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Everybody who reads the fisherman & Farms Pronounces it to be the best paper in Elizabeth City, and the r Fisherman Farmer -v IS IN THE LEAD. X Has tlie largest circulation of KJ paper in the District. Established 1886 innra ONE DOLLAR per Year, in Advance. ELIZABETH CITY N C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, .897. Fa rs of t!b.e IDistrict ASK the recovered dyspeptics, bilkou suf fereri, victims of fever and ague, the mercurial diseased patient, how they recovered health, chetrful spirits and good appetite ; they will tell xx3y'M by ,a5cic8 Simmons r.'-iiZ-Z Livek Regulator. : "."-f ami llost Famllv .-, ;:. the World! . ' V i - . : I NATION, Taundica. ' '. ! -AlJilK, Colic, Depres- 1 ' " '..1. u. Heartburn, etc. r-r."-i:y i warranted not to contain .' - ky,w any mineral substanca, LLY VGETABLE, :' rn Roots and Herbs which aft. -.: 11.1s I'iruca in countries wnero t (Tevaii. It will care all 4-t y l't-raugement of tUa 1 if i Lirrr Complaint are a bitter ' I'uiji m the Hack, Sides ot " '!. 11 !ir Rheumatism ; SouX - -",!:''-; Jewels alternately " ijiss i memory, with a "' ,:' ' 'iii.s f'.iiled to do something '-.-.v.- I -.mi .l,ne; Debility; Low M i'carance of the bkin and :! inUtakcn for Consumption. 1 lii.-t; syiiiptoiiis attend th '. ! - ; bur the Liver, the largest - . i iy the seat ot the disease, ' : t '. ;.&! suffciing, wretch . ; i. tin.-.d iers.ns attest to the t 1 Kfc.i -latok : Gen. W. S. - !:. ' o ; Kc-v. J. R. Kelder. - A'.kuiy.G.; C. Master- : j A. htitts. Bainbridge, .' c. ii.,.; Virgil I'owers, ' . ' . Alexander II. Stephens. -. irsonal!y, and know : ii-'.: aj,d '1 drubbing; Head. - il.e u.irld ever saw. Wo ' " bclwie Simmons Liver ' t-.'-i v:-ve tis more than tern. '' ' ''! '.nly relieved, butcured .VI i:,m.n.i-:k, Macon, Ua, ' . '.M il l':.!, ONLY BY .'IS. IN .s c., I'hiU aelphia. Pa. Get on to This P. DeLON, (1 5 oisiii Sliop, Matthew Street, ELIZABETH CITY. N- C. With proper tools and much experience I can guarantee work done in the best work manship manner and to be sat isfactory to all. I can also sup ply bicyclists with all equip ments belonging to wheels. Prices II My shop is thoroughly equip ped which enables me to do work neatly and promptly. Give lllO a nPriSLl. gs SPEIKIIJG If it wasn't for what it brought you, your money wouldn't possess much value. It isn't the money that you work for it's what it brings. Make it go as far as possible get the best re turns. Every item you buy from us every dol lar invested in any line brings you the fullest returns. If it isn't that way, speak right out, and the money will be returned. Every sale must be satisfactory it's our way and we insist upon it. A x GOOD For economical buying is August. Weather conditions do not affect our desire to sell you goods never too hot. or too cold to find values at our store. The lowest prices prevail through August. The kind that gives you comfort, and rool. easv in the sought for colorings should be marked at $i.oo each, but our August price makes them 50 cts. t but v A.J Mens' balbriggan finished equal to the most expensive grades perfectly made perfectly fit tinga plum at the price we name --August value, 35 cts. SPEGIAI: HAT VALUE- Tn thP im to-date stvlcs for late summer earlv autumn trade-in soft Fedoras the most recent colorings superior values, each i.oo. -Leftover" straw hats shapes of the best - broken sizes -but an early selection insures a fit extra values at 25 to 35c. x PfWTftLOON VftLUeS. Stylishly out and made possessing every good point that goes hand in hand with finely made hiah crmde o-oods in oattems that are desired by rood dressers worth much more money than we 3 ask for them- -August value, from $1.00 up. We make a study of what men should wear. When it's summer we show what is most com fortable, and yet conforming to what is most stylish. We dress men well, and we make them com fortable for pi ice for style for quality. O Water Street, C2 Patronize Home Industries. 'This is an old and oft repeat ed expression, yet it needs to be sounded everyday. The prac tice of it is what makes comnr.i- nities great and prosperous. That it navs to trade near - j home is a well-establi.sl-.cd fact, and no town or city ever pros wn;p ritiens enticed bv pered wnose citizens, tiuiccu u the alluring baits held out by the merchants ill the bl Cltlt S, spend their money with them. The local merchant and me chanic are interested in tlie pro- orrpeje and development ot the r- - town and country in which they live, and everv dollar that they amass is re-invested and remains in the neighborhood. As they nrncnrr their taxes increase, and r i insf tniirh those of others are lightened. They assist m keep ing up your schools, churches and other nubile institutions and charities. But the person who spends his money in some distant city puts it beyond assist ing in any local enterprise. The mail in the city upon whom you bestow your custom has no fur ther interest in you or your sur- than the cash he re- - ' i ceives from you. It is no con cern of his whether you are as devoid of social, church or edu cational privileges as the inhab itants of lkn-rioboola-Gha, or whether vour streets or high- , ,.,11 ,ori- nc :., ah, ways an. iu vn i..i..v- oriaiiial Indian trail. The sur plus money which he has to be stow will go to enrich the ex chequer of institutions from wlnVh von will never receive anv benefit audio add to the wealth of communities in which you have no financial interest Durham Sun. Everybody Says Km. 0:isr:rc ts Candv CiiU':iri; U' ih.h: vrc.n- rtcrfiil imdiciil disco ovv l i,!,c :i: c i as- ;i t and ri'fivRhinir to tin' l:i -c t r 'fi'.v :t,l positively on fcnlitc; . !m r , ci ansmtf tno eni:r( v I cur heatinctie, iev . v.u: ticai i ; t : (1 biliousness. 'c;i.s.f w v.'i a' 1 iii ( V,. C. to-dav: ill. ;. m is. S !.: - aranteeJ to cure by ;.h .u-.,. giu. RIGHT o OUT.r yet a most .. 7sA P., TI,E and straight and roll brims 5 Elizabeth City, N. C. GLiS Cr This life is like a gameof cards, which mortals have to leam, Each shuffles, cuts, and deals the pack. ana e.ich a truuiD doth turn. some bririR a high card to the top, and some will ring a low. Some hold a hand quite full of trumps, ana some but few can show. In playing, some throw out their trumps tueir winning card to save, home play the kinir. some play the deuce, but many play the knave. Home play for money, some for love, anrt orne for worldly fame, ,.ut not unU1 the haml. ' la d outcan they count up the game. When hearts are trumps we play f.-r love, ana pleasure rules tuc no.tr, No thought of sorrow checks our joy fli beauty's rosy bower. We laugh, we dance, sweet verses write, our cards at random plav, And whilst the heart remains on top, our life's a holiday. When diamonds chance to rule the pack the players stake their gold. And heavy sums are lost and won by players young and old, Kach one intent upon the game doth watch with eager eye, '1 hat he may see his neighbor's turds and cheat him on the sly. When clubs are trumps, look out for war on ocean or on land, For awful deeds of blood are done when clubs are held in hand. Thun lives are staked instead of gold, the dogs of war are freed, And sad it is for any laud when clubs once hold the lead. Last game of all is when the spade is turned by the hand of 1 line; lie w tits for the end of the player's game in every age and clime No matter how much each one wins, or how much each may save, The spade will finish up the game and dig tne player s grave. Spider Bite Killed Her. Lena Mead, seven years of age, of Finchville, near Middleton, N. Y., died from the bite of a spider on her upper lip. Three weeks airo, while the little girl sticks in the picking up woodshed to assist her mother in kindling a fire, she rushed from the place, exclaiming, "Mamma, I just brushed a spider MF "y Hp and it. hurts." The hp soon swelled to twice its natuial size,, and a physician was summoned. Everything was done that medical science could suggest, but although the wound showed signs of improve ment it did not heal, and the lit tle girl became sick. Blood po isoning finally developed, and the child died Saturday night. New Norfolk Industry. The first peanut oil factory . W- T . 1 f- . 111 tne united states will be established in Norfolk, Va., at an early date. The oil is highly valued in Europe, as it is stated that fully 5,000,000 worth of peanuts are brought into Mar- sielles annually for the manu facture of oil, which is used 111 toilet soaps and for other pur poses. The peanut flour is quite extensively used in Europe and made into bread, cakes, biscuit, etc. It is one of the favorite arti cles of food, according to consular reports, in hospitals in Germany. The capital stock of the peanut company is $60,000, and it is operating under the patents of Mr. Weatherley, which cover the machiuery and methods of decorticating the kernel of the inner skin. According to the estimate made, says the Atlanta Constitution, the cost of a plant for treating five tons of peanuts daily is as follows: Machinery, $9,000; bu Iding, $6,000, while the expenditures, including labor insurance and taxes amount to $337 Per day- I 1st April the press reports from along the Mississipi, South ward from Memphis, were bur dened with accounts of the dam age done bv the floods which were then weeping over the lowlanuw of Arkansas, Mississip pi and Louisiana, but with the subsidence of the waters there was a transformation which was as gratifying as the former con dition was distressing. The rich sediment deposited by the water enriched the land in every direc tion, and as soon as the waters subsided the planters commenced to prepare their fields tor crops of different kinds, particularly cotton, with the result that they are now about to reap abundant harvests. To Cure Cousti patloa Forever. Take Cu scare ts Caudy CatharUc, lOe or 23a If C C. C. fad to cure, druggists reload money. Allowing Others to be Mistaken. Ladies' Home Journal. There are two kinds of mistakts; mistakes of moment and trivial mistakes. Undoubtedly the best service which one friend can render another is to save him from a mistake liable to be seri ous in its results. In such an act lies true friendship. But in these days of criticism, when we are apt to criticise everything and everybodyvwe are all ,vod apt to correct mistakes which are absolutely trivial and not worm correcting. And vet in a . 1 calling attention to them we of ten hurt the feelings of our best riends. Notone of us, even the most good natured, like to have his mistakes pointed out We may appear not to mind correc tions, and accept them with- a smile. Hut it is human nature to smart under correction, al though some of us may be clever enough to conceal the smart. nence, trie lewer mistakes we call attention to in others the tt .1 r m 1 better. Two-thirds of the mis takes we make are trivial, Their correction is unimportant Why, then, notice them Yet some people do and do so con stantly. A person speaks of having done a certain thing on Thursday, when in reality it was done on Wednesday. It no important point is involved why call attention to the mistake? What good does it do to have tlie exact day set right? It is a matter of no importance, so why insist upon correcting the trivi al error? Staunch friendships have often been pricked by this needle of useless correction. It is a great art this art of learn ing to allow others to be mistav ken when the mistake is unini portant. Few learn it, but those who do are among the most comfortable friends one can have. A hacking cough keeps the bronchial tubes in a state of constant irritation, which, if not speedily removed, may lead to chronic bronchitis. No prompt er remedy can be found than Ayer s Cherry Pectoral. Its effect is mimed! ale and the result permanent. To Come South. It is said by those who have good opportunities to judge that fifty thousand families will be added to the South's populalion in the next twelve months. Of these fifty thousand probably 60 per cent, will be taken from the northwest, while the remainder will comej from the middle States, Pennsylvania and New England. These figures show that the craze for the northwest is past, and that even the com fort-loving Peunsylvanians bes lieve that they have a better chance at true living below Ma son aud Dixon's line than in the Keystone State. Southern Pro, gress. Beautiful eyes grow dull and dim A the swift years steal away. Beautiful, willowy forms so slim I,ose fairness with every day. But she still is queen and bath charms to spare Who wears youth's coronal beautiful hair. Preserve Your Hair and you preserve your youth. "A woman is as old as she looks," says the world, No woman looks as old as she is If her hair has preserved its normal beauty. You can keep hair from falling' out, restoring its normal color, or restore the normal color to gray or faded hair, by the use of Ayer's Hair Vigdr. L SWAMP IM. A Graphic Picture of its Present Appearance and Con dition. TU: SUCTION DK EDGES. The Improvements Now Under Way, That are to Restore This Famous Water Way to Enlarged Usefulness. A year ago the Dismal Swamp Canal was a ditch seven feet deep and thirty wide, brimming with clear brown juniper water and fringed with cane brake and dainty green things. To day at ueep vreeic it carrier oniy a small stream oi muddy water inrtner acmea oy tne macK grease from the dredges, its imwaicrcu Much are craving m the sun and the green fringe is aneoupano oeao f our nines nort.101 ueepueeK is tne nrst dredge, working north, a dipper, widening the ditch to sixty feet uy cuuing away uu me wtsi DISfi side. The dipper cuts out the not Hved in the of the primi fiist seven feet of earth and is tivp nvcrpr Another theorist supposed to remove all the roots. It takes out nearly all, leaving enough small ones, however, to choke the pumps of the suction dredges at frequent intervals. It "dips" out the great stumps and roots of trees long ago cut down and forgotten, and lifts them, earth and all, out on the banks. The top of the swamp proves to ue a uiucK bou cioeiy interwoven with thp rniit rF pvnrpss niifl t t.i .-i :i i 1.. : 1. - iiiucbcriuauic. xncy suikhikiv 1 :t i.i tm i 1 : t resemble the roots and branches , . in Liove s "wandering ew, w-x t 1 V ' It shown in the picture above the couplet: 'Now when fantastic visions fill the air, Sorrow surrenders toadull despair." It may be that at last the scource of inspiration of the great j -braughtsman of grotesques has been discovered 111 the roots of a juniper swamp. Two miles south of the dipper is the first section dredge. From a distance the latter looks like a h?rr Diitoh hnnt with n fliinip Inirl across the top, reaching fifty feet either side, and with a couple of t.irhir, wheel from an olH fashioned mill set up in front of it The Dutch-looking hull proves to be a boiler-house, engine-room, etc., built on a big scow. The turbine shafts are the shafts of two six-foot augers, which bore out the bottom of the ditch. Pumps, not visible, carry up this mud and water flume overhead, which Wn m b mass out some fifty feet and let clear .cauty .aml Sreat strength it fall on the bank, whence some bY evl1 associations into a com of the water returns to the canal. mon- muddy itch hal choked The pumps deliver faster than with logs. The wood-cutters tlfe apron can carry away and a camP 15 1,1 ih edge of the clear great deal of mud 'falls beside inS- lyond " the swamp the machine, keeping the road three-quarters of a mile of it in such a condition that travelers throul whlch we walked to the need endless aprons and endless Iake- There were spots where the h,rP ton iftliPv wnnld cane brake thinned a little, enjoy their journey. The second section dredge is working about two miles below the first and scarlet spikes a toot long, ihen completes the Northern "flotilla." there were long reaches of fat Another such flotilla is working black ?G1V clled fift' ff 1 above toward South Mills, and a third with thick jumper and cypress, dipper dredge is enlarging the the slender pillows twined with "feeder" from Lake Drummond. delicate vines. There were vines The company runs a large running from one root in a doz gasolene boat as tender, to the en parallel threads for thirty dredges and a forty foot stream launch to carry the superintend- ant about, and to transfer the gangs of men from work to bed, 0 The dredges were built at al flower. Everywhere was the Wallacetou, the material having ungoverned growth of things been brought in on lighters, new to our eyes. At last there They began work in the middle was the lake, watered in withfan and have to eat their way out as tastic roots, the shining- water the men wished he might do "iflled by a cool breeze. Then with tire schooner load of Lynn" there was mlle to walk back l? haven oysters. The original plan the boat thirst, weariness and was to do the work with the a11 the other things you don t section dredges, a new kind, of think about until the goal is which the management hoped reached. great things. The construction The canal contract demands a of the swamp made this iinposss main ditch, carrying a stream of ible.and the three dipper dredges water fifteen feet deep and sixty had to be built to open a way feet wide, the fifteen foot level for the new kind. The suction to be seven feet below the level dredges pump out so much water of the banks, and a thirty foot that temporary dams have been feeder of the same depth. The placed some miles in front of level of the swamp rises to Lake each flotilla in order to keep Drummond. The usual level of back water enough to float the the latter being some fifteen feet machines. All the coal and oil above the sea. At the ordinary and other supplies now have to level Lake Drummond is about be hauled in carts, more expen- fifteen feet deep. The proposed sive than water transportation, canal promises to make possible The whole working force of the drainage of the lake and also is boarded and the swamp lands. It is not nsfts- staila tfgutut ii e nuin. asMBsl I loaded at Wallacetou. The steam launch is kept busy fetching and carrying them. The dredges work twenty-four hours in a day, seven days in week. They ;.re being fitted with electric lights now. Edison's substitute for daylight will be a re claJon to prowling bears and 1. a icstive coons ot an kinds. 1 lie flotillas in the main ditch are now about six miles apart. The feedei dredge is two thirds of the way to the hike, or within a mile of it. Ten feet is to be added to the width of the feeder and fif teen to its depth. The dredge is cutting down half way as it goes up and will cut the other halt as it comes back. About a mil west of the canal the dredge brought up oyster shells from the bottnm of some prehistoric i,ynhaven. The shells are twice the we- M and thickness of the Chesapeak oyster of to d The mau with a theory for everything, said that as Lynn- haven has heavier shells than Hift point the fact that these ancient oysters had such im mense shells, iudicited that in their day the climate here was warmer than at present, making ... jppni mtpf,.i ttiaf we iad Mid the fact that ome Gf the shells had not been open indi- cated that primitive man did not eat oysters. This man's point of view implies that modern man means to open all the oysters Above the feeder dredge it was possible to see the whole plan of work on the canal. Men " " t were lelling the trees tor titty fcefc Qn eUher side the ditch A 1 1 ... 1 i'n iv 111 111 yiur.i. uiiiilu wjlu i o e 1 ;nrf rf ;rmrt hpnw Rpvtlie fnllow- I ' J aj nltt, A. Un Kr-al-o Ut LIlLlUi LUllliit: uunu till. UIQM. and bushes. As this dries it is Hiirnfd Thf o-rnss burns down into th; paety groundf and uu ! rerenfiv rained iidoii. the crronnd burns, too. The soft. 1 o black ashes allow the foot to sink to the ankle. If it is hot aud some of it is it causes the unsuspecting visitor iu the shoes to make haste into "de wilder ness." The dredge follows the fire, cutting out every thing before it. The comely Washing ton, who brought the idea of an inland waterway into the swamp, could not have dreamed he ws the forerunner of this abomination of soft coal and wheezy engine, oozing all over with black grease and scatter ing mud aud water where once was the rank green cane and the tender growth of fern. The new stone lock has been put in. the leeder, once so beautiful, is turned aside and ways around the lock to the ciiunnci ueiow. 11 i snum ui ua -i ti t rt lighted with flaming torches of cardinal flower, magnificent Ieel 10 some lavorue tree, inere was Slccuuucl " F" wcrc Suu. wc uau never seen; in tiny sunny spots itiAwA uric HAnor mnrA ro rn thought that the ground near the lake will be good for farm- inir. as it is so Deatv. When fin- J- r M. ished the canal will have three locksone in the feeder aud one at each end of the main ditch. The contractors have until April, 109a, to nmsh the work. The dredges move ! about a mile a month, and steady work will bel needed to accomplish the task. The contract prices for the whoc is $690,000, $150,000 ot it being in the sub contract for the locks. Other schemes arc already in the air. one of ahem a Dismal Swamp hotel, with a pnrki around it. vVithin a year the swamp will probably be as lively as a boom town, the cane brake cleared away and the level back ground staked out in avenues with high-sounding names. M. C. Faville in Norfolk Pilot; First fall month. Linus and fevers are begin ning to prevail now. 1 ue summer ot 1897, with its joys and sorrows, is now a thing ot the past. Miss Marv Wood, of 13erklev Va., is visiting her brother, Rev. T. G. Wood. Mr. and Mrs. II. S. Gilbert are visiting friends at Poplar Branch this week. Miss Eva Watford, of Cole- raine, N. C, is visiting the fam ily of Rev. T. G. Wood. Mr. Marshall Gallop, of E. City, was the guest of Miss Lil- lie B. Sawyer last Sunday. The farmers are busy strip ping fodder and they have favor able weather for curing it. Z. B. Berry, Esq., of Eden ton, who has been visiting his father, returned home last Tuesday. Miss Ella Gilbert, who has been visiting triends at Shaw boro, returned home last week. King cotton is opening in his section, and soon we will lear the hum of the cotton t?in. Miss Ada Melick, of E. City, has been visiting Miss Lelia M. Sanderlin during the past week. Miss Ida Mizell, who has been on an extended visit to relatives in Williainston, N C, returned lome last week. , Miss Sallie Jennings, of Pos sum Quarter, left for her home Monday, after spending a pleas- aut week at -Churchill." Misses Fannie Bray, of Shi oh and Maud Hare, of Winton, were the guests of the Misses Gilbert, of Churchill last Sun day. The correspondent from this place has been indisposed of ate, coused by eatint too much watermelon flavored with cante- ope. Miss Clinnie White, ot E. City, who has been visiting Miss Beulah Trafton, leturned home Tuesday, after a very pleasant visit. We would be glad if someone who is in a position to do so, would shake us down a large slice of the much talked of pros perity. Mr. and Mrs. Pat H. Stevens, who have been spending some lme with relatives and friends in Camden, returned home last Monday. The people in this section are alking the fair to be held in Elizabeth City, and the pros pects are good for a large ats endance. New buggies and other riding vehicles are on the boom in Bel cross, as there have been several purchased of late to the delight of the fair sex. Misses Blanche and Coia Fers ebee are visiting relatives in Raleigh, Henderson and Hall fax. N. C, accompanied by Dr. IS. B. Ferebee, of Norfolk, Va, Mr. Geo, B. Sanderlin, a siu dent of Wake Forest, who has been spending his vacation at home, left last Saturday to re sume his studies at the above named college. Mr. H. C. Ferebee lost a val uable cattle beast Monday, It was grazing close to a ditch and fell in, and not being able to get out drowned before assistance could reach him. The writer had the pleasure of spending a very pleasant day last Friday at Virginia Beach, by attending the excur sion given by the management of the N. &. S. R. R. for the employees of the road. The train was in charge of the kind and accommodating conductor, Capt. K. R. Ferebee, who made every possible effort to make all comfortable. We desire to re turn thanks for the pleasure. At aa Donaooa ipus. fear taud beautiful CtrpatbtaW ural that tb oolor4 piataa (K tat book look exactly Ilka tho oanta duo3.COiJr ,Tnr flowcr rpro ocua fc. to ILK)) and ramatatMr tula tU ritRsT AND WE PAT iLL POST AO R. l? rou wUh ua to Quailty lata pi as, aaod ua ao. la tarn pa JJ : a ota bualoaas la Haiti jaoro for 4a raara Q4 you mil no riak la buyln from Ua null. Drop a postal 1,0 Vor Mu t1ofua an4 aara tfcal bta f roflta you ara paying- tfca middleman. Our FuralUira Catalogue la also fraa. JULIUS HIIYKS A SON. Daltlmorc, Bid. rtaaa asaaUao Ula pa par. corar arnaa The Old Ueliabh Sail Maker, hLI7.ARETIICrTY X. C, can be found at his old stand m 8hort bridge, over James Spirt s stoie, Zimmerman Hall. Canvas Furnished at Factory Prices. Awnings, Tents and Flags a specialty. All orders by mail nromntlv niton. 1. ed to. Old Canvass boui?lit mid i.nl.1 P. O. Box 1 jj, Elizabeth City. N. C. tyonumenls arjd Tombstones In writing give some limit as to price and state age of de. ceased. LARGEST STOCK- in the South to Select from. gouper garble $orks, (Established 1848.) 159 to 163 nank St., Norfolk, Va. ESTABLISHED 1886. The Most Reliable House- in Norfolk. FEUERSTEIN& G . WnoLEHALK FISH COMMISSION MERCHANTS, FOOT OF ROANOKE DOCK. Quick Sales, Prompt Returns. References by Permission: City National Hank; K. 41. Dunn Mercantile Agency; Southern and Adams Express Co. We respectfully solicit a share ot your patronage. Stencils furnished on application. A. TV IS W (aRRiflGE Factory A carriage factory and repair shop has been opened at the park, or fair grounds, near Elizabeth City. I have been engaged for more than 20 years, in building Carriages, Buggies & Vehicles, of every description, and am now ready to give special atten tion to the manufacture, repair ing, and painting of carriages, wagons, carts, and all kinds of heavy and light wagons. All work promptly attended to and at reasonable prices. E. F. Rucii. tdgf Old furniture repaired varnished, &c. -A. NEW FOR EDENTON. The now famous Optician, Watchmaker and Jeweler has added to his workshop a GOLD and SILVER Plateing Department Work guaranteed or money refunded. Respectfully, B. E. BYRD & CO. i Ik