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In the Spring a young man's
fancv lightly turns to thoughts
of love, hut 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
as delicate as the changing
color of a soap bubble.
We also have a beautiful line
of Duck Serges, Percales,
Welts, Sattens and Cashmeres
in all the Spring Shades.
It would he a pity if you
were to miss seeing our line of
Shirtwaist goods and lfcady
made shirts.
C.Co.
- We sell Warner's Corsets and ,
Hosiery, Muslins, Hamburgs,
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
house-keepers whose thoughts
are turning to house cleaning.
We have not forgotten you.
We have just received a com
plete line of Mattings, Rugs,
Floor-Oil Cloth, Curtain Poles,
Screen Curtains &c. Linen
Window Shades at 25 cents.
Everybody knows that we
are headquarters for "Coats'
Spool Cotton, Ball Thread,
Knitting Cotton, Turkey -lied,
Embroidery Cotton and wash
Silk in all shades.
We have added to our stock
a complete line 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 5 Meal.
We can sell you two large cakes
of soap for 5, and four Boxes
of Lye for 19. You want
these goods. We want 3011 to
have them.
PRICES :
Well, you know, or you
ought to know 1)3' this time
that there is never a question
of prices between us and our
customers. We sell so much
cheaper than any 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,
Manager.
Dry
Hoots Co.,
TsT.C.
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
lines you ever saw. And our
prices will so surprise you that
it will he 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 yoit
most the prices are cut down to
the very core. We advise you
to look at our stock before buy
ing. we advise you also to in
spect our line of SHIRTS for
it is so great, as regards variety,
value and quantities. Our
prices are so low that it will
only take a glance to see what
opportunities we are offering.
Nice Percale Shirts for 33i
cents. How does that strike
you?
(dollars and guffs.
An entirely new line of Col
lars and Cutis, we place before
our friends. The styles include
the very latest produced. A
more up-to-date line will he
hard to find. Prices of course
have received their usual "riz
up" so that they are hardly
noticeable.
THE LUSOEFi 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 well and strong as it is pos
sible to make them and no one
can offer 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
speak is the W. L. Douglass,
sold by no other firm in town.
Jcclnccar !
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 thing
of beauty and a joy forever.
With best wishes, we are,
Yours truly,
G. K. MASSENGILL,
Manager Gent's Furnishing
Department.
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Prove all
Odd Pension Office Letters.
Picturesque Accounts of Woes
on Which Applications
Are Based.
Washington, May 3. "We
probably tile more queer letters
in our department," said aTen
sion Office clerk, "than are re
ceived in any other branch of
the government service, hardly
excepting the Postoffice. Some
of them are intensely amusing,
too. I have concluded that im
igration is not bound down by
illiteracy, either, because some
of the most ignorantly written
letters display inventive genius
and cover the whole range of
fact, fiction and an Ananias
like propensity for lying. Men
write to have their pensions in
creased. Neighbors write to
help along the cause of .a man
seeking a pension. Wives
write to tell the Commissioner
why they ought to get pensions.
Family troubles are aired for
the benefit of the office. Some
times the letters are so odd that
I have waived red tape long
enough to make copies of some
of them. For instance, this is
one from a man asking for a
pension, after all these years :
"The way I got my war in
gery was a-ketching of a hog.
The hog wor a sow hog and our
Captain wanted her for forage.
We was chasin the sow and she
crawled threw a hoal in a rale
fence it war a big hoal and I
thot I were about the sis of the
hog and tried to crawl threw.
I stuck and tryin to wigle out
I throde the rales off and one
hit me on my hed and nocked
me senseless. I do not think
the sow had nothing to do with
my line for duty fer I did not
ketch the hog. , Wish she never
war caught."
A neighbor tried to do., a pen
sion seeker a good turn in the
following effusion :
"I varily believe that Orville
Jameson is fatigued from earn
ing his leavin becos he is too
fatt ways 200 pounds and have
a family 10 fead the nabors
think he hav dropsy but 1 no
he hav no dropsy becos he would
bust if he had inoar insides him
than he now have besides wich
he are without vitious habits or
references. I no he hav solid
fatt and vittels in him an no
dropsy."
"A New England 'farmer,
who seems perfectly certain in
his own mind that a pension
will be forthcoming just be
cause he asks for it, writes to
the Commissioner in a spirit of
vindictiveness against his wife,
which seems a little excusable
after you read his letter :
" 'I got blood pison by beinge
hit with a hens eg which was
ndt good when you send ray
pensen 1 want tne jjeeci maae
sos my wiie can t get none on
it she throde the eg.'
"A Pennsylvania pensioner
waives his demand for an in
crease of pension on considera
tion of being otherwise provided
for, and writes direct to the
Secretary of the Interior to this
qffect :
"'Now i want you or the
corriesenir of pensens to give me
a plais .in your offits then i
won't ask for no moar raze in
pensen jus now. i can clurk
o. k. buti can't laber, or i cud
boss the other clurks and maik
them stan roun an raze dewliei
entitel pensens keape them from
laofinge whesperiii in offes ours'
in fack akt as janeter or supper- j
viser' seeinge all thing goan
rite.'
"A widow, feeling herself en
titled to a large pension, writes
detailed statement of her hus
band's sufferings and death.
Among otlier things she says ;
" My husband was terribel
bloated. It didn't look like
hissel. He couldn't stoop over
and straiten up without help
ing hissel. To ham, beans,
pork, mashed potatoes, eggs,
veal, cabbage, his stummach
was repulsive. His rumatism
was the kind called lumbago
at furst. His dropsy was ter
ribel. "P. S. When my husband
came back from the war I sup
ported him on my needle tell
he died.'"
"A man from Delaware did
not think that thb doctor's cer
. m ' : X
things; hoid fast that which
ouimim, rsi. c ; wirt
tificate he sent would have suf
ficient influence, so he supple
raented it by stating that : 'I
fust got to be a total wreck
from liver and kidnevs then I
was . totully ; wrecked by con
sumption wich came on me.
Now I am totully wrecked by?
army trubbles, sprains and hard
marching.
"Sometimes, like Silas Wegg,
they drop into' poetry, or at
least they threaten to do so. A
Massachusetts applicant in
forms the Commissioner as fol
lows :
"'I am a grandson of the
revelision a son of the war 1812
I will rite you a peace of portry
I made on myself and ancerter :
My mem rays carrys me back to
the day when I was stout Al
ways able to roll myself about,
but when I undertake it I feel
the kean pane over Take me,
it make me think of thirty
three year ago it was the Ene
ma thirsty bullet thatpearst me
threw the leg it has made me
wish that I was dead. I have
always been to proud to beg.
it has made me dred when I had
to walk upon my Leg. . It has
gave me sucn a pane, it lias
made me so lame that I have
wisht that I was dead then ser
ten men wrould says, heare
sleepes a herow he suffered
thirty-three years fore his coun
try know wonder we can . weep
not only that he was a granson
of the revelision that hope make
the constetushun not only that
he was a son of the war of 1812
that never did rebell the caus
of it I never could tell."
"An old fellow from the
West who hacf been put off the
rolls because of palpable fraud
in securing his pension couldn't
stand being outside the breast
works, and so sent this short
communication ttT the Commis
sioner :
" 'I poot in application too
bee re in Stated being bline in
1 i dog Gon it. t
"Oh, yes," said the clerk, as
he put away his copies, "if you
go into the Pension Office with
a snse of humor you re apt to
find plenty of matter upon
which to feed it while you are
filing away the letters." Ral
eigh Post. ' :
A Narrow Escape
Thankful words written by
Mrs. Ada E. Hart, of Groton,
S. D. "Was taken with a bad
cold which settled on my lungs ;
cough set in and finally termi
nated in Consumption. Four
Doctors gave me up, saying I
could live put a short time. I
gave myself up to ray Savior,
determined I could not stay
with my friends on earth, I
would meet my absent ones
above. My husband was ad
vised to get Dr. King's New
Discovery for Consumption,
Coughs and Colds. I gave it a
trial, took in all eight bottlesC
It has cured me, and thank
God, I am saved and now a well
and. healthy woman." Trial
bottles free at McKay Bros. &
Skinner's Drug Store. Regu
lar size 50c. and $1.00. Guar
anteed or-price refunded.
Seeing Stars in Daytime.
The phenomenon of people
4 'seeing stars" in the daytime
is not at all an unusual one,
says the Westminster Gazette.
As a rule, however, the circum
stances under which these
heavenly bodies become visible
by dayli'
:it are not of the sort
which m
ke the sight of thera
But to see a rain-
desirable.
bow at midnight, and under
conditions which leave nothing
to be desired, is a much rarer
occurrence. It was witnessed a
few nights ago in Switzerland.
The moon was shining in a
brilliantly clear sky, and round
it spread a circle, in which all
the colors of the rainbow gleam
ed. And any loyal and litera
ry Switz?r witnessing the phe
nomenon might well be proud
of seeing in Teal life the "strange
and wondrous token" which,
so Schiller says, shone on the
night when Tell and his friends
swore the great oath on the
Rutli a thousand years ago. .
o
Beuit&e
Eign&tiro
of
Tha Kind Yoa Haie Always Baugfit
is good."
10, isoe.
Letter From A. B, Crumpler.
Dunn, N. C.
, May 4th, 1899.
Mr. J. P. Pitt man,
Dear Sir :
1 . . 1
1 want a ntue space in your
valuable paper that I may disa
buse the minds of some of the
good people of Cumberland and
TT . , .
narnett counties wno mav
think that T am in sympathy
with the Fire Convention that
recently assembled in Fayette-
and Dunn. I want the people
among whom I have labored
and to whom I have preached,
to Know mat 1 disclaim any
connection with the "Fire
Movement" or any sympathy
for it. I believe there are some
good people misled by it and
mixed up with it ; and against
them or any experience they
may have felt that has made
them more Christ-like and
more useful, I have not a word
to say, let thera call it what
they will. But from what I
have seen -'of the work and
spirit of the Fire Movement as
it was carried on in Fayette-
ville, Dunn and r elsewhere in
the State, I am convinced be
yond a doubt that the thing is
not of God. a
Anything that has the spirit
of our blessed Savior in it is
riot bitter ; but is long suffering
and kind. It envieth not,
vaunteth not itself, is not puffed
up, doth not behave itself un
seemly, seeketh not her own,
is not provoked, thinketh no
evil. But a thing or spirit that
spends its time and force in
denouncing everything and
everybody that does not feel as
it does or see as it does or who
can not subscribe to its narrow
views in toto is not of God.
Some of those fire-baptized
brethren made a wholesale de
nunciation of all preachers and
people who do not claim a spec
ial experience of fire after they
were - sanctified and who has
not seen fit to tear off their neck
tie and cut off their mustache.
I am frank to say that I believe
that spirit is born of the
rankest kind of fanaticism.
Paul tells us that the kingdom
of God is not meat and drink ;
but righteousness and peace
and joy in the Holy Ghost.
Now if there are any of my
friends who have received a
special baptism of fire after you
were sanctified (I got it like the
Apostles and Isaiah in order to
be sanctified) and not after I
was sanctified, Acts 2:1 2, Isa.
6 :G-7. I hope you got a suffi
cient quantity to keep you
sweet while you read these
lines and make you love me
and pray for me always.
A. B Crumpler.
Spain's Greatest Need
Mr. R. P. Olivia, of Barcelo
na, Spain, spends his winters
at Aiken, S. C. Weak nerves
had caused severe pains in the
back of his head. On using
Electric Bitters, America's
greatest Blood arid Nerve Rem
edy, all pain soon left him.
He says this grand medicine is
what his country needs. All
America knows that it cures
liver and kidney trouble, puri
fies the blood, tones up the
stomach, strengthens the nerves,
puts vim, vigor and new life
into every muscle, nerve and
organ of the body. If weak,
tired or ailing you need it.
Every bottle guaranteed, only
50 cents. Sold by McKay
Bros. & Skinner, Druggists.
Immortal Joys.
In this sin-stained earth there
is no permanent peace, no per
fect rest, no unalloyed happi
ness. All joys are ephemeral
here, but "up there" they are
immortal, and cheer us with
never fading raptures. Yes
indeed it is labor here, refresh
ment up there ; work below,
rest above ; fighting a warfare
here, reaping the victories
there ; wearing the cross and
its thorns for a time, and then
put on the crown of fadeless
flowers and wear it forever in
celestial bowers. And then
with loved ones gathered there,
we'll weave joy's garlands pure
and rare; for where the crystal
waters flow, no weeds of trial
ever grow. Rocky Mt. Motor.
Nash County Gold,
Rocky Mount, N. C, May 4.
A gold bar, weighing four
pounds, worth between $800
and $900, Nash county gold, is
on exibition at the Planters
Bank in this town this room
ing.
It is the product of a six-days
run of the Mann-Arnngton gold
mill, operated by Messrs. Camp
bell & Lyon, of Argo, Nash
county.
The bar is pure gold and its
value and the time required in
getting it out shows a yield of
$160 per day at a cost of about
$35 or $40.
The eastern Apalachian gold
belt is on the eve of a great
movement, and the eyes of the
world will soon be opened to the
wonderful richness of the East
Carolina mines. Some of the
best gold mines of the world
are to be found within twenty
five miles of Rock Mount, and
gold mining is expected to be
come a mammoth industry in
this section.
Within a week the Culpeper
mine has developed a new vein
eighteen inches in width, and
fine gold is visible in nearly
every piece of ore extracted.
These rich veins make the prop
erties a veritable mineral farm,
whose owners are Hon. B. H.
Bunn, W. A. Campbell and E.
W. Lyon.
Work is being rapidly push
ed and gold bricks will soon be
come an ordinary spectacle.
North Carolina will always be
at the head of the list. All she
needs is development. Corres
pondent to Raleigh Post.
Red Hot From The Gun
Was the ball that hit G. B.
Stedman of Newark, Mich., in
the .Civil War. It caused hor
rible Ulcers that no treatment
helped for 20 years. Then
Bucklen's Arnica Salve cured
him. Cures Cuts, Bruises,
Burns, Boils, Felons," Corns,
Skin Eruptions. Best Pile cure
on earth. 25 cts. a box. Cure
guaranteed. Sold by McKay
Brcs. & Skmuer, Druggists.
Paid $300 for Four Inches of
Rain.
Banker H. H. Pitcher, of
Livermore, Cal., wanted four
inches of rain. It would mean
the saving to him of thousands
of dollars in an agricultural
way. He jokingly mentioned
the matter to Mrs. A. L. Fuller,
an ardent worker in the Metho
dist church.
"Why don't you pray for it?"
she asked.
"Do you think it would do
any good?" inquired the bank
er. "Certainly," she said.
"If you will give me four
inches of rain I will pay the
debt of the Methodist church,"
said the banker.
Mrs. Fuller at once went home
and commenced to pray. She
told other members of the
church about the matter and
they prayed. The whole town
of 1,500 people became interest
ed. Two days later it com
menced to rain. Steadily down
it came one inch, two inches,
three, three and three-quarters !
At last, while the town held its
breath, the gauge filled up to
four inches and the crops of
Almeda county were saved.
Then Mrs. Fuller reminded
Banker Pitcher of his promise.
He was still inclined to treat
the matter as a joke, but he
toed the scratch manfully and
paid the church debt of $300.
Then came the complications.
Mr. Pitcher is a trustee of the
Presbyterian church of Liver
more, and the members thought
he ought to help his own church
insteaa 01 ,inc iueinouisi. do
he compromised the matter by
paying for extensive repairs on
the Presbyterian church proper
ty.
Opinion is divided as to
whether the rain came in an
swer to the prayers of Mrs Ful
ler et aL, but both the church
people and Banker Pitcher are
satisfied with the result. bt.
Louis Post-Dispatch.
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Tin Kind Y01 Kan Unyi Bxzht
CUMBERLAND,
JOHNSTQN,
SAMPSON
Large circulation
in each county.
No. 22.
Report on Cotton Belt,
New York, May 3. A valua
ble report on the condition of
affairs among farmers of the
great cotton, belt of the United
States and of the prospects for
the acreage and crop of cotton
for the coming season has been
prepared by Knott & Closson,
bankers and brokers, of Bur
lington, Vt. The material was
gathered by sending letters di
rect to farmers of nine cotton
growing States. It was intend
ed that the inquiries should
reach planters about the time
of planting, and this was ac
complished. The report com
piled from these letters says :
The average net price to
planters for this year's cottou
in the States of Texas, Georgia,
Arkansas and Louisiana was
4.50 cents; in Florida, Missis
sippi and the Carolinas, 4. GO to
to 4.70 cents ; in Alabama, 4?75,
and Mississippi and Missouri
4.80 to 4.90. The opinion was
universal that this crop had
been raised and marketed at a
loss to planters.
"Three great reasons have
operated to bring about a geu
oral reduction in this spring's
acreage.
"First, the unprecedented
lateness of the season and ex
cessive rains, the latter espec
ially true in Alabama and Geor
gia; second, the continued and
abnormally low price of raw
cotton ; and third, the complete
demoralization of planters' cred
it inhibiting the usual purchas
es of fertilizers. The reduction
of acreage has reached a total
of 17.2 per cent., and this, to
gether with the largo decrease
in the use of fertilizers and
many reports of poor quality of
seed, as well as hasty prepara
tion of land, is taken as indi
cating the folly of expecting a
third crop equaling - that of
1897-98.
Working Nieht and Day.
The busiest and mightiest
little thing that ever was made
is Dr. King's New Life Pills.
Every pill is a sugan-coated
globule of health, that changes
weakness into strength, listless
ness into energy, brain-fag iuto
mental- power. They're won
derful in building up the health.
Only 25c per box. Sold by
McKay Bros. & Skinner.
American Shoe Pegs in Austria.
It is a well-known fact that
the fashionable Austrian capi
tal, Vienna, is the seat of an
immense shoe industry. Most
of the wooden shoe pegs used
in this industry are imported
from the United States, and it
seems that this little American
article meets with extreme fa
vor in Austria. Thus, in 1897,
the shoe pegs imported from
the States amounted in value to
no less than $127,800, as com
pared with only $92,400 in
189G. American shoe machin
ery is also, finding increased
sales in Austria. In 1897 the
exports of Austrian shoes were
valued at $4,720,000. During
the same year the exports of
boots and shoes from the United
States amounted to only $1,708,-
000, and in 1898 to $1,81G,000.
These figures show the magni
tude of the Austrian shoe indus
try, Ex.
G3rmany's New Canals.
The German Government is
now at work on what is known
as the Midland Canal, which is
to run east and west, cutting
throueh the territory between
the Elbe and Rhine, permitting
not only the direct passage of
shins from one to the other
without unloading, but also al
lowing the Rhine boats to carry
cargoes gathered in the harbors
of the North Sea to places far
inland. The canal will also
connect with other canal sys
tems penetrating to the Oder
and Vistula, so that all parts of.
the country may be reached by
water direct from the North
Sea. Side canals are to run to
Osnabruck, Hildersheim, Peine,
Brunswick, Madgeburg and
perhaps to Nienburg. The
cost of the work is estimated at
$38,55G,000. Ex.