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house is decided to the member for
tains a mortgage on it to insure pay
ment of interest and dues until each
other member, in turn, gets a house.
This usually requires regular payment
for about six and one-half years.
The member moves into his new
house. The rent formerly paid is now
saved, to be applied as part of the dues
and interest payable to the building
and loan association. In some cases,
when rent is high, the rent alone will
pay due INC interest. In such cases
rent money literally buys a home.
In all cases the rent money pays
a large portion Of the instruments.
At the worst, a very small additional
outlay is required for a home of COM
p~aratively high value.
Z Where houses are rented, in half the
cases the rent money will pay half the
cost of the house in about six and one
half years. In a quarter of the cases
the rent money will pay three-quarters
Of the cost. In a quarter of the cases
the rent money will pay all the cost.
These differences depend on the cost of
building, the rates Of rent and the dis
erection and taste of the member who
builds.
The Goldsboro Building and Loan
Association offers to the people all the
advantages Of a sound and efficient as
ISOLATION. Its officers are an earnest of
its business integrity, and it's chief
purpose is the %upbuilding of the town.
Mr.. Geo. G.. Royal is its president, and
Mr.. Graves J. Smith is its secretary
and treasurer.
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A Dod Habit

Have you ever thought why it is that
q dog turns around and around when
he jumps up on his cushion OF starts
to settle himself anywhere for a nap?
Now that you are reminded you can
recall that you have seen a dog do it
many times, can't you? This habit is
about all that is left to our tame little
doggies of the days long ago., when
they were a race Of wild animals and
lived in the woods. Their beds then
were matted grass and leaves, and it
was to trample, enough grass and prop
er1y arrange the leaves that the dog al
ways trod around a narrow circle be-
fore he would lie down. The dog of
today keeps up the same old habit, al
though there is no longer any need for
1t, and Of course the animal has no
notion why he does it.
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ANNUAL REUNION.
To 74th Confederate Veterans OF
Wayne County.

The 18th annual reunion of the Con
federate Veterans and the unwilling Of
the Jefferson Davis and J. e. B. Stuart
monuments, will take place in Rich
mond, Va, May 3Oth to June 3rd in
elusive. We are in receipt Of COM
munications from the various COM
mittees n they are anxious that it
shall be the largest attendance of Vet
Grams assembled since the war. To that
end they propose to pay the board and
lodging of any eX-confederate not able
to pay, while in their city during the
reunion. All who intend availing
themselves of this kind offer will please
confer with the undersigned without
delay, as the committee are DESTROYS of
making arrangements for their enter
tainment.
All who intend going INC expect to
pay their expenses will please confer
with b undersigned, to the end that
arrangements for transportation and
board while in the city may be made.
The committee on entertainment say,
1--WE want every ex-confederate in the
land to attend'.
A. B. E~OLLOWELL, Adgt.
Thos Ruffin Camp, U. G. V. 1914.
County papers please CODY.
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SPECIAL Low RATES
On the Norfolk & Southern Rail.
road.

The Norfolk and Southern Railway
lows:
To Goldsboro, n. G. account per-
Torrance of "The Clansman," March
End, 1907. From New Bern. $1.65;
T%uscarora, $1.3O; Cove, $1.15; Dover,
CSC; Caswell, &c.,; Kinston, 7Oc.; Fall
ing Creek, Soc; Lagrange, 4Oc.; Bests,
25. Tickets to be sold for special train
to be operated as first No. 4 from New
bern to Goldsboro%, returning Lv. Colds
boro immediately after the perform
ance or as soon thereafter as practical
BILE.
The Norfolk & Southern Railway in
addition to selling round trip tickets at
the exceedingly low rates for the spec
ial train to be operated from Newbern
to Goldsboro and return on March 2,
account performance of the Clansman,
in order to afford their patrons an OPP
portunity. of attending h matinee
trip tickets at the reduced rates author
lied for the special train for their train
No. 2 scheduled to arrive in Goldsboro
Saturday morning at 11:2O These
tickets will be good to return on train
No. 8 scheduled to leave G~oldsboro at
$40 p. m. or on special returning after
the performance OF 1.-THE Clansman'
Saturday night.
To Newbern, n. c., April IA, 1907,
account Convocation at ST. Peters A.
NJ. E. Zion church, tickets to be good
returning following day April 15.l The
following rates will apply: From Colds
boro $1.65, Bests $1.4O, LAGRANGE Slips,
Falling Creek $1.10, Kinston 90c, Cas-
well soc. Dover 65c, Cove 45c, Tusca-
rora soc, Riverdale 25c, Croatan soc,
Havelock\ 45c, Newport zoe, Wildwood
SOC, Mansfield Soc, Morehead City $1.0O,
Beaufort $1.2O.
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The Scheme to Blow Up Napoleon Jul.
With Gunpowder.

The Scheme to Blow Up Napoleon Ill
With Gunpowder.
An interesting story Is that of a frus.
trated plot against Napoleon III. which
has never got into the history book.
but which is one Of the favorite stories
of M. Vfctorien Sardou.
In 1900, when the frontage Of b
Theatre Francois was rebuilt after the
disastrous fire in which one of the
most charming actresses of the Maison
de Moliere lost her life, several shops
disappeared, among them being that OF
the famous Restaurant Chevet. 1t was
not properly speaking a restaurant.
Chevet used to sell liquors. groceries,
smoked meats, ETC., and in a couple OF
low ceilinged rooms on the hrst foor
he would serve a meal or two to con-
noisseurs. One day in 1865 or 1866
two young men Of fashion, Russians
both of them, came in n called for
dinner in one of the little rooms which
were above the shop. They asked for
c~aviare, but when they got it they pro-
tested loudly hat the caviare was Of
inferior quality and called for the own
er of the shop. He came, a~pologized
and was met with the remark, tender
ed laughingly by one of the diners,
that next time they came they would
bring heir own caviare. They came
again and brought 1t in a little white
wooden barrel, and when they left they
had it put on one side for them. From
time to time the two young Russians
came and dined chez Chevet, dined in
variably in the same room and always
began their dinner with their own ca
Ware. One day they finished the bar
rel, and a few days later, in the after
noon, one of them brought another one.
"Put it in the little cupboard In the
room we always dine in," he said to
the waiter, sand do not let anybody
touch it until we come to dine" The
waiter took it, but on his way upstairs
something peculiar struck him.
"Look at this BARREL" he said to the
restaurant keeper. *"There Is some
thing queer about it."
That is no business OF ours" said
the master Of the establishment, "and
I am not going to look at it, anyhow.
What will our customers say If they
find we have opened it?"
"Oh,'' said the waiter, 1--WE can open
it and close it again, and they will new
err know. It is certainly different from
the last barrel. It is heavier, to begin
with"
His insistence prevailed, and the bar
rel was opened. The restaurant keep
er and the waiter started back in
fright. There was no cavaire, but gun
powder in that little barrel, which was
an Internal machine. The little dining
room was exactly underneath the 1mpe-
rial box, and there is little doubt that
: the emperor's next visit to the Coincide
Franchise would have been his last had
the carefully laid plot not been discov.
cred. The plotters never were caught
although the secret of the plot was
carefully guarded and traps were laid
for them in Chevet's restaurant fol
several days.-St. James Gazette.
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THE MALE OPERA HAT.
Why 1t Rises Superior to Any Passing
Fashion Dictates.

why IL RISES superior Co ANY FdSSinS
Fashion Dictates.
Men generally protest against the
changes of style in hats, and one of
the sex has written to the New York
Mail this complaint:
Why attack as a "collapsible, many
named ~pretender" the opera hat, or
chapeau de claque?
I have such a hat and also a silk hat,
in which respect I think I differ from
most Gothamites. Whenever I have
an option I wear the opera rather than
the other. It's more convenient.
At the theater or opera you can car
ry It better on YOU between the acts
promenades. If there is no rack for
your hat under the seat you can tuck
it in your overcoat and put it on the
floor under you without destroying it,
as you would do with a silk hat.
If you put your hat in the rack I'M
der your seat and then rise and stand
close to it to permit a late conner to
pass an opera hat suffers no damage.
A silk hat would be either ruf1ed or
crushed.
The opera hat looks as well at all
times as the silk hat and requires
much less care. Indeed, I think it
looks better. The glossy surface Of a
silk hat, like the glossy bosom Of a
stiff white shirt, is an uncomfortable
survival of the time when men wore
polished helmets and breastplates.
There is so much reason in the opera
hat hat men Of discrimination will
continue to wear It, the style Of the
moment regardless.
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AS We GO ALONG.
Snapshots, Witty, Wise and Other.
wise.


The unwritten law trials invariably
have the most written about them.
Marie Corelli say she just cannot re-
sist the impulse to write: a novel COM
plant.
1.-THE illuminated keyhole ought to be
a great boon to the i~nebriated keeper of
the key.
The spots on the sun are being blam-
ed for everything the ground hog did
not do.
There are more corkscrews out Of a
job in South Carolina than any State of
the Union just now.
Mr.. Bryan gets $500 for an hours talk
on the lecture platform, which is doubt
less as near to free silver as he is likely
to get for some time.
It is said that the coal supply will
last 200 years, but this is not especial
ly elating to the man who can see the
bottom of his bin now.
Maybe, if Mrs. Smoot would stand
up where everybody could see her, the
country would be convinced that the
Senator has but one wife.
In Illinois a veteran newspaper seller
died of overeXertion due to crying the
ThaW case. It was hard luck to pass
away before the trial has ended.
The father Of an clipping son in West
Virginia took him to the woodshed.
Love laughs at locksmiths, but you
could hardly expect him to laugh at a
trunk strap.
It is really a pity that the PennsyIv-
ania man who forgot to tell his wife
that he had put two sticks of dynamite
in the stove, was not absent-minded
enough to be present VIXEN she made
the fire.
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AN EARLY CALL.
Mark Twain's Story About His Alb
sentminded Brother.

ScnITTIin0So DTOIIfSTs E
One bitter December night Orion
Mark Twain's brother) sat up reading
until 3 o'clock in the morning and then,
without looking at a clock, sailed forth
to call on a young lady. He hammered
and hammered at the door; couldn't
get any response; didn't understand it.
Anybody else would have regarded
that as an indication Of some kind or
other and would have drawn infer
noes and gone home, but Orion didn't
draw differences. He merely hammered
and hammered, and finally the father
Of the girl appeared at the door in q
dressing gown. He had q candle in
his hand, and the dressing gown was
all the clothing he had On, except an
expression of welcome, which was so
thick and so large that it extended all
down his front to his fnstep and nearly
obliterated the dressing gown. But
Orion didn't notice that this was an
unpleasant expression. He merely
walked in. The Ole gentleman took
him into the parlor, set the candle on
a table and stood. Orion made the
usual remarks about the weather and
sat down-sat down and talked and
talked and went on talking, that old
man looking at him vindictively and
waiting for his chance, waiting treach-
erously and Indignantly for his chance.
Orion had not asked for the young
lady. 1t was not customary. It was
understood that a young fellow came
to see the girl of the house, not the
founder of it. At last Orion got up
and made some remark to the effect
that probably the young lady was
busy and he would go now and call
again. That was the old mans chance
| and he said with fervency, ~Why, good
land, aren't you going to stop to break
fast?"-M Mark Twain's Autobiography
in North American Review.
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No Coat For Nineteen Years.

During the journey from Victoria
falls to Kimberley a big, sun Drowned
mar boarded the Zambezi express mi
nus his coat, with his shirt sleeves rolled
up. He took a seat at dinner, and the
chief steward remarked to him that as
there were ladies present perhaps he
would have no objection to putting
on his coat. "Great Scott" the mar
replied, 81 haven't worn a coat for
nineteen years. You will have to wait,
my friend, until I can buy one at Kim
berley."-South African Railway Mag
Yin
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Similarity of Writinq.

"From my pile of autographs I take
one of a statesman well known and lay
it side by side with the autographs of
a great author and a great ecclesias-
tic,' writes a British publicist. "All
three are very small, exquisitely neat,
very little slanted, absolutely legible.
Well as I knew the three writer's, 1
doubt If I could tell which wrote
which. They were Cardinal Manning,
Mr.. Froude and Lord Rosebery. Will
the experts tell me If in this case SINH
larity Of writing bodied forth similar
fty of gifts or qualitiesT'
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Samuel Taylor Coieridqe.

1.-THE largest, broadest, deepest and
most Intellectual genius Of the nine
teenth century"-thus has Coleridge
been described, and probably no bet
ter description Of the great philoso-
pher and ~litterateur can be found He
was a youth Of impulses and tried In
turn to become a cobbler, a surgeon
and a soldier before he settled down
and gave proof Of his vast literary at
tainments. Some Of his poems have
been accepted as the noblest pieces OF
imaginative writing produced by a
modern poet, while as a literary critic
he had few equals in his generation.
He was a born journalist and lecturer
too.-Pearson's Weekly.
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WHY SILHOUETTE.
A Curious Bit of History Wrapped
Up In the Word.

Up In the Word.
The making of silhouettes a hard
~ be classed among the lost arts, since
there is so little art about them. The
best Of them represent the human pro
file in a crude way, and they were re-
garded as rather a cheap kind OF pic
lures ven in the days when they were
most popular. Indeed, the very word
silhouette means something poor and
cheap, and it had it's origin in a spirit
of ridicule. 1t is taken from Ettenne
de Silhouette, who was a French cab
met minister in the year 1853, when
the treasury of France was very low
because of costly wars with Britain
and Prussia and by the extravagances
of the government. When Etienne de
Silhouette became minister Of finance
he set about making great reforms in
the public expenditures. He was by
nature a very ''close'' man, and be
went to such extremes in keeping
down the public expenses that he
brought great ridicule upon himself,
and finally anything that was cheap
and poor was referred to as a La Sill
houette.
A very crude picture was popular at
that time. 1t was made by tracing the
shadow or profile of a face projected
by the light of a candle on a sheet of
white paper and the outline defined
with a pencil. This vas such a very
poor and cheap sort of picture that
it was at once called a silhouette in
further derision Of the very saving
French minister, and the name has
"stuck." 1t is an instance Of the curl.
Gus derivation of some words in com.
mon use, and this unkind slur on a
man who was really trying to intro
duce needed reforms in the spending
Of the public money has long been &C
cepted as a good and proper word In
deed, there is no other word used fol
pictures of this kind, although there
were such pictures long before NJ Ell
enne de Silhouette had his name at
tached to them in so embarrassing
way.-Morris Wade in Century.
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A Bond of sxmnathx.

While the new maid tidied the room
the busy woman kept or writing.
do you make that all out of your
own headT' asked Jane.
Eyes," said the busy woman
my" said Jane admiringly, you
must have brains!"
spondentiy. "Oh, Jane, I haven't an
ounce Of brains"
For d moment Jane regarded her
with sincere c~ommiseration.
"Oh, well,' she said presently, don't
mind what / say. I amt very smart
myself."-New York Press.
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ne dne are you
blood purifiers hey ,i-
ter out the waste o.
impurities in the blood
If they are sic. or OH
OF order, they {: i go e.
their work.
Pains, achesar,arneu
matisrn come from ez
cess OF uric acid n III.
blood, due to aeglectA
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kinney trouble.
Kidney trouble causes quick or INSTEAD,
heart beats. and makes one feel as thouyi
they had heart trouble, because the heart i
over-working in pumping thick, kidney
poisoned blood through veins and arteries.
1t used 70 be considered that only urinar,
troubles were to be traced to the kidneys
out now modern science proves that nearl.
all constitutional diseases have their begin
ming in kidney trouble.
ltyou are sick you can make no mistake
~ first ooctoring your kidneys. The mil.
and the extraordinary effec. Of Dr.. Kilmer.
SWamP-Root, the great kidney remedy ie
soon realized. 1t stands the highest for it
wonderful cures OF the most distressing case.
and is sold on its merits fS1E~
by all druggists in fifty ezsi;aa=t
cent and ene-dollar siz- 81 8S1 1ss slalRf fHs ssa s r. Isss;
es. You may have a sgs9Ezzs2
sample bottle by mail Home Of swamnRoo,
tree. also pamphlet telling you how to fire
out If you have kidney or bladder trouble.
Mention this paper when writing Dr.. Kilmer
& Co.,. B~inghamton, N. Y.
Don't make any mistake, but remember
the name, Swamp-Reot. DR.. Kilmer'.
Swamp-Root. and the address. Binghsmton
v. T.. on every bottle.
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Polite.

Robecchi asked a friend to dinner
and then returned home furious.
What is the matter?" said his wife.
do not speak to me! It is a shame!
/ always thought a politeness produced
one in return, SO I asked Dobelli to
lunch"
"And has he refused?'
Refused! I should think not. He
has Observation-Disclosures.
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Matrimonial.

Three Germans were sitting at lunch
con recently and were overheard dis
cussing the second marriage of a mu-
tual friend when Of them remark
ed:
'I,u tell you What. A man What mar
ries de second time don't deserve to
have. lost his first vhife.'-Life.
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EARTHQUAKE lecture.

Rev. j.. H. Peele, pastor of the
Friends church Of this city, who was
in San Francisco when the earthquake
and fire wrecked that city, will de-
liver an illustrated s~tereopticon lecture
on the subject at Salem church Sat-
urday night, to which an admission of
10 and 20 cents for children and adults,
respectfully, will be charged.
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1907-02-28

The Bank Of Wayne, issues a
Booklet. Banking Made Plain". It
tells you all about how a Bank is
managed. and how o can deal with
1t. We will send you one If you ask
for 1t.
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Notice.

Having qualified as Executor of Sarah A.
Kornegay. deceased, late of Wayne county, this
is to notify all persons having claims against the
undersigned, on or before the 4th day of Febru-
airy 1908. or this notice will be pleaded in bar of
their recovery. All persons indebted to said
estate will please make immediate payment.
This 4th day of February, 1907.
D. R. KORNEGAY, Executor.
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Would Improve, Mankind.

If the resolution not to lie were az
strong as the determination not to be
called a liar, the worlds ~veracity
would be greatly enlarged.-St. Louis
Post-Dispatch
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The Kind They Fool.

He-Sone girls are awfully conceit-
ed. She Why? HI They'll brag
about making a fool Of a man that was
never anything else. Detroit Free
Press.
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God rights the man that keeps 81
lence.-From the Persian.
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Over-WOrk Weakens
Your Kidneys.
Unhealthy Kidneys Make Impure Blood.

Ali the blood in your bod,f passes through,
your kidneys once every TIN &c minutes.
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Garbage Notice.

Garbage Notice.
Sealed bids for the garbage of the
city will be received by the City
Clerk up to IL O'Clock M, March /,
1907. The party to whom award is
made, to furnish dumping ground for
city's refuse, the location Of same to
be stated in bid. Contract for one
year. Quarterly payment in advance
to be made to city clerk. Bids to be
opened by Sanitary Committee at 4
O'Clock p. m. on March 1st, 1907, at
city hall. Said committee reserves
the right to reject any and all bids.
Security required for payments ac-
cOrding te contract.
February IL, 1907.
D. J. BROADHURST, City Clerk.
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County papers please copy.
Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-08-16

llow often il Is tina: single act
of a man brings him worldwide
fame and sometimes fortune. Prior
10 the time the Standard Oil case
was tried before him, Judge lands
of the United States district court,
was known TO but a comparatively
few people IN the United States,
while today his name is on the
tongue of millions. By his decision,
in which he assessed the Standard
Oil company with the largest fine
ever assessed against any individual
or corporation in the history of the
world, Judge lands not only won
fer himself everlasting fame, but
with II have come offers which, il
accepted, would enable him to better
his financial condition many fold
One offer came from an Eastern
trust company, which wanted u
engage him as It's chief counsel at ;
salary of $95, 900 a year. Th'
Judge courteously declined the offe
and will continue on the bench
When asked if he thought he di,
right in the Standard Oil case, h
replied: "My conscience, my lega
sense, my own heart tells me that
should have done nothing else thai
that which was DONE"