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Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1903-06-18
w.. A. HAYES.

A sallow complexion, dizziness.O
! billousness and a coated tongue
are common indications of liver
and kidney diseases. Stomach and
J bowel troubles, severe as they are,
give immediate warning by pain.
but liver and kidney troubles,
though less painful at the start, are
much harder to cure. Thedford's !
Black-Draught never fails to bene-
lit diseased liver and weakened kid
neys. 1t stirs up the torpid liver
I to throw off the germs Of fever and
4 ague. It is a certain preventive
OF cholera and Bright's disease of
i the kidneys. With kidneys re-
inforced by Thedford's Black.
Draught thousands of persons have
= dwelt immune in the midst Of vel
low.fever. Many families live In
perfect health and have no other
/ doctor than Thedford's Black
Draught. It is always on hand for
use in an emergency and saves
! many expensive calls Of a doctor.
Mullins, S. C.. March 10, 1901.
have used Thedford's Black. Draueht
4 for three years and l have not hadto %
to a doctor since | have been taking Il.
: It is the best medicine for me that IS
\ on the market for liver and kidney
. troubles and dyspepsia and other
complaints. Rev. A. G. LEWIS. :
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1903-06-18
w. GRAHAM,
ATToRNEY-AT LAW.
Oxford, N. c.

Will practice in the Courts Of I'm.
Person, Durham and Granville, ansS.
the Supreme Court. "'ule
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1903-06-18

N.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1903-06-18
ACCOUNTABILITY.
Hillsboro, n. G.

Practices in State and Federal co,>.
Prompt attention to all business 'S SN
cial attention to Probate business WV
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1903-06-18
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAw.
Hillsboro. N. c.

Practice In the Counties Of A|am.,..
Durham. Granville. Person and OrsuV
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1903-06-18
.oBERT G. %sTRUDwIcK.
GREENSBORO, n. q
NASH

Office next door to DR.. St,,s
Office, near the hotel. o"lekt
Water Valley progress., 1903-07-04
CHRISTENING A SHIP.
various ways Young Women spon-
sors Have of Smashing the
Baptfsma1 Bottle. =

Rear Admiral Bowles, chief con-
structor of the navy, who was an inter
ested spectator of the recent launch
of the armoured cruiser Colorado at
Philadelphia, has made some interest
ing comments on the general subject
of the methods practised in chrfsten-
ing warships by breaking bottles OF
champagne on their prows. According
to his experience, there are three ways
of handling the bottle on such occas-
ions, says the Washington Star.
He describes one as the baseball
method, in which the bottle is held
like a bat and hurled against the side
of the ship with long, sweeping
swing, with energy enough for home
run or three-bagger at least. An-
other method is described as the tents
blow, in which the bottle is smashed
against the prov with full arm serves
The admiral is quoted as saying that
this method was used by the sponsor
of the Colorado. The third method is
described as the ping-pong style, and
is dainty little. smash, sufficiently
vicious, however, to shower the cham
pdSHe OH ,tHe nuil, anu solnctiiHcS on
the fair operator also, ~ 80
1t is admitted that none of these
methods is perfect and that failure Is
possible in each, through the nervous
ness or excitement of the operator,
who by bad aim or lack of sufficient
force, may fail to break the bottle.and
in that way spoil the whole proceed
ings. A failure of that kind might be
disasterous to ship, at least from
sentimental viewpoint, and, as the sail
ors say, would ''hoodoo" that partic-
ular vessel. In one case, the sponsor
delayed the blow until the descending
ship got beyond her. reach; but she
was equal to the occasion, and by a
well directed throw managed to smash
the bottle broadsidef ongy
To avoid the possibility of such ac-
cidents, Admiral Boles suggests the
use of a device attached to the ship in
such way that when the young lady
releases the bottle it is bound to strike
against the PROV of the ship with suf-
ficient force to release the contents,
and thus give the ship its maiden bath
before it reaches its native element.
Water Valley progress., 1903-07-04

grow on fiat-leaved plants. There
are two local fields in this state in
which collections of value may be
made. First, the Colorado desert be-
tween San Bernardino county and
Yuma. beginning about 100 miles
from Los Angeles. The other field is
the Mojave desert, beginning on a
line with the San Fernando tunnel
and ending at Bakersfield, the north
ern-most limit of native cacti in Cali
fornia. Prickly pears, very common
Opuntias. have been known to grow
in running water. They are very
tenacious of life.
There are more specimens of cactus
in Texas than any other state, among
which are at least 40 of commercial
value. The most common of the
Opuntias is that shown in the third
cut, where the fruit may be seen
growing in abundance on the fiat,
pear-shaped leaves (so-calleO. Indian
figs" are very common. This fruit
grows from three to four inches long
and two or three inches in diameter,
is egg-shaped or pear-like in form
and covered with minute and excess
sively annoying spines. The pulp is
of an agreeable sub-acid flavor.
They are sometimes called "Barbary
figs" Over $50 varieties are native
in the United States. The Opuntias,
set in line, make an impenetrable
fence. They grow in any dry, sandy
soil and will subsist where scarcely
any other vegetation is found, as on
the porous lava of volcanic districts.
A fact interesting to scientists is
that the cochineal insect lives on q
Water Valley progress., 1903-07-04

desert, all the vegetation has .
greasy tendency and, as rule, may
be burned when green. The scrubby
little bushes seen all over the ground
in the picture are grease-wood. To
illustrate this characteristic of desert
foliage, the pepper tree, a native of
Peru, found through Mexico and Cali
fornia, rarely presents the dusty ap-
pearance observed on cultivated trees
which have been introduced here
from moist climates. This is due to
the quantity of volatile oil in the
leaves which constantly explodes, re-
pelling the dust.
The third great cactus section is
the Opuntia. OF this, the Tema fam
lily is the most extensive. In Los
Angeles county are found many va
rieties of Opurtias. The edibles
Water Valley progress., 1903-07-04

enough Letters to establish positive
proof. Ii the swindlers get an ink
ling that Aost Office inspector is try
ing to lead them on" they. NAV hide
their schemes and throw the inspec-
tor off the track. Girls are often used
in the guise of stenographers to get
evidence. Sometimes the detectives
themselves get, positions in a firm
suspected of frauds. Many other
methods, l know, are used, but the
post Office department is very secre
tive. Their inspectors work more
quietly than any other detectives
and when they finish their case, they
quietly pack up and go-no one ever
knew that the person with whom he
dealt was the post Office Inspector
himself.
"The police of the cities spoil many
a good case said Chief Clerk Holmes.
I'VE were working up some good
Water Valley progress., 1903-07-04

the ten cents in reply to the ad and then
file your complaint here if you think
you have been defrauded''
"Will you prosecute them?"
The explanation was that it required
five such complaints to establish one
cause for an investiga ton. And finally
the official came out with the bold
statement:
These ten-cent schemes don't
amount to much" he said. 1--WE are
tremendously busy here on big cases,
trying to put stop to thousand-dol-
lar swindles. Better save your ten
cents by not writing for the photo of
your future wife"
The task of the post Office inspec-
ters is indeed very difficult one and
the path to prosecution is more than
devious. A strict law prevents the
opening of any private mail by in
spectors or others. No matter how
certain the government may be that
firm is swindling, letters are not
tanipered with under any circum-
stances. So the inspectors must re-
sort to many tricks to get proof.
Sometimes they go out into the
country, and send in their money to
the fraudulept firms until they have
Water Valley progress., 1903-07-04
THE CACTUS FAMILY.
Botanists Divide It Into Four Dis
tinct Branches.
With Very Few Exceptions They Are
All Natives of the Western Hem.
isphere-How They Are
Classified.
Especial Los Angeles (cal, letter.

Especial Los Angeles (Cal.) Letter.
"O THE collector probably no
family of plants. outside the
orchids, present so many fas-
cinating features as the cacti, which,
with very few exceptions, are natives
OF America and its adjacent islands,
only. The cactus industry moves in
cycles. Latterly, it is very quiet,
but interest is again gathering, al
though it will probably be about ten
years before another actual craze is
experienced. Even now there is a
great demand, especially in Europe,
Germany furnishing the best mar
ket, at present. Most of our large
cities, according to their several eli
mates, have good collections. In the
east, that at Baltimore is, perhaps,
as worthy of remark as any. OF
course, in climates where the plant is
a native it thrives best, as is seen in
the parks at Los Angeles and River
side, Cal. In the latter city is probably
one of the most interesting little cac-
tus parks in the world. In our first
illustration is a bit from one of
the gardens in Los Angeles, in which
the Cereus giganteus is most promi-
nent.
The Echino cactus grows to a
height of about eight feet. It's fruit is
sour and not much relished, but the in
ner part of the plant itself is soft, ac-
rid and juicy, and, to some, agreeable
to the taste. An Indian selects a plant
three or four feet long and two feet
in diameter, cuts it down and hollows
1t to form trough into which he
throws the soft pulp, which sur
rounds the central woody axis, and
adds meat. roots, seeds, meal, fruit,
or anything edible at hand, together
with water. He mixes the whole and
drops in hot stones, which he takes
out and licks, reheats, and drops in
again, repeating the process until the
Water Valley progress., 1903-07-04

CACTUS GARDEN, LOS ANGELES.
mixture is thoroughly cooked. Horses
sometimes kick open the cactus
plants, to obtain the juicy pulp. The
small, black seeds of the Echino cac-
tus are dried, parched and pulverized
into meal.
Closely resembling this variety in
structure is the Cereus giganteus
represented also in the second cut).
This latter is found native in Arizona
only and sometimes attains q height
of so feet. The fasceate form at the
right in the photograph is very rare
and highly priced. A collector dis
covering same would cut off the fan
shaped top and if he felt unable to
retain such prize for himself, could
readily find a purchaser. A specimen
OF this kind was recently sold at the
Royal Botanical garden at Kew, Eng
land, for very large sum. The
plant here represented is probably
about 25 feet nigh and two feet in
diameter. The cactus plants furnish
the abiding place of these little desert
woodpeckers. The fruit grows near
the top of the plant and is highly
priced by the Indians. It's interior
is of beautiful red color and is very
palatable, being more juicy than the
fig while resembling it in flavor. 1t
is sometimes preserved, also made
into syrup. The Pimos Indians pre-
pare from 1t clear, amber colored.
exceedingly intoxicating wine called
Tiswine. After a plant has been
dead for about year, it splits longi-
tudinally into long poles. The natives
utilize strip from a dead plant with
which to reach up and push off the
fruit from living one. There are
various uses to which this plant is
put. Sometimes cup-like cavity is
made in the side of plant and al
lowed to fill with the sap. In case
of extreme thirst. this may be drank.
but the taste IS acrid and exceeding
ly unpleasant and the beverage IS
never used except in extreme cases.
The plant might serve as fuel but
this is seldom necessary as, in the
Water Valley progress., 1903-07-04
MAIL ORDER FRAUDS.
Clever Schemes for Bleeding Gulli-
BILE Newspaper Readers.
Post ONCE Bureau of Inspection Kept
Busy investigating All Sorts Of
Dishonest and AIlur-
Ing "Ads.v


>HE alleged frauds In the post Of
flce department now being aired
at Washington are supposed to
involve hundreds of thousands of dol
lars The whole country was surprised
when the enormous sum-$10,00U here,
$4,000 there-were mentioned as frac-
tlons in the supposed corruption fund.
Yet this is but a bagatelle compared
with the simply gigantic frauds inves-
tigated every year by the inspection of
Uncle Sans mail.
Swindles aggregat:ng $15,000,O00 to
$2o,O00.000 are unearthed every year by
the post office inspectors, and proven
in court. Thefts by letter carriers or
post office clerks constitute only a
small portion of this. The greater part
of the frauds is perpetrated by So
called business men, who use the mails
for schemes that draw the dollars out
of the pockets of gullible folks month
after month, year after year, by the
same old schemes.
A corps of 200 inspectors, as species
of special detectives, is employed all
over the country hunting down these
Swindlers.
The post office bureau of inspection
has Is divisions. BY far the largest of
these has it's headquarters at Chicago.
Col. Stuart, inspector general here, has
% inspectors under him and investi-
gated last year 10000 cases of alleged
frauds. New York city, the second
largest, had 10000 cases, handled by 16
inspectors. The enormous work of the
Chicago department is due partly to
the fact that the city handles more
mail than any other.
I'VE closed up the business of thou
sands of swindlers right around Chi
cago last year." said Chief Clerk r. j.
Holmes. of the Chicago department
1T is no exaggeration to say that the
swindlers got several million dollars
out OF the pockets of the people"
1t is also no exaggeration to say that
the swindles are going on at this very
minute to the amount of hundreds of
thousands of dollars. "Fake" oil COM
panies, investment schemes, "sure ten
per cent" propositions, ETC., ETC., are
being advertised in the papers and are
fourishing more than ever. The post
Office inspector gets some of them into
court and prosecutes. Occasionally
the federal court sends a culprit to the
penitentiary, but the majority of them
escape in the fines that do not repre-
sent ten per cent. of the money they
have made in their schemes.
Here's an advertisements:
YOUR LIES FATE in love, business
nj f11t hlIc n
wife. Birthstone pin and life's chart for 10
cents and birth date.
This is the advertisement, with the
name omitted, as it appeared this
week in many of the mail order papers.
1showed the clipping to an employe of
the Chicago bureau of post office in
spection.
"Is this fraud or isn't it?" asked.
"That remains to be proven" was the
calm reply. 'The way to do is to send
Water Valley progress., 1903-07-04

species of the Opuntia. In southern
Mexico, Central America and the
Canary islands, the plant is largely
grown and insects reared. Cochineal
dye, carmine, lake and other dyes are
prepared from this insect. In the is
land of Sicily over 10000 acres are
said to- be cultivated for the fruit
alone.
A fourth but very small section Of
the cactus family is found in this
state, viz: the Mammillaria. which
does not often grow more than one
foot high. Many new and curious
forms of cacti are constantly being
produced by cultivation.
EDWARD JULIAN.
Water Valley progress., 1903-07-04
THE AMERICAN LAUGH.
1t In Healthy, Happy and Springs
from n COnsciousness of
Well-DOanzy. aS

Gods greatest gift to man was the
laugh. Without it the human race
would have wept itself to death or
exterminated Itself. long ago. Pathos
is beautiful. Tragedy is absorbing.
But both pathos and, tragedy are in
stantly routed by the laugh, writes
a philosopher in the Dehxef Post.
Laughter has sunshine in it. It is
warm. Learned men have searched
for the secret of life. What is it but
good humor? That's the secret Of
life being worth living.
What sunshine is to earth good hui
NOR is to man. Take the smile and
the laugh away and it would be the
end of man. 3eI
Men can't fight while they enjoy
joke. Death himself recoils from the
laugh. The man in a good humor
has an enormous advantage over the
man who is angry. Anger is dark.
Bitterness is filed with shadow In
tolerance is grim and black. Preju-
dice is blind. aA
Good humor-with the smile and
the laughs sunshine in which OBJ
jects are plain and distortion disap-
pears and wherein phantoms become
nothing.
One reason for Americas greatness
is that above all it is nation that
laughs. There have been gay peo-
Piles and frivolous nations, but gayety
and frivolity are strangely akin to
melancholy. That gay Germany
whose national happiness is ex-
pressed in song is clouded by melan-
choly. Sadness peryades the temper
ament of Germania.
And frivolous France, how tragic
she becomes-how desperately tragic!
The great American laugh is an
other thing. Investigate the Am6ri-
can national laugh. and -therels
sound, practical. something behind it.
1t is never forced laugh. It y is
healthy, vigorous, spontaneous. ssss
Empires and powers haves crumbled
and gone to pieces in solemn serious-
ness and gloomy grandeur, while
Uncle Sam, with joke ON his lips,
forges ahead. $50. -
Water Valley progress., 1903-07-04
Indian Babies.


Babies cry very little in India they
obey spiritual law as flower. The
lotus bud, lying on a Stone bA1ich in
dirty room, sucks its toe aDsitseems
dreaming of the pranks of baby Kgish-
ma, and solving problems Of the uni
verse. AS itgrows older'itis very tizhid
and shy in the presencesofi it's elders
1t feels the religious, awe around it
and does not break out into boistefbus
sport when all seems att pSayer8aBut
there is much love ip India and these
humble households seem very happy.
They are all-in-alI to EACH other and
seek nothing outside eithera n1soeiety
or amusement Beautiful character
comes from obedience to law and not
from lawlessness. In India children
are the browning gift Of life. Itis
horror to be chilGless. Edmund Rus
SELL in Everybody's Magazine.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-10-21
a Long Dance.

William Kemp, an English comic ac-
tor VINO fourished during the last years
Of Queen Elizabeth AID who belonged
to the same company as Shakespeare
and Created Dogberry, danced from
London to Norwich, distance Of ia
miles. He was accompanied by serV-
ant, an umpire and man with tabor
and pipe. Crowds hindered his start
on Feb. II, 1900, and many met him at
every place. Several tried to dance
with him, but none could rival his pace.
The most successful were women. AL
though delayed by snoWstorm, he did
it in nine days, and on the way accept
ed challenge or two, each time COM
ing off best, except when Chelmsford
maiden Of fourteen danced till he was
ready to lie down" On his return be
wrote un account Of it, which ends
with warning to those with whom be
had made wagers that if they did not
pay up he would publish their names
The "Nine Daies' Wonder" as the title
runs, is a merry, readable pamphlet.
Among other curious information In it
is the statement that the customary
way TO deal with pickpockets at the
theater in those days was to tie them
to a post.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-10-21
GUARDIAN CRANES.

They Take the r1ace OF Shepherd
Dogs In Eenczue1a.
The natives Of Venezuela and ad-
joining countries on the north side Of
the river Amazon often avail them
selves of the services Of native crane
to care for their poultry and also, in
the place Of collias OF shepherd dogs, to
guard and herd their domestic animals.
This remarkable bird, TMch the In
dams call yakarnik, and the ornitholo-
gists Psophia crepitans, is found In a
wild state In the great forests which
lie between the northern coasts OF
South America and the Amazon river,
particularly in Venezuela and British
Guiana. The birds never leave the for
ests unless shot or captured. They may
be trusted with the care Of flock OF
sheep CT domestic fowls and every
morning will drive the ducks and poul-
try to their feeding places and, care
fully collecting any stragglers, bring
them safely home at night. 4 yakamik
soon learns to know and obey the voice
Of it's master, follows MIN, when per
nitted, wherever he goes and appears
delighted at receiving his caresses.
It pines at his absence and welcomes
bis return and is extremely Jealous OF
any rival Should any dog or cat ap-
proach it flies at it with the utmost
Ar1rv and attacking it with wing and
beak, drives it away. 1t presents itself
regularly during meals, from which it
chases all domestic animals and even
the negroes who wait on the table If 1t
is not we'll acquainted with them, and
only asks for a share Of the eatables
after It has driven away all who might
aspire to a favorable notice from the
family.-Brooklyn Eagle.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-10-21
No Language OF Their Own.

Among the peoples Of the world the
Swiss are alone in having no language
they can call their own. According to
a recent visitor to the little country,
about three-fourths Of the people Ct
Switzerland speak German, while the
remainder divide four othe, languages
among them, mainly French and ltal-
ian, the languages varying as q rule
according to the prox1mit! Of the peo-
pie to each country whose tongue they
speak. Public documents and notices
are printed in both French and Ger
nan.
In the Swiss congress, O. national
parliament, the members mae their
speeches either In French or German,
for nearly all the members understand
both languages. The orders Of the pr. =
ident are translated by an official in
terpreter and furnished to the neWspa-
pers in both languages.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-10-21

it that moment put the emperor's head
out Of my mind. BE had knife, and
though he had used the handle, fool
ishly caught it and took it from him.
With ali his strength he then pushed
me so that I staggered against the
wheel Of coach.
"Assassinr' he screamed, and then
Paris fell around my ears.
If anybody had seen his act, nobody
refrained from joining In the cry:
Assassin! Assassin! To the lamp
post with him!''
/ stood stupefed and astonished as
an owl blinking in the sunshine, and
two guards held my collar. The
coaches lashed away, carrying the man
Of Gestiny-as have since been told
he called hirnself-as rapidly as posi-
BILE, leaving the victim Of destiny to be
bayed at by that many headed dog, the
mongrel populace Of Paris.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-10-21
A Cure For Dyspepsia.

had dyspepsia in its worst form and
felt miserable most all the time. Did
not enjoy eating until after I used Ko-
dol Dyspepsia Cure which has COM
pletely cured mo.-Mrs. Wr W. Saylor
Hilliard. Pa. No appetite. loss of
strength. nervousness, headache, ,consti-
patton. bad breath, sour risings, indi-
sestion. dyspepsia and all stomach
troubles are quickly cured by the use
of Kodol. Kodol represents the natural
Juices of digestion combined with the
greatest known tonic and reconstruc-
tive properties. It cleanses, purifees
and sweetens the stomach. Sold by The
r. 3. Loryea Drug Store.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-10-21
Ran Ten Penny Nail Through His Hand.

While opening box, J. c. Mount, of
Three Mile Bay, n. Y, ran ten pen
ny nail through the heshy part of his
hand. Il thought at once of all the
pain and soreness this would cause
ne, he says, ''and Immediately applied
Chamberlain's Pain Balm and occasion
ally afterwards. TO my surprise it re-
moved all pain and soreness and the in
lured parts were soon healed" For
sale by The r. B. Loryea Drug Store,
Isaac NJ. Loryea, Prop.