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The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-04-20
WORRY KILLS.

Modern science has brought to
light nothing more curiously inter
esting than that gorry will kill. More
remarkable still, it has been able to
determine from recent discoveries
just how worry does kill.
1t is believed by many scientists
who have followed carefully the
growth of the science of brain dis
eases that scores of the deaths set
down to their causes are due to wor-
ry and that alone. The theory is a
simple one, so simple that any one
can readily understand it.
Briefly put, it amounts to this:
Worry Injuries beyond repair certain
cells of the brains, and the brain be-
ing the nutritive center of the body,
the other organs become gradually
injured, and when some diseases of
these organs or combination of
them arise death finally ensues.
Thus worry kills. Insidiously, like
many other diseases, it creeps upon
the brain in the form of a single
constant never lost idea, and as a
dropping of water over a period of
years will wear a groove in the stone,
so does worry gradually, impercepti-
bly,, and no less surely destroy the
brain cells that lead all the rest,
which are, so to speak, the command
ing officers of mental power, health
and motion.
Worry, to make the theory still
stronger, is an irritant at certain
points which produces little harm if
it comes at intervals or irregularly.
Occasional worriment the brain can
cope with, but the iteration and the
reiteration Of one idea of a disquiet-
ing sort the cells of the brain are
not proof against.
1t is as if the skull were laid bare
and the surface of the brain struck
lightly with hammer every few sec
onds with mechanical precision, with
never a sign Of stop or the failure
of stroke. Just in this way does
the annoying idea, the maddening
thought that will not be done away
with, strike or fall upon certain nerve
cells, never ceasing, diminishing the
vitality of the delicate organisms that
are so minute that they can be seen
only under the Observation-Disclosures
Christian Advocate
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-04-20

beautiful new dress for the occ2-
sion, and the chIId's eyes glistcned
uith pleasure when she sax It, sur
she Has very fond of pretty clothes.
Don't you think It's very hand
some, DEAR" her mother asked
"Oh. yes. mother. beautiful. and
I'm SO much obliged 10 you" replied
Margaret enthusiastically.
with that pretty pink sash that
grandma gave you for Christmas |
think my little girl will look as well
as any girl in the procession" said
mamma, with a little pride in her
voice.
Mother" said Margaret with a
serious look in her big brown eyes,
would you mind very much IL
didn't wear 1t in the procession?"
Not wear 1t, dear! Why. what do
you mean" exclaimed her mother.
why, you see, mother" said Mar
garet. "Eunice is not going to have a
new dress, and I thought-you don't
care much. do you, mother?" And
Margaret had her arms about her
mothers neck.
When Margaret came into school
on the day Of the festival Eunice was
the first to meet her.
why, Margaret Redfield!" cried
Eunice, where is your lovely new
dress?"
Don't look we'll enough in this?''
laughed MARGARET
You'd look sweet in calico XII
mono said her fervent admirer.
But you said"
There's Miss Williams reckoning
to u.s." interrupted Margaret. 81
can beat you running upstairs!" And
Eunice never knew.
'Tomboy, is she!" exclaimed
Grandma Chaffin. with tears in her
dear old eyes. "Tomboy, Ell! Well,
maybe she is; but if she isn't real
lady, then the good Lord isn't max
ing them these days."
And | agree with her. Don't you?
The Christian Register.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-04-20

Swiftsare. @hieh raa down the lack
Iess f0risnt- when Captain Halo
eel gave the command for ire
French vessel 70 - blown - be
knew nothing Of The thlrtesn4yrar-o1a
son Of the Freneh admiral. who. fool
lshIy but heroicaIy. obeyei his stern
fathers order. '-Don*t leave the res
sci TIL I giTe yon permission. aud
his proud. though chlldlike form"
graced the doomed vessel when she
'zIIh fragments strswed around the
sea-
Captain Haiio~elI heard the sad
tale and vas much moved ky IL. The
boy called out three times in agony
10 his father. be learned. bat stood
resolutely By the mainmast. though
his father lay cold In death.
So much moved was the captain
that he had q coffin made in the boys
honor out Of the floating fragments
of the lOrIent and sent 1t 10 his
friend and patron. Lord Nelson. with
the story OF the boys bravery. and
expressing deep regret for the young
hero's untimely end.
Nelson had the coffin placed In the
cabin in remembrance OF the boy, and
Captain Hallowell himself told the
tale to the then widely known poet,
Felicia Hemans. Her sympathies were
Immediately excited and she immor-
talized the boy in her sentimental
but immortal verses, and she named
him wisely, ''Casabianca, White
Soul. "-Newburyport News.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-04-20
OLD PEOPLE.
Don't you?

| want to say word to the old
people. l see you wherever I go. l
see you on the street cars. The con-
ductor gives the car an extra rest
when you get On or off, out of cour-
tesy to your slow steps. l see you at
church. You nod sometimes, but the
sermon is not complete without your
smile Of approval. I see you in the
warmest corner of the hearth, read
ing the paper.
You have one great temptation
it is to think that your days of USE
fulness are over. You are only in
the way, so you feel, and you'd better
be out of the world.
1t is a great mistake. If the Lord
thought that old people were useless,
He would have devised some way
suddenly to get rid of them.
What makes person useful? Not
ability to work. A baby cannot earn
penny, cannot do a stroke of work,
yet it is often the most important
factor in the household. Baby's COM
ing often makes father "straighten
hearts of husband and wife; often
brings sobriety and industry into the
home life.
An old man, helpless, may be the
most useful member of the house
hold. Let me say three things to
you:
CD Old people are a blessing be-
cause of their accumulated wisdom.
You have made the journey of life.
You have the rich experience. That
boy is a bright boy who forms the
acquaintance of some aged person.
CD Old people supply a necessary
conservative force. You make society
more stable. You bring reverence
to it. The age that is wise rises be-
fore the hoary head.
CD Old people link us to heaven.
You remind us of the future. my
old mother knows how to pray. -
Exchange.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-04-20
OFT or THE GINGER JAR

A fas Zee makes lean catens-
4 sitting ken = IL 10 fear - he
roasting PAT
\ leaning gate - 81 Indication q
isxv osneg
TIE eud Of ~ arEumrnt ~ better
than either side Of e.
Sone wo1nea marry for love wksIe
Tot few marry for aIlmony.
Whsn Il comes 20 The pinch there
il something to be said for the lob
mzer.
The rolling stone hasn't tine TO
gather moss on roads freauented By
automobiles.
\ sense OF hamor 10 useful 10 man.
but a sense Of honor wIli get him
much farther.
There Is many , man who says
things 10 his wife he wouldn't dare
say 10 his cook.
II takes nine tailors 10 make a
man. but one woman can easily make
goose OF a man.
The gasoline engine serves q very
useful purpose. but do not expect IL
TO run the whole farm.
The days are shortest in December.
and so are a good many men. say.
along about the twenty-fifth.
Bogus counts sometimes win Amer
lean girls and bogus counts quite
frequently win elections.
Three barleycorns make an inch,
SO the table says, and three drinks
of barley juice sometimes makes a
riot.
The riddle Of the sphinx may be
unfathomable, but anybody can
understand the coal riddle at a
glance.
Mr.. Cityman is hereby informed in
response to his inquiry, that wrinkles
on a cows horn are not caused by
trouble or worry.
Wyandott: II am feeling very I'M
comfortable" Minorca: Whatever
is the matter" Wyandotte: My
pin-feathers are sticking me-"
Many a man who almost has a fit
when his wife pays SIS for a bonnet,
will think nothing of spending as
much for a box of cigars with which
to pollute the atmosphere.-Fro
Farm Journal.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-04-20
THE BURNING DECK BOY.

Few people know that the boy on
the Burning Deck" is not a myth, but
an actual fact, and still fewer know
that the man who gave the order for
the destruction of the vessel, on
whose deck the aforesaid boy stood,
was born in Jamaica Plain, and lived
there till his royalist father, who OBJ
jected strenuously to the American
Revolution, transplanted him to Eng
land, where he served under Nelson
in the battle of the Nile.
The boy was French, son of the ad-
miral of the French ship Orient, and
that was the vessel that blew up with
the immortal boy standing by the
mainmast.
The boys unconscious destroyer,
Captain Benjamin Hallowell, was
born in the old Boylston house, still
standing at the corner of Boylston
and Center Streets in Jamaica Plain,
The house was built in 1920 by the
Boylstons, and afterward passed to
the rabid royalist, Benjamin Halo
well, after whom the captain was
named.
The old man lived in Jamaica Plain
long enough to make himself unpop-
ular when the American Revolution
broke out The son had been early
sent to England for his education
and he became one of the seven
American-born men to attain distinc.
tion in the British navy.
In the battle of the Nile Captain
Hallowell had command of the shir
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-04-20
THE VISION OF THE SOUL.

Blind Marjorie Robb found only
room for gratitude.
ma, ma, ye're no to think that I've
been ill-treated by my God, for if he
dinna give me ae thing he gave me
mony things instead.
And mind We, it's no as if I'd
seen once and lost my sight: that
MIGHT have failed. I've lost naeth-
ing; my life has been all getting
And she said confidently one day
to her elder, Donald Menzies, in the
tone of one voicing for the first time
a long-cherished secret:
There's a mercy waitin' for me
that'll crown a. his goodness, and I'm
feared when I think OF, for I'm no
worthy"
What is that that you will be
meaning, Marjorie?" said the elder.
''He has covered my face with his
hand as a father plays with his
BARN, but some day sumo he will lift
his hand and the first thing that Mar
jorie sees in a her life will be his ain
face"
And Donald Menzies declared to
Burnbrae on the way home that he
would gladly go blind all the days OF
his life If he were as sure of that
sight when the day broke and the
shadows fled away.-Ian Maclaren.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-04-20
Do Ghosts Haunt SWamps?

No, Never. It's foolish to fear a
fancied evil, when there are real and
deadly perils to guard against in the
swamps and marshes, baous and low
lands. These are the malaria germs
that cause ague, chills and fever,
weakness, aches in the bones and
muscles and may induce deadly
typhoid. But Electric Bitters des-
troys and casts out these vicious
germs from the blood. Three bot
ties drove all the malaria from my
SYSTEM" wrote VIM. Fretwell, of Luz
CANA, N. c., "and I've had fine health
ever since" Use this safe, sure rem
edy only. soc at all druggists.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-04-20

1t takes long time to establish a
good record. Mrs. Joe Persons Rem
edy has been known for thirty-five
years, and where it is known longest,
it has the best friends. No big mon
ey has been spent in advertising, but
those who have been cured have done
the work that thousands of dollars
could not have done. We publish
testimonials from some of the best
people in North Carolina, and will
gladly send them to you. Ask your
druggist or write,
MRS. JOE PERSONS REMEDY CO..
Kittrell, N. G.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-04-20
4 REAL LADY.

Margaret was a tomboy. Even her
1.-TWO grandmothers, who thought that
Margaret, like the king, could do no
wrong" secretly confessed to them
selves that the child had earned the
aitie her father gave her. To be sure,
they didn't speak it right out. One
grandmother said she was ''lively,"
and the other declared that she was
@:excitable," but what they really
Ineant was plain "tomboy." OF
4 Gourse, she was fond Of playing with
= dolls, especially on rainy days, but
her chief delight was in climbing big
uees and hanging head down from
, the stout limbs. She was fond Of
fishing, too, and she knew how to
FDait her own hooks" Her father
said she could swim like puppy dog,
and he never had "caddie" as act
sve and untiring as she on the golf
links. She could row a boat better
than her brothers, and as to sailing
a catboat, there wasn't boy in the
harbor that could beat her. She
never went through a gate if there
was a fence to climb, and she often
\ came home bearing the evidence in
torn skirt and stockings of a wrest-
Hing match with the determination
Of desolation," a barbed-wire fence.
Lost hair ribbons were her daily sac
Ti6ce to the idol of heedlessness. Be-
yond all reasonable question Mar
sgaret was a tomboy. Nobody knew
1t better than the dog Browser, who
always sought her after his daily
bath and left his autograph on the
front of her white dress!
The dear old ladies who daily sat
on the porch of the summer hotel
making embroidery for the country
&ehurch fair and mildly abusing the
Ininister wondered if Margaret would
eszT eoutgrow her masculine habits
aEzI become ''lady-like." The maiden
aankes, who always know how to raise
children, and were just old enough
TO 8oTget when they were "tomboys'
themselves, sadly shook their heads
and hoped they were mistaken about
her future. And Margaret was scold
ted and disciplined and reasoned with
till the end of the long, joyous sum-
.mer, and the only person who re-
l5oiced in her abundant activity was
the Irish laundress, to whose weekly
income she made so abundant contri-
buttons And the bright September
aeund the girl stronger, brighter,
handsomer, more freckled and sun
burnt but not a mite more lady
like than she had been in June.
Margaret's dearest and most init
mate school chum. was Eunice Free
man. hey shared each others secrets
and chocolate candy, and their teach
Ger said they reminded her Of the let
0ers @ and in the alphabet, as they
were never found apart. Inevery word
you spelled that had @ in it you
always found U following it. So the
school girls nick-named them Q and
0I Margaret was Q because she al
yxsRs led, and Eunice followed with a
blindness of devotion that almost
reached idolatry.
Just before Christmas the school
was to have a grand entertainment
and in the procession which formed
part of the festivity Margaret and
Eunice were to march side by side
Margaret,s mother had bought hel
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-04-20
HOMEWaRD BOUND.

o. heres 10 the man al the bottom Of
the ship.
And the man az the top as we'll.
And the man between.
When the decks caTeen
Under the ocean swell.
SXhen the night grows black.
and the spumlng wrack
OF the gale drives high the foam:
Then here's TO the man.
80 the sailor man.
Who Is steering the good ship
home.
When the fog mist twists its sullen
shroud
Beneath and above and around;
When the darkness lowers,
And the whistle roars
With dismal recurring sound;
When the stars are a blot,
And the ship is a spot
BY itself in the shapeless gIoam.
Then here's 10 the man,
To the sailor man,
Who is guiding the good ship
home.
There are loving hearts awaiting us
In our homes across the sea;
They are praying for US,
They are staying for US,
BY mountain and prairie and lea;
When the vessel creaks,
And the tempest shrieks
Its challenge across the foam,
They remember the man,
This sailor man,
Who is helping the good ship home.
And when We have sailed the voyage
Ger
On the sea Of Life so wide;
When the bar is past
And the vessel fast
In the harbor at high tide;
When the pillows roar
IS heard no more,
And clear is the sky's blue dome
Though tempest-tossed,
May none be lost
When the good ship reaches home
Charles NJ. Sheldon, ID.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-04-20

Let your spiritual life be formed
by your duties and by the actions
which are called forth by circum-
stances. Do not take over-much
thought for the morrow. Be alto
gether at rest in loving, holy conf
dence.-Francis de Sales.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-04-20
PUBLICATION OF SUMMONS.
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
April Term, 1911.
North Carolina-Wake County.
Miranda Crocker
vs..
Joseph Croker.


To Joseph Croker:
This is to notify you that your
wife, Miranda Croker, has brought
suit against you to the March term,
1911, Of Wake Superior Court, for
divorce from the bonds of matri-
mony, and that the summons issued
for you has been returned by the
sheriff with this endorsement there
on: after exercising due diligence,
the defendant, Joseph Croker, is not
to be found in this county" You are,
therefore, further notified to appear
at the April term, 1911. Of Wake Su-
perior Court, which convenes on
the Gath of that month, and answer,
demur or plead to the complaint
which will be filed in this court dur
ing the first three days of that term.
otherwise, the plaintiff will demand
to be allowed to prove the allegations
of her complaints and have judgment
accordingly.
WILLARD Mail,
Clerk Wake Superior Court
J. C. L. HARRIS,
Attorney for the Plaintiff.
3-23-4t
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-04-20

Far away there in the sunshine
are my highest aspirations. l can
not reach them, but I can look up
and see their beauty, believe in them
and try to follow where they lead
Louisa May Alcott.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-04-20

The whole hope Of human progress
is suspended on the ever-growing in
fluence of the Bible.-William H. Sc
ward.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-04-20

When I play with my cat, who
knows whether I do not make her
more sport than she makes me?-
Montague.
The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-04-20

If We abide by the principles
taught in the Bible, our country will
go on prospecting and to prosper
Daniel Webster.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-02-07

with It. The construction and bal.
ance Of the car was thought by the
experts to preclude the possibility Of
using 1t on a circular track. Prob.
ably 1t was Oldfield's skill that made
the feat possible: The 12O Benz was
turned over to Bruce-Brown BY Old
held and it captured the Grand Prize
road race at Savannah last Novem-
Der.
When Barney imported the ''Blitz-
en- Benz from Germany and broke
the worlds speed record by travel
Ing 142 miles an hour on hour on
the Florida beach, no one believed he
would dare use such high-powered
car on a circular track, but Barney
not only has used the car on all sorts
OF mile tracks, but holds the record
tor q mile in 1904 on a half-mile
track. oldfleld seems to be able to
do things on mile dirt tracks with
any sort Of cars. That is why he
draws the crowds and is practically
In a class by himself as a track
driver.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-02-07

the gasoline engine field, but confined
to Cooper that he could build a rae
Ing car Of great power, and one that
would beat anything on the track at
that time. Cooper financed the build
Ing Of two cars, and together with
Oldfeld and Ford worked on the cars
day and night. The $685. and CAR
row" were completed in the spring
The stoeo.s
Cooper drove the Arrow and Old.
field the "999." Oldfeld's flrst race
with the now famous car was at De-
trott against Alexander Winton. who
then held the championship of Ameri-
ca with his Bullet No. 1. Oldfield
startled the automobile world by de-
feating Winton and breaking the
previous record for the mile on a
circular track.
The 1899" was a crude affair, a.
cars go now, but inside those ugly
cylinders such great power was de-
veloped that no American or foreign
car could beat it with Oldfleld at the
wheel. Then Barney predicted that a
mlle-a-mtnute on a circular track
was possible. Experts laughed at
him. and prophesied disaster for the
man foolish enough to go into a turn
with the engine almost wide open.
But at Indianapolis in 1903 Oldfield
covered mile In SO rs seconds. and
made good his prediction. Bill Pick
ems later took the 1899" to the coast
and it now lies in q garage in San
Francisco.
In the summer Of 1903 oldfield
abandoned the 1893" for the Bullet
No. 2, which Winton built for him.
This was the car which Oldfield took
to Los Angeles when he went there
the first time in the fall Of 1903 and
on the agricultural park track smash
ed the mile record. putting It down
to 81 As seconds.
A few months later. Barney drove
the Bullet against william K. Van.
derbilt, Jr.. at the wheel Of q foreign
car which cost him $4,000, for the
worlds straightaway championship
over the Florida beach course. Old
field defeated Vanderbilt with ease
and the young millionaire was never
9 competitor In q race after that,
Barney also had a smaller Winton
racer known as the Bullet No. g.
which he used in smaller class races.
Peerless One.
In the summer Of 1904 Oldfleld's
services were In great demand BY
manufacturers, for he was the hold
or Of all good records and tho ma
chimes he abandoned never showed
the same speed he got out of them,
The Peerless Motor Car company en-
ployed Barney and built for him the
famous Peerless Green Dragon. This
car proved q most wonderful racins
machine. With comparatively small
horsepower and extremely light
weight, the Green Dragon developed
great speed and Oldfield soon broke
all his old records with the famous
car 1t was at Fresno, in the winter
of 1904. that Barney got all world'a
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-02-07
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