Broken I
0 Chain I
The family circle B
is never so happy H
after the chain is EM
broken and a link
taken. Some family I
chains are strong, [
others weak. Have
you a good family
r history? Or is
there a tendency to coughs,
throat or bronchial troubles, I
weak lungs? Has a brother, 8
sister, parent or near relative h
had consumption? Then your K
family chain is weak.K)
Strengthen it. Take scott's |
Emulsion of Cod-liver Oil
with Hypophosphitcs. It L
makes rich blood, gives strength r
and vigor to weak lungs and I
run-down constitutions. With
its aid the system throws off 33
acute coughs and colds. It prevents
the chain from breaking. B
Shall we send you a book about this. B
free?
For tale by all druggists at 50c. and $1.00 |U
A SLAVE OF PIRATES.
THRILLING REMINISCENCES
OF A TEXAS NEGRO CEN.
TENARIAN.
Captured by Buccaneers When a
Small Boy?Crew and Passengers
of the Ship Forced to Walk
the Plank?Fiendish Acts of
I Barbarity.
An old negro whom the white
people believed to have been much
more than 100 years old died on
the Brule cotton plantation, near
All Seeing Eye, in Texas, a short
time aco. The iiefmnn mIIa.1 him
Old Pirate, from the fact that he
never tired of talking of his adventures
at sea. To the white peoplo
he has always been known as
Uncle Jolly, a name which he
maintained was given to him by
Lafitte's pirates when he was a
boy, from the fact that he was
sprightly and always in a good
humor.
Uncle Jolly was carefully looked
after in his old age by the
white people, with whom he had
been an object of great interest.
^ Many of the descendants of the
wealthy family to whom he belonged
when a slave are still living,
and there are few of them
who have nor sat at the old man's
^ feet when they were children and
listened to his blood curdling
stories af the revelries and cruelties
of the buccaneers of the gulf.
According to their story, he
was born a slave on ono of the
islands of the West Indies. When
he was 10 or 12 years of ago, his
master started on a voyage to
New Orleans, taking his family
and the negro boy, Jolly, along.
One day, shortly after they had
left the island, a big ship sailed
close to them and began to lire
big guns. The women and children
began to cry and scream and
cling to the men. He heard his
master say they were pirates. He
had no idea what that meant, but
he realized that they were all in
uanger 01 Deing muraerea. ine
ships drew closer together, and
the people in both vessels began
to fire guns and pistols. After a
few moments the pirate ship ran
Y alongside, and hundreds of foroJ
cious looking men, with swords
and pistols in their hands, sprang
\;On board, uttering savage yells
kind curses.
| L Jolly saw his master fighting on
/the deck, and he ran below to tell
' his mistress. There were several
w women and many children in the
I f cabin. It is hard for one to be:M
lieve that anything in the shape
J
of a human being could have been
guilty of such cruelties as these
monsters perpetrated upon their
defenseless victims. The negro
said that ho could not bear to
: witness the agonies of the women
I and children, and he returned to
| the enmpanionway, where he met
[several pirates. One struck at
h'm with a cutlass, but another
interposed, remarking:
"Don't kill him. He is worth a
pocketful of gold." They threw
him up on the deck and went on
into the cabin of the ship. The
negro boy saw many dead men
lying in their blood on the decks,
and he noticed the captain and
several of the sailors standing in
a group, guarded by pirates. The
women and children and two or
three men who had been found in
the cabin were dragged on deck
and driven aboard the pirate ship.
The captain and half a dozen of
the crew who had escaped the
massacre were put in chains. Tho
women and children were driven
below. The pirates at once began
to loot the doomed vessel, and
several hours were spent in transporting
the booty to the decks of
the pirate ship. Late in the evening
the Hhip was set on lire, and
the pirates sailed away.
Little attention was paid to the
negro boy, and he was permitted
to wander about as ho pleased.
The pirates spent the night in
singing and drinking. The next
morning the pirate captain, followed
by several ofiicers.stumbled
on deck, and then the negro boy
witnessed a scene that haunted
him to his grave.
The prisoners were all driven
on the forward deck of the ship,
preparatory to walking the plank.
The captain was the first one ordered
to walk out. He folded bis
arms across his bosom and moved
to his death with a firm step and
head erect. The women and children
now realized that they were
to be drowned in the sea,and they
began to pray and moan piteously.
One poor woman, pressing a
child to her bosom, walked up to
one of the; >irate officers and implored
hinftn spare her life, offering
bim her jewels and promising
him a large sum of money. The
monster tore a gold chain from
her neck and began to curse her.
The child wan crying and the
merciless demon wrenched it from
her arms and hurled it into the
sea. The poor mother at once ran
to the aide of the ahip and
sprang overboard. Jolly's curiosity
prompted him to follow her to
the ship's side, where he saw her
rise upon a wave and grasp her
infant in her arms, lie felt some
satisfaction in knowing that the
poor mother sank to rise no more
with her little baby clasped to her
breast.
The poor women had to bo forced
and dragged on the plank. They
clung to the knees of the piratef
( and implored for thoir lives in a
i way that would have-wrung mercy
from anything but a heart ol
j iron. Many of the children were
; thrown into the sea. where thev
were snapped up and crushed in
the jaws of a swarm of sharks thai
had gathered around the ship.?
St. Louis Glohe-I)emocrat.
Two years a?ro K. J Warron, a drutftflst at
Pleasant llrook, N. Y.. bought a small supply
of Chamltcrlaln'tt Cough Remedy Mo huiiis up
tho result an follows: "At that time the good*
wore unknown In this section: to-<lay Chamlu r
Iain's Cough Hemeity is a household word " II
Is the name In hundreds of communities.
Wherever the good Qualities of Chamberlain')*
('outfit Keraedy Itecomon known the peoph
will have nothing else. Kor sale by J K.
Maekey St Co. and II. C. Hough St Co., I.anca*
tor, M. C.
IfOTICK.
I WAKT every man and woman In tho T7nlts<
tats* intsrested In tbs Oplrm and Whisk;
habits to have one of my books on thsss dis'
sasss. Address II. M. Woolley, Atlanta, U|
; Box Ml, and one will bs teat yea frae.
Van Wyck Items.
We never have been a convert
to this new" County Govern
nient Bill because there was
to our whv of thinking too much
red tape or too many suckers to
feed from the public crop and we
do not like the law either leaving
it to only three men in each
Towiinhip?only 2 1 men out of
more than 2,000 that can vole
on the question and under this
now County Government, our
low taxes are increasing every
year, last year it was 15 mills
this year it. is 10?that is conclusive
evidence to our way of t hinking
that the management ol the
counties (inancies have been badly
managed or there is something
ueau up me branch.
The* time tor the annual Falls
picnic on the sparkling and
picturesque Catawba river is
only a lew weeks oil', and some
of our young people are contemplating
going. It is also rumored
the Van Wyek picnic will come
oil' sometime in May and that
Monroe and Waxhaw, N. C. will
attend in full force.
The bicycle craze has struck
us in earnest and our postmaster
attempted to ride one a few days
ago. Result a broken nose, two
badly skinned sihns, a broken
thumb, with having to carry the
other arm in a sling. lie now
has a bike lor sale.
Two of our most wide awake
and enterprising citizens have
formed a copartnership for the
purpose of running a fish market.
Messrs. Hob Massey and
Hob Tillman and nearly every
day you can see them with long
swinging poles making for the
river to replenish their stock in
trade.
Old Hickoky.
HOW TO FIND OUT.
Fill a bottle or common water
glass with urine and let it stand
twenty-four hours ; a sediment or
settling indicates a diseased condition
of the kidneys. When
urine stains linen it is positive
evidence of kidney trouble. Too
frequent desire to urinate or pain
in the back, is also convincing
proof that the kidneys and bladder
are out of order.
WHAT TO DO.
There is comfort in the knowl1
edge ho often expressed, that I)r.
Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the kidney
i remedy fulfills every wish in relieving
pain in the back, kidneys,
liver, bladder and every part of
the urinary passages. It corrects
inability to hold urine and scald1
ing pain in passing it, or bad
effects following use of liquor,
. wine or beer, and overcomes that
| unpleasant necessity of being
compelled to get up in; ?y times
1 during the uight to urinate, 'lhe
1 mild and the extraordinary effect
of Swamp-Root i> soon realized.
It stands the highest for its wonderful
cures of the most distress
' j ing cases. If you need a medicine
you should have the bent. Sold
i by druggists price fifty cents and
'one dollar. For a sample bottle
land pamphlet, both sent free by
.I mail, mention the Fntkhpriskand
send your full post-ollice address
! to Dr. Kilmer A' Co./.Hinghamton,
- N. Y. The proprietors of this
, paper guarantee the genuineness
, of this offer.
"The Leading Fire Insurance Company
of America."
Incorporated ixia. Charter I'?rpetnal
/etna
FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY
OF HARTFORD, CONN.
Cash Capital $ 4.(hki,(KK>.0(1
Cash Assets over 1 l.oon ixmuhi
Losses paid over . 77,000,000. (XI
Several other strong reliable companies
represented and business entrnsi
ted to me will receive prompt attent
tion.
' A.J.CLARK,
Resident Agent.
Who Can Measure
The influence of the mother I It
shapes the course of unborn generations?goes
sounding through
all coming ages and enters the
confines of Eternity.
With what care, therefore,
should the Expectant Mother be
! guarded, and how great the efj
fort be to ward off danger and
| make her life happy.
"Mother's Friend"
system^hat ChUd-Blrth'is m
! easy and the time of recovery
i shortened?many say "stronger
! after than before confinement."
] It. insiirps Rufottr + /-> 1ifo
mother and child. All who have
used "Mother's Friend" say they
will never be without it again.
Ho other remedy robs Confinement
of its pain.
"A customer whonn wife used 'Mother's Friend,
says Hint if eh" had to (to through the ordeal
attain, and there were but four bottle* to be
obtained, and the coat was 1100.00 per bottle, he
would have them." Gko. I.ayton, Dayton,Ohio.
Vat by Malt, on rncelpt of price. ft on PR R BOTTI.H. Book
TO "EXPECTANT MOTHERS" m.ilcd Iron couUimng
valuable information and voluntary testimonials.
TMC BRAOFICLD REGULATOR CO.. ATLANTA.OA.
OLD BY ALL ONUUQOISTS.
?When you want any thing
printed send it to the Enterprise's
Job ollice.
When Baby waa tick, we ftave her Castoria.
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria.
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria.
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yon should lie guided by your
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