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When thoughtlcss merchant stoeps to

When thoughtless merchant stoeps to
folly
And finds too late his candy's poor,
What brand can soothe his melancholy?
What scheme can make his cash count
more?
There's but one plan the fault to cover
And hide from all this great mistake,
And cause this man to roll in clover
'Tis-always buy the "ROYSTER-
MAKE"
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Business Notices.
HELP WANTED-FEMALE.

Ladies to make sample patches at
home; $6 to $40 weekly; no canvassing;
reply envelope for sample and particu-
lars. Foster Machine Co, $50 West
29th Street, New York
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WANTED.

Raleigh and Augusta Railroad stock.
Raleigh and CASTOR Railroad stock.
Durham and Northern Railroad stock
c.. NJ. HAWKINS 81 CO,
2-19-tf Raleigh, n. G.
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Not one child dies where ten formerly
died from coup. People have learned
the value of One Minute Cough Cure
and use it for severe lung and throat
troubles. 1t Immediately stops cough,
ing. 1t never fails. For sale by j. Hal
Bobbitt and Henry Hicks.
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MORE TRUTH THAN POETRY"
RO1'STER'S Buttcr-Cups are finer
than for long time. The walnut meats
are fresh, of excellent flavor, their coats
look like satin and the taste like more"
Put up in Zoe. boxes and sold by the
Mound.
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For SALE

Ny entire stock of Furniture on
hand Special low rates made. RUIZ
FIN ROLES. 22S-tf.
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DON'T DO ANY WHITEWASH-
ING TODAY
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LIVES CT DISTINGUISHED
MOTH CAROLINIANS"


should Bound
in e
This resolution just passed the Legislature and is now
in the
back numbers send for CORRECT lST T
We solea gent TO
READY limited number of SEYMOURS DIGEST we are Of
books office supplies
and will careful and prompt attention
FDr1 EhgEg lhH1S g. On
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!. TO1nb:

Washington wsviaSssssbnrsdsin whAt: isI
now known as the old vault, which Is:
800 feet awsyzfrom his5presentE
resting place. Before hisaaeath he had
requested that 3 new family vault; Be,
constructed after his dsoe&se;,s Ind :thleft
reason given Tor this ia Tint the Safthi
utpons,theM de az ths Hill sWthsetseS1Faaeold
vaault'wst,si placed was HiilklesllyI "a mp sway
In 5the: spriAgHmA $500 y ID J. Il
No tteniti6daau - "a a1pIpSas5nttly5ippaid til
this request kowaSvfslr: until xbopHt
$780, wfhlenfr ii employee twhio16 HID BEEN
discharged FROM tie estate broke fintos
the old tomb al; ntact GtSfsrssvenge andE
stole . skull which ID supposed 70. bel
that Of George Washington This, heI
took to Alexandria, and. "a. usual In
such cases, ''got drunk" and * his
secret was discovered, and the skull,
which proved to be that of Laurence
| Washington instead. was returned.
This incident led "a. the 1nal carrying
out of the wish 81 neralWashap
The tomb which is his present resting
place was promptly. hbnilt:; sandsIRas8l7
his remains were removed totE:r,sTh old
vault wat allowed to fall into state of
decay, and only 3 few y~earsEAgp9t ives
restored by the aidSofs ,dIaWfnSlxxsSo nnd
in the congressional Hbrary.asAu iron
fence has been built around Il, andf 81
now receives the same care q tho new
MISUNDERSTANDING. ----
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Expert Swim Llera.

The Siamese spend three-fourths Of
their existence in the water. Their first
act on awakening is to battle. They
bathe at II O'Clock, again at 8 and
again at sunset. There is scarcely an
hour in the day when bathers may not
be seen in all the creeks, even the shall
lowest and muddiest. Boys go to play
in the river just as our children go to
play in the street. A traveller tells of a
Siamese woman sitting on the lowest
step of a landing place, while, by a
girdle, she held in the water her infant
of a few months. Were not the Siamese
expert swimmers many lives would be
lost, for the tide flows so swiftly that
it requires the greatest skill and care to
prevent boats from running foul of one
another.
A story is told of an English boat
running down a small native canoe
containing a woman and two children.
In an instant they all disappeared. The
Englishmen were on the point of jump
ing to their rescue when they bobbed
up, and the woman, upon recovering
her breath, poured forth a volley Of
abuse. Having thus relieved her mind,
she righted her canoe, ladled out some
Of the water and bundled in the chill
dren who had been composedly swim
ming around her, regarding with min.
gled fear and curiosity the barbarians
who had caused the mishap.
The Dickinson press., 1899-02-11
He Got the Votes.

A congressman is thus quoted by the
Washington Star:
1.-THE first race I ever made for con-
gress resulted in my defeat by less than
80 majority, and If n Of my friends
had not been too jealous I would have
been elected. There was q precinct
where 7 expected to receive 100 votes,
and I feared there would be some fraud
in the precinct that would injure me,
80 I got an old man who had never par
ticipated in politics, but who had al
most paramount influence in the dis
trict, to take. charge Of my interests
there, instructing him to see that every
friend Of mine voted and that the votes
were counted.
"When the returns came in, I had
not received a single vote in that pre-
cinct, and the next day a bulky envel-
ope was handed me containing 100 bal
lots, together with a letter from the
man I had left in charge saying that he
had seen every friend of mine and taken
up their ballots go that M would be
missed, and as he wouldn't trust the
judges Of elections he had sent them to
me himself SO I would be sure to get
them. Since then I have seen to it that
men in charge Of my interests were not
only honest, but knew something about
nOlitica"
The Dickinson press., 1899-02-11
Beau Nash as a Gambler.

When the late Earl of I'd was a
youth, he was passionately fond of play
and never better pleased than with
having Mr.. Nash for his antagonist.
Nash saw with concern his lordship's
foible and undertook to cure him,
though by a very d~isagreeable remedy.
Conscious Of his own superior skill he
determined to engage him in single play
tor a very considerable sum. His lord
ship, in proportion at he lost his game,
lost his temper, too, and as he ap-
preached the gulf seemed. still more
eager for ruin.
He lost his estate. Some writings
were put into the winners possession.
His very equipage was offered as q last
stake, and he lost that also. But when
.our generous gamester had found his
lordship sufficiently punished for his
temerity ne returned all, only stipulat-
ing that he should be paid s5, 900
whenever he should think proper to
make the demand. However, he never
made any such demand during his lord
ships lifetime, but some time after his
decease, Mr.. Nash's affairs being in
(sic) the wane, he demanded the money
Of his lordship's heirs, who honorably
paid it without any hesitation.-"His-
tory Of Gambling in England"
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no GIVE ID, nxerx mo-.

~ "H-a.H n.a-.4.|
"Wel, SIR" demanded Horatio Bull,
Hon, what particular reason have
you to offer for asking mo 70 let you
have my daughter Gladysi"
I'll love her, and she loves me,,'
Reginald Biddlethwsite replied
"Oh, Of course,". tho blunt old mak,
nate retorted. "I'ye heard that SONG
from half q dozen others. That's to be
taken for granted. But what Other
qualifications have youf" !
II must confess" the trembling
young man answered, ''that I am not
rich, but I can ,truthfully say that I
have no expensive habits. Idon't drink
I don't gamble. I don't chew tobacco.
I don't smoke. Idon't'-
Hold oni'' the millionaire broke in.
"That's enoughi You'll do. Your
board and clothes won't cost much more
than the gas you've been burning late.
~. What I object to is supporting fell
lows like my other three sons-in-law,
who have all tho faults you say, you
have not. I don't mind Furnishing the
husbands Of my daughters with the nee.
essaries Of life. but I do hate to have "a
settle the bills for their Injuries. Now,
there is just one other point I want to
have settled before I give my consent. Is
"What is that" Mr.. Biddlethwaite
eagerly asked.
Promise me that you win not start
a newspaper. The others have all tried
it. and I can't stand many more such
experiences"
Reginald's promise made three hearts
happy.-Cleveland Leader.
The Dickinson press., 1899-02-11
vaseline Pancakes.

C@sar's creek, on the Florida coast,
was named after a famous old pirate
called Black Cesar, whose profession
added to the risks of marine insurance.
After the pirates the Florida wreckers
came, of whom II. A. Willoughby, in
his "Across the Everglades" tells this
story: -
A large steamer was stranded on the
reef not far from Cape Florida. sNosoon-
or had she struck than the news spread
rapidly along the shore. The people for
30 miles around gathered on the beach
opposite the stranded steamer. Among
them were q number Of Indians from
the Everglades, who CHANGED to be down
there and knew what q "wreck" meant
to the wreckers. -
The steamer, loaded with an assorted
cargo. began to break up. and barrels,
cases and boxes drifted gradually ashore.
There were casks Of wine, boxes Of soap,
esso Of bottles Of wine and Iron and q
hundred other articles. The Indians
seized upon the wine and soon. wore in
a condition that allowed the white men
to secure the more valuable prizes
The squaws struck a BONANZA in q
a Of vaseline. They thought II; i new
variety Of the white mans frying Kat
and, starting q fire, fried pancakes IN it.
What a discrepancies q Ia Seminolel
The Dickinson press., 1899-02-11
He knew Chester.

Mr.. Gladstone had a nice taste in hot
mutton pies. One Of the Wesleyan jour
nails recalls q conversation which r. w.
Perks had with Mr.. Gladstone at a pub
lie dinner in London, when the ex-
premier asked all sorts of questions on
matters pertaining to Methodism. A
man who happened to sit exactly op-
posite, wishing to divert the converse
ton into another channel, asked, "Do
you know Chester, Mr.. GladstoneP"
eyes, a little" was the answer, an
ominous smile playing about. the
mouth. "Do you know Chester, Mr.
.F" 4
"Not very we'll" said the unwary
qu%estioner.
"Well, if you 60 to the city of Ches-
ter you will find a confectioner's shop
in such a street." giving the number.
eco into that shop, and you can buy a
hot mutton pie, d~eliciously hot" and
here Mr.. Gladstone screwed up his eyes,
and his face beamed with delight as he
recalled the taste and smell of those
savory pies, land all for threepence."
Then, turning to Mr.. Perks, in deep,
earnest tones he said, "Let us resume
where we left off,"
There was no further interruption
from the opposite side Of the table
st. James Gazette.
The Dickinson press., 1899-02-11
A Greek Colony In Corsica.

At Cargese we have the remarkable
spectacle, of a Greek population with
its own church settled down on the
coast of Corsica. Our inn is kept by a
Greek from Corfu, as his name, Cor
fotti, tells us and as the loquacity of
his wife would lead us to infer; for at
Cargese the Corsican taciturnity has
given place to the Hellenic love of talk.
Rather more than two centuries ago a
Greek settlement was founded in Cor
sica under the auspices Of the Genoese
republic, to which the island at that
time belonged, and when the French
came into possession of the country they
established the Hellenic exiles, who had
meanwhile founded the Chapelle des
Grecs. just outside Ajaccio at Cargese
and built them the church which they
have ever since cherished.
Intermarriages between the colonists
and the natives, at first rare, have now
become frequent, and it is to be feared
that the Greek language will o o be-
com as extinct there as the fustanella.
But with that wonderful tenacity
which it shows in modern Greece, in
spite of centuries of barbarian inroads
and Turkish oppression, the Greek type
is sure to remain at Cargese to remind
the traveller of its eternal youth and its
unfailing characteristics. -Westmins-
ter Review.
The Dickinson press., 1899-02-11
The Art Of D~oinrINothine.

The Art Of Doin1 Nothing. |
One mark of the modern man Is his
inability to idle. When he has to work
for his living, he will grumble lavishly,
telling yons that leisure what !99he
longs for; Sthatgan idle HfeAk hssunat-
tainable ideal But let him come into
a fortune and youwill see. Does he use
his new amuence in the only reasonable
way, making soft places for himself
wherein he can idle happilyf Not he; he
runs to and fro about the city like the
Scripture dog, risking the portion Of
goods that has come to him among the
outside brokers, or he tries the muscles
Of his stomach on Q yacht, or he deliv-
ers himself, bound hand and foot, TO
the tyranny of the racing stables, or he
becomes a philanthropist, or throws his
unconquerable energy into amateur
photography.
To: a dweller in the ,sheepfolds the
question comes urgent, insistent, When
does a man come into this his birthright
of antlike industry When does this
inability to idle grow on himf In the
time Of bis ]smbhood he will, do any
thing, everything. to Insure his doing
nothing. To attain this object he will
{ spare no patent pains, no anxious
thought. he viii achieve his end even
Al prep. with the eye Of the shop.
hard npon him, and 1t will be perceived
eiat Is dosnothing when talking is i'm,
Spo t6ehlSeragabou ane1pensiyii
bE36fT requires stalent amounting FL
np6t1ogslu&.Pal Mall Gasette.
The Dickinson press., 1899-02-11

So. AOVchV0E0 V104 - AA8V& "
!, Colonel r.. an English officer station
ed in India, met with a singular adven.
fulre while tiger hunting in which he
1osst: an arm. The colonel had wounded
a.tiger from an elephants back The
tttdaign charged, and the elephant, taking
haixlht, bolted through the jungle. To
ssve himself from being Drained and
swept of by overhanging branches,
iCSlonel R. seized q st,ut limb and, rails
Ing himself, left the elephant to go on
alone through the forest. To his dismay
he found he had not strength and agil-
ity sufficient to swing himself up to sit
on the branch. In vain he strove to
throw q leg over and 30 raise himself.
Hooking down, the sportsman discov-
cred that the tiger had spotted him and
wis waiting below. The horror of the
situation can be imagined-the enraged
tiger and the helpless, dangling man
Knowing he must fall into those cruel
Jaws
How long he. hung there he never
knew. He shouted and shrieked in an
agony of fear. He eased arm q lit
Itlsa then the other, then hung de-
aspairingly by both-til at last tired ma
ture gave way and he droppedi
He remembered thrusting one arm.
into thetiger'sjsws, and then conscious
mess lefttKim. Hisslife was saved by the
arrival Of a friendly rife barrel held
close to the tiger head and through the
subsequent amputation Of the mangled
arm by a skllful surgeon.-Youth'e
;Companion.
The Dickinson press., 1899-02-11
1t Waanrdered.

In the biography f Prince Bismarck
it is said that when he was minister at
st. Petersburg he was walking one
morning5inthe summer gardenSand met
tho car, who;invited him to join him.
Presently Bismarck noticed assentry
stationed in the middle of a large grass
plot and asked the aid-de-camp, who in
turn inquired of the sentry.
"It is ordered" was his reply. :
Every official gave the same answer,
''It is ordered" but nobody knew by
whom. A ENTRY had always stood
guard in the middle of that innocent
grass plot. The archives were searched,
but in vain. At last an. aged official
was found, whohadS been told by his
father that the Empress Catherine had
once seen a snowdrop ready to bloom in
the spot, and had ordered a sentry to
stand guard and allow no one to pluck
it. For more than a century the watch
had been maintained because cit was
ordered" and no one had yersthought
Of disobeying or Of quesfoning the Eea-
son Of the order. 5
The Dickinson press., 1899-02-11
Julim ces.r.

Of all great conquerors, writes Marion
Crawford in "Studies From the Chron-
icles of Rome" he was the least cruel,
for he never sacrificed human life with.
out the direct intention Of benefting
mankind by an increased social stabili-
ty. OF all great lawgivers, he was the
most wise and just, and the truths he
set down in the Julian code are the
foundation Of modern Justice. Of all
great men who have leaped upon the
world as upon an unbroken horse, who
have guided it with relentless hands
and ridden it breathless to the goal Of
glory. Cesar is theTonly one who turned
the race into the track Of civilization
and, dying, left mankind q future In
the memory. ooff his past. He IS the one
great man Of all without whom it is
impossible to imagine history. We can
not take him away and yet leave any
thing of what we, have. Tbs world
could have been d IT Is withoutSAlex-
ander, without 'Charlemagne, without
Napoleon. It could not have been the
world we know without Caius Julius
Caesar.
The Dickinson press., 1899-02-11
Absolute Indifference.

A woman who has been a victim of
indigestion and is kept to dyspeptics'
diet most Of the time was recently in
vited to q dinner, which she was anx-
ious to attend.
She went to her telephone and, trust
ing to a somewhat unreliable memory,
she asked to be connected by the ever
obliging central" with telephone 1894.
When the connection had been made,
she began her plaintive query, without
any predatory, "Is that you, doctora"
II want very much to go to a little
dinner tomorrow night" she began
rapidly, "and do you think it would
hurt me if I ate just a taste of soup,
and perhaps a little fish or the least
trife Of game and a bit Of salad or icel
I really think my stomach
Here she was interrupted by q voice
from the other end Of the wire.
MADAM" 1t said coldly, ''eat what
ever you please. This is the Meteor
Rubber company. "-Youth's Compan'
io~ o.
The Dickinson press., 1899-02-11
Mes..sea byivibratis..

Curiously enough the fact appears,
according to a recent traveller 1smeng
the Indians of Catuqninarn, between
the rivers Embryo and Embyrasu, that
those people have long emnipilo5yIsd.a wire.
less telephony. but rather after the Sor.
der Of unwritten science. @t
It is made by digging q ahole;in' the
ground inside q housesand hying the
bottom with coarse sand, well piled.
On this is,laidsas woed5n&drumr oFh6l.
low cylinder of rwood;;,'hkif fsnllsdgwith
fine sand and layers; otrbroken1 wood,
bone and powdered miea-thes upper
part Of the cylinder, which 4rempty,
rising above the floor Of the hut and
closed first by leather, then by wood,
and lastly by india rubber, Outside,
the cylinder is packed round with frag-
ments of wood, leathsr,and resins; and
covered with hard rubber at. the ;levea
Of the soil. 5
To use this peculiar apparatus the
drum is struck by a wooden hammer,
and the vibration is evidently transmit-
ted through the soil. The answer IL
heard in the drum, whichtacts B q
resonator, and messages afesthus sent
over 1900 yards fromchouse to house.
The Dickinson press., 1899-02-11
IhE FLORIDA ctHrRu { pfMHsulAR. RAIL.
ROAD "a Z
0pelstes the Quicisase Sekedsle TO Florida
FfSM, the northwest: Chicago or St.
lSsis to Jacksonville within sc Hours
Caaciaaati to Jacksonville In ~ Hours.

~ V0&WOVSNvsV0 ~ ~ sSVNst0 s
The accelerated. Cincinnati, Florida and
Havana Limited is a solid vestibuled
train; consisting Of fine Pullman Buffed
SleePers and t%horoughfare coaches, leavt
ing Cincinnati every morning by the
Queen and Crescent, and arriving in
Jacksonville early mex morning. Over
this route there is also an evening de-
parture, carrying through sleepers from
Cincinnati, making Jacksonville the next
evening.
The.route is via the Queen & Crescent
to Chattanooga, the Southern Railway to
Everett, and the Florida Central 4 Pen
insliafto Jacksonville and Florida points.
Again there is a delightful route from
Cincinnati, through Asheville, North
Carolina, '-t""The Land of the Sky") and
Columbia, S. c., leaving Cincinnati every
evening, and arriving by the Florida Gem
trail K Peninsular at Jacksonville the
second morning.
From St. Louis and Kansas City
through Pullman Sleepers run over the
Florida Central 4 Peninsular to Jack
sonville, without change.
The Florida Central & gPeninsular is
the direct route to mostimportant places
in Florida, reaches by its own line Ocala,
Gainesville, Orlando, Tampa, Tallahas-
see-the capital-and numerous interior
towns and coast resortss Il
! 1t connects in the depot of arrival at
Jacksonville, for st. Augustine, and all
east coast points, including Miami,
whence steamers ply to Key West, Ha-
wanna and Nassau.
Its trains are among the finest in the
south.
For particulars apply to your nearest
ticket agent or to A. D. MacDonell, Cen
.eral Passenger agent, or L. A. Shipman,
Assistant General Passenger Agent,
Jacksonville, Fla.
The Dickinson press., 1899-02-11
i..itiI Ar ~ .-sH
The Story 0f = Letter.

The National Advertiser tails ! story
Of an old bachelor WHO bought q pair 81
socks and found attached to one Of them
q slip of paper with these words: II am
a young lady Of 30 and would Hike: 70
correspond withsa bachelor with a:view
to matrimony. Name and address
were given.
The bachelor wrote, and in q few
days got this letter: 'sMamms!was mar
ried 30 years ago. The merchant you
bought those socks from evidently,did
not advertise Or he would have sold
them long ago. Mamma handed me your
letter and said possibly I might suit
you. I am 10 years old"
The Dickinson press., 1899-02-11
Dos ana a Telephone.

At the Redhin railway station q pas
senger recently came to the station
master in great grief, saying that her
little pet dog had been left by accident
on the platform at Reigate and would
likely be either crushed by a locomotive
or lost. The courteous official telephoned
through respecting the poodle, and the
answer came Immediately that a dog Of
that description had just been brought
into the police station. The receiver
Wss put to the dogs ear, and the lady
was asked to speak to It. She did SO.
The effect was electrical The dog bark
ed q cordial recognition Of the voice and
by Its antics expressed a great desire to
jump into the apparatus and traverse
the wire in order to get to its mistress
all the sooner.-Birmingham (England)
Mail.
The Dickinson press., 1899-02-11
W.lliam al.cl,. ch.r.cter..

VT A@S OAN0"S&SEDs
Sir Wemyss Reid notes that William
Black seldom allowed himself to be
drawn into conversation about his work
One Of Reid's ~recollections runs thus:
Zone day, in the farof past, I was
walking along the sea front with Black,
at Brighton, when he said abruptly and
with reference to nothing that had been
passing between u We are not all en-
gagged in running away with other
mems wives There are some of us who
T not the victims Of mental disease or
moral deformity. do not even know
that anybody Of my acquaintance has
committed murder or a forgery. Yet
people are angry with me because I do
not make my characters in my books
odious in this fashion. I prefer to write
about sane people and honest people,
and I imagine that they are, after all,
in q maioritv in the world"
The Dickinson press., 1899-02-11
Types Of Hu.bands to Avoid,

There are two distinct types of hus-
bands who do more harm than they
would be willing. to. admit-the man
who permits himself to'become a gen.
erous fgurehead In his own family.
rarely holding q conversation with his
wife OF children. good naturally re-
spending to any extravaganza for the
sake OF peace, and the man who. though
conspicuous in the church and COM
munity, tyrannizes over his family in
small things until. for the sake Of peace,
they deceive him on every hand
Frances Evans In Ladies' Home Jour
nal
The Dickinson press., 1899-02-11
sR.AHair sBssfAgsa

why 81 readheadsd people less sub
ject to badness SthAn those With fair Or
brown hair9 An English physician has
answered this conundrum.
The hair Of the redheaded is relative
ly thick, one red hair being as thick as
five blond or three brown hairs. With
80, 900 red hairs the scalp is well
matched With the same number Of
blond hairs one is almostybaA It takes
100, 900 blond and lO6, 900 brown hairs
to cover adequately an ordinary head.
-~~A .