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Banks County Gazette.
VOl. VI
STRUCK MANY FREAKS.
IX THE OLD TAR-HEEL
STATE.
A Traveler Runs Up Against
Tilings in the Piney Woods.
Among the passengeis who came to
Southern Pines, N. C., the other night
was a man who didn’t seem to b* ex
actlv certain about himself. He came
into the Piney Woods Inn. looked
around, and said to the proprietor:
“I rather like it around here, and
think maybe I'll stay a Tew days, pro
vided you haven't got a hump backed
’possum to tell ine about.”
'Pie landlord said he didn’t know of
any hump harked ’possum in this
locality.
“Nor Siamese twin raccoons?”
“I think not,” said the landlord.
Ner octogenarian hogs?"
‘ “No.”
“Nor a centenarian eitizeu who can
turuabaek somersault with all the
agility of a boy?”
* The landlord said that such a citizen
would not be surprising in the piaey
woods, but be didn’t believe there was
one.
“Well, then,” said the newcomer, ‘1
guess I'll stay. I have been traveling
about somewhat in North Carolina,
and think I've run against almost eve
rything there is in the way of living
curiosities except ; the ones I men
tinned, and I wanted to make sure
that you didn’t have any of ’em or
hand nt Jheard of ’em being around
her, 'before I don’t think I could
have enjoyed any more freaks.
* “For instance , take calves. When
I struck bhcluy they had a u df, (lieu
of rcceut advent, which had no eyes
or ears, but was adorned with three
Pails, which it had the power to wag
separately or all together. The calf
was alive and healthy, so they said
Then over near Durham there was a
calf with f< ur } lfcct eyes and ears
but as hairless as a Mexican dog, and
it hadn’t even the suspicion of a tail.
This call was a twin, its brother be
i -g perfect in structure, but not mud
bigger than a suiter dog. The mother
of this quver pair was herself one of
triolets, and she had given birth to
five calves in one year. The prospects
were in that vicinity thatja good many
more calves lie born shortly, and not
knowing what shape some of them
might take on, I left the freak calf
li#l and moved on.
“Then I seemed to rue into an at
mosphere ihat apparently influenced
poultry to unwonted things. Thus at
Winston I found groups intently dis
cussing something and asked some
one what had occurred.
‘“‘Joe Warmer's lien is dead,’ was
I lie reply
“I Slid I couldn’t see why there
should he so much feeling over the
death of a lien.
“ ‘Taint so m tch ’cause she’s dead.'
I wav informed. ‘Fact is, it’s more a
wonder that she w.is living. Hut she
was horn nigh twenty y ears ago, out of
the suite egg that hatched a
lirother of liers, and them two chick
Jens has been inseparable companions
i from that time to this. Funny part
about it was, too, that the hen done
the crowing, and the rooster the sing,
ijna when she laid an egg. And the
[h<n didn’t die, either. She was killed
V a weasel. They was the oldest
htokens in this state, or any other
late, and we’re betting that the roos
er won’t live a week, though he’s
ealllder th in hf ever was- Hut he
an’t get along without that hen.
“I didn't stay there. I went to Mor j
antown but there they had a goose
that barked like a puppy dog instead
if cackling, and they told about a
fuck that had two legs and two wings
ill right, except that one wing was
there one !< g should have l"-en, ad
ant kg occupied the place of the
fng. I escaped from Norganton to
Uaf. !e, in: \ ’.. '■ ■■■
[chicken in that vicinity that had
ivo heads and four legs, and another
bat had two bodies, but oidy one ie_r
n
1 for each body, and one neck and one
head. There was a rooster there, too,
that was then laying four eggs a day.
“I got away fiom nondescript poul
try, and at Uingwood they told me
Bill Harrison was dead*
“/Yes, Hill's dead’ they told me.
‘He’d only j.-st passed his hundred
and second birthday, too, and .vas as
hearty as a buck ami lively as a cricket
hat he overact himself chasin’ a razor
backs off o’ his place t’other day, and
it wiped him out. Aunt lliry Math
ews came to his funeral- Aunt lliry’l!
be a hundred next spring. She walked
in three mile to go to Bill’s funeral,
and walked back home agin;’
“Then in the course of my travels
1 got to Dockery, I found out that
William Ilorvell lived there. William
was 94, and the fnthei of nineteen
children- He had recently retired
from the public service. For ' wenty
five years he ha-1 carried the mail
between Wilkesboro and Wilson,
104 miles the round trip, making it
on foot, going one day and returning
the next, fifty two miles a day, and
never missed a trip.
“So by and by I struck Mexton.
There the forest had contributed of
its wonders. A boy out hunting had
captured in a hollow log a litter of
nine somethin or others that had noses
iiko a liullihig, paws Ike a bear, and
tails like a cat. The folks thereabouts
were guessing yet what the queer
beast could be when I left and went'
to Raleigh, where I was told of a
cheerful young man resident |in that
city whose marked accomplishment
was the total shedding of his skin two
or three times a year—not piecemeal,
but, like bark comes off a tree in the
spring- I bis change he had made it
few days before, and he w as even then
using the skin of ilia feel as a pair of
slippers.
“Now I am here. I wish I had a
commission from some dime museum
to buy up freaks for it as 1 pass along
through the Tar Hetl state. I’d tit out
a show to beat everything
Are Yoti
Thin?
Look about you! See for
yourself! Who suffer most
from sleeplessness, nervousness,
nervous dyspepsia, neuralgia,
despondency, general weak
ness? Who are on the edge
of nervous prostration a'l the
time? Those who arc thin,
Opium, chloral, bromides
headache powders, o. ly make
mait.-rs wc.se. Eon and bit
ters are only stimulant', io
be cured, and cured for good,
you need a fa -making food.
You want new blood, rich
bicod; and a st ong nerve
tonic.
SCOTT’S EMULSION of
Cod-.iver Oil with Hypochos
ph:tcs is all this. It feeds the
tissues, makes rich b'.ocd, and
strengthens the r.crv.s.
Eock about it free for the rcki.-p.
For sale by all at sue. and
SI.OO.
SCOTT & BOWNH, New York.
Much in Little
Is especially true of Hood's Pills, for no modi
cine ever contained o great curative power in
so srpall space. They are a whole medicine
chest, always ready, al- ***3. g m _
ways efficient, always sat- • | I
fsfactory; prevent a cold 111
or fever, cure all liver ills, * ■■ ■
sick headache, jaundice, constipation, etc. 25c.
The only Pills to take with Hood's Sarsaparilla.
DISEASES OF TIIE SKIN.
The intense itching and smarting i.,ei
dent to eczema, toiler, salt-rheum, aud other
diseases of the skin i.: instantly tllaved by
apj.lying Chamberlains Lye ami 'I in
O.r.tmcnt. Many very had . have been
n- rmati' r.tlv cured by it. it i- tou h'v
.Tirient for itching piles end n favorite r •ni
.'.‘y for s ire lippies; chapi.ed iir.i.<K t-hii-
: dt—i, an.-j elirmiio sore <; er.
For * do by druggists at 25 cetila nor bosl
Try Dr. Cady’s Com'if ion Vowdery they
arc just what a horse news v.:, nin (rod condi
n. ionic, bio-id purilicrnnd Totmifuge.
HOMER. RANKS COUNTY, GEORGIA: JANUARY 28, 18!)7.
IN THE WORLD OF L ABOR.
Machinist have 400 unit ns.
Japan has fifty eight cotton mills.
Bt -ycle mechanics will hold a tin
tioual convention at Toledo, 0.,
Mat ch 10.
Window Glass Welkers’ Union
i will establish a co-operative factory
at Anderson, Inn.
In New York and surrounding
elites nearly two .thirds of the men
in tlie woodworkers’ trade are idle.
Manufacturers and unionist of Chi
•ago have prepared a hill to prohibit
competition of con vict with free labor
The Minneapolis Journal placed its
New.Year tdiltou at the disposal of
the members of the Minneapolis Tv
pographical Union, netting the union
over S6OO. This is an infrequent and
unique innovation.
Last year’* sales of English cooper
ative societies amount to the sura of
$50,000,000. These enterprises em
ploy 7,148 people.
Zanesville, 0., in 1890 passed an
ordinance making sight hours the
limit on municipal work and fixing a
minimum rate of J*v.iges at 19 ient<
an hour.
The journeymen plumbers of Clave
land, 0., declare that the action taken
by them refusing to serve with help
ers was simply in self defense.
A Brooklyn electrical workers’ un
ion has decided to disband. New York
building trades’ unions are blamed for
the disrnp ion.
Anew clause, permitting Jewish
workmen to tail on Sundays to make
up for lost time on Saturdays, will be
introduced in the facte riusard work
shops bill of Australia-
The National Stogie Makers’ Union
is the outgrowth of a fight against
■stogie niters by the International
Union of Cigar Makers- The I’itta
burg branch has I,OUO members.
Tho new superintendent of the state
fr*u labor bureau at Cleveland says
In- “intends to make his office wlutt
the law of Ohio tntcii led it should be,
a means of furnishing employment to
union men.
James G. Grant, ex secretary of
the Dctioit street car employes’ local
association, stands charged with h iv
ing offered to play the traitor to the
union and to disrupt it in considers,
lion ot pay torn the streal railway
company.
A committee from the Detroit
Painters’ Union has been canvassing
the bosses to get their views on the
eight hour day. The committee re
ports a favorable attitude iu the part
of most of the shop owners.
Every organized port on the Atlan
tic coast was rcprescn'.ed at a meet
ieg of the executive council of the
Atlantic Coast Scmiien’s Union at
Boston last Sunday, when the subject
of cougrvKsiuri.il idicf for American
sailors was vigorously urged.
Following the usual custom at the
beginning of winter, the Rothschilds
of Paris have sent 100,10’) francs
($20,000) to the Prefect of the S-ine
t<> be distributed among needy tenants
n Paris.
Tilt* Carpenters’ District Council
of \YcU hosier enmity, New Y.ak, is
arieiiging t,, make a oonccyt.)d 1110 e
inent on April I to establish ll.u eight
! hour day.
'i ho initi"tion fee of the New York
branch Amalgamated Association of
Clothing Cutters and {Trimmers has
been reduced {from *lo.ff6 to *2 15'
An examining physician was elected
to attend to all .sick members. The
minimum wage for shear cullers was
lined 5-20 a week for f,4 hours, and
lo . ;fi cutters $24 a week
, >.'• \ v Cos k (..•uml [, t 1 ,r U 1
id! ii.i.-, ji t its if on record r.s being
oj 'posed to tin* sympathy ex pressed
for pi'rollers who have no way of
passing thi ir lime since the nesv prison
law w< lit in; effect. The vast nnin
her of horn.st people who are out of
work, it was decided, were worthy of
more sympathy than convicts.
“When the working poor are paid
1 in tettirn for,their labor only as much
| money,'ns will luy them the neeessa'
1 nes of life, their,condition is identical
with that of the slave, who receives
those necessaries at first hand. The
former we call ‘free men’ and the !at
ter ‘slaves’ hut the difference is imag"
inary only.”—John AtL.ros.
“Blight”
costs cotton planters more
than five million dollars an
nually. This is an enormous
waste, and can be prevented.
Practical experiments at Ala
bama Experiment Station show
conclusively that the use of
“Kainit”
will prevent that dreaded plant
disease.
All about Potash—the results of its use by actual ex
periment or. the best farms in the United States—is
told in a little book which wc publish and will gladly
nail free to any fanner in America who will write for it.
GERMAN KAI.I WORKS,
93 Nassau St., New York.
A Mail Agent’s [Experience.
Louis 1). Brennecke, \V’n II nil,-i, S-
C., bad Rheumatism for sifteen
years, and during that time had never
been free from pain. His tried the
Hot Springs and Physicians without
benefit, After tilting two bottles of
Drummond’s Lightning Remedy he
wrote that he was free from pain,
and able to lake several long walks.
If you want tt cure send $5 to the
Drummond Medicine Cos., Few York,
and they will ship to your express
address two lage bottles one
month's t F eatment. Agents wanted.
HUGE CUBAN PETITION.
Washington, 1). C., Jan. 20. —
Word lias been received here by
Senor de Qucradn, secretary of the
Cuban junta, of the approaching
completion of a gigantic petition in
favor of Cuban independence to be
presented to Congress in the near
future. This petition will be made
up of a great number ef smaller
ones, which have been sent out by an
organization known the Amer.can
Friends of C ilia, with headquarters
in New York. It embraces in its
ranks many thousands of readers.
Sixty thousand petitions were sent
out by this organization all over the
country. With only part ol the
petitions returned the number of
names already inscribed reaches 600.
000, and thousands are being added
every day. The petitions contain
the names of ninny of the most prom
ineii t citizens of the country, among
them a majority in the legislatures ot
nearly every state.
This monster petition will be pre
sented on the day that the Cameron
resolution is brought up in the Senate
A delegation from the American
Friends of Cuba, headed by the pies
ident, Frantz Mayor, will come from
New York to present/ it in suitalh
form.
Tlie petition will be wound on a
huge cylinder. In design the roil
will be similar lo I lie pilot wheel of
a ship. It stands four feet high .aid
is uirounded by gold.
Wlmt Ails You?
If you have sudden dart'ng pains
| in the joints or muscles, and it recurs
I every time you catch cold, and np
j pears in new places without leaving
any of the old cues, Iha best thing to
jdo is to si dd live dollars to the
Drummond Medicine Cos, New York,
fora bottle of I)i" Drummond's
1 Lightning Remedy for Ithtumutism
It will cure you- lie wise in time,
and do not be fool*] with an tilling
else. If you have got the above
symptoms you have got Rheumatism,
and if Hie druggist ul|s you llie truth
he will say Dr. Drumrn uid’s Remedy
is the onlv known cure. Agent?, wan-i
t^d*
S~SOOD’S Sarsaparilla lias over and
■“ over again proved by its cures, ;
When ail other preparations failed, that j
it is the One True BLOOD Puri tier I
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