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An' wheu the snow conies siftin' through
the winders o' the sky.
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er hot and dry!
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on the plain:
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lookin' rough,
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the linal lot.
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an' t'other place too hot!
Fuank L. Stanton.
Power of Expression.
In the good old days when there
was less to do than now, or more
time to do it in, men and women
studied and cultivated two arts that
are now greatly neglected, the art of
conversation and that of correspond
ence. We know of their conversa
tional powers only by description or
through presumably faithful stage
representations of manners and cus
toms of a bygone age, but an abund
ance of correspondence has been pre
served that serves to show us how
the art of letter-writing had been
cultivated. The letters make lively
and entertaining the most common
place matters in a manner to which
we are not now accustomed. Much
of the conversation was no doubt idle
gossip, many of the letters are shal
low and of no permanent value; but
they serve to show the importance
of learning how to give good expres
sion to whatever thoughts we may
have. Our stock of ideas may be
imited, but we should at least learn
how to dispose of it in the most ef
fective way in the show window.
Learning is of more importance, in
theory at least, than ability to give
good expression to thought without
earning, but it is nevertheless desi
rable that one's powers of expression
should be developed that one's learn
ing, great or small, may be made
useful. A distinguished orator is
seldom a great thinker, but he has
learned the art of expression; he
plays upon words with a glib tongue
and moves his auditors by his elo
quence, even when he tells them
nothing that is new and presents to
their-minds no sentiment that they j
have not entertained before. He has
learned the art of expression and has
become a leader of men because he
has learned to talk convincingly. He
seldom speaks without having in his
audieuce men who know more about
the subject of his discourse than him
self, men who could correct his er
rors and carry his speech to a logical
conclusion; but they are for the most
part men who have not studied the
art of expression and who would be
dumb if called upon to express them
selves. The mere manner of an orator is
impressive, tie is seii-conncieni ana
utters commonplaces in a big round
voice, with pauses provided for in
evitable applause, and carries him
self with such airs as to convince
even those who know better that he
is a great thinker and a learned man.
Sometimes the orator is really learn
ed; more often he is nothing more
than a master of the art of expres
sion an elocutionist. But because
there are charlatans in the business
is no excuse for the common neglect
of learned men to acquire the arts of
expression. Their knowledge is of
no value while it is locked up in their
own minds. They should learn how
to give it expression in attractive
writings or speech, instead of leaving
the field entirely free to mere mas
ters of style. It would be ignoble to
study means of expression alone, but
those who have learning or ideas
should not neglect the means which
stvle in writing and speaking give
them to make their writings or their
speeches interesting and effective.
They Are What You Make Them.
Once upon a time there was.said to
be a man moving from one section of
the country to another. One night
while camping near a farm house, the
gentleman went out to cnat mm
awhile. The man who was moving said
that he was glad to get away from
his old neighborhood that he had
the meanest neighbors in the world.
His visitor replied, "They will be
just that sort where you are going."
Soon, another mau from the same
neighborhood camped at the same
place and had the same visitor. He
remarked that he was sorry to leave
his old neighborhood, for he had the
best neighbors in the world. "You
need not trouble yourself about that,"
said the other, "you will have just as
kind neighbors where you are going. "
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ARI REVIEWS WAR.
The Death of "Tige" Anderson Causes a
backward Glance.
General G. T. Anderson (Old Tige)
and Colonel Tom Taylor have just
passed over the river. They were
near the same age and were close to
gether during the civil War. Gene
ral Anderson was our brigade com
mander and Colonel Taylor comman
ded one of his regiments, the First
Kentucky. Since the war one of
them was made chief of police of At
lanta and the other of Louisville. Ky.
Taylor was next to the last of the
surviving colonels of that brigade.
It was General Bartow's old brigade,
composed of the Seventh, Eighth,
Ninth and Eleventh Georgia regi
ments and the First Kentucky and a
Virginia battery. The regiments
changed their colonels many times,
and of the old Eighth only one (Col
onel Towers), who was its fifth colo
nel, now survives. None but the
veterans know how numerous were
these changes of commanding offi
cers. The records show that but
one of the Georgia regiments that
went into service in 1861 and 1SC2
brought back the same colonel it
took out. The officers of the compa
nies were changed oftener than the
colonels. Deaths, resignations and
promotions were ever going on.
Captain Twiggs's company of the
First Georgia regulars had twelve
different captains during the ser
vice. The personnel of the privates
was also continuallychanging "dis
charged" or K. I. B. (killed in bat
tle) is appended to more names
than half the first muster rolls, and
recruiting was constantly going on
to fill up the files.
But I was ruminating; about old
Tige and Tom Taylor, for after Gen
eral Bartow was killed I was trans
ferred to General Anderson's staff
and followed his fortunes for nearly
two years in the Army t)f Northern
Virginia. He was every inch a sol
dier. He never questioned the wis
dom of an order, but obeyed it.
"Ours not to make reply:
Ours not to reason why:
Ours but to do and die.'
was his motto. I do not believe he
ever experienced the emotion of
fear. We thought that sometimes
he was too daring. I remember that
on one morning during the oatties
on the Chickahominy he wished to
make a personal reconnaissance of
the position of the enemy on its left
flank, and asked Major Ayer and
myself to ride with him. There was
a wide, open field between the ar
mies, probably 1,000 acres, and our
wing was covered by a forest of
thick woods curving round the open
space in form of a semi circle. We
kept covered by these woods until
we had got round and were as near
to the federal batteries as we dared
to go. The general said: "Well,
there is no use in going back the
long way that we came. Let us
take the diameter of this circle and
save a mue or two. iney win
see us and open fire," said I. "Let
them shoot," said he, "they can't
hit us. We can outride their balls,
come on; follow me," We did fol
low, but we dident want to and
there was no necessity for taking
such a peril. I never will forget
that ride. The federal batteries
opened fire quickly as we flew along
the plain. The six-pounders sent
their balls over us and behind us
and before us, and some bounded
along the ground quite near us, but
the general only waived his hat and
smiled. We were all well mounted
and made the trip safely, but I never
made another reconnaissance with
him. One evening our brigade was
at rest on the bank of the Rappa
hannock. We had made a long
march and were waiting orders.
The boys were sitting down or lying
down upon the grass. The enemy
were massed behind the mountain
range that skirted the opposite
banks of the river.
We could not see them, but we
knew they were there, for their bat
teries amused themselves by firing
over the mountains and dropping
their shot and shell at random over
us and beyond us. They exploded
in the air and did but little harm.
We were not alarmed and watched
them as we would a pyrotechnic dis
play. General Anderson was stret
ched at length upon the ground and
we were not far away. His fine
horse was cropping the grass and
the general held him with a long rein
that was attached to the bridle,
While we were chatting quietly a
shell exploded directly over us and
a murderous fragment struck his
horse on top of the head and killed
him instantly. Our nearness to the
danger stopped all conversation, but
the loss of his horse aroused and ex
cited Old Tige beyond measure.
Looking at his horse that was dying
at his feet he used language accord
ing to his anger and indignation.
His anathemas were fearful. "We
will pay them for that," he said. "I
would have given my right arm for
that horse. But we will pay them
back two for one. We have come
here to fight, and old Bob will give
us a chance to get even. Blast their
infernal batteries! All they dare to
do is to hide behind a mountain and
shoot over it." We did get even,
and Old Tige was comforted; for in
a few days the second battle of Man
assas was fought and a great victory
won. Forty-eight thousand troops
under Lee utterly routed and van
quished 80,000 under Pope.
I never think of General Tom Tay
lor but what I think of the great
battle of Drainsville, iu which he fig
ured and a smile comes over my
memory. The fun of that battle last
ed our boys a long time, and Major
Ayer at Rome is not done laughing
at it yet. The valley of Drainsville
was neutral ground and the harvest
of hay was great. The two armies
were in winter quarters and wanted
it. Jeb Stuart assured Gen. Johnston
that if he would furnish the wagons
and teams and a regiment of infan
try he would go for the hay. He. said
that the owners were mostly south
ern men and wanted us to have it.
Old Joe was suspicious, but consent
ed. The federals were nearer to it
and had a large force of" cavalry in
their camp. Tom Taylor was sent
along with his regiment, and Major
Ayer put in charge of 400 wagons
with four-horse teams to each. It
was about fifteen miles to the valley
over a pike road that was generally
wide enough for teams to pass each
other, but was very narrow where
cut through the little hills. Many of
these cuts, a hundred yards long,
were not more than ten feet wide.
The day and the scheme was kept
profoundly secret.
One morning about the break of
day our boys were aroused by the
unearthly rumbling sound of 400
wagons rolling over the pike, but
that sound was nothing to the roar
ing of those wagons ou their return.
That train of wagons was nearly four
miles long and by the time the head
of the column got fairly into the val
ley and the major began bossing the
loading of the foremost teams Tom
Taylor, with his men, were resting
iu the suburbs and Jeb Stuart, with
2,000 cavalry, were paraded on a hill
overlooking the vallej-. Just then
(5,000 federal cavalry came charging
down from some hiding place behind
the woods and for an hour or more
Stuart and Taylor had their hands
full. The federals had an artillery
company to help create a panic and
they were after the wagon train in
desperate determination. In the
confussion that followed the surprise
Stuart ordered the wagons that were
loading hay to countermarch in
double quick and they performed
that maneuver with alarcity until
the head of the procession reached
the pike and could get uo farther,
for the body and tail of the train
blockaded the highway for two miles
back.
Then came' the groat stampede.
"Then rushed the steeds from battle
driven." All along the line the alarm
was given, whips were popping,
teamsters bawling. "Turn, men;
turn and save your teams," exclaim
ed the major. "The yankees are
coming." And they did turn, but to
this day nobody knows how. Some
of the wagoners swore afterwards
they flew over and some crawled un
der and some turned a four-horse
team in an eight-foot cut. Colonel
Taylor ordered his men to guard the
wagons, but they couldn't keep up
with them. Staurt's men were in a
hand to hand fight with the enemies
cavalry and slashed them with
swords and shot them with small
arms; but they were outnumbered
and had to fight and fall back at
every charge.
It was about the middle of the
afternoon when the roaring of the
stampeding train reached our camp
ground. Old Joe Johnston heard it,
for the sound thereof was like the
sound of many waters. He under
stood it at once and ordered a whole
brigade and battery to double quick
up the Drainsville pike. "I told
Stuart, " he exclaimed, "they would
trick if he didn't look out. Those
rascals in that valley are nearly all
union men and they got word to the
enemy. I'm afraid we have lost some
of our wagons, and it will be a hard
joke on Stuart." Later on we per
ceived great clouds of dust gathering
over the pike and the roaring came
louder and louder and nearer and
nearer, and by and by, with the aid
of a field glass, we could see Major
Ayer rise over the top of a distant
hill and halt. He is a fine rider and
was astride a fine horse whose name
was Selim.
He saw the brigade coming to the
rescue and slowed up, the long pro
cession behind him. Man and beast
continued on third page
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AT HOME AND ABROAD.
The News From Everywhere Gathered
and Condensed.
Four seats on the New York Stock
Exchange sold Tuesday for $03,000
each.
Fire at Danville, Va., Wednesday,
destroj'ed half of a business block,
causing a $120,000 loss.
Burglars took about $1,000 from
the bank at Pioneer, O., Monday
night, by using dynamite.
A run on the First National Bank,
of Moscow, Idaho, was checked Mon
day by a union of business men.
At a dog fight in Obeon, Tenn.,
Friday, Thomas Childress knockout
Frank Lutz's brains with a club.
The postoffice safe at Ludlowville,
N. Y., was blown open on Tuesday!
night and $400 in cash and stamps
stolen.
Knocked off a telephone pole by
the electric current, Joseph South
was killed at Connellsville, Pa., Sat
urday. A heavy rain and hail storm passed
over Northern Arkansas, Saturday,
doing immense damage to crops and
property.
Thirteen men were overcome by
gas in the Great Northern Cascade
tunnel in Washington Saturday, one
man dying.
By the fall of a steel girder at the
Penn Bridge Works, Beaver Falls,
Pa., Saturday, James Denwiddiewas
crushed to death.
An explosion of natural gas in the
Commercial Hotel at St. Mary's, W.
Va., Monday, destroyed the build
ing and killed four persons.
The Rosebud mine at Aurora, Mo.,
caved in Friday and buried five men
at a depth of 1 10 feet. It may be a
month before they can be reached.
While playing highwayman at
Union City, Pa., Sunday, Harry
Barnes, aged 1G, accidentally shot
and killed Burt Harnett, his chum.
Iu the hanging of Thomas E. Ket
chum, the train robber, at Clayton,
N. M., Friday, the head was severed
from the body by the force of the drop.
Virgil P. McMaster,of Nineveh, N.
Y., an executor of the estate of Jane
Bush, of Co!esville,has been arrested
for misusing $23,000 of the estate
funds.
Last month's fire losses, amount
ing to $15,000,000, have aroused in
surance men to seek greater protec
tion against present methods of elec
tric wiring.
By the explosion of cinder at a
furnace in Lebanon, Pa., Tuesday,
George W. Fike and James Kepler,
two cinder snappers, were almost
roasted alive.
The schoonor Samuel Ricker was
run down and sunk Friday off Corn
field, Conn., by the Fall River stea
mer Pilgrim, Captain Allen, of the
schooner, being drowned.
Two men robbed an express car
near Gordon, Ga., early Friday
morning, but did not get all the
money there. The express messen
ger was found bound and blindfolded.
For some unknown reason William
D. Bender committed suicide by
shooting at St. Louis, Mo., Tuesday
noon, while a carriage was waiting
at the door to take him to his wed
ding. Eight employes of the Washington
Traction and Electric Company are
under arrest, charged with conspi
racy to defraud the company by us
ing tickets which were ordered to be
burned.
Becoming suddenly insane Thurs
day afternoon, George II. Brainerd,
an electrician of Portland, Me., shot
and killed five of his fellow workmen
while chatting with them in the tel
ephone exchange.
While fishing in the Savannah
river near Elberton, Ga., Wednes
day afternoon, Miss Rhoda Alexan
der was assaulted by a negro work
man, William Golsby. The negro
was captured and lynched that night.
The President has pardoned Hen
ry Gardes, president, and Walter
WT. Girault, cashier, sentenced in
1897 to eight years in the Ohio peni
tentiary for emtezzling funds of the
American National Bank of New
Orleans.
Two men secured $10,000 in gold
Tuesday morning in the most auda
cious robbery ever known at Ana
conda, Mont. They forced the main
doors of the "Alaska" saloon, carried
out the three hundred pound safe,
placed it in an express wagon and
drove outside the city limits. After
leisurely breaking opeu the safe and
securing its contents, they headed
the horse back to the city and es
caped. Foreign Affairs.
A native rebellion has broken out
in Oran Province, Algeria.
The American Express Company's
office at Paris was robbed of 30.000
francs Friday night.
Eighteen miners were killed by an
explosion of fire damp in a coal mine
at Hornu, Belgium, Saturday.
Seventeen persons were killed and
forty injured in explosions at electro-chemical
works at Griesbeim.
J Germany, Friday.
Financial and Commercial.
Special Correspondence.
New York, April 30, 1001.
Business during the past week has
been active in most departments, but
considerable delay in transportation
and damage to property in many lo
calities have been caused by storms
and floods. The textile business con
tinues to make the poorest showing
in current trade reports, but a favor
able feature in this industry has been
a moderate revival in the demand for
export. No serious damage has been
done to crops by wet and unseason
able weather other than to delaj
seeding and to retard the growth of
winter wheat and newly planted
crops. Extraordinary activity has
characterized the Stock Exchange
markets, and new records have been
made both in volume of sales and in
the quotations for many securities.
American subscriptions to the new
British loan explain a renewal of
gold exports, which latter, however,
have had no effect upon the money
market, as the Treasury gold fund is
in excess of all previous records.
Business failures during the past
week, according to R. G. Dun & Co.,
numbered 215 in the United States
and 2t in Canada, against 204 in this
country and 22 in Canada during the
corresponding week last year.
Cotton prices have been up and
down a fraction under varying weath
er and trade advices, but the net re
sult of the week's business has been
a decline of one-sixteenth of a cent
per pound. The movement of the
crop continues large for the season;
the indications point to an increase
in acreage; the exports are moder
ate, and purchases by domestic spin
ners continue to reflect the unsatis
factory condition of the consuming
industry. Domestic trade in cotton
goods has continued quiet. Distribu
ters have shown little disposition to
anticipate their requirements, and
the sales of staple goods have been
mostly in moderate sized lots. An
encouraging feature of the situation,
however, has been the well sustained
demand for heavy sheetings and
drills for export. Notwithstanding
the disturbed political conditions in
China and the large stocks awaiting
distribution at Shanghai there have
been further important sales for ex
port. It is estimated that upward
of 50,000 bales of cotton goods have
been sold for shipment to China since
the present year opened, and in ad
dition there have been purchases cf
10,000 bales or more for South Africa.
This improvement in the foreign de
mand has had a steadying effect up
on prices of export grades of cotton
goods, but other branches of the
market continue to lack strength.
Nurse For a Royal llabe Unborn.
Rome, Italy, April 30. The news
papers here describe the elaborate
care exercised in the choice of a nurse
for the expected heir to the throne.
Princess Veuosa was commissioned
to choose the nurse. She went to
Albano to interview the applicants,
accompanied by a committee of ex
perls consisting of a physician, a sur
geon and a photographer. A part of
the test for fitness was an X-ray ex
amination of the applicants' bones.
The woman selected was required to
sign an undertaking that she would
not see her husband or any member
of her family for two years.
Ladies to Reniore Hats in Church.
Reading, Pa., April 29. The Rev.
Dr. Harcourt of the People's Metho
dist Church has issued orders that
beginning next Sunday evening all
ladies attending service in his church
will be expected to remove their hats
before the sermon begins and keep
them off until after the doxology and
benediction.
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No other article of food has received
such emphatic commendation for purity
and wholesomeness from the most em
inent authorities.
The great popularity and general
use of the Royal Baking Powder
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A Summary of Current Events for tbe
Fast SeTen Days.
The next meeting of the Grand
Lodge Knights of Pythians will be
held at Asheville.
While out bird hunting in Union
county, Wednesday morning, Thomas
Matthison, aged 20, was accidentally
shot and instantly killed by his
brother Joseph, aged IS.
Richard Fleming, a colored brake
man, was killed near Salisbury Tues
day morning, while attempting to
cross in front of an oncoming train,
his train being n a siding.
Roy Brumfield, the six-year-old son
of J. D. Brumfield, at Charlotte, was
fatally shot Tuesday by his brother
John, while both were playing with a
pistol, supposed to be unloaded.
Mrs. Clarkson Bobbins, of Ran
dolph county, drowned herself Mon
day. She had been suffering from
mental depression and in a fit of des
pondency ' threw herself into the
creek.
Durham county leads in the estab
lishment of school libraries. The six
schools in the county have applied
for the amount apppropriated from
the State fund, the number being
limited to six to the county. This
insures $30 for each of them. '
Vance Pearson, an employe of the
Laura Glenn cotton mills, was killed
at Shelby Tuesday evening. He was
working in the race cleaning out the
water-wheel when some one turned
on the water, which hurled him
against the wheel, causing death in
stantly. Thursday night, Walter Gregory,
colored, went to the home of his balf
brother, William Garner, in Gran
ville county, and raised a row with
him, whereupon the latter killed
Gregory by shooting him through
the heart. There was a woman in
the case.
John L. Ingram, colored, wholives
at Biscoe, Montgomery county, shot
j and killed his wife Monday morning.
. The couple had a fuss, and the wife,
j to escape the fury of her husband,
ran into the bouse and closed the
j door. The man fired at her through
! the door with a double barrel shot-
! gun, and the load of large shot took
1 effect in her groin. The woman bled
1 to death in a short time. Ingram
; has not been arrested.
j Jenny Kirby, wife of Kit Kirby,
colored, of Anson county, was the
victim of a fatal accident Tue'
day afternoon. The woman's hus
band was running the engine at the
mill of B. F. Covington, of Lilesville
i township, on the day in question,
i and she carried Lis dinner to him
I After giving him the dinner she
I started to return home, and while
stepping across the shafting from
the engine to the mill her dress
was caught by it, and she was jerked
down, whirled over and over and in
stantly killed, her neck being bro
ken.
While playing the tragedy. "Last
Upon the World," at the closing ex
ercises of Stanley McCormick High
School, at Burnsville, Yancey coun
ty, Friday night, a real tragedy was
enacted when R. N. Mclnturf, one
of the students, was shot and killed
by Baccus Bailey, another student,
both representing characters in the
play. When it became necessary
for. Bailey, in his role, to defend him
self with a revolver against a drawn
knife in tbe hands of Mclnturf, he
used by mistake a loaded pistol in
stead of the one with blanks, and in
the presence of several hundred peo
ple Mclnturf was shot dead on the
6tage. The boys were room-mates
and special friends.
Avoid the imitation powder. They
are sold cheap because they ate
made from alum. But alum is a
poison dangerous to use in food.
100 WILLIAM STREET, NEW YORK.
Killed His Wire and Himself.
Chicago, 111., April 29. Charles ,
II. Sweeny, a wealthy cotton planter
of Greenville, Ky., to day shot and
killed his wife Sarah and then shot
himself in the head, inflicting a
wound from which he died in ten
minutes. The tragedy took place at
9 o'clock this morning in the apart
ments of W. L. Phillips, whose wife
is a sister of the dead woman, in the
Dubuque flats, GO Rush street, and
was the result of bis wife's coining
to Chicago to obtain a divorce. The
only person who was a witness to the
shooting was Lindell Phillips the six-year-old
son of W. L. Phillips.
Nearly a month ago Mrs. Sweeny
left her home in Greenville and came
to Chicago. She had filed a bill for
divorce in the Circuit Court and was
living with her sister and brother-in-law
awaiting the outcome of the
court proceedings. She was the
daughter of Thomas P. Morgan, a
wealthy cotton and tobacco grower
of Greenville. The Morgan family is
one of the oldest and most prominent
in that part of Kentucky.
Advertised For a W ife and Got One.
A romantic marriage took place
near Reading, Pa., the other day.
Mrs. E. Baker, a widow aged 50
years, was married to Edward A.
Leaman, aged GO years, from Apex,
N. C. Some months ago the groom
advertised in a marriage journal that
he wished to correspond with a mid
dle aged Al housekeeper, with a view
to matrimony. Mrs. Baker answer
ed it, a courtship by correspondence
followed. They never saw each other
until they met at the Reading Rail
way depot. They were mutually
pleased and decided at once to marry.
They had been engaged conditionally
upon the impression made when they
met.
Two Lepers at Large in Baltimore.
Baltimore, Md., April 30. Two
lepers are at large in this city.
Both are women, and their cases
were only yesterday reported to the
Health Commissioners. As soon as
the lepers learned that the health
officers were after them they sought
other quarters and are no in hid
ing. Scrofula
Is a disease as old as antiquity, and as
young as the newest born infant.
It has infested the blood of humanity
from ancient times down to the pres
ent minute.
It is hereditary or may be acquired.
It appears in swollen glands, scrof
ulous sores, hip disease, boils, pimples,
eruptions, and, as believed by high
authorities, even in the forms of catarrh
and rheumatism.
It can be cured by taking Hood's
Sarsaparilla faithfully and iersistentlv.
We know this, because Hood's
Sarsaparilla has done it.
It will cure you if you give it a trial.
You should begin to take it today.
Hip Disease " I suffered from hip
disease; had 5 running sores; used crutches
and each winter I was confined to my bed
for weeks at a time. Hood's Sarsaparilla
has accomplished a perfect cure-saved my
life. I have a good appetite and feel strong
and well." An.me IIobebt, 49 Fourth St,
Fall River, Mass.
In Her Eyes-" My little girl had scrof
ula and sores appeared in her eyes. A few
bottles of Hood's Sarsaparilla entirely
cared her and she has never had scrofula
since." Mas. Howabd I'ops, Alpha. Oregon.
N. B. If you decide to take Hood's Sarsa
parilla do not be Induced to buy axiy other.
HOOD'S
Sarsaparilla
Is sold b7 all druggists. Preparwl only
by C. L HOOD & CO.. Ixwell. Mas.
REAL ESTATE
BULLETIN!
FOR SALE.
8 room residence, George street, A.
M. I. $3,000.
G room residence, George street,
A. M. I. $2,250.
5 room residence, Oak street, A.
M. I. $1,500.
10 room residence, Walnut street,
$1,900.
7 room residence, John street, A.
M. I. $2,750.
9 room residence, Daisy street,
$1,750.
5 room residence, Beach street,
$1,150.
5 room residence, Park Avenue,
$1,250.
5 room residence, cor. Chestnut and
William streets. A. M. I. $1,200.
Several choice building lots on
William, Beach streets, and Park
Avenue.
Two or three small tracts of sub
urban property. East of the city.
Big investment.
FOR RENT.
Nice pleasant rooms in Arlington
Hotel, single or en suite, to desirable
parties.
HUMPHREY-GIBSON CO.,
Goldsboro, N. C.
Opposite Hotel Kennon.
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