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3 40 H: a MARTIN, Editor and Proprietor. " An Independent Family Newspaper. Subscription Price One Dollar o Year- VOLUME V. . LEXOIR. NQRTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1903. NO. 52. ' . -i ' ; - . ! ,1 ILL iirt LKTTKa. - AtUata OmaU . - Joel Chandler Hutu say that "eaiy reading ia hard writing," and Sheridan (ires the antithesis when be say, "To writs wise mm to show jMf breeding, Bat mt vraia nrM hart rasaim." I em too sick to writ easy, but I don't wiah to b carat about it This gloomy w either take away all my hilarity. " Lowell say. "Oh. what'e ao rare aaa day in Jane." It haa rained I every day and every night iin the lt and we didn't like it at our house, for it waa my wife'a birthday and wef oped it would be bright and balmy, for the poor woman don't get but two maternal feast in a year and two paternal kiaeea. I waa aick the night before and ahe waa up with me half the night and altpt late. I had creeped in to breakfast and alipped a five-dollar gold piece under her plate and intended to rise and kiaa her unwrinkled brow when ahe appear ed, but the alipped up behind me and kissed me first. She never did it that way before and the boys hint that she aaw the gold shiuing and it excited her libial views and oscillatory glands and she couldn't refrain. "Gold, sold, gold, gold, Bright and yellow, bard md ootd, Heavy to get and lUut to bold. Spent tT the young and bugged by tne old To save, to ruin, to curie or to blew. Now stamped wltb tbe Image of aood Queon Bees And now of bloody Mary." But she got more than I gave her and nobody got a kiss but me. "Chil dren," said I, "this is your mother's seventy-second birthday. You know that the stars fell seventy-two years ago and that's the reason they did fall. They knew that a brighter light was coming and so they paled their ineffect ual fires and fell to the ground and expired." "I am only 71," said my wife, "Why do you try to make me 72?" "Because," said I "you have had seventy-two birthdays. You had one the day you were born. When you were a year old you had had two." Then she gave it up. These birthdays are the mile stones that measure the journey of life. Next Monday I will be 72. On the 23rd one of the girls will be 40. On the 24th my mother was born and so was my little grandchild, Caroline, who was named for her. My wife can tell the birthday of every child and grandchild, but 1 know onry half a dozen. Well the Mexican boy did come and for a whole week we have feasted on his presence and listened to the same old songs he used to sing, lie is a fine singer and has plenty of help from the children and grandchildren. And tbe night was Oiled with music And the cares that Infest the day Folded their tents like tbe Arabs And silently stole away. And the little boy, who is only 20 months old, and looks like me, joins in the hilarity and tried to sing, and holds up his skirt and dances the cake- walk and kicks up his feet and bows to the audience with great solemnity. He is the monkey in the show, and his young mother thinks he is the smartest and prettiest child in all the world, and I think so, for they Bay he is'just like me. What kind of a world would this be without these little children, and yet the last census says they are not wanted up in New England any more. They say that Roosevelt loves children and wants to encourage maternity Well, I'll give him credit for that when he retracts and apologizes. Our Mexi can boy says the peons of Mexico have them by the score. Their adobe houses have but one big room with a dirt floor, and you will see a man and his wife and a flock of dirty, lousy, greasy chil ' dren and half a dozen dogs all gathered there by day and roosting there by night. A peon is the biggest vagabond on earth. He will work one or two days in a week for 87 cent a day and be paid in Mexican Bilver that is worth only half what ours is, and he and the family and the dogs will live on this for a week. They will steal everything that is in sight and not locked up; says he has known them to break into'a car that waa sidetracked and steal and carry off 2,000 pounds of machinery. They will get it to the city some way and sell it to a junk shop for a dollar or two Tbe Americans do all the manufactur tag; the Germans all tbe hardware busi ness; the French all the silk and line goods, and the natives all.the little shot business and run the saloons. Beside the archbishop and bishops, no lets than twentyflve priest officiate around " the chancel in the great cathedral every day. Somebody must ty there . to receive the offerings and grant abed ' lution remission of tin. This ia tbe largest cathedral ia the world except three. It U 400 feet long, 440 feet wide and 110 from the floor to the cellfn and the wall are literally overlaid with gold and silver Imtge and orudflxe The church li rich and control Pre! dent Diat, Diaz controls the GaaiiUiarV andthe police all over the towne and cities; and the police control the poena ad the common people.' So at the last it U the priesthood that dominates the government liberal concession are given to Americana to build railroads and dig canal and to mine for precious metal. The charter under which the Mexican National was built requires seventeen members of the board of directors, and five of them must live in Mexico; Ibe others may live anywhere. Our boy burl is a Mexican director, hav ing lived -there long enough to become eligible, and that ia how he waa called to New York last wetk to a meeting of the board and got a chance to come by home and see us for a week. And now the time of tribulations is near at hand, snd he will leave us and we may never see him again. Such is life, and only death will end it. Bill Arp. No More Keller Fends Herded. Charlotte Observer. The following is a portion of an edi torial in The Spartanburg Journal of yesterday, under the caption, 'VAaEm barraasment of Riches :" . . . . . "At tbe risk of appearing ungracious it must be stated thatthe relief com mittee is about to experience an em barrassment of riches in the general and lavish contributions which have been forwarded hen for the relief of the Hood sufferers." This statement, coupled with that of Mayor Calvert, given out Tuesday night, seems to establish the fact that the flood sufferers in South Carolina are not in need of further aid. there fore the outside relief committees may cease their efforts with tbe knowledge of duty well performed. As a way out of an embarrassing situation, should the money continue to come in the Spar tanburg committee could deposit the surplus for use when another calamity befalls any section, for this seems to be a season of floods and tornadoes. The generous response to thcry for aid from South Carolina is a most pleasing fact, and again proves that "one touch of nature makes the whole orld kin." I'rnl. Totlen'e Prophecy. Prof. W. C. L. Totten, a writor on the mystical and horological prophecies, formerly military instructor at Yale and captain in the United States army, says: The recent Eastern Passover full moon of April 11-12, 1903, which was eclipsed as it rose at sunset, was an ex tremely rare occurrence and marked absolute midnight or 'low 12' on the universal dial of the ages. From now on the clock will be striking 'XII' for 1416 years, with so many punctuated events of note that no one will need to misunderstand them. The wrath of God will be literally poured out upon all nations that have ever lifted their hands against the Jens. 'Things will move rapidly from now on. America will certainly ie involv ed in the Eastern question in every sense of the word, and the United States is the direct agent put forth in prophecy itself (Ezekiel, xviii) to lead the nations in the restoration of the Jews to Palestine." To Itebulld tbe mill Spartanburg, S. C.June 11. Phoe- mx-hke, from the chaos of the once busy mills of Pacolet and Clifton now lying as a giant expired, there will arise new mills to supplant the old, and the valley will once again resound with the hum and whirl of thousands of spin dies, giving employment to hundreds of contented people. The stockholders of the devastated concerns will hold meeting in July, at which the capital stock of the Pacolet mills will be in creased. Mill No. 8 will be repaired at once, and it is expected that the mill will be in operation within six months The Cliftons will also be rebuilt, but while this statement is not authorita tive, it is a conclusion based on a knowledge of the magnificent sites now laid in waste and that the men who are at the head of the matter are too wise to allow such an opportunity to pass without profit. In a special from Spartanburg in this morning's paper it is noted that mill operatives, "taking advantage of the Southern's offer of free transportation, are leaving Clifton in large numbers." If uch a thing occurred in North Caro lina and Judge Clark got wind of it there would be something doing in the court, as waa the case with Presi dent Henry A. Page, of the Aberdeen &, Asheboro Railroad, whose heart waa softened by tbe destitute condition of mill operative who had to move to an other town. Charlotte Observer. It' difficult to convince a man that hi wife doetu't. love him In the same old wav a long a the continue to go through hi pocket. LIT ELY Tricv Atlanta Journal. Ia Texas again, and gladI'm here. Things look better and brighter all around than they did a month ago. The constant rain have ceased, and the farmer ia jumping up and down joyfully. Corn, cotton, oat and wheat all promise well in north middle Texas Tbe short crop of the two past year have depleted the crib and pockets, and they hope to re-fill both this fall. The Moods of the northwest stopped before they struck the line of Texas, and while Texas is not suffering for rain, it seems dry out here to a fellow who has just passed through the flood ed sections of Kentucky, Tennessee and Arkansas. The scenes aling the rivers in those states make the heart sick, and yet they are not a tithe damaged like Kansas, Iowa and Missouri. Fire, air and water, each so essential to human life and property how merci less they become when they get into power! But how beneficent and essen tiaLwhen man is in charge! I hear much talk of the national ticket. Cleveland is oertaiuly looming up again, but I am sure the Democrat' had better hold no national convention. They ain't in it! Just a waste of time and whiskey, for Teddy is going in again, sure as gun is iron! Parker is not known, Bryan is too well known, Hill is dead, and Cleveland hated by the politicians, and tbey will down him. So it goes, and I am sure the Democrats had better not hold a con vention or nomiuate a candidate. The Democrats bave played the fool until they have about lost their own self respect, and the confidence of the other fellows. The horrors of the Gainesville catas trophe make oue shudder a thousand miles away. What a calamity! How mysterious these awful events seem to us! Texas people read and inquire and talk much and sympathize more with old Georgia when ahe is in trouble. These people have suffered by flood, storm and fire until they are full of the milk of human kindness. A fellow feeling does make us wondrous kind. We come closer together in great sor rows than we do in great joys. This is a season of casualties, catas trophes. Surely "Death rides on every passing breeie And lurks In every flower; Each season has Its own disease. Its perils every hour." And yet, amid storms, earthquakes fires and pestilence, humanity seems to go on in its mad rush for the Dollar God says, lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt and thieves break through and steal. We ought to have learned long ago that we possess nothing but that either the moths are eating or rust corrupt ing, or thieves are stealing. It's hard er to hold than to make, easier to make than to hold onto it after we have made it. , The real difference between a pauper and J. Pierpont Morgan ia the differ ence between being as hungry as a dog and having the colic. The poor devi has got nothing, the rich fellow has something that's giviug him a good deal of pain and trouble. It seems to me that its better to have nothing than to have something that is giving you no end of trouble. I am impressed more and more with the fact that the press keeps up with the affairs of men and the visitations of Providence. A man picks up the afternoon paper, and at a glance he sees the news from every quarter of the globe. Never was the daily press on such a continuous hunt for the news and the news is found and given. N shrewder, brighter or more industrious set of men can be found in the world than the newspaper men of America If no news can be fouud they have the brains to make news, and they un derstand they must find or make news every day. No profession or calling has forged ahead so fast in the last decade as the newspaper fraternity. The telegraph the telephoue and the vivid imagina tion of the reporter are the three med urns which the newspapers rely upon When the first two fail the last one ever reliable, and efficient. How different life has become in Texas. Twenty years ago a fellow on a train in Texas usually had his rail road ticket, a pistol and a bottle of whisky. 116 thought all three were essential to travel. He gave the con ductor his ticket and then passed the bottle and soon as he and hi friends were full, then the pistol waa brought out But now a man can travel a month in Texa and never see a bottle or a pistol. Surely humanity 1 get ting better. No man who mixed with men 20 year ago and mlxet with them now can fail to e the fact that men are behaving better and that the vag- AM JOHICS W BITES abend ia in a hopekn minority every-1 where. I am glad of tbe change for the bet ter, for a fellow who travel much love to travel with gentlemen. Sax P. Joses. W kal a Ksasss Weeaa Siaaa Per. Kansas City Journal. The Journal ia in receipt of a fine pbotorap of that St. Loois sculpture designed to represent Kansas. There ha been considerable criticism of a careless sort about this work of art. The Atchison Globe described it as he figure of a woman "Hade from the waist up, with a dusting cloth about her head, with one hand grasping a sickle and an arm thrown over the neck of a bull." But this description wholly fail to to grasp the subtle combination of idealism and realism intended by the artist. it is true mat tne woman naa one arm thrown over tbe neck of the bull, but in the hand of this arm ia an ear of corn which is dangled close to the mouth of the bull. This betokens the great Kansas industry of fattening cat tie ami a Dun is selected instead of a steer in ironical reference to the tough ness of the beef which the Kansas City packers send back to their Kansas cus tomers. The sickle, as every one can see at a glance, denotes the great grain crop of the state. The so-called dusting cloth about the head is there to express the fine indus try of the people the idea being that the woman went out to feed the bull even before she took down her curl papers. And the nudeness from the waists up is a frank admission of the tropical nature of the midsummer cli mate, together with a delicate but con vincing suggestion of the fact that the women of Kansas need no corsets or other artifices to improve their figures. Bee Mlluge aa a Cure for HheumalUBa. Berlin Dispatch. Doctor Perc, of Marburg, addressed a brilliant eatherinif of physicians the other day on the bealine properties of bee stiues in cases of rheumatism of the joint muscles. The professor point- ed out that it has been known from time immemorial as a cure amone the poorer classes of people who have no faith in medical science. He has test- prt it thnrnniliW nH nmved it ffinM7 n five hundred cases. He claims it aa .. v - " - - J I a specific remedy. If a patient is suf- fering from rheumatism the stung part nffwlpH rlnea not awfill a! first nor until the bee poisoning is frequently intro- duced. Then the rheumatic pain grad- ually vanishes from the joint. iir Pom oilno... v,i. ,Honi tr. h stung at first with a few bees and then gradually increases the number, ihel stings are inserted near the joint of the muscles affected. In one sitting he al- lows seventy bees to sting the patient. He described the case of a woman who suffered excruciating tortures from rheumatism. In the course of her cure she was stung 6,952 times and this re- suited in a complete cure. Save He Deaerved Dealt.. The most remarkable language ever used by a Governor of Texas in pardon- ing waa used by Governor Lanham in the case of tylton Young, who, on May 8, 1901, walked into a restaurant at Arlington and without warning shot J. B. Oldfield, a school teacher, dead, at a table at which be was eating. Young was recently convicted of murder. His defence was that he was justfied in kill ing Oldfield, because Oldfield had wronged his only Bister, a girl in her teens and one of Oldfield's pupils. The people of Arlington generally signed a petition for Young's pardon. The State Board of Pardons, of which Gov. Lanham ia chairman, last night granted the pardon. Gov. Lanham, in his official proclamation, reviews the case and closes: "The deceased had been on intimate terms of friendship with the family of tne applicant ana mat ot ms latnerana such a base and brutal betrayal of con fidence and friendship deserved death at the hands of the applicant." Would'! IIIIeAwlulf Statesvllle landmark Mr. Johnson, of Barium Spring, submits a startling proposition about tax return ana one mat will ao to ininK aooui. ctuppose, say Mr. Johnson, that real and personal prop erty should tuddeuly and aolually shrink, from some cause, irom tne real value to the value listedl Thi 1 a hoi- rible case to suppose. If such a condi tion should be brought about there would be .uch a weeping and wailing rn..hin Aiu.ih in thi. tAant .inn.th. KnnA "When a woman wishes to retire from the world," My the Manayunk Philosopher, "ahe enter a nunnery, All a man ha to do I to marry a fa moui woman." rs uraniaa. Trep BevoH a ad ArreaaalUh a W ! le Warfc ! Aaaaaataalloav. Belgrade, Servia, June 11. A mili tary revolution broke out here but night. Tbe troop who revolted under the leadership of Maj. Angikovic sur rounded the palace and awaaeinated King Alexander, Queen Draga, tbe lat- ter'l sister, the Queen- brother, Niko dem, Premier Markovitch, and Minis ter Petrovitch and Tudorovics, Gen. Pavlovitch, former Minister of War, and some members of the Royal Guard. Prince Karageorgvitch was proclaimed King. A new government was formed and the following proclamation issued : "To the Servian People : "Last night the King and Queen were shot. In this grave and fateful move ment the friends of the fatherland nave combined to form a new Kovern- ment. While the government makes this announcement to the peoplit is assured that the Servian people wi' gather around it and lend it their aid to maintain order and security through out the land." Viessa, June 11. Dispatches from Belgrade say that since the late King Alexander's last susiension of the Servian constitution, the army had been animated by hostile feelings to ward both the King and Queen. The revolution was planned weeks ago. Secret committees were organized in the country and worked in co-operation with the army. It waa originally intended that the plot Bhould be executed later, but fears that the new Servian Parliament would the question f ibe succession to the throne, hastened matter. Colonel Naumovics, the adjutaht of the King, was entrusted witli the execution of the plans. While on duty at 11 o'clock ast night, Naumovics burst in the door leading to the sleeping apartments of the royal couple with a bomb and then entered, accoruaiiied by Mischics and junior officers. Previously the pal ace 8uara liaa tKen overpowered and a19 commander, taptan. l'auajowi WM killed- Naumovics presented to "ie King a 'orm if abdication for hi 8'gQature. The document contained the statement that by marrying a "public prostitute" the King had degraded S and that therefore he must ab dicate. The Kings answer was to draw a revolver and kill Naumovics on tne 8Pot I .i -ii . . i Miscnics men picked up the doou ment ftnd presented it again, and the n-'OR. WOO perceived his danger, lied with Queen 1)r8ga t0 the Va1 roof 0010 Mln? m nT ciotnes. Hie officers followed, continuously firing and ultimately shot dowu the royal couple. On meeting hi alio pa in n aven. New York Sun. Just before the close of the meeting I which the Methodist preachers htl yesterday in memory of two bishops of I that Church, who died recently, the Rev. Dr. J. M. Buckley, editor of The Christian Advocate, greatly surprised his hearers by a statement which he made concerning a life after death. Tfae big. f f w to . F , f B ( nr p..klv was thp final sl)PHkpr an(1 had juf)t finighed degcnbing quAMes in maQ whkh nlaJe Lim (,miiH,nt in ,he office o bi(jhopi and WRg jugt about . dd . . , fin8, WQrd Swia the doclur: ,.In ,jfft tn omp , pjr . tn I t . ..w . Rishmis Foster and Hurst, but I am equally positive that I shall not see any bodily form that I shall recoguize." "How do you know that?" was oue interruption. Where did you get your informa tion?" said another voic. 'Out of Holy Scriptures," said Dr. Buckley, "and especially the New Tes tament. I verily believe that 1 shall see both men in the world to come, but it will be a manifestation of soul I I ha Rnd not the jiy orm8 , WR8 fami,iar wi(h QU earu am confident I shall not see the pliysi- cal oodles resurrected. Hrliialiig a Ulaelon KaM. Piece by piece the half-a-million dollar mansion of millionaire J. M Longyear has begun to come to Brook line Mass., from Marquette, Mich. It will Uke several months for the en tire structure, mostly of stone, to be - transported East. Then it will be built Lgftin orj , magnified.' site which Mr Longyear bought last December in the fashionable Boston suburb July lBt 500 Republicans in North Caro" Jbs- They are I store-keepers and gaugers. lhere are now in North Carolina over 500 dis- tillerie, but when the W atts bill goes into effect on July 1st there won't j more than 25 distilleries and all these will be in incorporated town, - 1 Thi mean the end ot the store-keepers I and gaugers, who now get 12 a day, WATT FLItllB WITH HIS BILL Raih. Cor. AUaata Coettrtutioa A. D. Watt, tbe author of the noted Watt liquor regulation bill, was speci ally interviewed today regarding that measure, its popularity and it effect He said tbe best opinion is that the law is a good one. The elections this spring have proved this and have well sustained the law. The mass of the people favor it, he so bears from all parts of the state. Mr. Watts talks more about politics with people from all sections than any other man in the state, and he said re gard u g tbe work of the last legislature that he does not think there ia nearly to much kicking about what that body did aa there was about tne work of the legislature of lyOl. Really there was very little new legis- ation this year except on the liquor luestion. Of course the latter was the most radical ever enacted and at the same time the most sweeping. It must be stated that at least three-fourths of the state was absolutely under prohibi tion before the Watts law was enacted, and that it was made prohibition terri tory by direct legislation, and without any popular vote. TDis prohibition! territory included a great number of counties as well as numerous townships and the territory around churches and school houses in other counties. The legislature of l'XH prohibited the man ufacture and sale of liquor in various counties, among these heme Ashe, Yancey and Madison, in the west, and the only nolitical effect this action had was to change two Republican members f the legislature from Ashe and Yancey and send iu their places demo crats. The charge to effect this was slight, as those counties were close in 1900. The republican majority in Madison was reduced somewhat, perhaps by the stay -at home vote in an off year. In the east Duplin , Cumberland, Bladen and Sampson were made prohibition by the legislature of PJ01 and the ehction shows sulstantially little effect. Mr. Watts expresses the belief that the new law which puts the remaining one-fourth of the state (outside of towns) under prohibition, will operate substantially in the same way. He finds the sentiment for prohibition very much stronger in the western half of the state than in the eastern. The Watts law, when it goes into effect July 1, will, in his opinion, probably reduce the number of registered dis tilleries in- the state from 500 to 25, This num bet' may be increased to I small extent next fall. Mr. Watts takes four western con gressional districts to illustrate how few places there are in which distilling can be done, or liquor sold, and says there are only four places in the tenth dis triet, these being Hendersonville, Ashe- ville, Waynesville (where there is a dis pensary), and Marion. In the ninth district only three places, Charlotte, Morgan ton and Marshall; in the eighth istrict only one place, Salisbury; n the seveuth only six places, Wades- boro, Rockingnam, Hamlet, Hoff man, imams and Shore. At most of these places distilling will not be allowed. There is a persistent effort on the part of revenue officers and liquor men Mr. Watts say 8, to create the impres siou that the law will increase illict dis tilling. He does not believe this will follow because, for the first time in the state's history, distilling without license ? made a misdemeanor against the tate laws, and heavy penalties are im posed for its violation. All know that there has been no sentiment in the state, even among temperance and religious people themselves, against violations of the United States revenue law, the reason being that these laws were a legacy of the civil war, and as such have been very unpopular with the people, but this sentiment is largely passing away now. Another reason why this sentiment was entertained by temperance people was that they could see no difference in the harm done by illicit and that made at government distilleries. Now all this is changed, and every temper ance man in a community will be on the lookout for violations of the state law. indictments will be in the state courts and punishments will bi under the Btate laws for which the people have always had the highest respect and veneration. At the same time United States revenue officer in order to protect the revenue will have to be active against illict distilleries. For this reason Mr. Watts expect to ee the illicit distilling decrease, rather than be increase, especially when it ia known of that the government distiller and the btr-keeper formerly furnished the market for the illicit distiller. Will I this sentiment grow? YraOTlZKB WU )PKJIATMK. w ' rt er anii ri Wklla Ska Talked Wttft er. Loadoa Cable to K. T. 8u. The Daily Express relates what it de scribe aa tbe first inctance in England of hypnotic suggestion taking the place of an anaesthetic in a serioo surgical operation. A woman, SS year old, wa suffering from a severely ulcerated leg, and it was decided that her hie could be saved only by the amputation of the limb. She desired to be hypnotiwd for the operation, dreading the use nf chloro form, which, it waa believed, .would have been dangerous in her case. Dr. Aldrick, of Clapham, a suburb of Lon don, hypnotized her experimentally on several successive day, the hypnotic trance lasting about half an hour on each occasion. All the test applied proved satisfac tory, and on Wednesday Dr. Alrich operated upon her in the presence of two other surgeon and a nurse. All the doctors were somewhat doubtful of success and had provided chloroform in case of emergency. The operation began at 4:50 o'clock in the afternoon. While it was in pro gress the patient chatted with the nurse and drank wine. To an ordinary ob server she would have appeared to have been conscious the whole time. Nevertheless the operation was pain less, and she was unaware of what was paraing. While operating, Dr. Aldricb said: "I am cutting off your leg below the knee. ' ' The patient lanarhed and said : "All right, hold my hand." Oneof the surgeons took hold of her hand, and when the nerves were severed the pa tient gripped the doctor hand hard. The operation wa completed at 5:10. The patient was a awaked at 5:15, whereupon she said: "I have pin and needles." There were no symptom of shock. Herv pulse and temperature are normal, her spirit are high and she eats well. The Reluru to Mature. A Utopian society has established it self in Ascona, a little place on the bor ders of Italy and Switzerland. This lit tle society, which number thirty eight individuals, seek to solve the problem of how to live happily. The member are pledged to observe certain simple rule of living, which they have carried out now for three year. They eat no meat, but live principally on fruits and herbs, and they wear one sin gle garment only, and no hat. There are sixteen women in the sect. They know no law save thoee of nature and they amuse themselves with Wagnerian mutic. The founder of the colony is a Belgian. Each .new member is in itiated on hi finding sufficient money to buy a plot of land, by the cultivation of which he is expected to'sOppbrt him self. . . a;,-. Two Bora faelhWM Bealk ta a Wheat Mm Nashville, Tenn., Jane' 10. Two boys were smothered to death while playing in the wheat bin of the Galla tin mills yesterday afternoon. A search was instituted last evening when the boys failed to put in an appearance for supper, and it was not until this morn ing that their lifeless and naked bodies were found at the bottom of the bin, in which they had been playing. The lads' name were Henry Smith and Hugh Lanier, and they were between 8 and 9 years old. "Did it ever occur to you that thou sands of people on earth die every day?" asked the parson. "Yes, parson, it haa," replied the party address, " and what is more, it has get me to think ing." "Indeed!" exclaimed the good man. And what has been the result?" "I have come to the conclusion," an swered the other, "that living is a dan gerous thing." A Georgia darkey whose cabin had been entered by thieves a number of time, adopted a novel plan to (top theiFdepredation. He tied a couple of rattlesnake to the door and window, from the inside, the suakes giving in Btant alarm when any one tried to enter. He describe them a "De beet en cheap est alarm clock in de country 1" Assistant Here's an article about a. Kansas man who hitched up a goat and made him run the lawn mower. What head ahall I give itf Rural Editor Suppose you head it. "A New Use for Butter." W. T. Wyatt, a negro school teacher, who assassinated Superintendent Hertel because the latter refused to issue him a certificate, wa lynched by a mob at Belleville, 111. There la much feu among leading educator b the Btate that President Venable, of th Btate University, will become president of the University ot Virginia.
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