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Established 1886.
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Tf'W 9 'VreA dyspeptics, bilious uf
tilfi S Ws. victims of fever
'and aue, the mercurial
diseased patient, how
they recovered health,
i cheerful spirits and good
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r you by taking Simmons
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a siiyl. particle of .MtucuRY, or any mineral substanc,
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containinc; those Southern Roots and Herbs which a
Ell-v.isc Providence has placed in countries where
I.ivtr Diseases most prevail. It will care hV.
lleacs caused by JJeraiigement of tlie
I.iver and Howeis.
iThe SY.MI' IOMS of I.iver Complaint are a bitter
or bad taste in the mouth ; Pain in the Bck, Sides o
Jjints, often mistakf-n for Rheumatism; Sour
Momai-h ; Loss of Appetite; Bowels alternately
costive and lay ; Headache; I-oss of Memory, with i
painful sensation of having failed to do something
which au;,'ht to have been done; liability; Low
Sj.irits; a thick, yellow appearance of the Skin and
lyes; a dry C.ou-h, often mistaken for Consumption.
Sometimes many of these symptoms attend the
d sease, at others very few ; but the Livhr, the largest
oran in the body, is generally the seat of the disease
and if not Reflated in time, great sulTerinx, wretch
edness and DEATH will ensue.
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You will find our Spring Stock full of dainty suggestions.
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prices prices that will mean the most economical shopping.
You will find handsome values, and the extra choice range of
style will aftord you pleasure. We specially wish to call your
attention to the largest stock of Silks ever brought, to this city.
Notwithstanding the season's partiality for fancies, Black Silks
continue popular in satin and gro-graiu brocades. Satin
Duchesse Faille, Francaise Ueugalines, Taffetas, plain and fig
ured Moires and Armures. And while our stock is complete in
the above mentioned Blacks, ranging in prices from 24c. to $1.25
per yard, we have a greater variety still in Fancies, as follows :
Brocaded and Santin Stripes, beautiful
effects 32cts. per yard.
Brocaded Embossed India and China
Silks 38cts. per yard.
Figured China and plain India Silks.
48cts. per yard.
New Effects in Striped, Brocaded and
Embossed Silks 56cts. per yard.
Persian Taffeta, Moire Dresdens and
China 69cts per yard.
Roman Stripes in Shirt Waist Pat
terns 75c. per yard.
Fancy Novelties in Embossed and Bro
caded Taffeta 98c. per yard.
Please remember -that nothing but experience and spot
cash can procure such goods as we quote here at these prices.
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thing of beauty, a joy forever,
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knock your castles into a cock
ed hat at the first fire. He'll
subdue you, and then you'll cuss
your stupidity for a driveling
idiot, go hire some man to knock
you down and kick you for falls
ing."
The country newspaper pub
lisher toils every day to make
his paper interesting, mentally
ind mechanically that's labor ;
once in a while a patron come
in and pays a subscription
chat's capital ; occasionally one
moves off without paying and
has his postmaster send a card
lo say paper is refused that's
stealing. Ex.
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How It lias' Gone.
A Washington dispatch to the
New York Herald says that half
of the $50,000,000 tor the nation
al defense has already been spent
or appropriated in contracts en
tered into by the War and Navy
Departments.
Of this half the Navy Depart
ment has spent nearly seventy
five per cent. The Bureau of
Ordnance and the Bureau of
Equipment of the Navp have
received about $7,000,000 in all
thus far. This money is. being;
expended in the manufacture
and purchase of large quantities
of shells of various calibres,
brown, prismatic and smokeless
powder, torpedo tubes and guns,
and iu meeting the expenses of
operating the big gun factory
at the Washington Navy Yard.
The Bureau ot Kquipment
has expended ab.ut 52,000,000
in contracts for coal and coal
storage houses at various points,
and for miscellaneous equip
ments and stores for ships and
naval stations. These figures
include the sums to be spent in
the extensive dredging opera
tions now under way at Port
Royal and Key West.
The purchase from the Bra
zilian Government of t.vo ar
mored cruisers has cost $3,000,
000, including incidental expen
ses. The Bureau of Construc
tion and Repairs will use about
$1,000,000 of the appropriation
in completing repairs to war
ships.
Up to the present time $8,375,
has been allotted to the War
Department. Nearly this entire
sum has already been used in
contracts now in course of fuK
fillment.
Baldness is either hereditary or caus
ed by sickuess, meutal exhaustion,
wearing tight-fitti ag hats, aad by over
work and trouble. Hall's Kenewer
will prevent it.
Smothered in a Coffin.
Tom Bennett, a young farm
hand residing at Chavier, De
Kalb county, Ala., when pur
sued by a constable on the
charge of stealing a horse, ran
into an undertaking shop and
got into an empty coffin and in
duced a colored man to screw
on the lid The colored man
returned an hour later and found
that the coffin had fallen to the
floor, face downward. Hastily
turning it over and opening it,
he saw the corpse of Bennett,
showing signs of horrible suffer
ing. Bennett had evidently felt
the want of air and struggled
desperately to lift the lid, had
overturned the coffin and drawn
the lid still more securely on
and so smothered to death.
A Tree Planted By the
dent.
Presi-
Last Friday President Mc
Kinley planted an oak tree in
the White House grounds, re-es
tablishing a custon begun a good
many years ago, but broken by
President Cleveland. The tree
planted is a small scarlet leaf or
red oak. The President shoveled
the dirt in the hole after placing
sapling. There was no ceremony,
although the incident was wit
nessed by a number of people.
ALPHOSO JU DID IT.
Hie Startling Statement ot Dr.
Frank Chado.
THE WORK OF A TOR
PEDO.
Jymg by the 1 nousanas
Weak, Starving People Dig
Up Earthworms to
Feed on-Spanish
Brutality.
New York, March 21 Dr.
Frank Chado, who for the past
two years has served with the
rank of Colonel in the Cuban
rrmy under General Calixto
Garcia, and who was present
when young Gomez committed
suicide, on seeing his leader,
Gen. Maceo, fall, is iu this city.
Col. Chado came by the steam
ship Conchas, taking passage at
Havana.
H eluded the vigilance of
the Spanish authorities and
traveled under an assumed name.
When Col. Chado left New York
two years ago he weighed 210
pounds ; to-day he weighs 115
pounds.
'I have heard something of
the stories published in this
country of the distress in Cuba,
and of the thousands that have
died and are dying of starva
tiou." lie said to-day: "Noth
ing that has been published,
nothing that could be published,
could tell the story as it really is.
"I know of my own knowl
edge that iu many sections of
Cuba they are digging up the
earth for the worms that they
may find It is net every one
who is able to dig. Most of the
people are so weak that they are
unable to move.
They are dying by the thou
sand not the men who are do
ing or hope to do the fighting
that eventually must end iu tri
umph, but the poor women, the
children and the reconceutrados.
Ruin is every where visible.
Spain has been guilty of acts
that must make civilization
stand appalled, and the fact is
that th y are infinitely worse off
to day than at any time since
the war began. Victoiy is cer
tain ior the Cubans iu the near
future.
Of the present feeling among
Spaniards at Havana, Col. Cha
do says that is becoming moie
hostile for Americans every day.
"There is a feeling among
them," he said, "that the United
States is afraid to fight and that
they can do anything that they
please.
"I am as firmly convinced as
a man can be that the Maine
horror was not due to any sub
marine mine. This belief is
shared by all Cubans that the
Maine was blown up by a tor
pedo. Further, I believe that
the torpedo came from the
Spanish warship Alphonso XII.
As to our reasons for think
ing so. First, there is the fact
that the night before the Maine
explosion the Al.h jnso. which
had been anchored near, was
mqved to a safe distance away.
Second, the fact that not once
sinc the day of the explosion
has auy seaman or marine from
the Alphonso been allowed to go
ashore. The only inference is
that the officials are afraid the
sailors might become intoxi
cated and talk too much.
Colonel Chado has come to
New York for medical and sur
gical treatment, his right arm,
side and leg being paralized
from piivatiou, exposure and a
wound. He is a native Cuban
and one of the most active of
the insurgents. His wife and
three grown children still re
main in Havana. He has
served as Surgeon General un-
der General Calixto Garcia for
the past three ears, but at
letgth, unable to ride his horse
or dress himself, he received
from the insurgent commander
an indefinite furlough as invalid.
"I shall not return to Cuba
until she is Iree," he said.
STATE GUARD.
How The State Troops Would
be Called Out iu Case of War.
There has been some amuse
ment at the talk of certain couin
panies telegraphing President
McKinley offering their services
in case cf war with Spain, writes
Col. Fred Olds, in his newspaper
correspondence. Then he goes
on to show how the State Guard
would be called into service, as
explained by an officer, who
said :
"Suppose the President calls
on the Governor for say 5,000
men. The Governor would
order the State Guard on active
duty. It is part of the National
Guard, the first reserve oi the
regular army. The Naval Re
serves would recruit in the same
way. Members who have served
with the colors, say for the past
ten years, would be called on to
fill the ranks, and make at once
each regiment of twelve com
panies, giving three battalions
to each. This would give 4,800
officers and men in the brigade.
The Naval Reserves would re
cruit in the s-imc way to 500
men. In say tvvo days, the
thing would be done. Then all
that would be necess .ry would
be to rush iu a requisition for
the equipments and uniforms for
say 3,000 men. The 1,800 now
in the Guard would, of course,
be available for instant duty, in
tne state or out or it. it is a
force always at the command ol
the Governor or the President.
It is armed, clothed and equip
ped entirely by the United
States; in that respect not cost
ing the State a cent. The value
of such a force, not . perhaps
apparent to the mass of the peo
pie at ordinary times, becomes
doubly so now. The brigade is
now Out a skeleton, out witn a
complete organization and equip,
ment."
The Dangers of Spring.
Which arise from impurites in the
blood and a depleted condition of this
vital fluid may be entirely averted by
Elood's Sarsjparilla. Tins great medi
cine cures all spring humors, boils,
eruptions and sores, and by euricliing
and vitalizing the blood, it overcomes
that tired feeling and gives vitality
and vigor.
Hood's Pills cure nausea, sick head
ache, biliousness and all liver ills.
Price 25 cents.
Hklen Gould, who is worth
twenty-five millions in her own
right, has entered the law
school of Columbia University,
with the intention of qualifying
herself for admittance to the bar.
She does not mean to practise
law of course. What she wants,
says the Chicago Tribune, is to
learn how to protect her prop
erty interest wichout the aid of
attorneys, who are expensive and
not always scrupulously faithful
Miss Gould's example is a good
one for women who have wealth
in their own names to follow.
JlThft Hit
of the
Season
is made by
Ayer's Sarsa
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at this season
when Spring
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are with us,
there is noth
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Sarsaparilla
to put new
lffe into the
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tem. It sweeps
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webs. It does
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fit builds up.
Its benefit is
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AYER'S
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A PECULIAR WOMAN.
One of the Man-Hating Kind
Who is -'Boss" of the Balsam
Mountain.
(Correspondence Knoxville Journal.)
Asheville, N. C, March 4.
Most people have at some time
in their life heard the word man
hater applied to some woman,
but not many have had the
opportunity of seeing and talk
ing to one of these queer speci
mens of humanity.
The writer a few days ago in
making a trip through Western
North Carolina was traveling on
what is known as the Ducktown
branch of the Southern Rail
way, which runs from Asheville
to Murphy, N. C. About fifty
miles west of Asheyille, on the
summit of Balsam Mountain,
the train stops for dinner. A
family by the name of Christie
runs the hotel. It was here that
the writer learned that at this
place there existed a man-hater
in other words, a woman whose
peculiarities are to be found only
in one person in a hundred
thousand. After being told some
thing about her the correspond
ent became interested and decid
ed to stop and learn more of the
queer woman who is all the
talk of this whole section. Not
a man travels thro' this section
but what learns of her.
Her name is Miss Eliza Holtz
land. She is about 40 years old
and has been the telegraph oper
ator at this place for the past
four years, liver since she left
her home in Ohio she h?s lived
all alone iu a two room house
near the office. She has a lovely
horse, bicycle, dogs, cats, etc.,
and lives entirely to herself, not
even having anything to do with
other women iu the neighbor
hood. She .allows no one in lu r
office, not ev'.n the trainmen. Ii
there areata orders to be deliver
ed she takes them out to the train
herseli. Miss Eliza spends a
gitatdeal ol her time in fishing,
hunting, horte-back riding, etc.
Her costume is rather peculiar,
consisting of a loose shirts waist,
bloomers and leggings. In
stature she is about five feet two
inches. YA hen young she must
have been rather good lookiug.
When she hrst came to Balsam
the railroad and the traveling
men tried to guy her and have
some fun, but she got her a gun
and when any one did not at
tend to his own business he was
giveu to understand that he must
move on or take the conse
quences, which has resulted in
her becoming master 01 the
situation.
Miss Holtzland is well edu
cated, and railroad men say is
an expert operator, although
very little business is done from
this office. No one has ever
been able to find out much
about her, as she won't . talk of
herself or her people. She has
a brother who visits her nearly
every summer, and it is said that
he once told s,ome parties that
she had been disappointed in
love. When twenty years of
age she was engaged to be mar
ried to a well-to do gentleman
in Ohio, who, when the wed
ding day arrived, married an
other"woman, and that his sister
had been a changed woman ever
since, and that she went to Bal
sam so that she might lead a
quiet life.
Only a short time ago a line
man for the railroad company
had occasion to go into her of
fice to place some new iustru
ments. She demanded him to
leave as she said the instruments
were all right. He insisted that
she open the door or he would
break it in. Alter a while she
open-d the door, but stood with
a gun in her hand all the time
he was on the inside. She
seems to take a great delight in
sport and out of door exercise,
and spends considerable time in
reading. She is not afraid of
anything and prides herself on
the fact that she is independent.
One thing sure, she is boss of
Balsam mountain, and without
doubt the most peculiar woman
for hundreds of miles.
MASON CHALLEhGEO-
A Spanish Grandee Thirsting
For Gore.
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.
A Typical Westerner Steps Into
Senator's Shoes.
Winona, Min., Marck 21".
In response to the challe'nge of
Baron El Cardo, Marquis of Al
tavilla, Madrid, Spain, to fight a
duel with Senator Mason, of
Illinois, for the latter's utterans
ces in the Senate, Dr. George
Powell, of La Crosse, has eaGIed
the following acceptance of the
challenge in Mason's stead :
"To Baron El Cardo, Madrid.
Spain :
"Through the press dispatches
I am inlormed that vou have
challenged Senator Mason lo
mortal combat for words spol en
in defense of his position as the
champion of the patriotism and
principles of his country and its
people, in the United States ;
with usual Spanish generosity,
selecting your own weapon.
"Now, as Senator Mason has
spent a lifetime in the pursuit
of more humane calling and in
the walks of civilization which
has but poorly fitted him to
meet a bully at arms, as one
who has admired, and now en
dorses the objectionable words
and patriotism of Senator Mason,
I, a plainsman, a Westerner,
one of a class known as typical
American, typical because it
holds principle, as patriotism,
above price because it believes
that murder in the first degree
cannot be paid for with gold
hereby accept youi challenge,
and name the army pistol, the
old forty four, the organ of civil
zation, the instrument with
which the American pioneer
measures justice to assassins,
and while earnestly assuring
you and all your kind that thou
sands of men of my type stand
ready to stand in my tracks and
pick 114) my pistol if it should
fall, 1 sincerely thank the rep
resentatives of a thousand years
of barbarism for the opportunity
to fire the shot in revenge for
the Yankee sailors who led the
sharks in the bottom of Havana
bay."
(Signed)" GEORGE POWEEE.
La Crosse, Wis.
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is almost uuiversal and Hood's Sarsu -parilla
exactly meets this need. He
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Pointed Paragraphs.
(Chicago News.)
A self made man never ceases
to praise his maker.
Many a full dress suit covers
an empty stomach.
When actors quarrel they can
restore to the make up box.
Revenge is always sweet when
compared to the bitterness of
haste.
The wise woman marries for
protection as well as lor revenue.
Matrimony olten turns love's
sweet dream into a horrid night
mare.
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Consumption
Will SCOTT'S EMULSION
cure consumption ? Yes and Vj
no. Will it cure every case ? f
No. What cases will it cure
then ? Those in their earlier 9
jj stages, especially in youngf
people. We make no exag-
j geraled claims, but we have
g positive evidence that the
early use of g
1 Scott's Emulsion I
of Cod-liver oil with Hypo-
phosphites of Lime and Soda
in these cases results in a
positive cure to a large num-
ber. In advanced cases, how-
ever, where a cure is impossi-
hie, this well-known remedy
should be relied upon to pro-
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$oc. and fi.oe, all druggist.
SCOTT & BOWNE, ChcmUu, New York.
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Don't wait until your Wheel
gives out before you have it re
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Hrind it to
P. DeLON,
An Experienbed Bicycle
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and have it put in perfect order.
Work executed promptly and
prices at living rates.
My shop is thoroughly equip
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paired in I)e Eon's Shop can't be
fixed this side of the Eaetory.
A full stock of Hicycle Sup
plies alvas on hand at lowest
prices.
SIiop No .jo, M .tthcws Street,
FLIZABETH CITY. N- C.
Think Fishermen.
It is a bijj thing to
know when you send
after ice you will get it,
and t'l K0(,('. solid ice,
too. We have our
houses lull and cau re
plenish stock as fast as
sold, so we can furnish
you no matter which
way the wind blows.
It don't pay to forsake
old friends for new
faces, and we hope to
get your orders as lor
merly. Trices low as
auy body.
Look Here, Engineers !zB-
We have made a
specially of Ikst Steam
Coal, so please remem
ber us when in K. City
harbor. Long tons
and lowest prices ought
to bring you to see us.
Crystal Ice & Coal Co.
tyonuTiBnts aijd Tmbstones
In writing give some limit ax
to price and state age of de
teased.
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PROPRIETOR OIf TUB NEW
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WANTED. N. C.
Having recently entered into
the blacksmithing business at
Manteo, N. C, I solicit the pat
ronage of the public, promising
to give all orders my prompt ans
personal attention. My shopd i
located at the head of
Qrwf's :-: (gailways.
Repair work a specialty. Prices
low and work guaranteed.
Give 3Io ATrinl.
For Jfile !
A 22 acre Truck Farm on
the suburbs of Elizabeth City.
Apply to
feba Mrs. F. L. Grandy