lis. - litis.
I handle BUGGIES of all makes in car load lots, and can
SAVE YOU MONEY.
Don't buy until you have seen me. I can lit you up with
substantial Harness. Sell for cash or on time.
• d.W. L.AIME,
DUNN, N. C.
A. 15. HAROLD. M. P. HATCHER.!
I
Harold & Hatcher,
—ATTORNEYS AT LAW,— |
DUNN, N. C.
Practice wherever service r |
quirt d. Prompt attention i j
all business. Collections
specialty Office ever DEMO
CRATIC BANNER.
Edwaid W. P« 11, F. 11. Brooks
Pou & Brooks,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
SMITHFIELD, N. C.
Claims collected. Estates set
tled. Practice in Johnston
and adjoining counties.
E. s. SMITH. E. J. BARNES
SMITH & BARNES,
Atiorneys-atLaw,
DUNN, - - - N. c.
Pi setice in all the courts of tlie State.
Prompt attention to all business
entrusted.
Office in the old Post Office Building.
D. H. Xcl KAN. -I. c. CLIFFORD
McLean & Clifford,
Attorneys-
DUNN, : : : : N. C.
Office over J. J. Wade's Store.
W. A. STEWABT. H. L. GODWI>
STEWART & COM,
Attorneys and Counsellors-at-law,
DUNN, N. C.
Will practice in State and Federal
Courts but not for fun.
W- E- Mnrcliisoii,
JONESBORO. N. C.
Practices Law in Ilarnett, Moore and
other counties, but not for^fun.
Feb. 20-1 y.
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We otfer unsurpassed advan
tages, aud loan money on easy
terms We will extend every
accommodation consistent with
conservative banking.
L. J. BEST, President.
J. W. PURDIE, Cashier.
MERCHANTS HP FARMERS
m, m, c.
CAPITAL STOCK $20,000.
Every accommodation offered
to the public.
E. F. YOUNG, President.
V. L. STEPHENS, Cashier.
iS. I. Smith. ' Alfred Wells
sum & WELLS,
DUNN, N. C.
-EXPERT ACCOUNTANTS.-
Office in Gregory's Hall.
Books audited, balanced and
posted at regular stated inter
vals. Charges moderate. Ac
curacy assured.
TJHOTOGRAPHS
IRA WORK GUARANTEED,
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Parties visiting Dunn can call
at my residence and have their
work made in the latest and
most pleasing style. Call and
see samples, and get prices.
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DUNN, N. C.
Gallery up stairs over J. W.
Gregory's store.
THE DEMOCRATIC BANNER.
Vol. 11.
Dyspepsia Sure
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It. artilicially digests the food aud aids
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structing the exhausted digestive or
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Prepared by E. C DeWITT a CO.. Chicago.
For sale by Ilood & Gran
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M TH\l"jvAS WAR.
4 Plea tor the Old Confederate
Veteran.
TIIE MAN WHO ATE PARCHED
CORN, SLEPT UNDER THE
STARS AND LIVED THROUGH
THE HAIL OF -BULLETS.
(Bridges Smith in Atlanta Journal.)
One time there was a war.
There had been wars and ru
mors of and sanguinary scraps
before, and since that time
there have been some few skir
mish tights, but for real fight?
i:ig and loss of life, bloodshed
and all the horrors, this war
stood at the head of the class.
One battle made more widows
and orphans and pensions than
all the other wars combined.
That war was the original and
only genuine hot stuff.
That was when the young
man left his plow standing in
the field, or his bench in the
shop, or his place behind the
counter, or wherever he was
when he heard the first drum
beat. And for four long drawn
out years he subsisted on what
he could get, fought when there
was fighting to do, read awful
letters from home in silence and
suffered in countless ways, and
drew, when lie could, per
month thirteen dollars of a
money that was as valueless as
money as so much gun-wad
ding, but the most glorious
money that ever promised to
pay.
Then when it was all over,
and Lee drew the sword out of.
his heart and laid it tenderly in
Grant's hand, the young man
went home, mostly on foot, and
found that he must commence
life anew the best he could.
There was plenty of earth be
low and plenty of sky above,
but devilish little between. But
he went to work, and some
times he prospered and some
times he didn't, but he worked
on. After a while, as the years
passed, he felt the creeping on
of old age, the weakening of his
legs, and the general giving
away that sooner or later will
come to the man who keeps up
the struggle to win bread by his
hands. lie began to notice that
he could not keep up with the
procession, that in spite of his
efforts he was lagging behind.
Younger men, born after the
war, began to crowd him out of
his job, not so much the fault of
the young men, but because he
was not as spry as when he first
strapped on an Enfield and was
ready to march on the enemy.
And he also noticed that as the
years accumulated, as his hair
grew frostier, as his clothes
wrinkled, wasn't attracting
as much attention as he once
'did. He was once a gallant
soldier and was pointed out a 9
such, but now scarcely an eye
was turned to him. He shud
dered to think that soon he
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Respeptfully Yours,
HIE JOHN iHUY il'F'G CO.,
DUNN. N. C.
would be forgotten.
Now and then in his pilgrim* 1
age to the enevitable end a flood (
of sunshine was thrown across I
his path, a sunshine so bright 
as to reflect the glorious scenes j
that crowd the bitter thiugs out
of the soldier's heart. With
.noney he could ill spare he
journeyed to the occasional re
unions, and there with the boys,
around improvised camp fires,
he lived over the four long
years that robbed Ilia of his
start in life, sapped his young
life and hastened the decrepi
tude that now deprives him of
the strength to grapple with
other men in the battle of life,
and yet were four years of un
selfish devotion to a glorious
cause. The meeting with old
comrades, the telling and re
minding of experiences, the
jokes of the camp that whiled
the tedium of the waits between
tights, and possibly the singing
together once more of the songs
that stirred the finer emotions
all brought a sparkle to the eye
growing dim and warmed the
cockles in his heart.
And when the reunion is over
he takes up his journey home
ward feeling as though he was
going from it instead of to it, to
work and wait until the boys
meet again.
It is here that the old veteran
begins to think that he is the un
der dog.
In the hurry and bu9tle of
this life, in the eternal grab for
the dollar, in the greed that in
jects selfishness into the hearts
of men, the old veteran is for
gotten. About the savory break
fast there is no vision of the
breakfast of parched corn;
about the bed of downy quilts
there is no vision of the dirty
blanket under the stars ; about
the peace of home there is no
vision of the bloody carnage of
battle. In this fair land of ours
there is peace and plenty, a
land renowned for its chivalry
of men and beauty of women, a
land of delightful climate, a
land of glo 1 ious possibilities and
always fair to look on. And it
was for this land that the old
veteran slept under the stars,
breakfasted on the parched
corn, stood in the line of battle
or followed the stars and bars
through valleys of death ; it was
for this land that he told his
loved ones goodbye, left them
to live as best they may, read
the letters telling of death and
starvation, and then lived
DUIMIM, IM. C. MAY, 15 1901,
through the deaths of privation,
disease and the hail of bullets.
Do we stop to think of these
things in our rush for self?
Must we wait until these o'd
veterans grow old enough to be
regarded as objects of curiosity
before we give them a little at
tention? Or shall we cast them
adrift like badgless ours, with
broken spirits, to wander about
without a friend?
Some day, some day when
the world is older, and maybe
better, the old soldier will give
up the struggle. Nearly forty
years ago he courted death amid
the noise of bursting bombs,
the rattle of musketry, the roll
of drums, the yelling of com
rades and the quick commands
of his officers, but this death in
peace he dreaded. True, there
were shadows which the sun
shine could not dispel; there
was sadness in the songs of the
birds, and an undercurrent of
sorrow flowing under all that
life makes bright; true that he
was as one deserted, abandoned,
but the death that was closing
his dim eyes and carrying him
on leaden wings across the riv
er where he might rest under
the shade of the trees was not
the death of the soldier.
And the earth closes over him.
Some day, some day w"hen
men read the history o.fthe
South and of the deeds and self
sacrifices of that old soldier,
and hear from the lips of this
generation how he died neglect
ed and forgotten, then, and not
till then, will the heart of man
be stirred. Alas! it will be
then too late.
It Dazzles The World.
No Discovery in medicine has
ever created one quarter of the
excitement that has been caused
by Dr. King's New Discovery
for Consumption. It's severest
tests have been on hopeless vic
tims of Consumption, Pneumo
nia, Hemorrhage, Pleurisy and
Bronchitis, thousands of whom
it has restored to perfect health.
For Coughs, Colds, Asthma,
Croup, Hay Fever, Hoarseness
and Whooping Cough it is the
aiiickest, surest cure in the
~orld. It is sold by C. L.
Wilson who guarantee satisfac
tion or refund money. Large
j bottles 50c and SI.OO. Trial
bottles free.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good."
The Blind Merchant.
People who happen to be on
6th avenue, New York, between
7 and 8 o'clock every evening
can see an old fashioned car
riage with two seats driving
rapidly up town. On the back
seat sits an old gentleman com
fortably placed, well wrapped
up with furs and a slouch hat
drawn down over his eyes. Be
side him is a younger man with
an open newspaper spread upon
his knees and an electric lamp
in his hand. His mouth is
close to his companion's ear so
that the latter can hear dis
tinctly as he reads the evening
papers above the rattle of the
wheels of thousands of carriages
and deliver wagons over the
rough stone pavement. Be
tween 6 and 7 o'clock every
morning the same sight may be
witnessed by people who get
out so early.
The old gentleman in the
carriage is Charles Broadway
Rouss, a blind man who has the
largest wholesale notion store
in New York city, and that is
the way he gets the news of the
busy world. He says he has
no time to have the newspapers
read to him except while he is
riding between his home and
his store.
In 1865 Mr. Rouss came to
New York from Winchester,
Va., with SI.BO as his capital.
He is now one of the richest
merchants in that city, and his
wealth is estimated all the way
from $5,000,000 to $20,000,000.
Hanging in the most conspic
uous place in his store, just
where every one can read it, is
a large framed card bearing this
inscription :
He who bilt, owns and occu
pies this marvel of brik, irun
and granit, 18 years ogo walkt
the streets of New York peniles
and $51,000 in det: only to
prove that the capitalists of to
day were poor men 20 years ago,
and that many a fello facing
poverty to-day may be a capi
talist a quarter of a century
hence, if he will. Pluk adorn
ed with ambition, bakdby onor
brite will always comand suces
even without the almity dolar.
Mr. Rouss always spells pho
netically to save time and labor.
Another sign, which discloses
the fundamental rules of his
ilmsi&esq, is seen in -eveiy dime-,
tion, and reads :
Net Cash
Day After Examination
No Discount
which means that he always
pays cash for everything he
buys the day the goods are de
livered and neither gives nor
asks discounts. Another pecu
liarity of Mr. Rouss is to pay
his employes every night. At
the close of the business, at 6
o'clock, winter and summer—
and everybody is expected to
work eleven hours pprdav—thp
clerks, porters and others on the
pay roil go to the c«tshier and
receive their day's wages in an
envelope, so that when Mr.
Rouss closes his store at night
he owes no man a dollar. 11.
is always the last, except ill
watchman, to leave the build
ing at night, and although he is
blind and has many millions of
dollars, he put 9 in twelve hours
of solid work six days in the
week.
Another sign that is seen in
every direction for the informa
tion of his customers is :
No Credits
One Bill at a Time.
Six Days Our Best Terms,
Never Thirty.
Mr. Rouss considers one wt k
a sufficient time for all his cus
tomers in the country to receive
their purchases, and he expects
his goods to be paid for as Soon
as they reach their destination.
City customers are required to
pay cash. He burned his
ledger eighteen years ago and
now runs his enormous business
amounting to many millions a
year, with only two bookkeepers
who simply record the pur
chases of out-of-town customers
and credit them with the pay
when it is received.
"A fellow was fool enough to
trust me when I first came to
New York and I trusted
others," .said Mr. Rouss one day.
*'l smashed all to pieces ; owed
$51,000, paid it up dollar for
dollar, never trusted anybody
again and never permit any
body to trust me."
Mr. Rouss' pecnliar name is
his trademark. He was born
in Frederick, Md.; clerked in a
country store at Winchester
Va, ; came to New York with
an ambition to emulate A. T.
Stewart; got a stock of goods
and opened a small shop in
Broadway, but customers were
slow in coming and he painted
a big sign, "Charles Broadway
Rouss," to attract curiosity,
which he believes was the foun
dation of his success in life.
Overwork cost him his eye
sight, but he continues to man
age his business and knows
everything that is going on in
his great store.
When asked what he consid
ered the greatest of virtues, Mr.
Rouss replied:
"Honesty : that covers every
thing."
"And what is the greatest of
vices?" was asked.
"Idleness ; that is the source
of all vice. A busy man has no
time to be bad."
Mr. Rouss is a practical phi
lanthrophist, and has given
away large sums of money. He
always gives a dollar to eveiy
body who asks for aid or sends
him a begging letter.
"You would not want to print
that fact," was suggested.
"Why not!"
"Because it would bring up
on you multitudes of applica
tions for money."
"Let them come. If a dis
honest man robs me he will suf
fer for it, not I; if I refuse a
worthy mau the aid he needs,
I will suffer for it as well as he.
I would rather give SIO,OOO to
people who do not need it than
refuse $1 to a man who does."
A Wonderful Invention.
They cure dandruff, hair fall
ing, headache etc., yet costs the
9ame as an ordinary comb—Dr.
White's Electric Comb. The
only patented Comb in the
world. People, everywhere it
has been introduced, are wild
with delight. You simply
comb your hair each day and
the comb does the rest. This
wonderful comb is simply un
breakable and is made so that it
is absolutely impossible to
break or cut the hair. Sold on
a written guarantee to give per
fect satisfaction in every respect.
Send stamps for one. Ladies'
size 50c. Gents' size 35c.
Live men and women wanted
everywhere to introduce this
article. Sells on sight. Agents
are wild with success. (See
want column of this paper.)
Address D. N. ROSE, General
Mgr., Decatur, 111.
SPRING SEASON
of 1901.
B. G. TAYLOR,
the mmn haunt.
OF DUNN, N. C.,
Announces that lie is determined to do more business this
vear than ever before. He has the goods and wants ihe cnstn
nmn^i ythP !i '. PriCeß are lower than erer. For everv
DOLLAR he will give you TWO DOLLARS worth of val-e
Hh has d ter mined to sell his stock of goods at once Either
for Cash or on Credit. " er
He can accommodate von to
credit on reasonable terms
Be sure and see him.
OLOTHINCj-. CLOTHING. CLOTHING-.
You can get what you want in this line. Wo have the larg
est selection in the country and can lit any size Prices made
to please the customer.
His stock is being added to daily and you will lind
SHOES! SHOES!
1;>00 Pairs of Ladies and Mens and Children Shoes. Indies
Kid Shoes, Ladies Yicis, Ladies Oxford", Ladios Slippers, La
dies Shoes for every day wear, Ladies Shoos and Slippors from
74f per pair up to $5.25. MENS SHOES ! Calf, Smooth Calf,
Box Calf, Vicis, Dongolas, Russetts, Tans, Heavy Shoes for ser
vice, Brogans, Kids, Boys Shoes, Children* Shoes.
Shirts, Collars, Hosiery, Neckwear, Suspenders, Hats,
(iloves, Handkerchiefs, Fancy Hose, Umbrellas, Valises, Satch
els, Trunks.
NOTIONS!
Everything in this line. Nothing left out. Embroidery
Laces, Braids, Hamburg and Swiss Embroidery and Insertion,
Kid Gloves, Corsets, Hoisery, Towels, Damasks, Napkins, Rugs,
Carpets, Matting, Bed Spreads, Counterpanes. In Dress Trim
ming there is a complete stock. Pearl Buttons, Gilt Buttons,
Silver Buttons, Silk Parasols, the fanciest and newest styles.
GROCERIES.
400 Bags of Flour, 25 Bags of CofFto, 15 Barrels of Sugar,
Rice, Tea, Tobacco, Snuff. Lye, Potash, Molasses, Salt, Bacon,
Corn, Meal, Oats, Bran, Mill Feed, Farm Tools, Horse Collars.
Bridles, Plows, Fertilizers, Guano, Kanit, Phosphates, Guano
Distributors, Cotton Planters, Lime, Cement, Plaster Parris,
Hair and Builder's Material.
UNDERTAKERS.
In this line there is a complete line of Burial Goods. From
the smallest to the largest coffin. From the cheapest Coffin to
the Handsomest Casket. Burial Robes for men and women. A
Handsome Hearse is kept with this stock and will be sent out
when needed.
BU CSfe TA YlhOißL
Denominations in the United
States.
The following table by the
emiuent statistical!, Dr. Carroll,
is given as |uite as authentic as
any comparative table that can
be obtained:
Roman Catholic 8,090,058
Methodist Episcopal 2,746,101
Regular Baptist South 1,030,985
Reg. Baptist (Col.) 1,591,735
Meth. Episcopal (S.) 1,408,390
Disciples of Christ 1,149,982
Reg. Baptist (North) 9(38,057 (
Presbyterian (North) 983.433
Protestant Episcopal 710,350
African Meth. Episcopal 075 4K2
Congregational 031,300
Lutheran S'uodic'l Con. 581,029
African Meth. Epis Zion 530,271
Lutheran Gen. Council 350,401
Latter-Day Saints 300,000
Reformed (German) 242,831
United Brethren 239,039
Presbyterian (South) 225,890
Col. Meth. Episcopal 204,975
German Evang'lic'l Syn 203,574
Lutheran Gen. Synod 199,589
Methodist Protestant 182,714
Cumberland Presbyt'r'u 180,192
United Norweg'n Luth. 130,000
Primitive Baptist 120,000
United Presbyterian 115,901
Reformed (Dutch) 107,594
Total professing
Christians, 25,179,719.
2
"You can fool all the people some
of the time, and some of the
people all the time; but you
can't fool all the people all the
time."
WE DON'T want you fooled
any of the time.
> Low priced paint will always fool you.
It may look well when first put
on but will not last It costs as
much to put on a poor paint as
it does a good one.
I THE
SHERWIN-WILLIAMS
i PAINTS
are made to fool no one. They
! I are honest Paints for honest peo-
I, pie. They cover most, lock best,
I' wear longest, are most c onomv
cal, and always full measure.
SOLD BV
j DUNN HOW. FCK- CO.
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