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The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-01
MY LADY'S SLEEVES.

She's phantom of grace as she sails in
the room,
And | long for glimpse of her cheek );
But ecstasy dies in an ebony gloom
My pangs are too utter to speak.
Ii my glances can roam to the crest of
of the comb
lis all that my vision percelves,
And so with a sigh
| lay the hope by
As sit IN the shade of her sleeves.
| once was a man of the average size,
In a beautiful bygOne day
And favor found in my fair ones eyes,
And oh, but my bosom was gay.
But fashion hath changed and her
heart is estranged,
In sorrow my spirit now grleves
For my dream is wreck,
And I'm shrunk to specll
AS / sit in the shade Of her sleeves.
If I could only sport silk hat in the
How much it would add to my height
But, no: | must sit ust as meek as a
mouse,
Safe bid from my dear ones sight,
WHY. sometimes I doubt if she knows
I'm about,
Life truly is s'nOthing but leaves"
Pleasures lamp has gone out
and hope put to rout
AS l sit in the shade Of her sleelyes.
All, once- I could glide to her radiant
side
And coo in the shell Of her ear;
With smiles and with bushes she'd
listen in pride
NV passionate WOOing to hear.
Now at night and at noon through &
rustllng balloon
No answer my wooing receives;
Nor can my arm reach
To the goal of my speech
AS sit in the shade of her sleeves.
Alas as I viewed them swell up and up
Nv spirits sank down and down.
Oh. sometimes | think | must take to
the cup,
Nv horrible anguish to drown.
Is 1t feathers or gas that hath pulled
up my lass?
Weird fancies dellrium Weaves,
Whatever the stuff
My fate it is rough
I'm lost in the sha4e OF her sleeves
Samuel Minturn Peck IN Judge.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-01
The Feel Family.

y. I. Obserr.r's Il tgu.ttts Lstf,rss'
An anonymous Spanish author q
the seventeenth century wrote al anus
ing and instructive pedigree 81 io0ls.
which Is perhaps a good Il text a. can
be found, for the year el lghieen hundred
and ninety four. | shall not give tie
entire genealogy: : indeed il would be
quite impossible for me u &" -. since
fools constitute majority oi mankind
Certainly .he wise men think 80. "An
men think all men mortal but 'hem-
selves" says DR.. Young. and though
few men admit their own folly, most
men are quick to see the folly of Others
But here is the fools family tree !:
Lost Time married Ignorance. and had
a son called / Thought. who married
Youth, and had the following children :
! Didn't Know, | Didn't think, Who
Would Have Expected? Who Would
Have Expected married Heedlessnes-.
and had among other children. To-mor-
row Will Do, There's Plenty of Time,
Next Opportunity. There's Plenty Of
Time married Miss | Didn't THINK.
and had for family | Forgot, | Know
All About 1t, Nobody Can Deceive Ne.
| Know All About 1t espoused Vanity
and begot Pleasure, who became the
father of Let Us Enjoy Ourselves and
Bad Luck. Pleasure married Folly for
a second partner. Consuming their
inheritance, they SAID one to the other.
let us spend our capital and enjoy our
selves this year, for God will provide
for the next. But Deception took
them to Prison, and Poverty to the
workhouse, where they died Their
grandchild, Despair, begged enough
money for rope and hanged himself
which," says the author, 'is the end
OF the family Of Fools"
But he is greatly mistaken the fools
are not all dead; and some of them are
very much alive. Lost Time, To-mOr-
row Will Do and There's Plenty of
Time are to be met in the street. at the
club, in store and house, in society and
in church. and even in the sick room
and the chamber Of death Pleasure,
Vanity and Folly hold their assemblies
everywhere, and spend their capital
and take no thought for the morrow as
gayIy and heedlessly as they ever did in
the seventeenth century in old Spain.
We have had abundant evidence, in
New York and Chicago and Washing
ton at least, during the past year, OF
the folly of mankind. We have also
learned the inspiration and lnerrancy
of such words of wisdom as these
''The fear of the Lord is the beginning
of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom
and instruction." "He that walketh
with wise men shall be wise but a
companion of fools shall be destroyed,
"a good name is rather to be chosen
than great riches, and loving favor
rather than silver and gold" Boast
not thyself of tomorrow, for thou
knowest not what day may bring
FORTH"
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-01
Endorse the Union Central.

Law office of
BATTLE & MoRDIcAE.
Raleigh, n. c., May l, 1895.
Mr.. Carey J. Hunter,
Gen. Agt Union Central Life In
surance Company.
Dear Sir From my experience as
executor of w. II. Pace, of the prompt
ness with which your company meets
its losses, and from some enquiry have
formed high opinion Of its reliability.
If | were of an age to make 1t possible
to increase the insurance on my life,
/ would be glad to take policy IN the
company. | should think it perfectly
safe. [SignedI Yours truly,
r. H BATTLE.
ROANOKE, VA, Dec. ), 1894.
Carey j. Hunter,
Supt. Union Central Life ms. Co.
70, n c. and Va.
Ny Dear Sir and Friend:
During my four years medical prac-
tlce | was medical examiner for several
of the strongest insurance companies
in the countrv-I was Of course more
or less intimate with the policy con-
tracts, &C., but / am free TO say with
out solicitation, that the Union Cen
tral in my judgement has the best and
easiest form of contract that ! have yet
found. l.. G.. BRoUGHToS,
Pastor Calvary Baptist Church.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-01

Are you taking SIMMONS LIVER REG
ULAToR, the "KING OF LIVER MEDI-
CINEs?" That is what our readers
want, and nothing but that. 1t is the
same old friend to which the old folks
pinned their faith and were never dis
appointed. But another good recon-
mendation for it is, that it is BETTER
THAN PILLS, never gripes, never weak
ems, but works in such an easy and
natural way, just like nature itself, that
relief comes quick and sure, and one
feels new all over. 1t never fails.
Everybody needs take liver remedy,
and everyone should take only Sim
mons Liver Regulator.
BE sure you get it. The Red Il
is on the wrapper. j. III. Zeilin &
Co., Philadelphia.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-01
Dissolution Notice.

The partnership heretofore existing
between Mrs. A r. Mitchell and w.
E. Niblet under the firm nanse OF
Mitchell & Niblet, was dissolved on
July 9th, 1895, by mutual consent.
w. E. NIblet will settle the liabilities
of the firm when presented at his mill
near Enteld.
Mrs A. &. Mitchell.
TlS At. w. E. Niblet.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-01

Norfolk Commission Co.,
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MERCHANDISE --c.--c.

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mcrcc. Norfolk. Va z NJ lvae}.
Cashier. Farmers and Merchant NanA.
New Berrc. y. G.. T. B Eauiau rrs.
Bank oi Wayne, Godshar, J
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The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-01
:LoSS OF POWER

HHN" fFsIEA VI = e - -. n
plain but chaste Language. ;russinS of The
nature, symptoms and curnttiify, oy bone
treatment, Il such diseases The Work,
pisyensary Medical Association. fruprieirrs
OF the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute.
Buffalo, " y, Will. on rc>ccip, of this notice,
with 10 cents i'm stamps for postage mai,
ssaled in plain enveloI-,a copy u this useful
book IL should be rcad by every young
man, parent and guardian In the land
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-01
Hog Cholera.

The famous Major Hog Cholera
Cure. which cures and prevent cholera
i'm hogs and poultry d on si'c st H.
Jo-ey's and al + + Whitehead Drug
Store. The medicine i- highly u
mended by many western farmer a
sure cure. Try package A. u
Jo-cy'- and DRUG store.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-01

Tngn-h SPAWN lAnimont ucu"Nos
all Hard. soft on Callou-'d Ium and
and Clemi~hcs from horr blood
SPAWN Surh-. Splint. Sweeney ltne
worm tlhcs. ~puin~. uuc swollen
Through. Coughs Etc save "1 hy
use of one bottle Warranted thc
most wonarful Hlcmi-m Cuw ever
known. Sold bo H. / Mhiehoad &
Co, Druggists, Scotland Neck y G.
10 ".
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-01
ISAAC EN Ans,
GF\FR CARPENTER

\ specially Of Bracket and Scroll
work of ajl kinds Work dome choap
and every piece guaranteed.
. ly SCOTLAND NECK. y {.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-01

When Baoy was s,ck. NE gave her Castoria-
When she was Child, she cried ior CastoriA
When she becaIns Hiss, ahe oIung to CastoriA.
yhen...e hsa Children, she gave them CastogiA
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-01
SCOTLAND NECK, NJ THURSDAY. AUGUST l. 1895

rendered efficient service al Brandy
wine, Germantown, Monmouth. Eutaw
at the sleges Of Charleston and Sayan-
nah. and at other battles, and formed
part Of the garrison Of West Point,
where our Gen Howe succeeded Arnold
in command, after the treason and
flight of the latter.
The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-01
PROFESSIONAL.
I DOW ELL,

- II. o. MCDOWELL,
{ J"
Nth corner New Hotel, Main
SCOTLAND NECK, \. G.
<~ 1t his office when not
Iv engaged elsewhere.
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ASTRONOMICAL RESEARCHES.

URANUS is really gigantic world, more than sixty times as large as ours. It's vast distance. now about 1,7o0, ,000,- 900 miles from the earth, is what causes it to look so small.
 IT is due to the dust that the heav- ems arc blue. We see the sunlight re- Aected by every particle of dust. There is nothing but the dust between us and the sun to transmit it's light to us.
 MERCURY must get much more heat from the sun than the earth does, since it IS so much nearer to the sun. If there were living creatures on Mercury the sun must also look much larger to them than it does to us.
 HERsoHEI calculated the total weight of the atmosphere at eleven and two-thirds trillions of pounds; and yet with this inconceivlbly vast weight it is only one one-million two hundred thousandth of the weight of the earth itself.
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4 Florida Geyser.

Passengers on the east-bound train of the Florida Central & Peninsular railroad witnessed a phenomenal spec tacle as the train approached the sinks, about 2 miles from Ellaville, Fla.
 The sinks says 6 dispatch describing the event are not unknown in different parts of Florida being hollow places in the earth of various sizes, somewhat resembling the dry bed of lake, but deeper, and often showing caves in their sides and subterranean passages running from their bottom. They generally have water in them only during the rainy sea- son, from July to November.
 As the train approached one of these sinks about daybreak the engineer noticed water flowing from it, and stopped the locomotive. He was none too quick, for minute or two later an immense volume of water rose to Q distance of 15 or 20 feet. roaring and seething like geyser. This lasted for fully five min utes, and the train hands and passengers looked on with awe and terror. Then the col- umn subsided, but the overflow had become a raging torrent and washed away 30 feet of the railroad embanlment, leaving the tracks or feet under water The passen- gers had to be transferred to the other side on temporary bridge. and were delayed eight hours in reaching Jacksonville. The only ex- planation of the phenomenon is that this sink is connected by subterranean passages with branch of the Suwanee river. which was at the time above it's natural banks, owing to heavy rains, and that by some peculiar pressure the water was forced up through the sink into high column.
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Relic of the confederacy.

Hon. Andrew J. Cobb, of Atlanta, Ga, has one of the most interesting relics of the confederacy. His father, Gen. Howell Cobb, was president of the provisional congress that met in Mont gomery, Ala, to frame the constitution of the confederacy, and when all the
 business had been finished it became his duty to sign the constitution as president of the assembly. This he did with an elegant gold pen, which was used only for that purpose, and then laid back im its case. Prof. Cobb has that pen now. It has never been dis turbed since the hand of Gen. Cobb laid it in its case, and the ink used can be seen where it has dried upon the pen.
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THE lNDUST RES.

THE consumption of iron per head is nearly four times as great in Great Britain as in France
 A NEW fuel made in France is of coal dust compressed into briquettes and soaked with chemicals which make it last long time in a glow when once alight.
 NEW deposits of phosphates have been discovered by French explorers in the western parts of Tunisia The mineral capacities of Africa are still but partially known. Gold alone ap- pears to absorb the attention of modern explorers.
 DR. FRIEDRICH LEHNER, of Zurich, has perfected a process for making artificial silk out of wood pulp or vege- table tibers. A company has been or ganized for its manufacture in Brad ford, England, and one is talked of for this country.
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The following was the vote in detaili

The antitrust til Senate bill No 155). was next taken up
 An amendment was offered providing that the provisions of the bl should not be en- forced in any county until the people of said county shall express through the levying court desire to have same enforced.
 lengthy discussion followed and on call of the roll the amendment was defeated by tie yote--15 to 15.
 Another amendment offered and adopted specifically aettning the application of the bill and the distinction between corporations and partnerships.
 An amendment providing th at nothing in the act shall be construed so as to prevent those who are engaged in manual labor from form ing associations was presented and pending discussion the senate adjourned until Tuesday morning.
 HOUSE.
 The house opened business yesterday morn ing by defeating house bill No, 345 to create eofiice of state revenue agent, by vote of S4 ayes to 44 nays.
 House bill No, 3l9, to provide for the settle ment of estates of persons of unsound mind, came next and passed ayes 62, noes 10
 House bill 364 to consolidate the school dis tricts of Little Rock and North Little Rock, so that both may be under one school board passed-ayes 73 noes 1.
 The morning hour was exhausted in the dis. cusson . an amendment to house bill No 4sa With reffronee to alleged balances due from
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ARKANSAS LEGISLATURE.
Proceedings of the Thirtieth General
 Assembly of the State.
SENATE.

SENATE.
 LITTLE ROCK, March 25.-The senate met yesterday pursuant to adjournment President Witt in the chair.
 Several committees reported action. follow ing which house bill No 445, to authorize the collection of municipal taxes in Hardy for 1884, was taken up and read tho third time and passed-ayes 25.
 montd as jurors and not accepted, passed ayes 25, nays l.
 Senate bill No 264, for the relief of Gertrude Watkins, minor passed-ayes 93 nays 1. Senate bill No. 2l9, to employ an inspector of the penitentiary, was taken up and read the third time
 A long debate followed over this bill ending in it's defeat-ayes 8. nays 13
 Senate bill No. 2So, to protect crops in any fencing district of the state, passed-ayes 15, nays9
 Senate bill No. 218 to amend the digest rela- tive to mortgages, met with decisive defeat, the vote being ayes to 20 nays
 Recess unGil p. m.
 At the opening Of the afternoon session sen ate bill No. 1s to raise the grade of frst-grade teachers was the first business in order and was passed by vote of 16 ayes to nays. The senate then went into committee of the whole for the consideration Of senate bill No. 257, for the support and maintenance of the deaf mute institute
 The bill was considered by paragraphs and amended in several particulars and then adopted as whole.
 On motion the committee arose and reported the adoption Of the bill.
 The bill was then ordered to its third read ing and the senate adjourned until Monday morning.
 HOUSE.
 At the eonvening of house yesterday morn ing house bll No 345, for Inc appointment of state revenue agent, was taken up and under suspension Of the rules read the third time The morning hour expired with this bill still under discussion, and under the rule it went over as unfinished business
 After some little confusion as to what was the proper order house bill Mo- 106, to author i2e county judges to declare paupers during vacation, was declared in order and passed ayes 71, noes 4.
 House bill No. 123 to cause assessors to in, dcate the taxes paid by white and oolored per sons, came next and was passed-ayes 63 noes 10
 message was received from Gov Clarke vetoing house bill No 1s8, restoring the old system of county boards Of medical examiners abolished two years ago.
 The forenoon session was exhausted ih the discussion of this message, the debate being long and spirited. Upon the call of the roll the vote stood-ayes 51, noes B. There ping ma jority of all the members of the house, the bill passed over the governors veto
 Following is the vote in detail
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Cotton Seed Mumns

Dr. V. P. Clayton, of Greenville, S. C., continues his experiments with the use of cotton-seed for food Recently he had mullins for dinner made of corn meal and cotton seed meal mixed in proportion of two to one.
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Hung on a Picket Fance.

Polk Gaines, a 5o-year-old negro, was found dead near Versailles, Ky, hang ing on a picket fence. His neck had caught between two pickets, and he had strangled to death. quart bot tie of whisky was found in his pocket.
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A REVISION of the Mexican customs tariff will go into operation, on the 1st, involving changes in the following schedules affecting exports from the United States: Tinware, manufactures of iron and steel, textiles of linen, jute and other fibers, and certain cases con taining articles of gold, silver and platinum ii sets.
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ONE HUNDRED employees of the Cleve- land (o.) Ship Building Go. went out on strike on the 5th. The company proposed to pay the old hands S2. 37 and new men $2. 25 per day. The strike was for $2.50 per day rate. The strikers were employed in the boiler making department
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IT appears from information received by Secretary Morton, on the 18th, that the Agentine republic is fast shaping it's affairs so as to become one of our principal competitors in the cattle trade in European markets.
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". CALVIN CHASE, the colored editor of Washington, who was convicted of criminally libeling c. H. j. Taylor, the district recorder of deeds, was sen tenced, on the 23d, to ninety days in jail by Judge Cole of the Washington criminal court.
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Totals .. 3 .OOI ,84oL1 ,699. .oo2 70 .s74 &, $

The census of the Tradesman shows an in- crease of nearly 100 per cent. in spfndles in the five years and nearly 100 per cent. in looms. The total number of cards in the south in 1895 is 7 251, an increase Of nearly 100 per cent in the five years.
 The Tradesman reports an increase of about 100000 spindles since June 1884, and I,5O0 looms, without counting the thirty-six now projected and to be built in the south
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TIE sultan of Turkey has ordered that the sale or exhibition of portraits of Mr. Gladstone and Prof. Brice, pres ident of the British board of trade, be prohibited in Constantinople.
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TIE Spanish government officially announced, on the 25th, that all re- ports that the war ship Reina Regente had been found submerged in the Straits of Gibraltar were wholly with out foundation, and also that neither wreckage nor bodies from the ship had been washed ashore.
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THE Belgian government has in formed the state department at Wash ington that the discriminating duties against food products, recently inn posed, have been repealed by royal de- cree.
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Georgia Rice Acreace.

Reports from the rice planters of the Savannah district show that the acre. age planted this year will be fully that of last year, and probably greater. In 1894 the acreage was reduced. Consid- erable rice is now being shipped from Savannah to England, a new departure in this trade.
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Mineral Resources of the South.

Dr. David Day, of the United States geological survey, who will have charge of the mineral exhibit to be made at the Atlanta exposition, ex- poets to get up larger and more in- teresting collection Illustrating the mineral resources. especially of the south, than was presented at the Chi cago fair
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TIE police of Victoria, B. C., have decided that bloomers are not suitable for ladies' street wear, even when worn as bicycle costume, and have taken steps to enforce this decision.
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At Last.

Sabius Main and Sarah J. Phillips were recently married at Phillippi. w. Va, after having been engaged ever since Main first came to Phillippi as confederate soldier in 1863.
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A DISPATCH from Tolzio, on the 18th, announced that Dr. Sato, the surgeon in attendance upon Lii Hung Chang, had telegraphed to the emperor that the Chinese envoy's wound was in good condition and there was no anxiety re- garding the result.
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ALL of the election officers and vot- CTS, nineteen in number, arrested in New York recently under indictments found by the extraordinary grand jury, were called upon to plead, on the 27th, in the court of oyer and terminer. Without exception they pleaded not guilty.
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SALTWATER, Minn., has established a o'clock curfew. after which any child found upon the streets is com pelled to give an account of itself.
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A PARTIAL report of the experts ap- pointed by the courts to examine into the affairs of the Whisky trust was made public, on the 95th, and showed discrepancy of sl,924, 12o and an eff fort to hide it by ensures on the books of the company. The experts report covers period ending March Sl, 1892, and throws no light on subsequent transactions; while it is in the records of 1893 and 1894 that the greatest ir- regularities are expected to be dis covered.
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ON the 22d the Hungarian house of magnates voted upon the question of the second reading of the religious freedom bill, the result being a tie. President Szlavy L'okany gave the casting vote in favor of the bill, and it's second reading was passed.
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In Quick Sand.

Near Denison, Tex, man and team were caught in quick sand. The team and wagon were submerged, and shortly afterward the man's body was found.
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THE PRECIOUS METALS.

IN 1875 the price of silver was 5711 pence per ounce, now it is 27A pence; copper was then es4 ton, now it is 942; tin which in 1885 was a95 a ton is now e61. Tin plates have dropped 20 per cent.
 ALLUyIAL and reef gold has been discovered in Madagascar at Antina- haka, north of Antananarivo. A thou sand ounces were taken by native workers from strip of ground twenty feet by three
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WHILE returning to his lodgings in Shimonoseki, Japan, on the 24th, after having attended conference with Count Ito and Viscount Mutsu, Japa- nese peace plenipotentiaries, Lii Hung Chang, the Chinese peace envoy, was shot in the face by a young Japanese who tried to assassinate him. How ser be learned
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Three Brothers Sbot.

In Mason county, Ga, bad blood be- tween Christian and Riddle families resulted in death of Zeb and wound ing of Charles and Andrew Riddle.