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Farmer ELIZABETH CITY N. C, THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 8, 1900. .At,- ONE DOLL.AR Pr Year, in Advance.) The Official Paper of PASQUOTANK and CAMDEN Counties. (Established 1886. CITY DIRECTORY. Mayor. T.-B. WiUon. BOARD OF ALDERMEN. I. B. Mora, - - .21. N. Sawyer, J. C. Commander, J L Sawyer, li. F. Bpcuee. W. H. Weatherly Bryant Freeman. POLICE VI EN. W. C. Daw A. . C. Bell, Health Oificer, 1, ( I!' p. H. Ives Dr. H. T Aydlett. COUNTY OFFICERS. COMMISSIONERS. ", M. Sc-At, :-. N. Morgan, Chairman, Elisha Eiitcr S HER IFF. N. G. Uranily. L S. C. W. H. Jcunin;. REGISTER OF DEEDS v 15. ' 'ul pepper. TREASUUEU. W. A. Foster. r Iii r fu cl Sept. 24th TW A IN SERVICE. NORTH BOUND f,v. Eli?. City daily (ex. Sun) 2:45, p 111 At, Norfolk, " " .4-25. P Ml Lv KHz City.Tue.Tbur.&Sat 9:30, a. in A 1 Norfolk " " " 11 :oo, a in - ( TTIIOI'XI) I v Kliz. City (Jailv (ex Miu)tr 40 a.m j A r. Ed ntod ' " : 2: ;, p m Ai. Belhaven " " 5:20, p in l,v Kliz Cit v Tiie. Thu & Sat 5:55, Pm Ar. Edenton 6:55 p m MfTrains stop at all in termed!." te stations. STEAM BOAT - SERVICE. Steamers leave Kdcutou daily ( x cept Sunday) 2:45 p. m. tor Plymouth, Jarncsville, WiUiainton and V iud- s Leave Edenton Tuesday, Thursday : and Saturday 12:45 p. m for Chowan Kiver landings; and Friday for Scup- I eTrTt iTg "River. T Steamers leave Elizabeth Citv foi 1 Roanoke Island, Oriental and Ntw Berne, Tuesday, Thursday and Satur day 6:00 p m : connect with a & N.C. 1 R. K and-W & W. R R. for Goldsboro ! o , ucuicu Having imucu buuii uruers anu a. d Wilmington, S.C. the officers of the troop refused t0 say l.r Scuppctnon- River Monday and by whose orders the troops were as Wed nesd ay 12:00110011 and Friday fur Bembled. Mayor McCurry, chairman of F'a s4u0ta.uk River-iaadvags 12:3 p m.J the Honest Election League, this even- Steainers leave Felhaven daily (ex-j jng offered a reward of $5000 for arrest cepi Sunday for Washington, N.C. .and j 5 a. m.. luesday inursoay ami -amr-dav for Aurora south Creek Maklev vi lie etc. p'or further in forma; ion apply-io-M. II. Suowden, A.ent, Elizabeth City, or to the General Office of the N & S. R R. Co.. Norfolk, Va. M K.KING, ' H. C. HUDGINS. CTt jM'g'r. Gen FC&Pass.At ' MAN Iii. 0 ITEMS. Mr. T. R. Creef is quite s:ck Mr. Sun Midgett came in Monday with his father's vessel and the sails all blown in pieces He had been for a load of wood. anl was caught in the Sundw StOl 111. Miss Mary VVo i, of Bellcro. s, is teachipthe North end public school of this place. Tlie W P. M S has changtd their time of meeting to the second lSu-id;iy in each month, and will meet Sunday at the church. Tu- s ln- was elect-o 1 r'ay, and Thursday is the time for court to convene. Sunday was such a bad, stormy dav that all had to siay in doors, it being too bad for any services of anv kind. Owing to the PrJacher l aving to be away from . Croataa on Sunday, Mr. John Hunter Mid gelt aud Mrs. Swain were mars ried on Thursday night last, in staU. Mr. Lou's Hcoper returned home on S turday with his ves sel, from Norfolk, where he has been to carry a load of shingles E. Editor's Awful Plight. F. m Higgins. Editor Seneca. (Ills .) News, was afflicted fo years with F'iles that no doctor or remedy helped until he tried Buck1 en's Arnica Salve. 'He writes two boxes whollv cured him. It's the surest Pile care on earth and the best salve in the world. Cure guaranteed. Only 2 5. cents. Sold by Stand ard. Pharmacy druggist. FATAL RIOT IN DENVER. TWO JME2f KILLED AKD OTHERS WOODED. Fora A Clash Between Members of the Po lice Foree and a Posse of Deputy Sheriffs at a Polling Place A Hegr Depnty SherlfT nnd a White Police Officer Lose Their Lives State Troops I nner Ai Denver. November 6. -Two men dead and four wounded, one of whom will probably die, was the result of a Clash which occurred early to-day be tween members of -the police force and posse of deputy sheriffs at a polling place at Twenty-second and Larimer streets, in the down town district.Allen, a negro deputy sheriff, was shot and Instantly killed and Stewart Harvey, white, a special policeman, died late in j the afternoon at a hospital. Before a ballot was cast in Denver to-day trouble between the police department and the Sheriff's i office, which had been predicted. Had j begun and one man dead and five se riously wounded'was the result. Wif- ; teen hundred special policemen had been sworn in for the day and about one thousand special deputies. At 7 o uiuL'K special policeman unaries if. Carpenter and C. W. Green wei-e sent j to. the Second and Larrimer streets to supervise the opening of the poUs in District 2, Precinct Several special deputies were present. Orders had been issued by the rlre and Police j Board to refuse to recognize the au j thority of the deputies and to arrest any who in any way Interfered with I900. the police. Under these instructions Officer Carpenter ordered the deputies to retire one hundred feet from the . polling place. Hampton Jackson, col ored, resisted and, drawing a revolver, began shooting. One bullet struck Car- " penter's arm and a second his foot. Policeman Green came to the rescue of his companion, striking Jackson on the head and arm, fracturing his skull and breaking his arm. The blow broke the officer's oak club Shooting by the deputies became general, while the special police, who were armed only with clubs, were at a disadvantage. At this moment City Detective Car- berry ran up and opened fire with his revolver. Deputy Sheriff Charles Allen, colored, fell dead at the first shot. A score of shots were fired by the deputies, and Detective Carberry and Policeman Stewart Harvey, white, and Richard Harriman, colored, were shot, the former in the right shoulder and the latter in the left arm. It is not known whose bullets wounded them. finer-la 1 Policeman Green was shot in the back. None of these was fatally wounded. Although troop C, Colorado National Guard, assembled early at the Armory and remained under arms throughout the day, and it was understood to have been the order of Governor Thomas, h Gf rrr this af,ternon Positively and conviction of the men who killed Charles Allen. OTHER RIOTS. Philadelphia, November 6. Shortly before noon a sma-ll-sized riot broke out in the fourteenth division of the Fourth ward, where Congressman Mc Aleer resides. A number of negroes en tered the polling place and attempted to vote. Their votes being refused they drew revolvers and a number of shots were fired. "Paddy" McBride, a pugi list of some note, judge of the division, and said to be an adherent of Con gressman McAleer, was badly injured about the head by being struck with a revolver, and Hugh McCIoskey, an other McAleer follower, was arrest ed. Three of the negroes were also locked up. Wilmington, Dela., November 6. A riot occurred in the third election dis trict of Wilmington, which resulted in the destruction of the polling place. The district has a large negro vote and as the officers were nearly half an hour late in opening the polls, about a hun dred negroes assembled in line waiting to vote. As the doors opened they saw a white man. James McHugh, who had gotten in ahead of them, attempting to vote. This infuriated them and, rushing in they assaulted McHugh and the in spector, James Dugan, cutting both se riously. Policeman Sherry was also cut In attempting to restore order. The negroes destroyed the polling booth and the registration books disappeared in the melee. Brazil. Ind., November 6. In a riot at Caseyville, early to-day one man was killed. Eight men were severely wounded. Politics led to the fight. About fifty men became involved in a political discussion in a saloon during the night. The Democrats and Republicans finally separated, only to come together later outside the saloon. Some one shot Graves with a shot gun. In an instant many weapons were brought into ac tion. Over 200 shots were fired. . TIIE POPE'J EICfCUl'aL The Pontiff Kxtjort Iho World" to Sools the Redeemer of Mankind. Rome, November 6. The Pope has addressed to the Bishops an encyclical, dated November 1st, on the Redeemer, The Pontiff says he rejoices at the as, pemblage of Catholics from all parts of the world in Rome in Holy Year, which, he adds, demonstrates that the people ere marching toward Christ. He ex horts the world to seek the Redeemer, which, the Pontiff points out, is the road to truth and life, adding: "As Christ's coming to the world re formed society, the latter in turning to Christ, will become better and be gaved by following His doctrines and Sivine law, by discountenancing revolt against the constituted powers and avoiding conflicts." If the people acted so. the encyclical continues, they would all love one an other as brothers and obey peaceably their superiors. Neglect of God, the Pontiff further says, has led to so many disorders that the peoples are oppressed with incessant fears and an euih He concludes with urging the bishops to make known to ie entire world that the Redeemer and Saviouj of mankind alone can bring salvatioi and peace. . . . ; J A5fIW.il, TALE FROM THE SEA, Engineer Aeeount of ITU Wonder To I Python and Monkeys Asleep on the Steams'hlp Indrnvelll. " (New York Timea-V Chief Engineer John Drear of thYj KrUian fcieamship indravein, wnicn ar rived here from Singapore on Satur day has a pencnani for snakes, mbh-kej-s, and wild animals generally, and, according to his own account, must have transformed that vessel into a veritable menagerie. No land-lubber a yet has been permitted to see them, but if the privilege was denied to those whose '..iricsit" ir..pelled them to roard the Inu; avelli ASt-voay, It was for the good and-, sufficient reason, advanced with mueh urbapity by Engineer Drew, thatthey were asleep. The collection, Mr. Drew says, In cludes a python, twenty-six feet -long", thuee tailless black Javanese monkeys, which he has named McKinley, Bryan, and Irishman; twenty-three other'mon key's, with tails but miftus cognomen; ten squirrels, and a Japanese poode. "The python," said he- yesterday, "is a wonder, and I beJUeve he is. the larg est in captivity. H is from the Jungles of the Straits Settlements, ana had only been a prisoner for three weeks when I secured him. He hasn't given me a bit of trouble. He's beo asleep all the way from Singapore to New York, except for a few minutes on one or two nights, when he roused himself sufficiently to swa'llbw some chickens, a duck, and a rabbit. He swallows them alive, and they go down very slowly, and the men who have watched him say that it takes two or three days for the food to reach his dieestive brgans. He's So long, you know. He caught cold on deek one day and lost his color, besides sul fering from cataracts over his eres as a result of the. exposure, but a few days in the engine room fixed him up all rigrit. He is green, red, blue, white, arid several other colors. He is really -a beautiful reptile. I wish you oould sea him.. "The monkeys, though, are the cream of the lot. They are all from Java, and lively times on one or two occasions have we had with them. If it hadn't been for Irishman I don't know what might have happened. Irishman is the funniest looking monkey that ever lived, and at the same time the smart est. He is cross-eyed, and some of the men say that when he becomes sad or homesick the tears instead of crossing down his cheeks run down his back, but he is all right, nevertheless. He's on guard duty now or I'd bring him up. His companions, you know, are wild as yet, and his duty consists in looking after them and seeing that none of them gets into mischief. He has a great respect for the Captain. Whenever he happens to pass his way Irishman, like a well-drilled soldier, immediately stands at attention, and when the Cap tain gets abreast he salutes him with military precision. No "member of the Scots Guards could do the act better. McKinley and Bryan are fine monkeys, too, being over four feet in height. "One day when we were about six days out of Singapore the bottom of the monkey cage fell out, and we had a lively time. They jelimbed up into the rigging, invaded the officers'' and men's quarters, and for many hours every body was climbing, running, and jump ing trying to recapture them. One fell into the funnel and was cremated, an other got mixed up in a steam-pipe and was scalded-to death, while two-.others jumped Overboard. They were a vicious lot, and many a scar was left on the ship's company as a result of the jail breaking. Fortunately a monkeyis bite Is not dangerous or this story might never have been told. "Ar. to the squirrels, tney are Orient al in species, and in color and size, and length of tail, most beautiful; the poo dle is like all other poodles, except that he's Japanese. An orang-outang was also among the original collection, but he died a few days out of Colombo." WHAT'S IN A NAME, SAY YOU? Although the present fashion of christening children with family sur names is much to be commended for many reasons, sayr Truth, it carries with it some awfu possibilities un known In the days of Mary Anns and John Henrys. A glance at the following list, each name of which is genuine, will illustrate sufficiently well the pos sibilities of nomenclature resting with parents in their choice of names for the men and women of to-morrow: Edna Broker Mothershead. Marian English Earle. Sawyer Turner Somerset. WTilf W. Upp. Nealon Pray Daily. Owen Taylor Money. Benton Killin Savages. Ima Little Lamb. Broker Husbands Hart. R. U. Phelan-Goode. Marie A. Bachelor. May Tyus Upp. I. Betty Sawyer. Mabel Eve Story. Will WTaltz Wither. Waring Green Cotts. Iva Winchester Rifle. Etta Lotta Hammond-Degges. Barber Cutting Man. Weir Sick O' Bryan. Makin Loud Noyes. Hurd Copp Cuinming. RodenAr Pullman Karr. Doody Spies Sourwine. Knott Worth Reading. AN AWKWARD REASON. (Cleveland plain Dealer.) "And did you make up your bed every morning, as I told you?" inquired the loving wife the day of her return from a fortnight's visit. "N-nnt exactly every morning, my dear," stammered hubby. "But I said every morning." "B-but I didn't supp ?e it was neces sary pnless I slept in -it!" 1 Which was. to put it mildly, a some WliaLayYkiya:a excuse, CHANGES. (St. Louis Post-DIrpatch.) The Summer by us Softly crept; First thing we thought of It was Sept. Pull scon the streets will All be blocked With freezing rains a Sign of Oct. Then we will hug the Parlor stove A sure and certain Of Nov. Then will come Christmas, Time of peace, All in the crowning Month of Dec. What then? Ah, merci! Unto man Another century Comes with Jan. : - fKMO MECIEO - -, -. ... . . . . And 6 4i(MJSa UOUDllelS Repnirtcan. SCENES AT HEADQUARTERS. The Result Dscisive and Known Earl; in the Night. Hon. If. I- Maynard Elected by n 15 nnjorlty ItAryInn! and West VI- y clniH Reranln RepnbllcaH Ken tacky C lose and so Is Xebraakn. New York, November 6. Midnight "It became evident at a very early ho-ur this evening that the election of Mc Kinley and Roosevelt was assured. At half-past 8 o'clock returns from nearly two-thirds of the election districts of Greater New York had been received, indicating beyond question that Bryan and Stevenson could not expect, more than -25.000 or 30,000 plurality in this V Democratic stronghold, and unless there was a landslide In the outside counties beyond all reasonable expectation, th pivotal State of New York had de elared in unmistakaWa terms, although by a greatly reduced majority, for the f Republican candidates. A? the right progressed it only strved to confirm this judgment. The returns fronv Illinois betrayed a like condition. The Republican plural ity of 1S96 was greatly redueed, but it was still far too large to ba over come. On the other hand, the returns from Indiana, Michigan, the two Dakota, Utah and Wyoming, as well as Ne braska, '-seemed to indicate strong Re publican gains over 1896. Delaware, Maryland and West Virginia had given decisive Republican pluralities. The count i-n several of the far West ern States was naturally so delayed as to give little indication of the outcome there, but they had ceased to have a determining effect, and before 10 o'clock the Democratic leaders had given up the contest, and it was an nounced that Mr. Bryan had gone to bed and was sound asleep. The whole story was easily and brief y told. The Republican ticket would have a larger eteetoral vote than four years ago, but in -the larger States of the East and Middle West the plu ralities had been greatly reduced. Mas Bachusetts had fallen from 174,000 to 50,000, New York from 268,000 to 135, COO. and Illinois from 142,000 to 100,000 or less. The roll call of States at this hour is Apparently as follows: 53 2 o o D 1 o H Q, STATES: 3 Alabama Arkansas California Colorado Delaware Florida 3eorgia Idaho Illinois Indiana owa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Massachusetts .. Maryland Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri VIontana Vebraska Nevada Sew Hampshire New Jersey New York North Carolina . North Dakota . . 3hio Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island ... South Carolina . South Dakota .. Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia .. Wisconsin U'yoming 11 8 4 13 24 IS 10 13 6 15 8 14 9 9 17 3 I 8 4 10 36 3 23 4 11 12 15 3 12 I '4 ! I ! 4 I !. 6 ! I 12 t I 3 Total. . 142 I 266 If all of the unreported States should turn out es Democratic, a highly improb able contingency, it would not change the result. The latest returns from Nebraska Indicate a Republican plurality. - The Fifty-seventh Congress teems to be Republican by a substantial working ma jority. The Gubernatorial tickets have appar ently followed the national, and Odell f elected In New York, and Yates in lllino;. ! New York, November 7. At 12:30. thir ., norning National Committeemen Mr- ' iey Bliss and Gibbs held a confeien e it the conclusion of which the following : statement was given odt: "On the returns received at Republi- . fan headquarters up to this hour th? Republican . National Committee claim I to have elected McKinley and Roof velt by an electoral vote of 284, with! the possibility of twenty-one votes inj iddkk-n, making a total of 305. These :wenty-one votes consist of the thirteen votes in Kentucky and eight in No- J braska. The States we surely claim for McKinley and Roosevelt are Call- ; fornia, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinofs; 1 Indiana, Maryland, Iowa, Kansas, j Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Min nesota. New Hampshire, New Jerse.. New York. North Dakota, Ohio. Ore- ) gon, Pennsylvania, Rhode IsfandC South Dakota. Utah. Vermont, Wash- 1 Ington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Hanna arrived this morning from ni Wyoming." . - j cago and was driven directly To hfs The committee then closed their desks home on Lake avenue. Subsequently and left for their homes. frinceton. N. 3., ivovemoer . ivor- mer President Grover Cleveland ar rived here from New York at 12:57 to day, was driven at once to a polling place, and voted. He then proceeded tc his home. HE WAS DE8ERVINS OT 9TMPATHT. . Young) married, studious, vts!sry L ina very aosent-miBded, e sppnncrr- d -tn young lady at .the coon tec ' thouffh walkina in hia ilecn. uvi.ihaw. troit Free Press. . . JL L 'TTease let me see a somnle ,f your J left-hand 'pockets.'" "was his suronsJna request - , . "Beg pardon?" - " . 'USasipre ef -left-hand pockets;' L . "Be-g -pardon. iind the else sftsw .ed-how tall and .dignified she -could Bei yo&pibly you want me to. show jroa .ome button holes, needle evep, ar in yistble perforations" for emb.rbider." . TW, I think" hot. I recall hone of" .those on- the list. I'm acting for :ny ife,-you know. Charming woman, but' so unpractical. Thinks that he house t -mist. be, attended to, no-matter what . bepomes of the. shopping. You Jtave.no t .ieft-hand pocket?" "No pockets of any kind. Pqsaibjjr .rou wanted the opening to the pocket .or"a pump for Infla ting' the' pocket," ' and- the -Several -clerks who had gather- d round, looked at everything bt the ' customer. -.. "It.mJght be. J confess that I'm a.Jit He uncertain as to .ust what my wife 1 aid ask me to get. Come to think of it, j I have a list. Forgot all about it; hut- i ter, vegetables, oysters, sweet pola 7 J ah! here it ts, 'sample, left hand pocket, ! two yards." " "Then feel In your left-hand pocket.'' 1 X t , . .. ., I mugnea. true nera, ana an tne otner clerks .laughed. lie did- There was a sample of nar- -row ribbon. The combined talent of the clerks matched IV, and the customer ' wdlfrlerVd why they all beamed io -benignly cn him. MUSICAL SUNDAYS AT "VINK ACHE." "Sunday !s a great day at 'Vineacre,' the home of Kthelbert Nevin. the cprn poser. at Edgeworth, Penns.Iyania," writes Willa Sibert Cather, in the No vember LadifB' nome Journal. "All the r-latlvs and all' their friends trwip Into the big. rambling old house, and Mr. Nevin plays and sings fur. them all day long. He has a choir of little girls, se lected from among the neighbors' chil dren, who practice with him every Sun day evening before the lamps are'lit. After they are hustled off to bed he sits with his old boyhood friends sing ing the old songs they used to sing to gether when be was just 'Bert.' and telling stories of those good old days in Edgewoeth. These musical Sundays are never interrupted at 'Vineacre,' and in all of his wanderings in Europe Mr Nevin always kept the day as they kept it at home. Music is a necessary feature of' daily life there. Ms. Nevin's father is himself a composer and writer of verses, and the first grand piano that was ever shipped West of the Alle ghenies was carted over the mountains for Ethelbert'r mother, then Miss El'hsa I beth Ollphant. of Cniontown. Pennsyl vania, wren, a rew -montns ago. nis mother was dying, she would not al low this. musical routine, this old habit of song, to be broken. On the night she died, sitting In the room next to hers, he played to her as he had done since he was a boy." WINTER SKIRTS. Plain skirts are considered very smart, but that does hot by any means signify that trimmrd skirts rave-gone oot of fashion. Quite the roTtr-rtrv; for the drcs makers are all busy turning out skirts, that show the greatest quantity, of line work, and it really must needs tax the. ingenuity cf the designers to evolve so manyxnew ideas all fhe time. A good titns tration 'of this Is shown in a satin and net gowiNhat i-s made of a delicate shade. of. rose pink. The body .of the skirt is of rose pink accordeon-l'leateu net trimmed with two wide bands of silk or satin of exact ly the same shade cut out in pointed sca"T-' lofts at both sides. The points of the scallops are held together with bands o pfnk ruchlng, and on the foot of the skirt between the p ints are large flowers .of. exactly the. same shade of pink. The waist of the pir.k ret has a lichu of the san e, and a dainty trimming of lace just in front, while" a high draped belt of green velvet carries out the coloring of a pink rose, which was evidently the plan of the gown. Harper's Bazar. WOULDN'T LIVE MOUSTACHE LESS. (New York Sun.) Solomon Folowitz. a fish peddler, who was known over a large part of the East Side on account 01 his remarkable xioustache, committed suicide yesteT lay after ti.e moustache .had been pulled cut by the locts In a rough and' rumble fight. Hh? wife says that the oss of h:s moustache ivas the cause of his a :t "It has been growing since I was a fcyy." he said, y ben he came home bruiJ-ed and bleeding, after the fray. 'It is my whole he nor." Immediately" ifterward he "drank two ounces of car bulic acid. It was. a remarkable moustache, so. ong that Solowitz could tie it In a knot THE CHINESE LANGUAGE IS LOG ICAL. Every word m the Chinese language has a logical reason for its existence and peculiar formation, and each word consists of either one individual char acter or a number of them combined in order to make a complete word. Taka the v ord field a square, a square di vided into sections or lots. When the .Vord man is 'written by the word field :he combination makes the word farm ?r. indicating the avocation of a man who is associated with fields and agri culture. Still mere suggestive is the Chinese word, truth, sincerity, falthful aess, honesty. It is farmed by the com bination of a man and word, thus ex pressing that one form of honesty con sists in a man standing by his word. The word for box is indicated by a square having Cpur t . ies of equal length, while a prisoner is literally a man in a box. a fact which is often grewsomely illustrated in China whea a criminal 4s stnienoed to dbath, and is carried to the place of- execution In a tquare box. Frederic Poole, In tht OctoTjer Ladies' Home Journal. SENATOR HANNA VOTES. Cleveland. O., November 6. Senator 1 he went to Frecirei er tne raw I ward, where he deposited bis vote. It required only a few seconds tor tne Senator to mark and told his ballot, which was taken to mean that he had voted a straight ticket. - . KEAT SM).S(l,l(, "rk of a (iojornm. nl Dredge In Beepeatnc thethnnnel of tbe St. 'hu River. -"" , (Florida Times-Union ar.d ClMren.) I One of the most powerful dredging machines In this country Is dee'penisTsj he channel of tbe St. John s river, and At the rate it has been working for the fast ten days. It would not lake long M have deep viator from th-.p M:y to the bar. The dredge Is the Government fleam sand-sucker Cai e F-sr. cona nnandrd by Captain W. -A. Crawfbrfl, snd hsiilng from Southport, N. O. Tiie 'amount of work that is being done by this dredge Is BOtoaHt&ble, and it Is so enuch more rapid and c mplete than the ,worK - accomplished by the old t Ime .steam shovel that a statement of fig ures' would make a reroh riot ac quainted with whtt It d "V-- A- -'the figures show what is being d ne Tsnd what can be, done b this por-rful piece of machinery. . For the past ten day-the drdar has- .been at work on the White Shell shoal, a stretch of shallow water covering an Immense sand bar, nearly opposite St. John's Bluff, and near the S rtiers. Dur ing .the time that yrork haji been Kuig 'on, a stretch of sand 20C feet in lengl 100 feet wide and three tee C deep has been removed, making In all 2222 cubic .feet of sand that has been sucked op from the bottom of the river to n.ake a channel. In order to tnke up this quajit.ity cf 'sand, powerful engines have been em ployed continually during 'each day. The sand is sucked up by pdwer gen- eratrd by two compound engines i f i Q horse, power each, con ing through two .pipes, each fen !neh s in dlan which carry iW-to r. con purtmcnt In the forward part d the dredge ca ible jf holding 3f0 cubic yards, qr .ti.m 4U tons of sand. This . inpartment Is al ways tilled, eithej with water 1 : sand As the sand Is thrown Into It, the wutei ripes and goes out thtOUghTWo ovetflow pipes on either side of tne vess 1 mu the river. Winn ail fhe water is out the bins are full of rand, which are then dumped. Th.- di.dgr Is run to shore, or where tlje dUmpfng ground ,anay be, and the sand is allowed to go through the bottom by ir.eans of two large gates that are opened by loos-e . Ing four large scVews, One man having charge of each screw. W hen these gates are opened the sand goes out of the bottom and the compartment la im mediately refilled with water. This dumping process is repeated as often as the compartments are filled with sand. It is necessary to have the bin till, d with either water or sand, in order to keep the stern from sinking, as all the heavy machinery, is placed aft. The force with which the sand is sucked up is terrific;- it gushes up con tinually, reminding one of an enormous boiling spring, throwing out sand antt water. The maehio -y used in the sucking process. 'as well as the engines that drive the dredge, are very power ful, but are packed in a small space, to give all the room possible to the -placing of sand. The capacity for sucking Is 3000 cubic yards a day, and this can be kept up day and night if necessary. The tug engines are of 150 horser-power. being of the compound type, one located forward and the other aft. It fs interesting to witness the work of the dredge, to see the large boat push forward, making her own channel, fill up with sand, back out "and go to the dumping ground. Tin account of the deep draft of the boat, it is impos sible for It to be pushed ahead over the bar on which work is being done, but backs out of the channel it has made, and theYi, after freeing itself of the load of sand, goes back in the same channel and. pushes it further. When the work was first commenced on the White Shell -shoal, it was Impossible to work on low tide on account of the shallow waterv but the work that has bwn com pleted has been done in such a satisfac tory manner that a channel sufficient to allow the working in low water has been dredged, and there i. no delay ex perienced now. The work is being in spected by Captain Janus V. Wilson, who has charge of the measurements, and superintends the dumping. The Cape Fear was built in 1895 by the Hillman Company, of Philadelphia, and was constructed for the express purpose of deepen i tig the Cap par bar and the Cape Fear river from Southport to Wilmington. When this work was completed 'several months tyere spent deepening Cumberland Sound bar, and fron there this power ful machinery was sent to Ja ksmville to deepen the St. J hn's bar and river. The dredge cost $57,500, and has paid for herself several times. why he Wanted the quarter. A tattered and t rn, red-faced stranger slouched up to me on Front street the other ev n ng, says a .writer. In the Worcester S y. ,". f. re he open ed his mouth I knew j.;at it was a "touch," but I c uldh't get away and had to hear hinjout. "Say. young feller, if I was ter tell yer that I wanted a quarter ter f,"-t a square meal you'd U ink l wanted the money ter buy rum wltfi.Wouldn't yer?" That's just what 1 thought and I so Informed him and star! d to pass on. "And if I was ter be frank and tell yer that I wanted rfce quarter to buy whiskey with you't! t-el! me that you didn't care to ur" the drink habit I Suppose?" 1 - broke In. I again answered him in the affirmative , and started to move 0. "And if I told ye: f quarter to buy fo and twenty email '. me down as a liar. Again I said yes, a I I wanted that r a starvin' wife lh en you-'d put uldn't yer?". ;rl tried to get' past him. "Well, young f fl r, T want that quar ter ter hire a truck man to takt my mother-in-law's trunk down to the de pot. Do I get it?" "I was phased for once, and before I knew it had dug into my j'-ans and dis covered a lor..- nickel. I compromised ith him for that am u:.t, and sent hirh on his way rej c ing. . FINE MORTUARY OPPORTUNITY. In advertising his business for sale, an English undertaki 1 says: "Sanitary arrangements' thufch neg ected; mortality from fevers excessive ly high: total death-rat 10.7 higher than any tmvn . . : radius of fifty miless one trad c 1 itor carpenter) only. Excellent bpn g ff,r -energeiie man willing to put hi beast into the business." . MR. CROKER VOTES. New York, November 6 Richard Croker, leader of Tammany HaH sur prised the election inspectors in his dis trict by walking into the polling plk'ce five minutes after the poll had opened. Mr. Croker'a ballot was No. 8. and ballot No. 9 was handed to hl sen, frank, wno sccmpanled nlm. n . CV a iii.trKsMhr hi. as a 1,00. fhe nrTi-ilonS-ri. i.is,,ulrr llellta f Monhfii (oiinl), Pa., Tells Abonl. "The mus wondrful des 1 f snake anywhere. 1 guess, said J idg B Jugf Wright of Btsvben unity, Ilea ti to the south -of ld e;trLi. !n a llg stretch of deep, dark woods In Potter rounty. Pa., known as t) 't .o k For est It is a blacks! alM d si A v-at never gp fy thu; .:.. . nPff ba.cksBakefl are nol rered ty superior' i;unvOra. of hjmbnf mts." ? bark .-eler o r r thei c ; : .. si ai afsji prowl ah m: p f t tM un wary, teamsters an: ui ing per- SOS afot. I J r. . . , I i is an- other ti 1 cn th! x- - ,whro u " roonsirt us . . .m 04 frond. 1 dA.rt't U, , j . i lU-vl hiskea them gr- w so blj re, but my opinpfw -is thai the i..' t . u.id and hard to get at tl : th t.ia ur.i!! puted ; , . : . t . n ach a p&trisrcoal'siji ail kl t n ytsc with laeii years 1 lie: . get Just -:s big . . enl) g-i the elms "Tht-?. w r.o .: . f?t scir of t! I .!. k were b-n long I fore'i would if tht y uould ItiQ it .ia . Itta tulr. . : v . ; h settled. 1 have 1 fscea as 'rinkb : Lug graV ! r en srot ht t - i .ti , .t hull, tells fcbtfl oil th.io onci : lamp on Its side 1 : lump sti. Inti'S or -an head th r uid be but one t . presence f t .'. - ar nake had been tH 1 by ni time. As then 1 bur. ting with b w's .1 1 3ounti j (uf a,lt.yt ' ,. : uiht tl.e in! Uwely native btfi m 1 1. rhite man there.il I . ... M j . : VVo d- d .1 wn . Il K . . nd a n,I it 1 r . 1 1 1 hi t t I '11 . !!; nil) l".i..ina that f :i a . . 1 nl t b ..1 ! dy know i: v oif. 5 r, ti i-vn t11.1t. tit her. J pjir 1.' Jiat th- fra kt wit'a 1 than a hundred yearn . I ib hale and hf-: tj ..r . . , . e. "I Bsy ."-"-iLin- IIxmI s It ' I I 0 ut that fa he 1 flry a torrei . 1 i inore . .va , iUld : ke. eel ' 1 m-nt. .!i i ' t region tn! : f. i 1 . 11-. mtp l! r,rjdt. ind .1 w 1 y 1 gme 1 . ! :.'. 11 on t ru- snake lie uc lurobci : , tl and had a lvt tl , : 1 ing down u t :, . Acrid ntall) a 1. . it went rr hi,; Hlf -. t. kI m n ii 1 teadbue ihi ti tm tea lij 1 . G t ! ft ) 1 nan U i iaoe . '1 ru iheH II t log. a-hf r it i..... . '. ngnt out in tbe - . ii Fhere Is no tell! . vvl thought the I r v . bi lently In u sta te wf supi ffir he st' ; pc 1 fthO ra 1 and a ait d t he coi ii .og kept 1 IgHt n I I Sltb all .the f 1 1 it t t . . . it na eel" fury a t It. ': htS h"iid up ihe l g. Tus j : the snake a u m vil.i 1 1 d. nnd the b-K : up a:;aiiift rh,- wa s i Il b -ii Hopped ;i s i! I rork. The . qt A :i t he bill up against ind found th it 2 :- the snake, a :ii 1 he nadn'l f n o 1 . . 1 t ii it ir he Woul i-rt oak.- and. , ho r 'tir neve .kunw n. vj h ii-h ferhlch was the I r. Df a sizw. The ( the shock, thoi hits nevt-r f 11 I t n tn-.s in 1 olfli g 11 ie had cut 1 1 1 lurr. : row b ad, .-1 1 i!:ad fr"H ire Hollti hia foolish k aftee ;il ' ' .!:d the ,ir- ul away inse he never I (J 1 ' i)t was. thai if lbs ned juid it 00 llltn us Slthoul mea esu r':t; Could tell how 1 riu- Squire t ays, make old ha pawed t j j it would h lire s pile of sixt ej.-l : lumids s fool and a half w ide y one ever tvnigiit. That B!.ak of or-.-. wn in ntceptlon to the nidinary run of Blacsi For. st .n.'.k s. ! otn . hat the Squire Bdyi, Hit re n't di $ do'ilbl at ill In my mind thai H w the rounder if the Dtacksnake fai n thai eoun :ry. Tiiere wasn't a ria hall os ini, plough, nnd ids teeth - sound on 1 pebble." REFLECTIONS OF A RACIIELOIt. ( New Yqrk Ii se Care will only kill u it, but it will gi a woma n vrrlnkb All -the j.lain wsei ri In .-i I urch t -sent it if tht- n .. riiinistei ban got a pretty wife. Jonah probably bi igffed rh'- r t of his lif abou.1 bow . u the iyha)e couldn't kee p him rlow n Whenever a woman Imagln her owe funeral, she has a 1 ut In Icr mini of some man "w ping hi heart out" in a corner. A woman's D1At I fully developed till si: ber plant die or h.r n t irs peve h id a r ub in i laaifdee .1 In a green 'ub. One touch ttf natun the wl World in. A man's feet mal s , mu n'i hi,n oak. I) h( a a.. When a gifl Is r IS' in lore Mr noiJ turns cold h-:i ' -i ' I nlm A man died a f ' go and ac cused th- devil of lnv the v.lad sandwirh," and he ha yet. Thi. f'.vo m t : 1 1 up on hiss - t in t he n-,.ri,l that a mar. I ' to fUl up with are the Map with a ' Ul il on the front of a ahlrt, ai 1 a rh h wed ding. The women allow themselves b?s n privileges. They will get 'tnemselveW photographed with low cut $rtae n and no aleeves, but - man. can't -vo have his picture thki n Ifi Ma dr- suit THE PRESIDENT 1 IIS VOTE. Canton, o., N . t i President McKinley cast hia bal .: oAeloi k thin morning. The 1 - nt gret'led the knots of p-op)e gath red m fi ml ef 'be house and u omj t.i-,4 bis, besrty hand-shake with 1 ; ,. . ,oal greeting. Down Mai et striwt'he and Judge .pay walked, ai I the president was kept busy raisin bat to the many grt-tings Slcrg ay. Tt.e windows of one Iff 1 I - rfes -.v.ih crowded with WOrkmM3 .. 1 ir luw a che-r as h- j iass d a. g to I . p dls. At the voting place quite' & 1 r..vd had collected. Thu President k haAtis with some of the off! Is ,u,,j tn-n stood while the qui -. na required' bv law were ak d. ' . . : M the question answered, th- Prestdent S&epsxd ihtr the, booth and renain 1 fully a mir.uve acsnning the ticket He marked it so as to Tote th efeir - itciuollSan -.ii-umn. Judge Day then vpted and tje party started back lo the house, re ceiving further fn. -.-.' ;. . 111 listrhtloof along the wgjr. GOV. ROOSEVELT CAaVS iii.-i E AL LOT. ' New York, November 9. Governor Roosevelt voted at his home in Oyster bay at 10:30.
Fisherman & Farmer (Edenton, N.C.)
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