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7- T' AVKKAGB CIRCULATION uaiinett, cumberland, Johnston, SAMPSON Large circulation in each county. 1,000. o- -o i?lace your "ad" with us -and seethe result". r -.jfl A : ------ - - "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." Vol. 9. OUIMIM, IT. O IVIAV 3, 1899.- No. 21. Dunn, o Two BIq In 'the Spring a young man's f:mev lightly turns to thoughts of love, but a young woman's fancy- seriously . turns to thoughts of SPRING DRESSES, for the young woman knows well that . the young man's thoughts of love will turn quick er towards her if she is diked out in a dainty UP-TO-DATE NEW DRESS. We have the stuffs that are as thin as rainbow vapor and its delicate as the changing color bf a soap bubble. We also have a beautiful line of Duck Serges, Percales, Welts, Sattens and- Cashmeres in all the Spring Shades. It would be a pity if you were to miss seeing our line of Shirtwaist goods and ready made shirts. F.C.Co. We sell Warner's Corsets and a nice line of Gauze Vests, llnciovr Murine TTii.m hn vers ! Laces, Belts, Umbrellas &c. You ought to see the latest in Ladies' Slippers they are out of sight. Now just a word to the Lady ho use-keepers whose thoughts are e turning to house cleaning. have not forgotten you. We have just received a com plete line of Mattings. Rugs, Floor Oil Cloth, Curtain Poles, Screen Curtains etc. Linen ' Window Shades at 25 cents. Every bod' knows that we are headquarters for "Coats' Spool Cotton, Ball Thread, Knitting Cotton, Turkey Red, Embroidery Cotton and wash Silk in all shades. We have added to our stock a completeiine of GROCERIES, Crockery, Glassware, all kinds 'of Snuff, and the cheapest line of. Tobacco in the city. .We make a specialty of country Lard, and water-ground Meal. We can sell you two large cakes of soap for of',' and four Boxes of Lye for '19?'. You want these goods. We want you to have them, PRICES: " - A L c Well, you know, or you ought to know by this time that there is never a question of prices between usl and our customers. We sell so much cheaper than airy other house that it gets positively tiresome to talk about it. Come to see us and we'll do you good. Very truly, P. T. MASSENGILL, i Manager. p nfifln VMM JSJ . O. 0 Stores In the other store we carry the most complete line of Gents' j Furnishing Goods, Trunks and Valises ever shown in the town, all the goods are bran new and most UP-TO-DATE T lines you ever saw. And our prices will so surprise you ;that it will be impossible for you to resist them, even if you wanted to. We would like to call your special attention to our line of Summer Clothing which is the most complete line ever shown in Dunn of course, and what, interests you most the prices are cut down-to the very core. We advise you to look at our stock before buy- ,we advise you also to m- ! snect our line of SHIRTS for it is so great, as regards variety, value and quantities. Our mice's are so lo w th at it will only take a glance to see what opportunities we are offering. Nice Percale Shirts for 33i cents. How does that strike you? Collars and (fuTiV An' entirely new. line of Col lars and Cuffs, we place before our friends. The styles include the very latest produced. A more -up-to-date line will be hard to find. Prices of course have received their usual "riz up" so that they are hardly noticeable. THE L&BOEIr IS WORTHY of the very best goods obtain able for his money. That is the reason we are selling our line of Overalls- and Pants at such reduced prices. Our bet ter grades of overalls are made as x-ell and strong as it is pos sible to make them and no one can otter any more. Our line of Men's Fine Shoes are' absolutely -the best in the world. No one can contradict this statement and tell the truth. The Shoes of which we sneak is the W. L. Douglass, Ustld by no other firm in town. Neckwear ! JSJecIueear I Last but not least is our line of Spring and Summer Neck wear. Boys, you ought to see it, for we tell you it is a tiling of beauty and a joy forever. With best wishes, we are, Yours truly, G. K. MASSENGILL, Manager Gent's Furnishing Department. Earnings of The Mint., In M'H-infT TrriTT cf lir TTco . , . ot uttiers Uncle bam Lirows -Liimry. It is supposed generally that the United States Mint and the Government assay offices and refineries are maintained for the public convenience and that the Mint, like other branches or departments of the extensive Treasury service, is run pro bono publico, the Government making up by appropriations the shortage of each year. The recent public report of the Di rector of the Mint shows that Uncle Sam has a thrifty inter est in the operations of the Mint and its branches and makes a tidy profit from their operations each year. Last year the gross earnings of the mints and assay offices of the country there are -mints' in Philadelphia, San Francisco, Carson City and New; Orleans, assay offices at Denver, Boise City, Helena, Charlotte, St. Louis, Deadwood and New York were $4,495,000, of which $173,014 was for parting and refining bullion. $10,046 for copper alloy, and $15,321 melting, assaying and stamping charges. The seigniorage on the coinage of silver was $3,- 073,958, on subsidiary silver linage $280,311, on minor coinage $1,031,000 and on the recoinage of minor coins $18,- 383. The value of the deposit in melting room grains and "sweeps" removed was$8,72G; the value of the surplus bullion returned was $53,024, and the gain on bullion shipped by the minor assay offices to the Mint for coinage there was $S,675. The expenditures of the Mint service, including wastage, loss onsale of sweeps, and expense of distributing minor coins, was $1,263,133: The net earnings for he year were $3,433,664. Some of the items of expense (the chief of which is, of course, salaries and wages) illustrate the curiously complicated work of minting, which requires not only knowledge of chemistry and and metallurgy7, but con siderable exactness in the use of materials and in the adapta tion of dies and designs. For acids used in the mints: and as say offices $27,400 was expend ed by the Government last year ; for chemicals, $4,700 ; for wood, $6,675; for copper, " $9,600 ; for firebrick, $1,300, and for zinc, $2,766. For gloves and gauntlets required by the mint workers $8,100 was jneeded ; for gas, an aid to metallurgy, $14,700 ; for charcoal, $3,740 ; for oil, $1,100; for hardware $1,400, and for crucibles and mechanical appliances, $5,400. Varied as these items are, they do not exhaust the num ber of things required in the Mint, for $2,000 was ejxpended. in lumber, $1,400 in i;ce, $500 for salt used in the refineries, and a small charge for flags needed as designs.. Apkrt from gas, the fuel needed for mint and assay offices was of three kinds charcoal at an J expense of $3,700, coke. at an expense of $17,000. One item, which to the uninitiated seems large, is the item of sewing, ! $3,425. This sewing is required for the bags containing the metal or coins, in addition to $563 for barrels and $350 for bullion boxes. Uncle Sam in his liberality made no appropriation;for soap, it would appear, but the ex pense of laundering the tow els (presumably "it was given out") was $3,000 antl $2,200 addition was paid for water. The item of wastage, jko-called, arising from work at the Mint, and which is not a large one when compared with the enor mous operations of the Mint, was $16,000, and some other minor items brought up the Government's whole expense in the year to $1,250,000 or about 25 per cent of the total receipts, the profit being represented by the other 75 percent. Ex. A strike of laborers for $1.50 aday at the Union car W orks, Depew, N. Y., has tied up the plant and thrown 1,500 men x , out of work. Anniversary Days. Apru, witii its nattie or Jex- i ife otfov ter, its Appomattox and its death of Lincoln, has ever been a month of anniversary days near to the American heart. With Lexington, April 19, 1898 wheii congress passed the Cu ban resolution, and so, practi cally, declared war on Spain, since the President was called upon to use the land and naval forces of the United States to compel Spain to relinquish its sovereignty over, and withdraw from, the island of Cuba, whicji Congress declared, "ought to be free and independent." This date is the beginning, therefore of a new era for the United States, and as such it assumes an importance over and above the incidents of the day itself. On this anniversary the United States finds itself with the war thus begun long over with peace secured and ratified by treaty, and normal relations about to be renewed, with the erring nation tnat preferred force to a peaceful settlement of the rights of Cuba. Appealing to the arbitrament of the sword. Spain found that fate had weighed the scale, and to-day she is physically, and in many other characteristics, but little in advance of the Spain of 1492 just before the New World swam into the ken of the Genoese, and the petty kingdoms of Cas tile and Leon became a world power. Instead of standing for the civilization of Europe as against the civilization of the East. Spain to-day, as com pared with Europe and the United States, is more Oriental and barbaric than were the Moors she fought in 1492, com pared with the Gothic civiliza tion which finally prevailed on the heights of Grenada. This year passed finds the United States,- through the en evitable logic of events, heir to Spain's Colonies, after centuries of cruel and childlike manage ment. This, by the essential nature of things, has not tended to make our task, however hu manitarian, however wisely set out, a light one ; nor one easily, simply or quickly solved. We have met with actual physical opposition, and may expect per sistent intrigue, a legacy of Spanish rule ; that the end is no more in doubt than was the out come of the war concluded last August. The first anniversary of the Spanish-American war Can-, therefore, call for nothing but the most joyous national memories. Its auguries are favorable, and the deeps call to the deep from the East and from the West in acknowledg ing the puissance of the Ameri can name.- Philadelphia Press. A Very Long Beard Samuel Hamaker of Man heim, Lancaster County, Pa., is the champion long-bearded man. A perfect cataract of hair bursts from his broad, good-natured face and falls some inches below his knees. Forty-four inches is the exact measurement of this monster beard, and it is still growing. If politics hadn't got mixed up with Mr. Hamaker' s whiskers he would now be sporting a beard that would rival the beards of all comers. It wras in 1879 that Mr. Hamaker first gave up the use of a razor. In five years he had a beard that measured thirty-eight inches. It was the apple of his eye, but so strong was his faith in James G. Blaine that when the latter ran for the Presidency in 1884, Mr. Hamaker backed him with his beard. In event of Blaine's defeat the beard was to be sha ven off. There is no need to rehearse the tragedy. Off came the beard. Mr. Hamaker still sadly shows the huge roll of severed hair. At once Mr. Hamaker began the cultivation of the present crop. While at work in his factory he wears his beard carefully tucked away in his waistcoat, but when mingled with friends proudly flings it to the breeze. i Philadelphia Record. Beantte Signature i The Kind Yea Hare Always Bought Teacher's Assembly. To Teachers, School Officers, and Friends of Education : 7TI11S is to call your special attention to the sixteenth an nual session of the North Car olina Teachers' Assembly to be held at Morehead City, N. C, June 13th to 18th, 1899. ine oniy meeting nem m North Carolina this year that brings the entire educational oody 01 tne btate togetlier is this Assembly, and this letter is sent to impress upon your mind the necessity and value of attending. Every teacher, school officer, and friend of ed ucation, who can possibly do so should be present.' Every phase of school work and school administration will be repre sented in the work of the As sembly, and full and free dis cussions will be a distinctive feature this year. The practi cal good that is possible from such a gathering can not be overestimated. As long ago as 1859, Dr. Cal vin H, Wiley, one of our wisest educators, then State Superin tendent of Public Instruction, urged all teachers and school officials to join in one great yearly meeting. The time -seems ripe for a forward move ment, and increased interest in our annual gathering. Railroad rates have been re duced to one-half and even less, and board can be secured for one dollar per day, or less and I urge the importance of your attending this year. Do so for the sake of the great cause of education which is entrusted to your care in Norih Carolina. Fromjhe Secretary (W. T. Whitsett, Whitsett, N. C.) full programmes and further infor mation can be obtained at any time. May this meeting mark the beginning of a brighter educa tional day for the State. Yours very trulj'-, C. II. Mebani5, State Supt. of Public Instruc tion. Two-Foot Apple Tree. Cultivation of dwarf apple tree is one of the floricultural fads of the moment, and tjhe sight of a bush-like growth bear ing a couple of quarts of apples never fails to excite wonder and attention. - They are known as the Bismarck, and form the most unique pot plants imagin able. The apples are out of all proportion to the size of tlie tree. Two winters ago a small tree, only 12 inches in height, was imported from France, j It soon became established in its pot in the window garden and bore a fine large apple the fol lowing summer. And wlien these little trees are two or three years of age though still very dwarf and compact in growth they will bear a number of the large red apples, although only about two feet high. Ever since its introduction into this country the Bismarck apple has created a sensation at the sea son of fruiting, and even now, at its blossoming time, it is one of the attractions of the window plants. Philadelphia Recorjd. Beware of Falsehoods. Let the true white men of North Carolina bear in mind that the opposition to the pro posed suffrage amendment pro ceeds chiefly from those dema gogues whose only hope of of fice is by the aid of the solid negro vote. They know full well that without the votes of ignorant negroes they will nev er hold office again. It s a sort of life-and-death struggle with them, and in their frantic efforts they will not hesitate to circulate all kinds of falsehoods. But, despite their falsehoods and selfish opposition, the irue white men of North Carolina are determined that .white su premacy shall forever be se cured by the adoption of the proposed amendment. Chat ham Record. Beantha Elgn&tuxo cf 4 ) The Kind Yoa Hate Wwars Bauent A Soldier's Thoughts. I am not complaining, Mother, but the truth I am going to tell. I wish I had obeyed rou and little sister Nell, And had not joined the army for Uncle Siim to fi;jht Although he had sufficient cause for for what was ju.it and right, Do you remember the day I bid you all good-by, x. And Lot a tear was. there within mv hopeful eye t My thoughts were all of glory; no hard ships could I see, For I supposed, when I came back, a hero I would be. I had a good position, was making mon? ey, too: I left it all, and came to join the boys in blue. From duty I will not shrink, but by my fate abide, Yet often doi I think of that dear old fireside. Only a few years since I was but a child. My heart leaped forth to hear of strug gles tierce and wild. 4 Now I find it more pleasant as a child to sit and think, Than to be a real soldier and from the bottle drink. We didu't join the army for the work or for the play, But we came to stop brutality and give the world fair play. We left our homes and loved ones, all for the Country's sake; For the people are the nation and their honor was at stake. Now friends, this I ask. when cood tilings you're partaking. Think about the Soldier 003-6 eating hard tack, beans and bacon, And if a prayer for us to heave:i vou should send, Ask about the muster out belore you say amen. Bought w it is the best, but sometimes rather dear; However, if I live to get home I won't regret I am here. And in the future when Uncle Sam gets in a bout, He can't depend on me to help to get him out. By J. P. Reaves, Co. "K", 1st. N. C. V. I., Camp Homeward, Savannah, Ga. Remarkable Rescu8. Mrs. Michael Curtain,' 111., makes the statement, that she caught cold, which settled on ler lungs ; she was treated for 1 month by her family physi cian, but grew worse. He told ler she was a hopeless victim of consumption and that no medicine could cure her. Her druggist suggested Di King's New Discovery for Consump tion ; she bought a bottle and to her delight found herself benefitted from first dose. She continued its use and after tak ing six bottles, found herself sound and well ; now does her own housework, and is as well as she ever was. -Free trial bottles of this Great . Discovery at McKay Bros. & Skinner's drug store, large bottles 50 cents and $1.00. Siam 's Development and Prog r2ss. Of all Asiatic countries, with the exception of Japan, Siam has made the greatest progress in every respect. Electric cars are running at the capital, Bangkok ; steamships are being built in Siam ; railways are constructed, the many rice and sawmills increase their capacity year by year, and the prospects for a further development of the country are very favorable. In 189G there were no less than 1G5 well-conducted post offices in Siam, and the length of the telegraph system rose to 2170 miles in 1807. In 1807 the ex ports of rice from Siam amount ed in value to $13,000,000 (gold), and those of teakwood to $2,500,000. Bangkok, the Siamese capital, with its 800, 000 inhabitants, is a fine city, and all improvements of modern life can be found there. Ex. Volcanic Eruptions Are grand, but Skin Erup tions rob life of joy. Bucklen's Arnica Salve, cured them, also Old. Running and Fever Sores, Ulceis, Boils, Felons, Corns, Warts, Cuts, Bruises, Burns, Scalds, Chapped Hands, Chil blains. Best Pile cure on earth. Drives out Pains and Aches. Onlv 25 cents a box. Cure guaranteed. Sold by McKay Bros. & Skinner, Druggists. Ten Things a Baby Can Do. A baby can beat any alarm clock ever invented for waking a family up in the morning. Give it a fair show, and it car smash more dishes than the most industrious servaut girl in the country. It can fall down oftener and with less provoca tion thairthe most expert tum bler in the circus ring. It can make more genuine fuss over a simple brass pin than its moth er would over a broken back. It can keep a family in constant turmoil from morning till night,' aud night till morning without once varying its tunes. It can be relied upon to sleep peace fully all day when its father is down town, and cry all night when he is particularly sleepy. It may be the naughtiest, dirti est, ugliest, most fretful baby in all the world, but' you can never make its mother believo it, and you had better not try it. It can be a charming and model infant when no one is around : but when visitors aro present it can exhibit more bad than both of its parents togeth- er. it can Dnehten up a nouso better than all the furnituro fever made, make sweeter music than the finest orchestra organ ized, fill a larger place in its parents breasts than they knew they had, when it goes away it can cause a greater vacancy and leave a greater blank than all the rest of tho world put to gether. Ex. Story of a Slave. To be bound hand and foot for years by the chains of dis ease is the worst form of slave ry. George D. Williams, of Manchester, Mich., tells how such a slave was made free. He says : "My wife has been so helpless for five years that she could not turn over in bed alone. After using two bottles of Electric Bitters, she is won derfully improved and able to do her own work."" This su preme remedy for female dis eases quickly cures nervousness, sleeplessness, melancholy, head ache, backache, fainting and dizzy spells. This miracle working medicine is a godsend to weak, sickly, run down peo ple. Every bottle guaranteed. Only 50 cents. Sold by McKay Bros. & Skinner, Druggists. Fashions in China It seems that there aro changes of fashion in tho dress of Chinese women, writes Lady Charlotte in the London Mail, but they are confined chiefly to the variation of length of tho tunic and thek wearing or leav ing off of a skirt. The usual garments are trousers, a skirt and two or three little coats. The Chinese woman making an afternoon visit takes off her skirt just in the way that an English lady would remove her cape. If it is very warm she may take off one or possibly two of the little coats. The trousers are really the most gorgeous part of tho cos tume, being sometimes of rose colored satin worked with gold. Blue cotton is generally used for every-day wear. Chinese women wear no cor sets, but they compre their waists for all that. They, have scarcely any width of hip, so they tie the waist cords of their garments to quite a painful de gree of tightness. Bismark's Iron Nsrve Was the result of his splendid health. Indomitable will and tremendous energy are not f-mnd where Stomach, Liver, Kidneys and Bowels are out of order. If you want these qual ities and the success they bring, use Dr. King's New Life Pills. They develop every power of brain and body. Only 25c at McKay Bros. & Skinner s dru store. The W. S. Stratton gold min ing properties of Cripple Creek, Colorado, has been sold to a London coruoration for $5,500, 000. It is stated that the glass trust has advanced th price of glass 20 per cent.
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