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The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-03-23

Mr. Richard II. Kiddie OF kinsmAn.
o., made the beautiful model OF a rail-
road locomotive here produced durins
his leisure hours last winter. Behind
the locomotive Is the locomotive build
er himself and his four-years-old boy.
who can tell the names Of nine-tenths
Of the different parts OF the engine and
tell what most OF them are for"
In building the model. the construc-
ton Of a fulisized locomotive was
followed with considerable attention to
detail. /, Ia provided with air pump
and main reservoir mot shown in
cu:) under the cab and between the
frames. The engineers brake-valve
reservoir Is placed under the cab vim
Gows, and If we could look within the
cab We should find a steam gauge.
three gauge cocks and drip pipe to car
ry off the water, a reversing lever and
sector. complete little injector, WIN
its feed pipe and check valves, whis-
tie lever, bell rope. rod to open cylin'
der cocks, rod to open draught IN
ash pan, and. indeed, every item thai
! goes to make up the complete fittings
| found in modern locomotive cab. The
| boiler is Jagged with Russian iron, ex
/ cert the extension front, which IL en-
ameied jet black. The tender is alst
/ black enameled, with letters IN gold
| The cab roof is made Of Russia tror
and the cylinders are Jagged with thu
same material. The saddles, which
are black enameled to match the ex
tension front, are of cast iron. and TIL
drivers are made Of the same material
! The engine has steam brake between
the drivers, and there is also hant
brake on the tender. The brake beam
are OF oak. The pilot is cast and !
! firmly bolted to neat walnut eros
piece, in each end OF which are seel
pockets for flags. The pilot Is provid
ed with regulation push bar. Tn
headlight, which burns wood alcohol
IS complete with glass and reflector
The boiler. it should be said, is fire.
with gasoline or wood alcohol. Not
should also be made of the small lamp
or markers, carried on the extension
front, and also of the flag pockets o.
each side Of the headlight. The ex
tension front carries a small bras
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-03-23
The Merciless Mud.

One Of our exchanges, published in
Indiana. says, in recent issue:
"While conveying the remains of the
late Samuel Percifeld to Nashville for
interment, the wagon containing the
remains became stuck in the mud, on
Dowell Hill, and was badly demol-
ished in an attempt to extricate it."
If this was the condition of the
road on ''the hill" what must it have
been in the ''holler?"-L. A. w. Bull
letin.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-03-23

cut. Where the fowl house is inside
another building, or has a hallway,
this plan can be easily and conven-
iently used. Long boxes are used
tor the nests. each having a partition
across the middle with round open
ing through it large enough for hen
to pass through. Two other round
openings for each mes. are made. One
in the outside of the box, as shown,
another in the partition of the hen
pen. Place the box against the out
side of the partition so that the two
openings will come together, when the
hen can enter aud pass around into
the dark nest. A hinged cover gives
access to the eggs.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-03-23
llowss Thiss

Ff.. permanently cured. No A.. crnsrvous-
re,s alter fr.t days use Of DR.. Kline sGr-a.
Nerve Restorer. sstrlsl bottle and treatise fres
DR. X. II. KLINE Ltd. .4l Arch -. PalIA IA
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-03-23

Educate Yeas bow els VITA Sesearss
Candy Caihar;ie. cure constipation toss
ice. &C. II q C. G. TALL. drugs ssss rel wa 1s"oes
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-03-23

Pis,'- Cure for corsum ton has SAVED me
many a doctors bill. r. HARDY, Eop~iI,
I,ace. Bsltiruors. Nd DE :, lsgA
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-03-23

4 cotton and wooirn mill VIII pio,ao.s .
established at the Teas STATE fcasieLiiA's
a. the town Of Eu-k.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-03-23

Mr.. winslo~'e Sootbin a. syrup for ehlldrcs
,eeth!rg softers the gums. rcduci NJ lana ma
zion. alInys pain cures " I'D collie -; 5o--.s :
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-03-23
Personal Knowledge of Farm Work.

Personal knowledge of Farm Work.
that we must devote our time exclui
sively to our work on the farm or WI
will suffer loss. For instance, ono
farmer told me the other day that he
had some extra work to look after last
summer and that he was foolish
enough to hire ON extra man to do his
farm work while he galloped down the
road looking after some one else's
work. Now it might appear that d
person could make fairly good thing
ii he earns $40 to $50 per month al
something besides farming. when d
common farm hand can be hired for
$50 to SIS per month. The ditferencd
between S1S and $50 is quite nice
little sum, yet when We come to count
in the extras which the $1s man hal
to have and which must be supplied
from the $50 salary it egua!izes thing
considerably. Still I do not thinl.
here is where the great difference lies,
Every true farmer has some particu!
lar method which no hired man cares
to follow except while in sight of the
''boss," and it sometimes happens
that all the interests OF the farm dc
not get the attention they would if the
owner was doing the work himself, as
was the case of the farmer alluded to
at the beginning of this article. This
farmer said he tried his best to teach
the man that was doing his work how
to cultivate corn. but it was practi-
cally out Of the question. He simply
went over the field as machine would,
regardless Of the requirements of the
soil. As q result shrinkage Of fifteen
| bushels per acre was experienced. A
machine man on the farm is worse than
an unruly animal, for they (the ami
mals) can be tied down, with the as.
surance that they will come to time,
but with the other fellow nothing can
be done. Corn, like all other crops in
one respect, has to be we'll cared TO,
from the very beginning to get best
results. Some places in the field may
need deep cultivation, while Others
may require shallow, and ii o man is
SO absorbed in something else that he
does no. aotice this difference in these
places he is not on the road to success
full farming. Thus it may be easily
seen that, usually speaking. if a mar
understands the requirements of his
farm it would surely pay him as we'll
if not better, to stay at home and d,
his own work or take the place of tn,
$18 man instead of accepting $50
month elsewhere;-Elias F. Brown, il
the New England Homestead.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-03-23

George Breasraan 1. TO erect . i.-p~
cla>. factory nj Anderson. lnd.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-03-23
60. . cold In Oae Ds,

distraction In poultry eassurc s EiNca u
.hc Rhot. Island College q Asrssaitare
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-03-23

Tha Branshora vooacn NIL, Nii.tns!
Ma. 4. running night aad day.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-03-23
e. Car. con.,,p.s,oa vorsvs

Noless than els 900 l. tnv.s'ed II u
glove Industry In the United sta.es-
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-03-23
|IAN FELL FROM BALLOON!

I'll Spraincd his BACK and Ankle Knock
III ed one of His Fingers out Join a scd
" GOOSE Cir EASE L1NlNE<T and
was out In few days. II Cures Ev.
cry Time lf You Will Use IL
sight. Use Plenty oft.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-03-23

0sss blood means . clean skin. Nc
bsouSy without IL. Cascarets. Candy Cathar.
Sic clean your blood and keep il clean, BY
pnritIss from the body. Begin to-day 70
basish pinptes, boils, blotehes, blackheads.
and that sickly bilious complexion by taking
Cascarets, beauty for ten cents. All drug.
Gists. satisfsction guaranteed. loo, 25c, Soc.
The Dallas wooden mills. DallAs, Ore. are
70 run day and night 30. IL.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-03-23
The Fair Maid oil Tsrh

In the north part OF i..a .ir Z
Perth. In Scotland. l. n hn!l. la. rr
has long been known a. O.. -
Maids House. Tradition iu-.-l. "a
this IS the house ia ''rous ..r, y
Cur.ew. street" which wa '.'.lc-,
Inhabited 10y old simon Gin,.- as
his daughter. Ca,herln". Sr waa=
Scott made the latter his l' .ae I
the Fair Maid az Perth" dr--'si.
her as universally arkn"nlva-ei !
bc the most beautiful young - ar-an !
the city or its vicinity. IT, lua
however. has Halle Historical 'a..- q
stand on. Nevcrihc,css. ihr ,-.'li,
Is an interesting relic of old lcr-a "a
as such the Town Council Nj "a
ncqaire IL and purchase n f.m !
present owner Mt the prise IL 'os' b.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-03-23

Cus-aniceS tobacco e.ti, cure. -,
neo siroas. hood pure sS u %. ~ -ss~-
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-03-23

The most prolific variety of cotton ever pro-
duced- Makes from one to two bales OF cot
IL large 8 re boi 8 this cotton can he gathered
At much less expense. y cker being able To
pick twice as much of ttss cot ton This 4. a
distinct variety OF cotton from any othe
The seeds are large and DIRK green This cot
Ton took nr.t rank at the Experiment Sta
lions OF Ala bama, Georgia and N.ssi.sip.,i
Mt. Russell made in 81 &: bales on IL acres: n
y. made % bales with one mule. BUY and
plant these seed and make twice q $ much cot.
TON as you would OF other cotton. All seed
are select and from Mr.. Ruseell's farm
Price Of sesd, bu-. 81 %. ) bu lots. 81 q o.
bu - b. or more. S1.W per bu. Send money
HORNION. Alexander Cit. Ala
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-03-23

Tsxe Cascsre,s Candy C-iHartc 10 g. =
NC q g. fail 10 cure. druggists rcftsd rsoceJ
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-03-23

sat, tobacco easily ana scrsves. Be Eae
80. ,,u ~ Ire. rervs ssa yiSos. take NSio
n. .se ro.sr..-ssker. ssss ssa<ss yeas ~
..,,,~. Ar arrSsss:s. &c CO o.. Cure sssreS
,es.a poos.e, s-a ssHpls nee Ac
S,sr,,rs Renecy Co. C1ieses OF Sss ssfs
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-03-23
LOCOMOTIVE
MODELLED AFTER mo. 0eS" OF
WORLDS FAIR FAME.

Over 1000 Revolutions . Nfaose-Oe.
tai;4 That Arc smaii In Mig Asehisss
Worked Ont with MArvsloAs Aseaeasy
In Amazing Miniature
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-03-23

9aae LAXATIVE rreno SSiFtre isS
Yrrrr lot, rsfune mercy ~ ~ fsis 70 eS''
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-03-23
A Good Example.

An enterprising paper in an Illinois
city offers to donate $1,000 to the cause
of road improvement Sin order to Sc
cure hard roads for the benefit OF the
farmers" of the county and for the
city in which it is published. The
sum of 800 will be given on the COM
plotion of one mile OF gravel road on
each of ten roads, on the following
terms:
"This amount of 800 shall be due
and payable to the Commissioners OF
Highways of the township in which
said one mile of road is located for the
particular purpose above mentioned
when ono mile has been completed
from the city limits of the city or
each road respectively. The one mile
on each road must be built in a sub
stantial manner, of good material
under the supervision OF competent
engineers, and must be completed
within three years from January l
1899, and under specifications agreed
On by three practical hard road .u
tEOrities.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-03-23

Henry ]. Decker nell-to go Hs
about town. in san Francisco. rcccgi
liz made a bet that begging - q l-5
fcssiou pays. To prove II h. Wen
out for an hour with a haud Est'
url rcturD.d with $40.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-03-23
6o1J, SoadqboAM
RZ2z: E5lJllMU,l

Hoods Pills cure liver Ills, the non Irritating and
the only cathartc to take with Hoods sxrsapAriia.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-03-23
Improving New Jersey Highways.

The annual report Of the Commits
sioner of Public Roads in New Jersey
shows gratifying continuance of the
good work of improving the high.
ways. Since the passage Of the State
aid law there have been built 325
miles of road at a cost of $565, 826.
The economy to the farmer in hauling
products to railway or market is clear
ly demonstrated, and the profit to the
community at large of this investment
of public money may be studied to adj
vantage by the Legislatures Of other
States. The report directs especial
attention to the experiment that is to
be made of laying steel roads for heavy
traffic, as suggested by Secretary Will
son, of the Department of Agriculture.
The progress of New Jersey in road
building has earned in particular the
approval and appreciation of bicyclists,
who can now wheel with comfort from
New York to Philadelphia.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-03-23

w HiLU-SeS OF ma koalth that 8IfA-$.0
III not .enene Send eta to Rfpans Chemical
Co.. SewYJrk, for 10 salnules aud is1t tesfmonaals
DISCOVERY: rive,
S~A = quick relief and er-ss goruS
caes& Book Of tesfiynouisss AID q Aavo,
Free. u. Z. l. eRrrH's soss. Eas q. A.,a.sa C.
CESD Five CENTS for our csta,ogue OF iNcuBA.
- TORS, AMI book on POULTRY. set q pis,rs
for Poultry Houss<, Broofers etc, &c. wee CuIIo
Iscseator &C.. Market st, Delaware CITY, Del
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by sections, by companies, by bat.
talions. Hour after hour, ii is moth.
ing but the raising of legs till they arc
at right angles to backs, erect as posts,
while subulterns and captains direct,
correct, repeat-do the work which
our subalterns and captains leave to
their drill sergeants.
Bat the German officers are the drill
sergeants OF their army; they are the
schoolmasters of people whose edu-
cation Is war; the guardians of a Ger
many whose safety is her military
supremacy-of country which is pre-
pared for war because it wants peace.
La the afternoon, from one to six
there is an incesant musical drill; the
men, keeping their feet firm, sway
their bodies backwards aud forwards,
or to left and right, or else they ad,
vance or retire on tiptoe, or on all
tours or they double to their front or
to their rear. You wonder as YOU
look, that no more agreeable means
has as yet been found in Germany by
which the bodily activity of her SOL
dlers and the mobility of her military
units" can be increased.
Those of more than years service
shoot and shoot at the butts, and shoot
again all the morning till they have
attained certain standard of marks
manship Ill every possible attitude; or
else they are drilled in less elemen-
tary formations; or else they garrison
the outpost forts. And in the even
ings all are instructed by the non com
missioned officers ont of the official
manual Of field service; and thus till
nine when the long day is done.
And so the great war machine is kept
oiled and smooth-running, aud the
German army marks time But yet,
in spite of all this, Metz aud Strasburg
convey no threat; they seem merely to
be recognition OF French instability;
they are just proof that Germany
cannot forget Bismarck maxim
Never trust France" The sword
hangs over France, but it will he the
fault of the French themselves alone
II the thread which upholds it is cut.
Boston Transcript
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QUEER THINGS AsoUT SLEEP.
Our Utter Inability to Resist 1t in Case.
OF Extreme Fatigue.

One OF the most remarkable facts to
be found IN the history of sleep con.
sists in the utter inability to resist its
onset in cases of extreme fatigue. Sew
eral remarkable instances are given in
which persons have continued to walk
EDWARDS while sleep has overcome
them, the automatic centres of the
brain evidently controlling and stimu-
latlng the muscles when consciousness
itself had been completely abrogated.
1t is recorded that at the battle of the
Nile, amidst the roar of cannon and
the fall of wreckage, some Of the over
fatigued boys serving the guns with
powder fell asleep on the deck DIR.
Carpenter gives another instance OF
allied kind. Iu the course of the Bur
mese war, the captain of n frigate
actively engaged in combat fell asleep
from sheer exhaustion, and slept
soundly for two hours within a yard
of one of the biggest guns. which was
being actively worked during his
slumbers. 1t is matter of common
medical knowledge that extreme ex-
haustion in face of the severest pain
will induce sleep. Here the impera-
tive demand of the body-a demand
implanted, as we have seen, in the
constitution of our frames-asserts it's
influence; and even pain, the ordin-
airy conqueror of repose, has in it's
turn to succumb. Que of the most
extraordinary cases in which the over
ruling power of sleep was ever exem-
plified was that of DamienS, CON
demned for treason in Paris in 1857.
He was barbarously tortured, but re
marked that the deprivation of sleep
had been the greatest torture of all
1t was reported that lie slept soundly
even in the short intervals which
elapsed between his periods of tor
ture. Among the Chinese form of
punishment for crimes consists in
keeping the prisoner continually
awake, or in arousing him necessarily
after short intervals of repose. After
the eighth day OF such sleeplessness,
one criminal besought his captors to
put him to death by any means they
could choose or invent, so great was
his pain and torment due to the alb
sence of natures soft nurse" Per
sons engaged in mechanical labor,
such as attending machine in a fac
tory, have often fallen asleep despite
the plain record of pains and penal
ties attending such dereliction of duty.
to say nothing OF the sense of personal
danger which was plainly kept before
their eyes. From "The Ape OF
Death, by DR. Andrew Wilson, +. II.
5. f.. in Harper's MAGAZINE
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Hinta ON AdrertIsinr.

The advertiser has need to keen
himself constantly in the public view.
Herein lies one Of the chief secrets OF
success in publicity.
The best advertising man knows
type, it's possibilities and limitations.
Type style counts good deal nova.
days with every advertiser.
An advertisement above all things
should be convincing. The man who
reads it should believe what it says.
Hence the nearer it conforms TO fact
the more complete will be its con.
vincingness. Exaggeration may re-
suit in bringing customers, but il
never will hold them.
Many a novice in the Advertising
department is carried off his feet by
an overdone enthusiasm for cuts.
Pictures do frequently "talk quicker
than type" but quite as often they
overshadow the type talk, II they do
not cast ridicule upon it. Better i'm.
press the mind than the eye simply.
Proprietary medicine men adver.
tise more proportionate TO their mum.
bers than any other class Of dealers in
this country. And more Of them sue
coed than any other class, their nun.
bers being considered. RI one put
these two facts together, it is easy
enough TO understand that advertising
does pay.
The newspaper is the accepted
medium for advertising. All other
methods are going into 'innocuous
desuetude." Ten years hence, the
bill poster, the programme, street car
and similar methods will have passed
into the things that have been and are
not. Newspapers not only insert the
advertisement, but they also dis.
tribute it, Publishers make adver.
tisers' interests their own, and they
make an exact science Of handling the
Advertisements.
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4 Sew Single Rail Railroad.

An English inventor has built rail-
road on which trains run regularly at
the rate of 100 miles an hour, and fire.
quently attain a speed OF from two to
three miles minute. And it is a
practical achievement, with full-sized
cars capable of carrying 100 passen-
gers each, so practical, indeed, that
F. y. Behr, the inventor, has Just
formed a syndicate for constructing n
line on his new system between Liver
pool and Manchester. He calls it the
lightning Express Railway" It will
make the distance of about thirty miles
i'll twenty minutes, including stops
Between stations the cars will fire.
quently attain speed of two miles a
minute.
The trains run on single rail set
several feet above ground on treste
work, and the motive power is fur
nished by electricity. The cars some
what resemble big oblong bun,
turned upside down, with wheels set
thick along the part that answers for
the bun crease, and hedged about with
guide wheels, so that it cannot Jump
the track along which it is propelled.
Work on the Liverpool and Man
chester Road will begin within few
months. The first line of the kind
built by Mr.. Behr near Brussels, Bel
GUM, has been in operation several
months. New York Sun.
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WHEN PA GETS SICK.

When Pa gets sick he always knows
He's sonter die, and Tommy goes
For DR.. Quack, an fore he 'rives
IN hurried OF for Dr.. Ives,
An Ma an Bess an Auntie, too,
For liniments an gruels go,
An plasters an the warmin' brick
An everything. when Pa gets sick
No one OF us is lowed to play.
The baby's sent across the way.
The 'pothecary's boys about,
The hull time runnin' In an out.
The house so with his groans is fllied
Folks stop to ask who's gettin' killed.
An misery is piled on thick
For everyone. when Pa gets sick.
We never have no table set.
Cold vittles Is the best we get,
For cook is busy TO the brim
Contrivin' dainty things for him.
An studyln' II in my mind
I'm good deal more'n half inclined
To think-although l dassent kick
We suffer most when Pa is sick.
Boston Courier
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All opposed say "No"' said
Jack as he cooked his revolver and
glared about the room. A moments
death-like silence followed. Jack in
lower tone said:
This court is unanimous and
The Baby" is acquitted. The Parson
will now say prayer for Slippery
Dick" and We'll take him out and
plant him
The great bell rang out as Jacl,
shouted
"'All up, gents hats off, Every
one stood and uncovered the head.
Il have heard many prayers in my
life, but never one like the Parson' s
over Slippery Dick The preacher
lowered above the sea of heads, and,
with eyes closed, talked with God.
He pleaded for LNrcy for the mob of
sinners before him who were on the road
to eternal ruin. He uncovered the
hard and cruel hearts about him with
the fearless and steady hand of a mas
ter surgeon. You could hear the
quick gasp of suppressed breathing
as each one of the pack of reprobates
felt the unsparing hand reveal his own
guilty secret.
The prayer for Jack, the ringlead-
er i'll sin, was like blast from a fur
mace. Jack covered his face with his
SLOUGH hat and trembled like a leaf.
The petition for Slippery Dick was
like picture OF awful sin receiving
its awful penalty in accordance with
Divine law. 1t brought a sob of ter
ror from score of hearts. When the
prayer reached The Baby the hard
voice trembled and broke into wall
and ended in eart-breaking sob.
The strong man pied in the name of
the mother, who through her burning
tears prayed day and night for the
loved boys return. / have seen trees
swayed by n cyclone until I felt as if
they must be torn from their roots by
the next fierce blast. SO that mass of
heads swayed and bowed while the
preacher prayed. When the whis.
pered amen was uttered, n breath
like sigh parted the lips of every
man as he looked into the white face
of his neighbor.
Jack was the first to regain his
composure. His voice had lost all OF
its rollicking tone as he gently and
| solemnly said:
"A collection, gents, for the Par
SON..
He passed through the crowd, re
| ceiving coin or bill from every
hand, and poured the hatful of money
into the Parsons pocket. The Par
son and The Baby went ont together
As soon rs the door closed behind
them, Jack said
"'Gents, The Coyote" is closed
until tomorrow morning at o'clock
1.-THE crowd passed out in silence. s"
New York Independent.