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CIT* 'DRY.
COUNTY DIRECTORY.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW.
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Lee & Thompson,
Attorneys at Law,
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DRUGS,
Medicines and
Druggists' Sundries,
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audience Inti tau
potsnila. But lt h. 1
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heroic dei
and died to o
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when he led the ta
the UJV.ii o', tia
BB a libation for tia-, r
blood, WMek was ehe<J u*>r.
fjtald of maru* in 71 ?
hear it thus i:
of a Bernardo OH bj
orator of ''h'.ie. or 11
?rerture figLttuc for 1 :
or of ; ?
Qexibu. .
I
C' fi-eeSoiLi, thou art :
oiere word:
mira of light bretti.. .
tbe Blare, urunurr': i .
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hoi*-*
man** abode it- hu
illa Ute auclett Cori
worid, with tbs ruo*" w Uom- watara j
wore toipas*--'
king Thou gr) -Le meet-eng-er of God.
who would i
around eve:*y banu Thou :
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e*7 n*ikii.'T or wm,
for thou art i
made thy head tin rt
diadem which le tie
that I ht ve I
?
English language has a i
gave t<
prince a -
king bad asked of
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the earnest l
dom remove*
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"Wb*t j-, treat
cense? Lue*
you an
yoe will, no rna.te
may be*
don proclaim *
t*Jt?1r*rT****r to all law '
1868, Abraham Lincoln b
House signed hal tr.
state pi.. ? "ed that al) I
black men an..
stare and Btr
shall be free," it Ak
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unbridled lie.
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owner tc lie undi- I
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find those Ur
the mental si
in the Bptritual wo
them In tbe duml In Che
vegetable and m :
well as BB kn
subject today. "The Lil
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ral snd spiritual li
ahull endear,.
true freedom Chat
cnn enjoy is in the ?
ron.lnr a ter
ut the Baw
- "rom tbe d
enjoy the gloriout
' God.
The itbytletl mun ia tun
limits tl ? i i
rewtiict him to a ?
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he bruise* an.'
thnee bara.
the peoaltte*
and the drunkard *
obrtoua
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buaineas or prof ??a*
Jilt tbe ;
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li
he dieC
he thor.
ytmrs and ten. A
bis dentb he said - tie eoe
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pound* t fem
leal am
..ny month*, snd i
lng ntV
cooa but it will insure your develop
atest otherwise you mar find jean** I
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ca! realm. In
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mean in tnt
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right ::
err ot: ?
States.
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civuiaed low* of om
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and he seta iq
law comes to
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The .
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ty to Children I cun ste;, lu and take
your children aw: - The
land of the fret-'r lim. hut yon dare
not Bell to I
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wear convir
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ed into states, snd the*'
ships, bo 1 find the pre I
t attain
' in referen
err At.
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tree hL
Bristles, so ma
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Hut new r
ls tn vogue
leaden hsve
right coi
one br; ;-olson for another.
Charles Sumner wai
America ever produced, but lt
wat simply an for
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one of
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ba other*. A.
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a 8tednian are the ran
tiona For the roost pan God |
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was because, as be said:
ever saw or did I ground up Into the
?tanti . .ons i wat
born a preacher and can d
till nita ?
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Ward.
that picture tl
No. B aid snd
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whose way* aft
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unto the I
door, on- ? *:er we bsve
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then we ere free. Aye. we nie*
transcendently nnO I
- text right t vr. "tn
1 Christ the truth uhr,:; mahe y rs freer
Preoaan j
from aln, the freedom fron. piiulsb
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I'hriPt't rule. In one wry ian
* that freed
the way of *
'-aa Joy and
A MATTER OF HEALTH
POWDER
Absolutely Pure
HAS HO SUBSTITUTE
nat j ? S *
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"Heard abr-u* R did |
"About w:
-Tbe deatt of my rich uncle."?
Houstoo Post
The Bert Hep.
~It vrnrr ermntry plae* flnhrhed ret"
"Oh. yee Why. I have already be?
gun literati an* oe lt"?Detroit Free
A Bad Bargain.
"Pic: Wilkej get awaj with yoe ea
that bone dicker?"
tint the horse Hd thc frat time
I bitched bim Bp "?Detrott Frt* Preta.
Bartort eWoa-rUc.
Tu bad ten propoaaie thai aomaooi
"And you letfusod him ever) tlaaer'
.fo American._
Herald and N . Y. World. 11.60.
Planning
for the Regeneration of
Lower Egypt
lt It Proposed to Divert the Waters of the River
Nile Into a New Channel.
Il two years ago
ka great Aasuan dam
i tu completed?
ac engineering feat on e
'yV scaj-. never before attempted.
IT whick enormous I
have beet conferred
. .an soli?and
liter work ls in con
-. ha dam already con?
structed. Tbe plan it neither ?
leos than that of regulating tbe outflov.
of the Nile and its bout
und of Inst.- a larger
and more constant measure of the fer
dazing flood by "training" tbe curren'
mighty trtr-aam through eeveral
hundred miles of Its course.
most sluggish Imagination con
hardly fall to be stirred by tbe ambi?
tion-, magnitude of euch a project.
I ? i. would br :
HI sddlUoua! acree eada
?eat n*MM acre
basin Into perennial irrigation '
tailed exposition of tbe scheme is con?
tained in a voluminous report from Slr
William Garsten, tbe English bead of
the department af public works In
and even for thone to whom
rieering problemf are Incompre
- afford* much fas?
cinating reading Sir William Garsten
has Fpent five year* In studying the
and from hit
retinal observation of what may
be cal ? mena of thc
floods, this scheme, which would oc
BlAl' BHOW-Js-Q THE
CHA.."
cupy at least IB yean In cnrnpttairaji
has been born It ls divided Into twi
parte?tbe regulation of tbe Blue Nlii
??etter Irrigation of tbe eastern
Soudan, and tbe regulation of tbe
Kile for tbe benefit of Egypt;
* the latter part which presents
the moan atartBag features and which.
If prr-v-M' feasible, would be undertaken
'??tura Tbe conflu?
ence af the White end Blue Mle* takes
place at Khartoum, or, roughly tepee*
{Tig; midway In the course of 2,200
miles, while Egypt'* great artery runs
I Its source at the Vlctorls Ny?
anza to its outflow lc tbe Mediterra?
nean. The tortuoue character of that
may be gathered from the fact
that lt increases by one-half tbe dte
-j auld be traversed by the
river if lt flowed In a straight line
Ap far a* the tenth degr-*
Itu de the Vile lt easily naviga!
at Lake Ne, where tb" V"
cornea tbe Bahr-el-Gebel. and * :
r of tbe Bahr-el-Gba-sal and the
7-ara take* place, tbe difficulty
begins Prom Lake No up to BOT. a
dtetaaee of 220 miles the channel is
cooked with "audd," and tbe surround
Inr conntrg_a converted into a huge
*?ami by the "spilling" of the eurrent
Tbe effect I* that of tlie vo
water that leave* Lake Victoria a i:
poe Palls, not o-ne-ha'f ever reaches
the White Nik Ic flood time thu enor
=wamps
and inanbep nf tbe Bahr-ei-''
lmmat-- - peaeot lt ln
v ol voa ac Incalculable loss t
whoe* sole dependenee for aa
upot the Nile To obrlaa
thlnge two courses are open Tbe flit!
tt bo tx Improve tb* dianne' of the
Bahr-el-Gebel as to etoo the "tptllings"
Tt-t BCkaw atrs* -aa 'V* nt 'La* If
?
junction of tbe Sobat w:
low Lake No By meant of
tbe heed al the
' water passing to : ?
? made court*:'.;
Btnootar now would be uodlmlilshed !
by wastage, and in flood-time the eur
aid, as at present, ware
:. inundations on either side of
ral channel. The complement
v BM be tbe building
at Ripon Fella, and
anal of Lake Albert, where the
after passing the Mur?
rells, becomes tbe Bahr-el
work, which lt estimated to cost
some ?6,500.000. would be both cheaper
::^-gha2al :
and more effectual than Oh lel?
and "training" tbe
..-Gebel;
[hut itt feasibility ls not Quits certain,
l of tbe 200 odd miles of
. between Bor and tbe
conffeence of the Sobat have not been
: ed; and upon that
uat depend.
The late Lord Salisbury once advised
? --rymer to study their imperial
geography on large-scale mapa, and lt
t>y referenoe to each maps that
the true magnitude of Slr Willum
aten's project can be realised. Prom
Alexandria to tbe northern abort of
-be Victoria Nyanza ls, as tbe crow
files, some 2 jot miles, or a third of tbe
distance from tbe equator to the pola
The great inland aaa, from which lt
takes tu rise, le as large as Seo. land,
and tbe amount of water which lt dis?
chargee dally into the Victoria Nile U
.art of (-0.000.000 metres cube,
or 11.000,000,000 gallona It U only SO
reotl since the explorations of Speke
and Grant revealed to the world tbe
a-nr-mysterloos source of the Nile, and
at source U brought so ni act
within the sphere of etvlllsatlon .hat
lu waters are to be tamed bj
and dam.
Tbe British Blue Book contains an
interesting Illustrated report on tbe
by Sir William Garsten. A
prominent feature of the picture ela
the B&br-ei-Ghazal ia tbe amount of
papyrus shown, and it ht far from I
tng a tl . eauty. It U large?
ly responsible for the forming of those
sudd-blocks In the river channe.
years of efforu have not bees I
disperse.
Tbe enormous increase to the fertil?
ity and revenues of Egypt and the floe
dan which the fulfilment of nat
a uk amtt would bring about lt strongly
emphasised by Lord Cromer, who bolds
them out aa "tbe Ideal" at which tbe
Egyptian government should elm. Tbe
principal obstacle to their realisation
it. tn spits of tbe enormout dUtanoss
and vast force* involved, not of an en
rt neerin g. but of a financial character
Though Slr William Garsten ls confi?
dent of the perfect feasibility of con?
structing regulators at tbe outfall of
tbe Central African lakes and of divert?
ing such a stream as the Bahr-ei-Gebe-!
into a new and artiflcli
only the levels are favorable. Lord Cro
r. whet Egypt will
be abie to launch upon such as cx
UlL CLEA!
pendlture aa that involved. But tbe
acbeme, or some modification of lt. lt'
certain of ultimate realization; and no
more eloquent commentary upoe It
I than In tbe worda with
which Sir William Garsten concludes
. Ot of hip lcvestijration of tbe
Coper Nile. "To rescue," he sari, "the
upper Nile from tbe marshes 11
it baa lost more than half ru ?
to cootrol and regulate the great equa?
torial lakes, making them add to the
Mow of tbe river at will; to cause tbe
waters of the Blue Nile to rise and Ir?
rigate tbe fertile tracu throng!,
they pose; to secure to Egypt a con?
stant and sufficient supply for tbe en?
tire area between tbe cattracu and the
free tbe country
? present danger of a dis
*->?? '-- tai . v rr-.fi
previously re
Ma* orv and
'
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lon Men aaaaaaknl
Fl sign of approaching re
muan aaa, sleepleaautsa. or stomach up
Kly dtp
Ij and t
searching and
-*ta. Eleetr
-
don't give perfect Batist arti on. :
t-auranteed by Whit* AU>.,Druggista
i ?*(,! in
Tb o?'
ara aga
WHAT SHALL I GIVE9
Suggestions From
Blanton's Store.
-
?ii
tr-.
:
Hterlii | Hand
r gi at* and ('lana
.-.-are fof up to show
you our stock.
f. T. BUNTON.
Jeweler and Optician.
Special Prices
on thc followi: .
W. T CLARK'S
Men
My rcminent counter is
wit; - in Dreas
? < rids.
It will pa; you :
WE CAN
SAVE YOU MONEY
on all of your
XMAS GOODS.
Such as Raisins, Cur?
rants. Nuts, Etc.
Have just received a
choice lot of
APPLES.
Special prices by the
barrel.
Stokes & Davidson.
Holliday Goods
"
rncnt ai
? 'lawn in Farmville.
with
mod- for
children, .atc
pres- ? . or
Inspect our Stock
your Xmas
i hip doll in
win. I YEN AW
know ore are
? ?
:>ectful]y,
WADE & ORALLE,
.artboone eV-uare
PRESEATS
sn I 'IS.
will not find it any
trouble ? s-snt
. assortment of
CHINA and SILVER WARE,
Ct"] .nd CAR\ I
I
JAPANESE GOODS
Come in
and l?e eonvin.
S. W. PAOLETT & SON.
NOTICE I
..-..,na. lam*.
H. laoi.
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fl.- i.-.ft rn
HA\ I ;.iNTIM-:
AT THE HERALD JOB Of
FARMVILLE.
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