I jam * / 7 JM.. THE DEMOCRATIC BANNER. "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." II Vol. 11. DUfMIM, IM. C. APRIL lO 1901. No. 13 "sr lOWN DIRECTORY. I b C » D h^ HBB A Forbes Pastor I ..ight, and fourth Snn " doming an* -KM. vm«meet«g ■ e ,v Wednesday oigM. tri w f eve 7y Sunday morning at 10 o clock, (1. K. amntlmni superintendent Bnrtist Church.— Rev.. C. Barrett, pastor. _ second Sunday morulug and ■ Vra' eLeettng every Thursday utght eSay School every Sunday morulug, J. C. I eiiffoiil superintendent. Presbyterian Church.—Rev. R. - Hiues Presnyteri flrBt alld flfth Sunday pastor, W gs,„ school every Sunday Nomine. D. H. McLean, Superinten dent- Disciple Cbur«h-Rev. A. P. Leighton pas tod bWAW" «eJfing U eveo Tuesday uight every Sunday evenuuc »t 3 o'clock. P. T. Maasentfill supt. „ wu . Baptist Church.—Elder R. C. every first Sun day morning and night. ,es!ssks?^S LODGE Palmyra Lodge. No. in A. P. U. M. BaU OV er Free WUI Baptist church V. P. Jon« \» m •W. A- Jobiison, S. «., °- , w Jo- Johnson. Secretary. Regular j. w.» •• 3rd oiniDunications are held on the d a M and on tbe Ist rnuay day at 10 o clock A. h An Ma . »! 7:ro o'clock p. m. in eacn "* invited ions in good standing c^ dia t attend these communications. TOWS OFKICBRS j- A. Gates, Mayor. COJUUSSIONBB3 ' V L. Stephen., P. T.Masseugill, aP. 8 e.l j. k. Taylor. W. B. Duncan, Policeman. ' i ■ corruTT orrtews Sheriff, Silas A. Salmon. Clark. Dr. J. B. Withers. Register ot Deefis. A. 0. Hollo-way Treasurer. I. D. Matthews. Surveyor. D. P- MeDonild. Coroner. Pr. J. P. McKay County Examiner, Rev. J. 8. Black. Commissioner*: B. P. Young. Chairman N * Smith. T A Barrington. A. B. HAROI-D. M. F. HATCl»»xrv. Harold & Hatcher, —ATTORNEYS AT LAW,— DUNN, N. C. Practice wherever service re quired. Prompt attention to all business. Collections a specialty. Office over DEMO CRATIC BANNER. Edward W. Pou, F. H. 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, Attorneys-atLaw, DUNN, - - - N. C. Prr.eiue in all the courts of the State. Pitimpt attention to all business entrusted. Office In the old Post Office Building. D. H. NCLEAN. J. C. CLIFFORD McLean & Clifford, ■A.TTORAA.EYS-AT.XJA.-SS'-, DUNN, : : : : N, C. fgp Office over J. J. Wade's Store. W. A. STEWART. U. I- GODWIN STEWART & GODWIN, Attorneys and Counsellors-at-law, DUNN, N. C. Will practice In State and Federal Courts but not for fun. W- E- Mtirchlsoii, JONESBORO. N. C. Practices Law in Harnett, Moore and other counties, but not for^fun. Feb. 20-ly. fERCBANTS iHD FARMERS BANK, fill, I. t. CAPITAL STOCK $20,000. Every accommodation offered to the public. E. F. YOUNG, President. V. L. STEPHENS, Cashier. G. I. Smith. Alfred Wells. SMITH k 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. II BAMJIF Bill 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. PURDUE, Cashier., CHINA'S INDKMIMTIRP. IMtOt'OS.ll.S M'IIMII'TED FOIt THE KAIHINCS OP THE HOSKY To be In the I'owers for the ■ ■•fiirioh SiiKlttlnrd in the l'oxer ItiiiilN—Kmiio of the I'owi rn .4ver»> lo himi t» Contrnel n I.onn for (be Purpose—rrotpcclive Reduction of the Cnitril Nlnifn Knval Force on tbe Asiatic station. Pekin, April 4.—The Minister# are considering proposals submitted by financial experts for the raising of a sufficient sum for the payment of the Chinese indemnity. It is probable that some arrangement will be arrived at on the basis of the scheme of Sir Rob ert Hart, director of the imperial mar itime customs, which provides for the handing of salt and likln taxes over , to the maiitimt customs administra tion and the levying of an annual house tax equal to one-hiilf a month's rent, which it is calculated will provide twenty million taels yearly, sufficient to I pay 5 per cent, interest on 250,000,000 j taels and clear the whole principal in less than forty years. Two hundred and fifty million taels is equivalent, roughly- estimated, at £36,000,000, but the total amount of the indemnity is likely to be much more. Some of the powers are greatly averse to compelling , China to contract a loan for the pay ment of the indemnity. London, April 5. —"The Italian Minis ter in Pekin telegraphs," says the Rome correspondent of the Daily Mail, "that M. de Giers has threatened that Russia will leave the concert if the powers continue to oppose the Man churian convention." Washington, April 4. —The prospective reduction of the United States naval force now on the Asiatic station is be ginning to assume definite form. Thus far the matter has not been considered by the President, nor has Secretary Long had an opportunity to confer with Admiral Remey. But the Naval Bureau if Navigation, which has charge of the assignment of ships to the various sta tions, has proposed that there be a re duction of the force on the Asiatic sta tion. This has been based on a con sideration of the needs of the navy and without reference to any of the politi cal questions involved. Should it be de cided to reduce the force the home of v *2ic*s probably would not begin before Summer. DISPOSITION OF CHINA'S FORTH. Genernl Ciinir-p Ask* for Instrncttnm for »• Is Cini'lnncc in Ihe Conference With Ibe Farcisn l'«wer». Washington, April 4. —General Chaf fee has cabled the War Department from Pekin that the military com manders representing the foreign pow ers there are now considering the ques tion of disposing of the Chinese forts and of establishing fortified posts at proper intervals along the route from Pekin to the sea. General Chaffee ask ed instructions for his guidance in the conference. After the subject had been well con sidered at the White House, as well as at the State and War Departments the instructions were cabled to General Chaffee. The text of these is withheld, but it is stated that they are drawn on the lines of the instructions sent to Mr. Conger at the time he accepted the joint agreement under which the ne gotiations between the Ministers at Pekin were to be conducted. It so hap pened that the reservations which Mr. Conger was to make in that case are precisely the subjects which are now before the military commanders at Pekin, namely, the destruction of the Chinese fortifications and the provision of an armed international post along the route from Pekin to the sea. Gen eral ChafTee will favor the disarma ment of the forts instead of their de struction, but cannot participate In the establishment oi armed posts. He will, however, remain in the confer ence exerting his best efforts to ameliorate the conditions along the lines Indicated. Meanwhile the Wai Department is pushing itJ preparations for the complete evacuation of China by American forces, save only the le gation guard, and it is said that every thing AVill be in readiness to embark General Chaffee's army at Taku for Manila on May 30th. Not a word has been heard from Mr. Rockhill at Pekin for the last three days. Consequently there is no official confirmation of the Pekin report that the Chinese Government has ..nally re fused Russia's proposition as to Man churia. CHINA'S REJECTION OF THE ! MANCHURIAN CONVENTION. I London. April 5. —The Reuter Tele -1 pram Company has received the follow ing dispatch from Pekin, dated April 4: "China's rejection of the Manchurian convention appears to be of a rather embarrassing nature. The matter is open for further discussion." "By the end of May," says the Mos cow correspondent of the Daily Graphic, "the Russian army in Man churia will number 300,000 men. It is understood that the Russian Minister of War (General Kouropatkine) reck ons upon the possibility of having to dispatch an army corps southward into Corea." THREE MEN KILLED. Jonesboro, N. C., April 4. —Late this evening there was a wreck on the Dur ham and Charlotte railroad near Gulf, in Chatham county. The engineer and two negroes were killed and another man was injured. : The train ran off the track into a creek, catching three men under it. The bodies have not yet been recovered. A similar wreck occurred at the same place about a year ago, a young lady being killed and several in. jured. THE THORNTON'S TRIAL TRTP. Annapolis, Md., April 4.—The torpedo boat Thornton made an effort to com plete her two hours' official trial to day. For this time a speed of 26 knots was to be maintained. After running twenty-five minutes at the rate of over 27 knots, owing to the breaking of a feed suction pipe it was decided to stop the trial and make another attempt Saturday. The Shubrick will have her speed test to-morrow. A TUGBOAT SUNK. Brandford, Fla., April 4.—The tug Amelia, at Grant's Ferry, fifteen miles above Branford, is reported sunk. One life was lost, that of a machinist named White. The Amelia is owned by *he Drew Company. The Suwanee «fsr is very high and still rising. ♦ • ♦ "Upon that," said the stu dent of antiquity, "do we base the statement that Solomon was the wisest man?" "I dunno," answered Senator Sorghum, "unless it is on the report that he was also the richest .man." —-Washington Star. i NORTH CAROLINA NKWS. Till: AUJOI'K\KI> SKKSIOX OP THI | LKUIHATI'KE A UHKAT FARCE. A Nucgrcniioii that Admiral White be Orler«d to Sink Ih* Steamer I.lly at Once—l he ► lntillekt Knight of Pythian in the Wor Id—Bridget* Waxbed Away !iy Freshets—.Major Martin's Defalcation May Heach 918,000. Raleigh, N. C., April 4.—The ad journed session of the Legislature Is a ' great farce. The body is composed mostly of clerks and the few members who happen to be here attending the Supreme Court or meetings of various State boards. Only a few stocky law bills, exemptions from tbe State pri mary law, and verbal corrections of acts have been passed. The session (would have adjourned an hour after It ! met, but for the fact that neither the , Lieutenant-Governor nor the presl , I dent pro tem. of the Senate were pres- I ent, and therefore the bills could not i be ratified. Mr. H. A. London, presi- I dent pro tem., is here to-day, and the j session adjourned this afternoon. In j the discussion in the House, Repre sentative Gattis suggested that a man damus be secured against Admiral ( j White, of the oyster department, order ; Ing him to sink the steamer Lily In deep water at once. The Legislature adjourned this after noon after ratifying bills. These bills [ were passed: Abolishing enrolling clerk and have the work done In the ; I Secretary of State's office; to increase • the number of commissioners in Wilson and Iredell counties; authorising all persons to give bonds to the State in guaranty companies; to provide for the : publication of the proceedings of the court of impeachment. " Major and Mrs. Merts, the Salisbury dwarfs, have signed a contract with Forepaugh's circus, and will travel with the show. Major Merts Is the smallest Knight of Pythias In the world, and the smallest member of the ! D. O. K. K. He has been quite a feat ure of secret fraternity gatherings in this State. Major W. H. Martin's defalcation ha* " mounted from $3BOO to about $15,000. The special investigating committee is now at work, and it is thought that in , of two VrVsts the official re ' i port will be made publiA ' J Major W. S. Mat tin, defaulting State Treasury clerk, was this after j noon sentenced by Judge Starbuck tc . j ten years' hard labor in the peniten tiary and was carried to prison at | once. i Mrs. Stonewall Jackson, who lives In Charlotte, has received a great many Invitations to attend the Confederate ! reunion at Memphis, but while her health is better now than it was a year ago, she does not think she will be able to attend. Misj Sallie Walker Stockard's new book, "The Lily of the Valleys," which Is Just published, is a very prettily bound volume of the Song of Solomon t In dramatic form. A portrait of the author is the frontispiece. William Sherwood, the noted pianist, will give a recital at St. Mary's School on the 10th. He came to this State to attend the meeting of tbe State Music Teachers' Association, which meets in Durham on the Bth. A large number of prominent musicians will attend the convention. The new State Prison Board has al ready begun to make changes in the penitentiary force. They have request ed the resignation of Warden Green, who has served during Captain Day's administration. Major Hemphill,editor of the Charles ! ton News and Courier, and a delega tion of Charleston business men ar rived here to-day to interview the officials of the State Board of Agricul. ture in regard to a North Carolina ex hibit at the Charleston and West In dian exposition. As yet no provision has been made for an exhibit from this State. Colonel J. S. Carr has also call ed a meeting of the commissioners for' this State who are to confer here with the Charleston delegation. The Board of Agriculture will consider the mat ter, and decide later as to the nature of the exhibit. The Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity is holding its annual meeting in Char lotte to-day. News comes that a number of bridges have been washed away by the fresh ets in the past few days. Miss Pearl Thompson, of Salisbury, was married to Mr. A. Jones Yorke, a well known traveling man, last night. It was quite a society event in the town. The Southern golf tournament at Pinehurst was ended In a driving rain. Tt was quite successful, players enter ing from most of the Northern States. . There is still a large crowd at Pine hurst. and the hotels there and at Southern Pines are well filled with guests. James F. Spencer, E. F. Gurley and 1 William Roach have been arrested at I Goldsboro for passing counterfeit half ! j dollars. . | Governor Aycock has appointed j 1 George A. Jones, of Macon county, | Judge of the Sixteenth district, and Francis D. Winston, of Bertie, Judge , ! >f the Second district. i ' THE TBAP SHOOTING CONTEST. Fbe WnrK of Ansley H. Fax, *f Balti , more, by Far the Most Creditable. New York, April 4.—The shoot for the Grand American handicap, was postponed from fcegan this morning and was continue4~%p tb dusk this evening. During the.'c&tfre shoot rain fell continuously made what otherwise would haveT>een fast flyers very slow birds. , All told there were 222 entries for the event, ten of which were .post en tries. Twenty-one men failed to toe their marks when their turns came,* and these absentees forfeited $lO each, ' , which went to swell the purse. The'en- I tire amount of money which will be distributed among the fifty-four high | funs when the event is concluded to : morrow is {5355. When the shooting was 1 discontinued this evening there were forty men with straight scores of twen ty kills each and fifty-three with nine teen each. Of the leaders the work of Ansley H. Fox, of Baltimore, was by far the most creditable. Since the shoot began Fox bas taken part in every event on the program and has not missed one bird In any of them. In actual competition he has shot sixty-three birds without missing any. In addition to this he has shot at sixty eye-birds, and the only miss recorded against him among these was one which died out of bounds. This makes a total for the four days of 122 kills out of 123 birds shot at by the 'Baltimore man, who is looked upon as a likely winner of this year's blue rib bon of trap shooting. Among those credited with twenty straight kills Is Ji. L. Pierce, WytheviMe, Va. . Beacon—"That Miss Bangs } in the next flat has got a new 1 piano." Egbert—"l suppose you can compare her to a kitten \ now." "How so?" "Why, I ' suppose she's playing all the i tine/ I —Yonkars Statesman. Cotton Still Going Down. The cotton goods trade docs not improve, and raw cotton i continues to go down.. Between - lie Chinese tangle which seems i endless, promising to keep Chi , na closed even into the next. r cotton year, and the new crop, ( ihe bears are supreme in the cotton markets. From 10 cents a pound the price of the staple has fallen below 8 cents, and , may go below 7 cents. Fortu i natcly this heavy fall in a great > crop does not as a rule ! the farmer or producer, for he , long ago sold his holdings. But . the loss to merchants at the ports r and in the interior towns is con-, 1 -iderable, and it reduces the ; capital of this section. As these merchants are the : bankers of the farmers, the latter will feel the loss indirect | ly in one way or another. Of course much of the loss will be j borue by those who held cotton i'ar from the cotton fields, but 'he holdings at home are by no means insignificant, and the; | losses are considerable. I The crop is proving to bej ' larger than the estimates of it,: ' and the closing of China has | | reduced consumption so much i i that the crop is ample for all needs. Thus earlier predictions have been shown to be baseless. If the diplomats in and out of China could bring the troubles in that country to an end, and ihat vast unclothed population were left free to supply their needs, there would be a quick revival in the cotton trade, and the decline in prices would be checked. But no one cr.ri :cc HPCI of the Chinese negotia tions. '1 he belief in a larger crop next fall is also a factor. But it is not certain that the acreage will be unusually-large. **Ten cent cotton is no longer regard ed as a certainty, and farmers ire not planting expecting to get ten cents. The decline in prices will serve to increase food and forage crops, and to de crease the cotton acreage. Stocks are not large, and a reasonable acreage would nssist in lifting the price, while the ' opening of China to trade would certainly do it. But ten-cent cotton is very improbable. Eight-cent cotton is more likely to occur next fall, and the planting should not be above that basis.— Goldsboro Argus. Bod Burdette, "To My Son. " So you are not going to church this morning, my son? Ah, yes ; I see. "The music is not good." That's a pity. That's what you go to church 1 for, to hear the music, we de mand. "And the pews are not com fortable." That's too bad—the Sabbath is the day of rest, and we go to chuich for repose The less we do through the week the more rest we clamor for on the Sabbath. "The church is so far away ; it is too far to walk, and I de test riding in a street car, and they're always crowded on the ! Sabbath." This is, indeed, j distressing. Sometimes when I think how much farther j away Heaven is than the church and that there are no convey ances on the road of any de scription, I wonder how some of us are going to get there. "And the sermon is so long always." All these things are, indeed, to be regretted. I would regret them more sincere - ly, my boy, did I not know that you will often squeeze into a street car, with a hundred other men, breathing an incense of • whisky, beer and tobacco, hang to a strap by your lids for two miles, and then pay fifty cents for the privilege of sit ting on a rough plank in the hot sun for two hours longer, while in the intervals of the game a scratch band will blow discordant thunder out of a doz en misfit horns right into our ears, and come home to talk the rest of the family into a state of aural paralysis about the "dandiest game you ever saw played on that ground-" Ah, my boy, you see what staying away from church does. It develops a habit for lying. There isn't one man in a hun dred who could go on the wit ness stand and give, under oath, the same reasons for not going to church that he gives to his family every Sunday morning. My son, if you didn't think you ought to go, you wouldn't make any excuses for not going. No Jman apologizes for doing right. —-Selected. ... An Eventful Moment. ;j DO VOL'R BEST IN YOUR CAREER TO POSTPONE IT. ; j - Napoleon says : "In all battles a moment oc curs when the bravest troops, after having made tho greatest efforts, feel inclined to run. | That terror proceeds from a ; want of confidence in their own courage, and it only requires a slight opportunity, a pretense, :o restore confidence to them. The art is to give rise to the opportunity and to invent the pretense. At Areola I won the battle with 25 horsemen. I seized that moment of lassitude, gave every man a trumpet and gained the day with this hand ful. You see that two armies I are two bodies which meet and ! endeavor to frighten each other. | A moment of panic occurs and j that moment must be turned to ; advantage. When a man has I been present in many actions, he distinguishes that moment | without difficulty. It is as easy jas casting up an addition." j "There is a moment when ' the bravest troops feel inclined 1 to run." There is a moment when the hardest fighter feels inclined to quit. i Postpone that moment in your career. You are not fighting other men physically, hut you are fighting conditions. You are fighting the competition of all men around you. In every man's life, whatever struggle lie. be engaged in, 'mere conies a, moment when his courage fails, and, as Na poleon says of his troops, this often comes after making the greatest effort. It often comes just before success. Often you will hear a man or a woman say : "I have tried and tried, and it is-no use." That man or woman has reached the point which Na poleon mentions when the brave feel like running. You have all heard the old and probably false story of the miner who struggled on from day to day, seeking for gold, and at last threw down his pick in despair, ready to give it up. That last despairing blow of the pick uncovered the sign 9 of gold which would make him rich. Many men fail for lack of that last blow with the pick ax. Many fail because they do not know how to inspire themselves as Napoleon inspired the army at Areola. Napoleon was the soul of the army—he was the army. When "he gave the trumpets to his men and charged, winning the day, he acted as a brave man may do in any moment of despair and hesitancy. Stir up y T our courage, shut your teeth, "give trumpets" to your imagination and resolu tion and ambition and hope and the other 21 motives that inspire us. If you don't give up, y 7 ou can't lose in the end. Don't be discouraged. Don't despise yourself because you feel downhearted and timid. Remember "a moment comes when the bravest feel inclined !to run." When that moment I comes to you, make up your mind that you won't run. Fight it out, win and thank Napoleon.—New York Journal. • Says He Was Tortured. "I suffered such pain from eorns could hardly walk," writes tt. Robinson, Hills borough, Ills., "but Bucklen's Arnica Salve completely cured them." Acts like magic on sprains, bruises, cuts, sores, scalds, burns, boils, ulcers. Perfect healer of skin diseases and piles. Cure guaranteed by C. L. Wilson. 25c. DISSOLUTION. The firm of Dr. J. F. McKay & Co., has this day been dis solved and J no. A. Rodgers & Co., have bought the entire stock of drugs; furniture and fixtures, also the good will of all its patrons. The debts of the firm will be paid by Jno. A. Rodgers fe Co., and all debts due the firm will be collected by Jno. A. Rodgers & Co. DR. J. A. MCKAY. JNO. A. RODGERS. Lillington, N. C., Feb. 26, 1901 The above firm will be run under the supervision of Dr. J. F. McKay and will do their utmost to please, and ask &con tinuaace of patoouage, % II Sfcff. i.i>» "*S?V--r-lM Light on a Horrible Crime of Long Ago. Poultney, Vt., March 27. Working removing a cellar wall under a dilapidated building just north of the bridge that • crosses Fair Haven River, a , quarter of a mile above Carvers > Falls, has apparently un earthed evidence which solves - the mystery of a murder which occurred seventy years ago. The discovery was made by accident, the laborers having fallen into a pit while trying to ' lift some heavy stones. The pit was about eight feet deep, with a solid stone - wall about twenty inches thick surround ing it. In the centre of the pit was set a solid iron post, at tached to which was a heavy iron chair and an old fashioned pair of nandcuffs. Nearby was a heap of human bones. In quiry disclosed the fact that in 1 1831 Perry Borden, a young Frenchman, brought his young wife to Poultney to live in the house which the workmen are tearing down. She was witty and vivacious and attracted considerable attention. - In a short time Borden became jeal ous of her and forbade her visit -1 ing a certain tavern nearby. 1 The wife would not*, submit to be dictated to. Oue night in ' November, 1831, styfe was at the : place when at about 10 o'clock Borden called for her. She left the place with hinu She never was seen by her friends after that. Mr. Borden said his wife had deserted him and fled to Can ada. After a year Borden went away, and was not Jieard of again until 1882, when he sud denly re-appeared in town. He said he had been at sea for the 50 years he had been away. His mind seemed shattered. He went to the little house and remained two years, neighbors supplying him with provisions. He finally became sick and the town took charge of him. He died in 1897 and was buried in the potters field. The discoveries made by the | workmen have led everyone in this vicinity to believe that Borden chained his wife in the underground cellar and left her J to die a horrible death. ... 1 A Wonderful Invention. i They cure dandruff, hair fall- j ing, headache etc., yet costs the . same 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 j wonderful comb is simply un breakable and is made so that it J is absolutely impossible to ( break or cut the liair. Sold on ( a written guarantee to give per- ( feet satisfaction in every respect, j Send stamps for one. Ladies' ( size 50c. Gents' size 35c. Live men and women wanted everywhere to introduce this j article. Sells on sight. Agents are wild with success. .(See ( want column of this paper.) j Address D. N. ROSE, General , Mgr., Decatur, 111. UNDERTAKER m Coffins, Caskets, Ladies' and Gents' Robes and Burial goods. All kinds, colors and sizes, rang ing in price from $2 to $6O. We also have a nice hearse furnish ed at moderate prices on short notice. R. G. TAYLOR. - Night Was Her Terror. "I would cough nearly all night long," writes Mrs. Chas. Applegate, of Alexandria, Ind., "and could hardly get any sleep. I had consumption so bad that if I walked a block I would cough frightfully and spit blood, but, when all other medicines failed, three $l.OO bottles of Dr. King's New Dis covery wholly cured me and I gained 58 pounds." It's abso lutely guaranteed to cure Coughs, Colds, La Grippe, Bron chitis and all Throat and Lung Troubles. Price 50c and $l.OO. Trial bottles frp2 at d, L. Wil «on's drqg-store. 47-Miie Message Sen*. Washington, April 3.—Prof. Willis L. Moore, chief of the Weather Bureau, has returned from an inspection of the wire less stations 011 tbe Virginia and North Carolina coast and has reported to Secretary. Wil fon the results of his observa tions. He found that the ex perimental work is progressing satisfactorily between Hatteras and Cape Henry, where elabo rate plans have been laid out for important experiments. At Cape Henry an excellent plant has been established for the physical and mechanical development and investigation of the fundamental principles of wireless telegraphy. Signals are exchanging daily between these two stations and messages can be transmitted at any time, though there is no necessity for exchange of messages as yet. These two stations are 47 miles apart with no land between them, and the course is regard ed as an ideal one for the ex periments. It is intended to keep this section for experi mental and research work, which will be prosecuted vigor ously throughout next summer. The next great problem to be solved, according to Chief Moore, is the differentiation of the wireless messages, so' that the messages sent shall be read; only by the stations for .'which they are intended and npt in terferred with by the * crossing of messages for other stations. WANTED—Ladies and Gen tlemen io introduce the "hot test" seller on earth. Dr. White's Electric Comb, patent ed 1899. Agents are coining money. Cures all forms of scalp ailments, headaches, etc., yet costs the same as an ordi nary comb. Send 50c in stamps for sample. D.N. Rose, Gen. Mgr., Decatur, 111. Be Something. There is much talk of politi- i cal independence. That means! with some a splitting up of the j Democratic party. A man can be so independent as a Republi-j can to be a Populist, or so in- j dependent as a Democrat to be i a Republican. There are but j two parties of consequence, orj that mean much, in this coun-j try. You must be one or the other, or indeed be so independ ent as to belong to no party.' If you are an indepenedent, do ; not pretend to be either a Re publican or a Democrat, but be i a "mug-wump," and neither run with the hare nor hold with the hounds. If you break up! the Democratic party you de-1 stroy the the only party of the 1 people, aud leave the country 1 helplessly bound by the Rppub lican party that is not of the people or for the people, but of the plutocracy and for the reign of monopoly, high crushing taxes and practical slavery. Choose ye. If the Republican ism be right, tie to it and swing corners with it, and show your colors. Do not call yourself by l another name. If Democracy j be the thing—government by the people—then tie to it. Be something—either fish, flesh, fowl or good red herring.—Wil mington Messenger. PHOTOGRAPHS BEST WORK GUARANTEED, * I I make a specialty of nice work. Parties visiting Dunn cail call at my residence and work made in the late's V m: most pleasing style. Call "KfTif see samples, and get pris?. J-v J. D. KEEN! , DUNN, N. C, Gallery up stairs over J. W. Gregory's store. _ t "Can't Afford to Paint." The man who says that, forgets that painting pro perly done is economy, and the fact is he can't afford MOT to paint. How often yon require to paint is largely depend* 1 eat upon the paint you use. SHERWIN-WILUAM* PJI/MTS eat last others. They are the moat economical paint* you ean OM. NEEAUW they cover most and wear longest. Add to thia their rood appaaran.e, and you have perfect palnta-fA, Skvwin-WUliamt Puintt. They are made lor many different kinds of pointing. Whatever it la yon want to paint—a house, or anything in or out of the boose—v f make i the right paint for that particular purpose—not ona slap-dash OIXMII tor •IL Dunn Hardware & Furniture Go. Kodol "Dyspepsia Cure - J Digests what you eat. If' artiiicialiy digests the food aud aids Nature ID strengthening and recon . struct/lag the exhausted digestive or gans. It is the latest discovered digest ant and tonic. No other preparation ; can approach It in efficiency. It in i stantly relieves and permanently cures Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Heartburn, Flatulence, Sour Stomach, Kausea, • Sick Headache, Oastralgia Crampsand all other results of imperfect digestion. PrlcjjMc.andtL Lai*e »l*e contain* tmtraea small tlae. Book aU about dyapepsia mat i«dtrM Prepared ky C. COe WITT* CO. Cfelc«»«. For sale by Hood & Gran tham, Dunn, N. C. A Clever Woman. "Why do you always dress your two* daught* i\s alike?" querried a society w man of a friend. "It must be a deal of trouble, and, s.s they are uot twins, it is not necessary." "Well," answer, d ih»* other quite frankly, "it j s b.-eause of the effect. jVlygirJft-.ro 'ather ordinary looking— »... ;iin . iu fact rather pretty, I lm.k—and with fail 1\ good tiuiirc'f, but quite unnoticeable in i|„ j r j,p. pearance. Ifonewer in hrown and other in blue on the street, no one would e\e;* ujyg a second i-l.itce, but, dressed alike, tliev '• ok really distinguished, li is dig same in a ballroom When thev go in together in prcr:v. Trrs.ll eow]i- ; ;; io y each other, so to spe.-.k, ard sim plest t-oilest lipconi-striking. A pink bow by ii.-e.'f is a pink bov , and noll.it:g . |«. hut two pink hows become imimdiately an nrratigeniHi r. You -ee that id«*a exemplified on f| ( ,. -tage in a ballet. It i.sdic r petition of dress that gives tho c tf. ct. If the dancers w. ro in different costumes it won Id I e lost com pletely. Of course, as you say, | it is a bother t.» have everything !to match, a;id wh> n one frock j is ruined, thai renders the other useless, too. Still, I think it I pays.' —New York Tribune, I - - — _ A Fireman's Close Call. J "I stuck to my engine, al though every joint ached and ;every nerve w.i« racked with I pain," writps C. W. Bellamy, a locomotive fireman, of Burling ton, lowa., "I was weak and i pale, without any appetite and I all run down. As I was about .to give up, I got a bottle of 1 Electric Bitters and, after tak jing it, I felt as well as I ever J did in my life." Weak, sickly, ,run down people always gain new lif>, strength and vigor from their use. Try them. Satisfaction guaranteed by C. L. Wilson. Price 50 cents. . • mmm gruceriesi o o T desire say to the public that : I have a complete line of FANCY GROCERIES andean sell at a close ; margin of profit. Flour, Sugar, Coffee, Ground Meal, Meat, Molasses, Canned Goods. Everything fresh and nice. FEED STUFF! You can find at my grocery, Oafs, Corn, Peas, etc. I take country-"produce in exchange Give me a call whAffrttt-'visit Dunn and I will for piwt patronage I beg to re main, ' W. J. JARMON. Next door to J. R. McPhail. ■— '

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