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Connecticut western news., 1900-07-12
Braved the PlaUue.

Armstrong Smith, young English man who showed his bravery in help ing to put down the bubonic plague in Honolulu and It's neighborhood, has just returned to England. When every one fled in the presence of the pesti- lence, he, although described as being pale and thin from oyerwork and con- stant knowledge of his peril, the ghost of his former self. warned by all who were close enough to advise. himself a suspect, stuck to his post and his pa tients." When the danger was passed, he was asked what he wished most to do, and he replied that he always wanted to be physicion. He was urged to adopt this course, and when he replied that he had not enough mon- ey for the purpose a committee of the leading citizens gave him a purse of f1,000, asking him to accept 1t to study medicine or to apply to any other pur- pose he chose. MT. Smith has taught in the Princess Kaiulani school for sev- eral years.
Connecticut western news., 1900-07-12
A MODEL GUEST.
The Reason He Could sympathiss
 With the Landlord.

The Reason He Could sympathiss
 With the Landlord.
 The Niagara Falls landlord sized the new arrival up as kicker while he was writing his name In the register. and before anything could be said about rooms, rates or conveniences he observed:
 Perhaps you have made a mistake in the hotel This Is the Great View House. The Small View House Is two blocks down the street"
 '"This Is the place I want" replied the guest.
 But our rooms are small and the beds nothing to brag of"
 That will be all right I've been sleeping In a hall bedroom or on a shelf for year past"
 There Is no roaring to be heard here"
 'T'm glad of it."
 And the meals are very plain"
 ''That suits me. I've got dyspepsia. and the palmer the meals are the bet ter"
 You don't object to hand organs by day and squalling babies by night?"
 Not the slightest. I've roamed all over Europe, and you can't have any thing here to compare"
 The landlord saw that he had erred In sizing the man up, but he hated to admit 1t and therefore continued:
 My rates are s3 per day"
 That's cheap enough for a hotel here," replied the man.
 Do you look for rainbows over the fallsY
 Mot bit of 1t. If they come along, I'll take my share, but any old bow will do for me-"
 Are you afraid of the typhoid fe- verP
 No, sir"
 There is only one cataract here"
 "I don't want any more. Give me the poorest, smallest room In the house, and If you want to put man In with me all right. and I'll use anything for a wash basin and furnish my own soap and towels. Your rates are $3 day. Here Is $10O to start on"
 Lord, Lord, but what kind of a man are youT gasped the landlord as his head began to swim.
 'I? Oh, I used to run a hotel here myself. and f know how to sympa- thizew smiled the guest. "Just let things go along the same as if I wasn't here. If it's handy, give me clean sheets once In two weeks, but don't go to putting yourself out or worrying over me. Here's 33 days in advance, and in case you run short any time just let me know and I'll lend you $500 to get along onp'
Connecticut western news., 1900-07-12
TroubIe Tn fhe Church.

The Kennebec (Me) Journal says: "They made a strenuous matter of re- ligion in the good old days, as Is shown by this extract from the diary of Charles Creamer of Waldoboro, under date of June, 1928:
 "'Sunday there was knockdown in the Congregational meeting house be- tween the Congregationalists and Uni- versalists. The Uniyersalists came of victorious. I was there. Saturday night the pulpit was guarded all night by men with clubs. Sunday was the great day. Both parties occupied the church, and there were great music and singing. Afterward the Congrega- tionalists bought out the Unlversausts, and there was no more trouble.'"
Connecticut western news., 1900-07-12

frains stop only on signal, or Mhen o1nduo- or is notined. Daily except sunday. 'laiy Daily except Saturday and unday. Satur- iay and sunday only.
 Xdditionai trains leave poug hkeepsie fos iiieh- and and New Paltz tT;es, fs'so. .a:i0, .l0lA ni;ss . m, .laoO noon. IBIS l9;oo tgls lslA, is;la. ssso. 'l,l bpo, 1908, 10 is, lito, hia "se 9ains Siiii leave ave- Isw s' PaI m for Highland ana Poughkeepsie l7 10, 300 .lool .iils a m, 'l.e6, VI ss te co g2ih, ts %, gs nh Es 70, ttoo, H , tb O. fsih fb co, 60 CO, 50 So t 80 Fs,ou n m. rratn Nop ayes MinHtcd z a1 a. m Nor folk .4H, ana Sli. salisbury 6ai. LnkUyi To ls4. Arrive aI ulierton s4s a. m, New York Train No 10 ,ves New Yorr ssp m Nil. erton TOT. Laltvville c "a salisbury 10 Canaan L85, NoffolK7o Affivo at Minsttd LIZ m.
 Trains and 10 carry through coach between hn Millerton and Harlem Division N. N c.
 Trains leave hineclin 700 n., RRl D. m. srrive at silyernailH 10 ASA, m., aai ? m,
 Trains leave Silvornails ti 4h a m W p m trrtve at Rhinec,tn ia A D m, hHp m
 Trains leave aughkcepsic for Honewell Junction so and VI a. m, ob and 0a D. m,
 Trains leave Hopewell Jct for Poughkcepsie 50 and 10 1 a m, 20 and so
 Passengers for Millertop on the isl.o ?; m. sriving ct Millerton At sss D. h
 western Kxprexs train 1, mares direct con leotion at Campbell Hall with fist express via 5ntaris Western Ry for the West due Ohioago pllowtng day pso D m special attention nveu to western travel Rates Of fare sk Co a over than any other line
 Tickets to all points in the west at reduced Mtes sold at the PouEhkecpsic ofnqe.
 W. ]. Martin, Gen PAsa Agent, Hartford, Ct
Connecticut western news., 1900-07-12
Explained.

Nav, what's de difference between CT politician and CT statesmanT "Well, honey, a mushrooms good, ain't itr
 "Yes, 'um."
 And a toadstool is pizen, aln't it?" "Yes, 'um."
 And dey bof look alikef' "Yes, 'um."
 "Des same difference from a states man to politician" ."-Brooklyn Life.
Connecticut western news., 1900-07-12
An OblfKfnK Tradesmnn.

Mrs. Youngwife-I want five pounds of sugar, please.
 Dealer-Yes, ma'am. Shall we send 1t for you2
 Mrs. Youngwife-No,I I'll take 1t with me if 1t isn't too heavy.
 Dealer-I'll make 1t as light as pos sible for you, ma'am.-Philadelph Press.
Connecticut western news., 1900-07-12
7TaoeLers' Guide.
Berkshire Division
N. r., N. H. & II. RAILROAD.

NY, N. H. & II. RAILROAD.
 Commencing Sunday. May 20. 1900.
 ooISo SOUTH Leave North Adams 20 am, pitts0sld 2 ib Canaan $40 Arrive New Haven 10 60 Bridgeport Il SO, New York II 20. Leave Albany 2 10 am. State Line 70, Pitts field 10, Canaan 70. Arrive Bridgeport l2 05 p. m., NewHaven l2,$b New York i.ks, Leave Albany 10 90 s. m., state Line II 65. North Adams 12 10 D. m.. pittaneld 1 ss, Canaan Ai. Arrive Bridgeport b06, New Haven 6 s5, New York 6.l0. Leave Albany 10 30 a. m., State Line II bS. Pittsneld IA t5 ?. m,, Canaan ~. Arrive Bridgeport 7i6, New Haven 7to. New York g 0o
 Leave Albany q 20 p. m., State Line tt, Pittsneld 8 20, Canaan { 57. Arrive Bridge port T IS, New Haven 90. Sew York oe. Leave Pltsneld 00 p. m., canaan b.02. Arr rive Bridgeport ! ie, New Haven 7.so. Now York s.01.
 Sundays onIyl Leave Piusnali 800 D. m., Canaan ls Arrive Bridgeport s5, Now Haven 20, New York s5. (Sundays only) Leave Pittsneld 6.ib D. m. Canaan 7.26. Arrive New York 10 4t.
 ooINo NORTH Leave New York % a. m. Bridgeport 02 New Haven 10, Canaan 70, Arrive Pitts Held II ob. state Line 10 .i. Albany l2 iop. uls ShihA1kh AVt N1Aeh h~AuH ha oos Leave New York % a. m., Bridgeport o.b5. New Haven Q 3S, Canaan IA 09 2, 10. Arrive pitstleld 10 p. m., State Line i.22, Albany 2S5.
 Leave New York g co a. m., Bridgeport sBb New Haven 89, Canaan l2 32 ?. m. Arrive Pittsneld 2 % p. m., State Line 22, Ale bany 2 35 Saratoga ( 20. Leave New York Q % a. m, Bridgeport 10 o5. New Haven 9 s5. Canaan I.s7 p. m. Arrive. Pittsfeld 800 p, m,
 Leave New York 80 p. m. Bridgeport 70, New Haven 57, Canaan 29. Arrive ritts- field 2 735, North Adams Q 03, State Lins 800. Albany stb.
 Leave New York 30 p. m., Bridgeport 1s New Haven b7, Canaan O.. Arrive Pitts field sb, State Line co, Albany sss. | (Saturdays onlyl Leave New York go D. m., New Haven IA 0b. Bridgeport i2.A0, Cannan 42b. Arrive Pitisneld b.3b. | lsun lays only) Leavs New York i212 a. n,, New Haven { b0, Bridgeport 2 02, Canaan | $40. Arrive pltu field If Ob.
Connecticut western news., 1900-07-12
Another Mean Man.

"Stimson is a mean man."
 "Why so?"
 Hes got way of keeping his wife from going through his pockets for loose change"
 Flows that?"
 "He spends 1t all before he gets home."-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Connecticut western news., 1900-07-12

Practices in every court on the western hemi- sphere. Perfects titles and buys and sells mort gages. Makes loans and collections. Am the red headed, scar faced. freckle begrined legal Ma. poleon of the slope and always in the saddle. Ac- tive the wild, untamed feline. Fierce a lion and gentle as q dove.
Connecticut western news., 1900-07-12
ONE TRIAL
 CONVINCES

r EFT us set you right if ( our heading is mis- II leading-This is not a A patent medicine ad- vertisement. It is a shoe ad- yertisement, but it is not all about our shoes. No. Some of it is about the other fellows
 A good many of the shoes you buy are not quite up to snuff. They don't wear as g, cd as they look. Some people buy such shoes over and over again. One trial ought to convince them that the shoes are not worth the money they pay for them, but it doesn't.
 Different with our shoes. One trial convinces. One trial proves them to be the best shoes money ever bought. One trial makes permanent customer for us.
 Have you tried our shoesl
Connecticut western news., 1900-07-12
A Hustler
I.AwyEp

This Is the letterhead of an Iowa law yer:
Connecticut western news., 1900-07-12

St1tut1OnS and l1teratureS. Just as soon as a government loses this salt of di- vine grace it perishes. The philosophy of this day, so far as 1t Is antagonistic to this religion, putref1es and stinks. The great want of our schools of learn ing and our institutions of science to- day Is not more Leyden jars and gal vanic batteries and spectroscopes and philosophical apparatus, but more of that grace that will teach our men of science that the God of the universe is the God of the Bible. How strange 1t Is that In all their magnificent sweep of the telescope they have not seen the morning star of Jesus and that in all their experiments with light and heat they have not seen the light and felt the warmth of the Sun of Righteous ness! We want more of the salt of Gods grace in our homes, in our schools, In our colleges, in our social life, In our Christianity. And that which has 1t will live; that which has it not will die. I proclaim the tenden- cy of everything earthly to putrefac- ton and death, the religion of Christ the only preservative.
 My subject is one of great congratu- lation to those who have within their souls this gospel antiseptic. This salt will preserve them through the tempta- tions and sorrows of life and through the ages of eternity. I do not mean to say that you will have a smooth time because you are Christian. On the contrary, If you do your whole duty will promise you a rough time. You march through an enemy's country, and they will try to double up both Hanks and to cut you off from your source of supplies. The war you wage will not be with toy arrows, but sword plunged to the hilt and spurring on your steed over heaps of the siaiu. But
Connecticut western news., 1900-07-12

All the latest patterns in Prints and Light Weight Dress Goods.
Connecticut western news., 1900-07-12

Quence which charmed thousands to the Jesus whom he once despised. Ah, you may search all the earth over for anything so beautiful or beautifyfng as the grace of Godl Go all through the deep mine passages of Wieliczka and amid the underground kingdoms of salt in Hallstadt and show me any, thing so exquisite, so transcendently beautiful as this grace of God fash toned and hung in eternal crystals.
 Power of Grace.
 Again, grace Is like salt In the fact that 1t Is a necessity of life. Man and beast perish without salt. What are those paths across the western prai- ries? Why, they were made there by deer and buffalo going to and coming away from the salt '1icks." Chemists and physicians all the world over tell so with the grace of God; you must have 1t or die. I know a great many speak of It as a mere adornment, sort of shoulder strap adorning a soldier, or light, frothing dessert brought in after the greatest part of the banquet of life Is over, or a medicine to be talk en after powders and mustard plasters have failed to do their work, but ordi- narily mere superfuity, a string of bells around a horses neck while he draws the load and in nowise helping him to draw 1t. So far from that, de- clare the grace of God to be the first and the last necessity. It Is food we must take or starve into an eternity of famine. It Is clothing, without which we freeze to the mast of infinite terror. It Is the plank, and the only plank, on which we can float shoreward. It Is the ladder. and the only ladder, on which we can climb up into the light. It is a positive necessity for the soul. You can tell very easily what the effect would be if person refused to take salt into the body. Th1 suezaasg NQuia
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-08-30
GENERAL NEWS.
STEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE WORLD.
News of the Stage, Social, Political and
Otherwise. Culled From Our
Daily Exchanges.

General Christian de Wet, the
leader of the Beers, was a wrangler
at Cambridge, where he was very
popular during his university T
Oliver Fl. P. Belmont created
something of a sensation in New
port last Saturday by driving from
his summer residence to the yacht
club landing without any coat.
Former Congressman Jerry Simp-
son, who was once known as 'Sock-
less jerry" has become a shirt waist
man. He has a large assortment Of
shirt waists which he recently pur-
chased in Chicago. but he wears
them only when attending conven-
tons or making speeches.
The name of the Prince Of Wales
did not appear in the list of those
who made wedding presents to
Lady Randolph Churchill, because
he did not wish to have the air of
SdACU1OuluS q h4d4A Ad5OO VI WhACh LIZ
judgment disapproved. Neverthe
less, just before the wedding he
gave the lady a little gold pin set
with jewels.
MI. S. W. Kingsmore, American
postmaster at Dagupan, P. l.. says
that 1.-The natives live on 3 cents a
day and are seemingly happy. They
have the independent spirit Of mil
lionaires." We shall change all that.
We shall teach the Filipino to smoke
Imperials and e his trousers.
We shall arouse his interest in shirt
waists, and teach him to dodge taxes.
In our later schemes of imperialist
expansion elsewhere, we may see
him complaining of warstamps. We
shall have him dreading the call Of
the rent collector, and hunting ajob
from on of the trusts. It is the bus
aness of civilization to do away with
the Scent millionaire.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-08-30
A Wonderful Discovery.

Not only cures, but it Reepsuweil. Is
sold by an organized company of re
sponsible business men and has the en-
dorsement Of thousands of Clergymen
try. We speak of that wonderful In
strument, ~Electropoise, and ask your
careful examination into the cures It
has wrought. Col. A p. Nunatlg, Of
the Inter-Ocean, Chicago, writes:
"Nearly three years experience with
Electropoise only confirms the truth OF
your claims. l say to my friends that
this instrument is a most wonderful in
vention. aud I would not part with
n1ne if | could not get another" Send
from people who have been cured by
E~lectropoise. ELECTROPOISE Co,
8 Fourth Avenue. louisville. XIV.
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responsible buyer and handled
through to the mills, with all the
savings. but wherever the
ordinary cotton buyer declines to
purchase roundlap bales on this
basis, the American Cotton Com
pany stands pledged to buy them.
The farmer who patronizes a
roundlep gin plant may retain as
control over his cotton as
if he took it to an old-style gin
house. IF he does not wish to sell
his cotton he cen have it custom
ginned and keep his roundlap bales
until such time as he is ready to
dispose of them, with the assurance
That they are always salable at the
full market value of the cotton, plus
an increased price because ii is N
rourdiap bales. If he likes he can
arraugo with the rouudlap ginner
TO ship his cotton to the American
Cotton Company tic be held for him
and, unuer ali ordinary circum-
s~tauces, draw against it to 80 per
cent. Of it's value. The American
Cotton Company has IN this way
largely assisted those who desired
to bold their cotton It makes nc
commission charge for such bust
LESS.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-08-30

from his hands and feet at vari.
Gus times. in every instance they
present perfect outlines of the
members from which they come.
The thick, C llous-like skin from
the hands retains its lines. and
this remarkable case tends to dis.
prove the entire theory of pslm-
istry, being evidence that the lines
of the ha d change from time to
time and ale n It unalterably pre-
S. served, as has Teen supposed. "A
piece Of tie skin taken from his
right hand when he was 10 years
old shows that tEe general con-
formation of The li9escorresponds
with those of his hand tosday.
Sill, the new lines are longer now
than then, making allowance for
the growth of the member as a
whole. Fully a third has been at
tached to the length of the ia
nous t'life" line. Evidently ma
ture had decided to increase Mr..
Buskirk's span of life. This is
not altogether surprising, as his
father is now 1913 and his grand
father died at the age of Ito.
| Many a straight forward man
is occasionally to be seer en-
: pleasure bent.
The folly of man in meddlirg
with thingshe does not understand
j is again sbo vn in The sad case of
Marsh all Halstead, our Consul at
Birmingham. He has sent over a
long and carefully prepared re-
Port to this government to the eff
feet that American woman fed
difficulty in getting suitable hos
iery in England because the Brit
ish manufacturers make a sho1 ter
article than Is acceptable even at
thu bargain counter sales IN this
country. TIE report contains not
only a note of warning to pros
pective women tourists abroad to
take their stocking with them, but
also a hint that American manu-
facturers might find an English
market for their longest women's
hosiery.
Now just as this report or the
salient features of it is finding it's
way into all the newspapers of
the country it t%ranspires that the
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For soc. worth of work. We. are Civ
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.RAMBLES OF THE RAMBLER
BREEZY NEWS, VIEWS AND
OMMENTS

In the current issue of the
Scientific American there is an
unique story Of a nan who
sloughs eff his skin annually.
A resident of Clark county, |
Missouri, s. o. Buskirk, has
shed his skin annually since his
birth, which occurred in 1850.
He is we'll built, robust and agile,
and was never i'll. He takes very
little medicine for the annual at
ctacks when his epidermise is
shed. Physicians have tried to
gprevent this exfoliation, but they
have been unsuccessful, aud Mr..
Buskirk, Notwithstanding the fact
that the operation is disagreed
BILE and debilitating, has decided
1hat he will not make any more
attempts to prevent it by medical
means. The operation requires
several days and for the last five
years has begun exactly on June
27.-Prior to that time it came
either in July or August. About
"a month is consumed in discard
ing the old cuticle and the ap-
pearance of the new. Daring this
time the finger and toe nails be-
come loose and are discarded,
new nails come in and more time
is required in growing the nails
to maturity than is ordinarily
needed. Alter the old skin has
been shed he says that he feels
like a boy of 18. The discarded
-cuticle looks like thin, white rub
Der gloves.
The peeling begins at the roo
of the fingers and gradually
spreads in all directions. Tn
harden skin begins to break ava,
from the new skin which is form
ing underneath, and if it is tap
ped with a led pencil it gives off
sharp sound like that caused b,
striking a piece of celluloid o
stiff leather. By opening an
closing the hands often the ski
parts along the edge, and the
by helping along the process
with a penknife, the piece come
off whole. He has several intel
esting souvenirs in the form {
paches of skin which he has she
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-08-30
For Sale!
5000 Acres of Land !

[ hive tor sale several valuable
farms ana cry property.
1st Farm 1879 acres owned by
DIR. j. :. '}izzefI owing to poor
heal =. he has d-ci,ted - dispose of
this Valuable plantation He has
ditcieG @nI improved the | nd. L
have decided t, cut il MP III small
tracts. Anyone desiring IL small OF
large farm Cali secure u bargain in
this property. 1t is suitable for to-
bacco, cotton, corn or trucking. All
the cleared land is within the county
fence-all the woods land outside the
fence, making it especially fine for
stock raising, only about3 miles from
the city: for d short while, part Of
this land will be sold for SO per acre.
End. The Daniel Pate farm, with
in sight Of the Asylum, on south
side, $50 acres, OIL will cut up as de-
sired: extra fine for cotton, corn and
stock raising
| 3rd.-900 acres of the Bonitz plan
tation. Fine for cotton. tobacco, corn
and for raising cattle. We are de-
termined to close this farm at a very
low price at once
! Several other farms near the CITY.
| 80 acres Of the PenEock land at a bar
gain The w. r. Hollowell planta-
ton, one OF the finest in the county:
at a bargain. Mr.. Lazarus Edeerton's
mill at Genoa. Mrs. James Kenan's
farm near Faison, continuing 700
acres. 100 acres fine, stiff land, next
to Henry Murphy's, about 4 miles
south of doldsboro, at a biz bargain.
In the city l have lots Of bargains:
Mr.. j J Streets large 16-room house
with vacant lot adjoining. Anyone
desiring a handsome home will do
we'll to see this property Mr.. Albert
Pearsal's 6-room cottage on William
st: Nh Robert Kornegay's three nice
stores On Walnut st, opposite [ b
Fonyielle's. This property always
rents we'll and is a valuable invest
ment: will be offered very low for SO
days. Several vacant lots and other
houses and lots for sale in and near
| the city; two houses and n vacaut
lot in Edmundson Town for sale: All
property offered for sale on easy
terms: II you wish to buy or sell
property, see me: I sell for a reason
able commission only: Do not see me-
if the title of your property is ques-
tionable, or if your price for property
is too high, as I am too busy to give
you any time if you do not mean
J business: Office at F B Edmundson's
dry goods and grocery store: Hours
10 to 2: Correspondence solicited:
business done anywhere in the U 8.
personal attention given in the city
or Wayne county:
Ed. l. EdmundSOn,
1 Real Estate Hustler,
GOLDSBORO. N. c..
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1900-08-30
BOarders Wanted.

Mrs. E. G.. Mathis can accommo-
date a limited number of boarders.
Rates made known on application.