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The Union Republican., 1904-10-28

to conceal the rancldity Of the grease
used as foundation.
Ransom, TO whom the process of max
ing up was not new, submitted to the
heavy applications of paint and powder
and hurried back to the stage to su-
perintend the final preparations.
Presently Kittie emerged from her
dressing room, and he went toward her.
She shrank from him While she knew
that makeup was required, she was
not accustomed to seeing men with
paint on their faces, and there was
something oddly repulsive in the ap-
pearance of this man with his heavily
lined eyebrows, rouged checks and
whltened temples. 1t seemed like
ghastly mask of the man she knew,
like the badly painted portrait Of an
acquaintance.
She could scarcely listen to his ex-
pressions of penitence at the loss of
his temper the night before and hailed
with positive relief her own call to the
makeup room.
The darkening Of her eyebrows and
lashes, the reddening of lips and cheeks
and dash of powder wEe all that she
required, and she escaped from the
chair glad that no more was needed.
During the first act the excitement
of playing was too great to permit her
to turn her attention to other thoughts.
She could not permit her mind to be
diverted for an instant from her next
speech the next move across the stage.
With the second act came greater
confidence. 1t was here that the love
scenes commenced, but they did not
seem the same as at rehearsal. She
could not endure the touch of this
man, with his paint covered features,
and the penetrating odor of bergamot,
heavy almost to nausea, sickened her
nostrils. The scene was like night
mare. Even worse was the last act,
with its powerful closing scene. The
touch of his greasy lips upon her cheek,
the unnatural look of the eyes made
brilliant by the dark circles of crayon,
startled her, and before the curtain
scream.
Leaving the stage after the last ta-
bleau, Ransom caught her hand.
"Can't you forgive last night, Kitty,
and make the yes you have just spo-
ken your answer to the question have
wanted TO ask for so long?"
She tore her hand from his grasp.
"Don't you dare to speak to me like
that" she painted. IF you do not let
me go, shall call Mr.. Torrlngton."
Ransom threw a black look at Tor
rington, who was placidly gathering
up small stage furnishings, dropped
her hand and turned away. Kittie
turned back to the stage, and Jimmie's
honest, unpainted face never seemed
so cherubic.
"Jimmie," she asked softly, ,"do you
want to take me home again tonight"
"Dd II" repeated Torrington. "Pd
like to take you TO home of our own,
Kitti,ha'
Shel smiled demurely. 81 think you
may.'f abe said.
ThdtSnight Jimmie Torrington adj
dressEd his shaggy terrier. "Nyriggles,"
he silid solemnly "when you find in
your canine walk of life lady dog
you ipve be wise If she looks with
favorfon Il sleeker coated puppy you
just aet that puppy to run a dog show.
It's al sure cure"
And Wriggles blinked an approving
eye.
The Union Republican., 1904-10-28
Dodging the Dangers of neredity.

Dodging the Dangers of Heredity.
Mrs. Simpson has II profound belief
in the doctrine of heredity MS she un-
derstood it. Mrs. Simpson is colored
She washes for living. A few years
ago her husband passed away, not by
death or divorce, but by the simple
process of abandonment. He left her
to support little daughter, who is a
bright child.
"What is your little girls name%
asked one of Mrs. Simpsons patrons
the other day.
"Helen," replied Susan.
ooh, indeed Named after some of
your relativesY
"Waal, no. l kinder liked the name
mahself But dat amt whlt | called
her fust."
"NoT
mo. Fust she was chri 'encd Anna
Cornelia after a pusson what vas II
partic'lar friend ob m.ne AZ lat lime,
but me an dat pussoa hui tronb Z aft
er dat an anyhow She f K 90 drink. 50
jes' changed dat chllca name fear
she might inherit it."-New York Press.
The Union Republican., 1904-10-28
Use Of Lemons.

The uses Of lemons are manifold, and
the more we employ them the better
we shall find ourselves. For all peo-
pie, in sickness or In health, lemonade
is not only safe but remarkably
pleasant drink. 1t is a specific against
worms and skin complaints. The pip
pins or seeds crushed may also be
mixed with water and used as drink.
Lemon juice is the best antiscorbutic
remedy known. 1t not only cures the
disease; but, what is better than a
cure, it is a preventive. Sailors make
a daily use of 1t for that purpose. 1t
is a good thing to rub the gums daily
with lemon Juice to keep them in n
healthy condition. 1t prevents chill
blains. Lemon used in intermittent
fevers is mixed with strong hot black
tea or coffee without sugar. Neuralgia
may be cured by rubbing the part af-
flicted with lemon 1t is valuable
also to cure warts and to destroy dam
druff on the head by rubbing the roots
of the hair with it. Lemon juice and
glycerin, equal parts, make an un-
equaled lotion for The hands to keep
them soft, smpotA md healthy. We
think we have said enough TO show
how valuable, therefore. lemons are
Dietetic and Hygienlc Gazette.
The Union Republican., 1904-10-28

an he's got heap less murder in LIS
heart. Pm lovin' him, pop-lovin' him
we'll nuff to be his wife an do all
wife kin do, but when he wanted me
to run away with him--wanted it be-
kase yo' stood ready for mo killins-I
wouldn't agree said I'd come an
tell yo' all about it an hear what yo'
had to say. I've told yo', an what an
swer hev got?"
you've got my answer that I'll shoot
Abe Taylor on slghtr shouted the ia
ther in fierce tones. "Yes, gal, If yo'
was his wife ten times over I'd shoot
him down. l wasn't spectin this
treachery from yo Mary. I've bin
father an mother to yo' these many
vars, an I'd never believed that yo'
would throw yo'r own pop over an
side agin him. Yo' couldn't git Bill
to do it-no, not if yo' would offer him
all the land 'twixt yere an the river"
~ can never make yo' understand"
sighed the girl. 81 love yo' as my pop,
an I'm grateful for all yo'r kindnesses,
but don't yo' see that l can't pick up
this old quarrel an hate as yo' do an
feel yo'r feelin's for revenge? It's the
same with Abe. He wants peace an
friendliness. Together we want a
weddin' an cabin home. l said Abe
Taylor is a squar man. If he wasn't
would he dun agree 10 cum over yere
this evenin an hold out his hand to
- .f- DO, t1hn Sff
"Abe Taylor comm over yere?" ask
ed the father in n voice hardly above
o. whisper.
"I'm lookin' for him every mint"
The father rose and entered the
house and took down his loaded rife,
and when he sat down on the steps
again the weapon lay across his knees
''Is it for Abe?" asked the girl.
"For shore. I'll shoot him dead in
his tracks,
"Then yo' ar a coward, an I'm no
kin to yo'p'
For minute they looked into each
others eyes-his showing the darkest
passions, hers revealing contempt
and then they turned their heads. Thus
they sat for ten minutes without fur
ther speech, and the westering sun
sunk to the hill tops and blazed full
in their faces mid half blinded them.
A sudden step caught their ears and
both turned their heads to the right.
'Abe!" gasped the girl.
'I'll kill himr growled the man.
Some one turned the corner Of the
house and stood in the full blaze Of
sunset. The old man lifted his rife
and fired over the girls shoulder be-
fore she could raise hand to prevent.
For minute a smoke cloud hung low
and obscured TIE body on the ground.
Then the girl said quietly:
Pop, yo've killed man, but it's
yo'r own son Bill"
The old man staggered over and
knelt beside the body and as he knelt,
his face drawn and haggard and his
breath whistling ain his throat, young
man turned iysSspm the road and halt
ed close besidf gke girl.
Pop thougltttl was yo'r' whispered
the girl. ~
Abe nodded IFS head.
"Wait till I1bundle my things an
we'll 60" !
The Union Republican., 1904-10-28
Never sail n foolish thing
And never d!l a wise one,

Npittbh hiittSh hpoh nm w thC Soi
of Rochester,
Never sail a foolish thing
And never d.l a wise one,
are so many aa > show us plainly
why he should ! beloved even by
those who couli approve his ac-
tions. He wHG CRY monarch, and
he was "good cor nany."
His was an age Of nlcknames, and he
was widely known us "Old Rowley,"
the name of anil favored horse in the
royal stables. One day young lady
at court was in her apartments sing
ing a satirical ballad called "Old Row.
ley, the King" when Charles knocked
at the door,
"Who is it?" she called.
"Old Rowley himself, madam" he
returned good naturedly.
He could convey reproof with wit
and gentleness When Penn stood be-
fore him with his hat on the king took
off his own.
"Friend Charles" said the Quaker,
'why dost thou not put on thy hat?"
"'Tis the custom of this place." re-
turned the king, that never above one
person should be covered at time"
The Union Republican., 1904-10-28

while she leaned her elbows on her
knees and her chin on her hands and
kept her eyes on the ground.
"An' why?" she finally asked.
"An' whyT' he fiercely repeated as
his eyes flashed. 'If yo' don't know
why then yo' are no gal o mine!
Hevent bin tellin yo' why ever since
yo' was able to understand things?
Wasn't yo' ten vars old when brung
home the dead body of yo'r brother
Jim? Wasn't yo' fo'teen when | cum
crawlin' home with two bullets in my
body? Wasn't yo' sixteen an slttin'
right yere on this spot when a bullet
fred from the thicbet over thar knock
ed my cap into yor face? Yo remem-
Der all these things, Mary-yo' heyen't
forgot-an then yo' ask me why yo'
an Abe Taylor can't jine up. Lawd,
gal, but ] wouldn't be mo- astonished
If yo' struck me blow in the face"
"See yere, pop" said the girl as she
Strengthened up, clasped her hands
over her knee and looked away into
the laurels, twenty years ago, befo
y
Taylors."
"They dun got up fuss with me,
GAL"
"Well, there was a fuss. 1t was
about mewl or a hawg or sunthin'.
The Taylors an the Renfrews went
to KILN. Yo' dun for the old man."
"Yes, did"
"An' then one of his boys dun for
our jim"
"Shot our Jim down like a dawg
an never gin him no show"
AN then our Bill dun for one o.
them"
He did, an Pm mighty proud o.
him."
AN then you git almost dun for"
"That's it, gal. One o. them var
mlnts ambushed me an put two bul
lets into my body, an the leads thar
yit. I've been waitin' hull var to
ambush a Taylor in return, but the
burned towards ar as cunnin as
foxes. The chance will cum, though
lit will shorely cum. Me an Bill will
never rest easy as long as thar's a
Taylor left llvin', an, thank God,
thar's only two of 'em dodgin aroun
on top the airth"
The girl was silent for moment,
rocking to and fro. Then in the
same quiet, even voice she said:
"a quarrel lastin' twenty vars an
three or To- killin's belase yo' an the
old man Taylor fell out like two boys!
Yo've carried murder in yo'r heart all
these yare, an it's thar yit. 1t might
hey bin so with the Taylors once, but
yo' know they've wanted peace for
five ya'rs past"
"Bekase they ar towards, galT
"Bekase they've got sense, pop.
They can't see that tho came is wuth
the candle, "A var ago l mot Ale Tny-
lor over at Bridge Cove. knowed
him on sight, an he knowed me- We
knowed that we orter hate each other
like pizun hekase of the quarrels an
killin's, but GuulloU 'tw Jest the ofl,-
er way. We seen eacl! cilier ug'ln an
ag'in, an we liked each other better
an better every time. Abe has bin Tor
maxim friends, an so hev l. We uns
didn't start the quarrel. We uns
wasn't skassly bon then We uns
can't feel that these shootins an kill
in's is right Bimeby me an Abe fnlls
in love an would git married, but yo
mn Bill stand In the road W ar my
pop, an Bill is my brother. hut I'm tell
In yo' straight that Abe Taylor IL rs
Rquar' an white as either one Of yu',
The Union Republican., 1904-10-28
A Sure Sign.

"Mose, how in de void kin you tell
ef desc melons is ripe widoui goin'
inter de patch?"
easy, Lige Easy 'nough, Ain no
melon patch ever watched wild shot
guns Ell bulldogs pness do melons 10
des a-bustin' ter be ate"-Chicugo
Tribune,
The Union Republican., 1904-10-28
Doctor,s ADVICE.

SIS my husbands case serious, doc
tor?"
at is very grave, madam. l have
left an opiate."
"How often shall give it to him p
''He needs absolute rest and quiet.
Don't give 1t to him. Take 1t your.
self."-Collier's
The Union Republican., 1904-10-28
Merry, hut Not Wise.

The saying of Charles H., the king
who, according to the severe yet just
epitaph written upon him by the earl
of Rochester,
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-03
WOMAN and
...S0ClETY...

Mr.. and Mrs. c. Rosenthal left
yesterday for New Bern to visit their
daughter, Mrs. z. w. Rosenthal.
Miss Margaret McKimmon, after
a visit to Athens Ga. has returned
nome.
Miss Elizabeth Utley. after visit
to Miss Kate Griffin, at New Bern,
was here yesterday on her way home.
Mrs. A. b. Hunter, of Apex. was
in the city yesterday.
A marriage license has been
granted to Mr.. Bunnie p. Mangum ana
Miss Mona Clara Bailey, both of
Neuse.
Mr.. r. L. Honneycutt and Miss
Sue HOnneycutt returned yesterday to
their home at Lucama.
Mr.. r. Jones and Mrs. Jones
have returned to their home in Fay
etteville.
Mr.. and Mrs. John e. Bridgers
ana children left Thursday night for
Tallahassee, Fla, where they will live
Bridgers is organizing councils of the
Junior Order United American Me
chanics in that State.
Mrs. Lucy Shell. from Kerners-
Vile, is in the citv with Mrs. Joseph
l.. SeaWell.
Misc Annie Sturgeon has gone to
Apex to visit her father, Mr.. E. b.
Sturgeon.
Miss Laura Clark returned to Will
mington after spending a few days
with Mrs. Annie Bailey.
Mrs. j. T. Rowland has gone to
Warrenton where she will spend two
months with her parents while Mr.
Rowland is off on business trips.
Mrs Walter Boyd, of WarrentOn,
who has been the guest of Mrs.
Sherwood Higgs has returned to Hen
dersOn.
Mrs. K. b. Bachelor and daugh-
ter, Miss Elizabeth. have returned to
Baltimore after visiting Mrs. William
r. Crimes.
Mrs. elem w. Carter, OF CIaytoh,
is in the city.
Mr. and Mrs. r. c. Strong have
returned from Oxford. where they at
tended the Shirlev-G Graham marriage.
Mrs. Bette Cooper is on visit
TO Goldsboro.
Mrs. c. w. Ellington has return
cd from a visit in Durham
Miss Nashti Rand has returned
from HaW River, where she attended
n reception given by Mr. and Mrs.
w. II. Anderson to Mr.. and Mrs. Eu-
gene Anderson.
Mrs. Bette Cooper, of AsheVille.
who has been on a visit to her sister,
Mrs. j. f.. Drake on North Blount
street, left yesterday for Goldsboro for
At few weeks stay with relatives and
friends.
Miss Lucia Moore. of Fayetteville.
and Miss Katherine CovingtOn. of
Monroe, have arrived i'm the city to
attend the MOore-StOckard wedding
which takes place next week.
Miss Minnie Strachan left yester-
day for her home at Princeton.
Il -
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-03
Administrators Notice.

Having qualified as administrator
d. B. N. of B. F. Chatham, deceased,
late of Wake County, n. G.
This is to notify all persons having
claims against the estate of said de-
ceased to exhibit them to the under
signed, on or before the 9th day OF
1905, or this notice will
be plead in bar of their recovery.
All persons indebted to said estate will
please make immediate payment this
27th day of September, A. d., 1904.
A. A. HICKS,
Administrator A. B. N. Estate of E. r.
Cheatham, deceased, Oxford, N. G.
10-1-1 aW-6 w
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-03

\ Dance 1T TarborO.

Tarboro. \. c., Dec. ESPECIALLY
One of the most enjoyable events
of the season was the dance given
here Tuesday evening in honor of
Misses Simons Morris and Susie Gray
Baker, two of Tarboro's most attrac-
tive young ladies who have been civ
ing dancing lessons.
Among those participating We're.
Miss Susie Gray Baker with j. Martin
Castaphen; Miss Simona Morris with
r. Bayard Thigpen; Miss Sue Clark
with Joe j. Green; Miss Mabel
RaWls with DR.. Dan Williams; Miss
Anna Powell with George Wilkinson;
Miss Jacqueline Woolard with John
Beatty; Miss Annie Gray Nash with
Richard Gorham; Miss Mary Taylor
with +. l.. Mayo: Miss Sarah Cheshire
with Willie Bryan; Miss Mammie
Pender with Billy Cummings; Miss
Edna Myers with Edward Morris;
Miss GuSsie Harrell with Earl West;
Miss Julia Morris with Richard How
ard; Miss Lena Jenkins with Lester
Morris; Miss Dizzy Howell with Lau-
renee Morris: Miss Mary Keehler with
Sam Nash; Miss Isabel Clark with
Herman Cherry; Miss Laura Powell
with Edward Parker; Miss Maggie
Pennington with Eph Wooten; w,
Stamps Howard and wife,.
Stags-Ralph West, Walter Hud-
son, Ben Dawson, Joe Jenkins, Sam
Carlisle. Dan Pender and John Wad-
dell. Jr.
Music was furnished by the Wash
ington string band.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-03
New County Favored.
marion News


AS noted in our news columns last
week there is some talk of establish
ing Il new county out of parts OF NC
Dowell, Rutherford, Henderson ana
Buncombe. The section that it is pro-
posed to cut off from this county Is
Broad River township. If the propo-
sition meets with the approval of the
residents of that section there should
be no opposition to it from other sec
tiOns of the county. From it's geo
graphical situation Broad River does
not naturally belong to this county Tor
it is so distant from the county seat
and separated there from by the
mountains SO that the people are put
to much inconvenience in attending
court, etc. On this account it would
be a wise movement if there were no
other reason. Although this section
is, we believe, without a town in its
borders yet it IS u goodly land and
would soon develop its abundant re-
sources and make an ideal mountain
county.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-12-03
Beaufort HarbOr Club.

Beaufort n. c., Dec 2.-(SpeciaI)
The Beaufort Harbor Company.
has purchased the town marsh or ISL
and fronting Beaufort and will erect
thereon a modern hotel. The island
will be raised five feet above tide
water, with a sea wall around it,
1t will be headquarters of the Beau
fort HarbCr Club, which is organized
for innocent sport and pleasure. ply
steal development and mental i'm
provcment. The incorporators are:
Messrs. n. w. Taylor, Thomas Dun
can. b. J. Bell, L. l.. Hargrave, W. l..
Arlington NJ. r. Geffroy Thomas p
Noe, p. w. Garrigues. of Beaufort;
and Charles S. Wallace, w. NJ. Webb,
B. F. McCullen, r. w. Taylor and f.
T. Dryden. of Morehead City
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-17
IMPROVED SCHEDULES NEEDED.


With the arranging of its schedules
for spring and summer, it seems the
Central of Georgia Railway would do
well to provide for the leaving of its
morning train for Macon and Atlanta
some hours earlier than at present.
The change would be beneficial to and
appreciated by the patrons of the road.
Under the present schedule the train
leaves at 9:45-practically 10 o'clock,
city time. Thus one-third of the day
is gone before the train pulls out Of
the depot. The Savannah business
man who has business up the road
finds it noon or after before he can
reach his town forty or fifty miles
away, and it is well in the afternoon
before he can transact any business
whatever. And the merchants and
others along the line, instead of get
ting their mails early, are forced to
wait for a length of time that seems
to be unreasonable. in view of the
prompt mail service that is given to
other sections. Rural free delivery
routes are being established all along
the line of the Central. The carriers
on these routes are obliged to leave
the initial points early in order to make
their rounds. If the mails do not
reach these points until late in the
morning which they cannot do under
the 9:45 schedule out of Savannah,
manifestly the people served by the
free delivery routes will be obliged to
wait until the next day, or twenty
four hours, for their mail.
A city of the size and Importance of
Savannah should have train out as
early as o'clock. city time, over the
Central. Every other city in the state
has such train, for the accommoda-
ton of it's travellers and mails, and
there is no good reason why Savannah
should be an exception. Nothing is
gained by the road through the late
departure of it's morning train, and
much is lost to its patrons. The saw
ing of three hours time. as suggested,
would be of greatest benefit to mer-
chants, business men and others both
along the line of the road and in this
city, and would in no way add to the
expenses of the train service. 1t is
hoped the Central officials will take
this matter under advisement and give
It their friendly consideration.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-17
Wire Test ana Girl TEST.

The telephone bell in a Brooklyn res
idence buzzed few evenings ago and
a young woman rushed to the instru-
ment, thinking that one of her admir-
ers had called her up, says the New
York Sun.
rs this S-0-0-S?" demanded a voice.
yes" she replied.
I'VE are testing the wire," announced
the voice. "Will you please draw a
long breath and say very plainly, i
will be good?' .. LID.
"I-will-be-g good" she repeated.
Little slower, please, and little
more distinctly now" .s
'I-will-be-good,'' answered the
young woman trying her best.
mo, that's not right at ALL" crit
icised the voice. TRY again-talk still
more distinctly"
II can't"
"You must" declared the voice. 1--WE
must fix the wire. Now make an ex-
ira effort and say it again."
"I-will-be-good.'
Now again, please"
I-WILL-BE-GO she shouted
again.
You will, will you? Well, I'm glad
You weren't bit good to me the las'
time l called" Knocked the voice as
the connection was broken.
The young woman doesn't know yeI
which one of her admirers played the
joke on her. If she does learn, she
says, there will be room for one more
on her list of available men.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-17

Representative Bede of Minnesota is
among the best Of story teliers, and his
friends regret that he is not oftener
Washington Times. One of his latest
Is this
Many years ago there lived in Min
nesota an eccentric justice of the peace,
but who was thoroughly honest and
who tried to do justice in adjudicating
differences between his neighbors. The
old gentleman had a decided hatred
for the quirks and bubbles of law, and
not infrequently he rendered his de-
cisfons without regard to the legal
points laid down by eminent jurists.
I'm a certain case before him it was
shown that justice was on the side
OF the plaintiff. but he had slept on
his rights until he had legally lost
them. The attorney for the defense
called the Justices attention to this
fact and cited a decision of the Su-
preme Court to sustain him.
d" If the Supreme Court made such
a. decision it acted wrong, said the
Justice.
The attorney brought forth volume
after volume and read the authorities.
You can stop where you are said
the old justice. as he pulled off and
rubbed his spectacleS, for am salts
fed that such a decision was made by
the Supreme Court. but / want to say
that II that court sees fit to make a
fool of itself it is no reason why l
should. 1t is my opinion that the ,Su-
prerpe Court is a. nuisance-yeS, a mis-
cradle nuisance--and 1 override it's de-
cision on this point and give judgment
for the plaintiff. Justice is justice,
sir, in this court, and to the devil
with the higher tribunal