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NBWNAN, FRIDAY. OCT. 8 0.
Negroes and the Census.
New York World.
Encuuruging facts showing progress
among the negroes of the United States
will appear in a forthcoming bulletin of
the Census Hureuu.
Of negroes 1(1 years old and over, 30.1
(>er cent, are reported as illiterate.
This proportion is lower than it is
among large elements of our white im
migration; lower thun the rate in
Southern Italy and the Italian islands,
and little more than half what it was
among the negroes themselves twenty
years ago.
The negro death-rate is still very
high, 25 5 per 1,111X1 in the registration
area in Hill), against a general death-
rate of 15; hut this alsu is fast de
creasing. Partly owing to this heavy
percentage of deaths, but mainly to
white immigration, the total number of
negroes in the country is now hut 10,7
per cent, of the whole population. It
has steadily lessened in every decade
Of the republic.
Almost three-fourths of our negro
population live upon farms or in vil
lages of less than 2,500 inhabitants. It
n a rural race. In feeding and cloth
ing the country, with a surplus for
other lands, it plays an important part.
The great cotton crop of the South
would scarcely be iiossible without ne
gro aid.
A frivolous society girl, in a small
town, made a daily trip to tho town
library, where she would always get a
book.
This being the loafing place of the
young men of tho town, it was quite
evident why she came.
One of the young men, guessing that
tact, asked her this question:
"Miss Jones, have you ever read
'Scott’s Emulsion?'”
"O, yes; isn't it the sweetest hook?
1 just love it."
MANY TROUBLES DUE
TO AN INACTIVE LIVER
Many of the troubles of life, such as
headache, indigestion, constipation and
lack of energy, are due to inactive liv
ers.
GRIGSBY'S LIY-VER-LAX is s nat
ural, vegetable remedy that will get
the liver right nnd mike these troubles
disappear. It has none of the dangers
or disagreeable after effects of calomel.
Get a 5'Jo. or id bottle of this splen
did remedy from your druggist to-day.
Every bottle bears the likeness of L.
K. Grigshv, who guarantees it through
John R. Cates Drag Co.
What Became of Them.
Take a walk through the cemetery
alone and you will pass the resting-
place of a man who blew into the muz
zle of a gun to see if it was loaded. A
little down the slope is a crunk who
showed how near he could stand te a
moving train while it passed. In
strolling about you'll see the monu
ment of the hired girl who tried to
Btart the tire with kerosene, and a
grass-covered knoll that covers the
boy who put a cob under the mule’s
tail. That tall shaft over a man who
blow out the gas casts a shadow over
the boy who tried to get on a moving
train. Side by side the pretty creature
who always hud her corset laced to the
lust, hole, and the intelligent idiot who
rode a bicycle nine miles in ten min
utes, sleep unmolested. At repose is a
doctor who took some of his own medi
cine. There, with the top of a shoe
box driven over his head, is un old man
who married a young wife. Away
over there reposes a boy who went
fishing on Sunday, and the woman who
kept strychnine powders in the cup
board. The man who stood in front of
the mowing machine to oil the sickle is
quiet now, and rests beside the care
less brakeman who fed himself to the
70-ton engine.
And near by may be seen the grave
of the man who tried to whip the edi
tor.
A man after the lapse of n few
months, meeting an old friend, accosted
him thus:
"Say. old man, why is it we don't
see you uny more?”
"I’ve joined the army,” was the la
conic rejoinder.
"What army," asked the amazed
friend.
"The army of the Lord."
"And the church?"
"Baptist."
"Well, it's not the army you mean
then, it’s the navy."
There is a certain Ohio Judge whose
wit has enlivened many a dull ease.
On one occasion counsel made in his
court this statement on behalf of a
plaintiff of somewhat bibulous ap
pearance:
"My client, your b*nor, is 3 most re
markable man and holds a very respon
sible position. He is manager of the wa
terworks."
After a survey of his elient, his hon-
nor replied;
"Yes, he looks like a man who could
be trusted with any amount of water.”
Curst OK Sires. Otksr ItaUlst »««’! C«rt
‘I lif frtfs cates, no manfr of how Ions standing,
ate cured by ihc wonderful, old reliable Dr.
Porfer'e Au[i*c|-lic. ttraling Oik It relievea
Paw -t-d lie- 1 - at [be saute lioje. Be, 50 c, JL0U.
How much are you worth? Measured
by the tape-line of this world’s valua
tion you are rich or poor, worth much
or little, according to the dollars you
own. Measured by the rule of heaven,
and you are worth just what you can
take with you into the next life. A
man who possesses in this life a
million dollurs is not worth a cent one
moment after he is dead. Bank books
are out of place in a dead man’s coffin.
Shrouds have no pockets. All the
wealth of the universe could not pur
chase a single moment of the time, or
help a man to retain his hold upon his
earthly riches for one hour. You are
worth whatever of good deeds you
have to your credit on the other side of
life. If you have been h/nest, up
right, faithful, full of kindness, and
have built your character along these
lines, you are rich, If you’ve been
narrow-minded, covetous, grasping,
hardhearted, self-seeking, you are
poor indeed, even though the wealth of
a gold mine is yours.
A witness declared that a chauffeur
driving an automobile at forty miles an
hour could, if necessary, atop the ma
chine within ten or twelve feet. The
Judge glanced up as if the statement
was a lump/ thing to swallow.
Tho next witness was classified as an
expert, and rattled off his testimony
with the easy grace of an evangelist
singing the doxology. To him the
Judge looked for some confirmation.
"Mr. James," said his honor, ad
dressing the witness, "if an automobile
was traveling at the rate of thirty or
forty miles per hour, and the brakes
were applied in such n manner as to
stop it within ten or twelve feet, where
would tho driver go?"
"That, your honor," calmly replied
the witness, "would depend very much
on the sort of life that the driver had
been living."
Hopeless Lung Trouble Curod.
Many recoveries from lung troubles
lire due to Dr. Bell’s Pine-Tar-Honey.
It strengthens the lungs, checks the
cough and gives relief at once. Mr.
W. S. Wilkins, Gates, N. C.. writes:
”1 used Dr. Bell’s Pine-Tar-Honey in
a case given up ns hopeless and it
effected a complete cure." Get a bot
tle of Dr. Bell's Pine-Tar-Honey if
your cough is dry and hacking and let it
trickle down the throat; you will surely
get relief. Only 25c. at your druggist's.
Cleanlines*.
Cleanliness may l>u defined to be
the emblem of purity of mind.—Ad
dison.
Invigorating to the Pale and Sickly
The Old StHudard jrtncml fttrcngtht-ainjE Ionic,
OROVK'S TASTKLKSS chill TONIC, drives out
tlslorU.corichcs Ihc blood .snd builds up the sys
tem. A Uuc luuic. Nur adults and children. 30c
We have made an important addition to our candy line. We are now sell
ing Townsend's California Glace Fruits. They are different from the ordinary
crystalized fruits in that the juice is not extracted in the process of preparation;
a process known only ro Townsend. It is a mixture of all kinds of fruits—sim-
plv delicious.
$1 PER POUND
And if you arc not pleased we will gladly refund your money. Buy them once
and you will buy them again. “Away above everything” of its kind. These,
together with Kern’s delicious chocolates, bon boas, chocolate nuts, etc., makes
a good line to choose from.
THE BEST DRUG STORE
Wc Give You What You Ask for
J. F. Lee Drug Co.
Prompt TWO Efficient
Delivery ’PHONES V>0 Service
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Townsend’s
California
Giace
Fruits
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