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m GO MM * *---—y z.t R OCKDALE 4 ACKET STORE ^ > 'X'* < f y W0M w AHCtAINS ‘.w* A f ? •'• tf Moai m ' Our goods are now arriving and we .are ready to offer them to. the public at bargains prices, - V Watch the Racket Store, whatch our trade increase and watch our prices. -A,, o Rusk <fc Clotfelter, Prop. BIllTHDAY Information ALSO Fale of. Any Chi <1 Born Lnr inj; The Year 1001. The tel.owing Birthday Informant i m ist no;, b- as correct in every case, a the hour of lirtli will sometimes mate i great dit en u< o either for better worse, and m ;w co.dance with the nature of the hour, whether it a fortunate or uu fcrt'.irnto one: JANUARY 1001. The 1st—TJicu wilt have annevancet n’ hy la siress.uiid thy hoalth wt '.oause thee anxiety. Avoid pleasure .m t com puny, and attend to thy business. A child born on this day will be fond of pleasure and company, and not for tnvato. The 2 ud—Thou wilt experience changes law. quarrelling, losses, am' di sapointmenta; thy affairs w U be very wrong. Those in love umv expi ct gt iet. A child bom on this day will be rest¬ less, ambitious, headstrong, and diffi cult to manage, It will suoceed best in the Army or Navy. Tho fi rd—Heavy losses threaten thee in thy ousini’rirt ;sco I hut tUou do timi speculate, nor yet lend money. The yonug will bo euolined to court, A child born on this day should keep in employ and attempt anything on its own account. It will bo tv favorite with tlie opposite rer. 'i ho 4 th—Many annoyances and dis appoiutireiits thou wilt have in tin bm in* fs, which will fall aud cause thee much trouble, Take cate of thy health mid run no risks with it. A child bom on this day will he nn Uuthful, wireless, and most difficult to nmmi#e. if should keeplu employ. If H female In danger of disgrace. The 5 tit—>Thy busiuo s will < • use thee much anxiety, and thou wilt quarrel with thy master or superiors. Young women must bo careful of the opposite sex A el ilT 1 o n on this day will he un¬ fortunate, whether iu employ or rot, nud \v 11 often be -in sure straits for money. The B th—Take care of thy health aud avoid new under ttkings. Iu thybns ai-ddouusi.- affairs much will occur to vex anti annoy thee. _ x i hild born on this day will l>3 quick tuul active, fond of travel, but not for¬ tunate. The 7 th—Thou wilt havo ana tivo and successful year, and thy business will flourish, yfet be cafeful iu spccu at ing The ybubg willeornt or many. A child bornou this day will be ve y quid: aud clever, well behaved, and ot good manners, and will rise quickly in Jinx Tho 8th— Mary little annoyances wiL occur in tliy business,and thy health will not bo satisfactory. If tlioudesir ost to bo succfesful thou must push ahoad. A child born on this day will ikisscss j.,, excellent wit., and good powers of judgment and n a iug» u.e A, nud will rise in lifo. If a lenale, ih.i will mar ry young* Kidnaping in Biiiviii. Several esteemed relatives who wore spending it lifetime with 11 s ‘ have been - kidnapped. Let the good work go on. Major Williams has hem mis. sing from home for ten days His friends fear he has been kid napped by a moonshine distillery. Three persistent bill collectors j were k dnappeb on Wednesday eve ning last. The Lord will provide! The widow Jot es says she has been patiently wniaing to bo ksd napped for e*>vented years: but llO 1 U ttil 1 ppe. 1 fins . - _ appeared. ______ YY .. ary W poor to offer , ft re e waul for the return of our mother in law, who was kidnapped Tues¬ day, We would l.otcall her back Tgaiu. Better Days How forlorn the future must seem when, after living 1C8 years a man surmise*'* the people are not honest any more. 4 4 Thomas Ward ot Baltimore, whoso good or >.td fortune, it has been to It'* ohut long, when .'is o-d ter his opin ion of the world gave t lint a* Jtis chief charge against the pr- s elit day and generation. This proiieness to answer tin old, old question “ Is the tvoi bl bet, ter? • in Urn negu ° tvo tins been o... Chi lhonias ... \\ too frequent. uic is no exception, The balloted mist inshrouds the h; roes of tin past and the tender memories that forget the baser tilings of a form -r society combine to make the present workaday life-datker than itieally is. The struggles of the today often make the future look dark. These things help Jo form the verdict of the uuthought who expsess regrets over the decadent time.it. Wheneloduence boast, of tho in veiitions, of tho increased face li¬ ra ui aticl o' the wonderful wealth ; f those ltater days, the plaint is nude that honestv is loss general and morality skulk. Publicity lias much to do with l he prevalence t f this view of spir t al conditions. Whereiormerly neighborhood gossip was the sole news disseminator, now the news paper 1 rings that to light l hat was in tho closet. Public corruption, formerly hidden by friends, is to the thoughtless more frequent be cause it is known . In this very publicity is the euro for the leaser evils of today. Ao until can longer nope to lead a life of double dealing!, with the pubii'* for fear of the l ext morn¬ ing’s paper spreading it before tlie world. lie had refused to throw i.way his cigar when she had asked him to do so. “Do you know what I’d do?” she snapped, “if I were A mr wife?” • “Something atrocious, of qourse,” he answered. ’’What would you do?” ‘Td give you slow poison.” The man smiled. < 4 It you were ray wife,” he sa d, “I’d ask you to change that slow poison for the fast¬ est kind know to the drug profession,” And he went on smoking. BO YEARS’ * EXPERIENCE 3 \ ^ Patents I RACE IVJAHKS Designs Copyrights Ac. llom froo, strictly oldest confidential. for Handbook on Patent* sent •senoy seeunne Co. petents. recel' Patent* taken through Munn 4 sjxrml node*, without charge. In the Scientific American. A handsomely l ,"four reonth»TsL°8oL tllu*tr*ted weekly. U Lorwcst ^dr ye*r by ail newsdealer*. MUNN i Co How York c. Btsack 0»«, » r et, WsthiBstoe. p. Tft* 'ira^elo of au Eyelid. The many thousands of miles which a man unconsciously travels in his life¬ time, taking into consideration the paces his footsteps measure as he walks about each day, are enough to make him sit down to rest for the re¬ inainder of his life. But now a German scientist has come forward with some still more startling facts concerning the journeys which our eyelid undertakes every time it winks, and it is not possible for us to sen, he says, unless we wink. Uucousciously we wink once a second, so that for the time we are awake ing the day we voluntarily winlc from 4 S.(a t) to 50,000 times and in a year have moved our eyelids down and up no less than 18,2.10.000 times. The distance that the eyelid travels in its great speed is measured from a sin* gig involuntary wink. This, the scientist says, la a quarter of an Inch both ways, the eyelid mov¬ ing equally up and down, ao that, tak¬ ing tlie movement of both eyelids Into consideration, they cover some 50,000 inches in a day. The eyelids of a man who has lived for 50 years will have unconsciously traveled a third of the way around the earth, or about 7,200 miles, a calculation sufficient in Itself to cause the victim of insomnia to fall into a dreamless sleep as he reads It.— London Mail. A Dead Face In the Window. Crockford, the proprietor of a well ^gto*****;* Crockford's ~ (lead. When one of horses was poisoned just before the Derby, the misfortune brought on an attack of apoplexy, which proved fatal with¬ in 48 hours. Now. many of Crock ford’s friends lmd staked large stuns on another of tho gambler’s horses, which was a favorite for the Oaks and which was disqualified by the death of the owner. Only the people In the gambling house, knew of Croekford’s death, and it w?s resolved to keep It a secret until nfter the race. The servants were bribed and sworn to secrecy, aud the conspirators on tlie day after the night upon which Orockford died had tlie body placed in a chair at a window, so that people re¬ turning from the track could see the gambler sitting there. He was fixed up to look as lifelike as possible and through the window and partially con¬ cealed from view by tho curtains look¬ ed so natural that no one of the great crowd which came cheering hy the house when on their return from see¬ ing Croekford’s horse win the Oaks suspected the trick. The next day it was announced that Crockford was dead, hut It was years before the true story leaked out. Faithful Shepherd Doffs, A cold spell in Montana killed a sheep herder. In the Great Falls dis¬ trict. Two feet of snow covered the range In places, and the thermometer indicated -10 degrees below zero. The herder was frozen to death on the prairies while caring for the sheep, aud it was three days before his fate was known to his employers. Two shepherd dogs were with him when he died, nnd one of these staid with hia body while the other attended to the sheep, just ns though the herder had been with him. The dog drove them out on the range In the morning and hack again at night, guarding them from wolves and preventing them from straying off. Neither dog had any¬ thing to eat during the three days' vigil, so far as could be ascertained, but the 2,500 sheep thrived as well ap¬ parently as though directed by human agency. The singular fact about the matter is that these faithful creatures would have starved to death rather than harm one of the sheep left in their charge.—Portland Oregonian. Hla Stfflit Not Offended. Styles—I do hate to see a woman hanging on to a strap in a street ear. Barton—Aud so you always give a woman a seat when you have one give? Styles—No. I never go quite so far that. I give my whole attention to my newspaper, you see. In that way* my sight is not offended by the poor weary woman.—Boston Transcript. Sundays and fixed holidays it is estimated that £20.000 Worth fish is daily dragged out of the sea British fishermen. SAC KbyU^MlKe^Fl^rT 1 ■. . st* Frightened Lions. An Incident at the Porte St. Martin theater in Paris has become part of the annals of the show business. . The chief feature of the exhibition was a “turn” consisting of the casting of a young woman securely bound into a cage of lions heralded as being the fiercest and most bloodthirsty of man eaters. The woman who had the part of the victim was taken ill, and a substitute was found in the wife..of one trainers, herself a traiuer of some t'x perience, but without any acquaintance with these particular six lions. As .sh<i sion arise. ' < Amid the breathless silence of the spectators the ringmaster explained the ferocious nature of the lions the terrible risk of the woman, and' she whs thrust in at the cage door. In the excitement of the occasion the door was not securely shut after her. e No sooner was she fairly inside than < the six monarchs of the jungle, that a strange person had been forced upon them, raised a chorus of shudder-' Ing terror, bolted for the cage door, clawed It open and with dragging tails and cringing flanks fled out through a rear entrance and found refuge in a cellar, whence they were dislodged on¬ ly after great difficulty. It was n week before the "ferocious man enters" were sufficiently recover¬ ed from their terrors to reappear in public.—McClure’s Magazine. A Splendid Bluff. Sir Walter Besant Is said to have once settled a disputed cab fare in a novel manner. He drove from Picca¬ dilly to some place in tlie suburbs out¬ side the radius. Cn getting down he tendered to the driver three shillings and sixpence, which »*as n little over the proper fare, The man. however, wanted five shillings. Besant refused. "I’d like to fight you for it.” raid the driver. “The very thing," said Besant. who had never in Ills life put on a boxing glove and was almost as ignorant as Pickwick even of the fighting attitude. "The very thing! Capital! We’ll have the fight in the back garden. My brother will look on. hold the stakes and see fair!” The cabman got down slowly, as if he did not quite care about it after all. He followed into the garden, where tliere was a lovely hit of green turf, Besant placed tire five shillings in his friend’s hands, took off his coat and waistcoat nnd rolled up his sleeves all with an air of cheerful alacrity. “Now, my friend," said lie. “I am ready ns soon as you are.” His anxiety was great, but it decreased as he watched the cabman’s face successively all the emotions of bounce, surprise, doubt, hesitation and abject cowardice. “No. no,” he said at last. “Gimme the three and six. I know your tricks, both of you. I’ve been done this way before.” Broken nt tlie Wheel. In the diary of that remarkable man, General Patrick Gordon, who left Scot-_ i land in 1G51 a poor, unfriended wan¬ derer and when he died in IfiPi) had his eyes closed by the affectionate hands of his sorrowing master, the czar Peter the Great, the following entry Is to be found, under date of Hamburg, March 22, 1080: “This day, a man and a woman, a burger of the towne being the womans master, for murthering. were from the prlsone to the house the murder was committed: anil there before this house, with hotte pinsers, the flesh was torren out of their armes, and from thence were carted to the place of justice without the towne, and . there broken and iayed on wheels. . An instance 50 years later than those quoted at the last reference Is record-. ed in the "Correspondence of Mr. Jo seph Jekyll” (Murray, 1894). lu 177o. from the balcony of his lodgings nt Orleans, Jekyll saw a criminal bro-. ken on tlie wheel. In a letter to his father (p. 13. he enters minutely into the sickening details, adding that “the crime of the uufortunate creature was burglary, as we learnt from bis seu tence, which , , , , is posted , up at every cor ner of the streets. —Notes and Queries. Lucidity *1 Statsgr. “So you floored your opponent?” "Yes, Indeed; I knocked him sky "gh.-^Chicago Record. ? i V '■ NOTICE \7\ V / fcy f~\ A n X CL IJlj 1 **re J*. JL v | * '%'KT (fg '"g j | *£+*...%£. I > y/JL ,ulr. VafAX 1)0 g V ^ *4” ' we '^ 3 r want TT" more, MM t: : We want'one from every conn .ty Post Office. Let us make a deal 4 . * . with you at once, THE WEEKLY BANNER I 8 lie Stunned the Porte*. Ob one occasion Sim's Reeves, the famous tenor, was stranded atm coun¬ try junction waiting for a train. It was cold ami miserable, and the singer was naturally not in the best of tem¬ pers. While chewing the cud of disap¬ pointment an old railway porter who recognized him from the published por¬ traits entered the waiting room. “Good evening, Mr. Sims Reeves," lie said. "Good evening, my man,” replied the vocalist, getting ready the necessary tip. But the man sought for informa¬ tion rather than tips'. “They tell, me you. earn a heap of money,” he remarked. “Oh!” murmured Mr. Reeves. “And yet,” pursued the porter, "you don’t work hard* Not so ipml as I do, for instance. But I-dessny you earn— p’raps ten times what I do—eh?" “What do you eayn?” asked the singer. “Eighteen shillings a week all the year round,’’- said tlie porter. Sims Reeves opened his chest. “Do. r ©. mi—do,” he sang, the last note be ing a ringing top^one. "There, my man; there’s your year’s salary gone.” Tlie amazed railway! man gazed won deringly at the singer-for a full min ute. Then, as.K^hottgh his thoughts “far teo deep for words,” he al¬ lently resumed his prosaic occupation, —Golden Penny, —— rif - • Hot Strong lOnonfch. \-*5 At one of the clubs th(T otllfr day two members Were arguing abdtit will power. '* B ' ; " The conceited matf? r Wfro In the cjfcabit of boring all present vwith bis .-pointless tales, said friqiid's.- tfcat. his will stronger than Ids *—*•■ : - I . “You are wrong the re,’’, saldthe quiet „ BJaili i will pr0v9.it,.In tbit* way; y 0 u go aud .stand .in. that corner, and ,1 will will you to conie out of it You jWiii against flap- and I bet- ypp .that I will have you from that corner before :.I have commanded yon % second time.” The smart pne tftok the -ami put himself in the corns;. The quiet mau said in a commanding voice: _ "Come.otit of .that •cornerr** } .The other grinned and shook his llpa!] _ The quiet man sat down and <looke ,j at hto steadily. Five minutes p as s et i. a Q( ] tHe man of will said, with a sneer: “Hadn’t you better give It up? j don’t feel any influence at ail, and 1 can ’ t stand here all the evening.” • “There is no hurry,”, said the quiet -man, “and I have a very comfortable There is no titne limit except :. tiiat vou are t0 colxu , out before I ask ,yo.u twice, and as i don’t intend to nsk yoa again until this day week I think , voa xvill feel the influence before then.” . The smart one came out looking very foolish.-Loudon King, She Watted. . Even a Scotchman cannot always be humorous, if he would, Like other peofde, however, he is sometimes funny without meaning to be. The Scottish-Amorican thinks that the message sent hy a young man In Peeblesshire to his waiting bride may have kept her from worrying over ills nonappearance, but that she must after all have received it with mixed feel¬ ings. a The bride elect lived in a village some distance from the home cf William, the bridegroom. The wedd'ng was to lie at her home. On the eventful day the young man started for the station, but on the way met the village grocer, who talked so entertainingly that William missed his train. Naturally he was in what is known as a "state of mind.” Something must be done and done at once. So he scut the following telegram: Don’t marry till 1 come. Wilmas. If the bride elect knew her William, she probably knew how he felt when ho sent the message and forgave the men¬ tal confusion which resulted in what she must have looked upon as a need¬ less request. When She Laughed. In his volume ou Ellen Terry Clem¬ ent Scott tells of a somewhat seif wit Isfied, vainglorious and grumpy actor who complained that the noted Eag -lish pofross continually laughed in ons ojf his most important scenes. He hr. 1 hot the courage to tell her his objec¬ tions, so he wrote her a letter of heart¬ broken complaint, in which he said: “I am extremely sorry to tell you that It !s impossible for me to make any ef¬ fect in such and such a scene if you i persist iu iniighing.at me on the st. ..e and .so spoiling tbtf situation. ■ May l ask yon to change your attitude, as the scene is a most trying one?” Miss Terry’s answer was very direct and to the-,point, j|or she wrote: “You are quite mistaken. I never laugh at you on the stage. I wait till 1 get home.” The Point of His Warning. ; mueli.Ure .“YjOU ain’t acquainted around here .yon?" asked tlie mountaineer of the man on horseback. "No.” i "I reckoned not. I don’t believe I’d go down the trail that runs past Abe Goreis shnek if I wall you. Abe had his boss stole last week.” i “But this Isn’t his horse. 3 “You don’t seem to understand. I ain’t aecusin you of stcalin his Ho s. I’m simply intiinatin to you that at present Abe happens to be in need of a boss purty Had. i wouldn’t go down that road if I tvas you.”—Indianapolis ! Sun. Englishmen In America. Among Englishmen who come to America a British author, Mr. Vacbell, enumerates “the parson’s son, the for¬ tune hunter, the moral idiot, the re¬ mittance man nnd the sportsman.” ' It is a clever and comprehensive catalogue, but it omits one of the types most interesting to Americans—the ir¬ responsible "younger sou” sent to “th® States” to seek a fortune he has never been able to find at home or to avoid a maturing crop of wild oats.—New York Herald. Cnrtlsi, Harry—Uncle George, at the end of this marriage notice of Cousin Top 9 It says, “No cards.” What does that mean? Uncle George—It doesn’t mean i"'y thing. Harry. That is to say, it is < .ly a blind. It is a promise that Tom p give up cards, but. bless you. be v. ■ t be a moDtb married before he! 3 back to the poker table again.— L-x* ehtage, *
