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Cherokee scout. [volume] (Murphy, N.C.) 188?-1961, 1904-02-23

The woman who wastes her breath talk
ing never seems in want of any.
Cherokee scout. [volume] (Murphy, N.C.) 188?-1961, 1904-02-23

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething, soften the gums, reduces infamma-
ton, aI1ays pain, cures wind collie. 26c. abottIe
Cherokee scout. [volume] (Murphy, N.C.) 188?-1961, 1904-02-23

Generally a man has seen too many
great nights when he tells you he has seen
better DAYS.
Cherokee scout. [volume] (Murphy, N.C.) 188?-1961, 1904-02-23

SalEer,s New National Oats yielded in
1908 in Mich. 24O bu.; in Mo, S55 bu.: in
~. D., $40 bu., and in 80 other States from
100 to 800 bu. per acre. Now this Dat if
generally grown in 1904 will add millions
OF bushels to the yield and millions of dol
lars to the farmer s purse. Try it for 1904.
growers in America. CA.CL1
Salzer's Speltz. Beardless Barley, Home
Builder Corn, Macaroni Wheat, Pea Dat,
Billion Dollar Grass and Earliest Canes
A>e money makers for you, Mr.. Farmer.
JUST SEND THIS NOTICE AND lOc.
In stamps to John A. Salzer Seed Co., La
Crosse, Wis, and receive in return their
big catalog and lots of farm seed samples
Cherokee scout. [volume] (Murphy, N.C.) 188?-1961, 1904-02-23

Suffering children ere numerous in Ger
many, and it is thought the oiiment is con-
tagious,
Cherokee scout. [volume] (Murphy, N.C.) 188?-1961, 1904-02-23

A decayed apple eaten by schoolboy in
Dublin caused fatal attack of ptomaine
poisoninp
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AFather,s Protection.

By gaining round after round of APP
plause the orator climbs the ladder Of
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Some men trust to luck in this world,
and some others are lucky to get trusted.
Cherokee scout. [volume] (Murphy, N.C.) 188?-1961, 1904-02-23
Alfalfa Glover.

At one time it was the belief in Russia
that q beardless man was so1lless.
Cherokee scout. [volume] (Murphy, N.C.) 188?-1961, 1904-02-23

Mrs. A. Snedsker, Gainesville, Ga,
writes:
Il saw that your catarrh remedy. Pc
runa, was doing others so much good that
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any other plaster, and will not blister the
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'curativeQualitiesof rticlearewonder-
4 full. 1t will stop the toothache at once, and
relieve headache and sciatica. We recon-
mend 1t as the best and safest external
counter-irritantkno also ssan external
remedy for pains in the chest and stomach
and attic, neuralgia and goutycom-
plants. A trial will prove what we claim
fortt, and it will be found to be invaluable
best of ali Of your PREPARATIONS" Price IS
cts. at all druggists or other Dealers or by
sending hisanounttO qstn postage stamPei
We will send you tp be BY mall. NO article
same carries our label. aaotheTwtsett lie not
Renuine, CHE6ERROu0h MF0s Co..
II State Street. NEW YoRK CITY.
Cherokee scout. [volume] (Murphy, N.C.) 188?-1961, 1904-02-23

ia man Il going to believe in himself
he had better rot get too wei acquainted
Cherokee scout. [volume] (Murphy, N.C.) 188?-1961, 1904-02-23

I recommend it to all young
women who suffer from female weak
ness. "-MIss ALMA PRATT, Holly,
Mich. $4,000 forfeit HerfgfnaI of aboUs Letter
ProUfHq ceHWiReHess cannot be produced
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to young man whose face was clean-
shayel, II am afraid you think you have
great grounds to acnso the gods for having
made you man and not q woman
DIogenes, however, was all untidy crear
ture,{ as far as can be judged after so
many centuries, and his opinion on ques-
lions OF dress could hardly have been
considered an expert one by the Sdandles
of Athens. Instead Of the tlresome old
philosopher the gilded youth OF ancient
Greece probably followed as their leader
Otes!ppus, "the tino son Of Chabrlas,
who, tradition says, was accustomed to
shave himself three times a day. AS
tho razors of those days We're probably
not remarkable for their keenness, the
life OF "a Grecian Beau Brummell must
have had its drawbacks, 81 Ag early as
800 b, c. BARRIERS We're imported from
Sicily to Rome and the practice Of shav-
ing came rapidly into favor That the
first Roman to be shaved daily was the
great scipio Afrlcanus, himself, is q fact
which has been used with telling effect
against those misguided persons who hold
that a well-groomed man is OF necessity
empty-h headed
A In more modern times, the natives Of
Europe have allowed fashion TO detesr
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+ 3 Ii 4
has steadily increased since then, SO that
| IT now amounts to almost $50 for every
man, woman and child in the country.
We; are pushing out everywhere IN our
search for profitable Investments. we
are doing all we can to increase our 1ols-r
eign market, and we are gaining a great
deal by improving our shipping. I'VE re-
our shipping Ind ustry. AS to our foreign
Investments, it .s estimated that s. co.,
/ 0O0 coo worth or German capita is 50 EN-
p|oyed and that half Of this is IN coun-s
tries outside Europe. F VIZ 5
I3s@"One Of tn ernost interesting features OF
our foreign trade continued the Imperial
German commissioners that It's char
ncter has changed. About. = geneIa NC, !
ago we shipped agricultural produc.s
abroad. Now one-fourth OF all the 1000
We B consume is imported, and our ex-
ports consist Of manufactures y 9 are
estrlctIng our importatfons OF manure C
lures from year to year, and we are nor, no,
and more supplying our needs from goo2us
made at home. ia 3s
The American Shoe in Germany.
"How about the American shoet?" I
asked. &, 81
THAT is an anomaly which our people
cannot understand. They say here Is no
reason why shoes ma &c mere shouiu ~ De
sold in such quantities In GERMANY we
have the same leather that you have
we import our machinery and our work
men are better than yours. Nevertheless
your shoes continue to compete with ours
in our home markets. can only explain n
Il by the fact that you make shoes In
such large quantities that you may be
able to make them chear ~ "a s
Germany's Colonial Markets.
How are your colonies doing, Or.
Lewald r. l b asked. "a },3ss "a rs
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mine this question as 1t has that OF
everything connected with mankind's ap-
pearance Louis XIII. and Louis NV.
came to the throne OF France When chill
dren, and their loyal subjects were too
polite to allow themselves anything which
the sovereign mad not and smooth chin
became the mark Of a polished man.,
in general as civilization progressed long
boards fell into disfayor. In his on
thusasnl for progress IN every direction,
Peter :the Great determined that his
Russian Boyars must dispense With their
cherished boards. This was as great q
grievance to tho Slay patriarchs as tho
loss Of many OF their more lucrative
honors. With the development of stands
ing armies significance Of another kind
was attached to a lnan's hirsute append-
ages, For years q clean-shaYen chin
and long moustaches We're the disting-
uishing marks OF a soldier and 1t is
only comparatively recently that mere CIV
ilIans have, yentured to adopt this style,
On the other hand. the moustache Is to-
day tho sign of a gentleman on tho
Continent OF Europe, s
~ must let my moustacle grow be-
fore I so homen said q young Belgian
the other day. feeling his upper ZIP
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upset the customs OF the centuries In
order to help tho man who Yields n
razor, The first step was designed
merely to protect the unskilfnl and, by
placing the blade in sort OF u cage,
the safety razor was made Then Mr.
King Y. Gillette. recognizing The fact
that the average mans greatest difficulty
when lie shaves Ia the sharpening Of
the razor. bent his energies to tho pros
duction OF u blade which could be used
ten, tlfteen or twenty times, without
losing It's edge. His first attempt was
made by grinding q watch spring to
an edge. It worked we'll enough to on
courage linn to continue his experiments,
and later he succeeded III producing blades
which, while no thicker than q piece OF
paper and no larger than one OF the
postage stamps struck to commemorate
a worlds fair, could be used not once
but many timea. Thus the possessor OF
g. bunch OF blades and handle with
which to hold them, would have potential
shayes of number sufficient to keep
his chin and cheeks smooth for months.
and when all the blades We're dulled they
could be exchanged for others,
The making Of such razor blades called
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United States. but II they do they can
no tbut work to your industrial injury"
Labor Matters in Germany.

What Is your situation rs to labor
matters, DR.. Lcwnld ~ n i 5t 81 tGs
I'VE have our troubles too but we re
far better Off than you are. a5r Our people
arc more willing to give a fair days
Work for a fair days wages. and they are
yearly becoming more skillful ~ through.
our technical schools, which are now to be
found in every Industrial center. .&
n j"Is there an exhibit OF these schools
hcre?" I asked.
eve have an exhibit OF our technical
high schools. but not OF the common tech
rical schools, which are found all over
the empire. doubt II the Industrial
centcrs would encourage the establish:
mcnt OF such schools elsewhere. They are
Intended to make better German work
men and In this way better products for
export. We do not. naturally, wish TO
help the United States as one OF our COM
petItory in the markets OF the world.
We have exhibits, however, showing what
We are doing in the technical high
schools. and also our progress along the
lines OF workmen's Insurance. and for the
protection OF the laboring man..
:Workingrnen Insured and Pen
.5i stoned.
What are you doing In insuring your
workingmen?'
than almost any other country.
was the reply. The movement for WORK.
s3insurance begnn with Emperor VIII
helm ]. lie proposed 1t ,l,sn .rtssago IN
1851, and the sentiment in favor OF I has
SO grown since then that we have a regu-
lar system of insurance under the con-
tro OF the government, by which every.
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''Fairly we'll" was the reply I'VE hope
they will pay us in time. we have a
vast territory III our colonial possessions.
They are altogether more than n million
square miles, or more than five times as
largo as Germany Itself We nre de-
velopinE some of them and prospecting
others. In Germany Ed ST africa we arc
raising cotton, and In German Southwest
Africa We are experimenting with cattle.
Some Of these lands are SO new that we
do not know yet Just what they contain
nor what they will produces
What kind Of cotton arc vol, raising
doctor and do you think you will ever be
able to get along without our raw ma
tcrials y 81 ,44s5iaAt II
'.'The cotton is said to be very good, :"
was the reply. hut I doubt whether We
will raise enough for cur mills. Tho
United States will, 7 believe, always DO
the chief cotton country OF the world"
Germany Not Crowded.
rs not Germany overcro wled e: III sss.
IT do not think so,''s said the imperial
German commissioner I'VE have d large
population in proportion to our urea, but
so far we have plenty of room. We have
now almost 100000 people. 4 This Is 20
100000 less than the United States, and we
are Increasing at the rate of two or three
millions a year. IN II s3
America a German Nation.
How about your emigration? Is 1t as
great as in the past 81
No; business is now good, and eery-
enc has plenty to do. Our enlgrants in
crease during hard times and fall of
when times are good. So far you have
had the bulk Of the G Germans who have
gone abroad. It Is estimated that 5,o00,-
600 of our people have come here since
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Privy Councillor Lewald, the
Kaiser's Imperial Commissions
cr, Discusses His Country.
FINE EXHIBIT At ST. LOUIS.
DR.. Lcwald Talks With Mr.. Cars
pctlter About American Work
iilgnan and German Brother.
BY Frank G. Carpenter.

ST. Louis, Oct. 22..--I give yau to-day a,
chat with Dr. Theodor Lewald, the
kaiser's otnmssioner.gener on the
Twentieth Century Germany. DR.. Lcwald
IS one Of the high officials, Of the German
empire. lie Is connected with the interior
department. and is one or the Imperial
privy councillors He was commissioner
from Germany to tho exposition at Pnris,
and he has had everything to do with the
exhibit at Nst. Louis.
Before giving my talk with him would
say Il word about the German exhibit It
In ono OF the finest ana most complete OF
ali cent III from abroad. The Emperor Is
anxious TO increase the friendly relations
which obtain between the United States
and Germany. and he has done all in his
power for the st. Louis Exposition. This
can be seen by visiting the imperial Ger
man pavilion, which Is cun1poHnd of rooms
copied after como OF the most famous
partments OF the imperial palaces. The
Emperor has sent over his own paintings
and tapestry from his own palaces for
these rooms, and in one Of them are cases
containing his wedding presents. y: Indeed,
tho pavilion vics in beauty with many OF
tho palaces of Europe. showing what the
Germans can do to rcproducc the glorlcs
or their historic past. @
a Tho exhibits In the other buildings show
2 the live, up-to-date, scientific. pushing, IN.
dustrious. thrifty Germany OF to;dayiSg1t
would take columns TO describe them and
] will only say that they indicate the
4 wonderful advance that that nat ton Is
mailing along educational. industrial and.
social lines. II am told that the German
government has spent more than u ,oOO, 900
on its exhibit out the money spent by
the individual exhibitors
Our Workingman and His Ger.
man Brother.
The first part OF my talk with Or. Lee
valid was devoted to the American work.
ingman In comparison with the German
4 DR.. Lewald had to use the American la
borer to put up his great buildings and to
arrange his exhibits. He don't think
much OF him. Said he:
81 can't understand howf the United:
States can hold its own In the markets OF
the world II the labor conditions OF st.
Louis are typical OF those OF the rest OF
Z the country. We have had a terrible time
here whenever We have had to employ
American workmcn. We used them IN
! erecting our buildings and the wages We're
outra geous. We have paid one dollar an
hour to common mechanics who In Ger
many would be considered second-class
workmen They would work only eight
hours per day. and II We found fault
with their work or asked them to remedy
any defects in 1t they would throw up
the Job and leave. They seemed to have
no desire to please liz, and their sole
object was to put in the time and get
the money. One OF our German me-
chanics. who came over with us, thought
the conditions outrageous. don't know
that similar ones prevail throughout this
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GHINERY NOW DOES MOST DIFFICULT PART OF BARBES WORK

OF the Massachusetts Institute Of Tech,
nology, and are only an example OF the
several appliances whose Invention had
to precede the entrance Of the razor Into
the field Of machine made products, New
processes were necessary. for example,
to make piece Of steel OF the thick
ness Of q sheet OF paper that would
nevertheless do the work OF shaving.
Steel OF that thickness tempered In the
ordinary way would curl up at the edges
exactly like so much paper. and a new
method Of tempering had to be worked
out to make easier the early morning
task OF the man who shayes himself,
The ordinary razor blade ~ concaya IN
shape. These paper blades---they might
not inappropriately be called sucll--are
made concave when In use because they
are held In curved pieces Of brass, turned
With mathematical exactness SO great
that the variation OF thousandth part
OF an inch Is taken into consideration.
This work Is done by a contrlyancsl
hardly larger than an old-fashioned letter
press, yet At exerts upon the brass .
pressure OF thirteen tons. picking up tho
pieces. giving them the proper shape ana
throwing them aside when Anished
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for new machines and processes, From
tho ages of stone nnd brass down to
the present. the razor maker has held
the flint, obsldan or steel In his own
fingers as he shaped and ground It, and
razors have been stropped by hand un-
der tho shadows OF the pyramids and
in the barber shops OF Imperial Rome.
but to-day fingers Of steel arc taking
the place OF human hands. One de-
vice cuts the blades from long strip
OF the metal; another cuts holes IN
them; still another smooths away rough
edges, A young woman tending three
small machines win grind 500 razor blades
in a day or 1t would be better to put
1t that the machines do the work. for
tho young won,an's part consists merely
In supplying the material and taking
away the finished product. The man
who has patiently or impatiently stropped
his own razor finds much for admiration
In the machines which hone and strop
la razor blades at a time.
These devices. which grind, hone and
strop razor blades by the hundred were
Invented BY N. Niekorson, q graduate
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Germany's Colonial Markets.

/ Now, kid, you don want 70 20 pcu-i
ding this around among the neighbors,
but dad and 1 are having the time Of
our lives here, and since dad has begun
to get acquai nted with the ladies here
at tho hotel, and the millionaire sports.
he Is getting we'll, and acts like old times.
He sat In the parlor of tho hotel with a
widow the first night until the porter
had to tell him to cut 1t out. Say, ! get
asleep three or four times on O lounge IN
the parol; waiting for dad to get to the.
that widow about his wealth. and his
loneliness since ma died. He said he
didn't know what he was worth. be-
cause he didn't pay any attention to any
Of his bonds and securities, except his.
Standard OIL stock because the dividends
n little every quarter. Gee, butt wanted
to. tell her that all$the interest he had In
Standard OIL stock was a gallon kerosene
can with potato stuck n the sport,
that woman's husband was behind the.
door OF the parlor NIL the time listening.
and he had a gun In his hip gpoclet, and
would call him out for duel the next
that night AMI the next morning I got
n gambler to look cross at dad and size
him up, and dad didn't eat any break
fast. After breakfast had the hotel
stenographer write a challenge to dad.
md demand satisfaction for alternating
the affections Of his wife, and dad began
to get weak In the knees. Flo showed mo
the challenge, and ! told him the only
way to do 1t in this climate was to walk
around and punch his cane on tbe floor.
and look mad. and talk loud, and the
challenger would know he was a fiery
fighter, and would apologize, and dad
walked around town and u,rough the
hotel office most OF the day fairly frctn-
scared the challenger away, and, as the
woman is gone, dad thinks he Is q
hero,
"But the worst thing has happened, and
on dads legs, He got acquainted with
q bunch OF mon who were hunters and
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German workman receives financial as
sistance in case Of accident, sickness and
nvalldty or old age. More than S30j,-
600 is daily spent In this way upon the
protection OF our workinsn1sn and in n
single year something like five million
persons receive help of one Kind or an
other from this source. In the seven
teen years from .i:s5 10 I'M fifty million
people were SO benefited. They received
all told about one billion dollars.
'"rlc money for this Insurance fund.-
continued DR.. Lewald IS raised by u tax
OF about a per cent on til. wages ofthe'
employees, two-thirds Of which is bortie
by3t employees and one-third BY the en-
ployer. In addition n to this theretare
worklngmen's clubs which give benefits
to their members in sickness, and we
have associations providing for indemni-
ties in case of accident or death.
IS THE insurance against invalidity in
Guides old age. Every German workman
over seventy gets a pension, and il one
of the insured becomes an invalid through
accident. he, also.3 is pensioned. There
are now more than thirteen million per-
sons Insured as to invaliditN
In addition to this the insurance fund
has accumulated Il reserve capital OF
about s375, O000OA which is being used FOR
the general benefit OF TIA workln-mcn.
Through 1t we are Constructing working
men;s dwellings, hospitals, homes for
travelling men, public batlla, systems Of
water works and % Their sanitary improves
,ncnts. Indeed, It sec.ns to me TINT our
system Of workngmen' insurance is ex-
cellent.
Do Expositions Pay?
The conversation here turned to the st.
Louis Exposition, and l asked Or. Lewald
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which had been clean-shaYen during his
stay here. 'Tf don't my people will
ask mo II was coachman or q waiter
In America"
While fashion has boon Juggling through
the centuries with mans appearance. tho
manner In which her DEGREES have been
carried out has not, until very recently.
been materially altered The method
recommended by Pepys In his diary IN
1859, Of drumming one's self with pum,,:
Ice stone which learnt of Mr., March
and found 1t very easy, speedy and
pleasant" has not come into common use.i
What the Egyptians used to rid them
selves so carefully OF their heards we
do not know but In lltruscan tombs
archaeologists have found zrazors Of tlint
ana bronze which ,lhnst have been placed
there as early as 800 ,, 9. Bronze
trazors OF peculiar shape have been found
in the British Isles, Cortes found the
Aztecs al!ligently ohopplng5 OF their
boards. with pieces Of natural volcanic
substance known as obsidlarT which must
have been even worse than the flint,
ana other extraordinary substitutes for
steel have been adopted by suffering hu-
It remained for American inventors to
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Especial Correspondence Of The Times
DiSDa tch,) S$% s,E

Especial Correspondence Of The Times
Dispatch.)
+ BOSTON, October 22.-Amerlcan In
yentors have come to the assistance Of
tho man who slaves himself and In dos
Ing so have made the first great change
4 in a process which existed before au-
thentic history was written. Standing
with his razor and stroP, shlvering be-
fore. Ills mirror In the early hours OF a
winter morning the average citizen has
little time or inclination to reflect that
+ he is graphing with y task which taxed
the patience Of men who lived scores Of
centuries ago. But he may take COM
fort in the thought that IN all ages the
peoples most advanced In civilization
have valued the razor and waged war
on tile beard.
The ancient Egyptians, whose dress
was Of the scantipst were nevertheless
scrllpulqus in shaving and SOME arch-
aeologsts have maintained that the hairs
( of their heads as we'll as their boards
were sacrificed to their intense love Of
personal cleanliness 81 Among the Greeks
the beard was at all times regarded
b with ycneration but tho clean-slla Ven men
finally set the fashion, Diogenes ex-
pressed his opinion When he remarked