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Fkank L. Stanton.
Marriage Keform.
A Rhode Island man has advertised
in the newspapers of his town that
his wife,haviug left his bed and board,
ia not to be trusted for goods OQ his
account, as he will pay no debts of
her contracting. The advertisement
seems to have been malicious. Any
how, through the same mediums of
publicity the wife makes a spirited
response. She affirms that nobody
in the town would trust anybody t n
her husband's account, or even the
husband himself; that "it was unnec-
cessary for him to announce that he
would pay nooe of my debts, since it
is notorious that he does not pay his
own debts.'' The wife makes further
observations on the springless char
acter of the bed and the inferior
quality of the board which she had
left.
The case is interesting, because it
is obvious that when the martial re
lation becomes so strained as these
publications suggest the clergy of
Rhode Island must find it hard to
carry out their resolution to purge
their State of the disgrace of divorce.
There are other reasons, too, for
doubting whether much headway can
be made for a movement against easy
divorce. The chief of these is the ac
ceptance by society (including the
Courts) of the commercial view of
matrimony. Among the most com
mon causes which keep the Courts
busy are suits for money compensa
tion for breach of promise of marri
age and for the alienation of the af
ections of wives or husbands. In
New York a wife was recently
awarded $5000 because her father-in-law
had persuaded her husband to
leave her. It is true that a higher
Court reversed the finding, but only
because it had not been proved that
the father-in-law had actually in
duced the husband to disappear.
While the clergy regard marriage
as a sacrament, the commercializa
tion of the relation seems to be com
plete. It is only from a commercial
point of view that these suits for
money compensation are reasonable.
Marriage or an engagement to marry
thus appears to be like any other con
tract the violation of which admits
of valuation in dollars. Divorce, too,
is reasonable from this point of veiw,
and the States which allow only one
cause of divorce (faithlessness to the
love which is the basis of marriage
under the ecclesiastical idea) have so
far failed to conform in their statutes
to the sentiment of society and to the
practice of the Courts. A society
which consents to commercial uniocs
must expect, at least, as large a pro
portion of defaulters in these as in
other business enterprises; and it is
oily fair that there should be a rem
edy at law for unfulfilled agreements.
A reform in the character of the
union of man and woman as husband
and wife must precede the placing of
severe restrictions oa divorce. It
cauuot be said that the failure of
New York, for example, to make her
divorce laws correspond to actual
conditions has promoted good morals
or sanctified unions which had been
based on other considerations than
love. The rush of unhappy persons
to far Western States for easy di
vorce has produced complications
that are almost endless in their bad
effects. To make the martial relation
something higher than a business
contract, and to make it indissoluble,
there should be instilled into the
minds of the people a nobler concep
tion of marriage than that which is
tolerated now. The work of the clergy
for divorce reform should begin with
marriage reform.
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CARE OF CONVICTS.
Arp's Attention is now Directed to His
., State's Prisoners.
Next in importance to the educa
tion of the children of the state
comes the care of the convicts, the
lunatics and the deaf and the blind.
These are charges, fixed charges
that rest everywhere upon the citi
zen and taxpayer and cannot be
avoided. A careful perusal of the
last reports of the officers of these
institutions give us deep concern
for their inmates are increasing fas
ter than population and this increase
indicates a growing degeneracy in
mental, physical or moral condition
of our people. These reports give
much interesting matter for there
is hardly a state in the union where
similar institutions are so ably and
faithfully officered. We are espe
cially fortunate in Laving such a ca
pable and experienced man as Dr.
Powell at the head of our sanita
rium. The apprehension is that
when he dies we cannot fill his place
for we cannot find a man who has
both his ability and his long expe
rience. The same can be said of
Professor Connor, in charge of the
school for the deaf. These two are
veterans in the service and have by
their long and faithful work allayed
all public anxiety about those insti
tutions. But why should so many more
children be born deaf and dumb than
formerly, and why should so many
more people become insane? Only
a few years ago Professor Connor
reported 105, and now he has 215 in
charge. Do folks keep on marry
ing their cousins and will the law
keep on allowing it? As to the san
itarium, there seems to be no limit,
no diminution ef the rapid increase
and as fast as more room is provided
more still is wauted.
Dr. Powell reports that on Octo
ber 1, 1900, there were 1,700 whites
and 742 colored on hand, and the
new applications now average about
six per day. Of course many die
and it is a comfort to know that
many recover their reason and are
discharged. Two hundred and fifty
nine whites and ninety-four negroes
were discharged last year. One
hundred and fifty-six whites and 180
negroes died. The doctor gives
pleasant and easy employment to all
who can and are willing to work. He
is a philosopher of my own kind for
he says he has found that work, ma
nual labor, is more conducive to re
storation and contentment than any
other medicine. Gardening, sewing,
washing, canning fruits, etc., is
done on a large scale. Much more
of this is done than formerly and
the report shows an immense busi
ness. Just think of last year's work
1,000 aprons, 2,000 bedticks, 3,000
chemises, 1.S00 calico dresses, 700
homespun dresses, 4,700 pair draw
ers, 4,fj00 pillow cases, 5,000 pair
pants, 3,800 shirts, 1,600 undershirts
and quilts by the score crazy quilts
I suppose making a total of over
50,000 articles made by crazy wo
men. Good gracious, what an in
dustrious female family the doctor
has got. In this way he has greatly
reduced the cost of maintenance and
brought down the per capita to $117.
But on the other hand, he has to be
continually repairing or replacing
something, for b says "insanity
means destruction and that the ten
dency of a large number of patients
is to destroy furniture, crockery,
bedding, clothing, lights, sash and
some times tearing their rooms to
pieces." Now just imagine what an
army of lunatics we have. Car
tersville is quite a large little coun
try town of 3,500 people, but three
fourths of them are children under
age. We have only about S00 grown
up people who are fit to be lunatics,
but here at the sanitarium are three
times as many, and the number in
creasing every year.
But the report of the prison com
mission gives us most anxiety, for
that concerns crime and involves the
safety of our people from the lawless
who fear not God nor regard man.
The maintenance of the sanitarium
costs the state $275,000 annnaliy, but
there is one good thing, and only one
about the convicts. They cost the
state nothing after the trial, but on
the contrary they bring in a consider
able revenue, and under the new sys
tem this revenue is rapidly increas
ing. General Evans, Mr. Eason and
Mr. Turner inaugurated this system
only two years ago and it has already
proved a signal success. The state
now has the absolute control of all
its convicts and has purchased a
large farm near Milledgeville, where
the old men and the boys and all the
women are kept. Under the skilful
management of Mr. Foster the farm
paid well the first year, and the con
victs are nearly as happy as they
were in old slavery times. Most of
the able bodied convicts are leased
to farmers at good prices, but the
state provides guarus anu meuicai
attention. Here is another army of
2,300 to look after, but these are not
all. There are 2,350 more at work
in the county chaingangs, making a
total of 4.C50, of whom 358 are white,
j ten are white women and 215 are ne
i gro women.
Of the state convicts for felony 907
are guilty of murder or manslaugh
ter, 915 for burglary or robbery or
larceny, 237 for the usual crime. The
rest are for most any other crime in
the catalogue. Most of them were
laborers, but I note that twenty
seven did nothing and eighteen were
preachers. Ninety per cent of the
negroes are between the ages of fif
teen and forty, and knew nothing of
slavery. Only 1 percent are the old
slaves who are over sixty years old.
Two huudred and forty-four of them
are serving a second term. Thirty
are serving a third term aud a few
a fourth and fifth term. They seem
to like it. One thousand and twenty
of these convicts are from three
counties Fulton, Chatham and
Bibb. As Thomas Jefferson said,
"The influence of cities is pestilential
to good morals." It is especially so
with negroes. The large majority of
the negro convicts are from the cities
and large towns.
Twenty years ago there were 1,100
negro convicts and 90 per cent of
them were wholly illiterate, could
neither read nor " write. Now we
have 4,300 negro convicts and 54
per cent can read and write. How
is that? Does education lessen crime
or increase it? Mr. Stetson, the
state statistician of Massachusetts,
says it "increases crime not a little,
but immensely," and he proves it.
It certainly does among the negro
race in Georgia. It is curious to
note that we have two counties in
the state White and Gilmer that
have no representative among the
convicts. There are four counties
Towns, Pickeus, Banks and Dawson
that have but one each. There are
three counties Uniou, Murray and
Rabun that have but two each.
How is that for good morals in our
most northern mountain counties,
where the school master has not
been abroad in the land to any
alarming extent. No, the truth is
that education of itself neither
lessens nor increases crime. It de
pends on the moral training that
the boy gets either from his teacher
or his parents or his early associates,
but if his environments are bad his
education makes him a more danger
ous citizen, for it enables him to con
ceal his crime or to escape from pun
ishment in some way. It is like
throwing pearls before swine to give j
the vile and vicious'an educatiou, but
we can't pick them before-hand and
so all must have a chance.
But if I was a lawmaker I would
put some penalties upon bad citizens,
upon tho idle and vicious, whether
white or black. We do not allow
them to have their names in the jury
box. They cannot try a man for
crime nor set in judgment upon his
civil rights. Why should such men
be trusted w ith the ballot? Why not
let the same commission that makes
up the jury box also make up the
ballot box? If some good negroes
got in and some bad white men were
left out it would be rewarding merit
and putting a penalty upon bad citi
aens. Alabama and Virginia have
this question before their conven
tions and we hope they will consider
it wisely and give encouragement to
good citizens, whether they be white
or black. Good conduct should be
the test. It is more important than
education or property. Eet us purge
the ballot box just as we do the jury
box. Purge it once a 3rear. Put such
colored men as Gassett and Joe
Brown and Tribble in and leave all
such white men as Pat Banks out.
Don't shut the door forever on good
negroes.
By the way, I wish somebody
would hunt up our cook and send her
home. She is not a "settled 'oman,"
and is just gallivanting around till
her spell is off. I have to get up be
fore I feel like it and fire up the
stove and then call the girls and they
get a good breakfast in half an hour.
Biscuit and coffee and hominy and
fried eggs and beef steak are good
enough for anybody, but I will have
to discharge our cook and hire her
over again and leave out the spell
privilege.
Bill Arp in Atlanta Constitution.
Reflections of a (Joltlsboro Bachelor.
When a girl's heart collides with
her ideal, there is a terrible explo
sion. A woman cau never understand
why there is no such thing as fashion
in politics.
Every woman knows some man
that it makes her out of breath to
think of being kissed by.
The bravest man I ever knew was
terribly afraid of three things a
dog, a woman and lightning.
If women were really as modest as
they look, sooner or later they would
all blush themselves to death.
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AT HOME AND ABROAD.
The Xews From Everywhere (Jathered
and Condensed.
Corbin, Mont., is reported to have
been destroyed by a cloudburst.
Tuesday was the hottest day ever
recorded in Chicago, 104 degrees.
A strike of 1000 men has held up
building operations at Fort Worth,
Tex.
A dynamite magazine exploding at
Denver, Col., Tuesday, killed two
laborers.
Two persons were killed in a Lake
Shore Railroad collision near Cleve
land, O, Tuesday.
Various associations in New York
have planted 2,880 trees on the
streets in six months.
In the three years the War Rev
enue act was operative $310,503,33
was paid into the Treasury.
The New York Court of Appeals
has sustained the constitutionality
of the eight-hour labor law.
There were 25,873 arrests, 1,025
fires and 112 suicides in Greater
New York? in the last quarter.
From seeing two women killed by
a train, Mrs. Oscar Turney, of Be
loit, Wis., became a maniac, Tues
day. An exploding tank at the Williams
burg, N. Y., branch of the Stand
ard Oil Company, Saturday, injured
five men.
The Census Bureau bulletin shows
that nearly one-third the population
of the United States live in cities of
over 8,000 population.
After shooting Walter Morris, a
burglar, 12-year-old Minnie Wad
dell, of G riffithsville, W. Va., stood
watch over him all night Monday.
Importations of precious stones
for the past year at New York
amounted to $21,919,053, over $3,
000,000 more than in any other year.
Eighteen men were lost by the
sinking of the fishing vessel Wyno
nia, of Gloucester, Mass., off the
Grand Banks of Newfoundland,
Monday.
After being reprimanded by his
father for betting on horse races,
Eugene Benning, 16 years old, of
St. Louis, Mo., killed himself, Mon
day night.
The State Department has received
the amount of the American indem
nity claim against Turkey, $95,000,
through the America Legation at
Constantinople.
When his wife refused to live with
him after a year's separation, C. A.
Kline, of Michigan City, Ind., com
mitted suicide, Sunday night, and
his deserting wife did the same.
An excursion boat anchored in the
Susquehanna river at Sunbury, Pa.,
blew up with terrific force Saturday
morning, killing two boys and in
juring a dozen other persous, two
fatally.
Twenty-eight loaded coal cars
were plunged into a ravine on the
Scranton division of the Ontario $:
Western Railroad Sunday by the
breaking of a car wheel near Han
cock Junction, N. Y.
Nineteen persons were killed and
several others seriously hurt in a
head-end collision between passen
ger and fast live stock trains on the
Chicago and Alton Railroad near
Norton, Mo., Tuesday night.
James R. Keenen, a hotel proprie
tor of Washington, D. C, has been
sued for $10,000 damages by Mrs.
Annie White, the widow of a. milk
wagon driver, who is alleged to have
died from hydrophobia, caused by
dogs belonging to Keenen.
While a freight train was crossing
the Nickel Plate Railroad bridge
near Springfield, Pa., on Thursday
morning, the structure gave way
and the train fell through it. Nine
men were killed and ten injured, all
of whom were at work 'filling in a
cut.
Governor Dockery.of Missouri, has
received numerous petitions asking
him to issue a proclamation setting
a day for fasting and prayer for
rain. It is said that unless rain
shall come soon, the failure of crops
Missouri will be the greatest
since 1854.
An explosion in the smelter of the
Kansas City Consolidated Smelting
Company at El Paso, Tex., Tuesday
damaged the property to the extent
of 125,000. An accumulation of
gas caused the explosion. Thir
teen Mexicans were burned, three
of whom will probably die.
Reports Tuesday from different
points in Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Ne
braska, Wisconsin and Missouri
show conditions of heat equalling or
surpassing all previous records. In
many sections the long continued
heat has seriously injured, if not ir
recoverably ruined corn and fruit
crops.
Foreign Affairs.
French miners on Monday voted
in favor of a general strike.
Through trains from Moscow to
Stretensk, Siberia, are now running
Over 300 persons are reported
killed in conflicts between natives
of the Korean island of Quelpaert
and Roman Catholic mission pupils
Diseases and Their Remedies.
By Iter. Sam P. Jones
Cartersville, Ga., July 16, 1901.
I arrived home just a week ago
after almost constant absence since
the first of January, feeble in body
and mind, with my constitution and
by-laws both out of fix. I have been
farming a week and I am greatly im
proved by the remedy. What a treat
it is to an over-worked man when he
is overworked on one line to have
other work that is recuperating and
helpful to him. I have spent sever
al days in the broiling hot sun, in the
fields with the hands that were cut
ting wheat and oats, plowing corn,
sowing peas, etc., getting up at half
past four o'clock in the morning and
turning into bed at night at 9 o'clock
and improving every day with the
treatment.
Among other things it troubles me
to see so many people in trouble.
There is hardly an issue of the news
papers but what is reported the fact
that some man has killed his wife or
sweetheart and this afternoon I read
that some girl had killed her lover.
I never beard of lovers doing so
many devilish mean things as they
are doing these days. I have heard
it said that when love turns to hate
it is as dangerous as a rattlesnake,
but I can't see how love can turn to
hate any more than I can see how
water can turn to fire. Some people
have just naturally got the devil in
them and all you have got to do is to
touch them off. The great trouble
these days is that very few girls are
satisfied with one beau and very
few young bucks are satisfied with
one sweetheart. The girl that has
the most beaux is the most envied by
the other girls and I suppose it is the
same way with the boys. No wonder
they get up a lot of deviltry and
somebody gets killed. A sweet, good
modest girl with one clever beau
never gets killed by her lover and a
good, clever boy with a nice clever
sweetheart never gets killed by his
girl.
Farming maybe good for a broken-
down preacher and lecturer, but I
don't know what sort of medicine to
give these devilish young people and
there are many of the old people got
the devil in them. I know a remedy
for all deviltry but the rascals won't
take it. They are like a horse with
the colic; when you drench him with
remedies you have got to swing his
head to a limb and put a long-necked
bottle down his throat, and he will
hold it in his mouth until it strangles
him almost to death and then maybe
die with the drench cough at last. It
is a mighty hard matter to get a dis
honest man to take a good dose of
Bible honesty; it is a hard matter to
get a cussing rascal to pray; it is a
mighty hard matter to get a liar to
take a big dose of integrity that will
cure him; but perhaps the hardest of
all is to get a stingy man to take a
dose of liberality.
There is no disease without its
remedy, either moral, intellectual or
physical, unless we find cases in the
asylums and hospitals that have got
ten beyond remedies. When a fellow
finds out what is the matter with him
and finds out what will cure him, if
he don't take the remedy he de
serves to die if it is a physical trou
ble; he deserves to go to the asylum
if it is a mental trouble; he deserves
to go to perdition if it is a moral
trouble.
I leave with wife and daughters for
our Kentucky farm to-morrow. We
will rusticate and be there a few days
and then 1 am of! for my summer
chautauqua work. Yours truly,
Sam P. Jones
The Lire Everlasting.
"To test the alleged universal de
sire for immortality," states the New
York World, "an English society of
research has put the question to a
considerable number of persons in all
walks of life: 4Do you personally
crave immortality: u nai is your
aspiration, desire and belief as to a
future unending existence?'
"The old conception of a harp-
playing and hymn-singing eternity
no longer appeals to the imagination
of even the firmest believers in
happy immortality. They have sub
stituted for it a world of new and
boundless opportunities, of 'purified
and permanent affections,' a world of
solved problems as well as realized
ideals, 'where the spirit shall be
always willing and the flesh never
weak.'
"This is beautiful and in a sense
alluring, but deep down in the heart
of the average toiler and learner is
there not a little secret sympathy
with the wish of the tired-out, old
woman who when she came to die
said she would 'like to lie quiet and
rest about a thousand years before
starting again?' "
Plajs Bag-Pipe Over Wife's Orate.
Pittston, Pa., July 15. Jesse Mit
chell strangely commemorated the
death of his wife by playing 27 pieces
of music over her grave in Pittston
Cemetery yesterday. Followed by a
number of sympathetic relatives and
friends he entered the graveyard",
sat down upon the newly-made
mound, and played a Scottish bag
pipe for an hour. No one could tell
if it was grief or otherwise.
ALL OVER THE STATE.
A Summary or Current Events Tor lb
Past Seven Days.
The town of Southport, which has
been dry for several years, recently
voted in favor of liquor license and
saloons are to be opened there.
A man supposed to be C. H. Has
ten, of Henrietta, was run over by a
train at Kernersville Monday night
and received injuries from which he
died soon after.
Ten stores, one hotel and a barber
shop were destroyed by fire at Laur
inburg, Thursday afternoon, causing
a $73,000Ioss. At one time the whole
town was in danger.
Jacob Haywood and two sons were
instantly killed Monday by the ex
plosion of his saw-mill near Glover,
in Nash county. He had raised a
family of sixteen boys and five girls.
While intoxicated and asleep on
the track, C. C. Wilborn, aged 30, of
West Durham, was killed by a train
of the Southern Railway between
Cary and Morrisville, Sunday morn
ing about 9 o'clock.
The barn of A. F. Messick was
burned in Salem Tuesday by order of
the authorities to prevent the spread
of glanders. A horse having the dis
ease was killed. This is the only
point where the disease existed.
Two cents was the cause of a mur
der in Person county Wednesday
evening. Two negro boys, about 12
and 14 years of age and first cousins,
had a dispute and the younger one
lost his life, being hit in the head
with a club.
A cutting scrape occurred at Wil
son, Saturday morning, between
Charles Barber, a colored carpenter,
and A. B. Timmons, a colored brick
mason, in which the latter was fa
tally stabbed. It started over a debt
of fl.50 which Timmons owed Bar
ber.
Frank Holland, of Gwaltney's,
near the corner of Alexander, Iredell
and Wilkes counties, was accidental
ly shot and killed Saturday by the
discharge of a small No. 7 target
rifle in the hands of W. P. Carson.
Holland was 25 years of age. The
coroner's jury decided that the kill
ing was accidental.
James R. Latta was drowned in
Roanoke river at Roanoke Rapids,
Monday, while bathing in the river
with companions. Mr. Latta, who
could not swim a stroke, got in wa
ter beyond his depth and was drown
ed before his friends could reach him.
The body was recovered Wednesday.
The young man was formerly of Dur
ham. The Washington Progress has re
ceived information that efforts are
being made to organize a stock com
pany for the purpose of constructing
a trolley railroad around Mattamus
keet Lake in Hyde county from Swan
Quarter. This line will be about
forty-five miles long and will traverse
the most fertile farming land in
North Carolina.
According to the Greenville Reflec
tor, a colored man serving a term in
Pitt county jail was recently hired
out to a farmer. He worked along
for a day or two and then failed to
show up at his end of the row any
more. The farmer started an inquiry
after him and found that he had come
to town and gone back in jail. The
negro said he had rather stay in jail
than work.
Governor Aycock has again grant
ed a respite to Louis Council, the
negro sentenced to be hanged at
Fayetteville for the crime of rape,
committed on Mrs. Lonnie West, at
Wade, in Cumberland county, in
May, 1900. This time the respite is
for seven days and the time of execu
tion has been set for Monday, July
22nd. There will positively be no
further respite.
The dead body of Sam Miller, col
ored, was found in Eno river, seven
miles from Durham, Sunday after
noon. Miller, who was about 73
years old, lived alone and was a re
cluse. He was an illicit whiskey
dealer and had recently been arrest
ed and bound over to the Federal
Court for that offence. Whether be
had committed suicide or had been
murdered is a mystery.
The recently appointed directors
of the North Carolina Railroad met
at Burlington, Thursday, and elect
ed Hugh G. Chatham, of Elkin, pres
ident, Dan Hugh McLean, of Dunn,
secretary and treasurer, and S. M.
Gattis, of Hillsboro, attorney. The
directors adopted a resolution re
quiring the secretary and treasurer
to give his personal attention to the
office of the company at Burlington.
His salary is $2,000 per annum.
E. R. Coats, who runs a mercan
tile business in Dunn, and whose
farm is about two and a half miles
away, was robbed of $57.50 Monday
night while on his way home. It was
very dark and he was driving along
slowly near Stoney Run branch when
the horse was seized and three men
dragged him from his buggy and
took what mDney he had. Mr. Coats
received no bodily harm, save little
bruises from being dragged from his
buggy. He says it was so dark that
he could not tell who the parties
were.
Only Jersej Indian Left.
In a little one-room house without
windows, situated on a lonely spot
along the Maurice river, a short dis
tance from Norma, N. J., lives the
sole survivor of the South Jersey In
dians, Dan Halstead. For more than
half a century this old man, shunning
the ways of civilization as much as
possible, has clung to the habits of
his fore-fathers. Halstead, though not
a full-blooded Indian, is said to be a
grandson of old Shamung, a great
chief whose tribe had its hunting
grounds along the banks of the Maur
ice river. The grandson of the old chief
is a quiet, peaceful sort of a fellow,
without kith or kin, and the only liv
ing friend he has in the world is his
dog Prince, a mongrel. This dog is
his sole companion. Dan Halstead
lives with only one ray of hope to
brighten his existence that the red
man will return some day to reclaim
his hunting grounds and that he will
then become a true Indian again and
adopt the costume and manners of
bis race.
General Debility
I:iy in and out there is that fWllri!' of
weaki.ess that makes a ourdYu of itself.
Food does not strengthen.
Sleep does not refresh.
It is hard to do, hard to bear, what
should tx? easy, vitality is on the tbb, and
Uie whole system suffers.
For this condition take
Hood's Sarsaparilla
It vitalizes the Wood, -dves vlor and tone
to all tl.iv organs and functions, and id
positively unetjiialle .1 for ail run-down or
debilitated conditions.
tloou's 1'lLLa cure cobtt;iatuu. 25 cvuta.
akes short roads.
ight loads.
MEASE
ood for everything
that runs on wheels.
Sold Everywhere.
Mad hySTAXDARDOILCO.
Watch this Space
for Auction Sale of
Ileal Estate!
HUMPHREY-GIBSON C0.f
Goldsboro, N. C.
Opposite Hotel Kennon.
BICYCLE - BARGAINS.
You Will Save Money
by buying your bicycle of me. I keep
the larget and lest selected stock in the
city.
Barnes' White Flyer Chainless,
Is a beauty. I also sell the Kagle, Co
lumbia, Reading, Monarch, Raeyele and
other well-known makes. The Raeyele
is warranted to ! the easiest running
w heel in the w orld, otherwise the manu
facturers will pay you $1.M, deposit.il
in a bank.
New And Strong Wheels
Made by the American Bicycle Co., all
standard "goods, ranging in price from
?17.."(l, $.'!, f :.'."). :h ., ?4l, ?45 and
$(). You can buyacheaier wheel but
nothing like the niukes I sell. The lest,
is always the cheajH-st.
Bicycle repairing and supplies, guns
and revolvers for sale.
OLD WHEELS BOUGHT AND SOLD.
Powder, shot and gun shells. General
jobbing done with neatness and dis
patch, (iold, silver and nickel plating.
Gun locks, trunk locks and keys all
kinds a specialty.
T. H. STANTON,
GrOlcisTDoro, IT. C.
Fr FIE!
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POSITIONS GUARANTEED.
Under J3.COO Cash Depoeil
Rat road Far Paid,
paa all yaar to Bot 8e-a. Vary Chaa Board.
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Jlaooft. aorgie.
Beat uuitb Syrup. Taste Uoud. Cae I
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