcntim" o -.v -worse
until my ariuS trid l.i;i,ds - ft I
drawn, so much so that 1 '"n" roi tlifni
Mylw wcv : (ir.-fvr ' :.r't : '.e f -!" i?o-
my hips, t w-.s us he ip loss ?s . ba: : nenr!:
It months. Te muscle' ..i; .i . ..- and ' ?!.
wereliard :;nd shriveled fi..1 rlratli
many times o r Was ti ted Ly s..t .'i: .-it
physicians in i 'Co1' V: i di Jk.ari.- I
none of then c-'i ld mi any o.: : J.
P. Kvin. of JMIIo.i. nn 'A er . r.. II I
me la try your RH',;i'.l . i'.. ' oi :
Lottie 'it the m-'i'--ine r.j 1 -. .o t . H.
nnd tx-fr.re thet.'i' . . . I r - . 'i n
to uet betrcr. T t:r t.'-s Vot. i.. ' cr
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'oeean taks ;t I evid w.-.'k us od as any
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METHOD OF TRAVELING.
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tlffotive, June Int. 15H. Pel , Rt
itn priucipitl ticket .fflt-e. InterchnugeHblB
Mileiie Tickets, go.Hl for trausMirtaUu
for on thousand mil. s. t rale l $J5.MI
esch. ThB tickets are Rood liir traunpor
utinn ovsr ths lbllowiur, ewmpriMnii about
15,000 mile f railway aud sleauihlup hues:
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SavMiiimli A tnteiboro Ky.
Spihinrl Air i.in- Hy.
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Werteru tt; Atlmiiic Uy.
VcntMH Hy. of Alulmina. ,
Iuierclmujeble MilsaRe Tickets isHiied
by tli xve utrut-d linen will b accepted
for trannportaliuu oyer th N & K. K.
TheHo ticket pregf nt n cheap and con
veniwiit method f traveling t tl- public.
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General PftMeimer Agent.
Our Clubbing Offer.
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Plymouth, N. C.
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A Dttty Mtdlola for Buy ?opl.
Prlnjs Golden Health sad Braewti Vigor.
piocMo for Contijft!on, lnlkrtton, IJee
'ii.l Kidney Trouble, Pimples. Ecemn. trapur
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n J liackaoiie. It's Rooky MouatAln Tea In tab
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NOTICE!
I drilletl Ihf Ariciti Well for
Mr. C. J. Norman, ami for the town
of IM mouth, N. C. Why not Ivt
me drill one for von? A things all
orders to i'. (. Eluh,
P. O. Box E. Branchvills,
2-1 Soutbaiupton Co., Va.
For Bale.
I ks?e a f'd, lrt. aeea4-kail
eriag wagea, ia geo ruasiaf order,
that I will sell st a bargain. Arply
B. S. CAnoH,
8kinner.ill, N. C.
WANTED: Two raon in each coanty
to represeut sud ndverttNe. Hardware d
parthieut, put Ut nainplrs f onr Kfw.d,
etc Trnvelinj? P;itiou or Office Uaua.t;r.
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Usui til IqtiY. tirO M fif Ct4!fftl lh l
levlr aU other seosh euree are censUtavUng. eapeciaUr those conUlnln Ootatei. Kennedy! Umatite
.Sold hy 1 K. DAVENI'ORT.
BimiCIIie BI1ICM., ISIlICKk.
Having installed the latest improved
machinery for the liianutaeture of brick,
I am now prepared to furnish building
brick in largo or small lots, at moderate
prices. The material used ia tho finest
and the worK the best to be bad.
Those intending to build should writo
for samples and prices before placing
their orders elsewhere.
Transportation is good, my Kilns being
directly at tho junction of tho A, C, L.
and N. & S. Hailroads.
Tasteless Chill
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Rheumatism aftsr a! I the do"'
others, of Bait: morns, after
wor?d, had failed. Rheumacl
contractor, after they had spznt
h'it. Rriv'.urnacidc cured sirs. Mary v2Lor;i, cr ntn v oirt, h.
naWft had eiidurcd for 0 yars. R'ncumacidc cured W. R.
i-A ,Wr.:,. Vn... ci'l-af the most famous New York s-fcciai.'sts failed.
Rhcur.-.Qcide is the
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BAK OF IIYlVIOTJrrHL
At Plymouth, in the iutf of North Careliua. at the Clone of Busmen, Bent. 4, lWW.
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day of xpt, lfOS.
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