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Will Bicycle Bl00n1ero
B0Siege Washington
Very Likely, for the Advance Guard MAY AL
ready Be Seen--Prominent Women Who
Are Welded to the Wheel.

| country ladies did they take a peep at a
| crowd of girls out for run. Some are iu
conventional dress, but many are clad in
| bloomers, which leave them free OF skirts
| about the ANKLES, and thus prevent any
I risk of getting tangled in the wheel and
some have on short skirts, which reaches
only to the knee There is no doubt but
that for safety and speed in cycling, the
short skirt or full trousers are preferable TO
the dress, which tangles up IN the machine.
Bicycling in town is not confined to the
young ladies, but all ages, from the graud-
mother to the tot that is scarcely SIX are
represented One feeble old lady has been
taking lessons this winter and children OF
eight and ten are seen every hour OF the
day whirIing around the streets. Moon
light nights are very popular for excursion
parties and crowd ofladies and gentlemen
are always starting out on such evenings
for roll in the suburban lanes.
Prominent among the lady riders in the
city is Mrs Morgan, who lives at the corner
of Rhode Island avenue and Sixteenth
street Though not young woman, she
is often out for two hours at a time aGd
can keep up with the best of the class.
The family of the minister from Austria,
Mr. HegenmuIIer, have been attracted by
this sport and though they have been in
town Only about thres months, lney are now
taking lessons and are becoming expert
riders
Mrs. Gen. Henderson, who lives in the
beautiful mansion at the head OF Sixteenth
street, is an expert rider.
Perhaps the first amongst the prominent
ladies to appear on wheel was the PTiu-
cess CantacuZeUe, daughter OF the Ambas-
sadOr from Russia. She is tall, strong
girl fond OF athletic sports, aud for some
time has been riding a bicycle. Her
father is now learning. and the pair will
he couple OF distinguished cycleTs about
the capital streets.
The family OF the minister from Chill
are also pupils at the school; Madame Cana
is not yet able TO appear aisne on the
streets, but her daughters are further adj
vanced.
The rich California girls the Misses Pat
ten. who live out in handsome home on
Massachusetts avenue, have been taking
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A DRIVE

IN RIBBONS. NO ONE WOULD UNDEE
TAKE TO DRIVE WITHOUT RIBBONs
AND 1T TAKES LEATHER KIND TO Dl
IT-WHAT We HAVE REFERENCE T
Is BLACK ALL-SILK MORE RIBBOs
JUST ARRIVED IN TIME FOR THIS. Al
VERTISE EMENT.
No. BLACK All Silk MoireR Ribbon I2 Il
No. S-Black An-Slk More Ribbon 8
No. 12-Black &I-Silk More Ribbon. 8
No. 16-Black AH-Silk More Ribbon. 21'
No. 22-Black An-Silk MORE Ribbon. 25l
No. 40-Biack AI-SIk MOire Kibbon. sol
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jolly Fat Mems Excursion.

The first of the pleasure excursions by the
jolly Fat Mems Club will occur Wednesday
evening, May 18th next, when a compli-
mentaTy excursion will be rendered by the
club to its friends. River View has been
selected, and the steamer Samuel j. Peutz
will leave her wharf at 6:45 D. M. A
large number of invitations have been is
sued, and a general good time is in store
for those who participate in the inaugural
summer social event of the Jolly Fat Men.
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shores than the little wharf. 1t has lit
orally an ancient and fish-like smell and
q decidedly antique look. 1t is eDcrUsted
with fish scales, which form an impro-
vised mosaic floor of striking appear
ance, but OH how it smellsl
All day long the boats are coming and
going or lying up alongside with cargoes
OF fish. There is a whole fleet in the trade,
and while the sloop-rigged 'craft is the
regulation craft, the most OF the boats are
go-as-yOu please innaval architecturals style.
On the wharf and in its immediate vi
cinity are the three largest wholesale
packing and shipping houses in the herring
trade. They are very unpretentious build
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TO this purpose the space OF one very small
balcony juttlng outside one of her Iobg
drawing room windows 1t extended 10
the south side OF the house, and for few
dollars carpenter iDcioSed it in wooden
skeleton frame, and he fastened into this a
roof and three walls made of common win
dow glass, set in cheap sash frames and
bought from house about to be pulled
down
Its building was the work of two days
and when the woodwork was painted a
nice sober green the neighb0rs concluded
that the unoffeDding addition was To be
filled with plants Instead the proprietor
OF the glass house had the flooT OF tie one
time balcony covered with zinc and strewn
with sand and pebbles. Then she moved in
two wooden tubs containing ilouriShing
little dwarf fir trees, here and there tackled
2 tir boughs against the house wall, swung a
couple o [ big doorleSS cages from the ceiling
and i'll one corner hang wire sponge rack,
filled with a mixture of threads, cotton,
paper and dried grass. Into this grass-in-
closed space she turned her three Gagged
canaries that for two days cowed in fear
ofthe range fre edGm allo wed them.
Within a week Mother Nature reasserted
herself, ana they deserted their cages, first
TO spend their nights and then to begin
nesting in one OF the fir trees. After bit
was added a couple more or these birds to
the aviary; then introduced TO the canaries
were a pair of bullfinches and pretty
chaffinch, a pair of tiny Java parakeets
andIastly knocking bird. Bat thissweetest
singer OF them all brought discOrd into the
otherwise happy community and had To be
removed There in the fir trees and boughS
nests are regularly built from the bundle
of materials in the sponge rack; the gravel
is scratched and picked over for tasty seeds,
of which a handful is strewed every morn
ing; liberal bathing is enjoyed in an old
china j.rdinere standing in one corner;
juicy worms are uprooted from long box
filled with fresh sods every week, and from
the dozen birds turned into this $12
aviary two years ago there are now some
twenty five vigorous, happy warblers.
FANNY ENDISS.
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March, and, with his inexhaustible and
eXuberant schools, he quite invests the
waters of the Potomac from its mouth TO
Alexandria. On calm days you can see him
humping the smooth water as he humps
himself forward into the jaws of a fish
trap, into the meshes of the gill net, and
the capacious maw of the vide reaching
seine.
Designing man is ''onto him" as soon
as ne crosses the bar and begins to ascend.
The fleet. which has been alternating
spreads out its white wings, the cat-boats
are rigged up again, and Uncle Joe and
Uncle Israel get ready to go to sea in the
battered batteaux OF many season gone
by. And the herring, with his nozzle up
stream, ploughs on unmindful of the muir
derous knife of the fish woman on the
Alexandria herring boat wharf.
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When buying is brisk the wharf is liter
ally alive with fish. They are taken out
Of the boats in huge baskets and are
dumped down unceremoniously on the
wharf. The tubs spoken of are filled
w-sh water, and colored women, who swarm
around the wharf like cloud of ravens,
are on the alert.
looking knives which are sharp as raZors,
the family weapon of their race. Thus
armed they seat themselves around the tubs
in the most grotesque and bizarre costumes
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skilled Helper Examination.

The Civil Service Commission will hold
an examination, commencing at a. M, on
May %, to fill a vacancy in the position
OF skilled helper in the Bureau OF Engraving
and Printing, at a salary OF S54s perannum.
Men only Will be eligible, and not more than
thirty applicants Will be admitted to the
examination,
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ings, but millions upon millions of her.
rings have passed through them, and hun
duedsup hundreds OF thousands ofdoIIars.
The wharf is under lease to Messrs. Bal
linger & Beach, and the propnetors OF the
packing houses are B. Davis & Co., George
II Price & Co. and j. Matthews & Co. The
buildings are long and sufficiently wide to
contailt double and triple rows of sugar
hogsheads, glance at which gives one
q decided impression as to the extent Of
the wholesale business.
But yous mustn't catch herriDgs before
you can salt them for packing in hogsheads.
This nsh comes in with the shad in
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Northeast washington Citizens.

The regular meeting of the Northeast
Washington Citizens Association will be
held on Monday next, at 7:3O O'Clock p.
M, at Alphenic Hall, northeast corner
of Eleventh and H streets northeast.
Several matters of Iierest will be dis
eussed, and reports from important COM
mittees made. The railroad question wlll
also be considered. The fight on the sur
face tracks is still on
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When Parsou Jasper insisted that "The
world do move,'' he was not exactly re-
ferring to the bicycle craze, but the re-
mark is as applicable to the present prog
ress on wheels as it was to the Scriptural
incident.
In the matter OF rapid transit, the
world certainly do move, aud the meas
ure of the century's greatness is in de-
gree determined by the advances which
are being made in the matter OF locOmo-
tion. The rude cart of the barbarian
developed into the clumsy coach of the
middle ages, to be followed by the light
buggy Of modern times, aud this has in
turn, become the parent OF the wheel
Since the introduction, few years ago,
OF the pneumatic tire aud the bali-bearng
steering apparatus, the use Of the wheel
has enormously increased and now the
principal patrons are ladies'.
Washington, with It's smooth aSphaltum
streets, is the test city in the world for
this exercise and nowhere else will we
lind such lar0 proportion OF riders. One
OF the fashionable schools where the
swell set" learns to manage the wheel,
has been crowded all winter and even now
there are at least 200 pupils, mostly ladies'
The yard, where the lessons are given,
opens at $ III tie morning and is kept for
the use OF women exclusively until in
the afternoon, at which hour men are al
lowed 10 enter for their lessons.
All day long the ladies come and go and
there are always three OF four on bicycles
in the care of attendants. One lesson
is so cents and the course can be secured
for $3.50, which give you the benefit OF
ten lessons. Most ladies require from five
To laa t,,
safety and even then they generally get the
attendant TO accompany them d The street.
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DAIRY DIVISION ORGANIZED.

Agricultural Department New Bu-
reau, With Henry Alvord as Chief.
A dairy division has been created in the
bureau of animal industry of the Agricul-
tural Department and Henry E. Alvord,
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"ClOak Dept.
Gigantic Six Waist Deal.

0i5 cAAlNiS DIN w OASL OCdls
WE WETAKEPLEAsURE IN NANNOUNCIN
TO YOU TODAY THAT WE HAVj
BEEN FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO 81
CURE THE ENTIRE SAMPLE LINE q
TWO MANUFACTURERS OF Sill
WAISTS. THEY COMPRISE About
800 GARMENTS NOBBY, PRETTI
STYLES, IN STRIPES, PLAIN COLON
AND PLAIDS, TIGHT FITTING AM
BLOUSE EFFECTS, IN WASH SILKs
TAFFETA SILKS, HABUTIA Silks
INDIA SILKS, ,SURAH SILKS AND SAITH
DUCHESS. WE CANNOT ENUMERATI
ALL THE SHADES BECAUS ETHEY A r.
TOO MANY BUT vEALLSHADE
OR An Y COLOR YOU DESIRE.
WE BOUGHT THIS STUPEN DOUl
LOT AT 51c. on THE DOLLAR, AND wi
ARE GOING TO SELL THEM THE SAM
WAY
Waists that are worth S3.75 at$i. d
Waists that are worth $500 at-...S 50
waists that are worth $500 at.....S3 4
Waists that are worth IS 90 at...S4 d
Waists that are worth SIG. 90 at.....S5. 4
Waists that are worth S12 90 at...S6 a
Waists thatare worth SI5.G0at...S7 81
I'd FLOOR-TAKE ELEVATOR.
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On entering the yard the lady gives her
ticket To an attendant and he brings out
the steed- A:oHnd Ter waist is placed a
strap OF leather and the teacher takes this
III one hand and the back of the saddle in
the other She holds TO the handles and
works the pedals, while the attendant keeps
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attractive novelty is the yoke of
kfine white cambria aud embroidery inser-
Etiop, finished off with narrow yellow Valen-
ticienues lace. The prettiest OF these yokes
are cut square.
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and the trap are slow processes compared
to these enormous Instruments, and yet
their product is by no means inconsider-
able.
Those who are less in rank than the
princes iD this industry use traps or nets.
The men who own the sloops of war are
those who at one ''feil scoop" catch the
multitude of fishes referred to in the
Scriptures; and by the way, like st.
Peters net, their seines do sometimes
break with the wealth of the capture.
At night along the fishing shores, for the
fishing hour, slack water, is often after
dark, the banks and the streams are pic
turesque and wierd enough with the dimly-
seen seiners and the ghostly sails of the
vessel Is, these flying Dutchmen of the
Potomac. Some of the finest catches
are made at night, when the whole shore
is Illuminated with the torches of the seine
haUlers, of whom whole company of from
fifty to sixty is required for the larger
seineS
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= Yellow pearls and gold spaugles are beau
tifully and effectively combined in fashion
able bandeaux, outspread wings, crown
bands, etc., for evening toques and hats.
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Pongee is selling thisse ason at tremarkably
low prices. This is an ideal material for 6
cool summer petticoat.
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tubs, salted on long tables in the packing
houses, and then placed IN the long rows
of hogsheads and barrels above referred
10. III these they ale kept for awhile,
and are then packed in barrels, kits. or
kegs for shipment for the points of demand
Inc roe herfing are Smoked elsewhere
The railroads have built their tracks
| down to the doors OF the packing houses.
From information given at these export
houses the numter OF fish that will have
been handled this season is nearly 6 900 :
600. The price spaid to the exporters
Iare from So to So q per GOO for the
lcut fish; packed fish from So to IS 12.
to- So 1-2 per 900.
About thirty thousand dollars worth OF
lisp have gone out OF these few honses
alone. but the exact extent of the traffic
is not accurately obtainable because there
are Others In the business who keen no
records.
There is, FOR instance, a class of me ercha nts
who come in from the country in wagons
who buy fish at the wharves direct from
the boats and sell them as best they can
in the interior. These merchants have
TO pay wharfage OF about twenty cents
thousand, and what they quantity call
an ''off bearing" of from six to eight cents
per thousand. Off bearing is trausporta-
ton from the wharf to the wagon
The value OF the fish put on the foreign
market probably amounts to about $50 900,
TO which must be added the trade to the
interior by wagons, which is very large.
Washington also gets a share, which is not
credited to the Alexandria market Per
haps it might be fair TO say that the total
value of the seasons take in the river is
near $50 900. A business of $50 900 for
little more than sixty days is quite good
thing for any city.
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Among the pretty novelties in neckwear
4 for women are the yokes made of Dresden
ribbon, cut into points and edged with
frills of beurre, net-top lace.
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Ten Million H8rrinq
In Six ShOrf Weeks
That Number OF. the Potomac Fish is Handled in
Aexandria-Pcturesque Sights on the
Herring Wharf.

To the season Of shad, herring and dog
wood blossoms, there is not a buster or
more animated scene TO be witnessed any
where than al the fish wharf at A Alexandria.
1t is all life and hustle, with quite as
much push and progress as is going on in
the waters, in which millions. in fact
myriads, OF the finny hustlers are making
their way up the stream.
on the wharf the loungers tell you Won
derful stories about the extent OF the iu-
duStry, and Of draughts Of fishes more
miraculous in number than those made in
the sea Of Gallilee. one thousand is the
least auit of computation among the fisher
men, aud, when it comes 20 herring. they
tell you of teus, and hundreds of thousands
aud even millions. But these are all
true stories. They have been verified,
notwithstanding they are fish narratives.
In cold fact, they catch nearly 0OO,-
0nn harrinrr in tho pnfpraa.. oP .-,s1a, 49,.
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When the fleet and the seines are in ac-
ton il is a marvel that the whole school
is notcaughtin the murderous devices along
shore and out in the stream. There are
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The fishwoman can make from 81 so to
So day, at thirty-five cents a thousand
for cutting and cleaning.
There are probably more than thousand
men and women in the business, all of
whom make good living, while the herring
and shad are in season.
he Eerring Is usually regarded as a
difficult fish 10 master for purposes OF mas
tication and final consumption In the
region around and about Alexandria il is
said that practice has made men and
women and children SO perfect In tie art
Of eating this bouy fish that they can in
strt the fish on otie side OF the mouth and
that the bones will Come out or the otTrr
side as from skillfully directed separ-
ating machine. This story could rot be
verified by observation at any OF the otels,
boarding houses or lunch counters OF tie
city
On the other hand, it is said that the
herring bone is so much in evidence in
the constitution or tie people who live by
herring alone that ii is with extreme diff
ticulty and patience that rural Virginians
can put on their underclothes in the season
Of herring aud dogwood blossoms 1t Feed
rot 10 lie explained that this is beCause
OF the multituC>Gous pTotrusion of Eerring
boncA through tie eDidernis of the ha btual
herring eater. A priori, this story could not
possibly be verified, but it is believed TO
be true.
The motto of the Potomac herring is.
After me, the May fly"
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Loading the boats is prosaic matter,
and the picturesque at night vanishes
when the sailors, ships and cargoes of
floundering fish set sail for the Alexandria
wharf
Early in the morning or late in the after
noon or al night, thereare those ontfle wharf
whoare always readyfor business. The con-
spicuous features of preparation are a
number of tubs, each the half of hogs
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i. KAuN| A
SONS
4 CO.
9th and Market Space
WVS TRUE
9Th and Market Space
IT'S TRUE

that fine feathers max
fine birds, and so doe
fine weather and spe.
cial bargains max,
crowded stores.
There's not a minut.
in the day but Wha
you will find suffiCien
customers on e a c
floor to keep our sales
people busy.
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A lovely petticoat silk imported from Eng
land shows seaweed pattern on glace
ground. The skirt is trimmed with deep
scaIloped ruffie of the material.
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NERyOUS DERIITY.

Weak, nervous, exhausted feeling; a
lack of animation or energy, often with
confused head, depressed mind, weak mem
ory, or with debilitating, involuntary dis
charges-the consequences OF excesses,
indiscretion, or mental overwork.
You feel more tired in the morning than
on going to bed; have melancholy spells;
unable to concentrate your mind poor men,
ory: you feel unfit either for business
or society, feel shy, desire to be alone, lack
confidence in yourself irritable, deSpond-
ent, and almost demoralized; feel gener-
ally used up and that life is losing its charm
.or YOU.
YOUNG MEN
Who are troubled with dreams and drains,
which sooner or later exhaust vitality
and result in nervous debility or other Sc
rious conditions, should consult Dr. Carrie
ton. He will take an interest in them ana
fet them we'd.
Dr. Carleton's unparalleled success in
effecting cures is due to his expert skill
and the deep interest which he takes IN
every case intrusted TO his care. Consul
htion tree
DR.. CARLETON. 507 18th st. NV.
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b. Lace beading run through with very mar
row black satin ribbon is a favorite garni-
tnre for girls light cotton dresses.
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By a fiction of the law all these heads
and entIails are removed within twenty
four hours. That may be; but tie odor
OF il all remains.
The smell on the wharf is absolutely
sickening aid Is pLrGeEuy peIcepunle Ior
squares around. This is so keenly felt
in Alexandria that on asking any citizen
to show you the wharf they always tell
an innocent visitor, Follow your nose,"
and the rose is an infallible guide, to be
sure. The sensation of sea sickness is a
very mild afiliction when compared to the
unspeakbale nausea engendered at this
precinct.
A great deal OF the offal is removed by
the farmers, who use it as a fertilizer,
and it is said to be excellent 1t ought
to be.
The roe herring, only, are scaled. That
is because they are not eviscerated and
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$1.25. TO Baltimore and Re- $1.25.
turn via b. & o. r.. r.
| For all trains, May 10th to 18th. Tickets
] good ouiy on date OF sale.
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ODDS AND ENDS OF FASHION.

Some Dainty Ideas That May Be Most
5iA Practically Adopted.
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LADIES' CLOVES.

EIGHT BUTTON SUEDE MOSQUI
TAIRES, TANS AND STATES, TIL
ACTUAL PRICE WAS SI.5O WE Ar
CLOSING THEM AT
sec.
LADIES' FIVE AND SEVEN -HOO1
REAL KID GLOVES. EXTRA FIN
QUALITY. IN BLACK KANDCOLORS TIL
REGULAR PRICE WITH US HAS BEE
S1.5O. WE ARE CLOSING THEM AT
SI.OO.
LADIES TWELVE BUTTON Length
WHITE SUEDE MOSQUETAIRES, VERl
FINE QUALITY. OUR REGULARPRIq
HAS BEEN S2.25. We ARE CLOSNI
THEM AT
SI.S9.
LADIES' SIXTEEN-BUTTON Length
WHITE SUEDE MOSQUETARES- WEI
81 so. WE ARE CLOSING THEM AT
0IIQ
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IMMENSE

CUT IN FINE POINT VENICE COLLARS
ECRT AND CREAM TOO MANY q
HANDANI- THE EE&TREMEHOT WEATl
Err MADE OUR BUYER FEEL A LITTLl
UNCOMFORTAB Bile.
6I-2-INCH POINT VENICE COLLARa
IN CREAM OR ECRU. REDUCED FROl
So to ACC.
7I-2-INCH POINT VENICE COLLARd
IN CREAM OR ECRU. REDUCED FROl
IS 10 73c.
SINGH POINT VENICE COLLARS
IN CREAM OR ECRU. REDUCED FRO,
$1.25 to S9c.
9INCH POINT VENICE COLLARS
IN CREAM OR ECRU. REDUCED FRO1
81 SO to csc.
1O-INCH POINT VENICE COLLAR
IN CREAM OR ECRU. REDUCED FRO,
SI.S9 to 81 %
9 1-2-INCH POINT VENICE COLLARS
IN CREAM OR ECRU. REDUCED FROl
$19S to S149.
IO-NCH. POINT VENICE COLJARj
IN CREAM OR ECRU. REDUCED FROi
$2.25 to $1.59.
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In cold fact, they catch nearly C 0OO,-
600 herring in the Potomac, OF which there
Is a record. Perhaps the unrecorded fig
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The roe herring, only, are scaled That
is because they are not eviscerated and
must be scaled to let the saving salt in.
The cut and roe fish are taken from the
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CHILDREN

WASH HEADGEAR. THESE PRICE
ARE FOR TOMORROW ONLY
CHILDREN'S WHITE NULL CAPS
TUCKED. CORDED AND LACE FRIL1
THEY ARE OUR REGULAR 25c- KIND,
Tomorrow, lOc.
CHILDREN LESUN-BONNET5
CAN BF. TAKEN APART AND LAUN DER
ED. IN PINK AND BLUE. WE Sell
THEM AT 25c.
Tomorrow, l5C.
CHILDREN'S WHITE P. K. SUN-BON
NETS. OUR REGULAR 39c. STOCKI
Tomorrow, 23C.
ONE LOT OF VERY FINE NULL AN /
EMBROIDERED CAPS, LACE TRIMMED
VERY WIDE STRINGS. ALL SIZES
WERE S1.0O, S1.25 and S150.
Tomorrow. ACC.
INFANTS DEPARTMENT-2D FLOO1
TAKE ELEVATOR.
WE IN ~
Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1895-12-05

John Williams and David Rose
wealthy stock traders of Wolfe
county. KY, fought savage
duel 10 the death yesterday at
Hazel Green. Williams was killed
and Rose died later.
Two masked men held IN the
Northbound passenger train on
the Fort Worth & Denver Rail
road Thursday. They forced an
entrance into the Express car
but the messenger was unable to
open the through safe and the
bandits secured no money. The
men jumped and escaped.
At Anderson, S. c.. Chas
Saxton, a negro, was killed bv
Joe Ii. Burgess, white. From
the evidence at the coroner's in
quest it was shown that the ne.
gro was incensed over his dis
charge attacked the white man
with a hoe. The white man
seized a gun and killed the ne
gro during the fight. A verdict
of self defence was rendered