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?K S?nutl)firli> Jtrralh. price one dollar per tear. "TRUE TO OURSELVES. OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD." single copier five cents. VOL. 24. SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 81. 10O5. XO. 4 HE WANTS A WIFE. Mr. J. W. Robertson, of Selma, Seeks a Baltimore Bride. Must be a Widow or Maiden Lady Advertisement in the Sun for a Wife Brings Enormous Re sults?Engagements Ev ery Half-Hour. Southern gentleman, with sub- i stantial means, wants wife; would be pleased to meet widow orj maiden lady not younger than thirty years; will be in the city four days. Address W. 305, Sun office. The above advertisement in The Sun yesterday has caused J Mr. J. \V. Robertson, who says he is a contractor and builder from Selma, N. C., to scratch his head in perplexity. His answers | have Deen so numerous that his heart is torn in a hundred differ-j ent ways, while the tunes the strings thereof have been playing: range from "Bedelia" to the "Last Rose of Summer." "Meet me in front of Old St. Paul's church, just as the even ] ing shadows are lengthening," | wrote one, who, if she answered one of the two requirements of | Mr. Robertson's invitation?that she should be above thirty years I old?might be supposed to have passed the days during which aj maiden's fancy runs to such fan-! cies as the following: "I enclose a lavender ribbon. Wear it in the rigbthaud corner of your coat and smile, and 1 shall know you for ray heart's own. I always did love southern gentlemen." "Meet me where the overgrown obelisk to the Father of His Country throws its shadow on Mount Vernon Square at 5:15," wrote another. "Take your handkerchief carelessly from your pocket and spread it across vour knees and shall fly to your side." There were sixty other letters Some of them were from young women who, for the first time in . t heir lives, deplored the fact that they had not had more birth days. They told the story of their charms and asked if the sweet fragrance of youth could not match the mature attrac tions which Mr. Robertson pre ferred; especially when they were I linked with wisdom beyond their years. (One could almost see be * tween the lines the arch look which would have accompanied the words of the writer had she been speaking.) i tiere were wiaows wno en larged upon the advantages which a widow has enjo.yed in the matrimonial market from time immemorial?so dashing, so co.v and, withal, so wise in the wa.ys of housekeeping. There were women who said that they had given up the idea of marrying (indicating that they had refused innumerable offers) until they had read the advertisement, and that then it had been as though a voice was speaking at their side and saying "This is the man. the one perfect man for whom j you have waited for years." Of course, those who hadimag- j ination enough to make an ap pointment and particularly the young woman whose fancy ran to lavender ribbon, attracted Mr. Robertson most. He was there, but it rained. And then the young woman in Mount Vernon Square? He was there, but it rained. Love might laugh at lock smiths, but. despite the love af fairs which have been aided bv such sweet April showers as j visited Rultimore yesterday, this I one stood abashed in the face of the downpour. Mr. Robertsonj took refuge in a doorway?and | the lady? Well, the lady failed to appear. Mr. Robertson said solicitously that he hoped neither one of them had their dresses spoiled. He's going to try it again today?perhaps not in the same spot. And he'll have to get a new ribbon, for the laven der affair he wore yesterday was white after it came through the shower. Mr. Robertson, for the benefit of those who may have consider ed the chances, is said by gossip to be a widower with seven chil dren. Gossip only says it, however, Mr. Robertson refused to say anvthiug last night. "Are marriageable women scarce in North Carolina?" he was asked. A stare was the only reply. "Did the fame of the beauty of Baltimore's women bring you?" A stare. "Does the age limit mean that you have a daughter who objects to having a stept mother within 10 years of her own age?" A stare. All that Mr. Robertson would say was that afttr he had re ceived all the replies brought to him by the advertisement he meant to write a book on the frailties of the sex. There will be much opportuni ty for mystery in it if he does, for the clerk at the hotel has been put to such straits to conceal his presence that while Mr. Robert son was standing with a man who was then inquiring for him at the hotel counter last night, he said?and without winking an eyelash?that Mr. Robertson had not been in for hours, would not be in for many more. Mr. Robertson says he has means. He looks to be 50 years old. He talks like a "tar heeler." He is short and slim, with dark complexion and brown eyes.? Baltimore Sun. BENSON NOTES. .Miss Mary Hatcher, teacher in the primary department of the Benson (traded School, spent Saturday and Sunday with her parents in Selma. Miss LeolaSmitb,accompanied by Miss Ellen Eldridge, visited her home in the Peacock's cross roads section last Sunday. Miss Maude Grimes, of High Johnston, entered the Benson Graded School last Wednesday, Messrs. Arthur Oneal & Bro. have moved their stock of gen eral merchandise into the new building on Main Street belong ing to Mr. King Parker. The marriage of Miss Eillie Kyals and Mr. Jasper Smith on Wednesday night, the 22nd, was celebrated quietly ufc the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. N. T. Ryals, t he ceremony being performed by Rev. \. Hf Gibbs. Mr. Smith is a well known and very popular young man of Ben son. The bride is a charming young lady with a hostof friends. A most enjoyable social enter tainment was given at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Strickland on Monday evening, the 27th, in honor of Miss Carr, of Rocking ham. It was an occasion of real pleasure, and all who attended expressed themselves as having spent a most pleasant evening. Messrs. Barnes&Holliday have moved their stock of hardware across the street into the build ing just vacated by Oneal Bros. A large number of our young people attended the carnival at at Dunn this week. Mr. E. F. Moore has purchased the handsome residence on Church Street belonging to Mr. J. W. Benson and will move into it at once Benson, Mar. 29. Solon. The Colonel's Waterloo. Colonel John M. Fuller, of Honey Grove, Texas, nearly met his Waterloo, from Liver and Kidney trouble. In a recent let ter, he says: "I was nearly dead, of these complaints, and, al though I tried my family doctor, he did me no good; so L got a 50c. bottle of your great Electric Bitters, which cured me. I con sider them the best medicine on earth, thank God who gave you the knowledge to make them." Sold, and guaranteed to cure. Dyspepsia, Biliousness and Kid ney Disease, by Hood Bros., druggists, at 50c. a bottle. If you cannot eat, sleep or work, feel mean, cross and ugly, take Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea this mouth. A tonic for the sick. There is no remedy equal to it 35 cents, Tea or Tablets. ?A. H. Boyett, Selma Drug Co. RUSSIAN LOSS IN WAP. Only 300.000 Men Left of 835.000 Sent to the Front?Transporta tion of Troops and Supplies Strained Siberian Railroad to Utmost Capacity. St. Petersburg, March 25 th.? Stuug by the wholesale criticism lately heaped upon the war office for its unpreparedness and inca pacity in providing the Man churian army with men, guns, and munitions, the army organ to-day lays bare what, has been done since the opening of hostili ties, giving the exact figures. From these it appears that up | to March 12th the war office had dispatched 13,087 officers, 701,-[ ?107 men. 140.408 horses, 1,521 guns, and 310,321 tons of mu nitions and supplies to the front, declaring the transportation strained the Siberian Railroad to its utmost capacity. The army organ admits that the army in the far East when the war opened was hardly worth the name (no figures being given, but it is known that the troops did not exceed 00,000), defend-1 ing this on the ground that Em peror Nicholas desired to avoid war and therefore refrained from I sending re-inforcements, which surely would have provoked it. The criticism of the war office's failure to adequately supply Port Arthur is met by the statement that it was provisioned for agar rison of twelve battalions, the decision to put thirty battalions being taken so late that the original calculations could not be remedied. Whue affirming that the quick firing guns and filed guns of the Russians are superior to those of the Japanese, the war office ex plains that the misfortune in the insufficiency of the mountain guns wrts duo to tho fact- thaf w hen the war broke out Russia I was just adopting a new pattern. It is denied that the war office i wa? deceived in regard to tin available strength of the Japan ese ai my or the organization of the Japanese reserves, hut.tbal army organ frankly admits rha' ; the talents of the offi ers and the wonderful snirit of the soldier were miscalculated. The publication of this article had created a sensation among military men and in public cir- j cles, many of the former ceusur ing the general staff for disclosing ! valuable military secrets, anil the latter finding from the figures a practical admission that the war has cost almost 500,000 men in killed, wounded, prison-j ers, and sick, as the whole effect ive force in the far East is now | believed not to exceed 300,000; men. Roosevelt Agrees to American Con trol In Domingo. President Roosevelt gave or ders yesterday which provided that the United States govern ment shall act as the temporary conditional receiver of Santo Do mingo's finances. . Nominally, the Dominican government is to create the receivership, but its agents in the transaction are to be American citizens, named by the Presideutof the United States, and the revenues collected by them at Santo Domiugo custom houses are to be sequestrated in a New York bank, peuding fiual action by the United States Sen-! ate on the treaty between the American and the Dominican j governments. The treaty can not be takeu up until the Con gress assembles in extra session next October. In the meantime, the terms of that unratified agreement, will be carried out as if it were in force, with the ex ception that the Dominican reve nues will not be distributed to Santo Domingo's foreign credi tors unless the Senate gives its sanction.?Washington Post 251. It will bring rich, red blood, firm flesh and muscle. That's what llollister's Rocky Moun tain Tea will do. Taken this month, keeps you well al' sum mer. 85 cents, Tea or Tablets. ?A. H. Royett, Selma Drug Co. GENERAL NEWS NOTES. Mrs. Chad wick admits she owes 1750.000. Four men were killed in a pow der mill explosion in Troy, N. Y.,: Tuesday. A tornado has wiped out the town of Louisburg in Minnesota and it is reported killed seven people. The Secretary of War has re turned to Virginia 02 Confeder- j ate battle flags captured during the Civil War. At Lexington, Ky., Monday Judge Ilargis. his nephew and. Sheriff Callahan were held for! murder, having been denied bail. At Ocean Beach, Florida, Fri day afternoon, a boat capsized with a party of ladies and gentle men, and all were drowned but one man. A plan is on foot when Presi dent Roosevelt goes to Texas to have him and President Diaz, of Mexico, to meet at the border and shake hands. Senor Don Manuel Alviroz, Mexico's first ambassador to the United States, is dead in Wash ington from exposure contracted inauguration day. Judge Sommerville, of the New ] York Board of Appraisers, holds that President Roosevelt had no legal power to suspend theCuban reciprocity treaty for ten days. Frank Ely Rogers, a boy who ; disappeared mysteriously from Chicago four years ago with his aunt has returned home, but J there is no trace of the aunt. Maurice Barrymore, an emi nent actor, at various times leading man for Lily Langtrv J and Mme Mojeska, died in aj sanitarium on Long Island Sat urday. Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick, at Cleveland, 0., Monday was sen tenced to 10 years in the peni tentiary , motion for a new mat was overruled and she took an appeal. The President Saturday ad dressed the graduating class of the 1 lited blares Ah ijical bcli .ol at Washington and said this: "Do your if you have bar u jack-knife to do it with." In New York Monday an nx plos.cn occurred in the tuuueL under East River, shooting a man up through the top, through forty feet of water and twenty 1 feet into the air, without serious injury. New York state, with a bond issue of $50,000,000, plans to improve one mile in ten of all its highways throughout the coun ties, expending the money at the rate of $5,000,000 a year and j thus completing the improve ment in ten years. The government cotton crop report issued at noon Tuesday i estimates the total amount gin neiTto date at 1,359,000 bales. Some giuners of course have not reported but calculating on a basis of their previous reports; and a fair average the above is J approximately correct. Because her betrayer, a young man named Rainwater refused to marry her Pearl Sykes, ofj Carthage. Mo., followed him to the railroad station and on October the 5th as he was ore paring to board a train and leave1 her forever she fired a pistol and killed him. Miss Sykes has just been acquitted and the judge scored the jury for bringing in such a verdict. Mary Brockwell, of Paducah, Ivy., whose three children died in agony last Saturday, after a sudden and mysterious attack of illness, has confessed that she poisoned the little ones with morphine and kerosene. She said that George Alberton had prom ised to marry her if she got rid of the children. Mrs. Brockwell's husband is living, a religous maniac, in an asylum, and the woman would have added bigamy to murder if she had married Al berton. She is in jail and Alber ton is under nrivet as an acces sory. "Wouldn't hurt a baby." Rheumacide is entirely vegetable, and instead of hurting the diges tion, tones up the entire system. I For sale by Hood Bros. DESTRUCTION OF THE MAINE. Battleship Destroyed Through Error of a Cuban. Bomb Was Manufactured to Destroy Spanish Warships In Havana Harbor But Was Placed Uii der the Maine?Statement of Rousseau. New York, March 28th.?That the battleship Maine through an error was destroyed by a bomb of his manufacture was theetate ment made by Gessler Rosseau in the tombs prison to-day. Ros-1 seau was couvicted yesterday of; having sent explosives to the Cunard Line pier, this city, in j May 1908. He made the follow-! wg statement: "For several years, while the Cuban patriots were struggling against Weyler, 1 watched the contest with deep iuterest and sympathy. I decided to go to | Jacksonville and do what 1 could , to assist the revolutionists. I started from St. Louis, where 1 had been living during the early | part of 1897. "Before taking a train for the South 1 got together the ma terial for tee construction of two exploding machines of tremen-1 dous power, so arranged that1 they could be wound up and left in a selected place with the cer- i tainty that they would go off with terrible destruction within a few hours "At New Orleans L rented a room and put the boxes together, after which 1 went to Jackson ! ville. There I became acquainted with a party of Cuban leaders, who were planning a filibustering expedition. They had engaged the Destroyer, a small vessel, to j take them to Cuba along with a Dumber of American and Euro-1 peas adventurers who were anx-j ious to strike a blow for Cuban freedom. "Several of the leaders of the party are men now well known and I will not mention their names, although I have among my papers a list of them all. "I suggested to them that they use my machine to destroy Span ish warships in the harbor of Ha vana and iu other [torts on the coast of the island. They readily seized upon the idea and when the Destroyer sailed with the fili- i busters, they took my two ma chines with them. "It was my intention to go along with the parte so as to di- j rect the work of sinking the Spun-; ish ships, but they dissuaded me, urging that I could be of greater use in Jacksonville preparing j other machines if the first proved successful. i.li 1 . ? ? ? ii was pianueu u> nave some members of the revolutionary party join the Spanish navy, so as to get the machines aboard. It that failed it was decided to ; fasten one of the boxes to the hull of a ship under the water line for I had constructed my ma chines so they could be exploded under the water. ' That was late in the fall of 1897. The next spring the Maine was destryed. "Only one of the men with the secret machines ever returned to America. I saw him some time after the war with Spain had be gun. He told me he had noth ing to do with the boxes after reaching Cuba, but had been told a mistake had been made. "The man who had been en trusted with the task of destroy ing a Spanish vessel attempted to fasten a box during the night to one of Alfonso's warships and blundered into blowing up the Maine. "I was told that the man, im mediately after learning of the | error he had made, committed J suicide." Startling: Mortality. Statistics show startling mor tality, from appendicitis and peritonitis. To prevent and cure these awful diseases, there is just one reliable remedy, Dr. King's ! New Life Pills. M Flannery, of 14 Custom House Place, Chicair >, says: "They have no equal i?>r Constipation and biliousness " 2"ic. at Hood Bros , druggists. STATE NEWS ITEMS. There are several cases of smallpox in Davie county. The town of Jackson had a dis astrous fire last week. Loss about #:30,000. The Wilson Sauitoriuui is to be enlarged by the addition of eighteen rooms. The Dispensary at Roxboro, established oy the Legislature will open to-morrow for business. The Dispensary fight in Ashe ville is getting warm. Both sides are claiming they will win next Thursday in the election. Henry Gassaway Davis, the Democratic candidate for Vice President last fall, will visit Asheville next week. He is 84 years of age. Vice-President Fairbanks visit ed Greensboro last week as the guest of the Tar Heel Club, the political club that desires to build up a decent Republican party in North Carolina. Dr Albert Anderson, of Wilson, will deliver the annual address before the graduating class of the Medical School of the State University at Raleigh. The ex ercises will take place in Chapel Hill, May4th. 1 He report of t be census bureau issued Tuesday shows that 743, 404 runing bales were ginned in North Carolina in 1904. This was equivalent to (597.452 bales of 500 pounds, as compared witn 528,707 bales ginned in 1903. L. C. Hilton, deputy sheriff of Polk county, was killed atTryon Sunday by Frail Durham. Hil ton had Durham under arrestfor carrying concealed weapons. They entered a magistrate's of fice to arrange for bond, when the prisoner made a dash for liberty. Hilton gave chase, fir ing as he ran. Durham turned and fired killing Hilton instantly. Durham made his escape. Anson county lays claim to having a citizen who has the largest foot of any person in North Carolina. A shoemaker of Wadesboro has just completed a pair of shoes, number sixteen, for a coluied vouth who is seven teen years old, six feet, eight and three quarter inches high, and weight 212 pounds. His name is John Huntley, and he lives with Albert Smith of (iulledge's townsnip Former Midshipman Milton W. Arrowood, of Burlington, re-ent ly dismissed trom the navy be cause of desertion, is a prisoner on board the Flagship Kearsarge, tiow on her way to Fensacola, and will beunmediatedlv released and given his freedom when the ship arrives at that port. Young Arrowood's friends will appeal to Congress to review his case and restore his citizenship Baby Found In a Well. On March 23rd, 1905, while at work at my place on the Smith tield and Bentonsville road where there was an old house on the roadside aud near the house was an old well that had never been finished. My dog which was with me went down in the hole and dragged out an old rag and in that was a child that had been wrapped up in the rag and thrown in the old well^ Its head, ueck, arms, and body looked perfectly natural. It looked like it might have been there four, ttveorsx months. Nobody is living at the house now but it was occupied last year by a widow woman. C. M. Moore, It. F. I). No. 1, Four (>aks, N. C. Strikes Hidden Rocks. When your ship of health strikes the hidden rocks of Con sumption, Pneumonia, etc., vou are lost, if vou don't get help from Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption. J. W. vicKin i non, of Talladega Springs, Ala., writes: "I had been very ill with Pneumonia, under the care of two doctors, but was getting no better when I began to take Dr. King's New Discovery. The first dose gave relief and one bottle cured me " Sure cure for sow throat, bronchitis, coughs himI (colds, (luarantee'i at Hood Bros, drug store, price 50c. and J1.0?. | Trial bottle free.
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