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Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1897-04-29

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Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1897-04-29
Wanted-An Idea !; 80 s.: ~! -;

WIZ JOHN WHDDERBCRN 4 90, Pseea1 Assof
oaJs WAAh1n1tno. D. c.. for their oi $40 prtse cfe
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Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1897-04-29
"A ORTGAGE SALE OF LAND.

N"RrGAGE SALE OF LAND.
BY virtue Of a mort age deed execu-
ted to Robert Riley by j. Z. Stravhorn
and Bette A. Strayhorn his wife. and
properly recorded in the Office Of Reg
lister OF Deeds OF Orange county, in
Book T.. page 10. | will sell for cash
to the highest bidder at the court
house door in Ilillsboru, on Monday.
May 81. 1897. 4 Tract Of land in Little
River township, Orange county. on the
waters Oh Buck creek, adjoining the
lands of Samuel A. Cole, George Cop
ley, 3. Ii. Bell and the widow Fanny
LAX. a.id containing One Hundred and
Thirty. tiv- Acres. more or less.
SUE Is made t . satisfy mortgage and
TO pay costs.
This 3l.t day If March. 1897.
CHARLES RILEY.
Agent tor Morfgagee.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1897-04-29

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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-12-22
A Calculating Barber.

The Philadelphia Records calculating
barber says: Il see that your shoe
strings are tied in bowknots. Did you
ever stop to think how much of the
string is required to make those useless
loops? Probably three inches of each
end Tie the laces in ordinary knots and
you could cut from the pair four pieces,
each three inches long. There are 500,-
900 people in this city, and 10000, 900
in the United States who wear laced
shoes. If each Of these bought three
pair of laces a year, that would mean
100000 pair, from which could be
shipped 36O,O0O,OOO ends. These pieces,
placed end to end, would make Il con-
tinuous shoestring 17,045 miles long
long enough to stretch two-thirds of the
way around the earth. Suppose that the
shoestrings cost at retail an average of
cents a pair; than the 100000 pair
used annually in the United States cost
So, 100000. One fifth OF their length
could be done away with by cutting off
the useless ends, and the value of these
ends is therefore one-ffth Of their net
cost, $40, 900. This sum would buy up
ward of 100000 pocket handkerchiefs
for the heather of Africa Witch hazel
or bay rum?'
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-12-22
Hard Winds.

When the Californian tells you that he
has seen the wind blow so hard that it
blew the grass out of the ground, you
will smile in spite of yourself, it is SO per
fectly ridiculous. And yet it is true. /
once planted a lawn in March, sowing
Kentucky blue grass. 1t came up beau
tifully and fourished until May, which is
the month in which the norther is preva-
lent l think it was the middle of the
month and the grass was about three
inches high when the norther came along.
In two days | had no more lawn; the
grass had been blown out of the ground.
AS previously mentioned. the norther is a
desiccating wind and it dried the loose
soil about the grass roots until it was
reduced to a powder, and thus unable to
resist the wind, which dispersed it. The
roots, having no further hold in the
ground, gave way, and the wind carried
off the grass. This is how the wind blew
fornia yarn, but simple enough when eX-
planned.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-12-22
FOOD FOR THE WORLD.
Evidence of the Enormous Productive
Power of the United States.


It appears that as regards quantity
three Americans now export as much as
five did twenty years ago, which sufhcles
to show how groundless are the predlc-
tons of some writers who tell us that
as population increa ses SO the surplus
products for expectation must diminish
In the last twenty years the populatl ton
has risen from 100000 to 100000
souls, an increase of So per cent, and at
the same time the weight of exports has
risen 175 per cent; that is, three times
as fast as the population.
The quantities of food yearly exported
are sufficient to feed 100000 persons
in Europe, from which it appears that
American farms raise food for 1OO, OOO,-
600 people yearly. The Western prairies
are capable of carrying double the pres
ent number of livestock, and producing
ten times as much grain as they do, so
that, for at least century to come, there
is every proba bility that the expectation
of food will increase with population. The
same is true as regards cotton, the crop
having risen 125 per cent. in twenty
years
The world is only beginning to have
evidence of the enormous productive pow
er of the United States.-From Thirty
Years of American Trade by Michael
G. Mulhall, +. S. S., in North American
Rnvipw
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-12-22
Winter Habits Of the Quail.

Sportsmen, epicures and the birds
CHEEKY whistle have made bobwhite one
of our best-known birds. AS the most
northern representative of a family
which has it's center of abundance in sub
tropical regions, bobwhite is more sus-
ceptible to the rigors Of Northern Will
ter than more truly boreal birds. Being
eminently terrestrial, heavy SHOWS some
times completely bury bevies of birds,
roosting, as is their wont, on the ground.
They seem, however, none the worse for
a living interment, and have even been
known to seek shelter in a snowbank, div
ing into it while in full fight. 1t is when
q fall of snow is heavily crusted that
bobwhite is in danger. Escape from be-
meath his snowy coyerlid is then impossi-
ble and whole flocks have been found
frozen where they had roosted.-Chau-
tauquan.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-12-22
A Tax on transportation.

The Austrian minister of finance pro-
poses a tax on transportation, confined
chiefly to railroad transportation, at the
rate of II per cent. on passenger charges
and per cent. on freight charges. On
the traffic of 1896 this tax would have
been tax on transportation in Hungary
for more than twenty years, and the
French tax on passenger fares is we'll
known. Coming after reductions in rates,
which had been long urged, this seems
like a re-esta blishment of higher rates
rates is likelyt be a serious matter in some
industries, where the materials are car
ried several times before the finished prod
uct reaches the consumer, and will weigh
hard on some coarse articles like pig iron
and everything made from it, the indus
tries producing which frequently under
existing circumstances barely succeed in
existing.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-12-22
SPINNING WHEEL.
DATES ME- RIGHT UP AND DOWN.

OATS Me, RIGHT UP AND DOWN.
Oars a coon down on de avernew,
Named William Henry Fortiskew,
He owes me twenty dOlluhs, tew,
Dat l needs mighty bad.
Yet whence I quest dat coon ter pay
He bluffs me off from day ter day
He done bean doin' dat a-away
Till Use des boilin' mad.
Now, l tell yer wat [ gwinter do
Ter William Henry Fortiskew,
Les he done settle up wild me
De mex time l calls 'roun';
III fell dat nigguh tew de floor,
An crack his head ergin de door,
Till he done spit out blood an gore
OATS me! right up an down.
Use dunned an dunned dat Fortiskew,
Use cuss'd him till de air git blue
Done warned him dat I'd lick him, teW,
Fer treatin' me like dat.
Ter day befo de sun done set,
Eff he don't liquidate dat debt,
I'll frail him out ser fine, yo' bet,
He won't kno what he's at.
I'll do des like I seq I'll do.
Wild William Henry Fortiskew,
Eff he don't SneeZe dat money up
Ter day when / calls roun',
I'll stamp dat ScOun' rel frew de floor,
An flood his fiat wild blood an gore;
He won't come bunko' foxes no more
OATS me! right up an down.
H. G. Wheeler in Boston Traveller.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-12-22
500 Reward. 500.

The readers of this paper will be pleased
to learn that there is at least one dreaded
disease that science has been able to cure in
al It's stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's
Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now
known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh
being constitutional disease, requires a
constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces Of the
system, thereby destroying the foundation
OF the disease, and giving the patient
assisting nature In doing its work. The pro-
pr1etors have so much faithsin it's curative
powers, that they offer One Hundred Dol
lars for any case that it fails to cure Send
for list Of testimonials
Address, b. j. CHENEY & CO..
Tnlpdn q
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-12-22
Row Chinese Paper Their Houses.

The Chinese at Annoy do not paper
their walls much, but they often paper
ceilings, partitions, etc, SO that a large
quantity of wall paper is consumed in
that district. This paper, besides being
used for artificial flowers, is used for
clothing the human etfigies that are
burned at funerals and this practice be-
ing general throughout China, the amount
of it consumed is considerable. This pa
per is also used for covering cardboard
boxes for toys, jewels, medicines. buttons
and sundries.-Chicago Sunday Chronicle.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-12-22
.Legrand Larow of Lamar, Mo-, has

--Legrand Larow of Lamar, Mo-, has
beard which, perhaps, is the longest
worn by any man in the world. It is
ured seven and one-half feet. Mr.. Larow
is six feet in height and weighs 175
pounds. When standing with his beard
down it extends two feet upon the floor.
He has not shaved for over twenty years,
He wears his beard braided and wound
around his body, or else wrapped and
lodged inside his vest
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-12-22
There Is a Glass of PEOPLE

Who are injured by the use of coffee.
Recently there has been placed in all
the grocery stores new preparation
caEed GRAIN-O, made of pure grains,
that takes the place Of coffee The most
delicate stomach receives it without dis
tress, and but few can tell it from cof-
fee. It does not cost over one-feurth as
much. Children may drink 1t with great
benefit. 15c. and 25c. per package
Try it. Ask for GRAIN-O.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-12-22
The Last Man on Earth

To recklessly experiment upon himself
With hope of relief is the dyspeptic. Yet
sands of the sea, and, presumably, about
as efficacious. Indigestion, that obstinate
malady, even if of long perpetuity, is event
Bitters, an appetizing tonic and Alternative,
which cures constipation, fever and ague,
bilious remittent, rheumatism, kidney COM
plant and feebleneSS
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-12-22
Sold by Druggists, 75c.

The Cleo ok Chieftain has this
among its society items: ''The widow
next door is no longer counted among the
citizens of Cleo-she is gone. Perry
Pucket is really the cause of it. He was
at her house so much. trying to steal his
love letters and occasionally trying to put
his arms around her. that she got bilious
and had to leave to protect her health.
She was a good neighbor, and we are
sorry on Pprry'S account -
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-12-22

AT the Ursuline convent at Bologna
lives a nun who has proved very con-
clusively that an occasional change of air
and scene are not, as physicians would
have us believe. necessary to sound
health and long life. This woman
Joined the Ursuline sjsterhood eighty
years ago, when she was just 20 years of
age. Since she took the veil she has
never crossed the threshold of the con
vent nor held intercourse with the world
outside its walls
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-12-22

Henry Barhart of Stockton, Cal, a
pioneer. died last week. He owned TWEEN
ty-fve farms. or a total of 1900 acres,
in San Joaquin county, and was the
heaviest taxpayer in the county. He also
owned one ranch of 1900 acres in Solano
county, and another of 1880 acres in
Fresno county
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-12-22
1t Makes Cold Feet Warm

And is the only cure for Chilblains,
Frost Bites, Damp, Sweating Feet,
Corns and Bunions. ask for Aliens
Foot-Ease, a powder to be shaken into
the shoes. At all druggists and shoe
stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Adj
dress Allen S. Olmsted, Leroy, n, Y,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-12-22
Do You Dance Tonight?

Shake in your shoes Aliens Foot
Ease, a powder for the feet It makes
tight or New Shoes feel Easy. Cures
Corns, Bunions, Chilblains, Frost Bites
and Sweating Feet. At all druggists and
shoe stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE.
Address Allen S. Olmsted, LIE Roy, NY.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-12-22
"KIondyke Bulletin"

Will be published by the 500 Line every
Monday, containing all telegraphic news
and up-to-date information as to best routes
services, steamship sailings, and every IA
cility as same develop. Invaluable to Alas
kan prospectors and all their friends To be
placed on mailing list, send six cents &C.,
in stamps to
w. r. CALLAWAY, G. 2. A.,
Minneapolis, Mimi.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-12-22

A Georgia pastor, who resigned because
he couldn't collect his salary, said in his
farewell sermon: 81 have little else to
add, dear brethren, save this: You were
all in favor of free salvation, and the
manner in which you treated me is proof
that you got it!'
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-12-22

Charles Kenny, dining once at the
house of friend, CHANGED to swallow a
piece of cork with his wine, the result
being a severe fit of coughing. "Take
care, my friend,' said his next neighbor,
with rather feeble attempt at humor,
that's not the way for Cork!'' NO.
gasped the irrepressible sufferer, cts
the way to kill Kenny!'-London Figaro.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-12-22

A Russian can plead infancy for a
long time, as he does not come OF age
until 26 years old.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-12-22

Stockings were first used in the Elev-
enth century; before that cloth bandages
were used on the feet.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-12-22
Lanes Family Medicine

Moves the bowels each day. In order
to be healthy this is necessary. Acts
gently on the liver and kidneys. Cures
sick headache. Price, % and soc.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-12-22

I know that my life was saved by
Piso's Cure for Consumption. John A.
Miller, Au Sable, Michigan, April p,
1895.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-12-22

For over 800 years Nuremberg, Ba-
varia, has made most Of the toys used
throughout the world.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-12-22
Says writer in the Manchester Guard

ian:
''A lady of my acquaintance who is a
proprietress in County Galway is in the
habit of receiving her own rents. One
day, when a tenant farmer had pleaded
long and unsuccessfully for an abatement,
he exclaimed as he handed over the
money:
"'Wel, my lady, all can say is that if
[ had my time over again, it's not ten
ant farmer I'd be. I'd follow one of the
learn'd professions.
1.-The proprietress gently replied that
even in the learned professions there were
losses as well as gains, and, perhaps, he
would have found professional life as pre-
carious us farming
"'Ah, my lady, but how can that be?'
replied the son of st. Patrick. IF you re
4 lawyer-win or lose, you're paid. If
you're a doctor-kill or cure, you're paid.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-12-22

Professor Cooking at his watch)-
"Now, if any young gentleman would
like to ask any questions before class
ends"
Freshman-"What time is it?'-El-
mira Gazette.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-12-22

In the early English plays board
with a name on it indicated the locality.
of the scene.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-12-22

The two little islands of Zanzibar and
Pemba furnish four-fifths of the cloves
consumed by the world.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-12-22

Twenty words per minute is the av~
erage at which longhand is written.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-12-22

Mrs. WinsIOw's SOOTHING SYRUP for chill.
dren teething, softens the gums, reduces inflam-
nation allays pain cures wind collie Csc bottle.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-12-22

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets All DruggiSe
refund the money If it fails to cure. 2Se-
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-12-22

Mr.. Gladstone's library contains 90
900 volumes.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-12-22

"A Philadelphia Chinaman glories in
pigtail feet IL inches in length.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-12-22

II have been told that you feed your
turkeys on corn that's been soaked in
whisky. Is that so?'' Eyes, ma am. 1t
adds such a gamey flavor, ma Fam. Now,
that there turkey next to your hand,
ma am, didn't draw a sober breath for a
month, ma'am. You'll find him very
snappy, ma'am." But, sir, 1 do not ap-
prove of such methods. They are shock
ing, positively shocking! l am opposed,
in every form, SIR Sorry. ma AMI
mean it does you credit, ma am. And
now just take look at that nice little
hen turkey right in front of you. There's
a turkey that will accord, ma'am, with
your very commendable temp rance prin-
ciples. Yes, ma'am. That turkey was
raised on unfermented catnip tea, ma am.
Shall l wrap it up? Thanky, ma am
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-12-22

Germany has made a street laid with
rubber.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-12-22

Kemp's Balsam will stop the cough at
once. Go to your druggist today and get
a sample bottle free Sold in % and 90
cent bottles. Go at once; delays are dam
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-12-22

Characteristic clam chowder,''
remarked the diner to the restaurant
cashier as he paid the amount of his
check and slowed away a pint of tooth
picks in his vest pocket, sis distinguish
able above all the other clam chowders
ever ate.'' "In what way?" asked the
cashier, who did not know whether to be
pleased or not. ''By it's clamlessness. -
Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-12-22

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. at Dawson City"
Tuesday-'Food plentiful at Dawson"
ednesday-"Dawson' great famine!''
Thursday-"Klondike all right!'
Friday-"Food scarce at Dawson"
saturday of supplies for Daw-
son City,
Sunday-"Cuban news and little poll
tics. Boston Courier, via Daily Papers.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-12-22

George the Fourth became convinced,
by dint of long imagining and saying so,
that he had led the Life Guards ut Wa
terloo. Did I not. Arthur" he said. at
court dinner. to the Duke of yelling
ton. Most men would have been en-
barrassed. Not so the Iron Duke. He
simply answered.: 81 have often heard
your majesty say So"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-12-22

If you're priest-heayen or hell, you're
paid.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-12-22

The editor of an Arkansas newspaper
recently received as original matter from
new contributor Tennyson's famous
stanzas, from 'In Memoriam," "Ring
out, wild bells, to the wild sky" etc.,
and was about to adorn his christmas
edition with them when his subordinate
said:
"These verses were stolen from Tenny-
son. / know them by heart. The fellow
who sent them is Fraud
Il suspected as much," replied the ed
itor, "and I'll show HIM up In the mean
time, sit right down and write a letter to
Tennyson, and tell him they are stealing
his poems in Arkansas!'
II don't know his present address," re-
piled the subordinate, in deep disgust.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-12-22

all taken bottles medicine
yad-
vice andt AXE medic at once"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-12-22

The, rector of a small country parish in
the Artdlands had lived among his people
a simple, unobtrusive life, which had en-
deared him to the hearts of those who
knew HIM: In very cold weather ne
and warm themselves at the stove before
leaving the church. Under other condi-
tons of weather his thoughtfulness for
the comfort of his flock took a somewhat
different form, and at the end of a half
hours sermon he would sometimes say:
LAS the weather is still so inclement. l
will. my dear friends lengthen my dis
course somewhat in the hope that it may
clear later" -Cornhil.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-12-22

cit may interest You, children" said a
returned missionary, who was addressing
q Sunday school, ''if l tell you of an
adventure l once had in India While
going through a jungle L came face to
face with lion. There was no chance
of retreat, and I had nothing to defend
myself with. l stood perfectly still, and
looked the fierce beast steadily in the
eye"
(Which eye?' asked a breathless little
boy.-Tit-BitS.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-12-22

At New England society dinner some
years ago, Mark Twain had just finished
a piquant address when Mr.. Evarts
arose. showed both of his hands down in
to his trousers pockets, as was his habit,
and laughingly remark: doesn't it strike
this company as a little unusual that a
professional humorist should be funny %
Mark Twain waited until the laughter
excited by this sally had subsidized, and
then drawled out: Doesn't it strike this
company as little unusual that law
H'
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-12-22

Il didn't want to keep you waiting, Mr.
Westend, so l came down just as l was, y
said Mss Darlington, sweetly, as she en-
tered the parlOr.
small brother. You know you only had
on
And then Tommy was violently
hustled out of the room.-Harlem Life.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-12-22

Tom-"Marie jumped six feet when I
told her she was standing under the mis-
tletoe."
Jack-"Then you didn't kiss herr"
-"Oh, yes; she jumped in my di-
rection.''