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Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1907-12-05
Tall Shooting In West Virginia.

There is al old Ccnfederate sold
ier now visiting some friends in
Greenbrier County, W. Va, who was
a holy terrer in battle. He was a
shot from 'wayback. He came to the
reunion st Richmond and stopped cff
Ancng his faats Of marksmansh;r
the following simple exploits, We are
tod. ere performed: He can suspen.l
a bottle Ey "a string, sheet ana cut
the string and then break the bottle
with another shct before It hits th.
GROUND. With a-smaIl ca'fber gn8 and
q large lead pencil he can knock the
1ead cut when the pencil is thrown
INTO the air, and not injure the wood
covering. A favorite pastinae with
him is to start a barrel rc!ting down
hill ard put bullet through tie
hunghole every time the barrel turns
over. We call this coed shooting
stauntcn Spectator.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1907-12-05

simply because one has the power, is
an act that seems to me to be crime.
This is the second great law-you
shall require of your work that it
shall make man OF you. If the first
req uirement you make of your work
Is that it shall give you bread, the
second is that it shall give you cul-
ture. No man has any right to en-
gage in any occupation that brutal
ICES him. No factory or mine should
be allowed to run that degrades the
toilers. The first question young
man will ask of his work is ''Win it
ennoble OF degrade me?" This is not
too high requirement. Any honest
work, honestly done, is liberal edu-
cation.
There is no genuine culture out
side Of work. >Oftentimes the hard
est task is the best teacher The
Man With the Hoe" We need not pity
him. Moses was herdsman, David
was shepherd, Jesus was carpen-
ter. BENJAMIN Franklin knew 10 col
1ege. He was printer devil. Even
college gives culture only through
work, and there are some things col
leges never can teach. Latin and
art and history and literature are the
decorations of man. Even reading
and writing and the rule of three are
but conveniences, and these come
only through labor, whether in col
lege Or outside Of it.
But these are fundamentals. In-
dastry, thrift, courage, good cheer,
fidelity, honesty, truth-these are the
qualities that make eternal the life
of man, and they are had for the
hearing in every labor and calling
open to man. If you have hot gotten
these things, though you have gained
the whole world, you have lost your
soul.
It is not the vocation so much as
| it is the way its work is done. When
| you skfmp, cheat, slight or sham IN
your work, you injure your en-
| pioyer; but you ruin yourself. Every
| stitch is lie woven in your char
acter. Is your work making man
/ out Of you?
The third great requirement IS
| that your life work shall enable you
/ to ,,..tter message. Painting merely
to preserve wood or decorate it, is to
/ be an artisan. Painting to manifest
ideals is to be an artist.
To work at task for bread Oh
gold is drudgery, but to find JOY
in your work because through it you
can utter what is in your heart, is in
! spring.
A musician was sick, as meI
thought, unto death. He was caught
| away in a vision. He saw things toe
deep for words. Weeping, shouting
| he came back from his delirium. Bu
when he was we'll, the vision dwelt
in his brain. He could not utter il
l-such knowledge was too wonderful
for speech. A night came, and he sal
still, brooding over the mystery a
the organ. His fingers found the
keys, and directly he sobbed out al
he had seem He wrote it down, ant
we call it 1.-The Messiah His worl
had become his language.
The drudgery of life is that w
work like dumb, driven cattle, witt
never a syllable of our heart secre
| told in all our work. The joy of lif
comes when we can make our roca
| ton, whatever it may be, publish t
all the world the truth Ced has give
u.s. Every nan who hath found hi
true life work hath found ministry
God hath chosen every man to be Hi
servant and hath put some messag g
the world needs in his heart.
Choosing a rrnf sion is as acl
az au ordinattlr ..y
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1907-12-05
When the Ice Broke.

The breaking up of the ice On the
Hudson river is described in Me"
moirs of an American Lady" as q
sublime spectacle" A hundred and
fifty years ago the whole population
Of Albany deemed it a sight we'll worth
some effort to see. The first noise OF
the breaking ice, like long, loud peal
Of thunder, sent every one hurrying
to the. riverside; and if it happened
to be an early morning hour there was
a gSotesque assemblage.
No one who had a nightcap on wait
ed to put it Off, As for waiting for
one's cloak, it was a thing out of the
question; you caught the thing next
to you, that you could wrap round
you, and ran. On the way you saw
every door left open. and pals and
baskets without number set down in
the street. People never dreamed OF
being obeyed by the slaves until the
ice was past.
The house were left quite empty;
the meanest slave. the youngest child,
were to be found on the shore.
When arrived at the show place the
multitude, with their eyes all bent one
way, stood immovable and silent as
| death until the tumult ceased and the
mighty commotion ended; then every
one tried to give vent to the vast
conceptions with which his mind had
been distended.
The swelling of the waters under
the ice, increased by rivulets, en-
larged by melting SHOWS, led to the
general bursting of this mighty mass
Of ice. Conceive solid mass, from
six to eight feet thick, bursting fer
| many miles in one continued rupture
| produced by force inconce;yab1y
great, and, in q manner, inexpressibiy
sudden.
Thunder is no adequate image OF
| this awful explosion. The islands and
/! low 1andos were all flooded in an in
slant by an impetuous torrent, bear
[ ing down, with incredible and tumult-
uous rage, immense shoals OF ice;
which, iammed together in some
places, in others erecting themselves
| in gigantic heights for an instant in
| the air, seemed to combat with their
| fellow giants, and falling together
with an inccnceivable crash, formed a
| picture animated and various beyond
conception.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1907-12-05
Treat a Man as You Would Picture.

Treat Man as You Would a Picture.
A wise man has said that all peo-
pie are like polygops. and psoach-
sble from ..la1y view points If we
get disc gseeahie impression frnm
one, let Us try from alothe-. ms
many-sidedness Of human nature
makes it an interesting study. The
Englishman, a distant, unsoeial being
when met upon the streets of London.
is a most cordial and entertaining
host in his own home
The above sentiment is only another
way Of putting Emerson's pai.c sophy
into words, Treat a man as you
would picture, giving hsn the adj
vantage CT a good light" We nay not
scrutinize too closely for defects, but
change ctr sngfe CT visica ard see i;
uEeer TIE best light the general in1-
preston Is not Icre1ce
Lillian Bush, in Youths Void.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1907-12-05

tanning less solid substance and the
seeds, often scores in number, which
are about an inch long and half. as
wide, being fat ovals, with the flesh
encased in hard she'll They are eat
en- by squirrels, mice, etc. The name
pumpkin seed is applied to the COM
mon sunfish found in small streams.
also called solloquially the tobacco box.
The name is also applied to certain
forms of boats, from their shape"
The man with memory said: The
name of the pumpkin is corrected IN
my mind with the old nursery rhyme
Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater,
Had wife and couldn't keep her.
He put her in a pumpkin shell,
And there he kept her very we'll.
The pumpkin she'll, suppose, IS
what is left after the soft. snongT
part, with the seeds, is taken from ths
interior Of the ripened pumpkin. Boys
use small ones, followed cut, for jack
o'-lanterns, cutting the semblance OF
a face on one side and placing can
die in the interior"
81 suppose none of you" said an an
tiquarian, who had been listening, "ean
tell what the ancien: oath, BY cock
and pie,' comes from. Literally trans
lated from early English, it means BY
God and the daily service book the
word pie as there used referring to
the service directory for the canoni-
cal hours and calendar in use in Eng
land in the days before the Reforma-
tion, when Henry VIII became head
of the Anglican church. It was also
| spelled pye. The word pie, plural pice,
IS the name of an Anglo-Indian coin.
| The verb to pi, sometimes spelled pie,
| is well known in printing Offices as de-
scribing the jumb1ing or confusing OF
types so that they cannot be used un-
| til put in order. Piep1ant is COM
mont name fo rthe garden rhubarb.'
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1907-12-05
The LIST Word.

& don't object to ny wife
having the last word.
Enpee: I wouldn't if mine would
cut CUT some of those before it,
Smart Set.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1907-12-05

OF the entire human race it is es-
tinatea that 500, ,oGo. Geo live il houses.
100000, eco in hs.ts and caves and
250. .e0o, coo hare virtually no shelter
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1907-12-05
p9RlllLAR
SVCE 6
lNeENTloN

The potato is native of Chilli and
Peru, it was taken to Spain early i'm
the sixteenth century. and to England.
by Raleigh, in 1886. Cultivated by
Raleigh on his plantation in Ireland,
the root did not begin to grow into
general use for more than century
afterward.
Some mosquitoes are strictly house
hold pests and are found nowhere ex-
cept about the verandas and sleeping
rooms. Another variety lives exclu-
|s1vely in the woods and thrives Upon
animal life of the kind provided by
nature. To this class human blood
comes as treat.
"Hydro1ithe'' is new compound OF
calcium and hydrogen. It gives on
its hydrogen when immersed in water.
as calcium carbide evolves acetyIene.
and NJ. George Jaubert, French en-
gineer, urges that the new material
| be adopted as a convenient means OF
srrying gas to initiate military bal
looms.
| Fog dissipation by electric dis
charges has proven more effective
i when the fog contains dust or smoke
! than when it is water only, the solid
particles seeming to become charged
and to be then repelled, precipitatins
particles Of vapor with which they col
/ lide. With bundle of spikes as radi-
ator, q space of some yards can be
, cleared in few Seconds =
The great Austrian salt mine at
| Wieliczka has three hundred miles OF
galleries, and employs five thousand
miners. 1t has been worked for the
past six centuries. This is the most
productive salt mine in the world,
producing annually about seventy mil
lion pounds of rock salt. In the mine
are fresh water lake and churches
heWn out of the rock salt
The great storm Of red DUST that
not long ago swept up from Africa
ever Europe performed service for
which men Of science are most CRATE
full, by eoloring the glaciers Of the
Alps on. grand scale, and thus pro-
ducing a stratum in the vast ice
streams the red hue of which will
render it recognizable for years. The
importance of this consists in the fact
that by noting the position of the dnst
stained layers the movements Of the
glaciers can be studied more accurate
ly than would be possible without the
aid of so extensive and distinct a
marking.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1907-12-05

Germany produces more honey than
any other European country, furnish
ing 10000 tons annually.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1907-12-05
NEW SERIEs--VOL. XxVII. NO. 2.


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Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1907-12-05

City sir contains IA times as man5
microbes as that OF the country.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1907-05-29

It will take some time for the
state to- entirely recover from the
effects of the rush legislation of the
last session. The latest difficulty
occurs on account of the grand rush
made by applicants for pharmacy
permits under the law authorizing
licenses to persons showing fifteen
years pratical experience in drug
store. 1t is alleged that soda foun-
tain and cigar clerks and even JAM
tors are trying to get in under cover
of the law. The pharmacy board
wants an Interpretation of the law
that will protect the public from
this class of applicants.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1907-05-29

The late Stephen Crane in the story
which made his reputation as writer,
''The Bed Badge of Courage" drew a
picture of the impressions of youth
In his first battle which many veter-
ans have declared is a faithful por-
trayal Of their own feelings in a SINH
lar experience. This young man went
into the fight determined not to show
the white feather, but as the battle
waxed warm he was seized in the grip
Of terrible fear and suddenly took to
his heels and made for the rear.
1t is quite probable that if you will
corner any old soldier and pin him
down to absolute candor he will tell
yeu that he was "scared to DEATH" or
words to that effect, when first he
heard the hostile bullets whiz and
knew that he must go forward into the
conflict.
General Grant candidly confessed to
a highly uncomfortable feeling upon
two occasions Of imminent battle, one
being his first experience in the Next
can war and the other his initiation
in the civil war after fifteen years of
peace. He recorded these sensations
in his personal memoirs. AS to his ex-
perience in Mexico he wrote:
AS we lay in our tents upon the sea-
shore the artillery at the fort on the Rio
Grande could be distinctly heard The
war had begun. There was no possible
means of obtaining news from the garri-
son, and information from outside could
not a otherwise than I'M "a vnra bile
What General Taylor's feelings were dur
ing this suspense / do not know but for
myself. a young second lieutenant who
had never heard a hostile gun before. I
felt sorry that had enlisted. A great
many men. when they smell battle afar
Off, chafe to, get into the fray. When
they say so themselves they generally
fail to convince their hearers that they
are as anxious as they would like to
make believe, and as they approach uan-
ger they become more subdued. This
rule is not universal, for have known
Few men who were always aching for a
fight when there was no enemy near who
were as good as their word when the
battle did come, but the number of such
men is small.
After several years retirement from
the army Grant entered the great con-
f1ict of the sixties, his first command
being the Twenty first Illinois volun-
teers. He was sent to northwest Mis-
souri,, where certain regiment was
besieged by the enemy, with instruc-
lions to raise the siege. He wrote as
follows:
Ny sensations as we approached what
might be "a fold Of battle" were any
thing but agreeable. had been in all
the engagements in Mexico that II had
been possible for one person to be in, but
not In command. II some one else had
been colonel and had been lieutenant
colonel, do not think would have felt
any trepidation. Before we were prepared
to cross the Mississippi river at Quincy
my anxiety was relieved. for the men Of
the besieged regiment came struggling
into town. I am inclined to think both
sides got frightened and ran away.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1907-05-29

bushes while the men continued the,
fight, dispersed the enemy and took
possession of the town. Many of the
soldiers wept when they learned of
their commanders death. He was the
only American killed in the fight,
though several of the officers and men
were wounded.
The death Of General Lawton caused.
profound sorrow throughout the army
He had been known for nearly forty
years as one of the most fearless fight
ers in the service Next to General
Custer, who fell in the awful fight on.
the Little Big Horn in 1876, Lawton
was esteemed the most daring fighter
on the plains. A grateful country is
proud to honor him. The president of
the United States, who watched Law
ton at Ell Caney and Santiago and
knew his worth from personal observa-
ton, was proud to accept the invita-
ton from the citizens Of Indianapolis
to take par in the unveiling of the me-
mortal.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1907-05-29
The state drainage commission ha

The state drainage commission has
cut a melon for the benefit of a
number Of counties entitled to bene-
fits under the appropriation made
for drainage at the last session.
Roseau county received the biggest
slice, amounting to over $4,000.
Nicollet received $500 and Steele
county $4,000, but these were about
the only southern Minnesota coun-
ties designated.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1907-05-29

Announcement is made that Sec
ond assistant Postmaster general
James T. McCleary is to make a
tour of the large cities of the coun-
try and try and get in touch with
the needs of his department. It is
safe prophecy that he won't try
the grand walk-around method OF
getting in touch, adopted in the
early years of his career in congress.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1907-05-29
~ ~

mander, was killed in the fight of Aug.
10, 1861.
what on earth air you lookin' furY'
INQUIRED farmer who lived near by
"Me?" replied the searcher. "Oh,
I'm list a-lookin' fur my false teeth"
'Where did you drop 'em?" asked the
farmer, supposing that the visitor had
just lost his teeth.
"Well. It wuz right long here some
'eres.' said the veteran. II wuz so
bad scairt when fust went into action
here in 81 that my upper plate shook
clean outen my head. an been a-need-
in them teeth ever sence."
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1907-05-29

Memorial Sunday and Decoration
day serve an excellent purpose in
the incubation of the American spir-
it in the rising generation. 1t is a
good omen that the interest in these
occasions does not wane in any APP
preciable degree. Perhaps it may
when the last veteran of the civil
war drops out Of the ranks, but we
hope not. There is just as much
need of the American spirit now as
in 81. There is no longer any ques-
ton of Union or secession, but the
inheritance of the present is the So
luton of the problem of making
good American citizens out of the
descendants of the slaves who were
set at liberty by the emancipation
proclamation of Abraham Lincoln.
Add to this weighty problem the
conversion of millions of immigrants
from southern Europe, where popu-
lar education is the exception rather
than the rule, into desirable citizens,
and it will be admitted that the
coming voter has difficult work cut
out for him. Peace brings its poll
teal responsibilities no less than
war. The work of benevolent as
similation" of hordes of ignorant
citizens will tax the wisdom Of the
coming generations more than the
working out of our corporation or
labor difficulties, but we have faith
in the power of popular education
and wise craftsmanship to make
Greater America the greatest and
best nation the sun ever shone upon.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1907-05-29

A Little Falls delegation appeared
before the state board of control
one day last week, headed by Con-
gresham Buchanan, and asked that
either the girls training school or
the state jag cure be located in that
town. AS Redwood Falls has already
spoken for the training school, Lit
tie Falls will have to content herself
with the jag institute.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1907-05-29

The Evening Journal brings for
ward the claim that Ex-Governor
John Lind was the first statesman to
introduce bill in Congress requir-
ing the interstate commerce COM
mission to secure reliable statistics
of the cost of every mile of railroad
in this country doing an interstate
business. The bill did not pass at
that time, but the value of such
knowledge is now generally admit
ed. Mr.. Lind is no longer in public
life, but we are occasionally remind
ed that he has left the impress of
being the greatest Democrat Mime
sofa has put forward SO far. And
it is something of a coincidence
that Lind and Johnson, the only
Democrats who have succeeded in
winning the confidence of the vot-
ers of Minnesota in recent times,
made their entry into public life
from adjoining counties of the old
second district.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1907-05-29

Percy Rockefeller is building a
fire-proof house in Greenwich, Con-
necticut. IF it costs millions, !
father Rockefeller directed, 'sstill
you must makesit freproof. There
must be one place in the world
where can take my son with abso-
lutte assurance that flames cannot
enter there" There is likely to be
a hot time later, just the same.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1907-05-29

battle III Mexico HAD A CLINT OF HER
Like Grant. he SMILE.
was with General Taylor's army. He
evidently was a young man of some
sentiment, for it seems to have been
his sweetheart's picture that nerved
him for battle when his heart, physic-
ally speaking, had failed him. In his
account Of this initial experience in
conflict he tells of his command cross
ing lagoon and pausing to dip cups
of water. Just beyond, up and over
the bank, the battle was raging. Long
streets courage wavered, but this is
what he did:
I thought of her whom I had left be-
hind. drew her daguerreotype from my
breast pocket had a CLINT of her charm
Ing smile and with Quickened spirits
mounted the bank.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1907-05-29

The Gould family have got them
selves in the public eye again in
connection with the divorce troubles
of Howard Gould, who is getting
shown up in anything but an en-
viable light. Coming so soon after
the disreputable CasteIlagne separa-
ton, it looks as tho the Gould mil
lions have been poorly invested.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1907-05-29

Dairying in Minnesota is likely te
get a new start as the result of the
cooperative state association move
ment, to establish a Minnesota grade
and get the advantage of co-opera.
ton in selling as we'll as in manu-.
featuring gilt-edge butter. Cream
cry managers are to meet in ST.
Paul for this purpose, June 21st.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1907-05-29
IN Memory of
i General LaWtOn.
- -
By DANIEL B. SKlTT.

copyright, 1907, by I. Z. McGrath.]
n r ENORIAL DAY in Indianapo-
N/ lis this year is made memora-
I'VE BILE by the unwilling Of a
statue of Major General Hen
ry Ware Lawton, President Roosevelt
participating. General Lawton was
the most conspicuous victim of the
war In the Philippines. He was killed
during battle at San Mateo, near Ma
Mia. Dec 10, 1899.
The statue is bronze figure of Cen
eral Lawton in uniform. Daniel Ches-
ter French of New York and Andrew
O'Conner, now living in Paris, were
the sculptors. The statue and stone
pedestal cost between $25,OOt and $780,
600, raised by popular subscription,
most of it from friends and admirers
of General Lawton in Indiana, his
home state. The movement to erect
the memorial was started shortly after
the death Of the general.
The career of General Lawton makes
q brilliant page in American military
history. For thirty years he was
soldier Of the United States. He
served In the civil war, in the Spanish.
American war, in the Filipino uprising
and through several severe Indian
campaigns on the western plains. He
was what is sometimes described as a
born soldier. In fact, he never follow
ed any other calling.
just week after the attack on Fort
Sumter in 1861 Henry w. Lawton en-
listed in the volunteer service. He was
but eighteen years Of age. His first
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1907-05-29
General Weston's Exploit.

General John F. Weston, who many
years later became commissary gener-
al of subsistence, was a cavalry major
in 1864. He captured a Confederate
transport on the Tallapoosa river in
Alabama. With six followers, each,
man having his revolver strapped on
top of his head to keep the powder dry,
he swan into the stream and took the
captain of the transport prisoner
through a clever ruse. This Coed made
him q medal of honor man.