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QUEER AND C( INTew Yorkers l?ay W rats, Boara New Ye .'AUK ricans will cat anything na ture lias covered with fur and feath er.-, and pay a good price for it, too, remarked cheerfully a wholesale ?leal er iu faney meals and game in Wash ington Street, apropos ol' tin: profits and losses nf the game season, which is practically closed hy April 1. "Why, during the winter I do a live ly business in skunks. "Sun-' l in not rom.meing at all. I could sell Far more skunks than I can get hold of. and at a good profit. There arc chefs in Now York who know how to cook skunks, and they have customers who know what a tasty dish skunks are when prepared properly. "In the same cl 18S are raccoon and 'possum, which have vheir admirers now among white folks as well as among the darkies. "New York has better cooks than it used to have. That's why so many more kinds of game and fancy neats have been added lo its daily bill of fare. And there is a lively demand for muskrats hy proprietors of certain French restaurants. Certainly I sell muskrats in the season." "Have you ever eaten any?" the dealer wai- asked. "No, thank heaven, not yet. I am not epicure enough, I suppose, to care for such delicacies. "Cutting out thc summer months, I have done an increasinly lively busi ness in (he last few years in hoar and bear, which are bought principally Ly the Fifth avenue restaurants. . Iletail dealers go shy of ihcui, for the reason that the animals must he bought un cut; that is, winde or not at all, and at about fd) cents a pound. A boar weighs in the neighborhood of lf>0 pounds. "In order to make a fair profit thc butcher would have t > sell thc best cuts at from S cents to $1 a pound, and unless ho has a good many cus tomers of theVpicurc brand, ho runs a K?g ji?k of not disposing of a bom- "r bear before it is antique. "All the wild boars I handle come from the forests of (?ermany and the shipments begin just as soon as the freezing weather sets in. I sell dur ing thc winter anywhere from DUO to 1,000 boars, or as many as I can get hold of. There is never an oversup ply of fancy meats in tho New York market. "If anything, bear meat is even more scarce than the boar. I sold about 200 bears last winter. They aro shipped frozen for tho Kocky moun tains. "The season for venison, which be gins in September and closes in No vember, gets to bo more brisk every year. Some people think that a taste for venison, like a taste for olives, must be acquired, but that is not so. A lover of venison likes it at once, he craves it from the first taste he gets. "On the other hand, there are per sons who not only dislike the taste of venison from the start, but keep on disliking it, no matter how well it is cooked. Nearly all the first class rc .tail butchers now inolude venison in their fall stock of game and find a good market for it at 10 cents a pound." "Americans who have traveled a .good deal and tasted tba cooking and the special dishes of many countries are the best and most appreciative customers of the restaurants," said the ohief manager of a noted Fifth avenue restaurant. "For instance, we have patrons who while touring in Sootland conceived a strong affeotion Cot SCOTT'S Emulsion When you go to a drug store and ask for Scott's Emulsion you know what you want; tho man knows you ought to have it. Don't be surprised, though, if you are offered something else. Wines, cordials, extracts, etc;, of cod Liver oil are plenth fui but don't Imagine you are getting cod liver oil when you take them. Every year fer thirty years we've been increasing the sales of Scott's Emulsion. Why? Because lt has always been better than any substitute for lt. Send for free sample SCOTT & BOWNE, Che misto >*??rt Street, New Yor* Gpa/and $1.00. Alldruyglets )STLY MEATS. ell for Skunks, ZV?usk and Bears. irk Sun. ! for the black snout sheep, which is ? certainly a ii ne breed of mutton, and who consequently will not be satisfied with anything else. So io order to satisfy them we must be able to sup ply at tin ir order Scotch mutton. "<?h, yes, >'. can bc had over here. In fact, almost any product grown the world over may be bad in thc New York market if people don't mind pay ing the price. The rarest game and fancy meats do not, however, always appear on every day menu of this or any other restaurant. "Occasionally we have boar and I ' hear meat "ti thc menu, butas ? rule these meats are ordered specially sonic days ahead, generally for a particular occasion like a private dinner or a i big banquet. ' "No, boar and bear are never served as a roast. The ?|uality of thc meat requires very skillful cooking to bring , out thc flavor, and herc our chef braises it, which means that thc meal I is cooked in a covered dish and con taining various flavorings; the secret of whi?h he alone knows. "Wc have so many epicures among our list of patrons that all we have to . do when our refrigerators contain any thing particularly tine in the game line is to give them a hint. The cost has nothing tu do with the matter. "It is a mistake, though, to say that Americans pay more in New York for food specialties and expert cook ing than they do anywhere else. In Paris, t'or instance, in the best res taurants, portijns of rare meats and game come just as high as they do in this city, if not even higher. "In the case of boar and hear meat served in this restaurant, one portion which would practically be enough for two diners of moderate appetite, would be about ".Just now, although the law has chut down upon most of the feather ed game,. New Yorkers can have all the birds they want, fur the reason that lhere are many kinds of imported game in the market which may be had at any high class restaurant. There is no law against the use of imported ganie.cThc only precautions we take is to have our invoice and customs receipt all ready in case the game in spectors drop in on us, which they have a way of doing unexpectedly. "Tho imported bird? como to UB frozen, and, although not quite so toothsome asfthe native variety in its season they are an excellent substi tuto. Tj There are, for instance, ptarmi gan from Canada, Scotch grouse and Egyptian grouse-tho last being im ported direct from Kgypt. "At this time of year a pet dish herc with thc game eaters is incubator guinea fowl, from which all tbe bones havo been removed beforo it is cook ed, and iucubator chickens, stuf?ed, ?V: ich look almost like equab when served, but have quite a different il a vor. "One of . thc most pronounced fads among the epicures at present-for there arekfads in eating as well as in everything else-is a devotion to i Frenoh oysters. Rather than not be in tho fashion many people' order im ported oysters who really find their flavor unpleasant. Apropos of their flavor, a young man remarked to me one day: " 'Undoubtedly, French oysters are very fine, but what I would like to know is this:(?How can a fellow tell when he gets a bad one?' "Russian caviar at f8 a pound isa viand now in demand, and one pound, if one has an extreme fondness for thc delicacy, will serve about three persons. It is not uncommon here for two persons to put away a pound between them, although thc same quantity moy be portioned uut among ten persons. "There has been a great deal Of talk about the American fisheries rais ing and exporting caviar which equals in quality the Russian article, but that, in my opinion, is absolute non sense Ono might just as well com pare a snapping turtle to a terrapin. * "And speaking of terrapin, food connisseurs are making much of them this month, for the reason that by May first their season will close. Thc quality most often called for here is thc diamond back from Chesapeake bay. You can't fool an epicurean New Yorker on a terrapin. There is notbingigrown equal to this diamond back unless it is a few, a very few, whioh by soruo means or another-no one seems to know how-managed to get into Long Island waters. "The'.primc quality diamond bads cost $F> each at this season, and are oily about six inches long-hut, then, price is never considered by lovers of terrapin, any more than the admirers of canvasback stick at th<*?r oost when the season first ope?s." Land of Young Men. At the close of the '': 'il War, only thc few Jewish residen*., of the South had much mons/. The Southern Boldier wat not ditcharged when Bent hom?1 to convalesce from wound.- and disease. Upon recovery, he was again in the ranks. Ht did not nerve three months, nine month-, two year*. He serred four years. The larger part of the men who fought in thc Southern army carried lead or disease ever after. It was this impoverished, discouraged, stricken people whom the outsider distanced in thc race for money. Un used to commerce, the Southerner not only saw the property represented by his slaves pass utterly away, and his lands ravaged and his houses burned, bul he saw men alien to his region anticipate him in the dawning oppor tunities of a tardily returning pros perity. Ile became an onlooker in tho land his blood had watered. Others garnered as a result of his im poverishment. Hut not so now. For thc young Southerner is forging to the front S) fast that it now is more likely tha,t he will crowd the strangers out than that they will -eriously rival him. He has taken a leaf out of the book of hu rivals, and by the tactics which have been at least as great a factor in their success as any other is arriving at prosperity. The Southern tandem wedge is boring holes in the" Hues of the opposition. The young Southern men, often mere boys of twenty-one 'and twenty-two, are running the banks, thc stores, the hotels, ^hey are ex ploiting great tracts of land, feeding vast forests into thc sawmills. They are the railroad men, the promoters, thc brokers. Oil wells gush at their behest, towns risc at their command. By men under thirty the greater part of the business of the South is now being done. Tho Northerner who thinks of emigrating to the South be cause he believes he can surpass thc natives iu business capacity will lind focmcn worthy of his steel-keen, un tiring, and full of thc nerve and en thusiasm of youth. The South is tho new part, thc young part, of our do main. Thc west has become staid arni middle-aged. Thc young man has come to thc front in the South, and with him thc South comes into its own once more. - Leslie's Weekly. A Model Republic. "There are few men as happy as you in your family relations." .'Yes, my household is a model re public ir miniature. You see, tho sec retary of tho treasury is my wife, the secretary of war is my mother-in-law and the minister of foreign relations my daughter." "And of course you aro the presi dent?" "No, man. One can see from that question that you are a poor, ignorant bachelor. C The presidential chair is occupied by the cook." "Well, then, what are you?" "Why, -I am the general public aud support the government through the payment of taxes."-Modern Mexico. -mmm- . aa - Plowing by Electricity. In Haly au invention to propel plows by electricity is io use. By it oleven acres can be plowed in as many hours. The invention eonsists of two power cars stationed each side of the held and between which are stretch el cables attached to the plow. The electric -current is taken from a trolley line; a ourrent of about 600 volts.g Each car communicates with twenty-five horse-power, which can bo increased to forty horse. The plow is pulled by [the cables from, one side of the field to the other, and, when it reaches the end of the furrow, it stops automatically, th*? current being out off. It can be run backward or for ward with ease. One man manages the plow, ?and eaeh car is'operated by one man'. DThus three men do all the work. These cars are as easily man aged as traction engines, and their power ?can be applied to threshing machines,'icorn-shellers, pumpa, grain drills, etc. Cost of Falso Noses. People sometimes lose their noses by disease or by accidents, and some have lost' o them in war. For noseless persons the most appropriate organs are said to be made of wax, and the best ones cost about ono hundred and seventy-fivo dollars, though a really good one ?can be got for seventy five dollars. A nose made of papier-macho may be bought for five dollars. Noses made of .?this 'material are enameled and are deceptive; and, for a poor man, they'?are - said to answer all the purposes that are required. Waxen and paper noses are, in case of disease, preferable to those made by the plant ing of ?csb on the diseased part, for several cases have been known where tho transplanting of the flesh of tho nose has endangered men's lives. London Tit-Bits. - There is a lot of guessing, with an occasional hit, in being a person of good judgement. - When-it is a peekaboo shirt waist eeerog is believing. Dunkards lo Spartanbnrg. iSpartanburg, April 24-Very few people of this county are aware of the fact that thc Dunkards are at our doors. They have actually begun tho erection of a mcetiog bouse in the up per part of this county. If their doctrines should generally prevail there is going to be trouble for some one. For instance, they teach and believe that brethren should not go to law with each other, but that ali dis puted matters should be referred to thc church for settlement. They also believe in annointiog and praying for the sick. They say they get these practices from an old book that they take as the foundation of their faith and practice. Tlicy teach another doctrine which, if adopted by all the churches would work a great upheaval in society. This is, they believe in payiog debts and if aoy one of their Society refuses j to pay an honest debt, whether due to one of thc brethren or aa outsider, after being duly admonished, he is excluded from the brotherhood. They /viii not hold fellowship with such a mau. If this rule were adopted by all churches thc membership woull be greatly reduced. Very .strange people are these same Dunkards. They believe in not sparing water when they baptize. They leave their Baptist brethren out of sight Thc candidates arc carried into the pool of water, where they kneel. Then they are immersed three times, face foremost. They practice trine immersion in common with thc carly Church and thc Greek Church, They call it one baptism, just aa the Roman Catholics and other churches that sprinkle tho water and make an application each time that one person of the Trinity is mentioned. These persons are peculiar iu their sacrament or communion. When the day is appointed a supper is prepared in common. Members in good stand, ing surround thc table and enjoy the feast. After that they wash each other's feet. That beiog done, they return to the table and partake of thc bread and wine. The Kev. George W. Branscom is the pastor of thc church nearest this city. It is at Malvin Hill, Polk County, N. C., about twenty-five miles distant. Ile is an intelligent, thrifty farmer thathas the respect of all who know him. They have about 141) members. Thoro is only one other church of that faith in Polk County. The gov ernment of ?ach church is congrega tional, but there is a district and a general oouncil, to which appeals may be carried. The general council will meet next mouth in Bristol, Tenn. Speoial to News and Courier. Deadly Cotton Peet. Washington, April 15.-"I prediot that the boll weevil will cross the Mississippi River before this season is over, beginning his ravages in the State of 37: ippi," said Dootor L. O. Ho waru, Alk.it entomologist of the Department of Agriculture, in re counting the various stages in a con flict between the cotton growers and their great enemy. Louisiana deoided that she would maintain a quarantine along her bor der to prevent the inseot from cross ing the Sabine Hiver. The Legisla ture authorised most drastio measures; even the hair of oolored laborers was soratohed to see if any lodgement had been provided there, and thousands of dollars were expended in the patrol. But it was of no avail. Seven par ishes have already been invaded. The life habits of no other insect have been so carefully studied io the whole history of so io noe. Texas of fered a reward of $50,000 to anybody who would'disoover a way of eliminat ing the pest. Government appropriations have grown from $10,000 in 1901 to an emergenoy appropriation cf $250,000 in 1903, exclusively tor the warfare against this enemy of an agricultural orop whose annual value reaohes $500, 000,000, and whose welfare the pros perity of a score of industries is in volved, and almost the life itself of a large section of the country. Towns suffering the worst from this pest have been transformed from nourishing communities into deserted villages. Southern tradesmen selling out, have advertised on the fence rails "Boll Weevil Prices," so com pletely has this affliction worked its way into the thought of the people over whose lands it has spread. - The fruit of fortune never falls on a snoring nose. HOW TO AVOID < Strengthen the Stomach and Ol Where thcro is an epidemic of germ disease, and most diseases are caused by gorms, it is the person with a weak ? stomach who succumbs first. If you suffer with pains or diptrosa after eating, headaohe, belching of gases, sour food, a bad taste in the mouth, dizziness, pains in the heart, spooks hefore the eyes, and a gen eral feeling of despondency and vreaV nees, you should get well nt ouoe ty Needed Encouragement. "I remember," said aa old aaval officer, "hearing of an incident on board a ship which was commanded by a religious captain who would not al low the mate to use profane language or violence toward the crew and where thc work and discipline were carried on more by moral suasion than by force, with the result that things went very slowly. Tho m?.D did not jump to the braces or ropes, and the general work of the ship was slow. "While at anchor one day in the harbor of Kio two of the sailors, leaning over the rail, were watching thc work going on on board of an other ?hip anchored close to them, where the opposite system prevailed. The air on that ship was lurid with the language of the mate, and the men were treated with a violence that was far fr?m necessary, but the work went on quickly. The sails were furled and thc yards braced in a smart and seamaniike magner. As they listened to the sulphurous or ders of the mate one of thc sailors on thc good ship remarked sententi ously to the othei : " 'Bill, d'ye see now what it is we want aboard here? We want a little encouragement!' The Editor's Apology. An excited military looking man entered the editorial sanctum of a Missouri paper the other day and exclaimed: "That notice of my death is false, sir. I will horsewhip you within an inch of your life, if you don't apol ogize in your next issue." An editor who is up to his business always knows how to get up appro priate apologies when they are de manded. That editor knew his busi ness, and the next day his paper con tained the following apology: "We regret extremely to announce that tho paragraph which stated that Major Blazer is dead is without foun dation."- Our Home. Lovs and Marriage. Yet, depend upon it, as you grow older you will see more and more in stamos and proofs of the reality and the depth of the love of hus bands and wives for each other in thu most ordinary, commonplace couples. I have heard of marriages where ?ove has died out from some canker of selfishness or worldliness at its heart, but I have oftener seen unexpected proofs of a love stronger than death in all sorts of people in whom I had never before discovered any signs of sentiment or romance. -Sir Edward Strachey. - A society man is neither orna mental nor useful. - It's better to believe all you say than half you hear. - Some men would rather go to jail than hustle for a living. - Fortunately for mankind, the weather never objects to being talked about. - It is reported that oil trains no longer run on Standard time in Kan sas. - Did it ever ocour to you that nearly all fireproof buildings are heav ily insured? ? - Many a man who praises the free luooh down-town growls about the dinner at home. - A woman's idea of good luck is to find a pair of socks in the pile that doesn't netd darning. - A girl ?a never satisfied until the right man comes along and says the right thing at the right time. - There is something wrong with the woman who deolares that there isn't a spark of jealousy io her make up. - If a girl is ente rtaining a young man with a mustaohe in the parlor, she's afraid the folks will misunder stand if. she sneezes. - When a woman wants to call her husband down before company she doesn't say a word, but just looks at him in a peouliar way. - A pretty girl hardly over is aa pretty as she thanks the Lord for making ber. - It's lucky for women they have no sense of humor else they couldn't ?rear the clothes they do. . - What women like about whist is that they can have such nice excit ing talks while the game is going on. - A woman oan have a great deal of enjoyment pretending to herself -that her married life is as happy as she pretends it ia to others. - When the Word is hidden in the heart it is seen in tho life. - The. saint needs ho other adver tising thar Satan's assaults. CIFftH DISK ASKS. ?gesti?n, and You will Keep Weil. strengthening the stomach with Mi-o na. Just one small tablet out of a ? fi'ty cent box before eati?g, aid your. I digestive system will become so strong that you will be the embodi ment of good health and spirits, and need fear no germ diseases. Ask Evans Pharmacy to sNow you the guarantee under which they stU Mi-o-na; it oosta nothing unless ii cures. % . ' Tho Kind Ton Have Always Bought? and which has been in use for over 30 years, has horne the signature ot* and has heen made under his per Jty-*- fl', sonal supervision since its infancy* ('&??Ac/lt Allow no one to deceive you lu this* All Counterfeits, Imitations and "Just-as-good" are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health ot' Infants and Children-Experience against Experiment.? What is CASTORIA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare? goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant, lt contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic? substance. Its ago is its guarantee. It destroys Worm? nnd allays Feverishness? It cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colic, Ic relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation and Flatulency* It assimilates the Food, regulates tho Stomach and Bowels, giving healthy aud natural sleep? The Children's Panacea-The Mother's Friend, GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS Bears the Signature of The Kind You Haye Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years. VMS < it CT. NC? VOUHOITV. ARMOUR'S GUANO AND ACID ALSO, COTTON SEED MEAL. If you want'High Grade Goods we will be glad to sell you. Splendid line of FLOUR, COFFEE, TOBACCO, OATS AND CORN. We want your trade. VANDIVER BROS. We have just received a Fresh lot of Come to us for all of your ORR, GRAY & CO., Prescription Druggists. ONE CAR OF HOG FEED. Have just received one Car Load of HOG FEED (Shorts) at veiy close prices. Come before they are all gone. Now is tho timo for thro wing Around your premisos to prevent a cate of foyer or sonto other disease, that will coat you very much moro than the price of a barrel of Lime (91.00.) We have a fresh shipment in stock, and will bo glad to send jon some. If you contemplate building a barn or any other building, see ns before buying your- \ CEMENT and LIME, As we sell the very best qualities only. O. D. ANDERSON. A. C. STRICKLAND, D?NTIST? ? f?tes Over FsrmeRS and Merchante AL alfentfofl ? Classes of Dental work. Crowns, Bridges and Porcelain Inlays), such as ero dono In the larger cities. ? AU kinda of Plates aaade. Golcl FiP> Inga : lu artificial teeth any. time after P ! titea t.-xe rr\9.'i e. - Oxygen Gas and Local .Anaeathettat given lor.the Painless ExtractioKof teefiW . Blcodinsf and diseased gums treated. . ?.'???&Vy All calls to the country and nearT by Towna for tho Painless Extraction o3 Teeth promptly attended to by a oompe toot assistant. A LONG LOOK AHEAD A man thinks it is when the matter of life insurance suggests itself-but circumstan ces of late have shown how hie hangs by a thread when war, flood, hurricane and fire suddenly overtakes you, and ?ho only way to be sure that y ou? family is protected in case of cala* tity overtaking you is to in? Bare in a sohd Company like The Miibal Benefit Life Ins. Co. Drop in and see ns. about it. M.. SI. MATT??ON, . v STATE AGE8T. People*? Ba?b BniSdhsg, A29B-SB?OK, O a