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The Burke County news. [volume] (Morganton, N.C.) 1899-1901, 1900-11-09
I S AND OYSTERS.

Kind friends and patrons. e..
weather has come and l am expecting
a lively trade in the fish and oyster
business. Fish at Z and : cents ~
pound is the cheapest meat yoa etH
buy, besides it is healthy and -rea.
brain food. Now please look 81 my
prices: Trout, mullets, flounder> and
all fine fish Sc per ID. Remena"r.
am going to be the leader IN tr #~
tiers this season. get my e9 -#
Suffolk and Norfolk. Va. aud Ht
more. Md. My prices are: o..
lects o per qt., zoe = 81. ~'at.
standards SOC qt.. 55c half ~ oae.
oysters, fine stock. SOC pee H,
Der, when the weather get
cooler you can get fish am
from me any day except SunatE. a-
If you will place your regutaE
with me you will never be c3~ti
ed and orders shall be filled f-.'
and with the best fish and OYSTER
the market. Remember. / eA
sc on the dollar, and if you a-~
ular customer O will get a ~
1Oc on the dollar. Than ~
friends for thir support.
Respectfully,
THOS. LOWDERIILh
The Burke County news. [volume] (Morganton, N.C.) 1899-1901, 1900-11-09
CALDWELL.
A Good Forage Crop-The Logs Lodged
in Burke -Watauga Celery-Fatal
Accident.

Accident.
Leno1r News, Nov. End.
Mr.. j. G.. Williams, Gen.
Manager Of the Caldwell Land
& Lumber Co.. received a
phone message a few days ago
that FIVE hundred of their logs
washed away from Colletsville
bv the freshet last week had
lodged on one plantation down
Johns river in Burke county.
We saw some very fine eel
cry on the market here We'd
nesday which was raised in
Watauga county. This celery
is equal to any raised in Kala-
mazoo, or anywhere else, and
there is no reason why it
should not be one of the best
paying crops in this part Of
the country.
The Alfalfa patch that Mr..
Munroe has on his lot and
which has been moved FIVE
times this season and is now
ready for the sixth moving,
should open the eyes of Ca1d-
we'll people to what is a good
forage crop. Two or three
acres Of Alfalfa will make all
the forage the average farmer
in this country needs.
The Burke County news. [volume] (Morganton, N.C.) 1899-1901, 1900-11-09
CATAWBA.

The Top Crop of Cotton-Field Trials
to Begin Nov. 18th -Protracted
Meeting.
Newton Enterprise, Nov. End.
The most Of the wheat in the
county has been sown, and
farmers are we'll along gather
ing corn.
The warm weather has
brought up the wheat, and the
fields are beginning to look
almost as green as in spring
time.
A protracted meeting is be
ing held in the Methodist church
this week. The pastor is as
sisted by Rev. D. II. Conan Of
Kings Mountain.
Nearly all the leading bird
men who take part in the field
trials have their dogs in the
county training for the annual
contest, which will begin Nov
ember 10th.
The market reports recently
have had a great deal to say
about the top crop Of cotton
and its effect in depressing the
price. From this, experts have
raised their estimates of the
crop from 1925, 900 bales to
II 1000 900. Mr.. J. T. Mehaffey
has brought us a sample Of his
top crop Of bolls. The stalks
are now full Of young bolls al
most ready to begin opening.
One Of the stalks has nine of
these. Mr.. Mehaffey expects
to get a quarter Of a bale to the
acre from the top crop. II
this is general, it is easy 20 see
why the estimates on the crOt
are increasing, and the price
declining.
The Burke County news. [volume] (Morganton, N.C.) 1899-1901, 1900-11-09
SPREAD LIKE WILDFIRE.

When things are ''the best"
they become the best selling"
Abraham Hare, a leading drug
gist, Of Belleville, O., writes:
Electric Bitters are the best
selling bitters | have handled
in 20 years. You know Why
Most diseases begin in disor-
ders Of stomach. liver, Kidneys,
bowles, blood and nerves.
Electric Bitters tones ~ the
stomach, refulates liver, kid
neys and bowles, purifies the
blood, strengthens the nerves,
hence cures multitudes Of NAL
aides. 1t builds up the entire
system. Puts new life and
vlgOr into any weak, sIckIy,
rundown man or woman. Price
SO cents. Sold by John Tull,
Druggist.
The Burke County news. [volume] (Morganton, N.C.) 1899-1901, 1900-11-09

When you feel that life is
hardly worth the candle take
a dose Of Chamberlain's
StOmache and Liver Tablets.
They will cleanse yourstomache
tone mp your liver and regulate
your bowels, making YOU feel
like a new man. For sale nv
W. A. Leslie.
The Burke County news. [volume] (Morganton, N.C.) 1899-1901, 1900-11-09
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS
AS Told by the Papers in
the Neighboring
Counties.
CLEVELAND

slaughter Dropped Dead in Church
J. A. Toney Acquitted of the
Charge of Manslaughter.
Shelby Star, Oct. 31st.
Miss Nancy Wallace died
Friday night at her home III
Lawndale, of fever. She was
Is years old and the daughter
Of Mrs. Wallace, a widow lady.
The trial Of j. A. Toney. Of
Double Shoals, for the killing
of Horace Lane, consumed
Thursday afternoon and Fri
day morning. The killing oc-
Cured over a year ago and the
indictment was for manslaugh-
ter. The jury returned a YER
dict Of mot guilty" The YER
diet gave general satisfaction
and was considered a righteous
one.
Mr.. John Skinner, a we'll
known miller and a good citi-
zen, dropped dead in the Meth
Odist church at MoOresborO on
last Wednesday night, while
attending the revival meeting
service. He was we'll and
hearty at supper and he and
Mr.. JnO. Beason were talking
together just before the service
began. During the service he
was seen to fall over and in a
few moments he had expired.
He was about IS years old and
leaves a wife and several chill
dren. Deceased was a mem
Der Of the church and a good
man. He was an unusually fine
miller, having followed this
all his life, ard was a most
useful citizen.
jim Jewell, colored. who
killed Sam Moore, colored, al
Kings Mountain, by shooting
him in the back Of the head
as he was leaving the beef mar.
ket of Goforth & Crawford
where the negro Fewell was a
work, plead guilty of murder
in second degree and was sen
fenced to the penitentiary 70.
a period Of u years. Solicito
Webb represented the Stat,
and ID. P. Dellinger, d. l.. Rus.
sell and Clyde r. Hoey wei,
appointed by the court to ap
pear for the negro. The Judg,
heard the evidence and the1
passed the above sentence
The negro Sam Moore was tn,
aggressor in the difficulty. bu
was forced to abandon it, tenn
porarlly, and it was at thi
time that Fewell shot him. L
the Ease Of Bud Bridges, col
ored. who was charged wit
manslaughter. for the killing o
Jim McAfee, colored, in No.
township. the evidence wa
that the deceased was the ag
r,.aScor ap1 tira1 fho Erct 81
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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1900-10-24

Pretty Girl Wants to Vote for Roosevelt.
= One of Governor R~oosevelt's best
fris nds in the west is Miss Lucie Null
hall of Beaver Greek, Oklahoma Ter
ritOry. Miss Mulball is such an ar
dent admirpr of the ce-Presidential
candidate that she is said to have ex-
pressed the conviction that it would
be almost worth while being a man
TO he allowed to cast a vote for him
in November. As it is, Miss LUCE,
who only weighs ninety pounds, is
easily the most popular girl in the
territory, because of her skill as a
borsewoman. She is said to be as
good a shot as any manin the south
west, and when it comes to throwing
a lariat the best of the cowboys &C
knowledge her their equal. Incident.
ally, Miss Lucie is a talented musi-
clan and reads French and Greek in
the original. She was educated at a
convent in st. Louis, and is a young
woman of many accomplishments,
but she is said to prefer life or the
great MuIhall ranch to the more for
NAL and commonplace methods of
existence in the cities.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1900-10-24

by what Is proper for the financial
status Of the Changs or Wangs or
Wahs, as the case may be. The indi-
vidual is nothing, the family is every
thing.
A characteristic of the peculiar "Chi-
nee" which has found a wide field for
display the past few weeks is his mys-
te~riousness. The Chinaman lodges
fact and weaves a labyrinth of fiction
over everything. OF the race 1t may be
said without exception, "None so blind
as those who won't see." Feeling, an.
ger, pride, all are repressed. They
V up disagreeable truths and dis
guise real sentiments. Things are
never what they seem in China. A
tragic death is announced to the world
with a laugh, but the laughing lips
soon turn to mourning in the privacy Of
the family circle.
Self repression is the law of the Chi
naman's make up, but there is d limit.
He will laugh at an intended word of
insult, but be ready to fight If ar Jne
accidentally treads upon his toes. So
dense and impenetrable Is his mask of
stolidity and indifference that only an
accident will reveal to the nearcst as
sociates the really high minded, sensi-
tive and passionate man beneath. So
when his patience is worn out and his
sense of propriety Jared out of poise
he will burst with uncomfortable anger
and take refuge in violence.
The cry Of "China for the Chinese
means as much IN the moral as on the
material side. The Chinese know them
selves as no outsider can ever know
them and have got on very well togeth-
err for about 5000 years. Their teacher
when he comes will appear in gown
and pigtail, bearing the staff of Confu-
cius. GEORGE l.. KILMER.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1900-10-24

No. 191.-Illustrated Conundrum: Be.
cause he Is seeing 1t wade.
No. 192.-Jumbled Names: Garnet,
Amethyst. Blackstone. Sapphire. EN-
erald. Agate. Sardonyx. Chrysolite.
Opal.
No. observation-disclosures: 1. Coil, oil. 2.
Ideal, deal. 3. Near, ear. 4. Drear, rear.
8. Erase, rase. @. Race, ace. Z. Ivied.
We'd. 8. Lash, ash. 8. Lover, over. 10.
Avoid, void.
No. 194.-A Pod of Pens: Part, art.
Pate, ate. Pout, out. Pclf, elf. Pray,
ray. Plot, lot.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1900-10-24

Bryan has a peculiar sort Of logic.
Before the convention he insisted and
commanded that a 16 to l plank be in
serted in the platform, saying that the
reatfirmation Of the Chicago platform
was not sufficient. Now that nothing
was said in the Kansas City platform
about the income tax he declares that
the Endorsement of the Chicago plat
form covers the question perfectly.
Such trifling may be thought shrewd,
but it is neither good politics nor re-
spectacle craftsmanship.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1900-10-24
FOOLED THE cATAMoUNT.
And the Ugly Beast Plainly Showed
That His Feelings Were Hurt.

That His Feelings Were Hurt.
People who imagine that animals
haven't got feelings don't know what
they are talking about" said the yell
lowstone Park guide as he a clean
ing his rife. Il was cutting a trail
around one Of the %sproutin springs one
day, and, getting warmed up, l. threw
my coat Ove the end of a log. BY and
by | went off to hunt for a drink of
water, and it was perhaps half an hour
before l returned to my work.
When l came up, it vas to see a
whalin big mountain lion creepin along
to spring on the coat. 1t was over the
log in a way to make it look like a man
stoOpin down, and the lion was nicely
deceived. He skulked up to within Is
feet Of the log, crouched fiat for a mo-
ment and laid back his ears, and then
he made two jumps of it. Creased
ltghtnin wasn't in it with that critter.
1t al like a big ball of fur shot from
a cannon, and as he flew he uttered a
screech which brought my hair on end.
If that coat had been a man he would
not have had time to say gum. The lion
lit down on it with claws and teeth
ready for business, aud in five seconds
the garment was cut into carpet rags.
Then he realized the cheat, and you
never saw a human bein look so fool
ish. His tail went down to the earth,
the fire died out of his eyes and he'd
have given $40 for some one to kick
him up hill. His chagrin was so plain
that l laughed right out, and that
broke his heart. He looked at me and
%whimpered like a puppy, and when
asked if his mother knew he was out
he fetched a sort of sob IN his throat
and sneaked off like a dog caught kill
in sheep. If l could have run fast
enough to have caught him by the tail
he would't have even looked back. He
knew he had made a fool of himself,
and he wanted to go off and hide and
have a long think ."-Chicago Inter
Ocean.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1900-10-24

The variations in habits, manners
clothing and food of the Chinese are
determined by ones position in life.
Custom rules everything; it is the law
Of the land, and as the individual re-
mains in the same circle all his days
there is no such thing as a false or as.
sumed position. The four great divi-
sions of society, the farmers, scholars,
mechanics and merchants, have their
separate rules of etiquette and styles
Of dress, made arbitrary by custom.
Expenditures are regulated not by
what the individual can afford, but
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1900-10-24
OF THE PAST
No Stronger Evidence Can Be
Had.

Look we'll to their record. What they
have done many times in years gone by,
is the best guarantee of future results.
Anyone with a bad back; any reader suf-
fering from urinary troubles, from any
kidney ills, will find in the following evil
dence proof that relief and cure is near
at hand:
Mr.. Patrick o. Dwyer, mason, of 81
White street, New Haven, Conn, says:
sin 1896 when Doan's Kidney Pills cured
me of backache which always bothered
me when l caught cold, which hurt me
when l stopped, or Strengthened after
STOPPING, which refused to disappear un-
der treatment of different medicines, 1
was only too pleased to let the people of
New Haven know the fact through our
newspapers. Three years from that date,
or in the month of May, 1899, l just as
ardently recommend Doan's Kidney Pills
as I did when they effected the cure
mentioned above. My advice to anyone
suffering from kidney complaint is, call
at a drug store, procure Doan's Kidney
Pills, take them as directed, and you will
be surprised at the results"
Doan's Kidney Pills are for sale by all
dealers, price so cents. Mailed by Foster
Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y, sole agents
for the U. S. Remember the naue-
Doan's-and take no other.
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No. 199.-PrimaI Acrostic,

No. 199.-PrimaI Acrostic.
1. Men, once %enslaved, enjoy my first
today.
2. My second. nations free resist Away.
3. My third, the secret of our country's
strength.
A.. King George provoked our grandsires
to this step, at length.
5. We called those loyal to King George
this name.
6. We called "Celestials" thus when
first they came.
Z. The seventh all greedy politicians
seek to seize.
8. The eighth DER all our land floats on
the breeze.
8. My ninth we hope to find in courts OF
law.
10. My tenth, our country's title, with.
out flaw.
II. To win the eleventh our grandsires
long did fight.
II. The redskins gave this name to PEG.
pie white.
This day we celebrate with noise and
fire,
While patriotic thoughts our hearts in.
spire.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1900-10-24
1t Is Said That

The gold handled by a dentist is al
ways at a premium.
The man who is learning to play the
cornet is his own tutor.
A girl loses her self possession when
she puts on a wedding ring.
A woman talks until things get serious;
then she gives the man a chance.
1t is easy enough to find a seat in a
crowded street car, but it is always oc-
cupied.
Every man knows how mean his &C.
quaintances are, but he is never abso-
lutely sure about himself.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1900-10-24

east is that the would be missionaries
of a higher civilization will do well to
look before they leap. Wisely or not,
China is self sufficient. In habits,
manners, belief and learning the Chi
nese are widely separated from the
western people, but this is not due to
lack of knowledge of the worlds prog
Tess. They have come in contact with
the more advanced nations of the earth
from ancient times down to the pres
ent. The attitude of China today is
but a repetition of the past. She will
learn of the outsider and use him when
1t is to her advantage. When the Chi
nese borrow, they do so by adapting,
not by wholesale appropriation.
1t Is a well known principle that in
order to ingraft a new civilization upon
a people the reformation must begin
with the young. But the young Chi
nese mind is incrusted with layer upon
layer of inherited traditions and super
stitions and is entirely free from aspi-
rations for change and progress, the
universal unrest and discomfort which
stir the young westerners to venture
into the unknown. -
In the matter of a life vocation the
young Chinese have no choice, but
must follow the footsteps of their
elders. Thus generation after genera
ton pursues the same trade or calling,
and there is no infusion of fresh blood.
Since the Chinese father has absolute
mastery over his sons so long as he
lives, he can compel the apprentices
to attain to his own standard of per-
lection, and no one will dispute the
assertion that whatever the Chinese
do they do we'll. No race has mastered
so thoroughly the art Of making much
out of little. And in this custom or
tradition is all powerful. The worship
of ancestors, the power of public opin-
ion and the influence of the authori-
ties combine to keep the young Chi
nese close to the ancestral hearth.
Whole villages comprise but n fami-
ly, and the naNe of Jonesboro, Smith
vile and Browntown in China means
more than respect for some prominent
settler. Not alone a village, but a
group of villages is populated by the
family of the Chengs, the Wangs or
the Wahs.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1900-10-24

theaters nor outings to break what
seems to outsiders an intolerable mo-
nOtony of life. The occasion of village
%strolling players perform for a day or
two on a stage set up on the common.
Dancing the Chinese look upon as
hard work, besides being immoral
when the sexes mingle. Boys and
girls and young men and young wo-
men are vigorously kept apart even
among the laboring classes.
In the Chinese decalogue etiquette
stands ahead of morality. While there
are strictly speaking no fixed classes,
custom draws a line which must be OBJ
served. There are equals, superiors
and interiors. The gradations are set
tied by age, learning and achievement.
In certain respects a plowboy and a
mandarin of the same family are
equals, and the plowboy in his working
garb may call upon the mandarin in his
office OF mansion. But the plowboy
knows just where this familiarity must
end. Equals may not call one another
by their given names, and this law
holds good with close relatives. The
form of address for members of the
family group or more distant relatives
is Venerable brother" and Venerable
So-and-so."
Supporters are expected to use the
given name in addressing interiors,
hence the wrong use of the given name
is an offensive assumption of superior
ity. Foreigners must learn by bitter
experience sometimes that the seeming
trifes of Chinese etiquette are as bind
ing as the laws of the Modes and Per.
SLAMS. The etiquette surrounding the
social cup OF tea may be for an exam
pie.
A foreigner once called upon an Off.
cial in Picking to obtain a concession
and was duly anxious to put his best
foot forward" as the saying is. In.
stead he put his foot in it." The re,
ception by the official was most cor,
dial, and all went we'll until a servant
brought in a cup of tea, which the
Chinaman took in both hands and with
the usual ceremony raised to his fore,
head, then presented to the visitor
The host sat down, and the servant
placed before him a second cup of tea
Ignorant of the etiquette Of the occa'
sion, the stranger swallowed the con.
tents of the cup that had been given
him without waiting for the proper
signal to do so. The blunder ended
the conference, for the foreigner had
given unmistakable proof, according
to Chinese etiquette, that he was q
barbarian" He should have receiv.
ed the cup from his host standing and
should not have tasted it until his host
set the example, a ceremony which
comes at the end Of a conference and
is a signal for the stranger to take his
leave.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1900-10-24
No. 197.-Numericu1 Enigma.

No. 197.-Nuniericu1 Enigma.
The whole, composed of Ga letters, is a
quotation from Bret Harte.
The 4, AZ, SO, %, IL is clean.
The Z, 10, SO, 1, Ga, A, 80, 25, 81, 81
40, 2 is a large city of the United States
The 8, SO, %, SO, 40 is a flood gate.
The 13, 80, SO, 62, 80, 6 is uncommon
ness.
The IA, Is is a boys nickname.
The 81, 10, %, Is is destitute of light,
The 26, 81, As, 43 is Il bird.
The 81, 3, "a, 20, ) is an open place fGl
combat.
The 46, So, II, 81 is warmth.
The 4S, SO, 8, "a, So, Al is natural.
The 81, 60, II, So, IS is q small bag.
The so, 81, 16, 81, Ii. 20 is state of be.
ing sound.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1900-10-24

Agent-If we advertise that your pat.
emit food is for brain workers, we shall
attract almost everybody.
Proprietor-Yes?
Agent-Yes, everybody except the actual
brain workers.-Detroit Journal.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1900-10-24

OMEpeople talk
about civilizing
China as though
it we're a land Of
primitive barba-
rians, %groveling
in conscious ig-
norance and mis-
cry and praying
for a savior to
lead it out of
arkness into
the light. The
answer to this
nv wise mon
who have spo-
ken their views
upon the far
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1900-10-24
BUCHANAN, Mich May %

Genessee Pure Food Co., lie Roy, n. Y:
Gentlemen My mamma has been a great
coffee drinker and has found it very iDiuri-
Gus. Having used several packages of your
GRAIN-O, the drink that takes the place of
coffee, she fuds it much better for herself and
for MS children to drink. She has given up
coffee drin ly entirely. We use a package ev-
ery week. | am ten years old.
Yours respectfully, FANNIE WILLIAMS.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1900-10-24

No. 1S6.-Added Words: 1. Napkin.
2. Mole-skin.
No. 1S7.-Crossword: Julius Caesar.
No. 1SS.-Double Acrostic: Initials,
Grant. Finals, Dewey. /. Gid. 2.
Rake. 3. Anew. 4. None. 8. Troy.
No. 1S9.-Anagrams; Walter Besant.
Rudyard Kipling.
No. 1904 Ladder:
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1900-10-24
No. 1OS.-An Acrnsfic.

1. Three hundred and sixty-fve days
2. What this puzzle is.
3. A household animal.
4. A dwelling.
5. A small nail.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1900-10-24

"The gold standard" declared
Mr.. Bryan in his Minnesota speech
in 1896, "wOuld destroy the oppOr-
tunity to work" Is Mr.. Bryan de-
pending upon the votes of the idle
this year?