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A Newton EMPRISE VOL. XXI. NEWTON, N. 0.. FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1900.

NO 52. THE SPORTING WORLD. THE HOUSEHOLD. PEOPLE OF THE DAY. YOUTHS' DEPARTMENT.

The Eminent Kidney and Bladder Specialist NO crop can grow without Potash. Every blade of Grass, every grain of Corn, all Fruits and Vegetables must have it. If enough is supplied Tae Discoverer of at "Wert tm Els Laboratory. There is a disease prevailing in this country most dangerous because so deceptive. Many sudden deaths are caused fcy it heart disease, pneumonia, heart fail ura or apoplexy are often the result of kidney disease.

If kidney trouble is allowed to vance the kidney-poisoned blood will attack the vital organs, or the kid.ieys themselve break down and waste aw2y cell by celL Then the richness of the blood the albumen leaks out and the sufferer has Bright' Disease, the worst form of kidney trouble. Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root the new discovery is the true specific for kidney, bladder and urinary troubles. It has cured thousands of apparently hopeless cases, after all other efforts have failed. At druggists in fifty-cent and dollar sizes.

A sample bottle sent free by mail, also a book telling abc-jt Swamp-Root and its wonderful cures. Address Dr. Kilmer Binghamton, N. Y. anr.

mention this paper. Dyspepsia Cure Digests what yon eat. It artificially directs tbe food and aid Mature in strengthening and reocB structing the exhausted digestive qjw gans. It is the latest discovered digest 1 ant and tonic. Ho other prefaratlo 1 can approach It In efficiency.

It id-j stantly relieves and permanently cures 1 Dyspepsia, Indigettion, Haanbura, Flatulence, Sour Stomach. Siumjl all other results of Imperf ectdigestlco. Prepared by Witt A Co, CpfagOb Carolina art Harm Western EaM G. F. HARPER, President.

Schedules in Effect from and After Oc 30, 1898. Eastern Time Standard. 0 t00 djF 9 9 9 Tiir nrniiHiivn uri'nrnimr IdLftlEifMAllId VLnutAilbt VAV.VtVtW! A handsome, dashing youth was Den-vil Burke of Bantry castle. No bolder rider had ever backed a horse, no more reckless player had ever ventured broad gold pieces upon tka nacertain chance of the dicebox, and so it came to pass that before young Denny Burke, as he was generally termed, had enjoyed his ancestral acres three short years the "dirthy money" became scarce and creditors pressing. One course alone was open to him the road which so many young bloods have followed.

He must marry some heiress. Nut that there was the slightest difficulty about finding the heiress, for It was a well known fact that the rich Miss MacNulty of Ballydunderbog would just give one of her two eyes for handsome, bold, young Denny Burke. It was true that Miss Biddy MacNulty was on the wrong side of 30; true that a more scrawny piece of humanity could not be found in the county. But she had the golden guineas, though, and after many a groan Denny Burke made up his mind to become the master of Ba 11yd under hog. Denny Burke was in love wHh a fair young peasant girl, and he hated to give her up.

Kathleen O'Driscoll was only a milkmaid, but a fairer girl never trod old Ireland's bogs. Strange stories the village gossips told about the beautiful Kathleen. Far and wide through Bantry Kathleen was known as the Mermaid's Child. It was gravely related and currently believed that the maid's beauty came from no earthly source. When she was but a babe, her mother had been used to take her at early sunrise to the limpid pools amid the rocks by the edge of the sea and there bathe her in the crystal waters.

That these pools were the haunts of the mermaids, the fairy queens of the ocean wave, was well known to all the dwellers by the shore. No one doubted such stories as these In the least. Denny Burke had been In the habit of meeting the girl, and quite a love affair had grown up between the two. Kathleen, poor, simple soul, believed that the young man meant all he said when he protested that he would rather wed her than the richest lady in the land. To give Denny due credit he had fully Intended to marry the girL but when he discovered how bad a state his financial affairs were in he came suddenly to the conclusion that ugly Miss MacNulty and the broad acres of Ballydunderbog were far superior to pretty Kathleen and love in a cottage.

And as Denny detested "scenes" he never went near the milkmaid, but quietly married Miss Biddy offhand and left to Dame Rumor the task of informing Kathleen of his treachery. Burke was married. He could drink and game and horse race now to his heart's content And Burke was not at all discomposed when the news was brought one fine morning that the body of the 111 fated Kathleen had been up by the sea near the Mermaid's pooL The girl had committed suicide. The day of the annual hunt came, and. radiant in scarlet and white, bold Mr.

Burke showed all the gentlemen in the county the way when the sly fox broke from his covert The beast ran down by Killduffy's bog and doubled to the sea by Arohoe glen. The "field" was all thrown off the scent and Burke, suspecting the fox's trick, rode off alone, trusting to head the beast by the Mermaid's pooL Coming down the slope. Burke's brown mare caught her foot and threw Denny over her head. When Burke recovered his senses, for he had been stunned by the fall, he found himself lying on his side close by the edge of the pooL From the clear water a female form arose a woman of surpassing beauty. "Do not fear, handsome stranger," said the seamaid in tones both low and sweet And then Burke felt a strange fascination creeping over him.

"Oh, wonderful creature, can you love a mortal?" he cried. "Yes, if the mortal will but press my lips," the mermaid answered coyly. Eagerly Burke kissed the coral mouth of the seamaid, and then a hoarse laugh came from her lips. Burke was never seen again in life, but his body was found the nest morning by the haunted pooL The seamaid ba-d avenged, the wrong done to her foster child. New.

York News. The Fox. Everybody knows that a fox's tail Is In hunting parlance his brush, but few perhaps know further that his scalp Is technically a "mask." or, if is superlatively game, it is torn off. nailed on tbe kennel door of the paa in at his death and marked with three crosses to show that he died only at the end a ringing run. The brush, of course, goes to whoever is nearest wl en it is taken.

The trophy next in is the right forefoot in hunting phr? "pad thief." The left forefoot "pa-! mino," ranks next; after it the hiiid feet "the pegs, which only very mng or very avid hunters care much claim. One amazing thing regard ng the vixen the she fox is that no dog will follow her trail while she carries young. It is uncertain whex' er she then leaves no sceat or whet'. er the dogs obey some primal inst'net in passing over her track. A in consideration for the female is apparent in most of the canine species.

On of the surest signs of rabies is for a dog to attack a female of his own spei ies. English Spivin Liniment ram ve a Hard, Soft, or Calloused Lan-ps and Blemishes from horses. Spavins Curbs, Splints, Sweeney, Stifles, Sprains, all Swillen Throats coughs, etc. Saves $50 by use of on bot tie. Warranted the most wonderful ful Blemish cure ever Known.

Sold by T. R. Abemethy. Druggist, Newton, U. So for twelve ahireff have Eettkd with the State Treat ur.

FOR THE FARMER I v. ft The growth and decay of vegetation on and in the soil are yet, as in earth's earliest ages, the best means for fitting It for man's use. When vegetation de- cays, it always gives off carbonic acid gas. which is a more powerful solvent than water alone. If vegetation contains nitrogen, it is a still more powerful solvent, says The American Cultivator, and will make mineral plant food soluble so that the roots of plants cau take it up.

All the earlier vegeta tion of the world was poor In nitrogen, but full of carbon absorbed through its leaves from the atmosphere, then so overcharged with carbonic acid gas that none but the lowest forms of animal life was possible. After the ferns decayed bitter plants, such as the grains, grasses and clover, could live and grow. Many a modern farmer who cannot grow clover finds that If he sows a field with some grain which has a large seed it will furnish him enough carbonic acid gas to liberate some of the nitrogen and minerals which the clover needs and which were already in the soil, but not in form for clover roots to feed on. In almost ev erything the good farmer does to deep- en and imprbve his land he is co-operating with forces that were at work long before human life began on this planet. Even then it was being prepared for something of which neither reptile life nor the fishes nor the birda aud the four footed beasts could guess what was to be the end.

When man and woman appeared, created erect, with their heads raised toward heaven and not bowed to the earth, looking downward, he was given the key. The earth was given to man to work upon and improve. All other animal life was given for man's use, each In its way to accomplish this great work. There is no beast or reptile or fish or bird that has not either served mankind or has found itself exterminated as being unfitted for the world it lived in. Oats For Feeding.

Oats for feeding should have an agreeable smell, clean, smooth and bright appearance and pleasant taste, should feel dry, hard and elastic to the touch and when broken between the teeth and should be fairly well supplied with flour, says The National Stockman. The fact that they fulfill these conditions will show that they have been well saved, are sufficiently old, possess a due amount of nutriment and have not suffered from injurious influences, such as damp and mold, as would be evident if they were musty in smell and dull in color. The presence of dust in oats proves that they have been badly saved and that their quality has undergone more or less deterioration. A shriveled up condition is also a sign of inferiority. With- a plump variety of oats, if the grains feel heavy in the hand, rattle more or less like shot when poured out.

rebound when they fall on wood or other hard objects and show no tendency to stick together, our good opinion of their nutritive value and sound condition will be still further confirmed. The plumper, more rounded and heavier oats are the higher will be their market value. Thinness of husk will also enhance the price as a rule. The cost of white oats, probably on account of their cleaner and more pleasing appearance. Is higher than that of either black or tawny oats.

Stupid Dishonesty. In speaking of the adulteration of dairy products former Governor Hoard of Wisconsin recently said: "The stupid dishonesty of the American policy has lost us an immense foreign market. In 1S80 we shipped to England worth of cheese. Then we began to make 'filled' cheese, and in 1899 our export to England was $3,000,000 worth of cheese. Canada ha3 laws that secure pure foodsr She saw her opportunity and has taken the English market from us.

She exported in 1899 $17,000,000 worth of cheese. The figures prove that sound ethics are good commerce. results in loss of trade. What we want to do Is to provide against counterfeits and gradually regain our trade. The value of the dairy products of the United States is $800,000,000 a year.

Wisconsin produces $35,000,000 worth. When I was governor, I received many letters from chambers of commerce abroad, from Bristol and Glasgow, Inquiring into the fraudulent cheese and butter we were sending abroad. The dairy product of i the whole Pacific coast is now going across the Pacific to the countries of the far east. Are we going by stupid dishonesty to lose that market to Australia as we have nearly lost the English market to Canada?" GroTFing Turnips. At a recent farmers' institute in New Brunswick one speaker told how he succeeded In growing 1,000 bushels per acre.

He took a poor piece of ground i in the fall, and after he had plowed it he put on 30 tons of manure to the acre and harrowed it in. He wants no manure plowed in unless it is to be plowed up again in the spring, harrowed lightly and furrowed two feet apart about two inches deep. In the furrows he strewed 250 pounds of super phosphate to the acre. He uses two pounds of specially selected turnip seed to the acre. When they are two inches high, he thins them to 18 Inches apart.

After this he keeps the horse cultivator running two or three times 1 a week between the rows. As he I grows them principally as a succulent winter food for his stock, he sows early, that they may have time to grow. TBE MOTHER'S FAVORITE. Chamberlain's Cough Remndy is the mother's favorite. It is pleasant and safe lor the children to take and always cures.

It is intended especially for cousrhi, cold, croup and whooping cough, and is tCe dest medicine made for these diseases. There is not the least danger in eiyimr it to children for it contains no opium or other injurious drug and may be given as confidently tea babe as to an adult. For sale dj T. R. Abernthy, Druggist.

The dissatisfaction of the English public with the management of the war in South Africa seems to indicate the early downfall of the Salisbury ministry. The leading Conservative papers are pronounced in their denunciation of the war department. Bal- LORD SALISBURY. four Is the special object of attack, his confession that the government was not prepared for the war being the culminating cause of popular indignation. Announcement Is made that parliament will meet on Jan.

30, and it is freely predicted that it will at once begin an investigation of the war office and colonial office. It is also prophesied that this Investigation will simply be the prelude to-the overthrow of the Salisbury ministry. General Farlontc's Charity. There goes General Charles-E. Pur-long.

He Is oa his way to the cashier's desk at the Fifth Avenue hotel, where he has lived for the last 15 years. In his hand Is a $10 and a $5 bill. He changes them for $1 bills. Then he goes out for a walk down Broadway to the Battery. He keeps his eyes open.

He has pity for the weak, and his heart overflows for the poor. There are many- such to be found in the streets of this great city. The general stops when he meets with such a case. He cannot be deceived by any plausible "fakir." nis experience has given him a valuable knowledge. Toeach deserving person he gives a $1 bill.

He Is wealthy, and it Is a pleasure for him to do this. General Furlong was on General Grant's staff. "I take long walks every day." said the general yesterday, "and they have made me as solid as a rock. I have taken these walks for 13 years, and I love walking better than eating. I never smoked, chewed or drank liquor In my life." New York World.

Indiana Boys. Three young Hooslers who have come into prominence of late are Booth Tarkington. author of "The Gentleman Fro.ij Indiana George Ade. author of "Artie." "Doc Home" and "Fables In Slang." and John T. McCutcheon, the artist and war correspondent, who has done wort in the Philippines.

All three attended Purdue university at Lafayette and were members of the same college fraternity. Tarkington and McCutcheon are still under 30. Ade Is a loyal Hoosier. He finds it to his advantage to live In Chicago, but he is ever ready to glorify his native state. "Indiana is all right," he says.

Til never go back on or to It." The EfTeet of a Degree. Miss Beatrice Harraden, who first achieved fame as the author of "Ships That Pass In the Xight" and who has recently taken up the cudgels to defend England against the attacks made by Olive Schreiner on Its South African policy, was made a B. A. by Bedford college. At a recent college jubilee she amused her old fellow students by her description of the magical effect which the letters B.

A. after her name had upon the various editors and publishers BEATRICE HARRADEN, B. A. to whom she sent her stories. One of these ogres upon whom" she called, upon looking at her card, actually bent so far as to say: "Madam, I see you are a B.

A. of London university. Pray take a seat" Even her dear old friend, the late Mrs. Lynn Linton, in spite of her well known views about women's education and the girl of the period, was taken by the degree and to the end of her life would never call her young comrade anything but Hardy's Helpful Wife. Thomas Hardy, author of "Tess of the d'Urbervilles," has found In his wife a literary "helpmeet" almost as gifted as himself.

Many of his earlier novels she recopied and dispatched to the publishers, and there is no novel which des not bear some trace of her literary judgment Mrs. Hardy keeps constantly in touch with the literature of the day. and her husband vows that she Is an encyclopedia in petticoats. She Is also a clever artist and has painted many pictures In Illustration of her husband's novels. They Can Now If They Want To.

"This weather is all right" "Don't talk to me! No weather la II right in which people can't sit on the front porch." Chicago Record. "I am indebted to One Minute Cough Cure for my health and life. It enredm of lung trouble following grippe." Tlmi sands owe their lives to the prompt ac tion of this never failing remedy. It cure? cenghs, colds; croup, branchitis pneumonia, grippe and throat and lung-troubles. Its early use prevents consumption.

It is tne imonly harmlesss re edy that gimve emediate results. T. Abemethy. Tne Populist State committee will meek in Baleigh to-day. Dcovatins? For Receptions "Silve Bells" Mnsie Portfolio Mar- roan uiaces.

Whether the decorations be few or many, let the position of every spray i of flowers or greens, every ribbon I streamer, every strip of bunting, be considered not only individually, but in connection with the entire scheme of decoration. Generally speaking, if but i little material for decoration is to be i used it is better to concentrate it in one effective mass than to make it extend over so large a space that no part of it can be made effective. Thus the flowers may all be given to the large table, the smaller ones simply having the fronds of hardy ferns scattered over the cloths. This will give a much better effect than a mtager bunch of Sowers on each table. These hardy ferns can usually be procured at the florist's for about 5 cents a bunch of 100 fronds.

If no flowers at all are used, there are great decorative possi-; bilities in these ferns alone, Carrying out the same idea other 1 decorations, it would seem better to mass the ribbons and bunting or flags In one handsome grouping over a window at the end of the room or about the rostrum than to so scatter them ihat the meagerness of the quantity would of itself attract attention. One of the most attractive of decorations was seen In a church vestry, over i whose window Ivy was trained. The nearest approach to this could be made with trailing greens. Inez Redding in Woman's Ilome Companion. A Mnsie Portfolio.

The design illustrated should be applied to a music portfolio and 's characteristic of the old nursery rhyme: "Mary. Mary, quite contrary. How does your garden grow?" "Silver bells and cockleshells And cowslips all in a row. The silver bells of the stanza are represented by the pendent waxen blossoms of that pretty little flower, Solomon's seal. And now let us consider the transla- tion of these telling lines Into cunning needlework.

Linen is the material par excellence on which the broidery should be wrought, and the color should be dark. A good earth brown would be pleasing, but citron green is even better. This shade should throw up the delicate coloring of the design wonderfully well and be a good wearing color to boot. Sixfold floss Is the embroidering ma terial to use. for the reason that it Is sufficiently tightly twisted to with- stand the rub and friction to which a gfe iift I THE -'SILV ER BELLS'" DESIGN.

i music portfolio must necessarily be subjected. One fil of this sixfold flos9 must be used at a time, and the stitch-es must be placed closely and evenly, Three shades of green will be requireda dark shade for the twin blades of the Solomon's seal, a midshade for the leaves of the cowslips and a pale shade for their stalks and calyxes and for edging the "silver bells" above, A fourth shade, of a more emerald tint might be used here instead of that which goes to form the stems and calyxes. But this must be chosen warily, for nothing garish must be allowed to I creep into this dainty scheme. I The cowslips must be worked with two shades of soft yellow, a deep shade for the corollas and a pale shade for the tubes. The bells must be palest cream or actually dead white, but nothing of a blue shade must be present in this white.

The shells may be buff cream or palest fawn pink. A shade of brown will be wanted for the five freckles thnt are seen in every cowslip flower, and this same brown may be used for outlining and defining the flutings of the shells. Philadelphia Ledger. Marrons Glaces. Those who have been in France and eaten the delicious marrons glaces of the French confectioners may be glad to know a simple method of preparation which can be followed at home Procure a pound of tbe large imported French chestnuts, which are sold by the fruit venders.

Cover the nuts with boiling water to remove the shells. Make a sirup in the proportion of two-thirds water and one-third sugar and boil the chestnuts in the water until tender. Take out the nuts from the sirup and peel off the skins. Put into a granite basin a pound of the best granulated sugar and a cupful of water. Stir gently until the sugar Is dis solved, then remove the spoon.

When a little dropped into ice water hardens and cracks, take the sirup from the fire and put the basin containing It into another of boiling water. Dip the nuts one by one into this sirup, using a small skewer or knitting needle for this pur pose, and place them on a platter lined with paraffin paper. These marrons glaces should be made just before us ing, as they do not keep long. Ivory tusk cups and vases with silver mountings appeal to the artistic sense. BEAT OUT OF AN INCRE 1SE OF HIS PENSION.

A Mexican War veteran and promi- nent editor writes: "Seeing the adyer- tisement of Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. I am reminded that as a soldier in Mexico in '47 and '48, 1 contracted Mexican diarrhoea and this remedy has kept me from getting an increase in my pension for on every renewal a dose of it restores ine." It is un equalled as a quick cure for diarrhoea and is pleasant and safe to take. For ale by TR.berne A "thy, Druggist. 1 Two years ago a little barefooted boy wandered out to Woodbine park at Toronto. He was a bright faced youngster and, meeting Alec Shields of the racing firm of Carruthers Shields, expressed his desire to ride one of his horses.

"I was struck by his appearance," said Alec Shields in telling about the circumstance. "I liked his manly way and put him to work as an exercise JOHXXY MARTIN. bey." San Francisco racegoers have had a chance to see this youngster, for he is Johnny Martin, accounted by shrewd judges to be cue of the most promising featherweight jockeys in the world. His rise in the profession has been unprecedented. Last July Martin piloted Topmast to victory in an owners' handicap at Fort Erie.

It was the first race that the lad ever scored a winning bracket. He has won some 50 races since then and has shown himself to be a more promising little jockey than was Johnny Iteiff in 1898 and 1S00. Martin is 11 years of age and can ride at C5 pounds. Queens of tbe Wheel. During the year 1S99 six wheelwom-en of New York city pedaled a total of 211 centuries, while in the same period an equal number of metropolitan wheelmen rode a total of 4'Jl centuries.

Of the women cyclists Mrs. E. R. Bayne and Miss Carrie Hitchcock completed the greatest number of hundred mile runs, the former having 50 to her credit and the latter only two less. The two great women century riders of the year, however, were Mrs.

Jane Lind-sey of Brooklyn and Miss Jane Yat-man of Manhattan. Miss Yatman's century score was 33, and Mrs. Lind-eey's was 32. Both these women compiled their season's mileage in a series of record rides that are without parallel among women in the annals of cycling. Previous to last year a triple century made by a woman was considered a remarkable performance.

But the rivalry that sprang up between Miss Yatman and Mrs. Lindsey for possession of the title of queen of the wheel resulted in the reeling off of multiple century rides that occupied several days at a time for completion and in which the public at large evinced a more or less lively Interest Sloane Quits For Good. "I am going back to England the 1st of March," said Tod Sloane. the jockey, recently. "I have interests there besides racing.

I am interested in the Shaftesbury theater of London, and De Wolf Hopper is with me in the enterprise. He has made a hit with the English, and we expect a big run when he starts in business. That will be only on the side with me, however. I cannot expect to ride always, and I want something to turn my attention to when I quit the turf. I think a good boy from this country can show them the road for a long time to come." Champion Harriman Going Abroad.

Golf championships in Great Britain are held earlier than in this country. The dates for the amateur meeting have been fixed for the week of May 17, at Sandwich, and the women's championship will be held the following week at Westward Ho. The open event will be played later in the season at St Andrews. H. M.

Harriman intends to make a European tour in the and if so he will visit the famous golf courses and try his skill against some of the old country cracks. Cyclist Ross Will Be Popular. Arthur W. Ross, the Irvington-Mill-burn hero of last year, who sails for Europe shortly to follow the middle distance racing game, will be very popular abroad. Europe gave Jimmy Michael to America in 1896.

and Europe regretted the gift always. Michael was popular all over Europe. He was such a little fellow that the ladies took to him and petted him and made much 0 him. Since Michael left for America all of Europe has been hunting for a successor. Eeliefln Six Ho ura Distressing Kidney and Bladder disease relieved in six hours bv "New Great South American Kidney Cure." It is a great surprise on account of its exceeding promptness in relieving pain in bladder xidneys and bacx.

in male or female. Re-eievea retention of water almost immediately. If you want quicx relief and cure this is the remedy. Sold by T. R.

Abermethy, Druggist, Newton N. C. An Intelligent Pet Chicken A Think-ins Game The Indian Children's Best Christmas. Noah is my pet chicken, and I call him Noah because he didn't drown in a drenching rain to which he was exposed, says a contributor to Our Animal Friends. He was cold and stiff and had almost stopped breathing when I picked him up after the rain.

I wrapped him in a cloth and laid him by the cook stove. At length, when he had been warming more than half an hour and the few feathers he had were he opened his eyes and looked around. But he lay perfectly still in my hand and seemed to be trying to make up his mind whether he was dead or alive. So I put him back in his cozy couch, only leaving his head exposed. For another half hour he lay there watching me with his wondering eyes, as if he were making an effort to cipher out what had happened.

Then I uncovered him again and put him on his feet, and, to my surprise, he ran out of doors as well and lively as he had ever been in his short little life. From his Infancy Noah seemed to be In delicate health. After his accident I always put him on his perch at night, and he still waits for me to come and hoist him up to his sleeping place, although by this time he has grown to be quite a good sized fowl. At first I was afraid he could not fly out of the chicken house In the morning, so I went and lifted him out and now he always waits for me to come and give him assistance, no matter how late It may be. You see, he haa grown to be quite dependent While he loves the chickens that are smaller than himself, he is also a favorite among his elders, who never peck him and chase him about as they do his more hardy brothers and sisters.

Do you suppose they know that he is a delicate child of the family? A Thinking- Game. Quiet games trying the thinking powers are always enjoyable. What at first seems difficult after a little practice is an easy and Inviting task. In this Instance the player who leaves the room becomes the guesser, and those who remain determine upon what character or person he or she shall be assumed to be. When he returns, he is addressed as if he were the Individual In question, and from the character of the remarks addressed to him he is supposed to guess whom It Is he personates.

This home amusement naturally has the whole range of history or fiction to choose from, so that a variety of questions can be ask ed which are either ffTolish or wise, as the case may be. The more misleading the greater the fun. For example, suppose Queen Elizabeth was the character selected. "Why did you remain a spinster? Was your cousin as handsome as yourself? Did you find flirting as pleasing as governing? Which would you prefer to walk on. plain ground or black velvet?" These are a few of the questions that can be asked.

When the correct guess is made, the person whose answer leads to the result must In turn leave the room, and the game is so continued until all the players have had their turn or the game is ended. As a matter of course, the questions should not be too obvious nor too misleading. They In some way should indicate the character while at the same time put the guesser at his best using his wits to the greatest advantage. Unappreciated. The teacher of a district school In Maine tells a story that reminds one of Mary and her little lamb, only it Is of Joe and his little dog.

Joe was a boy about years old and was devoted to a small, lank puppy. Out of school hours boy and dog were inseparable, and Joe apparently could not reconcile himself to the necessity of leaving the dog at home. For several mornings the teacher allowed the puppy to remain at Joe's feet under the desk. Then there came a day when the small dog could not be kept quiet but frisked about, to the delight of the school and the dismay of the teacher. "Joe." she said firmly, "you must take that dog out" Joe looked at her mournfully, but picked up the pup and.

with its head against his cheek, started for the door. The boy's feelings were evidently hurt, but he said nothing until he reached the door; then, giving his teacher a reproachful look, with a pitying glance toward his dog, he said slowly, "And he's named for your' Youth's Companion. Their Best Christmas. The international doll collection of Boston gave 206 Indian children "the best Christmas they ever bad." The children covered two pine trees in their school yard in California with the presents sent. One hundred parents of these children came miles to se the trees and enjoyed seeing them and the presents as much as the children who received them.

In that climate the presents could remain on the trees a long time without injury, which would enable the children to enjoy the trees and show each other the gifts which belonged to them, making Christmas day extend at least a week In length. The superintendent of the school writes: "The pleasure and joy of these helpless children would repay one for all expense and trouble in sending so far away as from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast. Their gratitude also was much greater than as a rule Indians are credited with, and they are having a very happy time, and the presents sent have been an Immense help to these children in the line of civilization." Boston Herald. Fr of Ota area Any adult suffering from a cold settled on the breast, bronchitis, throat or Inng troubles of any nature, who will call at T. Abemethy 's, will be presented with a sample bottle of Bosche's German Syrup, iree of charge.

Only one bottI given to one person, and none to children without order from parents. Cypius lumber in theablsrc part of tbe State baa advanced frcm $30 to $50 per thousand feet. Goixg North. No. 10 No.

60. Lv Chester, 7.40 a 9.22 a Lowryeville, 8.04 a 10.00 a McConnellsville, 8.17 a 10.52 a Guthriesville, 8.25 a 10.37 a Yorkviiie. 8.45 a 11.20 a Clover, 9.15 a 12.00 a Gastonia, 9.47 a 1.20 Lincolnton, 10.37 a 2.40 Newton, 11.20 am 4.00 pm Hickory, 11.50 am 5.55 pm Granite Falls, 12.15 a 8,43 12.46 a 8.00 Going Socth. No. 61 No.

9. Lv Lenoir, 4.30 a 5.80 Granite Falls. 6.30 a 4.89 nt Hickory, 8.15 am 5.35 pm Newton, 9.10 am 6.05 pm Lineolnton, 10.37 am 6.56 pm Gastonia, 1.15 7.54 Clover, 2.11pm 3.32 pra Yorkviiie, 3.20 9.01pm Guthriesville, 3.50 pm 9.20pm MeConnelleville, 4.05 pm 9.28 pm Lowrysviile, 4.15 9.45 m. Ar Cheater, 5.15 10.11 you can count on a full crop if too little, the growth will be scrubby." Send for our boolct telling all about composition of fertClzers best adapted for all crops. They cost you nothing.

GERMAN KALI WORKS, 5 Muta GEO H. WEST D. rilYSICIAN AND SURGEON. New tost. Offers hie professional perviefs to the citizens of Newton and Catawba county.

at residence. W. S. Davidson, M. Has located in Newton and will practice medicine in all its branches.

Calls attended promptly, day or night. M. A. NEWLAND, ATTORNE Y-AT LAW, NEWTON, N. C.

(Office in Shuford's Bank Building. A. P. LYNCH, ATTORN EY-AT-LA NEWTON, N. C.

Special Attention Given to aH kinds oi Collections. Office in Yount Shrun's building up stairs. J. L. GRAHAM ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, NEWTON, N.

C. tSTOffice over Murray's Beef Market, Residence at St. Hubert's Inn. J. E.

THORNTON, Keeps constantly on Land all sizes of wood coffins. Also a variety ol burial robes. NEWTON, N. C. J.

R. CAMPBELL, M. D.t PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, NEWION, N. C. Offers his professional services to the people ol Newton and Catawba County.

J. B. LITTLE, NE.WTON, N. C. Office in Yount IShruni'e Building Kerk sli ire and Esmx, I have a fine lot of Berkshire and Essix pitrs for sale.

They are of the best strain-and beautiful specimens of improved stock. The sire of these pigs is an imported one from Indiana very fine. 6aii at my place 01 busineis, six miles souf n-eaet oi Ntwton or address, Al. Lllne, Newt C. ERNEST L.

MOORE, Fashionay Bai ter and flair Dresser NEWTON, N. He keeps a first-clans Tonsorial Parloi where you will always find ciean towels end sharp razors, atd a polite and attentive barber, Kvery one coming to Newton desiring any ling the Tonborial Art will pleased after th-y call on me, for 1 please all my customers. To You I wish to say that I now have -on hand and am constantly receiving a nice line oi Jk seasonable dry goods, notions, hats, cape clothing, shoes, gro ceries, that am selling very cheap for cash. I am located near Newton Cotton Mills. Come to see me and I will do you right.

Yoursery Truly, cseph Gemayle Trains New. 9 and 10 are first-clan and run daily except Sunday. Trains Noa. 60 and 61 carry passengers aid also rum daily except Sunday. There is good coa nection at Chester with thG.

C.N. and the G. C. Jt also L. JL O.

E. R. at Gastonia with the A. St. A.

L. at Lincolnton with C. and at Hickory ud Newton with the W. N. C.

G. F. Harper. P. Lenoir, 5.

J. M. Moore, G. F. A.

Lnoir; E. F. Eeid Auditor, Lecoir; L. T. NRhol, Bnpt.

Chester. S. C. BRITISH DASHING FOHWABD LosDos Jan. 15 A 1 indications poial to the fact that Geteral Bal.

let'a army of 35,000 ma advancing in three divisions upon Ike Bj-ets, and London hourly expects the news that General Jouberfs army has been outgeneraled and beoteo, aad that the Beige of Lndyemith haa en lifted. Cape Town ditpileb, dled Jao 12, eaj ibit General with Ha 11,000 men has the Ta-gsu River eastward of Colessc, and wtile this is cot confirmed, tha whole ieoor cf South A'rieoa news for the pa: two dy indicates that a combtntd forward movement ia proceeding, and with rapidity. Gstera! Clerj is reported to be advatcizig upon Coleneo wiih bis division from Chieveley, in order to fcaep the Bjers occapeJ that point, wbi'e though no official sews has been received from General Bol Ir of sny car v-mnt made, it is felt ihat he vu but writicg for a fall in the Tugela to cross at Potgeiter's drift and to force Lis ay aroaad the B3er right flank toward La 3 smith. CASTOR I A For Infants and Children. Use Kind Yea Kara Alwajs Eoiglt Bears tba.