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Home My WebLink AboutEvening Mascot, December 1908 Ra ee a ne ee as vee ~~ ee “— ne a TSS i re eT oA ~—— THE EVENING : Vol. 1. Many Dead From Rain THOUSANDS ARE HOMELESS. Rains Have CoNtinued for Two Days and Oklahoma and North- ern Texas Are Flooded—Rail- way Traffic Abandoned and Pro perty LoSs is Estimated at $20,- $00,000—River at Guthrie Six Feet Higher Than Ever Before. Guthrie, Okla., Nov. 30.—Five perons are dead as the result of two days’ continuous rain and the overflow of Oklahoma and north- cern Texas rivers and tributaries, thousands are homeless and hun- dreds of residences are flooded. Railway traffie has practically been abandoned in central Oklaho- ma and a bridge on the Missouri, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad, be- tween Muskogee and Wagoner, ' was washed away a few minutes after a passenger train had eross- —==——— aan. PERSONAL NOTES, Some Happenings Among Those People You Know and Others You Don’t.Know. Mr. J. L. Watt of New York is in the city. Mr. T F Connor of Terrell, is in the city today. Mr. R. D. Dwight, of Toledo, Ohio, is in the city. Mr. Wm. K. Clement of Mocks- ville, is in the city, Mr. S. J. Lowe of Concord is in the city on business. Mr, C. H. M. Fulburt of Wilkes- boro, is in thee ity today Mr. J. M. Brown of Winston, is in the city on business. Mr. J. H. Paylor of High Point is in the city on business. Mr. R. R. Beaty of Charlotte, is registered at the Iredell. ~ Mr, Hugh Montgomery of Char- lotte, is in the city on business. Mr. Chal Cornelius of Moores- ville, is in the city on business. Mr. G. Jordan of Asheville, ar- rived in the city this morning. Miss Brown Munday of Char- day is Charlotte, is in the city. ed. The total loss will exeeed $20,000,000, The river at Guthrie is six feet higher than ever before in its his- tory. Hundreds of persons who refused to leave their homes, be- lieving the river would not rise so rapidly, fired shots of distress soon afterward. An army of res- cuers set out in boats to bring in those in danger. It is believed that many are yet in their flooded homes, though nothing definite is known. The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe round house and shops are in- undated, and the city water plant is partly submerged and street car service is completely at a standstill. Two thousand bales of cotton belonging to the farmers oil mill are under water, and $5,000 worth of cotton was wash- ed away down stream, Many miles of trackage have been washed away. Near Seward, Okla., the Santa Fe tracks are out and the bridge at Red Rock has been washed away. The Missouri, Kansas & Texas the Fort Smith & Western and the Denver, Enid and Gulf lines are all waterbound, and all eastern Oklahoma trains are being held at Stillwater. ———++2e—_—_ For the HoSpital Bazaar. The Mascot is requested to an- nounee that all ladies who will contribute ingredients for the chicken salad for the bazaar to be given for the benefit of the Bil- lingsley on next Thursday to send them to the Hotel Iredell tomor- row morning. All eakes, cream and milk Should be sent Thursday morning. All faney articles to be sold should be sent to Mrs, B. F. Long. Thursday morning, and they will go on sale at 1 o’clock that after- noon. Beginning at 12:30 Thursday. the ladies will serve dinner and ‘unches, and all the businesss men of the city are urged to take din- Her at the bazaar. It is a worthy cause and should receive the pa- tronage of every one. Don’t forget the place and time, at the Gem Theater, opening at 12:30 .0’elock. ———_++@>-—___ Stops earache in two minutes; toothache or pain of burn or scald in five minutes; hoarseness, one hour; muscleache, two hours; sore throat, twelve hours—Dr. Tlolmas Eclectrie Oil, monarch over pain. —— 1 Today theb ird hunters ean have the pleasure cf onee more ent2r- ing the fields in search for game. The season is open from today un- til March 1st. eee * Mr. Thos. W. Harpe of New York, is in the city on business. Mr. S. R. Brown went to Mooresville on business this morn- ing. Mr. C. L. Norton, returned from a pleasant visit to Davie county last night. Mrs. R. K Gregory and children went to Rockingham this morning, to spend some time with her moth- er. Mr. Geo. E. Pennington, of’ Charlotte, is in the city on busi- ness connected with the Realty and Investment Co Messrs. W. J. Bennett and M. T. York, of Union Grove, passed through the city this morning en route to Winston. Miss Mano Bogle of Taylors- ville, will arrive this evening to visit Miss Irene McIntosh at the Billingsley hospital. ————++e>-—__. BRIEF LOCAL ITEMS. _ Mr. Lloyd Neely this morning suceeded Mr, J. E Boyd, resigned, as city tax collector and water works superintendent. Not long till Christmas! Have you got that Xmas present for mother, sister, sweetheart or wife picked out. Read the new Xmas ads in this paper and keep posted where to get the presents. Mr. R. L. Flanigan has received word from Palmetto, Fla., saying that his cousin, Mr. J. C. Flanigan, who diéd at that place some weeks age, and left considerable pro- perty and Messrs. R. L., J. P. and Jno Flannigan are the only heirs. The property consists of a large orange grove, but no particulars have been learned about it. Mr. S. M. Van Allen and two gentlemen friends of Jamica, Island, are at W. H. Coffey’s hunt- ing ‘preserve in North Iredell, where they will spend some days hunting. Mr.and Mrs. J. Otis Wardwell, and Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Carter of Boston, arrived this morning, and were taken to the preserve by Mr. Coffey. The Demorest Comedy Co., opened this week’s engagement at the opera house last night. A packed and well pleased house witnessed the opening play, ‘‘A Miner’s Daughter.’’ Tonight the company will present the ‘‘ Mid- night Elopment.’’ Ladies will be admitted free again tonight, if ac- companied by an escort holding a paid reserved seat ticket. The tobacco market in this city still holds up well. Sixteen wag- ons were at the Planters this morning with tobacco, Would Test Parcels Post ALSO POSTAL SAVING BANK. Postmaster General Meyer, in His Annual Report, Recommends to Congress the Trial of Both These Features for Many Rea- sons—Department Faces the Largest Deficit in Its History and the Parcel Post Would Earn Much Revenue—Notes Marked Improvement in the Efficiency of the Service. — Washington, Nov. 29—In his annual report for the fiscal year ended June 30th, 1908, Postmaster General Meyer gives the total re- ceipts for the year as $191,478,663 and expenditures as $208,351,886, thereby showing a deficit of $16,- 873,222, the largest in the history of the department, with an addi- tional loss from from fire, burg- lary, ete., of $37,056. The deficit of 1909, it is estimated, again will exceed $16,000,000. Attention is particularly called to a number of improvements in business methods of the depart- ment as tending to its advantage and the saving of considerable amounts. Recommendation is again made for the creation of the position of director of posts, at a high salary, and who shall hold office during good behavior, the object being to have a continuity of policies for the benefit of the postal services and the people of the United States. The necessity for good roads is pointed out in connection with the development of the rural free de- livery service. It is suggested that should congress grant the de- partment authority to utilize rural routes still further by the estab- lishment of all limited parcel post confined entirely to rural delivery routes, it would then be possible to earn additional revenue amount ing to millions of dollars and at te same time benefit the farmer by enabling him to have merchandise delivered when ordered by tele- phone or postal card, which other- wise would not be purchased. “‘The special parcel post,’’ says the Postmaster General, ‘‘will en- able the farmers to have small parcels delivered at their gates, to live better and to obtain easily the necessaries of life.’? Permis- sion is requested to establish expe- rimentally a limited parcel post in not to exceed four counties in or- der to demonstrate the practica- bility of the plan. Experiments with stamp-vend- ing machines, says the Postmaster General, are still being conducted, with every prospect that the de- fects which developed in the pre- liminary tests will add immeasure- ably to the public convenience. The campaign of education in the school houses in matters pertain- ing to the ordinary operation of the postal service, so as to empha- size the importance of careful ad- dressing, the placing of the name and address of the sender on en- velopes, ete., is recommended to be continued, so as to save hun- dreds of thousands of letters and package from going to the dead letter office, each year, as is now the case. A marked improvement in the efficiency of the service is noted by the Postmaster General which, he says, is due to the policy of re- taining postmasters of all grades whose records have been satisfac- tory. He believes, however, that ‘the appointments of second and Statesville, N. C., Tuesday Evening, December 1, 1908. dheriff Shot By Fugative ATTEMPTED TO ARREST HIM Sheriff Jackson Stanland of Brunswick, Lies Fearfully Wounded by a Bullet From Re- volver of One Walker, Said to 2 Deserter From an Army Post in Georgia—Is Charged With Store Breaking, ———— Wilmington, N.C., Nov. 30.— Sheriff Stanland, of Brunswick county, was shot and perhaps fatally wounded Sunday night by a white man named Walker, upon whom he and a posse of three others were serving a war- rant for store breaking, the scene of the shooting being at Walker’s home, four miles below Shallott, in a remote part of the country. Walker is said to bea deserter from an army post in Georgia, and came to Brunswick several years ago, marrying a daughter of Mr. Frank Leonard, & well to-do citizen. He was a roving shiftless fellow, generally regarded as desperate, and re- eently after several stores in Shallotte had been broken into he was suspected and a warrant issued. For several weeks the Sheriff bad been unable to locate him until Sunday night when he and three officers, John E. Robinson, 4.S. White, and James Long came upon him at his home while at supper. Walker opened fire on the par- ty with an army revolver, Sheriti Stanland falling with a bullet through his kidneys before the man was Overpowered by other members of the posse. Walker was sent to Southport to jail under heavy guard for fear of vengeance by the Sheriff’s friends in the event his wounds prove fatal. At last accounts the sheriff was at the home of Walker’s father in law near the scene of the shooting and three physi- cians are with him. ‘I'here is no telephone connection below Shal- lotte, and information is hard to get. with the Postmaster General, as is now the practice with fourth-class offices. This, he says, would re- serve to the president the appoint- ment of postmasters at the more important offices and relieve him of a vast amount of routine work that is a tax on his time. The Postmaster General puts himself on record as being decid- edly opposed to the law which prohibits the é¢stablishment of pos tal stations more than five miles beyond the corporate limits of a city, although he says, no such re- strictions exists with reference to the extension of the free delivery srvice. The department, he de- elares, should not be placed in the position of being able to deliver mail from door to door and at the same time of being forbidden to supply the district so served with the other usual postal conven- iences. The repeal of the law complained of is urged. The maintenance of a suitable postal service in New York City, it is stated, becomes more difficult each year and requires increased expenditures in order to reduce so far as possible the heavy conges- tion of mail matter there. The Postmaster General speaks of what has been done toward rem- edying this condition, and says that a night delivery in the resi- dential section has gone far in that direction. third class postmaters should lie Recommendation is again made 4 a a ASCOT. DARK TOWN MATINEE. Mayor Grier has a Large Crowd of ‘‘DuskieS’’ in His Court for ““Totin Weepins’’ and Cursing on the Street, Mayor Grier had a dark town matinee yesterday afternoon at his court room when Mat Massey and Marietta McKee, two colored women of notorious character were up for an affray on depot hill Saturday night. Two ‘charges were preferred against Matt Massey, to wit: As- sault with a deadly weapon and using profane language on the streets. Only the charge of using profane language was preferred against the McKee woman. It seems that the trouble all be- gan at the depot Saturday night, when the MeKee woman made some remark about the Massey Woman. Later the couple met in front of Lewis Comp’s barber shop and proceeded to ‘‘wax warm’’ again, cursing each other for dear life. The testimony was conflicting in every way as to the deadly weap- on charges. After hearing all the witnesses the mayor dismissed that charge and tricd them for using profane language on the etreets. The McKee woman plead guity of the latter charge and the Mas- sey woman pead not guity. Af- ter hearing the testimony in this case, his honor imposed a fine of five dollars and ccsts on each de- fendant. One negro who was summoned as a witness and eal’ed up to ths stand was s.mply suprised. On taking the stand _ his honor told him to go ahead and tell what he knew about the ease. Looking at the mayor in aston- ishment he said, ‘‘Why boss, I wuz out in the woods possum huntin’ five miles away when dem niggers wuz fightin’ up dar.’’ ——+oero—_. Among the Sick, Reports from the bedside of Rev. Mr. Greene are that he is resting easier. Virginia, the 18-months-old baby of Mr. and Mrs, R. A. Gaith- er, who has béen very sick for a few days, is resting easier. Dr. H. F, Long, who has been suffering from blood poisoning, is nearly recovered. Mr. E. M. Brawley is very sick at his home on Davie avenue with pneumonia. Mrs. W. F. Hall, who has been at the Billingsley hospital for about three weeks, is now nearly well, and will be removed to her home in a few days. Mr. W. F. G. Morris, who under- went an operation at the Billings- ley hospital some days ago is about recovered. Mrs. Chal. Cornelius of Moores- ville was brougth to Long’s sana- torium yesterday, where she will undergo an operation. Mr. A. C. MeHargue, the popu- lar drayman, is very sick at his hoem on North Center street, suf- fering with an attack of muscular rhemuatism. The condition of Mrs. Craig, who has been very ill at the home of her son-in-law, Chief C, W. Con- nor, for some days, is no better. that the leave of absence with pay allowed by law to employes of the postal service be increased from fifteen to thirty days whenever the postal revenues warrant it. While favoring an increase in pay of the supervisory employes in postoffices, the Postmaster Gener- al says he has not estimated for additional promotions for the com- ing year because of the great in- crease in the deficit, v No. 374 Only One Is Rescued HOW MANY DEAD UNKNOWN Others Say That There Were Only 120 Men in the Mine at the Time of the Explosion—83 Bodies had Been ReScued up to 10 O’clock Today—Of These 79 had Been Identified—President Jones This Morning at 10 O’clock Said the Death List Would Not Exceed One Hundred and Thirty. Marianna, Pa., Nov. 20.— ‘Two hundred and forty-four men went to work Saturday morning, and only one was rescued alive,’’ said the man who gave out the checks to_the miners at the Marianna mine Saturday. He made this declaration positively, in response to a statement made that Presi- dent John H. Jones still adhered to his original estimate of 120 men in the mine. ““One hundred and twenty men are in the mine, and that is all,’’ declared John H. Jones. “I still insist that there were not 288 men entombed.’’ “‘There are at least 150 miners dead in the Marianna mine,’’ de- elared a trustworthy man who had been in charge of a rescuing squad a few minutes after Mr. Jones had said 120, ~ ; “There are 138 men dead in the shattered entries,’’? said a mine official late last night. He is a member of the company and knew that John H. Jones still in- sisted the number of victims was 120. There is no certainty as yet to the exact number in them ine. This probably never will be known as some of the bodies may have been burned to ashes. Several of the bodies already recovered are torsos, others are only parts of bodies, the rest apparently having been burned away, There will be a general funeral Tuesday afternoon. Eighty-three Bodies Recovered. Marianna, Pa., Nov. 30.—At the mine, 10 a. m. Of the 83 bodies already brought from the wrecked Marianna mine here, 79 have been identified. The names of the other four men probably never will be known. Their bodies are headless. The work is going on very rap- idly indeed. Thirty more bodies, approximately, are in sight of the rescuers and all these will be brought out soon. As soon as the bodeis are recov- ered from the black depths, they are taken to the power house where Coroner W. H. Sipe and twelve undertakers wash and pre- pare the bodies. Then they are taken over a railroad to an impro- vised morgue in the town of Mari- anna, about one-fourth of a mile. away. Then the victims number is looked up; a call is made to the waiting crowd for friends or rela- tives to step forward and thus the mournful work is being rushed. At 10 o’clock this morning President Jones, of the mine com- pany, stated that he is certain that the death list will not exceed 130, ——_<~@>->——____. If you haven’t the time to exercise regularly, Doan’s Regulets will pre- vent constipation. They induce a mild, easy, healthful action of the bowels without griping ‘Ask your druggists for them. 26c. ———~<-e——— Messrs. G. O. Daggett, L. BE. Steele and C--A. Smith of Char- lotie, are registered at the Iredell t te e Pe e Se s ME T R E S LE N I E N T Ft Se Be h aT = z ~ Li e d Fu x OL E CS A S RA N M A TE N N EI FI N E S RB M “B S aa h ta p e r xs ee en e r ee n De e n ee ee ee e Se r e n ee s tx t he . es it il a l a s i d i l i a l i ao t Pe ee ie ‘ . PO Se a as in rR ea e BR S Pe t r dh s oy he r p OR E S & & TR es t e RE Ce e ca r e e r ad e is RA Se s Fa t ne t t e d BO R se c t SS ss Wa n e t be s ° # md , a ee ‘ eb le aE Wf gt s THE EVENING MASCOT DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. ffice 109 Court Street. Felephone 53 VANCE NORWOOD - Publisher. RALPH SLOAN, - - City Editor, Sabscription Price, - $4.00 a Year ubscription Price, - 10 Cents a Week Entered at the Postofficein Statesville v. C.,as second-class mail matter. EE Weather Forecasts. Washington, D. C., Dee. 1—For North Carolina generally fair and decidedly colder tonight and Wed- nesday. —_—___+ > ABOUT WHAT TO EXPECT. —_—_—— This paper has declared before and says again if the people really look for any tariff revision that will benefit them they will be greatly disappointed. We have read all the declarations of the Republican party organs that come to hand on this subject and it is plain from their utterances that profit now enjoyed by the American manufacturers under and by reason of the tariff is not to be disturbed. Some of the most prominent of republican journals in the United States as quoted by the Literary Digest has to say on the subject which undertakes to voice the sentiment of the party on the subject of tariff revision the following specific declarations which is very note-worthy. Thus: ‘*What is everybody’s business is nobody’s business, except at times of popular excitement, says the New York Globe (Rep.); The Times (Ind.) explains that the consuming public is inert and in- articulate while the special inter- ests which have special favors to ask of the tariff are organized. eoherent, and voeal.. ‘Unless the friends of intelligent revision make themselves heard, the stand- patters’ will accept the situation as justifying no change in the tariff, exeept upward,’ predicfs The Wall Street Journal (Fin.). The Boston Transcript (Rep.) thinks that the new tariff bill will be privately mapped out at the coming session of congress and thereby brought into readiness for rather prompt enactment at the special session in March. It is easy to foresee, aserts The Transcript, the general lines which the new tariff bill will take. Thus: ‘If a duty of 75 per cent. on an article is so overwhelmingly pro- tective that a duty of 50 per cent. would be for all practical purposes just as adequate, that rate will be reduced from 75 per cent. to 50. This much may be assured. In- dustrial changes of a decade make many such reductions possi- ble. Tariff rates which are mere- ly ornamental will be lowered to approximately level usefulness— only slightly above it. Such re- ductions will help make up a handsome showing for use in fu- ture platforms; they will affect the ‘average rate’ under the Payne bill, and that is always painstakingly figured out in con- nection with each new measure. Such statisties mean nothing, but the people like them. Tariff-mak- ing has been truthfully declared a Beience. One part of this science lies in having rates so adjusted and combined and disguised under various designations that in ap- pearance they are rather moder- ate. If this mixing of ad-valorem and speeifie duties, of differen- tials and drawbacks, be scientifi- eally done, without reducing any- body’s real protection, Messrs. Payne and Daizell-may yet be sur- prized by the statistical evidence of their own moderation. “But any one who expects a gen- uine tariff revision, which will af- feet the prices of commodities or the margin of profits, is doomed to disappointment. This year’s Republiean platform went a step - €arther than any of-its predeces- sors in devotion to the protective idea. It declared for duties which would leave to the American man- ufacturer a ‘reasonable’ profit, something that had never before been written in the bond. The manufacturer can now confront | the Ways and Means committee- men if they propose to Jessen his protection with the claim that he has been promised a reasonable profit; how much that is he is more competent to judge than they. At all events this will be a ‘reasonable-profit’ tariff bill. Payne and Dalzell are not the men to break the party’s promise in this particular!’ “Conditions have changed great- ly in the last twenty years. The tariff was then a much-disputed question. ° Over it both parties fought their campaigns. Since 1892 the low-tariff of the Demo- cratic party has practically ceased and the Republicans have been allowed to have their own way so far as the popular education on this subject is concerned. The American people are today, in con- sequence, protectionists in an overwhelming majority. They will stand almost anything in a tariff bill so long as times remain reasonably good. And nobody knows this better than the men who will write the new schedules. ‘Geographical changes have also played some part. The South to- day is as clamorous for protection. wherever it can discover an in- terest in it, as any other part of the country. It is turning Re- publican, slowly, to be sure. on that issue. The farmer every- where has a larger stake in pro- tection than he did twenty years ago. The beet industry has been established; the duty on wheat, which then seemed merely techni- eal, since this country was a great exporter of cereals, has, at least in one short crop year of late, proved a practical barrier against Cana- dian importations, and thereby helped to maintain prices on this side of the line. Thus with the South faint-hearted toward its traditional free-trade theories. with the RockyMountain West growing in importance and desir- ous of living off the government, and the Misissippi Valley farmer finding an increasing stake in the protective system, it is doubtful if the material exists for any great swinging back of the pendulum. even if the coming tariff should fail to please the country. This at least is the view of the Repub- lican leaders in Washington.”’ ———_++@>-___ NEVER AGAIN. All of Mr. Bryan's friends are agreed, with a few exceptions. that he should not and will 20t be a candidate again for the presi- dency. Mr. Bryan is well aware of this fact and the continued dis- eussion of the question with the assumption that he will run only tends to stir up animosity between his friends and his enemies and re- open the breach in. the party that Was apparently headed during the last campaign. When he is being pursued by the question, ‘‘ Will you be a candidate again?’’ at a time he is smarting under another defeat it is but natural that he feels resentment at the question and answers it in the affirmative. It has been thoroughly demonstra- ted to the country , to Mr. Bryan and his friends that destiny has determined he shall never be pres- MOTHER do you hear that rattling in your bahies throat? Put a little Mothers’ Joy on it and stop it at once. MOTHERS how can you take chances —keep a bottle of Mothers joy in your house. You need Mothers’ Joy every day. MOTHERS’ Joy is made of pure gooce grease and other bealing ingredients. Mothers you cannot afford to be with- outa box of Mothers’ Joy. ident and he knows this fact too well. That Mr. Bryan declared before the Denver convention and and after it that he was making his last run for the presidency is strongly evidenced by the con- servative platform which he had the making of and in his declara- tion that he was bound not only by what it said in expressed terms but by its omissions. This latter. declaration was surprising at the time but it was made in Mr. Bryan’s anxiety to be elected be- cause he knew after the adoption of the platform which would be acceptable to all democrats with this further assurance which this announcement would have he would get the support of a large element of the conservative Dem- ocrats throughout the country. And while he did not get the sup- port of all the conservative vote i: did have the desired effect in one respect that the party was re- united so far as its leadership was eoncerned.. Therefore let Mr. Bryan rest and quit nagging at him and trying to extort from him some utterance that will only get up a controversy. There is no ood In it to any one and certain- ly not to the Democratic party. sesides the public is tired of it and want a_ surcease from this eternal rangle, Brethren for the sake of quiet peace, be still! ——++@>-2—__—_—_. A GOOD STOMACH Means Good Health, Cheerfulness, Ambition, Persistency and Suc- cess. Mi.o-na will cure your dyspepsia or any other stomach trouble by building up the flabby walls, and making the stomach so strong that it will digest food without pepsin or ther artificial aid. In other words, Mi-o-na cures dys. pepsia by removing the cause, Statesville Drug Co., is the agent for Mi_o-na in Statesville and they say to every reader of The Mascot whose stomach is weak, who has in- digestion or dyspepsia, that Mi-o_na is guaranteed to cure or money back, The price is only 50 cents a large box, and one box is all you need to prove that you are on the right road to health and happiness. “T can’t say enough for Mi-o.na tablets; they have done more for me in One week than all the doctors have for the two years I have been under their care, and I will do all I can to recommend it to my friends. You can also usé My name in your ad. if you like, for Mi-o_na is better than gold to me. I am like a new man, and am able to work once more for the first time in over a year.”—W. A. Ennis, 328 Green St., Syracuse, N.Y. ————++@r-o——_—_ In Asheville Saturday afternoon Herbert Paris, a 17-year old lad, was accidentally killed by his gun going off, the entire load blowing off the front part of his face. WANT ADS 1 time oe ee oe 5 cents a line. 3 I 4 cents a line. 6 times.............. ...0% cents a line 26 tammee es 3 cents a line. WANTED—A Piano box at once. Address Z. Z care Mascot. PHOTOS—Penny Photos a Spec- ialty—therefore you get the very best—24 for 25¢. Over Knox & Poston’s store. FOR RENT—ONE STORE BUILD- ing and basement. Best retail stand in the city. Statesville Real- ty and Investment Co. Sept.19 AMBITIOUS YOUNG MEN AND ladies should learn telegraphy; for, since the now 8 hour law became effective there is a shortage of many thousand telegraphers. Po- Sitions pay from $50 to $70 a month to beginners. The National Telegraph institute of Columbia, S. C., and five other cities is oper- ated under supervision of R. R. officials and all students are placed when qualified. Write them for particulars. nolg dtf WANTED—BY THE AMERICAN Cotton and Business University of Milledgeville, Ga., students to take one or more of our courses in cot- ton grading, buying and selling. Business courses of bookkeeping, Shorthand, Typewriting, or Telegra- phy and Railroad course. Positions guaranteed under reasonable con- ditions. Write at once for oar consolidated catalog. Largest col lege South. Sept 28-it Itching piles provoke profanity, but profanity won’t cure them. Doan’s Ointment cures itching, bleeding protruding piles after years of suffering. At any drug store. NOTICE! I have reopened my Meat Market in the grocery store of R. F. Cashion on Center street and will sell the best of Fresh Beef that can be bought at from 8 to 12 1-2c. a pound. I will be pleased to see all of my old customers and any others who desire the best of meats at the above prices. >=—- Phone 59——— P. A. JONES STATESVILLE SKATING RINK Opera House Building Open from 3 to 5 and 8 to 10 p. m. No Children Admitted to Floor at Night Sessions. LOOK WERE! A full line of Fresh Meats, the best that money will buy, at 8 to 12% Cents Per Pound. We also carry a full line of Heavy and Fancy Groceries at Prices you can’t afford to over- look Callonor phone us your wants— Phone No. 110. CHESTER BROS. SOUTHERN RAILWAY C0. Great Highway ef Trade and Travel Through the Southern States Through Pullman Sleeping Cars on palatial trains between the principal Cities and Resorts of the South. High-class Dining Cars. Many delightfulSummer and Winter Rescrts on and reached by Southern Railway. “The Land of the Sky,” “The Sapphire Country,” in scenic Western North Carolina; beau- tiful at all seasons. Hotels of the highest class. For detailed information apply to nearest Ticket Agent, or R. L. VDRNON, T. P. A., Charlotte, N.C. S. H. HARDWICK, P.T.M., W.H. TAYLOE,G. P. A. Washibgton, D. C. NOTICE Chas. Brincefield will ap- ply tor a pardon Dec. 18, New Pool Room New Tables of the latest and best makes have been in- stalled under J. P. Phifer’s grocery store. WeSolicit Your Patronage DEOSOEDOOS0O0S0S0S 0808080808000 gsess OOO. Sooo ens ce eee | To Cure a Cold in One Day Use : UIN-AGETOL 2@Cec OR E Ue UN E ea r or a r as pa O e C e O ae 25 cents per box at = a SOOOSSCO0O900O08SSSE699SE20¢ ~ Sherrill-White Comp’ny $ We have just received and put on sale a big lot of All Wool Dress goods, 36 to 42 inches wide, your choice. 27 1=2 cents yard. No such bargain ever offered to Statesville buyers be. fore. One piece Tan Herringbone, rainproof, 58 inches wide, real value $1.25 yard, for 60 cents-yard. House full of correspondivg values. See our new line of COATS for Ladies, Misses and Chil. dren. We have the NEW DIRECTOIRE STYLES. Prices cheap. Come to see us. Very truly yours, Sherrill-White Company e 104 West Broad St., Statesville, N. C. ° 0600 0000000099888 CCCCdC08 PO I I I o - I m. SSeeSefSSeSetStSeSeeSseesce G OLUTE CLEANLINESS & is a feature that immedi. M M AW nm \ J > ih fi ately recommends mod- ern sanitary open plumb- ing and its accessories to all believers in household @® hygiene. A bath room can be kept clean and ri sweet as your dining room. But all good sys- tems can be made bad by inferior workmanship. So » to make assurance doub- ft ly sure, see to itthat your {i uN. 2 ("= CE S R R E C I S E R R R C E C E Y plumbing contracts are MA 2 : given to the m w A. W. HOLLER PLUMBING COMPANY * = Phore No. 61. 127 W. Broad St. ; 333535339 333333333333335 556 is the oldest (41 years) and first Business College in Va., (second in the South) to own a building erected for its use—one of the finest in Richmond. Endorsed by its students, business men and the press. Philadelphia Stenographer says: “It is the leading Busi- ness College South of the Potomac River.” “When I reached Richmond, I inquired of several business men for the best Business College in the city, and, without exception, they all recommended Smithdeal’s as the best—Wm. E. Ross, Lav Stenographer, Bluefield, West Virginia. __, Single, Double Entry and Joint-Stock Bookkeeping, Comme! cial Arithmetic, Business Writing, Business Practice, Shorthand, Typewriting, Telegraphy, Commercial Law. English Department. adies and gentlemen. Day and night sessions. No vacations. Students enter at any time. By Mail—Bookkeeping, Shorthand, Penmanship, at home, to those sho cannot come to College. Special inducements to well educated young men, especially to teachers-. Write for catalog and fell particulars to G. M. SMITHDEAL, Pres., Richmond, V3. Tor ——S ©30SS0000000000S 000005200055 000000 0SSSS00SNSE 0ETE § THE STATESVILLE LOAN AND TRUST CU. Of Statesville, N. C. Accounts are solicited from firms, corporations and indiv - uals, who may rely upon courteous consideration and the very best terms that_are consistent with good banking 3 methods. Four per cent. paid on time and savings deposits i — CAPITAL STOCK... ecsceseeee sesee-esesee. $40,000.00 SHAREHOLDERS LIABILATY...............0000000---$40,000.00 SURPLUS ANP UNDIVm@ED PEOFITS............$30,000.00 Tora. Resources OVER.......--.ceeseoeeeeeee--- $440,000.00 : IS PREPARED to transact all branches of banking. E. Steele, President, E. Morrisou, Vice-Pres, D. M. Ausley, S¢€ and Treasurer, C. E. HUGHEY, Assistant Secy. and Tress. v.a | OFFICERS | | £ 8 He 0 © 5 t g aE , = pt a 5 TS N Y PP E EG I L AI L IS GE N T LS ER R II I S I RB Be IR D ee Se e re e ee pn - 2886 yi Three Dollar Shoes. o Whatever price we name for a shoe, we inteud that i) the Shoe will be the vest, that the same amount & of money can buy anywhere. 6 We've never seen our $3.00 Shoes equalled for the & money. We’ve a treat in store for the Three Dol. po lar Shoe wearer. 38 ALL THE NEWEST STYLES ee Vici-Kid, Pat.-Kid, Gun Metal Calf, Box Calf, ete. > iuxtreme styles or conservative shapes. v IT WILL PAY YOU toSEE OUR $3 OO LINE = OF SHOES before you buy. e S.B. MILLER ~The stive man. — a 2097 8C8D 27808030 80EDe @ C0808 280608 00 8CE “ce B a 5 a6 > 2089S 0OCSS SOCGES9O00CCRCCCRU ~ Ina firure. sharp contest nothing but “quality” and appearance RUTH MADE” Hosiery and the “WORLDS BEST” Black are the goods of Quality. After ali has been said, all your pursuasive argument exhausted, it is «still fact that : “QUALITY” IS THE ONLY TEST OF VALUE. To get best results you must have the best of everything best yarn, best colors, best machines and best help, with such are making. for the goods-of “quality.” a combination you can produce the best of what you We have all of the above. Ask your dealer 9 « THE BRADFORD KNITTING MILL. i) x, * Cz eer ececscececesececeles - : wa ete le OBO le. Boel Bode Cee ee eet S i Oe A Show Down 253.00 SHOEHS!3 We're calling attention today to our line of Men’s $ socegcnonzezenscesr el ba a >, > 2 % a a 5A we 3 with ee Obliging treatment, is of great benefit to the young business man. When @ man has a Bank account itim plies eenfidence ; ges ani others. ¥ checking bank behind you X in business. it both convenient and dig- nified in transacting: busi- ness. é Merchants and ¢. : | Feed Reliable Bank~—<» PAYING TEU oF sre" 5 —J prompt service and all means have a good You will find Farmers’ Bank OF STATESVILLE INCORPONATED CAPITAL $25,000.00. OFFICERS: STIMPSON, Pres; C.S. TOMLIN, Vice-Pres.; F. B. BUNCH, Sec. & Treas.; J. A. KNOX, Asst. Sec. & Treas. Directors: Stimpson, J. L. Stevenson, C.S. Tomlin, R. R. Reid, J. A. Knox, W.S. Page, Geo. B. Nicholson, L. K. Lazen- by, SOOO IGOOOGIOOOGSODOO @ fs kk. G. Gaitber, J. R. Hill, E. B. Watts. VI M O C O O O N O O O O U O O K HO O O L K I O C Q O O L E SOOMSOOSOOOSOHOOOOSOSOSOHNL is re ‘ SEVERAL THINGS Are to be considered in seleeting your Bank 1ST. Strength-Financial Strength 2ND. The care with which the Bank is Managed. 3RD. The courtesy and spirit of of accomodation displayed by the Officers and Em- ployees. 4TH. The banking experience of Officers. STH. The ability of the bank to Properly and Prompily Handle all Your Business To Those Desiring the Embodi- ment of These Features are Offered The Service of THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF STATESVILLE CAPITAL $100.000 PRIZE FORK COLLEGE SONG. ‘(Normal and Industrial School Will Pay for Original Song for Col- lege Use. At the last regular annual meet- of the State Normal and Industrial College of North Carolina, a com- mittee of alumnae was appointed to select a song that may be adopted and used by the college as distinctly and distinctively her own. : The committee, therefore, offers a prize of ten dollars in gold to the person who shall write the most appropriate song. Any one who desires to do so may com- pete for this prize, but the commit- tee reserves the right to reject any and every poem that does not ad- quately represent the spirit of the college. The literary value of the songs sent to the committee will be pass- ed upon by competent judges. If any contribution is accepted as worthy to be made the college song the writer will be notified of his suecess as early as possible af- ter the judges’ decision is reached. In the event of the author’s de- siring to set his own words to an original musical composition, such a composition will be carefully judged by musical critics, with the understanding that the committee of alumnae may reject any or all of such contributions. in order that the song may be introduced, the name of the author announeed, and the prize awarded at the college commencement in May, 1909, all competitors for the prize are urged to have their con- tributions in the hands of the com- mittee before April 1st, 1909. OELAND L. BARNETT, BERTHA M. LEE, SETHELLE BOYD, EMILY AUSTIN, ETHEL L, IARRIS, Committee. —__———+@> > CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Lot {Ea How to Prevent Pneu- monia In every paper you pick up you will fsee where some & good man has just died with this fearful disease—pneu- § monia. Now we will give § you One Hundred Dollars } for any case of pneumonia you have in your family it fails to cure if you will use § Goose Grease Liniment as & directed. It only costs you & 25 cents a bottle. Get it— £ you have nothing to loose and all to gain. We know there are thousands who will read this and throw it aside and in a few days will be down with the disease. F Please just get one bottle and putit away until you need it. If you haven’t the money to buy it let us know and we will send you a bot- tle free. GOOSE GREASE CoO. OSITION Draughon gives contracts, backed by a chain of 30 Colleges, $300,000.00 capital, and 19 year’s success, to se- cure positions under reasonable con- ditions or refunnd tuition. BOOKKEEPING reaies os accepting his pruposition, concede that he teaches more Bookkeeping in THREE months than they doin SIX. Draughon can convince YOU. SHORTHAND f.8c5.cFStacs Court Reporters write the system of Shorthand Draughon teaches, be- cause they know it is THE BEST. FOR FREE CATALOG and book- let, ‘Why Learn Telegraphy?”’ which explains all, call on or write JNO. F. DRAUGHON, President DRAUCHON’S PRACTICAL BUSINESS COLLEGE (We also Teach by Mail) Raleigh, Knoxville, Nashville, Cc Posr op— lumbia or Washington, D. C. ing of the Alumnae Association | : THE STORAGE WAREHOUSE. | It Sheds Some Side Lights Upon Life and Morals. For a few dazzling side lights upon life and morals apply to the storage , Warehouse. You can find almost any- ; thing there from baby alligators to blocks of ice cream and from Teddy bears to sauerkraut. So you won’t be amazed at what the institution has most recently divulged. Here you have the story: Mrs. Q. repaired to the storage ware ; house to extract her soup spoons, though it may have been aunts or un- cles or popcorn or guinea pigs. At any rate, her property declined to come ont. It had been tucked in by Mr. Q. Orly Mr. Q. might tempt it forth. Mrs. Q. protested. She wanted her catnip or theology or safety razor, or whatever it was, and made representations with great emphasis. She moved upon the management. She stormed and wept. After long wrangling the warehouse decided it would yield up the college ice—or was it the piano?—if Mrs. Q. would swear she was still married to Mr. Q. and would send him a written statement (he was in Quebec,-and I lost track of him owing to bewilder- ment produced by merely thinking of a turn the statement, countersigned, to the management. This, then, is how Mrs. G. regained possession of her golf links or prayer book or sugar tongs. Well, say it was sugar tongs, though golf links would be likelier. Pressed for an explanation, the ware- "house remarked: “Have to be careful, you know—divorces, separations, af- finities, you know. Minute such things start up there’s a race to the storage place. Game is for each to snatch out everything first. Becomes embarrass- ing!”—Boston Transcript. MIXED THE SIGNS. Sarasate and the Sandwich Men In Edinburgh. To advertise Sarasate’s performances in Edinburgh eight sandwich men were sent out, each of whom bore in front and behind him one letter of the great musician’s name. They started all right, but after a time removed the boards from their shoulders to have a rest. On resuming their labors each man shouldered the board nearest him and fell in behind the man who had for- merly marched before him. When the leader, who bore the initial “S,” turned around to see if his men were ready, what he saw was “Sata- resa.” He knew enough to realize that something was wrong, but how to right it was more than he could tell. After changing a man here and there he got it “Starasea.” But still it didn’t seem correct. By this time the poor fellow was in a terrible state. If any of their em- ployers’ people were on the outlook and could see them, their day’s wage woutd be stopped! He tried again and yet again, but it was no use. And a moment later a man bearing the letter “S” before and behind was seen running toward the music hall to copy down the name from one of the posters there. And along the right side of Princeton street there walked toward the appointed rendezvous at ‘| the Mound three men who bore the strange device “A A E,” while opposite them there paced along the left side gutter four others, who, if to advertise means to attract attention, succeeded well, for every one who passed looked around in wondering amazement as to what “Rats” meant.—Edinburgh Dis- patch. Too Much For the Ferret. An old buck rabbitis not to be light- Iy tackled by weasel, stoat or even ferret. On the sanded floor of a small public house a ferret of long experi- i} ence was matched with an old lop eared buck, the property of the land- lord. The ferret made straight for the | rabbit’s throat, but the latter was in the air before master ferret could reach him and, leaping clean over the ¥| ferret’s head, let out with those power- ful hind legs of his a kick which hurled the ferret bodily against the wainscot. Twice the ferret returned to the attack, and twice. he missed his grip and went hurtling through the air. The third repulse was enough for him. He knew he was beaten and could not be persuaded-to stand up for a fourth round.—Pearson’s Weekly. Brilliant Fish Hues. Like birds, many fishes assume their brightest hue when they wish to at- tract the opposite sex of their species. The colors of the male common pike become exceedingly intense, brilliant and iridescent in the breeding season. The eel also puts on an intense silvery hue at the breeding time which is very noticeable and at one time caused nat- uralists to distinguish it as a distinct species. The males of the tench, roach and perch also show a marked increase in brilliancy in the breeding season. Mental Arithmetic. “Two years ago I asked Aunt Jane to yisit us for a fortnight, and she has not gone home yet.” “It’s a blessing.” “What's a blessing?” “That you didn’t invite her for a month.”—Harper’s Weekly. Uncovered. é Horace—I can’t understand you girls. Now, you hate Mabel, and yet you just Kissed her. Hetty—I know, but just see how the freckles show where I kissed the powder off.—London Tatler. Domestic Politics. “Whom did you support during the last campaign?” “A wife, two children and a mother- in-law and kept up my life insurance at the same time.”—Puck. whe ua Pe ements a 9 pth SS een 8 Bs Foe h a Tes gaat coal et eS = 5 ae storage warehouse) and make him re-- SO SO ene” - Cu rs Pea nin % G ==: | (CASTOBya The Kind You Have eee | = = Always Bought ALCOHOL 3 PER CENT. : AVege able Preparationfrls- B th a) bears the Signature (t h a n e Ci t i eu n e r t i t i n . dl to s pi t a l ae ) | | i aiNi | Similatiné the lal + NN. ting the Stama IDE CRR OG || Promotes DigestionCheerful hess and Rest.Contains neither’ | Opivm.Morphine nor Mineral. Nor NaRcorTIic. toe En 6) ee Paonia | Paogermin rH | Bi Carona Ba ee ai Hirm Seed - Use am A erfect Remed for Consfipe: Sil tion, Sour Stomach, arrvet Bi) | Worms,Convulsions.Feverish:: a if ness and LOSS OF SLEEP. ; | FacSimile Signature of For Over am | Thirty Years pers I ~-At6 months old i were 25 DOSES —35 CENTS Be 39 OS 3) eee) | | Exact Copy of Wrapper. THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. lf you have lost something or want to buy or have any- thing to sell try a want ad. in The Evening Mascot. Is Essential to the Up- | building of the Modern Business Enterprise. ::: To the publicity gained by the use of the - advertising columns of the daily papers is at- tributed the growth, and consequent success, of a very large percentage of great business enter- prises of the present day. Advertising is recognized as the prime” fac- tor in increasing the sales of any class of goods or manufactured articles. The space used in this puper is your;busi- ness message to the public. In this open letter you should tell them of the merits of what you are offering, setting forth the reasons why your particular line is worthy of their attention. THE EVENING MASCOT has increased its local circulation very materially during the past three months and the results obtained from the space used by the advertisers are gratifying to them and to the paper. It reaches into the homes of the best class of our people and your message will be placed in the hands of those with money to buy the goods you wish to sell. The Space Rates in The Evening Mascot are not high. Your message is carried, each day, to those you wish to reach, in the most. economical manner. : For information call us up on the phone ang a representative ot the paper will gladly visit you’ The Kvening Mascot SO S C S O S Ce C e OS S OS OO Ce o a O80 80 8 0 ih mt oo ? r *- a :3 « PI R SA R E EI S E L E EI A Demorest Comedy Co. The popular Demorest Comedy Co., opened a weck’s engagement at the opera house Monday with the pretty play ‘‘The Miner’s Daughter.*’ This is without a doubt the best popular priced show we have had in a long time. Each member is an artist and the company numbering about fifteen morestmorest ¢f-nap etaoi ououau is Well balanced. Miss Ona De- morest as Virginia, was the illum- nary of the cast, and immediately won her audience, she will be re- membered from last season as coring a hit. The musical act vas one of the best seen here, and iittle May Bl ossom is always Ipleasing. The special scenery learried by the company was a feature and added greatly to the iplay. Tonight they present the | greatest of all farce comedies ‘‘A | Midnight Elopement’’ which is for laughing purposes only. suite Against Steel Magnate TEN MILLION IS INVOLVED. ~s Former President United States Steel Company Served With Papers in Senational Suit to Re- cover cover Mexican Mining Property—Schwab Had Promo- ted the Stock and Sold Several Million Shares and There Had Not Been the Slightest Suspi- cion on His Title to the Pro. perty. — New York. Nov. 30.—Charles M. Schwab. former president of the United States Steel Company. and present owner of the Bethle- hem Steel Company, was today served with a summons and com- plaint at his company’s New York office, 700 Broadway, in a sensa- tional suit brought in New York supreme court to recover a $10.- 000.000 Mexican mining property known as the Santory silver and lead group. The plaintiffs are two brothers. Alfred S. and Sidney A. Wither- bee, of Mexico City. and their at- torney is Paul E. Defree. of Nas sau street, formerly a partner of Paul D. Cravath and Charles Steele, who recently has been known as one of the principal eounsel to the banking house of J. P. Morgan & Co. James P. Hutchinson, of Chiea- go. a co-defendant with Mr. Schwab, was served on Saturday at the New York club. 200 West Fortieth street. John Sloan. a Pittsburg promoter, was served in @room at the Waldorf-Astoria, Schwab’s lawyer, was served at his office, 141 Broadway. a Charged With Rifleing Mail. Greensboro, N. C., Nov. 30.— Postal Cierk John Coltrain wus arrested by an inspector this morning upon the arrival of the train from Goldsboro, charged vith rifiing the mails. When arrested a marked bill dlaced in a decoy letter of Golds- boro for Durham yesterday were found on him, the packages reacb- ing the Durham office without the money. Coltrain has em- ployed Judge Bynum to defend him at the trial this afternoon. Light post office inspectors are ere as Witnesses against him. —_——_+~<>-—___ GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. According To reports reeeived ut Spartanburg, S. C., yesterday from Westminster, WiH Dickson. colored, aceused of writing an im- proper Jetter to the daughter of the cashier of the bank at that place, was taken out last night by a party of citizens and a delicate operation performed on him. ’ Mr. Geo. Sides who was run ever and seriously injured on Thanksgiving day at Newton, died xt his home near that town on the might of the 27th. The new cotton gin of the Wals ton Gin Company, located fifteen miles east of Wilson, was destroy- ed by fire last night, presumably hy night riders, as several gins in that section have been recently warned to shut down on account of the low prices of cotton. The Iss is $4.500 and insurance $2,000 —~-+@>-—__—_—_—. In New York city considerably more than one-half of all the peo- ple. or about 2,800,000 persons, have deposits in the savings banks. A Norwegian factory receives power for six turbines from water that falls 3.287 feet through a tun HERE AND THERE. There are about sixty double- deck motor omnibuses in operation in New York at present. A single manufacturing com- pany produced and _ sold over 75,000 electric flat-irons last year. Vegetarian experts assert that one acre of land will comfortably support four persons on a vegeta- ble diet. Charles HH. is said to have first encouraged the public appearance of women on the stage in England in 1662. The Jewish population of the United States in 1818 was about 3.000. In 1908 it is estimated at over 1,000,000. Adolph Zinert. a Frankfort (Germany) slaughterhouse em- ploye. has killed 5,000,000 hogs during the last twenty-seven years. Experiments with new machin- ery on the Chilian nitrate fields are expected to cut the cost of pro- duction in half, A palm which grows in South America has a leaf measuring fifty feet long and _ twelve feet broad—the largest in the world. When the body of a_ starving animal, including man, loses two- fifths of its substance, the inevita- ble result is death. times as many as Berlin and six times as many a Paris. will come from a watershed of 900 square miles when the Catskill system is completed. —_——_*+o>--——- — — Most disfiguring skin eruptions, scrofula, Pimples rashes, etc., are due to impure blood. Burdock Blood Bitters is a cleansing tonic. Makes you clear-eyed, clear-brained, clear skinned. ILENE SN | New York city has twice as_ many telephones as London. four | New York city’s water supply | Ny" oh EET EO NM ia RS ae Cs —s =e ee - e Si ae = Ud OI NOINONES PAANMON CH PRA LRN INSEE NINE DIN ININS Ny $10 Gold Pieces for $9.00 That is what it “4 and they must go. DY P DI K PI N G ie Ny Guaranteed. ZR O I N D I N I N S YN individual Salt Sets, Ny Ww i by January | _ [have too much stock and must cut it down y Ist, ad will give you bargains in anything in my line. prices suit the BUYERS PURSE. Any one wanting a high-grade : ment can now get it cheap. a : Ben Bond, Biinois, Hamilton, Elgin and Waltham, in 15 and 7 j i i kind of a case led grades. These will be put into whatever you ca See I have too many 15 and 17 jeweled movements on hand Solid Gold Rings from $1 OO up. Solid Gold Stick Pins from $1 OO up. Solid Gold Cuff Buttons 175 “ Nice line of Silverware and Novelties, such as Toilet Sets, Manicure Sets, Mili. tary Brushes, Clothes Brushes, Shaving Brushes, Hat and Bonnet Brushes, alljin sterling or best grade Quadruple Plate. Nice line of Ladies’ Gold Filled Handle Umbrellas from $3 SO to $7 50. You can get a bargain in Cut Glass, Japanese China Vases, etc., and Statu- ary, as these must go. In Silverware I have acomplete line of Knives and Forks, Tea and Table Spoons, Butter Knives, Sugar Shells, Pie and Tomato Servers, cold meat and other Forks, Berry Spoons. Soup Sets, Soup Ladles, Carving Sets, Childs’ Sets, Nice line of Parlor and Gold Plate Clocks, Kitchen and Alarm Clocks. No difference what you want in the Jewelry line, I will save you money. Come and see for yourself. — cy means when you buy your Christmas goods from Will make the I have these in the Rock. I have Solid Gold Brooches 125 « ZF Solid Geld Lockets 400 “ Sold Gold Neck Chaius 300 y Solid Gold Hearts for Neck Chains 125 « iF, All other Gold Goods toc numerous to mention at Here prices. : REE In Gold Filled Goods, such as Gold Filled Neckchains, Gold Filled Lockets, {f \ Gents’ and Ladies’ Gold Filled Woven Wire and Silk Watch Fobs, Ladies Gold % g ’ Filled Cuii Pins, Veil Pins, Hat Pins Bar Pins, Stick Pins, Belt Pins, Brooches, \ etc., from the lowest prices and up. F, Large lot of Bracelets at right prices. Cut Glass Sterling Top Salt and Pepper Sets. NO I ) a> AY ) R. F. Henry # Jeweler and Optician Hotel Iredell Bui!ding. SaaS SSS = > — Jee, L Ss PHOTOS! weeks longer. Located | Yours RS RR ee Phone 40. while Willard A. Mitchell, Mr. nel from a lake seven miles away. L. A.GOLDMAM : Purveyor to the People. QSSOOOOOSECCOSOESSESES S. M. & H. SHOE COMPANY Opposite Court House. PHOTOS: 2 Your Photo (Four Positions as Above) 24 For 25c. @ U.C. Harwell, Prop. © - Phone !2 The Best Penny Photos you ever saw. Other Sizes to Quarter Cabinets and Post Cards. Don’t wait, come now. Here only a few over KNOX-POSTON & CO. Store, Statesville, N. C. eR aera mT NEW SHOE STORE & WE HAVE SHOES THAT ARE GUARAN- TEED TO BE ABSOLUTELY WATER- PROOF nice enough for general wear and heavy enough for farmers. —~VOGSEE THEM RRR Complete line of Dress Shoes for Men, Women and Children. Overshoes, Underwear and Gents’ F urnishings, Everything new and as represented. We will appreciate a to serve, ‘ : - OD A D O D H ® O O B O O O S O O O E D e e = WEHAVEIT! §& BE ; @ The Christmas Present You Want! & © At the Store of Quality. me @ ; 0 s Opening Up To-day : @ = StatesvilleDrugCompany, & mm a : Prescriptionists : HORORTOHOROORORONORONHOOLE | VETEETESCSSSSS HEC SCS SE TERS C w see Ri Ww coosoe * All MEN IN STATESNILLE * ma W AR And Iredell County should get ac- Ww mm quainted with the matchless man- wy ia ner in which we do their shirts, W Of collars and cuffs. Perfect satisfac- b AR tion guaranteed. :-: 3: :-: 2: w Aa ee a W Ml Ww w RS RS CS ‘China Se @0eccccccecccecessse000NSe HONE HONONONOHOHOROROHCHOO © These Handsome Dishes Given Away to My Customers $ With each cash purchase of 5 cents or over I will give youa @ coupon that can be exchanged for these gifts. A Statesville Steam Laundr w | a R: bd | <eceece---. ew sw g.w.w we etl | SSSISSTSSSeeseescecseesesete - et j | Now Time for You to Se lect Your Xmas Goods We will put aside any goods selected. See our new line of Morris Chairs and Rockers. Also Fine Mahogany Tables. We will make Special Prices on COOK STOVES and RANGES. STATESVILLE HOUSEFURNISHING COM’?! OO = Get us five yearly subscribers to The Evesil? | Mascot, paid in advance, and get one of the beaut ts we are giving as premiums. TH E N TE N TO N TO O N TO N TO O N : Vol. 1. Stole | Sol CLAY WASS Stole Friends it for Whis Not Sell th Credit—As rested and Bond, It is strang do their frig some days 4af§ of the Belm Bennett and leather strop attached to Simonton, 4G mont. Not being they took N¢ to Salisbury some ‘‘whiid of the saloon Coming ba proceeded ta customers. eral other 1 getting hold But when friend from stolen the st and wanted have the pri He was in not have an green came Now this so he com the affair ay property hz boys for the mediately against ther for larceny hitched to 1 The Wass but the Ben been appr Sloan’s co son was tri the principe son Simont« After he Judge Slo cause and b in the sum quiring a ¢ As yet he In } The Beng sociation a city for d¢ thing in sha is before us done a goo¢ zatin, and ¢ should do 2 forward th Mrs. A. matter in Mascot to to all our anything t old clothes cash to hel As the i will have 4 the wood be greatly purpose of ing the m all the wd it stored s for the eé needy. Once mo on our cit good ladie! way they All con should be ¢ who will who are n Mr, J. is in the ¢ ly TO V © SI Z i Si z AY <7 ° A I O Pa t oo mr | —_ — {O N T O N I O N S M es s an ee si AN A AN TO N AN A M TO M O N I A Si ¢ S7 ¢ S i i 7 ? 4 —_ 2 — ae -- e 2 ~ - 2 | = CE O C K R O R E R O m m Si d ee c e c e c t e c e - Ne e c e c e c e \ ‘ ¢, (q ) ) 1 - Vol. 1. == —z=x ih Sa a, THE EvENING MASCOT. Statesville, N. C., Wednesday Evening, December 2, 1908. - No. 374 Stole Hog Sold Whiskey CLAY WASSON IN THE TOILS Stole Friends’s Dog and Swapped it for Whiskey, and Then Would Not Sell the Friend Whiskey on Credit—As a Result he Was Ar- rested and Put Under a $100 Bond, It is strange how some men will do their friends. For instance, some days ago, two colored boys of the Belmont section. Hallie Bennett and Clay Wasson stole a jeather strop with a hound dog attached to it, from one Nelson Simonton, colored, also of Bel- mont. Not being pleased with this, they took Nelson’s dog and strop to Salisbury and swapped it for some ‘‘white lightning from one» of the saloon men of that place. Coming back to Statesville they proceeded to dispose of it to their customers. John Allison and sev- eral other negroes succeeded in getting hold of the ardent. But when Nelson Simonton, the friend from whom the boys had stolen the strop and dog came up and wanted some but he did not have the price. i He was informed that he coul not have any of it unless the long green came across with the order. Now this made Nelson angry, so he commenced invetigating the affair and found that his own property had been traded by the boys for the whiskey, and he im- mediately swore out warrants against them before Judge Sloan for larceny of a strop with a dog} hitched to it and selling whiskey. The Wasson negro was arrested but the Bennett negro has not yet been apprehended. In Judge Sloan’s courtthis morning, Was- son was tried for both charges, the principal witnesses being Nel-} son Simonton and John Allison. After hearing the evidence, Judge Sloan found probable eause and bound him over to court. in the sum of $100, each case re- quiring a $50 justifiable bond. As yet he has not given bond. —_———__-~@nre———" In Need of Funds. The Benevolent and Relief As- sociation are now canvassing the city for donations to get every- thing in shape for the winter that is before us. This association has done a good work since its organi- zatin, and every person in the city should do all they can in carrying forward the good work. : Mrs. A. L. Coble who has the matter in charge, has asked the Mascot to make an urgent appeal to all our citizens to contribute anything they have in the way of old clothes and bedding also the eash to help in this work. As the indications all point, we will have a severe winter and all the wood that ean be secured y=" be greatly appreciated. It is the purpose of these good ladies hav- ing the matter in charge to get all the wood they can and have it stored so as to be in readiness for the ealls from the poor and needy. Once more let The Mascot insist on our citizens that they help the good ladies in their work in every way they can. All contributions of any, kind should be sent to Mrs. A. L. Coble, who will give them out to those who are needy in our city. ~<a — _ Mr. J. W. Pharr of Charlotte, 1s in the city today. 4 Army Moving Against Capital A BATTLE IS EXPECTED The Island of Hayti Presents a Despairing State of Political Chaos—Engagement Looked for at Any Time—PreSident Alexis Determined to Fight to the End and Either Suffer a Crushitg De feat or Crush the Opposing Ar- my—The Cabinet Completely Disorganized French atd Amer- ican Gunboats in the Harbor Prepared to Protect Foreign Property. Port au Prince, Tuesday, 1— With the people in a frenzy, the revolutionary government disrupt- ed and the revolutionary army; moving against the capj*~',;*he Island of Hayti today presents a despairing state of political chaos. A battle between the government forees and the revolutionists is momentarily expected at Leszone. President Alexis is stubbornly de- termined to battle to the end and eiter suffer a crushing defeat or erush the opposing army. The French and American gunboats are in the harbor ready to protect all foreign property. ——++@> > —__ PERSONAL NOTES. Some Happenings Among Those Paople You Know and Others You Don’t Know. Mr. A Rich of Baltimore is reg tstered at the Iredell. Mr. L. D. Lipscomb of Balti- more is in the city on business. Mr J. F. Bromlitt of Atlant4 is m the city, Mr. V. J. MeDanis of Atlanta, ‘is in the city on business. Mr, Hl C. Mulett of Salisbury, is in the city on business connect- ed with the local sales depart- ment of the Singer Sewing Ma- chine Co Miss Mano Bogle returned to her home at Taylorsville this morning. Mr. Hugh Miller, _ advance agent of the Demorest Comedy Co., went to Mt. Airy today, where the company will play next ‘week, ' Mr. J. M. Connelly went to Taylorsville today on profession- al business. Mr. A. J. Evans went to Stony Point today on businesse ' Mr. Jno MeLean went to Mooresville this morning on busi- ness. Mrs, W. B. Matheson passed through the city this morning en route from Mooresville to her home at Taylorsville. Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Grier went to Charlotte this morning Mr. S. R. Brown went to Greensboro this morning. Mr. W A Bristol was a Char- lotte visitor yesterday. Mesdames M.S. Waddill and Robertson, of Rocky Mount, Va., feft for their home this morning, after spending a few days with Mrs. L. R Connelly. | Messrs. M.. P. Alexander and C. M. Steele went to Charlotte today on business. Miss Fannie Long, of Elmwood, is visiting Miss Anna Click on Davie avenue, Mr. W.~P. Maher, the local agent for the Southern railway is in South Carolina this week as a witness in a suit against his road. — ~~ enrer—" Three of the train escorts were killed and one was severely The Bazaar For Tomorrow FOR A VERY WORTHY CAUSE Will Have Everything for Sale You Need—An Urgent Appeal From Mrs. A. J. Evans, the Manager, Asking Every One to Come and Trade, Also Telling What Will be There to Sell. Mrs, A. Je Evans who has the management of the Billingsley hospital bazaar to be given to- morrow, in the Gem theatre begin- ning at 12:30 p. m., has asked the Mascot to make the following an- nouncement: All persons who will contri- bute anything to this purpose are requested to send them in early tomorrow morning so as to he able to get everything in shape by 12:30, when it will open. At 12:30 the dinner, lunch and refreshment department will be ready for the public, and all the business men and others are re- quested to take dinner, lunches o* refreshments with these ladies, and contribute that much to the worthy cause. This department will be in charge of Mrs. E. G. Gil- mer, assisted by a large corps of other ladies, and every one will be wanited upon in a prompt manne The Japanese booth will be in charge of Mrs. Wm. Wallace and an assistant, where all the nice articles you are looking for can be had. ~ The candy booth, where you ean seeure all kinds of nice can- dies, will be in charge of Miss Rose Stephany and assistants The faney work booth will be in charge of Mrs. B. F. Long and assistants. All the pretty articles you ean think of will be on display in this booth. _ Now if you are looking for a Xmas present to give to your mother, wife, sister, sweethpart or friend, this is the time to get it. The season for Xmas pres- ents as we all realize is not far distant and why not patronize this worthy cause and buy the present. Believed Tat Death List rows Larger BODIES OF 136 NOW FOUND. Final “Removal of Debris in Mine Will Reveal More—Many of the Bodies Have Been Claimed by Friends. Officials Began Their Inspection Today to Ascertain CauSe and Fix ReSponsibility for the Dis- aster. Pittsburg, Dec. 1— State offi- cials, m‘ae owners and rescuers, when darkness fell to-night, be- lieved that all but twe victims of: the explosion in the Marianna) mines of the Pittsburg-Buffalo ; Coal Company last Sunday had, been recovered. At that time 136 bodies had been hoisted from the bottom of the 200 feet shait, and turned over to undertakers at work in improvised morgues near the mine. Many of the bodies have been cleimed by friends, and a large majority of the others have been indentified by acquaintances or through timekeeper’s checks. Twelve bo- dies were brought to the surface These were found in various temo places of the mine, many of them receive a high salary, will tend to ander falls of roof and the deb- inprove the service through a con- ris. It isnot believed the final removal of the debris will reveal additional dodies. Search for the two bodies be-}the disadvantages.due to frequent lieved to be in the mine contin- changes and the appointment of ues tonight. Officials of the state mining de- psrtment, began theirinspection cording to provisions. of the law, today'in efforts to ascertain the to hold office during good behavior cause and fix responsibility for The postmaster-general will con- disaster. Coroner Sipe has set tinue as executive head of the de- December 10. for the taking of partment. testimony for allowing an 4ll night struggle against possible, bill is the assignment of the duties have indicated by chalk marks now performed by the third assis- just where bodies were found as tant postmaster-general to a com- an aid to the final inspectors. Many of the bruised, burned 'gion would issue all fraud orders ‘and mangled bodies rescued from ‘pnd pass upon the admission to the the depths of the Marianna mines of the Pittsburg-Buffalo Coal) Company were about 140 tives were snuffed out by an explosion last Saturday, narrowly escaped complete incineration tonight when fire broke out in the im. every one. ; Again we insist that every one The prices on all things will be provised morgue, & partially reasonable and within reach of completed three-story structure located at West Zollarsville, near the mining town. The fire was extinguished before any of the Change In Postal Laws TO HAVE REVISION OF LAW. Offices of AsSistant Postmaster- General Will be Abolished and a Director of Posts Adopted, With Seven Assistants, Washington, Dee. 1.—The four ‘ieffices of assistant pastmaster-gen- eral will be abolished, a director of posts, with seven assistants pro- vided for, with the entire — postal service of the United States divid- el into 15 separate districts, if the bill providing for the revision of the postal laws, which is being pre- pared by the joint postal investi- gation committee of congress, ap- [pointed two years ago, is passed by congress. The commission, which is com- posed of three senators and three representatives,has been in session for the past week, and by holding daily meetings expects to complete the work of preparing the bill this week. ‘ It is claimed that a director of posts appointed to hold office until removed for cause, and who shall tinuance of policies. By providing for seven assist- ‘ants the commission believes that jnexperienced men can be avoided. These assistant dierctors are, ac- An important provision of the mission of appeals. This commis- mails of second-class matter. In addition to thse changes in the administration, many of which have been recommended by Post- master General Meyer, numerous minor changes in the postal laws are included in the bill. The cod- ification of the postal laws is also a part of the work required of the commission, which is composed of Senators Penrose, Pennsylvania, chairman; Dolliver, Iowa, and attend, the larger the crowd the merrier. —_—_—__—_¢4>y>- Notice of Services. We are requested to make the following announcement: The Rev. E. A. Osborne will conduct services, preaching and administer the Holy commun- ion at the St..James Episcopal church, this county, next Sunday at 11 o’clock a. m. Sunday af- ternoon or night’ according to ar- rangements he will preach at Mooresvilie. ——___~++@>-—_—— Massey Gets Commutation. Raliegh, Nov. 30—Governor Glenn commuts the sentence of Sam Massey, colored who was to be hanged this week at Salis- bury, to life pepitentiary. Mas- sey was convicted of feloniously assalting a negro woman, but there was some doubt to the truthfulness of her edivdence and besides this Massey is a very low pe of intellect and has no idea that he has been guility out any crime because he does not know right from wrong. The judge solictor and many citizeus re- commened the clemency. The woman had him _ arrested three times and only indentified him the last time. wounded. aig he ao bodies wese reached- "The charge is made tonight identifications of bodies are being made for profit. that bogus ———__ err At the Opera House. The ‘‘Midnight all present, Robert Demorest, as Solomon Short the country boy, who was the man of all work at the village Elopement”’ played by the Demorest Comedy company at the opera house last night, was witnessed by a large and enthusiastie audience. The play was full of comedy and was for Jaughing purposes only, and was hugely enjoyed by tavern, was full of fun and wit. Miss Bettie McCrany as Jane Pennywise, the landlady of the tavern was indeed wise as to the pennies for she charged extra for}. everything. Tonight the company will pro- duce the Ku-Klux-Klan, which promises to be a strong play. —_—_~+@>-—_—_ Notice to Methodist LadieS. The ladies of the Methodist church are requested to meet at Pe parsonage Friday afternoon at |bank building is very pretty and 2 o’clock. Clay, of Georgia, and Representa- tives Overstreet, Indiana; Gard- ner, New Jersey, and Moon, of Tennessee. ——_—-+ 4-6 Tonight the people of States- ville will have the long looked for opportunity to see the great play the Ku-Klux-Klan. This is 2 companion play to ‘‘The Clans- man,’’? staged with beautiful special scenery and a company of players of sterling merit. Mr. Demorest guarantees this to be one of the best plays ever present- ed in Statesville regardless of price. Prices 15, 25, 35 Ee COTTON MARKET. Local Market, Prices paid at wagon: Strict Good middling........ 8%, Good middling..... ..... .2 8% Meddling? 05 esas 81416856 Stains and Tinges........ THR@8 The market was quiet. Pe Marriage license have been is- sued to Win. P. Drumwright and Gertrude Gilleland. Masonic order, on the National The new electric sign of the! Property Loss Is $9,000,000 TRYING TO BUILD BARRIER. After an AlLNight Struggle Against Encroachments of Ar- kansas River, the Apparently Hopeless Struggle is Renewed —Fate of Property Aggregat- ing Probably $5,000,000 is in the Balatice—Conditiors iIn- proving at Guthrie, Okla. Guthrie, Okla., Dee. 1.—Flood conditions in this part of the state continue to improve and the Arkansas, Caney and Verdigris nA So far two deaths have been re- ported. The dead are: Joha Sul- livan, a section foreman, drowned in Black Bear creek, near Red Rock yesterday, body recovered; A. J. Whitney, secretary and treasurer of the Farmers’ Union Oil Mill, in Guthrie, drowned while leaving the mill on a raft Sunday night; body not recov- ered. As the result of a washout early, today which caused a break in the aatural gas supply Oklahoma City and Guthrie, both cities are out of fuel and practically all the factories are closed, The Struggle at Pine Bluff. Pine Bluff, Ark.; Dee. 1—Fol- lowing an all night struggle against the encroachments of the Arkansas river, citizens of Pine Bluff renewéd the apparently. hopeless struggle today. The fate of property aggregating pro- bably $5,000,000 is in the balance. All teams that can be pressed into service are hurrying willow and pine branches to the river where hundreds of men are working hard waving mats and pushing these into the river hoping to form a temporary. barrier against the flood. A section of land north of the court house walls 10 feet wide and 100 feet long is moving slowly, to- ward the river. The kitchen of the residence of C. G. Brockway, slid into the river late last night. The entire river front is crack- ed and unsafe even for pedes- trians. os Citizens of Pine Bluff late to- day wired President Roosevelt to intercede in behalf of the city to get permission from the secretary of war to divert the channel of the Arkans4s river here. 7 as Among the Sick. ~ . Mr, A. C. MeHargue who. has been sick for some days is a great deal better. . Mr. J. M Mitchell who has been very ill for some time, is greatly improved.. Miss Eleanor Clarke, daughter of W. D. Clarke of this city, has had an operation for appendicitis and is very ill at Rutherfordton, where she has been employed some time as a trained nurse. derwent an operation at Long’s sanitorium Monday, is resting well. | The condition of Rev. R, C. Greene is not so encouraging to- = as he is not resting well at The condition of Mrs. Craig; mother of Mrs. C. W. Conner is not improved. — Mr. E. M. Brawley, who-has pneumonia, is resting easy today. —_ 4 Work is progressing nicely on the jiew district school, a few: miles north of town, near Capt. attracting a lot of attention. Gregory’s, oe. yma em es Lee rivers were falling steadily today. . Mrs. Chal, Cornelius, who un-. HA S eg oi d , ” ¢ $4 se d e ee t te e & aE Re ie te oe s * ap n e Rd gl ar a t e vt om e r NS ee e ‘a : ee xx IS AR BB P Oe . Ha e Ak e : se r e be s OP E et pe r Ve vi a l s . Se e Pe ta et ee ee at a 20 Le a d a SE PO N hn en h e jE . ae ee = Te e Ge e e a n es 2 PS te — se h e n el e m e n t te e s > 28 Se NA S al g en GR OI R L I D Ee AP I N E i ; ) i a ii ti mg t pe e s se ar e n ac s ee n AC R DR E Ta b PN RL LE E BI R RE D TE N E EO aE Se t tk at ay re n tc St e e te ~ SR E Te e ee e ie oe ee SR T THE EVENING MASCO1 DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. Telephone 53 ffice 109 Conrt Street. VANCE NORWOOD - _ Publisher. RALPH SLOAN, - - City Editor, Subscription Price, - $4.00 a Year ubscription Price, - 10 Cents a Week Entered at the Postoffice in Statesville ®&. C.,as second-class mail matter. eee) Weather Forecasts. Washington, D. C., Dee. 2—For North Carolina fair tonight and Thursday. Colder tonight with freezing temperature. +> TRYING NOT TO DO IT. It appears that the Republicans or the State of Oregon are having to take a little medicine now that is a little bitter. They had en- acted a primary law that required the nominees for the legislature to pledge themselves on nomina- tion that if elected they would vote for the man for the United States Senate that was endorsed by the people in a primary held for that purpose in the state. It happened that while the state went republican as it usually does, 2 Democrat was indorsed by the people for the United States sen- ate. Now some of the Republican leaders are trying to get the re- publican members elected to the state legislature to bolt their pledge and instruction by the peo- ple and have visited Mr. Taft to get his help todo it. The New York Sun, a strong republican pa- per has something to say about this case and it fits so well we give it. Thus: ‘‘The statement has been made in recent dispatches from the Hot Springs that Senator Fulton, of Oregon, has visited Mr. Taft to urge him to countenance a breach of faith to the voters of Oregon. The candidates of both parties to the Legislature in that state pledged themselves in writing to vote for the man for the United States senate who should receive a majority of the votes at the sen- atorial primaries, and the law of the state requires it. As the clec- tion resulted, a majority of the members of the legislature are Re- publican, and a Democrat. to wit, Mr. George E. Chamberlain, re- ceived more votes at the senatorial primaries than Mr. H. M. Cake, the Republican nominee for sena- tor. Now, under the terms of their pledge, which was made vol- untarily and freely by the mem- bers and under the provisions of the law, the Republican legislature must elect the Democratic candi- date to the senate. Mr. Fulton is asking the Republicans in the Ore. gon legislature to violate their vol- antary pledge and break faith with the people, and it is said he is asking Mr. Taft to join him in arging this immoral and dishonest thing. The- proper treatment for a man who brings such a proposi- tion as this is to firmly show him the door. The only pretense of- fered is that the Republican leg- islature owes a duty to the party at large to send a Republican to the senate. The first obligation of the Republicans in the Oregon legislature is to their own people who have instructed them to vote for Mr. Chamberlain and to their own character and good name. ———+-+ > ___-— POCKETS AND GUNS. The Asheville Citizen of yester- day contained the following edito- rial which was too good to be pass- ed over. We join hands heartily with the Citizen when it says the pistol “‘toter’’ is a fool, for he is not only that, but a coward. “‘Governor Patterson of Ten- nessee, has won international no- toriety by reason of the recently discovered fact that he has no hip pockets in his trousers. Which means to say that he cannot carry a revolver, because he has no place to put it. Many enlightened minds profess to see in the pocket- less trouser a remedy for the de- plorable habit of ‘‘pistol toting.”’ Perhaps there is a remedy in the abolition of the hip pocket. If yon have ever noticed specimens of ‘‘Young America,’’ the most highly prized possession following the advent of trousers is the hip. pockets. How often his hand wan- ders lovingly to his hip, in imagi- native traasportation to the realms of the bravado and the cowboy, is a matter of record, and will be ad- mitted by every man who ean re- call the time when he first donned trousers. Like the turkey, the hip pocket is an American institution. All generations on this side of the water have accepted it as existing primarily for the purpose of carry- ing a gun. It is peculiarly adapt- ed for such a weapon. His arm- ory hidden from the publie’s vul- gar gaze by the tail of the coat, the pistol toter stalks abroad, deluded with the idea that he is a walking terror, and that he is armed against attack of every descrip- tion. Poor fool! He doesn’t know that the habitual carrier of a gun is ‘‘marked’’ by his fellow man, and he who quarrels with a Fistol toter takes no chances. Abolish the ‘‘gun pocket,’’ and you take a long step toward abol- ishing the gun habit. Some one recenty suggested that the enact- ment of a law prohibiting the mak ing of trousers with hip pockets. Such a law would doubtless strike ome as being more or less of a joke, but that it would have far- eaching reults few will deny.”’ ———_-+ > —____ All Questions Answered In a book store in Georgia stands a glass tank filled with wa- ter, In which there is a single goldfish. Hanging on the outside of the tank is a placard, which contafns ‘the following answers to questions which the proprietor of the shop had got tired of reply- ing to by word of mouth. This is a goldfish. It is alive. There is only one of it. We got it from a boy. We do not know where the boy got it. It has never died. We feed it whenever we want to. It eats what we give it. That is water that it is in. We get the water out of the well. We do not know how old it is. We have had it ever since we got it. We have had more, but have not got them now. If it sleeps we do not know it. We change the water as often as we want to. We do not know how long it will live. We do not miss the water it drinks, We do not know how large it vill grow. _ We can catch it but don’t want to. When we get too much water in the tank we pour some of it out. This is all sve Know about it. It is not for sale. —++2r—__ Itching piles provoke profanity, but profanity won’t cure them. Doan’s Ointment cures itching, bleeding protruding piles after years of suffering. At any drug store. MOTHER do you hear that rattling in your babies throat? Put a little Mothers’ Joy on it and stop it at once. MOTHERS how can you take chances | —keep a bottle of Mothers joy in your house. You need Mothers’ Joy every day. ‘MOTHERS’ Joy is made of pure gooee grease and other healing ingredients. Mothers you cannot afford to be with- outa box of Mothers’ Joy. WOMEN’S WOES. Statesville Women Are Finding Re- lief at Last. It does seem that women have more than a fair share of the aches aad pains that afflict humanity; they must “keep up,” must attend to duties in spite of constantly aching backs or headaches, dizzy spells, bearing-down pains; they must stoop over, when to stoop means torture. they must walk and bend and bend and work with racking pains and many aches from kidney ills. Kidneys cause more suffering than any other organ of the body. Keep the kidneys well and health is easily maintained. Read of a remedy for kidneys only that helps and cures the kidneys and is endorsed by people you know. Mrs. M.L Moose, living at 209 Boulevard St., Statesville, N. C., says: “For several years I was a vic- time of weak kidneys. I had a soreness across these organs most of the time and I generally felt weak. Dizzy spells and headaches were of frequent occurrence, and at night I was unable to obtain my proper rest. The kidney secretions were also un- natural in appearance, and showed that my kidneys were at fault. I used’a number of remedies but Doan’s Kidney Pills, which I procur- ed at Hall’s drug store, benefited me more than any of the others. I sin- cerely hope that other sufferers will give Doan’s Kidney Pills a trial as I know they will act strictly up to their representations. ?? For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name and take no other. ——+@r-or—__—" TWO MORE ARRESTS There are Now Eight People in Jail Charged With Being Impli- cated in the Smith Murder Case. Raleigh, Tuesday, 1—Tim Hold- erfield, white and Ed Chavis, a negro hack driver, were today ar- rested in connection with the Smith murder case. There are now eight people in jail on this charge. Charles H. Belvin, one of the most prominent men in Raleigh died this morning. He was large- ly interested in business affairs. WANT ADS FO ne cco cwcs 5 cents a line. 3 times.......... oe 4 cents a line. 6 times........... sooo Cents a line 26 times...... ee oy 3 cents a line. WANTED—A Piano box at once. Address Z. Z, care Mascot. PHOTOS—Penny Photos a Spec- ialty—therefore you get the very best—24 for 25¢. Over Knox & Poston’s store. FOR RENTI—ONE STORE BUILD- ing and basement. Best retail stand in the city. Statesville Real- ty and Investment Co. Sept.19 AMBITIOUS YOUNG MEN AND ladies should learn telegraphy; for, since the now 8 hour law became effective there is a_ shortage of many thousand telegraphers. Po- sitions pay from $50 to $70 a month to beginners. The National Telegraph institute of Columbia, S. C., and five other cities is oper- ated under supervision of R. R. officials and all students are placed when qualified. Write them for particulars. no19 dtf WANTED—BY THE AMERICAN Cotton and Business University of Milledgeville, Ga., students to take one or more of our courses in cot- ton grading, buying and selling. Business courses of bookkeeping, Shorthand, Typewriting, or Telegra- phy and Railroad course. Positions guaranteed under reasonable con- ditions. Write at once for oar consolidated catalog. Largest col lege South. Sept 28-tt BUY YOUR GASOLINE FROM A. W. Holler Plumbing Co., Phone 61., 127 W. Broad St VALUABLE FARM FOR SALE. 133 acres lying one and a half miles north of Statesville on macad- am road, adjoining land of Capt. Gregory, State Farm and R. W. Orr. There is 175,000 feet of oak timber besides from 4,000 to 5,000 loads of good odk wood on the place, 10 acres of good branch bottom. Positively the best proposition that can be had in the way of land near the city. Write, phone or call on me erd I will give ou prices and terms. R. V. BRAWLEY. This farm is known as the Cooper Place. ~ 28-tf If you haven’t the time to exercise regularly, Doan’s Regulets will pre- vent constipation. They induce a mild, easy, healthful action of the bowels without griping. Ask your druggists for them. 25c. I have reopened my Meat Market in the grocery store of R. F. Cashion on Center street and will sell the best of Fresh Beef that can be bought atfrom — 8 to 12 1-2c. a pound. I will be pleased to see all of my old customers and any others who desire the best of meats at the above prices. >—— Phone P. A JONES STATESVILLE SKATING RINK Opera House Building 59—< Open from 3 to 5 and 8 to 10 p. m. No Children Admitted-to Floor at Night Sessions. LOOK HERE! A full line of Fresh Meats, the best that money will buy, at 8 to 124 Cents Per Pound. We also carry a full line of Heavy and Fancy Groceries at Prices you can’t afford to over- look Callonor phone us your wants— Phone No. 110. CHESTER BROS. SOUTHERN RAILWAY 60. lireat Highway of Trade and Travel Through the Southern States Through Pullman Sleeping Cars on palatial trains between the principal Cities and Resorts of the South. High-class Dining Cars. Many delightful Summer and Winter Resorts on and reached by Southern Railway. “The Land of the Sky,” “The Sapphire Country,” in scenic Western North Carolina; beau- tiful at all seasons. Hotels of the highest class. For detailed information apply to nearest Ticket Agent, or R. L. VDRNON, T. P. A., Charlotte, N.C. S.H. HARDWICK, P.T. M., W.H. TAYLOE,G. P. A. Washibgton, D. C. NOTICE Chas. Brincefield will ap- ply tor a pardon Dec. 18, New Pool Loom New Tables of ‘the latest and best makes have been in- stalled under J. P. Phifer’s grocery store. WesolicitYourPatronage To Cure a Cold in One Day Use QUIN-AGETOL 25 cents per box at eee} $ Sherrill-White Comp’ny We have just received and put on sale a big lot of All Wool Drees goods, 36 to 42 inches wide, your choice. 27 1=2 cents yard. No such bargain ever offered to Statesville buyers be. fore. One piece Tan Herringbone, rainproof, 58 inches _wide, real value $1.25 yard, for 60 cents yard. House full of correspondiug values. See our new line of COATS for Eadies, Misses and Chil- dren. We have the NEW DIRECTOIRE STYLES. Prices ® e @ e e ap. Come to see us. Qe Very truly yours, : e e @ @ Sherrill-White Company 104 West Broad St., Statesville, N. C. 09080000000 O89998OCOCOOOCE G0 9 OO O O C O OO O O OH O O O O O 0 O O O O O 8 VYEESSCSSECSSSCSSESSEESSSESEL W ABSOLUTE CLEANLINESS h w as =» isa feature that immedi- A Woofer +o [| ately recommends mod- ™ ing and its accessories to 'T' Ws : sl all believers in household NY al: | hygiene. A bath room ff Wi + on | can be kept clean and if «a { sweet as your dining q. AY) = pies But all good sys- A Yi TN | tems can be made bad by m a 5 inferior workmanship. So » a s | to make assurance doub- ft ¥ io aN Ree to ee your A . umbing contracts are M 4 —= ee to the A w A. W. HOLLER PLUMBING COMPANY * ny Phore No. 61. 127 W. Broad St. r ABZISSISIIII23323323323236 is the oldest (41 years) and first Business College in Va., (second in the South) to own a building erected for ita use—one of the finest 2 oe ae by on students, business men _ the nine eiphia stenographer says: ‘It is the leadi usl- ness College South of the Potetias River.” oS “When I reached Richmond, I in uired of several business men for the best Business College in the ‘city, and, without exception, they all recommended Smithdeal’s as th ae Rose. aw Stenographer, Bluefield, West Virgi aa Dea : __, Single, Double Entry and Joint-Stock Bookkeeping, Comme- = Arithmetic, Business Writing, Business Practize, Shorthand, Tepe ting, Telegraphy, Commercial Law. English Department. Ladies and gentlemen. Day and night sessions. No vacations. eee enter at any time. By Mail—Bookkeeping, Shorthand, enmanship, at home, to those who cannot come to College. Special inducements to well educa i ‘ally to teachers Writs for cotlog and fall pordeais ee G. M. SMITHDEAL, Pres., Richmond, V2. | 3 Seveccesecoosesoesoseosseoorssset THE STATESVILLE LOAN. AND TRUST CU, Of Statesville, N. C. = Is PREPARED to transact all branches of banking. ccounts are solicited from firms, corporations and indiv - ua wee may rely upon courteous consideration and the » ee moe terms that are consistent with good banking - Four per cent. paid on time and savings deposits CAPITAL Stocr $40,000.00 x CPCCor eeCCcee 9 S _ SHAREHOLDERS LIABILITY............seccecsveseeeo $40,000.00 SURPLUS anp UnpivipEp PROFITS............$30,000.00 Tora Resources OVER.........cececesesseee-0e$440,000.00 Peeoeccccccccocces | ; OFFICERS E. Steele, President, E, Morrisou, Vice-Pres, D. M: Ausley, Se and Treasurer, C. E. HUGHEY, Assistant Secy. and Treas: @0 T e e n e e 2e 2 e e C C O D E E d s AO A ‘W. 6. CULBRETH, Manager Savings Department Seer eceveccocoosaniqneseisscscescnconceeeeeese®*” Ji e °33.00 SHOKS'!3 We're calling attention today to our li n’ ae Dollar Shoes. - os Whatever price we name for a shoe, we inteu the Shoe will be the vest, that the same rest of money can buy anywhere. We’ve never seen our $3.00 Shoes equalled for the money. We’vea treat in store for the Three Dol- lar Shoe wearer. ALL THE NEWEST STYLES Vici-Kid, Pat.-Kid, Gun Metal Calf, Box Calf, ete. iixtreme styles.or conservative shapes. IT WILL PAY YOU to SEE OUR NE OF SHOES before you buy. ae: ¢.S.B.MILLER 3¢ te soe man. ©9000 COSCOSSCDOOCCCOCCCOUS ®D 2 O S ©9 0 8 8 O0 0 60 OC O D S O C C O O R S | 08990808 OF O90BT80808080S08D8080R% SOSOSCENSOSO 0806080800 580808080808080800 “A Show Down In @ sharp contest nothing but “quality” and appearance figure. RUTH MADE” Hosiery and the “WORLDS BEST” Black are the goods of Quality. After ali has been said, all your pursuasive argument exhausted, it is still a fact that “QUALITY” IS THE ONLY TEST OF VALUE * ° ¥ SA R CE T ST E C N Ee To get best results you must have the best of everything § best yarn, best colors, best machines and best help, with such @ combination you can produce the best of what you are making. We have all of the above. Ask your dealer for the goods of “quality.” ‘ f © THE BRADFORD KNITTING MILL. accountitim plies confidence in business. You will find A Reliable Bank~——w, in himself ani others. it both convenient and dig- = % 3 g : a 48 ANT. , with prompt service and pees an obliging treatment, is of f| Pa SIT MEA || k= great benefit to the young i i HH il > Al? business man. : ea i PSG aan ee Viz. (§ | By all means have a good gees. FS § nified in transacting busi- = When @ man- has a Bank checking bank behind you [oes i 7 ad HN A\ Pes | ; Hi} Mi 2 “ we 3 ~ eoovecrt 477 Wie) — oT Merchants and Farmers’ Bank OF STATESVILLE INCORPORATED CAPITAL $25,000.00. OFFICERS: L. T. STIMPSON, Pres.; C.S. TOMLIN, Vice-Pres.; F. B. BUNCH, Sec. & Treas.; J. A. KNOX, Asst. Sec. & Treas. Directors: L. T. Stimpson, J. L. Stevenson, C. S. Tomlin, R. R. Reid, J. A. Knox, W. S. Page, Geo. B. Nicholson, L. K. Lazen- by, E. &. Gaither, J. R. Hill, E. B. Watts. SEVERAL THINGS Are_to be considered in selecting your Bank 10 9 0 8 0 8 0 8 0 8 0 8 0 80 Sa O S O R ee e ee ee 1ST. Strength-Financial Strength 2ND. The care with which the Bank is Managed. 3RD. The courtesy and spirit of of accomodation displayed by the Officers and Em- ployees. 4TH. The banking experience of Officers. STH. The ability of the bank to Properly and Promptly Handle all Your Business To Those Desiring the Embodi- ment of These Features are Offered The Service of THE HIRST NATIONAL BANK OF STATESVILLE CAPITAL CR O N BO S C S C S O SO S TT R ea ee e ee $100.000 Peat SES eR nae een ag ele eee a in : es ee a ee Items From Stony Point. Dear Editor: Please allow me space enough m the dear old Mascot for a short letter. Thanksgiving passed off very | nicely. Everyone seemed to enjoy | themselves very finely, espeially | the hunters. Mr. John Ross and Miss Tattie Fay were married Thursday after- noon at the home of Mr. Joe Keev. ev. It was a surprise to their friends as none knew they had made such happy plans for the fu- ture. The writer knows at least four couple that will travel the same road sometime about Xmas. Tur- rah for Stony Point. Mrs. Reuben Watts visited rel- atives at Liledoun last week, Mrs. Horace Beckham who has been very low with typhoid fever is very slowly improving. Mr. T. M. Halliburton has sold his farm near this place to Mr. Monroe Miller. Mr, Talburton will move here about Christmas. Miss Cora Thomas spent Satur- day and Sunday with her ‘sister, Mrs. Watts of Liledoun. Miss May Halyburton spent Thanksgiving with . friends in Statesville, J. W. Watts & Co., are ginning cotton both day and night. Think the farmers are about through picking cotton, and are sorry and glad of_it. Correspondent come on, will be glad to give youa_ hearty hand- shake. Many wishes to all the readers, COONIE. EE Memphis, Tenn., Dec. 1—A handsomely dressed- woman, sup- posed to be Mrs. Nicholas P. Er- rington, of Chicago, foneht a des- perate battle with her 12-year-old daughter, Theresa, in the Pea- body Hotel, killing the child and herself. Carbolie acid was the Weapon used and both were ter- ribly burned, —~-++@>-e—_—____—_ Most disfiguring skin eruptions, scrofula, pimples, rashes, etc., are due to impure blood. Burdock Blood Bitters is a cleansing tonic. Makes you clear-eyed, clear-brained, clear skinned. How to Prevent Pneu- monia In every paper you pick up you will see where some § good man has just died with J this fearful disease—pneu- § monia. Now we will give you One Hundred Dollars | for any case of pneumonia you have in your family it fails to cure if you will use Goose Grease Liniment as { directed. It only costs you 25 cents a bottle. Get it— § you have nothing to loose | and all to gain. Weknow there are thousands who will read this and throw it aside and 1n a few days will be down with the disease. f Please just get one bottle and putit away until you | need it. If you haven’t the ¥ money to buy it let us know and we will send you a bot- tle free. GOOSE GREASE CO. OSITION Draughon gives contracts, backed by a chain of 30 Colleges, $300,000.00 capital, and 19 year’s success, to se- cure positions under reasonable con- ditions or refunnd tuition. BOOKKEEPING 2oate coe accepting his pruposition, concede that. he teaches more Bookkeeping in THREE months than they do in SIX. Draughon can convince YOU. SHORTHAND eonees ae Court Reporters write the system of Shorthand Draughon teaches, be- cause they know it is THE BEST. FOR FREE CATALOG and book- let, “Why Learn Telegraphy?’’ which explains all, call on or write JNO. F. DRAUGHON, President Posr OD=—= DRAUCHON’S PRACTICAL BUSINESS COLLEGE (We also Teach by Mail) Raleigh, Knoxville, Nashville, Cc lumbia or Washington, D. C. | | FAMOUS CEMETERY Pere Lachaise Is One of the Landmarks of Paris. IT HAS A STORMY HISTORY. This Picturesque Burial Place Has Served as a Battleground as well as a Graveyard—its Monuments, Lovers and Disconsolate Widows. Pere Lachaise is the largest and quite the most interesting of the Paris cemeteries and named after the Jesuit confessor of Louis XIV., whose coun- try seat occupied the site of the present chapel until the ground was made a cemetery in 1804. It covers 110 acres of ground, is picturesque, but quite un- lovely. Hare wrote about the tombs that “weight was their chief peculiar- ity and that all the monuments looked as if each family had tried to pile as much marble as possible on to their deceased relatives.” Pere Lachaise has a stormy history. In 1814 the Russians fought the French there and gave them a beating. Dur- ing the commune the Versaillais and Communards fought several pitched battles among the tombstones and did considerable damage. But it is not sO much with the history of the ceme- tery as with the people buried in it that we have to deal. A volume might be filled with the mere list of all the celebrated men and women buried in it, for, as Victor Hugo wrote, “being buried in Pere Lachaise is like having mahogany furniture—a sign of ele- gance.” In Pere Lachaise the monument whick attracts most visitors is that of Abelard and Heloise, the two most fa- mous lovers in the world. The monu- ment was first erected 637 years after their death and brought to Pere La- chaise in 1817 from the museum where it had been during the revolution. An- other famous lover, Alfred de Musset, lies buried not far from the two wil- lows over the graves of Heloise and Abelard. David, the painter; Rachel, the actress; Balzac, Scribe, Michelet and many other well known folk lie hear at hand. Admiral Sir Sydney Smith, Lord Seymour and other well known Englishmen are to be found in other portions of the cemetery, while literature is represented not only by great authors, but by Lesurques, the victim of Dubosc in the famous legal Lyons Mail imbroglio. But Pere Lachaise has more romance than in its tombstones. Chatting one day with one of the old soldiers who are the keepers of this grim park, I learned some curious facts about it. “We never have a dull moment,” the man said. “You may think that our time here is monotonous, but you are quite wrong if you do so. To begin With, there are the burglars. The cemetery is overrun with them. There are three kinds of burglars. There are the connoisseurs who often get away with valuable prizes, for you will be surprised at the works of art of small size which people put in their chapels. The window is broken, a stick slipped through the hole, and all sorts of things worth having are fished out; then the bronze stealers, who take away as much-as they can carry in their special pockets and make from 15 to 20 francs a day at the game until we catch them. “A little while ago a bust weighing forty pounds was taken out of the cemetery over one of the walls. But the most curious form of robbery is, perhaps, that of the pearl wreaths. Women are the principal offenders. They select the new ones, which are not weather stained, flatten them with their backs against the tombstone, slip them under their dresses, and when they have got away with them (we have no right to search even sus- picious looking customers) sell them to dealers, to whom they tell the well worn story of a poor workwoman who has need of food. “You would hardly believe it, but Pere Lachaise,” said the keeper, “is a favorite meeting place for lovers. We ‘get lovers of all ages, and perhaps more schoolboys and schoolgirls than anything else. But the three most curious things we see here in the ceme- tery are the forlorn widows, the letter boxes and the cafe.” “The cafe?’ I asked. “Yes. There are hundreds of people in Paris who refuse to believe that their dead do not enjoy after death the good things they used to like when they were alive. Mothers bring apples and sweets and leave them on the tombstones of their children. Peo- ple bring wine and glasses, and there fis one old gentleman who leaves a] potato salad on his son’s tombstone regularly every Sunday. Of course the children soon find out these things, and we have never been able to con- wince the people who bring them of the absurdity of doing so. Itis a very harmless superstition, after all.” “And the letter boxes?’ I asked. “Lovers’ letter boxes?’ said the guard- fan. “There are dozens of them in all parts of Pere Lachaise. Sometimes they are holes in the trunks of trees; sometimes they are little hollows un- der stones. “The ineonsolable widow is a fre- quent visitor. She is a pretty woman, and black suits her. She kneels down by a tombstone, rarely the same one, and when a likely looking mourner of the other sex appears bursts into tears. He consoles her pretty soon, and the two leave the cemetery arm in arm. One of these widows invited me to her wedding six months ago, and last month I was called to give evidence about her meetings. with her victim, for she had seven other husbands Hiv- ing.”—St. James’ Gazette. Fe re 2 = cinarka b l e story 4 4 The story of Mrs. Matilda Warwick, of Kokomo, P ind., 2s told below, proves the curative properties of weli-known female remedy, Wine of Cardui, a vbut g Mrs. Warwick says: g tained relief. Now Iam m1 would have been dead.’ A GOOD STOMACH ee Means Good Health, Cheerfulness, Ambition, Persistency and Suc- cess. Mi.o-na will cure your dyspepsia or any other stomach trouble by J building up the flabby walls, and making the stomach so strong that it will digest food without pepsin or ther artificial aid. In other words, Mi-o-na cures dys. vepsia by removing the cause. Statesville Drug Co., is the agent for Mi.o-na in Statesville and they say to every reader of The Mascot whose stomach is weak, who has in- digestion or dyspepsia, that Mi-o_na is guaranteed to cure or money back, The price is only 50 cents a large box, and one box is all you need to prove that you are on the right road to health and happiness. _ “I can’t say enough for Mi-o.na tablets; they have done more for me in one week than all the doctors have mt CARDUI It Will Help You “I suffered from pains in my head, shoulders, ge limbs, side, stomach low down, dizziness, chills, ner- am vousness, fainting spells and other female troubles. I was almost dead. Three doctors did not help me. At last, I took Cardui, and with the first bottle ob- AT ALL DRUG STORES cured. Sut for Cardui, Try Cardui. cat for the two years I have been under their care, and I will do all I can to recommend it to my friends. You can also usé My name in your ad. if you like, for Mi-o_na is better than gold to me. I am like a new man, and am able to work once more for the first time in over a year.”—W. A. Ennis, 328 Green St., Sfracuse, N. Y. ———_—_~+- 4+? A Grand Family Medicine, “It gives me pleasure to speak a good word for Electrie Bitters,’’ writes Mr. Frank Conlan of No. 436 Houston St., New York. ‘‘It’s a grand family medicine for dys- pepsia and liver complications; while for lame back and weak kidneys it cannot be too highly, recommended.’’ Electric Bitters regulate the digestive functions, purify the blood, and impart re- newed vigor and vitality to the weak and debilitated of both sexes. Sold under guarantee at Statesville Drug Co’s drug store. 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RALPH SLOAN, - - City Editor, $4.00 a Year 10 Cents a Week Subscription Price, - ubscription Price, - Entered at the Postofiice in Statesville ®. C.,as second-class mail matter. a Weather Forécasts. Washington, D. C., Dee. 2—For North Carolina fair tonight and Thursday. - Colder tonight with freezing temperature. —_—_—_++2@-+—__- TRYING NOT TO DO IT. It appears that the Republicans or the State of Oregon are having to take a little medicine now that is a little bitter. They had en- acted a primary law that required the nominees for the legislature to pledge themselves on nomina- tion that if elected they would vote for the man for the United States Senate that was endorsed by the people in a primary held for that purpose in the state. It happened that while the state went republican as it usually does, a Democrat was indorsed by the people for the United States sen- ate. Now some of the Republican leaders are trying to get the re- publican members elected to the state legislature to bolt their pledge and instruction by the peo- ple and have visited Mr. Taft to get his help to do it. The New York Sun, a strong republican pa- per has something to say about this case and it fits so well we give it. Thus: ‘‘The statement has been made in recent dispatches from the Hot Springs that Senator Fulton, of Oregon, has visited Mr. Taft to urge him to countenance a breach of faith to the voters of Oregon. The candidates of both parties to the Legislature in that state pledged themselves in writing to vote for the man for the United States senate who should receive a majority of the votes at the sen- atorial primaries, and the law of the state requires it. As the clec- tion resulted, a majority of the members of the legislature are Re- publican, and a Democrat. to wit, Mr. George E. Chamberlain, re- ceived more votes at the senatorial primaries than Mr. H. M. Cake. the Republican nominee for sena- tor. Now, under the terms of their pledge, which was made vol- untarily and freely by the mem- bers and under the provisions of the law, the Republican legislature must elect the Democratic candi- date to the senate. Mr. Fulton is asking the Republicans in the Ore. gon legislature to violate their vol- antary pledge and break faith with the people, and it is said he is asking Mr. Taft to join him in arging this immoral and dishonest thing. The+ proper treatment for a man who brings such a proposi- tion as this is to firmly show him the door. The only pretense of- fered is that the Republican leg- islature owes a duty to the party at large to send a Republican to the senate. The first obligation of the Republicans in the Oregon legislature is to their own people who have instructed them to vote for Mr, Chamberlain and to their own character and good name. ——_++2>»—__—_ POCKETS AND GUNS. The Asheville Citizen of yester- day contained the following edito- rial which was too good to be pass- ed over. We join hands heartily with the Citizen when it says the pistol “‘toter”’ is a fool, for he is not only that, but a coward. “‘Governor Patterson of Ten- nessee, has won international no- toriety by reason of the recently discovered fact that he has no hip pockets in his trousers. Which means to say that he cannot carry a revolver, because he has no place to put it. Many enlightened minds profess to see in the pocket- leas trouser a remedy for the de- plorable habit of ‘‘pistol toting.”’ Perhaps there is a remedy in the abolition of the hip pocket. If yon have ever noticed specimens of ‘““Young America,’’ the most highly prized possession following the advent of trousers is the hip. pockets. How often his hand wan- ders lovingly to his hip, in imagi- native traasportation to the realms of the bravado and the cowboy, is a matter of record, and will be ad- mitted by every man who ean re- call the time when he first donned trousers. Like the turkey, the hip pocket is an American institution. All generations on this side of the water have accepted it as existing primarily for the purpose of earry- ing a gun. It is peculiarly adapt- ed for such a weapon. His arm- ory hidden from the public’s vul- gar gaze by the tail of the coat, the pistol toter stalks abroad, deluded with the idea that he is a walking terror, and that he is armed against attack of every descrip- tion. Poor fool! He doesn’t know that the habitual carrier of a gun is ‘‘marked”’ by his fellow man, and he who quarrels with a Fistol toter takes no chances. Abolish the ‘‘gun pocket,’’ and you take a long step toward abol- ishing the gun habit. Some one recenty suggested that the enact- ment of a law prohibiting the mak ing of trousers with hip pockets. Such a law would doubtless strike ome ag being more or less of a joke, but that it would have far- eaching reults few will deny.”’ ——~--+o@-e—___—_ All Questions Answered In a book store in Georgia stands a glass tank filled with wa- ter, in which there is a Single goldfish. Hanging on the outside of the tank is a placard, which contafns ‘the following answers to questions which the proprietor of the shop had got tired of reply- ing to by word of mouth. This is a goldfish. It is alive. There is only one of it. We got it from a boy. We do not know where the boy got it. It has never died. We feed it whenever we want to. It eats what we give it. That is water that it is in. We get the water out of the well. We do not know how old it is. We have had it ever since we got it. We have had more, but have not got them now. If it sleeps we do not know it. We change the water as often as we want to. We do not know how long it will live. We do not miss the water it drinks. - We do not know how large it vill grow. __ We ean catch it but don’t want to. When we get too much water in the tank we pour some of it out. : This is all swe Know about it. It is not for sale. -———~+<+ere—___ Itching piles provoke profanity, but profanity won’t cure them. Doan’s Ointment cures itching, bleeding protruding Piles after years of suffering. At any drug store. SS MOTHER do you hear that rattling in your babies throat? Put a little Mothers’ Joy on it and stop it at once. MOTHERS how can you take chances | —keep a bottle of Mothers joy in your house. You need Mothers’ Joy every day. MOTHERS’ Joy is made of pure gooee grease and other healing ingredients. Mothers you cannot afford to be with- outa box of Mothers’ Joy. WOMEN’S WOES. Statesville Women Are Finding Re- lief at Last. It does seem that women have more than a fair share of the aches aad pains that affict humanity; they must “keep up,” must attend to duties in spite of constantly aching backs or headaches, dizzy spells, bearing-down pains; they must stoop over, when to stoop means torture. they must walk and bend and bend and work with racking pains and many aches from. kidney ills. Kidneys cause more suffering than any other organ of the body. Keep the kidneys well and health is easily maintained. Read of a remedy for kidneys only that helps and cures the kidneys and is endorsed by people you know. Mrs. M.L Moose, living at 209 Boulevard St., Statesville, N. C., says: “For several years I was a vic- time of weak kidneys. I had a soreness across these organs most of the time and I generally felt weak. Dizzy spells and headaches were of frequent occurrence, and at night I was unable to obtain my proper rest. The kidney secretions were also un- natural in appearance, and showed that my kidneys were at fault. I used°a number of remedies but Doan’s Kidney Pills, which I procur- ed at Hall’s drug store, benefited me more than any of the others. I sin- cerely hope that other sufferers will give Doan’s Kidney Pills a trial as I know they will act strictly up to their representations. ?? For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name and take no other. 4-4 - TWO MORE ARRESTS There are Now Eight People in Jail Charged With Being Impli- cated in the Smith Murder Case. Raleigh, Tuesday, 1—Tim Hold- erfield, white and Ed Chavis, a negro hack driver, were today ar- rested in connection with the Smith murder case. There are now eight people in jail on this charge. | Charles H. Belvin, one of the most prominent men in Raleigh died this morning. He was large- ly interested in business affairs. WANT ADS 1 time........ wae 5 cents a line. 3 times.......... soveeeeeet Cents & line. 6 times........... soeeee 4 CeNtS a line 26 times...... pee ens 3 cents a line. WANTED—A Piano box at once. Address Z. Z care Mascot. PHOTOS—Penny Photos a Spec- ialty—therefore you get the very best—24 for 25¢. Over Knox & Poston’s store. FOR RENT—ONE STORE BUILD- ing and basement. Best retail stand in the city. Statesville Real- ty and Investment Co. Sept.19 AMBITIOUS YOUNG MEN AND ladies should learn telegraphy; for, since the now 8 hour law became effective there is a shortage of many thousand telegraphers. Po- sitions pay from $50 to $70 a month to beginners. The National Telegraph institute of Columbia, S. C., and five other cities is oper- ated under supervision of R. R. Officials and all students are placed when qualified. Write them for particulars. nol19 dtf WANTED—BY THE AMERICAN Cotton and Business University of Milledgeville, Ga., students to take one or more of our courses in cot- ton grading, buying and selling. Business courses of bookkeeping, Shorthand, Typewriting, or Telegra- phy and Railroad course. Positions guaranteed under reasonable con- ditions. Write at once for our consolidated catalog. Larges: col lege South. Sept 28-tf BUY YOUR GASOLINE FROM A. W. Holler Plumbing Co., Phone 61., 127 W. Broad St VALUABLE FARM FOR SALE. 133 acres lying one and a half miles north of Statesville on macad- am road, adjoining land of. Capt. Gregory, State Farm and R. W. Orr. There is 175,000 feet of oak timber besides from 4,000 to 5,000 loads of good odk wood on the place, 10 acres of good branch bottom. Positively the best proposition that can be had in the way of land near the city. Write, phone or call on me erd I will give ou prices and terms. R. V. BRAWLEY. This farm is known as the Cooper If you haven’t the time to exercise regularly, Doan’s Regulets will pre- vent constipation. They induce a mild, easy, healthful action of the bowels without griping. Ask your druggists for them. 25c. NOTICE! I have reopened my Meat Market in the grocery store of R. F. Cashion on Center street and will sell the best of Fresh Beef that can be bought atfrom — 8 to 12 1-2c. a pound. I will be pleased to see all of my old customers and any others who desire the best of meats at the above prices. =—- Phone P, A. JONES STATESVILLE SKATING RINK Opera House Building 59 —< Open from 3 to 5 and 8 to 10 p. m. No Children Admitted-to Floor at Night Sessions. LOOK HERE! A full line of Fresh Meats, the best that money will buy, at 8 to 12% Cents Per Pound. We also carry a full line of Heavy and Fancy Groceries at Prices you can’t afford to over- look Callonor phone us your wants— Phone No. 110. CHESTER BROS. OUUTHERN RAILWAY 60. lireat Highway of Trade and Travel Through the Southern States Through Pullman Sleeping Cars - on palatial trains between the principal Cities and Resorts of the South. High-class Dining Cars. Many delightful Summer and Winter Resorts on and reached by Southern Railway. “The Land of the Sky,” “The Sapphire Country,” in scenic Western North Carolina; beau- tiful at all seasons. Hotels of the highest class. For detailed information apply to nearest Ticket Agent, or R. L. VDRNON, T. P. A., Charlotte, N.C. S.H. HARDWICK, P.T.M., W.H. TAYLOE,G. P. A. Washihbgton, D. C, NOTICE Chas. Brincefield will ap- ply tor a pardon Dec. 18, New Pool Loom New Tables of ‘the latest and best makes have been in- stalled under J. P. Phifer’s grocery store. place. ~ 28-tf QUIN-AC-ETOL 25 cents per box at | W.F.HALL’S : Prescriptionist | Cy a $ Sherrill-White Comp’ny $ We have just received and put on sale a big lot of All Wool Drees-goods, 36 to 42 inches wide, your choice. 27 1=2 cents yard. No such bargain ever offered to Statesville buyers be. fore. One piece Tan Herringbone, rainproof, 58 inches _wide, real value $1.25 yard, for 60 cents yard. House full of corresponding values. See our new line of COATS for Eadies, Misses and Chil- dren. We have the NEW DIRECTOIRE STYLES. Prices sap. Come to see us. 3 Yery truly yours, Sherrill-White Company 104 West Broad St., Statesville, N. C. VetCCCCSe CCC eeceeeecececcy % ABSOLUTE CLEANLINESS fs e. i 2 # ly sure, see to itthat your 7 Ww > is a feature that immedi. T Wi ately recommends mod- AM ul ern sanitary open plumb- A ua ing and its accessories to Wi all believers in household W hygiene. A bath room # YY can be kept clean and i «a wee = Son einai as f oom. But all sys- . tems can be radio bad by a “ inferior workmanship. So = : to make assurance doub- a W -| plumbing contracts are M wW : given to the m . A. W. HOLLER’ PLUMBING COMPANY i ‘, Phore No, 61. 127 W. Broad St. ye : 3 : BP233F3323323323323323226 is the oldest (41 years) and first Business College in Va., (second in the South) to own a building erected for its use—one of the finest in Richmond. Endorsed by its students, business men and the press. Philadelphia Stenographer says: “Itis the leading Busi- ness College South of the Potomac River.” “When I reached Richmond, I inquired of several business men for the best Business College in the city, and, without exception, they all recommended Smithdeal’s as the best.—Wm. E. Ross, Law Stenographer, Bluefield, West Virginia. é Single, Double Entry and Joint-Stock Bookkeeping, Comme!- cial Arithmetic, Business Writing, Business. Practive, Shorthand, Typewriting, Telegraphy, Commercial Law. English Department. Ladies and gentlemen. Day and night sessions. No vacations. Students enter at any time. By Mail —Bookkeeping, Shorthand, Penmanship, at home, to those who cannot come to College. Special inducements to well educated Se sally to tachare: Writ for catalog and fel pardeaees rn en . G. M. SMITHDEAL, Pres., Richmond, Vs. { THE STATESVILLE LOAN AND TRUST CU. 3 Of Statesville, N.C. Is PREPARED to transact all branches of banking. Accounts are solicited from firms, corporations and indiv - : uals, who may rely upon courteous consideration and tbe very best terms that are consistent with good banking 5 methods. Four per cent. paid on time and savingsdeposits § CAPITAL Stocr Cececccoocccoocoes, sesssseseeees $40,000.00 _ SHAREHOLDERS LIABILITY......0...ecceseeceeseeee$ 40,000.00 SURPLUS AND DNDIVDED PROFITS.......;....$30,000.00 Tota. Resources OVER..........c.ccceecerens0e$440,000.00 : OFFICERS E. Steele, President, E. Morrisou, Vice-Pres, D..M: Ausley, WedolicitYourPatronage a Sec Treasurer, C. E. HUGHEY, Assistant Secy. and Treas. : ¥. @. CULERETH, Manager Savings Department eee Seer epevecsocoeseniqvensiseccooooocoooonccooses* a od / i 3: 3 3 2 2 3 2 3 3 2 ) 3 3 2 4 oo 32 3 3 3 2 6 9 e0 0 0 0 C C O C C C CE M Ce 0 e 0 C O 0 C 0 C C E ® — ?53.00 SHOES!8 We're calling attention today to our Ii n’ Thre See y ur line of Men’s ‘hatever price we name for a shoe, we intend th the Shoe will be the vest, that the same aeaee of money can buy anywhere. We’ve never seen our $3.00 Shoes equalled for the money. We’ve a4 treat in store for the Three Dol- lar Shoe wearer. ALL THE NEWEST STYLES Viei- Kid, Pat.-Kid, Gun Metal Calf, Box Calf, ete. Ixxtreme styles.or conservative shapes. IT WILL PAY YOU to SEE OUR : NE OF SHOES before you buy. Toe . S. B. MILLER 28 | THE SHOE MAN. S0O0OSSSS COC CSCROCCCORC COSY ®B O O ©O O 8 8 0 0 0 06 0 0 6 0 9 0 0C O O C C S « Ina sharp contest nothing but “quality” and appearance igure. RUTH MADE” Hosiery and the “WORLDS BEST” Black are the goods of Quality. After ali has been eaid, all your pursuasive argument exhausted, it is still a fact that “QUALITY” IS THE ONLY TEST OF VALUE To get best results you must have the best of everything best yarn, best colors, best machines and best help, with such & combination you can produce the best of what you are making. We have all of the above. Ask your dealer for the goods of “quality.” SI U ee e eR BO R E eR , SS S A EP RB C S ar a . THE BRADFORD KNITTING MILL. ae ssinaneeonerrrerornerronac! ; with prompt service and i § obliging treatment, is of great benefit to the young business man. accountitimpliescenfidence 4 in himself anj others. ; By allmeanshuvea good & Uh | in business. You will find_ \ it both convenient and dig- = nified in transacting busi- = Ae = eee | mn | i ‘ F ; " ar. sre WWE When & man- has a Bank checking bank behind you ness. eonvnicHt 7 | Merchants and Farmers’ Bank OF STATESVILLE INCORPOXATED CAPITAL $25,000.00. OFFICERS: L. T. STIMPSON, Pres.; C.S. TOMLIN, Vice-Pres.; F. B. BUNCH, Sec. & Treas.; J. A. KNOX, Asst. Sec. & Treas. Directors : L. T. Stimpson, J. L. Stevenson, C. S. Tomlin, R. R. Reid, J. A. Knox, W. S. Page, Geo. B. Nicholson, L. K. Lazen- by, E. G. Gaither, J. R. Hill, E. B. Watts. é § : SEVERAL THINGS Are_to be considered in seleeting your Bank 1ST. Strength-Financial Strength 2ND. The care with which the Bank is Managed. 3RD. The courtesy and spirit of of accomodation displayed by the Officers and Em- ployees. 4TH. The banking experience of Officers. STH. The ability of the bank to Properly and Prompily Handle all Your Business To Those Desiring the Embodi- ment of These Features are Offered The Service of THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF STATESVILLE $100.000 CAPITAL Items From Stony Point. Dear Editor: Please allow me space enough in the dear old Mascot for a short letter, Thanksgiving passed off very nicely. Everyone seemed to enjoy | themselves very finely, especially the hunters. Mr. John Ross and Miss Hattie Fay were married Thursday after- noon at the home of Mr. Joe Keev. ew. It was a surprise to their friends as none knew they had made such happy plans for the fu- ture. The writer knows at least four couple that will travel the same road sometime about Xmas. Tur- rah for Stony Point. Mrs. Reuben Watts visited rel- atives at Liledoun last week. Mrs. Horace Beckham who has been very low with typhoid fever is very slowly improving, Mr. T. M. Halliburton has sold his farm near this place to Mr. Monroe Miller. Mr, Halburton will move here about Christmas. Miss Cora Thomas spent Satur- day and Sunday with her sister, Mrs. Watts of Liledoun. Miss May WUalyburton spent Thanksgiving with . friends in Statesville, J. W. Watts & Co., are ginning cotton both day and night. Think the farmers are about through picking cotton, and are sorry and glad of_it. i Correspondent come on, will be glad to give youa hearty hand- shake. Many wishes to all the readers. COONITE. ++ Memphis, Tenn., Dee. 1—A handsomely dressed woman, sup- posed to be Mrs. Nicholas P. Er- rington, of Chicago, fought a des- perate battle with her 12-year-old daughter, Theresa, in the Pea- body Hotel, killing the child and herself. Carbolie acid was the Weapon used and hoth were ter- ribly burned, 34> Most disfiguring skin eruptions, scrofula, pimples, rashes, etc., are due to impure blood. Burdock Blood Bitters is a cleansing tonic. Makes you clear-eyed, clear-brained, clear skinned. ST | How to Prevent Pneu- monia In every paper you pick up you will see where some- good man has just died with this fearful disease—pneu- monia. Now we will give you One Hundred Dollars for any case of pneumonia you have in your family it fails to cure if you will use Goose Grease Liniment as directed. It only costs you 25 cents a bottle. Get it— you have nothing to loose and all to gain. Weknow there are thousands who will read this and throw it aside and 1n a few days will be down with the disease. Please just get one bottle fi and putit away until you need it. If you haven’t the money to buy it let us know and we will send you a bot- tle free. GOOSE GREASE CO. OSITION Draughon gives contracts, backed by a chain of 30-Colleges, $300,000.00 capital, and 19 year’s success, to se- cure positions under reasonable con- ditions or refunnd tuition. BOOKKEEPING costs yo: accepting his pruposition, concede that. he teaches more Bookkeeping in THREE months than they do in SIX. Draughon can convince YOU. SHORTHAND @.83.Setaces Court Reporters write the system of Shorthand Draughon teaches, be- cause they know it is THE BEST. FOR FREE CATALOG and book- let, ‘Why Learn Telegraphy?’’ which explains all, call on or write JNO. F. DRAUGHON, President DRAUCHON’S PRACTICAL BUSINESS COLLEGE (We also Teach by Mail) Raleigh, Knoxville, Nashville, Cc Posr o> — lumbia or Washington, D. C. A FAMOUS CEMETERY Pere Lachaise Is One of the Landmarks of Paris. IT HAS A STORMY HISTORY. This Picturesque Burial Place Has Served as a Battleground as well as a Graveyard—its Monuments, Lovers and Disconsolate Widows. Pere Lachaise is the largest and quite the most interesting of the Paris cemeteries and named after the Jesuit confessor of Louis XIV., whose coun- try seat occupied the site of the present chapel until the ground was made a cemetery in 1804. It covers 110 acres of ground, is picturesque, but quite un- lovely. Hare wrote about the tombs that “weight was their chief peculiar- ity and that all the monuments looked as if each family had tried to pile as much marble as possible on to their deceased relatives.” Pere Lachaise has a stormy history. In 1814 the Russians fought the French there and gave them a beating. Dur- ing the commune the Versaillais and Communards fought several pitched battles among the tombstones and did considerable damage. But it is not sO much with the history of the ceme- tery as with the people buried in it that we have to deal. A volume might be filled with the mere list of all the celebrated men and women buried in it, for, as Victor Hugo wrote, “being buried in Pere Lachaise is like having mahogany furniture—a sign of ele- gance.” In Pere Lachaise the monument whick attracts most visitors is that of Abelard and Heloise, the two most fa- mous lovers in the world. The monu- ment was first erected 637 years after their death and brought to Pere La- chaise in 1817 from the museum where it had been during the revolution. An- other famous lover, Alfred de Musset, lies buried not far from the two wil- lows over the graves of Heloise and Abelard. David, the painter; Rachel, the actress; Balzac, Scribe, Michelet and many other well known folk lie near at hand. Admiral Sir Sydney Smith, Eord Seymour and other well known Englishmen are to be found in other portions of the cemetery, while literature is represented not only by great authors, but by Lesurques, the victim of Dubose in the famous legal Lyons Mail imbroglio. But Pere Lachaise has more romance than in its tombstones. Chatting one day with one ofthe old. soldiers who are the keepers of this grim park, I learned some curious facts about it. “We never have a dull moment,” the man said. “You may think that our time here is monotonous, but you are quite wrong if you do so. To begin with, there are the burglars. The cemetery is overrun with them. There are three kinds of burglars. There are the connoisseurs who often get away with valuable prizes, for you will be surprised at the works of art of small size which people put in their chapels. The window is broken, a stick slipped through the hole, and all sorts of things worth having are fished out; then the bronze stealers, who take away as much-as they can carry in their special pockets and make from 15 to 20 francs a day at the game until we catch them. “A little while ago a bust weighing forty pounds was taken out of the cemetery over one of the walls. But the most curious form of robbery is, perhaps, that of the pearl wreaths. Women are the principal offenders. They select the new ones, which are not weather stained, flatten them with their backs against the tombstone, slip them under their dresses, and when they have got away with them (we have no right to search even sus- picious looking customers) sell them to dealers, to whom they tell the well worn story of a poor workwoman who has need of food. “You would hardly believe it, but Pere Lachaise,”’ said the keeper, “is a favorite meeting place for lovers. We ‘get lovers of all ages, and perhaps more schoolboys and schoolgirls than anything else. But the three most curious things we see here in the ceme- tery are the forlorn widows, the letter boxes and the cafe.” “The cafe?’ I asked. “Yes. There are hundreds of people in Paris who refuse to believe that their dead do not enjoy after death the good things they used to like when they were alive. Mothers bring the tombstones of their children. Peo- ple bring wine and glasses, and there potato salad on his son’s tombstone regularly every Sunday. Of course the children soon find out these things, and we have never been able to con- wince the people who bring them of the absurdity of doing so. It is a very harmless superstition, after all.” “And the letter boxes?’ I asked. “Lovers’ letter boxes?” said the guard- fan. “There are dozens of them in all parts of Pere Lachaise. Sometimes they are holes in the trunks of trees; sometimes they are little hollows un- der stones. “The ineonsolable widow is a fre- quent visitor. She is a pretty woman, and black suits her. She kneels down by a tombstone, rarely the same one, and when a likely looking mourner of the other sex appears bursts into tears. He consoles her pretty soon, and the two leave the cemetery arm in arm. One of these widows invited me to her wedding six months ago, and last month I was called to give evidence about her meetings_with her victim, for she had seven other husbands liv- ing.’—St. James’ Gazette. apples and sweets and leave them on[ eg fis one old gentleman who leaves a7 j Mrs. Warwick says: tained relief. A GOOD STOMACH eee Means Good Health, Cheerfulness, Ambition, Persistency and Suc- cess. Mi.o-na will cure your dyspepsia or any other stomach trouble by | building up the flabby walls, and making the stomach so strong that it will digest food without pepsin or ‘ther artificial aid. In other words, Mi-o-na cures dys. pepsia by removing the cause, Statesville Drug Co., is the agent for Mi.o-na in Statesville and they say to every reader of The Mascot whose stomach is weak, who has in- digestion or dyspepsia, that Mi-o_na is guaranteed to cure or money back, The price is only 50 cents a large box, and one box is all you need to prove that you are on the right road to health and happiness. _ “I can’t say enough for Mi-o_na tablets; they have done more for me The story of Mrs. Matilda Warwick, of Kokomo, q.nd., cs told below, proves the curative properties of qvbut well-known female remedy, Wine of Cardui. wt CARDUI It Will Help You _ .“‘I suffered from pains in my head, shoulders, limbs, side, stomach low down, dizziness, chills, ner- ge vousness, fainting spells and other female troubles. i was almost dead. Three doctors did not help me. At last, I took Cardui, and with the first bottle ob- Now Iam cured. Sut for Cardui, mL would have been dead.” AT ALL DRUG STORES in one week than all the doctors have rm DO S O S O S C H O A e o4 +, pC og o bd pS o bd) + building of advertising columns of 99 0 0 0 8 0 8 0 8 0 8 0 8 0 8 0 8 0 8 0 8 0 0 0 8 0 8 0 8 0 8 0 8 7 8 0 8 0 8 0 8 0 8 0 8 0 8 0 8 0 0 0 9 9 BB I S O H O S O S O E O S O S O S O H O S O SO S C S HS C S OS T OO S O S SO S ee ee ee e ee e ee 2 reaches into the homes you wish to sell. economical manner. Try Cardui. ~ for the two years I have been under their care, and I will do all I can to recommend it to my friends. You can also usé My name in your ad. if you like, for Mi-o_na is better than gold to me. I am like a new man, and am able to work once more for the first time in over a year.”—W. A. Ennis, 328 Green St., Sy¥racuse, ING Ye _— 1 A Grand Family Medicine, “*It gives me pleasure to speak a good word for Electric Bitters,’’ writes Mr. Frank Conlan of No. 436 Houston St., New York. ‘‘It’s a grand family medicine for dys- pepsia and liver complications; while for lame back and weak kidneys it cannot be too highly. recommended.’’ Electric Bitters regulate the digestive functions, purify the blood, and impart re- newed vigor and vitality to the weak and debilitated of both sexes. Sold under guarantee at Statesville Drug Co’s drug store. OB080B0E00080 6000608000 8000S0800GN908080808080 00808 00 | (ADVERTISIN Is Essential to the Up= the Modern Business Enterprise. ::: To the publicity gained by the use of the the daily papers is at- tributed the growth, and consequent success, of a very large percentage of great business enter- prises of the present day. _+ Advertising is recognized as the prime’ fac- tor in increasing the sales of any class of goods - or manufactured articles. The space used in this paper is your_busi-_ ness message to the public. you should tell them of the merits of what you are offering, setting forth the reasons why your particular line is worthy of their attention. THE EVENING MASCOT has increased its local circulation very materially during the past thfee months and the results obtained from the space used by the advertisers are gratifying to them and to the paper. It In this open letter. of the best class of our people and your message will be placed in the hands of those with money to buy the goods The Space Rates in The Evening Mascot are not high. Your message is carried, each day, to those you wish to reach, in the most For information call us up on the phone and a representative ot the paper will gladly visit you. ; 2 | ae i ' A o s 3 an i F amt be Aa SU GR US R EA R L E I NO T : Ea fa ae i ie [ _ th better regulated cities of the |Canal without a single stop en home, but on the street cars, upon naa i a he IN tn gt rr pe AR gr aon, A A AEN Oe eh eT , a a lca teeta Cr, Mets Scene from Klu Klux Klan Tonight. “ cathe amen ata ae eae onntenncapianinis e's ete LORS ONRCANHNS DSI NINN NNN Np $10 Gold Pieces for $9.00 eee I RPL SHER ETE NES Ee aE Naw wo TET, OE ge UN TE se a tg Watch Movemen jeweled grades. may want. Q S O S IN I N D I R Se a en ( aaonos ween, vee a =~ SOUTH MUST FACE FACTS. ‘sanitation, or the lack’ of it. roan It does not need to be proven Not Abreast of the Times in Ap-|that the more dirt and filth men plication of Sanitary Science. jtolerate, the more they weaken There is nothing to be accom-|and die. = plished by concealment of the fact) Jt is rather to be admitted and that from a sanitary standpoint | shown that this condition exists there is much to be done to bring | among us to a greater degree than the South abreast of the times. jt should, and that its fatal con However disagreeable it may! sequenees are too terribly appar- be, we have got to recognize it | ent. and meet it and go about apply-| If the eountry life commission ing the remedy. has succeeded in adding to the With cooling time, Gbvernor¥ | sense of realization of these dan- Glenn, of North Carolina doubt-| cers, which is in the state of its less realizes that he made a mis-| first awalkk ning it has done. take when ‘he attacked the coun- | laudable work.—Atlanta Constitu- try life commission because it | tion. pointed out the South’s sanitary ee defects and produced the unques- GENERAL NEWS. tioned statistics in support of its Seen assertions. There is scarcely a Altoona, Pa., Nov. 29.—When thinking southerner who will not |James R. Patton, a Warriors agree that he jumped too quickly Mark farmer, found himself hurl- to the wrong track. ing through space, he realized for Statistics of southern cities | the first time that something un- show that their death ratcs are | usual had happened to him. Pre- excessive in comparison with |USly he had been so engaged in those of the north; the same is reading a newspaper that he did true of the country districts, not know his team had drawn In the South conditions have | him on a grade crossing near Ty- contributed to make the death rate | Tne, right in front of a train. large. One of these—the chief | Patton and the horses escaped one—is the presence in large num- |injury, but the wagon was demol- bers of the negro race and its|'shed and the Thanksgiving tur- characteristics indifference to the | keys and chickens were slaugh- commonest sanitary precautions. | tered. Figures show the death rate| Manila, Tuecday, 1—The Amer- among the negroes in southern cit- | ican fleet started on its homeward ies is 50 to 100 per cent greater | journey this morning. The first than among the whites , a act |stop will be made at Colombo, which, in a measure is responsi- | Ceylon, where it will arrivé in ble for the excess in the white |2bout two weeks. After a week’s death rate above that recorded in’ stop the fleet will sail for the Suez North. route. No ceremonies marked the It is the presence of this vast | racial clement, which disregards ' BEST ¢ A eoramon and natural health rules, SeEE POCO that constitutes the chief problem eae in the south. mmm =. This is the little Hy- Were it solely a matter of the Ze = Ome inhaler, a doctor protection of the life and health that has cured many of the members of that race, it thousands of sufferers would resolve itself purely into a f from catarrh, bron- question of humantiy. -chitis, asthma, hay But disease is spread by contact fever, coughs, colds, and by dissemination of the germ grip and croup. from those who are its victims se 6 6lt’s easy to cure These people are the cooks, the ees yourself with Hyo- nurses, and ‘the intimate honse- s mei. Pour a few hold employes of the white race; = drops in the little in- the two races came into contact. | haler and breathe it more or less close, not only in the @ in. The healing, sooth- ing and antiseptic air the streets, in businesss, in fact at @ will reach every nook almost every point of routine dai-| § q 2nd crevice of the mu- ly life. ues COUS membrane of tha Therefiore the work involved | Sap ee Dose and throat; will becomes not only a question of | stop the iritation almost immedi- a but one of self-protee- ately ; will allay the inflammation ; Bs drive out the foul odor; kill the The south must wake up to the germs and cure the disease presence of these undesirable and “‘My wife ahs been eae Hyo- dangerous conditions and set | mei for two months for eatarrh. about the work of correction. She has received more relief and There is just now, no more seri- | benefit than from any other treat- ous phase of the race question ment.”’—E. S. Parrett, Jefferson- than that which involves proper | ville, O. The Statesville Drug Co., the FOR RENT OR SALE—A 4room druggists, sell Hyomei ee newly painted house on North! nounced High-o-me) and guaran- Center street. Apply to J. S.jtees it. A complete outfit, includ- departure. Winston-Salem, N. C., Tuesday 1.--The sale of tobacco stamps at the internal revenue office for November show an _ inerease of $35,000 for the corresponding month of last year. The sales during the month just closed ag- gregated $178,160.94, which mean that the tobacco shipments for the month were 3,000,000. Troitskosavsk, Russia, Nov. 30. A local mail train was attacked | @ today by a band of robbers while Guaranteed. DR I N K I N G ~< S and they must go. ‘> what it means when you buy your Christmas goods from me. Te, a much stock and must cut it down by January Ist, and will give-you bargains in anything in my line. nal prices suit the BUYERS PURSE. Any one wanting a high-grade t can now get it cheap. c inois, Hamilton, Elgin and Waltham, in 15 and 17 fond Sous Ben ea. Gabe EES whatever kind of a case you I have too many 15 and 17 jeweled movements on hand Solid Gold Rings from $1 OO up. Solid Gold Cuff Buttons 1°75 “ Solid Gold Lockets Solid Gold Hearts for Neck Chains = All other Gold Goods toc numerous to mention at right prices. In Gold Filled Goods, such as Gold Filled Neckchains, Gold Filled Lockets, Gents’ and Ladies’ Gold Filled Woven Wire and Silk Watch Fobs, Ladies Gold Filled Cuff Pins, Veil Pins, Hat Pins Bar Pins, Stick Pins, Belt Pins, Brooches, etc., from the lowest prices and up. Large lot of Bracelets at right prices. Nice line of Silverware and Novelties, such as Toilet Sets, Manicure Sets, Mili- tary Brushes, Clothes Brushes, Shaving Brushes, Hat and Bonnet Brushes, alijin sterling or best grade Quadruple Plate. Nice line of Ladies’ Gold Filled Handle Umbrellas from $3 SO to $7 SO. You can get a bargain in Cut Glass, Japanese China Vases, etc., and Statu- ary, as these must go. In Silverware I have acomplete line of Knives and Forks, Tea and Table Spoons, Butter Knives, Sugar Shells, Pie and Tomato Servers, cold meat and other Forks, Berry Spoons. Soup Sets, Soup Ladles, Carving Sets, Childs’ Sets, individual Salt Sets, Cut Glass Sterling Top Salt and Pepper Sets. Nice line of Parlor and Gold Plate Clocks, Kitchen and Alarm Clocks. No difference what you want in the Jewelry line, I will save you money. Come and see for yourself. Will make the I have these in the Rock- I have Solid Gold Stick Pins from $1 OO up. Solid Gold Brooches 125 “ 4.00 “ — Sold Gold Neck Chaius 300 “ 1235 “ WO N T O N TO N T O N I O N M O N T O N I O N I O N , | Ca m e Ce ir e < a running between Kiachta and @& Urga. The thieves got away with + $125,000. +e ____ IN G The sudden change of tempera- ture last night recalled tond re-|Y collections of heavier clothing. R. F. 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BORORZCHOROORORORORONEOOEE R\ Ww * ALL MEN IN STATESNILLE * a Ww A And Iredell County should get ac- AN quainted with the matchless man- w Mm ner in which we do their shirts, Ww m collars and cuffs. Perfect satisfac- iv 4 Ww w send you, without further obligation on your part, a full Jescription of what you want, as well as fully cutlme City or Town State_” we sise. Be cure to meaticn thie paver. Street and Now P.O. Box, or R. F.D. £ ‘THE SEEDING SEASON is again with us and have a car load of the celeprat Superior Grain Drills the best and lightest running drill made. If in need of a drill examine them and get our priees—we know we can please. dp Also a Full Line of Hardware, Stoves, Etc. Evans Hardware Comp’y Pe p t PP P s Kerr, dec2 3¢| ing inhaler, only costs $1.00. ) + FPESTEPEEEPEPPS PEPE SHEDS fb oP ap oP fp fo fp fp fp oP tp oi dp oP fb fp fp oP f Ci cf p fp ie dp Pe t h t h th d fh th t h th th t fh Bh fb fb b j lect Your Xmas Goods We will put aside any goods selected. See our new line of Morris Chairs and Rockers. Also Fine Mahogany Tables. We will make Special Prices on COOK STOVES and RANGES. STATESVILLE HOUSEFURNISHING COM’PY See 2 Y subscrib ning Mascot, paid in advan ers to The Eve : ce, and get one of the beautifu China Sets we are giving as premiums, sofa pil og church 9 Vol. 1. me fi LADIES 0 Project to ° ley a This Af tions Yesterda tiful—Opy ternoon, The mo on foot soi zaar to be the Billing a grand s charge, ha day at noor of the Gem who found that encha: charm and The Gem a rollickin of entertai with awe ¢ it has bee chanted sz pon en the beaut mids of 4 creams, an ticles you the hands charge which gre tors. On first booth, in Stephany, its stacks deed it is adise. Next w table whe ties one ed salads, 0j and all a is in cha our estee tel Iredel things to wide. Next w booth in Armfield, Nicholson Japanese strewn p and here articles y The ne fancy a nice thir erate can B. F < Lor ous coml all kinds sight But as of the ba other t of the gq In all & should every pe The fa ed artic] thank 1 wards fq tions: Mrs. H Mrs. Cla Thomas; Misses Stephan y Gi Notic The the pars¢ 2 o’clock Mr. V has ace A, Gun (t e e , fa e yo re ee ~ SS E C E E CE LS HO N T O N T O N I O N O N M O N T O N T I O N I O N ma | SH O R TO N IO O T O N IO N TO N T O O N T O N T O N T O N T O N T O N T A Vol. 1. The Bazaar Open Today LADIES IN CHARGE AT GEM Project to Raise Funds for Bil- lingsley Hospital Set in Motion This Afternoon—The Decora-/- tions Practically Completed Yesterday, and Are Very Beau- tiful—Opened at 12:30 This Af. ternoon, The movement which was set on foot some time ago for the ba- zaar to be given for the benefit of the Billmgsley hospital has been a grand suecess and the ladies in charge, have as they decreed, to- day at noon thrown open the doors of the Gem theatre to the visitors who found themselves amid scenes that enchant, and the inhabitants charm and enthrall one. i The Gem theatre has entered on{ a rollicking career. From a place of entertainment, where one gazed with awe on the moving pictures, it has been converted into an en- chanted sanctum. Upon entering one is greeted by the beautiful decorations, pyra- mids of candy, salads, cakes, creams, and all the nice faney ar- ticles you could wish for Only the hands of these good ladies in charge could create the sights which greets the eyes of the visi- tors. On first entering, the candy booth, in charge of Miss Rose Stephany, zreets the eyes with its stacks of good candies, and in- deed it is fitting for a lover’s par- adise. Next we have the white spread table where all the tempting dain- ties one could wish are to be had— salads, oysters, ice cream, cakes and all other good things. This is in charge of Mrs. E. G. Gilmer, our esteemed landlady of the Ho- tel Iredell, whose fame for good things to eat is known far and wide. Next we come to the Japanese booth in charge of Mrs. C. H. Armfield, assisted by Mrs. Geo. Nicholson. It is lighted by the Japanese Janterns, which are strewn profusely over the booth, and here you can buy all the nice articles you want, The next booth is the Xmas, or faney article booth, where many nice things too numerous to num- erate can be had, in charge of Mrs. B.F. Long It is indeed a marvel- ous combination of evergreens of all kinds, making a most beautiful sight But as pretty as the decorations of the booth are the clothes-bags, sofa pillows and inumerable other things created by the hands of the good ladies of our city. In all it is a grand success, and Should receive the approval of every person in the eity. The following ladies who solicit- ed articles for the bazaar, wish to thank the ladies of the different wards for their generous conribu- tions: Mrs. Chas, H. Armfield, Mrs. H. P. Grier, Mrs. Fowler, Mrs, Clarence Steele, Mrs. D= A. | Thomas, Mrs. L. C. Caldwell, Misses Mary A. Glover, Rose Stephaney, Sarah Adams, Ray Ray Gill and Sarah Stephaney. ————_4 Notice to Methodist Ladies. The ladies of the Methodist church are requested to meet at the parsonage Friday afternoon at 2 o’elock. ——++e-———— Mr. Wn] Pitman of Oak Forest has accepted a position with -J. MRS, CRAIG Is DEAD. Mrs, Craig, Wife of the Late T. N. Craig, Dies After Two Weeks TilneSs—Survived by Two Scns 4nd Three Daughters, Mrs. T. N. Craig died this morn- ing at 6 o’clock, at the home of her son-in-law, Chief C. W. Con- ner, on Front street, after an ill- ness of about two weeks. She was the wife of the late T. N. Craig, who died about three years ago, and formerly lived here until her husband died. Mrs. Craig was born at Mul- berry, Lincoln county, Tenn., on the 28th day of June 1839, being in her 71st year. Her maiden name was Fannie A, Manier, and she was married to Mr. Craig in 1863, in Tennessee, and moved to Statesville in 1886. Mrs. Craig is survived by two sons, Messrs. R. H. Craig of Hen- derson, and S. H Craig of this city, and five daughters, - Mes- dames E. R. Wilkerson, Joe Fry and C. W. Conner of this city. Mrs Craig came here some weeks ago from Henderson where she lived with her son, R. H. Craig, to visit her son and daugh- ters of the city. While visiting with ber daughter, Mrs. Conner, she was taken suddenly ill, and her condition has gradually grown worse until the end came. The eanse of her death was kidney trouble, For all her life Mrs. Craig has been a devout member of the Cumberland Presbyterian church, and was a good woman. There being no church of this kind here, the funeral services will be con- ducted from Mr. Conner’s resi- dence tomorrow morning at 10 o’clock, by Rev. J. H. Robbins, as- sisted by Rev. J. B. Branch. The interment will be at Beth- Jehem church, a few miles from the city, where her husband is buried. The bereaved sons and daugh- ters have the sympathy of the en- tire community in the sad loss of their mother. r —_—~~+-+@e—_—__— Road Congress in Atlanta. Atlanta, Ga., Dec. 2—Delegates from half a dozen states assem- bled in Atlanta today to take part in the convention of the Southeastern Road Congress, which was called by the Atlanta chamber of commerce. The convention, which will con- tinue in session two days, is the largest of its kind ever held in this section of the country, and the speakers who will be heard will include the most notable of Amer- ica who have taken up the cru- sade for good roads. - o Distinguished men head the va- rious state delegations, while mayors of cities, directors of pub- lic works and government road experts are also included in the attendance, ———-4 > Farmers Will Protect Birds. Salisbury, N. C., Dee. 2.—With the ushering in of yesterday the bird law in Rowan expired and hunters are now plentiful. Num- bers of farmers, however, especial- ly in the St. Paul neighborhood, have agreed among themselves to protect game on their lands this season and will refuse to grant Fany permits for hunting on their lands. ——_+~+-e—__—_ Rev. Mr. Greetle No Better. Reports from Rev. Mr. Greene today are that his condition is not changed, although he rests a lit- tle easier. Those who attended him during last night say he did not rest well. Two more sons, Messrs. Clay Green of St. Louis, and J A. Green of Portsmuth, Ark, are expected today to be at A. Gunn Jr., as Clerk. his bedside. . Statesville, N.C Boiler Explosion Near Concord ONLY ONE PERSON HURT. ———. ee Lloyd Haynes, a Cabarrus Youth, Fatally Injured When Cotton Gin Boiler Bursts—His Body Terribly Bruised and Many “Bones Broken—Strange Fatali- ty Connected With the Old Boiler, Concord, Dec.” 2—At 12:30 o’elock this-afteernoon the boiler at the ginnery of Ed Goodman, located two miles northeast of the city, beyond the Allie Scott place, exploded and probably fatally in- jured Lloyd Haynes, 22 years of age, the young son of Mr. and -| Mrs. Will Haynes, of No, 5 town- ship. Mr. Goodman and his as- sistant were placing belts on. the driving wheel underneath the gin house, and young Haynes was at the driving wheel under the boiler shed, pulling at the belt wheel to give the proper adjustments when the crown sheet to the front of the boiler burst, causing the big steam construction to rise from its mount and fly through the air a distance of 150 feet, bouncing and turning aver several times as if rubber. The young Haynes boy was at the ‘awer end of the boiler, between the boiler and engine. When found a few minutes after the boiler had demolished the shed and done its destructive work, the young man was pinioned with his head against the big driving wheel body almost entirely covered with debris. while his trousers’ legs were burning. He was taken out and is alive at 6 9’clock, though it is not thought that he can survive. His left arm is broken in one or more places, a great hole is punctured in his left side, his left leg broken below the hip, and his left foot is smashed mto pulp. He was taken to the home of Mr. Luther Neisler, only a short distance from the wreck and is being eared for and at- tended. The boiler that exploded was the one used by Joseph Misen- heimer at a sawmill twenty years ago and was in use when he was killeds It was also operated his son, the late Will Misenheimer, ‘was killed over a saw, and later it was used and was the cause of the death of Milas Misenheimer, who was scalded to death in 1893, all of which is well knawn to Ca- barrus people. The cause of the accident to- day, Mr. Goodman states, was due to the fact that the old boiler had been burnt out. ———_t(@>——————_ Washington, N. C., Tuesday 1. —The Seaboard Médieal <Associa- tion the membership of which is composed of leading physicians and surgeons of Virginia and North Carolina, met in this city today for its fourteenth annual convention. A program of pa- pers and discussions eovering three days has been prepared for the meeting. -—__<4~@>-e—_—__ Stops earache in two minutes; toothache or pain of burn or scald in five . minutes; hoarseness, one hour; muscleache, two hours; sore throat, twelve hours—Dr. Tomas Eclectric Oil, monarch over pain. —_—_— tH +S No more plays wil be given by the Demorest Comedy company at the opera house untit Saturday afternoon and night. The mati- nee will be ‘‘Peck’s Bad Boy,”’ Night play, ‘‘Jesse James.”’ /proaching the city. -» Thursday Evening, December 3, 1908. President Alexis iS Threatened CITY MAY BE DESTROYED. Residents of Haytian Capital Rise in Revolt—Provisional Govern- ment Established Under Gen- eral Legitime—Army is Passive ald May Join Revolutionists Under General Simon, Who is Now Approaching City—For- eigners Take Refuge on Board Ships—Martial Law Probable.. Port-au-Prince, Dee.’ 2.—The city of Port-au-Prince as a whole has risen in revolt against the Haytian administration and the life of President Nord Alexis is threatened. The reactionary sentiment was expressed with wild scenes, disor- der and threats against the mem- bers of the cabinet and others of the administration. The uprising is general and so great is the dis- order that it is feared that the city is in danger of devastation at the hands of the lawless element. Neither life nor property is safe and scores and scores of people have flocked to the various embas- sies asking for protection. Many buildings and warehouses azve been burned and the irreg- ular fire of musketry is heard ip every section of the city. All the foreighers in the city havg gone to the foreign boats in the harbor for protection, and there is no danger of their being molested. American and French gunboats in the harbor assure the protection of the foreign interests, The army upon which Presi- dent Alexis was depending will not back him. It is not believed that a shot will be fired against the rebel army under General Si- mon. The troops will cither re- main passive and unresisting or will join Simon, who is now ap- The only semblance of order in the general uprising against the administration in Port-au-Prince] was the establishment of a provi- sional government with General Legitime as dictator of president. Under the circumstances this gov- ernment is very unstable and it is not improbable that General Si- mon will declare the city and country under martial law, until an election can be ordered, it be- ing understood that this is the eourse contemplated by the revo- lutionists in the event of the over- throw of the Alexis government. ——__+<+@>-o————_—_. MR, AND MRS, ROOSEVELT . CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY Have Been Married 22 Years— Congratulations Received From Hundreds. Washington, Dec. 2.—President and Mrs, Roosevelt are today re- ceiving the congratulations of hundreds upon the occasion of the twenty-second ..anniversary ..of their wedding. Theodore Roosevelt and Edith Kermet (arrow, daughter of Charles and Gertrude Elizabeth Carrow, were married in New York, December 2, 1886. They have five children, four boys and ane girl, all of whom are living. The present Mrs. Roosevelt is the second wife of the president, his first wife having died February 14, 1884, two days after giving birth to a daughter, now Mrs. Longworth. ——_—_++ oe Dr. W. G.-Nicholson and Rev. PERSONAL NOTES, Some Happenings Among Those People You Know and Others You Don’t Know, Mr. T. S. Hadypath of Wilson, is in the city. Mr. R, W. Glenn of Greensboro, is registered at the Iredell. Miss Katherine Claywell of Mor- ganton is visiting Miss Mary Aus- tin Glover. Messrs. Wm. Ward and J. Pur- dy of Asheville registered at the St Charles hotel. Mr. U. C. Harwell spent last night in Charlotte. Messrs. A. M. Spong, T. M. Constable, W. H. Watson and J. W. Peoples of Charlotte are in the city. Mr. B. Tutterrow of New Cas- tle, Ind., one of Iredell’s wander- ing ones, arrived here last night, to visit his father in North Tredell. Gen. J. A. Buchanan and Mr. H. C. Wallace of Washington, ar- rived here this morning and went to the Houstonville hunting elub to spend a few days shooting quail. ; —+@>-e—__ LOCAL BRIEFS A large amount of cotton is on the local market today. Today is a strong reminder of the good old winter time. Eight loads of tobacco were sold on the local market yesterday and six today— the average price be- ing 11 cents. R. F. Henry, the jeweler has the latest thing in hat pins, made from genuine roses metalized, and they’ are beantiful. Mr. Ollie Gillespie left today for Florida, where he will aecept a position with the Atlantic Coast Line railroad company. Mr. Jas. Butler, for some time with Mr. J. A. Hartness has ae- cepted a position as .stenogtaper with the Bradford Knitting mill. The Knights of Pythias will hold an important meeting in their lodge room tonight, and a full at- tendance is requested. Officers will be elected. A masquerade wil Ibe given at the skating rink on next Tuesday night. The rink is open until Saturday afternoon for those who wish to skate. : The Statesville Drug company’s show windows are attracting a great deal of attention. They show beautiful ware in the way of cut glass and imported goods. -———+oer-o—__—. A TAR HEEL DIES : ' FROM HIS INJURIES. Sergeant Bird Dowdle the Victim of a Thanksgiving Football Game—Member of Army Elev- en and a Fine Athlete, Boston, Dec. 2.—Sergeant Bird Dowdle, 27 years old, of Almond, N. C., is dead as a result of inju- ries received while playing foot ball on the Fort Revere eleven against the Gray Academy team on Thanksgiving Day. Dowdle dislocated his vertebrae while making a tackle and hag since been in the Carnegie hospital, South Boston. He was consider- ed one of the best athletes among the soldiers in the artillery dis- trict of Boston and was the win- ner of many prizes. He enlisted at Asheville, in- 1901, and his pro- motion has been rapid. The body will be shipped to his Southern home._ —————§ Se SS Rosy glows in the sky, wit- nessed several hours after sunset in the vicinity of Bordeaux, France, are supposed to be caused by. the reflection of the sun on J. M. Gibbs of Harmony, are reg- istered at the St Charles. clouds too thin to be seen in ordi- narly light, Burglars Make a Big Haul AND GET AWAY WITH $14,000 After Getting Motley Burglars} Sped Away in an Automobile— Shock of Explosion Shook En- tire Town of Pepperell—Police Hope to Trace Robbers by Means of Gold Coin.... ... ... "Pepperell, Mass., Dee: 2.—With consummate daring and_ skill which is little less than scientific, burglers early today blew open the vault of the First «National Bank, in the heart of the business district and looted it of $14,000 and valuable papers and then then sped away in an automobile. Either dynamite or nitro-glyce- rine had been used and the shock which followed the muffled deto- nation shook the entire town. Three men were seen in the car speeding with the rapidity of the wind towards Groton, several miles distant. The police of all the neighboring cities were noti- fied at once to lookout for the car and three men but they have dis- appeared as completely as though swallowed up by the earth. Ernest Tarbell, who was sleep- ing in the building adjoining the bank, was aroused. by the explo- sion and jumped from his bed. Tarbell suspected a burglarous at- ~ tempt on the bank and armed himself to investigate. He saw. . the three men leaving the bank and fired at them as they sped away in their automobile but ap- parently missed them. A large quantity of gold was stored in the bank and the police hope to catch the robbers by trac- ing the coin. The bank building was uearly wrecked. —_——~+ero>—_—__—_. Strong Play With Weak House. The Ku-Klux-Klan played by, the Demorest Comedy Co., at the opera house last night was a strong play, and certainly deserv- ed a larger house than they,.had. But We may never expect to have a good house as long as we have a tobacco warehouse for an opera house. | The story of the play is strong and deals with southern people mostly, and no southern man can see it without having that old feel- ing of revenge against the negro. _ Vietor Walker as Sampson, the negro sheriff played his part to perfection. — Robert Demorest and Mary De- Grafferelly as Lige and Liza were fine and kept the house in a con- tinuous laugh. Bettie May Craney as Mona Var ney and Ona Demorest as Kate Desmond were fine. Mrs, De- morest indeed played her part welll ; a Tha climax was reached when - Bettie Craney and May, Blossom appeared in a specialty act aceom- panied by Robert Demorest, Jr., the 18 months old son of Mr. De- morest. The little fellow amused the house for some time by sing- ing and dancing, in his way. ——H+oer-e———_—.. ; 1 Big Hotel Destroyed. by Fire,” Meadville, Pa., Dec. 2.—Fire at Exposition park ,Conneaut Lake, @ popular summer resort _ here, caused $100,000 damage destroy- ing the Hotel Bismark and all buildings on both sides of the mid- way. Se, x ' The conflagration was finally. stayed by dynamiting the build- ing. SSR ec mage ee - - i’ / a \a g ~ AS Q (a i s Pe e ng , t . , 7 ee ae = oi BO O E R O O H T O C O n O K O N R O m | GO V Q \ Vol. 1. x Statesville, N. C., Thursday Evening, December 3, 1908. No. 374 ~ MRS. CRAIG IS DEAD. ES Mrs, Craig, Wife of the Late e: N. Craig, Dies After Two Weeks DilneSs—Survived by Two Sons and Three Daughters, p J Mrs. T. N. Craig died this morn- ing at 6 o clock, at the home of LADIES IN CHARGE AT GEM.|her son-in-law, Chief C. W. Con- ner, on Front street, after an ill- ness of about two weeks. : = : . | Was the wife of the late T. N. lingsley Hospital Set in Motion Craig, who died about three years This Afternoon—The Decora- rago, and formerly lived here until tions Practically Completed her husband died. Yesterday, and Are Very Beau- Mrs. Craig was born at Mul- tiful—Opened at 12:30 This Ae berry, Lincoln county, Tenn., on ao" the 28th day of June 1839, being 4 in her 71st year. The movement which was set} yoy maiden name was Fannie on loot some time ago for the ba- A. Manier, and she was married to zaar to be given for the benefit of Mr. Craig in 1863, in Tenness ee the Billingsley hospital has been| and moved to Statesville in 1886 Project to Raise Funds for Bil- ee a grand success and the ladies in Mrs, Craig is survived by two|¢ity, beyond the Allie Scott place, charge, have as they decreed; to- sons, Messrs. R. H. Craig of Hen- day at noon thrown open the doors derson, and S.H Craig of this of the Gem theatre to the visitors city, and five daughters, - Mes- who found themselves amid scenes dames E. R. Wilkerson, Joe Fry that enchant. and the inhabitants and ©. W. Conner of this city. charm and enthrall one. ' Mrs Craig came here some The Gem theatre has entered on weeks ago from Henderson where a rollicking career. From a place] shoe lived with her son, R. H. of entertainment. where one gazed| Craig, to visit her son and daugh- with awe on the moving pictures,| ters of the eity. While visiting it has been converted into an en- with ber daughter, Mrs. Conner, chanted sanctum. she was taken suddenly ill, and Upon entering one is greeted by| her condition has gradually grown the beautiful decorations, pyra-| worse until fhe end came. The mids of candy, salads, cakes, |eanse of her death was kidney creams, and all the nice faney ar- trouble, ticles you could wish for Only] For all her life Mrs. Craig has the hands of these good ladies in]}heen a devout member of the charge could create the sights} Cumberland Presbyterian church, which greets the eyes of the visi- and was a good woman. There tors. 7 being no church of this kind here, On first entering, the candy|the funeral services will be con- booth, in charge of Miss Rose|ducted from Mr. Conner’s resi- Stephany, greets the eyes with|dence tomorrow morning at 10 its stacks of good candies, and. in- o’clock, by Rev. J. H. Robbins, as- deed it is fitting for a lover’s par-| sisted by Rev. J. B. Branch. adise. The interment will be at Beth- Next we have the white spread}tehem church, a few miles from table where all the tempting dain-|the city, where her husband is ties one could wish are to be had—| puried. salads, oysters, ice cream, cakes} The bereaved sons and daugh- and all other good things. This|ters have the sympathy of the en- is in charge of Mrs, E. G. Gilmer, | tire community in the sad loss of our esteemed landlady of the Ho-] their mother. | tel Iredell, whose fame for good So things to eat is known far and Road Congress in Atlanta. wide. Atlanta, Ga., Dee. 2—Delegates Next we come to the Japanese)from half a dozen states assem- booth in eharge of Mrs. C. H.|bled in Atlanta today to take Armfield, assisted by Mrs. Geo.|part in the convention of the Nicholson. It ig lighted by the|Southeastern Road Congress, Japanese Janterns, which are| which was called by the Atlanta strewn profusely over the booth,|/chamber of commerce. _ and here you ean buy all the niece} The convention, which will con- articles you want. tinue in session two days, is the The next booth is the Xmas, or| largest of its kind ever held in this faney article booth, where many|section of the country, and the nice things too numerous to num-| speakers who 1 will be heard will erate can be had, in charge of Mrs.] include the most notable of Amer- B.F. Long It is indeed a marvel-|ica who have taken up the cru- ous combination of evergreens of|sade for good roads.. __ all kinds, making a most beautiful} Distinguished men head the va- sight rious state delegations, while But as pretty as the decorations | mayors 0 of cities, directors of pub- of the booth are the clothes-bags,|lic works and government road sofa pillows and inumerablejexperts are also included in the other things created by the hands| attendance, . ° Ce of the good ladies of our city. In all it is 2 grand success, and Farmers Will Protect Birds. Should receive the approval of a N. e eee every person in the eity. the ushering in of y y The following ladies who solicit-| bird law in —S sci mae ee ed articles for the bazaar, wish to| hunters are ae entizut. oe thank the ladies of the different bers of a Seay es wards for their generous confibu- ly in the St. Paul neighbo : tions: Mrs. Chas. H. Armfield,|Bave agreed among themselves to Mrs os Pp Grier Mrs. Fowler, } Protect game on their lands this Mrs. Clarence Steele, Mrs. Do A. } season and will refuse to grant Thomas, Mrs. L. C. Caldwell,|22Y permits for hunting on their Misses Mary A. Glover, Rose|!@nds. ——___+<+@- eo Stephaney, Sarah Adams, Ray} p.. wr Greene No Better. Ray Gill and a Stephaney. Reports from Rev. Mr. Greene Notice to Methodist Ladie’ today are that his condition is not changed, although he rests a lit- tle easier. Those who attended him during last night say he did The ladies of the Methodist church are requested to meet at i at a ee sec Ene not rest well. Two more sons, SS ee Messrs. Clay Green of St. Louis, Mr. Wn] Pitman of Oak Forest/and J A. Green of Portsmuth, has accepted a position with -J.|Ark., are expected today to be at She! Lloyd Haynes, a Cabarrus Youth, -| Mrs. Will Haynes, of No. 5 town- Boiler Explosion Near Concord ONLY ONE PERSON HURT. Fatally Injured When Cotton Gin Boiler Bursts—His Body Terribly Bruised and Many “Bones Broken—Strange Fatali- ty Connected With the Old Boiler. Dee. 2—At 12:30 o’elock this-afteernoon the boiler at the ginnery of Ed Goodman, located two miles northeast of the Concord, exploded and probably fatally in- jured Lloyd Haynes, 22 years of age, the young son of Mr. and ship. Mr. Goodman and his as- sistant were placing belts on. the driving wheel underneath the gin house, and young Haynes was at the driving wheel under the boiler shed, pulling at the belt wheel to give the proper adjustments when the crown sheet to the front of the boiler burst, causing the big steam construction to rise from its mount and fly through the air a distance of 150 feet, bouncing and turning aver several times as if rubber. The young Haynes boy was at the -qwer end of the boiler, between the boiler and engine. When found a few minutes after the boiler had demolished the shed and done its destructive work, the young man was pinioned with his head against the big driving wheel body almost entirely cov ered with debris. while his trousers’ legs were burning. He was taken out and is alive at 6 0’clock, though it is not thought that he can survive. His left arm is broken in one or more plaees, a great hole is punctured in his left side, his left leg broken below the hip, and his left foot is smashed into pulp. He was taken to the home of Mr. Luther Neisler, only a short distance from the wreck and is being eared for and at- tended. The boiler that exploded was the one used by Joseph Misen- heimer at a sawmill twenty years ago and was in use when he was killed» It was also operated his son, the late Will Misenheimer, -was killed over a saw, and later it was used and was the cause of the death of Milas Misenheimer, who was scalded to death in 1893, all of which is well known to Ca- barrus people. The cause of the accident to- day, Mr. Goodman states, was due to the fact that the old boiler had been burnt out. ——$$_4 Washington, N. C., Tuesday 1. —The Seaboard Médical Associa- tion the membership of which is composed of leading physicians and surgeons of Virginia and North Carolina, met in this city today for its fourteenth annual convention. A program of pa- pers and discussions covering three days has been prepared for the meeting. at ge Stops earache in two minutes; toothache or pain of burn or scald in five _ minutes; hoarseness, one hour; muscleache, two hours; sore throat, twelve hours—Dr. Tiotmas Eclectric Oil, monarch over pain. ———_+<+@>-oe——_——"——_ No more plays wil be given by the Demorest Comedy company at the opera house untit Saturday afternoon and night. The mati- nee will be ‘‘Peck’s Bad Boy,”’ President Alexis IS Threatened CITY MAY BE DESTROYED. Residents of Haytian Capital Rise in Revolt—Provisional Govern- ment Established Under Gen- eral Legitime—Army is Passive Under General Simon, Who is eigners Take Refuge on Board Ships—Martial Law Probable.. Port-au-Prince, Dec.’ 2.—The city of Port-au-Prince as a whole has risen in revolt against the life of President Nord Alexis is threatened. expressed with wild scenes, disor- der and threats against the mem- bers of the cabinet and others of the administration. The uprising is general and so great ig the dis- order that it is feared that the city is in danger of devastation at the hands of the lawless element. Neither life nor property is safe and scores and scores of people have flocked to the various embas- sies asking for protection. Many buildings and warehouses azve been burned and the irreg- ular fire of musketry is heard in every section of the city. All the foreigners in the city havg gone to the foreign boats in the harbor for protection, and there is no danger of their being molested. American and French gunboats in the harbor assure the protection of the foreign interests. The army upon which Presi- dent Alexis was depending will not back him. It is not believed that a shot will be fired against the rebel army under General Si- mon. The troops will cither re- main passive and unresisting or will join Simon, who is now ap- /proaching the city. The only semblance of order in the general uprising against the administration in Port-au-Prince] was the establishment of a provi- sional government with General Legitime as dictator of president. Under the circumstances this gov- ernment is very unstable and it is not improbable that General Si- mon will declare the city and country under martial law, until an election can be ordered, it be- ing understood that this is the course contemplated by the revo- lutionists in the event of the over- throw of the Alexis government. ————~++2>-2—_—__ MR. AND MRS. ROOSEVELT CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY Have Been Married 22 Years— Congratulations Received From Hundreds. Washington, Dec. 2.—President and Mrs. Roosevelt are today re- ceiving the congratulations of hundreds upon the occasion of the twenty-second ..anniversary ..of their wedding. Theodore Roosevelt and Edith Kermet (Carrow, daughter of Charles and Gertrude Elizabeth Carrow, were married in New York, December 2, 1886. They have five children, four boys and one girl, all of whom are living. The present Mrs. Roosevelt is the second wife of the president, his first wife having died February 14, 1884, two days after giving birth to a daughter, now Mrs. Longworth. Dr, W. G.-Nicholson and Rev. J. M. Gibbs of Harmony, are reg- A. Gunn Jr., as Clerk. his bedside. — Night play, ‘‘Jesse James.” ~-) istered at the St Charles. : ., .-|dy of Asheville registered at the ald May Join Revolutionists St Charles hotel. Now Approaching City—For- night in Charlotte. J. W. Peoples of Charlotte ‘are in Haytian administration and the]. The reactionary sentiment was H. C. Wallace of Washington, ar , ar- PERSONAL NOTES. Some Happenings Among Those Paople You Know and Others You Don’t Know. Mr. T. S Hadypath of Wilson, is in the city. Mr. R, W. Glenn of Greensboro, is registered at the Iredell. Miss Katherine Claywell of Mor- ganton is visiting Miss Mary Aus- tin Glover. Messrs. Wm. Ward and J. Pur- Mr. U. C, Harwell spent last Messrs. A. M. Spong, T. M. Constable, W. H. Watson and the city. Mr. B. Tutterrow of New Cas- tle, Ind., one of Iredell’s wander- ing ones, arrived here last night, to visit his father in North Iredell. Gen. J. A. Buchanan and Mr. rived here this morning and went to the Houstonville hunting club to spend a few days shooting quail. —_++2>o—__—_ LOCAL BRIEFS A large amount of cotton is on the local market today. Today is a strong reminder of the good old winter time, Eight loads of tobacco were sold on the local market yesterday and six today— the average price be- ing 11 cents. R, F. Henry, the jeweler has the latest thing in hat pins, made from genuine roses metalized, and they are beautiful. Mr. Ollie Gillespie left today for Florida, where he will accept a position with the Atlantie Coast Line railroad company. Mr. Jas. Butler, for some time with Mr. J. A. Hartness has ac- cepted a position -as .stenograper with the Bradford Knitting mill. The Knights of Pythias will hold an important meeting in their lodge room tonight, and a full at- tendance is requested. Officers will be elected. A masquerade wil Ibe given at the skating rink on next Tuesday night. The rink is open until Saturday afternoon for those who wish to skate. The Statesville Drug company’s show windows are attracting a great deal of attention. They show beautiful ware in the way of cut glass and imported goods. -—-——_++@ > —__—_ A TAR HEEL DIES : ' FROM HIS INJURIES. Sergeant Bird Dowdle the Victim of a Thanksgiving Football Game—Member of Army Elev- en and a Fine Athlete, Boston, Dec. 2.—Sergeant Bird Dowdle, 27 years old, of Almond, N. C., is dead as a result of inju- ries received while playing foot ball on the Fort Revere eleven against the Gray Academy team on Thanksgiving Day. Dowdle dislocated his vertebrae while making a tackle and hag since been in the Carnegie hospital, South Boston. He was consider- ed one of the best athletes among the soldiers in the artillery dis- trict of Boston and was the win- ner of many prizes. He enlisted at Asheville, in- 1901, and his pro- motion has been rapid. The body will be shipped to his Southern home._ - _—_—-_~@ oe SS Rosy glows in the sky, wit- nessed several hours after sunset in the vicinity of Bordeaux, France, are supposed to be caused by. the reflection of the sun on clouds too thin to be seen in ordi- Burglars Make a-Big Haul AND GET AWAY WITH $14,000 After Getting Money Burglars Sped Away in an Automobile— Shock of Explosion Shook En- tire Town of Pepperell—Police Hope to Trace Robbers ey Means of Gold Coin........ .. ' Pepperell, Mass., Dec: 2.—With consummate daring and_ skill which is little less than scientific, burglers early today blew open the vault of the First «National Bank, in the heart of the business district and looted it of $14,000 and valuable papers and then then sped away in an automobile. Either dynamite or nitro-glyce- rine had been used and the shock which followed the muffled deto- nation shook the entire town. Three men were seen in the car speeding with the rapidity of the wind towards Groton, several miles distant. The police of all the neighboring cities were noti- fied at once to lookout for the car and three men but they have dis- appeared as completely as though swallowed up by the earth. Ernest Tarbell, who was sleep- ing in the building adjoining the bank, was aroused. by the explo- sion and jumped from his bed. tempt on the bank and armed himself to investigate. He saw the three men leaving the bank and fired at them as they sped away in their automobile but ap- parently missed them. A large quantity of gold was stored in the bank and the police hope to catch the robbers by trac- ing the coin. The bank building was uearly wrecked. - —_—++ or Strong Play With Weak House. The Ku-Klux-Klan played by, the Demorest Comedy Co., at the opera house last night was 2 strong play, and certainly deserv- ed a larger house than they, had. But we may never expect to have a good house as long as we have a tobacco warehouse for an opera house. . The story of the play is strong and deals with southern people mostly, and no southern man can see it without having that old feel- ing of revenge against the negro. _ Vietor Walker as Sampson, the negro sheriff played his part to perfection. . Robert Demorest and Mary De- Grafferelly as Lige and Liza were fine and kept the house in a con- tinuous laugh. Bettie May Craney as Mona Var ney and Ona Demorest as Kate Desmond were fine. Mrs. De- morest indeed played her part well, A Tha climax was reached when - Bettie Craney and May, Blossom appeared in a specialty act accom- panied by Robert Demorest, Jr., the 18 months old son of Mr. De- morest. The little fellow amused the house for some time by sang- ing and dancing, in his way. —_———t++ oo Big Hotel Destroyed by Fire.” Exposition park ,Conneaut Lake, & popular summer resort _ here, caused $100,000 damage destroy- ing the Hotel Bismark and all buildings on both sides of the mid- way. The conflagration was finally, narly light, stayed by dynamiting the build- ing, é | ees r et wy —< Tarbell suspected a burglarous at- ~ om ' Meadville, Pa., Dec. 2.—Fire at - — sa l F pi St a t h i e y ty Pe t ap e s ee e ey e f i ; . ? . - ° : se: > - n <¥ = - ' - THE EVENING MASCO1 @DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. ffice 109 Coart Street. Telephone 53 VANCE NORWOOD - Publisher. RALPH SLOAN, - - City Editor, Sabscription Price, - $4.00 a Year ubscription Price, - 10 Cents a Week f£ntered at the Postoffice in Statesville W. C.,a8 second-class mail matter. ae a ee, Weather Forecasts. Washington, D. C., Dec. 3—For North Carolina fair tonight with warmer in west portion. Frost tonight near the coast. Friday fair and warmer. Se ee : ‘Hello! Is this Mrs. Weston?’ |I will be pleased to see all Mrs. R. L. Plotts of this place. a d HE LEGALIZED PRIMARY. : as ee ”? of my old customers an t Mr. Wasson of Statesville is Yes mae thers “who deste The Charlotte Observer in tak- ing notice of the discussion of the primary system in this state by the newspapers and quoting one of them which says the ‘‘voters as a rule are sick and tired of the present primary system’’ makes the following comment: ‘‘There is reason why they should be; reason enough in the Simmons-Carr and Craig-Kitchin contests; and we have reason to say, from observation in Mecklen- burg and while changes are in contemplation, that the new-fang- led legalized primary is not *“‘A sovereign balm for all our Eufola News Items. Dear Readers We greet you all having some very cool weather with a pretty good day. We are now in this community. People are almost through work and have started their children to schoo] Our school opened last Monday. Mr. C. L, Clark of Long Island, spent a few days in Durham, N. C., visiting his sister, returning home last Saturday, bringing one of his sister’s children home with him. Miss “ Mattie Thomas visited friends in Eufola last week. Mrs. R. E. Plott is visiting at the home of her mother-in-law, loading lumber at this place for Mr. Lee Kincaid. He has quite a large lot to load. Mr. Lee Secrest is wearing a broad smile, it is a girl. Miss Maggie Plott has been right sick but is improving some. Miss Maggie and her mother will accompany Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Plott back to their home in Geor- gia some time soon. Cheer up boys and get busy or you will be left. The boys are eoming from Danville, Va., and taking yur girls away. Miss Gertie Gilleland and Mr. W. P. Drumright were united in the holy bonds of wedlock this Telephone Manters or otherwise? When they first regularly, Doan’s Regulets will pre- Do telephones lead to politeness| vent constipation. They induce a mild, easy, healthful action of the | bowels without griping. Ask your came into use the answer to this | gruggists for them. 25¢. If you haven't the time to exercise question would have been emphat- ners and ‘‘thank you’s’’ seems to be in full swing. - In some com- munities it is not even possible to quarrel over the phone although the two women who took part in the following conversation came near it. *‘This ig your next door neigh- bor, Mrs. Lawrence. I thought you might be interested to know that at the present moment your son Thomas is sitting on one of the sheets which is bleaching on my lawn, and is building a large pile of mud on it.’’ “‘Oh, thank you, Mrs. Law- rence!’’ exclaimed the. mother. *“‘And may I return the favor by informing you that your setter Rab has just rooted up my two new rose bushes, and that he seems to be chewing the buds?’’ ically .in the negative, but now NO I EI that they are almost universally ° prevalent, an era of good man-|7 pave reopened my Meat 8 to 12 1-2c. a pound. Bez indeed! Thank you! Good- Masquerade TUES- Market in the grocery store of R. F. Cashion on Center street and will sell the best of Fresh - Beef that can be bought | To Cure-a Cold in One Day Use | ~QUIN-AG-ETOL 25. cents per box at S : Prescripti at from the best of meats at the above prices. > Phone 59—— P. A. JONES Ne Se STATESVILLE SKATING RINK Opera House Building © ee nae & POCSROLSELEOOOOOSOCOO COLD Sherrill-White Comp'ny § bs i @ We have just received and put on sale a big lot of All @ Wool Drees goods, 36 to 42 inches wide, your choice. 27 1=2 cents yard. No such bargain ever offered to Statesville buyers be. fore. One piece Tan Herringbone, rainproof, 58 inches wide, real value $1.25 yard, for 60 cents yard. House full of correspondisg values. See our new line of COATS for Ladies, Misses and Chil. dren. We have the NEW DIRECTOIRE STYLES. Prices cheap. Come to see us. Very truly yours, ‘ wounds, ee eee near “Not at all. Thank you! Good- |. ° . : = A solace for our cares.’ ere. 1e bride was dressed in aly. ys - dl | HE Sh | I-Wh C “It is to be doubted if the re-| going away* gown of blue with eee gas $ @ ® er r I ite om pany cent primary campaign begot as} loves and hat to match. She] yost disfiguring skin eruptions, ; 104 West Broad St., Statesville, N. C. much bitterness in any other coun-| was one of Eufola most intelligent] scrofula, pimples rashes, etc., are i Be ie bes ty as in this or resulted in so] young ladies. Mr. Drumright is|4ue to impure blood. Burdock Blood | Prizes on exhibition in DOSOSSOOOSOOOS OOOO CC CORES many permanent estrangements. While former friendships which were broken then will never be cemented it is astonishing that the - Warring elements got together in election as completely as they did. That was one time, however. Since the men are heard to say they will never go into another primary. The subject is one to which the wisdom of the Democratic party may well address itself.”’ one of Danville’s most highly es- teemed young men. They left immediately after the ceremony tor their future home in Danville on No. 36 east bound. Rev. J. F. Mitchner officiated. We wish them a long life and much happiness. The writer was present at the happy event. 7 Mr. H. S. Gilleland has been visiting friends near Doolie. He skinned. Bitters is a cleansing tonic. Makes}|Show window at States- you clear-eyed, clear-brained, clear | yjjle Drug Company. MOTHER do you hoar that rattling in your babies throat? Put a little Mothers’ Joy on it and stop it at once. ee» MOTHERS (LOOK HERE! best that money will buy, at 8 to 124 Cents Per Pound. A full line of Fresh Meats, the We also carry a full line of fi SEScEcicceccececec<ece BSOLUTE CLEANLINESS 3 > Ml is a feature that immedi. ately recommends mod- ern sanitary open plumb. ing and its accessories to all believers in household ® hygiene. A bath room can be kept. clean and ih sweet as your dining 2: és we : “ -) ~ =) a Here the Observer gives its own|*eturned home today. Heavy and Fancy Groceries at room. But all pe sys- A experience at home in MeckInburg L.G.& L.B how can you take chances 3] Prices you can’t afford to over- tems can be made bad by : ————++@>-2 —__—_ S& S S l e S e e e c e e s e E e c e that now has the primary system —keep a bottle of Mothers inferior workmanship. So cA look Callonor phone us your Pa g e s ET E a te Snow Creek Items joy in your house, You to make assurance doub- °C There are many objections to it wants— Phone No. 110. Yn Hi . ly sure, see to itthat your % among those pointed out by the| Mr. Editor: — Mothers’ Joy every CHESTER BROS W hit] ‘iy a EN pinabing Cone ae Mm Observer. We recollect the pri-} Iwill give you the news of ; ; ‘| yy Sea! given to the mM mary between Gen. Carr and Sen-|Snow Creek community. Cotton ay : ‘i ator Simmons and hope never to picking is nearly over, and most MOTHERS’ SOUTHERN RAILWAY 60. . A. W. HOLLER PLUMBING COMPANY m see another. But it is understood;of our farmers have finished sow- A ics TS SE we Phone No. 61. 127 W. Broad St. A Joy is made of pure googe that Governor Glenn will ask gen- eral assembly to pass a legalized primary for the entire state.. First, to begin with the legaliz- ed primary forces the holding of two eleetions.in the same year only a few months apart and when the Democrats have made their campaign for the primary election in which. much bitterness and bad feeling has been aroused in fight- ing each other they came out of it mad, worn out, with their energies gone, divided and _ disgusted. And. in this condition the Demo- erats go into the fight against the enemy half hearted and smarting under grievances left over from the primary. As a result the cam- paign of the party cannot be made as it should for the want of a vig- orous and active support of all the Democrats. ; Again the legalized primary fur- nishes the temptation for the use of money to earry it. This thing of itself will damn any party on earth where it has-any opposition, besides the fact it absolutely de- bars a poor man from running. We have never been able to see any good in a legalized primary or any thing on its plan that will Stand the test. It fosters strife, engenders hatred, makes malice and creates estrangements that Democrats never get over. And it is but natural that under such conditions that the Democrat who got licked in the primary will have down in his heart a feeling not-to care if the fellow who lick- ed him gets licked by the Repub- licans. We believe that the best thing to do would be to let each county adopt such methods as the Democrats think best and wisest and demand. Because the legisla- ‘ture is not supposed to know the conditions in each county. é = RS aia re ¥ te. Se aaa ca PP NS aA te piace ea Sale ad oe a gy at ing wheat and gathering corn. The free schools are starting up Number one Snow Creek school started last Monday, Miss Mary Will is the teacher. Some of our neighbors are mov- ing away. Mr. Ed Sloan recent- ly bought him ~ a place near Mr. W. D. Daniels storel The writer had the pleasure of being at Mr. Wilford Harris’s home for Thanksgiving dinner. That day was Mrs. Harris’ birth- day, she was 62 year old, and they had a fine dinner. There wa: about a- hundred present. Rev John Ham preached a sermon that was enJoyed by every one present. — Robert Wasson is completing the house of Weber Brothers near this place, Mr. Tom Rickert ‘has eompleted his house and will move into it at once. . Mr. Tom Weber is building a new house. I have no marriages to report this time, 2 The writer was at New Pros- pect last Sabbath. There was eleven baptised at that service by Rev. W. A. Morse, Well I will ring off for this time as I am a beginner. SCHOOL GIRL. Come again, we appreciate it. Editor. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of TY German inventors have succeed- ed in producing a tar-free power gas from bituminous coal. grease and other healing ingredients. Mothers you cannot afford to be with- outa box of Mothers’ Joy. WANT ADS ERC oi 5 cents a line. Oo TREAIOG. «aoc ecseccecee 4 cents a line. 6 times................. 3¥ cents a line. 26 times...... cecwniseess 3 cents a line. FOR RENT OR SALE—A 4room newly painted house on North Center street. Apply to J. S. Kerr. dec2 3t PHOTOS—Penny Photos a Spec- ialty—therefore you get the very best—24 for 25c. Over Knox & Poston’s store. FOR RENT—ONE STORE BUILD- ing and basement. Best retail stand in the city. Statesville Real- ty and Investment Co. Sept.19 since the now 8 hour law became effective there is a shortage of many thousand telegraphers. Po- sitions pay from $50 to $70 a {Great Highway cf Trade and Through Pullman Sleeping Cars For detailed information apply AMBITIOUS YOUNG MEN AND ladies should learn telegraphy; for, ply tor a pardon Dec. 18, Travel Through the Southern States on palatial trains between the principal Cities and Resorts of ) 233233333333333333323352223¢6 the South. Hiech-class Dining |is the oldest (41 years) and first Busi College in Va., (second in Cars. Many delightful Summer the South) to own a building erected for its ‘use—one of the finest and Winter Resorts on and|in Richmond, Endorsed by its students, business men and the reached by Soutbern Railway. | press. Philadelphia Stenogzapher says: “It is the leading Busl- ness College.South of the Potomac River.” “The Land of the Sky,” “The Sapphire Country,” in scenic Western North Carolina; beau-| for the best Busin tiful at all seasons. the highest class. to nearest Ticket Agent, or R, L. VDRNON, T. P. A,, Charlotte, N. C. S.H. HARDWICK, P.T.M., W.H. TAYLOE,G. P. A., Washibgton, D. C. Chas. Brincefield will ap- month to beginners. The National Telegraph institute of Columbia, S. C., and five other cities is oper- ated under supervision of R. R. Officials and all students are placed when qualified. Write them for particulars. no19s dtf WANTED—BY THE AMERICAN Cotton and Business University of Milledgeville, Ga., students to take one or more of our courses in cot- ton grading, buying and selling. Business courses of bookkeeping, Shorthand, Typewriting, or Telegra- phy and Railroad course. Positions guaranteed under reasonable con- ditions. Write at once for our consolidated catalog. Largest col lege South. Sept 28-tf BUY YOUR. GASOLINE FROM Phone 61., 127 W. Broad St ~ ‘i A. W. Holler Plumbing _Co., We EW Pool Room New Tables of the latest and best makes have been in- stalled under J. P. Phifer’s grocery store. PA et: dolicitYourPatronage 00s: S000 “When I reached Richmond, I inquired of several business mel ess College in_the city, and, without exception, Hotels of they all recommended Smithdeal’s as the best— Wm. E. Ross, Law Stenographer, Bluefield, West Virginia. Single, Double Entry and Joint-Stock Bookkeeping, Commeél- cial Arithmetic, Business. Writing, Business Practice, Shorthand, Typewriting, Telegraphy, Commercial Law. English Department. Ladies and gentlemen. Students enter at any time. By Mail —Bookkeeping, Shorthand, Penmanship, at home, to those who cannot come to College. Day and night sessions. No vacations. Special inducements to well educated young men, especially to teachers- Write for catalog and fell particulars to - G. M. SMITHDEAL, Pres., Richmond, V2. THE STATESVILLE LOAN -AND. TRUST CU. 4 =. - Of Statesville, N.C. ——— IS PREPARED to transact all branches of banking. Accounts are solicited from firms, corporations and indiv - uals, who may rely upon ‘courteous ‘consideration and the very best terms’ that ‘are consistent with good banking ods. Four per cent: paid on time and savings deposits SHAREHOLDERS LIABILITY ....0.seceaceeseeeyeesees$40,000.00 SUEPLUs anp Unpryipep PROFITS..........-, $30,000.00 TotaL. Resourcus OVER. 0..escsscasece-esee-0. $440,000.00 - OFFICERS E. Steele, President, E, Morrisou, Vice-Pres,D. M. Ausley, Se and Treasurer, C. E. HUGBEY, Asstatant ‘Seoy. and Treas.“ Vv. a, CULBRETH, Manager Savin js Department a : =r ) i i UAPIPAL STOOB...cscsccescoesoos,, ssveeseeeneae $40,000.00 : eo ¢ ¢ © © $. % ¢ &@ © © © © ¢ ~ @ & Qe ae eae Vici-Kid, Pat.-Kid, Gun Metal Calf, Box Calf, etc. Extreme styles or rvative shapes. IT WILL PAY YOU to SEE OUR ‘i OF SHOES before you buy. oe S.B. MILLER of = THE stoke man. COOCOOOOCOCEROOCOCCCCOOU 5 Pd —s — Statesville Drug Co., is the agent for Mi.o-na in Statesville and they say to every reader of The Mascot whose stomach is weak, who has in- digestion or dyspepsia, that Mi-o.na is guaranteed to cure or money back, box, and one box is all you need to prove that you are on the right road to health and happiness. “I can’t say enough for Mi-o_.na tablets; they have done more for me in one week than all the doctors have The price is only 50 cents a large |- Twain is enlivening the North American Review, the doctor not only attended the entire family for that price, but furnished the medicine also. *“Good measure, tov,’’ says Mr. Clemens. ‘‘Only the largest per- sons could hold a whole dose.-Cas- tor-oil was the principal beverage. The dose was half a dipperful, BSS ) i Me ALCOHOL 3 PER CENT. }:| Sttuilatins the bagiehy| | Cins the Stomachs of gS | Promotes Diges Rees ih: hess and Rest.Contains neither! = ||| | NOT NARCOTIC. emi enema ai ae SSNS 9000808800008 CCCe A ‘ : = , Ceecccccce GOOD sToMAcH | Some Old-Time Doctors. 7 i 233 OO SH O 9 @ [rans Good weaith, Cheertainess,| When Mark Teia was « }:; | —_aapeereererere 3 oN rt B Ambition, Persistency and Suc-}'2 the Missouri village of Florida SET ate > " e’re calling attention today to our line of Men’s ria medical attendance cost very lit-| Se i mh @ “= price we.name for a shoe, we inteud that or‘any other stomach trouble by |year—twenty-five dollars for the ate a e Shoe will be the vest, that th building u ily. . Tit spi e . y esame amount Sup the flabby walls, and | xhole family.. Tif spite of this low _ money can buy anywhere. making the stomach so strong that it |. f hi eee es | | For Infants and Children. eve never seen our $3.00 Shoes equalled for the will digest food without pepsin or price for his services, there were = 0 — meer We’ve a treat in store for the Three Dol. ther artificial aid. reasons why his visits were not = Th i ar Shoe wearer. In other words, Mi-o-na cures dys. Popular. According to the “‘Au- i e Kind You Have ALL THE NEWEST STYLES pepsia by removing the cause. J tobiography”? with which Mark ain : Always Bought AVegetable Preparationfr NWS CRS eT Tae —— 2 © tion ch earl q OpiumMorphine nor Mineral for the two years I have been-under with half a dipperful of New Or- f a Hy: Feige of Wet De STELPTORER : their care, and I will do all I can to |/eams molasses added to help it ee) | azar Send recommend it to my friends. You|1own and make it taste good. toctelle Salis can also usé my name in your ad. if |which jt never did. Perera n A you like, for Ml-o.na is better than | ¢«mp : eee In @ sharpcontest nothing but “quality” and appearance gold to me. I am like a new man, |.) - : = oe ee Gia Se figure. “RUTH MADE” Hosiery and the “WORLDS ant arm abie\to work nce Oe FE wae ea ee SE BEST” Black are the goods of Quality. After ali bas the first time in over a year.”—W. |Jalap. Then they bled the patient goihn/"*'|:| Aperfect Remedy for Consfige: : been said, all your pursuasive argument exhausted, it is A. Ennis, 328 Green St., Syracuse, |and cost him some of his teeth. a eon aa still a fact that N. Y. There were no dentists. When, | ness aniLoss oF SLEEP. For Over o, teeth became touched with deca HH: a aa QUALITY IS THE ONLY TEST OF VALUE Huntersville Items or wree otherwise ailing, the fe FacSimile Signature of o Mr. J. L. Morris, of Whitney, N. = ; Ui tilde Th f Y a To get best results you must have the best of everything J, [or knew of but one thing to do; NEW YORK. | Ir G a rs best yarn, best colors, best machines and best help, with C. visited his mother, Mrs. Mary {he fetched his tongs and dragged WU mom celeb ene trey Gee such & combination you can produce the best of what you A. Calaway last week. Mr. Mor-|them out. If the jaw remained = an making. We have all of the above.. Ask your dealer ris is one of Stanly County’s most lit was not his fault ee 35 Doses —35 CENTS 6 a os BIRT Messe Lt eld or the goods of “quality. prominent farmers. “Doctors were called in cases e520. saranteed under the Foods CASTORIA THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. Mr. Ivy Lockman has accepted lof ordinary illness; the family’s a position at night as second hand grandmother attended to those in the card room inghe cotton mill [Every old woman was a doctor, here. and gathered her own medicines | —— Several new families have mov- lin the woods, and knew how to ed her lately. Among some of leompound doses that would stir the new ones are Mr. Owen White |the vitals of a east-iron-dog. of Davidson and Mr. William] ‘And then theve was the Indian Shinn who moved from the coun- doctor, a grave savage, remnant try to the Anchor mill. ; af his tribe, deeply reared in the Mr Frank Barnette and Miss |mysteries of nature and the secret Alexander was married on Thanks properties of herbs; and most giving day. backwoodsmen had high faith in Rev. Mr. Huff Baptist minister his powers and could tell of won- at this place began his protracted |derful cures achieved by him. meeting at the Charel on last Sun- ‘We had the faith doctor too day night. Mr. Huff is being as-|ia those early days—a woman. a il Wi : i sisted by Rev. Privette of Char- |Her specialty wag toothache. She l lette. was a farmer’s old wife, and lived \ i ia \ Hi is Exact Copy of Wrapper. THE BRADFORD KNITTING MILL. Tee... =<. \ If you have lost something or want to buy or have any= thing to sell try a want ad. in The Evening Mascot. 1090000000000000000000000K 3 A Reliable Bank~— mn 33 2 3 2 2 2 3 2 2 ¢ with prompt, service and obliging treatment, is of great benefit to the young. business man. tL Ldn When & man hasa Bank # /@MRi| accountitimpliescenfidence ‘gq: -} : in himself ani others. mW ex all — — a good: * — checking ban ind you == So ei Pil s 8- fr in business. You will find Thanksgiving day has come and |five miles from Hannibal. She a mR it hoth convenient_and dig- gore and our turkey was just a@/would lay her hand on the pati- , a _— in transacting busi- little on the thin order. ‘lent’s Jaw and say, ‘Believe!’ and E ———— ++ —__—_ or Itching piles provoke profanity, the cure was prompt. Mrs Utter- o A but profanity won’t cure them. |back. I remember her very wéll. Mm ’ Doan’s Ointment cures itching, |Twice I rode out there behind my a Merchants and Farmers’ Bank bleeding protrading piles after Years lwpther horseback and saw the | # t a OF STATESVILLE a ao See eure performed. My mother was 2 poe INCORPONATED the patient. : 2 — 6c f — eS CAPITAL $25,000.00. How to Prevent Pneu- see of the doctors whom 1 Is Essential to the Up= monia remember removed from Florida OFFICERS: I oe to Hannibal and was our family ° e up oe ee ee anne physician there, and saved my life building of the Moder n 3 L. T. STIMPSON; Pres.; C. S. TOMLIN, Vice-Pres.; F. B. BUNCH, Sec. & Treas.; J. A. KNOX, Asst. Sec. & Treas. Directors: L. T. Stimpson, J. L. Stevenson, C. S. Tomlin, R. R. Reid, J. A. Knox, W.S. Page, Geo. B. Nicholson, L. K. Lazen- by, E. G. Gaither, J. R. Hill, E. B. Watts. several times. Still, he was a} good man and meant well. Lez it go. **I was always told that I was sickly and precarious and tiresome and uncertain child, and_ lived mainly; on allopathic medicines’ during the first seven years of my hfe. £ aske-l my mother about this in her old ege—she was in her eighty-eighth year. I said. ** “¥ suppose during all that time you were uneasy about me?’ “* *Yes the whole time.’ _ ‘* «Afraid I wouldnt live?’ “‘After a reflective pause—os- tensibly to think out the facts. ** *No afraid you would.’ ” + Cooleemee Items, _ Rev. H. C. Byrum and family Posr OD= has moved to their new home in good man has just died with this fearful disease—pneu- monia. Now we will give you One Hundred Dollars for any case of pneumonia you have in your family it fails to cure if you will use Goose Grease Liniment as directed. It only costs you Get it— Business Enterprise... To the publicity gained by the use of the advertising columns of the daily papers is at- tributed the growth, and consequent success, of a very large percentage of great business entér- prises of the present day. Advertising is recognized as the prime’ fac- tor in increasing the sales of any class of goods or manufactured articles. The space used in this puper is your busi- ness message to the public. In this open letter - you should tell them of the merits of what you are offering, setting forth the reasons why your particular line is worthy of their attention. THE EVENING MASCOT has increased its local circulation very materially during the past three months and the results 25 cents a bottle. you have nothing to loose Pe en ee ee 0808080808 080878080 S0S0SOSC OOP, rea EAA hh ae CaOSOSOSOSIPOSOSO 0909090908090808090808DE0808080808 0804 RO ee A OE EE OS OSOSOSCMOM and all to gain. We know there are thousands who will read this and throw it aside and 1n a few days will be down with the disease. Please just get one bottle and putit away until you need it. If you haven’t the money to buy it let us know and we will send: you a bot- ’ tle free. GOOSE GREASE CO.. 50$.560868060806080 SEVERAL ‘THINGS Are.to be considered in. selecting your Bank ‘ PAR A ee s 1ST. Strength-Financial Strength 2ND. The care with which the Bank is Managed. 3RD. The courtesy and spirit of of accomodation displayed by the Officers and Em- | ab i oe has charge of the M. E. Church. OF oa sd : x 4 . ; ee ee Eo : ae a bs e ar e a i la t a la a ta l l an a l et e Ns ee ai e ee e eR e eo ee ee cs e s t t t ea n AP E MA y s 24 y 0 S TI 0 N Kerrnersville where Mr. Byrum ployees. Mrs, McCubbins, of Jerusalem obtained from the space used by the advertisers § 3 4TH. The banking experience of Draughon gives contracts, backed | ®Pent part of last week with her are gratifying to them and to the paper. It § . +2 Officers. — by a chain of 30 Colleges, $300,000.00) sister, Mrs. Wyatt on Main St. reaches into the homes of the best class of our §& 4 capital, and 19 year’s success, to se-| Rey. W. Y. Scales has moved cure positions under reasonable con- > ditions or refunnd tuition. to Cooiremee. He now has charge BOOKKEEPING Draughon’s ccm-| of the M. E. Church at this place. petitors, by not) Master Ray Barnhardt is visit- aceepting his pruposition, concede} . 2 et Bee teaches more Bookkeeping | 28 his grandfather Mr. G. E. in THREE months than they do in| Barnhardt of Jerusalem, to im- SIX. Draughon can convince YOU.! prove his health. SHORTHAND @:22 cent. of} The Mocksville Chair Co. has Court Reporters write the system of| Completed their new office which Shorthand Draughon. teaches, be-| was burned down some time ago. =, ei aS iA a a A s ee ee e ee e es ee people and your message will be placed in the -hands of those with money to buy the goods you wish to sell. The Space Rates in The Evening Mascot’ are not high. Your message is carried, each day, to those you wish to reach, in the most. economical manner, : _ For information call us up on the phone and a representative ot the paper will gladly visit you STH. The ability ofthe bank to Properly and Promptly Handle all Your Business To Those: Desiring: the Embodi- ment of: These: Features are _ Offered The Service of FHE FIRST NATIONAL . BANK Ci a os fh e cause they know it is THE BEST. ——___4+@>-e—___—_ : FOR sees Sega — bots COTTON MARKET. re ~ ioe coms Sokeerepaiene Local Market _ : ‘ a, Jains all, call on or write JNO. F. et. e S OF STATESVILLE DRAUGHON, President Prices paid at wagon: ; ] ny DRAUCHON'S Strict Good middling ee eecees 8% ( Veni ANC = 000 PRACTICAL BUSINESS COLLEGE Good middling..... ... Se eGo \ e. a CAPITAL $1 oo. (We also'Teach by Mail) Middling.... ..... ....844168% = e Raleigh, Knoxville, Nashville, Cc {Stains and Tinges........ TES) a = . § 3 pce aa anc ARON RNS ANCES III IIIS IPTC lumbia or Washington, D. C. The market was quiet. Bese eeeeeeastece teeta cettea eee e Te ee T Ree Tae eT Tea eee Team a TRS NT ETS NTT eee m A Mm mk M i ch aN ff Mm Oo CD ¥ 2 We’re calling attention today to our li on’ . = Dollar Shoes. 7 oe atever price we.name for a shoe, we inteud that & the Shoe will be the vest, that the same amount 8 of money can buy anywhere. 3 We’ve never Seen our $3.00 Shoes equalled for the g money. We've a treat in store for the Three Dol- lar Shoe wearer. ALL THE N EWEST STYLES Vici-Kid, Pat.-Kid, Gun Metal Calf, Box Calf, etc. Extreme styles or corServative shapes. IT WILL PAY YOU to SEE OUR Yi OF SHOES before you buy. ore S.B.MILLER GOSOSSSC OCS SOCOOCCCCC COOLS ?$3.00 SHORS! . THE SHOE MAN. 0000000 0COCCCOOCOCOC COU Ina sharpcontest nothing but “quality” and appearance figure. “RUTH MADE” Hosiery and the “WORLDS BEST” Black are the goods of Quality. After alt has been said, all your pursuasive argument exhausted, it is still a fact that “QUALITY” IS THE ONLY TEST OF VALUE To get best results you must have the best of everything best yarn, best colors,. best machines and best help, with such & combination you can produce the best of what you are making. We have all of the above. Ask your dealer for the goods of “quality.” THE BRADFORD KNITTING MILL. with prompt. service and obliging treatment, is of great benefit to the young business man. mie? Wi aad When @ man hasa Bank | | aa accountit implies cenfidence ‘9: Bu ae in himself ani others. By all means have a good checking bank behind you in business. You will find it hoth convenient and dig- nified in transacting busi- ness. Merchants and Farmers’ Bank OF STATESVILLE INCORPONATED CAPITAL $25,000.00. OFFICERS: . T. STIMPSON; Pres.; C. S. TOMLIN, Vice-Pres.; F. B. TSUNCH Sec. & Treas.; J. A. KNOX, Asst. Sec. & Treas. Directors: L. T. Stimpson, J. L.Stevenson, C. S. Tomlin, R. R. Reid, J. A. rae W.S. Page, Geo. B. Nicholson, L. K. Lazen- by, E. G. Gaither, J. R. Hill, E. B. Watts. SEVERAL ‘THINGS Are_to be considered in. selecting your Bank 1ST. Strength-Financial Strength 2ND. The. care with which the Bank is Managed. 3RD. The courtesy and spirit of of accomodation displayed by the Officers and Em- ployees. 4TH. The banking experience of Officers. — STH. The ability of the bank to Properly and Promptly Handle all Your Business To Those: Desiring: the Embodi- ment of: These: Features are _ Offered The Service of FHE FIRST NATIONAL . BANK -OF STATESVILLE $100.000 - CAPITAL A GOOD STOMACH _ Means Good Health, Cheerfulness, Ambition, cess. Mi_o-na will cure your dyspepsia Or‘any other stomach trouble by building up the flabby walls, and making the stomach so strong that it will digest food Without pepsin or ther artificial aia. In other words, Mi-o-na cures dys. pepsia by removing the cause Statesville Drug Co., is the agent for Mi.o-na in Statesville and they say to every reader of The Mascot whose stomach is weak, who has in- digestion or dyspepsia, that Mi-o.na is guaranteed to cure or money back, box, and one box is all you need to prove that you are on the right road to health and happiness. “IT can’t say enough for Mi-o_na tablets; they have done more for me in one week than all the doctors have for the two years I have been.under their care, and I will do all I can to recommend it to my friends. You can also usé My name in your ad. if you like, for Mi-o_na is better than gold to me. I am like a new man, and am able to work once more for the first time in over a year.”—W. A. Ennis, 328 Green St., Syracuse, N. Y. —_—+++@>-—____ Huntersville Items Mr. J. L. Morris, of Whitney, N. C. visited his mother, Mrs. Mary A. Calaway last week. Mr. Mor- vis is one of Stanly County’s most prominent farmers. Mr. Ivy Lockman has accepted a position at night as second hand in the card room inghe cotton mill here. © Several new families have mov- ed her lately. Among some of the new ones are Mr. Owen White of Davidson and Mr. William Shinn who moved from the coun- try to the Anchor mill. Mr Frank Barnette and Miss Alexander was married on Thanks giving day. Rev. Mr. Huff Baptist minister at this place began his protracted meeting at the Charel on last Sun- day night. Mr. Huff is being as- sisted by Rey. Privette of Char- Iette. Thanksgiving day has coin2 and gope and our turkey was just a little on the thin order. —_—_—_—_— oo Itching piles provoke profanity, but profanity won’t cure them. Doan’s Ointment cures itching, bleeding protruding piles after years of suffering. At any drug store. How to Prevent Pneu- monia In every paper you pick up you will see where some good man has just died with this fearful disease—pneu- monia. Now we will give you One Hundred Dollars for any case of pneumonia you have in your family it fails to cure if you will use Goose Grease Liniment as directed. It only costs you 25 cents a bottle. Get it— you have nothing to loose and all to gain. Weknow there are thousands who will read this and throw it aside and in a few days will be down with the disease. Please just get one bottle and putit away until you need it. If you haven’t the money to buy it let us know and we will send- you a bot- ’ tle free. GOOSE GREASE CO.. OSITION Draughon gives contracts, backed by a chain of 30 Colleges, $300,000.00 capital, and 19 year’s success, to se- cure positions under reasonable con- ditions or refunnd tuition. BOOKKEEPING De=sstoms ccm petitors, by not aceepting his pruposition, concede that he teaches more Bookkeeping in THREE months than they doin SIX. Draughon can convince YOU. SHORTHAND 2p cr, 2 theUnited States Court Reporters write the system of Shorthand Draughon. teaches, be- cause they know it is THE BEST. FOR FREE CATALOG and book- let, ‘“Why Learn Telegraphy?’’ which explains all, call on or write JNO. F. DRAUGHON, President DRAUCHON’S PRACTICAL BUSINESS COLLEGE (We also Teach by Mail) Raleigh, Knoxville, Nashville, Cc Post ib —— lumbia or Washington, D. C. Persistency and Suc-{i2 the Missouri village of Florida Twain is enlivening the North only attended the entire family for that price, but furnished the medicine also. The price is only 50 cents a large | - Clemens. ‘‘Only the largest per- sons could hold a whole dose. -Cas- tor-oil was the principal beverage. The dose was half a dipperful, with half a dipperful of New Or- leans molasses added to help it down and make it which jt never did. the next, rhubarb, and the next, jalap. Then they bled the patient and cost him some of his teeth. There were no dentists. When, teeth became touched with decay or wree otherwise ailing, the doc- tor knew of but one thing to do; he fetched his tongs and dragged them out. it was not his fault. of ordinary illness; the family’s grandmother attended to those Every old woman was a doctor, and gathered her own medicines in the woods, and knew how to eompound doses that would stir the vitals of a cast-iron-dog. doctor, a grave savage, remnant af his tribe, deeply reared in the mysteries of nature and the secret properties of herbs; backwoodsmen had high faith in his powers and could tell of won- derful cures achieved by him. in those early days—a woman. Her specialty was toothache, She was a farmer’s old wife, and lived five miles from Hannibal. She would lay her hand on the pati- ‘jent’s Jaw and say, ‘Believe!’ and the cure was prompt. Mrs Utter- back. I remember her very wé'l. Twice I rode out there behind my wother horseback and saw the eure performed. My mother was the patient. remember removed from Florila to Hannibal and was our family physician there, and saved my life several times. good man and meant well. I.et it go. sickly and precarious and tiresome and uncertain child, mainly; on allopathic medicines’ during the first seven years of my hfe. 1 askel my mother about this in her old sge—she was in her eighty-eighth year. I said. you were uneasy about me?’ tensibly to think out the facts. has moved to their new home in Kerrnersville where Mr. Byrum has charge of the M. E. Church. spent part of last week with her sister, Mrs. Wyatt on Main St. to Cooicemee. He now has charge of the M. E. Church at this place. ing his grandfather Mr. G. E. Barnhardt of Jerusalem, to im- prove his health. completed their new office which was burned down some time ago. Strict Good middling........ 87 Good middling..... ... eine Stains and Tinges........ T1,@8 Some Old-Time Doctors. When Mark Terrain was 2 bevy medical attendance cost very lit- tle, for the doctor worked by the year—twenty-five dollars for the whole family.. Tif spite of this low price for his services, there were feasons why his visits were not popular. According to the “Au- bobiography’’ with which Mark American Review, the doctor not *“‘Good measure, too,’’ says Mr. taste good. *‘The next standby was calomel, If the jaw remained “Doctors were called in cases baaia Si WOOP CRA e Ra ama yf eae | R¢ssand Rest Contains neither’ ies ||| Opium Morphine nor Mineral: el | :| NOT NARCOTIC. ue || Aperfect Remedy for Consfige: aps g| | Ress and LOSS OF SLEEP. Ma % vo i = i! rs f i} i , we li: | ‘iXparse ; ——$<$<—<__—_ Always Bought ——S © Se ih : Promotes Digestion Cheeta Si¢|| | tion, Sour Stomach, Diz hoes ii) | Worms,Convulsions.Feverisk:: FacSinile Signature of NEW YORK. _| cll At6 months old Bret —35CENTS IE: iS aac Exact Copy of Wrapper. ASTOR ¥ For Infants and Children. Hef The Kind You Have Thirty Years CASTORIA THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. ‘*And then there was the Indian “We had the faith doctor too ‘Ove of the doctors whom I Still, he was a} “‘I was always told that I was and lived ** *T suppose during all that time “* ‘Yes the whole time.’ _ ** ‘Afraid I wouldnt live?’ ““After a reflective pause—os- ** “No afraid you would.’ ”’ _———_?+- * Cooleemee Items, Rev. H. C. Byrum and family Mrs. MeCubbins, of Jerusalem Rev. W. Y. Scales has moved Master Ray Barnhardt is visit- The Mocksville Chair Co. has +e COTTON MARKET. Local Market. Prices paid at wagon: Middling.... ..... ....8141b85% The market-was quiet. If you have lost something or want to buy or have any- m1 aet|thing to sell try a want ad. in The Evening Mascot. Is Essential to the Up- building of the Modern Business Enterprise... ::: To the publicity gained by the use of the advertising columns of the daily papers is at- tributed the growth, and consequent success, of a very large percentage of great business entér- prises of the present day. Advertising is recognized as the prime’ fac- tor in increasing the sales of any class of goods or manufactured articles. The space used in this pauper is your busi- ness message to the public. In this open letter you should tell them of the merits of what you are offering, setting forth the reasons why your particular line is worthy of their attention. THE EVENING MASCOT has increased its local circulation very materially during the past three months and the results obtained from the space used by the advertisers are gratifying to them and to the paper. It reaches into the homes of the best class of our people and your message will be placed in the -hands of those with money to buy the goods you wish to sell. The Space Rates in The Evening Mascot ‘are not high. Your message is earried, each day, to those you wish to reach, in the most . economical manner, ‘ __ For information call us up on the phone and a representative ot the paper will gladly visit you m DOSOSCSCS SOS OSOSOSOaOS ocr ee En 08080808 085808080 6000858080808 SOSCRO EES OROSCOO SESS OS Ome e i Ba t s AS E Se c E MA E a Ok wh e AS M4 2 3 5 ob Te t e ot sa n e a l e e e c e r ie e e ce a t e t e i e te r e re re Ra e ge t i e g a ce e hea pa s e s r e e e ar a r a t ye ro v e ai n > su e r s e d e i e s sp e ! 5 ae se ~ - — ae ee BE R E A N SR R SE EN Pe ig 2 ES eS SE A Ri n k ea Aa oe Se SE R EA E PR E A aR SA ei s = + PA L E S Ss ee = ny e se t Sh a de e r s ak ig — ee e ar a a 4 5 Bt f i. 4 é ; ‘ 43 3 * Si st BE ei t e: SS RO R LE a Ss EY ’ 2 % Pe a y ae em Ma s tg at ge Fe ei Ee . CR O N E TS G oi Al p am p e t a c e ib e RE E Ri ti t Ee GE L S UL ai e . se i t a te ee | in the making that you are apt to be DYNAMITE IN THE MAKING. Workmen Who Are Encircled by Death in Gallons and Tons. So thoroughly deceptive is dynamite disappointed on viewing the surface of things. You could more readily fancy thunderbolts leaping and crasb- ing from tender blue skies than that the most fearful forces in creation are hidden under such a peaceful exterior. Nitroglycerin, a cupful of which would distribute yoW over square miles of landscape, is diligently mixing around you in hundreds and thousands of gal- lons. It is making itself in big iron retorts, eascading down leaden gutters and merrily tumbling in minute Niagaras into immense vats, where the deli- quescent yellow peril pursues its jour- ney powderward. Out of one recep- tacle it fares furiously through special lead coils, driven only by cooling blasts of air, and is drawn off like draft ale and piped*’on to the next perfecting stage. Gaze with the nitroglycerin ex- pert into one of those big caldrons. The interior is brilliantly illuminated by electricity, the only illuminating agency permitted in or about the dan- ger houses. Around you are other houses at uni- form distances apart and connected by a series of narrow gauge tracks wherein workmen are railroading ni- troglycerin from here and pulp cotton from there to be compounded into dy- namite and blasting gelatin. Greatest eare is taken in rolling the product from house to house. As soon as a loaded cart is ready to pass out of the nitroglycerin house, for instance, a semaphore signals from an adjoining station, to which the consignment is carefully hurried. Around you are long storehouses packed with pulp in tons of innocent whiteness. Presently this pulp will as- sume a tan color under the nitrating process, and then, suddenly becoming carbonite, red cross, hercules, judson and giant powder, forcite or what you order, it develops the quasi virtues of dynamite—dynamite or blasting gela- tin in which more natural forces are condensed to the cubic inch than exist anywhere else in creation. Death, curbed and sleeping, encircles you in gallons and tons. Annihilation threat- ens at every turn in the form of poten- tial pulverizing forces. But the man and the mercury are there also, alert, responsive, reliable-—Leslie’s Weekly. LIBRARY SLOW POKES. Mee ea ae Time Killing Methods of Officials In Continental Europe. “Americans who grumble about hav- ing to wait a long time for books when applying to a public library,” said a Boston literary woman, “should try to work or study in a foreign library, par- ticularly in Germany. “The typical continental librarign takes no account of time. The reader, worker or student must turn in his or her application for books at least a day in advance. The men who search for the books applied for are aged, totter- Ing creatures who have been shuffling around the dusty piles of books for years, and the word hurry is not in their vocabulary. “The most priceless books and man- uscripts are kept in places which are perfect fire traps, and disorder pre- dominates in every department. When you speak about the impossible meth- ods employed the librarians tell you that they are too poor to introduce any modern indexes or catalogues. This is to_some extent so, but as a matter of fact they would not change if they had all'the money in the world at their disposal. “They do not wish to encourage the common people to use books. The learned are among the aristocracy, and the spread of the nowledge which is hidden in those wonderful literary mu- seums is far from the purpose of the men at the head of Europe’s libraries. “There may be some delay in our li- braries, but our people in the lower walks of life are certainly ahead of the common people of the old world in the matter of getting books when they want them, and generally free of charge.”—New York Telegram. The Town.to Be Born In. In the German town of Klingenberg, near Aschaffenberg, Bavaria, in addi- tion to having no rates to pay for the upkeep of the town, those actually born in the parish receive from the municipality a sum of £12 15s. a year. This sum, if invested regularly at, say, 8 per cent, would entitle the owner to reeive about £1,500 at the age of sixty —a very handsome old age pension. Were it not necessary that the inhab-’ itants should prove birth in the parish before becoming entitled to this pay- ment the popularity of Klingenberg as @ place of residence would doubtless be enormous.—Westminster Gazette. For Bargain Day. “She’s no lady!” “Why, I always thought her most re- fined.“ : “On the surface, yes. But what do you think of a woman who wears her little boy’s football shoes to the and gain sales and spikes every one who gets in her way?’—Cincinnati En- quirer. é After Him. “It’s hard to lose your friends,” re- marked the man who was down and out. “Hard?” snorted the man who was on the high tide of prosperity. “It’s impossible.”Philadelshia Record. The Prompter. “I suppose that inspiration prompts many of your jokes.” “A few,” adniftted the press humor- ist. “Desperation, however, prompts $5,000,000 COTTON MILL FOR EAST BOSTON. ee Eugene M. Foss to Build Mill That Will Employ 8,000 Men on Its 250,000 Spindles and 7,500 Looms. Boston, Dec. 2.—Eugene M. Foss announces that work is to be begun immediately on the con- struction of a $5,000,000 cotton mill in East Boston. For more than a year this project has been held in abeyance because of the business stagnation. It is expected the factory will make Boston a textile centre, competing for trade with Law- rence, Lowell, New Bedford and Manchester. Its 250,000 spindles and 7,500 looms will be operated by 8,000 workmen. The mills, weave sheds and power station will cover 65 aeres of land front- ing on the Chelsea river, “IT am a great b2'i2ver io spin- ning cotton on this side of the At- lantic, and I desire to see Boston made a great textile centre,’’ Mr. Foss says. ‘‘We have paid too much attention to exporting raw eotton to England, where our finest textiles come from, and not enough of producing high- grade manufactured products. ““We shall start building just as soon as the weather permits, pos- ‘ibly by the first of the year.’’ —_——_++@> » ___ Items Rrom Faith. Monday November 30th a large number of friends and relatives assembled at the reformed church where the funeral of Mrs: Sallie Shive was preached by her pastor, Rev. C. B. Heller, assisted by Rev. C. P Fisher The pall bearers were J L. Peeler, Samuel’ Pecler, Charlie Peeler, Martin Shive, Hen- rv Shive and Callie Shive. The Daughters of Liberty turned out in a body from their hall in at- tendanee. Ilarvey Basinger and Miss Pearl Rogers was married at the Lutheran parsonage here by Rev. C. P. Fisher, Nov. 26th 1908. Mr. J R. Kuykendall and Miss Ada Gant were married Novem- ber 26th at Mr L. A. Gant’s by Rev. W. P. Southern, of Salisbury, N. C. The atendants were Miss Nellie Gant and Mr. Charles Hampton. The couple left for Asheville on their bridal trip. The Albert Lee Pink Granite Co., laid off a good many of their eutters here yesterday. Peeler Bane & Co., have been awarded the contract for a large granite vault and have men now at work on it. George Peeler returned to New- ton college Monday. . The free school is going on here with a very large attendance. Hearth rocks are shipped all along down the railroad towards Norwood, Hr. J. C. Lingle has had his store house made longer. Samuel Fraley is tool sharpner on the Phillips mountain. son of C. C. Wyatt who_is in the U.S army at Cape Cottage, Maine writes his father that several com- panies will go to the Philapine Is- lands next year, including the company in which he belongs. their store longer. VENUS. —~+@>e—__—_ Flake graphite valued at $171,- 149, amorphus graphite valued at $125,821 and artificial graphite valued at $481,239 were produced in the United States in 1907. ———~+2>2—_____ The Russian g overnment has contributed a large sum to for- ward the experiment of an in- ventor who claims to have discov- ered the secret of aerial naviga- tion. FOR SALE—A Well Established grocery and restaurant business. FOR SALE—Best Grocery stand in city, doing good business. Reasons for selling. If you want a bargain answer at once. Address Grocer, care Mascot. the most.”—LouiSvilie Courier-Journal. SEED dee 3 tf Mr. Sidney R. Wyatt youngest |. Raney Brown & Co., have made] " ‘PALK OF THE DAY. Milk costs 18 cent sa quart in| Bolivia. The proportion of left handed people isone in six. British Honduras wants labor- ers to pick her fruit crop. Romantie Haroun Al Raschid, Bagdad, does a foreign business of $25,000,000 a year. Tests have shown that the Mex- ican cotton tree “can be raised profitably in Texas. John Crumberger, of Mexico, is given credit for printing the first book in America in 1529. Ninety per cent of the forest fires in New York state this year locomotive 09 9 9 8 0 0 R2 9 9 9 O 0 0 9 0 O 0 6 O O 0 6 9 9 0 0 0 8 0 were charged to sparks, Alabama produced 1,256.88 ounees of gold and 430 of silver last year, of a total value of $26,272. The French ministry of marine is contemplating an order for 50 aeroplanes for the coast guard service. —__——_++2> —___ A Grand Family Medicine. writes Mr, Frank Conlan of No. 436 Houston St., New York. ‘‘It’s: a grand family medicine for dys- pepsia and liver complications; while for lame back and weak kidneys it cannot be too highly recommended.’’ Electric Bitters regulate the digestive functions, purify the blood, and impart re- newed vigor and vitality to the weak and debilitated of both sexes. Sold under guarantee at Statesville Drug Co’s drug store. —+2r-e—___—_ The Best Pills Ever Sold. ‘After doctoring 15 years for chronic indigestion, and spending over two hundred dollars, nothing has done me as much good as Dr. King’s New Life Pills. I consid- er them the best pills ever sold,*’ writes B. F. Ayscue, of Ingleside, N.C. Sold under guarantee at Statesville Drug Co’s drug store ~ Now on ‘Tt gives me pleasure to speak @ a good word for Electric Bitters,”’, @ @S2960660800069 S OONNONOND Don’t fail to see these Piss they are beautiful. :: x display my show window. x Nothing of the kind has ever been on sale here before. R.F.HENRY eo is in ; forever. é ation. Al @OCOOOS OOODOOHOOOOOO DORE, at Pins seusnns : Real Rose Hat Pins m It does not seem possible, yet it is true, m that these Hat Pins are made out of real m live roses, changed entirely into metal & by asecret process, preserving every de- fa tailof the rose from which each pin is Mm made. They can not break, and willlast This discovery is without fy doubt one of the lost arts of the ancient Wa tezyptians. They are the most beautiful ® ofall Hat Pins. Notwoarealike. Fin- 4 ished in five colors,to conform to the fa prevailing fashions in millinery. Made m in six sizes,from the smallest rose bud fe tothefullblownflower_ These pins are a inade by the genuine “DELAMOTHE” M secret process, the only process by a which an open rose can be perfectly “{ metalized. Don’t buy an inferior imita- : 1 genuine “DELAMOTHE § Metalized Real Rose Hat Pins” have A the name stamped on the pin. We have the exclusive sale of “DELAMOTHE” products forthiscity. See the exhibit in our wine — dow of this wonderful discovery. made out of. Real _ Don’t fail to see me Roses for BARGAINS in your Christmas «purchases. :: :: »& Best of goods at low- est prices. —_ Every- thing | sell guaran- teed as represented, x Now is your charice to get a 15 or 17 jeweled Watch Move- ment at a low price. Jeweler and Optician. HOTEL IREDELL BUILDING, STATESVILLE, N. 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By }°"~ seoees -eeee- Bible Stories eee Old Folks’ Bibles Family Bibles Red Letter Bibles . S. Bibles Pocket Bibles and Test’ts Child’s Life of Christ Child’s Story of the Bible Bible Dictionaries Children’s Story Books Children’s Histories -ceeee Books for Girls . 4.e.-Books for Boys nn Novels, High Grade aa usiness Guide ceo k Book ee Stock Book ee Doctor Book woes ictionaries eee Young People’s Library tm Kings of Platt'm & Pulpit caoeee American Star Speaker Seer Wild Beasts, Birds, etc The Christmas Present You W ant! ‘\ Statesville Drug Company, And Iredell County should get ac- quainted with the matchless man- » nerin which we do their shirts, collars and cuffs. tien guaranteed. =: 3 x: +: ® Statesville Steam Laundry BONC HOHOROROROHORORCHOHC OE WE HAVE IT! At the Store of Quality. Opening Up To-day Prescriptionists FESSSSESCEE CESSES TERED EN IN. STATESNILLE = Perfect satisfac- SE S S e s e e e c e e c ! m U. C. Harwell, Prop. 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Also Fine Mahogany Tables. will make Special Prices on COOK STOVES and RANGES. _ STATESVILLE HOUSEFURNISHING COM’?Y \ : - Vol. The LADIES Al ithe Ap nea. 1S This Q Fastly, The baz al associ Gem was selling fas high price From tl until at 4 large crovy men were At thre ticles we dy and ¢2 sued for gocis 10 The car Miss Step well patr dy was 4 ables pric The lux tronized, made abo cakes and The am hand for it should this size heard to articles v cheap. The a goods sol not being This ba funds to Billingsle ameunt to do it v Misses Long and sisted Mrs Japanese Li RC. 4 Staunton, ing soap. From t and the greatly fa Mr. Ed well cour operation pital som covered 2 itis morn Mr. L. Salisbury deliver ar of that ci W.v. Ss go to Cha Mr. Wn N. C., is connected ualty Co. ““Our vy £00d heal Dr. King years ago Rural Re They clea in a gen Z00d 25e. “*Moun’ eer”? is th Paper to Airy -at Scription Airy is $ subseribe Garner, Os When tracting assistat drow out en ee ee eT | oe eee ot a ae oe een ean ee eens & cD i - \) K. iv ‘e e c e e c e e c c e c e e r e ™ oSe PY Woke. Oy, EE %. m ¥ aa os ‘ m —. mi aa PD any FOP ke, RI oh: mer aa ig Mkt Pred ra Si — “ St a canes = in 3 2 THE Evening 5 Masai Statesville, N. C., Friday Evening, December 4, 1908, No. 374 The Bazaar Was Success LADIES HAVE QUICK SALES. Al Ithe Citizens Responded to the Appeals of the Good LadieS in This CauSe—Everything Sells Fastly, But Not High Priced. The bazaar given by the hospit- association yesterday at the (em Was @ suecess, everything selling fast but not bringing such high priees. From the time the doors opened until at @ late hour last night large crowds of ladies and gentle- men were in attendance. At three o’eloek the faney ar- ticles were all sold, also the ean- dy and ealls were immediately is- sued for persons to furnish more goods 10 be sold. The eandy booth in charge of Miss Stephany was a success, and well patronized by all. The ecan- dy was all fine and sold at reason- ables prices. The lunch booth was well pa- tronized, many remarks being made about the salads, ice cream, cakes and other good things. The amount of fancy articles on hand for sale was not as large as it should have been for a town of this size: Many persons were heard to say that al Ithe fancy articles were sold entirely tvo cheap. The amount received for the goods sold was $137 the expense not being taken off. This bazaar -was given to raise {Smith Not d Suicide STILL INVESTIGATING CASE. After Painstaking Inquiry Into the Cause of the Death of E, W. Smith, Police Decide His Death Was not by Design— Left Alone he Fell Over the Embankmett, Raleigh, N. C., Dee. 3—With eight prisoners, suspects and im- portant witnesses in jail and all of them put through rigid ‘‘third degree’? examinations in their cells, the police and others investi- gating the mysterious case of the death of E W. Smith,, traveling representative of the White Oak Coal Company, Richmond, here three weeks ago, have come to the eonelusion that his was not after alla ease of outright murder They have reached the conclusion that Smith became unconsciously intoxicated at Earl Cotton’s ‘“‘red light”? cafe and Cotton and Tim Holderfield put him in the hack of Ed Chavis while the later was eating a steak in the cafe and then Cotton hired Chavis to drive Smith and Holderfield out by the Federal cemetery hard by the rock. quarry. There Hoiderfield had the hackman to put out his lights before he took his companion from the vehicle, placing. his coat and overeoat close by him. The theory is that later Smith roused up and started toward the lights of the city to the west of him, falling over the 50-foot embauk- funds to put electric lightsan the} ont of the quarry, not knowing Billingsley hospital, but still the ameunt does not seem adequate to do it with. Misses Carrie Hoffman, Marie Long and Mrs, Geo. Nicholson as- sisted Mrs. C. H. Armfield in the Japanese booth. __ a LOCAL BRIEFS. RC. Goodin a deaf mute of Staunton, Va., is in the city sell- ing soap, From the looks of the clouds and the temperature of today it greatly favors snowing. Mr. Ed Norris, of Hudson, Cald- well county, who underwent an operation at the Billingsley hos- pital some days ago has about re- covered and returned to his home itis morning. Mr. L. C. Caldwell will go to Salisbury Sunday, where he will deliver an eulogy before the Elks of that city, in memory of the late W.V. Somers. From there he ¢o to Charlotte on business. Mr. Wm. Porter of Burlington, N. C., is in the city on business connected with the Nationaal Cas- ualty Co. —_—_++e>-e——_—— A Healthy Family. “Our whole family has enjoyed good health since we began using Dr. King’s New Life Pills, three Years ago,”’ says L. A. Bartlet, of Rural Route 1, Guilford Maine. They cleanse and tone the system in a gentle way that does you good 25e. at Statesville Drug Co. —~+ @ > ““Mount Airy Daily Mountain- eer’? is the name of the new daily Paper to be published at Mount Airy at an early day. The sub- Scription price to citizens of Mt. Airy is $3.00 a year, out-of-town subscribers, $1.00 a year. T. G. Garner, editor and owner. +e When a dentist in China is ex- tracting a tooth for a patron an assistat pounds on a gong to it was there. It is expected thai there will be a public examination of witnssses Friday or Monday and this is the showing that will be made. Cotton, Holderfield and Chavis are among the prisoners being held. ———— PERSONAL NOTES. Some Happenings Among Those Paople You Know and Others You Don’t Know. Mr. H. P. Brown of Winston is in the city. Mr. A. K. Orr of Asheville is in the city. Mr, W. P. Brown of Charlotte, is in the city. Mr. R. F. Hall of High Point is registered at the Iredell. Mr, P. M. Banger of Mr. Ulla, is in the city on business. Mr. O. M, Norwood of Charlotte, was at the Iredell last night. J.J. Grunther of Charlotte, ‘spent last night in the city. Mr. R. C. Stevens of Asheville, was 2 Statesville visitor last night. Mr. W. R. Rankin of Greens- _|boro, spent last night in fhe city. Mr. J. W. Forbis one of the Se- eurity Life and Annuity Com- pany’s men, spent yesterday here with the Sloan insurance agency. Mr J. S. Leonard has requested The Mascot to ask all persons in- terested in singing to meet him at his music house tonight at 7 o’eloek. Mesdames Chase E. Stevenson and Walter M. Cook of Salisbury, arrived-this morning and are the guests of Mrs. J. F. Carlton on Broad street. Mrs. Carlton will entertain the Thursday after- noon eclub this afternoon in honor of her guests. nl Stops earache in two minutes; toothache or pain of burn or scald in five minutes; hoarseness, one hour; muscleache, two hours; sore throat, twelve hours—Dr. Tlolmas drow out the eries of the patient. Eclectric Oil, monarch over pain. Strange Man Has Paralysis NOONE TO DENTIFY HIM| He Was Suddenly Stricken With ParalySis 4s He was Coming From the Depot—Dr Burns Called and Took Him to the Hospital—Later Reports say he is Mr, Geo. West of Canada. No little excifement was caused about the postoffice this morning about 11 0’clock when an old man of about 70 years suddenly keeled over on the side walk Several persons ran to him and with lap robes and overcoats made him a bed to lay on until the doctor came. Dr. A. B Burns was summoned, and diagngsed the trouble as pa- ralysis, and had the man removed to the Billingsley hospital, where he will be eared for until some one comes to his aid. The doctor announced that his side was completely paralyzied and he was in a dangerous condi- tion, Upon trying to get a clue as to who he was the attempt, was in vain, for he earried no papers of any description by which he he might be identified, and there Was no one present who knew him. He carried a pocket book which only contained a few cents, while in his vest pocket he had a half of a meal ticket, issued from some some lunch house on Council street, Salisbury, but the ticket having been torn in two parts, the name of the house was not on it. In his grip which he carried was writing paper and good sup- ply of clothing in the way of shirts and underwear. He was ordi- narily dressed and carried a walking cane with a large round knob on the top of it: Mr. W. E. Smith, a hackman. stated that he saw the old gentle- man get off of No 11, the west bound train and it is generally presumed that he came from Sal isbury, as he held the lunch ticket issued from that city. Later—Reports from the hospit- al say that the above mentioned man is now conscious and is Mr Geo. West, of Canada, who was his way to Knoxville, Tenn. Te formerly lived in Knoxville, but has been in Canada about 40 vears. He has no people living. ——_—_¢-+- —_—_ A Child of Nature. It was a primitive home in the Tennessee mountains where the kitchen range is still a thing of a vague and distant future. Cindy the capable, buxom and barefoot. performed her duties 6n_ the hearth of the yawning fireplace, and deftly raked the coals around the baker where the corn-dodgers were browning. A glowing em- ber, unseen by all save old Rudd, stepped forward with the pot- hooks, and he sounded the warn- ing. ‘*Sa-ay, Cindy—”’ ‘“Whut, pa?’’ *“You done sot yer fut on a coal 0’ fire.”’ *‘Say I did, pa? Which fut?’’ ——_—+-+ > Am0ong The Sick. Mr. E. M. Brawley who ts sick with pneumonia at his home on Davie avenue, is resting easier today. Rev. Mr. Green’s condition is very much improved today, and there is some hope of his recovery. Mr. A. C. McHargue who hae been sick for some days is greatly improved. Champ Clark Will be Leader HE HAS LITTLE OPPOSITION. In Fact, Talks With the Leaders of the Mitority Show he Has Practically a Sure Thing of it— It is Conceded That he Has the Experience and the Ability Nec- essary for the Position, Which is a MoSt Responsible One, Washington, Dee. 3.—Though the congressional mill will not be- gin to grind until next week, the usual preliminaries in the wav of eommittee meetings and confer- ences are already well under way. Of these preliminaries by far the most interest attaches to the cau- ens of the Democratie members of the house, which has been ealled for Saturday to choose a leader to succeed Representative Joha Sharp Wiliams, of Misissippi, who retired from the minority leadership last spring upon his election to the senate. There is little room to doubt that the leadership will fall to %2p resentative Champ Clark, of Mis- souri. Mr| Wiliams and _ his friends are supporting the Missou- rian. There is little opposition to Mr. Clark, although the name of Representative Henry, of Texas, has been mentiond as a possible candidate for the leadership. Mr Clark’s colleague, Representative De Armond, is understood to be opposed to “Mr. Clark. Mr. De } Armond has aspired to the leader- ship for a number of years and his defeat for a that honor by Mr. Wiliams was one of the causes of the enmity betwen the two which culminated in a personal encoun- ter on the floor of the house Ist winter. Talks with leading Democratic members who have arrived in Washington indicate that Clark has virtually a sure thing of the leadership. It is claimed today oy the Clark supporters that neither De Armond nor Henry will develop any considerable strength in the caucus. ———_—~++@>-e—__—_ REYNOLDS BUILDS FACTORY Winston-Salem Tobacco Concera Plans to Make a Large Addition to Plant—Bail Refused Dr. Ca- hill, Virvitia, Murderer. Winston-Salem, Dee. 3.—The R. J. Reynolds Tobaeco Co. whose plant is already the largest to- bacco manufacturing enterprise in the South, is planning to erect an- other large and modern brick building for manufacturing pur- poses. It will be 160 feet long and several stories high and will be located at the corner of Chest- nut and Second streets. . News was received here that counsel appeared before Judge Campbell, of the Cireuit Court of Franklin county yesterday at Rocky Mount, Va., and applied for bail for Dr. J. H. Cahill, the Rocky Mount dentist, who, one day some weeks ago, shot a far- mer named: Smithers at the de- pot there, whd died from the ef- fects of the wound received, the next day It is stated that bail was offered in any amount. Judge Campbell refused to grant the bail, but it is understood the prisoner will be given greater lib- erties than he had enjoyed before. Fhe unwriiten law, it is stated, will be the doctor’s defense, —_~++a>-e—_—_—_—— F. P. Johnston of Hickory is registered at the St. Charles Ho- tel. Engineer Killed in His Cab $1,000 REWARD IS OFFERED. While Train Was Getting Water Unknown Party Fired Shot Which Resulted in the Death of Popular Engineer—Dying Man Sent Tender MeSsage to His Wife And Children—Po- lice Think They Have Trace of Assassin. Durham, N. C., Dee. 3.—Dur- ham was deeply mytstified ‘this morning by the shocking assassi- nation of Engineer A. Holt, of Spencer, who was shot at 1 o’clock by an unknown murderer. Mr. Holt was running an extra train and pulled to the East Dur- ham coal chute and coalec, and was getting water when Fireman Taylor heard a shot and saw Holt} stoop, with an indication of agony. The engineer said, ‘‘I am about gone. Sorry for my wife and children. I leave them nothing. Tell them good bye.”’ By the time trainmen reached him he waved at them and died. The fireman said he saw the murderer stand with his back to the engine several minutes, then run, It was not known until several hours later that the weapon used was a shot gun, and the entire load entered his back. Internal hemorage caused death. ‘he engineer was one of the most inoffensive fellows om earth. He leaves a wife and six children. The oldest is desparately ill at home fwith typhoid fever. The youngest is several days old and the mother is yet confined. The remains were taken to Spencer this morning. The police believe they have a track of the man kiiling Holt is ‘the fellow who fired Gnto Mr. Greenberg’s residence, the He- brew merchant. Greenberg had been to Easff Durham to see his son and return- ed with his daughter. Miss Greenberg retired and when she looked under the bed a man below fired a shot gun through the window and glass fell into her hair. It has developed that night rid- ers three weeks ago threatened a negro living at Greenberg’s house also Greenberg for allowing it. It is believed that the same fel- low that shot Holt fired into the Greenberg home. ——_—_—+4- 9-9 —____- StateSyille a Good Town. A gentleman from Virginia who is at present located in this city in the tobacco business says that Statesville is the best town in several respects b: has ever seen. First as a clean town, he says it cannot be surpassed. He was struck by its handsome buildings and residences. % “ Next, from a moral standpoint he said it was the Lest town mor- ing less whiskey drinking here than any town he knows of. Again, he said, that if the farm- ers kept up the enthusiasm about tobacco growing, it will rank among the first tobacco markets in the state. Already it has prov- en to be the best priced tobacco market in the State. : ——-4 > —_—__— The Entre Nous club met at 4 o’clock this afternoon, with Miss Minne Sheriill at her home on ally he has ever been in, there be-}" President Alexis IS Driven Out ORDER IS RESTORED. =. President Ward Alexis Driven From His Capital—Disappoint- ed By President’s Escape The Maddened Rioters Turn on The Stores and Residerces of Wealehy. Port au Prince, Haiti, Dec. 3—- The stirring events of the excit- ing and historic day that faw President Nord Alexis dirven from his capital with an infuriat- ed mob at his heels, were follow- ed by a night of locting and pil- laging in Port Au Prince. The passion iof the populace had been aroused, and after being de- feated in their endeaveor to do bodily harm to Alexis, they turn- ed their attention to the well- stocked store houses and residen- ces of the supporters of their late president. They were rapidly get- ting out of hand when the authori- ties succeeded in controlling the situation. Tweleve men were kill- ed before order was restored. It was feared disorder would spread over the entire city, but General Poidivin saved the situa- tion. He armed a body of citi- zens and a small detachment of Loyal troops and with them fired on the looters. The general then got together a number of coura- geous citizens and rounded ‘up also a small detachment of Loyal soldiers and marched on the loot- ers. The pillagers were unaware of his approach and the first inti-_ mation that they were to meet any; opposition came to them in the shape of a volley from General Poidevin’s guns. Eight of the looters fell at the first fire. The crowd quickly dispersed. While this was going on in the business district another mob was looting the rich residence section of the isfy the crowd in the suburbs, for they then dispersed without com- mitting any further depredations. At 11 0’clock the Seminary. of Priests was surrounded by a men- acing crowd demanding that Gen- eral Coicou be turned over to them. The priests only.reply. was that the general was not there. Word reaching General Pode- vin of the threatening sitution at the Seminary he hurried forward at the head of his detachment of citizens and soldiers, and on his arrival the crowd dispersed. At midnight the city was com- paratively quiet. Had these disorders broken out in the day time it is probable that the armed forces from the Amieri- can eruisers Tacoma and Des Moines, and the French cruiser, Dugany Trouin, would have been landed. As it was no foreign sail- ors were sent ashore. General Poidevin has been high- . ly.commended for his firm stand which undoubtedly saved the city, from a general outbreak of pil- lage and incindiarism.. - The committee of publie safety, held a meeting early this morning ard General Poidevin was made niilitary governor- of Port ‘Au Prince. A force sufficient to mair- tain order in the capital will be vlaced at his disposal. Should serious situations again arise, ‘however, the committee, promises to ask the foreign eruisers t) send landing parties ashore, ———— _ Mr Zeb Buchanan of Hickory, 1 Davie avente, is spending the day in the city. _; city. . This success seemed to sat- i , d = a! 4 és : * 4 x # De w e e s PC a Se e S ca m a Ci ai a ii tl Bi a o Ea i a RA ne at et e te h EP ES et Se k PA R O S le FY sh e e © sa i l e d lb - pe e r i n g ty e ei a4 ls i Pr e s a es Ar e s , ; Re e RO R Y 8 7a ) :~ Ee be : we y TE R R E S RO M A N O ie SE T Sx THE EVENING MASCOT| DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. ffice 109 Court Street. Telephone 53 VANCE NORWOOD =- Publisher. RALPH SLOAN, - - City Editor, Sabscription Price, - $4.00 a Year ubscription Price, = - 10 Cents a Week ———— Entered at the Postéffice in Statesville a. C., as second-class mail matter. ee Weather Forecasts, Washington, D. C., Dee. 4.-For North Carolina, threatening with probably shdwers late tonight or Saturday Warmer tonight. Cold- er in west and central portion Sat- urdey. = eh They say that in spite of his re- cent election, Uncle Joe has dis- turbing draems at night, and the **Big Stick’? has no cure foe him. —_——_—_++2-»—__—_ Do not fool yourself by think- ing there will be no cold weather before spring comes. Today might convinee you differently. <>» —___- The night riders of Tennessee are now before the foot lights. This kind of erime is contagious, and can do no good, and either publie sentiment or legislative power should remove it. oto _ The Murder of Engineer Holt in Durham yesterday is the seventh in the past three months. It does seem, indeed, that a reign of law- lessness is existing there which should be overcome by the citi- zens. —— —+4+-+ In the last few days President Roosevelt has narrowly escaped being hit by bicycles—yesterday he narrowly escaped being run down by a hose wagon.. We waut to know if it is a ‘‘Bicyele Trust,”’ or is he growing wider and thick- ex: + The old gentleman who was stricken with paralysis this morning on the street should set a warning example for every one. No person should go about without some sign of identifica- tion on them, giving the name, res- idenee, ete. In this way any ac- cident:that should befali them . there would be some way of noti fying their people. —_—— es WOMAN GETS FORTUNE Floridian Leaves Large Estate to Mrs.: Agnes Roberts of Fayette- ville; His Divorced Wife—Es- tate Worth $70,000: Fayetteville, Dec. 2—Mr. James C. Rush, a mechanic em- ployed by the Carolina Machine Works, of this city, and his moth- er, Mrs. Agnes Roberts, have re- cently received information from W. R. McKinstry a bank presi- dent in Gainsville, Fla., that Mr. Benjamin Rush, former husband of Mrs. Roberts, from whom she obtained a divorcee many years ago, and father of Mr. James Rush, had died at that place Nov. 22, leaving practically his entire estate, estiniated at from $50,000 to $70,000, to Mrs. Roberts, his son and ‘‘Miss Minnie Roberts,’’ which last is supposed to mean Miss Maggie Roberts, a daughter of Mrs. Roberts by a second mar- riage, to whom Mr. Rush seemed very much attracted when visit- ing in this city several years ago. The information in regard to the estate was received by James C. Rush in an official letter from Mr. MeKinistry, who was made executor of the late Mr. Rush. Mr J. C Rush accompanied by his attorney; will leave shortly: for Gainesville —————-<<> > Would Mortgage The Farm. A farmer on Rural Route No. 2, Empiry \Ga,. W. A. PYoyd by name, says: “‘Bucklen’s Arnica Salve cured the two worst sores I ever saw; one-on my hand and one on my leg. It is worth more than its weight in gold. I would not be without it if I had to mort- STATE NEWS. Fire at Troy this week destro- ed property to the extent ot 3,- 000. Buncombe courtly will next year have two republican county com- missioners. The first spike was driven in the Goldsboro street car railway on last Monday. In Salisbury Wednesday, a ho- bo on a freight train was captur- ed who had on his person $900. Gov. Glenn is attending a min- ing congress, which convened at Pittsburg the 1st of December. Representative W. F. Crawford, of the 10th district has gone to Hot Springs, Ark., for his health. The grand jury of the Cumber- land -superior court has reccom- mended electrocution instead of hanging. New Berne will hold a special election on June 5, next, to bond the city for $50,000 to pave the streets. A large dairy plant at Wilming- ton was destroyed by fire Tues- day. The loss being $8,000 with $5,000 insurance. The grand jury of the Rowan county court this week reecom- mended that a new court house be built in that county. Tn the Superior court of Row- an county this week Judge Long fined a man $5.00 for being drunk. and contempt of court. Deputy Sheriff Booker, of Ro- wan county, took Sam Massey, who was sent up for life to the state penitentiary Tuesday. The convention of county com- missioners which will convene in Greensboro next week will be ad- dressed by Governor-elect W. W. Kitchen, The recent census takea in Durham county shows that there is three children less in school than last year. The total num- ber in school is 10,963. J. E. Holt an engineer on a freight train, was shot and in- stantly killed by unknown parties as he was running his engine in Durham Wednesday night. Alex Geddin, a negro has been placed in jail at Fayetteville for burning the home of Louise Me- Millan in Flea Hill township Cum- berland county, on Nov. 24. Raymond Rowe a freight con- ductor running between Salis- bury and Asheville was perhaps fatally injured by falling from a car at Asheville last Monday. —_———— ee Death was on His Heels. desse P. Morris, of Skippers, Va., had a closé call in the spring of 1906. He says: ‘‘An attack of pneumonia left me so weak and with such a fearful cough that my friends declared consumption had me, and death was on my heels. Then I was persuaded to try Dr. King’s New Discovery. It helped me immediately, and after taking two and a half bottles J was a well man again. I found out that New Discovery is the best remedy for coughs and lung dis- ease in all the world,’’ Sold under guaarantee at Statesville drug Co. store. ~50e. and $1.00. Trial bottle free. —_—~+<+2@>-—__. Fire Last Evening. A small blaze .was discovered yesterday afterneon’ about & o’clock.in the male academy, by some persons who were passing by. An alarm was immediately sent in and the fire department re- sponded promptly, but arrived there after some one had affected an entrance to the building, and extinguished the flames. Very lit- tle damage was done. The fire originated in a box of kindling wood, which was kept -on hand for kindling fires. How the kind- ling became ignited is not known. _———_+<@>e—————_—_—_. Itching piles provoke profanity, : b , gage the farm to get it.’? Only eee ee ee Ointment . cures. itching, 25e. at—-Statesville - Drug Co. *s bleeding protruding piles after years store. .° <2 of suffering. At any drug store. q SE Report of Revenue Collections. Cashier Roberts of the locai rev- cnue department makes the foi- lewing report for last moath: Lists $778.24; spirits $38,734.96 ; cigars $50.85 ; tobacco $179,282.58 ; special tax $365.22; total $219,- 211.85. The collection for the same month in 1907 was $75,672.08 on spirits and $144,154.88 on tobacco. the total collections in November 1907 being $226,325.95, This collection on _ spirits in November 1908 shows a decrease | of $36,937.12 under the collection of November 1907. The collection on tobacco in November 1908 shows an increas: of $35,127.69 over November col. lections in 1907. The total collections of Novem- ber 1908 show a decrease of $7,- 113.24 as compared with the col- lections of November 1907. There is also a decrease of $27,- 747.08 in November collections as eompared with collections of Oc- tober. —_———_1+@-o—_ —_ Most disfiguring skin eruptions, scrofula, pimples, rashes, etc., are due to impure blood. Burdock Blood Bitters is a cleansing tonic. “Makes you clear-eyed, clear-brained, clear skinned. MOTHER do you hear that rattling in. your babies throat? Put a little Mothers’ Joy on it and stop it at once. MOTHERS how can you take chances —keep a bottle of Mothers joy in your house. You need Mothers’ Joy every day. MOTHERS’ Joy is made of pure goore grease and other healing ingredients. Mothers you cannot afford to be with- outa box of Mothers’ Joy. AD 7 ANT 1 timee:..c........00 ...0 cents a line. 3 times enc 4 cents a line. 6 GIMES.............000 3 cents a line. 26 times................. 3 cents a line. WANTED—Three Nice men for boarders. Apply to 513 Tradd street.. dec4 6t FOR SALE—A Well Established grocery and restaurant business. Address XXX care Mascot 6t FOR SALE—Best Grocery stand in city, doing good business. Reasons for selling. If you want a bargain answer at once. Address Grocer, care Mascot. ; dec 3 tf FOR RENT OR SALE—A 4-room newly painted house on North Center street. Apply to J. S. Kerr. dece2 3t PHOTOS—Penny Photos a spec- ialty—therefore you get the very best—24 for 25¢. Over Knox & Poston’s store. FOR RENT—ONE STORE BULLD- ing and basement. Best retail stand in the city. Statesville Real- ty and Investment Co. Sept.19 AMBITIOUS YOUNG MEN AND ladies should learn telegraphy; for, since the now 8 hour law became effective there is a_ shortage of many thousand telegraphers. Po- sitions pay from $50 to $70 a month to beginners. The National Telegraph institute of Columbia, S. C., and five other cities is oper- ated- under supervision of R. R. Officials and all students are placed when qualified. Write them for particulars. * no19 dtf WANTED—BY THE AMERICAN Cotton and Business University of Milledgeville, Ga., students to take one or more of our courses in cot- ton grading, buying and selling. Business courses of bookkeeping, Shorthand, Typewriting, or Telegra- phy and Railroad course: Positions guaranteed under reasonable con- ditions. Write at once for oar consolidated catalog. Largest col lege South. Sept 28-tf BUY YOUR GASOLINE FROM A.W. Holler Plumbing Co., Phone 61., 127 W. Broad St If you haven’t the time to exercise regularly, Doan’s ReguletS will pre- yent constipation. mild, easy, heaithful action of the bowels without griping. druggists for them. 25c. They induce a NOTICE! I have reopened my Meat Market in the grocery store of R. F. Cashion on Center street and will sell the best of Fresh Beef that can be bought at from 8 to 12 1-2c. a pound. I will be pleased to see all of my o!d customers and any others who desire the best of meats at the above prices. =—-Phone P. A. JONES a wee - SKATING RINK Opera House Building Masquerade -Thes- (ay Night, Dec. 9 5— -|Prizes on exhibition in show window at States- ville Drug Company. LOOK HERE! A full line of Fresh Meats, the best that money will buy, at 8 to 12 Cents Per Pound. i We also carry a full line of Heavy and Fancy Groceries at Prices you can’t afford ta over- look Call on or phone us your wants— Phone No. 110. CHESTER BROS. SOUTHERN RAILWAY 69. Great Highway ef Trade and Travel Through the southern States Through Pullman Sleeping Cars on palatial trains between the principal Cities and Resorts of the South. High-class Dining Cars, Many delightfulSummer and Winter Resorts on and reached by Southern Railway. “The Land of the Sky,” “The Sapphire Country,” in scenic Western North Carolina; beau- tiful at all seasons. Hotels of the highest class. For detailed information apply to nearest Ticket Agent, or R. L. VDRNON, T. P. A., Charlotte, N.C. S. H. HARDWICK, P.T.M., W.H. TAYLOE,G. P. A, Washihgton, D. C. NOTICE Chas. Brincefield will ap- ply tor a pardon Dec. 18. ew Pool Room New Tables of the latest and best makes have been in= stalled under _J. P. Phifer’s grocery store. ia FEIT F 23.233) aware hed =< on i - We SolicitYourPatronage | Ask your | To Cure a-Cold- in One Day Use QUINAGETOL 25 cents. per box at »9 + o od + bd + ° > es bd os 5 Pe bc 4 bo) > 8 4 ‘ ow Rs 5 9000090090008 2920CCC 0080, Sherrill-White Comp’ny ¢ We have just received and put on sale a big lot of Ail Wool Dress goods, 36 to 42 inches wide, your choice. @ ®@ ®@ ® ® : @ 27 1-2. cents yard. : No such bargain ever offered to Statesville buyers be. : 6 ; fore. One piece Tan Herringbone, rainproof, 58 inches wide, real value $1.25 yard, for 60 cents yard. House full of correspondisg values. See our new line of COATS for Ladies, Misses and Chil- drea. We have the NEW DIRECTOIRE STYLES. Prices cheap. Come to see us. 8 e e e 9 e Very truly yours, . & e e @ © Sherrill-White Company 104 West. Broad St., Statesville, N. 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Philadelphia Stenographer says: “It is- the leading Busi- ness College South of the Potomac River.” - “When I reached Richmond, I inquired of several business men for the best Business College in the city, and, without exception, they all recommended -Smithdeal’s as the best—Wm. E. Ross, Law Stenographer, Bluefield, West Virginia. __,Single, Double Entry and Joint-Stock. Bookkeeping, Comme!- cial Arithmetic, ‘Business Writing, Business Practice, Shorthand, Typewriting, Telegraphy, Commercial Law. English Department. Ladies and.gentlemen. Day and night sessions. No vacations. Students enter at‘any time. By Mail—Bookkeeping, Shorthand, Penmanship, at home, te those who cannot come to College. Special inducements to well. educated young men, especially to teachers- Write for-catalog and fell ce ae to | 3 G. M. SMITHDEAL, Pres., Richmond, Ve. _—_—_—_—_——_—_—_—_—_—_—_—_— Cbeteoocosoucoosonecesseyeescnnn[|seesse0eseseer 9000 THE STATESVILLE LOAN. AND TRUST CU. Of Statesville, N. C. ™“~ IS PREPARED to transact all: branches of banking. Accounts are solicited from firms, corporations and indiv - uals, who may rely upon courteous consideration and the very best terms that are consistent -with -good banking methods. - Four per cent. paid on time and savings deposits CAPITAL STOCB..ecscsesssseecee an. ecsee-esenens $40,000.00 SHA REHOLDERS-LIABILITY0....0..2-..20<;c00e-0-.$4.0,000.00 SURPLUs anp UNDIV@ED PROFI!TS............ $30,000.00 ; Tota Resounces OVER...........-ss0c0-000+-+ $440,000.00 ; OFFICERS. E.Steele, President, E: Morrison, Vice-Pres, D. M. Ausley, See end Treasurer, C. E. HUGHEY, Assistant Secy. and Treas: @ 9 @ 8 @ @ @ oe @ e@ 8 oe: = SO jf e O @ @ @ CR aes hi SE R P R E R R E R E R RA R E R EN O N I ES RR O ROY 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ‘ a ‘ (D _— — ai l @@ C C C C C C O C C C C O M e A Mm fe a A * a ‘i m Mm ci nr A mn a 3 ©9 6 0 0 8 6 0@ 0 0 8 0 SOCCCCCCCS 53.00 SHOES!3 We're calling attention today to our li on’ Three Dollar Shoes. 2 eas Whatever price we name for a shoe, we inteu the Shoe will be the vest, that the same cio of money can buy anywhere. We’ve never seen our $3.00 Shoes equalled for the money. We’ve a treat in store for the Three Dol- lar Shoe wearer. ALL THE NEWEST STYLES Vici-Kid, Pat.-Kid, Gun. Metal Calf, Box Calf, etc Extreme styles or conservative shapes. en IT WILL PAY YOU to SEE OUR $3. OF SHOES before you buy. $3.00 LINE S.B. MILLER # THE SHOE MAN. COOOOOO OOOO ODOOCOCOOOCOUE Qr O R R E L E : PL E T E EE ES E PO E TE R I a PR E T AR I E S TO N % ari In sharp contest nothing but “quality” and appearance figure. “RUTH MADE” Hosiery and the “WORLDS BEST” Black are the goods of Quality. After ali has been said, all your pursuasive argument exhausted, it is still a fact that “QUALITY” IS THE ONLY TEST OF VALUE To get best results you must have the best of everything best yarn, best colors, best machines and best help, with such & combination-you can produce the best of what you are making, We have all of the above. Ask your dealer for the goods of “quality.” THE BRADFORD KNITTING MIZL. A Reliable Bank~——— > Bere ee with prompt service and ee es obliging treatment, is of — PPeiegesemes oo great benefit to the young Ci! rt Ni business man. A LEE Hl Lap rey When a man has a Bank } uN Mees Ye x accountitimpliescenfidence ¢ ;ugsecee wes ; in himself ani others. is By all means have a good checking bank behind you in business. You will find it both convenient and dig- bified in transacting busi- ness. Merchants and Farmers’ Bank OF STATESVILLE INCORPOKATED CAPITAL $25,000.00. OFFICERS: L. T. STIMPSON, Pres:; -C. S. TOMLIN, Vice-Pres.; F. B. BUNCH, Sec. & Treas.; J. A: KNOX, Asst. Sec. & Treas. Directors: L. T. Stimpson, J. L. Stevenson, C. S. Tomlin, R. R. Reid, J. A. Knox, W. S. Page, Geo. B. Nicholson, L. K. Lazen- by, E. G. Gaither, J. R. Hill, E. B. Watts. SEVERAL THINGS Are to be considered in selecting your Bank 1ST. Strength-Financial Strength 2ND. The care with which the Bank is Managed. 3RD. The courtesy and spirit of of accomodation displayed by the Officers and Em- ployees. _ 4TH. The banking experience of Officers. - STH. The ability of the bank to Properly and Promptly Handle all Your Business To Those Desiring the Embodi- ment of These Features are Offered The-Service of THE FIRST NATIONAL: BANK OF STATESVILLE CAPITAL $100.000 f Appointments of Statesville Cir- crit. Salem. First Sunday, Springs, Second Sunday, 11 A. M. Trim Ity. ~ Second Sunday, 3 P. M. Rose Chapel. Third Sunday, 11 A. M. Proyi- dence. Third Sunday, 3 P. M, New Sa- lem. Fourth Sunday, 11 A. M, Capel Hill. Fourth Sunday 3 P. M. Connel- ly’s Chapel. The stewards are respectfully requested to meet at the parson- age, Friday, Dec. llth. at 11 o’clock. It is very impertant that every steward be present. T E. WAGG, pastor. ——_++@>e——___—. Where Bullets Flew. David Parker, of Fayette, N. J., a veteran of the civil war, who lost a foot at Gettysburg, says, ‘‘The good Electric Bitters have done is worth more than five hundred dollars to me. I spent much money doctoring for a bad case of stomach trouble, to little purpose. I then tried Electric Bitters, and they cured me. I now take them as a tonie, and they keep me strong and well.’’ o0e. at Statesville Drug Co.’s store. 3-P. M. Cool COTTON MARKET. Local Market. Prices paid at wagon: Strict Good middling Good middling Middling.... Stains and Tinges The market was quiet. ———-+< 2-2 ——_—_—_ Flake graphite valued at $171, 149, amorphus graphite valued at $125,821 and artificial graphite valued at $481,239 were produced in the United States in 1907. ——_— +> The police reports in Durham were broken last month. There was 212 arrests, cash fines of $488 and $53 fines\worked out on the streets. EPS SS . How to Prevent Pneu- § monia In every paper you pick up you will see where some ¢ good man has just died with & this fearful disease—pneu- & monia. Now we will give — you One Hundred Dollars & for any case of pneumonia you have in your family it fails to cure if you will use § Goose Grease Liniment as § directed. It only costs you § 25 cents a bottle. Get it— § you have nothing to loose § and all to gain. Weknow there are thousands who will read this aud throw it § aside and in a few days will be down with the disease. Please just get one bottle and putit away until you | need it. If you haven’t the money to buy it let us know and we will send you a bot- tle free. GOOSE GREASE CoO. OSITION Draughon gives contracts, backed by a chain of 30 Colleges, $300,000.00 capital, and 19 year’s success, to se- cure positions under reasonable con- ditions or refunnd tuition. Draughon’s ccin- BOOKKEEPING D:sz2tor's ec: accepting his pruposition, concede that he teaches more Bookkeeping in THREE months than they do in SIX. Draughon can convince YOD. Sil 0 RTHA ND ee Court Reporters write the system of Shorthand Draughon teaches, _be- cause they know it is THE BEST. FOR FREE CATALOG azd book- let, “Why Learn Telegraphy?”’ which explains all, call on or write JNO. F. DRAUGHON, President : _ DRAUGHON’S PRACTICAL BUSINESS COLLEGE (We also Teach by Mail) % | Raleigh, Knoxville, Nashville, Cc _ lumbia or Washington, D.C. Se “FREDERICK AND VOLTAIRE. and the Lavish Author. The world knows plenty about the elements of strength in the characters |of great men, but less about their | weaknesses. Here is a story that { { | | Shows the other side of the natures of | | Frederick the Great and Voltgire: Frederick the Great hed a Jeaning toward literature. He wrote poems, plays and booklets that, in his opin- ion, possessed rare merit. So it seemed fitting to him that great liter- ary men should fraternize, and he sent 4n invitation to Voltaire to “be his guest. Accompanying the invitation was a sum of money to defray the great Frenchman’s traveling expenses to the Prussian capital. . Let it be explained at this point that Frederick was extremely penurious and that Voltaire was not only ex- travagant, but had many of the char- acteristics of what we would now call a grafter. It should also be under- stood that Frederick despised graft- ing, and Voltaire abhorred miserli- ness. © Voltaire accepted the invitation—and then had an afterthought. Why not take a favorite niéce with him? So he wrote to the king that if he would send an extra thousand lowis he would bring the girl. “Sir,” replied the king, “I did not ask the young lady to do me-the honor of visiting me, and I shall send noth- ing to pay her expenses.” “The old miser!’ said Voltaire to a friend. “He has tubs of money in his treasury, yet will not grant me this wish.” ~ However, Voltaire went to Berlin, but each found that he hated the other too much to make their friendship perma- nent. The king once gave Voltaire a pack- age of poems to revise. “See,” said Voltaire to a German no- bleman, “what a quantity of dirty linen Frederick has sent me to wash!” The king thought his guest was too free with the chocolate and sugar and gave orders that he be put on a re- stricted daily allowance. Voltaire retaliated by gathering all the wax candles he could find in the halls and storing them in his trunk. Soon the royal palace became too hot for him, and he began to pack up. Then Frederick missed his package of poems. At once he scented a plot. Vol- taire intended to take the verses back home with him and palm them off as bis own. Lord Macaulay has said that the poems were so bad that he was convinced Voltaire would not gor half of Frederick’s kingdom have consent- ed to father them. But the king thought differently, being the author of the poems. So the Prussian monarch had Vel- taire thrown into jail at Frankfort and kept him locked up for twelve days. Sixteen hundred dollars that was found in his pocket was taken away from kim. The king in the days of their friendship had given Voltaire a life pension of $3,200 a year, and the money that was confiscated was a semiannual installment. Thus ended their friendship.—Scrap Book. Spanish Nicknames. One of the peculiar ways in which Spanish differs from English is in the #| names the language gives to all peo- ple with a certain infirmity or peculiar- ity. A blind man is referred to as el clego, a man with but one eye is a tuerto, a pug nosed man is chato, one fi who is cross eyed is a bisojo, a cojo is a lame man, and a manco has but one arm. If be is humpbacked, he is a jorobado; if baldheaded, a calvo, and if his hair is very short he is a pelon. The feminine titles for the same classes are the same, with the exception that they end in~“‘a” where the masculine terminate with ‘“o.” These short names are used most commonly. In fact, they are applied as nicknames in many cases, and especially among the lower classes persons- are addressed or re- ferred to only by these names. A Wedding Present. A widower in Scotland proposed to mi and was accepted by a widow whose husband had died but a month or two previously. To celebrate the occasion he asked the widow’s daughter what she would Ifke for a present. She wanted noth- name something she replied: “Well, if you want to spend siller you might put up a heidstone to my father.”—Léndon Telegraph. The Ruling Passion. : “John! John!” called the excited lit- tle wife. “W-what is it, Lucy?’ muttered the big baseball player as he drowsily turned over in bed. “Why, there is 2 man downstairs.” “W-what’s he doing?” “He’s in the dining room after the plate.” a “Trying to reach the plate? Put him out, Kelly; put him out at third!’— Kansas City Independent. Reproved. “T suppose,” said the sad eyed youth at the musical, “you know the differ- ence between bel canto and colora- tura?”’ “Young man,” answered Mr. Cumrox severely, “I never bet on race horses.” —Washington Star. Practical. “Darling, I mean to prove my lore for you not by words, but by deeds.” “Oh, George, did you bring the deeds with you?’—Baltimore American. Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. 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For information call us up on the phone and a representative ot the paper will gladly visit you oo 0 ca s e Se ee ae ee e ec e l e c e ! so m e s : Te e Te ea s e s ee s ea s e s se e s ts e el e s of et e te sB S E S R S E S E L T E RE S TR B T ST R E E T ES ee e Te a s Te e RE A R NT TR E Ta ae s ta k e t et e CR Se a l Ce S Re cE Ce C e Nb a Ce C e T NI C E R Ce C e Ce CO CO C R ON T e CO T O FO N a TO T O ESS: BE Sh e a AB E st e e r si t i e w h a e r r o d SE R R E : a = pe s i e s r s Se r e n ne dk s en a ee eo op ap i g s a h e n s at ER E ae Sp d OE Se So EE Rn OR AR E E R SR RH 4 te % ee 2 er g SX + le ea e Sp e e d SI S th e i r s np c Qe v i b e oe . br es ry * Ea t ed er ee ee je e Sq n ae be . “a t ga Se d Mi n n i t % e aad — at e SS S TE SL Le m a n e e e ee me we r e ee : sp e : Si s l a g i b l g t te r i a ie Fa t t Cp e , ed i ap a p MA L T Se r i n e ne h $0 gc Lo n OE pS te ni n e Ch e ee pa t e om > 4 Ne e ae Ar e e | THE PRISON BIRD. Tyrannical and Jealous Feathered Beauty of Africa. The peculiarity of the prison bird, a feathered beauty of Africa, is that he is the most tyrannical and jealous of husbands, imprisoning his mate throughout her nesting time. Living- stone watched the bird’s habits while in Monpour, and in his subsequent ob- servations referred to the nest as a prison and the female bird as a slave. The nest is built in the hollow of a tree through an opening in the bark. As soon as it is completed the mother bird enters carefully and fearfully and settles down in it. Then papa walls up the opening, leaving only just space enough for air and food to pass through. He keeps faithful guard and brings food at regular intervals with- out fail. The female thrives under her enforced retirement. But if the prison bird is killed or in any other way pre- vented from fulfilling his duties the mother and her little ones must die of starvation, for she cannot free herself from bondage. Normally the imprisonment lasts un- til the chicks are old enough to fly. Then the male bird destroys the bar- rier with his beak and liberates his family. “It is charming,” writes Liv- ingstone, “to see the joy with which the little prisoners greet the light and the unknown world.” THE NORMAN “OQYEZ.” A Legacy of William the Conqueror to the Courts. Everybody who has ever been in a United States courtroom knows that when the judge walks out of his cham- bers and ascends the bench the court crier drones out: “Oyez, oyez, oyez, the honorable court of the (whatever district it may be) is now in session.” Not many persons, however, realize tbat the crier says “oyez, oyez, oyez,” instead of “harken, harken, harken,” because of a chance visit that William the Conqueror made to an English court almost 900 years ago. William had overrun England, seized the government and placed himself at its head. Happening to enter a court- room, he heard the crier call the as- semblage to order in English. William rebuked him and on the spot decreed that the business of all English courts should be transacted in Norman French, his native tongue. Afterward the courts went back to English, but to this day “oyez, oyez, oyez,” clings to court customs wherever the English language is spoken as a reminder of the great Norman who whipped King Harold in the battle of Hastings.— Scrap Book. One of Life’s Tragedies. He had expected a tender embrace from his sweetheart, but her greeting of him was cold. He could not under- stand it. “Darling,” he exclaimed in agony, “what is the matter?” But she remained silent, her lips tightly closed, and motioned him from her, He fell upon his knees. “My love,” he cried, “tell me what I have done to offend you? I swear I have Gone nothing wrong! I confess I kissed the Simpson girl last night at the party, but on my oath I—I thought she was you.” Her lips €losed even tighter, but she uttered not a syllable, and, in despair at her unbending demeanor, he fled from the place, he knew not whither. Would yon know, oh, reader, the rea- son of the conduct by which a woman blighted two young lives? ’Twas sim- ply this: She had left her false teeth in the bathroom. Probably She Meant It. Lucile, a carefully brought up little girl of five years, returned from her first party in great glee. “I was a good girl, mamma,” she an- nounced and talked nice all the time.” “Did you remember to say some- thing pleasant to Mrs. Townsend just before leaving?’ her mother asked. “Oh, yes, I did,” was the enthusi- astic reply. “I smiled and said: ‘I en- joyed myself, Mrs. Townsend. I had @ lot better dinner than I thought I’d have.’ ”’—Delineator. One on the Judge. “Hereyou are,” said the judge to the colored prisoner, “complaining that you can’t get along with one wife, and yet Solomon had hundreds of ’em.” “Yes, yer honor,” was the reply, “but you must rickollect dat de last testi- mony he give in wuz dat dey wuz all vanity an’ vexation of spirit!”—Atlanta Constitution. Still Holds Good. “There was a time,” exclaimed young Spenders, who had gone through a for- tune, “when people used to say I had more money than brains. They can’t. say it now.” “No?” queried the caustic cad. “No. I’m down to my last penny.” “Ah, but you have the penny.”—Phil- adelphia Press. Awkward. A pretty schoolteacher, noticing one of her little charges idle, said sharply: “John, the devil always finds some thing for idle hands to do. Come up here and let me give you some work.” —Judge’s Library. A New Sensation. ; Mrs. Bullion—I wish I knew some- thing to do that would provide me with an absolutely new sensation. Mr. Bul- lHon~—Go out and pay cash for some- thing.—Life. Windmills. Windmills were invented and used by the Saracens. Anger Wrecks the System. It is well known that a violent fit of temper affects the heart in- stantly, and psychophysicists have discovered the presence of poison in the blood immediately after such outburst. This explains why we feel so depressed, exhausted, and nervous after any storm of passion—worry, jealousy, or re- venge—has swept through the mind. It has lefti n its wake vici- ous mental poison and other harm- ful secretions in the brain and blood. There is no constitution so strong but it will ultimately suc- cumb to the constant racking and twisting of the nerve centers caused by an uncontrolled temper. Every time you become angry reverse all of the normal mental and physical proceses. Everything in you rebels against passion storms; every mental faculty pro- tests against their abuse. If people only realized what havie indulgence in hot temper plays in their relicate nervous structure, if they could only see with the physical eyes the dam- age done, as they can see what folllows in the wake of a tornado, they would not dare to get angry. When the brain-cells are over- heated from a fit of temper their efficiency is seriously impaired if ence of the anger poison; the shock to the nervous system, is what makes the victim so ex- hausted and demoralized after loss of self-control—Success Mag- azine, ———~+@>-e——__ . WHY SUFFER? —_— Breathe Hyomei and Kill the Loathsome Catarrh Germs, Just as long as you have eatarrh your nose will itch, your breatib will be foul, and you hawk and spit, and you will do other dis- gusting things because you ¢an’t help yourself. The germs of ¢ea- tarrh have got you in their power; they are continually and persist- ently digging i nto and irritating the mucous membrane of your nose and throat. They are now making your life miserable; in time they will sap your entire system of it senergy, its strength, its serength, its vigor’and vitality. But there is one remedy that will kill the germs and eure e¢a- tarrh, and that is Hyomei, the Aus- tralian dry air treatment. The Statesville Drug Co., the druggists, will guarantee Hyomei to cure catarrh, or money back. Don’t delay this pleasant antisep- tie treatment. Breathe in Hyomei and kil Ithe germs. The Statesville Drug Co, will sell you a complete Hyomei outfit, including inhaler, for only $1,00. It is also guaranteed to cure bron- chitis, asthma, coughs, eolds, hay fever and croup. +> Looking Back Uon the Present. We who are used to flight caa hardly realize the crawling life of men before the twentieth century. They were bound to roads and railroads. They could not ride di- rect to any given spot. They were confined to roads and rail- roads, and they were a huried race that chafed at these restraints Imagine, then, this race suddenly relieved of such vexations bar- rirs, entering into a new realm, as free as the sea, and reaching all men alike, so that -every man’s farm or factory was a harbor from which he could sail as directly as the wind; and, bear in mind, from the first with a rapidity that equaled that of the ordinary rail- road trains of the day and surpass- ed and speed permitted by law to private vehicles on their crooked roads. It was Indeed this ad- vantage of speed which encour- aged as much as anything else the commercial development of tthe fiyer—Albert White Vorse, in Sucess Magazine. ——_~++@r-e———_ - The police reports in Durham were broken last month. There was 212 arrests, cash fines of $488 and $93 fines worked dut on the | Streets. <a zot absolutely ruined. The pres-|’ 15,488 GET LIFE JOB That Number Transferred to Clas-' sified Service by an Executive Order. | Washington, Dee 2.—All fourth | class postmasters in the Statks. east of the Mississippi River and. north of the Ohio River, number-; ing 15,488, were today placed in, the classified service by an execu-} tive order of the President. Here- after all the appointees to fourth: class postmasterships in these must undergo civil service exami- nation. Postmasters now holding office will not need to take the examinations. The order applies to Maine, Newhampshire, Ver- mont, Massachusetts, Rhode Is- land, Connecticut, New York New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indi- ana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Mich- igan. The number involved in New York State is 2,341. The section included within the order was selected because the department has experienced less difficulty there in getting eligibles for the rural carrier service than elsewhere. It is stated, however, that the President’s order is only the beginning of what of what will eventually include all post offices where the salary is ‘less than $1,000 in the classified ser- vice. Another executive order, sign- ed at the same time, authorizes the Post Office Department to fil] "vacancies swithout civil serviced examination pending the certifi- eation of eligibles by the Civil Service Commission. ————~~+e>e—_—__ WOMEN’S WOES. Statesville Women Are Finding Re- lief at Last. It does seem that women have more than a fair share of the aches aad pains that afflict humanity; they must “keep up,’ must attend to duties in spite of constantly aching SSS $ O0OOSO000O0OEDIOOHOOOHOOOOSHOOOOOOS 20004 — Hat Pins enon: . Don’t fail to see these $= =N SS they are beautiful. :: made out of Don’t fail to see me for BARGAINS in your Christmas purchases. ::_ :: x Best of goods-at low- est prices. —_Every- thing | sell guaran- teed as represented, =. Now on display in -my show window. =: = Real Rose Hat Pins NM fl It does not seem possible, yet it is true, H that these Hat Pins are made out of real 4 live roses, changed entirely into metal m by asecretprocess,preserving every de- pa tailof the rose from which each pin is f made. They can not break, and willlast ma forever. This discovery is without = doubt one of the lost erts of the ancient fs Ezyptians. They are the most beautiful ™ of allHat Pins. Notwoarealike. Fin- 4 ished in five colors,to conform to the Mm prevailing fashions in millinery. Made ‘4 in six sizes,from the smallest rose bud Pa tothefullblownflower_ These pins are tl made by-the genuine “DELAMOTHE “| secret process, the only process by < pace = pes rose can oe periectty; m mctalized. n’t buy an inferior imita- tion. All genuine “DELAMOTHE Metalized Real Rose Hat Pins” have m the name stamped on the pin. We have the exclusive sale of “DELAMOTHE” products forthis city. See the exhibit in our win- dow of this wonderful discovery. Now is your chance to get a 15 or 17 jeweled Watch Move- ment at a low price. Nothing of the kind has ever been on sale here before. ::: OMNTONIOVAN R.F.HENRY ow Jeweler _and Optician. HOTEL IREDELL BUILDING, STATESVILLE, N.C. 2626 OO 08SOOE9OOOC 0608800080000 06900668 backs or headaches, dizzy spells, bearing-down pains; they must stoop over, when to stoop means torture. they must walk and bend and bend and work with racking pains and many aches from kidney ills. Kidneys cause more suffering than any other organ of the body. Keep the kidneys well and health is easily maintained. Read of a remedy for kidneys only that helps and cures the kidneys and is endorsed by people you know. Mrs. M.L Moose, living at 209 Boulevard St., Statesville, N. C., says: “For several years I was a vic- time of weak kidneys. I had a soreness across these organs most of the time and I generally felt weak. Dizzy spells and headaches were of frequent occurrence, and at night I was unable to obtain my proper rest. The kidney secretions were also un- natural in appearance, and showed that my kidneys were at fault. I used a number of remedies but Doan’s Kidney Pills, which I procur- ed at Hall’s drug store, benefited me more than any of the others. I sin- cerely hope that other sufferers will give Doan’s Kidney Pills a trial as I know they will act strictly up to their representations. ?? For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name and take no other. Mr. W: W. Gaither has added a nice line of candy to his eafe business. e <i WE HAVE IT! The Christmas Present You W ant! At the Store of Quality. - A Little Mistake. Lady (on the Metropolitan Rail- way, London): ‘‘Please, sir, wilh you help me to get out at the next station ?’’ Gentleman: ‘‘Why, certainly, ma’am.”’ Lady: ‘‘You see, sir, it’s this way Being rather stout, I have to turn around and get out back- ward, and the porters always think I am getting in, so they push me back into the carriage and say, ‘Hurry up, ma’am.’ I’ve passed four stations that way already.’’-— Selected. : ee MisunderStood. When Mark Twain was a young and struggling newspaper writer Opening Up To-day - a Statesville Drug Company, - Prescriptionists BORO OCHROHOROROHREOOE ‘, ' . in San Francisco,-a lady of his ac- yZeee EESESSESVESESSE TERE quaintance saw him one day with « “. a cigar box under his arm, looking| A in a shop window. A “‘Mr. Clemens,’’ she said, ‘‘I al- H il ways see you witha cigar box| AA under your arm. I am afraid you! M@® ALL MEN IN STATESNILLE are smoking too much.’’ A And Iredell County should get ac- ‘It isn’t that,” said Mark, I’m] A\ quainted with the matchless man- no eee AW ner in which we do their shirts, SS e e C e c t S e e nm collars and cuffs. “Perfect satisfac- tion guaranteed. :-: :-: 3s: :-: Wood Sawed! # = See R. O. Harbin or Phone 132 m Statesville Steam Laundry 3 Soccccccocccccocoecoccoscs . © These Handsome Dishes Given Away to My Customers e Now Time for You to Se- With each cash purchase of coupon that can be exchanged for these gifts. o>. <i | U. C. Harwell, Prop. Phone !22 “te “SSStecetceececcececceced 2 “N E e e e e e e e ge | § 5 cents or over I will give youa @ SSS Rs a p— 4 l= © oa Sema ‘ = = : L. A.GOLDMAM : Purveyor to the People. socccccsooovccgooooceeoee STATESVILLE HOUSEFURNISHING COM’PY lect Your Xmas Goods An, We will put aside any goods selected. our new line of Morris Chairs and Rockers. Also Fine Mahogany Tables. We will make Special Prices on COOK "STOVES and RANGES. <i VoL New SCENES Over 2 Take t House & of Mag Taken Below Oath 3 The co very bus. day this of the eq the oath. dred offic oath. These ter of d county school be dent of s and the sheriffs. The ec honors fo ers. The the act t deeds, co officers. Below have so fé Superixz L. 0. W. County Corone Sheriff. Registe Boyd. Treasu: County; Mills, H Gaither, Hager. Board ¢ Nicholson H. Hill. The fo istrates the oath, Statesy A. King, Eagle B. Kenne Turners Fallstoy Sharpes New H) E. Moore Bethan F, Blackys Chamb ; Neely, G Barring Union W.B.C Coddle A. M. V C: Me Pg J. Beave The mz time this complete Only or fied so far The old the court the affai: men takr row. Mr Cha as the d present, another d At the great St Sreatest ; give a pe has a wo skater an nine year trick ska world. its kind Statesyilf| As » s ‘ fE S E E E C S S E E C E C E C E S || RO O H M O O R N O O Z O R O n E O R PE ee ee Vol. 1. et a omg eeertet eee — ae a Lars ? So Statesville, N. C., Monday Evening, December 7, 1908. EVENING MASCOT. _— No. 374 New Officers Take Oath) scc‘curssc| |S Heard) Minority Leader) =e") — Raises Check SCENES AT COURT HOUSE. Over a Half Hundred Officers AMONG THE CHURCHES. New Methodist Minister Preaches His Initiative Sermon—Miss Methodist minister preached his iniative sermon at the court house yesterday morning. He was heard by a large con- Take the Oath at the Court gregation at the morning service, House To-Day—Large Number the court house being packed. of Magistrates Have Already Mr. Turner is a young man, an Taken the Oath—A list of Those|=2slishman by birth and isa Below who Have Taken the|St™ng preacher, his sermon yes- Oath as we go to Pres, The county eommissioners are terday being full of knowledge, strength, and wisdom, Everyone of his congregation is very busy at the court house to-]highly pleased with him many day this being the day when most of the county officers are taking the oath. More than half a hun- dred officers have so far taken the oath. These inelude the sheriff, regis- ter of deeds, county treasurer, county eommissioners, school school board, county superinten- dent of schools, county surveyor, and the magistrates and deputy sheriffs, The elerk of court did the honors for the eounty commission- ers. The commissioners then did very complimentary remarks be- ing made about his sermon yester- day morning. At the Associate Reformed ehureh yesterday morning at the preaching hour Miss Edna Love leetured on the work of the Asso- ciate Reformed church in Mexico. Miss Love has for a number of years been a missionary of this church in Mexico, and her lecture was listened to by a large audi- ence, At the First Presbyterian church -yesterday morning Rev. the act to the sheriff, register of| Dr. Wharey, the regular supply deeds, county treasurer and other officers, Below is the list of officers who have so far taken the oath: Superintendent of Instruction— L. O. White. County Surveyor—R. F. Rives. Joroner—P, C, Carlton. Sheriff—James M. Deaton. Register of Deeds—James E. Boyd. Treasurer—W. Reese Sloan. — County Commissioners—N. B. Mills, H. C. Summers, R, F. pastor filled the pulpit. As yet Rev. Mr Minter has not decided to accept the call to this church. At -the Southside Associate Reformed church yesterday morn- ing, Rev. J. B. Branch preached he and Rev. W. A. Kennedy ex- changing pulpits, Rev. Mr. Ken nedy preaching at the Front street Presbyterian. — a ‘Marriage YeSterday Afternoon. At the residence of Rev. W. A. Lutz yesterday afternoon at 3 Gaither, D. E. Turner, J. W.}0’clock, in the presence of a few lager. friends and relatives Miss Fannie Board of Education—Dr. W. G.|C Woodward was united in mar- Nicholson, J. L. Bradley, Prof. J.| riage to Mr. Wm. Me. Freet, Rev. H. Hill. The following is the list of mag- Mr. Lutz officiating. Miss Woodward is the daughter istrates who have so far taken{of Mr Geo. Woodward of North the oath, by townships: Statesville—B. B. Boyd, James|section. She is A. King, W. W. Turner. Eagle Millk—W. H. Cook, J. B. Kennedy, Turnersburg—D. L. Webb. Fallstown—W. W. Williamson, Sharpesburg—P. N. Eagle. Iredell and is well known in that a handsome young lady and liked by all that know her. The groom is a mill wright and has fr some time been employe at the mill of Mr. Geo. Woodward, the bride’s father. While there New Hope—J. E. Privett, N. he fell in love with Miss Wood- E. Moore. Bethany—W. H. Adderholt, N. F. Blackwelder, E. A. Matheson. ward and hence the marriage. The couple left last night for Chattanooga, Tenn., where thef Chambersburg—S. W. Me-} will make their home for a while. Neely, @ F. Sheperd. They have the best wishes of Barringer—A. W. Blackwelder their large host of friends in this Union Grove—S, S. Templeton, j county. W. B. Campbell. Coddle Creek—E. T. Goodman, A. M. Walker, C. V. Voils, J. ©. MeLean. Cool Spring—W. F. Reece, A. J. Beaver. ——_—++ oro MooreSville Items, Mooresville, Dec. 7—Dr. R. J. Caldwell, a well known physician of this town is seriously ill with pneumonia and very little hope is The magistrates can qualify any| entertained for his recovery. time this month, so there is not a complete list of them. The store of J. L. Sinclair, in No 2 eotton mill district was clos- Only one deputy sheriff quali-|ed last Saturday by four or five smith’s Case TESTIMONY IN SMITH CASE. Police Justice Conducts Prelimi- nary Hearing in Complicated Murder Case at Raleigh and a Tight Chain of Evidence is Wound Around Earl Cotton and Tim _ Holderfield—Mrs. Smith Identifies Diamond Ring and Watch—Hearing Consumes Four Hours and is Adjourned Till Monday Morting. Raleigh. N. C., December 5.— The hearing of the Smith mur- der case consumed about four hours’ time today and then was adjourned by Justice Badger until 9 a. m, Monday. There is a queer complication, growing out of a conflict between the police justice and Coroner Separk, and the latter’s constable served war- rants on several persons, includ- ing Ed Chavis, the engro hack- driver, while these witnesses were in the lobby of the court room. This has caused quite a stir and no little comment. The first sensation of the day was the entry into the court room of Mrs. E. W. Smith, the widow, with her being J. T. Serey, the manager of the Whiteoak Coal Company, for which Smith work- ed, and Alexander Sands, attor- ney for the company. Both these men had been here previously. William B Jones and Attorney Sands assisted City Attorney Wil- liam B Snow in the prosecution. It was stated that ‘there was no charge against ‘‘Red’’ Hopkins, clerk in Earl Cotton’s restaurant in the tenderloin, but Hopkins was present and in custody Wil- liam Taylor, the first witness, found Smith’s clothes at the side of the stone quarry early Sunday morning, The second sensation of the hearing was the evidence of Rich- ard Williams, the negro cook at Earl Cotton’s restaurant. He said that on the night of the crime he was at work; Cotton was there all night and Holderfield all day Sat- urday Williams saw a stranger enter at 7:30 Saturday evening, wearing a grey overcoat and with unbuttoned shoes, with no collar, tie or hat visible This man asked Cotton where he could get a drink Cotton didn’t know; wish- ed he had one himself. Stranger went in back room. Holderfield was lying on bed, Cotton sitting up When man went in back room door was open. After he got in the door was closed. “*Red”’ Hopkins was in front part of cafe. About twenty-five minutes after- ward Holderfield went out. About fifteen minutes after Holderfield Champ Clark HIS ELECTION UNANIMOUS His Name Being Suggested to the Caucus of Democratic Members of Congress by the Retiring Minority Leader, John Sharpe Williams, Now Senator-Elect, the Distinguished Missouri Rep- reSeltative in CongreSs is Unan- imously Elected to Lead the Democratic Forces of the Houes in the Next Congress. Washington, D. C., Dee. 5.— Representative Champ Clark, of Missouri, was tonight chosen mi- ority leader of the House of Rep- resentatives at a caucus of the Democratie members of that body. Mr. Clark’s election was unani- mous. His name was suggeted to the caucus by retiring minrity leader, Senator-elect John Sharpe Williams, of Mississippi. Resolu- tions were adopted thanking Mr. Williams for his service to the party on the floor of the house. —_—_++@>>—_—_ LOCAL BRIEFS. Mrs. J. M. Templeton of Mt. Mourne is visiting relatives in the city. Mr Fred Conger is ill at his tome on Broad street with a slight attack of grippe, Marriage license have been is- sued for Mr. L. Cleave Bass and Miss Williameth Nesbit. Ladies be sure and read the ad- vertisement of Knox, Poston & Co., on the second page. Mr. H. C. Cowles, clerk of the federal court, went to Charlotte Saturday night where federal eourt convenes today, Judge Boyd presiding. Don’t fail to read the new ad- vertisements in the paper today. We get a new advertisement from some of our merchants every day setting forth some Xmas bargains. The kind hearted citizens of Statesville have raised about ten dollars to pay the railroad fare of Mr Geo, West, who was stricken with paralysis last week , to his home in Knoxville. Holderfield said, ‘‘May Sheph- erd.’? Holderfield came in back door. Williams remained at cafe all night. Cotton gave him pack- age wrapped up in newspaper Tuesday afternoon and told him to earry it over to ‘‘Depot Bell’s”’ and tell her,to put it where no- body could get it On Monday Cotton told Williams to go over and tell Depot Bell to change hid- ing place of package. Depot Bell then opened package package and witness saw a diamond ring and gold watch. Did not see woman bury it. Would recognize watch and ring. Did not tell Cotton ) MRS. H, C. SUMMERS DEAD ome duration. serious for the past three months. Mrs. Summers’s maiden name township. She was married to Mr. Summers in December 1858, this month, of 11 children, ten of whom sur- are as follows: Messrs. J. B., W. R., R. P., C. H., L. N. and J. W. Summers of this county and Rev.J.E.Summers of Mecklenburg F. M. Summers of Tennessee, A. R, Summers of Arkansas and W. W. Summers of Hickory. Be- sides these she is survived by her husband, Mr. H. C. Summers. Mrs, Summers was 69 years of age, had since a young girl been a devout member of the Presby- terian church. The funeral services will take place at the Concord Presbyterian church at Loray tomorrow at 1 o’clock conducted by Rev. EB, D. Brown, and the interment will be in the Concord grave yard at the church. The bereaved family have the ty in the loss of their kind moti er. Three of the sons, Messrs, C. H. W. R. and R.-P. Summers live in this city, and are well known by all our citizens. ee Gp PG IN COURT CIRCLES. Hen Smith Tried for Assault With a Rock. Squire Turner this morning tried one Hen Smith, cohored, for an assault on the person of one Pink Rhinehart, by kicking him in the face and drawing a pistol on him. Several witnesses testified that Smith had no pistol, while Pink was the only one who swore he did. charge of kicking Pink and after decided there was not probable imposed a fine of $2.000 and costs face. rock on the 3rd day of October. Mrs. Summers Died at 1 O’Clock Negro Man Mrs. Ellen Melissia Summers, wife of H. C, Summers died at her TRYS TO PUT IT ON ANOTHER home near Loray, this morning at : 1 o’clock, after an illness of long For the past five years Mrs. Summers has been in very poor health, her condition having been was Ervin, she being the daughter of the late Jos, Ervin of Concord er sympathy of the entire communi- pered. with. He Justice Carlton this morning tried one Harvey Hill colored for|myrner found probable cause, and an assault on Tid Jones with a put him under a bond of $400, Haywood Alexander Colored, Raises a Check Given Him by N. D. Tomlin, From $12.25 to $96.25—Got it Cashed at Bank - Arrested, Tried and Put Under a $400 Bond. Last Saturday, Haywood Alex- ander, a negro living north of having been married just 50 years|*°W2, near Olin, took a load of eotton to Mr. N. D. Tmlin’s cot- Mrs. Summers was the mother] 2 gin and sold it, receiving in payment for it a check for $12.25 vice her, one being dead They-|°2 N. D. Tomlin. _ The negro then came to town, and proceeded to the bank to get it cashed. The general theory. about the matter is that he erased his name from the check, and in- serted the name of Wm| Walter Brown, making it payable to an- other person. The amount was also changed from $12.50 to $96.25. He then endorsed the check with the name of Wm Walter Brown, and presented it to the Merchants and Farmers Bank to get it cashed. Mr. Bunch, the cashier, being in a rush, did not scrutinize the check closely at the time, and paid the negro the amount. Later, Mr, Bunch examined the eheck and saw it had been tam- called “up Mr Yomlin by phone asking him about it. Mr. Tomlin informed him he had given the negro a-check for $12.25 only. Mr. Bunch immediately phoned Sheriff Summers, who arrested Alexander, and took him before Squire W. W, Turner for trial. On trial Mr. Bunch was unable to identify Alexander as being Deadly Weapon—Harvey Hili|the same person who presented Hit Another on the Head With| the check to be cashed. Alexander stated that he had traded the check of $12.25 to an- other negro for a gallon of whisk- ey and received $10.75 in money, making the whiskey cost him him $1.50, The work of raising the check he says was done by the Brown negro. Alexander said he had left the checek at home, when he was first arrested. W hen searched on trial, receipts for a Smith plead guilty as to the! notte) mortgage for $25.75, $6.00 on a furniture bill, and $1.00 from hearing the evidence, Mr. Turner} 4, Landmark, and $2.44 in cash wag found on him. It is also un- cause to bind Smith to court 02] gerstood that he had invested charge of deadly weapon, so he heavily in Xtnas goods, ete., hav- ing a large pile of goods in Eagle on him for kicking Pink in the] ¢ ‘Milholland’s store. After hearing the evidence which was very conflicting, Squire which wag given by his father - Proceeded to Pay his Debts— immediately _ oe ae ee s i ee t he m p en t r a a 5 Fh 2. 5 4 ‘ EE NT P C LT Ry ger s Ce! G2 PE ai t : oP e Dn s gS OS te n a a EE a Wa d ee e fie i : ‘2 ereditors. Sinclair left}went out Ed Chavis came in and : fi a es aoe Se = a ee for parts unknown,|ordered steakfl. Before witness| where woman put package. the court house today, winding up} and has not yet been heard from. could cook steak Holderfield eame| The third “sensation and the the affairs of their pines: the new| The store was left in charge of his| back. Holderfield went into back greatest of all was then sprung by men taking active charge tomor- wife. Holderfield went into the back|City Attorney Snow, who called After hearing the testimony, Mr, Carlton put Hill under a bond of $50 for his appearance at court. —~—4+ or Fine Mule Dies, and father-in-law. | ae Weather Forecasts. Washington, D. C. Dec. 7—For Tow. Mr Chas. Armfield will eontinue as the deputy register for the ——_+ ere Tried for Train Riding. Hen Smith who was in Justnce present, until Mr. Boyd appoints Turner’s court this morning for another deputy. an assault was tried before Mr. Turner this afternoon on charges At the skating rink tonight the| of beating a ride on @ freight great Strasburger and baby Ruth, | train. greatest skaters in America, will Several witneses testified that give a performance. Strasburger|they saw Smith get on the train, has a world wide reputation as a|but the court eould not find prob- room. Cotton came out, went to eash register and took out two $1 bills and gave to Chavis, saying, “Ts that close enough?’’? Chavis said ‘‘Close enough.’? Saw Cha- vis’s earrige standing in front of eafe. Witness saw Holderfield putting a man in carriage. Horse was headed towards town. Chavis got in carriage and drove off. Man in carriage was same who came in cafe about 7:30. Witness on Policeman Thompson to exhib- it the watch, chain and diamond ring of Smith and immediately af, positive identification. terwards they were identified by the widow of the dead man. She examind them carefully and in a voice trembling with emotion de- clared them to be the property of her late husband. The faces of Cotton and Holderfield were drawn with fear as she made this Mr. H. R. Cowles lost a fine mule Saturday night colic being the cause of its death. The loss is very heavy on Mr. Cowles, as it was one of the finest mules in the county, the pair be- ing worth $600 of anybody’s money. ee The young ladies of the senior class will present their play ‘‘The North Carolina partly cloudy and eolder tonight with rain in ex- treme east portion. Tuesday fair with colder in extreme east por- tion, corel pence Stops earache in two minutes; toothache or pain of burn or scald in five minutes; hoarseness, one hour; muscleache, two hours; sore throat, twelve hours—Dr. Tkimat Eclectric Oil, monarch over pain. . en Gree ; af ey ai pa l l i d ! = Bi t e hae pb bs , a ag as ke eR Re ee ee ea e oe ay ) te n a ab d ae she . ? a Smith was dis- oi ° ° s = 7 — — e aad — saw carriage drive off. Saw Hol-} There appears to be no question Chaperon’”’ tonight in Shearer Mr. Homer Culbreth has. accept- = years of age is ° feet : on the —$. OOO derfield about twenty-five minutes|of the guilt of these two men and|Musie Hall at 8 o'clock. Thejed a position with the Statesville world ae - — ea act of} John Crumberger, of Mexico, is|after carriage drove off. He said,|the only question is as to the se- play is amusing and the public is Cement and. ‘Plaster Comp any, its kin a ae a poe een in|given credit for printing the first |‘‘That damn woman wouldn’t let} verity of the sentence when they promised @ pleasant evening. having gone to work last ‘week, a Statesville, +a book in Amierica in 1529. me jn.” Cotton said, ‘“Who?| get to the superior court. Prices 15c, 25¢ and 35e, succeeding Mr, Lloyd — ee = é oe ieee THE EVENING MASCO] DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. ffice 109 Court Street. VANCE NORWOOD - RALPH SLOAN, - - Telephone 53 Publisher. City Editor, Sabscription Price, - $4.00 a Year bscription Price, - 10 Cents a Week Entered at the Postoffiicein Statesville @. C.,as second-class mail matter. . EEE EE ROOSEVELT FOR SPEAKER. The latest suggestions made in regard to speaker is that Presi- dent Roosevelt be elected. The Commoner says: Theodore Roosevelt for speaker of the house of representatives. That is the novel proposition im- plied in a statement recently made by Representative Hepburn of Iowa. Mr. Hepburn says that the house of representatives need not be restricted to its own member- ship in the election of a speaker. He says that the house could elee* Theodore Roosevelt as its speaker for the next congress instead of “Uncle Joe’? Cannon, Judge Smith, of Iowa, or any other member of congress if it so de- sired, and it might be possible that the opponents of. Cannon will hit upon this novel plan. ‘*The fact is’’ said Colonel Hep- burn, ‘‘the speaker of the houss is regarded as an officer of but little consequence by the constitu- tion, which mentions him only in the clause providing that “‘the house of representatives shall choose their speaker and other officers. The ‘other officers’ chosen by the house are not mem- bers of congress, and I contend that we can as well elect a clerk or any one outide of congress to the position of speaker. Of course, it never has been done, but the house could do so any time it chose.”’ Without having any reference to the possibility of President Roosevelt being elected speakr to succeed Cannon, Colonel Hepburn declared that the power of the speaker ought to be greatly curb- ed by revision of the rules of the house. In fact, Colonel Hepburn long has been a vigorous assailant of the house rules which have made it possible for the speaker to assume a power second only to that of the president. The above is the substance of a dispatch from Des Moines, Iowa, printed in the Sioux City Journal. Mr, Roosevelt is very suscepti- ble to propositions having the merit for novelty. Doubtles he would be quite willing to post- pone his African lion hunt for the great joy of presiding for a time over the house of representatives. And what an interesting picture would be provided with Theodore Roosevelt seated in the chair of the speaker f the American house of representatives. ——__-+ A GOOD STOMACH Means Good Health, Cheerfulness, Ambition, Persistency and Suc- cess. Mi.o-na will cure your dyspepsia Or any other stomach trouble by building up the flabby walls, and making the stomach so strong that it will digest foed without pepsin or ather artificial aid. In other words, Mi-o-na cures dys_ pepsia by removing the cause. Statesville Drug Co., is the agent for Mi.o-na in Statesvite and they say to every reader of The Mascot whose stomach is weak, who has in- digestion or dyspepsia, that Mi-ona is guaranteed to cure or money back. The price is only 50 cents a large box, and one box is all you: need to prove fhat you are on the right road to health and happiness. “T can’t say enough for Mi-o.na tablets; they have done more for me in one week than all the doctors have for the two years I have-been under their care, and I will do all I can to recommend it to my friends. You ean also usé My name in your ad. if you like, for Mf-o_na is better than gold to me. I am like a new man, ahd am able to work once more for the first time in over a year.” —W. A. Ennis, 328 Green St., Syracuse, N. Y. —_—_—— HH Mr. P. H. Henly a farm:r of|. Randolph county has raised 28,- 000 pounds of beets cn one aere on his farm in that county. _ Jabs From Paragraphic Pets. WOMEN’S WOES. It will not be the democrats who| ¢..-ecyitle Women Are Finding Re- will have to issue bonds to meet lief at Last. the extravagant republican gov-} 1, goes seem that women have ernment. Gate City Herald. more than a fair share of the aches It is announced that Mr. Roose-|aad pains that afflict humanity; they velt is to be responsible for his}must “keep up,” must attend to own stuff in the Outlook. Inside the office or out ?—Milwaukee Sen| | .3,ing-down pains; they must stoop tinel. over, when to stoop means torture. It is expected that the ginger|chey must walk and bend and backs or headaches, dizzy spells, ‘Where Bullets Flew. David Parker, of Fayette, N. J., a veteran of the civil war, who lost a foot at Gettysburg, jsays, ‘‘The good Electric Bitters have done is worth more than five hundred dollars to me. I spent duties in spite of constantly aching | much money doctoring for a bad ease of stomach trouble, to little purpose. I then tried Plectiric Bitters, and they cured me. I left over from the campaign can| bend and work with racking pains|now take them as a tonic, and all be used during the tariff re- vision proceedings.—Indianappo- lis News. any other organ of the body. least remember that T.R. went down in one of the earliest sub- marines.—Chicago Post. you know. Boulevard St., Statesville, expect, demand, very matrial re-| time of weak kidneys. ductions in many of the Dingley schedules of duties on imports.— New York Commercial. temporary. bad ease of indigestion —Charles- town, W. Va., Gazette. sion ‘‘to a frazzle’? means should| more than any of the others. be of interest to the elephants, lions, and other big game in Af- rica.—Louisville Courier Journal.| -epresentations.”? The South will not permit Mr.} For sale by all dealers. Taft to achieve his ambition of|cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo bit it will be at peace with him— — Little Rock Gazette. There are several members of congress who would travel a long way to see Mr. Roosevelt sitting other. ——_-+ee————_ Brain Leaks. The foolishness of a momen ly advisory capacity—Washing-] time. ton Post. Governor Patterson weras pocketless trousers, and if] when the tide turas. a few of his fellow Tennesseans might have been no tragedy in|ing to be a dead game sport. Nasheville.—Louisville Post. ion that there is going to be an|thankful. almighty fine erop of alfalfa rais- ed near Lincoln, Neb., pretty soon,| buy your Christmas presents early anyhow.—Washington Herald. Getting into the Christmas rush It is said that the canibal tribes] is a big part of the Christmas joy. of Africa have eaten no less than} One good thing about being on 2764 missionairies during the last|the losing political side is that you hundred years, Well Roosevelt is}are not worried about fixing up going over there now and Africa] any combinations to land a politi- will get hers—Houston Post. eal job. Some people would vote for a Se ee yellow dog if he were on the re-| AS we understand Mr Roose- ‘publican ticket.”’ says the Greens-| Velt, doesn’t give a hoot who owns boro Argus. That explains why|the magazine, provided the little the country threatens to go to the| brown pay envelope is found wait- bow-wows.—Johnstown Democrat.| 2g him at the cashier’s desk every Having supplied New York with|Saturday evening. — Richmond a governor and the United States | Times. bWwith a president, Mr. Roosevelt England is ar aiss So, Ba hardly could permit the legisla- ti £ Mr Taft. If th : ture of the Empire state to elect eS ee : ae ; ent-elect were Mr. Bryan, and a senator before it hears from Briand showed 1 t him.—Milwaakee News % a Pe i his election, the republican organs . Mr Murphy «does not say so , ’ : = would froth _—Har- right out, but in between the lines 2 ee ee oe . : risburg Star-Ind : of his interviews may be discerned © ependent —_———-_3+2o- eo @ Susptcion*that he was buncoed} ftehing piles provoke profanity, when he traded Bryan for Chan-}but profanity won’t cure them. ler and‘lost both.—Salt Lake Her-|Doan’s Ointment cures ald. bleeding protruding piles after years ae a a of suffering. At any drug store. ———_+-+ > Would Mortgage The Farm. If everybody who owes a letter A farmer on Rural Route No. 2, would write it a considerable dent Empire, Ga. W. A. Mloyd by|would be made in that postal de- name, says: ‘‘Bucklen’s Arnica | ficit—Philadelphia Ledger. Salve cured the two worst sores Price 50 dissolving the solid south in 1912,|New York, sole agents for the United Remember the name and take no The man wh) takes the world says he|as it comes is usually left strar.ced The fact that Thanksgiving] the paper. We gather from the current is-}comes before congress convenes is sue of the Commoner the impress-| another reason why we should be Of course you are not going to and many aches from kidney ills.}they keep me strong and well.”’ Kidneys cause more suffering thaR|50. at Statesville Keep the kidneys well and health is easily If the Kaiser js the first to go} maintained. Read of a remedy for j irshi o kidneys only that helps and cures the : up in an airship he ought to at Se ey ee ee Drug Co.’s store. The manufacturing concerns are ereased their working hours, Some oS oe ee oe = ;of the rest of us have had to, too, iv 7 se a vic- : Irrespective of party, the people|says: “For several years I a 5 RE a soreness across these organs most of | apolis News. the time and I generally felt weak. Dizzy spells and headaches were of frequent occurrence, and at night I ‘<Suppose a lion should eat him| was unable to obtain my proper rest. on his African hunt?’’ asks a con-| The kidney secretions mere si 5 : js = natural in appearance, and showe eS ee that my kidneys were at fault. I used a number of remedies but Doan’s Kidney Pills, which I procur- Just what the Roosevelt expres-|ed at Hall’s drug-store, benefited me I sin- cerely hope that other sufferers will give Doan’s Kidney Pills a trial as I know they will act strictly up to their {in order to keep up with the gro- Writing Paper For Christmas. Tf there ever was a delecate atten- tion in the way of a Christmas pres- 4 t around a magazine office in a mere] may mean the regret of a life/ent, it isa box of that remarkably fine writing paper at Hall’s Drug Store. Every time the recipient, whether About the silliest object we see] wife, sister, daughter or sweetheart, had adopted the same plan there] is the young fellow who is pretend | 0PeRs the box, she is going to re- member you, and naturally she will write some of her letters to you upon See our stock. W. F. HALL, Prescriptionist. itching, |} trade. .°. Fresh Oysters E e Xmas for-retail trade and serving. Also QUAIL ON TOAST. * * The Cate of Quality’ I have a fresh line of CANDY in boxes, and FRUIT, for very Day IREDELL CAFE PHONE NO. 323 W. W. GAITHER : Proprietor. LOOK HERE! A full line of Fresh Meats, the best that money will buy, at 8 to 12¥ Cents Per Pound. We also carry a full line of Heavy and Fancy Groceries at Prices you can’t afford to. over-; look. Callon or phone us your wants— Phone No. 110. CHESTER BROS. I ever saw; one on my hand and one on my leg. It is worth more| SOSCO OSS OOOOSO 0080008090080 than its weight in gold. I would & hwy \ or ® not be without it if I had to mort- e Se: @ gage the farm to get it.’”? Only 4 41@ 25e. at Statesville Drug Co.’s 3 e SEORC. <0 © -@ The arson case against Alex, |}@ = he @ Geddle the negro charged with|®@ \ au , | © house burning in Cumberland|© Pe ; @ eounty, completely collapsed at z - trail on last Thursday at Fayette- > i Our entire stock of see and Embroideries bave all @ ville, the defendant being dismiss- = arranged on gallery. cee range regular price 5 to eo a8 ® 15 cents yard: Closing out price @ ———— ° 3 and 5 Cents Yard. . you haven’t the time to exercise id i 5 regularly, Doan’s Regulets will pre-|@ Closing ont sn eg ee ee vane, e vent constipation.. They induce a cert age action of the ~< 5, 8, 10 and 15 Cents Yar d. . wels ‘without griping. Ask your This stock of Laces and Embroideries will am a 1 ount Gregeistsfor'them: _25c. . = = eight hundred dollars and consists of very desir. . a. ae eee merchandise. The entire lot will go in a very @ has- produced $40,000 {from Phe|@ @ state penitentiary in the past 8i@ KNOX, POSTON & CO. 6 Hee _ . (@eeceeooecqoooecooocooooooe® [NEW STUDIO} Maynard & Ellis, Professional Photographers, in N. B. Mills New ' ~ Building, adjoining Stimson Drug Store, Statesville, N. c. ; : High -Grade- Photos at a Low Price Penny Pictures, the best that can be made—24 for ; 3 $ t Cards; per dozen, $1.25 Per half dozen 5 aa in-folders, dozen, $2.00. Halfdozen $1.59 Pictures of your home, PostCard size, and up to8x10 inches, ~ and out-door groups, is one of our specialties at a moder. aes price. ‘Give us & trial and be convinced that we ar trying to please you. We are now ready to serve you. Will also-Develop and Finisk Kodak: Work. IN Cu n iL . at EE SE HE PL EL HE PE PS PE S PO D a esscnroosess: aconeemamenee: te: ee MAYNARD & ELLIS— L. ! $ ¢ t 7 : le =] na iT N {T 1 {T ) g Z Q. wf ; © N tp is in with-us and have a car load Bas of the celeprated ¢pP $ * Superior Grain Drills : the best and lightest running drill made. [If in need of a drill examine them and get our prices—we know we can please. & fp oP oP ft ig Also a Full Line of Hardware, Stoves, Etc. Bo t PH P Evans Hardware Comp’y; PEPESPEPSSESEE SESE SESE SSS In & sharp contest nothing but “quality” and appearance figure. “RUTH MADE”? Hosiery and the WORLDS BEST” Black are the goods of Quality. After ali has been said, all your pursuasive argument. exhausted, it is still a fact that “QUALITY” IS THE ONLY TEST OF VALUE To get best results you must have the best of everything best yarn, best colors, best machines and best help, with such a combination you can produce the best of what you are making. We have all of the above. Ask your dealer for the goods of “quality.” THE BRADFORD KNITTING MILL. SOUTHERN RAILWAY C0. Great ‘Highway of Trade and Travel Through the Southern States MOTHER do you bear that rattling in your babies throat? Put a little Mothers’ Joy on it and stop it at once. MOTHERS Through Pullman Sleeping Caré how can you take chances on palatial trains between the —keepa bottle of Mothers | principal Cities and Resorts of joy in your house. You the South.. High-class Dining need Mothers’ Joy every Cars. Many delightful Summer day. and Winter Resorts on and reached by Southern Railway. |*The-Land of the Sky,” “The MOTHERS’ Sapphire Country,” in scenic : Western North Carolina; beau- . Joy ie: made of pure gooee tiful at all seasons. Hotels of grease and. other healing ingredients. Mothers you cannot afford to be with- outa box of Mothers’ Joy. - the highest class. 'For.detailed information apply to nearest Ticket Agent, oT R. L. VDRNON, T. P. A. Charlotte, N. ©. S. H. HARDWICK, P.T.M., W.H. TAYLOE,G. P. A. Washibgton, D.C STATESVILLE aK Opera House Building —_GOoobpD== — OSITION Masquer WUE TUPS-|, 2mseie oss ox capital, and 19 year’s success, 10 se Oy. ; cure positions under reasonable con: dy A [ ditions or refunnd tuition. ‘ Tr dg: e , “Draughon’s ccm BOOKKEEP ING petitors, by oie accepting his pruposition, OD” Prizes on exhibition in| that he teaches more Booker show window at States-|2 THRE= months than the) ‘nce YOU: ville Drug Co mpany. SIX. Draughon can convince f ny 7% per cent. ° = AMERICAN | Court Reporters write the syste™ : Cotton and Business University of|Shorthand Draughon teaches, Miliedgeville, Ga., etudents-to take |Cause they know it is THE BIO” one or more of our courses in cot- | FOR FREE CATALOG and 7 ton grading, Dering and scting. |b, Why Learn Tele x0. F Business courses of bookkeeping, | DRAUGHON, President Shorthand; ‘Pype ‘writing, or Telegra-| — DRAUCGHON’S guaranteed under reasonable - a : ditions. 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Broad St. . ° i RS F33I2332322332332332332* — re COCCCCCCCCCCCCOOOC OCC OONOS f wi in CCERECCE Cece ey $ These Handsome Dishes Given Away to My Customers With each cash purchase of 5 cents or over I will give you a coupon that can be exchanged for these gifts. ww. > —-_ a ed : L. A.GOLDMAM : Purveyor to the People. 9OO0OOOSOOOOOOCOOOOOCROOS 3 >. > —_—. — THE STATESVILLE LOAN AND TRUST Cu, Of Statesville, N. C. IS PREPARED to transact all branches of banking. Accounts are solicited from firms, corporations and indiv uals, who may rely upon courteous consideration and the very best terms that are consistent with good banking methods. Four per cent. paid on time and savings deposits CAPITAL STOCB......ccccccecceeeecsccsceeeee soseereeeeeee 40,000.00 SHAREHOLDERS LIABILITY........ccccccrecsescceee $40,000.00 SURPLUS AND UNDIVIDED PROF'TS...........-§30,000.00 ToTaL RESOURCES OVER.............000e0000--.$440,000.00 BO S S CO G S (O 8 5 68 0 6 DE L O ) PO B A A A A A A D E S O &O 0 rO O u OFFICERS seer E. Steele, President, E. Morrisou, Vice-Pres, D. M. Ausley, Sec and Treasurer, C. E. HUGHEY, Assistant Secy. and Treas -: W. G. CULBRETH, Manager Savings Department Addl Ae A Sj Ke NEWBERRY NEEDS NO AID. ———e New Secretary Takes Hold of The Department With a Firm Hand!! —Speculation as to What His Intentions Are. Washington, Dee. 4 —The ex. exact effect of the order by Sec- retary of Navy Newberry in- creasing the membership of the board of construction, is not yet fully understood in many quarters. It means that Presi. dent Roosevelt has given up bis plan of appointing a special com. mission to investigate naval re- organization with Secretary Root at the head, and that Mr. Newberry has convinced the President he can accomplish the reorganization in his own way. Whether he can do what he ex- pects, is doubted in many quar- ters. Mr. Newberry will increase the general board so it will have on ita member from every bu- reau. The board of construction is overworked, and he will in- crease this. Several members of this board will belong to tbe gen- eral board. Greaterco-operation between the board of construc tion and the general board is provided for. Staff officers as well as line officers will be repre- sented on the general board wiil' be thoroughly representative of every branch of the service. The genertl board will become practically a general staff, and though its duties will be advis- ory, the secretary of the navy can take its recommendations and carry them out. Legislation will be sought, making the gen- eral board a permanent body. The plan does not fgo as far as many of the critics of the pres- ent naval organization desire and they-arechagrinned that the President did not name his com- mission. ———__+++@> o—___—. Appointments of Rev. J. N. Hug- gits For Iredell and Aélex:n- der Counties. December 12th, preaching and quarterly conference at Fairview. December 1Pth, preaching aQ Mooresville in the morning and at Fairview in the afternoon, and at Davidson in the evening. December 14th, Quarterly Con- ference at Davidson in the morn- ing and at Mooresville in the af- ternoon. ; December 20th, preaching atf, Shiloh yn {the morning, and at Troutman in the evening. Quar- terly Conference to be held later. at Troutman. December 26th, preaching and quarterly conference at Trinity. December 27th, preaching at Trinity in the morning, and at Connelly Chapel in the afternoon. January 2nd, Preaching and quarterly conference at Marvin. January 3rd, preaching at Mar- Success Handel became bankrupt. Sud- sure, that the command was very with prompt service and obliging treatment, is of { great-benefit to the young { business man. 4 When & man hasa Bank §{ accountitimpliesccnfidence in himself and others. ft By all means huve a good checking bank behind you: : in business. You will find it both convenient and dig- vin in the morning, and at Liberty in the evening January 4th, preaching and quarterly conference at Liberty in the morning. a Death was on His Heels. Jesse P. Morris, of Skippers, @ers reaching barely to the knee. But Noticeable part of their costume 1s their . > THE PARACHUTE. ~ 1 Leonardo da Vinci Was the First One i to Suggest It. ' Credible accounts exist of an English Benedictine monk, Oliver of Malmes- bury, in the eleventh century having tried to fly by krecipitating himself from the height of a tower with the assistance of wings attached to his arms and his feet. It is said that, hav- ing gone along a little way, he fell and broke his legs. He attributed his acct- dent to failure to provide his appara- tus with a tail, which would have help- ed preserve his equilibrium and made his descent a gentler one. In the sixteenth century Leonardo da Vinci first demonstrated that a bird, which is heavier than the air, sustains itself, advances in the air, “by render- ing the fluid denser where it passes than where it does not pass.” In order to fly it has to fix its point of support on the air. Its wings in the descending Stroke exert a pressure from above. down, the reaction of which from be- low up forces the center of gravity of {ts body to ascend at each instant to the height at which the bird wishes to maintain tt. Some sketches which have come down to us prove that Leonardo occupied himself, like Oliver of Malmes- bury, with giving man the power to fly by the assistance of wings suitably fixed to the body. We owe to Leonardo also the inven- tion of the parachute, which he de- scribed in the following terms: “If a man had a pavilion each side of which was fifteen braces wide and twelve braces high he might cast himself from any height whatever without fear of danger.” It may be said, too, of Leo- nardo da Vinci that he was the first to suggest the idea of the screw propeller. A SAUCY DUCHESS. Her Audacious Fight For Gay and His “Beggars’ Opera.” When the “Beggars’ Opera,” by Gay, was produced in 1728 it took positively by storm. The king still clung to Han- del, but the nobility, with the Duchess of Queensverry among them, flocked rapturously to the “Newgate pasto- ral.’ The “Beggars’ Opera’ had a r= of sixty-two nights, unprecedented those days, and as one result of denly there came an order from the ford chancellor to stop the new piece. Why, is not exactly known unless it was because the prime minister consid- ered himself to be too faithtfully rep- tesented therein. However that may have been, the theater had to be closed, whereupon the Duchess of Queensber- ty took up Gay’s cause and vehemently championed it. Very busy was she in those days, driving about in her coach asking for guinea subscriptions for printing cop- fes of the forbidden play. And so heed- less was Kitty that she carried her list to the queen’s drawing room itself and had the audacity to ask the king for.a Subscription. This was a little too much, and her grace was requested to withdraw.from the court, Kitty an- nouncing, with characteristic compo- agreeable to her, as she had never gone there for her own diversion, but to be- stow civility upon the king and queen. Papua Island. Papua island was so named by the Malays, and the word means “frizzled,” in reference to the hair of the inhabit- ants. It ts generally supposed that Papua or New Guinea was originally part of the mainland of Australia. It was discovered by the Portuguese in 1526, though it was probably sighted by A. Dabreu during his voyage fifteen years earlier. The Australian govern- ment, realizing the danger that would arise if an enemy seized land so near their coasts, frequently urged England to annex: the eastern portion of the island, and after two or three unau- thorized annexations a British protec-4 torate was established there in 1884. Clipping Their Wings. The costume of the Pu Yuan Pen-jen women in the Shan states is very strik- ing, consisting of a cloth hood, an open jacket and a pair of short white trou- the most important though the least @olored cloth gaiters. These the women are obliged to wear, as without them % 1s believed they would be able to fly 4 i] | | i ts: Essential to:the Up- building of the Modern Business Enterprise. ::: ‘To the: publicity gained by-the -use of the _ advertising -eolumns of the daily-papers is at- tributed the-growth, and ‘consequent success, of a very large percentage of great business enter- prises of the. present day. Advertising: is recognized as the prime’ fac- tor in increasing the-sales of any-class of goods or:manufactured articles, The -space- used in'this:puper is your busi- hess message to the public. In this open letter you should tell them of the merits of what you are offering, setting forth the reasons why your particular line.is.worthy. of their attention. ENING MASCOn has increased its loeal-circulation very materially during the past.three months and the results obtained from the space used by. the advertisers are gratifying to them and to the paper. It reaches inte: the homes of: the best. class of our people and your ‘message will be placed in the hands of those with money to ‘buy the poods you wish to sell. The Space Rates in The Evening Mascot are not.high. Your message is carried, each day, to thoseyou wish to reach, in the most economical manner, For information:call us up:on the phone and a representative ot the paper will gladly visit you SEVERAL THINGS Are to‘be-eonsidered in selecting your Bank 1ST. .Sirength-Financial Strength 2ND. The care. with which the Bank is. Managed. 3RD.. The courtesy and spirit of of.accomodation displayed py: the Officers-and Em- ployees. 4TH: The banking experience of Officers. STH. The ability of the bank to Properly and > Promptly Handle:all Your:Business To Those Desiring the Embodi- ment of These Features are Offered. T. h:e: Service of THE Dified in transacting busi- Va., had a close call in the spring|@Way, leaving their husbands and sweethearts sorrowful. ness. Merchants and: Farmers’ Bank OF STATESVILLE INCORPORATED of 1906. He says: ‘‘An attack of pneumonia left me so weak and with such a fearful cough that my friends declared consumption had me, and death was on my heels. Then I was persuaded to try Dr. King’s New Discovery. It ‘Sweet and Low. A young*man named Sweet engaged to marry a*young woman named Lowe. A.few Sundays previous to the wed- ding the happy couple attended church Yogether, and as they walked along the @isle the choir began singing the song “Sweet and Low,” entirely unconscious FIRST NATIONAL = BANK OF SFATESVILLE CAPITAL $25,000.00. OFFICERS: . T. STIMPSON, Pres.; C. 8. TOMLIN, Vice-Pres.; F. B. “BUNCH, Sec. & Treas.; J. A. KNOX, Asst. Sec. & Treas. Directors: L. T. Stimpson, J. L. Stevenson, C. S. Tomlin, R. R. Reid, J. A. Knox, W. S. Page, Geo. B. Nicholson, L. K. Lazen- by, E. G. Gaither, J. R. Hill, E. B. Watts. taking two and a half bottles J was a well man again. I found out that New Discovery is the best remedy for coughs and lung dis- guaarantee at Statesville drug Co. store. 50c. and $1.00. Trial bottle free. —_~~++@>-e—__—_ “Well, parson, is your flock lib’ral in: their ’nevolences?” helped me immediately, and after] of the musical pun that was being per- petrated. Thrifty. “Liberal? Well, I should say dey is ease in all the world,’’ Sold under} fot that. Why, when I asted them to #ing ‘Ole Hundred’ dey done sung ‘The Ninety and Nine.’ ”—Harper’s. Talk. “Tt takes a baby mos’ two years to Now ‘Fime for You to Se- lect Your Xmas Goods If you have lost.something or want to buy or have any= John, the 10 year old son of: Mr. Frank A. Page os Salisbury. is missing and cannot be found, The last seen of him was as he was go- ing to school last Friday morning. a Most disfiguring skin eruptions, learn to: talk,” said Uncle Eben, “an’ den. it takes de res’ of its lifetime to learn to keep f’um talkin’ too much.”— Washington Star. “Two Bad Bites. We. will put‘aside any goods selected. See our new-line of Morris: Chairs and--Rockers. Diogenes being asked “What is that a 3 beast which is the most dangerous?” Al EF M ; T bl : w6plied, “Of wild beasts the bite of a so ine. ; adn y j a es, slanderer and of tame beasts that of We will make Special Prices.on COOK thing to sell try a Want ad. |x, pm, sme, ete. ae) ine aster” Bitters is a cleansing tonic. Makes in The Evening Mascot. Those who want friends to whom tc you clear-eyed, © clear-brained, clear |.open their griefs are cannibals of their skinned. : -.+.3:. ' own hearts:—Bacon. STOVES and.RANGES. | STATESVILLE* HOUSEFURNISHING COM’PY OT ce e Ea er e St r i d e ed i t X sa e a e . ae ad e s ’ Bs Sa s s a Se i c o o t h a t e e s s c u i e t i a i c i e n c k p e s e i h i n n a e d = fe ge me 0 ee ae Ra g s te be d na s > os Sa n n e " : ‘ # Uy : 4 4 DY 5c Bi pe Fete od 9 ed . =v v a e e 0S UR ee oe RE T ME I ME E A BR RE SS Sat i n Na y Ba a l wa g tn d Oe EE a Ma e eR eg Ss a et e er e ae Se St y s me h di t e it d ec o HR a ts sp p . cx e m v e r a t a s i n ec t ar s e a b t i n s b e ne s e m i e te t e r a 22 de t e Sh a e SO S A te e . Opt Re t Si l et OE R ed th i e ae eH ce s ie se RO M E R RT ES AR E He en e ae St d gi n e e t as at o m nr oe et t ee e et Pe t a oa SE R R A SA S AR PI S 2 Be Be e Ew PR A CA N A As ra e ao e ee ee e = Se pe r ge n to Mp i c a t i g e te ve i n s 22 ca e r s ka a a pe a et ot e te l e wh e d o n OE P RI E S . ~ IP P ba r g e So a Mi e id > ‘ ou t s ds ve Wd ak bi s : sp a n al b e i t Ga AL SP L E E N FB PE R E MN Ry EI i RE A ED T i ER A AG E AR E E R ne te IE it oi WE Le ln k AA O tO SD Mb Be Ly ha te r t i a r y Rt — fi t d e y Sh e r e e at en g a g e oc r ee e et ri c e SO PE T A L , 2% E Jg a b ! Pi o n Pa u l Bl oi d ae ow Be al hn 2 de l s ee N + ea t ta g e , ‘ ” So n e = Se e Me e s Ta e ce ee ek ee e en ee po n e da k ee Be c t a * Ar e n d s m2 Od e a : Da c d e i t i i n Ie a d a a i l la e n d t ee e te ce al re ‘ Pema ti ¥e te t : EA E TE A E A S te t en e d ea e EA S EE O , Congress To Meet Today PROGRAM OF FORMALITIES. Practically no Business Will be Transacted in Either House To- ' day or To-Morrow—Seven New Members Of the House to be Sworn in and Two New Sena- tors—Tuesday Will be Entirely Occupied by the Reading of the President’s Message, -_ Washington, Dee. 6—Tomorrow at 12 o’clock both houses cf con- gress will convene for the begin- ning of the second session of the sixtieth congress. Vice President Fairbanks and Speaker Cannon are both in the city. Practically no business will be transacted in either house tomorrow. In the senate, ex-Governor Cummins, of Iowa, will take the oath of office as the successor of Senator Alli- son, ag will Carroll S. Page of Ver- mont, as the successor of Senator Stewart. In the House the seven members who were elected in Nov- ember to succeed members who have died or resigned, ar Hnry A. Barnhart, Democrat who suc- ceeds the late Mr. Black, Repub- hean, from the thirteenth Indiana district; Albert Estopinal, Demo- erat, who sueceeds the late Mr. Meyer from the first Louisiana district; Otto G. Foelker, Repub- liean, suecessor to Mr. Dunwell, Republican, in the third New York district ; Frank E. Guernsey, Republican, successor to Mr. Powers, Republican, from the 4th Maine district; Eben M Masters, “eblican, sueecessor to Mr. Par- ker, Republican, from South Da- kota at large; O. C. Wiley, Dem- ocrat, suecessor to his brother, A. A. Wiley, Democrat, from the seend Alabama district, and John P. Swasey, Republican, suecessor to Mr. Littlefield, who resigned during the last session from the second Maine. ——— Unsatisfactory Service. Several persons of the Weston phone line north of town have asked the Mascot to say that they are subscribers to that system, and are getting very unsatisfac- tory service, and unless some- thing is done at once they will apply to the Independent system of this city for relief. One man stated that if you eall- ed after nine o’clock at night, or before 8 o’clock in the morning you could not get an answer, even if your people are dying, He furthermore stated that a meeting of the subscribers would be held at an early date to see if some arrangements ean not be made about the service. This exchange, known as the Weston Exchange, is owned by Mr. J. H. Weston and connects with several toll lines to the country. These gentlemen who are regis- istering the kick about the ser- vice live on this side of and be- yond the Weston exchange, and have the phones of Mr. Weston in their homes, but they say if they eannot get that exchange so they ean get Statesville they do not want the phones in their house. Some steps will be taken at once to get relief. Already one two have had their phones taken from their homes. ——_~++2- Masquerade Postponed. The masquerade which was to have been at the opera house on tomorrow has been postponed un- tilWednesday night on account of the skating performances -at the rink tonight by the famous Stras- burger. a Get us five, only five new yearly subscribers to the Evening Mascot and we will PRESENT you with a handsome 42-piece dinner set. See PORTRAIT UNVEIED. Presentation Address Made by Miss Ruth Gill—Acceptance Speech by Master Allen Ander- Son. At the graded school building this morning at 10 o’clock there was an interesting event, which which was witnessed by a large crowd of our citizens and the school children. A large portrait of Jeff Davis has recently been bought, and framed by the Davis Centennial chapter of the Children of the Confederacy of this city. The presentation speech was delivered by Miss Ruth Gill, and the acceptance speech by Master Allen Anderson, and both speeches were well delivered, showing the good training which Prof, Thomp- son and his corps of teachers have taught the children. The unveiling was done by Lit- tle Miss Elsie Wallace and Master Perey Grier. Mrs, W. R MecLelland is the leader of the Children of the Con- federacy, who originated the Cen- tennial chapter here on Davis’ 100th birthday. The Daughters of the Confederacy attended the exercises at the school in a body. a oe A Little Christmas Sermon. We are on the edge of a new Christmas festival—the anniver- sary of the most significant event in the history of the world. Je- sus came with the greatest mes- sage ever spoken in the hearing of the human race: It was all a summons to a new, heroic life— to a new principal of social effort. It was the purpose of Jesus to awake the God in man, and to es- tablish a new social order with the golden rule as its working principle. Here and there we find men and women who live and labor in the light of this lofty ideal. They are the conscripts of the Dream. A wise Seer has deseribed them in beautiful words—beautiful, heart-warm, inspiring words: “Their main characteristics are, that they serve for the good of others; that they are in the persistent effort to keep down the will of self, to live beyond them- selves. They are careful to pro- duce rather than to consume; to save for humane purposes rather than to waste; to avoid conten- tion; to promote good will and charity; to walk carefully; to stand for the defense of the in- jured and the oppressed. Again, they seek to alleviate sufferings; to strew the path of life with gen- tle courtesies; to avoid flattering titles; to shun the meretricious and ostentatious society; to es- teem the ties of human fraternity as above the ligatures of heredity, ereed, or nationality. It is theirs to hate the impure in all things; to criticize with a keen eye their own evils, but to abstain from a prying introspection into the conduct of others; to despise the habit of scandal; to hold them- themselves as dignified yet lowly; to abominatee self righteousness; to reject with loathing the way of the spy aad tale-bearer. Such will seek to embody a divine chastity to the most extreme of senses; never to obtrude by an unweleome personal presence or unneeded opinion; to sanctify the temple of worship within their own heart; never to glorify them- selves, but always, by the sweet- ness and light of life, to glorify their Father in heaven.’’—Edwin Markham in Success, —_++@>—___. A Healthy Family. “‘Our whole family has enjoyed good health since we began using Dr. King’s New Life Pills, three years ago,’’ says L. A. Bartlet, of Rural Route 1, Guilford Maine. They cleanse and tone the system in a gentle way that does you good 25c. at Statesville Drug Co. —~~<~2>-e—_—_ About one henderd men have becn summoned to appear in the Halifax ecunty superior court to answer charges of irregy‘ +s vot- one of these setsin Sherrill & White’s front window. s ing in the recent election, ees eee A GREAT COMBINATION. When Husband, Wife and Mother-in- law Co-operate. Shortly after his marriage, which took place in 1880, John Burns, the British labor leader, settled down as a journeyman engineer in Battersea and twenty years after confessed that he was the first engineer to make with his own hands an electric tram car in Great Britain. In those days, however, people did not believe that electric traction was possible, and Burns had to take the dynamo and tram to the Crystal palace and run the latter round the grounds for six months before people could be induced to be- lieve in the novelty. But the people were so nervous that, although the charge was only sixpence, none of them would venture in the newfangled invention. Then Burns was struck with a brilliant idea. He said to his wife, “You have got to come down to the palace -uree times a week and get into the first electric tram car as a decoy duck for the others.” This was only temporarily successful. So Burns brought along his mother-in- law, “and,” said the energetic labor leader when relating the incident, “when a husband, a wife and a mother- in-law co-operate success is assured.” —London Tit-Bits. Towers. The patient architect had just suc- ceeded in getting Mrs. Drippingold to decide between the charms of renais- sance, classic and Queen Anne for the plans of her magnificent new country house. “The only detafls I ain’t goin’ to leave to your discretion,” said the wealthy lady, “is the matter of tow- ers. I want plenty of towers that folks can see for a long way off when they’re ridin’ by.” “But -what kind. of towers do you want?’ inquired the unfortunate archi- tect—“Norman, Gothic”— Mrs. Drippingold closed the English novel of high life on which her soul had been feeding. “Why, ancestral towers, of course.”— Puck, Friendly Advice. A very matter of fact Scotchwoman called to see a neighbor, an elderly woman, who had been ailing for some time. “And how do you find yourself to- day, Janet?’ was the greeting. “Ah, Martha, I’m very bad. This cold, damp weather ’ll be the end of me. I'll be a dead woman before very long.”’ “Hoots, toots, woman! You’ve been saying that any time these last twenty years. I’ve no patience with you. [71] tell you what it is. . You want firm- ness of mind. Fix a day for your dy- ing—and stick to it.” Had Poor Sight. New Boy (rather inguisitivey—What did the other Ind lexve for. sir? Master—For having cCecfective eye. sight at times, my boy. New Bor—Whyr, siz, I have scen him since. <Apparentir, then. his eresigh! was all rizht. It scems rather curious sir. Master—Well, my boy, at various times when tiiicg money from cus: tomers he cou!d net see the (iilh—Lon don Answers. ENO 3) SC oS Mrs. Bezhs:n—llenr-. | am mon than glad thai yeu don't drink now. but how cid ;.u come tv leave cff? Benham—You remember the last time your mother was here? Mrs. Benham —Yes. Berham—Wel!. ore night while she was here | came home in pretty bad shape 2nd siuw three of her. That settled it. WANT ADS 1 TIME...........-2seseeeee 5 cents a line. 3 tIMEB...........00.00000 4 cents a line. 6 GimeS............ccc00 8% cents a line. 26 times................. 3 cents a line. WANTED—Three nice men for boarders. Apply to 513 Tradd street. dee4 6t FOR SALE—A Well Established grocery and restaurant business. Address XXX eare Mascot 6t FOR SALE—Best Grocery stand in city, doing good business. Reasons for. selling. If you want a bargain answer at once. Address Grocer, care Mascot. dec 3 tf PHOTOS—Penny Photos a Spec- ialty—therefore you get the very best—24 for 25c¢, Over Knox & Poston’s store. FOR RENT—ONE STORE BUILD- ing and basement. Best Tetai] stand in the city. Statesville Real- ty and Investment Co. Sept.19 AMBITIOUS YOUNG MEN AND ladies should learn telegraphy; for, since the now 8 hour law became effective there is a shortage of many thousand telegraphers, Po- sitions pay from $50 to $70 a month to beginners. The National S. C., and five other cities is oper- ated under supervision of R. R. NY $10 Gold Pieces for $9.00 jeweled grades. and they must go. Solid Gold Lockets Guaranteed. you money. That is what it means when you buy your Christmas goods from me. Ihave too much stock and must cut it down by January Ist, d will give you bargains : E ouices suit fe BUYERS PURSE. Anyone wanting a high-grade tch Movement can now get it cheap. 2 ee South Bend, Illinois, Hamilton, Elgin and Waltham, in 15 and 17 These will be put into whatever kind of a case you may want. I have too many 15 and 17 jeweled movements on hand I have Solid Gold Rings from $1 OO up. | Solid Gold Stick Pins from $1 OO up. Solid Gold Cuff Buttons 1°75 “ Solid Gold Brooches 125 « 400 “ = Sold Gold Neck Chaius 300 “ 125 “ Solid Gold Hearts for Neck Chains All other Gold Goods too numerous to mention at right prices. In Gold Filled Goods, such as Gold Filled Neckchains, Gold Filled Lockets, Gents’ and Ladies’ Gold Filled Woven Wire and Silk Watch Fobs, Ladies Gold Filled Cuff Pins, Veil Pins, Hat Pins Bar Pins, Stick Pins, Belt Pins, Brooches, etc., from the lowest prices and up. Large lot of Bracelets at right prices. Nice line of Silverware and Novelties, such as Toilet Sets, Manicure Sets, Mili- tary Brushes, Clothes Brushes, Shaving Brushes, Hat and Bonnet Brushes, alljin sterling or best grade Quadruple Plate. Nice line of Ladies’ Gold Filled Handle Umbrellas from $3 50 to $7 5O. You can get @ bargain in Cut Glass, Japanese China Vases, etc., and Statu- ary, as these must go. In Silverware I have a completeflineXof Knives and Forks, Tea and Table Spoons, Butter Knives, Sugar Shells, Pie and Tomato Servers, cold meat and other Forks, Berry Spoons. Soup Sets, Soup Ladles, Carving Sets, Childs’ Sets, individual Salt Sets, Cut Glass Sterling Top Salt and Pepper Sets. Nice line of Parlor and Gold Plate Clocks, Kitchen and Alarm Clocks. No difference what you want in the Jewelry line, I will save Come and see for yourself. ¢ in anything in my line. Will make the I have these in the Rock- PO N T O N T O N I O N TO N I O N T O N I O N I O N I G N I O N I O N I am a aD , ~~ . Q P P W Y R. F. Henry # Jeweler and Optician Hotel Iredell Building. OT T O TS H AD O T How to Prevent Pneu- monia In every paper you pick up you will see where some good man has just died with this fearful disease—pnev- - monia. Now we will give you One Hundred Dollars for any case of pneumonia you have in your family it fails to cure if you will use Goose Grease Liniment as directed. It only costs you 25 cents a bottle. Get it— you have nothing to loose ‘and all to gain. We know there are thousands who will read this and throw it aside and 1n a few days will be down with the disease. Please just get one bottle and putit away until you need it. If you haven’t the money to buy it let us know and we will send you a bot- tle free. GOOSE GREASE CO. NOTICE Chas. Brincefield will ap- ply tor a pardon Dec. 18, Wood Sawed! Telegraph institute of Columbia, |See R. O. Harbin or Phone 132 when qualified; Write them for officials and all students are placed | FOR SALE—A good combination particulars. - no19 dtf or 46. 11-4-1m. hound For particulars ad- dress Box 204, deed 3t entire fine. : ese Os 3 “We invite you to come and fet us show you the Oy Otis a pleasure to be able to show such an elegant line of goods to you even if you don t want to buy. e B surpassing anything ever shown in Statesville. ome==be eonvineed. Statesville Brug Co. PUSERREREER SERRE PERS REESE SEES ERE E RE BEES EE EERE REE Che Christmas Line At the Store of Quality CA fine of Quality eS ES RS S SE S S RS S SS S R a aC Prescriptionists. ASSES SERRATE — | Seeewceccccccooccocoeccces @ 9 $53.00 SHOEKS! 8 F We’re calling attention today to our line of Men’s @ Three Dollar Shoes. 4 e Whatever price we name for a shoe, we inteud that e e the Shoe will be the vest, that thesame amount eo of money can buy anywhere. ® @ _ We’ve never seen our $3.00 Shoes equalled for the @ . ee sere @ treat in store for the Three Dol- e © = ALL THE NEWEST STYLES : e Vici- Kid, Pat.-Kid, Gun Metal Calf, Box Calf, ete. 9 ® Extreme styles or conservative shapes. é ° OF SHOBS betore ooo Bee OUR SBOOLINE 8 S. B. MILLER 28 | § THE SHOE MAN. . 900000 SCOOCCDOOCOOOOOOOUE PSEEE SECECESEVEEECEE TERE - wW x w * ALL MEN IN STATESVILLE * A wb mM And Iredell County should get ac- Ww mM quainted with the matchless man- m ner in which we do their shirts, W m eee a = = Perfect satisfac- v Nr ed, x2 es ces cet iy a Statesville Steam Laundry ¥ i U. C. Harwell, Prop. 2 Phone 122 = €SS€ececcececececcecccec’ Vol. Cont in NOTAE New M Take Crow the 5S miliay senta’ There Displ¢ the & Wash tieth eq final ses being a scenes ¥ oceasion The long be leries of were fi unusua out of t mand f the dip. notable Senat were ea ridors chambe natured tors an ember The the sen The ap Fairbgr hearty both m Immed of the ett Ha States. success son, of the oat Sho the sen mark 4 membe row, Ww Preside At t amusin Chaper large play w of con an upy No f maid, frit, been i house Trish witty Miss the Gy minue Gilme chison great The fine t the co their The the ne ed int at Mt Printi paper colum Sueee North Wedr the e¢ to f£. e iF Vol. 1. fangress Meets in Short Session NOTABLES ARE APPLAUDED New Members Are Sworn in and Take Their Seats—A Large Crowd Present as Usual to View the Sight, Though it Was Fa- miliar—Senators and Repre- sentatives Were Early on Hand. There Was Much Good Nature Displayed Over the Result of the Election Held Recently, Washington, Dee. 7.—The Six- tieth congress assembled for its final session today, the opening being attended by formalities and scenes varying little from similar occasions im the past. The erowds eame early and long before the noon hour the gal- leries of both the senate and house were filled. The presence of an unusual number of visitors from out of town resulted in a great de- mand for tickets. Members of the diplomatic corps and many notables also were in attendance. Senators and Representatives were early on hand and in the cor- ridors and on the floors of both chambers there was much good- natured bantering among the vic- tors and vanquished in the Nov- ember elections. The opening of the session in the senate was without incident. The appearance of Vice-President Fairbanks was the signal for a hearty round of applause from both members and the gallery. Immediately following the prayer Tare, PER THE |ville whose serious [and one daughter, FR SE ea aaa Pe eae Se aie —_ = : ON . = i, Si, y PERSONAL NOTES. Some Happenings Among Those People You Know and Others You Don’t Know. Mrs. W. H. Allison and children went to Wadesboro yesterday where they will visit relatives, Mrs. B. B. Webb, of Lake Tox. away, arrived in thee ity last night to visit her mother, Mrs. W. G. Lewis. Mr. an Mrs. F. F. Steele re- turned last night from Tryon, Polk county, where they have been visiting Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Rankin. Miss Mary Lois Miller, return- ed this morning from Philadel- phia, where she has been Visiting her brother, Mr. Grier Miller. _—~++@>e—___. Dr. Caldwell Dead. Dr. R. J. Caldwell of Moores- illness was mentioned in yesterday after- noon. As was stated yesterday he had been seriously ill with pneumonia for some days, and his death was not unexpected. Dr. Caldwell was 70 years of age and had retired from active practice in his profession. He is well known in South Iredell having moved to Mooresville about 18 years ago,, practicing medicine there until a short time ago. He is survived by a wife Mrs. Paul Grierson. Dr. Caldwell was a good physi- cian and a Christian gentleman, being a member of the Presbyte- rian church of Mooresville, from where the funeral services will be conducted this afternoon by his pastor, Rev. W. S. Wilson. The ET SRT gee ere HVENI i+ MAscor,— Statesville, N. C., Tuesday Evening, December 8, 1908. “Cam” Caldwell IS A FORCEFUL CAMPAIGNER Mr. L, C. Caldwell, of Statesville, District Congressman if he Gets Democratic Nomination. While it is early in game to plan a campaign, and while he is not saying anything except to his intimate friends, it is never- less a fact that Mr. L. ©. Caldwell, of Statesville, has decided to en- ter the field two years from now against Conressman-Elect Cowles of the Eighth district In conver- sation with friends in this city Mr. Caldwell has admitted this much and declared his intention of being a candidate for the nom- ination before the Democratic congressional eonvention. It is believed that he is one Of the strongest men who could be put forward in the close Eighth dis- trict for he is a foreeful cam paigner, ready to.tackle and hold his own against any opponent. He is a rough and tumble fighter. The Democrats have no other in- tention than to redeem the eighth district from the Republican’s grasp in the next campaign, and Mr. Caldwell has many support- ers who believe he is the man to do it. Mr. Caldwell is a lawyer of fine abilities. At present he is one of the Southern Railway’s cocunsel. He has an intense love for polities and like Job’s war horse, he sniffs Against Cowles Will Enter Field Against 8th MR. WEST GONE. The Old Man Friendless and Penniless, Crys as he Accepts The Money—Left for Knox. Villle This Morning. Mr. Geo. West, the stranger who was stricken with paralysis on our streets last Friday morn- ing; left for Knoxvillle this morn- ing. Mr. West suffered a complete paralysis of the left side, and has been in a very serious condition. He is not entirely recovered yet, the left leg and arm being nearly useless, goes with the old gentleman. After he regained consciousness he relaxed and talked freely to the ladies at the hospital. He stated that he has been for years a wall paper hanger and painter, having worked in Canada for some years, - Not having any relatives he has enjoyed the pleasures of life to some extent, going from place to place in pursuit of his labor, spending his money as he went, never thinking of the day that would come when he would need it. Starting from Canada to Knox- ville, he got as far as Danville, where he stopped and worked for some time, saving enough money to come here, where he was strick- en, with paralysis, while in a pen- niless state. But by the kind- hearted citizens of Statesville he was taken in and cared for until he was able to go. In last Saturday’s issue of this pap2r an appeal was made to the good people of our city to make It is indeed a sad_ story that News Budget trom Raleigh TWO HIGHWAYMEN GOT $400 T. B. Holt, of Holly Springs, While on His Way to the Capi- tal City is Halte by Negro and White Man and at Point of Pis- to Them—Purse Containing $100 and Checks not Found— North Carolina Journal of Ed- ucation to be Moved From Durham to Raleigh, But Prof. E, C. Brooks Will be Retained as Editor—Conflict Nearly Re. sults in Hearing in Smith CaSe. Raleigh, Dee. 7—T. B. Holt, a prominent merchant, of Holly Springs. this county, was held up and robbed of $400 this evening in a lonely section of road four miles from Raleigh by two high- waymen—a negro anda white man The negro stopped his horse and the white man present- ed a revolver and ordered ‘‘Your money or your life.’”? Holt gave up an envelope containing $400 that he carried in his coat pocket and the highwaymen made off without searching him further. They left in his hip-pocket a purse which contained $100 cash and a quantity of checks, Holt came on to Raleigh and re- ported the robbery but says he cannot identify the highwaymen, as they were well disguised and masked. W. F. Marshall, president and tal City is Halted by Negro and} general manager of the Mutual]. No. 375 Pla Sy, LOCAL BRIEFS. ee Every one is wearing a smile of contentment at the court house today, R. F. Henry has an advertising medium in front of his store that should make every person pa- . tronize home industries. It is a show case of old watch cases, from mail order houses, which he has replaced with new cases. Mr. W. R. Mills was in Char- lotte last night. The condition of Rev. R. C. Green continues to improve rap- idly. The small son of Mr. Albert Hall, of Charlotte, which was op- erated on at Long’s sanatorium a few days ago is rapidly recov- ering. The Postal Telegraph Co., which is to open an office in the city, have reached here with their wires. They have not decided as yet, where the office will be.. This same company will open an office Mooresville, The trick skater Strasburger, at the rink last night did some {fine exhibitions of skating. Baby Ruth who is with him, is also fine. ‘They will perform again tonight. The masquerade will be given at the rink tomorrow night, Two bottles of cologne will be given to the lady having the best costume. A handome pipe will beg iven to the gentleman having the best cos- tume. Mr, Alex Little of Cornelius is here and will assist Mr. C. L. Murdock in his big sale, which embraces the 12th to the 20tk of this month. Watch for T. M. Mills big ad’ in tomorrow afternoon’s Mascot. Mark a Bill of Money, and buy. the battle afar off. If the present Republican in- eumbent, Mr. Cowles, is renomi- nated, and Mr. Caldwell is pitted against him, he will have a hard ‘ : : : The new auto which has arriv-| font ahead of him.—Charlotte| the supper table with her board-|ucation and will move it to Ra- ed in the city is a nice one and is| Noy, ers, and started the ball to roll-|leigh January 1st. Prof, E. C. your Christmas jewelry from R. F. Henry with it, and you will of the chaplin, Dr. Edward Ever- interment will be in the Moores- ? : ' : ett Hale, the roll was called by| Ville cemetery. s States. Albert B. Cummings, the : successor of the late Senator Alli- New Auto in Town. son, of Iowa, was applauded when the oath of office was taken. up money to pay his way to|Publishing Company, announces Knoxville. Mrs. J. B. Glover,|that he has personally purchased this bill 1 ti kind hearted lady that she is, im-| from H E. Seaman, of Durham,|S°¢ ©F Own this bill several times : ae the Nort li 1 of Ed- before next Christmas. Mark a mediately took up the matter at|the North Carolina Journal o fail. and? acuae Goo ieee house and Ill wager a V that you TE R S || MO N S Shortly after one o’clock both receiving a great deal of atten- We had heard some hints about ing with about $3 from that souree. be retained as editor and the : a 2 A Brooks, of Trinity College, will will never see it again. eee GP Preweesems the senate and the house, as altion. It is not an expensive ma- ato mark of respect to the deceased chine nor does it run very fast, this, but never until the News| This she turned over to Mr.{seope of the publication will be members, adjourned until tomor- but nevertheless it is a nice ma} eame out with the above piece did /Louis McKesson, who a once | enlarged a as to embrace both tow, when the annual message of| chine to be built by an ametuer. | we know anything definite about|took an active part, swelling the|the educational and literary activ- President Roosevelt will be read. This machine is now on exhibi-|it. The good things the News|amount to about nine dollars. ities of the state. The removal to ~<Ore— tion in the shew window of the/says about Mr. Caldwell can not| Others contributed to this and] Raleigh is especially for the pur- The Chaperon. Evans hardware company’s store.| be bettered, so we let it pass.—| the whole, amount raised for him a 3 having pe See At the eollege last night the It was built by Mr. C. E Sloan| Editor Mascot. was $11.75. the closest possible _ with amusing little play entitled the the popular clerk of that house. —_—_++2>+—___- The old gereleman at first the State Department of iduca- Chaperon was witnessed by a] My Sjoan is a genious at that Rncne One Advorthes protested taking the money, say-| tion, with the literary activities large house. The story of the work, the machine being an exact = = aS oe ing he would walk to Knox-|of the state centering here. : ? S eV 5 ~ : play was very intexesting and full representative of anautomobile. |. R. ie ee ae ville, which he started to do Without any Ss vemeis of comedy, keeping the house in Beginning with the wheels, they RSG a) eG Gee yesterday ee ee pone de es : x a ee = = an uproar all the time. are made of grindstones, the caps e € ; sts * : from doing so by one of the] vestigation of the E, W. Sm Nora, Mrs. Dynecourts Irish the axles being little tin cups. store of quality, have Xmas goods nurses, murder ease before Police Justice og < die Saf. tanelaie een of quality for sale. After some argument with him| Badger assumed a rather sensa- maid, played by Miss Snodie Sa The bed of the machine is made of SB WER calle aieniton to Bis g aes ae ae = frit, was the best that has ever a door, the seats of sheet iron, up- Soa about the matter, he finallly,| tional aspect for an hour or mo Statesville Doctor Claims Honor A citizen of Statesville while discussing the hook worm ques- tion yesterday stated to The LMaScot that a Statesville doctor elaims the honor of the discovery of the first hook worm ease in this part of the country. While this is from a very au- thentic source, we have not yet been able to see the doctor in question, and get his statement as to the facts. We like for our peo- ple to have the honors that are theirs by right, and if our doctor elaims the honor as is reported, : Tee : +4, | he ought to have it. been in the city, and she kept the| polstered with back bands of har- $3.00 shoes. X | though very reluctantly, agreed} this morning In connection with Se : Do not fail to read the ad of Breaking|the spirit of rivalry and conflict ; house in a continuous Iaugh. Her] ross ; to take the, money. Breaking Pp Ly ' ‘Po Marry in South Carolina. 5 Maynard and Ellis, the new pho- down and erying he said he hated| that has been developing between Trish brogue was perfect, and her witty sayings numerous. Miss Luey Niblock, as ‘Miriam the Gypsy maid was also fine. The The running board is made of levels, the fenders of saws, the horn of a dinner bell and an oil ean. The steering wheel is made tographers. Knox, Poston & Co., call the at- tention of the ladies to their lace and embroidery sale. to accept it for he had always worked his own way through the world. The old gentleman stated that he appreciated the kindness ‘County Coroner Separk and offi- cers working under him on the one hand and Police Justice Bad- ger and the city police on the CCapt. J. W. Copeland went to Spartanburg, S. C., yesterday, ‘where tonight he will be married to Miss Mary Rivers, of that city. minuet dance given by Misses of a fire poker with a cake pan for Gilmer, Davis, Eldridge and Mur. the wheel. chison was jgood, iand reedived The lever with which the ma- great applause. chine is supposed to be started is The play as a whole showed] made of an old lever off of a dise fine training by the instructors of] harrow. The radiator is made the college, all the cast acting from coal vases, and the cylinder their parts well, from stove pipes. The Iredell cafe has added a nice line of edndy and fruits, and would be pleased with a share °” your Xmas trade. W. F. Hall, the prescriptionist, has the proper writing paper for Xmas. of the people, and hoped they| other. would proceed there. There was would be rewarded some day for} Coroner Separk had set 10/a wait of fifteen minutes or more their kindness. o’clock this morning as the time|for City Attorney Snow, who is SS oe for the investigation of the mur-|the prosecuting attorney in the der before his jury. Police Jus-|police court, during which time Small Fire Today \tice Badger held his court Satur-|there was a sharp colloquy be- — A four room cottage oecupied|day in the county court house to|tween Bart M. Gatling, county, CO N S CC C C O O R s C e @ | BE R E T ++ o————— nib Ps The Holler Plumbing Company], Sored. sstnatod mmodate the crowds. This| attorney, and the police justice. : ade f = by Gus Brown, colored, situated | acco » an ustic New Daily 2 : egtey of eall atention to the greatest of all near the Southern railway line,| morning when he and his court of-} When City Attorney Snow gifts, good health by sanitary]. totally destroyed by fire to-|ficers, followed by a great crowd,| came in he stated that he was just plumbing. day about noon. proceeded down the square from|from a conference with Solicitor = oe ea oe The house belonged to the wife|the municipal building to court/ Armistead Jones, Coroner Sea- To Our Subscribers. of Clay Chambers, colored, and| house to resume the hearing, they [park and others and that he had Printing Company, and is a large ship. Our representative, Mrs. Hines,| was nearly new. were met at the seater = ee a ee paper, having four pages, eight} 9 make the machine perfect |is now out in the field collecting] - Only a little of the household the janitor of the ulding ae a : 0 a es ie columns of live, breezy news. there is a little man in it, who|up back subscriptions to this pa-| furniture of Brown was destroy- informed the police ies t t he = ses Ns eee Suecess to the Daily Breeze. holds the steering wheel as if he| per. ed, the neighbors having carried} Chairman Johnson, of the county[ner that there would be The Blue Ridge Daily Breeze is hardware, and-as a whole it is a the new daily paper that has waft- very pretty imitation of a large f ed into this office. It is published touring car, and it is indeed a } at Mt. Airy, by the Blue Ridge very creditable piece of workman- as, it : ib-| i d of emmissioners, had in-[tempt to block the hearing before < i t by the day. We would thank our subscrib-|it out, boar > 0 block 1 Weather Forecasts en SU ee ers very much if they would pay; An alarm was turned in after|structed him not to admit the po-|the police justiee. After declar- ———><->-e- = : ° ° . ° = . Get us five, only five new yearly | up, for it takes money, and a lot} the house had been burning about/lice justice to the court room.jing that h would allow no inter: subscribers to the Evening Mascot | of it to publish a paper, and keep|30 minutes and the fire company/Justice Badger ae ee some with — eee Justice , ou wi i i ed the action as high-han adger accep e recommen: i will PRESENT you with a | the flour bin supplied. responded. e ; pada 2 | the . oo i sr oe = Fe oe 42-piece dinner set. See} All favors extended Mrs. Hines| ~The house had burned down be- purely a ease of spite work; and, sis —— city ee : e — with tempera ure ee one of these setsin Sherrill &|in the way of collections will bejfore they got the alarm, so their] returning to the city court room, | ee e court adjourn Wai Beg eS White’s front window. services were not needed. ‘he declared that the hearing|10 o’clock tomorrow mrning. ses BY. = 55 ‘ Washington, D. C., Dec. 8—Fur North Carolina fair tonight and ~— appreciated. _" to l d AA R P RC M , : 2 ta b , a : Li a i : $35 ee es g RP p R i i S s Tha on tt De e n oe r Wa A NE R A i ar eg IR I E BS . ; es Sa o r a i o 69 oy Sp o d e Pe e t e Av e b e m e n e R a ty oo am b gd et c e t e r a ie Ei s —a e BO O S T Re l AI R ah LA E PE R E AR on an e THE EVENING MASCO1 DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. ffice 109 Court Street. Telephone 53 VANCE NORWOOD - Publisher. RALPH SLOAN, - - City Editor, Sabscription Price, - $4.00 a Year ubscription Price, - 10 Cents a Week Entered at the Postoffice in Statesville W. C.,as second-class mail matter. r STATEMENT ABOUT THE HOOKWORM By Dr, Harris. See. Georgia Board of Health. A heretofore unrecognized ma- lady which is said to directly and indirectly kill more people than consumption and typhoid! fever. The state stands ready io ' ag- nose eases and the cure Is amaz- ingly simple (Revised for th? Progressive Farmer, and every statement approved by Dr. Cuas W. Stiles, U. S. Public health service. ) ‘A little crawling thing, 2dout the bigness of a piece of tarcad not long enough to twist around a man’s finger. Under the eye of the miscro- scope it jumps into a sinuous, graceful, eel-like creature, wrig- gling and squirming and exhibit- ing energy and ambition out of all proportion to its size. It is not a bit spectacular, and it doesn’t get itself discussed in legislative halls, or furiously de- bated in political -campaigns. Modest and unassuming, it does not aspire to such dignity. It is satisfied simply with (1) and the pleasure of living i: something like 200,000 people in Georgia, and all other Southern states in like proportion; with (2) amassing a death rate higher than tuberculosis, pneumonia. ty- phoid fever; with (3) eomplicat- ing the labor problem in_ the Southern States; with (4) stub bornly and quite effectually re- tarding the agricultural and in- dustrial development of the sec- tion; with (5) nullifying the bene- fits of hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on education, and with (6) eosting the South, esti- mated, in the course of several decades several hundred millions of dollars. More serious and closer at hand than the tariff; more eostly, threatening and tangible than the negro question, making the men- ace of the boll weevil laughable in comparison, it is pre-eminently the problem of the South. A few cents worth of drugs and good, strong shoes wisely dis- tributed will banish it, absolutely solve its many details, in six months. After that, other more thorough methods prevent the possibility of its recurrence. This tragically expensve ‘‘lux- ury’’ which the people of Geor- gia and other Southern States are unknowingly, playing against life, health and progress is—the hook- worm. It has a longer and more formidable name, Uncinaria amer- leans, but the answers all purpos- es of classification. The story of this sinister little parasite is intensely dramatic, sinee it eeneerns most intimately the history and the welfare and the future of the Southern pecple in a degrce that is not reecgnized by one man in twenty thousand. It is the more pathetic, from the fact that its details explain largely the existance of that class of rural population known in ike the South as the ‘‘poor white’’ illiterate, bereft of energy, sallow of complexion, profoundly anem- is—a class that thoughtful stu- dents recognize in a momest with this general discription, and the condition of which many men and Women are striving earnestly to improve. They have been variously charg ed with thriftless, improvidence and lack of ambition. Seience now overturns this harsh indictment and shows that they are suffering from a genuine | or disease which saps their lives and makes them listless, indifferent, careless beings. Its show. that they are thus paying the penalty for ignorence on their own part and on ours, and ignorence which permits them to become the vic- tims of their own neglect and which lowers their ability to en- joy life and to participate in the tasks of industry in a degree that costs the community a toll of mil- lions yearly. The story is sufficiently fanci- ful to provoke increduality. The very simplicity. of the cause and the simplicity of the cure militate against either being taken seri- ously. The information upon which these statements are based is known and proved medical au- thority. Dr. H. F Harris, seeretary of the State Board of Health, has been for several years, conduct- ing a systematic and energetic erusade against hook worm dis- culos Nilriceg n—eigl 1 u j jffiffi ease in Georgia He has been suc- eessful to a wonderful extent, but finds himself handicapped in the manner suggested by the natural hesitation of people to accept so elemental an explanation and so simple a solution for a grave con- dition apparently very remote from the machinations of a little wriggling snake-like worm. It is upon information supplied by Dr. Harris, upon the solicitation of this paper that this article is based. Dr. Harris positively diagnosed his first case of hook worm dis- ease, or uncinariasis in Georgia in the Spring of 1902. A year previous to that time the hook worm had been identified beyond a doubt in Texas. The disease has existed for an unknown length of time in many parts of Africa, in southern Eu- rope in Asia and other tropical and. sub-tropical latitudes. The consensis of medical opinion is that it was introduced into this country by African negroes, brought over as slaves many years of course, prior to the Civil War. As in Georgia and other South- ern States, uncinariasis, or the “‘lazy sickness’’ baffled scientfic opinion it appeared as epideric in Egypt and subtropical portions of Europe. At times, it carried off thousands of lives in the course of a few months. As a rule, it ran slow, insiduous course. Workers of ordinary activity it made profoundly anemie and dis- inclined to exertion, rendering them actually susceptible to other diseases, stunting the growth of children and dulling their mental faculties. It was in 1838 that the para- site was positively detected and the infection for which it is re- sponsible established by a scien- tist of Milan. <A series of experi- ments in various European medi- eal centers and by different au- thorities followed, physicians and students at first refusing to ae- cept the theory that the parasites was. first responsible for uncinari- asis,.and second that it entered the body in the manner to be now described. Eventually, however, they were convineed by actuai photographs takn of the progress of the worm in the bodies of an- imals subjected to infection. This leads us upto the more pre valent method by which the hook [worm spreads its disease and the almost uncanny manner in which it enters the body if its victim. It does nothing more nor less than bore its way in embryo form through the skin of the bare hu- man foot, exposed to soil or wa- ter, which it selects as a resting place, and makes its progress by devious routs through. the cireula- tion to the lungs and form the it finds its final destination, reach- es adult size, and, attaching itscl? by.a sucker-like mouth, to the mu- cous membranes, preys upon the blood that is necessary for the healthful sustenance of the body, gradually worrying down the strength of the patient until hel: cribed in the graphs. The vast bulk of hook worm dis ease is found in the rural districts It does not exist in towns where propper sanitary regulations pre- vail, or even where people wear shoes all the time. It is in the districts where the poorer children, during the waria weather discard their shoes and where the soil is necessarily and constantly poluted by human ex. creta—a condition common to many of the less advanced sec- tions of the state—that un nari- asis exists, multiplies itself indef- finitely and takes heaviest tribut¢ of life, health, and working abil- ity foregoing para- himself from the disease, every person affected is an uacvncious and innocent agency for its wider distribution. Water closets are an unknown quantity in those ru- ral ditricts to which reference has been made. Resort is olices adjoining premises, to placyvs alongside large and small roads which run through every county in the state, of course, and to aay other locality that suggests :tseli to the individual judgment. The waste products of persons afflicted with unicariasis litter ally swarm with the eggs of the parasite. As a consequence it re- quires no effort of the imagina- tion to understand that the soil in hundreds of rural districts is systematically polluted, recruited year in and year out with ineal- eulable supplies of the little crea- ture sa heavy with menace to the south. As soon as the eggs hatch out (Cntinued on 3rd Page.) :] ALCOHOL 3 PER CENT. | -| AVesetable Preparationfards- Peaity|:| Suuilating the FoodandRegula: A }:] “ing the Stomachs andBowels of: SO —— sid INFANTS “CHILDREN ASM | Promotes Digestion Cheerftl: || Ness and Rest.Contains neither’ :| Opium.Morphine nor Mineral : NOT NARCOTIC. : sie Aperfect Remedy for Consfiga: ri tion, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea: al | Worms,Convalsions.Feverisk- Bhig|| | nessand LOSS OF SLEEP. ; : At6 months old “iid 35 Doses —35 CENTS ae ee rT i Our entire stock of Laces 15 cents yard. Closing Closing out price few days. or she is brought to the state des-|: kn addition ,to ‘the suffering | > A GOOD STOMACH . Means Good Health, Cheerfulness, Ambition, Persistency and Suc- cess. Mi.o-na will cure your dyspepsia or any other stomach trouble by building up the flabby walls, and making the stomach so strong that it will digest food without pepsin or “her artificial aid. In other words, Mi-o-na cures dys- vepsia by removing the cause, Statesville Drug Co., is the agent for Mi.o-na in Statesville and they say to every reader of. The Mascot whose stomach is weak, who has in- jigestion or dyspepsia, that Mi-o.na is guaranteed to cure or money back, The price is only 50 cents a large box, and one box is all you need to prove that you are on the right road to health and happiness. “I can’t say enough for Mi-o.na ablets; they have done more for me in one week than all the doctors have for the two years I have been under their care, and I will do all I can to recommend it to my friends. You can also usé my name in your ad. if you like, for Mi-o.na is better than gold to me. I am like a new man, and am able to work once more for the first time in over a year.”—W. A. Ennis, 328 Green St., Syracuse, N. Y. —_—_———— + Death was on His Heels. Jesse P. Morris, of Skippers, Va., had a close call in the spring of 1906. He says: ‘‘An attack of pneumonia left me so weak and with such a fearful cough that my friends declared consumption had me, and death was on my hecls. Then I was persuaded to try Dr. King’s New Discovery. It helped me immediately, and after taking two and a half bottles J was a well man again. I found out that New Discovery is the best remedy for coughs and lung dis- ease in all the world,’’ Sold under guaarantee at Statesville drug Co. store. 50c. and $1.00. Trial 00000000 0000000000000 00006 Ble EXTRA SPECIAL LACES and EMBROIDERIES been arranged on gallery. Laces range regular price 5 to out price 3 and 5 Cents Yard. Embroidery ranges regular price 8 to 35 cents yard 5, 8, 10 and 15 Cents Yard. __ This stock of Laces and Embroideries will amount t six to eight hundred dollars and consists of very deere able clean merchandise. The entire lot will goin a very KNOX, bottle free. GASTORI For Infants and Children. iThe Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of In Use For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. and Embroideries bave all POSTON & CO. °% * at Christmas, or any other time, is good health- This is insured by :: eans of sanicary plumbing in your house. If you would present your family with a threefold blessing, cele- brat2 Christmas by ar- ranging with us for a complete system of mod- ern up-to-date plumbing Se S e l h S e e e e e e e e e e THE GREATEST OF ALL GIFTS— from cellar to roof. Phore No. 61. N E S E E E S E NE Lo A. W. HOLLER PLUMBING COMPANY EC EKECECECEESS EERE CEE cy, A Mh i ™ won we ovine 7 f A HY Ar 127 W. Broad St. M P3323 3333332333523 3525 236 Maynard & Ellis, Professional Photographers, in N. B. Mills New Building, adjoining Stimson Drug Store, Statesville, N. C. igh Grade Photos at a Low Price. Penny Pictures, the best that can be made—24 for Post Cards, per.dozen, $1.25 Per half dozen Cabinets, in folders, dozen, $2.00. Halfidozen $1.50. Pictures of your home, Post Card size, and up to 8x10 inches, and out-door groups, is one of our specialties at a moder- ate price. Give us.a trial and be convinced that we are trying to please you. We are now ready to serve you. Will also Develop and Finish Kodak Work. 25¢. 750. TE s 11 1 1 PO T O S I DU D > still a fact that “QUALITY” IS THE In a sharp contest nothing but “quality” and appearance figure. “RUTH MADE” Hosiery and the “WORLDS BEST" Black are the goods of Quality. After alt has been eaid, all your pursuasive argument exhausted, it is To get best results you must have the best of everything best yarn, be-t colors, best machines and best help, with such a combination you can produce the best of what you are making. We have all of the above. Ask your dealer - for the goods of “‘quality.” ONLY TEST OF VALUE THE BRADFORD KNITTING MILL. MOTHER do you hear that rattling in your babies throat? Put a little Mothers’ Joy on it and stop it at once. MOTHERS how can you take chances —keep a bottle of Mothers joy in your house. You need Mothers’ Joy every day. MOTHERS’ Joy is made of pure googe grease and other healing ingredients. Mothers you cannot afford to be with- | outa box of Mothers’ Joy. DKATING RINK Opera House Building Masquerade Tues: (ay Night, Dec. 9 Prizes on exhibition in show window at States- ville Drug Company. WANTED—BY THE AMERICAN Cotton and Businéss University of Milledgeville, Ga., students to take one or more of our courses in cot- ton grading, buying and selling. Business courses of bookkeeping, Shorthand, Typewriting, or Telegra- phy and Railroad course. Positions guaranteed under reasonable con- ditions. Write at once for our consolidated catalog. Largest col lege South. Sept 28-¢f SOUTHERN RAILWAY co reat Highway of Trade and Travel Through the Southern States Through Pullman Sleeping Cars on palatial trains between the principal Cities and Resorts of the South. H:igh-class Dining Cars. Many delightful Summer and Winter Resorts on and reached by Southern Railway. “The Land of the Sky,” “The Sapphire Country,” in scenic Western North Carolina; beau- tiful at all seasons. Hotels of -the highest class. For detailed information apply to nearest Ticket Agent, or R. L. VDRNON, T. P. A., Charlotte, N. C. STATESVILLE 8-H. HARDWICK, P.T.M., W. H. TAYLOE,G. P. A., Washihgton, D. C. POSITION OSITION Draughon gives contracts, backed by a chain of 30 Colleges, $300,000.00 capital, and 19 year’s success, to se- Cure positions under reasonable con- ditions or refunnd tuition. BOOKKEEPING Dr22ts °°; petitors, by not accepting his pruposition, concede that he teaches more Bookkeeping in THREE months than they do in SIX. Draughon can convince YOU. SHORTHAN 75 per cent. of theUnited States Court Reporters write the system of Shorthand Draughon teaches, be- cause they know it is THE BEST. FOR FREE CATALOG and book- let, “Why Learn Telegraphy?’’ which explains all, call on or write JNO. F. DRAUGHON, President DRAUGHON’S PRACTICAL BUSINESS COLLEGE (We also Teach by Mail) Raleigh, Knoxville, Nashville, Cc lumbia or Washington, D. C. — = 8 S ©9 0 0 0 08 0 00 6 0 8 0 0 0 0 8 80 0 0 8 Ss _ Ba o : i | | | Pe er er er er er er ©3 : 3 : 2 3 : 3 : 2 3 3 : 3 / 3 2 2 3 3 2 3 3 3 2 ¢ Naas 3 “ee ae eg THE HOOK WORM.. the body. As often as not, how- od ———— ever, the fearfully unsanitary ” Weak ‘Women © (Continued from 2nd Page.) conditions under (which the pa- 3 eager a er : 4 ee ee tient lives, and the continned| # ; - is the irst mstinct of the larva tie Sas 5 * ain practice of going barefoot, leads| & Fe frequently suffer great p and misery during the | or embryo worm to seck water/to a reinfection. so that the mis-| # ) ; Ne es , Ei change of life. It is at this time that the beneficial @ whether in the form of mud-pud-} chief may keep on indefinitely. ge! effect of taking Cardui is most appreciated, by, those : dles along public roads, standing Many of the wretched, sallow, haps in: hm ae E erg ens aa ho find that it relieves their distress. a cesta geae ge ee FS . rently known as ‘‘clay-eaters, SX. $ : x $s = & A child, let us say, and child-} are nothing ors <— — Is Esse ntial to the Up= a - e 2, S {ren are the main sufferers because | victims of uncinariasis. i a ; ie a aa ea ob of the barefoot habit during the! It will be seen: that, in eases, building of the Modern pe e ] ee ks te warm weather, crushes with its|even where the child survives this naked foot weeds or grass near| eight or ten vear torture. it has e e its own home, perhaps paddles in virtually npraheed its ee and Business Enterpr ise. ae pools along the roadside or treads} that its constitution has sustain T ici j use ete See Cee 3 o the publicity gain on oil sufficiently moist to en-|ed an impairment from which it P oe eA by a eee Ne i ROR So n i fe win Help You |” Ra n Ce w” e a : sz courage the attention of the lar-|frequently never recovers. The} # advertising columns of the daily papers is at- e Mrs. Lucinda C. Hill, of Freeland, O., writes: & Ss The tiny insect, as yet invis-| years that should have been spent 3 tributed the gro wth, and consequent success, of ‘Before I began to take Cardui, I suffered so badly & - ible to the unaided eye, bores}in acquiring knowlejige which : a very large percentage of great business enter- ; = T was afraid to lie down at night. ‘After I began to & promptly through the sole of the|should equip the boy or girl for| 8 PFISeS of the present day. take it I felt better in a week. Now my pains have is ed the mischief is done. life work, are lost, dragged] % Advertising is recognized as the prime fac- ew e ~ ; > -. é : “ Be i e ° e : Ww gone. T sleep like a girl of 16 and the chan 2 — a short time after the|through miserably and listlessly.| $ tor in increasing the sales of any class of goods — ean ; S € g& | embryo worm has gained entrance} with apathetic mind and torpid} § or manufactured articles e. of life has nearly left me. Try Cardui. a to the body the bottom of the foot| unresponsive museles—a dismal 3 Th di thi * - busi E AT ALL DRUG STORES 2, becomes irritated and the child, or} and tragic caricature of the buoy- ‘: e space used Mm Z 1S puper 38 your, Dusi- Be adult, develops a typical case of|ant, hopeful and masterful pic- 3 ness message to the public. In this bee letter es ieee | What is commonly called ‘“‘ground|ture youth should present. = you should tell them of the merits of what you — z iteh.”? The remedy is simple, tragically} § are offering, setting forth the reasons why your SCOCOOOOOOOOSOOOOCOOOOOHOES | 10" many childen have been} simple, weighed against the an- & particular line is worthy of their attention. : attacked by this ground itch?|nual destruction of life and the] % : These Handsome Dishes Given Away toMy Customers | Counticss thousands, undoubted-|incaleulable stagnation to pro-| VIENING ; With each cash purchase of 5 cents or over I will give youa @ |!Y, aad in the great majority of| gress wielded by the disease. ‘ Vou : ( = = can be exchanged for these gifts. a4 D WO ¢ HA L , ab d 19 % , OD A HO D PO D OD a Ga HO HO A Me e : treatment should not be adminis- and and is in turn swallowed by L. A. GOLDMAM : Purveyor to the People. © | the individual and is carried into | "red Py the patient, Dut ee the stomach and intestines. Here| Competent physician. Fundament- SPSOOSOSSOSHOOCOCAOOESIOSSOSES the worm, or worms, catch fast al conditions vary with different hold on the walls, or mucous mem- persons, and the quantity of this 3 branes, sucking blood and en- well known drug that may be $3 eoccccnsooscooccsoqoonscooososoaceqooasooooooosescse| larzine until they reach the adult | °@¢ctwa! with one individual may! @ a representative ot the paper will gladly visit you BS ° @ apa it is but the prelude to ese — remedy: the subsequent development of|one does of thymol, perhaps, : ° ° : See oS : . alee which is, a prob-| two followed by Tea me has increases ais local circulation Very. materially € e ability, destined to warp the cines, $3 uring the past three months and the results e @ | child’s life for years afterward,| Your eure is effected, the mer- = obtained from the space used by the advertisers e e@ and not improbably to lead to its derous parasites checked short in] % are gratifying to them and to the paper. It & @ | death. their cours within a few moxth:) § reaches into the homes of the best class of our S @ | Bya circuitous route the em-| there is a re-made boy or girl, a i people and your message will be placed in the & @ | bryo worm follows the circulation remade an Ce as hands of those with money to buy the goods & @ | of the blood into the lungs. Here oe atives ao of ie SS; you wish to sell. : ieee seer a Sieg _|tem responding marvelously as} § - . ree Soe = ee S ang Se Be : The Space Rates in The Evening Mascot $ @ | the lungs and from the air spaces which it has been struggling in] R are not high. Your message is carried, each & @ | it coes into the small bronchi. It|V4in is removed. % day, to those you wish to reach, in the most & @ | then arises with the mucous that It is emphasized, however, by 3 economical manner. ° . eollects about it into the throat{ PY the State Board of Health, that For information call us up on the phone and & © eS © =) The Evening Mascot. $ THE STATESVILLE LOAN AND TRUST CO, §[:'¢° 28 month, or sx wees a eed ot health im nearly] § It is at this time that the symp- The bears of health in nearly Fe ececececececenejecgnececjereenecececececeaoectogieceosoenecsnececeoecenececsceneoerscececssoeogoal 2 3 Of Statesville, N. C. ; toms of the disease manifest|©’Y Southern State stands |) ee rt oes pecan ae eR SS I NE themselves. Watch them care- ready too, to diagnose suspected 190908090908080 9090880908088 8ORCROEES Ee CRS EEE ; 3 fully, searching back carefully for sagen = eS SEAS a LL eae ae x ee ¥ IS PREPARED to transact all branches of banking. 8} 4 history of the almost inevitable ne salable diagnosis. W here- - Accounts are solicited from firms, corporations and indiv - 5 ground itch in the child or adult, Bes there is reason to believe the “y EVE AL THIN S i uals, who may rely upon courteous consideration and the ST -o- ahile the lana ocean Oe See- > R. G a very best terms that are consistent Laie zood pene ; introdueed into the system by Reta y State Board of Health, at Are to be considered in selecting your Bank 5 e : methods. Four per cent. paid on time and savings deposits ; ‘drinking water, its invasion in Oe a ee 5 3 UAPITAL STOCBK....... cccccccece ete ee cccce-ccccce .40,000.00 ; Sener eae ae will doubtless bring you prompt SHAREHOLDERS LIABILITY........ccccccreesosesees $40,000.00 See abees wall es ee advice information, and a free di- 1ST. Strength-Financial Strength 3 3 SURPLUS ANP UNDIVIDED PROFITS...........-$30,000.00 3 foundly anemic, that is, blood |S |. 2ND. The care with which the . 4 © "Porat, RESOURCES OVER.......sss-coseeseeeesee$440,000.00 less. ‘The skin grows pale, assum-} *™'S eee = oe ip " Bank is Managed. ; 4 i e = ing a yellowish tint, and if the in-|“27 7°" °° 00 thoroughty icaen— 3RD. Th rt d wait 4 fection has been sufficiently se- ed ca : £ = Ee a iohias a 3 : OFFICERS ; vere, shortness of. breath and oe eee : Ey tec OH ao BS — : ; dropsy ensue. Death sometimies ie é m 7 e , , : E. Steele, President, E. Morrisou, Vice-Pres, D. M. Ausley, Sec soo follows this stage, but as a rule J S ee oe oe - ployees. : i ; : and Treasurer, C. E. HUGHEY, Assistant Secy. and Treas .: the patient drags along an ener- ae Roni Pook ak ae § 4TH. The banking experience of : ; W. G. CULBRETH, Manager Savings Department vated, inert, miserable existence, cays. “eRe good Tiecnae Bitters z Officers. 9000 TOOT OSOESOHSSOSIONIDIDIDISSSSSOSOOOSS sees svececes Vets and resisting power mi ae done is worth more than five : STH. The ability of the bank to ee aaa 10 an a|hundred dollars to me. I spent| § | Properly and Prompily ‘ — quick victim to any more virulent. money doctoring for a-bad| § Handle all Your Business ae ttacks th ; disease that attacks the system.| -. of stomach trouble, to little WOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOY | 72st is one of the most pernicious | oT." T' than tried Blecthic | f 10 Those Desiring the Embod)- SS a es = ae Bitters, and they cured me. I| § ment of These Features are that it so weakens its victim as to % ; AR eliable Bankw—— oaks hia or he teddy cept oe tonic, and| & Offered The Service of THE > 2? . tible to other disorders that SS soe ae oe K : ie 50c. at Statesville Drug Co.’s} § might, in its absence, be com- ne ae 5 : , batted unnoticed by the system. ee ee The Late al Quality! OF STATESVILLE with prompt service and obliging treatment, is of ous benefit to the young usiness man. When a man has 4 Bank accountit implies cenfidence in himself ani others. By all means have a good that is its stronghold, it invaria- bly paralyzes their mental and physical development. The child mee : CAPITAL $100.000 checking bank behind you is slow to learn, sickly, bloodless} [ have a fresh line of : 4 in business. You will find ean and indolent, gaining a reputa- CANDY in boxes, Be i aa ls a ee 2 Jee oan it both convenient and dig- a 1 tion for stupidity in the class- and FRUIT, for Xmas eae STB SESE ezecneezenect ce eeceetees 13 P98 DROSS RRP DEC gin RCRC BORE SSSA EREC EGER 7m — in transacting busi- wot A ~ room and laziness in the field} trade. .°. wholly referable to the disease Fresh Oysters Every Day Now Time for You re Se- from which it is suffering, uncon- f tail trad d ur x [ ] ) G ods sciously to its parents, teacher| ‘OF Tetal trade _ suet y and itself. Frequently children Rec eaS lect 2 | 3 : : | thus affected reach th of =2 . : mus affected reach ‘the years We will put aside any goods selected. Merchants and cee Bank OF STATESVILLE INCORPONATED maturity with childish form and CAPITAL $25,000.00. features, unhealthy, unambiti- IREDELL CAFE - ‘See our new line of — ous and wholly unfitted to play} _ PHONE NO. 323 OFFICERS: the slightest effectual part in the W. W.GAITHER : Proprietor. Morris Chairs and Rockers. work of the world. ee CASTOR 1A |Also Fine Mahogany Tables, L. T. STIMPSON, Pres.; C. S. TOMLIN, Vice-Pres.; F. B. BUNCH Sec. & Treas.; Es - J. A. KNOX, Asst. Sec. & Treas. : Directors : rule for eight or ten years in the For Infants and Children. We will make Special Prices on COOK L. T. Stimpson, J. L. Stevenson, C. S. Tomlin, R. R. Reid, adult or child, at the end of which} The Kind You Have Always Bought STOVES and RANGES J. A. Knox, W. 8S. Page, Geo. B. Nicholson, L. K. Lazen- by, E. G. Gaither, J. R. Hill, E. B. Watte- ti I rer- i m. ime the ever corroding wor. = dies, relinquishes its hold on — fame of intestines and is expelled from Cadi téédes | STATESVILLE HOUSEFURNISHING COM’PY a By sd a r pi e we e n Id : IQ A R T SN E ie e e oh sa e t ae © gS Be ® . ip e t a ee e Ca r t o n s so v m a t o t e n Li p a 3 hd : ai a Se g he mS na t e pi s : ee 43 fs +. ms a X oe way te Ra a e323 PE: ta 4 iW 5 > aa 8 a 9 % Ai g pe e ki SE R E N E 16 5 AB B O T OT ER al t o n ye pr e t e e n s el a ae e u t ee Se t h e Bi t eh as . ee en ee e Si ea n SR Y : ay te s0 a h e t i t i n e AL O T SE I T RA R E R S PI S oA Ra y 1B wh Da n d y SR S PO E TE E Ai ae MM e op m om i t se ce Eg ng T e R Re y te me e n pe e pe CA S sy a FET E to b e B BE C ? IB D ok eo A Aa ea s EE E BE E A pe e eA e Te ae ee 5 fe STUPID SHEEP. They Are About the Most Senseless of All Animals. A Colorado ranchman declares that no animal that walks is as big a foo} as a sheep. “We have to watch them every min- ute, and if vigilance is relaxed for an instant the entire flock is likely to practically commit suicide. In han- dling most animals some degree of self help or intelligence can be relied on to aid the owner in saving their lives, but sheep seem to set deliberately to work to kill themselves. “If caught in a storm on the plains they will drift before the wind and die of cold and exposure rather than move a hundred yards to windward to obtain shelter in their corral. To drive sheep against the wind is absolutely impossible. I once lost over 1,000 head because I could not drive them to a corral not 200 feet away. “In the corral they are still more foolish. If a storm comes up they all move ‘down wind’ until stopped by the fence. Then commences the proceed- ing so much dreaded by sheepmen known as ‘piling.’ The sheep will climb over each other’s backs until they are heaped up ten feet high. Of course all those at the bottom are smothered. Not one has sense enough to seek shelter under the lee of the fence, as a horse or dog would do. “Again, if a sheep gets into a quick- sand its fate teaches nothing to those that come immediately after, but the whole flock wii! follow its leader to destruction. No more exasperatingly stupid anirai than a sheep walks.”— St. Lois's Globe-Democrat. A CHINESE STORY. The Notec’ Liar Who Had a Fairly Competent Spouse. A noted liar once told a friend that he had at home three precious things— a bullock which could run 500 miles a day, a fowl which crowed at the begin- ning of each watch, day and night, and a dog that could read books. The friend intimated that he would lose no time in seeing these marvels with his own eyes. The man did not expect this, as his house was somewhat distant, so he went home and told his wife that he had got caught at last and that tomor- row the man would arrive and he. would be disgraced. “Never mind,” said the spouse. “Leave that to me. It will be all right, only you must keep out of sight.” Next morning the visitor arrived and, being met by the mistress, asked where her husband was. “He has gone to Pekin,” she replied. “When will he be back?’ “In eight or nine days.” “Why, how can he be so quick?” “He has gone off on our fast bullock and so can do it easily.” “Tt hear you have also a wonderful fowl,” said the visitor. And, behold, as he was speaking a small cock crew. “That's it,” said the wife. “He crows at the beginning of each watch and also when a visitor arrives.” “I would also like to see the learned dog,” he said. “Ah,” said she, “I 2m sorry; but, you Bee, We are Very poor, and so he keeps a school in the city.”—Scrap Book. Left Him In Doubt. A certain young artist in New York who is on terms of comparative inti- macy with the janitor of the apart- ment house wherein he maintains his studio is in some doubt whether the said janitor is a cynic or something of an art critic, or both. “One day while doing a bit of repair work in the studio,” says the painter, “Mike scrutinized a bit of my work with ominous solemnity. When I indi- eated a portrait of myself the blow fell. Said I: “The paint on this is badly cracked, which spoils the likeness.’ “With no more expression in his countenance than is to be seen in the face of a representative of Buddha Mike replied: “ ‘Not at all, sir.’” Training Canaries. In the canary breeding establish- ments of Germany only the male birds are valued, because the females never sing. The method of training the birds to sing is to put them in a room where there is an automatic whistle, which they all strive to imitate. The breeder listens to the efforts of the birds and picks out the most apt pupils, which are then placed in another room for further instruction. These are the best singers and ultimately fetch high prices. Lived Up to His Belief. Hob}—No, madam, I am neither a Socialist nor an anarchist. I am a pas- sive altruist. Housekeeper—And what in the name of common sense is that? Hobo—I believe in being helped all ] can.—Boston Transcript. Cautious. Prospective Best Man—Got the mar- riage license yet? Prospective Bride- groom—No; I’m not going to get that until the last thing. She may go back on me.—Chicago Tribune. The Modern Husband. Mrs. Knicker—We are to have a thou- sand foot skyscraper. Mrs. Bocker—I Suppose that means that Henry will be detained at the office 500 feet later. — Harper’s Weekly. Jaded. The Lady—Little boy, don’t you know smoking will shorten your life? The Kid—Shucks! Wot do I care? Lve seen everyting dere is—Boston Trar- eler. What maintains one vice would bring up two children.— Benjamin | Two Pretty Show Windows. Two show windows that are at- tracting considerable attention in thee ity are the windows of the Sloan Clothing Company and Ramsey-Bowles Company. The window of the Sloan Cloth- ing Company is very tastefully decorated with Xmas decorations, the back ground being paper with a beautiful design of holy on it. In the center of the window is a large Xmas bell, while on each side of the bell is two small ones, in which an electric light globe is suspended, This makes a beautiful effect, and the young gentlemen, Messrs. KE, A. Simon and W. H. Tomlin, who dressed the window were certainly on to the job. The window of the Ramsey- Bowles Company is very beauti- ful, and appeals to the female population of our city very strong. It is full of beautiful goods, and every one that passes cannot help admiring the beautiful and tasty plan in which it is decorated. —_++2 >» ____- Most disfiguring skin eruptions, scrofula, pimples, rashes, etc., are due to impure blood. Burdock Blood Bitters is a cleansing tonic. Makes you clear-eyed, clear-brained, clear skinned. remem in RE Bnei Stops earache in two minutes; toothache or pain of burn or scald in five minutes; hoarseness, one hour; muscleache, two hours; sore throat, twelve hours—Dr. Tiolmas Eclectric Oil, monarch over pain. —_—+_?~+4>-o—__—- Finance Committee to Meet, The finanee committee of Ire- dell county, composed of the fol- lowing named gentlemen, Messrs. J.C. Steele, of Mooresville, E. A. Smith of North Iredell, and Dr. L, Uarrill of this city, will} meet at the court house tomorrow on their regular routine of busi- ness. —_++@>--——____. If you haven’t the time to exercise regularly, Doan’s Regulets will pre- vent constipation. They induce a mild, easy, healthful action of the bowels without griping. Ask your druggists for them. 25c. —___++2>-—_____ COTTON MARKET. Local Market. Prices paid at wagon: Strict Good middling........ 8% Good widdlnie oo 2k a 8% RICHER Ae oe 81416854 Stains and Tinges........ 75 oS. See ae The market was quiet. ———_++@>-2—____ A Healthy Family. “Our whole family has enjoyed rood health since we began using Dr. King’s New Life Pills, three years ago,’’ says L. A. Bartlet, of Rural Route 1, Guilford Maine. They cleanse and tone the system in a gentle way that does you good 25e. at Statesville Drug Co. _——__<~@>o——__—_——_ Farmers’ Union Meeting. I hereby call a meeting of thef- Iredell county Farmers’ Union to meet in Statesville Saturday, December 19th, at 11 o’cloek a. m. Each local is expected to send a full delegation as this is an annual meeting. Officers will be elected for the next year, and as the delegates will make a full re- port from the state meeting.|* We hope all the members as well as the delegates will attend this meet ng. It will be of great in- terest to all. Very Respectfully, W. B. GIBSON, Pres. Iredell County F. U. Loray, N. C., Dee. 7, 08 ————++@>--—___—_ Would Mortgage The Farm. A farmer on Rural Route No. 2, Empire, Ga, W. A. Mloyd by name, says: ““Bueklen’s Arnica Salve cured the two worst sores I ever saw; one on my hand and one on my leg. It is worth more than its weight in gold. I would not be without it if I had to mort- gage the farm to get it.’? Only 20e. at Statesville Drug Co.’s Statesville’s model hostesses. store. —_——<+<+oee—_— John Crumberger, of Mexico, is given credit for printing the first book in America in 1529, WHY SUFFER? ee Breathe Hyomei and Kill the Loathsome Catarrh Germs, Just as long as you have catarrh your nose will itch, your breatb will be foul, and you hawk and spit, and you will do other dis- gusting things because you can’t help yourself. The germs of ca- tarrh have got you in their power; they are continually and persist- ently digging i nto and irritating the mucous membrane of your nose and throat. They are now making your life miserable; in time they will sap your entire system of it senergy, its strength, its serength, its vigor and vitality. But there is one remedy that will kill the germs and cure-ca- tarrh, and that is Hyomei, the Aus- tralian dry air treatment. The Statesville Drug Oo., the druggists, will guarantee Hyomei to cure catarrh, or money back. Don’t delay this pleasant antisep- tie treatment. Breathe in Hyomei and kil lthe germs. The Statesville Drug Co, will sell you a complete Hyomei outfit, including inhaler, for only $1,00. It is also guaranteed to cure bron- chitis, asthma, coughs, colds, hay fever and croup. — Writing Paper For Christmas. Tf there ever was a delecate atten- tion in the way of a Christmas pres- ent, it isa box of that remarkably fine writing paper at Hall’s Drug Store. Every time thé recipient, whether wife, sister, daughter or sweetheart, opens the box, she is going to re- member you, and naturally she will write some of her letters to you upon the paper. See our stock. W. F. HALL, Prescriptionist. _ time 5 cents a line. 3 times........ ee 4 cents a line. 6 times............... ..o% cents a line. 26 times...... .......... 3 cents a line. WANTED—Three Nice men for boarders. Apply to 513 Tradd street. dec4 6t FOR SALE—A Well Established grocery and restaurant business. Address XXX care Mascot 6t FOR SALE—Best Grocery stand in city, doing good business. Reasons for selling. If you want a bargain answer at once. Address Grocer, care Mascot. dec 3 tf LAST WEEK—Every body gets 24 Protos this week for 20 cts. Over Knox, & Poston’s store. Saturday December 12th our last day in the city. Reno Pho- to Oo. dec8 2t PHOTOS—Penny Photos a spec- ialty—therefore you get the very best—24 for 25c. Over Knox & Poston’s store. FOR RENT—ONE STORE BUILLD- ing and basement. Best retail] stand in the city. Statesville Real- ty and Investment Co. Sept.19 AMBITIOUS YOUNG MEN AND ladies should learn telegraphy; for, since the now 8 hour law became effective there is a shortage of many thousand telegraphers. Po- sitions pay from $50 to $70 a month to beginners. The National Telegraph institute of Columbia, S. C., and five other cities is oper- ated under supervision of R. R. officials and all students are placed when qualified. Write them for particulars. nol9 dtf LAST CHANCE—24 Photos for 20c this week to everybody. Saturday, Dec. 12th the last day in city—come now. Over Knox & Poston’s store. Reno — 96 See Te EY NE TN NE a are NRE Pre, i Pay ea en ee ¥ 7 jeweled grades. and they must go. Solid Gold Lockets SD N Y oa = Ke e <= ! Guaranteed. ‘ e r §$ 9.00 3 $10 Gold Pieces for $9. zt = hri ds f 2 y) t it means when you buy your Christmas goods from g me gk ES ce stock and must cut it down by January Ist, 3 and will give you bargains in anything in my line. Will make the gy prices suit the BUYERS PURSE. Any on e wanting a high-grade + ‘Watch Movement can now get it cheap. I ‘have these in the Rock- Sc ford, South Bend, Illinois, Hamilton, Elgin and Waltham, in 15 and 17 "These will be put into whatever kind of a case you may want. I have too many 15 and 17 jeweled movements or hand I have Solid Gold Rings from $1 OO up. Solid Gold Cuff Buttons 1°75 “ Solid Gold Hearts for Neck Chains All other Gold Goods too numerous to mention at right prices. In Gold Filled Goods, such as Gold Filled Neckchains, Gold Filled Lockets, Gents’ and Ladies’ Gold Filled Woven Wire and Silk Watch Fobs,Ladies Gold Filled Cuff Pins, Veil Pins, Hat Pins Bar Pins, Stick Pins, Belt Pins, Brooches, etc., from the lowest prices and up. Large lot of Bracelets at right prices. Nice line of Silverware and Novelties, such as Toilet Sets, Manicure Sets, Mili- tary Brushes, Clothes Brushes, Shaving Brushes, Hat and Bonnet Brushes, alljin sterling or best grade Quadruple Plate. Nice line of Ladies’ Gold Filled Handle Umbrellas from $3 50 to $7 50. You can get a bargain in Cut Glass, Japanese China esis ete., Aad Statu- ary, as these must go. In Silverware I have acomplete%lineXof Knives and Forks, Tea and Table Spoons, Butter Knives, Sugar Shells, Pie and Tomato Servers, cold meat and other Forks, Berry Spoons. Soup Sets, Soup Ladles, Carving Sets, Childs’ Sets, individual Salt Sets, Cut Glass Sterling Top Salt and Pepper Sets. Nice line of Parlor and Gold Plate Clocks, Kitchen and Alarm Clocks. No difference what you want in the Jewelry line, I will save you money. Come and see for yourself. Solid Gold Stick Pins from $1 OO up. Solid Gold Brooches 125 “ 400“ = Sold Gold Neck Chaius 300 “ 125 “ PO N T O O N TO T O ON T O N TE N T ON T O N I O N I O N I O N >> sa , PE D O DP P DD N R. F. Henry # Jeweler and Optician NNN INN Hotel Iredell Building. surpassing re ox : Ce ees coeneu99aneat°a01 aca Pan cent an orn ahaha 0a" ah aBea°c att st)°=9 eae Rete Oey Hecslense sees dleneisceen dca Ohe Christmas Line At the Store of Quality entire line. show such an elegant Line of goods to you even if you don t want to buy. ome==be eonvineed e x i : Oy OS 5 “We invite you to come and fet us show you the OS = oy ie : RELL E STR AG SOL PRE Oe eS Otis a pleasure to be able to Q fine of Quality anything ever shown in Statesville. Statesville Brug Co. : Prescriptionists. CS RR S CS SS CR S SS SS S SS SS S SS CS CS SS CR TS How to Prevent Pneu- monia In every paper you pick up you will see where some good man has just died with this fearful disease—pneu- monia. Now we will give you One Hundred Dollars for any case of pneumonia you have in your family it fails to cure if you will use Goose Grease Liniment as directed. It only costs you 25 cents a bottle. Get it— you have nothing to loose and all to gain. We know there are thousands who will read this and throw it aside and 1n a few days will be down with the disease. Please just get one bottle and putit away until you need it. If you SSeS the money to buy it let us know and we will send you a bot- tle free. GOOSE GREASE CO. NOTICE Chas. Brincefield will ap- ply tor a pardon Dec. 18, + ee Wood Sawed! See R. O. Harbin or Phone 132 or 46. 11-4-1m. FOR SALE—A good combination hound For particulars ad- Photo Co. dec8 2t dress Box 204, deed 3t Sweaee - - [For rrrcorPonr | sogeeeeeoccsooccocccoccses $53.00 SHOES!s We're calling attention today to our line of Men’s Three Dollar Shoes. Whatever price we name for a shoe, we inteud that the Shoe will be the vest, that thesame amount of money can buy anywhere. We’ve never seen our $3.00 Shoes equalled for the money. We’ve a treat in store for the Three Dol- lar Shoe wearer. ALL THE NEWEST STYLES Vici-Kid, Pat.-Kid, Gun Metal Calf, Box Calf, ete. Extreme styles or conservative shapes. IT WILL PAY YOU to SEE OUR LINE OF SHOES before you buy. eS ig S. B. MILLER 28 THE SHOE MAN. 0000000 COC COSCO CCC OOOO 00 0 0 0 0 6 ©0 0 0 0 Cc e c e v o c e c c c o e s e yteez SeSCSeSceeceece SEKE3; ce & . y *WE IRON SHIRTS BY STEAM: AR NY : A Note: bythe old Roller Rubbing w 4) method but in Straight Paes- Ww Ld sure Machine which gives beauti- w A demestic finish and makes the wy a Shirts last longermaae v \ Statesville Steam Laundry v ® U.C. Harwell, Prop. Phone [22 . Seeeecceececceececcecceee’ NA N T O N TO N T O N T O N T O N I O N I O N I O N ’ sign A/ for Mr from prese for t white tailin of th coun Judg Did wife are wife time dren, eitize ing fj him. Th that citizd neve iness Th John he h ber q time Th mem gent Ss Be from burn pub rece ma lishe that save give ent, We take To ce of y pord wer say evel Save livig etc. suitZ was roo ' we The anc disl ete de. saf losg of bef mo wi L. S eré ou $5 to th Vol. 1. ‘THE EVENIN Mascot. Statesville, N. C., Wednesday Evening, December 9, 1908. No. 375 Dick Johnson lets a Pardon GON ROADS FOR RETAILING. Governor Glenn ISsues a Condi: tional Pardon to Dick Johnson, White, Who is on the County for 12 Months. ~ —— Mr. Zeb V. Long has returned from Raleigh, where he went to present a petition to Gov. Glenn ‘or tae pardon of Dick Johuson, white» who was convicted of re- tailing in the May term of court of this year, and sentenced to the county roads for 12 months by Judge Council. Dick is a married man and his wife and several small children are dependent upon him. His wife who has been sick for some time is unable to support the chil- dren, and winter being near, the citizens signed the patition, ask- ing for a conditional pardon for him. The conditions of the pardon are that he will become a law abiding citizen, support his family and never engage in the whiskey bus- iness again. The evidence in the trial of Johnson in the courts showed that he had been retailing for a num- ber of years, but this was the first time he had been eaught up with. The application for pardon was signed by the judge, solicitor, members of the bar and prominent gentlemen of the city. —— 4+ oe Statement From Guss Brown. Below we publish a statement from Gus Brown, whose house was burned yesterday. He asks us to publish this as a correction. We received the information from a man who was at the fire, and pub- lished it as we got it. We stated that most all his furnitur was saved, which was the statement given us by a colored man pres- ent» a good friend of Brown’s. We are glad to correet our mis- take, so here it goes: To The Mascot: “I notice in yesterday’s issue of your paper that the greater portion of my househcld goods were saved frm the fire I beg to say this is not the case. Most everything in our front room was saved, but not a thing out of our living room was saved. Beds, ete. all our clothing except one suit which was in the front room was burned. Everything in this room was burned and the most we had was in our living room. The stove was saved but broken and will be of mo more use, all dishes, cooking utensils» rashions ete., ete., in the kitchen was burn- de. Nothing but cupboard and safe saved from kitchen Total loss not less than $170 and part of this furniture I owe for. GUS BROWN. —_++oro Hunting Without Permit. Hub MclLelland, colored» was before Justice W W. Turner this morning charged with hunting without permit on the lands of R. L. Cash. It seems that Hub had been hunting on the lands of M. Cash prior to this, and was ordered not to do so any more. A few days ago he was discov- ered hunting on the lands again, and Mr. Cash immediately swore out a warrant against him. Mr. Turner imposed a fine of $5.00 and eost, it all amounting to $8.10, which has not. yet been paid If not paid at an early date Hub will have to do the stunt on the county roads for 30 days. Calls “Teddy” a Big Liar “WHO GOT THE MONEY?” Demands That CongreSs Makes a Complete Investigation of the Canal and of Cromwell’s Rela- tion With The Fretch Com- pally, _— New York, Dee. York World, to which Delavan Smith, referred in his reply to President Roosevelt’s attack upon him as authority for the article of the Panama canal, which appear- ed in his paper and ealled forth the president’s letter, says today: “In view o2 President Roose- velt’s deliberate misstatements of the fact in his scandalous personal aitack upon Delavan Emith, ¢di- tor of the Indianapolis News, the World calls upon the congress of the United States to make imme- diately a full and impartial inves- tigation of the entire Panama ea- nal scandal.”’ The World adds: “‘The natural query of the In- danapolis News as to ‘who got the money?’ was based on the World’s summary of M. Crom- well’s connection with the Panama canal. The inquiry was original- ly the World’s and the World ac- cepts Mr Roosevelt’s challenge. {f congress can have all the doe- uments in the ease, as Mr. Roose- velt says: let congress make a com- plete invetigation of the Panama canal affair and in particular of William Nelson Cromwell’s. rela- tion with the French company, with Panama and with the govern- ment of the United States. Let congress officially answer this question: ‘‘Who got the money ?”’ The World concludes: “‘The fact that Theodore Roose- velt as President of the United States issues a public statement about such an important matter, full of flagrant untruths, reeking with misstatements, challenging line by line the testimony of his assoeciate Cromwell and the office record, makes it imperative that full publicity come at once through authority and by the ac- tion of congress.”’ —____ are —— Woman Shoots at Robber. Salisbury, N C., Dee. 8—A burglar, who attempted to rob the residence of Mrs. J. K. Link, of this city» last night, received a welcome in the shape of two pistol shots. He had climbed a treeandleap- ed into a second-story window f Mrs. Link’s home, in his attemp? to rob the house. Two shots were fired at the robber as he fled and made good his escape. Hearing“ the report of Mrs. Link’s revolver, Mrs. J. M. Haupin, a neighbor, rushed to the scene with pistol in hand and frei twice at the fee- ing burglar. Th officers are with- a clue to the guilty party. ——_++@o—__—_ Mrs. Bessie Mason of Mont- gomery, Ala., is visiting her par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Ander- son on Broad street. Her hus- band will join her here in a few days and they will spend the holi- days in the city. ——_++or-o— Mothers’ Joy is made of pure goose grease and other healing ingredients. Mothers you cannot afford to be without a box of Moth ers’ Joy. DE Mr. J. F. Misinheimer the St. Charles proprietor, is in Concord on business. 8.—The New Last Message - lor Mr. Teddy MESSAGE WAS ILLUSTRATED In His Last Regular Message to the National Congrezs the Pres- ‘ident Emphasizes the Import- ance of the Nation’s Resources Especially the Forests—Wants Larger Navy—Urges Income and Inheritance Taxes—Wants Hepburn Lew Enforced. Washington» Dec. 8.—Congress was given an object lesson today. President Roosevelt was the peda- gog, and the subject was defores- tation. Jn his annual message the president drove home his econser- vation policy by means of half- tone reproductions of photgraphs showing the shocking results of timber waste in northern China and eastern Asia all taken by a special agent of the Agricultural Department. This was the second time an illustrated President’s message has been sent to congress. The former oceasion was after the President’s notable trip to Pana- ma. The message was explicit. Ade- quate measures were urged for the proper care of the forests of the country, for the improvement of rivers and harbors and for the con. servation of natural resourees generally. Large appropriations are asked for carrying on the work of the Conservation Commission, which reeeives a full measure of praise for the great amount of work it has accomplished in mak- ing an inventory.of the nation’s resources. “The Applachian-White Mun- tain Forest reserve, inland water- ways improvement and the inau- guration of effective Fedral con- trol of the waterways of the coun- try are advocated. But conservation does not take up all the message. As was to have been expected and in line with the policy of the administra- tion increased naval strength is urged. Among the other matters touch- ed upon in the message are the following: Amendment of the Sherman anti-trust act. Extension of the powers of the Interstate Commission in the mat- ter of controlling rates. Liberal appropriation for the continued enforcement of the uni- form railroad accounting provi- sions of the Hepburn act. Passage of the government em- ployers’ liability act. Campaign fund publicity. Child labor bill. Ineome and inheritance tax. District of Columbia sora = government, Cruise of the battleship fleet. Changes in the organization of the Navy Department. —__—_.<+2+o—__— Stockholders Meet Tonight. Mr. C. S Holland who is getting up the stock for a new grocery and feed store and a cafe and pool rooms announces that he has se- eured $6-000 subscription on his stock, and will tonight hold a meeting of the stock holders in the basement of the Gem theater, at 8:30 o’clock At this meeting the officers and general managers of the concern will be eleted, and other business transacted. It is the purpose of this con- cern to put up a first class gro- eery store, and handle feed stuffs in connection. Besides this they will have a new and up to date \pool room, all in connection. Smith Case Is Concluded RED HOPKINS UNDER BOND. Murder Trial Resumed at the Court House Today at Request of Attorneys—Judge Badger Said He Didn’t Like to go Back After Indignity Offered His Court, But Would do So to Ac- commodate the Attorneys—Ed. Hauling Man Out to Quarry. ee ' Raliegh, Dec. 8 —The unravell- ing of the Smith murder mystery was concluded today at 12:50 o’clock and Cotton and Holder- field must reside in jail until sup. erior court convenes January. ‘Upon the conclusion ofthe state’s evidence Solicitor Armis- tead Jones arose and asked the court to hold the two defendants without bail. Mr. Walter Wat- son argued briefly that the ac- count of the corpus delicti not being proven. His bonor’s jud- gment was that probable cause had been shown and the defend- ants were bound over to the sup- erior court without bail. The sensational disclosures of the day were mace by EJ. Chay- is and Winslow Kelly. The for- mer told of the trip to the rock quarry, and the latter testified that Red Hopkins came into his restaurant and got a bottle, the contents of which was proven to be chloroform, and that when he returned he asked Kelly, ‘‘If any- thing goes bad tonight, for God’s sake keep quiet about this or its all -Kitty barred’ with nie’. It isrumored that - Red Hopkins has “gone back,, on his statement to the police and for this :eason he was notused fora witness. Heisheld under $10, 000 bond as a witness. —_——*<+ >> ———_—_ To Give a Doll Away. The something that will appeal to all the little girls of the city. In their large window they have a doll that is as large as a real baby Lawrence Brothers have a that they are going to give away to the girl holding the lucky ticket. To each person that buys a dol- lars worth of goods they will give a coupon with a number on it, they retaining a stub with du- plicate of that number on it. They will also give to every little girl who visits their store the same kind of a coupon whether she buys anything or not. On the afternoon of December the 23, those duplicate numbers held by the store will be placed in a hat and some person not inter- ested in the matter will draw the numbers out, the last number be- ing the lucky number that gets the doll. Every afternoon at 3 0’clock a present of some description will be given away to the children. This promises tobe a good chance for some little girl to get her a nice doll for Christmas. The Statesville Drug Company is also going to give a beautiful doll on the same plan, and no doubt some little girl will be hap- py on Christmas with the pretty doll. a A Healthy Family. ‘‘Our whole family has enjoyed good health since we began using Dr. King’s New Life. Pills, three years ago,’’ says L. A. Bartlet, of Rural Route 1, Guilford. Maine. They cleanse and tone the system in a gentle way that does you good 25e. at Statesville Drug Co.) LOCAL BRIEFS. —— Read M. P. Alexander’s new ad -n today’s issue. Do not fail to read the new ad- vertisements in this paper today. Th old Robbins house opposite the St. Charles hotel is being re- covered today. The infant daughter of Mr. P. A. Jones is very ill and is threat- en with pneumonia. The balconies in front of the Motel Iredell building are receiv- ing a frsh coat of paint today. Robert, the young son of Mr. J. {. Wilson, who has been very sick with fever is much improved. Two horses, wagon, harness and four cows were sold at public auction on the streets this after- noon. Mr. Charley Cook, of Amity, was brought to Long’s sanatorium this week, where he underwent an operation for appendicitis. If you will read the large ad of C. L. Murdock, in this issue you may find something that will in- terest you in the way of bargains. Mr, M. W. Johnson the barber has secured the services of Mr. R. B. Crowder of Winston, an up-to- 4 date barber and he went to work this morning. Mr. Johnson will install a shower bath and make other improvements in his shop week, The watering trough in front of the court house is being repaired today. A new hydrant is being installed in place of the old one. The old hydrant became useless and the one being installed is of the latest and most improved type. Mark a Bill of Money, and buy your Christmas jewelry from R. F, Henry with it, and you will see or own this bill several times before next Christmas. Mark a bill and send to a mail order house and Ill wager a V that you will never see it again. a Sheriff Deaton asks The Mascot to make the anonucement that he has installed a phone in his office at the court house, and that all persons having business with him over the phone, will please take notice and eall for the sheriff’s office instead of the court house. ———_ ++ Another Secret Marriage. Mr. Stamey Sloan, son of Mrs. BE. L. Sloan und Miss Daisy Shoe- maker, the accomplished daughter ef Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Shoemat:- er, both of North Iredell, were married near Evalin on Novem- ber 11, Rev. J. P. Gwaltney off eiating. These young people are very popular in their neighkborhoo:1 The young man Sloan is related to the Sloans of this city, and this announcement will be a surpris¢ to them all. Why the young couple wantad tv keep this a secret is not known as there was no objection to tie marriage, but they have kept it a secret s far, both living at the homes of their parents. The young couple have the best wishes of their large host of triends ip the county. ——__++1> Gen, Armfield Boosted. The many friends of Brigadier General Armfield of this city will be glad to learn that his friends cf this and adjoining cities are press- ing him to run for the position of adjutant general of the _ state troops. Gen. Armfield is an officer of fine standing and ability, having climbed from the bottom to the top in a short number of years. During Ayeock’s administration about four years ago he was made brigadier general his former rank having been that of colonel. — Death of Wr Moses HH. Cone END COMES IN BALTIMORE. Well-Known Greensboro Busines’ Man and One of South’s Indus: trial Leaders, Died Suddenly in Johis Hopkins Hospital, Balti- more Yesterday Afternoon—Be- gan His Career as Dry Goods Clerk and Rose Rapidly. Greensboro, Dec. 8.— Moses H. Cone, Known throughout the commercial world as a leader in the industria, {development of the south, died suddenly this af- ternoon at 5 o’clock atJohn Hopkins Hospital, in Baltimore, where he had gone for treatment five weeks ago. Hehad been in bad health since hisreturn from a trip around the world over a year ago, but few of the most in- timate friends suspected that his condition was serious. News of his death came as a great shock to people of Greensboro, fe w of whom even knew that he had gone to ahospitalfor treatment. Thefuneral arrangments havenot been made, though it is probable that Mr. Cone will be buried on his maguificent estate, Flat Top Manor, near Blowing Rock, The members of the family in Greens- boro left tonight for Baltimore. Mr. Cone was 51 years old, having beep born in Jonesboro, Tenn., in 1857. After leaving school he began his business car- eeras a clerk in the dry good house of Guggenheimer & Co., in Lynchburg, Ya. Later he went to Baltimore and was employed by his father in a wholesale groc- ery business, and after a term of service became a junior partner in the firm of H. Cone & Son. He was one of the most active trav- eling representatives of the firm and spent much of his time in North Carolina, making many fast and true friends among the business men of this State. There are many merchants in North Carolina today who bough goods of Moses Cone a quarter of a cen- tury ago and recall with pleasure their dealings with the enterpris- ing young salesman. ) Mr. Cone was married in 1888 to Miss Bertha M. Lindau, of Baltimore who survives him. There are no children. He was the eldest of feleven children, his brother and sister being: Messrs, Ceaser, Sol N. Julius W. and Be. nard M. Cone, of Greensboro; Clarence N. Cone, of Baltimore, and Fred W. Cone, of Asheville; Mrs. M.-D. Long of Asheville, Dr. Clara Belle Cone and Miss Etta Cone, of Baltimore. +++ Freight Wreck at Newton. A freight train engine on the Southern Railroad, was upturned at Newton this morning, and has not yet been put on the track. The west bound train No. 11 and east bound train No, 22 eould |not pass, so the passengers were transferred No. 11 returning tc Salibury and No. 22 to Asheville. No. 22 did not arrive here until about 3 o’clock. S A passenger on No. 22 stated that the track .would hardly be clear on time for Nos 12 and 35 to pass tonight. -Mothers how ean you take chances—keep a bottle of Moth- ers joy in your house. You need Mothers Joy every day. ——-(@p Messrs. Paul and .Thomas Sikes and N. H. — = Fayetteville are in the city. & ahem ae eo es - - ~ = 7 ee emcee tates ate CN Cet (et ee as THE EVENING MASCOT DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. ffice 109 Coart Street. Telephone 53- VANCE NORWOOD - _ Publisher. --=~JRALPH SLOAN, - - City Editor, » ~ Sabscription Price, - $4.00 a Year abscription Price, = 10 Cents a Week EE #ntered at the Postoffice in Statesville . &°C., a8 second-class mail matter. > +99 « Weather Forecasts. Washington, D. C., Dee 9—For North Carolina fair tonight and Thursday Heay frost near the coast tonight. Slowly rising tem- perature in western portion to- night. —_++oro—— - FQ. OUR SUBSCRIBERS. ee It is now near the end of the year when we look forward to the 7 e pleasure of sceing our friends come in with some cash. This has been a hard year on us and we are in need of every dime that is due. To-our subscribers that have stood by us we are grateful and we would not even say anything about money if it were possible to live- without it. We are trying to run a newspaper at the least possi- ble cost to our subseribers with no expectation of returns but a liv- ing for ourselves and children» de- pending upon us, therefore, we hope each of our subscribers will either come in or send us the amount due for the paper. And as is well known the post office de- partment have made a ruling that all subscribers that are more than three months in arrears, shall be disoentinued and if not by the ed- itor will be done by the postmas- ter in the town where the paper is mailed. We have thought that this rul- ing should never have been made -but as the United States govern- ment is greater than we are we are helpless. So we hope all our friends will beat the postoffice officials to our books and at the same time time bring joy and _ gladness to the heart of the editor and his house- hold. ——__~ a New Sterling Items. Mr. E. D. Pressley returned from Marion, Va.., last Friday af- ter sp2nding a week with his wife at her father’s. Mr. Linden Pope and family have moved to Mr. J. Allem Stev- enson’s place, known as the J. F. McLain place. Mr. C. A. Brady will move about January Ist to Mr. E. D. Brady’s old home place, where Mr. Jno. Witherspoon now lives. Mr. Witherspoon is still in Virginia building a house and will move his family there early in the new year. Mr..Fress Johnson has moved his family to .\lexander county: some nine miles above Taylors- ville and will work at the harness trade next year. Rev. J..Meek White and family went to Troutman’s Saturday and returned after service at Perth on Sunday afternoon. Mr. White taught school for Mr. Watt Summers Monday and Tuesday. Mr. H. G. Morrison’s family surprised iim with a birthday «dimner jast Friday. The follow- fng relatives and friends were eresent: Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Moore, Mrs. J. C. McNeely, Mrs. Reece, Clarence Reece and wife, Mr and Mrs.-J. C. Blankenship and Rey. J. Meek White and family. The dimer was splendid and greatly enjoyed by all pres- ent. Devotional services were eondueted by the pastor after din- ner. Mr. Morrison is now 47 gears of age. oe ee Miss Adie Moore spent last Thursday at New Sterling manse. With best wishes to The Mascot and its readers we close for this time. ALPHA. ‘ <@>> Stops earache in two minutes; “toothache or pain of burn ‘or‘scald >» fa five minutes; hoarseness, one. hour; muscieache, two hours; sore throat, twelve hours—Dr. Tltmas ficlectric Oil, monarch over pain. hy THE OLD CIRCUS POSTER. Pretentious Language With Which the » 5 Show Was Described. .. The grandiloquent extravagance of language of the old time circus poster is illustrated by this reproduction, which is given verbatim: “There will be presented a respleD- dent series of sublime, moral, interest- ing, instructive, amusing and wonder- fal scenes: which would appear entirely too fabulous if expressed in an adver- tisement. They must be seen to be duly appreciated. These great displays will unfold in all the loveliness and beauty of enchantment, carrying the minds of the bewildered or spellbound spectators off on the gentle. wings of the imagination to such pageantry as they might dream of after reading a few pages of ‘Arabian Nights’ Enter- tainments.’- Words are really wanting to give ‘adequate expression. Web- ster’s unabridged fails most signally in language to fully portray a semblance of the reality. Zoonomy may be learn- ed at this great college in a single evening. Here the visitor will see splendid specimens of the zygodacty- lous race that Hve upon the earth or float and poise upon the wings of gold and silver plume in the cerulean arch, and in reference to these the corps of superintendents in courtly dress will elucidate the peculiarities of each with guarded suaviloquence.” THE: TWO ROMEOS. Mrs. Siddons’ Opinion of David Garrick and Spranger Barry. David Garrick and Spranger Barry were both playing Romeo at the same time in London. Barry played it at Drury Lane on the Monday, and Gar- rick played it the next night at Covent Garden, and the town was divided as to which was the greater Romeo—in fact, there was quite a great excite- ment about it, and they acted it upon such different lines and with such mar- velously different conceptions that the people argued the case as to which Shakespeare intended. The fact is that Shakespeare intended it to be acted well, and if one man’s temperament suited it best to act in that way it would do for another temperament the other way. So they asked Mrs. Siddons, who was the Juliet alternately with the same Romeo, which she considered better of the two, and she said: “Tt is difficult to say. They are both wonderfully great, but I will tell you how they impress me in the balcony scene. In the balcony scene. Garrick seems so eager, so intense and so full of fire and spirit that I’m afraid he’ll jump up in the balcony to me, and Bar- ry is so lovable and fascinating that I’m afraid I shall have to jump down from the balcony to him.” The Relationship. “You say, madam,” said the bespec- tacled lawyer to the woman in the witness box, “that the defendant is a sort of relation of yours. Will you please explain what you mean by that —just how you are related to the de- fendant?” The witness beamed upon the court and replied: “Well, it’s just like this. His first wife’s cousin and my second husband’s first wife’s aunt married brothers named Jones, and they were cousins to my mother’s aunt. Then, again, his grandfather on his mother’s side and my grandfather on my mother’s side were second cousins, and his step- mother married my husband’s step- father after his father and my mother died, and his brother Joe and my hus- band’s brother Harry married twin sisters. I ain’t never figgered out just how close related we are, but I’ve al- ways looked on ‘im as a sort of cousin.” “Quite so,” answered the lawyer. “Your explanations are perfectly satis- factory.” Forgetful. An eminent painter was once asked if he thought art students did well to go to Europe to study. He said that undoubtedly the atmosphere was more artistic in Europe than anywhere else, but that Paris as a city to study and work in was overrated. : To ftilustrate his meaning he said that a certain rich-man’s son after, three years in Paris wrote home to his fa- ther: “Dear Father—I have made up my mind to set to work. Please let me know at your earliest convenience whether it was painting, architecture or music I came to Paris to study.” Humility. It is a curious fact of human nature that bumility draws forth from the world almost as much. admiration as courage. As in the case of courage, it is:-almost impossible wholly to con- demn‘a character in which we see it, and without it the greatest virtues leave us cold: If every good word which the Pharisee said of himself were proved true we should still dis- like him. We eren dislike his mod- ern and far less offensive descendant, the prig—London Spectator. A Straight Tip. Customer—Quick shave, please. Bar- ber—Close, sir? Customer—See here, what business is it of yours whether I’m close or not? PI tell you one thing, young man—I ‘don’t tip, if that’s what you want to know.—Puck. His Fears Realized. “My heart is in my mouth. I eam afraid to hear you answer.” “You may well be, Mr. Dollboy,” re- torted Ethel. “I never could marry a man‘ whose heart was not in the right place!’ If'a man is worth knowing at all he fs worth knowing well — Alexander Smith. i Doe ILLS IRS PANTS=4,000 — ad YL = A,000-PAIRS P FACTORY PRICE = DECEMBER 12thto the 2dth We have just closed a deal with a Southern Pants Factory, Taking over their entire stock of Pants at a great sacrifice, and will place the entire stock of 4.000 Pairs Pants on SALE SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12th, and continue to DECEMBER 24th, (12 days.) These goods must go regardless of price. We will have a man connected with the factory, with us during the sale, and we will say to the peopie of Statesville and surrounding country, that this will be the chance of a lifetime to buy Pants cheaper than they can be made today. These Pants are well-made and up-to- date in every respect, and we will guarantee satisfaction or money refunded. ow i) ‘4 SE & x 1, UQ @Q } SS + 3 or d ¢ o Q abin ~~ > 4 ll a— e [I D e we have = oe ee ee Sos oe Ver- } chandise, down to unheard of prices for this Special sale. e will close out our large line of DRESS GOODS, TOYS, XMAS GOODS, ETC., during this sale regardless of consequences--make or lose. We also will mark everything We Cannot Quote Prices on Everything, But Give You a Few Just to Show You What We Are Going to Do for Our Trade. Ranta DRESS GOODS. All $1.00 Dress Goods...........- 79¢ Ali = Dress Goods... ... 22 2---- 59c Ai 50ce Dress Goods... .. 2. =.= 39c Mens’, Ladies and Children’s at er reduced prices. atly o0 3 Trunks, Suit Cases, Telescopes. and = os —— SS Se orcas oe Handbags at unheard of prices. £ =< ess Sci ielle leisreieliel eileen Best Calicos, per yard..........--- 5c Vy PICTURES. Bleached and Unbleached Domestic 4¢ JUST TO GIVE ¥ OU AN st thee deed does GS Dictecs Grom ali SS IDEA AS TO PRICES | wt: ncaa : : to 98¢ that can’t be beat. Come and All Ginghams, per yard....... 4c to 8c i ao All Outing, per yard.......... 4c to 9c \ Co nee ij Chi eta able Sanen. oo ee 23c to 49c eee . Sas sree ae and Crockery Good Soucis. 2... 4c to 12 1-2c Stee aarkanle Prices. ae anything in Dry goods at cut $5.00 Panis go at $3.00 SPECIALTIES. a 7de to $1.00 Flannel Shirts........ 49¢ bs 7 fs : UNDERWEAR. 4.00 2.75] Work Shirts from........... 92¢ to 49¢ Heavy Knit Mens’ Fleece Lined Shirts ide Dress Goods.........-.2-- +055 48¢ £4 and Drawers. 39e. 3 00 = 66 2 00 Sc, Mattame. 6. 20c per yd. HATS AND CAPS. : ; Sample Carpets. ee ee 23¢ Regular 50¢ Caps to go at........-. 34¢ sé ‘6 Bosiemy Pom i ho 7 1-2c up Regular 25¢ Caps to go at........ 19c 2.50 }.75 A complete line of Enamel Ware Regular $2.50 Hats to go at...... $1.98 yy é< Knives and Forks, Pocket Knives and Regular 50¢ Hats to go at......... 39c 2.00 1 50 a thousand more like values too uum. We give you these prices to show what a x erous to mention. we can save you. We have a nice line of Toques, Shawls. Fascinators and Gloves at prices never heard of. _ Ladies’ Black Satteen Underskirts. 49. 1.50 1.25 .88 13 GROCERIES. 25 tb saks of Granulated sugar. .$144 The very best Roasted Coffce, price 12!2 Good Green Coffee( price per th...10¢ 66 66 to 98e worth 75¢ to $1.50 anywhere. I .00 . - .67 2 pounds of Soda, price.......----: 05 SHOES. Regular $1.00 Overalls.........-- 89¢ All our $4.00 Shoes to go at...... $3.25 Others at proportionately low prices All our $2.50 Shoes to go at....... 1.98 mone Toilet Paper, Roll and Sheets at....04 All ur $2.00 Shoes to go at........ 1.60 Good’ Reoth Picks 2... 04 All our $1.50 Shoes to go at....... 1.25 - A INT! I 1S The best bargains ce Gee a All our 1.25 Shoes to go at........ 1.15 Statesville on Suspenders. REMEMBER, this is new goods that we bought for the Fall Trade, and found that mon- ey matters were tight and trade dull, and with bills to meet, and they must be met, and in order to do so must sacrifice to do it, and we tell you and stand behind it, that you will get the best bargains that money can buy in this sale. Save your money a : ° n the 12th day of December, and see if you don’t. y and come on c. L muRoock THE T MM MILLS COMPANY e e MANAGER OF Besa Jac Fic Fac Dac ic Pa Pa Pa a Da DD 0300 0006 C008 SOEs ECEC OS ZORETS E206 2006 90>: 2008 § THE STATESVILLE LOAN AND TRUST “ 3 Of Statesville, N. C. Pa i i 90000000 0OC0CSOCOCEOROOCCNOS . These Handsome Dishes Given Away to My Customers : With each cash purchase of 5 cents or over I will give you a coupon that can be exchanged for these gifts. Se a =) ae IS PREPARED to transact all branches of baile Accounts are solicited from firms, corporations and intl uals, who may rely upon courteous consideration ® very best terms that are consistent with good b post methods. Four per cent. paid on time and savine® de “concennnsnn 40,000.00 CAPITAL STOCKER SHAREHOLDERS LIABILITY.....ccococeseeceseees* $40,000.00 SURPLUS ANP UNDIVMED PROFITS........---- $30,000.00 ToTaL RESOURCES OVEB......cccce+ee “eesuaenn $440,000.07 ae OFFICERS E. Steele, President, E. Morrisou, Vice-Pres, L. A. GOLDMAM : Purveyor to the People. and; Treasurer, C. E, HUGHEY, Assistant Secy. a0¢ TT" V. @. CULBRETH, Manager Savings Departmes! 03OO0 GOS SOOCOSHECEOOCOODERCOSD )}- @@e0se0er eos SS 20066 600765208 1819111 0803 8868 WE NEED YOU AS A SUBSCRIBER TO THE EVENING MASCOT. 10 CENT wee PP gi g HE OE IE P ev: M. Ausié p, M. Ans! 00 0 0 6 0 0 0 60 G 0 0 O 0 0 0 00 0 ©0 0 0 0 0 8 O 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 % CO O S D E OO BE D S OD E BO O S BO B U G PE O N FE O iN: EW STUDIO: High Grade Photo Penny Pictures, the best t : [ Cabinets, in folders, and out-door groups, § $ & g § 8 9 9 g 9 § S trying to please you. Rniisscousssccusecc ) SS. - SS =. W THE GREATEST vi Yeetececece at Christmas, or any other time, is good health This is insured by u eans of sanitary plumbing in your house. If youwonld present your family with a threefold blessing, cele- brate Christmas by ar- ranging with us for a complete system of mod- ern up-to-date plumbing from cellar to roof. 2 Maynard & Ellis, Professional Photographers, in N. B. Mills New $ Building, adjoining Stimson Drug Store, Statesville, N. C. 3 S at a Low Price. § soscasennsnn masa senusrennssveveneser tener sooner TT oe EO oo-eeamnenenecsercemnemna é F at can be made—24 for 25. ost Cards, per dozen, $1.25 Per half dozen "7 SC. ® dozen, $2.00. Half dozen $1.50. ; Pictures of your home, Post Card size, and up to8x10 inches, 8 a : is One of our specialties at a moder. ate price. Give us a trial and be convinced that we are e We are now ready to serve you. § nish Kodak Work. ; 3 =. ry ii i q a PY RCM SS S e e e h e c e c c e € Pd = —c oe p e e a e e a a d = rr a “0 = -»- Phore No. 61. &¢ . HP PE P E ht h th d Bi fh c i o c k e f g& BsSesesesescsssessssce LUMBIN PP EEPSEPEP PEP EE apapde deat THE SEEDING SEASON is again with us and have a car load of the celeprated Superior Grain Drills the best and lightest running drill made. examine them and get our priees—we know we can please. Also a Full Line of Hardware, Stoves, Etc. Evans Hardware Comp’y SPEEESESEPEPESEISESSE SSS SSE Show Down } G COMPANY 127 W. Broad St. ; y th e If in need of a drill Pe th th fh et h BB fo f fp a still a fact that for the goods of “quality.” In & sharpcontest nothing but “quality” and appearance figure. “RUTH MADE” Hosiery and the “WORLDS BEST” Black are the goods of Quality. After ali has been said, all your pursuasive argument exhausted, it is “QUALITY” IS THE ONLY TEST OF VALUE To get best results you must have the best of everything best yarn, best colors, best machines and best help, with such a combination you can produce the best of what you are making. We have all of the above. Ask your dealer THE BRADFORD KNITTING MIZL. with prompt service and obliging treatment, is of great benefit to the young business man. When & man has a Bank account itimplies cenfidence in himself ani others. By all means have a good checking bank behind you in business. You will find it both convenient and dig--:5 nified in transacting busi- - ness. = | x Merchants and Farmers’ Bank $ OF STATESVILLE INCORPORATED CAPITAL $25,000.00. OFFICERS: . T. STIMPSON, Pres.; C. S. TOMLIN, Vice-Pres.; F. B. UUNCHL See. & Treas.; J. A. KNOX, Asst. Sec. & Treas. Directors: . Sti , J. L. Stevenson, C. S. Tomlin, R. R. Reid, Ee ee S. Page, Geo. B. Nicholson, L. K. Lazen- by, E. G. Gaither, J. R. Hill, E. B. Watts. A Reliable Bank—=—» = idol LL) ta PAYING TEuss ig PRI Sa 1 Tit % Rall Ge he Y he WW i i + |i i : } Ke 7 A Ty ier : mee? 1) ia sy v WOMEN’S WOES. Statesville Women Are Finding Re- lief at Last. : Ii does seem that women have more than a fair share of the aches aad pains that afflict humanity; they must- “keep up,” must attend to duties in spite of constantly aching backs or headaches, dizzy spells, bearing-down pains; they must stoop over, when to stoop means torture. they must walk and bend and bend and work with racking pains and Many aches from kidney ills. Kidneys cause more suffering than any other organ of the body. Keep the kidneys well and health is easily maintained. Read of a remedy for kidneys only that helps and cures the kidneys and is endorsed by people you know. Mrs. M.L Moose, living at 209 Boulevard St., Statesville, N. C., Says: “For several years I was a vic- time of weak kidneys. I had a soreness across these organs most of the time and I generally felt weak. Dizzy spells and headaches were of frequent occurrence, and at night I was unable to obtain my proper rest. The kidney secretions were also un- natural in appearance, and showed that my kidneys were at fault. I used a@ number of remedies but Doan’s Kidney Pills, which I procur- ed at Hail’s drug store, benefited me more than any of the others. I sin- cerely hope that other sufferers will give Doan’s Kidney Pills a trial as I know they will act strictly up to their representations. ?? For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name and take no other. ———-+@o__—_ Death was on His Heels. Jesse P. Morris, of Skippers, Va., had a close eall in the spring of 1906. He says: ‘‘An attack of pneumonia left me so weak and with such a fearful cough that my friends declared consumption had me, and death was on my heels. Then I was persuaded to try Dr. King’s New Discovery. It helped me immediately, and after taking two and a half bottles J] was a well man again. I found out that New Discovery is the best remedy for coughs and lung dis- ease in all the world,’’ Sold under guaarantee at Statesville drug Co. store. 50c. and $1.00: Trial bottle free. ++ @ > ——__—_ Farmers’ Union Meeting.: I hereby call a meeting of the Iredell county Farmers’ Union to meet in Statesville Saturday, December 19th, at 11 o’clock a. m. Each local is expected to send a full delegation as this is an annual meeting. Officers will be elected for the next year, and as the delegates will make a full re- port from the state meeting. We hope all the members as well as the delegates will attend this meeting. It will be of great in- terest to all. Very Respectfully, W. B. GIBSON, Pres. Iredell County F. U. Loray, N. C., Dee. 7, 08 —_——__+ +>» —____ Where Bullets Flew. David Parker, of Fayette, N. J., a veteran of the civil war, who lost a foot at Gettysburg, says, ‘‘The good Electric Bitters have done is worth more than five hundred dollars to me. I spent much money doctoring for a bad ease of stomach trouble, to little purpose. I then tried Electric Bitters, and they cured me. I now take them as a tonic, and they keep me strong and well.”’ d0e. at Statesville Drug Co.’s store. 7 —~ «+e COTTON MARKET. Local Market. Prices paid at wagon: Strict good middling 8 5-8 to 8 3-4. Good: middbng <3. 52 8 1-2 Wading 55 se 3s 8 1-4 to 8 3-8 Stains and Tinge The market was quiet. —_———~~<e>-e—___— Most disfiguring skin eruptions, scrofula, pimples, rashes, etc., are due to impure blood. Burdock Blood Bitters is a cleansing tonic. Makes you clear-eyed, clear-brained, clear skinned. _——~~+o oe ——_ Itching piles provoke profanity, but profanity won’t cure them. Doan’s Ointment cures itching, bleeding protruding piles after years of suffering. At any drug store. Cause Your Wife to wear a smile of satis- faction by buying your Christmas Goods from M. P. Alexander & Bro. A complete Ene of Fresh Groceries for the Xmas Trade * *& We have a fresh stock of the fol- lowing Goods: Fancy Cranberries, Pineap- Fruit. Cake ingredients and everything else. Our Melrose Flour cannot be beat. * * If you want the best of Fresh Meats see us. M. P. Alexander & Bro., The up-to-date Grocery and Meat Men. =F o0D= OSITION Draughon gives contracts, backed by a chain of 30 Colleges, $300,000.00 capital, and 19 year’s success, to se- cure positions under reasonable con- ditions or refunnd tuition. Draughon’s ecm- BOOKKEEPIN petitors, by not accepting his pruposition, concede that he teaches more Bookkeeping in THREE months than they do in SIX. Draughon can convince YOU. 7 per cent. of § | 0 RTHA ND theUnited States Court Reporters write the system of Shorthand Draughon teaches, be- cause they know it is THE BEST. FOR FREE CATALOG and book- let, “Why Learn Telegraphy?”’ which explains all, call on or write JNO. F. DRAUGHON, President DRAUCHON’S PRACTICAL BUSINESS COLLEGE (We also Teach by Mail) Raleigh, Knoxville, Nashville, Cc lumbia or Washington, D.C. {SOUTHERN RAILWAY €0.| lireat Highway of Trade and Travel Through the Southern States Through Pullman Sleeping Cars on palatial trains between the principal Cities and Resorts of the South. High-class Dining Cars. Many delightfulSummer and Winter Resorts on and reached by Southern Railway. “The Land of the Sky,” “The Sapphire Country,” in scenic Western North Carolina; beau- tiful at all seasons. Hotels of the highest class. For detailed information apply to nearest Ticket Agent, or R. L. VDRNON, T. P. A., Charlotte, N. C. . §.H. HARDWICK, P.T.M., W.H. TAYLOE,G. P. A. The Cafe o ually I have a fresh line of CANDY in boxes, and FRUIT, for Xmas trade. .°. : : Fresh Oysters Every Day for retail trade and serving. Also QUAIL ON TOAST. IREDELL CAFE PHONE NO. 323 W. W. GAITHER : Proprietor. NOTICE Chas. Brincefield will ap- ply tor a pardon Dec. 18. Wood Sawed! See R. O. Harbin or Phone 132 or 46. 11-4-1m. ples, Nuts of all kind,/ Is Essential to the Up= building of the Modern Business Enterprise. ::: To the publicity gained by the use of the advertising columns of the daily papers is at- tributed the growth, and consequent success, of a very large percentage of great business enter- prises of the present day. Advertising is recognized as the prime’ fac- tor in increasing the sales of any class of goods or manufactured articles. The space used in this paper is your, busi- hess message to the public. In this open letter you should tell them of the merits of what you are offering, setting forth the reasons why your particular line is worthy of their attention. THE EVENING MASCOT has increased its local circulation very materially during the past three months and the results obtained from the space used by the advertisers are gratifying to them and to the paper. It reaches into the homes of the best class of our people and your message will be placed in the hands of those with money to buy the goods you wish to sell. The Space Rates in The Evening Mascot are not high. Your message is carried, each day, to those you wish to reach, in the most economical manner, For information call us up on the phone and a representative ot the paper will gladly visit you The Bening Mascot wire aS dc ae Mi r a e aT Ma Sa r a t sd we a r er a AT ET ee e a, Se S e S Se e s eC aS E TC O TT T eo eS e c e s a se c et b To eT aC e TS ! = SEVERAL THINGS Are to be considered in selecting your Bank ete ab 1ST. Strength-Financial Strength 2ND. The care with which the Bank is Managed. - SRD. The courtesy and spirit of of accomodation displayed by the Officers and™ Em- ployees. oe 4TH. The banking experience of Officers. aor STH. The ability of the bank to Properly and Promptly Handle all Your Business To Those Desiring the Embodi- ment of These Features are Offered The Service of THE HRT NATIONAL BANK OF STATESVILLE CAPITAL $100.000 0808087908 0808> 08066808085 60806560 lect Your Xmas'Goods ~~ We will put aside any goods selected. See our new line of . F Morris Chairs and Rockers. Also Fine Mahogany Tables, We will make Special Prices on? GOOK STOVES and RANGES, > : STATESVILLE HOUSEFURNISHING COM’PY 900809080808080 0OC8UB08.0808 0600S OR OB OSOROS DEO cin reo a Letter From Suptrintendent White The officers of the Woman’s Cotton Ginned to December 1. Washington, Dee. 8—The cen- WHY SUFFER? —_—_—— and Kill the Betterment Association will olfer prizes es follows: 1. Ten dollars will be paid the local association making the most improvement in the school house and grunds. 864 bales counting round as hall bales ginned from growth of 1995 to December 1, compared with 8,343,396 for 1907; 10,027,868 for 1906; $,689,663 f or 1905. The sus bureau reports shows 11,019.. Breathe Hyomei Loathsome Catarrh Germs. Just as long as you have eatarrh your nose will itch, your breatb will be foul, and you hawk and spit, and you will do other dis- 9. Five dollars to each of the next two local associations mak- ing the most improvement. 3. The teachcr, opinion of the officers of the coun- ty assocication, does most individ-| pared with 154,636 for 1907 ; ual work, beautifying her school house and grounds through the lo- eal association will have her rail- road fare paid to the next state|695 for 1905. teacher’s In order to compete for these organization, through its president or secretary, ginneries, by states, are prizes the assembly. loeal who. in the}382.8 for 1905. cluded this year are 200,818, ¢om- 997..|the mucous Round bales ginners this year is 26,922. The bales ginned must report the date of it organi-| lows: zation to the county superinten- ~ dent of schools, and such local or-| ginneries. ganization shall have the teachers of said school to file with the coun-| ginneries. ty superintendent at close of said school term an accurate itimized | neries. - aceount of everything done dur- " ing the school term. The president of the county as- Georgia, 1,796,737 bales; 42 ginneries. Kansas, Kentucky sociation, the county superinten-| Mexico, 1,374 bales; 5 ginneries. proposition of the last three crops ginned to December 1 is 75.5 per| 3¢ cent. for 1907; 77.2 for 1906 and tarrh have got you im their power; in- 145 for 1906 and 230,770 for 190d.) nose and throat. They are now Sea Island 68-497 for 1908; 55,299 making your life miserable; in for 1907; 41,250 for 1906 and 81, time they will sap your entire ? Soe ? Number of active (counting round as half bales) and active as fol- Alabama, 1,171,404 bales; 3,423 Florida, 58,677 bales; 251 gin-| tic treatment. an ad N ew gusting things because you can't elp yourself. The germs of ¢a- thev are continually and persist- ently digging i nto and irritating membrane of your system of it senergy, its strength, its serength, its vigor and vitality. ut there is one remedy that will kill the germs and cure ¢a- tarrh, and that is Hyomei, the Aus- tralian dry air treatment. The Statesville Drug Co., the druggists, will guarantee Hyomei Arkansas’ 776,153 bales; 2,673 to eure catarrh, or money back. Don’t delay this pleasant antisep- Breathe in Hyomei and kil Ithe germs. 31| The Statesville Drug Co, will sell you a complete Hyomei outfit, including inhaler, for only $1,00. [It is also guaranteed to cure bron- D P S D P K P O N D N I N Y N Z $10 Gold Pieces for $9.00 me. e e e e and will give you bargains in anything in my line. prices suit the BUYERS E Watch Movement can now get it cheap. jeweled grades. may want. I have too many 1 and they must go. I have Solid Gold Rings from $1 OO up. Solid Gold Stick Pins from $1 OO up. =) 1 6“ , Solid Gold Cuff Buttons 1 aa“ Solid Gold Brooches 125 ZF. Solid Gold Lockets 400“ Sold Gold Neck Chaius 300 \ Solid Gold Hearts for Neck Chains . 125 ZF, All other Gold Goods toc numerous to mention at right prices. \ In Gold Filled Goods, such as Gold Filled Neckchains, Gold Filled Lockets, Q Gents’ and Ladies’ Gold Filled Woven Wire and Silk Watch Fobs, Ladies Gold Filled Cuff Pins, Veil Pins, Hat Pins Bar Pins, Stick Pins, Belt Pins, Brooches, etc., from the lowest prices and up. Large lot of Bracelets at right prices. Nice line of Silverware and Novelties, such as Toilet Sets, Manicure Sets, Mili- tary Brushes, Clothes Brushes, Shaving Brushes, Hat and Bonnet Brushes, allgin sterling or best erade Quadruple Plate. Nice line of Ladies’ Gold Filled Handle Umbrellas from $3 50 to $7 SO. Guaranteed. N O I ma 7 N y That is what it means when you buy your Christmas goods from k and must cut it down by January Ist, I have too much stock all ( Will make the PURSE. Anyone wanting a high-grade I have these in the Rock- d, Illinois, Hamilton, Elgin and Waltham, in 15 and 17 saree = These will be put into whatever kind of a case you 5 and 17 jeweled movements on hand dent of schools, and a person se- lected by the teachers who have local organizations in their schools will award the prizes. The first three named prizes must be expended by the local organi- zations for picturs, books or some- thing useful for its school. L. O. WHITE, County Superintendent. —_—_++2>>—_—_- ADROITLY TURWED. it Was a Smal! Hole, but the English- man Crawled Out. “J was watching a number of young Englishmen shooting at a target re- _cently while I was on the other side,” remarked an American army officer, “and at my elbow was 2 pompous Brit- fsher of the old school, who, after shaking his head impatiently at the frequent misses that were made, at length said to me: ‘That only goes to show how the young men of England are degenerating. All this sort of thing reflects on the British nation.’ “It certainly is mighty poor shoot- ing,’ I agreed. “At that the old gentleman flared up and exclaimed: ‘I say! Perhaps you can do better, sir?” *<T¢ I couldn’t shoot better than that, I'd be ashamed to eat breakfast,’ I an- swered. -“Thereupon I was handed a rife and told to show what I could do. I shot. and the first time I missed the target completely, so the laugh was on me, but before they could laugh twice I plugged the bullseye six times in rapid succession. At this the old gentleman was a trifle disconcerted, but he com- plimented me by saying: ‘Really, now, you can shoot a bit, can’t you? I say, there’s nothing like a Yankee marks- man with an English gun, is thare, old chap? “*—Los Angeles Times. A Finland Festival. Panl Waineman’s “A Summer Tour In Finland” contains this pretty bit of folklore: “Midsummer is the great an- nual festival of Finland. From every height a bonfire leaps to the sky in honor of the mating of night and day, who are then united. The Finns pos- sess a poetical legend relating to this annual custom. Kolt and Amarik, the gunset and sunrise, beseeched the lord of the sky to give them permission to be eternally a bride and bridegroom and once a year to clasp each other in their glowing arms.” A Lesson From Nature. “Young gentlemen,” lectured the em- fnent fnstructor, “you are old enough now to put away the childish and triv- tal amusements that sufficed for you when you were younger. Learn a les- gon from the dumb brutes and even from the reptiles. When they arrive at maturity they comport themselves with @ certain dignity.” “ft isn’t so with the rattlesnake, pro- fessor,” objected the young man with the bad eye. “The older he grows the more rattles he plays with.”—Chicago ‘Tribune. sopping the Exodus. During service in ap English church on a warm Sunday many of the con- grecation. finding the air oppressive, -rose and silertiy stole away. The min- Louisiana» 397,179 bales; einneries. Mississippi, 3,422 ginneries. Missouri, 45,750 bales; 70 gin- neries. North Carolina, 554,002 bales; 2,681 ginneries. Oklahoma: vinneries. South Carolina, 1,052,547 bales; 3,184 ginneries. 1,297,291 bales; Tennessee, 278,679 bales; 620 ginneries. y Texas, 3,200,221 bales; 4.091 einneries. Virginia, $8,772 bales; 92 gin- neries. — ——++a>-2——— ASsassin of Senator F. W. Car- mack Arraigned in Court. Nashville, Tenn., Dec. S.—An- other actin the grim tragedy which resulted in the death of mack will be staged today wheu Col. Cuncan B. Cooper, his son, Robin J. Cooper and John B. Sharp will appear in the crimi- ned on November 25 and entered pleas of not guilty, after which day. postponement of the trial unti] the January term in court, and it thought they will be success- ful. ——__++@or——_—— Would Mortgage The Farm. A farmer on Rural Route No. 2, Empire, Ga, W. A. Mloyd by name, says: ‘‘Bucklen’s Arnica vent 1.645 | chitis, asthma, coughs, colds, hay fever and croup. If you haven’t the time to exercise regularly, Doan’s Regulets will pre- constipation. 2+@]>e ——S They mild, easy, healthful action of the bowels without griping. druggists for them. 25¢. induce a Ask your You can get a bargain in Cut Glass, Japanese China Vases, etc., and Statu- ary, as these must go. P I N N I N G In Silverware I have @ complete“linexof Knives and Forks, Tea and Table Spoons, Butter Knives, Sugar Shells, Pie and Tomato Servers, cold meat and other Forks, Berry Spoons. Soup Sets, Soup Ladles, Carving Sets, Childs’ Sets, individual Salt Sets, Cut Glass Sterling Top Salt and Pepper Sets. Nice line of Parlor and Gold Plate Clocks, Kitchen and Alarm Clocks. I NY 432.077 bales; 973 former Senator Edward W. Car- nal for trial on the charge of hav- ing assassinated Carmack. The Cooper’s and Sharp were arraig- Judge Hart set the trial for to- Attorneys for the defence will probably attemp to secure a If there ever was a delecate atten- tion in the way of a Christmas pres- ent, it isa box of that remarkably fine writing paper at Hall’s Drag Store. Every time the recipient, whether the paper. Writing Paper For Christmas. member you, and naturally_she will write some of her letters to you upon See our stock. W. F. HALL, Prescriptionist. you money. Come and see for yourself. No difference what you want in the Jewelry line, I will save H O N T O N T O N I G HO E N T O N I O N S H O N T O N I E V A N L A N G => >> K I O ) en! Hotel Iredell Building. R. F. Henry # Jeweler and Optician = IACONO TONNES OOOH NTO S G E N T O N I G SH O N T E N T O N I O N T H O N G Che Christmas Line At the Store of Quality “We invite you to come and fet us show you the Otis a pleasure to be able to show such an elegant fine of goods to you even entire f ine. surpassing anything ever shown in Statesville. Come==be eonvineed. eereee eeecceseses WANT ADS ee ea° se a os a fa ey eee s wife, sister, daughter or sweetheart, ° , e 3 oe ae en is sono ee. FS if you don t want to buy. Cl fine of Quality eS i Oe eS ox : ec 1 time ee 5 cents a line. 3 TIMES. .....-..-eeeereees 4 cents a line. G tames. os 3%, cents a line 3 cents a line. || Prescriptionists. Statesville Brug Co. Pe rrernrresncconseeceernecoesmeceessocnecseet ean ta Sct oNeah sane Seat aea Stearate TC S CR E S S C C S SS S R C S R S ES RR RES REEE SE EERE REESE ER REE ee aoe ae ee a oe How to Prevent Pneu- @ ister, percciving that the esedus was| threatened. about to become epigem: his discour :e. solilogus !” OT, Creme ne Ci eserrar you c83 ga wet fe Aair” «Eine 2 yh SS eek Sh Teste Whole Doce’). Ehucw whete se bens reac — oS The Docter—Now that you are gcing to sebcc!, ju2n2y. pei ips sou can tel Die west ! spens whe: wn frresistibk f~ Ensy Task. ] wta? rig er ew ee ee wre Cxtcsm2. -. paused in “Brethren.” be said, “I am here to deliver 2 sermon, not a force strike: an imimevsble odject.” “People st d for vou. docter.’—Life. Se ee —_++2> is in the city today. ton is in the city on business. is in the city. rived in thee ity last night. was in the city yesterday. a ane As money increases thedove of it in- | ; ereases.—Georman Provarh it at once. - eel Mr, Wade Cavin of Troutman Mr. Emmet Holton of Morgan- Mr. G. B. Caviniss of Charlotte Mr. J. M. Crane of Salisbury ar- Mr. Zeb Buchanan of Hickory. Mother do you hear that rat- tling in your babies throat? Put a little Mothers’ Joy on-it and stop ladies should learn telegraphy; for, since the now 8 hour law became effective there is a shortage of many thousand telegraphers. Po- sitions pay from $50 to $70 a month to beginners. The National Telegraph institute of Columbia, Ss. C., and five other cities is oper- ated under supervision of R. R. officials and all students are placed when qualified. Write them for particulars. no19 dtf LAST CHANCE—24 Photos for 20e this week to everybody. Saturday, Dee. 12th the last day in city—come now. Over Knox & Poston’s store. Reno Photo Co. dec8 2t ——— - 06000000 0000000000000 000088 2 GOOSE GREASE CO. WE ee t WANTED—EY THE AMERICAN Cotton and Business University of Milledgeville, Ga., students to take one or more of our courses in cot- ton grading, buying and selling. Business courses of bookkeeping, Shorthand, Typewriting, or Telegra- phy and Railroad course. Positions guaranteed under reasonable con- ditions. Write at once for our consolideted catalog. Largest col lege South. Sept 28-tf a. FOR RENT—ONE STORE BUILD- Net bythe old Roller Rubbing method but in Straight Paes- sure Machine which gives beauti- ful demestic finish and makes the _ Shirts last longers=e=——_ 3 c m RON SHIRTS BY STEAM tatesville Steam Laundry ‘ 8 — eured the ee WANTED—Three ice men for In 5 re you pick | . $3 OO S H. O KS! . ever saw; one on my Aand an boarders. Apply to 513 Tradd : ? i i Soise up you will see where some & We're calling attention today to our line of Men’s ee = > “ geet 2 street. dec4 6t good man has just died with @ Se: Dollar Shoes. Y . weight in gold. FOR SALE_A W a this fearful disease—pneu- atever price we name for a shoe, we intead that not be without it if I had to mort- 2 i s re act = tabched monia. Now we will give © the Shoe will be. the vest, that the same amount © gage the farm to get it.” Only grocery and restaurant business.|# you One Hundred Dollars @ _ of money can buy anywhere. 8 Se at Statesville Drug: €o.’s Address XXX care Mascot 6t|@ for any case of preenon @ © We've nen seen our $3.00 Shoes equalled for the @ mee ret ou have in your family it money. e’ve a treat in s - oe ille’s model hostesses. FOR mre ee stand Pals to ee you will ee : lar Shoe wearer. 22s cee ses . store. in elty, doing g00 usiness.|# Goose Grease Liniment as a ee Reasons for selling. If you] directed. It only eosts you 6 Viei aoe = Ne SSL SEES eg Western Union Has Big Fire. want a bargain answer at once.|™ 2° cents a bottle. Get it— ® men ; oe eee = 9 New York, Dee. 8.—The supply Address Grocer, care Mascot you have nothing to loose @ - EEE conservative shapes. : e building of the Western Union Z : and all to gain. We know e IT WILL PAY YOU toSEE OUR $3.00 LINE g ¢ ec 3 tf OF SHOES bef e Telegraph Company was burned ere ay son wie ® oR SONY: e Seape woman é °¢| LAST WEEK—Every body getS|™ Wl rea this and throw it early this morning. The loss 1s} 94 pyotos this week for Ais aside and in a few days will < S x B. MI LLER ed THE SHOE MA: MAN: @ variously estimated at from $200.-1 6... Knox. & Poston’ ‘|@ be down with the disease. 0000000 OGOOSOOOORHOOOOOOUE pike, 50000). ‘The baldieel CC nes eee 3 Seo S| Saturday December 12th our|§ and put it til a was a big seven-story structure.{- pS Oe eer ee dee Ce eee Se ee oe é ¢ sbuild-} ; 9 money to buy it let us know SSS Rete e2tSeSeeSetex ing though the entire block was a See and we will send you a bot- YKEEES FECSSSESHES SESE TERE AMBITIOUS YOUNG MEN AND|§ tle free. bi = ing and basement. Best retail Mm . C. Harwe { Ww stand in thie city. statanciiiowai| It 2 l, Frop. Phone 122 w ty and Investment Co. Sept.19 Sxccecccecececececececce™é f : : + . 4 ° e ° oe e owe ¢ 2 eee GE S E S S E S C E S C E S E M Vol. 1. Mayor HE HAS 4 Mr. E. G. Grier Ov Has Quite Damage As the ci Gilmer, ou lord, has 1 up-to-date § of his frien nice little s with him. Mr. Gilm ist, and piece of ro ing th wind It seems Grier has b ing an aut and he p Gilmer pre driving wi We don’ mer had to much or 0 ing all rig The rou drive was wards Ta best in: the Mr. Gil very good mechanis honor as decided going to it would give him way he sh wheel ove Everyt honor run K. Arri new road honor hoy they star Everytl nicely cor deeided i stunts, at he opene let’ er ga In runp wheels of macadan part of t suit his steering when lo, left the for tall Now o men hav cases bu tion like get ‘‘fi Of co Gilmer tried in chine st their m to take On th over log eral of spied a Of ca men. ‘‘s¢ double machin: ceeded just as the edg plunge Afte his hor ready the sez **Gilmé the deg We ¢ honor date a Te ee he is OER eNO REP oe pn . ae ia a a a ae Se Fee ne Oe ge es p see YU oP . ee — — - es ~~ Sw - Vol. 1. Statesville, N. C., Thursday Evening, December 10, 1908. No. 375 Fe eee to = : | NORTH CAROLINA DAY. . | JUDGE NEAL RESIGNS. | = ° Mayor Grier cron susie sos SOU HAS What Will EN Census. Bil | Automobling) sss.ccrzte"| Great Future) © Befall Us) sss") Jp. Pagcad The department of eduaction Raleigh, Dec. 9—Great surprise es issued an interestin amphlet isexpressed here today at the res- HE HAS A VERY NICE TIME. which contains an eee as BRYCE SEES LIGHT AHEAD.|WORLD COME TO END DEC. 27. a of Walter H. Neal as su- PRESENT SYSTEM IS BAD. gram for the use of the public ——= perior court judge of the eighth Mr. E. G. Gilmer Takes Mayor/S¢hools of the state in the North| British Ambassador, Called Upon| Lee Spangler, of York, Pa., Sooth:| distict, which was filed at the gov-| After a Short but Hot Fight House Grier Out Auto Driving and|#Tolina day exercises The sub-| For an Impromptu Speech Be-| sayer, Predicts Dire Things to|¢™°r'sioflice. The latter has gone] Puts the Census Bill Through— Has Quite an Experience—No|Ject fr the book is “The Settle fore the Southern Commercial} Befall the Land—World Will|to Washington and will return| Bill Provides for the Taking of TO W I O N T O N T C WA N T O N Ca t Damage Done. ment of the Germans,’ and is com- _ Cougress, Predicts an Area of| Come to an End December 27. Saturday, the day the resignation the Coming Census and Subse- sca piled by Prof. RB D W Conner,} Great Prosperity for This Sec- — is effective. | quent DeceDnial Censuses, As the citizens all know, Mr. E.|S¢¢retary of the North Carolina] tion—Mr. D, A Tompkins Talks| York, Pa, Dee. 9—December is} The appointment of Judge ur Gilmer. omc pends Hoe Historical Commission. on Cotton Monopoly and Manu-| t© be a strenuous month, if the] Neal’s successor will be made Sat- Washington, Dec. 9.—For near- ee Most of the schools of the coun-} facture Declaring That the|PTophecies of Lee J Spangler,/urday, so that he ean proceed to||y five hours the House of Repre- lord, has recently purchased an ty will hold exercises on that day,} Suth Has got to Face New Con.| ‘ °rk’s direful prophet and sooth-|Johnson cunty for the regular|Sentatives yesterday considered up-to-date automobile, and many|the 18th of this month. The pub-| ditions—People Slow to Change;S*yer meet with fulfillment. Ac-|term f court beginning there Mon-| bill providing for the taking of the TO N T O N M O S O N TO N G nas o' his friends have been enjoying|lic schools of this city will have] Their Views. cording to Spangler, no less a ca-| day. thirteenth and subsequent decen- nice little spins around the city|@uite an extensive program and it es tastrophe than the end of the} Being mentioned for appoint-}nial censuses, and passed it with- world is to take place the latter|ment to succeed Judge Neal are}Out material change. From the ih tame promises to be very interesting, Washington, Dee. 8.—Express- Prof. L. 0. White, county super-| ing the conviction that a great fu-|Part of the month—probably on|H B. Adams, of Wadesboro; W. J.| Very outset of the debate it be- intendent of a : =.) : Sunday, December 27. However,| Adams, of Carthage; Maj. H. A.|¢ame evident that the progress of st, and when he strikes a nice] will be at fie ee a ae eta es it may take place a week earlir,| London, of Pittsburg; Lee Rich-| the measure toward passage would picee of road he believes in brun-| in the No. 2 district on that day ABs ae, ene a not-| Sunday, Dec. 20th, and thus af-|ardson» now solicitor in the eigth.| be impeded. : ‘ug th wind. when he will deliver an address| able reception from the delegates] f0Td an economical solution of the} >_>" *——— ssed pet a It seems that our friend, Mayor] pefore that school and the school| in atendance upon the Southern | Christmas present problem. Rough Corn Shucking. times, heated discussion was pre- Crier has been contemplating buy-| o¢ No. 3 district, Chambersburg| congress. following a speech in} Some of the terrible things that} Night before last ata corn cipitated over an amendment by, ing an automobile for some weeks, township, both schools meeting which he hepccn iis he is a well! Will immediately precede the end}shucking held below the city} Mr. Gillett, of Massachusetts, who and he prevailed, or rather Mr. and observing the day together. | wisher of eB. Soa of the world are described by|about three miles, there was a]Seught to have the temporary. Gilmer prevailed on him to go out| On the 24th of this month Prof.| The ambassador mo: the center| Spangler in the following alarm-|large crowd and plenty of old ee authorized by the bill, driving with him. White will be at the school house] of attraction although his visit |/™$ fashion: ~booze”’ present. pao rece tion of a few minor We don’t know whether Mr. Gil- in No. 1 district, Fallstown town-| was merece Mr Bevec came| Nations shall rise against na-| Some men from the mountains}|P0sitions, appointed on the basis e insi i . : ; vere campi of competitive instea -cm- mer had to insist on his honor very ship where he will address that] into the hall simply as a specta-|%0BS- RS ee ee eee ee Z sseed aoc: much or not, but they went driv-| school in Comet sat - Kingdom shall rise against king-| where the shucking was in pro-|P°titive examinatins, He argued ? nw h — a ¢ 2nNea ‘ , 5 2 > > D> 3 = ith the Car-|tor, but the audience soon noted gress and they also had plenty of|that the latter method opened the Mr. Gilmer is a good automobil- ing all right : : . . . dom N g gat. olina day exercises. his presencey and immediately i ‘ i ils - ¥ The route they chose for the —<+2@-e___ sh ue oe a There shall be famines and pes-| the ardent. | ES ioe ae to the “‘spoils - Ww drive was up the new road to- Mr. Wm. Sloan to Wed. the air and he was compelled to a fee SRE . oe a see ee a ie ee eee VE wards Taylorsville, which is the] The following invitations have| yield to the desire of the congress,| vers will dry up. ee OS eS ES Th nt : best in the county. been received in the city: “Since I came here ene The fish of the sea will die. SOR Sane aes ae Aes ere uatithe oe Ee ee ote I~. Mr. Gilmer left the city at a] M : 5 avo.”? said Mr. Brveo «7{ The sea will boil up with a great|mix up for a season. bulwark against the spoils system fa r. and Mrs. John Calvin Daniel} months ago,’’ said Mr. Bryce, ‘‘1 7 i i : very good pace, explaining the request the honor of your h t aol ited the S th I ae Rips eS a Se mechanism of the machine to his & presence : ee ses ie t ae ro on | _he cities of the nation will fall.| Was done, but fearing the officers|Son, of Arkansas, who sought to me hono th t. Finally h : wi Se ees : Mountains will not be found. }of the law, the parties involved|Substantiate his asertion by citing ero nor as they went. malty Re} at the marriage of their sister trast between what I personally h . . decided that, as the mayor was Mary Long Daniel “t Fbaepbe nce : Islands will pass away. got together, and after much ery-|the recent appointment of Daniel rae eoine + h ae = gi aaa beie lie san So SoS The city of Boston will sink. ing, finally compromised the mat-|Keefe, as commissioner general of ete song to purchase a machine to and the present conditions. Where- : : immicrati 1 wonky a a 8 New York will go up in smoke. | ter. ummigration. a it wou e good policy to Mr. William Judson Sloan ever I have been in the South I = —_4++@>->—_—_ Th oi . eavels littl na : : People will flee to the moun- e only other business trans- en ove ua & tile training in the/on the afternoon of Tuesday the|have been struck by signs of ac- fee Stockholders Meet. acted was the reference to com- eco =) he should go, so he turned the twenty-second of December _| tivity, progress and development. The land will dry up and get| The stockholders of the new| mittee of a notice of contest by H. rat wheel over to his honor. one thousand nine hundred and|TI see land being brought more and eroe t 1 ight. NolC , le. Buexyflinig <aeak denies = : : : er ready for fire. grocery store met last night. No|C. Warmouth, Republican, for the xt “ g eight at four o’clock more into cultivation; more and The crops will fail and oe business of any importance was|seat of Albert Estopinal, Demo- honor running the machine all O. ““Oakhearst’’ more being done for agricultural K. Arriving at the end of the Green County, North Carolina. methods. Isaw the resurces of new road Mr. Gilmer showed his} Mr. Sloan is a well known young] your soil, of coal and iron, being honor how to turn around and| man in this city, having formerly} brought to light and I saw a new they started back.. tived here, holding a position at|spirit in the South which desires oe appointed as a committee to —_~++2>-e—___.. Everything was working 80|the Evan Hardware company. | to make educational progress com- ee : - = g . go before Messrs. H. P. Grier and Masquerade Party, ~ ! nicely coming back that his honor] fe is a brother of Mr. .C E.|mensurate with material devo) 2 Os coe A. ib. Coble to apps too eee ~s 3 decided he would do some fancy] Sloan, now of the Evans’ Hard ment.”’ So aoa t ats eo At the rink last night a mas. ? 3 . e ° iin “ er, . ° ° Stunts, at running the machine, so} ware company Mr. Sloan has fr| The ambassador pointed out the as ee ee The charter will authorize them ae mee e ae see he pened the throttle wide and| some time been int Greenville,}enormous difficulties with which pee will steal it from one|t? begin business with a $6,000 participated vor let? A i i . a 20n' j te : - |eapitalb wi i i ' g @ e aia See where he is taching school a a — Soa Ss another This is the gold that is nase with liberty to increase to There was costumes of all kinds ——+~+@>-e————— 21V rar. r i ever» i a 2 5, z nd d are ° wheels of the machine left the Copeland-Rivers, at Spartanburg. | he continued, ‘‘there is a great piled up for the last days. This ———_++ = escriptions, some beautiful, wi in v ioek s th j macadam and got into the dirt} Spartanburg, S. C., Dec. 9—] door open before you and as one — ee ee oe en e ‘ School is Christened. : = ee the lady for the part of the road. This did not| Misg Mary C. Rivers, of this city,] of the well-wishers of the South,| 1" S!V° you more trouble than} The new graded sehool in North 7. 3 s most beautiful costume, two beau- suit his honor, so he brought the| and James W. Copeland, of States-| who believes in its greatness as a ae ee Statesville, just beyond the home} “meltieg Se ee steering wheel an awful twist,| ville, were married this morning flourishing and important part of = = —— a S me oe of Mr. J. A. Hartness was Chis- no anardedtoea oe os a when lo, and behold, the machine] at 9:30 o’clock at the home of the] the country, I venture to congrat-| “™4eF on¢ -| tened today. : ’ . : : Z : There will be great wrath Ae . ladies were in the masquerade. re x sde’. M. , . ommittee composed of 5 left the road, making across a field | pride’s mother, Mrs. M. C. Rivers,| nlate you on what is being done among the people. Hatred, kill- Messrs. W. W. Turner, J. A. The prize to the gentleman for for tall timber. on Alabama street, the ceremony] and to say that still greater pros- ing one another, hanging them- Hartness and M. A. Feimster, the best cestume, a fine French Now of course these two gentle-|heing performed by Rev. Dr. Ja- pects are before you.”’ : i 5 ee Eee Z selv = pe, was awarded to Edgar men have good nerve in ordinary} eobs,,of Clinton. It was a quiet} The afternoon session was pre- oe ; =~ oe ee was appointed to choose the name, Ga ms eases but when it came to a situa-| home wedding, only the immediate} sided over by Judge George Hill-|"> P ” = and it was finally decided to call SSS 64 ee ie ; . : three and three against two. it the Feimster graded school of ‘ion like that, any one is likely to| members of the family being pres-| yer, 2 member of the Georgia State Mother-in-law against daughter-| yo.) Statesville, in honor of Mr. New Store Named. get ‘‘flustrated.’’ ent. After the ceremony the bride] Railroad Commission, who in al- Hi : Of course his honor and Mr.|and groom left for Florida and| brief address, reviewed the work ee Ses M. A. Feimster, the ex-county ee ee Gilmer became flustrated, and Cuba, where they will spend sev-| of that body in dealing with trans- the —— oe ee treasurer. a me ty § tried in every way. to get. the ma-| eral weeks, and upon their return| portation companies. The princi- i ine aeons : : soos chine stopped- but could not get| will make theirhome atClinton.| pal speakers were William J. Oli-| The land will secon cea Ne oe ee eee ae sae rapaes Sas SP ies their minds concentrated enough Mr. Copeland is engaged in the} ver, of Knoxville, Tenn.; Clarence will be stung by these locusts willl V. Neill and W. me Rhine, ait of |reasen for the word’ lab ici transacted except the appointing] crat, from the first Louisiana dis- of a committee to apply for a char-| trict. ter. At 4:55 p. m. the house ad- ’ A number of gentlemen were] journed. ity will be cut off. The banks will keep on failing. This cannot be stopped. Roosevelt will get rid of all his a SO O C U S E G C 0 C 0 R 8 0 8 @ Ra EA S a GN 4 to re hold of — ee the a ee — eis nes a die. Eufola vicinity will leave tonight|name is that the company will fit 4 aN, 9 . . . . s W fies oa eens a ees a ates = ae oe Ses, Ee Bee ee A f the Unitea|. There will Be = in the sun,| with their families for Chase City,,| up a and a club will be eral other obstacles until they | pride is a well known and popular] States bureau of soils. we ng =e : Be og : — ee bought pro- Gres ee ra pie i i E is city and is a SEN ea aaa ; : ie : Will : capt os : ee = ae Bie ae se = Twichell Total of 1908 Crops. be black and the land will be in} Mr Dagenhart will engage in : Not Quality ° x SS oe eee Washington Dec. 9.—The ecrop| darkness. The moon will be as farming, having bought him aj Captain P. C. Carlton who was men.“‘set up and take notice,”’ and| whose husband is president of the double their efforts to stop the|Clifton and Glendale Manufactur-|reprting board of theb ureau of machine. Mr. Gilmer finally suc-}ing companies. statistics of the Department of ceeded in stopping the runaway EE Agriculture today estimated from blood, the stars will fall and the large fine farm. elected coroner in the last election, heavens will be shaken. The other two gentlemen men-| Will not qualify, and the county, ea ae tione&-will engage in the saw mill|¢commissioners will have to ap- Mr. Boyd Issues License. business, having shipped their saw] Point a person in his place/ b ; : ‘ts front wheels over . Real Busy. reports of correspondence agents : ; ae . : a a Fs poe ready to| R.F. Henry, the jeweler and|of the bureau that the total pro-| Mr. J. E. Boyd, the new Regis-| mill outfit from Eufola to Virginia.|_ Mr Carlton objected to his nom 4 ; Ff. ’ : : ms . : 441-6 , plunge downward optician, is real busy all the time,| duction of cotton in the United}ter of Deeds, issued his first mar- —S ination as coroner, but his friends After the ae of course] but if you want anything in his|Sates for the year 1908-9 would riage license yesterday afternoon. Birt ss Party Be went ahead and nominated him his honor was very much out of| sine real cheap for a Xmas pres-jamount to 6,182,970,000 pounds. | The parties to ee cs Se case oe ee ae = eee oF: : a eect ++ >—__—_— were issued-are Mr. Thos. Dixor - rated his ; oe. ready breath, so e = so asa =e See age re = Recital at the College. Moore and Miss Annie Weisner. | Tuesday afternoon, from 3 to 5 Notice of Services, “Gilad bane Sao eat oA geil wl beeen Dy the] ever, rete of his ite play] Rev. B.A. Osborne wil conduc er, , : : " . : bei esent. services at the Trinity iscopa = be along the} music students of the female col-| Mother do you hear that rat-|mates being pr 4 ip the destruction I have caused.”” |man would like to be along The children enjoyed the even-|church next Sunday morning at next time with a kodak and get|lege, in the Shearer Music hall on|tling in your babies throat? Put ; 2 next Monday evening at 8 o’clock.}a little Mothers’ Joy on it and stop|ing by playing games and other}11 o’clock and Sunday afternoon The public is cordially invited. jit at once. We donot know whether his honor will go driving at an early|some snap shots of the proceed- date again or not but the Mascot ings. amusements. ae at4o’clock (+ =) f a = hn eet Me Aa on Se l e AM E R me ot , pl e t e Si e ee ee : ea t Ps . es ee ee e Pe ho e s Bo s ss Vs st p : FE E RE IE E tt Bn Ni p Ni g h Ss Be e 2. Pe f o x * St oh Ae eT ES E ee sk ee ae , OP Me r o e ~ : ME Y . hv e he e se s h ap i e BM E ME N DA F ao r PN Mr eg i e e TE I TE er e n t bap a be ek a Po r ; a po b r e s. te t Se e 73 + * HE P AA P A OF E ME 2! b e a ee e ke Se er e aa a te s s F bi ‘ 4 Ne ee ee an THE EVENING MASCO1 DAILY EXCEPT SURDAY.,” tfice 109 Coart Street. ~~ Telephone 53; VANCE NORWO@D _-- Publisher. RALPH SLOAN, - - City Editor, Sabscription Price, - $4.00 a Year “abscription Price, - 10 Cents a Week Prt Neem Weather Forecasts. Washington, D.. C., Dee. 10.— North Carolina fair and warmer tonight, . Friday inereasiry cloud- iness_and warmer with probably showers in afternoon or night. — 1 There is much talk about break- ing the solid south. Somebody please come forward with propo- sition for breaking the solid north. It. is. that section which is wrong. SE Our rich American girls who marry. low down foreign dukes make themselves famous by inter- national scandals. This is where the gaiety of nations really comes no a No. one appears to believe that the tariff will be revised by lower- ing it’as is. promised. Wonder why that is? We reckon its be- cause. its another republican pro- mise. +-<o-e—__- They say all these southern fel- lows who are asking for a tariff for protection up at Washington have an axe to grind and want to use a public grinding stone turn- ed by the people. —_++2-2—___— It is a little remarkable to have folks come wut of cities in the north where people die like flies to tell us about our death rate. Everybody knows that country life down south is heaven besides _ the life in any large city, espec- ially a northern one. 2 e— If the republican administration will senda few more Country Life Commissioners down here no body need talk about breaking the solid south. All may have hook worms but we will swear we.won’t be told about it and published and vote with them that did it. ——— President elect Taft said in a speech recently that the South should do away with its old time race and sectional prejudice and vote from principle and for our material welfare. We thought we were voting this way all our lives. Mr. Taft has not found us out yet. ———-++ ro As soon as. we produce some smart young man he runs up north and makes a speech and slanders the south to get a reputation. If half is true that is said about us the lord knows, we ought to tell it privately and not from the house tops... But that would not give ug & rep. SE The ‘smart’ orators have been tiling us long ago th t we were vastly ignorant down south, that we treat the negro barbarously and are guilty of peonage and now tell ng we are full of the hook worm. Lord save us from the or- stors and we will take care of the —_——~++2-e——___ The south. raises all the cotton used in the world and is now man- afacturing a good slice of. it. and is seeking markets alll over the world for the manufactured ar- ticle. _ The tariff then ean not help us but on the contrary do us hurt. When we tax a man who wants to sell to us he-will not like to buy from us: oa OD aloe on E Friends do not forget our bread bin " The food stuff in it is awful low... Come and see us and bring a little of the coin of the realm and help us up and make us feel bet- ter and go away feeling better yourself. If you can’t.come your- self send it by some one. . There is no man.on.earth-but what gets more out of life than the poor printer .who stands at his deck all day and every day from morn- ing till late at night. Remember when you pay. your. subscription you help the printer and those: de- pending upon him. Union Grove Items. _ The box.supper at.Union Grove Saturdfy ‘Dee, Sth». was a success. The proceeds amounted to $22.75.] Enfola R. F. D., No. 1. Items. . Our farmers are about through ‘work and are shut up in their cheerful little villas enjoying the The boxes sold for $13:20 and the’ comfortable fireside. remainder was the result of the voting contest for prettiest girl, ugliest boy, and the most love-sick couple. On Saturday Dee. 19th, at 2 o'clock the Junier Order of Cliu will will present Eupeptic Springs Academy with a Bible and a flag. Hon. Zeb V. Long will be the principal speaker. A string band will furnish music for the oecca- sion. . A public singing will be held at Smith’s chapel church Sunday, Dec. 13th at 2 0’clock. Mr, Huie Templeton left today to assist Mr. J. R.. Myers in his school at Mountain View. Mr. Chas. Mitchell is assisting Mr. R..T. Weatherman in District No. 1. Union Grove township. Mr, Clarke.Hepler assists Mr. H. Van Hoy at Trinity, and Miss Ina Huie is assisting at Union Grove. Mr. Walter Jurney of Los An- geles» Cal., is visiting his father, Mr. J. E. Jurney, Mr. J. E. Fletcher has bought a farm in Yadkin county and will soon move to that county to live. Mr. M. L. Van Hoy will move to Yadkin in the near future. Misses Dottie and Florence Fletcher were visiting at Mr. Z. Q. Templeton’s Sunday. Mr. S. Campbell is teaching at Osbornville, Wilkes county. No weddings this week. but will promise to discourse on that sub- ject later. Prof. L. G. Weisner and sisters, Misses Sallie Maie and Ina, visited their grandfather, Rev. T. L. Jen» nings, Sunday. —~++e>-o—___—_. ~~ WOMEN’S WOES. Statesville Women Are Finding Re- lief at Last. — It does seem that women have more than a fair share of the aches aad pains that afflict humanity; they must “keep up,” must attend to duties in spite of constantly aching backs or headaches, dizzy spells, bearing-down pains; they must stoop over, when to stoop means torture, they must walk and bend and. bend and work with racking pains and many aches from kidney fils, Kidneys cause more suffering than any other organ of the body.. Keep the kidneys well and health is easily maintained. Read of a remedy for kidneys only that helps and cures the kidneys and is endorsed by people you know. Mrs. M,L Moose, living at 209 Boulevard St., Statesville, N. C., says: “For several years I was a vic- time of weak kidneys. I had a soreness across these organs most of the time and I ‘generally felt weak. Dizzy spells and headaches were of frequent occurrence, and at. night I was unable to obtain my proper rest. The Kidney secretions were also un- natural fn appearance, and showed that my kidneys were at fault. I used a number of remedies but Doan’s Kidney Pills, which I procur- ed at Hall’s drug store, benefited me more than any of the others. I sin- cerely hope that other sufferers will give Doan’s Kidney Pilis a trial as I know they will act strictly up to their, representations. ’? For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Yoster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United ae copie meseats Remember _the name and take no other. _+oeor oe The papers are full of the pro- clamations that a new future in say great enlightenment and ma- terial prosperity is at hand.. We are glad we are emerging out of heathenism and the dark ages. What will they say about us next. ——-4 Would Mortgage The Farm. A farmer on Rural Ronte No. 2, Empire, Gag 'W. A. Mloyd by name, says: “‘Bucklen’s Arnica Salve eured the two worst sores I ever saw; one on my hand and one on my leg. It is worth more than its weight’in gold. I would not be without it if I had to mort- gage the farm to get it.”” Only 25¢, at. Statesville Drag Co.’s Statesville’s model hostesses. store. ~ eter entre ca ceo ee the south, here is dawning. They Most of the little children are again paddling the school path en- joying the invigorating zephyrs very much. Bethlchem is pro- gressing very nicely under the careful instruction of Mr. R. E. Levan and Miss Florence Alexan- der, both of Stony Point. Mr. Watt Summers is teaching the Gilbert school this winter. Miss Annie Shuping will be at home from school at Taylorsville, real soon to spend the holidays. The young people of this section gave Miss Huldah Bradford a “‘surprise party’? last Saturday night which was a very enjoyable occasion to all present. Mr. and Mrs. N A. Beaver of Cool Spring. visited in this section recently. The writer has been visiting friends in North Iredell. Mr. J. S Morrison has been on the sick list for several days but is convalesing at present writing. Mr. G. ©. Su00k and family will ga to housekeeping real soon on the place of Mr. Morrison’s. Mrs. Estha Morrison has been ill with phthisic for several days, but is better now, we are glad to note. Mr. Hiram Frees, who has been so critically ill for more than a year is improving slowly and it is the sentiment of the people that he will be up again in the near future. Misses Annie Bradford, and Ed- na Gilbert visited friends at Tay- lorsville recently. Mrs. Hedrick of Taylorsville: has been visiting her daughter. Mrs. R. T. Bradford, and was call- ed home on account of the sick- ness of her grandson, Master Paul Hedrick. Crows seem to be profusely abundant in this section, hosts of them are conglomerating in old fields for winter quarters. ' Hurry up girls, leap year will soon be over, if you haven’t taken advantage, it is high time you are doing around for remember to us only comes once in four years. Come on ‘‘Uno,”’ what is wrong? Are you still living a single life? I wish to extend to sister School Girl of Snowy Creek a cordial wel come in our happy circle and hope to hear from her again. Hurrah for Xmas! she will soon dawn upon us. ” ‘ Hark! the Christmas bells are ringing, Ringing through the frosty air, Happiness to each one bringing, And release from toil and care. Ankle deep the snow will be lying Every spray then clothed in white, Yet abroad the folks are hieing, Brisk and busy, gay and light. ets es cast 2 Neighbors shaking hands 2 greeting, _ No one sorrowing, no one sad> Children loving parents meeting, Young and old alike made glad. Then while Christmas bells are ringing, Rich and poor, your voices raise And your simple coral singing, Waft to Heaven your grateful praise. Many good wishes to correspon- dents, readers ‘and editors. SCHOOL GIRL. ——++er--—___ A Healthy Family. “Our whole family has enjoyed good health since we began using Dr, King’s New Life Pills, three years ago,’ says L. A. Bartlet, of Rural Route 1, Guilford Maine. They cleanse and tone the system in a gentle way that does you good 25¢. at Statesville Drug Co. —~<~<2>-e—___ If you haven’t the time to exercise regularly, Doan’s Regulets will pre- vent constipation. They induce a mild, easy, healthful action of the bowels without griping. Ask your druggists for them. 25c. Items From Faith. Miss Minnie Frick daughter of Mr. John W. Frick was married to Mr Charlie Lingle Sunday by Rev. C. P. Fisher. Little Miss Annie MecKinter of Ireland» sang beautifully ‘‘In the Cool of the Shady Brook,’’ immediately after the ceremony. A bounteous sup- per was spread for the party. They will live near Faith. Mr. Calvin Eagle and Miss Mary Sifford were married Sun- day at the parsonage by Rev. H. A. Trexler. Mr. Luther Hess has bought Mr. Charles Barger’s residence. Mr. Milas Holshauser of Salis- bury, 79 years old, died Sunday at 10 o’clock and was_ buried at lower stone church Monday, Dec. 7th. The funeral was preached by his pastor, Rev. C. P. Fisher. He was a member of Emanuel ehurch and was a good man and useful citizen. There will be a Christmas tree at the Lutheran church here with exercises by the children. George Fisher has a large fine quarry open and men at work in it. The granite vault cut by Peeler Brothers on the Phillips Moun- tain is nearly done and _ will be shipped to lin Point cis eek. Mr. D. A. Wiley has gone to East Spencer to build a store house for Mr Robert Kluttz who was recently burnt out. Several weddings to report soon The ] eeh will have a Christmas tree on Christmas day at 10 a. m. Mr. J. C. Lingle has opened a grocery store here. Mr. Charley Misenheimer has moved back to Faith. Jack Eller and Dolph Gant are back from the mountains loaded with apples. Mr. Lawson Ludwick has open- ed up a grocery store. pesp VENUS. —~+@>e—___ Where Bullets Flew. David Parker, of Fayette, N. J., a veteran of the civil war, who lost a foot at Gettysburg, says, ‘‘The good Electric Bitters have done is worth more than five hundred dollars to me. I spent much money doctoring for a bad case of stomach trouble, to little purpose. I then tried Electric Bitters, and they cured me. I now take them as a tonic, and they keep me strong and well.” 20c. at Statesville Drug Co.’s store. —--++2@>-e—__ Most disfiguring skin eruptions, scrofula, pimples, rashes, etc., are due to impure blood. Burdock Blood Bitters is a cleansing tonic. Makes you clear-eyed, clear-brained, clear skinned. -_——__~+@>-e—_—__—_ Mothers’ Joy is made of pure goose grease and other healing ingredients. Mothers you cannot afford to be without a box of Moth ers’ Joy. For Christmas. _If there ever was a delecate atten- tion in the way of a Christmas pres- ent, it isa box of that remarkably fine writing paper at Hall’s Drug Store. Every time the recipient, wheth wife, sister, daughter or rosie Opens the box, she is going to re. member you, and naturally; she will write some of her letters to you upon the paper. our stock. or W. F. HALL, ievetssetetsstttesesiseasteentttye idee e ees Fist se esstststeeis sides tet tsi tent r tip attri >| ALCOHOL 3 PER CENT. : | N-setlic Peperaionticls | Similating the FoodandResula- 1. ing te Stomach and Bowes Sasa | Ala we eR Otay (ie ae: Promotes Digestion Cheertt ; Hill | Ness and Rest-Contains neither: ge H:| Opium.Morphine nor Minere ‘| NOT NARCOTIC. ‘Oi seein “iml':1 Aperfect Remedy for Consfiga: aH tion, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea (aa Worms Convulsions. Feverisk: ne Mee ness and LOSS OF SLEEP. FacSimile Signature of _ NEW YORK. _] Dp St: ep utoesits epi ie a 35 DTK KS aay boa sir Exact Copy of Wrapper. } For Infants and Children. pai The Kind You Have Always Bough; For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK City. coupon that can be exchanged SoCCCcesoveseoosoeosooosee © These Handsome Dishes Given Away toMy Customers With each cash purchase of 5 cents or over I will give youa for these gifts. L. A: GOLDMAM : 99006002000 88CESE 0000896 Purveyor to the People. . { THE STATESVILLE LOAN AND TRUST Cu. 3 ___ Of Statesville, N. C. CAPITAL STocK IS PREPARED to transact all branches of banking. Accounts are solicited from firms, corporations and indiv - uals, who may rely upon courteous consideration and the very best terms that are consistent with good banking methods. Four per cent. paid on time and savings deposits Seececccococooce SHAREHOLDERS LIABIEITY............ vereeveeeeeso $40,000.00 SURPLUs ANP UNDIVDED ToraL Resources OvEnr.. oreesussuneeree s000eceeesee 40,000.00 PROFITS..........0. $30,000.00 seccecseesvesceroveeses $440,000.00 : i | | _— SKATING RINK Opera House Building Open from 3 to 5 and 8 to 10 p. m. © Le * No Children Admitted ¢ Se neces a Prizes on exhibit i ; m ition in Show window at States- Prescriptionist, ville D tug Company. OFFICERS E. Steele, President, E. Morrisou, Vice-Pres, D. M. Ausley. Se¢ , Manager Savings Department ~ - > Fie 2 nanabettsicactae STATESVILLE Floor at Night Sessions, | New Tables of the latest and best makes have been in- _ Stalled under J. P. Phifer’s grocery store. NewPoolRom & WeSolicitYourPatronage | » pe t e th te fe t e he h th th e Pe er er er er ar ee SW —s e l w e > Oo ct MS £5 TY ) Od + <¢ -c e - — ee x 00 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 99 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 “Re SUOVSIOISUSISHSHS ‘ NEW at a Low Price. Maynard & Ellis, Professional Photographers, in N. B. Mills New Building, adjoining Stimson Drug Store, Statesville, N. C. High Grade Photos trying to please you. Penny Pictures, the best that can be made—24 for Post Cards, per dozen, $1 2H Perr half dozen Cabinets, in folders, dozen, $2 OO. Half dozen $1.50. Pictures of your home, Post Card size, and up to 8x10 inches, and out-door groups, is one of our specialties at a moder. ate price. Give us @ trial and be convinced that we are We are now ready to serve you. \Vill also Develop and Finish Kodak Work. 250. "2 ec. al k SP L ME D ] rd ed Pe d ! ea PC Gt RB el ee pe g a pa y —w~MAYNARD i s WE a Bd SS FD PD N Rd a NL A Oo he SL DN IOUS DNSISIIGISIS 8006. JESSE SSSSSSESCEES CES CE es a : at Christmas, or any ” other time, is good health M This is insured by u eans . of sanitary plumbing in i your house. If you would ; present your family with << a threefold blessing, eele- @# brate Christmas by ar- & ranging with us for a § complete system of mod- 4 ern up-to-date plumbing WW from cellar to roof. qv % ’ THE GREATEST OF ALL GIFTS—— % og See, "Diaries vee --" « == 73 tec = Let, Ne wee Bowe 3% ~ attests oo" xo Se Se wy went o> ~ w A. W. HOLLER PLUMBING COMPANY x . Phoce No. 61. 127 W. Broad St. Ar Qs 393933333333333333325 526 SH PEEPESEEEE SES EP EPS SPEDE THE SEEDING SEASON is again with us and have a car load of the celeprated Superior Grain Drills Re t e fe c f p f h e f o c t a c t i n d e ci fi e f h i c t b e y b e e the best and lightest running drill made. examine them and get our prices—we know we can please. Also a Full Line of Hardware, Stoves, Etc. Evans Hardware Comp’y SPEPEPPESLESSDLDSHEPEDLHS P If in need of a drill se t h th t th th fe te fh fe t c h fh cf fb cf b o e f > OF eCe A Stew Down In @ sharp contest nothing but “quality” and appearance figure. “RUTH MADE” Hosiery and the “WORLDS BEST” Black are the goods of Quality. After ali has been said, all your pursuasive argument exhausted, it is To get best results you must have the best of everything best yarn, best colors, best machines and best help, with ; such a combination you can produce the best of what you are making. E for the goods of “quality.” We have all of the above. Ask your dealer THE BRADFORD KNITTING MILL. still a fact that : “QUALITY” IS THE ONLY TEST OF VALUE with prompt service and obliging treatment, is of great benefit to the young business man. When a man has a Bank accountit implies cenfidence in himself ani others. By all means huve a good checking bank behind you in business. You will find it both convenient and dig- > nified in transacting busi- - ness. { { ; RSG Filet leeks ht ea th hee Te i, HTN Som ih ist fut ial AP; DT By; } ian | i ie nh et + ew Mh ra ~ Fa Pi ax ee hy . Pa LSS a 3 ee / O pre Ss) A ee Coe " : ~~ ee iy 7 & ba i i : ml "i i , nyt we 5 . ai sme WE Merchants and Farmers’ Bank d OF STATESVILLE INCORPOKATED CAPITAL $25,000.00. OFFICERS: ao et SON, Pres.; C. S. TOMLIN, Vice-Pres.; F. B. Sa & Treas.; J. A. KNOX, Asst. Sec. & Treas. Directors: ; i », J. L. Stevenson, C. S. Tomlin, R. R. Reid, es. Page, Geo. B. Nicholson, L. K. Lazen- by, E. G. Gaither, J. R. Hill, E. B. Watts. * et oe So ee a ae eer op a , ae zz A CAT AND A CANARY. They Went Away Separately, but Came Back Together, A lady friend of mine, says an Eng- lish writer, has as pets a canary and a cat. The two were the best of good ‘friends, and when the bird’s prison door was opened it Would come out and perch on the cat’s back while it trilled forth a song of gladness, One day my friend left her two pets together, and on her return the bird was nowhere to be found. Pussy was curled up on a cushion, sleeping con- tentedly, and my friend jumped to the conclusion that the cat was answer- able for the bird’s disappearance, con- sequently she caught up the cat and, holding the supposed delinquent be- fore the empty cage, beat ® rather mercilessly. Poor pussy mewed pite- ously, but her relentless mistress put — outside and shut the door against er. Next morning, feeling rather asham- ed of her outburst, she made inquiries about the eat, but pussy was gone. Some days later she heard a faint scratching at her window, and on open- ing the casement a cat crept in and laid a bedraggled canary at her feet. At first she did not recognize her pets in the two disreputable looking objects before her. When she did recognize them her delight was great. Presumably the canary had gone out by the open window, and, finding liber- ty sweet, it had flown to a neighboring wood. How the cat found the bird and brought it back uninjured is a mys- tery. DEATH VALLEY. The Burning, Blasting Winds That Sweep This Arid Waste. The prevailing winds in Death val- ley are from the west. Though origi- nating in the Pacific ocean and sat- urated with humidity in traveling the intermediate distance, they are inter- cepted by the lofty peaks of four ranges of mountains, which absorb all of their moisture, so that by the time they reach the valley all humidity has disappeared. The blasts are as if heated in a fiery furnace, and no liv- ing thing can survive the intense heat. Even birds indigenous to the region die. It is in the months of greatest heat that the sandstorms of Death valley are most deadly. They rage with in- tense fury, obliterating the landscape and dimming the light of the sun, withering the scanty vegetation and covering the trails deep in powdered dust. At all times the aspect of the valley is superlatively desolate. No spot on earth surpdsses it in aridity or Tophet-like heat. During the heated term an hour without water means death. Meat be- comes putrid in an hour. Eggs are cooked in the blistering sand. Water is only palatable by means of large, porous, earthenware jars, common to all hot countries, suspended in drafts and reduced in temperature by means of the rapid evaporation of the mois- ture from the outside. Wedding Ring Mottoes. The custom of inscribing within the hoop of the betrothal or wedding ring a motto or “posy,” as it was called, was formerly very prevalent. Hamlet asks, “Is this a prologue or the posy of a ring?” Some posies were very ten- der and beautiful. Among the more appropriate posies may be mentioned “Deux corps, un coeur,” “My heart and I until I die” and “I am yours” from sixteeenth century rings, “Love ever,” “Love true, ’tis joy,” and “Time lesseneth not my love’’ from the seven- teenth century, “Love me,” “My soul will keep thine company to heaven” and “En ma fidelite je finiral ma vie” from the eighteenth. In the ring which “Florizel’ (afterward George IV.) gave to the hapless Perdita were the words “Je change qu’en mourant—Unalterable to my Perdita through life.” Death was on His Heels. Jesse P. Morris, of Skippers, Va., had a close call in the spring of 1906. He says: ‘‘An attack of pneumonia left me so weak and with such a fearful cough that my friends declared consumption had me, and death was on my heels. Then I was persuaded to try Dr. King’s New Discovery. It helped me immediately, and after taking two and a half bottles J was a well man again. I found out that New Discovery is the best remedy for coughs and lung dis- ease in all the world,’’ Sold under guaarantee at Statesville drug Co.’store. 50¢e. and $1.00. Trial bottle free. ———_—++@>-—_—— At New Sterling. Miss Edna. Love, missionary from Mexico, will lecture at New Sterling church on next Sunday day morning at 11 o’clock. A full attendance of the congrega- tion is requested. ——_—_4+@>- — Stops earache in. two minutes; toothache or pain of burn or scald in five minutes; hoarseness, one hour; muscleache, two hours; sore throat, twelve hours—Dr. Tloimas Cause Your Wife to wear a smile of satis- faction by buying your Christmas Goods from M. P. Alexander & Bro. A complete fine of Fresh Groceries for the Xmas Trade = We have a fresh stock of the fol. lowing Goods: Fancy Cranberries, Pineap- ples, Nuts of all kind, Fruit Cake ingredients and everything else. Our Melrose Flour cannot be beat. * * If you want the best of Fresh Meats see us. M. P. Alexander & Bro., The up-to-date Grocery and Meat Men. —— + @ )D— OSITION Draughon gives contracts, backed by a chain of 30 Colleges, $300,000.00 capital, and 19 year’s success, to se- cure positions under reasonable con- ditions or refunnd tuition. BOOKKEEPING 22xsie™s om. petitors, by not accepting his pruposition, concede that he teaches more Bookkeeping in THREE months than they do in SIX. Draughon can convince YOU. SHORTHAND F.2e oea Court Reporters write the system of Shorthand Draughon teaches, be- cause they know it is THE BEST. FOR FREE CATALOG and book- let, “Why Learn Telegraphy?’’ which explains all, call on or write JNO. F. DRAUGHON, President DRAUCHON’S PRACTICAL BUSINESS COLLEGE (We also Teach by Mail) Raleigh, Knoxville, Nashville, Cc lumbia or Washington, D. C. SOUTHERN RAILWAY CO. lireat Highway of Trade and Travel Through the Southern States Through Pullman Sleeping Cars on palatial trains between the principal Cities and Resorts of the South. High-class Dining Cars. Many delightfulSummer and Winter Resorts on and reached by Southern Railway. “The Land of the Sky,” “The Sapphire Country,” in scenic Western North Carolina; beau- tiful at allseasons. Hotels of the highest class. For detailed information apply to nearest Ticket Agent, or R. L. VDRNON, T. P. A., Charlotte, N. C. S.H. HARDWICK, P.T.M., W.H. TAYLOE,G. P. A., The Cafe of Quay I have afresh line of CANDY in boxes, and FRUIT, for Xmas trade. .%. .° ° Fresh Oysters Every Day for retail trade and serviug. Also QUAIL ON TOAST. PHONE NO. 323 W. W. GAITHER : Proprietor. NOTICE Chas. Brincefield will ap- ply tor a pardon Dec. 18. Wood Sawed! See R. O. Harbin or Phone 132 Eclectric Oil, monarch over pain. or 46. 11-4-1m. IREDELL CAFE| Now Is Essential to the Up- building of the Modern. Business Enterprise. :::. To the publicity gained by the use of the advertising columns of the daily papers is at-. tributed the growth, and consequent success, of a very large percentage of great business enter- prises of the present day. Advertising is recognized as the prime fac- tor in increasing the sales of any class of goods or manufactured articles. . The space used in this paper is your_busi- ness message to the public. In this open letter you should tell them of the merits of what you are offering, setting forth the reasons why your particular line is worthy of their attention. THE EVENING Mascon has increased its local circulation very materially during the past three months and the results obtained from the space used by the advertisers are gratifying to them and to the paper. It reaches into the homes of the best class of our people and your’ message will be placed in the hands of those with money to buy the goods you wish tosell, — The Space Rates in The Evening: Mascot are not high. Your message is carried, each day, to those you wish to reach, in the mo economical manner. Z For information call us up on the phone and a representative ot the paper will gladly visit you SEVERAL THINGS | Are to be considered in seleeting your Bank ? . as 1ST. Strength-Financial Strength o% 2ND. The care with which th Bank is Managed. SRD. The courtesy and spirit of | of accomodation displayed by the Officers and Em ployees. oy 4TH. The banking experience of Officers. STH. The ability of the bank to - Properly and Promptly Handle all Your Business| To Those Desiring the Embodi- ment of These Features are: § - Offered The Service of THE: FIRST NATIONAL BANK - OF STATESVILLE $100.000 ~ CAPITAL OPO7S2O297G 7978 92587878787 6 S79 197978 PF UUSOSOSOISOSIE TAI STES 0050008560 8000808C $540 O0OCECSCROBOSOSOGOMCMICMIC MD CRROTIR st ala al ote Time for You to Se- lect Your Xmas Goods - We will put aside any goods selected. See our new line of ae an Morris Chairs and Rockers. Also Fine Mahogany. Tables, We will make Special Prices.on COOK... - STOVES and RANGES. — - ae STATESVILLE HOUSEFURNISHING COM ee i 5 ons ys - heise er e ee t LE N ME R A AE I R AE S AO A OH GE a) Sc a g ¢ DO R Ba r ae a p e = as o a e os ge F or — 3 ey ee e Se a ee es ee l s st n es a ge e e e s Ee —— «= H — Le e n na e be RE O EI LG SO I SE I ES 1h Rn nk o ee te ey ee Ae Pe t e . ee e an ea e Mee fo t ee t ee pa n a om ea ; PERSONAL NOTES. “Some Happenings Among Those ‘People You Know and Others! -You Don’t Know. Mr. J. W . Ferguon of Charlotte is in the city. Mr. T. B. Apperson of Winston. - ig in thee ity. Mr. Wm. Ledbetter was a Char- lotte visitor yesterday. Mr. J. P. Kincaid of Lenoir is in the city on. business. Messrs. J. L. Boyd and B. N. Matlock, of Winston. are in the city. _ Mr. Harold B. Crowson of Vaylorsville was in town today visiting relatives Messrs. D. W. Winson, F. C. Pharr and W. M. Failor, of Char- lotte, are in the city. Mr. J. F. Misenheimer,, propri- _etor of the St. Charles, returned . last night from Concord. Mr. E. C. Lowrance, who spent last night in the city, returned to his home at Mooresville this morn- ing. Mr. G@. H. Dortch, of Raleigh, is in thee ity on business connect- ed with the Atlantic Fire Insur- ance Co. : . Misses Lizzie Barker and Laura Miller returned to their home at Mooresville this morning, after spending a few days with Miss Edith Smith in this city. -_—— New Suit Ordered. The supreme court has ordered _& new suit in the ease of John Hol- ler and wife of Mooresville against of the Western Union to delivr a The suit grew out of the failure of the Westrn Union to deliver a message promptly to the Hollers and suit was brought in the Jan- uary term of the Iredell county ‘superior court in 1908, Judge Council presiding. The plaintiffs were awarded the amount of $500.00 and the Wes- tern Union took an appeal to the supreme court which ordered a new suit. Messrs. Armfield and Turner of this city were the attorneys for th¥ Watern Union, and Messrs. H. P. Grier and Z. V. Turlington for the plaintiffs. + +o Miss Sharpe Entertains. Miss Lillian Sharpe entertain- ed a large number of friends at her home at Mr. J M. Johnson’s, last night in honor of Misses Liz- zie Baker, and Laura Miller of Mooresville, the guests of Miss Edith Smith. The young people played games of all kinds and refreshments were served. The persons present report a nice time,, with plenty of fun. ee Nice Advertising In aditon to the adverising car- ried in the local newspapers, the Statesville Drug Company have issued: a beautiful Xmas advertis- ing phamplet setting forth their Xmas. goods, also bearing some nice Xmas verses. They also have the interior of their store very tastefully decorated. _<~ere—_— *‘June Bug’’ Late. The train from Taylorsville, known as the ‘‘June Bug,” due ‘here at 10 o’clock this morning, did not arrive until about 1 o’clock, on account of running out of water for the engine after leav- ing Taylrsville. ——+-+2>- > —___ Mothers how can you take ehances—keep a bottle cf Moth- erg joy in your house. You need Mothers Joy every day. ———~~(@e————_— COTTON MARKET. Local Market. Prices paid at wagon: Strict-good middling 8 5-8 to 8 3-4. x middling.......... ..8 1-2 ddling.. ...... ..814 to 8 3-§ Stains and Tinge..........7 to & The market was quiet. —_——<+o@>-e——— Itching piles provoke profanity, bat profanity won’t cure them. Doan’s . Ointment cures itching, bleeding protruding piles after years of sdfering. At any drug store. SAYS PILGRIM JOE Finds That Humanity Is Losing Its Reverence. SHOWS INSTANCES OF IT. Has No Desire to Pose as a Discoverer or Explorer or to Make His Fellow Man Out Worse Than He Is—States His Convictions. {Copyright, 1908, by T. C. McClure.] Besides lifting up the lowly, encour- aging the sorrowing, selling my reme- dies, taking tintypes and showing my meying pictures as I travel about the country, I also collect statistics for the agricultural bureau at Washington and keep tab on human nature as I find it in various localities. It grieves me to say that in carrying out this latter duty I have been forced to the conclusion that human nature is gradually but surely losing its rev- erence for sacred things. Not a week \ S SSN i} 8 LNs —~ In WS MANS INNS SATAN WALKING ARM IN ARM WITH A BOS- TON ALDERMAN. goes past but what I find a dozen in- stances of it, and it hurts me more than I can tell. Two years ago I exhibited my mov- ing pictures at the town of Jump Off, which was founded as a future rival of Chicago and had seven murders and nine elopements the first year. When I showed the picture of General Wash- ington at Valley Forge—emaciated, starved, discouraged and almost ready to trade American independence for a pumpkin pie—there was a breathless silence in the audience for a minute, and then sobs and tears broke forth from every point of the hall. Men who had not shed a tear when their moth- ers-in-law died now broke down and had to be led from the hall and in some cases, as I afterward learned, did not take a hand at poker for the next two weeks. I was told of women that went home and wept for three days and could not be comforted and of lit- tle children that wanted fo send their food to the starving patriots. Last week I got around to show my pictures in the same town again. There was a still larger audience, and I thought I observed an increased look of reverence on their faces. After col- lecting my statistics as to the number of cucumbers per acre raised in that part of. Kansas this year I mounted the platform and started the show with the same old picture. It was Washington sitting in his log house at Valley Forge. He was the most sorrowful looking skeleton ever exhib- ited to the public outside of an ana- tomical museum. I expected great re- sults, and I got ’em. Instead of tears and silence and sobs, the picture no sooner appeared on the canvas than irreverent voices called out: “Fat him up!” “Feed him pudding and milk!” “Give him chop suey!” “Hey, George, old boy, where’s your fried oysters?’ My grief and astonishment can hard- ly be imagined. As I looked at the audience in a reproachful way the au- dience continued to hoot and guy, and I had to take the picture off. The au- dience even hooted at me. I then ex- hibited a picture of Satan walking arm in arm with a Boston alderman that had sold his vote for $2,000, and there was applause tasting seven minutes. The next picture was Faith clinging to the cross. I had great hopes that this would bring the audience back into the straight and narrow path, but was doomed to disappointment. She was advised to go home and go to darning stockings, and when I would have expressed my surprise at such sacrilege some one threw a turnip and hit me on the jaw. From thence on I exhibited only pic- tures showing that the wages of sin are from four to ten dollars a day, with board and washing and theater tickets thrown in, andi the audience went wild with enthusiasm. I could not close my eyes to the fact that the drift of the times was toward wick- edness and thet the traveling agents of family Bibles must be living on on- fons and sleeping in fence corners. Next day while I was driving over the highway from Jump Off to Stop Here I met a cavalcade of three horse- men on the road. As a usual thing, when I meet a cavalcade my innocent face, venerable whiskers and dignified bearing insure me respect. In most cases the cavalcade removes its hats and bows low before me. In this case, as a sign of the degeneracy of the times, the cavalcade halted, and the leader asked me what I would take for my whiskers. I had not yet recoy- ered from my astonishment whep.an- other man dismonnted and @tmbed up on the wheel of my wagon and actual- ly gave a tug at my whiskers to see if they were false. Then they called me ‘ old man and old boy and old hoss, and one of them tried to spit tobacco juice in my fighting dog’s eyes. As 1 drove on it just did seem to me that the end of the world was at hand. In imagina- tion I could see the destruction of Sodom and hear the yells of its perish- ing inhabitants. Having reac the town itself, I ob- served that a spirit of levity and gay- ety pervaded the place, but thought it might be owing to the fact that there was a man in town from Denver try- ing to sell folding bathtubs and hair- brushes. I opened my show by intro- ucing Pilgrim Joe’s Alternative, which is a well known remedy for drawing folks back from the grave. ! had scarcely announced that the price still remained 25 cents notwithstand- ing the panic when a crowd began tu hoot. In selling this alternative I usu- ally tell a little story. It is about a fond mother whose sunny haired little boy gets in the way of a brick house and is crushed to a pulp. The mother sits grieving over the remains and wailing out that there is no more hap- piness for her on this earth when an angel comes flying down with a bottle of my justly celebrated remedy in her hand. She pats the grieving mother on the head and then sprinkles some of the alternative over the remains of the child. In five minutes he is chas- ing grasshoppers and the mother is laughing in glee and wondering when the next circus will come along. Seeing that the crowd at Stop Here was a little out of humor, I started in to tell this story, but it brought missiles instead of tears and smiles. A major- ity of those missiles collided with my sacred body, and for the only time in thirteen years I was somewhat-embar- rassed. I passed the picture along and substituted “The Discovery of Ameri- ca.” Nogood. They threw tobacco cuds at Christopher as he stood and gazed upon America. I substituted the “Two Orphans,” but the raged and starving little girls, wandering around in a snowstorm at night in search of fod- der and sympathy, were advised to cut it out. In desperation I changed to the most sacred picture in the colleé- tion, which represents a field of battle at night after the fighting. There are dead -and wounded scattered about, and instead of being on their roosts and asleep thousands of buzzards are hovering o’er the scene. There are an- gels there weeping o'er the dead or praying with the wounded and other angels with clubs whacking away at the buzzards. When I exhibited this picture in the towns of Step High, Go On, Merry L and Who Cares, there were such tears and sobs as produced a wave of influ- enza all through the state, and hun- dreds of men rode from ten to fifty miles to tell me that they would not enlist in the army if Japan licked us ten times over. On this occasion, however, the pic- ture was received in frozen silence. | This lasted about a minute, and then the audience began to guy the sacred angels and sick on the buzzards. The angels were advised to try this or that breakfast food and to put on tailor made gowns and wear “Merry Widow” hats, and when I stepped to the front and protested against such sacrilege there were shouts for me to pull down my vest and get off the earth. I have no desire to pose as a dis- coverer or explorer or to make my fel- low man out worse than he is, but my convictions are: First.—Sacred things are gradually losing their sacredness, Second.—A spirit of levity is abroad in the land. Third.—This world will eventually be a mighty tough neighborhood to live in. Fourth—If you have a pain any- where in the family or among your distant relatives, take Pilgrim Joe’s Annihilator, Fifth.—If you haven’t got a pain, but are slowly dying from grief, old age or disappointment, take Pilgrim Joe’s Al- ternative. It will bring you back to youth and oyster stews and give you a chance to start even with the world. There is no other. If your family truggist tries to get you to take a bot- tle of hair dye in its place, call him a horse thief and walk out. M. QUAD. CASTORIA For Infants and Children, The Kind You Have Always Bought omen Lopba WANT ADS 1 ie 5 cents a line. 3 TIMES... e200 4 cents a line. 6 times pee s+00eee 3% CeNtS @ line 26 times................ 3 cents a line. WANTED—Three lice men for boarders. Apply to 513 Tradd street. dec4 6t AMBITIOUS YOUNG MEN AND ladies should learn telegraphy; for, since the now 8 hour law became effective there is a shortage of many thousand telegraphers. Po- sitions pay from $50 to $70 a month to beginners. The National Telegraph institute of Columbia, S. C., and five other cities is oper- ated under supervision of R. R. officials and all students are placed when qualified. Write them for particulars. noig dtf see cco Lt ee pr aa Le MR Se Tt ROE Ree” $10 Gold Pieces for $9.00 PLE ER epee jeweled grades. may want. Solid Gold Lockets Solid Gold Hearts for All other Gold Goods QP P DP I DI P P I N G ~~ a) ~ alljin sterling or best Guaranteed. In Silverware I have you money. Come That is what it means when you buy your Christmas goods from me. Ihave too much stock and must cut it down by January Ist, and will give you bargains in anything in my line. prices suit the BUYERS PURSE. Anyone wanting a high-grade Watch Movement can now get it cheap. ford, South Bend, Illinois, Hamilton, Elgin and Waltham, in 15 and 17 These will be put into whatever kind of a case you I have too many 15 and 17 jeweled movements on hand and they must go. I have ; Solid Gold Rings from $1 OO up. Solid Gold Stick Pins from $1 OO up. Solid Gold Cuff Buttons 175 “ In Gold Filled Goods, such as Gold Filled Neckchains, Gold Filled Lockets, Gents’ and Ladies’ Gold Filled Woven Wire and Silk Watch Fobs, Ladies Gold Filled Cuff Pins, Veil Pins, Hat Pins Bar Pins,.Stick Pins, Belt Pins, Brooches, etc., from the lowest prices and up. Large lot of Bracelets at right prices. Nice line of Silverware and Novelties, such as Toilet Sets, Manicure Seis, Mili- tary Brushes, Clothes Brushes, Shaving Brushes, Hat and Bonnet Brushes, Nice line of Ladies’ Gold Filled Handle Umbrellas from $3 50 to $7 50. You can get a bargain in Cut Glass, Japanese China Vases, etc., and Statu- ary, as these must go. Spoons, Butter Knives, Sugar Shells, Pie and Tomato Servers, cold meat and other Forks, Berry Spoons. Soup Sets, Soup Ladles, Carving Sets, Childs’ Sets, individual Salt Sets, Cut Glass Sterling Top Salt and Pepper Sets. Nice line of Parlor and Gold Plate Clocks, Kitchen and Alarm Clocks. No difference what you want in the Jewelry line, I will save Will make the I have these in the Rock- Solid Gold Brooches 125 « 400 “ = Sold Gold Neck Chaius 300 “ Neck Chains 125 « toc numerous to mention at right prices. We HO I S T TO TO R O TO T O IO N T O I O N S =a =a , <i grade Quadruple Plate. 2 a complete“linefof Knives and Forks, Tea and Table and see for yourself. SQ A PP P P D Y I N R. F. Henry # Jeweler and Optician Hotel Iredell Building. “We invite surpassing Come==be Ra RR On e Ct ) entire line. show such an elegant line of goods to you even if you don t want to buy. 2 te (e s (e S te (e S te te Ga (e s ( fe : Og i) (i Oe Ra s ( : te oP ) fe te ) te ee e ) i eS Oe Os ) ta s ee ) wnoseaneassaseaPS0a0 sana Pat cAPaNahPa% ah Pa%\"alhPatA0099s0 269 ath Mone Messleams = 1eo0|a0sneL seca sts Che Christnas Line At the Store of Quality you to come and fet us show you the Ot is a pleasure to be able to eC fine of Quality anything ever shown in Statesville. eonvineed. Statesville Brug Ca. Prescriptionists. CA S aS SS Ca S SR S ES S SS SR S CS R S CS SE S S CR S SC ES How to Prevent Pneu- & monia _ In every paper you pick up you will see where some good man has just died with & this fearful disease—pneu- monia. Now we will give # you One Hundred Dollars § for any case of pneumonia you have in your famuly it fails to cure if you will use Goose Grease Liniment as directed. It only costs you § 25 cents a bottle. Get it— g you have nothing to loose & and all to gain. Weknow §& there are thousands who f will read this and throw it | aside and in a few days will be down with the disease. Please just get one bottle and putit away until you | need it. If you haven’t the | money to buy it let us know and we will eend you a bot- tle free. GOOSE GREASE CO. } WANTED—BY THE AMERICAN Cotton and Business University of Milledgeville, Ga., students to take one or more of our courses in cot- ton grading, buying and selling. Business courses of bookkeeping, Shorthand, Typewriting, or Telegra- phy and Railroad course. Positions guaranteed under reasonable con- ditions. Write at once for oar consolidated catalog. Larges: col lege South. Sept 28-if FOR RENIT—ONE STORE BUILD- ing and basement. Best retail stand in the city. Statesville Real- | ercccccvcocccsoccooooocccs CHRISTMAS SUGGESTIONS 8 Let us help you solve the all perplexing ques- tion:—WHAT SHALL I GIVE FOR CHRIST- MAS? Below isa list of useful articles which any one would be proud of: : House Slippers, Bath Slippers, at 50c. to $2.00 The handsomest line of Neckwear in Statesvilleat 25c. to $1.00 Silk Muffiers and Reefers at ~ $1.00 to $3.00 Silk Suspenders (in individual boxes) at 50c. to $1.50 Silk Handkerchiefs (plain or fancy) at 25c. to $1.00 Hawes celebrated $3.00 Hats. ail si Green, Ivy, Tan and Peari, the new shapes and colors Dress and Driving Gloves at 25e. to $2.00 The Christmas money expended here will not be wasted. @ S.B. MILLER af tie soe max. @ SOSCOCO CC CCSCOC CROCE COOVE a ———— €9 9 0 C 0 8 0 6 0 0 0 0 8 ty and Investment Co. Sept.19 see SESSCSESMEESCESS TERE *y m w "WE IRON SHIRTS BY STEAM= WM | w AN w a O 7 y T bythe old Roller Rubbj Ww m N method but in Straight Paes. Ww ~ sure Machine which gives beauti- Ww | demestic finish and makes the wb am Shirts last longer==——___ v M ae w i Statesville Steam Laundry ¥ mm U. C. Harwell, Prop. Phone !22 . Se <ec* SESCCECCECECCCeCececet” ? Vol. 1. (iovern Ma WILL TAKE Doesn’t Beiie Are Maicin —Southern ous ald TI Change in Washingtoy my successo shall retire Gov. R. B. Gl na, at the E job of chief Carolna has one, and I y My friends h for United § have declined man will be x opposition. ”’ Gov. Glen after his ret at chautauqu will retain aj ““It’s all to publicans m South,’’ said 4 it is true tha about 15,000 given Govern democratic nearly 18,00 been. The 4 bigger vote, o ed that great in the last ¢ past electio southern stae ities? Indivi the south aré¢ than the rep north. Therg when the sou ous. If, the gressing, wh we change o ‘“Beeause cd is no rea mind on my I consider hit Americans th tory will pro President Ro istration has benefit to the the two fea-> ‘on that wi) “ more than ogether of interest of thi natural reso bring about 3 road problemi because a m: in polities he support. I years ago w lina troops inaugural ce advised my wise.’? Lights Arrangem@ terday afte electrie ligh hospital Mr A.D Electrie @ charge of th gin at once. The funds been raised } of this city, In charge. A Ra Former §$ Webb, of the Speak at T. J anuary nex Council. Mr. Webb enthusiastic the state, an Ways pleasin jg , oa a) — \a 4 Vol. 1. OPTS, a2 Ie ARE ITE AL AGRE MEN EA ee RD Statesville, N. C., Friday Evening, December 11, 1908. f Governor Glenn Makes a Talk Hot After Mr. Teddy WILL TAKE A NEEDED REST.|CONGRESS WAS INSULTED. Doesn't Believe That Republicans} The President Has Stirred up a Are Maing wains in the South —Southern States Are Prosper- ous ald There is No Need of a Change in Politics. Washington, Dee. my successor is inaugurated I Hornet’s Nest and a Resolution Expressing Resentment Will Likely be Passed. ———— Washington, Dee. 10.—Presi- 10.—** When dent Roosevelt has stirred up a hornet’s nest among some of the Brings Suit lor $100,000 AND SHE WANTS A DIVOPCE Mr. Russell J. Thomas to Bring Suit Against Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Speer—Latter to Bring Suit for Annullment. Charlotte News 10th. Russell J. Thomas, whose sen- sational and romantic marriage, News Budget rom | haleigh A BIG BUSINESS CHANGE. R. B. Raney to Give up the State Agency for Penn Mutual Insur- ace Company and Retire From BuSinesS—Coroner of Wake County Gives up Investigation of Smith Murder Case. Dis- charging Two Men Held—Win- ston-Salem Still Leads in Sale of Davis Found Not Guilty HE GOES BACK TO WORK. After Thirteen Hours Deliberation and Nineteen Ballots Jury Re- turns Verdict—Not Believed That Any Further Prosecution Will be Undertaken. Omaha, Neb., Dec. 10.—After 13 hours deliberation the jury in the case of Charles E. Davie, i Mascor. No. 375. Wiliam J |S Arrested KILLED TOO MANY DUCKS. Texas Game Warden Gets After Him for .Shooting .Ducks—All Plead Guilty and Fined $25.00 Each. od Galveston, Dee. 9.—William Jennings Bryan fell into the hands of @ serious game warden today. when he and three others hunters m were arrested at Lake Surprise, the famous game preserve of Mil- lionaire Banker Moody, of Galves- shall retire from polities,”” said] M°MPers of congress as the result] to Miss Spivey Speer, the Atlanta Gov, R. B. Glenn, of North Caroli- of the suggestion in his annual mes (Ga.) heiress, is still fresh in the na, at the Ebbitt House. ‘“The| 528° that the failure to favor stim-| minds of the people, has institu- job of chief exeentive of North ulation of the work of the seerct|teg suit against Mr. and Mrs. W. Leaf Tobacco, Second. MO N T O N I O N N G With Wilson} charged with the murder on the morning of September 2, of Dr. Frederick T. Rustin, at 6:15 this wy > si SW A N T O N O N I O N ON T O N T O N I G HO O N ey 7 oe Le eR eS SS C S RS a a KS Vi @ 9 Carolina has been a strenuous one, and I want to take a rest. My friends have urged me to run for United States senator, but I have declined, and, Senator Over- man Will be re-nominated without opposition. ”” Gov. Glenn will devote his time after his retirement to lecturing at chautauquas and lyeeums, but will retain an Interest in polities “It’s all tommyrot about the re- t officials by cungress was probably beecaue congressmen did not want themselves watched. Several indi- vidual members regard this ex- pression of the president as aa in- sult and it is likely a resolution will be introduced in the house ex- pressing their resentment though it is not thought likely the resolu- ion will be adopted. —_————»~@o— LOCAL BRIEFS. Mr. J. Frank Bailey went to A. Speer, Mrs. Thomas’ parents, for the alleged alienation of his wife’s affections. It is also stat- ed in today’s Atlanta papers that it is learned on good authority that Mr. Speer will institute a suit for an annullment of the marriage between his daughter and young Thomas. The Atlanta Constitution says: ““The suit for alleged alienation of his wife’s affections was filed change in which the peopel of Ral- iegh and the State will feel deeply interested takes place here about the incoming of the new year, when, it is learned, Mr. R. B Ran- ey retires from the active State agency for the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company and will be succeeded by R. E. Barnes and R. Y. McPherson, they are taking the new business department of the agency and Mr. Raney re. Raleigh, Dec. 10.—A business| morning agreed upon a verdict of not guilty. Two hours later Judge Sears received the verdict and ordered the discharge of the prisoner. Nineteen ballots were required to reach an agreement. They first stood 11 to 1 for acquital of the charge of murder in the first de- gree, The lone juror maintained his position for four ballots and after that was joined by another in voting for conviction on aless- ton, in Cambers count. Bryan, Moody and two friends of the owner of te lake were were charged with having violated. the state game law by killing more than twenty-five fowls each. The law li mits the number tf twenty-five in every twenty-four hours. The day was young, but more than 150 ducks testified to the work of the four men who law- flly should kill not more than one hundred in the whole day = -: seats : by Mr. Thomas through his attor-| taining renewal income, which is] er charge publicans making gains in thel w ; y 5 . oY South,’’ said the coca ‘While oe ee noes < = ae 1| 2eys, Anderson, Rountree & Wil-| Very considerable. The reason! The case had attracted unusu-|_ The sprtsmen had honored the = ees eee ee Eom and: in: Glie petition a sum-| Of the charge is that Ma. Raney, | 9) attention, not only because of | Democratic leader with having it is true that my majority was| for the Bailey Bros., Tobacco Co., about 15,000 greater than that|in South Carolina. given Governor-eleet Kitchin, the demoeratie nearly 18,000 than been. The republicans polled a Mr. James G. Gray is very ill at vote was larger by| his home on Park street with ap- it ever has pendicitis. The exeavating has becs begun bigger vote, of course, which show-| on the lot of Mr. C. E. Ritchie, ed that greater interest was taken on Meeting street, where Mr. in the last campaign than in any} Ritchie will bild him a home. past eleetion. southern staes Why should the ities ? the south are more prosperous|f. than the republican states of the north. The Statesville ministerial asso- fae change their pol-| ciation will meet Monday morning Individually, the states of| at 10 o’clock in the Associate Re- ormed Presbyterian church. The young woman’s missionary There never was a time|sociey of the Methodist church when the south was more prosper- will give a bazaar at the court marized review of the events which have transpired since the wedding, culminates in the follow- ing language: ‘Poisoning her mind against your petitioner (Thomas) and, and ever sinee said date the affection of the wife of the said plaintiff for him, her law- ful husband, was wholly alieni- ated and destroyed.’ “The attorneys for the Speers, Rosser & Brandon and Reuben Arnod, when asked in regard to the rumor that a petition would soon be filed asking an annullment of the marriage between Silvey who has amassed a considerable fortune, desires to retire from ac- tive business. Mr. Barnes has been 2 long time closely associa- ted with Mr. Raney as chief clerk in the insurance office. Mr. Mc- Pherson, who for a year or lon- ger, resid2d in Greensboro, is a widely known and very success- fulinsurance man. He moved from Raleigh to Greensboro and he and Mrs. McPherson will be heartily welcomed back to Ral eigh, Sheis a daughter of Mr and Mrs. W.S. Primrose, of this city. They have already leased a the prominence of the victim of the killing, who wa3 one of the leading physicians and surgeons in the city, and the mystery sur- rounding the tragedy, but be- cause of the family connections of the defendant. It is not be- lieved that any further prosecu- tion will be undertaken in {con- nection with the killing of Dr. Rustin, unless further evidence should be discovered. Attorney Charles English, who conducted the prosecution was at his home when called up by telephone this morning and ad- scored the record of ducks up to, the time the aame warden appear- ed. Then they swore that Bryan had really killed very few canvess- backs. Mody and the other two Nim- rods pleaded guilty and accepted the penalty, the fine being $25 to $50 for cach violation. Id--hrdlu up pjffi ffi; ffi; !!!*#*6 —__—_+ +9 KILLED BY ELECTRICITY, ; Native of Fort Mill Meets Sudden Death in the Tavora Cotton Mill at Yorkville, While Searching ous. If, therefore, we are pro-|house on the 17th to raise funds ee ee ea residence here and expect to 0C-|vicog of the verdict. for Trouble in the Power Line. gressing, why, I repeat, should] towards lighting the new church. ie ea ee ee me eS cupy it the new year. “What is the verdict?” he ask-| Yorkville, S. C., Dec, 10.—Mr. we change our polities? Mrs. W. F. Hall who under- : : aa ed with auxiety. W. F. Downs, a native of Fort “Beeause Mr. Bryan was defeat-| went an operation at the Billings- ed is no reason for a change of ley hospital some weeks ago, is inind on my part regarding him.| now nearly recovered and will be I consider him one of the greatest removed to her home on next { -\mcricans that ever lived and his-| next Monday morning. tory will prove it. I also admire Register of Deeds Boyd this President Roosevelt. His admin- morning issued marriage license to istration has been of the greatest} Mr. J. I. W. Levan and Miss benefit to the country. th, two feg- ~res of his administra- Perhaps| Laura E. Johnson. Only two weeks from today and > that will redound to his ered-| Xmas will be here. “lore than sihors are the calling Nearly all tke trees bs\- been sether of the governors in the|removed from the court house ‘nterest of the conservation of our} Jawn, and it makes much improve- natural resources and his effort to| ment on the general appearance of hring about a solution of the rail-|;¢ road problem. I do not believe that hings. J. A. Hartness, clerk of the because a man differs from me|eourt has received the pension in polities he should not have my] vouchers and all persons on the support. I broke the ice four] pension list ean get their money Years ago when I sent North Caro-| by applying at his office. lina troops to participate in the inaugural ceremonies, and I have advised my suceessor to do like- Wise.”? Some Pretty Windows. Mr. S. B Millelr’s shoe store windows present a beautiful scene ““In the suit for $100,000 for the alleged alienaion of his wife’s af- feetion, the groom alleges that af- ter being placed under arrest with his bride at Charlotte, N. C., and while returning to Atlanta, he was fraudulently induced to con- tinue his journey to Newman and not stop at Atlanta, with the pro- mise that after things blew over he could return to Atlanta and re- sume his relations with his wife, but upon returning found that without his knowledge or consent his wife had been earried to New York and afterwards sailed for a rip to Erope. “The marriage of Miss Speer to Mr. Thomas occurred Monday morning, September 28th, 1908, at 10 o’clock in the study of the Cen- tral Congregational church, Rev. Hrney A. Atkinson, officiating, the eeremony being witnessed by W. R. Thomas, father of the groom; J. C. Fulller, a salesman of 161 The State prison authorities are seeking to recapture Paul Jacobs, a ginger-cake colored ne- gro, who escaped yesterday from the convict camp in Hyde county. He was sent up from Hertjord county to serve three years for larceny. The usual $25 reward is offered. Fred Millerand John Crenshaw committed to jail three weeks ago by Coroner Separk on war- rants charging them with the murder of Dr. E. W. Smith of Richmond, where today released on orders issued by Solicitor Ar- mistead Jones, there being no ev- murder, for the commisson of which Earle Cotton and Tim Holderfield are held without bail. Gracie James, the third prisnor committed by the coroner, is be- ing held as aprobableimportant witness in connection with the idence to connect them with the|~° “Not guilty,” was the reply. There was a note ofdisappoint- ment in hisvoice as hesaid: “I thought it was a case that de- manded the most vigerous pros- ecution, and I exhausted the re- sources at my command to give it that. Everything the state could do to subserve the ends of justice was done.” Charles E. Davis today resum- ed his duties as fa clerk in the Fisst National bank. I never felt a moments uneasi- ness about the outcome of the trial,’ he said. ——_++@r-o—_—_——- Street Cars For Concord. Conesrd, N. C., Dee. 9.—A street car franchise has been grant ed by the Concord board of. alder- men to Mr. J. W. Barry, of Bos- ton, who is backed by ample cap- ital, who with his associates pro- pose to operate a street car line in Mill, and for the past three of four - years head machinist at the Ta- vora Cotton Mill at this place, was instantly killed at about 9 o’clock this morning by an electrical cur- rent which is - furnished by the Southern Power Company had failed and Superintendent Ram- seur and Mr, Downs were search- ing for the trouble. The switch had been opened and Downs placed his hand on a wire he supposed dead but proved not to be and he fell back lifeless. Mr. Downs was highly esteemed by all who knew him. He was a good workman and was strictly, temperate, honest and industrious and was the sole support of his widowed mother, a sister and two small children, all of whom live at Rock Hill See ———_<+?-¢ Looking for Lands. Messrs. G. E. and C, A. Scheler, ——_++a-2——— now. It is all a winter scene in trial of Cotton and Holderfield. of Fair Hope, Pa., arrived in the . htree street, and Mrs. At- : Q Lights For The Hospital both windows. peor ese set. ae It is understood that the eoro-| Concord. city last night. Arrangements were made yes- In one window the floor is cov- terday afternoon for putting in| ered with moss while the shoes kinson, wife of the officiating min- ister.’’ —_—++@>-—___— ner will take no further action in Connection wito the murder so that there will be no verdict from The conditions are that work must begin in two years, and that six months thereafter cars must These .gentlemen are here in © quest of lands, and this morning they went to Marion to look over a clectrie lights in the Billingsley| are arranged beautifullly, and a A Queer Turnip. '9 6 0 0 € 0 2 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 0 € Ww W wi w us w wi wi w w wi w Ww Ww y a »2 wy w Fe , hospital sprinkle of artificial snow covers Mr. A. D. Cooper of the Home} all this making the effect of a Electrie charge of the work, and is to be- gin at onee. Company wil 1 have| snow. ‘At night, when the lights are on, the artificial snow looks beau- The funds for this purpose have] tiful, sparkling just like real snow. been raised by several good ladies of this city, who had the matter in charge. 4 A Rally at Troutman. Former State Councilor, C. B. Webb, of the Jr. O. U. A. M., will Speak at Troutman on the 6th of January next, at a rally of that Council. Mr. Webb is one of the most *nthusiastie Junior Order men in the state, and his speeches are al- Ways pleasing. \ The other window contains 4 beautiful Xmas tree with lots of pretty presents hanging on it. The tree has scattered amor- its limbs a number of smah <lec- tric bulbs, and the decorating as a whole is very pretty. ‘Jewelry. Bob Henry says that whe he sells you a piece of jewelry he tells you all he knows about it— and he makes it his business to know all about it. Mr. J. W. Goodnight, who lives on Route No. 4, Statesville, brought a queer turnip up to this offijee today. The turnip consists of two tur- nips, the one growing on the top being of an ordinary size while the one growing at the bottom where the root should be is just a little smallet. Only a small stem connects the two turips together. Mr. Zeb V. Turlington of Mooresville is in the city today. Mr. A. R. Sherrifl went to Marion today on business. Dr. T. E. Anderson spent yes- . ] terday in Charlotte. his jury. The Stevens Land Company, Elizabeth City, receives a charter wih $100,000 capital by C. W. E. F. Aydlette and others, for the development of extensive suburb- an property. There is also a charter for the Cofield Manufacturing Company, $10,000 capital, by B. G. Williams and otherss, for a mercantile busi- ness and the operation of lumber and wood-working plants. The November report of the sale of loose leaf tobacco by the ware- houses in North Carolina made publie today at the State Depar- men of Agriculture, shows 17,831,- 000 pounds total sales first hand! be operated. The new company has taken over the franchise grant- ed the Concord Street Railway Company narly two years ago. ——$_4+4 9 Messrs C. V. Henkle and D. J. Craig went to Hickory today. from the growers as compared with 41,291,239 pouds for October. Winston-Salem leads again with 3,112,249 pounds; Wilson is second with 1,899,017; Mount Airy is third with 1,470,643; Rocky Mount is fourth with 1,291,202 pounds and Greenville, fifth, with 1,139,371 pounds. There are for- ty-one markets reporting sales, the smallest being 1,554 pounds, by Fairmont. large tract of land. These gentlemen may possibly. make some deal with some States- ville parties’ in a few days. Northern Hunters Here, Messrs. James L. Breece and C, L. Limpkins, of New York, arriv- ed here this morning ang went to the Houstonville Hunting Lodge, where they will spend some weeks quail shooting. an —_——++ Oro ———— is jf Nominations Cotfirmed: ~*: Washington, D. C.,-Dee. 9.— The Senate today confirmed the nominations of Luke E. wright, of Tennessee, to be Secretary of War, ,and Truman H. Newbury, of Mich. igan, to be Secretary of the Navy. °° *’ Bt ce e Fl a Ab o fa e we e s LS S pa y at a St e OO F j e o u r e e e an e e Se e eae ‘ go p ee n s tT ES ST S SR Re Bo e r n e ee e Ac t a s _. te e ag e a n e y ev e os e ea n e t yt en e r o a ie ae ma e ps Si n a 5s as p he e s O aE a ee e om a eS 6s pe n AE E et y ae 7 ? w , n 29 o e 6 xe ha e > al e e Meo eo : $ es c h e a t hi e Sp e e Ba , Ce r e s eS Se a t e r So o SE R aR Sa v e gh a n a PE E SR ar e we e oy Se co t a os © eS sa s re e sa e AO I BO R A Be FE ee oo x ae s TE S : > ea s Ba e ea d THE EVENING MASCOl DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. ey —_—_—_—_—_$_=_£_—=—— Entered at the Postoffice in Statesville @. O., a8 second-class mail matter. (fice 109 Court Street. ~ Telephone 53} VANCE NORWOOD - Publisher. RALPESHOAN, - - City Editor, $4.00 a Year 10 Cents a Week Subscription Price, - abscription Price, - Wather Forecasts" ~*~” Washington D. C. Dee. 11—For North ,Carolina; parly cloudy to- night. and Saturday. .Warmer to- night. Sa ‘WHO GOT THE MONEY? J. P. Morgan & Co., say that while they received and receipted for the $40,000,000 Panama Canal payment they did not distribute the money. Mr. Cromwell says that the $40,000,000 .was divided, $25,000,000, being paid to the liqui- dating of the old de Lesseps .com- ere pany, ang $15,000,000 being paid he sat or walked about with an un- to the new Panama , Canal Co. en Thig is almost as, blind as J. P. the physician in charge of the case Morgan & Co’s answer. Prior to the sale of the de Les- laughter upon his patient. seps company’s assets to:the new Panama Canal Company it obliga- tions could be bought at a few cents on the dollar.. The old com- pany was hopelessly bankrupt. : : Who bough the old obligations and healthful and infeetious that and divided “up the $25,000,000 every one around soon found them paid for them? : Who were the new Panama Ca- nal Company which divided up $15,000,000 Who parti¢ipateq in “the $5.- the same settled gloom upon his 000,000 syndicate and pad fae, the same immovable counte- the eash to buy up the old.obliga- es tions, finance the manufactured and put Panama _ revolution through the canal job? Let congress. investigate flly at onee, openly and impartially. The : people of the United States who looked at the man outside, and paid this $40,000,000 ae eae suddenly burst out laughing. Then to know who were the ultimate recipients of it. —_——_+-+@>2—__—_ REPUBLICAN PLATFORM Extract from platform adopta. by Republican party at the. Chica- go National Convention,, June 18; 1908: tis Rights of t publican party has been for more than fifty. years the consistent s friend of the American negro. -It hearty laugh. A laugh that will gave him freedom and citizenship. It wrote into the: organie law..the declarations, tha. proclaim his ‘ oe civil and. political rights and. it them with a buoyant spirit that believes today that his noteworthy progress in. intelligence, industry and good citizenship has earned. the respect. and encouragement of the nation. We demand equal justice _for all men, -without re- gard to race.or color; we: declare once more.and. without neservation for the enforcement in letter and spirit of the thirteeth,. and four- teenth amendments of the Consti- tution, .which..were designed. for the protection and advancement:of the negro, and we condem . all de- vices that have for heir real aim his diafranchisement for reasons of eolor alone, as unfair, un-Ameri- ean ad repulsive te the supreme law of the land...- ..: - .:-- ——_-~@eo———" "Where Bullets Flew. David Parker, of Fayette, N. $., a veteran of the civil. war, who lost .a, foot at Gettysburg, says, ‘‘The good Electric Bitters. have done is worth more than five hundred..dollars to me... E.spent much meney doctoring fora bad} An’ pick a boy, dear God, Your case of stomach trouble, to little purpose. I then tried Hectic Bitters, and they ‘cured “me.° they keep me strong and we 60c. at; Statesville Drug Co. store. s > eon 20 wacancn iD pe Gemma When a man finally wakes -up to mild, easy, healthful action of the what he’s really in the world for|bowels without griping. - Ask your he’s about due te get out of it. mia Most disfiguring . skin. eruptions, actofula, pimples, rashes, ¢tc., are, due to finpure blood, Burdock Blood Bitters is’a cleansing tonic. Makes you cleaf-eyed,. clear-brained, clear “|the country and tobe liable for}: he Negro—The Re- midst of your perplexities and ir- EVERY MAN A SOLDIER. — Presidett Roosevelt-Urges a Radi- cal Militery.<<Méasure in 2a Special MeSsage 40 GoNgress— Would-be Easy to Raise Army of 2,000,600— = Washington, Dee. 9.—Every citizen inthe. United . States be- tween the ages of 16 and 45 is to become a part: of the military of ae military duty under the terms of a bill, the, passage of which has been: recommended: by the presi- dent in a special message to con- gress. The bill provides an elastic organization and, as the president gays, under its provisions it will be just. .as easy to raise an army of 2,500,000 instead of 50,000. _—_++eare—— Tre Value of Laughing. In a hospital for the insane wai a patient suffering from melanch- cxa.. He never tsughed—He nev- er even smiled. But all day long broken expression of gloom. The thought to try the influence of a To bring: this about he had a big, hearty, jovial man come each day and stand by the patient’s door and laugh a long, deep, side- shaking Iaugh—a laugh so joyous selves convulsed with laughter. Every one but his patient. He looked blanky at the laughing man, not even smiling, but with Day after day this went on— the laughing man and the solemn, gloomy, melancholic patient. Fi- nally one day as he paced back and forth in his room he stopped, looking around him said, ‘“Where am 1? What is this plalce?’’ The melancholia had melted all away, the gloom had vanished, and the man was in his right mind j again. Laughing had done it. Laugh away your gloom and your worries. Laugh when every- thing goes wrong. Just stop in the ritations and annoyances—just stop and sit down and have a good clear up your worries and your eares are not so overwhelming af- ter all. You will be ready to meet w:ll master them easily. : Practice laughing. .Don’t det your mouth get so immobile that it is a serious task to even smile Keep in practice A good laugh wi. do you more good than me.i:- cine, and save many a doctor Dill. —Rock Hill Record. ——_—~+ao———— Little Boy’s Baby Prayer Lippincotts. Dear God, I need you awful bad; I don’t know what to do; . sick; I hain’t no fren” but You. brung, = *Stid of the boy I ast, A weenchy, teechy baby girl. I don’t see how they dast. z back. She’s jest as good as new; hand, But ’eceptin’ me an’ You; ~_ self, as The nicest in Yer fold; quite so young; {’d like him five years old. ’s ad If you haven’t the time to exercise regularly, Doan’s Reguiets will pre- vent constipation. .. They. -induce-a 99 druggists for them. 265¢c. ee 4D our large line o sale regardless o We have just closed a deal with a Southern Pants entire stock of Pants ata g Pairs Pants on SALE SATU : 24th, (12 days.) connected with the factory, Statesville and surrounding coun Pants cheaper than they can date in every respect, and we wi We also will mark everything we hay handise, down to_unheard or prices or s f DRESS GOODS, f consequences--make or lose. Everything, But Give You a Few We Cannot Quote Prices on Are Going to Do for Our Frade. Just to Show You What We reat sacrifice, These goods must go regar with us during the sale, be made today. TOYS, and will place the entire stock of 4,000 RDAY, DECEMBER 12th, and continue to DECEMBER dless of price. and we will say to the people cf try, that this will be the chance of a lifetime to buy These Pants are well-made and up-to- li guarantee satisfaction or money refunded. Factory, Taking over their We will have a man e in our large $10,000 Stock of Mer- this Special ji XMAS GOODS, ETC., during this Sale. We will close out My papa’s cross, my mammals Them keerless- angels went and i Say, God, I wish’t You’d take her Won’t no one know she’s second’ ei aaa =>" dj €=) , oN 2 re) } ne f I! But please don’t ehoose hi now take.them as 2 tonic, and : = DRESS GOODS. All $1.00 Dress Goods... ..---++-: 79¢ All 75s Dress Goods... ..+0+-++++> 59c All 50e Dress Goods....-+-+-++++> 39c¢ All 35e Dress Goods.....--+++-++> 24Ac All 25e Dress Goods......---+-++- 19¢ Best Calicos, per yard.....-----+-- 5c Bleached and Unbleached Domestie 4¢ to 12 1-2c. All Ginghams, per yard.....-- 4c to Sc All Outing, per yard.....----- 4c to 9c Table Linen.......----+++> 23c to 49¢ Good Towels......-----: 4c to 12 1-2c In fact anything in Dry goods at cut prices, UNDERWEAR. Heavy Knit Mens’ Fleece Lined Shirts and Drawers, 39c. HATS AND CAPS. Regular 50¢ Caps to go at....----- 34¢ Regular 25¢ Caps to go at...-.--- 19¢ Regular $2.50 Hats to go BE $1.98 Regular 50¢c Hats to go at.....---- 39¢ We give you these prices to show what we can save you. We have a nice line of Toques, Shawls, Fascinators and Gloves at priecs never heard of. Ladies’ Black Satteen Underskirts, 49c. to 98e worth 75¢ to $1.50 anywhere. SHOES. All our $4.00 Shoes to go at.....- $3.25 All our $2.50 Shoes to go at.....-- 1.98 All ur $2.00 Shoes to go at.....--- 1.60 All our $1.50 Shoes to go at.....-. 1.25 All our 1.25 Shoes to go at......-- 1.15 $5.00 Pants go at Pants! JUST TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA AS TO PRICES ye: $3.00 2.75 2.00 ).75 1.50 .88 A3 67 4.00 “ : 3.00 “ : 2.58 © . 2.00 “ : 1.50 “ = 2 ~ ise , PAN Ts RUBBERS. Mens’, Ladies and Children’s at greatly reduced prices. Trunks, Suit Cases, Telescopes, and Handbags at unheard of prices. PICTURES, \ beautiful lines of Pictures from 10¢ to 98¢e that can’t be beat. Come and see them, A Complete line of China and Crockery ware at remarkable prices. SPECIALTIES. 7de to $1.00 Flannel Shirts........ 49c Work Shirts from........... 22c to 49c [50 IDPCSS GOOGS oc nc oe eee 48c¢ 30e Meine. cc 20c per yd. Sample @arpets...-...... ---.--.- 23¢ Posten, remap ee 7 1-2c up A complete line of Enamel Ware, Knives and Forks, Pocket Knives and a thousand more like values too num- erous to mention, GROCERIES. 25 Ib saks of Granulated sugar. .$1.44 The very best Roasted Coffee, price 1214 Good Green Coffee( price per Ib...10c¢ 2 pounds of Soda, price...........- 05 Regular $1.00 Overalls..........- 89c Others at proportionately low prices. Toilet Paper, Roll and Sheets at....04 Good “Recian maekse oe oS ee 04 The best bargains ever offered in Statesville on Suspenders, REMEMBER, this is new goods that we bought for the Fall Trade, and found that mon- ey matters were tight and trade dull, and with bills to meet, and they must be met, and in order to do so must sacrifice to do it, a é the best bargains that money can buy in this sale. day of December, and see if you don’t. and we tell you and stand behind it, that you will get Save your money and come on the 12th C. L. MURDOCK MANAGER OF 1 THE T. M. MILLS COMPANY Pa FNP U Ui cB U2 VU iB Dt it Ba Dl PF ro e oy e pa g s os " , a > Ge sr e ee me Va n We y We y St e ‘ : A ie 4 ; " ce / ae YY ms oe Ge e Gt FE 3 ‘ ) ay & , Y a | oy es a ey f bi ry % . BY fe Ae 1 pe 1 mi a ff <> 3 Wi s bo AU oe H o x V a c U F U a c d F t W i F a r t W i i c t P i W a F t P i 7 , 2 _— oo te } >) ) S BA A N 1 LL tt re t a 8 1 w at Ch other * This if of sat “3, your f v presen ea a thr ds brate rangil we compl ern uf YY from ¢ w A. » - W W Y ) o ad 9 B > ad cig = + e + e cia £ the be’ e Sa oP oP +> w 5 de | @OS0000S 0000000000008 0990E os 266 OOF © ‘These Handsome Dishes Given Away to My Customers @ | | THE STATESVILLE LOAN AND TRUST CU. With each cash purchase of 5 cents or over I will give you a coupon that can be exchanged for these gifts. Of Statesville, N.C. é — IS PREPARED to transact all: branches of banking. Accounts are solicited from firms, corporations and indiv - uals, who may rely upon. courteous. consi ion - courteous. consideration and the very ee t terms that are consistent with good banking ods. Four per cent. paid on time and savings deposits UAPITAL STOCB sessecdsssssoeseerc_. eesessesseses $40,000.00 SHAREHOLDERS LIABILITY .....s.ccsecsssssssecee $40,000.00 SURPLUs ANP UNDIVMED Profits Mothers’ Joy-is* made of pure goose grease and other healing ingredients: “Mothers you cannot afford to be without*a box of Moth ‘L.A. GOLDMAM : ers’ Joy. -—* aan ~ — Purveyor to the People. BOOO0OOOSCOOSSCEOESS992906 een WE NEED ‘YOU AS A SUBSCRIBER TO THE EVENING MASCOT. 10 CENT WEEK. c\} ° |} S|; @ |i @ $1 e |} 8 | i ei? @ ° |i OFFICERS E. Steele, President, E. Morrison, Vice-Pres, D. M. Ausley, Sec and. Treasurer, C. E. HUGHEY, Assistant Secy. end Treas.” W.G. CULBRETH, Manager Savings Department —_ § ; er Te WE OE TG PE Pe d | | wy, oo Wr out house on fire last week and — Advertising is reco ized as the pri fae- *, at Christmas, or any aa : oe —— = & en SS = 5 2 nes es [ism $7 wort off for THIF you want the est of/ H tor in ineeasing the sales of any class of goods < - This is insured by ic eans a J ae of Salisb I peer Orage Chance LE ESS. : = . He R z J. te r ~alis y has e o : = . © of sanitary plumbing in @ [contracted to build thes} M. P. Alexander & Bro., The space used in this paper is your busi-: ‘ your house. If you would oat : te j i = ‘ threefold blessing, cele- snk cani and Meat Men. ag ra . = Sea scp Seat ee i ncnte: ERSRESaG = = aN Mr. R. L. Blackwelder has ac- are offering, setting forth the reasons why your “ ranging with us for a mr as job in the cloth room at —GOo OoOD= particular line is worthy of their attention. ioe or F ¥| ‘ oe. — ¢ omnia A |, Cov Twit nas mtn ae P P 8 fy | home to stay stay for the winter. ‘/ from cellar to roof. ° we hope VG 4 : ¢ ———+<>e—__. Draughon gives contracts, backed Sarees ee q ‘NEW STUDIO} —_— ee ae | THE GREATEST OF ALL GFTS—— % ae d < a ‘t h e wn Cooleemee Items, Mr. L. M. Blalock and wife have and have got plenty of help. Chickens are off a little at pres- ent. Henry Pitts sold one last Saturday for three dollars. Some son of a gun set an old Cause Your Wife Fruit Cake ingredients and everything else. Our Melrose Flour cannot be beat. : returned from a visiting exposi-| to wear a smile of satis- = — 5 rd & Ellis, Professional Photographers, in N. B. Mills New 3 tion among friends and: relatives! faction by buying your : a 5 (uilding, adjoining Stimson Drug Store, Statesville, N.C. 3 down in Stanly and Anson eoun- Christmas Goods from a ° High Grade Photos at a Low Price. 3 ties. They report a nice time and . 5 aa a é finé weather until this last week. M. P, Alexander & Bro. Bey ne caress Une best that can bemade—24 for Desc. x | They report that the cotton crops , ; Post C ards, per dozen, $1.25 Per half dozen 750. 5 are nearer gathered than they ever ++ 2 cabinets, in folders, dozen, $2.00. Halfdozen $1.50. & caw atdiodiun cee eae A complete line of Fresh < : Pictures of your home, Post Card size, and up to 8x10 inches, : son county. : Groceries for the Is Essential to the Up= 5 and out-door groups, is one of our Specialties at a moder- John W. Bagley who has been| Xmas Trade ate price. Give usa trial and be convinced that we are a ae © - 3 2 irying to please you. We are now ready to serve you. ¢ tor the past seven years has * * building of the Modern 5. iI also: Dovclopauidi Since Kook ae a =: @ | moved to Kanapolis on a visit. We] We have a fresh stock of the fol- a | Pe Waiting for his return. lowing Goods: Bu sin e E t ® a ; 5 —TMAYNARD & ELLIS 2 brine rr iit this Place is| Fancy Cranberries, Pineap- SSS en ee ‘unning j se . ee ° Pr? USISICUSIOBISISISIOIS "Ss on iu time at present} ples, Nuts of all kind, To the publicity gained by the use.of the 3808 50080808080808TSOSOENSSSOROSOSO CPCODS0S0SOSS TOS OROSOROSOROSOSOSNSC 500 @000 o Soscenee COOSCSOSTPOSOSOS SOS OO ee ee oe ROSS ee advertising columns of the daily papers is at- tributed the growth, and consequent success, of a very large percentage of great business enter- prises of the present day. has increased its local circulation very materially during the past three months and the results obtained from the space used by the advertisers are gratifying to them and to the paper. It reaches into the homes of the best class of our - people and your message will be placed in the hands of those with money to buy the goods by a chain of 30 Colleges, $300,000.00 capital, and 19 year’s success, to se- cure positions under reasonable con- ditions or refunnd tuition. Draughon’s ccm- BOOKKEEPING Dravehon's cx: accepting his pruposition, concede that he teaches more Bookkeeping in THREE months than they do in w A. W. HOLLER PLUMBING COMPANY - Phoce No. 61. 127 W. Broad St. jg Se, Me D - So Me ° > . o™e oR eo Me o™ Te o> > = QS S33 33 3333333323333 333552¢ Death was on His Heels. Jesse P. Morris, of Skippers, Va., had a close call in the spring of 1906. He says: “‘An attack ae fo-f ce PEPER EER Pee hapae eb | of pneumonia left me so weak and a with such a fearful cough that fp : THE SEEDIN G SEASON i my fricnds declared consumption ee ee eco you wish to sell sig . 7 per cent. of So re ; $ is again with us and have a car load $ = ae oe Se Zoe slid RTHAND nent Siete: The Space Rates in The Evening Mascot ge 1eels. 1en was persuade 0 urt Heporters write the system o ] 7 arri $ of the celeprated x eS = sere Shotae Dae are not high. Your message is carried, each tS = z = S ; Mung 's — oe It | cause they know it is THE BEST. day, to those you wish to reach, in the most Ei D ll elped me immediately, and after : : econonical + Sup €rior Grain PIUS ¢ taking two and a half bottles Jie, “Why Leara Telegraphy?” which m= For information call us up on the phone and © the best and lightest running drill made. If in need of a drill > |was a well man again. I found | explainsall, call on or write JNO. F. tat th a J dip as eotg % examine them and get our prices—we know we can please. # | out that New Discovery is the best | PPAUGHON, President ee ee ae we ft = ¢P | remedy for coughs and lung dis- DRAUGHON’S + Also a Full Line of Hardware, Stoves, Etc. ¢> | case in all the world,” Sold under PRACTICAL BUSINESS COLLEGE o. : = ee guaarantee at Statesville drug (We also Teach by Mail) = Co. store. 50c. and $1.00. Trial ; ; i 9 Raleigh, Knoxville, Nashville, Cc ! lh NGO + Evans Hardware Comp’y Botte tee jumbia or Washington, D.0. | ° gt ———_—_+<+2>-e—___—_ 3 SPEEEPP PEE EEE EPS PESTS EPH H Mountain Island Items. HERN R AILW AY 0 S Ee Mr. Joe Tate of Baltimore, Md., 9 | Reascegsosseossece: 38 0878200808280808080 Bees aso 5838888800808 088 0808080888 RS ROR ORE ETE a. Raa EE who has spent several days at Mt- rs a oe — Son oem oe Island returned to his home last groececee2909090908080809280"28080809090809 80909080808 80888090888 RR ec ~ 4s Gireat Highway of Trade and week. Mr. Emzy Osment of Atlanta, Ga.» is spending a few days with Travel Through the friends at this place. Southern States Mrs. Parks Beaver of States- ville is spending a week or two Through Pullman Sleeping Cars A Show Down In a sharpcontest nothing but “quality” and appearance SEVERAL THINGS Are to be considered in selecting your Bank figure. “RUTH MADE”! Hosiery and the “WORLDS BEST"? Black are the goods of Quality. After ali has been said, all your pursuasive argument exhausted, it is still a fact that “QUALITY” IS THE ONLY TEST OF VALUE To get best results you must have the best of everything best yarn, best colors, best machines and best help, with such a combination you can produce the best of what you are making. We have all of the above. Ask your dealer with her mother at this place. Last Sunday morning at 10:30 o’clock Mr. Tallie Dagenhart and Miss Laura Carpenter were mar- ried at the home of Mr. N. A. Gains. We all wish them a long and happy life. Mr. Laurence Jenkins and Mr. M. T. Williams of this place spent “The Land of the Sky,” ‘The on palatial trains between the principal Cities and Resorts of the South. High-class Dining Cars. Many delightful Summer and Winter Resorts on and reached by Southern Railway. Sapphire Country,” in scenic Western North Carolina; beau- tiful at all seasons. Hotels of| & 1ST. Strengsth-Financial Strength 2ND. The care with which the Bank is Managed. 3RD. The courtesy and spirit of of accomodation displayed by the Officers and Em SS I S CO S ES ee SO I C BO RO E Se ) SO R SC BO S lor the goods of “quality.” last Sunday at Mr. Bud Hender- the highest clase. ployees. oe Bs cf oe sons in River Bend. Ron dean oe 4TH. The banking experience of ye te Mr. D. T. Williams went to] to nearest Ticket Agent, or Officers. gk A THE BRADFORD KNITTING MIL. R “ = eye jp : s Charlotte last Saturday on busi- R. L. VDRNON, T. P. A., STH. The ability ofthe bank to % ais lotte, N. C. Mr. W-.H. Moore killed a hog CBee Properly and Promptly = last week that weighed 369 pounds| S.H.HARDWICK, P.T.M., Handle all Your Business | or LAIOOOOSOHOOOOOOHOOOOOSOOOOOLA | Con 01 beat that? W.H, TAYLOE,G. P. A. To Fiese Desi oe ee Washibgton, D. C. 0 Ing mdpoadi- ment of These Features are __ _ Offered The Service of THE , § - HROT NATIONAL BANK OF STATESVILLE j Fresh Oysters Every Day | CAPITAL $100.000 for retail trade and serviug. 3 erica oe oes Also QUAIL ON TOAST. Fechner cheie ee ci Now Time for You to Se:" lect Your Xmas Goods —__ A Reliable Bank~——»» The Cate of Quality! I have. a fresh line of CANDY in boxes, and FRUIT, for Xmas teadG.2 22 2 : I think the wedding bells will ring on Church street Xmas. Would Mortgage The Farm. A farmer on Rural Route No. 2, Empire, Ga, W. A. Mloyd by 2 2 Se : ee PAY iD with prompt service and obliging treatment, is of great benefit to the young business man. When @ man has a Bank accountit implies ecnfidence in himself ani others. By all means have a good. checking bank behind you in business. You will find Mf 7] NW oe it both convenient and dig- SW age ified in transacting busi- sf Nee | name, says: ‘‘Bucklen’s Arnica Salve eured the two worst sores I ever saw; one on my hand and one on my leg. It is worth more than its weight in gold. I would {not be without it if I had to mort- Only Co.’s 8 gage the farm to get it.’’ 25e. at Statesville Drug Statesville’s model hostesses. store. —_—_++2@>2——_——_ COTTON MARKET. IREDELL CAFE PHONE NO. 323 ness. OF STATESVI LLE Local Market. W. W.GAITHER : Proprietor. INCORPOXATED ee __ We will put aside any goods selected. Strict good middling 8 5-8 to 8 3-4. ae li f CAPITAL $25,000.00. Good middling.......... .. 8 1.2 our new ine o , Soe Ss : ida 8 1-4 to 8 3-8 ee : e ° gene<iict® eit OFFICERS: oe 71s| Chas. Brincefield willap-/ Morris Chairs and Rockers. — L. T. STIMPSON, Pres.; Cc. S. TOMLIN, Vice-Pres.; F. B, The market was quiet. ply tora pardon Dec. 18. ae reeoas a BUNCH, Sec. & Treas.; J. A. KNOX, Asst. Sec. & Treas. Directors : L. T. Sti ; J. L. Stevenson, C. S. Tomlin, R. R. Reid, J ey Page, Geo. B. Nicholson, L. K. Lazen- by, E. G. Gaither, J. R. Hill, E. B. Watts. IOOOOOSO: —_———_+<+ > Stops earache in two minutes; toothache or pain of burn or scald in five minutes; hoarseness, one hour; muscleache, two hours; sore throat, twelve hours—Dr. Tiotmas Eclectric Oil, monarch over pain. | Also Fine Mahogany Tables, We will make Special Prices on COOK STOVES and RANGES. STATESV LE HOUSEFURNISHING COM’PY Wood Sawed! See R. O. 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Su ia BET SS i cae oboe Ae 4 : 8 Be ME @ A oat ae r m F Rta ne ; ee 4 hx: * D. ae: LS She i ee ‘ by eee i MS is + tS Sy Be t a ie so w e u l e s pa s e at e ee sa b e at e s so r e s ’ a aa t i gn ee . fling in your babies throat? Put Fa little Mothers’ Joy on it and stop ROBBERS HOLD UP TRAIN. Three Masked Men Hold up Train in Washington and Get Away With Large B v0tv. Spokane, Wash., D.c. 10.— Eastbound passenger train No. 4 on the Great Northern was held up early today by three masked mep, who secured rich booty in tbe mail car, but were fodled in their avtempt to get PERSONAL NOTES. Some Happenings Among Those Paople You Know and Others You Don’t Know. Mr. W. T. Redman is in Char- lotte today. Mr. J. H. Ervin of Durham, is in he city today. Mr. Jas. S. McIntosh of Taylors- ville is in the city. $20,900 in actual cash. which wes heing carcied in the b sggave; Darium today to visit. car. The hold-up took pixe be tweed Cue and *wo miles east 0: | the vill: ze of Hillyard ari Onsy | the presesice of mind vf §vie fire- | man, W. Perrin, saved the specie which was being conveyed from @ Spokane to a Montana bank. In the darkness, Perrin, after he and the engineer had been driv- enfrom the cab with pistols, crawled over the tender and un- coupled the baggage car and whirled away down the track with the car and engine. The bandits did not miss the car un- tilfit was too late to give chase or fire upon the intrepid fireman. spokane, Washb., Dec. 10.—A reward of $6,000, in which the Great Northern Company and The United States government share equal responsibility, is of- fered for the arrest and convic- tion of three bandits who held up aGreat Northern passenger train near Hillyard last night. The bandits robbed only the registered mail sacks from Seattle. It is said that $16,- 000 was secured, but the post- office authorities will not verify the report. —_—_ ++ Sweet Home Notes, I think the farmers are most all through with heir farm work. Most all of the children of this vi- cinity have started to school. I think we have fine prospects for @ good school at the Mt. View school house. I think we have two fine young teachers, Mr. John Myers and Mr. Hugh Templeton. They have erolled about 50. Mr. Levi Lambert and family have moved on the place of Mr. R. E. King. ' The writer heard of a wedding the other day but for fear the re- port is untrue will not publish the names of the contracting par- ties. But if all signs don’t fail, there will be quite a number about Xmas. Rey. J. P. Gwaltney filled his regula? appointment at Damascus las Satirday aud Suaday. Las? Sunday.ended his pasioral year. He was called again to attend us another year. We just can’t give: up Unele Jay. Morris Chalmer, the infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Sloan died the 30th of November and was burried at Damascus the 31st Rev. J. P. Gwaltney preaching the funeral. The young parents sympathy of the’ community in this their first bereavement. Mr and Mrs. Alfred White of Roseman, N. C., are visiting in this neighborhood. U NO. —_———~+2>-2e—_—_ Tredellite Back Home. Mr. W. W. Foreum, one of Ire- dell eounty’s scattered children re- turned here today from Iowa where he has been for some years. Mr. Foreum is a native of the Clarkesburg vicinity, in North Iredell and is a brother-in-law of Mr. Samuel Benton went to Messrs. F. H. White of Char- iot: are in the city. lir. Howard Gociman of Trout- man is in the city today. Mr. #. SB. Lewis, of Kiston, is in the city on business. Mr. G. F. Wise of Salisbury ar- rived here this morning. Mr. W. L. Kirdy of Morganton, is in the city on business. Mr. Cicero Richie of ‘cich- field, N. C., is in the city. Miss Carrie Hoffman went to Salisbury today, where tonight she will witness J. K. Hackett, in “‘The Prisoner of Zenda. ———__2-48-——— Dumb Wife Takes Too Much. New York World. e Vice Chancellor Stevens an- nounced at Newark, N. J., that he had advised that a decree of di- vorce be granted to James W. Nash of 186 Orange street, New- ark against Sarah Louise Nash. Although Nash and his wife are deaf and dumb, one of the reasons alleged by the husband in justifi- eation of the petition was that his wife talked too much. He alleged that she continuously scolded him in the sign language. Mrs Nash now lives with her parents at 362 Stuyvesant avenue, Irvington. The couple were married Christmas day, 1884, and parted March 16. 1905. There are three children. ————_4++4 > ___—_ Reflections of a Bachelor. New York Press. Cio Even when a woman really be- lieves in her husband’s ability she ean’t help bragging about it. Some men are so lucky they can have the water pipes freeze fn their homes without bursting. Men concentrate their minds so much on their stomachs they have no thought left for their souls. The thing that can make a man appreciate a fat girl is how nice and warm she is to be close to on a cold sleigh ride. : ee ee ee, eee North Carolina, |In Superior Court, Iredell County. f Jan. Term, 1909. W:a. B. Hunt, Alex. C. R. Wilson. Millard F. Burgess, Henry S. Hunt, John FE. Hunt and Ira M. Parsons, ! STATESVILLE'S RATING RIK == trading under th. firm name of John E. Huni & Co. vs. E. M. Young, C. L. Young, T. M. Young, M. J. Young, minor; Geo. H. Young, joseph Young and wife Mrs. Joseph Young. NOTICE. The defendant, T. M. Young, above named, will take notice that an ac- tion, entitled as above; has been commenced in the Superior Court of Tredell county to foreclose a mort- gage deed executed by T. M. Young and others to the plaintiffs, and the said defendant, T. M. Young, will further take notice that he is re- quired to appear at the term of the Superior Court of said county to be held on the 5th Monday before the 1st Monday in March, 1909, the same being the 25th day of January, 1909, at the court house of said county, in Statesville, N. C., and answer or de- murr to the complaint in said action, or the plaintiffs will apply to the court for the relief demanded in said complaint. J. A. HARTNESS, Clerk Superior Court. Dated December 11th, 1908. Sheriff Ward of this city. —~++@>- 2 —__—_ A Healthy Family. “‘Our whole family has enjoyed good health since we began using Dr, King’s New Life Pills, three years ago,” says L. A. Bartlet, of Rural Route 1, Guilford Maine. They cleanse and tone the system in a gentle way that does you good 25c. at Statesville Drug Co. 4-4 Itching piles provoke profanity, bet profanity won’t cure them. Doan’s Ointment cures itching, Bleeding protruding piles after years of suffering. At any drug store. —_——<+-2 Mother do you hear that rat- New Pool Room New Tables of the latest and best makes have been in- stalled under J. P. Phifer’s grocery store. WHY SUFFER? Breathe Hyomei and Kill the Loathsome Catarrh Germs, Just as long as you have catarrh your nose will itch, your breatb will be foul, and you hawk and spit, and you will do other dis- gusting things because you can't help yourself. The germs of ¢a- tarrh have got you in their power; they are continually and persist- ently digging i nto and irritating the mucous membrane of your nose and throat. They are now making your life miserable; iu time they will sap your entire system of it senergy, its strength, its serength, its vigor and vitality. But there is one remedy that will kill the germs and cure ¢a- tarrh, and that is Hyomei, the Aus- tralian dry air treatment. The Statesville Drug OCo., the druggists, will guarantee Hyomei to eure catarrh, or money back. Don’t delay this pleasant antisep- tic treatment. Breathe in Hyomei and kil lthe germs. The Statesville Drug Co, will sell you a complete Hyomei outfit, including inhaler, for only $1,00. It is also guaranteed to cure bron- chitis, asthma, coughs, colds, hay fever and croup. ——_—_—4-4 6 > Mothers how can you take ehances—keep a bottle cf Moth- ers joy in your house. You need Mothers Joy every day. Writing Paper For Christmas. If there ever was a delecate atten- tion in the way of a Christmas pres- ent, it isa box of that remarkably fine writing paper at Hall’s Drug Store. Every time the recipient, whether wife, sister, daughter or sweetheart, opens the box, she is going to re- the paper. See our stock. W. F. HALL, Prescriptionist. Opera House Building Open from 3 to 5 and 8 to 10 p. m. 1 time... 5 cents a line. 3 tIMES...............0.0- 4 cents a line. 6 times................. 3% cents a line. 26 times...... .......... 3 cents a line. FOR SALE—Best Grocery stand in city, doing good business. Reasons for selling. If you want a bargain answer at once. Address Grocer, care Mascot. dee 3 tf AMBITICUS YOUNG MEN AND ladies should learn telegraphy; for, since the now 8 hour law became effective there fs a shortage of many thousand telegraphers. Po- sitions pay from $50 to $70 a month to beginners. The National Telegraph institute of Columbia, S. C., and five other cities is oper- ated under supervision of R. R. officials and all students are placed when qualified. Write them for it at once. ee we Wedolicit Your Patronage particulars. nol9 dtf member you, and naturally she will; write some of her letters to you upon ' SR S No Children Admitted to/§ Floor at Night Sessions. |} WANT ADS] JNO NIN IRIN GI NIN INI INANE ey $10 Gold Pieces for $9.00 SS jeweled grades. may want. and they must go. Solil Gold Lockets at a d t a d e a a a a t a n t a e a b e a n t a n e i n t a n s NG 7m ho S l y ) That is what it means when you buy your Christmas goods from me. have too much stock and must cut it down by January Ist, and will give you bargains in anything in my line. prices suit the BUYERS PURSE. Anyone wanting a high-grade Watch Movement can now get it cheap. 2 ford, South Bend,I!linois, Hamilton, Elgin and Waltham, in 15 and 17 These will be put into whatever kind of a case you I have too many 15 and 17 jeweled movements on hand I have Solid Gold Rings from $1 OO up. Solid Gold Stick Pins from $1 OO up. Solid Gold Cuff Buttons 175 “ Solid Gold Hearts for Neck Chains All other Gold Goods toc numerous to mention at right prices. In Gold Filled Goods, such as Gold Filled Neckchains, Gold Filled Lockets, Gents’ and Ladies’ Gold Filled Woven Wire and Silk Watch Fobs, Ladies Gold Filled Cuff Pins, Veil Pins, Hat Pins Bar Pins, Stick Pins, Belt Pins, Brooches, alljin sterling or best grade Quadruple Plate. Nice line of Ladies’ Gold Filled Handle Umbrellas from $3 SO to $7 50. In Silverware I have a complete{line’of Knives and Forks, Tea and Table Spoons, Butter Knives, Sugar Shells, Pie and Tomato Servers, cold meat and other Forks, Berry Spoons. Soup Sets, Soup. Ladles, Carving Sets, Childs’ Sets. individual Salt Sets, Cut Glass Sterling Top Salt and Pepper Sets. Nice line of Parlor and Gold Plate Clocks, Kitchen and Alarm Clocks. No difference what you want in the Jewelry line, I will save you money. Come and see for yourself. ON I O N I O N T Will make the a WO N I have these in the Rock- Oy WO N G A Si Solid Gold Brooches 1235 “ l Fp 400 “ Sold Gold Neck Chaius 3200 “ 125 “ WA NA N 4 etc., from the lowest prices and up. w Large lot of Bracelets at right prices. t Ge Nice line of Silverware and Novelties, such as Toilet Sets, Manicure Seis, Mili- is tary Brushes, Clothes Brushes, Shaving Brushes, Hat and Bonnet Brushes, AR N O N Guaranteed. Ze You can get a bargain in Cut Glass, Japanese China Vases, etc., and Statu- é = ary, as these must go. e PQ QP P D I S D I R I N Y I AW R. F. Henry # Jeweler and Optician PN M TO N I O N WA N ° Hotel iredell Building. NINN TIN INTINS oASITA NIAC ANNIE ANITA a fe ot me ee, ea p , rey a ~) De RN cae s How to Prevent Pneu- monia — In every paper you pick z up you will see where some good man has just died with this ivarful disease—pneu- monia. Now we will give 7 you One Hundred Dollars for any case of pneumonia — have in your family it 4 fails to cure if you will use Goose Grease Liniment as directed. It only costs you 25 cents a bottle. Get it— you have nothing to loose and all to gain. Wekrow there are thousands who will read this and throw it @ aside and 1n a few days will be down with the disease. Please just get one bottle and putit away until you need it. If you haven’t the money to buy it let us know and we will end you a bot- tle free. GOOSE GREASE CO. ETE EE IG Ee; Cotton and Business University of Milledgeville, Ga., students to take one or more of our courses in cot- ton grading, buying and selling. Business courses of bookkeeping, phy and Railroad course. Positions guaranteed under reasonable con- ditions. Write at once for oar consolidated catalog. Larges: col lege South. Sept 28-tf FOR RENT—ONE STORE BUILD- ing and basement. Best Tetail stand in the city. Statesville Real- ty and Investment Co. Sept.19 WANTED—BY THE AMERICAN! Shorthand, Typewriting, or Telegra- “We invite you to come and let us show you the entire line. show such an elegant line of goods to you even if you don’t vant to buy. SUTPASSING anything ever shown in Statesville. ome==be eonvineed. SEE SS SS TE ER RRR RT III | | EE STS SS SS RS RRS or SRN RS RN Che Christnas Line At the Store of Quality Ot is a pleasure to be able to Cl fine of Quality Statesville Brug Co. Prescriptionists. CR C RT Ca Ca a es CR S SC R E SS N S CO e@ CHRISTMAS SUGGESTIONS 2 .Let us help you solve the all perplexing ques- 3 tion:—WHAT SHALL I GIVE FOR CHRIST- MAS? Below isa list of useful articles: which any one would be proud of: House Slippers, Bath Slippers, at 50c. to $2.00 The handsomest line of Neckwear in Statesvill 5 $1.00 Silk Mufflers and Reefers at oe sis 2 33.00 Silk Suspenders (in individual boxes) at 50c. to $1.50 Silk Handkerchiefs (plain or fancy) at 25c. to $1.00 Hawes celebrated $3.00 Hats. all th . ’ e > —— Green, Ivy, Tan and Peari, new shapes and colors Dress and Driving Gloves at 25c. to $2.00 The Christmas money expended here will not be wasted. S. B. MILLER $8 |THE SHOE MAN. @ 00 6 0 6 6 6 06 0 0 0 0 0 0 OS B V M P R H A P D O D S : @ e @ @ @ @ @ e @ @ ; @ @ @ ® eo @ @ @ @ e € 8 s\ Net bythe old Roller Rubbing method but in Straight Paes- Ww sure Machine which gives beauti- W ful demestic finish and makes the Shirts last longer==—— —— Statesville Steam Laundry U. C. Harwell, Prop. Phone !22 w 33 2 33 2 3 3 2 3 3 2 " , A A " a § w w Ww w Ww W BS a, ae. a. a.m. ° . ° Y SESSSSCSCEeececeececceec* Spria been hind arms and ¢ her k break wardE step was light Loul gro f to el her i on é@ sto a lig you didr bes reac It judg the tion give wou eye such for suc lon it k gal dur liet are off fu the the ani vig Cl Hig is 1s th bq il : eres - \ Trg Gee en tes es a a, EEE ee De ee => 2 A 3 iS : we toa = THE EVENING Mascor. Statesville, N. C., Saturday Evening, December 12, 1908. legro Attempts [House To Take “Teddy” Would [Reuben Barges Cromwell Talks Assault Un Girl Lead In Attack Bring Suit) is. Arrested About Canal If OCCURRED NEAR DARE./ALL ARE VERY INDIGNANT|NO CAUSE FOR SCANDAL. IS CHARGED WITH MURDER.|A MAN ATTEMPTS SUICIDE.|EXONERATES CHAS. P. TAFT. v . Aj \< OS ) ) ( — —- — Vol. 1. No. 375 ~ ( WO 07 ) Me ) . - TO N u ON . gX : Y : ae Negro Was Following Her and| Resolution Will be Introduced Ap.|‘‘If ThoSe Guilty of Falsehood’’|Well-Known Citizen of Durham|When He Fails to Kill Himself by|E™phasizes That Liquidators of S When She Left West Market} pointing Committee to Consider| Can be Reached, the President} Taken Into Custody Yesterday| Jumping From Train he Throws| ‘he Old French Company Dis: Street ang Turned Into Spring _ the President’s Secret Service Says He’ll Try to Lang Them— Morning for AsSassination of} Himself Before Engine—Car of tributed, in Turn, $25,000,000 He Grabbed Her by the Arm,| InSinnations—After Conference} Says Congress Can See all Re-| Engineer Fred Holt—Much Evi.| Cotton Catches on Fire and De-| Among More Persons Than Ever But She Jerked Away From] With House Leaders, Senators| cords in the Case.. dence—Tending to Show That| lays Traffic on Two LineS—De.| Before Took Part in a Financial Him—A Good Description of the) Agree to Take Similar Action. — He is Guilty—Much Excitement| crease of Only 76 in Number of| TratSaction. Negro, eee Washington, Dec. 10.—If they| Incident to the Arrest, But no} Charters Issued This Year. =e an Washington, Dec. 11.—A defi.| CO be reached for criminal libel,| Trouble is Feared. —. New York, 11,—William Nelson A little, very little of this kind | pita plan for rebuking President | { 824ll try to have them reached, — Raleigh, Dec. 11—This morning|Cromwell, organizer and chief of business will go a long way in Roosevelt for a disparaging ob- said President Roosevelt, in| Durham, Dec. 11—The arrest of there was a strange accident on counsel of the Panama Company (Greensboro, the last place to try servations concerning the action |SPe@king this afternoon about| Reuben Barbee here this morning|the Southern Railway. At Cary it}Of America, issued last night it. Yesterday afternoon just be- of Congress in limiting the uses “those Americans who have been | for the murder of Engineer J. A.|was found that a car loaded with| What he declared to be a full and fore dark, Miss Louise West, | of tho Government Secret Service | Suity of infamous falsehood con-| Holt last week almost demoralized | cotton coming to Raleigh was on|COmplete statement concerning daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jas. H. has been arranged. cering the acquisition of the prop-| the law visitors to the Methodist | fire. The car was brought down the negotiations between the West, was on her way home| {+ hasbeen decided that Senate|¢Tty and the construction of the}Conference and in a few minutes to Thompson’s siding between Ral-| United Stats Government and from taking her music lesson. Mr. West Lives on North Spring Street, some three blocks from West Market. Just as Miss West turned from West Market into Spring, @ negro man who had been following her, slipped up be- hind her and caught her by her and House shall act separately instead of concurrently in criti- cising the President, the House taking the lead, because it origi- nated che legislature subjected to by the President. Tnis new determination was reached by a series of conferences (Panama) Cana itself.” It was to the committe of one hundred of The Lakes To The Gulf Deep Waterway Association headed by Gov. Dennen, of Illin- ois, who were received by the President in the East room of the White House, that be made the news had spread all over the city. afernoon by a policeman for being drunk and that circumstances started the story of his connection with the crime. Asa matter of Raleigh and the blazing ear fol- fact, this step had been contem. eigh and Cary and was ther cut out of the train. By this time Barbee was arrested yesterday | the cotton was burning so fiercely that the car was very hot ang the brakes could not be applied to it. The freight train pulled out for lowed it for two miles before it the old and new Panama com- panies of France. Init he exon- erates not only Charles P. Taft, half brother of the President-elect and Douglas Robinson, brother- in-law of President Roosevelt, but every other American of his acquaintance, are of whom he has knowledge, of the charge of arms, but she divined his object| peig during the day. The repub | this declaration. plated several days with accumv-|was stopped. Meanwhile it block. and as quick as @ fiash jerked |}ican senators held a meeting,}| (0V-s Denenn has presented a} lating evidences tending to show] ed the Seaboard Air Line and the herhands from her muff and the Democratic Senators held a|COpy of the resolutions adopted unfavorably against the Durham| Southern tracks, which are only a H h breaking away from him, ran to- meeting, the House Republican by the association and made a man. Barbee himself has exhibit-| few fect apart, and delayed one]. eae aa he has recently wards home hollering at every | jeaders were in consultation, and | few remarks, to which the Presi-| 4 an interest in the crime, not al-| passenger train two hours and one eae t = ee sc — step. [twas partly cloudy and Senators Aldrich and Hale went | dent replied as follows: together characteristic, and this] four hours. a large number of rail- ae o aeaGes to = lic = was almost dark, the electric] t, the house and talked the mat-| “I have ‘elt as the Governor! week said he had found the mur-] way hands throwing dirt and wat- ALO = ‘th pas - aes lights not being turned on. Mi3s] tor over with Speaker Cannon | 8 80 will put it, that no more} derer whom he designated as Rob-| er in the ear in an endeavor to put ee eae ac $15,000, Louise continued to run, the ne-| 4 n q Representatives Tawney |!mportant service could be ren-| .14 Golden, a colored helper at he| out the fire. 000 to ar eee f the gro following, but she managed | an aPerkins. The Senators prom-| dered to this country than the} .,.). chute. Reuben mentioned} The Southern passenger train new Compan eee = = to elude him. Just as she neared ised to follow the example of the | Ouilding of the P anama canal be- the singlebarreled gun as evidence coming here this morning from ne ar ae Cromwell a her home the lights were turned House and appoint a select com- | tween the Atlantic and the Paci-| ..4 said he wanted but little more} Greensboro was the scene of much es that the ae osition to hee. on and the man left in a hurry. mittee toexamine the obnoxious fie; and oEe thing Tam proud of evidnee to cinch the reward. There excitement, for somewhere beyond icaniz a eas Panama Canal Heis describbed as low and portion of the Presldent’s annv-/ 12 connection yy ith the building are other stories that in his cups Cary a white man leaped from the Company of France was placed stout, wearing an overcoat and |g) message and report what ac-|Of the caral is that there has he has said he has killed four men| train while it was going Very rap-| before President McKinle S and 8 light slouch hat, but while the tion, if any, should be taken. been no legitimate cause of ~ and followed on to the gravd. |idly and struck on his head. This}in 1899 was rejected by the dir- young lady saw his features she| ‘The proposition made by Sen- | breath of scandal connected wit The record is supposed to be true,| was reported at Cary and there, it ectors two years before the sale being in the slightest way inter- esed in the sale. PN M ON T ON ON O N M O N T O N MO N O N ON E ON 1) D ) ) 3 did not know him, though it may| ators to exponge that feature of any feture of the So but Barbee never suffered for any} seems, the man made an effort to] of the of the canal to this Gover. ; beshe can recognize him. She| the m has been much dis-| “We have caused to ve asham-| jump before a moving train in hishosnt, ine a ee was almost prostrated when she} cussed. It ores eee ed of a certain = = ea reached home. to most violent opposition from | in connection with thecanal, an ; : i It would be a good idea to friends of the President. Senator | shat is of those Americans who the arrests was made are these.| cide, but was caught and brought] the liquidators of the old French . : : Lodge, the President’s mouth- : : Barbee has been for years at log-|on here. Company, in turn distributed Judge of the time of turning on oe attended the conference of have been guilty ; Se gerheads with the Southern Rail-| Last night at Merry Oaks on the} the $25,000,000 among more the electric lights by the ‘condi- publicans today, but it is pos- falsehood concerning the acquisi- way; he lives in the coal chute vi-] Seaboard Air Line on a train com-| persons than ever articipated i isti iti ] -| ti f the propeety and the con-| "~~ ’ i pe participa Hons existing, rather than at 8|itively known that he would nev- | tion of the propeety cinity ; he has a grudge against M.} ing into Raleigh there was quite ali ther fi ial t; iven b In th ntime it |er go to theextent of supporting | struction of the canal itself. If em cc ae (22g mt g q in any other financial transac- given hour. In he mea ; Sepang aeion: con Genin Greenberg, whose house was fired] sensational occurance. A man| tion. would be a good idea to —— ae eee =e I shall try to have them into the night of the Holt murder,}named Fort whose home is at eye open for such rascals as this ae and the officers have had no other} Wake Forest, fell from a train and Don’t Shoot Fire Works. ] It Doesn’t Pay. eached. If not, at any rate a : : may a 4 negro, “exouieoeoe Mayor Grier has asked The Mas- ai facts we es or ever have/ theory than that the same man did] was seriously injured. He was My ‘friend, there. are many, such negroes to keep an ey ae cot to make the announcement|;nown are at the disposal of} both; he has done some talking | brought here this morning an@}/ things in this world it doesn’t par = other people, SS = about ‘‘shootin”’ fire works with-| each and every one of you here,| two negroes are giving testimony] was taken to the Rex Hospital for} to do. : — = E pee nese in the city. and if any one in Conzress or all] that they saw him come out from | treatment. oe It doesn’t pay to pass yourself PaCS. Daily Record, 11tb. He stated that he hated to pun-|/Congress, if they wish to see| the coal chute the night of the mur On the 14 the joint special com- off for more than you are worth ; ay gee ish the boys for doing his, but he} them. der and = he had a gun in his| mittee of the — = be it tends to depress your market : E : he law. and ex- +--+ —__—_ hands. Jpon this testimony the!here to look over the book and | quotation. Outgoing and Incoming Officers. Sa ee as = to do = Busy People. arrest was made this morning by] vouchers of the State Treasurer It doesn’t pay to try to get a Upemciceactal come Co The merchants of the city as a} The show window of R. P. Alli-| Sheriff Harward and Detective|and Auditor and Insurance Com-}living without work. You will S = SoS — thes Bove whole object to the shooting of fire|son is the scene of much activity) Ashburn. missioner. J. A. Holt is the chair-| work harder and get a poorer liv- gained wonderfully in weight works within the city, on account/in the way of toyland. The theory of Barbee has been|man, the other members being] ing than if you did honest work, ae ae ;.jof the danger of fire, and every} Mr. Allison has constructed a]that the shooting was done by a] Roscoe W. Turner, N. B. Stickley.} It doesn’t pay to be a practical Bene OICCES AEE eae See one caught shooting them, will be|shafting run by an electric motor.|single-barreled gun. The fireman] M. E, Owens and Thomas W. joker, unless you happen to be the het in guemg thei weightias they dealt with severely. From this shafting several belts] J.J. Taylor, half an hour after the} Blount. victim. 7 ake:se fan stort othe outeone The following is the ordinance} made of strings run numerous ht-| murder stated that the murderer Corporation Clerk Wilson of the] It doesn’t pay to rest when you »Hicers that is in weight. -. |against shooting fireworks, tle toys, Which is very natural in-]| stood calmly near the engine, turn-| office of the Secretary af State, ought to be working; if you do, Nits: tondsstorshowe bye eae. ota tito- anni accd ed his back, dropped the empty|today made up his report on cor-{you are apt to have to work when jul posuemance: ¢> cher daa erson to throw any kinds of fire The blacksmith sands at his|shell ang reloaded his gun. The porations, which shows that dur- you ought to be rising. they grew fat, but they a= ae ae or explosives of any kind|anvil and hammers all the while}discharged cartridge was found ing the twelve months which end-] It doesn’t pay to ery over spilt the increase of fat both fiancially apon he streets or alleys ‘of the| and another little toy man stands| there and today a single-loading|ed November 30th, last year there milk; neither does it pay tu spill and physieally for their good ser- oe from any window or door or} at a saw, sawing a piece of wood] breech gun was found in Barbee’s| were 839 charters granted, while|milk—Dr. S. A. Steele in Work. “ices to the county. aaetnes place of concealment orjin two pieces. house. It is of the antique type|this year, up to. November 30th, ——— 1 Capt. W. H. H. Gregory. apon the premises of any property} There are also others too num-jand has been much used. The|the number was 763. This shows} Feeds MolasSes to His Cows. I Cn eae Sant ee within the corporate limits.}erous to mention, and_ several] boreis No. 12. a falling off this year of 76, which Chicago, Dec. 11.—In an address _ vet us stand Fr ight by eee a Any person violating this sec-| several steam engines all running. ee is a capital showing. The largest}before the National Dairy Show at Claus and the Christmas giving, ee Oe New Appointments. charter granted went to the Ral-|the Colisum W. H. Hoard, of The cireumstances upon which| desparate attempt to commit sui- pride to the allaged fact that am * He has made the world brighter tion shall pay a fine of ten dollars. Celebrates 14th Anniversary. Rev. J. C. Shaver who was ap-|eigh Light and Power Company, Fort Atkinson, Wis., advocated ‘ : ; a. . —-_ . i and better and happier. His work Had a Fit. Bro. D. J. Whichard, of the|pointed to Iredell county by the| the amount being $3,750,000. the feeding of molasses to cows. me long = eee A large number of the inhabi-| Greenville (N C.) Daily Reflector.| Methodist conference has been SL ae ee ae ““Cows like sweets,”’ he-said. ‘‘I is a poor lonely heart anywhere in itants in the neighborhood of the|has celebrated the 14th anniver-| transferred to the Sparta circuit. Get $3,000 Damages. feed my cows a regular ration of the world; as long as there is a} man or woman who needs to be cheered up; as long as there are beys and girls to love—so long will there be something for this Saint of the Big Heart to do. —_ ++ Mrs. Hooper Sick. Mrs. Mary Hooper better known as *‘ Aunt Polly,’’ is very ill at the home of her son, Mr. Mark Hooper ‘st Statesville. Mrs. Hooper is the oldest lady|that he lived in the country, not in Iredell county being nearly 99 years old. fire house were very much excited this morning by an unknown ne- gro keeling over on the sidewalk and having a fit. He flung his arms around in every direction and kicked like a mule. Several of the persons in that viciniy ran to him, but could not aid him any. After it wore off he stated that his name was Chas. Rankin, and far from town. He said he was in sary of his paper on last Thurs- day. the 10th. by publishing a 10 page. 6-column paper, with a pecial holiday covering, contain- ing a general write up of Green ville. It is a good paper and we wish Brother Whichard many more suc- cessful years. ————_+ +o Do not invite only the prosper- ous relatives to your Christmas dinner and leave out those who the habit of having these spells. and is succeeded by Rev. O. P. ty in a few days. ——— ++ Rev. Huggins at Mooresville. The case of Mrs. Belle Nichol- Routh, who will move to this coun-|son against the Dravo Contracting Company has been compromised by the company paying Mrs. Nich- olson $3,000. molasses every day and I find that helps their digestion. It inereases they thrive on it. It makes their- fiésh fat and their skins glossy. It gives zest to their appetite, and - preach. —— Rev. J. P. Huggins will go to Mooresville today. where he will preach tomorrow morning, going to Davidson tomorrow night to The case grew out of the death'the quantity and improves the - of Alex Nicholson, son of Mrs.| quality of heir milk. Nicholson, who was killed in a coal mine in Alabama and the above| habit of looking for it.”? 1 mentioned case was formed, the suit being brought in Birmingham, “My eows have got into the ————t@re————_—— ¢ At Sholapur, British India, 2° Pure beer is manufactured from} Ala.. H. P. Grier being the attor- malt boileq with hops and then|ney for the plaintiff, and it re- fermented. “fean get turkey every day.”’ suited in he compromise for $3,000 ly stiff form of naive grass. —-.2 factory is successfully, making - matches with sticks of a peculiar. e oe 4: f ‘ pi n e s a) : De k wi e n i Pe Be i ol SO A s od a Te g et ¥ pt! 9 Le bt Fs 4 ‘ + f a Hd a + ee SR S Se I e e SS SS = SS e S er a er e < “ ma l Le d IR E OW er e me e GR E E R IE S EE S Se e s SD R EE R PI E FS AT ee e th e aS Ma & st sf e h e s s * ca t h e ae we e , =e Te of , Re Br we be + PE R OP T ES eT + = wi g Sk e e a ea e ee i p i e s t i t e gv S = si g u e “< b en e w i e g Be g ed r o r e , — 49 g t pa t t y er e s , Sa Bb Te s a r o n e n te n it ee EE AD E T RG I S 6 se t e ld Ra a SE Fe e re e AL R 3 es o s : A EE EC D IR R Wh e sh e t i : . Bg nt s ee ns ar s Ya s a THE EVENING MASCO1 DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY: Entered at the Postofiice im’ Statéaville @. C., a8 second-class. mail matter. VANCE, NORWOOD - Publisher. RALPH SLOAN, - - City Editor, Subscription Price, = $4.00 a Year abscciphion Price, - 10 Cents a Week Weather Forecasts. Washington; D/C., Dec. 12—For Noréh-Carolina’ fair’ tonight and Sunday. Cooler tonight with frost near the coast. Warmer in west portion ‘Sunday: ee eee The tariff should be revised con: sistent ‘with economy to the people bus its'te be done in the inerest of prétéction:. We told-you so. aubere President-elect Taft now says the tariff will be revised consist- ent with the preservation of the principle of protection. No use to have said it, everybody knew that ‘before. F cae Ceasar had his Brutus, the Pan- ama Canal its Cromwell and Chas. P. Taft, the brother of William, and Douglas Robinson, the broth- er-in-law of Theodore, profited by his example. ———_2+ History-has two Cromwell’s, one took a kingdom and the other: a, republic. The first one died and: left his:son;in possession and he; could not-hold-it. The latter. took, two chances and sold out for 40 millions. He was a yankee. Judge. Jenkins who was chair- man'‘of a‘committe in the last con- gress insulted: every: prohibition- ist'that- came before him and would: not- allow any prohibition bill: reported‘ from his committee, got“ himself’ beat in his district by the: prohibitionists. This is some thing’to be thankful for that came out‘of‘the last election. ales a Mr: Taft told the negroes in his tatform he was their friend and ‘“‘agin”’ these constitutional amend mients that disfranchised them and they: voted for him. Now he tells the white folks their constitu- tional amendments. are all right and the negro has no right to com- plain, Which is he trying to fool, the negroes or the white folks. The republican party north, ever since the war have made what.is. known:as the bloody. shirt issue, against the south in every. campaign. They tried to put the force bill.on.us.and have threaten- eq.ta take away. our representa- tion at every session of congress and then they have. the cheek to tell us to.quit our sectional feeling and vote the republican. ticket. They, have less respect for us than we thought they had. WHICH TIME DID THEY: SPEAK.OF? When. President-elect Taft wanted to be electeg she-said-in his|' Pigtform that ‘‘we declare. once Igere and. withot reservation for]: the. enforcement: in letter and spirit of. the. fourteenth. and fif- } teenth, amendments: of, the- consti tution: which were designed-for protection-of the. negra.and-we condemnall devices that have for their-real aim: his disfranchise- ment, for reasons of-calor, alon, as unfair. un-American. and: repul-| siye.of- the. supreme. law of the lands’*~-Now. he says in his New. Yory. speech that the con: stitutional. amendments of the senthern states by: which the negro : disfranchised- shall. stand. He hag- as. well-said it because they will. But these gentlemen who assure us that Mr. Taft is-honest, truth- ful and-sineers will please tell us which;time they: refer-toe Do they meaiy the time: he was talking in hig. platform. or. when. he was speaking in New. York? We would THE COST OF ADVERTISING. The uynawake: megehant offen wonders -how'some rival ‘‘can:af- ford to spend so-much meney.ad- vertising.”’He is sure that he could not—that it would bankrupt, him in short order to ‘‘plunge’’ into publicity on the scale that ithe other fellow does. “‘The other. fellow’’ is not worrying about the cost of his ad- vertising for the simple reason 'that‘he doesn’t have to pay it. The competitor; who cannot ‘‘af- ford’’ to advertise really, in ef- feet pays the bill of the man who ean “‘afford”’ it. He pays him in‘he loss of busi- ness. caused by. his failure to ad- vertise. The business he ought to have—his share of the trade in his afford to advertiise for it- The the timiq advertiser by the ag- gressive one pays the latter’s ad- fortable surplus. It is a faet which progressive merchants are proving all the time—so, it ought te have some personal sigificance to the over cautious business.men who who are waiting to, get rich- before ‘“‘riskin’’ adequate advertising: campaigns. a THE ‘‘MERRY WiDOW.’’ aati the ‘‘merry. widow’’ hat, but it has at last proven that it -was made for some other purpose than ‘to annoy people. Of Course it is mighty bad to take a religious notion and. go to chureh once in six months and then have the misfortune tv sit behind one of these hats, and never see the preacher at all. Again in the way a lots: for the boys. when they want to. hug their best girl, but. still, with. all its objective features it has caused the life of a child to be saved. as follows: Cape Charles, Va., Dec. 10— Waiving her red: ‘‘ Merry. Widow’’ train which was. rapidly. bearing down: on little Mary Tolbert, daughter-of W. J: Tolbert; of Che- riton, whose foot had been.caught in the frog of a switeh. The. en- gineers saw the ‘‘red,’’ and, ak- ing-heed of the- danger signal, slowed down the train; giving Harry Jordan time to go to the rescue and. dislodge the little girl’s foot. The train was-within a few feet of he child-when she was. ex- trieated. —_———- Would Mortgage. The Farm: A. farmer-on Rural-Route No. 2; Empire, Ga, W. A. Mloyd. by. Salve cured the two worst. sores Lever saw; oneson my hend:and gage the farm to get it.’ Only: Statesville’s. model. hostesses. store. t ———++@-e Morinon’s Making Hetdway. The Mormons are holding their state conference in Kinston. today aud'tomorrow. This sect is rapid- ly growing in this state and in fact all over-the south. The eld- ets are usually well educated, in- telligett_men and very interesting talkers, trained for the business and they easily make converts.— Newbern Journal: : —_—_~++2-e—___ Mothers’ Joy is made ot pure goose grease and other healing ingredients. Mothers- you cannot! afford'to be without a box of M>th ers’ Joy. <a. If-the fourth of mareh does not hurry up- Roosevelt’ will have every -man-in America: branded as a liar, Most. disfiguring: skin: eruptions;. scrofula, pimples. rashes, etc., are due to impure blood, . Burdeck Blood | Bitters is'a cleansing tonic. Makes you cleat-eyed, cleit:brained; clear’ like to know before we vote again. skinned, line—goes, in. large part, to the}: competitor who seeks: it; who. can}. profits on trade: drawn: away. from |. | vertising. bills—and leaves. a .com-| Everybody has been ‘‘cussing’” hat, a young woman. ‘“‘flagged’’ a}: | Statesville, N. C., and answer or de- name, says: ‘‘Bucklen’s. Arnica}. one on my leg. It is- worth: more}: than-its. weight in-.gold. I would}; not-be without it.if I had:te mort«|: 25e.- at. Statesyille; Drag- Co.’s|: Death was on His: Heels. Jesse P. Morris, of Skippers, with such a fearful cough that my: friends declared consumption had me, and death was on my heels. Then I was persuaded to try Dr. King’s New Discovery. It helped me immediately, and after taking two and a half bottles I was a well man again. I found out that New Discovery is the best remedy- for coughs and lung dis- ease in all the world,’’ Sold under guaarantee at Statesville drug Co. store. 50c. and $1.00. Trial bottle free. Writing Paper For Christmas. Jf there ever was a delecate atten- tion'in the way of a Christmas pres- ent, it is.a. box of that remarkably fine writing paper at Hall’s Drug Store. Every time the recipient, whether wife, sister, daughter or sweetheart, opens the box, she is going to re- member you, and naturally she will write some of her letters to you upon the-paper. See our stock. W. F. HALL, Prescriptionist. North Carolina, In Superior Court, Iredell County. f Jan. Term, 1909. Wm. B. Hunt, Alex. C. R. Wilson, Millard F. Burgess, Henry S. Hunt, John E: Hunt and Ira M. Parsons, trading under the firm name of John E. Hunt & Co. vs. BE. M. Young; C. L. Young, T. M. Young, M. J. Young, minor; Geo. H. Young, Joseph Young and wife Mrs. Joseph Young. NOTICE. The defendant, T. M. Young, above named, will take notice that an ac- tion, entitled as above, has been commenced in the Superior Court of Iredell county td foreclose a mort- gage deed executed. by T. M. Young and others to the plaintiffs, and the said. defendant, T. M. Young, will farther take ‘notice that he is re- uired to appear at the term of the uperior Court.of said county to be held on the 5th Monday before the 1st Monday in March, 1909, the same being ‘the 25th. day of January, 1909, at the-court house of said county, in murr to the complaint in said action, or- the. plaintiffs will apply to the court for the relief demanded in said complaint. J. A. HARTNESS, Clerk Superior Court. Dated-December 11th, 1908. Poot Room | New Tables of thelatest and best makes have: been in- stalled: under J. P. Phifer’s grecery. store. on e a ee te oe ee e ee e OE So m e ee e ae tr e ee We SolicitYourPatronage STATESVILLE DKATING RINK Opera: House Building Open from. 3 to 5 and 8 to 10 p. m. No: Children Admitted to Floor at Night Sessions, Same “ee “efi ~— oe Only a Misunderstanding Several years ago in a well Va: had a close call in the spring; known wholesale house in a big, of 1906. He says: ‘‘An attack} manufacturing town an old bach- of pneumonia left me so weak and‘elor book-keeper, who had been many years with the firm, sudden- ‘ly announced that he was to be married. The partners gave him a week’s holiday and his fellow clerks rais- ed a little purse and presented it to pay the expences of his wed- ding trip. A couple of days after the wed- ding one of the members of the firm went down to a seaside re- sort, and there lounging about the parade and apparently enjoying himself immensely, he saw his re- cently married old bookkeeper, but alone. ‘Where is your wife?’’ asked the principal. ~ ““She’s at home.’ ply. *“But I thought you had money given you for a wedding trip.”’ ‘‘So I had,’ was the reply, ‘‘but I didn’t understand that it was to include her.”? a WOMEN’S WOES. ? was the re- Statesville Women Are Finding Re- lief at Last. It does seem that women have more than a fair share of the aches aad pains that afflict humanity; they must “keep up,’ must attend to duties in spite of constantly aching backs or headaches, dizzy spells, bearing-down pains; they must stoop over, when to stoop means torture. they must walk and bend and bend and work with racking pains and many aches from kidney ills. Kidneys cause more suffering than any other organ of the body. Keep the kidneys well and health is easily maintained. Read of a remedy for kidneys only that helps and cures the kidneys and is endorsed by people you know. Mrs. M.L Moose, living at 209 Boulevard St., Statesville, N. C., says: “‘For several years I was a vic- time of weak kidneys. I had a soreness across these organs most of the time and I generally felt weak. Dizzy spells and headaches were of frequent occurrence, and at night I was unable to obtain my proper rest. The kidney secretions were also un- natural in appearance, and showed that my kidneys were at fault. I used @ number of remedies but Doan’s Kidney Pills, which I procur- ed at Hall’s drug store, benefited me more than any of the others. I sin- cerely hope that other sufferers will give Doan’s Kidney Pills a trial as I know they will act strictly up to their representations. ?? For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name and take no other. ——— 1 If you haven’t the time to exercise regularly, Doan’s Regulets will pre- vent constipation. They induce a mild, easy, healthful action of the bowels without griping. Ask- your druggists for them. 25c. ——_++@>-»____ Jewelry. Bob Henry says that whe he sells you a piece of jewelry he tells you all he knows about it— and he makes it his business to know all about it. wy, North Carolina, Superior Court, Tredell County. jf Nov. 13, 1908. NOTICE OF SUMMONS AND WARRANT OF ATTACHMENT Henkel Live Stock Company vs. J . E. Cornelius, alias J. H.’’ Cornelius. take notice that a Summons in the above entitled action was issued against said defendant on the 13th day of November, 1908, by the Clerk of the Superior Court of Iredell county, which summons is return- able to tne Superior Sourt of Iredell county on the fifth Monday before the first Monday in March, 1909. That plaintiff seeks to secure judg- ment for the sum of Three Hundred and Ten Dollars and Thirty-five Cents, due said plaintiff by said de- fendant by note and chaitle mort- gage. The said defendant will also take notice that a warrant of attach- ment was issued by said Clerk of Superior Court in said action on the 13th day of November, 1908, against the property of said defendant, which warrant is returnable before said Superior Court of Iredell county at the time and place above named for the return of said Summons, when and where the said defendant is re- quired to appear and answer or de- mur to said complaint, or the relief demanded therein will be granted, J. A. HARTN ESS, Clerk Superiour Court of Tredell i ee ee 7 ~ S 2 i PRU EO HL TN eet Pa Ty We nsivoscosvoreliiiitr elit ————— Eee | mths sheet UTP seeE sees tesedest tet ee least ttip rite iit tH: Mestagce CENT. j RS : tal ° ‘As. SEIN): | simuilatin¢sheFoodandResua-} = th en: iat mauieese| Bears the i INFANTS “CHILDREN ; signature : Promotes Digestion Cheerrur: | ness and Rest.Contains neither: ‘| Opium.Morphine ner Mineral: | NOT NARCOTIC. rate A erfect Reme for' onsite “hae ot epee Stomach D arThoea Anos tail | Worms,Convulsions. Aipcig| | ness and LOSS OF SLEEP. NEW YORK. __| ee For Infants and Children, a, pi The Kind You Have Always Bought For Over Thirty Years te SSS ee ; ; ; : i320. : anteed uncer” ee ae ! d im i: THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. en Le a Bt Oe < tn In Se CR S a Ta Ca a na Ke | 3 g\ == still a fact that for the goods of “quality.” / In a sharp contest nothing but “quality” and appearance figure. “RUTH MADE"! Hosiery and the “WORLDS: BEST? Black are the goods of Quality. After ali has been said, all your pursuasive argument exhausted, it is “QUALITY” IS THE ONLY TEST OF VALUE To get best results you must have the best of everything -best yarn, best colors, best machines and best help, with such a combination you can produce the best of what you are making. We have all of the above. Ask your dealer Ss 4? A : 090808080 00808080808 080807080800 EOSOSOETO0OOO0EO OS OS0RUSOSOSU BORDROMOSOOO SDE THE BRADFORD KNITTING MILL. = ORCeoR: ofo6c080 | The defendant above named willt Soooecegcgceeooeceooeoence PE P P P E PP P EM Pp 28 Y County, N. C, é oak 6 @ [hese Handsome Dishes Given Away toMy Customers e With each. cash purchase of 5 cents or over I will give you a é @ coupon that can be exchanged for these gifts. @ e a = ———— pow cea: a ~h @ ° @) | $ 5 ® é @ . =e ° @ S @ e 5 . ° R e . | e : x ® 8 wit e @ » ob e ° B ba @ 1 e R 4 L. A. GOLDMAM -: Purveyor to the People. . h 5nd bdttddddbod iin cit lilYil yi iie R chi = % in qveeccosococcocecoscosasococesococcconscecsocceesete mR, it “ ‘ : 7 | oe ; & THE STATESVILLE LOAN AND: TRUST CU. } en 3 Of Statesville, N. C. ; ; Sei ee es ‘ ; Is PREPARED to transact all. branches of banking. : 5 : Accounts are solicited from firms, corporations and indiv - ; ‘ eee may rely upon courteous consideration and the + ver = terms that are consistent with good banking § ° : 8. Four per cent. paid on-time and savingsdeposits § ° i CAPITAL STOCB.cccccccssseosee. $40,000.00 ; Bi : Ccv-cceccccnce O98 OOO OCCCCCS 9 ° SY ; SHAREHOLDERS LIABILITY............2-se0000000-.$40,000.00 : ¥ ; SURPLUS ANP UNDIVDED PROFITS.........:..$30,000.00: ; : Tora REsources OVER......0.....eceess0e0e-0.$440,000.00 5 = Ee : 7 OFFICERS ; E. Steele, President. E Morrisou, Vice- i , HE. . Pres, D. M. Ausley, Sec is ; = and Treasurer, C. E: HUGHEY, Assistant Secy. and Treas = VW. G. CULBRETH, Manager Savings Department Chi eoee - s 6 g & @ 3 @ 2 3 3 3 3 > 3 3 3 8 a 3 e 3 2 © : i : i i; ; : : : ; é ; NN EW STUDIO; nard & Ellis, Professional Photographers, in N: B. Mills New Building, adjoining Stimson Drug Store, Statesville, N. C. g 5 2 § Hig gh Grade Photos at a Low Price. i : o g 8 enDy Pictures, the best that can be-made—24 for. Post Cards, per dozen, $1.25 Per half dozen 7 50c. Cabinets, in folders, dozen, $2.QO. Half dozen $1.50. 5 pictures of your home, PostCard size, and up to 8x10 inches and out-door groups, is one of our specialties at a moder- 25c. . = price. Give us & trial and be convinced that we are : trying to please you. Weare now ready to serve you. Will also Develop and Finish Kodak Work. i wMAYNARD & ELLIS—_ | .cisususuaaonsnennnane: wx NS) 2 poe “ NEW SHOE STO! Ee “ WE HAVE SHOES THAT ARE A ‘ ee Ky < ; TEED TO BE ABSOLUTELY WATER- ea PROOF nice enough for general wear Ss and heavy enough for farmers. . —~WEWSEE THEMBRre— Complete line of Dress Shoes for Men, Women and Children. Overshoes, Underwear and Gents’ Furnishings Everything new and as represented. We.will appreciate a x call. Yours to serve, -S. M. & H. SHOE COMPANY | Phone 40. Opposite Court House. a uk see FESCSSESCEEECEE TERE ‘WE IRON SHIRTS BY STEAM F ty mn Ww a ws mn Net bythe old Roller Rubbing Ww Amn method but in Straight. Paes-_ wW mr sure Machine which gives beauti- Wy in ful demestic finish and makes the w m Shirts last —————— we ri) Ww : Statesville Seca Laundry ¥ = U.C. Harwell, Prop. Phone [22 y Ssececccece SSeeSfceseeesSee FE EPPS ESP E HP EPH hapapdh og} THE SEEDING SEASON is again with us and have 2 car load of the celeprated Superior Grain Drills the best and lightest running drill made. If in need of a drill examine them and get our prices—we know we can please Also a Full Line of Hardware, Stoves; Etc. Evans Hardware Comp’ yz? SHEE SEEEEEEES EE E E E E E E E R E EE E A Reliable Bank~—— with prompt service and PAYING { obligi treatment, is oO Fiat great benefit to the young t business man When a man has a Bank account it implies cenfidence in himself ani others. By all means have a good checking bank behind you in business. You will find it both convenient and dig- ' nified in transacting busi- ness. d ~S = s 4 Merchants and Farmers’ Bank § OF STATESVILLE g INCORPONATED CAPITAL .$25;000.00. OFFICERS: oe L. T. STIMPSON, Pres.; C. S. TOMLIN, Vice-Pres.; BUNCH, See. & Treas; J. A. KNOX, Asst. Sec. & Treas. Directors : L. , J. L. Stevenson, C. S. Tomlin, R. R. Reid, Te RW. S. Page, Geo: B. Nicholson, L. K. Lazen- by, E. G. Gaither, J. “E Hill, E: B. Watts. Sn ee a a a ad Get us five yearly- subscribers: to: The Evening Mascot, paid in advance, and get one of the beautiful} Doan’s China Sets-we-are giving-as premiums. + | ; Y + : . + ¢ : ge! , : $ si fp e + 4: a4 ] : r if. 2s Xi ; ° se : FE + + $ ¢ PP es fe og CE let a 4" « ¢« ¢ ¢ © ¢ © @ News From Woodleaf. Hello correspondents of the go3d old Mascot, how are you all? As there has not keen any news found from our little vill- age in the Mascot for a period of of time, I will try and give what there‘is. Farmers here are about through pulling corn and pick. ing cotton. There was not a large corn crop made around here this year on account of the many rains and high'waters that was a complete faiiure in the wa- ter courses. Ridge land corn is very good. Cotton crops did fine consider- ing. There has been a good crop of wheat sown theis fall, and we vest next year. dings in the past three days. That beats th‘’e record of Rowan county. I will give them follow- A complete line of Fresh we had in the past summer, there Fancy Cranberries, Pineap- ’ Our Melrose Flour cannot hope there will be a largehar-|If you want the best of Woodleaf has had four wed- M. P. Alexander & Bro " Cause Your Wife M. P. Alexander & Bro. We have afresh stock of the fol. to wear a smile of satis- faction by buying your Christmas Goods from * %& Groceries for the Xmas Trade * * lowing Goods: ples, Nuts of all kind, Fruit Cake ingredients and everything else. be beat. * * Fresh Meats see us. The up-to-date Grocery | and Meat Men. ing. Mr. John Watmore was mar- ried to Miss Bertha Watson and Mr. Willie Rice to Miss Sallie Watson, aud at 9 o’clock Sun- day Mr. Tom Correll was mar- ried to Miss Vena Seamon, and Lizzie Penegar. are all of Woodleaf, and I think Xmas and thank our maker for past beautiful year. Miss Ruth Moore of Olin is spending the winter with her brother Mr. W. Woodleaf end going to school. Mr. W. Rice is putting ina saw mill athis roller mill plant. Our new preacher of the Meth- odist church preached his first 6th. Wealllike him very weil. Well as this is my first time for on Wednesday evening at four|by a chain of 30 Colleges, $300,000.00 o’clock Mr. John Dowell to Miss} ¢apital, and 19 year’s success, to se- cure positions under reasonable con- These parties ditions or refunnd tuition. there will be about that many BOOKKEEP ING ae oy ck | more before long, if signs don’t| accepting his pruposition, concede fail. ee Ere Bookkeeping Ee : in months than they do in Well Xmas will soon be here/srx’ “Draughon can convince YOU. and we should allshow up before SHORTH A N D 75 per cent. of his good keeping of us in the|Court Reporters write the system of Shorthand Draughon teaches, be- cause they know it is THE BEST. let, ‘Why Learn Telegraphy?’’ which R. Moore off explainsall, call on or write JNO. F. DRAUGHON, President PRACTICAL BUSINESS COLLEGE sermon here on last Sunday the! Raleigh, Knoxville, Nashville, Cc ——a_ oO @ a ——— OSITION Draughon gives contracts, backed theUnited States FOR FREE CATALOG and book- DRAUGHON’S (We also Teach by Mail) lumbia or Washington, D. C. quite a while, I will ring off, wishing the editor and its many readers all a merry Xmas. GUESS WHO. a Where Bullets Flew. David Parker, of Fayette, N. J., a veteran of the civil war, who lost a foot at Gettysburg, says, ‘‘The good Electric Bitters hundred dollars to me. I spent much money doctoring for a bad ease of stomach trouble, to little purpose. I then tried Electjric Bitters, and they cured me. I they keep me strong and well.” 50c. at Statesville Drug Co.’s store. errno tenet eh PO ee The state board of agriculture has decided to ask he next legisla- ture allow it to borrow $80,000. to be used in erecting a new agri- cultural building with the stipu- lation that the same be paid back from the réceipts of the depart- ment. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought pews the Ue Signature of ———_++@>-»—__—_ A Civie League has been formed at Salisbury to beautify that city. An asbestos mine has been dis- covered on the lands of Dr. W. L. McCanless in Stokes county. ——— <p Stops earache in two minutes; toothache or pain of burn or scald in five minutes; hoarseness, one hour; muscleache, two hours; sore throat, twelve hours—Dr. Tiotmas Eclectric Oil, monarch over pain. —_——_—_—_+>- oe —_——_— Alma, the 2-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. W: Bost, was burned to death at Stanley last Tuesday. —_—_——++e> Itching piles provoke profanity, but profanity won’t cure them. Ointment cures itching, have done is worth more than five} Through Pullman Sleeping Cars now take them as a tonic, and|“‘The Land of the Sky,” “The lireat Highway of Trade and For detailed information apply Is Essential to the Up- - hess message to the public. building of the Modern Business Enterprise. ::: To the publicity gained by the use of the advertising columns of the daily papers is at- tributed the growth, and consequent success, of a very large percentage of great business enter- prises of the present day. Advertising is recognized as the prime fac- tor in increasing the sales of any class of goods. or manufactured articles. The space used in this paper is your_busi- ‘you should tell them of the merits of what you are offering, setting forth the reasons why your particular line is worthy of their attention. THE EVENING MASCOT has increased its local circulation very materially during the past three months and the results obtained from the space used by the advertisers are gratifying to them and to the paper. -It reaches into the homes of the best class‘of our people and your message will be placed in the hands of those with money to buy the goods you wish to sell. The Space Rates in The Evening Mascot In this-open letter _ are not high. Your message is carried,’ eaeh-- day, to those you wish to reach, in the most economical manner, For information call us up on the phone and a representative ot the paper will gladly visit you The Evening Maseot. O4 BS : ef 5 Py . oe : , 7 of _ $5 *, - ‘ “+, Es C e LEAP A OPA SE AE ALAS SASHA SALTED EAS AEA EASA SA EAL ARAL Eine a! Ba eee ROR ROR SCOR a mE x Travel Through the Southern States on palatial trains between the principal Cities and Resorts of the South. High-class Dining Cars. Many delightful Summer and Winter Resorts on and reached by Southern Railway. Sapphire Country,” in scenic Watters North Carolina; beau- tiful at all seasons. Hotels of the highest class. to nearest Ticket Agent, or R. L. VDRNON, T. P. A., Charlotte, N.C. S.H. HARDWICK, P.T.M., W.H. TAYLOE,G. P. A., Washibgton, D. C. The Gate of Quality! Fresh Oysters Every Day| IREDELL CAFE W. W. GAITHER : I have a fresh line of CANDY in boxes, and FRUIT, for Xmas trade.- .°. ae for_retail trade and serving. Also QUAIL ON TOAST. * PHONE NO. 323 Proprietor. | NOTICE Chas. Brincefield wiltap-/ Morris Chairs and Rockers, ply for a pardon Dec. 18. bleeding protruding piles after years of suffering. At any drug store. Wood Sawed! See: R. O. Harbin or Phone. 132 |, or 46. 11-4-1m. Now Fime for You: to: Se- 5 ih See ebOeaOmeaaOmeOmac derek de weak aa ee e880 0B08560808080B8600OC €0908080600080$05580B C8 CE CSUSB COC SOSOBOSOM OGM Mer a ame SEVERAL THINGS Are to be considered in selecting your Bank 1ST. Strength-Financial Strength - 2ND. The care with which the Bank is Managed. 3RD. The courtesy and spirit'of ofaccomodation displayed’ - by the Officers and Em-. ployees. 4TH: The banking experience of i Officers. STH. The ability of the bank to Properly: and Promptly Handle all Your Business’. To Those Desiring the Embodi=—-~ ment of These Features: are. Offered The Service of THE | FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF STATESVILLE CAPITAL $100.000 O88 808808880808 920.9 280S0808 POOS OSSD LOE ORO ROS REISE eee Eoe lect Your Xmas SS We will put aside any goods selected: See our new line of - We will make Special Prices on COOK STOVES and RANGES. — Also Fine Mahogany Faia: STATESVILLE HOUSEFURNISHING coMPY Ee b c a e s s a e e e e s t e n n e a i e e s ns e be ni n in Co e Se a s me ee Rr eOr r ee op ie s h # to t @ we ; AS CE R T Fa eS ” —— — ye e sp Ps te e ee ea e as ej e ta k e r at t a SE I pe s t od e s ee a te eT , “y va t s oe s en Sy 5 by e ka g Fa c e t s te i n et ap e n a s a Ee n i Wa p Af 8 FE pe e r ra e : 27 5 5a 3 iz so t ‘ ao a Se es At i de e Ri g a s Na a Ol Kd ag r e e d RG SO R E N ar g OF ; he a e a RA S S SS E : 5 Se s s Li e Hr = Sa t e e n pe By e s + es e , se r e ca t Pe e t e AB C ES Hi e Sa a s AA ~ es <3 SI R I OP eS t o r e «s r rE ar e a 1 (A e aR SI p h N S Mp oe Ne e m oF sa p e Et TR G ES oe gl i Ch o m t Je e t ae s 8a. ta g Fi l e rs a ae s aa ao Ba PA mc c t y a s ne La ko d di c a t e 4s ai t Pa t Ie ae nt s et as ’ Empire, Ga, W. A. Mloyd dy _ @&ge the farm to get it.’? Only - Good middling.......... 2. 8 1-2 .- Stains and Tinge.......... 7 to 8 He fas Had en Minheapolis Millionaire on His Eighty-First Birthday Says He Has Had One Hundred Propo- Pair Sex Wanted His Money. Instead of 8al—Thinks - the Him. —_—_— Minneapolis, Dec. 10.—Levi- Merrick Stewart, known as“Elder Swetart, a millionaire bachelor, celebrated his eight-first birth- day to-day and became reminis- cent. ‘‘Many people,” he said, “think it an achievement to have lived eighty oue years. I donot con- sider it so. Many people think it is starng that I have lived all these many years and never been married. I do not think that is strange, either. “T have had more than & hun- dred proposals of marrieing, but I have never felt called upon to except any of them. Some of them came after I had made a little money, and I feared the sinders wanted it more than they did me. That is onereason | never married. “T was born in Maine eighty one years ago today,” he contin- ued. “Ia school Isuppose I was whipped by teachers more than a thousand times. “My father was a minister of the old Calvinistic school. I[ can remenber when we used to have family prayers in the house where my mother used to shake her fin- gers at me when [ interupted. I guess | was a bad boy. ‘The only way in which Ijshal) celebrate my birthday will bea hard day’s work’”’ he said. I ex- pect to celebrate a great many more in the same way. ————4+ PHILLIPS ARRESTED. Was One of the Parties Involved “in the Fight at the Corn Shuck- - ing—-Arrested in Salisbury. James Phillips, white, who hit HH. C. Dellinger on the head with 8 pistol at the corn shucking a few miles below town the other night, Was arrested] at Salisbury yester- day. Sheriff Ward, issued a eapias for him, and sent it to the chief of police of Salisbury, who immedi- ately arresteg him. A cash bond of $25.000 was sent to Mr. Ward for Phillips appear- ance here next Monday at 2 o’clock, before Justice W. W. Tur- ner. The trouble all grow out of a eorn shucking with tos much old ‘booze’? present. It was first thought that the matter had on smoothed over by the parties in- volved, but it leaked ovt chat a pistol was in the game, he 122 the eapies ang arrest. 44 >-o ———— Would Mortgage The Farm. 'A farmer on Rural Route No. 2, name, says: ‘‘Bucklen’s Arnica Salve cured the two worst sores I ever saw; one on my hand and one on my leg. It is worth more than its weight in gold. I would not be witheut it if I had to mort- 25c. at Statesville Drug Co.’s Statesville’s médel hostesses. store. ———— oo . COTTON MARKET. Local Market. Prices paid at wagon: Strict good middling 8 5-8 to 8 3-4. Middling.. ...... ..814 to 838 There’s never a trouble that comes to stay; : There’s. never a grievance but fadesaway; Forget the heart-ache and barvely lend 100 Proposals & | tling in your babies throat? Put a r a. oo Oi ae PB Nay Sie Pare : “Every writes Mrs. EF. Fournier Te CA Cardui is a medicine men, oldoryoung. Try mused to suffer from pape ee ac ie AND THEM | la pressing-down pains, aud could hardly w 5 eaipainmnssy . Be I took Cardui, and now I feel good all the time. § It Will Help You upon the cause of most women’s pains, strengthen- i ing the weakened womanly organs, that suffer be- — cause their work is too hard for them. i It is not a pain “killer,” but a true female remedy, composed of purely vegetable ingredients, : perfectly harmless and recommended for all sick wo- & AT ALL DRUG STORES Month of Lake Charles, La., “T] 4 52 e that has been found to act Caraui. Women’s Relief. # SQ A QP D P L A P L D P IS I N II N G I N me. may want. and they must go. Solid Gold Lockets Gents’ and Ladies’ G etc., from the lowest ~~ ma ) STATE NEWS. Patents were issued on the 8th instant to residents of North Car- olina: Draw detecting mechanism for looms, W. P. Phillips and S. D. Eubanks, West Durham; switch stand, J. F. Gurley and W. E. Lewis, Raleigh. Ex-Judge W. A. Graham; of Granville, Editor W. C. Dowd, of Mecklenburg; R. H. Hayes, of Chatam, and Ex-Gov. R. A. Doughton, of Alleghany are all candidates for speaker of the house of representatives which meets the first of January. Eugene McDowell, a well known white man of Greensboro was ar- rested at Charlotte last Thursday on a warrant charging him with the larceny of $310 from J. Ed. Cole, of Liberty. Mr. Cole, it will be remembered was robbed of this amount while a guest at the Clegg Hotel at Greensboro a few days ago en route with his wife to Texas. Its new waterworks having re- cently been completed, Hamlet has bought some fire-fighting apparat- us, consisting of two hand reels and 1,000 feet of hose. This is a great relief to the property own- ers of Hamlet, as the town has heretofore been almost at the merey of the flames. <A fire de- partment will be organized and drilled in the rudiments of fire- fighting at once. ———_o<1- Preparing for Hanging. Will Graham, the rapist, will be brought here from Raleigh on Thursday night, December 17, and his execution will take place be- tween the hours of 10 a. m., and 3 p.m.on Friday. Work will at onee begin on the erection of the seaffold, which will be placeg in the rear yard of the jail. The hanging will of course be private. None may see it but the required guard, two physicians and neces- sary assistants, and not more than 36 nor less than 18 respectable citizens. All of these must be ad- mitted by ticket—Concord Times. —_++o> A Healthy Family. “‘Our whole family has enjoyed good health since we began using Dr. King’s New Life Pills, three years ago,’’ says L. A. Bartlet, of Rural Route 1, Guilford Maine. They cleanse and tone the system in a@ gentle way that does you good 25c. at Statesville Drug Co. _——++oe>2——__. Likes South Carolina. A letter from Mr. Sam Holcomb. who is near Furgerson, S. C., says with the Santee River Cypress Lumber Company, and will stay there all winter, returning to Statesville next spring to take up his work as a plupber. ~ —_———~~~2e—__— Mother do you hear that rat- =. helping hand to some sadder} Sit . _. friend. that he has accepted a position/AMBITIOUS YOUNG MEN AND GENERAL INFORMATION. There are almost nine farmers country. Every English family has at least one weak-minded member, according toa London medical magazine. Parchment paper is made by dipping ordinary unsized paper in diluted sulphurie acid and then washing it. A French engineer has invented a rotary rudder by which he says a vessel of any size may be turned in its own length. An Italian physician has diseov- ered that carrots act as an intesti- nal antiseptic, and will cure many forms of digesive disorders. ~~ Much attention is given to horse breeding in Turkey by the better class people in the cities and by peasants throughout the country. The cinematograph can be used for recording every step in surgi- eal operations, ang for showing the whole process to a large class of students. Mothers how can you take chances—keep a bottle cf Moth- ers joy in your house. You need Mothers Joy every day. MONEY FOR YOU! Those holding shares in the 32nd Series of the First Building and Loan Association, which ma- tures Tuesday, 15th, are asked to call and get their money on that date oe ee oe ee ee FIRST BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATION. 1 time athe Nee Rs 5 cents a line. 3 TIMES................20- 4 cents a line. 6 GIMEB..........-.000- 3g cents a line 26 times...... .......... 3 cents a line. PHOTOS—Will Continue Making Photos, 24 for 25¢, over Knox & Poston’s store until Xmas. Everybody get your photos made now. Last chance so eheap. sat&wed d lt w FOR SALE—Best Grocery stand in city, doing good business. Reasons for selling. If you want a bargain answer at once. Address Grocer, care Mascot. dee 3 tf ladies should learn telegraphy; for, since the now 8 hour law became effective there is a shortage of many thousand telegraphers. Po- sitions pay from $650 to $70 a month to beginners. The National Telegraph institute of Columbia, 8. C., and five other cities is oper- officials and all students are Placed when qualified. Write them for particulars, nol9 dtf to every professional man in this Guaranteed. other Forks, Berry S individual Salt Sets, is what it means when you buy your Christmas goods from eee too much stock and must cut it down by January Ist, ill give you bargains in anything in my line. I See ae the BUYERS PURSE. Anyone wanting a high-grade ment can now get it cheap. 2 on South Bend Hiner Hamilton, Elgin and Waltham, in 15 and 17 j s. These will be put into whatever kind of a case you leg sae have too many 15 and 17 jeweled movements on hand Solid Gold Rings from $1 OO up. Solid Gold Cuff Buttons 175“ Solid Gold Hearts for Neck Chains All other Gold Goods too numerous to mention at right prices. In Gold Filled Goods, such as Gold Filled Neckchains, Gold Filled Lockets, Filled Cuff Pins, Veil Pins, Hat Pins Bar Pins, Stick Pins, Belt Pins, Brooches, Large lot of Bracelets at right prices. Nice line of Silverware and Novelties, such as Toilet Sets, Manicure Sets, Mili- tary Brushes, Clothes Brushes, Shaving Brushes, Hat and Bonnet Brushes, alljin sterling or best grade Quadruple Plate. Nice line of Ladies’ Gold Filled Handle Umbrellas from $3 SO to $7 50. You can get a bargain in Cut Glass, Japanese China Vases, etc., and Statu- ary, as these must go. In Silverware I have a complete%$lineXof Knives and Forks, Tea and Table Spoons, Butter Knives, Sugar Shells, Pie and Tomato Servers, cold meat and Nice line of Parlor and Gold Plate Clocks, Kitchen and Alarm Clocks. No difference what you want in the Jewelry line, I will save you money. Come and see for yourself. Will make the I have these in the Rock. I have Solid Gold Stick Pins from $1 OO up. Solid Gold Brooches 125 “ 400“ — Sold Gold Neck Chaius 300 “ 1235 “ old Filled Woven Wire and Silk Watch Fobs, Ladies Gold prices and up. poons. Soup Sets, Soup Ladles, Carving Sets, Childs’ Sets, Cut Glass Sterling Top Salt and Pepper Sets. ¢ PQ QP D P P P P I IN . R. F. Henry # Jeweler and Optician NTONMONIONG ORION ONIOOTIOTIONOTONIOIO: e GO N T E N I O N Hotel fredell Building. as SUBEREE ERS REE RES RESS CERES SSeS ee Che Christmas Line At the Sto show such if you don surpassing TB SS IS H S CO R R S Porras ooo How to Prevent Pneu- monia In every paper you pick up you will see where some good man has just died with this fearful disease—pneu- monia. Now we will give you One Hundred Dollars for any case 6f pneumonia you have in your family it fails to cure if you will use Goose Grease Liniment as directed. It only costs you 25 cents a bottle. Get it— you have nothing to loose and all to gain. Weknow there are thousands who will read this and throw it- aside and in a few days will. be down with the disease. Please just get one bottle and putit away until you need it. If you haven’t the money to buy it let us know aud we will send you a bot- tle free. GCOSE GREASE CO. WANTED—BY THE AMERICAN Cotton and Business University of Milledgeville, Ga., students to take one or more of our courses in cot- ton grading, buying and selling. Business courses of bookkeeping, Shorthand, Typewriting, or Telegra- phy and Railroad course. Positions guaranteed under reasonable con- ditions. Write at once for oar consolidated catalog. Larges: col lege South. Sept 28-tt ated under supervision of R. R.' FOR RENT—ONE STORE BUILD- ing and basement. Best retail Stand in the city. Statesville Real- ty and Investment Co. Sept.19 ‘We invite you to come and fet us show you the entire linc. ome==be convinced, re of Quality Otis a pleasure to be able to an elegant line of goods to you even > t want to buy. CA fine of Quafity anything ever shown in Statesville. Statesville Drug Co. Prescriptionists. TRS TT RS PENI RPO IG | Seeocccocccocooooooecceeee Ca S ER S ES ER S CS S CS R S ES SR S SS S Ca S CS E SS S CS aC RS Let us help you solve the all perplexing ques- tion:—WHAT SHALL I GIVE FOR CHRIST- MAS? Below isa list of useful articles which any one would be proud of: House Slippers, Bath Slippers, at ~ 50c. to $2.00 The handsomest line of Neckwear in Statesville at 25c. to $1.00 Silk Mufflers and Reefers at $1.00 to $3.00 Silk Suspenders (in individual boxes) at 50c. to $1.50 Silk Handkerchiefs (plain or fancy) at 25c. to $1.00 Hawes celebrated $3.00 Hats, all the new shapes and colors— Green, Ivy, Tan and Peari. Dress and Driving Gloves at The Christmas money expended here will not Ss. B. MILLER Lf THE SHOE MAN. © La COCCCCOCSSOSOCCCCEDE CLEVE ScCCCEceceee eeecey HE GREATEST OF ALL GIFTS— at Christmas, or any other time, is good health This is insured by eans of sanicary plumbing in your house. If you would present your family with “@ threefold blessing, cele- brate Christmas by ar- ranging with us for a complete system of mod- ern up-to-date plumbing from cellar to roof. 25c. to $2.00 C3 9 0 0 C0 O O 0 8 e0 0 c 0 0 e C e Co c s q e a @ <_—. a. mr. * 7° €€ ¢ J n a a A nn mM n mn nt mM © a a m N\ " Ww 3S ~, é, : . ~~“ a *,e << ot: =. GS G e e e h s e e e e c e c e WA. W. HOLLER PLUMBING COMPANY * ws Phore No. 61. 127 W. Broad St. §2 3 3 2 3 2 2 3 2 2 1 3 3 2 3 3 2 3 3 3 : 233233233233233233:23:332332¢ CHRISTMAS SUGGESTIONS $. ——— Expl 10 KILI Prematt mous lon © Inj ing Wi ix Two is Alg men Colo dynami firing, ¥ in the Y day. 4 fifty inj ers hav piled uy Bas ¢ from Q explosi as In ag 2? tons Num as to ti the of which ¢ ed anc during of the euttin remal by coy The electri blast y aftern being ] of one men if sion. Ap ed w but if aged. The Spani Rel scene which later that 4 sent The that while 120 ¥ were It men a pag hook imm4¢ Whe of th crew scen der thro £ tons 11: deat jury injt stea gin H. Jo t] and Pa Yo sha frq wt PA Vv J 7 si SS ie a ST O O NI O T I O N I O N T O I O N H O N T O I I O N T O N I O N T E : WO N I O N I G <i Ad , yf ; ee Re e eR — we ee : Vol. :. gee eS THE Ey Fyplosion at Panama Canal 10 KILLED AND 50 WOUNDED. Premature Explosion of an Enor- mous Blast of Powder Near Co- ion Claims Ten Dead and Fifty Injured—Last Charge was Fe- ing Placed Preparatory to the Wiring of the Holes—Twenty- Two Tons of Dynamite veacdy is AlSo Set off and the Work. men Are Blown to Atoms. eee Colon Dee. 12.—A giant blast of already prepared for firing, Was prematurely exploded in the workings at Bas Obispo to- Ten men were killed and fifty injured. It may be that oth- ers have been killed for debris is piled up in all directions. Bas Obispo eut is about 30 miles from Colon, ang the shock of the explosion was disinetly felt here, as in addition to that in the blast, 22 tons of dynamite was exploded. Numerous reports are current as to the eause of the accident but the official version from Culebra, which gives an estimate of ten kill- ed and fifty wounded, states that during the loading of the last hole of the blast the dynamite in this cutting was discharged, and the remaining 22 tons were exploded by coneussion. The holes had been connected clectrically as the discharge of he blast was set for 5 o’clock in the afternoon. The last hole was being loaded under the supervision ot one of the most efficient powder men in the employ of the commis- S?ton,. A passenger train had just pass- ed when the explosion occurred, but it was not in any way dam- aged. The majority of the victims are Spaniards. Relief trains were sent to the of the disaster and one which reurned here several hou:s later brought back the . report that 45 of the injured had been sent to Aneon hospital. The officials on the train stated that eleven dead had been found while many others in the gang of 120 who were employed in the cut were missing. It was also reported by the train men that the explosion was due to a passing steam shovel, which hooked the wire leading to the charge of dynamite. dynamite, aawv scene immense Whether or not tl is was the ea 1se| as Judge of the eighth judicial dis-| more. of the ac¢cident a steam shovel and crew which happened to be on the scene were practically buried un- der the mass of rock and earth thrown up. Later. The premature explosion of 21 tons of dynamite at Bas Obispo at 11:10 this morning resulted in the death of fourteen men and the in- jury of fifty. Three or four of the injured probably will die. Following American killed: James L Hummer, craneman, steam shovel, Dunellen, N. J. John J. Korp, steam shovel e- gineer. Phillipsburg, N. J. Seriously wounded: Benjamin H. Cole foreman, Rochester, N. Y-; John J. Reidy, powder man, Indi- anapolis, Ind. Slightly wounded: Arthur H. Philadelphia, Pa.; W.G. Bell, foreman, New York City; C. W. Hayden, steam Bassett, foreman, shoved engineer, Sandusky, O. —__++aro————_ Mr. L. ©. Caldwell returned from Charlotte Saturday night, where he has been atteding court. LOCAL BRIEFS. —————s Mr. C. S. Brawley is sick at his home on Green street. the Billingsley hospital for treat- ment, : The house occupied by Mr. J. M Johnson on Walnut street is being recovered. Work began this morning orf installing electric lights in the Bil- lingley hospial. Mr. A. C. MeHargue who has been very ill for some days is rest- ing easiner today. Mr. J. G. Gray who has been very ill with appendicitis is im- proved a little today. The home of Mrs. J. A. Cooper on Sharpe sreet is some improvements. = Rev. R. C. Green is very much improved today, and there is hope for his early recovery. Mrs. W. F. Hall was removed from the Billingley hospital to her home this morning. The students of the college will give a musical recital tonight. Th> public is invited to attend. Marriage license were issued Saturday afternoon to Mr. M. R. Wiliams and Miss Zulla Johnson. The A. F. McCall property was sold under mortgage by the Build- ing and Loan Association for undergoing J. C. Duke. Rash, and Dr. Dr. H. C. Solmon vf Joneville, Davie county and Miss Angie Huie of this county. this morning at 10 o’clock in the A. R. P. church. No business of any importance was transacted. In fellilng a tree in the court severely, causing both globes on it to shatter into smithereens. A traction engine belonging to Mr. W. A. Overeash, which was ditched in front of Mr. Frank Jenkins residence last week, was gotten out Saturday afternoon after about a dozen men hail worked at it for near half aday. . —_~—++2@r-—__—_ W. J. ADAMS APPOINTED. Carthage Lawyer Will Succeed Judge Neal as Judge of Eighth Judicial District—Is an_ Attor- ney of Recognized Ability and Has Been in Legisltaure Several Times. Carthage, Dee. 12.—Mr. W. J. Adams received a telegram from Governor Glenn late this afternoon notifyig him of his appointment trict to sueceed Judge Walter H. Neal. Mr. Adams’ many friends here are greatly pleased at this ap- pointment. He is aman deserved- ly popular here and throughout the state. He is a lawyer of rec- ognized abiliy and judicial tem- perment. He is a son of the late Rev. S. D. Adams, who for many years was a presiding elder in the North Carolina conference. He graduated at Trinity college and studied law at the University of North Carolina. He obtained his license to practice law in 1880, loeating here, where he was for many ‘ years associated with the late J. C. Black. He has repre- sented this senatorial district sev- eral times in the legislature and was one of the feur Democratic members of that body in the fu- sion legislature of 1895: Judge Adams will holq court in Johnson county next week. ——__++ar-e———— Mr. J. A. Green of Fort Smith, Ark., who has been here with his father, Rev. R. C. Green returned r Mr. Lawrence Mills has enter +} - $1,400 to Fessrs. J. W. Watt and/and finally left the house, Gore following him, Marriage license were issued to-| from him to avoid trouble, but in day to Mr. Silas Rush and Miss ida} goinz along a path Gore caught The ministerial association met| he shot three times. house lawn this afternoon, a guy} body said that he must have died ites sues wire to an are light pole was hit| instantly, as the only shot that cohol to successfully Eee with by the tree, jerking the are light penetrated his person went thro- kerosense gasoline or gas. Never- £ Statesville, N. C., Monday Evening, December 14, 1908. ENING MASCOT. — - No. 3% Fiddler Killed | Ne: banjoist DANCE HAS A TRAGIC END. John Gore Has Bullet Put Through His Heart by His Father-in-Law, Munro Mize, 4nd Death is In- staNtaneous—Slain Man, in a Drunken Condition, was Perse- cuting Mize and Attempting to Cut Him. Grafiney, Dec. 13.—One man dead, one in jail, and two families left desolate is the rusultof a tragedy which occurred at Rav. 2nna, in this county about three o’clock this morning. Munro Mizi, who lives on Mr. T.G. Chalk’s place near Ravenna, is a Fiddler and was invited to go to a dance at the house of William Reynoldstofurnish music for the occasion. John Gore, who married Mize’s daugh- ter, and who lived in the house with Mr. and Mrs. Mize, was also invited to attend with his bango. Gore, as expected, soon became intoxicated and began fussing, Mize stood it as long as he couid Mize got away up with bim and attemped to cut bim, and did cut his coat, wher- upon Mize shot him. He thinks This occurred near the barn of Mr. John Fowler, who lives abo- ut one mile from Mize’s house. Persons who saw Gore’sdead ugh his heart. Miz-’s family consists of his wife and two children, both of whom were married Gore hada wife and two children, one a ba- by in arms and the cther about 2 years oi age. Persons who knew Mize say he is one of the most peaceable men in the world and has never been in any trouble before, while the dead man had the reputation of being very disagreeable and-fussy while under the iufluence of whis- key. newspaper to put in its first ap- pearance on next Friday. It will be a weekly paper, de- voted mostly to farm work, and will be edited by Mr. A. H. Gil- The temporary name of the pa- per will be ‘‘The Farmer’s Friend.”’ A contest will be held in which the school children will have a chance to name the paper, and get a $5 gold piece and the paper for a life time free. 5 Faci child’s suggestien for the name will be given to the judges to be appoined,. who will decide ion the best one. ———~++2-o—_—_— Child Burned to Death, Marion, Dee. 12.—The young child of Mr. William Sweeney was fatally burned last Thursday af- ternoon and died from the effects Friday. Its mother. left if in a room alone for a few minutes and it was thought that the child in at- tempting to reach something on the mantle caught afire. When discovered its apron was on fire and in attemping to extinguish the fire its mother was burned severe- ly on her hands and arms. — Mr. S. R. Brown is in Salis- t» his home Saturday night. r. ee ae eee W. W. Turner. % a ie The evidence as to the pistol Statesville will have a new “ote? “mes conticane and Decrease in the Revenue Receipts REVENUES ARE $250,000,000. Commissioner Capers States That ..for Last FiScal Year There is a Decrease of $17,998,072, as Compared With Previous Year. Washiogtou, Dec. 138.—Comm- issioner John G. Capers of the in- ternal reveung bureau, in his an- nual report, states for the last fi- scal year there was a decrease in the receipt of $17,998,072, as compared with the previous year, and that for the first six months of the current year there has been a decrease of $1,262,248, as com- pared with the cooresponding months of the last fiscal year. The revennes for the full cur- Jent year are estimated at $250, 000,000 which is $1,665,000 less than the last year. : The production of distilled gain spirits for the fiscal year 1908 was 126,989,740 tax gal- lons, a decrease of over 40,000, 000, gallons as compared with last year. This is accounted for by the commission by the proh- ibition movement, the high price of gain and the agreement am- ong distillers to curtail produc- ‘ion. The total production of denatur- ed alcohol during the year was 3,021,451 wine gallons, which is about 240,000 gallons less than for. the previous year. The cost of production has not been sufficient- ly reduced, Mr. Capers says, to enable completely denatured al- theless, it is gradually growing in favor for fuel, light and power. EE ee PHILLIPS NOT GUILTY. Did Not Have Pisol at the Corn Shucking—Was Fined $9.70 for General Cussedness. Jim Phillips who engaged in a row at a_ cornshucking a few nights ago below town, and was arrested in Salisbury by the po- lice on a warrant charging him with using a pistol was tried this afternoon at 2 o’clock by Jusice Justice Turner dismissed him von costs all amounting to $9.79 for te armen etl EE ee Geneon, Mr, Westmoreland Back. ‘Mr. William Westmoreland re- turned Saturday night from an extended hunting trip south. Mr. Westmoreland went to Co- lumbus, Ga.,about four weeks ago, and there joined a party of gen- tlemen, and went by boat to Flori- da, hunting along the river as they went. They did most of their hunting in and around Appalachicola, Fla., killing lots of small game, and catching a lot of fish. —_——_++@>-—__ Day after day he walked the street, Looking for a presnt for ‘‘wifey”’ sweet— “‘T know what’ll please her most,”’ said he; “It’s Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea.’’—Statesville Drug Co. ——_++ar-o—__—_ Jewelry. ; Bob Henry says that whe he sells you a piece of jewelry he tells you all he knows about it— and he makes it his business to PERSONAL NOTES. Some Happenings Among Those People You Know and Others You Don’t Know. Mr. H. R. Cowles spent Satur- day in Charlotte. Mr. F. W. Brawley of Gastonia, is in the citytoday. Mr. Roy Leinster of Raleigh, is in the city for a few days. Ex-Sheriff J. W. Watt of Alex- ander county, is in the city today. Mr. Clarence Stimson of Tur- nérsburg, spent yesterday in the city. Messrs. J. F. Bowles and C. S. Tomlin returned last night from Baltimore. Mr. Gales White of Taylors- ville, spent Sunday in the city, r2- turning this morning. Mr, A. C. Payne of Taylorsville, passed through the city this morn- ing en route to Charlotte. ot FOR FALSE PRETENSE, U. I. Roseman put Under a $50 Bond by Justice W. W. Turner. Mr. U. I. Rosetman was tried be- fore Justice W. W. Turner at 3 o’clock Saturday afternoon on charges of false pretense. After hearing he evideXec, Mr. Turnr re- quired a $50 bond from him, which was given. i Ee From the evidence introduecced it seems that Mr. Roseman was selling to Mr. J. W. Shell what is known as the J. D. Christopher place containing 113 aeres. Mr. Roseman had a new line run cutting off between-1U and if acres from the place. He then made the deed for 113 acres, not taking off the amount of land cut off in running the new line, and sold the land to Mr Shell, as be- ing 113 acres when it was not, and he knew it, delivering the deed for that amount. Mr. Roseman is well known in the lumber circles, having run a saw mill west of town for some time. —_———_~}- > - KILLED BY RUNAWAY CARS. ) Brakeman Ed Allmany Falls From Cars Attached to Engine and Runaways Pass Over His Body, Killing Him Instantly. Canton, Dec. 12.—Ed Almany, & brakeman on extra freight train, No. 156, was instantly killed last nightabout10 o’clock by falling between the cars. The freight was coming down grade at this place when§the train be- came separated. Allmany, who engine was attached, signaled to but when he saw the that the cars behind would run into his section he started again. The brakeman was not expecting this and when the train started be was thrown off. The other carsran over his body, killing him instantly. ‘he body was taken to ‘Asheville late last night, where the dead map lived- a ee Prize Winner Saturday. The prize winner at Lawrence’s store Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock was Mr. R. E. King of North Iredell. The prize was a pair of nice shoes. <A prize is given away each afternoon at 3 o’clock. ED ee Fills your veins with rich, red bleed. Gives you a hearty appe- tite, builds up flesh, makes you strong and rugged. Hbollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea, greatest health builder. Tablets. Statesville Drug Co. ee Do not be afraid of knowing too much, but beware of knowing 39 cents, Tea or They Can't Use Uncle da's O.K. OLD LABELS FOR TWO YEARS Act Passed by Pure Food Com- ‘mission, Barring Pure Food and Drug Labels’s Use, Because it is Misleading. Washington, D. D., Dec. 12.— Unscrupulous and otherwise mis- leading phrases in "guarantee la- bels used by manufacturers are barred under a decision promul- gated today by the pure.food and drug board with the ap- proval of Secretaries Cortelyou, Wilson and Straus. The decision conforms to the recent refusal of Commissioner of Patents Moore to register trade marks which include the phrase “Guaranteed under the pure food and drugs act, Jnne 30, 1906,” on the ground that it was misleading, Effective January 1, next, new guarantee legends must jibe changed so as to show plainly that the guarantee is that of the manufacturer and not of the government, but becaus2 of the large sums of money invested in faith in labels now in use repre- senting guarantees already filed with the department will be re- cognized for a term of two years. Oo SEEING THE SIGHTS. Every One a Prize Winner ~ for Populariy—Chaperoned by Lex- ington Editor’s Wife. New York World 12th. A group of seven young women from North Carolina came to town last night under the watch- ful eye of Col. H. B. Varner, pub- lisher of the Dispatch, a weekly newspaper of Lexington, N. C. They are winners in a voting contest the colonel got up last summer “to determine the most popular young ladies in the state.” Col. Varner has brought his wife along as chaperon during the six day’s sojourn. The party is composed of Miss Clatie Fos- ter, of Lexington; Miss Pearl Lyon, of Cooleemee; Miss Bettie Hendricks, Boonville; Miss Nena Koontz, Lexington; Miss Minnie Owen, Thomasville; Mrs. C. R. Myers, Salisbury, and Miss Lu- that charge but fined him $2 and) yas on the section to which the | cile Hege, Lexington. Not (one of the prize winners cussing and trying to raise a row. the engineer to stop. He did so had ever been to New York be- fore and they looked a little scar- ed last night. “There ain’t more {than two of us that were ever aout of North Car’lina,”’ said Miss Hendricks. ‘“‘We’ve heard all abgout this taown, and we are going to see everythin’. ‘Even Chinatown,’’ put in the most demure girl of the lot, and the others looked confused. ~ The colonel took the prize win- ners to see the “Three Twins” last night. After the theatre they were toted to Madison Square Garden and {they watch- eda few rounds cf the bicycle race. Xmas Tree. es The Bethel Sunday school in South Iredell will have a Xmas_ tree at the Bethel Baptist church on Xmas afternoon at 3 o’clock. | The public is invited to attend. and put.presens on the tree for any one they wish.y s_ 3 ——$+oro——— . If you must give advice, first consider it carefully. What if (bury today on business. know all about it. = things that are not so. somebody should follow it? = on ee THE EVENING MASCO1 DAILY EXCEPP SUNDAY. cae —— qa — Entered at the Postofiice im Statesville @. O.,a8 second-class mail matter. “fice 169 Court Street. Felephone 53 . VANCE NORWOOD Publisher. -—~RALPH SLOAN, - - City Editor, - SuBecription Price, $4.00 a Year ‘sbscription Price, 10 Cents a Week 5 eee ieee : Weather: Forecasts. : *\ “Washington, D. C., Dec. 14—For “¢?North Carolina fair and warmer tonight. Tuesday increasing clou.t- iness and warmer. MR.-TAFT’S SPEECH. ~ The Hon. William H. Taft was given a tumultuous reception by the North Carolina expatriates in New York city Monday night and eceh. wv~ at ey made a very remarkable sp We have discussed one phase of his deliverance—that relating par- ticularly to the political status of the negro in the south, and } iis tempting offer made upon the top of a high mountain of privilege as aforetime that the southern people should seek a new political alliance in order that they might partici- pate hereafter more fully in the affairs of this nation. Mr. Taft asked why it was that what is done at Washington seems te be the work of the norh and west and not of the south. Surely, it is not the fault of the south that such is the case and to put the question in this way is really to answer it. The party which Mr. Taft rep- resents is a sectional party; it was organized as such; it has been al- ways conducted as such; yet the people of the South are invited to go into this party, and as a condi- tion precedent to fellowship with it they are to abandon all of their views as to the character of this government, to surrender the idea that this is a republic, that the states are mere appanages of the national establishment, that all au- thority and power must be center- ed in the national government ai Washington, that the right of iax- ation does not earry with it the right of representation hat special interests are to be promoted at the expense of the whole people an without consideration of their wel- fare, that the South is entitled to do the work at Washington not by virtue of its being an integrel part of the republie but by virtue of its being identified in political purpose with the party in power. The south has not done the work at’ Washington because the south has not had a square deal. It has been discriminated against not only because it has maintained its political inegrity but because up to this time its so-called economis in- terests have been supposed to be antagonistic to he economic inter- ests of the larger and controlling ‘ part of the country. ~ Mr. Taft has adopted the most effective method in the declaration of his attitude towards the south. He follows the suaviter in modo; he does not threaten he pleads; he does not command he commends; and one cannot help admiring the dignity and apparent sincerity with which he seeks to break down or break up the so-called Solid south. He did not explain, how- “ever, to the North Carolinians ~ why there should be political solid- ity in the north and west and po- litical divisions in the south. But he did better than this, and proba- bly without reflection, when he proved by the figures submitted has been the growth that the south has made under the domination of the democracy. It is true, as he '~said; that the growth of the south “smee 1880 has been marvellous, - that the value of the manufactur- ‘ed products in the south has in- ‘greased from $450,000,000 in 1880 to” $2,000,000,000 in 1908. The south could not have succeeded much bettér than this had its white ..people gone over in a body to the - Republiean gang. - Indeed, the ma. terial: progress of the south has only been impeded by the political! sete party into which Mr. Taft now in- vites it. Let us not forget these things in making up our decision as to whether we shall be true to ourselves and our traditions and beliefs, or whether we shall for the sake of a little federal patron- age—at the best it cannot amount to very much—go over to the ene- my. ‘‘The Kingdom of God com- eth not with observation.”’ —_++oa-————_ Speaking of Christmas. With the coming of the Christ- mas season we are again confront- ed by the newspaper advice to ‘‘buy your Christmas presents early.’ We refuse! Buyig Christmas presents is not a case of bargain hunting. Even the poorest of us, if we have but a dime or two to spend, want to get the most possible out of it, and the joy of mingling with Christmas erowd, the glare of the lights, the contact with others who are filled with the spirit of the season, he rush and crush and bustle—what would Christmas be without all these things? Sordid merchants who want to decrease the expense account, and who want youto get your pur- chases earlier because the prices rule a little higher, will advise you to “‘buy ’em_ early,’’ but if you suecumb to their blandishments you are going to miss your right- ful share of the season. This thing of buying Christmas pres- ents ahead of time and storing them away is too much like eating tomorrow’s supper this morning in order to make sure you'll have it. Besides, what’s the use of buy- ing the Christmas presets early and trying keep them concealed from a buch of widdies that can detect a hidden treasure in the house as easily as a dog can find the place it buried its last bone? Why, who of us having experi- ence insuch matters would miss the ingling delight of trying to sneak into the house an evening or two before Christmas ever, with our arms full of bundles, and get- ting them stowed away without the suspicions of he kiddies? That’s half the fun of the Christ- mas season. Buy your Christmas presents early! We'll do no such thing. We'll wait until the last m inute, and then we'll get into the rush and have our toes stepped on our skirts torn, our hats crushed, our coats cipped and our collars wilted—but through it all we'll be as happy as kids out of school. This cold, calculating, time-sav- ing, nerve-conserving, mechanical method of observing the Christmas season does not make a hit with as.—Exchange, ret EE ne If you haven’t the time to exercise regularly, Doan’s Regulets will pre- vent constipation. They induce a mild, easy, healthful action of the bowels without griping. Ask your druggists for them. 25c. —_———-++ ey -o—_———-—- The sharper who sold a wind- broken horse as sound, proved it by the sound made by the 2 animal.. —____. {+o Mothers’ Joy is made of pure goose grease and other healing ingredients. Mothers you cannot afford to be without a box of Moth ers’ Joy. —- +o If you ean’t get turkey for Christmas try chicken; and be thankful that you are living to eat it. —_—_—— 1 Mother do you hear that rat- tling in your babies throat? Put a little Mothers’ Joy on it and stop it at once. capper arent RS Biennale Get us five, only five new yearly subscribers to the Evening Mascot and we will PRESENT you with a handsome 42-piece dinner set. See one of these setsin Sherrill & White’s front window. ee ooo It’s a pity that some one doesn’t invent a hat that will cover the bald spot on the back of men’s heads. A Woman’s right To Search Her Husband’s Pockets. Yes, Angelina dear, a wife has the right to search her husband’s pockets. She also has the right to retain any coin found therein. We have not decided this our- selves, for it is no question for a layman to decide. But it has been decided for us and for other men by a jurist Jf Washington, D. C.— Judge Mullowny. His decision in the case of Ridgway vs. Ridgway is so favorable to the ladies that they will doubtless regard the Judge as a handsome cavalier ; while the erude, harsh men who are ‘‘stung’’ will believe he is a joker and the joke of them. Judge Mullowny was surprised at Mr. Ridgway objecting to Mrs. Ridgway’s taking a little trip through his pockets. ‘“‘It’ shows the interest the woman has in you,’’ says the Judge. “Tt shows that she loves you. A woman who does not go through the pock- ets of her husband does not love him. You have been married long enough to know a woman has some rights, Ridgway.” Why should man be angered at the same? What did he get mar- ried for, if he’ expected to hold on to all his measly little pocket change? What right has a man to earry around in his pocket mon- ey that his wife could buy things with? ‘“The mean, old, selfish things. They don’t never want to give a poor woman no money, nohow. And what if she takes what he has? Can’t he go off to work and vit some more? If he can’t, he ain’t no sort of a man, and he don’t deserve to be married.’ Hereafter when a husband hears his wife gently foraging in his pockets and now and then picking up afew small coins left from cigars, drinks, lunches, cabs and other necessities of life, he may as well turn over and go peace- fully to sleep. It’s a sign that his wife still loves him, and all is well. That’s what the Washington judge says, and you may take his word for it. Besides, it isn’t any use to kick She might have you arrested for interfering with her rights. “‘And, anyway,’’ says the Washington Judge, ‘‘what do you expect? They all do it.”’ Do they? eG Where Bullets Flew. David Parker, of Fayette, N. J., @ veteran of the civil war, who lost a foot at Gettysburg, says, ‘‘The good Electric Bitters have done is worth more than five hundred dollars to me. I spent much money doctoring for a bad ease of stomach trouble, to little purpose. I then tried Hlecttric Bitters, and they cured me. I now take them as a tonic, and they keep me strong and well.’’ 50e. at Statesville Drug Co.’s store. Writing Paper For Christmas. _Tf there ever was a delecate atten- tion in the way of a Christmas pres- ent, it isa boxof that remarkably fine writing paper at ‘ Hall’s Drug Stone i Every time the recipient, whether wife, sister, daughter or sweetheart, opens the box, she is going to re- member you, and naturally she will write some of her letters to you upon the paper. Seeour stock. W. F. HALL, i Prescriptionist. WOMEN’S WOES. — Statesville Women Are Finding Re- lief at Last. It doves seem that women have: more than a fair share of the aches must “keep up,” must attend -to duties in spite of constantly aching backs or headaches, dizzy spells, bearing-down pains;- they must stoop over, when to stoop: means torture. they must walk and bend and pend and work with racking pains and many aches from kidney ills. Kidneys cause more suffering than any other organ of the body. Keep the kidneys well and health is easily maintained. Read of a remedy for kidneys only that helps and cures the kidneys and is endorsed by people you know. * Mrs. M.L Moose, living at 209 Boulevard St., Statesville, N. C., says: “For several years I was a vic- time of weak kidneys. I had a soreness across these organs most of the time and I generally felt weak. Dizzy spells and headaches were of frequent occurrence, and at night I The kidney secretions were also un- natural in appearance, and showed that my kidneys were at fault. I used a number of remedies but Doan’s Kidney Pills, which I procur- ed at Hall’s drug store, benefited me more than any of the others. I sin- cerely hope that other sufferers will give Doan’s Kidney Pills a trial as I know they will act strictiy up to their representations. ”? For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name and take no other. M. P. Alexan- der & Bro. HEADQUARTERS FOR ALL KINDS Christmas Groceries —ALSU— Meats, Don’t Forget to ‘Phone No. 241. LEADER IN CANDIES ooo ANC... FRUITS ft . Quail on Toast. PHONE NO. 323 W. W. GAITHER : Proprietor. STATESVILLE SKATING RINK Opera House Building Open from 3 to 5 and 8 to 10 p. m. Chas. Brincefield will ap- ply tor a pardon Dec. 18. Wood Sawed! See R. O. Harbin or Phone 13 or 46. 11-4-1m. _ aad pains that afflict humanity; they | was unable to obtain my proper rest. | _ THE IREDELL CAFE} eo Oysters for retail and serving.) No Children Admitted to}. Floor at Night Sessions.| -will be published in: States- ville, commencing with Fri- day next, and the editor, MR. A. H. GILMORE, offers a LIFE SUBSCRIPTION and a FIVE DOLLAR GOLD PIECE to..the person who suggests the name that will be adopted, Send your sug- gestions by mail. Name me and you can get m life and a five dollar gold piece. besides. Gilmore’s New gets a FREE COPY. If you don’t send for it. + + : i | | : teehee eee PPh rel e Sf <=, soot 8 <4 sen FARMERS PAPER It will apperr next Friday. Everybody in the city, the county and the 8th congressional district i Ce Pn Po e Po o Po o Po c f o o f o o f o c f e o o f o o S - Jo o f o o f o o so r s 95 ° 9S 9 °S “a s eS a é for < Go o Zo r s er s 9S 5 S9 8 © Oe o = ° © — Ge e N re Do o RS S RE SR 18 m || 5 = 3 3 3 2 5 , OO000O0OOOCOSHOOOCOOO OOD . These Handsome Dishes Given Away to My Customers : With each cash purchase of 5 cents or over I will give youa @ coupon that can be exchanged for these gifts. L. A. GOLDMAM e e 69 0 9 0 0 0 OO G O G O O O O O O O O 8 of Alt Kinds on }: FROM =| > THE LARGEST : MAIL ORDER BOOK HOUSE IN THE WORLD Established 1860 Ne t s ae ta e Cc aa n ihe oh TS | \ Purveyor to the People. g 9S OS 0002000800000 00000008 THE. FRANKLIN- TURNER C0.. Atlanta, 3a. cn g p 33 2 3 3 2 33 3 3 3 A X A Sx =| Y) ® <) _ 22 d p e f e e B o f e f e e > f p e f o c f p e t p f e t p t p Fp : wr alsa. Bae cure to mentica txis oaner. G6 10 0 0 Of Statesville, N. C. Accounts are solicited from firms, “uals, who may rely upon courteous consideration very best terms 2 : Methods. Four a ee ee corporations and OFFICERS and Treasurer, C. E..HUGHEY, Assistant Secy.-and Tres! 08 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 0 8 0 0 0 8 O8 E 4 . OB A BO R O v.G. Manager Savings Department i i Street asc Now P.O. Bes. or R F.2. ———_———— eenccvecococccococscoqoccooeocccoesecooooorr™) THE STATESVILLE LOAN- AND. TRUST CU. IS PREPARED to transact all branches of panking: cent. paid on time and savings depos!* CAPITAL STOOB.....ccessssecsece.____ acasereeeasea$40;000.00 SHAREHOLDERS LIABILITY......0...2..0s-.0eee0«-.$40,000.00 SURPLUS AND UNDIVED PEOFITS............$80,000.00 - Toran Resources OVER. ...s.cceseceeeesessooes.$440,000.00 | E. Steele, President, E. Morrison, Vice-Pres, D. M. Ausiey, 5® evevsccecoozenenacsieccsssossnscsesseerrr™ | We all know thst knowledge is power: ; Gute me ee Docent Ses ee nates A= asks br Bore ..aeeeF amily Bibles ssi. Novels, Hig * However, we have solved the problem, [Red Letter Bibles =... Young People’s Livan the bes ete to give you.di ourfactory, f----.S.S. Bibles = = £&...... Business G 2 t mae many years of thought and labor. = cae ee i eon aR very me needs a good library. By f°" ild’s Life of Christ {.....- tock Boo eur plan you can buy one, two or three a ne ae |...0e2Child’s Story of the Biblej...... 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Per half dozen mae 3 3 ud Cabinets, in folders, dozen, $2.00. Halfdozen $1.50. Pictures of your home, PostCard size, and up to 8x10 inches and out-door groups, is-one of our specialties at a moder. ate price. Giveus a trial and be convinced that we are trying to please you. We are now ready to serve you. Will also Develop and Finish Kodak Work. —wMAYNARD & ELLIS—-~ SAR = NEW SHOE STORE *} WE HAVE SHOES THAT ARE GUARAN- *} TEED TO BE ABSOLUTELY WATER- Ce PROOF nice enough for general wear | and heavy enough for farmers. ~CGASEE THEM Complete line of Dress Shoes for Men, Women and Children. Overshoes, Underwear and Gents’ Furnishings. Everything new and as represented. We will appreciate a eall. Yours to serve, 2S. M. & H. SHOE COMPANY “* Phone 40. Opposite Court House. Mae RR Ee eh UZESETESCSSSESSESESESE TERE. a ee ie To a a an ov e l e v e l e n e Re RR R b e ie : vi wi mn ) Ww i IRIS. B M Mm YF AN Ls Ww Ar Net bythe old Roller Rubbing wW A method but in Straight Paes- Ww mr sure Machine which gives beauti- W mM ful demestic finish and makes the ww. m Shirts last longer-—==<———_ . a Statesville Steam Laundry ¥ a U. C. Harwell, Prop. Phone !22 ws Sccceccccceceeeceececece* : : : : : : : oP : : P & + THE SEEDING SEASON is again with us and have a car load of the celeprated Superior Grain Drills the best and lightest running drill made. If in need of a drill examine them and get our prices—we know we can please. Also a Full Line of Hardware, Stoves, Etc. re Comp’y PEP EP E PP HP te eB th th > & ) te t h f h e t e h th e f t fe fh ht e you can easily bestowZlupon yourself is to acquire the habit of thrift and the sav- ing of money—the Merch- ants and Farmers bank off- ers you the most practical means, as its financial stand- : ing and integrity are un- questioned. Commence to. save on January Ist and Stick to your resolution. Merchants and Farmers’ Bank OF STATESVILLE INCORPOKATED CAPITAL $25,000.00. _ OFFICERS: act sles _ T. STIMPSON, Pres.; C.S. TOMLIN, Vice-Pres.; #. D. LUNCH, Sec. & Treas.; J. A. KNOX, Asst. Sec. & Treas. Directors: oS . L. Stevenson, C. 8. Tomlin, R. R. Kei a Page, Geo. B. Nicholson, L. K. Lazen- er Samper. . A. Knox, W. t by, E. G. Gaither, J. R. Hill, E. B. Watts. - +s , c Get us five yearly subscribers to The Evenin Mascot, paid in advance, and get one of the beautiful EE Re es ny iN rg) Toph, A CAT AND A CANARY. They Went Away Separately, but Came Back Together. A lady friend of mine, Says an Eng- lish writer, has as pets a canary and a cat. The two were the best of good friends, and when the bird’s prison door was opened it would come out and perch on the cat’s back while it trilled forth a song of gladness. One day my friend left her two pets together, and on her return the bird was nowhere. to be found. Pussy was curled up on a cushion, sleeping con- tentedly, and my friend jumped to the conclusion that the cat was answer- able for the bird’s disappearance, con- sequently she caught up the cat and, holding the supposed delinquent be- fore the empty cage, beat ft rather mercilessly. Poor pussy mewed pite- ously, but her relentless mistress put = outside and shut the door against er. Next morning, feeling rather asham- ed of her outburst, she made inquiries about the cat, but pussy was gone. Some days later she heard a faint scratching at her window, and on open- ing the casement a cat crept in and laid a bedraggled canary at her feet. At first she did not recognize her pets in the two disreputable looking objects before her. When she did recognize them her delight was great. Presumably the canary had gone out by the open window, and, finding liber- | ty sweet, it had flown to a neighboring wood. How the cat found the bird and } brought it back uninjured is a mys- tery. DEATH VALLEY. The Burning, Blasting Winds That Sweep This Arid Waste. The prevailing winds in Death val- ley are from the west. Though origi- nating in the Pacific ocean and sat- urated with humidity in traveling the intermediate distance, they are inter- cepted by the lofty peaks of four ranges of mountains, which absorb all of their moisture, so that by the time they reach the valley all humidity has disappeared. The blasts are as if heated in a fiery furnace, and no liv- ing thing can survive the intense heat. Even birds indigenous to the region die, It is in the months of greatest heat that the sandstorms of Death valley are most deadly. They rage with in- tense fury, obliterating the landscape and dimming the light of the sun, withering the scanty vegetation and covering the trails deep in powdered dust. <At all times the aspect of the valley is superlatively desolate. No spot on earth surpasses it in aridity or Tophet-like heat. During the heated term an hour without water means death. Meat be- comes putrid in an hour. Eggs are cooked in the blistering sand. Water is only palatable by means of large, porous, earthenware jars, common to all hot countries, suspended in drafts and reduced in temperature by means of the rapid evaporation of the mois- ture from the outside. Wedding Ring Mottoes. The custom of inscribing within the hoop of the betrothal or wedding ring a motto or “posy,” as it was called, was formerly very prevalent. Hamlet asks, “Is this a prologue or the posy of a ring?” Some posies were very ten- der and beautiful. Among the more appropriate posies may be mentioned “Deux corps, un coeur,’ “My heart and I until I die’ and “I am yours” from sixteeenth century rings, “Love ewer,” “Love true, ’tis joy,” and “Time lesseneth not my love” from the seven- teenth century, “Love me,” “My soul will keep thine company to heaven” and “En ma fidelite je finiral ma vie” from the eighteenth. In the ring which “Florizel” (afterward George IV.) gave to the hapless Perdita were the words “Je change qu’en mourant—Unalterable to my Perdita through life.” A Healthy Family. ‘‘Our whole family has enjoyed good health since we began using Dr. King’s New Life Pills,. three years ago,’’ says L. A. Bartlet, of Rural Route 1, Guilford Maine. They cleanse and tone the system in a gentle way that does you good 25e. at Statesville Drug Co. —_—__2 +> Fence-rail philisophy may be good enough in its way, but we pin our faith to the man who climbs down and goes to work. —— Most disfiguring skin eruptions, scrofula, pimples, rashes, etc., are due to impure blood. Burdock Blood Bitters is a cleansing tonic. Makes you clear-eyed, clear-brained, clear skinned. ———__++ 2» Alexander the Great conquered the world but he didn’t make so much out of it as Mr. Rockfeller has made. —_——++ oe ———- Itching piles provoke profanity, but profanity won’t cure them. Doan’s Ointment cures itching, bleeding protruding piles after years of suffering. At any drug store. — + The temperate in eating are sel- dom foreed to-ride nightmares. ——_+@ You need Mothers how can you take chances—keep a_ bottle cf Moth- Death was on His Heels. Jesse P. Morris, of Skippers, Va., had a close call in the spring of 1906. He says: ‘‘An attack of pneumonia left me so weak and with such a fearful cough that my friends declared consumption had me, and death was on my heels. Then I was persuaded to try Dr. King’s New Discovery. It helped me immediately, and after taking two and a half bottles ] was a well man again. I found out that New Discovery is the best remedy for coughs and lung dis- ease in all the world,’’ Sold under guaarantee at Statesville drug Co. store. 50c. and $1.00. Trial bottle free. —_—_~+@r--—- —— The man who has a good wife and conscientiously takes herad- vice, is not likely to get into very deep trouble, either in this world or the next—December Form Journal. ——~++o>e————_ Stops earache in two minutes; toothache or pain of burn or scald in five minutes; hoarseness, one hour; muscleache, two hours; sore throat, twelve hours—Dr. Tioimas Selectric Oil, monarch over pain. —_———_*++@>-e—————— Worrying is like wearing peas in the shoes. It wears out the stockings; it makes the feet sore; it takes the joy all out of living. ——§_ Oo —— OSITIONS Draughon gives contracts, backed by a chain of 30 Colleges, $300,000.00 capital, and 19 year’s success, to se- cure positions under reasonable con- ditions or refunnd tuition. Draughon’s ccm- BOOKKEEPING poate Sox accepting his pruposition, concede that he teaches more Bookkeeping in THREE months than they doin SIX. Draughon can convince YOUR 7 per cent. of 5 Hl 0 R TH A N D theUnited States Court Reporters write the system of Shorthand Draughon teaches, be- cause they know it is THE BEST. FOR FREE CATALOG and book- let, ‘“ Why Learn Telegraphy?’’ which explains all, call on or write JNO. F. DRAUGHON, President DRAUGHON’S PRACTICAL BUSINESS COLLEGE (We also Teach by Mail) Raleigh, Knoxville, Nashville, Cc lumbia or Washington, D. C. Great Highway of Trade and Travel Through the Southern States Through Pullman Sleeping Cars on palatial trains between the principal Cities and Resorts of the South. High-class Dining Cars. Many delightfulSummer and Winter Resorts on and reached by Southern Railway. “The Land of the Sky,” “The Sapphire Country,” in scenic Western North Carolina; beau- tiful at all seasons. Hotels of the highest class. For detailed information apply to nearest Ticket Agent, or R. L. VDRNON, T. P. A., Charlotte, N. C. S.H. HARDWICK, P.T.M., W.H. TAYLOE,G. P. A., Washibgton, D. C. New Pool Room New Tables of the latest and best makes have been in- stalled under J. P. Phifer’s grocery store. ers joy in your house. China Sets we are giving as premiums. Mothers Joy every day. Is Essential to the Up- building of the Modern Business Enterprise. To the publicity gained by the use of the advertising columns of the daily papers is at- tributed the growth, and consequent success, of a very large percentage of great business enter- prises of the present day. Advertising is recognized as the prime fac- tor in increasing the sales of any class of goods or manufactured articles. The space used in this puper is your_busi- ness message to the public. In this open letter you should tell them of the merits of what you are offering, setting forth the reasons why your _ particular line is worthy of their attention. THE EVENING Mascon has increased its local circulation very materially during the past three months and the results obtained from the space used by the advertisers are gratifying to them and to the paper. It reaches into the homes of the best class of our people and.your message will be placed in the hands of those with money to buy the goods you wish to sell. The Space Rates in The Evening Mascot are not high. Your message is carried, each day, to those you wish to reach, in the most economical manner. | For information call us up on the phone and a representative ot the paper will gladly visit you SOUTHERN RAILWAY C0, f iWe Solicit YourPatronage SEVERAL THINGS Are to be considered in selecting your Bank 1ST. Strength-Financial Strength 2ND. The care with which the Bank is Managed. 3RD. The courtesy and spirit of of accomodation displayed by the Officers and Em- ployees. 4TH. The banking experience of Officers. STH. The ability of the bank to Properly and Promptly Handle all Your Business To Those Desiring the Embodi- ment of These Features are Offered The Service of THE HIRST NATIONAL = BANK OF STATESVILLE CAPITAL $100.000 ROR ee oie ee on eo ooo ae eee ee 09000808080 00808080870020 Re Be ae Now Time for You to: Se- lect Your Xmas Goods We will put aside any goods selected. See our new lineof Morris Chairs and Rockers. 2 |Also Fine Mahogany Tables. We will make Special Prices on COOK STOVES and RANGES. STATESVILLE HOUSEFURNISHING- COM’PY eb 4.3 Se ME oi e Bi e he d . : To t t i oc ao e EL on ) Gu l i Ai s ho e kL i eh ot a l si Pe e ee ee a ee ee 5s Ea OR 3 ar e ee 3 pe SA ae i K : ea c h it e r a We e ~bizziness with, and in ninty daze ~~ lean straw before you forget it, LS ES TT MR, BOSTIAN DEAD. | pelicsali | Mr. Jake Bostian Dies After a) Siege of Typhoid Fever—Is' Well Known in This City. Mr. Jake Bostian who for some time has run a dairy near town, died about 2,30 after an illness of about three weeks with typhoid fever. Mr. Bostian was the son of the late Jacob Bostian and is survived by one sister and one brother, and was 27 years old. Mr. Bostian was a Chrisian young man, being a member of the Front street Presbyterian church and was liked by all who knew him. He has for some time run a dairy west of town, near Bos- tian’s bridge, and is well known in this city. Funeral services will be held at the Shiloh Presbyterian church in the morning at 10:30 o’clock con- dueted by Rev. J. B. Branch. The bereaved family have the sympathy of the entire city in their bereavement. ——_++@>eo——_ AT THE CHURCHES. Rev. Branch Preached at the First Presbyterian—Revs. Robbins and Mitchiner Preached to the Junior Order—Other Notes. Inthe absence of the regular supply pastor, Rev. Dr. Wharey, Rev. J. B. Branch preached at the First Presbyterian church at the morning hour yeserday. A large congregation was pres- ent and Rev. Mr. Branch preached: a strong sermon. Rev. Mr. Mitchiner returned from the Baptist convention in time to preach at the Second Bap- tist church yesterday morning. Rev. C. A. Jenkins did not return so there were no services at the first- Baptist church. A Race street church yester- day afternoon Rev. Mr. Robbins ang Rev. Mr. Mitchiner, preached to the Junior order of American _ Mechanies, and a large congrega- tion was present. Rev. Harold Turner filled his pulpit at the court house yester- day at both services, having large congregations. Rev.. E. A. Osborne preached at the Trinity Episcopal church at both morning and afternoon yes- terday. —_—_—_—_++@>-o—__—— Josh Billings on Rats. Rats originally cum from Nor- way and I wish they had staid thare. They are about az uncalled for as a pain in the small ov the back, They can be domestikated dred- ful easy ; that iz, as far as getting in cupboards and eating cheese, and knawing pie, iz concerned. The best way to domestikate them that ever I saw is to sur- round them gently with a steel trap; yu can reason with them then tu great advantage. Rats are migratorious, they mi- grate wharever they hav a min to. Pizen is alsy good for rats; it softens their whole moral naturs. Cats hate rats, and rats hate eats, and—who don’t? I serpoze thare is between 50 and 60 million rats in Amerika (I quote ow entirely from memory,) and I don’t serpoze there is a single necessary rat in the whole lot. This shows at a giance how menny waste rats there is. Rats enhance in numbers faster than shoe-pegs do by machinery. One pair ov healthy rats is awl that enny man wants to start the rat wihout any outlay, he will begin tew have rats to turn oph. Rats, viewed from enny plat- form yu can build, are unspeaki- bly cussed and I would be willling tew make enny man who could destroy awl the rats in the United States, a valuable keepsake, say, for instance, either the life and sufferings of Andy Johnson, in one vollum, calf bound, or a receipt to eure blind staggers. aera fete Fill the dog and cat box with Out of the Gimger Jar. One may tell : by 1 but it is difiicult to tell a its bite. What trade should be reeom-| mended to a short person? Gro-| cer (grow, sir). Anybody can find out make money merely by paying visit to the mint. A man hasto work harder 1 a poor farmer than he does to bea good one. The politician may not be so a great deal more pull. There ought to be enough everybody these good times E the plow has its share. —_++ o> > Would Mortgage The Farm. A farmer on Rural Route No. 2, Empire, Ga., W. A. Moyd by name, says: ‘‘Bucklen’s Arnica \Salve cured the two worst sores]; L ever saw; one on my hand and aE L ERE ELLE Ie RMT MT Te — a eeces fea taes an nteern Aliosy VuUds GU AY weed dhg 4 4 4£nngn % AMAA . : J < phsiateh Y Aang iJ U7, Via Southern Railway ; to Havana. ir yh > ne N le Salisbury.... Shelby strong asa horse but often he has} c¢at, Lal January ine to leave Pavana., re January 27th 1909. Tickets may be. routed through Jacksonville thenee either 1 rr 8 ; > is Re eye through JKnieht’s ey,” or Lor F > 7 . ’ . Tampa. Good going and return-- : me ] ing same route. Stop-over will b ei ’ . T < wot 4 qeties allowed at Jacksonville, St. <.u- 25e. at Statesville Drug Co.'s Statesville’s model hostesses. store. —_———_—__~<<+>-2-—__—_ Notice of Services. Rev. V. M. Swaim will regular appointment at el Baptist church on next Satur- day and Sunday at he reguar hours. ——— oe OO . lly ane Builds you up physica mentally, keeps your digestion or- gans in condition, regulates t! bowels, cleanses the b! you perfeet health. Rocky Mountain Tea 35 eents. Statesvill —<++< So _Women and Words. Mrs. Stubb—Now, women are not im- pulsive, like you men. They always News. ——— Nith the Kids. The Big One—I'll give you a nice ap- ple if you'll stop crying. The Small One—H-how big is the} a-apple, an’ how l-long have I got to stop fer2—New York Herald. Getting Strong. Grocer—Good morning, Mr. Jigsmith. one on my leg. It is worth more} than its weight in gold. I would|_ not be without it if I had to mort-i cage the farm to get it.’? Only; wey w+ 35 ~1] , jrepresentaive Will measure their words. Mr. Stubb (with | a sigh)—Oh, if some of them would! ’ “ye } only give short measure!—Chicago ! Im Beach, Miami, and oints south of Jacksonville, within final limit of ticket. A accompany movement, and will look after the comfort and pleasure of the party. servation, write A.. Asheville, N. lay r > OL TH ico lLAMery, ee Cio iak t..¢.: REL DeButts, nsboro, N. C.; or rrepot agents, or write TERNON, TURP. A. Charlotte, N. C. SLT EP SS od -w i O y money Ke M IDING ARD LDIN WG ARD \ OTA TICN ° 2 “4 fi ‘ ASSUvuz S Peg eT se nbd ees saa 4 cents § ae OE ee ie G Ges 351 cents a ine 26 times 3 cents a line. WANTED—A Second hand Oliver typewriter, in fair condition. Address XXX eare Maseot 3t ledger full of accounts. Return io W. Ii. Kimball’s store or 5. > M. Patterson and get reward. deel4 2¢ DAD aT Tt FOR SALE—Best Grocery stand in city, doing good business. How is that butter I sent you? Jigsmith—Better, thank you. It is gaining strength every minute.—De- troit Tribune. { | | Woman's Privilege. He—When we are married we must both think alike. She—Yes, but Ill think first—Les- | lie’s Weekly. HOLLISTER’ FS 4 Ss. ons 2, } Rocky Mountain fea Rugesis | A Busy Medicine for Busy Pe \ Brings Goiden Heaith and Ren iV Aspecific for Constipation, In and Kidney troubles, Pimpies, E Blood, Bad Breath, Siuge r and Backache. ItsRocky Mountain t let form,35 cents a box. Genuine made by | HoruisTteR Drve Coupany, Madison, Wis. GOLDEN NUGGETS FOR SALLOW PEOPLE | | | | PO = ece c 30 GUE VOLESUSIOV8L OU S08 O85 + us ‘AMBITIOUS YOUNG" MEN AND NEEL EOE AP EE TOE Dececeoroece°oscece 2 OSTO™ COB. Sed bcsneues. IBIS ]IVCPOSIe wr Ree res aee By = - hy A Show Down Reasons for selling. If you want a bargain answer at once. Address Grocer, care Mascot. dee 3 tf jJadies should learn telegraphy; for, since the now 8 hour law became effective there is a shortage of many thousand telegraphers. Po- sitions pay from $50 to $70 a month to beginners. The National Telegraph institute of Columbia, S. C., and five other cities is oper- ated under supervision of R. R. officials and qll students are placed when qualified. Write them for particulars. nol19g dtf 280) BO@CESPOSOSLS CBOSS BOL OB HOBOR BUSS still a fact that for the goods of “quality.” In @ skarpcontest nothing but “quality” and appearance figure. “RUTH MADE" Hosiery and the "WORLDS BEST” Black are the goods been said, all your pursuasiv “QUALITY” IS THE ONLY TEST OF VALUE To get best results you must have the best of every thing “best yarn, best cotors, best machines and best help, with such a combination you can produce the best of what you are making. Wehave allofthe above. Ask your dealer oe a SRC TE of Quality. Aiter eal: has e argument exhausted, it is ~ a THE BRADFORD KNITTING ES OO S 8 RI T R MI EF C NO R NE Me EY ll round | ¢ iformation as to|<4 LOST—In West Statesville, pocket | * ie a I “Personally Conducted Tour to Ha-! BUG) pI IK ISD EDIE i Wy + $10 Gold Pieces for $9.00 and will give you b £ \ ij y 7 may want. I have and they must go. O o ? ) Solid Gold Lockets Solid Gold Hearts fo O I Al e ia n Nf * as s | Ay ZA \ \ SS ow Filled Cuff Pins, Veil M s f f 3 Vv NG XM x et J) n i f ey {> NY ze e WY le l tw | es Guaranteed. individual Salt Sets, i i Christmas goods from hat is what it means when you buy your. Chris me. = have ae much stock and must cut it down by January Ist, prices suit the BUYERS PURSE. Any one wanting a high-grade Movement can now get it cheap. aS Coutts Bend, Illinois, Hamilton, Elgin and Waltham, in 15 and 17 jeweled grades. These will be put into whatever kind of a case you Solid Gold Rings from $1 OO up. Solid Gold Stick Pins from $1 OO up. Solid Gold Cuff Buttons 175 “ All other Gold Goods too numerous to mention at right prices. in Gold Filled Goods, such as Gold Filled Neckchains, Gold Filled Lockets, Gents’ and Ladies’ Gold Fed Woven Wire and Silk Watch Fobs, Ladies Gold ete., from the lowest prices and up. Large lot of Bracelets at right prices. Nice line of Silverware and Novelties, such as Toilet Sets, Manicure Sets, Mili- tary Brushes, Clothes Brushes, Shaving Brushes, Hat and Bonnet Brushes, alliin sterling or best grade Quadruple Plate. Nice Hine of Ladies’ Gold Filled Handle Umbrellas from $3 50.to $7 SO. You can get a bargain in Cut Glass, Japanese China Vases, etc., and Statu- ary, as these must go. In Silverware I bave a complete“linezof Knives and Forks, Tea and Table Spoons, Butter Knives, Sugar Shells, Pie and Tomato Servers, cold meat and other Forks, Berry Spoons. Soup Sets, Soup Ladles, Carving Sets, Childs’ Sets, Nice fine of Parlor and Gold Plate Clocks, Kitchen and Alarm Clocks. No difference what you want in the Jewelry line, I will save you money. Come and see for yourself. T O N T O N I O N V G Will make the y. argains in anything in my line. Wo I have these in the Rock- N N ! too many 15 and 17 jeweled movements on hand I have Ni i A q a 125 “ 300 “ 125 “ Solid Gold Brooches 400 “Sold Gold Neck Chaius r Neck Chains Pins, Hat Pins Bar Pins, Stick Pins, Belé Pins, Brooches, WO N G O N VO N S7 7 aS 0) AN I N \ > aS ( N = Vy Cut Glass Sterling Top Salt and Pepper Sets. ar ee Re 6 IW F SS la y ND A ) D ’ — Vz 2. FE. Henry # Jeweler and Optician Hotel Iredell Building. S S SN I O I O N I O N I E N I G N I O N I O N PINTER AVANT A ANON ON ONO ESN NTCNIO OO OUI ONO UOUIONTO ION ION show such SUTPAssing x _« Ax Ge t r o i 2 a a « \ pf x How to Prevent Pneu- monia ood man has just died with for any case of preumonia you have in your family it fails to cure if you will use Goose Grease Liniment as directed. It only costs you 25 cents a bottle. Get it— you have nothing to loose & and ali to gain. We know } there are thousands who will read this aud throw it aside and 1n a few days will be down with the Gisease. Please just get one botile and putit away until you need it. Ti you haven’t the ° money to buy it let us know & aud we will send you a bot- tle free. ie : RA N E BA R E wa r ta r s i ve te SP S T RA T T OI RP TE 4] WANTED—BY¥ THE AMERICAN Cotton and Business University of Milledgeville, Ga., students to take one or more of our courses in cot- ton grading, buying and selling. Business courses of bookkeeping, Shorthand, Typewriting, or Telegra- phy and Railroad course. Positions guaranteed under reasonable con- ditions. Write at once for our consolidated catalog. Largest col lege South. Sept 28-if FOR RENT—ONE STORE BUILD- ing and basement. Best retail stand in the city. Statesville Real- ty and Investment Co. Sept.19 “We invite you to come and fet us show you the entire ae. if you don t want to buy. Come==be convinced. In every paper you pick & up you wiil see where some @ this fearful disease—pneu- @ monia. Now we will give & you One Hundred Dollars & IVa REE RE SLE RELLY BE NS LN SE Che Christmas Line At the Store of Quality Otis a pleasure to be able to cur elegant fine of goods to you ‘even Ch tine of Quality anything ever shown in Statesville. Statesuille Orig Co. Prescriptionists. ES TR E E S CS R S CS RS RS SS a a Ca ESR IR RR ee ee One Sup TES Eee | 4 0606900600008 9090000000060 2 CHRISTMAS SUGGESTIONS 8 Let us help you solve the all perplexing ques- tion:—WHAT SHALL I GIVE FOR CHRIST- MAS? Below isa list of useful articles which any one would be proud of: House Slippers, Bath Slippers, at 50c. to $2.00 The handsomest line of Neckwear in Statesville at 25c. to $1.00 Silk Mufflers and Reefers at $1.00 to $3.00 Silk Suspenders (in individual boxes) at 50c. to $1.50 Silk Handkerchiefs (plain or fancy) at 25c. to $1.00 Hawes celebrated $3.00 Hats, all the new shapes and colors— Green, Ivy, Tan and Peari. Dress and Driving Gloves at 25c. to $2.00 @ The Christmas money expended here will not be wasted. > S. B. MILLER BS THE SHOE MAN. SSO SSCOCSSSCCOCCOOOCCGGOOOOV PESCSLESES CSCS CESCE THE GREATEST OF ALL GIFTS—— — OS ©0 9 0 0 0 6 0 0 66 0 @E G 3 9 G 0 0 G 0 0 0 6 6 at Christmas, or any other time, is good health This is insured by treans of sanicary plumbing in your house. If you wonld present your family with a threefold blessing, cele- brate Christmas by ar- ranging with us for a complete system of mod- ern up-to-date plumbing from cellar to roof. A. W. HOLLER PLUMBING Phoce No. 61. - COMPANY | 127 W. Broad St. w NSZISIIIII3323323323323>7 Vol. Nigh PUBLIC The Ona Brutal ten R& ed W: Foot Troops Feared Union day eigh the Nigh Lake, wi their live ting to d Rankin, Trenton, ace of a§ handed a ing of m thorities prosecuti elan. By the ing prom Wheth shall be whether oceur du battle is From | stronkho pouring bers, wit out to t trial or b has well ¢ mined to outbreak As to ff vided. The m who whe week, di guilty, a Applewhi Morris, § Lid Burt NEGRO Plays W Biltma 2,300 Fatal Ashev son, a ne on the B noon by electric It seems father d al two ¥ of an d shops when he climbing the wire slid dov where 2 was dani light wi instantl 2,300 vo through quickly eut. E the boy said tha on the life as a Fills bleed. tite, b strong Rocky health Tablet If yo someth someth can’t w price. o S ie WA N ON I O N S WM O N M O N MO N ( VO N MO N O MO N S O N we a => G M O N M O M O N T O N TO O N TO N I O N I O N I O N —_— Vol. 1. 2 aS IN CP aT a = 7 = aT 2 CET: TERE SE ER AT Ne gee ee Statesville, N. C., Tuesday Evening, December 15, 1908. \ F< to ‘ THE EVENING Mascot. ? No. 375 Night Riders Stand Trial PUBLIC FEELING DIVIDED. The Charge Against the Men is Brutal Murder of Captain Quen- ten Rankin—Union City Crowd- ed With Inhabitants of Reel Foot Lake Section and State Troops—Further Bloodshed is Feared. . Des Union City, Tenn. 14.—Late to- day cight men, alleged leaders of the Night Rider band of Reel Foot Lake, will be placed on trial for their lives, charged with the put- ting to death of Captain Quentin Rankin, @ prominent attorney of Trenton, Tenn., the culminating ace of a series of outlawry so high handed as to eall forth the muster- ing of militia to aid the civil au- thorities in hunting down and the prosecution of the members of the e1an. ly the end of the week the hear- ing promises to be well under way. Whether the court proceedure shall be eondueted in order or whether further bloodshed shall occur during the heat of the legal battle is considered uncertain. From Reel Foot Lake and other stronkholds of the ellan men are pouring into Union City in num-. bers, with their sympathies going out to those of their friends on trial or held jn jail, while the state has well organized its forces deter- mined to put down any possible outbreak in its ineipiency. As to public feeling it is well di- vided. The men placed on trial today, who when formerly arraigned last week, declared themselves not guilty, are Garret, Johnson, Sam Applewhite, Roy Ransom, Bud Morris, Red Picken, Arthur Cloar, Lid Burton and Bob Huffman. (Ee NEGRO BOY ELECTROCUTED. Plays With Electric Wires on the Biltmore Estate and Receives 2,300 Volts in His Body With Fatal Results, Asheville, Dee. 14.—Jesse John- son, a negro boy, was electrocuted on the Biltmore Estate this after- noon by coming in contact with an electrie light wire of 2,300 volts. It seems that the negro, whos father died at the Mission Hospit- al two weeks ago from the effects of an operation, was above the shops with another boy or two when he secured a copper wire and climbing a pole threw one end of the wire over the current wire. He slid down the pole and going to where an end of the copper wire was dangling from the electric light wire eaught hold of it. He instantly fell to the ground with 2.300 volts of electricity passing through his body. Help was quickly summoned and the wire cut. Efforts of physicians to save the boy’s life were in vain. It is said that the boy had no business on the estate and that he lost his life as a result of his own acts. — ~<a Fills your veins with rich, red bleed. Gives you a hearty appe- tite, builds up flesh, makes you strong and rugged. Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea, greatest health builder. 35 cents, Tea or Tablets. Statesville Drug Co. —_—_—_+o-e————— Notice. If you diseard all idea of getttig something genuine for the cost of spurious—then why are urged to take their meals and something President Says He Stands Pat SENDS A SPECIAL MESSAGE. He Reiterates His ormer Declara. tion That the Shooting was Dore by the Colored Soldiers and Szys Subsequent Events Have Shown That His First Diagnosis Was Corréct Beyond any Possibility of Doubt. Washington, Dec. 14.—Presi- dent Roosevelt, in a special mes- sage to Congress today, accom- panying the report of Investiga- tor Browne into the shooting up of Brownsville, reiterates his for- mer declaration that the shoot- ing was done by colored soldiers “has been established beyond any possibility of doubt. He agan recommends the pas- sage of & law offering discharged soldiers the opportunity to re en list if they clear themselves of the responsibility for the mur- derous attack. The President says in order to separate “t he less guilty from thoes whose gui- lt was heinous” he believes there was hardly any innocent among the colored men at Fort Browns; Sam Carlton iS Caught Sam Carlton, colored, who some months ago burned the barn of Wm. McLelland, colored, in this city, has been caught in Chicago. Sheriff Ward this afternoon re- eeived a message stating that he was being hel in that city await- ing further orders. Some one, probably Sheriff Ward, will go to Chicago at once to get Carlton. The citizens of Statesville well remember the facts connected ander 2 $1,000 bond for his ap- pearance at court when he skip- ped. —__++oe>-—— CALLED TO PREACH. An Iredell Farmer Has a Call From Above to go and Preach— Is Selling Out His Worldly Goods to Pursue That Course. Mr. J. R. Reaves who lives down near Shinnville, this county, has announceg that he has been called by the Lord to go and preach the gospel and in pursuance of that command, he is today selling off his worldly goods to take up the study. He will enter he Metho- dist ministry at once. Our new sheriff, Mr. J. M. Dea- ton is acting auctioneer for Mr. Reavs. OOO The Bazaar Thursday. The young Women’s Home Mis- sionary Society of the Methodist church are making some very elab- orate arrangements for the bazaar Ito be given for the Methodist church on next Thursday after- noon and night. The bazaar is to is to be held in the court house, the proceeds to go to lighting the new Broad Street Methodist church. A nice assortment of fancy ar- ticles, suitable for the holiday gifts will be old. also refreshments. and lunches will be served. All the business men of the city can’t we ‘‘get together’’ as to the lunches with these young ladies in price. See Bob Henry. ‘the afternoon. Son Born to Wiie of Early THE CHILD HAS NO DISEASE. Mrs, Early Hag Beenin New Home Only 48 Hours When it Was Born—Doctors Say it Has no Signs of Dread DiseaSe. A dipatch sent out from Wash- ington says: “It is tated at the health office today that a son was born last Friday to Mrs. Lotta Early, wife of John R. Early, the North Car- olina leper. The child, accord- ing to the physician of the health department who attended Mrs. Early, bears every mark of good health and excellent formation. There is no suspicion of a sign that would indicate the presence of the disease, the physician said, and added that according to medical science there is no reason why the disease should have been conveyed to the child. “*Mr. Early had not been in her new home furnished by the dis- trict government more than forty- eight hours before the arrival of the child. The cottage provided for her is close to one provided for her husband on the Washington asylum grounds. Early is not al- lowed to leave certains bounds es- tablished for him, and there is a certain restriction placed around Mrs. Early’s contact with the out- side world.”’ YOUNG LADY TAKES POISON Miss Allie Cole Attemps Suicide by Swallowing AntiSeptic Disk. But is Restored. Greensboro, Dee. 15.—Sunday night about 8 o’clock, Miss Allie Cole, a diner in Clegg’s up-town cafe, quietly informed two young men sitting near her that she had taken some antiseptic disks in an attempt to commit suicide and fearing that blame might attach to own will and desire. Dr. Thomas R. Little was called and he had the young woman re- moved to his office, where by suc- cessful use of the stomach pump and restoratives, he soon had Miss Cole out of danger. The young woman appeared on the streets yesterday morning ap- parently none the worse off for her experience. Miss Cole lives in North Greene street and is em- ployed in C. T. Hagan’s china store, 215 South Elm street. She gives no reason for the attempt to destroy her own life. ———_++ a o—_—_—— Big Sale Today. The Wilhelm property consist- ing of some land on the Buffalo shoals and the Wilhelm store building on Broad street were sold at public auction today. Dr. Wilhelm of Eufola bought the property at Buffalo shoals, his bid being $1,000. The store on Broad street was bid off by Mr. Eugene Morrison his bid being $7,000. These bids remain open for an inerease. ++ Day after day he -walked the street, Looking for a presnt for ‘‘wifey”’ sweet— “‘T know what'll please her most,”’ said he; ‘It’s Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea.’’—Statesville Drug Co. — Mr. L. C. Caldwell is in Greens- boro on business. 1908 Was Big Farin Year $621,000,000 WORTH OF HAY. ead $7,778,000,000 Worth of Products, Greatest Total in History—386.- 000,000 Feet of Lumber Sold During the Year. Washington, Dec. 13.—An idea of what it means by the familiar statement of several months past that “this has been a great crop year,” may be appreciated in the annual report of the Unit- ed States Department of agricul- ture which was made public to- day by Secretary Wilson: The value of all farms produc- ts during the past year reached the greatest total in history— $7,778,000,000. “This,” says the report, “is about four times the value of the products of the mines, including mineral oils and precious metals. The farmer contributes 87 per cent. of the material uted in those manufacturing industries which depend mostly or consid- eraby upon agricultural mater- ials, and these industries use 42 per cent. of all materials used in all industries. “The gain ia value of farm productsin 1908 over 1907 is $290,000,000 and would have been much larger had not the prices of cotton and hay been low. ‘“‘The greatest hay crop in his- tory has been gathered this year, 68,000,000 tons, are 12 per cent above the average of the preced- ing five years. Its priceis $2 a ton less than it was a year ago. but still the value of the crop is $621,000,000, or 6 per cent abo- ve the five year average. “Wheat is 144 per cent. above the five year average in produc- tion and 23 per cent above in total value. The 660,000,000 bushels of his crop are estimated to be worth $620,000,000 to the wach this crime, as it caused a some. one else, she wished to in-|fatmers or $66,000,000 more sation around here. Carlton was form them that she did so of her|thap the most‘ valuable wheat erop heretofore produced. “Although the farmer gets hardly 20 cent a pound for his butter, between 3 and 4centa a quartforhis milk and about 1% cent aegg, yet the value of the products of the dairy cow is close to $800,000,000 and the value of the eggs are doubly produced on the farm is worth as much as the cotton crop. seed included, or the hay crop or the wheat crop. The value of agric- ultural exports was $1,017,000 000. “The number of national for- . jestsis now 180, and the total area 168,000,000 acres. At $2 per thousand feet stumpage the timber standing in those forests is worth $800,000,000. These forests contain one-fifth of the standing merchantable timber of the country. “During the year 386,00,000 feet of timber were sold from the Hhational forests, but the Gover- ment got only $850,000. The grazing privileges in the reserva- tions returned $1,000,000. ——_~+2a>-e———— New Telegraph Office. The postal telegraph company opened their new office in the new Mills building yesterday. They will be ready for business tomorrow sometime, as their wires are not in working trim yet and this deficit will have to be reme- died. Mr. Sloop of Salisbury will be \the manager at this office, Hancock Is At Winston HE WILL PLEAD INSANITY. L. G. Hancock Who Stole Over $2,500 From The Lamb-Fish Company, Tells a Strange Story Doesn’t Remember Leaving Winston nor Anything Until he Raeched Honolulu. Winston-Salem, Dec. 14.—Chief of Police Thomas and Patiol- man Thompson arrived here last evening fromSan Francisco, bringing with them L. G. Han- cock, who stands charged with embezzling over $2,500 while manager of the Lamp-Fish Box Company here. Hancock led a fast life for sev- eral weeks prior io his departure in Octorber, drinking and treat- ing his friends to champagneand fine wines. The Lamb-Fish Company em. ployed detectives who traced Hancock to San Francieco where he was arrested four weeks ago. His plea is ignor of wrong doing. He claims heknew nothing abcut leaving bere or taking any mon- ey. He sayshenever came to himself until he reached Honolu- lu, when he immediately turned back to America. The officers say their prisoner gave them no trouble during the trip. They left San Francisco at 4 p. m., last evening. Hancock’s mother from Wil- mington has been here for sever- al Jays. She has employedable counsel. It is understood that the defendant’s plea at the trial will be insanity. —— FIGHT LAST NIGHT. eet Carl Lindsay Attacks One Will Russell With a Deadly Weapon. Tried Before Justice King and Put Under $100 Bond. mill settlement, one Carl Lindsay went to the home of Will Russsll and started @ row. He stood on the outside of the door and ‘‘cussed’’ Russell out in general. Russell grew tired of this, and went out to order him off whereupon Lindsay picked up a piece of iron and hit him over the head with it, inflicting a had wound. Russell-swore out a warrant for him before Justice King, and he was arrested last night by Deputy Sheriff Ward. He was tried this morning be- fore Justice King, and required to give a $100 bond for his appear- ance here at the next term of Reaves. Russell is in a very serious con- dition, having been hit over the eye, causing the corner of his skull at that point to be badly frac- tured. It is not thought than any seri- ous consequences will arise from the wound although he is hurt badly. ee Recital Last Night, The recital given\at the Shearer Musie Hall last night by the music students of the college was fine. and a large audience was present. Quite an extensive program was rendered, and it produced some -fine talent for music. The opening chorus ‘‘Jolly Winter,’’ by the college glee club was good, as the college has some good vocalists. The instrumental muiec was ren- dered well, and as a whole the pro- : ) Last night over in the cotton Between the Devil And Deep Sea DILEMNA OF CONGRESSMEN. Tobacco Growers of Virginia Want Protection From Turkish Cigar’ ettes—Tar Heel Peanut Growers Are Insistent Too—Local Row Develops in the Lexington Pub- lic Building Matter—Virginia Representatives Right Against It. Washingotn, Dec. 14.—Repre- sentative E. W. Saunders, of the fifth Virginia district, has the promise of a hearing for certain tobacco growers of Danville and the adjoining country before the Ways and the Means Committee on the tobacco section of the tar- iff. The date fixed is Wednesday next at 9: 30 am. A higher duty as a protection against Turkish cigarettes, will be urged. Those concerned claim that the urkish cigarette is driven out the home-manufactured product, . and the American cigarette can not be sold in Turkey. The to- bacco in question isa brighter‘cut- ter, exqeciall suitable for cigare- tte-making. Quitea delegation promises to be onhand and press their claims. A day later the peanut growers will have a hearing. The tide- water counties are being heard from on this proposition—some correspondents demanding an in- crease so that the Virginia, North Carolina an d South Carolina growers can havean advantage over the foreigner, and other pro- tested agrinst any charge. Jud-. ‘| ging from the letters are drifting in and newspaperscomments on - these two sectious of the tariff the old Dominion will be pretty. well represented here next Wed- nesday and Thursday. KILLED BY AN OLD PISTOL. The 124Year-Old Grandson of AS. sociate Justice H. G. Conner Meets Tragic Death at His Home’ in Wilson. Wilson, Dec. 14.—Yesterday af- ternoon, while playing with a load- ed pistol, Henry Groves Conner, 12 years old, son of Representative elect George W. Conner and the grandson of Associate Justice H. G. Conner, accidentally shot him- self in the abdomen with fatal re- sults. Young Cunner and his cousin were playing Indian at his home with an olq pistol and somehow trigger was pulled, the ball pass- ing clear through his body. He - was operated on at the sanitarium here but gradually sank, the end coming about noon today, Mr.Gordon Gone. —~ : Mr. T. E. Gordon, who has been here some weeks buying tobaeco for the American Tobaceo Co., left for his home at South Hill, Ya., this morning. Mr. Gordon will be succeeded at this place by Mr. A. B. Bray, who was formerly at this place, representing that company. a ee Prize Winer, Lawrence Bros., big sale still continues, being attended by a large host of buyers every day. — A free prize is given away every, afternoon and yesterday’s prize, a nice hat, was awarded to Mr. R, F. Mauney. Mi ——_++or>——— Rev. C. A. Jenkins returned ed gram was enjoyed by all present, / vention at Wilson. yesterday afternoon from the con- eee ee ee Si n a a ae s ee e me e n ti | iad e t a We a i e c i e d i : to r ea e pa r e e r e e m e e e h e t e n e e e e d pe e r THE EVENING MASCOT [t# tiett weights who imagine they DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. Entéred at the Postofficein Statesville, &@. O., a8 second-class mail matter. VANCE NORWOOD - Publisher. RALPH SLOAN, - - City Editor. Sabseription Price, - $4.00 a Year ubsc@iptida Price, - 10Cents:a-Week; eee | Weather Forecasts. Weshing ton; D.C), Dee. 15—For Nortit: Carolina: fair: and: warmer tonight. Wednesday increasing cloudiness. ——n 9 THE SOLID SOUTH. ee Instead of’ breaking the solid souh we had better. maintain it as @ rallying-point and nucleus for conservatism and real- democracy. Insteag: of going. over to: the Re- publieans we should bring the Re- publicans and the great Demo- eratic masses of the country to us. In a movement of this kind Vir- ginia can take the lead. She has sons with the strength and brains and gifts, but under the influence of forty years of -repression and: following meekly the leadership of others they have beeome timid. Almost in any condition. and. in any department.of endeavor the bold-poliey is.the best and the ad- vantage-is. with-the. attack. We would like to: see. some Virginians go right to the front and-announce that the south intends to. take charge of the Democratic party, to invigorate-it back to strength and purpose. - We think that: to make the aim- of. such movement the nomination. of.a southern man for president. or.-vice: president would: be to. belittle it to mere polities; and squabbles. Practically in 1912.it: will. make-no difference where:the Democratic nominees hail from. War prejudices have disappeared. With the inereasing intelligence. and. breadth of the people; even: local: and-state pride has disappeared as 2-political fae- tor. Nebraska eight years. ago voted ‘against Mr. Bryan, .her fore- most--eitizen, and this year Mr: Taft had to-show Ohio-better rea- sons than: his:mere -birth and resi- dence-in ‘the'state, before-he could carry it’ even by a muck: reduced majority. — —_——_++ooe————_ THE BEST PEOPLE. oe There has never been a phrase more badly abused than the above-: Amongea’certain element ‘‘the best people”’»-means the. people: who know least about life’s real-mean- ing ang. who contribute least-of.all to the: publie good. ‘The best people,’’ in the society sense, are too trifling to make a living: and. too ignarant.to discuss a current question withthe smallest degree of intellignee; They are those who| sleep late,. advertise their weak- ness in the loudness of their clothes, who are skillful in the use of cards, who adore the dance and who emphasize the light. things of life and ignere the real things. They ..grasp. at the shadow and lose the. substance. . They float hke foam on.the billows. and/ sprawl on the .shore when the strong waves they. rode rebound into the deep. They are the chaff of human society. and glory in the fact they are not the solid grain. They imagine they ..are holding the earth-together, but the only- respect of consideration they gain or hold is that of those like them-| selves who hope to reach their realm. It is a-pitifully small.soul that can thus idle the days away on things that are not of the least consequence in the world to a human being The best- people are the-sensible people of a com- munity. “They’are-those who -are| “™S=ist@'for them. : 26c. neither afraid nor ashamed of hon- est labors: who add their part to e-aeaati-stirdlntautautautautatian the strength of the state; who hon. or & man rather than his money and who fear God and love their fellows:'“We°-are~ gtad thiat the froth passes for-just about its true worth in North Carolina: and that are sO maportantsa factor in our society: amount:to little more than Ff hilltofibeans—@karity and Chil- dren. — ———<e>-e—___ THE SOUTH’S GREATEST ER. RORS. The following isan extract-from a speech by EditorPoe of.the Pro- gressive Farmer: “Of all the errors our greatest has been the failure -to recognize the facet that: the prosperity of every man-depends upon the pros- perity of the average-man—and in many; eases the-actual- aeceptance of the doctrine that the state is benefited by having cheap, un- trained:labor.. We. have seen on the contrary that: such-labor -is-a eurse. “‘And our second: great -error has: been-like’ unto it—the belief that even if prosperity: of every man does depend upen the pros- perity of the average.man, we are too:poor ta train:him: The truth is, that we-are:too poor not.to do of. the average man:isthe one and only positive guarantee-of south- ern 'prosperity;.and by his I:mean tion and of our institutions:and of: society. as. a: whole, but’ the pros- perity: of every “‘individual—every farmer, every: laborer, every" mrer- chant, every manufacturer, every professional man, every inhabitant as I have said, from ‘the boy who blacks boots to: the master-mind that builds your railroad: systems or governs your state. And hav- ing once accepted this doctrine concerning the average man—and the average:man in the south be- ing a farmer—we shall not be slow to put into-effect that large and comprehensive program of rural development which earnest men and women, working in many dif- ferent lines have gradually ‘brought into shape—a program which looks to the ultimate doub- ling of the output and the more than quadrupling of the profits of that occupation which engages the attention of more people in the South than all other occupations eombined.”’ a ———4)). David Parker, of Fayette, N. J., & -veteran- ofthe --civil war, who: lest: a foot’*at- Gettysburg, says, “The good Blectrie- Bitters, have done is worth-more-than-five hundred doliars:to me. F spent; much money doetoring for a bad! case of stomach: trouble; to ‘little ‘purpose. I then tried’ Mecetie- Bitters;- and*they cored me. I now take’ them:-es a- tonic, and they keep-me strong and’ well.” 20c. ai Statesville: Drug’ Co.’s store. 1 TO DEAL WITH “TEDDY.” - Dignified—Wilk Adjourn Their: Week. Washington, -December ‘14:.—Both houses: of congress aim to:concly?’ with ‘the secret serviee: section “of | the president’s: message. » It is not be discussed otany considerable extent,:as- thecmenmbers: feed :thati a dignified-course - should: be pur: sued. Senator Carter will press his postal savings bank.bill:in-the up- per house. ————*=#@>>—___... regularly, Doan’s -Regulets “will: pre- vent ‘constipation. -Thes. induce.a mild, easy, healthful action of the bowels:-without “sriping. Ask your _—<Sro—____.. The thing that canc«make-« man appreciate.a fat-girl is how: nice and-warm she-is:to'be elose:to on ® cold sheigh ride. : ——_~+oere—__. Mother do you hear_ that-.rat- tling in your. babies throat? Put a little Mothers’ Joy on it.and stop. it at once. so. The fullest and: freest training| done here in the near future. the prosperity: not: only: of our: 8ee-teran church here will be on Thurs- But Both: Houses: Will~be:-Very} the ante-Christmas: holiday * -work:| - of the-session during-the :pregent { « week. It is expected that both]: houses: will deal during: the: week}. anticipated -that:the-question: will]. Items From Faith. -Mr. John Kuykendall: has re- turned:with his bride from Ashe- ville where they have been for two ‘weeks. _-Mr.T. P. Gant:-has moved to Faith. P. Alex Peeler got the. contract to build Boyden Lefler’s new res- idence and has a force at work on itithis week. W.S. Earnhart received the con- tract to finish up Charles Me- Combs: new residence and is at work on it. Rev. C. B. Heller has an extra fine strawberry patch coming on, in his garden. Peeler, Bame & Co., shipped their granite vault to High Point, N. C., Dee: 12th. Milas-Bame moved on the old Enoch Phillips farm to raise cotton next year for Peeler Bros., who own the farm now. Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Shuping from Barron’s, Ga., are Visiting at Mr J. L. Shuping. There will be a lot of painting Mr. H. W. Cauble is having his residence painted. The Christmas tree at the Luth- day, Christmas eve at 1:30 p. m. The building stone for the new statae building at Raleigh is being loaded. on the ears today, Decem- ber 14th from the Phillips moun- tain: quarries. J. T. Wyatt, Faith, N. C., wants the address of some orphan chil- dren so he ean direct Santy Claus to go see them. The free school here is the larg- est in.the county. ——~+@>e—__— Would Mortgage The Farm. A farmer:on Rural Route No. 2, Empire, Ga, W. A. Ployd by name, says: ‘“‘Bucklen’s Arnica Salve.cured the two. worst sores [ ever saw; one on my hand and one on my leg. It is worth more than its weight. in gold. I would not be without. it if I had to mort- gage the. farm to get it.’ Only 20¢. at. Statesville Drug Co.’s| Statesville’s model hostesses. store. ——_ >. Accident Report. Washington, Dee, 14—Between 30,000 and. 35,000 people yearly are killed in accidents in this country, according to a report by the bureau .of. labor issued today. In the-anthracite mines of Penn- ‘sylvania there is an average an- nually of 3.18: fatal: accidents for every 1,000. men employed. —++2>--—____ ~ Builds you up physically and mentally, keeps your digestion or- gansiin condition, regulates the bewels, cleanses the blood, gives you perfect health. —_Hollister’s Rocky. Mountain Tea or Tablets, 33-eents. Statesville Drug Co. _——++oa>-e—____ Men coneentrate: their minds so }mueh on-their stomachs they have no thought left. for their souls. MEANS OF IDENTIFICATION Faithful ‘‘Micky.’’ The Brady’s used to drive sev- | eral miles amass every Sunday a ‘‘the little thrap’’ with th’ ould gray mare.’’ Micky, “‘the boy,’’ a being of many summers, whom cus | tom and a conservative tradition had, in spite of his uncertain years always treated as the possessor of perpetual :bdeleice, drov:, Next him sat Mrs. Brady, decorus in black, while scattered about the straw in the body of the vehic!e, was a large assortment of ‘‘the Mrs, Brady’s Helpful Hint to Her|’ childer’’—Bradys of all ages, sex- es and sizes, bare-legged and other wise—each exuberant and articu- late. It remains to this day a disputed point among the Bradys as to what memory of earlier and more frisky days induced ‘‘th’ old gray mare’’ to behave as she did on this par- ticular Sunday. Rounding a corner, she swerved into the ditch, and before Micky, the boy, could cope with the situa- tion, a pile of Bradys, vertical and horrizontal, had haq been dumped into the ditch, with the little trap turned over and resting on top of the struggling heap. Then, high above the babel of eries came Mrs. Brady’s voice. ‘Pull me out Micky, for the love 0’ hivin! The black legs is mine!”’ —Cleveland Leader. M. P. Alexan= der & Bro. HEADQUARTERS FOR ALL KINDS Christmas Groceries —ALSO— Meats, Don’t Forget to ’Phone No. 241. THE IREDELL CAFE Oysters for retail and Serving. W..W. GAITHER : Proprietor. LEADER IN CANDIES oo AN..... FRUITS Quail-‘on Toast. PHONE NO. 323 tion_in the way of a‘Christmas pres- For Christmas.|No-Children Admitted to} If'there ever was a.delecate_atten- Floor at Night Sessions, STATESVILLE] | SKATING ROR Opera House Building — Mee SS ee ERGO LT NAO MS em a et LL nae ; Seat at Pee ee BS cs tee tao 7 ee f FL EE AE Se ET SE -| ALCOHOL 3 PER CENT. | ris sii eta Bears the el .| Ging the Stomachs a 4d INFANTS “CHILDREN § Signature 3 Promotes Digestion Cheertur: of Baie | Ress and Rest-Contains neler: ea | Opium Morphine nor Mineral. Mieil|:| NOT NARCOTIC. Use For Over Thirty Years ‘ORIA ‘THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. ‘| Aperfect Remedy for Consfiga: : fon Sour Stone Diarrvez :| Worms Convulsions. Feverisk ICS es) At6 months old Sc 35 TONS —Z5CENTS f 5 LA Call anteed dort] DOG aii ani i lal Exact Copy of Wrapper. \ © These Handsome Dishes Given Away toMy Customers With each cash purchase of 5 cents or over I will give you a coupon that can be exchanged for these gifts. ° er es L. A.GOLDMAM : Purveyor to the People. } SOCCCOC2CCOLZCR CEC sORRRCES ©9 0 8 0 8 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 8 — DB © MD S ao eo 0 Oo e ct B a = 5 R o q cr a c P, cr § OQ © 3 bs ) % o 8 n eaid, all your pu i iti stills facece Es pursuasive argument exhausted, it is | “QUALITY” IS THE ONLY TEST OF VALUE To get best results you must have the b i est of everythin a yarn, best colors, best. machines and best help, with Such a combination you can produce the best of what you are making. We have all: for the goods of “quality.” the above. Ask your dealer Open from 3 to 5 and 8 to 10: p. m. Every time the recipient; whether wife, sister, daughter or sweetheart; Opens: the box, she is going to re- ent, it isa box of that remarkably |. ee" NOTICE -Hall’s Drug: Store. ; : ply tor a pardon Dec. 18. Chas. Brincefield will ap- you, and naturally she -will WF. HALL, Prescriptonist, write some of her letters to you upon : . - seme sow" !Wood Sawed! a]. See R. O. Harbin or Phone 1392 or 46. i | E. Steele, President, E. Morrisoy 11-4-1m, ™ ae ee ae f THE STATESVILLE LOAN AND TRUST CU. } 3 Of Statesville, N.C. ; ; ? IS PREPARED to transact all branches of banking. ; ss ii are oe from firms, Corporations and indiv - host wey rely upon courteous considerati : very best terms that are consistent Sree banking methods. Four per cent. paid on time @nd savings deposits. UAPITAL Stoog....... ea, $40,000.00 SHAREHOLDERS OA BIERTY $40,000.00 ; SURPLUs anp Unvivmrp Promrra...........$80,000.00 ; Torau. Resources Oven............. --$440;000:00 OFFICERS Vice-Pres, D. M. Ausley, Sec and Treasurer, C. E. HUGHEY, Assistant Secy. and. Treas Bec ™. ©. CULBRETH, Manager Savings Dearie nce ; ee Pe e f p e f o c f e f h a c f e f o c k h Ac sc f b e f s e f b o c h TY = “a a : sp e ae = tt A i 4 : i— BE O1 S 1 S 1 1 S 1 1 S 1 1 S 1 S 1 S U S i I S U S I A S I S l E Oe ) te = < WN s ea RR Sa k SS RT OR oe F - ) a you ¢ yo habi ing ants ers y ing ques Save Stick wo i DO O O O O O O W I N O S O O S O O O O O O O O O H O O N A |) 4 B p a 4 5 90 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 0 0 0 0 0 80 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 ~ EW STUDIO! yaynard & Ellis, Professional Photographers, in N; B. Mills New ' puilding, adjoining Stimson Drug Store, Statesville, N. C. High Grade Photos at a Low Price. § 3 i ; i penny Pictures, the best that can be made—24 for 25c. i post Cards, per dozen, $1 2S __ Per half dozen 75c. : Cabinets, in folders, dozen, $2.00. Half.dozen $150. § 3 : § ; § pictures of your home, Post Card.size, and up to 8x10 inches, and out-door groups, is one of our specialties at a moder. ate price. Give us @ trial and be convinced that we are trying to please you. Weare now ready to serve you. Will also Develop and Finish Kodak Work. _~MAYNARD & ELLIS=_| ae os cere PEER SEES = i? ese = NEW SHOE STORE & se Oe * WE HAVE SHOES THAT ARE GUARAN- * TEED TO BE ABSOLUTELY WATER- Fas PROOF nice enough for general wear io and heavy enough for farmers. iS ra ~WOGSEE THEMEY CO os rs Complete line of Dress Shoes for Men, Women and A Children. Overshoes, Underwear and Gente’ Furnishings. xx Lverything new and as represented. We will appreciate a oy i eali. Yours to serve, iS. M. & H. SHOE COMPANY i Phone 40. Opposite Court House. Cee ee eee ea teh a (REESE SEECEEECEEESEE TERE Dy ul w mn | w ch | ) ay Mm Ww mM , Ww m Ws Mm Net bythe old Roller Rubbing Ww Ai method but in Straight Paes- Ww m sure Machine which gives beauti- W mM ful demestic finish and makes the w mM Shirts last longer—=<—<_-_ Ws Mm wali Ww q ; Ww : Statesville Steam Laundry ¥ ® U.C. Harwell, Prop. Phone !22 w it aw ee ee “sececceececeecececcec<ecse = SPPLEPEEESESESEE EE PETEDS THE SEEDING SEASON is again with us and have a car load $ = $ = = = of the celeprated = : = $ Pa p Superior Grain Drills the best and lightest running drill made. If in need of a drill examine them and get our prices—we know we can please. z Also a Full Line of Hardware, Stoves, Etc. - - + Evans Hardware Comp’y PEPE fet hfe Ripe fo fod FINEST GIFT OF THE YEAR PE P th hh te th th eh h fe fo f ol | luinly aN ) ol = > Ss md Pe is habit of thrift and the sav- ants and Farmers bank off- ers you the most practical means, as its financial stand- ing and integrity are un- questioned. Commence +0 Save on January Ist and Stick to your resolution. Merchants and Farmers’ Bank OF:STATESVILLE INCORPORATED CAPITAL $25,000:00. OFFICERS: a sie L. T. STIMPSON, Pres.; €. S. TOMLIN, Vice-Pres.; I. D. BUNCH, See. & Treas.; J. A. KNOX, Asst. Sec. & Treas. Directors: L. T. Sti _ L. Stevenson, €. S. Tomlin, R. R. Reid, J. ws Page, Geo. B. Nicholson, L. K. Lazen- by, E. G. Gaither, J. BR. Hill, E. B. Watts. en Get us five yearly subscribers to! The Evenin f HEROISM OF TRAINED NURSE| PERILS OF LIFE IN TROPIC. Fight Germmest of Battles With} Animals ard Reptiles Alike Invade No Trumpet Sound to Encour-| Rest and Comfort There. age. The perils of the daily life in the The trained nurse goes into bat- tropies are almost inconceivable to tle encouraged by none of the| dwellers in other climes. In a blood-stirring incidents of the sol-| Boreno village, a man and his ten- dier entirely alone; her struggle} year-old son were sleeping in their must be quiet; and her antagonist | inside a mosquito netting. They is grim and terrible and ever| Were on the floor near the wall. In watchful, because it is death itself|the middle of the night the father Suppose it is yourself who are sud-| Was awakened by his son calling denly smitten in the midst of-your]out. It was totally dark and the life and work, says Anne O’Hagen|father passed his hand over in the Delineator. With he com-jhis son, but found nothing amiss, ing of the trained nurse you feel]So he turned over and went to infinite relief from thanks giving|sleep again, thinking the boy was You are no longer obliged to} dreaming. Shortly afterward the struggle alone, to watch the door] child again squalled out, saying alone lest that other one enter.| that a crocodile was taking him. The nurse, calmest of warriors,|This time the father, thoroughly least grim of sentinels, sits besides] aroused, lighted a lamp, and found your bed and will keep the vigil]/that a snake had closed its jaws for you. You transfer the battle}on the boy’s head. He shouted, to her. For yourself, you will lie}@nd the snake releasing its hold, still and think—not of the combat|drew the whole of its body into before you, not of the turmoil be-|the house and encircled the body hind you—that whiring, dustv|of the father. He was rescued conflict of the world which was so|by the neighbors, who were at- important a little while ago—but| tracted by the cries for help of the of the great, important things—|terrified couple. The snake when earth and its greenness, the wide, | killed was found to be 15 feet long white, country skies on moonlight |and the head and the forehead of nights, the fiash of blue birds’|the boy was surrounded with a cir- wings in the September sunshine, cle of punctured wounds produced all the daily miracles you had for-| by the python’s teeth. gotten to watch when you were hurrying to those manifold ap- pointments of yours. Now you GOODS are in the region where only ‘‘the mightier movement sounds and ‘ movement sounds and passes only wind and rivers, only life and death.”’ : Draughon gives contracts, backed by a chain of 30 Colleges, $300,000.00 _———_+ere—— capital, and 19 year’s success, to se- cure positions under reasonable con- Death was on His Heels. ditions or refunnd tuition. Jesse P. Morris, of Skippers, BOOKKEEPING Be eeons) co Va., had a close call in the spring = = ae = ee accepting, his pruposition, concede of 1906. He says: “An attack] tn5+ he teaches more Bookkeeping of pneumonia left me so weak and|in THREE months than they doin with such a fearful cough that|SIX. Draughon can convince YOU my friends declared consumption SHORTH AND 7 per cent. of theUnited States had me, and death was on my Court Reporters write the system of heels. Then I was persuaded to] Shorthand Draughon teaches, be- try Dr. King’s New Discovery. It | cause they know it is THE BEST. helped me immediately, and after] POR FREE CATALOG and book- taking two and a half bottles J | let, ‘Why Learn Telegraphy?’’ which was a well man again. I found explains all, call on or write JNO. F. DRAUGHON, President out that New Discovery is the best eo Is Essential to the Up- tf building of the Modern | Business Enterprise. ::: To the publicity gained by the use of the advertising columns of the daily papers is at- tributed the growth, and consequent success, of a very large percentage of. great business enter- prises of the present day. Advertising is recognized as the prime fac- tor in increasing the sales of any class of goods or manufactured articles. The space used in this puper is your_busi- hess message to the public. In this open letter you should tell them of the merits of what you are offering, setting forth the reasons why your 5 particular line is worthy of their attention. BH. has increased its local circulation very materially during the past three months and the results obtained from the space used by the advertisers are gratifying to them and to the paper. It reaches into the homes of the best class of our people and your message will be placed in the hands of those with money to buy the goods you wish to sell. ss The Space Rates in The Evening Mascot . are not high. Your message is carried, each day, to those you wish to reach, in the most economical manner. For information call us up on the phone.and a representative ot the paper will gladly visit you The Evening Mascot. 0808080808080808080 808080 remedy for coughs and lung dis- DRAUCHON’S ease in all the world,’’ Sold under| PRACTICAL BUSINESS COLLEGE guaarantee at Statesville drug (We also Teach by Mail) Co. store. 50c. and $1.00. Trial} Raleigh, Knoxville, Nashville, Cc bottle free. lumbia or Washington, D. C. —+__++ > oe — BARBEE TRIAL PosTPONED. |G(ITHERN RAILWAY CO, Alleged Slayer of Engineer Fred Holt Will be Tried Next Mon- Great Highway of Trade and Dur Travel Through the Durham, Dee. 14.—In the Bar- bee case the hearing has been post- poned one week, until Dee. 21st, Souther ll States at the request of the defendant’s —————— counsel, as Mr. V. 8S. Bryant is too Through Pullman Sleeping Cars ill to appear in the case. on palatial trains between the ———_++2>--—_—_ principal Cities and Resorts of A Healthy Family. the South. High-class Dining ‘Our whole family has enjoyed Cars. Many delightfulSummer s ; and Winter Resorts on and good health since we began using) reached by Southern Railway. Dr. King’s New Life Pills, three ; years ago,”’ says L. A. Bartlet, of} 1be Land of the Sky,” “The} : : Sapphire Country,” in scenic Rural Route 1, Guilford Maine. Werten North Carolina; pees They cleanse and tone the system tiful at allseasons. Hotels of in a gentle way that does you the highest class. good 25c. at Statesville Drug Co. —_———_++ ao ___—— A French engineer has invented a rotary rudder by which he says For detailed information apply to nearest Ticket Agent, or R. L. VDRNON, T. P. A., a vessel of any size may be turned Charlotte, N. C. in its own length. S.H. HARDWICK, P.T.M., ST W.H. TAYLOE,G. P. A., Itching piles provoke profanity, Washibgton, D.C. but profanity won’t cure them. Doan’s Ointment cures itching, Even when a woman really be- lieves in her husband’s ability she ean’t help bragging about it. — +> + —_—_ New Tables of Most disfiguring skin eruptions, scrofula, pimples, rashes, etc., are the latest and ue to impur 00 ur d due to impure blood. B ae oa best makes Bitters is a cleansing tonic. po raat clear-brained, clear h ave been in= eer en stalled under J. P. Phifer’s grocery store. Some men are so lucky they can have the water pipes freeze fn their homes without bursting. ———<+2 > ———_ Mothers how can you take chances—keep a_ bottle cf Moth- Og0wOeos SEVERAL THINGS Are to be considered in selecting your Bank - 1ST. Strength-Financial Strength # 2ND. The care with whichthe “¥. Bank is Managed. a 3RD. The courtesy and spirit of ios of accomodation displayed on by the Officers and Em- . ployees. a 4TH. The banking experience of oi Officers. meas 5TH. The ability of the bank to Properly and Promptly Handle all Your Business To Those Desiring the Embodi- ment of These Features are Offered The Service of THE HIRST NATIONAL BANK OF STATESVILLE | “a ad 4 1 ot A Bu e es CAPITAL $100.000 bleeding protruding piles after years sy a. of suffering. At any drug store. CW (i) OO ie : , Se ; : . SObICSOSOSCED 55000006052800080808080006 bUS060b 00S EI BOSON R CSOs OS OSCE ES ee En EE ‘ Now Time for You to Se- lect Your Xmas Goods | We will put aside any goods selected. | See our new line of Morris Chairs and Rockers. Also Fine Mahogany Tables. We will make Special Prices on COOK fee STOVES and RANGES. . Seas STATESVILLE HOUSEFURNISHING COM?PY ~~ Mascot, paid in advance, and get one of the beautiful ers joy in your house. You need We SolicitYourPatronage China Sets -we are-giving as premiums. pest age tae cae ae ae oe eet opel ett ee Mothers Joy every day. re t ES D ON E ie fi Sa s Be oe ee ey ae AE a a aa UR = Be s t Re e s 3 Ba e Te e eta ) op t s dh A h n n dd at s ok oe io e ge t ee e Ar i a a aa bs ‘ “ e we - Pe ae s Pi e r s ar ie i a7 WHISKEY SOLD TODAY. -“Gnelé Sam’? Has Many Buyers Of the 60 Gallons of Whiskey and Brandy Sold—Brought Rea- _. sonable Prices. This morning at the Wallace Bros, Herbarium on Meeting street, at 11 o’clock, the United States government sold over 60 gallons of corn whiskey and bran- dy at auction. A large ang merry crowd assem- bled to bid on the goods. Mr. J. W. C. Long, the postmas- ter was the auctioneer, and he got all the bids he asked for. = First he put up a large lot of corh whiskey in pint and half pint ‘bottles, which sold readily, bring- ing from 50 to 80 cents per pint. While sale was in progress many “who hag availed themselves of the chance of getting the whiskey in small quantities, emptied the bot- “tles into. their ‘‘dry tanks,’’ ercat- ing much merriment in the assem- ‘blage. iB “After the bottles of whiskey “were sold, a few bottles of beer were put up, bringing about 12 *¢ents per bottle. “Then the suit cases containing the ‘‘ardent’”’ were put on sale, bringing about 50e apiece. When the small lots and ‘‘junk”’ were disposed of, the auctioneer called the attention to the kegs of brandy containing from 2 1-2 to 10 gallons. These were immediately knock- ed down at about $1.65 per gallon. This whiskey is all blockade stuff ‘that was seized seized by the gov- ernment officials, and advertised and sold at public auction. No doubt many of the boys will spend a merry Xmas on the goods ‘sold to them. —_———++ar-o—__—_ Landslide Business, ' Mr. J. E. Boyd the clever new register of deeds is doing a land- Slide business at his office. Since December Ist, he has sold ten license. We do not knew why he is sell- ing so many, but nevertheless he is. It may be because Christmas is coming and they all have a de- sire to get married during that season or that they are afraid the prices will go up, as Mr. Boyd said if he dig not have a good bus- iness he would raise the price. They are very cheap in this county, and it behooves every one interested to patronize him and keep the prices down as low as is consistent. Today license were issued to Mr. Z. R. Privette and Miss Ida Bell Hoke; Mr. D.C. Clodfelter and Miss Daisy Ostwalt, ang Mr. Perey Suther and Miss Delia Clod- felter. ‘Mr. Clodfelter and Miss Ostwalt and Mr. Suther ang Miss Clodfel ter are all well known young peo- ple of South Iredell, living near Troutman. Mr. and Miss Clod- felter being brother and sister, Mr.Tom Clodfelter being their father. Miss Ostwalt is the daugher of Mr. Jno Ostwalt, of near Trout man and is well known in that lo- eality. : Mr. Luther is a son of Mr W. A. Luther, living near Troutman. Both couples will be maried at the same time tomorrow night at the home of Rev. C. J. Sox. —-_~ere——— Mr. Z. V. Buchanan of Hickory is in the city. Mr. Geo. Wilson of Wilmington is visiting his sister, Mrs. C. M. Steele. Miss Corre Copeland will re- turn from Meridan, Miss., _ to- night. Mr. R. M. Knox left last night for Baltimore and Boston, in the interest of his firm, Mr. Joseph Strass will return -to- New York tonight, after hav- ing spent a few days with Mrs. Julius Wallace his sister. Mr. Jos. E. Tharpe of Elkin, is in the city for a day or so. He will return to Elkin where he is egshier in a new-bank and stay Wigge anti] the 29th of this month. See oe z we of veg “RE. TE Se Sek a “ 3 at Foe SHOES AND STOCKINGS. A Way by Which Their Lasting Qualities May Be Increased. ] While your shoes are new or be- fore the soles are worn too much apply with a small brush several coats of linseed oil, letting it dry in well each time before reapply- ing. The oil acts much the saine on the leather as it does on wood, and if the applications of oil are repeated frequently the sole may be preserved intact indefinitely. It sounds unreasonable to talk of preserving hosiery to any ap- preciable extent, but it may be done. The oftener hosiery is wash ed the longer it will last. By wash- ing I do not mean the ordinary laundry method, which is cafe + 4t- ed to fade and rot the fiber. Real- ly to preserve hosiery it must have personal supervision. Stockings should never be worn longer than one day. They should then be rinsed in lukewarm water with a few drops of amonia in it, dried and worn with ironing. This re- peated wetting of the fiber keeps it so firm and strong that it will not break at the points of greatest distension. This treatment applies to cotton, lisle thread and silk hos- iery. If you will treat your new hose this way from the beginninre you need darn but very little. Of course in time all hosiery, however expensive or strong, will succumb to wear, but the above method of treatment will double the lasting qualities—New York World. ASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Copia Signature of The copper bath in which Marat was slain by Charlotte Corday is for sale again. It is deescribed as an old tub, haped like a wooden shoe and scarred from ancient usage.’’ —__~++@>-e—____ Stops earache in two minutes; toothache or pain of burn or scald in five minutes; hoarseness, one hour; muscleache, two hours; sore throat, twelve hours—Dr. Tiotmas Belectric Oil, monarch over pain. _——~++oear-e—_—__—_ The most approved design of storm door construction repre- an investment of no less than $2,400. Miss Myrtle Cloaninger of Mooresville is visiting in the city. ns HOLLISTER’S Rocky Mountain Tea Nuggets A Busy Medicine for Busy People. Brings Golden Health and Renewed Vigor. Aspecificfor Constipation, Indigestion, Liver and Kidney troubles, Pimples, Eczema, Impure Blood, Bad Breath,Slu h Bowels, Headache and Backache. ItsRocky Mountain Teain tab- let form,35 cents a box. Genuine made by HoiuisteR Daue Company, Madison, Wis. GOLDEN NUGGETS FOR SALLOW PEOPLE Mortgage Sale of Valuable Real Estate. By virtue of power of sale con- tained in a mortgage deed executed by R. S. Sherrill and wife Mattie R. Sherrill, on March 20th, 1908, to the Henkel Live Stock Company to se- cure a note of $300 due and payable Nov. 1, 1908, (see Book 26, page 485, Registry Iredell Co.) the said mort- gagee will sell for cash by Public Auction, at the Court House door in Statesville, N. C., on Monday, the 18th day of January, 1909, at 12 o'clock noon, the following real es- tate conveyed in said mortgage, or so much thereof as may be necessa; of sale, viz: Ist Tract. Beginning at W. F. Bailey’s S. E. corner, thence north with his line 210 poles to @ stake, Bailey’s corner; thence E. 85 poles to a post oak; thence north 52 poles to a post oak; thence E. 140 poles to Murdock’s corner; thence S. 320 poles toa stake; thence W. 56 poles to a stake; thence S. 7 poles to a stake; thence W. 66 poles to a sour wood, Lingle’s corner; thence N. 65 poles to a stake, Lingle’s corner; thence W. 97 poles to the beginning, containing 356 acres, more or less. Also one house and lot in the su- burb of Statesville on what is called Diamond Hill,’’ inning at a stake, corner of Vance and Dagen- hart streets, thence N. 4 degrees 100 feet to a stake; thence S. 85 degrees E. 180 feet to a stake; thence S. 4 degrees W. 100 feet to stake on Dag- enhart street; thence N. 85 degrees W. 180 feet to beginning. - Terms Cash. Tar HENKEL Live Stock €0., Mortgagee. Armfield & Turner, Attys, A GOOD STOMACH Means Good Health, Cheerfulness, Ambition, Persistency and Suc- cess. Mi.o-na will cure your dyspepsia or any other stomach trouble by building up the flabby walls, and making the stomach so strong that it will digest food without pepsin or ther artificial aid. In other words, Mi-o-na cures dys. pepsia by removing the cause, Statesville Drug Co., is the agent for Mi.o-na in Statesville and they say to every reader of The Mascot whose stomach is weak, who has in- digestion or dyspepsia, that Mi-o_na is guaranteed to cure or money back, The: price is only 50 cents a large box, and one box is all you need to prove that you are on the right road to health and happiness. “T can’t say enough for Mi-o_na tablets; they have done more for me in one week than all the doctors have for the two years I have been under their care, and I will do all I can to recommend it to my friends. You can also usé My name in your ad. if you like, for Mi-o.na is better than gold to me. I am like a new man, and am able to work once more for the first time in over a year.”— A. Ennis, 328 Green St., Syracuse, N. Y. —_— Ho Mothers’ Joy is made of pure goose grease and other healing ingredients. Mothers you cannot afford to be without a box of Moth ers’ Joy. Personally Conducted Tour to Ha- vana, Cuba, and Return, January 11, 1909, Via Southern Railway Souhern Railway will sell round trip excursion tickets to Havana, Cuba at following rates from points named: ESIC NRC io cies: salen cicags $39.10 ROO E ot s i e 42.40 DOE TTOSI 40.45 ESD 42.95 EON a ee 42.50 EHC VAICE Oe a 42.40 Approximately low rates from from other points. Tickes on sale January 11th, good returning to leave Havana, Cuba, on or before January 27th, 1909. Tickets may be rovted through Jacksonville thence either through Knight’s Key, or Port Tampa. Good going and return-- ing same route. Stop-over will be allowed at Jacksonville, St. Au- gustine, Palm Beach, Miami, and other points south of Jacksonville, within final limit of ticket. A representaive will accompany movement, and will look after the comfort and pleasure of the party. For further information as to side tours from Havana, sight see- ing tours, hotel rates, leaving time a principal points, Pulllman and state room reservation, write J. H. Wood, D. P. A., Asheville, N. C.; W. H. McGlamery, P. & T. A., Raleigh, N. C. ; R. H. DeButts, P. & T. A., Greensboro, N. C.; or R. L. VERNON, T. P. A. Charlotte, N. C. WANT ADS 1 ne 5 cents a line. 3 Gime’... 4 cents a line. 6 Gimes................. 3% cents a line. 26 times...... sepa 8 cents a line. WANTED—A Second hand Oliver typewriter, in fair condition. Address XXX care Mascot 3t to pay the aforesaid debt and ee LOST—In West Statesville, pocket ledger full of accounts. Return to W. H. Kimball’s store or E. M. Patterson and get reward. decl4 2t FOR SALE—Best Grocery stand in city, doing good business. Reasons for selling. If you want a bargain answer at once. Address Grocer, care Mascot. dee 3 tf AMBITIOUS YOUNG MEN AND ladies should learn telegraphy; for, since the now 8 hour law became effective there is a shortage of many thousand telegraphers. Po- sitions pay from $50 to $70 a month to beginners. The National Telegraph institute of Columbia, S. C., and five other cities is oper- ated under supervision of R. R. Officials and all students are placed when qualified. Write them for particulars. nol9 dtf eall on your repot agents, or write|j $10 Gold Pieces for $9.00 . Ee TN RI es eR RN ae eee - 7m aoe ee bet amen On et ‘ Beer a ede ie SRE ee ee IN RET aN RR AIR oe eT ON Solid Gold Lockets In Gold Filled Goods, Large lot of Bracelets Nice line of Silverware Guaranteed. ary, as these must go. DO P P L E R PP P P P I B P B P IP I IN G in e is what it means when you buy your Christmas goods from me. eo too much stock and must cut it down by. January Ist, nd will give you bargains in anything in my line. I ences sate the BUYERS PURSE. Anyone wanting a high-grade h M ent can now get it cheap. 2 oe South Bend, Illinois, Hamilton, Elgin and Waltham, in 15 and 17 jeweled grades. These will be put into whatever kind of a case you ee want I have too many 15 and 17 jeweled movements on hand and they must go. I have Solid Gold Rings from $1 OO up. Solid Gold Stick Pins from $1 OO up. Solid Gold Cuff Buttons 1°75 “ Solid Gold Hearts for Neck Chains : All other Gold Goods toc numerous to mention at right prices. Gents’ and Ladies’ Gold Filled Woven Wire and Silk Watch Fobs, Ladies Gold Filled Cuff Pins, Veil Pins, Hat Pins Bar Pins, Stick Pins, Belt Pins, Brooches, etc., from the lowest prices and up. tary Brushes, Clothes Brushes, Shaving Brushes, Hat and Bonnet Brushes, alljin sterling or best grade Quadruple Plate. Nice line of Ladies’ Gold Filled Handle Umbrellas from $3 50 to $7 50. You can get a bargain in Cut Glass, Japanese China Vases, etc., and Statu- In Silverware I have a complete‘fline’of Knives and Forks, Tea and Table Spoons, Butter Knives, Sugar Shells, Pie and Tomato Servers, cold meat and other Forks, Berry Spoons. Soup Sets, Soup Ladles, Carving Sets, Childs’ Sets, individual Salt Sets, Cut Glass Sterling Top Salt and Pepper Sets. Nice line of Parlor and Gold Plate Clocks, Kitchen and Alarm Clocks. No difference what you want in the Jewelry line, I will save you money. Come and see for yourself. Will make the I have these in the Rock- Solid Gold Brooches 125 « 400 “ — Sold Gold Neck Chaius 300 « 1 235 ‘“c such as Gold Filled Neckchains, Gold Filled Leckets, NG O N T O N Ni A SZ A Ni A Si A VO N Si A WA A HO N Se at right prices. and Novelties, such as Toilet Sets, Manicure Sets, Mili- as aS ON G 5 R. F. Henry # Jeweler and Optician SeniananenOnOTOTOTIONOTOMOmeNaNBTOTE OT S T TS TH S T O N T O N I O N Hotel Iredell Building. <( ts si Dt How to Prevent Pneu- & monia In every paper you pick § up you will see where some & good man has just died with § this fearful disease—pneu- monia. Now we will give you One Hundred Dollars § for any case of pneumonia §f you have in your family it fails to cure if you will use — Goose Grease Liniment as | directed. It only costs you 25 cents a bottle. Get it— you have nothing to loose § and all to gain. Weknow & there are thousands who § will read this and throw it aside and in a few days will be down with the disease. Please just get one bottle and putit away until you need it. If you haven’t the & money to buy it let us know and we will eend you a bot- tle free. GOOSE GREASE CoO. ‘TEL I IE os WANTED—BY THE AMERICAN Cotton and Business University of Milledgeville, Ga., students to take one or more of our courses in cot- ton grading, buying and selling. Business courses of bookkeeping, Shorthand, Typewriting, or Telegra- phy and Railroad course. Positions guaranteed under reasonable con- ditions. Write at once for our consolidated catalog. Largest col lege South. Sept 28-tf FOR RENT—ONE STORE BUILD- ing and basement. Best retail stand in the city. Statesville Real- ty and Investment Co. Sept.19 SMS BERET SETAE RARER Se OS RN Ree They Are Going With a Rush! Christmas Presents of Quality Have You Bought? : Come buy today while the selection is large. : - Statesville Brug Cao. : | BS : : Ce ) (0 ) te Ce ) (a ! Cs ) e se fs : Q (e s en e ee e ea e : : te l te ) te ) be ) fe 4 fe i : ee At the Store of Quality Prescriptionists. SS C S ES RC S SR S CS CS S SR S aS | PPvererevececcoqooocecnees ° CHRISTMAS SUGGESTIONS ° © Le tus help you solve the all perplexing ques- ® @ tion:—WHAT SHALL 1GIVE FOR CHRIo®. @ e MAS? Below isa list of useful articles which @ @ Any one would be proud of: $ House Slippers, Bath Sli rs, at $ ~ ee ——— of Ne eckmear in Statesville at ae = 0 @ x rs an ee: S$ Silk Suspenders (in individual boxes) at eo S oe . & Silk Handkerchiefs (plain or fancy) at 25c. to $1.00 e Hawes celebrated $3.00 Hats, all the new shapes and colors— @ = Green, Ivy, Tan and Peari. 9 © Dress and Driving Gloves at 25¢c. to $2.00 @ ° The Christmas money expended here will not be wasted. © @ > B. MILLER) sf tHe stoke man. ; SCOCCOCOC CCCCSSOR CORRE OOOUE us THE GREATEST OF ALL GIF TS— a w 2 Christmas, or any ae : us other time, is good health mM yy This is insured by i-eans > M Wy of sanitary plumbing in ; ri \gj Your house. If you wonld m wi Present your family with mn u : threefold blessing, cele- - - Orate Christmas by ar- = “ ranging with us for a a os complete system of mod- mt », ©rn up-to-date plumbing ss wW f <-> “ rom cellar to roof. Snes Se ON ee = 2s WA. W. HOLLER PLUMBING COMPANY Ww Phore No. 61. ) m 127 W. Broad St. gn » 23223323323323323323:32:332¢ Vo WwOoMA Left at Child Stanly is Aq Negro. sault: Hard ing 2 Bound marle vails. Spenc¢ saulted noon at Stanly cc highly is tonigt on acco her by about 29 afternoo: charged Mrs. 3 old, is well-kno Together hands, o’clock ft his wife aged 2 3 Twen had left a railroz As soon were all the rear an effort the hous which hg when shi was tryi ing him broke og the room Moss, th attempte Mrs. Mo; her voi alarm by fast in t termined The se er were half m house, th citizen o attracted fighting = The neg Start and Lefler to into the fists, it both Mr. the negr into the tied and Stanly later, an eral depy er to Al at a laté Lefier lo Mrs: } health is from the the des Allen wal London 4 ing done The M ed and t in the n &ro and When marle w followed Tuhs hig) was bad he would but la wounds A tele marle to that ey though Streets. ed. The Moss ho ephone ¢ closed ¢ Set fur tonight. If you Somethi SoOmethi can’t w Price, \ WS WW () A TO N I O N I O N -_ WO N T O N T O N TO N M O N O N T O N I O N WO N aD a> MO N S O N I O N I O N AN " TW » if NA V A N A “ : le ” aa a ee an t e n n a re e u Ox ra tage TaN PRC eae ane . " CRIS gg et De, eee uaa aoe : See SER RA MR Fe ay Re dane oree ‘ <a = ae Foul Deed dtirs Stanley WwoeAN ASSAULTLED IN HOME. Left at Home With Only Two Small Children, Mrs. J. R. Ross, Wife of stanly County Merchant-Farmér, is Attacked by Henry Young, a Negro, Who Attempts Criminal As- sault—Mrs. Moss’ Rescuers Have iiaurd Fight With Negro, One Hay- ing 2 Finger Bitten Off—Negro is Bound and Caried to Jail at Albe- marle, and Fear of Lynching Pre- yails. ae spencer, Dee. 15.—Criminally as- saulted in her own home this after_ noon at Moss siding, near Whitney, Stanly county, Mrs. James R_ Moss, a highiy respected lady of that place, is tonight in a@ precarious condition on account of an attack made upon her by Henry Young, colored, aged at 25 years, who was late this afternoon landed in jail at Albemarle charged with the crime. Mrs. Moss, who is about 40 years old, is the wife of J. R. Moss, 2 well-known merchant at Moss siding. Together with @ number of farm hands, Mr, Moss left home at one o'clock this afternoon, leaving with his wife only two small children, aced 2 and 4 years. Twenty minutes after the party left, Young was seen seated on railroad track near the Moss home. As soon as he learned that the men were all out of sight he slipped up to the rear door of the house and made an effort to enter. Passing around the house he tried another door which had been locked by Mrs. Moss when she discovered that the negro was trying to enter the house. Fin@- ing himself locked out, Young broke open a window, bounded into the room where he had seen Mrs. Moss, threw his arms around her and attempted to do his diabolical work. Mrs. Moss, screaming at the top of her yoice, attempted to give the alarm by telephone, but she was held fast in the elutches of the negro, de- termined to accomplish his deed. The screams of the wife and moth- er were heard by the husband one- half mile distant, who ran to his house, that George Lefler, another citizen of the village, had also been attracted by the screams and was fizhting for his life with the negro. The negro showed fight from the Start and it was necessary for Mr. Lefler to break down a door to get into the room. Fighting with their fsts, it required a terible effort of oth Mr. Lefler and Mr. Moss to drag the negro, heels first, from the home into the yard, where he was securely ted and held until Sheriff Green, of Stanly county, arrived, two hours later and with the assistance of sev- eral deputies started with his prison. er to Albemarle jail, reaching there t a late hour this afternoon. Mr, Lefer lost a finger, which was bitten of by the negro in the fight. Mrs. Moss, who is very delicate in health is in a dangerous condition ‘rom the shock and fright caused by the desperate assault. Dr. J. A. \llen was hastily sumoned from New London and all that is possible is be- ing done to restore her. The Moss family is highly respect- ed and there is the intensest feeling in the neighborhood against the ne- “to and trouble is feard. _ When the sheriff reached Albe- ma arle with the prisoner 2 big crowd ‘olowed to the jail and excitement ‘uns high at that place. The negro Was badly beaten and it was thought he would die before reaching the jail, but later it was found that his wounds were not fatal. A telephone message from Albe marle tonight at 10 o’colck stated that everything was quiet there, | though a big crowd was On the} Streets. The jail is not being guard- ed. There is also a big crowd at the Moss home. The telegraph and tel- ephone Offices at Albemarle are now closed and it will be impossible to get further information from there tonight. ee Notice. If you discard all idea of getttig Something genuine for the cost of something spurious—then why can’t we ‘‘get together’’ as to the Southern Protectionists. The protectionist sentiment in North Carolina indicates no conver- sion to a theory of economics but merely proves recognition of practi- cal business men that a certain con- dition exists, and that it behooves them to take the utmost advantage of an opportunity. The sagacity—as contradistinguished from the disin- terested séntiments—of the employer is naturally reflected in the employe and a protectionist vote is builded upon value received in the form of graft. Could anyone find a better illustration of a segment of the vici- ous circle created by protectionists? The tariff question is not, when considered by disinterested econo- mists, a local issue. Under tho Sys- tem that exists it is made so and we have the sorry spectacle of members of congress attempting to hold the vote of their districts by catering to zine miners or turpentine producers or Owners of timber lands. This il- lustrates how the lawmaking body is corrupted by a system that rests upon corruption. Of course, Alabama iron and steel interests are“‘glad to accept the bless ing of a duty on iron and steel.” Since the wine is flowing, the orchestra Playing, tempting riands spread and the banquet bcard a_ wilderness of roses, why turn down an empty glass or turn away from the feast because, forsooth, some millions who are not upon the invitation list are more or less hungry?—Louisville Courier. Journal, —_—— ee Wedding Today. At 6 o’clock this evening, at the home of Mrs. Lelia Bogle in Taylors- ville, Miss Irene McIntosh will wed Mr. Ralph Sloan. Both these young people are well known in this city, Miss McIntosh is the youngest daughter of the late Taylor McIntosh, of Taylorsville. For some months she has been a nurse at the Billingsley hospital, in this city. She is a young lady of sterling qualities and well liked among her large host of friends. Mr. Sloan is a son of Mr. W. R. Sloan, of this city, and is well known. He is at present on The Mascot staff. This marriage comes as quite a surprise to their large hosts of friends in the city, as this is the first announcement made of it. This young couple have the best wishes of their many friends in this city. ———_$—$-44> o— Troutman Young Man Victim of Canc¢r. Troutman, Dec. 15 —Mr.-Laurence Mills, a most estimable young man of this community, has just returned from Baltimore, Md., where he went at the advice of the local surgeons for treatment of a cancer in the ‘mouth. The famous cancer special- ist of Baltimore gave him no hope informed him that the cancer had already entered his throat and that human skill was now of no avail. As yet the young man suffers very lit- tle, but he came home hopeless to wait and to die. EE Evidence Against Barbee Conclusive. Spencer, Dec. 15.—Private Detec- tive W. J. Ashburn, who arrested Reuben Barbee at Durham last week charged with the murder of Engineer Fred Holt, of this place, returned to Spencer today and will spend a few days with his family. He states that the state has all the evidence neces_ sary to convict Barbee and that ad- ditional information tending to show his guilt is being unearthed every day, and that persons who were afraid to talk when Barbee was at liberty are now telling what they know about the case. Mr, Ashburn who is spending much time on diffi- cult cases of a similar character, will jreturn to Durham this we2k to look after the interests of the case and will assist the state in the prosecu- tion at the preliminary trial of Bar- bee, which has been set for next Mon- day, December 21s€. ————_+Oorer “pr. Heathman Sick, Dr. J. D. Heathman of Mooresville *was brought to Long’s sanatorium last night by Dr. &. A. Bell of that city. = is not known what his trouble is, but he is in a very serious condi- tion, very little hope being entertain- ‘ed for his recovery. en, o-Ps Weather Forecasts. Washington, D. C., Déc. 16—For North Carolina increasing cloudiness with probably showers in west por- tion tonight or Thursday. Price. See Bob Henry. tee OSS eget SMe 8 ee a AR EES MOM ge tn Ae I Ce Sa ed 4 a i 7 amattee ee ” 2 Statesville, N. C., Wednesday Evening, December 16, 1908. A Little Mix-Up. Early this morning there was a little scrap on C>nter street betweea Sam Freedman znd a colored man by the name of Marshall White. White is employed by L, A. Goldman as delivery man, and as he was at his work in the rear of the store Fried. man made some remark to the negro, which he did not like, and which brought on more talk. After some wrangling Friedman went back to his place of business and the negro fol- lowed him and run him out of his store. The negro then went back to his work and Friedman, after getting @ weapon went to the negro and gave him a couple of wraps with it. Bystanders then interfered and the police were called and took the scrap- pers in charge At the trial before the mayor each of them was fined five dollars and costs, which was a “otal of $7.65 each. The negro has been before the mayor twice recently and his honor warned him that the next appearance would mean a sojourn with Superin- dent Henry of the chain gang. This warning seems to have been unheed- ed, however, as White went back to his place of business and commenced to raise a disturbance and make free use of many “cuss” words, and it was only a short time until he was again in the hands of the officers. He was locked up and will have to answer for his last offense at the mayor’s court tomorrow morning. He has more than likely got a chain gang sentence coming to him. ——_+<~+@r-e—___—_ Mr, Caldwell Back. Mr. L. C. Caldwell who was in Greensboro the first of the week, to assist in the prosecution of Baxter Shemwell, who it will be rememed forced a conductor on the Southern railway, at the point of his revolver, to stop a train at Lexington and let him off, has returned as Shemwell failed to appear and stand trial. A capies has been issued and Shem- well’s bond is to be increased when he is again served with a warrant. ——_~++@>-eo—_——_—_ Another Recruit. Lieutenant W. S. Sinclair, of Char. lotte, visited Lieutenant Gilbert of the local recruiting office here today and accepted Alexander Ross, of this city, for infantry service in the army. He will leave tomorrow morning for the Columbus, Ohio, barracks, where he will be stationed. ——_2<+ > __- Report on Farm Products. Washington, D. C., Dee. 15— Production and farm value on De- ecember Ist of farm products nam- ed according to the final revised estimates of agricultural depart- ment follows. Corn 2,668,651,000 bushels farm value $1,616,145,000 ; winter wheat 437,908,000 bushels farm value $410,330,000; spring wheat 226,- 694,000 farm value $206,496,000. Figures for other crops inelude: Rice 21,890,000 bushels, value $17,- 771,000; tobacco, 718,061,000 pounds, value $74,160,000. ooo Requisition Papers for Carlton. Requisition papers for Sam Carl- ton have been made out and sent to Solicitor Hammer, who will present them to Gov. Glenn for his O. K,, after which they will be sent to the Illinois governor. When everything is in readiness Sheriff Deaton will make the trip to Chicago for the negro. He will hardly start before the first of the coming week, how- ever. —_——_—_+ +o __ The Bazaar. The bazaar to be held by the Young Women’s Missionary Society, of the Methodist church tomorrow in the court house will commence at 2 o’clock. The young ladies propose to serve meals and lunches and ask the busi ness men of the city to take their meals with them tomorrow evening Many fancy articles will be offered for sale, and they will make nice Christmas gifts. ————_+-<+- Pensioners Coming In. Clerk of Court Hartness and his deputy are giving out many of the pension warrants now. There are a good many on hand to be given out yet, but they continue to go as they have today all will be called for ia | the next day or two. PERSONAL NOTES. Some Happenings Among Those People You Know and Others You Don’t Know. Miss Annie Bell Barrier, of Mt. Pleasant, spent last night at the St. Charles hotel and left this morning for her home. She was accompan- ed by little Miss Helen Misenheimer, Gaughter of Proprietor Misenheimer. of the St. Charles, who goes to visit her grandmother at that place. J, B. Lackery, of Newton, spent yesterday in the city on business. Mr. A. Little, a merchant of Cor- Relius, is in the city for a few days. Mrs_H. U. Miller and son of Chica- g0, are in the city today, stopping at the St. Charles hotel. Mr. L. F. Barnard, of Greensboro, Was in the city last night on his way to his old home in North Iredell to spend several days with relatives and friends, Mayor H. P. Grier is in Charlotte this afternoon on business. Hon. J. J, Britt, of Asheville, spent a few hours in the city this morning on his way to Charlotte. Mr. W. H. Campbell, of Washing- ton, D. C, is in the city for a few days on business. _ Mr. C. L. Taylor will leave in a few days to spend the Xmas holidays in Washington. Mr, Dick Gregory is in Mooresville this afternoon on business. Capt. S. M. Moore, yardmaster at the depot, and family left this morn- ing for Sumter, S C., to visit Capt. Moore’s brother. There will be a family reunion and Capt. Moore and family will remain there for a week er ten days. Mr, J. L. Nelson, of Lenoir, is here attending a meeting of the district stewards of the Methodist church, which was held here today. Two car loads of horses were re- ceived by the Henkel Live stock com- pany last night. —4- Regents Meet, The board of regents of the Ba- rium Springs orphan’s home met in Charlotte yesterday, 15th, and re- elected officers as follows: President—Reyv. Dr. H. G. Hill, of Maxton. E Vice President—Rev. Dr. C. M. Richards of Davidson. Secretary—Rev, D. I. Craig, of Reidsville. Treasurer—Mr. P. M. Brown, of Charlotte. All these officers were present and in addition were Mr. J. C. Steele of Statesville; Rev. George Atkinson, of Monroe; Messrs. W. H. Belk, of Charlotte, and A. M. Scales of Greens- boro, besides Rev. John Wakefield, superintendent of the orphanage The following resolution was pass- ed, in substance: “That no guests be entertained at the Home without the approval and authority of the superintendent.”’ The committee on electric lights reported that the installation of this modern convenience had been con- sidered and connection would prob_ ably be made with Statesville in the near future. ——— a Red Man’s Lodge. A movement is on foot among in- terested parties to organize a local lodge of Red men in Statesville. A state officer of that order is expected to come over in a short time and see what can >e done. There are all other kinds of local lodges here and why not have a Red Man’s lodge. ———-4-+ 9 Marriage at Troutman. Troutman, Dec. 15.—Mr. Floyd Johnston arrived here Saturday night and is stopping with his father, M. J. W. Johns- ton. Heleft today for Clinton, S. C. were at high noon Wednes- day he will wed Miss. Ruby Swearingen. He will return here with his bride the latter part of the week and sfter spending a short honeymoon will go to their home ia Bulls Gap, Tenn., where he holds a responsible position with the Southern Railway Co. ——~_~@e—"" Sher§f# Deaton Buys a Home. Sheriff J. M. Deaton has bought from W. J. Poston his house and lot on West Belll street and will take possession and move his family into his new home in a short time. The BULL BAT ON TOAST. A Delicacy Served and Esteemed in The Tar Heel State. “I stopped at a little hotel in Iredell eounty, North Carolina, when making a trip through the Tar*Heel State, said a New Yorker, “and among the things the water announced they were serving that day was bat on toast. ‘“‘Now that wasso mething that might well startle anyone who had been used to associatiog bats with anything but a deli cacy for the table, and [ turned my startled gaze on his and ex- claimed: ‘“What’s that?’ “‘The waiter repeated it and al- most every one at the table star- ed at me as if Iwas a cusiosity. I was feeling very uncomfortable when @ good-natured native at the end of the table spoke up: ‘< ‘Reckon yo’ a stranger ‘round hyuh Cunnel. They ain’t the mouse bats yo’ gotim yo’ mind, suh. They’re bull bats They mighty fine eatin, suh.’ “I braved up, and gave a or- der for bat on toast. Now [ had eaten of the waod dovethey num. ber among the game birds down there, and up to the time I tast ed that bat on toast I thought wood dove cooked in the style of Capt. Bill Tooley, of Beauford county, was about the best thing Tar Heel folks had set before me, but the bat was better, I admitt- ed it on the spot. zi “It was simply the night ieee we see in its swift and erratic flight at the close of the summer days in the North. Why they call it a bat in North Carolina I dont know, but that is the name these birds go by nena bats and bull bats “I believe that they have at last sueceeded in convincing the Legislature of that State that this bird is one of the greatest destroyers of insect pests that flies, and that the indiscriminate killing of it should no longer be permitted, and that the sport of bat shooting is now illegal in North Carolina. When I was there, however it was popular and had been for some time out of mind. ‘‘Here in the North there has never been a time when we would have not held in questionable es- teem the man who would shoot these birds in wantonness, and thought still less of him if we knew he was going to eat them, even 2 Northern man would have though better of it allif he had ever gone South and tried it once himself. I never knew a Norther- ner at home that had the heart to shoot a night hawk, but I known more than one. of them in ithe South to become ets thusiastic shooters of bats. “Bat shooting was in season from the time the birds began flocking to the South in the fall from their summering and nes}- ing in the North. As they were shot only on the wing —and who ever saw one of then anywhere else to be shot at?—and as their constant and sudden turning, twisting, doubling and zizagging in the air required great skill to make a creditable bag, the sport was much more exciting than field or cover shooting. A man who conld select his bat and and wing itjas it darted about in its erratic flight was well fiitt- ed to be the winning contestant at a prize trap shoot, with the most capricious of the old time biue rock pigeons as j. targets, and they were about as hard to hit as a flash of lightning. ““Suiden appearence and dis- apearance of the night hawk in the North has awlways a matter price pala by Mr. Deaton was $4,000.| curious comment. In North Car- No. 376 New Witness For Court HISTORY OF A PHONOGRAPH, ° The Talking Machine in Court Re- produces a Quarrel so Exactly that the Man is Held on the Charg® of Striking the Woman, Pittsburg, Dec. 14.—For the first time in the legal history of phono- graph was accepted as a witness to- day. Largely because of the talking machine’s clear and convincing test- imony, Magistrate G. H. England held C. A. Rumstay on the charge of assauiting Mrs. John E. Hinds. The phonograph’s testimony, deliv- ered in three voices, with a piano prelude, ran like this: First, music on the piano—then a pause—wher—r—r—r—N 0, I will not give up the phonograph—You shall not have it—I bought it and paid for it—I will have it—let it alone—Oh—my heavens—let go of me, oh—oh—coward, did you strike a woman? Are you hurt, Mrs Hinds —wher—r—r—r—Oh, he’s killed me run get a policeman.’‘ Mrs. Hinds liyes in Taggart street, North Side. A Mrs. Rhine- hart used to live in the same house, Rumstay either sold a phonograph to Mrs. Rhinehart or left it in her care; she sold the instrument to Mrs. Hinds. <A blank record waa put in the phonograph to reproduce a solo which Mrs. Ella {Rittenhouse, a friend of Mrs. Hinds, played on the piano. While Mrs. Rittenhouse was play- ing Rumstey entered the apartment and demanded the phonograph. Mrs. Hinds testified and Mrs. Rittenhouse corroborated her, that she explained to Rumstey that she bought the phonograph from Mrs. Rienhart. Mrs. Rittenhartewore that Rumstay wanted to take the machine away. Mrs. Hinds refused to give it up and they alleged, Rumstey struck her and knocked her down. Mrs. Ritten- house sprang from the seat at the piano to help Mrs. Hinds, and did not stop the phonograph, which con- tinued grinding and recording the excited conversation and the wo- men’s screams, —_-_~++~ooe—— Salisbury Woman Shoots at Thief. Salisbury, Dec. 15. Mrs. A. L. Smoot supprised and shot at a hall theif at her home near the court house yesterday evening. Hearing some one in the hall she spoke and getting no answer picked up a pisto! and going in- to the hall she{discovered’a negro man in the act of leaving with her umbrella. Grabbing the um- brella from the man’s hand, she threatened to shoot him and he ran. Calling to a man who was passing to catch the negro and |getting no response, she shot twice ac the fleeing figure, the bullets having no other effect ee GE eee Day after day he walked the street, Looking for a presnt for ‘‘wifey”’ sweet— “*T know what'll please her most,” said he; Tea. "Statesville Drug Co. olina they come in just the same way, remain exactly to weeks to the day and then disappear as mysteriously as they came. Con- sequently the bat stooting seas-. on was short, but it was while it lasted. Tne bate sold $125 adozen. This was eviden- ce of how highly they were held in favor for the table, for the plumpest of quail-couldbe bought for sixty cent a dozen.” than to make him run the faster. © “It’s Hollister’s Rocky Mountain - readily in market for from $1 to. ot ot i ie e e co s t i u u m m r a n t l ee - et em e r y . Pe ee ad : Ce Ae Ca p : 43 g PI T S es ee t ee J ha a t re a d ? Lf . 2. toah e g h oa et o re ti i g en m i i n e s s pu r a re e i n s » o - ples, tlie-extent of which, I believe, ee ME J Pl a cca iy Sa en a ll o THE EVENING MASCO}1 DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. — Entered at the Postofficein Statesville @. O., as second-class mail matter. ffice 109-Court Street: Telephone 53 VANCE NORWOOD - Publisher. RALPH-SLOAN, - - City Editor, Subscription Price, - $4.00 a Year ubscription Price, - 10 Centsa Week qn AN INTERESTIN LETTER FROM ‘PRESIDENT FINLEY. Washington, Dee. 14, 1908. Editor, The Iredell County Mas- cot, Statesvile, N. C., Dear Sir: Complying with requests from editors of newspapers published in tlie southern states for occaion- al iétters on commercial and economie topics of interest to the people of our section, I take the liberty ‘of writing to you on the great importance of the eXpansion of our export trade with the Latin- American countries. This is a matter of special im- portance to our section, not only because of our geographical ad- advantage with reference to this tradé, which, as to the Pacific coast countries, will be still furth- er increased by the completion of the Panama canal, but also be- eause a large proportion of the commodities which the countries to tha south of us import can be produced and manufactured ad- vantageously in the Southern states. -A few statistics will show the great present importance and future possibilities of these mar- kets. In round figure, the com- bined area of Mexico, Central America, South America, and the West India Islands is 9,000,000 square miles, and their combined population is 65,000,000. Their population is rapidly increasing. In the year 1907, 329,122 immi- grants arrived in Argentina alone. Among South American cities, Rio de Janeiro will soon have a population of 1,000,000, and Bue- nos Aires, the largest city in the world ‘south of the equator, has proximately 1,200,000 inhabitants, and the -progressive character of its people is shown by the fact that they are now arranging to put ina system of under-ground railways. The past ten years have wit- nessed-a marked change in politi- cal and ec Atomic conditions in the Latin-American countries. Polit- ical upheavels are now of compara- tively rare occurrence, and, with few exceptions, these countries stable governments which afford adequate protection to life and property. They are making rapid strides in material development. In former years they were seri- dusly hampered by lack of trans- portation facilities. Their needs in this resepect are being rapidly supplied. Navigable streams are being improved, wagon roads are being. constructed, and the Latin- American governments, generally, are pursuing an enlightened policy of encouragement to railway con- struction. In 1907, for instance, over 900 miles of new railway were constructed im Argentina, making ‘the total length of the lines in operation in that country 14,000 miles. In Brazil 436 miles of railway ‘were built in 1907. bringing the total mileage up to 11,369 miles. Mexico has 14,181 miles of railway. Chile has 1,800 miles of railway, and in the moun- tain country of Bolivia a plan of construction involving the expen- Citure of $27,000,000 of govern- mental-~and private capital has been adopted. Political stability, increasing population, and improv- ed means of transportation are re- sulting in material progress and in an increase inthe purchasing power vf the Latin-American peo- is not gnerally appreciated in our country. The Latin-American countriés produce ‘an abundance of commo- dities that ‘are m demand in other lands. The combined value of up of unmanufactured articles, is about $1;072,000,000 per year. The combined value of their imports, composed chiefly of manufactured articles, amounts, approximately, to $1,005,000;,000 per year. Our country is their best consumer. In the year ended June 30, 1908, we bought from them commodities to the value of $287,058,079. In the same year our sales to them amounted to $236,632,131. The importance of the Latin-American markets is indicated not so much by the present valu of the imports into those countries as by the rate at which their purchases from other countries are increasing. In 1898 the total value of their pur: chases from the United States was $85,861,857. Comparing these figures with those for the last fiscal year, shows an increase in ten years of $150,770,274, or 176 per cent. In the same period the to- tal value of our exports to all the rest of the world increased a frac- tion less than 42 per cent. Grati- fying as this increase is, it does not represent what might have been attained if our people had given more attention to these markets, for many of the countries have in- creased their purchases from Great Britain, Germany and-France even more rapidly than from the United States, and, notwithstanding our reographical advantage, they pur- hase more than three times as much from other countries as from us. In some markets, in fact, we have been losing ground. For in- stance, the July bulletin of the bu- reau of American republics, re- viewing the foreign commerce of Brazil says: ‘‘American cotton manufactures are disappearing from the Brizilian market very rapidly, while those of Great Bri- tain and Geramany, made from American raw material, are rapid- ly inereasing.”” This statement is borne out by the latest statitsics available those of the nine months ended September 30, 1908, which show that we sold to Brazil only 1,468,588 yards of cotton goods during the nine months, as com- pared with 4, 543,555 yards during the corresponding months of the previous year. It would seem to be worth while for the cotton goods manufacturers of the south to make an effort to win back some of this trade which is being captured by Great Britain and Germany. The demand of the Latin-Amer- ican markets is chiefly for manu- factured goods and largely for commodities the raw materials for which are produced in our section. Among the articles which these countries import in large quanti- ties, and which can advantageous- ly be produced in the Southern states, may be enumerated agri- cultural implements, all kinds of vehicles, locomotives, cars, ma- chinery, tools, steel rails, builders’ hardware, stoves, cotton textiles, vegetables oils and furniture. While it is a fact that the im- ports into the Latin-American countries consist almost entirely of manufactured articles, it does not follow that Southern manufac- turers would be the only ones ben- efited by an imerease in exports from our section to those coun- A Healthy Family. “‘Our whole family has enjoyed good health since we began using Dr, King’s New Life Pills, three years ago,’’ says L. A. Bartlet, of Rural Route 1, Guilford Maine. They cleanse and tone the system in a gentle way that does you good 25c. at Statesville Drug Co. ———_++2 Lava from the voleano at Sa- vail, in Samoan Islands, which has ben in constant eruption for over three years, has formed a river eight miles wide, flowing into the ocean. aaa Builds you up physically and mentally, keeps your digestion or- gatis in condition, regulates the bowels, cleanses the blood, gives ‘you ‘perfect health. § Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea or Tablets, their exports, almost wholly made 35 cents. Statesville Drug Co. tries. On the contrary, the bene- fits would be shared by all our people. For instance, if an es- tablishment in one of our South- ern towns engaged in the manu- facture of stoves of furniture can build up an export trade.to Mexi- co or one of the Central or South American countries, it means that it will give employment to more men who will buy more goods from the local retail merchants and who will buy more goods from the local retail merchants and who will give to the farmer a larger home mar- ket for his products. It is to the interest, not only of the South*Atlantic and Gulf ports, but of our inland communities as well, that our Latin-American trade—both import and export— should flow through Southern ports. <A large proportion of the commodities which the United States imports from Latin-Ameri- ea are consumed in the South Southern manufacturers can sup- ply a large proportion of the com- modities which the Latin-Ameri- ean countries buy abroad. It would, therefore, be to the advant- age of all concerned if coffee, ni- trats, tropical fruits, mahogany timber, rubber, and other products of Central and South America and the West Indies, could be brought into Southern ports in ships which would return laden with the pro- ducts of Southern manufacturing establishments. For this reason I believe that, in seeking to develop this Latin-Amrican trade, the mer- chants and manufacturrs, not only of our seaboard cities but of the interior as well, and Southern transportation lines should all co- operate, as far as practicable, in systematic efforts to guide both imports and exports through Southern ports. In view of the present import- ance of the Latin-American trade and its future possibilities, I be- lieve that the people of our section of the United States may well give it inereased attention. The federal government, through the publica- tions of the bureau of manufac- turers, is constantly giving valua- ble information about trade op- portunities in the Latin-American eountries, these special needs of their markets, and the best meth- ods of conducting business with them. The International bureau of American republics, to the sup- port of which the United States is the largest contributer, is de- voted exclusively to the work of drawing the republics of North and South America into closer so- eial and commercial relations. As a result of suggestions made to him by citizens of the south, Hon. John Barrett, director of this bu- reau, is now contemplating a trip through the southern states for the purpose of delivering a series of addresses on the general subject of trade with the countries south of the Rio Grande, with special PRESENT HER WiTH ms We Are Agents. | Sée our Xmas Packages of Candy Stationery and Cigars W.F.HALL Prescription Druggist. reference to the interest of the south in that trade. These ad- dresses will doubtless be of great practical value to our section. If however, are obtain the full benefit of the work that is be- ing done by the federal govern- merit and by the bureau of Amer- ican Republics, we must make practical use of the information which they gather and dissemi- nate. This is a matter in which, I ‘believe, we should all take an ac- tive interest, and I am writing to you on this subject because I know of no agency that can con- tribute more to the bringing about of a broad and intelligent public trade than can the press of the south. Yours very truly, W. W. FINLEY, President. —__~~+<+e-e————_ Would Mortgage The Farm. A farmer on Rural Route No. 2, Empire, Ga. W. A. Mloyd by name, says: ‘‘Bucklen’s Arnica Salve cured the two worst sores I ever saw; one on my hand and one on my leg. It is worth more than its weight in gold. I would not be without it if I had to mort- gage the farm to get it.’’ Only 25¢e. at Statesville Drug Co.’s Statesville’s model hostesses. store. —_~~++@ro————_ Mothers how can you take chances—keep a bottle cf Moth- ers joy in your house. You need Mothers Joy every day. M. P. Alexan= der & Bro. HEADQUARTERS FOR ALL KINDS Christmas - Groceries a — Meats, Don’t Forget to ’Phone No. 241. THETREDELL CAFE LEADER IN CANDIES sscostBhtGicese FRUITS Oysters for retail and serving. Quail on Toast. PHONE NO. 323 W. W. GAITHER : Proprietor. STATESVILLE KATING RINK Opera House Building Open from 3 to 5 and 8 to 10 p. m. No Children Admitted to Floor at Night Sessions. NOTICE Chas. Brincefield will ap- ply tor a pardon Dec. 18, Wood Sawed! See R. O. Harbin or Phone 132 or 46. 11-4-1m, interest in the development of this} é : sev 7S oe ct, SE ma ~ aan taery Month | writes Mrs. E. Fournier of Lake Charles, La., “Ig 4used to suffer from headache, backache, side ache, 3 pressing-down pains, and could hardly walk. At} "Mast 1 took Cardui, and now | feel good all the time. : E 3 tei e ’, a = re <4 j 5 ¢ eB : Ba Sen ; ee : ~ ' oF 0 ' a mi ~ os a rE -~ Et ae: ar ow e.. (Se =e es SRS 4 sf fae <¢ aes . se) * ane 7 ae = ~ ~ “i - . ye a fo a J 3 Cia Fin It Will Help You . ae r a ht e St e sw , ot e x = rs Gardui is a medicine that has been found to act me upon the cause of most women’s pains, strengthen- 5 ing the weakened womanly organs, that suffer be- Bs M cause their work is too hard for them. 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If he has been six months in service he knows every bugle call, As the call comes to advance the rider can feel him working at the bit with his tongue to get it between his WOMEN’S WOES. Statesville Women Are Finding Re- lief at Last. It does seem that women have more thak a fair share of the aches aad pains that afflict humanity; they must “keep up,’’ must attend to luties in spite of constantly aching backs or headaches, dizzy spells, bearing-down pains; they must stoop over, whefi to stoop means torture. they must walk and bend and bend and work with racking pains and many aches from _ kidney ills. Kidneys cause more suffering than any other organ of the body. 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Bes. or RF.D. cae ter aise. aure te mostica this semer. WOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOSOSOOOOOK THE FINEST GIFT OF THE YEAR you can easily bestow upon yourself is to acquire the habit of thrift and the sav- ing of money—the Mercb- ants and Farmers bank off- ers you the most practical means, as its financial stand- ing and integrity are un- questioned. Commence t0 save on January Ist and stick to your resolution. Merchants and Farmers’ Bank OF STATESVILLE INCORPOKATED CAPITAL $25,000.00. OFFICERS: se L. T. STIMPSON, Pres.; C.8. TOMLIN, Vice-Pres.; I. D. BUNCH, Sec. & Treas.; J. A. KNOX, Asst. Sec. & Treas. Directors : J. L. Stevenson, C. 8. Tomlin, R. R. Reid, _&. Page, Geo. B. Nicholson L. K. Lazen- J. fill, E. B. Watts. L. T. Stimpson, J. A. Knox, W. § by, E. G. Gaither, China Sets we are giving as premiums. Get us five yearly subscribers to The Evening Mascot, paid in advance, and get one of the beautiful teeth. As he moves out he will either seek to get on faster than he should or bolt. He cannot bolt, however. The lines will carry 7c ee ee é rs. 3 Moose, living at 209 , ter a minute! poulevard St., Statesville, N. C., he will stip, lay back his ears, and says: “For several years I was 2 vic- one can feel his sudden resolve to[time of weak kidneys. I had a brave the worst, and have done |Soreness across these organs most of with it as soon as possible. A = Gee sere eee man seldom eries out when hit in eee cee ene irom of Ei I <a ffequent occurrence, and at night I uo ae t 1s the] was unable to obtain my proper rest. same with a horse. Five troopers} Fhe kidney secretions were also un- out of six, when struck with a bul-}28tural in appearance, and showed let, are out of their saddles within | ‘28 ™Y Kidneys were at fault. I used @ number of remedies but a minute. If hit in the breast Or}! noans Kidney Pills, which I procur- shoulder, up go their hands and fed at Hall’s drug store, benefited me they get a heavy fall; if in the leg, | more than any of the others. I sin- or foot, or arm, they fall forward cerely hope that other sufferers will eo > z antkroll off, Even with a foot eat] 2V° Doan’s Kidney Pills a trial as I know they will act strictly up to their off by = jagged piece of shell, 2 | representations. ?? horse will not drop. It is only] For sale by all dealers. Price 50 when shot through the head or|cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, heart that he comes down. He New York, sole agents for the United States. may fa ye ay be fatally wounded, but hyd Remember the name and take no bles out of the fight to right or| other. left, and stands with drooping head until the loss of blood brings him down. The horse that loses his rider and is unwounded him- self will continue to run with his set of fours until some movement throws him out. Then he goes gal- loping here and there, neighing = ie +, | b¥ @ Chain of 30 Colleges, $300,000.00 Ww ith fear and alarm, but he will capital, and 19 year’s success, to se- not leave the field. In his racing] cure positions under reasonable con- about he may get among the dead | ditions or refunnd tuition. Draughon’s ccm- and wounded, but he will dodge BOOKKEEPING petitors, by not them, if possible, and in any case, accepting his pruposition, concede leap over them. When he fF ee teaches re Bockkeeree , 5 in REE months than they doin come upon three or four otner SIX. Draughon can convince YOU riderless steeds they fall in and Se keep together as if for mutual SHORTH AND theUnited States protection, and the ‘‘rally”’ of the Coe eee the eee ee Shorthand Draughon teaches, be- a gta nae cause they know it is THE BEST, = Se * Nol FOR FREE CATALOG and book- orse Wr. | let, ‘°Why Learn Telegraphy?’’ which ee explains all, call on or write JNO. F. Death was on His Heels. DRAUGHON, President Jesse P. Morris, of Skippers, DRAUCHON’'S Va., had a close call in the spring A AL BUSI of 1906. He says: ‘An attack PRACTIC. SINESS COLLEGE maintained. Read of a remedy for kidneys only that helps and cures the kidneys ahd is endorsed by people you know. OSITION Draughon gives contracts, backed Posi oD=—= f =e cede eee (We also Teach by Mail) of pneumonia left me s : : : Raleigh, Knoxville, Nashville, Cc with such a fearful cough that jumbia or Washington, D. C. my friends declared consumption had me, and death was on my heels. Then I was persuaded to try Dr. King’s New Discovery. It helped me immediately, and after taking two and a half bottles J was a well man again. I found out that New Discovery is the best remedy for coughs and lung dis- ease in all the world,’’ Sold under guaarantee at Statesville drug SOUTHERN RAILWAY CO. Gifeat Highway of Trade and Travel Through the Southern States Through Pullman Sleeping Cars on palatial trains between the se ; - . ae principal Cities and Resorts of CR cee i the South: High-class Dining Cars. Many delightfulSummer and Winter Resorts on and teached by Southern Railway. “Phe Land of the Sky,” “The Sapphire Country,” in scenic Western North Carolina; beau- tiful at all seasons. Hotels of the highest class. , Reporting from Messina, Consul Arthur S. Cheney says that the es- timated total world’s crop of ci- trons for the coming season will be about 8,000 tons. 1 Most disfiguring skin eruptions, scrofula, pimples, rashes, etc, are * : : due to impure blood. Burdock Blood aes soe fee. oo ply Bitters is a cleansing tonic. Makes R. L. VDRNON, a, P, A., you clear-eyed, clear-brained, clear Charlotte, N. C. skinned. ——~++er §.H. HARDWICK, P. T.M., A $40,000 wireless telegraph| W-H.TAYLOE,G. P. A., Washihgton, D. C. plant is being erected at Newport which will have a working radius of 1,250 miles. ——4+~@r-oe——_—"— Stops earache in two minutes; toothache or pain of burn or scald in five minutes; hoarseness, one hour; muscleache, two hours; sore throat, twelve hours—Dr. Tiotmas Eelectric Oil, monarch over pain. —_—++orr-———" Mother do you hear that rat- tling in your babies throat? Put a little Mothers’ Joy on it and stop it at once. pe gD HOLLISTER’S Rocky Mountain Tea Nuggets _ A Busy Medicine for Busy People. Brings Golden Health and Renewed Vigor. Aspecific for Constipation, Indigéstion, Liver and Kidney troubles, Pimples, Eczema, Impure Blood, Bad Breath,Slugzish Bowels, Headache and Backache. ItsRocky Mountain Teain tab- let form,35 cents a box. Genuine made by HoLLIsteER Drv@ Company, Madison, Wis. New Pool Room New Tables of the latest and best makes have been in- stalled under J. P. Phifer’s grocery store. OP O S C E T HI S OS O S O S D R O E L o SS O S O S O S O S O S O S O S O S O S O S O a MO S OM T ac c Is Essential to the Up=- building of the Modern Business Enterprise. ::: eee To the publicity gained by the use of the vadvertising columns of the daily papers is at- tributed the growth, and consequent success, of © a very large percentage of great business enter- prises of the present day. Advertising is recognized as the prime fac- tor in increasing the sales of any class of goods or manufactured articles. The space used in this paper is your,busi- ness message to the public. In this open letter you should tell them of the merits of what you are offering, setting forth the reasons why your particular line is worthy of their attention. THE EVENING MASCOT has increased its local circulation very materially during the past three months and the results ~ obtained from the space used by the advertisers are gratifying to them and to the paper. It reaches into the homes of the best class of our people and your message will be placed in the hands of those with money to buy the goods you wish to sell. The Space Rates in The Evening Mascot are not high. Your message is carried, each day, to those you wish to reach, in the most economical manner. For information call us up on the phoneand § a representative ot the paper will gladly visit you § The Bvening, Mascot OVOSOGOSOSOSO SOAS OSOSOSOSOSOSOSOIO LOS OBO SOHO R0ED an in an 36 4b a4 te ab be ate hae aM ath ne 186 26 oe 4'e = 080808080 EO0BOSO eee e ee ok hae ROR Oe He Oe ROR OR ESOS OS USUSCUCEOSOSO CORON OS CNUECC OR OSS amis 99908080808090908080 8 000 R eee eee oe oe oe ee tee RI Ton nae DbOSOSOSO SEVERAL THINGS ~ Are to be considered in selecting your Bank 1ST. Strength-Financial Strength % 2ND. The care with which the Bi: Bank is Managed. | 7 3RD. The courtesy and spirit of ofaccomodationdisplayed | - by the Officers and Em- — ployees. fe 4TH. The banking experience of a. Officers. ee ee STH. The ability ofthe bank to ~ §°: Properly and Promptly Handle all Your Business ‘To Those Desiring the Embodi- ment of These Features are Offered The Service of THE IRST NATIONAL BANK : : OF STATESVILLE |. CAPITAL $100.000 . eaae¢? 4 ¥ cit Now Time for You to. lect Your Xmas Goods We will-put aside any goods selected. See our new line of = Morris Chairs and Rockers. : : Also Fine Mahogany Tables. ~ We will make Special Prices on COOK eee STOVES and RANGES. STATESVILLE HOUSEFURNISHING COM’PY wee an - 2s ~ - s * ‘ “9 - o sone - . ~ omen a a We Soli our Patronage — NUGGETS FOR SALLOW PEOPLE * . or g s in g eo t e d e das é , , : ; ‘ ‘ a ni t ir i m t e m n m n b s ni n c o tg oy Me a t s , Se it d Sp a c e er a t e pe e s A A RA M E Y ? co do n e e en e ioe vy on d i p a n s 4 PO N C E AE E AR N E aa et n THE SS ee e ee e ok e o w s e d th i p a d n c a b a b a e s a y a me Se a t re oe an e ek ee n s ia - . : : ae ma m a s {S A et e a a Re s t sr t ge ta e se e mn , e or e 3 Sr e e t ee s bg Be tn = es : ee t as Sa w a a ra s A Re tT Pe AE P oi . 7 Sp t ee e Z : ee 3 $3 5 5 : Sa t e ea e eS es ‘ ar e : Su e ee e . ~ ; Decides Against Tobacco Trust. ) iA CS) A) A NOS NCO NOs 7 WHY SUFFER? WN. ew WON NO NG e FHE WORLD AND THE LOVER.| New York, Dec. 15—The Amer- 2 —— peas ge eres ee & ; ican Tobacco Company suffered a|Breathe Hyomei and Kill the ; es ae S That Is Exceedi | a Ae X Aa Old Seca eee nat | heavy blow today when the final Loathsome Catarrh Germs, s Ct fe can Q 0 <~ fe = mos eee is in the Saha the —— Fast as long as you have eatarrh 1 O 1e€CeES OT | : ‘ Et er eee : SS ea ee ©lyour nose will itch, your breatb Pr Verbial statements, this one is ex-|«« Tryst” was filed in the United ee f = d 2 pee as — e teedingly open to question. In fact, States Circuit ee ee eee : : 4 Chri ds f s all the evidence seems flatly the |~‘@tes \ircuit court spit, and you will do other dis- That is what it means when you buy your Christmas goods from ¥& ether way. On what data, one won-| The decree declares that the gusting things because you can’t| me. Ihave too much stock and must cut it down by January Ist, w Gers, did the old a maker | American Tobacco Company, the/help yourself. The germs of ca- and will give you bargains in anything in my line. Will make the ¥% = = ee ee American Cigar Company, Ameri-|tarrh have got you in their power; prices suit the BUYERS PURSE. Any one wanting a high-grade we witheite appetite for vicarious ex-|°2" ‘Snuff Company, American|they are continually and persist- Watch Movement can now get it cheap. Ihave these in the Rock- (S eltement, likes well enough t& watch the tragic spectacle of a ae passion. Incapable of great eelings itself, it thrills to the dtama of them in others. It even Stogie Company, and McAndrews and Forbes Company, form a mo- nopoly and an illegal combination in restraint of trade and they are enjoined from engaging in inter- ently digging i nto and irritating the mucous membrane of your nose and throat. They are now making your life miserable; in time they will sap your entire ee ee ae aees oe eS Se eae aie RTE ee ar jeweled grades. may want. ford, South Bend, Illinois, Hamilton, Elgin and Waltham, in 15 and 17 These will be put into whatever kind of a case you I have too many 15 and 17 jeweled movements on hand and they must go. I have aie o AN oe state commerce in leaf tobacco ur|system of it senergy, its strength, Solid Gold Rings from $1 oOo up. Solid Gold Stick Pins from $1 OO e CAN it will not raise a finger to help |any of its products or in any ar-|its serength, its vigor and vitality. Solid Gold Cuff Buttons 175 5 Solid Gold 2EEESS 125 $ while the story is in the making, | ticles in connection with the tobac} But there is one remedy that Solid Gold Lockets 400 Sold Gold Neck Chaius 3 00 Roast but, on the contrary, does every-| trade. Baie a Sons Gel cae ex Solid Gold Hearts for Neck Chains 125 “ a thing in its power to persecute and | “1, accree dismisses the bill All other Gold Goods too numerous to mention at right prices. Ne The moment Romeo and a are safely dead in each oth- ers arms the world is voluble with its aympathy, but not till it is quite gute that its sympathy can be of no e service to the lovers. While aympathy os be of some use, the| “2 ag be taken to the} Don’t delay this pleasant = Large lot of Bracelets at right prices. world, which is the embodied cow- | Supreme court. tic treatment. Breathe in Hyomei ce : : s : oe Grice and cent of humanity, stands a Soca. Nice line of Silverware and Novelties, such as Toilet Sets, Manicure Sets, Mili- et firm with Montague and Capulet, seniors. If the lovers win, well and od. No one has ever denied that world loves success, though it has always consistently done its worst to prevent it. Yes, the world loves successful love, as it fawns on anything that has conquered it. It loves also pity that costs it nothing. But that it loves a lover, for love of against the United Cigar Stores Company, the Imeprial Tobacco Company, and the British Ameri- can Tobacco Company. Where Bullets Flew. David Parker, of Fayette, N. J., a veteran of the civil war, who lost a foot at Gettysburg, says, ‘‘The good Electric Bitters have done is worth more than five hundred dollars to me. I spent much money doctoring for a bad case of stomach trouble, to little tarrh, and that is Hyomei, the Aus- tralian dry air treatment. The Statesville Drug Oo., the druggists, will guarantee Hyomei to cure catarrh, or money back. The Statesville Drug Co, will sell you a complete Hyomei outfit, including inhaler, for only $1,00. It is also guaranteed to cure bron- chitis, asthma, coughs, colds, hay fever and croup. Personally Conducted Tour to Ha- PQ DP O I Q I E E QV PP P P P I Y P I U N In Gold Filled Goods, such as Gold Filled Neckchains, Gold Filled Lockets, Gents’ and Ladies’ Gold Filled Woven Wire and Silk Watch Fobs, Ladies Gold Filled Cuff Pins, Veil Pins, Hat Pins Bar Pins, Stick Pins, Belt Pins, Brooches, etc., from the lowest prices and up. tary Brushes, Clothes Brushes, Shaving Brushes, Hat and Bonnet Brushes, alljin sterling or best grade Quadruple Plate. Nice line of Ladies’ Gold Filled Handle Umbrellas from $3 SO to $7 SO. Guaranteed. You can get a bargain in Cut Glass, Japanese China Vases, etc., and Statu- ary, as these must go. In Silverware I have a completefline“of Knives and Forks, Tea and Table Spoons, Butter Knives, Sugar Shells, Pie and Tomato Servers, cold meat.and PO N T O N S O N I O N I O N I O N I O N I O N ~ SO N D TO T O ON T O HO U I O N Vig — isan es ae oe purpose. I then tried Hlectric.| Vana, Cuba, and Return, other Forks, Berry Spoons. Soup Sets, Soup Ladles, Carving Sets, Childs’ Sets, been no love stories, for the drama | Bitters, and they cured me. I January 11, 1909, Via individual Salt Sets, Cut Glass Sterling Top Salt and Pepper Sets. st love bas mostly come of the con- |now take them as a tonic, and Southern Railway Nice line of Parlor and Gold Plate Clocks, Kitchen and Alarm Clocks. they keep me strong and well.’”’| Soyhern Rail il world. They had to count the world 50 ° Se ouhern Railway will sell round : : the well lost to win each other. It was|°7®- @¢ Statesville Drug Co.’s}trip excursion tickets to Havana, as No difference what you want in the Jewelry line, I will save at eo in the days of Tristan and Iseult, | Store. Cuba at following rates from|gfY you money. Come and see for yourself. the 7 Seen aT) aout imaym, [hae : = of Davaria.—. 5 ing Edward Seriously Il. > greg Henne in Smart Set. E Asheville ee $39.10) =a ee Ww bondon, Dee. Krom aie Ot ‘s R # W : Life of a Watch. source of unquestionable reliabili- ery SE ee a & Sy > F. Henry Je eler and Op tician aa The lifetime of a good watch, | ty, it is learned today that the roy- Mariosn.... -...... ....- sy =e 5 Hotel Iredell Building. 7 co a te daly dcties the fifty Se al family and the physicians who Lag Se ee een a 3 = Ze the € balance vi- . eae Me cia ee 5 s Oe ey Ry i ee eet SN ne =p oat brates 18,000 tim hour, are attending King Edwarg are = ( Son nyu oe ding King vary ae[ I 0 2 RONAN INOS TOTOOTOTOTOOONION. times a year. The hairspring makes | tion. Approximately low rates from a similar number of vibrations and an equal number of ticks from the ent. If it is really a good wetch, multiply 157,680,000 by 50, which gives 7,884,000,000 pulsa- tions in fifty years. The chances are that the watch may even thep be in serviceable condition. This is & marvelous record, considering the small quantity of food that has ue its constant action. We say food because whatever la- bors must be fed, and the watch “lives” on ahout a inches of mainspring every twenty-four hours, which furnish es the power. Nothing but reassurance notes is given to the public, but the King’s health is such that the mask must soon bethrown off and the fact that a greviously ill man is upon the throne recognized. That the king realizes the gravi- ty his illness is shown by the fact that he is rapidly unloading many of his governmental reponsibilities to the shoulders of the Prince of Wales. Under the physicians’ orders all royal engagements have been can- from other points. Tickes on sale January 11th, good returning to leave Havana, Cuba, on or before January 27th, 1909. Tickets may be routed through Jacksonville thence either through Knight’s Key, or Port Tampa. Good going and return-- ing same route. Stop-over will be allowed at Jacksonville, St. Au- gustine, Palm Beach, Miami, and other points south of Jacksonville, within final limit of ticket. A They Are Going With a Rush! Christmas Presents of Quality At the Store of Quality Have You Bought? representaive will accompany e oe ee celled. t, and will look after th Come bu toda i] ' a time « Bot ext _g, _—_ieement and will lok after he y today while the selection is large. sn Englishman on the unemployed list were once tram the coun- try in search of work. On co to a field of turnips they took sev- See eer onenes ming | bleed. Gives you a hearty appe- Fills your veins with rich, red tite, builds up flesh, makes you strong and rugged. Hbllister’s For further information as to side tours from Havana, sight see- ing tours, hotel rates, leaving time a principal points, Pulllman Statesville Brug Co. Fe Ca aS aS ea e Ca s h a ea of hunger. F th : ‘ptioni: drageed before the judge, = Fock a bs ee Tea, greatest = = room reservation, write AERA Prescriptionists. @ lenient view of the case. Before |Health builder. 35 cents, Tea or|J.H. Wood, D. P. A., Asheville, N. | RBRUR ST Se e 2 sentencing each to twelve lashes on/ Tablets. Statesville Drug Co. C.; W. H. McGlamery, P. & T. SRE SEES oe the a he to a ——__-+eare—— A., Raleigh, N. C.; R: H. DeButts, eeeeoee aX ce wossted. ‘The Englishman eskedisve The Power Behind. P. & T. A, Greensboro, N. C.; rll tow to Prevent Pneu- e COCCCCCSOSCCOCS COOLS ‘ we wor of his overcoat, the Scotch-| At @ prayer meeting a good old} ¢@ll on your repot agents, or write monia 2 CH RI STMAS SUGG ESTION S . t ¥ man his own as = is that of the | brother stood up and said he was R. L. VERNON, T. P. A. In every paper you pick @ 8 4 ety a Bue a the ja glad to give testimony. Charlotte, N. C. up you will see where some 3 Let us help you solve the all perplexing ques- 3 Ai a piacesivee one My wife and I,” he said, good man has just died with @ tion:—WHAT SHALL I GIVE FOR CHRIST- ®@ hi a fut tke the Hoginkean |‘‘started in life with hardly a cent W. ANT A DS this fearful disease—pneu- @ MAS? Below.is a list of useful articles which 9 EE setoes my beck.” = ae — = began at the i noe now Ss fove #| @ _ 22Y one would be proud of: $ he Sane a owest round of the ladder, but|1 time.................... 5 cents a line.| § f i House Slippers, Bath Sli t | re = ae Question. the Lord has been good to a and{3 times Bois sae 4 cents a line. See ee . The handsomest line of Nosswoee in Statesville at oes 5 a @ 3 a an impecunious, seedy, |. hay , 6 times.............000. 3X cents aline.| fail if you will - sik Mufflers and Reefers at ) to $3. ; out at the ell person, anid the e worked up—we have 26 ti I ails to cure if you will use @ Silk Suspend (in indivi $1.00 to $3.00 @ ¢ vs ‘Goctor, when he prescribed for him,|Prospered. We bought a little ee Cnet ae: pcos co aps inimnent eS hl @ sik Handkerchiefs aoa = 256, to $1.00 e Beast x irected. only cos oe | ne ie the inflam od open.” said t the — = =e good crops. We|WANTED—A Second hand Oliver|{ 25 cents a bottle. Get t— e nv Green, fey Tis and Pear! oo eee 9 | gt benevolent physician, “dissolve as |.) a . ae ee seam fam-| typewriter, in fair condition.| | Y oa have nothing to loose | @ Press and Driving Gloves at — 25c. to $2.00 @& much boracte acid as you can put on = n, and,”’ he added,| Address KXX care Mascot 3t ond ete eee We know | @ The Christmas money expended here will not be wasted. & ten cent piece in half a giass of | ith much emphasis, “I am the e wasa — Saeeae a ®s.B MILLE 6 : ” head of th : 2? PH =I : ° wil Te 1s an TOW 1 2 3 _ “Thank you, doctor,” murmured After ce =e his wife ee. Se aS a with ee seeee ee eee = 7 = —— ° tf at ee the ot = eee promptly arose to corroborate all} Poston’s store until Kmas./™ Please just get one bottle ee SOCSCCCCCOUE 1 me , howersr, he fice door] that he had said. But she added,| Bverybody get your photos|ff and put it away until you -cGUENDEENEDEmame ES fn. with satisfaction, ‘‘I am the neck] made now. Last chance sol Deed it. If you haven’t the 3) SESECES MK eccccec SSeeceescee " ge » sai d th z= money to buy it let us know ) SSSSSSSSESSeesee j y, doc, d he, with an in- | that moves the head. cheap. sat&wed d It w : Ww R a mile, “where dol get] | ———++@ee—— |B Sites, USemt vous bot) yy THE GREATEST OF ALL GIFTS—— % i ten cent piece?” Itching piles provoke profanity, |FOR SALE—Best Grocery stand GOOSE GREASE CO. Me es ee — im i The Falth of a Celestial. but profanity won’t cure them.| 12 city, doing good business. W h ristinas, or any {L. : AM | a) A Chicago gambler, whose first|Doan’s Ointment cures itching,| Reasons for selling. If you —=| This apes Mm | ARES mame was George, used to visit a | bleeding protruding piles after years| Want a bargain answer at once.| WANTED—BY THE AMERICAN ub 7 me insured by weans Mm : Chinaman’s establishment - and |of suffering. At any drug store. Address Grocer, care Mascot. Cotton and Business University of | yj of sanitary plumbing in a | amoke =< = gamble cinicet ea ems dec 3 tf Milledgeville, Ga., students to take| gi YOUF house. If you would a otis daily. F one or more of our courses in cot-| ‘y- . . ot. f place end said excitedly: “Hip, loan | Mothers’ Joy is made of pure/aMBrTIOUS YOUNG MEN AND| ton grading, buying and selling. wu SS sabes family with A ) 2 abe me $10. Thanks. I'll come in and goose _ Brease and other healing] tadies should learn telegraphy; for,| Business courses of bookkeeping, a a = lessing, cele- = ‘ pay ou tomorrow noon if I'm /|ingredients. Mothers you cannot| since the now 8 hour law became | Snonhand ~TSSGWHINS GE ee_| DFate Christmas by ar. a\ alive” And out he t with = » Typ gs, or Telegra di EB About 8 clock th me afford to be without a box of Moth} effective there is a shortage of| phy and Railroad course. Positions ; Tanging with us for a a money. miakeiaan chien, e Elen ers’ Joy. many thousand telegraphers. Po-| guaranteed under reasonable con- i complete system of mod- tt : ch ae A sitions pay from $50 to $70 a} ditions. Write at once for our ws ern up-to-date plumbing fi Z A “Hip, where is George today” If you haven't the time to exercise | Mouth to beginners. The National} consolidated catalog. Largest col| W from cellar to roof ma f AX So the nding Gicka gram. bon Bonsante | TARAS ine Gamba | nam “Sete | W ee SS Ji . CO bis with vent constipation. They triduce a are : -}FOR RENI—ONE STORE BUILD-| W ae E once asd replied, ecleces an mild, easy, healthful action of the ae ee of =e ing and basement. Best retail . A. W. HOLLER PLUMBIN COMPANY " _ Gend.*%)—Harth. se) bowels without griping. Ask your} °°" ean mies for| ‘and in the city. Statesville Real-| jy, Phore No. 61. 127 W. Broad St m : uai> druggists for them. 265c -- ems Z nol9 att "i ty and Investment Co. Sept.19 D 2 E z mM AFF 2332332332332333332332¢6 on e We i aN , WO N , AN ; SW y. SO N M O N I O N T G nN G MO N T IA N O N ON MO N T O N =e Bay aes Se ke he air Ie Ta ey cgi SR ls I a Suffolk, Va., Votes Dry, A special from Suffolk, Va., of 14, Vol. 1. Says: (ives Roosevelt Suffolk, today voted “dry” by a e Majority of 247, the vote being 438 if For la to 181. Though the town went “wet” two years ago by a majority of 11, foday’s result is no surprise, except as to size The “wets” had contended that CANNOT MUZZLE THE WORLD.|the vote would be close, and not even the most ardent “dry” forecaster had predicted that the victory would be Roasted and Abused by the President|8° decisive. Governor Glenn’s ad- in a Message to Congress, The| ‘ress last night to a big mass meet- New York World Strikes Back| {2g of men, appears to have been the Vigorously and in Kind. turning point in the tide of public sentiment. New York” Dec. 16.—The World, The result means that twelve sa- in the course™ of its answer to Pres- joons, some of which were oe ident Roosevelt’s references to that Bee te CORTRORN,. WE Dec Tosed paper in his message to congress to- after ninety days. Some of the pro- day says: Prietors wil go to Norfolk and open “Mr. Roosvelt is mistaken He pincer. : . -_—++@r-o cannot muzzle The World. “While no amount of billingsgate Crushed Under Road Machine. on his part can alter our determina- ee Hen Bec AC are Dees tion to treat him with judicial {m- age » Was run over yesterday af- partiality and scruplous fairness, we ecamcom by * cost machine weiss repeat what we have already said pee re RODE COE at 6 that the congress of the United o’clock this morning as the result of : the injuries reciveed. The road ma States should make a thorough in- ig vestigation of the whole Panama chine had just been taken from the Southern yards and was being taken t > weiss: ed to Grove Park for use in constructing e. = , “TheiWorld <tullix incsccies ci roads there. The machine had been left on a very heavy grade, being compliment paid to it by Mr. Roose. . i i Cait aking it the subject of a scotched with some heavy blocks. special message to the co ; The boy, ,it seems, knocked the SE ngress of}: 5 S the United States scotches out from behind the ma. ae ehine, whereupon it started down th The World likewise appreciates . 2 = . ade and caught the boy before he the importance of Mr. Roosevelt’s ee = : eee _ could get out of its course. One of ement when he declares to con- the wheels ran diagonally across the gress that the proprietor of The s boy’s body from his right shoulder World should be prosecuted for libel down to his left hip The great by the government authorities, and weight crushed the body in a terri- that ‘the Attorney General has under ble manner consideration the form under which ——— the proceedings against Mr. Pulitizer Fatal Play With Matches shall be bronught’ . ; Caroleen, Dec. 16.—The 2-year. The Pres ’s Arro 2 unite President's Arrogance. old son of Mr. and Mrs. E J Lilly- This is the first time a President at crop was fatally burned yesterday eve ee San = — by igniting matches when alone. The a ee © aosence! mother had gone to a_ neighbor's of special legislation, the criminsi house for a few minutes, leaving the Peet oy the government Off 4 playing in the yard. While she citizens who criticised the conduct of “as absent the little follow went in ae = or = Se SA to the room and found the matches, Se nn nae nadbusl and soon the fatal flames enveloped ness dealings with the government. him. When the mother and others Neither the King of Great Britain or reached the fearful scene little could the German Emperor would venture!) aone for the child. The child died to arrogate such power to himself. last night at 10 o’clock.. John Adams attempted to enforce the Sedition law and destroyed the Fed- Unable to Get a Jury in the Night- eralist party in America. Yet Roose- Rider Case, velt in the absence of law officially Union City, Tenn., Dec. 16.—After Proposes to use all the power of the] an entire day devoted to an attempt greatest government on earth to crip- to get a jury to try eight alleged ple the fréedom of the press on the night-riders on a charge of murder- pretext that the government itself has ing Capt. Quentin Rankin, court ad- been libelled—and he is the govern- journed today with only two men in ment. the jury box. Fifty-three talesmen What Raised the Issue. were examined, The defens exhaust_ “It is true that The World printed] eq 26 of its 192 peremptory chal- the public reports concerning the lenges, The court used 26 others Panama canal afigir which resulted] for causes. from William Nelson Cromwell’s ap- The proceedings were marked by peal to the district attorney’s office] frequent tilts between attorneys. At during the recent campaign to pre-{one time Judge Jones threatened to vent the publication of a story with] fine Attorney Prince of the defense was said to be in the hands of the} for contmpt. Democratic national committee. It _—~~3o——— _—_—4 was Mr, Cromwell’s own action} Inspected the Jail Before Commit- which raised the issue in the cam- ting the Crime. paign. Newbern Journal, “Its true also that when Mr. A young white man named Grant Roosevelt made his attgck upon Del-| and claiming Maine as his home, is a avan Smith The World called atten.| prisoner at the jail for the larceny tion to certain statements which Mr.|of a pocketbook. Saturday the man Roosevelt must have known to be/went to Jailer Williams and asked false or misleading and appealed te] to be alolwed to go into the jail and congress to end all scandal by a full} {inspect the cells and Jocks and the and impartial investigation. If this}whole place. His wish was granted be treason, let Mr, Roosevelt makejand he left. Sunday he was arrest- the most of it. ed at Morehead City and brought Handles Truth Carelessly. back here for the crime which was “Mr. Roosevelt’s lamentable habit} alleged to have been committed at a of inacecurate statements makes it] boarding house on Griffith street. impossible to accept either bis Jud g= | eee ee or his coaiaa In hisidoes the President who besmirches message he does not state correctly] congrss, bulldozes judges, assails the even so simple a matter as the pre-|integrity of courts, slanders private tended causes of his grievance. The] citizens, and who has shown himself World has never said that Charles P.}the most reckless, unscruplous dem- Taft, or Douglas Robinson made any|agogue whom the American people profits whatever. Mr. Taft deniedjever trusted with great power and that he was concerned to the] authority. transaction in any way, Which denial} ‘‘We say this not in anger but in The World published and accepted.|sincere sorrow, The World has im- It would have been equally glad to} measurably more respect for the print Mr. Robinson’s denial could it] office of President of the United have succeeded in obtaining one} States than Theodore Roosevelt has from him, as it frequently attempted. maintained a reign of teror and villi The World has no evidence that he) fied the honor and honésty of both Was associated with Mr. Cromwell,} public Officials and private citizens and would accept his word to that| who opposed his politics or thwarted effect: for Mr. Robinson fs an estim-| him in his purposes. able gentleman of high character, whose reputation. for veracity is in- its proprietor may go to jail, if Mr. finitely better than that of his dis-} Roosevelt succeeds, as he threatens; tinguished brother-in-law. but 6ven In jail The World will not Unscrupulous Demagogue. eease to be a fearless champion of “No other living man ever so, free spéech, a free press and a free Srossly libeled the United States as people.’? “So far as The World is concerned | Statesville, N. C., Thuisday Evening, December 17 1998. No. 377 MAY HAVE LYNCHING. Negro Who Asaultled Lady in Stanly County May be Lynched if Leader for Mob is Found. _ Salisbury, Dec, Dec. 16.—A tele- phone message tonight from Pen- nington, in Stanly county, was to the effect that Mrs. John R. Moss, of that place, who was yesterday afternoon criminally assaulted in her home by the negro Henry Young, is still in a precarious condition. During the day she rallied occasionally but re- lapses followed and she is not doing George Lefler, who had a finger bitten off by the negro in the fight with him, is suffpring a great deal and it is feared that blood poison may set in in his hand. There is considerable apprehension also that hydrophobia may result, as it is be lieved that the negro was rabid when he bit Mr. Lefler. Chief of Police Crews, of Spencer, has suggested that it might be wise to send the head of the ‘rabid animal” to the Pasteur Institute at Baltimore for examina- tion. At Albemarle, where the negro is in jail, feeling is more intense to. night than it was last night, as the matter has been fully discussed throughout that section and more peopie know of the foul crime than was the case 24 hours ago. It is feared that if a leader for the mob can be secured the negro will be dis- posed of before morning. —_———+~+@-o———— In Revenue Circles. The-~Greensboro Daily Industrial News has the following on the changes to be made inthe revenue affairs of the state: “On January 1, the day that state prohibition goes into effect the office of the revenue agent will be discon- tinud, after having been located here for twenty years. ‘‘The United States government is not supposed to maintain a force of revenue officers in teritory where the government gets no revenue from li- ense and stamp sales, but a force of Officers will be kept in the state sub- ject to the orders of the revenue agents. In order that this may bey done without violating a custom of the government, North Carolina and Virginia will be divided into two rev- enue agent’s districts, a part of each state being in each of the districts. The present and the second district of Virginia will be consolidated into one district, with headquarters in Richmond, Va., under Revenue Agent W. H. Chapman. The present fifth district of North Carolina and the sixth district of Virginia, with a portion of the East Tennessee district with headquarters at Asheville, un- der Revenue Agent R. B. Sams. E. W. Screven, revenue agent, who has been in charge here since Septem ber, 1907, will be transferred to Co- lumbia, S_ C., in charge of a district embracing South Carolina, southern Georgia and Florida.” ——_-+-< o-oo White to Chain Gang. Marshall White, colored, was given a hearing before mayor pro tem R R. Clark yesterday afternoon on the charge of using profane lan- guage on the streets, as stated in yes- terday’s paper, and fined ten dollars and the costs, which amounted to $16.10. White was unable to pay the fine and goes to the chain gang for a term of thirty days. It is very likely that he will serve sixty days before he gets through, as his fine of $7.65 for an affray yesterday morn- ing had not been paid before he got into the trouble. The gentleman who stood for him in the first case released himself from the obligation when the negro got into the second trouble so he will very probably -re- main with Mr Henry for about two months. —————_+- Here on Visit. Mr. J. F. Holland, of Alexandria, Indiana arrivd in the city last night. He is on his way to his old home at Olin, to spend the holidays with hisg father, Mr. W. S. Holland, and other relatives. This is Mr. MHolland’s home for about seven years. Mr. Holland visited The Mascot and ordered the paper sent to his home, a Fe New Automobile. Dr. E. M. Yount is now making his calls in a new automobile, and it is a nice one. It fs a Cadillic, gasoline, power, and in color black . Dr.: Yount is the first physician of the first trip [ MR. HUDSON RETURNS. Farm Demonstrator Has Been Gone Six Weeks and During That Time Visited Eight Different Counties. Farmers Are Taking Much Interest in the Work. Mr, C. R. Hudson, of the agricul- tural department, returned this morning from a six week’s trip and reports that he did demonstration work in eight counties as follows: Cumberland, Pitt, Beaufort, Hert- ford, Warren and Johnson, Mr. Hu on says the farmers are as well tonight as last: taking an interest in the work and that much good will come of it. He has many requests from counties in which the work has not yet been started wanting him to get {t under way in these counties but he says he has all he can take on for this season. Mr. Hudson showed us some corn at his office today raised in Iredell county-on some of the farms where demonstra. .n work is being carried on that is.very fine. He also has some specimens of corn grown by Mr. Jameg Lippard at Troutman’s that averaged about 90 bushels to the acre, and when it is taken into consideration that 20 bushels is a good average for this county this is a mighty good argument for the workbeing done by Mr. Hudson. Mr. Hudson got the work started on 800 farms on his trip during the past six~ weeks in the eight counties visited. Mr. Hudson thinks it would be a good thing and urges that our farm- era raise more corn. He says even Mr. Hudson thinks all farmers could make’it profitable for farmers to raise enough corn to keep from hav- ing to buy corn at a dollar a bushel. With the improved methods being introduced by Mr. Hudson the ex- pense of raising corn can be reduced to 25 or 30 cents per bushel, With an increase of five bushels per acre Mr. Hudson thinks all farmers would avoid buying outside corn. Mr. Hudson has promised to give ws an“Tiiteresting article on demon- stration werk in a short time _——2~a eo" A Barbecue. Messrs. R. V. Tharpe, C. R. Gaith- er and BP. Young are preparing to treat their friends to an old fashion- ed barbecue on the 26th inst. The affair will be pulled off at the Gaither Lumber Co’s plant, near the depot, Barbecued opussum, chicken and pig will be on the menu in the way of meats, with other refreshments on the side. These gentlemen will invite quite a number of their friends to enjoy the day with them. A brother of Mr. Young, of Davie county will be here and have charge of the work of barbecuing the meats, and as he has the reputation of be. ing a good hand at the business those who are invited to take part in the affair will have an opportunity of eating some first-class barbecued meats, —~++ao——— — Mr. A. W. Perkins, of Charlotte, has accepted a position with the Me- tropolitan Life Insurance Company, under Superintendent R. V. Tharpe. Mr. Perkins has been with Mr. Tharpe for several days getting ac- quainted with the business and is now ready to take up his regular line of work. —_——_—_e-+@>-3-_—— Returns Home. Mrs. H. C. Green and family left this, morning for their home in St, Louis. They have been here for about ten days at the home of Mr. Mr. Green’s father, Rev. R. G. Green, where they were called on ac- count of Rev. Green’s serious illnsss. Rev. Green seems to be improving, we areg lad to note. — oe Entertains XXth Century Club. Mrs. Geo B. Nicholson entertain- ed the XXth -Century Club at her home on Race street yesterday after. noon at 3:30 o'clock, A pleasant hour or two were spent with Mrs. Mrs. Nicholson by the members of the club, et OO Notice. If you diseard all idea of getttig something genuine for the cost of something spurious—then why can’t we ‘‘get together’’ as to the price. See Bob Henry. ——_+<+@ oo Weather Forecasts. Washington, D C., Dee, 17.—For Worth Carolina increasing cloudiness city to use an auto in making his visits. Z ° i eS with probably rain late tonight or | Friday. Te We s- Holten-Murdock. Murdock, daughter of Mr. C. L. Mur- dock, manager of the T. M. Mills Co.. were married this morning at the home of Rev. J, H. Pressly. Mr. Holton is now engaged in the harness “business at Mocksville and will take his wife there to live. county wish this young couple much happiness in their journey through life together. They left this morning on No. 11 for a bridal trip up the western road. —_———_—“ Oro —_—_— . Business Change, Messrs. P. A. Jones and R. A Cooper have bought the meat busi- ness and restaurant conducted by Castro’s End 8 Mr. James Holton, son of Mrs. : Sidney Holton, and Miss Gertrude Absent President Their many friends in the city and|“/DOWN WITH THE DICTATOR.” in Sight—Believed That Castro, Venezuelan’s Presi- dent, Will rot Return to His Coun. try— Caracas Under Military Law. ewan Willemstad, Dec. 16.—The end of President Castro’s reign in Mr. M. E, Brawley heretofore. These | Venezrela is clearly foreshadow- and improvements. The full line of groceries added. The’ firm will be known as P. A. Jones & Co. Sentlemen will make some changes }€d in theriots that are occuring -_ business} in all parts of the the country as will continue as heretofore with a & result of the Dutch reprisals against that country. Today’s dispatches from Caracas show Mr. Jones has been conducting his that the culmimated in an at meat market in the store room with|tuck on the fficialoconstruction Mr, B. F. Cashion up to last night.} last Monday was far more seri- when he moved to his new place. —_——~+<+@>-e—_____. Good Times at Stony Point, ous than the early reports indi- cated, and that since then an- Mr. J. F. Moore, of Stony Point,|*@gonism in the capital has was in this city this morning to re-|grown until there is almost a new his subscription to the Iredell] state cf open revolt against Cas- Mascot and tells us that much buily tro and Acting Presideut Gomez. ing is being done at Ssony Point. There are several new residences go- working order and seems to be doing : a good business. quite a convenience to the people at Stony Point and the farmers in that vicinity. PERSONAL NOTES. aes Some Happenings Among Those You Don’t Know. Misses Julia Patterson and Fannie Kay, wife of Policeman McKay. in the city today on business. Miss Sarah Howard has been add- to help through the holiday season. a very good trade this afternoon and expect to serve many of our business men with meals this evening and to- night. ; _— ~~ eo Book Club Meets. The Thursday Afternon Club met with Mrs. Book program was disposed of, which dealt were served by Mrs. Morrison. The decorations of the study room were in line with the season—of a holiday nature. the meeting came to a close. Big Fire at Goldsboro, Goldsboro, N. C.,~ Dec. largest fire Goldsboro has had for many years is raging here tonight, the heart of the business section will be destroyed. Every possible stream with direct pressure and the aid of the fire engines, but so far is having little effect. ; —~+earo———__.. Gone to Oklahoma. and Messrs. Bob and Emmit Smith last night for Oklahoma. They intend to locate in -Oklahoma but as yet have not decided on a lo- cation. ee Thvusands of enraged Venezuel- ing is being done at Stony Point. as from allo ver thecountry are The bank at that place is now in| locking into Caracas and the ery ‘Down With the Dictator’ is This institution is} heard on all sides, Steps are already under way to ecnfiscate the property of -Cas tro, the larger part of which’ however, has been taken out of the country by the wily execu- tive. BThe people are now convinced People You Know eens tuat Castro has fled with no in- tention of returning and a revo- Hines of Hiddenite, are spending a|lUtionary proclamation is mom- few days in the city with Mrs. Mc-| mentarily expected. Caracas 1s in revolt. Castro’s Mr. T. J. Smith, of Lincolnton, is statues have been burned in the plaza. Great mobs have looted ed to the sales force at R, P. Allison’s the public and private property, making a huge bonfire in Plaza The ladies at the court house who| Bolivar of effigies of President have the bazaar in hand are having Castro. The police are making no effort to restrain the revolutionists. Martial law has been declared here and something like order is /restored in the city. Revolt has been purely against Wm. Morrison|Castro and there has been no this morning and after the regular demonstration against Holland ++ with a study of Venice, refreshments Wilbur Wright Makes a Remarkable Flight, Lemans, Dec, 16.—Wilbur Wright the American aeroplanist, made a The hostess presented each guest most remarkable flight today. In- with an appropriate souvenir when| Stead of rising gradually the ma- chine shot up like a rocket to a height of 240 feet. then permitted it to drop about fifty 16.—The | feet at which autitude he stopped the engine. smoothly and gracefully, It is feared that the whole blode in}#bout three-quarters of a mile from the starting point. The -. seronaut The machine glided down landing ————__-++@anroe———"— of water is playing on the flames Salisbu¥Fy Distillers May go to Florida At least two Salisbury distillers, who on the 3ist instan will go out of business in this state by reason of the state-wide prohibition law, contemplate going to . Jacksonville ‘Mr. M. F. Patterson and famity, Fla., and operating their plants, 3 Jacksonvillle is said to be an invite and Wili Hines, all of Hiddenite left ing field and already several North Carolina distillers havé arranged to This is their first trip to the west_|jocate there. ee ee re User of Knife is Shot. Durham, Dec. 15.—The officets shot Halie Bowling, who is a fixture Day after day he walked the/in the county courts, this morning street, when attempted flight after having Looking for a presnt for ‘‘wifey’’|cut badly William Smith last night sweet— said he; Tea.’’—Statesville Drug Co. ——_~+@-e—_—__— Marriage License. Marriage licénse wéré issued today to Mr. Thos. Guy of the county, and Miss C, D. Harris, daughter of Cato Harris, of this city. Also t6 Mr. Mack W. Goble and Leora Goble, of | Alexander county. on Main street in a scrap. “. 9){low did not leave last night, and “I know what'll please her most,”| 7° ine officers went after hint The fel- this morning he fled. They began ‘It’s Hollister’s Rocky Mountain] fring and brought him down with a bullet through his right shoulder, He is not badly hurt. Smith is dangérously stabbed, He was literally ripped open and anoth- er colored boy, Son Hopkins, receiy¥a ed a vicid6us slashing. There was féar today that the wounded man can not live and the Officers went after the stabber as they would have done a successful murderer. ce] fe r i n g wy io e < ar s ma e Ie oe s ae ae Fs Re a l e ac e : A te SR ae s et a r y a ae ir s ec g a s ho s i g a t e i e t aa a e Wi n e r IE R AR E HE S ks a e eo = ai n h e a n e n a m a e e te : me n . So k pd ca a Ce aA a eA AE E A a re THE EVENING MASCOT DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. Entered at the Postofficéin Statesville. &. C., a8 second-class mail matter. (flog 109-Conrt-Street= Telephone S53 VANCE NORWOOD - _ Publisher. BALPH SLOAN, - - City Editor, Sabecription Price, - $4.00 a Year sbscription Price, - 10 Cents a Week , Pregident Roosevelt is now firing his’ messages at congress and he has “got ‘em’’ in hot water up there. —_—_—— ++ They say there is nothing in a name. It depends upon who you are talking about. oo - It is said there is a disposition to change the plan from 2 lock canal to a sea level canal acrogs Panama. EO The latest report i, that President Roosevelt is looking the census re- cord over to see if he has overlooked any one he has not called a liar. ——_++r-e—_——- There is not a newspaper any- where but what has some harsh words for Rockefeller. Wonder if the old man don’t wish he hadn’t done it? ———__ <r? The president told congress an act should be passed to have detectives employed to catch the criminals of that body, They are mad and afraid to fight back. _——— ee The president has quarreled with every man and fought with every bear in America and will soon be off to Africa seeking other worlds to conquor. Won't he make her howl. ee Old man Cannon still has a cinch on the situation and is right on to his job bringing to pass the orders of hig bosship, When he fires off the report is not loud but the execu- tion is something fierce. ence EE We Americans ery out against the government of Kings and czars and straitway set one up to rule over us like the speaker of the house. But we must have something to talk about, eee a cn ae eee There is much speculation about the effect the Panama Canal will have on the South and country at large. Some think the Misissippi Valley section will be the richest on the globe. All cotton manufactur- ing will. go there so it fs said. ———- It is said congress will take ac. tion this week in matter of censure of the president for his insinuating message. But it will be observed that they are a little slow in tackling the old man. The fur will fly when they do. . Reosey is a fighter alright. EP PRESIDENTIAL VOTE. The vote as cast in the last elec- tion for president as tabulated by the New York Times is: Republican.... ....° ....7,659,688 Democfatic: ..... .... ..6,450,690 Socialist ....5. ce eeeeeee 401,506 Prohibitionists.... ...... 228,014 Independence League .... 29,330 Populists...cc 1s... 2.2... 29,382 Socialists Lengue......... 11,903 Taft’s plurality over Bryan is 1,- 208,998. -.. et There is some surprise in the large vote potied by ‘the socialists and the émall yote: cast by the Independence League, It will -also be noted that the smail ivote of the populist means the final end of that party and the peculiar. thing about its passage is, it has been absorbed by that party which believed in everything it op pesed. - Phe prohibitionists did noth- ing worthy :of note... The small vote of the independence League is a sur- prise, not that it was expected to give & very.Jange voteé,. Pe y =e-4 Where Bullets Flew. David Parker, of Fayette, N. J., @ veteran of the civil war, who lost a foot at Gettysburg, says, “‘The good Electric Bitters have done is worth more than five hundred dollars’ to me: I spent much money doctoring for a bad ease of .stomach. trouble, to little purpose. .I then. tried Blectfric Bitters; and they cured me. I now teke them asa tonic, and they keep me strong and well.”’ 50c. at . Statesville Drug Co.’s store. ee Builds you: up™ physically and mentally, keeps your digestion or- gans in condition, regulates the bowels,.. cleanses the blood, gives you perfect--health: -. Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea -or Tablets, 35 cents. Statesville Drug Co. Pg ANT AS ee ae oe ae ene Cooleemee Items. Cc. F. Caudell and Archie Elliott had a field trial with their dogs as to which won the prize. Several of our people were called to attend the U. S. court at Char- lotte this week, Mr. Arthur Foster spent last Sat- urday night with his friend, Curtis Wyatt, on Main street. Dr. J. R. Lowery spent last Mon- day with his mother near County Line. ; Fe Miss Marguerite Bell and Miss Theresa Graves spent last Saturday and Sunday with home folks in Mocksville. Who can beat this. J. F, Gar- wood killed a nine and one half month’s old pig that weighed 4681, pounds. The young people of the Method- ist Sunday school are looking for- ward to a bright Christmas, Since the star class has reorgan- ized they have added about eleven new pupils, The class is also grow- ing in interest. Each girl is taking an active part, and are preparing to have a merry Christmas with the Sunday school. The class was very fortunate in securing the Rev, W. Y. Scales for teacher, though sorry to lose Mr. Byrum who has been with us for some time. There will be a public debate and music recital in the graded school auditorium on Friday night, Decem- ber 18, beginning at 7:30 o’clock. The public ig invited to attend, Mr. J. M. Ijames of Denver was united in matrimony last Saturday to Miss E. E. Sink of Farmington. The Journal extends to the couple its many and best wishes in life. Goble & Rickard have sold out their stock of goods here and have purchased a large stock at China Grove where they will soon start to work. We learn that the pastor of the Methodist church will preach next Sunday an appropriate Christmas sermon. Don’t fail to come out. The new stove for the Baracca room at the Methodist church has ar_ rived and will be installed this week, so you will be comfortable next Sun- day, Come out, young men, and swell the attendance beyond anything we have had. The services at the Methodist church last Sunday night were spec- ally interesting. There was one profession. Mr. William Russell of Statesville is moving fo our town this week. We extend to him a hearty welcome. The installation services at the Presbyterian church Sunday after- noon was an occasion of great inter- est to our town, The church was well filled...The congregation had three excellent discourses by the Revs. Munroe, Clark and Spence. Rev. E, P. Bradley has been added to the number of our ministers and we wish him much success in his great work in our midst. A special fea- ture of the services was a solo by Mrs. AD. Walters. 4 Death was on His Heels. Jesse P. Morris, of Skippers, Va., had a close call in the spring of 1906. He says: ‘‘An attack of pneumonia left me so weak and with such a fearful cough that my friends declared consumption had me, and death was on my heels. Then I was persuaded to try Dr. King’s New Discovery. It helped me immediately, and after taking two and a half bottles J was @ well man again. I found out that New Discovery is the best remedy for coughs and lung dis- ease in all the world,’’ Sold under guaarantee at Statesville drug Co. store. 50c. and $1.00. Trial bottle free. Eee ae From Troutman. The Troutman correspondent of the Charlotte Observer, writing un- Ger date of 15th as follows: Dr. D. R. Simpson, the erstwhile Iredellian but now a famous faith- curist of Salisbury, is here glad- handing among his many friends. The doctor’g wonderful optimism is waning and one can see lurking in the lines of his face the dumb resig- nation so patent on the face of the House of Rowan. The doctor is al- ready trying to cross a bridge, at least one would. judge, six months before he gets to it, He has stored back, he says, only fourteen barrels against the day of dryness and then up will come his wine and his fig tree to be transplanted across the border from whence the circulars describing the plain packages of the sparkling express charges pafd to your home. Liberty, Liberty! How many move, wil be made in thy name! _——~+<+oe—————— Mothers how can you take chances—keep a- bottle cf Meth- ers joy in your house. You nced Mothers Joy every day. Lyuresday. It hasn’t been settled yet} Education at Coodleemee. On a@count of the fact that par- ents so seldom visit our school, we think it will be beneficial to give a brief sketch of what our schoob at Cooleemee is doing toward the ad- vancement of education for our town and community in general. The attendance has been this term the largest in the history of the school. During this term we have had an average attendance of the 200 pupils, and with some exceptions, marked improvement made in all the grades, Of course some pupils like some operatives in the mill make little progress for the fact that they are indolent, careles and badly _be- haved, and were it not for the fact that there is no possibility of reform- ing such pupils, it would be far bet. ter for the school if such pupils were expelled and thus eliminate from the school their demoralizing influence. But with these exceptions there ig a progressive spirit among the pupils and there are many who show an earnest desire to acquire an duca- tion and the teachers are sparing no energies in encouraging and aiding them. The addition of the high school department is proving to be a great success and students in this de- partment are manifesting such eager- ness in the pursuit of their studies that it becomes a pleasure to the teacher to instruct them. The boys of the higher grades have a well or- ganized debating society which meets each Friday night and if there are not future Ciceros and Demosthenes among them I don’t think it will be their fault. The girls also have a literary society and they are accom. plishing much good, The library is being used also and we trust that many lofty ideals will be formed from having read the lives of some of the great and noble men and women who have lived and died, having been a benediction to those around them. The music department has been very instrumental in making the school a success, and we have been more fortunate this year than form- erly, for the fact that we have a very efficient teacher who has been able to keep a regular class during all this term. Those of us engaged in the im- portant work of teaching feel much encouraged but still we are sorry that many more at Cooleemee who are illiterate cannot avail them- selves of this opportunity of acquir- ing an education, but while many do not or cannot avail themselves of this means of education, still we are glad that they can become enlightened by the preaching of the gospel and there has never been a time at Coo. leemee when the various churches have been more alive in the perform- ance of their great mission in the world. Surly education and religion will continue to move hand in hand, dispelling the darkness of ignorance and sin until The people will become more zealous to attain unto a nobler and worthier life and we should ever remember that not only the school and the church can educate but that any one-can educate others who is mentally capable to instruct and in- fluence them as they come in contact with them. May parents, pupils and teachers SO co-operate that Cooleemee graded schools may accomplish much toward the enlightenment of our commun- ity, for it is through the school that we must expect an intelligent citizen- ship. DC. JOHNSON. We Are Agents. See our Xmas Packages of Candy Stationery and Cigars W.F.HALL Prescription Druggist. So eee ney cs © A GOOD STOMACH Means Good Health, Cheerfulness, Ambition, Persistency and Suc- cess. building up the flabby walls, and will digest food without pepsin or ther artificial aid. In other words, Mi-o-na-cures dys- pepsia by removing the cause, Statesville Drug Co., is the agent for Mi.o-na in Statesville and they say to every reader of The Mascot whose stomach is weak, who has in- digestion or dyspepsia, that Mi-o_na is guaranteed to cure or money back, The price is only 50 cents a large box, and one box is all you need to prove that you are on the right road to health and happiness. “J can’t say enough for Mi-o.na tablets; they have done more for me in one week than all the doctors have for the two years I have been under their care, and I will do all I can to recommend it to my friends. You can also usé My name in your ad. if you like, for Mi-o.na is better than gold to me. I am like a new man, and am able to work once more for the first time in over a year.”—W. A. Ennis, 328 Green St., Syracuse, N. Y. —__++@ oe Would Mortgage The Farm. A farmer on Rural Route No. 2, Empire, Ga., W. A. Moyd by name, says: ‘‘Bucklen’s Arnica Salve cured the two worst sores I ever saw; one on my hand and one on my leg. It is worth more than its weight in gold. I would not be without it if I had to mort- gage the farm to get it.’? Only 25e. at Statesville Drug Co.’s Statesville’s model hostesses. store. M. P. Alexan= der & Bro. HEADQUARTERS FOR ALL KINDS Christmas Groceries. —ALSO— eats, Don't Forget to ‘Phone No. 241. THE IREDELL CAFE LEADER IN CANDIES oe ANd..... FRUITS Oysters for retail and serving. Quail on Toast. PHONE NO. 323 W. W. GAITHER : Proprietor. STATESVILLE SKATING RINK Opera House Building Open from 3 to 5 and 8 to 10 p. m. No Children Admitted to Floor at Night Sessions. NOTICE Chas. Brincefield will ap- ply tor a pardon Dec. 18, Wood Sawed! See R. O. Harbin or Phone 132 or 46. 11-4-1m. Mi.o-na will cure your dyspepsia or any other stomach trouble by , making the stomach so strong that it Maar tac: f° A i ; r i hi a i W Ca i qi D I a \ aa fale (J rl } fi al 5 pee || WAYS) | ror Infants and Children, Seal eee signature i i ea Bins on ee — ; CASTORIA The Kind You Have == ‘Always Bought y AVesetable Preparation farAs-' | Similating the Food, || nines ack Bears the ‘| Promotes Digestion Cheerf: 1 ness and Rest.Contains neither: -| Opium.Morphine nor Mineral: ‘| NOT NARCOTIC. — : a ; ma ‘a = i ) _ Blokeageen ; cyl rfect Remedy for Consfipa: <i) aoesoe Stomach Diarrhea “<i! Worms,Convulsions everish:' For Over ave \ Thirty Years NEW YORK eo —— et foe Pil | = | TRC mi < Bh) bk Soak i CENTS oe, Rijjisc). Guaranteed under ey THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. These Handsome Dishes Given Away toMy Customers ¢ With each cash purchase of 5 cents or over I will give you a @ coupon that can be exchanged for these gifts. q he =z oe ei awe L. A.GOLDMAM : Purveyor to the People. 9GOGOOSSSOOCOSCEOCOOCOOOCOOS THE STATESVILLE LOAN AND TRUST CU, { Of Statesville, N. C. Accounts are solicited from firms, corporations and indiv - uals, who may rely upon courteous consideration and the very best terms that are consistent with good banking methods. Four per cent. paid on time and savings depesits. IS PREPARED to transact all branches of banking. CAPITAL STOCK......cccccesesece,.. seveerereeees $40,000.00 SHAREHOLDERS LIABILITY......ssesseesseseeseeeee$40,000.00 SURPLUs AND UNDIVED PROFITS..........--€30,000.00 Total RESOURCES OVER........sceeceeesoeeeseo $440,000.00 SO O H S P DS GO D S LO D E OO O S BA A U s 1O O A W W W A OO C G 10 0 0 0 0 0 8 sé 08080 Ina sharpcontest nothing but “ OFFICERS E. Steele, President, E. Morrisou, Vice-Pres, D. M. Ausley, Sec and Treasurer, C. E. HUGHEY, Assistant Secy. and Treas W. @. CULBRETH, Manager Savings Department ‘weer eseuve BO O O 66 2 BO M 08 0 8 OS E CO S C O P1 1 1 1 OO 28 FE E T EO C HO E S | | A Show Down uality” and appearance figure. UTH MADE” H a ail a BEST the | EST™ Biack are the goods of Quality. one een said, all your i sate still a fact thes pursuasive argument exhausted, it is “QUALITY” IS THE ONLY TEST OF VALUE To get best results you must have th eve i e best of everythin best yarn, best colors, best -machines and best het, with # such & combination you can produce the best of what you are making. Weh Rigi for the eed of scquality cs the above. Ask your dealer =: THE BRADFORD KNITTING MILL. 2 = ~ 4 t = eS | & So — a Ne Cc mn cr 2 1: oe — fp e f o e f e a e t h e f h f o e f h e f h f p Ac t s th te t <P - 66 0 0 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 8 ; : i a A ee al : BRS sin SES RTT ggg ee LPR ET cee Pes: NEW STUDIO: Maynard & Ellis, Professional Photographers, in N. B. Mills New Building, adjoining Stimson Drug Store, Statesville, N. C. § High Grade Photos at a Low Price. Penny Pictures, the best that can be made_24 for ome ust Cards, per dozen, $1.2 _s@Perr half dozen Se Cabinets, in folders, dozen, §$2].QOO. Half dozen $1 50. Pictures of your home, PostCard size, and up to 8x10 inches and out-door groups, is one of our specialties at a moder- ate price. Give us @ trialand be convinced that we are trying to please you. We are now ready to serve you. Will also Develop and Finish Kodak Work. i BU S IO U S On e b PS U R Po | OR Ro d he t Pe e d bd em pe w be t eg he j EEE ESS SCSSSSHESSESS TERE 2. i ano ee ee ~ 1 - wv. “ wv “WE TRON SHIRTS BY STEAM & f 4 m = y pa Net bythe old Roller Rubbing oO am method but in Straight Paes- wy i sure Machine which gives beauti- Ney A ful demestic finish and makes the v7) " Shirts last longer =———<"____ YY mn 2 W a ] bi Statesville Steam Laundry Ves @ U.C. Harwell, Prop. Phone !22 w sr wy Sseceeecececeeececceescee sc! Nine Students Expelled for Hazing Wake Forest, Dec. 15.—The stu- dent senate, consisting of repre- , sentatives of all the classes, today notified nine members of the So- proved guilty of hazing and stand expelled from the college, The greater part of the offences were committed on the night of the 9th, following the appearance of 1912 painted in red on all the building supposed to have been done by Freshmen. The senate was formed last fall and sactioned by the faculty for the perpose of carrying out an agreement with the trustees to suppress hazing for the privilege of playing football. 04+ > —___. WOMEN’S WOES. Statesville Women Are Finding Re- lief at Last. It dves seem that women have more than a fair share of the aches aad pains that afflict humanity; they Must “keep up,” must attend to duties in spite of constantly aching backs or headaches, dizzy spells, bearing-down pains; they must stoop over, when to stoop means torture. they must walk and bend and bend and work with racking pains and many aches from kidney ills. Kidneys cause more suffering than any other organ of the body. Keep the kidneys well and health is easily maintained. Read of a remedy for kidneys only that helps and cures the kidneys and is endorsed by people you know. Mrs. M.L Moose, living at 209 Boulevard St., Statesville, N. C., says: “For several years I was a vic- time of weak kidneys. I had a soreness across these organs most of = PPh Ph ee + THE SEEDING SEASON $ $ is again with us and have a car load +P y of the celeprated z = Superior Grain Drills? $ the best and lightest running drill made. If in need of a drill s examine them and get our prlcees—we know we can please. ig Evans Hardware Comp’y PEPESSPSSEESSEDS EPEDE HS ae ? of All Ge ES f e 3 S Kinds on ¢ > he ee y ' ; FROM cs Re ae i fb $ $ +P Also a Full Line of Hardware, Stoves, Etc. si ia ¢P db fp pd b fp f e c f > - THE LARGEST n MAIL ORDER BOOK HOUSE IN THE WORLD Established 1860 THE FRANKLIN-TURNER CO., Atlanta, da. We all know that knowledge is power: [{......Old Folks’ Bibles .----- Books for Girls but most of us are unable to buy books to acquire §f.....S.S. Teachers’ Bibles §......Books for Bors Rcowledger froma: 0" cet ct tues es Family Bibles ne Novels, High —— However, we have solved the problest. Sa eseeee emegenee ary and are now prepared to give you, di ourfactory, [[------- 9- eo the benefit of our many years of thougat andlabor. = f--«*+- ene =e poem Every home needs a good library. By [""" Child’s Story of the Bible}. .....octor Book sur plan you can buy one, two or three booke, or elarge f'""~ Bible Stories j- f..... Dictionaries collection of books, ON CREOIT. 8 f'" Bible Dictionaries eoceeKcings of a — «eee Chi "3S — rican Star Speaker HOW TO GET OUR PLAN fo Gntitrt Hisones ” [ocWid Bessa Birds etc) Mark X by the book or books you are interested in, 3 cut out this advertisement and mail to us. and we will Name . send you, without further obligation on your part, a full PE ———————— i ae pene ies arco or cee EE a ~PWOOSOSOOOOOOOSOOSOOOHOOOOL THE FINEST GIFT OF THE — you can easily bestow upon @ ad yourself is to acquire the habit of thrift and the sav- Merchants and Farmers’ Bank OF STATESVILLE ing of money—the Merch- INCORPOKATED ants and Farmers bank off- CAPITAL $25,000.00. ers you the most practical means, as its financial stand- ing and integrity are un- questioned. Commence to Save on January Ist and stick to your resolution. OFFICERS: fc sie L. T. STIMPSON, Pres.; C. S. TOMLIN, Vice-Pres.; 1. b. BUNCH, See. & Treas.; J. A. KNOX, Asst. Sec. & Treas. Directors: oe L. T. Stimpson, J. L. Stevenson, C. S. Tomlin, K. Kt. Reid, J. A. meee W. S. Page, Geo. B. Nicholson, L. K. Lazen- by, E. G. Gaither, J. BR. Hill, E. B. Watts. Get us five yearly subscribers to The Evening the time and I generally felt weak. Dizzy spells and headaches were of frequent occurrence, and at night I was unable to obtain my proper rest. The kidney secretions were also un- natural in appearance, and showed that my kidneys were at fault. I used a number of remedies but Doan’s Kidney Pills, which I procur- ed at Hall’s drug store, benefited me more than any of the others. I sin- cerely hope that other sufferers will give Doan’s Kidney Pills a trial as I know they will act strictly up to their representations. ?? For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. “Remember the name and take no ' other. —- ++ —_—_—_ WHY SUFFER? Breathe Hyomei and Kill the Loathsome Catarrh Germs, Just as long as you have catarrh your nose will itch, your breatb will be foul, and you hawk and spit, and you will do other dis- gusting things because you ean’t help yourself. The germs of ¢a- tarrh have got you in their power; they are continually and persist- ently digging i nto and irritating the mucous membrane of your nose and throat. They are now making your life miserable; in time they will sap your entire system of it senergy, its strength, its serength, its vigor and vitality. But there is one remedy that will kill the germs and cure ca- tarrh, and that is Hyomei, the Aus- tralian dry air treatment. The Statesville Drug Co., the druggists, will guarantee Hyomei to cure catarrh, or money back. Don’t delay this pleasant antisep- tie treatment. Breathe in Hyomei and kil lthe germs. The Statesville Drug Co, will sell you a complete Hyomei outfit, including inhaler, for only $1,00. It is also guaranteed to cure bron- chitis, asthma, coughs, colds, hay fever and croup. a Reporting from Messina, Consul Arthur S. Cheney says that the es- timated total world’s crop of ci- trons for the coming season will be about 8,000 tons. 418 Most disfiguring skin eruptions, scrofula, pimples, rashes, ete, are due to impure blood. Burdock Blood Bitters is a cleansing tonic. Makes you clear-eyed, clear-brained, clear skinned. — Pee A $40,000 wireless telegraph Mascot, paid in advance, and get one of the beautiful! plant is being erected at Newport China Sets we are giving as premiums. which will have a working radius of 1,250 miles. phomore class that they have been | OSITION Draughon gives contracts, backed by a chain of 30 Colleges, $300,000.00 capital, and 19 year’s success, to se- cure positions under reasonable con- ditions or refunnd tuition. BOOKKEEPING Drxzbon's ccm. accepting his pruposition, concede that he teaches more Bookkeeping in THREE months than they do in SIX. Draughon can convince YOU SHORTHAND per coet. 2 Court Reporters write the system of Shorthand Draughon teaches, be- cause they know it is THE BEST. FOR FREE CATALOG and book- let, “Why Learn Telegraphy?’’ which explains all, call on or write JNO. F. DRAUGHON, President DRAUCHON’S PRACTICAL BUSINESS COLLEGE (We also Teach by Mail) Raleigh, Knoxville, Nashville, Cc lumbia or Washington, D. C. SOUTHERN RAILWAY 60. Gireat Highway of Trade and Travel Through the Southern States Through Pullman Sleeping Cars on palatial trains between the principal Cities and Resorts of the South. High-class Dining Cars. Many delightfulSummer and Winter Resorts on and reached by Southern Railway. “The Land of the Sky,” “The Sapphire Country,” in scenic Western North Carolina; beau- tiful at allseasons. Hotels of the highest class. Posi OD= For detailed information apply to nearest Ticket Agent, or R. L. VDRNON, T. P. A., Charlotte, N. C. S.H. HARDWICK, P.T.M., W.H. TAYLOE,G. P. A. Washibgton, D. C. New Pool Room New Tables of the latest and best makes have been in-= stalled under J. P. Phifer’s grocery store. WeSolicit YourPatronage Mortgage Sale of Valuable Real Estate. By virtue of power of sale con- tained in a mortgage deed executed by R. S. Sherrill and wife Mattie R. Sherrill, on March 20th, 1908, to the Henkel Live Stock Company to se- cure a note of $300 due and payable Nov. 1, 1908, (see Book 26, page 485, Registry Iredell Co.) the said mort- gagee will sell for cash by Public Auction, at the Court House door in Statesville, N. C., on Monday, the 18th day of January, 1909, at 12 o'clock noon, the following real es- tate conveyed in said mortgage, or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay the aforesaid debt and costs of sale, viz: 1st Tract. Beginning at W. F. with his line 210 poles to a stake, Bailey’s corner; thence E. 85 poles to a post oak; thence north 52 poles to a post oak; thence E. 140 poles to Murdock’s corner; thence S. 320 poles toa stake; thence W. 56 poles to a stake; thence S. 7 poles to a stake; thence W. 66 poles to a sour wood, Lingle’s corner; thence N. 65 poles to a stake, Lingle’s corner; thence W. 97 poles to the beginning, containing 356 acres, more or less. Also one house and lot in the su- burb of Statesville on what is called “Diamond Hill.’’ beginning at a stake, corner of Vance and Dagen- hart streets, thence N. 4 degrees 100 feet to a stake; thence S. 85 degrees E.-180 feet to a stake; thence S. 4 degrees W. 100 feet to stake on Dag- enhart street; thence N. 85 degrees W. 180 feet to beginning. Terms Cash. Tue HENKEL Live Stock Co., Mortgagee. Armfield & Turner, Attys. ~ Mother do you hear that rat- tling in your babies throat? Put a little Mothers’ Joy on it and stop is EOP eg RTC SOR aot nce eee rae eee eae — — = PR I a EE ey ed Fae RT NE LEE A ST TNR ETTS poe building of the Modern Business Enterprise. :::_ To the publicity gained by the use of the advertising columns of the daily papers is at- § tributed the growth, and consequent success, of ~ # a very large percentage of great business enter- prises of the present day. Advertising is recognized as the prime fac- tor in increasing the sales of any class of goods or manufactured articles. The space used in this puper is your, busi- ness message to the public. In this open letter . you should tell them of the merits of what you. are offering, setting forth the reasons why your particular line is worthy of their attention: NRE EVENING MASCO® has increased its local circulation very materially during the past three months and the results Is Essential to the Up= obtained from the space used by the advertisers are gratifying to them and'to the paper. It reaches into the homes of the best class of our people and your message will be placed in the hands of those with money to buy the goods you wish to sell. The Space Rates in The Evening Mascot are not high. Your message is carried, each day, to those you wish to reach, in the most economical manner. : For information call usup on the phoneand § a representative ot the paper will gladly visit you The Brening Mascot. | | S0 6 0 29 ° 18 0 8 0 8 0 8 0 8 0 0 0 SO S Oa en e Bailey’s S. E. corner, thence north!” 0809080808 08D S08DBC ROE NEDEDEDe0e0e0e0e080EO 080 $0808080808080E08080 6000G08085008080G06 008080808080 BUSOBOOOSOSOMO RO rae eee SEVERAL THINGS Are to be considered in seleeting your Bank 1ST. Strength-Financial Strength 2ND. The care with which the Bank is Managed. * 3RD. The courtesy and spirit of of accomodation displayed by the Officers and Em- ployees. be a 4TH. The banking experience of . . Officers. 7 5TH. The ability of the bank to Properly and Prompily Handle all Your Business To Those Desiring the Embodi- ment of These Features are Offered T he Service of THE | FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF STATESVILLE | CAPITAL $100.000 SOSA SOSOSOBOSCE GOS0SCSO0S0SCECSC 8080 ELE O808O it at once. ~~ Now Time for You to = lect Your Xmas Goods: We will put aside any goods selected. See our new line of Morris Chairs and Rockers. Also Fine Mahogany Tables. We will make Special Prices on COOK © © STOVES and RANGES. STATESVILLE HOUSEFURNISHING COMP’Y Fe s ? ae de . Pe e FE Hy a ti e s = 7 7 7H ? ee e oi e _— er e s o e id e e ot s 3k ab e a AS EE S PP . on e : en ccterp n a y + toa aE fo n te GE ? “3 ee 2 at es fe a TR S Ma l i n IG SS I E S sO ET E en e te ne e ee r ee ie n e ai e s i e e gu i la n d e n i a t i e h al e e Sh e p e o c i n t e a n s i n i a t e d nr e u t i n n g i - t e b e m n v e s a n a g y or e g d o n r t - fo s ¢ ty gu we e t pu g sc no e —— TR B My Be t h y te e n he s ra h a gh a n a oh m ni c e r ae oe #, te r an e PE T BE A T ON E Se er s ee a oo So ta t e . Ss te 5 x 3 Ne ei n e r es on a "£ eo t s e o t e - sp r e ae we e : se hg e EN E ie d ee ey pa co r e d aa te e ee ee n ee e ey we oe ti g i aa a eet ae Sh e e d . PHARAOH THE OPPRESSOR. v= * 6 a > Se a = S " — - AS Pa ge o tt e : Ee e ‘ So e oe dd ci t r o e n ar _ fae” ' pany? Do you take cats down? Yes, ee s e e Ae rt t - | “ay wife,” growled Hadley, “is the -~ “Indeed?” queried his friend po iitely. _ tight before.”—Philadetphia Press. WG gat you.—Italian Proverb, _ Fe PN CLE Car ares LL Se RD SE CME BN eNO yy ET Pe ahd te nT a a Lae BAM OE miiieu Thies Is the Rameses Who Looms Over the Egypt of Today. ] Like a cloud, a great golden cloud, a giory impending that will not, cannot be dissolved into the ether, he (Ram- eses) loomed over the Egypt that is Geed; he looms over the Egypt of to- Gay. Everywhere you meet his traces; everywhere you hear his name. You say to a tall young Egyptian, “How Big you are growing, Hassan"’ * He answers, “Come back next year, my gentleman, and I shall be like Ram- exes the Great.” Or you ask of the boatman who rows “How can you pull all day against the current of the Nile?” And he amiles, and, lifting his brown arm, he gays to you, “Look; I am as strong as Rameses the Great.” This familiar fame comes down through some 3,220 years. Carved wpon limestone and granite, now it @eems engraven also on every Egyp- that beats not only with the t of shadoof or is not buried black soll fertilized by Hapi. ean inordinate vanity prolong ‘true triumph of genius and im- its own view of itself upon the of millions. This Rameses is i nl it to be the pharaoh who op- the children of Israel.—Robert ta Century. fl i THE LANGUAGE PUZZLE. China’e Ferty Thousand Signs and Symbels te Perplex the Linguist. The language known as Wen-li is the medium by which the classical books ef China have been handed down. It ts par excellence the written language ef China, but it is not generally under- atood by the great mass of the people. The spoken language—namely, Manda- tMtn—may also be written, and there is @ good deal of colloquial literature in Manéarin. Versions of the Bible in the Yeeal patois have also been produced fin several districts of the southwest, In the Chinese written language there are over 40,000 distinct charac- ters or symbols, and this vast number fs being constantly increased by the addition of new characters to repre- sent new scientific words and modern ideas. Although the Chinese are considered a iMterary people and have naturally a Gestre for education, yet owing to the extreme difficulty of mastering the Chinese characters it is estimated that only ‘one in ten of the population can Yead or write.—Contemporary Review. Storm Falk. “Shipwreck affects people in odd ways,” said the captain, beaming Seightiy on the two rows of ladies at hile table in the saloon. The wind roared, a great wave shook “An Indian colonel,” the captain re- sumed, “rushed to the bathroom when hfs boat sprung aleak and drowned himeelf in the tub out of sheer terror. “There was an AngioIndian actor broke 2 pretty girl’s leg by hurt his heavy cabin truvk down into Hfeboat om her. Of course we p l e t e p e a s e h a p g b a B a t : } i t x they'll appear very game. result fs that when the rescuing arrives these men are lying par- about the deck.”—New Orleans Wimes-Democrat. “e f z i: Still Susceptible. He was a nervous, fidgety young man, and he looked with considerable ep- prehension at the woman next him, held « baby, its face covered with vefl. The baby gave now and then a sharp cry, which the woman At last, after many anxious glances, the man spoke. that baby any—anything contagious?” he asked. The woman looked at him with a mizture of scorn and pity. “"T'weuldn’t be for most folks,” she said in a clear, carrying tone, “but maybe "twould for you. He’s teeth- The Adventurous Feline. “Hello! Is this the electric com- cats! One is on a pole and crying just terribly. She must have been up there @ week, for she’s just as thin— What? this ts Fifttpainth avenue! A big fs barking eat her, too, and she— ¢ street? Why,I don’t know. I Hive on this street, do I? Oh, yes, af Oh, will you? You are so good! man just said she is playing transformer and might short herself or something. Well, very much. I am so glad! "—Success Magazine. —_—_—_———_— The Considerate Wife. Rogers is a perfect slave to she do?” believe it? Every year } hts birthdey she gets up in time to breakfast with him.”—Judge’s Lt B. A ea t Ti Shert Memory. tmest forgetful woman.” . “Yes. She can never remember fn the morning where I left my pipe the Make yourself a sheep and the wolves course! Bristol street, the druggist j. a A GREAT COMBINATION. When Husband, Wife and Mother-in- law Co-operate. Shortly after his marriage, which took place in 1880, John Burns, the British labor leader, settled down as a journeyman engineer in Battersea and twenty years after confessed that he was the first engineer to make with bis own hands an electric tram car in Great Britain. In those days, however, people did not believe that electric traction was possible, and Burns had to take the dynamo and tram to the Crystal palace and run the laiter round the grounds for six months before people could be induced to be- lieve in the novelty. But the people were so nervous that, although the charge was only sixpence, none of them would venture in the newfangled invention. Then Burns was struck with a brilliant idea. He said to his wife, “You have got to come down to the palace three times a week and get into the first electric tram car as a decoy duck for the others.” This was only temporarily successful. So Burns brought along his mother-in- law, “and,” said the energetic labor leader when relating the incident, “when a husband, a wite and a mother- in-law co-operate success is assured.” —London Tit-Bits. Towers, The patient architect had just suc- ceeded in getting Mrs. Drippingold to decide between the charms of renais sance, classic and Queen Anne for the plans of her magnificent new country house. “The only detafis I aint goin’ to leave to your discretion,” said the wealthy lady, “fs the matter of tow- ers. I want plenty of towers that folks can see for a long way off when they’re ridin’ by.” “But what kind of towers do you want?’ inquired the unfortunate archi- tect—“Norman, Gothifc”— Mrs. Drippingold closed the English novel of high life on which her soul had been feeding. “Why, ancestral towers, of course,”— Puck. Friendly Advice. A very matter of fact Scotchwoman called to see a neighbor, an elderly woman, who had been ailing for some time. “And how do you find yourself to- day, Janet?’ was the greeting. “Ah, Martha, I’m very bad. This cold, damp weather ‘ll be the end of me. I'll be a dead woman before very long.” “Hoots, toots, woman! You've been saying that any tfme these last twenty years. I’ve no patience with you. I'll tell you. what it is. You want firm- ness of mind. Fix a day for your dy- ing—anéd stick to it.” Mad Poor Sight. New Boy (rather inguisitive)—What did the other lad leave for, sir? Master—For having defective eye sight at times, my boy. New Boy—Why, sir, I bave seen him since. Apparently, then, his eyesight was all right. It seems rather curious, sir. Master—Well, my boy, at various times when taking money from cus- tomers he could not see the till.—Lon- don Answers. Time to Stop. Mrs. Benham—Henry, I am more than giad that you don’t drink now, but how did you come to leave off? Benham—You remember the last time your mother was here? Mrs. Benham ~Yes. Benham—Well, one night while she was here I came home in pretty bad shape and saw three of her. That settled it. —_———+<~@r-o——— Between 1.800 and 2,000 Union miners on Point Creek, Kanawha county, W. Va., will quit work today in obedience to the strike order by President Ben Davis, of District 17, United Mine Workers. ———~++a-o—___ Fills your veins with rich, red bleed. Gives you a hearty appe- tite, builds up flesh, makes you strong and rugged. Hbllister’s Rocky Mountain Tea, greatest health builder. 35 cents, Tea or Tablets. Statesville Drug Co. ——~+ee—_—. Itching piles provoke profanity, but profanity won’t cure them. Doan’s Ointment cures itching, bleeding protruding piles after years of suffering. At any drug store. —— Seven members of the crew of the French warship Amiral Aube, who started for St. Pierre, Miquelon, Mon- day night are missing and it is thought all were drowned. eS Sprene cam Mothers’ Joy is made of pure goose grease and other healing ingredients. Mothers you cannot afford to be without a box of Mth ers’ Joy. —_———--~@-oe—— Billy Papke and Hugo Kelly fought 25 hard and fast rounds to a draw last night before Jim Jeffries Vernon Club, of Los Angeles, Cal. —_———_—+ Tf you haven’t the time to exercise regularly, Doan’s Regulets will pre- vent constipation. They induce a mild, easy, healthful action of the bowels without griping. Ask your Et AE druggists for them. c . A Healthy Family. “‘Our whole family has enjoyed good health since we began using Dr. King’s New Life Pills, three years ago,’’ says L. A. Bartlet, of Rural Route 1, Guilford Maine. They cleanse and tone the system in a gentle way that does you good 25c. at Statesville Drug Co. Personally Conducted Tour to Ha- vana, Cuba, and Return, January 11, 1909, Via Southern Railway Souhern Railway will sell round trip excursion tickets to Havana, Cuba at following rates from points nemed: ja ENT a a A $39.10 ENCEORy. 5 oo ; . 42.40 ETAOSENS 1 scotia’ iolchoiohese 40.45 SAIS REY). cic cc wiclcis crcl iste oie 42.95 ROR cclats c eiccl ciate 42.50 Approximately low rates from from other points. Tickes on sale January 11th, good returning to leave Havana, Cuba, on or before January 27th, 1909. Tickets may be routed through Jacksonville thence either through Knight’s Key, or Port Tampa. Good going and return-- ing same route. Stop-over will be allowed at Jacksonville, St. Au- gustine, Palm Beach, Miami, and other points south of Jacksonville, within final limit of ticket. A representaive will accompany movement, and will look after the comfort and pleasure of the party. For further information as to side tours from Havana, sight see- ing tours, hotel rates, leaving time a principal points, Pulllman and state room reservation, write J. H. Wood, D. P. A., Asheville, N. C.; W. H. McGlamery, P. & T. A., Raleigh, N. C.; R. H. DeButts, P. & T. A., Greensboro, N. C.; or eall on your repot agents, or write R. L. VERNON, T. P. A. Charlotte, N. C. 1 time ee a 5 cents a line. 3 EIMES.........eeeeeeeee 4 cents a line. 6 CIMEB............046 3% cents a line. 2G GHREB......-2ncsnococe 3 cents a line. WANTED—A Second hand Oliver typewriter, in fair condition. Address XXX care Mascot 3t PHOTOS—Will Continue Making Photos, 24 for 25e, over Knox & Poston’s store until Xmas. Everybody get your photos made now. Last chance so cheap. sat&éwed d lt w AMBITIOUS YOUNG MEN AND ladies should learn telegraphy; for, since the now 8 hour law became effective there is a shortage of many thousand telegraphers. Po- sitions pay from $50 to $70 a month to beginners. The National Telegraph institute of Columbia, S. C., and five other cities is oper- ~ated under supervision of R. R. officials and all students are placed when qualified. Write them for particulars. nol9 dtf WANTED—BY THE AMERICAN Cotton and Business University of Milledgeville, Ga., students to take one or more of our courses in cot- ton grading, buying and selling. Business courses of bookkeeping, Shorthand, Typewriting, or Telegra- phy and Railroad course. Positions guaranteed under reasonable con- ditions. Write at once for our consolidated catalog. Larges: col lege South. Sept 28-tf FOR RENI—ONE STORE BUILD- ing and basement. Best retail stand in the city. Statesville Real- ty and Investment Co. Sept.19 QI N PL D I a <l ) S SP A R DP D I N I N G ) 5) \<e) A ) j I RQYRQO DD, WW HK SY Z S. A Wr ¥ $10 Gold Pieces for $9.00 That is what it means when you buy your Christmas goods from me. Ihave too much stock and must cut it down by January Ist, and will give you bargains in anything in my line. Will make the prices suit the BUYERS PURSE. Anyone wanting a high-grade Watch Movement can now get it cheap. I have these in the Rock- ford, South Bend, Illinois, Hamilton, Elgin and Waltham, in 15 and 17 jeweled grades. These will be put into whatever kind of a case you may want. I have too many 15 and 17 jeweled movements on hand and they must go. I have Solid Gold Rings from $1 OO up. Solid Gold Stick Pins from $1 OO up. Solid Gold Cuff Buttons 175.“ —_ Solid Gold Brooches 125 « Solid Gold Lockets 400 “ Sold Gold Neck Chaius 300 “ Solid Gold Hearts for Neck Chains 125 “ All other Gold Goods too numerous to mention at right prices. In Gold Filled Goods, such as Gold Filled Neckchains, Gold Filled Leckets, Gents’ and Ladies’ Gold Filled Woven Wire and Silk Watch Fobs, Ladies Gold Filled Cuff Pins, Veil Pins, Hat Pins Bar Pins, Stick Pins, Belt Pins, Brooches, etc., from the lowest prices and up. Large lot of Bracelets at right prices. Nice line of Silverware and Novelties, such as Toilet Sets, Manicure Sets, Mili- tary Brushes, Clothes Brushes, Shaving Brushes, Hat and Bonnet Brushes, alljin sterling or best grade Quadruple Plate. Nice line of Ladies’ Gold Filled Handle Umbrellas from $3 SO to $7 5O. Guaranteed. You can get a bargain in Cut Glass, Japanese China Vases, etc., and Statu- ary, as these must go. VO N I C N I O N T O N I O N ON I O N TI O N TO N TO N IO N S a =m , “i WO N V O N I O N In Silverware I have a complete{line “of Knives and Forks, Tea and Table Spoons, Butter Knives, Sugar Shells, Pie and Tomato Servers, cold meat and other Forks, Berry Spoons. Soup Sets, Soup Ladles, Carving Sets, Childs’ Sets, individual Salt Sets, Cut Glass Sterling Top Salt and Pepper Sets. Nice line of Parlor and Gold Plate Clocks, Kitchen and Alarm Clocks. No difference what you want in the Jewelry line, I will save you money. Come and see for yourself. R. F. Henry # Jeweler and Optician Hotel Iredell Building. TeNONOMOUOUORIOGOTOTORENe NRKNGN are KONI PSSST RR SSSR eR cae NRE ae NR Ra : : : They Are Going With a Rush! : z Christmas Presents of Quality 3 At the Store of Quality B a cs | oo Have You Bought? fe | : rs : Come buy today while the selection is large. : e . : s Statesville Droy Co. : , : Prescriptionists. te SORBES LEE RE SRE IER RRR MONDAY, DEC. 21ST. -—A=ONE NIGHT ONLY. THE -<2==CASINO COMPANY PRESENTS THE SENSATIONAL PLAY OF THE DAY —>3THE DEVIL&— A WONDERFUL PRODUCTION BY SUPERB CAST The Devil, as seen by New York Critics, “The Devil is a great play, look at it from any point you will.”—Acton Davies in the Evening Sun. “One of the strongest plays in a decade.”—The New York Press. “‘Audiense kept gasping.’’ The New York Herald. 3 ae How to Prevent Pneu- @ moni | @ CHRISTMAS SUGGESTIONS . mn every paper you pick a up you will see where some | @ Let us help you solve the all perplexing ques- % good man has just died with ® tion:—WHAT SHALL I GIVE FOR CHRIST- e = So ES ® MAS? Below isa list of useful articles which : as give 3 you One Hundred Dollars e oom ee would be proud of: @ for any case of pneumonia eo ee Slippers, Bath Slippers, at 50c. to $2.00 @ you have in your family it ® ao handsomest line of Neckwear in Statesville at- 25c. to $1.00 fails to cure if you will use P= Silk oe and Reefers at $1.00 to $3.00 @ Goose Grease Liniment as Silk Havin aoe boxes) at 50c. to $1.50 @ directed. It only costs you © a Celebrated oo pone fancy) at xe 25 cents a bottle. Get it— ¥! @ Green, Ivy, Tan and Pear! wean cae 9 see ae nothing = core @ Dress and Driving Gloves at 25c. to $2.00 @ an ae i : s there 2 re ‘thousands mt ° Sc ae money expended here will not be wasted. : will read this and throw it “ z AN. ee and in : few days will ce MILLER ad ———ooore @ e down with the disease. oe Please just get one bottle COCCCC COLE S00eooeooeVe and put it away until you (ole need =. . sce ponent the. St SESE CES STE ECE ECEEEEY money to buy it let us know nt d i - hs —— it and we will end you a bot Ww THE GREATEST OF ALL GIFTS— A GOOSE GREASE CO. Wi at Christmas, or any S mM ye Other time, is good health Aan a This is insured by means S mM yj Of sanicary plumbing in " yj your house. If you would Mm WwW Present your family with m + @ threefold blessing, cele- m ry brate Christmas by ar- mA a ranging with us for a n o complete system of mod- A a eo Se plumbing f- LE = 4 fl ~ m cellar to roof. rane SS ees a . ee en : oe = WA. W. HOLLER PLUMBING COMPANY f Wy Phoxe No. 61. 127 W. Broad St. fA » F ee ee =a. sale Saturday, Dec. 19th at the e 3223223323323 22:3:33332332* Hill, ¢ jail he tying A, = ’ yf: i : : 1 NA Teer aia En TID K , Sa @HIMAVE JHT ¥ 2 Wagzox3 YJIAG : t A ee & “*tz bones € —— = ~ *B oD ok i Vol. 1. Statesville, N. C., Friday Evening, December 18, 1908. No. 377 a —m Si z \) TWO DEATHS. ee an sens sores and S@HSAtiON IN a Long llness—Dr, Heathman of Mooresville Dead. Mrs. Sarah Jane Scroggs, wife of Mr. J. H_ Scroggs, of Concord town- ) GOLDSBORO’S FIRE. M | Story of the Fire That for Awhile (f f (viet Thycatened an Entire Business Block in Heart of City. Goldsboro’ Dec. 17.—Owing to CO White Man Wi Mayor OF Dudley NI O N T O N I O N MO N O T O N E VW ¢ N= = Was Lynched HE CONFESSED HIS CRIME. Mob of About Thirty Men Break Into Jail and Lynch White Man Charged With Assault and Murder—He at First Denied His Crime But When Rope Was Placed Around His Neck Confessed and Told Details of Crime—His Victim Was Only Thir. teen Years Old. Montecello, Ky., Dec. 17—Elmer Hill, a white man, was taken from jail here this morning by an armed mob of about thirty men and hanged to a tree just outside of the city, Hill was incarcerated on the charge of assaulting Mamie Womack, aged 13, and murdering her. The girl was on her way from school. Hill, when taken from the jail, flatly denied the charge, but when the rope had been placed around his neck and he apparently saw no way of escape, told the story of the crime. He said the girl was coming home from school when he attacked her, tying a bandana handkerchief around ship died yesterday afternoon at 3:15 o’clock at her home, after an illness of several months. Mrs. Scroggs was a daughter of the late Ross Stevenson of Concord com- munity, and was 78 years of age. She was married to Mr. Scroggs 62 years ago, and she is survived by her husband and ten children, six daugh- ters and four sons as follows: Misses Mollie, Prudie, Francis, Jane, Hester, and Shulah Scroggs and Messrs. J. R. Manlus, Hall, and J. E, Scroggs. One son, Plutart, is dead. One son, Rev. J. R. Scroggs was formerly the minister of the Broad street Methodist church, having been removed to Shelby by the last confer- ence, All the members of the family excepting Rev. Scroggs, J. E. Scroggs, of Spencer, and M. J. Scroggs of Statesville, live at home. The funeral services were held at the residence at 11 o’clock today, conducted by Mrs. Scroggs pastor, Rev. E. D. BrBown, and the inter- ment was at the Concord church. Mrs. Scroggs was a fine woman and all her life she has been a devout Christian and will be missed by all who knew her. The Court ee SON NOT A MMBER OF THE CLAN J. H. Russelll, Selected as Juror, Has a Son Who Belongs to the Night- rider Gang—Is in Sympathy With Their Organization and Would Have Been a Witness For the De- fense if He Had Not Been Selected as a Juror. — ee Union City Tenn, Dec. 17—A sen- sation was sprung this morning at the trial of the eight alleged night riders when Attorney General Cald- well declared to the court that Juror J. H. Russell was the father of night riders; ig,in sympathy with their or- announdement threw the court into ately called Russell before him. Un- der close questioning Russell admit- trict, an alleged night rider. Kills a Citizen AND IT WAS ALL OVER A DOG, Quarrelledl at an Early Hour Yester- day Morning—Is Wounded by the Mayor’s Son—All the Parties In- volved Are Well to do People. cease Goldsboro, N. C., Dec. 17.— early this morning the news was heralded that in the night Ira Hatch, living at Dudley, had been shot and killed by Badger J. Bowden, a Young man of that place, son of W. B. Bowden, and mayor of Dudley. Bowden is in bed from wounds received ganization and would have been ajimmediately after from a shot- witness for the defense if he had/gunin the hands of the dead not been selected as a juror, The| man’s son. The dead man was a brother confusion and Judge Jones immedi- of J. R. Hatch, clerk of the su- perior court of this county, who ted that he was the father of Charles| Went early this morning to the Russell, living in Reelfoot Lake dis-| scene of the tragedy, as did both He de-|coroner and the sheriff, and an the rapid progress the raging flames were- making when this correspondent the fire here last night, it was impossible to cor- rectly estimate what the loss would be either in dollars or the extent of property that would be distroyed. It looked imppossible that so much could be saved in a fire that raged as fiercely as that was raging. It was certain, too, that a slight wind which might have arisen at any moment, meant the destruction of the in- tire business block and the loss of even more thau $100’000- In deed a little short of marvellous that the fire department, with very little water pressure at first, could have everted what promis- ed to be the most disastrous fire that was ever witnessed here. To our cool clear-headed fire cheif, Horace E. King, commanding three excellent hose companies, volunteer firemen is due mucecrd- it slong with every man in the Jn stanley THE NEGRO HAS BEEN REMOVED & Mrs. Moss is Improving and Will Re- cover—Henry Young, Her Assail- ant, is Also Recovering—He Did Not Commit Crime Attempted and Therefore Can not be Tried for Hig Life—This Fact Might Lead to Violence, ay Albemarle, N. C., Dec. 17.— Mrs. J. R. Moss, who was the vic- tim of the assault by Henry Young on Tuesday afternoon, is said to be greatly improved. It was thought a while that she would tot live but prospects are now bright for her recovery at an early date. The negro, Henry Young, who was so severely beatea by Mr. Moss and Mr. George Lefler, is also greatly improved. It is thought by,a great many peo- people here that he is really not hurt as bad as_ he pretends her neCK strangling her. When the nied the charge that his son was a]; ‘ration j i d ll of wh ir] investigation is being held. epartment, all of whom are|., “ Sirl was unconscious he took her to Dr. J. D. Heathman of Mooresville,| member of the clan. He also denied & . ded f b lent Some said he w aS crazy, he w It seems that Bowden and|commended for there exellen but Sheriff G that the woods and killed her. who was brought to Long’s sanita-|the charge that he had said many Hatch t amok Ge mastering those tremen- uu eri : reen S&ys. —_——~~@-e-——__—_ rium on last Tuesday night, died last] acts of the night riders were justifia-] 4atch were at varience, a Acie there is nothing in this state- PERSONAL NOTES. night about 12 o'clock, Death re-| ble, although the prosecutor claimed | 2bout one o’clock this morning ous sheets of flame. ment, as he talked with good sulted from a liver trouble. to have positive proof of this state-]some one passed Hitch’s house A eas sense ae i i ' LARGE APPROPRIATION i Es é on - 97 ea narpeieccanedsco ets ae ea oo Russell in- ae = dog. = ae He did not commit the vile today, ; Hatch and his son got shotguns crime ou which he was bent on serious from the beginning and his| competent and removed him from the : 3 ees Mr. C. R, Hudson was in Charlotte] - oy A LE ee a $ sy Roe snd went out. Some distance up| Major B. F. Dixon, Secrétary of the yesterday. Dr. Heathman was a native of the One other juror had been selected, the street they met B owden, ee Mo ee ICRC ere Mr. R. O. ¥¥oung of Charlotte is in| south River community, Rowan coun-| J. D. McKinney, a farmer, He is now| Whom the gelder Hatch immedi- ce : the city today. ty, and has been in Mooresville about] the only man on the panel. ately accused ofshooting hisdog.} The report of the board of dir- Mr, Chas, Watt of Taylorsville, 1s} two years. He was located at Wood-| Althowgh more than fifty venire-] fot words ensued and Bowden | ectors of the Soldiers’ Home was in the city today. leaf for some time before going to/men have been examined, the court shot Hatch through the heart} Made to Governor Glenn yester- br. S, Frontis of Mooresville is in} yooresville. refused to allow attorneys for the de-} 64) pistol, and thereupon|day by Maj, B.F.*Dixon’ secreta- the city today, His remains were sent to Coleemee}fense to ask the prospective jurors if Hatch shot Bowden|Tty. Mr. Joe Torrence of Mooresville is on the 12:15 train today and the/they had read Governor Patterson’s|¥ ounger ate S os a ace Th b f the b Id in the city today. funeral services and interment will] interview regarding night riding, de-}| With his shotgun inflicting only enum Zot o e brave o Mr. Jamies Ramsay was in Char-| pe at St. Andrew’s Episcopal church, | claring his statements had nothing to} flesh wounds. veterans being cared for on Nov- lotte last night. -| about four miles from Cooleemee. do with the case. Bowden gives as his reason for! ember 30, was 128; 37 were re- Mr. A. J. Sally was in Taylorsville Dr, Heathman was 35 years of age, —_——4+e-o being on the streets at the un- ceived during the: year; 29 pas- Aaa alae a eae on business yesterday. and is survived by his wife and one Mayor Grier Has One, usual hour that he had a negro |sed into the great beyond, and | Tse during the night and got a Mr. Ernest Miller of Mooresville,/prother, Mr. Walter Heathman, of Despite the bad luck Mayor Grier the lock-up, and, as mayor of}two were discharged, making a drink of water is another evi. was in the city last night. Misissippi. Mrs. Heathman, and] had on his automobile trip with Mr.| 2 S2¢ 0 he ~ d 2 t m k af.|‘otal of 169 cared for. There dence that Young was neither ee ee ee ee = oe ee are now 137 names on the rolis,|¢7Unk nor doped. When asked Pe ed to Mooresville today. Edward Bost, of Mooresville, her} chased him a nice machine: s yesterday morning by a fellow , ! = : ; : : i i On account of the increased |/“* y =e Mr. and Mrs. Wade Clark, of Eu~| brothers were at the bedside when| jt is a 20 horse power Rambler, ing turned cold during the night prisoner how come him in jail j fola, are in the city today. the end came. touring car, of the latest type. and he was on this round; when of living the $12,000 annual ee dh h badly bea; Mrs, D. J. Craig and child return-| pr, Heathman was a good doctor, Mr. Grier purchased it in Charlotte encountered by the Hatchs’ propriation, the directors say, &nd how ores , y ten, ed from Ciarlotte this morning. and he enjoyed a large practice at!Tuesday, and started home with it, eae has been hardly ‘sufficient, and he replied, I broke in the house Mr. Vance Norwood, Sr., returned] yooresville. He was a gentleman getting as far as Mooresville. The Bazaar Yesterday. the gener al assembly aaa hole on a white woman.” When turth- from Mooresville this morning. of pleasing address and a useful and The red mud, for which some of The bazaar given at the court ked to make a small increase or|& -asked as to whether the wo- Messrs. L. A. Goldman and C. S. upright citizen our country roads are very famous Ree : eerie * . : yesterday by the members of man was married or single he Holland spent yesterday in Char- was too much for aheavy touring some of the grand old gray-hair- account of the effort on the part of Mrs. Moss and the timely in- terfereance of Mr. Lefler. On Tuesday .night he arose from where was lying in the jail, being outside of the cell and hoisted all the #indows wnich he could get in reach of and was freezinng the prisoners when the Sheriff came to their aid and again lowered them, He also we ~ _,-—-4- oe the young Women’s Missionary Soci- a re lied that she was a man’s lotte. a em eciton. car of this type, and Mr, Grier and] ot. of the Broad Street Methodist | ed gentlemen will be forced to go nee Editor Holbrook of the Hickory a his machinst, Mr. Thompson had to} church was a grand success, There| Out and renew their fight{against : Democrat was a Statesville visitor to-| Chas. Nesbit and Lester ae abandon it there, and come to States- day. both colored, were areets Wara| Ville by rail. many to mention, besides the lot of] The discipline at the Home is what subsided although it is Mr. P. A. Bryant is at his home in yesterday afternoon by site aaa Mr. Thompson went back to good things to eat, Everything sold] the same under Superintendent thought that an atterapt will be Mecklenbfiurg to attend the wedding] for stealing cotton, from Pin >| Mooresville this morning to get the well, the lunch and refreshment de- Brooke as G0 faa oe made to lynch, in case it is seen of his sister tomorrow afternoon at] also colored. car and bring it to the city. : lling out early in the : a Both boys protested that they were So y Obeyance to orders might be| thatthe brute will recover, es: was numerous fancy articles too| the world dispite their infirmity. Feeling here seems to be some- Mr. Grier has our best wishes in 4 o'clock, : evening. : ° ° Misses Katty Scott, Ella Millhol-| innocent, but it took : ee ae his new undertaking of running @/ Anout $75 was realized from this|S8aid to be the watchworld. eee his case ens for land and Mary Holt, of the college} on the tsial before Justice “horseless carriage,” and we trust] itce towards lighting the new —~++28>e—_—__—_ whic e law will no ow All Take «Chances, hanging even if convicted, since body will spend the-holidays at their} this morsing. he will not let it get out in the field] 5.044 street church. nang ¢ New York, Dec. 17.—That a|it will bean assault with fintent homes in Virginia. The evidence introduced on ae with him. ——_~~++oero————_ Mr. Fred Anderson, who is with;showed that both beys had broug a eal man earning only $6 a week is|to commit rape. 23 ; -|17 bags of cotton to the Myers cotton Burglar Makes a Haul. : o ° . . = ea ore coreacceneae gin above the city. Last Saas night a burglar enter-} Lawrence’s “Big Sale” still con-/not compelled to support his| The writer talked with a neigh: ieee oe W. B. Anderson. It was also proven that the cotton! 4 the home of Mr. P. S. Torrence |timues, and every day et ser is! wife was a decision by Judge|bor of of Mr. Moss’ late this af. Sermon in Figures, cotton had been picked and left in| 44, of about $30.00 in cash. Heen-| Every afternoo Session, The wife demanded $2| there would be h ardly any effort : . The prize for day be- : : ! Federal expenditures, 1878, $135,-| the zen = - ee Pagar tered through the back 2 7 = = ee a a a es aco Edo iviie pans $ 000,000. ee mad Sen Fete ete ee rarded to Mr, W. H. Long of| About ayear ago Lesser Glass-|to lynch, although feeling .was Federal expenditures, 1908, $638,-| it to gins, the room where Mr. Torrnce slept] W@S awarde . vy BO: : 000.000 _ After hearing the testimony, Mr.| 14 took his pants and carried them| this city. berg was married. He earned |still fearful. Sheriff Greene says t led that there was a case : rent through| The prize for yesterday was also a/¢g 9 week. His wife, Annie,|that he is not expecting any. Increase of popluation 1878 to| Turner decided t on the back porch and wen roug eo) a cee os ae ee 2 9 = t 2 ¥ 1908, 85 per cent, Increase of national wealth, 1878 to 1908, 185 per cent. Increase in cost of goverment 1878 to 1908, 400 per cent. At this rate of progress how long will it be before the government will eat up the people and their substance entirely?—Macon Telégtaph. el Schools Take Holiday. the graded school of this city has suspended until January the 4th for holidays. Several of the grades had Xmas trées in thei! rooms today. Most ail of the teachers will leave to- night and tomorrow for their homes to spénd the holidays. The college has alsé suSpendéd for holidays until January 4th, and askéd them for a bond of $100 each for their appearance at court. The bond was hot forthcoming, and they are how enjoying the comforts of the cell in the jail. one 4 ore—— Registrar in Trouble, W. L Peek, who was appointed registrat in Grapevine, No. 14 pre- cinct, Madison county, and John Ram- sey, & judge of elections, will be pre- sented to the federal grandjury for failuré to hold election on the 3rd of November. The night before the election they both resigned, and when the voter8 appeared to cast their pallots nxt morning, there was no one to hold the election. Peek is a republican and Ramsay is & democrat. The failure tO hold an election was regardéd as a joke at the time, but as the pockets and secured about $30. Mr. Torrence thought that during the night he heard some one in his room but did not arouse sufficiently to investigate and was not aware of his loss until next morning when he got up and missed his pants. He has no clue whatever to the guilty party or parties who entered his room. ———-¢<§ oro Greenbaum-Simon. The following invitations been received in the city: Mr. and Mrs. Emanuel Greena- baum request the pléeasur? of yuur presence at the wedding reception of their daughter, Hattie, and Mr, Ern- est A. Simon on the evening of Tues- day, the twenty-ninth of December, nineteen hundred and eight, at half have awarded to Mr. BB. Gibb. As yet Mr. Gibb has not called for his shoes. ———~++ 2 -—_—_ Soliciting Funds. Miss Elizabeth Biggs of Charlotte, is in the city today soliciting funds for the Florence Crittenton Industri¥! Home of Charlotte. This home is for the rescue of in- fants and orphans, also wronged girfS, and is a great institution. Miss Biggs reports liberal collec- tions, and askéd the Mascot to thank the good people of the city for her, through its columns for their liber- ality to her. —_—+++2>--—_——— Potts in Jail. Ferdinando Potts, «ho was arrest- ead some months ago on the charge of found that she couldn’t live on his salary, and they separated about two months ago. Then shesued for support. Judge Foster said: “If a woman chooses to embark in matrimony wtih fa man whose earning! capacity is only $6 she must take her ehances of getting her support. This rushing into matrimony may appeal to the President of the United States, but it dose not to any one who weighs the evidence and acts judicially to determine whether or not such a thing is reasonba- ble, right or proper.” $4 Fills your veins with rich, red trouble. The negro has not as been placed on preliminery trial accaunt of his fearfully beaten condition. Since writing the above Sheriff Green has received a telegram from W. C. Hammer to remove Young to the Charlotte jail ——_—_—~+2-2——_ = _ LOCAL BRIEF, = re ccm for her recovery, : Mayor Grier’s new aufo arrived in the city this afternoon, and it isa beauty. = The new store room on Cente? The condition of Mrs, Mary Hooper ~ critcal and little hope is entertained © < i = © Fe § is ‘ eae : m street is about réady for occupants. f président ight o'clock, Hotel Sussex, Sea-] retailing was fu’ in jail this after- a it involved the election OF P ee a f court.|bleed. Gives you a hearty appe-| The Elcricemoh Club is giving a Auction Sale, and federal officers, it appéars that) rord, Delaware.’? noon to await the next term of court. y Y app ptida-at-the Hotel Iredéil thi ais 2 The Henkle Live Stock Company there will be developments not s0} ir. Simon is the son of Mr. and| His case was first brought up for|tite, builds up flesh, makes you Ion paige sold two horses, two mules, harness funny, after all—-Lexington Dis<| yrs Sol Simon.of this city, and is atrial at the January term of court, strong and rugged. : Hollister’s é i 2 : The Entre Nous club ‘will rect and wagon at public auction today in patch. — well known traveling man. this year and he was under a $200 Rocky Mountain Tea, greatest eee ee front of the court house, to cover & — HOO Miss Greénbaum is well known{bond. The case has been continued hedlth Tullder. “5: collie: Fan, ool ae as eee ee Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Sloan returt-| here, having visited here quite fre-}each term and his bondsmen give him i ee eee ae eae Dae eae - eae ed from Taylorsville last evening. | quently, up today, Sth Cee : g \0. ce SOE! az = pei gla means of it bringing its full value. ‘\ PA R R Sa a t IC E as Se THE EVENING MASCOT DAILY EXCEPT: SUMDAY. . eg Entered at the Postofficein Statesville a. C.,a8 second-class mail matter. ——————S fica. 109 Coart Street. Telephone 53 VANCE NORWOOD - Publisher. RALPH SLOAN, - - City Editor, Sebsacription Price, - $4.00 a Year abecription Price;» - 10 Cents.a Week EEE ___ 3... Weather Forecasts, “#57 WWaahin et Dd €.,. D 1.—For “Ae . on, a 9 ec. airscoennal “Worth Carolina fair and cooler to- night and Saturday. —— O CROMWELL! Love thyself first; cherish those ones who pay thee; ‘Corruption now wins more than * “honesty. ' Stiil--with thy right hand set down > ‘arguments To silence questioning tongues. Be bold and fear not. Let all teh ends thou aim’st at be thy clients, ~* Thy friends’ thine own; then, if thou ’ fall’st, O Cromwell, Thou fall’st a Dlooming martyr? Shakespeare (slightly improved. _———_1 ro STATE TAX ASSESSOR. State Auditor Hon. B. F_ Dixon, gives out a statement in regard to the unequal assesment of taxable ““property in the state and says that t {fa plan could be adopted for the ‘~* yniform assesment of property in - the State taxes would be reduced one _half. He suggests that the state be -eut up into districts and that the gov- ‘“ernor be empowered to appoint one ~‘ ‘man to act in a district to go over it =“pby counties and with the local asses- >{gors fix a uniform assessment. If = any thing along this line should be done would it noz be better to create a state office of tex assessor and let “him go over the state from year to “year snd meet with the county com- *‘nissioners and the local tax asses- gots ahd fix assessments. In this way the state tax assessor would _ would have the true value of taxable property in each county and would “be able to make the valuation uni- ~~ Yorm. rE ‘ea THEY SLANDER US. & The bulletin of the North Carolina Board of Health in a recent state- ment to the public says: _. -; “While full.and accurate statistics . are not yet available, we never the Jess feel sure that Dr. Stile is within ** founds in his estimate that 33 1.3 * percent of the white rural popula- ‘tion ‘of the South belong to the class - of-referred to and one afflicted with _ hook worm disease, the essential "feature of which is anoemica.” “~~ Ag to the action referred to says “ft “slkoula ‘be remembered that the ‘Shook worm is most abundant in the ~*gamdy regions where malaria is most common and is likewise abundant in _ the rolling and mountain sections, ~ “No one would undertake to deny the “* @xistiince of the hook worm in the “*“gtdte ‘and we do not undertake to + “pay how prevalent it is down East --but-we do undertake to say that the » statement which says 33 1-3 per cent ot the white population of the roll- "Ing and mountainous sections are “eMicted “with the hookworm entitles “2 Dr? Stile to the presidency of Roose- velt’s annias club and the gentlemen “ef-the North Carolina bulletin to be ~, Bie most. worthy secretaries. Dr. - “Btile is a hooK worm specialist and ‘fw sent out by the government for >“€h@ purpose of investigating and lo- * “@ating’ the pest and of course, like - all these Northern fodests he makes _, 0@ to the South where he can have tree reign and what he says makes ““ho difference if it hurts, that section ‘* gud‘sends out prejudice to the coun- ~ “ey Yat ‘large against the South and «2 Sts people. As Said before the hook worm dis- ‘~ @ase does exist here, but to such an _extent as stated above must be **pwown to the gentlemen of the State ‘4<“ulletin; not to be a fact. It 1s alright to warn our people of the fact of the existance of any dis- ease among them, but to make such extravagent statements as above does - great harm to the State. 1°" "Phe disease could be remedied “=qithout this’ proclamation to the world, but it appears that we are to ** fave’ in this state some men who = will Join tn with any statement that is made against the South and its ~ -eondition,-and makes no difference how slanderous it is. .~' They say though that they are do_ ~= ing-it for the good of the State when it must -be- known to-them that the --. gemedy is worse than the disease. ry M-experiments are to be made it appears that the South is the fertile ids and favorable example always, - We are the orphan child in this fam- fly to be kicked and talked about on all questions. Of course we will be called down for complaining but it every one is not satisfied that it is just read the following statement made by the bulletin speaking of the white people of the sections above referred to it says: “But they are easily handicapped by the disease and ignorance, due to circumstances beyond their control. Cured of the one and relieved of the other, bone of our bone, and flesh of our flesh, they would develop into an element in our industrial and po- litical life beyond compare superior to any foreign immigration possible. Irom this Wwe must ke going back intc heathenism and tke dark oasis. Some one oughc to get the gentl2- tren of tne bulletin to travel arov:d some in their own State. ——_++e-o———— Death was on His Heels. Jesse P. Morris, of Skippers, Va., had a close call in the spring of 1906. He says: ‘‘An attack of pneumonia left me so weak and with such a fearful cough that my friends declared consumption had me, and death was on my heels. Then I was persuaded to try Dr. King’s New Discovery. It helped me immediately, and after taking two and a half bottles I] was a well man again. I found out that New Discovery is the best remedy for coughs and lung dis- ease in all the world,’’ Sold under guaarantee at Statesville drug Co. store. 50c. and $1.00. Trial bottle free. —_++@>-o— — — A Money-Making Farmer. Speaking of making money on the farm, the Yorkville, S C., Enquirer says there is a York county citizen who lives a few miles southwest of Rock Hill, who has made a record that is to be proud of. He bought a farm on credit about ten years ago and had but little to go on other than a sound body, sound mind. plenty of energy and a most excellent wife. After struggling along for several years he paid for his farm and equipped it with mules, machin_ ery, etc. During the past six years, he has banked a thousand dollars a year over and above expenses, and during the time mentioned one of his daughters has been graduated from Wintrop. —_———++-o—_— Day after day he walked the street, Looking for a presnt for ‘‘wifey’’ sweet— “‘T know what'll please her most,”’ said he; “It’s Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea.’’"—Statesville Drug Co. ———_—_4 + Jack—But I thought you doted on Miss Peachley? Tom—SolI did— until I met her mother. ~Jack— Well? Tom—The old lady proved to be an antidote—Chicago News. ———<<>-o___—_ Most disfiguring skin eruptions, scrofula, pimples, rashes, etc., are due to impure blood. Burdock Blood Bitters is a cleansing tonic. Makes you clear-eyed, clear-brained, clear skinned. —_———+-¢(- Hewitt—What do you think of that building lot I sold you? Jewett —I think that if you wére an honest man you would have advertised it as a swimming pool.—New- York Press. ——— a Mothers’ Joy is made of pure goose grease and other healing ingredients. Mothers you cannot afford to be without a box of Moth ers’ Joy. EE EL North Carolina, In Superior Court, Iredell County.f§ Jan. Term, 1909. Wm. B. Hunt, Alex. C. R. Wilson, Millard F. Burgess, Henry S. Hunt, Jobn E. Hunt and Ira M. Parsons, trading under the firm name of John E. Hunt & Co. vs. E. M. Young, C. L. Young, T. M. Young, M. J. Young, minor; Geo. H. Young, Joseph Young and wife Mrs. Joseph Young. NOTICE. | The defendant, T. M. Young. above named, will take notice that an ac- tion, entitled as above, has been commenced in the Superior Court of Trec2ll county to foreclose a mort- gage deed executed by T. M. Young and others to the plaintiffs, and the said defendant, T. M. Young, will further take notice that he is re- uired to appear at the term of the uperior Court of said county to be held on the 5th Monday before the 1st Monday in March, 1909, the same being the 25th day of January, 1909, at the court house of said county, in Statesville, N. C., and answer or de- murr to the complaint in said action, or the plaintiffs will apply to the court for the relief demanded in said complaint. J. A.HARTNESS, Clerk Superior Court. Dated December 11th, 1908. WHY SUFFER? Breathe Hyomei and Kill the Loathsome Catarrh Germs, Just as long as you have catarrh your nose will itch, your breatp will be foul,-and you hawk an spit, and you will do other dis- eusting things because you ¢an t help yourself. The germs of ¢a- tarrh have got you in their power: they are continually and persist- ently digging i nto and irritating the mucous membrane of your nose and throat. They are now making your life miserable; in time they will sap your entire system of it senergy, its strength, its serength, its vigor and vitality. But there is one remedy that will kill the germs and cure ¢a- tarrh, and that is Wyomei, the Aus- tralian dry air treatment. The Statesville Drug Co., the druggists, will guarantee Hyomei to cure eatarrh, or money back. Don’t delay this pleasant antisep- tie treatment. Breathe in Hyomei| and kil lthe germs. The Statesville Drug Co, will sell you a complete Hyomei outfit, including inhaler, for only $1,00. It is also guaranteed to cure bron- ehitis, asthma, coughs, colds, hay fever and croup. — i Game is Scarce. Salisbury Post, Hunters who have been in the fields of Rowan report game exceed- ingly scarce this year. This is es. pecially true of quail, which were so abundant last season. Two reasons are given for the scarceity of this bird—the floods of the summer and the depradations of hunters out of season. Some of the Nimrods are seriously agitating a memorial to the legislature asking for a closed sea- son for two years. © «<r Builds you up physically and mentally, keeps your digestion or- gans in condition, regulates the bowels, cleanses the blood, gives you perfect health. Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea or Tablets, 35 cents. Statesville Drug Co. THE GiRL ouESTION Z//A IS EASHY #a// SOLVED PRESENT HER WITH A BOX OF Lge nee” Re We Are Agents. See our Xmas Packages of Candy Stationery and Cigars W.F.HALL Prescription Druggist. OCD ED a OSITION Draughon gives contracts, backed by a chain of 30 Colleges, $300,000.00 capital, and 19 year’s success, to se- cure positions under reasonable con- ditions or refunnd tuition. BOOKKEEPIN Draughon’s ccm- petitors, by not accepting his pruposition, concede that he teaches more Bookkeeping in THREE months than they doin SIX. Draughon can convince YOU SHORTHAND fore sei Court Reporters write the system of Shorthand Draughon ‘teaches, be- cause they know it is THE BEST. FOR FREE CATALOG and book- let, ‘Why Learn Telegraphy?’’ which explains all, call on or write JNO. F. DRAUGHON, President DRAUCHON’S PRACTICAL BUSINESS COLLEGE (We also Teach by Mail) Raleigh, Knoxville, Nashville, Cc lname, says: ‘‘Bucklen’s Arnica GILMORE’S NEW PAPER, First Isue Will Appear Friday A. Me, January 1—Suggestions fov Names | Will be Received Until Christmas} Day Noon. Mr. A. H Gilmore announces this morning that a number of circum- stances had combined to make it ad- visable to postpone the publication of his new weekly paper which had heen announced to make its initial appearance this morning until Fri | day A. M., January 1. oo Consequently the new venture will | be born simultaneously with the new | year. Suggestions for names for the | voungster wi!l be received_up until noon on Christmas day, and the pa-| per will appear under its permanent heading. One of the causes responsible for | the postponement, was that many of the business men wish to obtain ad-| vertising space in the paper perma- | nently and especially desire to lave their business interests represented in the first issue. Several of them, however, did not care to enter into new contracts so near the end of the old year and none o} jected to waiting. —__——_2~<<>-— Would Mortgage The Farm. A farmer on Rural Route No. 2, Empire, Ga., W. A. Moyd by Salve eured the two worst sores I ever saw; one on my hand and one on my leg. It is worth more than its weight in gold. I would not be without it if I had to mort- gage the farm to get it.’’ Only 25e. at Statesville Drug Co.’s Statesville’s model hostesses. store. —_——_ + <> Stops earache in two minutes; toothache or pain of burn or scald in five minutes; hoarseness, one hour; muscleache, two hours; sore throat, twelve hours—Dr. Tiotmas Eclectric Oil, monarch over pain. M. P. Alexan- der & Bro. HEADQUARTERS FOR ALL KINDS Christmas Greceries rs ALSO mre eats, Don’t Forget to ‘Phone Ne. 241. THETREDELL CAFE LEADER IN CANDIES ovensZA.ocos FRUITS Oysters for retail and serving. Quail on Toast. PHONE NO. 323 W. W. GAITHER : Proprietor. STATESVILLE Opera House Building Open from 3 to 5 : and 8 to 10 p. m. No Children. Admitted to Floor at Night Sessions, NOTICE Chas. Brincefield will ap- ply for a pardon Dec. 18. Wood Sawed! For Infants.and Children, en ae 1D The Kind You Have ALCOHOL 3 PER CENT. | || AVegelable Preparationfords- Similating the FoodandRegula- |] ting the Stomachs and Bowelsof. Wa INFANTS “CHILDREN ———aees 9 ee Le ) AP a Be r t o n ) EO C 8 e SE Promotes DigestionCheerfuks i) nessand Rest.Contains neither ||| Opium Morphine nor Mineral. Nor NARCOTIC. Becize of Old De SSVOELPITHER Pumpkin Seed Mb. Sci * Rochelle Salls~ eats acemmsap Bi carhonule Soda a saat ; live re i encod Flame: i 4. OU YE “¢ Du s h . ’ a $ ON O SS , Om b r e ga s Ra a 7 te FS A erfect Remed for Consfipa: dot, Sour Stontach, Diarrhea Worms Convulsions Feverisk: ness and LOSS OF SLEEP. FacSimile Signature of NEW YORK. _ Be Saas ro r r RO A DO ! % ¥ att nel PREM penta eatt Sea ct Copy of Always Bought Bears the Signature of Use For Over Thirty Years ASTORIA THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK City. See R. O. Harbin or Phone 132) lumbia or Washington, D. C. or 46. 11-4-1m. | SeCeseseeeeceeosocooeoesos © These Handsome Dishes Given Away toMy Customers \ L. A. GOLDMAM $: @9 V 9 9 9 S G0 G 8 0 H 0 8 0 0 9 9 0 0 0 Purveyor to the People. With each cash purchase of 5 cents or over I will give you a 3 coupon that can be exchanged for these gifts. SSS 9689056008 COO8 COSC HO00 THE STATESVILLE LOAN AND TRUST CU, Of Statesville, N. C. very best terms that are iS PREPARED to transact all branches of banking. Accounts are solicited from firms, corporations and indiv - uals, who may rely upon courteous consideration and the consistent. with good banking methods. Four per cent. paid on time and savings deposits. UAPITAL STOCK ssscessseesseseseas 2. eosse-ereesee $40,000.00 SHAREHOLDERS LIABILITY.........ccsesseeeeseree$40,000.00 SuRPLUS anp UNDIVIDED PROFITS.......022--50,000.00 ToTAL RESOURCES OVER.....sccccsesesercoreeses $440,000.00 PN V S O H S P OD DS O WH O S E OI E O BA N E , -S O A A A A V A G E D E 19 9 9 8 0 0 8 = Betesesetetceasanonseosgegece ze osoe ze RCE. ee 53 # OFFICERS E. Steele, President, E. Morrisou, Vice-Pres, D. M. Ausley, Sec ang Treasurer, C. E. HUGHEY, Assistant Secy. and Treas W. G. CULBRETH, Manager Savings Department C600 S2Or 62068020 865S8/SIEIIO! — : Ina sharp contest nothing but “quality” and appearance figure. “purty H MADE” Hosiery and the “WORLDS BEST® Black are the goods of Quality. After ali has been said, all your pursuasive ae exhausted, it is still a fact that “QUALITY” IS THE ONLY TEST OF VALUE To get best resulta you must have the i Du e best of everythin a yarn, be:t colors; best machiries and best help, with uch a.combination you can produce the best of what you are making. Weh for the goods of uquatity. the above. Ask your dealer THE BRADFORD KNITTING MILL. BE B O 66 8 0O O * CO S BO S H CO D E 1L 1 19 1 1 8 1 09 0 8 CU E S SU O C OO O O 0006 eeu od 5 tel A Show Down ri e Vz Sa w a s e e r ES oO QQ Sa s rN S R R R R A l : o¢ ¢ © © + oe 19 8 8 0 0 0 7 0 9 0 8 0 21sveHOIeNSISIENS! ereneieessioneneresens [NEW ST UDIO} vo aynard & Ellis, Professional Photographers, in N. B. Mills New : Building, adjoining Stimson Drug Store, Statesville, N. C. High Grade Photos at a Low Price. jenny Pictures, the best that can be made—24 for 250, post Cards, per dozen, $1-2SH_sPer half dozen i Cabinets, in folders, dozen, $2 OO. Half dozen $1.50. 5 )ictures of your home, Post Card size, and up to 8x10 inches - «nd out-door groups, is one of our Specialties at a moder. i ’ g § § § Q § ate price. Give usa trial and be convinced that we are irying to please you. Weare now ready to serve you. : & : \Vill also Develop and Finish Kodak Work. $ .~MAYNARD & ELLIS=_! LL. everevevenerevenencieie-seee + pn nt SS <i Sag ee So = > AE a A a ma fer EP SE=xs a a pe Sizes oe S— DU N G IO U S NS U S I S IS I S ! De u s : > Paar 3 ‘ STUDY— f THOROUGCHNESS— SE E Are the coniponent parts of the Statesville Laun- So t de t t e $ dry business which you get the benefit of, if you 4 are @ customer, and for which no extra charge is yi ‘ majde. Good Work—Clean Work—White Work! i We wish a very merry Christmas. wa g e STATESVILLE STEAM LAUNDRY 9 U. C. HARWELL, Prop. ee e FeO TR EN !NEW SHOE STORE » oe x al a e ! Me Me o WE HAVE SHOES THAT ARE GUARAN- TEED TO BE ABSOLUTELY WATER- PROOF nice enough for general wear and heavy enough for farmers. ~WRASEE THEM Yr Complete line of Dress Shoes for Men, Women and Ma l e Ma l a Ma l a Ma MC te s mM re Children. Overshoes, Underwear and Gents’ Furnishings. ee 2 : . Z x, |:verything new and as represented. We will appreciate a aw _ xx call. Yours to serve, x m_& 5S. M. & H. SHOE COMPANY) Phone 40. Opposite Court House. CEE RSA PERS MONDAY, DEC. 21ST. -<2S=0ONE NICHT ONLY ! THE ~—<—7==CASINO COMPANY PRESENTS THE SENSATIONAL PLAY OF THE DAY CO S AC R E S s x M as A WONDERFUL PRODUCTION BY SUPERB CAST The Devil, as seen by New York Critics, “The Devil is a great play, look at it from any point you will.”—Acton Davies in the Evening Sun. é “One of the strongest plays in a decade.”—The New York Press. ‘Audiense kept gasping.”” The New York Herald. (cet Your Seats early. Onsale Saturday, Dec. 19th at the Statesville Drug Company. WOOSOOHOSOOOOOOOOSOOOOSOO SOOO THE FINEST GIFT OF THE YEAR: ou can easily bestow upon , yourself is to acquire the habit of thrift and the sav- ing of money—the Merch- ants and Farmers bank off- ers you the most practical means, as its financial stand- ing and integrity are un- questioned. Commence to save on January Ist and Stick to your resolution. Merchants and Farmers’ Bank d OF STATESVILLE INCORPORATED CAPITAL $25,000.00. OFFICERS: oe - . N, Pres.; C. S. TOMLIN, Vice-Pres.; F. ». =e Treas.; J. A. KNOX, Asst. Sec. & Treas. Directors: , . id Sti . L. Stevenson, C. S. Tomlin, R. R. Reid, eS OS. Page, Geo. B. Nicholson, L. K. Lazen- by, E. G. Gaither, J. R. Hill, E. B. Watts. Se Get us five yearly subscribers to The Evening Mascot, paid in advance, and get one of the beautiful China Sets we are giving as premiums. Blunders of the Types. er since the introduction of type- emanated from printers’ offices. The mistakes are not always to be shoul- dered on to the compositor, for bad handwriting must be taken into ac- count. Here are a few instances of actual blunders collected by a proof- reader in the course of his daily work: “His blushing bride” was transform- ed into “his blustering bride.” A major was Stated to have “served With destruction in the army.” The writer thought he used the word “dis- tinction.” “The Galley I Love” was the descrip- tion of a picture entitled “The Galley Slave.” Speaking of theatrical folk, a critic wrote that “nearly all have husbands or wives.” The paragraph printed read “hundreds of Wives.” “They sailed for three days around the cape and finally slaughtered a small Italian” should have been “sighted a small island.” One more in conclusion. “He takes delight in talking on his family shame” was a shameful thing to say when “favorite theme” Was meant. SS A Three Legged Bison. In 1867 Small Eyes, a Blackfoot who had come down from the north and joined the Arapahoes and lived with them, told Black Kettle, a Cheyenne in George Bent’s lodge, about having killed, between the Cimarron’ and Beaver creek, a tributary of the north fork of the Canadian, a buffalo bull which had only one hind leg. Accord- ing to Small Eyes’ story, it did not ap- pear that the bull had lost one of its hind legs, but rather that it never had had more than one. The hind leg was very large, seemed to be in the mid- dle of the body instead of at one side, and there was no sign of any missing leg. It looked as if the two hind legs which the buffalo ordinarily has had in some way fused together. The war party with which Small Eyes was traveling was passing along near a hollow when the bull came up out of it, and some of the men ran ahead, got around it and shot it with & gun. It was not able to run fast, but rather hobbled along.—Forest and Stream. Saved by a Photograph. A very remarkable incident occurred at Rio de Janeiro. A passenger on board one of the large liners took a photggraph of the harbor. It included a small yacht which had sailed in the morning with two men in her, but returned in the evening with one only. The survivor said his companion had fallen over- board, but his statement was not be- lieved. He was tried and sentenced to death. The matter had by this time come to the ears of the photographer, who remembered that the picture had been taken on the day of the “crime” (or accident) and that the scene em- braced a yacht. On examining the print more carefully he noticed a small speck on the sail and in order to de- termine what ft was had an enlarge- ment made. It proved to be the figure of a man falling. It was shown to the authorities at once, and the condemned man was released. Dropsical Oysters. With a sneer the oyster opener point ed to a brownish smear upon a Saddle Rock shell. “Some fool,” said he, “has been try- ing to fatten up a batch of Saddle Rocks with cornmeal. You might as well try to invigorate flowers with corned beef hash. But it is a common error to believe that cornmeal or oat- meal will fatten oysters. I continually find oysters with their shells stained with those grains. It makes me laugh. As a matter of fact, there is no such thing as fattening oysters. .Afl you can do is swell them up with water, pre- cisely the same as water swells 8 sponge. You put them in fresh water, which, being less dense than the soft they are accustomed to, by the princi- ple of osmosis penetrates and distends their tissues—gives them, as you might say, dropsy. For my part, I don’t like fattened oysters.”’—New Orleans Times- Democrat. For a Bride’s Dowry. There is a very pretty custom in some of the northern parts of Europe. There the white poplar in good soil increases a shilling in value every year. The trees are generally cut down at the age of twenty years, as they are then supposed to have attained their full growth. When a daughter is born in the family of a well to do farmer the father as soon as the sea- son permits plants a thousand young trees, and these are to constitute the dowry of the maiden, “which grow as she grows and increases in height and value as her virtues and beauty in- crease.” Out to Work. “What society needs is a clearing house.” “What do you mean?” “I wish I didn’t have to go to the Van Squawks’ bal] next week. The Van Squawks wish they didn’t have to ask me. Why can’t we exchange certificates and call the thing even? —Kansas City Journal. Why He Barked. A witness in an Irish court talked so loud that Charles Philips, who was counsel on the other side, said, “Fel- low, why do you bark so furiously? “Because,” said the man, looking hard at Philips, “I think I see a thief! Retribution. Tommy—Pop, what is retribution? Tommy's Pop—Retribufion, my son, is something that we are sure will even- tually overtake other people.—Phila- delphia Record. os I Setting errors, weird or comical, have | FIRST ANNUAL CONVENTION ganizations are Represented. Monroe, Dec. 16.—The first annual convention of the Nor’: Carolina Branch of the F.irmers’ nior com- menced this morning with a patsic Nevting at the cours house Dr. H. ing. Frank Armfield, of Monroe, welcomed the detegates on behalf of the city; J. Z. Green, president Union cornty branch, «n behalf of the coun- ty. These addresses were responded to by Delegates A. C. Shuford, of Catawba, and W. B. Gibson of Ire- dell. John L. Lee president of thé Geor- gia branch, delivered the longest, speech of the session, explaining the methods by which membership of the Union in his State was increased from 8,000 at the beginning, three years ago, to 108,000 at present. ~ J. P. Campbell, United States De. partment of Agriculture spoke cn the educational work of the Union, and advances made in diversification of crops. He said the time had passed when Southern farmers had to board in the Northwest and lodge in the South. C. R. Hudson state agent of exper- iment work for the Union, made a short address on the work of his ce- partment. The convention will convene on through tomorrow for election o? of- ficers and discussion of business. D<¢l- egates are present from all the coua- ties in the State which have organ- izations. ——++@>-e——_—__.. Where Bullets Flew. David Parker, of Fayette, N. who lost a foot at Gettysburg, says, ‘‘The good Electric Bitters have done is worth more than. five hundred dollars to me. I spent much money doctoring for a bad case of stomach trouble, to little purpose. I then tried Electric Bitters, and they cured me. 1 now take them as a tonic, and they keep me strong and well.” 50c. at Statesville Drug Co.’s store. —_———_+<+@-o—— “Going to the football game?” “Not me.” ‘Don't you understand the plays?”’ ‘No; I am sorry to say my early eduaction in pugilism was sadly neglected.’’-—Nashville Ameri- can. HOLLISTER’S Rocky Mountain Tea Nuggets A Busy Medicine for Busy People. Brings n Health and Renewed Vigor. A specific far Constipation, In? igestion, Liver and Kidney troubles, Pimples, ":ezema, Impure Blood, Bad Breath, Sluggish bowels, Headache and Backache. Its Rocky Mountain Tea in tab- let form, 35 cents a box. Genuine made by HOLLIsTER Druc Company, Madison, Wis. GOLDEN NUGGETS FOR SALLOW PEOPLE SOUTHERN RAILWAY CO. Great Highway of Trade and Travel Through the Southern States on palatial trains between the principal Cities and Resorts of the South. H:gh-class Dining Cars. Many delightful Summer and Winter Resorts: on and; Sapphire Country,” in scenic Western North Carolina; beau- tiful at all seasons. Hotels of the higLest class. 1 For detailed information apply to nearest Ticket Agent, or R. L. VDRNON, T. P. A., Charlotte, N. C. S.H. HARDWICK, P. T.M., W.H. TAYLOE,G. P. A., Washihbgton, D. C. New Pool Room New Tables of the latest and best makes have been in- stalled under J. P. Phifer’s grocery store. We SolicitYourPatronage All Countfes in the State Having Or-} 3 Q_ Alexander, State president presid-| -& J., & veteran of the civil war, |’ B08 0 0808 080B08C 60008080 60556.550808G9 08080808055 65008K TOSOSOSOSORR WODCRO MNT TEEPE ELA, Is Essential to the Up-. building of the Modern — Business Enterprise. -::: To the publicity gained’ by the “use of the advertising columns of the daily papers is .at- ~ tributed the growth, and consequent success, of - a very large percentage of great business enter- prises of the present day. . pisoaeet eas ; Advertising is recognized as the prime fac- - tor in increasing the sales of any class of goods or manufactured articles. ; id aids: Sas The space used in this paper is your,busi- . ness message to the public. In this open letter - you should tell them of the merits of what you are offering, setting forth the reasons Why your * particular line is worthy of their attention... _. THE EVENING }MASCO? has increased its local circulation very materially ~ during the past three months and the results .. § obtained from the space used by the:advertisers = are gratifying to them and to the paper. It °% reaches into the homes of the best class_of our , people and your message will be placed'in the « § hands of those with money to buy the goods “% you wish to sell. au. ae The Space Rates in The Evening Mascot <8 are not high. Your message is carried, each = # day, to those you wish to reach, in the most economical manner. | [= For information call us up on the phone and a representative ot the paper will gladly visit you Og f bo % 2 Rx bo o te RG fo og 5 bo pe Re 6 6 o Through Pullman Sleeping Cars| & reached by Southern Railway.|: ; “The Land of the Sky,” “The! | ALLEN | ‘SEVERAL THINGS Are to be considered in selecting your Bankf 1ST. Strength-Financial Strength 2ND. The care with which the ‘ Bank is Managed. 3RD. The courtesy:and spirit of : of accomodation displayed by the Officers and. Em- -_ployees. - - : i 4TH. The banking experience of ee Officers. . . aoH 4 5TH. The ability of the bank to a Properly and Promptly Handle all Your Business To Those Desiring the Embodi- ment of These Features. are Offered The Service of THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF STATESVILLE CAPITAL $100.000 090808090808080909 090805 0908080808 080800 SCRL SOR EKSTesn PPE SOS SSOEODOSOBOSOSISORISOS EOD OS OS OS AOD ae a Now Time for You to Se- ¢ lect Your Xmas Goods’ - We will put aside any goods selected. ~* See our new line of ...-. Morris Chairs and Rockers. Also Fine Mahogany Tables; - We will make Special Prices on COOK~ =~. STOVES and RANGES. STATESVILLE HOUSEFURNISHING COMP’Y wien Bie anlar Na a : é; 4 oa he i ee haat wal ‘by “ie Bo ou iat eg ASOT iat EN MR A ios i Na Rain ea at OM hie cze mete oe, anita c satay Da a a ate AE sc a Dia a Be IO i Sapo MENA ic ee Ne ES weet = pS oS Ba y BS sg ot e ts oo ay | | Le Se l e ee aE ae ok Se a l pe e ee ee ge r rt d rn ey me m aa = — a ee a] Ba at o > Pi g we e e e n . SM may 4 i , — 3 . pa s % os t ee s 7 Fi n n a0 on am e n : ¥ at e — er e ay 1H Gb R ei n k : et t ot t o EE PE S pe e et SS S Se e SS Pa t a e 4 ee ar e ee ee n es e ‘ ie s i 36 . . py Pe c k hs PS S Sa r a ao e i AD E SE P Re Le ae ea e — ee n POSEAI. TELEGRAPH-CABLE CO. an New Company Now Open for Business With Mr. C. B. Sloup, of Salisbury, as Manager. The Postal Telegraph Company an- nounced the opening of the States- yille office this morning when its wires began to work. Everything is also in readiness at Mooresville, and the electricians will go there from Statesville tomorrow to install the office. Statesville and Mooresville will have a competitive telegraph service for the first time in their history. Mr. C. B, Sloop, of Salisbury and who has good experience in the tele- graph service, has accepted the man- agement of the Statesville office, He is a very talented young man and is an exceptionally capable telegrapher, He is courteous and obliging, and the people will find him agreeable in their transaction with the Postal office here. In connection with the scope and purpose of the Postal it can be said that this is the only company which has ever afforded the people a per- manent, efficient and aggressive com- petitive telegraph service. With the Commercial Cable sys- tem, of which this is a part, it con- stitutes the largest organization of its kind in the world. Its lines extend from Great Britain and Europe by way of the United States, Hawa’i and the Phillipines to China and Japan, encircling more than two thirds of the earth, and meeting in close relation at their ex- tremes, the lines of foreign com- panies which complete the circuit of the globe. It maintains its own offices in the principal cities of Great Britain and Europe, and connects with over 23,000 cities, towns and villages in the United States and Do- minion of Canada. The Company was organized nearly twenty-five years ago, and under wise and.. conservative management has steadily pushed its lines through the American Continent until the points which it does not reach, represent less than 5 per cent of the telegraph business of the country. The Postal rates do not differ from those of the other Company. When the B..& O. Telegraph Company was absorbed, the Postal stood as a bar- rier between the public and former monopolistic rates, and thus did as much for the patrons in the telegraph tn this passive way, as an earlier ac- tive fight producing reduced cable rates had done for the patrons of the cable.. Furthermore, the rates are now as low as they can be and main- @ain the service which the Postal Company aims to give, the average profit being less than two cents per message. As evidence of the remarkable work being done by this company, one only has to pay a visit to New York where stock messages are sent to Great Britain daily and replies re- ceived in two or three minutes, and from important inland centers to Great Britain and back in from five to six minutes. But, the one feat which will probably stand unparallel- ed for 2 long time, took place on July 4,, 1903, upon the occasion of the Gpening of the company’s trans-Pa- cific cabdle, A message containing forty words from Clarénce H. Mackay, president Of the Postal Company, standing on one side of a table at Oyster Bay, was gent around the world and delivered ta President Roosevelt standing on the other side of the same table, in ine minutes and th'rty seconds. o———_ ++ Foul Play Suspected. North Wilkesboro, N. C., Dec. 16, The old lady known as “Grannie Pat- terson’”’ Tiving at the foot of the Blue Ridge on thé old Wilkesboro and Jef- ferson road, was found dead Monday. Foul play is suspected and an inquest will be held theré tomorrow evening, Travelers across the Blue Ridge dur- ing the last thirty-two years will re- member this widely known old wo- mah who often times administered spirits to the wayfarers. easier Itching piles provoke profanity, but profanity won’t cure them. Doan’s Ointment cures itching, Bigeding protruding piles after years of suffering. At any drug store. ntl EPP Pe Theatrical Manager—What leads You to believe you are fitted for the stage?—Applicant—-why there ain‘t no doubt about it. Me and my husc- band are on the point of separation all the time.—Puck. mca act mtn _ Mother do you hear that rat- . dling in your babies throat? Put a little Mothers’ Joy on it and stop 4 at ones. ——+e.e——— “t= e'Yes,” said Mrs. Malaprop “my ter’s going to win that soldier ight, She’s already ordered one _soft theta stabbard gowns to please Seat.” —Detroit Free Press, a - .“ we. Glenn to Make Pardons. Raleigh, N.C., Dec. 17.—Annie Turner, serving life sentence for Jadmitting Sam Walker to resi- dence of Col. Banks Holt, of Graham, so that he attempted the assassination of Colonel] Holt well nigh mortally wounding bim is pardoned by Governor Glenn on the ground that there is doubt of her guilt. He says the Supreme Court would have granted her a new trial for new- ly discovered evidence exonerat- ing her, butit has not that pow- er in criminal cases. Coleman Brown serving senten- tence for second ‘degree murder Jackson county, is pardoned on the ground that the Killing was largely justifiable, and a year’s imprisonment, that he hasserv- ed, is enough punishment. Walter Hedgpeth, serving five years for manslaughter, Guilford county has sentence committed to two years to be released Feb- ruary 1, becuause trial judge feels that the sentence was too severe. N. G. Walker, six years, Polk county, for manslaughter, com- muted to two years on account of doubt of guilt. James Dixon, old Confederate soldier, Sampson {county, is par- doned from two years’ sentence for stealing meat. The governor believed that other parties put it in the old man’s smokehouse. The governor declines: six oth- er applications for pardons as follows: Thomas Worly, Lenoir, county, serving fifteen years for murder; W. D. Shaw, two years, Nash county, for assaulting wife with deadly weapon; Marion Day, Six months, for slander; Isaac Harris, fifteen years Greene county, for attempt to outrage; James McKenney, ten years, Mitchell county, for second de- gree murder; Uap Jones life ser- tence, Buncombe county, second degree burglary. STATE I NDEBT, Disagreeing With State Auditor Dix- on Who Criticized Revenue Act for Its Inequalities .State .Treasurer Lacy Recommends Its Re-Enact- ment With Few .Changes—Some Figures in Report. Raleigh, Dec. 17.—That there will be no change in the present State tax rate, and that the present reve- nue act will be re-enacted without any material change by the approach- ing Legislature, is a feature of the bienial report and recommendation of the State Treasurer now ready for transmission to the Governor and General Assembly. The report declares that there will oot be any funds available to justify permanent improvement appropria- tions for State institutions by the Legislature this session, He recommends that the penitenti_ ary bonds to be paid on maturity in Jantary, and that provision be made for funding the $3,427,000 State bonds that mature in 1910. The exact figures are not yet made public but it is understood there is about a $59,000 deficit in the State Treasury with $400,000 money bor- rowed to meet the expenses of th State. ~ The distribution of the $400.000 Confederate pensions among the North Carolina pensioners is being made this week, theré being 15,579 of the pensioners, the annual allot- ments being acccrding to class $72, 360, $48, and $25, ee Enea Mothers how can you take ehances—keep a bottle cf Moth- ers joy in your house. You need Mothers Joy every day. le Governor Glenn in the Fifth. It has been suggested that Govern- or Robert B. Glenn fun for congress in the fifth district two years hence, and win, of course, thus redeeming the district from the republieans; who captured it this year on account of dissensions among the democrats. With Glenn in the fifth and L. C. Caldwell in the eighth the democrats would have an easy time of it. It is to be hoped that both will run: If they run they will certainly be elécted Nobody has been suggested in: the tenth district, but we suppose “that Crawford will be the nominee.—Lex- ington Dispatch. a If you haven’t the time to exrefcise regularly, Doan’s Regulets will pre- vent constipation. They induce a mild, easy, healthful action of* the bowels without griping. Ask your: druggists for them. 26c. « wth ‘|time a principal points, Pulllman A Healthy Family. ‘Our whole family has enjoyed good health since we began using Dr, King’s New Life Pills, three tyears ago,’’ says L. A. Bartlet, of |Rural Route 1, Guilford Maine. They cleanse and tone the system in a gentle way that does you good 25e. at Statesville Drug Co. —_~++or->——— Notice. If you discard all idea of getttig something ean’t we ‘‘get together’’ as to the price. See Bob Henry. something genuine for the cost of spurious—then why Personally Conducted Tour to Ha- yana, Cuba, and Return, January 11, 1909, Via Southern Railway Souhern Railway will sell round trip excursion tickets to Havana, Cuba at following rates from points named: PCC oo cinco alianaoliele $39.10 CRON 5 ois miei, sire a oe Mariosn.... ....+. ee Cice . 40.45 SABIE on cic winen « acme bdo Shelby... ..<. sc sue cece . 42.50 SEGECSUHNC.. concn wn ccwce 42.40 Approximately low rates from from other points. Tickes on sale January 11th, good returning to leave Havana, Cuba, on or before January 27th, 1909. Tickets may be routed through Jacksonville thence either through Knight’s Key, or Port Tampa. Good going and return-- ing same route. Stop-over will be allowed at Jacksonville, St. Au- gustine, Palm Beach, Miami, and other points south of Jacksonville, within final limit of ticket. A representaive will accompany movement, and will look after the eomfort and pleasure of the party. For further information as to side tours from Havana, sight see- ing tours, hotel rates, leaving and state room reservation, write J. H. Wood, D. P. A., Asheville, N. C.; W.'°H. McGlamery, P. & T. A., Raleigh, N. C.; R. H. DeButts, P. & T. A., Greensboro, N. C.; or eall on your repot agents, or write R. L. VERNON, T. P. A. Charlotte, N. C. WANT ADS oF Sime. sk cee ...0 cents & line. 3 times...................4 cents & line. 6 times......... seseeeeey CeNtS & line. 26 times...............+. 3 cents a line. WANTED—A Second hand Oliver typewriter, in fair condition. Address XXX eare Mascot 3t WANTED—BY THE AMERICAN Cotton and Business University of Milledgeville, Ga., students to take one or more of our courses in cot- ton grading, buying and selling. Business courses of bookkeeping, Shorthand, Typewriting, or Telegra- phy and Railroad course. Positions guaranteed under reasonable con- ditions. Write at once for our consolidated catalog. Largest col lege South. Sept 28-tf North Carolina, \ Superior Court, Iredell County. { Nov. 13, 1908. NOTICE OF SUMMONS AND WARRANT OF ATTACHMENT Henkel Live Stock Company vs. J. E. Cornelius, alias “J. H.”’ Cornelius. The defendant above named will take notice that a Summons in the above entitled action was issued against said defendant on the 13th day of November, 1908, by the Clerk of the Superior Court of Iredell county, which summons is return- able to the Superior Court of Iredell county on the fifth Monday before the first Monday in March, 1909. That plaintiff seeks to secure judg- ment for the sum of Three Hundred and Ten Dollars and Thirty-five Cents, due said plaintiff by said de- fendant by note and chattle mort- gage. The said defendant will also take notice that a warrant of attach- ment was issued by said Clerk of Superior Court in said action on the 13th day of November, 1908, against the property of said defendant, which warrant is returnable before said Superior Court of Iredell county at the time and place above named fér the return of said Summons, when and where the said defendant is re- quired to appear and answer or de- mur to said complaint, or the relief demanded therein will be granted. J. A. HARTNESS, Clerk Superiour Court of Iredell County, N,. C. LEG LLL MPs ee a a & -¥ . ~ $10 Gold Pieces for $9.00 —=s P D D Q P D D I and they must go: Solid Gold Lockets RN I N as zo e ) = Guaranteed. QD I you money. In Gold Filled Goods, is what it means when you buy your Christmas goods from me. Tees too much stock and must cut it down by January Ist, ns in anything in my line. and will give you bargal prices suit the BUYERS h Movement can now get it cheap. ney South Bend, Illinois, Hamilton, Elgin and Waltham, in 15 and 17 ‘aweled grades. These will be put into whatever kind of a case you sie Sane I have too many 15 and 17 jeweled movements on hand I have Solid Gold Rings from $1 OO up. Solid Gold Cuff Buttons 175 “ Will make the SE. Any one wanting a high-grade ue 2 I have these in the Rock- T O S W O M O T O N T O O N T O N T G Solid Gold Stick Pins from $1 OO up. Solid Gold Brooches 125 “ ee 400 “ Sold Gold Neck Chaius = ve <6 Solid Gold Hearts for Neck Chains All other Gold Goods too numerous to mention at right prices. such as Gold Filled Neckchains, Gold Filled Lockets, Gents’ and Ladies’ Gold Filled Woven Wire and Silk Watch Fobs, Ladies Gold Filled Cuff Pins, Veil Pins, Hat Pins Bar Pins, Stick Pins, Belt Pins, Brooches, etc., from the lowest prices and up. Large lot of Bracelets at right prices. Nice line of Silverware and Novelties, such as Toilet Sets, Manicure Sets, Mili- tary Brushes, Clothes Brushes, Shaving Brushes, Hat and. Bonnet Brushes, allfin sterling or best grade Quadruple Plate. Nice line of Ladies’ Gold Filled Handle Umbrellas from $3 SO to $7 50. You can get a bargain in Cut Glass, Japanese China Vases, etc., and Statu- ary, as these must go. In Silverware I have a complete#linevof Knives and Forks, Tea and Table Spoons, Butter Knives, Sugar Shells, Pie and Tomato Servers, cold meat and other Forks, Berry Spoons. Soup Sets, Soup Ladles, Carving Sets, Childs’ Sets, individual Salt Sets, Cut Glass Sterling Top Salt and Pepper Sets. Nice line of Parlor and Gold Plate Clocks, Kitchen and Alarm Clocks. No difference what you want in the Jewelry line, I will save Come and see for yourself. A WA N LA N , ar <a Vi We =_ — > ed IN Q R. F. Henry # Jeweler and Optician Hotel Iredell Building. ANTONIO OOOO TONING IONGNIGNIONION | SH E N T O N TO N I O N I O N I O N SN N I O N CS R S ER E SO I SS RS C RR O REESE RR EERE BEER ER ROSIE Bone een gs ‘S They Are Going With a Rush! Christmas Presents of Quality Have You Bought? Come buy today while the selection is large. Statesville Dri Cao. At the Store of Quality Prescriptionists. RS SE CS S SE R S RS SR S SS S SS RAR SIRS TR SRR SSRI ee eee eee a aa an Oe How to Prevent Pneu- monia In every paper you pick up you will see where some good man has just died with this fearful disease—pneu- monia. Now we will give you One Hundred Dollars for any case of pneumonia you have in your family it fails to cure if you will use Goose Grease Liniment as directed. It only costs you 25 cents a bottle. Get it— you have nothing to loose and all to gain. Weknow there are thousands who will read this and throw it aside and in a few days will be down with the disease. Please just get one bottle and putit away until you need it. If you haven’t the money to buy it let us know and we will send you a bot- tle free. GOOSE GREASE CO. AMBITIOUS YOUNG MEN AND ladies should learn telegraphy; for, since the now 8 hour law became effective there is a_ shortage of many thousand telegraphers. Po- sitions pay from $50 to $70 a month to beginners. The National Telegraph institute of Columbia, S. C., and five other cities is oper- ated under supervision of R. R. officials and all students are placed when qualified. Write them for particulars. nol19 dtf FOR RENTI—ONE STORE BUILD- ing and basement. Best retail stand in the city. Statesville Real- ty and Investment Co. Sept.19 ( @ S €¢ € Ws ee e h e s e e c e e c e €e € e e ¢ » CHRISTMAS SUGGESTIONS § Let us help you solve the all perplexing ques- tion:—WHAT SHALL I GIVE FOR CHRIST-= MAS? Below isa list of useful articles which any one would be proud of: House Slippers, Bath Slippers, at 50c. to $2.00 The handsomest line of Neckwear in Statesville at 25c. to $1.00 Silk Muffiers and Reefers at $1.00 to $3.00 Silk Suspenders (in individual boxes) at 50c. to $1.50 Silk Handkerchiefs (plain or fancy) at 25c. to $1.00 Hawes celebrated $3.00 Hats, all the new shapes and colors— Green, Ivy, Tan and Peari. Dress and Driving Gloves at 25c. to $2.00 The Christmas money expended here will not be wasted. S.B. MILLER = THE SHOE MAN. 60 0E 0 9 G 0 0 8 0 0 0 8 SO000C0O00OOCOCCCCROOOOUG REE CERES CECSEC CCC ECEEESEY THE GREATEST OF ALL GIFTS—— * at Christmas, or any i other time, is good health a This is insured by means Mm of sanitary plumbing in q\ your house. If you would m present your family with M a threefold blessing, cele- a brate Christmas by ar- Tanging with us for a , z complete system of mod- RE a x ern up-to-date plumbing Feo G £ from cellar to roof. = ee zs A. W. HOLLER PLUMBING COMPANY * Phore No. 61. 127 W. Broad St. fA R332332332332322333332332 _ orak fora kno and Pa PM Fin a TN i ob wed oe SES on ee Cx ae — SCOT. DIED IN HEATHAN LAND. Nan . i- THE EVENING Statesville, N. C., Saturday Evening, December 19, 1968, Wok IZ ioe H. Blatle No. 377 ON T | TO N — OIC THE DEVIL COMING TO TOWN. . ANOTHER VICTIM OF KEROSENE. WILL GRAHAM HANGED. ——e ee Seed Will G e a ill Give People of This V apes Vicinity a| Mr. Jack Beasléy Painfully Burmed| Negro Whom There Was Some Ef- Former Asheville Girl Passes Away | Splendid Opportunity to Wi . : z : ae tj While Starting a Fire With O—| fort to Lynch Legally Executed. in Far-Off China, Where She Had Will Grahem, irene ze : lS ) ( SI Z 7 Magnificent Prod Barons ie ee = Miss Lena Meroney Assumes Man- Concord Lec, is. Gone as a Presbyterian NESS y as ces Will} agement of Theatre of Salisbury. | the negro who ravished Miss Pearl E. Ashevill D : ne Ne fags : : J 2c. —News tha The D Spencer Dec. 18.—Mr. Tucker in the afternoon of October , | fall — evil, Diabolus, Der Teufel. : ae 12, while she was out in the cotton} OfO@ht sorry to the hearts The dra Beasle Y i eouicés sac ee — ee oe oe ae; ee aoe 8€-! Geld, in the suburbs of this city, ang|Of many in Asisville came yes- Ganev wae e - aes see = : €re| was convicted on November 6 and; terday from far away China in WOMAN POISONED SIX PERSONS present era that is a genuine novel 5 k 4 oY explosion irom | sentenced to be hanged on Decem-jefitect that December 11th, at : ae Federal Grand Jury Returns True | the eee ee < =e ee erosene oil. Ile attempted to] ber 18, today paid the penalty with Changteh, Hunan Province, L pil Against Mr. Lee H. Battle, | storm and created ork by| Kindle a fire by pouring kerosene| is life. Graham arrived this morn-| Dorct f - of eae ed a managerial war, | 93) in a stove when his hands| /28 ©" train No, 4% from Greensboro on ne eee an : ‘|missionary of the Presbyterian FORTY Poisoned Husband, Sister, and Three Children and Also Sister-in-Law. Police are Unraveling Mysterious TO N T O N T O Wa ~~ i= 3 Late Cashier of the Defunct City] the end of r hich is not yet in sight: i &S National Bank of Greensboro . Fer SE stene . : . | where he spent the night on his w AS : the pl enveloped in fl : = ee eee ee : Se t ee =a = . play that has brought forth more CCS and 10 8D 10-| here trom the state penitentiary,|Church in theforiegn field. The] Crime—Se only Got $30 in O se Him ross mment and caused more talk, dis-|Stant he was badly blistered in ; Se EE ere iN tions of the Statutes Regulating | cussion and argument than the fac d h i Se ee ee eee snare t the Operations of National Banks | play within the history of oe a = Re : oe = —— Cad eo ee f eS False Reports Made Comptroller | ican stage; the devil—the simon-pure tence. ee ee eel eee eee Boston, Dec. 17.—-A storyzof i= ‘0 5 ° ° wit nw + > ’ ° . & and Accounts Grossly Overdrawn. | one hundred per cent. proof article: : : ‘clock : ig | Of foreign Missions in New York | epj Thi i t = ne : Charged with robbing the At eleven o’clock today Sheriff : : crime which, according to the ma ee , 2 perverted translation or hurriedly homeof Mr. R. W & Honeycutt turned in thirty-six wit- the board having received a cab- police, may prove tobe one of sK Mr. Lee H. Battle, cashier of|‘®™°¥2 together version but the > - Canip, at nesses, helpers, newspaper men and|legram from its mission at Chan-|the most kable i E ; : the real play as originally written by} SUMmer, Rowan county, while j : See ee Fz, the defunct City National Bank|,.., a en by rs y> "doctors, which totaled up to forty-)gteh- No news had been receiv, | annals, is partly disclosed, the f of Greensboro, was indicted in nar, the brilliant Hunga-|thefamily was at chureh last|eight in all. A few minutes after 11] eq rel tive to the ill f ° laa. i : a = : ? Imdic rian dramatist, carefully and especial- Sunday, Rufe Knox and Davejo’clock Graham was escorted in by Sn ee ee say by the arrest in_ the suburb ee! Federal Court here yesterday, ly adopted for production by the Ca- a colored, were lodged in|‘¥° deputies, who assisted him in eee of East Cambridge of Mrs Mary Fx the bill of indictment embracing | sino Company. Sih cck Setiaisce eaten a getting upon the drop-platform, ana| O°? death came as a severeshock | Kelleher on the charge of arson. The local management has been ex- J sburywesterday. £eCY | then the sheriff said, ‘“‘Will. if you to her many friends here. Mrs.|The woman is suspected of hav- Derst was formerly Miss Grace | ing causei the death of: were given @& preliminery hear- have anything to say now, let’s hear 40 counts of charging various tremely fortunate in securing this at- Graham said: “Gentlemen, 1| Venable, daughter of the late] Mrs. Bridget Knowles, a sister > Bienes Saag a eee a Monday, December 21,|!2g before Justice W. T. Sum-| it.” most prominent citizens, highly | servea ai ae oe os ee oo See tite Soaps = ae a Capt. F. S. Venable, at one time|on July 3, 1905, regarded and holding various] Dorothy Dix, of the New York Jour- eee ROE ORE die no more.” oe es superintentdent of the Asheville] Annie Kelleher, a sister-in-law officers of trust in the city and|nal, after witnessing this great pro- in aaiaphc cbr tad to a ?@w of the people in the crowa| Millitary Academy andlater for|/on March 13, 1906. alike conspicuous in church as| ‘ction, said: “The ‘Devil? teaches a Another Bad Durham Fire. that he knew, then said: “Men, 1/Years eueprintendent of public} Marry Kelleher, herdaughther, instruction of Buncombe. Mrs|aged three on Nov. 13 1906 well as in business and financial eee pou ; ss all need in these] Darham, Dec. 18.—Thie alter: | °°" * Tee4- Put I have prayed to be emptation. forgiven for doing what I have done,| Deret Miss Venable volunteered| Step%en Kelleher,her husband, : Every woman circles. Hence the intertest t 2 o’el i labs Soe should see this wonderful pla noon at 2 o'clock the business} ang 1 know I’ve do r c ien fi which is attached to his indict- eee section of this city was visited] am satisfied that ty adel aigone es for the foreign Beldiseveralican) on May AD, 4006 ment. B h Taken by one of the biggest fires since} heaven. I 4m not dreading the time See. Ske wes ee N illiam Kelleher, hereon, aged The bill charged three specific) some one has taken a highly| he Carolina Hotel more than 18 | *¢ ll, thank God. Goodbye, gentle- China by her mother, and about | nine on June 16, 1908. forms of malpractite in the ad-| priced pearl brooch from the jewelry moths ago. The fire today start- es amas all,” The noose was =o a = was married there to} Catherine Kelleher, her daugh- : adjusted about his neck and at 11.21] Ur. W. L. Derst. ter, aged twelve, on June 25 ed in the Durham Book and Sheriff J. T. Honeycutt let the drop rere gr re 1908 . << , AS ON T O S \ <5 as ministration of the bank affairs |store of Mr, R. F. Henry. i The brooch i ic i 2 7: Ze by Mr. Battle, the overdrawing peers ee ee eS Stationery Company 8 store and | ail, breaking his neck and in four- Boy Fatally Injured. Piece noe : h th Mascot! the entire building was gutted] teen minutes Drs. Archer and Wal- Wioston-Salen, Dez. 1S—A boy ee ss a a serra aa ° “ “~? | police suspect, was the insurance of largs sums on his own account egestas ae = : e@ Knows e@ person who ° : l the privelege extended the POM-| took it and fe is waiting for them to fe did not spread. It ae prenvenced him dead. The| named Childress, aged 14, was on the lives of the victi hich ous Cotton Manufacturing Com. | return it, if they will, before he puts| /8 estimat-u tor ight that the to-| 00° oe ae a = Se caught in belt at Church’s lum- seintigieeachs es ee = any’ of ° ident : ° : . nstructions o zoe i Bi was sm In eaco instance—only pany’ of which he was pres | them to any trouble about it. tal losses are in the neighbor Graham’s father. ber mill, at Roaring River, yes. $30 in one case. terday and drawn into the mec-| hereis some question as to of overdrown its acconnts some-| If the parties who have it will eith-}hood of $40,000. This is con- ayia ; er return it b il $: : : times as much as $18,000, and Sa ee : a . ae fined as follows: Story Causes Criticism. hine’ breaking both arms and|i. woman’s sanity, and three Durham Book and Stationery} Washington, Dec. 17.—Presi-|one {lege, besides being fright- slionicisliaweausdorn rane the falee returns made to the not returned at once, he will apply , Company, :$33,000, with $15,-| dent Roosevelt today issued no| fully bruised and fatally injured an Dae conics f e [ Ml ! () | Zy zy Pi Comptroller of Currency. to the law to recover it. t ; es . 000 insurance; G. H. F arthing denial to the statement made by | internally. ae Some Needed Inventions. The Bird Law. owner of building $4,000, with} Miss E. I. Sission, a seminery in- ee ee een Min. Kelicier de duiciomiace 1,000 insurance. : TO MAKE WAR ON CONSUMPTION] “"* $ structor, who lastnight asserted . Cambridge jail awaiting a hear- A SantaClausthat won’tmake} There has been several complaints the past few days on account of peo- children jealous. h ple killing birds on lands on which losses are told ia the above. t lv di rt to h if A drum that no one a Car they had no written permit to hunt. At one time it looked as if the DE een except the boys that beat it. The law says that a person cannot] 4+. block in d a and three young women students entire DlOCK was In Canger and|she was chaperoning upon &| Tuskegee, Ala., Dec. 18.—To-| Lovell, where she was employed ‘lin soldiers that wont get mas- | hunt on the lands of another without ee ked Raleich t ee 2 ao aleigh to/horseback ride in Rock Creek day’s session of the National Ne-|as aservant. She admitted set- gro Antituberculosis Congress | ting some of the flres- Her case Several places caught, but the, i : P z that the President had been ex- Sesssion of Antituberculosis League | 1N2 0D the charge of arson. She Demonstrates That Race is Awake} was accused of setting several to Needs. small fires at the home of A. J. Park Thanksgiving morning. ee e Pa a S mS ee n s sacred in the first pitched battle | 4 written permit. A sleeping potion to keep the children asleep while the stock- ings are being filled. A bob sled that will upset the small boys instead of the nurse girl with the baby carriage. Acommon sense apparatus that will keep people away when you’ve caught a pretty {girl un- der the mistletoe. Alaw to prevent 3woman It also says that if any one kills birds on any but their own lands and sells them, that they are Hable to in- dictment and punishment. There has been a lot of complaint on account of the violation of these laws, and there are some parties spot- ted now, who may be hauled before a justice to answer these charges. ——— Turkey Shooting, The Statesville gun club will holi a turkty shooting at their club ground on next Tuesday afternoon send help. ——_—__+ a New Sterling Notes, ChristMas is drawing night and all our little children, will be hanging up their stockings for old Santa Claus to fill and we do hope he will not slight any of our little ones. rich or poor, but will fill their stockings full and running over, and Oh, such glad and such pleasing litle faces there will be. Mr. Rufus Waugh, who has been boys and girls) The young teacher declared that President Roosevelt had rebuked her party when they rode ahead of his with the words “You know that you should not go anewd of our party,” at the same time had ridden so close to one of the young women that his horse knocked her foot out of the stirrup and that the horse was struck a severe blow with the President’e riding crop. negroes are ‘becoming alarmed disease, once it is contracted. several wagon loads of children from another school came a dis- demonstrated the fact that the] was postponed until Dee 21. It is said the insurance money at the ravages of tuberculosis|in each case, with one exception, upon the race, and seek to be en-| was paid to Mrs. Kelleher, and lightened on methods of preven-| that this exception was the case tion and means of arrestivg the| of her husband, Stephen. “TI have ordered the Cambribge Ninety-seven schoo! children and | and Somerville police to make a teachers walked four miles to-|inquiry into the deaths of the six day to attend the congress and|members of the family of Mary Kelleher,” said District-Atorney Higgins today. Thus. far no ae Re er ee ] Hi from buying her husband a love- ly meerschaum pipe for a.quarter in California for some time, came week and will spend] It was understood at the) tance of fifteen miles. facts have been broght to my at- at 2 o’clock. White, House today, however,| |; was decided today immedi-|tention, which would warrant The members of the gun club and{} ome Jast eS ni es 2 Se vana cigars oe = ee Cg all the public are cordially invited to} christmas with his parents, Mr. and —J attend. This promises to be a good Ss Wauch. a : ents : 3 Se Oe chance to get a Xmas turkey ae 5 ae B. and Miss Ber- = gh pe a me ately to begin the organization | the exhumation of the bodies of . - . * . . - l 1 Dn a ° — . e M. D. Bailey, Jr’s Wife Abducted, ——- 64> tha Bost of Eufola have been visiting yat ee a ed ae — of an antituberculosis upon nes|thesix who heve died. Should Wascross, BD 18—Charles Stole a Ride: Losti a Leg. Mr. and Mrs. John Pope. a a ML ones. gro lodges and business leagues | such information reach _me Mr. Melbourr Stamper and family : ; and the woman delegates pres- | through the policeinvestigations will immediately take such Fayetteville, Dec. 18.—Ray Ol- have moved on Mr. Mr. Ephrim Mor-| Velt already = ee ee CON-|ent have pledged themselves to so troversies on his hands.” one of : are ‘onting | Steps as are necessary to have or the bodies exhumed to determine morning, charged with the sb- Master Oliver, of The *Atlan-| ysisces Della and Brady have been|¢he White House attaches issaid the disease th t f death.” : e exact cause of death,’ duction of the wife of M.-D- Bai-|tic Coast Line at; Parkton,| visiting their grandmother and fam- tohave remarked. Ther as) considenaies ae as s - —_~+<+@>e—__—_ ily, Mrs. Frank Moore, - : : At the capitol today several) wyssion today of the subject of| Drunken Lenoir Citizens Try to But Fail to Have a Milling. Goddard, said to be of Fayette- ville, was arrested here thiSliyer the little son of Section] 00.5 piace ee ee e ge e te e at ee e SE et a ee e ea rr ee e oe er Se g ts Se a r s 23 3 2 8 ll C9 @ @ e u v e e q q e q o e v e n © ley, Jr., aon of & rich tobacco| was ran over by a freight train manfacturer of Winston-Salem. Goddard says he knows notb- ing of the charges. “Mr and Mrs Goddard” was recorded on the hotel register. He is held waiting instructions from Win- ston-Salem. — The Crewing of the Cock. Will-some one wiser than we are tell us way chickens always croy just about midnight—they do, but why? Lenoir News. And we on our part, would like to kno why they crow at three o’clock and also again at the middle of the darkest hour—just before daybreak. this morning while stealing a ride on the cars, with other school children, and was severe- but not fatally injured. He was brought here on the Benuetts- ville train at 11 o’clock and tak- en tothe Highsmith Hospital, where his right leg was ampu- putated below the knee. It is thought he will soon recover. 5 Babe Left to Die. Lenoir, Dec. 18.—A white in- fant, supposed to be only 8 few hours old, was found this after- noon in the woods near the well dug. Rev. J. Meek White filled his ap- pointment at New Sterling Sunday. vicinity, visiting at Mr. Lester Pope’s. and is not able to attend school. with Mrs. Jane Deal and family. have also gone to Virginia. Litle Miss Lelia Pope is right sick Mr. Jake Dagenhart spent Sunday Mr. Charles Pope is having a new abe tC di S members Of Longress CISCUSSEC | how the whitescan aid the negro the report freely, Some of them s3id that the present case is one Mr. Clarence Pope, of Indiana, is} which agects not Roosevelt the visiting friends and relatives in this Prasident, but Mr. Mr. P is Also Mr. Lester Fope 'S!¢he man, and as such demands Roosevelt that he take cognizance of it. It is thought that within the next two or three days the Pres- ident will be shown the story Mr, John Witherspoon, who has/ 4nq then will make a statement. ben in Virginia, returned home last < to make preparations for mov- 2 ae ne man to take issue with the Pres- ing his family the first of the year, : : Mr. Frank Dagenhart and familyjident. It will be remembered Miss Sission is not the first wo- that Mrs. Bellamy Storer was Misses Jenie and Gertrude Gray, severely seared by Mr. Roosevelt who have been going to Statesville} 4+ the time of the controversy in studying this disease and in successfully waging a warfare against it, it being realized that the increasing number of negro consumptives is menace to both races. > —__——— David Parker, of Fayette, N. J., a veteran of the civil war, who lost a foot at Gettysburg, says, ‘‘The good Electrie Bitters have done is worth more than five hundred dollars to me. I spent much money doctoring for a bad ease of stomach trouble, to little I then tried Electtric Lenoir, Dec. 18.—This afternoon a man by the name of Lewis went to the home of Jerry Triplett and be- gan toeabuse him and his wife and threatened to kill a man who was in the house, reaching to his hip pock- et as if to draw a’pistol with which to do the work. Triplett went for his pistol and after ordering the man from the house, placed the weapon near the head of Lewis and pulled the trigger. The pistol was not loaded and so Triplett picked up a chair and succeeded in knocking Lewis out of the house. Upon being notified of the trouble, Shériff Smith went to the scene and arrested Triplett and brought him to town. He was released until tomorrow. as They cro at three different times . sr during the night and with such ac-|Cool Springs, two miles north - cians tet aes oe V" curacy that a clock may be set by}town. It was —— aD < Sas — <a tics Bob Cony between him and Bellamy Stor- Be they cured me. [| tHe trial was put ofy It seems that NX them and not be.ten minutes from} shirt and it was doubDtiess hid- grea aes 1 ’ ae ee Se true sun time. den away to die. A man happen- 2 ee —_++o>>—— now take them as a tonic, and]... i.. just onishiolthe Incorporate Then is another unfailing 5 on his way to = i they keep me strong and well.”’| 1;mi: i there ed to be y Recto Position: Nice Xmas Gift. oy Pp : limits of Lenoir. é sign. If a cock goes to bed crowing | town and reported the matter to Mr RO Rennedy, formerly of| Little Sherwood Bonner, son of 50c. at Statesville Drug Co.’s aE —that is crows during the earlY] the officers of the law. An inves- see ae es been in Canton,| Mrs. Sherwood Boner is the happy |store. Prize Winner. Soe ie 2 possessor of a nice Xmas gift. — The lucky number at Lawrence’s sale yesterday afternoon was held by ; houFS Of the night without being dis-| tivation is pending. time with the Perry Ga., for some tim : It is a nice litle pony which was Weather Forecasts, - tur —he will wake up —_——-—_ +o e 7 bed or excited Marble works, has accepted a posi- me ; see , purchasead in Alabama and shipped Washington, D. C., Dec. 18 —For} Misss Margarette Davis, the number ¥ ill rain before _ peace ae Mother do you hear that Tat) with the Cooper Marble works as : here by express, arriving today. Aj|North Carolina partly cloudy andj being 224. Miss Davis is requested cooler tonight with probably show-j to call and that store and decide on 2 morning.—Lincolnton Times. tling in your babies throat? Put)» ise city. aoe —_«<--4>r 0. ° rs - . ‘ a little Mothers’ Joy on it and stop} He is to go to work the first of/Bice little cart is also being made) cook ; January. for it. ers in east portion. Sunday fair. her prize at once. ie ia o e j - & Mr Frank Kurfus is at home from i Wake Forest College. it at onee. i ee e au SE E Ag e . 9m ee te = a OE E ee EI a Se ma a t h o l e p t a t e t r d i c d e s e ve ta — = oi e ok St 4 Ba h MO M S MgO LE Le ea eee Sa ag at Ss e ~s Sh pe g s ep mr e m i n ie n e o THE EVENING MASCOT DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. <0 : —_ Entered at the Postofficein Statesville W.C.,a8 second-class mail matter. ffice 109 Court Street. Telephone 53 VANCE NORWOOD - Publisher. RALPH SLOAN, - - City Editor, Sabscription Price, - $4.00 a Year ubscription Price, - 10 Cents a Week La HOW TO CURE MEAT. t b ft Y ad ‘ = > II This Being Hog Killing Time we Gige The Following Method of Cur- ing meat. Sugar-cured hams and bacon— When the meat is cooled, rub each piece with salt and allow it to drain over night. Then pack in a bar-el with the hams and shou'ers in the bottom, using the :trips of bacon 12 fill in between or put on top. Weigh out for each 100 pounds of meat eight pounds of salt two pounds of brown sugar, and two ounces of salt peter. Dissolve all in four gallons of water, and cover the meat with the brine. For summer it will be safest to boil the brine before using. In that case it should be thoroughly cooled before used. Bacon strips should remain in this brine four to six weeks, Hams and bacon cured in the spring will keep right through the summer after they are smoked. Sausage—Pork sausage should be made only from clean, fresh pork. add one pound of fat. As the pork usually used for sausage is the shoul- der, neck, and lean trimmings, the sausage is quite likely to be too fat unless part of the fat is removed and used for lard. Mix the fat and lean meat together in chopping. When a rotary cutter is used it is best to cut the meat twice, After it is cut the first timé, spread :t cut thinly and season. One ounce of pure, fine salt, one half ounce of ground black pepper, and one-half ounce of pure leaf sausage, rubbed fine, to each four pounds of meat, will suit the taste of most persons. The season- ing should bé-sprinkled thinly over the cut meat and the meat again run through the cutter to mix the season- ing thoroughly. This method will give a more even mixing of the spices than can be obtained when working it with the hanrs. For immediate use the sausage may be packed away in stone jars or crocks, to be sliced for frying. Casings in which to pack it may be had in narrow muslin bags. These, when filled, should be two and one-half or three inches in diam- eter and eighteen to twenty fouy inches long. Stuff the sausage in the bags by hand and hang in a cool place. If the sausage is to be kept for some time in a large jar if a thin coat of lard is put over the top. Pickeled and cured meats are smok ed to-aid in their preservation and to give flavor and palatability. The cre- asote formed by the combustion of the wood closes the pores to some extent, excluding the air, and is ob- jectionable to insects, House and Fuel—The Smokehouse should be eight or ten feet high to give. the best results and of a size suited to the amount of meat likely to be smoked. One six by eight feet will be large enough for ordinary farm use. Ample ventilation should be provided to carry off warm air in order to prevent overheating the meat. Small openings under the}. eaves Or a chimney in the roof will be sufficient if arranged so as to be easily controlled. <A fire pot outside of the house proper with a flue through .which the smoke may be conducted to the meat chamber gives the best conditions for smoking. When this cannot be arranged a fire may be built on the floor of the hous and the méat shielded by a sheet of metal. Wheré the meat can be hung six Or seven feet above the fire this pre caution need not be taken. The construction should be such as to al- low the smoke to pass up freely over the meat and out of the house, though rapid circulation is at the ex- pense of the fuel. _.Brick or stone houses are best, though first cost is greater than if built of lumber. Large dry goods boxes. and even barrels may be made to serve as houses where only small amounts of meat is to be smoked. The best fuel for smoking meats fg green hickory or maple wood smothered with sawdust of the same material. Hard wood of any kind fs preferable to. soft wood. Resinous woods should fever be used, as they Ste likely to impart bad flavors to the producf. Corn cobs are the best substitutes for hard wood and corn cobs give off large amounts of carbon in burning, and this is deposited on thé_meat making it dark in color and rank ‘flavored. Filling The House—Meat that is to be smoked should never be remov- ed from the brine two or three days before being put in the smokehousé If it has been ¢ured in strong brine it will be best to soak the pieces in cold water over night to prevent a crust of salt from forming on the outside when drained. The pieces should be hung up for a day or two to drain, When drained they may be hung im the house. All should hang} so that no two pieces come in. con-} tact, and this would prevent uniform smoking. Keeping up the fire—A slow fire may be started, warming up the meat gradually, If the fire is allowed to die down, the meat becomes cold and tiie smoke does not penetrate readily. This results in heavy smoke on the outside and very little on the inner portions of the meat. During the spring months and in the summer : light fire may be started every sec- ond or third day for a couple of week the meat being allowed to hang in the smokehouse unt’l sufficiently covered, When the fire is kept going steadily and an even temperature is maintain- ed twenty-four to thirty-six hours will be required to finish one lot of meat. The house should be kept dark at all times to-prevent flies en- tering. As soon as smoked sufficient- ly the meat should be cooled by open- ing the ventilators and doors. When hard and firm it may be canvassed and put away for summer use. —_—_++ ar _— Death was on His Heels. | _desse P. Morris, of Skippers, Va., had a close call in the spring of 1906. He says: *‘An attack of pneumonia left me so weak and with such a fearful cough that my friends declared consumption had me, and death was on my heels. Then I was persuaded to try Dr. King’s New Discovery. It helped me immediately, and after taking two and a half bottles J was a well man again. I found out that New Discovery is the best remedy for coughs and Iung dis- ease in all the world,’’ Sold under guaarantee at Statesville drug Co. store. 50c. and $1.00. Trial bottle free. ———_—_ ++ Mrs. X. (away from home—John, did you leave out anything for the cat before you started? Mr. X. (who dislikes the beast )— Yes, I left a can of condensed milk on the table, with the can opened be- sid it—Boston Transcript. ——_><-o—__——— Would Mortgage The Farm. A farmer on Rural Route No. 2, Empire, Ga, W. A. Mloyd by name, says: ‘‘Bucklen’s Arnica Salve cured the two worst sores I ever saw; one on my hand and one on my leg. It is worth more than its weight in gold. I would not be without it if I had to mort- gage the farm to get it.”? Only 25e. at Statesville Drug Co.’s Statesville’s model hostesses. store. — Seo “Are you always a stranger in town?” asked the recent arrival. “No; I mérely feel like one” said th well-known citizen. “My wife is giving a little dinner at the house to a party of suffragettes_”—Birming- ham Age-Herald. ————++@>-»—__- Day after day he walked the street, Looking for a presnt for ‘‘wifey”’ sweet— “*I know what'll please her most,”’ said he; “*Tt’s Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea.’’—Statesville Drug Co. ——_<++ere—____ Benevolent Old Citizen (to little fellow shoveling snow)—Well, little man, you’re working hard! Little Fellow (indignantly )—No, I ain’t; nobody told me to do it!— Tke Circle. ——~+<+@r-e—__—_——_ If you haven’t the time to exercise regularly, Doan’s Regulets will pre- vent constipation. They induce a mild, easy, healthful action of the bowels without griping. Ask your druggists for them. -25c. —_———++O-o “De po’ child died fum eatin’ too much watahmillion.” “Hoh! Dar ain’t no sich uh thing as too much watahmillion.” “Well, den, dar wasn’t e nough boy.’ ’—Puck. —_———++oer-e——_—_— Most disfiguring skin eruptions, scrofula, pimples, tashes, etc., are due to impure blood. Burdock Blood Bitters is a cleansing tonic. - Makes you clear-eyed, clear-brained, clear skinned. Knicker—What is a naturalist? Bucker—A person who stufls dead animals and live people-—New York Sun. ————-+ Oro ee Mothers how can you. take ehances—keep a bottle cf Moth- ers joy in your house. You nced Mothers Joy every day. we WHAT THEY EAT IN CITIES. Some Things Brought Out By. Investi- gation of Dairy and Food Com- mission. All Philadelphia is in an inward ferment these days, following the revelations made by the state dairy food commission in regard to the use of rotten eggs in the manufacture of bakery products. Etaid citizens now hold one hand on “tummy” and the other over the nose when passing a bake shop. Even “Father Penn,” on -his lofty perch, wears a2 look of pain and disgust. According to the investigators, the business of supplying rotten eggs to bakeshops is so extensive that there is more than twenty dealers engaged in the disgusting trade, Thousands of dozens of “‘rots’” and “spots,’? the refuse of the big storage warehouse and wholesale egg dealers, are sold weekly to be converted into food for the public. : The -commissioner’s special ageut bas collected evidence to show .that decaying eggs, known to the trade as ‘“‘spots and “rots” are used in mak- ing pies and cakes of all kinds, in ic- ing that is rut upon fancy cakes and meringues and in ccating bread to make it x’ossy. Cheap ice cream and ice cream cones, ths so-called crean tLat gces Into cream pe ffs and eclaits are also nisde with rte Gecayed ma- terlal. : A coteri: of de.lers, most of whom live in South Philadelphia, are the middlemen in the nauseating and health.wrecking transactions. These men buy eggs that are rejected by the big packing houses, the Water street commission stores, and the companies that run churches of re- tail stores. In turn, the coterie sells to bakeries and to some restau ants. The stuff with the poison of putre- faction unchanged by the cooking is then made into the products enumer- ated and placed on sale in the ba- keries, grocery stores and in other places. But eggs in the shell make only a small portion of the business, The Builds you up physically and mentally, keeps your digestion or- gans in condition, regulates the bowels, cleanses the blood, gives you perfect health. Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea or Tablets, 39 cents. Statesville Drug Co. We Are Agents. See our Xmas Packages of Candy Stationery and Cigars W.F.HALI: Prescription Druggist. —CoOo0oD——! OSITIONS Draughon gives contracts, backed by a chain of 30 Colleges, $300,000.00 capital, and 19 year’s success, to se- cure positions under reasonable con- ditions or refunnd tuition. BOOKKEEPING 2-222" om. accepting his pruposition, concede that_he teaches more Bookkeeping in THREE months than they do in SEX: Draughon can convince YOU SHORTHAND 3. ,ce2t. of Court Reporters write the system of Shorthand Draughon teaches, be- cause they know it is THE BEST. . FOR FREE CATALOG and book- let, ‘“Why Learn Telegraphy?’’ which explains all, call on or write JNO. F. DRAUGHON, President - _, DRAUCHON’S _ PRACTICAL BUSINESS COLLEGE (We also Teach by Mail) Raleigh, Knoxville, Nashville, Cc lumbia or Washington, D. C. bulk of the decayed output is sold soon after they have been opened, in great pails to the bakeries. There is a daily delivery to these establish- ments of 300 pound cans and, inva- riably it is before 5 o'clock in the morning. Nor is this all. Quantities of the decayed eggs are dried and sold in barrels. The mass in which are in- cluded both whites and volks brings as high as 56 cents a pound delivered to the bakeries. This compound 1s mixed and the mars placed in cold to the pound and soaked _ twelve and is used by the bakers as the equivolent of seven dozen eggs. This brings the cost per dozen down to eight cents. The dried yolks bring 49 1-2 cents a pound. This dried material is subjected to the same process before used and its ul- timate cost is about the same as the dried whole egg, Another process to which the “spots” and ‘‘rots’’ are subjected is freezing. The whites and yolks are mixed and the mars placed in cold storage in a temperature that makes it hard and odorless. It is sold in ins to bakers at the rate of 16 cents a pound. <> Stops earache in two minutes; toothache or pain of burn or scald in five minutes; hoarseness, one hour; muscleache, two hours; sore throat, twelve hours—Dr. Titmas Eclectric Oil, monarch over pain. —_——_+—o——-—"—— Sunday School Teacher—Now, who can tell me what a miracle is? Polly—Please, teacher, mother says it will be a miracle if you don’t marry the curate —Roseleaf, —_——_+@>-o——_—"_ Itching piles provoke profanity, but profanity won’t cure them. Doan’s Ointment cures itching, bleeding protruding piles after years of suffering. At any drug store. M. P. Alexan- der & Bro. HEADQUARTERS FOR ALL KINDS Christmas Groceries —ALSO— Meats, Don’t Forget to ’Phone No. 241. THE IREDELL CAFE LEADER JIN CANDIES coves tH. cces FRUITS Oysters for retail and serving. Quail on Toast. PHONE. NO.323 _ W. W. GAITHER : Proprietor. STATESVILLE Opera House Building Open from 3 to 5 and 8 to 10 p. m. No Children Admitted to Floor at Night Sessions. Chas. Brincefield will ap- ply tor a pardon Dec. 18, Wood Sawed! See R. O. Harbin or Phone 132 or 46. 11-4-1m. hours before being used in pastries |. NOTICE | For Infants and Children, =! rf weedttestotgeittstasinet Lieteeeseteetts siesiitisisestiinee ALCOHOL 3 PER CENT. : AVesetable PreparationforAs- Always Bought ay) alategetocaneg Bears the } Eocene Signature S| |resontecmucene) OF :| Opium.Morphine nor Mineral. ‘| NOT NARCOTIC. | A erfect Remed for Consfiga: tion, Sour Stomach, Diarra ‘Bil: | Worms.Convulsions.Feverisk vies ness and LOSS OF SLEEP. . FacSimile Signature of NEW YORK “Ato months old eo —— THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. . pees : pare ct |: Bh} DosEs - By eS em = \CASTORIA The Kind You Have ates | Thirty Years Soececcccccocoooceoooeoose © ‘These Handsome Dishes Given Away to My Customers With each cash purchase of 5 cents or over I will give you a iS aaa = : Sc ¢ si Se ae L. A.GOLDMAM : Purveyor to the People. 03908 000200008CE0S 0008000 e 6 € THE STATESVILLE LOAN AND TRUST CU, Of Statesville, N. C. IS PREPARED to transact all branches of banking. Accounts are solicited from firms, corporations and indiv - uals, who may rely upon courteous consideration and the very best terms that are consistent with good banking methods. Four per cent. paid on time and savings deposits. CAPITAL STOCB.........csccceeee,... assee-eeeeees $40,000.00 SHAREHOLDERS LIABILITY...........:esses00ee0e-e $40,000.00 SURPLUS ANP UNDIVMED PROFITS............$30,000.00 TOTAL RESOURCES OVER.......c:-...000000e0-2e $440,000.00 OFFICERS E. Steele, President, E. Morrisou, Vice-Pres, D. M. Aus’ey, Sec and Treasurer, C. E. HUGHEY, Assistant Secy. and Treas W. . CULBRETH, Manager Savings Department BO O S DF 00 DO N E GO O F 00 0 8 88 8 0 n ,O O A A W W V D SE C O 10 0 0 08 0 8 2Ger 0808 0808087808090 1A Show Down In @ sharp contest nothin “= i g but “quality” and appearance Has , RUTH MADE”? Hosiery eh the “WORLDS EST” Biack are the goods of Quality. After ali has n eaid, all your i ates still a. fact thes pursuasive argument exhausted, it 1s “QUALITY” IS THE ONLY TEST OF VALUE To get best resylts you must have i ave the best of everything ; — yarn, best colors, best machines and best help, with ; Such a combination you can produce the best of what you are making. We have al for the goods of equality: the above. Ask your dealer THE BRADFORD KNITTING MILL. OR D O UH H H O R OB S PO N E CH S P1 1 1 1 FO S S VS T BO S S OO H O | ae play, I venir “One SAu Get States ny EY Sole Seale: ~~ Vel ES er . ener de Se ey Be ee oe r ' NEW STUDIO Maynard & Ellis, Professional Photogréphers, in N. B. Mills“New Building, adjoining Stimson Drug Store, Statesville, N. C High Grade Photos at # Low Price. scs*sesseu@ecsseuensrasscsssnastraprape Penny Pictures, the best that.ean bemade—24 tor Sao Post Cards, per.dozen; $1.25 _ Per half dozen za Cabinets, in folders, dozen, $2.00. Haif dozen $1.50. Pictures of your home, Post Card size, and up to 8x10 inches and out-door groups, is one of our specialties at a moder. ate price. Give us @ trial and be convinéed that we are trying to please you. We are now ready to serve you. Will also Develop and Finish Kodak Work. MAYNARD & ELLIS—_ i CARE— Sree... cin |. THOROUGHNESS— Are the component parts of the Statesville Laun- dry business which you get the benefit of, if you &re & customer; and for which no extra charge is made. Good Work—Clean Work—White Work! We wish a very merry Christmas: STATESVILLE STEAM LAUNDRY v. C. HARWELL, Prop. ee _ Phone No. 122 ae MONDAY, DEC. 21ST. -“ASZ0NE NIGHT ONLY22-- -oASZCASINO COMPANYSE<- PRESENTS THE SENSATIONAL PLAY OF THE DAY —=2THE DEVIL=x— A WONDERFUL PRODUCTION BY SUPERB CAST The Devil, as seen by New York Critics, “The Devil is a zreat lay, look at it from any point you will.”—Acton Davies in the vening Sun. : “One of the strongest plays in a decade.”’—The New York Press. “Audiense kept gasping.”’ The New York Herald. Get Your Seats early. Onsale Saturday, Dec. 19th at the Statesville Drug Company. _ ney Be wi bien ht Sy : of All ee BS Goes 2 § Kinds on Ch be * = FROM gs “— me 25 THE LARGEST. M AIL: Spee BOOK HOUSE IN THE WORLD Established 1860. THE FRANKLIN-TURNER CO., Atlanta, da. Se ee taowledge fren. However, we have solved the problem, aad prepared yeu.direct from eurfactery, sbalbsocltiedoem caasseoatoliciseahalon ogee Every home needs 2 Secexy., e winter et te ON CREDIT. HOW TO GET OUR PLAN Mark X by the book or books yoo are interested in. ~ Lon this edvertinemeat and.mail tq us. and we will N = seleenen ee eee ee aeaee ES See © - $ =) eet cent sen ren teen ern Sancctcadi oe lB en eiCt ae wr sien. Be cere to meatics thie paner. you can easily bestowgupon yourself is to acquire the habit of thrift and the sav- ing of money—the Merch- ants and Farmers bank off- ers you the most practical means, as its financial stand- ing and integrity are un- questioned. Commence 0 Save on January Ist and stick to your resolution. Seas age sf Merchants and Farmers’ Bank OF STATESVILLE INCORPORATED CAPITAL $25,000.00. TI — IN, Vice-Pres.; F.B L. T. STIMPSON, Pres.; 0.8. TOMLIN, Vice-Pree.; F. B. BUNCH. Sec & Treas.; J. A. KNOX, Asst. Sec. & Treas. Directors: =heon,: ‘Vomit Reid L. T.S J. L. Stevenson, C..S. Tomlin, 8. R. Reid, J. A. aoe We 8. Page, Geo. B. Nicholson, b. K. Bazen- E. G. Gaither, J. B. Hil, E. B. Watts. by, at nel wt we SS a Get us five yearly subscribers to The Evening Mascot, paid in advance, and get one of the beautiful China Sets we are giving as premiums. > | A PERFECT THIRTY-SIX. This is the tale I heard her tell To a friend of her’s who chanced to say: “My dear, your gown is simply swell. Who’s your dressmaker, tell me, pray?” Then Alice remarked as she tossed her head— i tricks— It is oe made, and the store man sa That I am a perfect thirty-six.” “Good Sracious!” I heard the other say. : You don’t tell me that is ready made! It’s a splendid fit in every way. You're trying to foo] me, I’m afraid.’’ Said Alice: “I’m not. Every word is true. Not a stitch was changed, not a thing to fix. Of course such a gown wouldn’t do for you, But I am a perfect thirty-six.” She told her husband, she told her friends, She told it to me, as I tell it to you, For this is a tale that never ends, Though the gown may fade, the story's new. In the years to come she may forget Some things that happen, but this one sticks, And I'll bet in old age she'll be telling yet That she is a perfect thirty-six. And when in the end above she goes And humbly kneels at heaven's gate, When good St. Peter the doorway throws Wide open and bids her to boldly state Just why she should be allowed to stay, Permitted with such good folks to mix, I'll bet she'll toss her head and say, “Why, I am a perfect thirty-six.” —Detroit Free Press. First on the Ground. A terrible fire had just broken out. Frightful explosions shook the city. The red wings of the fire demon flap- ped across the heavens. The instant the first alarm was }| Sounded a heavy wagon drawn by three splendid horses whirled down the main street and sped toward the fire. A stranger turned to the man at his side. “Was that a fire engine?” he asked. “No,” replied the native; “that was the moving picture machine.”—Cleve- land Plain Dealer. A Bright Boy. “Say,” queried the father, “can’t you give my boy a position in your store?” “I don’t know,” rejoined the grocer. “What can he do?’ “Well,” replied the parent, “I don’t suppose he could do much at first ex- cept buy and sell goods and manage your business for you, but later on, when he gets a Httle experience and sense, he might be able to sweep out, do up packages and run errands.”= Minneapolis Journal. ji Then He Flew. man should marry when he’s getting twenty-five? She—If it’s twenty-five millions, yes. —Baltimore American, The Right Answer. “I assure you,” said the persistent suitor, “that I will not take ‘No° for an answer.” 5 “You needn’t,” replied Miss Bright. “J’ll say ‘Yes’ upon one condition.” “And that is?’ “Just ask me if I am determined not to marry you under any circum- stances.”—Philadelphia Press. Made Him Nervous. Farmer Ryetop—By heck, yeou can see that thar duck hunter came from town! Farmer Hardapple—How so, Zeke? Farmer Ryetop—Why, by heck, ev- ery time a wild duck goes “honk-honk” he thinks it is an automobile horn and jumps ten feet!—St. Louis Post-Dis- patch. Evidences. “Women,” said the juvenile cynic, “sre more remarkable for head than for heart.” “Yes,” answered Miss Cayenne; “one _would think so by noting the relative ‘measurements of hats and corsets.”— New Pool Room Washington Star. > The Discoverer. When first I sought to hiss her—say, I used to sit an’ wonder Which way would be the gmoothest way An’ bide a chance, by thunder? T’d plan: Tonight I'll do ft, shore I'll up an’ kiss Loueesy The minute I’m inside the doot.=- Jes’ loverlike an’ breezy. ’ Then—"No,” Id think; “T'l) wait @ bit An’ &o it at a pucker.” Yet when she’d dimple there 1’@ eit Like any downright mucker é An’ think, “I'll do it at good night,” An’ simply keep on talkin’, But at the threshold out I'd light= Af’ kick myself for batkin’. M1, sirs, I'd done it, slick as pie! We two stood there together. I hadn’t planned for this time—I Was thinkin’ of the weather 1 sudden—gosh! Weil, enyhow, eos nothin’ that she hated An’ went so natural that now I'm mad becuz I waited. —New York Press. — PUT WILL ON TUB BOTTOM. Novel Hiding Place of a Document Disposing of $250,000 Disclosed by a Kick. Boston, Dec. 18.—Inclosed in a | Ted envelope and nailed securely to For women are full of such little , the bottom of a ashtub, the will of | the late Patrick Monahan, of Charles- town, disposing of property valued at $250,000 was found today and offer- ed for probate in the Suffolk county court. Monohan was a grocer and was not married. ber no will could be found, and the heirs petitioned the courts for the ap- pointment of an administrator. John Monohan, of Chicago, a brother, was selected. John F, Lynch, who was formerly counsel Tor the grocer, believed that a will had been left, and today with nephewss of the dead man went to his former home and_ searched for the documents. In the subcellar the at- torney carelessly kicked over a ash- tub and the search was ended. Of the estate, which is valued at 250,000, $60,000 is left to the Chi- cago man; $§,000 to a sister-in-law, Margaret Mullen, of Boston, $30,000 each to three sisters in Ireland, and smaller amounts to nephews and nieces. To Roman Catholic charities $10,000 is beqeathéd. ———_—+-+ > Fills your veins with rich, red bleed. Gives you a hearty appe- tite, builds up flesh, makes you strong and rugged. Hollister’s Rocky* Mountain Tea, greatest health builder. 35 cents, Tea or Tablets. Statesville Drug Co. ———t++ oe —_—_. “Now,” said the teacher of ath- letics, “place both hands on your hips.”’ ‘*You forget,’’ replied his fair pu- vil, “that real ladies have no hips this year.’’—Houston Post. ——_———_4+ > A Healthy Family. ‘Our whole family has enjoyed good health since we began using Dr. King’s New Life Pills, three years ago,’’ says L. A. Bartlet, of Rural Route 1, Guilford Maine. They cleanse and tone the system in a gentle way that does you good 25c. at Statesville Drug Co. —_——2 + -—-—__ Farmers Union. Mr. C. R, Hudson went to Raleigh today on the 12:15 train where he will attend a farmers reunion of Wake county on next Monday. — HOLLISTER’S Rocky hiountain Tea Nuggets A Busy Medicine for Busy People. Brings Golden Health and Renewed Vigor. A specific for Constipation, Indigestion, Liver and Kidney troubles, Pimples, Eczema, Impure Blood, Bad Breath,Sluggish Bowels, Headache and Backache. Its Rocky Mountain Tea in tab- let. form,35 cents a box. Genuine made by HOLLISTER Due Company, Madison, Wis. GOLDEN NUGGETS FOR SALLOW PEOPLE SOUTHERN RAILWAY 60. fireat Highway of Trade ard Travel Through the Southern States Through Pullman Sleeping Cars on palatial trains between the principal Cities and Resorts of the South. Hnrgh-class Dining Cars. Many delightful Summer and Winter Resorts on and reached by Southern Railway. “The Land of the Sky,” ‘The Sapphire Country,” in scenic Western North Carolina; beau- tiful at allseasons. Hoitels of the highest class, = For detailed information apply - to nearest Ticket Agent, or Ek. LL. VDRNON, fT. PAA, Charlotte, N.C. S.H. HARDWICK, P.T.M., W.H. TAYLOE,G. P. A.. Washibgton, D.C. New Tables of the latest and best makes have been in- stalled under J. P. Phifer’s grocery store. We Solicit our Patronage When he died last Septem-}. B00 98080006907 926060900000008 000 CRDPDEOEDEPEDSO9C ODDO“ 00O090808080808S 208 08080SNSNSOSNSOSOS sesteeat ess etatcteteecécocelece eoecer end ese tee CSecetetececenete: Seneoeces CO. 9000808080808060 3 53 5 8 eo CA Is Essentiai to the Up= building of the Modern Business Enterprise. ::: To the publicity gained by the use of the advertising columns of the daily papers is at- tributed the growth, and consequent success, of a very large percentage of great business enter- prises of the present day. Advertising is recognized as the prime fac- tor in increasing the sales of any class of goods or manufactured articles. 7 The space used in this puper is your, busi- ness message to the public. In this open letter you should tell them of the merits of what you are offering, setting forth the reasons why your particular line is worthy of their attention. MME EVENING ASC has increased its local circulation very materially during the past three months and the results obtained from the space used by the advertisers are gratifying to them and to the paper. It reaches into the homes of the best class of our people and your message will be placed in the hands of those with money to buy the goods you wish to sell. The Space Rates in The Evening Mascot are uot high. Your me:sege is earried, each day, to those you wish to reach, in the most economical manner, For information call us up on the phone and a representative or the paper will gladly visit you ER a EE cour} ¢ Lrening Havel, a a BA FO natin Re eT or RAD Ly Oe me Cy) 78 SS E S E E S E E R E N S E E S E S S SS S S S E U S E B E ! CR N ES R I T ER R ES T E S LE S T E TE S T S SE S TT S eE TT T TB S T TS eE S E S S SE N S E S BE T E S ES Sa S T E R Y UE C ES ER NE S S SS U R N O N N C R T E S I A S N M a N E T ET Ha tC N AR tC R CR C NC U TN RR R TR L T ee e : po y t— Bae e ere se ee eee naa eae eee eee TSS, 58080 pe eoeOgaRORrY 0080008808065 8 C87 8CeCeOSOBCAC 080$00060808080S0S0S0SO55 OSCE 1 100080078090 8000008 9 007808Ne 78 eT ST H0el HeTeTe. 900787650: POOR ORIOONEL Reese sere eee sate ta te state cetece oe erence eee S33e eee ett R eR a be Be ee 2° SEVERAL THINGS Are to be considered in selecting your Bankf 1ST. Strength-Financial Strength 2NB. The care with which the Bank is Managed. SRD. The courtesy and spirit of of accomodation'‘displayed by the Officers and Em- ployees. 4TH. The banking experience of Officers. STH. The ability of the bank to Properly and Promptly Handle all Your Business To Those Desiring the Embodi- ment of These Features are Offered T he Service of THE HROT NATIONAL = BANK OF STATESVILLE $100.000 CAPITAL Now Time for You to Se- lect Your Xmas Goods We will put aside any goods selected. See our new line of ; Morris Chairs and Rockers. Also Fine Mahogany Tables. We will make Special Prices on COOK STOVES and RANGES. STATESVILLE HOUSEFURKNISHING COMP’Y * gi « ser é by soe alg aa Nag BN BN se a NS bl aad NP a CARRE NS TN ia cnt PR ay Ae ie ee ae SS Se n n e n } ae ‘ . x ‘ " ; a Na al ac t a ee ea t ss ‘ “ es e a ay r e w e n h e e n e s Se ae en nS Oe ND pe e r : en e Sn ta e ee t Se n t e r Br a Ce Se r e r Wr te r t at e Sr e e i Pe cy te e n ar t e a pi r e en e oe s + es h a et e am r PT vo en ea e ee er ra = im e oe r RP E PN PA R E N T ER A OP S . eA da s ee CT ee ee ee so e | | - SS ee A yk og e e pe e m i n s at s gi c TE aa a oe s ; oy AT E Ae ec ag DR L ri te te e r [ i h i ; i { i 2 ‘ Re NE ae a> He s RE NE RE ER E ee n an g e n en o n se e r PERSONAL NOTES. Some Happenings Among Those People You Know and Others You Don’t Know. Mr. Will Charles arived last night from Atlanta Mr. J. C. Upright of Mt. Ulla is in the city today. Mr. Geo, Shepehrd of Elmwood is in the city today. Mrs. Carrie Neill of High Point is visiting friends in thec ity. Mr. Geo. B. Nicholson was in Mor- ganton yesterday on legal business. Mrs. C. B. Mott and small son, and Miss Helen Davis went to Morganton today to spend the holidays. MMrs. R. H, Warner and Miss Em- ily Rose of this city have gone to Ra- leigh to spend the holidays. Messrs. Tim Lienster and A. D. Watt returned from Weshiugton to- day, to speai the Lcjidays at home. Judge BF. Long returned from Asheboro yesterday afternoon where he has been attnding court. Mr. H. C, Bell and son, of Union Grove township, are visiting relatives in thee ity for a few days. Mr, Duncan McRae arrived last night from New York to spend the holidays with his uncle, Mr. W. A Thomas. ° ' Miss Mayes Eliason returned from Taylorsville this morning, where she attended the MclIntosh-Sloan wed- ding. “Mrs. B. W. Steele of Asheville, and Miss Anie Eagle of aleigh, are visit- ing their parents, Mr. and Mrs, W. S. Eagle on North Center. Messrs. Wm. Miller and Campbell McLain of Due West, are spending the holidays here with their parents, arriving here last night. Mr, C. B. Webb arrived in the city} last night and went to Clio today, where he will deliver an address be- fore the Jr. O. U. A_M. at that place. Capt. S._ M_ Moore and daughters and Miss Angie Mullaly, are in Sum- ter, S. C., where they attended yes- terday the 25th anniversary of Mr. Moore’s brother, Mr. S. A. Moore’s Marriage. Mr. John Bell Glover who is at- tending the Bingham school at Me- bane, is at home for the holidays His friend, Mr, John Cole of Fred- erickstown, Mo., who is also atend- ing that school, is spending the holi- days here with him. 1 LOCAL BRIEFS. omnmenet The ‘‘Devil”’ will be in Statesville Monday night. Mr. R. V_ Tharpe is suffering with a ‘sprained thumb. A horse and mule was sold at auc- tion today in front of the court house. Register Boyd this morning issued marriage license to John Goforth and Carrie Levan. Miss Annie Click who is very sick with pneumonia was taken to Long’s sanatorium yesterday. There is no change in the condition of Mrs. Mary Hooper, who is very ill in west Statesville. Postmaster General Myer will ar- rive here Monday and go to Houston- ville to hunt for a few days. The small son of Mr. J. H, Wil- son, who has been very sick with fever, is much improved. Mr, C. S. Brawley, who has been very sick with appendicitis for near a week, is very much better, Mr. and Mrs. W. S_ Eagle of Olin township have moved into their new home on North Center street. Do not fail to read the ad in to- day’s paper, setting forth the ver- dict the “‘jury’”’ has rendered in the case against S. B. Miller, the shoe man. Mr. E. §. Millsaps and family of Sharpsburg township have moved {nto their home on Davie avenue, which Mr. Millsaps purchased some time ago. The evening services at the court house Will convene at 7 o'clock to- morrow night instead of 7.30, as heretofore. Regular services will be conducted by the pastor. The Sunday school of Smith’s chapel, in Union Grove township will have a Xmas treé at that church on Xmas day at 2 p.m_ The public is cordially invited to attend, Mr. Fred Conger who has been con fined at home with an ingrowing toe nail, which he had removed, has how contracted blood poisoning, and is in @ very serious condition. Mr. C. B. Kebb went to Clio today Where he will deliver an address at the presentation of a Bible and Amer ican flag to th Eupeptic Springs school by the Jr. O. U. A. M. of Clio. Marriage license were issued this afternoon to Joseph Murdock and fsabella Hodge both colored. Two Turkish ministers were in the city today collecting funds for a Protestant church in their country. The primary class of the college, Miss Laura Lazenby teacher, gave a Xmas tree at the college at 10:30 this morning in the library, Appro- priate exerciSes were held, and the parents of the children attend. Thoughts to Farmers—The December Work. (Written especially for Farmers’ Fo- --rum of Charlotte News by Charles Petty.) ; The closing month of the year is al ways an important one on the farm Tell me what a man does during De- cember and I can get a fair opinion o his ability and success as a farmer. The crops Should all be gathered and cared for by this date, for it has been a most favorable fall. When the weather is dry enough the two-horse and disc plows should start and keep going every day until Christmas Abundance of firewood and stove wood should be brought in and pre- pared for use. Old pillows and bed- quiltsShould be taken from the sash and glass put where needed, Stables and cow shelters should be put in good order. All tools should be put under shelter. Then parents should endeavor to make Christmas a mem- orable time with presents and every- thing that children like to eat. Do not restrain them in their merriment. Make them feel and know that they have the best home in the neighbor- hood. To the children and young people it is a great festival and they should get all the innocent joy pos- sible out of it. There is another im- portant matter that should not be neglected. Tis is the season of the year to select papers for the next year. Here is what is need in every country home. The county paper, a farmer’s paper, the church paper, a magazine for the mother and another for the children. If a good clean daily paper is added so much the bet- ter. In this day of rural mail routes home is not home without good books and papers. These long December nights is a most favorable time for the farmer to review the work of the year. Con- sider the mistakes that have been made| Count the days and hours lost when y u were fooling around the nearest town or country store. How many foolish trades have you made? Often a little job has been put off a day after day until it be- somes a big one. Look over the fields and see how many of them have wash ed gullies because the plowing was shallow and there was no humus in the ground, If the work is carefully reviewed there will be many omiss- ions of duty apparent. Fair and hon- est dealings with tenants will come up Tor consideration, Even a poor tenant is no excuse for the landlord to cheat him. Have you lived in peace and charity with all your neigh- bors? Or have you been cross grain- ed, ill-tempered, selfish and unrea- sonable in your dealings with them? During the whole year have you been to pattern of patience, forbearance, gentleness and sweet temper in the home? siave you treated work ani- mals, cattle, dogs and cats as though the Heavenly Father was taking note of every dog that was kicked or every mule that was half starved and un- mercifully beaten? He who notices the fall of a sparrow surely does not close his eyes on the cruel treatment of farm animals. A thorough and hon est review of the year will make you a better farmer and a better man. The writer knows something of the farmer of two counties in the Pied- nont. A most satisfactory improve- ment is going on. Better dwellings and barns are going up. The wind mill and hydrollic ram are used by a considerable number of farmers. Large mules and horses are used. Better farm implements are bought. This uplift has been going on grad- ually for a dozen years. The farmer did not wait for uplifting commiss- fons to persuade them. The farmers are preparing to cut down their cot- ton acreage) TThey have sown ten times as much small grain as they did last year. They are planning to raise niore corn, peas hay and sor- ghum than heretofore. CHARLES PETTY. Spartanburg, S_ C. —_——_++oeor-o————. The Farmets Union of Iredell county met in the court house this afternoon at 2 o’cleck and the fol- lowing officers were elected for next year. something genuine for the cost of something spurious—then why ean’t we ‘‘get together’’ as to the The outlook is most encouraging |Price. See Bob Henry. lgiven here about a year ago and met Mrs. Jones Entertains at Mooresville, Mrs. Geo. C. Jones entertained the Pleasure Club’on Wednesday after- noon at her attractive home on “Eastern Heights” in her usual broidered center piece was presented charming manner. Dainty score cards suggestive of the Xmas season, were distributed. Progressive dom- inos was played. At the conclusion of a number of very interesting games it was found that Miss Ruth Culbertson had made the highest] @5 score, so the prize a handsome em- broidered center piec was presented to her. The hostess assisted by Mrs. Boyd, served most tempting refreshments consisting of chicken salad, sand- wiches, olives, beaten biscuit, ambro- sia, and fruit cake, Those present were: Mesdames C. Goodman, C. E. Hawthorn, J, W. Brawley of Greensboro, D. E. and Marvin Turner, P. S. Boyd, J. F. and T. O. Brawley, Brevard Culp, W, D. Templeton, D. Mills, and Misses Kate Templeton Ruth Culbertson, Nona and Jett Brawley, Hattie Williams, Mary McNeely, Lu Telle Sherrill and Olive Gray, _ == Oo “go go to Baltimore, Mr, Lawrence White who has been at the Billingsley hospital for some days for treatment will go to Balti- more tomorrow for treatment. It was reported by several papers in this Tdcality that Mr. White had been to Baltimore for treatment, which was a mistake as he has never been there for treatment. He did go to Richmond for treat- mént, ana it was unsuccessful and he came here to consult Dr. Hill, who, after a careful examination of the case decided that he ought to go to Baltimore, and consult a specialist at that place. —_——+~+@r eo North Carolina Day. Prof. L. O. White was at the Barkley school house yesterday, where the Lingle school children joined with the first mentioned school and held the North Carolina day exercises jointly. Mr. White made an appropriate speech for the occasion. Mr. J. W. Rash, teacher of the Barkley school, took a_ collection among the scholars and raised about e$5.00. Several beautiful pictures $5.00. Seven beautiful pictures were purchased and hung on the walls of the school house. —_——_—_-~@>-e——— The Reception Well Attended. Yesterday being an ideal day, suit- able for such occasions, the reception given at the~ Hotel Iredell by the Elcricemoh Club was largely attend- ed, over 200 ladies being present. The reception hall of the hotel was bautifully decorated with evergreens, th color scheme of pink and green being carried out. Refreshments consisting of delici- ous punch, block cream, cake and coffee was served to the guests. The affair was greatly enjoyed by all who hag th pleasure of attending. ————?>~@r-o————— Foul Play Suspected. North Wilkesboro, N. C., Dec. 16, The old lady known as “Grannie Pat- terson’”’ Tiving at the foot of the Blue Ridge on the old Wilkesboro and Jef- ferson road, was found dead Monday. Foul play is suspected and an inquest will be held there tomorrow evening. Travelers across the Blue Ridge dur- ing the last thirty-two years will re- member this widely known old wo- man who often times administered spirits to the wayfarers. -_——++e>-o———_—_ Notice, If you discard all idea of getttig —_——-4< “Under the Southern Cross,’? by local talent was presented at fie graded school auditorium last night It will be remembered this show was with such succss that was repeated, President—W_ B. Gibson Secretary and Treasurer—J, M. Chaplain—D,'L, Webb. Doorkeeper—S. Barkley. Conductor—J. J. Clendenin. The executive committee elected consists 6f the following gentlemen, H. L. Gilbert F. T. Meacham and No other business of any import- Vice President—J. Chap Turner. W AN T ADS Watt, 1 time....................5 cents a line. 3 times...................4 cents @ line. 6 times.................0% cents a line. 26 times...... ..........8 cents a line. J. Chap Turner, W. H_ Adderholt, WANTED—A Second hand Oliver typewriter, in fair condition. Address XXX care Maseot 3t No other business of any import- ance was transacted. Messrs. W. B. Gibson and J. Chap Turner attended the state conven- tion of the farmers at Monroe on the 16th and 17th of this month. LOST—Near Mooresville, a roan mule about {5 years old, weighs about 800 pounds. No harness on her. Notify P. J. Jones at Tay- lorsville, N. C., Route No. 5, Box 69. : d&w it, ee WANTED—BY THE AMERICAN Cotton and Business University of Milledgeville, Ga., rtudents to take one or more of our courses in cot- ton grading, buying and selling. Business courses of bookkeeping, Shorthand, Typewriting, or Telegra- phy and Railroad course. Positions guaranteed under reasonable con- ditions. Write at once for oar consolidated catalog. Largest col| ers joy in your house. lege South. Sept 28-tf $10 Gold Pieces for $9.00 | aS WW ( i it means when you buy your Christmas goods from me sg ae such stock and must cut it down by January Ist, | pee Se ne Satins a high-grade ; ny on = 2g ESE I have these in the Rock- and will give you prices suit the Watch Movement can now get it cheap. Will make the TO N T O N T O N a ( i Fp d,Illinois, Hamilton, Elgin and Waltham, in 15and17 © eee eg These will be put into whatever kind of a case you = uae want. I have too many 15 and 17 jeweled movements on hand Ze and they must Solid Gold Rings from $1 OO up. Solid Gold Cuff Buttons 175 “ Solid Gold Lockets Solid Gold He All other Gold Goods too numerous to mention at right prices. In Gold Filled Goods, such as Gold Filled Neckchains, Gold Filled Lockets, Gents’ and Ladies’ Gold Filled Woven Wire and Silk Watch Fobs, Ladies Gold Filled Cuff Pins, Veil Pins, Hat Pins Bar Pins, Stick Pins, Belt Pins, Brooches, etc., from the go. Ihave Solid Gold Brooches 125 “ 400 “ Sold Gold Neck Chaius 300 “ arts for Neck Chains 125 “ lowest prices and up. Large lot of Bracelets at right prices. Nice line of Silverware and Novelties, such as Toilet Sets, Manicure Sets, Mili- tary Brushes, Clothes Brushes, Shaving Brushes, Hat and Bonnet Brushes, alljin sterling Nice line of Ladies’ Gold Filled Handle Umbrellas from $3 50 to $7 SO. Guaranteed. You can get @ bargain in Cut G ary, as these must go. In Silverware I have a completeffline-of Knives and Forks, Tea and Table. Spoons, Butter Knives, Sugar Shells, Pie and Tomato Servers, cold meat and other Forks, Berry Spoons. Soup Sets, Soup Ladles, Carving Sets, Childs’ Sets, individual Salt Sets, Cut Glass Sterling Top Salt and Pepper Sets. Nice line of Parlor and Gold Plate Clocks, Kitchen and Alarm Clocks. No difference what you want in the J ewelry line, I will save you money. or best grade Quadruple Plate. Come and see for yourself. Solid Gold Stick Pins from $1 OO up. lass, Japanese China Vases, etc., and Statu- -_ TA T O N T O N I O N WO N AN AY Or I a R. F. Henry #7 Jeweler and Optician Hotel Iredell Building. How to Prevent Pneu- In every paper you pick up you will see where some good man has just died with this fearful disease—pneu- monia They Are Going With a Rush! Christmas Presents of Quality At the Store of Quality Have You Bought? Come buy today while the selection is large. Statesville Drug Co. Prescriptionists, me RR a RR S SS Ca a S aa a Se Ca esesoeecanbs seco eannansct sett arses seecoprr scone cecopreetter sees etter ©009000 0000 OCC CCCOCCOCCOS 5 8 MILLER FOUND GUILTY! § monia. Now we will give you One Hundred Dollars for any case of pneumonia es have in your family it ails to cure if you will use Goose Grease Liniment as directed. It only costs you 25 cents a bottle. Get it— The verdict of the [NWRY is that S. B. Miller is guilty o having the “‘swellest’’ line of N ECK. WEAR ever shown in Statesville. Just received (by. eapress today) a second shipment. Put up fancy ihdividual boxes, at 25c., 50., 75c. to $1.00. Stop and look—seeing is believing. you have nothing to loose to gain. Weknow there are thousands who will read this and throw it aside and 1n a few days will be down with the disease. and all S. B. MILLER od . THE SHOE MAN. Please just get one bottle and putit away until you need it. If you haven’t the money to buy it let us know and we will send you a bot- tle free. GOOSE GREASE Co. AMBITIOUS YOUNG MEN AND ladies should learn telegraphy; for, since the now 8 hour law became effective there is a shortage of many thousand telegraphers. Po- sitions pay from $50 to $70 a month to beginners. The National Telegraph institute of Columbia, S. C., and five other cities is oper- ated under supervision of R. R. officials and all students are placed when qualified. Write them for particulars. no19 dtf Mothers how can you take chances—keep a bottle cf Moth- You need Mothers Joy every day. @pe e. VE SOOCCOCO CCC CCRC COCO OCEUE SE G e C a e e i s e e c e r e c e c e c e r SSSGSOeeseccccececececce? A MERRY CHRISTMAS It is to those who have a spick and _ Span new bathroom in which to pre- — pare for the pleas- ures of the day. Consult us as to the best plan for your floor space, and we wiil fit you _ out with “a bath room of which you will be ~proud, — without “much Strain on your pocketbook. A. W. HOLLER PLUMBING COMPANY Phore No. 61.. 33 3 te htre C -f 2 = Fist 23 CoS Fe tonb tte is : 23 3 2 3 3 2 3 3 3 2 3 2 127 W. Broad St. A 33233232332322332322332332° >) Vo anal chil FFREI Madiso out His His Witt Beix Run Hote Ash puty Madis inspec mitte Hote aiter hims¢ There for th Runid child route south Wind tions in tit He v ing hi to re noon with grea sho Runi and tellix acco child go @ A 8 fath dolls Mi roor not foun bed tem besi The his righ bu han T cord ter one caség was Rut it tive ar bod und pre Sa fo goa to son to sh of att ne at ca ou €qd cil Vol. 1. THE ae HR See EVENIN Statesville, N. C.,Mon day Evening, December 21, £968. MASCOT. No. 377 | Child Sees Father Suicide. FFRED RUNION KILLS HIMSELF Madison County Deputy Sheriff, With | out Any Apparent Cause, Takes His own Life in Asheville Hotel— His Two-Year-Old Child the Only Witness to the Tragedy, the Deed Being Committed While Hotel Bill. ———. Asheville, Dec. 20.—Special De- puty Sheriff Fred Runion, of Madison, who was also a lumber inspector of that county, com- mitted suicide at the Windsor Hotel here this afternoon shortly alter two o’clock by shooting himself through the left temple. There was apparently no cause for the rash act. Mr. and Mrs. Runion and their two-year-old child came here yesterday en route to some place further south. They stopped at the Windsor, Runion giving instruc- tions to be called this morning in time for the southbound train. He was called on time but, say- ing he was feeling unwell, decided to remain over until this after- noon. He remained in his room with his wife and child the greater part of the morning, and shortly after 2 o’clock told Mrs. Runion, it is said, to go down and pay the bill, at the time telling the two-year-old child to accompany its mother. The child, however, did not want to go and remainec with its father. A short time before this the father had given the child a dollar. Mrs. Runion went out of the room and downstairs. She was not gone long and returning found her husband lying on the bed with a wound in the left temple, and the child standing beside the bed. Runion was dead. The weapon with which he took his life was still grasped in the right hand. There were powder burns on the temple and the hand that held the weapon. The officers were notified and coroner Morris and Sheriff Hun- ter went to the scene. The cor- oner decided that it wasa plain case of suicide and no inquest was held. Runion was a son of Jack Runion, of Madison county, and it is said was well-to-do. Rela- tives have been notified and will arrive early in the morning. The body was removed to a local undertaking establishment and prepared for burial. —_——_+<@r eo Prize Winners. The prize winner at Lawrencce’s Saturday afternoon has not been found yet, as the clerk selling the goods the ticket went with failed to put the purchasers name on it. The number is 2700 and the per- son holding that number is requested to call and get the prize, a ladies’ shirt waist. Notice of Meeting. All the ladies living in the district of the Feimster schoo: are asked to attend the meéting at Mr. J. A Hart- ness’s residence tomorrow afternoon at 3 o’clock, when Woman’s Better- ment Association will be formed, ——_—.< An Entertainment. The scholars of the Harmony. Ac- eademy will give an entertainment on Thursday night the 24th. A small admittance will be charg- €d to raise funds for the school. ee Marriage lHcense were issued this afternoon to Mr. Ernest Shaw and Miss Leuella Bennett. — {rere There will be 2 Xmas tree at the Harmony Academy on Thursday af-} a | NEGRO TRIES TO KILL ANOTHER ——— Three Negroes Have a Game of Cards, Fall Out, And Try to Kill Each Other. Yesterday afternoon Sheriff Ward got a hurry-up telephone message to come to Rabbit town at once, as there nesroes were trying to kill each oth- er. Saddling‘Ginger Bread’? his race horse, Mr| Ward immediately seiled «orth to the scene of the battle. He i is a brave Man and would go un- d | daunted into a buzz saw if need be, - Mrs. b Runion Was Downstairs Settling | ut he had nearly as bad experience with Hen Smith. ft seems that Smith, Stevenson, and Bennett had been gambling and drinking. They had some words over their game, and immediately began using woraS hot veryappropriate for Sunday school to use or a paper to print. One word brought on another, so Stevenson, taking an offense against Bennett ups with a big rock, and hit him an awful blow on the head_ in- flicting an ugly wound but not kill- ing him, for Re has been tried be- fore. Smith then got “fightin” in his Dones, and out with a “shootin iron”, and began shooting at Bennet, try- ing to kill him. They disturbed the quiet of “Rabbit Town” and the mes- sage was Sent to Sheriff Ward, Mr. Ward arrived on the scene in due time, and demanded entrance in- to the house of Smith. He was in- formd that he had no business in the house unless he had a “search war- rant.”’ Sheriff Ward assured him that he had a “search warrant” in his holster and entered the door. He was confronted by Smith, with a large pistol, but not the least per- turbed, he walked up to Smith and relieved him of that burden. Mr. Ward then turned his atten- tion to the other two boys, Steven- son and Bennett, who gave him a chase. Mr, Ward had old ‘‘Ginger” along though, and it did not take very long across the field before they Were caught. The trio was then brought to town and landed in jail. The negroes were tried this after- noon by Justice King and he found Stevenson and Smith guilty. They were required to give a bond of $100 each for their appearance at court, and it has not been given yet. Bennett was turned loose, there being no evidence against him. The testimony showed that Stevenson hit Bennett with a kottle instead of a rock as heretofore stated. The trou- ble began over a pocket knife in- stead of a game of cards. 44+ Cabinet Officers. Washington, Dec. 19.—-The fol- lowing is the latest authentic list of men selected and under consideration for the cabinet of President-elect William H. Tait: Secretary of State—Philander C. Knox. Secretary of War—Luke E. Wright, later to be succeeded by Charles E. Mazoon. Secretary of the Navy—Tru- man A. Newberry, Colonel W. S. Thompson. Secretary of the Treasury— George Von Meyer, Myron T. Herrick, Robert Bacon, E. F. Swinney. Attorney General—Frauk B. Kellogg, Charles Nagel, Henry M. Hoyt, George W. Wickersham, George A. Knight. Postmaster General—Frank M. Hitchcock. Secretary of Agriculture— James Wilson, later to ve succed- ed by Gifford Pinchot. Secretary of e Interior— James R. Garfield, later to be succeded by some western man. Secretary of Commerce and Labor—William Loeb, Jr., R. A. Ballinger, William R. Wheeler. —— re Meat Stolen. On last Tuesday night some un- | known parties entered the home of Mary Davis, colored on Tradd street, and stole a ham, middling, shoulder, 8 pounds of sausage and @ hogs head_ A search warrant was issued and the houses of several negroes search- ed but no meat was found in any of ternoon at 4 o’clock. ~- the houses searched. | ‘ CURB BROKER SHOT, Harry B. Laydham Receives a Prob- ably Patal Weird at the Hands of Inventor Lumsden Who Formerly Lived at Raleigh—Was Quiet and Popular, New York, Dec. 19 —Shortly be- fore 10 o’clock this morning Harry B. Sydham, a curb broker with of- fices at 39 Broad street, was shot while about to leave the building. Sydham was wounded in the stomach and it is feared fatally injured. His assailant was captured. Sydham lives at Plainfield, N. J. The man who did the shooting is an inventor named Lumsden. The mo- tive for the shooting is a mystery. Raleigh,Dec. 19.—John C. Lums- den, the man who shot a New York curb broker, is from Raleigh. His parents and several uncles live there. He has been away from Raleigh about six years. He was married, his wife being a Miss Miller, of South Carolina, Lumsden was at one time a member of the First Regiment band, and was quite popular here, He was rather quiet and in no way quarrelsome and his friends here are unable to accovnt for the tragedy of this morning. They believe there must have been some great provoca- tion. Lumsden lived at Birmingham five years before going to New York last March. ———_++<2>--—____. Carrying Concealed Weapons Robert Nicks and J. F. Brassell two white men, were arrested on No. 35 Saturday night for carrying concealed weapons. The arrests were made by special detectives H. M. Duncan and J. R. Green, of Asheville who were on the train. It sems that both the parties in- volved had been down to Salisbury where they had loaded on mean corn whiskey. As the train was coming along this side of Elmwood Nicks raised a2 window of the car, and be- gan shooting for dear life. He was immediately arrested by the detectives, and Braswell was also found having a pistol in his pocket. Both men were brought here by the detectives and Sheriff Ward took them in charge until their bond was raised. : Nick gave a bond for $50.00 for his appearance here today and Brus- sell put up $25.00 in cash for his appearance today, both men to be tried before Justice Turner, Nick pleaded guilty of the charge and and gave a cash bond of $25.00 for his appearance at the next term of court. Brassell who was under bond, fail- ed to apper at the trial. —_———-_-2<4.-—___—_ “Good Understanding.”’ The saying is that big feet is a “good understanding” Statesville has one man that certainly has that blessing. He has just ordered a pair of wa- ter proof shoes from S, B_ Miller, one of which is large enough for two feet of an ordinary man. . The man these shoes are ordered for is a giant both in size and streng- th, and of course his feet are obliged to be large. He only wears a No..14 shoe. The shoes are on exhibition in the show window of Mr. Miller’s store, bear- ing a little card which says, ‘For the baby,’’ although they are a little large for it. ———_+-t®@>e—_—_—- Postmaster General Meyer Coming. Washington, Dec. 20.—Postmaster General Meyer, accompanied by his son, George von L. Meyer. left here tonight for a week’s hunting expedi- tion in North Carolina. They will be the guests of the Houstonville shoot- ing Club of Houstonville, N. C_ The Postmaster General is a crack shot and he has been promised some good sport because of the abundance of quail. Mr. Meyer arrived in the city this morning and went to Houstonville. —— ee NOTICE. I hope that the public will excuse will excuse me for not having my windows rigged up in Christmas style but the fact is I just cannot spare the time from my bench and sales to fix up the window, but the goods are here and I will spend the time show- ing them. to you and making prices ight. The goods are inside if not seen in the window. Lot of goldl pen points regular price from 75c. = $2.00 each. R. F. Henry, ic, says, “Don’t argue. JUDGE PURNELL DEAD Judge of North Carolina Circuit Court in Eastern North Carolina Succumbs to IHiness—A Native of Halifex Ceunty. Raleigh Dec, 21.—Judge Thomas KR. Purneli dicd saturday at 7:30 o’clock at his home here after a pro- tracted illness. He had served as judge of the Unitéd States District and Circifit court in the Eastern Car- Olina district since 1897, when he was appointed to succeed Judge A. S. Seymour, deceased. Judge Purnell was a native of Hal- ifax county. He studied law at Wil- mington, served in the Confederate army engineering corps, and after vhe war located at Winston to prac- tice law. While in Winston he mar- ried Miss Veverly. He came to Rai- sigh as State Libraian in 1873. Later he practiced law, served as United States Commissioner and was three times in the Legislature. He was active in Republican politics until his appointment as judge. Mrs, Purnell died last September. One son, James Purnell, and three daughters survive: Mrs. James Mc- Kee, of Raleigh , and Mrs. Herbert Drewery, of Norfolk; and mrs_ Rob- ert Ridley, of Portsmouth, The fun- eral was held at 3:15 o’clock yester- day afternoon. ——_++@>-0-—___. THE DEVIL CREATING A SENSATION-- The Demand For Seats Is Greater Than For Any Attraction Seen Yor Years, The Devil. A modern siory of 2 man and woman battling with temp- ation of forbidden love. whose goo. resolutions and virtuous purpose are eventually overcome by the machina- fions of the Devil. In spite of their resistance he fans the sparks of pas- sion on the woman, unhappily mar- ried, struggles to “extinguish. weav- ing about them a tangle of circum- stances and false appearances, from which they find it hard to extricate themselves. It is truly a wonderful play, To enter into a discussion of the merits.of the Devil at this time would: be a waste of effort. The pub- ‘ic has already stamped its approval upon the play by crowding every the- atre at which it appears. The Devil is the rage in America, his satanic majesty sweeping down upon the great metropolis with the sudden- nessof Kansas cyclone only a few weeks ago, has taken the entire of the stage in all big cities and shown no inclination of relinquishing his fiery reign. The company which plays here is a New York cast, and every actor and actress is an artist in their res. pective line) The play comes to the opera house tonight. As Allen Dale, the New York crit- Go to the Devil.”’ —_— HO LOCAL BRIEFS, Don’t fail to read Walter E. Sloans big ad in today’s issue. Do not fail to see the ‘Devil’ at the opera house tonight. The ‘Devil’? arrived in the city this morning in all his pomp and glory. Mr. A. C. McHargue who has been very ill for some time is now able %o sit up, Marriage license were issued late Saturday afternoon to Wm. Conner and Hattie Harris, colored. Telephones are Being put in offices in the~court house, which promise to be a great convenience to all the officers. Ferdinando Potts who was put in jail last week has been released, his bondsmen having reconsidered and stayed on his bond, Miss Annie Click, who was taken to Long’s Sanitarium last week for treatment for pneumonia, is worse today, her condition being critical. Mrs. Mary Hooper continues very ill at her home in Bloomfield. fier condition does not change and there is very little hope for her recovery. Mr. W. Press Sharpe of Harmony, passed through the city this morn- ing en route from Greensboro, where he has bought a tract of land from W. J. Weatherman of that city, ————~3 <P Mothers’ Joy is made of pure ingredients. Mothers you cannot afford to be without a box of Moth ers’ Joy. a - Mrs. J. D. Heathman of Moores- ville was in the city today, and was made exeécutrix of her husbands es- tate. ia la ee og as a aE nei a GAMBLERS SCATTERED Fly as Chaff Before The Wind—Only One Caught—Officers Krow The Rest. Last night under the sunny skies of heaven, five negroes went forth to gamble over in Rankin town. They selected as their rendezvous a shaded, well concealed spot on the branch running through Rankin town, just in the rear of Prof. L. O White’s home. ‘ There they lighted a lamp, and re- lieved themselves of their pistols and razors, and sat down in preparation for a glorious game. But their lamp toJd the story of what was happening, and it was waft- ed to the ever attentive ears of De- puty Shrriff Ward and Policeman, fom Kerr, both of whom immediate- ly started to the spot. They arrived there and very care- fully slipped up and watched the’pro- ceedings for a short space of time. Everything went lovely none of the “crap shooters” never suspecting that any one was near to molest or harm them, After seeing enough to satisfy themselves that it was an old crap game, the officers flushed their covey and they flew in every direction. In. fact they used up every direction there is in getting away. After the gamblrs th officers went like chasing the chaff before the wind. After quite a lengthy chase and some shooting at them one ne- gro was caught, and brought to town, being lodged in jail, where he spent the night very comfortably. He became verry penitent this morning, and told on all the other zamblers who were with him , giving he officers their names. For this reason th name of the nan captured is withheld until the others are caught. One gentleman who heard the chase said that it sounded as if a herd of catle had broken loose from some place and were running through the cane breaks, knocking down the undergrowth as they went, —_—— ++ __—_-. PERSONAL NOTES. Mr. J. S. McIntosh of Taylorsville is spending the day in the city. Lawyer J. D. McCall of Charlotte, is in the City today on business. Prof. Leigh Scott, who is teaching at Albemarle, is at home for the holi- days. Mr. Lonnie Mills who is attending Davidson College is at home for the hollidays. Mr, William Cowles of Guilford College, is spending the holidays at his home in this city. <4 —— BAILEY TO PUSH CASE. Will Prosecute Wife-Stealer Goddard —May Have Him Indicted For Blackmail. Winston-Salem, Dec. 19,—M.D. Builey, Jr the son of a prominznt tobacco manufacturer here, left today for Waycross, Ga., to look after the prosecution of Charles Goddard, of Fayetteviile, on the charge of eloping with Bailey’s wife. Bailey had Goddard ar- rested yesterday upor his arriv- el in Waycross. Bailey may have Goddard indicted for attem- pting to blackmail the§prosecu- tor. Proceening to annual the mar- riage, which was celebrated in Baltimore a few months ag oc, have alreaey been instituted by Bailey, upon whom itis alleged repeated demands for money have becn nade to prevent pub- heity- It is said that a detective was onthe trial of Goddard and Bailey’s wife for two weeks be- fore they were located. —— a Hubbard Bennett Caught. Hubbard Bennett,. colored, who was wanted here for Marceny of a gun, and gambling, was caught today by Deputy ~Sheriff Ward. Bennett stole the gun mentioned, a rifle from Mr. A. J. Evans about 2 year ago. The theft was commit- ted in the Evans Hardware Com- pany’s store and Bennett made good his escape. Leaving here, he was put in the chain gang in Albemarle | county for 18 months, and has just finished his term at that place. ————>-<+< oe Mr. Fred Conger who has _ been very ill with blood poisoning, is a little better today, | day morning for Statesville. Wife Stole Her Huspand’s Beard SHE WANTED TO “PRIMP” WIT IT Husband Says She Needs no Hair Puff to Dress Her Hair in a New Fangled Way With.—As He Slept His Whiskers Were Clipped Off— Met Wife on Street Next Day With New Hair Puffs On. Denver, Col, Dec. 19 —“If a man’s wife cuts off his whiskers when he is asleep and has them whiskers made up into puffs for her hair, can he se- cure a divorce on the ground of cru- elty?” Joseph Caldwell Argyle arises in indignation, and no little humiliation and inquires plaintively as above. Hamlet J. Barry, attorney at law, to whom the question was put, says. “Yes—but’? “But what?’’ demands Joseph Cald well Argyle. “But it is a matter for a jury ‘to de- cide,’ says Barry. Joseph Caldwell Argyle resides in the eastern part of Arapahoe county, and is a ranchman. Some months ago Joseph accumulated a spouce who came from Seattle unto his household by way of an advertise- ment in a matrimonial paper. In addition to having @ plelthoric bank roll Joseprk was possessed of 2 vast crop of whiskers—not beard, but whiskers, blanket whiskers, Which started growing somewhere around his eyebrows and enfolded his countenance and most of his man- ly bosom. They were not the whis- kers of age, but whiskers of design and desire, and they were brown in color and the joy of Joseph’s heart. Those whiskers were famous throughout the length and breadth of Arapahoe county and many parts of Denver, because of the high re- gard in which Joseph held them. He fairly doted upon them, but such de- risive terms aroused no ire ir the heart of Joseph Caldwell Argyle, be- cause he reasoned that his friends were jealous. The Séattle wife, says Joseph, did not take those whiskers at any stage of the matrimonial journey. She abhorred them~ She said so. And once in a little connubal altercation, she yanked viciously at those whis- kers and almost split them out from Joseph’s frontispiece. ‘‘She’s a mighty peart aan says Joseph, “She likes good clothes, and I bought her a lot of ’em but she was too extravagant. She got to dressing her hair in a new-fangl- ed way, and a few days ago she came to me and said she wanted some money to buy some puffs for her hair, Now what in time she wanted puffs for is more than I can tell, but she wanted ’em, and I wouldn’t pungle. I didn’t see the use, “““All right, you old crab you,’ she says to me. I’ll fix you.” And that night when I was asleep that ornery woman clipped off my beautiful whis- kers. She was gone the next morning when I woke up, and it was a good thing too, because there was murder in my heart. I looked like a plucked chicken. I tell you, and I had to come into Denver and get what was left of my beard trimmed up Van Dyke fashion, like you see, and I feel all fired foolish too, I tell you. “I met my wife in the street and she was dressed fit to kill. She and her hair all fixed up in great shape with them pus, and the moment I see her I says, ‘Myrtle’-—that’s her name— ‘Myrtle,’ what did you do with my whiskers 9’ “She patted the top of her hat and says, ‘They’re under here, Joseph, in my hair. They made the dandiest puffs you ever saw, and the hairdress« er took what was left to make an« other set without charging me for these.’ “Now do you think that’s grounds for divorce, eh?’’ Sg gee Sheriff Deaton Returning With His Prisoner. Knoxville, Tenn, Dec -20.—Sher- iq J. M. Deaton, of Iredell county, North Carolina, arrived here tonight from Chicago, having in custody, Sam Carlton, colored, wanted in Statesville for atson. Thé s and prisoner leave at 1 o’clock Mon- a ds foe , i pe hg magn ee eet, og wry Rr co ee ee e ee Te t e AS G Ve e n a . 6 ET T Tk pc t OA s aS ee NR pa n e he BA e 5 Gt At Ba on i ee SP EA R er s ar a ah at wh t co p e s THE EVENING MASCO1 DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. sé. Entered at the Postofficein Statesville @. C., as second-class mail matter. ffice 109 Court Street. Telephone 53 VANCE NORWOOD - Publisher. RALPH SLOAN, - - City Editor, Subscription Price, - $4.00 a Year ubscription Price, - 10 Cents a Week rr Weather Forecasts, Washington, D. C. Dec. 21.—For North Carolina,° probably rain to- night and Tuesday. —_——_~<2<- _THE BOY WITH COWLICKS Why the Barber Does Not Like to Cut hs Bair. “When a boy with cowlicks comes into a barber shop,” says a local artist in hair, ‘‘there is a quiet com- Petition at once among the barbers to see who shall get through last with the customer in hand, for every berber is perfectly willing that some- body else shall pocket the boy’s quar- ter. It is almost impossible to cut the hair of a boy with cowlicks so that it Shall look decent. If you get it right in one place it is too short in another, and if you trim it down in the first place, to make it look like the second, in two or three week the hair will grow so unequally that the boy looks like a scarecrow. “What people call a cowlick is on- ly a set of the hair roots in a par- ticular direction, by which the hairs are made to turn at a sharpe angle to the growth on the rest of the scalp. Babies are often born with cowlicks that showed just as dis- tinctly with the little hair they have as though their heads were fully covered. But boys generally get them by the way they have of wear- ing their hats or caps. A boy always slings his cap on the back of his heac then gives it a pull down over his forehead. This draws the hair on the back straight upward and very often makes a cowlick. I remember one boy who had a semicircular cow- lick from one ear clear down to the other and another on the top of his head, where the cap touched Be crown, and when that boy’s hail was cut he looked as though he had a white stripe around his head at]. the place where the hair stood up straight and the Scalp showed through. *“Cowlicks are sometimes reme- died by frequently brushing the hair in the proper direction, so as to turn the roots at the right angle. Men who sfavé -themselves very often have eowlicks in their beard by shav- ing up one side and down the other. So long as the face is clean shaven these are never noticed, but when such men start to grow a beard they find the hair sticking out in all di- rections, and for the first two weeks their faces show, but combing and brushing soon turn the roots in the right direction and the cowlick pass- es away. It is true that there are some natural cowlicks that cannot be eradicated. There is a lady in the city that has two cowlicks just over her forehead that have worried her more than all her_sins She has brushed them, straightened the hair with with pomatum, fastened it back with hairpins, has done everything that anybody told her and a good many things she thought of herself in order to get rid of them. But they are there still, and her sole consola- tion is the fact that a fortune teller once told her that some day they would bring her good luck.”"—St_ Louis Globe-Democrat. Items From Faith. Mr. John Castor, an old soldier, died very sudden Wednesday night December i6th at the home of his son, Julius A Castor. He ate a hearty supper and seemed to be in _ 800d health, when suddenly he fell over dead. He was 78 years old and was a large stout man His wife died a few years ago. He will be Much missed by the county, J. T. Wyatt shipped fwo granite curb cemetery plots the 17th. One to Denton, N. C. and the other to Asheboro, N. C. Venus wishes all the readers and Correspondents a happy Christnfag We have been reading the items} from the corréspondents with much pleasure for many years. George Peeler and Miss Minnie Peeler returned from Newton Cok lege for the holidays. VENUS. ——++2o——_—_ ‘st: Itching piles” provoke profanity, ..but profanity won’t cure them. Doan’s Ointment cures itching, bigeding protruding piles after years of suffering. At any drug store. re eee, Mother do you hear that rat- tling in your babies throat? Put e little Mothers’ Joy on it and stop it at once. 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In addition to the news of the day, it publishes the best features that can be presented, such as fashion artic- les and miscellaneous writings from men and women of note and promi- nence. It is an educator of the high- est character, constantly stimulating to noble ideals in individual and na- tional life. The Sun is published on Sunday as well as every other day of the week. ..By mail the Daily Sun, $3 a year By mail the Daily Sun, $3 a year. Address A. S, ABELL COMPANY, Publishers and Proprietors, BALTIMORE, MD. Personally Conducted Tour to Ha- vana, Cuba, and Return, January 11, 1909, Via Southern Railway Souhern Railway will sell round trip excursion tickets to Havana, Cuba at following rates from points named: PRINCE a $39.10 NOOR ioe seuss 42.40 PORE NORE 200 ek 40.45 WaaeesMner Sa 42.40 Approximately low rates from from other points. Tickes on sale January 11th, good returning to leave Havana, Cuba, on or before January 27th, 1909. Tickets may be routed through Jacksonville thence either through Knight’s Key, or Port Tampa. Good going and return-- ing same route. Stop-over will be allowed at Jacksonville, St. Au- gustine, Palm Beach, Miami, and other points south of Jacksonville, within final limit of ticket. A representaive will accompany movement, and will look after the comfort and pleasure of the party. For further information as to side tours from Havana, sight see- ing tours, hotel rates, leaving time a principal points, Pulllman and state room reservation, write J. H. Wood, D. P. A., Asheville, N. C.; W. H. MeGlamery, P. & T. A., Raleigh, N. C. ; R. H. DeButts, P. & T. A., Greensboro, N. C.; or call on your repot agents, or write R. L. VERNON, T. P. A. Charlotte, N. C. THE IREDELL CAF LEADER JN CANDIES ooo ANN... FRUITS Oysters for retail and serving. Quail on Toast. PHONE NO. 323 W. W. GAITHER : Proprietor. STATESVILLE SKATING RINK Opera House Building Open from 3 to 5 and 8 to 10 p. m. No Children Admitted to Floor at Night Sessions. Would Mortgage The Farm. A farmer on Rural Route No. 2. Empire, Ga. W. A. Moyd by name, says: ‘‘Bucklen’s Arnica Salve eured the two worst sores I ever saw; one on my hand and one on my leg. It is worth more THE GIRL QUESTION Yy ele than its weight in gold. I would IS EASILY fm not be without it if I had to mort- SOLVED gage the farm to get it.’”? Only PRESENT HER 25e. at Statesville Drug Co.’s| WITH A BOX Statesville’s model hostesses. OF store. ———_—_+ <r -—— The average number of deaths hrough railway accidents in Holland sg is one a year. —_———— +o Stops earache in two minutes; toothache or pain of burn or scald in five minutes; hoarseness, one hour; muscleache, two hours; sore throat, twelve hours—Dr. Tiotmas Eclectric Oil, monarch over pain. We Are Agents. See our Xmas Packages of Candy Stationery and Cigars Milk that is delivered to the homes of New York City each morning | comes from 30,227 dairies. Wood Sawed! See R. O. Harbin or Phone 132 \ \ ° 5. HALL or 46. 11-4-1m. Prescription Druggist. Now Time for You to Se- lect Your Xmas Goods We will put aside any goods selected. See our new line of Morris Chairs and Rockers. Also Fine Mahogany Tables. We will make Special Prices on COOK STOVES and RANGES. STATESVILLE HOUSEFURNISHING COMP’Y DVERTISIN Is Essential to the Up- building of the Modern Business Enterprise. ::: To the publicity gained by the use of the advertising columns of the daily papers is at- tributed the growth, and consequent success, of a very large percentage of great business enter- prises of the present day. Advertising is recognized as the prime fac- tor in increasing the sales of any class of goods or manufactured articles. The space used in this puper is your_busi- ness message to the public. In this open letter you should tell them of the merits of what you are offering, setting forth the reasons why your particular line is worthy of their attention. — THE EVENING MASCOT has increased its local circulation very materially during the past three months and the results obtained from the space used by the advertisers are gratifying to them and to the paper. It reaches into the homes of the best class of our people and your message will be placed in the hands of those with money to buy the goods you wish to sell. The Space Rates in The Evening Mascot are not high. Your message is carried. each day, to those you wish to reach, in the most economical manner. For information call us up on the phone and a representative ot the paper will gladly visit you j| # THE STATESVILLE LOAN AND TRUST Cu. : yearly subscri i E| Mascot, paid in a y subscribers to The Evening SEVERAL THINGS Are to be considered in selecting your Bank? 1ST. Strength-Financial Strength 2ND. The care with which the Bank is Managed. 3RD. The courtesy and spirit of of accomodation'displayed by the Officers and Em- ployees. 4TH. The banking experience of Officers. 5TH. The ability of the bank to Properly and Promptly Handle all Your Business To.Those Desiring the Embodi- ment of These Features are Offered The Service of THE HIRST NATIONAL BANK OF STATESVILLE CAPITAL $100.000 00060808 OSCSECGOOSSCCOOONOE © ‘These Handsome Dishes Given Away toMyCustomers ¢ With each cash purchase of 5 cents or over I will give youa @ coupon that can be exchanged for these gifts. i aan u ae s L. A.GOLDMAM : Purveyor to the People. 03800662 2SGS600CEG0C09GC066 a OO S 00 8 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 8 0 80 8 08 8 6 9 8 0G 8 S 9 C G O 0 8 8 0 0 6 0 6 0 9 Of Statesville, N. C. {S PREPARED to transact all branches of banking. Accounts are solicited from firms, corporations and indiv uals, who may rely upon courteous consideration and the very best terms that are consistent with good banking methods. Four per cent. paid on time and savings deposits. BO R O BO P ” KE C O R E S DO D S CO N E NP 1 1 D 1 T D 80 8 9 ON S 3T D 9 0 0 6 8 SHAREHOLDERS LIABILITY...........cceseeeeseeeee $40,000.00 SURPLUS AND UNDIVIDED PROF'TS.........-.-§30,000.00 Tota REsovuRces OVER.......csssceseeesseeeses $440,000.00 OFFICERS E. Steele, President, E. Morrisou, Vice-Pres, D. M. Ausvey, Sec and Treasurer, C. E. HUGHEY, Assistant Secy. and Treas W. G. CULBRETH, Manager Savings Departmen! — ease | A Show Down In @ sharp contest nothing but “ ity?’ quality” and appearance figure. 3 TRUTH MADE™ Hosiery and the "WORLDS BEST” Black are the goods of Quality. After ali has been said, all your pu i rae still a fact th 2 pursuasive argument exhausted, it is “QUALITY” IS THE ONLY TEST OF VALUE To get best results you must have th i r e best of everything fe yarn, best colors, best machines and best help, with uch & combination you can produce the best of what you are making. We have all of for the goods of quality.” the above. Ask your dealer i CAPITAL STOCB...cecesssseeeeeescs sues, coseeseeceee- $40,000.00 Na ‘S E SL R GA R A R T L A A A R A A A AT I D AP S A R A TR A I N PA R A M O R E G THE BRADFORD KNITTING MILL. BROS OROSOS OBO ee ee ORN8S.,. OB0ED SRO SO SS JOGNB OB BOQURO Ea ee tte 0808999990 808090NNSHS0O80NS0S0SNS0SOSO OROROROR ada peedecoiecrae te aoe Get us five : dvance, and get one of the beautiful China Sets we are giving as pa = & \= ko ky Sc o Ta s a ; Ge e s GR A RP RS A CE PO P RL HR Ld HI be d be d iz 1 er a wh va , +s ie e e * VO D if t t we p , T "s e t ‘o y e fe e oi Maynard & Ellis, Professional Photographers, in N. B. Mills=New Building, adjoining Stimson Drug Store, Statesville, N. C. High Grade Photos at a Low Price. § : 8 g & § g penny Pictures, the best that can be made—24 for 2550 ‘ a § 6 § § g Post Cards, per dozen, $1.25 Per half dozen 750. e : Cabinets, in folders, dozen, $2.00. Half dozen $1.50. : 2 g § é ¢ 3 : Pictures of your home, PostCard size, and up to 8x10 inches, 5 and out-door groups, is one of our specialties at a moder. ate price. Give us @ trial and be convinced that we are : trying to please you. We are now ready to serve you. 3 Will also Develop and Finish Kodak Work. ’ MAYNARD & ELLIS=—~ CARE— ‘ STUDY— THOROUGHNESS— | ¥ Are the coniponent parts of the Statesville Laun- iN dry business which you get the benefit of, if you are a customer, and for which no extra charge is i made. Good Work—Clean Work—White Work! 4 We wish a very merry Christmas. CO EE E ai i Fa e STATESVILLE STEAM LAUNDRY U. C. HARWELL, Prop. Phone No. 122 OLE MONDAY, DEC. 21ST. -—<7S==O0NE NICHT ONLYS-- THE ~—==CASINO COMPANY==~-: Zz =, PRESENTS THE SENSATIONAL PLAY OF THE DAY >THE DEVIL A WONDERFUL PRODUCTION BY SUPERB CAST The Devil, as seen by New York Critics, “The Devil is a great lay, look at it from any point you will.’”—Acton Davies in the Death was on His Heels. } of pneumonia left me so weak and had me, and death was on my helped me immediately, and after was a well man again. I found out that New Discovery is the best remedy for coughs and lung dis- guaarantee at Statesville drug bottle free. ————~+Oo>-e—___. During the funeral of Mrs. Dena 7uniec, 21 years old, of Wabosh, In- liana’s heaviest woman, a panic re- sulted. She weighed 500 poundh, ind twelve pall-bearers were requir- 2d. While reiatives and friends pass- ed the casket the floor gave way, ————___+~+~@>-e—___. Day after day he walked the street, Looking for a presnt for ** wifey’? sweet— said he; Tea.’’—Statesville Drug Co. ————~+28>-e—___ he had secured a divorce from his wife, R. W. Theobald, of Seattle, has) paid a fine of $100. The judge charg- 2d him of contempt of court. ~<2-¢>>-€> If you haven’t the time to exercise regularly, Doan’s Regulets will pre- mild, easy, healthful action of the bowels without griping. Ask your druggists for them. 25c. ———————?~++ > ro. but only 4,545 tons were produc- i last year. In many places it is as- ated with petroleum. mentally, keeps your digestion or- gans in condition, regulates the Svening Sun. ; : j “One of the strongest plays in a decade.”—The New York Press. | *‘Audiense kept gasping.”’ The New York Herald. Get Your Seats early. Onsale Saturday, Dec. 19th at the; Statesville Drug Company. (35 cents. Statesville Drug Co. bowels, cleanses the blood, gives you perfect health. Hollister’s with such a fearful cough that} Weather. The people are about all my friends declared consumption through with their farm work, Most of the people are fixing for Xmas. heels. —— was persuaded to} present, but think that I will have ury Dr. King’s New Discovery. It}some Xmas. taking two and a half bottles J} 2°4F this place. visiting his father, Mr. Will Holland near Eupeptic Springs. ease in all the world,’’ Sold under] Your letters. Co. store. 50e. a - ,#come again. ~-I certainly appreciate nd $1.00. Trial reading your letters — moved to his new home north of Statesville. move near Scotts Cross Roads._ Best wishes to the Mascot and its many readers. I wish you all a mer- ry Xmas and a happy New Year. good health since we began using! “I know what'll please her most,’’| Dr, King’s New Life Pills, three, years ago,’’ says L. A. Bartlet, of; “It’s Hollister’s Rocky Mountain} Rural Route 1. Guilford Maine. They cleanse and tone the system in a gentle way that does you For marrying again two days after good 25e. at- Statesville Drug Co. ors congress which is in session at vent constipation. They induce aj bleed. Gives you a hearty appe- tite, builds up flesh, makes you strong and rugged. Rocky Mountain -Tea, greatest Coal has been found in nearly ev-| health builder. 35 cents, Tea or ry island of the Philipine archipeli-| Tablets. Statesville Drug Co. budget of the Metropolitan Opcra of ————— House, in New York, will $1,250,- Builds you up physically and] p99. scrofula, pimples, rashes, etc., are due to impure blood. Burdock Blood Bitters is a cleansing tonic. Makes Rocky Mountain Tea or Tablets, you clear-eyed, clear-brained, clear skinned. Snow Creek teens. We have been having some fine I have no marriages to report at Mr. Bert Summers is quite sick Mr, John Holland of Indiana is Come again Uno, I certainly enjoy Hello sister School Girl of Eufola, Mr. William Eagle has recently Mr. John F. Wilson is going to Well I will ring off for this time. SCHOOL GIRL. —~~++o—____—_ A Healthy Family. “‘Our whole family has enjoyed Eighteen governors are in atténd- e at the national rivers and har- “ashington. — — ++ + Fills your veins with rich, red Hollister’s _—— Pe It is reported that the 1908-1909 ———_—_-+ > ——_—_ Most disfiguring skin eruptions, | =O eee ‘ N ED Ss I L D l QO a ee Skippers, | °F ee , Sa DS Va., had a close eall in the spring | ee re oe eae : % in the dear old Mascot for a short of 1906. He says: ‘An attack letter. FO O L E D GO D DO I Q O O I Q O I N , 4 Mf 4 SF 9 eS | Do the Right Thin Along with your Christ- mas present give your wife, sweetheart or girl friend a nice > = ae a et . ES E Se s > Be Am ss SS FP L LE X A oe o <= NS S ee e iS \ or z er e s ee e “ ED DE Christmas Basket of Candy. Be sure it’s GUTH’S. STATESVILLE DRUG COMP’Y Prescriptionists. a EE GEEZ THE FINEST GIFT OF THE YEAR you can easily bestow upon yourself is to acquire the habit of thrift and the sav- ing of money—the Merch- ants and Farmers bank off- ers you the most practical means, as its financial stand- ing and integrity are un- questioned. Commence to save on January Ist and stick to your resolution. Merchants and Farmers’ Bank OF STATESVILLE INCORPOkW ATED CAPITAL $25,000.00. OFFICERS: : L. T. STIMPSON, Pres.; C.S. TOMLIN, Vice-Pres.; F. B. BUNCH, Sec. & Treas.; J. A. KNOX, Asst. Sec. & Treas. Directors: L. T. Stimpson, J. L. Stevenson, C.S. Tomlin, R. R. Reid, J. A. Knox, W. S. Page, Geo. B. Nicholson, L. K. Lazen- by, E. G. Gaither, J. R. Hill, E. B. Watts. we : Se A, A, ae ae , ae , ae ae ae en 5 OE OOSOOO OOOODOOOOSOSS9OSOE99SO9OOSOOOOE9O9GOOOOOOOOE2ESEO90SOHO9E:9O6ESOHO80OOOSS When Seiecting for the loved ones don’t neglect the most im-= portant present you can bestow on that loving wife and helpless child. A few thousand dol- . lars of LIFE INSURANCE with the Oldest, the Strongest, the Lowest Premium, the Best Contract, the Only Mutual Company in the State The Security Life and Annuity Co., me your age and | application. I wish to thank my year 1908 has exceeded t . 4 s ‘ It is strictly mutual and guarantee pany, which | am proud to represent. OF NORTH CAROLINA. Assets, about. Business in force, about : $750,000.00 13,000,000.00 s to return to its policy helders all monies accrued as profits. Send will give you facts that will convince you that it is to your interest to give me your many friends for the business given me in the last four years. | hem all, which shows faithful service by me and a popular, prompt, strong com= -With best wishes for the new year, : I am yours to serve, WALTER E. SLOAN, District Agent + $660 SOSHSOSSSOOOOOOSOHOOEDHDOOO9OO0OSHSOOSO 008069 3080008 00006008 mas Presents The STATESVILLE NORTH CAROLINA. ee . i ; } tf fil ah 4 1 ae d Se a ee a r e c e n Ce ea e ca t tt r e ta s an e er r r aan NE eee Gain ton 7 Te ae ae “os F PASSED AS A BOY | AN ITALIAN’S HARD LUCK a eee ‘i Of ori OY RORY, \ Noire - [RSE | GNC IQI DANII SS NOSES NOSES SANA é Masquerading as a Boy, Sue Accuses! En Route With His Wife and Awelve | io ee 3 : apa : ee > 6 + Companion of Murder in Philadcl- Children to His New Home on | 3" oe wa oa ac a |= P| S f phia. Virginia (harles Kreicar Loses His| who lost a : = jaan see a ‘ cu y Se a Cedar Rapids, la., Dec. 19.—| Life at Graham, Va. > “The good Blectrie Ditters | Zr fs Be ae DS ; A young woman masquerading) oe a see ee js worth more than five FAY ey as os ec s ive d i asa boy and telling a strange ones Se Dee. 20.—W hile! handred dollars to me. I spent FY “ © "| ‘ story of adventures, with aaa a with his wile and twelve | much money doctoring for @ bad SS i i a murder committed two years ie — Esterhazy, CaD3-| case of stomach trouble, © itis B = < j ago in Philadelphia may be con- da, to Petersburg, Va., Where| purposo, I then tried Bleetric | J : y bu { nected, was arrested here today they expected to make their| p::tors, and they cured me. a [have just received a nice new assortment of A { under the name of Earl Waters. home; Charles RPEICAE, = Italian | now take them as a tonic, ana| 2 e 5 The police arrested “Waters” =e i ag aie, they keep me strong and wall” Cuff Links, Stick Pins, Lockets, Neck, Chains, Za P for perpetration of a practical Sons a ie = see 2 ee y W@8150¢e. at Statesville Drug Co.’s Z A} 3 : S q ‘oke in robbing “his” on TOOM| Op” perce twine ar snseee’ store eS Brooches, Bar and Veil Pins, Both ZA i but failing to enter complaint e = cay wee around oe Sere Ton eee ee i Zr S 7 ‘ against any person. Then they ga : | Se a =\ in Gol d and Gold Filled Ze REV i discovered “Waters” to be a a ee a ee A How to Prevent Pneu- fin iS ; Se 3 a: money Ea oe ee 5 mona ok fl AY and of the newest patterns. Also a large lot of ladies ZG ance sone her own ae mien ae Cincinnati and Bluefield, |§ ee eee ee — ‘ —) Bracelets and Children’s Rings. It will pay any ono a Ones to see these goods before they make their purchases of Christmas Gifts, and my prices will surprise you. ood man has just died with & this fearful disease—pneu- § monia. Now we will give § you One Hundred Dollars @ W. Va., according to the con-| ductor, was robbed and murder- ed. ra e PR A I A RN Pearl Waters. She says she was born in Europe and that her Bal N O : WA N G aq Si earliest recollections are of life| "Wine trai a : in New York. A woman witb Geld en oan eae as, for any case of preumonia f Ss all pat whom she lived was abusive, a SFEIC efit it}@ you have in your family ib Bl gS 3 if : $F i - Ce i Se) as wall ae ae —o gradué and four years ago the girl to get lunch for the wife and|@ tails to cure if you will use #i| All Cut Glass, Japanese, China and Statuary iN ioee donned a boy’s suit and left children. The train pulled out be-| * soo (:rease Liniment as § a ie = : : i | s irected. it only costs z / : S e q in Philadelphia she fell in with a Scag —— he Was | 8 OF Conte eae eee 1 aD will be sold at 10 per cent. above cost in order to we ea 4 e e in i e ac + 2 . ie x -_* ee i Ss nage : 2 v0 f ARR S 2 ayoung man, she said, and be-| - ae railroad) @ you have nothing to loose [| aaa close out these lines. Be sure to see me for anything ah money came his companion, though she tickets from Roanoke to Peters-|§ and all to gain. We know f FV : : 3 i ie ere did not reveal her sex. She says burg in his pocket and when the \@ there are thousands who RB 3 in my line, as it means a Saving of from 29 to 50 per a cae he became involved ina quarrel train reached Roanoke after mid- kK will read this aud throw = 3 = cent on your Christmas purchases. ane 4 : night Mrs. Kreicz the|# aside and ina few days will & committed murder and that), se li amie oe oe 19 be down with the disease. & ZY nee they fied. They came to Cedar welve little ones entered a Walt-'& Please just get one bottle § = ‘ ageree r ° ine Tr ‘ <1} | PA BE jusy vet OLR DS ut 1S e o ae Rapids two years ago, since cae and remained there an and put it away until you F g The First One Hundred Ladies a gat. 1B need it. lf you haven’t the @|S< as @ mo who make purchases at my place, commencing on ae & and we will cend you a bot- ai a ployed as newsboys on trains. Her companion will probably December 22nd, will receive each a nice 9 inch Chi- erice money and two Canadian | na Card Plate. They are beauties. Four patterns. re ee tly which time both have been em- : : a: a The railroad ticket, $5 in Am-|@ money to buy it ed US know a E GOOSE GREASE CO. be taken into custody and held coins were in Kreicar’s pockets. | 3 el ID | as ending investigation of the Tet ee | & Se murder story Se eS oa Come early, make your purchases and get a China 5 ad . eo i i Plate. These are for ladies, not men and children. ae In T freight Qu e S : SESE Paris, Dee. 19.—The “missing | | COL. TAYLOR TESTIFIES. link” in the chvin Drawin forged | : - . See ae Everything I sell is guaranteed. S H O N T O N I O TS N T O N T O N T O N I O < 7 ae : to connect directly man and his | ZG Pathetic Evidence and Sight of ee distineuished progenitors, the | | =} =< plannes ken and Pathetic Figure Bring: . h : 5 S\ Tears to the Eyes of Judge and oe ee areas been found at last. F, fe aes 3 ae ee 8 Uy ee) Jury—Described the Tragedy on At least, so declares a most La SV R. F. Henry Jewele d Opt ; Reelfoot Lake. learned and serious paper whieh | canital. an = r an ician ee Union City, Tenn., Dec. 19.—| ¥as read this week before tbe Ac- | cure positions under reasonable con- = Hotel Iredell Building. Temple Eight stoical prisoners were the demy of Sciences by M. Perrier, | ditions or refunnd tuition. > for fre ceil ra ee SORKIN | =: ATOM OTTO TOON: = ‘1 Sa cic ayedinoc oma to day |OmOn ent Stone Ea a! ee ee Ka NUKe nn MONIMNANIONIE GNGRNGO ae 3 = accepting his proposition, concede when Col. R. Z. Taylor, bis snow- Two abbes, anthropologists. | that he icaches more Sonic oo one white hair hanging about bis were making excavations nea! — = nths than they do in You can wear the smile OSSO99256 CS6SS699690000006600 Junctio shoulders a his ee ee La Chapelle-aux,sainta in Cen Pas . Bae os can convince YOU that won’t come off if @ @ a num : ents ° ~ WT | % mT Ey BR ma eave tiene : with sobs, told of the killing of tral France- They came upow SHOR HAND QP SSe 2 8 ) b ML. | e ae his friend, Capt. Quentin Rankir, the skeleton ofaman which M. Court Reporters werte ook you buy your ® : ° \ & ; by the night riders of western | Perrier says is the most ancient | Shorthand Draughon teaches, be- | ® : S ae Tennessee. of human remains ever discover- | @US° CY Snow 28's THE BEST. @ z = a Tears rolled down the cheeks ed. Near the skeleton we found 3 ps acti CA TALOG and book- : © Tl i : ae of Judge Jones sa aa teeth Ae the ancestors of oe : @ The vere eS B. Miller is guilty of g plans f¢ attorneys for the defense had to | rhinoceros acd other bones| DRAUGHON, President pee © ever shown in See eae roe, turn their heads to hide their] Which proved that the man| — DRAUCHON’S @ . eee emotion. whose skeleton lay there lived in | ee e Just received (by expr county é A a “ i PE CAL BUSINESS a (oy express today) a second shi Colonel Taylor, in a voice the geologic period when th aoe sae BUSINESS COLLEGE os @ Put up fancy individual boxes, at 25c., 50. Te. res 00 6 fae G weakened by age and his recent mammoth roamei the earth. | (We also Teach by Mail) AND— @ Stop and look—seeing is believing. » We. to SL). @ ae , terrible experience, told how he| The bones of the human skele- re ee eee ®@ . ville, G and Rankin had gone to Walnut tom are bent in a way that! lumbia or Washington, D. C. 1 eS © Point, Log Hotel on Reelfoot Lake, how proves conclusively, Perrier |, Y @ meee NC: = FS (OOTITUCDL I CF they were awakened about mid- declared, th=t in life he moved in | St PHEHN i AuLW AY (0 h S. B. MILLER of THE SHOE MAN. @ Black night by a score of masked men, | ® bending position and probably | w i on ° SSSSSSSSSSSCESESOSGOQSCCO e va. 40 ordered to dress; how they were} °® all fours. The man’s skull is | Gent Bil i —FROM— eoue Rep si . 2 i for Mahtu : Fa ae . taken away toa deserted spot shaped like an ape’s but is much | uréai clgiwey of Tr aug and NSESSSseSescescesesecsceseseesEey ed, but along the lake where the hang- erger than the skull of any apet | Travel Thrn dh th M Pp Alexan= us =o SSS SS SSS probabil ing of Captian Rankin took yet discovered. The face bon: is| — : tar Oug) ib : ; Ww A MERRY in ee place. He then described his es-| V¢TY long. | Ssuthern States d & W - ce — cape from the masked men. The scientists of the Academy | ee er Bro. WwW CH RISTMAS < o a = Judge Jones threw another listened intently to M. Perrier’s | Tarough Pullman Sleeping Cars uw It is to those who A . \t is th bomb today when he warned the paper and expressed the opinion Ee trains between the - x ib have a spick and os os preachers not to discuss -the eee a etd aa One pce! Se Resorts of| Nice line for Xmas trade.' Wy Sra elit fe lahoma night rider trials tomorrow. The ofthe highest importance and Cars. M ae a i piers Ww a i 7 als. ; i ars, Many Gelgatiuioun = : N and ind a given was that prospec- interest. and Winter Resorts on and ‘Phone No 241 Ys Coat scl wr and mi ive iuri i i —————_-+ ao resehed by Sonthern Railway . A ote 1 ve juries might be influenced. oS aoe = aes Railway. : a the best plan for a a view a ee > ike the Treatment. 36 De sine of the Sky,” “The BY your floor space, ; increas MOOSE UNCOVERS GOLD, Philadelphia Inquirer. See in scenic VA 7 A NT A DS ‘ and we os fit you mn the mir —- ss 3 ,,{ Western North Caroiina; beau- out with a bath acity o Struggles of Animal Displace Moss Let me kiss those tears away!’ | tiful at ail seasons. Hotels of 1 ti = : W Room eo ‘ : This ‘ aaditictesg che Metall tnt! View. he begged tenderly. She fell in the highest class. 2 AMO......scseeereereees 5 cents & line. i will be proud, ff ee eee his arma, and he was busy for 2 = ee ek as See & = wy Bone much A deposi 5 Ea . 19.— ; i p ae : tapes 34 cents a line. rain on your f 2 Oscar T. Nelson, ofthis city, was the next few minutes. And yet|For detailed information apply) 26 times...... .......... 3 cents a line Ww pocketbook. A aoe doubly incky while hunting. He the tears flowed on. Can noth.| * Bearest Picket Agent, or “Tyg; Ale . HOLLER PLUMBIN ON . 4 killed the famous eae ing stop them?” he asked, breath- R. L. VDRNON, T. P. A, WANTED—RY THE iz - . Phore No. 61. - G ¢ PANY i Nego' bull moose which had dodged lessly. Charlotte, N.C. Cotton and Business ee ce 3: Sass eo ee oN ” . 634? wt 2 Xx? SE. Ars : '‘e- ° . . . . <= - 2 y 4 + Nan s . . . - “ ~ . . x 7 x Alaska sportemen for years, and |; No she oer a s hay = oe se ae Fr. M., Milledgeville, Ga., students to take Sa a a a ae 3323333235 223322232. sass pee a ae ee ee one or more of our courses in cot-| jSfuindebeidndnbebunininienininiod x SI, Fairbanks Creek. | with the treatment.” Washibgton, D.C. a n grading, buying and selling.| of 3 Senfonserens” ‘Knight airbanke Creek cael ee Stominants Tovoriting, or Tetege:| YOU SA : KES? # oped st received here by his brother. Sheriff Deaton Arrived. i BS ae ie Sere een te HE SM O S ? %: ee Wiihe hunting with two pros-} Sheriff J. M. Deaton arrived here \ | T ee ee aE zoe = = .Tenced pectors on Fairbanks Creek, ajon No. 36 this afternoon about 4 5 ditions. Write at onc a oan eo es of a fir moose trail was struck. That the o'clock with Sam Cariton, who was consolidated catalo L oe ne ’ aA pee Anac d onaa bull was near was| arrested at Chicago, from which place as lege South. . ae 2 = H O W EAS Y! 2 eee oes ena tho & fe Mr. Deaton left Friday morning. ae = : =e : be big fel-]; Carlton staiey, that he is not la es AMBITIOUS YOUNG MEN = eae j ee f : Sta = d E + a AND | e% oe Nec ae eae ae guilty of the the crime that he is New Tables of ladies should learn telegraphy; for < Ab of Ci + — 2 charged with havi £ é since the ana Ox © . *s powers cover. ‘When pe animal ee6 ee aS only the latest and oe 3 a ei —- + igars will make Christmas Day a day of pleas- % - at 20,0 within 150 yards of Nelson, he ES : Pete | a ge 0 ure. We . = to deve ‘ scented danger and darted on = ieescieeta eee es his best ma kes mate eee eee Po- + have them put up in boxes of 25 for $1.00, % Sen th Ate nts e officers in ; 50 to $70 z _ late mi had to take the oe Chicago, as they have had some) MA@VE been in= month to beginners. The ao $2.00 and $2.50 per box at z ae While the moose was bein . trouble since they left here. t ~ d a eee institute of Columbia \ re ee at me - tes S. C., and five other ci "| of cy hes . uartered Nelso ———| Staisie as a a t k. whi a noticed “that under afed under supervision of R. R THE STOR 4 7 ee e rock, which been exposed HOLLISTER’S J Pp ° ; officials and all stud : E OF QUALITY. os and r. a = layer of moss Rocky Mountain Tea Nuggets : . Phifer’s when aaatinied. ae ont 2 2 multip rn loose by the dying animal’s _ ‘ABusy Medicine for Busy Peo i q oes a E ple. > particulars. eo, : ps getting Ltr ee oe gad” a lorge| ,keeemenaeserttes,.. STOCETY SEOTE. ~~ is T ‘ = we uantities. and Kidney troubles, SS TS — Mothers b ; 2 - x moose weiched 1.200 ee eee Bowels, Headache See h fue ES Ae < A ES ) I L L fF D ( } 2 sti andits antlers spread a trifle) +f; Sous a on, Gemine made ly tat eee en eae R G CO. + ‘ =e aan ary Stctionte Dace Coens Sri, made by WeSolicit Your Patronage ers joy in your house. You need| & Prescriptiontsts. < to SALLOW PEOPLE Mothers Joy every day. 2 a , } Seep é - ee vn NY 7 DU E CY Tl e @ vi d e r ) Vi d 1 ) HC S = ~ SS al = “an S = = ~ > = — = b eo S = — a + — By ) ' SP F 2 C 1 9 G O O 8 2 0 9 9 0 0 8 8 00 9 0 4 ea t A oe ¥ | ol e o l s ls ef o r } sf o r } s es *y el s Oo OO ol s vf s ef by el s ol e rf : rl s vf s “y s “l s fe Oo ys vf s yy } ts vf s y = | iL , St A ORT: RG EY NE GAT Rit RE RE MOA G MASCOT. ==— < a Vol. 1. ' f i Statesville, N. C., Wednesday Evening, December 23, £908, No. 377 ‘ 5 a = LOCAL BRIEFS. Christmas Entertainments. Officers of Law Busy. PERSONAL NOTES. ® ll ih} (iil- ——— Christmas is nearly here, and great The officers of the law have all SCR! Mr. Merritt Alexander was the} Preparation is being made by the va-/been unusually alert and busy the itions better REVIVAL ALL OVER THE SOUTH. Favorable Reports of Industry and Commerce From Every Section— Railroads Spending Money—Exist- ing Lines Being Improved and New Ones Contemplated.— Baltimore, Dec. 21.—Reports from all parts of the south indicate a gradual revival of business condi- tions, both in industrial and commer- cial lines. There are also signs that railroads are beginning to spend money more freely for improve- ments. A considerable amount of railroad work suspended during the panic of last year, is now being taken ap and carried forward, though the aggregate is still small compared with the great need for railroad ex- pansion and the improvement of ex- isting lizes. The Seaboard Air Line hes just received authority to issue 2 “ 0O. Of veceivers’ certificates improvement n ‘ ES “Actry Out sna °: sys:é.u from Norfolk » 2.4.id@, including rails, roadway improvement, rolling stock and bet- terment of terminal facilities. In Texas a union depot, with freight terminal, train sheds, etc., is planned for Dallas at an estimated cost, when carried out, of between 31,500,000 and $2,000 000. More than $400,000 is to be ex- pended upon railroad betterments at Temple, Texas, including $200,000 for freight yards, involving the lay- ing of more than fifteen miles of track, and $75,000 for passenger sta- tion. About $150,000 is to be spent upon railroad yards at Hot Springs Junction. Plans for the building of a number of short lines and exten- sions are being worked up. Indications of Revival, These improvements are some of the indications of a revival in con- struction activities of the railrloads of the South, which are found also in plans for railroad lines between Mon- roe, La., and Hope, Ark, 120 miles, between Pecos and the Jeff Davis county line. Texas, between Abbb- ville, Ga, and Winchester, Ga. 60 miles, between Ocilla, Ga., and Ala- paha, Ga., 17 miles, and on to Nash- ville, Ga., 13 miles; between West Point, Va., and Urbana, Va, 17 miles; between Roaring Fork and Big/ 5lack Mountain, Va., 7 1-2 miles and setween Anderson and Richwood, W. Ya., 40 miles. Reports not yet officially confirm- ed, but probably correct, indicate the probability of the construction of a pipe line over 300 miles long from the Caddo oil fields in Louisiana to New Orleans, and the construction in or near that city of a large refinery. It is thought that thie line may con- nect with one extending into the OK- lahoma oil field. An Alabama com- pany has purchased 9,700 acres of land including large iron ore deposits and mining plants and a furnace with a view to large development work, increasing the ore output for which the mines now operating have a ca- pacity of about 8,000 tons per month, This purchase includes what is known as the Baker Hill Brown ore deposit, which has been worked con- tinuously for the past 35 years, Coal and Timber Lands.. Negotiations are under way for the purchase of 131,009 acres of coal and timber lands in Kentucky, while glass sands near Cumberland, Md., and sulphur-pyrite deposits near Knight’s Branch, Va., will be devel- oped shortly. A Pittsburg company has com- menced the building at Birmingham of a flrebrick plant, to cost $250,000, and to have a daily capacity of 40,- 000 brick. z Two companies have been incor- porated at Atlanta, one with $3,000,- 000 capital stock to develop water powers on Tugalo river, estimated - at 20,000 horse power, and the other to develop waterpower on the Chatta- hoochee river. Other water power dvelopments aré under negotiation at several points in the south. These are but a few of the indica- tions showing the trend of industrial and railroad activity. The signs aré multiplying that the South is again getting ready to push its business in- terests with old-time vigor and re- ports from the East and West show & marked increase in the disposition to make investments in the south. erize winner at Lawrence’s yesterday afternoon. Marriage license were issued yes- terday to Mr Jno. Smith and Miss Annie Hayes, and Mr. Claude Wych and Miss Nora Mayberry. Mr. E. A. Mills, of the U_ S$. Forest Service will speak on “The Use of Forests” at the court house on next Monday evening, December 28, at 7:30 o’clock. The county commissioners have secured Mr. C. M. Miller of Salisbury, a civil engineer to survey the exten- sion of the Turnersburg road with the view of extending the macadam_, We are requested to ask all parties wishing to contribute any thing for a Xmas dinner to the inmates of the county home to send their contribu- tions to Mrs_ D. F. Jenkins this even- ing and they will be delivered at the county home. The latest and one of the best dramas produced this season is the ‘‘The Night Riders of Tennessee”— soon to appear at the opera house. You have heard about the Night Rid- ers, you have read about them, talk- ed about them, now don’t miss see- ing them, Mr, E. M. Purdy, who has for some time been the superintendent of the Imperial Furniture factory in this city, and will go to Lenoir the first of the year. Mr. Purdy has recently been elected secretary and treasurr of the Moore Furniture Co., of LeL- noir, and the new job is a raise for him. ——— Need New Jail. . If any thing was ever needed by the county of Iredell, it is a new, fire proof and sanitary jail. In fact, a new jail is very near as important as good roads. ¢ The jail we now have is very dan- gerous in case of fire. If fire should happen to break out in the upper story it would be impossible to get the prisoners out, as there is only one little narrow stair way going to the upper story. The floors are built of wood and would rapidly burn away. The jail we have at present is filthy and unsanitary. The room which contains the iron cages is entirely too small for that purpose, as there is not a space of over three feet left be- tween the cages and the jail wall. This is entirely too close,as there is not room for the proper cleaning of the cages and room, The parties in charge of the jail say that the cages are not cleaned from one time of court to another on account of the lack. of space to put the prisoners in while their cell is being cleaned. No ones knows the condition of things in the jail, until they visit it, and some steps should be taken to remedy things at once ‘The fence around the jail is also in a bad fix, and needs overhauling, —_——-4-< A Cold Ducking. This morning Lawton, the young son of Mr. J. H. Wilson, the tailor was Gumped from the delivery buggy of Mr. Wilson, on Court alley, into a water puddle. The wagon from the convict camp was standing in the alley just in front of the tailor shop, when young Wilson attempted to pass in his bug- gy, 2 large stump in the wagon fright ened the horse driven by Wilson and it jumped hitting the buggy against a post. This threw young Wilson in the water puddle, giving him a very cold bath and soitthg his clothes badly. —e OO Mr, Hofling Here, Mr. F. A. W. Hofling, who is a witness in the case of Sam Carlton, colored, for arson, is in the city to- day. Mr. Hofling is visiting his mother- in-law at Mooresville, and hearing of Carlton’s arrest, came up to see about the case. Mr. Hofling says he intends going to Texas about the first of the year, where he will accept a position with the A. F and §. F. railroad company, with headquarters at Dallas, Texas. ——-<@rnr——" NOTICE. I hope that the public will excuse will excuse me for not having my windows rigged up in Christmas style but the fact is I just cannot spare the time from my bench and sales to fix up the window, but the goods are here and I will spend the time show- ing them to you and making prices st. The goods are inside if not seeh in the window. Lot of goldl pen points regular price from 75c. } to $2.00 each. R. F. Henry, rious Sunday schools and public schools to give Christmas. trees and entertainments. ; The day is one to be celebrated by giving gifts to the loved ones and friends, and from the business the local meérenahts are doing it seems that many will be remembered. The Sunday school of the First| Baptist church Will give an entertain- ment in the Sunday school room. of the church on Friday evening. After the entertainment there will be a treat for the members of the school The public is cordially invited, A Xmas trée will be given by the Primary Department of the Presby- terian Sunday school in the ‘Sunday school room of the church on Thurs- aay evening at 7 o’clock. An entertainment was given by Miss Mariadde Turner yesterday af- trenoon from 4 to 6 to the members »%— her school. Appropriate exercis- es were held by the children. The Sunday school of the St John’s Lutheran chureh will give a Xmas entertainment and have a tree on to- morrow evening, The Front Street Presbyterian church will give Christmas exercises’ and a treat to the children this even- ing at 7:30 o’clock. A collection for the poor will also be taken. The teachers of the primary classes of the Race Street Methodist church will entertain their smaller scholars at their homes instead of having a Xmas tree or exercises at the church. The Southside Associate Reform church will have a tree and exercises tomorrow evening. A Xmas express office will be the feature of thé evening at the Second Presbyterian church tomorrow evenr- ing. —_———2+-o Business Rushing, The business is rushing today with Register of Deeds J. E. Boyd as well as the merchants of our city. License was issued to five white ccouple today. ~ The white —couples are as follows: Mr. J. Frank Waugh and Miss Lottie J, Hoover; Thos R. Houston and Minnie B. Alexander; Geo. H. Steel- man and Bessie Maude Reavis; Jas. Munroe Moore and Ada May Bost; Floyd Creedmore and Miss Bettie Holland. The latter named Couple will be maried at the home of the bride’s father, Mr. T. C_| Holland in Cool Spring township tomorrow evening at 5 o’clock. a License were issted to Frank Nichols and Roxie Chambers, colored, this afternoon also. ——. —_—_.64-e—————— — Rain Ruins Trade, The rain of yesterday proved a great damage to the merchants of our city in their Xmas trade. The stréets yesterday were bare of buy- ers, fhe merchants suffering much. It is possible that hundreds of dol- lars was missed by the merchants on account of the rain, Towards nightfall last evening the rain finally turned to snow, quite a beautiful little skiff falling during: the early part of the night. The weather being very beautiful today, the the streets and stores are full of buyers, every clerk being taxed to the utmost to wait on the Xmas shoppers. - ~~ The Xmas _ trade has started off beautifully and with pretty weather tomorrow, a great amount of shop- ping ill be done, in fact past sales may be broken. _——_+~+@o——"- Doll Given Away, The beautiful doll which as given away by Lawrence Brothers today, at their store as awarded to little Ruth Ward, the crippled daughter of Dep- uty Sheriff J. W. Ward. The giving away of the doll created a lot of excitement, the store being crowded with contestants. The contest was managed fairly in every respect, and every one felt pleased in tHe little crippled girl getting it. The doll was as large as a real live baby and was very beautiful. ——_—_anar-o————_ Tired of Waiting. Last week the négro who was re- moving the trees from the court house lawn finished up everything, and left thé-roots and trunks of the trees laying Of fhe lawn, He was notified that if-he wanted the wood which was given him, he must remove it by this morning. He did not comply with this request so this morning Superintendent Hen- ry of of tte chain gang, brought in four of his convicts and removed the past few days. Violaters of the law had better lay low and say nothing, for it is time to buy Xmas presents, and the officers are all trying to swell their pocket books with fees. While in Chicago last week our popular sheriff, J M. Deaton, was casting about in search of a barber shop to get a shave’ He ambled into @ very nice one, and he was confront- ed by one Elmer Dean, colored, who is wanted in these parts for retailing. Mr. Deaton was prepared for an occasion of this kind, and immediate- ly fished down into his pockets and brought forth a capias for Dean, and served: it on him. Mr. Deaton informed Dean that he could put up a cash bond for his ap- p&rance at the Janudry term of court, Dean hauled forth $12.00 in eash and handed it to Mr. Deaton as a bond. It is not likely that Dean will condescend to come here to court but every little bit added to the school fund in the ‘way of forfeited bonds is that much. ~ e Mayor Grier this morning tried two cases. The first case was that of one Vance Horton, of South States- ville. It seems that Vance had loaded up on ‘‘sow-paw” last Saturday evening, end went tothe home of Joe Pink Summers in South Statesville, and drove across the latter mentioned man’s yard, tearing up his flower bed and cursing him out in general. Mr Grier, after hearing the evi- dence, gave him a severe rprimand and taxed him with $8.00 and costs, in all amounting to $12.30. Luther Staton, 2 white man was also tried before Mr. Grier this morn- ing on the charge of retailing. The state witness testified that he had had bought liquor several times, pay- ing him money for it, and proved what he said.” Stanton denied the charge, swear- ing that he had never sold any whiskey. Mr. Grier required a bond of $200 from him for his appearance at the next term of court: It has not yet been giver. There is also a case of perjury against him, but it will not be bothered with until court con- venes. nH Huie-Salmon Wedding. At noon on Thursday, Dec. 17, 1908, Miss Angie Huie, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. R, Huie, and Dr. H Clay Salmons of Jones- ville, Yadkin county were united in marriage by Rev. L. P. Gwaltney at the home of the bride’s parents. The ceremony was performed in the bau- tifully dcorated parlor in a most soluefn and eloquent manner in the presence of sevral relatives and frinds of the bride and groom. The bride is one of our most pop- aular and beautiful young ladies. She is of a most excellent and highly respected family and has a host of friends wherever she is known. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs| A_| M. Salmons of Yadkin coun- ty: He is a prosperous and popular physician of Jonesville, N. C., and is of a cultured and wealthy family. ‘After the ceremony and congratu- lations a bountiful dinner was served to the guests after which the bride and groom accompanied by the fol- lowing, Misses “Mabel and Rosa Thompson, Miss Annie Feimster, Miss Ina Huie and Messrs, H. T. Halcomb, W. A. Finney, H. W, Feimster and J. W. Van Hoy left for the home of the groom’s parents in Yadkin county where great hospitality was shown. All of the party except Miss Ina Huie and Mr. J. W. Van Hoy accompanied the bride and groom to Jonesville the next day, where they will make their future home, A fost of friends add their con- gratulations. as A GUEST. | —— BE Stockholders Meeting. The stockholders of the Dixie Club Grocery Company will be lield in the basement of the annex to Hotel Ire- dell on. Monday night the 28th, At this meeting the officers of the new cancern will be elected and other important businss transacted, This. company proposes to run a drug store in the front part of the building, a grocery store in the rear part of ff and a cafe and club room in some other part of the Iredell building. ci They. will begin busines in a very short time. : —— HO Mr. S. Holland. went to Char- Jotte this morning on a bussiness trip, from’ there he will return home via Concord and Salisbury. trees. Taree Some Happenings Among Those People You Know and Others You Don’t Know. Mr, and Mrs. W. R. Mills. spent today in Charlotte. Mr, W..E_ Gass went to Rock Hill, S C., today to spend Xmas. Mr. W E Webb went to his home at Warren Plains today to spend the holidays. ; Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Steele left to- day for Tryon, Park county to spend Xmas with their daughter, Mrs E. R. Rankin. a Miss Lilly Mae Tomlin, who is a teacher at Thompson orphanage at Charlotte, will come home tonight to spend the holidays. Messrs. Alfred Armfield, John Moore and William Hartness arrived home this morning from the A. and holidays, Mr. Frank Davidson will arrive tonight. Mr. J. Z. Heath who has been vis- iting relatives here, returned to his home at High Point today. He was accompanied Dy his brother, D. W. Heath, who will spend Xmas at High Point with his wife. <> e—____ Pointers for Merchants. A general merchant, who began in avery small way afew years ago, and is no doing a business of $250,- 000 a year, gives the following “pointers’’? for success in retail mer- chandising_ “He must advertise al lof the time. “Change your advertisement every issue. — “Keep something new before the farmers all the time. When the ladies come in have a place for them to rest and care for their babies, “In warm weather have a tank of ice water handy. “Sell for as near cash as you can. Don’t be afraid to push a man for money. a “Do not —cater to the loafing ele- ment—there is no money in them. “Learn to say ‘no’ with a smile, “Do not overbuy. Buy in small quantities for cash, and often “Keep your floors and windows clean. ' “Keep your shelves full,”’—Mer- chants Journal. —_———4-<b ELEPHANTS IN LUCK, None in the Section Where Roosevelt Will Hunt, He is Told. Washington, Dec. 21.—Col. J_ W. Colenbrander, who headed a British regiment of fighting scouts during the Boer war in South Africa, and who was born in that country and has lived there ever since, told President Roosevelt today that he would prob- ably not get any elephants if he fol- lowed the route mapped out for him- self in Central Africa. Col. Colenbrander himself is going on a2 long hunting trip in South Africa in April, to be gone two years. He said that the President would have to make a wide detour into the interior from fale Victoria Nyanza if he expected to get a shot at any elephants. —_——-2+§ > ___—_ Cost Uncle Sam $94,000 to Refit His Unfortunate Soldiers. It cost the war department $94,- 418.90 for artificial legs and arms supplied to soldiers for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1908; but, according to the report of the Secretary of war, it is estimated that $410,000 will be required for this purpose in 1909. The report Gdes not specify why four times as many arms and legs will be needed a year hence, nor why the appropriation for 1910 should be only $132 000, or about one-third of the estimate of 1909. —_4< ar —_——— Judge Gudger Will Get Chief Justice- ship of Panama. Washington, Dec. 22.:—H_ A. Gudger, of North Carolina, will be appointed ‘by President Roosevelt to be chief justice of the supreme court of the Panama canal zone, for 4 term of six years, to succeed Dr. F. Mutis Duran, whose term expires January 1st, It is an associate justice of the canal zone supreme court. a Money in Fime Cattle. Anderson, S C., Dec. 22.—Mr. J. Dawson Smith, who lives near Sandy Springs and runs one of the best dairy farms in the County, has sold a jersey bull and threé cows to an Atlanta, Ga., man for $1,500. This proves that big money is to be made in raising fine cattle. And it costs no more to feed a fine cow than it Seas to feed a “‘scrub.’? M_ college at Raleigh to spend the! On the Stand NAMES MEMBERS OF THE BAND. Mrs. Emma Jackson Corroborates Fehringer’s Story, Identifies Twen- ty-Seven Members of the Night- Riders and Tells of Their Viscpy Riders Gang and Tells of Their Vis- the Court Room Without a Guard. Union City, Tenn., Dec. 22 —When Mrs. Emma Jackson, one of the State witnesses this afternoon in the night- riders’ trial, was excused from the jtand, she turned to Judge Jones and said, “‘I will not leave the court room without armed protecetion. I know. these men.” Mrs, Jackson told a vivid story of several visits of the riders, corrobor- ated Fred Fehringer’s testimony in many details, as did other witnesses, and identified by name at least 27 members of the band. She was fol- lowed on the stand by her daughter, Miss Nora Jackson, an 18-year-old girl, who corroborated her mother. The 1 ast witnes sof the day was Will Russell, another, alleged night- rider,who has turned state’s evidence, Russell came to Union City after the Rankin killing and made a confession. He was trembling with fear and could scarcely raise his voice above a whisper. The attorney general had to repeat most of his answers in order that the jury might hear them. Russell is under constant guard, but says he fears that he will be killed in spite of these precautions, Russell’s story was practically the same as that told by Fehringer, and corroborated it in every essential de- tail. Cross-examination was deferr- ed until Wednesday mcrning. Mrs. Emma Jackson said the night riders came to her home, forced her to dress and accompany them to her father’s with her husband and her daughter. They ordered her to kill some dogs she owned, and burned her father’s house. ‘She identified Garrett Johnson as the leader. The ciders came back two nighta Iater, she declared, forced her to go to her father’s half-clad, and said there had been some talking done, They, whipped her father and then her sis- ters. She said she again recognized Garrett Johnson and several others. A third time they called to force her to get ridof her sister’s little child because the latter had quarrel- ed with another neighbor’s child. They told Mrs. Jackson that if they had to come again they would whip her. A fourth time they came to whip her father, because he testified before the grand jury, On the last visit Garrtt Johnson, sald the wit- ness, asked her if she had talked. She replied, <‘No, Mr Johnson, I have not.”’ “If you were & man,” Johnson re- torted, “I’d blow your brains out. We will hang you if you talk.” Oe Off to Wed. Mr. Ernest A. Simon will leave this evening for Seaford, Del., where on next Tuesday, the 29th, he will wed Miss Hattie Greenbaum. He was accompanied by the follow- ing friends from this city: Mr. and. Mrs. Sol Simon, Miss Miriam Simon and Mr. Wallace Hoffman. At Salisbury to this perty will be joined Mr, Herbert Ciarke, and at Baltiniore Messrs. Sylvan Stephahey, and Alvin Grief. After the marriage Mr Simon and his bride will take an extensive northern trip, ¥ ic ————-~<Oroe———_-: No Paper Friday. ‘As is the rifle with many papers there will be no publication of this paper on next Friday. We will appear again, however on Saturday afternoon. We wish each and every one of our readers abd friends a merry Xmas and a happy, new year. Eee Basket Ball Game. The local Basket Bail team and the Y. M_ C. Basket Ball team of Ashéville will play a game in the opera house here on Jan. Sth. A stiff game is anficipated as both teams Have a very strong make up, ED -—ee A “box supper” will be given at the Amity schovl house on next Tues day night the 29th. Mr. J. A. B,, Goodman will be the auctioneer for “i E the occasion « 2: ee ee niote M — THE EVENING MASCOT DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. Entered at the Postofficein Statesville WwW. C.,as second-class mail matter. ffice 109 Court Street. Telephone 53 VANCE NORWOOD - Publisher. RALPH SLOAN, - - City Editor, Subscription Price, - $4.00 a Year ubscription Price, - 10 Cents a Week ee Weather Forecasts. Washington, D. C., Dec, 23.—For North Carolina fair tonight with heavy frost near the coast. Thurs- day warmer. : ——++@-o————_ HIS FIRST POEM. It is said that the first line of poe- try that President Roosevelt was able to commit to memory, when he was a boy, as this line from Sir Walter Scott: “Lord Angus, thou hast lied.”’ And he hasn’t forgotten it yet, either. —Columbus (O.) Press-Post. —————~—i@rr WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN. Had Theodore I. made the “break” six months ago, who knows but the sweep of public sentiment would have gone the other way on election day, and instead of Taft, Theodore’s _ choice, being elected, he would have Been buried under a political land- slide.—Troy (N_ Y.) Observer. ——_<+@ar-o————_ SEACHER FOR LIARS. No; we do not believe that the practice of Tying is on the increase. We only hear more of liars now than ever before. We have never before had a prsident Of the United States who was searcher for liars, and never before in our national history was it a mark of distinction to be branded administration of drugs and that the] only hope for the consumptive and for those who are predisposed to the disease is in God’s sunshine and in God’s fresh air. ——~+<~@>-e————_——_ WHY SUFFER? ee Breathe Hyomei and Kill the Loathsome Catarrh Germs. Just as long as you have catarzh your nose will itch, your breatb will be foul, and you hawk and spit, and you will do other dis- gusting things because you ean't help yourself. The germs of ca- tarrh have got you in their power; they are continually and persist- ently digging i nto and irritating the mucous membrane of your nose and throat. They are now making your life miserable; in time they will sap your entire system of it senergy, its strength, its serength, its vigor and vitality. But there is one remedy that will kill the germs and cure ca- tarrh, and that is Hyomei, the Aus- tralian dry air treatment. The Statesville Drug Co., the druggists, will guarantee Hyomei to eure catarrh, or money back. Don’t delay this pleasant antisep- tie treatment. Breathe in Hyomei and kil lthe germs. The Statesville Drug Co, will sell you a complete Hyomei outfit, including inhaler, for only $1,00. It is also guaranteed to cure bron- chitis, asthma, coughs, colds, hay fever and croup. ———_++@ > > _ TIRED OF HIS PRANKS. ees Woman, Who Left Leonard, Says He ef e f p e f fh ef ef h o c f i o c t fi t c h fh th tp PPE We will put aside any goods selected. See our new line of We will make Special Prices on COOK STOVES and.RANGES. is again with us and have a car load of the celeprated Superior Grain Drills the best and lightest running drill made. If in need of a drill examine them and get our prices—we know we can please. Also a Full Line of Hardware, Stoves, Etc. Evans Hardware Comp’y EELEPSEESSEHSSSPESEPES NEW STUDIO Maynard & Ellis, Professional Photographers, in N. B. Millss Building, adjoining Stimson Drug Store, Statesville, N. C. Now Time for You to Se- lect Your Xmas Goods Morris Chairs and Rockers. Also Fine Mahogany Tables. STATESVILLE HOUSEFURNISHING COMP’Y De ee ee _eull LP PELEAALEPE EEE EEE PPP EPPS ; Officers. THE SEEDING SEASON | F STH. The ability of the bank to P o c B o e t t s ef f te c h fh et h t h t ea e re t sew 8! © These Handsome Dishes Given Away to My Customers cercecezestorctanaestcteensestet eaeNNeRSSER RARE TE Sa tes CR aNR SEN a CE NTT eS SEVERAL THINGS Are to be considered in seleeting your Banks : & 2s 1ST: Strength-Financial Strength OND. The care with which the Bank is Managed. 3RD. The courtesy and spirit of of accomodation’displayed by the Officers and Em- ployees. ATH. The banking experience of Properly and Promptly Handle all Your Business To Those Desiring the Embodi- ment of These Features are Offered The Service of THE FIRST NATIONAL = BANK OF STATESVILLE $100.000 AL F R E D PL L EI IS PR L Te CA ES O T Ca N Ea IS eS S OS IE T S SS IE BB E Oe . RA D U CAPITAL soecesoesesoscocceouclwre é With each cash purchase of 5 cents or over I will give you a High Grade Photos at a Low Price. as 2 liar by the occupant of the White House —Savannah News, —_——__+¥_»+<>vnr-o—_————— coupon that can be exchanged for these gifts. ° Did it Merely to Annoy Her. William T. Leonard, of No. 220 East Forty Second street, was sent enny Pictures, the best that ‘can be made—24 for 2Sc. Post.Cards, per dozen, $1.25 ___ Per half dozen 72°. OM LE T ee , ee SE ae 7 ap e e c e m n n = « SR g c o c e e t =o es e z = at o n e aa S T e e = oe as t ee e , Le i + ac n e ae t n a er : E e e T e ra s sr Se ee e en e m a ae eS ae ta M e e e OE E OY ee e Rt a) Ga s ee na g e ap y ee n am e ae pe at a es s t: oe we s ea e ee A Fe ee a eh OE E ea e em ee pe e s co m e hi re a s ie s ° ee s te i n t in ht e 8 is el Pe e NEWSPAPER INACCURACIES. The following from The Charlotte Chronicle is respectfully submitted as a true bill: “The publication of a daily news- paper means the production each 24 hours of printed matter that is equiv- alent-to “a Dook. Sometimes people complain of the inaccuracies, The marvel is that the news stated in the papers is approximately correct, or that names spelled are one-half spell- ed right. It transpifes aiso that those who complain most about in- accuracies, are the ones from whom the reporters find it most difficult to get a definite statement, If the pub- lic would co-operate a little more with news gathers, it would conduce immensely to the betterment of the news service and to its accuracy.” ———++ar-e— —— CONSUMPTIVE THE PUBLIC AND DEATH. oe The Charfotte Observer of yester- day contains an article written by Dr. B. K. Hays that should be read by every one and especially those offi- cials who have the care of the public health. “Speaking the association for the prevenifon of tuberculosis gays, it simply recognizes the fact consumption is the “great white plague’? of modern civilization; that it causes one-sventh of all the deaths fn this country, and nearly one-third of all the deaths-among young adults, From outside sources the members of this association have learned that consumption is a preventable disease, and that in its early stages, by pro- per treatment, it is ~curable; that prevention and cure are simple and natural and involve no. greater * knowledge and expense than a simple regard for well-established laws of sanitation. It is therefore, simply to preach the gospel of sanitary living that a few serious-minded men and women have banded themselves to- gether and have called their organi- zation an association for the preven- tion of tuberculosis. The message they would have written in the minds and hearts of our people is this: That most of the public buildings in North Carolina—our churches, court houses, opera houses and other places of amusement—are not prop- erly ventilated, and that men and wo- men crowded together and breathing the foul air exhaled by the diseased are ifiviting destruction upon their bodies; that a sleeping apartment should have one or more outside win- dows open, ‘ahd that any change which it is possible to make by heat or by exelusion of the outside air is injurious to the person breathing that air; that people do not “take cold” by breathing cold air through the nose, but, on the contrary, those peo- ple living in extremely cold climates are much freer from lung and bron- chial diseases than those living in temperate climates; that it is more dangerous to permit a consumptive to spit on sidewalks and in public buildings than it wotld be to let a mad dog range at will through the W i H A [ I streets of the city; that a cure from . 2 to the workhouse by Magistrate House yesterday on his wife’s com- plaint trat he had been making their life a burden by telephoning to her at unearthly hours in the morning. Leonard and his wife, who have been separated for a loug time, have three children. Mrs. Leonard 1s a teacher in an orphan asylum at One Hundred and Thirty-fifth street and Convent Avenue, and her three chil- dren live with her. She told Magistrate House that it was her hnsband’s hobit to call up the asylum every morning about 3 o’clock and ask her if she and the children were quite well. She charg- ed him with doing it just to annoy her and said the loss of sleep was hurting her health. Magistrate House then asked Leon- ard ifhe supported his children. He couldn’t show that he did, and was sentenced to thirty days.—New York World. ——_—+ + > A Healthy Family. good health since we began using Dr, King’s New Life Pills, three years ago,’’ says L. A. Bartlet, of Rural Route 1, Guilford Maine. They cleanse and tone the system in a gentle way that does you good 25c. at Statesville Drug Co. — Mother do you hear that rat- tling in your babies throat? Put a little Mothers’ Joy on it and stop it at once. WITH A BOX OF We Are Agents. See our Xmas Packages of Candy Stationery and Cigars gsonsumptive cannot be had by the Cabinets, in folders, dozen, $2.00. Half dozen Pictures of your home, PostCard size, and up toSx10 inches, and out-door groups, is one of our specialties at a moder- ate price. Give us a@ trial and be convinced that we are trying to please you. We are now ready to serve you. Will also Develop and Finish Kodak Work. $1.50. ——MAYNARD & ELLIS ‘‘Our whole family has enjoyed | - 5 Prescription Druggist. Is Essential to the Up= building of the Modern Business Enterprise. ::: To the publicity gained by the use of the advertising columns of the daily papers is at- tributed the growth, and-consequent success, of a very large percentage of great business enter- prises of the present day. Advertising is recognized as the prime fac- tor in increasing the sales of any class of goods or manufactured articles. . The space used in this puper is your_busi- ness message to the public. In this open letter you should tell them of the merits of what you are offering, setting forth the reasons why your particular line is worthy of their attention. THE EVENING MASCOT has increased its local circulation very materially during the past three months and the results obtained from the space used by the advertisers are gratifying to them. and to the paper. It reaches into the homes of the best class of our people and your message will be placed in the hands of those with money to buy the goods you wish to sell. The Space Rates in The Evening Mascot - are not high. Your message is carried, each day, to those you wish to reach, in the most economical manner. For information call us up on the phone and a representative ot the paper will gladly visit you The Evening i Ee SE AEA BD BOOS i a ID ADVERTISING | ED , se a l he ID DI D I IS S U I N G L . 09 0 8 0 8 0 8 0 8 0 8 0 8 0 8 0 8 09 0 8 0 8 0 8 0 8 0 08 0 RR RR S ee RR Re he e ne et e QG P OO O O GO OC C O S 3 e L. A. GOLDMAM : Purveyor to the People. = ©3600 S6S8SSS0SS9SS S999E606 $ THE STATESVILLE LOAN AND TRUST Cu. § Of Statesville, N.C. IS PREPARED. to transact all branches of banking. Accounts are solicited from firms, corporations and indiv - uals, who may rely upon courteous consideration and the 8 very best terms that are consistent with good banking methods. Four per cent. paid on time and savings deposits. SHAREHOLDERS LIABILITY $40,000.06 SURPLUS ANP UNDIViIDED PROFITS............ $30,060.00 TOTAL RESOURCES OVER...........ccssseeeeees20 $440,000.00 OFFICERS E. Steele, President, E. Morrisou, Vice-Pres, D. M. Aus’ey, Se¢ and Treasurer, C. E. HUGHEY, Assistant Secy. and Treas W. G, CULBRETH, Manager Savings Department : S ‘CAPITAL Srocm. So onns CO S T BO 2 = HS C O8 0 0 SO O T OG R E P' BH O FO S H C O B O cet a neon nothing but “quality” and appearance ee MADE?! Hosiery and the "WORLDS BEST Black are the goods of Quality. After ali has been said, all your pursuasiv it is still a fack thar e argument exhausted, “QUALITY” IS THE ONLY TEST OF VALUE nee best results you must have the best of everything t yarn, best colors, best machines and best help, with such a combination you can produce the best of what you are making. We have all of th ler for the goods of “quality.” : Sif ess [Ee $ THE BRADFORD KNITTING MILL. Get us five yearly subscribers to The Evening $ Mascot, paid in advance, and get one.of the beautifu '|China Sets we are giving as premiums. sc a p e s TE L E OP E . 5H 2 ———— The Kind You Have i: ALCOHOL 3 PER CENT. | AVegetable Preparationfirss-| Similating the Food andReduia ting the Smarts ae of Bears the chan d_INFANTS CHILDREN ignature A Dn Promotes Disestion Cheer g45 ||| | Ressand RestContainsneitter of a3) || | Opiun.Morphine nor Mineral. e¢- || NOT NaRcorTic. ; Hin |||.| Reazeof Old SMELT ete i Pechelle Salls~ i | In r 18 2 Ferns : 2] ae Use mime) Anerfect Remedy fore Bo ton, Sour Stone, Daria Era e|| | Worms,Convulsions.Feverisk- a ness and LOSS OF SLEEP. Fo i 5 y er Bars || FacSimile Signanre of e Boose NEW YORK. | [ G a rs. iF ia = i Ne ioe ty Cl $. pe ige)| 35 Doses -35 CENTS r aac S20. Guaranteed under the Food an - f Exact Copy of Wrapper. : THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK cir. aD os ee SR” a eS ee a EE Do the Right Thing! | Along with your Christ- mas present give your wife, sweetheart or girl friend a nice — 7 as ze » 4 Sa eS « LS ta t a SI Se r e BE Se s oe 7 Be Se Sr e e a ee Se e os <B _ LS ae oS Se eS SZ : a“ cm hr te e , a Christmas Basket of Candy. Be sure it’s GUTH’S. SS oS rs Se e ee I we e 6 a 4 STATESVILLE DRUG COMP’Y | i Prescriptionists. Ea Z ZS a OEE SSS » FE ee Cen A oh eee Se EEE | CARE— ' STUDY— THOROUCHNESS— Are the coniponent parts of the Statesville Laun- dry business which you get the benefit of, if you are a customer, and for which no extra charge is made. Good Work—Clean Work—White Work! a= . = 3 <B > te <a = aa a SS ee ti a , Se e > i, me FA a Kk a ha e = rg gy ° 8B @ a 2 _ ”2 We wish a very merry Christmas. STATESVILLE STEAM LAUNDRY U..C. HARWELL, Prop. Sane” — Se eee BER SSE SPREE SERS NEW SHOE STORE # (oa! HAVE SHOES THAT ARE GUARAN- WEED TO BE ABSOLUTELY WATER- PROOF nice enough for general wear and heavy enough for farmers. — ee ~WEMSEE THEMMUTe— ee Complete line of Dress Shoes for Men, Women and : Children. Overshoes, Underwear and Gents’ Furnishings. Everything new and as represented. We will appreciate a ere call. Yours to serve, ere te fe i Ss. M. & H. SHOE COMPANY Phone 40. Opposite Court House. PR RC C ! If you have lost something or want to buy or have any- thing to sell try a want ad. in The Evening Mascot. s "on . Tv a . 4 USEP CL cow. pa WIFE CUT HIM OFF WITH $1. —— et Utilized in Her Daily Unattended Journeys to and From a‘ Distant Can “Fill Void in His Heart.” Pasture. Little Rock, Dec. 21.—A cow own- ing a Gaily supply of milk, acts as a if she is able to fill the void inmy rural free delivery let.er-carrier. by her mother, Mrs. George Hum-| wife cut him off with oniy $1 out phrey who lives four miles from|of her $3,000 estate. He added; Nashville. Notwithstandin the cow’s At the time of my children’s calf died and she has been moved Next Time Coom Wants One Who Norristown, D2c. 20.—henext} 4 : : ha ed by Mrs. Edward Martin of Nash- ue oe falls ia love math 3 ville, Ark., in adddition to furnish-| 21 will be carefull to discover heart, said Charles H. Coom,| © The co was given to Nrs. Martin | n0velist, of Rockledge whose late} ..? twice she still goes to the Humphrey in the pasture, being turned out each evening and returning to her new home. A few weeks ago Mrs. Martin no- ticed when the cow came homein the evening that asmall sack was attach- ed to her neck by a string. She in- vestigated and found that it contain- edanote from her mother, and she sent an answer to it by the cow the next morning. Since then the cow has been delivering messages. daily. ————-< > __.. Family Barely Escaped, New. Bern, Dec. 21.—Fire this morning at 2:30 o’cluck, destroyed the two story building occupied by I’. Raiff on Middle street, in the bus- iness section of the city. The origin of the fire is unknown. The Raiff family barely escaped from the rocems above, losing all their cloth- ing except a few garments which they seized as they left the burning building. The stock of dry goods and clothing was completely des- troyed. The loss is about six or seven thousand dollars, with insur- ance covering $3,500. The ZChinese laundry of Hop Wah, adjuining, was gutted by the fire with a loss of sev- eral hundred dollars. —_—_—+<<>>-—_____ Would Mortgage The Farm. A farmer on Rural Route No. 2, Empire, Ga., W. A. Mloyd by name, says: ‘‘Bucklen’s Arnica Salve cured the two worst sores [ ever saw; one on my hand and one on my leg. It is worth more than its weight in gold. I would not be without it if I had to mort- gage the farm to get it.’? Only 25e. at Statesville Drug Co.’s store. e h ———————~<2~—___ Appeals to Christmas shoppers to start early in the day ought not to fall On deaf ears at 4 season when benévelcnt sentiments are supposed to be uppermost.—New York Tri- bune, ~ —— ~“.>-————_—— If you haven’t the time to exercise regularly, Doan’s Regulets will pre- vent constipation. Thry induce a mild, easy, healthful action of the bowels without griping. - Ask your druggists for them. 25c. SSF Oo Personally Conducted Tour to Ha- vana, Cuba, and Return, January 11, 1909, Via Southern Railway Souhern Railway will sell round trip excursion tickets to Havana, Approximately low rates from from other points. Tickes on sale January 11th, good returning to leave Havana, Cuba, on or before January 27th, 1909. Tickets. may be routed through Jacksonville thence either through Knight’s Key, or Port Tampa. Good: going and return-- ing same route. Stop-over will be allowed at Jacksonville, St. Au- gustine, Palm Beaeh, Miami, and other points south of Jacksonville, within final limit of--ticket. A representaive will accompany movement, and will look after the comfort and pleasure of the party. For further. information as ‘to side tours from Havana, sight see- ing tours, hotel rates, leaving time a principal points, Pulllman and state room reservation, write J. Hf. Wood, D. P. A., Asheville, N. C.; W. H. McGlamery, P. & T. A., Raleigh, N. C. ; R. H. DeButts, P. & TF. A., Greensboro, N. C.; or call on your repot agents, or write home each morning to spend the day Cuba at following rates from]. points named: Mesheville 2 5s es $39.10 PRGK Ory <a oS So 42.40 WsirrOsar on Fe 40.45 Sahsbary.. Seis, 352. 42.95 Sebi ta es a 42.50 StatesvaHe so. 5 nc Races 42.40 departure from home I naturally felt what an outragep husband would feel, and tily made the re. mark that she was no’ d—d goodto me.’ That was the time I allowed my temper to get beyond my control. I was dis. apointed in my wmatrimonia vonture, on account of my wife not liking my childrens. About three years ago she got @ legacy and with it bought two tombstones On one she had her first husband’s name, Robart T. Slack,and on the other hers. Rebecca Slack. As a token of her true Christian sprit she has bequeathed the money to a church. -——_—__~+<<>>-______ Death was on His Heels. Jesse P. Morris, of Skippers, Va., had a close call in the spring of 1906. He says: ‘An attack of pneumonia left me so weak and with such a fearful cough that my friends declared consumption had me, and death was on my heels. Then I was persuaded to iry Dr. King’s New Discovery. It helped me immediately, and after taking two and a half bottles 1 was a well man again. I found out that Ncw Discovery is the best remedy for coughs and lung dis- ease in all the world,’’ Sold under guaarantee at Statesville drug Co. store. 50c. and $1.00. Trial bottle free.. Mr. Heathman Here. Salisbury Post. Mr. Walter Heathman, of Mississippi, whose brother, Dr. James D. Heathman, died in a hospital at Statesville last Thursday night, arrived in Selisbury yesterday morning. too late, however, to attend Dr. Heathman’s funeral. He will be in the county several days. ~ ——0< 2 Day after day he walked the street, Looking for a presnt for ‘‘wifey”’ sweet— “‘I know what’ll please her most,’’ said he; “It’s Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea.’’—Statesville Drug Co. EOE SERRA. Wet =——_—- +O. OSITION Draughon gives contracts, backed by a chain of 30 Colleges, $300,000.00 capital, and 19 year’s success, to se- cure positions under reasonable con- ditions or refunnd tuition. BOOKKEEPING Draughon’s ccin- petitors, by not accepting his pruposition, concede that he teaches more Bookkeeping in THREE months than they doin SIX. Draughon can convince YOU § HO RT H A ND ees coe Court Reporters write the system of Shorthand Draughon teaches, be- cause they know it is THE BEST. FOR FREE CATALOG and book- let, “Why Learn Telegraphy?’’ which explains all, call on or write JNO. F. DRAUGHON, President DRAUCHON’S PRACTICAL BUSINESS COLLEGE (We also Teach by Mai!) Raleigh, Knoxville, Nashville, Cc lumbia or Washington, D. C. STATESVILLE DKATING RINK Opera House Building Open from 3 to 5 and 8 to 10 p. m. No Children Admitted to 3 Tf you are sick, don’ worry, but begin at onee x to make yourself well. To do this, we but repeat jiue words of thousands of other sufferers from fj womanly ills, when we say: Help You Se For 50 years, this wonderful female remedy, has == been benefiting sick women. Mrs. Jennie Merrick, r2 of Cambridge city, Ind., says: ‘‘I suffered greatly # With female trouble, and the doctors did no good. s2 They wanted to operate, but I took Cardui, and it gq made me feel like a new woman. JI am still using ga this wonderful medicine, with increasing relief.’ AT ALL DRUG STORES . > you can easily bestow upon yourself is to acquire the habit of thrift and the sav- ing of money—the Merch- % ants and Farmers bank off- ers you the most practical mcans, as its financial stand- ing and integrity are un- questioned. Commence to save on January Ist~° and stick to your resolution. Merchants and Farmers’ Bank OF STATESVILLE INCORPOX ATED CAPITAL $25,000.00. OFFICERS: L. T. STIMPSON, Pres.; C. S. TOMLIN, Vice-Pres.; F. B, BUNCH, Sec. & Treas.; J. A. KNOX, Asst. Sec. & Treas. Directors : L. T. Stimpson, J. L. Stevenson, C. S. Tomlin, R. R. Reid, J. A. Knox, W.S. Page, Geo. B. Nicholson, L. K. Lazen- by, E. G. Gaither, J. R. Hill, E. B. Watts. | OUUTHERN RAILWAY C0. Great Highway of Trade and Travel Through the Southern States Through Pullman Sleeping Cars on palatial trains between the principal Cities and Resorts of the South. High-class Diuing Cars. Many delightfulSummer and Winter Resorts on and reached by Southern Railway. Trueand startlingstory of Night| “The Land of the Sky,” “The Riders’ struggles with Plant- Sapphire Country,” in scenic Friday Night Dec. 25th. The Renald’s Dramatic Company will present theSensation of the season Night Riders of Tennessee Western North Carolina; beau- : Ore oad Reka tas tiful at all seasons. Hotels of Similar to The Clansman, Tne] the highest class, Vraitor, &e. 15 PEOPLE IN CASTE. For detailed information apply to nearest Ticket Agent, or Refined Specialties between Acts. SS De ze : 3 S. H. HARDWICK, P.T.M.. Prices—25, 50 and 75 Cts. W.H. TAYLOE,G. P, A. Tickets on Sale at Statesville Washibgton, D. C. Drug Company. THE IREDELL CAFE NeW Pool LEADER IN ee CANDIES New Tables of .-. AN... the latest and FRUITS Oysters for retail and serving. Quail on Toast. PHONE NO. 323 W. W. GAITHER : Proprietor. Wood Sawed! best makes have been in- stalled under J. P. Phifer’s grocery. store: R. b, VERNON, T. P. A. -. «+ Charlotte, N. C. ~ Floor at Night Sessions. — ¥ “Grids eve o” eps | MesolieitYourPatronage ‘ or ar c h i n g : Sh a e & wa et h a a Oo Ve s * « fog SE s Me w s 2 PR s ays bi e be : hr ne y © de a l i Bi t 55 ak OS es i ; Be ia fs ; na t = ’ s BA R ci a t e kd 2 ‘ Te a c o ee l Gs bk se r e AT Sh a r h oe SR eM SRL RINT corm rs per gt — ss f —— ee s ete tS Ft ee ck bi e n or t ro the President-Elect Accepts an In-| ghen in the middle ofthe woods ° me HIT “COON” NOT WOLF. | BEARDED LADIES ARE COMMON. ONOy Bot — <a big bill Tait 10 Frightened Negro Boy Fires at Ob-] at Least a French Showman Offers | 3g N % ject He Thought Was Wild Animal, to Supply Any Number. ie t ie e8 _.the Result Being-a Negro Man|New York Sun. 3 > € if Visit Texas —- : An Englishwoman who con-| =o : > i ¢| Lexington, Dec. 21.—Having|tesses to a mild mania for at-|@e e hs been told that a wolf was roam-| tending the street fairs common | az A i CLOSER RELATION WITH SOUTH | ing around in a certain piece Of] in and around Paris says that > é a woodland which he *had to pass| she is alway: impressed by the| A iH Desiring to Bring His Administration | Bud Fuller, a small negro boy; | extraordinary number of beard- | Sy [have just received a nice new assortment of A ; Into Close Touch With the South,| armed himself with a shotgun, | oq ladies among the attractions. | J 3 ae “J was inclined to think that | Ss : : ° . ea ee es es saa descried a dark object which he| they were fakes,” she says in the |&J Cuff Links, Stick Pins, Lockets, Neck, Chains, | ee ec |took for the wolf and blazed “But when I dis-) SS : - at the End of the Special Session : . Gentlewoman, “but when S of Congress. away with the old gun, painfully| povered that they were quite|@y Brooches, Bar and Veil Pins, Both — but not dangerously wounding genuine my surprise at this Augusta, Ga., Dec. 22.—Presi- Alonza Shoaf, a negro man. wonderful supply of phenomena dent-elect William H. Taft de-| The shooting occurred several) prew stronger. And when & few cided today to visit the State of| Bighteago near Lexington. What) gays ago [ saw at the fair in the Texas at some convenient time|is known as the Gypsy woods is] 4 venue d’Orleans a lady exhibit- after his inauguration, preferab-| Where shooting occurred. Many|oq with along flowing beard I); ly at the end of the special ses- tales have been told about dan-j could no longer withhold my sion of Congress which he is to|gere that have befallen children | oyriosity. in Gold and Gold Filled and of the newest patterns. Also a large lot of ladies Bracelets and Children’s Rings. It will pay any ono to see these goods before they make their purchases of Christmas Gifts, and my prices will surprise you. call to revise the tariff. While his itinerary for the visit has not been arranged, he will make the city of Dallas one of the princi- pal points of the trip. Thirty cities and towns of the Lone Star State united in a re- quest for his presence at any time he should choose to come. The invitation expressed a keen desire on the part of the com- mercial bodies ofthe places ia question to wake the persone! acquainsencecf Mr. Teit aud promisei him « cordial welcome and courteors treatment. It al- so dwelt upon the advantaye which wold result both to the State and to himself through such a visit. The acceptance of the invite- tion is in accordance with Judge Tait’s well-defindd plan to im- press upon the South the neces- sity of becoming practical in its politics. He is to bring his ad- ministration into close touch with the South, according to his declarations and hopes tu bring the South to realize the necessity of itself taking a hand in nation- al affairs. GRAFT IN PITTSBURG, eT Conditions Said to be More Rotten Than Those in San Francisco—In- mense Bail Required—City Stirred Pittsburg, Pa., Dec. 22.—Fol- lowing the sensational arrests here last night of seven council- men and two bankers on charges of alleged corruption in con- ducting the public affairs of this city, it is intimated that even more startling developments will transpire. In the meantime,| the people of Pittsburg are surprised almost beyond description at the sud- denness of the arrest of these nine men who are all well known. High municipal officials of the city held a meeting at which it is said plans were perfected for the arrest of other men alleged to be implicated in the bribery scandal. According to the best information obtainable it is possib'e that the municipal scandal of San Francisco will be insignificant when compared to the alleged grafting here. The following are accused men: Councilmen William L. Brand, John F. Klein, John Wasson, T. O. Atkinson, Jacob Soffel, W. H. Melaucy nad Hugh Furguson. Former Preeiuent W. W. Ram- Bank, are also accused. seven me.abers of the council charges them with conspiracy, corrupt solicitation and bribery. Additional information against Brand, Wasson and Klein charges them with bribery and corrupt solicitation. All gave bail, which aggregat- ed over $178,000. a Stops earache in two minutes; toothache or pain of burn or scald fn five minutes; hoarseness, one hour; muscleache, two hours; sore throat, twelve hours—Dr. Tiotmas Belectric Oil, monarch over pain. eee FOR SALE—2 fudbdle city lots near College—2 goad Mules—1 young Hoistién cow.—J. B. Gill se and former Uashier A. A. Vil-| sack, of the Gormar National ! Tho intcrmation ageainss tle! ingredients. Mothers you cannot in that vicinity. Having heard all of these stories the little ne- gro became frightened an d when time came to go after his sister, who was working on the opposite side of the woodland, he armed himself and also car- ried along hisdog. The boy says the dog was walking in front,of him when he heard a noise in front, and the deg turned and iran back of him. This convinced ‘him that it was certairly a wolf, an@ aiming the best he could at the dark object, for it wae after nightfall, he fired. The yell that ‘followed showed the little negro it was pot a wolf. He took no time to investigate, however, but dropped the gun and took to his heeis while the mau came on to town and had his wounds dressed. The load struck him on the side of the neck inflicting a very painful wound. ——_—_<<ae-0—_—— Builds you up physically and mentally, keeps your digestion or- gans in condition, regulates the bowels, cleanses the blood, gives you perfect health. Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea or Tablets, 35 cents. Statesville Drug Co. —_ DE OOOO” Americans Eat Half Their Own Weight of Sugar in a Year. Washington, Dec. 20.—Figures gathered by the Bureau of Statistics show that the average American citizen consumes half hisown weight in sugar every year, and that the people’s sugar bill isa million dollars a day. The total consumption of sugar in this country in 1907 was 7,089,667,975 pounds, worth at five and a halfcents a ponud, $372,000,000. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always. Bought Signature of § —_—__+ +e - Grover Cleveland used to have congress on his hands. Theodore Roosevelt has congress on his neck.— Hartford Times. ——_4 <a Most disfiguring skin eruptions, scrofula, pimples, rashes, etc., are due to impure blood. Burdock Blood Bitters is a cleansing tonic. Makes you clear-eyed, clear-brained, clear skinned. oo Mr. Cannon is making a noise like a tan hho is ready to do it again as soon as the danger is over.—Roches- ter Herald. —_— ~<a Mothers’ Joy is made ot pure afford to be without a box of Moth ers’ Joy. —_————3-<44 oe The beginning of excellence is to be freé from error—Quintilian. —_———-4$ Itching piles provoke profanity, but profanity won’t cure them. Doan’s Ointment cures itching, bleeding protruding piles after years of suffering. At any drug store. O, while you live, tel the truth and shame the devil.—Shakespeare. HOLLISTER’S : So Rocky Mountain Tea Nuggets A Busy Medicine for Busy People. Brings Golden Health and Renewed Vigor. Aspecific for Constipation, Indigestion, Liver and Kidney troubles, ples, Eczema, Impure Blood, Bad Breath,Si Bowels, Headache and Backache. ItsRocky Mountain Teain tab- let form,35 cents a box. Genuine made by Dec. 23 to Jan, I. 'GOLDEN NUGGETS FOR SALLOW PEOPLE HonListER Drvuc Company, Madison, Wis. “I applied for information to a gentleman well known in the showman world and who acts as a kind of agent to the people owning shows, supplying them with the necessary goods, human and otherwise. This gentleman appeared surprised at my ques- tion. “Bearded ladies!’ heexclaimed, ‘§ can findas many as [ like. You have no idea how many women, if they liked could rival men as regards whiskers and musiachios. But they are not anxious to enter into that kind of competition.”. ———_+~(@ eo" Where Bullets Flew. David Parker, of Fayette, N. J., a veteran of the civil war, who lost a foot at Gettysburg, says, ‘‘The good Electric Bitters have done is worth more than five hundred dollars to me. 1 spent much money doctoring for a bad ease of stomach trouble, to little purpose. I then tried Hlectiric Bitters, and they cured me. I now take them as a tonic, and they keep me strong and well.” 50c. at Statesville Drug Co.’s store. —— OG OE OF MYSTERIOUS ORIGIN. Many Ginneries Being Destroyed by Fire in the Laurens Country. Laurens, 8S. C., Dec. 21.—De- strtctive fires are becoming fre- quent in Laurens county, es- peeially among the ginneries, three, having been destroyed within the last few days. Early Saturday morning the ginnery at Waterloo, together with two stores were burned. Saturday night another at Rabunta, a few days ago one at Cross Hill, and several days ago two stores at Gray Court were destsoyed by fire, all at night. The uggregate losses are heavy. There is noth- ing but speculation as to the origin of these fires. —— a -4ep oe Fills your veins with rich, red bleed. Gives you a hearty appe- tite, builds up flesh, makes you strong and rugged. Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea, greatest health builder. 35 cents, Tea or Tablets. Statesville Drug Co. Castro is the lion of the hour at Berlin, indicating that the people there must bea little hard up for lions.—Philadelphia Ledger, earn ao How to Prevent Pneu- monia In every paper you pick up you will see where some good man has just died with this fearful disease—pneu- monia. Now we will give you One Hundred Dollars for any case of pneumonia you have in your family it ails to cure if you will use Goose Grease Liniment as directed. It only costs you 25 cents a bottle. Get it— you have nothing to loose and all to gain. Weknow there are thousands who will read this aud throw it aside and in a few days will be down with the disease. Please just get one bottle and putit away until you need it. If you haven’t the money to buy it let us know and we will send you a bot- tle free. GOOSE GREASE CO. chances—keep a bottle cf Moth- ers joy in your house. You nced Mothers Joy every, day. All Cut Glass, Japanese, China and Statuary will be sold at 10 per cent. above cost in order to close out these lines. Be sure to see me for anything in my line, as it means a saving of from 20 to 50 per cent on your Christmas purchases. The First One Hundred Ladies who make purchases at my place, commencing on December 22nd, will receive each a nice 9 inch Chi- na Card Plate. Come early, make your purchases and get a China Plate. These are for ladies, not men and children. Everything I sell is guaranteed. H O N T O N T O N O N T O U I O N I O N I O N aS a aS They are beauties. Four patterns. HOODOO EIT: - R. F. Henry # Jeweler and Optician Hotel Iredell Building. Wa n Ni A N0 7 A\ Ni Z A s N0 7 I S G AN I O N S 0 7 A NZ As <i TA N <a You can wear the smile that won’t come off if you buy your Groceries —AND— MEATS —FROM— M. P. Alexan= der & Bro. Nice line for Xmas trade. "Phone No. 241. WANT ADS if time 5 cents a line. 3 times soo 4 cents a line. 6 times............cc006 344 cents a line. 26 times...... ee 8 cents & line. WANTED—BY THE AMERICAN _ Cotton and Business University of Milledgeville, Ga., students to take one or more of our courses in cot- ton grading, buying and selling. Business courses of bookkeeping, Shorthand, Typewriting, or Telegra- phy and Railroad course. Positions guaranteed under reasonable con- ditions. Write at once for our consolidated catalog. Largest col lege South. Sept 28-tf AMBITIOUS YOUNG MEN AND ladies should learn telegraphy; for, since the now 8 hour Jaw became effective there is a_ shortage of many thousand telegraphers. Po- sitions pay from $50 to $70 a month to beginners. The National Telegraph institute of Columbia, 8. C., and five other cities is oper- ated under supervision of R. R. officials and all students are placed when qualified. Write them for particulars. nol9 dtf Mothers how can you take ‘ 4 .as Mee eae i ©60000000000000000090e2969 & Halt--Hands Up!: Fall in line--HALT! in front of our show ¢ windows. You'll do as others are doing. : THROW UP YOUR HANDS! in amazement € at the Handsome Display of Sensible é Suggesfions for Christmas. : 6 S.B. MILLER sf = THE sHoe man. @ Coseceecvececoveccoosceus “hm. . . 79... me. LY ay 4) 4 “ ° . ° . SeSSScsetCGeleesesce @ Ws ° e * i YU | Hm A MERRY * Wo ANAM Mittin, «CHRISTMAS 5, u $44 ita ee It is to those who se a ste ot : have a spick and x ent rn span new bathroom 'y Ww oa ee as in which to pre- W SAS pare ce = eee Rr ay Sy ures t ay. we : Port Consult aes "6 Li a Xb. iT , ° ibe os plan a a s aN eo ur floor space, i (il g 2 at at sh we vat it you ft : ; “an t wit at - iS ‘ ji BY room of ach rou = \ Kl * ‘ 4 W es esd: aimuch fae wW : strain on your i wy pocketbook. i w A- W. HOLLER PLUMBING COMPANY Wo 127 W. Broad St. 7 » 3333323323 22532322222322= NERS a ee YOU SAY HE SMOKES? HOW EASY! A box of Cigars will make Christmas Day a day of pleas- ure. We have them put up in boxes of 25 for $1.00, $2.00 and $2.50 per box at THE STORE OF QUALITY. ee o t o r t o r f o r l e o f e c t o c t o n t o o t e o t s l e n t e n t o c t o r t o n l e a t e s t o e d o e l o o t e c t o o l e l e e l s o l e c t o o t e e s e e t s STATESVILLE DRUG CO. Prescriptiontsts. fe MO U OW L O N LO M O ) Wl THE EVENING Mascor. Vol. 1. ee Statesville, N. C., Thursday Evening, December 24, (908. 7 ee No. 377 | SALISBURY WANTS BOOZE. | = ee SS Death Makes = mopae ane, moe( O00 Driven Double Call —— AN UNUSUAL COINCIDENCE. Mrs. G. Frank Burbank Succumbs to Heart Failure at Watt’s Hos. pital and Husband is Beyond Human Aid When Clerk Sends Message to Him at the Hotel Benbow—No Funds Found With Which to Bury th Woman. Lived at Springfield. Durham, Dee. 23.— Mrs. G. Frank Burbank, wife of an op- tician, died at Watts Hospital this morning, her death being sudden and from heart trouble. Her husband was here until last Saturday and went to Greensboro, is also dead at the Benbow Hotel, in that city. The story of the death of her husband came when a message was sent to him of the death of his wife here. The clerk stated that he was in his room and could not be aroused. A few minutes later it was communca- ted here that he was- also dead, it being supposed that his death was caused by an overdose of morphene or some drug as he doped & great deal. The body of the wife is here in an undertaker’s establishment, awaiting advices from some- where. There is no money with which to take care of her re- ms D8. It is a strange incident, but it is not thought here that it was a suicide compact as the wife was getting along nicely until at- tacked by heart trouble and she was talking with her husband last night at 11 o’clock. Papers were found in possession of the woman, indicate that her home is at Springfield, Ohio. Every effort is being made to locate her relatives. ———— DIES IN A SNOW STORMM. Mrs. Sarah Freedle, of Davidson County, Falls in Faint and reezes to Death. Thomasville, N.C., Dec. 23— Early this morning word was re- ceived here that a woman was found dead about five miles west of this place. Coroner, Dr. J. W. Peacock, summoned a jury and went to investigate the fects in the case, which were as follows: The deceased was found to be the body of Mrs. Sarah Freedle. She was lasc seen about dark Tuesday evening one mile from her son-in-law’s, Phillip Wddin- ger’s home, and going toward his house. The investigation proved that she fell and unable to arise and that the snow had quit falling about 9:30 o’clock last nizht, she crawled obout 150 yards through the snow and finally froze to death. She was subject to sttacks of vertigo and it was thought her falling was due to this as there was no prooi of foul play. The d was about seventy years old. Se License Issued, Register of Deeds Boyd and his deputy, Mr. Chas. Armfield, have laid aside all work except issuing license. The fololwing couples obtained license after this paper went to press yesterday afternoon: Mr.} Jno. Bennett and Mrs, Bell Haw- kins; Mr, Ellis , Walton and Miss Bessie Combs; Mr. W. E. Deaton and Miss Mary Cook. — Today license were issued to Mr. Newton A, Head and Miss Kate Martin of Alexarider county, Mr. Foster Moore and Miss Susie Ben nett, Mr, Elzie Riddles and Miss Sallie Elliott and a coloreg couple, Offie James and Dela Albea. Movement Being Started in the Interest of the Sick and Afflicted When the Town Goes Dry—Mr. James A. Reeves Dies at Mor- galton. Salisbury, Dec. 23.—Much in- terest is being taken in a move ment just started here to have a whiskey depository in Salisbury early next year, when the saloons of the state "are closed by law. & hand in the agitation and it is likely that the matter will be brought before the next General Assembly of North Carolina. There has been well nizh a whis- key famine in this city during the past ten days on account of of the large amount of the pro- duct being shipped to other points. bury are beingrun to their ful’. est capacity. _ _———_++@ro——_—— Veils Please the Grocer. “These veils th- women folk are wearing, ali nailed down un- der their chains, are a great boon for us alright, all right,” said an East End grocer. ‘Women, you know are the greatest people on earth to come in and sample things. They’!l take a taste of this and a taste of that while you’re wrapping up something for them, and the first thing you know they’ve eaten up about a nickel’s worth of stuff. ““Wecan’t say anything toa woman, particularly those that are good customers. Now we don’t have to. I haven’t seen a woman taste anything in the store for a month or so. Those veils are put on so tight that the only way they can sample anything would-be to take it through a_ straw.’—Cleveland Plain Dealer. ——_—_—¢-+ -.. Amos White Stole Meat. On last Friday night some per- son elitered the home of Nancy Davis, colored, on Tradd_ street had been killed and dressed. For some days no one could be found to lay any suspicion on, but finally it leaked out and Amos White was arrested on the charge, tried before Justice King, and put in jail in default of a $200 bond. today. From the evidence introduced in the trial it seems that Amos stole the meat on Friday night, and set about trying to dispose of it on Saturday. . He first sold a ham to one Claude Long; but Claude had some suspicion and immediately backed out of the trade. He sold a shoulder to Lee Dun- agan, colored for one dollar. An investigation was begun, and it was found that Amos had sold the meat and hé was arrested on suspicion. The shoulder purchased by Dun- agan from Amos was identified by Mary as“ being her shoulder of meat and hence the case was found against Amos. Amos declares that he bought the ham from another negro, Jno. Pat, but there was no eveidence against John. © +2 Song Service Postponed. The Christmas song service that was to have been given by the -Methodist choir Sunday night has been postponed on account of the absence of several members of the choir for the holidays, ER ee Most disfiguting skin eruptions, scrofula, Pimples, rashes, etc., are due to impute blood. Burdock Blood Bitters isa cleansing tonic. Makes you clear-eyed, clear-brained, clear i pean cre ri ea eg ge gn eRe ee & number of citizens have taken All of the distilleries in Salis-|. and stole a half of a hog, which} iets $4,000,000 In Her Stocking SHE WILL BE GOOD NOW. Former Telephone Operator Re. Ceives Fine Gift From Her Hus- band—Money Wipes Stain of Scandal From the Family Re cord. oom San Francisco, Ca., Dec. 21.—By |Teceiving yesterday from her hus. band a transfer of property con- servatively valued at $4,000,00), Mrs. David T.’ Hanbury, once a telephone operator, has become One of the wealthiest women in California. Her husband, who is a multimil- lionaire, has not only made her the recipient of the record Christmas present of the.season, but in doing so has cleansed the family record of a stain of scandal that has dark- ened it since last spring, when he made her the defendant in a sen- sational suit for divorce. It was Mrs, Hanbury’s personal charm, youth and beauty that led to the estrangement a few months ago. She was 4 mere girl when ‘Hanbury who had been an arctic explorer and world traveler, met and married her about three years ago. Desiring to lead the quiet life of an English country gentle- man, he purchased a small island in upper San Francisco bay, built a handsome home and took his young wife there to live. The luxury and the restraint were too much for the vivacious girl of twentyone. A wide cirele of admirers formed around her and there were many gay ésva- pades in San Francisco, which af- terward were exploited to the fullin the divorce proceedings. Mrs. Hanbury became the Univer- sity of California ‘‘Cullege Wid- ow,’ and the names of several stu- dents the divoree scandal. At the height of the court pro- eeedings a sudden reconciliation was effected between the elderly husband and his young wife and the suit was dismissed. Hanbury declared that all is now happiness and serenity and the transfer of property is due soley to the love and affection he bears his wife. —_++22—_— Eid’on-Todd Wedding. Tonight at the home of Rev. J. EZ. Mitchiner, Miss Callize Todd will become the wife sf Mr. Hill Eidson, Mr. Mitchiner officiating. Miss Todd is the daughter of Mr. Wiley Tod of New Hope town- ship, and for some months has been employed at the BilingSley hospital. She is an attractive young lady, and is_ well liked among her friends and associates. Mr. Eidson is the son of Mr. W. B. Eidon, who lives just below the city, and is a popular young farmer, The young people will leave at an early date, for their future home in Lockwood, Mo., where the groom and his family formerly lived. ~ They have the best wishes of their many friends in and around the city. +4 Cook-Deaton Wedding. Tonight at 7:30 o’clock at the home of Rev. J. H. Mitchiner, Miss Mary Cook will wed Mr. Wm. E. Deaton, Mr. Mitchiner officiat- ing. . Miss Cook is the daughter of Mr. E. L. Cook and lives on Race street. Mr, Deaton ts the son of Mr. B. C Deaton and is a well known young man in South Statesville. They have the best wishes of their skiniied, ss i 5 Wien! Ob ig RN oR Tae ae ae os - . ‘ ea 5 a Sager rahe RS large host of friends, Labor Leaders lief a sentence VIOLATED AN INJUNCTION. Gompers, Mitchel and MorriSon Adjudged in Contempt of the for Failing to Heed an Injunc- tion and Are Given Prison Terms. —. United States Supreme Court} Some Happenings Among Those People You Know and Others You Don’t Know. Mr. Jeff Ingram of Taylorsville, was in the city last night and to- day. ~ Mr. and Mrs M C Wiliams have gone to Athens, ’Ga., to visit for a few days. Mr. W. R. Somers and family went to Derita this morning to visit relatives. Mr. Joseph Poston came home from Sumter, S C., last night to Washington, Dec. 22.—Supreme} spend the holidays. Court Justico Wright today decid- Rev. H. H. Robbins and family ed that Samuel Gompers, presi-| Went to Charlotte this morning to dent ; Frank Morrison, vice presi-} Visit friends for a week. dent, since retired, officers of the Mr." Carlton Andrews came American Federation of lLabor,| home last night from Plum Tree, are guilty of contempt in flagrant-|N. C., to spend the holidays. ly violating an injunction granted Mr, Edwarg Pearson of North by Justice Gould in the Bucks| Wlikesboro is visiting his brother, Stove & Range case and sentenced| Mr. Ernest Pearson in this city. Gompers to a year in jail; Mitch- Mrs. W. B. Blyte and children ell to nine months, and Morrison] of Huntersville are spending Xmas to six months. If the opinion, which is extreme ‘| with the family of Mr. R. L. Sloan. Mr.. Ronald Matheson passed in length, Justice Wright charac- through thee ity this morning en terized the various utterances of|route to his home in Taylorsville court as ‘‘Utter, rampant, inso- lent, defiant, unrefined insult, coarse affront and vulgar indig- nity.”’ the defendants in respect to the] from South Carolina. —————-t oe Wreck Yesterday. A wreck on the Southern rail- way, at Catawba Station yester- The case grew out of the Amer-| day delayed traffic on the Ashe- ican Federationist in its ‘‘Unfair} Ville division for several hours, List’? of the name of the Buck Three cars of freight train No. Stove & Range Company, of St.|74. east bound, in charge of Con- Louis, against which the union|ductor Henry Tomlin left the men had grievances. Counsel for track on the East end of the Ca- the company secured an injunction | tawba freight yard, to prevent further such reference. This delayed trains No. 36 and Gompers, Mitchell and Morrisno| 22 east bound until near 6 o’elock after the sentence, gave notice of | yesterday afternoon. appeal to the District court of Ap- Trains No. 11 and 21 west bound peals and “were released under] Were also held until a late hour on bonds. ——_+a-o—_— Hubbard Bennett Tried. accocunt of the wreck. -Conduetor-Temlin seems ta be having bad luck with his train:} Hubbard Bennett who was ar-| About 18 months ago a chicken rested this week for stealing a gun|train in charge of Mr. Tomlin was from the Evans Hardware store] deraileg near-Catawba, and only a about two years ago, was tried this|few weeks ago a west bound morning at 9 o’clock before Jus-| freight in his charge was wrecked tice W. W. Turner. five miles below this city, fifteen After hearing the evidence, Mr.| cars leaving the track. Turnr decided there was probable The wreckage at Catawba yes- cause and required of him a bond|terday was cleared up by a wreck- of $100 for his apparance at court, |i which has not yet beén given. The principal witness against him was Capt: J. E. Deitz, who tes- tifieq that he had bought the rifle, ng crew and traffic was resumed at a late hour yesterday. 1 Major Foote Tried. : Major Foote, colored, was tried a 22 calibre, from the Bennett by Justice King this morning for negro. Hardware Company swore that he had three rifles in his store win- dow, and that one of them was stolen, and identified the one in question as the one which was stoln. ae Bennett put up a very pretty the husband Clarence Bailey, a son of Char- lotte, were in a dispute over the - age of a dog. an assault on the person of Char- Me AC Pens ch the Vaan lotte White, a colored woman liv- : ing in East Statesville. It'seems that Burgess White, of Charlotte and Burgess claimed that he knew little story. to the effect that he| the age of the dog, and Clarence bought he rifle from an unknown negro, ‘and kept it for a week, shooting it several times before he sold it to Mr. Deitz. said the gun had not been shot before he bought it from the app- pearance of the barrell. anus ~ Drunk and Down. denied it and a general row en- sued, Charlotte went in as a peace- Mr. Deitz|™aker, but only caused the fuss to grow worse. Major Foote, hear- ing the noise, stepped in as a peace maker, and all the others turned on him. Major immediately proceeded to Chas Warren White was arrest-|Slap Charlotte in the face with his ed today by Chief Conner for be-| hands, and a general row ensued, ing drunk and down. He was in the Iredell cafe and was put out of there. ner. manera RE Boo teense Dave Hunt Arrested. but no damage was done. Major swore that Charlotte tried He then] to cut him with an axe, while Bur- went to the home of a gentleman| ess came after him with a knife, near the cafe and was run out of|but this could not be proven so there and arrested by Chief Con-| they were not convicted. After hearing the evidence Mr. King discharged Charlotte, Bur- gess and Clarence, and fined Ma- Dave Hunt, colored, was arrest- jor Foote I cent and costs, all him with retailing. The state’s witness against him ed today on a warrant charging| amounting to $5.76. —_~+er-o—_—— Mr. Espey Holder went to Black says that he had bought a half gal-| Stock, S. C., today to spend the lon of liquor from him. The case has not been tried yet. —__++2-e—_——_ bome for the holidays. holidays. ~ The latest report ig that President Roosevelt is looking the census re- Mr, Thos. White of Lenoir, is at' cord over to see if he has overlooked Into Storm MANY NARROW ESCAPES. 4 Entire City Block of Apartment Houses Burned to the Ground, Rendering Hundreds Homeless, M&ny in the Streets Half Clad— Twenty Are Overcome by the Smoke. New York, Dec. 22.—An entire city block, closely built’ with ap- partment houses, was wiped out by fireearly today in Brooklyn and over 1,000 persons were made homeless, and were driven half clad into the bitter snow- storm. The fire was the most disast- rous that has visited Brooklyn in many years. Not until the ~*<‘e block was in ruins did the firemen gain con- trol. Twenty persons were overcome by the smoke and the heat, but no lives were lost. Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of property were destroyed. There were many thrilling nar- row escapes. In the instance of policeman with afchild clasped in in his arms, was dragged uncon- cious from the hallway. The fire started in an amnsement house. —-~___+ += — Nose Krocked Off. At Mooresvile last night about 8 o’clock Jim Gant and Bob Follet, both white had a fuss, which re- sulted in Gan’t nose being knock- off with a brickbat in the hands of Follet. Gant is the man who was fore merly here, working as a painter for Mr. E. S. Johnson. He had a scrap with two men in. this city, before he went to Mooresville and is under bond for hig appearance hera next term of court. It is said that as the doctor was trying to replace the nose, that Gant exclaimed, ‘‘For God’s sake, doctor, if my nose is on the back of my neck, let it stay, for it hurts. a —_—~+o>e———— Court Circles. Dickson Parrott, a young white man was arrested at the depot last night by Deputy J. M. Ward, for hoboing. He was tried before Justice Tur: ner this morning and found guilty of the charge. Judgment was suspended on payment of costs, which was remitted. It was produced on trial that he was an ex-sailor, having been in the service of the Newport, R. L navy yard. He had a fight with one of his fellow workmen, and wag dishon- orably discharged, without a cent of money. Some persons in Bal- timore paid ‘his railroad fare to Greensboro.” From there he walk- ed to Barber’s Junction, where he boarded a freight train last night, trying to get to his home in Mur: ray county, Georgia, ang -was ar rested here. He told such a straight story that Mr. Turner let him off light as passible. Keep Off the Grass, * * Several little signs are to be placed on the eourt house lawn, bearing the following notice: ‘Please keep off the grass.”? : Mr. Henry Cook, the very effi: cient Janitor of the court house, says the tress have been taken up, and it is his purpose to keep 4 nice lawn, and warns every person that it will Be a violation of the law to walk on the grass, and that a fine will be imposed on all pers any one he has not called a liar, sons violating this ordinance, : THE EVENING MASCOT/ a INow Time for You to Se- vaccec sce e080 0 ata teCEES PREC TI ATES , =] = DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. Building of the Holston River ail- Itty ‘ — lect Your Xmas Goods SEVERAL THINGS | as = road to bé Completed at Once— ; Are to be considered in selecting your Bank We will put aside any goods selected. - It do more t aad pal ” Entered at the Postofficein Statesville| | Will Give Southern a More Direct ®. C.,as second-class mail matter. Route to the Virginia Coal Fields, over, ' Q“ND. The care with which the over, © Bank is Managed. : a 3RD..The courtesy and spirit of z alee sa apace Telephone 53 Pushing the Completion of the E must Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio. See our new line of | i duties VANCE NORWOOD - Poablisher-| Bristol, Tenn., Dec. 22.—The : ‘alS : backs ¢ RALPH SLOAN, - - City Editor,| Holston River Railroad, work Morris Chairs and Rockers. 1ST: Strength-Financia trength ‘ pearing Subscription Price, - $4.00 a Year}on which was suspended with inn ms wenetesite dave of te oni, Sis! Also Fine Mahogany Tables. Weather ForecaSts. at once. The engineers in charge We will make S pecial Prices on COOK ee Kidney: See et : : ccomodation;displayed any ott Washington, D. C., Dec. 24—For of the re-survey will scon have STOVES and RANGES. ofa : ee by the Officers and Em- completed their work, and as North Carolina partly cloudy and : : etal Nably timateaing tonight ang(e000 a8 their estimates orelCTATECVIELE HOUSEFURNISHING COMP’Y eyes 7 mais Friday, rising temperature. ee = So S ae Ss 4TH. The b anking experience of estes < ——_+o@r-o——_ - . wi ou kn¢ NEW CURE FOR HABIT. _| this road ready for traffic about| >< PERE PAR AEP PEEP PPP EPH | fF pees eee 2 Mrs. | July 1st, 1909. When this road| && an 5TH. The ability of the. Boulevs ee eS is completed the Southern Rail-| THE SEEDING SEASON Properly an d Promptly ee j in : way, of which it is a branch, will Handle all Your Business Men. . a E sorenes ; , have a more direct route and a : ci : : Des Moines, Dec. 21.—In an ante Sere =e is again with us and have a car load airs te 5. 3 the tim room of the county jail, the Rev.|better grade to the Virginia of the celeprated To.Those Desiring. the Embodi . pizzy 3 ment of These Features are : ; frequet Offered The Service of THE : was Uz The kid FIRST NATIONAL BANK a f oe ¢P Thomas Cassady, pastor of St. Mark’s| coal fields. Fe s Z i ; P. E, Church, gave a hypnotic demon-/ Jt ig robable that the con- Dp ll stration today, the first of a course tract —e be awarded to either : Superior Grain Yl S - a Sg Sa - ¢ P of treatments he has undertaken, to z : ; ea wna Uaccan onaoniia fee oes emu the best and lightest running drill made. If in need of a drill | examine them and get our prices—we know we can please. ishioners, of the drink habit, by hpy-| Company, or to A. H. Jacoby. notism. The minister put his parish-| Both parties have a large | Doan’s oner to sleep, then called in newspa-| amount of machinery near Moc- ° Stoves Etc. 7 - ed at E yor then who wore permit to t-teaein Gap, the northern termi | 4 Als @ Full Line of Hardware, Stov’® OF STATESVILLE | a the extraordinary efforts of the pas- nd ld tor to create in Lavean’s mind a dis- nus of the road, 2 wou taste for intoxicating liquors. therefore be in a position to At the command of the minister| take the work several thousand : cerely give Da know tI $100.000 | a PE P E E P P P E P E PP E ED Evans Hardware Comp’y CAPITAL Lavean opened his eyes. Cassady| dollars cheaper than any other| Spqbdbd> bpp Dp ep pp PEP EPEP EP EE For jabbed a pin into the back of his| contractors that might bid onit. a SS cents. hand and struck the pin with his fist. : New Yc ing has been almost pe ote td Blood spurte?~forth, but Lavean nev- — = > es meet: Pee ere States. er moved. He was given similar per cent completed, and It Is Rem daily treatments until Christmas eve, ‘‘Our whole family has enjoyed when hew will be released, forever cured of his fondness for drink, the a a _ = ministr seer Dr. King’s New Life Pills, three —_—_++@-——— years ago,’’ says L.-A. Bartlet, of PLAYED DEAD TO GET MONEY.| Rural Route 1, Guilford Maine. ee They cleanse and tone the system Bud Graham’s Wadesboro Friends|in a gentle way that does you Send Money For Burial Expenses,| rood 25c. at Statesville Drug Co. But Bud.is not Dead. ~ Wadesboro, Dec. 21.—The last few days-have been days of con- siderable anxiety among the col- ored population of Wadesboro. One day last. week a telegram was received here from Greens- boro announcing the death of a good health since we began using ly OBOE OOOO 0OOE OOOE 0000 0S9000SH ETO HOSSHSISOOOE DONE OSE 3 THE STATESVILLE LOAN AND TRUST Cu. ae hor tat ie oe maaie|cateuated tbat told ao" be & NT HY WW STU D LO 4 eoccccccccccesocoeooocosce one to the orld. As the supreme test the|finished within two or three $ a : 6 : : é i 7 y Elli j : hers, in N. B. Mills,New pastor decreased his pulse from 98| months by the use of a large a May nard & Ellis, Professional Photographers, oe ® These Handsome Dishes fiven Away {0 My Customers € h to 78. force of men é Building, adjoining Stimson Drug Store, Statesville, N. ©. : Bos _ _ eres ae é want : a eae hr : i . . ith each cash purchase of 5 cents or over I will give you a ee — me oe So Work on the Carolina, Clincb- : Hig h Grade Photos at a Low Price. 3 . coupon that can be area for these gifts. . & — ; field & Ohio Railway is still] @. ; eae a 7 ee Se being pushed, and it a under.| @ Penny Pictures, the best that can be made—24 for 25c. §| @ enter 7 6 toothac saga i oe ee ; Post Cards, per dozen, $1.25. Per half dozen "7 SC. @ S ae I want you to quit drinking,” said stood to be the purpose of the é = - 1.50 ve mi : Cabinets, in folders, dozen, $2.00. Halfdozen $1.50. 5] @ e the clergyman “I want you to stay/e9mpany to extend it both $ ’ hour: away from saloons. God loves you northward and southward, com-| @ Pictures of your home, PostCard size, and up to 8x10 inches, é @ @ throat and God don’t like to see you in such| | +t ; t , Ohio! § and out-door groups, is one of our specialties at a moder- @ & Eclects places. He wants you to be a better|Pleting 16 as lar as tne “no ate price. Give usa trial and be convinced that_we are : e @ man. You are here because it is to| river OD the one end and Charles- : trying to please you. We are now ready to serve you. e @ be a hospital. You are here for}ton on the other within the . oy : Will v Work. saya Berea next two years. It is expected to : also Develop and Finish Kodak Work N . / ee pe e “You musnt drink when you are . : . : ew & ie ai rst shipment of aa” $ released. "By Christa Dey, Think, [HVE the first. shipment. off & _— WMAYNARD & ELLIS=— qj @ —— — you can go out and go home, and|CO@’ Mom U6 | NBT earls L. SSSSISUSISUSUSUSUSIONS e fhe YD / “im 6 you'll find a big Christmas dinner| OVEF this road at Charlotte early . ® (Lege ae ike % ah @ awaiting you. And then you're go-|in the year. The only thing that Bene Soran Bats pe ae ee “2 @ ing to turn over a new leaf and be a) j3 causing delay is one or two ECC ETen een POSSE OBL SOROS OECROE CEOS OSS 3 @ > > i cee ey fn pe @ better man and lead a better life.” |ineompleted bridges at Kings. 5 @. Qe, NS: Re)” a Lavean nodded yes and was restor- ean % @ LR oe: S— Z @ ed to consciousness, He said he felt Les ci 3 e .. a eee : —— 3 é better and yawned lazily. The pas- ; a 2 @ tor left him, promising to give him A Healthy Family. | ® L. A. GOLDMAM : Purveyor to the People. ¢, | 029900 0002000080000 00000008 Is Essential to the Up- building of the Modern Business Enterprise. ::: To the publicity gained by the use of the advertising columns of the daily papers is at- : Of Statesville, N. C. tributed the growth, and consequent success, of : | ———_++2>>—__—_ ‘*Your audiences seemed shock- ed by the show?’”. ‘‘At first,”’ an- swered the manager,-‘‘but ‘we ex- purgated it.’? ‘‘Ang_ then?”’ “Then they seemed disappoint- ed.”’—Washington Star. IS PREPARED to transact all branches of banking. Accounts are solicited from firms, corporations and indiv - uals, who may rely upon courteous consideration and the very best terms that are consistent with good banking methods. Four per cent. paid on time and savings deposits. a very large percentage of great business enter- WAPITAL STOCK ......ccccccccseee.es assumes eveeeseeeseee $40,000.00 young negro,. well known in the ner prises of the present day. SHAREHOLDERS LIABILITY.......02-.+00s-++++000--40,000.00 town, as = The = — S pags he ae Advertising is recognized as the prime fac- SuRPLus anp UNDIVMED PEOFITS............$30,000.00 sage requ at money be| tng at ieee sent for the purpose of prepar- a little Mothers’ Joy on. it and stop tor mn increasing the sales of any class of goods ToTaL RESOURCES OVER. eocce scecececccsecccesee $440,000.00 : cine : or manufactured articles. ing the-body for shipment here}! once. : ah ; ~ A for burial. The friends of the ——<— : The space used in this pauper 1s your, busi- supposedly dead man immedi- ness message to the public. In this open letter OFFICERS ately sent the money and the trains.were watched expectedly for the body. As the days pass ed the body did notj come, in- quiries were made and yesterday & message. was. received that Graham was alive and well. The near approach of the hol- iday season was in all probabil- ity the cause of Bud’s need of money.and his successful effort at saising. the cash from his Wadesboro friends. It will prob- ably be best. for himjhe remaine away from this town for awhile and allow the matter to “blow over.” _accaneeninasnencrmnctipn IED Re Sirona TS New York Elections Cost $2,218,692. Albany, N. ¥., dispatch. The Association to Prevent Corrupt. Practices at Elections announces on statements filed and careful estimates that the total amount expended by poli- tical committees, clubs and can- didates in the State of New York for the Republican and Demo- cratic parties during the cam- you should tell them of the merits of what you are offering, setting forth the reasons why your particular line is worthy of their attention. THE EVENING MASCOT has increased its local circulation very materially during the past three months and the results obtained from the space used by the advertisers ‘are gratifying to them and to the paper. It : reaches into the homes of the best class of our - | § Ina sharpcontest nothing but “quality” nd appearance people and your message will be placedin the | § Ta..,, RUTH MADE” Hosiery and the “WORLDS = A] ni? e goods o ity. Aite as oe _ with money to buy the goods . | § been eaid, all your pursuasive argument exhavsted, iti : still a fact that : The Space Rates in The Evening Mascot és ATTY 10 = & day, to- these you wish to reach, in the most. : a poe best results you must have the best of everything economical manner, e. eas ee Sa = and best help, with For information call us up on the phone and “are making. We have all of the are ‘hak Sour denier / a representative ot the paper will gladly visit-you sign of 1908 is $2;218, 692.92, - for the goods of “quality.” The Evening Mascot. Of which. the Republican party : g eee ee _ 1,466,373.91 Ww - : # eee SSS ths I Oe rere $752,318. ° F. HALL 5 ) a: ie = Pee yearly subscribers to The Evening 91. eae sanaareanaecian sn aren en nan senor | China ees = — and get one of the beautiful | as premiums. E. Steele, President, E. Morrisou, Vice-Pres, D. M. Austey, Sec and Treasurer, C. E. HUGHEY, Assistant Secy. and Treat. pe VW. G. CULBRETH, Manager Savings Department CO O S O S 9 * HP OO O R PO O E BO G S PD F1 1 1 NO P P BB O C RR O We Are Agents.. See our Xmas Packages of Candy Stationery and Cigars — THE ee e 7 __ Pe e re DO N C PS S oe nN ae Be WOMEN’S WOES. Statesville Women Are Finding Re- lief at Last. it does seem that women have more than @ fair share of the aches aad pains that afflict humanity; they pust “keep up,” must attend to duties In spite of constantly aching packs or headaches, dizzy spells, pearing-down pains; they must stoop er, when to stoop means torture. y must walk and bend and nd and work with racking pains and many aches from _ kidney ills. Kidneys cause More suffering than ny other organ of the body. Keep ‘he kidneys well and health is easily maintained. Read of a remedy for i: idneys only that helps and cures the kidneys and is endorsed by people you know. Mrs. M.L Moose, living at 209 Boulevard St., Statesville, N. C., says: “For several years I was a vic- ‘ time of weak kidneys. I had a soreness across these organs most of the time and I generally felt weak. Dizzy spells and headaches were of frequent occurrence, and at night I was unable to obtain my proper rest. The kidney secretions were also un- natural in appearance, and showed that my kidneys were at fault. I used a Dumber of remedies but Doan’s Kidney Pills, which I procur- ed at Hall’s drug store, benefited me more than any of the others. I sin- cerely hope that other sufferers will zive Doan’s Kidney Pills a trial as I know they will act strictly up to their representations. ?? For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name and take no other. —_— 4 hTe avaricious man is always in want—Horace. +24 Stops earache {in two minutes; toothache or pain of burn or scald in five minutes; hoarseness, one hour; muscleache, two hours; sore throat, twelve hours—Dr. Tioimas Death was on His Heels. of 1906. He says: ‘“An attack of Pneumonia left me so weak and with such a fearful cough that my friends declared consumption had me, and death Was on my heels. Then I was persuaded to try Dr. King’s New Discovery. It helped me immediately, and after taking two and a half bottles J was @ well man again. I found out that New Discovery is the best remedy for coughs and lung dis- ease in all the world,’’ Sold under guaarantee at Statesville drug Co. store. 50c. and $1.00. Trial bottle free. 4 > INHALED GAS. Man and Wife of Brooklyn Commit Suicide. New York, Dec. 21—Charles Ris- ley, 55 years old, and his wife Amel- ia, 53, were found dead, evidently suicides by gas, this afternoon in their home at 180 Hart Street Brook- fyn. They had Deen dead several days. The old couple had not been seen since early last week and neighbors today, unable to attract any atten- tion, forced thu door. t+ Would Mortgage The Farm. ———- A farmer on Rural Route No. 2, Empire, Ga, W. A. Mloyd by name, says: ‘“‘Bucklen’s Arnica Salve cured the two worst sores I ever saw; one on my hand and one on my leg. It is worth more. than its weight in gold. I would not be without it if I had to mort- gage the farm to get it.’? Only 25¢e. at Statesville Drug Co.’s store. ——_—_——_++@ > ___ O, while you live, tel the truth and shame the devil.—Shakespeare. Eclectric Oil, monarch over pain. ||] ALCOHOL 3 PER Onn } t Ss at ry ? Pier . StS : ting the Stomache nd Timea ol. Mee Gs haa i Promotes Digestic heen :| Opium Morphine nor Mine ‘| NOT NARCOTIC. ¢\|| tion, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea! || | Worms,Convalsions -. ‘| | ness and LOSS OF SLEEP. EeS_—_=——— OUT es tla ht ieee ae a i) 337 IGASTORIA For Infants and Children. SS The Kind You Have- Always Bought Bears the Signa of In Use For Over Thirty Years ASTORIA THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. friend a nice om . ~* ~ = > - Se e ot e ox : ee Along with your Christ- mas present give your wife, sweetheart or girl Christmas Basket of Candy. Be sure it’s GUTH’S. STATESVILLE DRUG COMP’Y Prescriptionists. > ae ir serene desse P. Morris, of Skippers, Va., had a close call in the spring store. ‘| bankrupt—New. York Sun. J regularly, Doan’s Regulets- will pre- » } bowels without griping. Ask your THAW MUST STAY-IN STATE. —_—, Court of Appeals Decides he Can’t be Taken to Pittsburg. Philadelphia, Dec.21.—H. K. Thaw cannot be taken to Pitts- burg to testify in the bankrup- tey proceedings, according toa decision handed down today by the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. Whether the case will be. taken to the United States Supreme Court is not known. The decision affirms the action of Judge Young in the District Court, who quashed a writ of habeas. corpus compelling the Superintendent of Matteawan Asylum to turn Thaw over to a marshal. for appearance at Pittsburg. The Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision says in part that Thaw being adjudged insane, “It was plainly shown that his com- petency to testify, to say the ‘east of it,“.was open to ver: serious question, and it_ was‘ no’ to be presumed that any cour. would issue a write of habeu: vorpus to bring before it a per son to testify who,’when broughb: could not testify.” —~¢<@>-e—__ — A GOOD STOMACH Means Good Health, Cheerfulness,. Ambition, Persistency and Suc- cess. Mi.o-na will cure your dyspepsia or any other stomach trouble by building up the flabby walls, and making the stomach so strong that it ther artificial aid. In other words, Mi-o-na cures dys. pepsta by removing the cause, Statesville Drug Co., is the agent for Mi.o-na in Statesville and they say to every reader of The Mascot. whose stomach is. weak,: who has in- digestion or dyspepsia, that Mi-o.na {is guaranteed to cure or money back, The price is only 50. cents a large box, and one box is all you need to prove that you are on the right road to health and happiness. “I can’t say enough for Mi-o.na tablets; they have done more for me in one week than all the doctors have for the two years I have been under their care, and I will do all I can to recommend it to my friends. You can also usé My name in your ad. if you like, for Mi-o.na is better than gold to me. I am like a new man, and am able to work once more for the first time in over a year.”—W. A. Ennis, 328 Green St., Syracuse, N. Y. EO Shoots Himself and Falls Lifeless at The Girl’s Feet. who had just refused to marry him, Rev. W. Woodfolk, aged 22 years, shot himself through reclining. young. woman at the home of C. renewed his suit, having been rejected once before. Again refused, he drew the weagon and fired once, his body falling limp at the feet of the girl. ———~++ > —_—— Where Bullets Flew. David Parker, of Fayette, N. J.. a veteran of the civil war, who lost a foot at Gettysburg, says, ‘“‘The good Electric Bitters have done is worth more than five hundred dollars to me. I spent much money. doctoring for.a bad ease of stomach trouble, to little purpose. I then tried Electric Bitters, and they cured me. I now take them as a tonic, and they keep me strong and well.”’ 50c. at Statesville Drug Co.’s ———+ 1 Stella—What. bankrupted him? Bella—His wife dressed so people wouldn’t think he was becoming ——4 oe If you haven’t the time to exercise vent. constipation, They induce a mild, easy, healthful: action: of the spend eternity with young Rogers? —Pick-Me-Up. will digest food without pepsin or }‘‘I know what'll please her most,”’ Now sells for 1 cent, and can be had District of Columbia, Virginia, North And througnout the United States throughout the United States, as well as in Europe, China, South Africa, the Philipines, Porto Rico, Cuba and . in every other part of the world, MINISTER, REJECTED, A SUICIDE, | make it the greatest newspaper that can be printed. reaus are among the best in the Uni- Dallas, Texas, Dec. 21.—In the] ted States, and give The Sun’s read- 11 ung woman) ¢s the earliest information upon a aos ose important events in the legislative and financial centers of the country.}. the heart last night.and fell dead | mercial columns are complete and re- across the couch on which thej liable, and put the farmer, the mer- * been chant and the broker in touch with terrified Ie bad bee the markets of Baltimore, Norfolk, Charleston, New York, Chicago, Phil- Woodfolk called upon the adelphia and all other M. Nevitt, his cousin. Mrs. Ne- | countries. vitt left the room and Woodfolk | gets for one cent. DON’T MARRY, SHE SAYS. am, Thrice Divorced. to the women on. uselessness of matrimony. She admits having. sacrificed herself three times on followed quickly and Mrs. Ketch- am is still only thirty, blond and pretty. Her favorite ground is incompatibility of temperament: witha man these days and be married to him?” she said, I have come to the conclusion that men are mere incidents in a wo- man’s life. Fairly good :enter- tainment, but so weak and triv- ial—really not worth while. “The. verv idea of a women tying herself to one of the con- ceited wretches and hoping to please him and make him and herself heppy is ridiculous. Mat-} rimony is .& survival to barba- rism. There is no man living for whom I’d get easy slippers and | light a cigar; and wait on and be|, nice to when he saw fit to stay one evening.” _—_———?-4- Mary—How would you like to Alice—I did. We called last night eS 4a Day after day he walked the street, Looking for a presnt for ‘‘wifey’’ sweet— said he; “It’s Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea.’’—Statesville Drug Co. PRICE 1 CENT! (Baltimore, Md.) of every Dealer, Agent or News- boy at that price. ALL SUBSCRIBRS IN and South Carolina, Pennsy]l- vania, and Deleware can get The Sun by mail at 1 cent a copy. The Sun’s special correspondents Its Washington and New York bu- _ JHE FARMERS’ PAPER. The Sun’s market reports and com- important points in the United States and other All of which the reader THE WOMAN’S PAPER. The Sun is the best type of a news- paper morally and intellectually. In addition to the news of the day, it publishes the best features that can be presented, such as fashion artic- les and miscellaneous writings from men and women of note and promi- nence. It is an educator of the high- est character, constantly stimulating to noble ideals in individual and na- tional life. The Sun is published on Sunday as well as every other day of the week. . .By mail the Daily Sun, $3. a year By mail the Daily Sun, $3 a year. Address A. S ABELL COMPANY, Publishers and Proprietors, BALTIMORE, MD. STATESVILLE SKATING RINK Opera House Building Open from 3 to 5 and 8 to 10 p. m. No Children Admitted to Ridiculous Thing to’ Tie One’s Self to the Wretches, Declares Mrs. Ketch- Chicago, Dec. 21.—Mrs. Eloise}. Ketcham, of New Haven, Conn.,|-- has arrived in Chicago to preach] <4 the altar of matrimony. Divorce} - “What woman can get along]. away from the other woman for], THE SUN. The Renald’s: Dramatic Company . CARE— STUDY—-. THOROUCHNESS— Are the con:ponent parts of the Statesville Laun- dry. business. which you get the benefit of, if you are & customer, and for which no extra charge is made. Good Work—Clean Work—White Work! We wish @ very merry Christmas. | STATESVILLE STEAM LAUNDRY U.&, HARWELL, Prop.. Phone No. 122 eae =: Same ee oe OOOOH OOOOH OOOO THE FINEST GIFT OF THE YEARS you can easily. bestow upon i yourself: is to. acquire the habit of: thrift and the sav- ing of money—the Merch- ants and-Farmers bank off- ers‘you the most practical means, as its financial stand- ing and integrity are un- questioned. Commence to save on January Ist and . Stick to your resolution. ‘Merchants and Farmers’ Bank 2 OF STATESVILLE INCORPORATED CAPITAL $25,000.00. OFFICERS: _L..T. STIMPSON, Pres.; C. 8S. TOMLIN, Vice-Pres.; F. B, _ BUNCH, Sec. & Treas.; J. A. KNOX, Asst. Sec. & Treas. Directors : L. T. Stimpson, J. L. Stevenson, C. S. Tomlin, R. R. Reid, J. A. Knox, W.S. Page, Geo. B. Nicholson, L. K. Lazen- by, E. G. Gaither, J. R. Hill, E. B. Watts. If you have lost something or want to buy or have any- thing to sell try a want ad. in The Evening Mascot. SOUTHERN RAILWAY C0, Ul reat Highway of Trade and Friday Night Travel Through the Southern States — will present the Sensation Through P . gh Pullman Sleeping Cars of the season on palatial trains peembens the pete = ee of * whet. Dit) the South. H:gh-class Dinin Night. Rider sof Cars. Many delightful Summer Tetinessee . and Winter Resorts on and reached by Southern Railway. Riders’ les with Plant- Sapphire Country,” in scenic - Western North Carolina; beau- ers and xaet- tiful at all seasons. Hotels of Similar to The Clansman, Tne} the highest class, Vraitor, &c. For detailed information appl: 15 PEOPLE IN CASTE.| to nearest Ticket Agent, oe = R. L. VDRNON, T. P. A. Refined Specialties between Acts. Charlotte, NG S.H. HARDWICK, P.T.M. Prices—25, 50. and 75.Cts.) ““w'i. TAYLOE,G.P. A. Tickets: on: Sale. at: Statesville} Washihgton, D.C. ane | \ P | I LEADER IN ee od CANDIES. New Tables of wee ANG... the latest and best makes have been in- stalled under J. P. Phifer’s grocery store. FRUITS: Oysters -for- retail.and serving. Quail on-Toast. PHONE. NO. 323 - W. W. GATPHER: : Proprietor. Woad Sawed!} druggists for them. 25c. K | b y Floor at Night Sessions. . J a a ‘ pews ae Ri re SN ae seine, 3 ae % weep agi ed z Palen Se ee ES ig ee Biber ntt 2 gta a. , nach Se Oe Rakin ia MMP OS tts nites Ae Pag pc a EE eae = 15 Maurie er a Seo ,0- Harbin or Fhone'252/WeoolicitYourPatronage ee rsiaee rl ae peat ete. tain . ee oe a ; a lle dean “2 tie wird pinta, eR ae sr a aie aataak Satce tile oi Te gil ia crassa nat ne mo NS Te ih ae a Sah Mn Ce ee ‘ st Ci e Pa -— - Se —— sr z ty 3 aa e a s r es « sa e i tk in s 2s J 4 ; t Pi ar e a } ae ba s t WU E kd ab Ho e 9s ) ee er t ee PL T Py e 7 ee e | j Ba | | 4 i ; TB P Be y y ey AS E eT Se e ie é io Ai t + Ss ae e e n a e rs Sa ea e an n an e A PA TO Ce t y —e e t i n g eR RD e n g Ee = ay ek Po l e n Tg ee te le y . ee 4 es rg * ingredients. BIG FIRE AT LYNN. Covered by, InSurance to Extent of $50,000—Owned by Wilcox Family—Three Hundred Opera-' tives Employed by the Miil. The plant of the Tryon hosiery mill, at Lynn. N. C.. was almost to- tally destroyeg hy fire during the early morning hours Monday, en- tailing a loss of $80,000. The mill was insured for $50,000. The fire was discovered by the watchman at 2:30 o’clock, but had gained too much headway to be controlled until it had destroyed the entire plant with the exception of the knitting room, which was gutted, but none of the machinery seriously damaged. The com- pany’s store, but a short distance from the mill, was saved. There were no facilities for fighting the fire in the town of Lynn other than that provided by the mill, which weré-entirely inadequate. That the entire mill and also the store were not destroyed was due to the fact that the Pacolet river flows but a few feet from the mill, fur- nishing an abundant supply of wa- ter for the fire fighters. About three hundred operatives were employed in the mill, around which the little town of Lynn, two miles from Tryon, had grown up. The mill was owned by the Wilcox family, who own the larger part of Hogback mountain. It is not known whether or not it will be re- built.—Ashevile Citizen. —_—__—_+<+- oe CHILD A DIVORCE WITNESS. Says She Saw Senator Wellington Visit Her Mother. BALTIMORE, Dec. 22.—To rebut the evidence of former Senator Well- ington, who had testified that he had not been in the home of Dr. and Mrs. Pierce B. Wilson, jr., the nine-year old daughter of the Wilsons, Thelma, was called asa witness to-day in the divorce proceedings between Dr. Wil- son and Mrs. Wilson, in which Well- ington is named as co-respondent’ The little girl testifiied she had seen a “‘tall smooth-faced gentleman’’ there at one time, and he was in the room with her mother and a Miss Davis. This man gave her a quarter and told her to go out. She knew it must be Senator Wellington because she had seen his picture in a photo- graph album of her mother’s. Her father was busy in the office at the front of the house and did not dow of the matter, she said. The case went over to the January term. ——_-_++ ro — Itching piles provoke profanity, but profanity won’t cure them. Doan’s Ointment cures itching, bleeding protruding piles after years of suffering. At any drug store. —_——\_2+4 > —_—_ CHILD SCALDED TO DEATH. ——— Son of T. C, Debnam Dies at Hos- pital From Scalding Received Tuesday, Greensboro, Dec. 24.—Thomas E. Debnam, the four-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Debnam, of Reid street, died at St. Leo’s hospital yesterday afternoon from the effects of asevere scalding on the day previous. The funeral will be conducted by the Rev. Sanders R. Guignard, rector of St. Andrew’s Episcopal church, at the residence, 601 Reid street, this morn- ing at 8.30 o’clock. The body will be taken to Durham for mterment. The child was playing around a range, when in some way, a pot of boiling water was overturned, the contents falling upon it, scalding it fearfully. The “child was taken to St. Leo’s for treatment. —_———_+<@>-2—-—____ NOTICE. I hopé that the public will excuse will excuse me for not having my windows rigged up in Christmas style but the fact is I just cannot spare the time from my bench and sales to fix up the window, but the goods are here and I will spend the time show- ing them to you and making prices right. The goods are inside if not seen in the window. Lot of goldl pen points regular price from 75c. to $2.00 each. R. F. Henry. —_— +O *‘What kind of ships do we en- counter on the voyage of life?’’ asked the propounder of silly questions. “Hardships,’’ prompt- ly answered the /pessimitical per- son.—Chicago News. ————_~$- 4 - ——— —. Mothers’ Joy is made of pure Mothets you cannot afford to be without a box of Moth ers’ Joy. WHY SUFFER? Breathe Hyomei and Kill the Loathsome Catarrh Germs, Just as long as you have eatarrh your nose will itch, your breatb will be foul, and you hawk and spit, and you will do other dis- gusting things because you can’t help yourself. The germs of ¢a- tarrh have got you in their power; they are continually and persist- ently digging i nto and irritating the mucous membrane of your nose and throat. They are now making your life miserable; in time they will sap your entire system of it senergy, its strength, its serength, its vigor and vitality. But there is one remedy that will kill the germs and cure ¢a- tarrh, and that is Hyomei, the Aus- tralian dry air treatment. The Statesville Drug Co., the druggists, will guarantee Hyomei to eure eatarrh, or money back. Don’t delay this pleasant antisep- tic treatment. Breathe in Hyomei and kil Ithe germs. The Statesville Drug Co, will sell you a complete Hyomei outfit, including inhaler, for only $1,00. It is also guaranteed to cure bron- chitis, asthma, coughs, colds, hay fever and croup. -——_++@> > —__ Builds you up physically and mentally, keeps your digestion or- gans in condition, regulates the bowels, cleanses the blood, gives you perfect health. Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea or Tablets, 35 eents. Statesville Drug Co. ———_-4+@> > —____ There is not a newspaper where but what has’ some harsh words for Rockefeller. Wonder if the old man don’t wish he hadn’t done it? any- HOLLISTER’S Rocky Mountain Tea Nuggets A Busy Medicine for Busy People. Brings Golden Health and Renewed Vigor. Aspecific for Constipation, Indigestion, Liver wnd Kidney troubles, Pimples, Eczema, Impure 3lood, Bad Breath,Sh usgish Bowels, Headache vnd Backache. Its Rocky Mountain Teain tab- ‘et form, 35 cents a box. Genuine made by HOLLISTER DruG Coupany, Madison, Wis. GOLDEN NUGGETS FOR SALLOW PEOPLE a ER, North Carolina, | In Superior Court, Iredell County. Jan. Term, 1909. Wm. B. Hunt, Alex. C. R. mee Millard F. Burgess, Henry S. Hunt, John E. Hunt ‘and Ira M. Parsons, trading under the firm name of John E. Hunt & Co. vs, M. Young, C. L. Young, T. M. Oe M. a Young, minor; Geo. H. Young, Joseph Young and wife Mrs. Joseph Young. NOTICE. The defendant, T. M. Young, above named, will take notice that an ac- tion, entitled as above, has been commenced in the Superior Court of Iredell county to foreclose a mort- gage deed executed by T. M. Young and others to the plaintiffs, and the said defendant, T. M. Young, will further take notice that he is re- quired to appear at the term of the Superior Court of said county to be held on the 5th Monday before the Ist Monday in March, 1909, the same being the 25th day of January, 1909, at the court house of said county, in Statesville, N. C., and answer or de- murr to the complaint i in said action, or the plaintiffs will apply to the court for the relief demanded in said complaint. J. A. HARTNESS, Clerk Superior Court. Dated December 11th, 1908. North Carolina, \ Superior Court, Iredell County. { Nov. 13, 1908. NOTICE OF SUMMONS AND WARRANT OF ATTACHMENT Henkel Live Stock Company VS. ee Cornelius, alias **J. H.’*-Cornelius. The defendant above named will take notice that a Summons in the above entitled action was issued against said defendant on the 13th day of November, 1908, by the Clerk of the Superior county, which summons is return- able to tne Superior Sourt of Iredell county on the fifth Monday before the first Monday in March, 1909. That plaintiff seeks to secure judg- ment for the sum of Three Hundred and Ten Dollars and Thirty-five Cents, due said plaintiff by said de- fendant by note and chattle mort- gage. The said defendant will also take notice that a warrant of attach- ment was issued by said Clerk of Superior Court in said action on the 13th day of November, 1908, against the property of said defendant, which warrant is returnable before said Superior Court of Iredell county at the time and place above named for the return of said Summons, when and where the said defendant is re- quired to appear and answer or de- mur to said complaint, or the relief demanded therein will be granted. J. A. EARTNESS, Clerk Superiour Court of Iredell County, N. C. Fills your veins with rich, red bleed. Gives you a hearty: appe- tite, builds up flesh, makes you strong and rugged. Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea, greatest health builder. 35 cents, Tea or Tablets. Statesville Drug Co. +46 -____—_- The 1Kid—Please, mister, gimme a tough sirloin steak? The Butch- if i’’s tender dag eats it all.—Tilus. trated Bits. Mothers how can you take chances—keep a_ bottle cf Moth- ers joy in your house. Mothers Joy every day. -o Personally Conducted Tour t to Ha- vana, Cuba, and Return, January 11, 1909, Via Southern Railway trip excursion tickets to Havana, Cuba at following rates from points named: INSRONANC. ccc ce oe . « -$39.10 COT co eickeraicicic: a loieeds . 42.40 REORAOSEN «01, sissies cholonci otohe .-- 40.45 PRISE ino «vi choicieins Sole 42.95 OMe a aicas., ofencininin vioreiov obeus Sone SERECSIIN Ce cnc) era ejeire .- 42.40 Approximately low rates from from other points. Tickes on sale January 11th, good returning to leave Havana, 1909. Tickets may be routed Tampa. ing same route. Stop-over will be allowed at Jacksonville, St. Au- gustine, Palm Beach, Miami, and other points south of Jacksonville, within final limit of ticket. A representaive will accompany movement, and will look after the comfort and pleasure of the party. For further information as to side tours from Havana, sight see- ing tours, hotel rates, leaving Court of Iredell}! time a principal points, Pulllman and state room reservation, write J. H. Wood, D. P. A., Asheville, N. C.; W. H. McGlamery, P. & T. A., Raleigh, N. C.; BR. H. DeButts, P. & T. A., Greensboro, N. C.; or eall on your repot agents, or write R. L. VERNON, T. P. A. Charlotte, N. C. —— OOS) —— OSITION Draughon gives contracts, backed by a chain of 30 Colleges, $300,000.00 capital, and 19 year’s success, to se- cure positions under reasonable con- ditions or refunnd tuition. BOOKKEEPING Dr2szton's ccm. accepting his pruposition, concede that he teaches more Bookkeeping in THREE months than they doin SIX. Draughon can convince YOU SHORTHAND 3 percent. cf Court Reporters write the system of Shorthand Draughon teaches, be- cause they know it is THE BEST. FOR FREE CATALOG and book- let, ‘Why Learn Telegraphy?” which explains all, call on or write JNO. F. DRAUGHON, President DRAUGHON’S PRACTICAL BUSINESS COLLEGE (We also Teach by Mail) Raleigh, Knoxville, Nashville, Cc lumbia or Washington, D. C. How to Prevent Pneu- monia In every paper you pick up you will see where some good man has just died with this fearful Sa monia. Now we will you One Hundred Dol oo for any case of pneumonia you have in your family it fails to cure if you will use Goose Grease Liniment as directed. It only costs you 25 cents a bottle. Get it— you have nothing to loose and all to gain. We know there are thousands who will read this and throw it aside and 1n a few days will be down with the disease. Please just get one bottle and putit away until you need it. If you haven’t the money to buy it let us know aud we will send you a bot- tle free. GOOSE GREASE CO. er—Tough? The Kid—Yes; ’cause| You need | } Souhern Railway will sell round+- Cuba, on or before January 27th, | ¢ through Jacksonville thence either| A through Knight’s Key, or Port|=Z Good going and return--| 3 FOR SALE—2 iTuaTle city lots i have just in will be sold Come early, Plate. Cuff Links, Stick Pins, Lockets, Neck, Chains, Brooches, Bar and Veil Pins, Both and of the newest patterns. Also a large lot of ladies Bracelets and Children’s Rings. to see these goods before they make their purchases of Christmas Gifts, and my prices will surprise you. 5 All Cut Glass, Japanese, China and Statuary close out these lines. Be sure to see me for anything in my line, as it means a saving of from 20 to 50 per cent on your Christmas purchases. The First One Hundred Ladies who make purchases_at my place, com mencing on December 22nd, will receive each a nice 9 inch Chi- na Card Plate. These are for ladies, not men and children. Everything I sell is guaranteed. received a nice new assortment of Gold and Gold Filled It will pay any ono SN T O N I O N I O N T O N I O N I O N T O N I O N I O N T O N I O N I at 10 per cent. above cost in order to aS —S They are beauties. Four patterns. make your purchases and get a China R. F. Henry # Jeweler and Optician Hotel Iredell Building. MO N S O N IO N I O N I O N I O N I O N I O N I O N I O N You can wear the smile that won’t come off if you buy your Groceries — ND MEATS —FROM— M. P. Alexane| ! der & Bro. Nice line for Xmas trade. "Phone No. 241. WANT ADS 1 time.......... sseeeseeeeD CONES & line. 3 times....... soceceeeeeee CeNtS & line. 6 times........... veonee BG cents a line, 26 times................. 3 cents a line, WANTED—BY THE. AMERICAN - Cotton and Business University of Milledgeville, Ga., students to take] (yeas. <o > ——— one or more of our courses in cot- ton grading, buying and selling. Business courses of bookkeeping, Shorthand, Typewriting, or Telegra- phy and Railroad course. Positions guaranteed under reasonable con- ditions. Write at once for our consolidated catalog. Largest col lege South. Sept 28-tr AMBITIOUS YOUNG MEN. AND ladies should learn telegraphy; for, since the now 8 hour law became effective there is a shortage of many thousand telegraphers. Po- sitions pay from $50 to $70 a month to beginners. The National Telegraph institute of Columbia, 8. C., and five other cities is oper- ated under supervision of R. R. officials and all students are placed when qualified. ‘Write them for particulars. no19 dtf near College—2 good Mules—1 Dec. 23 to Jan, 1. young Holstien cow.—J. B. Gill $ Halt--Hands Up!! Fall in line--HALT! in front of our show windows. You'll do as others are doing. THROW UP YOUR HANDS! in amazement at the Handsome Display of Sensible Suggesfions for Christmas. S.B. MILLER = — THE sto man. e OC CSL OL 000000000000 000N6 JESEESESECESSSSESSSESEESES A MERRY mn ee u s c e c c o o n c e i ttt. CHRISTMAS 4 ae It is to those who A eT have a spick and span new bathroom fi in which to pre- f pare for the pleas- AM ures of the day. Consult us as to A the best plan for your floor space, A and we wiil fit you m out with a bath mn room of which you ° will be - proud, A without much AX Strain on your " pocketbook. A. W. HOLLER PLUMBING COMPANY ji Phore No. 61. 127 W. Broad St. A aaa 32323355: 32333¢ YOU SAY HE SMOKES? : SMOKES? RE CE E CE E CI C C E R F E R E E Y 60 0 0 0 0 6 C0 0 0 0 0S 0 0 8 | HOW EASY! A box of Cigars will make Ca Day a day of pleas- ure. We have them put up in boxes of 25. for $1.00, wa $2.00 and $2.50 ber box at ec l o c t c l e c t o c t o c c t e c c l e c t a n t c n ? . . ? THE STORE OF QUALITY. ‘STA TESVILLE DRUG CO. fete = Comet te No. 377 ————— ® : Vol. 1. Statesville, N. C., Monday Evening, December 28, (908. Camo Aid FR Sara Og Kl Kore Anes = Mf. Gompers PRESIDENT’S HANDS TIED. —— Appeals of the Labor Leaders Con. tinues Their Case Before the Court and the PreSident Has no Power to Assist Them—Has Asked the Department of Jus. tice to Keep Him in Touch Witp the CaSe so That in the Event of a Settlement He Can Take Ac- tion. Washington, Dec. 26.—In an offi- cial statement issued at the White House to-day in regard to president- ial interference in the cases of Presi- dent Gompers, Vice President Mitch- elland Secretary Morrison, of the -\merican Federation of Labor, now under sentence for comtempt of court, attention is call to the fact that the cases are still before the courts and no matter what the Pres- ident’s Opinion as to the merits of the cases. The text of the statement follows: ‘Various appeals have been made to the President to interfere by par- dons in the case of Mr. Gompers and his associates. Those making the appeals are unaware of the fact that the matter is still before the courts. It is a civil suit between private par- ties andjthere has been no way by which the govrnment could have in- terfened even if it had desired to do so. Whether the President does or does not think the sentence of Mr. Gompers and his associates excessive is not at preseut of consequence be- cause he cannot take any action or exer any opinions while the case is pending before the court. When the decision is made then the Presi- dent can promptly consider wheter the terms of imprisonment are ex- cessive or inproper. “But it is of course, impossible for the Psesident to act while an ap- peal is pending, for he has nothing whatever to act about. The courts must finish with the case first and the defendants are at the paesent moment liberty on bail. If the de- fendants see fit to abandon their ap- peal the matter then, of course, be brought before the executive, in which case it will receive immediate and most careful consideration. But the defendantg havea pefect right to prosecute their appeal, and if un- successful as long as they are prose- cuting an appeal the President has nothing to do with the matter. “The President has already instr- ucted the Department of Justice to keep him fully informed as to the progress of the case so that in the event of its becoming proser for him to act he may have at his disposal all of the facts which will enable him to dicide whether there was jus- tification for some punishment, whether the sentence is or is not al- together too severe. But at the present the President has no more to do with the case of the $25,000,000 fine imposed by Judge Landis on the Standard Oil Company, which is also on appeal and concering which the President has also been repeat- edly asked to interfere by well meaning persons who did not know that he could not interfere while the matter was still before the courts on appeal, ———n 4a Was She to Blame. ‘“‘Was She to Blame,’’ at the opera house, one big night, Satur- day, January 2, 1909. ++ Itching piles provoke profanity, but profanity won’t cure them. Doan’s Ointment cures itching, bleeding protruding piles after years of suffering. At any drug store. — np Mr, Wm. Westmoreland, the liveryman has issued one of the most beautifal calendars seen in the city in a iong time. —_—_++ 2 o—_—— Mother do you hear that rat- tling in your babies throat? Put a little Mothers’ Joy on it and stop it at once. Intelligent Animal Takes Care not to Harm Youngsters, but a Man is Injured. New York, December 25.—Mat- thew Smith, a liveryman of No. 2415 East Twentieth Street, has a bay horse that is as intelligent as it is mettlesome. Last night thehorse, frightened in his Stable, bolted through the door and ran east in East Twentieth street. Several children out coasting fied to the sidewalk and several men tried to stop the runaway. Their at- temps proved futile because there was no harness.the horse to seize. At first Avenue, two little girls, both under seven, staod directly in in the animal’s path, paralyzed with fear. Several persons shouted to them as Policemen Hearn and Cahill vainly tried to grasp the horse by its name. It did uot swerve a foot, but just before reaching the children it leaped into the air and cleared their heads with the ease and grace ofahunter taking a hurdle. Per- sons who had turned their heads awayin horror heard a cheer and could scarcely believ> their eyes when they saw the children unharm- ed and the horse continuing on its way. The animal was not stopped with- out any accident. It ran into anash cart a Avenue A and knocked Mic- hael Callahan, an employee of the Street Cleaning Department, from his seat with such force that he was taken to Bellevue Hospital, suffer- ing from contusions and internal in- juries. The horse was none tle worse for its steeplechase. —_——~~++@>e—___ PERSONAL NOTES. Mr. HI. W. Courtney of Lenoir, was in the city Friday. Mr. P. M. MeNeely of Moores- ville, was in the city Friday. Mr. T. J. Dotson of Mocksville. visited friends here Friday. Mr. Ollie Owen of Gibsonville. N.C., was a Statesville visitor Fri- day. Miss Annie Sizer of Charlotte, is visiting Miss Annie Alexander on Front street. Mr. Hazel Pharr of Charlotte spent Xmas at the home of Mr. W. H. Crawford near town. Miss Flora Taylor of Charlotte. spent Xmas at the home of Mr. J. C. Dunlap’s in Bethany township. Mr, A. G. Foard of Lenoir vis- ited at his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo Foard’s Friday. returning home Saturday. Mr. F. L. Page of Greensboro, came up Thursday night. and spent Friday with his wife at Mr. D. A. Miller’s home. Misses Edith and Noua Conger of the Sunderland school at Con- eord are atthe home of their father, Mr. T. J. Conger for the holidays. Messrs. J. E. Nichols of Mari- on, Chas. E, Platt of Charlotte, Jno. T. Walston of Asheville and F. Allen Holt of Oak Ridge were at the Iredell yesterday. a Negro Located. It is reported that the negro who so severely shot up Policeman Goterth at Newton some months ago has been located at some town in Kentucky. The Mascot is unable to get the particulars about the place he was caught at, but it has the in- formation that the negro made his brags about killing a policeman back in North Carolina in a town called Newton, and making his escape. He was immediately arrested, and Goforth of Newton was noti- fied and will go-for him this week. —————_.<4-—__—_ Lawrence Put in Jail. Milas Lawrence, colored, who was arrested in Mooresville last week for abandonment, was brought here today and lodged in jail in default of a $50.00 bond. He was tried before Squire A. M, Walker of Mooresville. Richard Potts Wants GOods oz Mr. J. E. Long In Pittsburg —_— —.. WANTED GOODS ON CREDIT. BANES BEING INVESTIGATED Credit, is Refused and Threat- ens to Kill Mr. J. E. Long at Elmwood on Thursday Night. From Seventeen to Forty Persons Are to be Apprehended for Part in Affairs—_Efforts Being Made to Find Out Truth in Connec- Sore who runs a store at Elmwood. count with Mr. he owed. count. Long refused him, him, and store. and he did not do the shoting. Reward For Potts. Before going ville, Mecklenburg county. long tern:. heard from him. strong against him. —_——— <a> o— Was She to Blame. thos never to be forgotten. cold. _ a Six Injured in Wreck. Ocmul!gee river. many hours. —- — ++ Richard Potts, who is held for the murder of Lon Summers at | Elmwood last Thursday night, also threatened Mr. J. LE. Long It seems that Pottsran an ac. Long at his store, and would not pay what Not being able to collect the account in any other way, Mr. Long had him cutting wood and doing other work to pay this ac- On Thursday evening Potts went to Mr. Long’sstore, asking forsome goods on credit, Mr. and Potts with an oath said he would kill waiked out of the Later he was seen standing peeping through the window of the store with his havd on bis gun in his hip pocket, buta large crowd was in thesiore, to Elmwood, Potts formerly lived at Hunters- While living there he sericusly cut his wife and was put on the chain gang of that county fora He escaped from the gang, and his arrest here was the first the Mecklenburg authorities had They have applied to Mr. Ward deputy Sheriff, for him but it is not likely he will be turned over to them as the case here is too The beautiful pastorial com- edy drama, ‘‘WasShe to Blome”’ as prexented by Jed and Emma Jean Carlton and company at the opera house on January 2nd is a story that for dramatic in- tensity and power has never been excelled. With speciai scen- ery and acarefully selected com- pany, the intermingling of pa- make an entertainment Before signing the contract with the opera house manager to present this play in this city, Mr. Reo, the advance agert pre- vailed on him to place more stoves in the opera house, so those attending can rest assured that they will not suffer from Lumber City, Ga., Dec. 27.— Six persons were {injured, none fatally, when a special freight train on the Southern railway jumped the track near here be- fore daybreak today and rolled down a high embankment to be- come a mass of wreckage within a few yards of the banks of tke A split switch is believed to have caused the accident. Traffic was delayed over the road for tion With Reports of Cash Pay- ments for the Handling of the City’s Funds. Pittsburg, Pa, Dee. 26.—Con- trary to expectations, there were no additional arrests today in counciimanic bribery cases, Which have furnished Pittsburg with a number of sensational developments since the arrest Monday night of seven council- men and two former bankers on charges of corrupt particies. However, an authoritive state. ment that other persons will be arrested was made by Attorney A. Lao Weil, president of the Voters League. These additional arrests (the number is estimated at from seyv- teen to forty) are not expected to be made uow until Monday and probably not uutil the first of the year. According to the officers of the Voters League, they have pienty of evidence against many other persons, who, it is stated, will surely be taken into custody, -but when this will be the investi- gators are reluctant to say. Many rumors were in circula- tion, and a few interesting devel- Opments occurred today. Among the rumors wag one to the effect that a number of national banks were undergoing a thorough ex- amination in, connection wi:h the report that certain financial institutions had paid $176,000 for the privilige of handling the city’s funds, but the government Officials refused to either to con- firm or deny the story. It was also claimed that the accused councilmen knew they were being investigated and were simply playing a game of poli- tics for the purpose of seeing how far the detectives wouid deal with them. This, it is said, wiil be their defense. ——————++>»>_ Pope Sees Vision, Rome, Dec. 27.—The Italia publishes a report which has caused a sensation in ecclesiasti- cal circles, thai Joan of Arc re- cently appeared in a vision to the pope and addressed to him solem words of encouragement, exhorting his holiness to con- tinue his present policy, which she promised would dishortly be crowned with triumph. ———~+S>-o—_—__—_- Negro Shot, Saturday night as Tom Moore colored was trying to make an escape from the chain gang, An- derson Gaither colored was acci- dentally shot, the ball from the gun inflicting aserious wound. Dr. Frank Tharpe dres ed the wounds. Moore was captured. Builds you up physically and mentally, keeps your digestion or- gans in condition, regulates the bowels, cleanses the blood, gives ,you perfect health. Hollister’s | Rocky Mountain Tea or Tablets, 39 cents. Statesville Drug Co. v~ 2-0 — consideration being $700, License were issued this after- noon to Mr Chas Lacey Morrison and Miss Connic Bell Merrison. Mr. W. E. Sloan has purchased a handsome lot from Mr. A. F. Heath, adjoining Mr. Sloan’s pro-|chances—keep a bottle cf Moth-! knowing the parties, let the name A happy heart is better than a full purse.—Itallian. Mothers how can you take | Warrant Issueq for His Arrest for Theft of a Horse and Buggy. Durham, Dec. 27.—Mr. J. T. Fowler, manager of the Fowler Stock and Livery Company, last night at midnight issued a warrant and a reward for Kid Morris, wellknown as a printer and a local reporter for The Herald sometimes, charging him with stealing a horseand buggy. Morris went to the stable yes- terday morning and hired a horse, paying in advance for the turnout. He returned at dinner, had the horse fed and ordered it sent back afternoon. He promised to return at at6 yes- terday evening; but six hours later, failing to come in, Mr. Fowler issued the warrant und attached $100 reward fur the horse, buggy and man. Morris was in trouble of some kind yesterday, but the officers would not indicate what it was Mr. Fowler did not at that time know of that trouble else he would not have allowed him to use his horse. The turnout is worth $300, hence the big re- ward. Morris is acripple and when not on a whizz 1s e, very likable fellow. He lives here and belongs t> @ good family. He has had trouble before. << oe LOCAL BRIEFS. The old town clock even had to take Xmas by stopping yesterday morning at 5:15 o’elock. Application has been made to set Emma Keaton, the crazy col- ored woman who is in jail, admit- ted to the insané asylum at Golds- boro. License have been issued to Will Rankin and Cora Miller, Rome. Ladd and Loney Moore, white, and Andrew Carson and Mary Lee Young, colored, Mr. L. B. Bristol has bought from Dr. J. J. Mott the fine straw- berry roan saddle horse ‘‘Riddle.”’ Mr. Bristol is very proud of his new possession as it is the finest one in the state. Mr.C.M.MiMller, a civil engineeY of Salisbury, arrived in the city this morning and went to the con- Vict camp where he will survey an extension of the macadam road and estimate the cost of extend- ing it to the river. Mr. Lawrence Mills who went to Baltimore last Saturday week for treatment, was operated on at the University of Maryland last Wednesday by Dr. Wileox, sur- geon of that college At Ilast re- ports he is resting well. -_-——+oro—__—_ Dave Hunt Sent Up. Dave Hunt, colored, was sent up to jail to await court on Satur- day in default of a $100 bond for retailing, by Squire King. Tt seems that one Pork Warren became intoxicated on whiskey purchased from Hunt, and was ar- rested,. At his trial he was put on his oath, and asked where he got his ‘‘licker.’’ He stated that he had got two quarts from Dave Hunt paying him cash for it. It resulted in Dave being arrested and sent to jail. —_—_-4++ oro A Correction. In last Thursday’s issue of this paper a mistake was made which would have been corrected ere now but for the the break down in our linotype machine Saturday. In announcing the marriage of Miss Ladd to Mr. Edison, the op- erator of the machine made a mis- take in reading the copy and set Miss Ladd’s name as Miss Todd. The man who read the proof not perty on East Broad street. the;ers joy in your house. You need’ go as Todd. and hence the mis- Mothers Joy every day. ‘take, for which we are very sorry. Claus Spreck- les is Dead HE LEAVES MANY MILLIONS. Succumbs After a Brief Dness of Pneumonia—Was a Native of Germany Left an Estate Val- ued at About $50,000,000. San Francisco, Cal., Dec. 26.— Claus Spreckles, widely known as ‘the sugar king’ of the Pa- cific coast, died at 4:30 a. m. to- day at his home in this city in his eightieth year. The timmedi- ate cause of his death was an at- tack of pneumonia, which had developed with alarming symp- toms during the past few days. Claus Spreckles was born in Lamstadt, Germany, in 1828, and came to the United States in 1846. Afcer being employed some time in Charleston, S.C., and New York, he came to San Francisco, reaching this city in 1856. He established a store here and later conducted a brew- ery. In 1868 he built the Bay Sugar Refinery and began the importation of raw material from Hawaii. Prospering in this busines, he established other re- fineries and promoted the beet Sugar industry by establishing refineries and engaging in the farming of beets ona large scale. The will is in the possession of the widow, Mrs. Anna Spreckles and will be opened Monday. It is said that all of the dead cap- talist’s children are mentioned in the will and each given a share of the estate, the value of which is variously estimated at from $40,000,000 to $50,000, 000. It was stated in court that the income from the estate exceeded a quarter of a million dollars a year. 4 ee, Among the Sick, Mrs. Mary E. Rankin igs very ill at her home in Mooresville. She, is 88 years old and very little hope is entertained for her recovery. Miss Lillian Sharpe, one of the Bell telephone operators has been very ill with appendicitis, and was operated on at Long’s sanitorium today. Mr. J. G. Gray who has been viry ill with appendicitis for some weeks was operated on at Long’s sanatorium today. Jim Gant, who was hit on the uose with a brick by Bob Follet in Mooresville last week is in a seri« ous condition. Legett, the small son Mrs. W. B. Blythe of Huntersville, who is visiting at Mr. R. L, Sloan‘s, fell from a sce-saw yesterday, strik- ing his head against a fence, in- flicting a wound which required one stitch to sew it up. Mrs. H. Scott is critically ill at her home on Western avenue. She is suffering with cancer of the stomach.. ————__<>-44 > ee John King Caught, Jno. King, colored, who was wanted here for larceny, was ar- rested at Winston on Thursday, and brought here Saturday morn- ing by Sheriff Deaton, The offence was the larceny of a hat from Mr. A. A. Turner of this city. and it was committed on the 27th of last November. en Free Lecture Tonight. ¥ Tonight at 7:30 o’clock at the court house, Mr. Enos Mills of the Forestery Department of the United States will deliver a free lecture on the ‘‘Preservation of Our Forests.”’ This is free and a large audience isrequested, ~. * .. .g S ay Es 4 ‘ : Se de ee a re ac e aS en ee e 1 na n ow Ba AB N Ak gi in s = ee ae ee e nn g n e on Se ee Ae r ne Me e e ea e St e n og eee ae es Se Se ee le e s ig s Ae o n mw “n o m =2 e e g on Pt e pe PE E ES Jo Ea oe ee ) a ee er a do m e n n a n i s h n e n ip bn ta g h e e a ab e nn n lo h a a a e a t TO T RT er e ee ee pe e THE EVENING MASCOT DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. SEES — _ Entered at the Postofficein Statesville W. C.,as second-class mail matter. ffice 109 Court Street. Telephone 53 VANCE NORWOOD - _ Pablisher. RALPH SLOAN, - - City Editor, Sabscription Price, - $4.00 a Year abscription Price, - 10 Cents a Week Ce Weather Forecasts. Washington, D. C., Dee. 28.— ..For North Carolina probably rain tonight and Tuesday Moder- ate temperature. —_——+-<+ RADICAL HOT AIR. Three months ago when the cam- paign was in full blast, our repub- lican brethren were spouting out hot air about the price of cotton going to 10c in ten days after the election. ss. : Many 2 poor farmer’s vote was secured in this way, the poor fel- lows taking in every thing in good faith, believing they would get all that was promised them. Now the poor farmer sees his folly in believing the hot air spouts, and they have good ground _ for action of recovery. On everything else but his cot- ton, prices have gone up. ————— —)-4 > EVIL OF WHISKEY. It is strange why some men will go on in their evil ways, and drink whiskey, when they see in their every day life, the evil and folly of drinking. Only since Xmas has come upon us, the time when all should be praising the Lord for the gift to us of his son, that we have scen the effect of whiskey. Look at the poor negro who now lies dead at the hands of another of his race, very much inferior to the deceased man, on account of the drink evil. It has not only placed the negro who did the killing in a bad place. but it has caused the poor wife of the dead man all of the sorrow imaginable. Yes, you might say they are only negroes but still a negro has as much feeling as our white race has. ‘We do not mean to say by this that all men are this way while drinking. Some men ean drink their whiskey and stay quiet, but again others go crazy and act some kind of a fool.” But ina few days more old booze will have to leave this good old state of ours. ——_—__++>-- - CHARGED WITH BURGLARY. ed Well Known Young White Man of . Darham Held for Court. Durham, N. C., Dec. 26.—To- day John Knight, a well known young white map in East Dur- ham; - was bound over under bond of $200. on the charge of breaking into the store of C. A. Crabtree, druggist, in East Durham on the night of the 21st. He‘was tried before Justice of the Peace J. T. Morton and waived. examination, his bond then’: being «fixed. Knight be- longs: to a good family. The State claims to have plenty of evidence to convict. A hurried| check up of the affairs in the store show that about 8,000 cigarettes were taken and that some five or six boxes of cigars are also*-missing. As examina- tion was waived the full story of the robbery was not brought out. Mr, Hudson’s Appointments. Mr. C. R. Hudson, State agent of the co-operative demonstra- tion work, which has been of so — ‘value to the farmers of the tate goes to Rowan +t) meet two appointments this week. He oo at China Grove Thursday 8ist, and at Rockwell on Friday; January ist. Both the speakings will begin at 11 o’elock. ee There is not a newspaper any- where but what has some harsh words for Rockefeller. Wonder if the old man don’t wish he hadn’t Gone it? KILLED FOR BEAR. Goes to Sle€pin Doorway andj Farmer Fires Fatal Shot Inte Him. Chattanooga, Tenn., Dec. 26— Mistaking a drunken man clad in a long buttalo overcoat fora bear, Thomas Deckmar, a well- known farmer, last night shot and instantly killed Thomes An- drews near LaFayette, Tenn. Andrews had been in jail but was paroled by the sheriff that he might go home for Christmas Instead of going home, he got drunk and sat down to sleep in the doorway of a house occupied by a widow. Deckmar was called, the family thinking Andrews was & bear. Deckmar prodded the form ‘with his gun and getting no response fired. A coroner’s jury rendered a verdict of justifiable homicide. —_~<~+ > — Where Bullets Flew. David Parker, of Fayette, N. J., a veteran of the civil war, who lost a foot at Gettysburg, says, ‘‘The good Electric Bitters have done is worth more than five hundred dollars to me. I spent much money doctoring for a bad ease of stomach trouble, to little purpose. I then tried Electric Bitters, and they eured me. I now take them as a tonic, and they keep me strong and well.”’ 50e. at Statesville Drug Co.’s store. ———_4+>- CURE FOR HOG CHOLERA. State Agricultural College Has Perfected a Serum That it Guarantees. Columbia, Mo., Dec. 26.—As 4 result of perfecting a serum that is an anti-toxin against hog cholera, the Missouri Agricul- tural College issued a stacement today guaranteeing the State legislature that with an ap- propriation of $45,000 a year it will save the farmers of Missouri zom $1,000,000 to $5,000,000 annually. The agricultural college an- nounced unequivocally that it now is prepared to vanquish hog cholera. The serum is drawn from what is known as a hyperimmunized hog, the fibermmg being removed so as to prevent clotting. The serum is treated with small quantities of carbolic acid. th Would Mortgage The Farm. A farmer on Rural Route No. 2, Empire, Ga. W. A. Mloyd by name, says: ‘‘Bucklen’s Arnica Salve cured the two worst sores I ever saw; one on my hand and one on my leg. It is worth more than its weight in gold. I would not be without it if I had to mort- gage the farm to get it.’? Only 25e. at Statesville Drug Co.’s store. We Are Agents. See our Xmas Packages of Candy Stationery and Cigars W.F. HALL Prescription Druggist. weetesssstatesesteeten ttt en wtheeeettovestectt tities thes = :| ALCOHOL 3 PER CENT. ‘| ANesetable || similating the Food | ting the Stomachs of p| ee eee ae H : Promotes Diges ion Cheer irs HE Nessand Rest.Contains neither: -| Opium.Morphine nor Mineral ‘| NoT NARCOTIC. Aperfect Remedy for Consfige: i tick. Sour Stomach.D a Wee Ni Worms. Convalsions.Feverisk TRUE eee a 35 Doses —35CENTS SSS ee ariLeec under t mee iptities Exact Copy of Wrapper. » Death was on His Heels. Jesse P. Morris, of Skippers, Va., had a close eall in the spring of 1906. He says: ‘‘An attack of pneumonia left me so weak and with such a fearful cough that my friends declared consumption had me, and death was on my heels. Then I was persuaded to try Dr. King’s New Discovery. It helped me immediately, and after taking two and a half bottles J was a well man again. I found building of you wish to sell. economical manner. ae es A, OO SS OS ROROSS Business Enterprise. ::: To the publicity gained by the use of the advertising columns of the daily papers is at- tributed the growth, and consequent success, of a very large percentage of great business enter- prises of the present day. Advertising is recognized as the prime fac- = tor in increasing the sales of any class of goods $s or manufactured articles. : The space used in this paper is your, busi- ness message to the public. you should tell them of the merits of what you are offering, setting forth the reasons why your particular line is worthy of their attention. THE EVENING MASCOT has increased its local circulation very materially = during the past three = obtained from the space used by the advertisers # are gratifying to them and to the paper. 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CULBRETH, Mapager Savings Department 5OUBSI OSES : : 8066 béer 086S080 SbOsOsore eh ee SOS Oe COs De OmE ON o = = aoe In a sharp contest nothing but “quality” and appearance figure. “RUTH MADE”: Hosia and the “WORLDS BEST’ Black are the goods of Guality. Aiter ali has been said, all your pursuasi ha still a fact thet bursuasive argument exhausted, it is “QUALITY” IS THE ONLY TEST OF VALUE To get best results you must have the best of everythi rything Se best colors, best machines and best help, with such & combination you ean produce the best of what you are making.. We have all of th for the goods of “quality.” e above. we your dealer Get us five yearly subscribers to The Evening hina Sets we are giving as premiums. SO SSSR SO ES he ae 7 Did the Best He Knew. Geordie Horn was a character well ; known among the country folk of the Scotch highlands twenty-five years ago, fie belonged to a class rather hard to classify, for he was neither a tramp nor a farm hand, although frequently following the habits of both. Wan- dering from farm to farm, the greater part of the time he was kindly treated and hospitably entertained generally. hile he was a man of unusual strength, he was mentally weak ang exceedingly lady. “He's a gle cute chiel, though slow in the uptack” (understanding), was the way a good many described him. One day he arrived at his friend the doctor's and complained of a severe pain in his breast. The doctor handed nim a plaster, with instructions to put it on his chest without delay. Geordie gave him one of his knowing looks and took his departure. The doctor met him a few days later and inquired how he was feeling now. Geordie re- pled, “Nae better.” “Did you do as I told you with the plaster?” the doctor went on. “Weel, no, not exactly. I done the best Icould. I didn’t havea chest, sae (stuck it on my bandbox” (hat box). An Expensive Dollar. Not long ago in this town a kind friend of the family gave one of the kids a dollar. Of course it was too much to let the kid get out and spend for candy and gum, so it was rell- giously put up on the sideboard or some other safe place to be kept—just for what the deponent saith not. In about a week the juvenile owner of the big round coin remarked at the breakfast table, “Papa, mamma spent my dollar yesterday.” The head of the house took the hint and fished up another dollar, which, like its prede- cessor, was placed in a good safe place to keep. During the next month by a careful- ly tabulated record which he kept on his cuff he repaid this elustve dollar just thirteen times. So at the end of the month you will not be surprised to learn that our friend sent the donor of the original dollar this curt note- Dear Sir—Inclosed you will find a check for $1. It’s the dollar you gave our youngster. I return it simply to avoid bankruptcy. Already it has cost me some- where between fifteen and twenty. —Lamah (Mo.) Democrat. Dollar Fish. “Have you any dollar fish here?’ a woman asked of one of the attendants at the aquarium. While the question may seem curi- ous, it was really very simple, for the dollar fish is only a young moonfish. The moonfish is a curious but beau- tiful creature, almost round. in shape and extremely thin and having the loveliest of pearly sides. It swims on edge, so that it always presents its sides of pearl to view. It takes its name from its shape and because, further, in color it suggests the silvery moon. Young moonfish of the size of a standard silver Collar—and they are scarcely any thicker—are called dollar fishes because of their resemblance to that coin in size and shape and color, and the woman making the inquiry about dollar fishes was duly informed that there was none fn the tanks at the present time, but that they did have them occasionally.—New York Sun. Three Sabbaths Each Week In Tangier. Morocco is a country of many Sab- baths. The first three days I spent tn Tangier were all Sabbaths. Arriving on a Thursday night, the next day was Friday, the Mohammedan. Sabbath, which was followed by the Jewish Sabbath—the Hebrew element tn Tan- — The Chinese Hoe. The Chinese farmer stands Second to more remarkable since he has really so few implements With which to work the marvels he produces. His only tm- plements are the hoe, the plow and the Ww. Beyond these the Chinese farmer never dreams of desiring any other. The first of these tools seems never to be out of his hands, for it is the one upon which he relies the most and is his most effective implement. It really takes the Place of the spade in England, though the latter is never put to such extensive and general uses as the hoe. The Chinaman can do any- thing with it but make it speak. A farmer well on in years can easily be recognized amidst a number of- work- ingmen by the curve his hands have taken from holding the hoe in the , many years of toil in his fields. With it, if he isa poor man and has no oxen to plow the ground, he turns up the soil where he is going to plant his crops, and with it he deftly and with a turn of his wrist levels out the sur- face so that it is made ready for the seed. With a broad bladed hoe he dips to the bottom of a stream or of a pond, draws up the soft mud that has gath- ered there and, with a dexterous swing, flings the dripping hoeful on to his field nearby to increase its richness by this new deposit.— London King. ae ON Extract of Knowledge. An article on “Examination Humor” in a periodical called Normal Echoes contains some good “howlers.” They are none the less interesting for com- ing from students in training for teach- ers: <A criticism of William Blake that “as a-child he was precocious in po- etry, but in later years it developed into dogmatism,” is a lesson in the art of being inarticulate, while the remark that “the works of the time were most- ly satyrs” is quaint, though obvious. Of course there is boggling over proper nemes. There is nothing, indeed, so good as the description of Cromwell as “a man with coarse features and having a large red nose, with deep re- ligious convictions beneath,” or the case of the “lapsed man” who, having by way.of exception attended church, admitted to the rector’s wife that he had benefited, for he had learned that Sodom and Gomorrah were two cities, whereas he had always thought they Were man and wife. — Manchester Guardian. Fat and Disease. If the Medical Record is right, man is pursuing in the matter of bodily weight what is bad for him, a common trick, and waman pines for a physical ideal that would mean long Hfe if achieved, something rare indeed for women to do. Most men sitruggle\to be fat. Most women diet to be lean. Dr. Brandreth Symonds draws from a study of life insurance weights that people past the age of thirty live long- er tf below normal weight than they Go if at or above standard. Heart dis- ease is as rare among the underfat as it 1s common with the heavy folk, and this 1s true also of Bright’s disease, apoplexy, paralysis, cerebral conges- tions and cirrhosis of the liver. Only in pneumonia and tuberculosis do the underweights carry a greater risk. In all the cases which he examined Dr. Symonds found not a single fat man who reached the age of eighty years, while forty-four short weights passed this mark. The Best Pride. A titled Englishman while in New- port talked most entertainingly to a group of ladies about ancestral pride. “Ancestral pride is an excellent thing,” he said, “but there are better things. We have long felt in Great none in all the world. This is all the | | The Wrong Horse. | Bridget had been in America only a | few months, but she believed in the | principle of pretending to know what she ought to know. She had been en- gaged as laundry girl in a Small family of well to do people. When asked if She understood all the details of her work she unhesitatingly replied, “Sure I do, ma’am.” Her mistress was not quite satisfied, however, and while she was busy with her first washing looked in upon her. Bridget seemed to be doing all right, and she left without offering sugges- tions. , Next morning the ironing was in or- her mistress looked in to say, “AS you get the clothes ironed, just throw them over the horse.” “All right, ma’am,” the busy laundry girl replied without stopping to raise her eyes from her work in hand, The laundry room was located in an outhouse adjoining the barn, and occa- Sionally the neighing of the family horse and the merry voice of Bridget resounded throughout the house. Returning to the laundry house a couple of hours later, the lady could scarcely believe her eyes nor restrain her mirth when she beheld the fam- fly horse, standing patiently beside Bridget, loaded down with newly ironed sheets, pillowcases, tablecloths and lace trimmed waists and skirts. With an anxious look on her honest face Bridget observed. “I’m glad you’ve come, ma’am, for I’ll have to have another horse.” —— Working Too Hard. The owner of the farm had been en- joying himself at the county fair, while his hardworking wife stayed at home to see that the farm suffered no loss in his absence. “Well, Sarah,” said the owner upon his return, “I’m about all tired out. Is the cows in the barn?” “Yes; long since,” replied his wife, barely looking up from the task then in hand. “Ts the hosses unharnessed an’ fed?” “Yes.” “Chickens locked up? “Yes.” “Wood chopped for mornin’?”’ “Yes.” “Wagon heel mended an’ ready t’ start in th’ mornin’?’ “Yes.” “Well, then,” concluded the exhaust- ed owner, with a sigh of relief, “let me have my supper. I’m goin’ to’ turn in. Farmin’s beginnin’ t’ tell on me.”—New York Herald. The Popular Coral. The dealer held up two strings of coral. They were of equal size, but one was dark and dull in hue, the other beautifully pink and translucent. “The dark one,” he said, “is worth 50 cents; the pink one is worth $500. That is what makes coral so popular. It suits all pocketbooks. All over the world it goes. These strings of rough, uncut beads are for the dead of India. They are put round the necks of the bodies about to be burned in the chats. These large and blood red beads go to Africa. They are much liked by the natives, whose dark skins they perfectly suit. Here are a lot of coral hands with fingers extended in a V— the gesture that wards off the evil eye. The coral hands are for Italy, where the belief in their efficacy is wide- spread.”—Buffalo Express. He Would Return. Marlow was three years old. One day his mother said to him, “Now, Marlow, you may go outdoors to play for awhile, but if I see you crossing the street to play with that naughty little boy Willie Burr again I’ll give making the stomach so strong that it der, and Bridget was hard at it w ! s at it when for Mi.o-na in Statesville and they ‘say to every reader of The Mascot ~ A GOOD STOMACH { Means Good Health, Cheerfulness, Ambition, Persistency: and Suc- cess. Mi.o-na will cure your dyspepsia Or any other stomach trouble by building up the flabby walls, and will digest food without pepsin or | cher artificial aid. In other words, Mi-o-na cures dys. pepsia by removing the cause, Statesville Drug Co., is the agent whose stomach is weak, who has in- digestion or dyspepsia, that Mi-o_na is guaranteed to cure or money back, The price is only 50 cents a large box, and-one box is all you need to prove that you are on the right road to health and happiness. “I can’t say enough for Mi-o_na tablets; they have done more for me in one week than all the doctors have for the two years I have been under their care, and I will do all I can to recommend it to my friends. You can also use my name in your ad. if you like, for Mi-o_na is better than gold to me. I am like a new man. and am able to work once more for the first time in over a year.”—W. A. Ennis, 328 Green St., Syracuse, N. Y. ————*+<@>->--—___ “Golf is a poor man’s game,” said Mr. Taft. The president? elect, obivously, doesn’t lose a dozen balls every nine holes he plays.—New York World. saosin ian —_—_—_ HOLLISTER’S Rocky Mountain Tea Nuggets A Busy Medicine for Busy People. Brings Golden Health and Renewed Vigor. A specitic for Constipation, Indigestion, Liver and Kidney troubles, Pimples, Eczema, Impure Blood, Bad Breath, Sluggish Bowels, Headache and Backache. ItsRocky Mountain Tea in tab- let form, 35 cents a box. Genuine made by HoLuister Drug Company, Madison, Wis. GOLDEN NUGGETS FOR SALLOW PEOPLE ene PRICE 1 CENT! THE SUN (Baltimore, Md.) Now sells for 1 cent, and can be had of every Dealer, Agent or News- boy at that price. ALL SUBSCRIBRS IN and South Carolina, Pennsyl- vania, and Deleware 1 cent a copy. throughout the United States, as well fp cf p Up fp ap dp fb eS fb fp cf s tp fp et h . cf s | a is again with us Bo t e th fh Be e f ef c t h fi s Ri c h ci t s cf fb 4p fp cf fb ct p fF fp dp fs fp tp fp of ef fb tb tb fo dp ¢p op you can easily bestow upon yourself is to acquire the habit of thrift and the sav- ing of money—the Merch- ants and Farmers bank off- ers you the most practical means, as its financial stand- ing and integrity are un- questioned. Commence to save on January Ist and stick to your resolution. OF STATESVILLE INCORPOY ATED CAPITAL $25,000.00. OFFICERS: L T. STIMPSON, Pres.; C. + THE SEEDING SEASON of the celeprated Superior Grain Drills the best and lightest running drill made. examine them and get our prices—we know we can please. Also a Full Line of Hardware, Stoves, Etc. Evans Hardware Comp’y ce + ce ¢ +e © & 0: 4: $ THE FINEST GIFT OF THE YEAR and have a car load FB op t If in need of a drill Pe t e te SP $ + i i ae a ee a ee er ee } S. TOMLIN, Vice-Pres.; F. B. BUN He Sec. & Treas.; J. A. KNOX, Asst. Sec. & Treas. Directors: Merchants and Farmers’ Bank a oR , WO O O H O O O O O R < K OO O O S E L. T. Stimpson, J. L. Stevenson, C. S. Tomlin, R. R. Reid, . Hill, E. B. Watts. J. A. Knox, W.S. Page, Geo. B. Nicholson, L. K. Lazen- by, E. G. Gaither, J. R POOSOSSS JOOOSGIOSOOSOOOOO If you have lost something District of Columbia, Virginia, North| Off want to buy or have any= AM Guaothe Sa bynes |/thing to sell try a want ad. The Sun’s special correspondents in The Evening Mascot. as in Europe, China, South Africa, in every other part of the world, make it the greatest newspaper that can be printed. ted States, and give The Sun’s read- ers the earliest information upon all the Philipines, Porto Rico, Cuba and Mortgage Sale of Valuable Real Estate. By virtue of power of sale con- Its Washington and New York bu-| tained ee eee eed acd in th j-| by R. S. Sherrill. and wife Mattie R. ee States Gad ee en |Shersil on Mean Que tNSeEeEe Henkel Live Stock Company to se- | - {cure a note of $300 due and payable ‘important events in the legislative Nov. 1, 1908, (see Book 26, page 485, and financial centers of the country. Registry Iredell Co.) the said mort- SOUTHERN RAIEWAY CO. reat Highway of Trade and Travel Through the ‘ ai gi t 3% te e ee ee oT i | cs 7 iz Wi i Hi it . aE Wp . % J 3 au le fy tL ae SN oe te So Sa ee e ee ee ee on n a t a sing.’ : a i h by Public strict Britain that there are better things. I) yoy 9 hard, hard spanking.” THE FARMERS’ PAPER. gagee will sell for cas ele See eee ae that peace heard the sentiment rather neatly ex- : Half an hour later the mother looked The Sun’s market reports and com- Auction, at the Court eee nee an by the Christian Sunday... Subsequent | pressed last season by a duchess. Hers | out after her boy and saw him playing | mercial columns are complete and re-| Statesville, N. C., on Monday, the Southern States - — comparison, however, revealed little difference between any days of the week. On the Mohammedan Sabbath a black flag is hoisted on the minarets at the prayer of dawn, instead of the white flag that announces the time of devotions on other days. It remains is a great family, but she was talking to @ young marquis whose family is tneomparably greater. He is a rather worthless, lazy, dissipated young mar- quis, and he boasted to the duchess about his people. “4 am very proud of my ancestry, dow and called with forced gentleness: “Marlow, come here to me!’ Marlow came, but as he did so he turned to his companion and said: “You stay wight here, Willie. I’m doin’ in to det spanked. I’ll be wight chant and the broker in touch with points in the United States and other 2 with Willie Burr. ised the win- | j; _|18th day of January, 1909, at 12 t illie tr. She raise liable, and put the farmer, the mer oe oon, the following real «= = tate conveyed in said mortgage, or the markets of Baltimore, Norfolk, so much thereof as may be necessary Charleston, New York, Chicago, Phil-| to pay the aforesaid debt and costs adelphia and all other important] of sale, viz: Ist Tract. Beginning at W. _F. Through -Pullman Sleeping Cars on palatial trains between the principal Cities and Resorts of the South. High-class Dining Cars. Many delightfulSummer and Winter Resorts on and up until the middle of the forenoon, | you know,’ he ended. back.”—Delineator. countries. Al of which the reader| Bailey’s S. E. corner, thence north by which time everybody is supposed to have found out what day it is— New York Post. The Word “Chariatan.” “Charlatan,” says a writer in the London Chronicle, “is companion to ‘quack’ in our vocabulary, and of this word the origin is certainly Italian. It is ‘clarlatano,” merely a chatterer, “Yes,” safd the duchess, ‘and you have cause to be, but I wonder how your ancestry would feel about you?’ ” Half a League. The class had just finished reciting “The Charge of the Light Brigade.” “Now,” said the teacher, “can any one present tell me the meaning of those words, ‘Half a league?” Catching Rats. The best way to catch rats is to put any animal substance, well perfumed with’ ofl of rhodium, into a trap. This induces them to enter readily and even draws them from a considerable dis- tance, as they are extremely partial to this oil. An ounce of oil of rhodium will cost you 50 cents. Catnip to a cat gets for one cent. THE WOMAN’S PAPER, The Sun is the best type of a news- paper morally and intellectually. In addition to the news of the day, it publishes the best features that can be presented, such as fashion artic- les and miscellaneous writings from with his line 210 poles to a stake, Bailey’s corner; thence E. 85 poles to a post oak; thence north 52 poles to a post oak; thence E. 140 poles to Murdock’s corner; thence S. 320 poles to a stake; thence W. 56 poles to a stake; thence S. 7 poles to a stake; thence W. 66 poles to a sour woed, Lingle’s corner; thence N. 65 poles to a stake, Lingle’s corner; reached by Southern Railway. “The Land of the Sky,” “The Sapphire Country,” in scenic Western North Carolina; beau- tiful at all seasons. Hotels of the highest claas. , For detailed information apply men and women of note and promi- W. 97 poles to the beginnin to nearest Ticket t, or and describes the traveling doctor in| Up shot the hand of Thomas Jones, | ts nothing like rhodium to a rat. Oll| nonce. Tt is an educator of the high-| ‘ence po sinning, ; Agent, his cart who used to offer in an over- aged eleven, football captain and in- of rhodium is made from.a species of est character, constantly stimulating containing 356 acres, more or less. Also one house and lot in the su- R. L. VDRNON, T. P.A., ee ang COR rcaty Oa eee een pea a Saree they couldn’t a ~ a See to noble ideals in individual and na- burb of Statesville on what is called Charlotte, N. C. ae facooneteee Oe cas a and ae clubs to make up the fall] “~~ ~° E tional life. Diamond — = Degemeee es S.H. HARDWICK, P.T.M., maine ont oleaees nth public. The feegue.” eho Wrong Seoukier- Rie Poe ee eee on Seay Fart cinsotne thon ome cecine Ge _ W.H. TAYLOE,G. P. A, genus is not yet entirely extinct.” Some one had bdlundered.—London In a timber yard two workmen were }as well as every other~day of the feet t0 a stake: thence S. 85 degrees Washibgton, D.C. Answers 7 - carrying a large piece of wood when | week. E. 180 feet to a stake; thence S. 4 Sec aceaeee: Not a Bargain ee SS ree nee ne Roem . _By mail the Daily Sun, $3 a year! geopees W. 100 feet to stake on Dag- > ‘ae man.” ° : ‘| up at the time, accosted one of them. i Dail , $3 ar. “t - ice N. 85 es nt Bae Se ep alee t “Doigoakoink that Miss Kidder was hoe,” said he, “you've got that batten = ee re ee = eee ee eee 2 give a man his word that he did not| having fun with me?” asked Chaw » | upon the wrong shoulder.” Ri ares comer Persist b zm “Well, old chap, give me the details, “I know that,” was the ready reply. -S 2 MP2 ’ Ties aS ee —— was Awthur’s response. “Jt should be upon yours!”—London Publishers and Proprietors, NE OE B "9 “Dishonest, eh?” “You see, I had my buli terrier with Mortgagee. 3 » MD. : Nene ae me, and I said to her, ‘That dog -knows Seraps. — deri emt Armfield & Turner, Attys. cave 4 ; , I do”. And she said, ‘Don’t Extending Zone. ; oto yaa acini In an- you think $450 was too much to Pay)! = wpeacher aye exclaimed the preco- S T AT E S VI L L E New Tables of ae aS ——— for him?’ "Cleveland Leader. cious child, “that we live in the tem- THE IRED FLL [, AFF the latest and - = “The te zone.” - : curty ofthe man preseribag Hnsood | 4 The Right Bone | Piven angered bitionists Keep go. Tt = | best makes “ eep ~ a ee en re aecaa cee gutg to ako tie to the ing it be worse than that.”—Wash- 7 . LEADER IN DES a e S our position!” ” theater. tonight. ington Star. =a — Spek po, nena? = ries CANDIES have been in- A Noble Parent ze not sure, but I think {t's my Worrying. Opera Heuse Building talled der In —— — of a wishbone!”—Kansas City Independent. Worrying is one of the greatest SSE Race et é and staiied under a essay saying, a ! ae Pinte “Washington tnarried a famous oe Apprehensive. Ee Se ee poe a = Open from 3 to 5 socce pose J. P. Phifer’s Martha Custis, and in due time HHetress—I want loved for | C22 See came the Father of His Country."—| The Te preke (apprehen. | Dot to let tri es annoy us, for the and 8 to 10 p. m. FRUITS store Delineat myself. Count de largest amount of worrying is ca z : grocet y ‘sto e eator. ne stvely)—My dear lady, is there any poS-| 5 the smallest trifles. Oysters for retail and servinz. a Kind words are benedietions. - They ate not only instruments of power, but of benevolence and courtesy, blessings both to the speaker and hearer of Saunders. unts the guilty oot = =— = of it.—Seneca. them.—Frederick ; Site. : Jotpascs sens: ee eee Z ee ee ee > am sibility of this being a case of mistak- en identity ?—Illustrated Bits. Let him who has bestowed a benefit be silent. Let him who received it tell No Children Admitted to Quail on Toast. PHONE NO. 323 Floor at Night Sessions.' yw. garraer « Proprietor. WeSolci YourPatronage ae > Tee Pah n ae len ot = org ITE SOTTO TE aE a aL aah, RE OLS POE me PE I Sa a Ne etm Me We Ro i ll SSRIS in ete iio lat ARMY TO LEAVE CUBA. | —_—_—— | Regiment of Marines to be FirSt to Evacuate on New Year’s Day. Havana, Dec. 27.—New Year’s day will witness the begining cf the evacuation of Cuba by the army of pacification, which has been in possession of the island since the beginning ofthe pro- visional government, October, 1906. The first provisional regi ment of marines, numbering about 900, will be among the first troops to leave. About half this regimeat will sail from Havana on January 1, on the cruiser Prarie, which will return about the middle of the month and embark the remainder. The embarkation ofthe troops will be effected ,with as little a ceremony as possible. the pur- posein deferring the departure ofa portion of the seventeenth infantry 1, has been the subject of considerable speculation, but it is believed that this was agreed upon at a conference be- tween Governor Magoon and President-elect Gomez. It pro- bably is for the purpose of keeping the barrakes and quart- ers in good order until it is pos- sible to turn over the Cuban au- thorities a model camp. ———_+<~@>r—————— An Editor’s Love Ltter. Hickcry Democrat. Dear darling delinquent:- Our precious subscriber in arrears! You are so shy! Do you think we have sold out and gone? No, little sugar-plum, we couldn't get away if we wanted to. We are still at the old stand dishing out the news on sweet promises and bright expectation. They make an excellent diet, with a little pudding flavored with a word of encouragement to serve as & desert. Weare waiting and IS CURED OF DRINK HABIT. Clergyman’s Treatment of a Bibu- lous Parishioner is Said to Have Been Successful. Des Moines, Dec. 25.—Com- pletely cured of the drink habit Lavean was discharged from jail tonight. The cure was the result of five hypnotic treat- ments by the Rev. Thomas Casa- dy, pastor of St. Mark’s Episco- pal Church. To test the cure, liquor was offered him, but La- vean refused to drink. He de- clared he had no objection to it, and had no reason for refusing whatever, but simply wouldn’t drink. Mr. Casady declares the reason he had to have the subject ar- rested was that the brain must be free from the effect of alcohol forty-eight hours before hyp- notism can be effective. He had tried to cure Lavean several times prior to his arrest, but couldn’t get the man to go drinkless long enough to get a hold with hypnotism. A prominent business man is planning an investment of $50,- 000 in a hypnotic liquor cure hospital with branches in the principal cities of the United States. A Healthy Family. ‘‘Our whole family has enjoyed good health since we began using Dr. King’s New Life Pills, three years ago,’”’ says L. A. Bartlet, of Rural Route 1, Guilford Maine. They cleanse and tone the system in a gentle way that does you good 25e. at Statesville Drug Co. —_———_~+@>-——_— Who hangs himeelf in the chimney should not complain of of smoke.—German. ——~~+2>>—__—_ Day after day he walked the watching for thee, darling, our turtle dove. We long to hear thy gentle footsteps on the stairway below and hear the ring of the happy doilars in our office. Dear one, we feel unusually sad and lonely without you, dear. Now, | little pie crust, will you, will you come? Do we .hear your answer in a voice so aweet and beguiling, “T am coming,” or is it only the winds that around our office roar? We pause for further de- velopments. —_——_-4+-+ Eng of World Did Not Come. Nyack, N. Y., Dec. 27.—The end of the worid did not come today as L. E. Spangler, a local prophet had predicted it would, but the prophet himself disappeared at + o’clock this morning and has not been seen since. Spangler cautioned all his “gainte’’ of his sect to be watch- ful as today surely would see the end of the world. Therefore a crowd of women followers dress- ed in white went to Oakhill Cem- etery this morning to await the event. a Mr. J. E. Sloop and Master Chas Hines went to Mooresvile today to visit relatives. Mr. E. G. Gaither returned to- day from Asheville where he spent Sunday. Miss Lillian Shinn of Shinnville. this county, arrived here today to visit her sister. Mrs. L. O. White. — ~~ Most disfiguring skin eruptions, scrofula, pimples. rashes, etc., are due to impure blood. Burdock Blood Bitters is a cleansing tonic. Makes you clear-eyed, clear-brained, clear skinned. “ FOR RENT—Hall and 3 rooms over N. Harrison’s store. Apply to T. D. Miller, agent. de2s 6t WANTED—At otice a good cok, white or black. Apply at this office. dee 28 3t FOR SALE—S Sludbdle city lots néar College—2 go0d Mules—i young Holstien cow.—J. B. Gill Dec. 23 to Jan_ 1. LOST—$15.00, a Ten Dollar bill ang $5.00, between Providence chureh and Statesville. Lost on Christmas day, Will pay a lib- era reward if left at The Mascot office. dee28 tf street, | Looking for a presnt for ‘‘wifey”’ sweet— | ‘‘I know what'll please her most,”’ said he; '**Tt’s Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea.’’—Statesville Drug Co. —__<+ a> Afew things gained by fraud destroy a fortune otherwise hor- estly won. —___++@>--—__— Fills your veins with rich, red bleed. Gives you a hearty appe- tite, builds up flesh, makes you strong and rugged. Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea, greatest health builder. 35 cents, Tea or Tablets. Statesville Drug Co. ES EE Personally Conducted Tour to Ha- vana, Cuba, and Return, January 11, 1909, Via Southern Railway Souhern Railway will sell round trip excursion tickets to Havana, Cuba at following rates from points named: PESHO WNC ae $39.10 NCEE a) ac oot, chao 42.40 PURSE HOSEN ote cals Siac castenies 40.45 URIS no a ee 42.95 OM ge 42.50 SMBCS ERC 42.40 Approximately low rates from from other points. Tickes on sale January 11th, good returning to leave Havana, Cuba, on or before January 27th,|# 1909. Tickets may be routed|# through Jacksonville thence either} # through Knight’s Key, or Port/% Tampa. Good going and return—|# ing same route. Stop-over will be|# allowed at Jacksonville, St. Au-|% gustine, Palm Beach, Miami, and 3 other points south of Jacksonville, 5 within final limit of ticket. Al® accompany | & movement, and will look after the| 3 comfort and pleasure of the party.|& For further information as tol% side tours from Havana, sight see-|§ ing tours, hotel rates, leaving x time a principal points, Pulllman|§ and state room reservation, write|% J. H. Wood, D. P. A., Asheville, N. | C.; W. H. MeGlamery, P. & T./§ A., Raleigh, N. C.; R. H. DeButts,|8 P. & T. A., Greensboro, N. C.; or|8 eall on your repot agents, or write : representaive will R. L. VERNON, T. P. A. Charlotte, N. C. RELATIONSHIP MIXED. Two Families Inter-Marry in Bewildering Fashion— An Aged Farmer Eldest Son is Now His Father’s Father-in-Law and His Youngest Son is His Brother4in- Law. Washington, Pa., Dec. 27.— Bewildering relationships among members of two East Finley township families have resulted from the marriages of a father and his two sons and a widow and her two daughters. The three ceremonies were célebrated within the last two months. Henry Dillinger, an aged farmer, whose second wife died nearly a year ago, engaged Mrs. Maria Richmond as _ his housekeeper. ' It was agreed that two deught- ers of Mrs. Richmond, Lucy, | aged 16, and Jennie, aged 19, ' should live in the Dillinger home| with the father and his two sons, | Charles and David. After a time the aged farmer married Lucy Richmond, and the two families continued to occupy the same/ house. A few weeks after the first! marriage, Mrs. Eichmond be- came the wife of David Dillinger, the elder son. Jennie Richmond and Charles Dillinger were next stricken with the matrimonial fever and were married last week. The three families now live ip the East Finley township home of the elder Dillinger, all ap-= parently happy and contented. ———— Ore If you haven’t the time to exercise regularly, Doan’s Regulets will pre- vent constipation. They induce a mild, easy, healthful action of the bowels without griping. Ask your druggists for them. 25c. ——_++~@nre—————_ An excursion to the Pole is not necessary to qualify Abruzzi as the world’s leading frost ex- pert—Washington Star. ——_++@yre———" Mothers’ Joy is made ot pure ingredients. Mothers you cannot afford to be without a box of Moth ers’ Joy. Post OD= OSITION Draughon gives contracts, backed by a chain of 30 Colleges, $300,000.00 capital, and 19 year’s success, to se- cure positions under reasonable con- ditions or refunnd tuition. BOOKKEEPING Prareton sco. accepting his pruposition, concede that he teaches more Bookkeeping in THREE months than they doin SIX. Draughon can convince YOU SHORTHAND 7.32: ,ceat, oe Court Reporters write the system of Shorthand Draughon teaches, be- eause they know it is THE BEST. FOR FREE CATALOG and book- let, ‘“‘Why Learn Telegraphy?’’ which explains all, call on or write JNO. F. DRAUGHON, President DRAUGHON’S PRACTICAL BUSINESS COLLEGE (We also Teach by Mail) Raleigh, Knoxville, Nashville, Cc lumbia or Washington, D. C. How to Prevent Pneu- monia In every paper you pick up you will see where some good man has just died with this fearful disease—pneu- monia. Now we will give you One Hundred Dollars for any case of pneumonia you have in your family it fails to cure if you will use Goose Grease Liniment as directed. It only costs you 25 cents a bottle. Get it— you have nothing to loose and all to gain. We know there are thousands who will read this and throw it aside and 1n a few days will be down with the disease. Please just get one bottle and putit away until you need it. If you haven’t the money to buy it let us know and we will send you a bot- tle free. GOOSE GREASE CO. ‘You can wear the smile that won’t come off if you buy your Groceries —— AN MEATS —FROM— M. P. Alexan= der & Bro. Nice line for Xmas trade. "Phone No. 241, ADS ee BCs 5 cents a line. ERROR. cceconesece 4 cents a line. 6 bIMeES............0000- 3% cents a line. 26 times...... 2... 3 cents a line. WANTED—BY THE AMERICAN Cotton and Business University of Milledgeville, Ga., students to take one or more of our courses in cot- ton grading, buying and selling. Business courses of bookkeeping, Shorthand, Typewriting, or Telegra- phy and Railroad course. Positions guaranteed under reasonadle con- ditions. Write at once for our consolidated catalog. Largest col lege South. Sept 28-tf AMBITIOUS YOUNG MEN AND ladies should learn telegraphy; for, since the now 8 hour law became effective there is a_ shortage of many thousand telegraphers. Po- sitions pay from $50 to $70 a month to beginners. The National Telegraph institute of Columbia, S. C., and five other cities is oper- ated under supervision of R. R. Officials and all students are placed when qualified. Write them for particulars. nol9 dtf Beatrice OPERA HOUSE, SATURDAY, JANUARY 2ND. 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MILLER # ©00000000006000008008000U8 00 0 0 0 0 6 00 0 0 8 0 0 0 0 8 69 O2 2 9 2 0 0 8 0 9 0 0 8 9 A MERRY *% CHRISTMAS * It is to those who i have a spick and A span new bathroom i in which to pre- \ pare for the pleas- jn ures of the day. AM Consult us as to Rr the best plan for a your floor space, eX and we wiil fit you A out with a bath i room of which you R will be proud, FR without much fr strain on your PS “pocketbook. Au WA. W. HOLLER PLUMBING COMPANY j i‘ Photre No. 61. 127 W. Broad St. a Imported Hand Painted China American Cut Glass Gold and other novelties. STATESVILLE DRUG CO. Prescriptiontsts. wlarte oe @ Now Time for You to Se- lect Your Xmas Goods We will put aside any goods selected. See our new line of Morris Chairs and Rockers. Also Fine Mahogany Tables. We will make Special Prices on COOK STOVES and RANGES. < ote “ + Old Brass, Bright Brass + ote oe + z ‘ 4 oJ ee | STATESVILLE HOUSEFURNISHING COMP’Y = DEZ Belie LAs Afi ley Co Wa Riv ve of Th in th reapp be de Harle bus ¢@ Haye effect river tified to his count fune Apri to Fa from berto storv ance Wh was ¢ Lumk two oO the fishi one ed un The gq zo hq want so he 73 ya the o no ay teen ealleg ceive alarm Mrs. band light seare shove chain padd Haye ed a day after Its "SSi Abi freshi whe have body went and t and jury prom went The head and that nibb inves elusi of H tight fied 2 the 0 wife amon the ¥ belt 4 shirt as be and these pelle ed ar poek ‘THE EVENING Ma Vol. 1. Man Proven Dead Kelurns to Life DEAD BODY IS IDENTIFIED. Believed to Have Been Drowned While FiShing—Three Weeks After His DiSappe@rance the Trutk of a Man Wearing Har- ley Hayes’ Clothes, the Pocketq Containing his PerSonal Effects, Was Fished From the Lumber River, Being Identified by the T Wife and Father as the Corpes) of Hayes. There is perhaps not on record in this state a more sensational reappearance of a man proven to be dead than is the return home of Harley Hayes, of FairBluff,Colum- bus county. A body, wearing Hayes’ clothes, with his personal effects, was fished from Lumber river over four months ago, iden- tified as that of Hayes and taken to his father’s home in Marion county South Carolina, where the funeral was held. Hayes, about the first of last April, moved from Marion county to Fair Bluff, just across the line from Robeson county. The Lum- berton Robesonian publishes the story of the mysterious disappear- anee as follows: While living at FairBluff Hayes was engaged chiefly in fishing in Lumber river. He has a wife and two or three small children. About the latter part of July hé went fishing with a companion about one mile below Fair Bluff and fish- ed until about 11 o’clock at night. The other man suggested that they go home, but Mr. Hayes said he wanted to try his luck lower down, so he rowed down the river 50 or 75 yards. After waiting a while the other man ealleld, but received no answer, and after waiting fif- teen or twenty minutes longer he called again, louder, but still re- ceived no answer. Becoming alarmed, he went to town and told Mrs. Hayes that he feared her hus- band had been drowned. At day- light a party went to the river to search and Hayes’ boat was found shoved up to the bank, with its chain around a stump, and on the paddle in the boat was found Hayes’ hat. Search was continu- ed all that day—which was Sun- day—and for several days there- after, but no further trace of the 1:'ssing man could be found. About three weeks later, after a freshet, about one mile below where Hayes was supposed to have been drowned, a man saw a body floating on the river. He went back to town and reported and the eoroner, with the wife and father of the deceased and a jury composed of some of the most prominent eitizens at Fair Bluff,} went to the riverto investigate. The body was only a trunk—the head, arms and legs were gone, and there was every indication that the missing members had been nibbled off by fishes. Thorough investigation seemed to prove con- elusively that the body was that of Hayes. The coat, buttoned tight around his body, was identi- fied as the coat worn by Hayes on the night he disappeared and his wife produced from her home among her husband’s effects the vest to match the coat; the belt and watch chain, trousers and shirt were all positively identified as belonging to the missing Hayes; and if any doubt remained after these evidences, they were all dis- pelled when the coat was unbutton ed and a search was made of the pockets, where tax receipts; a a ——$—— Statesville, N. C., Tuesday Evening, December 29, 1908. - Long Stele Cotton. John Long, colored, who is in jail awaiting trial for the larceny of a hat from Mr. A. A. Turner of this city will be tried Saturday. Another case has been secured against him since his arrest. It is for stealing cotton from a Mr. Reavis, who lives at Wallace Springs, below town. Mr. Reavis had been missing cotton for some time and began to look out for the parties who were taking it. eo He happened to be at Nash’s Cotton gin, above. the Bostain bridge one day and made an in: quiry about the cotton. Mr. Nash informed him that John had been bringing eotton there for sale, and showed Mr. Reavis the sacks it was brought in. | Mr. Revis immediately recogniz- ed the sacks as his own, and swora out a warrant for John. John says he traded a white boy a dog for the bags of cotton,. but does not know the boys name. Mr. Nash said John came there to sell cotton. He was informed that he could dispose of it there. He told Mr. Nash that he would have to go back to his home at Belmont for it, three miles from the gin. He left and came back in about 30 minutes with the cotton, and Mr. Nash is confident he had it hidden in the woods near the gin. ——_—_4+ 4 Mr. A. J. Phillips of Woodleaf is visiting friends in thec ity. bank deposit book showing drafts and checks—receipts for sales of cotton—all belonging to Hayes— and a memodanrum book, with many entries in Hayes’ hand, were found. .The body appeared to have been in the river -several weeks. The coronen’s jury returned for its verdict that the body was that of Harley Hayes and that he came to his death by accidental drown- ing in Lumber river, and the fath- er carried the body to his old home in South Carolina, where a funeral was held and the body interred, and Harley Hayes was mourned as dead. Now Hayes’ life was insured in the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company of New York and the Life Insurance Company, of Vir- ginia, three policies, aggregating $5,000. In due time proofs of Hayes’ death were fixed up and forwarded to the insurance com- panies, but they refused to pay on the ground that they did not be- lieve Hayes to be dead. They were criticised severely by citizens of Fair Bluff for trating a widow and orphans in such a manner and friends advised Mrs. Hayes to em- ploy counsel which she did, and just as the attorneys were getting ready to bring suit Hayes turned up at the home of his father, Mr. J. B. Hayes, who lives near Page’s Mills, S. C. Mr Hayes senior was in Lum- berton Saturday, but he would of- fer no explanation of his son’s dis- appearaneé, or where he sojourned during the time he was supposed to be dead. or of his return. It was the strongest circumstantial proof you ever saw, and the reap- pearance of the man himelf is about the only thing that could have kept a jury from deciding against the insurance companies if suit had been brought and the ease had been tried. More than four months elapsed between the supposed drowning of Hayes and his reappearance. Where he spent the intervening time, how the body found in river happened to have on the clothes Hayes wore when he disappeared, with his tax receipts, ete., in its pockets—these things have not been learned. a \ MR. GILMER FIRED UPON. Ashe is Speeding up the New Macadam Road Some One Fires Upon Him—An Investigation Reveals Nothing. Automobilists seem to be having hard luck in and around the city. They are continually having a break down, or some mishaps to mar the pleasure of their sport. Last evening as Mr. E. G. Gil- mer was speeding up the new mac- adam road about a hundred yards above the Paola cotton mills some party or parties fired upon him twice, presumably with a shot gun: The report current says that Mr.| Gilmer had just passed a buggy containing which he thought to contain a man, woman and a child. Just after passing the buggy the shots were fired at him, but he did not stop to investigate the matter, but rather, we think hurried up a little more. He immediately phoned to Dep- uty Ward, after returning to town and they both went to the scene of the shooting. Sure enough, there inthe road they found the two empty shells, just where they had been thrown on the ground. Some are of tke impression that it was the ‘‘Night ‘Riders’”’ after Mr. Gilmer, but of course that is a jest, for Iredell county would not have a lawless band like the ‘*Night Riders.’’ Mr. Gilmer is still in possession of the shells, and no doubt will hang on to them as a souvenir of the occasion. All he wants to know is who did the shooting, but doubtless it will be a season of Sundays before he finds out. ——_ ++ ’ Mr, Matheson ReSigns. Mr. W. J. Matheson, best known as “‘Jake,’’ has resigned his posi- tion with Mr N. Harrison, the elothier to take a position with with the Matheson Grocery Co., of which firm he is a member. Mr. Matheson has been with Mr. Harrison for ten years, and is a good and very popular clothing salesman. Mr. Matheson will be very glad to see his old friends and acquaint- ances at his grocery store on East Broad street;-where he will treat them in the same attentive and courteous manner as he has before in the clothing store. —— a D. A. R, Chapter at Home. The Fort Dobbs chapter of the D. A. R. will be at home to the public at the beautiful residence of Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Henkle on the evening of December the 21st at 8 o’clock. The public is cordially invited to attend this function. A silver offering will be grate- fully received by the chapter for making th site of historic Fort Dobbs, about three miles north of the city. : Thea Daughters will receive the guests in colonial costume. Do not forget the date and place. ——— Eee Miss Alexander Entertains. Miss Annie Alexander’ enter- tained a number of her friends last night with a ‘‘Leap Year’’ party in honor of Miss Annie Sizer of Charlotte. Refreshments were served and the feature of the evening, the young ladies proposing was great- ly enjoyed. ————- 4 rr-e Mr. Walden Resigns. Mr. Geo. Walden who has been with the Evans Hardware Com- pany for about two years has re- signed his position with that firm Mr. Walden will leave about the i0th of next month for some point in Texas, not having decided for Mr. Enos Mills ~ On Foresting AN INTERESTING SPEAKER. Mr. Enos Mills Delivers Lecture on Preservation of Our Forest’ to a Large and Interested Audi-} ence—Deliveed Under the Aus- pices of the Woman’s Clubs of} the City. In the court house last night at 7:30 o’clock, Mr. Enos Millls of the Forestry Department of the United States spoke to a large and interested audience. Mr. Mills was a very interesting speaker, speaking easily and in- telligently. In part he said, ‘‘Trees are the most useful plant that grows and ‘without it the people of this age could not exist. It is useful to tha human race in two ways, first as fire wood, which is one of the five essential materials needeg by the civilized people> “‘Second, it is used in four hun- dred different things used in daily life. For instance our houses, fur- niture, railway ears, cross ties and many, many other things too num- erous to mention are built from wood. “‘At the present rate over 100,- 000 acres is being cut each day, the waste of this amount being much greater than the amount used. At the present rate of cut- ting and waste, in 15 years from now all our magnificent forests will be destroyed, and the timber development of the country will be stopped. “In protecting forestry all the matured trees should be eut out, and the young trees left to mature, or other trees should be planted to supply coming generations. It is not necessary to ruin the young ones in the use of the matured trees. “Every state in the union has these vast areas of so called waste land, and more trees should be planted, or the young trees grow- ing on this area should be protect- ed from the forest fires. In this way the land will give all the tim- ber we may need to use. “‘The growing of a forest is more usefulto the human race than the wood it will ultimately produce. “It helps regulate the flow of water from running off too rapid- ly after rains and washing away the soil. Forests also prevent floods; which make such a great damage to the country at large. “‘They also check the hot and cold waves which are so damaging to the farmer. Next it is a great sanitary agent both to the soil and air. 4 ‘The country is also beautified by the forests. What would this ground old land of ours be without the beautiful trees. ““While the various uses of for- ests are deing discussed, let us not forget the beautiful and birds who have to make their homes in the trees of these forests. Birds are one of the nations most useful resources. They are of an economic value, for they eat many noxious wheat seed, and in- jurious insects. If you destroy the forests you destroy the birds, with their beau- ty, song, and interesting ways. “‘At present the United States Government has in its control 168,000,000 acres of forestry which it will preserve for future use, and a bill is now before the house to extend the Appalachian Forest 10 MEN BURIED EIN TRENCH. Several Others Injured in Accci- dent at Blast Furnace in Bir- mingham. Birmingham, Ala., Dec. 28— Two dead bodies have been re- covered and eight more are known to be buried in an im- mense cavern of a trench at the blast furnace plant at Ensley early tonight. Several other la- borers were injured as also were two foremen, who were superin- tending the work. The most of the dead were foreigners. The cave-in occurred without warning and the bodies are be- ing recovered with difficulty, be- cause of the large amount of gas which is pouring into the ex- cavation from the furnaces. The men were working in a large trench about eighty feet below the surface. They are ex- cayating for the gas flew, which is to connect the blast furnaces with ths new battery of boilers, which is to run the plant. The end of the old gas flue, which ex- tends the full length of the fur- nace plant, had been temporari- ly bricked up, while the laborers were at work on the extension. Mechanical carriers were used to take away the dirt excavated and when a carrier broke to- night a beam fell on the cement wall, which formed one side of the trench the men were digging. The entire wall toppled over on the men and with it tons of loose earth, which had been held up by the retaining wall. When the wall fell it broke down the brick work at the end of the big four-foot gas main and immense quantities of gas were poured in upon the entomb- ed men. ROH PERSONAL NOTES. Mr. M. K. Steele of Turnersburg is in the city. _ Mr. Jd. W. Roberts, of Asheville, is in the city today. Mr. Zeb B. Reid of Topton, is visiting friends in the city. "Mr. W.E. Sloan went to Tay- lorsville today on business. Miss Maude Mills returned home last night from Woodleaf. Mr. Jno. T. Walston of Winston, is in the city showing a patent churn. Lieut. W. S. Sinclair of Char- lotte, was here today with the lo- eal recruiting officers. Miss Fannie C. Long of Elm- wood, isin thec ity today, stop- ping with Miss Mattie Thomas on North Center. Mrs. G. S. Ferguson, wife of Judge Ferguson and Miss Lillian Ferguson, his daughter, spent last night at the Iredell. Mr and Mrs. Geo. L. Herman, stopped over last night en route to. Asheville, the night at the Iredell. They are bride and groom. Mr. Herman getting his bride in Char- lotte, —_———+~8o—__ Weather Forecast. ( Washington, D. C., Dec. 29.— For North Carolina, partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday with probably rain in West portion. Warmer Wednesday. important resources we have from nature, and it should be a crime for the public schools of our coun- . try not to teach the scholars a lit- tle elementary study in nature, trees and birds. ‘In Germany, Switzerland and France they have extensive areas as national forests which prove both necessary and profitable.’’ The ladies ofthe city were in- deed fortunate in securing Mr. Mills to address the people. here, reserve. sure where. “The forests are one of the most as his speeeh was both instructive! and interesting. Many ‘Buried in the Ruins DEATH LIST IS APPALLING. —i Three Violent Earthquakes in Italy Kill Many and Tear Down Many Structures—Ghouls Who EScap¢d From Prison Are Rob“ bing the Dead. Rome, Dec. 28.—Eight districts in the province of Catanzaro, southwestern Italy, were laid waste this morning by three rap- idly successive earthquakeshocks It is impossible to estimate the dead and property damage done. A dozen or more towns were damaged, those suffering heav- iest being St. Efanaconi, Mezza- casale, Majerato and Santono- frio. The quakes came while the people were asleep and they were given no time to escape from the toppling walls of their homes. A number of bodies have already been taken from the ruins and the work of rescue has barely started. Itis feared the death list will reach an appalling fig- ure. Those who escaped were scantily clad and are suffering intensely from cold. Messages from Monteleana say troops have been ‘ordered to ‘the scene to check looting that has broken out. Several pri- sons were broken open in the confusion attending the quakes and the prisoners esca and are now preying upon thevictims of the disaster. Monteliona re- ports heavy death lists in the communes of Borgia, Canada, Centrache, Olivadi, Sanvito, Po- merano, Miotera and Tropea- Washington, Dec. 28—When the seismograph’s record of the Weather Bureau was exam- ined to-day they showed that an earthquake occurred last night 1:13-1:23. The disturbance lasted more than an hour. The origin a rs to have been about 4,300 miles away, corres- ponding to the distance to Italy, where @ quake occurred -this morping. Banquet Tonight. The members of the Commercial Club will give a banquet tonight in their rooms to the visiting young ladies and gentlemen im the city. : The banquet will be given at 9 o’clock, and after that there will be a dance. An Italian band has been secur- ed, also two imported cooks, and a big swell time is anticipated. 1 Mr. Z. I. Walser of Lexington, spent last night in thee ity. Mrs. E, F. MeNeil of Elkin, is visiting her sister, Mrs. S. B. Mil- ler in this city. (Miss Lila Kurfees, of Coolee- mee, is visiting Miss Lucile Kim- ball on Davie avenue. Miss Annie Marvin returned to Bessemer City this morning, after a visit to home folks here. Mr, Clinton Teague of Moores- ville, passed through the city last night en route to Lenoir to visitt relatives, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. B. Nicholson returned last night fromFarming- tun, where they spent Xmas, with Mr Nicholson’s parents. Mrs. Geo. W. Nicholson, Mr. Nichol- son’s mother returned with them and will visit here awhile. ——~~+or-o————_ U. S. Fleet on Way to Suez. cixtecn bettaetaee coe 8 composi the American battleship fleet, es os of Rear ee perry, which is cruising aro the world, passed this port to- day bound for Suez. The fleet ae Colombo, Ceylon, December s ne aE ! nb a - 4 Sa PR ee ee “o p e n - 2 gg ce e ae 2 Pe r i t ? ‘ 7 Or ee r i e Be c i g s ty FE cp si n e pee ge s t HS AE . i 2 a ed e . . . pO . - BP 3 be FR os , “3 P a ee ee ee e ce a co n a n se t e tas oe ee e ‘ we . Me t t e : a ee Se e pa c t aa r n 3? ee pl e a s e . le m m e i t i a d e e s eo ee hi * - in the Colorado river which re- gh LE GR anes OR SSE Ree EN nee Do Rene ae — THE EVENING MASCOT DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. Entered 1t the Postofficein Statesville @. C.. as second-class mai} matter. ffice 109 Coart Street. ” Telephone 53 VANCE NORWOOD - Publisher. RALPH SLOAN, - - City Editor, Sabscription Price, - $4.00 a Year ubscription Price, - 10 Cents a Week HARRIMAN WANTS MONEY. Will Ask Congress to AppTopri- ate $1,000,000 to Railway Mag- nate. Washington, Dec. 28.—Presi- dent Roosevelt will urge Con- gress. to passa bill appropriating $1,000,000 to E. H. Harriman, who, as representative for the Southern Pacific Railroad and the California Development Com- pany, asks forreimbursement for damages as a result of the break sulted in the Salton Sea disaster. The President may make the matter the subject of a special message. He believes Harriman’s request for reimbursement is just and that Congress should act without delay. Congress is said to be divided on the question. —_~2-+4 > -—____ TRIED TO WRECK TRAINS Negro in Jail at Roanoke Escaped a Lynchitg Party—Had Grudge Against Section Foreman. Roanoke, Va., Dec. 28.—West Grubb, a negro, arrested on the charge of attempting to wreck the Washington & Chattanooga Limited of the Norfolk & West- ern Railroad today, made a full confession. He admitted that he had made three unsuccessful attempts near Wytheville in order to get even with a section foreman against whom he has a grudge. He was brought here to prevent a lynch- ing. ————4-+ >> ___ HOSPITAL PATIENT KILLED. HOPES TO CHECK BLINDNESS Pennsylvania Health Officer Had Plan to Relieve Infants. Harrisburg, Pa., Dee. 25.— State Health Commissioner Dix- on hopes to prevent one-third the number of cases of blindness in Pennsylvania. A recent report from tke Pennsylvania School for the Blind says that in the last eight years more than one third of the persons admitted to that insti tution have owed their affliction to ophthalmia neoatorum, an affection of theeyes which oc- curs at birth. a The law Dr. Dixon seeks to have enforced provides ‘“‘tnat should one or both eyes of an infant become inflamed or swol- len or redenned at any time within two weeks after birth it shall be the duty of the nurse or other person having the care of such infant to r:pert In writ- ing within six hours after the discovery thereof” to the health authorities. It then becomes the duty of the health officer to no- tify the parents of the danger and Dr. Dixon favors instruc- tions that a physician be pro. cured at the earliest possible moment and a harmless cleans. ing solutiou be used. ——4 + - —_—_—_ Would Mortgage The Farm. A farmer on Rural Route No. 2, Empire, Ga., W. A. Mloyd by name, says: ““Bucklen’s Arnica [ ever saw; one on my hand and one on my leg. It is worth more than its weight in gold. I would not be without it if I had to mort- gage the farm to get it.”’ Only 25e. at Statesville Drug Co.’s store. . <> &____ Mayor Frozen to Death. Sheridan, Wyo., Dec. 28.— The body of John S. Taylor, who was serving his fifth term as mayor in this city, was found in a clump of buskes a mile north of town to-day, where he had evidently frozen to death. He was 88-years of age and Unconscious Woman’s Neck Brok- en on an Elevator. Racine, Dec. 25.—Miss Mary Har- dy, aged forty-seven, a patient, was killed in an elevator accident in St- Mary’s Hospital. An anaesthetic had been administered and she had been placed on a portable operating table and taken to the elevator to be transported to the operating room. A sudden stop of the elevator caused the body to fall to the plat- form. The nurse in charge pulled Ss wire cable to raise the elevator and did not notice that the body had fallen from the table to the floor. The patient’s head was caught be- tween the platform and the second floor of the hospital and her neck was broken and her head crushed. Sister Venerada, a nurse who was in charge of the elevator, only recently came to the hospital and it is said that she was not familiar with the method of operating the elevater. —_—++o@r-—____ Shoots Sweetheart; Commits Sui- cide. Washington, Eec. 27.—Law- rence: W. Peters, aged 25, today committed suicide in a boarding house at Alexander, Va., after shooting and attempting to hill his. sweetheart, Jennie W. Beaudett, 21 years old, a silk mill worker. The stragedy was enacted dur. ing a quarrel said to have been provoked by jealously. The wo- man who says she is a former resident. of Hartford Vermont, probably will recover. The par- ents. of the suicide reside. at Providence, R. I. —_———_—_@>o——_——_—___. Negro Murdered. Wake Forest, N. C., Dec. 28.— Saturday night Hay Austin kill- ed Buck Mitchell at the latter’s house near Roseville. The negroes began.to quarrel over a pistol, when Mitchell ran at Austin with an axe. Austin shot Mitchell killing him instantly. Officers are searching for Austin. ——_+<@>->—___. Mother do you hear that rat- tling i babies throat? Put alittle Mothers’ Joy on it and stop| W- EK’. FLA TD, leaves a widow and two child- ren. : : — 4 —— Builds you up physically and mentally, keeps your digestion or- gans in condition, regulates the bowels, cleanses the blood, gives you perfect health. Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea or Tablets, 35 cents. Statesville Drug Co. ————_ ~~ e— om Strenuous Jugs. been forgiven for taking.a “‘drap”’ too much, his plea being that he had been overtaken in a fault. These North Craolina jugs seem to have grown legs since the advent of prohibition—Honuston Post: —————* «o> There is not a newspaper any- where but what has some harsh words for Rockefeller. Wonder if done it? f TME GIRL QUESTION J/g IS EASILY i / SOLVED i Y PRESENT HER WITH A BOX ~~ We Are Agents. See our Xmas Packages of Candy _ Stationery and Cigars” Salve cured the two worst sores|.- A North Carolina dea¢én has}. : the old man don’t wish he hadn’t 3 with it at once. Prescription Druggist. 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THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. peme | | Seach 35 Doses -35 CENTS Pct G22. Guaranived under he Pooks such a fearful cough that bottle free. —_—_++ > —_____ SEASTORI For Infants and Children. ea The Kind You Have | out that New Discovery is the best ‘Jesse P. Morris, of Skippers, remedy for coughs and lung dis- Va., had a close call in the spring ease in all the world,’’ Sold under of 1906. He says: ‘‘An attack guaarantee at Statesville drug of pneumonia left me so weak and'Co. store. 50c. and $1.00. Trial Stops earache in two minutes; SEVERAL THINGS Are to be considered in selerting your Bank 1ST. Strength-Financial Strength 2ND. The care with which the : Bank is Managed. 3RD. The courtesy and spirit of of accomodation‘displayed by the Officers and Em- ployees. 4TH. The banking experience of Officers. STH. The ability of the bank to Properly and Promptly Handle all Your Business To Those Desiring the Embodi- ment of Fhese Features are Offered T he Service of THE IROT NATIONAL = BANK OF STATESVILLE CAPITAL $100.000 } ” " t . 4 er ” ™ eo tl MR I S AP R N BR A Ns aa oa ae s EA ea e re l e ” ys EG PD AO N RL TE P rh coupon that can be exchanged for these gifts. -, 9 5O56G908000000080 008006 BOSOSOBOSO ADVERTISING Is Essential to the Up- building of the Modern Business Enterprise. ::: To the publicity gained by the use of the advertising columns of the daily papers is at- tributed the growth, and consequent success, of a very large percentage of great business enter- prises of the present day. Advertising is recognized as the prime fac- tor in increasing the sales of any class of goods or manufactured articles. The space used in this puper is your’ busi- ness message to the public. _ In this open letter you should tell them of the merits of what you are offering, setting forth the reasons why your particular line fs worthy of their attention. THE EVENING ©MASCOT has increased its local circulation very materially during the past three months and the results obtained from the space used by the advertisers are gratifying to them and to the paper. It reaches into the homes of the best class of our people and your message will be placed in the hands of those with money to buy. the goods you wish to sell. The Space Rates in The Evening Mascot are not high. Your message is carried, each day, to those you wish to reach, in the most = economical manner. For information call us up on the phone and L. A. GOLDMAM : Purveyor to the People. OSOCCCOOCCCCSZOCCCCOOOOOCE : These Handsome Dishes Given Away to My Customers With each cash purchase of 5 cents or over I will give youa @ 6 € ©O 9 O C C O S B O S O O 0 H 8 O 00 0 0 9 @99OO SOC 2G0OCSCCOCOGSOORSOS Of Statesville, N. C. SDOCCOSS 00SE 08000000 060000030005 000088300900 SEE OCOS ; THE STATESVILLE LOAN AND TRUST CU. Accounts are solicited from firms, corporations and indiv Carrray, Stocgs a $40,000.00 SHAREHOLDERS LIABILFPY.......000..0--.......... $40,000.00 SURPLUs ANP UNDIVED PEOFITS............ $30,000.00 TOTAL RESOURCES OVER......ccceceeoee----... $440,000.00 IS PREPARED to transact all branches of banking. uals, who may rely upon courteous consideration and the very best terms that are consistent with good banking methods. Four per cent. paid on time and savings deposits. OFFICERS - 5 and Treasurer, C. E. HUGHEY, Assistant Secy, and Treas W. G. CULBRETH, Manager Savings Department 0000 S0er esevecsores=enieualeicces E. Steele, President, E. Morrisou, Vice-Pres, D. M. Aus’ey, Sec Ge c e ag e (6 - 2 OO O O 90 9 6 BO N G 12 1 1 4 1 1 ! CO N T FO H O OO O H GO C E Ina sharp contest nothing but “ ity” ar quality” and appearance re. “RUTH MADE™® Hosiery and the “WORLDS BEST” Biack are the goods of Quality. After ali has en said, all your pursuasi it i still a ee ee Pp asive argument exhausted, it is s “QUALITY” IS THE ONLY TEST OF VALUE To get best results you must hay i its yi e the best of everything = ae colors, best machines and best help, with i wpination you can produce the best of what you Bre making. We ha ~— : for the goods of equality. the above. Ask your dealer | THE BRADFORD BOB OROROSOSO ae ee PPO, CB080S0ED KNITTING MILL. Odean atta teceiie ee Get us five yearl ~ rie idk. $e, Ate Ra’ A ap aya ee “i Se caesar we tte a cardia sini da 8 a a ee oa iewaa sd ek ae Ei hans Faget gee Oe" Gian imc eae le rs bites nr ebro cea : ge iS ir y subscribers ‘to The a eaine Bic ——— paid in advance, and get one of the beautiful - ~ lUnina Sets we are giving as premiums. D On His shi Cré Andy arriv: capes Stoel with for \ up tk Fo a sno part refus M: anee, his h deat] feet d dog seare diggi Tog the fore eul fed again him f Mo ingre¢ afford ers’ J Nic a=) ! bya Capitd ‘cure { dition B00 accen that in TE SIX. SHf Court Shor cause FO let, ‘* expla DRA! DOG SAVES MAN’S LIFE. On Two Occasions Avimal Dug wis Master Out of Two Snow Slides d Butte, Col., Dee. 26— \losher, of Gothie, Col., has here after two thrilhng es- slides. W.F. < nan and Masher left Gothie uu horse-loads of supplies intain King mine, six miles enulch, r miles up they encountered v slide that swept away a i the supphes. Stoekman | to go any further. iasher went ona short dist- vhen another slide carried rses down the mountain to | and buried him under six from snow snow. His Newfoundland rode the slide and then searched for his master, finally « him out. vether they set out again for ne. about a mile distant. Be- - reaching it a third slide en- ‘“d them. The faithful animal 1 saved his master by digging ‘rom under the avalanche. ——_++@r-oe——_—— \fothers’ Joy 1s made of pure redients. Mothers you eannot rd to be without a box of Moth ers’ Joy. How to Prevent Pneu- monia In every paper you pick up you will see where some cood man has just died with this fearful disease—pneu- monia. Now we will give » you One Hundred Dollars for any ease of pneumonia you have in your family it fails to eure if you will use Goose Grease Liniment as directed. It only costs you 25 cents a bottle. Get it— you have nothing to loose and all to gain. We know there are thousands who will read this and throw it aside and in a few days will be down with the disease. Please just get one bottle and putit away until you need it. If you haven’t the money to buy it let us know and we will send you a bot- tle free. GOOSE GREASE CO. You can wear the smile that won’t come off if you buy your Groceries — MEATS —FROM— M. P. Alexan= der & Bro. Nice line for Xmas trade. ‘Phone No. 241. =——GFoo»D— OSITION Draughon gives contracts, backed by a chain of 30 Colleges, $300,000.00 capital, and 19 year’s success, to se- cure positions under reasonable con- ditions or refunnd tuition. BOOKKEEPING 2st" <x; petitors, by not accepting his pruposition, concede that he teaches more Bookkeeping in THREE months than they doin SIX. Draughon can es YOU SHORTHAND 3.22, SoStases pebnited States Court Reporters write the system of Shorthand Draughon teaches, cause they know it is THE BEST. ; FOR FREE CATALOG and book- let, “Why Learn Telegraphy?”’ which explainsall, call on or write JNO. F. DRA UGHON, President DRAUGHON’S PRACTICAL BUSINESS COLLEGE (We also Teach by Mail) Raleigh, Knoxville, Nashville, Cc lumbia or Washington, D. C. A WORK OF TATTOOED ART. Man Brought to City HoSpital for Treatment Found Covered With Designs, Cincinnati, O., Dee. 27.—When brought to the City Hospital for treatment, Charles H. VY alerius, aged thirty, of No. 111 East Ninth street, did not attract any particu- lar attention until he w as stripped preparatory to being placed in a cot. From boyhood up, Valerius has had a penchant for tattooing, and his body, from his ankles up to his neck, is simply a work of art. Butterflies of the grandest hues are seen flying upward from the instep through bowers of ¢le- mattis and roses. The lower portion of his chest is encircled by a wreath of beautiful wild flowers, so exquisitely drawn that they seem to stand out from the white background of his skin. Immeditely across the chest is a fine picture of the chariot race in Ben Hur. On the left side is an equally fine drawing of Ganymede, the cup bearer of the gods, being carried to Olympus in the beak of an eagle. Both arms and should- ers are enveloped in climbing vines, and his neck is encircled with a necklace of butterflies on the wing. Valerius has spent hundreds of dollars in this peeu- har self-adornment, and bore the pain that accompanied it with pleasure in gratifying his vanity. ——_*+@> Where Bullets Flew. David Parker, of Fayette, N. J., a veteran of the civil war, who lost a foot at Gettysburg, says, ‘“‘The good Electric Bitters have done is worth more than five hundred dollars to me. I spent much money doctoring for a bad ease of stomach trouble, to little purpose. I then tried Hlectiric Bitters, and they cured me. I now take them as a tonie, and they keep me strong and well.’’ d0e. at Statesville Drug Co.’s store. 4+ __—_ 3 NAMES IN 3 HOURS. Divorced, Resumes Maiden Name, Then Remarries. Savannah, Ga., Dee. 26.—At one minute to 12 o’clock Mrs. Roxie Spalding, ten minutes later Miss Roxie Phillips and at five minutes past 2 Mrs. Roxie Martin was the record of a Savannah wo- man who as the clock was striking the noon hour was granted a di- voree from 8. F. Spalding and al- lowed to resume her maiden name. When the decree was announc- ed she left the court house with John B. Martin, whose housekeep- er she had been and together they called on the city clerk for a mar- riage license. They then went to the office of Justice Vangessen and had the justice been in they would have made even a faster record getting married than they did. They had to wait on him and lost two hours. By 2. o’clock, Miss Phillips was married again and had become Mrs. Martin. : ——_—_++ar-e—__—_—_ Day after day he walked the street, Looking for a presnt for “‘wifey”’ sweet— “‘T know what'll please her most,”’ said he; “It’s Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea.’’—Statesville Drug Co. ——_++2--—_—— The Weak Point of the Story. They are telling a story in North Carolina of a small farmer’s boy who stayed at home and picked cotton instead of going to circus and picking up gold nuggets worth $30. No good. What normally constituted boy would prefer $30 to seeing a cireus—Macon Tele- graph. —_——_++2e—___— If you haven’t the time to exercise regularly, Doan’s Regulets will pre- vent constipation. They induce a mild, easy, healthful action of the bowels without gripizs. Ask your druggists for them. 25c. ——4+~@e——— An excursion te the Pole is not necessary to qualify Abruzzi as the world’s leading frost ex- Price Never: Changed. - ‘The Rev. Simon Turpie was an elo- quent speaker, but he seemed to have a list of sermons which, when he once began, he went right through to the end and then started at the first ser- mon again, and so on. A young man in the congregation was about to leave for South Africa, but the Sunday before he departed he attended the church service. In the course of his lecture the min- ister used an illustration in which were the words, “A maw can easily purchase two sparrows for threepence.” The young man, after being absent for about three years, returned and again on the first opportunity attended divine service. Strange to say, he heard the same narrative by the same minister, the phrase striking him most being about the “two sparrows for threepence.” At the close of the service the min- ister, In his courtesy, came and shook hands with the youth and. welcoming him back to his home, asked him if he noticed any changes about the place. The young man, evidently quite un- concerned, replied, “Aye, man, there’s two or three changes, but there’s yin thing I can see—the price o’ sparrows is aye at the same auld figger.”—Glas- gow News. New Use For Wheelbarrows. Mrs. Zelia Nuttall, the archaeologist, Was making some excavations in Mex- ico. The Indians were removing the earth some distance from the point of excavation in the customary manner— that is, on a piece of coarse cloth tied between two poles, stretcher fashion, carried by two Indians. This method seemed rather laborious to Mrs. Nut- tall, so she ordered several iron wheel- barrows from the city. When they arrived she turned them over to the foreman after explaining to him what they were for and how to use them. Next day when she visited the work the Indians had discarded their primi- tive parihuelas and were -using the bright new wheelbarrows. As each barrow was filled with earth it was picked up by two Indians, one using the handles and the other the wheel, and carried to the place where the earth was to be deposited. All efforts to get the Indians to use the wheel- barrows properly failed, and they kept on carrying them until the work was finished. Alphabet of the Playhouse. “We keep learning things all the time,” said an infrequent theater goer. “I stopped in front of a theater the other day to buy a ticket of a specu- lator, and I asked him if he had a good single near the front. “‘Here’s one in O,’ he said, ‘thir- teenth row, third seat from the aisle.’ “Now, you know, I don’t carry the relative positions of the letters of the alphabet in my mind all the time. I have to work for. a living and have other things to think of. But it struck me that O must be farther down the line than thirteen, and so I just count- ed_up the letters on my finger tips, and I made O come fifteenth, and I said so to the ticket man, but that didn’t wor- ry him any. “*There’s no A in this theater,’ he said, ‘and there’s no I in any orches- tra in town.’ “And, having my finger tip figuring thus handily knocked out, I bought the ticket.”—Washington Post. The Surprise of Slivnitsa. “T have never quite made out,” says a writer in “Near East,” “why the plain of Slivnitsa has come to be re- garded as the scene of one of the great decisive battles of the world’s his- tory. It did not even decide the Servo- Bnilgarian war in 1885. That was de- cided by Austria intervention. The battle of Slivnitsa is really. only re- markable for the comical fact that both sides thought they were-defeated, and while Milan of Servia was hurry- ing home in confusion Alexander of Bulgaria galloped all the way back to his capital before he learned that the tide had turned. Nowadays the vil- lage looks sleepy enough, poor and ‘dirty, like most Bulgarian villages, but almost gay when the sun shines upon its red roofs.” Harsh Music. The politician caught with the goods was counseled by his friends to stay and face the music. For an instant he listened to the clamor of denunciation. “Great Scott,” he exclaimed impa- tiently, “do you call that music?” A moment later he was out of hear- ing.—Philadelphia Ledger. How Rows Begin. “Hubby, I dreamed last night that you didn’t love me.” “How foolish you are!” “Foolish, am I? As if I could help what I dream about!’ And the fracas was on.—Louisville Courier-Journal. What Kept Him. "Why couldn’t you have come home at a reasonable hour?” remarked an angry wife to her spouse. “Could, m’dear, jes easy as not, but I—hic—was waitin’ fer you t’ go U shleep!” replied the delinquent. Soon Gets Over It. “What is the honeymoon, pa?” “Well, the honeymoon is the only in a man’s life during which he considers it fanny to come home and find that his dear little wife hasn’t dinner ready in time.” The Means to the End. Mrs. Benham—Why does a man hate his mother-in-law? Benham—Oh, he doesn’t hate her; he simply hates to think of the way she got into his fam- fly.—Harper’s Weekly. pert—Washington Star. — nl A GOOD STOMACH Means Good Health, Cheerfulness, Ambition, Persistency and Suc- cess. Mi.o-na will cure your dyspepsia or any other stomach trouble by building up the flabby walls, and making the stomach so strong that it will digest food without pepsin or ther artificial aid. In other words, Mi-o-na cures dys. pepsia by removing the cause, Statesville Drug Co., is the agent for Mi.o-na in Statesville and they say to every reader of The Mascot whose stomach is weak, who has in- digestion or dyspepsia, that Mi-o.na is guaranteed to cure or money back, The price is only 50 cents a large box, and one box is all you need to prove that you are on the right road to health and happiness. “IT can’t say enough for Mi-o_na tablets; they have done more for me in one week than all the doctors have for the two years I have been under their care, and I will do all I can to recommend it to my friends. You can also usé My name in your ad. if you like, for Mi-o_na is better than gold to me. I am like a new man, and am able to work once more for the first time in over a year.”—W. A. Ennis, 328 Green St., Syracuse, NE We : ———__ 2-4 > —___ “The people are partners in all great fortunes,” says Andrew Carnegie. Very silent partners New York American. —_—__<<>e____ Mothers how can you take chanees—keep a_ bottle cf Moth- ers joy in your house. You need Mothers Joy every day. HOLLISTER’S Rocky Mountain Tea Nuggets A Busy Medicine for Busy People. Brings Golden Health and Renewed Vigor. A specific for Constipation, Indigestion, Liver and Kidney troubles, Pimples, Eczema, Impure Blood, Bad Breath.Sluggish Bowels, Headache and Backache. Its Rocky Mountain Tea in tab- let form, 35 cents a box. Genuine made by HOLLISTER Drvue Company, Madison, Wis. GOLDEN NUGGETS FOR SALLOW PEOPLE ~~ PRICE 1 CENT! THE SUN (Baltimore, Md.) Now sells for 1 cent, and can be had of every Dealer, Agent or News- boy at that’ price. ALL SUBSCRIBRS IN District of Columbia, Virginia, North and South Carolina, Pennsyl- vania, and Deleware And througnout the United States can get The Sun by mail at 1 cent a copy. The Sun’s special correspondents throughout the United States, as well as in Europe, China, South Africa the Philipines, Porto Rico, Cuba and in every other part of the world, make it the greatest newspaper that can be printed. Its Washington and New York bu- reaus are among the best in the Uni- ted States, and give The Sun’s read- ers the earliest information upon all important events in the legislative and financial centers of the country. THE FARMERS’ PAPER. The Sun’s market reports and com- mercial columns are complete and re- liable, and put the farmer, the mer- chant and the broker in touch with the markets of Baltimore, Norfolk, Charleston, New York, Chicago, Phil- adelphia and all other important points in the United States and other countries. All of which the reader, gets for one cent. THE WOMAN’S PAPER, The Sun is the best type of a news- paper morally and intellectually. In addition to the news of the day, it publishes the best features that can be presented, such as fashion artic- les and miscellaneous writings from men and women of note and promi- nence. It is an educator of the high- est character, constantly stimulating to noble ideals in individual and na- tional life. The Sun is published on Sunday as well as every other day of the week. _ By mail the Daily Sun, $3 a year By mail the Daily Sun, $3 a year. Address : A. S. ABELL COMPANY, Publishers and Proprietors, BALTIMORE, MD. STATESVILLE RATING RINK Opera House Building Open from 3 to 5 and 8 to 10 p. m. No Children Admitted to Floor at Night Sessions. the best and lightest running Be h Pe h t h t h h AG fe b p e e you can easily bestow upon yourself is to acquire the habit of thrift and the sav- ing of money—the Merch- ants and Farmers bank off- ers you the most practical means, as its financial stand- ing and integrity are un- questioned. Commence to save on January Ist and stick to your resolution. Merchants and $+ P$bebbo55eeee+oberteee < THE SEEDING SEASON is again with us and have a car lead of the celeprated Superior Grain Drills: examine them and get our prices—we know we can please. Also a Full Line of Hardware, Stoves, Etc. ° bo g } Li od e s e a i a l drill made. If in need of a drill Evans Hardware Comp’ yz SPSEEEESSEEEEESSEEEEEEEEE S THE FINEST GIFT OF THE YEAR FINEST GIFT OF THE = Farmers’ Bank OF STATESVILLE INCORPONATED CAPITAL $25,000.00. OFFICERS: L. T. STIMPSON, Pres.; C.S. TOMLIN, Vice-Pres.; F. B. BUNCH. Sec. & Treas.; J. A. KNOX, Asst. Sec. & Treas. Directors: L. T. Stimpson, J. L. Stevenson, C. S. Tomlin, R. R. Reid, J. A. Knox, W. 8S. Page, Geo. B. Nicholson, L. K. Lazen- by, E. G. Gaither, J. B. ‘Hill, E. B. Watts. JOOOOSDOOOOOOOOCK i Mortgage Sale of Valuable. Real Estate. By virtue of power of sale con- tained in a mortgage deed executed by R. S. Sherrill and wife Mattie R. Sherrill, on March 20th, 1908, to the Henkel Live Stock Company to se- cure a note of $300 due and payable Nov. 1, 1908, (see Book 26, page 485, Registry Iredell Co.) the said mort- gagee will sell for cash by Public Auction, at the Court House door in Statesville, N. C., on Monday, the 18th day of January, 1909, at 12 o’clock noon, the following real es- tate conveyed in said mortgage, or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay the aforesaid debt and costs of sale, viz: Ist Tract. Beginning at W. F. Bailey’s S. E. corner, thence north “with his line 210 poles to a stake, Bailey’s corner; thence E. 85 poles to a post oak; thence north 52 poles to a post oak; thence E. 140 poles to Murdock’s corner; thence S. 320 poles to a stake; thence W..56 poles to a stake; thence S. 7 poles to a stake; thence W. 66 poles to a sour wood, Lingle’s corner; thence N. 65 poles to a stake, Lingle’s corner; thence W. 97 poles to the beginning, containing 356 acres, more or less. Also one house and lot in the su- burb of Statesville on what is called ‘Diamond Hill,’’ beginning at a stake, corner of Vance and Dagen- hart streets, thence N. 4 degrees 100 feet to a stake; thence S. 85 degrees E. 180 feet to a stake; thence S. 4 degrees W. 100 feet to stake on Dag- enhart street; thence N. 85 degrees W. 180 feet to beginning. Terms Cash. THE HENKEL Live Stock Co., Mortgagee. Armfield & Turner, Attys. THE IREDELL CAFE LEADER IN CANDIES cnocstEPEs sacs FRUITS Oysters for retail and serving. Quail on Toast. PHONE NO. 323 If you have lost something or want to buy or have any- thing to sell try a want ad. in The Evening Mascot. SOUTHERN RAILWAY CO. lireat Highway of Trade and Travel Through the Southern States. Through Pullman Sleeping Cars on palatial trains between the principal Cities and Resorts of the South. High-class Diving Cars. Many delightfulSummer and Winter Resorts on and reached by Southern Railway. “The Land of the Sky,” “The Sapphire Country,” in scenic Western North Carolina; beau- tiful at all seasons. Hotels of the highest class. For detailed information apply to nearest Ticket Agent, or R: L. VDRNON, T. P. A., Charlotte, N. C. S.H. HARDWICK, P.T.M., W.H. TAYLOE,G. P. A., Washihgton, D. C. New Pool Room New Tables of the latest and best makes have been in- stalled under J. P. Phifer’s grocery store. i W. W.GAITHER : Proprietor. WeSolicit YourPatronage ea rr ab ay e ae ee ee a rs a . _ a a4 be co t e , st Sete ees oR No Bail Will be Allowed Alleged | i ee ~ t _-@Q@@PERS MUST STAY IN JAIL | ear | Sisyer of SeMator Carmack. Nashville, Tenn., Dee 28 oe “Duncan B. Cooper, his son Rob in J. Cooper, and ex-Sheriff John =<2D.¢ Sharpe, charged with the “murder of ex-Senator E. W. Car- - mack, were today denied bail and will remain in jail until January 20, the date set for their trial. Io refusing the application of de- fendants for bail, Judge Hart said: “J have given this case careful consideration and am of the opinion that it is not a bailable case; therefore, decline to allow bail ag to any of the defendants and deny the application.” Most of the counsel for the de- fense seemed stunned at first by the ruling of the court and each sat stockstill for a moment fol- lowing the rendition of the brief opinion. The prisoners were conducted back to jail to await their trial on January 20. ——_+@rr——— FAMINE IN PRINT PAPER. —$———— Dry Weather is Forcing Mills tot Run on Short Time and They May Stop. Glensfalls, N. Y.. Dec. 28.— That a famine in the news print paper market is likely to result from a much longer continuance of the present dry spell in paper making territory is indicated in statements adopted today by the officials of the {nternational Paper Company. Many wills which have been compelled to run on short time in several de- partments owing to low water, will be forced to shut down en- tirely within four weeks unless rain falls, the officials say. Such # shutdown, owing to the fact that that company has no reserve supply of paper, would, it is said, cut off ship ments to a number of big dailies ——_++@>-—_—_ TO CANADA AND MEXICO Uncle Sam’s Neighbors to be In- vited to JOin Him in ConServa-' tion Conference. Washington, D.C, Dec. 28.— Bearing invitations from Presi- dent Roosevelt to President Diaz, of Mexico, and Pzemier Laurier and Lord Grey, of Canada, to appoint delegates to the National Conservation Conference here February 18, next, Gifford Pinchot, chief of the Forestry Bureau and Chair- man of the National Conserva- tion Committee, left today for Canada and later for Mexico. —_—+1@o————_ Prohibition in Alabama. Birmingham, Ala., Dec. 28.— Figures on the internal revenue receipts show a decided falling off in Alavama during the year just closed, largely due to prohi- bition. The total collections in Alabama for 1907 were $433,- 688.40, and for 1908 $149,196.- 88. The figures for the last three days for the present month were estimated by Collector Thomp- son. The whiskey revenue in the state for the past three years was: 1906, $25,000.07; 4907, $26,000; 1903, $15,000. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought san, Lop hizea Signature of —--—s~@ro——— It must be very diffieult for the Atlanta and Savannah papers to live complacently in the presence of the arrogant Augusta press since Taft went there to get a lit- tle of the town’s far-famed quict—— Houston Post. ——_—_~+- 4 —__—__ Itching piles provoke profanity, but profanity won’t cure them. Doan’s Ointment cures itching, - Bleeding protruding pfles after years _ 6@auffering. At any drug store. Ae ~ Eufola Notes. Xmas has come and gone and it was dull there wasn’t any thing doing in ‘this vicinity exeept a Christmas tree at Rev. J. M. Whites’. There was a large crowd there and they all had a nice time- The people in this community wire visited by a hail storm Xmas day. Kt thundering and lightening and soon began to pour It was soon over with. began down hail. Not many of us if any ever saw it hail on Xmas before. Mr. Pink Howard is suffering from a stroke of paralysis. He is one of the oldest men in the county and it is not thought that he will recover. Just a few more days and old booze will be and then we boys out here around Eufola are, going to sing the old familiar song: ¥ > gone Good bye old booze, forever more, My boozing days are surely o’er. I’ve had a good time, I must con- fess, Oh, Good bye booze, I'll give you rest. 3ut let her, go, it is a bad thing any way. One of our boys had been drinking pretty heavy all day the other day and started home that night. He was riding along when he saw a train coming. As he thought the train was running pretty fast. he got out of the road and it was soon past and gone. He said it was loaded with passengers and he thought the devil was the enginetr. Being a little bit fright- ened, he didn’t wait to see where it was going. Now when booze makes a fell »w see trains passing him when he is net in ten miles of a railzoad it is time to cut it out. Hello, school girls, come again. PEEK-A-BOO. —__+ +22 WOMEN’S WOES. Statesville Women Are Finding Re- lief at Last. It does seem that women have more than a fair share of the aches aad pains that affiict humanity; they must “keep up,’ must attend to duties in spite of constantly aching backs or headaches, dizzy spells, bearing-down pains; they must stoop over, when to stoop means torture. they must walk. and bend and bend and work with racking pains and many aches from kidney ills. Kidneys cause more suffering than any other organ of the body. Keep the kidneys well and health is easily maintained. Read of a remedy for kidneys only that helps and cures the kidneys and is endorsed by people you know. Mrs. M.L Moose, Boulevard St., Statesville, N. C., says: “For several years I was a vic- time of weak kidneys. I had a soreness across these organs most of the time and I generally felt weak. Dizzy spells and headaches were of frequent occurrence, and at night I was unable to obtain my proper rest. The kidney secretions were also un- natural in appearance, and showed that my kidneys were at fault. I used a number of remedies but Doan’s Kidney Pills, which I procur- ed at Hall’s drug store, benefited me more than any of the others. I sin- cerely hope that other sufferers will give Doan’s Kidney Pills a trial as I know they will act strictly up to their representations. ’? For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name and take no other. ———_+<+>>-e—__— - living at 209 Mr. ‘‘Abe’’ Ruef says he hopes 3 **to get justice from the supreme | 8 Right here} & “Amen”? to |& observation.— W ashing- : court of California.”’ is where we says ce Abe’s’’ ton Herald. —__1- Fills your veins with rich, red|$% bleed. Gives you a hearty appe-|% tite, builds up flesh, makes you|# Hollister’s | 3 strong and rugged. Rocky Mountain Tea, health builder. Tablets. greatest 35 cents, Tea or Statesville Drug Co. —_—__+~+ea>o——_ - Perhap the Bumble Puppy will succeed the Teddy Bear. -Chio State Journal. ———~-+@>o—___. Most disfiguring skin eruptions, |& scrofula, pimples rashes, etc., are 3 due to impure blood. Burdock Blood | % Bitters is a cleansing tonic. Makes|*& clear-brained, clear 3 you clear-eyed, | skinned. > LOCAL BRIEFS. Mr, A. C. McHargue, who has been very ill, was able to be on the streets again today. Marriage license were issued late yesterday afternoon to Mr. Herbert Mayes and Miss Lola Benfield. Mrs. H. Scott’s condition con- tinues very critical. Her sister, Mrs. L. Hayman of Charlotte, has arrived, and is with her A skating party will be the fea- ture at the rink New Year’s night. The public will skate from 8 to 10 and from 10 to 12:15 a party will be given. Mr. J. G. Gray who was operat- ed on at Long’s sanatorium y23- terday is in a very ertitical con- ditlon, very little hope being en- tertained for his recovery. —_——__+1+1ere A Healthy Family. ‘‘Our whole family has enjoyed good health since we began using Dr. King’s New Life Pills, three years ago,’’ says L. A. Bartlet, of Rural Route 1, Guilford Maine. They cleanse and tone the system in a gentle way that does you good 25e. at Statesville Drug Co. ——_+~@ero———" BOY CRUSHED BY CARS. Miles Goodwin Has Narrow Es- cape From Death—Five Whisk- ey Concerns DiSsolve. Rakigh, Dec. 28—Miles Good- win, the 12-year-old son of Mrs. Miles Goodwin, a widow, fell un- der the Raleigh and Southport train this morning and escaped a horrible death. Both feet were crushed in such a way that he will be crippled for life. Dissolution notices of five dis- tilling and whiskey corporations in Salisbury were filed today on account of the State prohibition law becoming effective January 1st. They are North Carolina Distillery Company, Bailey Dis- tillery Company, Summerson Distilling Company, J. M. Sum- mers & Co. and &. L. Summer- son & Co. A a To some Pittsburgers the sad- dest thing about the graft cases is the smallness .of some of the Thunderstorm at Newbern. Newbern Dee. 27.—A_ rather unusual feature for Christmas was a thunderstorm Friday evening. accompanied by lightning. rain and hail. Fora short time the storm was quite severe, but no damage was done as few people were out. At times the sun w ould shine bright and in ten minut s it would be raining. ——_~--+a-e——— J. Pierpont Morgan’s dues in the 35 clubs to which he belongs amount to more than $7,000 an- nually. What a lot of excuses he has for remaining away from home at night?—Chicago. Record- Her- ald. WANT ADS * me. 5 cents a line. 3 times.......... see 4 cents a line. 6 times............ .....0% cents & line. 26 times...... ee 3 cents a line. FOR RENT—Hall and 3 rooms over N. Harrison’s store. Apply to T. D. Miller, agent. de28 6t WANTED—At olttce a good cOok, white or black. Apply at this office. dee 28 3t FOR SALE—3 filuabdle city lots near College—2 good Mules—1 young Holstien cow.—J. B. Gill Dec. 23 to Jan, 1. LOST—$15.00, a2 Ten Dollar bill and $5.00, between Providence church and Statesville. Lost on Christmas day, Will pay a lib- era reward if left at The Mascot office. dec28 tf WANTED—BY THE AMERICAN Cotton and Business University of Milledgeville, Ga., students to take one or more of our courses in cot- ton grading, buying and selling. Business courses of bookkeeping, Shorthand, Typewriting, or Telegra- phy and Railroad course. Positions guaranteed under reasonable con- ditions. Write at once for our consolidated catalog. Largest col lege South. Sept 28-tf AMBITIOUS YOUNG MEN AND ladies should learn telegraphy; for, since the now 8 hour law became effective there is a_ shortage of many thousand telegraphers. Po- sitions pay from $50 to $70 a month to beginners. The National Telegraph institute of Columbia, S. C., and five other cities is oper- ated under supervision of R. R. officials and all students are placed when qualified. Write them for amouns.—New York American. particulars. no19 dtf call. Phone 40. SR R SS R S S S K R S Beatrice NEW SHOE ST ORE WE HAVE SHOES. THAT ARE GUARAN- TEED TO BE ABSOLUTELY WATER- PROOF nice enough for general wear and heavy enough for farmers. —~WCGSEE THEMIS Complete line of Dress Shoes for Men, Women and Children. Overshoes, Underwear and Gents’ Furnishings. Everything new and as represented. We will appreciate a Yours to serve, Ss. M. & H. SHOE COMPANY Opposite Court House. : | I Bt am a n o Return Engagement. OPERA HOUSE, JANUARY 2ND. JED CARLTON Presents SATURDAY, Gordon “WAS SHE 10 BLAME” A dramitization of Bertha M. Clay’s beautiful story “A BITTER ATONEMENT": Complete Stage Production—Special Scenery—Competent Cast. If there is any humor in your make-up you will laugh ’till you If your heart has d spot this play wil Sah oe Seats on sale at Statesville Drug Company. Ba: 50 and 75 Cents. * 4 ~, SE es ———POCCS. ur Hish ior a Happy Mew Year | 4 will be largely fulfilled if you become a regular patron of the H Statesville Steam. Good Work, 4 Whiie Work, Clean Work. | } ‘ ‘ a . os ro c a STATESVILLE STEAM LAUNDRY | % vU.C. EES oe Phone No. 122 ii Se = SIDI OOOO SSS SSire =. NH W STU DION Maynard & Ellis, Professional Photographers, in N. B. Mills New Building, adjoining Stimson Drug Store, Statesville, N. C. High Grade Photos at a Low Price. Penny Pictures, the best that can be made—24 for 25¢. Post Cards, per dozen, $1.25. Per half dozen 750. Cabinets, in folders, dozen, $2.00. Halfdozen $1.50. Pictures of your home, PostCard size, and up to 8x10 inches, and out-door groups, is one of our specialties at a moder. ate price. Give us @ trial and be convinced that we are trying’ to please you. We are now ready to serve you. Will also Develop and Finish Kodak Work. $ oOMAYNARD & ELLIS— od aE Seeeeeeeee OUR HATS ARE OFF!s \ IS N S T S U S U S N S N S I O U S U O S U S I S I G e Ka r B t O H O G I S N S I E N S N S H S N S ! to you for the liberal patronage extended to us on CHRISTMAS GOODS. You have made many souls glad by giving sensible Christmas Presents. THE SHOE MAN. S.B. MILLER # 0000000 0000629000000000N6 00 0 0 0 0 6 00 0 0 8 0 0 0 0 8 So c e v s c e e v e e s s e wv We mR A Ly mn a i) \ a ( Mm ri i it h ni Lm in fn Nl Nl n\ am mn SZ A MERRY ° CHRISTMAS * It is to those who m\ have a spick and . w Ww W uv Y 3 span new bathroom Ar Wi in which to pre- yi at pare for the pieas- A W ures of the day. N. Ww Consult us as to A > the ess plan for a your floor space, \ di and we wiil fit you ma : out with a bath “a S| ten of which ee ai wi e proud, nM! Wi without much fr w strain oe your mt pocket f : Ww WA. W. HOLLER PLUMBING COMPANY in ‘s Phoce Ne. 61. 127 W. Broad St. “ 33338 33939 3933333333333 3ST So fonfonfoodonsecfoolonsocfondonsoefeodonsen see feefeesens* 5 Wedding Presents of Quality: = Imported Hand Painted China American Cut Glass Old Brass, Bright Brass Gold and other novelties. Lo s l e s l o n t o c f o o t o n f o c t e n t o e t o c t o n f a c f o o t o n f o e f a c l e n t o n f o c o n t o e f e c t o n f e c f e e t o n f e c t e n f e e l e e f e STATESVILLE DRUG CO. Prescriptiontsts. | ERE eeieeieteteiein < Now Time for You to Se- lect Your Xmas Goods We will put aside any goods selected. See our new line of Morris Chairs and Rockers. Also Fine Mahogany Tables. We will make Special Prices on COOK STOVES and RANGES. ° STATESVILLE HOUSEFURNISHING COMP’Y ~ Vol. 1. Train Wrecker Makes Scape THE SWITCH SPRING BROKEN Train Runs Into Open Spur Switch at Morgan’s Mill and a Smash up Results—NegYo Fireman Suf- fers Broken Limb—Passengers Shaken up but None Killed or Seriously Injured. _ Spring Hope Dec. 28.—Some un- known miscreant broke the lock at the spur switch at Morgan’s Hill, two miles from here, this afternoon, threw the switch and threw the lock away. The passenger train due here at 5 o’clock ran into tho switch and against box cars. The engine tur- ned across the track. the cab was demolished, the baggage car smash- ed and the front passenger coach de- railed. The negro fireman, Will Mitchell, jumped and suffered a broaken leg. Engineer D. C, Swindell stayed at his post and escaped unharmed, save a few bruises. One negro passenger went through a window and had his arm bruised. All the passengers were badly shaken uy, but escaped without seri- ous injuries. Captain Hill was in charge of the train. The majority of passengers walked to Spring Hope. Engineer Swindell was to re- tire Thrusday from survice of the road on account ofage. Just after the wreck a man was seen runing away. + Great Earthquakes of History. Guatemala, Central America, founded in 1524, destroyed by earthquake and volcanic erup- cion in 1556; the second Guate- mala, established near the site of the first, almost destroyed by earthquake in 1773, succeeded by the construction of the pre- sent town. Libson, Portugel, almost de- stroyed by quake and accom- panying tidal wave, November 1, 1775, with the loss of 60,000 lives. Caracas, capital of Venezuela, destroyed by earthquake shock, 1812. Aleppo, destroyed in 1882. Nsples, severely shaken, with accompanying eruption of Ve- suvius, 1857. Many buildings in Quito, capi- tal of Ecuador, shaken to pieces, 1859. Manila severely shocked, 1863 and 1880. Valparaiso, Chile, badly dam- ayed in 1880. Earthquake at Colchester and eastern counties of England, 1884. Charleston, S. C., visited Aug- ust 31, 1886, by a severe earth- quake, that shook down many buildings and caused heavy logs of life and property damage of $8,000,000; disturbance felt over entire eastern section of the country. St. Pierre and other towns of the Island of Martinique des- troyed by eruption of Mont Pelee May 8, 1902; earthquake shocks through the West Indies and more thap 30,000 lives lost. San Francisco and neighboring towns shaken Wednesday, Arril 18, 1906; fire swept the ruined district of the city and property loss ran into the handreds of millions. with hundreds killed. — Valparaiso and other towns in Chile ruined by earthquake Aug- ust 16, 1906, and 2,000 killed. Kingston, Jamaica, partially destroyed Monday, January 14, 1906; 800 killed. ———_+~@>r__—" Mother do you hear that rat- tling in your babies throat? Put a little Mothers’ Joy on it and stop it at once. Statesville, N. C., Wednesday Evening, December 30, £908. COURT CIRCLES. — Vance Horton up Again—Gus Adams Caught in Winston. Vance Horton, white, who was before Mayor Grier a few days ago for being drunk and disorder- ly was up again yesterday for the some offense. Mr. Grier, the mayor, fined him $10 and costs. Vance seems to have a weakness for this kind of business, and his honor gives him a severe lecture every time he is up for the offense. Gus Adams Caught. Gus Adams, colored, who is wanted here for retailing was ar- rested at Winston yesterday by authorities of that place, on a ea- pias issued by Sheriff Deaton. Mr. Deaton went to Winston this morning and will bring Adam over here tonight. +P b— Drunk on ‘‘June Bug.’’ One day the latter part of last week, as Capt. Tom Rowland’s train pulled into the local yards, at the depot and stopped, Mr. Rowland noticed a couple on the train that should have changed cars here for an east bound train. They were sitting there evident- ly asleep, and Capt. Rowland be- ing very much afraid they should be left called to them. They did arouse from their slumber, so Tom walked up ang shook the man. Ile half away awakened, raised his head asd inquired what was the matter. Mr Rowland asked him to see his ticket, and he pulled his watch from his pocket and handed it to the Captain. Finally the man was made to understang the situation and he got to his feet and tried to arouse his wife. After calling Julia for some time at her, she was finally awakened. It required three men to earry her from the car. She and her husband were both drunk. S ~ They looked very respectable people, having on very nice clothes. —_—__++@+2—__—_ Changes in Business. Mr. J. A. Gunn; Jr., who has bees conducting a grocery store and restaurant on Broad street, is today moving his stock of goods to his store on Davie avenue. Mr. Gunn will continue the store on Davie avenue, under the same name as formerly, J. A. Gunn, Jr. Mr. Geo. E. Montgomery who has been with Mr. Gunn for some months will take a position with Mr. N. Harrison, on the Ist, sue- eeeding Mr. W. J. Matheson, re- signed. The store formerly oedipied by Mr. Gunn has been rented by Johnson the baker, who will move into it about the first of the year. Ramsey, Bowles & Compasy are closed until Monday, taking an inventory in order to make the change in their firm. Knox, Poston & Co., will make a change in their firm the first also. —_—_<+-—___—_ LOCAL BRIEFS. License have been issued: for the marriage of Edward B. Bagwell asd Nora Moore; Jame P. Waugh and Addie Drum. During Xmas week some one stole a fine big turkey from the Billingsley hospital. No trace of it has ever been found. Do not forget to go to the re- ception to be given by the local chapter of the D. A. R. tomorrow sight at 8 o’clock at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Henkle. M.W.B.Eidson is advertising his household effects ang farming implements for sale on January 5th, preparatory to going to Mis- souri about the 6th of next month. Gireat Calamity Belalls Italy DEATH LIST NUMBERS 100,000 Earthquake, Followed by Tidal Wave, DeStroy€d City After City in South Italy and Siciiy, and Obliterated Smaller Towss! and Villages Without Number. Missing With Its Tragic His- tory, was Shaken to Ruins ald Flames HaSt°n to Complete the City’s Destruction. Rome, Dec. 29.—One hundred thousand dead; Messina in Sicily and Reggio and ascore cf other towns in Southern Italy over- whelmed; the entire Salabrian region laid waste, this is the earthquake’s record so far as is at present known from the re- ports that are coming slowly in- to Rome on account cf the al- most complete destruction of lines of communication to the stricken places. The death list in Messina ranges from 12,000 to 50,000. that of Reggio, which with its adjacant villages numbered 45,- 000 people, includes almost the entire population. At Palmi, 1,- 000 are reported dead; at Cassa- no 1,000; at Cosenza 500, and half of the population of Bagba- ra, about 4.000. The Montelone region has been devastated, and Riposto, Seminara, San Glovan- ni, Scillia, Lazzarro and Canni- tello and all other communes and villages bordering on the straits are the ruins. Messina, and Catania, in Sicily are the two largest cities that have suffered in this earthquake. Messina has a population of about 100,000, while Catania has about 140,000 people. Mes- siana is on the west side of the Strait of Messina near the nar- ruwest part. Catania is south of Messina on the east coast of the island. Reggio is the capital of the Providence of Reggio di Cala- bria, and the population is about 50,000. This city 1s on the east side of the strait not far from Messina. Riposto is in Sicily, 10 miles southwest from Taormina. It hasa population of something over 7,000. The other towns mentioned in today’s dispatches are in Cala- bria Bagnara is 16 miles north- east ot Rezgio and has a popu- lation of 7,500. Cosenza is the capital of Cosenza Province in a commune that has 21,000 in- habitants and 34 miles to the north is Cassano with 6,700 peo- ple. Palmi is 20 miles to the north of Reggio and has a pop- ulation of something over 10,- 000, while San Giovinni, witha population of 12,000, is 25 miles east of Cosenza. —_» <@- —— —- A Farmer’s Almasac, The Merchants and Farmers bank have issued a nice almanac to their friends and customers is full of advice and instruction. It contains hints to banking customers, general information for farmers and many other help- ful things too numerous to men- tion. The almanac is printed and the circulation is controlled by the bank from where it is issued. It is indeed a nice gift for the farmers and every body should have one. + Mr. red Conger who has been very ill for some days is a great deal better, being able to walk a f _— mercial Club Entertained Guests ' Royally From 9 to 12:30—Mnay Pre€nt. Broad street last evening from 9 to 12:30 In their club room on 0’¢lock, the members of the Com- mercial Club- entertained a large number of invited guests, with a bafquet and a dance. Mr. H. L. McCall and Miss Mary Miller, Mr. D. M. Ausley and Mr. Wm. A. Bristol receiv- ed the guests, and ushered ‘them into the beautiful and spacious club rooms. The guests were served refresh- ments consisting of cream, cakes, cofiee, oysters, Saratoga chips, olives and quail on toast. An Italian band furnished music for the occasion. After these re- freshments were served by Mr. Rufus Cooper, which were great- ly enjoyed by the guests. After the banquet was served a dance was given is which a large number of couples participated. The hour for departing only came too soon and allthe guests were loath to part. ——__++>-_— Details of Shooting of Gaither. Is Monday’s paper a_ scant sketch was given about the shoot- ing of the Gaither negro by Guard Creedmore, while trying to cap- ture Tom Moore, colored, who had escaped from the chain gang. The Massecot man was unable to obtain any particulars about the shooting, but has got Gaither’s side of the affair. Gaither stated that Moore came to the door of his home late Sat- urday night, and demanded en- trance. He was admitted, and asked for something to cut the shackles from his leg with.. He secured an ax and hammer and sueceeded in cutting the shackles off. At that moment Mr. Creedmore, the guard, arrived, knocked on the door, and asked Gaither if Tom Moore was not in the house. Gaither replied to him that some one was in the house, but he did not know who it was. Mr. Creedmore was admitted ang in- stantly recognized Moore. He called upon him to surrend- er, but Moore ran into the next room, Creedmore after him. They chased around in the _ house, Creedmore firing at Moore. Moore made a_ break for the front room and Gaither opened opened the door letting Moore pass out. When Gaither opened the door he stood to one side, and as Moore passed out, Creedmore fired at him, but the discharge hit Gaither in the heel. Creedmore claims it was accidental, but pa- pers have been issued for his ar- ret for shooting Gaither. He will be tried before Squire King this afternoon late. —_—_—_++@ > __— Potts Committed Without Bail. After a trial which consumed nearly four hours, before Justice W. W. Turner of this city and Geo. W. Sheperd of Elmwood, Richarg Potts, the negro who slew Lon Summers on Xmas eve at Elmwood, was committed to jail iwthout bail to await the next term of court, which convenes here the 24 of January No facts were introduced on trial except what have been pub- lished by this paper heretofore. Theevidence introduced is that Potts was drinking and shot down the man in cold blood. A large number of witnesses were examined. There was also a -arge sumber of spectators in the court room. little : SWELL BANQUET. | z | Last Night Members of the Com-. PROPERTY LOSS $35,000. Sunday Night Fire, Supp0Sed +o Have Been of Incendiary Origin, Destroyed BuSineéss Buildings and Store in Town of Fountain, Entailing Losses to Many Per- Sons, Greenville, 8. C., Dee. 28.—Sat- urday night the store of J. H. Cobb, at Ballard’s, Pitt county, was destroyed by fire which originated from some unkn wn cause in the ware-room. Loss on building and stock, about six thou- sand dollars; insurance, three thousand. On Sunday night fire destroyed one side of the business street of Fountain, this county. The fire is upposed to be of incendiary origin. The losses are distributed as fol- lows: : J. C. Dilda, store and_ stock; amount not stated. D. F. Long & Co., stock $10,000; insurance $3,000. Gardner & Baker, stock and building, $12,000; insurance $5,- 500. ‘ Nathan Moore, building, about $500. N. L. Jefferson & Bro., building oceupied by others, $700; insur- ance $400. George Dunn, building, $500; half insured. Barber shop in Baker & Gardner building, amount not learned. The large store of R. L. Jeffer- son & Bro., and Fountain & Bro., on the opposite side of the; street, were lightly damaged. ———++>--—_—___ GOT A ‘‘HUBBY.”’ ‘ Advertised for Husband as a JOka Because Her Friends Dared Her toIt,and Got Him, Broston, Mass., Dee. 26.—An ad- vertisement inserted as a joke in a Boston matrimonial paper re- cently won Mrs. Fannie Eleanor Emerson, a nurse, of this city, a well-to-do husband. The marriage ceremony was per- formed last evening in Groton, Vt., in the parsonage of the First Bap- tist church, and the bridegroom was Geo. Lamphere. The ro- mance began about four months ago, when Mrs. Emerson accepted the dare of friends to insert the advertisement for a husband. She was at first inclined to sign an asumed name, but finally made up her mind to earry the joke as far possible, not only signing her real name, but also sending along her picture, which, to her surprise, the paper published. She receiv- ed hundreds of letters from men who vowgpd that they were already in love with the comedy nurse and eould not live without her, while some of the aspirants came to this city fora personal interest. Eee Thous@nds Face Hunger and Cold. London, Dec. 20.—The severest weather knowr in England for years has brought the unem- ployed situation to a most alarming stage. Charitable in- stitutions are completely swamp- ed and the streets and parks are filled with scantly clad, starving men, women and children. Unable to secure money to pay rent, whole families are thrown daily into the str-ets by merci- less landlords. The police are having great difficulty in suppressing riots started by street agitators who are preaching the doctrine of self-preservation by loot and pillage rather than death from cold and starvation. — Mr. Jim Stevenson of Dry Fork, Va., is visiting relatives in the city. Mrs. T. W. Parish of Tarboro is expected tonight to visit Mrs. Potts had no lawyer. W.L. Neely. No. 377 To Rise From His irave Soon WIDOW ASSUMES THRONE. Sect Believes That Earth’s Popu- lation Lives on the Inner Side of the Globe, and That the Sun and Solar System Will Also be Found Inside the Sphere—Will Probably Dissolve. Cum Tampa, Fla., Dee. 29.—Cyrus R. Teed, known as Koreshah, founder and head of the Koreshah Unity Corporation of Western people, who bought a large tract of land an extreme Southern Florida ten years ago and sought to establish their peculiar beliefs in this sec- tion of the country, is dead. The fact of his death was not disclosed until today, and when an investi- gation was made his devout fol- lowers said they were awaiting resurrection, which they had ex- pected to occur on Christmas day. While the body of the dead lead er lay unattended, Victoria Gratia the supposed wife of Teed, assum- ed the throne with much mock solemnity and declared that the body should not be buried until there was a manifestation of di- vine will in connection with his earthly service. Teed’s followers believe that the population of the earth live on the inner surface of the globe instead of the outside, and that the sun and solar system prevail inside the globe instead of the outside. It is probable that the sect will be dissolved unless the resurrec- tion o£ Koreshah occurs tomorrow. Dr. Cyrus R. Teed, who was born in Syracuse, N. Y., in 1859, first became generally known when he got together his colony of Koreshanites in Chicago, which he dubbed one of his two heavens. This was back in 1892, and his col- ony soon gained such notoriety that Dr. Teed had to be guarded by the police. He was the found- er of Koreshanity, a new cult. He elaimed to be a reincarnation of Mohammed, Confucius, and every other religious teacher. Koreshanity taught that the home should not exist, that every- thing should be owned in common, and in order to demonstrate that contention Dr. Teed got control of about $250,000 worth of money in other ways. He also had many schemes as to how the government should be run, a mixture of sacial- ism and imperialism, of which he was to be the head and moving feature. He also made a new cal- endar and called the year after his own age. Things became tou warm for the doctor and his cult in Chicago, and they moved into Southern Florida, and founded a new colony at a place they called Estero. The word Koreshan is Persian for Cy- rus. About 200 persons migrated and the colony raised fruits and also went into the business of build ing electric boats, the money going towards the support ofthe colony _ and also Koreshan.” Dr. Teed also had a theory con- cerning the earth’s form. He claimed that the earth was the inner crust and the sky a dome. He estimated that the earth’s erust was about 100 miles thick. EE Mr A. B. Brabble, the popular clerk at the Hotel Iredell has re- turned from a visit to home folks in Washington, N. C. Misses Marie Harrison and Leah Stepahny returned yesterday af- ternoon from Salisbury,: where they witnessed ‘The Devil.” ae ea e to at e a = ea e a to s Bh RE A a 3 ot OS S ee e i de a n THE EVENING MASCOT DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. Eatered at the Postofficein Statesville &. C.,as second-class mail matter. ffice 109 Court Street. Telephone 53 VANCE NORWOOD -_ Publisher. RALPH SLOAN, - - City Editor, Sabscription Price, - $4.00a Year "<ecubscription Price, - 10 Cents a Week Weather Forecasts Washington, D. C., Dec. 30.— for North Carolina rain tonight and possibly in southern portion Thursday Colder Thursday and in extreme western portion to- night. ——_++ or >—__—_—_ If you have troubles dom’t let anybody know it. If you do they won’t like you. —_——_++ar- If you really feel happy and contented rub it on another man and he will feel good too. ————— 1 The legislature mects Wednes- day, January 6th, next. Don’t you feel a dread coming over you? —_++2@>o—__—_. There are several ways of going through the world but there is none better than taking things easy. ——_2+@- The happy man or woman with king words and gentle manners is like the sweet fragrance of the flowers to humanity. + e ————— What has become of the Panama controversy? Some one will now eome forward with another phase of the ease. Times are getting dull. —_——_t¢(+@>-o—__—_ There is much advice given the legislators about passing the ap- propriation bills and hurrying home. We hope they will take time to get their pay before leav- ing. 2-44 - Old man Cannon still holds the fortress and will again be elected speaker for the next congress. He still apppars to have shells enough to elean up his enemies and dress: them off the field. 4 The democratic party has given the state the constitutional amend- ment, a splendid system of educa- tion asd temperance,now then lets have a season of perfecting these excellent things. —_-<+- —__—— Many of the wisest men in the state think nothing should be done by the next legislature. wouldn’t it be well if it didn’t meet at all? If it is to do what eertain men want done it would. ———++oo- The question ‘‘who got the mon- ey?’’ has become as famous as the _ one about ‘‘who struck Billy Pat- terson?”’ and if the country waits for congress to investigate and find out we will all die as ignorant of it as about who hit Billy. ET The new year is now upon us and whatever you do go forward with a resolve for a better condi- tion in heart and head, and if you fail in all or in part you wish to do remember you are nearer heaven perhaps in failure than in success. This may not satisfy some folks but it will do to tie to. ee SA YEAR-END SAYINGS. Emerson says: ‘‘Finish every day and be done with it. For manners and for wise living it is a viee to remember You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt have crept in; forget them as soon as youean. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it well and ser-ne ly, and with too high a spirit to be eumbered with your old nonsense. This day, for all that is good and fair; itis too dear, with all its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays.”’ If you have not willfully and wickedly done wrong, it is better ‘to forget; and if you have, it is ‘better to forgive yourself, and try strenuously to redeem the past by the good you do today. Every day, you are given a new trial; a new chance; and you should strive to make of your coming days a structure so beautiful that, look- ing upon it, no one will pause to look up the blunders of yesterday. Live now; and seek to live every day alittle farther up the slope. Strive to be tolerant of the blund- ers and failures of others, remem- bering your own wickedness. Be patient with the living, and tender with the sorrowing. Do not be harsh with the wrong-doer, nor point out through malice, the stains upon the garment of an- other, but guide the stumbling feet to safer ground, and draw the tempted away from the tempta- tion. In this way, the new year about to dawn will bring you riches of spirit, and bless the lives of all who touch your pathway.’’ — i KING CORN. The national corn exposition re- cently held in Omaha was a reve- lation to thousands of people who entertained the idea that ‘‘corn is merely corn.’? A few years ago the uses of corn were confined to feeding stock, making corn bread and mush. Now this cereal is taking its proper place among the foodstuffs of the world, and its many by-products are being utilized to the fullest extent. As a result the price of corm is en- hanced, and the price of corn land grows daily. The corn raising apea is restricted, and the future enlargement of the corn crop is dependent upon intensified farm- ing rather than upon the utiliza- tion of added acreage. The corn prodeer no longer selects his seed haphazard, puts it into the ground after hasty preparation and de- pends upon chance. Agriculture is becoming an exact science, and state agricultural schools are do- ing a splendid missionary work in preparing the way for scientific soil culture The Omaha corn ex- position will give an added incen- tive to further investigation and experiment, and the results will be beneficial in many ways. It is not hazardous to predict that the days of ten-cent corn are forever gone from the west. ——++2> -____ Where Bullets Flew. David Parker, of Fayette, N. J., a veteran of the civil war, who lost a foot at Gettysburg, says, ““The good Electric Bitters have done is worth more than five hundred dollars to me. I spent much money doctoring for a bad ease of stomach trouble, to little purpose. I then tried Electric Bitters, and they cured me. I now take them as a tonic, and they keep me strong and well.’’ 00c. at Statesville Drug Co.’s store. PRESENT HER We Are Agents. See our Xmas Packages of Candy Stationery and Cigars W.F.HALL Prescription Druygist. Mrs. Warwick says: tained relief. ‘Remarkable Story] ; The story of Mrs. Matilda Warwick, of Kokomo, § i Ind., as told below, proves the curative properties of Bthat well-known female remedy, Wine of Cardul. # It Will Help You “‘T suffered from pains in my head, shoulders, aa limbs, side, stomach low down, dizziness, chills, ner- j m vousness, fainting spells and other female troubles. % I was almost dead. Three doctors did not help me. & At last, I took Cardui, and with the first bottle ob- Now I am cured. I would have been dead.”’ = > 2S +S SRR ee SO = aR ee incre ei ea yee a eae Ja But for Cardui, i Try Cardui. Death was on His Heels. Jesse P. Morris, of Skippers, Va., had a close call in the spring of 1906. He says: ‘‘An attack of pneumonia left me so weak and with such a fearful cough that my friends declared consumption had me, and death was on my heels. Then I was persuaded to try Dr. King’s New Discovery. It helped me immediately, and after taking two and a half bottles I was a well man again. I found out that New Discovery is the best remedy for coughs and lung dis- ease in all the world,’’ Sold under guaarantee at Statesville drug Co. store. 50c. and $1.00. Trial bottle free. ——~<<@r-e—__ It will probably be developed later that some asphalt company is the real backer of the Venezue- lan revolution—Omaha Bee. NIGHT RIDER WHIPS MAN. Kentucky Boy Broods Over Fan- cied Disgrace atd Takes Hid Own Life. t Hopkiusville, Ky., Dec. 28.— Brooding over the fancied dis- grace to his family because his father had been whipped by night riders, Roy Rogers, the twenty-year-old son of Pressley Rogers, &@ prominent planter, committed suicide today. The mother on returning from @ visit found the boy dead with a revolver Ly his side. ——_-—~2 <b >- —___— Stops earache in two minutes; toothache or pain of burn or scald in five minutes; hoarseness, one hour; muscleache, two hours; sore throat, twelve hours—Dr. Tiotmas Eclectric Oil, monarch over pain. p bpacaonnboseetaneeeees ee eee eee eee eee a eet tooo ee eee eee eee ee oeES se - pS x4 building of you wish to sell. economical manner, DYERTISIN Is Essential to the Up- Business Enterprise. ::: To the publicity gained by the use of the advertising columns of the daily papers is at- tributed the growth, and consequent success, of a very large percentage of great business enter- prises of the present day. Advertising is recognized as the prime fac- tor in increasing the sales of any class of goods or manufactured articles. The space used in this puper is your busi- ness message to the public. you should tell them of the merits of what you are offering, setting forth the reasons why your particular line is worthy of their attention. THE EVENING MASCOT has increased its local circulation very materially during the past three months and the results obtained from the space used by the advertisers are gratifying to them and to the paper. It reaches into the homes of the best class of our people and your message will be placed in the hands of those with money to buy the goods The Space Rates in The Evening Mascot are not high. Your message is carried. each day, to those you wish to reach, in the most For information call us up on the phone and a representative ot the paper will gladly visit you the Modern In this open letter re 08080 090808080908080GHE080808O 090808780808080E5 5 O88 et 080b04 eee OSC OO OSU OBOROSOSOOOSOROOOSOS eee SOS eed 908c ee SD SDSOSOSOEOB OE ORR RO Oat eee 888880808080 808080808 0868085 SEVERAL THINGS Are to be considered in seleeting your Bank | 1ST. Strength-Financial Strength 2ND. The care with which the Bank is Managed. 3RD. The courtesy and spirit of of accomodationidisplayed by the Officers and Em- ployees. 4TH. The banking experience of Officers. STH. The ability of the bank to Properly and Promptly Handle all Your Business To,Those Desiring the Embodi- ment of These Features are Offered T he. Service of THE HST NATIONAL = BANK OF STATESVILLE CAPITAL $100.000 weeaeaessssssssee 8 e aa Soeccceeccecccocoecoocesce © These Handsome Dishes Given Away toMy Customers 2 With each cash purchase of 5 cents or over I will give youa @ coupon that can be exchanged for these gifts. 09 9 0 6 0 9 0 0 6 0 6 0 00 6 0 0 8 0 0 €3 8 8 O 0 8 G O C O 0 0 0 6 8 6 6 8 9 L. A. GOLDMAM : Purveyor to the People. 033SO0OGS2HSOOCSECCGSSCOSSSCOES CAREPAS, STOCK. fo £40,000.00 SHAREHOLDERS LIABILITY............ceseeeeseeeee $40,000.00 ; SURPLUS ANP UNDIVIDED PROFITS............ $30,000.00 : ToTaL RESOURCES OVER...........-cec.esecse-0s $440,000.00 ; , OFFICERS : E. Steele, President, E. Morrisou, Vice-Pres, D. M. Aus’ey, Sec § THE STATESVILLE LOAN AND TRUST Cu. : ; Of Statesville, N. C. IS PREPARED to transact all branches of banking. Accounts are solicited from firms, corporations and indiv - uals, who may rely upon courteous consideration and the - very best terms that are consistent with good banking ; methods. Four per cent. paid on time and savings deposits. and Treasurer, C. E. HUGHEY, Assistant Secy. and Treas W. G. CULBRETH, Manager Savings Departmen! 0000 9OGr OdOLSesECNC=INEISIEISIODSBE00CCNESOSOS ECO SSO™ & Siow tae In a sharp contest nothing but “ ity”’ quality” and appearance figure. os (RUTH MADE” Hosiery and the “WORLDS BEST” Biack are the goods of Quality. Aiter ali has n vaid, all your pursuasi it is still a fact that Pp ve argument exhausted, it i “QUALITY” IS THE ONLY TEST OF VALUE To get best results you must have the best of everything t yarn, best colors, best machines and best help, with such @ combination you can produce the best of what you are making. We have all of th for the goods of “quali ty.” e above. Ask your dealer GO S T O R O ™ Ve h O9 O O 8 96 8 0 9 0 0 8 00 4 8 IS D 1 1 D 1 1 0 ! 0W O 0 O CO R O ie a THE BRADFORD KNITTING MILL. POO OS0SOS0B0 80 SDSCeCeOe CED 0B080S 08008 0OTSOSUSOSOSOSO PT SE Draacuan iat oatoae ude either a aera aa ae A = Sd Oem aa " : LC —_-—— RS Get us five yearly subscribers to The Evening poe paid in advance, and get one of the beautiful tna Sets we-are giving as premiums. s Walked Stories Allenta ting out third flo street, eg iel Custa up to th ing uprlf cornice ¥ of the b He tums fall and ous bum low. Sever4 had wat afraid t ‘his aid, ried hi though soon know W about. that he afew 0 lection Moth ingredi afford ers’ JO Ho In up ¥ by: di th in PO O R BO OD : Se a a ee NP R Sa SLEEPER UNHURT. Walked Off Roof, Fell Three Stories ang Has a Few Bruises. ' Allentown, Pa., Dec. 27.—Get- ting out of his bedroom on the third floor of a building on Union street, early this morning, Dan. ‘el Custard, 65 years old, climbed up to the cornice and then, stand- ing upright, marched along the cornice until he came to the end of the building, and walked off. He tumbled over and over in his fall and landed witha tremend- ous bump on the sidewalk be- low. Several early pedestrians who had watched him, but had been afraid to wake him, rushed to! his aid, picked him up .and car- ried him to his room. They thought he was dying, but he soon revived and wanted to know what the disturbance was about. Examioation showed that he was uninjured except for afew bruises. He had no recol- lection of the matter. —_—_———2+-o—_—_ Mothers’ Joy 1s made of pure ingredients. Mothers you cannot afford to be without a box of Moth ers’ Joy. How to Prevent Pneu- monia In every paper you pick up you will see where some good man has just died with this fearful disease—pneu- monia. Now we will give you One Hundred Dollars for any case of pneumonia you have in your famuly it fails to eure if you will use Goose Grease Liniment as directed. It only costs you 25 cents a bottle. Get it— you have nothing to loose and all to gain. We know there are thousands who will read this and throw it aside and in a few days will be down with the disease. Please just get one bottle i and putit away until you need it. If you haven’t the money to buy it let us know and we will send you a bot- tle free. GOOSE GREASE CO. You can wear the smile that won’t come off if you buy your Groceries —AND— MEATS —FROM— M. P. Alexan= der & Bro. Nice line for Xmas trade. "Phone No. 241. OSITIONS OSITION Draughon gives contracts, backed by a chain of 30 Colleges, $300,000.00 capital, and 19 year’s success, to se- cure positions under reasonable con- ditions or refunnd tuition. BOOKKEEPING poate by ‘not accepting his pruposition, concede that he teaches more Bookkeeping |. in THREE months than they doin SIX. Draughon can convince YOU SHORTHAND 7. ei.c3 States Court Reporters write the system of Shorthand Draughon teaches, be- cause they know it is THE BEST. FOR FREE CATALOG and book- let, ‘‘ Why Learn Telegraphy?”’ which explains all, call on or write JNO. F. DRAUGHON, President DRAUCGHON’S PRACTICAL BUSINESS COLLEGE (We also Teach by Mail) Raleigh, Knoxville, Nashville, Cc lumbia or Washington, D. C. ‘A CYCLONE OF FLAME Fires In Bamboo Forests Are the Fiercest Known. : SWEEP ON A MILE A MINUTE. Like the Roar, the Roll and the Rattle ; Of a Great Battle Is the Noise of the Exploding Stalks That Sometimes Shoot High Into the Air. EE are afire, when akes dusk at noon and reddens the harvest moon a thousand miles away, there is the measure of a conflagration. When the prairies burn, , as they used to before farms had crept in upon the endless miles of grass, there was a fire which ran like mad and left behind it a blackened trail of death. If one could combine the speed of the prairie fire with the tumult of the blazing forest, that would be a fire indeed. Such a combination is effected when the bamboo groves catch fire. The bamboo is but a grass, a grass with the height of a tree, swaying stems reaching 100, even 150, feet in air. In Cambodia, where the bamboo groves along the rivers cover the space of forests, it is no unusual thing for fires to break out and sweep all before them for many miles. If the summer has been dry the bamboo turns sear and inflammable as any grass. All that is needed is a spark; then ruin runs red. It is not necessary to rely upon the carelessness of the woodsman to start the blaze. The bamboo can kindle itself. Let two swaying stalks of dry bam- boo be set in motion by the breeze, let one rub across the other long enough, and the friction will set the spark, and the long dry leaves will feed the flame. It is known that many fires of the bamboo forests thus originate. Per- haps it was from observing such a sight that primitive man learned the Promethean secret. That theory has been advanced. As soon as a flame in the bamboos has crept to the level of the tossing tips it spreads like wildfire. The wind carries a sheet of flame along the grove at tremendous speed. Some observers say that such fires have been seen to move forward at the rate of more than a mile a minute. Seen from below, it looks as if she sky had burst into an instant flash of flame. From such a burst of fire there could be no escape. Fortunately it passes high overhead at the tops of the bam- boos. It serves as a warning to the traveler who may be making his way along some one of the water courses by which the forest is intersected. The bamboo itself is almost an obstacle to travel of any sort. It is well nigh im- possible to force a way through it ex- cept by the slow and toilsome labor of hewing out 2 path. The fire in the great trunks moves more slowly, and if warning be taken fit may be possible to sink one’s boat and throw up wet herbage and clay against the bank of the stream to pro- vide shelter until the furnace blast has blown by. Such a fire in the bam- boo has not only the speed of the prai- rie fire on its sweep overhead, but it has the same volume of fuel as is found in any forest fire. It combines the two types. Bamboo forest fires have another quality which is all their own. They bang and rattle with thunderous crashes, as of artillery fire, without cessation. The stalks of these tree bamboos are frequently more than a foot in diame- ter. Near the ground the joints are close together; in the younger growth the nodes may be several feet apart. But, long or short as they may be, each joint of the sun dried bamboo is a tightly sealed chamber filled with air. The partitions between the cavities are singularly tough; the outside rind of the stalks is almost pure flint. When the blast of the flame sweeps onward the air im the stalks upon which it is driven is suddenly heated to a very high temperature. The resid- uum of moisture which may be in the stems is immediately transformed into steam and at once subjected to super- heating, thus becoming a violent explo- sive. As the hot breath of the flame becomes hotter these joints burst with loud cannon discharges. Sometimes the force of the explosion near the roots is so great as to shoot the stalk like a javelin high into the air, where it flashes into torchlike flame and is carried by the wind to spread wider disaster. The bursting of the smaller joints is like the roll and rattle of rifles and machine guns. The effect is that of a battle hotly contest- ed.— Washington Post. An Aquatic Outfielder. One day a ship was lying at anchor at Boca Grande when the crew ob- served a dolphin chasing a flying fish, both coming directly toward the ship. On nearing the vessel the filer arose in the air and passed over the bow just abaft the foremast. As it did so the dolphin went under the ship and, coming up on the other side, sprang from the water and caught the flying fish on “the fly” just as it was curving gracefully down in its descent to the water.—Punta Gorda Herald. Missing Opportunities. “J have no patience with a man who makes the same mistake twice,” said Armes, rather severely, in speaking of an unfortunate friend. “Neither have I,” agreed his wife, “when there are so many other mis- takes to make.”—Youth’s Companion. He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green-—Bacon. —EEEE—EEEE— ~ ~ ¢ i r i fi f % : 4 Woman Killed In Her bed NEGRO LOVER FIRES SHOT. Tragedy on Extreme East Third Street Last Night Near 10 O’clock—Henry Ross Angered, as the Result of Some Quarrel, Perhaps From Jealolusy, Enter- ed by Force the Apartments of Emma Houston and Shoots Georgianna Billings, With whom He Had Been on Intimate Terms Charlotte, Dee. 29—Cowering in bed in flight from her angry paramour clasping in her arms the child of a friend, Georgia or Geor- gianna Billings, a young negro wo- man, was shot to death last night by Henry Ross, a negro nearing his twenties. <A single pistol ball pierced her breast, killing her in- stantly. She rolled out of bed to the floor dead. According to the testimony of an eye witness, Emma Houston, whose room and bed the girl was occupying, Ross entered the room through a window, avowed his in- tention of killing the woman, snap- ped his pistol twice and then fired the fatal shot When the deed was done he asked her to testify that it was an accident. “It was an accident,’’ claims Ross, hurried to a prison cell. He was found in the very room where the shooting occurred, holding the pistol in his hand. No credence is attached to his story by the police. Everything scems to be against him. Emma Houston de- elares that the two had had a quarrel a day or two.ago, that in fear that -he would execute his threats the Billings woman had left her own room in which she had been staying and sought re- fuge with Emma Houston; that he came demanded admittanee, it was denied him and _ he entered by force from an adjoining room within the house. The killing took place at the home of the woman, No. 1008 E. Third street. The man and the woman had been intimtae for a considerable time after the free and easy fashion of their kind. The woman’s child was buried on- ly a few weeks ago. Then came the quarrel, about just what no- body seems to know. Emma Houstos is the State’s star witness. On her testimony the neck of the prisoner will prob- ably depend for its fate. Ross, she said came to the house between 9:30 and 10 o’clock and called for his earstwhile sweet- heart. He entered the latter’s room but she was not there. He then knocked on the Houston woman’s door but they refused to admit him. He then hoisted a window, leaped into the apartment and de- clareqd that he was going to kill the object of his wrath. The sec- ond before he fired, Emma snatch- ed her baby from Georgianna’s arms, otherwise it might have been a two fold tragedy, for the ball entered the woman’s breast. The killing was reported to Mr. John W. Daniel, on South Me- Dowell street and he telephoned the police station from which was sent the patrol wagon down. This returned with the accused and the witness. Coroner Gresham was on the scene in a few minutes to in- vestigate. It seems likely that jeal- ousy was the actuating motive. Ross showed no signs of being under the influence of liquor and evidenced little remorse of any kind. An inquest will be held this morning at 9:30 o’clock by the cor oner and a jury yet to be sum- moned. That officer and his con- stables will meet this morning at 7:30 to arrange the preliminaries. The flooring in the house sank ten inches last night while the party was looking into the case, causing a precipitate dash for the door on the part of all If Emma Houston’s testimony —, is true.the negroRoss would seem to be guilty of both burglary and murder and hence in danger of be- ing executed twice. It is presumed that the law would be satisfied, with one, however, if even that measure of punishment be meted out. Ross was formerly a dish- washer for the Gem Restaurant where he had a fairly good repu- tation. He did not seem last night to have a previous criminal rec- ord. —~+<+2>»—___ WHY SUFFER? ——— Breathe Hyomei and Kill the Loathsome Catarrh Germs, Just as long as you have eatarrh your nose will itch, your breatb will be foul, and you hawk and spit, and you _ will do other dis- gusting things because you can’t help yourself. The germs of ca- tarrh have got you in their power; they are continually and persist- ently digging i nto and irritating the mucous membrane of your nose and throat. They are now making your life miserable; in time they will sap your entire system of it senergy, its strength, its serength, its vigor and vitality. But there is one remedy that will kill the germs and cure ca- tarrh, and that is Hyomei, the Aus- tralian dry air treatment. The Statesville Drug OCo., the druggists, will guarantee Hyomei to cure catarrh, or money back. Don’t delay this pleasant antisep- tic treatment. Breathe in Hyomei and kil lthe germs. The Statesville Drug Co, will sell you a complete Hyomei outfit, including inhaler, for only $1,00. It is also guaranteed to cure bron- chitis, asthma, coughs, colds, hay fever and croup. —____¢-<49>-@-___—_ Mothers how can you _ take chances—keep a_ bottle cf Moth- ers joy in your house. You need Mothers Joy every day. LET PPL Personally Conducted Tour to Ha- vana, Cuba, and Return, January 11, 1909, Via Southern Railway Souhern Railway will sell round trip excursion tickets to Havana, Cuba at following rates from points named: Asheville 5.5 co $39.10 1B oe ea wha a ce ym sm 42.40 VERT ROSEN 57 oi cscietuepeteyciohe 40.45 Sabisberyess) ae ce 42.95 Shelbys ne eee 42.50 SEabeSMEC ee 42.40 Approximately low rates from from other points. Tickes on sale January 11th, good returning to leave Havana, Cuba, on or before January 27th, 1909. Tickets may be routed through Jacksonville thence either through Knight’s Key, or Port Tampa. Good going and return— ing same route. Stop-over will be allowed at Jacksonville, St. Au- gustine, Palm Beach, Miami, and other points south of Jacksonville, within final limit of ticket. A representaive will accompany movement, and will look after the comfort and pleasure of the party. For further information as to side tours from Havana, sight see- ing tours, hotel rates, leaving time a principal points, Pulllman and state room reservation, write J. H. Wood, D. P. A., Asheville, N. C.; W. H. McGlamery, P. & T. A., Raleigh, N. C.; R. H. DeButts, P. & T. A., Greensboro, N. C.; or eall on your repot agents, or write R. L. VERNON, T. P. A. Charlotte, N. C. STATESVILLE SKATING RINK Opera House Building Open from 3 to 5 and 8 to 10 p. m. No Children Admitted to Floor at Night Sessions. LE ATTA RL TT PRS a El abess ARR ee eee ee 1909 manac. most reliable of all can have a copy for Farmers’ Almanac (Regular Price 10 Cents) HREE! Call here as soon as you can—so that you will be sure to get one—for a copy of the famous Farmers’ Al- This publication is the and has been issued regularly every year for 84 years. You the ‘askiug—with our . compliments. If you can’t manage to call in person, write us to mail you acopy. .°. MERCHANTS’ AND FARIIERS’ BANK Statesville, N. C- OPERA HOUSE, SATURDAY, JANUARY 2ND. JED CARLTON Presents Beatrice Gordon “WAS SHE 10 BLAME” A dramitization of Bertha M. Clay’s beautiful story : “A BITTER ATONEMENT” Complete Stage Production—Special Scenery—Competent Cast. If there is any humor in your make-up you will laugh ’till you cry. spot this play will reach E your heart has.a tender it. 7 Seats on sale at Statesville Drug Company. Prices:==25, 50 0809080808080808080 and 75 Cents DROP0OOG 00797G0G090900090S0S 0EOSCROSOOTT 060608080 Mortgage Sale of Valuable. Real Estate. By virtue of power of sale con- tained in a mortgage deed executed by R. S. Sherrill and wife Mattie R. Sherrill, on March 20th, 1908, to the Henkel Live Stock Company to se- cure a note of $300 due and payable Nov. 1, 1908, (see Book 26, page 485, Registry Iredell Co.) the said_mort- gagee will sell for cash by Public Auction, at the Court House door in Statesville, N. C., on Monday, the 18th day of January, 1909, at 12 o’clock noon, the following real es- tate conveyed in said mortgage, or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay the aforesaid debt and costs of sale, viz: ist Tract. Beginning at W. F. Bailey’s S. E. corner, thence north with his line 210 poles to a stake, Bailey’s corner; thence E. 85 poles to a post oak; thence north 52 poles to a post oak; thence E. 140 poles to Murdock’s corner; thence S. 320 poles toa stake; thence W. 56 poles to a stake; thence S. 7 poles to a stake; thence W. 66 poles to a sour wood, Lingle’s corner; thence N. 65 poles to a stake, Lingle’s corner; thence W. 97 poles to the beginning, containing 356 acres, more or less. Also one house and lot in the su- burb of Statesville on what is called “Diamond Hill,’ beginning at a stake, corner of Vance and Dagen- hart streets, thence N. 4 degrees 100 feet to a stake; thence S. 85 degrees E. 180 feet to a stake; thence S. 4 degrees W. 100 feet to stake on Dag- enhart street; thence N. 85 degrees W. 180 feet to beginning. Terms Cash. THe HENKEL Live Stock Co., Mortgagee. Armfield & Turner, Attys. THE IREDELL CAFE LEADER IN CANDIES soceeA L1G. cee. FRUITS Oysters for retail and serving. Quail on Toast. - PHONE NO. 323 W. W. GAITHER : Proprietor. SOUTHERN RAILWAY CO. Gireat Highway of Trade and Travel | Through the Southern States Through Pullman Sleeping Cars on palatial trains between the principal Cities and Resorts of the South. High-class Dining Cars. Many delightfulSummer and Winter Resorts on and reached by Southern Railway. “The Land of the Sky,” ‘The Sapphire Country,’ in scenic Western North Carolina; beau- tiful at all seasons. Hotels of the highest class. For detailed information apply to nearest Ticket Agent, or R. L. VDRNON, T. P. A., Charlotte, N. C. S.H. HARDWICK, P.T.M., W.H. TAYLOE,G. P. A., Washihbgton, D. C. New Pool Room New Tables of the latest and best makes have been in- stalled under J. P. Phifer’s grocery store. WeSolcitYourPatronage On Te A ee ea n et o y - a8 + “a ae ap AR | 1 “ARS WG = 3 Be * : < a ee es Ae 9 "ito forget; and if you have, it is THE EVENING MASCOT DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. Catered at the Postofficein Statesville @. C.,as second-class mail matter. ffice 109 Court Street. Telephone 53 VANCE NORWOOD - Publisher. RALPH SLOAN, - - City Editor, Subscription Price, - $4.00 a Year ubscription Price, - 10 Cents a Week Weather Forecasts Washington, D. C., Dee. 30.— for North Carolina rain tonight and possibly in southern portion Thursday Colder Thursday and in extreme western portion to- night. ———_—_-4-+ re If you have troubles don’t let anybody know it. If you do they won’t like you. ——_—4- 4 If you really feel happy and contented rub it on another man and he will feel good too. EE The legislature mects Wednes- day, January 6th, next. Don’t you feel a dread coming over you? — There are several ways of going through the world but there is none better than taking things easy. —_——_++ The happy man or woman with king words and gentle manners is like the sweet fragrance of the flowers to humanity. —— What has become of the Panama controversy? Some one will now eome forward with another phase of the case. Times are getting dull. —_——_+<+@>oe—_—" There is much advice given the legis! .tors about passing the ap- propriation bills and hurrying home. We hope they will take time to get their pay before leav- ing. —— Old man Cannon still holds the fortress and will again be elected speaker for the next congress. He still apppars to have shells enough to clean up his enemies ang dress: them off the field. i The democratic party has given the state the constitutional amend- ment, a splendid system of educa- tion asd temperance,now then lets have a season of perfecting these excellent things. —_—4-41 Many of the wisest men in the state think nothing should be done by the next legislature. wouldn’t it be well if it didn’t meet at all? If it is to do what eertain men want done it would. —+ 2-9 __—_ ' The question ‘“‘who got the mon- ey?’’ has become as famous as the "one about ‘‘who struck Billy Pat- _terson?”’ and if the country waits for congress to investigate and find out we will all die as ignorant of it as about who hit Billy. ——2+>-—____ The new year is now upon us and whatever you do go forward with a resolve for a better condi- tion in heart and head, and if you fail in all or in part you wish to do remember you are nearer heaven perhaps in failure than in success. This may not satisfy some folks but it will do to tie to. YEAR-END SAYINGS. Emerson says: ‘‘Finish every day and be done with it. For manners and for wise living it is a vice toremember You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt have crept in; forget them as soon as youcan. Tomorrow is anew day; you shall begin it well and ser-ne- ly, and with too high a spirit to be eumbered with your old nonsense. This day, for all that is good and fair; it is too dear, with all its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the rotten yesterdays.”’ If you have not willfully and wickedly done wrong, it is better ‘better to forgive yourself, and try strenuously to redeem the past by the good you do today. Every day, you are given a new trial; a new chance; and you should strive ng upon it, no one will pause to look up the blunders of yesterday. Live now; and seek to live every day alittle farther up the slope. Strive to be tolerant of the blund- ers and failures of others, remem- bering your own wickedness. Be patient with the living, and tender with the sorrowing. Do not be harsh with the wrong-doer, nor point out through malice, the stains upon the garment of an- other, but guide the stumbling feet to safer ground, and draw the tempted away from the tempta- tion. In this way, the new year about to dawn will bring you riches of spirit, and bless the lives of all who touch your pathway.”’ $+» —____ KING CORN. ee #4 Ind., as told below, proves m4 Mrs. Warwick says: < mm vousness, fainting sp tained relief. Now Iam I would have been dead.’’ The national corn exposition re- cently held in Omaha was a reve- lation to thousands of people who entertained the idea that ‘‘corn a ; to make of your coming daysa| % 7 d i —) “ % 3 Ax - => n RD 2 A structure so beautiful that, look- a: ia Aris a KE die Stol y | 3 The story of Mrs. Matilda Warwick, of Kokomo, § @ that well-known female remedy, Wine of Cardui. It Will Help You “‘T suffered from pains in my head, shoulders, a limbs, side, stomach low down, dizziness, chills, ner- § ells and other female troubles. B& I was almost dead. Three doctors did not help me. & At last, I took Cardui, and with the first bottle ob- AT ALL DRUG STORES < ea pa SP rp Bee Seren a sae ee Oe eee ee the curative properties of yee a aera 2 cured. Sut for Cardui, i Try Cardui. | a ~ - ind aes ar x : ee NO fe Se eer SS t Se= ¢ ee is merely corn.’? A few years z ago the uses of corn were confined Death was on His Heels. to feeding stock, making corn| ‘esse. P. Morris, of Skippers, bread and mush. Now this cereal | V@-, had a close call in the spring is taking its proper place among of 1906. He says: ‘‘An attack the foodstuffs of the world, and | 0f pneumonia left me so weak and its many by-products are being | With such a fearful cough that utilized to the fullest extent. As |™Y friends declared consumption a result the price of corm is en- | 24d me, and death was on my hanced, and the price of corn land | heels. Then I was persuaded to grows daily. The corn raising | ty Dr. King’s New Discovery. It area is restricted, and the future | 2elped me immediately, and after enlargement of the corn crop is | t@king two and a half bottles J dependent upon intensified farm-|W@S @ well man again. I found ing rather than upon the utiliza- | Ut that New Discovery is the best tion of added acreage. The corn | ™emedy for coughs and lung dis- prodeer no longer selects his seed | €4S¢ in all the world,” Sold under haphazard, puts it into the ground | ¥@arantee at Statesville drug after hasty preparation and de- |©® store. 50¢. and $1.00. Trial pends upon chance. Acriculture | bottle free. ———~<e>>—___ is becoming an exact science, and state agricultural schools are do- ing a splendid missionary work in preparing the way for scientific soil culture The Omaha corn ex- position will give an added incen- tive to further investigation and experiment, and the results will be beneficial in many ways. It is not hazardous to predict that the days of ten-cent corn are forever gone from the west. ——+e>2—_ Where Bullets Flew. It will probably be developed later that some asphalt company is the real backer of the Venezue- lan revolution—Omaha Bee. David Parker, of Fayette, N. J., a veteran of the civil war, who lost a foot at Gettysburg, says, ‘‘The good Electric Bitters Is Essential building of have done is worth more than five hundred dollars to me. I spent much money doctoring for a bad case of stomach trouble, to little purpose. I then tried Electric Bitters, and they cured me. I now take them as a tonic, and they keep me strong and well.’ advertising columns of obtained from the space you wish to sell. We Are Agents. The Space Rates in See our Xmas Packages of Candy Stationery and Cigars economical manner, For information call W.F.HALL|| =————— Prescription Druggist. prOoSOSOSOS BObOSOSOS Oe LObOsOaOm oak eee ee CF DVERTISIN Business Enterprise. ::: To the publicity gained by the use of the tributed the growth, and consequent success, of a very large percentage of great business enter- Advertising is recognized as the prime fac- ‘ter in increasing the sales of any class of goods are offering, setting forth the reasons why your THE EVENING MASCOT has increased its local circulation very materially during the past three months and the results Sota Statesville Drug Co.’s prises of the present day. or manufactured articles, The space used in ness message to the public. you should tell them of particular line is worthy THE GIRL QUESTION IS_EASILY. SOLVED PRESENT HER WITH A BOX are gratifying to them and to the paper. It reaches into the homes of the best class of our people and your message will be placed in the hands of those with money to buy the goods are not high. Your message is carried. each day, to those you wish to reach, in the most a representative ot the paper will gladly visit you The Evening Maseot. omen} NIGHT RIDER WHIPS MAN. Kentucky Boy Broods Over Fan- cied Disgrace aNd Takes Hif Own Life. f HopkiusvilJle, Ky., Dec. 28.— Brooding over the fancied dis- grace to his family because his father had been whipped by night riders, Roy Rogers, the twenty-year-old son of Pressley Rogers, &@ prominent planter, committed suicide today. The mother on returning from @ Visit found the boy dead with a revolver ty his side. ——- Stops earache in two minutes; toothache or pain of burn or scald in five minutes; hoarseness, one hour; muscleache, two hours; sore throat, twelve hours—Dr. Tiotmas Eclectric Oil, monarch over pain. sss eaeanana aRaSa Sara to the Up- the Modern the daily papers is at- this puper is your busi- In this open letter the merits of what you of their attention. used by the advertisers The Evening Mascot us up on the phone and Sete et ORES Sears enen.- O 5 P SSS endOSOSOSOSOBOBOEC GOWOSOECOCECSO80B0E0B0B580800000 80808080808 0ROROECECE, 080 0008 Ces ePOR Ee: SEVERAL THINGS Are to be considered in selecting your Bank 1ST. Strength-Financial Strength 2ND. The care with which the Bank is Managed. 3RD. The courtesy and spirit of of accomodationidisplayed by the Officers and Em- ployees. 4TH. The banking experience of Officers. STH. The ability of the bank to Properly and Prompily Handle all Your Business To,Those Desiring the Embodi- ment of These Features are Offered T he. Service of THE HROT NATIONAL BANK OF STATESVILLE CAPITAL $100.000 SOCCCCCCCOCOCZECOEOOOCEROS : These Handsome Dishes Given Away to My Customers : With each cash purchase of 5 cents or over I will give youa @ coupon that can be exchanged for these gifts. fa ~ a L. A.GOLDMAM : Purveyor to the People. 838000069200 000C000G000RC06 98 0 6 0 8 0 0 6 0 6 0 0 00 0 0 8 0 0 O9 8 00 3 6 3 0 0 8 0 0 0 6 86 6 0 0 8 9 ODOC COSS COSE OO0< 0006 2600 OOCE 09000900 0O9COOSSSOSE BENE ; THE STATESVILLE LOAN AND TRUST (CU. ; Of Statesville, N. C. {S PREPARED to transact all branches of banking. Accounts are solicited from firms, corporations and indiv - uals, who may rely upon courteous consideration and the - very best terms that are consistent with good banking methods. Four per cent. paid on time and savings deposits. Cairns, BToew see ¥40,000.00 SHAREHOLDERS LIABILITY.......0..0c0.----.---. $40,000.00 ; SURPLUS AND UNDIViDED PEOFITS............ $30,000.00 ; Tota. REsouRcES OVER............ Siac te $440,000.00 aw OFFICERS E. Steele, President, E. Morrisou, Vice-Pres, D. M. Aus’ey, Sec and Treasurer, C. E. HUGHEY, Assistant Secy. and Treas W. G. CULBRETH, Manager Savings Department 0000 vEar @d00CO 20086296 SUSIE! PO G H S P O ™ Ve e C OB O 96 0 0 09 0 8 80 4 8 ID I E N H D ! OW O N CO O N BO C E & WES8S838983898072000" 9° 8090 5a In a sharp contest nothing but “ ity”’ quality” and appearance gure. . TH MADE” Hosiery and the “WORLDS BEST"? Black are the goods of Quality. After ali bas en vaid, all your pursuasi oe still a fact that ve argument exhausted, it is “QUALITY” IS THE ONLY TEST OF VALUE To get best results you must have th i s e best of everything : yarn, be-t eolors, best machines and best help, with such & combination you can produce the best of what you are making. We have all of t for the goods of “quality.” 22ST ahs Ge Get us five yearly subscribers to The Evening ascot paid in advance, and get one of the beautiful tna Sets we_are giving as premiums. Ss walked Stories Allen ting 04 third fl street, iel Cust up to t ing upt cornice of the & He tum fall ang ous bu low. Seve had wé4 afraid ‘his aid ried 1 thoug! soon know abou that b a few leetion Mo ingred afford ers’ Ji He in up th mo yo fo yo fai x U di 25 yo an th wi as be Pi al ne m ag tle ao 2° 0 8 5 th in SLEEPER UNHURT. Walked Off Roof, Fell Three Stories ang Has a Few Bruises. ' Allentown, Pa., Dec. 27.—Get- ting out of his bedroom on the third floor of a building on Union =treet, early this morning, Dan. ‘el Custard, 65 yearsold, climbed up to the cornice and then, stand- ing upright, marched along the cornice until he came to the end of the building, and walked off. He tumbled over and over in his fall and landed with a tremend- ous bump on the sidewalk be- iOW. Several early pedestrians who had watched him, but had been ‘A CYCLONE OF FLAME Fires In Bamboo Forests Are the Fiercest Known. : SWEEP ON A MILE A MINUTE. Like the Roar, the Roll and the Rattle y Of a Great Battle Is the Noise of the Exploding Stalks That Sometimes Shoot High Into the Air. When the forests are afire, when the smoke makes dusk at noon and reddens the harvest moon a thousand miles away, there is the measure of a conflagration. When the prairies burn as they used to before farms had crept in upon the endless miles of grass, there was a fire which ran like mad afraid to wake him, rushed to | and left behind it a blackened trail of his aid, picked him up and car- ried him to his room. They thought he was dying, but he soon revived and wanted to know what the disturbance was about. Examination showed that be was uninjured except for afew bruises. He had no recol- lection of the matter. ——_++@>-o——_— Mothers’ Joy 13 made of pure ingredients. Mothers you cannot afford to be without a box of Moth ers’ Joy. ST an How to Prevent Pneu- monia In every paper you pick up you will see where some good man has just died with this fearful disease—pneu- monia. Now we will give you One Hundred Dollars for any case of pneumonia you have in your family it fails to eure if you will use Goose Grease Liniment as directed. It only costs you 25 cents a bottle. Get it— you have nothing to loose and all to gain. Weknow there are thousands who will read this and throw it aside and 1n a few days will be down with the disease. Please just get one bottle i and putit away until you need it. If you haven’t the money to buy it let us know and we will send you a bot- tle free. GOOSE GREASE CO. You can wear the smile that won’t come off if you buy your Groceries ND — MEATS. —FROM— M. P. Alexan= der & Bro. Nice line for Xmas trade. "Phone No. 241. OSITION Draughon gives contracts, backed by a chain of 30 Colleges, $300,000.00 capital, and 19 year’s success, to se- cure positions under reasonable con- ditions or refunnd tuition. BOOKKEEPING Draughon’s ccm- petitors, by not accepting his pruposition, concede that he teaches more Bookkeeping in THREE months than they doin SIX. Draughon can convince YOU SHORTHAND j2.Boicsa States Court Reporters write the system of Shorthand Draughon teaches, be- cause they know it is THE BEST. FOR FREE CATALOG and book- let, ‘‘ Why Learn Telegraphy?’’ which explains all, call on or write JNO. F. DRAUGHON, President DRAUGHON’S PRACTICAL BUSINESS COLLEGE (We also Teach by Mail) Raleigh, Knoxville, Nashville, Cc lumbia or Washington, D. C. Post ODS shee pda eon, eS Stee: Sie Sawer LARS ee ee ek a a ars ak, sic So LS Ae SN aera ec lanes - fe death. If one could combine the speed a = parte fire with the tumult of e@ blazing forest, tha fire Sacr t would be a Such a combination is effected when the bamboo groves catch fire. The bamboo is but a grass, a grass with the height of a tree, swaying stems reaching 100, even 150, feet in air. In Cambodia, where the bamboo groves along the rivers cover the space of forests, it is no unusual thing for fires to break out and sweep all before them for many miles. If the summer has been dry the bamboo turns sear and inflammable as any grass. All that is needed is a spark; then ruin runs red. It is not necessary to rely upon the carelessness of the woodsman to start the blaze. The bamboo can kindle itself. Let two swaying stalks of dry bam- boo be set in motion by the breeze, let one rub across the other long enough, and the friction will set the spark, and the long dry leaves will feed the flame. It is known that many fires of the bamboo forests thus originate. Per- haps it was from observing such a sight that primitive man learned the Promethean secret. That theory has been advanced. As soon as a flame in the bamboos has crept to the level of the tossing tips it spreads like wildfire. The wind carries a sheet of flame along the grove at tremendous speed. Some observers say that such fires have been seen to move forward at the rate of more than a mile a minute. Seen from below, it looks as if she sky had burst into an instant flash of flame. From such a burst of fire there could be no escape. Fortunately it passes high overhead at the tops of the bam- boos. It serves as a warning to the traveler who may be making his way along some one of the water courses by which the forest is intersected. The bamboo itself is almost an obstacle to travel of any sort. It is well nigh im- possible to force a way through it ex- cept by the slow and toilsome labor of hewing out a path. The fire in the great trunks moves more slowly, and if warning be taken it may be possible to sink one’s boat and throw up wet herbage and clay against the bank of the stream to pro- vide shelter until the furnace blast has blown by. Such a fire in the bam- boo has not only the speed of the prai- rie fire on its sweep overhead, but it has the same volume of fuel as is found in any forest fire. It combines the two types. Bamboo forest fires have another quality which is all their own. They bang and rattle with thunderous crashes, as of artillery fire, without cessation. The stalks of these tree bamboos are frequently more than a foot in diame- ter. Near the ground the joints are close together; in the younger growth the nodes may be several feet apart. But, long or short as they may be, each joint of the sun dried bamboo is a tightly sealed chamber filled with air. The partitions between the cavities are singularly tough; the outside rind of the stalks is almost pure flint. When the blast of the flame sweeps onward the air im the stalks upon which it is driven is suddenly heated to a very high temperature. The resid- uum of moisture which may be in the stems is immediately transformed into steam and at once subjected to super- heating, thus becoming a violent explo- sive. As the hot breath of the flame becomes hotter these joints burst with loud cannon discharges. Sometimes the force of the explosion near the roots is so great as to shoot the stalk like a javelin high into the air, where it flashes into torchlike flame and is carried by the wind to spread wider disaster. The bursting of the smaller joints is like the roll and rattle of rifles and machine guns. The effect is that of a battle hotly contest- ed.— Washington Post. An Aquatic Outfielder. One day a ship was lying at anchor at Boca Grande when the crew ob- served a dolphin chasing 2 fiying fish, both coming directly toward the ship. On nearing the vessel the filer arose in the air and passed over the bow just abaft the foremast. As it did so the dolphin went under the ship and, coming up on the other side, sprang from the water and caught the fiying fish on “the fly” just as it was curving gracefully down in its descent to the water.—Punta Gorda Herald. Missing Opportunities. “J have no patience with a man who makes the same mistake twice,” said Armes, rather severely, in speaking of an unfortunate friend. “Neither have I,” agreed his wife, “when there are so many other mis- takes to make.”—Youth’s Companion. He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green.—Bacon. EE ~ ~ Woman Killed In Her hed NEGRO LOVER FIRES SHOT. Tragedy on Extreme East Third Street Last Night Near 10 O’clock—Henry Ross Angered, as the Result of Some Quarrel, Perhaps From Jealolusy, Enter- ed by Force the Apartments of Emma Houston and Shoots Georgianna, Billings, With whom He Had Been on Intimate Terms Charlotte, Dee. 29.—Cowering in bed in flight from her angry paramour clasping in her arms the child of a friend, Georgia or Geor- gianna Billings, a young negro wo- man, was shot to death last night by Henry Ross, a negro nearing his twenties. <A single pistol ball pierced her breast, killing her in- stantly. She rolled out of bed to the floor dead. According to the testimony of an eye witness, Emma Houston, whose room and bed the girl was occupying, Ross entered the room through a window, avowed his in- tention of killing the woman, snap- ped his pistol twice and then fired the fatal shot When the deed was done he asked her to testify that it was an accident. “It was an accident,’’ claims Ross, hurried to a prison cell. He was found in the very room where the shooting occurred, holding the pistol in his hand. No credence is attached to his story by the police. Everything seems to be against him. Emma Houston de- clares that the two had had a quarrel a day or two.ago, that in fear that -he would execute his threats the Billings woman had left her own room in which she had been staying and sought re- fuge with Emma Houston; that he came demanded admittane¢e, it was) denied him and _ he entered by force from an adjoining room within the house The killing took place at the home of the woman, No. 1008 E. Third street. The man and the woman had been intimtae for a considerable time after the free and easy fashion of their kind. The woman’s child was buried on- ly a few weeks ago. Then came the quarrel, about just what no- body seems to know. Emma Houstos is the State’s star witness. On her testimony the neck of the prisoner will prob- ably depend for its fate. Ross, she said came to the house between 9:30 and 10 o’clock and called for his earstwhile sweet- heart. He entered the latter’s room but she was not there. He then knocked on the Houston woman’s door but they refused to admit him. He then hoisted a window, leaped into the apartment and de- clared that he was going to kill the object of his wrath. The sec- ond before he fired, Emma snatch- ed her baby from Georgianna’s arms, otherwise it might have been a two fold tragedy, for the ball entered the woman’s breast. The killing was reported to Mr. John W. Daniel, on South Me- Dowell street and he telephoned the police station from which was sent the patrol wagon down. This returned with the accused and the witness. Coroner Gresham was on the scene in a few minutes to in- vestigate. It seems likely that jeal- ousy was the actuating motive. Ross showed no signs of being under the influence of liquor and evidenced little remorse of any kind. An inquest will be held this morning at 9:30 o’clock by the cor oner and a jury yet to be sum- moned. That officer and his con- stables will meet this morning at 7:30 to arrange the preliminaries. The flooring in the house sank ten inches last night while the party was looking into the case, causing a precipitate dash for the door on the part of all If Emma Houston’s testimony a is true,the negroRoss would seem to be guilty of both burglary and murder and hence in danger of be- ing executed twice. It is presumed that the law would be satisfied, with one, however, if even that measure of punishment be meted out. Ross was formerly a dish- washer for the Gem Restaurant where he had a fairly good repu- tation. He did not seem last night to have a previous criminal reec- ord. 244 WHY SUFFER? Breathe Hyomei and Kill the Loathsome Catarrh Germs, Just as long as you have catarrh your nose will itch, your breatb will be foul, and you hawk and spit, and you will do other dis- gusting things because you can’t help yourself. The germs of ca- tarrh have got you in their power; they are continually and persist- ently digging i nto and irritating the mucous membrane of your nose and throat. They are now making your life miserable; in time they will sap your entire system of it senergy, its strength, its serength, its vigor and vitality. But there is one remedy that will kill the germs and cure ca- tarrh, and that is Hyomei, the Aus- tralian dry air treatment. The Statesville Drug Co., the druggists, will guarantee Hyomei to cure catarrh, or money back. Don’t delay this pleasant antisep- tic treatment. Breathe in Hyomei and kil Ithe germs. The Statesville Drug Co, will sell you a complete Hyomei outfit, including inhaler, for only $1,00. It is also guaranteed to cure bron- chitis, asthma, coughs, colds, hay fever and croup. —___¢-+49-__-—— Mothers how can you take chances—keep a_ bottle cf Moth- ers joy in your house. You need Mothers Joy every day. ene! Personally Conducted Tour to Ha- vana, Cuba, and Return, — January 11, 1909, Via Southern Railway Souhern Railway will sell round trip excursion tickets to Havana, Cuba at following rates from points named: Ashevae 26 Soo 2 ae $39.10 PRC ORV rs spp tein 42.40 MEAT IOS 6 ei pie 40.45 SAHSDREY ea 42.95 SRN: Somes oiceiciciet ae eioiate 42.50 EatesWe 42.40 Approximately low rates from from other points. Tickes on sale January 1iih, good returning to leave Havana, Cuba, on or before January 27th, 1909. Tickets may be routed through Jacksonville thence either through Knight’s Key, or Port Tampa. Good going and return— ing same route. Stop-over will be allowed at Jacksonville, St. Au- gustine, Palm Beach, Miami, and other points south of Jacksonville, within final limit of ticket. A representaive will accompany movement, and will look after the comfort and pleasure of the party. For further information as to side tours from Havana, sight see- ing tours, hotel rates, leaving time a principal points, Pulllman and state room reservation, write J. H. Wood, D. P. A., Asheville, N. C.; W. H. McGlamery, P. & T. A., Raleigh, N. C.; R. H. DeButts, P. & T. A., Greensboro, N. C.; or eall on your repot agents, or write R. L. VERNON, T. P. A. Charlotte, N. C. STATESVILLE SKATING RINK Opera House Building Open from 3 to 5 and 8 to 10 p. m. No Children Admitted to Floor at Night Sessions. manac. most reliable of all can have a copy for regularly every year for 84 years. compliments. If you can’t manage to call in person, write us to mail you acopy. .°. MERCHANTS?’ AND FARIMIERS’ BANK Statesville, N. C. 1909 Farmers Almanac (Regular Price 10 Cents) HREE! : le Call here as soon as you can—so that you will be sure to get one—for a copy of the famous Farmers’ This publication is the Al- and has been issued You the ‘askiug—with our OPERA 08 0 8 0 0 0 8 0 8 0 8 0 8 0 8 0 So e OS D SO S O S o B O B O D 08 0 8 0 8 0 8 0 PO O a he HOUSE, SATURDAY, JANUARY 2ND. JED CARLTON Presents Beatrice Gordon “WAS SHE 10 BLAME” A dramitization of Bertha M. Clay’s beautiful story “A BITTER ATONEMENT” Complete Stage Production—Special Scenery—Competent Cast. will laugh ’till you cry. spot this play will reach it. If there is any humor in your make-up you If your heart has.a tender Prices:==25, 50 Seats on sale at Statesville Drug Company. a Cents. Real Estate. By virtue of power of sale con- tained in a mortgage deed executed by R. S. Sherrill and wife Mattie R. Sherrill, on March 20th, 1908, to the Henkel Live Stock Company to se- cure a note of $300 due and payable Nov. 1, 1908, (see Book 26, page 485, Registry Iredell Co.) the said_mort- gagee will sell for cash by Public Auction, at the Court House door in Statesville, N. C., on Monday, the 18th day of January, 1909, at 12 o’clock noon, the following real es- tate conveyed in said mortgage, or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay the aforesaid debt and costs of sale, viz: Ist Tract. Beginning at W. F. Bailey’s S. E. corner, thence north with his line 210 poles to a stake, Bailey’s corner; thence E. 85 poles to a post oak; thence north 52 poles to a post oak; thence E. 140 poles to Murdock’s corner; thence S. 320 poles toa stake; thence W. 56 poles to a stake; thence S. 7 poles to a stake; thence W. 66 poles to a sour wood, Lingle’s corner; thence N. 65 poles to a stake, Lingle’s corner; thence W. 97 poles to the beginning, containing 356 acres, more or less. Also one house and lot in the su- burb of Statesville on what is called “Diamond Hill,’’ beginning at a stake, corner of Vance and Dagen- hart streets, thence N. 4 degrees 100 feet to a stake; thence S. 85 degrees E. 180 feet to a stake; thence S. 4 degrees W. 100 feet to stake on Dag- enhart street; thence N. 85 degrees W. 180 feet to beginning. Terms Cash. Tue HENKEL Live Stock Co., Mortgagee. Armfield & Turner, Attys. THE IREDELL CAFE LEADER IN CANDIES Sani... FRUITS Oysters for retail and serving. Quail on Toast. PHONE NO. 323 W. W. GAITHER : Proprietor. Mortgage Sale of Valuable, SOUTHERN RAILWAY 69. Great Highway of Trade and Travel | Through the Southern States Through Pullman Sleeping Cars on palatial trains between the principal Cities and Resorts of the South. High-class Dining Cars. Many delightfulSummer and Winter Resorts on and reached by Southern Railway. “The Land of the Sky,” ‘The Sapphire Country,” in scenic Western North Carolina; beau- tiful at allseasons. Hotels of the highest class. For detailed information apply to nearest Ticket Agent, or R. L. VDRNON, T. P. A., Charlotte, N. C. S.H. HARDWICK, P.T.M., W.H. TAYLOE,G. P. A, Washibgton, D. C. New Pool Room New Tables of the latest and best makes have been in- stalled under J. P. Phifer’s grocery store. Me Solicit YourPatronaye ba t a . Sa a s , ee aN Tr od ed Ce r r a r fa g ti i a t i ja p ta k * Bl e d os — ee s Fe ee ad of i i | te | ip | Wt ih ar ES Ne SOS PRISE OES SOR ee SDT IT oe rae a aS oe ee x 7 —_ yt gil ht Aiea eae es i PERSONAL NOTES. | Mr. G. O. Dogget of Charlotte, is in the city. Mr. J. M. Connelly was a Char lotte vistor yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. R. K. Gregory were in Charlotte yesterday Mr. W. E. Sloan will return from Taylorsville this evening. Miss Mary McLaughlin of Char lotte, is visiting Miss Mary Miller in this place. Miss Willie Love returned from Charlotte this morning where she visited her brother, Rev. C. ¥ Love. Mr. and Mrs.G@.W.Hawn and little daughter, Katherine, are visiting Mr. Hawn’s parents near Mooresville. Mr. and Mrs. W. C Carmichael went to Hickory last evening where they will visit Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Blaylock. Mr. T. H. Wilkerson of Jackson ville, Fla., was a pleasant caller at this office this morning. He is en route to his old home at Stony Point. & A Drank Three Bottles of Laudanum Fayetteville Observer. Mr. William Jones, son of Mr. J.8. Jones, cashier of the Bank of Red Springs, died at Cambro Saturday morning, at 5 o’clock, having drank three bottles of faudanum Christmas eve. His life might possibly have been saved, but a physician had to be sent for from Lillington, and when he arrived the young man was past help, though he lived until Saturday morning. Mr. Jones who was 26 years of age, was at one time a clerk in the Fourth National Bank of Fayetteville, and was later cashier of the Bank of Red Springs, and at the time of Lis death was inthe employ of the -Harnett Lumber Company. Mr. J. S. Jones, Mr. James Williams aud Mr. J. W. Johnston of Red Springs, passed through here at noon on their way to Cambro, and returned Saturday afternoon with the body, which was taken to Red Springs for burial. ———_~+@ oe _—_ Mine Explosion. Bluefield, W. Va., Pec. 29.— Twelve men are known to be dead and probably thirteen more were entombed as the re- sult of an explosion which oc- curred in the Lick Branch col- liery, owned by the Pocahontas Consolidated Coal company, the largest coal mining concern in southern West Virginia, this afternoon about 3 o’clock. It is not known exactly how many men were in the mine at the _ time. ——— Miss Kimball Entertains. Miss Lucile Kimball entertained a number of her yousg lady and gentlemen friends at her home on Davie avenue last night in honor of Miss Lila Kurfées of Cooleemee. Games were played and delicious refreshments were served. ———++@>-o—_—_ Was She to Blame? Was She to Blame? Certainly not. She was wise in witnessing this attraction. Clean plot, mag- nificent ecenery, gorgeous dresses’ and a competent cast will give the _ patrons of the opera house on Jas- uary 2, a most pleasant evening. +e Remirkable Cucumber. The Greenville Reflector says: Saturday Mr. (tJ. A. Tyson of this township brought a large cucumber to The Reflector of- fice that was pulled from a vine in his garden the later part of August, and was put away to dry for seed. At the time it was pulled the cucumber was yellow, but after it was put away it turned green again and grew about one-third larger than it - Was when pulled off the vine. . Thisisno “fish story” either, as Mr. Tyson says he has plenty of witness to prove it by. i da Items From Faith. Mr. Aaron Brown and Miss Lena Tucker were married at the home of Rev: Tucker at Granite Quary, Dec. 23rd, 1908. ‘Mrs. Annie Shuping and Mr George Bostian son of Alan Bos- tian were married Dec. 20th. Miss Pearlie Lingle daughter of J. C. Lingle of Faith, and Dr.Bow- ers of Gold Hill were married De- cember 24th in Faith at the home of the bride. Mr. Geo. Fisher and Miss Net- tie Boyer, daughter of Mr. Lawson Boyer, were married December 27th. A big wedding supper fol- lowed at Mr. Calvin Fisher’s, the father of the groom. Rev. I. A. Trexer performing the ceremony. Venus was there. Mr. David Kerns, sons of Eli Kerns was married to Miss Mary Kernsand- vql -3| hrdl ou ouaoa Kluttz, daughter of Daniel Kluttz, at the home of the bride by Rev. C. P. Heller of the Reformed Church, of aith. William Fesperman killed a hog that weighed 460 pounds. We hear that Mr. Ed Casort and Miss Sophia Cauble have gone to South Carolina to get married. A runaway match. Misses Jane, Catherine, Adaline and Mary Wiley of near Greens- boro, four wealthy ladies have moved to Rowan county to live near Mr. John Parks and be with their relatives. They are aunts to Misses D. A., J. A. and S. K. Wiley of this county. The next new phones put in is at J. D. A. Fisher and at William Me- Combs, Jr. Miss Mary Wiley, the telephone girl is visiting at her uncle, J. R. Kluttz at East Spencer. The young people who come home from the different schools to spend the Christmas holidays are as follows: From Cresent, Miss Beulah Beaver, Bertie Peeler, Mary Peeler, Cletus Stirwalt. From Newton, Miss Mamie Peeler, George Peeler. From Mt. Pleas- ant, Miss Eva Cauble, Craig Stire- walt, Myron Fisher,, Hilbert Fish- er, Fannie Agner, Edgar Agner, Robert Agner. The Christmas trees at the Re- formed and Lutheran churches here was largely attended this year and everybody had a pleasant time. We saw a man recently who was wanting to rent a large one horse or two horse farm who has plenty of help and two good horses. The Southern Benevolent Asso- ciation will make ararngements to assist all worthy little orphan chil dren that they hear’of. Their ad- dress is Salisbury, N. C., R. F. D., 3, Box 10 ++ A Healthy Family. ‘Our whole family has enjoyed good health since we began using Dr. King’s New Life Pills, three years ago,’ says L. A. Bartlet, of Rural Route 1, Guilford Maine. They cleanse and tone the system in a gentle way that does you good 25c. at Statesville Drug Co. ———_++>- Put New Blood Ito Your BuSineSs Sueeess Magazine. The up to date professional ad- visor or business doctor, when eall- ed to examine a shirking, declin- ing business, often finds the pa- tient barely alive; the circulation being so sluggish that he can hard ly find pulse. In a desperate case like this he says to the proprietor *“You must .put new blood into this business. There is no life in it. There is no energy, no push, no enterprise here. When a pa- tient gets as low as this one, there are only two things to do; let-him die, or infuse new blood into his veins and try to resuscitate him.’’ ———->4.>-o Most disfiguring skin eruptions, scrofula, pimples rashes, etc., are due to impure blood. Burdock Blood Bitters is a cleansing tonic. Makes you clear-eyed, clear-brained, clear skinned. ——~<+2>-o——__—_ It’s no fun being a woman, be- cause every man treats you either like a toy or like something sacred —a white cow or a brass idol of the ashes of his ancestors. ~ SAYINGS OF MRS. SOLOMON. ee (Being the ConfeSsions of the Sev- en Hundredth Wife.—Translat-' ed by Helen Rowland. Go to my daughter, dost thou believe in faries? Nay, I mean not the fairies of the comic opera chorus—for if thou art married hast cause to believe in these—but the fairly tales concerning Santa Claus and platonic friendship. Dost thou eredit them ? For what a man offereth a girl ‘“friendship’’ she snappeth at it, saying aloud, ‘‘Yea, gladly will I aceept this mental companionship, for it inspireth me, and I hate cheap flirtations!’’ But in her heart she saith: ‘“‘ And by this means I lead him like a lamb unto the altar!”’ And when a girl offereth a man ‘friendship’? he graspeth it, de- claring : ‘‘Yea, I despise sentimen- tality, and this is refreshing!”’ But unto himself he chuckleth: ‘And now I shall kiss her easilv and without danger, for his is a snap?”’ For a woman’s idea of friend- ship is an easy path to matrimony, and a man’s idea of friendship is flirtation with immunity ; and nev- er the two shall meet! Verily, they are as two that go around and round within a revolving door and never meet on either side. For tell me, my daughter, why should a girl look up her ‘‘pla- tonie friend’’ in Bradstreet’s that she may ascertain his income? And why should a man gaze so ardently at the dimples of his men- tal companion”’ that he loseth the drift of her conversation? Yet, I say unto thee platonic friendship is a good thing. For it is the bridge: over which a man walketh back when he discerneth that a thing hath gone too far. Yea, it is a pretty pose! Selah! + Would Mortgage The Farm. A farmer on Rural Route No. 2, Empire, Ga., W. A. Mloyd by name, says: ‘‘Bucklen’s Arnica Salve cured the two worst sores [ ever saw; one on my hand and one on my leg. It is worth more than its weight in gold. I would not be without it if I had to mort- gage the farm to get it.’’ Only 25e. at Statesville Drug Co.’s store. _——_+@-o——————_ **Always get up from the table hungry,’’ advises am Illinois octo- genarian. And the trusts are making it eainer for the general public to act upo te otokeanhce.. public to act upon the octogenari- an’s suggestion—New Orleans Times-Democrat. ——_~<++e@r-e—__— Day after day he walked the street, Looking for a presnt for ‘‘wifey”’ sweet— **T know what’ll please her most,’’ said he; **Tt’s Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea.’’—Statesville Drug Co. ++ A Boston paper refers to Wil- liam the Conqueror as an early filibuster. It might feel hurt if the Mayfloower were called a lit- tle tub of the seventeenth century. —St. Louis Glob-Demoerat. —_++2@>-»—_—___ Fills your veins with rich, red bleed. Gives you a hearty appe- tite, builds up flesh, makes you strong and rugged. Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea, greatest health builder. 35 cents, Tea or Tablets. Statesville Drug Co. ————++ero—__—_ Now that the Kaiser has joined Mr. Taft on the water wagon, we will be glad to welcome him also in Augusta.—Augusta Chronicle. ——_+~+@>»—_—___- Builds you up physically and mentally, keeps your digestion or- gans in condition, regulates the bowels, cleanses the blood, gives you perfect health. Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea or Tablets, 39 cents. Statesville Drug Co. ———"~¢<4<43r- 0 — -—__ Itching piles provoke profanity, but profanity won’t cure them. Doan’s Ointment cures itching, bleeding protruding piles after years _| of suffering. At any drug store. ENGINEER IS KILLED. No. 35. South Bound Russ Into Open Switch at Stokesdale, Va.; Killing the Engineer. | Washington, Dec. 29 —A mis- placed switch caused the de-| railment of passenger train No. 35 on the Southern Railway at Stokesdale, 6 miles south of Danville at 5:50 today. Eugineer Satterfield was killed and Fire- man Davis (colored) end three postal clerks, were injured. No passengers, as far as 1s known were injured. The train, which left Washipg- ton at 8:35 a. m. this rote) for the south, ran into a switch that was turned intu the Dan- ville and Western tracks which connect‘at that point with the Southern, although the signal light was probably display ed. The engine, baggage car and mail car turned over. There was no interruption to traffic, ac- cording to an official report re- ceived at Southern Railway headquarters here. [t is not known at this time what caused the switch to be turned. ————— te oe DRINKING ’EM SOME. The Two Bars in Black Creek of | Christmas Eve Sold Over Five | Thousatd Dollars Worth of Liquor. : x SS ea SZ =. a Wish for \} STATESVILLE STEAM LAUNpRy U. C. Sa ESE Prop. EE SCE Fe ZEEE will be largely fulfilled if you become a regular patron of the Statesville Steam. Good Work, Whiie Work, Clean Work. Phone No. 199 BSS, eed KS ae 1 A I I 2 SS, OOS RS KDR RH ee ate price. trying to please you. ia ——= —~MAYNARD & ELLIS+_—! Wilson, N. C., Dec. 29,—This reporter was talking with two gentlemen this morning who spent Christmas eve—one in Black Creek, and one ia Lucama. The gentlemen who took in thesights at Black Creek says thatin the two bar rcoms in that town over five thousand dollars worth of liquors were sold on that day. He attributes the big sales to the fact that at Fremont and Lucama the Gis- pensaries had gone dry. eae If you haven’t the time to exercise regularly, Doan’s Regulets will pre- : vent constipation. They induce a mild, easy, -healthful action of the bowels without griping. Ask your druggists for them. 25c. —_——__++@ > ——_—___ Never say “Dye!” to a muiadle- aged woman, nor “Diet!” to a fat man. HOLLISTER’S Rocky Mountain Tea Nuggets A Busy Medicine for Busy People. Brings Golden Health and Renewed Vigor. Aspecific for Constipation, Indigestion, Liver ana Kidney troubles, Pimples, Eczema, Impure Blood, Bad Breath, Singgish Bowels, Headache and Backache. ItsRocky Mountain Tea im tab- let form,35 cents a box. Genuine made by HOLLISTER DruG Company, Madison, Wis. GOLDEN NUGGETS FOR sALLOW PEOPLE WANT ADS * tees oe 5 cents a line. S CHBOCS. wn eccco 4 cents a line. G Grea 34% cents a line. 2G GARCB ne co ccaswnce 3 cents a line. FOR RENT—Hall and 3 rooms over N, Harrison’s store. Apply to T. D. Miller, agent. de28 6t WANTED—At oltce a good cOok, white or black. Apply at this office. dee 28 3t FOR SALE—3 Viluabdle city lots near College—2 good Mules—1 young Holstien cow.—J. B. Gill Dec. 23 to Jan, 1. LOST—$15.00, a Ten Dollar bill and $5.00, between Providence church’and Statesville. Lost on Christmas day, Will pay a lib- era reward if left at The Mascot office. dec28 tf WANTED—RBY THE AMERICAN Cotton and Business University of Milledgeville, Ga., students to take one or more of our courses in cot- ton grading, buying and selling. Business courses of bookkeeping, Shorthand, Typewriting, or Telegra- phy and Railroad course. Positions guaranteed under reasonable con- ditions. Write at once for oar consolidated catalog. Larges: col lege South. Sept 28-tf AMBITIOUS YOUNG MEN AND ladies should learn telegraphy; for, since the now 8 hour law became effective there is a shortage of many thousand telegraphers. Po- sitions pay from $50 to $70 a month to beginners. The National Telegraph institute of Columbia, S. C., and five other cities is oper-- ated under supervision of R. R, officials and all students are Placed when qualified. Write them for particulars, nol9 dtf ‘ES. Mills” ls New | 25: a 1 t i 4 | INEW STUDIO Maynard & Ellis, Professional Photographers, in N Building, adjoining Stimson Drug Store, cee ille, N.C. High Grade Photos at a Low Price Penny Pictures, the best that can be ae on for Post Cards, per dozen, $1.25. Per half dozen Cabinets, in folders, dozen, $2.00. Half dozen Sin on Pictures of your home, PostCard size, and up to Sx10 inches, and out-door groups, is one of our specialties at a moder. Give us a trial and be convinced that we an We are now ready to serve you. Will also Develop and Finish Kodak Work, i: j ———— Stadia a a aa la Christmas Presents. 00 0 0 6 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Sz Ss.B. MILLER # * OUR HATS ARE OFF!s 6 to you for the liberal patronage extended to us on CHRISTMAS GOODS. You have made many souls glad by giving sensible =j = tt wD = Sc | = > Zz &@ See ee eeeeeeeee teers Seeve wv ai ib A i Ww WA. W. HOLLER PLUMBING COMPANY It is to those who have a spick and span new bathroom in which to pre- pare for the pleas- ures of the day. Consult us as to the best plan for your floor space, and we wiil fit you out with a bath room of which you will be _ proud, without much strain on your pocketbook. ‘a Phoce No. 61. 127 W. Broad St. AST 32 3S233333232233232222 betesforoodoodoodoobonfoefeefoefocfocfoferZonlanfoefociolonfecfocfocfocfacfecfeolenlenteefecnseeeininty American Cut Glass fo e f o r f e o l o o f e r f o o l e e f o o t e fe o f e e l o c l o n l e c s o o l e e f o o f e e s o o l e l e e s e c f e e s o o l e e l e e l e n d e o f e n d o e t e r i o e t e r ) f. “ Los Wedding Presents of in! Imported Hand Painted China Old Brass, Bright Brass Gold and other novelties. STATESVILLE DRUG CO. Prescriptiontsts. We will put aside any goods selected. See our new line of We will make Special Prices on COOK STOVES and RANGES. STATESVILLE HOUSEFURNISHING CO 33 3 2 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 1 33 2 3 3 3 : ¥ . Now Time for You to S& lect Your Xmas Goods Morris Chairs and Rockefs. Also Fine Mahogany Tables. MP’ Le e d e r fo o d o r k a n k o r h e e i s l o n l o o l o c h n n l o o l o e l o n lo n lo e l o o l o o l o o l o c to e lo a la n lo e l o e l o o d e s Vol. 1. Creed THE NBEGR Guard . tion and ¢ Shooting A Lafe Yest more’s St Anderson in the heel Guard Creed Moore, an & yesterday a Mr. Cree arrested, heé Justice Kin o'clock, Mr. Cree tion, and ¢2 $1,000 for next term 0 Mr Creé¢ missed Tom on Saturda diately to t negro, and Moore cutti legs. He knock ed Gaither Gaither told one but he @ more knew trance, and finding Moo He called er, but he m Gaither op4 cape. As Creedmore Gaither in wound in h Mr. Créeq by some o house, but 4 or what he Mr. Cre convict cam ed his wor was for so state penite S@ At the wf ers of the pany on la lowing off elected: Presiden Vice Pre Manager Thadpe. Temporal land. Directors Tharpe, J. Adams, J. H_ Turner Mr, Thai 7th of nex position a pany. Their quarters f will be op Hotel Ired about the Tharpe wi Greensbor« Greensb ern Ope United W announce: with the departmer wireless are soon to be esta Misissippi One of ed in Gr¢ North Ca be estab Cape Hai Raleigh, Asheville Salem. Mr. A. with the pany for his positig Mr. salesman pany was He an sibly Mr iness. Mothe chances ers joy Mothers Vol. 1. (reedmore Under $1,000 Bond NRGRO GAITHER IS DEAD. f a ed To THE Guard Creedmore Waives Examina-| of tion and Gives a $1,000 Bond for Shooting Andy Gaither, Who Died Late Yesterday Afternoon—Creed- more’s Story. \e a e ” Of Anderson Gaither, who was shot in the heel last Saturday night by ! Guard Creedmore, while after Tom Moore, an escape convict, died late yesterday afternoon. Mr. Creedmore was immediately arrested, here, being tried before Justice King o'clock, Mr. Creedmore waived examina- tion, and gave a bond in the sum of ° p Us . | © J 5 A AN OO BN HE L A HE DM PE KB 01 PD pn d vl vi 5 . “y $1,000 for his appearance at the next term of court. th Mr_ Creedmore stated that he|th missed Tom Moore from his bunk on Saturday night, and went imme- | ja diately to the home of the Gaither negro, and arriving there he heard Moore cutting the shackles from hsi legs. 69 0 6 9 9 0 0 0 0 8 0 00 0 0 0 0 8 ed Gaither who ‘was in the house. Gaither told him that there was no one but he and his wife. But Creed- more knew béttér and demanded en- trance, and was finally admitted | finding Moore in the house. He called upon Moore to surrend- er, but he made a break for the door, Gaither opening it so he could es- cape. As he ran out of the door, Creedmore shot at him, but hit} ri Gaither in .mistake, inflicting a wound in his heel. Mr. Crésédmore was hit on the face by some one while’ he was in the house, but does not know who df it, or what he was hit with. Mr. Creedmore returned to the convict camp last night, and resum-} tl ed his work there until court. He eA ie le 33 3 3 2 5 3 3 2 3 3 3 3 32 ¢ state penitentiary at Raleigh, - -———_4+@-e————— Stockholders Meet. h At the meeting of the stockholda- | > ers of the Dixie Club Grocery Com- pany on last Monday night the fol- lowing officers and directors were elected: President—C. S. Holland. Vice President—W,_, W_ Cooper. Manager and Secretary—J. E. Thadpe. Temporary Treasurer—C. S. Hol- land. Directors—C. 5S. Holland, J. E. Tharpe, J. M. Ramsey, J. M. Adams, J. C. Henley R. F. Henry, C. H_ Turner. “Mr. Tharpe will return about the 7th of next month and take up his | t position as manager of the new com- pany. : Their store, which wil be head- quarters for drugs and _ groceries, will be openéd in the annext to the Hotel Iredell and wil be opened about the middle of January. Mr. Tharpe will have active management. 6-4 re Greensboro to Have Wireless Station Greensboro, Bec. 30.—The East- ern Operating Department of the United Wireless Telegraph Company announces the placing of an order with the company’s manufacturing department, for 250 complete sets of wireless instruments, all of which are soon to be installed at stations to be established in cities east of the Misissippi river. One of these stations ill be locat- ed in Greensboro. Other cities in North Carolina where stations will be established are Elizabeth City, Cape Hateras_ Beaufort, Newbern, Raleigh, Wilmington, Charlotte, Asheville, Henderson and Winston- Salem. —_——_ ere Mr. McLain Resigns. Mr. A. S. McLain who has been with the Lawrence Brothers Com- pany for a long while, has resigned his position . Mr. McLain is a fine drygoods salesman and the Lawrence Com- pany was sorry to give him up. He and Mr. W. W. Foushee went to Wilkesboro yesterday, where pos- sibly Mr. McLain will engage in bus- iness. ——_—_—_4<4@-o——_—_—_—_— Mothers how can you take chances—keep a_ bottle cf Moth- ers joy in your house. You nced Mothers Joy every day. 23 3 3 3 w >. . A Be se ee he s l e c l e c l c o t e c t e c l e c t a c t a . ? . . 2 . . 9 . . 9 . ! 5. 9 . 9 ee r er r a n t er p pe n t o n to n y : ‘ TH Some days ago this paper publish- prisonersy dealing on condition of the piace a little. One of the priSoners held in jail, who was talked about was Sherman Moose, who is very insane at times. ter from Mr. Switch, Iné., a brother of Sherman Moose, concerning his brother Sherman in the Mascot, condition of sherman, as any brother would be. requested Mr. Deaton to take some steps to get Sherman into an insane asylum some place. nounces that he will put the matter | thousand human beings met death in: before the County commissioners at th death from the which Italy on Monday is the heaviest from! Locke Edmundson returned to their any calamity in the history of the ‘; mes at Mooresville today, visiting the family Brown for a few days. - last night about 8| their next meeting on next Monday. and a friend of him with him, Dut he took a sudden no- tion that he would rather be in jail but he has issued orders that each prisoner bath twice a week and endeavor oth- |}erwise to keep things clean around He knocked on the door and ask- |} tehm, the past three or four terms have re- commended a new jail and doubtless some steps would have been taken at the last meeting of the commission- | 2partments. ers if a quortim fad been present, numbers of custom that is all right, and the Mas- cot is in favor of it, as it is much easier than riding on a side saddle. pecially two of our citizens is that */ men may have to adopt the side sad- dle habit. city, asking him if he could not sell was for some years a guard at the | him a nice side saddle, man who had the side saddle for sale was informed by the other one that three years to some gentleman, as the masculine sex would be more than likely to adopt the side saddle, letting the kind. ward man would sit in a side saddle ith as much grace as a lady can, but: still if they want to try it, let them go their route, gave a stag supper attheir beautiful home o nDavie avenue last night to Will Allison. ted, and the dining table was loaded down with good things to eat too numerous to mention, of the Messrs. Allison were present, and several of the genltemen pres- ent, said it was one of the finest they had ever attended at any place. newspaper to at Spring Hope next week. Robert E. ey ae —— ——_— EVENING MASCOT. Statesville, N. C., Thurssday Evening, December 31, (968. About Sherman Moose. an article dbout the jail and the the sanitary day Sherif, Deaton received a let- J, T. Moose of Fisher inquiring into the condition Sherman and his surroudnings. Mr. Moose had _ read the article which paper he takes. course he was interested in the fn the letter Mr. Moose earnestly ‘Mr, Deaton an- Sherman has been liberated once, started home an any piace else and returned ere. . * AS To the sanitary condition of the il, Mr. Deaton says it is very bad, | te Snall be made to take a The grand jurors of the court. for —_——_—+ eo Men to Use Side Saddles. For some months in the past large ladies have been seen ding horseback astride. That is a But what is disturbing some, es- A few days ago one gen-|T eman approached another of this The gentle- e did not need the saddle at present, ut mfght be able to sell it in two or ladies We do not imagine that an awk- ——____.4<- Stag Super Last Night. Ex-Sheriff and Mrs. T. J, Allison f heir sons, Messrs. ““eaymond and The home was beautifuly decora- About a dozen gentlemen friends —__—_++@>-—__— Newspaper for Spring Hope, Spring Hope, Oec. 30.—A weekly be known as The Spring Hope Leader, will be started Ranson, superintendent of the Spring Hope schools, will be the edi- tor and business manager. Walter Buck, of Ayden, an experienced printer, will be in charge of the me- chanical department of the paper. Both of these young fellows are young and énthusiastic and they ex- pect to put forth every effort to effort to make a success oi the news- paper at this place. —— Delegation to Marion, A deelgation of gentlemen, of the local order of Gdd Fellows, went to Marion yesterday afternoon, where they witnessed some first degree work, which was administered by the Blue Ridge order on some members of the Marion lodge. The delegation Was composed of Messrs. E G. Gaither, A. E_ Fry, J. S. Alexander, and R. P. Allison. Mr Johii A. Connér acocmpanied the delegation ‘Tney all report a fine time and good. work. —__*+ >> Mr, Jas. E. Deaton and neice, Miss Sallie Smith, 0? Lynchburg, Va., are Death List Reaches 200,000 REGGIO Never in tl¢e Such a Calamity Descended Tpon s nation. American ambassador and other in-; fluential foreign residents here to de- and his assistants and American have given orders that this shall come first in thé work of their cor- respondents. sina. they wery compelied to spend the greater part of everything within the agency of the government for the relief and\succor of the aflicted,_ from these are too full of horror to be easily reproduced. in Reggio. brought from the stricken sections, that rumblings of the earthquake. greater portion of the city’s site is covered with water today, Roosevelt sent a cable dispatch to King Victor Emanuel, of Italy, yes- terday, expressing his sympathy and the sympathy of the American peo- have the other] ple with the earthquake sufferers. lows:: palled by the dreadful calmity which has befalién your country: I offer my sincere sympathy to you. Amer- ican Red Cross has issued an appeal and notified me that they will imme- diately communicate with the Italian Red Cross. ther Stone died here this morning from wounds received last night at the hands of May Wiilard in a house of ill fame. herself and it is believed will die. The killing seems to have been the outcome of jealousy. been intimate with the woman, but Jately neglected her. : this county for an affray at Moores- A TOTALLY _. DESTROYED.| ; of Italy Has History the People—Every Hours Brings Fresh -News of Devastation— to Have Been Killed—Believed; Today “nat Not More Than a Half j Dozen People Survived in R¢ggio, a City of 40,000 People. ones Rome, Dec. 30.—Two hundred! e Italian earthquake. ’ destroying forces + ; swept Sicily and southern , Every effort is being made by the rmine the safety of Consul Cheney The Continental press associations The king and queen are at Mes- Both are so overcome that the” day in their Both have promised Refugees are now arriving hourly Calabria. “Stories told by Not a Duilding remains standing This information was here today by wanderers Only a few scores escaped death. he sea rolled in with a mighty roar was at first mistaken for the The Sympathy for Italy. Washington, Dec. 30.—President The text of the message is as fol- “With all my countrymen I am ap- or contributions for the sufferers “THEODORE ROOSEVELY.” ————_—_-$-~> > Shot by a Woman. Washington, N, C., Dec. 30.—Lu- The woman then shot Stone had —_——_++o oe Jno, Templeton Caught. Jno. Templeton, colored, wanted ville was arrested at Asgeville, and will be brought here next week and put in jail if his bond is not raised. Frank Hollman, colored, who was arrested at Mooresville, on the charge of fighting Templeton, was put under a bond this morning and released. ee Emma Keaton to Goldsboro. Enna Keaton, the crazy colored put in the colored Insane asylum there next Tuesday. admitted there. possibly take her there. .——_++a-o Adams Brought Here. sheriff and lodged in jail. ———_ ++ is in the city today. Templeton here. Thousands of Tourists Are Belitv- ae Fis visiting relatives in the city. county tonight where he will make eae ;county tomorrow. : “mother of Mr. Edgar Garrison of {pis The toll o rvity is visiting her sister Mrs. W, M. ed from their bridal trip to Ashe- ville Tuesday night. in this county for about a week, they will go to Mooresville, their future home. {ed to their home this morning near ‘Charlotte. of Mrs. R. #. visiting Henry since last Monday. tigation of the security behind the original bail of Cardenio F. convicted yesterday larceny of $25,000 from cus- Judge Schofield, of the Superior woman who has been in jail for some time, will be taken to Goldsboro, and Application was made some days ago to have her Sheriff Deaton will Gus Adams colored who was ar- rested at Winston on a capias issued by Sheriff Deaton, for retailing, was brought here this morning by the Mother do you hear that rat- tling in your babies throat? Put PERSONAL NOTES. Mr. J. T. Branitey of Salisbury, is Mr. N. D Tomlin, of North Irdeell Mr. and Mrs, Ed Holderr of Ami- ty, are in the city today. Congressman Charlie Cowles is in hee ity today on busines, Sheriff J. M, Deaton went to Ashe- ille this afternoon to bring, Jno. Mr. Hugh Allison, better known “Billy Dock,” of Richmond, Va., Mr. C R Hudson will go to Rowan before farmers of that Mrs. J. H. Garrison of Charlotte, ‘ross in this city. Mesdames Roscoe Kincaid and after of Mr. S. R. Mr. and Mrs. J. S, Holton return- After visiting Mrs. Millwee and two sons return- Mrs. Millwee is a sister Henry, and has been here with Mr. and Mrs. 0 IS KING’S BAIL GOOD? Assistant District Attorney Renews His Request for an Increase in the: Bail Cardeino F. King, Convicted of the Larceny of $25,000. Boston Mass., Dec. 30.—Inves- King, financial agent, who was of the tomers, was ordered today by court. Assistant District Attorney Dwyer today renewed a request made last night, when the jury reported a verdict of guilty, for an increase in King’s bail pend- ing au appeal by the defense. He informed the court today that he had reason to believe that sureties behind the original bail were worth only $16,000 instead of $25,000 as called for in the bond. He said that one of the sureties was J. A. Holmes, a clerk in King’s office. An inves- tigation was ordered. The mat- ter will come up again tomor row. O42 ~" Early Refuses Medicine. Washington, Dec. 29.—Johu Early, ‘“‘Washington’s leper,” who hails from North Carolina, has refused for the last two months to take. the medicine nature of the disease from which ly one of Jeprosy. cept the decision as final. tribute nothing toward Dr. Han sen’s expenses and Early can ———_++e-o——- wish here begging money, visiting relatives at Mooresville. \it at once. mee a eet soya Bt nie es a little Mothers’ Joy on it and stop rtor ws iis “i ny ape aS ee sm ta et there. is a coup} more here for tha in town today. ically ill for some days is resting a Mr. G. M. Young of Troutman, was} little easier. in town this morning: marriage of Mr. J. P. Waugh and Miss Adie Drum. the short local notices and personals that the citizens will phone to us. operation for appendicitic at Long’s sanatorium on last Monday is resting better today. New Commercial National Bank is being held this afternoon in the Loan and Trust bui Grier’s court today for being drunk on the 24th of December. fined two dollars amounting to five dollars. given by the local chapter of the D, A. R. tonight at the beautiful honte of Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Henkle, at 8 o’clock, You know it is to raise funds to mark the site of tks his- toric Fort Dobbs; north of this city. A small silver offering will be re- prescribed for him. Early is ee aed of tand= -\-— ~~~ ‘Sugens - Otal COST... 2. 22 0s we eeee . 1 oS u ; e . chafing under restraint. He caine claims there is doubt as to the he suffers, though many experts who inspected the case during the tuberculosis congress here recently, pronounce it undoubted- The leper’s latest proposition is to have Dr. John Hansen, a a celebrated Swedish specialist, brought to the United States to pass upon his case. If Dr. Han- sen pronounces his case one of leprosy, Early says he will ac- As the government will con- not raise the money to pay fora visit himself, he will probably have to remain in his present quarters and under quarantine. The city seems to be an easy snap for parties from ‘‘furrin” parts who to beg money. Only a few days ago there were two furriners” and today LOCAL BRIEFS. Mrs. H. Scott who has been crit- License have been issued for the The Mascot is glad to publish all Mr. J. G. Gray who underwent an A stockholders meeting of the ing. Chas, Warren was tried in Mayor He was and costs, all Do not forget the reception to be received by the Daughters, b\é do not fail to go. $+ @r-o—_ A Test of Gooa Methods and Good Seed Combined Mr. J. M, Lippard, of Route 3, Statesville, N. C., is a farmer who is progressive enough to find out things which he wants to know. Upon the advent of the Farmers Co-operative Demonstration work in North Carolina about a year ago, Mr. Lippard decided to thoroughly test the methods and also to test the question of good seed upon which the Demonstration agents put consider- able stress. For this purpose he used some gray, gravelly, upland soil with clay sub-soil where he had been making 12 to 15 bushels of corn per acre previously He did not break as early as was recommended, but broke it as soon as was conven- jent in January. He used a two- horse plow. following in the same furrow with a bulltongue scooter as a sub-soiler, and is sure that he broke the land 10 inches dep without inverting it, He “edged” or “ridg- ed’’ up the land to expose as much of it as possible to the air and then harrowed twice and _ re-broke the land later. He planted used the weeder for the three first cultivations, He gave five other cul- tivations. For fertilizers he used 200 pounds of equal parts of cotton seed meal and 16 per cent acid broadcasted be- fore planting. He used ten loads of stable manure broadcasted several weeks before pianting. At time of planting he applied 100 pounds of 8 3-3 fertilizer. He hoed the corn once. = is Cost. Breaking the land.... - $400 FLATLVOWANES. 22.2. 225, oa wees 1-00 Weederings..... ....-. «+ 1.00 Planting. 2. <2)... Sc cle e ee tO Cultivation... . . <.-<) <i eis OL Oe MTOCINE So) foi oie al eis oeeeccii 1.00 Gathering.... .......... .. 3,00 Hauling manure... ........ 3.00 Pulling fodder and cutting tops 3,00 Ten loads lot manure........10.00 300 tbs commercial fertilizer... 3.65 5.00 By fodder and tops... . $14.50 Cost of producing the corn.. 25.65 Yield of corn per acre... Cost per bushel... On another acre of the same kind acre, at a cost of 42 3-4 cents per bushel. $1.00 per day for a horse, and of 20 cents per bushet?: = On another acre, rich bottom land | Lippard made 64 bushels of corn per acre at a cost of 18 cents per bushel based on the same cost Mr. of labor, etc., as thé above acres crops, plow the soil deeply and buil it up as a farmer should do. 97 Baties level and -90 bushels ....28 1-2 cets of soil with the same treatment, fer- tilizers. etc, Mr. Lippard made, with ordinary corn, only 60 busehls per The above aoe were based on labor at $1.00 per day for a man and course make the cost of the corn rather high. As a matter of fact, Mr, Lippard did his own work and by owning and feeding his own stock with home grown supplies he proba- bly made the corn at a cost of about This land, too, was broken 8 to 10 inches deep and thoroughly harrow- ed before planting. This latter acre shows how cheapiy a farmer ean make corn if hé-were to rotate his The t | later corn probably cost Mr. Lippard No. 377 —ae Are Recovered ONLY TWO ARE RESCUED ALIVE A Temporary Morgue is Established. Fifty May.be Dead—Work of Ex- ploring the Lick Branch Colliery Continges—No Trouble Experi- enced From the After Damp, Bluefield, W. Va., Dec. 30.—The work of exploring the Lick Branch colliery, plosion occurred yesterday, still con- tinues and tonight a total of twenty- seven dead have been recovered. ° in which the disastrous ex- Twe of these were taken out alive .and died trom wie effects of their in- juries most of the cases were due to as- phyxiation smoke caused by the explosion, al- afterwards. The deaths in from afterdamp and though the force of the death-deal- ing blast was terrific. Mine cars shattered to splinters, and other de- bris, was blown out of the entrances and a hundred feet away from the mine mouth into the open. Hight c rews of rescuers are at work and have been on duty con- tinually all day exploring the mine passages in the search for bodies. afterdamp is peculiarly lacking and no inconverfence has been encount- ered by the rescuing partfés from this source, which is very unusual. In a large building near the mines a temporary morgue has been estab- lished and this, together With a large area about the mine mouth, has been roped off to keep back the curious. there are many pitiful scenes about the village and tonight watchers sit by the coffins of three iif ome home, and in three other homes there are two waiting for interment Yomorrow. There is an absénce of the usual excitement in such accidents, but from many houses can be heard the moans of womén as husband, father or brother is brought home dead. It is now estimated that the death list will reach fifty. —_—_H+ ere DEATH FROM EATING OYSTERS. ee Samuel C. Burnett, of Reidsville, Dead—Held Important Position, Reidsville, N. C., Dee. 380.—Mr. Samuel C. Burnett died at his home this afternoon at 2 o’clock, His death was caused from eating a stew of stale oysters Monday at the cafe here_ = Mr. Burnett was 35 years old. For many years he had held an im- portant position with the F. R. Penn Tobacco Company. Several years ago he became a great sufferer from rheumatism, ‘but since returning from Hot Springs, where he went for treatment, his health had been grad- ually improving. He is _ survived by his mother, one brother and six sisters. $4 Reflections of a Bachelor Girl. By Helen Rowland. Love, like a jar holds only so much honey, and the more you squeeze out of it the less is left in it. = That deadly reaction that comes after a man has gone too far in love or wine feels so much like real repentance that he is almost inclined to be conceited about it. When a2 man pulls the leaves off a daisy he says not, ‘‘She loves— me? She loves me not?’’ but ‘‘I love her? I love her not?’”and he’s just as‘much in doubt about the answer as though it were some- body else’s puzzle. The masculine idea of being per- fectly ‘‘balanced’’ is to have two love affairs on hand—one for his lighter side and one for his darker side, one as a stimulant and one as a sedative. since his home grown feed supplies made his labor cost him a good deal . |less than the market price of labor. Compare these prices with the market price of corn the past season. We omitted fo state that the pro- lific corn used on one acre of the up- land was Biggs’ ‘prolific. That on d| bottom was a large; two eared va- riety, called Virginia White. “No manure or fertilizer of any kind was purpose. oy not over 10 to 12 cents per bushel used on the bottém Tands, ~— fT a bi, j ea e he ee ee ar a ab e r i SMS MGR TIT AMIE, OF al omen AONE oe Ie eh oe "Be AIO Sans, a eR RAR Tae AME TER Md a eee RSM eine Ne ee ae eee eee THE EVENING MASCO] DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY. == tutered at the Postoffice in Statesville @. C., as second-class mai) matter. ffice 109 Court Street. Telephone 53 VANCE NORWOOD - _ Publisher. RALPH SLOAN, - - City Editor, Subscription Price, a $4.00 a Year ubscription Price, - 10 Cents a Week — Weather Forecasts, Washington, D. C., Dec. 31.—For North Carotiha fair and colder to- night and Friday. Freezing temper- ature near the coast tonight. —_——_—~2- +e If you ever get an auto also get a man that knows ‘“‘what the devil is the matter with?” —_—_—<< > Keep your hand on your pocket book when you are around a man who thinks éverybody are rascals, —__—__?-+@>-__—__ In makinzg~your good resolutions for the New Year-recollect it will be twelve months before you can renew them. —_—_+ +> __—- A good name is rather to be chosen than great Fiches yet many men have sold out for much less than riches. —_—_———¢+ > oe —_—__—_ It is said some folks bring more than they are worth. There are some we know. who if sold for noth- ing would be éxpensive. _—— i __—_ The Night Riders of Tennessee ap- pear to be adept at committing pur jury as well as hanging folks and burning tobacco barns. 40-2 If it is true that opportunity knocks at every man’s door it is evi- dent that a lot of folks were not at home when it came along. ———_++@r-o—_— Now that President-elect Taft and the Emperor of Germany have joined the prihibitionists the question has taken on international aspect. _————__++oe>-e—_—_ Go out to the world with a light heart and cheeriul greeting to all and you will get’ more out of the world than you thought you would. <¢-<@P?-e- Since so many of our friends now have autos it is evident that the city should have a repair shop, for a man can’t support his family and keep one in fix, _———_?-+>-o— One of the most unpleasant men on earth is one who sees no good in any thing and this man _ usually measures the world by what the world thinks of him. —_———_+-(@>e—_——__—_. Don’t get too SMart because you will feel embarrassed sometime on account of it and if you have a chip on your shoulder recollect there is @ gentleman who willl tend to your case in due time. ~ _—— 1 With what we have seen as to the owning of an auto We think that the owner should Have an insurance policy and an admission certificate to a lunatis asylum for he is likely to need both. ———__+~@>r-e—_—_. —_ Uneasy rests the head of promi- nent republicans in Eastern North Carolina at this time. You know Judge Purnell a United States judge is dead. There are several gentle- men whose friends are anxious for them to get the job. —_—————_~+@o It is said that President-elect Taft’s weight is very much on the abnormal state—wonder if this is what he is going to break the solid South with? Roosevelt tried it with his big stick and now Taft is trying it with his big physiognamy. It won't work, ze -——— ++ THE IDEAL COURT. If we are to have more courts in this state it should be by an increase of the superior courts. The increase of inhabitants of the staté and its rapid growth in businesss and wealth necessarily makes an increase in litigation. Our entire policy of government, as is the whole judicial system, is founded upon trial by jury. That declaration that no man shall be deprived of his property or his’ liberty of person without a trial before a jury of his peers t= the safest and béSt guarantee of the rights of man that has ever gone into & system of government. And for centuries the right of trial by jury has stood before the most enlighten- ed critic of the most intelligent and learned age of atl civMfration with- out any suggestion from any source of anything better. And the superior court & the ideal of ‘the judicial system. No man can be-put in jeopardy until a grand jury shall pass upon an indictment against him and he shall not be con- victed until he has had a fair trial with counsel for his defense before @ judge learned {n The law and a jury of his countrymen. He then has right of appear to the supreme court of his state in case of errors comanitted in the trial. With this no man _ has right of Complaint because he has had ad- vantage of the best mode of trial civ- ilization can give As we said be- fore the superior court is the ideal court of the judicial system, and as proof of tnis fact every time the state legisiature has set up an infe- rior court it soon afterwards repeal- ed the act creating it. In all inferior courts the jurisdic- tion is limited however much it is enlarged and every time a harsh sentence is imposed on a defendant he appeals to the superior court and the state is put to the cost of two trials instead of one In a city where the recorders court has been given a thorough test one of the best informed tawyers of that city stated recently it was a failure so far as re- lieving the superior court docket cencerned. Tt iS alright to talk about giving magistrates enlarged jurisdiction Dat as long as the con- stitution gives defendants the right of appeal and Tne jurisdiction given to any inferior court cannot extend beyond misdemeanors they cannot help the superior courts. —_——__++14>-»—__-~- DEMOCRATIC HELP. Governor Albert B. Cummins was elected to the United States senate by the legislature of Iowa to succeed the late Senator Alli- Mr. Cummins said: “This somewhat personal phase of the occasion would not be com- plete without a word to the men of the democratic party with whom I have associated in public affairs. I can not leave the oftice I have held fer nearly seven years with- out thanking them most heartily for their patriotic and efficient as- sistance in the legislation that has been adopted in this period of stress and storm. To them, with like pleasure, I record a promise which shall be sacredly kept. I will hold the welfare of my coun- try and my state high above every other consideration, ang will fol- low truth and justice as they ap- pear to me, wherever they may lead the way.”’ Where Bullets Flew. David Parker, of Fayette, N. J.. a veteran of the civil war, | who lost a foot at Gettysburg, says, “‘The good Electric Bitters have done is worth more than five hundred dollars to me. I spent much money doctoring for a bad ease of stomach trouble, to little purpose. I then tried Electric Bitters, and they cured me. I now take them as a tonic, and they keep me strong and well.’’ d0e. at Statesville Drug Co.’s store. er Youcan have an automobile cr a typewriter sent up on trial‘ but you’ve got to take a hus- band on trusi. THE GIRL QUESTION Jf/@ IS Easy Yj SOLVED PRESENT HER WITH a BOX We Are Agents. See our Xmas Packages of Candy Stationery and Cigars W.F.HALL Prescription Druygist. | son. Is his speech of acceptance | LOR adage Roane Eis Puts ai op mie sa By ALCOHOL 3 PER CENT. } AVegetable PreparationforAs- ing hese eae Bears the si a i : Promotes DigestionCheerft ‘i E] Ness and Rest.Contains neither S!!||:1 Opium.Morphine nor Mineral. e(ili:| NOT NARCOTIC. 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If you have lost something in The Evening Mascot. tributed the growth, and prises of the present day. or manufactured articles. 5 6 5 S S S ° 5 © 5 3 Q ° 9 5 9 o o S o O 5 5 B 5 5 S o © o o S o S 5 © 5 S 5 Dd 5 bo RS S DS a bd pS 5@ RG es 5S © dS eC 9 BS OS Dd $3 *, 54 6S es bd ee 04 Se SD as , 8 3 you wish to sell. economical manner, 5$ 0 6 5 6 0 On e VERTISIA Is Essential to the Up- building of the Modern Business Enterprise. ::: To the publicity gained by the use of the advertising columns of the daily papers is at- a very large percentage of great business enter- Advertising is recognized as the prime fac- ~ tor in increasing the sales of any class of goods The space used in this paper is your busi- ness message to the public. you should tell them of the merits of what you are offering, setting forth the reasons why your particular line is worthy of their attention. THE EVENING MASCOT has increased its local circulation very materially during the past three months and the results obtained from the space used by the advertisers are gratifying to them and to the paper. It . reaches into the homes of the best class of our people and your message will be placed in the hands of those with money to buy the goods The Space Rates in The Evening Mascot are not high. Your message is carried, each s day, to those you wish to reach, in the most For information call us up on the phone and a representative or the paper will gladly visit you consequent success, of In this open letter O8 0 8 0 8 0 8 0 8 0 8 0 00 8 08 0 8 0 8 0R 0 8 0 S 0 S O . 8, MO S S S O S O S O S O S O S O R O S D SS E o SEVERAL THINGS Are to be considered in seleeting your Bank} 1ST. Strength-Financial Strength 2ND. The care with which the Bank is Managed. 3RD. The courtesy and spirit of of accomodationidisplayed by the Officers and Em- ployees. 4TH. The banking experience of Officers. STH. 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CAPITAL STOUCB............ Sooo pins ea ai ¥40,006.00 i SHAREHOLDERS LIABILITY.......0000.0000-. eoeeeee $40,000.00 ; SURPLUS AND UNDIVIDED PROFITS............ $30,000.00 : TOTAL RESOURCES OVER.......00...e0e0s-e.. .--» $440,000.00 ; OFFICERS : E. Steele, President, E. Morrisou, Vice-Pres, D. M. Aus’ey, Sec and Treasurer, C. E. HUGHEY, Assistant Secy. and Treas W. @. CULBRETH, Manager Savings Department BO O T BO S 46 5 OO S 80 O F ©0 0 0 8 OO S 1D 29 0 0 C8 0 8 Soe eoece. oe0e80 A Shee Tien In @ sharp contest nothing but “quality” and appearance figure. “RUTH MADE” Hosiery and the “WORLDS BEST” Biack are the goods of Quality. After al: has een waid, all your pursuasiv sted, it is still a fact that e argument exhau “QUALITY” IS THE ONLY TESTOF VALUE To get best results you must h ing § ave the best of everything best yarn, be:t colors, best nrachines and best help, with such a combination you Can produce the best of what you are making. We have all 2 Ae for the goods of “quality >” the above. Ask your . bo Be : pC CeO ; C DRS OORCROeOS oa eee ee INI. O ag pa | ato ee Cpnepececeo Re a 060 5 : a4 — % —_— RS 4 pe a Ro Get us five yearly subscribers to The Evening hi Cot, paid in advance, and get one of the beautifu ina Sets we are giving as premiums. —— - P ™, 40 0 = C) TO Death was on His Heels. Jesse P. Morris, of Skippers, Va., had a close call in the spring of 1906. He says: ‘‘An attack of pneumonia left me so weak and such a fearful cough that my friends declared consumption had me, and death was on my Then I was persuaded to try Dr. King’s New Discovery. It helped me immediately, and after taking two and a half bottles J I found out that New Discovery is the best remedy for coughs and lung dis- ease in all the world,’’ Sold under drug Trial with heels. was a well man again. guaarantee at Statesville Co. store. 50c. and $1.00. bottle free. —————~~+2>—_____ When the suffragettes get votes candidate for office will be the inventor of the hookles® a formidable waist—Houston Chronicle. -———_++@>-e—____ Day after day he street, Looking for a presnt for “‘wifey”’ walked the AN EASY PROBLEM. ~ The Old Man Was In No Danger if He Followed Directions, The druggist had written it on the labels and also cautioned the old ne- &ro by word of mouth that the con- tents of one bottle were for internal use and the other for external use, but he hadn't got a block away before he Stopped a pedestrian to ask the differ- ence. “Why, one is for external and the other for interna] use,” was the reply. “But which is it?’ “This is for external. External means outside, you know. You rub it on.’ “Yes, sah.” “And the other you swallow.” “Yes, sah. But s’posin’ I dun git dem bottles mixed up arter I git home?” “Yes, you may do that. Have you got a wife?’ “Suably, sah.” “Well, then, let her take the con- tents of one bottle, and you rub your legs with the other. Understand ?” “TI does, sah,” said the old man, with a look of admiration, “and I’s mighty thankful to yo’ ’bout it. Befo’ de Lawd, but when dese yere niggers roun’ yere purtend to assimilate de conspicuosity alongside a white man dey don’t come widin a hundred miles of it.” — —_—_— ER enmeememeneemeee TY sweet— “‘l know what’ll please her most,’’ said he; “It’s Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea.”’—Statesville Drug Co. How to Prevent Pneu- monia In every paper you pick up you will see where some good man has just died with this fearful disease—pneu- monia. Now we will give you One Hundred Dollars for any case of pneumonia you have in your family it fails to cure if you will use Goose Grease Liniment as directed. It only costs you 25 cents a bottle. Get it— you have nothing to loose and all to gain. We know there are thousands who will read this and throw it aside and 1n a few days will be down with the disease. Please just get one bottle and putit away until you need it. If you haven’t the money to buy it let us know aud we will send you a bot- tle free. GOOSE GREASE CO. WE THANK YOU for the liberal pat- ronage you ‘have given us through this year and ask foria liberal share of it next year. We have {never been in better ijshape before to, serve the public in our line of Groceries and MEATS Dr. Getrox. apiece.” Unsuccessful Diagnosis. The man’s cough grew worse, so he resorted to the physicians, “From the stomach, I think,” said Dr. Simton. “Pardon me. There is no such thing as a cough from the stomach,” an- Swered Dr. Modern. “From the effects of vaccination, I Should say,” announced Dr. Nature. “Indeed,” replied his colleague, Dr. Serum, “let me remind you that (ex- cept tetanus, graft) there are no evil effects of vac- cination.” blood poisoning ané “Well,” said Dr. Experiment, “it fs not to be expected that we should all agree’ — “On one thing we are agreed,” cried “That is to charge $5 But the widow refused to pay.—New York Life. Attractive Menu. The old colonel had just “taken the starch out” of his colored stable boy for some words of impertinence. “And now, sah,” said the old colonel as he mopped his brow, “if you -haéd known I was going to make: you eat your words you would never have said what you did, would you?” “No, cunnel,” hesitated the boy. “Ab would have nebbeh used dem words.” “And what words would you have used, sah?’ “Well, if I had known you was going to make me eat dem Ah wouldn't have used any words bui ‘chicken, pie en pound cake,’ sah.”—Houston Post. . The Intelligent Officer (seeking to M. P. Alexan= der & Bro. Phone 241. — S-D DidD— OSITION Draughon gives contracts, backed by a chain of 30 Colleges, $300,000.00 capital, and 19 year’s success, to se- cure positions under reasonable con- ditions or refunnd tuition. BOOKKEEPING SHORTHAND DRAUGHON, President DRAUCHON’S PRACTICAL BUSINESS COLLEGE (We also Teach by Mail) ~ Raleigh, Knoxville, Nashville, Cc lumbia or Washington, D. C. Draughon’s ccm- petitors, by not accepting his pruposition, concede that he teaches more Bookkeeping in THREE months than they doin SIX. Draughon can convince YOU 7 per cent. of theUnited States Court Reporters write the system of Shorthand Draughon teaches, be- cause they know it is THE BEST. FOR FREE CATALOG and book- let, “Why Learn Telegraphy-?”’ which explains all, call on or write JNO. F. explain the motorist’s situation)—Ah, I suppose yer’d bin warned, as there was a p’lice trap t’other side of the bridge! ~—Sketch. Nervy. “T wanted lump sugar,” exclaimed the angry customer as he looked over the packages. “What does that grocer mean by sending me soft A sugar?” “Well,” laughed the grocer’s boy as he moved nearer the door, “he said if you didn’t like it you could lump it.”— Chicago News. Irish Names. Names wid the musical lilt of a troll to thim, Names wid a rollickin’ swing an’ a roll to thim, Names wid a body an’ bones an’ a soul to thim— Shure, an’ darlint asthore! Names wid the odor o’ dillisk an’ peat to thim, Names wid a lump o’ the turf hangin’ sweet to thim— Where can yez bate thim the whole wurruld o’er? they’re poethry, Brannigan, Flannigan, Milligan, Gilligan, Duffy, McGuffy, Mullarky, Mahone, Rafferty, Lafferty, Connelly, Donnelly, Dooley, O’Hooley, Muldowney, Malone, Maddigan, Caddigan, Hallahan, Callahan, Fagan, O’Hagan, O’Houlihan, Flynn, Shanahan, Lanahan, Fogarty, Hogarty, Kelly, O’Skelly, McGinnis, McGinn. Names wid a fine old Hibernian sheen to thim, Names wid the dewy shamrocks clingin’ green to thim, Names wid a whiff o’ the honest potheen to thim— they’re beautiful, darlint Shure, an’ asthore! Names wid the taste o’ the salt o’ the earth to thim, Names wid the warmth o’ the ancisthral hearth to thim, Names wid the blood o’ the land o’ their birth to thim— Where can yez bate thim the whole wurruld o’er? -Boston Post. west al NF ET a Rs ae eR RN TT an POS 5 et a 71 ELOPES WITH 64. ~ } eee | Old Sweethearts go by Sep2rate, Routes to Wed New Haven, Conn, Dec. 28 — The filing of the marriage cer- tificate today revealed the elope- ment to this pl3ceon Saturday of Thomas J. Fales, of Fall River, Mass., seventy-one years old and divorced, and Mrs. Ella M. Armstrong, also of Fall River, @ widow of sixty-four. They came by seperate routes, met and took out a license in the City Hall. The ceremony was performed by Justice of the Peace Pond. They then started on a wedding trip. Mr. Fales is a sbip chandler and has acquired considerable property. Mrs. Fales is also said to be well to do, and they came here seperately because they thought there would be op. position on the part of relatives if their plans were discovered. , —___—_+<+2> +—___ The Cheapness of Life. Boston Post. During this year labor in the United States lost nearly 35,000 lives in the course of employ- ment. There were also about 2,000,000 accidents. Most in- dustries involve risks, some greater than others. The acci- dent rate of electricians is ex- cessive. That of coal miners is 3.10 per 1,000 in the United States to 1.29 per 1,000 in the United Kingdom. This pro- portion holds among the rail- road employees. We lost 2.50 per 1,000 to Germany’s 98 per 1,000. In other words, we slaughtered on the average 915 wore coal miners than England and 1,735 more railroad em- ployees than Germany. Two conditions account for this excessive death-rate that runs throughout all our depart- ments of labor. First, the reck- less indifference and carelessness united with an inherent dislike to obedience, that characterize our American workmen. Second, the unwillingness of employers to install accident-saving de- vices and to compel military obedience to preventive orders. Germany has a permanent ex- position of accident-saving de- vices which has been productive of great benefit to life. ‘lhis feature England is coypieg. — Why His Advertising Did Not Pay. Suecess Magazine. He adopted the policy of runing down his compettitors. He did not make his advertise- ments interesting, attractive, or convincing. He was conscious of the super- iority of what he had to sell, but did not know how ‘to bring it to the attention of others affective- ly. He did not know that a fatal reaction always follows deception. Ile did not know how to bring reaction always follows deception. He did not know how to write an advertisement that would pull. He did not ksow that a brief, graphic description, in a few short, pungent, telling senten- ces that will attract and hold the attention, is mone effective than a whole page of fine print, written in a loose jointed, haphazard way. His advertisements ‘‘pulled’’; but the effect was lost in bad hand ling afterwards; in careless, ineffi- cient correspondence. He never hearned that many a good eustomer has been lost by a eareless letter. He did not follow up his adver- tisements until he got the ear of the publie. ++ —____ Would Mortgage The Farm.- A farmer on Rural Route No. 2, Empire, Ga. W. A. Bloyd by name, says: ‘‘Bucklen’s Arnica Salve cured the two worst sores I ever saw; one on my hand and one on my leg. It is worth more than its weight in gold. I would not be without it if I had to mort- gage the farm to get it.’’ Only 25e. at Statesville Drug~ Co.’s store. 0 eT ee eran tty «rine A GOOD STOMACH Means Good Health, Cheerfulness,’ Ambition, Persistency and Suc- cess. Mi.o-na will cure your dyspepsia or any other stomach trouble by building up the flabby walls, and making the stomach so strong that it will digest food without pepsin or ther artificial aid. In other words, Mi-o-na cures dys. pepsia by removing the cause, Statesville Drug Co., is the agent for Mi.o-na in Statesville and they say to every reader of The Mascot whose stomach is weak, who has in- digestion or dyspepsia, that Mi-o.na is guaranteed to cure or money back, The price is only 50 cents a large box, and one box is all you need to prove that you are on the right road to health and happiness, “I can’t say enough for Mi-o.na tablets; they have done more for me in one week than all the doctors have for the two years I have been under their care, and I will do all I can to recommend it to my friends. You can also usé niy name in your ad. if you like, for Mi-o_na is better than gold to me. I am like a new man, and am able to work once more for the first time in over a year.”—W. A. Ennis, 328 Green St., Syracuse, Ne ax —_—~*+ > -—__—. A story of thrift as told by an Associated Press dispatch from San Francico follows: ‘Charles Harvey, a retired soldier, who has been post quartermaster sergeant at Fort Rosecrans for some time, drew yesterday from Col- onel George R. Smith, chief paymas- ter of the department of California the sum of $13,900, the amount he had saved from his pay through the army desosit plan. This is the sec- ond largest sum the paymaster of this department has ever paid to a soldier. Besides this amount Harvey will receive the rest of his life $67.50 a month as retired pay. — ++ ____ If you haven’t the time to exercise regularly, Doan’s Regulets will pre- vent constipation. They induce a mild, easy, healthful action of the bowels without griping. Ask your druggists for them. 265c. Personally Conducted Tour to Ha- vana, Cuba, and Return, January 11, 1909, Via Southern Railway Souhern Railway will sell round trip excursion tickets to Havana, Cuba at following rates from points named: PSHECNERECH ce .- $39.10 PROKOP GSC 2s ot ... 42.40 WEATIOSR igo ce can 40.45 WAESDURY ce . 42.95 RCRD aa er ee 42.50 weateswalen oo Se 42.40 Approximately low rates from from other points. Tickes on sale January 11th, good returning to leave Havana, Cuba, on or before January 27th, 1909. Tickets may be routed through Jacksonville thence either through Knight’s Key, or Port Tampa. Good going and return- ing same route. Stop-over will be allowed at Jacksonville, St. Au- gustine, Palm Beach, Miami, and other points south of. Jacksonville, within final limit of ticket. A representaive will accompany movement, and will look after the comfort and pleasure of the party. For further information as to side tours from Havana, sight see- ing tours, hotel rates, leaving time a principal points, Pulllman and state room reservation, write J. Hl. Wood, D. P. A., Asheville, N. C.; W. H. McGlamery, P. & T. A., Raleigh, N. C.; R. H. DeButts, P. & T. A., Greensboro; N. C.; or eall on your repot agents, or write R. L. VERNON, T. P. A. Charlotte, N. C. STATESVILLE SKATING RINK Opera House Building Open from 3 to 5 and 8 to 10 p. m. No Children Admitted to sna ee eae ag So ac OE eee nan celal Floor at Night Sessions, 19 Farmers’ HR you will be sure to of manac. This most reliable of all regularly every year AND FARTI1 the famous Farmers’ O9- Almanac (Regular Price 10 Cents) HE! Call here as soon as you can—so that get one—for a copy Al- publication is the and has been issued for 84 years. You CO C can have a copy for the askiug—with our compliments. If you can’t manage to call in person, write us to mail you acopy. .°. MERCHANTS’ ERS’ BANK Statesville, N.C. POOOSOOOOOOOOOOOOKN OPERA HOUS CR O P 08 0 S D E C R D E 0 EO 98 0 8 09 0 8 0 8 0 E 0 e 0 E WO S H S O S O S S S O S O S O S O S O S O S S Re e d e r ea wo ‘' O 9 0 8 0 8 0 D 8 0 9 0 8 0 8 0 08 0 SS O So e OO S ee Return Engagement. JANUARY 2ND. JED CARLTON Presents Beatrice Gordon “WAS SHE 10 BLAME” | E, SATURDAY, 6 09 0 9 9 8 0 8 0 gO 8 D S 0 R O OS D SO S O S O S O S S SP R A dramitization of Bertha M. Clay’s beautiful story “A BITTER ATONEMENT”: Complete Stage Production—Special Scenery—Competent Cast. % If there is any humor in your make-up you will laugh ’till you ery. If your heart has a tender spot this play will reach it. Prices:==25, 50 080008090808080808080808080808080eDE, o 09 0 8 0 8 0 8 0 8 0 8 08 0 8 0 8 08 0 8 0 8 0 8 0 SO S O S 0 S O R O SS 5 S 0 S O S O S O S a on DS O S O S O S O S O S OR aT 080 0006080808080008080608060 Mortgage Sale of Valuable Real Estate. By virtue of power of sale con- tained in a mortgage deed executed by R. S. Sherrill and wife Mattie R. Sherrill, on March 20th, 1908, to the Henkel Live Stock Company to se- cure a note of $300 due and payable Nov. 1, 1908, (see Book 26, page 485, Registry Iredell Co.) the said mort- gagee will sell for cash by Public Auction, at the Court House door in Statesville, N. C., on Monday, the 18th day of January, 1909, at 12 o’clock noon, the following real es- tate conveyed in said mortgage, or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay the aforesaid debt and costs of sale, viz: 1st Tract. Beginning at W. F. Bailey’s S. E. corner, thence north with his line 210 poles to a stake, Bailey’s corner; thence E. 85 poles to a post oak; thence north 52 poles to a post oak; thence E. 140 poles to Murdock’s corner; thence S. 320 poles to a stake; thence W. 56 poles to a stake; thence S. 7 poles to a stake; thence W. 66 poles to a sour wood, Lingle’s corner; thence N. 65 poles to a stake, Lingle’s corner; thence W. 97 poles to the beginning, containing 356 acres, more or less. Also one house and lot in the su- burb of Statesville on what is called “Diamond Hill,’ beginning at a stake, corner of Vance and Dagen- hart streets, thence N. 4 degrees 100 feet to a stake; thence S. 85 degrees E. 180 feet to a stake; thence S. 4 degrees W. 100 feet to stake on Dag- enhart street; thence N. 85 degrees W. 180 feet to beginning. Terms Cash. THE HENKEL Live Stock Co., Mortgagee. Armfield & Turner, Attys. ~ THE IREDELL CAFE LEADER IN CANDIES sooo Noose FRUITS Oysters for retail and serving. Quail on Toast. PHONE NO. 323 Seats on sale at Statesville Drug Company. and 75 Cents. C00008080808 08006 D DI OS C O S C S C ea e ee e ee e ee e SC S C S O S C SO S BO E 08080 Ps S SOUTHERN RAILWAY 60, lireat Highway of Trade and Travel Through the Southern States Through Pullman Sleeping Cars on palatial trains between the principal Cities and Resorts of the South. High-class Dining Cars. Many delightfulSummer and Winter Resorts on and reached by Southern Railway. “The Land of the Sky,” “The Sapphire Country,’ in scenic Western North Carolina; beau- tiful at all seasons. Hotels of the highest class. For detailed information apply to nearest Ticket Agent, or R. L. VDRNON, T. P. A., Charlotte, N. C. S.H. HARDWICK, P.T.M., W.H. TAYLOE,G. P. A., Washihbgton, D. C. New Pool Room New Tables of the latest and best makes have been in- stalled under J. P. Phifer’s grocery store. W. W. GAITHER : Proprietor. We SliciYourPatronage Daa AND HE WiLL PROPHESY AGAIN | Brain Leaks. World Crash Failing, He Filed cou f C Nyack to Escape Tar Feathers and | manhood. Arrest—He Charge—ays it Will Come Yet. | transient rewards. Lee J Spangler, who worked) No, we'll to a frenzy by declaring that the! will swipe ’em. world would come to an end at; The church that waits appeared Saturday night while remain very exclusive. indignant citizens were said to A man be preparing to treat him with a! plenty of coat of tar and feathers, has|articles on the ‘blessing Of! the soil to try their luck, and to arrived. | poverty.” draw a good decp breath, and are When Spangler decided that The pulpit should now and taking some of the city’s savoir Nyack was the best place from then take the pewpoint of view. which to witness the grand up-| Forawise man Selomou had heaval he hastened there and a woeful lot of idiosyncrasies. began holding meetings in a) children and women and a few/go up. men. To these he taught his| Better smile where love is than | doctrines, aud _ they quickly |a forced gift for appearaunce’s | spread the propaganda until sake. within a fortnight the whoie! place was aroused and one nine-| job is seldom profitable. year-old girl tried to commit! suicide. On the eve of the grand crash but in view of recent eveuts itis’ and much safer than using the mails. Spangler disappeared, neither could the irate citizen; We the slightest trace of him. He) he got mixed up in told Mrs. Henrietta Murdock, with a gas meter. his “high priestess,” that he was) Just assoonas those experts going up the sky to meet God get rid of the plague of rats in and promptly departed in the|San Francisco they might weil night. Mrs. Murdock was left | turn to pilot the faithful up the plague of rats ia the hair. mountain next day to the jump-| ee ing off place. | Was Flower Girl. Spangler denies that he ran| away or that he knew that a/ Mrs. Ree — oe eee He died last night. She was 95 says that New York City was to vears old, and retained her be the first to be destroyed and faculties to theend. Mrs. Foun- Luciada Fountain, the that when the signs begin to;|tain was a flower girl at the, fail he so informed his saints 2reat ball given in honor of and eame along home. He de. vital Lalasette mien shevist clares that he told them to do gejighted to narrate the inci. as they liked about going up dents connected with the visit the mountain. 'of the patriotic Frenchman. she “It only serves to show how} Was a native of South Carolina. few people will be watching when ot ee the ‘time does come,” he eaid|,, ors serate, i tre, minute tonight. “God has only deferred | 5, sve minutes: sisticcuees. a the end a little longer. York) nour; muscleache, two hours: sore ministers and people learned | throat, twelve hours—Dr. Tomas through my prophecies that the|Eclectric Oil, monarch over pain. time had come and they all got Se ee down on their knees and prayed Notice of Services. so hard that they saved the The Rev. E. A. Osborne expects to 2 % x Z preach and celebrate the Holy Com- city, like Nineveh, for the time| munion in the St. James being.” Iredell county on next Sunday at 11 The “prophet’”’ still believes} o'clock. that the moon will change to blood and that the werld will be destroyed, but he isn’t quite sure when all this will take place. Heis going to prophesy some more as soon as he gets rested. ——-4+ > ____ A Wonderful Shot. Suecess Magazine. They were tellling how well the” could shoot, and Tom Dawson re- ealled a duck hunt in which he had brought you five dueks with one shot. “‘Talk about shootin’,’* began old man Tilford ; ‘‘I saw Jim Fer- ris do a mighty neat piece of work one day last week His wife was puttin’ out the washin’ and she Pythian Hall at Mooresville at 7:30 p. m., the same day. —-$-$ E> >> Will somebody please explain why itis that the furnace that works beautifully when the weather is balmy will get balky ——_++@>e——__—— Most disfiguring skin eruptions, scrofula, pimples, rashes, etc., are due to impure blood. Burdock Blood Bitters is a cleansing tonic. Makes you clear-eyed, skinned. —_—~-+@-e——____ Itching piles provoke but profanity won’t cure them. Doan’s Ointment cures itching, bleeding protruding piles after years of suffering. At any drug store. Tue chief need of mer is more Success Magazine. Denfes the Above: A self-centered life brings only ready catching fire with the new | He who walks by faith has op-| York, Pa., Dee. 28.—‘‘Prophet’ portunity to enjoy the scenery. not hang up our some persons in Nyack, N. Y., in- hose. We’re afraid the big boy for high poon Sunday, aud who dis-| workingmen to come to it will! with a million has time to write long People need neither bell nor} small hcuse in Depew street. He whistle to inform them when it gathered about hiw a number of|is time for the theatre curtain to. The easy way of doing a hard ! It may costa little more to) use the long distance teiephone, shudder to think what) 31) nor the police, who had sworn kind of language the chief execu- out & warrant for his arrest, get! tive of this nation would use if, a controversy | their attention to this | Birmingham, Ala., Dee 30.— ‘oldest resident of Montgomery, | church, | He also expects to preach in the the very first real cold morning. | clear-brained, clear | profanity, | was complainin’ about the pesky sparroys makin’ dirt marks on the damp clothes with their feet. ** “Theyre thick as bees ‘round here,” says she. There’s seven of ’em sittin’ on the clothes line this blessed minute ** ‘Tl fix ’em,’ says Jim, takin’ down his shotgun, which he allus keeps loaded with fine bird-shot. He tiptoed to the door, took aim, an-—~"? **Kilked everyone of them spar- rows,’’ broke in Dawson. **You’re wrong,”’ corrected Til- ford, calmly ; ‘‘he never touched a one of ’em, but when his wife took in the washin’, she found she hag three pair of openwork stock- in’s and a fine peek-a-boo shirt- waist. | ————4+ LOST—Ladies gold watch lost De- cember 26th if Knox. Poston & Co’s store or between fhere and R. M_ Knox’s residence on North Center street. Return to Knox, Poston & Co’s store and receive reward. dec31 d&w it —————++@>-—____ No doubt it is nothing but lib- eralmindedness that makes it im- possible for a man to narrow his thoughts down to just one wo- man. A. W. i Phore No. 61. CE E C E C E C C E I S E E R E E EE E . SE Ww \ u by Ww W OLLER PLUMBING COMPANY Hope For the Sma] Farmer. | Everywhere the South is al- land radical idea that the small farmer may really make money. In Virginia, farmers, on land val- ued at $4 an aere, have suddenly taken to growing crops valued at 100 an acre. Young men are be- ginning to stay in the country in order to make money. Even the young men of the city sweatshops and factories have caught the glad tidings and are hurrying back to a Vivre with them into the country. And if the South, why not the North? Why not New England? Asa Judd was told the other day that, with the new government ' methods, he might clear a profit of /at least $1,000 next year. He merely smiled his great, whole- i souled smile, scratched his head a little, and went on doggedly doing the work of two men and a horse 'in the same old, futile, Areadian way. | But I have high hopes of him and of Laban. One of these days Department of Agriculture establish a demonstration ‘farm in the White Mountains—a i the j farm only half as large as ‘‘Badg- er’s, "yet one that will grow two 'tons of hay to Asa Judd’s one, | a. .¢shels of potatoes to h*s 'twe and plenty of grain into the j bars cin. Ade presently one will notice two teams in the old Badger barn. ;and two young hired men at the dining table, and the sleigh will actually materialize. So will that zraphophone, and ‘‘Ma’’ Badger will loose her anxious look and / begin to feel as though her head were “‘wuth’’ more than the long- est doetor’s bill ever made out. And that dollar will cease rotating on its aXis and will be laid to rest in the bank to save wear and tear. —_—_++@>-»—____ Fills your veins with rich, red bleed. Gives you a hearty appe- ,tite, builds up flesh, makes you ‘strong and ruggea. _Hollister’s :Rocky Mountain Tea, greatest health builder. 35 cents, Tea or | Tablets. Statesville Drug Co. ~~ e—___ Old Wine in New Bottles. Excange A fool and his money are soon discovered. A proof of the pudding is in 'the way you feel about an hour afterwards. | Too much cooking spoils the balance-sheet. | Where there’s smoke there is | not always a fire poiicy. | An Englishman’s fish _Frenchman’s poisson. - is & | Train up aservant in the way she snould go, and the first thing you know she’s gone. A bird in the hand is worth two in the breakfast eggs. ———~++@>-—_—__ . Builds you up physically and mentally, keeps your digestion or- gans in condition, regulates the bowels, cleanses the blood, gives you perfect health. Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea or Tablets, 39 cents. Statesville Drug Co. —_———— to Of course, platonie friendship is possible if you live 500 miles apart | and one of you has a hump and | the other is crosseyed. A MERRY & CHRISTMAS * It is to those who have a spick and span new bathroom in which to pre- pare for the pleas- ures of the day. Consult us as to the best plan for your floor space, and we wiil fit you out with a bath room of which you MN a ai " in A\ ae © will be proud, mr without much AR strain on your pocketbook. ff a 127 W. Broad St. x AMBITIOUS YOUNG MEN WOMEN’S WOES. Statesville Women Are Finding Re- lief at Last. It doves seem that women have more than a fair share of the aches aad pains that affiict humanity; they must ‘keep up,” must attend to duties in spite of constantly aching backs or headaches, dizzy spells, bearing-down pains; they must stoop over, when to stoop means torture. they must walk and bend and bend and work with racking pains and many aches from _ kidney ills. Kidneys cause more suffering than any other organ of the body. Keep the kidneys well and health is easily maintained. Read of a remedy for kidneys only that helps and cures the kidneys and is endorsed by people you know. Mrs. M.L Moose, living at 209 Boulevard St., Statesville, N. C., says: “For several years I was a vic- time of weak kidneys. I had a soreness across these organs most of the time and I generally felt weak. Dizzy spells and headaches were of frequent occurrence, and at night I was unable to obtain my proper rest. The kidney secretions were also un- natural in appearance, and showed that my kidneys were at fault. I used a number of remedies but Doan’s Kidney Pills, which I procur- ed at Hall’s drug store, benefited me more than any of the others. I sin- cerely hope that other sufferers will give Doan’s Kidney Pills a trial as I know they will act strictly up to their representations. ’’ For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, sole agents for the United States. Remember the name and take no other. ———_++@-o_—__- Santa ha lot nothing in popu-, larity beeaue of hi recent visit — Memphis News-Scimiter. 4 A Healthy Family. ‘‘Our whole family has enjoyed good health since we began using Dr, King’s New Life Pills, three years ago,’’ says L. A. Bartlet, of Rural Route 1. Guilford Maine. They cleanse and tone the system in a gentle way that does you good 25c. at Statesville Drug Co. ——_++@>>—____ The only kind of masculine love that never dies is self-love. eee Mothers’ Joy 1s made of pure ingredients. Mothers you cannot afford to be without a box of Moth ers’ Joy. HOLLISTER’S Rocky Mountain Tea Nuggets A Busy Medicine for Busy People. Brings Golden Health and Renewed Vigor. A specific for Constipation, Indigestion, Liver and Kidney troubles, Pimples, Eczema, Impure Blood, Bad Breath.Sluggish Bowels, Headache and Backache. ItsRocky Mountain Teain tab- let form.35 cents a box. Genuine made by HOLLISTER Drvue Coupany, Madison, Wis. GOLDEN NUGGETS FOR SALLOW PEOPLE 1 ener eee 5 cents a line. 3 NCR eee 4 cents a line. 6 GHMES.. =... 315 cents a line, 26 times) 3 cents a line, FOR RENT—Hail and 3 rooms over N. Harrison’s store. Apply to T. D. Miller. agent. de2s 6t WANTED—At ottce a good cook, white or black. Apply at this office. dee 28 3t FOR SALE—3 filuaPdle city lots near Collegee—2 good Mules—i1 young Holstien cow.—J. B. Gill Dec. 23 to Jan. 1. LOST—$15.00, a Ten Dollar pili and $5.00, between Providence church and Statesville. Lost on Christmas day, Will pay a lib- era reward if left at The Maseot office. dec28 tf WANTED—BX THE AMERICAN Cotton and Business University of Milledgeville, Ga., students to take one or more of our courses in cot- ton “grading, buying and selling. Business courses of bookkeeping, Shorthand, Typewriting, or Telegra phy and Railroad course. Positions guaranteed under reasonable con- ditions. Write at once for our consolidated catalog. Larges: col lege South. Sept 28-tt AND ladies should learn telegraphy; for, since the now 8 hour law became effective there is a shortage of many thousand telegraphers. Po- sitions pay from $50 to $70 a month to beginners. The National Telegraph institute of Columbia, S. C., and five other cities is oper- ated under supervision of R. R. officials and all students are Placed when qualified. Write them for A nt particulars. no19 dif - tO ine a aaney. wee wen ss LSE OOPS << Fe a aaa >= x e = = Our Wish for @ Happy Mew Year; will be largely fulfilled if you become a regular patron of the 3 ‘ Statesville Steam. Good Work, é ‘ Whiie Work, Clean Work. i ‘ i STATESVILLE STEAM LAUNDRY ' ' ‘ Phone No i29 |} a ne { PS PES EEO’ a (| U. C. HARWELL, Prop. ea e ae ey ‘NEW STUDIO} 4 ~ § Maynard & Ellis, Professional Photographers, in N. B. Mills Ney i Building, adjoining Stimson Drug Store, Statesville, N. ¢. High Grade Photos at a Low Price. —— a Post Cards, per dozen, $1.25 Per hali dozen 750. Cabinets, in folders, dozen, $2.GO0. Haifdozen $159. Pictures of your home, Post Card size, aud up to 8x10 inches, and out-door groups, is one of our specialties at a moder. ate price. Give usa trial and be convinced that we are trying to please you. Weare now ready to serve you. Sh 1 GP BL ] WX DD I Will also Develop and Finish Kodak Work. —w~MAYNARD & ELLIS—— SE a SS ROIS BOGS VRE SS IS ® OUR HATS ARE OFF! é to you for the liberal patronage extended to us on CHRISTMAS GOODS. You have made many souls glad by giving sensible Christmas Presents. 66 9 9 3 0 6 6 8 0 6 0 0 ) @ S.B. MILLER # THE SHOE MAN. @ 2 SSSSSSSSSSSCSSSSOSERGoqoeoue The Statesvi:le Housefurnish- ing Company has to close out 25 Rockers like the one shown here, at once. They will sell for See our line of LOOK Stoves. The Statesville Housefurnish- ing Company. JorfoofenfocteoloetenSenteotontects 9 2 oe ee @ eee 2 of e s f o n ] o e f o s f o r ] o c f o e f o n f e o f o e f e e l s fe Here’s Health, Happiness and a Prosperous New Year. STATESVILLE DRUGCO. Prescriptiontsts. "T e e l o o l o o l o o f o c f o c f o c s o e t o e f o o l o o f o o f o o f o o f o o f e e l o n l o o f o s l e f o c f o e f o e f e o l e o f e o f e o f e o f e o t e e f o n l o o f e r | Te e b o s d e o b e e l e o f e e f e r d o c f o n d o o f o n f e c t a b e n f e e f e o t e c t e o t e c f e e d s $1.85 each. If you have lost something or want to buy or have any- thing to sell try a want ad. in The Evening Mascot.