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PHIL G. BYRD,
EDITOR AND MANAGER.
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The cold-slaw crysauthemum
I is putting on its bloomers.
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Guy Woodward is the finest.
He is strongly supported too.
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I The cotton planter is restless
| —because he is giving away his
nap.
The girl in the cloak wears a
camphor—have you heard one
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Did Howard Gould really give
up those $5,000,000? We want
I evidence submitted.
A commission should be ap
pointed to tell those Pillagers
what a big man Shafter is.
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The Christians of Crete will
, enjoy Thanksgiving this year
without Turkey or Greece.
Home could save good mon
ey to her tax payers by owning
her own electric light plant.
Fitz Lee and the Seventh Ar
my Corps before Havana, would
prove a moving argument to
Blanco.
In the Republican campaign
the average New Yorker realizes
that it is the voice of Roosevelt
but the hand of Platt.
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The Raleigh Chamber cf Com
merce has offered a gold medal
for an annual competitive de
bate between North Carolina
colleges.
The Board of Aidermen of
Somerville, Mass., has passed a
resolution in favor of the munic
ipal ownership of the electric
light plant.
Only one member of the next
senate received a larger vote
than Major R. T. Fouche of this
district. Rome is indeed proud
of her splendid son.
Roosevelt was not the only
man in the Santiago campaign,
even if he did get up the round
robin that “Fighting Joe”
Wheeler never signed.
Col, William Jennings Bryan
has already sent in his first
monthly contribution to the sil
ver campaign fund and with it
a pledge to keep it up.
The registered distilleries of
North Carolina, 1467 in number,
last year produced 620,716 gal
lons of spirits. The moonshine
output for the same period is
thought to have been about the
same amount.
The protocol and peace com
mission was all a mistake. Uncle
Sam had the crual Spaniard at
his mercy and should have dic
tated terms of an immediate
peace. Spain having never
shown mercy has no right to
expect it.
A western puper says that the
celebrated “Montana statue of
Ada Rehan, which was one of
the features of the World’s Fair
is not silver at all, but lead with
a silver skin. It was supposed to
have been worth $30,000, but a
Chicago firm which holds it for
d«bt cannot find buyers at SIOOO
After all the statue would not
have been true to its model had
F been an actress.
Mrs. Julie te P. Mara, of New
York, who recently received a
decree of divorce from her hus
band two days after he had died
at Montauk Point from wounds
received at Santiago, has decid
ed that she does not want such
a decre after all and has had it
canceled by the court. The dead
husband, John J Mara, was a
member of the Seventy first reg
incut, New York volunteers. lie
was promoted from the ranks to
be a sergeant for meritorious
service on the field of battle.
Mrs. Mara would not live with
the man had he remained in
life, but she is keen to live on
his pension now that he is gone.
One of the complaints said to
have reached the War Investiga
tion Commission is that Capt.
Alger, son of the secretary, was
financially interested in the
tract of laud on which the Fer
nandina camp was located, and
also in the land which formed
the site of Camp Alger. This
may be the reason tfie Com mis
sion wanted to learn from Sec -
retary Alger how and by whom
the camp sites were selected—
questions which have not yet
been answered to the entire sat
isfaction of the board.
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None of the audience at Wal
lack’s theatre in New York, last
Tuesday night recognized Gen
Fitzhugh Lee in a box, until, at
the end of the first act, the stai
actress of tho play received
some flowers, and, rushing over
to the box, thrust them into the
general’s hands. Then everybody
saw who it was and the demon
stration which followed was
equal to anything of the kind
that has been seen in a theatre
since the beginning of the war.
Gen. Lee was not kissed.
Emperor William is taking
to Jurusalem with him Leonard
Ehmka, the largest soldier in
the German army. He measures
6 feet eleven inches and weighs
296 pounds. The Kaiser, it is
said, wants to impress the Ori
entals with the fine physiqe of
his soldiers. Billy is so much
of a freak he naturally takes to
freaks. If he were an American
citizen he would either be oper
ating a dime museum on the
Bowery or a mortgaged farm in
Kansas.
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Howard Gould, who, accord
ing to his father’s will, has just
given up $5,000,000 in marry
ing Miss Katherine Clemmons,
the actress, is the third son of
the late Jay Gould and the sec
ond of them to take a bride from
the theatrical profession. He is
-28 years old and a keen business
man, so that, having still some
$5,000,000 left, he will propab
ably be able to worry along with
his young wife .
The first news of Don Carlos
in a long time is to the effect
that he has gone to London t(
raise a loan. What the loan is
wanted for is not stated. Per
haps it is to pay taxes on his
$30,000,000 worth us property ;
perhaps it is time for an upris
ing on which he does not want
to spend his own money.
J. J. Curtin is the name of a
New York policeman who found
a valuable diamond in Central
Park, returned it to its owner
and then refuse ! to accept a
proffered rpward of SIOO, saying
he was paid for his work by the
city. He will be tried for lunacy
and sent to the asylum.
“What a fortune you must
make out of the quantity of
mustard that is eaten,” a lady
once remarked to Mr. Coleman.
“No, madam,” he replied, “I
only make a fair competence out
of what is eaten : but I do make
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THE EXCELLENCE OF SYRUP OF FIGS
is due not only to the originality and
simplicity of the combination, but
to the care and skill with which it ii
manufactured by scientific proctwsoC
known to the California Fig Syru*' I
Co. only, and vve wish to impress upon
all the importance of purchasing th*
true and original remedy. As tb*
genuine Syrup of Figs is manufactured
by the California Fig Syrup Co.
only, a knowledge of that fact will
assist one in avoiding the worthless
imitations manufactured by other par
ties. The high standing of the Cali
fornia Fig Syrup Co. with the medi
cal profession, and the satisfaction
which the genuine Syrup of Figs has
given to millions of families, makes
the name of the Company a guaranty
of the excellence of its remedy. It is
far in advance of all other laxatives,
as it nets on the kidneys, liver and
bowels without irritating or weaken
ing -them, and it does not gripe nor
nauseate. In order to get its beneficial
effects, please remember the name of
the Company
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO.
SAN FRANCISCO. Cal.
LOUISVILLE. ’ New YOKE. K. Y.
a fortune out of what is wasted.”
—London Truth.
Miss Helen Gould is to bo
presented with an album con
taining the autographs of as'
many soldiers and sailors a
•are to send them. They are to
be sent in letters on paper suit
able for pasting in the album,
which is also to contain a set of
resolutions. There will be no
expense to the senders, and the
collection will form a memorial
which Miss Gould says she will
value highly.
GEORGIA PRESS,
Georgia’s 70,000 democratic
majority shows how successful
the effort to break up the good
old party in this state has been.
Atlanta Journal.
The question which is now
interesting the public is whether
populism was blown up* by an
internal explosion or by a demo
cratic submarine mine on the
outside.—Augusta Chronicle.
A high tribute was paid to
Gen. Leonard Wood, formerly
colonel of the Rough Riders,
now military governor of Santi
igo, by a resident of that city
he other day. “If you have any
more generals like Leonard
Wood,” wrote this Santiagan,
‘send them along, and we will
let them be absolute rulers as
long as they Lke.”—Savannah
News.
The Herald predicts that the
general scramble in Georgia
over judges’ and solicitors’
places when the first flection
takes place will be one of the
liveliest ever known in the po
litical history of Georgia.—Al
bany Herald.
A NARROW ESCAPE.
Thankful words written by
Mrs. Ada E. Hart, Groton S. D.
“Was taken with a bad cold
which settled on my lungs;
cough set in and finally termi
nated in Consumption. Four
doctors gave me up, saying I
could not live but a shoit time.
I gave myself up to my Savior,
determined if I could not stay
with my friends on earth, 1
would meet my absent ones
above. My husband was advis
ed to get Dr. King’s New Dis
covery for Consumption,Coughs
and Colds. I gave it a trial, took
iu all eight bottles. It has cured
me, and thank God I am saved
and now a well and healthy
woman.” Trial bottles free at
Curry-Arringtou’s. Regular size
50 cents and SI.OO, guaranteed
or price refunded.
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