"Prove all things; hold last that which is good."
Vol. 6.
" OUTSirSI. IM. C. OCTORF.R 1 lfcyr. " srr
To our sorrow,
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IS DEAD AIMD GOHIE ;
i mourn yourself to death, when ' , , .
JEFFIiSON DAVIS BARNES
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,V(uiis to mate you nappy by selling you - goods at the lowest
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prio. s over Known, in umm.
II, aw and Fancy Groceries, Dress Goods, Hats and Caps,
i;.,ots and shoes, to be sold at some price. Highest price paid
for Country Produce and Turpentine. See us before you buy.
- Yours. to suit the hard times,
J. D. BARNES
OOD &
cxxxie OlcL StaricL
HAVE A SUPPLY OF ALL THE SCHOOL 1500KS USED IN THE
COMMON SCHOOLS. BUY NO W AND HAVE THEM READY FOR
VOl II CHILD WHEN THE SCHOOL OPENS.
SLA FES, PENCILS. CRAYON. COPY BOOKS, PAPER, PENS
AND INK AT REMARKABLY LOT PRICES.
Drugs, Confectioneries. Statioripry, Patent MediciDes, Coperas, Borax.
Sulphur, Drag Sundries, Popper, Spices &c.
Tobacco, Snuff, Lamps and Lamp Fixtures, lso Hall and Store Lamps.
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"Prescriptions Carefully Filled."
We are headouarters for any-
thing in our line.
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pRTJG QIST AND FHARM A CIS J
l don't ktep, nor sell whiskey, but have constantly on hand a full supply
of
PURE DRUGS AND MEDICINES,
Toilt Articles, Cloth and Hair B usaes, Stationery, Candy, Starch, Soda,
Soaps, Larop-i, Cigars, Snuff?, Tobacjo, and a variety of other things.
Prescriptions Compounded with care and Accuracy.
.Remember I am Headquarters for anything in my line.
Thanking all I am yours to please with goods and prices. x
v N. B. HOOD, Dunn, N-C-
Mr A. L. Pearsall is with me and he invites all bis friends to call and
see uiin.
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ROFESSIONAL CARDS.
E. W. Pou'
Attorney at-Law.
.SMITH FIELD, N. C.
art ful attention to any civil I matters
mtnistc'l to his care in the courts of
Harnett County
H L- Godwin,
Attorney at Law
Dunn, . - -
Oilier on "Lucknow Square.
N. C.
Will practice in the courts of Harnett
:ml adjoining counties and in the
Ft ilcial Com ts.
Prompt attention given to allbnsin es
W- E- Murchison,
JONESBOKO, N. C.
rra.-ti-is t,;uv in Harnett, Mooieaml
oiln-r counties, but not for fun.
K. h. 20-1 v.
Isaac A- Murchison,
FAYFl'TEVlLLE, If. C.
Piacticea Law in Cumberland, Harnett
ami anywhere services are wanted.
C CLIFFORD,
Attorney' at Law,
DUNN, X. C.
Will practice' in all the court; of the
State, where services desired.
K. i. Tones. W.A.Stewart.
JONES & STEWART,
Attorneys at Law,
DUNN, N. C.
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JfiI IS HAPPY.
"LiBCHjKHRllW FAT."
Tho-e who buy their groceries from
L. P. JERNIGAN
tiw liinl times with a smib
for
can laL
he makes prices meet
the people.
Full line of
the
demands of
Fancy Groceries
always on
hand.
M K A T,
FLOUR. SUGAR.
GOOD COFFEE for 10c per pound
TOBACCO
and of all brands.
SNUFF
Canned Goods, Tinware &c.
Sells everything found in a First
Class Grocery Store.
When you are in town call
and see me, and examine my
stock. Yours truly,
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Circus Horse.
The proprietor of the modern
circus has little to do nowadays
with the training 'of the rinsr
horses, for the rider of to-day
provides his own horses. . How
ever, knowledge on the subject
is essential.
Sometimes a meek, respect
able horse is transformed into a
fiery animal of the plains made
to order in fact. The act called
"Mazeppa, or the Wild Horse
of Tartary, " was once provided
for by an enterprising manager,
who took a 20-year-old steed,
mild and gentle, and broke him
into the business of buckin
1 1 T mi
KicKing ana rearing, mis is
easily done. The trainer takes
a common pin and when he ap
proaches the horse, puts his
hand against the pommel of the
saddle and sticks the nin into
the flesh beneath, the horse, of
course, rears then the trainer
caresses him. This may be re
peated time after time. If the
trainer wants the horse to act
especially i ugly, he sticks the
pin in the liesh ac the rear of
the saddle, thus causing the
horse to stand on his fore legs
and wave his heels in the air.
In teaching tricks, nothing but
kindness, patience, carrots and
sugar is of any avail.
Miss Lizzie Yelding is an ex
pert rider and one of the many
women who have trained their
horses to obey their very whis
per. She prefers a horse with
a very broad back for her acro
batic work . When the value of
a trained circus horse is con
sidered it is easy to understand
why such care is taken of the
animal, even though the care
takers may have no love for
their charges. A circus horse
is bought when it is between 3
and 4 years old, and nearly a
year is necessary to break him
into his act. He is trained to
be oblivious to noise, shouts,
music, roars of animals, blow-
ing paper and all thingsCwhich
might cause him to shy at some
future time and imperil his
rider's life. Toledo Blade.
Some Startling; Fisriire.
The New York Sun
editorial bunches some
in an
sicrnifi-
cant pension facts, so that the
inference drawn is that a great
proportion of pensioners are un
worthy of government bounty
and that the list should be cut
down. Figures recently pub
lished show that at the present
rate of expenditure the annual
pension list has been consuming
more than nine-tenths of the
revenue taken ijn at all the cus
tom houses in the United States ;
or again, if the customs duties
are considered as paying the
general expenses of the govern
ment, the pensions have been
using up not less than 9G per
cent, of the total receipts from
internal revenue. Thirtv-two
vears after the end of the civil
war, the number of pensioners
on account of that war exceeds
by about a quarter of a million
the number of soldiers actually
engaged in service in all the
armies of the government at any
time between the firing upon
Sumter and the surrender of Lee
at Appomattox. The number
of pensioners after a third of a
century is between 30 and 40
per cent, larger than the fight-
ing army at any time during
the war. We have already paid
in pensions since the war two
billion dollars or two-thirds as
much as it cost the government
to carry on the war. Scientific
American.
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The Grandest Remedy.
Mr. R. B. Greeve, merchant,
of Chilhowie, Va., certifies that
he had consumption, was given
up to die, sought all medical
treatment that money could pro
cure, tried all cough remedies he
could hear of, but got no relief ;
spent many nights sitting up in
a chair.; was induced to try Dr.
King's New Discovery, and was
cured by the use of two bottles.
For the past three years has been
attending to business, and sa-s
Dr. King's New Discoverv is
the grandest remedy ever made,
as it has done so much for him
and also for others in his com
munity. Dr. King's New Dis
covery is guaranteed for Coughs,
Colds and "Consumption. It'
don't fail. Trial bottles free at
N. B. Hood's Drug Store, Dunn,
N. C.
I BBS HHHBB
Riches at Both Poles-
Thirty years ago" diamonds
were discovered in South Africa.
More than $500,000,000 worth
have been found there. Some
thinglike $22,000,000 worth an
nually are being dug but there
now. '"
Though the! diameter of the
earth separates them,, though
one lie' toward the South pole
and the other toward the North
pole, and well nigh a genera
tion of time divides their dis
covery, yet, in more than one
phase, is there Rimilarity be
tween the early history of the
Kimberly diamond fields and
the Klondike gold fields.
In each case the aborigines
knew of the existence of the
precious substances long before
the news reached civilization ;
in both nrst discoveries were
mada. along water courses arid
natives rendered help in the de-
veloppients of the two regions ;
both were barren sections and
remote from the haunts of civi
lized man. The early miners in
Africa and Alaska experienced
terrible; hardships .
One evening of March, 1867,
Johii O'Reilly, tired with a
day's hunting for game on the
other side of the Vaal river, sat
resting in the farm house of
Schalk van Neikerk: His at
tention was attracted by a shin-
5 stone among a lot with
which, the children were play
ing onrthe table, and which they
lad picked up along the rivei;.
It was given to him. . He sent
it to Grahamstowh. There it
was pronounced to be a diamond
weighing twenty-one and one-
fourth carats, and was bought
or $2,500. Thus were the South
African diamond fields discov
ered. , .
For two years after this no
diamonds of : any account were
bund, and people began to
think the African stories were a
fake, when a Hottentot shep-
lerd in 18G9 brought a diamond
to Mr. Grer's store and wanted
for it $1,000 in goods. The
clerk being alone did not want
to take the responsibility of
making the trade. The. Hot
tentot passed on to Neikerk's.
Here he wanted $2,000 for it.
Finally Neikerk traded him live
stock which he estimated at that
figure.: Soon afterward Neikerk
sold the diamond for $50,000.
It weighed 83i karats, and in
less than a year brought $125,-
000. It was the famous "Star
of South Africa" diamond, and
now belongs to the' Countess of
Dudley's collection of jewels.
During July of 1870 three
young fellows, returning from
an unsuccessful prospecting trip,"
sought the shades of a few
bushes on a little knoll. Rest
ing there, they found accidently
among the gravel and sand dia
monds. This is the identical
site of the .Kimberly Mines. In
formation on the lucky finds
spread and instantly attracted
great throngs. In 1872 "there
were more than ten thousj
and men who hkd an interest in
some part of these four mines.
By 18G5 an amalgamation pro
cess had reduced these to ninety
eight separate companies. The
De Beer's Mining Company,
which controls them now. was
founded in April 1, 1880, with a
capital of $1,000,000. Five years
afterward its capital was $4,
200,000. In 1887 its long strug
gle ended, for 'its object was at
tained, viz : a controlling inter
est in all the mines. The next
year its capitol was $11,000,000
and its dividends 25 per cent. It
then took the name of the De
Beers Consolidated Mines, Lim
ited. Its last statement, 189G,
said tliet the first and present
life governors were : Hon. Cecil
John Rhodes, M. A. L. ; Barney
1. Barnato, M. A. L. ; E. S. P.
Stowe and Alfred Belt. Cincin
nati Times-Star.
Hiieklen'M Arnica Salve.
The best Salve in the world
for cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers,
salt rheum, fever sores, tetter,
chapped hands, chilblains,
corns, and all skin eruptions,
and positively cures piles, or
no pay required. It is guaran
teed to give perfect satisfaction
or money refunded. Price 25
cents per box. For sale by N.
B. Hood, druggist.
Advertise in The Union.
Tetter. Salt-Rheum and Eczema.
The intense itching and smarting:, inci
dent to these diseases, is instantly allayed
by applying Chamberlain's Eye and
Skin Ointment. Many very bad cases
have been permanently cured by it. It
is equally efficient for itching piles and
a favorite remedy for sore nipples,
chapped hands, chilblains, frost bites
and chronic sore eyes. 25 cts. per box.
Dr. Cadj'g Condition Powders, are
just what a horse needs when in bad
condition. Tonic, blood purifier and
vermifuge. They are not . food but
medicine and the best in use to put a
horse in prime condition. Price 25
cents per package.
For sale by N. B. Hood, Drug
gist, Dunn, N. C.
Lightship Instead of Liehthpuse
at Hatteras. .
''The Lighthouse Board has
sent out a notice that the dan
gerous Diamond Shoal off Cape
Hatteras will soon be marked
by a first class vessel, bearing
two powerful electric masthead
lights and a fog siren that will
blow a blast audible twelve
miles in the heaviest weather.
Certain members of the board.
however, think the placing a
vessel there is hazardous in the
extreme, and will place in jeop
ardy the lives of every man on
board o( her. Captain Evans
believes that a bis lighthouse.
should be constructed on the
shoal, and sa7s : .''There is no
chain that can be forged that
will hold Io. 69 on Diamond
Shoal for any length of time.
There is a current at Diamond
Shoal which sends the sands
shifting around at a terrific rate
and in a short time Will cut
any chain, or weaken it so that
the first heavy gale will cause
it to part. When that happens
the Diamond Shoal lightship
will almost certainly drift
ashore and the sixteen men on
her will be lost. I have seen a
buoy chain on that shoal worn
as bright as nickel, and so thi n
that you could part it with a
slight blow. In my opinion,
this experiment of the govern
ment will prove costly." Con-
gress iaiied. to provide tne
amount of monev required for
the lighthouse, and a majority
of the board, therefore, decided
to try a lightship. The new
vessel will be the most power
ful ever built for the service.
She will , be anchored in thirty
fathoms of water, about fifteen
miles from the present Hatteras
light, and inside of the ledge
over which the water deepens
to 100 fathoms. She will dis
play simultaneously, from three
lens lanterns encircling each
masthead, a fixed white light
for twelve seconds' duration,
followed by an eclipse of twelve
seconds. In each lantern there
will be a hundred candle power
incadescent light. . These lights
will be fifty-seven feet above
the water, and on a clear night
should be visible thirteen miles.
Provision has been made in case
the electric apparatus breaks so
that white fixed lights without
eclipse will burn. No. G9 has
a flush deck, two masts, a smoke
pipe, and fog signal between
masts. Her hull will be paint
ed red with the words "Dia
mond Shoal" in large white
letters on each side. During
thick or foggy weather a 12 inch
steam chime whistle will sound
blasts of five seconds' duration
separated by silent intervals of
forty-five seconds. If G9 weath
ers the gale this winter, the
Lighthouse Board will be satis
fied that the experiment is a
success. Scientific American.
An Armless Editor
One is accustomed to armless
wonders in side shows, but it
must be admitted that an arm
less man who writes editorials
is something of a novelty. Such
a one exists" in the person of
Aaron Smith, editor and pro
prietor of the Mount Pleasant
(TexasV Times-Review. Mr.
Smith in writing holds the pen
in his teeth, working at an or
dinary desk. He alscr writes
with his toes, either with pen
or on the typewriter. By hold
ing a lead pencil in his teeth
and striking tle typewriter keys
witlidt he is enabled to write at
a fair rate of speed. Mr. Smith
has been so long accustomed to
writing in these unusual ways
that he wonders that people
think it marvelous.
A Man Remembers.
BT LOCI8 CHANDLER MOCLTOJ.
1 think of all that bygone time
That nuniiner by The pea
Whre once weth'art, if ne'er again
You loved no love but me.
I minl me.how the tide roM? high.
An in your eyes the lijfht.
And how they ebted as yoa and I
Sat In the Mummer night.
And watched the white klff3 put to.sleep,
1 And watched the beacon light.
O'er cliff and scar and near and far
Beam softly through the night.
I mind me how the stars arose, '
We called each star a hop
You atched them aud I watched them, dear.
While scarce a word we 8oke.
Heart answered heart, hand soaght for hand
Alas fhat there should be
A time when heart and hand, my dear
Both fell away from me.
The happy waves will break next year.
The moon will flood the sea.
Another by yor side wll sit.
As then you sat with me.
But I, far off, shall watch the stars.
And think uion the sea.
And dreams so blest as ours
Was but a dream forme.
"Be ftappy, sweetest heart of mine.
Through tears that make your dearyes dim
I would trot yon should iraze
Back to tnose pleasant ways.
The waves are Just as blue, my dear, ,
And he who sits beside you now '
The sky is just as bright.
Is yours by Love s own rlgnt.
But still bethink yon, sweetest heart,
Than I, who pray '-God bless you love !"
He cannot be more true
since so may Uod bless yoa:
CASTOR I A
For Infants and Children.
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Of
"The Forgotten Man."
Chapel Hill, N. C, Oct.G -Dr.
Kemp P. Battle's lecture
last week brought to light a
man of extraordinary promise,
who ten a victim to consurapT
tion at the age of 33, Charles
Wilson Harris, cousin of Win.
Shakespeare HarrisN, an eminent
citizen of Cabarrus countv.
Prof Harris graduated at Prince
ton with highest honors, speak
ing the mathematical oration in
1792, the year after Dr. Joseph
Caldwell, obtained his degree.
He entered the University of
North Carolina as tutor of math
ematics in the spring of 1705,
and was promoted in the fall to
full pro feasor. The next year
he was made presiding profes
sor, or principal. The follow
ing year he resigned, greatly to
the regret of the trustees, and
studied law, at Halifax, in the
office of General Davie. When
Davie was sent as one of the
Ministers Plenipotentiary to
avert a war with France he
turned over his practice to Har
ris. Such was the ability
showed by him that in four"
years he was pressed by Davie
and other leading rederalists to
allow his name to go before the
General Assembly for a judge
ship in place of Samuel John
ston, resigned. He declined
because of feeble health. The
same year he was chosen a trus
tee of the University. He then
visited the West Indies in the
hope of -warding off consump
tion, but failing, returned to
Greensboro, in Anson county,
where he died in January 1.
1804, at the home of his broth
er, Robert W. Harris, a mer
chant of that place, named by n
brother of Maria Edgeworth in
honor of his step-mother, Hono-
ra Sneyd, once the sweet-heart,
if not the fiance of Major An-
dree.
Charles W. Harris was a man
of rare ability, remarkably well
read and. a polished gentleman.
If ho had not left the Universi
ty he would have certainly been
its first president instead of
Caldwell. '
Dr. Battle gave many
glimpses into the early history
of the University, and the man
ners and history of one hun
dred years ago.
ftnmellilMg to Kaoir.
It may be worth something to
know that the very' best medi
cine for restoring the tired out
nervous system to a healthy vi-
gor is Electric Bitters. This medi-
cine is purely vegetable, acts by
giving tone to the nerve centres
in the stomach, gently stimu-
lates the Liver and Kidneys, and
aids these organs in throwing off
impurities of the blood. Electric
Bitters improves the appetite,
aidsdigestion,and is pronounced
by those who have, tried it as
the very best blood purifier and
nerve tonje. Try it. Sold for
oOc. or $1.00 per bottle' at N. B.
Hood's Drug Store.
fills Medal Medlcina
!' Is th3 Model Medicine.!
1 The only medal awarded to '
! aarsaparilla at the World Fair, ;
Jo 1893, at Chicago, was awarded to !
If Ayer's ji
I Sarsaparilla. 1;
The Coming Sea Power-
During the past two years the
little island kingdom of Japan
has come to the front with as
tonishing rapidity.
In the current number of Tho
North American Review Mr.
Charles, II . Camp discusses at
some length" the extraordinary
growth of the Japanese empire,
and speaks of it as "the coming
sea-power. whether or not
the writer intends by this -phrase .
to challenge the future naval
supremacy of Great Britain does
not fully appear from the arti
cle, but the phase itself would
seem to indicate it. Mr. Camp
states that since the late war
with China Japan has added
five powerful war vessels to her
lleet, giving her at the present
time forty-eight war vessels ag
gregating 111,000 tojis displace
ment.
According to this same au
thority, Japan has barely com
menced upon her naval prepa
rations ; and, if she carries out
tho plans which she now has in
view, her naval lleet in 1903
will embrace sixty-seven war
vessels, heavily armored, and
eighty-seven torpedo boats, to
gether with numerous other
pieces, costing in. all something
over $90,000,000.
Evidently the little island
kingdom is bent upon controll
ing the waters of the Asiatic
Pacific and of adding to its pres
ent territory whatever posses
sions there may happen to bo
within its reach. Atlanta Con
stitution. . Women ana Life Insurance-
It is not so very many years
ago that certain lifo insurance
companies refused to issue poli
cies upon the lives of women.l
The difficulties in the way of a
satisfactory examination, tho
perils of maternity I ami tho
numerous nervous disorders to
which the sex is liable, wero
considered sufficient reasons to
put them on the prohibited list.
Experience has, however, de
monstrated that the views of
these companies were not based
upon facts. As a matter of fact,
whatever advantage there is in
the matter of longevity lies with
women, and not with men. In
1891 a census was taken in
London among twenty-one cen
tenarians, of whom sixteen
were women and five were men.
A group of the Southern coun
tries of England at the samo
census exhibited sixty-six cen
tenarians, of whom forty-three
were women and twenty-three
were men. A census of cente
narians taken in Franco in
189." showed 213 persons -who
had attained the age of one hun
dred, and of these 213, 14G were
women and only GO were men.
The United States census of
189G gave 3981 persons who had
reached one hundred years and
upward, and of these 2-r83 were
women and 1398 men. Women
are much less exposed to death
from the multitudinous acci
dents'incident to the pursuits of
men. They escape not only the
perils of hunting and rough out-of-door
sports that overtake
many men, but arc compara
tively exempt from the devastat
ing effects of the excessive me
of alcohol, which is the indirect,
if not the direct, cause of the
pari v.dpntli nf n. 1nrrp. nereent-
uge of ti,e otier gex. in atidi.
tionto a tl0 various causes of
death from which the more
sheltered lives of women pro
tect them, they are almost en
tirely free from business worries
and troubles, which bring iu
their train tho innumerable ner-
vous disorders that undermine
and destroy the constitutions of
so many city men. New. York
Ledger.
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