John "W. Carter & Co.,
DANVILLE, VX,
Wholesale
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We carry a large stock at all times. Our facilities for promptly filling orders arc
unexcelled.
We Pay Telephone Charges
on all messages from any point in the Reidsville system and will be glad to furnish
merchants quotations at any time. Telephone orders receive prompt attention.
Call us up occasionally. ,' Yours to Serve.
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HODNETT, VASS & WATSON,
3Iiin Street, lmivill "Vix.
DEALERS IN
Tobacco Flues and Sheet Iron
Cane Mills and Evaporators,
Cider Bills,- Majestic Steel Ranges,
IRON KING COOK STOVLS,
Plows. Horse and Mule Shoes, Nails, Slate and
Tin Roofing, Sheet Gopper, Etc.i
. - . .. i j. t ii. ......... rA Tttiilinur Material. Buch aa Sash. Doors and
IO lAC.l ail KlUUB UI Iliuic
mX, Lock,, Hinee.,f.i, 0.
band Leather and Kubber lieiting. racxing
bacco Manufacturer's Supplies a ooeciauy.
Give us a call before buying. It is a pleasure to show goods, whether yr u
buy or not. We pay charges on all telphone messages from any point m the
Reidsville system, van us up ai our cjuk.
Hodnett, Vass Watson,
Main Street,
C. D. NOELL.
S. P. WIMBIH,
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R.OYISIOHS
MEATS, LARD, SUGAR,
Coffee, Bran, Shipstuff,
Kinds Seed and
FLOUR !
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ReidsYille Telephone System.
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C. D. Noell & Co.,
PROPRIETORS OF -
LEE'S WAREHOUSE,
DANVILLE, VA.,
Are the People to Sell Your Leaf Tobacco.
Mr. J. Walter Jones, of Rockingham, is with us.
Security, Fidelity,
Promptness, Highest Market Prices.
Danville 'is conceded to be the greatest Bright Tobacco Market in the world,
selline annually forty to fifty million pounds. The largest handlers both for home
use Canada and European countries get their supplies here. Danville has over two
hundred buyers who are anxious to buy all the tobacco raised in Virginia, North
and South Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia. The great competition between so
tnnnvhuvers insures the highest market prices. Send us your shipments. We sell
fn the hitrhest bidder at auction. Knowing
of the many grades, can serve you most
We will pay 'Phone charges from any point in the Reidsville system when our
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the wants of the trade and the value
acceptably. Yours truly,
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tiEXEHAL XK1VS.
A disptitch from Wasniugton says it
is semi-orhciailv announced that Gen.
Joe Whet l-r will be made military gov
ernor of junua.
General Otis has advieed the War
Department that an army of 30,000
men will be large enough for the oper
ations in the Philippines.
Uuited State Senator J. K. Jones, of
Arkansas, chairman of the Democratic
national committee, denied a published
statement that he intended resigning
the chairmanship of tne committee.
Six years ago Samuel Fasco was elected
Senator from Florida lor his secoad term
by acclamation. He receiyed thirty totes
on the 19th out of ninety -six in the Legis
lature. James P. Taliaferro, of Jack
sonville, receiving fifty-nine votes on
the fir-it joint ballot, was declared elect
ed. Former Senator Call received 6
and Clark 1 vote.
A Southern Pacific freight train
crashed through a burning bridge at
East Gilla Bend, Arizona, April 24. All
the cars were piled, one on another.
The engine caught fire. Conductor
Davey and Fireman Courtney were
buried in the wreck and burned to
death. Engineer Adams was injured
badly. He was taken to bis home at
Tuscon by special train.
It is announced here that Speaker
Thomas B. Reed, of Maine, baa accepted
the offer to become a member of the
law farm of bimpeon, lhacher & Uar-
num, in this city. Mr. Reed, it is un
derstood, will resign his seat in Congress
and remove to Newiork. The state
roent has been made that Mr. Keed is
guaranteed a income of $50,000. Be
fore setting down here Mr. Reed will
make a protracted visit to Europe.
Tiler 1 Welcome for the Prodigal.
Statesvllle Mascot.
The prodigal son of, Bible times did
not demand that his , father move his
house out to him in the hog pasture I
but, when he got tired of hoe feed and
hog company, he arose and returned to
his father's house. The prodigals who
left the Democratic party, in 1806 and
voted with the Republicans are dissatis
fied with what they have received from
their late allies aud are tired of their
company ; but they demand that tbe
old Democratic house be moved to them .
The loyal sons who have stayed at home
object to this, and say that if the wan
derers want tq be back witn them they
must return to the nomestead. Mr.
Bryan voiced the sentiment of the party
on this subject in his New York speech
Saturday night.
Served Them flight.
Baltimore Herald.
The general statement that it takes a
woman to rebuke another woman's
rudenets is borne out by the following
story; A lady entered a railway train
and took a seat in front of a newly
married couple. She was scarcely seat
ed before they began to pass remarks
about her. Her last year's bonnet and
cloak were fully criticised, with more or
less giggling on the bride's part, and
there is uo telling what might have
come next if she had not put a sudden
stop to the conversation by a bit of
strategy. She turued her head, no
ticed that the bride was considerably
older than the groom, and, in the
smoothest of tones, said :
"Madam, will you please ask your
son to close the window behind you ?"
The "son" clWdtits mouth, and the
bride no longer giggled.
He W as l ied to It.
'So Bangs has gone to jail for for
gery! Who would have thought it!"
"It is very sad. Four years solitary
confinement. It will kill him."
"Oh. no! he won't mind that part of
it at all. He is quite used to solitary
confinement."
"Indeed! Has he ever been in jail
before?"
"No; but he has been clerking for
six years in an establishment that never
ad ver ti sed .
"Who i Who!"
"Your grandfather used to saw wood
for my grandfather.
"Yes; I've heard him tell how your
grandfather beat him down on his price
and half the time did'nt pay him."
In Windsor Castle there is a suite of
rooms for the use of the queen's chap
lain. A private passage connects the
chaplain's study with the queen's apart
ments, and she frequently repairs there
to consult him on important matters.
One day as the queen was returning to
her apartments after an interview,
parrot callea out some words in a cross
tone of vdfee from its cage in the pas
sage. Failing to understand the sounds,
the queen turned to the chaplain and
asked-: "What is the parrot saying?"
ith much embarrassment, he replied:
"If you please, your Majesty, I would
rather not repeat it." "But what was
it?" she said. "Something, I fear your
Majesty will not like; therefore, I hope
your Majesty will excuse me from tell
ing it. xne queen s curiosity was
now thoroughly aroused, and 6he said :
"Come, I insist." The chaplain bowed
low ana maae answer: since your
Majesty insists, the parrot said, 'Go
along, you ugly old woman!' " Queen
v ictoria laughed hearulv a she said
"Well, I am glad there is at least one
voice in the kingdom which is not
afraid to tell me what it thinks of me.'
From September 14 to November 30
of this year Philadelphia will hold a
great exposition to encourage the devel
opment of American manufactures and
than $900,000 has already been raised
for this exposition, and it will probably
be the best display of American manu
FHA.CES.
Baltimore t un. v
Feopto who are frauk seldom get into
any niibur.dt-rsUndings with their fel
lows or dirhrulties if auy kind. They
cbech any tendency to misconception
of their views or purposes by frankly
avowing them, and are incapable of
entering upon an intrigue. But there
are relatively few people who are en
tirely frank, and hence in real life, aa
well as in novels ai4 plays, there fire
many misunderstandings and many in
trigues. Fiction, indeed, could scarcely
exist if ita characters were frank and
outspoken. There is scarcely a novel
or a play which is not dependent for
the interest it excites upon some mis
understanding arising from a want of
frankness on the part of some of the
characters. Sometimes it is the villain
who deliberately misleads the other
characters and conceals bis purposes;
sometimes it is the hero or heroine
who fails to speak the right word at the
right time through, pride of perversity,
and thus gives rise to the story. 'or
are these novels and plays mere works
of imagination. They are founded
upon the experiences of men and wo
men and are Valued only as they ap
proach our conceptions of truth re
specting characters and events. But
the individual need not be deterred by
this consideration from cultivating
frankness. His neighbors can be relied
upon to furnish the material for mis
understandings and intrigues, while he
enjoys the peace of mind that comes
of truths. It is not always easy, how
ever, to determine the ;,roper limita
tions ot irankness. hen it is as
sumed it often degenerates into brutal
bluntness and gives rise not to misun
derstandings, but to the opposite.
Every one has met the man or woman
who prefaces disagreeable remarks or
interference in other people's affairs
with the saying: "I never hesitate to
speak my mind," or "I think it only
right to irankly say," Ac. The frank
ness that is commendable comes from
the truth that is in one's heart. It is
not obtrusive, nor is it subject to re
pression bv pride or any of the baser
passions. hen one is recommended
to cultivate frankness he is not advised
to merely assume it, but to plant the
seed and nourish it. The seed is truth,
of which frankness in only the fruit.
We cannot have the fruit without the
seed, but we may have the seed and so
gleet it that it will never grow and
bear fruit. To be frank wc must not
only have truth in our hearts, but have
thecourage to give it expression, and
the lack of courage is generally the
chief impediment. A desire to avoid
controversy or a. tlielike of what are
called "scenes," or pride mav have to
be overcome if we would speak frank
and we may not have the moral
courage . to overcome tnese impeui-
ments to free speaking, lo cultivate
frankness, therefore, we must firct of
all have truth in our hearts, and then
develop the moral courage required to
give it expression. But this is not all;
we must, at the same time, keep con
trol of our tempers that frankness may
not degenerate into scolding or into
unnecessary bluntness. The man who
is frank in the best sense of the word is
the ideal gentleman true, courageous,
considerate. We should all cultivate
frankness, never merel) assume it.
Burned to Death while Trying lo Save
Her Treasure.
Bellefonte, Pa., April 24. Mrs.
William Meyer, "an . aged widow living
near Boalsburg, in this county, was
burned to death last niht while a large
crowd of men stood helpless to rescue
her from her home, wnich was acci
dentally set on fire. The woman wae
alone and started to save as much prop
erty as possible from her burning home.
She had carried out everything of value
except a trunk, in which there was con
siderable money, and insisted on rush
ing into the house. She whs caught
and dragged back twice, but the third
time 9he broke away aud dashed for the
burning building. A moment later
she was seen at the upper window with
her clothes and hair afirb trying to raise
the trunk to the sill to pitch it out.
After several vain efforts (-he sank back,
rler charred body was recovered.
The Story of a Letter.
The National Advertiser tells a storv
of an old bachelor who bought a pair
of socks and found attached to one of
them a slip of paper with these words
"I am a young lady of 20, and would
like to correspond with a bachelor with
a view to matrimony." Name and ad
dress were given. The bachelor wrote
and in a few days got this letter: "Ma
ma wis married 20 years ago. The
man you bought those socks from evi
dently did not advertise, or he would
have sold them long ago. Mamma
handed me your letter, and said possi
bly I might suit you. I am 18 years
old."
Teacher Writes With Her Foot.
Valparaiso, Ind., April 19. A
school teacher, who without hands con
trols and instructs her pupils, is the
pride of Porter county. She is Miss
Mary Bradt, and was born with one
arm ending midway between the elbow
and shoulder, and the other near the
elbow. She sews upon a sewing machine
and she also manages a needle. She
crochets and does fancy work. She
writes a neat running band, holding
the penholder between the ends of her
arms, and she can write with her right
foot.
Doctor The patient is beset with
the idea that the land as far as ho can
see belongs to him.
Judge I wouldn't call that insanity.
It is merely incipient political ambition.
Yeast Did you ever take any of those
mud baths?
Crimsonbeak Well, I ran for office
Carolina Mill Men Talk of Combining.
Charlotte, X. C, April 21. The
fine goods weavers of North aud South
Carolina, w ho began a meeting here
last night, have appointed a committee
to visit the New Eueland mills thortlv
to look into the laws governing trusts
and combinations.
The manufacturers who met here
wished to inaugurate a pool of alt the
fine cloth mills and sell through one
agent, and that a committee of three
representative members be appointed to
control this agent. The laws of North
Carolina and South Carolina are very
strict In regard to trusts and combines
and especially is this true of manufac
tured products.
It is a question as to whether or
not the combination would Ins legitl,
and it is also a question as to whether
the boards of directors of the different
mills would sustain such -action as is
contemplated at the meeting;. Some of
the representatives would not participate
in the meeting on account ot the latter
cause.
The Observer of Saturday says the
mill men adjourned without action. A
committee was appointed to consider
the legal aspect of the proposed agree
ment.
There is in New York an anti-vacci
nation society, which combats the gen
erally accepted theorv that vaccination
is a preventative of smallpox. It calls
vaccination "a filthy rite, which al
ready has Blain more than war, cor
rupted the blood of millions, and is
rapidly contributing towards the degen
eracy of the race.' In a circular re
cently sent out, Mr. E C. Townsend,
secretary of this society, further says:
"Do you know anything about vac
cine virus, how it is obtained, how it
operates to prevent, cure tr mitigate
smallpox, or that it does so operate ?
The truth is, there never has been the
most shadowy scientific basis for the
practice of vaccination. There is abso
lutely no evidence worthy of credence,
by any man of reflection, to show that
vaccination ever saved a hurrian being
frorn smallpox, except. by killing him
before Btnallpox had a chance at him.
" 'Pure vaccine,' (so called) is a septic
poison, being the putrefying matter
from a sore on a beast that may haye
been inoculated with virus trom a syph
ilitic person, besides being at the time
afflicted with tuberculosis. And the
thrusting of this filth into circulation
is the essential feature of official vacci
nation. There ia nothing worse than
this, with which to vitiate pure blood,
impair the general health, and jeopard
ize the life of your child."
Negroes are pouring out of Wilming
ton "exodusters." as they are termed.
White labor is crowding them out and
they are going North at the rate of from
50to 300 a day. Some are goiDg to
Baltimore, but moBt of them are go
farther north. Business men in Wil
mington do not employ a negro if they
can get a white man to do the work. In
all manner of ways the departure of the
negroes is facilitated, wmie people
are going into Hilmingtou rapidly,
often at the expense of the farmers.
There are huudreds of unemployed
negroes who must go elsewhere to get
homes and work.
Conservatiye Democrats, it is eaui,
will attempt to prevent the nomination
of Mr. Bryan by the national conven
tion next year. Lie-Senator borman,
of Maryland, is their choice for the
nomination.
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in the Back?
Then probably the kidneys, g
In the Ohesi? I
Then probably the lungs. :
Then probably rheumatism.
No matter where it is, nor what
kind; you need have it no longer.
It may be an hour, a day, or a
year old ; it must yield to
i9
() Immediately after applying it you
3- feel its soothing, warming, strength
ening power.
It quiets congestion; draws ou
inflammation.
It is a new plaster.
A new combination of new
remedies. Made after new
methods. Entirely unlike any
other plaster.
The Triumph of Modern Medical
Science.
Me" Perfected Product of yeara ol
Patient Toil.
Placed over the chest it ia a
powerful aid to Ayert Cherry Pec
toral in the treatment of all throat
and lung affections.
Placed over the stomach, it stops
nausea and vomiting; over the
bowels, it controls cramps and colic.
Placed over the small of the back,
it removes all congestion from the
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A f "weakness.
l For sale by all Draggista.
) J. C. Ayer Co., Lowell, Mass.
kidnevs and greatly strengthens
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Our supplv of Shoes, etc., es
pecially
OXFORD TIES
is entirely complete in every
respect.
YOU SHALL BE
SATISFIED
With the Shoes you get here.
You are not helping us when you
keep a shoe you don't like. Sim
ply bring it back and get your
money.
WOOTEN BROS.
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I sell new Pianos direct from
the factory for $165.
I sell new Organs for $35. "
I save you city dealers' large
profits-.
All instruments sent free of
freight and on ten days' trial.
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T. W. IXlTN SOTV,
LEAKSVILLE, N. C.
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Physicians and Surgeons in charge:
J, C. -Walton, J. A. Williams.
MISS S. G. PAKISII, Head Nuree.
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